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OK, so I guess we might as well 
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talk is going to be on letting 
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So I was just saying, just 
saying to Venom Mateji before we

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came in here that talk about 
letting go. 

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And I said that's great. 
You can start with taking off 

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the face masks. 
It's a good point, isn't it? 

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Letting go is really nice. 
Sometimes. 

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We are getting rid of those face
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Really, really nice. 
So that is true and and letting 

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go is a very significant and 
important topic in the Buddhist 

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teachings. 
And I just had a a little kind 

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of interesting encounter just 
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This was back at the monastery. 
I just came in here this 

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afternoon and one of the old 
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was standing close to where we 
have our meal everyday and I was

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coming up the hill. 
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there's like a dam in the 
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And every time I walk to the 
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meal, I have to come walk up the
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And then I see this old support 
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And I say to him when I come and
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says good morning here. 
And then he looks at me and he 

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says, you're getting old, Aren't
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do you respond? 
I wasn't sure what to say. 

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I thought, OK, you're getting 
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OK, fair enough. 
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sometimes people get very 
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kind of things. 
We don't really want to hear 

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that in our ordinary life. 
You're getting older. 

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You don't want to hear that from
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I mean, he's very cheeky, old, 
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So it's kind of OK. 
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useful thing to hear because 
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getting older, it kind of brings
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quite obvious, right? 
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hear because it brings reality 
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it means that you tend to let 
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being young. 
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you know, the body remaining the
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of time. 
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didn't get offended. 
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I know who was just being cheeky
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insight that is possible there. 
And the idea of letting go comes

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from little insights like that. 
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something seems to be right, and
then you change your attitude 

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and then you let go as a 
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So this idea of letting go is a 
very is an idea that you hear a 

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lot on the Buddhist path. 
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go left, right and center, 
something we always hear about. 

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And you hear things like, oh, 
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OK, so. 
OK, so I'll come back to that 

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later on. 
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anger. 
Does that help you let go of 

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anger? 
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often it doesn't. 
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let go of anger doesn't. 
It's not all that helpful 

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usually. 
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Or you have to let or if you 
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Yeah. 
What do people say? 

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Let go. 
Yeah. 

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When you let go, bang. 
Meditation goes deeper. 

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But again, it's kind of 
sometimes there's information 

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missing. 
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things that I always wondered 
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When people say let go, exactly 
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First of all, what exactly are 
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meditation? 
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bit kind of amorphous. 
What is it that we let go of in 

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meditation? 
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actually do it? 
Is there a way that helps us to 

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let go so as to kind of increase
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properly? 
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important questions. 
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passed over in silence. 
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obvious what we have to do. 
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obvious at all. 
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Buddhism is really a path of 
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It's a gradual letting go. 
So I'll have a look at that path

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of gradual letting go from the 
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end. 
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back to the idea of meditation 
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found very interesting about 
letting go in meditation is that

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you hear different ideas about 
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what he says that you have to 
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meditation to happen, usually it
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the sensory world or sensuality 
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But then when you go to the 
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Ajam Brahm say? 
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Ajam Brahm often says is that 
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mind, that is what you have to 
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And I always thought this is a 
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Yeah. 
Who is right? 

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Is the Buddha writer or is Ajam 
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Can't be both. 
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Because this is contradictory. 
Doing and sensuality is not the 

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same thing. 
So one of them must be wrong. 

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Yeah, What if the Buddha is 
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Yeah, Ajam Brahm is right. 
That's kind of scary thought. 

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What if the Ajam Brahm is wrong 
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Both ideas are too scary to 
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So I thought maybe there's a way
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Maybe these are just different 
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going to say this straight away 
because this is, I think, a very

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interesting point of Dhamma in 
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meditation actually works. 
This is just two angles on the 

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same thing. 
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seeing the idea of letting go 
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letting go of the doer is 
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the same problem. 
It may not be obvious at all. 

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Yeah, you may think I'm I'm 
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what what you're talking about. 
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want to bring out in this talk 
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But actually it is the same kind
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So this is what I want to have a

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of the gradual idea of letting 
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verses, Buddhist verses for you.
We don't normally read out very 

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much on Friday night talks, but 
I thought I would be daring and 

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read something out on a Friday 
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Please forgive me if it doesn't 
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We'll see what happens. 
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read out is from the Teri Gatta.
Teri Gatta, a very famous 

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scriptures in the Pali Teravada 
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So Terry is the gut are the 
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Buddhism, we find that the kind 
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have some women as my kind of 
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our gender than the opposite 
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women's voices. 
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the other, but at least also. 
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because it's one of the few 
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a lot of women's voices in the 
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And there's a whole bunch of 
these theories, a large number 

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of them. 
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close. 
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So these are really cool verses.
These are the verses spoken by 

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cool people. 
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the highest kind of coolness, is
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You're completely cool, utterly 
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You don't even have to wear 
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You're cool already here. 
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this Arahan nuns. 
So please forgive me for being 

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silly. 
So let's see what they have to 

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say here. 
And what do they have to say 

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about letting go? 
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discussing their own practice 
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And this is just a few selected 
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idea of letting go in a fairly 
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So this first verses here are is
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Dantica means one who has teeth.
Is it a slightly strange name? 

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the Vulture Peak mountain, I saw
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having just come up from his 
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A man taking a pole with a hook 
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Give me your foot. 
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and the man mounted him. 
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submitting to human control, my 
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That is why I've gone to the 
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That's kind of interesting. 
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she's saying that her mind 
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Serenity is like calm. 
It's like peace. 

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It's like, you know, those kind 
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Free freedom from defilements if
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She sees this elephant that is 
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a person. 
And when she sees that, her mind

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becomes serene. 
It's an inside into nature, and 

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it's almost hard to grasp 
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behaving, just following the 
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submitting without making any 
resistance, it gives you the 

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idea that the meditation 
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is like that. 
You can't do and have any 

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resistance. 
You can't have any ego, which 

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kind of enmeshes itself into 
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You have to go with the flow. 
And when you go with the flow 

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and you allow things to be here,
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This is very much what 
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Yeah. 
Allowing your mind to become 

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peaceful. 
Not making it peaceful, but 

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allowing it to become peaceful. 
2 very different things. 

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It's like the letting go. 
It gives an idea of what letting

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go is about on the Buddhist 
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It comes from some kind of 
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It's related to seeing something
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Then letting go happens. 
Gives an idea how we should go 

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about letting go in our own 
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Let's hear one more verse. 
This is from a nun called Siha 

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and Siha in parli means a lion. 
So this means like the lioness. 

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So this kind of like sounds like
a scary nun but anyway, let's 

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see what else she has to say. 
So she This is a couple of 

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verses I've left out, but here 
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So overcome by corruptions, 
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beautiful, I gained no Peace of 
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thoughts. 
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For seven years I wandered full 
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day or night. 
Taking a rope, I entered deep 

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into the forest, thinking it is 
better that I hang myself when I

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return to a lesser life. 
I made a strong noose. 

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I tied it to the branch of a 
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Casting it around my neck, my 
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Pretty dramatic, yeah. 
But kind of, as I say, don't try

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this at home, as I say, because 
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This is not going to work if you
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ready. 
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So this is just like it happens 
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path, but there's something in 
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arise. 
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just the idea of death. 
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goodness sake, you know? 
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that you're about to die, then 
all these desires for the 

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worldly things become empty. 
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You're gonna die. 
What does the world matter for 

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you anymore? 
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world at that moment, it allows 
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leading to letting go. 
The same idea. 

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So this is just to give you a, a
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plays out in some of these 
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I have one more for you. 
I'll, I'll read it out later on,

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but I'll, I'll put that to one 
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So this is the idea of a little 
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It gives you an idea of what we 
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Yeah, there's some kind of 
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And the main insight that we are
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with letting go is to understand
where happiness is to be found 

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and where suffering is to be 
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proper way where happiness is to

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be found and where suffering is 
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automatically lean towards 
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suffering. 
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And when you remember that, then
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do if there is a problem. 
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the path in a certain way here. 
So let's take the idea of anger.

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Yeah, because I'd mentioned it 
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Yeah. 
And it's very common for people 

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to say, yeah, let go of anger. 
And you think, OK, And sometimes

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if you are ready, you will be 
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Very often it's not that helpful
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throes of anger, if it has taken
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actually very hard to just let 
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And sometimes if people tell you
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angry, right? 
You know what it's like. 

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What? 
Shut up. 

