So we'll go ahead and start.

So nice to see everyone coming back in.

And once again, we wanted to create some space to, at the beginning, to catch up with, you know,

we can get ourselves all on the same page.

So we've been talking about the context of this Suta and this beginning part about the middle path, the middle way.

And then we dove more deeply last class into the four noble truths, which is, you know, maybe a phrase that people hear fairly

early in their exploration of the Dharma. It's about the four noble truths. And there are so

many understandings of that and phraseologies of that. And here in this teaching, which was considered the Buddha's kind of first expression of this,

we talked about whether or not that's historically true or not,

nonetheless, we have this framing of them in terms of these three different phases and how we need to understand

what it is that this truth is pointing to, and then what needs to be done in relation to that,

and then some acknowledgement that our practice has done that, you know, that we have indeed walked through

that three-step series for each of these aspects of life.

I'm not going to call them noble truths.

How about aspects of life that we examine, aspects of mind and body that come into our practice

and which help us participate in the process of freeing the mind

from duca, from its own duca. So with that as a framing, and now you've hopefully maybe read the

Suta we gave the link last time. I'm curious if there's something at the top of mind, something related to your

practice. If you're worried about Devas, we're going to get to that later. So, okay, Debbie.

First of all, thank you. I call you the dream team. The four of you are great. I've learned so

much through studying these sutas through the years. I made a copy of, well, I printed the

suta. I read it, read it the first time Tuesday, and I was baffled. And then I approached it like a puzzle to try to understand it.

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