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And then sometimes that I work too hard.But I'm a 72 year old now, almost 73.And I don't think that marks my age should work so hard.I want to do a sit down strike. Would you recognise what I'm doing? Might I sat here? You want me to sleep?You might say. What's it to do with Dream Yoga?No, I'm not doing Dream Yoga. I'm talking in my sleep. I have to give talks. But anyway, the reason why you do give a talk, even as the content of the talk is one thing, but the most important part of the talk is where it's coming from, why you're giving this talk. And I'm just going to say that, that idea of being here, caring and just giving, it's the way I can give this one. Many people in this monastery and visitors and many people at Dhammasala, you give in so many different ways.And some of you give, you know, just being here and just being like good meditators, being people who are nice and peaceful and giving that quiet.
Always look at life as just a way of gifts. And even though that, you know, I can't give monetary gifts anymore, still we can give this other gift, which are far more wealthy than the money. The highest gift you can give is like the Dhamma, the teachings, to try to help and care for and get people to be inspired by these incredible teachings. And that is always one of the reasons I must admit that I go to different places in the world, because I get inspired as well, every now and again, someone comes, and they just come and see you and they just literally do say, you know, thank you, I'm not exaggerating, they would say, you really did save my life. They're in difficult situations and you managed to pull them through,but it's not just putting them through from worldly distress. That causes part of practice works. It actually just inspires them to go deeper into the practice, deeper into the Dhamma, and start investigating and exploring much more about how these practices work,and how they get into much, much, much deeper insights.
One of the stories or lessons which I taught over in the Buddhist Society of Victoria in Melbourne, just a day or two ago, I just heard apparently that even those talks are live streamed, is that correct, Vellable Metagie? Oh dear, all those stories and jokes, I can't repeat them again. You just heard them one or two days ago.But quite amazingly, just, you know, they were live streamed, and there were people asking questions from overseas, and one of the photos on the screen there, you know, people were tuning in and asking questions,was of Donald Trump. His image was on the screen,and they were followed by Vladimir Putin. Someone was following my suggestions and having a bit of fun. I love it when people actually have fun, you know, with the Dhamma. They have fun with the Dhamma, not to demean it, but actually just in order to get people's attention so they can investigate deeper. It makes it joyful to go to a temple and listen to a retreat, or be there when it happens.
And that sort of power of people not feeling scared, and one of the old friends which I met over in Melbourne. For those of you who remember, when the first time we did a global conference here in Perth, and one of the people I insisted on inviting over, I think he even paid his F-round and made sure he got stayed in a decent hotel. He was the young man who had an earlier talk in Melbourne that, you know, he had a question time, he said, I'm brown, he said this, I'm not exaggerating, believe it or not. He said, your material at that time was unique and had incredibly good timing when I told jokes, and he was the one who offered me a job in the Melbourne Comedy Club.
I think it was appearing on TV in some sort of comedy show. I did decline, but he became a good friend, and I invited him over to that conference to do a little pop-it show. It makes it a little bit more interesting, and you know, saw his parents over in Melbourne this time, and he's a big advisor on SBS or something right now.
He had a very wonderful time in his life, and his parents said to that meeting, even just coming over to the conference and it changed his whole life.He said it was just being a sensual man, but it just going much deeper into the dumber. And those are the sorts of things which make me feel that all of this travel or whatever I do, and sometimes giving so many talks, some of that good talk, some are not so good talk, some really hit the spot, some of them just missed the mark, but nevertheless, that when you cast all these seeds out broadly, that many of them have incredibly good results. And of course that's my act of giving, and I never listened, that joy of giving. And it was over in Melbourne years ago when one poor woman was dying of cancer,
and so I went to go and see her, and then she offered me some socks, because it's cold over in Victoria.
