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Karmapa Teaches Mindfulness and Meditation to Young People (Podcast Episode #018)
In this enlightening episode, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa engages with young minds, sharing insights on mindfulness, compassion, and the interconnectedness of all beings. Through a series of thought...
Karmapa Teaches Mindfulness and Meditation to Young People (Podcast Episode #018)
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Hello and welcome to the official podcast of the 17th Carmapa, where we bring you selected
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talks and teachings from the Carmapa on topics such as Buddhist philosophy, meditation,
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the environment and many more. Each recording is into better than an English translation.
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If you enjoyed today's installment, please subscribe and I tune for future releases and
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announcements. And now onto today's episode.
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It's a wonderful opportunity for us to have his holiness the 17th Yalong Carmapa,
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audience-friendly Dorje. He is the head of a 900-year-old tradition and he's a guide to millions
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of Buddhists around the world. He's 28 years old and my mother just saw him and said,
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you're looking much older than last time I saw you.
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He escaped from Tibet in 2000 and that has made it possible for all of us to have the benefit
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of his presence and wisdom and thoughts. He's a scholar and a meditation master. He's also a painter,
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a poet, a songwriter and a playwright. These are activities that the Carmapa's over the centuries
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have also embodied. In particular, he's an environmental activist and very involved in India
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and throughout the world in our environment. And we're very, very fortunate to have him
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with us today. Your holiness, it's such a pleasure to have you here with us today.
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The kids have been learning a little bit about your philosophy and they have some questions
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they'd like to ask you. So I'd like the six student council members who are going to be asking questions
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to come. We have chairs for you here, kids and your questions are on the seats.
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I usually consider the planet to be a living system. I think of it like the mother earth
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and so on we say the mother earth. This means like one system with all of our lives. And
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so in this way, since we can also think of it as being a loving, gentle goddess. And so
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when we think about it in this way, we see that it's a single system where we're all dependent
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upon each other. And in this way, we are all important and all sacred. Yes. Thank you.
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How can we help each other change the world to make it more equal and peaceful? Do you
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have any activities or ideas you do that we could try? Wow.
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I think that we are all the same because when we are all the same, we are all the same.
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When we feel pleasure, when something makes us happy, then we are glad about it.
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And when we feel pain or difficulty, then we all cry.
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We are upset about it.
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And so we are all the same in wanting to be happy.
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We are all the same in not wanting to suffer.
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And this way, we are all equal.
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And so if we think about everyone as being equal in this way, then I think that if we do
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things to bring other people happiness and do things to remove other people's suffering,
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then we can actually accomplish something that will benefit others.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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What can we do to stop the problem of bullying?
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Bullying.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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geneee
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I think we need to put ourselves in other people's places.
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We need to think how would it be if we were the person who was being bullied?
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And so if we can trade places with other people in this way
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and put ourselves in other people's positions, then I think this will help us to reduce bullying.
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Thank you.
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When you get frustrated trying to help the world be more peaceful and you want to give up.
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What do you do?
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I give up.
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I'm a president of the Shindavan.
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I'm a president of the Shindavan.
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I'm a president of the Shindavan.
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I'm frustrated.
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I'm not thatымиau from the beginning.
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I feel very little bit like a person who always kills.
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Firstiene, who will live their life.
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Who will earn объ credit?
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for Z Universalism.
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But many people come together to see this character,
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I think we can think about this. If we look at it from many different angles, there are
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many places and many things that we want to do to bring peace and happiness in the world,
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but it's not just a question of having a kind heart or being a good person. When we think about
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the critical situation that the world is in and the difficulties that everyone faces, then even if
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we have difficulties ourselves, if we think about the pain and difficulties that other people experience,
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then I think that this will help us have courage in our minds and we'll see that there is no way for
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us to give up. You are talking in your book about changing the world from the inside out. How can we
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change ourselves? How does changing ourselves change the world?
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Five years.
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Ending the
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Change the world's phenomena.
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Any idea?
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Simliya in Yohadang.
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And Dithwan, Simliya Dham, Dithjiya, and Kashelodha.
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The motivation they can't see is something else.
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Modivation in Yohadji's mind.
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Azu Lingal Yoharjore.
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Azu Soal in Yoharjore.
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Soal in Yohadji's mind.
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Azu Jeyu, Dithwan, Yohadji, and Muthu.
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Kashelodha, Dhamni Tavarjore, Dhuwanda Azu Yoharjore.
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Soalodha.
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Modivation.
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I think that before we do anything or demonstrate or have any expression with our body or our speech,
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we first have to be ready in our minds.
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And so if in our minds we are joyful and peaceful, then that will show in the way we use our bodies and our minds.
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And so I think it is important that we do this.
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Like if we are trying to help other people, then the first thing we have to change is our own minds.
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In order to change the world, we have to change our own mind first.
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And so for that reason, it's important for us to think about our motivation.
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And if we have a good motivation, then whatever we do with our bodies and speech, we'll reflect that.
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And it will change the way that we lead our lives.
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And it will help everyone to whom we are.
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It will change everything to which we are connected.
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And so I think in this way it will help to change the world as well.
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Thank you.
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How can you change the faults in yourself?
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We have to remember that we are always changing from every second we are changing.
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We are changing from moment to moment.
