1 00:00:01,229 --> 00:00:03,612 Hello and welcome back to our study on the Dhammapada. 2 00:00:04,333 --> 00:00:29,025 Today we continue on with verse number 110 which is as follows Which means 3 00:00:33,815 --> 00:00:50,098 Whoever should live 100 years, immoral and unconcentrated, unfocused, uncentered, unbalanced in the mind. 4 00:00:52,100 --> 00:01:02,775 One life, one day, a life of one day is greater. 5 00:01:07,126 --> 00:01:15,736 For one who has morality or is ethical and who meditates. 6 00:01:16,156 --> 00:01:17,778 One who meditates. 7 00:01:21,623 --> 00:01:36,019 So this verse was taught with the story of Sankiccha Samanera as the instigation. 8 00:01:37,653 --> 00:01:49,911 But our story starts with a group of 30 monks, 30 men living in Sawati, who heard the Buddha teach the Dhamma and decided to go forth. 9 00:01:51,753 --> 00:01:57,481 There's this funny expression called Urang Dhamme, I think, Dhamme Urang Dattwa. 10 00:02:01,147 --> 00:02:04,251 Sasane, sorry, Sasane Urang Dattwa. 11 00:02:04,585 --> 00:02:07,868 And the English translates it as yielded the breast. 12 00:02:08,889 --> 00:02:10,611 Yielded the breast to his teaching. 13 00:02:13,233 --> 00:02:18,258 I don't know who thought that would be a good translation of sasane urang tatva. 14 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:23,524 So having heard the teaching they yielded the breast. 15 00:02:23,944 --> 00:02:27,047 I don't know maybe a hundred years ago these translations are a hundred years old. 16 00:02:27,948 --> 00:02:30,210 Maybe a hundred years ago they thought that. 17 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:32,112 Maybe that was an expression a hundred years ago. 18 00:02:33,526 --> 00:03:03,381 sāsane in the sāsana or to the sāsana maybe to the teaching of the Buddha urang is the chest but it can mean we would say heart dhatva means having given so they gave their hearts up they gave up their hearts or they they gave themselves yielded the breast it is kind of poetic 19 00:03:04,812 --> 00:03:06,274 Just never heard it before. 20 00:03:07,956 --> 00:03:17,467 And so they became monks, these 30 men, and they went to the teacher and asked him, what are we supposed to do in this religion? 21 00:03:17,547 --> 00:03:22,153 And the Buddha taught, as he always did, that there are two aspects of the teaching. 22 00:03:22,213 --> 00:03:34,347 There's the study aspect, you have to learn, and then there's the practical aspect, insight, the practice of attaining insight. 23 00:03:34,327 --> 00:03:48,725 These guys were actually a little bit older when they ordained and so they decided that it would probably be too difficult for them to undertake both duties. 24 00:03:48,945 --> 00:03:53,111 So they requested permission to practice vipassana, insight meditation. 25 00:03:53,371 --> 00:03:54,192 So they went off. 26 00:03:55,555 --> 00:04:20,652 they prepared to head off into the forest and so they went to the Buddha and they asked permission to leave after they were five years a monk after being five years a monk they all were full-fledged monks who were independent of a teacher and so they I mean technically independent and so they were allowed to go off into the forest so they went to ask permission or to let the Buddha know and 27 00:04:22,842 --> 00:04:26,989 And the Buddha looked at them and said, he thought to himself, is there going to be any trouble for them? 28 00:04:27,089 --> 00:04:33,320 And with his profound insight, he saw there's going to be danger. 29 00:04:33,861 --> 00:04:35,484 There's going to be danger to these monks. 30 00:04:37,928 --> 00:04:45,762 Going to be danger to these monks in regards to, and here they translate an eater of broken meat. 31 00:04:47,547 --> 00:04:48,648 I'm not sure what that means. 32 00:04:49,009 --> 00:04:54,776 Something broken, something, someone who eats leftovers, maybe, you could say. 33 00:04:55,657 --> 00:04:56,418 Eats scraps. 34 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,862 A scrap eater, maybe. 35 00:05:03,588 --> 00:05:06,872 Some danger, danger, because there's danger in the forest, right? 36 00:05:08,214 --> 00:05:14,742 Bandits and monsters and demons pretending to be cows. 37 00:05:14,762 --> 00:05:16,204 There's lots of different things. 38 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,825 Yesterday we had a demon who was promised a little boy. 39 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:30,176 So again, with all these stories, believing whether this story actually happened isn't the most important. 40 00:05:30,256 --> 00:05:36,685 I'm telling a story and I don't have a problem thinking that maybe it happened. 41 00:05:37,025 --> 00:05:45,437 I do admit that some of them seem a little bit outrageous, but for the most part they're instructive and they're insightful and they're interesting. 42 00:05:46,398 --> 00:05:48,942 But most important is the verse, the teaching that we'll get to. 43 00:05:50,828 --> 00:05:53,892 Anyway, the story goes, and this is an interesting story. 44 00:05:54,753 --> 00:05:56,215 It's got some interesting points to it. 45 00:06:04,867 --> 00:06:19,047 The Buddha said they were going to get into some danger, but that danger will be averted if they bring with them the Samanera Sankicca. 46 00:06:22,722 --> 00:06:29,531 And if they do so, the danger will be removed and they will be able to practice and fulfill their goal. 47 00:06:32,315 --> 00:06:35,439 So now the story continues with Sankicca Samanera. 48 00:06:35,479 --> 00:06:38,804 Now Sankicca Samanera, we have to give some background for him. 49 00:06:38,844 --> 00:06:48,797 He was... He was the... 50 00:06:50,397 --> 00:07:17,755 son of a daughter of a rich man in Saboti and his mother died while he was still in the womb some disease she became sick and died and maybe not knowing that he was inside or thinking that he was dead probably thinking he was dead and they didn't have the tools I suppose back then there was no ultrasound back then they burnt the body with him inside 51 00:07:20,249 --> 00:07:27,960 And how they would burn the bodies, they just put them out on some wood and burn the body up. 52 00:07:28,681 --> 00:07:32,245 Now, when you burn the body, it doesn't burn all the way through. 