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the educators economists politicians in thailand and in the world don't do anything at all for them for the babies were born last night number of them will be key we come see buried in twenty or twenty-five years this east like this that is
why that will be like that so yeah go responsible for everything we can not say that how hands are clean our hens can never be clean because the into our with everybody else
if forty thousand children die every day because of lack of food we are responsible the way we leave our daily life make that possible
in other fun for that not to happen again we have to change we have to be aware of what is going on and what is meditation is to look in order to really see what is going on

audemars da my with emptiness they are neither produce nor destroyed neither defiled not immaculate neither increasing not decreasing
just like the moon retained that the moon we had a bigger or smaller but in fact the moon bears not get bigger and smaller

what terry got yesterday and what are you going to lose tomorrow
do we have to look in order to see
therefore an emptiness days neither form of feeling perception of mental formations not consciousness that means any of these can be myself
no eyes are ear nose tongue body of mine no form no sound or smell no taste no touched no object of mine
these that only
enumerating rams of being realms of existence there are six organs
eyes nose tongue year body
and then form
sound smell taste touch public of my their six
organs of sens
and then six kind of objects for these albums the form is the object of the eyes to smell is now drag of nose and are six cents are grams and six are kind of objects of sense organs and when these
come together form with eyes smell with knows
days split the tongue six other things are produced
they are call consciousness
and these six consciousness his eyes consciousness you recall site
you can search consciousness she's called her what
hearing and so on so or it may it may three time six
eighteen grams of
eighteen grams of existence and here is only men enumerate in this in the seed eyes ear nose tongue body mine form sound smell taste touch object of mine and then
sight or hearing and so are sixty no rams or plum elements from eyes to mind consciousness eyes is that a first grandma element and my mind consciousness is the last gram of elements
no interdependent origins and know extinction of them you have an a list of twelve are interdependent origins beginning with ignorance and ending with death and decay
and these twelve follow the same rule
none of these terms can exist by safe and everything has to rely on the being of others in order to be therefore everything is empty and be caused the i am the they are they are clearly existing

the das and do some briefing

let us continue our meditation on the sheet of paper
in a former life in one of his former life this sheet of paper had been a live
a leash
i think in a former life i had been a live on some new on some
in one of my former life i was a iraq
ah and another live i was a tree
and i had been a cloud also in my former lives and this is not something superstitious this is a very very clear because life on earth you can look in to see and see there was water
and then there were single cell beans in the water
and then there will be a fungus in the water and though will be that there were small plants and trees on the earth and then he had animals he had a many kinds of animals and plants and then he have a man
our species
man is a very young
no were very young spaces on our note
and therefore in his former life man has been a rock
men had been no wonder
a tree
an animal and therefore
this is not something very abstract this is something very clear and i'm sure that in one of my former lives i was a clown and i had a good time
the
in one form for always former life
it was the sheet of paper was a relief i think not very far where lama work alone just the life or preceding it it was a live
and one day i was standing alone by
by the door where jungle of of the would by the wood and i was a examining at least that was about to fall down it was
autumn and the leaves were beautiful so i i look at the belief
and i particularly particularly pay attention to one of them are very beautiful tiny live like this with the shape of a heart
and i was not a observer only i penetrated into the live and this what i saw i want to share with you
first i saw that the live is his mother because usually we think of other tree has amanda and leaves only as children
but looking deeply i see that the leafs nourish country
because the sad that he brought up by the roots
he's only water with some minerals that kind of zap has to
we transform into are not a kind of sam more elaborate in order to nourish the tree and it is the leaf
that is given the duty to do so so when the
the water and mineral is accepted by the live the leaf use the sunshine and a gas in other day and night work and transform that step into a
elaborate set and send it back to nourish the whole tree therefore a lift his mother and live is connected with the tree by stem
it seemed that in are not connected with our mother with a stem
but we did have his time when we were inside our mother to stanley's long like that and the stem is color umbilical cord umbilical cord
unfortunately that was cut when we were bond that is why we had the impression that we are autonomous
what we look if you look deeply we see that we still have a million kind of stems connectedness with everything else do we have is them with the cloud yes we a cloud of that and me days this them and why
as i can not be alive if there is no cloud there's no water for me to drink and you know that i made of by at least ninety percent of the water so the stand between me and couldn't the cloud is really there
and as them linking me to the forest does them linking me to the sun i have a multitude of of stamps linking me to everything in the cosmos therefore i can be
so we had to see that
and
i saw belief as the mother
and i saw the live
as a teacher because i learned a lot from relief
the leafs told me that
life is not only in the live but also in the tree
the lifts tommy's like this you know
oh my life i have made efforts to nourish the tree so i am in the tree
not only i am in this shape of the heart but i am also industry and therefore you should say something like this life
off
life industry and live in a leaf and you shouldn't say life it off belief because life at these days it is only one
and as i look
this is the the words of the live
i see myself in a tree
therefore when the leaf is about to fall it look at the tree and it seems to have industry
this is only a this a hardship thing is only a part of it
and therefore when it was about to fall you know i was standing there and waiting and it found in front of me
and when it was about to fall down it look at the tree
and it's size seven a tree
and it d-wave i say goodbye
i visit you soon
because it really see a step in a tree and it is not scared or because it it know that it is there therefore when falling
it is not crying at all i saw him dancing
falling for the ground lensing knowing that very soon the penny part of life will be integrated into the side and then come up into the tree again so days a lot of wisdom of insight within the live and let is why i said that the live
was my teacher as i examined to live carefully

