0:08

I was just thinking that

0:12

I should have thought a little bit about what I'll

0:14

say in the next hour. It's

0:17

a long time. But

0:26

thank you to the associations of mind. I

0:31

trust there will be some. Maybe

0:52

a few more words. I'm thinking

0:54

of revisiting

0:56

a little bit these, what

1:00

we call these three

1:02

characteristics, three universal characteristics

1:04

of phenomena. So

1:07

I've touched on this at the

1:10

beginning of the retreat, not talking

1:12

about the information in phenomena. So

1:15

maybe you're reviewing this a little

1:18

bit. What

1:23

is called also the three marks

1:25

of existence, the three marks

1:28

of existence. So

1:30

what is meant by this is that

1:33

every experience that we have,

1:37

every experience that we have, they

1:41

have three things in common. Each

1:46

experience has particularity, doesn't it?

1:50

Walking outside on Saturday afternoon

1:52

is different than walking outside on

1:55

Saturday morning. for

2:00

lunch every day is

2:02

different, even every week is different.

2:06

There are different characteristics, some things are blue,

2:08

other things are red, some things

2:10

are far, some things are near, some

2:13

things are of the past, some things

2:15

are present. They all

2:17

have very specific characteristics. It

2:19

makes it pretty juicy because it's

2:22

never the same thing again. And

2:27

when we come to meditation,

2:29

we will come close to

2:31

each event to recognize

2:34

that each thing

2:37

is different, each event is different. So we

2:39

go under the concept, the concept makes it

2:41

the same. Watermelon

2:43

is watermelon, but

2:45

this mind of

2:47

watermelon is a

2:49

unique event. And

2:55

as we come close and we start

2:57

with intimacy to get

2:59

interested in all

3:01

this diversity of experience, the

3:04

different moods, the different

3:06

sensations, what it is to be embodied,

3:08

it's changing all the time. As

3:13

we come very close to

3:16

the specific characteristics of each

3:19

event, we're going to start

3:21

to notice that the God

3:23

bringing the message to the Queen, we're

3:25

going to start to notice that things

3:29

all have a few things

3:31

in common. So

3:33

what they have in common, we've named now. It's

3:36

impermanent. Whatever is

3:38

there, I think we've seen this

3:41

week that things are changing at

3:43

every level. The

3:46

level of physicality changes from one moment

3:48

to the next, before the meal, after

3:50

the meal, during

3:52

the meal, it

3:55

changes at the level of mood. Would

4:01

we say we have a few more swings

4:03

here? A few, I would think. And

4:11

same thing with thoughts, many different

4:13

thoughts. So there's been

4:15

impermanence in this way. And

4:19

the feeling tone, so we isolate

4:21

the different parts of

4:23

our experience to notice how

4:25

dynamic and changing it is.

4:33

Like this, even today we were like, consciousness,

4:36

consciousness, is it possible that

4:38

it's also flickering like the

4:40

rest? That there's sound

4:43

consciousness and body consciousness.

4:45

And then it keeps

4:47

flickering and changing. Yes,

4:51

changing. The

4:55

growth of consciousness is a joyful,

4:59

open consciousness. And

5:04

so that's one of the characteristics. The

5:07

marks of existence, by what

5:09

is existent, marked by

5:12

change. The

5:14

other one is, I

5:17

think I called it maybe the

5:19

defective nature. It

5:22

can't bring satisfaction. The

5:25

word in Pali for this is dukkha. We'll

5:28

use that word because there's

5:31

so many translations, it touches on so many

5:33

things. And I'll come

5:35

back on this one. And the last one, just

5:37

to name them, is that nothing can

5:40

be owned because

5:42

it's conditional, it's changing. And

5:45

when I think something is mine, I might

5:47

discover, it will be

5:49

revealed at some point, probably, that it was

5:51

not exactly mine. Memory,

5:57

health, sense of humor. the

6:00

other one, something else,

6:02

my bike, you know, that

6:05

it's not exactly mine, it's relatively

6:09

mine. Maybe

6:11

that the wisdom is to understand that,

6:14

ah, this too isn't exactly mine, or

6:16

do I think it is, or I

6:19

would like it to be, even if I get

6:21

it, it's not going to be exactly

6:23

mine. So

6:26

these are the three marks of existence.

