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the specific this time because they were just chatting
so what to request any questions yes hand up there
ted yes ted professor slow in iowa ran
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oh wow i mean i personally don't manage to beat in much awareness at all
but
i think the a radically let us say or you know sort of methodologically
the
the the richer your sense of the infinite common sense you know of the infinite future in the past sort of the vast panorama of life
that you can get by reading the flower ornament sudre go a bit by bit it's like a huge thing to try to swallow and ocean to read it but so reading that sort of thing and many other mahayana sutras and sort of the the best literatures of the vast imagination of the mahayana
and the more that one reads of that and to of opens up one sense of the invalid interconnectedness and critically uses the in the critical insight on junior dot on voidness to dismantle the sense of being shut up in this moment
where was the more one dissolve the sort of revocation of the now as this is the thing that i'm in jersey because you know if you look for the now you can't actually find it there is no now you know you you used the beginning of the snap where the later while you know mean there is no now it's like there's no point on a graph the actual point xy point has no sides
there is there isn't anything that when you really look for whatever it is in the relative world and the more you do that than the more rich the moment is actually when you're not trying to grasp the moment in certain ways whereas when you i'd come to feel and maybe i have a little little experience of that just introspective lee
that if you have a picture of yourself as having arisen from nothing
and of becoming a nothing upon the brain seizing a deaths that what that means that subliminally you're carrying around inside a sense of them of the irreducible element of yourself it's kind of a black nothingness
like you fall asleep you fall into darkness when you sleep you lose consciousness so you're sort of having an image that the basic ground of life is this darkness it fits with the sense of outer space you know the astronauts you know his walks out there in this dark cold void that it's outer space which a real strong modern civilization has a very
strong revocation of nothingness as the ground of being you could say many cultural critics and scholars philosophers like a genie shutdown and others have deserve this many of the existentialist i've tried to promote that into a positive wonderful thing even but from the mirena a philosophical point of view that's a very
the nicholas that's called nihilism okay to avada
and it is very paralyzing and it makes it impoverishes the experience of this moment it makes makes you live in a framework of meaninglessness and purposeless nets and hopelessness actually and not in a creative way so man it would be the less you re a fi the moment
and the more you open to the infinite horizon of things the richer is your actual experience of a moment
okay
yes

well as i said i said tibetan buddhism is the unification of those three vehicles as they call but because of the nature of the society the apocalyptic dimension is very analytically set forth
so that it said well that's one sentiments
zen buddhism is the same unification of three vehicles
semi-colon bodhidharma bodhidharma being a cinta what is called them are great at a massive the great adept
a semicolon
the chinese culture much more resistant to the immediacy sort of apocalyptic autism royal imagery liberated imagination of the vagina had to remain hidden
both
at their core have the idea that buddha's live
that it is possible to be buddha align
do not dismiss the living presence of bullet to a historical past or cosmic other world that's their real connection there
to the half said yes yes ma'am
with what with the thought authority is
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and the story i read about one war little the little snippet from the one more story which is case eleven of the blue cliff record cleary's translation
you know it that he said that if he's succeeded to his master he would diminish his teachers married by have only one who's exceeds the teachers marriage can be fit to carry on the succession so there's a lot of paradox in that you see them as he said wouldn't you want to succeed to the master he says no i wouldn't because i would diminish his spirit of i just succeed
needed to him is it and this isn't the contents of the highly authoritarian chinese family structure and culture where the father of the patriarch is like everything filial piety is everything here that one boy showing that in the main line of zen that the father son relationship is actually transmuted a to be a ah
rotarian one the meaning that the authoritarian should be defined i think as meaning that in in a teaching relationship as meeting that it is assumed that the teacher knows better than the student that is then and that the student never will know what the teacher does and therefore the teacher will just recite you know you can see in classrooms is said
it's like india culture and mike modern india at the moment when they give like a recital of this that in the student notes it down and then disputed back on an exam and that's the model that you know that things are getting worse that sort of a declining cosmos and that that later generations that was less than the previous generation you know how harking back to a golden iran or this that's authoritarian mom