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Sometimes that's the way it 
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So how then do we do it? 
And actually, it's, again the 

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same thing. 
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The idea of understanding where 
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where suffering is to be found. 
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the problems of anger. 
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Well, it doesn't feel very good.
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on that. 
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and forth, steaming, steaming 
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Depending on how angry you are, 
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and really angry, of course, but
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If you compare a state of calm, 
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anger is obviously which one is 
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Yeah, you know that. 
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anger. 
It makes you act irrationally 

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here. 
It makes you do stupid things to

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the people around you. 
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It makes you feel bad 
afterwards, after you get angry 

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and after you deal with people 
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You just feel bad about 
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lot, you accumulate that bad 
feelings inside and they grow 

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inside of you. 
So you actually become the worst

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person. 
As a consequence, you're 

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building up all of these 
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So notice that inside of 
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See the negative consequences of
anger because this is a very 

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powerful motivation for giving 
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This is the kind of thing that 
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And then on the other hand, you 
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Yeah, of not being angry, being 
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having a sense of even of 
kindness and even love for the 

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people around you. 
It's a very beautiful state of 

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mind where you feel really at 
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yourself. 
So you remember the happiness on

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the other side of the anger, the
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we can have. 
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And then you're here building up
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enable you to let go of ill will
and anger in the future. 

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And the very last thing that you
need is some little kind of 

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method, a little way of 
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I've been saying now, what I've 
been saying now is contemplation

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we can do all the time. 
But at the moment of anger, you 

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need sometimes something else to
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That is the thing that takes you
away from anger. 

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Yeah. 
And that is not that hard to do.

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You'd be surprised how easy it 
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really want to. 
And in a place like this, in the

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Buddhist society here, where 
there are so many people who are

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really trying their best to do 
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it is quite easy. 
All you have to do when you get 

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angry, you're focusing on the 
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When you're not getting angry, 
when you have kindness towards 

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somebody, friendliness towards 
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their good qualities. 
So all you have to do shift your

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attention from looking at the 
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Remind yourself these are good 
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Why am I being so petty? 
Yeah, we're all petty. 

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Yeah. 
Sometimes the mind is just 

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petty. 
We focus on stupid things. 

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Why do we do that? 
Because bad habits, something 

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like that. 
So, mind, don't be so petty. 

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Yeah. 
Get your act together. 

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Be smarter in how you deal with 
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Then you shift your attention 
from those stupid little things 

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that we think about and you 
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These are good people. 
They're trying their very best 

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to live well. 
What a wonderful thing that is. 

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Even that intention to wanting 
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thing. 
I should honour that in these 

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people. 
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I should actually bow down to 
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That's what I should do. 
Because isn't that what we do to

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the Buddha? 
We bow down to the Buddha. 

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Why? 
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manifestation of all the good 
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We don't bow down to a lump of 
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What we bow down to is the 
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signifies. 
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the idea of awakening itself, 
that is what we bow down to 

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because that is what the Buddha 
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And then you overcome that anger
because you remember the good 

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qualities. 
It is actually very simple, and 

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it works. 
It's a very, very powerful way 

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of dealing with things. 
Yeah. 

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But you have to remember those 
good qualities, build them up 

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inside of you, then shift your 
attention and, bang, the ill 

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will is gone. 
So this is how you let go of 

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anger. 
You don't just tell someone let 

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go of anger. 
You have to have a clear 

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strategy for how to do it. 
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sometimes we meet people who 
don't. 

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We cannot see the good qualities
in yeah, maybe it's a stranger, 

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maybe it's someone we find just 
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whatever. 
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the person instead. 
Cannot see the good qualities in

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them. 
Have compassion for them. 

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If they are habitually bad, if 
they don't have many good 

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qualities, wow, they really 
deserve compassion. 

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They are in darkness. 
They don't know what they're 

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doing. 
They think they're creating 

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happiness for themselves when 
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suffering for themselves. 
Isn't that kind of terrible? 

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Yeah. 
When people go around in the 

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world thinking they're doing 
what is right but actually doing

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what is wrong, and they're 
creating unhappiness for 

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themselves and everyone around 
them, you think, wow, you know, 

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I wish I could show you the 
light because you are really 

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confused. 
And then you have compassion for

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people like that. 
Yeah. 

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Turn your mind around, away from
this kind of feeling of 

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negativity when they treat you 
badly to have compassion 

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instead. 
So this is how the idea of 

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letting go works? 
Yeah, the idea, you know that 

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there is a problem here. 
It is some kind of suffering 

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involved with this. 
You know that there is a more 

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happy state over here and then 
you have a means to go from the 

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suffering to the happy state. 
That is how letting go happens. 

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And as you become skilled in 
using these tools, you can you 

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can effect change like that. 
Yeah, it's so fast in the path 

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really, really quickly and bang 
your mind switches from one to 

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the other. 
Please use these techniques 

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because they are really, really 
powerful. 

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And if you're able to do this 
kind of thing, wow, you're going

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to make massive progress because
the root of the problem really 

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is our emotional reactions to 
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And then so many other things on
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consequence. 
I teach this teaching a lot 

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because I think it is so 
important. 

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Yeah. 
It is so fundamental to the 

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life. 
And I think everyone has more 

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ill will and anger in their life
than they would like. 

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Is anyone here who has less 
anger than they would like? 

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No one. 
Right. 

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I was right. 
I got that one right. 

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OK. 
At least I got that right. 

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That's that's good. 
Yeah, almost everyone. 

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You almost have to be an 
arrogant otherwise. 

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So that is the idea of how it 
works in general. 

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So let us have a look at some of
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Buddhist path and how to apply 
this. 

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So apart from anger, we have the
general idea of morality in 

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Buddhism. 
Yeah, the idea of just generally

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being kind, whether through 
action, speech or mind, avoiding

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the bad things. 
How can we move faster? 

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This is the question. 
How can we let go more of the 

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bad habits and move faster on to
the good habits? 

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Well, again, it is about 
reflecting on the negative 

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consequences of the bad habits 
they have, the bad speech, the 

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negative actions, the bad 
thoughts, and reminding yourself

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of these things that they 
actually are dangerous. 

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They are dangerous because every
time you do something bad or 

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wrong, you're taking one step 
backwards. 

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Do you want to take a step 
backwards? 

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Life is so short. 
You only have so many steps. 

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If you take one step back, it 
means you have one less forward.

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Yeah, that's concerning here. 
Don't forget, there's only so 

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many steps. 
A journey of 1000 miles begins 

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with a single step. 
Even if it's 1000 miles, how 

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many steps per mile? 
OK, this is going to be a hard 

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one, but maybe 3000 steps per 
mile or something like. 

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And then the 1000 miles is 
3,000,000 steps. 

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OK, regardless, there isn't much
time. 

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Yeah, this is the problem. 
We cannot really afford to take 

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steps backwards. 
And every time we take a step 

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backward, actually taking many 
steps backward, because you are 

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reinforcing those bad habits. 
So try to remember why these 

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things are problematic. 
Yeah. 

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They block you on the path. 
They stop you from achieving 

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meditation because every time 
you do something bad, it leaves 

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an imprint on your mind that 
blocks your ability to meditate 

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later on. 
It's like a darkness, a smudge 

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on your mind, a stain inside 
which blocks you from being able

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to meditate properly. 
So try to see that. 

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And as you see, that becomes 
clear. 

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I can't afford to do anything 
bad. 

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Yeah. 
Every thought has to be good. 

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That's how. 
OK. 

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You won't succeed in that, 
right? 

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That's that's OK. 
But at least you have that idea.

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And you're leaning in that 
direction. 

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And then you see the 
consequences of a good actions. 

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You look inside of yourself. 
You know, every time you're kind

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to somebody, you feel good about
yourself. 

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Have you noticed that when you 
actually really want to be kind 

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to someone, with a good speech, 
with the kind act, with a kind 

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00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,600
thought, you feel satisfied 
afterwards, you know that you 

459
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,280
have done the right thing. 
When you ask someone for 

460
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,880
forgiveness, or you give someone
for forgiveness, or you do the 

461
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,400
right, you know all of these 
things feel really good and you 

462
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,320
know that you're heading in the 
right direction. 

463
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,120
And then as you accumulate that 
goodness, you're brightening up 

464
00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:08,200
your mind, shining up your mind,
creating a mind that is very 

465
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,200
conducive for meditation 
practice later on. 

466
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,880
Every moment matters. 
Every action is important. 

467
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,480
This is what you start to see 
because you can feel it. 

468
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,680
You can feel the connection 
between your intentions and the 

469
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,880
feelings that arise because of 
those intentions. 

470
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,200
The connection becomes so 
obvious. 

471
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,440
So this is how then you move 
away. 

472
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,440
You let go of the bad actions. 
Yeah, by seeing the vadnais, 

473
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,520
seeing the positive benefit of 
good actions. 

