Welcome, I'm Josh, Buddhist pastor, and just a couple announcements.

Our usual gathering time, which is the first Tuesday of the month, at Grand Street Healing.

So that'll be January 2nd at 7 PM.

And we'll have to as per the request of the center we're going to be having a

just a sign up because we've been getting too many people for their space,

which only fits about, I guess, like 45.

We're getting like 60 and 70 people on our gathering.

So it will be. people on our gathering. So, yeah, we'll be putting up a sign in form next week,

Darmopunks NYC.com. So if you are in the mood just to stop by you can you can sign up there and everything is of course done by donation everything I do

entirely as a Buddhist pastor supported by donation so Venmo Gar Garmapunks with the next NYC if you'd like to support my work.

If you're on the website you can also find the PayPal link and the Patreon link if you would like to

support my work that way. So I'm grateful for any generosity that is available, but either way just having you here is a wonderful joy.

So enough with all that and now on to tonight's topic.

I thought tonight I give a talk on balancing our need for joy and positive emotions

with also the importance of being accountable or responsible

to issues going on in our life in the world, important events.

And that balance can be very difficult to find.

And I'll talk about some tools that have helped me. I'm not claiming that any of them will be the

right tools for you, but hopefully something in tonight's talk will be of interest. Then we'll have a meditation, then we'll have time for questions or anything

you'd like to have explicated further. In the 1960s, heralded the arrival of positive psychology, famous figures like Martin Seligman, Albert Bandura,

Mehale, Czech, St Mehale, Abraham Maslow, Robert Evans, and then over time very exciting new figures, some of my favorites, Barbara

Fredrickson, Jonathan Hayes,

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