After I finished giving a talk yesterday, I should do a better job of describing the dynamic that David was talking about in that passage. Why don't you try to? It's a better way to cook it. before I make my usual attempts at such things. It's a piece from root. Keep walking. This is no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move with it. But don't move the way fear makes you move. You could say, don't move the way Fear makes you move.

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Agitation makes you move. Aggression makes you move. Don't know it. Well, fear makes you. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and afraid. Don't open the door to busyness. and begin studying. Take down a musical instrument. Of course, he was referring to magic practice. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to nail and kiss the eye. in the cosmology of pure land.

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The delight of the pure land is that all your afflictions are gone, all your afflictions and your imbrances, all the things that distract you from practice, agitate you, distress you, and the resolve to follow the way. to what it was to bite any pigs. In case you haven't noticed, that's not quite what's going on for sure. But each of us has our mullets, you know. But in a way, what David's talking about in this passage of the same, Each of us have our moments and there's something about how we relate to them that opens up the path.

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There's a cynical voice in me that I read something like this. But it goes, yeah, right. Yeah, just feel what you love. Let the beauty of the love feel what we do. Because it's completely correct, right? Do you want to be bought by that generous appreciative spirit that's within you? Or they want to be loaded by suspicious, fearful aggression. There's a Native American question. There's a two-headed beast. One hand is fierce, aggressive, domestic.

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And then the other hand is kind. who are paying attention to us, which one will dominate? And the answer is, the one you feed the most. So from that perspective, how can we argue with them? But the duty we love will be what we do. There are a hundred ways to live and kiss them. doing on this classical, actually for many years, reading it, we're reading it, comparing translations. You have to become quite fascinated by the translation of the word dhritta. As Tana actually translates it as Tana instead of, I don't remember,

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I would quote this possible direct. Essential Ascendant Consciousness. So they go, that says it all right. Essential Ascendant Consciousness. Nishijima, Roshi translates it as experience and concentrated mind. Just a few years ago, I was in Southern Italy with Jennifer, who will be here in a couple of weeks. She mentioned to me that the person we wanted to visit, the doctor, was involved in a long project with a Sanskrit scholar. In my years with a Sanskrit scholar, I could ask him

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about Britain. And so, when we got to the destination of the world, we negotiated a time to visit the Sanskrit Scholar. Indeed, it turned out to happen. I went into the room, and there was the Sanskrit Scholar, and there was the Ayurvedic doctor, and he had computers and books and papers. And they were working on the Ayurvedic doctor had written a book on the Ayurvedic treatment of elves. And I thought, as I said to the Ayurvedic doctor, I said, and this is a metaphor for practice, right? He said, no. This is about Ayurvedic treatment for elves.

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So not only had he written work on how he clicked on the relevance, but they decided, the two of them, that they would have a ticket item, I guess it was in Malayama, and translate it into Sanskrit. But when you write it in Sanskrit, the Ray Cortez, and there's a lot of other linguistic formalities that you have to comply with. And so this was one of these forever projects that they worked on diligently. And It actually reminded me of Rastan Hassi.

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Rastan Hassi spent 30 years translating the ship against him. Now he is finally done. He would start. I would start. I did think. He'd be glad to get rid of it and send it off to the publisher. Now, he decided to go through it. It verified, didn't you? And make all the little corrections that you saw made me. And so we spent another year to do that. So that we're working on this. I paid for all of it. What they did was... I asked... I'm asking a stupid question.

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I mean, asking a Sanskrit scholar, do you know a Sanskrit word? So, do you know Ritta? He said, oh yeah, of course. And I said, what does it mean? He said, it's kind of impossible to say. Because the context is everything. Like a little bit like asking about life. You know. What is what? What does it mean? How do you do? Well it's kind of impossible to say, the context is everything. If you want cold assets, if you want cold experience. And we are it.

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This is, this consciousness. while being utterly self-absorbed, happy, afflicted, and then at other times utterly magnanimous and wide and deeply accepting of what is. But with Christmas holidays, I love to visit. My grandkids help in Portland. And my ex-wife, who led us to nearby. But I was, you know, staying, you know.

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And so we found out together in a casual, friendly way. appreciative way. So many times when we were trying to make our marriage work, such simplicity was utterly abusive. And now, nothing to do. Just sitting there, anxious, chatting about nothing. upon a human existence. Sometimes we work so vividly at making it work right with great sincerity and dedication and persistence.