6:34

About this third one,

6:36

I was thinking,

6:41

one of the classic teachings around

6:44

this is the teaching

6:46

to Bha'iya. And

6:49

so at the time of the Buddha, there's,

6:52

in another part of the

6:54

country, let's think in the Arahadod, it

6:57

was not called like, it was not

6:59

exactly this, but maybe

7:01

700 kilometers away from where

7:06

the area where the Buddha was, there

7:09

was a teacher there. And

7:11

Bha'iya was very loved,

7:15

a very

7:17

generous teacher.

7:19

And without arrogance,

7:23

I think he was just trying to assess

7:25

things. His

7:27

kind of assessment is that he was probably awake,

7:29

that he was awake, you know, that

7:31

he was, he had freed the heart and mind because,

7:33

you know, benevolence

7:36

was a good ally,

7:38

not so shaky,

7:41

you know, and there was a lot of wisdom,

7:43

and it's

7:45

probably not getting triggered too much. And

7:49

he just thought, you know,

7:51

I think it seemed like humbly, he thought,

7:53

like, I think I've done the job and

7:55

I'm happy to share this with the

7:57

mothers and somebody who cares. and

8:00

said, Bahia, I

8:02

think you're not totally done. I

8:05

think you're not. And the proof

8:07

that he was pretty far along is that he

8:09

didn't get insulted. Me?

8:13

Are you talking about me? And

8:18

so this person said, I

8:20

think you're not totally done.

8:23

And there is somebody apparently in the

8:25

other part of the country, in the

8:27

center, middle of the country, who

8:32

is teaching and is known to be

8:34

fully awake. So

8:36

Bahia decided to

8:39

find this person, thought, probably

8:41

that's the only person that can help me. So

8:43

I'm going to go and search and

8:46

walk, and walk 700 kilometers or so,

8:48

looking. And

8:51

you can imagine, it's not

8:53

like you Google Buddha and

8:56

dress, you know, it's in

8:59

their area or whatever. And

9:01

you know, just follow it like this.

9:04

It probably was more than

9:06

gift somewhere, thinking apparently he

9:08

was there. And so, no, he was

9:10

here just a week ago. Apparently

9:13

he's gone towards over there. And then he

9:15

would go over there, and people would say,

9:17

oh, yeah, he was here, he was here.

9:19

But he's gone to, he's left with this

9:21

one. He started walking in that direction.

9:25

And so he didn't give

9:27

up. And at some point, one

9:30

end of the morning, he

9:32

actually reached the Buddha. We're

9:35

happy for him, no? He really put

9:37

the effort. Very

9:39

eager, or, there's

9:42

another word I was thinking of, but genuine.

9:45

Yeah, determined. Perfect.

9:50

And so he gets to the Buddha. The

9:52

thing is, it's like, maybe it's like

9:55

a quarter to twelve. And

9:58

So he gets to the Buddha. Just before the

10:00

sun is out there. And

10:05

that and and comes to the

10:07

good I sit. Here

10:10

and why am I gonna

10:12

with the define a region

10:14

of the thing to say

10:16

him and that in I'd

10:18

I'd like to be something

10:20

some you very very often.

10:24

I'd love to hear something gets

10:26

you teachings of you. I've.

10:29

Heard you are very wise in the

10:31

good as a whole. Backing yeah yeah

10:33

fuck you so much. I'd be happy

10:35

to talk with you but have only

10:37

one meal a day and it's now.

10:39

I have to go on for my

10:42

arms around before the birth and hit

10:44

the. Highest point for the. So.

10:48

I go. Out.

10:51

and have be really happy. Yeah.

11:00

Very very aware of the

11:02

impermanent nature of things beyond

11:04

and unreliable nature things. The

11:06

this unstable six in Nature

11:08

of Things says to the

11:10

Buddha. Your

11:13

whole it as I got a wife. You know that? Ah,

11:18

We don't know, We don't know when

11:20

could be coming. With should

11:23

give me just and is something now

11:25

him and because with up with them.