models so you want to keep it like it was in the past and reproduced the older generation because it was better than the new one right the buddha that was the case in indian culture the father was very strong the guru meant heavy originally omens heavy and sanskrit the brahman patriarch you know the the warrior king of but as
father whatever availed against his father refused to take his father's occupation but or even there's a myth of his conception he was conceived without his father
it's the and actually if you look at the boundaries of buddha the father's statements are actually very similar tomorrow statements the devil and he's always fighting against the father but he is he's like you know he's like an apple store in indian culture is the buddhist story actually and the buddha himself achieved enlightenment supposedly
which made him the authority of the universe even for the gods but then he said don't accept authority to everybody he said don't believe in what i say unless it makes sense to you and just because you heard it a traditional but i don't believe it he was a totally into reason famous verse you know the a big shoe wise person accepts why
another teacher says by burning a by examining testing the experimenting and their own experience about it examining with their critical reason as a goldsmith only buys what is offered as gold by the emergent after burning cutting and rubbing on a touchstone and then no biting like biting the coin
and then they accepted as goal so that's where that's how you should accept teaching not just because so and so senate but it's a cardinal principle in buddhism and that's why i or i often argue that buddhism is not fit the definition of a world religion that we used in modern religious studies scholarship where you know jesus goes out and god investing with the mission and then he had
means the truth and people must believe and must obey buddha goes out doesn't meet god or he does kind of meet god who comes to study leave him instead of telling him this is an and be my profit and then buddha says don't believe in the gods don't believe in all of this don't even believe in what i say unless it fits with you so but now that the interesting thing is so
therefore the essential line in buddhism from its beginning was it was kind of educational institution in the true sense of teaching where you're trying to see the student as more capable than you are and you try to offer them reasons and get them to be critical of inherited ideas and get them to think about it and develop their critical intellect where they can
then come to deeper insights and judges than you and there's a kind of progressive notion about the the progress of knowledge something like that that's the non authoritarian ideal and for example we have classrooms where seminar style your around the table and people are to be forced to dialogue and talk and debate and we'll the i
yeah not just listened to you of everything right and that's a different model of teaching but in then you know the in the in the both zen and in the tibetan tradition and in psychiatry for example you acknowledge in your attempt to find wholeness and yourself that you have already internalized authority figures of mother and father at
least if not i find i internalized walter cronkite as a check
hey you know as his mind like voice of authority you know that's the way it is and but anyway you have these kind of voices that you haven't then the transference is a thing where you play out these things and you gain some freedom and integrity you don't just be bossed around because sometimes these voices or oppressive as you say and so on so
in a way although there is this issue of trying to finally become an individual who is a free and recent rational and able to be enlightened unable to be unafraid of things in order to do that if you don't just sort of you is not an easy as just sort of rebelling against this policemen of that person had some internal policeman's that are in there that had to be dealt with
and so the the zen tradition or the tibetan tradition with the highly technical way of the the mentor relationship is structured it's like a transference thing where the archetypes can be brought out and you can be end and then you can become the buddha type of the you follow me
but first you have to sort of replace father and mother authority by by like enlightened authority which is authority that says you own reason is the authority but you use the archetypes do you don't just try to just supplant that ignoring that you do have voices of father and mother inside you which are your cultural traditional voices which are good
inked with your normal reactive wiring about this makes me mad and that's the other and the other thing do in order to attain you have you are reborn in a new family we called the buddha family
development
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and i brought her from jaipur and is a cute so so anyway so do in other words it is the goal in buddhism as all it is to overcome authoritarianism and in fact i feel i am very fond of a work by philips later called a dream deferred a recent book he wrote he's a sociologist a drop out so it's yeah
