I don't think there is such a good way to do it. I think we're widening the cost of big water. We're in Canada today.

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I think it's just going to be lifting. Initially, we had a pre-watch party about 15 miles to the OER. And it went down a little bit of a level. There's a beautiful garden there. I feel just exactly like in the middle of the garden. And we went to see all the kids. I remember when I wanted to go to school. We were about this big. Big, big dream for that one. Now you're here. Since we've got the children here right around us, I thought we could start this morning by telling a story. So I'll start telling a few stories, and I'm hoping they're all going to help me. There's a lot of these stories that we went down, and we have some of them. But I hope that you'll chip in and help out. If you have any kind of calling, ask to be helping.

[02:03]

To be ready. You know, a very, very long time ago in the northwest part of India, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away from here, a little baby was born, a Buddha baby. And I know a lot of you know the story of the baby. You know, you all know the story. It's a wonderful story about a very special baby, just like all of you, all of us. who grew up very far away from here, but whose story is still very much part of our life today. And there are lots and lots of stories that we've been telling for almost 2,500 years about this baby and what he did and what he did with all of his parents and how he lived. Do you know those stories actually help people today remembering what happened to baby Buddha as he was growing up?

[03:06]

Or Jesus Christ when Jesus was growing up. Or Joan of Arc when she was growing up. These are stories that help people live their lives. Today I'm going to tell you some of the stories that happened when Luther was growing up. Make a lesson and help me. Right. So I thought, first of all, I'd start out with a couple of them. You know that Buddha was born, right, Sarah? And the parents wanted him to stay. What did they want him to do? That's right. He had a choice. He was a baby. He was, first of all, he had kind of a magical birth, an unusual birth. None of us were quite born that way. He was born out of where? Do you remember, Audrey? It's all right. The side of what? Not really.

[04:09]

Thank heaven she was there. Anyway, he was. She held on to the tree. The branch of a huge, solid tree where she was resting. And she felt pain inside of her body, which is not usually where you feel pain when babies are to be born. But anyway, that's where she felt them. And she knelt under the tree, and what happened? He, like, just like you just said, he burst out of the right side of the body. And he was born. And everybody thought, gee, that's a pretty big miracle. And what did he do? And he put his finger up in the air. Do you remember what he said? He sort of began his life by bragging about it. Does anybody know? You know, with Richard Millionaire? What did he say? In his own way, he said, I'm going to be kind of hot stuff.

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He said, I alone in the world, I'm in one. And I'm born to help all beings. I never know that babies could actually play that, but in any case, he was born, he took steps, which little newborn babies don't usually do. You didn't do that. And, uh, people noticed that there was something special about this baby. So they thought, well, gee, either this is going to be something special. And just like Sarah said, he'd either be the one to be a king or a religious leader. Now, what if his father wouldn't be? We'll get back to you, Sarah. What if his father hoped that he would be a king? That's right. Take a look. Anyway, he hoped he would be a king, and he did everything he could to keep him being a king. In other words, he didn't want him to suffer at all, right? Did he let him go out of the palace? He stayed in the palace. He was very protective.

[06:11]

His father didn't want him to see suffering. He didn't want him to even raise the idea of being a religious leader. He wanted him to be a king. One day, this is a story that a lot of people don't know about Peter. He was a young boy, about your age. I think it was before he was a young boy. He was a box soul. Picture soul. He'd been raised in the palace. He was pretty happy, very sensitive. And there was a huge festival to celebrate the spring, the opening of the earth. His parents took him out to this plowing festival. The festival would commemorate the first sowing team. It was a big festival. And you know, in northern India, they didn't have tractors. They plowed with animals. And they didn't have horses either. Horses were used for war. They weren't used for working. But oxen were used. And there was this plowing contest. involved oxen and plowing flowers of farmers behind the oxen.