11:28

And the Buddha says. The

11:30

here. Really

11:33

when I come back from my near

11:35

our really be happy to talk to

11:37

and we will. Know. What

11:40

would go there? And

11:43

Bahia probably like musters all

11:45

the courage to side of

11:47

him and goes for third

11:50

time. And. Me

11:52

that you know in the stories

11:54

of the of time in that

11:56

area when you ask something three

11:59

times. You

12:04

can. Trust

12:06

a third time. Lucky they didn't. Believe

12:10

We really. Don't know what could happen

12:12

in on I get so precious I. Traveled

12:15

far and wide, senate and here I

12:17

am. kids. If you could give me

12:20

a little something. And

12:22

man and. Suggested.

12:29

That results in Riverside.

12:32

The to says. Okay,

12:34

manga, okay. I'll give you

12:36

something. Went

12:39

on to beer. Oh

12:43

by here I'm animals. The

12:45

Buddha space. The

12:47

here. In

12:51

seeing. An ad.

12:53

They're the only seen. In

12:56

hearing only sharing. And

13:00

he cotton, I think only

13:02

couldn't ivy. If

13:05

there's no you here

13:07

nor there, nor did

13:09

between. This

13:11

just by here. Is

13:14

the end of suffer? And

13:19

then. There's

13:23

no use year and know you

13:25

there and know you in between.

13:28

This only this.

13:31

Is the end of suffer? And

13:35

new have for his arms

13:37

around. And the story says

13:40

at assuming of Sastre there

13:42

was a while though that

13:45

was running and hit walked

13:47

over by here. And

13:50

children. And

13:53

so people were I call

13:55

home. We traveled so far

13:57

to reach do when you.

14:00

Earnest. And

14:03

just when he finds you his

14:06

eyes is code that that's so

14:08

sad, so so sad. And the

14:10

Buddha said. Action.

14:14

Or her. Room.

14:19

He had done his job prior. to

14:21

you is really really close. Here

14:24

it is. Completely heard me. We're good.

14:29

Ah, he died as mine.

14:55

Is also on a mocha

14:57

rancher from asks the Buddha.

15:03

It's always interesting the questions to

15:05

people ask the Buddha. I got

15:07

my god. I would not have

15:10

thought about this from mauger answers

15:12

as to the Buddha. How can

15:14

I avoid the gaze of the

15:16

Lord of Death. How

15:20

can I avoid the gaze of the Lord

15:22

of Death as my question to you. Put

15:28

up with your question. Mocha

15:30

Rodgers. Question is, how can

15:33

I avoid the gays from

15:35

The Lord of Death? And

15:38

good affair. More

15:40

Garage Her. The. Ever. Watchful

15:43

instructions, Mcgrattan

15:46

be ever watchful, And

15:49

don't take anything to be I

15:51

on mine. In this way he

15:54

will avoid the gates of the

15:56

Lord of the. And

16:12

you know the Buddha talks about

16:14

this, the freedom, freedom

16:16

from old age, sickness

16:21

and death. That's the freedom.

16:23

That's the

16:26

freedom. Freedom

16:29

from sickness, old age and death.

16:35

And they're going to happen. It's

16:38

a bit of a counter-drug. You'll

16:40

be free from it,

16:44

but Buddha died. There

16:47

was death and disease,

16:50

even in old age,

16:52

that's the truth. So

16:55

that's interesting. Freedom

16:59

from old age, disease

17:01

and death. It

17:04

seems to require a change

17:06

of perspective because

17:09

they're going to happen. There will be

17:11

old age, disease and death. How

17:14

can we be free from them

17:17

if they're going to happen? It

17:19

means a change of perspective. It's

17:21

not happening to me. It might

17:23

be happening, but maybe

17:25

not to a

17:28

new, conceiving, sensing

17:34

maybe. That's

17:38

the research we're doing. Far

17:41

out, no? That's

17:45

very interesting research

17:47

to do. So

17:49

I want to come back a little bit on

17:52

What here was the

17:54

middle characteristic of dukkha,

17:56

unsatisfactoriness. Yeah,

18:03

so many translation. Actor:

18:06

In that's the thing

18:09

capacity for things he

18:11

learns to satisfy us.

18:13

Nuclear warhead because changing

18:15

and stable condition shit

18:18

on remarkable. Uncertainty.

18:23

And that. Just

18:26

to say that time. When

18:29

the Buddha card again when

18:31

the Buddha came out of

18:34

it he retreat. So.

