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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've come back to Stourbridge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think many of us have been here\Nseveral times already,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And feel very at home here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as we said yesterday, there are a couple\Nof questions that got hidden in the bell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't have a chance to look at.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe we can begin today by looking at \Nthose two questions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one is about getting lost in our thoughts\Nduring our sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually we get lost in our thoughts\Nat other times, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just when we're doing sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we're sitting on the bus or the train,\Nwe may also be lost in our thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in Buddhism...Yesterday you looked at \Nthe Noble Eightfold Path,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you saw that one of the factors of the \NPath is Right Thinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have Right Thinking, and we have \NWrong Thinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And meditative concentration is fine with \Nthinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It always says that the first level of\Nmeditation, meditative concentration,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has thinking in it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we don't have to throw thinking out\Naltogether.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you can see in our guided mediations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've also been using Right Thinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Right Thinking goes along with Right\NView.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know that, as we heard this morning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Precept Transmission, \Nthe Mindfulness Trainings Transmission,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the view Interbeing, the understanding\Nof Interbeing, is Right View.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the thinking that goes in the direction\Nof Interbeing, we can call Right Thinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can use that a great deal \Nin our sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if possible, in your sitting meditation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make use of the guided meditations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to keep the Right Thinking there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not get lost in the non-stop Thinking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we could also call the Wrong Thinking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've had a guided meditation on seeing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we inter-are with our mother and\Nour father.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can also do a guided meditation to see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we inter-are with the leaf on the tree
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or with the tree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are things that we can do like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we go..Right Thinking is like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the conventional realm of thought.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if it's Right Thinking, it can take us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the conventional, from the historical,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the ultimate dimension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the dimension that goes \Nbeyond words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the thinking has a role to play.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also helpful, before you begin to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meditate, to decide what you're going to \Nmeditate on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I sit down to meditate, the first thing\NI do is like bring my body and mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back together, and calm my body and mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is "Breathing in, I calm my body."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Breathing out, I smile."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do exercises like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I feel peaceful enough,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ask my Store Consciousness,\Nthe deep level of my consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What do you need today?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Which meditation do you need today?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I allow Store Consciousness to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell me what I need.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it may say that I need to do the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loving Kindness meditation, which now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to talk about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or it may tell me that now I need to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the meditation on interbeing with my \Nparents, or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's a book, it's called
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blooming of the Lotus,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am indebted to for my meditation\Npractice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that book has, I don't know how many,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than thirty, guided meditations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I translated them into English,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, now they're in English.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I learnt them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they are all in \Nmy Store Consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can call them up when I want to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think you also, before your meditation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can read the book, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you see one that is suitable for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your situation at the moment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you try to remember it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you use it in your sitting meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are wonderful meditations on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no birth and no death, like the meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the wave and the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wave going back, the wave breaking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the shore and then going back to the\Nwater.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which, when we are dying, can be very helpful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the meditation on the no birth and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no death of our in-breath is also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very helpful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the no birth and no death
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These kind of meditations are very deep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the book we are led into them slowly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they can be very helpful to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now we come to the loving kindness\Nmeditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning in our Mindfulness Training
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transmission, in the Third Mindfulness Training
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we heard about True Love.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True Love and the four elements of True Love.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loving kindness, compassion, joy and\Nequanimity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these four elements are also called\Nlimitless minds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infinite -- they don't have any limit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you meditate on loving kindness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel that you have limitless space
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that your loving kindness is not limited.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not something, "Oh, I can have\Nloving kindness for this person,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't think I can have loving
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kindness for the other person."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our loving kindness can embrace everything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these four limitless minds belong to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every tradition of Buddhism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they also belong to the Plum Village\Ntradition of Buddhism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some time ago, Thay developed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loving kindness meditation -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's one of the limitless minds -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into nine parts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first thing we recognize is what \N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was pointed out by Buddhaghosa is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must have loving kindness for oneself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you get not yet enough loving \Nkindness for me, what you consider me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you can't go on to have loving\Nkindness for you, or for someone else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buddhaghosa in the Visuddhimagga, a\Nbook of commentary on the Abhidhamma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say that if you want to start a fire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to have dry wood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when the fire is going well,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can put the wet wood on top.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the dry wood is you yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The loving kindness for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you yourself is closest to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we say, "Nobody understands me!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you have to ask yourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do I understand me?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do I understand myself?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you might say, "No, I don't either."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why do we expect other people to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understand us, when we don't understand\Nourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first step is to understand ourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when we understand ourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we understand the happiness that we need,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we shall be able to offer ourself happiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is what loving kindness meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is about -- it's about offering happiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the first person I need to offer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happiness is to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some people when they are on \Ntheir death bed, and you ask
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What do you regret?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will say, "I did not allow\Nmyself to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could have been happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see now there were many times