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It's like when the watch goes tick, tick, tick.
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As it goes tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
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We also are changing in every second.
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And so what this means is that every moment, we might have a problem in the first moment, but in the next moment, we have an opportunity to be a new person who doesn't have that fault.
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We have that choice that we can actually be a new person in every moment.
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And so in this way, from every moment and in every hour, we can, we have that opportunity to become a new person.
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And there is no need to keep hanging around with all of our faults.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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Last question, one second.
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No.
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Okay.
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How do you overcome your anger or calm down?
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So when you get angry, you don't listen to what the anger is saying to you.
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You don't think up, you don't just immediately do what the anger is telling you to do.
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But instead, you sit down, you sort of examine the anger and look at what it's doing and see what is the anger actually doing.
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And if you do that, then I think that it will just naturally go away.
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Thank you.
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How can we help if we have trouble finding free time?
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We have to remember that helping other people isn't something we just do on the side.
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It's not something extra that we have to do.
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So it's important to remember this.
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If everything that we do, if we have this aim and it's connected with the aim of helping others, then we'll be able to do it.
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It's everything that we do all the studies that we do, all the work or whatever you do.
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If that's connected to helping others, then anything that you do becomes something that helps others.
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And so I think it's important to remember this.
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If we make helping others into something that we do on the side, then we're never going to find any time to do it.
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Is it possible to care for everybody or love everybody?
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I think it is possible for us to love and like everyone, but for us it's a little difficult.
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And it's difficult because normally we think about our friends and the people who are close to us, and we think about them as being people that we like.
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And then they're the people whom we don't really like, or the people who aren't our friends, and we don't care so much about them.
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And so in that way, that's thinking about it as if it's like our individual thing, whom we're individually connected to.
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But if we think about it in terms of our own individual relationships, but if we look at how things actually are, it's different.
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It's the way things actually are, and then our own individual relationships are a little bit different from each other.
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And in the way things actually are, whether someone is our enemy, or whether someone is our friend, they're all the same in wanting to be happy.
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And they're all the same in not wanting to be unhappy.
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And so for that reason, we need to look at how things actually are.
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And if we do look at how things actually are, then since everyone is the same in wanting to be happy and not wanting to be unhappy, I think that then we can have come to respect and care for one another.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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How can we be more mindful?
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Oh, what? Mindful?
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Mindful.
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Mindful.
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This is a mindful game, it's the idea that you have to be mindful.
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And if you're mindful, you have to be mindful.
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Mindful.
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Mindful.
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If we had a mindfulness game, then it would really help us.
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Like a game where we take a day and we see how mindful we can be.
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Like, in a single day, we'll do many different things.
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And as we do the many different things, normally the feel...
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And so if we have it, you know, normally during a day, we start and we just do things for morning to the night.
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And we know what we've done, but we often don't really remember what is it that we felt?
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How did it go?
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We just let things go automatically.
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We let it all go on autopilot.
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And we don't have any control over what we do or we don't make any plans for what we do.
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And so for the mindfulness game, what we can do is we can in the morning, we can make a plan.
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And when we make the plan, then, you know, we follow that plan.
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And when we follow that plan, then we could take a white stone or a white token and put it in the mindful column.
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And you could then take, you know, if when you're not being mindful, then you take a black stone and a black token.
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And you put that in the mindful column.
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And then at the end of the day, you can keep a score and see how many levels you get through and examine yourself.
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And in that way, you will know how mindful you are being.
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Thank you.
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What is a good way to try and help others to change?
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Like stopping that this is disrespectful people.
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I'm just disrespectful.
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Can you repeat it?
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Repeat it again.
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What is a good way to try and help others to change?
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Like stopping that this is disrespectful people.
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Stopping the...
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Yeah, that's right.
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Disrespectful people.
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Stopping disrespectful people.
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We go away.
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We go away.
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We go away.
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And what is the difference between us?
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We are not.
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We are not.
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Andıll is the answer…
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Yes, absolutely.
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Maybe when people are disrespectful,
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we need to be respectful back.
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I mean, maybe we just don't need to take it all that seriously.
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Like when someone is disrespectful to us,
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then how do we respond if we respond
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by maybe not taking the disrespect very seriously,
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and maybe joking around a little bit,
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and actually being respectful in response to this,
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and it's not taking it too personally.
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And we need to think about who is it,
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who they're being disrespectful,
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who's the me they're being disrespectful to,
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and then try to be respectful back
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and try to not take it too personally.
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And if we can do that and let ourselves,
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let our minds relax and be a little bit more spacious,
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just then I think it will be easier to deal with.
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Thank you.
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How can we be happy?
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If you know what I'm saying,
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I'm happy.
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Is this?
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This is not suitable To give.
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Is it let me,
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We can bid right thing interrupt a Purit
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We can do right thing
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So, it's very easy to be happy.
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Like if we think about it, little children are always, you know, it's really easy to
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be happy when you're a kid.
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The reason it is is someone gives you something or you get something and you're happy about
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it.
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You're satisfied with what you're good.
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What you get.
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So, if you're easily satisfied, then it's happier.
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And so, I think this is the real instruction, the real spiritual instruction for being
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happy is this.
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It's to be satisfied with what you have.
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And if you are, then that is the basis of being happy.
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That's the main, the key point about being happy.
