Tonight's talk is on piecework and what I consider to be the three facets of inner

piecework and then extending piece to the world. And it feels like timing-wise, you know,

it's 9-11, we're in the midst of the Jewish high holy days, we're going towards

Jung Kapoor at the time of atonement at one minute. So this inquiry that's so

powerful for all of us, which recognizes that each of us in our own lives get

into patterns that create separation. And to be able to look in our own lives,

how do we create separation? What are our patterns? And how do we begin to step

out of them? How do we begin to stop the war? Or even the very subtle ways that we

distance and really include each other in our hearts? It's also a compelling time

because I suspect most everybody's been following the unfolding news around

Syria and the threat of a U.S. strike. And it brings up all the most difficult

questions really about how in the face of hostility, in the face of

aggression, in the face of insanity, how do we respond? And what happens when we

meet violence with violence? This is a question we've been contemplating now

for through the eons, really, I suspect. And then we ask that question, not just

as I mentioned in the global theater, we're asking that in our own lives in all

the ways that each of us encounters aggression, and we do, because every human

body is wired with aggression. This is not a bad, aggression's not bad, but when

aggression becomes locked in and the habit, and our identities organized around it,

that's suffering. That's what keeps the cycles of war going. So how in our daily

lives, when we encounter betrayal, our judgment, our criticism, when we encounter

emotional abuse, how do we respond? When it's directed ourself for it someone

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