53 00:07:32,265 --> 00:07:43,601 And the hip area especially is, especially on women, I think, because there's generally some bulk there. 54 00:07:43,661 --> 00:07:46,745 And so that's the one part that doesn't burn. 55 00:07:46,785 --> 00:07:48,788 And so they have this stake. 56 00:07:48,768 --> 00:07:51,696 that they actually stabbed the body and turned it over with. 57 00:07:51,776 --> 00:07:55,948 And so they got this guy whose duty it is to stab and turn. 58 00:07:57,652 --> 00:08:04,752 And they let it burn for a while, and then he's supposed to stab it and turn it, and he stabbed it. 59 00:08:05,221 --> 00:08:09,651 And he turned and the body sort of decomposed and it was on the ashes and so on. 60 00:08:10,413 --> 00:08:19,954 And it exposed this baby boy and the stake had got him right here or somewhere in his eye. 61 00:08:20,676 --> 00:08:24,023 I don't think it blinded him, but it struck the outside of his eye. 62 00:08:26,821 --> 00:08:48,524 That's supposed to be how he got the name Sankhya because they found him and they found him alive and they took him and raised him and it was prognosticated that he would become a monk and indeed at seven years old he became a novice and became enlightened during his ordination ceremony. 63 00:08:48,824 --> 00:08:54,010 When the razor first touched his head he became enlightened when they started to shave his hair. 64 00:08:54,783 --> 00:08:59,234 And the commentary says that's the reason why he didn't die in his mother's womb. 65 00:09:00,016 --> 00:09:02,282 These sort of strange things do happen. 66 00:09:02,503 --> 00:09:03,365 Not exactly this. 67 00:09:03,445 --> 00:09:11,205 This is, I think, a fairly unique case, but cases where people should have died, where babies shouldn't have survived, 68 00:09:11,185 --> 00:09:37,800 miracles I mean it's not a miracle because it's not like it's coming from God or something like that but strange coincidences do happen they're rare and the skeptic would say well they're just random you know they happen and of course so many different things will happen there's no there's no reason to think that's unlikely occurrences will happen but 69 00:09:39,637 --> 00:09:41,241 We don't know exactly why they happened. 70 00:09:41,261 --> 00:09:45,333 The commentary says why this happened is because he was destined to become an Arahant. 71 00:09:46,034 --> 00:09:47,498 So there was some strength there. 72 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:54,658 It wasn't destiny in the sense of predeterminism, but it was... 73 00:09:54,638 --> 00:10:03,082 His karma was so strong, his goodness was so strong that it protected him from death. 74 00:10:03,202 --> 00:10:09,660 I mean, it wasn't like exactly that the flames, he was impervious to fire, it was that 75 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,949 The circumstances made it just so that the guy caught him. 76 00:10:14,969 --> 00:10:21,861 I think actually the story goes on to say that it's a little bit worse than that actually. 77 00:10:22,282 --> 00:10:25,047 I think I'm secularizing it a little bit. 78 00:10:26,610 --> 00:10:27,852 Because the story says that 79 00:10:29,148 --> 00:10:32,834 the body itself burned, but then there was another body or something. 80 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:34,377 It's a little bit weird. 81 00:10:35,098 --> 00:10:40,448 I'm not going to endorse that simply because this is too much of an open forum. 82 00:10:40,668 --> 00:10:44,094 But for the Buddhists among you, I don't want to insult you either. 83 00:10:44,174 --> 00:10:53,130 If you're happy with the more religious, more magical version of this story, then I apologize for 84 00:10:53,110 --> 00:10:54,812 watering it down a little bit. 85 00:10:54,832 --> 00:10:56,533 But the story again, not so important. 86 00:10:56,974 --> 00:10:58,655 That aspect certainly not important. 87 00:10:58,675 --> 00:11:05,162 It's interesting how karma can protect you and how there are unseen forces that sometimes protect us. 88 00:11:05,983 --> 00:11:13,110 Unseen forces not meaning God, although it can be angels as we've seen in the last story. 89 00:11:13,410 --> 00:11:21,818 I mean that if you have any inkling that angels might exist or beings that are not in the realm of human physics, 90 00:11:23,198 --> 00:11:27,064 or are able to go outside of it so that they're undetectable. 91 00:11:27,565 --> 00:11:44,433 So if they're angels and beings that we can't detect, then the whole idea of them protecting people or getting involved or coming into the human sphere, coming into the realm of what we can detect physically, it doesn't seem that unreasonable. 92 00:11:44,794 --> 00:11:46,877 But here it was just his karma that protected him. 93 00:11:51,025 --> 00:11:53,408 So that's the story of Sankicca. 94 00:11:53,489 --> 00:11:57,134 Because this is a sangka or something. 95 00:11:57,595 --> 00:11:58,496 What is it? 96 00:11:58,676 --> 00:11:59,177 A sangku. 97 00:12:00,479 --> 00:12:02,582 Sangku means a stake or a spike. 98 00:12:02,942 --> 00:12:18,425 So he got the name Sankicca as one who, I don't know what the ending is, but sangku, maybe it was ika or something because I. Aki, sorry, aki is I, right? 99 00:12:19,627 --> 00:12:19,767 Anyway. 100 00:12:28,184 --> 00:12:35,842 Because his eye had been pierced with a stick, Sanku, they gave him the name Sankicha. 101 00:12:35,862 --> 00:12:37,386 So he became an arahant and that was that. 102 00:12:38,008 --> 00:12:41,897 Now back to our story about the 30 men, the 30 monks. 103 00:12:44,243 --> 00:12:45,265 The Buddha said to them, 104 00:12:46,882 --> 00:12:49,365 He said, well, I have to get this novice to go with him. 105 00:12:49,426 --> 00:12:58,518 Somehow the Buddha saw that this novice, because he's a very powerful sort of novice, you know, the whole not dying through fire thing kind of tipped, kind of should tip you off to that. 106 00:13:02,544 --> 00:13:11,256 And so in order to facilitate this, he said, go see the elder Sariputta. 107 00:13:11,276 --> 00:13:12,738 Go see Sariputta before you leave. 108 00:13:13,499 --> 00:13:15,302 He didn't want to say no, and he didn't want to 109 00:13:16,058 --> 00:13:19,444 He wanted it to be more roundabout. 