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Dharma Talks
2019-01-16 Instructions and Guided Meditation 29:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-01-16 Dharma Practice and the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Part 1 67:13
Donald Rothberg
On the day after Dr. King's birthday, we explore three themes that are central both to dharma practice and to the life and work of Dr. King, and that are interpreted in strikingly similar ways. The three themes are (1) the core of wisdom as an understanding of non-reactivity, the end of dukkha, nonviolence; (2) the centrality of love/metta or lovingkindness/compassion; and (3) integrity--the wholeness and coherence of one's life guided by these core principles and spiritual qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-01-15 L’équilibre mental 49:06
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-01-15 Instruction et méditation guidée 29:28
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-01-15 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 1 1:25:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2019-01-15 The Responsive Heart 58:45
Jaya Rudgard
The four Brahma viharas as an expression of the responsive heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-15 Living in Accordance With the Truth 33:06
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2019-01-14 Bringing Metta Practice Home and into the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:47
Donald Rothberg
We explore a number of ways to continue to deepen our metta practice, in terms of individual practice, bringing metta into relationships, and being guided by metta in our participation in the healing and transformation of the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2019-01-14 The Cultivating Of Liberating Insight. 65:32
Chris Cullen
An exploration of personal and universal dimensions of insight with suggestions on working with sankaras and meditative understanding of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-14 The 2nd Noble Truth 29:21
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the 2nd Noble Truth.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-01-14 Dependent Co-Arising - Week 1 - Talk 63:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Co-Arising

2019-01-14 Dependent Co-Arising - Week 1 - Meditation 28:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Co-Arising

