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you are somebody who practices of a
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partner does that help you get closer to
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the force is that where you get closer
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to the force I practice the personal
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meditation to see reality more clearly
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to be able to see what is reality what
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is really happening right here right now
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I'm not doing this any kind of religious
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exercise to get in touch with this force
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or that force with this story or that
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story it's really for me then the least
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dogmatic thing I ever encountered in
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life is the personal meditation it just
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tells you just observe what is really
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happening right now as it is without
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trying to impose any story on it without
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trying to change it in any way when I
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remember the first time I went to a
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course and the first instruction I got
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from the teacher was observe your breath
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not observe God not observe the soul
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just observe your breath coming in and
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out of your nostrils and just accept the
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breath whatever it is if it's strong if
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it's weak if it comes from this nostril
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oh that not it doesn't matter just
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observe the reality as it is and what
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amazed me was that I couldn't do it for
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more than ten seconds immediately the
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mind ran away to some story some fantasy
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some memory if I can't observe the
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reality of my own breath for 10 seconds
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how can I hope to observe the reality of
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the global political system of the
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global economic system that's exactly
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the question so I try I try to do both
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I've been practicing for 18 years now
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and it's been very well I don't know
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more than 10 seconds no more than 10
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seconds a try sometimes I succeed I this
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year I went to a 60 days course
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I think CDs 60 days I didn't stay
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focused for 60 days of course the mind
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keeps running away but keep trying and I
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don't think I could have written any of
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my books without the help of of the
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focus and the discipline the endure and
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their clarity that this kind of
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meditation gives so when you're deep in
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meditation I'm dying to ask this
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question and we have quite a lot of
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people from Bollywood here today so
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they've obviously seen some of these
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films does everything start looking like
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in algorithms and codes like in matrix
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you have a pain in the stomach and your
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knee hurts and then the mind runs away
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to some memory and this is how you get
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to know yourself I think I think many
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people make a mistake about meditation
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that they think meditation is a tool to
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get all kinds of special experiences
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like I go to an amusement park and this
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is another kind of amusement park I'll
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use meditation to have all kinds of
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special experiences and actually I think
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the most important benefit of meditation
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is to get to know the most ordinary
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daily natural patterns of your mind and
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of your body to get to know your anger
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your pain your joy your your boredom
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because this is what you have to deal
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with a lot in life if meditation is a
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kind of vacation like for a couple of
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days I have these spiritual experiences
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but then for most of the year I still
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have to deal with my anger and my
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boredom it didn't really help me is this
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the purpose of life is this the purpose
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of life as you see it well I think that
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the key to a good life is to be able to
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observe reality as it is
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- really under what what is the truth
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about myself and about the world without
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running away - all kinds of fantasies
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and stories and fictions
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and I think if you can observe to some
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degree reality as it is you're not just
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you won't just be a much better person
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but you'll probably be a much more
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peaceful and happy person because the
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deep source of so much of our personal
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and collective problems is in the
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fantasies that we create and then we
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mistake them from reality for reality
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and then we try to impose them on
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reality and we get extremely upset when
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it doesn't work when reality doesn't
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conform to our favorite fantasy but it's
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also part of the paradox because what
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you're saying is sit quietly in
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meditation go in and then we have all
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this technology constantly calling out
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to us I mean everyone here I'm sure
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would agree with me that if your phone
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is away from you for five minutes you're
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like where's my phone where's my phone
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where's my phone you're checking your
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phone exam it's also observed that when
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what's happening to you when you are
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away from your phone what's happening in
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your body you will see that there are a
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lot of unpleasant sensations in your
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body at the time what's happening in
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your mind
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this is how you get to know yourself you
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get to know yourself not by observing
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some blissful metaphysical mystical
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experience you get to know yourself by
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observing what happens to me when when
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the phone is away and once you witness
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how much misery
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I am inflicting on myself by my own
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habits this can help you in changing
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these harmful habits
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so one of the things you've said before
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is that suffering is a sign of
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consciousness if something suffers then
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it's real and it's conscious then is our
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purpose to suffer happy
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certainly not I'm not saying that we are
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here to suffer we try to be we can
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liberate ourselves from suffering what I
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said in in some of what I wrote is that
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the best test to know whether an entity
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is real or whether it's a fiction
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invented by politicians and then
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religious leaders and so forth is to ask
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can this entity suffer a nation for
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example is just a human creation it's a
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fictional story created by humans how do
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you know just ask yourself can a nation
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suffer if you lose a wall does the
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nation suffer no the nation has no mind
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no feelings no sensations soldiers who
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die in war they suffer civilians who
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lose their house although loved ones in
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war they suffer animals can suffer but a
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nation cannot suffer it's just a story
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we created so this is the idea of the
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test of suffering is a test to know
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whether something is real or not
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similarly I don't know if you have some
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temple and somebody destroys the temple
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the temple doesn't suffer only people
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suffer the people who care about this
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temple when they hear that it is
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destroyed they have a very unpleasant
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sensation in the body they have very
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unpleasant emotions in the mind they
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suffer but the temple it's just you know
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stones and bricks and wood and so forth
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but it represents a certain amount of
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emotions now there in Israel
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which is connected to everything we have
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a temple here as well which is kind of
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connected to everything so yeah but we
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invest the tempo with importance we
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suffer when the temple is destroyed we
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rejoice when the temple is built it's
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really about us not about the temple and
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I would say also to people in Israel who
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care very much about the temple but the
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deep purpose of a place like a temple is
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to bring peace and harmony to the world
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to make people I go to a temple to
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experience peace and harmony now if a
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temple brings violence and disharmony to
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the world it's a broken temple what do
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you need it for thank you12964
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