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If you go to
a Zen center to practice. They teach you the proper posture to sit very straight
and hold the move drove your hands… A circle that holds the world and then very
often at the beginning of the sitting you take the bodhisattva valves which begin
sentient beings are numberless. I vowed to save them all and whole series like
that, which is a beautiful thing to do except it's a little bit confusing because they
even after you take such a value may notice that the members of your family
don't want to be saved by you. I so it has to have some other meaning, then
going around and saving anything deeper meaning it's really some mystery to
understand is an invitation to set the compass of your heart in a particular
direction that says even if the sound arises in the West and the world turns in
unexpected ways. You have made sacred intention of our set a direction that I
intend to bring whatever it is compassion or kindness or awakening or whatever
is of value to you no matter what happens into this world and you will have
trouble anybody not have trouble raising your hand you can have your money
back right so that's how it works right incarnation. There is a beautiful modern
bodhisattva Val that beloved poet Diane Ackerman has written that goes in the
name of daybreak and the eyelids of morning and the wayfaring moon and the
night when it departs I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred but offer
myself humbly as a as a guardian may of nature, a healer of misery and
messenger of wonder and an architect of peace and that's about as cool a
bodhisattva valves I've ever heard what I would like to ask you to do and will do it
in three little steps is to take the kind of learnings that you just spoke of so
beautifully in your group to allow the vision or inspiration, or the way that people
from Parkland who carried with so much dignity and presents the fire that they've
carried in walk-through know where the there kind of remarkable stories we've
heard of people being willing to face within their family or their community or the
world. The difficulties and find that courage and resources to say there is a way
to move through this and and set the course of our life in the world, new so I'd
like you to take a minute or two will be quiet to reflect on this day as we finish
wisdom 2.0 with all that's nourished or reminded or touched you if you were to
set how were sacred, intention, or a direction for your heart and your life what
would it be and it doesn't have to be a big long essay or poem. It might be as
simple as I vow to be kind, but it might be something more than that. So let your
eyes close and take a minute or so to reflect your eyes open again this is already
considered to be a very important for valuable practice because it's tuning your
heart and your best intention together in some way to help direct your life now.
The second step to make it come more fully alive is to put it in your phone or
write it down. I mean we are. Wisdom 2.0 baby you know and what better use for
the technology then to write down your bodhisattva Val, whatever it happens to
be so find your own way to record you can write it if you're if that's the technology
you prefer, finish up for now. Best can you can add more later if you wish. And
now there's 1/3 staff in making this really come alive for you and that is a kind of
very simple and attentive conversation. The Sufis talk about something called the
so bad which means a conversation in the heart's not the kind we usually have
when we meet people, but it's a bit deeper kind of listening and so what I'd like to
invite you to do is to turn to wander, maybe two people near you, in groups of two
or three, and without a lot of conversation or with the kind of respectful listening
read the intention that you've written. If you're comfortable doing it and also listen
to the others and maybe offer a little but bow after you hear each one because it
somebody say this is what really matters to me have K for yourself. Finish up
thank your partners turn back. Let me ask for a moment as you turn back those
of you finish up. It's not our usual conversation. How was that for you to hear that
you are to speak that anyone want to say there's a mic here for two or three
people either how it was or what was the intention that you sat anyone feel like
speaking it somehow hearing from one another can be a beautiful thing. See one
person to come you please yes hi. There's something about sitting in front of so
many people that makes the now even more pertinent. I think I vow to engage
with the miracles and I was powerful practice. Thank you. Thank you. Couple
more I could be an instrument of spreading across the ring the bell. After each of
these is like a temple. Thank you. Yes, Jack, just hearing it out loud make it more
real for me and I bow to be courageous, tenacious and relentless as I act on
what God is calling me to do. You okay these last three will take them all the
lemon it with the tenacious we have to one. One is to be love. Then I just have to
say this part night at the party. Very beastlike. I don't know who they were. I went
up to ask for one question right and the one lady was just like she just said to be
in your yummy and I just was really great but I want to be in Miami as I do.
Perhaps that we family you know and families are problematic at times, but
gorgeous and it's wonderful. I thank you for your vows your heart's intentions and
now I want to bring Soren back on stage and acknowledge that in some way his
vision whether he makes it as an explicit Val or not. There's something about his
imagination and his honesty and vulnerability and a kind of. I always wondered
how is it that Soren's able to talk to so many people across so many different
dimensions. He's comfortable with the staff and with the billionaire tech people
and with the political people and so forth. And there's something about you where
your real anger. Also, I was not told to come out here for this you Japanese you
hear kind of kind of trustworthy you know in some way feel it and so together.
You mean you already made your vow because I can feel it, whether you made a
conscious or not, and we been part of together for a long time and it feels like
somehow now come together and there's a whole community that are following,
not just following you, but following in an invitation to you made me do something
really beautiful and magnificent magnificent together and I thank you Soren and
all of you