Yeah, a little bit on a different time zone.

We were away.

We finally took a week off after our retreat and Buddhist counseling and stuff like that.

Took a little break.

So I'm on a bit of a different time zone.

It's actually the middle of the night for me.

So I hope you'll bear with as I try to sound coherent.

You'll put down any lapse of sensibility to just getting back into the U.S. time zone.

So fortunately, not much to announce, as usual, Kathy's morning meditation

from 8 to 8.30, Monday through Fridays, daily pause. So you can get all the information on

the Dharma Punks, NYC.

If you get anything from the teachings, any donation, no matter how small,

made by Venmo to Darmapunx, NYC, or by PayPal, you'll find the link on the website or the Patreon. Any donation is basically what

keeps going, because as a Buddhist pastor, I don't charge for anything I do. Anyway, thanks for

your support. And tonight, I thought I would give a kind of a different perspective on stress in our daily life.

In this view is going to be courtesy of contemporary neuropsychology, clinical psychology,

cognitive science. And thankfully, it also ties in a little bit to early Buddhist teaching.

So we'll eventually head to there and then we'll have a meditation and then time for any questions.

You or any clarifications or things that you'd like to discuss.

We'll have time for that as well.

So cognitive science changed our understanding of how the

brain works. In fact, gone are the old understandings of the brain being a kind of passive

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