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could have been happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somehow, I thought I didn't deserve it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't deserve to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I didn't allow myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the loving kindness meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is meditation when you allow yourself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if you want me to read it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I can remember it, and then I can tell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you what the different elements are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you will be able to find it in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plum Village Chanting book or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Plum Village app.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother Phap Lai is not sure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, anyway, never mind, I'm going\Nto tell you now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I be happy, peaceful and light\Nin body and in spirit."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I want to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just my body, but also my spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be peaceful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I be happy if I'm not peaceful?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's another thing that Buddhaghosa said.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said when the mind is agitated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no other positive mental formations\Ncan be present.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need a mind that is peaceful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when the mind is peaceful,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then other positive things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like happiness and understanding, \Nwill come up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, "may I be happy, peaceful and light\Nin my body and my spirit."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have to really want it for yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you feel strongly that you want,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what you really want for yourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you can offer yourself happiness by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the second part:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I be safe and free from accident."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that life is insecure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know what is going to happen to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But deep down, we all have a desire to be safe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no one who doesn't have that desire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes we feel, we feel safe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes when we can, when we have that\Npeacefulness....
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have that understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We feel completely safe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not all the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think Wittgenstein is not a Buddhist\Npractitioner, but he also mentions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somewhere, in the tractatus or somewhere, \NI think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are times when I feel absolutely safe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So on the one hand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we spend a lot of our time feeling
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insecure and unsafe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but on the other hand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the seed of feeling safe is in us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we deeply want that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we have to wish that for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most important thing maybe is not to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wish it for yourself but to see how much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want it, how much you need it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you will see that other people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what they want, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what they need, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes they do things trying to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get that safety and security,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like controlling or having power,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they feel they can be secure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they are in control or they have power,\Noutside power.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that isn't the real safety.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real safety is a seed that is deep \Nin our consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the third thing is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I be free from anger, anxiety and worry."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, anxiety and fear, sorry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that anxiety, we could say, is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the sicknesses of our time, of our era.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people suffer from anxiety and fear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And none of us want to be angry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though we sometimes get angry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we express our anger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think there's anybody who has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a desire to be angry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all want to be free from anger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have that deep desire that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are put in a situation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which waters our seed of anger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be able to come back to ourself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take care, so that we don't express \Nour anger in a harmful way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards others and towards ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the first triad, those three.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the second triad is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I learn to look at myself with eyes\Nof understanding."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we already mentioned that often
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't understand ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ourselves is really a non-self,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing at every moment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different one moment to the next,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's not particularly easy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understand oneself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can get closer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can get closer to understanding ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often in a retreat,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what people manage to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To come back to themselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understand a little bit more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understand about their feelings more,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their mental formations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their perceptions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So understanding oneself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is something we long for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not just something Buddhist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that Socrates,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the place where Socrates taught,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wrote "gnōthi seauton",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Know yourself"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we know ourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we suffer much less.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know our own mind,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can control our own mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, know yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And may I recognize --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is a little bit like the Right Effort,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you probably heard about yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Four Diligences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I recognize the wholesome seeds\Nin myself."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you don't recognize
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any wholesome seeds in yourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what should you do?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to your good friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your Sangha friend, your Dharma friend,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say to them:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't recognize, I haven't recognized,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any wholesome seeds in me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you please tell me what wholesome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeds you see in me?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because often we the things that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not wholesome in ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we forget about what is wholesome.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is a real exercise, to be able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recognize what is wholesome.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The peacefulness you have,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the loving kindness you have,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way you care for your children,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your grandchildren.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a wholesome seed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've heard many stories in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dharma sharing about how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grandparents and parents,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they take care of their children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of us have that wholesome seed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are also developing the wholesome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seed of mindfulness, concentration and insight.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third part of the second triad is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I identify the unwholesome seeds in\Nmyself."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a very important practice for me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know about for you!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know certain unwholesome seeds I have.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them is my ego.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them is my pride.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often before I give a Dharma talk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talk to Thay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really talk to Thay there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I talk to Thay in me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is my teacher, Thay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also talk to my mother and father.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes before I give a Dharma talk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel a bit nervous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if I have anything to offer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I ask my mother and my father