images but very brilliant one who lives in santa cruz actually without a normal academic job but he wrote a brilliant book and in that book he describes the authoritarian personality and then he describes the democratic personality which he associates with the re-emerging of the mega culture shift of the garden sculpture you can you know his way he moved to california from him id
and and he and but then if you would take the points that he talks about openers the ability to exist in a situation without feeling totally in control of their that are all kinds of things like that versus the militaristic authoritarian personality structure you can see that the buddhist training and all of its dimensions in essentially is working in the law
line of developing the democratic personality structure
but to do that you have to know the other personality have to recognize that you have a third term for those structure in yourself you have these archetypes and it as a famous saying and tear amount of buddhism monastic buddhism that says he who kills father and mother and destroys all these like a very shuddering kind of statement then becomes in our head becomes ill
heightened meaning that you get rid of these inner mundane authority voices in your mind that are implanted in their from very young age to really find freedom you have to get rid of those
which is pretty heavy idea actually
yes yes that that lady there yes
what about who
oh lithium
i don't know much about lithium they said the set of a tranquilize you if you have certain type of mental disorder and you're sort of getting hyper and you're flipping out right if you're if you are
well
mania
well but mania what does mania mean
well actually from the buddhist point of view the world as this world that we live in this social world that we live in is insane
and people who are living to get rich in to conquer territory and to control people and own people and
strengthen their body and pump up and always have the they are insane
they're gonna be so much dog food within a short time relatively speaking and the bank account will the checks will be signed by somebody else and the territory of the owned by somebody else and they'll be reborn in the enemy camp and i mean they are just insane they just are completely deluded and be harsh and mean to people to with
that's insanity and as the living as if you were not connected to everybody else and living oriented to your own sort of absolute realm and even will being religious let's say an array of find some absolute realm of nirvana is a buddhist or habit of salvation as a theist that's also insane getting it in like it in
zamka yoga getting your pollution your spirit and extracting it from embeddedness in relativity and matter that's all insane
insane self absolute tithing behavior therefore when people who don't adapt well to that
they somehow don't have that kind of a personality that wants to go out and beat everybody up or they they see other things than the sort of concretize thing that the culture want them to see or whatever it may be they actually have a little opportunity to try to see through the the agreed on conventional insanity of the world
and therefore psychologies that say oh that's terribly dangerous come back and join us in our nuclear armed military and commercial consumer oriented madness and environment polluting population exploding madness come back to join us in that in are happy family life
the battleground of domestic violence and so forth and the destroyed food chain of cancer and neurological disorders and let's get back and be all nice and happy in that maybe you'll become a millionaire if we could just get rid of those weird vision that there's like a the diamond dragons lurking outside the door so
tendency that the conventional psychologies are are destructive to a wish to emerge into a different kind of consciousness that people may have that certainly is true but on the other hand there are ways of becoming disconnected from conventional in the premature manner in a crippling manner in a in
dysfunctional matter in the sense of like then becoming just losing your life let's say are falling off a cliff whatever and one shouldn't be too casual about that and then thereby dismiss all sorts of you know medicines that may be used so in some cases of the like lithium may be very good as a temporary measure to prevent someone from hurting themselves or others or whatever so there's no
way of making such a blanket statement although i think that psychology i'd like to transpersonal psychology movement out here for example that tries to incorporate some kind of orchard and at transpersonal personality states as being healthy and beautiful beautiful and growth oriented
but without going all the way to say that sort of everything goes and and you know and getting too radical so that's sort of some general thoughts about it i do feel personally that that buddhism in its it but as civilization buddhist intellectual culture you can say buddhist science of mind coming from the various asian cultures where it has been used
fall for many centuries in one of its main points of interaction with modern culture will be through psychology and that it will have allowed to contribute and it will improve like modern western psychology and in the future will be a great way in which buddhism we can serve people in these countries probably bit more widely than it's going to be able to serve them
through religious mode that's my personal believe i don't think buddhism as a sort of religious set of structures and institutions and rituals as existed in different asian things can spread that widely in america and probably shouldn't try very hard because it will bring down huge reactions and institutional competitions and fanaticism and it wouldn't be good whereas in the
