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So anyway for the talk
just to warm people up.

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They're one of the good friends,
disciples, followers from Canada.

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I'm sure is listening 
and if not listening now

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will get hold of the talk later on.

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They're very, very devoted disciples,
very wonderful people too.

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But they asked me that they've been
trying to encourage some of their friends

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to do some meditation.

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But then some of the friends equate
meditation to mindfulness practice.

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And sometimes you see
the people who practice mindfulness

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that sometimes they get
into difficulties and problems.

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Sometimes it's just like people who
have Covid 19 vaccine.

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Sometimes they have problems
only it's a tiny, tiny sort of proportion.

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I think somebody said that

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you've got more chance of 
having a problem with a Covid vaccine.

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The chances of that are just more remote
than winning the Lotto.

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It's just like people surfing,

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some people who surf on 
Western Australia get eaten by sharks

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that doesn't really stop people surfing.

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But even with mindfulness practice

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sometimes there's some problems there.

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You know, it doesn't need to be.
It's much safer than surfing,

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but it's also much more healthy.

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And one of the reasons why
any problems exist in the first place

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is that this thing called mindfulness
has been just almost like titrated

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and just taken away from its context
in other forms of Buddhist practice.

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And when it's by itself it misses out

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on some of the wonderful safeguards
which are always there.

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And to make a point, when I first went
to teach meditation overseas.

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I think it was over in Malaysia. 
Malaysia is a Muslim country,

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there's a lot of Buddhists
over in Malaysia as well.

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And over there they were very keen
on doing all the parts of Buddhism

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especially meditation practice.

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when I talked to them 
I was stunned, I was surprised!

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Because they were complaining

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that meditation gave you
"Samadhi headache!"

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They called samadhi means like, 
well it actually meant over there,

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concentration. 
It really means stillness.

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"Meditation headache?"

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I couldn't understand that. I've been
meditating for years by that time.

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How many years of, crikey!
About 30 years probably.

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I never had a headache by meditating.

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Actually I use meditation
to overcome headaches.

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I use meditation overcome headaches,
indigestion, scrub typhus fever.

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That's a pretty big one. 
And all these other stuff,

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even injuries, bruises
and stuff if we fell over.

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And it's amazing I thought,

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meditation is there to help your health

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not to create more headaches 
and problems.

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What on earth have you been doing?

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And of course, it was a meditation
which was being done,

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which has a lot of problems 
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traditional Buddhist meditation.

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The meditators there were 
struggling and striving

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and trying to get something.

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And you find whenever 
you want something,

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try to get something 
and strive something;

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I'm going to do this.
I'm going to make sure it works.

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I'm going to be ...

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My own story...

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I'm still a lay person,

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we started doing some meditation
and it was the Vesak time.

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This was celebrating the birth
enlightenment, passing away of the Buddha.

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And when I heard the story
of the Buddha's enlightenment.

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What I heard was that
the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree

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and he made a resolution, 
a determination.

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"I'm gonna get enlightened.

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Right here, I'm not gonna move.

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Even if my blood dries up
and my bones turn to dust.

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I'm not gonna move from this seat until

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... until I get full enlightenment".

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Being stupid at the time I thought that
was really cool.

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So you know what I did?

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I went back to my room,
I put a little couple of cushions out,

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(Laugh)

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stupid young man, 
I was about 18 at the time (laugh)

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You know, 18 year old men.

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Any 18 year old man here?

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Don't admit it. Don't admit it.

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Come on, you're not 18 
you're much older than that.

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I said 18 not 80.

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So I sat down on that cushion
I made a resolution.

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I'm as good as the Buddha.

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That was in India,
he didn't have an education.

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I thought like that, really arrogant.

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You know my maximum amount of time
I could meditate for at 18

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was about 20 minutes
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25 sometimes on a good meditation.

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So I sat down and said forget about
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I'm not going to move.
Now I've got to get enlightened,

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I want to get it out of the way, I've got
many other things to do in my life.

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I sat there and made the resolution
I'm not gonna move

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until I get perfect enlightenment or

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you always gotta have 
an alternative or

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my blood dries up and 
bones turn to dust.

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I actually made that resolution,
honestly I did.

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It was hell. After half an hour

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I meant to get to half an hour, my bones
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my back was aching, 
every muscle was on fire.

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No, I'm not enlightened yet, carry on.

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[Laughter]

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You know, I got about
between 35 and 40 minutes.

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I couldn't stand it any longer

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and I opened my eyes and
you know I wasn't enlightened!

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And my blood hadn’t dried up yet,
my bones hadn't turned to dust.

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I was really stupid!

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But later on, instead of just running
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and meditating just because
I thought I was so good.

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I had a marvelous teacher
like an Ajahn Chah.

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And he kept on saying 
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many, many, many, many times.
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in the nine years 
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He said you meditate to let go of things
not to gain things.

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And I didn't understand a word of it
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I realized that was some of the most
wonderful advice he could ever give.

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You want to get something,

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something you want to aim for,
to strive for, you get very tense.

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But if you want to let go of things
you get lighter and lighter

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and the path becomes 
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And that becomes another reason why
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if they don't understand
what meditation or mindfulness is,

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they want to get something,

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always be the tension,
the tightness there.

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And a lot of times you can't get

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what you think you want
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You don't need very much.

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But every time we think we need this

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and when you're fighting
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or sometimes they call
collateral damage.

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And that's actually what happens when
people are just mindful.

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So as soldiers they can shoot
more accurately and kill people.

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When they're mindful so they can win
more arguments in debates.

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When they're mindful 
so they can make more money

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on the stock market or whatever.

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If you're trying to get something

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you'll find that's not really
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it's not mindfulness.

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When you're trying to let go of things,
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to make your life more peaceful, 
more at ease.

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We always know in spiritual life
you keep on saying

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how much do you really need

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to be healthy, to be happy,
to have a wonderful life?

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How much do you really need?

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If you want to know, next time you go to
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go and ask to have a visit
to my home where I live.

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Hands up now, how many of you
have actually been into my cave?

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I've got to put my hand up as well cause
I've got to be honest I've been in there.

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Is it big?
(Laughter)

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It's big in peace. 
It's big in freedom.

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It's a tiny little cave and that's all
I need, I got a toilet around the back

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but it's about three meters,
it's like a dome

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three meters... no, three meters diameter
and that's semi dome.

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And in that cave I've got a bed,
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a blanket and water, a flashlight
and a clock, a little Buddha statue.

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And I do have I must admit electricity

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that's just to light the way and
a...not bamboo, a cork floor. That's it.

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You know it's really easy to clean,

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it doesn't take that long but
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What do you need?

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So a lot of times even in life
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we find that life is much more peaceful.

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And even in meditation,
if you want to get things

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then there's no end 
of getting more things.

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How many more things do you want?

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How rich do you want to be?

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Have you noticed really rich people,
they always have to keep on working?

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You know Elon Musk, 
he's got enough money now

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he should be able to retire.
He has to work!

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So how much money would you want?

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Apparently that somebody
won the lottery on Friday.

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Anyone here?

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If it was you, now being that wealthy
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it causes you so much suffering.

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I remember, I don't mind saying,
meeting this guy

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he was the CEO of Tropicana resort and 
lots of other businesses over in Malaysia

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and he invited me to his house. No,
I can't say houses... mansion, huge thing.

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But what really I...was really struck me
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there were like two guards
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it's like going into Buckingham palace
where they have these household guards.

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And so, why do you need guards
with machine guns?

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I've got no guards with machine guns
in front of my cave. (laughter)

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Is because there's a lot of fear 
when you have many things.

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If you only have a few things or old
things you don't have to be afraid at all.

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I learned that from my father,
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because where he lived was 
in a very small council flat in London,

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like government sponsored housing
for the poor.

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But it was very...
we had a very happy time there,

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but often I just asked him
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aren't you afraid of burglars?"

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You know what my father said, he said:
"No, I'm not afraid of burglars

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in fact I'm quite hopeful
a burglar might come in

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take pity on us and leave us something."
(Laughter)

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So at least you didn't have 
to worry about anything.

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Not worrying about anything,
great peace and happiness, contentment.

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So that's also one of the reasons

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when you're not worrying about
attaining things or losing...oh no

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attaining, getting things 
but you're more happy

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with emptying out your mind.

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then actually you're meditating
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And where that comes from
if anybody wants to check me out,

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that comes from the second factor
of the eightfold path,

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meditation is a whole path 
eightfold path.

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Meditation ... the deep meditations 
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Mindfulness is the seventh factor.

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The second factor is of the right ways 
of what we call right motivation.

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Ajahn Brahmali kept calling it intention

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but I prefer motivation,
where you're coming from,

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not what you're trying to achieve.

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Because the right motivations are
three right motivations for meditation.

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If you do your mindfulness practice

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with these three motivations 
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The first motivation
is called nekkhamma.

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It's a Pali word it means 
letting go, renunciation,

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giving up, simplifying.

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I knew that was... that's really Buddhist,

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we are supposed to live simple lives.

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Very few people live 
simple lives these days.

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But we really try as best we can 
as monks and nuns

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to live simple as we possibly can.

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It's really strange isn't it that 
you know, sometimes I go off

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I used to go overseas..

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I used to go overseas and sometimes you
know what would happen?

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People buy you business class tickets,
honestly they did.

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I did this ... what was it called,
a keynote address at conferences.

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I used to go to conferences, a keynote
address at the 2018 I think it was

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World Computer Conference
in Dejun, South Korea.

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That was a really good gig,

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the World Computer Conference

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and I'm not just giving a small talk,
giving the keynote address.

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That's after all these politicians
and dignitaries and stuff gave

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and then I had to set the tone
of the conference.

