Not super buried but this is a little easier. If you want to come in early you can come around the back. I will be posted.

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Okay, when we're back, Ms. Tuesday, this is work. Oh, sure. Okay, thanks. Are you moving today? Yeah. How can I help you? Well, maybe just not . Yeah, but hold up. Anything you're using? Yep. I'm nifty. It's the modern way. I feel very traditional. I'm so used to that. The over-the-ear thing feels traditional now. So this is going to amplify him? Yeah. Do you want to hear it? I mean, you... It's like the wireless. This must be how Thomas Edison would feel.

[02:18]

Yeah. I think Thomas Edison would be a lot more confused than upset if he got pulled into a wheelchair. Yeah, but I think he'd start with the lights. That's okay. Well, wait. Do you want me to tell you something? No, no, I'm going to test the lights. Okay, great. No, I'll just wait to hear. Oh, his voice. Jack, right? Yeah. Yeah, I'm just thinking about where Jack will do it. And is that the most modern thing to know? This is about as good as it gets right now. Yeah, this is a really good sort of. But it turns out in all of my tests, the best sound on this thing is actually to just let it use it to unlock the phones. If you plug it into the system, you get 4C. And it's much easier. Right, because you're just worried about which thing you're playing into. Do you need for it to be on a little stand?

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Put it here, or you could just put it... Do you have anything? See, right now we can follow through. In that part, right? Yeah, I see. I don't know. [...] Well, I... All right, so that was a question.

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Well, too. I know. Everybody wants to see you first. Oh, yeah. Is there a little clock over there that you could have?

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Unsurpassed, penetrating and perfect, our rock is grubby, met with even in a hundred thousand million couples, having it to see and listen to, to remember and accept. I vow to taste the truth of the Tathagatha's words. Good evening. Can you hear in the far corners? Okay? Okay over there?

[22:49]

Yeah? So I'm here at Tessahara teaching a workshop that I called The Practice of Awakening. The title occurred to me for a couple of reasons. One is that, to my mind, awakening is the central activity of Buddhist practice, in particular Zen practice. And that when we awaken and see the nature of what is, it sets us into a kind of a virtuous cycle. Who we are and how we are makes more sense to us.

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And we start to see and learn from who we are and how we are, how to live a life harmoniously and not be caught up in so much struggling suffering. And then the other motivation was, well, two other motivations. One was, my thinking is this, you know, each country that Buddhism has established itself in, that establishing in the country embraced the mores of the time and the place. I remember being in India about 10 years ago and noticing the difference, there's a lot of poverty in India, and noticing the difference between those who were destitute and through just the many causes and conditions, didn't have a place to live.

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contrast between them and the mendicants who were on a spiritual quest. And that struck me as, oh, that was a common event in the time of Shakyawini. Maybe there are mendicants roaming through the streets of San Francisco. And They're a little hard to recognize now. And then similarly in China, Buddhism adapted itself to Confucianism and Daoism. And so, with an absolute foolish arrogance, I thought, well, what is the Dharma? What is this skillful context that facilitates the Dharma here in the West?

[26:20]

Maybe the West means Tassahara, the Bay Area, California. I think it just died. Should I talk back again? Okay. That was one reason to explore that. I often feel like Tassajara has this heritage of monasticism from China and Japan. It's probably a thousand-plus years old. as Michael was echoing the Han, I was thinking, oh, maybe that's been the tradition for the last thousand years. So how do we revere that tradition?

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There's a wonderful saying that I like, it's revere the flame, not the ashes. We're not revering some golden fable about how wonderful things were in the past. But something comes out of that that we've inherited, a kind of aliveness that we can use to engage the human condition. In some ways, the very teachings of Shakyamuni 2,500 years ago are still completely relevant in today's time. So that's the first reason. And then the second reason was it was a wonderful opportunity to teach with the Jonah, who, his day job is a professor at Stanford.

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But his spiritual quest has been a steady influence on his life. Some of his teachers outside the Buddhist world are Angelus Aryan, Michael Mead, David White. So to enter into an environment where people expect us to know what we're going to say and do, and then to discover how to be appropriate in that context. And as I say, I think it's one very small contribution

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to discovering what the Dharma is in the West, what Zen practice is in the West.

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