This podcast is offered by the San Francisco Zen Center on the web at www.sfzc.org. Our public programs are made possible by donations from people like you. So this is an auspicious weekend, the weekend of the great summer solstice, the turning, actually turning toward the dark. the June 21st, early in the morning, we began that long turn of calendar and compass toward the dark on what we call the so-called longest day of the year, shortest night, turning toward the dark. And for me, 42 years ago here at Green Gulch, our son, Jesse Rudnick was born in a trailer down by the farm.

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He was well-trained by Micah, by Micah Jr. 's father, who taught him every naughty thing he ever learned from the time he was born onward. So I'm really thinking of the Sawyer family this morning. And of a baby born right on the... You know, we say the shortest night. It wasn't the shortest night for me, I'll tell you. That was not a short night. And... But I feel such an upwelling of gratitude to be able to sit with you this morning and to acknowledge the importance of taking our place and remembering who we are in time and space and not turning away from the truth of these times and what we're looking at in full light, in full light turning toward the darkness. His Holiness reminding us most recently the... The earth, this is very recent, the earth is our temporary and beloved home.

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The earth is our home and our home is on fire. So how appropriate to remember this on the occasion of the summer solstice and this weekend. And we gather today in honor of the earth in full recognition of the importance of taking the time, energy, and space to remember the pulse and voice and prophecy of the earth. So this is a day when after our Dharma talk and conversation, we'll gather on the front lawn and be welcomed by a dear friend and teacher from the Cultural Conservancy, Melissa Nelson. holding us and welcoming us to these ancestral lands. And we'll spend the afternoon in a silent walk for the earth, beginning here at Green Gulch and ascending to the crest of the coastal headlands and making our way in prayer and mindfulness along that long trajectory that leads into the arms of the ocean.

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so to speak. We're not going to go into the ocean, but we are going to walk above and overlook and stop and pray and acknowledge what it means to be alive in these times. Prayer, prayer, prayer into action. This is our call. This is our voice. This is our dedication today. So I'm going to say a little bit about this practice of pilgrimage and of walking. in this address and give you a little bit of a history of why it's so important to walk together. If you stand now in the blessed darkness, and we are fortunate enough here at Zen Center to live in a world that is not lit or not even affected so much by the ambient light of our cities, which is a wonderful, fiery light that is loved and enjoyed.

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But it is also a great gift to stand in the holy darkness and to look both at the ground underneath our feet and the heavens spread above us. So, gratitude to Miguel Kuntz, from the Point Reyes Station, Wild West Ferments. He reminds us that when we look east at night on these very days, the summer triangle of the summer solstice flies from the eastern sky all the way across to the west. And three stars, three treasured stars awakening, teaching and community. I think of the three treasured stars. At its eastern tip, the Vega star and bright blue Deneb, the tail tip of Cygnus, the swan, and then Altair, the glowing eye of the eagle in the celestial heavens, making a great triangle and reminding us again and again to come home.

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The Milky Way, at the root base of this summer triangle, a black river with luminous banks. And we know more about the heavens above us, said Leonardo da Vinci, than the living ground underneath our feet. So it is time to stand in balance between dark and light, summer and winter, fear and courage, and to be grounded in the living earth and to overlook and be held by the celestial realm above us. So, when you find your place where you are, practice occurs. Reminder from the 13th century. And Kosmiwa people, reminding us again and again, our elders, teachers, cultural holders, and knowledge holders, reminding us, you are here

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Your work is here now in this beautiful land, in the shadow of West Hill. So today, we acknowledge this and walk into the truth of this and also recognize the importance of the guardian world that holds and sustains us. So very much want to ground us in that awareness. And Our wonderful teacher and true knowledge holder, Malcolm Margolin, the founder of Hay Day Press and news from native California, wonderful teacher and wizard, wise man, says, you know, wherever you stand, get your bearings by the peaks of the Bay Area. Remember the culture of the Bay Area to the east. Mount Diablo. How many of you hail from that watershed, from the watershed of Mount Diablo in the East Bay, finding that your home now, sacred home? So Mount Diablo, the second widest viewshed in the world after Mount Kilimanjaro.

