WEBVTT 00:03.777 --> 00:06.544 Okay, continuing on. 00:14.244 --> 00:20.841 Whatever speech is well spoken, this is a blessing for the one who says it and a blessing for the one who hears it. 00:23.538 --> 00:25.020 Speech is a very powerful thing. 00:25.060 --> 00:37.278 If you've ever done, if you've ever said something nasty to someone, you'll find quite quickly how much suffering that is, how much of a curse it is. 00:39.822 --> 00:42.366 You lose friends, you lose credibility. 00:44.469 --> 00:51.199 When you lie, when you try to deceive people with your words, it only feels bad afterwards. 00:52.377 --> 01:03.920 But when you say good things, when you repeat good words, and when you have a Subhasita, Subhasita has become this word in Buddhist culture to mean good sayings. 01:04.000 --> 01:10.032 I don't know whether if it's actually was the case in the Buddhist time, but it means like an... 01:11.311 --> 01:11.912 What's the word? 01:11.932 --> 01:12.412 An idiom? 01:12.432 --> 01:14.034 Is that the word? 01:14.054 --> 01:15.496 Like a famous saying. 01:16.918 --> 01:21.103 Like, ganowo ma upachaka, don't let the moment pass you by. 01:21.123 --> 01:28.913 Or, yadisang wapade bijang, dadisang harade palang, you reap what you sow. 01:29.914 --> 01:30.415 Buddha said it. 01:30.555 --> 01:34.300 Whatever seed you plant, such is the fruit that you reap. 01:36.462 --> 01:39.606 Kalianakari, kalianang babakari, jababakari. 01:39.626 --> 01:41.048 These are subhasita. 01:42.074 --> 01:43.676 So whatever speech is well spoken. 01:43.756 --> 01:44.678 This is a big thing now. 01:44.718 --> 01:46.140 People are always posting quotes. 01:46.981 --> 01:50.647 I subscribe to these feeds where people post wisdom quotes. 01:50.747 --> 01:52.149 And a lot of them I just... 01:52.169 --> 01:55.313 But then there's the occasional where we say, oh, that's a good quote. 01:55.353 --> 01:57.016 That's a Subhashita. 01:58.358 --> 01:59.880 It's a blessing because it makes you... 02:00.441 --> 02:02.183 It wakes you up. 02:02.203 --> 02:02.904 It makes you think. 02:03.766 --> 02:05.428 And it brightens up your day. 02:05.488 --> 02:06.510 It brightens up your mind. 02:06.530 --> 02:08.132 It sets you in the right frame of mind. 02:09.884 --> 02:18.060 So we should try to surround ourselves with these things, with good speech, and use good speech ourselves. 02:18.120 --> 02:19.623 It's a blessing for the one who hears. 02:19.703 --> 02:20.966 It's a blessing for the one who says. 02:22.108 --> 02:24.112 . 02:28.922 --> 02:30.765 Caring for your mother and father. 02:30.805 --> 02:31.707 Yes. 02:32.885 --> 02:42.420 Remember, this isn't a mother or a father speaking, so it's not like the Buddha had any conflict of interest in this one. 02:43.822 --> 02:48.469 He really did believe that taking care of your mother and father is a great blessing. 02:49.531 --> 02:55.180 And you know, one very simple way it's a great blessing is because your children are more likely to take care of you. 02:57.218 --> 03:05.878 I've seen when children don't take care of their parents, the children of those children, they turn around and don't take care of their parents either. 03:08.828 --> 03:19.381 And so you can see how it's actually, to create this culture of not taking care of your parents is a very terrible thing that we've fallen into in modern society. 03:21.643 --> 03:27.230 You see in many traditional cultures where you have three, four generations living in the same house. 03:27.350 --> 03:30.274 This is really taking care of your elders. 03:30.334 --> 03:33.057 And then the elders turn around and take care of the grandchildren as well. 03:33.077 --> 03:38.143 So it really works out quite well. 03:38.123 --> 03:52.481 But nowadays we just put our parents away in homes and let the doctors look after them and the doctors don't look after them and they wind up just getting medicated and turning into vegetables and they're not happy. 03:52.701 --> 03:55.504 No one can be happy without loved ones around. 03:56.526 --> 04:00.891 You can go to these old age homes and they say, oh everything's wonderful, there's a 04:00.871 --> 04:09.690 whatever, lawn polo and there's good food or there's nice gardens and so on. 04:10.252 --> 04:12.316 No one would be happy there, not without their family. 04:13.178 --> 04:15.002 Taking care of your parents is a wonderful thing. 04:15.523 --> 04:17.067 I had an opportunity recently. 04:17.107 --> 04:20.955 My good luck that my father got in a car crash. 04:22.353 --> 04:32.328 He was coming to pick me up at the airport when I came from Thailand recently and he got in a car crash and it was such a stroke of good luck. 04:34.531 --> 04:36.093 That's a terrible thing to say, isn't it? 04:36.114 --> 04:47.871 But it had a silver lining in that dark cloud because we got to spend five days of high quality time together. 04:47.851 --> 04:49.053 in the hospital. 04:49.133 --> 04:51.916 And I got to take care of him for five days and five nights. 04:52.597 --> 04:55.661 I got to the hospital at 1 a.m. People said I was crazy. 04:55.681 --> 04:57.563 What are you doing going to the hospital in the middle of the night? 04:57.583 --> 04:58.745 They're not going to even let you in. 04:59.666 --> 05:01.128 They for sure won't let you stay there. 05:01.148 --> 05:03.291 And I got there and they said, who are you? 05:04.312 --> 05:07.055 Look, my father was coming to pick me up at the airport. 05:07.176 --> 05:16.928 I had two big suitcases full of my computer and books and tent and everything. 05:16.948 --> 05:17.689 And 05:19.357 --> 05:23.224 And I said, he was coming to pick me up at the airport and he got in an accident. 05:23.284 --> 05:24.326 Can I please go to see him? 05:25.107 --> 05:25.949 So I mean, I've got the proof. 05:25.989 --> 05:27.111 I'm carrying my luggage with me. 05:27.372 --> 05:28.153 I'm not lying. 05:28.734 --> 05:29.676 I'm coming from Thailand. 05:29.696 --> 05:31.339 Oh yes, you look like you're coming from Thailand. 05:34.084 --> 05:35.647 This guy's not trying to con us. 05:36.007 --> 05:39.694 So they were, yes, oh yes, come this way, please. 05:40.012 --> 05:43.117 There was some worry about whether my luggage was going to be in. 05:43.437 --> 05:44.338 And it was wonderful. 05:44.358 --> 05:45.260 I got to stay with him. 05:45.280 --> 05:46.041 They had no problem. 05:46.061 --> 05:47.643 They even got me a bed the first night. 05:48.425 --> 05:50.868 Then I was sleeping in a reclining chair after that. 05:52.190 --> 05:52.791 But it was great. 05:53.432 --> 05:54.193 I got to feed him. 05:54.233 --> 05:55.976 I got to even bathe him once. 05:56.076 --> 06:00.443 I gave my father a bath, a shower, because he could barely stand up. 06:01.785 --> 06:06.812 He was in pretty rough shape. 06:07.231 --> 06:08.532 So it's a great blessing. 06:08.733 --> 06:13.218 I can verify that that's a great blessing because it gives you a chance. 06:13.358 --> 06:17.663 The big thing is it gives you a chance to give something back after all that they've done for us. 06:18.844 --> 06:22.508 Your parents look after you kind of like servants sometimes. 06:24.330 --> 06:26.733 Often it looks like that. 06:26.753 --> 06:28.896 The parents have to do everything for their kids. 06:28.936 --> 06:30.117 And what are the kids doing? 06:32.982 --> 06:38.372 Ever ask, after all your parents do for you, what have you done for them? 06:39.398 --> 06:40.866 What have you done for your parents? 06:41.605 --> 06:53.236 gave them a card, let's see, carried you in her womb for nine months, fed you her breast milk and cleaned your diapers, sent her a card. 06:58.601 --> 07:00.342 Well, you're getting there. 07:01.483 --> 07:08.490 Send her a card every day for the next million years and she might have a case. 07:09.888 --> 07:11.431 So remember that. 07:11.732 --> 07:18.445 When your parents get old, don't let them be neglected. 07:18.485 --> 07:19.648 Don't neglect your parents. 07:19.748 --> 07:25.159 Looking after your spouse and children. 07:25.519 --> 07:26.662 Looking after your family. 07:27.483 --> 07:31.812 So not just looking after your parents, but looking after your children is a great blessing because 07:31.792 --> 07:34.115 If you do, they're more likely to look after you. 07:34.236 --> 07:43.429 If you teach them well, if you teach them good things that are useful for them, if you teach them to be good people, they're much more likely to take care of you, for example. 07:43.449 --> 07:48.436 Of course, that's the most base thing, but it's a wonderful thing because then you get to see them grow up well. 07:48.476 --> 07:49.798 You don't have to worry about them. 07:49.998 --> 07:55.386 If you give them the right knowledge and wisdom, then as they grow up, 07:56.581 --> 08:24.799 they will do good things they will be beautiful people and they will spread goodness around them and so you will never have to worry about them as parents and you will never have to fight with them you will always have good relations with them if you teach them correctly give them the right start in life because that's the thing is you're not trying to preach or to force them but children have nothing they can't even talk 08:24.779 --> 08:28.564 If it weren't for parents, they would be like wolves. 