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It was kind of a rave that seemed to put open the most earth. It was a big festival they did every spring. And the baby Buddha hadn't ever been to this festival. The baby Buddha was younger, about five years old. So he went out, and there was a lot of celebration, cheer, and band, and a feast amount of food. And the king, his father, the king Sukhagana, welcomed all the flowers and gave a blessing to the earth, calling on the earth to give forth all of her gifts. If she'd like to come here a little bit. I'll make it short. Don't go. Okay. Anyway, the earth was opened up, and there was a huge cheer from the crowd. Everyone gathered around.

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I think this was a sort of great joy. Everybody was celebrating. And the young Buddha... And after the oxen, he noticed as he was watching the oxen was straining. They were really exhausted. And the farmers had a lot of stress. They were really intent on opening after they were cut. He went out in the field after the ground had been opened. And he saw something that upset him very much. Can you imagine what he saw? You know what happened, Sarah? Right. Right. But he saw, even though there was a lot of excitement, he saw that there was also a lot of suffering involved, even in opening directly to bring forth the cross. And this affected him very deeply. He was a child who saw into the pain and suffering and enjoyed life very clearly.

[09:18]

Thank you, God. He just wanted to go. Anyway, he'd go up and he saw. He didn't want to go back to the crowd. He didn't want to be part of the celebration. So he walked on the edge of the field where they hadn't been for a while. He walked on the high grass. And he walked until he came to kind of a quiet grove that was all to the side. And he felt a lot of pain inside of his little body. He felt a lot of confusion and unhappiness and also sorrow. There was a huge tree back there on the corner of the road. And he sat down at the tree. And he thought very, very carefully about what to see. He pretty soon he fell asleep. Well, his mother, the queen, actually, she wasn't the full mother, but the mother would take good care of him because his full mother had died right after he was born. Besides, this woman was his mother's sister, so his mother's sister went to look for him, and she couldn't find him, but she was quite worried.

[10:20]

She walked all around the edge of the field, and she saw him chasing him under the tree, and she sat next to the tree and waited. And when he woke up, he was afraid he'd kind of come back to himself, and he told her what he had seen. and carried me to the pier and went on with the flight. But that was a new night that affected him very briefly. He shot out and made me feel kind of sad, or at least with something. Not everything was as beautiful as it seemed like it was for me, looking kind of... Right after that, he was walking in the garden around the tower, and it took a little while. He made up a story in the swamp. The beautiful swans were flying overhead. Do you know the story? And one of the swans fell right to your feet with an arrow in its eye. What did he do? He picked up the swan and the arrow was in the side of the swan.

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What happened? He picked it up. He pulled the air on me, and then there was some blood coming out inside of the swan. So he took off his shirt, which was all made of soft wool, and he wrapped it around the swan. He swabbed up the wound, broke the swan's up, and the swan kind of nestled in his arm, kind of looking like his baby. He patted it and stroked it. His eyes were kind of flickering, and he looked into the swan's eyes. He tried to calm it down. And then he went and he sat on the edge of the garden and he was getting ready to try to do something about the wound when his cousin, Devadatta, ran to the garden and said, Siddhartha, Siddhartha, that was the name that everybody called him. Siddhartha, Prince Siddhartha, I shot a swan. I cut it. I cut it with my arrow. And somewhere he was in his garden. Prince Siddhartha wasn't all that pleased about the wound. And his cousin was even less pleased when he looked down and saw the swan and his cousin fell down.

[12:26]

That's my swan. I want that swan. Give him back to me. Give him back to me. He's mine. I've got him. And the young group protected him and said, he's hurt. You can't. What are you going to do? You have to take care of him. I won't take care of him. He's hurt. Anyway, that kind of fight or it's hustle. Siddhartha turned his cousin away and his cousin pretty upset because he really wanted the swan if he had gotten. Anyway, some of the elder people are the palace came eventually the king himself came and they watched the two children arguing or at least discussing what to do with it and uh do you know what they decided to do they thought actually it was good for the children to be discussing but you they and it had to be decided whose swan was the swan did you remember what they did i think Do you know, Eric? I've forgotten. You've forgotten? Okay, we'll make it fresh at least. What happened, sir?