18:37

Imagine you. You

18:40

want to screw the mine? You

18:43

want to? Go to

18:45

find something that is beyond

18:47

that the on sickness me

18:49

on. A

18:53

new Go on retreat for number of

18:55

years. To. Legend One

18:57

of us. Goes on retreat

18:59

for another six years. Like

19:02

you really sharpening the money into

19:05

making a laser like him off

19:07

from that scattering. For

19:10

that can look at phenomenon that like

19:12

command and think about oh yeah but

19:15

later and yes we I should stay

19:17

with the fact that. Effects

19:21

of it as some effort not

19:23

to develop that capacity to stay

19:25

even with assistance from. Two

19:29

to really go and see what's

19:31

the nature of this thing? And

19:34

softer years of an. Excellent.

19:41

Making it unbelievable discovery

19:43

So much so that were

19:45

here thousands of years

19:47

later considering the discoveries that

19:50

were made of the

19:52

teachings of were given after

19:54

imagine his first half.

19:57

Carts. unknown

20:00

at that time.

20:05

They discovered something incredible and

20:08

they come out of a retreat. And

20:10

the first teaching

20:14

is really interesting to me to think, what is

20:16

the first thing this person wants to say? They

20:19

discovered something. There's

20:23

no word for it. What

20:26

are they going to say? What's the first thing they're going

20:28

to say? And

20:31

so the first thing the Buddha says

20:35

is, it's

20:37

not easy being a human

20:39

being. It's

20:42

not easy being a human being. I

20:47

don't know why. There's so much

20:49

compassion in this and honesty. It's

20:53

not easy being a human being. We're often

20:55

separated from what we want. We're

20:59

often stuck with what we don't want.

21:08

That's the first thing he shares coming out of

21:10

a retreat, saying, it's

21:12

not easy. Having a body

21:14

is not easy. Having

21:16

your heart or mind, mind heart,

21:19

it's not easy. It's not easy. It's

21:22

not easy having a body. It's not

21:24

reliable. It gets sick, it gets cold,

21:26

it gets, you know. Even

21:29

at some point I think somebody asks, what

21:31

is the body? When is the body? The

21:34

body is reliable

21:36

to cold, warm, mosquito

21:39

bites, late bites. This

21:41

is what I'm talking about. It's

21:43

not easy having a life left

21:50

in the way of being touched

21:52

by pleasure, like Experiencing

21:57

pleasure in this place.

22:05

Last. Year about this at this

22:07

time last year I went to do

22:09

have a retreat her outside can then.

22:12

Elevation. Man colorado mark

22:14

on them. And

22:17

down. And

22:20

we were. I think close to

22:22

i'm just I'm doing I think

22:24

three thousand learn nitrous have to

22:27

pay for just above then Glacier

22:29

and then. Just twenty

22:31

just when the trees are back to.

22:35

Grow. And

22:37

than it was spring,

22:39

so on. So.

22:43

We were, we were on time and them. In

22:47

a sometimes was sitting there to practice. hey. Sully

22:50

become so hot a site so hi

22:52

there my com I got my son's

22:54

clean my i should have brother had

22:56

at him and I have one but

22:59

it stayed over there they was called

23:01

this morning I didn't think of and

23:03

the cream and mike I'm burning and

23:05

burning like give us about twenty minutes

23:08

Sydney the wind comes from the glacier

23:10

and I'm like ah my goddess a

23:12

friend lie down jackets and I'm so

23:14

I get from my billie and I'm

23:17

going to put my a little fun

23:19

to hang. around here in our

23:21

our my cats freezing and relax

23:23

and then suddenly like it's touch

23:25

to have rain. Are

23:27

gathered. And

23:30

not the ran in and then the

23:32

ran through turns into sales. And

23:35

when I came out of the retreat my

23:37

thirty admitting to me a messenger a good

23:39

send like love look lutheran. Iraq

23:42

your okay the epic fail at

23:44

very turn that don't sound like

23:46

north of Quebec city and watching

23:48

the regular news and. In the

23:50

news is so intense that they're talking about

23:52

from that area of Florida. Near

23:55

Boulder, Colorado there was a hail of

23:57

such as I was. I get our

23:59

that. Right in the fields. And

24:03

you like bang bang Bang? And

24:06

you know at some point some. Weird.

