The Horse is Technology | Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma Talk
today is a the 10th of November 2013 and we are in the Stillwater meditation of the upper Hamlet and the retreat will start in five days and many brothers and sisters are coming in the next few days to get ready to to begin the winter retreat the winter retreat is the most beautiful retreating problems because it lasted 90 90 days and we can go deep in the teaching and have plenty of time to build a Brotherhood Sisterhood and transform ourselves and during this winter we will learn about applied foreign Buddhist psychology and we translate vishnati Matra as anubio a manifestation only there's no birth no death no only manifestation there is no creation no destruction this is there is only manifestation after manifestation manifestation from consciousness and the teaching has to be understood in such a way that we can apply it to the our daily life like applied psychology and great ordination ceremony the next year will be corner camlobe then the taste of Amrita Jaden camera begin on the 23rd of May and those who come for the great ordination ceremony Taste of Africa they will have a chance to stay on and participate in the 21 Day retreat and during this winter retreat when the retreat you have the time to set line sidelines on our brothers and sisters you are going to receive the lamp and to receive for ordination and some it will be a lot of Joy doing so Amrita is Amrita is the nectar of yes the taste is very sweet it's like a honey and Amrita is the nectar of immortality and that is a what we experience when you touch the nature of your birth and all that the amitabhuda has three names because name is voluntar the second name is and the third name is unlimited light infinite light infinite uh lifespan and the king of Amrita Amita Buddha for the Sun as the name of the king of immortality and the 21 Day Retreat we have the team what happened when when you die very appealing appearing object of study and meditation what happened when you die what happened when you do not die and during the the this winter rated we have a pretty taste with a taste of that territory tonsil s during this winter retreat we should stay in a compound of Plum Village in a sign again we do not have the permission to go out even with the internet so during this winter retreat there is no there will be no individual email address no one inheritage will have a user a personal email or emails will come through one address only and if you have a male they will deliver to you the office you'll deliver to you so you have the time to practice you do not have to shake your mailbox no personal email address no Facebook absolutely no Facebook has somebody on Facebook but after that he found it is not to have water so he stopped very quick and they asked him are you sure and they leave us 20 days to reverse to make to reverse versus the decision if that internet you don't reverse your decision and then there you go take it off that we should not use Facebook is not a good he was not evil but according to the way we do it is do is bring us more more negative things than positive and we lose a lot of time you are looking for something outside of us yeah belong to something new and things like that and you do not have the time to go back to ourselves and take care so that will be absolutely no Facebook during this Reddit and then if you have things like ipot eye touch I tablet and anything that is not the Dharma you have to throw it out including films and and musics that I'm if there is anything that is not a Dharma you have to sort out and if you have a computer you should put it bring your computer to the office you need to work with your computer you go to the office work with the other brothers and sisters type of cow has made it to uh in Facebook to to see what happened with the with uh the providers also assisted who who have something in Facebook and he saw that there is a there are negative things like a brother wearing a dark glass open his mouth and eat things no five men at all and the most beautiful and largest meditation or probably Indian is in the love Hamlet so I wish that during this retreatitude we will be able to use that actually for New Year Christmas and so and this wish is that the sisters of the low Hamlet will host one day on one day every week so that they don't have to walk up to the apartment twice a week and they can receive a number of guests otherwise there will not be enough life in the low Hamlet and the mayor said no that's his uh his duty is staying no but our Oddity is to suggest to to visitors and we can use the nectar the monitor for dining room you can move other things inside to the basement of of Crystal sunshine and the brothers and apartment may come down and help you so I have a very joyful winter retreat in the lower Hamlet the other day I talk a little bit about the day he spent with Google that is that it was on the 23rd of October and we begin the day with uh breakfast with the Google is and then we gave the three the three groups because we cannot come together as one group because they have three locations path for mixtures by two kilometers so that is in one group and there is a talk is seen and heard in the other groups at the same time and after at each location the um there were monastics sitting working with them so we begin with uh breakfast we were about 8 60 Mona sticks and these are three places are called the three satellite locations um at eight 30 we have instructions on walking meditation he had a very nice work invitation and the people in the Google complex you call it Googleplex they did work in meditation very seriously and at one point we sit down the time for Thai to invite the small bell three times and have a cup of tea and are those who came late they saw that they sound very calm was here is very rare and this these instructions on walking meditation will stream within Google [Applause] and then [Music] Google deliver a welcome speech and they talk and after that there's a session of questions and answers and beginning the thought they give a guided meditation uh that was that was used the next day when they had the primary session uh worldwide then they were ripped Exchange and there will be there 12 o'clock there was instructions just how to eat mindfully and they came after that