1 00:00:00,487 --> 00:00:01,508 I got a question. 2 00:00:01,668 --> 00:00:02,989 I got a question for you, Lukas. 3 00:00:03,890 --> 00:00:04,531 Lukas? 4 00:00:04,851 --> 00:00:08,975 That's right. 5 00:00:08,995 --> 00:00:09,996 Is truth within? 6 00:00:10,036 --> 00:00:12,239 I've got this theme. 7 00:00:12,799 --> 00:00:13,700 That's not a trick question. 8 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:15,922 I'm just asking, do you think truth is within? 9 00:00:18,965 --> 00:00:19,586 Wow. 10 00:00:20,206 --> 00:00:26,953 I mean, yeah, you can say, but you want me to give a deeper answer to it? 11 00:00:26,973 --> 00:00:27,233 No, no. 12 00:00:27,373 --> 00:00:27,694 No, no. 13 00:00:27,734 --> 00:00:28,314 Just a yes. 14 00:00:28,334 --> 00:00:28,975 Just a yes. 15 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,646 Hopefully a yes or a no. 16 00:00:33,726 --> 00:00:44,362 I think the only thing you want to achieve and you want to be is somewhere inside you rather than outside. 17 00:00:44,382 --> 00:00:47,727 I actually have another question because someone asked this recently. 18 00:00:47,747 --> 00:00:57,021 If truth is within, and so I'm going to just assume that it is, if truth is within, then why do we have to look outside of ourselves to learn that? 19 00:00:58,942 --> 00:01:00,224 That's what someone asked me. 20 00:01:01,906 --> 00:01:26,299 Well, there is a thing that we actually, it's like, well, because there is a theory that we actually create this reality with our minds, you know, in a broad explanation that we talk to 21 00:01:26,617 --> 00:01:30,142 few times about it, about the reality and things. 22 00:01:31,284 --> 00:01:36,431 So we don't know actually scientifically. 23 00:01:37,493 --> 00:01:40,777 Why do they say that we need to look outside to find it? 24 00:01:41,739 --> 00:01:47,707 I guess their point was that truth isn't inside. 25 00:01:47,747 --> 00:01:51,072 Truth is in something outside, like maybe God. 26 00:01:51,254 --> 00:02:04,694 So they're showing how absurd Buddhism is, and this is what they said, Buddhism is absurd because in order to learn that truth is inside, you have to find that truth outside. 27 00:02:04,734 --> 00:02:08,500 You have to have someone tell you truth is within, for example. 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,226 That's because you were looking outside to start with. 29 00:02:12,927 --> 00:02:18,375 If you had started looking inside, you would have found it yourself. 30 00:02:18,524 --> 00:02:24,612 But I think there's another answer, because you can look inside and not know how to see, not know how to look, right? 31 00:02:25,113 --> 00:02:30,721 You can look inside and... Ignorance is the problem. 32 00:02:31,802 --> 00:02:36,869 But the funny thing is that if you look outside, you look through your inside. 33 00:02:38,511 --> 00:02:38,852 Okay? 34 00:02:39,413 --> 00:02:42,637 So everything you experience, you experience through yourself. 35 00:02:43,658 --> 00:02:44,059 So... 36 00:02:44,478 --> 00:02:46,920 It's kind of like the same thing. 37 00:02:47,301 --> 00:02:49,823 You cannot experience outside without the inside. 38 00:02:50,544 --> 00:02:52,726 You cannot experience inside without outside. 39 00:02:54,087 --> 00:03:01,394 You know, I'm trying to say that you are kind of working together. 40 00:03:02,695 --> 00:03:06,138 That's one advice, you know. 41 00:03:06,158 --> 00:03:11,143 It's like, if you've got no eyes, how can you investigate outside? 42 00:03:11,963 --> 00:03:13,725 You know, your eyes 43 00:03:14,397 --> 00:03:16,940 and what you think is inside. 44 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,465 You know what I mean? 45 00:03:20,725 --> 00:03:22,808 You see something and you think about it. 46 00:03:24,790 --> 00:03:34,423 I think the whole, first of all, the whole purpose of telling people to look inside is, as Clemente said, it's telling people who are looking outside, right? 47 00:03:34,443 --> 00:03:39,409 It's telling people who are looking to God or looking to materialism or looking for some 48 00:03:39,895 --> 00:03:43,179 truth or happiness outside of themselves, telling them to look back in. 49 00:03:43,219 --> 00:03:47,063 Well, how can you do that without relying on the external, right? 50 00:03:47,183 --> 00:03:48,385 You have to do that externally. 51 00:03:49,346 --> 00:03:54,011 Yeah, because there is a kind of thing that we are separated from outside, but we are not. 52 00:03:54,832 --> 00:04:08,788 The reason why I thought of this question was to do with this idea of helping people to look inside, helping people with nervousness, the question, right? 53 00:04:09,123 --> 00:04:10,585 You know, there's the two aspects. 54 00:04:10,826 --> 00:04:16,034 You can tell a person, well, just see it like this and this and this, but if they could, they would have, right? 55 00:04:16,054 --> 00:04:17,917 So they need the guidance. 56 00:04:18,378 --> 00:04:22,685 There is the aspect that's needed is some sort of guidance. 57 00:04:23,226 --> 00:04:26,731 You have to give them a means to do that, whatever it is. 58 00:04:26,751 --> 00:04:35,265 And, of course, in our tradition, we'll have them say nervous, nervous, or if someone's talking to them, hearing, hearing, and feeling the... 59 00:04:35,549 --> 00:04:42,138 the heartbeat and the tension in the stomach and the pain in the head and so on, being aware of their movements. 60 00:04:42,699 --> 00:04:57,560 I don't want to give any advice, but in my opinion, maybe I shouldn't, but in some cases taking drugs is a good way to go to boost your confidence. 61 00:05:02,286 --> 00:05:04,830 If you experience out-of-body experience, 62 00:05:04,979 --> 00:05:31,780 okay %uh you might use their you might gain I'll audience I like that's my only my the and like is just I'll drugs major you or workers were there with here then turn on I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll 63 00:05:32,789 --> 00:05:36,554 I'm trying to, you know, trying to... Like crack? 64 00:05:36,874 --> 00:05:37,295 Heroin? 65 00:05:37,315 --> 00:05:38,437 Horse train? 66 00:05:38,457 --> 00:05:39,498 A little bit more specific. 67 00:05:40,479 --> 00:05:43,664 Which drugs do you particularly recommend? 68 00:05:43,684 --> 00:05:44,605 I don't know. 69 00:05:44,625 --> 00:05:48,971 It's like, let's say, like, try to... Gasoline? 70 00:05:49,031 --> 00:05:50,833 Try to... No. 71 00:05:51,534 --> 00:05:56,721 Try to... Try to get stoned. 72 00:05:57,038 --> 00:06:07,114 and go into public and let's see how much insecure you are and see how ridiculous that is. 73 00:06:07,815 --> 00:06:08,677 You know? 74 00:06:08,717 --> 00:06:09,217 You know what? 75 00:06:09,258 --> 00:06:14,506 That sounds like a Tibetan practice. 76 00:06:18,633 --> 00:06:19,153 It's done. 77 00:06:22,278 --> 00:06:22,599 All right. 78 00:06:22,619 --> 00:06:24,582 I think we're going to quit there while we're 79 00:06:25,270 --> 00:06:27,366 Only modesty behind.