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So let yourself settle and listen in whatever way is comfortable for you. You don't have to remember anything

from this. There's no quiz at the end, no exam. But more, listen in a kind of

contemplative or meditative spirit which is to say, let the words and

stories come, and if something touches that which you know to be true in yourself, if it's really

a reminder of something that you know and value, then that's something worthwhile for you.

And if it doesn't seem right, just let it go.

Over the course of this year, in these monthly, Monday nights that I'm able to do and it's very nice to be back.

I've been working through a series of teachings which are called in the Buddhist

tradition the ten perfections the perfections of the heart and I'd like to speak of

them also as an expression of our own Buddha nature of what is born into us,

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