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now we're getting a thats good i can hear myself thank you
as the gate so the morning
oh we have to do something birthday
it so
last night before i went to bed i mixed up matcha matcha much as powdered
greedy and very concentrated and you make believe the keyboard but the water in with it
the t and new get with a whisk a bamboo whisk and very popular in japan
but you should not do it before you could
so i woke up several times during the night you know
and various that came into my head each time so the first time the thought kid into my head was politics
and then i related of i thought of all the related terms they go with politics like
a polite
polarized police
and i think there are more but
when you get the idea actually politics were always doing politics road but we assign it and am
ah
two
government government of politics and there are politicians but we're all politicians and l our interactions not all of them but so much of an interaction is politics you know where deciding how to interact with each other in a polite way
so polite
has the meaning of the feeling of respect
when we have when we interact with each other we try to do it
if someone asked me what is that what is the boot his attitude toward
all this stuff that's been happening in politics
the left for the last two years
and after november eighth
how do we deal with all this stuff as a buddhist
a polite head
it has taken on the words change the meaning of to change over time but a polite as a i feel has the meaning trying to understand each other and working things out in a respectful way
which is lost
it totally lost and because people think now could always been bit
being smart and clever is
what we aspire to
we always say people they're smart that person really smart tepid are they're clever clever
but smart but we've traded in
we've substituted smart a recent do with them for smugness
we never say that was a wise idea or that was something with them was underneath this move with the oh that was smart because they're always vying for position to see who is the most clever
and cleverness
aided a
in cleverness underlying smartness is the most valued wisdom is really valued but that's understandable because we're all driven by ego
we were not driven by ego wisdom comes forth but since governments
and
people who seek power usually find it and that's driven by ego
so wisdom rarely rises that even if it does this said gets cut off
because people don't value it out of the people don't value and but
people who are looking for power don't value it because it goes against their principles
so we have a hard time as buddhists
really hard time so then
and they usually aided by police to keep to teach it to be the peace so to speak the polarization
so for some polarization is peace
you keep everybody in their places and the yeah peace
peace means restriction rather than freedom
so did you go we find ourselves
after two years and a few weeks
the elite ah the two years we've built up a lot of anxiety
the my second time i look up for the word despair
i came into my mind
and despairs is is related to desperate
despondent and desperado
but
with it
like desperado
it must be spanish were hookers
we visit from mexican militants back in the mexican wars desperado them and and a cook's you know riding their horses into the sunset with her forty five attached to their hip
after shooting a bunch of people so but ah
desperado
it is it can be like when you don't know what to do you do something
two
because the hardest place to be as where there's no movement
so in between
nov eight and today this is a place called limbo
where things are not moving but there's lot of angst which is a your anxiety
which is yeah
so
despair
disparate
different things are so differentiated that it can be related and despondent despondent is where you are there's a big wall and you can't get through the wall and for you drop down and try to curb difficult
hillary clinton
and november night said
and it's wanna curl curl up in bed with my dog
never get up again
that's disbanded
but it puts us in a desperate position which is not bad
actually
because out of despair comes
current bad courage
so we've talked about encouraging
how do how does one become encouraged in this situation that we find ourselves i'm not every one of us feels this way of course so i'm talking about myself and whoever can relate to what i'm talking about

so
then somebody's is
i'll just get over it
that's good
actually it has everything has a good size of the bad sign just get over it means to rise above your despair
so you can actually do something
so i agree with that in my own sense i don't agree with in the sense that has offered but but if we use it
if we use with offered and turn it to our benefit or turn it turn into something useful that's our practice
buddhist practice is to take in
what is not useful and
produce something out of that the does useful
we say
to take in all the anger and
a negative energy that comes forth and digested embrace it
so buddhist practice is to embrace with big mind
what happens a reactive mind is small mind a responsive mind is big mine
reactive mind is continues to create tens tenseness reactive mind continues to produce that which we don't wander received from the other side
doesn't work because when we react we just create another unwholesome situation
and keep the unhealthiness
perpetuated response is to step back
and put and come from where you are instead of
i'm
i'm coming from
the energy that's coming toward you
you take the energy this coming towards you and you've digested
and you hold it
and you transform that energy into some put a energy which is beneficial
