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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