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Interdependency and Impermanence, Saturday Lecture

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the know that is jason
right

moody

you see we have to pick books here
when is
the book about organic gardening and the complete book of composting
you should all read those books are thoroughly
i'm not kidding
he went to know something about yourself
thinking about life in general we should wait
the book of organic gardening
by mr raw data and down the complete book of composting

it tells us all about interdependency
and
ah
what to do with things when
ha ha ha
how to take care of things as they come and go
that's a composting
how to make the best use of
our feelings thoughts emotions
ha objects
how then had to come
keep them
the soil loose
in which we live
hum
hit in when you have soil
the main thing is to keep it very loose
if it's to this than new plants fall over they don't have anything to
to hold onto
and if it's too tight
didn't the rich and have room to move and as on nutrients in soil aren't available
so one of their time important factors is to have nutrients in the soil
but mostly the soil already as nutrients that it's locked up
somehow it's not available to plants
ah so i did for silence were loose in
just the right kind of consistency
i did she instead of in the soil
will be made available to the roots
and moisture will percolate up
he has his flow did for kind of
flow of life taking place in the soil
if we know how to live our lives in that way
we have to worry so much most of my worries will vanish
huh you can even i didn't intend to talk about that but
in some way
kill us with when i went to talk about in zen practice
the most important thing is the problem of birth and death from our life and death
hi we have to know what we mean by that
hum tere dobson
what's here and gave us a pan
can one day seminar last month
and i'm
the for those people who attended it was very
did you put them on your toes
i e his background is in quito
but that's not what he's teaching
he's teaching
how to be awake
and ah he said
i know that use and people
ah
ham are always faced with the problem of life and death
and lot of people laughed
which was a little embarrassing to me
hum
our problem our practice is definitely a problem concerned with the problem of life and death
how to be alive
even though it looks like we're alive we're not necessarily life
how to be really alive is ah
the question
the fun
we can be alive or we can be walking around
a half alive or we can do ghosts
ghost is someone who ah is not connected
has no place to plug in
no way to connect with life
so them in a kind of state of always moving around with no place to
haha no way to communicate
they say i'm here they wave their arms the the i'm here but nobody pays any attention because nobody sees them
you see right through them
in ghosts
now
no matter how much i waved my arms and
nobody sees me he hit that lot
huh so
how we ah
maintain life in a real sense
ha
how we bring our life to lunch here is that practice
how do we bring life to like
he and i'm the oldest
ha
description of practice ah has to do with mindfulness
i through mindfulness we bring our life to lash
but what does mindfulness mean
mind
what is i mind
in the am
sadie botanic feature such potential suitor
it says we should pay attention to ah our body
feelings mind
a mental objects and objects of mine
feelings body feelings
ha
mind and objects of mind
he can
through the ah
ha
awareness of by feelings mind and objects or mind
we practice mindfulness
hmm
huh
it's obvious how exhausting when we back when he said surgeon ah
it's obvious to us what mindfulness is
because there's nothing else to do but be mindful
hum
but how
we practice mindfulness
ha continually
exotic problem
how to practice mindfulness continually without stopping
it's always a problem
ha
when if at out
when a feeling comes when we have a say a feeling of them
ah
dislike
who should know this is a feeling of dislike
when a feeling of anger terms we should know this is the feeling of anger that has risen up in me
when a feeling of i
pleasure comes we should know this is a feeling of pleasure
when a feeling of
joy guns we should know this is a feeling of joy
when we're walking
he should know this foot is touching the ground
now this photos rising up
now this photos touching the ground
ha
we should know now ah
there is inhaling
now there's exhaling
this is how we are mindful of the body and feelings
ha
so this kind of awareness
and focus is called mindfulness
when we have a thought
ha
have fun
how some desire ah
say cake
we know there's a thought of desire for cake and the thought of a desire for cake has arisen in my man in his mind
we don't say in my mind in this month
ha can swim is our desire for
to go to a movie to say and desire to go to a movie answer isn't in this night
so
whatever is happening in our a body of mind
ah feelings will be know that that's happening
and we pay attention to it
and we make some decision about it
haha but mostly
we just watch to i just aware of the feelings
and body and mind as
thoughts feelings and so forth come up
just have a just a bear attention
others
as they arise
hum
something is always making us angry that
the most to most difficult things that we have to deal with our high on one side anger or displeasure
ah and on the other side joy and comfort
these are the two things that we have the most problem with
then they seem to be opposed to each other
and kind of in the middle is our mind
and the most important thing for us is to to know our mind
and to never lose our mind
what is this mind that we don't want to lose
we say you know that mind
ha doesn't have come
ha any identifying mark
anger is not mind
joy is not mind
feelings thoughts are not mind
there they belonged to mind but cannot identified as mind
ha
so mind is like the time unlimited
and
an identified
he doesn't have a mark
to identify it
but when it's like the ocean
and but when you look at the surface of the ocean you see the waves and waves are like thoughts and feelings perceptions impulses consciousness
ha and as waves belong to mind
but ah
only when they are
there
when we have a wave and feeling
ah that feeling
becomes the object of my mind can we say i have a feeling because we identify with the feeling
but
when our way of subsides
ha you no longer have a feeling is i no longer have this feeling
so ah
we can't really say that he say that is a best mind that object but ah
it's ah
because it comes and goes we don't
we can't identify his ourself
because that will be that feeling will be replaced by some other feeling some other way so the surface of the ocean is full of waves sometimes it's a calm and sometimes is choppy and sometimes it's storming
sometimes we do we have carving a brainstorms
my favorite as i retire about brainstorming
it's just a brainstorming
ha
so but we need to understand what we try to
get to is below the surface of this of the ways of my mind
when we still are mind
we we
limit the activity of mind
the the mind because they com
and when the mind becomes very kind of can see way down into
after the dust settles that rather silt so for settled
there's just clear water

