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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.28,0:00:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.48,0:00:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.82,0:00:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.80,0:00:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.51,0:01:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear respected teacher,\Ndear sangha,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.74,0:01:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today is November the 29th\Nin the year 2018,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.55,0:01:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are in Upper Hamlet
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.57,0:01:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Still Water\Nsitting meditation hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.63,0:01:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are on our lay day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.91,0:01:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lay day is all our lay friends are here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for long term, some are here\Nfor three months,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.20,0:02:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some are here for a year, two years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.12,0:02:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.98,0:02:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very beautiful rains retreat tradition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.60,0:02:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today is also a monastic day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.26,0:02:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they are in Lower Hamlet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.86,0:02:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first came into Plum Village,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.89,0:02:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we didn't have monastic day or lay day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.95,0:02:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are maybe 45 monks and nuns,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.91,0:02:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can all fit in Thay's hut.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.90,0:02:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Thay's deck.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.12,0:02:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That has grown bigger and Plum Village\Nbecame more, how you call it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.88,0:02:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more a place of refuge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.52,0:02:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow, the monastics,\Nwe were like very small.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.62,0:02:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So during the year,\Nwe hardly get to see each other
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.20,0:02:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to practice together
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.72,0:02:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look at some of the things\Nwithin the monastic community.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.22,0:03:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So slowly, there was that need.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.64,0:03:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the same thing with lay friends.\NMore and more came,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.91,0:03:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they stay longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.43,0:03:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many of them became OI members\Nand Dharma teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.11,0:03:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we feel very grateful that\Nthe fourfold sangha grew together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.14,0:03:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we wouldn't be able to have\Na monastic day
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.79,0:03:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without solid, stable, happy, harmonious,\Npeaceful, lay friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.91,0:03:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our sisters and brothers who are -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.06,0:03:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are very grateful here in Plum Village,\Nthat you dedicate your life to come here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.01,0:03:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just long-term, but some of you\Nare thinking of moving here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.26,0:03:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some already have moved here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.92,0:03:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before coming in here, I saw a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.64,0:03:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there is a family here\Nthat lives in Thénac, I think you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.68,0:03:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two babies in Plum Village.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.92,0:04:05.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew them when the mother\Nwas having the belly bulging,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.67,0:04:08.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.16,0:04:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I always look at the couple and I say,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.91,0:04:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'What have I produced in these last\Nthree years? They produced two babies!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.06,0:04:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.87,0:04:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what do I do here?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.43,0:04:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of love. It's from love\Nthat you - And your hope and your-
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.41,0:04:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a kind of love for your child,\Nand so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.59,0:04:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a kind of mantra for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.97,0:04:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I when I see the farmers too,\Nwhen they work on the farm,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.23,0:04:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like now, they are clipping\Nthe grape vines.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.94,0:04:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to, as a novice I came here\Nmany years ago, in my second year
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.28,0:05:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to walk by them\Nand I felt really
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.84,0:05:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, they are doing a lot of work.\NAll I do is walk around, eat, and sit, and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.81,0:05:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.60,0:05:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe wash a few dishes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.28,0:05:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what do I do?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.70,0:05:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's cold, their hands in the -\NIt's very tough to be a farmer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.06,0:05:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so sometimes I feel very
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.53,0:05:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like I live a very privileged life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.50,0:05:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left a lot of things, my bank account,\Nmy car,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.41,0:05:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my blood family, my sisters, my nieces,\Nmy nephew. I live here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.73,0:05:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once in a while,\Nwhen I was a novice,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.02,0:05:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would come up. I felt kind of guilty.\NI remember feeling, Gosh!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.52,0:05:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is quite -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.05,0:06:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it may encourage me to really look\Ninto, what do we do here?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.77,0:06:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that we are
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.14,0:06:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,producing, or offering to the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.06,0:06:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember my university friend came\Nand visited me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.10,0:06:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She stayed for about five, or six days.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.89,0:06:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she was a kind of practitioner too.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.71,0:06:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think we -\NShe was not very happy with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.59,0:06:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we were architects together.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.96,0:06:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she felt that I was deserting our\N'save the world' aspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.16,0:06:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a young college student graduating\Nafter working a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.94,0:06:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have very idealistic, you know,\NI'm going to save the climate!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.34,0:06:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Save the polar bears! Or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.43,0:06:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to save Los Angeles,\Nmake it a humane city,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.90,0:07:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with trees, and nature,\Nand everyone sharing, and -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.61,0:07:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you are very idealistic.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.77,0:07:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, she felt,\Nshe didn't say it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.66,0:07:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I could feel that she felt I was\Ndeserting our commitment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.60,0:07:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think a few of us in college,\Nwe supported each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.29,0:07:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we knew we wanted to help the world\Nbe a better place.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.06,0:07:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at a moment I said, 'You know,\NI'm doing my part, I'm still working here,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.49,0:07:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing things'. And she said, 'Yes! Sure!\NIt's easy for you to be in Plum Village!'
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.67,0:07:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She felt like I was hiding here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.31,0:07:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't talked to here for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.20,0:07:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think in a few years we will come\Nback together and we will do inventory.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.22,0:07:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much have you helped the world?\NAnd how much have I done?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.68,0:07:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very - What do you call it?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.07,0:07:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, gross national happiness\Nkind of thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.82,0:08:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What have you produced?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.33,0:08:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How have you been useful?\NThis is a kind of a way of thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.57,0:08:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was trained in in America.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.14,0:08:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just share with you how Plum Village\Nhas grown so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.75,0:08:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think now I am a few more at peace\Nand at ease with what Plum Village is
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.84,0:08:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is doing as I grew more into\Nthis community and into the practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.46,0:08:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looked more deeply at ways\Nwe can help better the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.52,0:08:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you who have been here\Nat least one year, or two years,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.84,0:08:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see so many kinds of people\Ngo through here,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.79,0:08:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the kind of breakthroughs they have\Nin their heart, in their mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.18,0:08:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kind of reconciliation they have\Nwith their loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.35,0:08:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The happiness and peace\Nthey manage to generate.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.88,0:09:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As well as we do see anger,\Nand irritation, and frustration,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.11,0:09:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these kind of daily things.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.44,0:09:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their eyebrows become a little bit more -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.95,0:09:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is already a great plus.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.53,0:09:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monastics, we, sometimes\Nafter a retreat we come back to our room,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.10,0:09:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our residence, we say, 'Did you see\Nhow his face changed?'
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.06,0:09:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just one week. After one retreat,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.39,0:09:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the day a person comes,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.07,0:09:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after seven days,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.69,0:09:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the face -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.28,0:09:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think some of you are feeling that.\NMaybe not in your face, but in the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.44,0:09:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe the way you chew.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.64,0:09:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for me these little things,\NI began to look more deeply
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.84,0:09:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a kind of a -\NI don't want to say
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.68,0:09:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what we do over here.\NIt's not what we produce,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.78,0:10:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is a kind of\Nwhat Plum Village is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.60,0:10:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A place for healing, transformation,\Nas well as for nourishment, and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.32,0:10:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inspiration. You've been here\Nfor the Wake Up retreat,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.56,0:10:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five hundred young people, wow!\NThey come here and their battery is -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.72,0:10:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Full capacity. And they go out there\Nand save the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.56,0:10:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good luck!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.60,0:10:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.64,0:10:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is good. Young people\Nneed a place where they -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.76,0:10:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's tough! We are living\Nat a very tough period.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.04,0:10:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not tougher than in the Middle Ages,\Nor like -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.20,0:10:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the Barbaric times and so on.\NBut it is a tough time,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.21,0:10:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the media, and the amount of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.04,0:10:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stimulation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.12,0:10:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time I go back to the US\Nand I visit my family,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.77,0:11:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see that it's so hard to raise a family,\Nto raise a child now.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.81,0:11:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I feel a lot of inspiration
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.89,0:11:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create more conditions for families,\Nsupporting families, parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.50,0:11:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brothers and sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.60,0:11:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is my reflection.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.95,0:11:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fourfold sangha growing\Nand making Plum Village be meaningful,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.16,0:11:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Thay's greatest wish, to create\Nmany Plum Villages around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.91,0:11:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ways -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.32,0:11:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we call it, places that are not good\Nfor their economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.51,0:11:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a list I'll share with you\Njust to make to laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.37,0:11:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm making a list, what Plum Village\Nis not good for.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.64,0:11:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.86,0:11:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the first ones is,\NPlum Village is not good for the economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.80,0:11:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.97,0:12:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because people would come here,\Nand over, and over again,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.60,0:12:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after we see them, they quit their job.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.49,0:12:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.58,0:12:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the first thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.95,0:12:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They stay and, 'How come you're here\Nfor two weeks?' - 'I quit my job.'
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.02,0:12:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.82,0:12:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before it was very hard for them\Nto find one week.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.07,0:12:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I see them again and I say,\N'You are here for two weeks, really?'