i have said that once i were a
i was i were a cloud and i enjoy it
and now contemplate contemplating the cloud i can see that the cloud
has not been born and is not going to die
some time the clown will become green and at that time the clough is na scared it knows that he's going to be something else and it's very exciting it's going to fall down in forms of drops of water you can add it may fall on nov
festivals it may fall on mississippi river it can fall on the mountain the peak of a mountain and lot that is going to have a lot of fun
and when i fall into the ocean i became a part of a wave
the way
the with if you look at it we can see that there is a beginning to the wave and an end to the with you see
it looks like the web has birth and death
but the with is very wise it look at itself the way we contemplate our feelings and perceptions
and a way of see that it is the wave all right but is also soda water
you can say that the wave has beginning and an end but you can not say that the water has a beginning and a m and an end so a wave is just plain like this having a good time not been afraid of been becoming a non wave
once we know that we are water green waves be an oscar any longer
so if we look into our own nature the nature of into be if we know that we are the what of line we no longer subject to birth and death we are at mott to yeah very free
and there are a lot of lessons to learn from the wave coming to wander
from the clown and from release anything if we look at it carefully deeply enough it will discover the mystery of into being and once we have seen it we will no longer be subject to fear fear but fear of death

many time you say that the man is made of dust
and we are going to back to be dust and it does not sound very joyful
these a discrimination that man is a very valuable but the dust has no value at all
i think that is a discrimination
i think a piece of dust
we don't know what it is
even the best scientists
doesn't know yet what is a piece of best
you know that
an album
an elect run
cavill around
in
with the speed of something like three hundred thousand kilometres one second
we don't know yet
the piece of dust the electron still retains
a lot of far
mystery about sf we also we still retain a lot of mystery about ourselves so don't look at another person and say that i understand who you are wow a piece of dust if you do not understand how can you pretend to understand a person
driving a car the husband play with the role on the wheel singing and not been the attention to his wives that in nearby because there's not nothing interesting about her i know everything about her
i have live with her twenty three years i know everything about her that is the very arrogant attitude if you've bruno know well enough about a piece of dust how can you pretend to know about a purse
isn't that attitude is the attitude of someone who
who is not ready to learn anything
the person who sit close to you in the high
is a mystery
you have to look you have to see deeply and you will discover a were fire wonders
so i wouldn't mind going back to be some dust is a very great adventure
it can be the kingdom of that the beasts of dust it can be the pure land
because
hi and a piece of dust into our without it i cannot be without me it cannot be and therefore i would have no complex
and as a cloud
his laughing when it become drops of rain chanting singing when i go back to a piece of dust i go do the same

now it come to buddhism
the
what is buddhism buddhism is made other non buddhist elements
read it must be like that
and the buddha also is made of non buddha elements
right must be like that

