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Wednesday Lecture: zen practice and ecology

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situated at your service
good evening so nice to be here
on because i don't know
all of you
i don't know many of you
i'd like to begin just by introducing
introducing myself my name is wendy johnson i have been studying and practicing
meditation in the buddhist tradition since i was twenty three years old and then fifty seven
i'm for thirty
thirty one years i've worked an incentive and twenty five years i lived here and bring off she was involved in them
allies many many others involved in the establishing of the organic farming and garden program and sensitive
i am on
i think of myself as an activist and organic gardener and a first of the loves and is tremendously grateful for my experience in meditation saw be drawing on all of those on richards's this evening as we speak together and this will be a on an opportunity for us to talk together about
buddhism and ecology
hey john
yeah i think that's plenty i have other hidden insignia that i won't bring up from
let fills be and he waits the life will be here and i'm very happy to be sandwiched between the parents speaking about on the active
right path of practicing with children and within relationship and really happy to be following the parents and holding up there
we're bringing all their toys and buckets behind them as they come and then vote and next week to have lives who's on
since i did do that sure why tortuously terrifying year it's more like the farm as head of you when you're so your next week lives will speak and very much ground and in the practical of is that true still room my write letters next week good arms
and alex great so
tonight we'll talk a little bit about and trainings and and teachings of buddhism and ecology and then next week have a chance to really go outdoors and to take them up in a very direct way
good
hmm
you know i've never been comfortable with the word environment i have to begin with a confession all the while more that which surrounds us
odd to me the landscape on the earth
the ground is much more intimate than that which surrounds idiot
is so much a part of who i am and how i think and how i practice that of again never been comfortable with the word environment and never really comfortable with the word sustainable because i've never met a practice as often a partner a plan
a piece of ground that sustainable i'm always overwhelmed with connectedness when i when my practice enough in the real world where i practice in where i live so i've never been able to be an environmentalist or to really have a sense of sustainability on the
the world is a lot wilder for me and my experience and i think when we look at on so i want to begin with that confession and we'll see what what that brings up for you it was unscripted so i'm gonna trust it came up
bubbling up from nothing from the in the ground up however when considering the word ecology i feel a little bit more on residents liveliness and maybe because of the root of that word i cause low
ikea where the logic of the home focus from the greek household my one of my teachers on alan chadwick actually whose birthday is today he would have been
eighty something and maybe ninety something today was one of our primary teachers in one in the garden world here at san center
he always reminded us that the earth household once
vaster than we ever could understand he said you go into the garden because you love creation thinking of sally bingham talking to us ago reverend david talking about creation you go into the garden because you love creation and you give yourself over to the work in the garden you're never in charge of it you can never understand it
you water the garden he said so it can dry out
and when you cultivate the ground your opening the earth to starlight into the mystery
so when i think of a earth household that kind of sensibility is very close to my experience of training the heart and mind in the buddhist tradition
so that were that old word on ecology has particular importance right now they did a little
research on i probably to the brain i did want to go over them
oh wow
i know just where it is on my kitchen table and but sometimes you can just throw out practice and and pocket
oh it's all right when we think of our action
look at him something that we do when we practice with children because you know i'm involved right now i work in the and for the last five years i've been working pretty while finishing up a garden book here a book about practicing in the garden oh and she met course as part of my zen center work also working in the public schools in connection
with them a group of people called the center for ecological literacy or eco literacy and not in berkeley we were working in the public schools i work at nine hundred children which is a great challenge on in the public schools looking at how does ecology actually work within the real world and the college
she's a study of networks this is framework to work we do if the kids study of networks
and of nested systems of reality
cycle
a flows
and of growth
and of course dynamic balance so i think that's why i'm a little happy with the word ecology because it includes all those disciplines and we could spend a whole evening looking at each one of those and how they practically work on but our topic tonight is to look at how buddhism and college he got together