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.84,0:12:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Yes, I quit my job.'\NAnd it is classic.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.32,0:12:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you see somebody\Nhanging around here a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.90,0:12:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is probably not good for their economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.92,0:12:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.07,0:12:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought you would laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.55,0:12:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other one is Plum Village\Nis not good for your self-image.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.39,0:12:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that one is hard, uh?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.09,0:12:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came here and I was from L.A.\Nand, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.36,0:12:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very gangster and -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.77,0:12:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people start to tell you\Na lot of things about yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.38,0:12:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you kind like, mmm, -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.79,0:13:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So your high identity and your,\Nkind of your -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.92,0:13:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, in a Dharma discussion\Nthat happens, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.50,0:13:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People start to break down their,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.80,0:13:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do we call it, their veil and\Nthey get to really be who they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.13,0:13:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's such a liberation
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.18,0:13:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be who you are\Nwithout fear of being judged.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.91,0:13:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to put something up\Nfor your parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.86,0:13:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your mother, your father,\Nyour friends, society.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.67,0:13:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to do that here. Wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.73,0:13:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is really bad for your self-image,\Nthat is what I mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.05,0:13:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other one,\Nyou are not going to like this one.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.97,0:13:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plum Village is not good\Nfor your relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.20,0:13:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.19,0:13:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is really - You thought\Nyou were doing well in your relationships
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.90,0:14:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you come here and you realize,\N'Oh my God! I'm -'
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.19,0:14:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.91,0:14:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah? So you have to really look again\Nat your relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.66,0:14:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, this may not apply to you,\Nyou may be fine in your relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.39,0:14:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, don't fix it if it is not broken.\NOkay?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.86,0:14:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only say it from a few observations.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.21,0:14:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People really have to look at\Ntheir relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.09,0:14:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, they are attached,\Nthey are projecting, so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.75,0:14:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe their partner is projecting\Nand attached.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.29,0:14:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are kind of -\NAnd then, something happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.63,0:14:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the couples become\Nmonks and nuns, so -
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.98,0:14:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.65,0:14:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like, 'I don't like\Nthis double relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.37,0:14:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want a monk type relationship.'
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.35,0:14:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I just share a little few things.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.40,0:15:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, let get serious, because I was\Nasked to share with you about a sutra.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.59,0:15:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let be a little Buddhist about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.34,0:15:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was asked to share about\Nthe Discourse on Taking Refuge in Oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.99,0:15:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think some of you have been around.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.61,0:15:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't go through this sutra,\Nbut this is the topic today.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.85,0:15:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How to take refuge in oneself.\NAnd what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.20,0:15:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is very -\NFor me,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.34,0:15:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is one of the essence\Nof Buddhist practice. It is a -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.24,0:15:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the Buddha at that time,\Nwhen he was forming,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.69,0:15:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a lot of, I guess, religions?\NA lot of devotional practices,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.64,0:15:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of rituals, a lot of things.\NThere must have been a lot of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.59,0:15:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People looking outward,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.88,0:16:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for magicians, and ritual people\Nthat can help relieve their suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.63,0:16:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the time that he was\Nformulating most of his teachings.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.58,0:16:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people like looked for\Nthings
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.22,0:16:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may help them connect to a God\Nor something, a Savior,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.98,0:16:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something would help them bring peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.27,0:16:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also to, also to look for teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.81,0:16:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the Buddha did that himself.\NHe went around looking for teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.68,0:16:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help him find a way\Nso he can liberate himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.10,0:16:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you need to know the context.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.55,0:16:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the Buddha formulated the practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.16,0:16:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that way, you can copy him, in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.18,0:16:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe understand deeply his life.\NThis is a young man, 29 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.61,0:17:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for, like you are looking for\Nwhen you come to Plum Village,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.49,0:17:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you find Thay's books.\NWe are on a search,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.69,0:17:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual search, a search for relieving\Nour anger, our frustration, our suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.70,0:17:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finding peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.11,0:17:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have this kind of innate search\Nto look for peace, happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.52,0:17:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As well as to relieve, and even sometimes\Nto avoid suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.47,0:17:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or get rid of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.30,0:17:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we look for a teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.10,0:17:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people did that.\NAnd the Buddha did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.13,0:17:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many disciples did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.26,0:17:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the teachers of other students\Nfound the Buddha and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.80,0:17:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And their students also\Nturned to the Buddha.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.75,0:17:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is this tradition\Nthroughout the ages, I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.62,0:18:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for us to learn from our teachers,\Nto learn from those who
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.15,0:18:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went before us.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.20,0:18:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.41,0:18:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this sutra the Buddha is very strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.95,0:18:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this sutra, two other monks,\NShariputra and Maudgalyayana,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.00,0:18:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the two eldest monks in the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.94,0:18:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is already the sangha has grown full,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.89,0:18:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many monks\Nalready following the Buddha.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.72,0:18:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these two monks have been teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.88,0:18:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are very well loved\Nby the other young monks.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.04,0:18:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have passed away.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.49,0:18:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.00,0:18:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Buddha saw that\Na few of the monks were affected.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.82,0:18:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His attendant, Thay Ananda, was affected.\NI think he even fainted, Thay shared.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.50,0:19:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He lost balance, as ,'Now what will I do?\NThey are gone! Oh!'
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.84,0:19:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the context of the teaching\Nof why the Buddha gave this teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.88,0:19:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there is a kind of\Nattachment to the teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.12,0:19:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the sutra Taking Refuge in Oneself,\Nthe Buddha is pointing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.56,0:19:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at you letting - You know that there is\Nonly one place that is the true security,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.01,0:19:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you will have refuge and safety,\Nsolidity and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.48,0:19:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the island within,\Nthe island
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.80,0:19:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.40,0:19:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is beautiful!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.88,0:19:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first learned of this teaching,\Nit just blew my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.68,0:19:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The island of self.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.24,0:19:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I mean self is a loaded word
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.75,0:19:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our education growing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.40,0:20:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Selfie, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.82,0:20:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the island of self here
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.79,0:20:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a kind of quality that we -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.41,0:20:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the qualities that we think\Nwe don't have, and we are looking for,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.54,0:20:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out there, or in a book,\Nin a self-help books.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.96,0:20:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.76,0:20:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the self-help books keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.45,0:20:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One reference, and then you go\Nto the next one, and the next author.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.49,0:20:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have this tendency to look outward
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.24,0:20:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.59,0:20:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This for me was a revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.71,0:20:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay and the Buddha told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.69,0:20:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way out is in.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.01,0:20:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the island of self here\Nis to look inward.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.26,0:20:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And more specifically, in the sutra
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.41,0:20:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is recommended that you look inward\Nand to meditate.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.53,0:21:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a phrase that says,\N"Meditate on the body in the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.93,0:21:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nourishing Right Understanding\Nand mindfulness
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.79,0:21:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to master and transform\Nyour cravings and anxieties."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.66,0:21:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.73,0:21:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best instruction that you will get\Nin terms of what the Buddhist path is.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.42,0:21:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is go back, look inside your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.45,0:21:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here the body is not,\Nis just one word 'body',
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.44,0:21:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it means the five skandhas.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.29,0:21:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means also the four foundations\Nof your practice of meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.96,0:21:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The four foundations,\Nthe body, the feelings,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.63,0:21:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mind and the objects of mind,\Nor the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.94,0:21:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those are the four foundations\Nthe Buddha has taught.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.66,0:22:04.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that when you say, 'Look in the body',\Nthe body means also the feelings,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.72,0:22:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perceptions, the mental formations\Nand our mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.80,0:22:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the body here is also the body\Nand how the mind works.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.23,0:22:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to be a good meditator\Nyou need to know about that,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.94,0:22:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to know how this body works,\Nyou need to know
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.23,0:22:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how the mind, and how you perceive\Nand work in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.49,0:22:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is very important.\NIf we don't understand
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.28,0:22:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how your mind works,\Nyou will just keep
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.04,0:22:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entangling yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.03,0:22:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is a method
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.03,0:22:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to slowly begin to see the subtle ways and\Nthe more gross ways that our mind works.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.01,0:22:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gross way is, you know, when you sit\Nand meditate, it is hard to tell, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.57,0:23:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very subtle.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.88,0:23:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether that person, how they are feeling\Nor if they are really meditating.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.95,0:23:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they are doing the work.\NIt's hard to tell.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.20,0:23:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They look very peaceful, but as soon as\Nthey stand up, and go to the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.10,0:23:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and open the door and close it,\Nyou can see their mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.78,0:23:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see? That is very -\NThat is the gross level.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.97,0:23:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you understand?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.12,0:23:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you see someone rushing\Nto the tea house, it's very obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.42,0:23:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the body can reveal the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.82,0:23:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you see someone take hot water,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.03,0:23:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he pulls the lever down,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.98,0:23:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they take the hot water\Ntells you something. It's energetic.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.58,0:23:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is more subtle.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.89,0:23:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, slowly, with meditation, you can see,\Nyou train in gross,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.93,0:24:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and slowly in more subtle.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.60,0:24:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how the body works\Nas well as the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.57,0:24:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we do separate it, but actually\Nit's one thing. Body and mind go together.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.82,0:24:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is helpful to train, so\Nthe body sometimes can help the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.10,0:24:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like opening the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.79,0:24:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you train to open the door\Nin a certain way,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.29,0:24:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you do it every time\Nyou open this door,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.62,0:24:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, what is the mind doing?\NSo you are not just training your body,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.09,0:24:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are training your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.05,0:24:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why as novices, for three years\Nwe are very -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.40,0:24:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The brothers look at how we move.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.51,0:24:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we flip our robe,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.94,0:24:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we find ways to\Nput on our robe quickly, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.91,0:24:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are not used to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.86,0:25:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as novice, for three years\Nwe have to train to master our steps,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.02,0:25:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we cook, how we sit,\Nhow we make tea, how we get out of bed.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.27,0:25:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How our bed looks.\NThe area where we put our things.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.41,0:25:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the room looks.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.10,0:25:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We call them mindful manners.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.84,0:25:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first three years is very, very -
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.55,0:25:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the training in the body\Nis quite helpful at the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.37,0:25:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the mind part,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.82,0:25:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tougher.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.82,0:25:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is more subtle,\Nbecause we are quite cerebral animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.45,0:25:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are very proud, we are Homo sapiens,\NHomo conscious.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.38,0:25:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are very smart.\NSo as meditators, sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.19,0:25:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are too smarts for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.27,0:25:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the body helps us.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.94,0:25:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here, when we say,\N"Look at the body in the body",
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.49,0:26:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to come back and use this
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.84,0:26:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vehicle, this body as a meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.79,0:26:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In another sutra, The Sixteen Exercises\Non Full Awareness of Breathing,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.62,0:26:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Buddha gave very clear instructions.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.93,0:26:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he uses the breath\Nto observe the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.94,0:26:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in Plum Village,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.55,0:26:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have experienced\Nsome of the guided meditations.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.61,0:26:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all go with the breath.\NIn-breath, like this
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.82,0:26:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we managed before the Dharma talk,\Nwe heard a guided meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.46,0:26:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breathing in, I see myself as space.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.25,0:26:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breathing out, I feel free.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.86,0:26:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine your body as space.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.15,0:27:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel free.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.55,0:27:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with the breath we can actually\Nlearn a lot about our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.39,0:27:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the following the breath,\Ndon't underestimate that.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.92,0:27:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you've done it a couple of times,\Nmaybe follow your breath a few meditations
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.18,0:27:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you, 'Huh! This is like beginners!'