and a good and evil
the route is made of non good elements the evil is made of non evil elements please believe me
and then look and you'll see by yourself
i would like to send to you a line that we used to send in the vietnamese tradition before you make about to the buddha you form a lotus with use your to palms
and you send that silently yourself are you can send it to allow the seventies like this now
it doesn't come to the moon yeah no man the
it means
the one who is bowing
and the on hold
whoa whoa receive the respect
most of them are empty
and that is why communication is perfect
the one is who is bowing his me that one who receive the respect is the buddha and before bowing to him i say that you and i you know we are all empty and that is why the communication meeting you and i would be perfect
it
he's not really arrogance
because if i am not empty how can i be hounded the border and if the buddha is not empty how could the
he received a bow i and the border into our and buddha is made of non buddha elements like me
and me i am made of non mi elements like the buddha
just look at this a stick
the stick if we look at a not index discriminate this came with narrative mine i see it it's a wonderful stick but as soon as we think that this is a
the right and this is the left are caught
now you want to eliminate the right one to only to keep the left it's like a the route and the evil
you want to eliminate the evil and you want to preserve only in the wood
now i think if this sticker has a right and left i would like to the more for the right side so i writing into have and i removed this but as soon as i do this this become the right
the you cannot be
as far as you have to let you always have no right and now if you make another step to divide the rest the to and you remove one side the right is still dead until you arrive at the a piece of dust to the lavender right is there
so good and evil buddha and mara
we into our
we need mara very much in order for the buddha to be don't try to remove malware from our life
that is the non dualistic way of looking at things
when you set up a play with the hero and a pirate you need to pirate very much in order to make the hero
ah our patent right
and
the hero needs very much know parrot
can vice versa therefore the is a game there is a kind of
tacit agreement with in the mood the buddha and matter
one day meditating like that i told a story i said that the buddha sitting in his cave and he's beloved disciple and and i was wanting
ah miss how side and under samarra coming
and and i couldn't believe it how hot mara has the have the courage to come to the buddha because mara is the enemy of the buddha and he was defeated
my the buddha under the bodhi tree
so he was hoping that the ball the mara get lost
but is are getting lost mara go directly to the cape
and
when mama came and under said
he didn't he didn't say good morning either
hey discriminate against the mara that is why he doesn't want to say but morning toward myra he just said
what are you here for
i want to see the buddha mara said go home no you cannot see the buddha you are his enemy the would i wouldn't like to see you as you are not you ashamed one you remember that you were defeated by him under the bodhi tree
will not see you you are evil or you you are the enemy of the buddha
and that would i laugh and laugh and mara laughed and laughed and he said
did you say that the ya teacher
the have said that he has enemies
that make her a number pink hard because never before the buddha said that he has enemies
so he was defeated and he
he had to go into the cave in on a to an hour so my last visit
hoping that the buddha i will tell him to go out and say that he's not there
the
ah say that tell him that i mean conference
the
but
but to his surprise when i was really excited of the visit is that true the mara is there and then he when out in person in order to read the matter
and and that was very said he couldn't understand
so he followed a buddha and he saw the buddha bowing tamara
picking his arm and as very heartily ha hello how have you been
and he took him into the cave and ask him to sit
in a in a share
and he tall and under to go and make thirty for both of them
the
making the t far the teacher well he can make one hundred times a day making tea far mara is not very glad about it
so he but since the teacher has taught him to to do so he had to go and buy water but he trying to keep an ear
the say so
and
the buddha asking the question new again how have you been
if there is everything okay mama said know everything is not okay
i don't want to be married anymore
you know that been a mara you have to speak in to talk in riddles
to be a myra you have to do evil things
and i'm tired of doing evil things and to look as evil
and
what is worse is that my disciples now
i begin to talking to talk in terms of fire
social justice this
high-quality reparation all these things so i have had it enough
i want to come in handle over all these disciples of mind to you and i want to be something else than mara
and i was making tea and he was scared he is care he's afraid that would i will
i accept to change the role
mara now will play the role of buddha and would i will play the role of mara
that way he will be very sad

yeah
if it
the asset said
after listening carefully to what mara said
the buddha
as him this short question do you think is fun to be a wooden

