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Namaste. Welcome, friends. I'd like to give you a little bit of a background on the

talk that we'll be having this week and it's a two-part series of this week and next week.

To start with by saying that the one thing everybody agrees on right now is how much

dividedness there is in our world. We see it on a global scale with the Ukraine war creating

this rippling of crisis of famine and threat of nuclear disaster. We see the conflict and

crisis within countries. The United States is so divided that our democracy is threatened

and faltering and conflicts been with us through history. It's in our personal lives. It doesn't

matter how much we meditate, conflicts arise and when they do there can be huge suffering.

In fact, I know for many people the deepest suffering is the sense of distance or divided

ness or conflict with people who are dear to them. A deep inquiry for us is how do we bring

our practice, how do we bring mindfulness and compassion to navigating wakefully through

crisis? How can we awaken in our relationships when crisis arises? How can we cultivate the

qualities of awareness that can ripple out and really help bring more wisdom and understanding

to our divided world? We're going to be exploring conflict this week and next and it's

drawn from two talks I offered in 2019 that I really hope and think you will find relevant

to your life. May they serve connection and healing.

Namaste and welcome. In Japan there was a seaside monastery and they got caught in a kind

of mini tsunami and three of the monastics got stranded on a desert island hundreds

of miles away. They were managed to stay alive for several weeks and they found a cave

that had some zaffoos, sitting cushions in it, who knows and they sat and they practiced

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