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All right, so let's get started.
So welcome everyone. 

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And tonight I'm going to talk a 
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and the connection between the 
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practice. 
And this is something that you 

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find in the suitors. 
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between mindfulness, yeah, and 
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you, but in the suitors, it is a
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between these. 
And I'll come back to that in a 

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second. 
But one of the reasons I want to

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talk about this is because of 
the workshop that we have been 

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doing. 
You may have heard about this 

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gradual training workshop that 
that Bill was mentioning before.

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Where's Bill? 
Bill is gone. 

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Disappeared. 
Oh, there it is. 

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OK Way in the back over there. 
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And what is very interesting 
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Yeah. 
By the way, are you coming to 

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the gradual training workshop? 
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You're OK One of you is nodding.
OK. 

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If you're nodding. 
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Great. 
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Good. 
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of the Buddha. 
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That's when they get the real 
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Tonight is like more of a kind 
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Yeah, but in the on the Saturday
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real, the word of the Buddha in 
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Anyway, you can do whatever you 
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nice to hear what the Buddha had
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And one of these teachings of 
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now is this idea of the gradual 
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develops gradually. 
The practice starts in a certain

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And you have to know how to 
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in that gradual training. 
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But what is kind of 
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training? 
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It kind of starts off. 
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It starts off just ordinary 
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spiritual path, and it ends up 
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It's kind of extraordinary. 
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It means everyone here can get 
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That's what it means. 
Do you believe that? 

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Yeah. 
You believe? 

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Wow. 
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I'm very impressed. 
That's good. 

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I'm glad to hear that because 
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awakened. 
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The fact that you have 
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good sign there, because you are
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And if you're a human being, you
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And that's kind of the the 
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But what is interesting about 
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Yeah. 
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begins with something that you 
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So you think it begins. 
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It begins with coming to the 
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Yeah. 
That's where it starts. 

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You know, for some people, it 
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So you think that kind of where 
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But actually, no, the Buddha 
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about it. 
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Buddha in the world. 
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And you may wonder, what's that 
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Yeah, Buddha arise in the 
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It happens every now and again. 
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What's that got to do with your 
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allows the insight, allows the 
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Without that Buddha, there is no
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practice begins with something 
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you, but that is really a 
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only that aspect of it, but 
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you because you think, OK, yeah,
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They're probably going to make 
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something that we do often it 
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ideally we get out of the way 
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the train, yeah, rather than the
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important part of this practice.
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extraordinary thing. 
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recently how strange it is that 
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this way here. 
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And I thought, wow, that's kind 
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And sometimes the reason you see
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you, OK, let's do another 
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What are we going to do? 
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So then you start to look at it 
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you're doing this workshop and 
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And it shows us a lot about how 
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And So what this means is that 
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it is kind of things are working
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in whatever way in a conditioned
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get the conditioning right. 
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does that conditioning express 
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What is it that you remember at 
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Buddhist teachings. 
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way of thinking about it. 
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the Buddhist teachings. 
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all. 
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But if you get that kind of 
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memories are Buddhist memories. 
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remember how you're supposed to 
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allowing the Dumber to express 
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remember these things. 
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requires a lot of brainwashing. 
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People don't like the word 
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Buddhist way of thinking about 
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anyway. 
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brainwashing. 
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Very kind of, you know, that's 
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Buddhist point of view. 
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Keep coming here every Friday or
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ajambaram or whatever to to 
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the word of the Buddha or 
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So the word mindfulness that we 
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with this kind of memory. 
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the way the word mindfulness is 
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for those of you who I knew, is 
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Yeah, that's the sutis. 
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And so if you really want to 
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things that were done and said a
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memory. 
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This is one of the kind of 
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definition of something in the 
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precisely here, you remember, in
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long ago. 
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your own life, if you are, if 
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feeling the mind has a certain 
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whatever, afterwards you feel 
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things, like, you know, you want
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remember something that you 
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through mindfulness, the clarity
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Things occur to you easily if 
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this idea of sati. 
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hand of this idea of awareness, 
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Memory and awareness coming 
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yeah, I was just thinking about 
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decided to talk about this 
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And I thought, actually, is 
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Very often we say meditation is 
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You are aware of the breath, you
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just aware of what is happening,
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it is not. 
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All meditation, all mindfulness 
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remembering what you're doing, 
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not just that you are present, 
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what you're doing, why you're 
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sampajania in the suit. 
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thinking about bringing the 
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false when we say that 
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about awareness, is always about
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memory. 
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the Suta sampajaniya is really 
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memory and understanding and 
presence of the teachings of the

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Buddha as you do your practice. 
So this is the the idea here. 

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Yeah, memory, bringing it into, 
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that we're doing. 
I will give you some examples of

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how this works. 
And this is a very kind of 

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Broadway of thinking about it. 
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been kind of using recently. 
And I will tell you the symbol 

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again tonight. 
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it before, but I think it kind 
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memory very clearly. 
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And this simile which I started 
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year ago, 2 ago or something, is
the simile of someone crossing 

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the street. 
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If you are about to cross the 
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It's two options. 
Yeah, you can either, either you

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Yeah, like down in Perth. 
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St. 
Georges Terrace, you can just 

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walk straight in the middle 
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Just walk straight in. 
That's one possibility. 

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Don't not recommend it. 
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Too dangerous. 
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If you just walk without looking
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The alternative. 

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Yeah, the better alternative. 
And please take this away. 

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But otherwise someone might sue 
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something. 
Saying just walk into the street

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is of course you look left and 
right before you go into the 

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street. 
That is the appropriate way. 

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How often do you see people just
walking into the street? 

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And how do often do you see 
people look looking left and 

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right? 
Almost everyone looks left and 

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right before they walk into the 
street. 

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Unless you are maybe suicidal or
something, right, you wouldn't 

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do that. 
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this is that even if you are 
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you are kind of, you know, have 
your mobile phone in your hand 

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and you're doing all whatever. 
Yeah, not certainly not kind of 

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watching what's happening around
you, walking into lampposts, 

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walking into people or whatever.
Even if you're almost 100% 

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distracted, when you come to 
that street, you always remember

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to look left and right. 
Isn't that interesting? 

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It's very interesting because 
even when mindfulness is very 

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low, we remember to do the right
thing. 

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And so there is something that 
comes in addition to the idea of

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awareness that is more important
than awareness. 

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Sometimes we focus too much on 
the idea of awareness in 

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Buddhism, not enough on the idea
of remembering the teaching, 

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having right view, looking at 
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In many ways that is more 
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have no awareness, as in this 
case, you're on your mobile 

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phone doing whatever, yeah. 
Then when you come to that 

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street, because you have been 
pre programmed, because you have

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been brainwashed at the Mallorca
Buddhist Centre enough times, 

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whatever it is, when you come to
that street, yeah, you look left

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and right. 
Even if you have no awareness in

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your life as a Buddhist, as 
someone who wants to practice 

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the spiritual part, even if you 
don't call yourself a Buddhist, 

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you remember the Dhamma, you 
remember the teachings, you look

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left and right before you act, 
before you speak, even before 

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you think. 
That is the power of having the 

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memory, the right of you that 
imbues that remnant of 

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mindfulness. 
You may not have much 

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mindfulness at all, but whatever
remains of mindfulness is imbued

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with that idea which allows to 
do the right thing. 

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Yeah, it shows you the power of 
right view. 

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The right view, when you come to
that street, is the view of 

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danger. 
Cars are harder than human 

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bodies. 
If there is a kind of a 

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collision between the human body
and the car, the car is going to

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win every time. 
Yeah, You know what that is 

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like. 
Hopefully you don't actually, 

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but you get what I mean. 
So this is a way of thinking 

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about the power of memory, the 
power of right viewer and how to

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bring that, you know, and how to
use that. 