and com
to experience this clear water
and to always have the clarity of
mind which is expansive
doesn't have a limit
i'm mike
is
to have true mind
we say the natural odor of mind in the mail said joey says the natural odor night
which is mind with no marks no waves
ha the mind that

is the waves
waves are not really separate from mud
my ways and that separate remote thoughts on that separate for night but ah they're just momentary
so we pay attention to the convolutions of mind because they are also like
ha impact on
if we get caught up in the surface of our mind
if we get caught up caught up in the service of mind
well
we can do we lose our bearings are our footy for our foundation in mind pure mind clear mind
so ah we talk about non attachment to feelings thoughts
perceptions
ha
to be able to live
feelings arise thoughts arise metal objects arise
ah and to be mindful of everything and arises in it
without getting attached to anything
to be able to ride on that see without being
spot

oh
the purpose of mindful practice is ah to be able to always establish ourself in to mine
to always be established in to mind
how the most for and students for a buddhist students the most important thing is to always be established in to mind
no matter what happened to you
if you want to know where your home is
if you always want to be at peace with yourself
you have to establish yourself in to mind
so what are chaining is about
is chaining to be established in true mind
haha
why are we practice him
is to be is to establish
herself in tonight
and
our practice it extends to everything we do in our luck
so that where you are or what you're doing you're always established in to mind
ah so you ride the waves and the surface of mind
but
you can see
you know what the waves are
and you're not fooled by things you're not fooled by your own mind
and you're not fooled by your feelings
and you're not fooled by your body and you're not fooled by the objects of mind
and you don't get turn this way nappies and pulled around by things
hum
so that's why
our practice we practiced together
and the practice steady and constantly
the characteristic of this kind of practice is constantly
over and over every day
and so that it becomes
an interval integral part of you
you get a practice through to the pores of your skin