08:28.984 --> 08:36.593 They wouldn't even know how to speak, let alone how to tie their shoes, how to use the toilet, everything they couldn't do. 08:38.115 --> 08:45.184 So we have to teach them so many things. 08:46.413 --> 08:47.875 This is the role of parents. 08:48.036 --> 08:49.638 So people wonder what should parents do? 08:49.658 --> 08:53.544 Should they just leave their children alone or should they force them to do this or that? 08:53.564 --> 08:54.886 No, you have to teach them. 08:55.267 --> 09:01.216 A parent has the responsibility to teach children what is for their benefit and what is for their harm. 09:03.179 --> 09:09.248 We make a mistake in modern society to think that benefit and harm are something different between right and wrong, you see. 09:09.749 --> 09:12.353 We think sometimes doing the right thing is painful. 09:12.822 --> 09:13.763 And it can never be. 09:13.783 --> 09:16.608 If you really do the right thing, it can never be painful. 09:17.008 --> 09:18.751 It can never be harmful to you. 09:18.771 --> 09:23.698 It might be painful for the body, but it will never be painful for the mind. 09:23.718 --> 09:25.561 If it's painful for the mind, you're doing it wrong. 09:27.844 --> 09:28.385 Remember that. 09:29.947 --> 09:32.411 So you're trying to teach children happiness. 09:33.072 --> 09:35.756 Parents are not trying to make their kids miserable. 09:36.657 --> 09:37.518 Well, they do sometimes. 09:37.558 --> 09:38.299 This is the problem. 09:38.319 --> 09:40.062 You should not be making your children miserable. 09:41.392 --> 09:42.995 You should be teaching them how to be happy. 09:45.118 --> 09:47.702 Sometimes you have to make them miserable in order to help them see it. 09:48.363 --> 09:48.784 It's true. 09:49.425 --> 09:50.948 Very difficult to deal with children. 09:51.308 --> 09:52.690 So it's a great blessing if you can. 09:53.972 --> 09:58.680 If your children are mean and unruly, it's a curse. 10:00.082 --> 10:04.750 So we should be thankful that we can get along well with their families. 10:06.451 --> 10:16.611 Anakula chakamantau, engaging in harmless occupation, deeds or activities that are anakula, which are harmless. 10:17.513 --> 10:20.319 I think it means straight and not crooked. 10:22.583 --> 10:27.413 Akula I think means crooked, anakula means not crooked, although I'm not sure. 10:29.722 --> 10:33.206 So yeah, don't get caught up in, not getting caught up in crooked deeds. 10:33.246 --> 10:41.015 We should never be engaged in crime to make a living or harming other beings to make a living or cheating other beings to make a living. 10:42.137 --> 10:46.302 We should try to live our lives in a way that brings goodness to other people. 10:47.463 --> 10:50.987 So becoming a nurse, for example, becoming a doctor, becoming a teacher, 10:51.693 --> 10:59.044 I don't think there's any better profession than becoming a teacher, a public school teacher, besides becoming a monk and teaching meditation. 11:00.266 --> 11:14.787 But in the world, if you look at how profound the understanding of teachers is about how the mind works, just to have this natural understanding that is somehow special to the teaching profession. 11:15.508 --> 11:18.713 They have to be patient if they're a good teacher. 11:19.621 --> 11:24.606 But I mean, this is the point, is doing something that is of benefit, that is not crooked. 11:24.626 --> 11:25.908 You're not just there to make money. 11:25.928 --> 11:30.753 A teacher is not just there to be a tyrant. 11:32.294 --> 11:36.318 You should be straightforward and honest in all of your work. 11:36.338 --> 11:40.663 It's a great blessing because it doesn't bother you and people respect you and so on. 11:42.685 --> 11:44.667 Dhanancha Dhammacharya Cha 11:46.098 --> 11:48.250 Charity is a great blessing. 11:48.653 --> 11:49.598 It makes you feel good. 11:50.544 --> 11:53.762 People esteem you and respect you. 11:56.071 --> 11:59.775 There was a story I told last night. 12:00.216 --> 12:05.021 I don't think any of you were here, so I'll tell it again. 12:05.041 --> 12:14.292 This man, this woman, she saw a beggar on the side of the street, and so she took her purse and she just dumped the contents of her purse into his bowl. 12:15.893 --> 12:16.514 That's what it said. 12:16.554 --> 12:20.779 I mean, you know, it must not have been a purse because that would have had other things in it. 12:20.759 --> 12:26.448 She dumped something, the contents of her change purse maybe, into his bowl. 12:27.310 --> 12:34.221 And then walked away. 12:34.261 --> 12:35.103 And he said, thank you. 12:35.143 --> 12:35.844 And she walked away. 12:35.884 --> 12:37.627 She thought she dumped a bunch of change in his purse. 12:37.647 --> 12:45.079 And then she got home and realized she had put her wedding ring in with her coins. 12:45.818 --> 12:50.985 and had dumped her wedding ring, her engagement ring or whatever, with a big diamond on it. 12:53.609 --> 12:57.535 And she was so horrified, she thought, what am I going to do? 12:57.555 --> 12:58.997 There's no way I'm going to get this back. 12:59.037 --> 13:00.138 And she went back the next day. 13:00.178 --> 13:01.360 The guy wasn't there. 13:01.400 --> 13:06.648 And it was just the most embarrassing. 13:06.668 --> 13:08.971 And it was just such an important thing to her, this ring. 13:10.173 --> 13:12.636 And then she went back the next day, and he was there. 13:12.886 --> 13:18.674 And so she went up to him and she said, you know, I think I put something very valuable into your bowl. 13:19.295 --> 13:20.296 And he said, was it a ring? 13:20.897 --> 13:21.918 Because I kept it for you. 13:23.701 --> 13:24.762 And he gave it back to her. 13:26.004 --> 13:27.325 And that's not the best part of the story. 13:27.386 --> 13:38.100 The best part of the story is then she was so grateful for him, for his gift, in fact, his kindness. 13:39.835 --> 13:43.739 that she started talking to him and she asked him, you know, is there anything I can do for you? 13:44.220 --> 13:51.949 And somehow he mentioned his bike was, he had a bicycle and it was broken and needed a new tire or something. 13:51.969 --> 13:54.892 And so she said, you know, look, forget about just that. 13:55.032 --> 13:56.374 I'm going to, I'll do something. 13:58.156 --> 14:00.739 I'm going to do something for you, whatever I can. 14:01.139 --> 14:02.721 And they put on the internet, 14:03.207 --> 14:09.760 They told this story on the internet, and they put up on this, they have these sites that you can go to to raise money for causes. 14:10.221 --> 14:15.251 And she said, anyone who wants to contribute, please support this lovely man. 14:17.134 --> 14:25.030 When they wrote this, there was an article that came out, and at the time of writing the article, they had raised $100,000 US for this guy. 14:27.676 --> 14:28.437 And it wasn't over. 14:28.477 --> 14:31.280 I mean, it could be at half a million dollars by now. 14:33.683 --> 14:33.984 Because... 14:34.004 --> 14:36.086 So this is... 14:36.107 --> 14:37.849 In the Buddha's time, you heard stories like this. 14:38.169 --> 14:42.775 You heard stories of, you know, people would give gifts and then suddenly become rich. 14:43.716 --> 14:47.300 They would do good deeds and suddenly wonderful things might happen to them. 14:47.321 --> 14:49.924 It's not always the case, but it can happen. 14:49.944 --> 14:51.185 Here's a perfect example. 14:51.866 --> 14:53.088 This guy was... 14:53.108 --> 14:55.931 He could have taken it and done what he wanted, but... And you know what he said? 14:55.991 --> 14:56.552 He said... 14:57.173 --> 14:58.495 What's the big deal? 14:58.816 --> 15:05.245 He said, what kind of a world is it when you don't steal something that someone obviously didn't mean to give you? 15:05.265 --> 15:07.870 And it creates all this excitement. 15:08.991 --> 15:09.933 It was the right thing. 15:12.076 --> 15:15.762 Which shows, you know, he's right on track, this guy. 15:15.902 --> 15:23.113 This is someone worth... And so you see how much of a blessing it is to say that, that he said. 15:23.330 --> 15:25.098 and to do what he did. 15:25.138 --> 15:26.966 This is what the Mangala is. 15:27.026 --> 15:29.155 This is what the Buddha was trying to impress upon us. 15:30.215 --> 15:33.640 Dhammacharya means acting according to the Dhamma. 15:33.660 --> 15:34.501 This is not dana. 15:34.521 --> 15:36.243 He didn't give anything, really. 15:36.444 --> 15:39.648 He just didn't take something that was obviously not supposed to be his. 15:40.129 --> 15:45.336 But Dhammacharya means acting according to the Dhamma or living according to the Dhamma, the truth. 15:46.217 --> 15:46.958 This is what he did. 15:47.559 --> 15:50.383 Because he knew that there's no way he could accept this ring. 15:50.403 --> 15:51.504 This was obviously a mistake. 