If the windows get to be too much draft, please feel free to close them. It's sort of like looking at you behind the Great Wall of China here. Nice to see you all. You want to sit over here? Please do. Among the sources of both truth-telling and insight and solace, I find both the garden and poetry. And I've been reading various things to you and they keep kind of floating in front of me. So this morning I'd like to begin with this poem by William Stafford, which is

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titled At the Unnational Monument Along the Canadian Border. This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no monument stands. And the only heroic thing is the sky. Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed or were killed on this ground. Hallowed by neglect and on the air, so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name. After spending some time in the last week or so with this poem, several triggers got loosened.

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Pardon the use of language, appreciating the toothache we don't have. And the other is a story that I've told some of you before from during the time when Indira Gandhi was assassinated and there were big riots in India, especially in Delhi, and the Sikhs in particular were attacked. And sometime after that, a piece that I read, I no longer now know where, written by an Indian man who was there in Delhi at the time, and who said, only the riots were reported. What was not reported were the acts of kindness on the part of Hindus protecting the Sikhs.

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And one of the stories he told was about an Indian woman with her abundant sari. He was on the bus with this woman. They were riding the bus. He was teaching at the university across on the other side of the city when some big crowd armed with chains and poles and sticks stopped the bus and banged on the windows. And as this woman saw what was happening, she signaled to a Sikh who was sitting on the bus seat in front of her to get down on the floor and get underneath her saree so she could cover him. And everyone on the bus said, no, no, there are no Sikhs on this bus. So they proceeded. And the author of the piece also talked about how a number of his colleagues, both men and women, began to go through the city that night, encountering and challenging the crowds that were arriving.

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And how they came around the corner into a big open plaza somewhere in the old part of Delhi and came upon a crowd armed with sticks and chains, etc. and how immediately the women in their saris made a circle around the men in his group and dared the crowd to attack them. And they, out of whatever we can imagine, drifted away. He said, this kind of good news is not what sells newspapers and magazines. And I think that we are at a time when still, and again, newspapers and magazines and television doesn't sell much with good news.

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And what I want to bring up for our consideration in the context of our shared work, if you will, of studying the mind and training the mind, that we can fall into conditioned mind with the conditioning of focusing on what's wrong what we are afraid of, what we are concerned about, without the countervailing or counterbalancing of what can I appreciate? Both in our immediate experience, but also in terms of what we can find out about what is happening,

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in the world. Is it possible to have at least the same amount of interest in what is right over against what we are concerned about? I think it's very possible to understand the Buddhist path as being the path for cultivating doormat-itis. It's one of the misreadings, I think, of the teachings from the historical Buddha and the great ancestors before and after Shakyamuni Buddha lived and taught. I think we can misunderstand the Bodhisattva vow as being about being silent, being present but being silent.

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Anything you want. And I think it's a serious misreading of the teachings. At the time that Shakyamuni Buddha lived, it was a time of great violence in India. It is a country which has historically known a lot of violence. So that I think if you keep that in mind, you can understand the very revolutionary aspect of what the Buddha was talking about and pointing to. The importance of our studying and training our own mind and the cultivation of the willingness to see what arises in the mind that leads to more suffering, more harming,

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and that it is only when the mind is suffused with the capacity for being present with whatever is so, no longer suffused with the conditioning of fear and anger, for example, suffused with the qualities of what are called the perfections, beginning with generosity, appreciation, patience, equanimity, not having preferences reactively. It is only when we have cultivated or at least begun to establish to some degree a mind with these qualities can we be more likely to take action skillfully and effectively.

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And what I so love about this tradition is that there's a very clearly articulated path for the cultivation of the mind. A very clearly articulated methodology for how to study the mind and how to train the mind and what to train the mind for in terms of qualities. And I think that balance is very important. If we are primarily focused on what is wrong, what we grieve, what we have heartache about, then we're out of balance. And we may lose our way, more likely to lose our way in terms of the arising of discouragement, the arising of the feelings of helplessness.