they came and ate with the whole the whole crowd at 1 45 there was a section of total relaxation that passes I think and at 3 o'clock they meet with the senior who will Executives including the number of of Engineers and brothers and sisters we had a very long and deep discussion as how to to make good use of technology in sufferness before he went to Google brother Papa young Brothers and describe about the situation and the need of Google and there are there were a number of questions that they they wanted to address how can we innovate in order to take good care of ourselves because the title they wanted to talk about is a intention inside and innovation this is and they are very interested in knowing the interplay between intention inside and innovation not only in terms of work but also in all aspects of life the basic question is how technology become a Force for integration rather than destruction because so far it is a force of Destruction it's it's uh pulling us away so how can technology become a force of integration rather than destruction how can we innovate in order to take good care of ourselves how can innovate in order to take good care okay off ourselves second to take care of the health of our Workforce Force and to take care of Mother Earth foreign Enlightenment in the question they see the negative aspect of Technology they are not capable of giving up technology they are somehow indicted to technology so they ask the question is how can free use technology in under to take care of ourselves to take care of the health of our workplace and all the employees because the fact is that they found out in the last few years that emotional health is decreasing and this stress is increasing in the Google work Workforce emotional emotional health is the stress is increasing and that they have noticed that they want some kind of teaching and practice in order to deal with that situation and that is not only in Google but you know meaning not to say not all Capri Corporation given the height rate of burnout because the burnout is a reality everyone is burned out even the high rate of Bubba of burnout is there a way is there a way foreign as a corporation and assist s employees to create a better work life balance because that's too much work there's no time to leave online and that is a good question not only for Google but for us also it seems that the work is taking over and and we are losing our life we are not we do not have the time to live our life we only have the time to do our work and that is not worth it this problem of civilization that is our civilization because many who Google us have a hard time detaching from work they are addicted to their work and it can take over their lives maybe each of us can feel that also in our life you have been taken over by our work and they do not have had any capacity to live our life deeply life is a gift and you are not able to enjoy to make the best of that gift to us Google Executives have sent out annual survey to all their Workforce it covers a number of different areas but they have all noticed that over the past few years emotional health is decreasing and this stress is increasing perhaps strangely there is an eagerness to find a technological facility solution through technology addiction there is a disease sickness called technology addiction and yet you want to use technology to heal and we heal dark with duck can we heal dark addiction with duck can we hear anger with anger and heal violence with violence that is the contradiction so that is the suffering that is the first Noble Truth not only for Buddhists but hey everyone suffering the ear being is there you have to look at it you have to contemplate the first Noble Truth you'll be technology is destructive technology is taking our time away we do not have the time to take care of ourselves our families and nature they are going in a wrong direction civilization so this is a good question this is the beginning of a kind of Awakening you recognize that you'll be and you want to transformed will be there you'll be and you are looking for the way the path to heal that you'll be that is the fourth Noble group in the past the Noble Path leading to the transformation of your being it looks like you are losing our control like you are you are applying an airplane and you lose the control or you are you are driving a a train and suddenly you find that you cannot you are driving a car and there is a Zen story about this the person there is a person who sit on a horse they're looking very quickly and I don't want Crossroad one friend of his shouted where are you going and the man said I don't know you asked the horse and that is our situation the horse is a technology it carries us we cannot control technology anymore that is our situation so you have to begin to it's uh intention asking ourselves what do we want what do you want the slogan The Unofficial slogan of Google is don't be evil you can make money without being evil and is that practical is it possible can you make a lot of money without being evil and that's what they try to do but so far not very successful you want to be wealthy you can you want to be number one and that cost you your life because you are carried away by the work you do not have the time to take care of yourself you don't have the time to create joy and happiness for yourself you do not have the time to take care of your beloved ones in the family because when you do not have the time for yourself when you do not know how to take care of yourself how can you you can take care of people you love so technology is is is making us alienated from ourselves from our family and also from nature because Nature has the power to heal and to nourish and you spend so much time with your computer with your um search for informations and foreign looking for feelings to forget your real problem so the fact is that we are running away from ourselves from our family from our mother earth and that means that we go civilization is going in a wrong direction even if you don't kill anyone if you don't drop anyone but by making money you do not have the time to take care of yourself you lose your all your your real life and you are you are you don't have the time to take care of your family and of nature it means you are doing something not not good even if you don't kill anyone if