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the greater discourse and us a photo
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last time we discuss the general
situation either would have time and his life and stuff you and about how
he had the students were incorrect loses and one that was to come to a bit about the meaning of that word and some interesting aspects of our
and how the buddha in the sutras is telling the students that if you if you consider yourself to be read versus and new others consider you to be reckless is and support us breakfast grew better
to be worthy of the name and enough your earn your keep you know as recklessness and so here's a few friends
me and i know
the rest of the sutra is one thing after another building on
it's really it
a step by step total course of practice
each stuff at the end of each step the very satisfied you might think that that that that's enough but actually it's not enough yet and the next step in and said you might think that it's intuitive that that map for that's enough but now there's them and it goes like that
so we had discussed the first steps first of all
this to
it's interesting
the other day and our practice committee meeting the linda
who didn't come into class i don't think and as tuesday hasn't read the sutra
the brought up the same point to this so happened to here we talked about it which she just we're bringing up in terms of a discussion that we were having in practice community she was saying well these dharmas of shame and fear of wrongdoing
oh era
some charlie's or give us the of all your translations of self respect and
the current the coroner that these that the presence of these attitudes are crucial for practice
first the beginning it's having those attitudes in other words
wanting to do something wanting to be right wanted to positive and negative and been concerned about being positive and negative
but within oneself and others eyes
does the beginning and then after that a purifying
conduct a body speech and mind but during that particular were shooting it without
commander with yourself about it for pretty other people down who you think haven't done this is what to do now
and then after that
having a good livelihood and then we talked a lot about restraining the senses
war quiet
in relationship to the six senses so that
there was an automatic grabbing on but there was a of sense of spaciousness and choice and then we'll discuss the even further
the enjoyment and appreciation and gratitude when a sensual experience rather than grab grab grab more and more more
then comes an excellent in paragraph nine on page three hundred and sixty four that's where we say i was just a quick you know where we were at now is an expert
cause your form
the world fact on to right the on i understand that more of christian king
what was in a claim the whole delusion insect he said something about the packet actual even those closest
compilation from yeah but what were they have to show me the word evil the movies be used algorithms finances are crucial in them and combine our food
which means unwholesome where
so
yeah i think generally we we use the word unwholesome or unskillful or something with them but i was actually i'm going to i was working on them because of my schedule i was working on my southern lecture today
and i'm going to talk about this movie but i think every i think we said some of this last time that the fact that the word evil in the english language
certainly carries with it
the hawk
background the judeo christianity whether we whether we
ever studying genetic christianity or not since we're english speakers we can't help but
have that sense of that word and there's why that were to so powerful and so difficult is that the nature of evil and judeo christianity is has to do with the fact that some supreme power ordained that this is the way should be in not that way and so there's no there's always a very strong sense of approval and
disapproval and guilt or remorse and and rebellion and so on it's own associated with the word evil because you know like you should be a good girl and should not be a beggar if you're bad girl somebody will not like it and then you have to like hide away from born when the
and so this could inspire somebody to want to do beagle just out of spite because why should they nothing and think so all of this is is is
involved i think what the word evil in english but in buddhism islam not the idea at all the idea in buddhism is and this is what i'm thinking of fun and my talk at the idea of the in buddhism has to do it
discovering
the and workability
of or they forced to live recognizing that one needs a new approach saying that or to to do that to approach to the moose path with steps in and morality is by them that it's quite practical it's like cleaning up your act so that you can go on to what you need to do in order to achieve happiness and there's no set
of approval and disapproval and some supreme power or naming that this is right this is nothing it's more like
conduct that will lead to happens bursts conduct and will be second
so however like i say there are some buddhist offers and translators love them who feels like
buddhism can take the word english word you will have reinterpreted and given a nuisance
so then i'm going to debates about that should we not use the word evil
because it's so loaded with that stuff or and the other argument as well let's use the word evil going to be captured and purified of that those competitions
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of for the most wanted a bit and then just use the word use that not have such extreme connotations that would produce a product and very minor accidents on the last couple hundred years it's companies rick
a negative force applied arts and i hear you say with the word sin no he wasn't sandwich or
we made it professionally
i think that like
often
i forget palace disgust but the idea of evil and sin has been on hold
yeah from home centers means means to lose one's homeless
so you know from the stamp on judeo christianity that an authors and thinkers but investigation would also tried to do the same thing with the movies
and the word said in a few turkey they're kind of stuck with them as words of english words and they've been using the tradition so they're kind of stuck with those words are we have some options because in our tradition of the words and not were using your insurance and they can shoot pick and choose from shimla score is doing is
if from remember be back to this text davies time that here and
the we will undertake and practice to those things that make one a recluse that make weren't aware of every man second paragraph the three since you can't cure so i'm wondering is this would actually have two questions this is kind of like how to turn the how to program jan jan like if you do these things if you follow these
