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As a parent and has been today as I've had a chance to speak with various people and meetings and the other teachers as well

is how much greater stillness and settledness there is in the retreat and in people's

hearts and minds and it doesn't mean there isn't stuff of all different kinds but it's a very different experience to allow this

deepening of stillness to happen in the room, in your own body, in your own heart.

Crowfoot, who's a Blackfoot native elder, says,

what is life?

It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It's the

breath of a buffalo in winter. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

And as you become still, there also comes a kind of an opening in which the trees and the sky and

the salad and the mops and all that they teach you things because you're present for it

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