mode of psychology i think there can be a lot of help and a lot of correspondence okay those are just some general thoughts yes

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oh well even email where where i didn't see on death with the guy they printed the interview i did on death and then in between was a bunch of began
oh yeah i noticed that yeah well that's know that's america where can you do
as like saying it don't make sure you have your jeans on when you died
ha ha ha ha you don't know how is it the that's our american culture and what can you do our american culture is like that at the moment
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it is buddhism is definitely anthropocentric but maybe we can we can find a middle ground here between your feeling about that it doesn't mean that it's not at the reception in the way that there's no question buddhism doesn't teach that animals don't have souls
that they're just food that they're supposed to be there for humans to use as their custodian all this kind of thing like in some forms of theism there is no question about that in buddhism there's a chain of being in which humans and animals are in the same chain of being and also deities and other demons all and other kinds of our i formed or in this one chain
but with and therefore a human has to think of a dog as having a soul and has to be as compassionate as possible to any dog and so forth however in the way of understanding these different evolutionary life-forms understanding the nate purpose of an individual life being to achieve happiness
the buddhist view is that other life forms than a human or less happier than the human they are more helpless than a human they are subjected to more negative relation to the environment they have less ability to look into their own programming and achieve that they don't have the ability actually to look into their own programming to criticize their reaction
ons and instincts and develop enlightenment which is freedom from the instincts of finally and therefore while we would respect while a buddhists would respect every dog and tiger and whatever would be and see bugsy them for whatever they are that is good they would be wanting for the individual that was in that life form as a tiger to actually become a human and then become a buddha
so they would see it in the advantage of the tiger to become a human and of buddha which could not be used to rationalize a killing the tiger because there's no guarantee it would become a human by any means basically a human had just killed him so it's a question of the judgment about the nature of life forms
that the other and load the lower forms are lower and not just because their food or something so that they shouldn't be food their life is sacred also and they are they have they have souls they are they are gonna be booed as but they are less capable they are less free in that life form to pursue their own liberation the
a human is so it's better for them to become a human and become enlightened that's that's the point the human life when we have been animals we have been dogs we have been daggers wales and we've been that for billions of lifetimes as well and now we have managed to become human and this form that we have isn't it fantastic
opportunity it is this close to buddhahood is evolutionarily speaking and because why we can question we have language we have shared we have the ability to share our minds with the other members of our species beyond that sort of squeaking frequency of the dolphin much more elaborately we have complex concepts you know have notions of nirvana and the absolute
yeah we have beethoven we have all kinds of things much more complicated we can question we can reprogram our entire instinctual makeup we can become self-destructive we were like we can be lemmings we can be so rival oriented were not rigidly program and we can deeply or even they say we can become where we don't need to inhale again we cannot wire the autonomic
nervous system as well and that is our great evolutionary advantage of course we can use that advantage and that intelligence to be more destructive than any other animal that's certainly true but that's because we have more power if we use that power towards our towards evolutionary fulfillment and towards even like teaching the tigers and then they'll be reborn as human than they are
become but as this is ideal is so the of them has to do with a different level than just sort of one is just better than other intrinsically and therefore can use the other the antivirus center has to do with what is the final purpose of life and how do you get happy now we do in our western romantic thing have a way of little bit romanticizing the animal life and thinking
that tiger so happy out there it is jungle if only we were running around with our thirty odd sixers but actually if you take a look at the diner and is fleas and is graduating and his old the you know they are not that said toads turned on terribly turned on and a big disillusioned with three i used to like think elephants were very cool
and my wife is not here like as i saw a movie about a making love
no way
no way there was did you ever see that film on i'd say you know human life where i'm you know i mean elephants don't know much about foreplay lamp media they don't know how to bask in the glow you don't know a way that that guy goes georgie after she runs away knocking over trees you know