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How could one person, me, make any difference in what is happening? Over and over again I've had the experience of acting in some situation with as much clarity of mind and full heartedness as possible without any notion of whether what I'm doing or saying has some wholesome consequence. 10 or 20 or 30 years later, having somebody tell me about something that was helpful to them many years earlier. I've had those experiences enough to pay attention to moment by moment, do the best I can,

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and don't worry about whether there's a good press release. I can't remember if it was yesterday or this morning. I heard an interview with a reporter in Iraq who talked about, this is a reporter with the British forces, and he talked about finding an Iraqi who was willing to be interviewed by him and how frightened this man was and how concerned he was when the reporter and the of soldiers who returned him to the village where he was staying at a friend's house.

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How the man had a look on his face when they took him into the village. Many people standing on the side of the road scowling at him. And this man having a very worried look on his face and saying to the reporter, I hope that I will see sunrise tomorrow. And the reporter said, we will go back today and see if he's all right. I think it's very important for us to have in the process of the news, news of instances of kindness and concern the qualities of the heart-mind that are crucial in the world we live in.

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I usually go to the grocery store to do the grocery shopping fairly late in the day and over the last maybe three weeks I have not seen two of the people who work at our neighborhood market. And in many ways, these two people are a significant part of the connective, relational experience I have in shopping at this grocery store. So yesterday, Was it yesterday? No, must have been Thursday. I went to do the groceries and I went early because I was hoping to see my two friends. And I am struck by how much over the years of our having contact in the context of

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buying and selling groceries. How much I experience a kind of connection with these two people that is anything but superficial. How much when we see each other, we greet each other mutually with real interest in, how are you? How are things going? How much of that cultivated and developed relational experience have we lost as we've lost neighborhood and village? And how much we can actually do something to acknowledge and honor and appreciate and keep alive

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that connective tissue in our ordinary daily lives. In many cases, for me anyway, it means giving up convenience. going out of my way to go and get gas for the car at Papa's. What I'm talking about also has to do with understanding how much each of us has a say in whether we live in a kind of homogenized situation or one in which there is a degree of relationality that makes for much more nuance and cultivation in our daily lives.

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For those of you who are gardeners, you know that this time of year is the time of year when, as a gardener, one goes a little mad. Mad with the abundantly growing weeds, mad with the impending fertility of the garden, mad with the exuberance of the garden itself, somewhat crazed state. Pay attention if you're a crazed gardener right now to how much you focus on what needs to be done and isn't done and the possibility of focusing on the delight that appears in the garden. Our young friend Tara Tulku and Kunga, two of them are back visiting us.

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They'll be here until the beginning of July. And Bill and Tara Tulku have been sitting in the chairs. You'll see a kind of amphitheater of seats out there for watching the birds. Since we started, we put out some bird feeders again. So I've been getting reports about sightings. And one of the reports, I think it was maybe from yesterday, was that there were no birds. And then seeing a hawk, one of the kind that eats small birds, perched up high in the tree. Oh. Hunkered in into hiding, who knows where.

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And how after a while, the captain of the bird, small bird team, smaller than the hawk anyway, bird team, one of the Jays, come on, it's okay, we can come out now. How easy it is to have the birds be gone and have the heart sink, or to see the hawk and have the heart sink. The practice of equanimity is the practice of delighting in the Cooper's hawk, or what's the other one? Yeah, there's a sharpshinned on top. And the morning dove, the red-winged blackbird, the white and golden-crowned sparrows, the juncos, the huffies or house finches, the quail,

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the beautiful and not so smart quail. I forgot to tell King of the Bird Kingdom here that the other day as I was driving over the hill, who should be waddling along in the middle of the highway but a wild turkey. I've never seen a wild turkey in this neck of the woods. I thought, great, except, you know, she's walking along on the yellow line. And it took her a long time to figure out that she should get off the highway. It's called skunk syndrome. You know, skunks are sure they have no enemies. And their major enemy is the car. There are times when stamping your foot in spring is not your best possibility.

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The very fact that we are alive brings us experiences that are this mix of sadness and joy. I would propose that we need to pay attention to our tendency to favor one or the other. It is possible to favor the joy side. You have to wear very good blinders, but it is possible. Over and over again, I get to relearn the great benefits in setting a very spacious field in those situations where I feel challenged in a situation or relationship where I can see suffering and I don't know what to do.