But you see I never wear socks, even the last time I went to UK, and I had some socks to wear, and I think I put them on after coming out of Heathrow Airport, and then I didn't need them, so I took them off straight away almost.And anyway, I never wear socks these days, so when I went into her room, she announced that she made me some socks. So do I say no, I don't wear socks? Of course I don't. I just received those socks and put them on straight away. But I wasn't really, she was sick with so she wasn't all that aware. So, you know, she was mobile, so anyway, I put them on, and then I did notice that her room was overlooking the car park, where the car which had brought me to this hospital was parked. So noticing that, I never said anything, but just once I got down into the car park to get into the car to go back to the Buenos Aires Victoria place, I kind of did a little dance. I didn't really know if she was looking when I did that, but then I looked up at the end of my little dance, and there she was giggling away.
It was a wonderful little gift of happiness, and wearing something which I don't usually wear, and I would wear for her to make her happy. That's all. For somebody else to be happy. And so that's the sort of thing which you kind of learned. It's not just about you being happy, not your practice. Sometimes the people own their practice as a personal attainment, or a personal just thing which is really important to them in their life. But when it's just so your my practice and my achievements and my attainment, there's something very wrong in all of that, the sense of ownership of something. When real, any practice and depth of practice in Buddhism, it's always your ability to let go, the ability to renounce, your ability just to even be quiet. I still remember that story that this, it was a monk, one of the first monks who came to Bodhinyana monastery. He didn't last, unfortunately, but nevertheless he was a really good friend, a good monk. His name was Jasper. After he described that, at least he came and he did some landscaping work for us.
Very nice guy. But I still remember he went to live over in Victoria. I still remember that he was heterosexual, but then he couldn't really find a part of it because he was so shy. So he went into these little magazines where people advertised. So he said it was the worst thing he'd ever done in his life. I remember saying this, which is sheer pain in his eyes. When he corresponded with somebody, and then eventually he went to see her and he said, oh, that was like going to hell. But anyhow, he still was a very, very good friend. And one of the reasons I tell this story, which I've forgotten now, I'm honest with you, that's, what was it? Oh my goodness. I know I am tired. It's also, please give me a bit of leeway. It's two hours' time difference between here and Melbourne. I've been really, really, really busy. Well, he had some very wonderful stories.
When he was doing that landscaping, one thing which he told me, which checked out was true, that when he turned the corner of Southwest Highway in Kingsbury Drive, one day to come and do some landscaping for us.
He was a lay person at this time. When he turned that corner, he saw there was a dead parrot on the ground. And he also noticed there was another parrot on a branch of a tree just looking at the dead parrot, and not moving, not flying away with the noise of his car turning that corner. And at the end of the day, when he finished working, he went home. And then he saw that same scene, a dead parrot on the ground, and the same parrot just on the branch of a tree just looking down. And he said, for three days, obviously the dead parrot didn't move, but the live parrot just didn't move either. This was always just staring down. And he said that really taught him what grief was, that sometimes even that's with parrots, with birds, with dogs,and with other animals in this world. They looked down upon a deceased partner, and just basically can't move. Anyhow, it's a wonderful time for you to just, I'm still trying to think of the real story I was going to say.
Anyway, oh, no, I've forgotten it. Anyway, just to go back to just the gift of the dama is the greatest of gifts.You see all these, you know, your friends, people you've known for such a long time, and you get this great respect for them. Even if they don't even make it as a monk, eventually they're just well, of course you do anything to try and make it so they can stay in monastic life. But sometimes, you know, I put it down to people's calmer. It's not quite good enough yet to be able to do this. But the gift of the dama is a beautiful thing, and it does mean that you're building up not just, you know, you're good calmer or boon, as they say in Thai. You're building up this inner strength to be able to let go of other things. I just, you know, even, I've always been quite poor in my life. The only time I had any sort of savings, you know, was when I just worked for one year as a school teacher. It's just a basic salary.I remember this, I couldn't believe at the end of the year, that's before I went to Thailand to become a monk, how much I'd saved up. Of course, I just gave it all to my mum, because I didn't need any money over in Thailand.