110 00:13:19,485 --> 00:13:27,800 I think that you can see sort of the methodology here, because if the Buddha says, well, bring this Samanera Sankiccha with you, this would cause problems. 111 00:13:27,820 --> 00:13:29,103 You'll see how it would cause problems. 112 00:13:29,403 --> 00:13:30,365 It's an interesting story. 113 00:13:30,385 --> 00:13:32,770 The Buddha didn't say, bring Sankiccha with you. 114 00:13:32,790 --> 00:13:36,377 And you'll see the reason why as we go through the story. 115 00:13:36,757 --> 00:13:38,100 He says, go see Sariputta. 116 00:13:39,076 --> 00:13:46,986 So they go to see Sariputta, and Sariputta is a little bit, not puzzled, but the question arises in his mind, well, why did the Buddha send them to me? 117 00:13:48,988 --> 00:14:04,527 And somehow Sariputta, whether he has some kind of magical insight or supernatural insight, or just he's so profoundly wise, he knew exactly what, or he was able to guess, or he was able to get the answer as to what the Buddha was thinking. 118 00:14:05,789 --> 00:14:07,512 And he said, do you have a novice with you? 119 00:14:08,293 --> 00:14:11,278 And they said, no, no, we don't have a novice. 120 00:14:11,698 --> 00:14:14,462 Yeah, yeah, it would be nice, but it's not really necessary. 121 00:14:17,087 --> 00:14:19,390 And Sariputta says, bring Sankiccha with you. 122 00:14:22,976 --> 00:14:26,421 And no, no, no, no, he'll be a hindrance to us. 123 00:14:26,822 --> 00:14:30,167 He'll get in our way, and we've got to look after a seven-year-old child. 124 00:14:30,307 --> 00:14:33,552 Come on, what are we going to do with this seven-year-old kid? 125 00:14:34,882 --> 00:14:36,024 I have to take care of him. 126 00:14:36,686 --> 00:14:41,395 And Sariputta said, look, did the Buddha or did he not send you to me? 127 00:14:42,798 --> 00:14:44,602 Do you not think there was a reason? 128 00:14:44,642 --> 00:14:47,729 And now you're going to argue with me? 129 00:14:48,811 --> 00:14:52,037 He said, the Buddha sent you to me and I'm telling you to bring Sankiccha. 130 00:14:52,118 --> 00:14:54,763 So you're going to bring Sankiccha with you. 131 00:14:55,807 --> 00:15:01,039 I mean, he didn't force them, but he laid out the logic of it. 132 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:07,954 And they're like, okay, well, I guess that's why the Buddha sent us to you, though they don't have a clue why. 133 00:15:09,197 --> 00:15:12,685 Because the Buddha never said there was a danger, so they don't know that there's danger. 134 00:15:14,993 --> 00:15:22,428 And so they took him and the 31 of them headed off to the forest and they found a suitable place and a suitable community. 135 00:15:23,329 --> 00:15:26,195 And the community asked them what sort of place they were looking for. 136 00:15:26,235 --> 00:15:33,930 They said, oh, we're just looking for a place where we can be at ease, be at peace and practice our meditation. 137 00:15:33,910 --> 00:15:36,477 And they said, well, then please stay here near our village. 138 00:15:36,899 --> 00:15:38,343 You can stay in the forest nearby. 139 00:15:38,403 --> 00:15:39,386 We'll build you kutis. 140 00:15:39,426 --> 00:15:40,248 We'll take care of you. 141 00:15:40,288 --> 00:15:43,217 And if you do, then we'll be able to learn the Dhamma as well. 142 00:15:43,598 --> 00:15:46,165 We'll be able to hear your teachings, practice along. 143 00:15:49,773 --> 00:15:57,988 And we'll be able to keep the five precepts and so on and practice the Uposatha, which would be the full moon, the empty moon. 144 00:15:58,068 --> 00:16:01,394 They have these religious activities and it's nice to have. 145 00:16:02,315 --> 00:16:05,421 They like to have monks or religious people around. 146 00:16:06,964 --> 00:16:07,765 So they accepted. 147 00:16:09,230 --> 00:16:20,372 And they built them kutis and walking meditation areas with a roof, you know, they'd have a walking path, meditation hall kind of thing. 148 00:16:20,392 --> 00:16:25,703 And they did duties and ministered faithfully to their needs, it says. 149 00:16:30,239 --> 00:16:41,756 And they made this deal among themselves that they would never be together except on the days of doing the duties. 150 00:16:41,836 --> 00:16:53,493 Now every two weeks they had to get together to recite the Bhati Moka, to recite the rules of the Sangha. 151 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:55,836 But apart from that, let's stay apart. 152 00:16:56,637 --> 00:16:59,301 When we go for alms round, whatever we do, 153 00:17:00,395 --> 00:17:03,399 Except for in the early morning, except for when we go on alms round. 154 00:17:03,419 --> 00:17:08,585 And in the evening when we wait, when we do our duties to our teachers and so on, to the elder. 155 00:17:10,607 --> 00:17:12,429 Let's not be together, let's always be apart. 156 00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:17,575 So they spent all of their time alone so that they could dedicate themselves to meditation. 157 00:17:17,595 --> 00:17:19,398 And so you never see anyone talking. 158 00:17:19,418 --> 00:17:22,341 The monastery was completely quiet throughout the day. 159 00:17:22,922 --> 00:17:27,347 Except for when they had to do their duties or when they were eating or that kind of thing. 160 00:17:30,128 --> 00:17:40,442 And so having made that agreement, they entered into the reigns, this three-month period where you engage in meditation practice, you don't go anywhere, that kind of thing. 161 00:17:42,481 --> 00:17:57,698 Now during the rains it happened that there was a poor man who had gotten sort of kicked out of his house when his daughter went to live with her husband and the husband had no use for an old man and the daughter didn't protect him, didn't take care of him and they just kind of ignored him. 162 00:17:57,718 --> 00:18:07,268 Nowadays it would be the equivalent of sending them to the old age home but now they don't have old age homes so they just forget about you I guess. 163 00:18:07,288 --> 00:18:11,593 Nowadays, sorry, back then they had no old age homes so they would just forget about them. 164 00:18:13,497 --> 00:18:16,884 And so that's what they did. 165 00:18:16,944 --> 00:18:18,286 And so this guy became a beggar. 