I'd be remiss not to name what's on a lot of people's minds or recent shared experience.

How many of you felt the earth shaking under you?

Let's see.

Good number, okay.

I was reflecting on how these are the moments that really get seared in our memory because

when you're right in the midst of it, there's true uncertainty, like all the normal orientations

and context for what's going to happen next, gone.

And so we're living in maybe fear, but also intense aliveness, isn't it so?

You're right there.

You're not often thought, right?

Pretty much.

And interesting how, when it's done, the amazing amount of communication, how instant it

is, how within just a few hours on the web, we found this.

To all of you, for your kind words of support, as we look to recover from the devastation

of today's quake in Washington, DC, then there's a picture and it had some plastic lawn

chair furniture, one little chair was toppled, it was perfect.

One of the most interesting questions to me, and it's central to, I think, all spiritual

paths, is what is it that really allows us to wake up?

I mean, what is the ground of spiritual transformation and healing?

And this was a key question at a conference.

I went to a Buddhist conference.

I went to pretty much exactly 10 years ago.

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