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Namaste and welcome friends. I'm really bow to you just so sweet to be with you for

this first gathering, first live gathering of 2021 and I'm wishing you all blessings

as you enter this year. As many of you know, I'm broadcasting from right outside of Washington

DC and just it's hard to not speak out what's going on just a couple of hours ago. The

capital was stormed by an angry crowd and a woman was killed. I think that area was cleared

about an hour ago. But to name the anger and the pain and the division, it's a cute

right here. It's all around the globe. And here we are suffering the horror of really

multiple pandemics. And I say all that in the spirit of how important it feels, I feel

very accompanied by being able to be with Sango with community and with you right now.

We just feel so important that we cultivate the wisdom and the caring that can help heal

our world. And each year, the first class of the year, and I've been doing this, I feel

like it's been about 18 years now, we reflect on what the Buddhist called the three refuges.

And these are our tipple pathways to awakening our heart and mind. And we close with a live

ceremony. It's very rich. This is the first time online. But I really have a lot of trust

that will come together and bring it alive together. So this last week or over the holidays

I spent a week with several other teachers leading a virtual retreat. And people came

from around the globe. And I was just really touched and amazed yet again and I feel it

so often by what's possible when we gather in this way. At the retreat, so many opening

of hearts and so many people shared their deepened trust. And this was the word that just

trust in who they were, trust in their lives, trust in their paths. And it's so precious

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