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getting the irony of it all that we're getting in our own life. And then sometimes, thank goodness, the way just falls off. Or you meet two people working on the Ayurveda treatment for the elephants. And they say, Why not? Elephants deserve treatment as much as they are. Isn't that if we are going to be foolish enough to attempt something purposeful? I don't think that he is linking that purposefulness with the citta, that discerning, discriminating, ficting, formulating aspect of our consciousness.

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I'm not in India, I'm going to ask a Sanskrit scholar about that. It seemed like a good idea when I had it. He was not a big guy. He's pretty chill. That's the book. As is Kasthana Hatshya and Peter White. Maybe it's about patience. just work on this 30-year project. Maybe it'll take a little longer, but it's okay. What's a couple more years? I have to put 30 years in.

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When I read this That's what I think he's trying to cause. Keep walking. Oh, there's no place to go. Keep walking. Don't try to see it through. And then this happened. And then if we can be right, I'll see the sky. Don't tell me exactly what it is. That fascicle. All open in utter clarity. And I'll know something. About something. Or I'll know something about nothing. It is after. Don't try to see it for the distances. That's not for humans. Move away. And don't move away.

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Fear makes sense. And we spent a lifetime doing some version of it, moving away. Fear makes us move. Sadness makes us move. Resentment. Desire. think about the patience. When I read this fast enough, the way it makes sense to me, and maybe that's a question that makes sense, is that our very human lives and how it's engaged

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can be related to as teaching. I would say that patience is the ingredient, this is the being. The way of engaging, it helps it deterrent from another distraction, another affliction. and not the thing that prompts our urgency or a drive to infections. The patient's house determined. When I was on that visit to India, you should know He said, well, why don't, would you like to come and see some Sanskrit fear?

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I had no idea. I'd never heard of the word Sanskrit fear with two words before then. But I thought, sure. So they went to a place where they were doing Sanskrit fear. It's a little bit like no drop in that. It lasts forever. You know, when you go to Dorama in Japan, you take a box on to it. That's how long it lasts. It's been all day, but then it's breaking real now. What Sanskrit did, it was like that, except there was no lunch. I haven't died for a week. It was kind of like, during the day, they tell you what was going to happen and he, and it would happen.

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And this front level up began. But each, each-handed movement was, Each facial expression was a communication. And they had little subtitles. I forgot Raya's word. The subtitle would say, Rama meets Sita. And then that will take 45 minutes to an hour. It would be an abundance of Lutra's eye expression of some racial terms. In old what?

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The only use of compliment is the drug. And for the first 20 minutes, it's riveting and fascinating. And for the first hour and a half, it's still stimulating and true. But the third hour, you start to wonder. And then it ended for three and a half hours. The first night. And I thought, wow. Well, that was good. It was McDonald's a while. And then each night it got progressively longer. And then, it's a little loud.

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This is about so great. This goes on for that. Just if you did it. Just soak up this entry, this amazing thing called Sanskrit B.H.G. Just soak up this amazing thing called P.H.B. P.H.B. The person you are. With all its intrigues. The costumes were amazing. The youngest player is actually this P.H.B. And after about a four-and-a-half-hour session, after all finished, we would all go and have something to eat.

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And he had, in that evening, he had one solo piece that lasted almost two hours. The beats making the motorist, the facial gestures, various dance movements, all that's up for two hours. And then afterwards, I said to him, Are you tired? And he looked at me like, why are you tired? Why do you ask that? And it occurred, I hate to be tired. So we can cast the request of practice one way. Let's see. Unlightingly demanding a difference. And we can make kind of a shift, shift in attitude, shift in expectation, shift in...

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creativity. He just looked, he did. He absorbed it in it. And what not in a day is she Can we plan that? Is there a guaranteed strategy that opens that part of us that says? And again, it has a Nishijima.

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Different transformations. Nishijima. He offers this. The second consciousness, Radaya, is called the mind of grass and trees. Another, this is Radaya, which is translated as grass and trees consciousness. This one I did, managed to verify. This phrase, grass and trees, was coined, as appears in many of those hospitals, grass, trees, tiles, and pebbles. It was coined, a Japanese, a Chinese, to describe

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the energy of life, of being alive. Two days ago, at the end of dinner, I was walking over the bridge and I noticed that planetary to my perception that suddenly burst into full bloom And I thought of that wonderful phrase that was in that, the Paripadha Sutta, untimely blossoms, and the solid streams burst forth with untimely blossoms. And the plum tree burst forth with untimely blossoms.

