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This is Josh, welcome.

And thank you for joining us tonight.

I just realize that it's actually been now

16 years pretty much to this day since when I took over as teacher at New York

Darmapunks, and over the course of 16 years,

the bulk of which were spent actually teaching in person.

And the podcast itself didn't start

until about four years after I started teaching.

And over the course of these 16 years I have taught

when the same week my mom died,

the same with my dad died during blizzards during hurricanes literally. This year managed to teach twice while I had COVID-19.

Just wanted to acknowledge you who hear these ramblings

on contemporary psychology, Buddhist psychology, and early Buddhist practices, how much it means to me.

And with that, it seems nice that tonight's talk will be on love.

Love.

We hear songs, greeting cards, notable cultural figures and writers extolling its value.

There's an indispensable foundation for healing and positive social affiliations.

The constant extolling of love

as being central to the human endeavor,

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