today the world performed a memorial ceremony after this talk a memorial to the defense about 10 years ago today and a memorial to all of you suffering and unhappiness and cruelty and disappointments and fear we have been in this world for the last 10 years and is here today offer such a ceremony here with your support today you offer this ceremony here with our support if we do so in the context of embracing the great vehicle embracing

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The practice of understanding of truth and of life devoted to realizing and waiting for the welfare of all beings. For the happiness of all beings. help being to be happy in a world just like this this is what the enlightened ones are divine too and this is what the enlightened being souls who are on the path to realizing why they are all concerned for living the way that you

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the court beings to be happy in the present world. I mean, you wonder how can it possibly be happy when there's such suffering. in his room. There are statues of enlightening beings. One of them is called Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

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The Bodhisattva of Definite Compassion. And the statue of that Bodhisattva is in the back of the main altar. And also, there are paintings of that bodhisattva on four sides of the large incense burner in front of the main altar. Bodhisattva, in a compassion, is surrounded by sages. Bodhisattva, in this case, looks like a woman, a yelling woman. And she's surrounded by, I don't know, shade-headed monks. And look, I can't tell if it's a male or female, but she seems to be a woman, a human woman, a human being.

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This is Bodhisattva's response to this world of suffering, is to observe them observe all the stuff and observe all the living beings all their unhappiness all their fear all their greed and hatred all their confusion all their violence to look upon them all to contemplate with eyes of compassion It has a way of living, of constantly contemplating all the living being with the highest compassion, with no limit in scope or contemplating all living beings with eyes of compassion.

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And the teaching of the Nova Sutra is that this mean eyes, this contemplation of all beings, assembles an ocean of happiness, an ocean of merit, an ocean of virtue. and worship a blessing. This body is representative of the Green Vehicle. representing the infinite compassion of a great vehicle to meet every situation within the other she it does not mean that she does not sometimes protest but the protest comes from compassion comes from generosity and ethical

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discipline and patience and courage and serenity she can't shop but she's not always shopping what she always is doing is contemplating all the big meetings that are for compassion This is how she assembles a portion of blessed beyond mission. Do you wish to join her in this practice? She wished to join this great and likely being in her practice of contemplating living days with eyes of concussion, assembling ocean of happiness beyond many.

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I see some people nodding as an owner saying yes. Even if I say yes, I understand that I may get distracted. I may forget some loss to look upon the being with eyes of concussion. And when I forget, I listen to Jim Feeney, forgiving my commitment to compassion. And all of the details, Brother Bodhisattva, is looking at me with eyes of compassion when I forget. And I remember, and perhaps I can't even join this great practice, of assembling a boundless, immeasurable ocean of madness in this very world of self. as if the basic work of the Bodhisattva of Invita Dasha.

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But the Bodhisattva has another dimension to her practice, and that is the Bodhisattva. So, in the notice of the true genre scripture, this bodhisattva is contemplating all living beings and establishing this fortune of happiness and blessing for suffering beings but they are still suffering this bodhisattva wishes more than just to bring blessing this bodhisattva wishes to liberate all spiritual beings So she must develop wisdom too. In the heart syndrome, her wisdom practice is pointed to.

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In the moral sequence, we will chant the heart syndrome, which says, when practicing deeply the prajna paramita, perfection of wisdom, clearly saw that all five acres are empty upon bleed, and thus will bleed all suffering in distress. Is this wisdom joined with compassion? It's a wisdom that draws out of compassion and that's when liberation is gained from their confusion. Compassion brings blessing and helps it open to the practice of wisdom which brings liberation.

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Part of the practice of wisdom is also to contemplate all beings with compassion. But then, in this compassion of contemplation, all beings, which means every human we need, every non-human we need, every emotion we have, every thought we have, to meet every experience of living being with compassion. And in that context, We investigate this living being. We ask this living being questions. This is an example of the life of wisdom to inquire into what is a living being. One example of this is a story about a Chinese man who lived in the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

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He suffered and he studied the teachings of compassion and he tried to practice them. but he still didn't understand the truth and he went to study with a Zen teacher named Baijong this monk's name was Xiangyang And Chang'e-de-lis, Fragrant Clus, or Fragrant Custivus. And the second part of this thing is the Jerogon, which means a tickle to wisdom.

