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So please let yourself find a way to sit that is comfortable and at ease. And listen not so much to remember something of the words but rather if there's

anything that resonates in what you know already to be true.

Let that touch you, the rest you can let go of, leave aside.

So here we are together. We've finished the first day of this 10 day retreat. And the first first days even if you've practiced a considerable

number of retreats before over years they're still a little bit difficult.

Achy and sleepy and wandering and the mind comes in and

it says well, you know, was this the right choice? There are other things I could have done with this time.

Might have been more pleasant. A poem for you from Lori Anderson.

In the Tibetan map of the world, the world is a circle and at the center there's an enormous mountain

guarded by four gates and dragons.

And when they draw a map of the world,

they draw the map in sand and it takes months,

and then when the map is finished,

they say a few prayers and erase it and throw the sand into the nearest river.

Last fall the Dalai Lama came to New York City to do a two week ceremony called the Kalashakra, which is a prayer to heal the earth.

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