166 00:18:18,326 --> 00:18:21,653 And he came to the monks and he was begging for food. 167 00:18:21,693 --> 00:18:24,458 And the monks offered him some of their food. 168 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:26,543 They didn't offer him anything special. 169 00:18:26,563 --> 00:18:28,707 They just offered him whatever they had to eat. 170 00:18:29,849 --> 00:18:32,654 And he looked at the food that they had given him. 171 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:34,999 Each monk of the 30 gave him a little piece. 172 00:18:34,979 --> 00:18:39,846 And he looked at it and he thought, this is better food than I got as a layperson. 173 00:18:39,867 --> 00:18:42,591 He said, is this some kind of special day? 174 00:18:42,651 --> 00:18:44,494 And they said, no, this is, no. 175 00:18:44,714 --> 00:18:45,115 What do you mean? 176 00:18:45,435 --> 00:18:46,617 Well, why the special food? 177 00:18:46,897 --> 00:18:48,460 This is the kind of food we get every day. 178 00:18:50,403 --> 00:18:53,207 And this man, suddenly the gears started turning in his head. 179 00:18:56,512 --> 00:18:59,056 From the get-go, he didn't have the best intentions. 180 00:18:59,357 --> 00:19:13,120 Remember, this is what the Buddha prognosticated, foretold, how do you say, that there would be trouble from a guy, from a beggar, a person who ate scraps. 181 00:19:15,226 --> 00:19:22,595 And so this guy says to them, hey, do you think maybe I could live here and take care of you? 182 00:19:22,615 --> 00:19:29,723 Do you need someone to help take care of you or help sweeping or help cleaning or this kind of thing? 183 00:19:30,984 --> 00:19:32,506 And so they let him stay. 184 00:19:32,907 --> 00:19:35,770 And I guess he kind of said, you know, I can learn the Dhamma as well. 185 00:19:35,790 --> 00:19:37,712 And so they let him stay at the monastery. 186 00:19:40,656 --> 00:19:41,757 And 187 00:19:46,242 --> 00:19:50,368 And eventually he gained their trust. 188 00:19:51,749 --> 00:19:53,532 He wasn't bad-hearted, it doesn't seem. 189 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:59,320 He was a little bit greedy, perhaps, and didn't have the intention, really, I don't think, to learn the Dhamma. 190 00:19:59,380 --> 00:20:00,161 I'm not sure. 191 00:20:00,782 --> 00:20:02,424 It seems like he didn't really learn the Dhamma. 192 00:20:03,786 --> 00:20:08,652 Because then one day he desired, he wanted to go back to see his daughter. 193 00:20:08,693 --> 00:20:11,997 And so without telling the monks, he just up and left. 194 00:20:13,968 --> 00:20:23,994 And on his way back through the forest, he was grabbed by a group of, a large group of thieves, bandits. 195 00:20:26,060 --> 00:20:27,403 So danger came to him. 196 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:37,937 And this large group of bandits took him to their hideout and tied him up. 197 00:20:37,957 --> 00:20:45,814 And then he watched as they began to sharpen knives and prepare an altar, a sacrificial altar. 198 00:20:45,794 --> 00:20:48,260 And he was watching and he was wondering what they're going to do. 199 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,767 They're going to have some kind of a sacrificial offering, goats maybe. 200 00:20:52,128 --> 00:20:53,130 He didn't see any goats. 201 00:20:53,411 --> 00:20:54,413 He didn't see any cows. 202 00:20:55,135 --> 00:20:58,262 And so he asked one of them as they were walking by or something. 203 00:20:58,302 --> 00:21:04,596 He said, you know, I see you're preparing a sacrifice, but I don't see any, I don't see anything to be sacrificed. 204 00:21:05,977 --> 00:21:08,762 And the men turned to him and said, well, you're the sacrifice. 205 00:21:08,922 --> 00:21:11,106 We're preparing this to sacrifice you. 206 00:21:11,146 --> 00:21:19,020 And supposedly, they said that they had made a vow. 207 00:21:19,161 --> 00:21:27,816 And this was common in India, to make a vow to a spirit, some kind of spirit that if they were able to 208 00:21:29,315 --> 00:21:38,027 Well, not if, they just said whoever entered this forest, they will kill the first person to enter the forest and make an offering with flesh and blood. 209 00:21:38,388 --> 00:21:40,791 So the idea was that the spirit would then protect them, I think. 210 00:21:45,117 --> 00:21:53,689 And the man started freaking out and realized suddenly, suddenly had this fear of death thrust upon him. 211 00:21:55,412 --> 00:21:58,596 And he started freaking out and pleading and begging and 212 00:22:00,567 --> 00:22:02,370 Finally, he came upon this idea. 213 00:22:02,410 --> 00:22:07,820 He said to them, look, I'm not who you want to perform a sacrifice. 214 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,684 I mean, what kind of a sacrifice am I? 215 00:22:10,225 --> 00:22:11,487 I live off of scraps. 216 00:22:13,190 --> 00:22:18,480 I eat broken meat is what it says, but I think it's lives off of scraps. 217 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,223 He said, I mean, listen to me. 218 00:22:22,347 --> 00:22:24,010 Just back there a ways. 219 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:36,072 There are 30 monks, monks, Buddhist monks, bhikkhus, samana, shamans, real shamans, true shamans. 220 00:22:38,195 --> 00:22:42,760 All of them are spiritually advanced beings, powerful beings. 221 00:22:44,241 --> 00:22:52,410 Surely if you made a sacrifice of one of them, that would be far more beneficial, far more weighty, far more meaningful. 222 00:22:56,930 --> 00:23:00,656 Can you imagine, you know, talk about biting the hand that feeds you. 223 00:23:04,302 --> 00:23:09,530 He says, kill them, make an offering with their blood and your spirit will be pleased beyond measure. 224 00:23:11,994 --> 00:23:13,316 And they thought, well that's a good idea. 225 00:23:13,516 --> 00:23:15,820 What this guy says makes sense. 226 00:23:16,521 --> 00:23:21,469 And so they have him lead them to where the monks are. 227 00:23:23,356 --> 00:23:27,527 And they get to the monastery, the place where the monks reside, and they don't see anybody, of course. 