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And so, if we think about it, if you just sort of sit back and think about it a little
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bit, you know, there's the air that we breathe.
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And the air that we breathe actually really depends on a lot of different things coming
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together.
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And if we didn't have that air, then we'd die.
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But if you think about it, they'd just all the things that bring us there naturally happen.
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And we can breathe.
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And then we think about it.
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We think to ourselves, I'm alive.
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This is a really wonderful feeling that we have.
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And then our minds can be satisfied about this thinking, oh, I'm alive.
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And we can be happy about this.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That was the last question.
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Um, I feel like I thought that I was no longer chewy.
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My number's number two is not him.
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let me tell you about thisgende phrase
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and I said,
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how do you understand the concept?
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not so much
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the Brush
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do you have a good face
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digest things like this you can of limit
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And then you do so during this
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And a mindfulness study
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mindfulness at this time.
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When we talk about mindfulness, then normally what we think about with mindfulness is that there is some situation where a big negative emotion, all of a sudden happens.
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At that moment we think, okay, in the amidst all of these external conditions, now we need to be mindful.
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But actually mindfulness isn't really like that.
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It's not something that you do when all of those big emotions in that big situation happens all of a sudden.
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Because it's hard to do.
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That's good.
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Yeah, continue that.
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It's actually something that we, it's not just something that we need to do at that point.
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Beforehand we need to actually be careful and notice what is happening within our minds.
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It means we have to prepare our minds.
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And so for that means reason when we think about mindfulness, it's like we need to protect the outside environment and make sure that the environment is clean and not polluted and we need to take care of it.
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In the same way we need to take care of the internal environment of our minds and the way we do that is through mindfulness.
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Thank you.
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So we really do something, like we did something, something done in the sun.
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And then we try to test it somewhere else.
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And then we try to test it somewhere else.
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So there's our mind from this key and the key is to be the present somewhere else.
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That's the taste of the new Jimda.
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The demo that I started asking about.
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So mindfulness is that we need to know what's happening in our minds.
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We need to understand what is the situation in our minds.
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And most importantly we need to know do we have virtuous thoughts in our minds?
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Or do we have un-virtuous thoughts in our minds?
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And so it's not just something that we do when we have a sudden emotional situation.
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It's something that we need to always just continually notice what is happening in our mind.
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And so for this reason that we can say that being mindful is being in the present moment.
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So normally we spend all day long doing things, working and doing things.
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And then when we come to the end of the day we often have a situation where we don't really know what we've actually done in that day.
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We can't don't feel like we've done anything.
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We don't feel like we've tasted the flavor of anything that we have done.
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And so that is because we haven't been in the present moment.
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So the feature of mindfulness is that we're being in the present moment and able to experience and taste it.
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I have a question for artists and writers.
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What is your advice or suggestions for how to keep the creative spirit alive?
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I've been a flooded dip song and I've got some tones on it.
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I create a spirit and I create a spirit.
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I've got a life job.
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Come here, come here, come here, come here.
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Again.
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Come back to home.
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No.
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Okay.
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Oh, create life.
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Sometimes
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when I think very hard.
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Sometimes, when I think just how many this time that's built,
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will have to be somehow more moderate whatever it comes about.
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Most of the, most of the time that's not done,
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is put on context.
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The stock there.
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In 2012,
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the Yomur Tiyadighi,
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the Social Seminar,
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the Yuebechi,
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the Kajuretachi,
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the Teepa,
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Tiyadighi,
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the Bhezi Chigare,
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the Creechi Chichi,
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the Suechana,
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and the Lapsan,
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the Korang Kajurepie.
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It's a little bit different,
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but the Chumderu Tiyadighi,
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the Semliya,
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the Kajureti release,
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the Jontacci.
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In 2012,
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the Yusane,
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the Teda Niyamdo,
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the Mindfulness
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of the Dabushtaya Yorosong,
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the Korang Rymotiv,
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the Niyamdo,
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the Sushu Semtiya,
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the Niyamdo,
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the Kajuretachi,
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the Teda,
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the Jomut,
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the Savdanyamdo,
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the Sushu Semtiya,
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the Niyamdo,
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the Kallafur,
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the Somrviya,
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the Kajuretachi,
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the Kajuretachi,
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the Dudyamrachatriachi.
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The Yusane,
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the Kadyuibinya,
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the present Yoruchetya,
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the Jyotwanajis,
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the Jomutasemtiya,
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the Niyamdo,
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the Savdanyamdo,
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the Savdanyamdo,
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the Sushu Semiya.
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I often draw and paint,
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and when I do so,
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the feeling I have is that,
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I have a lot of hopes,
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I have a lot of dreams and a lot of plans,
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but often there are obstacles
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and things they get in the way,
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and difficulties.
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And so,
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because of that,
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when I draw,
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or when I paint,
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the feeling that I have in my mind
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is that,
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no, I'm trying to do something.
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I'm putting effort into creating something,
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and then when I'm done,
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I feel like there's something I can see with my eyes.
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There's a result that I can show for it.
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And this gives me some sort of a relief
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in a mental relief.
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And I think that when we are talking about drawing,
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this is actually really connected with mindfulness,
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because as we are drawing,
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then our minds have to go along with what we're drawing.