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.87,0:27:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But be careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.16,0:27:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Following the breath\Nis a whole life's work.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.20,0:27:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So every time you sit, establish yourself\Nright away to the breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.17,0:27:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You breathe in, you recognize\Nit is an in-breath, and find out
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.56,0:27:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where is it that spot\Nthat is most helpful for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.83,0:27:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it's near the nose.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.26,0:27:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it's the back of your head.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.59,0:27:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it's around here.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.16,0:28:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.65,0:28:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we take the breath\Nand we recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.72,0:28:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is an in-breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.87,0:28:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can out-breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.20,0:28:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You recognize the out-breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.79,0:28:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sound like,\N'Why it has to do anything?'
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.64,0:28:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is the secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.82,0:28:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes - There is a poem in Zen.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.66,0:28:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You take the silk of the lotus stem,\Nyou know, when you break the lotus stem
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.43,0:28:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you pull the stem.\NAnd there is a very thin silk.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.44,0:28:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever seen it?\NIt's very thin.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.17,0:28:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very light.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.18,0:28:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is a poem where you say,\N"You can take one of those silks
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.96,0:28:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can tame an angry tiger."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.83,0:28:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.95,0:29:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need a whip,\Nyou don't need a chain,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.86,0:29:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just need a thin silk\Nfrom the lotus leaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.16,0:29:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can hold the tiger. Wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.14,0:29:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved that image\Nwhen Thay first taught it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.17,0:29:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you don't need -
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.44,0:29:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what that silk thread is,\Nis your breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.52,0:29:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't underestimate your breath.\NIf you train your breathing,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.08,0:29:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.32,0:29:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can really hold\Nand bring back your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.09,0:29:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with each breath,\Neven a small little breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.57,0:29:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can bring your mind back.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.53,0:29:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is drifting somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.02,0:29:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these exercises\Nit is what we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.52,0:29:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't clip vine, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.64,0:29:57.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The grape vines. We don't build walls\Nwith bricks.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.88,0:30:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monastics here, what we do,\Nwhat practitioners do here,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.92,0:30:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is you train to have more concentration,\Nmore mindfulness, and more insight,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.94,0:30:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.00,0:30:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with each breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.86,0:30:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our mindfulness energy
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.62,0:30:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is generated, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.80,0:30:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all we do!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.46,0:30:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more we become consistent,\Nthe more strength it has.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.39,0:30:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though it is still very subtle,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.98,0:30:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this little silk thread\Ncan really hold you.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.10,0:30:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of you maybe\Nhave already experienced it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.02,0:30:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may have this wrong idea about\Nsomething and it makes you very angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.79,0:30:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just one breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.76,0:30:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.33,0:30:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second breath, you are like,\Noh! I'm so glad I didn't open my mouth!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.45,0:31:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You already felt that?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.05,0:31:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the second breath\Nyou are already feeling gratitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.16,0:31:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Oh! I'm so glad\NI didn't react to that one!'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.68,0:31:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.70,0:31:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the tiger, you see?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.29,0:31:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tiger now turns around and smiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.28,0:31:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah! You know? Wow! I got out of that one!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.17,0:31:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of you who have been angry,\Nlike I have been in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.94,0:31:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can destroy many things.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.54,0:31:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the kitchen cupboards, all the doors,\Nthe table, all the knives.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.27,0:31:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you know what that tiger can do, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.22,0:31:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to master the tiger, wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.09,0:31:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.68,0:31:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the greatest gift.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.100,0:31:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you to be the CEO,\Nand have a good company,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.02,0:32:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you got 500 employees,\Nthat's great!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.42,0:32:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's incomparable
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.98,0:32:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the CEO of your anger, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.82,0:32:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a great happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.56,0:32:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was first able to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.35,0:32:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew this is something very,\Nvery precious.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.78,0:32:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I dedicate my life\Nto finding out more.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.30,0:32:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is what the power of\Nthe breathing, the exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.43,0:32:36.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Buddha didn't just give\Na whole teaching on the breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.23,0:32:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, it's what he does\Nand what he sees can help.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.16,0:32:51.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't underestimate the conscious\Nbreathing exercise training, Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.98,0:32:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how you train to look at\Nthe body within the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.70,0:33:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You sit, find the time, sit down.\NAnd be with your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.52,0:33:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the time in our society\Nwe are not taught that.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.21,0:33:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our body sometimes is in the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.99,0:33:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets hungry? Why it has to get hungry!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.40,0:33:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just fill it up and then\Ncontinue to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.12,0:33:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've never,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.12,0:33:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the society we don't really
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.63,0:33:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,value the miracle of having a body,\Nthat your parents gave birth to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.74,0:33:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is a whole miracle, a cosmos\Nin our body that we can actually
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.64,0:33:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come back to.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.85,0:33:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember the first total relaxation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.88,0:33:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sister Chan Khong, in a retreat\Nin Santa Barbara, I laid down,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.57,0:33:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she asked to put our hand on our heart.\NMy first time!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.28,0:33:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Valuing my heart. Do you believe that?\N29 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.24,0:33:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first time going,\N'Oh! Thank you, heart'
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.94,0:34:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never forget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.46,0:34:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a very emotional moment\Nof actually, 'Gosh!
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.94,0:34:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what have I done to my body!'
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.83,0:34:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with mindfulness we come to cherish,\Nand to value, and to protect
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.84,0:34:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our body and its energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.35,0:34:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we waste a lot of energy, and\Nwe hold in a lot of stress and anxiety
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.99,0:34:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.53,0:34:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we learn to release, to relax.\NThat is fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.67,0:34:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First gross step.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:35.59,0:34:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is nothing less than\Ntaking care of the mind as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.60,0:34:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, you see it, it is the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.55,0:34:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you feel sad,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.05,0:34:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your body feels heavy, and your breath
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.58,0:34:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tight,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.71,0:34:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find some place in the forest,\Nfind a quite place.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.01,0:35:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And be with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.82,0:35:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, learning to feel your body\Nin the heavy state,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.79,0:35:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not to go look for
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.09,0:35:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, a friend to listen to me.\NThose are needed too,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.69,0:35:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but learn to be with your sadness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.67,0:35:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take care of your sadness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.86,0:35:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a bamboo forest out here,\Na grove here.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.06,0:35:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can sit in the middle of the bamboos.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.30,0:35:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very tight, you let it wrap you.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.22,0:35:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the bamboo grove here it is like\Nit has mother energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.39,0:35:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find a place down there, in the oak grove.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.52,0:36:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be with whatever that is discomfort.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.13,0:36:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is coming back to oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.21,0:36:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't go looking for, 'Oh! -'
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.87,0:36:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.99,0:36:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we do need a friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.19,0:36:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we need to become our best friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.86,0:36:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is the feelings, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.92,0:36:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body, the feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:28.80,0:36:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And feelings is both\Nin the 4 foundations as in the 5 skandhas,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.71,0:36:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling is separated out.\NIt is also the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:39.01,0:36:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also consciousness,\Nbut the Buddha takes it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.52,0:36:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I always wondered why\Nhe takes perception and feeling out,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.62,0:36:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.79,0:36:55.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you look at the way we work\Nas human beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.83,0:36:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings is huge, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.54,0:37:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is emotional, everything is\Neither you like, you don't like,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.50,0:37:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's pleasant, not pleasant.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.36,0:37:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At lunch today, you see your feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.74,0:37:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:14.88,0:37:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel you are not making contact\Nwith people, or you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.93,0:37:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another feeling comes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.36,0:37:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then somebody comes and says Hi! to you,\Nand you, 'Oh!'