I always remember some of the stories that's before I became a monk and went over to Thailand. And I just remember the one thing which I did have was a motorbike. That was one of the things I had. And it's quite a good bike. And I remember just what to do with it, because I didn't feel that it would be appropriate for a monk to take his motorbike with him to Thailand. Have you ever ridden on a motorbike as a monk? Once I had to, because we were in a forest in the northeast of Thailand, there was only a way to get to this darn all the roads were out because of some floods.So this guy came and said, you've got to come to a darner today, it's a blessing. And he said, this is the only way we can get there on the back of a motorbike.And I almost fell off many times, not because I couldn't balance on the bike, but because on the robes.
You get a puff of air in your robes and it balloons out. It was really unstable, so please don't ever do that. I did it once and after I refused. I'd walk rather than go on the back of a motorbike. But anyway, I still remember just giving away my motorbike. I always wanted to go to someone who would care for it. And it was just a slave man who's a friend of my mother's. I remember he said, let's have a look. So that's a good bike. And then he said, how much do you want for it? This is one of the reasons even now I'm supposed to be the head monk here, but it's like, honestly, I just kind of appreciate money these days. But it's after I asked somebody else what something's worth.So I said, let's go upstairs in front of my mother to settle up. And when I went upstairs in my mum's apartment, and then he said, he's asked again, how much do you want for it? Well, I said, do you want it? He said, yes. How much?
He says, yours, nothing. There's a few times in my life I've really given something in the world quite valuable away.And I just love doing that. Sometimes you better be, as I get older and older and older, be very careful of me. And one day I'll give body in the under-monastery away to somebody. I said, do you want a monastery? Now, of course that's being legal. But nevertheless, I remember those giving things away. There's an important part of my meditation practice. That's why I was saying this. It's not just a joke or a funny story. That ability to abandon something which was really important to you. And when you do abandon it and you let it go, it brings you so much joy. That memory of giving that motorbike to a friend of my mother.Unfortunately, he died about a year later, not a motorbike crash, but some other illness he had. But he always said that it was the first time that anyone gave him anything for free in his life.Anything really valuable. And I kind of like that idea. It's not about getting things. It's about giving, letting go, renouncing, abandoning, freeing yourself. Of course, it was easy for me to do and didn't need any money.
But nevertheless, it was a beautiful thing to renounce that and feel that freedom. Feel you weren't owned by your possessions. And I often tell you those other stories going in my cave after I've been away for a few days. I was whoever cleaned up my cave for me. Thank you so much. I've been doing a great job. And I looked at what was left in that cave. It's all the things which, it didn't take me long to check out yours all there because I haven't got much there anyway. But nevertheless, a few times have been things missing. And if there are things missing, it brings me joy. Somebody has managed to make use of this instead of me. At that time, I think you all know that I went overseas somewhere. When I came back, it went inside my cave and I came back late, exhausted, so I invested. And when I rested, it just, I woke up in the middle of the night because it was cold. So I went over to get the blanket which was always there and the blanket was gone.
I knew who took it and I don't blame her at all. It was like Burr who took the blanket to auction off, I think, to do the road for the Nance Monastery. Wow, thank you. What a great privilege it was to be cold. So we can have a Nance Monastery or the road to the Nance Monastery. Imagine how much joy that gives you. So this is one of the reasons why when you learn how to let go of things, simple things. And afterwards, you understand what brings you that beautiful joy, that beautiful happiness.Which when you start to meditate, it really starts to show how powerful that letting go is, that we're now seeing, giving up. I know that I did mention this point, ah yes, I remember the Jasper story. There's sometimes, you know, psychologists tell you this, if you want to remember something, stop thinking about it. But I had to remember this quickly because otherwise it would disappear again. With Jasper, the reason he became a Buddhist, you know, the reason eventually led him to becoming a monk, he went to listen to this Buddhist talk in one of the libraries, I think, in Melbourne somewhere.
