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Well, I'm very happy to be here with my friend Tara. It's good to share this day with you.

And maybe Tara, you could begin and see where it takes us.

My pleasure and likewise, it's a joy to get to co-teach with Frank who's very dear to my heart.

I just was looking at the picture of us. Last time we taught in Washington, DC, really wonderful.

And really so grateful to each of you who are here.

And I'm imagining you here since I don't get to see you, which I always, I love being able to see and feel you as much as possible.

So thank you. Thank you from around the globe, coming from around the globe.

And it feels so important, you know, gathering like this to explore presence, explore that silence and that space that can hold, you know, with heart.

All that's going on in this world in these current times.

And so aware of the intensity, you know, just went ahead and looked at the front pages today, you know, the violence, all the refugees, waves of pandemic.

And then of course, the Earth suffering.

You know, one friend last, described the last few years as that she couldn't see the land. It was like being in an airplane and just navigating one storm after another.

And there was, it wasn't safe and stable enough to land.

And you know, can feel that way when we're in reactivity that we're just not able to arrive in real life.

Can't contact, can't feel intimacy or just in motion, reacting.

And you know, even when we're not feeling strong emotion, you might notice there's still that habitual tendency to tense against what's next.

I'm sure you recognized it.

I'm thinking of one woman, a mother who sent her son a text message and it said, start worrying details to follow.

And that's kind of the way it is. We're ready for what's next.

And as most of you realize, it's an illusion that life ever settles.

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