My colleagues and I visited the Asian Art Museum some years back, and a particular piece in an exhibition called Seduction: Japan's Floating World drew me in, inspiring this talk. At the heart, it's about how the passions of life - those that ignite us, those that confound us, those that plague us - are not inherently hindrances and obstacles, but rather the very medicine needed to fuel and make possible our awakening.

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