themselves whether they like it. And if it is a good thing for your life, it does extend into your cooking, and your cleaning, and your driving, and you talk, and you walk, and you help, and you're sicking. If it really does temperate your mind, let them walk. At first they may resist, but the customer's always right. And they're the last, you know, the family, particularly the parents, and people like that, the last people that he came in. But so he didn't. But also, over the years, as he pictured, especially if you don't try to have to become mature, you get a little bit of advantage of it. It couldn't be seen that way. And that's why the disadvantage is that in this culture, the man of a spiritual practice, the woman can look up the effective part.

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Men are not intimidated by women who have spiritual training and spiritual education. They're afraid. So one of the dangers that become developed in your need is that thought It's hard to find a man who had the trade to live with it. Who had enough, except for himself, in England. But if you sophisticated enough, you can hide it. You really have it. You don't have to find a man who knows. It'll matter if anybody knows. You just use it. Again, like that, it wouldn't be enough talking about that red direction. In the end, she had to hide it. And she said, it didn't work for me. She could use it. When it was out in public, it was under the pillow for her. She had to admit it. She matured and saw that she had that couldn't be out. So, because men are so whatever way they are, she's so greedy to grab the press clippings.

[02:22]

In the spiritual world, the way in the world it is. Um, you know, that's my grasshead or whatever. He just had your... It was himself, I guess. That's the fact. That's the fact. And it would be very, very welcome. You're coming home. Thank you. Oh, sure, hello. Isn't it coming, Bob? There's a lot, you know, at a certain point, we have to go ahead. No need. Everybody, I think they're going to happen to yoga. Life is impossible without yoga to practice. It's the one continued dream. Isn't there some dissatisfaction on...

[03:29]

the partner's feeling who is involved in this practice as well and begins to feel that they have a maybe deeper and broader sense of a situation than their partner who's not engaged. There could be, but again, like last week I talked about, whenever I talk about this, There's also something beautiful about being with people who have different levels of understanding from you. So, I think it's a problem for people to feel like they should be on top of another person. If the other person's around that, or if they feel like the other person should be on top of them, they should be very wise in this. Such measurements, I mean, you know, on one level there are problems. And eventually, such measurements will be pretty difficult to make.

[04:31]

So we have one of my favorite Zen poems. The dragon's home is the ocean. And he died in sports, really. It's Phoenix's house in the sky. and called out, what about the duck boosting the reeds? What about the sweet fish in the pond? How do you measure gain and loss? Can you tell it better? Phoenix are a dull fish. It's got a caliber measuring difference. So on one level, of course, people, everyone knows. But on another level, teaching says, you know, it had its own ultimate value and it really respects anything.

[05:56]

Even someone who's a beginner, or coming along more slowly, or someone who started before you when you passed. You're really respectful of that, I think. That's beautiful. That's fair. But there are these, we're going to get into these comparisons sometimes. They're living, you know. That's one of the main things that I've learned about being married. It's interesting that I read. Imagine what's up there. It's incredible how much they don't work. One of the main ones is the typical one of the man makes the bun, right? And the woman, you know, means she'll be a clean house, means she took the old classes. And I said, you know, practice a calligraphy, go swimming, headlong.

[06:58]

So you get in situations like... Oh, I had one call, let's say. a man in the white book on the car, and I'd say, I'm going to move the car, but it'll work. She's making money so you could take yoga. He says, well, I want to use the car to go to yoga. There's a tendency for the man to think that he's doing the important thing. If he's making the money so she can go to the class. But it's not the point, I mean... Or her going to yoga class, what she's doing. Or him or him going to work. If he wants to go to yoga class himself, he can quit work to go to yoga class. If he thinks that's more fun or something.

[08:02]

Each person is doing what they want to do. And so for one to say, well, I'm doing the thing and you're, it doesn't work. For each of us, it's incomparable to the other person. Comparison, but I just don't know how to figure out how to measure it. And so we stopped, my wife and I stopped doing that. We really don't do it anymore. Hopeless. Who gets the card? Is this who we really, after all these weeks? Well, I hate to say it, but I hate to say it. When we got married, her mother saw what kind of life I was going to get, saw that she would never get a car. And she wanted her daughter to take her shopping, she better buy her own car, but she gave her a car.

