people to look you up on you tube and look at your work and i wanted to bring you back from the beginning of the year to say what do you think about the time we're in thank you very much fellas it's a pleasure to be here with you  n you know amid all of the divisiveness and chaos and like a lot a lot lot of hope i thank you specially among younger people i feel this is really a time about this can the thing is coming up in our face all the time every day now as there is the wall and the border and immigration and and i just feel like there's this is kind of symptomatic of a lot of things that are going on not only in america but around the world and it's feel like it's an effort to hang on to and an identity of who we to really moving out into who we could be what this country could really be and hanging on to a lot of ideas that we have about ourselves and background as buddhist background and we talk about like a concept show funny which means that your self and your environment are one they're not separate this is kind of and he was one of the greatest and he wrote one time he said if anything that quantum physics tells us that this that the rural sitting out silence through time and space and the universe to give expression to the fullness or contraction of a person's mind and heart there is anger brooding over america there's a time buried h are furious at anything beyond the boundary of one's own prejudices and likes and dislikes what one thinks of as a proper world whole the ocean churns the sun blisters the drought stricken land even weeds struggle to move and breathe and the birds and animals to escape retribution from the skies as our hearts regress and our minds built impenetrable walls nature our mirror not one to and strangely our own better jury hurricanes and winds and rain and fear penetrating the coasts it is all within the human heart so that's a little something maybe turn traitor say well i'm trying to say well you have to say that you're on your mind here this year  t i am name your ability to put into words the general condition or feeling of the earth and yet at the same time express hopeful and a positive notes about the future because as i see the plastic swirling in the ocean or the terrible fires in the way you've written about it can be very frightening and very depressing you can find the possibility in all of this is what's on my mind and why i call you for a conversation i know their president the way i look at it is certainly to really stand up and bring out their own power and their own voice among all of us and that's what we need i think i think the only thing that's going to change anything is one single human being just totally revolutionizing their own life so i think you know i'ma i'm kind of amazed as as i go along because i feel more and more like i don't really know  nobody i don't really know anything about my life because i'm always discovering things about my life that i need to work on and i think just even recently i've been thinking about the fact that i judge people and have judge people a lot and i judge about their capabilities and their potential and then i have had experiences even just recently that made me really really really they were humbling experiences i knew a lady up in oregon my wife and i knew her and she still living and when we first knew or ten years ago she was on welfare she was had tremendous physical disability  she had a son she was trying to raise and struggling to raised and the thing i just hard to her recently a few days ago after a long time and was struck me was the fact that here was a woman who  we may not think about as as having really a profound effect on anything and really maybe not in the forefront of things or in the limelight but her spirit is so amazing she is trying to work with whatever she has to create a life of joy and i was just very humbled by this again and i have to look at myself and think how can i work on myself once again change myself and i think that's the way the world is going to change because we can get a different government and we can get different society a different economic system we can get a different social system but people just individuals one have to ring other don't change and we're just going to repeat everything all over again because it's human nature well how do you know you talk about buddhism and this is a place to share this because i think we don't know enough about different perspectives what would be good to say about the for example the conversation about whether there is climate change or whether this is just the way it's supposed to be and this is not man may this i don't think i was talking reading the piece there before but these things are not just they don't just come out of the blue they are really a reflection of what's going on in our life and there is more as you see it every day there's a lot of chaos developing and society buna people are very confused you see young people who lost hope of fire or a young person i guess i would be pretty negative about growing up in this world right now but that it's all comes down to just life condition and how can this be changed and this is the title of the historical good and towards the end of his life he gathered a bunch of his disciples on a mountaintop and he he said all of a sudden after you've been talking to them for forty years that i  the the whole the whole entourage there of his many disciples is lifted up into the air and a huge treasure tower emerges story well is the story really true that this really happen there's all this amazing stuff well he did it did happen and at the same time it did not happen but rather it  state of life that he found within his own life and he wanted to convey that to other people and he spent his whole life trying to do that now that's what that's what a lot of sutras about basic it comes down to the fact whether it's buddhism or anything else is to respect this in normal potential that every single person on the face of this planet has within their own life for happiness for joy