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I don't have it, but if you can't see it. And what's the most important thing for people? One of the most important things, this old man that said, remember, it's like a big life. It's a savior life. It's a protector life. It's an honor feeling life. Or not only feeling life, but all forms of life. So therefore, And nobody knew where he'd come from, right? He just came out of a blue sky and appeared, but not a person that they'd seen in the very old, old, old man. And he said, because we honor life as the most precious gift, let's let Siddhartha keep this one because he chose to protect life. And I didn't even beg about that. I understood.

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But anyway, this was one of the teaching stories in the life of the prince. And he grew up. He went out of his power. In fact, he did decide that he wanted to be a religious preacher, that he wanted to go out and meet the suffering that he felt in the world and try to do something about it. At the age of 35, he came to the point where he woke up. He was in a wheelchair. He was smiling. He was looking at all of you, helping and inviting you at the point of death. Anyway, he went out into the world, and he served for his entire life before he was quite an old man. And he fought and wandered all over India. We went to teach him there, but we went out to bed. That we'd practice and sit still and sit doing. Or in our home, wherever we were. Yes. I'll set a star for you, sir.

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You did, didn't you? Go ahead. I don't want to. I'm trying. And then his friend said, gee, somebody who would eat rice and milk and become a girl is probably not a very good looking creature, right? But he wasn't looking. He found that living in the palace, living a very luxurious, comfortable life, wasn't any better than serving him. He tried to find what we call the middle way, or the way right down the middle where he wouldn't be serving himself and wouldn't do it over in the kitchen. Anyway, he dedicated his life to finding that way in the future.

[16:34]

And it's a very good future. Now, one thing, the last story I'm going to tell, I actually have two more short stories to tell. One's a story about other forms of life that the Buddha took, because he realized that not only human forms were teaching forms, but also that all different kinds of forms of life could teach. Stars could teach, rocks could teach, trees and flowers. How great. We didn't talk too much about the teaching of garbage, but all kinds of teachers are possible teachers. There's a wonderful story about a king in India that Buddha told to his disciples. a king who had a dream of building a beautiful temple. And in order to build this temple, which he was dedicated to understanding the love and peace, he went into a huge forest around his palace and found a gigantic, let's say, redwood tree. Beautiful redwood tree. You do know.

[17:36]

It's in your book, right. That's right. There's a book written for children. And I thought if I told her that, she'd help me. So that's why I did. And I'm glad you're ready. So he looked at that tree. He came up to that tree and he said, that's the tree I want them right now. And he ordered all of his helpers to go ahead and . What happened to it? That's, that's really right. But you know, you know what, you know how I knew that? In the night after we designated that tree, the tree for the tower, he had a dream. And a tree spirit appeared to him and said, your magic, please don't cut me down. You can have a fine palace without cutting down trees and building. You can have a palace at my feet.

[18:38]

I'll show you. He said, I'm very sorry. I want a fine palace where I can sit inside and have my disciples be there and I can be comfortable and I can teach. The tree tried to persuade him not to do it. The king was pretty resolute, pretty determined to do it. So finally the tree yielded. And she said, all right, ma'am, but for you to hurt, you know, technically it's not an easy thing. I would feel it. But if you must do this, then I ask only one favor. And he said, you know, certainly when I ran into you, you are magnificent. That's what I'll do. But she said, but have your chopper, the woodman, climb up to my upper branch and cut me in sections. Because if you cut me down all at once, I will crush you. The other trees were handled in the forest. So I'd like you to cut me some more section for feet. Because wait a minute, that's going to really hurt if we cut you 15 times, 20 times. I'll have to do it like that. The tree said, put it back in what I want.

[19:39]

We cut that way, it'll be less fluffy. So when the people heard that, what people thought, you've got to fix it. He decided he'd rather not have power. And in fact, he changed his wife. So they say that in a former life, the baby daughter lived in that tree with a teacher, drew them out of the tree. I like that word now because it reminds us that all kinds of life can teach. What we call animate and reanimate outfits. clearly each of them. For that tree story, it's such a great, that pain became, I think it became, it's the kind of pain we need to have to help us remember, to listen to the life of a tree being very, very meaningful. I have one more story before you guys can go and keep playing. This is a story of, another story of, that we were told at the first recital when we were 15.