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.78,0:37:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then another feeling comes up.\NSo we are feeling animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.08,0:37:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are emotional animals, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.63,0:37:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't know how that works -
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.34,0:37:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like the weather, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.31,0:37:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people, actually, some of my brothers,\Nthey follow the weather a lot!
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.08,0:37:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say, 'Oh! Tomorrow\Nis going to be a great day!'
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.31,0:37:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, 'The next day is going to be sunny,\Nit's going to be rain, it's going -'
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.40,0:37:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you really never know, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.22,0:38:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the day comes, it is like half rain,\Nand then it is half sunny.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.83,0:38:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is so much energy!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.60,0:38:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like, whatever! Okay! It's going\Nto rain, Okay, it's going to rain!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.82,0:38:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:38:09.71,0:38:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your feelings, sorry to say,\Nit's kind of like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.14,0:38:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't get attached to it. You are\Nfeeling, Oh! Everybody is going so well!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.04,0:38:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, tomorrow, ummm.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.62,0:38:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.100,0:38:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.87,0:38:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't mean - If you are going through\Na bad time right now, please, you know -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.89,0:38:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.58,0:38:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is not the only place\Nwe need to be, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.44,0:38:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just don't always base yourself\Non the thermometer of your feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.94,0:38:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is terrible!\NThere is more things going on!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.18,0:38:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So feeling is just one, Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.91,0:38:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The food is not good, but like,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.10,0:38:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's wonderful to be hanging out here,\Nand the sun is coming out.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.97,0:39:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there are other things\Ngoing on besides.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.22,0:39:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So feelings -
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.46,0:39:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But know how they work,\Nknow how they work.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.00,0:39:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I read the newspaper,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.54,0:39:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I look at what kind of emotions,\NI look for emotions in the newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.41,0:39:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't read it for the news,\Nbecause it's all fake anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.08,0:39:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.80,0:39:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, no fake. But like, you know,\Nperspective, opinions.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.01,0:39:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I don't get caught at their facts\Nor what really happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.89,0:39:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because next week you have another article\Nthat says something else, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.99,0:39:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So something you look at the newspaper,\Nas looking for feelings!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.34,0:39:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That one is greed,\Nand that one is anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:49.96,0:39:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one is jealousy, that one is -
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.75,0:39:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a very good exercise.\NYou see the human drama.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.16,0:40:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that helps you,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.54,0:40:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it helps me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.88,0:40:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become a little bit,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.33,0:40:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to say a little bit more\Neven, I don't want to say detached,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.99,0:40:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but like just careful.\NNot to let it be overwhelming.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.87,0:40:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm having a good day?\NI'm having a good day.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.77,0:40:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not, 'I'm having a good day!'\NI'm having a good day.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:22.90,0:40:26.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a great day.\NIt is a good day.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.50,0:40:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a nice day to be alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.39,0:40:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I had to train that.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.90,0:40:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came from a culture where\Neverything is superlative.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.17,0:40:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Wow! It's so nice to see you!!!'
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.57,0:40:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.51,0:40:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.16,0:40:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry, I'm making fun of myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:46.93,0:40:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is super, you know,\Nis superb! Everything is grand!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:54.96,0:41:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing can just be like,\N'Yes! It's a beautiful day. It is.'
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.60,0:41:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It truly is.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:06.33,0:41:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these feelings, you explore and find
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.12,0:41:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that place where the feeling\Ndoesn't move you.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.59,0:41:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is taking refuge in oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.58,0:41:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know how to take care\Nof your feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.72,0:41:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I ask you, 'Do you know how to\Ntake care of our emotions?'
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.08,0:41:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to say, 'Yes.'
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.20,0:41:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are a practitioner,\Nyou cannot be beat up by your feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.16,0:41:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to know. It is not to say,\Ndon't have feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.30,0:41:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, be sad, be angry, be irritated,\Nbe judgmental, be whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.73,0:41:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is many, many.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:47.60,0:41:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know how to take care of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.86,0:41:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow! That is the island of self.\NTaking care of oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.83,0:42:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the body in the body,\Nthe feeling in the feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.05,0:42:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't deny yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.95,0:42:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just don't deny yourself\Nfrom feeling the unpleasant feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.72,0:42:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eat something that you don't normally\Nwould like to eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.10,0:42:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.70,0:42:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it you just go after feelings\Nthat make you feel pleasant and you like,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.79,0:42:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why you just choose\Nthings that you like?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.87,0:42:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't choose something that\Nyou wouldn't normally like,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.86,0:42:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and feel how that feels?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.12,0:42:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I'm sharing with you my kind of\Nweird way of training, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.77,0:42:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only do this if it works with you, Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.94,0:42:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a very, how we call it,\NI'm a very tricky person.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.63,0:42:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I have to trick myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.31,0:42:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you are that kind of person,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.20,0:42:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then this probably makes sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.62,0:43:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you know, I do this so I become\Nmore resilient. I have choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.63,0:43:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means that. When you only choose\Nthings that make you feel good,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.86,0:43:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have so much choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.55,0:43:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because sometime\Nthey are not going to be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.91,0:43:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are going to have nothing!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.58,0:43:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.17,0:43:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explore pleasant feelings,\Nunpleasant feelings, neutral feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.30,0:43:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neutral feelings, Thay has an interesting\Nthing about neutral feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.46,0:43:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can look at something neutral,\Nlike brushing our teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.100,0:43:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is so pleasant about\Nbrushing our teeth?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.52,0:43:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember first coming across\NThay teaching us about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.93,0:43:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was really hard to -\NI had to really do it!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.17,0:43:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you never think\Nbrushing your teeth
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.00,0:44:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is something that you can enjoy, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.59,0:44:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who ever had that?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.11,0:44:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you, I'm sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.35,0:44:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most people, brushing your teeth\Nis hygiene, you know? You just -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.50,0:44:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or even going to urinate.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.63,0:44:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange, eh? I never thought of it\Nas something to enjoy,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.16,0:44:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until Thay told me one time,\Nhe walked into the forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:26.79,0:44:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toilet has this tendency to get away.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.64,0:44:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay looked into the maples outside\Nthe Omega practice center, in the US.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.95,0:44:41.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay enjoyed urinating.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.17,0:44:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember the first time\NI heard that from Thay at a retreat,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.76,0:44:48.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I, 'Wow!'
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.58,0:44:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see? It used to be neutral for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.20,0:44:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like, you know, Who ever thinks\Nabout enjoying peeing?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.68,0:45:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see the difference?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.02,0:45:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think, 'Oh! Only when we eat or we\Ndrink our favorite drink it is pleasant.'
Dialogue: 0,0:45:08.92,0:45:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually, the releasing we think\Nis unpleasant. 'Oh, we have to go pee!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.18,0:45:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, we have to go defecate! Or we -'
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.07,0:45:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just something - But it's amazing\Nwhat Thay is revealing to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.38,0:45:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it was mind-boggling,\Nit was like, wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.65,0:45:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember the first trying.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.57,0:45:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was quite amazing, you know?\NThe birds -
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.04,0:45:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not something you have to get rid of\Nand do it quickly, and you have to hide.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.98,0:45:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is taking something neutral,\Nwhat you think is neutral,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.32,0:45:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and turning it a little bit. You see?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.54,0:46:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whatever you think - I used to think\Nfolding clothes is neutral.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.64,0:46:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get it done.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.72,0:46:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I began to apply it to all aspects\Nof my life where I can of like -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.45,0:46:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, it's just gray. You just do it,\Nyou fold your clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.66,0:46:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.30,0:46:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'OK, I'm going to\Nenjoy folding my clothes.'
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.42,0:46:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we don't have irons,\NI don't use an iron.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.62,0:46:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I make it - If you fold it correctly,\Nand you pack in, and you stack it tight,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.51,0:46:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it irons itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.31,0:46:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.14,0:46:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know, it is -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.04,0:46:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not good for the electricity,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.00,0:46:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The company, the electricity company.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.06,0:46:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you - Now, when I do my clothing,\NI fold my clothing,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.56,0:46:59.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least 30 minutes, maybe.\NI don't count, but it takes a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.03,0:47:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I get everything lined up,\Nthe seams, and - It's a little bit -
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.94,0:47:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it? Obsessive? OCD, or something?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.71,0:47:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.41,0:47:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something like that.\NIt's borderline, kind of.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.01,0:47:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm smiling\Nand I'm really enjoying it.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.63,0:47:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my brother, my room-mate,\Nhe knows not to bother me.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.16,0:47:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is also the time for meditation.\NYou breathe -
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.38,0:47:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've found ways to fold it\Nwhere I can get it pretty, pretty
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.74,0:47:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smooth.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.94,0:47:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is a kind of another one, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.32,0:47:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Folding clothes. It used to be neutral,\Nit's not neutral anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.90,0:47:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually - But it's not like,\N'Oh! It's the time to fold clothes!'