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And that shows you that what we 
have to do to kind of have that 

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strong memory when it is 
required in our practice is of 

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course, we have to keep on 
contemplating these teachings. 

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We have to keep on coming back 
to them. 

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We have to keep on understanding
what they are about. 

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So that memory is strong, that 
right here is strong. 

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It is embedded deeply inside of 
us. 

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And so when you need it, it is 
easy to bring it out. 

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It is easy to know what is going
on. 

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That is one kind of way of 
thinking about this. 

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Another way of thinking about 
this is another kind of little 

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simile that I've been using 
recently, gives an idea of how 

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to again allow the dumma to 
percolate through your mind. 

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Arise. 
Yeah, when you when you need it.

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And this is the simile of what 
happens when I go back to my 

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little cootie here in 
Serpentine. 

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In Serpentine, that's where the 
monk's monastery is. 

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But in Yana Monastery, the nun's
monastery is up in Kichaganapa. 

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So we are kind of two very 
different places. 

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And so if you haven't been to 
our monk's monastery, anyone 

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here who hasn't been to our 
monastery, everyone has been to 

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our monastery. 
OK, great. 

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Yay. 
Come more often, that's what I 

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say. 
So it's down in Serpentine, 

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yeah, down kind of an hour South
of Perth or whatever. 

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And cootie is the word. 
I just met before. 

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It's like a little Hut. 
So we have like a little huts in

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the Bush. 
Yeah. 

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Lots of trees around and all 
kind of things. 

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We have little huts and my 
cootie, my Hut, I have my own 

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little Hut. 
Venable. 

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Venable Diado has his own little
Hut. 

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I'm sure Venable Peck has her 
little cootie in the Masara 

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monastery. 
My cutie is about 400 metres 

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away from the main building, so 
quite a long distance. 

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Yeah, we have quite large pieces
of land down there. 

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And when I go to my cutie and 
Nicholas over here can vouch for

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everything I say. 
I'm not telling any lies. 

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This is the true truth of the 
monastery. 

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When I go to my cutie here, I 
can't really see any other 

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cuties around. 
I can see one cutie far away on 

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the hill on the other side 
that's kind of 500 metres away. 

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I can't. 
I can't even see any people 

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there. 
So when I go back to my little 

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cutie, it's like complete, 
really sense of seclusion. 

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Yeah. 
You're really by yourself. 

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It's just you, the Kangaroos. 
A few ticks, of course. 

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Yeah, a few ticks, a few 
mosquitoes or whatever. 

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But it's actually really 
beautiful and peaceful. 

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And this is kind of how we live 
in our monastery here. 

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And I have this path going up to
my cutie. 

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Yeah, and one of the things that
I have in my QT, which probably 

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many of you don't have, I have a
view. 

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I have the most magnificent 
view. 

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Isn't that right, Nick? 
Lissa, I have this extraordinary

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view when I get my QT is kind of
high up on the hill, right? 

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This is the darling Skype, so 
high up on here, maybe 200 

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metres above sea level. 
And so I look out, there's no 

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trees in front of my QT. 
It's kind of just open 

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landscape. 
And I see the plain below. 

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You had maybe 20-30 kilometres 
away. 

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I see the Indian Ocean if my 
coot is kind of facing West and 

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also a little bit northwest. 
So I look northwest and I think 

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to myself, wow, that's where Sri
Lanka is. 

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I feel really happy when I 
remember Sri Lanka. 

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I love, I love Sri Lanka. 
I've been to Sri Lanka many 

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times. 
It's such a beautiful, green and

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marvellous little island and 
when you go there you feel at 

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home. 
I feel at home here in Perth as 

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well. 
But there you are kind of among 

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other Buddhists. 
So I kind of look out to Sri 

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Lanka. 
Unfortunately, in case you 

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hadn't noticed, the earth is 
curved. 

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It's not flat. 
Some people came as flat. 

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It's actually wrong. 
It's curved. 

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If it was flat, I could see Sri 
Lanka, but I can't see Sri 

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Lanka. 
So I guarantee you it is not 

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flat. 
They guarantee it is curved. 

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And so I kind of look, I wish 
there was a big mirror in the 

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sky so I could kind of see Sri 
Lanka in the mirror. 

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I can't be coming down. 
But I, that's what we, maybe we 

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can do that one day. 
We can shoot up a mirror with a 

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rocket if we become way too 
wealthy as Buddhists. 

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So I this is the kind of view I 
have for my QT here. 

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Yeah, this is kind of how I 
think sometimes. 

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And then north of Sri Lanka, 
very close, is India. 

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Yeah. 
So there's India, the birth 

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place of the Buddha, where 
Buddhism kind of was so strong 

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for 1000 tooth for about 1500 
years before they gradually 

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faded away. 
And so I look out to my QT, I 

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see Sri Lanka, I see India 
there. 

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I think about the Buddha. 
Isn't that extraordinary? 

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Yeah. 
That's kind of what I get from 

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my QT. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
This is how we live in 

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Serpentine on this beautiful 
hill overlooking the Indian 

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Ocean. 
In this way. 

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Yeah. 
Now one thing we also have in my

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QT, because it's far away here, 
I have a toilet. 

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Yeah, because I can't go down to
the main toilet. 

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But I can't. 
But it's a long way. 

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And sometimes business is 
urgent. 

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So you can't really, you know, 
you. 

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What are you going to do? 
And so behind my QT, maybe 40 

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meters behind my QT, I have a 
hole in the ground. 

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That's my toilet. 
There's no building. 

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Yeah, there's no, there's 
nothing. 

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There's just kind of hole in the
ground or some planks or 

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whatever. 
And that's kind of my turn. 

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And that toilet is even higher 
up than the QT, so the view is 

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even better. 
So the toilet really has the 

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best view in the world. 
And I can stay again. 

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I can kind of look at the Sri 
Lanka on my toilet actually, 

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it's not so nice to think about 
with the dumb I when I go to the

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toilets, I look in a different 
direction a little bit when I go

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there. 
So it's kind of to make things 

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different. 
And so this is kind of the open 

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air toilet. 
Yeah. 

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And it's kind of exciting 
because you never sometime maybe

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people might come by, right. 
Actually this is really in the 

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Bush. 
The chance of people coming by 

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is virtually 0. 
So it's kind of, it's kind of 

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nice, but it's kind of really, 
really open air. 

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It's really nice. 
But, well, the reason I'm 

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talking about all of this is 
because this is a, first of all,

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to give it a feeling for what it
is like to be a Buddhist monk. 

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Yeah. 
So if you like these ideas, 

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yeah, maybe you should consider 
becoming a monk or a nun. 

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Yeah. 
Because this is kind of how we 

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live there. 
And if you ever want to see how 

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we live in the monastery, come 
on the Katina day. 

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Yeah. 
After the rainy season, we have 

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my guided tours of the 
monastery. 

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You can see some of the QTS. 
You get an idea. 

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And maybe Nicholas will take you
on a special tour to my QT. 

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Sorry, Nicholas, I'm just being 
being very naughty here. 

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So. 
But what happens, of course, 

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because all of this relies on 
path through the Bush. 

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Yeah, sometimes the paths grow 
over here. 

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Yeah. 
And I have noticed in my mind 

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when my path to my toilet grows 
up, because that path is 

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obviously important, often the 
mine gets very reactive. 

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OK, I got to do something about 
this time now is to kind of 

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clearing the path. 
Yeah, just like we clear the 

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noble air full path of problems 
or whatever. 

