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So during the last couple of weeks I've been reflecting on talk for today.

It's November 9th and in the United States this is the day after our midterms.

And so I was just wondering to myself, you know, given how strong the feelings are in this

country and myself and so many, you know, should I wait and see what the outcome is and then

you know, talk after that.

And what I realized is that whatever I'd want to explore what would really matter to explore

and what I'm really looking at deeply in my own practice, it would be the same no matter

the outcome of these elections.

And just to say that what's unfolding here in the United States is unfolding globally.

So whether we think in terms of winning or losing what we're really having to face is just

how much pain and fear there is in our world, including in our own hearts, we're having

to face how much hatred, how much othering, how much delusion, how so many are living in

these separate and very distorted cocooned realities.

So we're asked to face that and we're also asked to remember something larger and more

fundamental.

What we might call human spirit, our capacity for love, our capacity for waking up awareness.

So our inquiry today is really how do we bring our presence to the suffering, to the darkness

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