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And I did really well. 
You know that's where they brought...

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they offered this business class ticket
on Singapore airlines

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all the way to South Korea and back,
nice hotel.

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And they gave 2000$
to the Buddhist Society

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just for a quarter of an hour's talk.

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So what we call a nice little earner
for our BSWA. (laugh)

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But then you know 
you go on business class

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and they ask how much do you earn?
Nothing!

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How much money have you got? 
Zero.

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What's a poor person doing
travelling on business class,

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no money in the bank anywhere.

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So I like those like 
contradictions in life

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and what is a person who...

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I don't know much about computers, 
do I? (laughter)

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When anything goes wrong 
you have to ask somebody else,

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what's gone wrong?

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What are you doing dude?
Do the keynote address

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in front of all these computer wizards?
They asked me that.

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And I gave the answer 
that in life

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you don't have to know very much
to actually to innovate.

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In fact the more you know,
the less you see.

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And you're trained always to see things
in the same way.

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A narrow course of mind.

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And as a monk you can actually
do all sorts of weird stuff,

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like meditate and see things
in a different way.

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To innovate 
means being still,

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letting everything go
and seeing things afresh.

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And of course, 
we all know in economies,

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innovation is a key to success.

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Not doing things in the same old way
but doing things in a different way.

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And look at this place I mean
Buddhist Society Western Australia.

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As far as I know it's one of the biggest
Buddhist societies in the world.

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It's because this is how we practice,
innovation, doing things differently.

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But anyway back to mindfulness
when we learn how to let go of things.

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The other thing in right motivation
is letting go

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and then the second factor of right
motivation is kindness, compassion.

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and that was something
I often say this to people

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that was something I thought
was obvious if ever you read

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the life story of the monks and nuns
in the time of the Buddha.

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Compassion was really important,
being kind to all beings.

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This is one lady, I think,
she didn't say where she was from.

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There's still a lot of people
who have discriminatory minds

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and she was a Buddhist but she said
something happened last week.

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She said her son came out 
and said he was gay.

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" Oh! Ajahn Brahm, 
what should I do?"

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Because there's some societies 
where that's still regarded as terrible

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and I said look, you probably chant
this every day as a Buddhist,

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"may all beings be happy and well."

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I think you chanted that here
just before I came in.

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Gay people, lesbians, transgenders,
L G B T Q I A plus.

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Aren't they beings?

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Do they deserve kindness, 
compassion, empathy

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just like everybody else?
What's the problem?

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And the fact that 
she didn't realize

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she'd be chanting and part of the chant,
may all beings be happy and well.

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Even Donald Trump, Mr. Putin.

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Who else is in the black books?
May they all be happy and well, come on.

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Because there's something powerful
which I saw in this type of Buddhism

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when you give happiness to your enemies

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then your enemies are not
your enemies anymore.

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It's weird but they become soft
and peaceful.

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And where this comes up,
Why I wanted to bring this up was

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you know sometimes when I think
this BBC article I read a long time ago,

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so one of the problems with mindfulness

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they get you to actually just allow
things to be.

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That's not good enough.

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Because sometimes what comes up

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is some of the past traumas
which people have.

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And those past traumas if 
it's just being aware of them,

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you can't hold them,
you can't handle them,

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they're just really painful.

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And that's where a lot of times people
just have almost psychosis

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with this mindfulness practice.

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But what's the difference between
how we do things

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in Buddhist mindfulness practice?

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If something comes out from the past 
and it's really a bad memory,

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very awful memory, 
difficult memory,

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something very hard for you to hold.
How can we let go of that past?

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With kindness.

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It's a strange thing to say but I've
said this so many times before

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if you are meditating and you know
your mind just wanders off to the past

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where something really hard 
happened to you

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or a repressed memory comes up 
into your mind

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and it's a painful memory.
What do you do with it?

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And if you try and get rid of it,
you give it anger, ill will.

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You don't want to face it,
it often gets much worse.

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So there's something else 
you can do with it

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give it kindness.

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Give you yourself kindness.
Give whoever did that to you kindness.

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And here we go again with this simile,
it's such a beautiful simile.

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The last time I gave on the retreat
which I did after Easter

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I remember after doing this simile

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everyone was looking at me, 
just blown away

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even though they heard before.
Many actually were teary afterwards.

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There was that simile of that...
that group here in Perth

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called ASSETT - Australian Society 
Survivors of Torture and Trauma.

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And one day they invited me to go
and visit their center

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do a blessing or something.
I said: "Yes, sure."

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because many of them actually came here

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and I didn't know why.
Why did you invite me?

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And they said because a couple of
their key strategies - they learnt here.

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Which ones? 
And when they told me

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oh it's just it's an emotional
deep right inside me, really high,

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make me incredibly happy. 
That's why I love telling that story.

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They said the one story
which worked the best.

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It was kindness.

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What do you mean kindness?

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It's that old story of telling
what my father told me.

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My father teaches... pictures a lot
in this talk this evening.

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My father used to tell me just
"Son, wherever you go,

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whatever you do, however 
you turn out in your life.

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He said to me when I was 
about 14 year old.

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And it's so uncertain in life.
He said "whatever you do,

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the door of my house will always 
be open to you."

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And of course his house was a council flat
with hardly anything in it.

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But you know that sometimes
somebody says something

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maybe here, maybe a friend,
maybe something you read or hear.

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It's so you know this is important.

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And I remember that 
as a 14 year old boy

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that this is important.
I don't know why I can't understand it

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because you know boys emotions 
are not very developed.

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But I remembered it enough that
when I became a monk.

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And one of the nice things about
being a monk or a nun, you have time,

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you have time to really figure out your
emotional world and what it means.

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And that was one of
the unfinished business

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I had from my father - he died
when I was about 16.

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What did he really mean by that?

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And of course, you've heard me
say this before

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it became the title of my first book.

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What he meant was not his house,
he meant his heart.

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He said whatever you do, 
however you turn out,

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whatever happens to you,

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the door of my heart 
will always be open to you.

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When I realized that was just me
that hit me so deeply.

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It was the first expression 
of unconditional love

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that I could really understand.
And it made so much sense to me

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and of course, a father to his son
was, you know, so powerful.

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I wish I'd understood that 
when he said it to me

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how powerful it was.

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And of course that story, which 
I can see you're looking at me,

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and it's meant something to you already.

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That meant something 
to a couple of psychologists,

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psychiatrists who would come here

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and then work with people who had been
very badly abused overseas.

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And people who had survived somehow.

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When I heard some of their statements
I don't know how

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they could survive some of that abuse, 
physical, emotional

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in some of these regimes overseas.

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But anyway they'd made it
to Australia physically safe,

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emotionally still in the torture chambers,

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still being raped, beaten 
for no reason.

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I've had a very simple life
so I can't really understand

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how they must have felt and
how they survived is beyond me.

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But now they're here, they're still
carrying that huge burden

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and how they overcame that burden.

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And that's because I developed 
that story and taught it

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that gives me so much joy.
How they overcame that was

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they decided to incorporate that
as one of their strategies.

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But when a person feels safe, 
you can't force anything,

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you can't say now do it.
It has to be when you're ready.

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And they would sit down 
in a comfortable safe place,

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the safety was important

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and then they closed their eyes and
then they imagine a heart in their chest

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and it was a Valentine's day heart
not a real heart.

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If you've seen real hearts
in medical books

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they're not beautiful at all,
got tubes all over the place.

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But the Valentine's day heart
as everyone knows

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imagine a Valentine's heart
in the center of your chest

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with two big doors.
The two doors open out

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and the nice part of you, 
the part of you

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which you can respect and love
and live with happily,

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all the nice times you remember,

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the joyful times that people
who care for you and love you

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and the wonderful experiences
you've had in your life

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all those little beings which bear your
name at different ages, that's inside.

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That's you,
you can very easily live with.

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Then what happens next 
is you look outside,

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outside of your own heart,
is these little beings,

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you were in the past, 
young girls, young boys

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who were treated just so painfully.
The physical abuse is only

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a fraction of it, the emotional - Why?

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That just makes it just so hard to bear.

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You kept all those beings outside
of your own heart

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and they were you.
So, imagine a ladder

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coming from your heart 
going down to the ground

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and seeing all these people 
who were you

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and you're inviting them up.

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I don't, I won't judge who you are 
what happened to you,

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no matter who you are, come in.

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And to actually to do that,

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it's just one of the most
courageous things you could do.

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Invite those little beings
you're trying to just forget.

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Trying to ignore, 
trying to cover up,

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trying to get out of here, get away,

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you don't belong with me.
You're just so painful.

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You allow them all to come up one by one

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so little beings who have been alone

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and separated out of your heart
for so many years

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and you embrace them.
They're in your heart now, not out.

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That's a huge change and they said
that worked amazingly.

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And some of those women
who've gone through that

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would come here on a Friday night.

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I remember speaking to them, seeing them
and it just blew my mind.

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They told me what they've been through
and you look at them now.

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Wow! they were just
some of the amazing heroes.

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So strong, they were like saints.
They said that's who I am!

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And they don't traumatize themselves
with that anymore.

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That's an extreme, I mean
you've been through some,

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we've all been through some pain
and difficulty in our life.

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There's things we'd rather forget.

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Why don't we invite that in instead,

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you embrace that 
that's who you are, it's your life

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and something happens,
what happens,

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I keep on saying the same old stories 
but they're powerful.

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What happens is the old story of
the monster in the emperor's palace.

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Monster came in the emperor's palace.
Get out, you don't belong.

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Who do you think you are, 
coming in here.

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and the empress, 
she was wise.