so reacting is one of my biggest problems
it's really hard not to react to
that which comes at us with great force and wants to destroy us
and to digest the energy with compassion and transform it so that you actually can reform the energy that's coming toward you
this is how we influence others
so this is how as a buddhist we should be
as they should people don't like the word should but i'm gonna use it
we should know how to or be mindful and careful about how we respond using the energy that comes toward us so this is a big who would just received i think i have
i've just received a big dump of drop
i couldn't help doing it
forgive me of
a big dose of negative energy that's going to affect everybody in the world for a long time if it's perfect if it continued
it's this is dangerous we know we haven't been in this position it's been coming mounting little by little over the last fifty years
and now it's it as we know if come to this so
the here to sit here and is that the stages
disbelief
anger
despair
hopelessness fright anxiety to have you
which is any of those feelings lately
yeah of yes yes
so
at
the definition is a surface
my definition and another better definitions of a sociopath is one who cares only about their own wellbeing
and manipulate others to that end and who as little empathy for others
i've known sociopath a sociopath and i the for me it's easy to identify
ah and i know the difficulty comes
with this kind of problem
matter of fact
back in the eighties
we had this problem at san francisco zen center and it took years
to get back to some kind of normality
hmm
so the question comes up
now what
you know people think often a buddhist practice is being passive when we sit in zazen
we think that doesn't his passive activity
it is it's a pass it is not just pass it is a passive activity or it's an active passivity
both activity and passivity are balanced in art doesn't
it's not just passivity if it was passivity
there are people who do this they would just be kind of doing this valium
olympic pool
a protoplasm
but but actually is as in is to bring forth total energy total effort
so one side is passive which is receiving the other side is active which is doing
the doing and receiving are the two sides of of as and we sit up straight and we use all our effort and energy to do that so it's called total dynamic activity within stillness
within a flood the passer and the active are totally balanced and well as in the other
so if it's fun to do something active about the world
and you do that with the foundation of ah openness and acceptance
to be totally active and it totally accepting of the situation
in other words activity within stillness and stillness within our activity which means when we do something active we do with concentration patience
openness and
i'm

oh
so there it with the we will be dealing with the situation
apart from time
my freely my experiences
sociopath or if implode at some point
the it's not sustainable
in a wine situation
so i love to name names but i would
i'm just talking about the facts folks
anyway i would like to open a to see what your feelings that we would we have not had a discussion about this because the circumstances of our scheduling
but i would like to see what some of your feelings might be
of course we all know what our feelings we have but nevertheless
yes john with know george bush put out that the word that we didn't realize you coffins yes
a bunch of us in new york get organized and use this as a way of making a recorded message that the cost of being human cost of war as be counted since that protest people have been talking about the human cost of war as the thing to say he has a key
coffin became kind of the lingua franca of that period now we have trump and he's presenting something i'm waiting to see is not a cough and i'm waiting to see what it is it synthesizes are thinking to take the next step because we had to face aid and we all have a bit of
implosion coming without all this media is that there were watching i don't know what but there's also a step of humanity all the press was saying we needed a movement and we got hillary we needed a movement and that's why we got from the what we really need is trump as and if yes me and initiator of a movement that
is exactly the opposite of trump it says don't you see how obvious it is that we've gone this far and what it will be i don't know what i believe it's the see for arrested to this up until they tend to nurture yeah i remember the confronting because we hired a price
but army
we didn't have a draft we hired a private army judge remember going
recruiting doing all this recruiting and it was a mercenary army and we didn't have to know anything about it
and don't bring the carpet don't show the cop coming back because then you'll see that there's something happening over there
yes
this was the one thing if i can remember what i was gonna say
okay
i'm lucky if you know because my work i often get both politics as usual but
i happened to have been signed up to the second day of session to be part of the congressional briefing from university of california and topic was the global food sister and i was on a panel with a climate change expert and
all various
and i call it the day before and i say holistic stick out and do this because trump have been elected and that person on hill said absolutely i said want me to fly out there and wait should i change what i'm going to talk about
it's a little too progressive for this situation isn't it
and she said now come on out and it's all the meeting
i flew out and there's this big old building marble everywhere in watson offices with shields their the central power tennis and the marches in there is a full rim of people and we say what we think
