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me lost
i want to
the
to talk to present not taking red snapper
thank you for do not as not stealing don't steal

in no wheelchair and for point in the wheelchair with his innumerable lakers brought us this food and we should know how it comes to us
receiving this offering we should consider whether our virtue and practice deserve it
this is very important
for us to understand

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originally in buddhism
a monk
when a markets are deemed
he gave up everything
he or she can you know if a monk or nun give up everything
and and three roads in a bowl
i couldn't carry money
monk was not allowed to have to possess money
who carried around
or carry any left over food or any provisions so how much life to live from day to day
just live from
time you dawn to dusk
one day
and each day
take care of itself
so
the monks
career
was
want to practice
for everyone
but for the benefit of the enlightenment of everyone
and so a month now
part of their life with take the ball
and to beg for their meal
and there was no other way of support
no money no bed
no possessions you have any kind just three wrote in a bowl
so a with are completely at the mercy of allah
people's generosity

if you are
if you were about and your practice with for good
maybe to start today
so the suit yourself
wait on
we should look at so does our practice and virtue deserve this meal
does is what we're doing
worth
people feeding us
why should people go out in a way to feel
yeah
so
lift kind of editors
nothing belongs to us
we don't own anything
our home
life's practice
and energy is directed toward how to become one with the universe
have to realize our wonderful does universe
if we realized our oneness with this universe
well we will always be supported
this is basic buddhist understand it
ah and
so with this kind of understanding that means how do we find our place in this universe
how do we find it our true place in this universe
if we know where we are
and what are places
everything will come to us that we need
if we don't know where we are or know what are places and then we always feel there's something lacking or something out to it or something that we should have that we don't have
and when we feel that there's something we should have that we don't have
and we feel that we want that we deserve something or we want to take something
if we can't have it they will take it
so the idea of
checking something that it's not ours ah is produced
so we caught stealing
for stealing
is not
only confined to objects
but
it's a very deep seated need
if we don't have what we need
both
physically
and psychically from spiritual

sometimes
we feel
cheated
you know if you are completely one
with this universe and know your place
there's nowhere you can be cheated

you don't know where you can feel left out
so are
in life is based more on money then and possessions than in buddhist time
buddhist time
max couldn't carry money
and even today
care about a max don't carry money don't have any position
lay people feed them and give them everything they need to give them their roads and are they
hey repay them lay people
in some way by perfecting their practice

so
their whole life depends on and virtue
hum car practice you know in america are even later in any country
it's very diverse
and we are
sometimes we feel will lay people
ah
i wonder what we think
actually
nowadays are pretty to month can carry money and have positions even and become married
kim have children and families
ah
and lay people
have lots of positions at a bank accounts and well paying jobs ah and so we may tend to forget the underlying basis of what we depend on
actually i think it's good that we can
that we have this kind of problem
it's if you take everything away that's one kind of problems but it's fairly simple and straightforward
but as if you have to deal with the burden of possessions and money and
desire
and much more difficult
it's possible that it's much more difficult and we have to really look at what is ours and what is not ours
and how we handle what's given to us
each one of us at some different
set of possessions and needs
and ways of dealing with what we have
but basically attitude is not different
it fits nothing belongs to us
everything that we have
it's just something that's given to our care something that
we take care of
but we think that it's mine
this during the problem arises and we all have something to take care of here you take care the you take care of a million dollars you take care of this house you take care of this woman he took care of this man you take care of his baby
and we think oh it's mine
but actually nothing belongs to us
in that sense everything we wanted to less interested
to take care of not to possess
when we start appropriating then this should meet this is mind
we start to have big problems
so
patterson our practice in nice to always remain unburdened
and to help other people remain unburdened help each other to remain unburdened doesn't mean that we shouldn't take care of what we have
we shouldn't get the feeling that it belongs to me
just is mine
and identify with what belongs to me
hi this is a good how we know whether or not we have to practice
i don't think that you should give up a million dollars in your cadillac
are your children or your life
cut our practice you know to learn to take care of what we have in a proper way
money you know it is so much money in the world
even though they keep printing more but it's an allotted amount of money in the world to balance the amount of people and their
live
and everyone shares that money
we all share that money and ideally it should all be shared equally according to various needs people
but by what happens if it found it is a big pile accumulates over here and i have a hero cause harm to any thing to go around
because people over here feel that it belongs to them
this is mine
ah
and so
can work the people over here collected
and the morrow over here that people don't have it
if someone thinks well we need more money we need for to print more money some more money keeps being printed and the game gets lost to get losing the meaning of the game
because we just keep putting bar in there
any place
there's actually a law against hoarding
it's not just morally bad for us because it means that it's a kind of monetary constipation
the only way that that money means anything is when it moves
so it moves around most from media and from you to me and everyone to everyone and helps us to
moving work
can keep it always keep it moving just like our system when it's moving when money is moving freely
an equally
the system works
when our blood is flowing and evenly and smoothly our system works but when it starts to get an unbalanced
we all suffer
so
it's it's actually against the law to hard because everyone knows this
if you're caught with an enormous amount of money when you're hoarding
technically you should be put in jail