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to support me, and Thay to support me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I talk to Thay,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I usually say that I want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to remain humble,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's very important that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remain humble.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if people after the Dharma talk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come up and praise me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to recognize:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are partly right."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because those words of praise,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are not really praising me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no separate self that is me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I say to Thay please - because Thay
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really helped me to develop humility
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not so much pride --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I ask Thay please -- I know that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I give this Dharma talk it's not me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who gives the talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That everything I can teach,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what Thay has handed on to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I ask Thay to keep me humble.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I recognize that seed of pride,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seed of ego, in me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I identify it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that means it's good that I know it's there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if I don't identify the unwholesome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things in me, it means that I don't have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chance to transform them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will just stay there like they are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need to identify the unwholesome things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the last triad is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I nourish myself with happiness\Nevery day."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you may think,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, that's very selfish, wanting to \Nnourish yourself."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually it's not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the world really needs people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have the capacity to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I can be happy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can offer happiness to others.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, the kind of happiness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I want is the happiness that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we talk about in True Happiness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the second Mindfulness Training today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The happiness that is not dependent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on outer conditions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the happiness I can:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I'm so happy I can still walk!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm so happy that I have eyes to look at\Nthe trees!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of happiness in our daily lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, may I nourish happiness in myself\Nevery day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the next one is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I live fresh, solid and free."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though we, sometimes we meditate on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being a flower, being a mountain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being space,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and during the meditation, we might
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do it quite well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some other time, we may forget it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes when you come home from work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't feel very fresh,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Thay suggests that before you open
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the front door to your house,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just stop a moment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you breathe in:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathing in, I am a flower.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathing out, I feel fresh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I want to be fresh for my family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I walk in the door.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the last one is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"May I be free from attachment and aversion,\Nbut not be indifferent."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we know how we suffer when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're attached to something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to someone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And cannot be free when we are attached.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we want that freedom for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after that, we -- the opposite to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attachment is aversion -- we want to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be free from that, because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we have aversion for someone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or for something, we also lose our freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we don't want to be indifferent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are going to practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loving kindness and compassion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equanimity, inclusiveness, doesn't mean\Nindifference.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means the capacity to embrace
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to hold.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other people, other species.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the way that we practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loving kindness meditation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I said, we practice it for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, when we feel that we've
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nourished ourselves and our fire is burning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our fire of loving kindness is burning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can practice it for someone else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can practice it for "you".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we can practice it for somebody
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who makes our life difficult.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that way we can look at that person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,differently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the way that we look at another person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we think when we have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a difficulty with someone else,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it just comes from the other person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's nothing to do with us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are a difficult person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually, it also comes from the way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we look at that person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people that recognize very quickly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we look at them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they recognize the kind of eyes we look\Nat them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we have some aversion for somebody.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though we may smile and say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good morning, how are you and so on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the aversion, it may come through our eyes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that person unconsciously,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe not consciously bu subconsciously,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will pick up that aversion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then that makes our relationship
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more difficult.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need to be able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,develop our loving kindness for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the person who is difficult
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that when we look at them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is real love in our eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just a smile to show that we like them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is awoken.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is invited to sound.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sometimes, I'm not afraid of death at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But other times, I feel fear of death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is a seed in us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have those two seeds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the seed of fearlessness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have the seed of fear,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as death is concerned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to be a little bit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,afraid of death, because if we're not,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might fall off a cliff very easily.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we need to know there's the edge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the cliff and we better stop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we feel a bit afraid when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get too near.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that fear is something very, is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,necessary maybe for our survival.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also that fear, it kind of stretches
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out a bit too wide, and then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes over territory that we don't really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need it to be there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in then those areas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to develop the fearlessness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as death is concerned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Buddhist teachers in the past,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have said that the great work of a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meditator is the realization of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no birth and no death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's a great work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not just an intellectual realization.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a deep realization in our unconscious,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our subconscious mind,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what you call it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the deeper levels of our consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are usually subconscious.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That non-fear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intellect is not enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we give a Dharma talk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're usually on the intellectual level.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We use words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We use concepts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first Dharma talk I heard about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no birth and no death was the first
