This is Amazing! I love that Tenzin Palmo calls it "controlling your mind" because after struggling with trying to meditate for years, i cringed at hearing the word, "meditation." Yikes! Yet, here, Tenzin Palmo explains it step-by-step, making it doable and easy. I finally can see what i was doing wrong. She has also motivated me to gain this mastery over my mind. I really appreciate this video. Thank you.
She also helped me a lot, a lot. But it was when I read somewhere that, no matter how disturbing are the first days, weeks, or even months of meditation, still you have to do them, because "you're building up" the muscle of meditation....that was a total game changer for me. Believe or not I started doing in the morning......in the toilet.....and it worked so well, `still do it today, after two years. Of course, this the only first step, "meditation is not what we do it is what we are". Rupert Spira. Search here for him, TODAY, you will not regret it. Peace and love, "you" will arrive at yourself, good journey.
Please people, listen to this lady, again and again, "you" will never be losing your time, never. You have it in you too, start clearing up the debris, the layers of delusion. Have faith, "he", "her", "the source" is within "you", too.
An amazing teaching on meditation. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a living blessing. I love all her books, every single teaching available and everything she stands for 🙏❤️🌈 Om Ah Hung
This is THE BEST discourse, explanation, and teaching...I have EVER heard on the basic process of meditation. It greatly increased my motivation and reminded me of the urgency not to waste the precious opportunity of this lifetime. It needs to be watched again and again, it is so rich with direction and explanation. EVERY step Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo described is absolutely accurate, I am completely overwhelmed with a renewed sense of direction and purpose. Thank you, Sivanada Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas for this excellent video....Tashey Delek, and Namaste
I strongly advise anyone NOT to watch her video!. I am an English Buddhist monk who hosts a Facebook page devoted exclusively to promoting the Lord Buddha's Dhamma. Last week I posted one of her video as I thought it would be inspirational and motivsting for those interested. However,yesterday I received notification, from FaceBook that the entire video had been taken down for 'Copyright' reasons. My conclusion is that Tenzin Palmo does not want to share her experiences unless she receives financial compensation for so doing. Such an attitude flies in the face of the Lord Buddha's Dhamma. What then has this woman learned in all her years spent as a Buddhist nun? Apparently very little if anything at all!
Something i find that helps with just paying attention to this video, and others, is to put the video on full screen, so you don't indulge in the impulse to scroll through the comments and other recommendations.
I had the wonderful good fortune of meeting Tenzin Palmo this past November at her monastery in India. She had a great presence about her, it was palpable. Thanks for this upload.
Clear and deep explanation, I also like her sense of humor. I discovered her remarkable journey in India and her own practice of meditation in Journeys in lands of Awakening and Sainthood.
I first listened to this two years back. Then I had only just started practicing meditation. Then the next year and this is da 3rd time. Each time it seems more clear and each time I find a simple word with a very broad meaning...
Best explanation of meditation and its functioning methodology I ever heard, and that I can recommend to my friends with other religions who also got body-empty experiences by prayer etc ... so as to help out without conflict. Thx 🙏
a very powerful teaching on meditation that is to the point and very relatable. The clear step by step explanation is really helpful because it helps newbies overcome the uncertainty around the methodology. Thank you for sharing.
This video has helped me so much over the years. If u practice asana at a yoga studio it is essentially to practice meditation to have an equally balanced practice. It can be very challenging. I am grateful to Jetsunma & Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas - Namaste WOLF ☮☮☮
The real virtue is to be sociable and to help.people as well as to have a role in society, not to isolate yourself from the world and meditate all your lifetime.
+boksaboki I have had moments like this with my teacher, usually alone, several days in to sesshin. The veil is thin, and a simple truth is allowed to sit in silence. Great compassion, often quite devastating. I usually have the sense that I am sitting in front of myself, inviting me to just wake up. The first question, and her answer are spot on also.
Hi Jetsuna - In your book `Cave in the Snow`you said as a child you were sick and had obe experiences - Did you ever read Lobsang Rampa when you were a child. I have memories, I think it is called `dream yoga` - Do you remember. Guru Deva Rampa guides me - you said you have heard of people like me, but never met one
Examine the mind and how it creates happiness and suffering. Learn to transform destructive thoughts and attitudes to create a positive and joyous mind!