so ah
this act
constancy of practice
and making a hard effort good effort
if you don't make effort
to practice mindfulness
nothing will happen
it only happens
true your effort
to establish yourself
and mind to mind
you have to make an effort to constantly establish yourself i'm too nine
so if someone comes up and insult you
for insults your mother
you're not moved even though you have something flares up and
you find you to mind at that moment rather than being carried off by your feelings are you thought you establish yourself in to mind
if you can't do that
you can see where you where you are in your practice
so the are always establishing yourself on peace
constantly establishing himself on peace
we talk about bringing peace to the world but until we can establish ourself and your mind they will not be any peace in this world
his longing to give him to anger and
ha
ha thoughts that carry
take over your body and mind
ha you you losing your mind
losing your mind
so mindfulness is to always a step to constantly establish yourself into mine in a peaceful mind
we thought calm mind
combine which does not get disturbed by anything
nothing can disturb their mind even though stuff going on feelings come up it's not that you cut off feelings and emotions
he can't cut them off can just rise up
but even though anger comes up even though rage comes up our last or whatever
this establish yourself in com night
it's if it takes practice he can't just do it by wishing
and you can't just do it by resolve
you can only do it through practice day by day practice until it
you become it
so when a feeling comes you know i have this feeling or this feeling has arisen
ah and you establish yourself in
ah to mind
so this has gone relinquishment actually
giving up
relinquishing your whole
feelings and ah thought
it's it's not a hard practice
it's a hard practice but it's
he gets very easy
ha at some point you when you see that chief of it
but tom
it's a great struggle
and we always have it
it's not that
once you're enlightened
ah you always act in lightened we have to be enlightened every day
you know you may be
a great enlightened person for one day
one moment but you may be a doting on the next
that's right
nothing is consistent
we have to constantly establish herself
he can't i initially mindfulness this is bringing your life to life
said well i gotta i ingested you do so i'm gonna be okay for the duration
huh moment by moment every moment we have to have an enlightenment experience
he can't depend on what happened yesterday for ten minutes ago
so this is called being awake
being awake means you can't depend on what happened yesterday or ten minutes ago
they can't settle down
so we we forget all about enlightenment you had you forget all about yesterday's enlightenment experience
and i just bring this moment to life
you know an awareness
sometimes we feel
well ah
i'm i'm not really that good you know to practice
to establish myself in practice i have always evil desires
and how can i practice at the same time that have all these evil desires
so we get pulled out by various
temptations in our life
ah
and
so we feel as soon as i get through it
i'm taking care of all these temptations
that are pulling me around dinner common practice
ah but and that's that kind of practice
means there were always
i never really getting down to it
ah you should practice with all your evil desires
you know
when you go out in and raise hell all night
whatever it is to be made
feel is your nemesis
ah thank you can't overcome
but and should sit thousand in the morning
if you continue your practice no matter what kind of problem is ah you're dealing with
ah than that problem becomes takes on a different nature
he had to include big problems in your practice that becomes ah
your ginger coin
big problem that constantly pursues pursues you seems to pursue you actually you pursue it
more than it pursues you say i have it's problems always pursuing me
but actually we pursue it when ah but we can't help pursuing these things you know we all have something that
trousers us
hi sam
difficulty
ah
but if you continue to practice but with a kind of constancy and that difficulty will become and more and more plain clear
as to what that is what's going on and then it becomes your corn
he just take this and swallow them
i it's a mistake to think because i'm so bad i'll stop practicing
big mistake
practice is nothing other than our life and our problems
so on the one hand we have empire
difficulty and
the other hand we have is
ha
and we have a tense tightness and it you know if we too easy everything falls apart
in a pretty tight nothing moves
i visited to extremes it's like in the ground you know
i were to lose
image was falling apart and said like this in her
just musing and if for to
i tapped
two tents we can't flow
and most of us are in one play for them to lose or to die
ha we have to know how to bring us together so we
can feel ah natural
forward
they mean different things to give people
ha that we have ah
we're together and yet loose
together endless
at the center
he says adding is ah
where we learn how to be together and loose at the same time the two sides are are brought together by together
if we don't learn something from my sergeant ah
there's something wrong with it should really become
immediately apparent to us
we're not taking a lesson from my zazzle
doesn't is the is our teacher
and how to be comfortable how to
ha within
ah painfulness in
mental activity and suffered
how to be comfortable in this immovable position where you can't do anything to change
ha should be a lesson for us
when we learn how to master this ah
as as him
you should learn something about like
from it
it's telling us about her life
hey we should pay attention to the waves
ah an assertion of my mind but we shouldn't be bothered
shouldn't let it bothers
we should pay attention and be concerned
but we should always establish himself in a calm mind
don't let anything i move your car moving after position
so you should always be able to breathe easily
ha when you're in a situation look at your breath is your breath
ha easy
one way to establish yourself is to establish yourself in your breath
we say when you get angry can't attend
before doing anything about that's like establishing yourself a new breath
look at you bro
take a breath
hey
huh really the most important
act in her practice is balance bringing up palms together bringing all sides to get it kiss
in a bouncer harmon
ha
and not to be fooled by engine
