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now here is heart for from the seminar entitled future of politics
the whole philosophy of bushido all the way of the worry or in japan
yes
a test of nerve between them
as true can you face this thing
have you faced being chopped up instantly
the same poem which those under the saw lifted high that is how making you crumble
our plan mercutio which means goes through the head and though the land of bliss various paradise don't stop don't hesitate to the minute you are put off or made to flinch this we say by the heavy episode your last
if you don't flinch
you are always quick enough to defend yourself
so like could be construed in terms of a competition in who's gonna finish first
see
right so we we've are involved politically
in a game
i've studying the logistics
our mutual eating society
after all life all living creatures
we just by virtue
while destroying something else
biology is a system of transformation
just out of the waves yeah they are a series of transformations in the service with the water
so
every kind of living species is a series of transformations a home
but they do this through the route of teeth
a sharp edges of chewing of pain
and so when anything is chewed up
it has same
and that a pain is it's reaction to being too rough
and by virtue of hey and being chewed up leaders transformed into a higher honor of being in itself because the one that comes to get that finally catches you
hurt this high up in the game
and so the experience of pain
here's something that we say
that's terrible
that's the end
but on the other end of the spectrum is it worth the pain of a piece of caviar egg
there has been chewed up his experience an exquisite player who's trying to victory
and i
now then
the secret
alex a buddhist enlightenment
these to realize that these values that are could
hey caribou pleasure great are arbitrary
that guy
when for example
you were a baby
and you are
made a vow movement on the floor
and you thought lolly that was great
ha your mother
said argh
it stinks
and you will talk to interpret the smell of excrement as being something bad
the in the same way exactly we are taught to experience the sensation of being sick of being in pain i'm not dying and other was a not continuing in the providing process we
our talk to give them an emotional clutter
a bad bad bad bad bad don't do this way don't know that way see stop i will come in
therefore we have a high number power
but the paradox of the matter is this
but if you have a serious hang up
against dying
you can't be a good soldier
think of that from him
what a funny situation that is

we we demand the bar a young man who have a hello strength and vitality and so on we say to them
come on now it's your duty to defend our society against thin
and in order to be able to build a efficiently you must have a virtue hold courage
and have the virtue for courage
you must be in a very weird paradoxical situation
what is in the prime of life when all the world without computers and he wandered off ago and everything else who must not be afraid of death
you understand very well that for when you get to be an old man
you stop being afraid of death
because you know you're going to die you're worn out
will be very happy to die eventually become did it justice of carrying on it too much
i'm so you can say with robert miller steven from under the wide and star is guy did be a grave and let me lie gladly i lived in glad they die and i made me down with a little
the that find her an origin
but for a young man or young woman full of energy
we did mom my dad encouraged to lay down by

so ah

in a way
the old chicken me up
because from the old people can view it doesn't matter so much
and so they can brag and talk about the virtues of courage without actually having to hide
cause it's no problem
ah for to people who we are actually asked to do the fighting it is a problem
so now than we have to consider the whole question of
the philosophy and use of violence
nacogdoches can find more political question
politics
ha ultimately
ah
the when you get down so we shall we say for the nitty gritty of politics
it's a question of violence