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So the mind,
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and when the mind and the drawing are going along together,
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then our minds also become more colorful.
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Our minds also have more beauty.
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And so, I feel like this brings some peace.
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And so, in this way,
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I feel like our minds and the drawings need to go together.
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I have a question.
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I think it's more difficult to detach
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from the beauty of the world.
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What would be your advice?
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I think we all know the necessity of detaching ourselves
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from negative things.
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But I think there's also important that we detach
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from the things that we love and the beautiful things.
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So what would be your best advice for that?
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I think the new concept of detachment,
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the non-attachment,
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the idea of the detachment is just on it.
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That's what we...
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That's what detachment is.
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Detachment is just on it.
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So, so, so, this is the...
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I guess...
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That's it.
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The detachment is just on it.
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So, the non-attachment is just on it.
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The beauty.
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The non-attachment is just on it.
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The non-attachment is just on it.
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It's just on it.
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It's just on it.
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The desquические line-in is everywhere.
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It's in George Plan.
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It's the white part.
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It's made into c kind of the coat of flame in George Plan.
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But there are Cials here.
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There are also Calseries here.
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There are Calseries here.
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These are Calseries here.
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Cerseless duty,
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hurts our voices.
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Sav Akbar and Heavid Koва.
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Now, they are cowards.
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Okay.
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I already remember the eventually a bit.
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for work, for training.
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I just think, how do we link the two?
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Customs, I don't know.
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Customs, I don't know.
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Customs, I don't know.
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But the custom, the actual one, the actual one, the actual one.
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But the thing with the original example, the custom, the attachment.
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But the current one.
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So, the next thing is the material.
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The material, the material, the material with the original feature, the body, theeye frame.
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the surroundingrée and aeg泳 are shown in the operating area which specializes in that material.
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people who are involved in Japanese masks,
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should accuse many victims.
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It's important for becoming a refugee for so many week.
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If one citizen assembles an challenging land with a frontline output,
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he'd eventually be able to think about explaining solution exams.
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I think we need to hear make a distinction between detachment and non-attachment.
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When we talk about detachment, what usually happens is we actually need things.
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We have to want a few things. When we want things and we're attached to things, we get things and we bring them into ourselves.
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We actually need that. That is important for us. But the problem comes when after we've brought things or gotten things toward ourselves, then we have...
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We hold on to them. We have an extreme... We hold on them as an extreme too much. We hold on to them too much.
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And then that is something that creates difficulties for us. And so does that extreme clinging on to things or the clinging to things...
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Holding on to things as just being ours, that we then need to eliminate.
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It's like we talk about... In the world, we talk about consumers in these days. We consume things. We want things.
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This is actually a really good example of detachment. Because most of the time, the things that we get through consumerism are not things that we actually want.
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There are things that someone else has or something that an advertisement says we should have. And then we get this feeling in our mind like we need it.
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And then that creates many difficulties for ourselves. It creates difficulties in our private lives. It declares the environmental difficulties and so forth.
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And so we need to distinguish what it is that we need from what we want.
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And actually, if we think about it, there is not really a whole lot that we actually need in the world. But we have to distinguish what our wants and what our needs are.
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And the things that are necessary for us, of course, we need those. But then there are some things where we have this feeling of wanting them. It's like that we've made up in our minds.
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And we think to ourselves, oh, I actually have to have it, but that is just a thought. Those are the things that we actually don't really need. And so that is where the problem comes.
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Okay.
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Try it. Yes.
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Whoa.
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Hi, this is a two part question to my question.
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Why do you think Westerners, Westerners in this room, have such a hard time stealing their minds and how does positive and negative energy relate to mindfulness?
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Whoa.
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Next time being Western, try.
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Most Westerners, they are well.
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In the donít should it be necessary to consume energy?
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oh God...
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the power from врomatic shower
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and now we are light source of energy
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due to drooping
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as we have not to say that the
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the religion meditation summary.
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It's not just Westerners.
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It's people all throughout the world who all have modern educations.
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And as we get modern educations, we start thinking about the future.
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We go out to welcome the future and bring the future to ourselves.
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We're making plans for things.
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We're preparing for many different things and many different eventualities.
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And because we're doing this, we're always thinking about bringing the future forward.
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And we're thinking about worrying about this.
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What happens when we do this is that our minds get a little bit contrived.
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Our minds get worked up about this.
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And we have, and our thoughts about the past, present, and future get stronger and stronger.
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And this is what disturbs our minds.
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And so whatever positive energy we have, it's at this point that we get separated from that.
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Or that positive energy gets scattered in many different ways.
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And so we don't feel like we have that power within our mind.
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And so for that reason, many people feel like they are losing themselves.
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And so they go off to meditate.
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But traditionally, when people would go to meditate, they'd go to some isolated remote location and do meditation.
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But these days, it's very difficult to do that.
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Most people do not have the time to be able to do that.
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And so we need to be able to meditate as we do our work.
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While we're working at the same time, we need methods to be able to bring peace to our minds.
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And that is what we mean by meditation.
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And it's important to recognize that this is what we need.
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I think I actually got gradually experiencing koll-win 적이.
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which means 7 years or less,
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NOST,
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SO3 Chalpet lowered his tax rate.
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My property is replaced to be better and more,
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Alas!
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That was all I had,
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but my body looked just like a train.