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I had such a day yesterday. And as soon as I could remember, come back to the possibility of stay in attention with what is so, but let the field, the energy field around the situation be as spacious as I can make it. I could actually be present with the difficulty. Aided and abetted by the great spaciousness of a good night's sleep. Maybe because we are now in the category of the elderly

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Bill and I greet each other in the morning with, and how did you sleep last night? Nothing like not sleeping well to appreciate sleeping well. Can I remember and appreciate a day or an hour when my hip is not giving me the experience, the arising of pain in the spirit of, can I pay attention to the toothache I don't have? Because of course we forget how much our good friend Coyote,

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"Oh, I just forgot". And I think particularly in this very carefully delineated gradual path called minding the mind, training the mind. What is very important is to keep in mind the development of our capacity to see what we appreciate, what joy arises in response to. To not ever let ourselves sink, or if we do, hopefully not sink for too long into only seeing suffering, what's wrong, what we feel anxious about, what we feel concerned about.

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As I said to you this morning, the pervasive reactive pattern for us Americans is habitual judgment. So I'm really speaking to that particular conditioned pattern because it is so pervasive for so many of us. And I know, as all of you know, how deeply set the groove is for me of seeing what is wrong. Who took my water bottle? I took my water bottle, put it down someplace where I didn't expect to find it, and after I've ranted and raved in my mind about the list of who could have taken my water bottle, there are two prime suspects in the household right now.

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Bill and Kunga. Not the kid, because he'd be quick to say, look, I brought your water bottle. Cranky, insistent, the world is terrible. Habit. Habit. And what I notice is that that kind of habitual reactive mind is likely to be more accessible if we are experiencing a kind of upwelling of fear and anxiousness. And certainly these days, there seems to be a kind of collective anxiousness and fear, not only about what is happening in the Middle East,

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What's happening here? Concerns about the economy, concerns about our own well-being immediately and in an ongoing way. And I think that if one is prone to fear arising, Some of us are more practiced at that than others. When there's a kind of collective mind, we can have a kind of contact anxiety fit. So, guarding the mind is very important. And I would propose that one of the ways of guarding the mind is by keeping an eye on this balancing.

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So that's what's on my mind this morning. I wonder if anything's on any of your minds. A couple of things, really. One, when you were talking earlier about newspapers, I was reminded about Bill Moyers has a show on Friday nights called Now. He did a segment last night about to what extent the news, news being newspapers, television stations, radio stations, etc., are controlled by fewer and fewer large organizations. I guess legislation pending for the FCC, even ease that and make them more possible. The emphasis is more on performance rather than providing different viewpoints.

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We have five or six organizations that control the news and there's a certain homogeneity which we talked about in the news and the emphasis on two things. One is certainly controlling the news. For example, Disney had made a comment that ABC, you actually have it on tape, ABC will not report anything about Disney, good or bad, end of story, period. It's an interesting statement about censorship. So I think, anyway, my point I guess is the other thing that kind of zipped through my thought process was something I read this past week about a man who was in my age group, our age group, talking about, writing about being on the last leg of the journey.

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Literally, for some of us. I thought it was an interesting metaphor. I mean, to a certain extent, we're always on the last leg, but we don't know. Absolutely, Absolutely, golden years, you know, and it becomes more evident. And I think it becomes more important to live, to become aware of mind patterns, reactor patterns, and how sometimes we can just waste time, you know, rehashing stuff that just, you know, going around spinning in circles, and how precious life is, and especially more so, in a way, to make the most of the time that I have. And part of it goes back to the mod patterns and reactive patterns. Pay attention to that.

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Stay present. Well, you know, I think one of the great benefits in entering into the 60s and later is that our own mortality is not in question in quite the way that it is when we're younger. That we have less, if we're lucky, we are likely to have somewhat less delusion about living to be 120 or whatever, and why people of, as we put it, a certain age turn to an inner life, a spiritual life. Hopefully because one has the time and if one's lucky, the energy to do that, but also because the whole process of being able to die with a calm and happy mind

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isn't going to just happen like rain. It's the consequence of training. So, I think that's in there. A friend of ours who lives up in Canada sent us a website address for accessing news on a Russian news service, which Bill has been checking in with. Which is not to say that it's not as biased, but it's different. And not so wedded to putting a good face on what's happening in Iraq, for example. And I think the fact that you have the email correspondence you have with Bob O'Neill, who lives in Australia, although there is certainly a similar alignment, if you will, between Australia and the United States.