He is in the years and years ago.And when he went to listen to this talk, it was a Tibetan monk who was giving this talk. But the Tibetan monk hardly said anything. When they introduced him, when he's named and said that he's going to give a Dharma talk, this person stood up in the back of the lecture theatre, of the library,
and started promoting Christianity.He said, you know, this is a bad person in front of us, he's the Buddhist. You should all follow the Lord Jesus or whatever. And people were just very, very polite, and they said, okay, thank you for saying your thing. Now can we please listen to this monk's talk? That's what we've come here for. We've come to listen to you, evangelize us. But he wouldn't shut up. He kept on haranging everybody, and they tried to sort of reason with him and argue back. This was, you know, the supporters. And he wouldn't shut up. They only had to place for one hour.
So eventually they had to just, you know, get hold of him and lead him out of the hall. This evangelist guy. And in the end, just it was only about five minutes for a talk. They had to leave the hall. So he just gave them a quick blessing. And then the talk was over. I remember Jasper telling me that was one of the best talks he'd ever heard.
Not because of the dhamma which was spoken by that monk.
But just for his attitude, he understood what was going on. It wasn't because he didn't know English, and so he didn't know what the heck was going on. He understood what was going on. But it was just so peaceful during that tirade. That's not me. What is that? Oh, what a lot. How the pump, I thought somebody was passing wind. That's a sort of gift which is not welcome. But anyway, he said, just the way of reacting, or rather not reacting, of just maintaining his kindness and his peace, and just allowing these things which he could not stop just to happen.Sometimes one of the best ways we react to any unpleasantness is just making peace with it. Instead of just trying to struggle and to get what we want, or get upset and blame other people when it doesn't work the way we want it to. Of course, in front of my mind right now, I'm a tiny bit hungry today this evening.
And the reason was, is because I had everything organized to have a nice meal when I landed in Perth Airport. I think people like Venom and Ibu tell you are very, very kind and thoughtful. Ask Canon Lynn who are picking me up. Can you please get something for Ajahn Brahm? His flight lands at 1140. And Sola Noon is 1215. So there should be enough time if you get something for Ajahn Brahm, and you can give it to him at the airportso that he comes out of the restricted area. It's a nice plan.But of course, there was turbulence in the skies. There's a big storm today here in Perth. And so my flight was supposed to land at 1140. But it landed about 12 noon. And it took about eight minutes to get out of the flight. And by the time we walked all the way, it was one of the furthest terminals to where you come out. And when I saw Lynn there, she had this beautiful hamburger and chips for me. I could see it. I could smell it. It was 1218, three minutes past Sola Noon. Oh.
But anyway, I just braced and they understood. I've been just so strict on that, that I know I would eat that. But they ate it afterwards apparently. Even though it was cold by the time we got back to Boney and the other one or so, they put it in the microwave and heated it up so I think Canada had a nice lunch. So I see it was very happy with me. So anyway, it acts of kindness and inspiring people, isn't it? It doesn't matter that much. You eat some days, some days you don't, you miss out. That's just, you know, I always keep a, as you all can see, I keep a lot spare inside my tummy. So it's probably good that I missed out. But nevertheless, it's nice to be able just to be able to not be so worried and attached to such things. It's much easier to get into deep meditation. It's just that ability to let go. And that's one of the things which I was focusing on in Melbourne, June, a tiny retreat, which I did after a week. After a week, we never go to get anywhere in our meditation if we're trying to attain things. And our young child always say, we meditate to let go of things, never to attain things, never to get things. So you may have goals in your meditation. Like I had many goals in my meditation. If you haven't heard the story of my first wasak, my first wasak over in London. You know, I heard this talk by Dr. Sadatissa.