[09:10]

But if we only had one car, it would be a constant struggle. Because it wouldn't, we'd never be able to figure it out by comparing who was doing what important. You know, really, each other's not doing it. Another one is how many people have to do with taking care of babies, right? We're insidious. It's hard to wonder how we think this way when you're not having to do it anymore. Oh, we have a thing I did there. A version of the question. People would be more willing to take care of your baby if you're working. And they wouldn't take care of your baby if you wanted to go.

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So... If the husband, so if the husband's going to work, the wife can take care of the baby so the husband can go to work. But would the husband not go to work and take care of the baby, but the wife can play golf? There's never the idea that the wife can take care of the baby so the hungry can work, but actually the hungry can also be paid care of the day. That actually is his job, too. Or, anyway, all kinds of around occasions where they're just going to accept you. You wipe it into our brain that we take for granted. They're just really blind. It doesn't mean how many there are. What else are we talking about?

[11:15]

I shouldn't take my own back. I'm not clear yet. You can look seriously at how various unpredictability is. But in the meantime, you're welcome to come as anything you want and keep going. You're welcome to go to the show. You found a doctor also, I think, yes. What? Untold numbers of... I know, I think it's untold numbers of places. Oh, there's untold numbers of places. But what I will or will not be doing in Berkeley, I haven't figured out on DC. And then we have introductory instruction, which is not like this, this bit, because we have how to sit.

[12:29]

And then we have sitting, a radio schedule sitting, and we have lectures, which are kind of something a little bit like what we're doing. And lectures are all like questions. And we also have classes where we study text. And when we play the text, usually with the eye, if you're applying them in daily life, the practice eye. They're not like, we might study a word text that's also played at the University of California, but the two classes would be very different. Our class would be harder. I would ask them, how is this philosophy applied in daily life? So that's where the working you people is appropriate for those of you who are talking yoga. There is Buddhist teaching, but the teaching must always be supported by yoga.

[13:31]

A good philosophy or a good meditative practice that doesn't have a yogic support or it isn't yoically nourished is not possible to maintain. Do you mean like no class? I know. No, I don't mean that. I mean, for example, if you, well, things are mixed together, right? last thing I was talking about, when you're doing, when you're working with your body in the yoga posture, at various points, you know, you may wonder, you know, what's the most helpful way to do the posture? You know, this is the famous, this is by the Benny Prohrie. Okay.

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Now, a lot of people like the... But the gratification of being able to touch the floor, that's always fun. But in the Iyengar yoga system, they tell you not to curve your back down like this when you do it, but go as far as you can and make your back straight and bend from the hip, right? But when you get to that point, you may wonder, you know, well, this is, should I do it this way or should I, would it be more fun if I could actually pull it out? Did I have some way, for example, to measure my attainment or something? And also, how much should I force my way down? What's the best way to cope with my particular situation right here in my back? My hands can be tight. How long should I stay? How long would it be helpful to stay in this way? So I stand to wait two minutes or ten minutes, thirty. What's the most intelligent and helpful way to deal with this student's classroom? And if you just stay there and keep asking, the various emotions will arise, you know.

[15:44]

You'll become impatient. You might not shake you a little bit. You sit there and watch. Many ideas will occur. Many answers to that question will come up. But the point is, you know, not so much to answer, but to question you, being aware that this is an opportunity for, you know, to look at the center of your life. You're doing something, and you ask yourself, what about it? Any emotion you're having, if you question it, it becomes encouraged or purified. But again, not questioning to get an answer, but just to examine. When you put your body and mind in inquiring, questioning mode, you put your body and mind in a mode of freedom. However, if you just put your... sort of your mind in the question of the I, in the mortal question, you can't keep that up unless basically it's satisfied.