474
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240
You let go of 1. 
And what do you do with the 

475
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,640
others? 
Do you let go of those as well, 

476
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,680
or do you grasp onto them? 
You grasp onto them a little bit

477
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,520
at least. 
This is one of those important 

478
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,760
points that you need to 
understand about the Buddhist 

479
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,400
path is that it is a bit like 
climbing a ladder. 

480
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,840
And when you climb a ladder, you
have to grasp onto the rungs. 

481
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,000
If you don't grasp on the rungs,
you're not going to go very far.

482
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,880
You have to grasp onto the 
rungs. 

483
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,120
Yeah. 
And the way you climb a ladder 

484
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:12,640
is you put your hand up to 1 
rung higher, and only when you 

485
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,760
grasp a higher rung can you let 
go with your feet of the rung 

486
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,400
below. 
Yeah. 

487
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,600
So, so to able enable us to 
climb a ladder, we need to grasp

488
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,440
one rung higher each time until 
we get to the very top. 

489
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,560
And the Buddhist path is a bit 
like that. 

490
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,560
If you're going to let go of 
something which is worse, which 

491
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,960
is detrimental, which is 
spiritually bad for you, first 

492
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,080
of all, you have to grab onto 
something higher. 

493
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:43,080
Then you can let go of the thing
underneath. 

494
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,840
So yes, you actually need to 
grab on to morality at least a 

495
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,560
little bit. 
Yeah, because in the beginning 

496
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,440
it is not easy to always be 
moral. 

497
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,760
Unless you make some kind of 
determination, some kind of 

498
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,840
grabbing, it's not going to work
out. 

499
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,240
OK, I'm not going to kill those 
blooming mosquitoes, right? 

500
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,720
I hate mosquitoes. 
But still, I know it is bad, so 

501
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,280
I'm not going to do it. 
That's how you have to do 

502
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:07,760
things. 
Yeah. 

503
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,040
Don't hate the mosquitoes if you
can't, if you can avoid it. 

504
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,680
But sometimes it's hard not to 
hate mosquitoes. 

505
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,000
We've all been there. 
Yeah. 

506
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,760
When they buzz around in your 
bedroom at night. 

507
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,200
Actually, I don't really hate 
mosquitoes so much anymore, but 

508
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,280
I I certainly remember having 
hated mosquitoes in the past. 

509
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,280
We all have a bad past, right? 
There's no, it's not even that. 

510
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,880
So you grab onto the high rung. 
And this is a very important 

511
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,600
idea because one of the things 
that you find in the suitors, 

512
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,480
they have one thing they call 
the one of the fetters that you 

513
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,280
give up when you become a stream
entry. 

514
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,920
One of those fetters fetter is 
something that binds you to 

515
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,400
existence. 
It's called Si la Bata Paramasa.

516
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,720
And this means grabbing onto 
virtue and practices. 

517
00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,800
Yeah. 
So it says that. 

518
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,920
Well, we give up that fettery. 
In other words, we stop grabbing

519
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,040
onto virtue or morality and 
practices when we become a 

520
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,320
stream mentor. 
Some of the people think that 

521
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,080
means I must stop grabbing onto 
them now. 

522
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,280
Wrong. 
That is the wrong way to think. 

523
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:19,160
We need that as a stepping stone
to enable us to read stream 

524
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,880
entry. 
Only then do we give it up. 

525
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,360
In the meantime, hold on. 
Don't hold on too hard, but hold

526
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,280
on a little bit. 
The same thing with the 

527
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,200
practices. 
Yeah. 

528
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,320
The practices of that we do to 
enable us on this path, like 

529
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,880
coming here on a Friday night. 
So please come here on Friday 

530
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,240
nights. 
Yeah, it's a good practice. 

531
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,560
It's a good habit. 
It's nice to see many of you 

532
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,680
coming every Friday. 
That's marvellous. 

533
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,920
Of course, sometimes you miss 
out. 

534
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,440
That's OK. 
But, you know, make have certain

535
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,680
routines and practices in your 
life that encourage you and move

536
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,680
you in the right direction. 
Hold on to those a little bit. 

537
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,040
Yeah. 
Come here every Friday night, do

538
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,680
a bit of meditation every 
morning or every evening at home

539
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,640
if you can. 
Have some general acts of 

540
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,080
generosity that you do on a 
regular basis. 

541
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,000
Say kind things on a regular 
basis. 

542
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,240
Have these little routines, 
these little practices in your 

543
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,960
life that you hold onto. 
Bow down to the Buddha. 

544
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,560
Yeah, because it is beautiful to
bow down to something noble. 

545
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,680
That's why we bow down to the 
Buddha. 

546
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,880
Do that. 
Make that a practice as well. 

547
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,000
And as you do all of these 
beautiful practices, it 

548
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,200
encourages you in the right 
direction. 

549
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,400
Then eventually you let go and 
those practices no longer, you 

550
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,120
don't have to hold on to them 
anymore. 

551
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,720
In the meantime, hold on to them
a little bit. 

552
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,400
This is how you move from the 
good to the bad. 

553
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,560
Yeah. 
Gradually, gradually, gradually 

554
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,120
seeing the negative, seeing the 
positive, and then having this 

555
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:52,560
beautiful path in between. 
There is another very important 

556
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,760
thing that we often grab onto in
life, which also the Buddha 

557
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:03,040
talks about, and this is views, 
yeah, views and opinions 

558
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:08,440
famously, and this is spoken of 
by the Buddha in many places. 

559
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,200
It's called the diti upadana. 
Upadana means attaching A 

560
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,640
grasping diti is view. 
In Pali. 

561
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,200
It literally means seeing. 
Yeah, seeing of you. 

562
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:24,120
So with views, yeah. 
Views are part and parcel of 

563
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,480
life. 
You have to have views. 

564
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,120
You cannot live a life without 
views. 

565
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,760
Yeah, this is just what it means
to have a sense of self. 

566
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,720
Views come with a sense of self,
so you're going to have views. 

567
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,360
So one of the things we have to 
learn to deal with those views 

568
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,480
in a skilful way. 
So one of the things is to kind 

569
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,680
of shift our views. 
Yes. 

570
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,680
They become more aligned with 
spiritual practice or more 

571
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,880
aligned with the view of the 
Buddha, if you like. 

572
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,560
This is one of the reasons why 
we study the teachings of the 

573
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,640
Buddha, to have more views 
aligned with how the Buddha did 

574
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,560
things. 
So yeah, remember the Buddha 

575
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,080
taught his views for a reason. 
He taught them because these are

576
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,200
views that, as far as he was 
concerned, align with reality. 

577
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,200
This is the reality of the 
world. 

578
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,120
And if you haven't got the view 
that aligns with the reality, 

579
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,200
you will not be able to practice
correctly because first of all, 

580
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,880
you have to see things in the 
right way. 

581
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,000
If you think this is a bottle of
water, when it acts as a bell, 

582
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,920
you have a problem. 
You try to drink and we're going

583
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,240
to get in the water out of it. 
Yeah. 

584
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,560
So wrong view leads to 
suffering. 

585
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,520
Yeah. 
You have to grab the glass. 

586
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,120
Then you are in business. 
That's much more happiness. 

587
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,720
I'm just going to test the 
happiness. 

588
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,840
Yes. 
Proof of the pudding. 

589
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,800
Yeah. 
So views are really important 

590
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,080
because they guide the entire 
path. 

591
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,040
They guide you to do the right 
thing. 

592
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:44,680
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

593
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:50,000
That's why they matter. 
So one of the important things 

594
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,680
then is to kind of gradually 
change our views and to enable 

595
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,440
us to change our views. 
We have to hold our views 

596
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,400
lightly. 
Yeah. 

597
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,840
Don't be one of those cocksure 
people in the world who's 

598
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,880
absolutely certain about things 
in life. 

599
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,040
It's mad to be absolutely 
certain about things. 

600
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,560
How can we sometimes? 
You know you, when you go on the

601
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,240
Internet, people seem to be so 
utterly certain about 

602
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,720
themselves. 
And it's kind of crazy, you 

603
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,560
know, that someone who's that 
certain is actually deluded. 

604
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,240
They're not certain at all. 
They go to completely wrong. 

605
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,160
How can we be at certain amount 
of things in life? 

