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The last class that we had, the topic was working with anger and working with aggression, how

we can attend to this natural life energy with wisdom.

Two days later, there was the violent attack in Paris and it just felt so natural and compelling

that we would continue our exploration of these energies.

There's so much heart breaking care and prayer that circles around and I know from myself

there's something about, you know, with yet another very obvious on the surface round

of violence, that prayer that can we learn, can it teach us?

Is there some way that this can actually wake up our hearts and minds?

When I ended the last talk with a poem and the poem was written by a local boy here,

Maddie Stuponik, I think I'm saying his name right, Stuponik.

So Maddie, 13 years old, a poet who has since died of muscular dystrophy and he wrote

a poem the day after 9-11.

So it just felt so pertinent to us because I don't know how many of you are feeling the

same thing but I just keep going back and forth on 9-11 and here we are and what's happened

in between.

There's all slants for what's happened in between but some of the elements that strike

me is that after 9-11, the United States and others attacked Iraq and 4,491 US military

died and approximately half a million Iraqi deaths, mostly civilian.

Then there was the rise of ISIS, 9 million Syrian refugees since 2011.

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