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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.62,0:00:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell sounds twice)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.30,0:00:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How wonderful to be together. Gesundheit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.06,0:00:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was Larry, with a sneeze.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.13,0:00:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lets start out by getting here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.97,0:00:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How was your day, huh?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.31,0:00:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find your place on your chair right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.35,0:00:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's start out with a little bit\Nof vagal nerve connecting with
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.23,0:00:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so maybe we can just\Nwarm up our hands as we settle in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.27,0:00:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how was our day?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.73,0:00:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello body.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.46,0:00:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am here, and giving some heat.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.75,0:00:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're just going to rub our ears\Nand make little circles towards the top.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.51,0:00:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to go both directions\Nbut not pressing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.90,0:01:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just breathing \Nand making a slow general circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.29,0:01:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breathing, settling down.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.69,0:01:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make sure you go both directions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.26,0:01:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feet on the ground for many of us,\Nand bum on the chair.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.94,0:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then if you can pull your ears,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.68,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just not hurting them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.88,0:01:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just kinda a \Ngeneral tug out to the side.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.30,0:01:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the while \Njust kinda rubbing the ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.09,0:01:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother had auspicious signed ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.20,0:01:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the signs of a Buddha\Nis these really long lobes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.28,0:01:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Vietnamese community loved my mum.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.30,0:01:59.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She didn't have to do anything\Nexcept have her ears,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.86,0:02:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I always think of her ears \Nwhen I do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.70,0:02:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't get the\Nfull auspicious sign myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.69,0:02:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, so just rubbing those ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.78,0:02:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's go back \Nand rub our hands a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.17,0:02:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to put our hands over our eyes\Nand do at least three breaths.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.95,0:02:33.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then moving your hands over your jaw,\Nsame thing, at least three breaths.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.82,0:02:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kids I work with\Ncall this the "oh my position".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.89,0:02:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for us, \Nreally feel the warmth on our jaw.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.67,0:02:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then moving our hands to our heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.39,0:03:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's move one hand to the belly\Nand one stays on the heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.69,0:03:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a tilting posture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.18,0:03:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to do that again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.63,0:03:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least three breaths over the eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.55,0:03:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just notice, what you might notice,\Nis your body settles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.85,0:03:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can talk to our vagus nerve:\N"Hello vagus nerve".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.59,0:03:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the jaw,\Nback to the "oh my".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.96,0:04:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.65,0:04:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then one hand on the belly\Nand one on the heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.94,0:04:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then one more time,\Nhands over the eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.55,0:04:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just sending the energy of light,\Nof loving kindness,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.77,0:04:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving your eyes a rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.58,0:05:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the jaw.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.97,0:05:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.66,0:05:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the heart and belly.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.71,0:05:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you might decide \Nyou want to keep your hands there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.35,0:05:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just take them away just slowly.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.29,0:05:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to keep mine here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.88,0:06:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we're just going to\Ndo some more grounding, as we begin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.44,0:06:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aware of the vertical energy \Nthat runs through our body, Earth to sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.22,0:06:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aware of the mid-line of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.88,0:06:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just feeling like your your full height,\Neven if your seated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.68,0:06:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like your head can touch the clouds.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.72,0:06:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our hearts lift just a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.94,0:06:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes our shoulders\Nget reminded to drop.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.49,0:06:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then aware of the horizontal energy,\Nthe side-seams of our body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.16,0:07:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sides of our feet,\Nour hips, our shoulders,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.94,0:07:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as you're breathing and tuning in,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.84,0:07:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what connects us\Nenergetically with each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.93,0:07:16.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we build a beautiful container,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.80,0:07:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connects us with people,\Nanimals, plants and minerals,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.30,0:07:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the miraculous beloved community\Nthat came together in this moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.80,0:07:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then aware of the depth of our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.82,0:07:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helps me just to\Ntip a little back into my pelvis
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.02,0:08:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really connect \Nwith the whole back side of my body.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.61,0:08:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shoulders, spine, bum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.58,0:08:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now tune in to the whole body,\Nand the shape of the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.55,0:08:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the space you take in the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.10,0:08:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then asking yourself three questions:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.49,0:08:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I feel safe?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.67,0:09:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you don't, \Njust softly open your eyes and turning a little,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.38,0:09:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can gaze in every direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.40,0:09:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aware of the space you're in and safety.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.06,0:09:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I feel comfortable?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.13,0:09:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your body will tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.78,0:09:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I present?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.84,0:09:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's said again with objectivity,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.38,0:09:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a judgement,\Nbut am I here, right here?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.43,0:10:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then invite your body to relax\Nand settle even more.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.44,0:10:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing you need to do,\Nno place to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.72,0:10:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell sounds twice)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.90,0:11:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My pleasure to be with you\Nfor the first time or more.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.25,0:11:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you are doing well on this day.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.69,0:11:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to begin with a poem for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.98,0:11:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stardust is falling,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.93,0:11:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling on both the wise and the unwise,\Nthe hopeful and the despondent,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.87,0:11:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet the forest\Noutside my door is smiling.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.54,0:11:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember now, how deep\Nthe ocean of forgetfulness can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.62,0:11:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I keep being pulled away\Nfrom the present moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.02,0:11:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by my experience \Nof melancholy about the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.23,0:11:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anxiety about the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.78,0:12:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realize myself and my journey \Nto the bottom of this ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.89,0:12:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forgetfulness becomes\Na holy veil, removed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.100,0:12:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find the cave of the blue dragon.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.84,0:12:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I enter my feelings\Nof wonder and uncertainty,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.77,0:12:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are there with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.97,0:12:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I advance in fearlessness.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.35,0:12:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fearlessness, fearlessness,\Non the Bodhisattva path.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.68,0:12:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This talk this evening\Nis inspired by the discourse on love
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.17,0:12:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Plum Village chant book.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.96,0:12:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are other versions of this discourse\Nthroughout Buddhism,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.86,0:13:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is the one\Nin the Plum Village chant book,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.67,0:13:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I will read to you now.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.45,0:13:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who wants to attain peace