you don't drop anyone from anything making money like that costing you your life your happiness the life happiness of your beloved and the life of nature mother so that is evil making money is evil but is there any other way to make money without being evil you know that somehow you are you are participating in making suffering people have suffering within themselves they have loneliness they have their spare they have anger they have fear and most of people are afraid of going home to take care of themselves because they think that maybe they will be overwhelmed by the suffering inside so most of us try to cover up the suffering Inside by consuming we are trying to run away from ourselves in order not to have to confront the suffering with you and technology is helping us to do so so technology is evil the horse is supposed to carry us to a good destination the train also the plane also and Technology also but it is not doing Network and we are not in control and technology so far has helped us to run away from ourselves at the cost of our own life and happiness the life happiness of our beloved one and the beauty of Mother Earth so you cannot say that you are not evil why realizing your dream of being wealthy and sacrifice your life to sacrifice the happiness of your beloved one and you make glucose number is too much you do not have the chance to be nourished and and healed by her so it's not so easy not to be evil but if technology can help you to go home to yourself and take care of your anger take care of your despair take care of your loneliness if technology help you to create a joyful feeling have Happy Feeling for yourself and for our beloved one it's good you go in a good way you can make good use of Technology and maybe when you are happy when you have the time for yourself in your beloved one and then maybe can be more successful in the business you can make more money they were really happy and you have a good emotional health is you can reduce the amount of stress and the spare within yourself so during the talk I try to speak about the four nutriments you know that in in Buddhist psychology there are five Universal mental formations contact Suk attention feelings car perception go volition foreign these are called mental formations and they are always there at any moment expressing themselves in our in our consciousness so the first one is contact the last one is to and these two mental formations are considered to be to be food to be nutrient took they have a super and you have is is the kind of food you consume not with our mouth the food we consume with our mouth is called edible food and this is a sensory impressions and that is the kind of food and those of us who want to consume in order to forget the suffering in US you can use technology we want to consume we consume not because we need to consume we consume with the purpose to to forget why why the suffering inside of us like when we are lonely fearful there you go and search for something to eat in a refrigerator we are looking for something to eat how to drink not because we need the food we need a drink but we are doing that because we want to forget for some time the suffering in US so many people are addicted to eating and become fat and suffer of many kind of disease just because we are looking for food or consumption in order to forget our our suffering and that is edible food but the food here is sensory Impressions we want to have a sensation or we pick up a book we read and expecting to have a sensation we go to the internet we look for pictures and songs and musics to have we kind of feeling kind of Sensations and the purpose is just to run away from ourselves to avoid ourselves or to cover up the suffering in us that is uh that is the second source of Netherlands talk about by the Buddha sensory impressions when you listen to me the music when to when you read the book when you pick up a newspaper to read not exactly because you need these these things you do that like a machine because you are used to doing that they do it in another term not to have the chance to encounter yourself you are afraid of going home to yourself thank you that is true to many of us we are afraid of going home to ourselves because we don't know how to handle the suffering inside of us that is why we are looking for sensory impressions in order to consume and Technology to the internet is helping us to do so so many young people are doing that a teenager confess to us in a routine that he spent at least eight hours with electric electronic gains and he cannot abandon that in the beginning he was looking for games in another four yet now he's addicted to it because in real life he does not feel not feel any love any understanding anything like that in family in the school in society so many young people are trying to fill up the loneliness and The Emptiness inside my looking for impressions sensory Impressions that is that is second source of natural treatment now as a Buddhist monk our Buddhist men are we doing the same if the people young people in the world they are doing so they are running away from themselves are looking for sensory impression to forget that suffering how a monastics supposed to do the same if you go to the internet and download a film and the sound to enjoy you are doing the same they have to do the burden the way they put a prescribed you to do go going home to yourself without fear breathe and walk to generate energy of mindfulness and concentration and insight and go home and take care of the loneliness inside of a suffering inside you do not have the time to go and look for sensory impression sense impressions to fill up the rules the vacuum in US if you do like we do like that we are not really a monastic we are doing exactly what the people in the world they are doing trying to cover up the loneliness your suffering inside that is why it is winterity you have to to practice it with our own responsibility because not because they tell us to do it that we do it but you do it because there is an Enlightenment there is an Awakening that you want to do it to do differently than the people in the world in order to help people in the world if we are doing exactly like the people in the world and then we cannot happen you have to learn to go home to ourselves and take care of the suffering inside and get the peace the