Very educative. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.
Feel sad... know what sadness feels like... offer your loved one metta ( or well wishes). Eg may the be peaceful, may they be happy, and then offer it to yourself for the suffering you are going through.
If we waste this opportunity now. what can we expect? If we do not waste this opportunity now, what can we expect? In the process of being, when this physical body gives up the life force ("Me"), is it that we move into another dimension, so too speak, which is the reality of the extention of living?
I love your videos. Your holiness don't you want to know and see where the first Tibetan Sangaram was opened solely for foreigners. This is north of Patna on the northern banks of the Ganges. Xuan Zangs lovely book led me to the Sangaram. According to him three Sramanas from across the SNOWY MOUNTAINS (From the area around 'Taro Co' lake in northern Tibet) crossed over to India on a pilgrimage to holy Buddhist sites. Indians fail to understand who they are and no one gives them food and shelter and sometimes beat them up. They were lying by the side of the road dying when the King rode up. He inquired about them and when they told him their story, the King realised a Sangaram was needed for foreigners only where Indians won't be allowed. So this can be regarded as the first Tibetan Sangaram in India. Those days Indians had pierced ears because they wore ear rings. Foreigners had unpierced ears so this Sangaram was for unpierced ears. Those days Indians didn't know about Tibet so this Sangaram was for unpierced years, meaning foreigners. Today that Sangaram is a village and that King is the local village deity. This story proves that Buddhism went to Tibet prior to Xuan Zangs epic journey to India. So Tibetans will have to study how and when Buddhism went to Tibet. Because Xuan Zang seems to infer that Buddhism went to Tibet much earlier than what the great masters claim today.
Meditative, this is enlightening, however why are there not any discourses on the reality of Dying, ofleaving this physical body! What is it like to not longer utilise the physical; What is the region or dimension alikened too of where we eventualy reside? No one has as of the present, given any formative understanding of the Dying and of how to prepare for that aspect of lifes journey?
Oh yes .... there are thorough and complete explanations of the natural state of the Bardo of Transitioning out of body in the Tibetan 'Phowa' teachings. Dying properly, calmly and consciously, is a tremendous step forward in reaching our goal of Enlightened Freedom. Please see Sogyal Rinpoche's 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'.
Người phương tây không tu thì thôi khi họ tu họ tu rất tốt , họ có lòng cầu đạo rất cao và chân thật tu hành. Đặc biệt là người phụ nữ nầy rất tốt , cô ấy sẽ có mặt trong những vị bồ tát chứng quả trong đời mặt pháp . Tu mà tứ đại giai không mới là tu .
I like her and her talk but one has to wonder why, if meditation makes your mind very very sharp, why no monk has filed a patent for anything. Sharp for what? The part about a calm mind through meditation I buy; the part about a happy self too. The part about a sharp mind... hmm You might be sharp or not independently of meditation.
Javier Bonilla monks dont care for patents, lol. Dont measure other people with your arbitrary measurement systems. Also, i doubt you did any research about monks patenting anything.
Give you an analogy. When I was very young, I told myself that one day when I've grown up and got a job, I'll buy a house full of lego toys because I loved them. I'm close to 40 now and no I haven't bought myself a house full of Legos. It was cute to think that when I was 10 years old but the things that matter to you when you are 10 years old doesn't matter to you at 40. So, registering a patent or making a ton of money seems like a very big deal when you are in the lower states of mind. All that changes when you reach higher states of mind. The things you get to know will be so profound and you get to realise that the lack you feel as a human is due to the separation created by the mind. Hope that made sense. :-)
Sharp as in can think of an object in great detail and quickly without confusion. Also as others said, those worldly things are of little importance.This life is a short temporary situation, wasting time creating some wordly object, especially for wealth, would seem like nonsense to anyone but a worldly person.
Sharp meaning alert, not intellectually clever. Ideally discursive thought naturally stops during meditation. Having said that, monks were some of the leaders in industrializing Japan along with warriors because they were educated
If you'd like to hear more about her experience, you might like her book Cave in the Snow. She has meditated for several years in isolation in a cave in the Himalayas. Remarkable really.