because it doesn't belong to you it's really stealing
so
sometimes you know how we feel that something
is out to us and if we if it's not given to us we're going to take it anyway
if you work for and big outfit you know in personal corporation
ah it's easy to feel
they won't you know they got so much that if i take it
they're not gonna miss it
and they owe it to me anyway there are so rich and i'm so poor they don't really pay me enough anyway so take the stuff and it'll make up for what they don't give me
but that's actually stealing even though we may feel justified or want to do that
really stealing
it doesn't hurt the corporation
actually you do it but it hurts your own sense of what's right
when we were in a hospital
the baby have to confess this they have all
those shirts for the babies you know may have typewriters you may have little boxes of kleenex is
can they just unending supply and stuff and when you take an assured offers after maybe it just thrown in the wastebasket
and ah
so when we left down
hospital
i said
i want to take one of these shirts you know let's take the baby with his shirt is
and then we're good out cleaning up there
tableware and i am here with his kleenex boxes that were kind of opened you know i'm hardly used how will have thrown them into you know
but then i when i got home i thought this is really stealing of course it doesn't mean anything you know so what they just digital unending supply and stuff
and they just throw spending more expensive it doesn't matter so much from that point of view of bet for me it was really stealing
and the problem that we have is that we don't
no when we're doing something
not that it was so bad you know but i felt justified in doing it

so
the thing is to know what we're doing okay if i if i steal i should know i'm stealing and it's good or bad i should know it
and then decide what to do
ah then usually
my own line and it's not so subtle not federal enough to be able to always make that decision
if you give five hundred dollars to the zen center
you know you should i cut it off
the few and even just go on and exactly the same way that you are practicing before
if you fit as you said
i can find hundred dollars and cents and how come they're not treating me so well
this is
know stealing
i really gave it
i have a string you know
attached to that gift it's not three
i give so much time and effort
how come i'm not treated better
how come i can't have certain things that i want
where's my reward
so
we will get it into a lot of trouble this way where is my reward for what i'm giving
if we weren't some material reward
if we expect something
it's
get into a lot of trouble if we do expect something we should say i expect something from the beginning
dennis
you know what you're doing but if you don't know what you're doing her you get into a lot of trouble
not knowing what you're doing means you can get something
but underneath you want something from what you gave so
it's better to be it
to know what you're doing
no
to say something i like
if you give something to center we may just say thank you very much
that's off
if you give something to zen center
it's because
that's where it should go
huh
if am
yeah it's like being in the hospital maybe you feel that you're giving some action
and not getting something in return
so what artists
keiko know because ah
they are to me
hi
after
hey it's better you know to be what we appreciate is someone who is very straightforward
it's okay to think that where you think and to feel that way you feel that you should be very straightforward
from the beginning
but if you feel well they'll never understand what i'm but i've given what i've gone through so
how to take it from money
we don't appreciate so much that kind of activity
and sir
it makes it difficult for everyone
the reward for practice you know his practice itself
why we practice is
or how we practice
one moment of practice practice
we don't get a reward in heaven
our rewarding petition rewarding
praise
you know our life comes together with itself we become you become you
that's the only purpose of practicing is for you to become you in a true sense
if you expect something else
you're on the wrong track
if years to chairs honest upright
hint
your africans pure effort
you will always be supported you'll have everything that you need
just beyond a doubt
i have no doubt
huh
so how society works you know especially our society
buddhist society are some guy society is a microcosm of the universe microcosms the world and society and we create a little society and in society
sanga it's a little society
and
our society or some society
shit
dharma
true love
nab found role that gives a famine some people an advantage
but rules which people alive
so that everyone can share
and if we hold ourselves
it's just like withholding
anything just like if we hoard are ourselves it's like hoarding money
if we don't give freely of ourself or aren't allowed to get from the of ourselves and we become stagnant and everybody feels that stagnation
so freely giving his i reward for giving becoming free as a reward for getting
there's nothing else to expect
hey no need to steal
no need to take something
just giving without any thought of return
since there's some time return
does that hook
sometimes we measure i gave and gave gave and nothing
nothing came back or i put so much into this and
i'm kidding turn
can't because on our expectation
because our motive is not so pure
if you are
don't have anything and don't expect anything
and just give
somebody pinch
ah

