There are four benefits, country, father and mother, friend or the teacher, or the relative like that, from a sentient being, as a government or as a nation, we cannot exist without this. So our daily life should be in appreciation, all the time, all the time, without appreciation never come our enjoyable life. So your attitude always express this way, you can perceive this, each finger has each

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own duty and each name, if we use separate, each has each meaning, it's funny, in Japan we do this, it means your father, this is a rubber, like that, we stand in the middle, each finger very needed to use own hand, so put together, this express oneness, we consist of five fingers, each family, children, father, mother, elder, big brother, like that, if each one egoistically separate, always against all the fighting, but if we do this, the family

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You can come up to San Francisco to say bon voyage to him, to go to Japan, I usually appreciate Dick's great work to this monastery, especially the organizing this, and this sangha are used to the greatness of friendship, the beautiful friendship, very important, I personally am very proud of, I had once a greatest friend in my life, his name was Maximillian, called and listen to me, a personal story, his name was Maximillian Kolbe, maybe some of you read

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the book, Night and the Folk, it's a story of Geshe Thabo in German, and the world was second, before the world was second, Maximillian Kolbe to Japan, he stayed in Nagasaki city at 12 years, he worked as a missionary, his life, daily life was too miserable, especially in Japan, that time was facing the war time, everything became poor, poverty, he hasn't one pencil, but spiritually he worked, he shared this pencil to the poor children, he published some book, pamphlet to tell his gospel, he belongs to the Catholic church,

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and he worked so hard, but he always wanted to do his best for the Japanese children, to tell God's gospel, and one day I went to Nagasaki city, I met him, and I can understand what relationship occurred between us, but then I corresponded through the letter so many times, and when Poland, his native country was Poland, he once took back his trip to Poland, that time Nazis captured him, suspecting his work as a spy in Japan, but it's not

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true, he was captured as a prisoner, and as you know there was a terrible, terrible, terrible murder in the gas chamber at Auschwitz, and they sent him to Poland. Maximin Kolbe, one of the prisoners, he described his diary every day, one time one prisoner wanted to escape, at that time the law was very strict, if one prisoner escaped, 10 prisoners were punished. One time, every day, the Gestapo punished the prisoners so hard, always my

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friend Maximin Kolbe located the entrance, he said, I can pray for everyone to suffer from coming and going with the punishment. One time his roommate wanted to escape, and it was a terribly hot season in summer, all prisoners lined up outside, the temperature almost 112, this time an officer beaten, beaten, beaten, almost going to die, without a reason. So one time the officer with a gun, like this way, and you are the escaper, but he's not. That time he understood, oh my wife, oh my children, like that, and Maximin Kolbe

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cannot stand, so he took his breath, I'm going to die, please let him go. That night, it was so miserable to every prisoner, roaring, moaning, like the animal's voice come out always, all through the night. The next morning, Maximin Kolbe took the acid, he took a drink and died, instead of the prisoner. But he's always free, because strong Gestapo cannot take his own will. My friend passed away with his own free, because he believed, I served

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for someone, I'm free without Gestapo. This is written and told to me, very after World War, the German embassy officer came to Japan, and he was once friend of Maximin Kolbe, he found his diary, and he told to me the detail of his pass away. So I strongly impressed my friend's action, eternal freedom always belonged to him, especially my visualizing of him during his stay in Japan. He was so good to children, especially Japanese people. I'll never forget his freedom, believing his own religious faith, oh it was tremendous.

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So, friendship between the Sangha, most important, believing each other, trusting each other. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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