because
we will say when a slave
how to the end of its teller and people won't be persuaded
linda five stocks
now we can explore a whole philosophy are being so skillful persuasion that you'll never need to resort to violence
but let's leave that aside for the moment
let's go through the park the park with explore that and find out where it ends up
and i was very strongly advise all of you if you get a chance to see the japanese film called somewhere i had come in three installments for three showed that the life story of miyamoto musashi
this tremendous somewhere i hero
who becomes the unquestioned
master of swordsmanship
under the tutelage of the zen master
zen masters cock one
have you should read cop ones
yesterday on the arms often shepherded into to book them in japanese culture
what he describes how you apply
zen state of mind state of consciousness can be of fencing and the same way as aerogel described it in the than the out of otra
the thing is that the whole story revealed
is that musashi
comes to the point
when he realizes the total vanity
i'll kill him
he wants to be a fun he wants to have a life when a child and he wants to grow things and he absolutely despises the idea of fighting that he has challenged to a deal by the most gorgeous young samurai in japan
we are physically beautiful man with whole ambition in life with to fight with procession
and that he just don't wanna do it
but he feels somehow
and what the motivations of design an ice cream the contracts he must fulfill the the donna
obama of fighting with this young man how the young man so desperately wants to provide them
how they ready a do
and of course infinite complications socially or involved with this because the young samurai is the picture of one of the great
nobleman dime he has his personal patrons often ship from there are all the time you read the new associates and caught are involved
so they set replaced with dual
on a particular island
and
musashi sends a messenger
the he will arrive to meet the appointment for the duo in his own time
on a boat
he comes in just before dawn
onto a beat
for this young man who are really waiting to meet everything
while he is coming from above he takes a paddle from the boatman and with you thought
cut it into a certain shape
this is the weapon
he keeps his shots on
chief by side in emergency
and he approaches his antagonist on the beach with nothing but wouldn't have it
but he is so tiny everything that
the critical moment of the battle will occur when the sunrise
and because he stands in the water all the time on the understand the opponent has the fun by you can't see
and is therefore defeated by nature
but in a moment of being slain
the opponent is so proud to have this battle you can see him looking has the forty dropped their he looks in the real unsavoury massage odds with the utmost admiration and love
for founder
even if he was defeated some on he had found his ambition and then all the daniels and noble who gather around and compensated mythology
most magnificent thing we ever saw
i'm thirty weeks i will never again be for greater an opponent
when you go the way we did with no honors know nothing he walked back to the boat
the boatman says all i i'm so happy you won
massage you can only week or utility the hoping one
so
what
what does that masters taught

the samurai in the art swordsmanship

what is that ultimately if you really understand how to use violence how to use power
you don't use
the highest school kendall fencing is called the know sword school
here you see is a desert
a funny situation

if you're a first
one of the first principles you of love
especially if you're bullish the southern asia small burma thailand if you don't kill anything you're a vegetarian
you abstain from the day eve like your first precept honor the other there are many sick around somebody younger means i undertake the precept for abstaining from the taking of life
so people will say well how can the summarize who slaughter everybody in all directions be it
well as the problem we have to consider
as you still have to ask the emma yama buddhists who are vegetarian
how can you deaf the control for vegetable making supper we are existence
i asked our age blinders are it's life was the man who have than in english literature can't they gotta i propose he was a devoted vegetarian and teetotaller
and i teased him you know we have a wonderful discussion together on her for you every town was catching up all the fish with how can you do that he said they don't scream so loud
what a freshman
so we are you have the paradox
out
buddhism which is
but a whereby much higher they'd stresses compassion
and a kindness
barkingside harmlessness yet somehow in a funny way allying itself with a class of soldiers
using these
frightful weapons
but by
the association
eventually a few of those soldiers learn how to get out of the system
now japan as a whole
may have lunch at this point how to get out of us just have a problem is doubtful
they may have learned their lesson
in that second world war
and you could say perhaps the the culture members of the country as a whole
have learned
upvote the game of violence doesn't work
but a few individuals locusts
as a result of studying guido and the the the art of judo and the art of kendall a fencing to its final limits
they learned
the power
have never defending you from
the beautiful seen the movie when miyamoto musashi is in a little cheap in and he is eating his dinner and they haven't that the rise of them lies in it
and that he is suddenly challenged by a brilliant who is in charge of the particular crime bracket and behavior
and it's brilliant comes on a very strong line and and you'll see miyamoto musashi picking the life out of the rife with his trusty phone them away absolutely untrue from and this brilliant looks at he has tried all his tricks all is terror from this man simply is bob
so the brig they instantly becomes musashi his disciple
pepper
a
hey
whoa
he is what happened in the politics of the thing
hands down into a game of nerve
let's just take it geographically physically the as you look at japan today go and visit a town much kyoto
the hills on the north side of kyoto
are they love this land
most beautiful forests and hill from landscaping street
well it if i asked if they want to live
therefore naturally the richest most powerful people own land
this was the luxury this area
let it so happens that the zen monks occupied a great deal
they did like trenches
only husband that each one of them are poor
they need a a life of what i would call
luxurious of scepticism
did you know what that means you
county
life can be some rough you don't really conceal carry to sleep in the rough lagat about the surroundings of other
so that's where you live
the question arises immediately then how did they capture this lamp
at monk's with nothing no weapons at all
from the most powerful brilliant or hump
because the people who love and nobility today low good and in the roughest guys going
so today the rockefeller family in the united states from clumping with the robber barons
people
the great lords and ladies in england low
the rigidly
the brilliant chief
who robbed the lamb the put everything down
so as the same way the daimyo were simply the most successful bunch of crows the government of the united states is as a matter of fact nothing other than the most successful group of gangsters
but somehow the month
oh the cable
because the monks look them in the i we said you can't find
and they said ali khan friday you
when they tried everything
and the monks couldn't be frightened
so the brigham got leverage
because they would like to be as on the frightened because that because if they knew they could be as unfathomable as that they could win any contest
t
tamoxifen stare them down
and i can't imagine what that must have meant and comes with some personal suffering
a certain individual models they may have tried torches on
say say we could move you
they couldn't be moved
they just could not be made anxious
i'm frightened
and the reason why they couldn't was that they had learned
this thing