I agree. Cave in the snow gives a fuller picture of her commitment to the bodhisattva path. 5 months with no food when her supplier could not get to her cave!
ruzickaw : Buddhism showed in internet is most of times just a leaflet. Interesting stuff and Teachers are not in internet. They were years ago but not anymore.
speechless... Jetsunma is a morden Buddha in a female form. I feel very very inspired..
What a clarity!!!....gratitude!!!
Jetsunma is a true guru. Very important for me, very helpful ❤
Thanks Jetsunma. So clear, encouraging and practical. 🙏💝🌄
Best teacher so far in my search of true teachers in last 10 years- this is 2024
This is Amazing! I love that Tenzin Palmo calls it "controlling your mind" because after struggling with trying to meditate for years, i cringed at hearing the word, "meditation." Yikes! Yet, here, Tenzin Palmo explains it step-by-step, making it doable and easy. I finally can see what i was doing wrong. She has also motivated me to gain this mastery over my mind. I really appreciate this video. Thank you.
She also helped me a lot, a lot. But it was when I read somewhere that, no matter how disturbing are the first days, weeks, or even months of meditation, still you have to do them, because "you're building up" the muscle of meditation....that was a total game changer for me. Believe or not I started doing in the morning......in the toilet.....and it worked so well, `still do it today, after two years. Of course, this the only first step, "meditation is not what we do it is what we are". Rupert Spira. Search here for him, TODAY, you will not regret it. Peace and love, "you" will arrive at yourself, good journey.
Please people, listen to this lady, again and again, "you" will never be losing your time, never. You have it in you too, start clearing up the debris, the layers of delusion. Have faith, "he", "her", "the source" is within "you", too.
One of the best meditation talks I´ve seen. Thanks so much for posting it!
Francisco Sanchez Molina : Talking about meditation is just talking. And this is all what Tibetans do, just talking.
Truly
Thank you 🦋🦋🦋
Brilliant, v practice based, v insightful. Gratitude 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhu sadhu sadhu.
May all beings know real happiness.
An amazing teaching on meditation. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a living blessing. I love all her books, every single teaching available and everything she stands for 🙏❤️🌈 Om Ah Hung
Thank you 🙏
This is THE BEST discourse, explanation, and teaching...I have EVER heard on the basic process of meditation.
It greatly increased my motivation and reminded me of the urgency not to waste the precious opportunity of this lifetime. It needs to be watched again and again, it is so rich with direction and explanation.
EVERY step Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo described is absolutely accurate, I am completely overwhelmed with a renewed sense of direction and purpose.
Thank you, Sivanada Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas for this excellent video....Tashey Delek, and Namaste
Yes, I agree. I share this video often with people who want to know more and when I can't offer the explanation needed. She's amazing.
It is awakening. Best teaching on meditation I have come across so far. It encourages me go on with my practice. Thanks
It really is the most clear and precise explanation of meditation I have ever heard.
I strongly advise anyone NOT to watch her video!. I am an English Buddhist monk who hosts a Facebook page devoted exclusively to promoting the Lord Buddha's Dhamma. Last week I posted one of her video as I thought it would be inspirational and motivsting for those interested. However,yesterday I received notification, from FaceBook that the entire video had been taken down for 'Copyright' reasons. My conclusion is that Tenzin Palmo does not want to share her experiences unless she receives financial compensation for so doing. Such an attitude flies in the face of the Lord Buddha's Dhamma. What then has this woman learned in all her years spent as a Buddhist nun? Apparently very little if anything at all!
Something i find that helps with just paying attention to this video, and others, is to put the video on full screen, so you don't indulge in the impulse to scroll through the comments and other recommendations.
Thank you for sharing!Rejoice!
Best talk I've ever heard on meditation.
Thank you Tenzin, you're a great light for the chao world nowadays
Thank you Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, may all beings be free from confusions and sufferings.
I'm so blessed to find this video, and learn the teaching in a very easy to understand way.Thankyou Tenzin Palmo.
Powerful, insightful, inspiring, intelligent, witty.
I had the wonderful good fortune of meeting Tenzin Palmo this past November at her monastery in India. She had a great presence about her, it was palpable. Thanks for this upload.
Clear and deep explanation, I also like her sense of humor. I discovered her remarkable journey in India and her own practice of meditation in Journeys in lands of Awakening and Sainthood.