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And so the most important thing is that we need to make this a part of our lives.
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For example, when we have difficulties or encounter a problem, then we're still breathing.
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We've got breath is always with us.
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And so if we can just bring ourselves and so we can bring our minds to rest equally with our breath,
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then at that point, then it starts out small, but it'll get stronger and stronger.
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It'll get better and better.
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And then if we are able to do this while we work, then that will be make it so that it'll feel like our minds
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are then returning home and will be able to relax.
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But it is important to remember we have to have training to do this.
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This is not something that we can do in a short time.
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It's not something we can practice for a week and then it'll happen.
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If we think it's like that, then it will not help.
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How can one find contentment within oneself in that not worrying about what others think about us?
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Oh, OK.
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As I'm writing out, we need to know.
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You just want me to keep on disputing my thoughts.
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We must appraise backpackers.
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In other words, it is completely irrelevant in terms of business features.
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It has a good vision and our business has created a richer for retail.
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The problem is that there are poorental conditions for young people,
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that is, very poor financial disturbances in the market.
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Where is business management?
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The way other people look at us is, of course, something that we need to consider, but what
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is more important than the way other people, other talents, what is more important than the way other people think of us is the way we think of ourselves.
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We need to have a balance between the way we think of ourselves and the way other people think of ourselves.
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We have a saying that goes of the two witnesses or the two judges hold the principle one, which means that holding your own view is the most important one.
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And so in this way, of course, we do need to take care of things, but I was mentioning this the other day when we are compassionate to other people.
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Sometimes we try to be compassionate, we try to do something good for other people, and we do something to try to help them, but then the response is not so good.
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And we are a little bit disappointed and we feel like, you know, we are trying to be compassionate and there is no response to that.
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And if we think about it from one perspective, this way of being compassionate is maybe not the best. It's like doing business.
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When you do a business, then you've got a service that you give to other people and they give you something in return.
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And so, and if you don't have that, then your business is going to go bankrupt.
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But Dharma or practice is not like that. Dharma is like when a child draws a drawing.
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A child draws a drawing, they draw something that they like and find beautiful. And this gets the child satisfaction within him or herself.
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And so that's what we need it to be like. It's important for it to be like that.
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First of all, we have to have happiness for ourselves. Before we're able to bring other people happiness, we need to be happy ourselves.
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And so, in order to be able to help others, we need to have, we need to do things for our own sake.
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We need to practice for ourselves. We need to have the qualities or that capacity within ourselves.
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And then only then we'll be able to do it.
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Betrayed that.
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Okay. Thank you.
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So, one of the things when we talk about mindfulness that came up in this year's theme is to ask his holiness to talk about mindfulness as an artist, as a writer, I mean, as a poet, as a, I mean, how, how is bringing mindfulness to that in any way enhanced or different?
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And then, just to reflect on that. And then everything else.
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I think it's, oh, my rubbish, the English, it's not so good, but I'm trying to speak some English.
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What do you think? Good? Good. Where's the English teacher?
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Who's somewhere there? Oh, yeah. I think you, mindfulness, everybody knows, maybe everybody heard this, you know?
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Mindfulness, every time. But mindfulness is not so easy. It's kind of, because sometimes I have this feeling, because I'm,
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my daily schedule is quite sort of fixed and busy. I need to meet different people, have different, different backgrounds.
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Some of them is not really Buddhist followers. But they want to, sort of, curious, you know, you want to ask me some questions, or ask, maybe I can give them some sort of, some sort of new idea, or something that they think,
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they think they will change. And also, you know, it's, I think, very, very exciting.
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And I think, what I'm thinking, actually, and today with me is, somebody hand me the facial expression teacher, Ms. Kashwala.
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then without really doing anything that something is going to happen to them, they'll think
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that I'll be able to lay my hands on them and take away all of their suffering.
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And so for that reason, I feel like there's a lot of pressure and a lot of challenge.
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Can you tell me something?
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thing is
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When you draw to the outside, create something you draw inside the atmosphere.
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Which is quite strange.
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But with the people who come to see me don't know, is they don't know how much challenge
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and how much pressure there is to being a spiritual leader, how much challenge there are
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to being a leader in some society. So the main thing is there are a lot of difficulties, like as I
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was saying a little while ago, when I was young, at the age of seven I was separated from my parents,
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I was identified as the karma, I was separated from my parents and separated from my homeland and
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brought to a monastery and surrounded by people I didn't know when I had this feeling of being
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surrounded by people I didn't know. And yet still I feel like the power of my mind has not
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been used up. I feel like I'm still able to continue to be able to do this. And the reason for this
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is love and compassion. And it's like if we recognize that our responsibilities are also
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an opportunity, then when we, then I feel like we can recognize that benefiting other people,
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or perhaps fulfilling other people's hopes is actually a chance for ourselves.