24:12

As there was a tense but

24:14

the and referred books. Death. Small

24:16

river. And to people are

24:18

linked flat they're in a to do not

24:20

attempt is pretty thin on. And

24:23

suddenly most com sec apparently you'd

24:25

never tenth, never put your attempts

24:27

like a hundred needs are close

24:29

to her is a bad idea.

24:32

For your name does not. Exist.

24:36

And they've been must handle

24:38

this huge pain of are

24:41

just walking and what protects

24:43

your his verse. This

24:46

is what research center and you're

24:48

flipping channels like this and when

24:51

we got for the face of

24:53

i remember the manager of those

24:55

two places. Oh here there are

24:57

but cats month and lion last

24:59

as into the. In

25:02

also. His with

25:04

to do more to do or a

25:06

strong enough and. Then

25:09

we when I came out of that when. For

25:13

me my that conclusion was like.

25:17

If the put those six years

25:19

outside. Of

25:22

course. What? He wants to

25:24

shares that things are impermanent in

25:26

on like this. not me. Been

25:28

a conclusion before. spend the whole

25:31

meat inside the you know and

25:33

receiving a meal every three hours

25:35

of for our next of things

25:37

are pretty much the same emerged

25:39

that Southern Tier Sarah nice and

25:41

hear the whole find enough but

25:43

if you're closer to Vice for

25:46

the Elements it's really clear enough,

25:48

has a cloud in it's impossible.

25:50

Like. On the

25:52

sensations for. Sure, What

25:54

stands out this? the. and

25:56

permanent nature of everything for

25:59

sure what And what it stands

26:01

out is that things are not satisfactory, you

26:03

know? Because, you

26:05

know, it's cold, it's warm,

26:10

you have doubt, why am I outside

26:12

even? Like I thought I loved nature.

26:17

That was a good idea, you know, etc. And

26:21

then it seems like nothing

26:23

is so personal. Very clear. You

26:26

know, it's not like hailing against me, or

26:29

the wind is not blowing this way about

26:31

me, you know? Like it's not, and

26:34

the cat and lynx and moose there,

26:37

it's not personal, you know, they do

26:39

what they do, and I'm somewhere there in

26:41

the food chain. It's

26:44

not so personal, I'm just, we're

26:47

just part of what's happening, you know? It's

26:52

one of the good concepts

26:54

of his retreat

26:58

and he says, you know, dukkha.

27:01

Dukkha is true,

27:03

it's true that things are shaking,

27:06

uncertain. We never know what's going

27:08

to happen with the body, we never

27:10

know what's going to happen with the mind, we

27:12

just don't know. Things

27:15

are uncertain. And

27:19

then, also he says,

27:21

which is, to say

27:23

the least, euphemism here, interesting,

27:26

it's very interesting, he says,

27:29

but that's not the real problem. That's

27:32

not the real problem. The

27:34

real problem is the

27:36

mind that wants something else. That's

27:39

the real problem, that's really problematic.

27:43

It's difficult being a human being, but the

27:45

mind that wants things to

27:47

stay the same, wants to get something that

27:49

is not there, that,

27:52

a clinging mind, that is

27:54

the real problem. There's

27:57

a good news in there, Is

27:59

that... Like.

28:03

I wouldn't want him to be different.

28:08

This is something that happens in the mine

28:10

so this something to do about this. For

28:17

the and I know you probably

28:19

know what the noble. Term it's

28:21

first one is. Duper

28:25

things are uncertain.

28:27

stable changing sides

28:29

of five. And

28:33

not kinds of ways. Second

28:36

truth is that another real

28:38

problem. The real

28:40

problem. Is that we

28:42

don't know? If we don't accept

28:44

that we want another version with

28:46

clinging to another version where it

28:49

would go my way into. This

28:53

is really something we can do

28:55

something about. Something

28:59

and we clean so much

29:01

that we even trying to

29:03

things as mine mean mind

29:05

when it's not a possibility

29:07

is how phenomenon behave. On.

29:12

Time. And look

29:14

at the mess and own land

29:16

for his. Own people trying.

29:21

Desperately trying to own and not have been

29:23

waiting. And we keep

29:25

failing and creating. Here.

29:29

In Iowa. And

29:33

conflict. This

29:37

is all turning around. That activity

29:40

is clinging. And

29:45

then he said and. Doesn't

29:50

come with clinging is a way

29:52

that be with him. And

29:56

how do with it. So

30:00

retreat, pay attention.

