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I was leading a teaching several years ago in Los Angeles at UCLA it was a conference for two or

3,000 people primarily psychotherapists on psychology east and west,

together with Tignon Han, Zen Master,

and some various other teachers.

And Tignon Han began the conference speaking to these 2 or 3,000

primarily psychologists by telling the story of his mother's death.

And he said his mother had died when he was

young man 21 years old and he was very close to her so that

after she died he said I felt this tremendous grief and loss for almost a year. And then one night I was sleeping in my little hot hermitage in the mountains of the northern part of Vietnam.

And I was awakened from a dream and in the dream my mother had come to talk to me and she was just so present and I could hear her voice as it had always been and see her long hair flowing down and she was wearing this

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