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I want to clear the path up to 
my toilet or maybe to the main 

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buildings or whatever. 
So the mine gets very reactive. 

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I want to do things. 
I want to sort this out now. 

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Now is the time to do this. 
I want to go up to the main area

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and kind of tell the Enigaricas,
please come down to my cutie or 

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the nearest layperson. 
Yeah, maybe whoever and say, oh,

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you know, I need to get things 
cleared. 

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Yeah, please chop down this 
branch or this tree or whatever 

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is in the in the way here. 
And so this is one of the things

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we do. 
You may wonder why don't I cut 

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down the tree myself? 
And the reason is because we 

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have rules against cutting down 
trees. 

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And so instead we go to the some
non monk and we say to non monk,

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we can't say cut down this tree 
because that's kind of 

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tantamount to doing it yourself.
So we say things like this tree 

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is in the way here. 
And then we just remain silent 

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and see see what happens. 
And if they kind of look at you,

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some people are really stupid, 
even they give a hint like that,

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they don't get it right. 
And they say, yeah, what it. 

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Yeah, it's in a way, yeah. 
So what? 

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And then they kind of walk off 
or whatever. 

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But usually when they give a 
hint like that, people kind of 

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get the idea, yeah, OK, so they 
maybe help you out. 

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But I realised that actually 
here, it's not a good way of 

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clearing a path. 
There's often no need for 

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cutting down the tree here. 
So I allow the reactive mind to 

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actually just be there. 
I stay with it instead. 

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OK, forget about the reactive 
mind, wait a little bit. 

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And what is amazing when you 
wait a little bit is that an 

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alternative view starts to 
arise. 

458
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,600
You start to see, actually I 
don't have to cut down any 

459
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,320
trees. 
There is an alternative path on 

460
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,200
this side over here or on that 
side over there. 

461
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,000
There is a dead tree over there 
that I can remove. 

462
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000
And when I remove that dead 
tree, there is plenty of a path,

463
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,320
or maybe after a while the 
branch falls off or whatever. 

464
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:55,000
There's always alternatives. 
And it's exactly the same thing 

465
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,600
on the spiritual path. 
Very often we just need to wait.

466
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,240
We shouldn't be so reactive very
often. 

467
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,440
When we are reactive, we're 
actually blocking the path. 

468
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,320
Instead, we are doing too much. 
Yeah. 

469
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,680
Instead of allowing things to 
open up in a natural way, which 

470
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,520
is far more easy, far more 
beautiful, far more 

471
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,600
satisfactory, we go in there and
we cannot. 

472
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,800
We want to destroy and take 
things down. 

473
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,360
In the same way, in our 
spiritual practice, we try to 

474
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,600
destroy the obstacles on the 
path. 

475
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,560
We want to do something. 
We sit in our meditation, watch 

476
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,960
the blooming breath, watch, 
watch the breath. 

477
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,160
Get rid of that anger. 
Yeah, squeeze it out of the 

478
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,320
mind. 
And we are too reactive. 

479
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,720
We force ourselves too much. 
We don't wait long enough, we 

480
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,240
don't sit back and allow the 
Dhamma to kind of arise in our 

481
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,920
mind because you have it in your
mind already. 

482
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,840
Yeah, yeah. 
Most of you have been coming 

483
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,160
here for a long time. 
You know so much about this 

484
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,720
Dharma teachings. 
Be less reactive in your life, 

485
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:02,400
wait more, be patient, allow the
Dharma to arise because you have

486
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,000
it inside of you. 
And if you do that, then you'll 

487
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,960
be have a far easier and also a 
far more wholesome and skilful 

488
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,760
life. 
As a consequence of that, all 

489
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,320
this doing, all this activity, 
the trying to kind of make the 

490
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,560
path work, Actually, very often 
it does the opposite. 

491
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,800
We end up messing things up 
because that doing that trying 

492
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,280
to kind of make the path work 
usually comes from the sense of 

493
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,120
self, comes from an ego. 
It comes from a place that is 

494
00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:37,400
not Dumber, not the teachings of
the Buddha. 

495
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,480
The Buddha said that the ego is 
a problem. 

496
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,000
The ego gets in the way. 
The ego doesn't understand what 

497
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,600
is right. 
The Buddha understands what is 

498
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,600
right. 
And so we need to allow these 

499
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,560
teachings to take over our 
minds. 

500
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,320
And then you are on the right 
track. 

501
00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,560
So these are two simple ways of 
allowing mindfulness in our 

502
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,880
ordinary daily life to rise in 
your mind. 

503
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:09,080
Stop, be patient, don't react. 
Wait until you know what is the 

504
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,840
right way. 
Allow the path to open up by 

505
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,320
itself itself, and you see the 
right way of moving. 

506
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,880
Going left, going right, taking 
a step backwards before you take

507
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,480
2 steps forwards is often the 
right way of going about things.

508
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,920
And so this changes your 
attitude a little bit. 

509
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,440
Yeah, it changes the way you 
think about Dumba. 

510
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,200
Don't be the doer, don't be the 
agent. 

511
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,680
Don't try to make the path work.
Allow the path to rise inside of

512
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,480
you because you already know the
memory is already there. 

513
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,640
This memory that has been fell 
down or put down within you over

514
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,680
a long period of time. 
You just have to allow it to 

515
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,440
come back again. 
So this is how you can use it in

516
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,320
ordinary life, but you can also 
use these ideas in your 

517
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,360
meditation practice. 
It's not just about owner, but 

518
00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,280
also in meditation we need to do
do these things and there is 

519
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:09,800
various ways of doing this. 
One of the most basic ways of 

520
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,080
using the idea of memory in 
meditation is what we call the 

521
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,560
recollection meditations. 
These are ways that Buddha 

522
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,440
talked about and encourages to 
use to kind of give rise to joy 

523
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,000
and happiness. 
These are called anusati. 

524
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,520
Sati is mindfulness, anusati is 
recollection. 

525
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,200
It's the same word except for 
anu in front, a little prefix in

526
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,880
front. 
And so we use our understanding 

527
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,760
of the Dhamma and we recall 
that. 

528
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:44,280
And when you recall that, it has
a powerful effect on your mind. 

529
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,920
Six different kinds of 
recollections. 

530
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,680
Yeah. 
One of these very simple 

531
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,600
recollections that I really 
recommend you to do, and it's 

532
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,080
very, very beautiful and very 
powerful, and it gives you a 

533
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,840
sense of self worth. 
It feels good about yourself, is

534
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:04,480
to recall your own sealer, your 
own virtue, your own goodness. 

535
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,600
Yeah. 
You've been coming here for a 

536
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,280
long time. 
Many of you are really good 

537
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,400
people. 
At the very least, you are 

538
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,640
trying really hard. 
And what a wonderful thing that 

539
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,080
is that we try to do what is 
right in the world. 

540
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,000
And so you remember that 
actually I'm trying my best. 

541
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,560
Yes, I have conditioning that 
makes it difficult. 

542
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,200
And sometimes I make mistakes. 
Maybe I make mistakes often, but

543
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,280
So what I'm trying. 
And then you think about the 

544
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,160
things that you have done. 
You think about the precepts you

545
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,920
have undertaken. 
You think about how you treated 

546
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,760
other people well, for the most 
part. 

547
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,400
And you feel the sense of warmth
inside of you because you know 

548
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,880
that you are really, you are a 
good person. 

549
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,800
This is called sealer, Nusati. 
Remembering your sealer. 

550
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,440
And to be able to do that, you 
have to remember it, right? 

551
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,760
You have to remember the good 
things. 

552
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,240
Don't remember all the bad 
things you have done there. 