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.88,0:13:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should practice being upright, humble,\Nand capable of using loving speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.85,0:13:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will know how to live\Nsimply and happily,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.58,0:13:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with senses calmed,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.72,0:13:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without being covetous or carried away\Nby the emotions of the majority.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.78,0:13:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let them not do anything \Nthat would be disapproved of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.41,0:13:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the wise ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.93,0:13:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is what they contemplate:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.10,0:13:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may everyone be happy and safe,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.27,0:13:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may their hearts be filled with joy,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.29,0:13:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may all beings live\Nin security and in peace,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.58,0:14:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beings who are frail or strong,\Ntall or short, big or small,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.13,0:14:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visible or not visible,\Nnear or far away,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.48,0:14:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already born or yet to be born.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.30,0:14:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May all of them dwell\Nin perfect tranquility.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.81,0:14:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let no one do harm to anyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.03,0:14:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let no one\Nput the life of anyone in danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.41,0:14:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let no one out of anger or ill will \Nwish anyone any harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.03,0:14:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as a parent \Nloves and protects their children
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.48,0:14:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the risk of their own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.38,0:14:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should cultivate boundless love\Nto offer to all living beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.88,0:14:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the entire cosmos.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.20,0:14:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should let our boundless love\Npervade the whole universe:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.74,0:14:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above, below, and across.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.91,0:14:57.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our love will know no obstacles.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.02,0:15:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our heart will be absolutely free\Nfrom hatred and enmity,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.25,0:15:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether standing or walking, \Nsitting or lying down,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.09,0:15:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as long as we are awake
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.41,0:15:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should maintain \Nthis mindfulness of love
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.49,0:15:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our own heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.78,0:15:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the noblest way of living.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.58,0:15:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Free from wrong views,\Ngreed, and sensual desires,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.82,0:15:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in beauty,\Nand realizing perfect understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.06,0:15:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who practice boundless love\Nwill certainly transcend birth and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.50,0:15:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this talk, each talk organizes itself,\Nhowever it wants,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.69,0:15:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same as like writing a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.10,0:15:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I just kind of\Nfollow what's happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.08,0:15:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this talk organized itself\Nin to twelve points,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.05,0:16:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that was interesting to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.29,0:16:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'll just get right to it,\Nwith one overarching statement of context.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.78,0:16:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kind of capacity to live in the world\Nwith one's heart undisturbed by the world
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.71,0:16:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not a capacity of hiding,\Nit is a capacity of embracing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.78,0:16:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only is the whole word a stage\Nas has been said before
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.96,0:16:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but so is our own mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.17,0:16:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a whole stage:\Nthat's the first point to remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.94,0:16:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I'm learning over and over again\Nto practice with.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.35,0:16:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I encounter any form of media,\Ninformation, text, book,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.21,0:17:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any incoming data stream \Nin to my consciousness and in to my body,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.55,0:17:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we need to remember
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.06,0:17:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our data streams\Ndon't just impact our thoughts,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.38,0:17:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they impact our neurology,\Nour hormones, our chemical balances,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.15,0:17:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what I have learned,\Nafter realizing that
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.60,0:17:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the information I receive\Ncomes from a character on a stage
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.49,0:17:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that person's mind,\Nor that institution's mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.02,0:17:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's important that I remember
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.16,0:17:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is my mind meeting that mind,\Nand that mind meeting my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.71,0:17:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theater.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.27,0:17:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to look in to\Nthe deep teachings on this
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.77,0:17:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can look at\NThích Nhất Hạnh's master degree
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.14,0:17:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Yogachara Buddhism,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.70,0:17:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is, in summary it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.02,0:18:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing can happen\Nwithout our mind being involved
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.22,0:18:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.18,0:18:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the process,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.04,0:18:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what goes out or what comes in.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.27,0:18:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's impossible.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.69,0:18:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also impossible to attain\Nsome kind of purity in data.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.40,0:18:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was studying and learning \NSanskrit and Pali to translate sutras,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.02,0:18:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that everything\Nthat you're translating
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.78,0:18:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has already been translated seven times\Nat least before you get it to translate.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.12,0:18:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so many of us\Nlook at words as if they're solid.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.20,0:18:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our words are full of the universe\Nand can contain all kinds of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.41,0:18:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second point I want to make
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.96,0:18:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how I interact\Nwith data, news, media
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.26,0:18:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—and I watch the news, every day—
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.15,0:19:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a discipline for me\Nto listen to the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.10,0:19:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of my vow to myself has always been,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.70,0:19:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I knew it was a vow,\Nnot to hide from suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.02,0:19:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not mine, and not yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.12,0:19:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So every day\NI take a journey around the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.78,0:19:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the news I can find
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.57,0:19:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I've been learning is
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.01,0:19:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I am observing someone else's voice
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.20,0:19:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone else's pain, celebration,\Nbreak through, breakdown,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.73,0:19:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presented to me in data form
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.31,0:19:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a chance for me to experience\Nmore knowledge about Larry.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.54,0:19:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I know we've all be conditioned\Nto think we're listening to the other
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.48,0:19:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually (Laughter)\Nwe're listening to ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.24,0:19:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the first thing\Nabout understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.10,0:20:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to be undisturbed\Nwith the world and it's nature
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.55,0:20:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—of a moment of thicketed views,\Ncacophony of opinion in which we live—
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.61,0:20:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to understand it's all mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.63,0:20:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing solid there,\Nunless we think it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.34,0:20:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is information: it is a flow of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.82,0:20:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third thing I've been learning \Nin light of that
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.19,0:20:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be aware of my own agenda.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.38,0:20:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I watch a news program,\Nor an update on there, or a documentary,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.18,0:20:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have learned how to pay attention\Nto where that impacts my nervous system.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.36,0:20:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The music, the sounds, \Nthe drama, the choreography,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.28,0:21:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's a news cast\Nor a movie or a TV show.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.96,0:21:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pay attention to how it impacts my body.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.57,0:21:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That gives me a lot of information, \Nand what I mean is:
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.55,0:21:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is my aggression activated