rules and it will be a brahmin can then how does this using this the he's just talking to them from there that can to word reduces the how does that differ from some like the general program of liberation
you've got a look at the terms and then i think that the program of liberation fundamentally is for breakfast as you can you can you can use the word reckless to the all those seeking the duration
so
it's the same path i think the buddha spoke about a different ways in different contexts and this program and abc program is slightly different from other he and other suitors who talks about abc program in different slightly different ways depending on the situation in the audience
pretty much the same but sometimes a little bit different
but the i think as we said also last time we have to understand frequencies to be asked to
you know that we're practicing in this way and same aspiration that visit
because there's some slipping further research into something behind your question or something you know that and learned yeah like and yeah i guess if that was it
it does seem like that
they like the a mobile calf with it seems like and i am just wondering how does this how does this different mean it goes on differ from me for a fact and he he goes on to to talk it out
on oh past lives and things like that you i just made this this seems to me it's the same
it's the same thing yeah i agree with that i think it's this is a what this is another way of talking about the a path and you could we can analyze this sutra and look as a different things that the buddha lays out and we can say okay let's grab that a for capital where we can put them all in different than the for full-time
pretty easily
you know here's yeah right
we can put the first one under right attitude of i thought we can put the next three under ripe conduct clinical put paragraph seven under right livelihood
and so on
right mindfulness right concentration and so forth it could certainly do that and that's that was what the buddha did it on t v
basically most of his teachings were
overlapping formulations and list
you know
and that's very helpful actually if you you understand teaching and new study at and new developer
within a certain framework and then you hear another framework superimposed over it which overlaps
as this secret hundred with overlaps with teachers in there are other teachings involving that and i'm partly with then know when you can see the overlap to all that now i see that whole thing that i would study in new life now i understand the noble eightfold path and different way hearing and explain to network are differences even though yes it's the same but no
i understand it from this angle for than a tonight you know remember that all of buddha's teaching the whole idea was that the buddha
struggled through to liberation and when he was liberated he said this is fantastic
i feel really better now
and plus everybody remembers something
the are already i can see you know if my eye elaboration that everybody already
doesn't even need to do this because they're already there i mean they probably don't see that but the place where i'm the i can see that not only that but i know that they will never understand what i'm talking about
so and there's no need for them to understand so i'll just cool out and walk up and down by the here enjoy my life than to their to for them the
so in other words what he hadn't teach was something that he couldn't explain it you know it from the start moved from the star to the she hoped this would explain it but then he was urged to teach by various kinds of beings and he decided that he would because if didn't kind of got the idea what may
be somebody would be able to understand something i could explain it in a nice way
so then he began a forty five years
i'm trying to explain the unexplainable from different angles so it's like you have this thing there that was not explainable and not really understandable
but somehow somebody could get it so he said well let's look at it from this site
he explained it everything and then visit on asked what it looks like and he said well look at it from this angle and it's oh and that's what it looks like they say well but how about this and all these different angles and little by little a kind of a picture emerges but never you never get the whole picture
the nature of was due to the realized can only be explained so there's all kinds of different explanations each one of which as of lot of beneficiation the what do achieved and what our life is but none of which actually explains the whole story that's why in buddhism
you don't attach their documents going to dolphins don't say when it is they just indicate an erection that we can sort of work toward
some of them
i needed to astronauts
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inseam sometimes when i read several different constituents
more parallel
and then i just look at it as
the booty using his experience me i'm just looking at with that context than that automatically kind of carries over into southern perspective but if i try and look at it as just me
as me
the gave this this specific teaching or this is a bridge ceuta then i can be very narrow and it reblogged not not open up to the back and see how it's for teaching see how a guide for and but if i look at it as who's experienced meat is using can
experience with
that perspective that really like
nation and not mean and think it just there are these issues and fifteen to be
right i follow their own on i
know where data for him
if you think

okay so go go element with moderation in need

don't forget
these guys only eight one more day
dealing is a big problem for from books and notes i was talking to i have came about this and she was
she had been spent a lot of time in asia living the life of a nun
and she was really fed up with the whole eating problem
because
people give you a lot of food
all kinds of food and you're only eating one meal a day so it's very easy for them to stuff themselves say cause you just get all this food giant pinball it up and you might need for a couple hours in a distinctive their last stretch out your lunch for our and she said that that's with that's what would happen
there was a problem because it's very beneficial for the lay people you to give food and they want to give food and they want to give it lavishly
and she said the whole thing really became too much and became counterproductive to practice she was very very insulting anywhere you can imagine that the buddha would not have brought this up
peek into reckless as if it weren't a problem i think it was a problem difficult thing that they were becoming gluttonous with all his free food
i find that if i'm paying for the food i eat less you know
