Fundamental compassion is transformation of individuals and society. One of the reasons, one of the intentions I have in practicing, in my teenage and 20-some, while I was 20 years old, during my 20s, I came to the conclusion that the only way I could see out of the melodrama and delusion of our culture, which is willing to go to war and build nuclear weapons and so forth,

[01:19]

was the only way I could see out of the melodrama and the obscurity of our culture. A culture that is willing to wage war and build nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons and so on. And so fundamental compassion would be, is Buddhism, and I was the only one, it was the only way I could see that there was any chance to transform society. From that point of view, Trump might be a better compassionate choice than Hillary. Because from the point of view of a wake-up call, Hillary probably would have been the same old, everything's okay somehow, without any realizing what a mess we're in.

[02:30]

I also feel actually perhaps the awareness, growing awareness of what I would call the sixth extinction, is the wake-up call we need. Buddhism isn't enough. So fundamental compassion and personal compassion may look different. So this is something you have to explore in your own aliveness and inter-relationality with the world and others.

[03:36]

Okay, so personal compassion is like the four Brahma-viharas, unlimited friendliness. Empathetic joy, even with your enemy. If you have one. Equanimity and compassion. Yeah, okay. So, and then the six paramitas. The four Brahma-viharas are in a way preparation or the foundation of the six paramitas. And the brahmaviharas and the paramitas are basically practices of how we live together, how we're a forest. Sashin, and in particular Ango, I would put Ango in a reverse order than Paul.

[05:05]

From the point of view of easy, maybe Paul's order is good. An attempt to really bring that resonance home as where you need to live with others.

[06:07]

The lay practitioner needs to find their own way to do this because they're not going to live monastically for some time. But just practicing yes. Can you say yes to everything that happens to you? Yeah, as I joke and say, somebody says, let's go to that terrible movie about the buzzsaw murders. You say, yes, but maybe not. Yeah. But you can actually see when you can say yes and when you can't or when you can say welcome and when you can't.

[07:29]

And second of the Brahma Viharas, empathetic joy in the person you're jealous of or whatever your fellow worker who gets promoted when you don't and you should have. Can you have fundamental or depersonalized empathetic joy in the other person's success? Kannst du so eine Art grundlegende, fundamentale, eine unpersönliche Art von empathischer Freude für den Erfolg des anderen empfinden?

[08:32]

These are all little incremental, the craft of practice. Sometimes I say the craftiest practice and craft put together. Das sind beides so schrittweise... It's the moment after moment noticing of, and you're developing your attentional skills at the same time, Which becomes the basis of actualized compassion. Mm-hmm. Yeah. and the ten directions is just another way to metaphorically, and maybe it should be called the ten dimensions and not directions.

[09:52]

Okay, now we say in the meal chant, which we're going to do, we've already finished actually. Are you going to come to the window and tell us like last night? We say that all the Buddhas of ten directions Now, we say that, but that's put in the meal chant, so you explore it as a practice. It's not just there to say. It means everywhere, ten and up and down, the Buddha is present. Now, it doesn't mean the Buddha of this moment, 2019.

[11:07]

It means the multidimensional, multigenerational Buddha, which pervades all directions and times, not just this moment. And it means that if you take this metaphor in motion, if you practice the ten dimensions like I was trying to say, That practice begins to interact with the circumphenomenality. Then begins this practice with the in some way that makes it more likely and possible for a Buddha to appear.

[12:24]

auf eine Art und Weise, die das wahrscheinlicher macht und besser ermöglicht, dass ein Buddha erscheinen kann. And with empathetic joy, you hope that the Buddha appears everywhere else but you, but you kind of help him. Okay, this afternoon, I hope that you will help me listen. I had a third grade teacher, Mrs. Marshall, who had a daughter named Sandra, I think. And Mrs. Marshall, she was nice, she said I talk too much. So they didn't have duct tape in those days, but I did come to, she said, you should tape up your mouth.

[13:38]

So one day I came to school and I taped up my mouth. I remember she came in the class and looked at me and she said, Dickie, take off that tape. So your suggestion was, you know, it's been... It's biographically been explored. Yeah. Oh, God, I don't know why I told you that. So let's go eat.

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