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.28,0:47:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.14,0:47:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more like, 'Ah! I have clothes!'\NSo I use that time to be grateful.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.64,0:47:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I have a rip in my pants,\Nand I see, 'Oh!'. And I try to value it,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.83,0:48:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and keep using it as long as I can.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.19,0:48:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's a gratitude too to my clothes.\NIt's not just -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.81,0:48:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway. You see, I have a few more like,\Ncutting my nails. I share this with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.70,0:48:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It used to be neutral. Cutting your nails.\NAnd your toenail.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.22,0:48:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, when it's time to cut my nails -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.31,0:48:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoy it!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.20,0:48:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Specially your last toe.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.75,0:48:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.35,0:48:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really underestimate our last toe.\N'You are good for nothing!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.37,0:48:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are you doing down there?'
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.04,0:48:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.95,0:48:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is little excuse for a toe, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.43,0:48:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you ever look at the nail\Nof your small toe?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.50,0:48:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah! It's so cute!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.73,0:48:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:48:51.81,0:48:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, it's really enjoyable.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.70,0:48:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I had my toe infected.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.03,0:49:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know when you have\Ninfection on your toe.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:02.96,0:49:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I cut my toe, I am very careful\Nand I appreciate and I am so grateful,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.66,0:49:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to every toe.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:12.34,0:49:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it sounds funny, but for me,\Nit is these little things, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.82,0:49:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of how you take care of yourself.\NDon't underestimate those little things.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.47,0:49:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that you love to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.75,0:49:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't deprive yourself of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.82,0:49:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, when I am in big trouble,\Nwhen I start to,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.79,0:49:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I don't have time for it right now.'\NDo you know that one?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.04,0:49:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'OK. Maybe not this week. No, no no.'
Dialogue: 0,0:49:40.11,0:49:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like I don't deserve it,\Nor I don't have time for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.92,0:49:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or this is more important.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:46.36,0:49:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So be careful with that.\NYou do it this week,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.38,0:49:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do it more next week,\Nand so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.48,0:49:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a way of\Nslowly not taking care of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:59.07,0:50:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.69,0:50:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we move into the area of mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.46,0:50:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mental formations and objects of mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.43,0:50:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is the way we think,\Nthe way we perceive,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.85,0:50:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what we have ideas about the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:22.52,0:50:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So remember this, Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.80,0:50:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the mind is also mental formations,\Nthe mind is what happens,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.56,0:50:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ideas, the thinking,\Neverything in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.05,0:50:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the way you perceive the world,\Nthe dharmas, how you see things.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.45,0:50:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the fun stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.12,0:50:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a lot of ideas about yourself.\NYou have a lot of ideas about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.48,0:50:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the people, and your place in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.14,0:51:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are ideas, notions. And you need\Nto know that those are notions.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.13,0:51:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not truth, they are not real,\Nthey are not -
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.42,0:51:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You made them up.\NSorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.53,0:51:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the part for me that was like,\Nwow! I did make it up!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.89,0:51:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you are on the path, this is\Na very cool thing to watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.17,0:51:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how your mind works,\Nand how the world works.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.90,0:51:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is how we are\Nin the world, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.23,0:51:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a person who knows and becomes aware\Nof how her mind works,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.71,0:51:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a little closer to being free.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.03,0:51:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here the objective is to be free.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.04,0:51:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is, you have to ask yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.22,0:51:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are some notions, some ideas\Nthat keep us tied.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:03.37,0:52:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the five skandhas, we have feelings,\Nand we have perceptions, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.84,0:52:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then mental formations,\Nand then consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.21,0:52:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The area of perceptions that\NThay the Buddha also takes out.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.83,0:52:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also part of mental formations,\Nor of mind, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.05,0:52:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why did the Buddha\Ntake out perceptions?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.11,0:52:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was always a question of mine\Nthat helped me begin to see more,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:32.65,0:52:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understand more.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.10,0:52:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we talk about perceptions,\Nwe usually think
Dialogue: 0,0:52:39.82,0:52:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is something out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.44,0:52:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the Buddhist teachings,\Nand what he found,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.17,0:52:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that actually the one who is perceiving\Nand what is out there come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:53.48,0:52:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They cannot be separated.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.28,0:53:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This for me was a good exercise,\Na good way of contemplating
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.67,0:53:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we perceive things\Nand we think it's real, it's out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.69,0:53:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is actually -
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.59,0:53:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The famous example is\Nsomeone sees a snake, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:21.76,0:53:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And runs away.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:24.30,0:53:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, when there is light\Nor a flashlight, he comes back, and looks,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.32,0:53:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he sees it is not a snake.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.78,0:53:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just a stick on the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.74,0:53:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is a lot of that happening, but\Nthere is a strong tendency in us as humans
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.98,0:53:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think that's really how reality is.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:48.51,0:53:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one way of observing this is\Nsometime you feel sad,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.40,0:53:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way you will look at the world\Nis a little bit different,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.93,0:54:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way you look at the day,\NPlum Village is still Plum Village,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.40,0:54:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit if you are handling some kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:54:06.66,0:54:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strong feeling, a resentment,\Nor sadness, or anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:10.67,0:54:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how you experience Plum Village\Nis very different from someone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.78,0:54:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is the same environment,\Nbut everyone in this room
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.25,0:54:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is perceiving it differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.24,0:54:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a good thing to be aware of.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:33.00,0:54:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the calligraphy that Thay wrote,\N'Are you sure?'
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.54,0:54:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is what it is referring to,\Nreferring to your perceptions.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.16,0:54:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be too sure
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.69,0:54:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that is all that is happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:50.11,0:54:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something that helped me\Nin my practice to observe,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:55.01,0:54:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to begin to see,\Nit depends on my attitude,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:00.10,0:55:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my way of perceiving.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.84,0:55:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.54,0:55:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are very sure about something,\Nit's usually,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.87,0:55:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a lot of suffering\Ninvolved with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.88,0:55:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you notice that?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.26,0:55:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it's very easy,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.47,0:55:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you notice when two people\Nare having difficulties with each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:30.08,0:55:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you share room with 4 or 5 people,\Nsometimes there is two people,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:35.67,0:55:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that room maybe there is ten people,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.47,0:55:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is two people having\Na lot of difficulties with each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.31,0:55:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is related to\Nhow they are perceiving something.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.01,0:55:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you are the lucky one,\Nyou are the tenth person in the room,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:52.71,0:55:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are like, 'Wow! That is\Nan interesting way of looking at it.'
Dialogue: 0,0:55:56.55,0:55:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you go to the other person,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:58.87,0:56:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is like, 'Oh! Yeah?\NI can see your point too.'
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.05,0:56:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you are the other point,\Nthe tenth perspective,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.48,0:56:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are not suffering.\NYou are not angry,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.52,0:56:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are not angry at them.\NBut why are they angry at each other?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:12.63,0:56:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have that ever happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:14.97,0:56:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In families is kind of like that.\NIf you have siblings,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.17,0:56:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very interesting. One of the ways\Nthat I began to see more of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:23.30,0:56:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when I'm not involved in it.\NIt's like, 'Gosh!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:26.12,0:56:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why they just drop that idea,\Nand drop that idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.99,0:56:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything will be Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:31.38,0:56:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. No.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:33.54,0:56:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see? Are you sure?\N'I am sure. This is what happened.'
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.30,0:56:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, 'Okay.'\N'No, I'm sure this is what happened.'
Dialogue: 0,0:56:41.64,0:56:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you begin to, wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:44.86,0:56:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the gist of it.\NAnd you can see it happening
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.22,0:56:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you are not involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:54.03,0:56:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more you see that,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.71,0:57:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more you are very unsure\Nwhen you are sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.01,0:57:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you are really sure,\Nyou better be careful,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:05.28,0:57:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is probably going to be\Nsome suffering involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:10.62,0:57:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is in the area of ideas, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.41,0:57:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may have a lot of notions,\Nand usually,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.66,0:57:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'There's a way of doing this,\Nhow come are you not doing it like this?'
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.05,0:57:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like it to be done like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.00,0:57:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually it doesn't go outside of that.\NHumans are so habitual animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.92,0:57:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So anything outside of your usual,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.77,0:57:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you suffer.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:35.35,0:57:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The perceptions also are created\Nby the way we were raised,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.09,0:57:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another aspect, Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.69,0:57:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the more we begin\Nto understand ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.10,0:57:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our parents, our society,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.79,0:57:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we can begin to recognize\Nthat this is how we perceive things
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.04,0:57:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is only one way of perceiving it.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.19,0:58:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean you go around\Ndon't perceiving,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:01.35,0:58:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, 'Um, I'd better not look at that.\NNot judgment there.' No, go ahead,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:05.84,0:58:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but be aware
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.20,0:58:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this is not the only way\Nof looking at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.87,0:58:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, you know, the food.\NYou like this kind of food, it's good!