15:52.666 --> 15:53.067 I don't know. 15:53.227 --> 15:54.869 Some people might say, well, she gave it to me. 15:55.810 --> 15:57.673 But it's amazing that he actually kept it, no? 16:01.602 --> 16:05.075 Of course, the cynic could say, well, what if he was caught upon it? 16:05.095 --> 16:06.620 People would think he stole it anyway, right? 16:08.668 --> 16:09.169 I don't know. 16:09.189 --> 16:09.611 I doubt it. 16:09.832 --> 16:11.578 No, he could have gotten... 16:12.942 --> 16:42.662 rich off that and he did get rich off of it but this is anakula acting in the proper way it's these things that are useful to think about these kind of examples that it's useful for us to hear about because it changes who we are and how we approach situations when we're in a situation where we could even rightfully take advantage because rightfully no one would have blamed him if he had gone and pawned this ring but it makes us stop and think is that really the right thing and if we do that 16:42.642 --> 16:44.344 Are we really going to be happy? 16:46.466 --> 16:54.615 Not nearly as happy as if we make sure, try to find this person and make sure that they're really meant to give such a crazy, valuable thing. 16:56.297 --> 16:57.278 Anyway. 16:57.298 --> 17:02.284 Not just your family, but also your relatives. 17:02.444 --> 17:05.167 If you're in good relations with your relatives, they can help you a lot. 17:06.148 --> 17:12.615 Not everyone has this blessing, but if you have this blessing, it's a great thing to be on good terms with your family. 17:14.688 --> 17:17.296 Anavajjani ka maani is the same as Anakula. 17:17.316 --> 17:21.228 Anavajjani means not blameworthy. 17:21.428 --> 17:24.377 Don't do anything that is blameworthy, that people will blame you for. 17:26.180 --> 17:29.806 Your deeds should not be blameworthy because you do get a bad reputation. 17:29.826 --> 17:39.641 It's funny, we don't think about it sometimes and we don't realize how slowly, slowly, suddenly we find ourselves in a situation where we have a bad reputation. 17:40.322 --> 17:46.332 We've done things that have caused people to spread nasty things, spread bad word about us. 17:48.623 --> 17:55.018 That's okay, I've got to be careful here that we get them right. 17:55.419 --> 17:57.444 So this is one, to cease and abstain from evil. 17:58.507 --> 17:59.589 Now this is a no-brainer. 17:59.649 --> 18:05.704 Don't do evil because it hurts you, makes you feel bad, it hurts other people, makes them dislike you, and so on. 18:06.629 --> 18:16.100 Remember, we're talking about things that bring blessings to your life and bring happiness to your life and keep you from falling into trouble. 18:17.322 --> 18:20.085 So if you avoid evil, you will avoid a lot of trouble. 18:20.105 --> 18:21.847 This is really the greatest blessing. 18:21.867 --> 18:24.190 People say, how do I avoid suffering? 18:25.051 --> 18:25.692 Don't do evil. 18:26.893 --> 18:28.836 People will think, how can I get away with stealing? 18:29.076 --> 18:31.158 How can I avoid being thrown in jail? 18:31.258 --> 18:32.580 Steal something and avoid jail. 18:32.920 --> 18:35.083 Well, don't steal and you won't have to go to jail. 18:36.498 --> 18:37.539 Don't do bad deeds. 18:37.619 --> 18:39.201 Don't say nasty things to others. 18:39.221 --> 18:40.482 Don't get in arguments with it. 18:41.223 --> 18:42.784 How do I win an argument with it? 18:42.964 --> 18:48.890 How do I avoid... How do I stop these people from destroying me in arguments? 18:49.531 --> 18:50.031 I'm fighting. 18:50.071 --> 18:51.473 All this fighting, how do I avoid it? 18:52.013 --> 18:52.754 Just stop fighting. 18:54.696 --> 18:57.318 Stop fighting back is often the beginning. 18:58.980 --> 19:00.161 There's an interesting quote. 19:00.562 --> 19:02.944 If someone is... 19:04.409 --> 19:18.351 If someone hurts you and you don't respond in kind, you don't hurt them back, you're actually, in one sense, 19:18.550 --> 19:21.735 stopping the causal effect. 19:21.795 --> 19:24.879 You're nullifying their karma to some extent. 19:24.899 --> 19:26.461 You see, a person hurts you. 19:27.303 --> 19:34.894 If you don't hurt them back, you stop a certain portion of the karma, because the bad karma would be to continue it and to create new bad karma. 19:35.655 --> 19:37.037 See, karma isn't fixed. 19:37.097 --> 19:44.007 If someone hurts me, then part of the result of that is me hurting them back, you see. 19:44.067 --> 19:48.473 But if I don't, I've actually nullified their karma and I've accepted 19:48.807 --> 19:52.913 the injustice. 19:53.614 --> 19:57.821 I've taken on the injustice and forgiven them. 19:58.021 --> 20:02.428 The Buddha said this is the beginning to be free from the cycle. 20:03.650 --> 20:08.858 He said this is why the greater evil is the person who responds with anger. 20:09.715 --> 20:19.044 A person who responds with anger is of greater evil than the person who got angry in the first place. 20:19.064 --> 20:21.367 Because we get angry sometimes thoughtlessly. 20:21.727 --> 20:24.390 When a person gets angry, they don't think, now I'm going to start a fight. 20:24.430 --> 20:25.631 They just get angry. 20:26.432 --> 20:29.515 Often they don't realize that then the person is going to get angry back at them. 20:29.895 --> 20:35.701 But when you get angry back, you're accepting the fight and you're starting a feud. 20:36.321 --> 20:37.883 You're starting the cycle of vengeance. 20:38.909 --> 20:41.431 So the point, because we get angry for so many reasons. 20:41.452 --> 20:43.954 Sometimes we don't realize that we're going to hurt the person. 20:44.595 --> 20:47.317 The first person just says something nasty because they're in a bad mood. 20:47.357 --> 20:54.244 If I'm playing my Nintendo and you come and bug me, maybe I don't listen at first, and then you bug me again and I'm still playing my game. 20:56.466 --> 20:58.969 And then when you bug me three or four times, then I get angry at you. 20:59.810 --> 21:01.291 But I didn't mean to get angry at you. 21:01.331 --> 21:05.575 I just wanted to kill the bad guys and defeat the boss. 21:06.456 --> 21:07.397 That's all it was. 21:09.402 --> 21:12.767 But then when you get angry back at me, you really mean it. 21:14.369 --> 21:17.633 When a person gets angry back, this is what the Buddha said, this is what we have to be careful of. 21:17.673 --> 21:19.716 We have to let people get angry at us sometimes. 21:20.437 --> 21:21.719 We have to accept people's anger. 21:22.300 --> 21:24.523 So if you, oh, what are you doing bothering me? 21:24.583 --> 21:27.647 Then just be patient and say, well, look, you know, I was trying. 21:28.201 --> 21:30.429 We have to accept that we're each not perfect. 21:30.689 --> 21:32.455 Even friends get angry at friends, right? 21:33.238 --> 21:37.994 You see, friends can get angry at friends, but if the friend gets angry back, you're no longer friends. 21:38.576 --> 21:39.780 This is what stops the friendship. 21:42.612 --> 21:44.315 Anyway, I'm a little bit off track. 21:44.495 --> 21:46.017 Madhya paana jasanyamo. 21:46.057 --> 21:53.769 Stopping taking madhya paana, drinks that are intoxicating. 21:54.109 --> 21:55.111 Don't drink alcohol. 21:55.531 --> 21:56.332 Don't be a drunk. 21:57.875 --> 21:58.956 I know from experience. 22:00.118 --> 22:07.790 It's funny, you know, you see a lot of scientists and scholars who like to drink alcohol. 22:08.711 --> 22:12.096 Which is funny because they esteem intelligence so much 22:13.696 --> 22:17.280 Why would they spend time making themselves stupid? 22:18.562 --> 22:19.703 You ever seen someone who's drunk? 22:25.771 --> 22:25.891 Uh-oh. 22:26.872 --> 22:28.234 I don't know if you want to answer that. 22:28.875 --> 22:29.816 How about on movies? 22:29.856 --> 22:33.881 You ever seen in movies when a guy is drunk? 22:34.662 --> 22:35.543 No, I've seen drunks. 22:37.865 --> 22:39.147 Actually, I used to be one. 22:40.493 --> 22:43.116 You become, you can't really think. 22:43.577 --> 22:50.065 You think you're smart, but it's funny because you start to say, and you think everything you say is just brilliant when you're drunk, right? 22:51.087 --> 22:58.056 When you're drunk, you think you're the most charming, witty, amazing person in the world. 22:58.336 --> 22:59.978 That's why people do it, because it makes you feel good. 23:01.059 --> 23:08.509 And you strip naked and run around naked and get in lots of trouble when you're drunk. 23:10.784 --> 23:18.575 It's funny that wise people, or not wise people, but smart people, don't esteem their intelligence enough to avoid this. 23:18.595 --> 23:19.977 But wise people do. 23:19.997 --> 23:22.201 Wise people see that for sure it destroys your wisdom. 23:26.707 --> 23:28.590 A little bit destroys it a little bit. 23:28.908 --> 23:29.729 A lot destroys it. 23:29.769 --> 23:29.950 A lot. 23:30.010 --> 23:31.532 Alcohol doesn't have a limit. 23:32.233 --> 23:35.237 There's no breathalyzer test for stupid. 23:36.519 --> 23:38.542 The more alcohol you drink, the more it poisons you. 23:38.562 --> 23:40.405 It's poison. 23:40.425 --> 23:43.850 I mean, I suppose if you sniff a little bit, it's probably not going to hurt you. 23:43.870 --> 23:46.955 Or if you touch someone, your tongue, it's probably, it's negligible. 