Morning, dear Sangha. Today is a Friday, 
September 30th, year of 2011.

And we are on the third day of our retreat,
with the theme of cultivating the mind of love,

at the Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice
Centre.

Our practice is in France. French Plum Village
has many monks and nuns and

lay practitioners living together. And we
help organise many retreats in Europe;

in England, in Germany, in Switzerland, 
in Italy etc. There is a place very close

to Rome, Italy, called Castelfusano. We
used to go and organise a retreat of

mindfulness there. About 900 to 1000 
Italian speaking people attend the retreat

and among them about 100 children. And they