30:03

We're going to start to see the mechanism

30:06

of clinging and the

30:08

possibility of release. We're

30:10

going to discover this for ourselves. It

30:12

needs to be discovered inside for ourselves.

30:16

And it includes clinging.

30:19

It's not like we shouldn't cling. It's

30:21

important to retreat to clinging and

30:23

having a close close. Because

30:26

we need good cases. I

30:29

think less cases of clinging. I

30:33

want to feel something else. I want

30:35

to be later. I want to be somebody else. I want

30:37

to be back home. I want to be

30:39

concentrated. Yes, cling.

30:43

A little bit more. Cleaning

30:45

a few more minutes to feel,

30:47

start to feel the ouch of

30:49

clinging until, many of you

30:52

describe this, until at some point, I'm

30:54

thinking, huh? Okay.

30:59

And if it's going to be annoying,

31:01

it's going to be a distraction. Everything

31:05

is not going to be resolved. And

31:08

then look suddenly to the same situation, but

31:11

it's different. The way we relate

31:14

to it, it's different. So

31:28

these are the four no- no,

31:58

it's not bad. is the

32:00

opinion that it should be different, wanting

32:04

it to be different, refusing that it's like

32:06

this. This is a problem, trying

32:09

to keep something that

32:11

cannot be kept, cannot

32:13

be owned. It's

32:15

possible not to cling. That's

32:18

what we call freedom. And

32:21

there's a path, there's a way to

32:25

discover how clinging happens

32:27

and how it can be released. And

32:33

that path we've been walking here

32:35

this week. It's

32:38

a path made of three things. It's

32:42

made of ethics. So

32:44

it means non-harming. The

32:47

Buddha said, okay, so if you want to discover

32:49

how not to cling, if you want to

32:52

come closer to a life

32:54

of peace and ease with

32:56

yourself and the world, don't hurt.

33:00

Take what is not offered and

33:03

you'll discover sources of joy

33:05

that are beautiful, really

33:07

beautiful. And

33:10

so it's worth a lot, just that

33:12

aspect of the path. Refrain

33:17

from hurting, being. We

33:21

could think being a little bit.

33:32

Giving protection, this is

33:34

teaching. I

33:36

always have to go back to see this, kind of

33:38

forget the phrasing. To me

33:40

it's very powerful. Offering

33:42

protection, one

33:44

gains in protection. Offering

33:49

the absence of fear, the release of fear,

33:52

so being non-harming,

33:55

non-violent. One

33:57

offers Fearlessness, fear. And

34:03

game in that. If

34:06

we offer protection for me to live a

34:08

little bit more in the world for this

34:10

protection. Painted as

34:12

we are flooded. The

34:18

third. of the pie is

34:20

not the harm because th

34:22

harm action. The

34:25

Harm explanation. Imagine.

34:29

In the world where everybody would

34:31

be really careful not to harm.

34:37

Would be a very different from the world. And

34:43

another her. Hundred

34:48

Lupus is is meditation

34:50

is training the hard,

34:52

training the mind, cultivating

34:54

beautiful qualities, abandoning her

34:56

detrimental quantities of that's

34:58

what we've been exploring.

35:00

Have to say. Much so.

35:05

Many stations. Miss

35:08

Starting over again. Economy

35:13

T car is honesty.

35:16

Kindness Curiosity Very

35:18

very partial. Quality.

35:24

The So is very much been the walking

35:26

the path. And

35:30

And Harmony chun. Because

35:36

you know that's often. I think this.

35:39

Ah, Thirty

35:41

some unless you the for shit

35:44

numbers for it to go really

35:46

bad. You

35:48

know, i've

35:50

lived species had a little

35:52

pill will you know added

35:54

a few little things and

35:56

it would get really notice

36:00

who knows. Back

36:02

talking, talking in

36:04

the back, it

36:07

could get really ugly very... We

36:13

just invite a few cameras, vote people up,

36:17

the hall, create

36:20

alliances. Just

36:25

for entertaining. Just for the fun

36:27

of it. There was a real pleasure in that.