and how they enemy our practice and you're thinking and you know from the very beginning from the very first moment of shakyamuni buddha sitting on the ground taking this place underneath that huge people tree in northwestern india when almost twenty six hun
nerd years ago sitting down and making the pledge that he wouldn't move until i understood something about the root of suffering and relieving suffering and actually calling on the ground to be as witness to help him be stable and to know his mind as we say in the ancient buddhist tradition
join the work of meditation practice of awakening is to know the mind to shape the mind and to freedom and
so having booted the buddha take his place as a earth household take his place under that tree and vow to hold still until they understood what to do and to recognize his connectedness
with the earth it supported him is a primary image in our in our practice and know this of this autumn we begin a series and environmental sorry for the word ah a series of a lecture series on the connection of buddhism and ecology called touching the earth
and just the image you know of the buddha taking his place underneath the that tree and when great doubt and confusion rolls up putting his right hand on the ground justice to stabilize himself to remember it was to receive the truth and wisdom of the ground coming up
so that he could be a fully alive human being in respond to his own doubt in his own questions wonderful and you know i cannot graphically there's in some of the oldest on paintings in the buddhist world there's a they're drawing the spirit of the earth coming up and putting her hand
right underneath the buddha's outstretched him and beautiful can know
artistic representation of the connectedness between ah human life and the ground that were made of and remembering that really remembering so
in in the buddhist world there is not
a separation if we lift the veil
israel was talking about on sunday we lift the veil and pull back the veil
and really look into our work there is no separation between our household are human household in this
body that we inhabit for a brief eighty years of some and the ground that sustains us and gets us law
so that is a clear obvious and fundamental tenet of buddhist practice that we and the great earth or one one body

the more we sit like this
said some calgary roshi one of our teachers and great dharma friends guides the more we sit like this the more we realize the strength of human ignorance while of sitting still
there's no reason that we create this terrible situation but we do constantly with is pretty hard because the more we trust the more we taste and shoe real peace the more we realize our own ignorance but the more we realize human ignorance the more we cannot stop
stop touching real piece living real peace and we continue under all circumstances
one am i really favorite teachings we continue under all circumstances continued under all circumstances remembering that we are one body with the earth and supports us you know i think on in
well that's about a year ago i started to really ask myself what are the fundamental
from my own experience and love for meditation and active engagement with the world and organic gardening where the real practices that help
express the connection between buddhism the connection of buddhism any college and i thought of three practices are three ways of see
first but first i wanted to really remind us
that we're not separate from the earth were looking for this study the household of the earth
so on the first word that came up for me was rootedness
and that's no surprise because i'm
i am a gardener and i love to watch from plants germinate just yet a few weeks ago right around on the fourth of july when we sewed those and beans from possible with the kids out in the garden we did the same thing at a mark
does the king junior high school in berkeley where i work with some very disappear should
unfortunately the incoming sixth graders was kind of bracing to see okay these are the kids are gonna be here next year or right we'll go with it and they took these beans and
sewed them and his children here sold them to and when those beans germinate the best way to to so a been plants have been as to lay it on its side because as it swelled and it will get double its size as it doesn't takes in water as it swells on one route pushes they were actually the route the
route the down route or the radical route pushes down and the sit with the same force of that pushed the upward or the cortical comes up so we got a double motion going on the same time going down into the unknown and routing in the unknown in the dark and coming up into the light and beginning
to grow
am
so for meditation practice and for ecological awareness to have on some muscle
it takes a a rootedness in what is and a willingness to be rooted in what is to push down to the unknown what happens in a route is so extraordinary you know there's a on especially in the taproot in plants ah the knows where the tip of the on the radical
hence the word radicalism radical as the route that goes down to the unknown and buddhism is radical practice
because it takes place in
not only com ground but very disturbed grip and when that route goes down and it breaks open on ground that hasn't been opened before and has a kind of on
intensely on
