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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And over the course of the last couple weeks, a few weeks, I've been doing stories or using stories as a

central part of teachings. A couple of weeks ago we used a story from the time of King Arthur,

Sir Gawain, and then last week it was a story from the Kata Upanishads of Natchikata in his descent to the underworld.

And this week I want to take a Buddhist text, which we do very rarely here, but it's one that encompasses a great story or myth and talk about

it and see if there's anything of value in it for you as we kind of listen to it.

When you look at the Buddhist texts, they are on occasion records of formal teachings that

were given by the Buddha and then later written down. But a lot of the other texts that are written

are descriptions of encounters,

where someone would come and say,

I heard you're a Buddha, and he say yes and then say I have a question for you you

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