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One of my regular reflections when I do my daily meditation is if I was at the end of my

life or if I just had a very small amount of time left, what would really matter?

What would matter about today or what would matter about these next few moments?

And always in some way what comes up is that this heart be awake and be loving.

There's a bumper sticker that I've always liked that says, life is fragile, love is the

glue.

And in that spirit, what I'd like to do the next four or five classes, and I say that

because I always miscalculate how much I can get done in any talk.

But what we'll explore is what are sometimes described as the four universal expressions

of love.

And they're known in the Buddhist tradition as the bromb of the haras, which means the divine

abodes.

And in a way, you can sense them as these are the expressions of our evolutionary potential

of the heart.

In the Chinese script, the word mindfulness, the character for it is present heart.

And what I love about that and my problem with the word mindfulness sometimes in the West

is that it doesn't always include the quality of the way cart.

But you really can't separate the realizations that the mind has that everything's interconnected.

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