Good morning, good morning. So we have a bunch of people who weren't here yesterday and a bunch of people who were. I want to do a sum review of what we spoke of yesterday and a little more. So, um. We've this practice commitment period with working with me from volunteer to suit you. And while charity is about practicing in the world. As we all are here. And so, how do we practice in the world. How do we practice helping beings. And at the same time, or also seeing beyond. We can national ways of sitting.

[01:05]

Seeing something deeper. In the service of helping beings in the world. So all of this is about feeling the Buddha work. Definition all of us here are children. We support the Buddha work. The work of awakening all beings within themselves. This endless process of awakening. And helping. Hearing the suffering of the world and helping out. As you can. So. The market just speaks of indistinguishable literature of techniques and practices. How we. Can. Help in all kinds of ways, just by being ourselves just by expressing kindness.

[02:12]

Just by helping everyone else. To awaken to the possibilities of. Helping others to awaken to the possibilities. And a lot of this is about patients. But paying attention. About seeing what's in front of us and helping out when we can. About seeing. All the difficulties of our challenging world and seeing how we can help. Sometimes. This is trial and error. It's not. There's no instruction. Each one of us is different. Each one of us is. Has our own special gifts.

[03:14]

Each one of us. Has our own way of being present and responsive and helpful. And seeing deeper. And in Sangha we do this together. How do we support each other? How do we support each other each to be each to be. The particular wonderful. Being on your seat right now. Or. Part of what the sutra also. Talks about is. How the world is made up of inconceivable realities. It's not what we think it is. Of course, our thinking is useful and we should use that. To help.

[04:16]

But. We don't know. All of the different dimensions. Of what is happening. Last week of dogs walking along. In ways that we can't imagine. Most of us don't understand. How do we go beyond our usual ideas? What our life is. At the same time that we fully occupy. Our life in the world. When we take on our positions. So positions are. Not static either. Each of us is shifting changing. Waking up going to sleep.

[05:18]

Finding new ways to respond. To those around us. And. In the market. We've been talking about. There's also this teaching about. Buddha awakens. And they created. So we are in shocking movies. This world of endurance. It's challenging the world. So this is about the practice of Samba. Community cooperation. We try to support. In that cooperation. Working together. Across sometimes across boundaries.

[06:25]

And. That we don't understand. You're artificial. But that we create. So. How do we take care of this particular Samba? It should drag. Members of the people. How do we. Take care of other songs. How do we connect with other members or other communities? How do we. As she says. The island of Saturday. How do we connect with with other communities? Ultimately, we're not separate. Ultimately, we're all in this together. Ultimately, emptiness means that we're all interrelated to everything. And everybody else. We've ever met or heard about. I'm sure that.

[07:32]

Celebrate that. Take care of each other. Take care of others. You don't always have to agree. And it's not about. Converting people with other views to argue. And it's about listening. And caring about. Everyone. So the brutal words. Sitting all day. The chair facing the wall. Facing ourselves. This is the Buddha. And. The challenge of what we start to practice. The. Practice right in the middle of all of this stuff in the world. It's kind of. How do we allow it to unfold?

[08:37]

How do we. People here are. Considering making changes in their lives. People here are. Have been making changes. People here are. In good places. Without obvious changes. All of this is part of this. Dance and process of. Practicing together with others. All the others. So one of the main teachings. Of. It's just to say it again. And the thought of the. Intolerance of. The unknown. Know ability and grasp ability. Translated in various ways. Of things of the world of everything of all of us.

[09:43]

And to see the role. In each other, not just as things, but as. And. Unfold. Where we have the examples. All around us of flowers. This time of year and spring. We all can feel this unfolding. In various ways. But part of this. Tolerance of patients with the unrest. Ability. Ability of things, but we can't pin them down. And control them is that we don't have to. Control. The world is alive. We are. Each other. Carpet. Cushions and. Walls and tables and chairs.

[10:46]

So a lot. How do we take care. Of this. Field. With. The intention of Buddha to. Be helpful. And, you know, it's. Ultimate reality. In ultimate reality, there is a wholeness. This is what I felt. So, oh, it's okay. It was a. I don't know that I would have articulated that. That's what I felt. So to see that. That. That.

[11:48]

That there is this underlying. Ultimate reality. We are all connected. And everything is connected. Just to see that is great support for working. It's differences in the world. Confidence in working with. The suffering and sadness of the world. That's the word of work. So, it's not that, you know, it's not that you should not try and understand that if you're the type of person who likes to understand things. But how do we. See beyond. What we understand, how do we.

[12:50]

See possibilities. Right now, the world is. In a mess traumatized. Powerful people who are. Sadly, encouraging cruelty and harm. This is the world we live in. How do we respond without. They'll find that personally, but. Openly looking at the situation around this. How do we express the great compassion? That's the practice of what is that was working. With difficulty and working with. The difficulties in each of us working with ourselves and others. Trying to open up. Karen. So, as I said yesterday, we can, we can oppose.