553
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,600
Actually forget about the bad 
things you have done. 

554
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,200
Yeah. 
Who cares about the bad things 

555
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160
that you have done there? 
Are you able to forget the bad, 

556
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,880
the bad things you have done 
there? 

557
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,520
It's hard. 
Most people complain. 

558
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,160
Oh, I can only think about the 
bad things. 

559
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,520
I can't think about the good 
things. 

560
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,760
Take a leaf out of Adam Brahms 
book. 

561
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,200
Yeah, ask Adam Bram. 
He can never remember anything 

562
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,920
bad that he has done, right? 
And of course he hasn't done 

563
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,520
many bad things, but he can't 
even remember anything bad 

564
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,880
things I had done. 
I have done a few bad things, 

565
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,520
right, But if I ask Adam, he's 
completely erased it from his 

566
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,800
memory. 
Here, if I say to Adam Bram. 

567
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,200
Oh, do you remember that this 
monkey did this two years ago? 

568
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,280
No, I can't remember that at 
all. 

569
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,760
Completely forgotten. 
All I can remember, he did this 

570
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,360
nice thing, this beautiful 
thing. 

571
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,600
Adam Bram only remembers the 
good things. 

572
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,640
This is why he tells this story 
of, you know, the. 

573
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,120
I think you know, what is it 
the. 

574
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,160
Anyway, I'm not going to try to 
remember Adam Bram's story. 

575
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,240
Is it going to fail utterly 
miserably so. 

576
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,600
But one of the story of not 
picking up the chicken dung, but

577
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,040
just picking up what is actually
valuable in the world there. 

578
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,320
Yeah. 
And so train yourself to do 

579
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,800
that. 
Train yourself to see the good 

580
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,400
in other people and the good in 
yourself, because most people 

581
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,200
have good aspects to them. 
That is what is interesting. 

582
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,480
That is what is valuable. 
That is where the treasure lies.

583
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,840
The treasure doesn't lie in 
fault finding. 

584
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,720
The treasure doesn't lie in 
being a clever critique. 

585
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,200
Some people, they think I'm a 
clever critique. 

586
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,240
Yeah, I criticise everything in 
clever and fancy ways and they 

587
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,880
cannot take a certain pride in 
that. 

588
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,640
Actually it's a very bad idea 
because it leaves these traces 

589
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,080
of memory that are not usable in
the future that actually drag 

590
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,600
you down. 
But if you remember in the the 

591
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,320
beautiful qualities, then when 
you sit down to meditate, you 

592
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,720
can bring that recollection up, 
that memory up, and it makes 

593
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,280
you, the meditation, joyful and 
happy because you remember the 

594
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,280
good things, forgive the bad 
things that you have done. 

595
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,680
You may have done some bad 
things. 

596
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,720
Actually, almost certainly you 
have. 

597
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,720
Yeah, I have. 
There are certain memories. 

598
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,160
I have tried to erase my memory 
as well. 

599
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,640
I'm trying to follow Adam 
Brahm's path, erasing all the 

600
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,560
memories. 
Haven't quite succeeded yet. 

601
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,400
Adam Brahm is kind of a long, 
long way ahead of it. 

602
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,360
But I'm kind of trying to follow
in the slipstream of Adam 

603
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,640
Brahm's giant truck pulling me 
along in the slipstream there. 

604
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,720
So try to follow that because 
it's very powerful and beautiful

605
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,480
when it happens. 
That's one way of using 

606
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,680
recollection, memory. 
Yeah. 

607
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,320
Mindfulness and memory coming 
together. 

608
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,240
Another way is to remember the 
teachings of the Buddha. 

609
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,920
Sometimes you may remember maybe
a single verse, something very 

610
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,360
beautiful and powerful. 
You have read in the suitors 

611
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,680
something you have heard here. 
Yeah. 

612
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Hatred never ceases through 
hatred in the world. 

613
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,920
Hatred only ceases through love.
This is an eternal law. 

614
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,280
It's a beautiful saying here. 
If you can remember that simple 

615
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,320
saying like, wow, I think that's
actually, and it's so true, 

616
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,600
right? 
Hatred only begets more hatred. 

617
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,640
Then there's revenge. 
There's more problems. 

618
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,320
The way to end hatred is to not 
kind of pay it back with more 

619
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,800
hatred, but instead to change 
the attitude and bring something

620
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,280
positive out instead. 
So you remember little simple 

621
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,400
things like that. 
Wow, that's so inspiring. 

622
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,400
Did the Buddha really say that? 
And you understand, the Buddha 

623
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,200
has this towering spiritual 
genius in human history here. 

624
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,640
To me, the Buddha's head and 
shoulders above everyone else, 

625
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,560
bar none, not bar none, but bar 
nobody here. 

626
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,480
I didn't mean you, I Opeka. 
So yeah, the Buddha is really 

627
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,280
extraordinary here. 
And so just remembering those 

628
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,920
teachings, remembering what the 
Buddha was about, remembering 

629
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,320
that you're part of this here at
the Buddha Society, Wow, what an

630
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,320
amazing thing that is. 
And you lift yourself up and you

631
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,360
use this idea of recollection to
do something powerful to your 

632
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,440
own mind, feeling a sense of 
joy, uplift, happiness, meaning,

633
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,200
purpose in life, going somewhere
real, not just kind of going in 

634
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,560
circles all the time. 
Something real powerful 

635
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,880
happening in your life. 
So this is another way of 

636
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,560
thinking about these 
recollections. 

637
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,200
There are more where there's six
recollections altogether. 

638
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,960
I've given you 2. 
Imagine how exciting the other 

639
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,360
four are when you only heard 
two. 

640
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,480
You're not going to hear about 
them tonight. 

641
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,760
You're going to have to come 
back another time to hear about 

642
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,040
the other ones. 
This is how we lure you back to 

643
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,760
the Buddhist society. 
Yeah, this is how the 

644
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,520
conditioning works. 
So this. 

645
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,120
I just want to give you a 
flavour tonight. 

646
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,920
I don't want to kind of give you
a full kind of detail of these 

647
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,000
things. 
Usually when I talk about these 

648
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,480
things in great detail is on 
meditation retreats. 

649
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,520
This gives an idea what is 
happening. 

650
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,760
Yeah, but that is not the end of
it. 

651
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:52,280
That's the recollections. 
There's a bit of a noise, static

652
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,960
noise coming through the 
speakers. 

653
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,640
Maybe a microphone is on or 
something. 

654
00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:04,480
I'm not sure. 
Yeah, so the other way of doing 

655
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,000
this. 
Yeah, another the important 

656
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,880
part, which kind of fits in with
how we're doing things here at 

657
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,480
the Dama Loca Centre. 
Yeah, when we're doing like 

658
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,000
mindfulness or breathing or just
awareness in the present moment 

659
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,400
or whatever, even then you have 
to remember the teachings. 

660
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,320
I mentioned before that when we 
meditate. 

661
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,880
Yeah, You have to have the 
memory of the teachings, like 

662
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,280
the instructions have to be 
there with you. 

663
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,679
If you forget the instructions, 
then you may be aware. 

664
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,120
Yeah. 
And then you lose your 

665
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,760
awareness. 
You are gone and you don't 

666
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,920
really know what's happening and
you forget about the 

667
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,080
instructions. 
Or you are aware, but you forget

668
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,719
to watch the breath and you are 
aware of the sounds. 

669
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,239
Or you are aware of somebody at 
the back of the room doing 

670
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,000
something that shouldn't be 
doing, like falling asleep. 