23:46.975 --> 23:51.321 Sometimes it is used in medicine. 23:52.280 --> 23:55.524 Yeah, that is an interesting point, using it in medicine. 23:55.925 --> 23:58.368 For monks, we're still not allowed to have it in alcohol. 23:58.789 --> 24:06.399 But there it's more of a drawing the line than it is saying, oh, if I have a little bit of medicine and alcohol, I'm going to get drunk. 24:07.140 --> 24:12.047 We draw the line there and we say, no, if I'm going to have medicine, it will not have alcohol in it. 24:12.727 --> 24:16.853 Because, as a point, as making a point, as a principle. 24:17.542 --> 24:20.986 So some of the rules and the strictness of them is just principle. 24:22.048 --> 24:32.121 That's a good example because alcohol and medicine is not going to make you drunk, but we say no, even in medicine I'm not going to take it. 24:32.161 --> 24:34.304 Now for lay people, I don't know. 24:35.385 --> 24:39.010 I don't know that you're breaking a precept if you take it in medicine, but you might. 24:38.990 --> 24:52.527 decide because you're doing a great service if you can keep it as a principle and say no, I really believe that the intake of alcohol is not right. 24:53.435 --> 25:00.983 You'd have to look at the science of it, and if you could make a point that there is some medicine that requires alcohol, then you might have a point. 25:01.223 --> 25:04.707 But that's something that, it's in the same way with pests. 25:04.727 --> 25:07.810 We say the only way to get rid of termites is to kill them, right? 25:07.830 --> 25:09.592 But that's because no one's ever thought of a different way. 25:09.632 --> 25:12.335 No one ever thought, well, how can we get the termites out of here without killing them? 25:12.355 --> 25:13.136 No one ever thought that. 25:13.896 --> 25:15.158 They're seven years into bed, right? 25:15.538 --> 25:18.261 This guy wants to build a theater. 25:18.983 --> 25:27.840 And the Dalai Lama wants this Brad Pitt to make him a movie theater. 25:27.860 --> 25:29.083 You never saw seven years into that? 25:30.986 --> 25:36.437 And so Brad Pitt goes out and starts, tells the people, you know, you need to dig. 25:36.638 --> 25:37.700 And they say, we dig? 25:38.341 --> 25:40.485 What about all the animals living in the earth? 25:40.972 --> 25:45.299 He goes back, these people won't dig. 25:45.680 --> 25:47.964 You can't do it any other way. 25:47.984 --> 25:49.446 He says, you'll find a way. 25:50.428 --> 25:51.870 Oh, and he's just furious, this guy. 25:51.910 --> 25:53.332 And so he says, fine. 25:53.833 --> 26:00.003 Take the dirt out one scoop at a time and find if there's any worms or animals in it and bring them somewhere else. 26:00.023 --> 26:03.890 You see this picture of these people scooping one and saying, oh, I found a worm. 26:04.190 --> 26:05.292 And then they go... 26:05.272 --> 26:11.982 And they bring the worm and they put a little water and make sure it's comfortable in another place. 26:12.262 --> 26:19.372 And scoop by scoop they dig this foundation for the Bodhichitta. 26:21.716 --> 26:29.507 So this is the problem we have kind of as Buddhists living in the modern world is that people have already just trampled all over morality. 26:30.078 --> 26:35.805 And so we kind of have to get together as a group sometimes and think of alternatives. 26:36.626 --> 26:37.907 Termites is an interesting one. 26:38.708 --> 26:42.813 I mean, in the end, I would just let them, you know, it's theirs, they can have it. 26:42.833 --> 26:51.563 But there might be a way to encourage them to go live somewhere else without having to kill them, for sure. 26:54.567 --> 26:54.787 Kerosene. 26:54.807 --> 26:55.047 Kerosene? 26:55.267 --> 26:55.788 You think what? 26:57.390 --> 26:59.092 They don't like kerosene? 26:59.192 --> 26:59.292 Yeah. 27:01.178 --> 27:04.101 You see, there's always, there should be a way. 27:04.161 --> 27:07.145 And in the end it's just, you know, you sacrifice. 27:07.285 --> 27:08.466 Because what are we here for? 27:08.526 --> 27:11.370 Are we here in the world to get everything we want? 27:12.191 --> 27:12.831 Obviously not. 27:12.872 --> 27:13.692 This is not the point. 27:14.293 --> 27:25.566 So for me it's wonderful to be able to make sacrifices and to say, no, if there's one termite in that wall, I'm not going to do whatever, do anything to kill it. 27:25.586 --> 27:26.768 This is a wonderful thing for me. 27:26.808 --> 27:28.109 I'll go sleep outside. 27:28.169 --> 27:29.751 I'll go sleep under a picnic table. 27:29.771 --> 27:30.612 I did that once. 27:32.245 --> 27:34.027 in the middle of North Hollywood. 27:35.709 --> 27:36.290 I would do that. 27:37.251 --> 27:41.095 Let the termites have the house, I don't mind. 27:41.115 --> 27:42.958 Appamādo ca dhammēsu. 27:44.760 --> 27:53.850 Appamāda means diligence or not being... heedfulness in regards to the dhammas, in regards to good practice. 27:53.870 --> 27:59.417 So this means all good things don't... 28:01.203 --> 28:04.608 Don't be negligent in regards to the good things. 28:05.029 --> 28:11.838 We should be clear with our good things and we should not neglect to undertake them. 28:12.359 --> 28:14.803 So the practice of morality we should not be negligent. 28:14.823 --> 28:22.013 The practice of concentration, the practice of charity, the practice of meditation, we should not be negligent. 28:23.107 --> 28:42.496 So this is why I'm trying to get these children to practice at least five minutes a day so that they can start to wake up and to think about these things, think about good things and the actual doing of good deeds, not just learning about them and saying, yes, yes, I'll do them. 28:42.657 --> 28:44.640 To actually undertake to do them. 28:45.461 --> 28:51.510 This is the appamada, not letting your life pass you by without doing something good. 28:52.250 --> 28:56.296 That means all good things that there are in the world, we should undertake to do them. 28:58.800 --> 29:06.912 We should not think little of good deeds, that it's just meditation, I can do it later. 29:09.195 --> 29:12.520 You have to take the Dhamma seriously, that's what this means. 29:13.563 --> 29:15.145 Garavo chani vato. 29:15.185 --> 29:16.326 Garavo means respect. 29:16.606 --> 29:18.248 So we already talked a little bit about that. 29:19.329 --> 29:23.733 Pooja, which means veneration or honor and so on. 29:24.213 --> 29:25.635 Garavo just means respect. 29:25.695 --> 29:29.578 And it's on a lower level, so it can also mean respecting each other. 29:29.639 --> 29:36.085 It can mean respecting people who you esteem as your seniors or so on. 29:37.166 --> 29:38.948 But it can also just mean respecting each other. 29:39.168 --> 29:40.309 We should respect each other. 29:40.569 --> 29:42.591 We should respect all human beings. 29:42.571 --> 29:49.603 It's easy for religious people, even Buddhists, to become arrogant. 29:50.484 --> 29:51.285 No, I've got the truth. 29:51.385 --> 29:52.307 I know what's right. 29:53.028 --> 29:55.392 And, oh, look at you, you're drinking, and so on. 29:55.693 --> 29:56.995 And monks become this way. 29:57.716 --> 30:01.162 I keep the precepts, those monks don't keep the rules, and so on like that. 30:04.767 --> 30:08.173 Or we can look at Devadatta and think he was an evil, nasty person. 30:09.149 --> 30:10.390 But the Buddha didn't look like that. 30:10.951 --> 30:16.376 The Buddha said once something very bad about Devadatta. 30:17.016 --> 30:20.320 But even in the end he said, I love Devadatta as much as I love my son. 30:21.541 --> 30:22.221 This is what he said. 30:25.104 --> 30:30.049 So this is the intrinsic respect that the Buddha had for humanity. 30:30.109 --> 30:37.536 He knew that Devadatta had a mind, that Devadatta was a human being. 30:38.073 --> 30:49.534 and deserve this respect He didn't want to stop Devadatta from doing bad deeds because it would hurt the Buddha He wanted to stop Devadatta from doing bad deeds because he knew it would hurt Devadatta 30:50.729 --> 30:58.398 And in the end, he won and Devadatta took refuge in the Buddha right before he died. 30:58.438 --> 31:06.708 And so they say, in the future, after he gets out of hell, because right now he's standing in hell like this, he's totally transfixed and there's spikes. 31:07.308 --> 31:10.252 It's a very bad torture that Devadatta had to put up with, as they say. 31:11.233 --> 31:16.920 So they say, he's going to become a Pacheco Buddha, a private Buddha, sometime in the future. 31:19.002 --> 31:20.584 The goodness doesn't disappear. 31:22.319 --> 31:26.146 Niwato means being, niwata is an interesting word. 31:26.206 --> 31:29.171 It means, what do they translate it as? 31:30.854 --> 31:32.176 Humble, humility. 31:32.777 --> 31:33.318 Niwato. 31:33.338 --> 31:34.380 But you know what it actually means? 31:34.761 --> 31:35.742 Wata means wind. 31:37.105 --> 31:40.210 And ni means out. 31:40.358 --> 31:44.183 So, not being, what's the word in English? 31:45.706 --> 31:49.371 Inflated, being puffed up. 31:49.391 --> 31:49.972 That's right. 