I said, well, I can't come, probably, because I'm rehearsing with four musicians. And then he called up later and said, well, we need to rehearse with you. Do something. They came. You, of course, all know Mr. Gibbs and the four musicians. Arthur Russell, who's playing the cello. John Meyer, who's playing the flute. John Scholl, who's playing the guitar. Alan Yonkey, who's playing the guitar. Hello. I think, you know, as a person, I've seen something wrong with our country,

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with our society, rather than something wrong with us. At least in some nations. I think that's the first line of policy. I think that's my generation's first line of policy. I think it's that realisation that something wrong is happening in our society. I'm just wondering what the difference is. That's what we were going to do. We tried to find some way to make a life in this country. I think the most difficult thing to do is not to tell the truth. Homage to Roshi Suzuki.

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His translation of Prajnaparamita, chanted in English. C chord. A week. A week. Every suffering.

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Shariputra. Form is no different from emptiness. Emptiness no different from form. Form is the emptiness. Emptiness is the form. Sensation. Thought. Active substance. Consciousness also like this. Shariputra. This is the original character of everything. Not born. Not annihilated. Not tainted. Not pure.

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Does not increase. Does not decrease. Therefore in emptiness no form. No sensation. No thought. No active substance. No consciousness. No eye. No ear. No nose. No tongue. No body. No mind. No color. No sound. No smell. No taste. No touch. No object of touch. No eye. No world of eyes until we come to also no world of consciousness. No ignorance.

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Also no annihilation of ignorance until we come to no old age and death. Also no annihilation of old age and death. No suffering. No cause of suffering. No nirvana. In no path. No wisdom. Also no attainment because now attainment.

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Bodhisattva depends on Prajnaparamita, highest perfect wisdom, because mind is no obstacle, because of no obstacle. No exist fear. Go beyond all topsy-turvy views. Attain nirvana. Past, present and future. Every Buddha depends on Prajnaparamita. Therefore attain supreme perfect re-enlightenment.

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Therefore I know Prajnaparamita, highest perfect wisdom. Prajnaparamita is the great holy mantra, the great unpainted mantra, the supreme mantra, the incomparable mantra, is capable of assuaging all suffering. True because not false. Therefore he proclaimed Prajnaparamita mantra and proclaimed mantra says,

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Gone, gone to the other shore. Forgotten, completely utterly gone. So reach enlightenment. What we pray is that merit for recounting this sutra pervade universally. And we, bodhisattvas and all sentient beings, achieve this Buddhism in the ten directions.

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Past, present and future. All Buddhas, world honored one year. Great Bodhisattva, great Prajnaparamita, Svaha, [...] Svaha.

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Svaha, Svaha. The Padmasambhava mantra. I won't read that anymore. Om, Ah, Om, Vajra, Guru, Padma, Siddhi, Om. Which many of you know. Can you hear my voice?

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Can you hear syllables distinctly in English? In the back? I don't, I'm not, I'm straining a little. Many of you know the Padmasambhava mantra. So if you can chant it. I'll be chanting it slowly. As taught by Tarthang Thogu. With a tune or melody. Which is traditional. Traditional. Tibetan. Take it easy. Take it easy. Om.

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Om. Om. Vajra. Guru. Padma. Om. Siddhi. Om.

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Om. Om. Om. Ah. Om. Om. Om. Vajra. Guru. Om. Om.

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Padma. Om. Siddhi. Om. [...] Vajra.

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Guru. Om. Om. Padma. Siddhi. Om. [...] Ah. Om.

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Om. Vajra. Guru. Padma. Siddhi. Om. Om. Om.

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Om. Om. Om. Ah. Vajra. Om. Om.

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Om. Om. Siddhi. Om. [...]

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Om. Vajra. Guru. Padma. Siddhi. Om. Om.

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Om. May. Ah. Om. Om. Vajra. Guru. Guru. Om. Siddhi.

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Om. [...] Ah. Om. Om.

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Om. Vajra. Om. [...] Padma. Om. Siddhi. Om. Om.

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Om. [...]

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Om. [...]

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Om. [...] We don't have an adapter, I'm afraid.