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.23,0:21:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I read or hear \Nor see this information?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.86,0:21:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is my immobilization, \Nis my collapse encouraged?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.17,0:21:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body wants to just stop and freeze \Nwhen I hear this, read this or see this.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.28,0:21:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I want to fight? \NDo I get aggressive,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.40,0:21:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I encounter this flow of information\Ncoming in to my frame of reference?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.14,0:21:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I experience peacefulness \Nwhen I receive this data?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.05,0:21:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—in my body that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.02,0:22:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My nervous system remains calm, \Nremains even, remains solid as a mountain,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.74,0:22:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in the midst\Nof horrifying information.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.70,0:22:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to learn to be aware,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.03,0:22:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where what I see or hear\Nis actually my own voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.09,0:22:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own pain, \Nmy own suffering, my own confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.73,0:22:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in a question and answer session\Nwith a Hindu master many years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.78,0:22:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end one student asked\N"what do we do about the others?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.38,0:22:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the master said: "what others?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.82,0:22:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how we have to learn to listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.38,0:22:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that\Nthere's something out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.32,0:22:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disconnected from me,\Nthat I have nothing to do with,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.94,0:22:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm here to judge,\NI'm here to evaluate,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.24,0:22:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here to debate,\NI'm here to argue with.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.34,0:22:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was asked many years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.94,0:23:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—'cause my wife sitting here,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.38,0:23:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she may have \Na different story about this—
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.08,0:23:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was asked years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.42,0:23:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"why didn't we fight\Nas often as some couples?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.41,0:23:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said because early\Nwe realized we were both wrong!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.01,0:23:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.11,0:23:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have trouble \Ncoming to terms with our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.11,0:23:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by mind\NI mean to include our heart energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.10,0:23:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Buddhist tradition \Nmind and heart are the same symbols,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.05,0:23:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least in the Chinese version.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.68,0:23:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is called—for sutra reference—\Npracticing with the body, in the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.70,0:23:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning to practice mindfully\Nwith our nervous system:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.23,0:23:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how it gets activated, \Nhow we can soothe ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.81,0:23:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we can calm ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.09,0:23:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we can uplift ourselves\Nwithout harming ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.23,0:23:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a set of skills.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.49,0:24:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our ancestors had them, \Nthey're already in our bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.53,0:24:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just need to remember
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.39,0:24:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to retrain ourselves\Nin our own genius.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.23,0:24:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be aware of your own agenda \Nwhen you are listening to others.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.05,0:24:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No blame, no judgement, just awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.48,0:24:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be aware of what would be called\N"the mind in the mind".
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.36,0:24:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you get this information,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.91,0:24:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's watching\Nthe January 6th Committee report,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.63,0:24:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any other piece of information\Nfollowing this year
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.50,0:24:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the US politically\Nand the years before it,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.00,0:24:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pay attention to
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.01,0:24:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what seeds or impulses\Nin your consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.96,0:25:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get activated when you listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.41,0:25:04.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't got to a point\N—where I tell you the truth—
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.97,0:25:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not see Donald Trump's face\Nwithout getting activated,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.26,0:25:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I knew I was being activated,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.67,0:25:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I decided
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.53,0:25:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't going to\Nlet that clown activate me.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.03,0:25:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.51,0:25:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can master our bodies and our minds\Nif we decide to take charge,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.09,0:25:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just operate \Nout of our conditioning or reactivity.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.08,0:25:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every piece of news, \Nevery word or smile, or look, or sound,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.09,0:25:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can activate seeds of wholesomeness in us\Nas well as seeds of unwholesomeness in us,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.91,0:25:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as neutral seeds, \Nas well as memory capsules can open,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.42,0:25:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes they are beautiful\Nand blessed when they open,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.31,0:26:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes we remember pain and agony,\Nin our bodies and in our minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.59,0:26:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So understand when you—
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.56,0:26:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I'm listening, I am reading, I'm studying,\NI am interacting with my own mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.66,0:26:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.20,0:26:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—this is number six \Nif you're keeping a list—
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.42,0:26:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is something I call society in society.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.60,0:26:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have got to learn\N—or I'm trying to learn—
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.61,0:26:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to look at society\Nfrom the inside out,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.69,0:26:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for me that means learning to recognize\Nthe patterns of our conditioning:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.100,0:26:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning to recognize the assumptions\Nthat we've been taught about how to live,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.27,0:26:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to date, how to love, how to work, \Nhow to pray, how to celebrate,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.43,0:26:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be aware of those assumptions,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.71,0:27:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you can make a choice \Nabout those assumptions.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.77,0:27:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we are so wired for reaction,\Nwe seldom, or not often, reflect.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.55,0:27:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find myself learning to reflect, \Nto pause, to wait a minute
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.63,0:27:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not be in a rush\Nto come up with a response.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.21,0:27:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's very important.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.19,0:27:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is true \Nin your relationships as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.49,0:27:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause a relationship\Nis constant communication,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.79,0:27:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and communication's not just what's said.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.84,0:27:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the other thing to\N—number 6 on sociality—keep in mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.07,0:27:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you hear news\Nabout your society,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.03,0:27:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,societies of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.65,0:27:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pay attention to what is said
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.02,0:27:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but especially pay attention\Nto what's not said.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.34,0:27:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pay attention to whose voice you hear
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.50,0:27:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pay attention \Nto whose voices you do not hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.70,0:28:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw a—
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.34,0:28:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a memory capsule open this morning\Nthinking about a friend of mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.99,0:28:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were working together in India\Nwhen the Peter projection map came out,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.24,0:28:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that actually showed\Nthe true size of Africa and for
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.43,0:28:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.54,0:28:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of years people thought\NAfrica was the size of, you know, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:18.89,0:28:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.17,0:28:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's information
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.39,0:28:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that conditioned thousands of minds\Nabout Africa and its value.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.02,0:28:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't mis-under estimate\Nany of these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.64,0:28:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it's used in advertising
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.60,0:28:46.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people pay millions of dollars \Nto have people interact with our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.97,0:28:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their own intent.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.98,0:28:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So always have your agenda, \Nis what I've learned, and I keep learning,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.82,0:29:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always have your agenda.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.87,0:29:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't mean a fixed rigid thing, \NI mean have an intention.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.36,0:29:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided to spend some time
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.71,0:29:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to the interviews of people\Nwho were just at the Wallmart shooting,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.21,0:29:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I spend sever hours just listening\Nto this woman's agony and pain and tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.53,0:29:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could feel her experience\Nof not knowing how to be human again.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.59,0:29:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That lived the shock of what she saw
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.82,0:29:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—she was in the break room—\Nhiding under the table.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.06,0:29:52.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shock of what she witnessed\Ndiscombobulated her nervous system.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.21,0:29:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She could barely speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.07,0:29:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her face was contorted,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.04,0:30:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could feel that contortion\Ninside of myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.52,0:30:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was not unfamiliar to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.54,0:30:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the more we can practice\Nmedia interactions,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.53,0:30:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that's a game\Nor a conversation or a movie