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,retreat I went to in Cumbria with Thay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I organized the retreat for Thay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And during that retreat, Thay was talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the Heart Sutra,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Thay held up a piece of paper,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Thay asked, when is the birthday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this piece of paper?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When was it born?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then Thay asked,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when is the death day of this piece
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of paper?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay said, maybe when the paper came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the, off the machine in the factory,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rolled off as a sheet of paper,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then that was its birthday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we are to take a match,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and burn it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it turns into ashes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will be its deathday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is our normal way of thinking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about birth and death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if we look more deeply,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will see that the paper
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there in many things that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not the paper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paper inter is,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inter is with the cloud, with the sunshine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in the paper there is water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the paper there is some tree
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some plant or something that made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the paper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can see that the paper is not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that has a real birthday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a real death day either.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when you burn the paper,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy is produced, the smoke is produced,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ash is produced, the heat is produced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So paper doesn't become nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the paper doesn't come from nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And normally when we think about death,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think we become nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yesterday, my friend said my self will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become nothing. This is what I heard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My self will become nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My separate self will become nothing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this can be something that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are afraid of,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,losing our separate self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fact is that our separate self
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't exist when we are alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not there now, while we're breathing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no separate self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in a way it can't die, because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't really, it's not really alive
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no separate self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So of course, the ash will go
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe it will be fertilizer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the earth, and the earth
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will give rise to a flower.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heat and the smoke will go
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the universe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one person told me that when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his wife died, he took her ashes, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he put them at the foot of a magnolia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tree in their garden.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every year, the magnolia tree
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blossoms on her birthday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we say that the ashes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back to the earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not just the ashes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's also some other energy that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes with the ashes that goes back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we also, in Plum Village, we also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a young meditation student
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 8 years old, who died,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of meningitis or something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very sad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we put his ashes at the foot of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a plum tree, a plum tree he had saved up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his pocket money in order to be able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy that plum tree for Plum Village.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can sell the plums and send
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the money to hungry children in Vietnam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he saved up his pocket money to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buy a plum tree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he died, we put his ashes at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the foot of that tree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that tree is always the first tree
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to blossom, and the last tree for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blossom to fade.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can see that in the matter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we call matter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is also spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have these two energies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matter is a kind of energy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,condensed energy, and then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is the energy we send out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our loving kindness, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our anger, or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we usually distinguish between
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,matter and spirit,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in fact, matter and spirit are,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't really take them out of each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't really separate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one from the other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have an idea of ourselves as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five skandas, we call the five skandas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body, is, the body we think of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as being matter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The feelings, and then the perceptions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the mental formations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally the consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we think that is what my person is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made up of, these five things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them has to do with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,material -- our body,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other four have to do with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our mind, our spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually, we make that division,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the Buddha, when the Buddha was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teaching, he made that division,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in fact, you can't divide things like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They always inter-are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the ashes left from the body,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is also some mental formations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some feelings, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Anathapindika was dying.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anathapindika was a lay disciple of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buddha, who donated the Jeta Grove
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monastery in Savatthi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Anathapindika was a very diligent\Npractitioner.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was sometimes successful, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes unsuccessful businessman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went bankrupt at one point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But because he was such a good friend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to so many people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they helped him, and then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he became a successful business man again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he used to bring his businessman friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to listen to the Buddha's teaching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he was dying.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first the Buddha went to visit him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after that, he said Sariputra, one of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disciples of the Buddha,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should take care of going to visit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anathapindika, because Sariputra was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best friend of Anathapindika.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so Sariputra went with Ananda -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- at that time, Anathapindika was on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his death bed -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give final teachings to Anathapindika.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first thing they wanted to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to take care of the feelings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perceptions, the mental formations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, when someone is dying,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can also take care of the body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can massage while we are talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the person, we can massage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their or their hands, in order to help
