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so 00:00:14

that you see out in front of you is how 00:00:18

you feel inside your head 00:00:18

and so for this reason the great sixth patriarch 00:00:24

in china said that it was a great mistake 00:00:30

those who are practicing buddhist 00:00:32

meditation try to make their minds empty 00:00:32

and a lot of people try to do that not only no thoughts 00:00:42

but no sense experiences so they'd close 00:00:46

their eyes 00:00:47

they'd plug up their ears and uh 00:00:51

generally go in for sensory deprivation 00:00:51

what would you think of this boy 00:00:57

being lost in a fog so that it's white all around you can't see in any 00:01:05

direction 00:01:07

being in the darkness or the color of your head is perceived by your eyes 00:01:15

that's probably the best illustration 00:01:19

that we would think i'll avoid 00:01:19

because it isn't black and white 00:01:24

but that's still not 00:01:29

take the lesson from the head how does your head look to your eyes 00:01:37

well i tell you it looks like what you see out front 00:01:46

because all that you see out in front of 00:01:50

you is how you feel inside your head 00:01:50

can you become weightless here 00:02:00

i said a little while ago that the person who really accepts 00:02:06

transients begins to feel weightless 00:02:08

when suzuki was asked what is it like to have experienced 00:02:21

santori enlightenment he said is just 00:02:24

like ordinary everyday experience 00:02:24

but about two inches off the ground 00:02:29

said it is easy enough to stand still 00:02:40

the difficulty is to walk without touching the ground 00:02:48

it isn't just a matter of gravitation and weight 00:03:04

it is that you will feel that you are carrying your body around 00:03:11

so when you feel a weak common speech expresses this all the time life is a 00:03:18

dream 00:03:22

i feel i'm just dragging myself around 00:03:25

my body is a burden to me 00:03:25

to whom to whom 00:03:28

so long as you fight it it is 00:03:45

so then when there is nobody 00:03:52

left to resist the thing that we call change which is 00:04:01

simply another word for life 00:04:03

and when we dispel the illusion that we think our thoughts 00:04:11

instead of being just a stream of 00:04:16

thoughts 00:04:18

and that we feel our feelings instead of 00:04:20

being just feelings 00:04:20

it's like saying you know to feel the feelings 00:04:25

is a redundant expression 00:04:30

it's like saying actually i hear sounds 00:04:34

for there are no sounds which are not 00:04:36

heard 00:04:36

hearing is sound 00:04:40

seeing is sight when you get to think that you think your thoughts 00:04:48

the you standing aside the thoughts has the same sort of consequence as 00:04:58

seeing double 00:05:00

and then you think can i observe the thinker thinking the thoughts 00:05:11

i am worried 00:05:17

and i ought not to worry but because i can't stop worrying i'm 00:05:24

worried because i worried 00:05:26

and you see where that could lead to it leads to exactly the same 00:05:37

situation and that is what we call 00:05:42

anxiety 00:05:43

trembling 00:05:43

but this discipline that we're talking about of nagarjunas 00:05:50

abolishes anxiety because you discover that no amount of 00:05:58

anxiety makes any difference to anything 00:06:03

that's going to happen 00:06:03

in other words from the first standpoint the worst is going to happen 00:06:12

you're all going to die 00:06:14

and don't just put it off in the back of your mind and say i'll 00:06:19

consider that later 00:06:21

it's the most important thing to consider now 00:06:27

because it enables you it is the mercy of nature 00:06:32

because it's going to enable you to let 00:06:37

go 00:06:38

and not defend yourself all the time 00:06:41

waste all the energies in self-defense 00:06:41

no amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that's going to 00:06:58

happen 00:07:02

it's the most important thing to 00:07:04

consider because it's going to enable 00:07:05

you to let go 00:07:06

and not defend yourself waste all energies in self-defense 00:07:16

but this discipline that we're talking about 00:07:28

abolishes anxiety because you discover that no amount of 00:07:36

anxiety 00:07:39

makes any difference to anything that's 00:07:41

going to happen and the body isn't the 00:07:44

burden 00:07:45

but so long as you fight it it is 00:07:45

to resist the thing that we call change 00:07:54

which is simply another word for life 00:07:57

but if you live in this world you can have a marvelous time 00:08:09

yes 00:08:35