So this has been, for me, a fairly intense week, as I mentioned, I just moved, I actually

moved today, literally the moving van took me across the river.

Also a very heavy-hearted kind of week.

The events in Burma have been very close in.

As many of you know, there's a vipassana meditation, the style of meditation we do here, was

sourced in Burma.

And many of my friends have spent a lot of time practicing there, knowing the monks,

the monastery as well.

And it's a very religious country and the monks are the soul of the country, really revered

by many, and as one friend put it, the military shot into the soul of the people.

And it's way worse than the press, the most depressed people that are getting information

that's more true from my understanding, and it's really horrendous what's happening.

So it set off in me a reflection on human violence, on what it is that brings us to places

of blame and anger and hatred, and what heals us in our personal lives, and really interpersonally

as a culture.

So I hadn't expected to talk on this, but I actually given that we have Ruth King coming

this weekend.

It feels very appropriate, as a sungal warm-up to me, what's one of the most important

reflections on the planet.

And I will talk more about Ruth coming this weekend, but if any of you haven't heard

about it and are available, she will really drop it deeper for you.

So it's too big a talk to, you know, how does violence arise inwardly and are personally

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