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Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour. We are delighted to share with you Jack's

innate common sense wisdom and his clear open heart. If you are interested in supporting Jack's

podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash Jack. And tonight I'd like to talk about

tending the garden of the world and the garden of the heart. And round us once told me that I tell

too many stories. And tonight I'm afraid I'm going to prove him right.

So the Buddhist texts begin, oh nobly born. Remember who you really are. Remember

your birthright as a Buddha, as one who can be awakened. Remember your own Buddha nature.

And begin with a story. Some years ago, not so far in the past, there was a beautiful old

monastery that was the mother or father house for a big monastic order in the Catholic church.

But it had gradually lost its monks and members as the decline in interest in monasteries in the

west had increased. And after a time, even though it had been there for a century or two,

there were only five old monks who were left. And they were sad because they could see that the

order that they were a part of was dying out in some way. And they didn't really quite know

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