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Tonight's talk, the theme, will be about how the arising of judgment, a verse of

judgment, can be an incredibly powerful portal to the awakened heart when we have

that intention. And I'd like to begin with a story I heard about Andre Skegg Gregory

who many of you have heard of my dinner with Andre.

A man asked him about his writing and how did it have so much juice.

And his response was he told a story about his life, had gone to the hospital, was

going to go in for surgery, went under anesthesia, and he realized, belatedly, that he hadn't

said to her what he needed to say before she went under.

And he made a commitment that when he woke up that he was going to speak his heart as

if for the last time. And he said, right like that, this is the last time you're ever

going to write, speak like that, live like that. And there's this really powerful message

of what it means to remember what matters and the more moments we remember, the more

our life is really aligned with our hearts. And this is the intention behind bodhicitta.

Bodhicitta, I love the sound of the word because it's kind of bright and it's the awakened

heart-mind. It's the wisdom that realizes the truth of who we are and it's that heart's

expression of that, the tenderness and warmth and radiance that comes with that. And I

think the teaching is that each of us has this deep longing to live aligned with our hearts

and we suffer when we feel that we're not aligned, when we're not living according to or

true to who we can be. And I often refer to this palliative caregiver who had been with

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