[20:43]

This is a story of a famous acrobat, a man who was a, do you know what an acrobat is, Rachel? You don't? Have you ever seen a tightrope walker? They can walk in a very, very special way. stunk, have you, in the circus? Well, in India, there are many people that lived a very a difficult life, and they had to do tricks on the street to raise money. You know how some kinds of people today do that too. And they can offer anything, ask people to help support their life. Well, this man, who was a famous acrobat, and his daughter walked the streets of northern India where the Buddha lived, and they performed tricks in order to sustain their lives. His wife had died, his mother had died, his younger mother had died. It was just the father and his daughter doing these tricks. And what he would do is he got a long bamboo pole and put it on his forehead. And he would walk like this with the long bamboo pole. And his daughter would balance on the top of the pole like a swan.

[21:46]

She would balance. And then he would walk the streets, balancing that pole with his daughter in a perfect concentration. And people would gather around in awe. And they would realize what a lot of effort it took to do this trick. And they would help support their life. And they were a wonderful team. They worked very hard together, and they were very well and careful with each other. And one day the father said to his daughter, he said, you know, little Neda, you and I take very good care of each other. You pay attention to me and take good, good care of me, and I'll take good care of you. And when we're doing our training, I'll put all my attention on you, and you put all of your attention on me, and therefore we'll be able to support our life and to live. This is his teaching to her. And she was a very wise teacher, which is why I do the told story of the child. And she said, Father, I excuse you. You've almost got it right, but not quite.

[22:48]

She said, I think what has to happen is you pay good attention to yourself, and I'll pay good attention to myself, and that way I won't fall and you won't drop me, and we'll be able to support our lives. And the Buddha said, you know, this story is very clear. Each person has to be very, very aware of their own life and how they're living in the world. And if you do that, that helps you take care of other people. First step. And I think that's a pretty good way. You ever heard that story? Good. I'm glad. That's fine. Thank you for coming. I hope to come again. I'll come and see you again soon. Thank you. I realized that no one ever had children, but all of us have been children.

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And I've spent quite a lot of time in Atlanta, a couple of years, actually. After being at Penn Center for 15 years, I got to be with a middle-aged woman, family member, a mother, a darling, all these different people. I like to talk a little bit about some of the treasures that I've seen and heard come from children. how much in our day and times right now everybody's affected, especially it's wonderful to see how earned children help us remember our roots.

[25:46]

So the story of the Buddha, I think that's very important because They remind us that we're, as Vicki Roshi said, we're following this practice of Buddhism, but it's not a system of thought, it's a practice of the truth. Buddha as a teacher is, I know Robert said we sit at cakewalks when we talk, but how we can actually remember that we're the same as Buddha, or the light of Buddha. Can you hear me? How we can actually remember that we are all Buddha, or part of the practice of truth, that Buddha taught, and take responsibility for that, and actually come out and ban that. The truth being, anything that helped us remember that, great.

[26:55]

I think children and plants and animals are excellent teachers of the Dharma. I think actually that every leaf and noise of the traffic is also a picture of the Dharma, or candy, if we open our ears and our hearts. So I'd like to take a look at some of you guys. teachers this morning and honor them when they're talking. Last summer, I went with my husband and Jeffrey, our 10-year-old, to live in France, in Montmartre, for five weeks. We lived in a small community which gathers together with people from all over the world, peace workers, peace workers' convention from all over the world, which means anybody's welcome. So for one month, Plum Village Community, which is where Thich Nhat Hanh practices in Southern France, opens the gates to the wider world.