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.88,0:30:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—all of which I enjoy—
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.15,0:30:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a book\N—for god's sake I have too many—
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.52,0:30:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am learning over and over again\Ntoo about Larry's mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.30,0:30:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm learning what ideas I'm attached to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.49,0:30:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.77,0:30:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what ideas I never thought of.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.07,0:30:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm learning to pay attention\Nto the mind of the author
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.83,0:30:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose sending me this.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.99,0:30:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as a person who likes to study\N—it's just, I'm neurotic that way, but—
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.82,0:30:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learn the author's mind,\Nnot just their words,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.61,0:31:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so they become friends for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.15,0:31:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They become mentors,\Nthey become companions.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.28,0:31:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have books or poems \Nor people in your mind space and memories
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.88,0:31:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who do that for you too I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.81,0:31:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember them.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.63,0:31:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know our brain is wired such,\Nis really hard wired such,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.64,0:31:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can have\Na wonderful day for 12 hours
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.17,0:31:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—wonderful day—
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.88,0:31:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one person, in one car, \Nwith one gesture can ruin it.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.08,0:31:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our brain is wired\Nto hold on to negativity,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.35,0:31:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's wired that way\Nas a safety precaution
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.29,0:31:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.51,0:31:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in case you meet that car again
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.43,0:31:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.36,0:31:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's important\N—in neuroscience we've discovered that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.48,0:31:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it takes, for every negative \Nunwholesome encounter a person has,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.81,0:32:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moment by moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.06,0:32:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it takes five wholesome encounters \Nto re-balance the brain
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.28,0:32:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of what it remembers \Nand how it's wired to respond to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.59,0:32:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've been taught \Nwe shouldn't be happy, really,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.60,0:32:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should strive to win, regret losing,\Nand not find joy in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.61,0:32:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we do, there's something wrong with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.22,0:32:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you must watch out for the context\Nof the information that is being given.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.96,0:32:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whats the story behind this?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.99,0:32:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of every piece of information\Nas a visit to the Wizard of Oz,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.44,0:32:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.89,0:32:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you want to look behind the curtain.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.74,0:32:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a world in which
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.19,0:33:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spell-casters and magicians and goblins \Nall work on the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.64,0:33:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.02,0:33:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can make up anything \Nand get a group next week to believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.55,0:33:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how disoriented \Nour minds have become
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.24,0:33:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of not being trained \Nhow to handle information,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.91,0:33:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what ever media form\Nthat information may come.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.32,0:33:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know society
Dialogue: 0,0:33:31.08,0:33:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—I heard a great quote \Nfrom Caroline Myss, a few weeks ago—
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.76,0:33:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society used to change\Nat the pace of literature,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.85,0:33:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society used to change\Nat the pace of philosophy,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.10,0:33:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of theology,\Nof a new scientific breakthrough,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.18,0:33:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now society is changing\Nby millions of opinions
Dialogue: 0,0:33:59.50,0:34:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gathered in a neural space online.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.64,0:34:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a big shift,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.68,0:34:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we don't have a collective mechanism\Nfor functioning this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.04,0:34:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why we experience\Nthings being fragmented.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.50,0:34:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't—we're at a place\Nwe've never been as a human race—
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.54,0:34:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and part of this is just beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.98,0:34:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because people around the world\Nare standing up for Iran
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.87,0:34:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're not Iranian,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:35.65,0:34:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people are standing up\Nfor the women and men in the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.78,0:34:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with blood and tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.63,0:34:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are standing up\Nfor the protesters in China,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.08,0:34:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.30,0:34:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and holding up blank sheets of paper \Nrepresenting the desire for free speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.65,0:35:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So also
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.44,0:35:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you receive information and news \Ndon't get sensationalized about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.77,0:35:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause that's a gimmick.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.97,0:35:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it's like somebody says\N"there'll be a train wreck at 12 o'clock"
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.15,0:35:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.72,0:35:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"on this corner"
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.89,0:35:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at 12 o'clock \Nthere'll be hundreds of people there,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.60,0:35:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting to watch the train wreck,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.78,0:35:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether a train comes or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.69,0:35:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have time for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.84,0:35:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember to look at society\Nfrom the inside out.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.91,0:35:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the archetypes\Nthat are operative in that society?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.57,0:35:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the rivers don't rise, \Nmy grandmother would say,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.22,0:35:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope to next year
Dialogue: 0,0:35:47.49,0:35:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do some work and retreats\Non the four core archetypes of Carl Jung
Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.91,0:35:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and relate those to \Nthe hidden forces of social change.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.23,0:35:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anima—animus.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.65,0:36:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh boy, we've got to miss
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.26,0:36:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.39,0:36:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got miss there.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.57,0:36:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounds funny until you see \Nyoung men everywhere killing people...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.20,0:36:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you begin to recognize\Nthe imbalance of that archetype.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.93,0:36:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have destroyed the capacity\Nof some of these young men
Dialogue: 0,0:36:16.69,0:36:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recognize their own\Nfeminine energy inside
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.50,0:36:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—if I can use that word—
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.86,0:36:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own soft energy,\Ntheir own kind energy,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:28.16,0:36:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no training in how to handle\Nanger, or frustration, or fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.87,0:36:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also we have to \Ntake a look at the persona
Dialogue: 0,0:36:41.15,0:36:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.19,0:36:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which really has,\Nin the last 25 years, become a business.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.61,0:36:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Hollywood left Hollywood\Nand came in to the house
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.27,0:36:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so now all of us are on TV, \Nall of us are on a screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.82,0:37:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all in the world\Nof flat screen consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.53,0:37:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that means
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.22,0:37:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything on the flat screen\Nappears of equal value,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:09.12,0:37:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.98,0:37:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why discernment \Nis an important part of spiritual practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.42,0:37:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everything is worthy of\Nyour time, you energy, your thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.89,0:37:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Use that for your own agenda,\Nfor your own sense of purpose,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.38,0:37:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your own sense of destiny,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.77,0:37:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your own sense of healing,\Nand justice, and a better world.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.89,0:37:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't just waste your energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.20,0:37:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I do look at \Na lot of different news reports, on purpose,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.44,0:37:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I make a conscious choice\NI'm going to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.13,0:37:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some news reports\NI'll only look at for certain reasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.82,0:37:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get certain kinds of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.05,0:38:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be selective in what you decide\Nto invite in to your mind:
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.10,0:38:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the content \Nthat will come flooding in,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.58,0:38:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the emotional energy\Nthat comes flooding in to your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.18,0:38:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you want to look deeply\Nin to a topic or an issue
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.32,0:38:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's aligned with your vocation, \Nor your sense of work in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.78,0:38:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your purpose in life,\Ndo so,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.43,0:38:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but look deep.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.70,0:38:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look in to \Nthe causes and conditions of these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.49,0:38:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if one is to look at,\Nfor example,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.80,0:38:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reaction going on\Nin the streets of China,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.50,0:38:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reactions going on in Iran
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.20,0:38:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—and these are just two big things\Nwe keep track of—
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.02,0:38:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is going on around the world,\Nit's going on in Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.33,0:38:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is it \Nthat's going on around the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.20,0:38:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are rejecting patriarchal ideology.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.82,0:38:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.14,0:39:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to know why men are upset,\Nthat's why.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.81,0:39:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're loosing their mind hold \Nover the planet; loosing a sense of power.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.61,0:39:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is archetypal energy, \Nit's not just personal,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.38,0:39:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we have to work\Nat deeper and deeper levels
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.00,0:39:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to reach places\Nwhere we can and are ready to heal.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.18,0:39:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A shadow, oh boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:29.96,0:39:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.44,0:39:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a life of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.07,0:39:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my biggest critique of the world\Nbased on my own experiences,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.38,0:39:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most difficult thing is to admit\Nthat we are not perfect, in a healthy way.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.53,0:39:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have this,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:54.42,0:39:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what in Buddhism Thích Nhất Hạnh\Nliked to call the Self Esteem Complex,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.65,0:40:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I am better than you\Nor you are better than me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.70,0:40:03.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we are equal
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.95,0:40:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I'm up and you're down \Nor I'm down and you're up.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.29,0:40:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of that is an adequate description \Nof the miracle of being a human being
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.90,0:40:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we have to just \Nstop being stupid about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.25,0:40:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we are to understand our own wholeness,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:22.64,0:40:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least in part enough to create \Nthe nuance of wholeness our planet needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.69,0:40:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then that journey will continue \Nthrough generations of course.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.34,0:40:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not the penultimate
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.18,0:40:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.58,0:40:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solution to things,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.88,0:40:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not saviors, we are adventurers, \Nlearning how to navigate our inner worlds,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.34,0:40:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm convinced learning to navigate\Nour inner worlds is the work of the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.51,0:40:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's certainly the work now,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.57,0:41:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is the work of the future,\Nwe just don't know it yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.98,0:41:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are creatures of 10,000 capacities,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.54,0:41:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many of us live our whole lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.37,0:41:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we're lucky enough\Nto live long in this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.33,0:41:19.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,operating as if \Nwe only have 10 capacities.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.87,0:41:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get trapped in to thinking\Neverything is material,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.20,0:41:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we forget it is not just material.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.18,0:41:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The universe is not just material, \Nit's also energetic—it is also energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.76,0:41:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't get trapped\Nin to the Newtonian paradigm
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.98,0:41:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everything is separate
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.59,0:41:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nothing really affects anything else\Nunless it's in direct physics.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.64,0:41:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything affects everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.04,0:41:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is part of what\Nwe're experiencing in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:47.60,0:41:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it's crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.79,0:41:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.12,0:41:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it is\N—we don't have a story to hold this.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.01,0:42:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're in a place\Nwe never imagined as a species,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.69,0:42:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the last 200,000 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:05.85,0:42:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because of the 200,000 years
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.65,0:42:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have within ourselves what we need\Nto take the next stage of evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.75,0:42:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with courage, \Nwhich is what this is, people.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.84,0:42:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are in a metamorphosis journey,\Nwe're in the cocoon
Dialogue: 0,0:42:25.11,0:42:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.22,0:42:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to figure out\Nthe next shape we are becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.88,0:42:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no instructions that appear clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.68,0:42:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are instructions.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:39.78,0:42:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one is to, if you see some news\Nand it's not beneficial to you, ignore it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.83,0:42:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.98,0:42:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.17,0:42:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you see something,\Nhear something, read something,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.100,0:42:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is beneficial to you,\Ntake it to heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:57.75,0:43:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make it a part of your practice,\Nor your journaling,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.96,0:43:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your music, or your dance, or your art.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.22,0:43:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make it a part of your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.32,0:43:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you continue \Nto be nourished by the good,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.28,0:43:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we live in a world\Nof tabloid media as an art form,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.15,0:43:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are presented\Nconstantly, and daily,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.70,0:43:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter what we're talking about, \Nas extremes.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.26,0:43:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just look at our language.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.64,0:43:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later turn on the television,\Nand look at our language
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.82,0:43:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across networks, across countries:
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.39,0:43:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is doom, it is savage, it is—
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.02,0:43:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about words used today\Nto introduce clips in the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:49.27,0:43:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so learning how that word,\Nsavage, doesn't get stuck on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:55.14,0:43:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just goes straight through.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.01,0:44:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learn what to hold on to \Nand what not to hold to,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.72,0:44:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.47,0:44:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of us actually have been\Nliving our lives in extreme exhaustion
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.32,0:44:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we have been \Ncarrying other people's anxieties.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.33,0:44:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know it's like\Nthe old joke about Atlas,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.75,0:44:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's holding the world,\Nruns by you and says "hold this",
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.95,0:44:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.90,0:44:26.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and without thinking\Nyou hold it and he's gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.24,0:44:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Literally many of us are just exhausted \Nholding other people's fears and anxieties,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.88,0:44:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what we need to be holding\Nis each other's broken hearts,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.71,0:44:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brilliant minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.61,0:44:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we want to hold each other accountable\Nlets hold each other accountable
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.01,0:44:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a higher calling in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.92,0:45:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's discipline involved in how we, how I,\Nlearn to read, interpret, reflect on, the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.50,0:45:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I just don't ever \Nwatch the news by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:17.73,0:45:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I get up in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.28,0:45:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I even get out of bed,\NI have a meditation I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.64,0:45:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about aging.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.78,0:45:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.28,0:45:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, before I put\Nmy feet on the floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.15,0:45:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't forget who's \Nputting their feet on the floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.36,0:45:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I, \NI have options,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.06,0:45:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spend some time\Njust in listening to birds,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.08,0:45:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watering plants,\Nwalking slowly on the Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.64,0:45:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying to myself\N"Mother Earth, here I am".