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Okay. Then we'll do the best we can. So now... Huh? It's too low. Huh? It's too low. Oh. Yeah. Uh... Remember that strong rhythm thing we had? Uh, yeah. I think so. Can we try something like that? Yeah. What do we need to do? Do you want it in C? Is that comfortable for you? Yeah, I think so. What do you want to do? Well, just any blues and I'll just start with the blues and continue with... Yeah, yeah, yeah. See if I can do... Is that the same thing I did before? It's like very... Play it with me. It's different, isn't it? What? Uh... Huh? That's not...

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What's the second noble truth? What is it? Does anybody know the second noble truth? Accumulation of suffering. But what does that mean? Suffering accumulates... Cause of suffering. Cause of suffering is what? Ignorance? But there is... Suffering is cause. Yeah. Yeah, good. We'll figure it out. See you after. Ready? It's like... Maybe a little faster than last time, but not much. Yeah. Sittin' in a basement

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McDougal Street Guitar Factory Sittin' in Fien John's Greenwich Village Banjo University Every boy is a genius Plays the guitar except me Forty-five years I wanted to be a minstrel man Dictated epics and books inside My Volkswagen, man Now, gray hair on my head I'm singin' the best that I can Oh, Mr. Garbage Man

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Don't take me away, no, not yet Oh, Mr. Garbage Man Don't dump truck me Like an old cigarette Not till I learn how to pick out a song You'll never forget I tried chanting mantras I tried singing William Blake I tried mantra chanting I tried singing old Holy Blake Now I'll sing him the blues If the good God gives me a break Back in the basement

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Guitars ringin' all around Screamin' here in the basement Up with the hall Guitars ring me all around I can sing three chords I can sing three chords I can sing my way underground Listen, evictions I'm no creep full of desire I got a big mouth It's because my heart is on fire If I can get hot You can sing like an angel choir Up in the Sierras

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Visiting Gary Snyder the other day We decided to fight for the Buddha An American way Can we put into a ballad of blues Four noble truths any day First one is suffering Sanskrit dukkha for you and for me That means it's unsatisfactory here In our eternity Because everything changes Ain't no stability Number two in the line of the great blues is

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There's a cause Just as that suffering is One of nature's great laws Accumulate your blues That's why you get kinda nauseous Out of this scene The third noble truth is In the suffering that ends It's one of the truths you next got to understand But you can't do that without the Eight steps fixed in your gland Now what are the

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Eight steps in the eightfold noble path Samyak drishti Correct views, that's the first one Rats, get out of your rat Second is bright hope Bright aspirations, that you've got to think Some will do you no good If it's all mental, it will stink So you've got to manifest it up In the back for speech mistake Karamita next in Sanskrit Conduct or action for you Then comes your livelihood

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Mixed up with your correct view Let your neighbor be right That's nothing so new Mahatma Gandhi said it once And he said it true Ezra Pound offered the word Usurah For those whose labors Were a scam as he saw Making money out of money That's the wrong work, you know Diyama

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Right efforts next of all Yeah, the right kind of effort Is number six in the eightfold path Right mindfulness Keep your void on the wall Sanskrit is smriti Keeping your right mind down Keep your smriti in hand And you'll get Samyak account Shunyata crown That will lead to Last step number eight The great samadhi

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That your meditation will create Nothing to love there And there's nothing to hate And leave your mind free To watch the human in your state Following that Five commandments come One don't destroy life Not anyone An ecological view Under the twentieth century The sun Probably leaves

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Don't destroy life Don't eat meat To eat just vegetables And get slim For me, that would be neat Also, the food shortage Probably vegetarianism That would defeat Out of one acre Of vegetable grain You could get much more Useful protein Than out of a bunch of cows and pigs Which if you eat them, it's so obscene Second commandment

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Don't go stealing around Like a street street Or like a junkie Take what's not given you On your own ground And you'll find if you don't steal You won't have to lie Or make a bad sound That bad sound That was the fourth Of the five commands No false speech No lies In your own hands The fifth of the vows There is no intoxicant plans Now that one's most difficult

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Hard for me to pronounce Some Buddhist interpreters say Means don't push more than an ounce Or you can smoke a little grass But don't get it mixed up in your pants No intoxicants I'd buy that as meaning don't get drunk I had too many lovers With whiskey on their tongue And they all stunk The worst was when my boyfriend Went out pushing and buying his junk It gave me bad karma