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particularly wonder. The sun has risen, aye. With that, quite a vote east-west of Darwin. That's a lot of sun dripping down. It'd leave luxury in the warmth of our afternoon working. And the red-headed woodpecker gets busy as he is right now. flowers are blooming and the buds on the trees are swelling and they're spring green and each of us another organism of this life force

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It's going to be true. This process of being alive. You won't even get up inside of Chitla. Take it out. Put another word. The things. But divide us. The things that hurt us. Things that we. Resent. Worry about. And as something in us turns. As something in us. is seen for what it is and allowed to be held in patience.

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The willingness to turn towards, the willingness to be with, the willingness to give space and experience. invited to book an acceptance of the karmic patterns of our own humanness. And inviting it to be, you know, yesterday I offered this image, the beautiful painting, the vacuum, stimulating, a masterpiece created by an extraordinarily human being. They are defensive, seemingly devoted his life to learning about this much as it could.

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It is like that he would become intrigued by some aspect of mathematics. If he would search out someone who had mastered that, and he'd go study. Just by looking at a stream, he deduced the laws of hydrodynamics, fluid mechanics. He deduced them 300 years before they became part of the knowledge of physics. despite of dessert. And it wasn't too bad it paid to leave. That each of us, in our artistry, in our light of genius, creates a world.

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has a tendency to live inside it. And to fool ourselves and relax the whole story. And maybe when we contrast it, to protection from the five scandals. It does seem like a more interesting story. The intrigues of our own life. Even the intrigues of our yearnings. But to see it as an escape Leonardo Dizzi's made leptisettes representing our candidates to see how, well, we look carefully.

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This is 450-year-old, oily pigs, they're dry, and we need a little crab boy. Fishers on the side. And yes, what we create, singularly and collectively, is something to hold. That we are instinctively, for that, we are blood force. Every breath, every heartbeat, the blood coursing in our veins, the stomach that's yesterday, what we eat, the brain, going through its amazing biological process.

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We are white folks. No wonder we're easily captive. And yet, it's just dangerous. There are a hundred ways to meet and kiss them. There are endless ways to meet this existence and experience. And Dougie's energy says, and the tip of creating what it does stirs us in a way.

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It stirs us and it nourishes Vritta. This way of learning from experience. And the communication between the two. experiencing the experience that's been experienced. Drawing it into words. And as these two dance together, held in this awareness,

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rather than a delusion. Oh, this is the whole story. A realization, oh, this is a wonderful version. This is Shaquille when he pulled up the flower. This is not a passion of smiling. This, this, illustration of existence, except with eyes where it is to be one. And it's not a singularity, it's an all-inclusive activity. The separate soul is just another of the concepts In its own way, it's a useful tool.

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It describes certain aspects of existence. Each of us does have a subjective experience moment by moment. That subjectivity, when seen for what it is, allows that a realization into the uniqueness of what's called me, into a uniqueness of the human condition, into the world of shared existence, of shared with all being. All of that. As Vrita. Achitta. It worked.

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Left on the roll of his sway. Don Zenji pulls out. Kanodok. Just in case you thought this was finally making sense, let's throw in a little mist. Mystical, mysterious communication. As Luke doesn't seem to get tired of saying it was fascicants. And what the thinking mind can cognize is not it. It's not realization. Realization goes beyond the thinking mind. Maybe you'll read more books about the idea of elephants, or cats and dogs, or red-headed woodpeckers.

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Don't understand your sense. Intelligence of the lack of it. What you've figured out or what you haven't figured out or can't figure out, it's not. Maybe we are close to the pyramid. Maybe we already paid the price of admission. Following the schedule, so there is a period after period of success. that what we love is such charge. I couldn't be, but even though each of us has validated the deep veracity and appropriateness of practice, we still generate the thoughts and feelings

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And sometimes even the dangers it see to come together. And patiently we see it, we acknowledge it, we experience it. And allow, if it will, to bring forth the untimely blessings of itself. So let me end with Rooney again. Keep walking. Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move with it. You don't look the way fear makes you look.

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Today, like every other day. We wake up empty and free. Don't open the door to business. And begin. Take time on musical instrument. Let the beauty we love do be. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There's a hundred ways to knit a kiss.

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