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Because she was also a member of
the Buddhist Society of Western Australia

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she'd come every Friday night.
So when she went back to the palace

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she saw this big monster in there,
really ugly, really frightening.

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What she said to the monster was
"welcome, thank you for visiting.

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is there anything, anyone got you
anything to drink yet? Anything to eat?

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What can we do for you?"

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She'd turned such kindness to monsters

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and what happened? This is
based on a Buddhist story.

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Every thought, deed, act of kindness

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and the monster grew an inch smaller,

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an inch kinder, a little bit more...
more civil.

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And they kept on 
with the kindness so much,

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- this is the shortened 
version of the story -

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That soon the monster, 
who was so ugly and big

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and frightening and violent
soon became so small

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that one more act of kindness

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and the monster 
vanished completely away.

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And that's in the Buddhist suttas,

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that the Buddha said we call that
"anger eating monsters."

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The more anger you give it, 
the more negativity you give it,

469
00:33:13,515 --> 00:33:16,235
the bigger it gets.
There's so much of that in our world.

470
00:33:16,235 --> 00:33:20,884
But here I'm just saying in you,
get out of here bad memory

471
00:33:20,884 --> 00:33:25,668
you don't belong and 
the bad memory gets worse.

472
00:33:25,668 --> 00:33:31,578
It takes a lot of guts and training
but if you do the kindness;

473
00:33:31,578 --> 00:33:40,169
"welcome, welcome bad memory.
Thank you for coming to visit me".

474
00:33:40,169 --> 00:33:44,026
Give kindness to it, 
kindness to yourself

475
00:33:44,026 --> 00:33:49,576
because so many times when you have
a memory which is embarrassing;

476
00:33:49,576 --> 00:33:53,914
maybe you're ashamed of,
when you actually feel about it,

477
00:33:53,914 --> 00:33:57,189
it's a human being, 
you make mistakes;

478
00:33:57,189 --> 00:34:00,446
please be kind to yourself.

479
00:34:00,446 --> 00:34:04,526
Forgive yourself, care for yourself.

480
00:34:06,466 --> 00:34:08,747
Other people who have hurt you

481
00:34:08,747 --> 00:34:12,208
I don't know why they hurt you.
You don't know why they hurt you.

482
00:34:12,208 --> 00:34:15,368
Maybe they thought they were doing
the best thing for you, I don't know.

483
00:34:15,368 --> 00:34:19,050
Maybe they had other sort of things
they were thinking about at the time

484
00:34:19,050 --> 00:34:23,587
or maybe they were drunk or
they're in drugs or whatever.

485
00:34:23,877 --> 00:34:29,168
Sometimes if you can somehow put
yourself in their position a little bit.

486
00:34:29,168 --> 00:34:33,856
Why do they do that?
What was their cultural training, why?

487
00:34:33,856 --> 00:34:37,895
If you give kindness to people
who've hurt you,

488
00:34:37,895 --> 00:34:43,305
it means you're not so vindictive.
There's no wanting to

489
00:34:43,305 --> 00:34:46,491
sort of harm them back or 
want you to harm yourself.

490
00:34:47,111 --> 00:34:52,876
So when you give kindness to the
negative things of your past.

491
00:34:52,876 --> 00:35:00,854
You find all those psychosis,
traumas, the bad memories,

492
00:35:00,854 --> 00:35:04,950
the stuff which you can't get out of 
your head,

493
00:35:04,950 --> 00:35:09,350
stop you sleeping,
stop you enjoying your life

494
00:35:09,350 --> 00:35:12,787
because you keep remembering
all these bad things.

495
00:35:12,787 --> 00:35:18,243
You know, after a while 
they gets so soft, so peaceful,

496
00:35:18,243 --> 00:35:21,775
you can let them go.

497
00:35:21,957 --> 00:35:28,557
It's weird but you overcome
negativity with kindness.

498
00:35:28,557 --> 00:35:34,082
There's an amazing beautiful ability 
in each one of you

499
00:35:34,162 --> 00:35:36,191
to be soft and gentle.

500
00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:40,671
And if you're soft and gentle 
to your past;

501
00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:44,688
The negative to the past can't stand it,
it vanishes.

502
00:35:44,688 --> 00:35:48,595
So when we do mindfulness
we don't just be aware of the stuff.

503
00:35:48,595 --> 00:35:50,334
we know the strategies.

504
00:35:50,334 --> 00:35:52,741
If you get a bad feeling from the past

505
00:35:52,741 --> 00:35:55,165
you can first of all you say

506
00:35:55,165 --> 00:35:58,042
okay, I'll just let that go because
I'm not ready for it yet.

507
00:35:58,302 --> 00:36:00,652
But there comes a time
when you are ready for it,

508
00:36:00,652 --> 00:36:03,965
have all these strategies on
how to deal with it.

509
00:36:03,965 --> 00:36:08,175
Another strategy how you deal with
some of the negativity of the past.

510
00:36:08,175 --> 00:36:13,681
You know, every bad feeling
you have in your head, in your mind,

511
00:36:13,681 --> 00:36:19,956
has a corresponding feeling in your body,
a physical feeling.

512
00:36:20,515 --> 00:36:22,974
I already mentioned that at the beginning

513
00:36:22,974 --> 00:36:26,354
when you are mindful of the body 
and relaxing the body

514
00:36:26,354 --> 00:36:29,435
I was talking about like the head.

515
00:36:29,435 --> 00:36:33,745
If you are negative you can read
on a person's face.

516
00:36:33,745 --> 00:36:37,820
Muscles tighten up, these other
muscles loosen up

517
00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:40,802
and that's actually pretty much universal.

518
00:36:40,802 --> 00:36:44,354
You know indigenous tribes in
the middle of the Amazon somewhere

519
00:36:44,354 --> 00:36:48,537
you can still read their emotions
on their facial features.

520
00:36:48,827 --> 00:36:54,928
So, all of those negative emotions
from the past

521
00:36:54,928 --> 00:36:58,645
or fears of the future,

522
00:36:58,645 --> 00:37:02,395
that's also written on
your body somewhere.

523
00:37:02,395 --> 00:37:04,979
And that's one of the reasons why

524
00:37:04,979 --> 00:37:08,966
if you do have some anxiety
or fear or whatever,

525
00:37:08,966 --> 00:37:15,836
by doing some meditation practice,
it's not that hard to overcome that.

526
00:37:15,836 --> 00:37:21,408
And it just amazes you how easy it is
and how effective it is.

527
00:37:21,408 --> 00:37:25,300
And of course the one I'm going 
to bring up now was...

528
00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:27,375
she's not here this evening
thank goodness,

529
00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:29,575
otherwise people get embarrassed.

530
00:37:29,575 --> 00:37:33,274
But this was a lady who had
very bad anxiety.

531
00:37:33,274 --> 00:37:37,334
So much anxiety
she couldn't get out of bed,

532
00:37:37,334 --> 00:37:40,890
afraid even to go through the door
out into the world.

533
00:37:40,890 --> 00:37:44,070
And she was in Adelaide,
a university student

534
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:50,624
and being in university
she had free medical care.

535
00:37:50,624 --> 00:37:56,272
Great psychologists, psychiatrists,
every possibility and drugs and stuff.

536
00:37:56,272 --> 00:37:58,815
Nothing worked.

537
00:37:58,815 --> 00:38:03,165
So she was like bedbound; an anxiety
which no one could cure.

538
00:38:03,165 --> 00:38:13,648
But fortunately her father, no,
not father... uncle.

539
00:38:13,648 --> 00:38:19,485
Uncle comes here. 
So uncle said go and ring up Ajahn Brahm.

540
00:38:21,705 --> 00:38:24,320
Love it whenever she called me up

541
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,260
and she told me what was
happening with her

542
00:38:27,260 --> 00:38:31,157
and that's where mindfulness practice

543
00:38:31,157 --> 00:38:34,667
but not just mindfulness.
I said that's not enough.

544
00:38:34,667 --> 00:38:40,023
But first of all I said: 
"When you have an anxiety attack,

545
00:38:40,023 --> 00:38:46,215
a panic attack - you're bedridden -
where on your body do you feel it?"

546
00:38:46,215 --> 00:38:48,733
I wasn't asking about
her mind, her emotions

547
00:38:48,733 --> 00:38:51,829
because that was just too strong
for her to really get to know.

548
00:38:51,829 --> 00:38:55,141
"Where do you feel it on your body?"
she said: " In my chest."

549
00:38:55,141 --> 00:38:58,460
I said "It's not good enough,
I want know exactly where?"

550
00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:02,680
She was studying dentistry
so part of science,

551
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,301
I want coordinates
from your navel, your belly button,

552
00:39:06,301 --> 00:39:09,191
I want centimeters, 
millimeters even

553
00:39:09,191 --> 00:39:11,391
to the center of the feeling 
in your chest

554
00:39:11,391 --> 00:39:14,543
and how far does it extend? 
is it circular?

555
00:39:14,543 --> 00:39:18,463
or is it ovular? or is it a square?

556
00:39:18,463 --> 00:39:22,751
I want you to describe it to me
accurately with dimensions.

557
00:39:22,751 --> 00:39:26,226
Is it more to the left more to the right
or really central?

558
00:39:26,226 --> 00:39:28,856
And give me a call in three days.

559
00:39:28,856 --> 00:39:32,373
I mentioned that because 
I wasn't just,

560
00:39:32,373 --> 00:39:39,161
well part of it was I was very busy 
(laugh) I got to be honest

561
00:39:39,161 --> 00:39:43,412
but it's also I just
wanted her to do something.

562
00:39:43,412 --> 00:39:46,158
You know, one of the terrible things
if you're in trouble

563
00:39:46,158 --> 00:39:50,500
with either bad feelings in meditation
or other stuff.