that

you'll never be ashamed of feeling pain
you needn't panic about pain it's package or all right to be in pain and to object that don't object to objective
let go
and if you understand that thing you can be ah
a complete hero
incapable of being moved by the culture
because you see through the illusion of below
when they saw that we therefore they could outpace all those britain's
the brigham said i'll go pick up for button hope that her
and as a result they the ownership of the best land on going north end killed her past in hand with the month
now shortly before the second world war the japanese government committed an album of this year of his mistake which is the reason why the japanese the definitive
they deprive the month of their land
he said
all a churches have to be this the theft
we take away from new orleans
and therefore you will have to shift with restaurants and tourist places in order to make a living
i'll shortly before something happened in japan shortly before the second world war
whereby they lost
there are understanding of the nerves on school
and made this ridiculous gamble
our bombing away and started my war
in which they failed
and it's so curious to see that we're starting of that wall and rejecting their the monks haven't got the same time
and i wrote just before the second blow well war started an article in asia magazine called the rusty songs of japan
saying how the summer i had lost after the war and started at that point
they had lost the understanding of the song
because i lost the understanding of them therefore they will will never use
they have done enough anymore
so then

let us allow the in life
there has to be violence
that trees have to be chopped down
that pigs have to be stuck the chickens have to be strangled
that a soft succulent
a sensitive the substance has to be crunched by keith
if this doesn't happen life doesn't go on
so one out what are you gonna do about that what will be your response to that richard
you could say no no no no no that's just too bad i stopped the whole thing
i want to stop the michelle get up
not do that
how will you do that
even a vegetarian can't stop it
you can commit suicide yes and say i reject the whole system it is appalling and horrible
that's one possible
what's the other possibility
the only other possibility is to say that if violence in all
if the t zone bow if there is that side of life then let us do is beautiful
if you have to cut her head off
don't do it with a blunt knife
because that will involve unnecessary suffering
good with the sharpest knife that you can make fast as fuck
and then thereafter if you'll go to eke living flesh you'll go to eat a fish or birds or whatever
you owe it to this form of life to prepare and cook it to the most expertly
the new tang said a fish that has died feel it is not a little coke has died in vain
so that good so far as the dead fish to the dead bird become you
they made at least have the privilege of enjoying themselves as you
now that they some you know
we're language and you can say ah you can talk
it's all right so long as you're only eat again and suppose you have a bird
he lived a job just disappeared have become unconscious and you wouldn't have participated once
when i'm wondering how hurt himself
let's take the whole idea of christianity
jesus
initiated a right which we call the mass
and that
this this right has been be kept going for goodness knows why but it's been kept going for thousands of years among christians every sunday
everyone is both good mass what's it all about
jesus takes a loaf of bread
now what is a loaf of bread it is grains of wheat that have been beaten up and pulverized
and flower
and what is a couple of why it is crushed grapes that have been squeezed with broken interviews
i'm he makes an analogy
he takes the bread and he said this is my body which has given here
fill this in remembrance of the
he takes the couple of wine and he says this is my blog watershed for you
incidentally for the remission of sins
does this the new amendments with me
heavy i've never heard clergymen talk about this
but obviously he fell here is life itself same you
i am the week
i have been crushed
to give you life
i am the vine he said i am the vine you are the branches i'm the mine which has been squashed
but please it's for the remission of sins don't think gop
take this and kid
the house
in some honey away
the creature that is the eaten one
he's giving itself
the sacrifice is voluntary
and
things don't feel good
so in the whole sense of the idea of the mass something that to participate in order to attain salvation and liberation from guilt and hell and all that kind of thing is connected with the idea
that the victim is a voluntary victim
and in in as an acrobat in a very ancient sacrifices human sacrifices he mexico the mayan and aztec and of in her pouches whether what human sacrifices he was of the essence of the thing that the victim of launch
now that cannot be such a thing as the voluntary sacrificial victim
except
in a world in a metaphysical one new way you know
that death and life also play
opposing vibrations
the death can never win you can know you can't have a state in which death is the permanent situation
because it like in all death death involves life and they've got to get the idea with a with you gotta like that so i bet how happens every so often
saw her memory but you keep on going under a new scene
remember how long it's taken for you to develop from baby not until now
what a struggle with them
not a big thing
see that's the one great wave in this vibration
am like that
but are a shock waves like waking and sleeping like her
when you look at life
they actually realize vibrating here so fast the you
how pick up the intervals
but when you hear a very deep sound we've been the other yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda of the vibration
the vibration between life and death you're such an enormous wave
well there has to be an enormous wave in order the to can understand why a little waiters
so
jesus in the
whoa our wildness mast with last supper you're saying
well as saying what the hindus say and they say unarmed problem i'm a brahman means food is problem
who is the godhead
this is my body
every victim which is squelched and squirm and crunched and turned into you
is from a certain standpoint a voluntary offering
a kind of process of cosmic masochism
whereby
ha
you really want to be scrunched up
i'm absorbed into someone or something else
cause you object
cause you will raise all kinds of shrieks
at the moment have been crunched up and say now stop now now now now
but all that is the him
the flavor of being scrunched up
how don't let that happen
think think they don't let that happen
huh
and he realized finally that have just as a movie houses this private view when the antagonists to the new model was actually has actually been killed he has been given a deathblow is still alive from them
he looks into the eyes with his atmosphere brain plate love and total admiration
he dropped dead
this is saying
to live with involved with eat
i accept you