228 00:23:28,209 --> 00:23:30,354 And they say, what are you lying to us? 229 00:23:30,394 --> 00:23:30,996 There's no one here. 230 00:23:31,718 --> 00:23:32,600 And he says, ring the bell. 231 00:23:33,883 --> 00:23:36,089 Ring the bell and they'll all come out. 232 00:23:36,109 --> 00:23:39,137 And so he tells them to ring the bell. 233 00:23:40,889 --> 00:23:42,491 And he rings this bell. 234 00:23:42,891 --> 00:23:44,133 I didn't mention the bell. 235 00:23:44,193 --> 00:23:50,960 The idea is they had this bell, and when they heard the bell, it would mean someone was sick or there was some emergency. 236 00:23:51,060 --> 00:23:53,943 In the case of an emergency, then we'll come together. 237 00:23:53,963 --> 00:23:55,185 So they had this bell. 238 00:23:55,205 --> 00:23:57,647 And so he rang the bell, and all the monks come out. 239 00:24:00,030 --> 00:24:04,075 All the 30 monks and Sankiccha, the Samanera, come out. 240 00:24:04,095 --> 00:24:10,862 And they see this large group of thuggish-looking men, and maybe women, I don't know, 241 00:24:13,188 --> 00:24:20,316 And they say, they call them laypeople upasaka. 242 00:24:20,856 --> 00:24:28,925 Upasaka, what, I think it's, you know, not exactly the title that they should be given, but it's a polite title. 243 00:24:29,866 --> 00:24:30,807 Why have you rang this bell? 244 00:24:33,130 --> 00:24:34,491 And, or who struck this bell? 245 00:24:34,551 --> 00:24:38,756 And the head of the themes, the ringleader, came to the front and said, I struck it. 246 00:24:39,136 --> 00:24:39,837 Well, what for? 247 00:24:41,470 --> 00:24:49,919 And then he tells them he made a vow to a forest spirit to kill someone and offer their flesh and blood as a sacrifice. 248 00:24:49,939 --> 00:24:51,961 So we're going to take one of you with us. 249 00:24:56,866 --> 00:24:59,569 Now these guys were not like this silly beggar guy. 250 00:25:02,712 --> 00:25:08,018 How it happened with them is the head monk, the elder monk, 251 00:25:10,715 --> 00:25:22,067 turned to his brethren and said, brothers, when we have business of the Sangha, it always falls on the elder to make a decision. 252 00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:29,315 I will go with these men and all of you strive on with diligence. 253 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:40,367 And then the second most senior monk steps forward and says, venerable sir, 254 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,443 It's the duty of the junior. 255 00:25:45,444 --> 00:25:51,973 It's a duty of the junior monk to protect the senior monk. 256 00:25:52,834 --> 00:25:53,655 I will take your place. 257 00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:58,301 You stay here and lead these monks. 258 00:25:58,321 --> 00:25:59,463 I will take your place and go. 259 00:26:00,925 --> 00:26:03,368 And then the third senior monk came forth. 260 00:26:05,592 --> 00:26:09,017 and said, Venerable Sir, let me protect you. 261 00:26:09,057 --> 00:26:11,300 I will go with them, you stay here. 262 00:26:11,941 --> 00:26:28,363 And so on, with the fourth and the fifth, and all the monks came forward and said, to the last monk, until the most junior monk said, not one of them said, Hugo, not one of them would let another go. 263 00:26:30,826 --> 00:26:31,667 So what do you think happened? 264 00:26:34,077 --> 00:26:39,884 Suddenly, they hear this squeaky seven-year-old voice. 265 00:26:41,807 --> 00:26:42,948 Not squeaky, I suppose. 266 00:26:42,988 --> 00:26:44,230 He was an Arahant after all. 267 00:26:44,970 --> 00:26:56,284 This melodious, enlightened voice of Sankiccha Samanera pipe up and say, Venerable sirs, I'm junior to you all. 268 00:26:56,425 --> 00:26:57,386 Let me take care of you. 269 00:26:57,786 --> 00:26:58,347 Let me go. 270 00:27:03,794 --> 00:27:04,735 And what do they say to them? 271 00:27:04,775 --> 00:27:15,447 They say, dude, even if we all were going to die, even if they were going to kill all of us, we still wouldn't let you go. 272 00:27:16,648 --> 00:27:17,829 And Sangeetja says, why not? 273 00:27:19,731 --> 00:27:23,335 They say, listen, Sariputta gave you to us. 274 00:27:23,455 --> 00:27:33,126 Sariputta entrusted us, entrusted you to us, trusted us with you, with your well-being. 275 00:27:35,941 --> 00:27:39,005 Can you imagine how it would look if we came back without you? 276 00:27:39,886 --> 00:27:46,474 Or if we came back having to tell Sariputta that we sacrificed you, we abandoned you to a bunch of thieves? 277 00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:48,757 How do you think that would look? 278 00:27:48,797 --> 00:27:50,840 You think that would be respectful? 279 00:27:52,802 --> 00:27:59,811 And Sanketra shakes his head and says, the elder Sariputta sent me with you. 280 00:28:00,212 --> 00:28:01,634 Why do you think he sent me with you? 281 00:28:01,734 --> 00:28:02,775 This is the reason. 282 00:28:04,763 --> 00:28:06,385 He sent them because somehow they knew. 283 00:28:06,425 --> 00:28:08,148 Well, the Buddha knew, actually. 284 00:28:08,168 --> 00:28:12,855 It's not clear that Sariputta knew, but Sariputta knew what the Buddha was looking for. 285 00:28:12,895 --> 00:28:16,420 I guess there was something special about Sankiccha. 286 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,586 I mean, he seems to be very powerful in some way. 287 00:28:20,827 --> 00:28:21,267 But we'll see. 288 00:28:21,287 --> 00:28:23,430 He is actually quite powerful. 289 00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:24,091 He doesn't die. 290 00:28:28,618 --> 00:28:29,459 But they can't believe. 291 00:28:29,479 --> 00:28:31,362 They just... 292 00:28:32,438 --> 00:28:34,681 are in awe of this seven-year-old boy. 293 00:28:34,841 --> 00:28:37,685 I mean, of course, they have been from the beginning because he's awesome. 294 00:28:40,429 --> 00:28:43,293 He says, the Buddha sent you to my preceptor. 295 00:28:43,313 --> 00:28:46,337 My preceptor told you to bring me. 296 00:28:46,397 --> 00:28:47,619 This is why I'm here. 297 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,802 I am here to take care of you. 298 00:28:51,764 --> 00:28:58,774 And he bows down to all of them and pays respect to them and says, Reverend Sirs, if I have been guilty of any fault, please forgive me. 299 00:28:59,054 --> 00:28:59,535 It's a comment. 300 00:28:59,555 --> 00:29:01,838 It's what you would do when you're taking leave of someone. 