564
00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:53,260
When people tell you what to do,

565
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:59,771
they're taking away your...
almost like your sense of being

566
00:39:59,771 --> 00:40:02,391
an owner of your problem 
and your body.

567
00:40:02,391 --> 00:40:07,592
You give up ownership of the disease
or the problem to some experts.

568
00:40:07,592 --> 00:40:11,113
I didn't want that to happen. 
So this is your body,

569
00:40:11,113 --> 00:40:18,181
it's your emotions. So you tell me, 
I'm not gonna control you.

570
00:40:18,181 --> 00:40:21,845
So after three days she called

571
00:40:21,845 --> 00:40:24,581
and I was really amazed
at the descriptions she gave.

572
00:40:24,581 --> 00:40:26,658
and I said: "Well, exactly that's 
where it is.

573
00:40:26,658 --> 00:40:27,658
How does it feel ?

574
00:40:27,658 --> 00:40:29,924
Is it burning or is it aching, 
does it change?

575
00:40:29,924 --> 00:40:32,204
is it the same all over, whatever?

576
00:40:32,204 --> 00:40:35,899
"Oh, I don't know."
"Give me a call in three days."

577
00:40:37,049 --> 00:40:40,252
Which she did, she gave another
really amazing explanation

578
00:40:40,252 --> 00:40:43,191
of what it feels like, 
sensations in the body

579
00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:46,402
when you have a panic attack.
"Great!" I said now

580
00:40:46,402 --> 00:40:52,436
that's making her mindful,
that's just the awareness part of it.

581
00:40:52,436 --> 00:40:55,623
A lot of times that's what people do
when they practice mindfulness

582
00:40:55,623 --> 00:40:59,928
they get to know these things 
but no more.

583
00:40:59,928 --> 00:41:04,417
And then the extra part which is
the important part was,

584
00:41:04,417 --> 00:41:07,271
well, now you know, 
when you have a panic attack,

585
00:41:07,271 --> 00:41:09,411
where it is, what it feels like.

586
00:41:09,411 --> 00:41:12,350
Now I said I want you 
to get your hand when you have...

587
00:41:12,350 --> 00:41:16,233
she's in bed 
get your hand and massage that area

588
00:41:16,233 --> 00:41:19,773
with your hand
as kindly as you possibly can

589
00:41:19,773 --> 00:41:25,153
with much compassion 
and gentleness as you possibly can.

590
00:41:25,153 --> 00:41:29,000
And I said to her 
if you can't do it

591
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:35,950
ask your boyfriend to do it for you.
I don't think he'd mind

592
00:41:35,950 --> 00:41:40,190
and give me a call in three days
and she did that.

593
00:41:40,190 --> 00:41:44,147
It was beautiful, because this is
one of those times again

594
00:41:44,147 --> 00:41:48,817
which really makes me feel wonderful 
how meditation works.

595
00:41:48,817 --> 00:41:52,304
And I asked: "Did you follow 
my instructions?" She said: "Yeah."

596
00:41:52,304 --> 00:41:56,090
What happened when you massage
the panic attacks in your chest?

597
00:41:56,090 --> 00:41:58,511
So I massage them and massage
and massage them

598
00:41:58,511 --> 00:42:02,431
and then the feeling in the chest
sort of got loosened and relaxed

599
00:42:02,431 --> 00:42:04,980
and eventually the feeling
in the chest went away.

600
00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:08,570
And I said:" Well, when the feeling
in the chest went away,

601
00:42:08,570 --> 00:42:12,081
what happened to the anxiety,
to the panic?"

602
00:42:12,081 --> 00:42:16,761
And that's one of those beautiful moments
when she paused.

603
00:42:16,761 --> 00:42:21,703
it's when the light bulbs went on
when the eureka moment happened.

604
00:42:21,703 --> 00:42:26,753
She said:" Well, when the physical
feeling vanished so did the anxiety."

605
00:42:26,753 --> 00:42:32,143
Now you know 
how to overcome your anxiety.

606
00:42:32,143 --> 00:42:36,527
Deal with the physical manifestation,
the physical counterpart.

607
00:42:36,527 --> 00:42:40,510
Once that disappears also the emotional,

608
00:42:40,510 --> 00:42:44,490
the inside part also turns off 
and vanishes.

609
00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:48,034
That was wonderful lovely lady.

610
00:42:48,944 --> 00:42:53,464
I think it was two weeks
as she was back in classes again,

611
00:42:53,464 --> 00:42:58,608
out of bed and graduated with
first class honours in dentistry.

612
00:42:58,608 --> 00:43:02,517
And then just her boyfriend she married.

613
00:43:02,517 --> 00:43:06,500
And one of nice things people think 
that Ajahn Brahm's not a romantic

614
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:12,869
but they got married
in the sunken gardens in UWA.

615
00:43:12,869 --> 00:43:16,425
And who do you think
gave the blessing there?

616
00:43:17,915 --> 00:43:19,816
Had to have me go there.

617
00:43:19,816 --> 00:43:24,327
I didn't find it out until later on.
She was so impressed

618
00:43:24,327 --> 00:43:28,713
that she actually nominated me 
for Australian of the year.

619
00:43:29,653 --> 00:43:34,813
I didn't get it but I could understand.
She was just wow, this really works.

620
00:43:34,813 --> 00:43:38,370
But this is actually just an example 
of how we deal with negativity,

621
00:43:38,370 --> 00:43:39,790
not just a mindfulness,

622
00:43:39,790 --> 00:43:43,340
not being aware of it, 
she was totally aware of it

623
00:43:43,340 --> 00:43:46,988
but also what to do with it
when it comes up.

624
00:43:46,988 --> 00:43:49,513
Give it compassion and kindness.

625
00:43:49,513 --> 00:43:52,093
The right motivation in Buddhism is,

626
00:43:52,093 --> 00:43:57,829
it is letting go, 
being kind, being gentle.

627
00:43:57,829 --> 00:44:02,419
And if you do your mindfulness practice
with those things in mind.

628
00:44:02,419 --> 00:44:08,555
You will find that when something comes up
which is a bit negative.

629
00:44:08,555 --> 00:44:14,856
Ahh, some bad memory
from the past has come up ahh...

630
00:44:14,856 --> 00:44:18,480
and you can actually be soft with it
and kind with it

631
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,800
and it just melts it all away.

632
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,827
So that's something which we can do

633
00:44:24,827 --> 00:44:28,017
and it's powerful stuff as well.

634
00:44:28,017 --> 00:44:31,371
Those little stories which
I mentioned there,

635
00:44:31,371 --> 00:44:35,428
they're real stories 
and it happens.

636
00:44:35,428 --> 00:44:39,292
And my own little stories

637
00:44:39,292 --> 00:44:44,227
you know every time
if I have sicknesses and stuff

638
00:44:44,227 --> 00:44:48,117
it's not just emotional problems,
physical problems.

639
00:44:49,427 --> 00:44:51,781
I keep telling monks, it's an old joke.

640
00:44:51,781 --> 00:44:54,197
I keep telling the monks 
that you know

641
00:44:54,197 --> 00:44:59,616
my 70th year on planet earth now,
in August I'll be 70.

642
00:44:59,616 --> 00:45:04,366
So I kept on telling them
" Monks, I'm getting old."

643
00:45:04,366 --> 00:45:06,673
And they said:
" No, you're not getting old."

644
00:45:06,673 --> 00:45:09,467
and I thought they would say that
because of kindness.

645
00:45:09,467 --> 00:45:13,107
They said: "No, no, we're not saying
that out of kindness to you.

646
00:45:13,107 --> 00:45:18,379
We're saying that out of truth.
You are old, you're not getting old.

647
00:45:20,371 --> 00:45:23,052
You've already arrived."

648
00:45:29,372 --> 00:45:33,742
But I don't know where I was going
with this one but anyway...

649
00:45:36,672 --> 00:45:42,051
So many times in my life,
you have sicknesses

650
00:45:42,051 --> 00:45:46,290
and some of those sickness 
which I've had

651
00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:49,226
you try and take medicines and stuff

652
00:45:49,226 --> 00:45:53,654
and quite honestly these days
I much prefer doing kindness

653
00:45:53,654 --> 00:45:56,874
to any sicknesses which I have.
Awareness and kindness.

654
00:45:56,874 --> 00:46:00,171
Looking at my body, 
where's the problem?

655
00:46:01,321 --> 00:46:07,571
you may have... like the time
which I had food poisoning,

656
00:46:08,611 --> 00:46:13,874
real food poisoning in my ... 
in my cave.

657
00:46:13,874 --> 00:46:17,625
I was screaming, 
no one could hear me

658
00:46:17,625 --> 00:46:21,736
because these were like cramps 
which food poisoning gives you

659
00:46:21,736 --> 00:46:27,050
Agh! and then it just ... Agh!

660
00:46:27,050 --> 00:46:30,670
Totally involuntary I couldn't do
anything with it.

661
00:46:30,670 --> 00:46:34,471
And then I knew no one could hear me

662
00:46:34,471 --> 00:46:36,501
because that's the point 
of having a cave

663
00:46:36,501 --> 00:46:38,081
two doors, it's underground.

664
00:46:38,081 --> 00:46:40,341
Well I can't hear 
what's going on outside

665
00:46:40,341 --> 00:46:43,299
which is wonderful,
but they can't hear what's going on inside

666
00:46:43,299 --> 00:46:46,587
which is a difficulty sometimes.

667
00:46:46,587 --> 00:46:52,056
So anyway, I did my ...
same as I teach other people,

668
00:46:52,056 --> 00:46:55,979
sit there being mindful and being kind.

669
00:46:55,979 --> 00:47:01,089
Those two are very, very, powerful.