joy that we need so that we can help people that is why I know no email address no internet no Facebook is not something that make you suffer but but it kind of practice that help you to become a real practitioner and if you do it if you are awake if you wake up to that kind of cruise and you will do it with joy and not not like people try to deprive you of a Facebook of a email address and things like that because there are many people who check them email several times a day and find nothing new because you are empty inside you are looking for something new with something new nothing new in the world except suffering and you have to be able to generate something really new uh a feeling of drive a feeling of happiness and that is possible with the practice of mindfulness foreign [Music] have met and discussed about this method and I don't know whether the damages another 100 down the same to prepare ourselves for for the winter Richard and we will advise only practitioners to come with us to join us in the practice and if we tell them why they will understand they will be happy to join us in the practice because in the winterity you have to stay in the compound of the Heat and then it should not go out even with the technology so contact this this is a source of food and then you know that also violation is another source of food volition is intention what do you want to do with your life you have a life you are given a life to live and what do you want to do with your life then there's a question of course you have the right to look for matter your comfort and effective comforts but that's not really the deepest desire of your life you want to do something really something with your life not just looking for material and effective comfort ing your Comforts affect your concert is a daily concern but do you have any ultimate concern anything that is more long-lasting more meaningful the meaning of your life and that is the fifth the fourth the fourth element of of food that is a tremendous source of energy if your violation is only to make money to become number one Corporation that's not enough because there are those who have a lot of money a lot of power and yet they are not happy they feel quite lonely they don't have time to live their life nobody understands them they all don't understand anyone happiness is not there because there is no understanding and love so your volition is not to have a lot of money to have social recognition to have a lot of power what you really like you want it maybe something more maybe you want to reverse the direction of civilization you want to help people to go back to themselves in order to take care of themselves you want to help people to know how to handle the suffering in them how to heal how to transform how to generate joy and happiness how to live deeply every moment of their life so that they can help their beloved one to do the same and help the Earth to restore her beauty and that is a good social media that is a good desire a good news and as a corporate leader if you put into yourself that kind that kind of energy very strong that is the first item that you wanted to speak about the intention the motivation behind that push us to do what we are doing the Buddha has a strong desire he desire to transform himself to have a lot of freedom and in order to help people to suffer less that is a good design that is good food and animated by that kind of energy we spent 49 45 years teaching and have all kinds of people he had a very strong energy so those of us who have a good source of nutrients concerning pollution is can be a very happy person and that is why only wishing to have a lot of money and fame and Power is not good food to generate understanding and compassion to be truly happy and to be able to help many people that is good volition good intention and if a corporate leader has that kind of body data and then he can reverse the trend of us now he can be himself he can control the horse he can control the plane and he can make good use of the technology thank you with a knife you can you can you can do the cooking you can chop vegetable you can peel potatoes carrots and so on so soy so the knife is helpful but with the night terrorists can kill people so technology is like that but you have compassion in your in yourself especially when you if you have the Insight in yourself and then you can come up with Innovations that can you uh make good use of technology in order to to help yourself and help people going home to themselves take taking care of themselves taking care of of their beloved ones so I spent time to talk about the four nutrients edible food sense impressions hmm audition and Consciousness Consciousness as a food a source of food because your your individual consciousness is also a source of food there are many good things in your consciousness thank you have the capacity to love to forgive to understand to be compassionate and if you know how to how to cultivate these elements within your Consciousness you have root food you have a seat of compassion any one of us has a seat of compassion and if you know how to water the seed of compassion every day the seat of compassion can grow every day and Every Time We Touch the seat of combustion become becoming mental formation and with compassion you don't suffer anymore and that is good food but confession compassion is the only fruitful you have you have to have the seed of joy of happiness of tenderness of forgiveness of non-discrimination many good things in yourself and you have to learn the way to cultivate more of these elements so that you have good food to nourish you and make the people you love happy and in you is also there are also negative seats like a seat of anger is it of Despair is it of loneliness if you consume in such a way that water all these negative seed when you read the newspaper when you play any electronic game and you have a conversation you may water the seed of anger despair jealousy in you and you are cultivating the kind of food that is not healthy to yourself because when they manifest in you as the energy of anger and fear you are consuming your own consciousness that's not good food you're like a gardener in a garden you cultivate the good things for your kitchen and there are poison poisonous thing you don't cultivate you can cultivate that we know that