have you
if you know how a buddhist do every day you will not be how to be a the
they be a very big house
and they put this that they have of mine
big table to attract and bananas and are and

they asked graham they put into my mouth the things i have never said before
and they have make made a commerce out of me and my teaching
know if you know if you really know what is happening to me you wouldn't be enjoying being a buddha he said
and thou pond the buddha recite a long outta counting that everyone should do his job well and not tattoo or try to be the other thing
since the guys too long i cannot remember but if you if you want to read the data and in the story
try to find a book or a book written by dan berrigan and the book of psalms the story of the encounter between buddha and myra was the investory
has a pillow to the book and you see they got there long cata in it
a deal with liberation
a good and evil
justice and
injustice
so it is clear that in the light of into being
buddha is made of non bullies non-water element evil is made of non evil element and that is way
the price now parameter grandsons
all concepts
not only ten cents or conserve of birth and death defilement and in my collection but it rent and all concepts well below inside our side right left
both death
root hero
buddha mara

we have talk about the rose and are garbage we have talk about the prostitute
only the brashness parameter
can help our prostitute to have an escape
if the prostitute look in herself carefully she know her nature of immigration
she know that
she is there for others to be
the way to other ah depends on her way of being and therefore her salvation is her emancipation can only come with the practice of the crash now barometer
otherwise you cannot overcome that kind of feel and complex
and the new parameter gave us a very solid ground
for making peace making peace with us with our cells transcending the fear of birth and death of this and that because in the light of emptiness everything is everything else and we in
to are we are responsible for everything that happen in life
so when you produce in yourself peace and happiness
you begin to realize peace for the whole war
because i smile at you produce in yourself
that you establish in yourself you begin to walk for peace in the world
to smile is not to smile only to yourself the war will change because your smile when you practice or sitting every moment of you're sitting like this and if you enjoy it if you have established serenity heh
penis inside and yourself you provide you with the the war with a solid base for peace if you do not get peace for yourself how can you share peace with others
if you can not making
the peace work
with yourself where can you begin to piss war and therefore to brace to smile to sit to look at things is the basic thing you do for peace
a tree out there does not seem to do very much
but the fact that a tree is a tree is very important
if a tree is less than a tree and then all of us who we added to come on
imagine that a tree is less than a tree
because the tree can be greeley a tree we can still be here alive
but you know that in the last five years during the last five years trees begin to die because of the acid rain
because humans
have become less than humans
yeah not as possible enough
yeah destroying life around us we are destroying each other's and therefore to become a real human being to be
how real human being is the basic pink copies for the survival
of other species as well
therefore
practice breathing practice being awake
practice this smiling be yourself
he's the basic thing you can do for peace
yesterday we had a tangerine party in our retreat
everyone was offered one hundred children and adults alike he put the thundering are now part for the palm of how hand will look at it briefing
we look at it breathing
in a way that the tangerine become real
because most of the time when i eat a tangerine yeah not really looking at the tangerine we are thinking of many things except the thing yeah with
therefore looking at the tangerine to see the flower to see the young tangerine to see the sunshine to see the rain to see that the tangerine in your palm is a wonderful presidents of alive you really see the tangerine
and as the thundering become real you become real also live in that moment become
on so real
and that is a way of life that is called mindful
without mindfulness life can not be real life
and when you begin to peel tangerine
you smell it you take one section of the tangerine and you're in your mouth and you feel it is is a real tangerine and exception of tangerine we ate in perfect mindfulness until we finish the tangerine and eating a tangerine like that is very bad
tournament because bought a tangerine and the eater of the tangerine become real
and this is the basic work for peace

in the retreat during the retreat he also practice walk and
we learn to walk really for walking and extent they make on the floor on the ground is a real step
a step like that bring us told them present moment
a step like that press door our anti a person and therefore except like that can make us very happy very alive
because life can only be found in the present moment if you are not in touch with the present moment life is lost and in our daily life very seldom del with the present moment we always think of the past away we
we always think on the future and therefore live is not real
and if you do not leave of my fully will lose the present moment and become less than a human being
we do you do not become responsible and therefore create death destruction around us and in us
when you pick up a newspaper like the new york times
every my for we can see a lot of things in a newspaper
and if we are aware of the things that are happening in each moment x minute of our life will be a restaurant sibyl we know what way to go in order for peace to be possible
i think is very important
to leave
such a way
that demonstrate that will demonstrate at the peace will be possible
by looking at the
the way of living of a person
we can see that there is a future are not far shorter
and therefore the basic car
ten redo pass for peace
he's to live mindfully our daily life