36:32

And so that's not what we've been

36:34

doing. We've been actually trying to create

36:37

the conditions for healing. I mean this

36:39

in a spiritual way,

36:41

healing. So that we

36:44

can heal the relationship to ourselves, we

36:47

can find how to live, strengthen

36:49

the beautiful values, so that we

36:51

can live the event, even

36:54

more express them, manifest them. We've

36:57

been walking the

36:59

beautiful pathics, walking

37:01

the beautiful meditation. And

37:06

you might think, yeah, well,

37:08

me, I didn't

37:10

do so well on that level. You

37:13

know what? It's not that

37:15

important. It's

37:19

not important that it's messy or... Not

37:23

that freshly, wobbly. It's not

37:26

a meditation practice. It's

37:30

good. Like any

37:32

movement towards understanding,

37:35

towards... it's really

37:37

powerful. I

37:44

used to think that my teacher

37:46

were perfect practitioners, until

37:48

I sat retreat with them, when

37:50

they were students and they reported. And

37:53

I couldn't hear what they did. And

37:56

they were really liberating. But, oh

37:58

yeah, they were. They are also scattered.

38:02

Okay, they are also one-couching. You

38:06

know, there are all these things that I could see in me, I

38:09

could see also in them, maybe

38:12

in a lesser way, etc.

38:15

But still, anyway, to

38:17

me that was good news. First it

38:19

was disappointing, you know, like, my guy,

38:22

I was in a projection.

38:26

But then, eventually it's very liberating because

38:28

you're like, okay, so I have

38:31

to find the way inside of me

38:33

also, and

38:36

humans can do that, you know. And

38:41

so whatever is your assessment

38:43

of what happened here at

38:45

the street, or is happening, some kind of...

38:48

the power that has come, exploration,

38:57

still we were

38:59

on the path, we really were on the

39:01

path, and we did take

39:03

a few steps, and they're

39:06

important steps. And

39:10

then the last part, I'm dividing

39:12

the three right

39:14

now, and there's an aspect of

39:17

non-harming, non-violence, ethical path,

39:19

ethical part of the path. There's

39:21

another that is meditation, and

39:24

mind conservation, heart-mind-contivation,

39:26

we did that. And

39:29

there's a part that is understanding view.

39:32

So that's how

39:34

you view things. So we have

39:36

to work on this if we want to remove

39:40

the clinging that is what is

39:42

painful for human beings. We

39:45

have to change the view, we have to change our perceiving

39:47

things. And so

39:49

how we do this, by non-harming,

39:53

it allows us to not be agitated on

39:55

the question or on the chair, because if

39:57

we're harmed, we're going to be agitated. They

40:00

are going to be justifying, we are going

40:02

to be nervous, we are going to be, you

40:04

know, so that we don't hide, so that the

40:07

mind can get quiet. The

40:09

mind getting quiet and observing

40:11

things, coming close to things, will

40:14

reveal the nature of things. And

40:17

in this way our view will change, our understanding

40:19

will change. And here

40:21

we talked a lot about this, why

40:24

things are impermanent. It

40:26

is known to be a wise

40:28

view, a wise understanding, as opposed

40:31

to an affixed, permanent rescue,

40:34

and it will always be like this,

40:36

and that's my body, and

40:38

it will actually change that view

40:40

a bit. No, it's changing all the time. It's

40:44

a very porous play of

40:47

interaction, interdependence, cause

40:51

and conditions. And

40:54

so talking about the three characteristics is really

40:56

talking about the view. And

41:01

maybe I'll finish with this. You know this morning,

41:04

you might remember when I said there's a kind

41:06

of a circle that keeps

41:08

us a little bit stuck,

41:11

where, you

41:13

know, I

41:16

perceive I, and I

41:19

think I, I will do this, I

41:21

will do that, and it's happening to me, etc. So

41:23

I think like this, and when I think like this,

41:25

I reinforce the view. And

41:28

if the view is reinforced, then I will perceive

41:30

it. I

41:32

will perceive this is my knee, and

41:34

then oops, another turn, and another turn,

41:36

and another turn. And

41:39

this is true also, this delusion will,

41:41

we could say, is

41:43

also working around

41:47

satisfaction, around dukkha. And

41:54

so we project on something, or perceive,

41:57

for us, we don't know that we're projecting,

41:59

but we... perceives that

42:01

something is going to be satisfying, so we

42:03

want it. And

42:06

because we perceive it, we

42:08

think of it in this way, this is satisfying,

42:10

I need it, when will I get this? And

42:13

we think about it like this. And the more

42:15

we think about it this way, the more we

42:17

view it as satisfying. And

42:19

then we perceive it as such. Really

42:23

very superficial, but I remember

42:25

one time, a number

42:27

of years ago, I went

42:29

to teach in Europe, and

42:33

I probably was in a

42:35

car with somebody, and the

42:37

person told me,

42:40

oh, this is an Audi. They

42:43

showed me a car, I said, oh, this is an Audi.

