Hi there, thanks for stopping by. This is Josh, Darmapunks, New York. If you're up at 8 a.m.

Monday through Fridays, check out Kathy's morning meditation, daily pause,

and all the information is on the Darmapunks

NYC.com website. The sign up for the Garrison Retreats and Labor Day is up on the Garrison Institute and on the Garrison Institute and on the newsletter,

which we send out each week, email,

I had the link for it and up on the website link for the Garrison Labor Day three day retreat.

So if you feel like spending a few days up in the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley.

Beautiful hiking trails, great food.

Hope you can make it and of course we always work with the Buddhist centers to keep prices as affordable as possible so it's actually a really great way just to get away from this city for holidays which now seem distant but still I hope you'll sign up and if you would like to support the work of a Buddhist

pastor who works entirely by donation the ways to keep me going as an ongoing enterprise is by Venmo, DarmaPunks with an X NYC, or finding the links

for Patreon and PayPal on the website.

Anything, no matter how small I'm grateful for, to keep this going.

And with all that out of the way tonight retail therapy I never have

any clue what I'm going to be talking about each week up to a few days beforehand and then someone in a

counseling session will mention something and often if it's two people that

mention the same issue then I immediately decide okay a theme

so I'm going to give a talk on that and then I just throw some reflections,

some little bit of research,

come up with a talk where I merge some of that

with Buddhist tools that are helpful in addressing these issues and then we do meditation,

employing the tools.

It's easy to overlook the presence of addictive cycles in common pleasures.

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