Hi there. Thanks for joining. This is Josh Darmapunks, New York. Tuesday, gathering, during the later day weekend, we'll be at Garrison doing our 10th annual retreat.

Do you have any desire to get out of the city to practice, go on nature trails,

have some veggie food, and be with community? That would be the way to do it. And the

information will be on a website.

And finally, yeah, I don't charge for anything.

I do all the counseling and these talks are provided completely free of charge,

and the hope is that if people get anything from the content that they donate so that I

can continue doing this, it's in the 2,500-year-old Buddhist tradition.

So, yeah, that's the way it works. No charge. Just if you do feel in any way

like these talks are, are useful in some way. Whatever you can give is always really appreciated.

And that's it. Tonight, we're going to be talking about time. It's like obviously a big subject.

So I'm not going to be able to cover all the wonderful insights into how we perceive time,

how we can make time elastic, how we can expand our experience of life and slow down the

passing of time. But yeah, I've pretty much, I think, crammed enough to fill up a good 35 or

minutes or so,

and then we'll have a meditation where we actually practice a little bit of these ideas,

and then time for questions.

So just relax.

I'll just jump right in by noting that we're all pretty confident that we know what time is

in that we assume it's a universal law like gravity that there are a flow of seconds,

minutes, days, years within which all things exist.

Of course, if we dabble at all in science or in neuroscience, we very quickly learned

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