strong cap this is especially on on the taproot is a little cap around the tip of that route and if that route breaks than it a surge of mucus comes from behind in the plant android lubricates the ground so that the route can continue to push down on the ground seems
kenneth
well i think sexual when you just can't help saying
a of evidence for there's this lubricated root extract for shuts down it's called the vanguard group and it pushes into the ground and it's followed by the feeder roots and take up moisture and nourishment i do not want to speak metaphorically it's hard not to please don't take what i'm saying as metaphor to actual
work of the roots and actually meditation practice
depends on a cent on rudeness but not i'm brittle rootedness because if you're too firmly rooted those are always the plants like the great magnificent walnut tree that grew outside of our house for a good thirty years firmly rooted couldn't take on the flooding in
wildness of the ground where we live in strong winds because the roots were too brittle the tree fell over and pulled up on or heaved up the ground as it fell so it's good to have flexible rootedness think of the bamboo and great teacher flexible inflexible and its roots
the root system that flexes along plan
ahem however to to know the ground where you practice
is extraordinarily important and to find some sense of rootedness i would wager on
and maybe we'll do that for
one or two minutes
that if if we took the time this evening we will to on just follow our breathing sit still and think about our roots you know a lot of people
in north america say no i have no roots i don't remember my roots however all of us are rooted in song
reality some ecological system some homeplace
oh and it is important to remember where were rude it where we come from whenever you have to say said poet charles olson whatever you have to say leave the root zone
let them dangle in the dirt just to make clear you come from
oh that is buddhist teaching also in in the mouth of among pot
from gloucester massachusetts
whatever you have to say leave the root zone whatever wherever however we practice remember where you come from remember who you are what you've been a where you're rooted so let's take a minute you know a precious minute and i want to say because martha and layer here and others who work in the m
in the an extensive prison system that on
you know we can't live in maroon county without being aware of san quentin prison
sitting on a promontory and they're practicing and the prisoners incarcerated so-called incarcerated them while i will they are incarcerated felons are practicing meditation and mindfulness even in the challenging situation so i want to say that
martha told me that when
ah meditation classes and it's common for on the men gathered to sit still at least for one minute and just pay attention to their breathing so an honor of the many people who do that in less commodious circumstances than we find ourselves in here let's spend a minute
where you go down a little bit follow it the first image that comes up when you hear the bell and stay with it for a minute maybe two minutes to stay with enjoy enjoy your breathing and groundedness and you're asking you know you're asking the image of york
home
hmm
rooted home or route were in what you are routed to come up
i'm not coherent because it's not very coherent country but let it come up
ring the bell and i'll ring it after a few minutes

huh
huh

when to my surprise i remembered vividly on a
three i haven't thought of for years of them
gigantic magnolia that will spread across the stone fence from the house where i grew up
and
justin breathing with that trig i could clearly see some lightning bugs summer lightning bugs going through em down
and here on the strong voices of my parents fighting
where did it
part of my landscape by murdered in that landscape will have a chance on in few minutes to talk about looking up three
where it yourself in what you're saying
when you find your place where you are said joke and practice occurs
finding a place where you are means routing and in where you live and recognize him that
that rootedness is an expression of who you are not sad from now you're not rooting in a place in separate but as you route
and take your place
oh and it's not always a comfortable place on
practice a curse
and the unification or the connectedness
between you and where you wrote it is essential

one of my friends of dharma sister
who died a few years ago by her own decision on
close to the time sheep took her life she um
she said to a good a good mutual friend on i want to move below to an unseen place
and meditation practice and the work of buddhism and ecology takes us below to announcing place
i'm kind of rootedness in the unknown
not always comfortable

keeping in the our world and thought okay if there's rootedness than not buddhism and ecology for me manifest as a related miss awesome rootedness first sense of place
sense of where i am and then a relationship with that place
on my teacher on
i took my time
described on how an ancient vietnam people were so familiar so related to their landscapes at when a when a pot of rice was cooking on in an iron pot and on fire on the stove and the lid invalid were
clifton and on the cook could lean over and breathe in the steam from the rice here she would know the river system where that rice was grown by the scent of the moisture being released from the rice heck kind of related this is
so necessary for the work we have to do
in the world
that kind of related this and you know in in the meditation tradition