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them feel that we are really there for them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are not alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Thay often tells us how when one of his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lay friends was dying, Thay massaged their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feet. Alfred Hassler.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sister Chan Khong said, "Alfred, you know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's Thay massaging your feet."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, but anyway, in this case,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sariputra wanted to concentrate more on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the feelings, perceptions and consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Sariputra said to Anathapindika,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Anathapindika, remember the Buddha."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Remember the happy times that you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had with the Buddha."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, "Remember the Dharma."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Remember all the happiness that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to the Dharma has brought you."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, "Remember the Sangha, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happiness that you have received
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Sangha."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so giving these teachings is to take
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,care of the feelings and the perceptions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the person who is dying, to send the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings and the perceptions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a certain direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they have to continue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those feelings, those perceptions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they continue
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though they become,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually at death we say that the body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes separate from the feelings and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perceptions, we also saw that that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not completely correct, but in a sense
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they also have their own way to go,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have their own energy to go, to give.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we want that energy to continue as a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful, peaceful energy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that by giving our attention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the happiness we receive from being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in touch with the Buddha, the Dharma and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sangha, those feelings can go in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a good direction, a good energy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when we are taking care of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone who is dying, it's important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know about the happiness of that person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody was not a Buddhist, to talk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might not be helpful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you would need to talk about something else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes remembering wholesome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that that person had done
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during their life time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was with my father,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I reminded him of the beautiful things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he had done in his lifetime,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the happy things that he had done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At one and the same time, we remind about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that had a lot of happiness in, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time, those things that were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done that were very beneficial, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brought happiness to others as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need to know about that person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we can nourish that person with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happiness, help that person be nourished
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by feelings of happiness, so that he or she
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is able to look deeply into non-self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Singing:] "Nothing whatsoever to remove
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from this. Not a single thing thereon to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,add. Properly regarding the true nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When truly seeing, complete liberation."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry, I don't have enough qi, eh?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing whatsoever to remove from this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a single thing thereon to add.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Properly regarding the true nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When truly seeing, complete liberation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this meditation that was offered to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anathapindika was for Anathapindika to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be able to see the true nature and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,therefore be liberated from the sense of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self and to be free at the moment of death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this meditation goes something like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You begin by meditating on your eyes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, normally we think these eyse are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of me, they're part of my body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Sariputra when guiding the meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Anathapindika, he said that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"These eyes are not me. I am not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught in these eyes."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is something we can prepare
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ourselves before we lie on our deathbed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's better, because Sariputra may not be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there for us when we are on our deathbed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can prepare. It's good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have to look deeply at the nature
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our eyes. When were our eyes born?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we see that our eyes are just the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continuation of our mother's eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our father's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are not really mine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our eyes have been nourished by the food
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have eaten, that we've been given.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They inter-are with everything that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we eat every day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our eyes, in fact, inter-are with the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dust of the stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there weren't the stars, the dust of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stars, our eyes would not be there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we look into the elements that make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our fleshly eyes, we will see the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different chemical elements that are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there, they come from the stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we have to learn to meditate on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our eyes, to see that they are not me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same with our ears.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not only that, we need to meditate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the object of our eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the object of our vision.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever we see and we consider to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of ourselves, we also consider
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that to be me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When somebody was dying, they were once
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asked, "Is there anything that you regret?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that person said, "Yes, I regret that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will no longer be able to be in touch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the beauties of spring, the beauties
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of autumn, when I die, I won't be in touch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with those things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, that is because we think that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those things are there for me, but when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I die, the beauty of spring and the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beauty of autumn, it doesn't die as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will be other eyes which will be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in touch with those things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, and I inter-am with those other eyes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will be in touch.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have to let go of the idea that the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside world is something that belongs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then of course, in our vision, it's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just eyes and the light waves, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the so-called objects out there that make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possible our vision. We need something else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is, we need our consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without consciousness, we wouldn't see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything, even though our eyes are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perfectly good, our optic nerve is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perfectly good, but without
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness, we don't see anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the light waves that our retina