[16:50]

Unless you feel nourished in the question. The question somehow has to come back to you. It can't just go out like, I'm here and I'm studying my body or I'm studying this question, I'm studying this emotion. going out with, you have to go out and come back. And that out and coming back, that kind of return, that restorative way of seeing your study, that's yoga. And that's found in all art to you, to look at a story. until a story comes back to a while. It's not really a story, it's just a string of the events. The story starts to be fun when you feel a return. Like a little example, if I give you a sequence of events like an actor studying a character with playwrights, he said,

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A man was going through a forest and a bear chased him. He saw a bear and he ran away from the bear. He ran through the forest until he got to a lake. And at the lake, there was a boat. And he got in the boat and started coming across the lake. He came to an island and on the island, he saw a little house. He went over to the house. And in the house, there was a woman, a beautiful woman. Went in the house and she gave him a bath and a massage and then he went low. And then he noticed I shouldn't have said that because that's an example of a story. I'll just say he made love with a woman and he walked out of the house and went over the hill and so on, okay? To make a story is that Yeah. He makes love with the woman.

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He looks out the window and he sees the bear coming in a boat. Okay. You know, the bear coming, something's coming back. Something's coming around. Okay. And the woman said, I hope that's coming. And the bear comes in the house and he hides under the bed or something. And the bear comes in the house and takes his head off. And under the head... A bear head is an old man with a beard. And he takes his, he takes the bear suit off, and he makes love. And then the man sneaks out of the house and takes the bear, the bear thing with him. And he gets in the boat and takes both boats across the lake with him. Then the man... comes swimming back across the lake after him and comes running after him and comes up on the shore and comes at the man and the man puts on the bear carpet and kills the other man and if you watch your mind when each one of these circles is quilt you realize there's something that is very nourishing to our consciousness these circles every time every time one of those things came up those little

[20:32]

And every time an element was brought back and you saw why it was there, something clicks in you, you know? And whenever you see a story, you know, a character that brought in, if it's a story, you know, if it's going to be done, you know that sometimes this event, whenever something happens, the meaning will come back to you. And no one appears in a story that doesn't have a return. And anything that just appears and just goes off, You wonder why it's there. Why have it? Your mind doesn't use it. It just drains you. And strangely enough, some so-called artists put elements in there that don't do anything. But the great artists, every element they put in comes home. Music is the same thing. Listen to Bach. No matter how far he strings you out, you know he'll always bring you back. And he can string you way up But you can feel it. You know it's coming back.

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Everything goes like this. You have all these things going out. This goes out, it goes back. Everything comes back. And tremendous complexity is going out. You can't keep and hardly keep track of what it is, but it always comes back. It always returns. And, you know, if you see something very beautiful, ask yourself, why did it give up? Or like, you know, if you look inside of a little egg, you know, this little Easter egg, you know, and you look inside and see that picture, you say, why is that beautiful? What is it about it? I'm suggesting to you that what's beautiful about it is that when you look at these things, you feel them returning to you. You feel it's you. And so if you're doing a practice, you have to feel that the practice is returning to you. And that means you have to do yoga at the same time.

[22:36]

You have to have some sense of it. That it's not just going somewhere. Going, but it's also coming back. And so if you do physical, if you do so-called yoga, right? Yoga postures. You can do yoga posture with the same sense of going out. I do something and doing something is... It's fulfilling this posture. This posture is being done. If you do your other leg back, you will gradually quit. Because it's a drain. It's tiring. And for example, I was just doing that one posture. You start and do that posture and try to get into the posture the way it looks and the way it's supposed to be. Try to go there and attain that. You'll get tighter. But at whatever stage you're at, at that stage to question yourself and also appreciate what is sustaining you in that posture.

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You won't need to get to some other stage. But you probably will eventually. You don't need to. But anyway, that's the difference in our classes and the academic class is that if we're studying some Buddhist teaching We always keep asking ourselves, and we ask the students, you know, how does this apply to life? How do you make this relevant? How do you make this return? Reflect back. Aside from that, this stuff comes material inside. I don't know, a distraction. Even though it's perfectly, it's the teaching of the enlightened ones, if you don't use it that way, it's not, it's another use. And also yogic postures, if you use them in a sense of putting them outside yourself, something you're going towards, they act good for you.

