A moment ago, the microphone was offered to me, and I thought, there's so little time, maybe not worth recording. I had that thought. And then we started doing that chant. And I thought, I have something to say. That's really short. Can you guess what it is? What? That's not what I was thinking of, no, but thank you. Thanks for mentioning that. So what I thought of was, as we were chanting, an unsurpassed penetrating and perfect dharma. When we started chanting that, I thought, oh, I do have something to say. Which is, that when we do that chant, it makes an impact on our body. And then when we do it again, it impacts again.

[01:05]

And when we do it again, it impacts again. So three times has more impact than one. So that's why I do three, to make this an unsurpassed, penetrating, and perfect dharma sink into our nervous system. Recently, I was in a group of senior people some of the most senior practitioners around in this world today, like at this point in history, I'm one of the older practitioners, right? Pretty soon I'm going to be, if I keep living, I'm going to be the oldest pretty soon. Anyway, I was with a senior group and I invited one of them to recite that sutra opening verse. And she started to do it. And then she couldn't remember it. I helped her, but she was losing it.

[02:09]

She couldn't remember it. So today when we chanted, I thought, if we do this chant, which we did, and we do it again and again, then there's a chance that when we're dying, that when we're dying, that when we're dying, and our capacities, you know, our memory, our throat, our speech, our waning, our declining, that it can come up. And unsurpassed, penetrating, and perfect Dharma is rarely met with, even in a hundred thousand, it can come out. Because you put it deep into your body. So at the last minute you can make that request, you can make that prayer because it's in your body.

[03:13]

But if it's not in your body with everything else, the onslaught of death coming upon you, you might not be able to do that chant. You might not be able to celebrate the unsurpassed perfect Dharma. So we do this chant And if you keep doing this and I keep doing it with you, then even when you take away my head, out of my chest this wonderful verse will come. And I thought it'd be nice to say that. So now that's recorded, and I hope it encourages us all to keep saying, and on the surpass penetrating in perfect dharma, And you can do it all the time or particularly when you open the scripture. And it's usually done three times. And at certain phases in history, people cut it down to one because it takes longer to do three. And they're afraid people would rebel against spending their time doing that thing three times.

[04:19]

Understandable. But three times makes it three times more likely. that you'll remember. Not maybe three times on that occasion, but doing it gazillions of times makes it maybe three times. If you do it a gazillion times, you maybe increase the likelihood of remembering this celebration of this teaching, even when you can't remember your name. What's your name? I don't know, but there's an unsurpassed penetrating and perfect Dharma. I don't know who I am, but there's an unsurpassed penetrating and perfect Dharma. And it's rarely met with, but I can say that, even though I don't know my name and I don't know yours. So, thank you so much. And someone also told me that she heard me say one time,

[05:25]

You can't control anything, including yourself. And I said, I agree. If you look closely, you'll see you're not in control of anything. However, even though you're not in control, I suggest that each of us is responsible for everything. Everything. There's nothing you're not responsible for. And I'd be happy to try to help you accept that. Being responsible, for example, for Danan, or being responsible for Linda, or her children, or peace, doesn't mean you're in control, because if you're in control, well, how come there's not peace yet? So, we aren't in control, but we can be devoted to everything, and be responsible for everything, and in fact, in reality, we are. We can learn to accept that responsibility, but you don't have to accept the responsibility going with control.

[06:32]

Usually in the legal system, if you do something wrong, but you weren't in control, there's some reason to maybe not punish you for it. Except in the thing about getting drunk. They think you're supposed to be in control about whether you get drunk or not. So anyway. We're not in control, but we're responsible. So the question is how to administer responsibility without blaming and putting responsibility all on Colin or all on Casey. One of the great things about the Book of Sharan, Abdul Yijing, is it says no blame. In the world, in the three worlds, There's a lot of blaming. Blame. Blame. You. You. Not me. You. Not me. You. Rather than the whole world is doing this with the whole world.

[07:40]

We're all part of it. Nobody's not in it, responsible. But people have set up systems which try to figure out where to put the blame. And it's changing. But now they're starting to put the blame over onto the parents of people who do terrible things. Well, the parents are responsible, and the child is responsible, but they're not responsible. They're not in control of their children. Like people say, control your children, control your dog. I'm not here to say that. I'm here to say... Love your children. Love your God. Love your dog. Love it. Love it. It wants you to love it. It does not want you to control it. It knows that that would not be good for them. So, responsible but not control.

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I'm responsible but I can't control you into...

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