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It is my complete delight to welcome and introduce him and Sunum and blessings and thank you so much for being here.

I'm just a few words about him and then I'm going to exit stage left.

But I actually met him probably 15 years ago when I was just a young thing and he was teaching

actually Buddhist teachings at Hampshire College and subsequently him and his teacher and author

travels, teaches internationally, extremely well known in Korea. His books have sold 3 million, 4 million copies and we're talking about major and we have the books here.

The one that is most recent is Love for Imperfect Things and I've read both of them. You're going to love this book. It's so beautiful. It's got, it's completely accessible.

Short pieces that are absolutely deep and beautiful and wise and really do love your book.

I just want to say that it's really amazing to have a guest here that I've experienced as being so completely genuine and embodying the teachings of wisdom and love.

I know that you will enjoy this teaching you get tonight. So again, thank you.

Thank you so much for inviting me here. I've been watching this Dharma gathering from Korea through YouTube and I never thought that I'll be here and meeting you.

So it's such an honor. I'm very happy to be here. Before I start, I was thinking maybe I can start out with a joke. Would that be okay?

Yeah, yeah. But I actually got it from the internet so I... It's called You are just like Frank.

Oh man, walked out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi and the cabbie says, perfect timing. You are just like Frank.

And the passenger says, ooh, and cabbie says, Frank Furman, he's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happen like that to Frank Furman.

Every single time and passenger says, there are always a few clouds over everybody. But cabbie said, not Frank Furman. He was good at sports. He could have worn the Grand Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pro. He sang opera singer and then a Broadway star.

He could have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy. And the passenger said, sounds like he was something really special. The cabbie said, there's more. He has a memory like computer. He remembers everybody's birthday. He could fix anything. He also knows the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jam. Not like me.

I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made any mistake. He really knew how to treat a woman. And he never answered her back. Even if she was in the wrong. And his clothing was always immaculate. He was the perfect man.

And the passenger said, amazing fellow. How did you meet him? And then cabbie said, well, I never actually met Frank. He died and I have the pleasure of being married to his widow.

I'm so glad that you liked that joke. Yes. Perfect man. Frank, yes.

So I wrote a book called Love for Imperfect Things. And I wrote this book partly because I was inspired by one of the great Zen masters saying, according to Zen master Seung Chan. He was a great Chan or Zen master in China back in 6th century.

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