The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Good morning everyone and welcome and ended up on the schedule for today kind of late

just yesterday afternoon I think some of you might be here

expecting TENS and Choki. She'll there was this I made a scheduling mistake and

she'll come on the 16th and if you don't know her she's a wonderful

former Tibetan nun. She's I've known her for 30 years. And she, before she was a nun,

she was deeply involved with an agency in Santa Cruz working with the county legal services and neighborhoods

with conflict resolution, training people in conflict resolution and since she was a master

at this kind of wonderful art that's so important for us all.

And then she did lots of serious practices at the Tibetan Nine.

I think she did two of the three-year retreats that they do and kind of solitary retreats.

She kind of did a lot of practice and study with compassion.

So between conflict resolution and compassion,

you're not gonna go wrong.

She's a, really, so,

so a little bit sorry she's not here for you today but she'll be here in two weeks.

And I'll be this next week.

And then the following Sunday is my son's graduation

from college.

So then I'll be back the following week on the 23rd. And I want to mention that because I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a special meeting after the Dharma talk that day, maybe both on maybe on

Zoom and on here live for people who want to come to it.

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