[13:59]

Our full systems or policies without. You know, hating or despising person who are. I think you mentioned. So, during the work. How do we allow all of our activity as it is now to be. We don't have to, you know, go around thinking. But just. Karen and. Opening up and awakening to ourselves and each other is. This process. Then that when she yesterday, the precepts. 16, what are separate precepts in our tradition?

[15:01]

Again. Based on previous. Discussions. This can be very helpful to us in terms of. Seeing. And. My function. And we have. Next month. So, the 1st time in quite a while. We'll have a. Offering precepts. Performing the ceremony. And. 3 people who are all here now. And we'll be receiving this. Precepts. And for all of us. These precepts. What we receive in.

[16:03]

But it's not so much. Rules of conduct. I'm seeing. And also connection to. Well, let me. Tradition. So, this is. Japanese understanding of. What this precepts. Going back to. The Japanese. That this is about. Confirm. It's already here. There are some. It's a blue. And for everyone else. And connecting with connecting with.

[17:05]

Verify. So. Some people, especially. 1st, come to this. Sometimes, some people even. So difficulty with. All of our forms and. But the point of. This is just to confirm. Connection to. That there were. The. Going. That's shocking. So years ago, and before him. And we can understand that in all kinds of ways, but.

[18:06]

Somehow we are. Doing this strange practice. That has emerged from this. Long tradition, so. Yesterday, tomorrow, we will be chatting. Chatting names of ancestors. But it's not just so we have a series of names. But also in each generation, there were many. People like this. We're supporting each other to. Explore and expand. And appreciate. So the ceremonies we do. They can offer. The prostrations. Tradition. All about. Just expressing. Appreciate.

[19:08]

But we are connected. So. Yeah. Sometimes it's not easy to do this practice. Legs. Sleepy. Whatever. We feel uncomfortable. And that's part of the practice, too, is to move on to be. Beyond our. Comfort beyond what we think of as. Our usual way of being who we are. To be surprised by. Beautiful world. Birds. Flowers.

[20:12]

As well as. All the stuff. Difficulties. But not separate. So taking care of your posture. Body mind. Not separate from. Taking care of. Family. Co-workers. Neighbors. With all the difficulties. How do we adjust our posture? So we emphasize the physical posture. And we try to exhaust it. But there's also the posture of. Expressing. Kindness and care. We're in directions.

[21:14]

Patience tolerance. Of the fact. That. That things are beyond our control. Of course, lots of things. Are in our control. A certain time. You know, there are things that we can take care of. Very skillful people. But. We also recognize that. There's a lot that happens beyond our control. I think. Letting go of sense of. Control. Can be very painful, but how do we let go of. Sense that we know, we know everything that's happening. Or should happen and all those ideas we have.

[22:37]

It's all part of the work. So, so far, this has been. Okay. We're. Close. With some traditional. This is. To the. Okay. Since. The work. The empty field cannot be cultivated or proven. From the beginning, it is altogether. And clear down to the bottom. So. That's the underlying reality. Sometimes forget. There's not where everything is correct and totally sufficient.

[23:40]

Attaining the pure eyes that illuminate thoroughly. Fulfilling liberation. Awakening involves enacting this. Stability develops from practicing. So. As we practice this practice. She's. Together. Stability. Developed from this. It's not. It's not, it's not subject to change. What is the stability? That includes change. Okay. Earth and death originally have no. Which is. Appearing and disappearing originally have no. Defining signs or traces. Appearing.

[24:43]

No defining. Signs of traces. The primal light, empty and effective. The primal wisdom, siren, but also glorious. Response to conditions. So how do we respond? How do we respond to conditions? From this underlying reason. This is the question. How do. Continues when you reach the truth. Now, middle or an edge. Cutting off before and after when you realize. One. Sorry. When you reach the truth. Without middle or edge, cutting off before.

[25:46]

Realize. Just being present. Everywhere. Faculties and objects. One who sticks out his broad. That's. Transmiss transmits the. The inexhaustible lamp radiates the great light. And performs the great. Work. Not far away from others. One out of. Yeah. Clearly, this is there at first. Within your own house. So we take care of. Body smart. Take care of. Take care of. Take care of. All the things we can.

[26:50]

And it's not that we. So. Depicts us as. Buddhist expression. But for. We are working towards this. Working around this. And this trial and error. We make mistakes. It's important to make mistakes. So we learn. So the work is. Wonderful job. It's challenging. But you've heard about it now. So, okay. This is this is. This is our mission. But it's also our enjoyment. It's it just feels. To be helpful. Feels good to connect. It feels good to to.

[27:53]

See and hear others and how they are. This is all. Doing good. So we will have time. To discuss this over to you this afternoon. If anybody has. If there's 1 or 2 people left. We need. Responses. You can do that. We have to just sit. And do. We'll talk about it this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you.

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