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You're so seated in a way that's relaxed and at ease as you listen.

No need to remember anything, particularly no quiz at the end.

Or a kind of contemplative listening to notice if what you hear or what parts of it strike

you as true or something that you already know your own innate and inherent wisdom, the

rest of it you can just let go by.

And so what I'd like to talk about tonight, given that it's just after New Years, is

some of the Dharma teachings on how to navigate the changing of the years and particularly

the teachings of a Nietzsche, which are a, that's a Sanskrit or polyword for change.

I got a, I got a message from an editor at, I think it was Cosmo magazine some years

ago asking me for their New Year's issue if I could do a, a Buddhist piece on how to

make New Year's resolutions more permanent.

And I said, well, permanence isn't like the Buddhist thing actually, but simply, self

for that.

But it is kind of wild here, it's 2014, at least for me, the year 2000, remember why

2K and everybody was getting worried about the meltdown of every computer and the whole,

it seemed like it just happened, you know, it just spins around so quickly.

And what could I say?

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