It's helpful to be aware when you drive, or if you paint, or you do computer programming,

or you make love, or you write poetry, whatever it is, or garden, to be really present.

Mindfulness, I declare, is all helpful.

And with that presence is the path to freedom, to awakening.

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So this evening, I would like to speak about the Dharma Body.

This past Saturday, Spirit Rock and Sandra Ono Valley had the honor to host the Vietnamese

and Master Tick-Not-Hon, who has become one of the great Buddhist teachers in the world

today, and really one of the great spiritual figures as a poet, and a peace activist,

and a teacher of worldwide compassion.

And someone who, in rather remarkable ways, is able to make even the most difficult Buddhist

teachings, such as that of interdependence, available and understandable to children, and

us adults as well.

How many of you were here on Saturday with Tick-Not-Hon?

So a third or more of us.

For me, what was most significant in the visit of Tick-Not-Hon was his presence.

There's some way that what makes him a great teacher is the integrity, how much he lives,

what he knows.

I mean, it's not so hard to know things you may have noticed.

But to live what we know is a rare and beautiful thing, and that kind of integrity shows in

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