that's pretty good does and who was worth it got help me
d traumatized little bit
it it felt like the machine goes on it's a very big place one sociopath
a lot of people with a live agendas
people showed up to listen
yeah disappearing it was a a learning experience them that's good this
we'll have to remember
people say
what did we do wrong
but that's not true
it's to have a million to over two million more people voted for hillary
something went wrong but it wasn't that
anyway
and
africa a minute
abby
right
time i feel very fortunate
this time
and my question to you is a senior experience hadn't be the says you have
well
you can put them back together with psychiatrist
julie you'd have to want to change the can't change people they have to want to change
like if somebody is
gets really angry and as angry things that are heard people and then you say well if we want you to take care of your anger and you know to do something about that they have to want to do it i know people is it oh i've been to psychiatrists psychology
as you know but they can have did they don't that you know can help they can help you because you don't want to change if you want to change anybody can help you

wow not one
yeah well we'll see
the called watchful waiting
mckenna medical term
get the job
thank you for this is beautiful
ah on three things
the first just and up with how can we help trump ah
i com and we said why try offering no hovering in london that's what you want it's actually a form of desk and i trotted and was very helpful for me have no idea of the homs
travel
what do i want a walk and not be afraid because if he's afraid that yes i said
yes that agenda is l driven by fear
absolutely
thank you yeah number three that's one thing and then the it's two things have really for a sanctuary and just the word is holding the sanctuary city or yes yes universe is can cause day or so the sanctuary and masquerade
and the third is talking to people who voted for trump ah which is unbelievably hard for me i've done one purse
and it worked i think like well a guy who a carbon cap and use of known for years and he's one of the sweetest
and so upset how are you and i said oh fix up for trump and i could tell them
but he was very handsome
the whole story that you
that i was very glad that i could often
and ah it's sober real car he has been ever vote recount i'm terrified of eating because i'm afraid of industry and i don't want to street so anyway that's what
thank you
oh
but you who asked what to be you
i do not have it
hello and when it arrived but what's been going on at this point
he
the actions of the water protectors it's anti brock the last number of price
its exemplary and it's an opportunity right now and just think of a just
whoa a spiritual basis you have opposition to and petroleum economy you have the need for clean water
if you have issues of race
and you know with with our native sisters and brothers you have a police statement for provide escape
bearing down on him
of guess we can come in people's lives are at risk ah
all of this this is this is the perfect coming together and i'd almost very little bastard that
in that in in the mainstream press you see you know receipt of live here and there but visits going on constantly your are religious sisters and brothers their sisters and brothers from other religious traditions and so i'm just a really close attention to this end if we
didn't have sushi she me and will be there ah file
my commitment is is here at the woman but i think that there's something happening near that has the potential to pull together just to the path so movement that we're talking that it's already coming again yes
i just want to
i wanted to just give voice to that because it implements coronary event an extraordinary opportunity ah
two
should really look at our history
into that are got a job come but that's the challenge
that was there are many issues that i'll come together and that one spot is i'm happy to talk of any one man i know some of our friendship goods de soldier and job for very different standards are on there now when johnson just cut them
so how is it recent
i also wanna mention that if you want
his pocket
one thing to be out there facing all this and an authentic think
a step back and compose yourself and composure is really important for us to cultivate and keep in mind so that we don't just
oh allow
negative feelings to eat us up so i suggest coming to session next week
hope to see you all there are seven days of composure
how much time we help you still have about
ok ok charles
i'd like to point out that when you're dry air harry a good president
the large current countries gas and time went on turned out the best president that we have a jacket
fire macarthur award
so i think hey it's better not to assume that all these terrible things are going to happen until the yeah well yes
and know
because what's already happened is a cabinet of sociopaths
pink chosen by a sociopath
a cabinet or sociopath
that's what's so frightening
and how we gonna deal with that they have to be approved of course yes i think that's the point when the president elect donald trump stone says
cracker of a warrior
as a rally
two about somebody who is baby point aside for something like that
this
that is not that doesn't answered that phrase a way of cause and effect that cannot be ignored or we can't we can't dismiss him
that's when and
oh
what you see is what you get
new
just yesterday
a san jose last was sent a very threatening letter
i forget exactly the words we don't want here anyway but there was very scary letter did them and a few days ago
