I can't stay with no practice. Only that they must not be defiled, or that they cannot be defiled. Yes, as they said, just this non-defiled is what all Buddhas keep in mind.

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Even if I say this, I still missed one. And he said, you are thus, I am thus too. You are tappa, I am tappa too. .

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. We'll be right back. ... ... Thank you.

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. . so so Thank you. so

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so [...]

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so [...] Excuse me, I've been having quite a bit fun with it.

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And part of the fun is actually, part of the fun is to find it slip away. To see how easy it is to have to slip down there into my lap, down on my feet. More around my ankles. Finds up there very nicely. I just sit down, right down there. And then I do this thing. I pull it back. I feel like this one. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Part of me, I've often been here

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I think it's a settee thing like . Very aerodynamic shapes . Blow it harder and harder. You see by what stresses occur in different designs. Sometimes, of course, parts rip off and wind. And that's why I said he is a time when the wind, the breath, the vitality, if I'd like, starts flowing through and around the schedule is part of that evening. And many of you think that she's a little bit older. She's like always married.

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She's a little bit older. many good results in good beliefs, and [...] good beliefs, ... [...] I like that.

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What is good? 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 12, 3. Up. 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, 29, [...] 30, [...] and just get a little bit off.

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Red. Yeah, my final schedule is just got to go. That's good. I'll just go. Nothing, let's just go outside. You can make up for other places. So I'm thinking of this in the last lecture, last published lecture of Albert Camus, which he called Creating Dangerously.

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Creating Dangerous. He said, We all, there is a tendency, which I have too, to find a gentler plane, to have a respite of music. But for the artist, perhaps the only place is right in the pitch of hot struggle.

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Emerson, who said, every wall is a door. And if we want release from the wall, escape from it, the only place to get it is right in front of the wall you're facing now. And it is there, if you can stay there with that wall, it is there that, uh, sleepily, the ever-threatened truth shines forth.

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There are four elements, earth, fire, air, wind, and water. I talked about wind blowing as a kind of perfecting force, breath moving. widely through our life and around our body to help us develop the most essential body and mind, one that does not carry anything extra. This is the ego, which is just the essential practical ego. Nothing extra. Everything else is dropped off. Just enough of itself so that you can follow the schedule, sit your body, eat your poo, wash your face, and so on. That's all you eat. But we won't let go of that until the windy blows hard.

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If you sit still for a week, the wind starts blowing pretty hard. Where is the stress? What's being asked to be dropped? Can you find the stress places and can you drop? What I'm suggesting by putting your hands up here against your abdomen is a suggestion to increase the breath, increase the wind. But it doesn't really increase the wind. It just is that you stop running from the wind. You go into the center of your life where the wind is the fastest and strongest and fullest. And you put your body and mind in that situation and see what happens to it. You could also use the image of water. Water running down a creek.

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Put rocks in the water. What happens to them? They get round. Takes a long time, but the rough spots get broken off or worn away and they get round and beautiful. They become essential river rocks. And fire. Put something in fire and if it's got problems, they show up. Fire brings them to perfection. Again, this simple point of posture, bringing the hands against the abdomen, puts us in the middle of fire. A fire which will burn away the sense of self, which will burn away self-cleaning and leave just a little person, just a good girl or a good boy,

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That's all we left. Enough to handle day to night. Enough to do the practice. And not enough. There won't be enough plans. Have extra stuff to fight. there won't be anybody left enough to trample the practice down. But we are all, moment by moment, either outside or inside the center of our life. So I'm encouraging all of us to get over that hump and enter the center. get in the middle of the fierce flames that surround all the Buddhists.

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They all turn the wheel of the Dharma in the midst of fierce flames or raging water or very strong wind or averages. That's where they turn it. Whoop, whoop, whoop. This wind is something you don't have to make. This fire is not something you have to make. It happens all the time. Reality is extremely dynamic. And it physically manifests in these four ways. Through fire, through wind, through water, and through earth. constantly moving all around us and through us. And we usually experience these elements as our body.

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All of us, already, and no matter how you finish the session, no matter what posture you're in, These four elements are going to be moving through you, flashing through as you. And all of us will be purified to some extent by this process. What I'm encouraging is that you follow this one instruction with a lot of attention, namely your mudra, against your abdomen. Just concentrate on that one point. And that will increase this process, will bring you more into the same.

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Then you have a chance to drop body and mind. And when you drop body and mind, then when you do the practice, practice and realization are one. Until you drop body and mind, you will feel that the practice and realization are two. You will feel a little hypocritical. So again, Buddhahood is not something you can attain. So don't defile it by treating what I'm saying as a cause of Buddhahood. Don't take the meditation practice seriously as a cause. But also, we need something to overcome the sense of hypocrisy.

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The sense that we're doing a practice which is supposed to be enlightenment itself. And yet, we're not so sure about that. We need something, some occasion, some concrete occasion to turn around now. Find a place where reality and our practice meet. They meet in selfless practice. following the schedule with everybody else, sitting in accordance with the instructions, following your breathing in accordance with the instructions. These practices are selfless if you do them obediently. But I also know from long personal experience and from the experience of this session itself, how difficult it is to get over that hump and to jump into the middle of it.

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Jump right in the middle of where the Buddhas are all sitting. Maybe some of you already jumped. Well, jump again. Maybe some of you are a little hesitant. Well, please jump. Notice he has his hands up against his abdomen. This is a nice statue. They did it that way. Don't believe me. Just get up there and look. His hands are touching his abdomen. Some statues they have the abdomen, the hands awakening the abdomen. I have a statue like that. There's a space in there. Once you realize selflessness, you can move your hands away a little bit. So I'm emphasizing concrete things to concentrate on.

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If you don't like this suggestion, think of another one, some point of practice that you're really dedicating yourself to. Moment after moment. So that is concentration, but it's also drop body and mind because you are following the instructions which the whole group is doing. It's not just your idea of what to concentrate on. The ancestors told you to do this. Put your hand against... Thank you.

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