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is able to pick up, the nerves are able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pick up and send a message to our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primary visual cortex and our secondary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visual cortex, those light waves, they have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be interpreted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have to see that also this \Nconsciousness, this visual cortex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not me, it's not mine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this way we are liberated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't identify ourselves with any of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things that we normally in our lifetime
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identify ourselves with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Plum Village, we often use the meditation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the water and the wave.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We visualize ourself as a wave,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is a time when the wave is born,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it exists for a while, and then,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it crashes on the shore or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it goes back into the sea.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that time when it crashes on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shore, the water, it goes back into the sea.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also there's the energy from the wave,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can hear on the shore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can feel on the sand on the shore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can feel the energy from the wave.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's true, that the wave has lost
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its separate self.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its separate self has gone back into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy on the shore and water in the sea.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nothing is lost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something very scientific.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not metaphysics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as our friend said yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Buddha didn't like metaphysics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not he didn't like it, but he thought it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a bit of a waste of time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Buddha was asked:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"After death, do you continue to exist?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or after death, do you cease to exist?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Buddha's reply was that the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only teaches two things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering and the end of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't answer that question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the wave you can see that you can't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say that the wave continues to exist,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's not that wave that we saw
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was there before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can't say it ceases to exist,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the energy is still there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the water is still there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is something very scientific.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The scientist Lavoisier,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the chemist Lavoisier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Rien ne se créé, rien ne se perd."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is created, nothing is lost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is in transformation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is something that was seen by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientists when they do experiments in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their laboratory, chemists and physicists.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know that the first law of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thermodynamics is that energy is not lost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when we look at this matter of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no birth and no death, we have to take
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in consideration what scientists say as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just something metaphysical.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the occasion when the Buddha said that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he only taught about suffering and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not suffering was when one of his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young disciples, a young monk, of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,name of Anuruddha. He went out on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alms round in the early morning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after the alms round, he thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why don't I go and visit the pavilion where
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the monks of all the different
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traditions are sitting having some kind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Dharma discussion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there were many kinds of spiritual
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traditions in India at that time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just Buddhism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, Anuruddha walked into the pavilion,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they said, "Oh, look, there's one of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disciples of Gautama Buddha!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't we ask him about what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happens to us after we die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He must have heard from the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happens.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they said, "Anuruddha, you're a disciple
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Guatama Buddha. So please tell us:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after death, will the Buddha continue to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exist? After his death, will the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cease to exist? After death, will he both
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continue and cease to exist? After death,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will he neither continue nor cease
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to exist?" This is Indian logic, at that time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Anuruddha was completely befuddled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't know what to say. He felt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very bad. "Here I am representing the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buddha. But I'm a young monk, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never heard the Buddha talk about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any of these things."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he couldn't answer. And he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Friends, I'm sorry, but I've never heard
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Buddha talk about any of these things."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they said, "This monk either
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just became ordained, or he is stupid."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he didn't feel very good about that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyway, he went back to the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said "Lord Buddha, this morning I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went to the pavilion and I was asked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this question, and I couldn't answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please sir, can you teach me, so the next
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they ask me this question, they won't say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am stupid. I will be able to answer."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Buddha taught Anuruddha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Buddha said to Anuruddha,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here is the Buddha sitting here."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So first of all, is the Buddha the body?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Anuruddha said "No, the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the body."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is the Buddha feelings?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anuruddha said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, the Buddha is not feelings."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is the Buddha perceptions, mental \Nformations, consciousness?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Anuruddha said, "No."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the Buddha asked,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is the Buddha possible without the body?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Anuruddha said, "No."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is the Buddha possible without feelings?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Without perceptions, mental formations...."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in the end, Anuruddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could not find the Buddha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Buddha said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Anuruddha, if you cannot find the Buddha
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while he is alive, how to you hope to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to find him after he's died?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Anuruddha said "You're right."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the Buddha said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, the Buddha has only taught
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two things, suffering and the end of suffering."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is awoken.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is invited to sound.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes after a young couple have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been married, Thay will ask them to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this kind of exercise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you ask your loved one questions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like that: am I this body?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the other person says no.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I my feelings? No.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you recognize that person you love
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not somebody you can find.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not something you can grasp onto.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It escapes all definitions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when that person dies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you won't feel that it's only after
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've died that you can't find them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You also see that when they were alive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could not find them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when they are alive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they aren't. They inter-are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when they are dead, they aren't.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They inter-are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning when we chanted the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Insight the brings us to the Other Shore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we said "no being, no non-being."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is a new addition to that sutra,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Thay saw that it's very important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe that things really are,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that things really are not,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we are caught in our perception