and he's got it out men and he steps on a man it's like a log they it bounces on the ground ma'am ma'am he's stepping on a tripping on it
and then i said harm them human who

so the thing is is a judgment about how happy they can be the
how much fun can they have an ultimately can they achieve the super fun of buddhahood that's the the issue so it's compassion for an animal that wants to help an animal to become human to become self aware to practice then or tundra and become a buddha you follow me so i hope that
reconcile a little bit but that that doesn't mean that for example the tibetan culture which is a very very spiritual culture in its way and very ballistic the most devoted most mainstream buddhist culture that history has seen but that one of the big flaws was the diet of the country and the lack of vegetables and technology about that
and therefore the eating of the yak in the meat and so there's there is a and inhumanity about animals in any culture where you have to kill them and so what do you have to get tough enough to do it and so that their wits i've heard to to tell me all but the yak is happy to be eaten by us as as that that's just bs and still bad not correct dilemma will never never as argue that
but some will so i mean no one's perfect you know him but that but the attitude i hope have clarified
yes

the out ultimately know
why to say the one that inside at the service of a concretization of there are no time that's a little out
but the ultimately in no time
when
why it's all relative
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oh good glad you like it well for about but fundamentally hits relative any teaching and voters know about the relative is useful or not useful it's only relatively true it is no absolute relative truth but except that
but ah
all those things there's no time and others net have to do with are falsely absolute hiding them but then again you can't selectively pick and choose the relative and say well this is symbolic and that's not symbolic is someone who have to be other day in santa cruz they said who talks in brussels about and i said it's a right to feel it's all symbolic
if you are aware that right now is all symbolic your body their the floor is all symbolic this whole world planet as being imagine our life is symbolic those are all relative things they are all imagine things if you're capable you know someone hits you on the with the hammer that's just symbolic
that pain is symbolic if knowing that it's symbolic makes it you able to sort of flow with it and see through it and haven't experienced in a transparent and open way then you can say that hell is symbolic heaven is symbolic former july for symbolic no problem if you want to say this me here is real this matter is real
oh and you just injured me and that's real my emotion is real fun of course for a bitch alive a symbolic then know that does it work in in in buddhist thought
and it is shocking for us because we are materialists because we'd not really aware of how much fear we are controlling behind our craving for anesthesia
our assumption of oblivion
but that assumption of oblivion is a very deep obstacle to us from a buddhist ethical point of view and a buddhist philosophical point of view and the i don't know if you've ever read nietzsche tiny kg his book called religion and nothingness in english and you should read this the first few chapters of that book about the nail islam and how it had what it has men in
western civilization it's an amazing indictment
in a sense in ancient buddhist thought the nail as the person who believed that they personally had no future life and therefore no involvement in the causality in the things that they did ultimately had no reverberation upon themselves in any other even though they might be another form that they were there were disconnected from the causes and their effects of their actions which is what nihilism
means they predicted and a do that it if ever such people with such ideologies control whole societies they would be unprecedentedly destructive
because they will all be asked by more like lose you know i just what i want my impulse to gratify little more electricity a little more motor power never mind polluted universe destroy the planet bomb the enemies nuke the plays a little more power for me though because i finally i'll just
click off
and i won't be there with it's a mess later like the nuclear power industry one of our unique invention
eight two hundred fifty thousand years half-life of like deadly poison stuff all lying all over the place you know
and that that may be because
we all as nature we're all a bunch of people who think that the worst thing that can happen to us has become obliterated
and we even by carl sagan wrote a very interesting article in a couple of sundays ago and in your chronicle about his own death and he thinks he's terrified of nothingness and it's a big thing he's staring in the eye and he's mr brave sega or this and he thinks that it would be childish you to think that he might continue with natural he's erroneously assuming
that if he continues being carl he would naturally could do have tenure at cornell
and be a human being and get out and make tv show
