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

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

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at the Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice
Centre. 


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

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

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

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

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

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and among them about 100 children. And they