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.09,0:45:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greeting this blue sky,\Nletting it fall on me,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.62,0:46:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'till I can feel myself\Nstanding on the blue sky,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.03,0:46:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and standing under the blue sky\Nat the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.22,0:46:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I study other people's insights,\Nteachings and learnings,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.53,0:46:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I try to keep my mind as\N—life long learner is a popular phrase—
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.14,0:46:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across disciplines: \Nevolutionary psychologies, astrophysics,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.60,0:46:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buddhist psychology, sociology,\Nanthropology, mythology.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.02,0:46:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these things are of interest to me,\Nwhat can I say.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.36,0:46:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it keeps my mind from getting fixated,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.20,0:46:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause at least once a week I read something\Nor I study something from someone else,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.56,0:46:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it can be from long ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.36,0:46:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be Plato and his allegory of the cave\Nwhich I think everybody should read again,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.31,0:46:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's what we are experiencing \Nright now,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.68,0:47:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been conditioned so well
Dialogue: 0,0:47:03.08,0:47:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't even know\Nwe've been conditioned,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.01,0:47:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now that is skill.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.100,0:47:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't mean somebody sat down\Nand planned this out.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.63,0:47:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about a natural occurrence
Dialogue: 0,0:47:17.27,0:47:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that happens in society, \Nin any organization, in any group.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.85,0:47:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.70,0:47:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just have to be mindful
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.98,0:47:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our minds and our bodies \Nare not separate from our social existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.19,0:47:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of us have been conditioned
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.02,0:47:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to believe when someone\Nwalks in to a grocery store
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.32,0:47:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and starts shooting people
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.08,0:47:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's something wrong with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:44.81,0:47:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.25,0:47:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in order for something to be wrong\Nwith them like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.44,0:47:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is something wrong\Nwith the rest of us too.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.56,0:47:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something wrong with our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.87,0:48:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we condition ourselves\Nto be violent, how we glorify it,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.21,0:48:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we worship it,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:09.05,0:48:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not much further from really just
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.92,0:48:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.29,0:48:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primitives,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:17.13,0:48:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless we do the spiritual work\Nto learn to live without doing harm,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.49,0:48:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as our first response\Nto frustration, to fear, to being alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.30,0:48:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a word from\N—I learned from my research training—
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.92,0:48:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's called, you may have heard,\Nit's called titration.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.84,0:48:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whatever input you're going to get, \Nwhether it's a book, a movie, a TV show,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.45,0:49:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a friend, a conversation,\Ntake little bits at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.29,0:49:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the old phrase:
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.60,0:49:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How do you eat an elephant?\NOne spoonful at a time."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.81,0:49:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When your looking,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.80,0:49:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially some place\Nthat your curiosity has been piqued,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.14,0:49:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't give up your curiosity,\Nit's a very important quality of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.58,0:49:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but take a little piece at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.83,0:49:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the same if you want to look in to
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.75,0:49:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the causes and conditions\Nthat created suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.42,0:49:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Know what you can handle emotionally\Nwithout getting re-traumatized yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.46,0:49:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay. Take care of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.74,0:49:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take things a little bit at a time\Nbut take them deeply:
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.33,0:49:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the difference in consumption,\Nin transformation with information.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.92,0:50:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recognize your own heart and mind\Nin what you hear, in what you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.60,0:50:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more I work with this,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.09,0:50:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realize this is how I'm learning\Nto practice with all phenomenon.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.93,0:50:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bee, the bird, the tree, the fox:
Dialogue: 0,0:50:14.83,0:50:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am learning to recognize what is there, \Nin a non-judgemental way: it's just there.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.43,0:50:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a great professor in my PhD work,\Nthe name of Dr Lawki (?).
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.14,0:50:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He passed away by now\Nbut he was a stickler on methodology
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.90,0:50:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the one word he used in every class
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.23,0:50:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—he wrote it really big on the blackboard—
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.34,0:50:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.83,0:50:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.08,0:50:44.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says:
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.42,0:50:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"don't turn a paper in to me\Nwith no evidence"
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.14,0:50:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:49.41,0:50:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't care what you believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.72,0:50:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care what your teacher\Ntold you to believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.62,0:50:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want evidence for your thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.24,0:51:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why you reached \Nthe conclusion you reached."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.26,0:51:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why you reached that view,\Nwhy you appreciated that practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.14,0:51:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explain, understand how you are interacting\Nand changing with all the phenomena of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.91,0:51:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So everything
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.18,0:51:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—I met four small, \Nalmost baby, doves today—
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.64,0:51:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were sitting on our fence\Nwatching us
Dialogue: 0,0:51:26.46,0:51:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I appreciated\Ntheir communication of safety.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.37,0:51:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They felt safe enough to rest here,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:37.25,0:51:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I was able to ask myself \N"How's my safety meter today, Larry?"
Dialogue: 0,0:51:44.63,0:51:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not being disturbed by a disturbing world\Nis the essence of the practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.13,0:51:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it does not mean being indifferent.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.02,0:52:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does not mean turning your head aside,\Nit does not mean hiding from anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.14,0:52:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means fearlessly looking\Nat the whole of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.85,0:52:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understanding that you\Nare at the center of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:14.07,0:52:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some great comments years ago\Nby Stephen Covey, coming to my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.32,0:52:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know the difference between
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.53,0:52:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your circle of concern\Nand your circle of influence.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.54,0:52:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are two different things in his thinking\N—and I heard about this a long time ago—
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.23,0:52:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the thing I want to remind myself \Nand you of:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.28,0:52:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're not just a circle of concern, \Nthough you are;
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.74,0:52:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just a circle of influence,\Nthough you are;
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.41,0:52:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you are a circle of energy \Nthat can go in either direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.06,0:52:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understand this about yourself:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.21,0:52:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not just a clump of matter
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.01,0:53:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the visitation from a train of thoughts\Nfrom time to time,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.64,0:53:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're cosmic being,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.87,0:53:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and boy oh boy what would happen\Nif we started to act that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.83,0:53:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think that way?\NCare that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.90,0:53:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Approach justice that way,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.55,0:53:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wellness that way,\Nand community that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:19.85,0:53:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are cosmic beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:21.53,0:53:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are manifestations of a reality\Nwe don't understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.28,0:53:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We cannot even get our mind around,\Nand we don't have to.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.49,0:53:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we have to do\Nis to learn how to be present.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.90,0:53:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peggy and I had\Nthe luxury of having breakfast
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.19,0:53:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Thích Nhất Hạnh one time\Nwhen he received difficult news.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.87,0:53:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a time he was still exiled\Nfrom Vietnam and could not return.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.75,0:53:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a family member pass away
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.35,0:54:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he could not go back\Nfor the funeral ceremonies.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.61,0:54:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were with him\Nwhen the phone call came
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.91,0:54:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the information was passed on\Nto his ear,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:10.100,0:54:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we watched his energy change.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:16.02,0:54:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He slowly got up, bowed to us,\Nand went out and did walking meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.15,0:54:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slowing everything down,\Ncalming everything down.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.26,0:54:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stepping in the wonders of noble silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.50,0:54:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came back in thirty minutes or so\Na different person;
Dialogue: 0,0:54:46.56,0:54:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,face different, energy different,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.37,0:54:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Peggy leaned over to me and said\N"that would have taken me six years."
Dialogue: 0,0:54:53.45,0:54:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.15,0:54:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the benefit of practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.94,0:55:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why I do it every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.73,0:55:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not that I don't get disturbed,\Nbut this being disturbed never becomes me.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:10.06,0:55:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You understand what I'm saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.57,0:55:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were just in Minneapolis\Na few weeks ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.51,0:55:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with Zen centers \Nand Buddhist dharma communities there,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.77,0:55:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went to the places of the riots \Nand George Floyd square,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.14,0:55:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I cannot even think about that\Nwithout being activated,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:35.72,0:55:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my activation \Nnow moves me even more
Dialogue: 0,0:55:41.85,0:55:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the direction of \N'what does it mean to have a well society?'
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.54,0:55:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of our language about everything\Nis prescriptive
Dialogue: 0,0:55:54.35,0:55:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and analytical and we're sick,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:57.88,0:55:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.26,0:56:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have very little feedback\Nfrom our media,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.72,0:56:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what we read and what we write\N—most of us—that affirms our existence,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:10.62,0:56:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that affirms our right to be here\Non this precious planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.44,0:56:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you interact with the media,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.28,0:56:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you interact with the news,\Ndon't be taken at the flood.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.66,0:56:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flood of opinion, \Nthe flood of misperception.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.23,0:56:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know it's like the women in Iran
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.53,0:56:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the people in the streets of China\Nand Colombia and France,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:44.20,0:56:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can go around the world, \Nare like they're waking up from a trance.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.06,0:56:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like one morning people woke up
Dialogue: 0,0:56:52.96,0:56:57.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went "Hey, wait a minute, \Nthis doesn't make any sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.32,0:57:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live this way, to be treated this way, \Nto be harmed this way"
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.85,0:57:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so what is happening\Nis the world stands up
Dialogue: 0,0:57:12.87,0:57:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people from everywhere\Nstand up for one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.44,0:57:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like we belong here together.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.09,0:57:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Places that think they're in power\Nare shaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.93,0:57:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like deer in the forest
Dialogue: 0,0:57:30.52,0:57:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can tell a new wind\Nis already in the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:36.62,0:57:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So please my friends\Nput your energy in to the new wind.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.11,0:57:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had what I thought\Nwas an ear infection here
Dialogue: 0,0:57:50.59,0:57:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a friend of mine took me\Nto one of his ear specialists
Dialogue: 0,0:57:53.95,0:57:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—a very funny Cuban physician—
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.04,0:58:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who did all the tests, \Ncleaned my ears and everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.68,0:58:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said "you don't have an ear infection, \Nthat's the good news,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:06.56,0:58:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the bad news is \Nyou have something worse"
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.62,0:58:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:58:09.100,0:58:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he started laughing\Nand so did I
Dialogue: 0,0:58:12.42,0:58:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what he said was "you have, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:14.77,0:58:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a bone in your ear\Nthat's connected to your balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:17.76,0:58:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's disintegrating."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:20.35,0:58:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought, well, \Nthat goes along with the rest of me
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.06,0:58:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.85,0:58:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I don't have a problem with disintegrating, \Nthat's why I'm here.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.28,0:58:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question is, what do we emit?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.42,0:58:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things\Nin the Yogachara tradition
Dialogue: 0,0:58:40.01,0:58:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is they talk about our energy,\Nand our words, and our thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.79,0:58:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our behavior perfumes the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.75,0:58:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question is:\Nwhat are we perfuming the world with?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.47,0:59:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And more and more people\Naround the world are stating to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.19,0:59:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know, we don't like this smell, \Nthis death, this violence, this horror,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:21.44,0:59:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this oppression, this rape, \Nthis casual murder, this brutality.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.06,0:59:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't like it, \Nwe don't need it, to be fully human."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:34.69,0:59:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've somehow been convinced
Dialogue: 0,0:59:36.58,0:59:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have to guarded by giant gorillas\Nnot to become giant gorillas ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:42.34,0:59:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't make any sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.62,0:59:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new sensibility is in fact emerging,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:50.42,0:59:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so when you receive information\Nhold on to yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:59.21,1:00:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold on to your precious soul and heart,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:01.82,1:00:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't lose yourself,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:04.50,1:00:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because whatever the information is
Dialogue: 0,1:00:06.83,1:00:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—this is probably
Dialogue: 0,1:00:07.71,1:00:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most uncomfortable thing\NI realized about learning something—
Dialogue: 0,1:00:14.46,1:00:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever it is I learn\NI will one day forget, permanently.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.48,1:00:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that helps me from getting\Ntoo wired about stuff,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:26.21,1:00:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to uptight about things,\Ntoo fixed about things,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.46,1:00:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too extreme and certain about things.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.94,1:00:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other wonderful thing\Nthat I've been practicing with
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.65,1:00:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I go through the world we live in,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.43,1:00:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which the Buddha sometimes called \Nthe world of a thicket of views.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.81,1:00:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a world\Nof billions of opinions.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:54.48,1:00:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we have 8.9 billion people
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.37,1:01:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and (?) most of us have difficulty\Nsorting the opinions in our own head.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.10,1:01:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To imagine that we can together\Nsort our way in to the future,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:12.97,1:01:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lead each other in to the future, \Nfor me, is why were here.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:19.96,1:01:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's why we were born.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.36,1:01:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is our great work.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.78,1:01:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will not finish it,\Nand we are not supposed to.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:30.85,1:01:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're supposed to be the bridge,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:34.65,1:01:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that our future ancestors
Dialogue: 0,1:01:36.44,1:01:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and past ancestors,\Nwho are always along for the ride,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:40.40,1:01:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:01:41.30,1:01:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can finish it too.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:45.23,1:01:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a discipline involved \Nin not being disturbed by a disturbing world.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:51.05,1:01:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the most important part \Nof this discipline for me is silence.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:02.26,1:02:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start the day by silence.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:04.16,1:02:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start the day by listening \Nto the sounds of the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.90,1:02:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I don't think I'm isolated,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:11.89,1:02:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'm in touch \Nwith the wonders of life,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:15.01,1:02:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then noble silence throughout the day,\Njust here or there,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:21.02,1:02:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking time to stop running around\Nfor whatever reason, and pause,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.27,1:02:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as this happens
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.74,1:02:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become more and more\Nstilled in ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.53,1:02:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that stillness in ourselves, that solidity\Nlike mount Fuji within ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:43.55,1:02:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what we need\Nto transform our world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:50.54,1:02:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's what protects us\Nfrom falling in to hate,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.89,1:02:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a motivator for changing our world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:59.30,1:03:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equanimity guards us
Dialogue: 0,1:03:03.67,1:03:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from using the energy of jealousy\Nin the hopes of changing our world,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:09.16,1:03:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the energy of greed,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:15.17,1:03:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though all of these things \Nare in our own consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.00,1:03:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is our skillfulness\Nin learning to recognize ourselves
Dialogue: 0,1:03:26.90,1:03:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will free ourselves from ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:32.10,1:03:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we free ourselves from ourselves
Dialogue: 0,1:03:34.04,1:03:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become more capable\Nof freeing each other.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:42.22,1:03:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In neuroscientific terms we become capable\Nof profound coregulation,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:50.40,1:03:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the ground of co-creativity,\Nwhich we are wired for,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:56.69,1:04:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have just been convinced\Nthat we are not, that we are only shadow.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:05.56,1:04:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about the fourth archetype now,\Nthe soul, wholeness.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.40,1:04:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not just this,\Nwe're not just that,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:14.69,1:04:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're the whole of life\Nin the present moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:25.86,1:04:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tears I cried watching the women\Nmarch in the streets of Iran
Dialogue: 0,1:04:29.41,1:04:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were my tears and their tears.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.41,1:04:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I realized that\NI went beyond cause,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:44.32,1:04:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went beyond politics,\NI went in to depth humanity,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:52.13,1:04:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's from this depth
Dialogue: 0,1:04:54.53,1:04:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—which we all...\Nit's a well we can all fall in—
Dialogue: 0,1:04:59.33,1:05:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is available,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:02.59,1:05:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you have to develop a discipline
Dialogue: 0,1:05:05.00,1:05:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,—and many of you have I know—
Dialogue: 0,1:05:06.100,1:05:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of nourishing this,\Nnourishing this, nourishing this,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:10.28,1:05:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but nourishing yourself
Dialogue: 0,1:05:12.47,1:05:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please minimize your judgement\Nupon yourself.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.49,1:05:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of us—there's a friend of mine\Nwho wrote a book many years ago.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:23.13,1:05:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His name was Marty Selman.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:25.26,1:05:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was on communication\N—he was a super-salesman kind of guy—
Dialogue: 0,1:05:28.95,1:05:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his research showed\Nthat the average person
Dialogue: 0,1:05:31.26,1:05:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks to themselves\Nover two thousand times a day.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:37.13,1:05:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You talk mostly to yourself.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:40.79,1:05:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talk mostly to myself,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:42.45,1:05:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's very important to know\Nwho we invite to have a conversation with,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:47.64,1:05:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who we invite in,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:49.89,1:05:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we receive our guest\N—in thinking of Rumi—
Dialogue: 0,1:05:53.76,1:05:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we be the host.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:58.34,1:06:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes being the host\Nmeans to let things be.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:02.64,1:06:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know this.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:03.77,1:06:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,1:06:04.72,1:06:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes being the host\Nmeans to let things go,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:09.25,1:06:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes being the host \Nmeans simply to let things flow.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.15,1:06:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we don't have to grasp\Nafter information, images,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:20.64,1:06:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the definition of our lives.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:23.57,1:06:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We endure our experiences, of our senses,\Nour sights and sounds, and movements,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:31.40,1:06:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our body and our mind,\Nbut we don't intend to be lead astray.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:44.36,1:06:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to end with a favorite poem of mine\Nthat is connected
Dialogue: 0,1:06:49.16,1:06:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what I think is the core practice
Dialogue: 0,1:06:51.100,1:06:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of not being carried away\Nby the world, suffering and craziness.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:02.77,1:07:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pablo Neruda
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.97,1:07:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called 'keeping quiet'
Dialogue: 0,1:07:09.98,1:07:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we will count to twelve\Nand we will all keep still
Dialogue: 0,1:07:15.94,1:07:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for once on the face of the earth,\Nlet us not speak any language;
Dialogue: 0,1:07:22.68,1:07:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's stop for a second,\Nand not move our arms so much.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:30.47,1:07:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be an exotic moment\Nwithout rush, without engines;
Dialogue: 0,1:07:37.74,1:07:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would all be together\Nin a sudden strangeness.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:42.58,1:07:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fishermen in the cold sea\Nwould not harm whales
Dialogue: 0,1:07:46.64,1:07:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the man gathering salt\Nwould not look at his hurt hands.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.62,1:07:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who prepare green wars,\Nwars with gas, wars with fire,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:56.58,1:08:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,victories with no survivors,\Nwould put on clean clothes
Dialogue: 0,1:08:01.78,1:08:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walk about with their brothers and sisters\Nin the shade, doing nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:08.81,1:08:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we were not so single-minded\Nabout keeping our lives moving,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:13.32,1:08:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for once could do nothing,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:16.85,1:08:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps a huge silence\Nmight interrupt this sadness
Dialogue: 0,1:08:23.38,1:08:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of never understanding ourselves\Nand of threatening ourselves with death.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:32.59,1:08:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'll count up to twelve\Nand you keep quiet and I will go.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:45.66,1:09:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bell sounds four times)