I'm so proud of this, and it's your team, and your own credit, I'm well. It is really a match for you, even though I do a thousand million coppers, and having it with me, and this one too, it's your good man, but when they say it, I think I know today's the truth of the title of this works. My name is . I'm going to serve as the practice for San Francisco Zen Center City Center, which is a block away. For those of you who don't know, we're undergoing a year-long renovation. He took the toilets.

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elevator in and make a nice, warm, welcoming entryway so that everyone recognizes the paper long. So this is the second iteration of our pop-up meditation poem. We're sort of developing and cultivating relationships with other institutions in the neighborhood. So we've had a couple of one-day sits over at Unity Church, which is just down the street from us, on Page Street. And now this is our first one here. So thanks for bearing with us as we work out some of the kinks and wrinkles that there are to being here. I have to say that I'm very excited to be here.

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It's really interesting. This is a printmaking studio right here. Page Street Park Center is a non-profit, so they have class and fear. And these incredible shows, the show of 60s lithographs from mostly music events. And downstairs, there's like three other galleries with the same theme of Lippincross down there. So I'm actually very excited to be here. And it's really interesting because, and I'm going to video capsule what Vandana talks to me right behind five minutes, so sorry if I end up repeating things. There's a mural from 1936 in the hallway over here. It was made during the WPA era. And in 1936, there was a general strike in San Francisco.

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And for those of you who lived through big strikes, just the energy that there is reverberates long into the future. And some historians thought that some of the rampants from the general strike in 1936 is what gave a sense of openness to the beat generation. And of course, the big generation, which was mostly a literary historical event, gave birth, and many people believe, to the counterculture generation of the 1960s, which these posters are from. There's sort of these reverberations that happen from different historical events, and that's kind of what karma is. Karma, which is often misunderstood as fate, karma just means action.

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But what we're interested in as Buddhists is the reverberations, afterhand, that happen and affect other connected things. I can just really feel that in this building. So I need to thank who's the abiding city center and who is very carefully looking after our monastery in Tassahara right now. They're looking after it for over a longish period of time and going to be leading the practice period here. I also would like to thank central addict David Zimmerman, with whom I'm co-leading this day long with. And as always, I would like to thank my teacher, Rizzo Edsizen, for his perhaps foolhardy patience.

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and his incredible kindness. And welcome also to everyone who's joining us online. So the title of this talk is The Stranger in the Mirror. And in it, I'll be talking about rebirth and reincarnation. My cup is over there with my name on it. Thank you very much until I'm going to get sticky. So right now it's hard to be alive in a human body with all the suffering that there is in the world. It's with these large brains that we have. Thank you so much, Helen. It's with these large brains that we've had that we developed so many ways to know about what it is that's happening across the globe.

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And we can find out what it is that's happening across the globe in just minutes of it happening. And it's also with these oversized brains that we have that we hear the cries of the world. San Francisco Zen Center is a Bodhisattva training facility. And Bodhisattva is a team who moves towards enlightenment but stays in the world of suffering till all beings can be enlightened together. To hear the cries of the world is the project of the bodhisattva being training. Hearing the cries is painful. The pain we feel when hearing the cries means we're hearing them. In the process of hearing the cries of the world We have to remember that we're not alone. And we have to look after each other. My first Buddhist teacher, who was not a Zen practitioner, he was a Vipassana, Thiravadan teacher, said, a Buddhist that we're never bored because we're always paying attention to the miracle of what it means to be alive, fine tuning our ability to pick up

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on smaller and smaller details of what it means to be a human being. In Zen, with our faces to the wall, we were making contact with others in the Zen Do. Someone might be crying. We're picking up on Genji, the unseen. We're going deep inside the cell. That first teacher also said that we're never alone. And we're never alone because we're connected intimately to every state and everyone in the universe throughout space and time. I love saying that. A big bite. We learn to connect the intimates, the eternal and the honest thing, with the monumental and the universal. And the problem, of course, is remembering that. Last Saturday, Lisa Hoffman spoke over at the building up on Page Street about the connection we have to our teachers and our lives.

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She brought into the room two teachers, Lila and Darlene Common. And she asked us all to bring our teachers into the room as well. And this is something that we can do any time. And when we do, There is an edge that is present. With our imaginations, we think of our teachers and the way we relate to them. And there's a power that is present.

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