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Greetings friends. Welcome back right here now.

So our second almost full day together and I just want to start really by bowing to

you to honor your practice. I have felt so much a sense of the sincerity and that presence

and space that we're creating together. So it's delicious. And you know, especially in

the midst of such a reactive spinning, hurting world right now, it really matters that we're

coming together like this in this relative quietness. I know it's not quiet for everyone.

More stillness, more connecting with hearts. You know, we miss so much when we're preoccupied

when we're speeding along on automatic and you know, just reacting to daily stressors.

I received an email, a woman wrote to me about her four year old and she was buckling

her daughter in after, you know, typically harried morning to working parents, baby, young

children, two different schools. You get the picture. And this is what she wrote. She

said, I noticed my daughter's nails were getting long and I told her we'd have to cut them

tonight and started talking about the other things that we'd need to happen in the evening

like taking a bath and detangling her curls. And she said, okay, mom, but let's care about

now. So I just love that because it's such a beautiful description of our practice,

caring about what's here now. So this talk will be exploring really our primary challenge

to this open-hearted presence, this caring about now. And it happens when now is unpleasant.

And we have this very deep conditioning when it's unpleasant as we know to react by pulling

away by contracting and also to react by turning on ourselves, especially when emotional

pain, physical pain is strong and ongoing. It often comes with self-aversion and I invite

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