there are no food or are already like to go to a restaurant and you pay a lot of money for the food you want to eat it all on antibiotics for the actual amount of a good at checking on yeah i have a decrease in each other yet to ask to how we have here because here are like a resident paying for food problem is also
spending and all day long working yet well it's kind of and i kind of hard to figure out where i'm spending the hundred and the is just keep well there's lots of food there and it's created seventy that if you go back for seconds nobody says put five dollars and ten them if they said for five dollars on the table you might have a back for seconds battalion bigger first the i they fit
anyway
language and a problem with this so
one was to be done because you should train bus then we will be moderate in gb
reflecting wisely
we will take food neither for amusement or for intoxication nor for the sake of physical beauty and attractiveness
i guess that means of the food
but only for the because eating food doesn't make you beautiful and attractive and a nine for a fancy name here i guess maybe new the the vessels going to be skinny or something
but i'm not sure whether it means that you would be physical and be physically beautiful attractive where the food is attractive for
but only for the endurance and continuance of this body for any discomfort and for assisting the holy life consider it
thus i shall terminate all feelings without arousing goofy elements and i shall be healthy and blameless and shall live in comfort
now because you may think thus and then the same formula repeated all things listed that the big have up thinking that i've been on said i'm so this is the practice of moderation in eating
and you know
it seems ridiculous eating foods for amusement and of course very common and we all do that time i'm bored tired and
i'm feeling unloved or whatever and some achieve more mean something
and
so
interventions poodle exert and all know if i need this sugar in my body needs it for strength
i think we should just have an aunt ten or so years and a second time yeah well i'm sure that and of course you can imagine that if somebody were practicing with this and saying i'm going to really practice with this practice the teachings of this suited
somebody i can see where somebody could say well you know let me think about this now and they only eat what is necessary and only eat one is necessary for what do we say an army on champion for it was important live in contrast to the way in which is just the same as you said you support life thankfully a good so
it doesn't say anything hear about that one should not enjoy the food we can say that are find it unpleasant than say yeah but not to another other words not to get gravity the same way that we talked about i think
garden centres and would also say the same thing in relation to the food practice here that
it's not about repression or thinking of food as bad or any cent stores as bad rather than having a sense of gratitude and non grabbing us and taking what's necessary and nothing more than was necessary and realizing that the purpose of
getting the food is to preserve the body for practice and practice with the most important thing
so
no given all that what someone's you neil practice would be can be can be great deal of variation than one person might say no dessert cause that's not necessary
for healthy body and strong practice and i think that that would be seems like that would be quite proper
in relation to this passage but the reality is that the monks a huge amounts of rich food that's what i okay mostly
people love the monks and nuns and wanna give them wonderful offerings and so their heaping up stuff whenever i went to a retreat one time recently few years ago with a general in our real bona fide monk in this tradition and of the people who practice in this tradition or train
and the monks are not allowed to take them on food and literally if you come to the mobile phone comes to our table here the faith table they can serve themselves they'll stand there and will never be if someone that the server so gentlemen i sat there with this or and people just started putting stuff in and and
he had giant pile of stuff you know cakes and cookies it's very odd because there's only one ball so it all gets piled in the same boat
the president
the ticket instead all of certain kind of the end and somehow they made a mistake the people made a mistake i thought i was among to because i was on my roads and everything so that that i wasn't looked like him and they started doing that to me too and it's pretty great show
a they would let me do i just sat there you know they wouldn't let me to do anything i brought a lunch but forget that they were
come on and then i mean there it is can't you know well i mean
i went to pass it on in fact you're not supposed to keep it in i'm supposed to keep so yeah gentlemen i was given innovative people and i was give it way people but of course you could see where
it would be hard to say you you there's a certain sense of graciously accepting and offering
but then
how how much of the chocolate cake you have to you to be gracious and where had been gracious and where you been crossing the line zone then i bad effect
well isn't that a feet this caravan it takes away kind of mindfulness when you when you relegate that to from external
source in the another people who are to me at their kind of food where is your own personal sense of the white woman's mindfulness i guess you could only eat what you feel your body needs and lethal mass the idea that isn't there one of wastefulness interested in that process or yeah i mean that's what i have canada was complaining about and don't they are
we eat until noon and they don't care i felt so is there a fixed eating period yet well as well i think there's like customs and different monasteries but i think the only rule is if they married after the luncheon will continue twelve hundred people start to video from eight the morning to twelve let's just to keep them healthy
consequential in the afternoon today's for the though they can eat after the sunshine don't worry
no actually it's kinda keeps them fifth and thin cause that's a good with it you don't even afternoon and than you won't get much where even if few huge meal regarded
so inwards is something that it only works with that you know because i always try to work through hard work
how much the
necessary just
i cannot lose we put left line with the instructions
that's such a low fuel bills you have a lot of years you will be opening and playing with and shelter and comfort but it isn't the idea of becoming uncomfortable no no that's saying that about the food is bad and we shouldn't enjoy food
yeah and i think this business about terminating old feelings without arise a rousing new feelings i think it has to do with grabbing us and it was not setting emotion green i i want thing i have no has been trying to practice restraint and eating and other things like that is the obvious thing that