671
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,120
Actually falling asleep is OK. 
And then maybe you get irritated

672
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,520
by somebody. 
Yeah, that's the last thing you 

673
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,600
should be doing while you please
don't get irritated by anyone. 

674
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,520
Everyone here is doing their 
best. 

675
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,520
Everyone here just needs to 
relax and sometimes that means 

676
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,120
you fall asleep or whatever. 
That's OK. 

677
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,440
Have compassion with people when
they fall asleep. 

678
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,120
That's what I mean by not 
remembering the teachings. 

679
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:16,080
And so you have to bring the 
memory of the teachings with you

680
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,560
while you're doing the breath 
meditation, while you're just 

681
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,880
being aware, knowing what you're
doing. 

682
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,280
And if you have that clarity of 
the mind, it is as if the 

683
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,680
teachings are there with you, 
you know whether what you're 

684
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,960
doing is suitable, you know, 
whether it will achieve the 

685
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,480
right kind of purpose. 
Yeah. 

686
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,760
You are aware. 
OK, I'm getting a bit of ill 

687
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:37,240
will. 
OK. 

688
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,520
I know that that is wrong. 
You know, it's straight away 

689
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:43,880
because you have the awareness. 
And this is this idea of Satya 

690
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,960
sampajandya in the Pardi 
language, the knowledge of 

691
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,960
whether whether what you're 
doing is right and appropriate 

692
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,360
for the occasion or not, and 
that you take with you into the 

693
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,320
meditation. 
And the mind state that you kind

694
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:02,360
of have when you do this is this
kind of large, broad mind state.

695
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,560
It's not a mind state where you 
have kind of just just an 

696
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,760
awareness without any kind of 
clarity. 

697
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,280
It's a clarity about what is 
going on. 

698
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,240
Often this is called full 
awareness in translation into 

699
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,120
English, or sometimes it's 
translated as clear 

700
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,200
comprehension. 
Some Pagania, one of my 

701
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,880
favourite monks, translate as 
situational awareness. 

702
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,360
Yeah, which is kind of a bit 
technical, but in other words, 

703
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,840
you have awareness regarding the
situation you are in and you 

704
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,360
know whether what you're doing 
is appropriate to that 

705
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,640
situational awareness. 
He has a large mind. 

706
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,680
It's a mind that encompasses 
more than awareness, but has 

707
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:47,080
this feeling of the presence of 
the Dhamma right here, right in 

708
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,320
the present moment. 
Yeah, that's beautiful. 

709
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,920
When you feel the Dhamma is with
you, it's like you're carrying 

710
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,360
it with you. 
And this shows you why making 

711
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,960
too much effort in a meditation 
is the enemy of your practice. 

712
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,240
If you try too hard in a 
meditation, you block out that 

713
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:10,000
awareness of the Dhamma, because
the trying often comes from the 

714
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,200
sense of self. 
The trying is the activity of 

715
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,120
the ego, and it doesn't allow 
the Dhamma to percolate, to 

716
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,400
shine through, to rise to the 
surface. 

717
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,840
The ego is there in instead. 
And you know what it is like. 

718
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,440
If you try to remember 
something, I'm sure you have all

719
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:28,920
been there. 
Oh, What is the name of that 

720
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,440
person again? 
Oh, I can't remember. 

721
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,040
It's on the tip of my tongue. 
Tongue. 

722
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,160
And the more you try, the less 
you can remember it. 

723
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,600
You know what I mean? 
Yeah, I'm sure everyone has been

724
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,880
there. 
Or maybe it's just me. 

725
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,200
Maybe I'm just really weird. 
But I'm sure I'm not just the 

726
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,360
only weird person here. 
Yeah, we're all a bit weird. 

727
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,520
And then you let go. 
You stop trying. 

728
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,600
Yeah. 
And the moment you let it go, 

729
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,240
bang, it comes into your mind 
straight away. 

730
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:55,120
Yeah, that is because you are 
allowing that memory to come 

731
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,240
through. 
You're allowing it to rise in 

732
00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:59,480
your mind. 
That's exactly the same thing 

733
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,080
with the Dumber. 
If you want to have success in 

734
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,840
the meditation, instead of doing
it, instead of trying to kind of

735
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:10,520
be ego based or self based, you 
want to reduce that as much as 

736
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,520
possible. 
And the more you reduce that and

737
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,360
you'll be surprised how many 
layers of this there are. 

738
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,840
You may think that you're not 
doing anything too much in the 

739
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,120
meditation, but actually 
probably are doing too much 

740
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,440
already. 
You're not aware that you're 

741
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,480
even doing it. 
The more you let go of that 

742
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,480
doing, the more you get out of 
the way, the more the Dumber 

743
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,560
shines through, the more you 
have that ability to recall what

744
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,560
you're supposed to be doing 
right now, in the present. 

745
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:42,600
This is one reason why we should
not be trying to harden our 

746
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,880
meditation practice, because it 
blocks our ability to have some 

747
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:51,440
pajania, clear comprehension, 
full awareness, the clarity 

748
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,560
about what you're supposed to be
doing here and now. 

749
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,920
So again, use remember. 
Yeah, the teachings are so 

750
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,960
important. 
All of these things together 

751
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,600
require you to understand what 
the Dhamma is, inquire you to 

752
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,800
study what Buddhism is all 
about, require you to reflect on

753
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,640
what these teachings mean for 
you. 

754
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,920
How should you apply them in 
your life? 

755
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,880
Yeah. 
What does it mean in your daily 

756
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,560
life to use the Dharma 
teachings? 

757
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,120
What does it mean to use it here
at the Dhamma Loca center? 

758
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,400
What does it mean to use them 
when you are on retreat? 

759
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,720
The more you understand what 
these things are about, the more

760
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,280
you have you include them in 
your daily life, the easier it 

761
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,400
is to remember them when the 
time is right because you have 

762
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,120
the kind of the right 
conditioning in your mind, the 

763
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,000
right view, the right 
understanding that allows those 

764
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,200
memories to come out what is 
happening here. 

765
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,840
And so this is how you build up 
that thing that allows the whole

766
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,240
path to unfold. 
And this is one of the reasons, 

767
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:57,160
as I mentioned many times here 
before, why right of you, right 

768
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,600
understanding is at the very 
foundation of the Buddhist path 

769
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,920
because this is what allows all 
of these other things to unfold 

770
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,800
in the right way here. 
And as you keep on practising in

771
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,320
this way here, there comes a day
here. 

772
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:15,160
When maybe you too have a very 
deep insight into these 

773
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,760
teachings and that deep insight 
into the teachings of the 

774
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,280
Buddha, really deep. 
It's called stream entry. 

775
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,080
Here you enter the stream of the
Dhamma. 

776
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:27,360
From now on the Dhamma is 
natural. 

777
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,560
It just happens all by itself. 
And the reason is because now 

778
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:36,400
it's no longer a memory here. 
What used to be a memory, what 

779
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,440
used to be allowing the Dhamma 
to kind of, you know, come to 

780
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,800
the surface in your mind, has 
now been integrated into your 

781
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,200
personality because you have 
seen what it is all about. 

782
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,960
It is integrated into your 
psyche, into your psychology. 

783
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,720
You have, in a sense, become 
that Dhamma. 

784
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,560
That Dhamma has become a very 
powerful part of you. 

785
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,880
You no longer need to remember 
it so much. 

786
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,080
It is a natural part of who you 
are as a human being. 

787
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:07,120
And this is where memory turns 
into wisdom. 

