Dear friends,

I recently had our solar panels serviced, and Marquis, the man who serviced them, told me to check my house for "energy vampires."

I didn't know exactly what an energy vampire was, so he explained that an energy vampire is a piece of equipment that is secretly draining power, even when it's turned off.

This reminded me of a line from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings (the 14th) that says, "we are determined to ... learn ways to preserve and channel our vital energies(sexual, breath, spirit) for the realization of our bodhisattva ideal.

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