301 00:29:04,703 --> 00:29:08,190 And so he took what was to be the final leave of all these monks. 302 00:29:10,214 --> 00:29:21,497 And they were all moved with tears in their eyes and mourning the loss. 303 00:29:28,362 --> 00:29:33,322 They were profoundly moved, their eyes filled with tears, and their hearts flesh trembled. 304 00:29:33,362 --> 00:29:35,470 Their hearts flesh trembled. 305 00:29:38,572 --> 00:29:46,419 And so the chief elder before they left, said to the head ahead of the themes, he said, Look, this is just a boy. 306 00:29:47,299 --> 00:29:53,745 When you when you prepare for the, can you can you like not let him know what you're going to do before you do it? 307 00:29:54,866 --> 00:29:56,387 They took him aside and asked him this. 308 00:29:58,149 --> 00:30:02,372 And they had the head bandits. 309 00:30:02,392 --> 00:30:03,533 Yeah, fine. 310 00:30:05,395 --> 00:30:07,937 And so they took the guy, they took the novice and they 311 00:30:09,672 --> 00:30:15,142 sat him down and they said, you stay here and we'll come and get you when we need you. 312 00:30:17,807 --> 00:30:30,229 And they put him off to one side and the novice, Sankitja, of course, as he would do anytime he was left alone, went into meditation, entered into maybe Nirodha, 313 00:30:32,285 --> 00:30:38,273 was probably in a state of freedom, in a state of emancipation. 314 00:30:39,274 --> 00:30:43,019 It says here he was in a state of trance, so some jhana of some sort. 315 00:30:47,204 --> 00:30:55,315 And then the head bandit took his sword and came up behind Sankicca quietly so he wouldn't frighten the boy. 316 00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:59,220 And 317 00:31:02,069 --> 00:31:07,996 stabbed down with his sword to kill him. 318 00:31:08,016 --> 00:31:23,154 And the story goes that the sword bent back upon itself, like bent back on the hilt, wouldn't strike. 319 00:31:23,174 --> 00:31:29,241 When he looked at this sword, he couldn't believe what was going on, so he bends it back 320 00:31:32,005 --> 00:31:33,126 And he strikes again. 321 00:31:33,166 --> 00:31:35,348 And this time it actually shatters. 322 00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:38,912 The blade breaks into pieces. 323 00:31:43,177 --> 00:31:49,183 There apparently is something to certain trances that you can't be hurt when you enter into a trance. 324 00:31:49,303 --> 00:31:57,912 Like we'll have a story of a woman who had a whole pot of butter dumped onto her and was unharmed because she was in a trance. 325 00:31:58,673 --> 00:32:01,776 She was in a trance of love, of kindness, loving kindness. 326 00:32:04,338 --> 00:32:05,820 But okay, so this is the story. 327 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:12,287 Many of you will probably be unhappy about that, thinking, why is he telling us such silly stories? 328 00:32:14,369 --> 00:32:14,710 Whatever. 329 00:32:16,632 --> 00:32:16,992 Breaks. 330 00:32:18,654 --> 00:32:20,336 And the great thing, the great thing comes next. 331 00:32:21,357 --> 00:32:27,484 He looks at this broken sword, and he looks at the novice sitting perfectly peaceful. 332 00:32:30,307 --> 00:32:31,408 And he starts to shake. 333 00:32:33,818 --> 00:32:48,844 And he shakes his head and he says, this sword, this sword is an insensitive being and it knows better than to harm such a noble being as this. 334 00:32:50,407 --> 00:32:51,068 Who am I? 335 00:32:51,769 --> 00:32:53,532 How can I ignore? 336 00:32:55,148 --> 00:33:23,029 how can I not how could I miss this what am I doing you know they just woke him up to fix to the insanity of what he was about to do and he bows down to the novice and he says please forgive me and then he asks he says he says venerable sir Reverend Reverend sir 337 00:33:25,287 --> 00:33:36,325 We dwell in this forest robbing people, and we're well known. 338 00:33:36,385 --> 00:33:50,147 We have a very bad reputation, a bad reputation that if 100 people, a caravan of 100 people comes through the forest, if they see us, they get afraid. 339 00:33:51,089 --> 00:33:56,379 If two or three of them go walking through the forest and see us, they get petrified with fear. 340 00:33:58,042 --> 00:34:05,335 And you, a seven-year-old kid, sit here unmoved, unperturbed. 341 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,886 And then he pronounces actually a verse of poetry. 342 00:34:13,968 --> 00:34:15,930 Or that's how it's encapsulated here. 343 00:34:16,671 --> 00:34:18,373 You tremble not nor fear. 344 00:34:18,874 --> 00:34:20,897 Namor, your appearance is tranquil. 345 00:34:21,077 --> 00:34:22,078 Why weep you not? 346 00:34:22,178 --> 00:34:23,099 That's such a horror. 347 00:34:24,321 --> 00:34:28,607 Probably sounds better in Nepali. 348 00:34:28,627 --> 00:34:31,170 And Sankicca coming out of his jhana. 349 00:34:33,142 --> 00:34:34,604 replies in verse as well. 350 00:34:34,684 --> 00:34:40,029 He says, for someone who is free from defilements, they don't get afraid. 351 00:34:42,532 --> 00:34:54,705 He says, when they've given up existence, they have neither elation nor deflation, neither fear or excitement, neither good nor bad. 352 00:34:54,725 --> 00:34:55,286 They're at peace. 353 00:34:55,306 --> 00:34:59,250 So they don't become afraid of things, but they don't yearn after things. 354 00:35:01,205 --> 00:35:07,279 And so his verse is, his stanza is chief. 355 00:35:07,299 --> 00:35:11,189 He that is free from desire has no mental suffering. 356 00:35:11,209 --> 00:35:17,323 Seer, he that has rid himself of attachment has passed beyond all fear. 357 00:35:18,586 --> 00:35:19,767 As a seer. 358 00:35:20,588 --> 00:35:28,616 If the I of existence is destroyed as it should be in this life, death is without terrors and is like the putting down of a burden. 359 00:35:29,857 --> 00:35:31,679 Death is like the putting down of a burden. 360 00:35:33,982 --> 00:35:39,047 The five aggregates are indeed a burden. 361 00:35:39,067 --> 00:35:41,329 That's how an enlightened being sees it. 362 00:35:42,170 --> 00:35:45,353 They're just carrying it around until it's time to let it go. 363 00:35:50,108 --> 00:35:54,753 and the head of the thieves, just the power emanating from this seven-year-old boy. 364 00:35:55,874 --> 00:35:56,455 He looks at him. 365 00:35:56,495 --> 00:36:02,762 He turns and looks at his group of monks, a group of thieves, sorry, a group of bandits. 