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And in fact, That was his situation. He was a very brilliant young man. And he studied hard the teachings of the great vehicle. But his wisdom was instructive. There wasn't a barrier to need with. His teacher, Baijong, the great Zen teacher Baijong died shortly after he started studying with them. And so then he continued to study with Bajan's disciple, Gwesha. And Zen Master Gwesha saw a sincere and compassionate young man this was. So he said to him, Please bring me a pivotal word, an essential word, bring me an essential word for yourself before you were born bring me a pivotal word of yourself before you entered your mother's womb before you knew Ethan West

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Tianyan tried to bring the teacher such a word but the teacher didn't accept any of his words he gave up and left his teacher and went to a cemetery where one of the teacher's ancestors memorial was located. And he just lived in a cemetery and took care of the ancestors' memorial site. Cleaning around the memorial site to the ancestors. And then we again will intend to perform more service for the welfare of the big beings.

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Can we at the same time be taken care of the most horrible, without the Buddha hands like this? While he was cleaning around the memorial site, sweeping and working, tidying up the burning around the memorial site of the enlightened ancestor, he swept some debris towards a brick of a bamboo and a pebble struck the shaft of a bamboo and when and the optical to wisdom dropped away he found the place where was him born he could passionately care for his teacher

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and his teacher T. He was devoted to the welfare of all beings but he couldn't find the place where the obstacle to wisdom drops aware. He'd find himself into that place and then the gift came to him. He was practicing deeply the perfection of wisdom, and he saw all five aggregates. For example, the aggregate of four, the aggregate which includes sunhood. He realized that sunhood is empty of self. He realized this self before he was born. then he became a teacher himself and one day when he was teaching his group he said a person is up in a tree he became a tree

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is growing out of the side of a thousand-foot cliff. It's a fragrant cliff. Tree's growing out of the side of a thousand-foot cliff, and a person's up in that tree, and a person is hanging from a branch, which she is budding with her teeth. She's hanging by her teeth. from a branch. A thousand feet will be there. Your feet cannot reach a branch below. Your hands cannot reach or hold on to the branch below. Suddenly someone appears down below and calls up.

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What is the meaning? What is the intention? Of the Zen ancestor, of the ancestor of Zen coming from India to China. On the main altar there is a small, relatively small wooden stature. on this side of the altar. And that statue represents the founders that came from India, China, named Bodhidharma. So, this person's hanging by her teeth, a thousand feet up in the air, and somebody said, what's the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from India to China? This is Xiaoyang's question. And he says, if she answers, she will lose her body and life.

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If she opens her mouth, I should say, I should say, if she opens her mouth to answer, she will lose her body and life. if she does not open her mouth if she holds on and does not answer she doesn't care for the sentient being the needs to know and then he said to his group at just such a time what would you do He found the place. He found the place of his self before his mother was born.

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Now he reaches to induct his students into this place. just such a time, at just such a place, when we were just like this, what we did. At that time, one of the elders in the community came out of the room and came up to the teacher and said, I'm not talking, but I don't want to talk about after she went up in the tree. I want to know, before she went into the tree, how was that? And the teacher laughed well quickly. At just such a time, what would you do?

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I propose that just at the time is actually right now. That right now is at the time. I don't know what I would do, I don't know what you would do, but I propose that the workers that the light ones and the likely ones I propose that Avlopita for Bodhisattva at just such a time would bite the branch and I propose that the answer that the Buddha And we sought the great answer to the question, what is the meaning of Zen?

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What is wisdom? The answer is, given. They are answering at the very moment of fighting the punch. And also, asking the question, What is the meaning of life that the Buddhist wish to teach? The question that asked me is done by the Buddhist at the very moment of hanging by a branch with your teeth. And also, I propose that this bite is relaxed.