788
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,840
Memory turns into a final kind 
of faith, the full faith in the 

789
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,560
Buddha, because you know, the 
Buddha was right in what he was 

790
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,080
saying. 
The confidence in the Buddha is 

791
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,200
complete. 
And that is where, ultimately, 

792
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,720
this path of memory leads to the
understanding, to the full 

793
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,040
insight into the teachings of 
the Buddha, as the Buddha 

794
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:35,480
himself taught them that. 
OK, so I'm going to stop there. 

795
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,200
And so there you are. 
That's tonight's talk. 

796
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:46,240
Yeah. 
All right, So now we have an 

797
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:50,880
opportunity, as usual, to ask 
questions and to make comments. 

798
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,400
Yeah. 
Mr. Prem is quick off the mark 

799
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:59,960
over here. 
So, yeah, you know what Prem is?

800
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:01,880
Yeah. 
You know Prem already. 

801
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:02,960
OK. 
Prem is known by everyone. 

802
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,640
No one, no one does not know 
know how to say this. 

803
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,600
Yeah, OK. 
Thank. 

804
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,560
You so much. 
Yeah. 

805
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,440
What is that by the way, 
Alistair? 

806
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,200
Thanks, Alistair. 
Yeah. 

807
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:25,760
Oh, 
please, Prem, just go, OK? 

808
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:33,200
Recollection of 1's weaknesses 
or things that one could not 

809
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,120
achieve, etc. 
Would that help in cutting down 

810
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,160
or lowering the sense of self, 
Sakayati? 

811
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,960
OK, so by reducing your 
weaknesses or whatever. 

812
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,080
You can recollecting your 
weaknesses. 

813
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,040
Yeah. 
You mean like your pride maybe? 

814
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,400
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

815
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,000
So you're reducing your pride 
because you don't think you are 

816
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,320
such a goody goody? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

817
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,800
So that you reduce your sense of
self, don't you? 

818
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,600
I, I don't think so. 
I don't think that's the well, I

819
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,560
mean, sure, it is good to be 
aware of 1's weaknesses, but you

820
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,760
know, I mean, it's not, one 
shouldn't be conceited or 

821
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,400
narcissistic and think that one 
is kind of the, you know, the 

822
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,600
kind of the, an arrow hand when 
you're just a kind of ordinary 

823
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,240
kind of person. 
Some people are like that. 

824
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,920
But so sometimes, yeah, it is 
important to be have some 

825
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,920
awareness of all weakness. 
I I agree with that. 

826
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,240
But most people tend to overdo 
it dramatically. 

827
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,320
And so the problem is really the
other way around. 

828
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,360
We think too much about that. 
We think too much not only about

829
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,160
ourselves. 
We always see the negative in 

830
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,240
other people too, too much. 
Is it a rejoicing in other 

831
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:41,520
people's good qualities? 
It's amazing anyone has any good

832
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,720
qualities in this world. 
Everyone should. 

833
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:47,960
You know, it's it's remarkable, 
but what I would do to reduce 

834
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,040
your sense of self and conceit 
is not so much thinking about 

835
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,440
your flaws, but more thinking 
about yourself as a conditioned 

836
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,040
person. 
It's not because of you that you

837
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,680
are a great person. 
Premier good nothing to do with 

838
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,120
you. 
You're not to reason that it's 

839
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,920
supposed to the Buddha that you 
are a great person. 

840
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,200
You should thank the Buddha for 
that. 

841
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,920
No need to get conceited about 
your good qualities. 

842
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,280
I I have a lot of, lot of 
respect for you. 

843
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,080
And I think of myself in the 
same way. 

844
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,120
Why should I be conceited about 
this? 

845
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,240
Yeah. 
What do I I mean, I'm not going 

846
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:18,840
to say that I have any good, but
maybe I do. 

847
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,960
If I do have some good 
qualities, then I should be 

848
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,560
grateful for the Buddha. 
I should be getting from a bit 

849
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,200
to my parents. 
They'd be grateful to my fellow 

850
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,520
monks and my fellow nuns for 
being so kind and compassionate 

851
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,880
to me. 
Grateful to Ajam Brahm, Grateful

852
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,400
to the Buddha Society for 
providing me with a cutie in the

853
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,680
Bush. 
Grateful to the whole world. 

854
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,840
Yeah, for kind of making it 
possible. 

855
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,240
It's got nothing to do with me. 
My sense of self has no wisdom. 

856
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,000
My sense of self is stupid. 
The Buddha, that's where the 

857
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,680
wisdom comes from. 
Everything. 

858
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,840
Every time I do something wise, 
it's because of something has 

859
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,920
been input in my life. 
That is a much better way of 

860
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,080
overcoming conceit and the sense
of self. 

861
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,960
And Sakhi Aditi understandings. 
Nothing to do with you. 

862
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,760
And then if you have a good 
quality, you can just be happy 

863
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,680
about it without feeling 
conceited. 

864
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:07,400
You can feel joy. 
Yeah. 

865
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,480
Got this good quality. 
What a wonderful thing that is, 

866
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,360
to have these good qualities. 
It just brings joy and happiness

867
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,560
in the world. 
I'm living well. 

868
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,800
Marvellous. 
You can enjoy the goodness by 

869
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,440
being conceited about it. 
That's what I would do. 

870
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,360
Your microphone is not working, 
I think, Prem. 

871
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:34,760
Yeah. 
Thank you. 

872
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,360
Sathi and Sammasati, could you 
touch on the difference? 

873
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,320
And also is there something 
called some memory? 

874
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,520
Some memory. 
Yeah, I think there is actually.

875
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:46,480
I think you have a good point 
there. 

876
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,720
It's an interesting point. 
The sammasati is the is the kind

877
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:53,400
of mindfulness of the Sathi 
patanas. 

878
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:58,760
Yeah, the when you do meditation
properly and that arises, 11's 

879
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,120
mindfulness has been really 
established in your life. 

880
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,360
So when you sit down, your 
mindfulness is clear and bright 

881
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,760
and you are watching the breath.
That's when you have some sati. 

882
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,560
So there's this. 
The mindfulness is no longer 

883
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,040
blurred. 
It is not. 

884
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,120
Your mind is not kind of going 
off the future and the past all 

885
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,200
the time. 
You don't lose your sense of 

886
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,200
awareness. 
You're kind of fairly strongly 

887
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,320
present in the here and now. 
Yeah. 

888
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,600
And so much so that you're able 
to follow the breath quite 

889
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,360
easily. 
That's summer sati. 

890
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,480
That's the sati botana practice.
Sati is broader than that. 

891
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:32,960
Sati happens also earlier on the
path. 

892
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,520
Every stage of the path requires
a degree of sati. 

893
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,280
Yeah, When? 
When you are saying OK, Oh, I 

894
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,560
no, maybe I shouldn't say that. 
Maybe it says something nice 

895
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,240
instead. 
At that moment, you have sati 

896
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,840
about the teachings, and that 
moment is a mixture of awareness

897
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,720
and summer memory, as you put 
it, right, because you have the 

898
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:55,080
right memory. 
You could call it yone somana 

899
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,280
sikara, Right? 
That's one way of thinking about

900
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,840
yone somana sikara. 
The wise attention is that your 

901
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,120
attention is imbued with the 
memory of the teachings, with an

902
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,960
understanding of the teachings, 
with the kind of wisdom that you

903
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,440
have, with the brainwashing that
you have achieved in the past. 

904
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,160
Yeah. 
And that summer memory is 

905
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,840
basically the memory of the 
Dhamma, the memory of what is 

906
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,560
right, what is good, what is 
appropriate. 

907
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,400
Yoni, Somanasikara, sampajaniya,
whatever. 

908
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:25,600
Yeah, sure. 
OK. 

909
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,240
Please. 
Already have. 

