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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.17,0:00:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Sangha,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.98,0:00:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're very privileged.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.51,0:00:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have an opportunity \Nto practice sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.69,0:00:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the practice of sitting \Nmeditation is very, very ancient.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.98,0:00:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know when it began,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.20,0:00:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's said that Buddha Vipaśyin\Nwho lived 91 kalpas away ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.03,0:00:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.81,0:00:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One kalpa is 3.2 billion years, \Nso you can't imagine that 91 kalpas;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.84,0:00:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.33,0:01:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, he also practiced sitting meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.20,0:01:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe, in the place \Nwhere you are sitting now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.40,0:01:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all those millions of years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.19,0:01:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody else was sitting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.06,0:01:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and practicing meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.83,0:01:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe they made the\Ndeep aspiration, that in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.48,0:01:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of years to come\Nsomebody else would be
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.39,0:01:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitting there and practicing \Nmeditation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.26,0:01:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so if you like you can \Nmake that aspiration now
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.71,0:01:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this will ensure that in the\Nfuture people also have a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.71,0:01:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chance to site in meditation, \Nwhether its in this lifetime of the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.59,0:01:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether its in another lifetime\Nof the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.76,0:02:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Buddhist teachings, we are\Nable to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.41,0:02:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to expand our perception of \Ntime, so that it becomes very, very
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.66,0:02:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very large.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now days when people talk about\Nthe planet Earth, they talk in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terms of 4.5 billion years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the time that the Earth\Nis said to have been in existence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that this is not exactly\Ncorrect because that is the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the Earth manifested.\NBut before that it had been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in existence, in different forms,\Nit came together for that manifestation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, anywhere that is what we learn\Nin school that the Earth is 4.5 Billion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, we also learn that if
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the causes and conditions \Nwere good, the Earth will be there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for another 7.5 billion years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That seems very little when \Nyou compare with 91 kalpas
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Buddha Vipaśyin