Welcome. I hope you're having a good one. And we got some upcoming events.

Our gathering at Omega Institute to rejuvenate and recharge. So we called this one Buddhist.

What did we call it? Buddhist summer camp. So hopefully if you enjoyed summer camp, I certainly didn't, but if you enjoyed summer camp,

maybe you'll use that to inspire you anyways at Omega Institute on Memorial Day weekend.

So if you don't have plans for that weekend and you want to spend it in upstate New York at a really easy place to get to.

Omega has buses that they provide from the Poughkeepsie train station.

And then the fourth to the seventh of September will be our 10th, 12th, I don't know how many years it's been,

Labor Day weekend retreats.

Yeah, so hopefully something in there may be inspiring.

And if you want to start your day inspired from 8 a.m. to 8.30 is Kathy's morning meditation. It's a great resource. And, yeah, so start your day hopefully in the right way. If you're up that early, I generally am not. I'm a bit of a night owl and generally sleep until nine.

Finally, yeah, everything I do in the Buddhist tradition, everything I've done since 2009,

when I fully transitioned from sort of working both as a Buddhist pastor and my day job

to being entirely a Buddhist pastor is entirely supported by donations.

So if you ever do get something from these talks, even if you feel you can only donate three or five bucks via PayPal or Venmo.

Benmo is Dharma Punks with an XNYC, and the PayPal's on the website.

But if you can provide three or five bucks, hopefully that won't

make too much of a difference to you, but it makes all the difference to us Buddhist pastors

trying to survive. So that's my, that's my Donna pitch. Tonight is going to be a kind of in-depth

understanding of repetition compulsion. So if you've ever been

interested in the subject, or if you don't even know what repetition compulsion is, I'll endeavor

to explain it. But we're really going to take a look at it from a very contemporary perspective

of why do we continuously make choices in life that lead to unhappiness or stress?

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