2019-01-14 The Four Noble Truths, Gandhi, and Intention Through the Lens of Trauma and Stress 69:29
Pawan Bareja
Monday night talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-01-13 Guided Meditation On Elements And Metta 46:05
Chris Cullen
A guided standing meditation on elements (15 minutes) followed by simple seated meditation on Metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-13 Day 6 Morning Instructions: Metta Mandala -All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:29
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2019-01-13 8FP Program -- Wise Action 1:39:21
Kim Allen
The Buddha’s most explicit path of practice is the Eightfold Path. This is a set of eight practical approaches to bring Buddhist practice into the breadth and depth of our lives. The Eightfold Path Program is an introduction to each of the Eightfold factors so participants will discover how to apply each set of practices in ways that are personally meaningful. Participants have the opportunity to be mentored by a senior student during the program. Pre-requisite: Completion of ISC Introduction to Meditation course, an MBSR course, or the equivalent. Registration is required. Teachers: Kim Allen, Leslie Tremaine, G Schulz, & Other ICS Teachers
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-01-13 Calm and Interest as Motivating Forces - Talk 39:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-13 Calm and Interest as Motivating Forces - Meditation 33:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-13 Instructions On Working With Thoughts And Thinking 61:26
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-12 Eightfold Path. 48:06
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2019-01-12 Vedana, Feeling Tones - What They Are And Why They Matter 64:09
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-12 A Natural Stilling 45:00
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-01-12 Morning Instructions On Body and Vedana (satipatthana) 56:16
Chris Cullen
Reflection and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-11 Mindfully Responding to Suffering 43:31
Jenny Wilks
Mindfully responding to the suffering in our lives and in the world today.
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2019-01-11 The five daily recollections. 45:01
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-01-11 Dharma and Recovery - "Equanimity" 1:37:01
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-01-11 The Art of Mindful Communication: Right Speech in a Post-Truth World 66:12
Oren Jay Sofer
Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. In these polarized times, how can we speak and listen in a way that is aligned with our values? How can we hear others with divergent views? Oren will be offering teachings from his new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-01-11 The Art of Mindful Communication: guided meditation 40:20
Oren Jay Sofer
Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. In these polarized times, how can we speak and listen in a way that is aligned with our values? How can we hear others with divergent views? Oren will be offering teachings from his new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-01-11 Guided Standing and Breath Meditation 46:04
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-10 "The Illusion of Control" 49:53
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-01-10 Compassion: The Difficulties are the Gifts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 69:49
Heather Sundberg
Dissolving the concrete bunkers of the heart. Obstacles transforming into opportunities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2019-01-10 Contact, Feeling Tone and Perception. 54:12
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2019-01-10 Integrating the Dhamma: A Monthlong Retreat in Your Daily Life 1:26:23
Kim Allen
The Dhamma is meant to be embodied, both on the cushion and in our daily lives - this makes it "onward-leading." This monthlong program will enliven our practice for the new year. The Five Spiritual Faculties serve as tools to develop our Dhamma skills, and also to evaluate and balance our practice. We will explore the Faculties through weekly meetings consisting of group practice discussion, teachings, and sutta readings. There will also be reflections to deepen and integrate our Dhamma understanding, and the support of spiritual friendship.
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-01-10 Guided Standing Meditation On Body And Elements 46:02
Chris Cullen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-10 Opening Instructions - Mindfulness of the body. 64:45
Jaya Rudgard
Akincano speaks briefly at the end of silent meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-09 The Nature of Metta (Lovingkindness) Practice: An Overview (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:27
Donald Rothberg
We explore the core intention of metta practice, to bring kindness, warmth, and care to every moment and every being. We examine how metta practice develops further steadiness (samadhi), how it helps us to lead with the heart and work with what stands in the way of the open, kind heart. As we practice further, we open increasingly to the radiance of our hearts and our being. We keep training, and we bring our metta practice into the world, where it is deeply needed. We close with two stories of metta practice in the world in challenging situations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2019-01-09 What is Awakening? And, Are You Sure You Want It? 34:46
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-01-09 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be 16:57
Tara Brach
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering 56:02
Tara Brach
This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20” red string.)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Mindfulness - What is it and Why Practice it? 41:36
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2019-01-09 The Path of Virtue - Meditation 35:39
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-09 Wednesday Morning Meditation Group 1:53:56
Sylvia Boorstein
A sitting and practice-oriented discussion group, suitable for new and experienced practitioners.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-01-07 Joy and Service 46:04
Zohar Lavie
Service brings joy, and joy urges us towards care for others and the world. Service is joyful, and joy can be of service for what really matters.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-07 The 1st Noble Truth 28:35
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the 1st Noble Truth in light of our human predicament.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-01-07 Closing Talk for New Years Retreat. (Catherine, Yanai, Akincano) 64:06
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Creative, Curious, Caring 60:46
Nathan Glyde
There is always a way of looking and there is always something we can do. Exploring the poetry of fabricated life, and the creative juice we can bring to our practice. Wise action supports us to include what is arising; get intimate with it; feel the space around it all; transcend the petty towards the noble; and liberate love.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-06 Looking Back And Moving Forward - A Talk For The New Year 59:18
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on an engaged response to the climate emergency and social injustice issues as an expression of dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Mind is Nature - Meditation 33:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-06 Dana Talk (Akincano and Yanai) 34:33
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Mind is Nature - Talk 61:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-05 Cultivating Liberation 69:06
Zohar Lavie
Cultivating the wholesome qualities of heart and mind.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-05 Loosening My Attachment to the Modern World View 53:49
Catherine McGee
Whether or not I see myself as an adherent of the modern world view, how might this view be acting, nonetheless, as a default and almost invisible dogma keeping me bound in certain kinds of suffering and acting to circumscribe and limit what kind of awakening might be possible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-05 Day seven instructions - Including thoughts 55:04
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Thoughts about Thoughts 62:19
Nathan Glyde
Thoughts are seen to be ephemeral and insubstantial when we turn towards them, yet they display a considerable influence over our lives when we don't give them due attention.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-04 Citta - The Knowing Heart 1:12:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Citta s the seat of experience. References to citta in the discourses. Upadana - four forms of grasping. The vision of atammayata "unconcoctability"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Patience 47:28
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-01-04 Forgiveness - Reflections and Guided Meditation 44:31
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Sensitive And Discriminating 51:09
Catherine McGee
Introduction to Citta s a topic for contemplative practice with moods, mindstates, and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi 50:50
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-04 Diving Deeply into the Ocean of Wisdom 33:57
Dhammadīpā
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Vedana Heals the View 58:53
Zohar Lavie
Dukkhā's escalation can be eased, and even fully calmed, at times, by seeing the vedanā (the underlying preference for what seems good) and bringing in conscious wisdom.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-03 JoAnna and "The Dharmettes": Staying With It (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:22
JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna and the Dharmettes: Staying With It A collaborative Dharma talk lead by JoAnna Hardy with Eugene Cash, Jozen Gibson and Devon Hase.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-03 Comptplating Mortality. 63:49
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Wise Vision, Wise Intention 60:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-01-03 Guided Compassion Cultivation 46:06
Catherine McGee
With earth below and the sky above, our heart is the meeting place for inner and outer.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Samma Samadhi - Preparation for Insight 27:56
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Review Of Tools - Orientation 55:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Four satipathana paradigm as a map. Instruction on meditative skills resourcing - orienting - attuning - forming intentions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Ways that Hinder and Ways that Free 1:17:18
Nathan Glyde
Looking at the five hindrances as opportunities for exploration.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-02 Melting the Ice Cube (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:36
Pamela Weiss
A talk about awakening as melting our habitual sense of self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-02 Taken For A Ride 61:05
Catherine McGee
Practicing knowing Vedena can save us a lot of very obvious troubles and a lot of less obvious troubles.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Morning Instructions - 51:12
Yanai Postelnik
Vedana - Feeling Tone
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Compassion: Mind and Heart Together (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:43
DaRa Williams
Exploring a way to engage this practice and these times that support well-being of self and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-01 Reset Your Nervous System Meditation 10:07
Amita Schmidt
I learned this meditation in 2003 from Tibetan monk, Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He affectionately called it the “French Press” meditation because he wanted us to follow the exhale breath down into the belly in the same slow way the hand held coffee maker pushed the grinds to the bottom. Now somatic therapists and researchers know that a belly breath also connects with your vagal nerve, and you can reset your nervous system with just a few of these breaths. This meditation meditation combines breathing into the belly and grounding in stillness.
Yellow Springs Dharma Center