Oh, sorry, it wasn't in London, it was in Cambridge. I was only about 18. And when I heard my first wasak talk by Dr. Sadatissa, I was so incredibly inspired, especially when the Buddha said that he sat under the poetry tree and made the resolution, even though my blood dries up and my bones turn to dust, I will not move from this spot unless I get full enlightenment. And I was just so, as I said in the talk over in Melbourne, I was so arrogant as a young man. And I sort of compared one of the Buddha, what type of education did he have? You know, I went to Cambridge and wanted to put a go to him. And I thought, I'm as good as he is. That's the sort of thing you feel when you're that age. So I went straight back to my work. And I made the same resolution. Even though my blood dries up and my bones turn to dust, I'm not going to move from this cushion. I wasn't under a Bodhi tree. Maybe that's one of the reasons why it failed. I was amazed.
I would usually manage 20 to 30 minutes without moving. This time I beat my PB personal best. Even that term personal best, that really just is a stupid term, isn't it?
So I managed 40 minutes. And I was really hurting, really in agony. And that's when I opened my eyes. There certainly wasn't a line. And my blood was still liquid. My bones hadn't gone to dust yet. It taught me just when you want something. You're pulling big obstacles in front of you. If you learn how to let go of things, those things come to you. That's one of the reasons why they're one of my favourite similes. And that must have been it. I made this one up. I don't think you can find this in the suitors or the cometeries. Can you imagine Bumali, you have the donkey and the carrot? Is that an original? I've got to be careful because you know once,I used to tell the simile of the only way to let go of things is to cut off the thing which keeps picking it up. Because I noticed in my life as a monk in the early years, you know, look, I'd given up sensuality.
You know, you'd given up girlfriends and music you liked, given up the food you liked,
and the food you had in North East Tada was disgusting food. I don't even know how I managed to survive on it. I gave up all those things which I liked, but then, you know the thing which I craved for in the first couple of years in Thailand, by being honest with you, we used to have time at magazines. I remember just one day, was after the katina, and we cleaned up, I worked really hard, there were many other monks cleaning up the monastery after the katina ceremony. We'd finished. And I had a cup of tea and a time magazine, they did weekly magazines which I hadn't read yet, and I was sitting in a chair, not on the floor, sitting in a chair in the forest,reading a time magazine and drinking a cup of tea, and I thought, life doesn't get better than this. Honestly, I thought this was the acme of pleasure. What more do you want? Here's a few mosquitoes around biting your bird, doesn't matter. And those old stories, all the same stories, some war with another war, some politicians being corrupt, some film star, just having a affair with somebody else.
It's always the same stories, just the different names of the people or the countries, and that's all. But anyway, I thought that when you let go of some things, you always find something else to attach to. And because of that, I thought, what's going on?Surely I can let go of time magazines, and then somebody seen it to you, would come along and said, oh, can I have a look at that time magazine, please, I jump around? Oh, that's unfair. So you had to give it up. It was really hard to give things up which you liked. It's a time magazine, a stupid thing. But I always worked out the nature of a mind which you think you own, which you think is yours. It's always to hold on to things, to pick things up, to attach. And of course, the simile came really clear. That's the simile of the hand. That's what it does. It picks things up. And I think I've had this particular hand for 72 years. It's picked up on a lot of things in those years. Yeah, you put it down, it's taken away from you, or you dispose of it, but nevertheless, once you've disposed of one thing, you pick up another thing. It's the nature of a hand. You can't stop that. So that's when you started allowing your mind to explore deeper.
And you said, that's the nature of this sense of mind, jitter. It always picks up things.
