1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,960 Good morning everyone. So today I wanted to talk about 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:15,040 a concept that's very near and dear to my heart. 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:25,920 You won't find it in any or most texts on Buddhism, but it did 4 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:31,320 brew out of Zen Buddhism. It's a phrase in Japanese. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,040 That goes. Ichigo Ichi A. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,240 And it means one moment, one meeting. 7 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:47,280 And it's. Kind of the aspirational way 8 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,800 that Japanese approach. Each thing that they're doing 9 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,240 it, it does, as I said, come from. 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Zen Buddhism? Nobody knows. 11 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,240 Exactly who? Came up. 12 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:11,000 With the phrase some people. Attribute it to Sidna Ryoko who 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:18,400 came up with the tea ceremony, but there's no evidence that he 14 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,200 said it. This just sounds it sounds like 15 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,360 something he would say, so people attribute it to it. 16 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:31,400 So what does it really mean? Seems pretty. 17 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,120 Simple. One moment, one meeting, 18 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,200 especially when you apply it to the tea ceremony or just having 19 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,640 a cup of tea with somebody. When you're in that moment, 20 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,200 that's all that exists. That moment. 21 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,920 That meeting, that is what is important, but it kind of goes 22 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:02,480 beyond that. Even as we break it down. 23 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,080 Ichigo. One moment. 24 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,960 This moment is all that we have. The past is gone. 25 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,320 The future is a period. This moment is where we live. 26 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,560 This moment is what's. Important. 27 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,600 Each EA. One meeting, 1 encounter 28 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:33,920 doesn't. Necessarily have. 29 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,200 To be an encounter with another person. 30 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,400 Can I actually be? The encounter with the spoke. 31 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:52,160 So if we keep in mind this one moment, one encounter is what's 32 00:02:52,160 --> 00:03:01,080 important, then we begin to pay more attention. 33 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,120 To it. Invest it with the importance 34 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:15,040 that it's due. Years ago when I did my first 35 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:19,920 wedding and I feel even before then because I used to help a 36 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,080 friend of mine out with floral arrangements for weddings and I 37 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,200 constantly. Hear the. 38 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:32,000 Phrase from the wedding planners, the species of person 39 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,160 that I don't particularly like by the. 40 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Way, but they constantly use the phrase be in this moment. 41 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:45,640 It's never going to come again. Really enjoy this moment. 42 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:52,520 When speaking to the bride. I like, yeah, no moment is ever 43 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,560 going to come again. It's not just this one. 44 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,440 All of them. That's what the Ichigo HEA. 45 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:07,160 Is said every moment is unique and special and is never going 46 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,520 to come again. And only we get to treating it 47 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,200 that way. It's so much. 48 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:20,600 Easier to drop. Pettiness and. 49 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:28,320 Anger and. Upsets and being pissed at 50 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,960 something the other person said. 60 years ago and. 51 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,240 All of those things that we carry around with us if we live 52 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,120 in this concept. Of Ichi go Ichi A. 53 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,840 We're just living now. The person we're encountering 54 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,240 now is was the person who pissed us off at college. 55 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,680 We're totally new. They are too. 56 00:05:07,180 --> 00:05:10,340 This will be a fairly short. Talk. 57 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:16,180 But that's because I think it it's really a very clear 58 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:17,540 concept. And maybe. 59 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:22,400 It's just me, but. It's amazing how much. 60 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,040 You can see your life changing as you begin to embrace. 61 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:36,160 This concept and even even. Once you're in a moment and you 62 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:42,880 find yourself dredging up the past, or worrying about the 63 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,040 future, or checking your. Phone while you're. 64 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,120 Having tea with a friend if you just mentally slapped yourself 65 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,880 and say. Ichigo Ichi. 66 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,320 A. Come back. 67 00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,120 To that. Moment. 68 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:07,280 We'll begin to transform your entire life because that's all 69 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,040 our life is. Made-up of these moments that. 70 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:19,400 Flow from one to another. So the better you will than each 71 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,400 fauna, the better you're going to live in. 72 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,240 The next and the next and the next, you'll give. 73 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:26,920 It a. Try. 74 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,400 Think about the phrase if you're all. 75 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,160 Think about it in. English this time. 76 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,400 One moment, one meeting, 1 moment. 77 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,600 Want to call her? Quite honestly spelled the 78 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,080 better that way. Actually flipping the Japanese 79 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,960 for some reason. I was searching this morning 80 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,440 that kept searching Ichi A Ichigo and Google's going. 81 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:03,760 Did you mean Ichigo Ichi? A Oh yeah, that's what happens. 82 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,720 Say it in English. 1. Moment one and count.