606
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,080
Yeah, it's just impossible. 
So be humble about your own 

607
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,240
views. 
Understand that they are, you 

608
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,560
know, liable to change. 
You look at other people in 

609
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,640
society, you see how people 
change their views all, all the 

610
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,240
time. 
They go from one political 

611
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,200
position to another one. 
They go from one religion to 

612
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,000
another one, from religion to no
religion, whatever it is, 

613
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,920
they're always changing. 
So how certain can those views 

614
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,160
be? 
It's kind of obvious and not all

615
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,160
that certain. 
So we hold on to those views 

616
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,680
very with less force. 
We are more humble about what we

617
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,440
actually know and then our 
worldview becomes more 

618
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,200
malleable. 
It doesn't mean that we listen 

619
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,040
to everyone and take on board 
what other people say 

620
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,400
uncritically. 
It doesn't mean that at all. 

621
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,280
In fact, we realise other 
people's views are equally 

622
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,120
conditional and equally 
uncertain. 

623
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
It just means that we become 
more open, we become more 

624
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,840
listening, but we still, if we 
think the other person is wrong 

625
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,920
and we are right, of course we 
still hold on to what we believe

626
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,800
is right. 
And one of the beautiful ways of

627
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,520
doing this, I was just teaching 
a very famous suit by the Buddha

628
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,640
at the monastery on Wednesday. 
That's one of the great nice 

629
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,600
things about being the 
monastery. 

630
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,160
Teaching the monks is actually, 
it's actually really nice. 

631
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,640
It's different from teaching 
here because the monks, they are

632
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,040
more what are they more? 
Got to be careful what I say now

633
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,200
The, the, the, the monks are the
monks are a bit more learned in 

634
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,440
Dunmar. 
As long as you get really, 

635
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,840
really tough questions. 
Yeah. 

636
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,720
And actually, I, I enjoy getting
tough questions because then you

637
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,400
makes you think, yeah. 
So we're doing the suit, the 

638
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,280
same suit that we're going to do
here on Sunday. 

639
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,360
By the way, Cosena just 
mentioned the suit of the D 

640
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,560
gandhicar #1 we're going to do 
on Sunday here. 

641
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:09,400
And in the suta, the suta is 
about 62 kinds of wrong view. 

642
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,080
Yeah, 62 wrong views. 
And the Buddha says all of these

643
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,600
are, you know, wrong, basically.
And, and you'd be surprised. 

644
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,880
What is in there is like, you 
know, things like create a God, 

645
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,600
Yeah. 
Things like cosmic 

646
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,280
consciousness, Yeah. 
This kind of stuff. 

647
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,840
Yeah. 
Basically, it doesn't work 

648
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:32,520
according to the Buddha. 
So then he says, and this is 

649
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,840
very interesting, yeah. 
Because then he analysis, where 

650
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,120
do these views come from? 
Why do we have these views? 

651
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,320
And this is actually very 
fascinating. 

652
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,600
And the reason that it's 
fascinating is because usually 

653
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,480
the way we think about our views
is that we have arrived at at 

654
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,760
those views through some kind of
rational process. 

655
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,199
Yeah, I have thought about these
views. 

656
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,840
This view makes sense. 
I've weighed up all the 

657
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,560
evidence, and this must be 
right. 

658
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:01,600
This must be wrong. 
Yeah. 

659
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,960
This is how we tend to think 
about our views. 

660
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:08,000
And of course, there is that 
some degree of truth to that. 

661
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,320
There is partly A rational 
process. 

662
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,520
But what the Buddha points say 
that is that the views really 

663
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,560
come from feelings. 
Isn't that kind of amazing? 

664
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,360
Yeah, it's kind of extraordinary
when you see that because it 

665
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,640
gets so counter to how we 
normally think about the world. 

666
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,480
If a view feels good to us, then
we have that view. 

667
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,840
Yeah. 
So for example, you may grow up 

668
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,120
in a certain way, You grow up 
with a certain family, with a 

669
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,560
certain viewpoint of the world. 
And because those viewers maybe 

670
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,000
feel good to you, you carry on 
those views. 

671
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,200
You grew up as a Christian, so 
you carry on being Christian 

672
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,200
because it feels good to be a 
Christian. 

673
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,360
Or you grow up as a Buddhist and
you carry on being good because 

674
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,160
it feels good. 
But please carry on being a 

675
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,120
Buddhist, by the way. 
But I'm just saying it also 

676
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,920
because it feels good, maybe 
because I grew up that way. 

677
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,360
So much of our views, our 
feelings. 

678
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,800
Yeah. 
Or because all our mates, you 

679
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,240
know, all our mates vote for a 
certain party, we vote for the 

680
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:11,280
same party. 
That's our view. 

681
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,520
It's the best party. 
Well, why? 

682
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,840
Well, because it's kind of hard 
to go against what all your 

683
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,040
friends say, right. 
So you kind of that feels good 

684
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,200
to you again. 
So views are in a very large 

685
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:26,200
part come from feelings. 
And when you start to see that 

686
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,040
you don't take your views so 
seriously anymore. 

687
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,720
Yeah. 
Because you realise they are 

688
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:33,640
very unreliable there. 
It depends on whether your 

689
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,440
feelings are reliable or not in 
that particular instance. 

690
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,840
That is very hard to say. 
Yeah, this is a great way of 

691
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,040
analysing your views. 
And the Buddha says that. 

692
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,120
So look at that. 
And when you do that, you can 

693
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,560
hold your views more likely. 
And when you hold your views 

694
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,840
more likely, it has lots of 
great consequences. 

695
00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:53,920
You have less arguments in the 
world. 

696
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,240
Yeah. 
If someone challenges you, says,

697
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,680
well, you know, you 
superstitious Buddhist, you 

698
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,920
believe in rebirth, you know, 
that kind of nonsense. 

699
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,760
You think, yeah, whatever. 
Yeah. 

700
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,000
You know, you don't fight back 
because there's no need to fight

701
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:08,880
back. 
Yeah. 

702
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,320
And you just kind of shrug your 
shoulders. 

703
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:11,480
Yeah. 
We'll see what happens. 

704
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:15,360
It doesn't mean you give up your
view of rebirth because that 

705
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,320
would be also very silly just 
because someone tells you you're

706
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,280
superstitious. 
But there's no need to fight 

707
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,520
about it. 
And you kind of let it go quite 

708
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,040
easily. 
That is 1 benefit, Yeah. 

709
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,880
Less fighting in the world. 
Second benefit, it's easier to 

710
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,480
have a malleable idea of 
reality, easy to change your 

711
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,800
views, and then gradually, 
hopefully, moving in the right 

712
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,720
direction as a consequence. 
So that's views. 

713
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,560
Yeah. 
How to not grasp onto views, How

714
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,760
to let go of our views and move 
in the right direction. 

715
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,960
But now I want to talk about 
meditation practice because that

716
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,160
is sort of where I was talking 
at the very beginning. 

717
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,720
Yeah. 
And this obvious is a very 

718
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:56,120
important part of it. 
Yeah. 

719
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,880
Let go, they say. 
Let go, let go. 

720
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,400
OK. 
What happens? 

721
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,200
Yeah. 
And we know the feeling. 

722
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,360
You meditate, Maybe you come 
here sometimes and you feel 

723
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,320
quite peaceful and you come to a
certain level. 

724
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,520
Yeah. 
Maybe especially when you go on 

725
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,960
a meditation retreat, it goes to
a certain level, It stops why it

726
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,600
doesn't go any further. 
And next day stops at roughly 

727
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,320
the same place. 
Why doesn't it go any further? 

728
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,320
And the reason why it doesn't go
any further because you're 

729
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,640
holding on to something that is 
the reason. 

730
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,720
And very often you can't even 
see that. 

731
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:33,680
Yeah, it is not obvious. 
You feel peaceful. 

732
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,400
Everything feels fine. 
Doesn't feel like you're holding

733
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,920
on to anything. 
But there is a grasping there. 

734
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,000
And the grasping is too subtle 
for you really to see what is 

735
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,160
going on. 
Yeah. 

736
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,800
So this is the problem that we 
are faced with. 

737
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:52,160
So what are the things that we 
are grasping at at that 

738
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,880
particular point? 
And the answer is, generally 

739
00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,080
speaking, it is the external 
world that we are holding on to.

740
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,440
Our physical body is an 
important part of it. 

741
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,280
Or anything that comes through 
the five senses. 

742
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,320
Yeah, that's the entire external
world. 

743
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,080
We're not able to let go of 
those senses. 

744
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,320
We're not able to let go of the 
body. 

745
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,480
That is the big problem. 
And in the suitors, the Buddha 

746
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,160
has a beautiful phrase for this.
He says that if you want to 

747
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,040
attain samadhi, samadhi being 
deep meditation, the way to 

748
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,240
attain samadhi, Samadhi should 
become an obligatory word in the

749
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:32,560
English language. 
Such a beautiful word, samadhi. 