910
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:42,580
Yeah. 
John Bramley Yeah, in your top 

911
00:47:42,620 --> 00:47:45,380
tonight. 
You know, you mentioned about 

912
00:47:45,380 --> 00:47:50,720
memories and you also talk about
the recollection of the Dharma, 

913
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:51,560
right? 
Yeah. 

914
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:56,680
Isn't the recollection of the 
Dharma the first of the seven 

915
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:01,840
factors was enlightenment? 
The first of the seven factors 

916
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,880
enlightenment is it can be that 
the Satya sambojanga. 

917
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:11,920
Yeah, Bajangas. 
The mindfulness, yes, yeah. 

918
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,920
One of the ways of of practising
that is the recollection of the 

919
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,280
Dhamma. 
Specifically. 

920
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,360
You remember the Dhamma. 
That's one way. 

921
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,440
There's only one way. 
That factor can mean different 

922
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,760
things depending on the context.
It can also just be ordinary 

923
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,480
sati patana practice. 
It's also, it's also that, yeah.

924
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,960
So it can just be practice in 
the breath meditation or 

925
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,880
whatever. 
That's also sati samba janga. 

926
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,560
Or it can be recollecting the 
Dhamma. 

927
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,880
So there's a recollection, but 
it's not so much the other 

928
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,120
recollect. 
The other recollections are a 

929
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,320
bit on the, a bit on the side of
that, but. 

930
00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:44,960
What I'm trying to say is if it 
is this thing, OK, Bujangas, 

931
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,080
it's a healer, isn't it? 
It's a healer. 

932
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,960
Healer, yeah. 
You're collecting the past, you 

933
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,520
know, the same factors, the 
different stages, those 

934
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,600
enlightenment. 
The final one is equanimity, 

935
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,240
isn't it? 
Committee. 

936
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,960
Yeah, yeah. 
So it is the. 

937
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,480
It was said, you know, that when
Buddha was sick, Junda recited 

938
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:05,800
this. 
Yeah. 

939
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,640
And he gets, well, that. 
Was something I wanted to 

940
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,480
mention actually during the 
talk, but I never got to. 

941
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,640
And that is the the recollection
of the Dhamma in the when the 

942
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,600
Buddha recall or ask someone 
else to recall the factors of 

943
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,960
awakening and he arises from 
illness. 

944
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:21,840
Very, very powerful. 
Powerful. 

945
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,480
He's powerful. 
Very interesting. 

946
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,640
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. 

947
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:26,720
OK. 
Yeah, good. 

948
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,400
So let me just take a few of 
these from overseas. 

949
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,040
Maybe. 
Maybe it's a good idea. 

950
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,000
So that means we can carry on 
here for as long as you want to 

951
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,920
afterwards, but so that these 
don't have to wait for too long.

952
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,880
So let's have a quick look at 
what the people are asking here.

953
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,200
So question from Germany, Dean 
Adzan. 

954
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,520
How do I cope with a crazy world
full of insane people without 

955
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,760
starting to hate? 
How can I protect myself from 

956
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,920
this hell? 
The cruelty makes me angry. 

957
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:59,080
What to do? 
OK, so I think the, the the the 

958
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,560
word that you are the the one 
word, which is really useful 

959
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,880
here. 
What you say is kind of crazy. 

960
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,480
Yeah, that is really the right 
kind of word to think about 

961
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,840
this, that the people, everyone 
is a little bit maybe not crazy,

962
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,160
but everyone is deluded. 
No one. 

963
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,640
Very few people see clearly what
is going on. 

964
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,320
And so everyone is walking 
around in darkness. 

965
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,160
And because everyone is walking 
around in darkness, they don't 

966
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,480
know what they're doing. 
They should turn on the light 

967
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,840
first. 
Turning on the light means to 

968
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,920
come to Dhamma Loca centre. 
It means to practice the Dhamma.

969
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,200
Yeah. 
And gradually light goes up and 

970
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,160
you start to see what is there 
and you understand how to emerge

971
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,160
from that darkness. 
So have compassion for people in

972
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,880
the world. 
Yeah, we are all deluded a 

973
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,960
little bit, some people more 
than others. 

974
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,280
And the right response to that 
is compassion, because they 

975
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,920
don't know what they're doing to
get angry with them doesn't make

976
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,800
any sense. 
They're not doing this out of 

977
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,880
their own free will. 
They're doing it because they 

978
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,480
haven't got a clue what is going
on. 

979
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,440
And Despite that, despite the 
world being full of problems and

980
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,080
troubles, there's still so much 
goodness in the world. 

981
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:08,080
There's lots of goodness. 
Maybe I'm very especially kind 

982
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,440
of, you know, fortunate being a 
British monk, because as a 

983
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,880
British monk you meet only good 
people pretty much. 

984
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,160
Or maybe not only that, maybe 
the occasionally once in a blue 

985
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,240
moon and meet some dodgy people,
but not not very often. 

986
00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:22,720
Yeah, usually meet. 
And there are lots of good 

987
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:26,320
people in the world. 
The ordinary people in life. 

988
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:27,960
Yeah. 
The ordinary people that you 

989
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,520
meet in your, in the shops, on 
the street, even most of them 

990
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,080
are going to have good hearts. 
They're going to be good 

991
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,120
hearted. 
That's why they became human 

992
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,480
beings in the first place. 
And so look for the goodness in 

993
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:39,640
the world. 
It is there. 

994
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,440
Forgive the people for the 
delusion. 

995
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,320
Don't focus too much on the 
delusion because it might get 

996
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,040
depressed. 
But remember the goodness. 

997
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,760
But that lifts you up. 
That makes you feel better. 

998
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:51,880
Yeah. 
This is how you overcome that. 

999
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:56,760
Hate is a if you start hating, 
you too are becoming deluded. 

1000
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,280
You too will be going down the 
same path. 

1001
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,600
Don't do that. 
Have compassion there. 

1002
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,840
Have met her. 
That is the right way here. 

1003
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,360
OK, we have a question from 
Australia. 

1004
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,280
D Rajambramali, thank you for 
the talk. 

1005
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,240
You made a lot of valuable 
points. 

1006
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:16,640
My question is what is yoga and 
how does yoga relate to 

1007
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,640
Buddhism? 
For example, in Vajrayana, the 

1008
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,240
deity yoga, Devata yoga, OK, 
Deity yoga, all right, is the 

1009
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:28,080
fundamental practice. 
Are these practices exclusive to

1010
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,280
Vajrayana Sanga members or do 
Tervada Sangh members also 

1011
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:37,200
engage in these practices? 
Devata yoga, so that presumably 

1012
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,720
means some kind of practice 
where you recall the day it is 

1013
00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:44,160
and you can use them in 
visualisation and this kind of 

1014
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:45,520
stuff. 
I think that's probably what it 

1015
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,680
is. 
Do we have that in Theravada? 

1016
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,240
The answer is yes, to some 
extent we do. 

1017
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:55,040
And now I'm unfortunately I said
I was not going to talk about 

1018
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,360
the other 4 recollections, but 
now I have to get into it 

1019
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:58,920
because the question has been 
raised. 

1020
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,360
And one of those recollections 
is the devata nusati, the 

1021
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:07,720
recollection of the devata. 
And in the Theravada tradition, 

1022
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:12,840
the way we do that is to 
remember that those qualities 

1023
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,960
that those devatas had when they
were human, before they were 

1024
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,720
reborn as devatas, as devas, 
those qualities they had as 

1025
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:24,360
humans, Yeah, which made them 
reborn as devas. 

1026
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,720
I have those qualities now. 
You think, wow, isn't that cool?

1027
00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:30,840
These devas, these beautiful 
beings with. 