when you
practice grabbing this it means the grammys when you practice restraint in the midst of gravitas it's very difficult but once your practice restraint it's much easier and it's pleasant
you know like if i try to eat less at first it's like and denying myself
but after a very short while it's easy to do that at first it's difficult to do it and then one doesn't do it and was tries a through someone's always
increase in gravitas which then makes restraint more difficult and little bit of restraint with the grandness that movement struggle but once you kind of establish a pattern of restraint
i find many just because i'm getting or something that i find that it's actually more pleasant and more comfortable practice restraint more enjoyable actually that is the friends graphics and that's why i think the ideas that if you if you eat this way you will be
comfort to be work of because eating a lot is makes you uncomfortable and like i say with me too i have bad adjusts itself
yeah i get instant karma by overeat or something i really feel it is also is a factor of age or older to get words like that
so if you can be mindful reading and you will be healthy and blame listen comfortable
and also you know it's better you need a gigantic big meal
and then you go to meditate it doesn't work as well as being monitored you
so this is something i recommend anybody to figure out how the practice with even and how could you what's the best way for you net worth of this kind of instruction
wakefulness what more is to be done
the goes you should train thus we will be devoted to wakefulness during the day or walking back and forth and sitting we will purify our minds of obstructive states
in the first watch of the nine while walking back and forth and sitting we will purify our minds of a obstructive states
in the middle watch of the nine we will lie down on the right side and alliance for the once would overlap in the other mindful and fully aware after noting in our minds time for rising
after rising in the third watch of the night or walking back and forth and sitting we will purify our minds of obstructed states
and then comes the for me that's repeated every time it gets a little bit longer where do they call those songs that are like that where you keep repeating another the military thanks for every friend because it's progressive because it gets a big update the president does like and twelve days of christmas you know three mansions fourth or
don't get in a bar change in the factory like that it keeps getting when one more vigor every time those kind of like them maybe they sang this thing networks one thing direct nine
anyway so that it gets a little bigger every time this is very interesting of course because this describes the day that they schedule
what they did
and during the day they would they didn't walking and sitting practice
and then all day long and then during an app that aggregates the know exhibiting know you know charlie the highly divided over know to watch for watches and name only
i once read about that i used to know i think that i think that there were maybe for watches of the night
i mean three watches in the nine four hours each or three hours each i to out what they were have divided the night up into so many with the old watches
and so during the first watch or the night they will also do sitting and walking
and during the middle watch of the night they would sleep and sobbing sleep they would lie down
in the lions pose which is the pose of the buddha
and refined nirvana with one foot
thanks that's where with one foot overlap in the other and they would note when they went down laid down when they would wake up which is an amazing thing you know you can wake up like that none words i've done that allow you to lay down and you say now i will wake up at five am
and you will
it's amazing
and you have to be very mindful not to do that
so that's what they did they would lie down mindfully and fall asleep in other words following them them i mean of course it could do it like that they would this was their effort
and
and then they would no time for rising and then in the third watching that there was so they leave one watching the night was probably three to four hours then they would wake up
in a third watch of the nine and they would walk back and forth and sin
i never that's with the day
so they didn't work or anything that's why they would have begging for their food
we would work that this was there must have no time a certain amount and time when they were walking back toward
when they would travel they walked up now and and suitable that on it on the way and then when they were and they were walking them with their balls ethnicity food doesn't talk about their meals here
and undergoing data repository and where it has practice itself trying to out cow if you fell asleep on the inbred for our frail yeah yeah they always like them
at night that time
and when he recalls and extend the trip will start to be aware that they were to start to be aware and long to falling asleep
that you bounced me
he can do
especially for them i'll try it tonight
so this this wakefulness is not you'll see because next one is is mindfulness is not the same line from it's it's sort of life it's a little bit like the first one and means that same the first in other words a
before you can practice
a moral conduct
a pre condition of that is an attitude of wanting to do good enough do that you have had that attitude and spirit otherwise the practice of moral conduct a very mechanical and it's not really doesn't come from the heart so you have to cultivate know because of course one can do everything right nothing leaving ah
on and not really have an inner spirit of wanting to do you know wanting to have good conduct you could just have the spirit of wanting to not screw up and follow rules you know so it's necessary to how to a strong attitude first so that's why in the case of more time
that the inner added to this first described in here this attitude of on this is basically sometimes translated as diligence and there was an attitude and yes i my my my desire is to be a way to be alert to want to purify the mind to want to really understand what arises
the mind and to to to let go of things that arise in the line that are non wholesome and to promote things that arise from one of course that's my end too so as the wakeful attitude which you should have all they want
and so that's how your practice
and then you know this is a kind of like a step by step think so
practice having practice morality and in practice garden since they're telling practice moderation and needed now you can begin to practice those things that approach
meditation
and it begins with a desire to be alert and diligent wakeful and then comes a mindfulness practice what more is to be done