Great teacher! Thank you!!!
Wow!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wonderful Teacher 🌸🌺🌼🐉
I first listened to this two years back. Then I had only just started practicing meditation. Then the next year and this is da 3rd time. Each time it seems more clear and each time I find a simple word with a very broad meaning...
Best explanation of meditation and its functioning methodology I ever heard, and that I can recommend to my friends with other religions who also got body-empty experiences by prayer etc ... so as to help out without conflict. Thx 🙏
Thank you Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, and thank you Sivananda Bahamas!
Very helpful, thank you for sharing 🙏
Thanks for posting
She is so wise and knowledgeable.....
a very powerful teaching on meditation that is to the point and very relatable.
The clear step by step explanation is really helpful because it helps newbies overcome the uncertainty around the methodology.
Thank you for sharing.
Useful
my gorgeous teacher!
Gracias por estos videos! Gracias por grabarlos y ponerlos para libre acceso. Thank you!
Thank you very very much
This is a really good and in depth explanation of meditation.
Consise and crystal clear
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I love your sense of humour 🙏❤️
Inspiring famale monk preacher on meditation !
What a great sense of Humor!
Thank you so much for posting. This is very very helpful for me.
Priceless!
Wonderful lol e her she is so great. Loved this explanation
She summed up the practice quite nicely.
This is amazing. I learned so much. Thank you and God Bless. 🙏🙏
Thanks for sharing this mate
I wish I could be in this place and listen to the Teachings 🐲🙏
Found you !!💜
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Namasté! OM Mano Padme Hung!
This video has helped me so much over the years. If u practice asana at a yoga studio it is essentially to practice meditation to have an equally balanced practice. It can be very challenging. I am grateful to Jetsunma & Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas - Namaste WOLF ☮☮☮
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awesome!!!!
"Hatha Yoga is preparation for meditation! " Yes! Jai Jetzunma!
_/\_ thank you for sharing this talk...
Mong rang co ai dich cac bai giang cua su
Good clariity
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Thankyou rfitton99 for the input
Kind Regards.
The real virtue is to be sociable and to help.people as well as to have a role in society, not to isolate yourself from the world and meditate all your lifetime.
Beautiful experience, thanks.
What do you guys think she was thinking from 49:22 to 49:46
meditative state
+boksaboki I have had moments like this with my teacher, usually alone, several days in to sesshin. The veil is thin, and a simple truth is allowed to sit in silence. Great compassion, often quite devastating. I usually have the sense that I am sitting in front of myself, inviting me to just wake up. The first question, and her answer are spot on also.
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Transcript should be printed into booklets
Hi Jetsuna - In your book `Cave in the Snow`you said as a child you were sick and had obe experiences - Did you ever read Lobsang Rampa when you were a child. I have memories, I think it is called `dream yoga` - Do you remember. Guru Deva Rampa guides me - you said you have heard of people like me, but never met one
Examine the mind and how it creates happiness and suffering. Learn to transform destructive thoughts and attitudes to create a positive and joyous mind!
Well said !
Very educative. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.
what is the best format to cope with the death of a dearly beloved one ?
Feel sad... know what sadness feels like... offer your loved one metta ( or well wishes). Eg may the be peaceful, may they be happy, and then offer it to yourself for the suffering you are going through.
If we waste this opportunity now. what can we expect? If we do not waste this opportunity now, what can we expect? In the process of being, when this physical body gives up the life force ("Me"), is it that we move into another dimension, so too speak, which is the reality of the extention of living?
Om Mani Padme Hum ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ
Por favor podrian Sub titular a Español gracias
Please could Subtitles in Spanish thanks
Tenzin Palmo has a discourse on karma and death you would look for that.
I wonder where this talk was given? It's a Christmas symposium but there is a picture of a Hindu deity behind Jetsunma.