[27:56]

And in fact, last summer, 19 nations were represented, people from 19 different nations, to be able to talk about practicing and raising up the teaching of the way and making it relevant in our day and age, primarily to this whole experiment. was letting children teach and welcoming children into the circle of our lives. going to the meditation hall early in the morning not so early we did a kind of what we call lace person you know fiction which was starting at seven o'clock in the morning rather than five that was pretty good we did that so the children could join us i liked very much seeing all the neat shoes of the zone students from europe and the united states the kind of less neat The shoes of Vietnamese friends who were predominantly present in this retreat. And an interleave over ground on top of them, underneath them, and all sideways.

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So really tiny shoes for four-year-old children. It's sort of, every time I went to the meditation hall, I was very moved by the little shoes. The little people were inside the meditation hall. And the kids would sit up on the cushion with their little legs. kept up here. At one point, one child very alertly, she started to kind of nod, and after about 15 minutes or so, she was snoring, full black. And I thought it was beautiful. The other kid kind of gathered around her and put blankets around her, and she does right in the middle of the whole meditation. Today, especially practicing in this particular environment where people are busy working in the European world, these are people who've been through quite a lot of... effort to try to free their lives so that they can gather there in front of one another. So this is their one opportunity to practice meditation together. Some of us have that opportunity on a more daily level.

[30:02]

But for them, it's a real training. So the meditation is dedicated to awareness and awakening, being awake and alert. I loved it when there was a sleeping four-year-old child in the living room, along with an 86-year-old gentleman, a long, white figure. I started that experience of living there and I lived in the middle of them. of the Indian community, people who, like the Jupiter diaspora, were dispersed from their country, trying to settle and find their roots in the alien society of the European society, French, Swiss, German, Belgian, all of them.

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We settlers in those countries. But gathering together to take a look at what happens when the human body sits still pays attention to the breath, and tries to enjoy life, and then carry it out into the world. I think this is a good question for all of us. When they founded the Plum Village community, the name comes from somebody who knows, but I'll tell you who, because I think it's quite amusing. When they originally founded the community about seven years ago, In the winter, children were invited from all the different countries that I mentioned. Primarily, they were the European continent. And they were invited to come in the winter and break earth in the same way, not quite in the same way as the Occident. Each child would give a stay and a seedling of a palm tree. This Dordogne River in France is very famous for growing buccane.

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Each child was given a sapling and they planted it with mindfulness and awareness. And this is the tree that they have returned to year after year to pick care of. Last summer was a particularly auspicious summer because the trees began to fruit. There's a connection there, which the children understood immediately and intimately preserved. And that's the connection between planting a tree, taking care of it, sustaining it, and finding responsibility for that tree. So that when it fruits, they're planting the heart of that fruit and sell it on the French market for export. And with the money realized from that, sale of fruit, that children will be able to buy life or to buy medicine for their brothers and sisters and families and generations. I guess we should just say brothers and sisters. Children who remain in Vietnam.

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So each child that plants one tree and takes the kind of graphic care of that tree also has the opportunity to see how that extends and connects with working with them in the wider world. But children are less fortunate than they are. One or two children have three or four trees, the older children. Believe me, they know which trees are theirs. They tend them. Those trees are flourishing. They're beautiful, and it's a very, very Marginal climate where they're growing quite shallow soil. In fact, this land was only made available to the Vietnamese community because it was poor land, not to the great. So in the great vineyard world of southern France, this is a piece of marginal land. But amazingly, Teresa Bershing will plant 1,000 trees in the first year. And then they set about building the building or renovating the farm ship over there. For most of the community fed and for one month they're open to video.

[34:20]

to the wider world. If you're ever in France, from the middle of July to the middle of August, you're welcome to go. This will connect with the group, and to bring the children, or to become a child. And sometimes we had ceremonies that were dedicated to children, and none of the children were there. So we'd have to call on the adults and do a little bit of reverse alchemy to change the fact for the children. And that was always meant to do. Oh, so I often think of those children now, now that I've been with them. What really is the purpose of us sitting still, considering stories like this one? I don't think you, Vicky Roche, want to be at a great picture, but we are. Okay, the purpose of sitting still is to feel. Just practice laughing, Vicky Roche. Just practice laughing and take your argument from the list. We taught how to fit through our practice, how to act and live through our practice.