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So you can see from a great distance Mount Diablo and its sacred old name in native languages, native languages. calling of that mountain, the Guardian Peak of the East. And then to the south in the South Bay, Mount Hamilton, Hummingbird Mountain, magical, mysterious mountain of the south. Here in the west, West Hill, Bay Peak, Tamil Pais, beautiful country, sleeping, sleeping woman, long-eyed mountain, the Guardian of the Bay. And then in the north, Mount St. Helena. So four peaks holding us and reminding us of who we are. And I want to go back to express... gratitude for the long tradition of circumambulation of Mount Tamalpais and of the sacred peaks, the long tradition, very much part of the Buddhist world, to go out and receive the tidings of the natural world and be informed and grounded by the voice of the watershed where you live.

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So long tradition of walking the mountain. Matt Davis, one of the guardians of Mount Tamalpais, in 1971, began a tradition of circumambulating Mount Tamalpais and made, in his lifetime, 140 full circumambulations of this extraordinary peak, right at our back. We live and practice in the long and deep, bright shadow of West Hill, Mount Tamalpais. So the tradition of circumambulation has very strong and important Buddhist roots as well. So in 1948, teacher, poet, rascal, Gary Snyder as a very young man came to Mount Tamalpais before there were marked trails and tells about finding his way up the burly flanks of the mountain to stand in the sun and see the world stretched out in front of him. And it became a tradition for Gary Snyder who in the 1990s in this hall packed

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to the rafters, we celebrated the long tradition of walking and living in the presence of mountains and waters, what it actually means to receive our teaching, to give birth to the ancestors in a fresh and bright way every day by remembering where we are. So in the 1990s, I remember that we had a gathering of poets and poets scientists and practitioners in this hall for a long reading of the Mountains and Rivers Sutra as adapted by Gary Snyder. And it went on into the wee hours of the morning. And during that same time, there was a recollection of what it means to practice in place and to take responsibility and deep encouragement from place to serve and to listen to the voice that comes up from the land, pours down from the stars, from the three-pointed stars, and reminds us of what it means to be human and alive right now.

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And I remember very clearly Gary Snyder saying at that time, don't record me, because if you record me, I will perform. And if we are to truly remember and realize what it means to be a human being, then let there be no trace and record of what we say. And walking with poet Philip Whelan and with the ancestors and born and to be born, present on that walk. Later there was disobedience. So I love looking at the old record, gratitude to Crooked Cucumber. I love looking at the old record and seeing that that first extraordinary walk, and talk was not recorded. The next two that happened indoors were sadly recorded. But luckily, probably right now, the tapes are dissolving into the wind and becoming air, water, fire, and earth.

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So in 1948, as a young person, Gary took his place walking this mountain and I think made a pledge to stay close to the bright edge of the known world. his admonition so powerful. Stay together, he says. This is for the children, this poem. Stay together. Learn the flowers. Go light. Become one with the knot itself until it dissolves away and sweep the garden. any size. Become one with the knot itself until it dissolves away, like those tapes. Until it dissolves away, sweep the garden any size. So when you know and walk with Gary Snyder, he'll often say that Mount Temelpais was a first home, a sacred home, a home to the poets.

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In 1960, I'm going to get these dates right, Yes, in January of 1967, there was a gathering of the tribes of humanity, including all kinds of wild and woolly human beings in the Golden Gate Park with Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, many others. And thank you, Suzuki Roshi, present, to listen to the call of what it means to be alive right now, 1967. In 1965, On a kind of cold day, Gary Snyder, Philip Whelan, and Allen Ginsberg gathered in Muir Woods National Monument and did their first formal circumambulation together, three poets, three wild men, of this mountain. And a beautiful walk. I love to think about that. Stage one, beginning at Muir Woods.