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.93,0:58:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoy it, you know?\NDon't say, 'Oh! I don't have an opinion.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:19.41,0:58:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, it's Okay.'
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.85,0:58:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means, do it but not be caught by it,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.62,0:58:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by, 'That is the only way\Nof perceiving it.'
Dialogue: 0,0:58:30.65,0:58:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I see sometimes people\Nmisunderstand this,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:34.51,0:58:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are very afraid of perceiving.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.85,0:58:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are very protective, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:40.58,0:58:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.47,0:58:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the world of perceptions, the world\Nof perceiving is also wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:48.62,0:58:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we also have to train how to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:52.11,0:58:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How to have the right view.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.29,0:58:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you perceive something,\Nand you want to hold on to it,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.78,0:59:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is impermanent, then you suffer.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.76,0:59:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the area of mind, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:05.12,0:59:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is in the exercises,\Nthe sixteen exercises,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.80,0:59:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Buddha also recommends us\Nto look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:14.09,0:59:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To look at things, to perceive things,\Nas impermanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.36,0:59:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hardest part is seeing your loved ones\Nand seeing your friends as impermanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:27.66,0:59:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the toughest one.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.23,0:59:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay one time shared that his practice\Nis to wake up for the new day
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.77,0:59:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look at his students\Nas if it is the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:42.48,0:59:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he shared that it is difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.30,0:59:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is a practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.70,0:59:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, maybe in five years\NI will believe that,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:52.72,0:59:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but like moment to moment,\Nyesterday, I look at you and,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.30,1:00:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mmm, yes you are different, but -
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.36,1:00:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so on.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:05.82,1:00:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ourselves as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.44,1:00:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might have been something yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.66,1:00:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we don't allow ourselves\Nto be impermanent today.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:17.70,1:00:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the hard one.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:20.86,1:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, we all know, I'm like this.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:24.37,1:00:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm only like this.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.52,1:00:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from this culture.\NI'm like that.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.14,1:00:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am PhD, OCD, ADD, I, what?\Nall those -
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.31,1:00:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is about the D's around,\Ndisorders, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:44.100,1:00:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you go to a therapist\Nand they tell a certain thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:48.82,1:00:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're A, you're type A,\Nyou're type B, you're -
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.95,1:00:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is so many categories!
Dialogue: 0,1:00:54.67,1:00:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are Scorpio, you're Cancer,\Nor something.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:00.72,1:01:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these things, if we are not careful,\Nwe box ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.33,1:01:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe we have some of that,\Nbut that is not all of us.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:12.67,1:01:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are a continuation of our parents,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.89,1:01:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are also a living, organic,\Ngrowing, evolving being, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:25.19,1:01:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That for me is what impermanence helps me\Nto see that we are part of a process.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.10,1:01:35.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings are not just -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.71,1:01:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, like
Dialogue: 0,1:01:38.62,1:01:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a figure that you move.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.14,1:01:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And reflecting on ourselves\Nwhen we were 18 years old is very helpful.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.65,1:01:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reflect on oneself when we were\N35 years old.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:53.37,1:01:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of us can reflect on\Nwhen we were 50 years old.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:58.62,1:02:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we were 5 years old.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:01.91,1:02:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this meditation builds in us\Na way of looking at the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.98,1:02:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a way of taking refuge in oneself.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:13.43,1:02:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You train yourself so that you have\Na way of looking at the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:20.24,1:02:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that is the refuge.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:22.89,1:02:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The refuge is not this body,\Nor this world, or this teacher.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:27.04,1:02:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what it means when you\Ntake refuge in the island of the Dharma.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:33.03,1:02:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people say that Dharma here\Nis the truth, the law,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:36.80,1:02:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here it is the practice.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:40.52,1:02:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or more specifically here\Nis a way of looking.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:46.07,1:02:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Dharma is also a practice of\Nlooking at things in a certain way.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:52.54,1:02:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the refuge?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:55.18,1:02:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is strange as a refuge,\Nyou think like an island is a refuge,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:59.49,1:03:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a person is a refuge, or -\NLike a figure, you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:04.64,1:03:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The president is a refuge,\Nsometimes, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:07.75,1:03:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:03:10.77,1:03:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh! I get in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.12,1:03:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your parents is a refuge.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:17.23,1:03:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have these ideas, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:19.67,1:03:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are changing, impermanent,\Nand so on.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.49,1:03:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not very so reliable.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.77,1:03:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is reliable?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:31.73,1:03:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a good question.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:34.02,1:03:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are here, you should be asking\Nthat question, what can I rely on?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.22,1:03:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay? The monks and nuns?\NMy Dharma friends?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:43.26,1:03:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plum Village?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.63,1:03:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will be here forever.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:48.14,1:03:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sun will shine.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:50.52,1:03:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have these notions, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.04,1:03:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what is it when they say,\N'Rely on the Dharma'?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.11,1:04:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:00.23,1:04:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a way of looking at the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.28,1:04:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a way of viewing the world,\Nthe Right View.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:06.75,1:04:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what you are training\Nto take refuge in.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:10.14,1:04:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That way, whatever situation\Nyou're put into,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:13.74,1:04:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way you look at it,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:16.27,1:04:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will suffer or not suffer.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:18.95,1:04:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will be at peace,\Nor you will be disturb.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:23.00,1:04:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what it means\Nto have craving and anxiety
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.54,1:04:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alleviated.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:30.24,1:04:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are things we crave for,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:32.96,1:04:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we want to hang on to,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:35.62,1:04:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that disturb us. Because\Nwe don't know how to look at it.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:42.41,1:04:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Right View is
Dialogue: 0,1:04:46.37,1:04:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ongoing process.\NOur views can always improve.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:52.26,1:04:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:54.75,1:04:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the person,\Nthe tenth person in the room,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:57.64,1:05:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have a point of view.\NThat is amazing!
Dialogue: 0,1:05:02.26,1:05:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have a view.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:04.66,1:05:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the greatest view.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:07.43,1:05:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know that.\NAnd with the example I gave you,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:10.58,1:05:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ten roommates,\Ntwo, three or more arguing,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:13.88,1:05:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are the tenth roommate,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:16.28,1:05:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are like, 'I don't have\Na point of view. Sorry guys!'
Dialogue: 0,1:05:21.08,1:05:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is the -
Dialogue: 0,1:05:22.98,1:05:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course you are suffering,\Nbecause your roommates are suffering.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:26.53,1:05:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see what having no view is?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:29.47,1:05:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is just a gross example.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:32.71,1:05:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in politics, you are left,\Nyou are right.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.11,1:05:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both sides have a point.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:41.80,1:05:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you try - Anyway, I don't want to\Nget into views here, get in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.90,1:05:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we will -
Dialogue: 0,1:05:52.87,1:05:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the area of mind.\NKnow how the mind works.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:57.32,1:06:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are ways to study\NI won't go through here,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:00.68,1:06:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Thay has taught in detail\Nabout the mind.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:04.74,1:06:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can look at it in the book\NUnderstanding Our Mind,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:08.56,1:06:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or The Teaching on Manifestation Only.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.75,1:06:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is a whole teaching\Non Buddhist psychology
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.18,1:06:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can go through.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:17.38,1:06:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay has spent a lot of his years\Nclarifying for us
Dialogue: 0,1:06:23.59,1:06:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the teaching on how our mind works.\NAnd we need to know how our mind works
Dialogue: 0,1:06:28.27,1:06:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we are wanting
Dialogue: 0,1:06:31.88,1:06:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to alleviate and to be helpful.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:38.21,1:06:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this is what we use to -
Dialogue: 0,1:06:41.67,1:06:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we look at a certain -
Dialogue: 0,1:06:44.93,1:06:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the instrument which we are working\Nwith when we work in the world, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:49.54,1:06:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we work with other people.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:51.98,1:06:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you need to know how your mind works,\Nand the mind outside the mind.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:56.10,1:06:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the second phrase is the,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:59.72,1:07:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To look at the elements\Noutside the body, and in -"
Dialogue: 0,1:07:04.41,1:07:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To meditate on the elements outside the\Nthe body in the elements outside the body"
Dialogue: 0,1:07:11.16,1:07:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is your world,\Nand how the society works.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:16.78,1:07:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to know how that works.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:21.38,1:07:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more you know,\Nthe more you have a choice
Dialogue: 0,1:07:26.82,1:07:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to participate.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:30.44,1:07:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is something -
Dialogue: 0,1:07:33.07,1:07:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very clear example of -
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.68,1:07:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently they had a Thanks Giving,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:43.96,1:07:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after Thanks Giving\Na Black Friday shopping, yeah?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:50.05,1:07:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard a few thing about it.\NIt's hilarious.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:56.36,1:08:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is how society works, you know?\NThey want you to buy things, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:00.88,1:08:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is - this month? December?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:07.71,1:08:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to be very hard to resist,\Nspending, uh!
