today the world performed a memorial ceremony after this talk a memorial to the events 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 in the last 10 years and is here today too

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we offer such a ceremony here with your support today you offer this ceremony here with our support and we do so in the contest of embracing the great vehicle embracing the practice of understanding of truth and of life devoted to realizing enlightenment for the welfare of all beings for the happiness of all beings to help beings to be happy in a world just like this.

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This is what the enlightened ones are divine to. And this is what the enlightened beings are who are on the path to realize enlightenment. with all concern for living in the way that you support beings to be happy in your present world I mean you wonder how can you possibly be happy when there is such a suffering in his room.

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There are statues of enlightening beings. One of them is called Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva of Definite Compassion. And the statue of that Bodhisattva is in the back of the main altar. And also there are paintings from that Bodhisattva on the 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 shade-headed monks.

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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. 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 them with eyes of compassion. Here it has a way of living, of constantly contemplating all the living being with eyes of compassion, with no limit in scope or

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contemplating all living beings with eyes of compassion. And the teaching of the Logo Sutra is that this mean eye, this contemplation of all beings, assembles an ocean of happiness an option of merit, an option of virtue, an option of blessing. This bodhisattva is a representative of the great vehicle, representing the infinite compassion of our great vehicle.

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To me, a great situation with the illusion. It does not mean that she does not sometimes protest, but the protest comes from compassion. generosity and ethical discipline and patience and courage and so entity she can't shop but she not always shall be What she always is doing is contemplating all the big beings with eyes for compassion. This is how she assembles a portion of blessed beyond mission.

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Do you wish to join her in this practice? Do you wish to join this great and likely being in her practice of contemplating living days with eyes of concussion, assembling an ocean of happiness beyond many? I see some people nodding as well, they're saying yes. Even if I say yes, I understand that I may get distracted. I may forgive some loss to look upon the big being with eyes of concussion. And when I forgive, I use such invading, forgiving. my commitment to compassion.

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And all of the details about the 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 suffering. This is the basic work of the Bodhisattva, Rinpoche. But the Bodhisattva has another dimension to her practice and that is the Bodhisattva. So in the notice of the true Jai-vu scripture, this bodhisattva, what we've been accomplished in this contemplating all living beings and assembling this portion of happiness and blessing for suffering beings, but they are still suffering.

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This Bodhisattva wishes more than just to bring blessing. This Bodhisattva wishes to liberate also to do this. So she must develop wisdom too. In the heart syndrome, her wisdom practice is pointed to. In the moral service we will chant the heart syndrome, which says, Uplooking Teshpara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajnaparamita, affectionate wisdom, clearly saw that all five advocates are empty upon being, and thus the people suffering in distress. It is this wisdom joined with compassion.

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It's a wisdom that grows out of compassion and actually liberates pain from their confusion. Compassion brings blessing and helps it open to the practice of wisdom which brings liberation. Part of the practice of wisdom is also to contemplate all beings with compassion. But then, in this departure 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 an example of the life of wisdom to inquire into what is a living being

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one example of this is a story about a Chinese man who lived in the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago and 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 man's name was Shanyang And Chang'an leaves, fragrant bliss, or fragrant customness.

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And the second part of this vein is the jiragang, which means obstacle 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 video. But his wisdom was obstructed. There was a barrier to his wisdom. This teacher, Baijong, the great Zen teacher Baijong died shortly after he started to study with him. And so then he continued to study with Baijong's disciple, Guishan. Zen master Guishan saw her sincere and compassionate. Now the man this was. So he said to him, Please bring me

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a pivotal word an essential word bring me an essential word from yourself before you were born bring me a pivotal word from yourself before you entered your mother's womb before you knew Ethan was and Xiangyan 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

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who just lived in the cemetery and took care of the ancestor's memorial site. Cleaning around the memorial site to the ancestor. Today we again will intend to perform memorial service for the welfare of the big beings. Can we at the same time be taken care of the most horrible without the Buddha ancestors? While he was cleaning around memorial site, sweeping and working, tidying up the land around the memorial site of the enlightened ancestor.

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He swept some debris towards a brick of a bamboo and a pebble stuck in the shaft of a bamboo and went and the obstacle to wisdom dropped away. He found a place where wisdom was born. He could passionately care for his teacher and his teacher's teeth. He was devoted to the welfare of all things, but he couldn't find a place the obstacle to wisdom drops away. He finally settled into that place and then the gift came to him.