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But nevertheless, this is someone who is a deeply trained historian. So a different point of view from someone like that. One of the things that strikes me is I have to put a certain amount of effort and energy into finding out what's going on from several points of view. It's not so easy to do. There has to be some real intention. And then, you know, the help from our friends of figuring out how to do that. It's a point you made before about doing something that may not be convenient. Yeah. Precisely. Precisely. Yeah. I noticed, for example, I've abandoned KQED on NPR because they're doing their fundraising drive and I'm tired of listening to their fundraising drive. So I've been listening to KALW and KPFA and the difference among those three stations is quite striking.

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It's quite striking. That you throw in a little Russian Broadcasting. Pretty good. Helps. Well, just, you know, getting these... Now, the other thing I want to respond to, to what you said, is that something about having, you know, the... What is it? I start to say the sword of Damocles, but, you know, it's the grim reaper's sword. Grimly reaping, the blessedness of seeing what you said about, I'm wasting my time reviewing the past. I'm wasting my time with the storytelling about why this did or didn't happen. I'm wasting the opportunity for studying the mind and training the mind. And I think that insight about, oh,

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here's the category of mental behavior that leads to wasting my time. A judgment, but I think a very useful one. Very useful. So I appreciate your bringing that up very much. Did I hear you wanting to mutter about something? Probably very audible. Thank you. Eleanor? What has struck me as I've been teaching in different places and meeting different people is the sadness I feel for the parents of young people who have gone off to war, who are coming to my workshops to make prayer beads, and how very much they need our support and prayers in their, whether they agree with me or don't agree with me as far as the war goes, but the sadness and the loneliness that they feel, just has been very striking.

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Well, no matter how we feel about this war, to have that lens of, as a parent, and one's child in danger, whether one is an Iraqi parent, or a Palestinian parent, or an Israeli parent, or an American parent, for those of us who are parents, that lens, I think, is a vivid one, and very useful. Karen? Early on in the week, I was listening to KPFA in the early morning and there was a description of a family, an Iraqi family, who had gone through two checkpoints where the forces, the allied forces, the American forces had waved them through.

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And they were escaping from their village and it was a family of four or five children, a husband, a wife, and in-laws. And they came to a second checkpoint, and the soldiers bravely threw and then shot them in a pickup truck. And this man described seeing the heads of his children blown off, sitting next to him. And at that point, what I did was not just stay with the hard part, and I've been that way all week until we spoke today. I've just gone away from it. I've bought silly videos to watch at night. I would listen to numbers, and I'd watch movies. I'd do the crossword puzzle. I'd look at times as a way of reading the paper. So there was a real desire to just escape. And I don't fault that, but I think it's a way of not even considering that this moment of such bleakness and darkness of finding some way of enjoying my career.

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And as a light place, or a place of light, KPFA, which seems to be my beacon of hope here. I was driving home from work and heard this man speaking. And first he read a poem by Riggs. And then it became clear that he was running for President of the United States. And then he spoke impassioned about the war and talked about interdependence and sounded very much like a practitioner. And then he read a poem by Tennyson, one And it was just amazing that that voice came through. I think it was on Laura Flanders. She had an, I'm not sure, I think that's where it was. She had an Iraqi scholar who teaches at Grinnell read poetry, Iraqi poetry.

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and then play some music by Iraqi musicians. So, wonderful to have some articulation of this ancient, ancient, ancient culture. Remember studying about Mesopotamia? Betty? Just a small thing. At the end of your talk, as you were beginning to say, guarding the mind, my mind had the expectation and finished the word to gardening the mind. That's great. And in the split second, lots of metaphors. That's terrific. Double digging. Double digging. Weeding. May I pull the bindweed of habitual judgment from my mind as I pull the bindweed from the garden?