hey
huh
huh
hmm maybe you have like discuss
some point bill
ah to turn back the began a lecture on me a point on the sunday times top secret
you mentioned in our poor aspects of mindfulness
in track your external objects your thoughts your motion and objects in mind
and the last category seems that integrate specialized philosophical turn my webpage you with with elaborate or what an object of mind may be
oh
generally we think i'd wear serve as subject
and we think of external things as objects
and
when our cognition of things
when some something appears to us
and it appears in some phone the appearance on phone
those are actually objects in our mind
and i've thought about them are objects of my mind
we say
if if we think
we can't think about something without
we we don't think without picking unless we think of something
i would take note on with use it
we don't think without thinking about something there has to be an object as well as the subject
but the thought depends on an object
you can't think of nothing you can try
but you have to thinking it's thinking of something and the fight and thing
together or would create thinking the cognition and the object together i was jewish
create thinking
so actually the subject and the object even though they seem to be disdained
ha
the in our actual condition thinks there is no subject or object
the thought itself
contains the the object
even though we we can go to touch objects those objects
objects of monk
and so we're always dealing with our thought
this is a floor that's my thought
but my thought and the floor i when one piece
so when we are
our recognition is the floor and thought i when piece that's my is myself to identify that is myself
hey i saw a piece of wood
it's true that i am sign the piece of wood but i'm also saying myself
so become very
ah conscious of how we deal with things
have you take curtains and how we treat things because
if you just two things as objects
we're you're not taking care of yourself very well
and this is what happens to her world because
we don't see everything is ourself we don't take care of things very well in we're getting me to blow ourselves up
and so obvious we say well we'll blow them up
they are daimler ourselves
hi so we're always lighting a fire under himself the matter what we're doing
ha
so our training is also to take care of everything that comes within our reach
when something comes within our reach and somebody is presented to me
i have to deal with it somehow as myself
garbage you know how do i deal with garbage
well we put garbage and compost pile and he put it slip from him and we can't give it the opportunity
to recycle itself and then we put it in the ground and then we grow plants new ground in intermediate plans
the income they become garbage again in a week
deal with them that way
so we're very careful of how we deal with damage we don't even if it's during the drivers can be okay with the garbage man taking away something it would recycle it's of somehow but somehow take care of it this way
how we feel closer to it we as
establish a relationship with it
so
establishing a relationship with garbage it's no longer garbage
it's not garbage
ah it's
hey it she just we give thanks to various names
with car garbage because organic materials
whatever you want but the way we were treated x difference
so
i'm a little even reluctant to throw away in boxes and the things i guess but they get recycled
everything will eventually get recycled but he would pay attention to how they hear recycled it makes us feel better about things about herself and about everything which is us doesn't belong to us but it's part of miles or lot
and
if we think that this body is our life that's only part of my life our surroundings is as much a part of our life as i bought it
so we're not taking paying attention to our surroundings taking care of things that we should be taken care of when realising our life
so
if we really just take care of what's around us product but keep us pretty busy
neighbor we do take care of our life and things around us it has immense influence
in the world
if we can't take care of myself in her life how can we change things
it's like a mosquito trying to buy your own both
huh
where will we can thoughtless
we don't pay attention to the things we should pay attention to
when we don't take initiative
when we sit down into a kind of ghostly existence
our society
he's going more and more toward doing less and less
we'll provide always conveniences for you so you can do less and less
that's like leading us by the hand toward death doing less less less is he is actually going to death
how we vitalize ourself is to put ourselves into action into activity to
creating life by involving myself by having initiative
when we neglect what's right here
doesn't make any sense
you know sometimes you try to avoid doing something but that avoidance is avoiding our life
you know as soon as he just put yourself forward and and step into the rhythm of ah life around you
you can do like
so how to make life how to preserve it how to make it work get by stepping into it
can you close the gap
between ah
subject and object
he just being involved with yourself which is all around you
he step into yourself
huh
a good as instrument should always have i could check awareness and what's going on around him
ha and
many be mindful on time
don't get you know our mind
it's always working very hard and reaching it's easy to get sunk in a kind of mental energy and had all these thoughts hanging on her mind you know and we can't see
it's interesting when you stop the thoughts in your mind how the world expands around you
he just suddenly can see
an indulgent and even though have a lot of fans during the she
you walk outside and suddenly you see everything very clearly because the mind and not pay attention to him have on a heavy thought accumulation
he's not worry kind of worrisome races
so ah
we have to make a conscious effort to be loose
when we make a conscious effort to be loose and in an mindful way
i think most people are pretty tight tense
i am part of in mindful practice should be
to recognize where the tense mrs
whereas if tenseness coming from and my chance to know when you tense and to make an effort to just let go of that tenseness
when you when some listeners and fluidity
ah and ease
whatever we do just comes out so much more satisfying
so ease in spelling point i do something with ease
efficiently in skillfully emotionally with ease