750
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,240
It's this really very, very 
Indian spiritual word which 

751
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:39,640
means deep meditation. 
We have nothing like it in the 

752
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,120
English language because we are 
lacking so much spiritual 

753
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,280
vocabulary. 
It's not just English, by the 

754
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,000
way, it's kind of the whole 
European languages are lacking 

755
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,480
this spiritual vocabulary. 
India is full of it because 

756
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,120
India has this very powerful 
spiritual tradition here. 

757
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,240
Samadhi, Let's take, let's take 
it on board and whack it into 

758
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:02,240
the Oxford English Dictionary 
and get it kind of certified 

759
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,680
once and for all. 
I think actually it's there 

760
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,480
already. 
Probably, yeah, Samadhi and a 

761
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,120
few words like that. 
So what the Buddha says about 

762
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,840
attaining samadhi, he says the 
following. 

763
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:16,480
He says wasaga ramnan karitva 
samadhi labati wasaga ramnan. 

764
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,800
Wasaga means letting go, 
basically. 

765
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,000
A Ramanang is a foundation, 
Karitva having made, having made

766
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,920
a foundation through letting go,
you attain samadhi, you attain 

767
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,000
deep meditation. 
That's what the Buddha is 

768
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:30,840
saying. 
Yeah. 

769
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,120
So you need to let go. 
And the the sangha here, the 

770
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,760
thing that you let go of is 
precisely that sensory world, 

771
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,680
giving up your five senses, 
giving up your attachment to the

772
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,960
body. 
And as you do that, that is when

773
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,120
meditation becomes possible. 
Yeah. 

774
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,120
And this is challenging because 
this goes really against the 

775
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,960
grain of the world when we talk 
like this. 

776
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:55,160
But it's also the case when you 
go to the five hindrances. 

777
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:56,320
Yeah. 
The five hindrance of 

778
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,480
meditation, The very first one 
is called the Kamachanda. 

779
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:04,160
Yeah. 
Which means the desire for the 

780
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,000
sensory world. 
That's really what it means. 

781
00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:08,080
Yeah. 
This is the most powerful of 

782
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,720
those five hindrances. 
This is also what blocks you 

783
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:16,280
from deep meditation. 
So how can we do this? 

784
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,640
It sounds almost, how can we 
overcome that sensory world, 

785
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,280
right? 
It's just so, it seems so 

786
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,200
impossible. 
We're so enmeshed in that 

787
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,440
sensory world. 
And the way to do it is actually

788
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,640
to go buy it, buy this, do this 
very gradually. 

789
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,200
That is really the way to do it.
And it is always possible. 

790
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,800
If you look at the world in the 
right way, it is possible to 

791
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,080
just withdraw a little bit from 
that sensory world and all you 

792
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,360
have to do is see the 
disadvantages in that world 

793
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,240
around you. 
I've recently been talking a 

794
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,520
little bit about people who 
suffer from things like climate 

795
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,840
anxiety. 
Yeah, people say, oh, what's 

796
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,360
happening to the climate in the 
world? 

797
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,280
Is it going down the drain? 
Are we all doomed? 

798
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,480
Is it kind of, is the ocean 
going to rise by 50 metres or 

799
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,440
what's, what's going to happen 
over the next, you know, 

800
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,160
whatever number of years and 
people have climate? 

801
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,920
And I think personally, I think 
there's pretty good grounds for 

802
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,440
having a bit of anxiety for the 
climate. 

803
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,520
Yeah, I think there's really 
good grounds for that. 

804
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:21,160
Or pandemics or political 
instability in the world, or all

805
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,640
the refugees and the streams of 
migration happening around the 

806
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,320
world. 
There's so many problems, and we

807
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,880
don't seem up to dealing with 
it. 

808
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,440
Yeah, that's the basic reality. 
We don't seem to be able to do 

809
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:33,960
it. 
Human beings just haven't got it

810
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,120
together. 
That seems to be the reality. 

811
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,440
I guess we are trying in our own
way, but we can't really get it 

812
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,280
together. 
So what is the response? 

813
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:43,960
Well, one response is to be 
anxious. 

814
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,880
Oh, no. 
The world is going down the 

815
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,080
drain. 
What's going to happen to my 

816
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,680
life? 
My life is going to be ruined. 

817
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,080
It's my parents faults. 
Their generation. 

818
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,760
Yeah. 
They ruin the world for me, my 

819
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,320
grandparents, my parents, and 
now. 

820
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,560
But it's a stupid way of 
thinking. 

821
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,720
Yeah. 
Because all it leads to a sense 

822
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,960
of despair, a sense of blame, a 
sense of all of these negative 

823
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,400
kind of things. 
It is not really conducive, 

824
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:10,400
because the point is that if you
think in the right way, your 

825
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,480
future does not depend so much 
on the what's happening in the 

826
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,800
external world. 
Yes, the external world 

827
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,800
obviously has some effect on us.
If it gets hotter, if the ocean 

828
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,000
rises, if the political 
instability, yes, it will be 

829
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,360
painful to some extent, but only
to some extent. 

830
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:34,040
Your future is made by your 
conduct, Your future is made by 

831
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,200
the quality of your heart. 
Your future is made by how you 

832
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,160
live your life. 
If you live your life well with 

833
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,200
kindness, with care, with 
compassion, with understanding, 

834
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,800
with peace, with all of these 
kind of things, then you will 

835
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,400
have a bright future regardless,
whether in this life, but 

836
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,520
especially, of course, in future
life, but also in this life, 

837
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,040
because the whole world becomes 
brighter. 

838
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,520
When your inner world becomes 
brighter, things become more. 

839
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,560
You can over, you can deal with 
things in a much better way. 

840
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,920
When you do that, that is where 
your future is made. 

841
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,840
Yeah, in our inner life. 
And by thinking in this way, you

842
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,960
are taking away some of the 
attraction in the external 

843
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,520
world. 
You're seeing the external world

844
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:25,360
for what it is, troublesome, 
uncertain, unreliable, having no

845
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,160
idea where it's going to go 
next. 

846
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:30,560
Yeah. 
And then you're letting go a 

847
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,200
little bit. 
You're letting go a little bit 

848
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,360
of that entire world in one go. 
All the senses, even your 

849
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,920
interest in your own body. 
Yeah. 

850
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,760
You look yourself in the mirror.
Oh, I look older today. 

851
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,080
Or someone comes up to you with 
cheek and I say, ah, you 

852
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,760
actually, you're looking older. 
What's going on with you? 

853
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,720
Like going on with you? 
I'm just getting old. 

854
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:51,040
That's what you know. 
That's life. 

855
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,640
And it shows you the body can't 
control it, can't control the 

856
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,480
external world. 
Let it all go. 

857
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,840
Then when you let it go, this is
a simple way of doing it. 

858
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,080
You don't have to do the Asuba 
meditation or anything like 

859
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,000
that. 
Then the meditation becomes 

860
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,160
deeper, then it starts to 
happen. 

861
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,040
This is how you can do this in a
simple way, seeing the positive,

862
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,080
understanding the negative, 
guiding the mind in the right 

863
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,640
direction. 
And it's wonderful to live for 

864
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,960
the inner life rather than live 
for the external life. 

865
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,800
It's becomes a very beautiful 
way of living where everything 

866
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,840
you do is to try to live well, 
try to be kind and caring, 

867
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,240
understanding, unselfish. 
It's a wonderful thing when you 

868
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,520
turn your life in that 
direction. 

869
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,080
Don't don't have to become a 
monastic to do that. 

870
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,040
You can do that in lay life. 
But that is what we need to do. 

871
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,560
So what then about this thing 
that I started out with when I 

872
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,520
said that? 
Well, Azambram says, you know, 

873
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,760
let go of the doing, right? 
The Buddha says let go of the 

874
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,160
sensory world. 
And Zambram says letting go of 

875
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,880
the doing. 
What is the connection? 

876
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,080
And the connection is that as 
long as we are interested in the

877
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,880
sensory world, the world 
outside, there are things to be 

878
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,400
done. 
Yeah. 

879
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,720
Because that world demands 
action. 

880
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,560
That world is involved with 
craving because we want things 

881
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,640
in that world. 
We want to have enough things to

882
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,800
look after us. 
We want to have, you know, 

883
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,400
enough money in a big enough 
house. 

884
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:24,800
We want to have a nice 
relationship. 

885
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,600
We want to have a good prestige.
We want to, we want to be 

886
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,360
important. 
We want to be well liked by 

887
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,120
people around us. 
There's endless desires in that 

888
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,120
world and that world. 
You cannot live in that world 

889
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,440
without desire. 
But the whole nature of that 

890
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,840
world is that it's filled up 
with craving. 