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It takes three years of pulling out bindweed before it stops appearing. Is that all? Yes. Well, I take hope because there are certain habits in my mind that are a lot like bindweed. Bindweed and dock. That's great, Betty, thank you. Ann? We heard that you were doing mischief in Washington. Thank you for the talk about the balance because I personally feel like I'm sort of ripped apart with my different self-identities and conflict with each other at this time. Going to peace rallies where I feel I belong and hearing so much hatred towards Israel, which then flops into a hatred towards the Jews. And then being in my professional life within the Jewish community and feeling so much rigidness in terms of who's right and who's wrong, and then being a professional organizing type of person and then knowing there's nothing I can do, which sort of, going, I was in Washington for a conference and just went,

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So I feel my own personal identities are actually at war with each other. And it's dizzying. So what I would suggest is notice whenever you get caught in either or thinking and ask yourself what would it look like from the perspective of the mind of both/and. Because I think that these are times when it is very easy to go to the mind of either-or and to completely forget about training for the mind of both-and. Yeah. I want to go back to something that you brought up, Karen. The right thing about the crossword puzzle, etc. is that I think we run the danger of having ourselves so glued to the news about what's happening that we sink ourselves because we're out of balance.

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And that it's very important to not linger too long with what's happening, that we be skillful about how much of that I can take in without going to kind of sinking mind. I think it's very important. Bill? One of the reactions with which I've been wrestling all week is what the Germans call schadenfreude, taking pleasure in somebody else's difficulty or misfortune. In particular, the difficulties which Rumsfeld has been encountering. Can you believe that he's called Rummy? But the difficulties he's encountering manifest in the loss of the lives of American service people and Iraqis.

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And I take no pleasure in that at all. So it's another opportunity for both and, it isn't just both and, it's both and, and, and, and. Yeah, yeah. To accommodate all the multifarious collisions and clashes and experience. It's very easy to get caught with riveting on who to blame, who's at fault. It's more habit. Sarah? Oh, this is really good because I've been trying to balance, you know, Karen talks about just staying away from it for a while, and I understand the need for balance. You've spoken to it. And yet there's the other side of me that feels that I really need to see some of those pictures and let it into my heart and somehow feel it, what those people are going through.

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So I have sort of a strange technique of reading the newspaper if I do. It's usually later in the day if I do. But I seem to look at the images more than I read the words. And I sink in a little bit. And I'll read an article that may be talking about some one person's experience more than I do the media reporting on the overall. But that seems to be important for me to do right now. Karen your description of this man Iraqi man watching the heads of his children blown off. I mean, that's I don't need a picture of that the description it just dropped immediately But also, can I just say that as you were saying that Sarah there was a picture on the front page at the Times? Chronicle and Even the words were right of an American medic holding Iraqi child as a boy.

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And the caption said, not treating, not fixing, not binding his wounds, but this man is holding the child. And it was so wonderful to hear that word. And the look of benevolence and compassion on that man's face. And I believed it. I think I needed to believe it. And I hope it is true, what I saw. Well, how interesting that the template relationship in the Buddhist tradition is a parent, a mother or father with his or her only newborn child. And the qualities of mind that that's referring to, I think, are very important. So can we hold ourselves as well as those who are suffering outside of ourselves? Yes? Where does the name Golden World come from?

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A dear friend and teacher named Harry Roberts, part Native American and part Irish, lived here the last five years of his life. And he had a bright yellow pickup truck called Marigold. And he had brucellosis that he got from working at the, this is the long answer, that he got working at the Botanical Garden at UC Berkeley. So in the last part of his life, he was mostly on crutches, but he was an extraordinary teacher and guide. So one of the things he loved to do was to have me drive him on little outings. He loved to go to the market and he'd kind of feel all the vegetables. Let's get this, this feels right. And we'd come back over the hill and he'd say, Yvonne, you're driving too fast.

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I'd be driving at 20 miles an hour with people honking and passing. And he'd say, you're driving too fast. We can't see the wildflowers on the road cut. He was happy if I'd drive seven miles an hour. Anyway, one day, Harry said, let's go for a ride. So we drove up to Slide Ranch, which is on Highway 1, just beyond Muir Beach. Called Slide Ranch because it's sliding into the ocean. And I swear to goodness that they saw us coming because we went down the drive. And there was a mother Nubian with a very young kid who the people at Slide Ranch had named Hamburger. And he was about to be sold. The Greek community around Easter has an auction up in Sonoma County, and they auction off kid goats.