since the beginning of the tradition there's always been a related miss between the natural world and meditation practice on just think of the old monks who would take their their dharma names so are teaching names would come from the mountains where they practiced
bhatia was named for banana tree growing outside of his his cabin
even the lotus sutra i was reading today there's a japanese warbler that had to call hope keep your which supposedly one of the names of the lotus sutra thus have i read muttered i've been heard that warbler but i felt that prayed that a bird would convey the teacher
ethan but there would be that kind of related miss and mystery in relationship
and on also even the even if related nest with what is dangerous and broken much more difficult
to look at theo opportunity that comes from danger and brokenness off for example hammerhead sharks of when fear came up in the presence of hammerhead sharks on i read one practitioner was able to calm his mind by recognizing the relationship
between the hammerhead sharks head and the mallet used to call to meditation for her that's pretty amazing
and i loved reading this account of related months so related this follows rootedness in practice
no
to really experience
all of our relations and our connectedness
takes a quiet mind on kind of stable willingness to stabilize
to settle down to hold still
and in that holding still
you are open to active relationship not only with joy and groundedness but also with displacement and saw and especially in these tops
and it cannot be you know the buddha grew up in chaotic tongues not unlike these times times of isolation tremendous change even though the the quality of the changes were difference in there in modern times still there was tremendous disruption of the natural order tremendous loneliness
so relationship on being in relationship with where we live in for we are and on the steam that comes out of the rice that were boiling also opens our hearts and minds especially when were stable and we have the gumption to hold still it okay
and us up to the sorrow and displacement that is that surrounds us modern philosopher on i don't remember her name but i remember her book she wrote a beautiful book called hold fast
you know thank you
thank you so on the whole fast as this is a structure than a kelp great seek kelp have to hold onto the ground of the ocean even in the great tidal movements they're willing to be routed to hold on and to move with the waters and this philosopher notices that
to be to hold fast and be in relation ship now to what is changing and was being taken from us and lost by the way we live in the world is extraordinary takes extraordinary presence and attention
we can't have a conversation about buddhism in ecology in these times without looking at relationship and the breaking a part of the relationship
so perhaps
when you thought of on
your place your rooted when you examined rootedness on if you looked a little bit more deeply on the land where you grew up safe in my case is no longer part of our family land and it's been not actually the house where i grew up on after our family moved away
from that house on
it was purchased by someone who didn't follow through on the payments and the house was abandoned and in this very gussied up neighborhood on the outskirts of new york city where i grew up in westport connecticut our house remains a haunted house on the block it has no that the the court battles have never been
settled i think it's a so appropriate to my family shouldn't get that this just so completely appropriate my sister's on two years ago called me on cell phones from within our house they've broken into our family and they said it was unbelievable the devastation windows were all broke
and now like a haunted house the weeds were up around the windows and of course i exulted in that they were not all that happy have that i thought well it hasn't been developed it isn't being mowed it isn't being watered is good news ah however they didn't feel that way they felt that there was a of sa
aral that a place it had been taken care of that have been so important to us was abandoned and i think many people when we look at our relationship not only with on our home but also with the natural world and feel the frame or the or the own breaking of relationship
come into on a different kind of
connectedness with with them
with primary questions so relationship is not always fun
easy
this philosopher asks what a to so there she asks how do you handle the brokenness and the separation and then also on
how did how does the the land itself
interesting as for dawson
can i think i'm ecological awareness asks us to take that kind of
question and quite seriously so that's relationship important to be related
and last of all on
now a kind of responsibility
staple your in relationship difficult challenging opportunity and and
danger st john muir in relationship to that now what's your responsibility
and you know the study of ecology with as the study for waking the person calls us to be responsible to respond
respond there to respond to the crash of the will not just the still course we we build up on stable
groundedness so that we can get off and sir
so that we can respond and in responsiveness in active responsiveness we'd come back again and again sitting still ran the middle of where we are touching here
when confusion is strong
holster touch the of call on a wider earnings
