When you understand that you don't know, you don't understand how your good intentions arise, that is a more pure, untainted right intention. And then some other people say, well, if my actions aren't under my own power, then do I have no responsibility? And the answer that I would give at this point, and I have been giving for a while, is you are responsible for the actions of your body, speech and mind that are not under your control. So the things that your body does and the words that your voice says and the thoughts that arise in your mind, these things which you do not make happen, which are not under your control, which are not under your power, these things which are due to conditions other than you, you are responsible for.

[01:07]

Usually we think, okay, I'll be responsible for what I do, but I'm not going to be responsible for what he does. And I'm not going to be responsible if other people make me be this way. And I'm saying, if you refuse to be responsible when you hear this teaching that tells you that you don't make the way you are happen by your own power, then I say, don't listen to this teaching anymore. It's too advanced for you. This teaching should not undermine your sense of responsibility for every word you say. I should say every word that comes out of your mouth. You are responsible for all your actions of body, speech, and mind. However, there's more I'm responsible to. You don't do what you say. You don't do what you think. You don't do your postures. And I don't do your postures either. But I'm responsible for everything any of you ever do.

[02:13]

And you are responsible for what I do. When it rains, you are responsible. You didn't make it rain, but you're responsible. Not for making it rain, but if you're sick, you're responsible. And so am I. I have to live with you being sick. You have to live with you being sick. Neither one of us make you being sick happen. If you have back problems, you're responsible and I'm responsible. We're both responsible. Neither one of us made it happen. A little bit more is like, well, isn't my concept of like, you know, don't I have a little bit more control on body over than you? If you allow any, that you have any more control of your body than I do, I would say, okay, it's impossible for you to have more control than I do when neither one of us have any. We do not have control. And the body doesn't have control. But the body's responsible and you're responsible and I'm responsible. No matter what happens in this world, you have to deal with it. There's no way to get away.

[03:17]

And matter of fact, if you think you can make anything happen, if you think you can control anything, that just makes you partially responsible. When you think you can make some things happen, then you will refuse to be responsible for some other things. But when you realize, if you meditate on this, and you realize that you don't make anything happen by yourself, and nobody else does either, then you realize the logical conclusion is that you are equally responsible for everything if everyone is, and everyone else is too. We are all totally responsible for everything. Like a Buddha. I think a Buddha is like responsible for some people, or for something. Like Buddha says, that's your problem. When you made that bed, you sleep in it. You know? I'm not going to visit you in the hospital, you moron. Buddha doesn't do that. Well, maybe Buddha does, but I don't know. Buddha's not under my control.

[04:20]

I won't assume that. But if it does, it's just kind of a skillful joke.

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