1028
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,720
Really pure and beautiful 
qualities, that kind of bright 

1029
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,440
and shiny beings, you know, 
whatever they are. 

1030
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,040
I'm in that heading in that 
direction. 

1031
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,600
Is it maybe a little tail by 
Insider? 

1032
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,160
Yeah, like many of you, this 
little tail by insider is that 

1033
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,480
beautiful? 
Many of you are like little 

1034
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,080
tailors. 
That's how I think about you 

1035
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:53,080
because you have all these good 
qualities. 

1036
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,000
You too, start to think about 
yourself in that way. 

1037
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,720
Yeah, It encourages you. 
It doesn't make you conceited. 

1038
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,520
So that is kind of the Buddhist 
or the Tervadan idea of deva 

1039
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:08,280
yoga, yoga just miss practice. 
I'm not talking about the yoga 

1040
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,080
kind of standing in various 
postures here. 

1041
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,720
We're talking about the Buddhist
word yoga, which just miss 

1042
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,400
practice or exertion. 
You're practicing in a certain 

1043
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,200
way. 
That's how the word yoga is used

1044
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:18,760
in the suttas in the word of the
Buddha. 

1045
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,360
And so that's that's kind of one
way we do that. 

1046
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,560
So that's kind of the Devata 
yoga in Tervada Buddhism. 

1047
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,520
So anyway, I'm not sure if 
that's what you wanted to hear, 

1048
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,840
but that's the reality of it 
there. 

1049
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:39,560
So then we have another question
from some, I can't really read 

1050
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,680
that name, so we'll just go with
a question. 

1051
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,560
I have been stuck in the same 
position in terms of spiritual 

1052
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,960
development. 
How can I keep moving 

1053
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:54,160
spiritually here? 
So what you have to do is you 

1054
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:58,080
have to enquire, very careful 
into why you are stuck. 

1055
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,960
If you are stuck. 
There is a reason for that. 

1056
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,280
Yeah. 
There is something that you 

1057
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,600
haven't been developing properly
in your life. 

1058
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,120
And one of the things that I 
would recommend you to develop 

1059
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:12,600
is develop more compassion and 
more kindness in your life. 

1060
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,840
Really develop compassion and 
kindness. 

1061
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,840
Kindness. 
Kindness means be as kind as you

1062
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,680
possibly can through your 
actions and through your speech.

1063
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,000
Treat other people with 
gentleness. 

1064
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,000
You bring people together. 
You create harmony in the world.

1065
00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:32,400
Be as truthful as you can. 
Say meaningful things. 

1066
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,480
These are the four kind of ways 
of right speech. 

1067
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,200
Yeah. 
And do this. 

1068
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,480
Be kind. 
Come from goodness inside when 

1069
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,720
you speak and do this, if you 
feel that you are not able to 

1070
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:45,080
come from goodness because as 
you're having a bad day or 

1071
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,040
whatever, then don't say too 
much. 

1072
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,240
Yeah, now it's a bad day. 
OK, Best not to speak too much. 

1073
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:56,080
Don't allow the compulsion of 
anger, the compulsion of 

1074
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,480
negative states to drive your 
speech, because often these 

1075
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,400
departments can be very 
compelling to make you do 

1076
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:03,840
things. 
Not allow that to happen. 

1077
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,480
Do what I was saying before. 
Wait. 

1078
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,280
Wait for the Dumber to rise 
inside when you know that you're

1079
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,000
doing the right thing. 
Yeah, Yeah, Develop more 

1080
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,120
compassion for the world. 
The world is very easy now to 

1081
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,640
complain about the world and to 
see, oh, everything is going 

1082
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,520
wrong. 
But actually, when everything is

1083
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,120
going wrong, it's a wonderful 
opportunity for compassion 

1084
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,200
because people suffer more in 
the world when there's more 

1085
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,200
wars, when there's more 
problems. 

1086
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,560
Yeah, compassion is the right 
response to what is happening in

1087
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,880
the world. 
Not now, not despair, not anger,

1088
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,560
not I'll will. 
So develop these things, develop

1089
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,160
more generosity in your life. 
How can you help out more? 

1090
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,720
These basic things are the most 
important ones. 

1091
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,080
These basic things are what will
feedback into meditation and 

1092
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,800
make your meditation powerful. 
If your practice consists mostly

1093
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,840
of meditation, you may very well
stagnate by doing these basic 

1094
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,280
things and then bringing that 
into meditation. 

1095
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,320
That's where your meditation 
starts to work. 

1096
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,000
All right. 
Question from Karen Lawrence 

1097
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,080
Agen. 
Six months after the death of my

1098
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,480
friend from cancer, I am 
troubled. 

1099
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:22,600
I made choices. 
Thank you. 

1100
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:29,240
I made choices that led to his 
dying. 

1101
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,480
Being far from peaceful, I do 
not feel guilt, but I do fear 

1102
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,360
that I have affected his 
rebirth. 

1103
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:41,360
Alright, So what you? 
What you have to remember here 

1104
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:46,760
is that when people pass away, 
it takes quite a while before 

1105
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:50,040
they get reborn. 
Most people will go through a 

1106
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:53,400
state and in between state. 
This is often called bardos in 

1107
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:58,200
Tibetan Buddhism or antrabhava 
in, in more in, in kind of Pali 

1108
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,920
language. 
It means a state in between. 

1109
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,640
And in that state in between, 
that's kind of where your Kummer

1110
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,280
ripens. 
Yeah, maybe you have a live 

1111
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,760
review, remember what happened 
in your life and then you kind 

1112
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,400
of judge yourself or whatever. 
That's where your Kummer ripens.

1113
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,000
And so whether they were a 
little bit not peaceful at the 

1114
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,960
moment when they died or before 
they died is not going to be the

1115
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,600
most important thing. 
What is going to be the most 

1116
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,120
important thing is how they live
their life, All of those things 

1117
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,640
coming together. 
In fact, exactly what happens 

1118
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,320
when you die at the moment of 
death may not have any impact at

1119
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,640
all on what happens afterwards. 
It is your overall coma that is 

1120
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,680
what directs your rebirth into 
the future. 

1121
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,360
So I don't think you have to 
feel guilty and I don't think 

1122
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,120
you have to think that you 
affected that person's rebirth. 

1123
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,640
Very unlikely that you did. 
It is the the kind of general 

1124
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:47,800
come up that will affect where 
they went afterwards. 

1125
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:54,920
So then we have a question from 
Julian Murielty Jordan. 

1126
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:00,320
OK, whatever. 
Rodriguez, sorry. 

1127
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,880
I apologise for not being able 
to pronounce your name properly,

1128
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,440
so thank you so much. 
Adam Ramali, a comment. 

1129
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,320
Reflection is important to turn 
the teachings into beliefs that 

1130
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,800
underlie our decisions. 
Analysing our experience and how

1131
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,680
the teaching fits with them 
helps. 

1132
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:22,560
So yes, that is exactly right. 
So analyse your experiences and 

1133
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,080
see how they fit with the 
teachings. 

1134
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:28,280
Reflect on what is going on, 
understand the Dumber how it is 

1135
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,560
in your life and then you are 
going to be on the right track. 

1136
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:37,320
Very good. 
All right, So any further 

1137
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,320
questions or comments from 
people here? 

1138
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:41,560
Sorry. 
Thank you. 

1139
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,480
Everyone else is happy. 
Yeah. 

1140
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,680
Yeah, 1-2 you get a final chance
not to be happy, but you are 

1141
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,000
happy. 
So that's kind of what can you 

1142
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:51,800
do? 
That's wonderful. 

1143
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:53,840
So let's just play home with the
triple jam here.