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So I've come back from a couple of months away and partly on pilgrimage.

And I want to tell some stories from it, not like here's what happened on my summer vacation.

But pilgrimage is really a journey

to change your perspective or renewal.

It's an odyssey. I can't remember exactly the Middle English. I know somebody out there

will tell me how the beginning of Chaucer's Canterbury tale starts, one that April with its shores

pierced it to the root. When the April showers pierced to the roots, then people go on

pilgrimage, you know, so we're in April and it's then people go on pilgrimage

You know, so we're in April and it's pilgrimage time and the Buddha recommended pilgrimage is a spiritual practice

because it's a way of seeing your life in the world and new, stepping out of the small envelope of your identity and even the small self that's called the body of fear and seeing something more of the

mystery. Now one of the things I brought back from Burma, we were at all these great

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