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Walking on the earth, along holiday days, playing the branch, moment by moment. There's no before or after at this time, but just now. It may have helped people in the past, that's fine. It may have helped people in the future, that's fine. But right now, the way to help people is by having a bridge. Because that's what you're doing. That's who you are. That's your job. And that is yourself before he entered the mother's womb and that is even distracted from him and that is asking

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What is the meaning of the boy's teaching? And that is answering the question. Being where you are before your mother lets you in is the most difficult job. And while you're eating, the branch and while you're just hanging by the branch while you're hanging by the branch while you're biting the branch and not doing anything more or less than biting the branch at that moment whatever happens to you you sing perfect with like you're trying to be somebody other than you are which is what we usually do in order to help people which is what we usually do that still comes as kindness if you're trying to be helpful but you're not teaching perfection of wisdom teach the perfection of wisdom by being yourself

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before your idea of yourself today this uh... the investigation of the moment, this investigation of being yourself right now, in the context of contemplating all that he beings. I ask if you wish to join all the lucky test followers' practice of contemplating sentient beings.

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I saw some nods. Now I ask if you wish to join all the lucky test followers' practice of being yourself. speaking and acting from that self before you were born do you wish to do the practice of fighting that branch the practice of you the practice of at just this very moment And so maybe the same for you, that when I'm asking the question,

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Even though you make the alias, you can't answer. You're already done. Breathe this. Just inject the pole. summer is almost over in a way but I heard it's still hot in the central valley I've heard that buddhas

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sit in the midst of all living beings. Aulakiteshvara sits in the midst of all living beings, contemplating. I've heard that Buddha sits in the midst of fierce flame, turning the wheel of dawn on the welfare of all beings. I heard that some of the time and the living is a fish I'm jumping and the coffee is all I want to know, all I want to know is [...] all I want to know

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Your daddy's really... Your mama looks pleased with the world. So, you rest, little baby, even while you... This morning, you're gonna rise up. You're gonna spread your wings and you'll take to the sky.

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Until that morning, there ain't nothing at all. and then he will perform a memorial ceremony after this talk a memorial to the events about 10 years ago today and memorial to all of you

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suffering and unhappiness and cruelty and disappointments and fear that has been in this world for the last 10 years and is here today, too. offer such a ceremony here with your support today you offer this ceremony here with our support and we do so in the context of embracing the great vehicle embracing

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practice of understanding of truth and life devoted to realizing enlightenment for the welfare of all beings, for the happiness of all beings. help me be happy in a world just like this this is what the likely ones are going to and this is what they might be making so us who are on the path to realizing why they're all concerned for living in a way that can

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important beings to be happy in the present world. I mean, how can we possibly be happy when there is such suffering? is wrong. There are statues of enlightening beings. One of them is called Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

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And the Bodhisattva of infinite compassion. And the statue of that Bodhisattva is in that the main altar. And also there are paintings of that Bodhisattva on the four sides of the large incense burner in front of the main altar. Bodhisattva in a compassion surrounded by sages. Bodhisattva in this case looks a woman, a human woman, and she's surrounded by little shade-headed monks. Look, I can't tell if it's a male or female, but she seems to be a woman that you want anything to be.

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This is Bodhisattva's response to this world of suffering is to observe them, observe all the sufferer, and observe all the living beings, all their unhappiness, all their fear, all their greed and hatred, all their confusion, all their violence, to look upon them all, to contemplate with eyes of compassion, It is a way of living, of constantly contemplating all the living being with eyes of compassion, with knowledge, in scope or truth. contemplating all living beings with eyes of compassion.

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And the teaching of the Lord Sutra is that this mean eyes with contemplation of all beings assembles an ocean of happiness, an ocean of merit, an ocean of virtue. and worship a blessing. The honor of my church. This body is representative of the Green Vehicle. representing the infinite compassion of a great vehicle. To me, a great situation with the other she.

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It does not mean that she does not sometimes protest, but the protest comes from compassion, comes from generosity and ethical Lucifer and patience and courage and serenity. She can't shop, but she's not always shoddy. What she always is doing is contemplating all the meaning that I've compassion. This is how she assembles a potion of blessing beyond mission. Do you wish to join her in this practice?