670
00:47:01,089 --> 00:47:05,347
I think the last talk I gave here about
opening the lotus, wasn't it?

671
00:47:05,347 --> 00:47:11,047
Remember that's the sun
has light and warmth.

672
00:47:11,047 --> 00:47:15,266
That's what opens lotuses up,
the light and warmth of the sun.

673
00:47:15,266 --> 00:47:19,188
The light stands for mindfulness,
the warmth stands for kindness.

674
00:47:19,188 --> 00:47:24,506
Those two go together and 
they're incredibly powerful.

675
00:47:24,506 --> 00:47:31,536
I was just kind to the cramps 
in the tummy.

676
00:47:31,536 --> 00:47:35,726
So kind to them 
every time they repeat it

677
00:47:35,726 --> 00:47:43,336
ah, ah, ah ... maybe 2 or 3 minutes
before you had a cramp.

678
00:47:43,336 --> 00:47:47,255
but every time that the cramp got less.

679
00:47:47,255 --> 00:47:50,362
My awareness was sharp enough
that you could feel it

680
00:47:50,362 --> 00:47:53,922
just less painful,
because I was kind to it.

681
00:47:53,922 --> 00:47:56,881
Next one was less painful, 
next time was less painful,

682
00:47:56,881 --> 00:48:00,092
next time was less painful.
Only a tiny bit less painful

683
00:48:00,092 --> 00:48:03,462
but I could perceive that 
because I was aware.

684
00:48:03,462 --> 00:48:07,823
I wasn't trying to think I'm gonna die
what should I do.

685
00:48:07,823 --> 00:48:11,573
But I was being aware of it
and then it got so soft

686
00:48:11,573 --> 00:48:15,394
and after 30, 40 minutes
it just vanished completely.

687
00:48:15,394 --> 00:48:20,214
That was weird even I was
really struck by that

688
00:48:20,214 --> 00:48:23,441
because usually food poisoning
you just gotta go to doctor.

689
00:48:23,441 --> 00:48:24,915
I don't know what you gonna do

690
00:48:24,915 --> 00:48:27,525
but this is much better
than going to a doctor.

691
00:48:27,525 --> 00:48:30,243
And then just after meditating
nice and peacefully.

692
00:48:30,243 --> 00:48:35,313
It never came back again.
It's weird but it's so true.

693
00:48:35,313 --> 00:48:38,146
I'm sure many of you may have
had examples like that.

694
00:48:38,146 --> 00:48:40,336
So the mindfulness with the kindness

695
00:48:40,336 --> 00:48:44,146
put those two together and
it is really powerful.

696
00:48:44,626 --> 00:48:50,613
And not just powerful,
you find your awareness get stronger.

697
00:48:50,613 --> 00:48:54,842
That's the part which 
most mindfulness teachings

698
00:48:54,842 --> 00:48:58,184
the worldly stuff,
they don't really mention that.

699
00:48:58,184 --> 00:49:02,342
That's where your mindfulness,
awareness gets really so strong.

700
00:49:02,357 --> 00:49:07,528
I have to invent words for
this because no one else does.

701
00:49:07,528 --> 00:49:11,219
Like, powerful mindfulness 
and superpower mindfulness

702
00:49:11,219 --> 00:49:13,919
and mega-power mindfulness.

703
00:49:13,919 --> 00:49:18,742
That's what it feels like,
I do not take drugs.

704
00:49:18,742 --> 00:49:22,832
But sometimes people asked:
"What drug are you on Ajahn Brahm today?"

705
00:49:22,832 --> 00:49:26,258
Because you're so happy and joyful
and healthy.

706
00:49:26,258 --> 00:49:28,418
"What's going on?"

707
00:49:28,418 --> 00:49:32,121
This is natural,
you're empowering your awareness.

708
00:49:32,121 --> 00:49:36,391
And your awareness after a while
gets incredibly strong.

709
00:49:36,391 --> 00:49:42,214
That's when if any of you 
like food, I don't know about you.

710
00:49:42,214 --> 00:49:44,847
You're going out for a meal
after the talk tonight?

711
00:49:44,847 --> 00:49:51,599
Maybe you didn't have a meal before?
or if you really want to enjoy food

712
00:49:51,599 --> 00:49:57,132
meditate here first of all 
and then go out

713
00:49:57,132 --> 00:50:03,037
and you will find you don't have to spend
a lot of money on an expensive restaurant.

714
00:50:03,037 --> 00:50:08,290
Just go around the corner to,
what was it, McDonald's

715
00:50:08,290 --> 00:50:11,892
and you just bite into that whatever
you're biting into

716
00:50:11,892 --> 00:50:14,332
and it taste out of this world.

717
00:50:16,462 --> 00:50:20,953
It's nothing to do with the hamburger
or whatever else you're eating.

718
00:50:20,953 --> 00:50:25,801
But everything to do with your
mindfulness being so strong, so powerful.

719
00:50:25,801 --> 00:50:29,896
That hamburger tastes like
it's been made at a 5 star,

720
00:50:29,896 --> 00:50:33,856
no, not five star, 
six star restaurant.

721
00:50:33,856 --> 00:50:37,998
It's not what's in what you're seeing.

722
00:50:37,998 --> 00:50:41,444
It's not what's seeing what you're eating.

723
00:50:41,444 --> 00:50:47,598
It's everything what's in your mind,
your mind is clear, sensitive.

724
00:50:47,598 --> 00:50:54,137
And if you hear any music,
wow! it thrills you

725
00:50:54,137 --> 00:50:56,640
because you're picking up everything.

726
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:02,354
which is being... being there in the sound
and this is what happens.

727
00:51:02,354 --> 00:51:06,654
This life as a monk.
I love this, you have so much joy.

728
00:51:06,654 --> 00:51:10,274
At night time, right now, 
in Serpentine

729
00:51:10,274 --> 00:51:16,208
you look at the stars in the evening.
Absolutely thrilling, they're gorgeous.

730
00:51:16,208 --> 00:51:20,248
You just look up and you just
can't take your eyes away.

731
00:51:20,248 --> 00:51:27,380
The dawns it makes...
it just amazing. Who wants a tv?

732
00:51:27,380 --> 00:51:30,575
Who wants anything?
You want to watch that.

733
00:51:30,575 --> 00:51:35,047
Who wants to go to a museum 
when that's happening right there

734
00:51:35,047 --> 00:51:41,756
it's for free. And so, so much 
of the world of life

735
00:51:41,756 --> 00:51:46,756
becomes so sensitive and so amazing,
it's so beautiful.

736
00:51:46,756 --> 00:51:49,863
You get a huge amount
of happiness and joy

737
00:51:49,863 --> 00:51:52,963
when your mindfulness gets really strong.

738
00:51:52,963 --> 00:51:57,563
And even you, sometimes you meditate,
you look at the carpet.

739
00:51:57,563 --> 00:52:01,483
Have you ever noticed
how beautiful that carpet is?

740
00:52:04,373 --> 00:52:06,789
Am I going crazy?

741
00:52:10,439 --> 00:52:14,679
The point is that when
your mindfulness gets strong.

742
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:19,044
Every shade of those light blues 
and dark blues

743
00:52:19,044 --> 00:52:21,544
and reds and yellows and whites

744
00:52:21,544 --> 00:52:27,902
and the way that they interact together
and the texture of that carpet.

745
00:52:27,902 --> 00:52:33,977
It just really comes out 
and blows your mind, becomes beautiful.

746
00:52:34,837 --> 00:52:38,531
Free happiness in the ordinary.

747
00:52:38,531 --> 00:52:41,660
And if that carpet looks beautiful.

748
00:52:41,695 --> 00:52:47,295
You look at your old grandma.
She's gorgeous.

749
00:52:49,310 --> 00:52:52,728
And I'm not joking. 
That's what happens.

750
00:52:52,728 --> 00:52:56,565
Superpower mindfulness and you see
beauty in so many things

751
00:52:56,565 --> 00:52:58,845
in your past, in your future,

752
00:52:58,845 --> 00:53:02,969
in people you live with,
in your children, in your partners

753
00:53:02,969 --> 00:53:08,026
in your grandparents,
in your monks and your nuns,

754
00:53:08,026 --> 00:53:15,018
in your politicians,
in the police who stop you.

755
00:53:16,868 --> 00:53:20,065
You know sometimes I just wonder,

756
00:53:20,065 --> 00:53:25,545
you know, people like being around monks

757
00:53:25,545 --> 00:53:29,074
that's what you do anyway because
you come every Friday night.

758
00:53:29,074 --> 00:53:30,984
But why?

759
00:53:30,984 --> 00:53:32,800
I always remember that one politician

760
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,270
apparently she's still in politics
that's Alannah MacTiernan.

761
00:53:36,270 --> 00:53:38,996
Years and years, about 20, 30 years ago
or something.

762
00:53:38,996 --> 00:53:42,452
She was in politics and we went to 
see her for something

763
00:53:42,782 --> 00:53:47,281
and afterwards you know, 
after we talked to her about something,

764
00:53:47,281 --> 00:53:49,381
she had some really wonderful advice.

765
00:53:49,381 --> 00:53:54,076
And as she got off her seat 
instead of letting her secretary

766
00:53:54,076 --> 00:53:58,151
take us to the door, she escorted us 
to the door with kindness

767
00:53:58,151 --> 00:54:04,281
and she said "you know I really enjoy
people like you coming to my office."

768
00:54:04,281 --> 00:54:07,187
and she meant it with sincerity.

769
00:54:07,797 --> 00:54:10,683
I always wonder why did she say that.

770
00:54:10,683 --> 00:54:13,371
This is because, the monks and nuns
are kind.