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He was practicing deeply the perfection of wisdom and he saw that all five For example, the aggregate of form, the aggregate which includes sonhood. He realized that sonhood is empty of self. He realized his self before he was born. Then he became a teacher himself. and one day when he was teaching his group is the a person is off to the tree and the tree

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is growing out of the side of a thousand-foot cliff. It is a fragrant cliff. A tree is growing out of the side of a thousand-foot cliff, and a person is up in that tree, and a person is heading from a branch, which she is bubbling with her teeth. She's hanging by her teeth on a branch a thousand feet over there. Her feet cannot reach a branch below and her headings 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's 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 is 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 beauty, the needs, to know, the need, to know. And then he said to his group, at just such a time, what would you do? He found the place. Through a long struggle and through a long introduction 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 group and came up to the teacher and said, I'm going to talk to you, but I don't want to talk about after she went up in the tree. I want to know, before she went up in the tree, how was that? And the teacher laughed wildly. But 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 at the time. I don't know what I would do, I don't know what you would do, but I propose that the like ones and the likely ones I propose that Avlopiteshvar 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? 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 Buddhists wish to teach? The question that asked me is done by the Buddhists at the very moment of hanging by a branch with your teeth. And also, I've been caused that this bite is a relaxing...

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Walking on the earth, along holiday days, playing the branch, moment by moment. If not before or after at this time, but just now. It may have helped people in the past, that's fine. It may help people in the future, that's fine. But right now, the way to help people is by having a brokerage. Because that's what you're doing. That's who you are. That's your job. And that is yourself before you enter your mother's womb.

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And that is eating in his dragon. And that is asking, what is the meaning of the voice teacher? And that is answering the question. Being where you are before your mother, but you am, is the most difficult job. and while you're hanging from 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

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perfect wisdom. When 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. You're trying to be helpful, but you're not teaching perfection wisdom. taste the perfection of wisdom by being to yourself before your idea of yourself today this

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this investigation of the moment this investigation of being yourself right now in the context of contemplating all that he beings is all looking as far as practice 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, do you wish to join all the lucky test followers' practice of being a self? 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 unless about it I could hardly look to see it when you were not a dream helped him visit me and so maybe the same for you that when I asked him to question you

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Even though you make the alias, you can't answer. You're already done. I'm reading this. Just inject the poll. Summer's almost over in a way. But I heard it's still hot in the Central Valley.

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I've heard that Buddha's is sitting 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 play, turning the wheel of dawn on the welfare of all beings. I heard that some of the time and the living is a fish are jumping and the coffee is all I want.

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Your daddy's breathing. Your mama looks crazy. Oh, rest, little baby. Even while you're crying. One of these mornings, you're gonna rise up to me. You're gonna spread your wings and you'll take to the sky.

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

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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 to we offer such a ceremony here with your support today you offer this ceremony here with our support and we do so in the contest 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. to help beings be happy in a world just like this. This is what the enlightened ones are going to, and this is what the enlightened gating souls who are on the path to realizing with all concern for living in a way that can support beings to be happy in your present world I mean you wonder how can we possibly be happy when there is such suffering

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in his room. There are statues of enlightening beings. One of them is called Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. And the Bodhisattva of infinite compassion. And the statue of that Bodhisattva is in the back of the main altar. And also there are paintings from that bodhisattva on the four sides of the large incense burner in front of the main altar. Bodhisattva in the compassion is surrounded by sages. Bodhisattva in this case looks a woman, a human woman, and she's surrounded by shade-headed monks.

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Look, I can't tell if it's a male or female, but she seems to be a woman that you want to be. This is Bodhisattva's response to this world of suffering is to observe them, observe all the suffering, 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 and being created. Here it is a way of living, of constantly contemplating all the living being with eyes of compassion, with knowledge, in scope or truth.

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contemplating all living beings with eyes of compassion and the teaching of the lotus future is that this mean eyes with contemplation of all beings assembles the ocean of happiness an ocean of merit, an ocean of virtue, an ocean of blessing. This bodhisattva is a representative of the great vehicle, representing the infinite compassion of great vehicle.

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To me, a great situation with the other she. It does not mean that she does not sometimes protest, but the protest comes from compassion. a couple of generosity, and ethical discipline, and patience, and courage, and serenity. She can't shop, but she's not always shoddy. What she always is doing is contemplating all that we need with eye for compassion. This is how she assembles a portion of blessing beyond mission.

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Do you wish to join her in this practice? Do you wish to join this crazy likely being in her practice of contemplating living days with eyes of Kardashian, assembling an ocean of happiness in a moment? I see some people nodding as long as they're saying yes. And even if I say yes, I understand that I may get distracted. I may forgive some loss to look upon the living being with eyes of concussion. When I forgive, I have such a being forgiving. my commitment to compassion.

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And all the details from the body is looking at me with eyes of compassion when I forget. And I remember, and perhaps I can't enjoy this great practice, of assembling a boundless, immeasurable ocean of madness in this very world of suffering. This is the day thing, work of the Bodhisattva and Vinod Prakashin. But the Bodhisattva has another dimension to her practice, and that is, so what is that? So in the notice of the true Jarmu scripture, this Bodhisattva, what we've been accomplished in this contemplating all living beings and establishing this portion of happiness and blessing for sovereign beings, but they are still sovereign.