thus we know the mind shake the mind free the mind ancient meditation tradition primary ancient all this meditation tradition and in pitching says there are three
three qualities that are developed in deep meditation to know if they built you to know the mind to shape them mine and of freedom and
and that's going to take some responsibility
and willingness to be responsible

some guidelines on
that worked pretty well as far as and help us to help encourage responsibility
to nourish on compassion and respect begin with yourself this is a wonderful place to incubate that capacity to incubate to grow to chew on
nurture that capacity here you're you're going away on sensor provides a
field of action and aren't safe haven from the confusion in the room with his brief moment of time you're here
building your own resources so that you can be all the more responsive
or nourishing compassion and respect
and do it together
this is from are on a group of about three ecologists from all over the world meeting together for ten days about ten years ago we met together at shan our refuge up in northern california
and these guidelines came out of that meeting
so nourish find some way to nourish compassion and respect
do it together you know that you we are together tonight
remember who you really are an important and i get back to connecting with the ground and on
this the funny one act your age remember after all where five billion years old so we can encourage and help me help us to be more responsible
and and what i'm talking and when i'm speaking about responsibility i mean on not only for on our own meditation practice in our own body and mind but also for the way we live in the world
even though we live on low on liam
the ladder of consumption
we also live in the convenience of a country that is on
as you will know far outstripping in a quite sorry that we use the word i don't like in a massively unsustainably
living here practice in here we take responsibility for their that awareness and also for for what it means and hopefully come in the as it is so evident in the buddhist tradition when you make the commitment to to serve to get up and answer in some way whatever way of may be
on
that's the true in my experience the true depth of being able being privileged to train in a place like this
for the brief time i remember years ago on when our twenty seven year old son was a baby
on a sunday after lecture and we're going by the dining room and there was another baby
sitting in his highchair the medina road and not only that it wasn't even a residence bake it was a visiting baby and i thought oh my god
someone's in jesse's chair i think it was because you remember it to the standing it was one of the most important teachings i received walking by the window looking through the window and seeing or this is my place for a short season
and then i get to move on so that the next generation can come in and sit in jesse thought you would go on so that they can come so there's a great huge sorting and movement and it's our responsibility while we're here to gather the mind so that we can be more on
involved and i'm talking about them involved in the world of environmental and social justice a very much talking about their and and finding a way to be involved in that world without losing our stability
without losing our without forfeiting our deepest ecological on presence but that's a real challenge how to do that and those guidelines are just
a fun way to think about it in a minute we'll discuss together how we can actually do this
as far as responsibility goes on
you know in the last fifteen years
even with all the dire information about global climate change
consumption patterns and loss of species and habitat there is some heartening news the dalai lama years ago in a conference in nineteen ninety in middlebury college of conference on spirit and nature and how the practice with the mind of spirit and nature the wonderful proceedings from that
conference wonderful book and actually one of the people that pulled it together islam is a man that i went to college with them and then john elder who teaches english at middlebury college is a friend of mine
the old days was wonderful to find this book and in that
conference his holiness said you know even with destruction and so much damage in the world i am still hopeful
because people find a way to practice meditation
and because people are standing up and speaking on behalf of the environment and working for social justice and there was another
another point that i don't remember it probably had to do with oh and often offering our love and appreciation of the teachings to other people and i am hopeful he said even in the face of tremendous loss so in nineteen ninety that conference started and it was followed by on the world parliament of religions and nine
ninety three
where different faith traditions from all over the world gathered in chicago i was unfortunate enough to be there on a panel on talking about how to practice
in in connection with the earth the panel and l friend and teacher norman fischer was also there in mind and other friends and mostly there was just a throng of humanity there in chicago gathered together looking at what is the responsibility the same questions that reverend being and brought up a few weeks ago
what is the responsibility of religious practice for
the world and how do we find a way to make our practice more responsive