891
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,880
As long as you enjoy that world,
you will have desires. 

892
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,600
You will crave. 
And when you have craving and 

893
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,440
desires, there are things to be 
done, right? 

894
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,520
That's what craving does. 
Craving makes you restless. 

895
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,560
Craving makes you act. 
Craving makes you run after 

896
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,360
things this way or that way, 
like a headless chicken. 

897
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,360
Sometimes you see people in 
their life, they're so busy, 

898
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,760
always running around, and it 
gives them a buzz when they run 

899
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,440
around. 
The reason they give them a buzz

900
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,800
because there is an additional 
factor, the sense of identity we

901
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,760
identify with the doing so it 
also gives us a buzz to do as 

902
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,360
well. 
So they are intimately connected

903
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,320
with each other. 
Yeah. 

904
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,160
Doing in the sensory world are 
two sides of the same coin. 

905
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:29,760
And what that means is that 
there is an alternative way of 

906
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,760
overcoming that sensory world, 
and that is by understanding the

907
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,920
danger of doing it. 
Yeah. 

908
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,600
Understand that doing itself is 
actually quite unpleasant. 

909
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,400
And for those of you who have 
had some success in meditation 

910
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,440
practice, who sometimes become 
peaceful, who sometime allow 

911
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,200
yourself to let go of all the 
activity, you will know that 

912
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,800
peace is far superior to doing. 
Doing is like this itch. 

913
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,640
It's like this compulsion always
driving your honour. 

914
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,160
But when you become peaceful, 
it's cool. 

915
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:03,480
Yeah. 
It's relaxing. 

916
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,240
It is easeful. 
It is far superior to activity. 

917
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,440
So this then is an alternative 
way of dealing with that sensory

918
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,320
world? 
Yeah. 

919
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,720
Allowing yourself to become 
cool, allowing yourself to calm 

920
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,560
down. 
And as you do that, the sensory 

921
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,200
world itself starts to fade 
because you're taking away the 

922
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,800
craving, the thing that drives 
this world on. 

923
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,080
So this is the way to think 
about meditation practice. 

924
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,680
So there's two things. 
Yeah. 

925
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,720
When people say let go in 
meditation, there's two things 

926
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:36,200
to remember. 
What that means. 

927
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,800
It means letting go of the 
sensory world. 

928
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,080
Of course, if you're angry in 
meditation, you have let go of 

929
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,480
the anger first of all. 
But assuming you have already 

930
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,840
gone past that, let's go of the 
sensory world. 

931
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,080
Yeah. 
And then the alternative way is 

932
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:53,480
to look at the activity. 
Let go, reduce the activity. 

933
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,840
That is what we have to do in 
meditation. 

934
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,600
And what I told you just before 
are some of the methods, some of

935
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,920
the of the ways of achieving 
that, looking at the world in 

936
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,240
the right way so you can achieve
that kind of letting go. 

937
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,920
So what next? 
There is more. 

938
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,880
I'm coming to the very end now. 
I promise. 

939
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,240
Please don't go yet. 
We're coming to the we're coming

940
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:19,160
to the end. 
Let me just read out this last. 

941
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,520
I promise to read out, read out 
this last verse. 

942
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:26,040
So this is about how to take the
letting go all the way to the 

943
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,000
end. 
This is a bikini called 

944
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,440
Patachara. 
Not that I think this is a 

945
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,960
different patachara from the one
that we normally hear about, but

946
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,040
there seem to have been a few 
patacharas. 

947
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:42,520
And this is what she has to say.
Here I am accomplished in 

948
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:48,760
morality here I do the teachers 
bidding here, being neither lazy

949
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:53,000
nor restless. 
Why then do I not achieve 

950
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,520
Nirvana? 
Having washed my feet, I took 

951
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,720
note of the water. 
Seeing the foot washing water 

952
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:08,320
flowing from high ground to low,
my mind became serene, like a 

953
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:14,640
fine thoroughbred horse. 
Then, taking a lamp, I entered 

954
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,760
my dwelling, inspected the bed 
and sat down. 

955
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,920
Then, grabbing the pin, I drew 
out the Wick. 

956
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,840
The liberation of my heart was 
like the quenching of the lamp. 

957
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:38,720
It's beautiful, isn't it? 
The idea of being liberated. 

958
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:40,760
You draw out the Wick from the 
lamp. 

959
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,240
The lamp goes out in the same 
way you quench the mind. 

960
00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:46,320
Yeah, you attain Nirvana in that
way. 

961
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,440
Yeah, again, there's this 
insight that arises when the 

962
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,840
lamp goes out. 
Just like the lamp going out. 

963
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,280
All my craving, everything bam, 
goes out. 

964
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,520
I become cool like the lamp. 
Yeah, Quenched, as it says here.

965
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,120
So this is the final thing. 
Yeah, that we have to do on the 

966
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,840
path when the meditation takes 
you all the way to samadhi. 

967
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,040
Yeah, that is when you have the 
chance for really profound 

968
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,600
insight. 
What is that insight? 

969
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,400
It is more of the same. 
I've just been teaching all the 

970
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,240
way through about seeing 
suffering and happiness, and 

971
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:22,760
that even that last insight is 
actually seeing the distinction 

972
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,960
between suffering and happiness,
where they're suffering and 

973
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,840
where there's happiness. 
It's just that now you see it 

974
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,560
completely here. 
And when you see it completely 

975
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,640
here, you see that the whole 
world is on fire. 

976
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,520
The whole world is problematic. 
Yeah. 

977
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,480
And then the lamp goes out. 
Yeah. 

978
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:44,480
The craving comes to an end, and
bang, you are freed once and for

979
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,520
all. 
And that is the end of the 

980
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:54,400
Buddhist path. 
OK everyone, so there you are, a

981
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:59,160
little talk on letting go. 
So please say Sadu if you like 

982
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:05,880
him, just make it clear. 
We come to the end. 

983
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:10,840
So, OK, so do we have any 
questions from anyone or any 

984
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:21,240
comments about this or? 
OK, great. 

985
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:23,080
Thank you. 
Thank you. 

986
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,160
Is there anyone in the hall who 
would like to ask a question or 

987
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:27,760
comment? 
First of all, because usually we

988
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,920
can allow the people here to go 
first. 

989
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,160
Sorry, Prem. 
OK. 

990
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,960
Yeah, Yeah, Prem, we want to go 
first. 

991
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,280
Prem. 
Thank you, Hajan. 

992
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:47,640
The various effort, right effort
as well plays a big role in 

993
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:53,720
letting go, isn't it? 
And the ways of applying your 

994
00:52:53,720 --> 00:53:02,760
mind to take the very or to the 
way how you how you take the 

995
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:10,720
effort you think of the long 
Sansara and that makes you. 

996
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,480
Let go quicker. 
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. 

997
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,240
Effort is absolutely part of 
this. 

998
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,760
The effort here, you know, in 
letting go to me is a lot of 

999
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,560
that is the effort of 
reflecting. 

1000
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,160
Yeah, reflecting in the right 
way. 

1001
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,560
And that's what you're saying 
now, thinking about Sangsara in 

1002
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,200
the right way. 
So reflecting on where happiness

1003
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:37,000
is to be found, where suffering 
is to be found, making that 

1004
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,160
distinction and then moving from
one to the other. 

1005
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:39,800
Yeah. 
That's the really the 

1006
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,560
reflection. 
And also reflecting on the means

1007
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,880
for achieving that, for moving 
in between them. 

1008
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:46,920
So reflection is fundamental to 
the Buddhist path. 

1009
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,440
And that is indeed an A very 
important aspect of right 

1010
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:50,920
effort. 
Yeah. 

1011
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:52,760
Thank you. 
Absolutely. 

1012
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:53,680
Thank you. 
Yeah. 

1013
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:01,000
Bramley, Eddie, thank you for 
the wonderful, really deep talk,

1014
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,440
you know, interesting talk. 
Yeah. 

1015
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:08,680
Though in letting go and what is
teaching it seems simple, but 

1016
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,680
it's unknown territory for many 
people. 

1017
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,040
Unknown territory. 
It's simple. 

1018
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:14,440
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1019
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,360
So what I'm trying to say is 
you're saying letting go. 

1020
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:18,520
OK. 
Yeah. 

1021
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:21,360
So I was just thinking like, say
you pick up a subject. 

1022
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,240
Letting go of anger, for 
example. 

