In a world that often feels like it's teetering on the edge, it's not surprising that so many of us grapple with feelings of instability and overwhelm.

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Ethan and Sharon will also discuss the upcoming darmamoon year-long Buddhist studies program

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So last week when I had the pleasure of speaking here. I began a teaching that's really a classical

Buddhist teaching on what are called the three characteristics or the nature or the laws of life of

impermanence and unsatisfactoryness and emptiness, which sounds kind of dreary when I say it actually but you'll see but anyway I only got

partway through that talk there was all these stories I wanted to tell and then I said

well we'll do it in two weeks so tonight in a certain way is a continuation of that talk. It is.

And what I had called it last week was freedom and the way that it is.

And in part I wanted to speak of this because you can so clearly feel the turning of the

seasons and how it's getting dark again earlier than it was and crickets are singing to you and telling you

that it's autumn coming and school has started and all these changes of cycles and

this is also Russia Shona and Yom Kippur and the end of Ramadan and a whole

set of observances really of these changing of cycles. But I wanted to speak about the changing seasons

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