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That's one thing. Pretty people. That's one issue. But here we are putting together. So we sit to just sit. But I think it goes a little bit deeper, which is to be aware of what's going on. To sit in our body is to be aware of our body and what that is in the world. So we sit alertly and with awareness. Anyone can sit. If you can't sit, you can do this quite easily by walking. You can do it by standing and looking at a tree, looking at a child, looking at a city. but we had a garbage heap, the point is to tell yourself and to be aware of what's going on. When Auntie Donahan first came to this community, there was a child who was an orphan who came to live with him. She had no parents, and until she was to be resettled, she went to live with her grandfather-in-law because she told him. One day she came in. She'd been running and playing that fire.

[36:29]

She wanted something to drink. He gave her an end of a bottle of apple juice, which had a lot of sediment in it. She wouldn't touch it. She wanted nothing to do with it. She ran. She was very sensitive. He kind of smiled and waited. She came back after about 20 minutes and lo and behold, the glass was really clear, probably like this water. And she took a drink. Said, what happened to that? of the apple juice. What happened to that apple juice? And he asked her, what character did the glass? And she noticed on the bottom that the sediment had settled. It was very thoughtful and clarifying. He got to clarify. I know that story because it reminds me very much of what happened to him the next day. Slow down a little bit. Sit down still. Let the sediment settle. We become clear. Awaken, alert, and clear. and take responsibility for this world while we're at it. And it's a big path for us, especially with me.

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Last winter, I'm going to tell a few more stories about children. Hopefully we can answer questions if we bring up anything. Last summer, last winter, the children who lived at Greenville, she was about six of them, were 10 years old, who'd grown up there, decided they wanted to try to do something for kids that weren't as lucky as they were. particularly for the kids, what they want to be. So I suggested to them that they might want to make some reeds and sell them. Our children, having grown up at Fenton for many years, are a closet entrepreneur. They're really interested in making them. So they liked this idea a lot. And people said, you are crazy. We're going to make reeds for both kids. So I sat down and gave them all that material. And children had to make reeds, which takes a lot of dexterity, care, and concentration. The idea was they'd make these reeds, they'd sell them, they'd raise money, and donate to the other kids.

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Now, they've tried to make reads, but they haven't been able to hold their concentration. If you can believe it, they spent six weeks every Thursday afternoon at the school being in complete, not complete, concentration. They've been pretty, pretty concentrated taking reads. And each of their personalities sprang forth. And Aaron Fisher figured out exactly how many bunches there were. Did you know that 14 and a half bunches never counted? As you know, it's very extremely creative. You never knew what knowledge could be, because it's a cloud material, but now it's very wild. So they worked a whole range from being very methodical kids, kind of wild in their creativity, and produced these extraordinary investments, which we put up on a board, said to the public very quietly, this was the project the kids thought of to help raise money for kids who aren't as important as they are. If you buy them, we need you to support that project. Well, they raised $700,000, which is incredibly beautiful work they did.

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And they started taking custom orders for their teachers. made custom order. And I thought it would be interesting to know that not only did they do that, but this was the beginning. First, it finished that way. Next, their awareness went out into the world. So this was a project that started with a good idea, kind of noble idea, sort of a little bit too noble for much of it. It got very grounded after a while because It was $700 that they didn't have before, and so they wanted to know where it was going. So they went through it, and they began to engage, and they looked at all the possible projects that were available to them. First, they chose to give to a group of homeless children, children who had been abandoned. They had a shelter in Marin County. Now that they gave the money to me, they went to the shelter. They met the kid. They brought $110. This was their first week of school. And they brought one of the wreaths that Ben sold.

