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So a good evening.

Welcome.

I want to begin by really honoring your practice.

I've been loving being with you all.

Lathers and groups are in the hall.

There's just a sense of earnestness and it's just very sweet.

The stillness that we have together, it's so I'm grateful.

And I've noticed in the groups and in myself and in the field that a lot of different

weather systems going through.

And no matter how much you feel like your mind has been wandering, I suspect you've been

more aware than you might have been of the different moods going through.

And at one retreat a few years ago, one man when he was leaving described just the whole

array that he had been ecstatic at sometimes and really in a deep grief and anxious and he

gone through all the different mind states.

And he said, you know, the joy isn't getting real.

It's just the being with them.

And you might be listening and thinking, well, I'm not quite getting that joy yet.

But you might have a few more days of getting real ahead of you.

So one of the stories I've always loved is of a sage.

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