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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.50,0:00:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Half Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.52,0:00:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.39,0:00:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Thay, dear Sangha,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.16,0:00:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I set a cause into motion in this life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.47,0:00:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the conditions are not right\Nfor the effects until the next life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.33,0:00:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who reaps the effects if there is no self?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.18,0:01:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the object of tomorrow's Dharma talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.31,0:01:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.84,0:01:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question is whether the actor\Nand the receiver of the fruit of action
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.90,0:01:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the same person or different persons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.52,0:01:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because things are impermanent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.35,0:01:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that person who produces \Na good action today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.48,0:01:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the person a few years later
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.28,0:01:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that harvests the fruit of the action:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.59,0:01:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are they the same person?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.27,0:01:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are they two different persons?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.59,0:01:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the teaching of \N"the Middle Way."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.45,0:02:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is very deep.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.48,0:02:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No self"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.57,0:02:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not meant you are not there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.79,0:02:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we look into our own body,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.01,0:02:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see there is a community of cells;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.33,0:02:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the cells in the body \Nworking together in harmony.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.18,0:02:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you don't see any cell
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.86,0:02:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that pretends to be the president,\Nthe leader, of all the cells.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.57,0:02:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.94,0:02:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A biologist can experience \Nthe truth of no self
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.87,0:02:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in just looking into the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.95,0:02:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neuroscientists, they have said \Nthat the neurons in our brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.44,0:02:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they work together.\NThey operate like an opera.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.26,0:03:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no conductor at all;\Nthere's no self.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.77,0:03:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a feeling, but no feeler.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.41,0:03:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a thought, \Nbut there is no thinker.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.60,0:03:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suppose you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.26,0:03:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The wind blows."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.40,0:03:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blowing is the action,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.02,0:03:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the wind is the subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.86,0:03:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suppose the wind does not blow.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.55,0:03:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not the wind at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.55,0:03:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, “The rain falls."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.82,0:03:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the rain does not fall
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.41,0:03:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not the rain at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.54,0:03:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the raining, \Nthe rain is the real thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.20,0:03:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no rainer.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.44,0:03:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no rainer outside of the rain.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.68,0:04:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no blower outside of the wind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.76,0:04:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is something quite scientific.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.47,0:04:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a deep experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.01,0:04:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no separate self.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.58,0:04:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People cannot “be."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.75,0:04:18.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People can only \N"inter-be” with each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.24,0:04:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the meaning of "no self."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.78,0:04:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No self" does not mean \Nthat there is no action
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.62,0:04:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is no fruit of the action.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.27,0:04:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The chain of cause and effect \Ncontinues always.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.93,0:04:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need, a self
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.28,0:04:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order for a chain of causation\Nto be possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.78,0:04:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a subject of meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.22,0:04:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.89,0:05:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell)