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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bell
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.40,0:00:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear community, we are August \Nthe 10th in the year 2023,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.24,0:00:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are celebrating, savoring\Nthe last day of our Wake Up retreat,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.82,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Love in Action", here \Nin the Upper Hamlet,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.01,0:00:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Still Water meditation hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.73,0:00:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm having an interesting \Nmoment sitting here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.94,0:00:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we first started creating\Nyouth retreats, about 15 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.85,0:00:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a real challenge to try and\Nfind enough young people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.76,0:00:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a retreat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And first there was forty, then\Nthe next year there was like 65,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I remember \Nthe year we hit 100,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were so excited that\Nwe had 100 registrations!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to report to Thay.\NThis must have been around 2010.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay, there's a hundred \Nyoung people in Europe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that want to learn about mindfulness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you believe it ?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he was like - well done!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, we started to \Ncreate the Wake Up movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said (to Thay) it's a little \Nbit overwhelming!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, and his eyes \Nlit up with sparkles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's like "excellent, it should \Nfeel overwhelming!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I'm sitting here and I\Ndon't know how many hundreds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of you there are, but it feels little \Noverwhelming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I guess Thay's smiling \Nwith a sparkle in his eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be careful what you wish for, \Nbecause it may come true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that's going to make it easier,\Nbut hey, I think speaking in front of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is both challenging and wonderful,\Nbecause on the one hand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel I want to share my heart\Nwith you all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the other, of course, I have the\Nsame feeling that we all do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of whether I can be enough\Nin this moment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I will share from my, my joy\Nmy experience and my practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is my best, so,\Nwe will see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had some little flowers here\Nthank you, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emotional support flowers,\Nwe also have an emotional
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support cello, that we might, that I might\Nneed to call on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was 21 when I first came \Nto Plum Village
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was one of the people\Nwho as soon as there was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chance to receive the five\Nmindfulness trainings, I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to do it. And I was\Nhere for three weeks that summer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was also one of the people\Nwho was like I am going to wait
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the last week.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I know some of us have\Nbeen here through the summer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have received the five\Nmindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this morning, and some of us\Nare here for the first time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we also made that commitment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have to say, \Ngetting on the train in Saint-Foy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the five mindfulness trainings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kinda in my pockets, in my back pack
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life was different. It just was!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that I had a path. I felt that \NI knew what was important to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that what the experience was that\NI can't fall that far anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It felt like the mindfulness trainings\Nwere a safety net or something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, I'm held in their embrace\Nthat has been my experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And although I was sharing\Nwith my dharma discussion family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the path of the five mindfulness\Ntrainings is not exactly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a straight highway,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its more like this, and thats\Ndefinitely been my experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it has been an adventure,\Nan experiment, a work in progress
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a challenge and also a training,\Nlike really a training.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as many of us know whatever\Nkind of training we do, we learn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by making mistakes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by trying things out,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by realizing ... oops, \Nthat was not in alignment or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have strayed far off my path\Nat this point
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was wonderful and \Nhas been wonderful to\Nfeel that they are part of my life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't know if your facilitators\Nshared with you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the dharma name we get\Nwith our five mindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the dharma name for your life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So even if you become monastics\Nyour monastic name is not as important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as your five mindfulness trainings name.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we are kind of born into our\Nspiritual path with this practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with this training.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this morning, definitely\Nmore than a hundred of us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe more than a hundred and fifty\Npossibly closer to two hundred of us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the different hamlets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made a passionate, wholehearted\Ncommitment to take the insight
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and practises of the five mindfulness\Ntrainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into our lives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so when we get on the train \Ntomorrow, car or however we'r getting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these mindfulness trainings\Nwill be with us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even if we didn't make a formal\Ncommitment to receive them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please take the piece of paper\Nwith you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can penetrate our life\Nbecause in a way they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encapsulate everything we\Nhave been experiencing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together in this retreat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these trainings are, I guess, the \Nkind of Plum Village blueprint for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are nothing less than \Nour full vision for the kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loving action that can transform\Nsociety and the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone asked me in the\Nearth retreat earlier in this year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find the Plum Village teachings\Non the earth and climate so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascinating, but do you have\Nsome kind of manifesto?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said yeh - we have the\Nfive mindfulness trainings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the person was like, no I\Ndidn't mean that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was like, oh I mean that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they are applied, they live\Nthey are kind of mult-dimensional.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each one of them is about bringing\Nthe energy of awakening and love
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly into the heart of our daily \Nlives, our relationship and our society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, as we take the practice\Nhome, maybe you go home and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody comes up to you and\Nsays, how was your retreat?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say ... brilliant, great\Nwonderful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to practice meditation\Nevery day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we may have a tendency to\Nthink that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most easily applicable thing\Nwe can take from this retreat
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is ten minutes sitting every day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we may think, that's going to\Nbe my aspiration, my intention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my volition, I'm going to put \Nit all into that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is good,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I feel we can be more ambitious\Nthen that, and I say that because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we only do 10 minutes of sitting\Nmeditation a day, and then the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rest of our life is the same,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the transformation will \Nnot be very radical.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what we can see in each one of\Nthese amazingly challenging
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inspiring trainings in the\Nfive mindfulness trainings is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're about far more \Nthan sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, as a relatively active person,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I left Plum Village I, found\Nit really hard to do sitting meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was very rare that I made time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was able to make time to do sitting\Nmeditation in my daily life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, my life was utterly transformed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the five mindfulness trainings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing I learned, I used to\Nsit on public transport and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be present for the people\Naround me, and present for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my feelings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And honestly, I think I got\Nmore kind of shift in my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perspective and way of living\Nin the way I sat on buses in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,central London then I would\Nhave done by sitting on my cushion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I lived like many of us \Na very
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,active and hyperstimulated life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was juggling a job in journalism and\Na masters degree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like too much input, so if \NI sat on a cushion all I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard or saw was just all\Nthe inputs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when I was in relation \Nwith the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,following my breathing and\Nbeing in contact with my body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like I opened up a whole\Nnew way of experiencing life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was really transformative\Nfor me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as we think about what we\Nmight want to take away from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this retreat, i'm gonna sort of\Nreflect back to some of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that we've been experiencing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can see for ourselves\Nwhich of these elements
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do I want to incorporate in \Nmy daily life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things, perhaps\Nthe most important thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been doing on this\Nretreat is resting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relaxing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spending time in silence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both with people but\Nalso with nature
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we may ask ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my daily life, am I making\Ntime to rest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So resting without screens
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resting wihtout maybe headphones
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am I able to rest and listen to \Nmy body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how might we incorporate\Na practice of resting in our daily lifes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those of us that work from home\Nwe have a great chance to do relaxation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after lunch.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because no one can see you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you can find the Plum Village App\Nor your favorite relaxation teachers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can listen to a relaxation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make it a part of your working day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can make a commitment to \Nourselves, a promise to ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to spend more time in our \Nnearest park, or to use
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our days off from study or\Nwork to actively go out into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can also , like, \Nlearning from this experience of being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with people, in nature, is great.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we invite our friends \Nand organize to have more time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in nature together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is actively cultivating\Nourselves, our body and mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our awakening and also our resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I mostly want to talk to you today
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about is, spiritual resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the choices we make about\Nhow we live our life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a fundamental, deep \Nform, or resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to collective consciousness \Nand to society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So choosing to rest in our super busy\Nworld is a form of resistance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't need to consume, we don't \Nneed to do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're gonna be in the way\Nthat is the future we would
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like to see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more simple, more connected\Nand more whole in ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not relying on external things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like consuming and doing to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing we've been doing on\Nthis retreat has been stopping
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking deeply. We have \Nhad a chance to step back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our life, to step outside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the constant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pressures that we are under
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kind of take stock to reflect \Na little bit and to listen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so the question about how we\Ncould take this kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stopping back with us could be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there a practice that you \Ncan take in your life where
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day has at least \None moment of stopping in it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I went back from\NPlum Village, the something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I chose was drinking a\Nglass of water from the water
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cooler at work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my work was in a newsroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it was a very overstimulated\Nenvironment, but I wanted to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep this connection to Plum\NVillage into my spiritual life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the spiritual dimension of\Nmy being because being in a -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in the politics department\Nof the newsroom -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so its probably like the \Nleast, a very not spiritual place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was determined, I was\Nthere for ethical reasons because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that ethical news was possible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thats another story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I chose that the moment \Nthat I drank water was the moment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I would be deeply into\Ntouch with my spiritual life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I recited the poem that\Nwe have here in plum village
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for drinking water, many of us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know this poem, but if we are\Nhere for the first time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might have just seen it\Nnear a water tap somewhere
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this poem goes like this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, with the collective \Nconsciousness I don't have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My brain is a social brain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water comes from high\Nmountain sources,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water runs deep in the earth
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,miraculously water comes to us\Nand sustains all life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My gratitude is filled\Nto the brim.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was working in the newsroom\Nin Spring 2003
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a peace activist and it\Nwas at the outbreak of the Iraq war
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every time I went to the\Nwater cooler, I recited this poem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were screens all around me\Nthat had a live screen from the war
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zone. And this was my act of \Nresistance. This was my resolve
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my heart alive, to keep my hear\Nopen and to stay in touch with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beauty and wonder of life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I could see clearly the \Ndestruction and injustice of war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very interesting to practice\Nmindfulness in the workplace
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I invite you to try it out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could choose drinking water,\Nyou could choose maybe if you go
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a place of work or study, you\Ncould choose some part of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the distance when you are transitioning\Nfrom your home life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go int work, you can take \N200 meteres, and you can say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to yourself, I will walk as a\Nfree person, as my whole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self including my spiritual \Naspect from this lamppost
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that pedestrian crossing\Nand you make a resolve,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will do this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this was another thing I did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Across the center of London
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had my anti-war umbrella.\NIn London it always rains
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except recently but that's \Na different story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry. No diversion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had my peace umbrella, in London\Neverywhere. Everyone about 15 years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ago still wore black in the city\Nand had black umbrellas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so my umbrellas was white and\Nit had the words peace that I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had stencilled on to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got lots of reactions as\NI would walk through the city
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on my way to the newsroom, \Nbut that was my almost resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I can to a certain place\Nnear a cathedral, I chose a stretch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was quite nice, right in the\Nheart of the city and I said
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will walk as a free person, free\Nfrom my anger about the war
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free from my fear about the days\Nwork ahead,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free from the fights, I will walk\Nas a free human being on this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful planet earth and I \Ndid this for 200 meters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these were delicious 200\Nmeters, and now whenever I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think of London, my heart goes\Nright back to this particular stretch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whenever I have a chance to \Ngo there, I like to revisit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my corner of these few hundred\Nyards, that become like a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deep refuge for me\Nbecause when we make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a commitment to do that\Nwhat's amazing is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our whole body remembers\Nthe feeling, our whole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,body remembers, I feel\Npeaceful and free here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so even if my mind is\Nreally stressed, about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was happening or \Nabout what I need to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that step up onto the pavement\Nthose two steps through this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gate, the step to the right\Nwith the two trees,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the signals where, you\Nare peaceful, you are fee
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are a free person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is another way that\Nwe can take the practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home, that we can,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take something as simple\Nas walking to be an act of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resistence and an act of\Nfreedom right in the heart
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our daily life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was walking in the rush hour\Nthe people were often
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overtaking me, because\NI had a certain pace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't as slow as slow walking\Nbut there was a certain pace
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I found could tasted free\Nto me. And everyone was like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overtaking me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And literally, each step\Nfelt like an act of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't agree with the direction\Nthat my society is going in and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will express my resistance with\Nmy body, with each step.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I reclaimed my freedom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from this rat race, from this\Ncollective consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing we have learned\Nto do on this retreat is to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,present with discomfort, with\Ndiscomfort in the body,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discomfort in our feelings, \Ndiscomfort in the mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think these things are changing\Nnow but at least this was not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that I had a chance \Nto learn at school, it was only
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something I had a chance to \Nlearn at age 21 when I came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Plum Village.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a lot of emotional maturity.\NI feel that I'm the kind of -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a millenial and I\Nknow that many of us here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are Gen Z - so we're possibly \Nslightly different generations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's wonderful to see that the\Nemotional intelligence is there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the young generation. That we\Nare finding ways to understand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the landscape of our emotions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we hope that over the last\Nfew days, we've learned something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really tangible, felt ways that \Nwe can be with a painful feeling
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been learning how to\Nname it, or even beyond naming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to feel it, in the body,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how it might effect our breathing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our breathing becomes more tense,\Nor shorter or more jagged.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our jaw becomes tighter, and \Nwe've been learning how to encounter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accompany and embrace\Nunconditionally, challenging and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uncomfortable feelings that come up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just that this is a really \Ngreat skill to have.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel that as a human being when\Nwe can be with and master some
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the most painful feelings that\Nwe have, it's honestly, close to a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,superpower, kind of. It allows us\Nto have agency, to have freedom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a way out, of some really\Ndifficult situations that we will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be encountering in our life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able to feel the feel, feel\Nthe emotions and the painful feelings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, not be overwhelmed by them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have an energy of \Nmindfulness, we hold on to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our breathing, we hold onto \Nour felt sense of our physical body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something as simple as feeling our\Nhands, or feeling our toes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We find a way to be and breathe\Nthrough difficult feelings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we've found on this retreat\NI'm thinking, I'm sure in every
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dharma sharing circle group, is\Nthat when we can be with a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,difficult feeling, it allows us\Nto be authentic. We can be real.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can share our whole self\Nbecause we're not afraid of it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've been able to speak\Nour truth in our dharma sharing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,circle, and we've been training how\Nto listen to other people's uncomfortable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings and to accompany and offer\Nthat spiritual friendship and support.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this also a kind of superpower.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able to show up for our friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without fear, but with a real strong,\Nand loving presence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that we are also taking home\Nwith us tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we are with our friends and \Nwhen they are having a difficult
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moment, we know how to come\Nback to our breathing, we know how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to feel the reflection of their suffering\Nin our own body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take care of it there and be with\Nthem, not to change it in any way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to be not alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been learning how to\Nbe together, even in suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is so important for our\Ngeneration, because we know that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the path ahead will be challenging\Nfor us. So learning how to suffer is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a really important skill and training.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this brings us to something\Nreally important, which is, something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Br. Phap Huu touched on in the \Nfirst talk, that mindfulness is not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to make us feel better.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of us may have come to \Nmindfulness through some kind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of wellbeing program or because\Nsomeone said you can take care
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your mental health with\Nmindfulness so please practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mindfulness to be well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are some offerings of\Nmindfulness that only go that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far. But in deep mindfulness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authentic mindfulness, original\Nmindfulness, real mindfulness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know - whatever this\Nthing is that we do here, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has ancient roots, more than\N2,000 years old, in our kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mindfulness, we don't just practice\Nmindfulness to feel well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We practice mindfulness to \Nunderstand our suffering and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find a way out, for ourselves,\Nfor our loved ones, and for our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society. So deep in the DNA of\Nour kind of mindfulness, is a kind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of radical transformation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A way out, changing things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bell]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are leaving this retreat with\Na spiritual path.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Path.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it has something to do with\Nsuffering and it has something to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do with happiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suffering , illbeing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happiness, illbeing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're learning how to handle\Npainful feelings and suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have been very actively\Nmusically, joyfully, learning how to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generate happiness. These are two\Nreally important skills.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we may think that\Nhappiness only comes from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside. And we may sort of \Noutsource our happiness ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh you know because the conditions \Nare not enough, I can't be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we kind of give up our agency,\Ngive up our freedome to be happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by making it someone else or something\Nelse's responsibility.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here we reclaim our power, and we\Nsay that it is possible to learn to train ~
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create a happy moment for ourself\Nand for the people around us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Buddhism we are not afraid\Nof suffering. We're ready to name it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To call it out, to look at it\Nhead on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that on this retreat\Nmany of you are also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deeply aware and awake to\Nsuffering in the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One sister reflected to me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it might be that in\Nthe collective consciousness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think that we have the right\Nto suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the right to suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the situation is so bad
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every aspect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we don't think we have the \Nright to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's quite interesting - think\Nabout that for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We allow ourselves to suffer\Nbut we don't allow ourselves to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a bit of a koan for us.\NMaybe its' not true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can investigate that \Na little bit, why we might
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think it is. And perhaps it \Nhas something to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the collective consciousness\Nthat surrounds us and we'll go into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our teacher said that learning how to \Nsuffer is an art and a training and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yesterday in the Q&A there was\Na really interesting question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was the second question\Nabout on the one hand we know that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are enough, and we alrady\Nare what we want to become
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can feel complete and whole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sometimes with the energy of mindfulness\Nor professional settings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become aware that we are lacking\Nin some areas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we want to train or to cultivate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really appreciated this \Nquestion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because both are true. There is\Na kind of energy in mindfulness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when we wake up to\Nfor example our habits
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the thoughts and feelings\Nthat are coming up in us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we may want right away\Nto do something, to change
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the situation, there's a kind\Nof dynamism. On the one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hand we accept it totally\Non the other hand we see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the possibility for change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things are impermanent - we \Ncan effect things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So actually in Buddhism, the\Nspirit of training, cultivating
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really, really important, and\Ni think that the one skill
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've really got better at\Nin the monastery because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the nearer of the four\Nis how to suffer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the immediate result of\Nlearning how to suffer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you are also actually\Ndirectly learning how to be happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because for me the obstacle for \Nmy happiness was my suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the compost in my suffering\Nhas given me more joy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's really interesting, because\Nit's not that my suffering has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neccesarily gone away,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that I've learned to be with it\Ndifferently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is something our teacher\Nsaid, to be aware of the misconception
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we somehow might need to take\Nour suffering out of us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put it down or take it out\Nthat I've learned that the way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can be with it, because my\Nsuffering is kind of real
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some sense, because it's\Nfelt, how can I be with it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And ye, for me what I've learned is\Nthat my,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my suffering is not something\Nkind of fixed, it's a bit more like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a river. And this is really interesting\Nto kind of unpack a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we talk about taking care\Nof our suffering. The mind is an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,embodied mind. So we're taking\Ncare of our mind and we're taking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,care of our body at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not two different things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is really important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we are living in our body,\Nhow we are taking care of body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we're eating, acting, consuming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a direct link also to our \Nsuffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, our suffering may kind of\Nreflect, reflect the collective,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is what I have kind of\Ndiscovered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, my suffering has quite\Na bit to do with the suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LIke many of us I have a\Nstrong seed of despair
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also have another one of\Nfear and anxiety.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have another one that's a\Nlittle more like sorrow, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,melancholy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, when I've learned how to suffer\Nwith them, I've learned not to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see them as mine alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to see them as something\Nthat belongs to a river of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ancestors. And so when I'm taking\Ncare of it, I'm taking care of it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on behalf of my father, his father,\Nand grandfather and grandmother,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other grandfather, and other\Ngrandmother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I would like to give you this\Nimage of our emotions being this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,river, kind of being fed by different\Ninputs, so that the lineage that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes from our ancestors and\Nsomewhat in the body, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so from our childhood and our\Nnurturing, and there are also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the inputs from our society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From kind of collective consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our way of consuming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one of the interesting \Nthings about this week is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have consumed a differend\Nkind of consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the kind of screen \Nconsumption, has probably
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gone down by like 90%.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been with a lot of \Nnon-violence, a lot of compassion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and good will.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of presence rather than\Ndistraction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've had healthy good - very \Nparticular kinds of the day
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if this is normal for\Nyou to have three healthy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regular meals may be very \Nnew for our body and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our body may be feeling\Ngood aobut it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,WE've had a different kind of \Nexperience about our own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness, because our \Nown good seeds, have been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,triggered, while we've been here\Nthey've been kind of activated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of us, our seed of compassion\Nour seed of stillness, our seed of joy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we have been kind of\Nimmersing ourselves in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what Thay calls, community
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of resistence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,WE have given ourselves the chance\Nto experience something difference
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this week, and to see how it feels.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the insight that we've\Nhad about our own, suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our other's suffering, our families
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering, about different decisions\Nand choices, we have to make, is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we have given our \Nconsciousness, a really deep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of bath, in a different\Nenvironment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to recap something we were\Nlearning this week, we were learning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the different kinds of fuel\Nthat are feeding the river of our body and mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, the fuel has something to do\Nwith how we feel, so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we learned about four kinds \N-food and drink (we used to call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it edible foods) and i can't write\Nthe word edible on the board
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'll just say food and drink.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sense impressions -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the screens and the music\Nbut also like the noise of the city
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we give ourselves a break from that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fourth one (sic) my volition or \Nintention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been exposed to a different\Nkind of volition and intention this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,week an intention to live differently\Nto build a different future, to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be with each other in a different way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this other one that I am talking\Nabout now is consciousnness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exposing ourselves to a different\Nconsciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the inputs this week have\Nbeen different, and that's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why our feeling now is different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is your power and this\Nis your freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we go home from this\Nretreat, you are the master
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can choose how you will consume
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thse different things, how you will \Nguard yourself, how you will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protect yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you will resist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want society to go in\Na different direction, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all ours choices around these\Nthings are a chance to resist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in our own life to embody\Nthe different directions - to claim
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it takes training, right.\NWe have had it surrounded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And going out from this retreat\Nwe will be encountering a really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good intention, and then the\Nabsolute reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our habit, how we usuallY
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spend our evenings, how we\Nusually spend our mornings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we spend our free time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is some organizing\Ngoing onhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could we make commitments\Nto organize our life so we are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eating in a different way, so \Nwe're spending our time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,differently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we encounter, like for example\Nin our, many of us this week
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've touched a deep fear, inside\Nor a deap anger and one piece
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Buddhist understanding\Nof consciousness, that we want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give you, is that consciousness\Nis both individual and collective.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you feel angry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we name our anger, we allow\Nour anger to be there, embrace
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that feeling of anger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we then have a chance to\Nask ourselves the question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in what way is this anger\Nnot only mine?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to not identify with\Nour anger, to not like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put ourselves in a box
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say I'm angry, I'm angry\Nbecause of this, and that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to see, wow, my anger\Nat the fossil fuel companies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a generational, societal, collective\Nanger. My anger at inequity and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racial injustice is a collective anger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we allow ourselves to recognize
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our consciosness, also belongs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the collective consciosness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our fear and anxiety for our future\Nalso its strong in the collective.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is why it is strong in us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now what is interesting about this\Nis that with the energy of mindfulness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the deep interbeing,\Nbetween our consciousness and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collective, that is exactly where\Nyour power lies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is where we have agency.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We belong to a collective. We are\Nintrinsic to the collective and when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we transform ourselves we transform\Nthe collective.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one way we can apply\Nthe insight of interbeing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Insight of Interbeing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our grief with the destruction\Nof the earth and cultures
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also the grief of the earth\Nherself. That is why it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feels so big.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are a part of that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we don't need to hold\Nit in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identify with it, and kind\Nof imprison ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within it, saying me\NI'm someone,I am angry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am in grief and in\Ndespair.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've done quite \Nsome work with climate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaders -I'm an activist\Nand we host retreats
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for climate leaders, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we hosted one recently \Nnear Vancouver in Canada
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, it was very interesting\Nbecause it was the first time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that climate despair\Nhas become a thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thata people were identifying\Nwith
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I realized that there was\Na story that went with it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it was really hard,\Npeople were finding it hard
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see that their despair was\Nimpermanent and ever changing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and interrelational
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'm a student of despair\Nin practice, and I've realized
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when I am learning to\Nsuffer with my despair
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's been really important for me\Nnot to identify with it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to recognize it as a seed\Nthat has been transmitted to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me and activated by my environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I trained to allow my despair
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to like, evolve a little bit, to have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different threads to it. To be \Nsomething fluid, something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made of non-despair elements.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something made of multiple parts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this can be - even our despair\Ninter-is, it's not a fixed thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've really learned that it has \Nnot helped me when I have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified too much with my despair.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing that might belong\Nto the collective consciousnes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might - any of us might\Nfeel, is like an energy of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restlessness, and kind of craving.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is very important to know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we come to do sitting meditation\Nand we sit down and we feel
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the restlessness in our body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like urges and impulses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,craving in our feelings and body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is also the result
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our capitalist, consumerist society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are not enough, because\Nyou need to consume more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've kind of been automated\Nand trained - all of these inputs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are telling us that we need \Nmore to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when in this retreat, we are\Nsitting in stillness, not reaching
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the phone, not reaching\Nto eat or drink something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is an act of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we go home, we can\Ndo the same, we can take time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe on the journey home\Nhow can I simplify my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've lived so simply this week.\NWe did not need much to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy. The presence of people\Nwas a condition of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well hopefully for most of us,\Nmost of the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And hopefully the present of\Nthe forest and the trees.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for quite moments, was a\Ncondition of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we can be with\Nour friends in a simple way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't need a lot to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sister Hero has a good insight\Naround the question of striving
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and optimizing, kind of not-enoughness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we feel like society is telling us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collective consciousness is telling us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to develop yourself more \Nin order to contribute.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to have these skills, this\Nand this diploma, these qualifications
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you need to be productive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to be efficient.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've created all of these systems\Na kind of this crazy society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of these screens, these e-mails\Nand we have to learn to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,efficient, productive, \NSiste rHero has this questions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we feel that pressure,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that society is asking us to optimize\Nbut for whose benefit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To give up our time, our energy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wwe may end up like losing our\Nlife, like literally spending our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time to create a skill for a specific\Neconomic process, but we may not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be living our life in the process.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may lose our freedom, our\Ncontact with nature,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our time with friends,\Nour ease with our body,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the energy of mindfulness\Nwe have a chance to stop
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look deeply and to\Ndeeply reflect on our questions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm doing with my time,\Nand energy - is it meaningful for me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who benefits?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like every hour counts.\NOur livelihood is important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we spend our time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who we're with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The collective consciousness, \Nwe expose ourselves to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was one day in the newsroom\Nwhen after drinking my glass of water
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came back round towards my desk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my colleagues were cursing and arguing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and [booging] someone else
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being very aggressive about\Nthe next program.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just suddenly realized\NI'm in a toxic atmosphere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was literally like that\NI'd probably been there like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18 months by then, drinking\Nmy water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just suddenly was - what\Nam I doing to myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what am I doing to myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Practicing mindfulness in the \Nworkplace is really important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can wake up and\Nyou can see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,honestly, I swear that my path\Nout of the newsroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began in that split second.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I woke up to reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm on the sixth floor of this\Ngigantic building in Westminster
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in London and I'm wasting my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was quite a punch line. I didn't \Nmean it. Okay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one thing I wanted \Nto say about the path of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the five mindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we heard it this morning, we read\Nit in the text, they all begin with this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really powerful phrase. Aware of the \Nsuffering caused by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we wake up to like what is \Nactually going on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is wrong with what\Nis going on, then immediately
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a release of energy and\Nintention or volition - I want to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do something about this. I vow \Nto change my choices, my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will now enjoy the sound of a bell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bell]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we wake up we \Nrealize that something is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering and then we want to\Nunderstand the roots of that suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why has it come to be?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In simple ways and in deep ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am watching something late at\Nnight and I am not able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resist this automatic play on \Nthe next episode and I am
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still watching something at\Nthree in the morning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have a headache the \Nnext day, awareness of suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the path that led to suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very clear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really good to be mindful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we should have a pop-up\Non certain apps and things so that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a certain awakening in the\Nmoment, so we know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what to change in order to \Ndo it differently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the case on the\Npersonal level and also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the collective level.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our way of consuming may water\Nour seeds of fear and anxiety.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe there can be a different \Nway that we read the news.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we can put a shorter timer on\Nsocial media.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the choices we make \Nabout how we spend our time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who we spend our time with.\NAre the people we surround ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with - lifting us up? or pulling us\Ndown.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we look deeply into \Nsuffering and we see it deeply
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right away we see the path \Nout of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we see that there is \Nsomething we can do to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make a difference.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see the cause of suffering\Nand what we can do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Thay, he describes it\Nas the path that led to suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he called it the path of suffering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the path of happiness and wellbeing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you may recognize this \Nas the four noble truths.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we are doing here\Nwith the five mindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,represent a path that is leading us\Nthrough and out of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we may ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very important point about this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so underline it - you may\Nhave realized it already
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the function or the purpose, \Nthe intention of mindfulness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not to make an unliveable world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liveable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mindfulness is not to help us\Nsurvive and unsurvivable situation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me in the newsroom, mindfulness\Nbegan by helping me stay true
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to myself in really difficult days.\NAnd really painful moments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But mindfulness carries a seed of\Ninsight in it, until the day when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that mindfulness [says' you;re\Nin a toxic environment, get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of here. It didn't say\Nstay in this toxic environment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and breathe. And this is really\Nimportant because sometimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mindfulness is introduced into\Ndifferent sectors to kind of enable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toxicity, to enable an \Nunsurvivable working environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an unsurvivable ....well
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even military environment, there\NIs now mindfulness in the military.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's another story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we practice the whole teaching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we practice the full}\Nscope of mindfulness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as expressed in the five\Nmindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it carries the seed of\Na way out in it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for ourselves and [ ]\NWe don't perpetuate unjust
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and toxic ways of being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to say that - thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we may ...how do you say this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first came here, I really\Nhad this question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how can I contribute to a better wordl
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the begining my answer was\NI will transform - [ ]But
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to understand this \Nquestion much more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deeply. How can I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,act to contribute to a \Nbetter world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I act to\Ncontribute to a better world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you like we can call this\Na koan. And in koans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we ___ to investigate our terms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I act?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hopefully this week ___\Nof who we are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inter connected to all that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we represent a lineage of\Nancestors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our action now is action \Nthat will impact our descendents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are deeply affected by\Nour environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collected around us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we can suffer a lot\Nwith the question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we make the I too small.\Nand we limit ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little me. In fact we are \Na big me. We are a vast
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interbeing self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if we are suffering in this\Nquestion, we may be caught
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in who I am.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is also an interesting\Nthing about collective action
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from that which we will get to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that but it's very important\Nthe word next to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Act - how are we understanding\Naction. And the theme of this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,retreat is love in action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Buddhism we have a\Nword for action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a very clear understanding of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We understand it as being\Nthreefold. Action has three
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aspects.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can call it triple-action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's our thinking, our speaking\Nand our bodily action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very interesting that our\Nthoughts are our actions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our teacher used to say that\Nour thoughts carry our signature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our thoughts are hatred, resentment\Nanger go out into the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carry our signature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our thoughts of love, tolerance\Ncompassion also go out into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world and carry out signature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gave the image of like a\Nkind of candle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the candle is kind of\Nradiating our thoughts\Nour speech and our action
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like a candle radiates \Nlight and warmth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now in this hall action\Nis happening
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are radiating an energy\Nof peace, of presence, of enquiry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of stillness together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And outside as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are radiating that energy\Nand just like the candle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also receives its own warmth\Nwhich is what melts the wax
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the wick can burn.\NIt receives its own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,warmth and it is lit\Nby its own light.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the same way, we \Nreceive like the food of our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoughts, the food of our\Nspeaking and the food of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our bodily action is coming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back into us. And is creating
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an impact.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay said a really interesting thing.\NHe said sometimes we say something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we didn't mean to say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it was only partly true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And quite quickly it might come\Nback to us and we get what we call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the retribution of that and we have \Nto apologize or explain ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the candle represents time\Nmaybe that happens quite soon afterwards.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When a particular speech, act\Ncame back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, he said, there may be some\Nacts of thinking, speech or our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,body that come back later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like perhaps five, ten,\Ntwenty years later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So its coming back a bit\Nfurther down the candle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with some actions, it will\Ncome back after our candle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this becomes the collective\Nretribution in our society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for our descendants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how we think is important\Nand this is in the first mindfulness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,training
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can we have thoughts of compassion\Nof tolerance, not of fanatiscism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hatred. How we speak is important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we speak in a way that lifts\Neach other up rather than cuts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each other down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the way we act is very important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The strongest kind of actions that\Nwe may be taking , may not be the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ones that we necessarily think\Nare the ones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, Brother Dao Phang\Nwas sharing yesterday, that the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,action of 400, 500 young people \Nwalking in peace and freedom on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New Hamlet hill, that action
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has gone out into the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one can take it away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a thought for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hundred years from now, \Nwould you like people in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world to be walking fast, stressed\Nchasing after some kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,economic illusion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or would you like them to\Nbe walking in peace and freedom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in nature, listening to the natural\Nworld, listening to each other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to the suffering that is\Npresent in themself and on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we want future generations to \Nhave this kind of spiritual quality,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this kind of freedom, this way\Nof being - in the future
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to start patterning\Nit now. Us doing it now together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this retreat, is making it\Nimmediately more likely that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this will be happening in \Na hundred years time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we go from this retreat and\Nwe choose a stretch of our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,daily life where we will walk\Nin peace and freedom, listening
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the earth, listening to \Nthe suffering of the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That immediately we are making\Nit more probably that it will happen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be available for future generations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a hundred years from now. It is \Na very powerful action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we lose the capacity the walk in peace\Nand freedom, there is no doubt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that future generations will not\Nhave the capacity to walk in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peace and freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Buddhist understanding\Nof action. What we do and how we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are counts. And this gets really\Ninteresting because the kind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of future we want to create\Nwe are creating every day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our body, with our \Nchoices, with our way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, another\Nkind of bodily action that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very important is our\Nway of consuming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thay had a kind of way of particular\Nanalysis of what is going on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our economy, society right now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said that we are a culture of\Nconsuming that is overconsuming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consuming too much because\Nwe are consuming to cover up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our suffering because we \Ndo not know how to suffer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can imagine -very easily see all\Nthe industries that we have,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help us cover up our suffering as\Na society. Because as a society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't know how to suffer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, that the great power\Nof reclaiming our right to be happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our right to be happy with few \Nconditions, with simple living,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with not consuming much,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a resistance to that collective\Nculture of consuming that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destorying the planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we know how to suffer and\Nhow to be happy - we don't need to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consume as society is pushing us\Nto consume.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that? It's a really\Nintersting thing, because right off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way, our own practice of \Nmindfulness, handling our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own painful feelings, and giving\Nourselves the right to be happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claiming our happiness, reclaiming\Nit, has a direct alternative economic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vision and impact. So our mindfulness\Nhas something to do with economic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,structures that we are living in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can resist the culture of consuming\Nif we know how to be happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not through consuming but\Nthrough being with the painful
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings. Accompanying them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Taking care of our time. Finding\Nways to be with others. To be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So according to the Buddhist principles\Nof action, changing ourselves, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing the system, is two sides\Nof the same reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no system that is outside\Nof the humans that created it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we as humans can transform\Nourselves, the system is changing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is why we could also say\Nthat the five mindfulness trainings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are like a Plum Village vision for \Na systems change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's very interesting, we don't \Nsay we reduce the system to personal change
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't say that we are not challenging and\Nconfronting larger power structures
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are not diminishing or denying\Nourselves the agency or freedom we do have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as awakened humans.