it's that my friend else's house and she's ninety two she went through she escaped europe she's jewish she grew up in danzig and she laughed when she's thirteen she saw the signs of
in nazi germany coming through her town
people take her property
probably was they were names in the house
anyways does she so scared she's terrified that and she's angry and she's ninety two you know she she actually has some things that she might not live for a long time so i was reading her my poetry that i've written and that's about this it's about not hate it is that
hating part can actually create when he was talking about cannot actually function very well you're in a state of hey i'm here in the state of anger the anger is to learn to that you can hold yourself open enough to do something positive
and to that end i have my friends that i worked on during the bush years and we're coming together on buddha's enlightenment day as it turns out and to work on think i thought i have an idea of something
not it's it's kind of below the surface that can change things i mean if people take part in it it's below the surface and it changed the fabric at the ground level so that people can't even it couldn't really say he can't do that you know there's there's like no
and so anyway we're all coming together different ideas and that's what i feel like that's where our power is is when we act we don't feel so is able to read when we find our true action then we are empowered and you can create we can do something that meaning
or even it's smart you know one small thing have no idea what that effect would any action like that so i mean this loss i'm sure these people are incredibly brave and there's things that we can do it or not they don't they don't have
we don't have to go to a protest line but we can actually create and support so many people by are other choices and by not just living in our own world and just being afraid so i hope everyone describes on a loving action
they can do because there are those actions and not that complicated
thank you thank you for your kid

i asked couldn't sleep last night i guess at one o'clock in the morning and that weight since then and line my thoughts were pumpkin pie cherry pie or
life should the golden triple treasure and then i'm a felt
you think than a dozen saga while of his last and
because composure recently it's become
i'm just more attentive to what that means
so i'm going to be it's machine that's for sure and that's why i'm going to put my energy and i wanted to ask you what you mean when you say a sociopath will implode as i mean that used to be for see some kind of
stepping down impeachments some kind of though and to it before and for years that's called hope
and what doesn't look like them you know that the they're desperate moves you know what is a recount
don't regret it if there was a recount just as stir things up you know
that might happen
then is a well maybe everything would change before the inauguration
well if it fossil but you know
it boys your spirits
am
i've been rickety gary roshi say well at know at the end of the war second world war the japanese lost they lost everything
the phrase that they use was you have to bear the unbearable
and he applied that two thousand
but but it is like you know you have to bear the unbearable
in ultimately you're gonna die
that's barry what we think of is that what but why am i going to like it here
but things happen that you've just cannot control so we have here to be prepared to bear the unbearable whatever that might be nothing lasts forever
you know and everything goes in cycles
i've seen so many cycles and the only president i ever knew until i was in junior high school was roosevelt
that's a long time and
you had you have faith in the government he had faith in in the armed force it on a general you'd think wow this is a great guy you know
till the war started and and everything changed but
i've seen these cycles have experienced these cycles you know
a for
eighty seven years
and one just follows the other that the pendulum swings now it's over here then it goes over there than ago the and o'clock and dick dick dick dick
that was so we have to have the flexibility
number one if you don't have flexibility you to nothing but supper
exactly i have the flexibility to accept whatever is coming and not get caught by it that's why we as
yes not despair and resort to desperate action destructive
well you know sometimes you have to do whatever you have to do with it's outside of sometimes you may have to kill somebody
there was a tibetan
in tibet many many centuries ago
where they had there was a somebody who was in power who needed to be eliminated
and this guy to tibetan monk killed him because he's unwilling to accept all the karma that goes with that forever
because this is something that really has to be done
i'm not saying we should do that but sometimes you have to go against
what looks like the right thing to do or not to do
but that has you have to take the consequences of what are you
and the karma that goes with whatever you do so if better not to do that
it is to do everything he can do not have to do that but
if you have to
village you have to annotate the consequences
it's hard to get new barely the unbearable
so this is what happens in war people are drafted into the army didn't wanna kill anybody they cannot be up objectors
and yet you have to do that be people who were firing at you you have to go
unless you don't want to some people do that
a member
category she know in japan during the war everybody would other men were right and but when isn't the monks when they would you actually got onto the battlefield they will shoot in the air

some of them
get your head on your lips but
as everyone says i mean
okay
thank you