do your life actually will be very happy he can have a very happy life
and i promise you a happy life
no
i remembered
when at tassajara in the summer time
firewatch goes around in the evening and saying that everybody's out of time for harm it doesn't belong here
and there's always some hikers who had want to sleep outside of the flat
ah twenty the outskirts of tassajara and we we never learn eventually doctor and then say
occasionally seventy one thing but this is god's country how can you tell me not to sleep there
this country belongs to god
how come i can't sleep it
for because
it's phone app
but it's not really right to
something wrong with it
so even though everything belongs to us we can't just appropriate everything
you can't just you know the opposite of nothing belongs to us is everything is ours
oh man i just gonna drive off joe's cadillac
everything is eyes
but everything is eyes to take care of everybody's taking care of something it's not ours to appropriate
not ours to just use as we wanted
you know in the final
i think it's the bible
they understand the understanding that people happy
and god gave dominion to manage over the world and all the animals and sublime
which is a kind of corruption and the true meaning
correct
understanding is god gave
man
dominion over are earth take care of it
yeah sure
a keeper and caretaker
garden
not just to devour it
and because we have that people seem to have another understanding
and feel justified
in their agreed
so
we keep trying to bring it back to the original meaning
our practice of action to bring it back to the original understanding

we're not just standing outside and seeing a universe is an object have play playtime
big apple pie

if we
feel appropriate here
and justified
did we put ourselves in a
very deep position where we can't you know we have blindness and we can't see what's really right and wrong
if you know i'm stealing
at least you can see
you know where your app
i'm still k good we appreciate someone who can say i'm taking i'm stealing
it made good or bad
kate
that person is actually been very honest
and we appreciate some lincoln's on
but no no
i didn't i
oh no i'm not stealing then you really believe her
and kindness and it's very difficult
to know what our problem is when we don't know what we're doing wrong
so this precept is very important for us

when you give you know just give
that's on
the oven forget
no strings attached
not to be attestation
just
these are the things that i had to take care okay i'll take care than the best idea i'll take care of a million dollars the best way i can i won't give it away
what what should i do it
how can i take care of it
huh main thing for us is our
freedom
how to be free and each woman
and how to know our place in the universe
how to know that how we belong in this universe
huh

him how to play in see movies
are you
character in japanese character do
means give and receive
and the same character for both give and receive
when you
r dating
our ordination teacher puts the character jew on iraq so
my character gop kids give and receive
can it see same character for both

huh
i'm spoiling firewood in the
this morning
we're going to happen
little the formal welcoming ceremony for
this is my son ten right after how much
and everyone's invited to stay
and then
he want to say something can
purchase the compactly and afterwards we'll have
a little champagne
something cheap with now
a
so i wouldn't want to stop over and over again
conditional tanking shuffling around part
yes
audience
the ceremony rather than everybody leaving to coming back we thought it would be easier for package has been staying with stained zinda and the second asterism
mike

to me