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Dear respected Thay,

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Dear noble community

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Dear young ones

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Thank you for practicing

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Did you enjoy practicing?

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So nice to see you
you can sit still huh?

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I used to practice in monastery called 
Deer Park Monastery

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in southern California

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it is in America


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And the monastery there 
is in the mountain

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high up in the mountain

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you have to drive a long road
up the mountain

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once you are up the mountain

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you have to drive down to valley

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that's where the monastery is

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It's called the hidden mountain

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Deer Park Monastery in the hidden mountain

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Because from the city you can not see the 
monastery

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Because it's kind of like in the valley 
of the mountain

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And in that mountain used to live
native Americans

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You know native Americans

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the ones that live in America
before the europeans came

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and other people came

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and we found big rocks in the mountain
that have little holes in them

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and they make the holes like that

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and put acorn from the oak trees

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you can find some in the oak tree 
forest here

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and the acorn they put in the hole

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and they grind it up with a stone

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and they make like a paste

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it is kind of like a bread


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long time ago

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before they know how to baking

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and you know ovens and stuff

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They make these acorn powder

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and they soak it in the river first

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and then they make this paste

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and they eat it

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it is kind of like musli

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or kind of like rice pudding

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so there is where we find many boulders

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and they have a lot of holes in them

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and you can tell this is where 
the kitchen is

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because you know you can see

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you sit there you can imagine

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must have been a lot of people
living here

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cause they have many holes 
in the rocks

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and I bet you like they were

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mothers, grandmothers, young boys
and young girls

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kind of helping their grandma

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grinding the acorn

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sometime I climb the mountain

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I sit there with in a boulder

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and I imagine I am a indian boy

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and I sit peacefully for them

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The energy is still there

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sometime I go through the forest

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and I pretend like I am 
an indian boy

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and I go explore

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And sometimes I find out where
the coyote is

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in the hidden mountain there is
also living

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You know what a coyote is

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They make like this wild crazy sound

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They live with us in Deer Park

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and sometimes I am lucky

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and I go and I explore

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and you can find their trails

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and you can find little places

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where they sleep

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because they put the grass and

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you can see it is kind of like a little
nest

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and you can see where the shape maybe
the coyote lay down

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and those really the part of 
native culture

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they really had connection with 
the coyotes

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and at nighttime sometime when the
monks invite the temple bell

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you know the big temple bell

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and before they invite it they
have to wake up the big temple bell

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bong bong

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and the coyotes start to call

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and you really smile before you even get 


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to chant the coyote chant already

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and it makes you feel you are so 
connected

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like they are singing with you

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and only one pack sometime

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there is another pack on the other valley

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and they start to answer

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you sit there and you feel like you are

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connected to all of the nature and 
forest there

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This is environment I grew up as a monk

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and I was very close to the mountain

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It is a very beautiful mountain with 
a lot of boulders

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they look like giant potatoes