Did that answer you, Robin? In your comments, in your lecture, you talked about when you go to the coffee tea area, I believe you said something like this, and you consciously make your cup of coffee or tea and then clean up after yourself. And you're creating, when I do that, I'm creating the area and it's creating me. Isn't it just as true that if I go to the coffee tea area and consciously make myself a cup of coffee and leave coffee all over the coffee tea area and don't clean up, that I'm creating the area and it's creating me.

[01:06]

Maybe I feel better about myself. Maybe other people feel better about me if I clean up. But this isn't meant as a facetious question, really. But in terms of the practice, in terms of the practice itself, is there any difference at all? Well, that sounds a little bit like if you come up and talk to me and I just give you a quick smart answer and walk away. And we met, we had an exchange. Or if we really sat and met and really turned to each other and were open to the possibilities of our meeting. It's okay if you're in a hurry to not clean up the coffee tea area.

[02:10]

If you're going to be late for something, then just take care of your own side of it. And we see that side of us now. And other times we see another side of us. In terms of the practice, it's how deep you want to go, how much you want to see. And if you can leave it dirty, and not do anything with that, and just walk away from that, if you do that consciously with that, or whether you're doing it consciously or unconsciously, if you're doing it consciously, and just see, how does that feel? Do you think about it later? Do you like yourself? Does nothing happen? If it's unconscious and there's no repercussions or something, somebody lets you know later that you're not getting this. So it's a matter of just how you look at the situation, what it means to you. I don't think there's any construct outside of you and it, and the community.

[03:16]

A lot of people feel that way. I think everything is an opportunity to learn about ourselves. One is through good practice. these causes and conditions, the state of mind, this willingness or this disinterest in community, or this interest in experimenting with leaving a mess behind. How long, how many times can I just walk through this and leave a mess behind and not care? How does that feel, infecting other people? Do I want to come back to it? I wonder if it's really possible to walk away from it, If you make a mess, is it possible? Closed.

[04:19]

If you are closed or sleeping, busy, maybe it's possible. Actually it's not possible, you know? For some of us it seems to be possible. Maybe not for you. For sometimes we get very tired of being very strict with ourselves and do something that's You just said that we get tired of being strict with ourselves. Surely isn't it just that it's the natural thing to do, that it's the easiest thing to do? Not that it's any imposition, but actually it's really just the easiest thing to do in a stop-sitting situation.

[05:20]

When it feels like that. I think it all comes up for me. Sometimes it's an imposition, sometimes it's just what I want to do. Sometimes I resented, you know, all of it. So I just wanted to do it. And we work with watching it all, until we're very familiar with it, and go directly to what Eckhart was talking about. We just do what needs to be done, because we save so much energy that way. We just do what needs to be done. We've gone through all the alternations and all the possibilities and all the choices and all the resistances, and they're empty. We've seen through them. Thank you.

[06:29]

Thank you for being a part of this.

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