but what he does he these people who are unfortunately open to the common sense possibility of endless continuity are terrified that it might be a negative continuity if they don't put the right inputs into the world they don't develop the right openness of soul the right friendliness loving this generosity non paranoid anus they've ensure that their
no unconscious imagery that would attract them to some dark holes
they are frightened of that they don't think that nothing that is frightening nothing is this lives anesthesia and it's like novocaine mr dentist i want it
so so this is a key point actually and i always render i've debated as i'm getting older i more and more clear about it in my own feelings that what is the most helpful to me always in trying to like be more committed to the good quality of this
moment is to be aware of the infinite repercussions of everything that takes place at this moment so that it's like in a way to well i mean it's like nature eternal recurrence
if your philosophy oriented which is kind of the aesthetics citation of constitution notion of the categorical imperative never do anything that you wouldn't be willing to have repeated eternally
i mean that means nice
nice you know if you're going to keep doing it forever like the sure it's nice makes you and the other happy
you know so anyway that's that's that's a little bit of that yes

unfortunately i can talk a great deal more about that to or think
but but that's so kind of to open ended and we almost over here but basically from buddhist point of view the buddhist ethic is based on the idea that you and other beings are on some level the same being you are not on
every level you are individual beings relatively speaking but at a deeper level your all one being like resembled my this figure this finger are different fingers but yet it's in one hand so therefore
one has to acknowledge that just as one's self one's oneself to be happy other beings also equally want themselves to be happy there's many more of them therefore one should try to help them achieve their wish to be happy as much as possible and not to harm them which makes them unhappy because as you don't want to be harmed and be unhappy and you want happiness because everyone
else does so therefore the buddhist ethic is basically based on that you don't kill other beings because then that makes them unhappy it hurts them they are reborn anyway they come back killing them doesn't eliminate them from the universe but it just like me and whole painful difficult process of require him to body and getting back into action
you don't steal from them we don't abuse them sexually you don't lie to them you don't create discord among them you don't speak harshly to them we don't speak frivolously to them you don't speak too much to them as well i have to remember you would hope don't have a greedy mind you don't have a malicious mine and you don't become adherent of fanatical an erasure
or views or ideas so these are there's a bulldozer buddhist ethics and and as each one has a positive thing you know instead of killing you save lives and prolong lives instead of stealing you may give gifts and and your generous and so on so each one has a positive and negative way of being formulated but the nice thing about them is that they are they are not something that you do and then some great of
authority outside of the whole process awards you a peasant or punishes you it's just a natural evolutionary process is like if you pump iron you get a strong arm if you lay leave it in a cast new it becomes we can triple if you give gifts you become very open and generous and you actually attract wealth if you stingy lee keep whole
things you become narrow and a paranoid and you actually feel poor no matter how much you have and then you do become poor and future lies if not in the future of this life so it's like an action reaction sort of nice picture it's only relative of course and in description of relativity you could always see another side to there should be no dogmatic thing about relativity the only dogmatic thing is the
dogma of no dogma but that is a dog man
and the relative don't so so that that's a little bit i said a little bit okay yes there's a hand and it's way up back there is like waving and what is it

it's it's hard to say much about it as only that we have like two minutes
there was a debate between some people the basically having to do with
someone according to most reports using the absolute sort of nature of emptiness and enlightenment to over relativise ethical actions and say that they're all meaningless and sort of misinterpreting the ultimate beyond us about good and evil whether that there's no discrimination about relative good and evil and this
i was considered incorrect as it is generally in buddhism considered irrational incorrect the ultimate emptiness of all things including concepts of good and evil is what supports the fact that you do something that makes you happy and me happy it is good you do something makes me miserable a new miserable it is bad and that's not
that that is supported by the absolute lack of absolute good and evil or relative good and evil in supported by
and so you use it to try to annihilate relative distinctions is considered a bad thing last question yes two hands he gets it
why

well i want to say that i think the most useful thing buddhism could do in our society is interact with our education system
even more than with the sort of clan or guild of psychologist or psychotherapist i think i think that buddhism is an age age old education system that that considers you know the bachelor of arts degree to be awarded to someone with some degree of enlightenment not just with some body of knowledge but really some