366 00:36:06,166 --> 00:36:07,267 And he said, what do you guys want? 367 00:36:07,407 --> 00:36:08,288 What do you guys want to do? 368 00:36:10,110 --> 00:36:11,732 And they said, well, what do you want to do? 369 00:36:11,792 --> 00:36:12,353 You're the leader. 370 00:36:12,373 --> 00:36:16,217 He shakes his head and he says, 371 00:36:17,851 --> 00:36:19,554 I've witnessed such a miracle. 372 00:36:19,574 --> 00:36:21,478 I have no more use for this life. 373 00:36:24,363 --> 00:36:25,345 I'm going to become a monk. 374 00:36:26,047 --> 00:36:34,443 And I'm going to become an ascetic, a shaman, a shamana, a samana, and follow this novice. 375 00:36:34,463 --> 00:36:36,687 And the other guys are like, us too. 376 00:36:39,198 --> 00:36:40,020 That was easy, no? 377 00:36:40,881 --> 00:36:44,588 This whole group of bandits moved. 378 00:36:44,608 --> 00:37:02,100 I mean, I think if anyone experiences such a miracle, it can be quite moving because miracles like that don't, you know, that doesn't happen that often where you do something like they were all watching this when the sword breaks over the flesh of this young boy. 379 00:37:06,147 --> 00:37:14,925 And so they all become novices, they can't become monks because of course this isn't a monk, but somehow he's able to ordain them as novices, maybe not officially. 380 00:37:17,808 --> 00:37:22,296 But then he takes them back to see these monks and lets them know. 381 00:37:22,496 --> 00:37:26,063 I don't even think he tells them that it's the bandits. 382 00:37:26,283 --> 00:37:31,473 He comes to them and he says, I've got some new monks with me. 383 00:37:31,493 --> 00:37:32,815 I'm going to take them back to see the Buddha. 384 00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:34,799 And they say, oh, you've got some followers. 385 00:37:34,899 --> 00:37:35,941 Okay. 386 00:37:35,961 --> 00:37:36,762 And so they... 387 00:37:38,075 --> 00:38:00,690 I mean I guess his point with going back was to relieve the elders of their sorrow so they go back and so that it won't be a hindrance in their meditation a feeling of guilt or sadness and so he goes and shows them that he's still alive and that indeed he's got some followers and so he's asked permission to go back to see the Buddha and they give permission and he goes back to see the Buddha 388 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:08,359 And he tells the Buddha this story. 389 00:38:08,379 --> 00:38:14,727 And the Buddha turns to these ex-bandits and he says, is that true? 390 00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:16,609 And they say, indeed, that's true. 391 00:38:18,151 --> 00:38:19,833 And the Buddha then teaches this verse. 392 00:38:21,615 --> 00:38:33,850 He said, if you live a life for a hundred years, corrupt, immoral, unconcentrated, unbalanced in mind, perturbed in your mind, 393 00:38:33,830 --> 00:38:59,685 better is one day of life life of only one day better to live only one day living ethical and meditating now curiously that's not the end and curiously he recites the verse one more time 394 00:39:00,982 --> 00:39:07,713 It's an odd story actually, but Sankiccha grows up, becomes a monk, and ends up later on with a novice of his own. 395 00:39:09,216 --> 00:39:15,045 And this novice gets captured by a large group of bandits as well. 396 00:39:17,229 --> 00:39:20,094 And they threaten to kill him, but they make him promise. 397 00:39:20,314 --> 00:39:22,197 He teaches them the Dhamma. 398 00:39:23,122 --> 00:39:35,209 And so they let him go, but by teaching the Dhamma, it softens them up, and they decide to let him go, but they say, you must vow never to tell anyone about us, that we're here. 399 00:39:38,096 --> 00:39:38,717 And 400 00:39:40,739 --> 00:39:41,760 He makes that promise. 401 00:39:42,341 --> 00:39:48,991 Now it's interesting because promises are not considered lying, but there is something wrong with breaking your promise. 402 00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:53,718 And this clearly shows that the commentary is very, very anti-promise breaking. 403 00:39:57,723 --> 00:40:01,489 Because this novice refuses to do it. 404 00:40:01,629 --> 00:40:03,772 What happens is he's on his way home. 405 00:40:03,872 --> 00:40:05,414 I think he's going to see his parents. 406 00:40:05,434 --> 00:40:06,716 So his parents come out to meet him. 407 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:09,480 And 408 00:40:11,182 --> 00:40:20,858 Somehow, it doesn't specify, but I'm assuming what happens is they want to go to the monastery or they want to go, maybe they're taking him back to the monastery. 409 00:40:20,878 --> 00:40:30,473 And so they're going to go through this forest where these bandits are and then the novice goes with them, but doesn't tell them that there are bandits up ahead. 410 00:40:31,988 --> 00:40:37,215 And so he gets there, and the bandits recognize him and say, you're back, huh? 411 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:38,517 You brought some people with you. 412 00:40:38,917 --> 00:40:40,379 And they grab the other two people. 413 00:40:40,499 --> 00:40:46,287 They grab his parents, and they tie them up, and they abuse them, and so on. 414 00:40:46,307 --> 00:40:50,413 And the parents turn to the novice, and they're shocked. 415 00:40:52,435 --> 00:40:57,943 And they say, did you, you knew, and you led us to these bandits? 416 00:40:58,584 --> 00:41:00,426 Thinking that he was in collusion with them. 417 00:41:02,684 --> 00:41:10,091 And the novice was quiet and the bandits heard this and they turned to the novice and they said, is that really? 418 00:41:10,151 --> 00:41:13,495 Even to your parents? 419 00:41:13,675 --> 00:41:19,120 That's how much your moral, ethical principle is worth to you? 420 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,582 And they were moved by it. 421 00:41:22,023 --> 00:41:22,744 That's the story. 422 00:41:22,784 --> 00:41:31,172 It's quite odd because to imagine doing that to your parents, most people would say, I'm going to break my promise for my parents. 