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So Hamburger was slated to go to the auction. And Harry immediately said, let's take him home. He was just at the right age to be weaned. Harry was very enthusiastic about Hamburger. Turns out that Hamburger's father was a billy goat that used to live here in the corner, right opposite our driveway. Smelling up the neighborhood, a grand goat. You know, Nubians have these wonderful long ears, kind of like tresses. So we brought Hamburger home and we tied Hamburger outside what is now Bill's study, where Harry lived at the time. And Harry kept the window open and we had Hamburger tethered right outside the window, and every time he'd bleat for his mother, Harry would bleat back. So Hamburger really bonded with Harry and with me. And the part of the garden from about here over was completely covered with blackberry.

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There's a Himalayan dogwood, I didn't even know was there until Hamburger uncovered it by eating all the blackberry. Hamburger was just a great goat. Goats are extremely intelligent. I fell madly in love with him. Harry kept saying, now don't bring him into the house. He'll eat the books. Anyway, not very long after we got Hamburger, the word must have gone out in the goat community, and a woman showed up with twins, also headed for the auction. And I said, okay, well, we've got one, we might as well have three. Ham and Shim, so-called. And they basically cleared the garden. And would regular, this was pre-roses. Pre-roses and apples.

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And I got these tethers made that would swivel, so they wouldn't get all entangled on them. But they would break loose and escape into Highway 1. Somebody would come in with a chain, dragging them in. Is this your goat? We found it in the road. So that got to be the name of this place. And then at a certain point, we decided we needed a name for this place as a place for meditation practice. And we came up with, I didn't want to call it a Zen center because I wanted to include other traditions. So we called it Redwood Creek, which is the creek that runs along that side of the property, Redwood Creek Dharma Center. Well, after a while, I realized we're not really a center. There's not enough going here. Center implies residence and institution and everything that I'm not into. So, and of course what I didn't find out until I finally gave up Redwood Creek Dharma Center was that everybody who practices here had kept calling it Goat in the Road.

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I was the only one who didn't know that. And I realized that, you know, Goat in the Road, a place for Buddhist practice, is what's so, and that the name carries some of the history of this place. So that's where it came from. And originally, it was the name for the driveway that the goats would escape out. But now it's for the whole place. The Buddhist name for this place is in Japanese Bodai-ji, the Buddha Mind Temple. And in Tibetan, Chomchok Chöling, the place where the mind of Bodhichitta arises. Bodhichitta being the aspiration for enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. And some years ago, the then abbot of the Kyoto Monastery gave this place that name and painted it on the beam as you go in the front door of the house, because of course that's where our meditation room was before we built this building.

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So I'm actually hoping I can commission Kunga to paint it on the front beam as you come up the walkway. I think it would be nice to have have it on this building as well. So that's the long answer. Thank you for asking. Betty? Oh, yes, the website is up. Goatintheroad.com. And if you use Google and it says it's under construction, don't believe them. Just, what do you do? You click on the address at the top. Yeah, and it'll come up. It's lovely. Thank you. Thank you. When people ask for directions, it delights me to say the map is on the website. I also put an announcement out in front of yet another addition to the website.

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Wendy Johnson and I are going to do an afternoon workshop on propagation. In May. She decided to, we should call it, returning to origin. But I think it'll be quite wonderful. So any of you who are gardeners and are interested in all the different ways of propagating plants, there's a flyer out there. So now I saw other hands flapping around up there. Did we get to everybody? Okay, very nice to see you all. I must say, I think our being able to come together and practice is very, I know for myself, very important in terms of that sense of not being isolated and of having some shared, what's the right word, commitment.

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to training the mind, training the heart-mind for the benefit of all beings. And I think that for us to keep each other company in this way, I know for me, makes a big difference. So I'm very glad to see you all. Our next sitting is on... the 19th of April. That's right. So, I look forward to seeing whoever of you can come then. And in the meantime, take good care of yourselves, and in particular, take care of your mind stream, because no one else can. Thank you very much. Maybe we have a couple more minutes. I want to read this poem one more time. This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die.

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This is the field where grass joined hands. Isn't that lovely? Where no monument stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky. Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed. or were killed on this ground, hallowed by neglect and on air so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name. Thank you very much.

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