in buddhist meditation
we do not travel far i kind of neither month that will happen and ten years from now or five years from now
we practice so that each moment of our life
become real life and therefore sitting his faucet thing if you sit for twenty minutes least ten ten minutes should bring you joy life
use it for city
have you don't sit far something else
if we practice walking meditation we walk grasp for walk a step make life real
walking is not to awry
if you only thing the world rival and then final destination must be the graveyard
that is why you have to be alive during next them and each step bring you bring like back to you
the same thing he's practice when you eat your breakfast when you whole your child in your arms me really alive the other day i said well now happening
is invented brother by the west
but we you would like to contribute the brave when you hold your child
in your arms practice three briefings and your happiness will be multiplied by ten times at least
and when you look at someone
really look at at him or her with mindfulness practice brazen
for instance
when you go back to your home after
at the end of a day and having a meal together sit around the table
and ah
before eating just practice briefing three times to recover yourself it may be that during john pi day
when have been dispersed too much mine here filling their body here perception there you are not entirely yes they're so sitting around a table
breathe deeply to rest or yourself and you are really alive and then take a look at each person around the table to really see them
it only needs one second to look at the signal
to really see that the person is there
because in our daily life we rallies see things
turn off the television because it prevented us from seeing the chanters
hen smile to the person you look at
and if you look at someone and if you can smile
the situation is dangerous
and you know that being together in that way
you can feel very happy
and as you are happy you have the conditions talk for the happiness of others otherwise
please no hope so each
bree express you make a stab you make a smile you'll realize he's a positive contribution to peace and therefore be happy he's a very necessary step for peace in the war
and you know in the light into being peace happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness indoor

if you are however a few questions to ask i would be happy to answer

please
yes i'm sorry because of the time i could not bear
speak about the last sentences to the sutra
i got they got the thought i got the for i have some got the body sarah saw how it means gone gone gone over
to the other shore everyone
gone to be other shore body means awakening and saw her is like a cry of joy ah
excitement
a mantra means something that you after
in your perfected your perfect concentration
when you have a very strong concentration of body speech and mine and if you utter something that is a mantra
if you only say to your if your intellect is not a mantra you have to say it with your body the are all your been in order for it to have a power a mantra that is a statement with a very big power
it's like a a a young man in love with a young lady and he
during a three years he he has to to examine whether his love is really serious and that is why the young lady had been has been waiting for his statement but the statement has not come yet so one day
they
by the bang of the river
that must fear is
serene he became
somehow quiet and and in a state of being that is quieter concentrated he uttered the words
and
he knew that he could not say these goods on kinda the week is too noisy
i in a coffee shop
he needs
a place where he can be really expressing
with his
anti being that is why
hundred ng of the river that morning
he declare that he loved her
and because he spoke in the state of being
the goods has a very strong power it can make the young lady
shiver
and that is a mantra
that is the mantra but
his power of concentration is not as a
flash
like the concentration of our load test vara that is why his mantra
if you compare to this mantra is less powerful i've i look at as vara after having discovered
the mystery of be of emptiness his power of concentration is had the highest
that is why the mantra he pronounced can have the power of changing the world of everything and if you want to receive the power of the mantra you'll have to get yourself into that kind of concentration on some
if you practice
the meditation on emptiness and intervene if you penetrate the nature of intervene with all your heart your body your mind you're breathing and then you'll realize a state of being that is quite concentrated and in that state of being
do you pronounce the mantra got the the but i got day for ah sahm we are the body slam and then there is a kind of chameleon that will be made between you and avalokitesvara and that will be able to transform yourself in the direction
one of enlightenment and therefore a mantra is words that people actor in the state of highly concentrated beam