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she wished to join this greatly likely meeting in her practice of contemplating living beings with Isaac Kardashian a similar portion of happiness I see some people nodding as long as they're saying yes Even if I say yes, I understand that I may get distracted. I may forgive some laws to look upon the beginning with eyes of compassion. When I forget, I am essentially forgiving my commitment to compassion. And I'll look at each other for myself, but it's looking at me with eyes of compassion when I forget. And I remember, and perhaps I can't even enjoy this great practice, of assembling a bombless, immeasurable ocean of madness in this very world of self.

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as in the faithing work of the bodhisattva of infinite compassion. But the bodhisattva has another dimension in your practice, and that is, so what is that? So in the lowest of the true jarmic scripture, This Bodhisattva, what we've been a compassion is contemplating all living beings and assembling this fortune of happiness and blessing for suffering beings, but they are still suffering. This Bodhisattva wishes more than just to bring blessing, this Bodhisattva wishes to liberate all spiritual beings. So she must develop wisdom too.

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In the heart syndrome, her wisdom practice is pointed to. In the moral service from Bacchanta heart syndrome, which says, when practicing deeply the Prajnaparamita, perfection to wisdom, He clearly saw that all finite gifts are empty upon bed and dust with meek or suffering and distress. He is his wisdom joined with compassion. It's just wisdom that grows out of compassion and actually liberates pain from no confusion. The compassion brings blessing and helps them open to the practice of wisdom, which brings liberation.

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part of the practice of wisdom is also to contemplate all beings with compassion. But then, in this compassion of contemplation, all beings, which means every human we meet, every non-human we meet, every emotion we have, every thought we have, to meet every experience of living being with compassion. And in that context, We investigate this living being. We ask this living being questions. This is the example of the life of wisdom to inquire into what is a living being. One example of this is a story about a Chinese man.

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More than a thousand years ago. And he studied the teachings of compassion. And he tried to practice them. but he still didn't understand the truth and he went to study with a Zen teacher named Baijong this monk's name was Xiaoyan And Chang'an leaves fragrant cliffs, or fragrant precipice.

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And the second part of his name is the Jerogon, which means stickball to wisdom. And in fact, That was his situation. He was a very brilliant young man. And he studied hard the teachings of the great theater. But his wisdom was instructive. There wasn't a barrier to need wisdom. His teacher, Bajan, the great Zen teacher Bajan, died shortly after he started studying with them. And so then he continued to study with Bajan's disciple, Guatian. And then after Guatian saw a sincere and compassionate young man this was, so he said to him, please bring me a pivotal word, an essential word.

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bring me an essential word to yourself before you were born. Bring me a pivotal word of yourself before you entered your mother's womb. Before you knew Ethan West, Tianyan tried to bring the teacher such a word, but the teacher didn't accept any of his words. He came up and left his teacher and went to a semi-carrier

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where one of the teacher's ancestors memorial was located. And he just lived in the cemetery and took care of the ancestors memorial site. Cleaning around the memorial site to the ancestors. And then we again will intend to perform more service for the welfare of the big beings. Can we at the same time be taken care of the most part of the Buddha ancestors? While he was cleaning around the memorial site, sleeping and working, tidying up the barn around the memorial site of the Enlightened Ancestor, he swept some debris towards a brook of bamboo and a pebble struck

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the shaft of a bamboo and when. And the obstacle to wisdom dropped away. He found the place where wisdom was born. He compassionately cared for his teacher And his teacher's teeth. He was devoted to the welfare of all beings, but he couldn't find the place where the obstacle to whisper drops the word. He finally settled into that place. And then, the gift came to him. He was practicing deeply the perfection of wisdom, and he saw all five aggregates.

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For example, the aggregate of form, the aggregate which includes sunhood. He realized that sunhood is empty of self. He realized his self before he was born. that he became a teacher himself and one day what he was teaching his group he said a person is up in a tree and he became a tree is growing out of the side of a thousand foot cliff.