771
00:54:13,371 --> 00:54:16,562
Well, generally we have something
to complain about but we don't do:

772
00:54:16,562 --> 00:54:21,939
"Hey! why are you doing this, why are you
doing that? We... Blah, blah, blah..."

773
00:54:21,939 --> 00:54:28,339
I just could feel the kindness there,
the gentleness, the beauty, the peace.

774
00:54:28,339 --> 00:54:32,029
So that's what happens
when you're mindful and kind.

775
00:54:32,029 --> 00:54:36,179
You make friends
in the weirdest of places.

776
00:54:36,179 --> 00:54:39,642
So anyway that's the talk 
for this evening.

777
00:54:39,642 --> 00:54:45,671
The mindfulness by itself,
I agree can have some problems.

778
00:54:45,671 --> 00:54:49,311
But you add the kindness,
you add the rest of the factors like

779
00:54:49,311 --> 00:54:53,749
we're doing this not to get things
but to let go of things.

780
00:54:53,749 --> 00:54:56,712
We're doing this out of
kindness and gentleness.

781
00:54:57,102 --> 00:55:00,037
If that motivates your life, wow!

782
00:55:00,037 --> 00:55:03,257
Meditation is so beautiful.

783
00:55:03,257 --> 00:55:05,707
Thank you for listening.

784
00:55:05,967 --> 00:55:09,757
(Audience) Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu

785
00:55:09,757 --> 00:55:13,400
I always say when people try and do
something and they don't do it properly

786
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,131
if you're gonna clap, clap.

787
00:55:16,131 --> 00:55:21,291
(Audience) clapping

788
00:55:23,641 --> 00:55:25,603
But anyway, thank you.

789
00:55:25,663 --> 00:55:29,933
First of all any questions
from the people here?

790
00:55:30,923 --> 00:55:36,048
(inaudible from audience)

791
00:55:41,768 --> 00:55:48,325
Q-Ajahn, how do we apply a loving kindness
in a not for profit organization?

792
00:55:48,325 --> 00:55:54,326
Yeah, again that Buddhism is one
of the few non-profit religions

793
00:55:54,326 --> 00:55:57,512
because we don't believe in prophets.

794
00:55:57,512 --> 00:56:01,801
You know, Jesus was a prophet,
other people are prophets

795
00:56:01,801 --> 00:56:08,339
but we don't have prophet in Buddhism,
we're really non....

796
00:56:08,339 --> 00:56:12,761
Okay, it's an old bad joke but never mind.

797
00:56:12,761 --> 00:56:16,919
How to have loving kindness?

798
00:56:16,919 --> 00:56:23,359
I think because I have met
many millionaires in my life

799
00:56:23,359 --> 00:56:27,712
and I just... when I once I was... 
okay don't mind saying.

800
00:56:27,712 --> 00:56:32,562
At a state dinner once over in Canberra
I went to the toilet.

801
00:56:32,562 --> 00:56:37,986
In male toilets, you know, for urinals,
you just had one next to the other

802
00:56:37,986 --> 00:56:43,460
and so I went in there and the
fellow was in the next urinal to me

803
00:56:43,460 --> 00:56:53,476
was uh... sorry, yeah that's right
Lachlan Murdoch,

804
00:56:53,476 --> 00:56:57,546
he is Rupert Murdoch son,
Dr. Murdock.

805
00:56:57,546 --> 00:57:01,055
And as soon as I saw his badge
Lachlan Murdoch I thought

806
00:57:01,055 --> 00:57:04,935
if only I had a donation envelope.
(laugh)

807
00:57:08,590 --> 00:57:14,737
But that... like one of the people 
I think I quoted recently

808
00:57:14,737 --> 00:57:20,874
which was the head of the Changi airport 
corporation many years ago

809
00:57:20,874 --> 00:57:26,831
and it was the day before 
he was opening terminal 3, no 4,

810
00:57:26,831 --> 00:57:31,377
terminal 4 in Singapore. 
And he was next to the head of

811
00:57:31,377 --> 00:57:35,727
Keppel Shipping who was the 
highest paid CEO in Singapore.

812
00:57:35,727 --> 00:57:39,067
So these were... actually Buddhists. 
And he said

813
00:57:39,067 --> 00:57:43,907
"how do you do loving kindness
and put Buddhism into your business?"

814
00:57:43,907 --> 00:57:49,562
I remember the head of
the Changi Airport Corporation,

815
00:57:49,562 --> 00:57:54,497
he said "people go to work 
every morning and expect to be happy."

816
00:57:54,497 --> 00:57:57,651
But how many go to work 
in the morning

817
00:57:57,651 --> 00:58:03,176
with the resolution to make
someone else happy today?

818
00:58:03,176 --> 00:58:06,099
So that's why you don't feel 
any happiness,

819
00:58:06,099 --> 00:58:08,229
you expect someone else
to make you happy,

820
00:58:08,229 --> 00:58:11,699
but you don't go to work with
the main desire of

821
00:58:11,699 --> 00:58:14,969
"I'm gonna make someone happy today."

822
00:58:14,969 --> 00:58:18,522
So just changing a person's attitude 
a little bit .

823
00:58:18,522 --> 00:58:20,892
I don't know where you work,

824
00:58:20,892 --> 00:58:26,796
I work in BSWA so I often go
to work on a Friday night.

825
00:58:26,796 --> 00:58:32,556
I'm gonna make somebody happy tonight.
So you put happiness in there

826
00:58:32,556 --> 00:58:39,076
instead of expecting happiness
to be given to you.

827
00:58:39,076 --> 00:58:42,676
You become proactive 
so that's one way

828
00:58:42,676 --> 00:58:47,536
in any organization you can actually
put some joy and happiness in there.

829
00:58:47,536 --> 00:58:50,018
It's wonderful when that happens.

830
00:58:50,018 --> 00:58:54,328
Human beings are just 
gorgeous people.

831
00:58:54,328 --> 00:58:58,451
And they just need to touch that goodness.

832
00:58:58,451 --> 00:59:00,384
I just remember just...

833
00:59:00,384 --> 00:59:06,554
because I don't know why I got involved
in Curtin university of all places.

834
00:59:06,554 --> 00:59:09,291
But I was given the John Curtin Medal
there once,

835
00:59:09,291 --> 00:59:13,059
and so often I go there 
for one reason or another.

836
00:59:13,059 --> 00:59:19,135
But it happened over here.
There was a Sri Lankan woman and

837
00:59:19,135 --> 00:59:22,175
she would come here, not that often
because she was very busy

838
00:59:22,175 --> 00:59:26,355
looking after two children.
And her husband

839
00:59:26,355 --> 00:59:30,970
was actually working two jobs 
to get enough money,

840
00:59:30,970 --> 00:59:37,687
because the wife was actually doing a
training in nursing at Curtin university.

841
00:59:37,687 --> 00:59:42,818
And unfortunately that one night, 
double job, not enough sleep,

842
00:59:42,818 --> 00:59:46,228
he crashed the car and killed himself.

843
00:59:46,668 --> 00:59:51,825
It was a tragedy, you know,
just trying to work too hard.

844
00:59:51,825 --> 01:00:00,443
And the wife, the two kids, no way
she could pay the tuition fees at Curtin.

845
01:00:00,443 --> 01:00:07,618
So, I got on the phone to
the vice chancellor, Jeannette Hackett.

846
01:00:07,618 --> 01:00:10,338
She became a good friend.

847
01:00:10,338 --> 01:00:14,718
I confessed this that on one occasion,
she was just retiring

848
01:00:14,718 --> 01:00:17,574
"Ajahn Brahm, I just loved
my association with you" she said.

849
01:00:17,574 --> 01:00:20,068
She said "I'm going to give you a hug."

850
01:00:20,068 --> 01:00:22,956
You're not supposed to do that 
to a Buddhist monk

851
01:00:22,956 --> 01:00:28,396
but she was too fast for me.
(laughter)

852
01:00:28,456 --> 01:00:30,808
It's only once.

853
01:00:30,808 --> 01:00:35,468
But anyway, I called her up I said 
"Look, this is real tragedy."

854
01:00:35,468 --> 01:00:39,087
She said "What is it?"
And because they know you,

855
01:00:39,087 --> 01:00:41,269
you can actually get straight
through to them

856
01:00:41,269 --> 01:00:45,105
and I said "Look, any chance 
of getting a scholarship for her?"

857
01:00:45,105 --> 01:00:48,195
" Leave it with me." she said.

858
01:00:48,195 --> 01:00:51,265
And of course, they got
the scholarship for her

859
01:00:51,265 --> 01:00:55,320
and so everything paid for
in Curtin university.

860
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,556
And just I think the locals over here
we try to help her.

861
01:00:59,556 --> 01:01:04,876
Some donations for her costs
of living and stuff.

862
01:01:04,876 --> 01:01:07,685
And eventually when she graduated 
as a nurse from here,

863
01:01:07,685 --> 01:01:13,076
she came up, I remember, 
just came up and said thank you

864
01:01:13,076 --> 01:01:15,556
and that basically saved her life.

865
01:01:15,556 --> 01:01:19,148
Unfortunately couldn't save her husband's
life but at least could save her.

866
01:01:19,148 --> 01:01:22,690
So you know, these people you may think
are they just big bosses somewhere.

867
01:01:22,690 --> 01:01:25,133
They like doing good things as well, 
kind things.

868
01:01:25,133 --> 01:01:28,151
They don't like being exploited 
you give them an opportunity

869
01:01:28,151 --> 01:01:33,188
to do something good
and they will just...they will run for it.

870
01:01:33,188 --> 01:01:37,375
Anyway all the good people
I've seen in life here,

871
01:01:37,375 --> 01:01:41,395
give them an opportunity and
they love doing great stuff.