you should train thus we will be possessed of mindfulness and full awareness we will act in full awareness when going forward and returning
we will act in phone and this is all more or less quotations from the life from the sutra and it's repeated many many many times throughout the suit is to the formula about awareness
we will act them full the way it has been going forward and returning
we will act in full awareness were looking ahead and looking away
we will act in full awareness when flexing and extending our lives we will act with full awareness when where's our robes and carrying our outer row and bowl we will act in full and and so this is
ah just thing you know like
he lost his recent talk about this from a lot more younger days ago she was always talking about wearing robes as a fact
because the knife on the sutra they consider the wearing of roads to be
a mindfulness practice which is definitely true
and so we used to emphasize that people we should wear robes and the words encourage people aware it was possible and practical financial have robes made for them and bridges robes that they should do so because it's true when you were rose like you got big long sleeves and weren't catching up some
do you have to really be careful how you
like you know when you have like wear robes with soto zen sleeves you can't stand like this
because your sleeves of dragon love to stay like this you'd actually have to remind for all of how yeah she can
yeah so the way that all the things that you do you have to always be taken care of your rose it's annoying the way
but it that it is true that it does force you to be mindful
and if you were the rocks we are all cases and then you have to take care of
those robes and can't spell before like treat them stupid they have been in the bible so of course you could say that this is true always it's as true it's off whatever clothes you're wearing and can be mindful but in fact it's more helpful to wear clothes which
more easily promote mindfulness
and
i find that definitely when you were rose
i you have to move differently
conduct yourself into your whole to the body language as the change actually you can't like run around and like for the snack area and stuff of which a peanut butter and you know how rush to kept you just can't do that so it really is a practice
so anyway all these things these are these are all details of minute that we will apply awareness to and it begins with all this stuff about awareness of the by this is literally stuff literally being aware when you walk forward and when you walk back and when we go somewhere when you come back literally being aware and you're looking at
head and when you're looking backwards they aware when you're extending your memes and so on so a literal details of of is walking and moving and and wearing the robes on the goal and yesterday i was just going to stay just took me right back to the beginning of this about how you perceive when you are
and in that part of the to now and in a how to solve it started them
and i think about that when the people around here when i see them in their studies are seen them in their robes and it sounds like you like your like canada and rubs and the other files on
and get it
but but it's is an interesting contrast
an interception but it's such a funny thing like you know who we don't think of that the idea that wearing clothes is a practice
this is not what we think i would actually this what they're saying this is true in our practice that that were in close as we heard of you were so ceremony are going to be heard a lot about how i was a man
we are enclosed in the practitioners the whole family
so that's what that's where all that nutrition construction some of this was really moving ceremony yeah
i have a very special than one
so
we will act in full awareness when eating drinking consuming food and tasting
we will act in full awareness for and deprecating urinating
when walking standing sitting falling asleep waking up talking keeping silent for a seamless news ah
like not really have a clue
hello to people you know the famous story about since i don't think that
well it means that always say in know like the be fully present the fully mindful don't do one thing at a time when you walk just walk when you said it just said in a resentment and when you wash the dishes just watch traditions so one day one of the students
came in and caught i'm eating breakfast and the the paper
you know and they said you i say it just the way you doing how could you be sitting there reading the paper and eating breakfast he said yes but i'm just getting the paper
precaution
so we have to figure out whether
since i needed was goofing off and making a good excuse
montclair whether he was really serious and that there's a way to read on the toilet and the my butt gives you take them on death account of ah so you should keep in my nephew and probably liver if you think that it was a little yeah he probably couldn't have or he was a fun of them
hired last person who has community i can give a single an idea reading was mostly merchants i have stuff
i've ever done that and then i guess it could be thinking that was he was on the net
artists and richer and he was better off than that's our problem
we go to bed about i'll probably be able to get in line
yeah
one only one of your phone
so anyway
yeah i think it's really good to work
think about these things that were not
it all these things are training their wedding that it's good or bad and toilet it's certainly good idea town
china time and was that too within the car such as adults because you know the thing is that and
china
hello again
sometimes you know even have the idea that and and this is like let for hundreds of this is one of the troubled youth you know the formality of our practices that is that
you couldn't think
that since there's all this formality while these things that can do you could take that long while these things and these practice though
and the not all very carefully and and right
book and then when i walk out there you know i mean those not be twice as love you can now that i would still like like he's ever been
but this sutra is telling us that that the practice is not in certain place in certain circumstances but it's in every single act of by feature mind we need to be aware and this is a very calm and not not doing this is a common problem since it's think you're good to were where informal situ
patients with and blue collar that you're likely allow yourself to be not aware
so can we were on a regular pretty like different
so
oh
i would like to read nobody consider
she was way
when you're walking
instead of
well where do you think your mind is what you're walking usually work on yeah or not sure where did you know a lot to find their last places places where a lot of there's so many times during the day when you're actually
