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So please let yourself get settled in a way as we begin and in a way to listen to teachings is its own kind of meditation or contemplation.

You sit, listen, and part of the response is not so much to take notes, there's no quiz or

great at the end, but more to listen to see if something resonates as true in your own understanding and experience

that it's really a reminder of something that you already know.

And if something doesn't seem useful, then it's perhaps not.

Just let it go.

So people come to a temple or a meditation center or a sacred place, although in a

truer sense every place is sacred, but the places that we create for this to quiet the mind and

listen to or tend the heart, to find some kind of balance or inner peace for some or release

conflict stress that we might be carrying or find some sense of renewal or

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