42:46

I don't know what they said about this,

42:49

it was a thing of a status, like if

42:51

you have an Audi, and something

42:53

about the Audi, and I noticed

42:55

the circles, and I

42:58

was like, it was not

43:01

big on cars. But

43:06

somehow I got some information, and

43:08

after I looked at the other

43:10

side, it's beautiful cars, and

43:13

then suddenly I was like, oh my

43:15

God, I'm looking for Audi. Somebody

43:19

told me it's desirable, I hadn't seen that,

43:22

and after they said, look, perceive it as

43:24

desirable. And suddenly I was

43:26

looking for Audi, and I said, oh yeah,

43:28

that's how it works. Suddenly somebody

43:30

put a little seat, and me

43:32

totally naive and ignorant, I'm

43:36

like, oh yeah, okay, yes. And

43:41

it became funny very quickly, but I could

43:43

have gotten myself into, I'm

43:45

unworthy because I don't have an Audi, and when

43:48

I have an Audi, it's

43:50

not going to happen. So

43:55

that's how, you know, that's how, you

43:58

know, that's how... you

44:00

know, you're just on the internet

44:02

and then you see something and

44:05

project satisfaction on somebody. And

44:07

so people come here on retreat and project

44:10

satisfaction on when I'll be in

44:12

a relationship. Somebody

44:15

on this side, somebody on this side, like when I'm getting

44:17

rid of that

44:21

relationship, this one wants

44:23

a relationship, this one wants to get rid of it.

44:26

And we all have the things

44:28

like where we project satisfaction and

44:31

the practice of

44:33

changing the view is to come

44:36

close to events and notice that

44:38

they disappear, they change, they're

44:41

allure, different from

44:43

closer, that they're

44:48

unreliable. And

44:52

in this way we can change

44:55

the view. And

44:58

it's not like we don't engage with

45:00

stuff because everything is disappointing with this

45:02

kind of thing. It's just kind

45:05

of more, I don't know

45:07

if it's honest to words, but more, you

45:10

know, I might start

45:14

something and know that there's

45:17

going to be difficulty in it. That's like, oh, when

45:19

we do this project, it's going to be great also.

45:24

But it's not in

45:26

its nature to solve

45:29

all the problems. It's nothing like

45:31

this. I

45:37

hear that if you

45:39

have had kids, you

45:42

understand that?

45:46

No? No? I've always wanted

45:48

kids, it's just completely satisfying.

45:50

I hear,

45:52

I don't know, that's not my experience, but I

45:54

hear that it comes with stress. As soon as

45:56

you, oh, even. Carrying

46:01

the child is like, are

46:03

they going to be okay? There's an

46:05

understanding of the uncertain nature

46:08

of things. And

46:11

that's going to happen. Things are

46:13

shaking. I've

46:22

even heard a few people say, not

46:26

in the next slide. I'll

46:29

take a little pause in the next slide. That's

46:32

too crazy. It's

46:37

not promoted so much, but I've heard

46:39

it a few times. Which

46:42

makes me think that it can be

46:44

a profound, incredible... at least I will

46:46

never know. But that

46:48

also comes up. Okay,

46:55

it's a poor child. Okay,

47:07

so let's take a moment to look at

47:10

these words that are designed. Thank

47:25

you. Thank

47:55

you. Man

48:36

may our lives. Me.

48:41

Shows that emerges we are

48:44

experiencing with will be experiencing

48:46

me out his become. And

48:53

me. Lead who are.

48:57

Who. Liberation.

49:00

Liberation of the heart. For the. Ah,

49:03

cool vibe and. Joyful

49:07

and compassionate. Movie.

49:17

We are experiencing Sweden. Okay,

49:49

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