Okay, welcome, welcome to our second class in the second series of the stories of an inspiring Buddhist women.

So happy that you're here to join me and, I guess we, I don't know, discover these women, some of these women like I didn't know about before when I've been, I'm talking about them and some of them I did know but didn't know a lot and it's been a lot of fun for me to

do some poking around and to share with you all. And again I just want to state you

know this class is not meant to be like you know the definitive biography of these

individuals instead it's a opportunity to I don't know just acknowledge and

respect and honor these women as well as allow ourselves to be touched by them,

to be touched by like, wow, you know, even though that's maybe not the stories that we hear the most in

Dormat talks are in books doesn't mean that there aren't these amazing women

around. And then this is how we'll start getting these stories out there is by sharing

I all with you and be starting that way. And then also I feel like I also want to say some of these things that just the all these different women that I don't want to suggest that we have to be like them or that what they are doing is the only way or anything like that or that they are you know the

epitome and somebody that we should emulate.

Again just this idea that allow yourself to be touched by what we're learning here and is it a way that it can

support your practice? Is it a way that maybe, I know for me sometimes I feel like,

wow they they I know for me sometimes I feel like they found a way maybe I can find a way through this

little rough patch here too the way that can support us maybe kind of an abstract way or something like this.

So today we're going to do something a little bit different that we're going to be talking about an amazing woman.

Many of you have heard of this woman and through books and maybe even some of her

teachings, just an amazing person.

And we have the great good fortune to have a student of this woman who's going to be sharing

about her with us.

And it also happens, my view that this student this person is a student is also a fantastic story teller so I think this will be great

We're gonna have this a way way we can learn about this woman.

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