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So I think that we have this actually really vast capacity to be able to be loving towards other
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people and to be able to bear the burden for other people. And so I think when we do this,
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that it's not just something where we then accomplish something for others, but we also are able
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to then develop the power to do something for our own sake, to dispel our own difficulties and
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problems. Well, well, well, that, that's why I'm not the person that some people think, you know,
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it's a Kamaapa, sort of 900 years. I'm not 900 years old, but you know, this history,
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Kamaapa's, the first Kamaapa's is born at 900 years ago. That means it's, you know, now it's
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17. That means it's this, you know, the one person has 900 years old traditional history. But
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then some people think, you know, I'm kind of Buddha or kind of God, no feeling, no like sort of
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happy or sad, just they're ready to give what he wants, you know. Not some, some people, you know,
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sometimes lots of people there are not, you know, they're not really
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take care of what my feel, my feeling. But that is okay, sometimes something like today, you know,
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we can see together, you know, kind of sort of enjoy, man, enjoy together. This sort of things that
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I want, because, you know, like, you know, when I was 14 years old, that time I made the decision
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to leave my country and to escape from Tibet to come to India. This is, so kind of for me, it's a kind of big
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decision. I'm not sure, maybe on the way, maybe we can't make it, you know, maybe I need to
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go to jail or I will die on the way, I'm not sure. But why I need to make that decision that I think
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it's a kind of sort of, I want to do something that, you know, even though,
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I'm not able to do everything, but at least I can accept my responsibility. It's like when we all get here,
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to get together here, I'm so delighted to be able to get together with you. And when I, the reason
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I'm so joyful about this is that I feel now as if my, the commitment I made in the past was not a
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mistake, I feel like I did not, everything is working out all right. And so when I have occasions
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such as this and I feel like taking on this great responsibility and really dedicating myself to it
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and putting myself into it is something that really has borne, borne fruit. And I feel like, you know,
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here we're all able to gather together here and do this today. And if I had not come from Tibet,
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we couldn't be able to.
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What's the responsibility here so that I can
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We're mutually dependent.
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Our pains and happiness is all dependent upon each other.
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And so since we actually are all dependent upon each other,
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then we all have this responsibility.
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And this is a purpose that we all have.
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And I think that we all have this purpose,
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but because we often lack the capacity of our compassion,
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or we don't have the power, such great love and affection,
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that we feel like we are unable to do it.
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And we don't dare to do it.
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We don't dare to take this responsibility upon ourselves.
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But actually, this is that loving, the power of loving compassion,
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is a responsibility that we need to take upon ourselves
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to be able to help ourselves.
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And it's something we need for the world,
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for all of the people in the world.
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Actually not just for all of the people,
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for all of the sentient beings in the world.
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They're waiting for us to do something about the difficult situations
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that they find themselves.
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They're waiting for us to do something to remove their difficulties.
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And so they're waiting for us to increase the potential
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or the power of our love, the power of our affections and compassion.
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When I was little, I had no plans.
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I'm going to be the karma and do this.
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I never even dreamed of any such thing.
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And it's not like all of a sudden I came with a plan,
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I'm going to do this.
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But I recognized that I had an opportunity.
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I accepted that there was an opportunity.
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So what I actually am is a different question,
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but I recognized that I had this opportunity.
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And I feel like this is a responsibility that all of us humans have
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and that we all have the ability to take upon ourselves.
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This is going back to your experience with poetry and playwriting.
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What do you think is the most important thing to think about
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when you're looking for inspiration for work in any kind of artistic medium?
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What do you say for all these hundreds of years
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My children do not have enough money because you pass a blues.
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My brain has become a major.
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I have no good teacher to use.
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That's whatり琴伶達 pressure is all about concerning our health.
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When I'm writing, when I first started writing, things would just spontaneously pour out.
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It's like I didn't have to do anything without any effort.
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It would naturally pour forth, but later it became more difficult and I had to think more.
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I had to do more and it became more contrived and more, more, more, more, more, more,
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forced, and so, and usually when I end up writing something, it's like for some occasion or
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something that I have to do it, but I want to do something good.
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And so what I usually think is that it's like the first thought is the best thought.
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So what we're trying to do, what I try to do is I try to show what it is that appears
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in my mind and to show what it is.
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And I think that that is what an artist tries to do.
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It's the nature of what an artist is trying when you do that, then the nature of the art becomes clear.
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And so I think when an artist is able to clearly demonstrate what's present in their mind
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or make people understand what they're thinking about, then when that happens, I think,
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in order for that to happen, we need to have an uncontrived, unforeseen ability to show
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just whatever it is that occurs in our minds or whatever you could also say the nature of our minds.
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And so for that reason, it's not like we need to force something or make something up
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or to create something solid.
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Instead, we need to look at what we're actually trying to show, what we're trying to illustrate,
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and then try to show that in an uncontrived manner.
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I did have the opportunity to borrow your book before I found it on sale in the lobby,
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and I devoured the center part where you were talking about what we need to do personally.
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You mentioned that you had asked the monks and nuns to become vegetarian.
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And the connections to consumerism and food justice, and I see a strong connection
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between all of these things.
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And I'm wondering if you might want to comment on that at all.
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So the organisation that we are learning in practice does not change to business planner
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but it just syndrome is fine.
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What are we trying to prove?
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I don't know if we have a solution, but for us to see age, career and long term work at different planets
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no
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It's too much to say in just a few moments, but basically when I express my
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hope for the cajun monks and nuns, it wasn't just for the monks and nuns because I have the
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title of Carmampa, then I'm able to place my hopes or put my hopes on all of the followers of the
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Karma Kamsan lineage. And so for that reason, I have made this request for my followers.