I love your videos. Your holiness don't you want to know and see where the first Tibetan Sangaram was opened solely for foreigners. This is north of Patna on the northern banks of the Ganges. Xuan Zangs lovely book led me to the Sangaram. According to him three Sramanas from across the SNOWY MOUNTAINS (From the area around 'Taro Co' lake in northern Tibet) crossed over to India on a pilgrimage to holy Buddhist sites. Indians fail to understand who they are and no one gives them food and shelter and sometimes beat them up. They were lying by the side of the road dying when the King rode up. He inquired about them and when they told him their story, the King realised a Sangaram was needed for foreigners only where Indians won't be allowed. So this can be regarded as the first Tibetan Sangaram in India. Those days Indians had pierced ears because they wore ear rings. Foreigners had unpierced ears so this Sangaram was for unpierced ears. Those days Indians didn't know about Tibet so this Sangaram was for unpierced years, meaning foreigners. Today that Sangaram is a village and that King is the local village deity. This story proves that Buddhism went to Tibet prior to Xuan Zangs epic journey to India. So Tibetans will have to study how and when Buddhism went to Tibet. Because Xuan Zang seems to infer that Buddhism went to Tibet much earlier than what the great masters claim today.
Meditative, this is enlightening, however why are there not any discourses on the reality of Dying, ofleaving this physical body! What is it like to not longer utilise the physical; What is the region or dimension alikened too of where we eventualy reside? No one has as of the present, given any formative understanding of the Dying and of how to prepare for that aspect of lifes journey?
Oh yes .... there are thorough and complete explanations of the natural state of the Bardo of Transitioning out of body in the Tibetan 'Phowa' teachings. Dying properly, calmly and consciously, is a tremendous step forward in reaching our goal of Enlightened Freedom. Please see Sogyal Rinpoche's 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'.
This is absolutely hilarious!
Người phương tây không tu thì thôi khi họ tu họ tu rất tốt , họ có lòng cầu đạo rất cao và chân thật tu hành.
Đặc biệt là người phụ nữ nầy rất tốt , cô ấy sẽ có mặt trong những vị bồ tát chứng quả trong đời mặt pháp .
Tu mà tứ đại giai không mới là tu .
She’s very solemn. She must have Protestant Christian roots.
I like her and her talk but one has to wonder why, if meditation makes your mind very very sharp, why no monk has filed a patent for anything. Sharp for what? The part about a calm mind through meditation I buy; the part about a happy self too. The part about a sharp mind... hmm You might be sharp or not independently of meditation.
Javier Bonilla monks dont care for patents, lol. Dont measure other people with your arbitrary measurement systems. Also, i doubt you did any research about monks patenting anything.
Give you an analogy. When I was very young, I told myself that one day when I've grown up and got a job, I'll buy a house full of lego toys because I loved them. I'm close to 40 now and no I haven't bought myself a house full of Legos. It was cute to think that when I was 10 years old but the things that matter to you when you are 10 years old doesn't matter to you at 40. So, registering a patent or making a ton of money seems like a very big deal when you are in the lower states of mind. All that changes when you reach higher states of mind. The things you get to know will be so profound and you get to realise that the lack you feel as a human is due to the separation created by the mind. Hope that made sense. :-)
Sharp as in can think of an object in great detail and quickly without confusion.
Also as others said, those worldly things are of little importance.This life is a short temporary situation, wasting time creating some wordly object, especially for wealth, would seem like nonsense to anyone but a worldly person.
Sharp meaning alert, not intellectually clever. Ideally discursive thought naturally stops during meditation. Having said that, monks were some of the leaders in industrializing Japan along with warriors because they were educated
True, but they say also Carlos Castaneda was a fraud but his writing is interesting. ;)
35:23 hahahaha.
Loool I laughed too
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why is everyone laughing so much... she says nothing funny... they're just disturbing lol
Lady there are only seven billion beings to torture why do you only torture me?
Roger DArcy you torture yourself.
Not very intelligent woman. Just repeating old stuff. She seems she had not experienced very deeply. Nothing practical.
If you'd like to hear more about her experience, you might like her book Cave in the Snow. She has meditated for several years in isolation in a cave in the Himalayas. Remarkable really.
I agree. Cave in the snow gives a fuller picture of her commitment to the bodhisattva path. 5 months with no food when her supplier could not get to her cave!
It sounds like you have known better or you are more intelligent than her. Then share your wisdom to enlighten us
ruzickaw : Buddhism showed in internet is most of times just a leaflet. Interesting stuff and Teachers are not in internet. They were years ago but not anymore.
ruzickaw : She’s giving a very general mixed up ideas about different ways of meditation. In other words is just information.
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