And the only way, the only way to stop picking up things is to destroy the thing which keeps picking it up. To allow that picker-upper to cease, to cut off the hand. Because that's the nature of a jitter.If it didn't pick up things, it would just die, disappear, finish. It sees. One of its main functions is gone. Without the function, it can't survive.So I thought that was a really neat simile. That's the problem when you think it's a really neat simile. Something happens. When you own it, you're asking for suffering. It wasn't really suffering. What it was was just when I started looking through the sutas, I think it's in the Angutta, how far in the simile of the hand and the foot. What I thought I'd figured out myself. There wasn't sort of suffering, though, when that happened, when I found out that it was a simile which I hadn't read before.No one had taught me before. That one I could sort of convince myself when it's actually the simile of the Buddha. Was that because I was a monk before another life? Quite likely. But nevertheless, there was a nice simile which made so much sense to me.
The other simile which made a lot of sense to me again was the donkey and the carrot simile. It was a beautiful simile because again, you spend so much of your life chasing things. I don't know what you chase, what you want in life. And you know that sometimes you get so close to it. Like, I wish Jayako was here, Vennel Jayako this evening, because he works so hard in making that kitchen, the new kitchen we have. But apparently he couldn't really call it finished. Simply because some people who said they were going to deliver the oven last week, they said no, they can't get it. It's not coming until June 10th or something. They may have the dates wrong, but it's been delayed.And sometimes it's like you're getting really close to finishing. Then something goes wrong.
Well, there's not enough time. There's some problem there. And you can never actually make it perfect. And it's totally out of your control to make it perfect. You may organize all these amazing lunches on your fright from Melbourne back to Perth. And it should work okay. But then there's a storm and the fright gets delayed. And it's not as if you miss that fright totally or you miss the lugs totally. It just lands just a couple of minutes after noon. So you're so close. I don't know why they show me that food. It kind of taught you. Anyway, no ill will there until I can't blame good old Canada. But nevertheless, you see the similar. So what do you do? On another time, the similarly of the donkey and the carrot, there was the time you know that when we used to do the making the die for our robes, the dying shed in this monastery is in Thailand. And that one time, because I know how hard work that was. And that one time when I just spent the night just doing all the work for these people about to become monks. I said, I'll do look after the die pot for you all night. And they just went off and took a rest. They hadn't slept for three days I think, or two days. So they took a rest. And I got so much energy out of that. There was another time. There's another time that I just gone to see another couple of monks who were making the die.
It had to do all night. Because just to keep the good quality of the die had to keep working on it. And I went up there and they said, no, no, it's okay, we can do this. I helped them for a little bit. But then they carried on working. But you were always allowed to have some light tea or coffee there. Because in order to be able to have the energy to do that very sort of hard, continual work. There was only somebody reminded me of this in Melbourne that I went out in a little bit and they said, oh look, they said, no, you've been very kind to us. We'll come to your kouti when the bell goes at three o'clock. That's when we used to get up three o'clock in the morning. And we'll come to your heart and bring you a... No, it wasn't that way. I said, is it okay if I come at three in the morning? And then I can help you a little bit. But really money coming for a cup of coffee. You know, to get a cup of coffee in northeast Thailand, that time of the morning. That's like winning the lottery. That's gold. And so they said, oh yeah, please, please, please come. We won't tell anybody you've helped us. Just come and get a cup of coffee early in the morning. That's three. And I remember just that evening, just when I went to sleep, this is indulgence.
You know, just you don't need a cup of coffee. You're only doing it for the taste. You just want more stuff. It's a sensory desire at your brand. You shouldn't go. So I went for my cup of coffee. I kind of felt guilty about it. I mean, I'm sure many of you bugs know what I felt. Should I do this? No, I shouldn't do this, but I'm doing it anyway. It wasn't against the rules of an eye rules. It was just like against that simplicity of practice. And I remember just going to the dying shed at three o'clock in the morning. I heard the bell just on the way there to the dying shed. So I knew exactly where I was when that bell went. When I got to the dying shed, they'd finished. They'd allpacked up and just gone through a rest. It went faster than they expected, they told me. And I was disappointed. I couldn't get my coffee. There's nobody there.So, never mind. I went to the hall and handed us a very sleepy meditation. But then I remember just when we went on arms round, I saw the novices who were making these ropes. And they asked me, where were you at three o'clock in the morning? I was like, okay, I confess. I was when the bell went, I was walking to the dying shed.