i love you
now this isn't quite the final story
so let's suppose this is really the picture let's suppose that
the like forced the problem
don't give itself to up through the fish the fish don't know it
exactly
and go through a kind of ecstatic masochistic dance in the corporate being devoured
i suppose we understand all that
then you'll have to say when you reveal all this and you see this is absolutely ecstatic
display of pain
being offered to you to continue life as an as a gesture of love
you realize what kind of a thing you are dealing with what you're involved see
did you ceo if this idea of the the vibrancy of a loving gesture being given to you all the time by all these features to sustain you will be on a limited you stand up with
this is so gorgeous
this thing that i'm not treated with the greatest relevance
let cool
let's strike
let's lessen the suffering everywhere we can like slightly talks about reverence for life this thing is so throbbing and so enthusiastic in the way that is it abandons itself and offers itself for my consumption
but one wants to save for it thank you for he was a loving thing it suggested of stroking if and county
cut down with nothing
always let compassion preventable
and great out a feeling of immense gratitude to this energy the turns itself in the you all the time through claim
so that you can bring into the do as a murderer the only thing you don't the only thing in use that isn't stolen from other being through mothers water
everything else in your body of thorough
from some other problem of life by killing
see so you say in response to a wave of energy that is manifesting itself as you as a result of mother you say finally thank you thank you thank you thank you
things
i want to stroke you i'm on love you
ah
let's cut down the killing
he is the pace of the sleep
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mr gillespie are charged with a comment on africa
in january nineteen eighty four
delegates from forty four african countries met in tanzania and the second african population conference
yeah then issued its give mom journal declaration containing six principals take objectives and ninety recommendations which can apply to all the world rather than only to africa thirteen years earlier the first black african conference was held in canada
that unhappy continent and nineteen eighty four africa had a population approaching five hundred million and its growth rate was estimated to be three percent or fifteen million additional lives a year in making fifty to its population was estimated to be two hundred and twenty million
when it's growth rate was to by one percent of or point five million a year by the end of the sanctuary is population may reach eight hundred and seventeen thing if it's growth rate remains a three percent by the end of the century africa will be added twenty six million lives a year to a spa
population the growing imbalance between africa's increasing population and it's the net use so the genetic resources does not bode well for its pillars some forty five percent of which was estimated at making eighty for to the under fifteen years of age
the manager of declaration was confirmed