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We identify someone with a sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we say that person is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when that sign is not there for us to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identify, we say that person is not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This line is infinity, it's not begin and end.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on this line there's a sign that we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call "B", and that sign is the sign "birth".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's another sign that we call "D".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the sign "death".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth is a sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not an absolute reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say where there is a sign,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a deception.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we need signs in order to be able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognize things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like you need a birth certificate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to be able, I don't know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes you need a birth certificate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know when you need it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you do, eh? [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you also need a death certificate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes. Well, you don't need it, but...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter] somebody else does.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So anyway. Birth and death are signs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we saw that when we looked at the paper,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very difficult to find the birthday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a piece of paper, if you look deeply.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you can establish a sign, and say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was the birthday when it came off the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tread, or whatever it came off, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also for your own birth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they say "Oh, there's that new baby,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it looks like, we can see with our eyes."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then that is a sign, and we call it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the birthday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some people call the birthday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the conception day, the day when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conception took place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is also another sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because before the conception there was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also mother's egg, father's seed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not exactly a birthday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So death is also a sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look outside, there are some poppies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday there were two, and today
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are three. Or maybe the day before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, there are now three.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the two older ones, they're beginning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the petals are getting a little bit faded
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the edges. And then along side of them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are some seed pods,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two flowers already changed into seedpods.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can say that two flowers have died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, they've changed their sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before they were red flowers, but now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are seedpods. And then the seed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will at some time fall back to the earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they'll be another sign of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another flower coming up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not really a matter of death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally we say that death is non-being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the flower hasn't become non-being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The petals have gone back down into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the earth and the seedpod is continuing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the flower.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you say here, after the flower
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has opened, it became being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is just a sign.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before that, when it was a bud..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we say before that, it was non-being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea of birth and death is connected
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the idea of being and non-being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't have an idea of being and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,non-being, you won't have an idea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of birth and death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because birth coming into being from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,non-being, and death is going out of being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into non-being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've all witnessed people who have died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've all. They are people in our family who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have died, or we know people who have died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have to ask ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"After that person died, did they become
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,non-being?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While they were alive, were they being?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or while they were alive, were they non-being?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now we look at ourself when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were a child.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if somebody took a photograph of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes we will open the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,photograph album, and we will say to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our friend, "Do you know what, that's me!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was 6 years old or something."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the friend will say, "Oh really,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would never have guessed it?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that child in the photograph,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looks very different from how you look
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you are 30 or 40, or 80 or 90
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only the body of the child is different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also the feelings are different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ask yourself when I was that age,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what were my feelings like?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What were my perceptions like?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will see that they are quite different,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although you can remember what they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were like, from what they are now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have to say that that child is not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really me, no really the same me as the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me now. But on the other hand, we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can't say that that child is different,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that child hadn't been there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no way that this thing I call me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now would be here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is some time, in this way of looking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to go beyond our normal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concepts and categories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally we say it has to be in a box
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "same", or we have to put it in a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,box called "different".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So either I am the same as that child, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am different from that child.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay, when I first came to Plum Village,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was one thing that Thay was always
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking his students,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is Thay the same as Thay was last year?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would always say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, Thay is the same as last year."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then somebody else in the room would
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say "No, Thay is different."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay would say, "You cannot put Thay
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a box "same", you cannot put Thay in a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,box "different". Thay is outside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those two boxes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same when people want to make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stupa for Thay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Thay dies, they want to have a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little bit of Thay's ashes that they can
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put in that stupa. I think Thay doesn't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terribly want to have a stupa, I'm not sure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, he said to the people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ok, you can make a stupa for me, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to put a notice on it, that says
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Thay is not in here.'" And then you also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to say 'Thay is not outside of here'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either, because inside and outside of here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are also two boxes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it gets deeper and deeper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you have someone you love,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be careful not to put them in a box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have someone you don't love,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be careful , don't put them in a box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That box is made out of signs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One sister I know practised very well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her father and mother died when she was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite young. And she said now I see that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am much closer to my mother and father
