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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there's |
0:02.0 | Thanks for joining me. My name is Josh and this is Darmapunks New York |
0:08.0 | There's going to be a half day workshop in person on Sunday, February 5th from 2 to 5 PM. If you go to center yoga |
0:17.7 | com I believe that'll be there and you can sign up. If you'd like to support my work, |
0:27.8 | everything I do is offered by donation only. As a Buddhist Buddhist pastor I follow the 2,500 year old Buddhist practice of |
0:40.8 | doing everything by donation. |
0:42.7 | So the PayPal is on the website. |
0:46.8 | The Venmo is Darmapunks with an ex NYC, |
0:49.8 | and Patreon. So that's about it. |
0:54.0 | Tonight we're going to be talking about setting some radical Buddhist intentions for the new year. |
1:01.0 | Looking at what's called the Buddhist precepts and refuges in the context of their profound context. |
1:20.6 | So I'd like to start by bringing to mind one of my favorite speeches by David Foster Wallace, the American author who in 2005 gave a commencement speech at |
1:38.8 | Canyon College and he started off his exceedingly eloquent |
1:49.7 | portrayal of our self-individualistic society by bringing to mind a parable of two young fish swimming along in the ocean and they |
2:06.2 | happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods and says, |
2:13.0 | morning boys, how's the water? |
2:15.0 | And the two young fish swim on for a bed |
2:20.0 | and then one of them looks at the other |
2:22.0 | and goes, |
2:24.0 | what the hell is water? |
2:26.8 | Now, Wallace then says that the point of that story is that very often the most obvious important |
2:38.9 | realities that influence us the most are the ones that are hardest to see and acknowledge. |
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