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So often when we, there are many sentient beings who are killed solely for a meat and they experience a
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lot of suffering and torment in this. And it's not a question of how, whether they're sensitive or
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insensitive, whether they're intelligent or not. The question is whether they experience pain
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and pleasure or not. And if we think about that, then when we slaughter other sentient beings for
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to be able to eat their flesh, then it's like actually we're slaughtering an aspect of ourselves since we're all
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dependent upon one another. And so when we think about it in that respect, then it is not okay for us to do
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this. It's not an honest and straight or upright way to do this. And so for that reason, I have been
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encouraging people to be vegetarian. In particular, as Mahayana Buddhists, and Mahayana
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Buddhism, we need to think of all sentient beings as being our parents. And we wouldn't be logical
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for us to eat our parents flesh and blood. So while we're thinking of these sentient beings as
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being our parents at the same time eating their flesh, then this just doesn't work logically. It
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doesn't make any sense from this perspective. And it's also the issue of eating meat is intimately
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connected with the environment. Actually, when I was little, I ate a lot of meat and I was well
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known as a voracious carnivore. But then later, I realized, I thought about this and I realized
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that it could be inspiring for other people. Now, what I really thought about is when I was three or
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four years old, of course, I was a nomad. And so we occasionally had to slaughter animals in order to
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eat their flesh. And when that happened, I felt such strong compassion. I wanted to be able to
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protect those beings and save those beings. But I was too little and I was unable to do anything.
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Now, I'm older and I am able to do something. And so I would like to be able to fulfill that hope or
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that aspiration that I made when I was little and to be able to do something to benefit all of these
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beings. And so there are many different reasons for encouraging vegetarianism. There's not really
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time to speak about all of them right now. What can one do to distress and find in our peace
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peace within oneself to quiet one mind and to just relax, distress?
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I believe in the
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The example I usually give for this is that when you take something heavy and weighty
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and you put it in front of a mirror, the reflection, there is the reflection that shows
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in the mirror, but that reflection has absolutely none of the weight of the thing that is reflected.
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And so it's the same. If we think in our minds, we realize that if we realize that there's
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the situation that's outside of that, but the weight does not have to come inside of our mind.
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And so for this we need to think about emptiness. It's important to think about emptiness.
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And when we say emptiness, what this means is that things are not as we usually think.
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Some solid, singular, solid, hard thing. Actually there are many different causes and conditions
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that come together. It's not some single solid thing. And so when we experience pressure,
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we might think that it's actually the solid thing that is bearing down upon us.
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But if we actually think about the nature of it, then it reduces the stress. There isn't anything solid about it.
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And so we think about that when the stressful situation happens. And if we can sort of maintain the nurture
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and maintain that nature and rest our minds within it, then that stress will just naturally dissolve.
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And so it's important for us to think about the nature.
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It's more important to think about the nature of how things are than how they appear.
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What is our proper relationship to plants and animals and who speaks for them?
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So, try to change that nature.
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So, try to control.
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with nature. And so for that reason, I think that one of the main things we need to do to
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be able to live in harmony with nature as people is that we need to see how is it that
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the ancient people have done this. We need to learn more about the nature that we have
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to be able to do with the nervousness. So like these ancient people, how ancient people
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have a way to be able to have conversations with nature and communicate with nature. And
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so we need to respect these ancient wisdom traditions. We need to learn more about the ancient
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wisdom traditions so that we will be able to understand or see that beauty and see the
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importance of nature. When we approach nature, generally we think of it only as something
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that we take from. We take this. We take these resources from nature and we don't appreciate
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what it is that we are taking it from. All we are doing is taking from the nature and seeing
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what it is that we can get out of the environment. And so I think that for that reason it is important
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for us to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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So we need to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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So we need to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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So we need to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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So we need to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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So we need to learn more about the ancient wisdom traditions.
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The ancient wisdom traditions are very important in nature.
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I finished my Englishman.
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Chinese Design
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I was born in 1985 on the 19th of June.
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Actually, I'm kind of like the Queen of England.
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I've got my real birthday and the official birthday.
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The real birthday is on the 19th of June.
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In the place I was born, it was in Eastern Tibet,
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in a very, very remote location.
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There wasn't any modern or contemporary development at all.
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There were no machines at all, no technology.
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There's like, forget about machines.
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Like if someone would come and bring in candy,
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they'd only come once or twice a year
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and someone would come with candy and we'd crowd
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and run after them in a crowd trying to get one or two candies
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per year.
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And so, this is this very remote location where I grew up.
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And from, because it was such a remote area,
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it was very close to nature.
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And we also lived the ancient Tibetan way of life,
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the old traditional ways, a way of leading our life
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that really is very harmonious with the environment.
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And so, I have made a real impression upon me.
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And I had a taste or an experience of this traditional way of life.
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And I feel like this real experience,
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of the traditional livelihood.
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And so, I think it's because of this
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that I have had such an environment,
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an interest in the environment.
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It's not because it's an artificial thing.
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It's like I've had this experience that it comes out of.
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My parents were Buddhist and they were not a wealthy family.
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Very simple livelihood.
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So, it's a simple family, but a very warm home,
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a very warm household, a loving household
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that I grew up in.
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So, when I was born, there are all sorts of
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a specious or miraculous signs that happened.
