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Tonight I had planned to talk about Tick-N-Hon, the great and wise and master and teacher

who died just about a month ago at age 95 in his home temple in Vietnam.

But it also seems critical to acknowledge the grief of the war in Ukraine.

And so in Tick-N-Hon's honor, I start with a story back in the 1970s when I was coming

and going from Thailand, and I think there are times for some years as a monk.

There was a lot of conflict in the streets of Bangkok between the military dictatorship

that had taken over the government and the protesting students.

And there were barricades that were there in the center of the city, not far from the

Grand Palace and the government buildings.

And the fighting had escalated so that students had been shot and killed and Molotov cocktails.

It was really getting terrible.

And there seemed to be no way to de-escalate it.

And then one morning, probably starting very early in the dark, a meditation master from

one of the forest monasteries called together his monks and nuns.

And they traveled to Bangkok and walked on foot along the way.

And after Don broke, they walked and they simply stood in their robes silently with their

bowls between the two lines, between the soldiers in the government side and the students

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