I know what these monks said. Oh, when the bell went, obviously there's only one bell there when at the same time. When the bell went, we were walking to your hut. We went the other way round. There's only two ways to my hut at that time. You know, from the dying shed, I went one way. They went the other way, so we missed each other. If I had been restrained, if I hadn't just followed desires and stopped, the cup of coffee, hot and sweet. We didn't get much nice stuff in those days, honestly. It would have come to me that I would have knocked on my door and said, I jumped around, have a nice cup of coffee, good morning. It never happened. Because I went one way, they went the other way.And it's from experiences like that, you realize,stop wanting things, stop planning things, stop just thinking that I've got to go and get it. I've got to make it happen. I've got to, you know, scream and weedle and just make the conditions. It's much more fun just letting the conditions happen and see what occurs.
Yeah, much more fun that way in meditation. So you don't plan anything. In meditation, you stop. You stop all this stuff of life, you know, how we live our life on the outside, you know, before you were a monk. All those things which people kind of treat, teach you how to be successful. You've got to have a strong sense of ego, a strong sense, I can do this. A strong sense that's working out, how this can be done.
And instead of doing that, maybe it's just because I'm old now, you can sit down and wait for things to happen. And they do. That's one of the beautiful things about that is the simile of the carrot and the donkey. When the donkey stops running after the carrot, and then the momentum, all that struggle and striving you've been doing for so many lifetimes. The carrot has momentum. It starts swinging further away from you. So many people complain about that. I jump around, I tried letting go. I tried stopping.
But does my mind get even more crazy? It's not your mind. It's this mind thing. When you understand it's not yours, you're not special. You don't know anything. You're not sort of different. What happens is the object of the mind, the carrot, starts coming towards you. That's an amazing thing. If you've been struggling and striving and working hard and trying to get things, trying to get deep meditations, you hear all these other people talk about things like jhanas and environment and stuff. That's what I want. I've come all the way to Bodhinyana monastery. I'm a novice. I'm a monk now.
This is it. Why else come here? I could be doing so many other things in life. No, it has to be the jhanas. Maybe a few psychic powers.
What would you like? I know some of you have birthdays. What would you like for your birthday? Second jhana? Can I put that in the box for you and hand it to you? It would be wonderful if you could, wouldn't it? Of course that's totally missing the points. It's not about you attaining it. It's you learning how to let go enough, that it comes. All by itself. The carrot swings away. Peace, bliss, five senses vanishing. Look even further away than normal. Then amazing things start watching these things come towards you. First of all, it doesn't make any sense. What the heck's going on? Then after a while you just let it happen. Beautiful states of meditation. Much better than you can ever imagine an experience. You don't do it. If you're doing enough already, you're here. So stop for the breaks. Let these amazing things come all to you. That's why they say they're Buddha, air-simile and aircraft. You see, whether in business class or economy class, or just, I don't know, you haven't even got a seat behind you in the toilet. All these things just come to you. Somebody knocks it, gets to your seat and said, Oh, I jumped my money. Special offer on Singapore Airlines on this flight. First Jana, second Jana, third Jana, fourth Jana. Which would you like today?
One after the other. Singapore Airlines is a good airline, you know. I can't tell silly jokes. Actually, I can. I shouldn't. So anyway, that's learning how to never judge yourself. Never think, oh, I can't do meditation. I have no success at all. I am hopeless.
If you say things like that, well done. Stop trying. Give up. Stop. Let go. Re-announced. Keep your robes on. Re-announced. When you're announced, the right things is to see all these carrots start coming into your mouth. Honestly, I'm not fat because I eat too many sausages. I just have to be happy. I'm going to get too many carrots. I think I better quit when I'm ahead.
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