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And so, everyone said,
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the sound of conscious blowing and various other signs
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that happened.
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And so, everyone said, oh, you must be the reincarnation.
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This must be the reincarnation of sam, de gwama.
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He must be someone special.
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This is a special child.
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And some of my parents, you know,
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they thought this has to be reincarnation of someone.
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So, every time they had a chance,
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they'd bring me to some important lama,
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whatever important lama they could say,
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who is my son?
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And no one was ever able to tell them.
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And so, up until the age of seven,
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they're actually very disappointed.
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I'm not going to say that.
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Then when I was seven years old,
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the search party came looking for the karma.
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And they first came and they asked a bunch of questions,
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they went away.
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Then they came back and they said,
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your son is the karma.
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Now, actually the area that I was from
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is one where we consider the karma,
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but to be the most important,
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the lama whom we had the greatest faith, like a god.
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And all of a sudden they were told,
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your son is the reincarnation of the person
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in whom you have such faith.
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And so, it's a real shock for everyone.
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And so, this happened when I was seven years old.
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genommen of the last couple who was saved,
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the greed for what we did,
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were not able to say,
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if this may be good enough,
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it might also hurt,
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whether by your research or habits,
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others might be worried,
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and say,
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still you wait for something happening
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and say theurday is 20 and tomorrow is 150 to 130.
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...
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Being uneducated means grinding hard,
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So at that time when they said that everyone, when they said, you're the Carmapa, I didn't
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really know what it meant, but all of a sudden everyone changed, everyone started really
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respecting me and bowing to me and being very respectful to me.
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And I didn't, you know, like when I was a little kid, you know, sometimes we'd play and
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I'd pretend I'm a llama and I'd sit on a rock and I'd make all of my friends, you
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know, be my servants to my attendants.
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And then all of a sudden all of the attendants were playing, we were playing along with
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them as playing this game at the same time.
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All the old men.
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All the older people, all the older people were doing this as a young like big gam, you know?
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Everybody played this gam.
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So I really had no idea, I didn't know what, understand what the Carmapa, what being the
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Carmapa meant.
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I thought maybe, maybe being in the Carmapa is going to be fun, maybe I'll get lots of
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toys and there'll be lots of kids to play with.
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And I, yeah, I really didn't know to think any other way.
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But when you are recognized as a Tulkou, or Rian Carnot Lama, Tulkou and Tibetan, when
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you are recognized as one of these, then immediately the monastery takes control of you.
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Your parents no longer have any connection, they have no longer have any responsibility
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or ability to function.
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This is something that is probably difficult for foreigners to understand.
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It's as if, you know, once I was recognized as a Tulkou, then it's like I was sold to
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the monastery.
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And so at the age of seven, I was separated from my parents and from my homeland and
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I was brought to the monastery which is several days away as far than I'd ever been before.
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That's good For me indeed.
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I love being your favorite word in your life.
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And Iặhe back and forth.
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走,
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REE
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and the story of my grandfather,
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and he was the one who came in the early age
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and he was the one who was a good guy.
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And he was the one who came in the early age.
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And so in the monastery, I was educated,
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but there wasn't any school.
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It's, you know, over here, you know,
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you all have classes and teachers.
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You get together, you play games,
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you do some class, you learn,
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and you all get together and have fun doing it.
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But in Tibet, it wasn't like that.
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It's a traditional education,
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and a lot of, and mainly people scowling at me.
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And sometimes when I wouldn't listen to what people would say,
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then they would scold me,
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or even they'd spank or beat me.
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And so that was the training that I received.
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It's not necessary to say too much more about that,
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but at the age of 14, I came to India,
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there were a few of us who came together,
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and we had to come in secret because I was a public figure.
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The Chinese government took a lot of interest in me.
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Everyone in Tibet would recognize me.
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And so it's not at all clear
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that we would be able to escape.
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And we did not at all have any confidence
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that we would be able to escape.
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And I remember saying that even if we can't go,
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at least if we just turn in the right direction
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and go, we'll have the confidence
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that at least we tried to go in the right direction
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and that it should be enough.
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So it took seven or eight days.
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It was eight days that we reached India in eight days.
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And then since then there are many stories
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that have happened,
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but not necessary to go through all of them.
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I would just like to say that I'm really happy
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to be able to come here this afternoon.
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And so that is my journey.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing part of your journey with us.
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We are very, very fortunate.
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And we are deeply appreciative of your time.
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And care for our community and everyone here.
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It certainly motivates all of us.
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And we hope that motivation will stay with us,
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at least until your next visit
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when you can give us another boost.
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Yeah, every time I want to come to here,
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spend some time, maybe a little bit studying.
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Yes.
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Well, you were going to come and meet children
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to practice English,
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but then you learned English without our help.
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So we hope we can help a little bit
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with some of the science and just in everything
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just to be in your presence and to share.
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And it's just a wonderful sharing and community.
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And everybody who's here,
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it's just so thrilling and heartwarming
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that everyone has taken the time
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to avail of this precious gift of sharing together.
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And thank you and thank David.
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Yeah, definitely.
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And thank all of the, his owners is staff and security
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and all of these people who see that he gets around safely
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and securely for all of us.
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As my mom said, take care of yourself.
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You're important to us all.
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Okay, thank you so.