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And then an hour up the trail where an oak tree split open a rock. Stage two, pausing, chanting, praying, offering sage incense, carrying on. Stage three, the dipsy crest on the ridge. And stage four, rock springs, the hinge of the mountain. Stage five, notable serpentine outcrop worthy of loud chanting. Stage six, call your spring in the redwood grove where they stopped and lay back under the influence of the ancient ones. I imagine them, those three rascals. Stage seven, inspiration point, looking down and across all sides of the mountain. And then stage eight, finally the summit, the descent beckoning down to the Mountain Home Inn. And finally, finishing in the bed of Redwood Creek, where silver salmon still run unhindered, unadjusted in the waters of this short seven-mile spur.

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So that was their circumambulation. And what about Rock Springs, the hinge of the mountain? In the early 1960s, a Hopi elder came to... actually in the mid-1970s, a Hopi elder, David Mononghi, came and he parked with Gary and Tom Killian and others almost at the crest of the mountain near Rock Springs. And they remember this elder saying, let's head out there. And they walked across the windy bluffs to an outcropping where David Monenge said, this is a special place, this serpentine outcropping. And Tom Killian says, unbeknownst to all of them, but now with the advantage of global positioning services with GPS, they stood at the exact hinge or center of the mountain, unmarked, a wild place on a rocky bluff.

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This is a special place. So that place, the hinge of the mountain, were the three watersheds of Lagunitas Creek, Webb Creek, and Redwood Creek join is where they stood and made a pledge to walk in mindfulness every year. Caminante, Caminante. No hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. Gary quoting Antonio Machado, Walker, Walker, there is no path. You make the path as you walk. So I think that this awareness and commitment to go out and receive the tidings of the land. And many of you are walkers. One of my closest friends here in this room today walks every day and comes back to herself and is refreshed every day, walking into the heart of the world for all beings, peaceful steps. It's a huge practice and very much a practice in the Buddhist tradition, the practice of walking and receiving the tidings of the mountains.

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So I am grateful to to the many beings who've done this pilgrimage walk. And pilgrim, Jiriu and Sarah were laughing at me as I thumbed through this old book, but I wanted to read to you the roots of what it means to be a pilgrim, a vagabond. Because we've, can't be helped, but we've become very tame in these times. And our call right now is a wild and ferocious call. when you have a 16-year-old Swedish child reminding us again and again. Our house is on fire, says Greta Thunberg. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. So these are the two times we're walking in, not

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to be peaceful and remote from the world, but to walk into the fire of the earth household. And to do that, you have to drop away a little bit, body and mind. We all do that, and today is very much a day where we make that pledge to be vagabonds, to be a person without a fixed home, who moves from place to place with no apparent means of support, a wanderer, an itinerant, beggar, and I love this one, a thief. I will steal from the seed pods of the Coast Lupin and scatter them wildly on your perfect lawn. A thief. A vagrant, a rogue, a tramp, a drifter, a nomadic being, a roamer, a migrant. A migrant migrating to freedom. aimless, drifting, unstable, and undecided, irregular, in course or behavior, you are unpredictable.

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From the old French, vagabundes, vagabundes, to wander undecided, vague. The word spiritual, vagabundes, says Dr. Konsei, great Buddhist scholar. That word itself, spiritual, seems vague nowadays. Although religion is for those who are scared to death of hell, and spirit is for those who live there. So spirit practice is very strong practice. As Jesus said, Bodhisattva at our back, willing to go down into hell again and again, like a vagabond, like a wanderer. Again and again, to accompany all beings, children, travelers, migrants, all beings. Outstretched palm, gem that answers the wish before you make it, remembering and returning to vagabond nature.

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And I love to remember that the vagus nerve, it's a pneumogastric nerve, which means it runs from the brain, from the cranium into the thorax and down into the abdomen. And it supplies sensation to the ear, the larynx, the pharynx, motor impulses, vocal and muscles. This is called the wandering nerve, the longest nerve in the human body that joins mind and gut. So if you have a gut feeling that you need to be a little wilder, freer, a little bit more loose, a little bit less noted and tracked, then your vagus nerve is speaking to you in the bright tongue of truth. Okay, I think you've got that. I've drummed that into you strong enough. And I can return to two or three more pages about it, but I won't. So to be a wanderer, to walk away from home and everything you know, and to set out and to receive the blessings of the earth is the call of our times.

