Hello there's

Thanks for joining me. My name is Josh and this is Darmapunks New York

There's going to be a half day workshop in person on Sunday, February 5th from 2 to 5 PM. If you go to center yoga

com I believe that'll be there and you can sign up. If you'd like to support my work,

everything I do is offered by donation only. As a Buddhist Buddhist pastor I follow the 2,500 year old Buddhist practice of

doing everything by donation.

So the PayPal is on the website.

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Tonight we're going to be talking about setting some radical Buddhist intentions for the new year.

Looking at what's called the Buddhist precepts and refuges in the context of their profound context.

So I'd like to start by bringing to mind one of my favorite speeches by David Foster Wallace, the American author who in 2005 gave a commencement speech at

Canyon College and he started off his exceedingly eloquent

portrayal of our self-individualistic society by bringing to mind a parable of two young fish swimming along in the ocean and they

happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods and says,

morning boys, how's the water?

And the two young fish swim on for a bed

and then one of them looks at the other

and goes,

what the hell is water?

Now, Wallace then says that the point of that story is that very often the most obvious important

realities that influence us the most are the ones that are hardest to see and acknowledge.

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