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It's a fragrant cliff. Tree's growing out of the side of a thousand foot cliff and a person up in that tree and a person is hanging from a branch which she is bubbling with her teeth. hanging by her teeth from a branch a thousand feet over there. Her feet cannot reach a branch below, and her hands cannot reach or hold on to the branch below. And then someone appears down below and calls up.

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What is the meeting? What is the intention? Of the Zen ancestor, of the ancestor of Zen coming from India to China. On the main altar there's a small, relatively small wooden stature. on this side of the altar. And that statue represents the founder of Sam, came from India to China, named Bodhidharma. So, this person's hanging by her teeth, just boring teeth, a thousand feet up in the mirror, and somebody said, what's the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from India to them now? This is Xiao Yang's question. And he says, if she answers, she will lose her body and life.

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If she opens her mouth, I should say, I should say, if she opens her mouth to answer, she will lose her body and life. if she does not open her mouth if she goes on and does not answer she doesn't care for the sentient being the needs to know and then he said to his group at just such a time what would you do? He found the place. It's a long struggle. It's a long devotion to the ancestors teaching. He found the place of his self before his mother was born.

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Now he wishes to induct his students into this place. at just such a time, at just such a place, when we're just like this, what we do. At that time, one of the elders in the community came out of the room and came up to the teacher and said, I'm not talking about, I don't want to talk about after shit went up in the tree. I want her to know, before she went to the tree, how was that? And the teacher laughed wildly. what would you do?

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At just such a time, what would you do? I propose that just at the time is actually right now. That right now is that the time. I don't know what I would do, I don't know what you would do, but I propose that the Bokkas that the light ones and the light ones I propose that Avalopiteshvara Bodhisattva at just such a time would bite the branch and I propose that the answer that the Buddha

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And we sought the great answer to the question, what is the meaning of Zen? What is wisdom? The answer is, given. They are answering at the very moment of liking their lunch. And also, asking the question, What is the meaning of life that the Buddha's wish to teach? The question, the asking is done by the Buddha's at the very moment of hanging by a branch with your team. And also, I propose that this bite is a relaxed.

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walking on the earth, among all the big beings, playing the branch, moment by moment. There's no before or after at this time. There's just no. It may have helped people in the past, that's fine. It may have helped people in the future, that's fine. But right now, the way to help people is buying the burgers. Because that's what you're doing. That's who you are. That's your job. And that was yourself. he entered her mother's womb and that is easy to be distracted from and that is asking

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what is the meaning of the Buddha's teaching and that is answering the question being who you are before your mother lets you in is the most difficult job and while you're eating And while you're just hanging by the branch while you're hanging by the branch, while you're biting the branch and not doing anything more or less than biting the branch, at that moment, whatever happens to you, you sing perfect wisdom. you try to be somebody other than who you are which is what we usually do in order to help people which is what we usually do that still comes as kindness when you're trying to be helpful but you're not teaching the protection of wisdom teach the protection of wisdom by being to yourself

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before your idea of yourself to me this uh... investigation of the moment, this investigation of being yourself right now, in the context of contemplating all that he beings, is all of you as far as practice. Do you wish to join Avalokiteshbar's practice of contemplating sentient beings?

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I saw some nods. Now I ask, do you wish to join Avalokiteshbar's practice of being a soul? speaking and acting from that self before you were born. Do you wish to do the practice of whiting that branch? The practice of the practice of at just this very moment. Yes. About it. I could hardly look to see it, and you would not. I was to listen.

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And so it would be the same for you, that when I asked you the question, Even though you may feel yes, you can't answer. You're already done. Breathe those. Just enter the hall. Summer's almost over, in a way.

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But I heard it's still hot in the central valley. I heard that Buddha's sit in the midst of all living beings. Avalokiteshbar sits in the midst of all living beings, contemplating it. I've heard that Buddhists sit in the midst of fierce flight, turning the wheel down for the welfare of all beings. I heard that some are talking, and the living in the sea.

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You're going to spread your wings, and you'll take to the sky. Until that in the morning, there ain't even nothing at all.

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