Well, hello there. Thanks for stopping by and this is Darmapunks, New York. Just a couple of announcements.

Next Tuesday we'll be doing this in person at Grand Street Healing,

Williamsburg at 7 PM, April 2nd or 3rd,

whatever next Tuesday is.

So if you're in please feel invited to stop by next Tuesday. In fact it's best to get there at

650 of course because we like to start the talk on time and we need to make sure we get everybody in.

Also if you'd like to be on the mailing list, write us at DPX NYC at gmail,

we'll put you right on so you can get information.

And other than that, if you would like to support the work of your friendly neighborhood Buddhist pastor who does everything entirely by donations.

That's the teaching and the counseling.

You are invited to go on the website darmapunce with an

ex-nyc.com and you'll find the PayPal link and the Patreon or you And you can can as well, then,

can as well, Venmo, DarmaPunks with an X NYC.

So, thanks for your support, really keeps this going, allows me to put aside, especially

the time to prepare these talks and teach as well as do the cancelling.

So tonight's topic is on denial. At first the way I'm going to set up this talk might seem a little bit

tangential to the issue but I think as we move through some of the basic ideas when they start to come together

hopefully it'll give you a more complete picture of what denial is, it's ramifications, benefits

drawbacks, and ways and the implications both in Buddhism and how to address it.

It's the role of brains to represent the outside world and even the state of our bodies in a very central location of our nervous system

so that we can organize responses

to what's going on in the world

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