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I started translating your book on meditation to German.

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Is that OK with you?

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And is it OK to distribute it then to my friends once I finish translating it?

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I have no problem with people doing anything they want with my books or anything I make.

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Go ahead.

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I mean, first of all, wonderful.

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Thank you.

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I'm honored to have people even think about translating something I wrote.

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It's like, wow.

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Thank you.

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That makes me happy to know.

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And on two levels.

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On the level that like, wow, I did something that people thought was worth translating.

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And on another level that, wow, I think this is worth translating and someone's doing it.

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So what a good thing they're doing.

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Because it's not my teaching.

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It's my teacher's teaching and I guess the Buddha's teaching.

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But just to be clear,

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I don't believe in copyright.

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I don't think it's useful, except in a monetary sense.

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If the market wants to, if economic systems want to say copyright is useful for people to make money and make a living off of things, then I'm not convinced, but I'm not going to fight against it.

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And certainly that has nothing to do with me or my work.

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So if you do something bad with my work and use it to, I don't know, distort the Buddha's teachings, then that's your bad karma.

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I'll tell people not to read it or look at it or so on.

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Certainly, I would never sue you or even demand anything from you if you did that.

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Now, if you're doing good things with it, if you do anything good with something that I've made, please, you don't have to ask me.

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If you let me know, that would be nice, but only because that would make me feel happy.

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If I found out that people were using my things for good use, that would make me happy.

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That's the only reason.

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Not because I demand it or because I think you...

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You have a duty to tell me just because it would be nice if I heard about it.

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I would like to hear about it.

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So, yeah, go ahead with it.

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Thank you.

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The other thing is if you do translate it, the How to Meditate book, please send it to me because I can put it up on my website and other people can read it as well.

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We've got Chinese and Spanish already, isn't it?

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Like,

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It's wonderful.

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Someone actually translated it into Chinese.

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Tina Chen was her name.

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That was ultimate, to have someone translate your work into Chinese, just to see something you've written in Chinese.

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I don't know.

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It's not getting crowded.