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And so I think of the admonitions. I've adapted these directly from the mountains and waters, sutra, rather than discursively more as admonishments to study the mountains. Use numerous worlds as your standards, vagabonds. Walk backward. Walk forward and backward and never stop since the very moment before form itself arises. Walk backward. Do not obstruct things forward walking and let a mountain always practice in every place. So this is the call of walking for the earth and being willing to slow down the inquiry and spend some time receiving teachings from the more than human world.

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In 1992, His Holiness the Dalai Lama traveled to Rio de Janeiro. I love it that he visited Greenpeace there. He visited the encampment of Greenpeace. This was an extraordinary summit beginning in many years before, in 1972, in Stockholm. There were numerous summits, gatherings, on behalf of the environment. But this summit in 1992 was particularly significant. United Nations Conference, actually, which led to the Kyoto Protocols. I actually bring these up with a sense of grief and sorrow and full recognition of how much we have to do, could have done in a more timely fashion, have not done, and must do. So the Kyoto Protocols leading to the Paris Agreement's But beginning in 1992, and in question and answer, if you ask, we'll go into a little bit more into the Stockholm Summit, which was extraordinarily important, actually influenced by Zen teachers, including Thich Nhat Hanh right after the ending of the Vietnam War, instrumental in making some vows and turnings toward the radical movement.

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investigation and commitment to taking care of the earth in 1972, 20 years later in Rio de Janeiro, the World Summit and His Holiness addressing, I come to this gathering in the spirit of optimism and hope. This meeting represents a threshold for humanity. We are born on this earth as one great family, each of us with the same right to pursue happiness and avoid suffering. And out of this, a genuine sense of of universal responsibility must rise up. And we can no longer invoke national, racial, or ideological barriers that separate us without destructive repercussions. 1992, 27 years ago. Interdependence is fundamental law of all nature, all phenomena, from the planet we inhabit to the great ocean, clouds, forests, and flowers that surround and sustain us.

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All arise in dependence upon subtle patterns of energy. I love to say matter and energy flowing together. We must respect this delicate matrix of life and allow it to replenish itself and be renewed. So a call from His Holiness in 1992. And after the summit, he was deeply directive toward Buddhist groups in particular. He said, dear practitioners, dear students of the way, dear followers of the Buddha Dharma, can you not give yourself one full day where you walk for the earth and you're present and aware? the voice of the earth does your practice not allow or let your let it was never negative from him can you let your practice allow such a a time of regeneration and restoration so the next year we began a practice of walking for the earth in 1993 gathering here at Green Gulch and walking up on the crest and

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For a number of years, we did that. Some of you may have accompanied us in the early iteration of this walk. And finding and learning and listening, for me, extremely instrumental in how to practice and also how to overlook and see the world we're in. So today, Chris Fortin and I, Chris from Every Day's End, Chris also living here in this practice center with her meeting and loving and finding her husband, Bruce, their son, Evan, born here at Green Goal. So Chris, who serves both as a therapist and a teacher for Every Day Zen, will come today and will lead this walk. And if you're wondering what to do this afternoon, we have an idea, a very quiet, long idea. And luckily, we don't track anyone because we're just a bunch of vagabonds. So you can always peel off, run down, and go back to town. But come up to the top with us and overlook what this world is like. And I wonder if there might be a child in this hall, someone 12 or so.

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Is there any young person of that age here or younger? Anyone at all? Would you be so brave as to come stand near me for a minute? Oh, boy, oh, [...] boy. Thank you. Hi. What's your name? I'm Finn. Finn. Hi. Hi. What a wonderful name. Thank you. Yeah. So how old are you? I'm 12. How perfect. How perfect. I tried, Finn, I tried in every way to get my next door neighbor, Anna, to come and stand where you're standing. But she said, that's not for me. It may be for someone else who's braver than me. So thank you. Because I think that it's important to read the exact words that I know inspired me.