Dialogue: 0,1:08:13.52,1:08:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recently shared with my brother,\N'If I receive a gift
Dialogue: 0,1:08:17.34,1:08:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is handmade\Nfrom the recycle department,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:21.96,1:08:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I open it, and it's wrapped in like,\Nyou know, recycled wrapping paper,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:27.56,1:08:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's made by hand\Nfrom bottles and cups, and glued together,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:33.80,1:08:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I pull it and it moves.\NI appreciate it,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.78,1:08:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there is a part of me that says, 'Man!\NWhy didn't you buy me something?'
Dialogue: 0,1:08:43.30,1:08:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:08:47.60,1:08:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, something that is like, you know,\Nit has a tag, and is wrapped,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:51.32,1:08:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it 's like, you know,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:53.42,1:08:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like produced! Mass-produced.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:56.08,1:08:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plastic wrapping.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:58.24,1:09:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tendency that we have,\Nthe way we view things, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:09:01.95,1:09:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is really ingrained in me,\Nfrom childhood all the way up
Dialogue: 0,1:09:06.14,1:09:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing up in America, you know?\NYou get a present, it is not bought,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:10.08,1:09:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is like, 'Ah, that is cheap!'
Dialogue: 0,1:09:12.23,1:09:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:09:14.18,1:09:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But look at the state of the world now.\NIt changes the way you look.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:20.01,1:09:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To appreciate something\Nthat is found in the trash,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:23.42,1:09:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,glued together and made out of love.\NSo you have
Dialogue: 0,1:09:29.66,1:09:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to move, pull it around, and -
Dialogue: 0,1:09:32.53,1:09:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow! He spent time on this!\NIt just took a lot of time!
Dialogue: 0,1:09:38.13,1:09:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is easy to go buy something on Amazon,\Nand order it.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:43.37,1:09:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the packaging involved with it,\Nit comes to your door, and then so on.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:48.68,1:09:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is so convenient! Gosh!
Dialogue: 0,1:09:52.18,1:09:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I'm just sharing with you\Nhow to look at things.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:55.33,1:09:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a little bit brainwashing,\Nyou know.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:58.35,1:10:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is my liberation,\Nand it is my happiness.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:04.35,1:10:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is a North Star.\NWe cannot be perfect on it.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:09.95,1:10:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't be judgmental of others\Nwho do buy things.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:13.79,1:10:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I share with you is a clear example\Nof how long it took me to resist
Dialogue: 0,1:10:18.48,1:10:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to change my way of looking\Nand valuing things
Dialogue: 0,1:10:22.58,1:10:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are in the recycled area,\Nor lost-and-found,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:26.45,1:10:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it is a leftover from my brothers,\Nor I go to a storage and find a sweater.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:32.95,1:10:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to resist getting something new.\NIt's a tough practice.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:39.85,1:10:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is a - Anyway, something\Nif you've been here around,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:44.29,1:10:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the urge to buy something is so easy.\NGet online, click! And it comes in a box
Dialogue: 0,1:10:50.64,1:10:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of the office.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:55.09,1:11:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is a kind of changing a view\Nof how we relate to the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:05.05,1:11:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is very important.\NI share that kind of humorously,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:08.96,1:11:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is huge
Dialogue: 0,1:11:12.26,1:11:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of how it is\Naffecting other countries
Dialogue: 0,1:11:16.15,1:11:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make these products,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:18.63,1:11:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the plastics, and the wrapping,\Nand things going back to the environment.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:24.28,1:11:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So nothing is, you know,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:30.63,1:11:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we call it -
Dialogue: 0,1:11:32.78,1:11:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a cost to it.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:36.29,1:11:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I think that is something\Nin our generation, in our time now,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:40.37,1:11:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to really, really look again.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:44.17,1:11:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we have been taking refuge in that,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:46.93,1:11:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the consumers -
Dialogue: 0,1:11:49.78,1:11:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was in the last hundred years,\Nit has been our main refuge, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:11:55.51,1:11:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To buy, and to gain,\Nand to accumulate material things.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:00.68,1:12:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is time now to find
Dialogue: 0,1:12:03.51,1:12:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a different way.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:10.26,1:12:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We kind of look down at societies,\Nor even certain drives now,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.98,1:12:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like they are kind of backwards,\Nthey don't have electricity,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:18.50,1:12:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't know - We thought that\Nthey don't know how to () the land.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:25.08,1:12:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually\Nthey are very humble about it.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:28.71,1:12:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we are finding new ways.\NIt's beautiful!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:31.72,1:12:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are slowly changing our viewpoints\Nabout past societies,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:35.96,1:12:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we thought they were backwards,\Nbuy actually
Dialogue: 0,1:12:38.88,1:12:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they produce less harm to the environment\Nthan, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:44.98,1:12:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's another way of looking.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:47.73,1:12:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a training.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:52.76,1:12:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That relates to cravings, anxieties.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:57.03,1:13:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anxiety about the future,\Nthe way we look at the future.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:03.53,1:13:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is something also
Dialogue: 0,1:13:06.62,1:13:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found liberating here is,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:09.70,1:13:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the future is not something there\Nthat is going to come.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:14.24,1:13:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The future is what I make of it right now.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:18.00,1:13:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is very liberating.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:22.03,1:13:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So other causes,\Nand other aspirations stuff
Dialogue: 0,1:13:25.27,1:13:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think we are going to go somewhere
Dialogue: 0,1:13:27.38,1:13:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that it is something\Nthat is going to come to us.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:30.58,1:13:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I learned from Thay\Nand the Buddhist teachings
Dialogue: 0,1:13:33.71,1:13:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is, 'I will make the future.'\NWhat I do and choose to do today,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:38.02,1:13:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how I look at it.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:40.57,1:13:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So your mind will affect the future.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:43.77,1:13:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you don't let it,\Nyou don't let it get in.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:47.85,1:13:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't let the way they describe\Nthe world and the future
Dialogue: 0,1:13:52.37,1:13:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be your only reality.\NDo you understand?
Dialogue: 0,1:13:58.40,1:14:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is all a stuff made-up anyway.\NLet's make up a different story.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:05.19,1:14:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very liberating.\NThis is what we need.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:09.19,1:14:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So our anxiety comes because we believe\Nwhat they are telling us.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:18.23,1:14:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need to recorrect and choose\Na course for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:25.07,1:14:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that includes
Dialogue: 0,1:14:27.89,1:14:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our having less impact on the environment,\Non our society, on other people,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:35.27,1:14:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other animals and plants\Nand so on.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:39.09,1:14:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to look and see what,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:42.18,1:14:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we are impacting and reduce that.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:51.46,1:14:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I just end here.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:55.12,1:14:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll talk about
Dialogue: 0,1:14:58.59,1:15:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a beautiful image\Nthat Thay shared with me
Dialogue: 0,1:15:06.43,1:15:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of his teaching.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:09.28,1:15:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He talked about a hut.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:11.63,1:15:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the wind, the storm,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:14.55,1:15:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a window blew open,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:18.76,1:15:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the storm went in,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:21.14,1:15:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and disturbs all the papers\Nand everything is a mess.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:26.45,1:15:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person will come back to the hut,\Nand slowly close the window,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:32.37,1:15:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,close the door.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:34.56,1:15:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is still windy and everything outside.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:37.37,1:15:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once he has closed\Nthe window and the doors,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:40.30,1:15:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the papers start to settle.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:43.09,1:15:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this person begins to light a fire,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:47.66,1:15:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the fireplace in the hut.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:50.84,1:15:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And outside it is still stormy.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:53.84,1:15:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slowly the fire warms the hut,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:58.18,1:16:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this person begins to\Npick up the papers,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:02.20,1:16:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put up the table again,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:04.66,1:16:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put the chair back,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:07.14,1:16:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stack the paper,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:09.34,1:16:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wipe the water that got through.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:12.50,1:16:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a beautiful image, eh?
Dialogue: 0,1:16:15.06,1:16:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This never left me, and still,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:18.12,1:16:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can still conjure it up.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:21.14,1:16:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is an exercise, a visual exercise
Dialogue: 0,1:16:24.15,1:16:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I go through\Nwhen I have a difficult moment,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:27.99,1:16:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I'm feeling kind of bluesy,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:31.37,1:16:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling a little bit irritated,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:34.35,1:16:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling a little bit lonely.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:37.44,1:16:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come no brothers are visiting me?