31:49.992 --> 31:50.292 You see? 31:50.733 --> 31:51.714 This is what it's referring to. 31:51.774 --> 31:53.336 It actually means not puffed up. 31:55.219 --> 31:56.961 It's translated. 31:56.981 --> 31:59.565 Niwato. 32:01.132 --> 32:03.195 not being puffed up. 32:03.215 --> 32:04.457 So we should never be puffed up. 32:04.497 --> 32:05.418 We shouldn't be pompous. 32:05.478 --> 32:08.503 We shouldn't be self-righteous. 32:08.803 --> 32:10.766 But not even that. 32:10.826 --> 32:13.550 We shouldn't be too serious. 32:14.972 --> 32:16.694 We should feel natural. 32:16.975 --> 32:20.760 We shouldn't say, well, I'm a Buddhist and I have to do this and this and this. 32:20.740 --> 32:22.922 Being a Buddhist is about understanding reality. 32:22.942 --> 32:24.965 We have to come back to nature. 32:25.786 --> 32:31.832 Why I say this is because I've seen so much in Buddhist cultures that is so vato, is so puffed up. 32:32.433 --> 32:48.891 You know, a teacher comes up and says, And you can tell that he's not really, he doesn't really feel it. 32:49.492 --> 32:50.393 It's not natural. 32:51.942 --> 32:53.633 That's why they give Dhamma talks in Thai. 32:56.127 --> 33:02.115 I shouldn't... 33:02.135 --> 33:04.758 I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to make fun, but... 33:04.778 --> 33:06.120 I'm not trying to make fun, actually. 33:07.021 --> 33:07.642 I really wasn't. 33:07.662 --> 33:10.165 I was trying to... Because you can feel this. 33:10.205 --> 33:12.848 You can feel it in people, and you can feel it in Buddhist cultures. 33:13.229 --> 33:14.551 And I'm not trying... 33:14.571 --> 33:15.372 I really wasn't... 33:15.412 --> 33:18.015 I could have... That was the kind of thing you'd do if you wanted to make fun. 33:18.395 --> 33:18.836 But I didn't. 33:18.996 --> 33:20.298 I really didn't. 33:20.318 --> 33:22.000 The idea is that... 33:21.980 --> 33:23.323 We should see this. 33:23.424 --> 33:30.181 We should stop trying to be the perfect Buddhists and we should start to learn about our nature. 33:31.524 --> 33:34.693 Monks, you can't blame the monk because they feel the pressure. 33:34.733 --> 33:36.136 They think they have to be like that. 33:36.517 --> 33:38.402 They think they have to stand up and be the Buddha. 33:39.732 --> 33:45.121 And maybe the culture demands it as well, but I don't think so. 33:45.903 --> 33:51.512 I've had the most success in Buddhist culture just by talking to people, by being natural, because that's really what they want. 33:51.552 --> 33:52.754 They have these hard jobs. 33:53.375 --> 33:54.297 They have to work all day. 33:54.678 --> 33:57.302 And when they come to the monastery, they want to be at peace. 33:57.322 --> 34:03.252 They don't want some guy saying, you know, preaching to them. 34:03.272 --> 34:04.194 Preaching is the word. 34:04.414 --> 34:05.436 This is vata. 34:06.530 --> 34:07.971 That's not quite, I think, what it's meant. 34:08.011 --> 34:13.797 Niwata should mean, more specifically, being puffed up and thinking yourself all-important. 34:14.598 --> 34:24.347 But it's the same sort of quality, taking things too seriously and making them artificial, pretending to be something you're not. 34:24.367 --> 34:25.167 You don't need to be. 34:25.608 --> 34:27.229 Like the blowfish, right? 34:27.249 --> 34:30.692 The blowfish gets really big and, ooh, it's a big, scary thing. 34:31.213 --> 34:33.415 But it's actually just a little, little fish. 34:35.352 --> 34:36.734 They're also poisonous. 34:36.814 --> 34:41.139 Santutthi, contentment. 34:43.322 --> 34:44.763 Santutthi is a wonderful one. 34:45.004 --> 34:45.745 Santutthi. 34:45.765 --> 34:49.649 Tuththi means happiness or joy. 34:49.910 --> 34:51.412 San means with what you have. 34:52.553 --> 34:53.794 I'm assuming that's where it comes from. 34:54.115 --> 34:55.136 Because it means contentment. 34:55.617 --> 34:56.938 Being happy with what you've got. 34:56.978 --> 34:58.961 This is what the Buddha said. 34:59.021 --> 35:00.723 Santutthi paramandhanam. 35:01.604 --> 35:04.127 The greatest wealth is contentment. 35:06.537 --> 35:09.942 Right? 35:09.962 --> 35:12.306 What's better, to be content or to have a Game Boy? 35:17.614 --> 35:18.014 Content. 35:18.956 --> 35:19.456 Content? 35:19.476 --> 35:21.740 Why? 35:22.341 --> 35:22.581 Xbox. 35:23.723 --> 35:24.824 PlayStation. 35:24.844 --> 35:25.586 PlayStation 4. 35:25.966 --> 35:27.869 It's Xbox, yeah. 35:27.889 --> 35:28.450 Xbox. 35:28.850 --> 35:32.977 So I thought they were the same thing, you know, having a Game Boy and be content. 35:33.237 --> 35:33.878 And be content, yeah. 35:34.550 --> 35:36.253 Well, let's see how that works, right? 35:36.554 --> 35:38.637 Because once you've got the Game Boy, you need games, right? 35:40.421 --> 35:42.043 You have to buy games for the Game Boy, right? 35:42.064 --> 35:42.504 What do you use? 35:42.524 --> 35:43.145 You don't have a Game Boy. 35:43.166 --> 35:43.626 What do you have? 35:44.909 --> 35:45.369 Xbox. 35:45.390 --> 35:45.570 Okay. 35:45.590 --> 35:46.672 Do you have to buy games for it? 35:48.936 --> 35:49.156 Two. 35:49.417 --> 35:49.878 Is that enough? 35:52.342 --> 35:53.805 You don't want any more, no? 35:55.347 --> 35:57.351 Have you ever seen any games that you don't have that you want? 35:58.394 --> 36:03.964 So this is called contentment, right? 36:04.225 --> 36:05.407 If you're content with what you have. 36:06.870 --> 36:09.515 But you can see how you kind of want them, right? 36:10.557 --> 36:17.229 And if I had them here for you, if I said, you know, in my room I've got some Xbox games that I'm not using, would you like them? 36:17.770 --> 36:18.732 Would you take them? 36:20.365 --> 36:23.691 If you say yes, then maybe. 36:23.711 --> 36:26.076 I could just give them to you in secret. 36:26.216 --> 36:28.521 But you want them, right? 36:28.541 --> 36:29.482 You see, this is wanting. 36:29.563 --> 36:30.725 This is called discontent. 36:31.907 --> 36:32.789 And it knows no end. 36:33.931 --> 36:38.600 Because once you get the games I have, they will quickly lose their... 36:38.660 --> 36:41.866 They'll get boring. 36:41.886 --> 36:43.369 You see, this is discontent. 36:43.754 --> 36:46.997 Your sister's wife. 36:47.017 --> 36:48.278 You will get bored after a while. 36:48.859 --> 36:50.320 No, I think you understand it as well. 36:50.781 --> 36:52.002 You see where I'm getting at, right? 36:52.562 --> 36:53.563 We have these desires. 36:53.583 --> 36:54.564 I'm not blaming you. 36:54.604 --> 36:55.545 We have these desires. 36:57.407 --> 36:58.388 And that's discontent. 36:59.249 --> 37:03.212 And so getting all the things that you want, that's not real wealth. 37:04.213 --> 37:06.155 You're creating more discontent. 37:07.196 --> 37:13.322 The Buddha said that a shower of gold falling from the sky would not be enough for one human being. 37:14.602 --> 37:18.687 Amazing. 37:18.707 --> 37:22.632 It would hurt. 37:23.353 --> 37:24.514 That's the least of your worries. 37:26.457 --> 37:27.118 No, it's true. 37:27.138 --> 37:27.618 It would hurt. 37:31.984 --> 37:32.404 All right. 37:34.507 --> 37:37.871 The best way to prove that is meditation. 37:39.353 --> 37:39.894 Contentment? 37:40.855 --> 37:41.115 Yes. 37:41.382 --> 37:42.303 It's the only way. 37:42.864 --> 37:45.087 Because it has nothing to do with the things that you have. 37:45.147 --> 37:46.750 You can be rich and still be content. 37:47.551 --> 37:51.056 It has to do with your attachment to them, your desire for them. 37:51.516 --> 37:52.538 It's how the brain works. 37:52.678 --> 37:55.041 It's nothing magical or hard to understand. 37:55.101 --> 38:00.188 The brain, the pleasure sensors in the brain are non-static. 38:00.248 --> 38:00.989 They're dynamic. 38:01.110 --> 38:04.234 So the more pleasure they get, the more they need. 38:04.720 --> 38:13.159 the first time you get the pleasure, dopamine or whatever, reaches the receptors, the receptors become weakened or taxed. 38:13.179 --> 38:17.428 So the next time, the same amount of dopamine doesn't give them the same amount of pleasure. 38:17.929 --> 38:18.811 That's how the brain works. 38:19.493 --> 38:20.816 That's why addiction is a cycle. 38:21.237 --> 38:22.379 You need more and more and more. 38:22.800 --> 38:24.484 That's why 38:26.371 --> 38:33.740 There was this, my video, my video on pornography and masturbation got on, it's a very popular video on the internet. 38:34.481 --> 38:35.502 Someone asked me about this. 38:35.522 --> 38:37.024 He said it was, you've seen it maybe? 38:39.627 --> 38:42.951 Yeah, that's right. 38:43.051 --> 38:47.417 Whenever you search for me, you get this video because that's what people are looking for. 38:49.159 --> 38:49.880 It's actually not now. 38:49.900 --> 38:51.742 It's moved down on the list of my videos. 38:52.022 --> 38:55.146 The one on karma is higher up, which is a bit of a saving grace now. 38:56.408 --> 39:09.261 But the point was, one of the reasons it got popular, probably not, but one reason why it got popular, it got on a self-help site for men who have pornography addictions. 