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They brought and had a whole cure of food. Not only did they see the school and meet the kids, they also went to a Christmas party that was for the children. So they really engaged with these children and found out who they were, where they were, and invited them to Dignito. It was a very good experience. They also worked for two weeks to raise enough money to support one of these families that I mentioned who were living in Vietnam with orphaned children. So that took two weeks for them. One of the children had just gone through a rather growing bout of breast cancer, cancer in her life. The children were there, and she's one of the children who grew up with them and worked with them. So they donated another week's worth, $1,250, to Cancer Support Group that helped Victoria and other people around health. children learn about .

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And they also donated to a few other projects. It was amazing. By the end of the winter, Christmas kind of came up. They'd really engaged in the life of the world. And they were leading me. They were pulling me along in the project. I think a lot of you know about this. They wrote an article. The kids themselves wrote this article, which they dictated to me. I wrote it then. It was in the White Bell, another article through the Peace Fellowship Journal, because they wanted to tell people about what they'd done. They thought it would encourage other people to do similar work pretty easily. Anyway. They had a huge empathy. My son was very little, 18 months old. He broke a leg. And you had cats and these same kids that were making raids with him, growing up with him. They were just learning to walk and negotiate the upright world. One day they all appeared, all his friends appeared at our house wearing little tin cans on their feet.

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So they were all Olympic. It's like, What's the empathetic weave of our life? It's so strong. So they all, during the conjecture of the broken leg, they wore the cans and things. They could also be slowed down with him, enjoying, you know what I mean? It was real simple. They just stuck their foot in an empty, you know, tin can. You still have tomato sauce. And they plunked around, and they loved it. They happened to get tired of it. They took it off and cleaned it. I bring it up because we've had this connection with the world. Life is real, not ghost. It's like an 11-year-old boy. He may want to treat the great one. It's real, it's not a ghost. And so many, I'm sure we've all felt like it, too, of this human awareness that goes beyond liberation.

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And I think that's in humor, and if you like, some of the literature, some of the writing, The composing gothics are short verses that help us remember our connection with anyone in the world. My son chose to go home early, having had a hard time being away from his family. I think he missed McDonald's. It was really what the case was. He was long from McDonald's. He went back a little early. He finished the entire time at Fun Village to pick me up. And he wrote a little poem, which I thought was a good poem. Great. Soaring over the Atlantic Ocean, I think of all the people who wished they could go home. A few million that he realized that there were lots of people that didn't have the freedom he wants. And he read this to all the children that were in that case. In fact, all of them can't go home like they could, because home for many of them, they lose.

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We also wrote another one which I thought was pretty good, the other extreme. It says, Waking my kid at 7 o'clock in the morning is like trying to move a big boulder. Last we get to see Grandy Elsinore. Probably chance, business center. Certainly that's how to actually bring the field back. It's a little bit more alive. And I think children will be very involved in the day. So if he's born, we'd love to have him come. I'm going to close with one long story about when children grew up at Greenwashing years ago who are now teenagers. This year, to our surprise, they founded a group, a lot of them are boys. They founded a group to look at what their commitment would be to military service at all. This was a real surprise. with a group of their peers. They wanted to look at what it means to be a conscientious projector, what it means to observe in all the different ways you can.

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And so they spent a year, students, taking a look at it. And they drew, to our real surprise, they drew quite heavily on their childhood experience with the living event that you can use to observe their parents sitting in their room, sitting in their bedroom, wherever they were. which had some effect on the children, we hadn't actually accounted for. In our own backyard, they had a final meeting a couple of months ago, because a lot of them were graduating from high school and they were going out into the world. At the end of the meeting, one of the girls who helped organize the group named Erica I asked for a few minutes to plan to remember one of their best friends there in the group for a year to have chosen to admit in the military, to live in the airport. Most of them didn't take that, didn't make that choice. They're looking at all of that. They're looking at what they can do. to engage, yes, but maybe not in the way that friends should connect with a piece of silence and chat, because it's very hard for them to live, and that with their friends.

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Anyway, I think that these are all modern stories of the lives of Ruba, day by day, fresh stories of him, and creation stories of times where he was living, We also always leave a lot of time for question and answer in a less formal atmosphere in the back of the dining room if you prefer.

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