when it's not an all clear where your awareness this is because there's a kind of preoccupation of the mind i think that
the self centered
thoughts are pervasive and without awareness self centered thoughts are pervasive and they don't appear as substantive thought they just don't appear at all they just you know where you are and what's going on you actually don't really not particularly what's going on and usually there's a certain level of dull
set a self concern ourselves worry going on that's usually gets very calm and that you serve were look at worried are you have a mood right there's a mood it goes on throughout your day and i'm a little depressed or i'm i'm i'm feeling
good or bad and wearing or something know that usually has to do with me which is what's occupying my mind and so actually i don't really know what i'm making a new rival
so this is saying we don't be in the fun when you're watching paint and you do on that doesn't mean that you are in a food and do have a state of mind going that you should ignore it
but it means that by applying awareness to the watching you will be more aware of the mood state of life and so on and you were poor and you'll be able and also you'll be able to face it in my golden
so i would recommend them like particularly with walk walk is really good and i almost always practice awareness of walking and walking somewhere
it's very restful and
really promotes awareness so you can practice that and practicing awareness
one when looking at things when speaking
when listening
brushing your teeth or washing your face that's a really good one of the practice of when you get up in the morning and you're going to wash your face go get a whole chapter on a wash your face them
go and go into the bathroom and wash your face that's why the there's a verse i think the vs going to bathrooms what we're water comes from honest though so you can actually recite that verse and when you put in your face think of a miracle when water conservatives feeling that the water on the face and
and
loving kindness toward your own face and energy washing your face
this is a really great cracker
and putting on your clothing or i fully carefully and so on how the little things you may be like to think we do is pick two or three or one thing in your day that you might decide to practice awareness with and see how reddit and extend
it from there this is very thorough i'm italy stands for all the things that you do physically you will be aware of current practice to learn them
and
it doesn't say this visit here but what happens is when you do that is that the mind becomes much more in focus
you begin to see what it is that has been going on all lot but you didn't know the dullness of the mind the inaccessibility of our own minds to us suddenly they've become accessible and will begin to notice and this is where i can become quite uncomfortable real
lies and now boy i would make an app world and foldaway this was the contents of my mind you get to see degree of self concern that we have all fear greed and anger you will all the things that are enough become more apparent
when the practice of mindfulness and that's why next one because has to do with abandoning the hindrances
because you see this this is a very experiential yeah
they won't do to read a list of ambulances and say okay these are that i'm not doing before we do that you have to practice mindfulness so we really get to see and understand how the hundreds of manifest in ourselves and really see how we have a
no since the latter
how we have laziness and restlessness how we have tremendous doubt not sure what also and was on the so i'm not sure we could chair approach the wholesome and lot of course also mean all those things
really are becoming parents on the practice phone
so i'm really understand and appreciate the existence of the five and in ourselves
we can be and how they cause suffering and unpleasantness than we are digging when you go because we have a logo the evidence before we can enter into
and the meditation states that will
show us how life really is
so this would be the last constitutional of fighting racism and stuff what was to be done carefully vehicles
man
which included western face
for us the real tree amounts in the movie and and i gave a charnel ground a juggler tickets and open space and he was struck
so now against are going to say
we've gotten allison look at all the things we get cultivated had to the desire
two
do good not too bad
the only interesting
we worked on by speech of mine
to clarify what were you
we boarded our livelihood
garden the stores moderation in the
where got an attitude of alertness and a real desire to study the mines understand
and then
practiced awareness all of which now brings and you real shape of our minds around illusion now already said and clarify that so this is like only same thousand and all sorts of things come up with mine
this is natural that happen
and we need to clarify that go
oh thanks to the mind as we do want the mind can be very still but we can browse the mind being still
got it but my settle and like the handles to follow as that's what that's what the settler violence was discussed here as abandoning so you've gotta go and find a nice place to locate cool place and this is how they practice
the
the old days
i don't really know whether chinese and japanese or both
when we practice together for an idea sometimes they practice together for even with there we go
here and they're scattered around the forest
outdoors
they had
warm climate so and they will try to subvert mostly living up to us on time
and said it
by themselves on returning from his arms around after his meal he sits down
for the his legs crosswise
setting his body erect
and establishing mindfulness before him
so this is i that this is interesting
idea of establishing fine from its before him or her
presenting
well it's hard to exactly shape but
think of stone
you have to kind of like enter into mindfulness have to
this is a mindfulness were actually something
seems very vague the way fine
awareness but a words and he can take it
i and just a thought or and aren't we always aware you think well i'm i'm not sleeping i'm aware that but somehow it not so from how we can be awake and aware to an extent but not really clear
not really truly aware awareness and mindfulness it's almost like a thing for handle one if you can pick up and you are depicted average you did
and it's pretty clear
so you get that feeling establishes mindfulness in front of the kicks out life was very mindful was present
so you can appreciate what i'm saying you understand what i'm saying here but
this is really true either mindfulness various not and so one has the first of all get your struggle a little bit to find that handled buried under on a baloney