1023
00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:27,480
No. 
OK, so the person has it's not 

1024
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,360
easy to let go. 
Of course, the person has been 

1025
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,000
building up in that anger for 
some time in the Yeah, and it's 

1026
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,840
of suffering state. 
OK, Yeah. 

1027
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,160
For the first, for the person to
want to overcome that, the 

1028
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:42,520
person has to make up the mind 
to I want to try, you know, try 

1029
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:43,960
to do it. 
OK, Yeah, that's the first 

1030
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,280
stage. 
The other thing is what do you 

1031
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,640
think of the aspects of 
mindfulness, you know, or the 

1032
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,760
four foundations of mindfulness 
understanding? 

1033
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:57,080
You know what this say anger and
then it's OK. 

1034
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,320
It's from the thinking mind, you
know, or if you think good 

1035
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,800
things, you feel good, you know,
if it's still like revenge or 

1036
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:05,960
you think there's anger, you 
know. 

1037
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:10,040
So they must understand how the 
mind, the system know, how it 

1038
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,480
works in them is for my mind, 
you know, and then work from 

1039
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,840
there, you know, you know not. 
It takes time, you know, it 

1040
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,520
takes time and slowly, slowly 
overcome that, you know, and 

1041
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:25,120
overcoming suffering too. 
It's an unknown territory, but 

1042
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,800
not all people can. 
So what do you think of the 

1043
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,800
aspect of mind you know, 
Understanding the mind you know?

1044
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,960
Yeah, mindfulness is absolutely 
essential. 

1045
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,600
Yeah, because mindfulness is 
what enables you to see that 

1046
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,360
there is a problem there in the 
1st place. 

1047
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,200
And you can. 
And you know the first thing 

1048
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,120
you're saying, you said about 
anger becoming very strong and 

1049
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,080
established. 
Well, that is part of the 

1050
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,400
problem. 
Sometimes if you want to 

1051
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,840
overcome the anger, you can't 
wait till it's established. 

1052
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,240
You have to catch it early on. 
Once it becomes established, 

1053
00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:57,560
it's actually very hard to let 
go of. 

1054
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,840
Sometimes you just have to walk 
around the block a few times and

1055
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,760
kind of you dissipate that extra
energy or something like that. 

1056
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:08,440
But so the idea here is to catch
it early on, and that is when 

1057
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,840
you can do something about it. 
And that's where mindfulness 

1058
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,760
comes in. 
And if you are really mindful, 

1059
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:17,440
you can see that now the causes 
are coming together for anger or

1060
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:18,760
ill will to arise. 
Yeah. 

1061
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,720
And that's when you have a 
chance to do something about. 

1062
00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:24,120
It just quickly, yeah, the 
reason why I thought, but mine 

1063
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,120
is for me, you know, whenever 
like there's a disturbing 

1064
00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:30,040
feeling or immersion comes with 
me, the first thing I thought 

1065
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,520
always my mind affecting that, 
you know, and I work on their 

1066
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,240
own, you know, to put all the 
positive things, you know, 

1067
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,760
simple things, it can go off 
weekly. 

1068
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,080
The problem difficult things 
take longer this thing, but it 

1069
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,880
goes off to. 
But it's the mind over feeling, 

1070
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,560
yeah. 
Yeah, OK, good. 

1071
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:47,560
OK. 
Thanks, Eddie. 

1072
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,400
Yeah. 
I think you are the most famous 

1073
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,440
person here. 
You are one of the people 

1074
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,440
everyone knows about, Eddie. 
Before I came here, I thought I 

1075
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,000
was not going to ask any 
question. 

1076
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:01,000
No, you know, But then with your
deep, you know, like the deep 

1077
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,160
talk, you know. 
So I say something. 

1078
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:04,360
Good. 
OK, Thanks, Eddie. 

1079
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,360
Great. 
So let's let's have a look at 

1080
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,400
the the few people from overseas
or at least outside of the 

1081
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,400
Buddhist society. 
We have Ace from the Middle 

1082
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,600
East. 
How can you understand a human 

1083
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:21,760
with severe depression who has 
suicidal thought if you are you 

1084
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,400
or a monk never experienced that
level of pain? 

1085
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:28,640
Thank you. 
Well, you, you know, you may not

1086
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,680
be able to understand exactly 
what that person is through. 

1087
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,160
That is true. 
You cannot understand exactly, 

1088
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,960
but you will have some idea. 
I mean, everyone has had 

1089
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,760
difficult times in their life. 
Most people have had periods of 

1090
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:41,880
depression. 
Yeah. 

1091
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,600
And you can remember those 
periods. 

1092
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,000
So you have some idea what is 
going on. 

1093
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,120
And sometimes you can just look 
at someone and you can say, wow,

1094
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:50,560
you have a lot of pain in your 
life. 

1095
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,120
You can know that is from the 
way a person looks sometimes and

1096
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,200
you can have compassion through 
that. 

1097
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,280
So you don't really need to 
understand exactly because you 

1098
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,920
know that all people in the 
world have plenty of problems, 

1099
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,920
plenty of pain, and you can have
compassion just through a 

1100
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,920
general understanding of 
humanity and some similar 

1101
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,560
experiences as well. 
And for that reason you have 

1102
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:18,080
then the, you know, the ability 
or the, you know, you can also 

1103
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:22,640
help to guide them out of that. 
OK, Eddie from Indonesia. 

1104
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,160
Hello Eddie, how are you? 
OK? 

1105
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:33,200
How is sleeping different or the
same from meditation as both 

1106
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,440
seem to have let go, have the 
let go element. 

1107
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:42,160
What, what is the right effort 
we can do in order to practice 

1108
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:47,880
let go, especially on fear. 
So it's a very good point 

1109
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,840
because when you let go, two 
things can happen. 

1110
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,400
You can go to sleep or, or you 
can have a good meditation. 

1111
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,760
It's true, actually. 
So I, I, you know, it's a good 

1112
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,640
point that you're making there. 
And sometimes actually, if you 

1113
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,840
want to let go in meditation, it
can be a bit like falling asleep

1114
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,640
because what is it that you do 
when you fall asleep? 

1115
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,360
Well, usually you let go. 
Yeah. 

1116
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,360
If you have a very active mind 
that you can't sleep, usually 

1117
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:13,840
you have to let go of the 
thinking. 

1118
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,320
Yeah. 
And so it's a similar kind of 

1119
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,400
thing that you do in meditation 
as it you do when you fall 

1120
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,560
asleep. 
Yeah, letting go of something 

1121
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,280
that allows you access to that 
deeper state. 

1122
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,640
So it's a it's similar. 
So you have a point. 

1123
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,520
That is the only difference is 
that when you fall asleep, fall 

1124
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,360
asleep, it's because your mind 
is tired. 

1125
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,000
You let go and then the 
tiredness takes over. 

1126
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,680
But when you let go more 
voluntarily, you're not tired, 

1127
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,120
then the clarity of mind takes 
over instead. 

1128
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,520
That's the difference. 
So the difference is just when 

1129
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,040
you do it, the qualities of the 
mind behind that. 

1130
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:52,640
Yeah. 
So what is the right effort we 

1131
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,440
can do to practice let go, 
especially on fear? 

1132
00:59:55,440 --> 01:00:00,280
Well, again, on fear. 
Fear is the fear of the future, 

1133
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,120
about the being, scared about 
the future, the future being 

1134
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:08,400
uncertain and all of that. 
So the way to remember is that 

1135
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,680
you know if you are. 
A Buddhist. 

1136
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,720
And I guess you're practising 
well, Yeah. 

1137
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,360
Otherwise you wouldn't be here. 
Yeah. 

1138
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,000
On Friday, Be here on Friday 
night with us from all the way 

1139
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,320
from Indonesia. 
That's really nice to have 

1140
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,160
people coming all that way just 
to be with us here. 

1141
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:23,960
And you are doing the right 
thing. 

1142
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,120
You're living well. 
Your future is bright. 

1143
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,640
Yeah. 
So the, again, all of these 

1144
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,880
things about fear of the world 
and where the world is going, 

1145
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,160
it's kind of irrelevant. 
Your future is bright. 

1146
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,160
If you are living well, that is 
what matters for your future. 

1147
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,440
Where the world is going doesn't
matter so much. 

1148
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,880
If we we could get that message 
out there to the world that 

1149
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,720
there would be much less anxiety
in the world because we know we 

1150
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:50,240
have the strength and the power 
within us to ensure a good 

1151
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:51,760
future. 
We just have to do the right 

1152
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,160
thing here and then it will 
happen. 

1153
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:55,680
So you just make sure you live 
well. 