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And you'll soon realize that and you'll stop doing it. You'll stop doing it because you'll become a dream. And you'll go to something else that you think there's some chance of having this unifying experience, which is oftentimes things you just stumble upon, you know. Snow-covered, snow-covered bush would do it. And probably the reason why people start by seeing you know, they have some scent, you know, that it has this possibility, this unification, but then they start getting into it and they start applying the old, the old glory into that. and go and call back to something added to it and destroy it. That's why it's important not to do it, not teach it, because teaching can usually see it, pushing yourself. It can see it drying up.

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It can start to dry up. Okay. It got lit. Sorry. Well, anything else from your comment? During the last presentation, I had to find my experience with the anti-sexual nature of the person right next to me in a very interesting and very well way of what I don't know what they say in terms of the question of physicals. It made it very hard for me.

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I was being aware of my posture, but I was sexually aroused. And that brought me to being aware of the person that I came. Oh, you were aware of your posture? Can you notice your posture was sexually aroused? No, not exactly that. I just thought I felt sexual attracted to the person or someone. That happened in Dendo. Well, when we're sitting in Dendo, so I guess it does happen in Dendo. Yeah, some people do that. It keeps him awake. Anyway, you know, yoga is very sexy. If you don't find yoga as satisfying or more satisfying than sex, you can't really do it. So it has to be that good.

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Well, not because, that's not the person next to you. I mean, without anybody in the room. It has to be as interesting to you as sex. And... Otherwise, you're not really doing it right. It should be that way. Otherwise, you're... You're not really turning, you know. You're not completely... Well, that's... I don't mean it if you're not right away. It takes a while, but eventually it has to be that immediate and intimate and... Otherwise you should be having sex instead, because that's what's more interesting. We should do the most interesting thing. But the thing about sex is that it's maybe interesting for a while, but then it's not.

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So after it's not, then do yoga. And if you keep doing that after a few years, yoga will always be more interesting. And most people, when they do sex, they don't do yoga. And then sex is a drain, too. After a while, sex must be yoga. Everything has to be yoga. If it's not yoga, if it's not returning, then you're losing. You're draining, you're getting lost. And that's just the way to think. So, you know, we have pictures of these Buddhas with these rays coming up. These rays are really circles. So, they can always come back. And the so-called spiritual practice or whatever it Not if, you know, you can't do it unless you think it better than, you know, you have to be better.

[30:08]

You should always do the best thing. And for everything that's most interesting is a guide to you. Don't deny it. Use what's interesting and immediate and inspiring and wonderful. Use that and there's something there to teach you. Use that as a guide. Catch on to what it is in that that will help through yoga. I can tell you, you know, if you look in the little Easter eggs, there's something about them that tells you how to do it. And if you look at them now as an adult and they don't work for you anymore, then it's showing you what you've lost. You've lost that something that the child had, and you look at those Easter eggs, that childlike enjoyment, that complete enjoyment of sensory experience,

[31:08]

is necessary in order to sit. But again, you have to change your attitude about things in order to have that. So be patient with yourself, and you don't have to be able to do that right away. But it's just a matter of gradually changing your way of thinking about what you're doing, so that everything can be that way. When you can change your way of thinking, then everything in your day life will be that way. For example, the other day, I got to use an electric egg beater and put on a little equipment. I mean, I really had a great time. It was just a much fun when I got killed. It's very fun to get some after words to get these and figures out how to put cream on. Great. in some ways, I mean, everybody, I guess everybody, enjoys using fingers, right?

[32:19]

Doesn't everybody have a great kind of... Yeah. So I think, anyway, if you sit facing a wall for enough years, you start enjoying using egg noodles. And you'll enjoy licking them, like when you were a kid. So it Again, you know, there should be this, you know, thorough interpenetration of all the effects of your life. In fact, it has to have this complete feeling. And the only reason why it doesn't have that is because we think sometimes in a certain way. But, again, the posture itself, if you're aware of it, will teach you a new way to think, or even over.

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Just keep working on sitting and being aware of your posture, and your body will, the body and mind will just naturalize themselves. You don't have this posture at all. It's kind of... It's kind of magical how it works.

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