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I'm Thomas Stay and good evening.

I'd like to start by really bowing to you in your practice.

It's been really something and we've talked about it a bit over meals.

Just beholding the quality of realness and willingness and honesty and hard

opening that is here in the space that's here.

It just feels like a real pleasure to be with you.

The talk tonight has been in the spirit of this.

It's really how to let vulnerability be truly a pathway to freedom.

It's following very much, I hope, in the footsteps of I just loved the way Luisa kind of outlined

and shared with us these ways of being with these challenging energies.

Then on a Thuptan's beautiful presentation and sharing about just the nurturing of compassion,

the beautiful ways we can do that.

I'm hoping to continue in that vein.

Maybe thought it'd start with a couple of stories that actually take place in churches.

The first one is a little girl and her brother were sitting together in the church.

He's four years old and he's giggling and really in his own little world talking out loud

and tumbling around on his chair and so on.

Finally, his big sister has enough and so she's going to teach him something.

She says, you're not supposed to talk out loud in church.

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