Dialogue: 0,1:16:41.35,1:16:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or why do I feel like I should go\Nvisit somebody, you know
Dialogue: 0,1:16:45.46,1:16:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just one of those days.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:49.57,1:16:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I go back,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:51.85,1:16:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I sit and watch the sun\Ngo down over there.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:57.91,1:17:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I do this exercise.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:01.09,1:17:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a visual exercise, and I offer it\Nto you for those who have not heard it.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:06.38,1:17:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is something you do visually,\NI'm a visual person.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:11.13,1:17:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I'm lying down\Nor I'm sitting on a chair,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:15.41,1:17:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I see the hut,\Nthe rain, the wind.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:20.14,1:17:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I see myself going in the hut.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:24.25,1:17:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I do exactly as\NThay had shared with me.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:29.52,1:17:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay didn't share it as an exercise.\NHe told the story about a monk,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:33.47,1:17:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it might be him.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:36.23,1:17:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I turned it into an exercise.\NAnd it has helped me a lot
Dialogue: 0,1:17:40.68,1:17:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in getting out of strong emotions.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:44.86,1:17:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or kind of depress emotions.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:48.12,1:17:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or any kind of
Dialogue: 0,1:17:50.59,1:17:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, something you don't\Neven know what it is, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:17:54.25,1:17:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just feels -
Dialogue: 0,1:17:56.17,1:17:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it makes you restless. Whatever.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:59.33,1:18:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you feel disconnected to your blood\Nfamily in America, or something.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:04.16,1:18:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just unpleasant.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:06.67,1:18:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I go through the whole exercise.\NI go in,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:10.71,1:18:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I make myself look mindful\Nwhile I'm doing all that.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:14.56,1:18:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:18:16.13,1:18:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm probably rushing.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.24,1:18:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm very mindful in my mind, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:18:21.45,1:18:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I close the door gently,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:24.07,1:18:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not running,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:26.08,1:18:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around trying to get everything tidy,\Nbut I'm doing it very slowly.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:31.45,1:18:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very pleasant, if you ever\Nget a chance to do it.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:37.09,1:18:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kind of something that you can always,\Nyou can always turn on and do.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:43.60,1:18:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the island of self.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:46.51,1:18:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You make a place inside yourself\Nwhere you can rely on.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:52.99,1:18:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is very important.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:55.85,1:18:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there are many,\Nmany other journeys
Dialogue: 0,1:18:58.96,1:19:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you cross, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:19:00.95,1:19:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life is impermanent,\Nand we will learn more.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:04.33,1:19:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wherever state you are in now,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:06.98,1:19:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not permanent. You will have\Nchallenges, you will have new things.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:11.71,1:19:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beautiful!
Dialogue: 0,1:19:14.19,1:19:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of that might be testing.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:17.54,1:19:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But your are Okay,\Nnow you have a practice.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:20.96,1:19:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have to train,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:23.20,1:19:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to build this hut.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:26.18,1:19:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a poem here
Dialogue: 0,1:19:28.59,1:19:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,written by a poet (), a beautiful poem.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:33.64,1:19:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of my brothers made it into music.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:36.57,1:19:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is in Vietnamese, yeah?
Dialogue: 0,1:19:39.53,1:19:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But is says,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:41.51,1:19:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Vietnamese)
Dialogue: 0,1:19:44.27,1:19:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like, 'Please, make yourself\Nsome clouds and some sunshine.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:50.60,1:19:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,January, make it!
Dialogue: 0,1:19:53.58,1:19:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And don't just borrow\Nfrom the Earth and the Heavens.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:00.68,1:20:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because one day,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:05.21,1:20:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the Moon is blocked,\Nand it is far away,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:12.12,1:20:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in front of you
Dialogue: 0,1:20:16.28,1:20:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the light of the Moon is still shining.'
Dialogue: 0,1:20:21.27,1:20:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beautiful. And it reflects\Nthe Buddhist teaching
Dialogue: 0,1:20:26.59,1:20:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we need to learn\Nhow to create the sunshine,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:31.42,1:20:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the white clouds,\Nand the moonlight
Dialogue: 0,1:20:35.50,1:20:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:37.79,1:20:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So anytime, when you do\Nwalking meditation, when you walk outside,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:42.99,1:20:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you eat, you can create this island
Dialogue: 0,1:20:48.78,1:20:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has the flowers, the water,\Nthe clear lake, the mountain solid.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:55.32,1:20:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These elements are not out there.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:01.32,1:21:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a way of practicing\Nso that we become
Dialogue: 0,1:21:07.28,1:21:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a more solid practitioner for ourselves,\Nwe become our refuge
Dialogue: 0,1:21:12.65,1:21:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as we can provide\Nrefuge for others.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:17.43,1:21:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, the world needs more
Dialogue: 0,1:21:24.14,1:21:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we call it, solid refuge.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:29.75,1:21:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And don't make them attach to you though.\NYou got to teach them also
Dialogue: 0,1:21:35.17,1:21:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make their own island.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:38.43,1:21:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the task. So don't get them,\N'Always come to me! Call me anytime!'
Dialogue: 0,1:21:44.74,1:21:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you will be burnout\Nas well, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:21:48.32,1:21:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So our task, as we learn this,\Nis to transmit it,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:53.68,1:21:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to share to other people how to do it.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:56.95,1:22:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The breathing, the body,\Nthe feelings, you see?
Dialogue: 0,1:22:00.43,1:22:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not complicated. You don't need\Nto read anymore self-help books.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:05.14,1:22:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in those steps.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:09.28,1:22:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you need to do it, that's all.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:12.57,1:22:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to train to -
Dialogue: 0,1:22:15.78,1:22:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when something unpleasant happens,\Nit is an opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:20.68,1:22:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is one thing\Nyou always need to remember.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:23.97,1:22:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was lucky, my mother\Ngrew me up like that,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:28.30,1:22:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always to see challenges as opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:31.21,1:22:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had to escape Vietnam because of\Nthe war, so it's kind of easy, you know?
Dialogue: 0,1:22:35.71,1:22:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To do that.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:37.78,1:22:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To see everything.\NYou are out in the Pacific Ocean,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:41.18,1:22:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a boat with 200 people.\NKeep going!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:46.12,1:22:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't give up!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:48.10,1:22:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also have that contemplation.\NI am a refugee,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:53.73,1:22:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only place now\NI can take refuge,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:56.77,1:22:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not in America, not in France,\Nnot in any country,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:59.98,1:23:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not in any president or CEO.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:04.69,1:23:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So remember, we are all refugees.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:09.79,1:23:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the island is within here.\NThat would be
Dialogue: 0,1:23:15.80,1:23:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very strong gift, a great gift
Dialogue: 0,1:23:20.27,1:23:23.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we will have for the holidays\Nthat are coming up.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:24.16,1:23:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holidays is a very trying time\Nfor a lot of people,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:27.63,1:23:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they don't have a place of refuge.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:31.52,1:23:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the marketing, and the companies,\Nand the -
Dialogue: 0,1:23:35.56,1:23:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amazon, they know this.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:38.66,1:23:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know you are unstable,\Nmost unstable in December.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:44.94,1:23:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marketing, simple!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:48.65,1:23:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The music makes you feel good,\Nand you -
Dialogue: 0,1:23:54.50,1:24:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So please be a refuge for the loved ones.\NAnd they need a different kind of present.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:01.71,1:24:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is what you can offer\Nto you loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:04.48,1:24:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Mum, dad, I have something so precious\NI want to give you. It's my presence.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:11.62,1:24:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot wrap it up.\NBut I want to let you know
Dialogue: 0,1:24:16.66,1:24:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before it's too late.'
Dialogue: 0,1:24:19.62,1:24:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what you can give them.\NJust a phone call!
Dialogue: 0,1:24:24.01,1:24:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it will change everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:27.23,1:24:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your siblings, your brothers and sisters,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:30.38,1:24:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apologize, 'Sorry.\NI was not there for you.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:36.32,1:24:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't want to hold this resentment.'
Dialogue: 0,1:24:40.86,1:24:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this coming month, December,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:46.48,1:24:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please, give yourself a present,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:50.15,1:24:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allow yourself to be a refuge
Dialogue: 0,1:24:53.52,1:24:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for those who might need it.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:56.31,1:25:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a gift that\Nwe can offer to the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:02.85,1:25:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you for being here,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:05.73,1:25:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for, you know, not giving -
Dialogue: 0,1:25:09.68,1:25:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going, staying on the boat, eh?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:13.58,1:25:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another talk I think you all know you here
Dialogue: 0,1:25:16.55,1:25:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the island,\NI think Thay developed that,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:19.34,1:25:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the island of the sangha, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:21.62,1:25:24.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the island of the Dharma, and then\Nthe island of Sangha.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:25.00,1:25:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay has spent his whole life,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:27.50,1:25:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is here. So you don't need\Nto have a teaching on that.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:31.27,1:25:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So today, you can\Ntake refuge in the sangha.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:35.62,1:25:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just be with your friends here. \NEveryone here we have the same aspiration.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:40.82,1:25:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to help better the world,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:43.73,1:25:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we want to bring more peace,\Nless anger and hate,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:48.18,1:25:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less prejudice, less -
Dialogue: 0,1:25:52.54,1:25:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So please, take refuge in your sangha,\Nin your friends here.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:57.34,1:25:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:59.72,1:26:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don't get attached.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:02.22,1:26:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah?
Dialogue: 0,1:26:04.01,1:26:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all flowing together.\NThank you.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:10.04,1:26:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,1:26:16.34,1:26:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,1:26:34.37,1:26:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,1:26:53.83,1:26:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,1:27:33.91,1:27:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Small bell)