and you know fault right after that were a parliament there was a gathering sponsored by harvard university of caen major religious traditions looking at how does religion and ecology worked together and the first proceedings to come out and nineteen ninety six had to do with buddhism and ecology and wonderful proceedings worth of
checking and reading they're a little dance jury in islam wonderful teaching some then shortly after nineteen ninety seven formation of the earth charter there's a whole book on buddhist perspectives of the earth chair i would love to have an another meeting maybe an evening meeting just a small meeting
people that are interested in then go over these points because for me there dharma teaching in num responsiveness to what's happening in the world
and then in two thousand in the year two thousand and this earth charter was ratified and we've been disbanded ever since so how do we take
some responsibility for how we live in who we are all of these questions
come off very deeply in the buddhist tradition and in the wider traditions are not limited by buddhism but that is of course what we're looking at this evening
hmm

i think are close in on
with isa five vowels thousand came out of them and say retreat we did it
shinola looking at buddhism and ecology and activism and responsiveness
five vowels that we took as a group
i vow to myself and each of you here
to commit myself daily to the healing of our world and the welfare of all beings
this was in a kind of group on ritual closing ceremony included so to commit myself daily
to the healing of our world and the welfare of all these
and to live in earth more lightly and nonviolently in the food products and energy i consume
and to draw courage and guidance from the living earth
the ancestors the future beings and brothers and sisters of other species
and forth to support you to support one another in our work for the world and to ask for help when i need it
in last of all probably most important
i doubted myself in each of you here to pursue a daily spiritual practice
the clarifies the mind
strengthens the heart
and supports me in observing new bass
so i hope there's
i hope there are many access points for you and these remarks that come from my
practice and i hope that
will be comfortable now having no
one a dialogue or just questions of conversation with each other and thank you very much for inviting thinking man thank you everybody for inviting me home for the and on let's turn the dharma and see what what comes up and draw draw from your experience i'm really interested in what came up in the rootedness
no medication to thank you in which floor is open

hmm
hello
i be without them
palm tree
dedrick mills
in a visceral way yeah yeah that's nice it's good
thank you
yesterday walk out the that
unusually large hammock not our house i was a child when he was so big you could will push it and run and run underneath them
huge arms and on
there was a lot of fighting and my family dentist
the return from my friends with never own global healthy
they will come over to swam
said it was kind of the point of interchange where
seconds yeah i'm actually going to come
we're made of these
memories dreams and reflection
yes
jim very love
when did it i thought of my parents' house in a lot happened in the ones in pennsylvania
i went into vote we haven't
spider on his desk and forgotten they were being really close to and realizing if they're getting back
i just i guess that
then be a lot about going back there literally move not physically and living there and my parents have with them
to explore with your family but after reading this and related with them and it's my question is just like how
i don't even know how to imagine having to and if it
the how i can do it sustainer practice there by myself but i don't know if just look through scanning and but it really gave a really exciting
advice for and of country but in i remember on years ago lender of saying something that really influenced me she said she was on
she wondered what the
experience i think it was sarah going to college how that would influence the ecology of their home
interesting to to think of that think of our home our actual
home has having its own i know me it's on its own logic and nine and life it's not separate from us and to experience it of one of the kitchens and ecology that so valuable is the first look at the vast universe and then to focus on by a region
an ecosystem and then i don't remember how quite how telescopes down at a junction human animal realm and then microscopic room and recognize that going home includes all those rounds and this is primary teaching in the buddhist world that all those world systems are present in your own
aware
mine
so your awareness effects the ecology of your home and also how you respond how you take up the work of this moment for the work of islam and i'll be spiders and junk you can come and cranky parents and and you
going in and out of awareness
and the greatest gift even when you're in that's why that's why the crisis character it includes the double
wait of opportunity in danger cards you are
to take on possibility without working at another to get it right that's true
if he warned that any even want to share with your like again
but in its root responsiveness means to listen to enter of mto answer by listen first step is to listen very much primary training and teaching in the buddhist world so whatever you whatever you do we will some take a look at it and then remember your connectedness to this
