From the "Esoteric, Metaphysical" collection. Recorded at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

Originally given in Vietnamese, available from Lang Mai , the talk from the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village is dated Thursday, January 30, 2014 and is the twenty second talk of the 2013-2014 Winter Retreat. We are on the eve on Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. This is an English translation, available below, by Sr.

�The people who take that position that alienation is symptomatic of neurosis don�t realize that the cultural momentum of the last five hundred years has made the Gnostic myth a reality. In other words, we have become a menace not only to�

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