This is Josh of Jarma Punk's New York and taking a two-week retreat disconnecting from all of the various and attendant responsibilities of a Buddhist pastor going to some

place natural. So for the next two Tuesdays, you won't have to put up with my rambling on various different topics of dodgy interest.

If all goes is planned, I'll be back for the March 7th,

Tuesday evening gathering and hopefully recharged filled with fresh insights at least

resplendent with new energy to tackle the remnants of the winter and so on and so forth.

So that's about the size of it. If you would like to support my work as a Buddhist pastor. Everything I do is provided entirely free of any charge of the

Benmo is Darmapunks with an ex-nyc, and the PayPal buttons on the website,

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Tonight, we're going to be addressing rituals,

placebo's, and actually why they are actually far more

effective than we might normally think and how they work.

And we'll be talking about a specific Buddhist ritual

that is beneficial and then we'll practice it in our meditation.

So in the meta suit, a meta being loving kindness.

Buddha notes that the one who practices meta will sleep easily, wake easily, not have any nightmares.

We'll be impervious to fires, poisons, and weapons, will be protected by the spirits,

and will be invariably serene.

So obviously when we talk about being protected

and impervious to fires, poisons, and weapons,

we're talking about a ritual that is offering rather magical outcomes and yet the wonderful

Barbara Fredrickson a famous psychologist found that it provides significant regulation to the

autonomic nervous system, that it enhanced people's immune function, i.e.

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