We had a remarkable Awakin call with Allan Wallace on Saturday, led by the volunteer team extraordinaire of Galaxy (biographer), Pavi (host), Richard (moderator), Vishesh (streamer) and Prabha (audio). And now another extraordinary volunteer team of scribes, anchored by Gayathri, will lovingly and deeply listen to the call and prepare a transcript of the wisdom.

Hard to describe to the outside world how many moving parts, and how many loving hearts, help bring these offerings into the world week after week. Thanks for all the labor of love that occurs week in and week out by the amazing team of ServiceSpace volunteers.

In all, 414 people RSVP’d for the call! An Awakin calls record. And far beyond quantity of participants was the quality of the feedback received, and the ripples that are already ensuing. Here is just a very small sampling of some of the feedback received from call listeners from this particular call (and this is repeated week after week):

Any highlights?

• “I thought the questions and discussion were very good. I appreciated the discussion on the current problems in the world, and Alan's insight that 'reality does not divide itself'. Thank you very much, a really good listen.”
• “This is my first call so can't rate it against others, however it was fantastic, Alan is always amazing, but I guess I am prejudiced as he is my Lama. I thought the interviewer was great as he drew Alan out on such interesting and varied questions, all ones close to his heart. Thank you for making this possible and I hope it introduced many new people to Alan's wonderful teaching.”
• “The Q&A. It was inspiring when Lama Alan spoke about how much he practiced in daily life and in retreat.”
• “It’s hard to pick out highlights as the whole talk was very good. I did especially like his story about meeting the Buddhist monk while hitchhiking.”
• “I really loved the questions and answers.”
• “This was actually my first listen in... I had the opportunity to receive some teachings from Alan Wallace, from a question I asked... So cool...”

• “Thank you for inviting Wallace and creating this live online event. Much appreciated.”
• “Thanks--this was my first call and I hope to join more.”
• “More opportunities like this one to talk to the masters.”
• “I would love to be able to hear this very rich talk again.”
• “Is there a transcript of Alan's talk? Will there be an archived conversation?”