Yeah, I think one thing we should always keep in mind is that we're here to try to help.
And so rather than just getting too much off track, we should always think that there are people behind these questions.
We've had a lot of discussion this evening about not wanting to help people, and not going out of your way, and that we're not here to help people.
insofar as this is part of our practice the wholesomeness of it does come from helping other people and the way it helps you is by being compassionate and by being kind and generous in terms of giving the Dhamma so insofar as you're willing to do that
I just think we should keep that in mind, and from time to time I remind myself that that's what's really important in these sessions, is that people do actually benefit from it.
Yeah.
Open up like, remember Peanuts, Charlie Brown and Snoopy?
Just don't be like Lucy and open up a stand that says Buddhist therapy, you know, five cents.
Or you'll wind up with lots of Charlie Browns.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you know, I spent a year reading Peanuts comics only.
Like, it was the only thing I read when I was about eight years old.
My parents just got me a bookshelf full of Peanuts comics, and it was the only thing I would read.
And it was a leading cause of depression for me.
Yeah.
remainder of my, my, my teenage life, those are horrible.
I think Charles should, should read A Disturbance to Humanity by creating peanuts because Charlie Brown is the worst role model for anyone.
I still shudder to think of, of, you know, in pity of this guy.
Why doesn't he ever win a baseball game?
Yeah.
It's like the only guy that really had his stuff together was like Schroeder.
And maybe in a weird way, peppermint patty.
Come on, Linus?
You don't give Linus any credit?
Linus, was he the one with the blanket?
Yeah.
Why?
He was the philosopher.
He was the Buddhist.
Okay.
I can give it to him.
He was the one that waited for the great pumpkin, right?
See, the philosopher.
Yeah.
Well, you know, if you're talking about depression, let's throw Winnie the Pooh into that.
Winnie the Pooh is really, when you take a step back, it's really a bummer.
It's all about suffering.
Very Buddhist, too.
Did you ever read A.A.
Milne's books, the actual Winnie the Pooh books?
Yeah, only, you know, when I was like, what, 10.
And it was just overwhelming for me.
Christopher Robbins and the little woods of, what, 100 acres?
You ever read The Tao of Pooh?
Yeah, I love that.
I love especially Eeyore, and he's in the river, and everybody's trying to get him out, and Pooh just comes along and, what, drops a rock on him?
And he goes to the bottom and then walks out of the river.
Right.
Yeah.