there are blend that can make us sick like a poison oak and so on and you consume it will suffer so that is true with anger despair violence discrimination these are not good food but all of us have the seat of these negative things in US and the collective Consciousness is also food there are neighborhoods that are full of violence fear of anger and despair and if you happen to live in that neighborhood you consume the collective energy of anger you don't want to be angry and fearful and violent like them but if you continue to to stay there for a few years you consume that kind of collective energy of anger and feeling Despair and violence and you become like them that is not good food so Consciousness is food when you come to a retreat you see hundreds of people who know how to breathe how to concentrate how to release tension how to generic compassion they generate a very powerful Collective of mindfulness compassion and you consume you feel the peace you feel the joy of your Brotherhood and your consume that is good food Collective energy can be quality of Consciousness can be good good food all can be poisons and therefore that detriment is very important but in Google we speak more about volition because Evolution respond to the inquiry about about intention so any corporate leader should have a desire should have a volition should have a motivation and we have to examine that the desire to do what desire to have money to have power to have a lot of central pleasure or the desire to help people to suffer less and if you have that kind of root and good food good nutrients and then you become a happy person and with the happy and you can be a good leader because you know how to how to lead your cooperation cooperation recovery leader can learn to go home to himself first to listen to his suffering to understand his own suffering to have compassion for himself to take care of himself and after he is able to to do that he can help people in his family to do that his family will be his support and then he will bring that practice to so here's a corporation he will try to help his associate to do the same and they will practice helping all employees in the workforce to do the same helping them to go home and take care of themselves and their families they come to your cooperation not only to get a job to have a job and to make some money you can Inspire them to have that kind of evolution that kind of intention that kind of be no way motivation you give them the third nutrients very Inspire them dear dear friend you come here not just because to have a job and to nourish your family to feed your family you come here to join us in helping people to suffer less it was uh we work in such a way to help people to work to to go back to themselves and take care of themselves and in order to do that you have to do it for ourselves so our brothers have proposed to Facebook and Google to create a character website where people can come and learn how to breathe how to walk how to handle a strong emotion how to generate the feeling of joy and happiness yourself and for other people and Facebook has how has a broadcast to our brothers and sisters to help with that and if Google has a Google mindfulness and then all the all the employees of Google and go there and learn how to take care of themselves and to take care of their families before they can do things to help you know to help the people and they will have that kind of insight as what kind of of Gadget a kind of device electronic Gadget device that can help us to to go into Direction suppose you talk to your smartphone dear friend I suffer whatever you do and yeah the first thing you have to do is to breathe in mindfully and go back to yourself do you want to listen to the advice of a good teacher here you can hear his voice our voice and the electric device can tell you dear friend you are not in the future situation to do something for me you have anger in you you have to go home and to take care of your it's like a when you drive a car and if you are sleeping you are dozing in the car is very dangerous situation and there is some kind of sensor that detect that I will invite the Bell to sound and you say dear friend you are sleeping wake up it's dangerous to drive like that so that is practice of mindfulness and the electric device is that you let you let you invent can do that kind of work I reminder I remind him I can sell him I return him to yourself so you spend two hours discussing with Google Executives and and engineers to discuss about the way to to make good use of technology in order to help people to stand many functions new functions that they can put in in the new telephone to help like uh male mindfulness the Bible mindfulness every quarter of an hour so that you remember to go back to yourself and to take care of yourself like in plum leaves every time you hear the Bell you stop the thinking you stop the talking they stop our action you go back to ourselves bringing our mind back to our body and get it inside that ah you're alive we are present sitting working on this planet how wonderful so do you enjoy breaking in and out three times in mindfulness in order to celebrate the fact that you are still alive sitting walking on this beautiful planet well mindfulness and when you are confused when you are angry you can talk to your phone and your phone can can remind you what to do and what not to do and all that technology tend to answer there was a young engineer he looked very bright he said but uh but if we do these things he is like we are imposing on them what they don't need and I said the ground there are units and the need they are not true like like when you look for something to eat it's not exactly because you are hungry but eating like that in is is only to forget for some time the suffering in yourself so that is not real neat but if you are you are trying to to afford to satisfy these kind of needs you are not helping them you are trying to give them the kind of sense impression that they need in order to cover up their suffering that is not helping them but they have real need like going home to themselves and take care of themselves going home to their families and take care of their family their families that are real needs and that is why you have to help people knowing what is their real what are the their real needs and