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than when they were alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this means that mother and father
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continue in you, and they continue in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your siblings, they continue in their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children, in their grandchildren.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when Mother and Father were alive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe you put them in boxes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you weren't able to be in touch with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them as a whole, as part of everything,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of interbeing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in order to free ourselves from ideas
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being and non-being, we have to have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another concept which, with any luck,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will take us into the non-conceptual.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, before someone dies, they inter-are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after they die, they continue
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to inter-be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, after someone has died,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see them much more clearly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their children and their grandchildren
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than before, because before they died,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you looked at them as separate from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their children. But after they die, you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't have anywhere else to look, so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see them in their children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've been practising to walk on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mother Earth, to place footsteps of love,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to caress the Earth as we walk, to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see that the Earth is not just matter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also spirit. And we've talked about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mother Earth as we are born from the Earth
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we go back to the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that this can remove a lot of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our fear also. Whenever we walk on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earth, we see, yes, this is where I will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back to. A large part of me will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back to the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Earth is always ready to receive
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and embrace me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So an important part of developing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fearlessness about death is to be able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see the Earth as your loving Mother who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will receive you when you die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we talked a bit about the teaching of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no same, no different, not in those boxes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also have boxes which are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no coming, no going.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, sorry, we also have boxes which are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"coming" and "going".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often when people die, people ask,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, can you tell me where he has gone?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where can I find him now?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thay used to light a match.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember Thay's box of matches?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forgot the matches today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nevermind, you can remember.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have a box of matches, and then you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take out one match and you ask,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dear little match, will you produce a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flame for us?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So first of all, we have to ask,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where is the flame now?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't see a flame;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't have the sign of a flame.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand, we know that all
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the elements to make the flame are present
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside this box and also outside, because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you also need the oxygen, so inside and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now we have the match, we have the box,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the oxygen. We only need one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more condition for the flame to manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is we have to do something with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our fingers. "So, dear flame, please manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear match, please help manifest the flame
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Sangha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now the flame is manifesting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You allow it to manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while it's manifesting it's giving
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off light and heat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it's giving off smoke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then we ask the flame,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, dear little flame, where have you gone?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the flame says it hasn't gone anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Sangha, I haven't gone anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't gone North, South, East or West.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just the conditions were not there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me to manifest anymore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I ceased to manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And similarly, I didn't come from anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't come from the North, the South,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the East or the West, but the conditions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were all there for me to manifest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I manifested.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when somebody dies, and we ask them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where have you gone?" then the answer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will also be "I haven't gone anywhere."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you look, you can be in touch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody will say [singing]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This body is not me;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not caught in this body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am life without limit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never been born, and I've never died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over there the wide ocean and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of galaxies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all arise from the depth of consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So smile to me and take my hand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wave good-bye.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tomorrow we shall meet again,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shall always be meeting again
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the millions walks of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shall meet in every moment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the million walks of life. [end of singing]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did I leave out a line? I think I did:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth and death are only a game
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of hide and seek.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth and death are only a threshold,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a door through which we go in and out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth and death are only a game
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of hide and seek.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we use our understanding of interbeing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to be able find the person who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has died, to find they haven't gone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anywhere, they didn't come from anywhere,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they haven't gone anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the conditions were right, they manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conditions not right, they cease to manifest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first place to look is in yourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find that person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find the feeling they transmitted to you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perception that they left to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So dear friends, our retreat is coming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an end. And thank you for being here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we will have a kind of closing, I think,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by singing together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we may have a little time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say thank you. A few people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will say thank you to each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we will listen to three
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sounds of the bell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the three sounds of the bell are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our good wish for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Firstly, to have a good journey home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And secondly, to be able to continue
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever part of the practice that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most helpful for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And thirdly, to come back again,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we next have a retreat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[a lotus for you]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is awoken.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is invited to sound.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is invited to sound.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The bell is invited to sound.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The small bell is invited to sound.]