that's in our lives but once you gonna find the handle the gravity of times we get a feeling from yes this is mindfulness being president knowledge my present there so then you sit down you can you bring mine from his activities for the ground reading level and home air mindfulness is was there
abandoning covetousness for the world
the advised with the mind free from covetousness he purifies the mind to come of consciousness design
grammar
abandoning your will and hatred she advised with my she's no real passionate for the welfare of all of a big to purifies from i have no real patriot
so visibly just really the same thing as green your college because you will have this same energy
the other direction
in other words
what one is trying to do open
is the simply
a really allow what has happened to have
there's a thought for it sets a president whatever it is the idea is whatever is there let's allow it to be there just as it is without either say oh that's great i want to have that or that's terrible i'm getting out of here i want this to get out of here about you
know one of those things just no law was there be there are these two hindrances on the opposite that needs to let go of
if we have your will or covetousness or desire
the mine will continue to be agitated these are these are of energies that will continue to advocate money so we get political
then abandoning slot and corporate
he it's free from slot or for recipient of light mine photo fully aware he purifies his mind from slot torpor
so this is one extreme again these are tears of extremes one extremists corporate kind of laziness or dullness and you know it's possible to be dull
for years at a time you know if kind a low grades and stuff
desire to make me
sleepwalk through the day it's very calm and an in-depth mention literally sleeping in meditation and falling sleep meditation unable to clerk and have a bright line defined as don't know stimulation sign
so that's one extreme and the other extreme is next one restlessness themeforest than the restaurant was she advised i'm agitated for the mine inwardly peaceful few purifies your mind from restlessness and the worse
so
one extreme is were bored the other extreme is for
agitated
thrill to the point of
really confused
so we want to have a certain balance there we've gotta have enough
energy to be bright
but not so much as to make us agitated and excited you've gotta be can't have to watch com fall asleep so we have of a good balance like are both extreme and then finally to ban any doubt
he abides have gone beyond that of perplexed about for of states he purifies his mind from that
so this is that in relation to what are you doing half
what's so much i mean it is i suppose partly
oh we think about it the opposite the faith and on have faith path
but it's more of in this case you see that it's more specifically seems to be and do it
not being clear about what's holding them with not wholesome and moving toward not lovely and clear about the fact that we them it's wholesome and away from what's unwholesome and then knowing the difference when that's not a good and sometimes you to wait a minute or no difference that's why we have to make a lot of mistakes
because we have to really know not because someone told us
are we the suitors of switches are only guy posts for our own self discovery we have to know by our own mistakes
this is not wholesome because i've done a lot and i see what happens
i know this is not beneficial this is beneficial because although at first i wasn't interested in a gone toward me not to say that it isn't interested is this useful this health
so
experience gets us clear on this point and usually experience
helps us to come back up alone are confusion is pretty deep so will continue to combat constantly reflecting spirits hurdle overcome
hello that the hindrances have an idea does this is done and sitting practice this is a way this is the idea that this is known balancing
and suddenly belong to him this or that which
advocates disturbs unsettled on it my needs to be internet set on com focus and work for the next step process
never up
so maybe i'll start there in the next time work is similar
but
now getting away but we like and exactly is any questions they also be permanent protection
they do not thinking is through very well but having to put in a problem smooth english
it isn't a tweak keeping this is the prison when a problem and have been imprisoned in the world it's hard to relate somebody who is practice like the yeah i mean does he do you have a problem he is so you so it's sort of goes into a radical a civilian yeah i'm in all these different hindrance braces and you can watch it
knowing that
yeah right so so
this is like
the same
when you're raising it is a great point this is this sutra is like
where is you could say it's like a map
and you know that is that the same as place that you are meant for its direction you should an idea of how to proceed and so on but in reality it's a lot more messages you are putting up so that were mostly the you like this is an hour south of course working with a hindrance
because i've never ending issue
it comes up again and again began their times in conditions in our lives are such that great thou is brought up for a desire that brought out for tremendous hill will stimulated right by conditions then our practice of awareness and working like a hindrances will be all about
studying your well being with it working with the condition whether we're actually right in the mud maybe that there's a long periods of time when we cannot let go one of the emphasis or whether one
if that's the case that doesn't mean we don't quit keep awkward to someone else it just means that while we just fallen in this map we just try to keep trying to go this direction and turns out that we have been like state and and i'll tell there for a while
while you're was having its way with us and we'll take them to do it and then what if we if we stay there that's better for it to stay there
i'm willing to come back over and over again and keep following the way that we go
will will help us eventually the a little does dissipate because everything dissipates and the whole life dissipate space so why don't know well that would ever did whatever dependents so desire
this is just like i was saying about overeating
if i
keep exercising or overeating hustle it seems really hard not to overeat but once i start not already eating it's a lot easier and more pleasant
so if you will arises
in we use the world example if the real arises and we began encouraging ourselves to scheme for hours to beat up someone's oh and how knowledge we hate them and they deserve to be a this way that on so what then of course we increase the oil we don't do that and just you know stay that your will
oil hotel
don't feel more positive your real stuff it just the law that it will very well actually this let's go away eventually might take a we say compliment it's gone yet okay forget it i'm going to get it through can
