Today we're taking a wide-angle view, a look at how compassion practice can affect a life story.

And I went to this new job that checked all the boxes, and this guy, I mean, it was a company, but he was the CEO, essentially stole everything I'd ever developed from me, asked me to do some things I refused to do because they were not right, didn't pay me.

Well, it paid me a little, but not enough for one kid on his way to college and another kid, a junior in high school, on his way in two years and a big mortgage on a big house in an expensive neighborhood.

You know, I was, everything turned upside down.

My self-image that I had carefully constructed with shiny shoes and nice suits and hobnobbing with the big boys at the golf club and doing a lot of business, that all just disappeared in the space of a year and a half or so.

When did he use it?

I literally was doing this all day long.

I was encountering multiple things every day that were just horrible.

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Um, good morning.

Uh, thank you for coming.

When I was, um, thinking about this Dharma talk, it, it's weird, you know.

I, I've known for a while that I was gonna be giving one today, but, um, and usually I give myself about a week to write things and think about things and prepare, and this week was crazy town.

So literally I had a shower thought a few days ago, "What should I talk about?" And the thing that came to me very strongly, I, I trust this is like, uh, at, at least a reasonably good intuition on my part, if not a bolt from the blue, was for me to look you all in the eyes remembering one of the best ...

one of the most important Dharma talks I ever heard, which was when Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche came here in, I think, uh, 2005 or '7 or something, and he, um, looked at everybody in the shrine room and he said...

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Well, good morning everybody.

Thank you for coming here today.

Um, I don't know, uh, how many of you were here for the last teaching and the one before it that I gave.

I'm kind of doing this in three parts just because there was a lot of material.

And, uh, this is part three, probably the last one.

We'll see.

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