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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, 27 years ago, in the words of a 12-year-old child. Her name is Severin Suzuki. We say that she gave an address, a short address, if you don't mind standing. Are you okay? Yeah, good. So these are her words. So she says, hello, I'm Severin Suzuki, and I'm here with a group of 12- and 13-year-olds were trying to make a difference. Vanessa, Morgan, Michelle, and me, and Finn. We've raised all the money to come here ourselves, and we've come 5,000 miles from Vancouver, Canada, to tell you adults, please, you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I'm fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like you losing an election or a few points on the stock market.

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I'm here to speak for all generations to come. And I'm here to speak on behalf of starving children around the world whose cries go unheard for the countless animals dying across this planet here in 1992. because they have nowhere left to go. And I'm afraid to go out in the sun now because of holes in the ozone. I'm afraid to breathe air because I don't know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until a few years ago. We found a fish full of cancer. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day. I've dreamt of seeing great herds of wild animals jungles, rainforests, full of birds. Now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. And she's 27 years along the way. I want to say this is a very frontline activist in Vancouver, Canada. She's continuing to speak out and investigate.

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She asks, did you have to worry about these things? Now that you're her age, do you worry about these things? I bet you do. All this is happening before our eyes, and yet we act as we have all the time in the world and all the solutions. And I'm only a child. I don't have solutions. But I want you to realize neither do you. You don't know how to fix holes in the ozone. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal. And if you don't know how to fix things, please stop breaking them. So, Finn, thank you. You're really giving me courage. Thank you for standing here. I'm going to hold on to you. Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters, or politicians, but really your mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and all of you are someone's child.

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And I'm only a 12-year-old child. Yet I know we're part of a family, five billion strong, more now, isn't it? In fact, 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I'm only a 12-year-old child. Yet I know we're in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal. I'm not blind. I'm not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste. We buy, throw away, buy, throw away, buy, throw away, buy, buy, throw away. And yet northern countries will not share with needy. Even when we have more than enough, we're afraid to share, afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada, we live a privileged life. We have plenty of food, water, shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers, television sets. And my list could go on for two days. Two days ago, here in Brazil, We were shocked when we spent time with children living on the streets, and this is what one child told us.

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I wish I was rich, and if I were, I would give all the street children I know food, clothes, medicine, shelter, and love and affection. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are those of us who have everything still so greedy? I can't stop thinking these are children my age, It makes a tremendous difference where you're born. And I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio. At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you do and tell us not to do? Please don't forget why you're attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children.

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You are deciding what kind of a world we're growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, everything is going to be all right. It's not the end of the world. And we are doing the best we can. But I don't think you can say that to me anymore. Are we even on your list? My dad always says, You are what you do, not what you say. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. I challenge you. Please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you. Thank you. Do you want to say anything? I'm okay, thank you. Good. We thank Finn for being so courageous. Thank you. perfect Scandinavian name, connecting directly to Greta. And we're listening.

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Are we listening? Are we listening to the voices when we walk? Are we listening? Are we listening to a youth climate strike? It's 1.4 million young people strong from 123 countries who are asking the very same questions that Severin asks, that Finn may be wondering about. that Greta's calling up. I don't want you to be relaxed. I want you to panic. 123 countries, millions of young people. So... You know, it's not my intention to solve this today, to give you a nice dharma solution.

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I think instead what we're called to do is to find how to move prayer into action and action, deep action back into prayer. Because I remember Thich Nhat Hanh saying many years ago, activists who are exhausted are less able to generate peace. and solutions and need to come back to sit and be quiet. And now we're looking at a world where children, where there's so much trauma in the lives of children that it's very difficult to come back to center. I know a good friend from Mexico tells me about a program, a beautiful program that she's involved in called, from the Dovetail Learning Center Toolbox, where children are offered mindfulness practice and they're calling for a fiercer practice they don't want to learn how to sit still and count their breaths well what animal might help you somebody asked and I think one child said a shark coming and I think it's so perfect a great white shark from the depths so one of the toolbox kits says alright let's take the being of a shark and children in a room

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and actually put their hands up like a shark's fin to center themselves so that they can be fierce and go deep. And then they have five S's. So first, shark fin. And then they sit still with the spine straight. They're silent and solid. And then they can practice deep breathing. These are young people saying, here's the way I want to practice now. And there was a story that my friend told me about children having a child having an accident and being taken to the emergency room. And in the emergency room, he was in a state of panic. And suddenly, he remembered this and put his hand up like a shark fin and was able to breathe in and settle and become a sovereign.