39:09.861 --> 39:16.328 So I get these links, it tells me where everything is, people are looking at it, and if I'm clever enough I can find where it is. 39:17.309 --> 39:21.713 And so I looked on this site, and this site had other information that was quite interesting, because it's an addiction. 39:22.153 --> 39:25.977 And it says, this, what I've been saying, is why... 39:25.957 --> 39:39.737 People start out with soft porn and then they go on to why it has to be more and more and more and you never get enough until finally you get so exploded and you have to give up. 39:39.957 --> 39:46.867 You have to collapse because you can't win the brain game, the addiction game. 39:48.289 --> 39:51.373 Until finally you give up and they're so taxed that you feel withdrawal. 39:51.843 --> 39:52.864 Nothing pleases you. 39:52.904 --> 39:53.265 Nothing. 39:53.305 --> 39:54.707 There's no way to find happiness. 39:55.228 --> 40:00.035 Because the things that used to make you happy are not enough dopamine to satisfy the receptors. 40:01.216 --> 40:04.881 The science, physical science has proven this. 40:05.022 --> 40:11.230 There was a Chinese man who ordained with me and ordained at the monastery I was at in Los Angeles. 40:11.290 --> 40:13.874 And he was a scientist studying addiction. 40:14.455 --> 40:16.157 And so I was like, oh great, I'll teach you meditation. 40:16.197 --> 40:18.320 You explain to me your scientific studies. 40:18.360 --> 40:20.263 And he explained to me many things. 40:20.243 --> 40:25.573 There was another PhD at a university in California, married to a Thai woman. 40:26.074 --> 40:40.260 He came to practice with me, and he told me a lot of things, and so I turned around and showed him how to use it for himself, because he was an addiction therapist, and he was taking medication for OCD, I think. 40:40.240 --> 40:46.607 which was probably why he got into the research in the first place, because he wanted to learn about his own problem. 40:47.788 --> 41:06.990 So I explained, I showed him how to deal with this, and how this was really occurring, and how to see, how to break the cycle, how to see the chemicals as merely chemicals, first of all, see the objects as just objects, 41:06.970 --> 41:13.300 And even to see the desire as just desire, not something that needs to be chased after, needs to be followed. 41:14.362 --> 41:15.564 The Buddha said three teachers. 41:15.644 --> 41:22.416 Some teachers teach only objects of desire, but not feelings and not attachments. 41:22.676 --> 41:25.941 Some people teach the objects and the feelings, but not the attachments. 41:25.961 --> 41:27.544 And some teachers teach 41:27.524 --> 41:34.684 the objects of desire, the pleasure that comes from them, and the attachment or the desire for them. 41:34.885 --> 41:37.331 The best teacher is one who teaches all three. 41:38.033 --> 41:42.546 This is what I taught in this video, which is a very important teaching. 41:42.526 --> 41:47.332 It's paticca samupada by the way, it's dependent origination in brief. 41:48.213 --> 41:56.263 So if you can split them up and see them, see this one for what it is or see this one for what it is or see this one for what it is, it won't create the cycle. 41:56.943 --> 42:02.010 Wanting and then getting and then pleasure and then wanting and then getting and then pleasure. 42:02.030 --> 42:03.151 You can catch it at any point. 42:06.255 --> 42:07.216 Am I talking too quickly? 42:08.117 --> 42:09.799 Do you understand what I'm saying? 42:11.416 --> 42:12.839 We're almost done, no? 42:12.859 --> 42:13.360 No, not quite. 42:15.223 --> 42:19.731 Santuti, so contentment, is a big teaching of the Buddha. 42:20.874 --> 42:22.937 Katanyuta means gratitude. 42:23.298 --> 42:24.601 Gratitude is very important. 42:25.763 --> 42:30.792 The Buddha said, no, the Buddha didn't say, it's a Thai saying. 42:30.772 --> 42:38.068 Katanyuta is knowing the things that people have done for you, not forgetting the things that people have done for you. 42:38.970 --> 42:43.340 This is a sign of, in Thailand they say it's a sign of a good person. 42:43.721 --> 42:45.865 The Buddha said it's a rare person to find in the world. 42:45.906 --> 42:50.215 The rare is one who does good things for others without prompting. 42:50.768 --> 43:01.589 And the second rare type of person is one who, when people have done good deeds for them, recognize that and remember that and don't forget the good deeds that other people have done for them. 43:02.992 --> 43:05.898 This is something that protects the world. 43:06.018 --> 43:07.601 It keeps people... 43:07.621 --> 43:11.970 It keeps the world... Or you could say it's a different... 43:11.990 --> 43:13.232 It's the... 43:14.630 --> 43:19.539 It's the aspect of the world that is leading towards the light. 43:20.200 --> 43:27.674 Well, at the same time, we're dealing with many factors in the world which are dark. 43:27.694 --> 43:32.503 Many, what's the word? 43:33.192 --> 43:49.632 many things in the world that are the aspect of the dog-eat-dog nature of capitalism and free market where we take advantage of each other, where we're always trying to get and to take, take, take, consumerism and so on. 43:49.612 --> 43:56.560 as opposed to just always giving and appreciating each other, being thankful for what we've got. 43:57.522 --> 44:13.341 Santuti and Katanyuta go together because you are not only content, but you're thankful in the sense of not expecting things from people, not expecting things from the world, being grateful for what you've got. 44:15.987 --> 44:24.255 But gratitude is good because the people who give then feel appreciated. 44:24.295 --> 44:26.437 They don't feel used and abused. 44:26.937 --> 44:32.503 It doesn't create bad feelings between friends and so on. 44:32.523 --> 44:37.067 Kalena Dhamma Savannam Listening to the Dhamma from time to time. 44:37.107 --> 44:40.070 You see how much of a blessing this is? 44:40.630 --> 44:41.812 Having to listen to me talk? 44:42.772 --> 44:44.374 Are you sure? 44:46.514 --> 44:47.535 I'm glad to hear that. 44:48.497 --> 44:51.902 You can have people nodding their heads, that's always good. 44:51.922 --> 44:54.386 It's a blessing to hear the Dhamma, so that's why we use the Dhamma. 44:54.426 --> 44:59.253 I'm not just pulling this out of my book of Noah's sayings or Yudha Dhamma's sayings. 44:59.894 --> 45:00.975 This is the Buddha's sayings. 45:01.476 --> 45:04.240 So this is why we do this, because it's a blessing. 45:06.103 --> 45:09.428 Not something easy to find, this speech, this list. 45:09.708 --> 45:11.070 It's not easy to find in the world. 45:13.058 --> 45:15.720 Okay, kanti jaso jasata. 45:16.241 --> 45:17.442 Kanti means patience. 45:18.182 --> 45:24.808 Patience is what you have to do when the monk keeps talking and doesn't be quiet. 45:24.828 --> 45:30.613 Patience is what you have to have when you have to bear with things which are unpleasant. 45:32.775 --> 45:36.378 So we have to be content and not chase after good things. 45:36.478 --> 45:42.863 But when bad things come, when we're bored or thinking about our Xbox, we have to be patient. 45:43.467 --> 45:43.747 Why? 45:43.828 --> 45:46.331 Because I'm not going to just let you go and play your Xbox. 45:46.451 --> 45:47.312 You can't go home yet. 45:48.334 --> 45:51.919 Whether you want to play Xbox or not want to play Xbox, you can't go, right? 45:52.179 --> 45:53.261 Until your mother takes you home. 45:53.902 --> 45:54.923 So you've got two choices. 45:55.444 --> 45:56.926 Be impatient or be patient. 45:57.687 --> 45:58.868 Which one's going to be more fun? 46:02.674 --> 46:03.435 It's a no-brainer. 46:05.197 --> 46:05.978 Impatience? 46:06.159 --> 46:09.323 Does impatience feel peaceful? 46:10.973 --> 46:12.716 Not really. 46:12.736 --> 46:14.077 Do you feel, like, unpleasant? 46:15.299 --> 46:16.100 What about patience? 46:16.301 --> 46:20.367 How does patience feel? 46:20.387 --> 46:20.687 Fun. 46:20.767 --> 46:21.428 So which one's better? 46:23.691 --> 46:23.872 Patience. 46:23.892 --> 46:24.753 Patience is better. 46:25.234 --> 46:26.255 Ding, ding, ding, ding. 46:26.275 --> 46:29.400 Get the breath. 46:29.420 --> 46:30.561 Patience is a wonderful thing. 46:30.601 --> 46:33.245 The Buddha said it's the greatest form of austerity. 46:34.106 --> 46:37.251 So in the time of the Buddha, everyone was torturing themselves. 46:38.497 --> 47:04.285 because they had all this lust inside this desire inside wanting inside and they didn't know what to do with it they thought we have to burn this up so they would burn it up by torturing themselves so they said aha well if chasing after pleasure increases the desire then chasing after pain will decrease it so they tortured themselves standing on one leg 47:04.720 --> 47:05.943 Lying on bed of nails. 47:05.963 --> 47:06.804 You know the bed of nails? 47:07.085 --> 47:07.806 That's where it comes from. 47:07.826 --> 47:10.532 They actually lay on bed of nails, bed of thorns. 47:11.414 --> 47:14.420 They would stand next to the fire and burn themselves. 47:15.102 --> 47:16.364 They would stand under the sun. 47:16.384 --> 47:17.687 They would go into the water. 47:17.747 --> 47:24.501 On the cold winter days they would go into the water and come out and stand and shake and shiver. 