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Bodhisattva wishes more than just to be blessed, because Bodhisattva wishes to be buried, also to be buried. So she must develop wisdom too. In the heart syndrome, her wisdom practice is pointed to. In the moral service from Bachanta heart syndrome, which says, Uplooking Teshpara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajnaparamita, perfection to wisdom, clearly saw that all finite gifts of ethya-owned being and dusting being called suffering and distress, It is this wisdom joined with compassion.

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It's this wisdom that grows out of compassion that actually liberates people from their confusion. The compassion brings blessing and helps them open to the practice of wisdom which brings liberation. part 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 the an example of the life of wisdom to inquire into what is a living being

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One example of this is a story about a Chinese man who lived in the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. 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 Xiaoyuan and Chang'an Lee's Fragrant Cliff or Fragrant Precipice and the second part of his name is Jiragong which means stickball to wisdom and in fact

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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, Baijong, the great Zen teacher Baijong died shortly after he started studying with him. and so then he continued to study with Bai Zhang's disciple Guisha and Zen Master Guisha saw what 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 from yourself before you were born.

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Bring me a pivotal word of yourself before you entered your mother's womb, before you knew Ethan was and Xiangyan 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 cemetery where one of the teacher's ancestors memorial was located.

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And he just lived in the cemetery and took care of the ancestors memorial site. Cleaning around the memorial site to the ancestors. Today we again will intend to perform more service for the welfare of the beings. Can we at the same time be taking care of the most part of the Buddha ancestors? While he was cleaning around the memorial site, sweeping and working, tidying up the bayonet around the memorial site of the enlightened ancestor, he swept some debris towards a brook of bamboo and a pebble structure.

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the chef about bamboo and when and the optical to wisdom dropped away he found the place where wisdom is born he compassionately cared for his teacher 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 away. 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 four, the aggregate which includes sunhood. He realized that sunhood is empty of self. He realized his self before he was born. and he became a teacher himself and one day when he was teaching his group he said a person is also a tree and he became a tree is growing out of the side of a thousand foot cliff.

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He didn't say 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. is hanging by her teeth from a branch a thousand feet in the air. Her feet cannot reach a branch below, and her 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's a small, relatively small, women's stature. on this side of the altar. And that statue represents the founder of Sam, who came from India to China, named Bodhidharma. So this person is hanging by her teeth. She has been born a thousand feet up in the air and somebody said, what's the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from India to Vietnam? 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, 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 through a long scroll and through long devotion to the ancestors teaching he found the place of his self before his mother was born now he wishes to induct his students into this place

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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 she went up in the tree. I want to know, before she went up in the tree, how was that? And the teacher laughed wildly. But what would you do?

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At just such a time, what would you do? I propose that at just such a time is actually right now. But right now is that the time. I don't know what I would do, I don't know what they would do, but I propose that the... what is it? that the enlightened ones and the enlightened ones, I propose that Avlopiteshvara Bodhisattva, at just at the time, would bite the branch. And I propose that the answer

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that the Buddha and what we sought the great answer to the question, what is the meaning of sin? What is wisdom? The answer is, given. They are answering at the very moment of hiding their lunch. And also, Asking the question, what is the meaning of life that the Buddha's wish to teach? The question, the asking, the probing, 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 new beings, body and branch, moment by moment. There's no before or after at this time, there's just now. You may have helped people in the past, that's fine. You may have helped people in the future, that's fine. But right now, the way to help people is going to get burned. Because that's what you're doing. That's who you are. That's your job. And that was yourself before you entered your mother's womb.

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And that is easy to be distracted from. And that is asking what is the meaning of the Buddha'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 hanging from 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 say

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perfect list let me 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 touching of wisdom take the perfection of wisdom by being to yourself before your idea of yourself today this

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investigation of the moment this investigation of being yourself right now in the context of contemplating all that he beings is all of it as far as practice I asked if he wished to join all the lucky fish for his practice of contemplating such a being.

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I saw some nods. now I ask do you wish to join a lucky textbookers practice of being a self and 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. On this? How about it? I could hardly look to say it, and you would nod it.

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I was too busy in the very beginning. And so it would be the same for you, that when I'm asking the question, even though you may feel yes, you can't answer. You're already done. I'll breathe those just into the call. 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 to sit in the midst of all living beings. Avalokiteshwar sits in the midst of all living beings, contemplating it. I've heard that Buddhists sit in the midst of fierce flames, turning the wheel down for the welfare of all beings. I heard that summer time and the living city.

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Fish are jumping and the cockiness all along. Your daddy's re-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e One of these mornings, you're gonna ride with us today.

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You're gonna spread your wings and you'll take to the sky. Until that morning, there ain't enough to care at all. It's different than that day. Thank you.

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