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So the toolbox for these times is a different kind of toolbox than we've been relying on. So I want to transition and bring this formal presentation to a close and have an opportunity to really engage with you and also to prepare for walking this afternoon. But before doing that, I want to acknowledge that in 2017, His Holiness called together a gathering of scientists, practitioners, healthcare workers in a full week-long opportunity to look at interdependence from an ecosystem perspective, from ecological interconnectivity, and to look and notice runaway consumption in our times and the increase of natural resources, population, leveling off.

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Greta said, excuse me, Severin said 5 billion, now close to 9 billion around 2015. damning of the world's rivers, accelerated use of vehicles, and all the cycles being off balance and spending a full week of looking deeply at this, not turning away. So I encourage you in whatever way is right for you to be extraordinarily courageous now and to not turn away from looking at how we're living. And also find a time, find some time in your lives where you can be a little bit more of a vagabond. And do not ever think that a pilgrimage or a circumambulation or a sacred walk has to be on a beautiful, pristine site

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like West Hill, Mount Hamilpais, Bay Mountain. Please remember, please remember the refinery corridor walks in Richmond, California, which from 2014 until 2017 were nonviolent, mindful walks in silence, led by Native peoples in the greater Bay Area, who gathered in prayer to make a pledge for clean air, water, and soil, safe jobs, Railways and waterways, gathering, practicing, praying by the Richmond refinery. A site of massive pollution on sacred land. Hundreds of shell mounds ringing the bay. Native people courageous enough to lead and sustain these walks. For three years, some people in this room joined those walks. Prayer for the water. prayer for all beings.

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So this is our work and this is our call. Today, as well as opening and returning to the walk for the earth, we also begin a five-week period with residents and Friends of this practice place will spend the next five weeks gathering early in the morning on Sunday before the Dharma talk to look more carefully, spend five weeks looking at Dharma and ecology, how they belong together, what our call is, how we can meet the challenges of our time. So I look forward to being in conversation with many of you about... about what it means to be alive in these times. And let me close by, again, my friend, my walking friend from the East Bay, turning me to an old teaching from 1992, the same year that the Earth Summit happened, teaching from Roshi Joan Halifax, before she was a Roshi, but also always strong practitioner of the deep way, calling us, encouraging us that now is the time

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to give birth to ancestors. So we're so used to thinking in a kind of non-progressive way about being young like Finn, being middle-aged, being older, being my age, entering elderhood, entering into ancestral stream, but Joan calling us to actually give birth to ancestors in this present moment. wherever you stand as a vagabond. She says, we are connected in so many ways to the dead and the living. These dead are not commonly remembered. The bones of ancestors lie in the body of the earth and are transformed into the bodies of plants, creatures, air, and animals, and including ourselves. So now is the time to remember The mountains become part of them.

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The herbs and fir tree become part of them. The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters become part of them. The sun that sweeps across the earth become part of it. The wilderness, the dewdrops, the pollen become part of it. From a Diné chant, but a call to us as modern vagabonds to remember who we are. Caminantes, no hay camino. We become the path ourselves, become part of it, come back, and remember, walk for the earth in whatever way you can. And lifetime after lifetime, dedicate your heart and mind now to responding to the call of the earth, not turning away. I bring prayer into action again and again for all beings.

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So thank you very much for your attention. And for this, thank you, Gringold, for the opportunity to be here in this wonderful breathing room, sitting in the direct line of electrical current between sitting still, Manjushri Bodhisattva, hand on the earth, calling Bodhisattvas to split open the earth and come up and serve. So the solid, settled reminder for Manjushri and Jizo Bodhisattva and Tara Buddha at my back, ready to get up and serve, lifetime after lifetime. So thank you again very much. Thank you for listening to this podcast offered by the San Francisco Zen Center. Our programs are made possible by the donations we receive. Please help us to continue to realize and actualize the practice of giving by offering your financial support.

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