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Ringing the bell before a talk makes it sound momentous but actually I just like ringing the bell.

We got it on the opening day of this retreat hall.

We were thinking we needed a bell and then magically Zen Center sent us, San Francisco

Zen Center sent us the gift said we think you need a bell and we did.

So thank you from Cent Center. So you've completed one day of the retreat practice and a few of you are on your first retreat, many of you have done quite a few retreats,

and it still is a process of settling down.

Tonight I'd like to talk about the core of our practice together. I'd like to talk about mindfulness or what I also will be using as a synonym loving

awareness and if you read in the Buddhist texts they began there's a most wonderful way for living beings to

realize well-being and liberation and overcome sorrow and grief and lamentation and despair and

overcome sorrow and grief and lamentation and despair. I think that Spring talked about that and it's the the practice of mindfulness and in other texts it says,

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