47:25.612 --> 47:30.626 trying to torture themselves, because they said pleasure is bad, so pain must be good. 47:31.749 --> 47:34.858 And the Buddha said, no, that's not, that's too easy. 47:36.302 --> 47:40.414 He said the real way to burn up defilements is patience. 47:41.288 --> 47:44.373 When you have anger, when you have greed, being patient with them. 47:45.114 --> 47:47.738 This is the greatest form of austerity. 47:48.218 --> 47:49.701 And of course it's just being mindful. 47:49.961 --> 47:57.031 When you're mindful and you force yourself to just see it as it is, to, okay, I want it. 47:58.554 --> 47:59.375 Yeah, so I want it. 47:59.675 --> 48:00.537 It doesn't mean anything. 48:01.799 --> 48:02.960 It doesn't mean I should take it. 48:03.321 --> 48:09.490 There's no law of nature that says when you want something, 48:09.993 --> 48:15.240 the correct answer is to take it, or it has some meaning in it that you should take it. 48:16.021 --> 48:19.406 Because some people want crack cocaine, doesn't mean they should take it. 48:20.828 --> 48:27.417 Wanting doesn't mean rightness in taking. 48:29.980 --> 48:31.242 There's got to be a better way to say that. 48:32.335 --> 48:35.438 So wajah sata means being easy to talk to. 48:36.039 --> 48:37.260 Wajah means talk to. 48:37.740 --> 48:39.942 Wajah sata. 48:39.962 --> 48:40.823 Wajah sata. 48:42.445 --> 48:43.686 Wajah sata. 48:43.706 --> 48:46.068 So means easy to talk to. 48:46.268 --> 48:47.930 So means so, which is easy. 48:48.971 --> 48:50.933 Wajah sata, easy to talk to. 48:51.854 --> 48:53.255 So means easily admonished. 48:54.256 --> 49:01.363 For example, when your parents tell you to do something, when you say, okay, and you do it, that's being easy to admonish. 49:02.542 --> 49:14.018 When your teachers tell you to explain you how to do something and you listen to your teachers and you follow their advice, this is a great blessing. 49:15.059 --> 49:17.082 If you're hard to admonish, no one wants to teach you. 49:17.943 --> 49:18.985 Your parents won't keep you. 49:19.045 --> 49:25.073 If you stop doing what your parents do, what they do is they just put you out with the trash and they let you fend for yourself. 49:27.010 --> 49:27.571 Not quite. 49:28.392 --> 49:29.413 But they won't want to help you. 49:29.493 --> 49:31.796 Your parents will just, what can I do with this kid? 49:31.816 --> 49:32.878 The only thing I can do is hit them. 49:32.958 --> 49:33.739 That's all I can do. 49:35.461 --> 49:38.084 Nowadays they don't hit their kids anymore. 49:38.685 --> 49:39.727 My parents never hit me. 49:41.208 --> 49:45.314 But they will just yell at you and they won't teach you anything anymore. 49:45.354 --> 49:47.837 If you don't listen to your teachers, don't listen to your parents, 49:48.661 --> 49:52.405 The Buddha said it's like being dead, not listening. 49:53.426 --> 49:54.146 It's like being dead. 49:54.187 --> 49:59.192 He said, when someone doesn't listen to me, I kill them, he said. 50:00.513 --> 50:01.374 This is what the Buddha said. 50:02.074 --> 50:05.698 There was a man came to him and he said, so you teach horses? 50:05.738 --> 50:06.459 You train horses? 50:06.539 --> 50:09.061 And the guy said, yeah, I teach horses, train horses. 50:09.081 --> 50:10.503 And the Buddha said, how do you train horses? 50:10.623 --> 50:13.366 He said, well, first I give them an easy lesson. 50:13.386 --> 50:14.547 I'm nice to them. 50:14.567 --> 50:15.748 I say, do this, do that. 50:16.724 --> 50:21.613 And then if they don't listen to what I say to do, I tell them, you know, then I have a harsh lesson. 50:21.813 --> 50:22.254 I hit them. 50:23.095 --> 50:23.736 Hit them with a stick. 50:23.776 --> 50:24.237 Don't do that. 50:24.277 --> 50:24.778 Don't do that. 50:26.201 --> 50:28.605 And if they don't listen to either lesson, then I kill them. 50:29.206 --> 50:31.029 Because they're useless, the horses. 50:32.131 --> 50:35.076 The Buddha said, well, that's how I teach men, humans. 50:36.178 --> 50:37.400 That's how I teach human beings. 50:37.761 --> 50:38.462 If... 50:39.674 --> 50:43.459 First, I tell them, I have a kind lesson. 50:43.539 --> 50:44.761 I tell them, do this, do that. 50:44.781 --> 50:45.562 This is good. 50:45.602 --> 50:46.863 This is a good thing to do. 50:47.825 --> 50:54.093 And if they don't listen, and they do bad things, then I start saying to them, this is bad, this is bad. 50:54.954 --> 50:55.795 It's a harsh lesson. 50:56.436 --> 50:58.599 And if they don't listen to either of those, then I kill them. 50:59.981 --> 51:04.427 He said, the man said, excuse me? 51:04.467 --> 51:09.293 This isn't what monks are supposed to do, no? 51:10.184 --> 51:13.688 And he said, well, what I mean by that is I stop teaching them. 51:15.631 --> 51:17.773 I decide that I'm not going to teach them anymore. 51:19.015 --> 51:21.718 And all of my students, all of my disciples feel the same way. 51:21.758 --> 51:23.300 They say they're not going to teach them either. 51:24.301 --> 51:27.205 And he said, this is what we call death in the Buddha's teaching. 51:27.545 --> 51:30.589 Because if no one teaches you Buddhism, you can't learn. 51:30.839 --> 51:32.321 Nowadays you can read books. 51:32.381 --> 51:33.021 It's not the same. 51:33.362 --> 51:34.383 I tell you it's not the same. 51:34.483 --> 51:40.690 If you don't have a teacher, a teacher who will teach you, it's like being cut off. 51:40.710 --> 51:41.691 Having your life cut off. 51:43.693 --> 51:49.700 samana nantadasanam Seeing recklessness. 51:49.720 --> 51:51.422 Seeing samana. 51:51.602 --> 51:55.186 Samana means someone who has a peaceful mind. 51:55.286 --> 51:58.990 santimano santimano 52:00.438 --> 52:01.219 Samana. 52:02.241 --> 52:04.225 Santi means calm. 52:04.986 --> 52:06.068 Mana means mind. 52:06.368 --> 52:08.492 So one with a calm mind is a samana. 52:10.095 --> 52:13.982 This is also where the word shaman comes from, incidentally. 52:14.182 --> 52:19.932 It comes from this word shramana, which is the Sanskrit. 52:23.168 --> 52:25.591 But yeah, seeing holy people. 52:26.192 --> 52:29.496 They don't have to be holy, but people who are engaged in a holy life. 52:29.736 --> 52:34.382 People who are following some holy order. 52:34.502 --> 52:37.006 So what they say is seeing monks is a good thing. 52:39.028 --> 52:41.932 Seeing monks can be a good thing because it reminds you of good things. 52:41.992 --> 52:43.914 It reminds you of the Buddha when you see the robe. 52:43.954 --> 52:46.418 When you see a monk's robe, you think that's like the Buddha's robe. 52:46.438 --> 52:49.902 It reminds you of the Arahant disciples of the Buddha as well. 52:52.328 --> 52:58.238 But the big deal here is seeing people who are practicing meditation, seeing people who are peaceful in mind. 52:58.278 --> 53:00.081 This is the great thing. 53:00.982 --> 53:07.693 When you're just being around people who are peaceful, people who are wise, people who are calm, is a great blessing. 53:08.615 --> 53:09.596 It reminds you. 53:10.338 --> 53:14.765 Just seeing them reminds you of mindfulness. 53:15.105 --> 53:16.207 It reminds you to be mindful. 53:16.227 --> 53:19.112 And of course, when you go to see them, you're going to hear the Dhamma. 53:19.092 --> 53:30.997 You're going to hear good things, you're going to learn good things, you're going to practice good things, because you will get, you know, we're like, we become like the people we hang out with. 53:31.098 --> 53:36.409 If you hang out with bad people, as we said in the beginning, you'll become a bad person. 53:38.026 --> 53:42.175 So talking about the Dhamma, there's two kinds. 53:42.596 --> 53:45.643 Listening to the Dhamma is not the only way of learning the Dhamma. 53:46.044 --> 53:48.449 Discussing the Dhamma is also very important. 53:48.469 --> 53:55.144 So maybe after I finish here, if I finish, if I ever finish, we can discuss as well. 53:55.385 --> 53:56.828 We don't have to just be one way. 53:57.837 --> 53:59.080 then you really can stay all night. 53:59.100 --> 54:04.251 This is what they did every uposatha day or every so many days when they were staying together. 54:04.671 --> 54:06.335 They would come together and talk all night. 54:09.321 --> 54:10.704 So you have to go to school in the morning? 54:11.606 --> 54:13.530 What time we can stay until you go to school? 54:16.176 --> 54:17.719 To bring your pajamas? 54:19.825 --> 54:27.062 Tapo means putting out effort. 54:27.704 --> 54:29.428 Actually Kanti Paramangtapo. 54:29.448 --> 54:30.551 So this is actually Kanti. 54:30.571 --> 54:31.232 It's the same thing. 54:31.593 --> 54:33.177 But here he means putting out effort. 54:34.068 --> 54:39.001 Working hard in the Brahmacharya, in meditation. 54:39.061 --> 54:41.046 Brahmacharya means the holy life. 54:42.049 --> 54:43.573 Brahma means God actually. 54:43.593 --> 54:45.398 Charya means faring. 54:46.180 --> 54:50.170 So the God faring or the holy life. 54:51.989 --> 54:59.578 Holy life can be celibacy that sometimes refers to, but it just really means living a virtuous life, doing good deeds. 