their their needs that are not real so that the discussion went in that direction intention inside and innovation and I think we have planted a lot of woods it's in the mind of this Google is and let us see what will come after after a few months this is a kind of do holistic thinking work is one thing and life is another thing when you parked after you have parked your car in a parking lot and begin to walk to your office you can choose between mindful walking or walking quickly in order to arrive in the office you had to walk anyway but if you know how to walk then from the parking lot to the office every step can bring you joy and happiness you can release the tension in your body with every step you can touch the wonders of life with everything and walking is a pleasure otherwise working is a labor on the one hand you see walking as life and on the other hand you see working as working as a labor when you wash the dishes after lunch depends on the way of washing dishes that washing dishes is work our life there's a way to wash dishes that help you to enjoy every minute every moment of this washing so washing dishes is not work it is like if you want to know how to wash your dishes read my book the miracle of mindfulness and that book is to tell you how to wash your dishes so when you mop the floor when you cook your breakfast and if you know how to do it in mindfulness and then that is life when you drive your car also when you receive a guest also when a doctor receives a patient that is work but with compassion the joy you can transform uh the meeting between you the doctor and the patient into a beautiful relationship and that is life so life and work are not two different things they can be the same thing when he does calligraphy he he practiced that um with a brush they hold a brush and they begin to draw half a circle mindfully and he briefly and beginning every session of calligraphy he he always makes some tea with the Chinese ink and there is always nothing in the ink the D is uh was invented by monastics in the Zen tradition because they they have found out that drinking that kind of leaf you are more awake in order to do sitting meditation so tea and meditation has have been together for a long time many thousand years so to begin each session of calligraphy practice with a cup of tea and then leave something in number two mix with the ink and when he draw half a circle he has his impressive join at the same time so mindfulness is that and then when he draw the the second half of the circle he breathe out so there is a breathing in a circle there is mindfulness in circle from time to time he invite his own picture to do the circle together because in this hand there is the hand of the mother of the father of the ancestor of the teacher of the Buddha he was doing doing the Circle in mindfulness so there must be the hand of Buddha in his hand so during that kind that that practice of drawing the circle there's a mindfulness there is concentration the inside that this inside is made not by itself but by a collective community of cells the Buddha is there and and help with making the cycle in mindfulness and so on so if you you say that he is working hard you are not right [ __ ] enjoy mechanic Circle and that is also his life and his practice meditation working practicing become one in in the monastic life of privilege we do four things in our daily life first of all you have to learn to study study the llama and then we have to practice the Dharma and you have to work cleaning cooking organizing a retreat is work and then playing having tea with each others playing basketball and things like that so four aspects of monastic life you do not enjoy only the time of playing because the time of playing is not just playing you learn a lot because that is time when you have a chance to build bloodhood Sisterhood cultivate more health you learn you practice we play in such a way that we can cultivate Brotherhood Sisterhood enjoy and that is the practice that is the learning so in the playing there is the studying the practice and the work and we learn in such a way that there must be Joy like many play and when you practice you do the same we do working meditation in such a way that is joy and sitting meditation also you don't have to suffer when you practice sitting meditation you don't have to suffer when you do walking meditation you can do it as if play again it can be very joyful that sitting together and doing nothing it may be wonderful to do working together drawing you don't have to suffer during the practice that's not a good practice if you suffer during the time you practice listen to a Dharma talk also there must be Joy allowing yourself allow this good seats in you to be watered by the Dharma attack and walking also why we organize a retreat a day of mindfulness when we prepare to welcome our friends to come and practice with us we do it with compassion we have a chance to serve and that is to give us a lot of joy and when we lead related we organize it with it that's not working that is practicing because when people come and practice we practice with them so they absolutely there is absolutely no distinction between work and life farewell yeah because when we organized the Heritage for people to practice we have a chance to practice also so there is no distinction between working and living and so that is the meaning of monastic life before aspects of their life learning practicing working and playing these four each of the four has the three others inside and as a lay practitioner you can do the same one example they have already given driving the car parking the car and walking to the workplace instead of trying to run to the office you enjoy walking and when you do the work you do in such a way that life is possible you enjoy what you are doing when if you are a psychotherapist and you are if you ask sin that's not just for work working to get some money that is to build relationship that's to express your compassion that's to help people so you don't see the time you spend with your patient at work whereas live and that is why you have tension that do understand thinking about work and life and that is to be trained we have to train ourselves in order to do our work in such a way that every moment of work is a moment of life
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