place to this particular point in time to what you've learned here and what you what you don't hear as you go on
an influence
the landscape will go
yeah yeah yeah yeah easier said than done
but at other points and a fifth
we came to me is my last name which
spread the word patricia which is of like a parsnip my grandparents were from cream huh so we think that they were farmers
i had this barely ever being very rooted in the ground whom that also not at all
not felt just started to jesus
that's what can do it that the image we came up on which is how i've been feeling that that i asked then i remembered my other grandparents will they all came across the water to get to this contrasts with now have that
movement a bit robin flowing him it wasn't just the starkness
you know in the old days at gringotts before we were more civilized when as kathy bisher used say we were a third world country on are we going to have contests in the field to see who could dig out a full day com which is a person
the partner red radish family
and ed brown wanted to call his book on tomato teaching and radish failures but the press that night can call it i think that's correct
you can have failure in the title
oh yeah
how to in the red to that you that you had an image of a great radish which means route and that we never succeeded in pulling up a full day com never i remember david cohen who if anyone could have done at david would have done it in fact when david cone left the fields we are buried
one of his boots and we didn't put it in the greenhouse filled with soil and planet levithan he he could dig deeper than anybody would never got to the bottom of that movie so you'll never be able to the bottom
great encouraging
but you noticed that then it came up to this can never stay with us
try to dig it all out because you want to create
anything that's actually encourage yeah to in fit that of failure of convergencia doesn't mean for paper than were no
home tonight cannot keep fighting and trying to do them
what a sarah say last week i heard from eva on
that the encoding them jenny meyer have if i'm not mistaken forgive me if i am a home the body that you presently have when you when you enter into on shelburne is not the body that will be that will come forth for the body of your thinking now is different from the body that you grew up with
and it's bigger
wilder were willing to look at crisis and opportunity and while you're here is taken meditation
enjoy a memorable for he needed in the world
all that long twisted rudeness of his death
hmm yeah
oh my my image of rudeness was not very yeah
and and were less really my work and world to get fever i remember the last day here for years ago i was one of it when the phrases was if you just sit for a little while which just only bore through the same four inches every day hearing after you know said long enough and the going to land area
the to go to be branded as the same for uses can
little by little
maha phenomena great medication teacher and activist in cambodia when asked how to make peace he said the next step by step
and you know when he went in was finally able to go into the refugee camps in his country to return home and was admonished not to chant he walked step by step chanting friend into the camp and people that hadn't heard those chance for many many months and
followed him even though it was completely against the law and parable their own life followed him champion
just a little step and he said that's how we move step by step chair by chair responding to them too long to the world and in it and even if it's just a very little way like beginning to chance again after so many is it opens up and maybe like that vanguard group pushing down and to enter new ground we'll
what what will lubricate the route that's important stand out and what the murder cases with practice
it would never it but lubricate certificate moon
then maybe that's a good question for you
we should stop that's what i heard right
one more question her oh no i was swimming actually i
say by my progression of that mohan why i couldn't think of the though images came into the was a good time and then i thought that a recent apple has been my home from and then also i have been wanting to ask you like about the penguins into all
happen thank you okay so this penguin was a gift to me on from a dharma friend of mine and i'm a brother of mine name is charlie malik when he was thirty six years old he died of cancer
he was a very irreverent person that and a fantastic fantastic practitioner on it he gave his darling sweetheart jane the penguin and said get it to wendy tell her that i kept it in my bell it makes children life we've heard of be so i have kept the penguin and my bell and from every time i open
army via the bell case i'm so happy you know i gave the penguin and the belt to leslie me how one or when there was a family program here and as though they took the bell and the kids like the penguin a lot and and the penguin past all around the roman and the very end of the meditation program office for grandchildren
the kids said put the penguin back in his hot tub
the really like of hours

thank you for setting me up for that one
and thank you very much again for for this evening maybe i may the merit of are questioning an open-hearted investigation and this
topic and are steady practice
be offered for the wellbeing of
all being from the ten directions
the