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Made me feel so low All them deep freaks Running around up and below I finally said Well, no intoxicants That's a good show There's other aspects to cover In the great dharma chakra blues The twelvefold chain Of interdependent origination Would be some great American News If anybody understood it It would end the American blues I once saw a lady in

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Kalimpong in Darjeeling A noble Buddhist virgin Sister Vajra full of feelings She studied the Hinayana path Many years before she got to Mahayana And began intellect stealing She did RMA On the twelvefold chain Which I'll now pronounce Ignorance, baby, was the beginning Of the great revolution In Sanskrit Before the cosmos weighed a single ounce Ignorance led to people Or things or nothing moving

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It was quite remarkable Considering that at the time There was no cosmic ground All of a sudden Shunyata in some new consciousness Drowned Vijnana Consciousness led to giving name And giving form One worm And right after that The sense organs Ah! They began to squirm Contact fast

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Contact established People began to think Of the first and the last Before you knew that They had a whole double universe Without being asked Doubles caused triples And triples multiplied More and more And with all that stuff around Desire rose up and great cosmic Became the one whore Filled up the world From the ceiling right down To the floor Standing on desire Attachment set up a ladder

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All around Upadana in Sanskrit Ladder reached up Rose right up out of the ground Yagizdral the tree Attachment the ladder Led to being all around Being bhava everywhere Spread through the air Beings took birth Sentient though they weren't Even there Having been born There was old age And death in which to stare Jaramarana

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Jaramarana athe Old age and death if you're born Is your final estate Since nothing was there Death's neither unhappy Nor so great That leads to another Concept that we should conceive Nothing to prevent us So therefore we can take leave Something to do in this place So that we don't just grieve Shudhyo, muhant, sikha and dharma

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Beings are numberless I vow to enlighten them So That's what I'll do here on earth Here to heaven I go Bono, muhant, sikha and dharma Bono, muhant, sikha and dharma Opticals are countless I vow to cut them down I don't care whether that gives me The great or an eternal crown Omon, muryu, sigang, gaku comes next

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The third of the four great vows Not a little trick Dharma gates are limitless But I vow to master them quick Butsu, domo, jok, sigang, jok Butsu, domo, jok, sigang, jok The dono way is endless I vow to follow through What do you gotta watch out for In the middle of this great systematic mix

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The five klishas are known As the five dirty tricks If you don't pay attention to them You'll wind up very, very cancerous sick Probably derived from the chain Of interdependent origination too The first of those obstacles is ignorance As I before told you So this first ignorant obstacle Well, that's hardly anything new Anger comes next So you get up in a rage Make a lot of noise

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And drop your bombs All over the 20th century age Get old and mad And, by better turn, another page Instead of that ignorant anger Let's have a good time Lust is the next of the obstacles In your great climb Oh, you come, and you come, and you come And after a while Gets to be a bit of a boring old rhyme So then, instead of going right back To the hard compassion and all You go down, and you take

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A great ignorant sorrowful fall Fourth klisha is doubt That brings you to the great boring wall Maybe you get a glimpse You gotta get out of this Situation you're in Satori, in fact, comes After you've been wallowing In that foolish sin So pride is the very next obstacle I found myself in After that, in the middle of The great worldly pride You get to realize

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All these heaps of passions and doubts Are gonna have to be died And that is the point Where the five skandhas inward glide I'll come towards the end of this song With appearance, it's first Shiki, or rupa, in many ways Is the worst If you can get beyond that Then you're on base They call the first And to get beyond that You've got to go and examine All that they call perception It's a matter, I suppose

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That could be quite easily done LSD is the way But we also have your meditation Gone past perception Examining movements of mind Conceptions come, conceptions go Flowing in the balmy wine You try to find their bottom But you know there's no Conceptual bottom to find So then you realize Those thoughts and those forms Imaginary are

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That includes everything From the light in your eyes To the furthest star That will hardly go Unless you sit and think Unless your body in the funeral fire Gets to charge All these four Appearance, perception, conception Imagination make up Five Consciousness is the great bowl In which we all sup That's the one thing That we apparently Got to give up But what does that mean

