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It's wonderful to be back here teaching again just coming into this incredible

environment. The mind immediately settles down just walking in the door of the dining room and walking to the meditation hall.

It's like all of your vibes just settles everything down. So tonight, I'd like to continue with a series of talks on the Saty Patana Suta that I began last year.

It was based on a wonderful book by the venerable Analio,

a German monk who had studied in practice in the venerable

a vulnerable Analio, a German monk who had studied in practice in Sri Lanka called Satipitana

the direct path to realization.

So the Sati Patipatana Suta with a very bold and unambiguous statement. He says Bicus.

And Bicus here refers not only to monks or nuns, but because he refers to anyone who

was practicing this path of liberation.

So in this context the Buddha is speaking to us. He says, Bicus, this is the direct path

for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance

of Duka and discontent, for the attainment of the true way for the realization of Nibana, namely the four

Satipitanas. That's a very clear statement about the nature of this path of practice and where it's leading.

The overcoming of suffering, for the attainment of the true way, for the realization

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