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So I wanted you. 
Good morning everyone. 

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Happy Moody Day. 
So I wanted to talk a little bit

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about Birdie Day. 
It is the day that we celebrate 

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the awakening of the Buddha and 
why we do constantly teach. 

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The Buddha was just a man. 
We respect him, Revere him as 

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our teacher, because after 
awakening he decided to stick 

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around and continue to teach 
others what to do to find that 

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same awakening for themselves. 
There are, I guess, a lot of 

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reasons that we do continue to 
celebrate the awakening. 

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One of them is to thank him for 
sticking around and teaching us 

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the paths of the Dharma. 
The other becomes a bit more 

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religious based and on the 
mystical side of things. 

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The There's a non canonical 
collection of stories about the 

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Buddha called the Buddha Cara, 
and a lot of the things you may 

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have heard about the Buddha's 
life probably came from the 

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Buddha Cara rather than from the
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sutras. 
For instance, his the story that

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at his birth he was glowing 
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he was born, took seven steps 
and declared this is my last 

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incarnation yet not in the 
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It's in the Buddha Cara, but 
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It is at the moment of his 
awakening, it's said that he 

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declared I have awakened with me
all the 100,000 beings. 

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Now 100,000 beings in Indian 
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the way of saying all beings. 
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measure of a huge amount. 
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Interestingly enough it when 
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report celebrities valued net 
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they report them in locks of 
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100,000. 
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divisions of 100,000 rather than
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So just a little interesting 
carryover. 

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But what that statement about or
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varies by the school of Buddhism
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in the devotional schools of 
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especially, that became almost a
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when the Buddha awoke, a wave of
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all beings. 
We even carry this over in Zen a

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little bit with the notion of 
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But The thing is that, and there
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that this is a mystical thing 
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nature had the Buddha not 
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So it kind of ties back to that 
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100,000 beings awakened. 
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Zen and the way that we and 
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Buddha nature is more than it is
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beings, that all beings have 
this the state of compassion and

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awareness and awakening to the 
present moment, living in the 

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present moment and doing what is
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moment. 
That is our natural state. 

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But we get thrown out of it by 
habituated behaviors that are 

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taught to us by our parents, by 
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By now, media were thrown out of
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what we have to find again. 
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practicing zazen is simply the 
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Because in sitting zazen we are 
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Buddha nature. 
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realization that we live in this
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to to act in this present moment
in ways that will be for the 

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betterment of all beings. 
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like for all of us to think 
about what that Buddha nature 

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means to them. 
Think about how much do I live 

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in my Buddha nature? 
How often am I aware of and 

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present in this present moment? 
Not as a scorecard where you 

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should give yourself bad marks. 
I was hardly in there in this 

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present moment at all today, bad
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rather simply as a way of 
acknowledging this is something 

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I need to work on. 
I need to be more present. 

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I well, now I'm actually driving
prior to sunrise, but for a 

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period there I was driving to my
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sunrise. 
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the sun was rising, and I would 
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from fighting the other drivers 
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And I had tried to do that 
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myself back, to notice what's 
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moment and tear myself away from
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thoughts that are demanded of us
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So please use the morning day 
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point to do that, to allow 
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the day. 
Hey, this present moment is fill

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in the blank because mind you, 
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good. 
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just happens. 
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present moment, I think the more
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them are good, the bad. 
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spending time with yourself, 
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about others, and is a a place 
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So when you think about Bodhi 
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thanking the Buddha for teaching
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we all have and bringing us to a
Dharma of practices that will 

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allow us to live in it as much 
as we can. 

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My husband and I do very 
different time wasting things on

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the computer. 
He dance dues and videos and 

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find some interesting things, 
but I always think always over 

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there wasting time, whereas I 
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computer game at a time. 
And I know it's a waste of time,

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but you know, I do it. 
And I've been trying to do that 

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last. 
And there's one I play that's 

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exactly 5 minutes long and I'm 
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one more time. 
And the other day when I finally

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got up and I walked down the 
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like, Oh yeah, I was going to do
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Oh yeah, I was going to do that.
Oh yeah, I was going to do that.

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And none of those things take 
very long, but I was distracting

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myself and that was a good 
reminder. 

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And none of them were things I 
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It's just. 
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how easily we allow ourselves to
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And well, it's not amazing 
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is built to keep us distracted. 
And so it is really a a fight to

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remain aware. 
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even that awareness being, oh, 
I'm sitting here playing another

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round of this game rather than 
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toilet. 
Fine, that is aware of it. 

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And the first step to cutting 
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to be aware of the fact that we 
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Without the awareness, we can't 
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Remember that the threefold 
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awareness, acceptance, and 
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So the first thing we need to do
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and thoughts, then acknowledge 
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Yes, I will come home and pop 
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TV for an hour or two. 
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that, then I began to say, OK, 
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something else. 
Yeah, Ark has raised his hand. 

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Yeah, hi. 
Everyone. 

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So I used to play a game called 
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It was a game that you could 
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consoles back then, and we used 
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fast as we could all the round 
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could be anywhere from 45 
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And there was a a clan. 
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Because you know, it's it's you,
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So their name was NTTW, so and 
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to waste. 
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efficiency is the big factor 
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technology that the robovac that
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Like a food processor would be a
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that people use it. 
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And then and, and it's, it's 
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things at the cost of 
compressing time, which is very 

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fascinating because then you can
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the present moment if that was 
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So efficiency plays a big factor
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And and I find it very 
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people always have the same time
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So I always try to relate all of
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Yeah, thanks. 
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right now, so I apologize for 
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But whenever I think about being
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always relates to what emotion 
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not be aware of my own actions 
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Like I have the same struggles 
with splitting my attention that

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most people do, whether it's 
like game scrolling or whatever.