54:59.638 --> 55:05.064 It doesn't necessarily have to refer to perfect celibacy. 55:06.025 --> 55:07.767 There are ten kinds of Brahmacharya. 55:07.847 --> 55:09.389 The most common one is celibacy. 55:11.551 --> 55:21.743 The big thing is to live a virtuous life, moral, compassionate, virtuous, generous, and wise and meditative. 55:22.853 --> 55:26.489 ariyasac jānadasanam, seeing the noble truths. 55:26.810 --> 55:28.256 Ah, here we get to the core, you see. 55:29.462 --> 55:32.796 It's not all just about having handicraft and so on. 55:34.565 --> 55:39.493 The core here, we've come to the core already, Arya Satchana Dasanam, seeing the noble truths. 55:40.395 --> 55:41.897 So not just seeing all truths. 55:42.258 --> 55:48.628 Remember in Buddhism we're talking about truths that are Arya, noble. 55:49.450 --> 55:55.921 Noble truths means, in Buddhism the meaning of noble truths is those truths that bring freedom from suffering. 55:56.662 --> 55:59.847 Some truths will not bring freedom from suffering. 55:59.827 --> 56:05.695 The truth of whether Australia exists or not will not bring you freedom from suffering. 56:06.657 --> 56:13.867 The truth of whether Einstein was correct in his theory of relativity, this will not bring you freedom from suffering. 56:13.947 --> 56:26.745 But the truth that clinging is the cause for suffering, when you see this, this will make you free from suffering. 56:28.413 --> 56:29.875 So that's why they're called noble truths. 56:29.915 --> 56:34.082 When you see this, when you see suffering, the first noble truth is all you need to see, really. 56:34.683 --> 56:44.818 When you see and get it, that the things that you are clinging to are actually suffering, when you realize that Xbox is causing you suffering, that's all it takes. 56:46.060 --> 56:57.357 Once you see that it's causing you, so if you're holding in your hand a hot coal, a hot ember, and if you don't know that you're holding it, you think, why am I in so much pain? 56:58.349 --> 57:00.852 But as soon as you realize you're holding the ember, what are you going to do? 57:01.733 --> 57:02.214 Drop it. 57:02.975 --> 57:03.796 Do you have to think first? 57:06.119 --> 57:08.442 Do you have to ask yourself, should I drop it? 57:09.363 --> 57:12.467 Do you have to go and tell your mom, mom, I think I should drop this. 57:12.487 --> 57:13.028 What do you think? 57:14.830 --> 57:15.972 You don't even have to think about it. 57:17.093 --> 57:18.515 Drop it or throw it, one or the other. 57:19.757 --> 57:20.017 Why? 57:20.057 --> 57:22.180 Because you see that it's causing you suffering. 57:23.223 --> 57:26.588 The problem with us is we don't see that these things are causing us suffering. 57:26.608 --> 57:28.151 We think they're causing us happiness. 57:28.972 --> 57:31.095 We think that this dopamine is really happiness. 57:31.456 --> 57:32.798 We're drug addicts, really. 57:34.200 --> 57:35.361 And because of that, we suffer. 57:35.922 --> 57:41.110 Once we see that it's causing us suffering, we give it up. 57:41.130 --> 57:43.915 Nibbāna sat-chīkiri āca, seeing Nibbāna. 57:45.337 --> 57:46.739 Seeing Nibbāna for ourselves. 57:46.799 --> 57:48.201 This is the greatest blessing. 57:49.801 --> 57:51.262 Because Nibbāna is true peace. 57:51.583 --> 57:55.587 We don't have any point of reference to understand this. 57:57.268 --> 57:59.391 You can think, what is real happiness? 58:00.452 --> 58:02.954 If you never realize Nibbāna, you have nothing to compare it to. 58:04.115 --> 58:09.741 What you're thinking of is nothing like Nibbāna. 58:10.281 --> 58:13.004 So to explain what is Nibbāna is very difficult for this reason. 58:13.565 --> 58:16.888 Because anything we said, it's like this or it's like that, 58:17.797 --> 58:19.019 Oh, happiness. 58:19.059 --> 58:21.883 Well, it must be like flowers. 58:22.404 --> 58:23.866 How flowers smell or something. 58:23.886 --> 58:26.249 It must be like a big hug, a nice hug. 58:27.771 --> 58:29.874 We can't even come close to imagining. 58:30.115 --> 58:34.962 Unless you've experienced Nibbana, you can't come close to imagining the type of peace we're talking about. 58:37.605 --> 58:39.128 Nibbana is the greatest blessing. 58:39.829 --> 58:44.155 Nibbana paramang sukhang. 58:44.175 --> 58:45.036 There is no 58:47.277 --> 58:51.101 Nibbana is the highest happiness. 58:52.442 --> 58:54.124 There's no happiness greater than peace. 58:55.786 --> 58:57.508 There's no happiness apart from peace. 59:00.090 --> 59:15.006 When you have this kind of peace, your mind becomes clear and pure, and you experience a happiness that is totally unlike anything that you've experienced before. 59:17.163 --> 59:28.860 This is my favorite verse in the whole sutta. 59:32.926 --> 59:45.043 When touched by the vicissitudes of the world, the worldly dhammas, the mind of one, the mind of whoever's mind is not 59:46.778 --> 59:50.302 is not wavered, is not shaken, is not shaken. 59:53.446 --> 59:59.394 And therefore they are soka, free from soka, which is sadness or sorrow. 01:00:00.255 --> 01:00:06.462 Weerajang means without stain or without dust or dirt. 01:00:06.482 --> 01:00:09.566 Kemang, safe. 01:00:09.586 --> 01:00:11.148 Kemang means safe. 01:00:12.510 --> 01:00:16.735 Etamanggalamutamang, this is the highest blessing for that person. 01:00:17.710 --> 01:00:20.112 So the Lokadhamma are the vicissitudes of life. 01:00:21.534 --> 01:00:35.828 Pleasure, pain, gain and loss, fame and infamy, and praise and blame. 01:00:36.949 --> 01:00:39.071 The eight Lokadhammas, they change. 01:00:39.551 --> 01:00:43.515 You can't have happiness all the time and not have, you can't have pleasure and not have pain. 01:00:43.495 --> 01:00:48.684 You can't be famous all the time, expect to be famous all the time and not suffer infamy. 01:00:48.704 --> 01:00:53.914 You can't have always the things that you want and never have loss, never lose the things that you love. 01:00:56.318 --> 01:00:57.941 This is the ways of the world. 01:01:00.626 --> 01:01:02.850 Loss and gain, good things and bad things. 01:01:03.391 --> 01:01:06.837 When one who is touched by both good things and bad things and doesn't waver, 01:01:09.095 --> 01:01:16.882 Because of that, they never sorrow, they never feel sad, they never are needing anything, they're never wanting for anything. 01:01:18.143 --> 01:01:27.212 They have perfect contentment at all times and there's no stain in their mind and for this reason they become safe, kema. 01:01:29.414 --> 01:01:30.955 They're safe from all suffering. 01:01:31.696 --> 01:01:37.161 When you suffer in your life and you start crying, you have to think of this, think of this teaching. 01:01:38.407 --> 01:01:40.951 When you wonder, how do I become free from suffering? 01:01:41.091 --> 01:01:43.335 How do I deal with this suffering that I'm going through? 01:01:43.976 --> 01:01:52.048 How do I deal with this stress and this pain that I have in my heart? 01:01:53.210 --> 01:02:00.502 You have to remember that this is the mind that is causing us suffering. 01:02:00.762 --> 01:02:04.448 Our mind is wavering, it's being shaken. 01:02:07.111 --> 01:02:09.976 We have to understand where true safety lies. 01:02:10.036 --> 01:02:14.763 It doesn't lie in always getting what you want and never being faced with things that you don't want. 01:02:14.844 --> 01:02:31.110 It comes from setting yourself in the mode of objectivity where you see things just as they are, where you don't judge things and you're not partial. 01:02:33.942 --> 01:02:38.208 When you're able to do that, nothing can cause your mind to waver. 01:02:38.549 --> 01:02:48.123 When you get proficient at objectivity, then nothing can make you waver, nothing can make you hurt. 01:02:48.363 --> 01:02:49.825 And then the Buddha says, why? 01:02:49.865 --> 01:02:56.355 Because those who have fulfilled all these are everywhere invincible, aparajita. 01:02:57.820 --> 01:02:59.484 They find well-being everywhere. 01:03:04.197 --> 01:03:08.729 For them, that is the highest blessing. 01:03:10.353 --> 01:03:12.278 That is the Mahamangala Sutta. 01:03:12.359 --> 01:03:13.281 Very important. 01:03:14.527 --> 01:03:17.373 Buddhist sutta, just because it's all around useful. 01:03:18.054 --> 01:03:19.537 It's not just for meditators. 01:03:19.777 --> 01:03:20.879 It's not just for monks. 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.326 It's something that encompasses daily life as well. 01:03:25.188 --> 01:03:31.320 So the Buddha taught this to the angel, knowing that this would be something that would be a... 01:03:33.157 --> 01:03:57.004 an inheritance for the world, something that the Buddha has given to us as an inheritance, that we can, that has now become a cornerstone in Buddhist culture and philosophy, and something that is 01:03:56.984 --> 01:04:09.284 worldly or broadly applicable in the world, both for meditators and for people living worldly existences. 01:04:09.544 --> 01:04:17.177 So, that's the talk for tonight, and let's see if it goes viral. 01:04:18.198 --> 01:04:24.949 Thank you for suggesting to record it, and now we can stop the recording and put it on YouTube.