the then will gather inevitably have patience and eventually be a world goes away because in every fire goes out and everything you throw up a new york comes down
and that's a load everything all the images were like that too few you are patient and you don't make worse it gets better
but yeah to lot messier this is this is nice i always say what procedures this is all very neat and the support
like that in life
we we don't want if you are clear very clear sense of offer
banning from for years

seeing life
where steve like tv
it's often the traditional
an increase the perceived interested
the traditional antidote for slot and torpor is to see life
so like invitation manuals when says i have trouble falling as the invitation and one should i do
it's all list of things and one of miss
look for it life in the room that you're sitting in or outdoors
and try to increase the light as their and
make it brighter
that'll wake you up
i find that it actually doesn't work that will
that's what they say
computer
and when we were work for you
but that is what they say and the idea of thing that slots interpreter in dullness and it's trivial in your sleep guys are closing
to sing your emphasizing the darkness
not the life of that's what here
brian's the opposite spot

first
ah my mistake
i saw montel you
come on nightline here all will just stick with it
you know must set up this expectation
i watch them
automatic
apple's denying just sitting on them
just stay in my home town
that which is an action
live mindfully greatness
it's gone to do something on it
and it's i can
you're angry and you want to go on fine
you think that that's going to
ah
change the on make you feel better on the same sense and he urged that you would have not to do that
would almost after the same resistance to it
i would have to be
an equal counterbalance
save
yeah against
think you're going to get something on
either way you do it like just having that extreme emotion period whether seen with it or not is enough itself like this case that propagate
well yeah you might you might observe that arise in your mind but the the
injunction to
quota for sale with some is the middle space between the two extremes either going to be somebody else before thinking that you can new
eliminate ill will in your mind
our two extremes neither one of them has been worth what it means to say sit with it means
to go well as president so allow the you will be president don't try to avoid it don't try to act on hard to do and in reality you as you said both times and you sit down if you sit with it at the strategy to get rid of it
and when you sit with it as a strategy we get rid of it it's very frustrating because of course should not really sitting with right
oh boy sitting with it means not having it as a strategy to get rid of it
course it's hard to avoid and the feel of a strategy to get rid of that arise in the mine so when it does than you have to skip that was okay i'm sitting here aware i'm sitting here to get rid of this year will which i find so uncomfortable and i'm aware of my desire to avoid
it is ill
and that's what i'm saying
but it's i understand that forget about again but it helps to remind yourself over and over again that there is no other way
we that
because there really isn't what are you going to do i mean if group
a like for example
if you get up every morning and look at the mirror
basically you'll see the same guy
and you can wish all you on that there would be another guy there but that's it
nine ten or below
i mean what can be more futile than than in everyday to have wish more aware like a because that's gonna be a cruise
extreme compare no doubt that i realized that since i got up
basically that issues that innovation with one was one of there is one choice there is one choice to canada
this method you don't find a better one but basically
so i find it very comforting to remind myself that there is love joy
that said in a way you know
like i said i'm always ready believe me at the drop of a half by to like anybody has unlucky enough to put
i have
home prices into iran alpha version will conceive
i'm thousand dollars or error than i got a fledgling well never hear that
what i say a better word often like another
i'm sure that these
think that we're talking about his ways are not the flu
on this city they think other approach to life but the basic mechanism
accessing and corrupting our life i don't see any alternative is no way to control your mind make you have disappeared
i mean yes to take various kinds of drugs unit
take they can be drugs to think they'll stay here and they weren't right
course it works
but how long are the consequences
the actually
this is why why do you think that there's so many people believe drug problem why he will try to change their mind
the try to change your mind and like i said it works for law
but ultimately tremendous tread
the weren't implemented the opportunity to like
the future is like a temporary and go green
how in education and in sounds like you that ended their pregnancies at the end of time
no actually that hard and as a kind of producing hello
when replying to my now and has the inside we were other things are rearing completely left alone and will arrive yes yes yes think that there's a to a point here
because there's levels and degrees a virtual to five hindrances in a way we've all experienced times when we were absent of five minutes not that unusual that there can be a mompreneur an hour or day whatever when really don't have the five minutes present
in order for the mind to experience inside we have to not have five president but obviously we haven't these the state where the five hindrances are wiped out forever they come back
so this is talking about just exactly charlie says he was talking about in meditation letting go the five minutes or so that we can go further but will be pretty view that invitations we haven't yet but moving the root cause of the five years which happens at by the end of this
for through the practice you actually get to the root causes of and they don't arrive
what is the fear of vip and we're all working on
when reality we can have we can let go of the five minutes isn't sitting
and then on a daily lives with circumstances they'll come up again and then we have to continue to work on so we're kind of do with two things that weren't kind of the double track from one hand we are
working to eliminate
making the five minutes was worse you know in in deepening are committed to them are trying to work on that and the same time we're trying to work on me at root causes of five minutes is so that we will totally like go on one hand over kind of practicing he isn't in your on the other hand of effects in iraq
radical
completely transform our lives both center before
thank you miss work for
well
that's not
well maybe i wasn't to
the or to leave early