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But recently I've been gone 
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when it comes to recognizing how
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to avoid the underlying issues 
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So to me, recognizing those 
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with myself while realizing and 
working through them is my 

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version of trying to be with my 
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Yeah, well observed DD and 
wonderful to have you here on a 

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Sunday. 
Thanks. 

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Yeah, to Doc's point also there 
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these these things that have 
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What are they saving the time 
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And there's nothing wrong with 
having efficient machines 

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around. 
The question is, what are you 

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doing with the time that they 
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And if you're simply using that 
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distraction, then they're not 
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But if you're turning that time 
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improvement tasks, reading a 
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book, honestly watching the show
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out of, There's a there's a huge
difference between what we often

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do in front of the TV, which is 
plop down and watch whatever the

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hell is on for however long it 
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And there's a difference between
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watching a show that you're 
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One of the ways to tell is could
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it's are you are you doing 
scrolling while you're watching 

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this show? 
If so, it's probably not when 

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you're getting anything out of 
so it it all comes back and damn

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the man from constantly pounding
this into my head. 

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But it's so true, Eubank says 
Rick mirror of rigorous self 

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honesty, looking at of what 
we're doing and instead of 

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blaming the activity, look at 
its effect on our lives. 

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So I really don't like the 
people who say, no, I'm going to

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limit my television watching to 
one hour a day. 

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OK, well what if there's a very 
edifying 90 minute show on that 

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you would have gotten a lot out 
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You're cutting that out because 
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line. 
Instead, let's say I'm going to 

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focus my television watching on 
things that inform or entertain.

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Nothing wrong with entertainment
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Me in a way that enhances my 
Buddha nature instead of saying 

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I must sweep the floor every 
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Somebody gives you a rumba for 
Christmas, Take it and take that

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time that it's saving you and do
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So this this idea that we have 
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innovation to return to our 
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While it's often true, and it's 
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embrace these things simply to 
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distraction, it is also true 
that sometimes we can embrace 

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these things and sync that time 
into creative and useful 

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activities. 
So turn that down mirror of 

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rigorous self honesty on 
yourself and your actions. 

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Well, in fairness, I think some 
people limit themselves in that 

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way because they know it's an 
addictive behavior. 

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Like I had a friend who did the 
South Beach Diet and he said 

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we've had cookies at work and I 
said man it's going to take me 3

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days to eat this cookie. 
It's so big. 

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And he said I don't eat anything
with sugar in it. 

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And I was like, why would you do
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And he said, because I don't 
want one cookie, I want 12 

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cookies. 
And there is there is no, it's 

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like an alcoholic, there is no 
such thing as one drink. 

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So like if you know that this 
certain activity is going to 

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come to you for the next 10 
hours, if you sit down saying I 

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can't do this at all as 
sometimes the only way people 

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can cope. 
Very true, and you were very 

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correctly turning that nerve for
just rigorous self honesty back 

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on my statement and because I 
shouldn't have said it that way.

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You're right, for some people 
that's the way to do it and it's

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simply not for me. 
But that doesn't mean anything 

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except to me, so thank you. 
DD Damn cuts through it. 

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I was going to say, that's why 
I'm here. 

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DDS Darma name, by the way, 
translates as the one who cuts 

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through. 
Trying to figure out how to say 

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this. 
When I think of Buddha nature, 

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sometimes it is helpful to think
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We are of. 
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something like we are of the 
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nature, right? 
And having Buddha nature is like

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having a muscle. 
So this this being in the moment

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thing, it sounds great, but it 
is also in some ways exhausting 

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to our brain right when we do 
scroll. 

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Think of the last time you did 
that and how much you actually 

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retained from the activity or 
the last time that you were 

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playing the video game of some 
sorts, how much your brain 

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actually retained from the thing
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And it's usually very, very 
little, but I know that the last

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time that I was in the moment, I
have very precise memories of 

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the things that unfolded. 
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maintain that for a period of 
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And so this is where we talk 
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It is your Buddha nature is 
something that you have and it 

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is something like a muscle where
if you need to access it, you 

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can, you can, you can lift 
weights and your muscles become 

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better. 
But if you come and try and lift

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way more weight for a consistent
period of time, you were just 

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going to hurt yourself and you 
were going to turn your stall 

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paw. 
So I think it's important when 

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we think about Bodhi day and 
Buddha nature and this thing 

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that you have that it is a, it 
is, it is not a thing that you 

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are inherently good at and can 
do whenever you want for a 

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prolonged period of time. 
It is a thing that you, you, you

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get better at overtime if your 
intention is there to practice. 

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And so for people like myself 
where it's like, Oh my God, 

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being present all the time, that
sounds like a lot. 

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It is, you know, but it is 
something that's the Buddha's 

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gift to us was showing us that 
man, if you just do it and you 

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practice, one, you'll get better
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often. 
But two, it's fun. 

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Great. 
So do the thing, right? 

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So that's where I think if I do 
the globe today. 

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Thanks, Drew. 
OK. 

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Thank you all.