872
01:01:41,395 --> 01:01:47,085
Q - Okay, from Hong Kong,
I'm very sensitive to smell

873
01:01:47,085 --> 01:01:52,458
halfway through the meditation I smell
cigarette smoke and drain smells.

874
01:01:52,458 --> 01:01:56,995
Is it desirable for me to deal with them,
ie. to close windows halfway through?

875
01:01:56,995 --> 01:02:02,071
Sometimes that's why people 
used to light incense in temples

876
01:02:02,071 --> 01:02:10,129
because when hygiene wasn't that good
you need smelly incense.

877
01:02:10,129 --> 01:02:13,159
I don't know why in Hong Kong, 
halfway through meditation

878
01:02:13,159 --> 01:02:14,849
I smell cigarette smoke.

879
01:02:14,849 --> 01:02:19,485
You know, sometimes you can turn
the sense of smell off.

880
01:02:19,485 --> 01:02:22,966
In other words you're just going inside
the body

881
01:02:22,966 --> 01:02:27,499
and the joy of peace is so strong
that you don't hear things,

882
01:02:27,499 --> 01:02:30,564
you can't be disturbed
by something like smell.

883
01:02:30,564 --> 01:02:35,886
So if you go deeper quickly then you
won't smell anything at all.

884
01:02:35,886 --> 01:02:38,533
and I don't know where you're meditating

885
01:02:38,533 --> 01:02:41,343
if those cigarette smoke and
drain smells are there anyway

886
01:02:41,343 --> 01:02:45,914
just try and meditate somewhere
else which hasn't got those smells.

887
01:02:46,694 --> 01:02:51,451
Is it desire for me to deal with them
close windows halfway through?

888
01:02:51,451 --> 01:02:54,121
No, close the windows before you start

889
01:02:54,121 --> 01:02:58,959
and then you won't have those cigarette
smoke and drain smells.

890
01:02:58,959 --> 01:03:04,207
From Poland, "When we meet a person who
is saying or doing awful things to us

891
01:03:04,207 --> 01:03:06,083
how we can still be kind to that person

892
01:03:06,083 --> 01:03:09,770
when they continue to be 
in our life and do us harm?"

893
01:03:09,770 --> 01:03:15,594
If they're saying things and then,
are they really doing you harm?

894
01:03:15,594 --> 01:03:21,166
This is one of the reasons why,
when I complained

895
01:03:21,166 --> 01:03:26,086
to my teacher, Ajahn Chah,
about the mosquitoes.

896
01:03:26,086 --> 01:03:30,410
they were really doing us harm,
you know, biting us all over the place.

897
01:03:31,020 --> 01:03:34,707
And who knows that, you know,
he said they don't have malaria

898
01:03:34,707 --> 01:03:38,750
just need one, 
just one and that's it.

899
01:03:38,750 --> 01:03:43,750
But anyway so when I asked Ajahn Chah
can we have some mosquito repellant

900
01:03:43,750 --> 01:03:50,461
or some coils or some protection
mosquito nets.

901
01:03:50,461 --> 01:03:52,921
He said "No!"

902
01:03:52,921 --> 01:03:56,757
That's how kind he was, I thought.

903
01:03:56,767 --> 01:04:00,883
But then what he really meant was 
"No, from now on" he said

904
01:04:00,883 --> 01:04:06,783
"you'd call the mosquitoes your teacher, 
Ajahn Mosquito."

905
01:04:06,783 --> 01:04:13,387
That was hard but it was beautiful,
you learned so much from that.

906
01:04:13,387 --> 01:04:20,348
So, you meet a person
who's saying and doing awful things to us

907
01:04:20,348 --> 01:04:25,396
see if you can protect yourself
however much you can

908
01:04:25,396 --> 01:04:32,552
and also be kind. If it's still
too difficult to be kind to them.

909
01:04:32,552 --> 01:04:39,482
There's an old saying in Chinese
"to love the tiger but at a distance."

910
01:04:39,482 --> 01:04:42,667
So you can move away from it a little bit.

911
01:04:42,667 --> 01:04:45,050
If they are doing awful things
to you again

912
01:04:45,050 --> 01:04:50,462
sometimes you have to call the police
if they're really doing your physical harm

913
01:04:50,462 --> 01:04:55,472
but sometimes if not.
Okay here's another story.

914
01:04:55,472 --> 01:05:01,066
This is after about being here
nine or ten years.

915
01:05:01,066 --> 01:05:05,833
I've been here now 37 or 38 years
in Australia, in Perth.

916
01:05:05,833 --> 01:05:08,724
But anyway, this woman 
came to see me once

917
01:05:08,724 --> 01:05:11,898
and just after one of the talks,
just before this hall was made,

918
01:05:11,898 --> 01:05:15,349
we had our talks in the community hall.
And she came and said:

919
01:05:15,349 --> 01:05:22,289
" I've just come to thank you 
for saving my marriage."

920
01:05:22,289 --> 01:05:28,061
And I asked her what have we done
and then she told her story.

921
01:05:28,061 --> 01:05:31,872
This is not an example to be followed

922
01:05:31,872 --> 01:05:36,646
but this was the days when
there was very little support

923
01:05:36,646 --> 01:05:41,007
for women suffering domestic violence.

924
01:05:41,007 --> 01:05:46,323
She said her husband was being
violent to her regularly.

925
01:05:46,323 --> 01:05:51,133
She said she came to this place
not to learn Buddhism

926
01:05:51,133 --> 01:05:54,303
but at least when she was here
she felt safe.

927
01:05:54,303 --> 01:05:58,062
A couple of hours when
she wasn't being hit.

928
01:05:58,062 --> 01:06:01,612
That was really extreme, 
I never knew anything about that.

929
01:06:01,612 --> 01:06:03,708
But she said she kept on coming here

930
01:06:03,708 --> 01:06:09,091
and she learned the kindness
and just focusing on the positive,

931
01:06:09,091 --> 01:06:14,578
the watering the weeds and not the ...
Sorry, no, I got that wrong didn't I?

932
01:06:16,728 --> 01:06:20,388
Yeah watering the flowers not the weeds.

933
01:06:21,669 --> 01:06:25,534
And she said she practiced,
that took her seven years.

934
01:06:25,534 --> 01:06:31,486
And she got these little meditation stools
you see them in the back over there.

935
01:06:31,486 --> 01:06:37,208
she said: "you see this meditation stool,
she said he made this for me today.

936
01:06:37,208 --> 01:06:40,090
that's why I need to come and thank you."

937
01:06:40,090 --> 01:06:45,622
She said if he made something like this
four years ago it'd be to hit me with.

938
01:06:45,622 --> 01:06:51,194
And it was really gross but then I saw her
she was this really beautiful woman.

939
01:06:51,194 --> 01:06:56,553
You know, not just like a supermodel 
but just her eyes and her goodness

940
01:06:56,553 --> 01:06:59,153
she was like a saint

941
01:06:59,153 --> 01:07:01,535
and she said now my husband's
totally changed

942
01:07:01,535 --> 01:07:04,376
he's kind to me because what she did,

943
01:07:04,376 --> 01:07:09,088
every time he said something
abusive or did something abusive,

944
01:07:09,088 --> 01:07:13,558
she totally ignored that.
How she could do that?

945
01:07:13,558 --> 01:07:14,888
Immense endurance!

946
01:07:14,888 --> 01:07:17,942
Every time he did something good
and kind and wonderful.

947
01:07:17,942 --> 01:07:21,226
She really let him know
he was appreciated.

948
01:07:21,226 --> 01:07:26,270
The extra hug, the extra kisses,
oh! thank you so much.

949
01:07:26,270 --> 01:07:30,976
She really reinforced the positive
behavior in her own husband.

950
01:07:30,976 --> 01:07:33,432
And then she showed me 
"he's in the back here,

951
01:07:33,432 --> 01:07:38,992
over there that's him."
And two lovely children.

952
01:07:38,992 --> 01:07:40,870
She earned those.

953
01:07:40,870 --> 01:07:44,867
You shouldn't have to earn
your happiness in life.

954
01:07:44,867 --> 01:07:50,619
But I don't know know why she married
that man but she totally changed him.

955
01:07:50,619 --> 01:07:53,121
He came down to the monastery as well,
wonderful guy.

956
01:07:53,121 --> 01:07:58,994
So it's possible but that's going
a bit far because of physical abuse.

957
01:07:58,994 --> 01:08:01,441
But she did it, good on her.

958
01:08:01,735 --> 01:08:06,445
From Bangalore, "Respected Ajahn,
how does one investigate the I or me

959
01:08:06,445 --> 01:08:09,471
who is meditating, watch his feelings,
thoughts, breaths, ect...

960
01:08:09,471 --> 01:08:12,702
It seems to be a perceiver as long
as there's something to perceive?"

961
01:08:12,702 --> 01:08:16,597
You don't go thinking and trying to
perceive these deep teachings,

962
01:08:16,597 --> 01:08:19,952
you let these deep teachings come to you.

963
01:08:19,952 --> 01:08:24,586
So, in other words things start to
disappear, you relax to the max.

964
01:08:24,586 --> 01:08:28,212
You don't try and contemplate things,
you see things.

965
01:08:28,714 --> 01:08:31,213
That's how this works and how it works

966
01:08:31,213 --> 01:08:34,938
many of you've heard this simile before
I'm going way over time again.

967
01:08:34,938 --> 01:08:39,557
The old tadpole and the frog simile.

968
01:08:39,557 --> 01:08:42,363
Tadpole can't understand water,

969
01:08:42,363 --> 01:08:45,476
can contemplate water, 
think about water, investigate water.