and also to recognize this and all people to create a society and a world in which  this is respected and it's like a new humanism that we have to propagate and it goes beyond nationalities it goes beyond culture beyond races beyond sexual preference it goes beyond religion itself to get down to the core reality of who we are and as i you know my job is to question so i'm g question some of the cultures that embrace buddhism don't seem to have respect for individual nations muslim nations they're all in each other's throat so there's something wrong there with our way we're learn yet religion religion should not be separating us it should be bringing us together it should be uniting us there are various shades and grades of what you might say is religion but we have to get down i think to that basic point that that is a thing of this little book called called civilization on trial i just bring this up to give it maybe a little perspective and where we're at here in this country in this world and he said you know  historians looking ahead what are they going to see as the big the big move but that happened that in history that changed things and he said it wouldn't be the things that are in the headlines even wars or famines or stock markets or anything else it's something deeper that is not on the surface but which is the thing that changes things and he said of historians one hundred years from though a little more like that and then thirty forty seven thousand years historians will look back and they'll say well that was the defining kind of movement or that happened during the twentieth century and on their but what happened then was like a reversed reaction and to kind of impact western civilization itself coming from rolling back against western civilization and really it was developing like a clash and breaking down and right ending down of all our identities that we concepts all of our nation our borders and walls and all these things were met up with it was like ground down against each other and out of this conflict emerged a new life a new life common to all people the first step in creating a global civilization and i look at this no i think this is really interesting but it seems to me like it's happening a lot it's a conflict of general ations it's a conflict of ideas it's a conflict of how we look at ourselves and it's being it's exposing years all to really think about ourselves in different am who i am call me jim or john or sarah or gene i came into this world naked and alone but behind my appearance were many names tied to innumerable worlds tied even to the world of ancient mischa's birds that roamed the umbilical plasma as my brain and mind and heart and limbs took shape i was now a child i was named i collected other names names there were the only possible ones in my small name world indian jhoom brazilian baptists french moroccan christian samoan muslim texan arab can i wore my name like my clothes they fit snugly and well i went to school i grew there were other names in my growing world different colors to black and brown and white chocolate or red and yellow we were like the names of different flowers as i grew worse erupted over our names yeah i'm again sarah jane against john i took up arms marching gladly and then on to our name bound ways million perished hundreds of millions were plowed into the dust names died and were forgotten becoming father for the blooming of new grasses and flowers for a new generation of wondering though your name of this program this series that i'm doing is daily practice so we sort of be talking about the bigger girls out there now that you know this kind of thing that you know about not  limited by the living what is your daily practice what do you do each day to be in this world good question ring i do this in the morning maybe an hour and maybe an hour at night and this is a practice to connect my life to my greater self and to my creator life and to the life of the universe itself which is always seeking ways to grow and develop without without boundaries without limitations on a kind  of continual infinite eternal development that's about it well i'm not letting you off the hook that is so let's take you through your day so you get up in the morning  and for a couple hours i can't quite focus too much and then i just you know i work and have other things that i'm doing and i got to go to the grocery store and get the f my wife and i love to cook and we love to make dinners together and so that's kind of the day and as far as writing the books i've written eleven books have come sometimes in the morning but a lot of times later at night maybe half an hour just a half an hour where i will be sitting there and put down three or four words or a sentence and it just flows something comes out of me and it just writes itself and so i over a period of years i just collect these things and put them together and they make a book here and there and i hope people enjoy it and is just trying to share something positive beautiful here's one this is called numb america is you by the way i want to thank you so much fellas you're doing something quite amazing not many people can do is really reach out and try to connect people and learn and bring out whatever you find out there too it's really great this is called a issue at the heart of the most pressing problem lies the key to turning everything around and the problem will not go away when it stares you unrelentingly in the face when you think you can't go on living even unless it changes this is the turning point but the problem will never change if you think something is going to magically happen if you think the solution will arrive knocking at your door to give you relief if you're waiting for the miracle to happen the miracle for the infinite resource where you sun no resources the universe is waiting for you in the universe has given you this problem as a gift the universe will bend to your every whim but only when you yourself with lack of will will and determination yet it all depends on you