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To give up Your natural mind Could that possibly be That we all gotta close our eyes And go blind Cause as you know There's six fields of consciousness In which we got to pay our mind The first, as I said, was vision But after that Microphones and hearing will come Apparently to conquer The six fields of consciousness You also Got to be dumb Then you find yourself Entering the great Hiradiyagarbha womb If here it seems to smell

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And you find that the corpses All stink Your next thought, you know Is that smell Is a field In which you can't wink What happens to the smell Of all those overcoats That now are mink The minks they were eating The fish And the fish had a good taste That was the fourth field Of consciousness That also's gonna go to waste In fact, some ascetics say You better start out And make it all a waste Fifth field of consciousness

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Touch like on the Bottleneck guitar Now you can feel that anywhere Even on your ass Sitting right where you are But they say all them feelings And senses Depend on your mind Like a star The sixth field of consciousness Mind and the great system here When you come to consider it If it's empty There's nothing to fear And after that All these six fields of consciousness Become quite dear Ending the blues

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Of the great dharma chakra law The universe is vast But the entire system Buddha saw That's why we've all spent years Studying the Bodhisattva's law Ending the song Wouldn't be of any use at all If we kept it to ourselves And let the world The rest of it take a fall I don't want any merit And I guess you don't want Any merit at all

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Merit is karma And karma's a great big drag We've all been suffering Much too long A great heavy Long karma lag Look at me My mother Turned me into a bag Echo, echo, echo Ends the symmetry Oh may the three treasures Illuminate thee We have just chanted the Daiki Emo Bukkai Jinsho

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And with its merit Invoke the pure land For the benefit of all those Killed in those wars at hand And the ten thousand spirits Of three realms and every land To all the Buddhas In the ten directions And the three realms To all the noble Bodhisattva, Mahasattvas And also their friendly elves May Mahaprajaparamita Come to all in twelve

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Now we've covered Most of the matter We study every day So true If we learned it better Or meditated on it more We'd probably be less blue I end the song now Wishing it all be happy for you Thank you. Yeah. Next. Broken string? Want to fix your string? Let's take a little break.

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After break we'll do one long poem based on the chords of the Vajra Guru mantra in English. That's the one. The way I have it. Is that in 1900? G. Nineteen. No. Nineteen. Nineteen hundred forty six China was won by Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away And they're waiting there In Thailand today Waiting there in Thailand today

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Ready? Yeah. Begin. Oh. Let me get my bells. Bells. Huh? Begin with more pop style. CIA Dope Calypso Okay. C D G C G D C G D C G D G In nineteen hundred forty six

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China was won by Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away And they're waiting there In Thailand today Supported by the CIA Pushing junk down Bangkok way First they stole from the Mio tribes Under the hills they started taking bribes Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan Collecting opium to sell to the man Pushing junk in Bangkok today Supported by the CIA Brought their jam on mule trains down to Chiang Rai That's a railroad town Sold it next to police chief Crane Who took it to town on the Choo Choo train Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day Supported by the CIA The policeman's name was Mr. Fow

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He peddled dope grand scale and how Chief of the border Customs paid by Central Intelligence's USA The whole operation Newspapers say Supported by the CIA He got so sloppy and he peddled so loose He busted himself and he cooked his own goose He took the reward for an opium load Seizing his own hole which same he resold Big time pusher a decade today Working for the CIA The whole operation Fell into chaos till US intelligence Came in to lay us I tell you no lie I'm true American And our big pusher there was Fumi Nohselvan All them princes in a power play Fumi was the man for the CIA Tubi Lee Fong he worked for the French

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Big fat man liked to dine at the wedge Prince of the VO's grew black mud Opium flowed through the land like a flood Communists came and chased the French away So Tubi took a job with the CIA His best friend was General Vang Pao Ran Armio Army like a sacred cow Helicopter smugglers filled Long Ching's bars In Xinhuang province on the plain of jars It started in secret and it continues today Clandestine secret army of the CIA All through the 60's the dope flew three From Tan Son Nhat Saigon to Marshall Key Air America follows through Transporting coffee chew to President Du All these dealers were decades in today The Indo-Chinese gang of the CIA All these dealers were decades in today

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The Indo-Chinese Sangha of the CIA Just to a room

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