no harm you know always asked people is when he is canoed or meditate he said he should have maybe like a
mona lisa smile
almost smiled
so that you have one hundred facial muscles through of the relaxed
but the same for your whole body
yeah of guy should smile on their best how bottom sheets smile often then
and we can enjoy yourself chest binder but have be
parents used to that the discomfort of some of time ah
and and that if it's an offense
ah very easy to just after that
but
but you don't know way of as you can tolerate quite a lot of discomfort comfortably
and i guess to me the depth of hanukkah a habit
the
ah
fine art of an acceptable balance and contractor to comfort them
how just love anxiety and not teach
whoa
yeah
when
which test it out as
no matter how much anxiety is produced or discomfort is produced
no matter what situation is too
to maintain at mind
he you know if we try and figure out some
comfort discomfort
i'm not sure that i know what you mean
ha
has alternative activity and pathetic as ah
this
having just set an upset by com ah
this is much you don't have anything interesting that it's going to fall in my last ah
ah but it takes some effort to really the anna anna in a moment that high square where you can struggle to
to express your confusion gps now
how'd you really searching you really actively looking yeah i'm just saying and way something time
comfortably
if you can be comfortable
could he has come to room
actually the way to you know to listen to a lecture is to just sit and be open
without really thinking too much about it
that's really that's hard to do he was suddenly comes up and says well
sometimes you know but that's okay but am to be able to just the most important thing about lecture he knows this kind of lecture is your city
your
your own
finding your own mind in this space in this moment
finding the maintaining to mind in this situation
not so much but you're here that's important
but the most important thing is for you to find here to mind in this situation
ha
that mind tells us what to do
he's it's not a matter of activity of passivity
when we definitely you need curious about something and dry
make something wrong
he wrote