body of of moral decency having seen the erroneous of behaving badly some degree of aesthetic openers having like create critique some sort of close thing fear of beauty some sort of critical intelligence or wisdom being able to see through confusions and irrationalities and things like that that's what buddhism excel that
and then adds the meditative a laboratory within which your intellectual knowledge can really be brought into into strong tension with your prejudices and really turn your prejudices around and transform your being and your understanding in your life and that's what buddhism's real forte is over that that's what all this monastic and sitting and everything is not just to go and sit some
where and then disappear poop into the air it is because you need to meditate once you have an understanding you need to meditate to bring that understanding into connection with your misunderstand the meditating really well before you dislodged you're misunderstanding by having learned something is totally useless i'm sorry to say it it will only reinforce your misunderstanding and i believe that
that i love i'm ready to argue that one but that's a very important one from the both point of view therefore i really feel that that's why i am a professor trying to be
it is that i believe buddhism's great role can be reinforcing our education tradition because the america the western education tradition has the to roots in theism and theistic monasticism which doesn't as zone encourage that much intellectual because you're not supposed to be able to understand the village of the universe that would be lucifer
real pride that only god understands we can't really we just have to be faithful so that's one rooted than the other is the materialist idea of explore everything and has been find everything but sadly there's still a presupposition there that you won't be able to understand that if you go to your big you have become crazy you should have lithium if you think you really understand it so that's the sort of a close the closure of the human
potential from the materialise side and a definite closure from the theist side whereas the buddhist tradition as this idea that you can become a buddha which means you can fully understand everything in the universe which is the educational found the foundation of an educational system par excellence okay so that's the main point i want to i feel that's the main purpose rather than
religion is to education at every level and something like that goldman's emotional intelligence is just really buddhist mindfulness applied to the child's way of learning to deal with their impulses in a way basically it's sort of an infiltration of that type without any no mention of buddhism which is what's so great about it and so that's
first and second within psychology which is trying to understand how the mind works in that point in the process of being an educational tradition for many centuries they naturally we're concerned with how the mind works because they've taken to change the mind to change its worst states into better states and so if our psychology it comes more into the for and becomes more of a transformational psychology
totally connected with education rather than just some sort of you know mechanistic psychology wants to read tinker with people who are not fitting into the mechanism which is the sad fate of most of it then buddhism will naturally work with that but only as under the larger rubric of that the main purpose of people in life
in the world the members of society is the education of its members under that new velocity which is essentially buddhism's philosophy i will argue our country has a chance to be a democracy and to be a functioning society where people are all understand why they might do this better a rather than do that and how things work
and what their responsibility is and what they can enjoy and contribute and and how much better they will be by sharing rather than hoarding and depriving and if we have a society that that makes education not just a preparation for some production but but makes it the purpose of them production education is
then we will all be much happier
so that's where and that's where i think buddhism can encourage our educational institution and revive its spiritual mission really which people educators are scared of having a spiritual mission because they associate that with in it you know inserting a dogma and forcing an orthodoxy of belief or opinion on people and then that's not true liberal education but
but the case of buddhism that isn't a problem because there is no orthodoxy of believe because everything is junior tides open its void is therefore people but but there's also no orthodoxy that people cannot understand everything therefore lifelong education is the purpose of life
and without lifelong education in our society and an education that teaches us how to deal with their inner energies as well as external engine energies to engineer the inner being as well as the outer world because of them mechanical power technologically we that we have if we go on being a bunch of lunatic
emotional basket cases as we are we will destroy ourselves i don't think there's any questions
so that's what i'm i feel but to make its contribution but it can't do that by saying we're a new religion converted to buddhism and you'll all be saved