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Namaste, welcome friends.

There's an annual tradition now.

I've been teaching for decades on Wednesday nights.

So it's the eve before Thanksgiving and each year I do some reflection on generosity.

So I wanted to begin this one with a true story that I love.

It's about Tetsugan who is a devoted Zen practitioner and teacher in Japan, he lived in the 1600s.

And he decided to publish the sutras, those are the discourses of the Buddha, which were

at that time available only in Chinese.

So the books were to be printed in Japanese and it would take the construction of 60,000 wood blocks to

accomplish this. So he began by traveling and collecting donations and bit by bit he collected

a significant sum of money that was needed to do the project. You know, a few sympathizers

would give him hundreds of pieces of gold.

Most of the time he received only small coins, and he thanked each donor with equal gratitude.

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