423 00:41:32,958 --> 00:41:42,473 Somehow I get the feeling, I mean you could defend it by saying that he, that's why he went with them and he had the idea that he would fix things. 424 00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:52,469 Because he did, he taught the Dhamma and they all became, all these bandits as well became monks and they went to see the Buddha and the Buddha said, this is true and so on. 425 00:41:53,130 --> 00:41:55,033 And again the Buddha taught the same verse. 426 00:41:55,013 --> 00:42:05,106 So he taught this verse both to the followers of Sankiccha and the followers to the novice who was a follower of Sankiccha Samadhi. 427 00:42:06,448 --> 00:42:09,452 So that's our story. 428 00:42:09,472 --> 00:42:18,844 What this verse means to us, it's not giving us any deep deep teaching but it's a very strong reminder 429 00:42:20,613 --> 00:42:22,136 Why we should be meditating. 430 00:42:22,316 --> 00:42:23,898 Why we should be keeping morality. 431 00:42:23,939 --> 00:42:25,721 And it reminds us what's important. 432 00:42:26,182 --> 00:42:34,997 What we're going to see for the remainder of this chapter, the next series, about five or six verses, it's all going to be very similar to this. 433 00:42:35,758 --> 00:42:38,503 Better to live one day than to live a hundred years. 434 00:42:39,805 --> 00:42:43,150 And so there's various factors that make a life valuable. 435 00:42:44,553 --> 00:42:45,895 A life that is... 436 00:42:46,988 --> 00:42:58,626 no matter how long it is, is worthless and should not be seen as worth anything compared to a very short life, a life of one day that is useful. 437 00:42:58,886 --> 00:42:59,107 Why? 438 00:42:59,147 --> 00:43:01,130 Because it has benefit. 439 00:43:01,370 --> 00:43:10,905 If you are mindful, if you are focused, if you are ethical, then death is not to be afraid, not to be feared. 440 00:43:11,726 --> 00:43:14,751 Death comes and you go on to only good things. 441 00:43:16,958 --> 00:43:26,829 It's people who have done bad deeds and cultivated all sorts of unwholesome deeds that should be afraid of death because it comes and we're unprepared and who knows where we go. 442 00:43:31,534 --> 00:43:43,347 So the Dhamma for today that determine the benefit are morality and concentration you could say or focus or meditation. 443 00:43:44,648 --> 00:43:46,290 But Samahita means 444 00:43:47,890 --> 00:43:55,505 Kind of like focused, because sum is level, you know, sum is like same sort of in English. 445 00:43:56,326 --> 00:44:01,296 So it means to be level-headed, but it's kind of like when a camera lens gets into focus. 446 00:44:02,879 --> 00:44:07,267 But also implies kind of concentrated in the sense of being focused on a single thing. 447 00:44:09,010 --> 00:44:10,894 Focused on the present moment, for example. 448 00:44:13,253 --> 00:44:15,537 And so these are the two defining factors. 449 00:44:15,657 --> 00:44:19,444 If a person has these two things, there's not much more that you need. 450 00:44:19,464 --> 00:44:26,176 I mean, the thing about Buddhism is there's not a lot of teachings in the end when it comes right down to it. 451 00:44:27,258 --> 00:44:33,169 I mean, there are tons of teachings and they're all worth, it's not to belittle and to minimalize that. 452 00:44:34,212 --> 00:44:37,995 But when it comes right down to it, I mean, there's nothing about God that you have to think about. 453 00:44:38,015 --> 00:44:39,317 There's nothing about the soul. 454 00:44:39,657 --> 00:44:45,102 There's not even a lot about karma or past lives, future lives. 455 00:44:45,382 --> 00:44:46,883 It's very much about here and now. 456 00:44:48,084 --> 00:44:54,330 It's not about rituals that you have to perform or certain things you have to abstain from. 457 00:44:54,370 --> 00:44:56,952 The abstentions are very simple. 458 00:44:57,013 --> 00:44:58,114 It's about ethics. 459 00:44:58,774 --> 00:45:04,219 If you are ethical, not killing, not stealing, not cheating, not lying, not taking drugs or alcohol, 460 00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:18,061 And if you practice meditation, you've pretty much accomplished, you've pretty much set yourself on the path to becoming a Buddhist or becoming a successful practitioner of the Buddhist teaching. 461 00:45:21,226 --> 00:45:22,528 So that's about all. 462 00:45:23,352 --> 00:45:27,699 It's more beneficial because of the result. 463 00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:35,511 Even one day, even one moment of meditation is in a whole other league from a hundred years of immorality. 464 00:45:37,574 --> 00:45:44,365 A hundred years of immorality is worse and worse and worse, building up worse and worse and worse karma, leading you to a bad place. 465 00:45:45,745 --> 00:45:48,991 So that's our Dhammapada story for this evening. 466 00:45:49,131 --> 00:45:52,337 Thank you all for tuning in and watching and keeping up with this series. 467 00:45:52,978 --> 00:46:00,752 Please do remember to check out my other videos because personally I find them a lot more informative and useful. 468 00:46:00,812 --> 00:46:02,455 These ones are much more 469 00:46:02,435 --> 00:46:28,780 entertaining and and sort of I guess allegorical or they provide morals a moral or they are examples they provide examples of life and insightful into the lives of Buddhist monks, but they don't give you deep teachings and I think there are other videos out there that might be more beneficial in that regard so don't become 470 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:35,667 negligent just by watching videos or listening to stories or even listening to the Dhamma. 471 00:46:35,687 --> 00:46:36,969 It's all about practice. 472 00:46:37,549 --> 00:46:38,450 Are you being moral? 473 00:46:38,571 --> 00:46:39,371 Are you ethical? 474 00:46:40,593 --> 00:46:56,130 If you're watching this drunk or if you're planning to finish this and then go out and commit all sorts of nefarious deeds, then it's not really of much use. 475 00:46:56,970 --> 00:46:58,412 You don't really benefit from it. 476 00:47:00,063 --> 00:47:01,699 So thank you for your practice. 477 00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:02,587 Keep practicing. 478 00:47:02,607 --> 00:47:03,516 We wish you all the best. 479 00:47:04,202 --> 00:47:04,909 See you next time.