970
01:08:45,476 --> 01:08:47,805
Tadpole will never know what water is,

971
01:08:47,805 --> 01:08:51,115
no more than a fish
can know what water is.

972
01:08:51,115 --> 01:08:56,324
The reason I said tadpole instead of fish
because one day tadpole grows into frog

973
01:08:56,324 --> 01:09:00,096
and frog grows arms and legs
and frog doesn't know what they're doing.

974
01:09:00,096 --> 01:09:02,699
And they jump out the water one day.

975
01:09:02,699 --> 01:09:06,296
Now when water has vanished.

976
01:09:06,296 --> 01:09:10,006
Now the frog can understand 
what water was.

977
01:09:10,006 --> 01:09:13,244
The same way we go so deep in meditation

978
01:09:13,244 --> 01:09:19,412
and soon we don't have our body,
don't have our mind, have nothing left.

979
01:09:19,412 --> 01:09:22,792
Now you understand what you thought
you were.

980
01:09:22,792 --> 01:09:27,154
You don't do this with philosophy.

981
01:09:27,154 --> 01:09:32,567
Philosophy gives you, please excuse me,
gives you headaches.

982
01:09:33,557 --> 01:09:36,989
Seeing gives you truth.

983
01:09:37,829 --> 01:09:42,632
From Melbourne, "Dear Ajahn, when worldly
pleasures disappear there's sadness

984
01:09:42,632 --> 01:09:45,543
but when happiness experiences in
deep meditation disappears

985
01:09:45,543 --> 01:09:48,442
no such sadness can be felt.
Is this correct?"

986
01:09:48,442 --> 01:09:53,921
The deep meditation disappears
no such sadness can be felt.

987
01:09:53,921 --> 01:09:58,622
No, because it's a happiness
of contentment.

988
01:09:58,622 --> 01:10:02,562
Contentment means you're happy,
no matter what.

989
01:10:04,542 --> 01:10:10,029
It's contentment of having no desires,
the freedom from wanting.

990
01:10:10,029 --> 01:10:16,390
You don't want anything
then suffering starts to vanish.

991
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:21,692
From Indiana, "Ajahn Brahm, I lost
my 15 year old to suicide in December.

992
01:10:21,692 --> 01:10:25,380
What would the Buddha say
to do to lessen this kind of suffering?"

993
01:10:25,380 --> 01:10:28,663
Just to understand that your son
will come back again.

994
01:10:28,663 --> 01:10:32,592
Suffering is not the end of all life.

995
01:10:32,592 --> 01:10:35,171
Sorry no, that's the wrong answer
as I'm getting tired.

996
01:10:35,171 --> 01:10:37,862
Suicide is not the end of all life.

997
01:10:37,862 --> 01:10:41,902
Many times people who commit suicide
they come back again pretty quickly.

998
01:10:41,902 --> 01:10:48,669
So, the person made a mistake, 
big mistake.

999
01:10:48,669 --> 01:10:51,550
So next time they can come back,

1000
01:10:51,550 --> 01:10:54,441
if life is more meaningful

1001
01:10:54,441 --> 01:10:58,411
then who would ever want 
to commit suicide?

1002
01:10:58,701 --> 01:11:02,751
And I remember just when
I was in Singapore

1003
01:11:02,751 --> 01:11:06,827
there was one kid just
jumped off the balcony

1004
01:11:06,827 --> 01:11:09,697
of one of this big apartment blocks
killed himself.

1005
01:11:09,697 --> 01:11:12,748
But the suicide note was in the front
page of the Straits Times.

1006
01:11:12,748 --> 01:11:16,878
And it was just whoa!
It made many people wake up.

1007
01:11:16,878 --> 01:11:21,001
He said "All I wanted was more time
with my parents".

1008
01:11:25,641 --> 01:11:28,620
And of course, you can understand 
what that means.

1009
01:11:28,620 --> 01:11:31,362
Many times the parents 
are working so hard

1010
01:11:31,362 --> 01:11:34,278
because they want to get
the best education

1011
01:11:34,278 --> 01:11:37,302
the best this, the best that
for their kids.

1012
01:11:37,302 --> 01:11:39,938
All the kids really wanted was just time.

1013
01:11:39,938 --> 01:11:43,868
If they had a father like my father,

1014
01:11:43,868 --> 01:11:46,540
who just spent so much time with us.

1015
01:11:46,540 --> 01:11:49,530
He wasn't wealthy at all,
he was really poor.

1016
01:11:49,530 --> 01:11:52,186
He gave me so much inspiration.

1017
01:11:52,186 --> 01:11:57,866
That's what children want,
they want time with the people they love.

1018
01:11:58,156 --> 01:12:00,560
Lastly, another one from India

1019
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,495
"Which is better to meditate, a place
with noise and comfort for meditation

1020
01:12:04,495 --> 01:12:07,383
or place of seclusion
with difficult conditions?"

1021
01:12:07,383 --> 01:12:12,941
Ah, the best of those is a place 
with comfort and seclusion.

1022
01:12:14,991 --> 01:12:17,743
In other words it just changes things.

1023
01:12:17,743 --> 01:12:21,366
Noise and comfort for meditation
or place of seclusion with difficult.

1024
01:12:21,366 --> 01:12:23,917
If it's noise it's very easy
to stop noises these day,

1025
01:12:23,917 --> 01:12:28,453
just get noise canceling headphones.

1026
01:12:28,453 --> 01:12:30,893
Can you do that?

1027
01:12:30,893 --> 01:12:33,411
The most important thing with
whatever you experience,

1028
01:12:33,411 --> 01:12:35,829
comfort, noise, difficult conditions.

1029
01:12:35,829 --> 01:12:38,126
I've meditated so much

1030
01:12:38,126 --> 01:12:41,386
really places you should never
be able to meditate in.

1031
01:12:41,386 --> 01:12:44,180
Sometimes I do that to test myself.

1032
01:12:44,180 --> 01:12:49,645
I mentioned I think last time
in Suvarnabhumi Airport.

1033
01:12:49,645 --> 01:12:54,413
Now right in the place where
people are welcoming the visitors.

1034
01:12:54,413 --> 01:12:56,557
"Hi! Hello, nice to see you. 
How've you been?

1035
01:12:56,557 --> 01:12:58,327
Why are you waiting for so long?"

1036
01:12:58,327 --> 01:13:01,522
Right there just sat down close my eyes
and meditate for an hour,

1037
01:13:01,522 --> 01:13:03,422
very beautiful meditation.

1038
01:13:03,422 --> 01:13:06,962
Or uncomfortable, in Hay street mall.

1039
01:13:06,962 --> 01:13:10,877
Years ago, well might as well 
mention this.

1040
01:13:10,877 --> 01:13:16,097
Years ago, the Burmese community
were doing a little...

1041
01:13:16,097 --> 01:13:18,978
bring people's attention to the troubles
in their land.

1042
01:13:18,978 --> 01:13:21,510
It's happening all over again now.

1043
01:13:21,510 --> 01:13:28,351
At that time they invited me just outside
of... that church there ...

1044
01:13:28,351 --> 01:13:33,704
anyway, one of those church,
to meditate for two hours.

1045
01:13:33,704 --> 01:13:36,738
And that was on the hard pavement,

1046
01:13:36,738 --> 01:13:43,792
no cushions and right opposite I think
it was called Time Zone, whatever,

1047
01:13:43,792 --> 01:13:48,041
They made big noise 
like people play video games

1048
01:13:48,041 --> 01:13:53,072
and big noise just blasting out 
and traffic going past.

1049
01:13:53,072 --> 01:13:54,969
This is really cool.

1050
01:13:56,639 --> 01:14:02,205
I like challenging myself and so
yeah, lovely meditation for two hours.

1051
01:14:02,205 --> 01:14:04,353
It can be done

1052
01:14:04,353 --> 01:14:09,822
but it's better to find a nice quiet place
and comfortable place.

1053
01:14:09,822 --> 01:14:15,618
So I wouldn't go trying to meditate
outside of or inside a parliament house.

1054
01:14:15,618 --> 01:14:21,058
Which is sometimes noisy 
or where else is noisy in this world?

1055
01:14:21,058 --> 01:14:23,563
I don't know, anyway 
but yeah it can be done.

1056
01:14:23,563 --> 01:14:25,556
So learn in the easy places

1057
01:14:25,556 --> 01:14:28,576
and then you can progress
to the hard places if you need to.

1058
01:14:30,076 --> 01:14:33,884
Thank you again for listening.
Sorry for going on a bit long.

1059
01:14:33,884 --> 01:14:37,686
So now we can bow three times
to Buddha Dhamma Sangha

1060
01:14:37,686 --> 01:14:41,459
And then those of you
who still want to carry on

1061
01:14:41,459 --> 01:14:45,429
you can ask more questions
in a few moments.

1062
01:14:45,429 --> 01:14:49,549
And again my apology for not being able
to speak to you before the talk.

1063
01:14:49,549 --> 01:14:52,586
We were just having an
important little committee meeting.

1064
01:14:52,586 --> 01:14:56,030
So sometimes we have to look after the...

1065
01:14:56,030 --> 01:15:00,112
the Buddhist Society
of Western Australia's administration

1066
01:15:00,112 --> 01:15:02,879
So sorry about that, 
doesn't usually happen.

1067
01:15:17,310 --> 01:15:31,173
Araham Samma Sambuddho Bhagava
Buddham Bhagavantam Abhivademi

1068
01:15:33,323 --> 01:15:41,545
Svakkhato Bhagavata Dhammo
Dhammam Namasami

1069
01:15:43,067 --> 01:15:54,887
Suppatipanno Bhagavato SavakaSangho
Sangham Namami