2019-01-01 Guided Movement Practice 45:54
Yanai Postelnik
Metta - Loving kindness practice for our body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Right Effort - Regardless of How Things Work Out or Don't 31:37
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-01 Beautiful Attention 53:17
Catherine McGee
Morning Instruction. The place of samatha. What is contemplative attention? The co-arising of attention and the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Awareness - Marrying the Present Moment 38:37
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Impermanence and Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:20
Eugene Cash
Reality is not static. It changes, morphs and is impermanent. As we practice we see that we can’t hold on to anything. Letting go becomes the join of simply Being
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-31 Tender Heart Practice 57:20
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-31 How To Stand In Uncertainty 39:52
Molly Swan
Being and acting with uncertainty.
True North Insight New Year's Retreat - Guelph

2018-12-31 Equanimity and wisdom 52:03
Jill Shepherd
Equanimity is highly valued throughout the Buddha's teachings. It acts as a powerful support for insight, and insight in turn, strengthens this quality of ease, acceptance, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-31 Aligning with Right Livelihood 24:12
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves 26:54
Tara Brach
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-31 Breathing in Joy, Breathing out Joy 22:41
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Late Evening Brahmavihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:37
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-30 Embedded In Time, Rooted In Timelessness. 62:47
Catherine McGee
Acknowledging some of the stark sufferings of our era, and with clarity about the goal of the path, our body can root in timeless refuges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas 57:40
Pamela Weiss, Devon Hase, Eugene Cash, Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas (Retreat at Spirit Rock Pamela Weiss: Metta-Loving-Kindness Jozen Gibson: Karuna-Compassion Devon Hase: Mudita - Joy Eugene Cash: Upekkha - Equanimity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-30 From Judgment to Self-Compassion 55:58
Tara Brach
When we’ve turned on ourselves with blame and aversion, it’s very difficult to arouse self-compassion. This talk looks at the role of nurturing in freeing our hearts, and offers practice in three key steps that enable us to embrace ourselves with a healing presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-30 Intentions 42:08
Norman Feldman
An exploration of intentions.
True North Insight New Year's Retreat - Guelph

2018-12-30 Letting Go as a Natural Process 55:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering

2018-12-30 Questions And Answers 1:47:39
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Standing Meditation Instructions 13:50
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 A New Year's Wish 63:38
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre... Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-30 Enacting the Way of Non-Harming 40:45
Dhammadīpā
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Meditation Instruction - The Breathing Body 57:00
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Karuna - Freedom from Harm 12:18
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-29 Right Speech as a Mindtraining 28:27
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-29 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal 33:29
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-29 The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:13
DaRa Williams
The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-29 The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:13
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

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