1154
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,160
And as you do that, as you live 
well, gradually you will 

1155
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:02,120
overcome that fear because you 
after a while, you know that 

1156
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:06,000
you're living well. 
And also don't buy into those 

1157
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,760
fantasies about the future. 
You know, the fear about the 

1158
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:10,720
future is very often 
unrealistic. 

1159
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,800
You, you will have noticed in 
your life that you are anxious 

1160
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,440
about heaps of things that never
turn out that way anyway. 

1161
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,760
It's just the kind of, you know,
it's, it's not real that the 

1162
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:24,480
anxiety is built on illusions to
try to see that actually another

1163
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,320
future is more likely. 
Why be anxious? 

1164
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,920
Why be fearful? 
And gradually you overcome that 

1165
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:34,680
by thinking in the right way. 
This is, oh, in Melbourne. 

1166
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:40,200
Dear Azan, how do we best let go
of others expectations of us? 

1167
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,720
Thank you. 
You don't let go of others 

1168
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,840
expectations. 
You let go of your trying to 

1169
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,400
pander to others expectations. 
That's what you let go of. 

1170
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,360
Yeah. 
You don't care about others 

1171
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,640
expectations. 
You think whatever, Yes, they're

1172
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,680
probably not mine. 
That's what you think, Yeah. 

1173
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,560
And then you're on the right 
track. 

1174
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,760
Yeah, so just allow other 
people. 

1175
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,080
You can't really control them, 
just have to allow them what 

1176
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,080
they be. 
But you don't need to react to 

1177
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,400
their expectations. 
Then you're on the right track, 

1178
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,000
unless it is the expectations of
the Buddha. 

1179
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:15,120
If it is the expectations of the
Buddha, then please don't let go

1180
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:21,600
of that and fulfil it, OK? 
This is Bryce from Australia. 

1181
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:25,560
Hello Bryce. 
Recently I have abused 

1182
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,520
psychedelics and reached a state
of delusion. 

1183
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,240
How do I ground myself back in 
reality? 

1184
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:39,120
Stop using psychedelics #1 and 
just give yourself time. 

1185
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,520
Yeah, you will probably come out
of this. 

1186
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:45,480
The fact that you are even here 
and you are kind of doing, doing

1187
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,120
the right thing means you're on 
the right track. 

1188
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,680
Yeah, I would say probably you 
will come back gradually, 

1189
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,720
gradually, gradually. 
In the meantime, live really, 

1190
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,160
really well. 
Be super duper kind to everyone 

1191
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,040
around you. 
Do the right thing. 

1192
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,760
And these are the states that 
give rise to clarity after a 

1193
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,880
while. 
Do a bit of meditation if you 

1194
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,360
can. 
If you find meditation too hard,

1195
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:10,200
at least live really well if you
to the very best of your ability

1196
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:15,240
here, Joshua in Brisbane. 
Hello Azan, I want to start 

1197
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:16,960
digging deeper into studying 
Buddhism. 

1198
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:20,120
I'm just wondering where is the 
best place to start reading the 

1199
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,240
suit as I'm confused on the 
order I should read them. 

1200
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,600
That's a good point that you are
confused because there actually 

1201
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,920
is no order. 
So you know, might as well be 

1202
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:34,680
confused about that and so just 
read what you enjoy. 

1203
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:40,200
That's what I always recommend. 
But to start out, it is good to 

1204
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,720
read like an anthology of the 
certain. 

1205
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,760
And there is a beautiful book by
Venable Bikibode called In the 

1206
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,000
Buddha's Words, In the Buddha's 
Words by Biku Bodhi Bodhi 

1207
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,960
BODHIBODHI. 
You can look it up online. 

1208
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,600
You can purchase that book. 
I think not. 

1209
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,160
Most of the content is also 
available online. 

1210
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:04,840
If you go to a a web page called
central.net, most of that book 

1211
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:13,400
is available through that 
through that web that yeah, 

1212
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,200
whatever is available there on 
throughthecentral.net website. 

1213
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:17,920
That's right. 
That's the word. 

1214
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,960
OK, yeah, must be getting tied 
now. 

1215
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,040
So start with that. 
And also it can be very useful 

1216
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,600
to have some guidance when you 
read the suitez. 

1217
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,480
So we often do SUTA readings 
here at the BSWA. 

1218
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:35,240
Usually every second Sunday of 
the month we do suta readings 

1219
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,040
and I would recommend you to 
follow that I they are usually 

1220
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:43,160
quite good. 
I say in all modesty, but I 

1221
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:46,280
think they are reasonably good. 
Yeah, because we we have studied

1222
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:49,640
the suit as in quite a lot of 
detail in our tradition, the 

1223
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,880
Aljambram tradition. 
So you should be getting good 

1224
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,840
suit readings. 
I would say here we translate 

1225
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,960
sutas here. 
So we are very involved in suta 

1226
01:04:59,960 --> 01:05:01,840
study. 
So you fairly good stuff. 

1227
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,480
You can also listen to other 
people's suta readings. 

1228
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,720
Very good people to listen to 
our people like Venerable Biku 

1229
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,920
Bodhi. 
He is foremost translator of the

1230
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,560
Poly language into English in 
the world. 

1231
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,160
He's a very, very good one to 
listen to as well. 

1232
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:20,800
So try it out and then see what 
happens and enjoy, make sure you

1233
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,880
enjoy reading the suit as 
because if you enjoy, you will 

1234
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:27,160
carry on. 
And that's really the the the 

1235
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,240
way to move forward on the path 
there. 

1236
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,440
OK, another question. 
Really another question. 

1237
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:38,200
OK, Yeah, please fire away. 
I forgot my question. 

1238
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:44,360
I forgot my question. 
What I found fascinating was the

1239
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,920
last one that you read which 
spoke about the quenching of the

1240
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:54,880
candle is nirbana. 
And the way I look at it is a 

1241
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:01,000
candle is light and quenching of
when you extinguish the light is

1242
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:06,920
what I'm I'm seeing it that way 
that that that that is darkness 

1243
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,680
is what is nirbana. 
But. 

1244
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,320
No, I think that would. 
Be equanimity maybe? 

1245
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:19,760
Sorry, equanimity. 
OK, I don't think so. 

1246
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:21,520
I think that would be taking it 
the wrong way here. 

1247
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,600
First of all, I want to 
congratulate you on forgetting 

1248
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:26,640
your question because that's a 
really good sign. 

1249
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:29,520
I that because you're listening 
to what's going on, you forget 

1250
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,000
the question. 
That's really, really good. 

1251
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,920
A lot of people, they think 
about the question while someone

1252
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:35,200
is talking. 
Yeah, they're not really 

1253
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:35,760
listening. 
Yeah. 

1254
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,160
So forgetting your question, I 
think that's a wonderful thing. 

1255
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,040
And I I you know, I think it's 
really kind of admirable. 

1256
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:44,360
So. 
But I don't know. 

1257
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:48,040
I don't think that is the point.
The point is that because 

1258
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:49,920
Nirvana is actually light. 
Yeah. 

1259
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:54,040
Very often the suit as awakening
is a moment of insight. 

1260
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,640
Yeah. 
The light arises, darkness is 

1261
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:59,240
dispelled. 
It's almost the exact opposite 

1262
01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:02,760
because darkness is the idea of 
being ignorant, not being able 

1263
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:07,160
to see what is going on there, 
but inside is actually seeing it

1264
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,800
is the light going on there? 
Yeah. 

1265
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,400
So this is a different metaphor.
The metaphor here is not about 

1266
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,920
the light and darkness. 
The metaphor here is about the 

1267
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,280
flame, the flame which is 
flickering, the flame which is 

1268
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,920
burning. 
Flame is like craving, always 

1269
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,560
restless, always moving on, 
always going somewhere. 

1270
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:26,920
Here It is this kind of the 
burning inside of us. 

1271
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,480
Yeah, when the flame goes out, 
you become cool. 

1272
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:31,680
Yeah. 
This is the idea of the flame 

1273
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:32,880
going out. 
Yeah. 

1274
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,880
The ending of craving. 
Yeah. 

1275
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,680
It can also be understood as the
ending of the five aggregates, 

1276
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:42,200
the ending of the body or the 
mind of the arrow hand when they

1277
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:43,960
die. 
Yeah, they can also be regarded 

1278
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:48,600
as that the final flame going 
out, or everything goes to 

1279
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:53,000
cessation and ends. 
Yeah, things end just like the 

1280
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,800
flame goes out. 
It's a metaphor for ending 

1281
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,080
things coming to an end. 
Yeah. 

1282
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,920
OK, everyone, that's it for 
tonight. 

1283
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,640
Let's play. 
Pay homage to the Buddha Dama 

1284
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:05,000
Sangha.