Choosing our Karma

Good evening, everyone. Is everyone okay? Cold? Hot? I think some people are hot, some people are cold. So, for the first-timers today, welcome to our center. Anybody have experienced meditation? Y'all have meditation experience? Okay. Is this your first time? First time meditating? I've never successfully been able to. Okay. So, you understand the instruction? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, we're basically calling it meditation, but it's really mind training. Because during our life, we're always reacting to what's going on, to the other people, what they say, what they do. And because of those reactions, we're experiencing suffering. And we like to think that it's because of the person or the situation. But it's really how we respond. And we tend to react automatically, with all the tendencies that were built up from the past, which is tend to be negative, right? Anxiety, fear, frustration, anger. But when we start to train our mind, we start to become more aware. We notice that it's actually our choice. We're making those choices unconsciously when you react. But when you are present and aware of your own thoughts, and you can be open to what is, it doesn't mean you become submissive or passive. You're just seeing things as is, and then respond accordingly that is beneficial, that is positive for oneself and others, that is beneficial for oneself and others. But in order to respond that way, we have to be conscious.

We have to be fully conscious of ourself. So mindfulness, in the context of the Eight Noble Paths, which where it comes from, the right mindfulness is about paying attention to ourself, okay? And some of you that has been practicing has noticed that you're seeing your reaction, right? You're seeing how you are feeling, thinking based on what's going on outside, right? And you're trained to react the way you do right now. So how do we retrain our mind so we can choose peace and joy instead of anger, frustration, fear, anxiety, all of those that we don't want to experience, right? Does anybody want to experience those?

negative emotion? Right? So as long as we blame outside for our experiences within, then we have no control. We're going to be slave to the world of what's going on, what somebody says and does. But once we take full responsibility for how we feel inside, then we become our own master.

Master of our own life. But we lose that easily, right? We allow others to make us feel a certain way. We allow the circumstances to make us feel certain ways, whether it's good or bad, whether it's joyous or, you know, miserableness. We're actually allowing that by giving up those choices.

So take that choice back by becoming fully awake. That's why we practice. That's why we are training our minds to be here and open. To be here and open so that we can see as is and allow this present moment to be as is and then do something about it if you want to transform the situation.

Okay. But in order to be able to even do that, we have to kind of understand the concept of what karma is.

A lot of people use karma as rewards and punishment. It's got nothing to do with that. The true karma just means everything happens based on its supporting conditions. That's really it. And everything is changing because of those conditions. So we talked about in the past the three dharma seals, the three main principles of Buddhism that defines the existence.

everything that exists has this law that can be applied. Law of impermanence. Right? And the law of what? Okay, okay. And then what? Suffering. Yeah, law of suffering. Everything that exists, everything that exists changes, right? Is there anything that doesn't change that remains exactly as is? Even our smallest part, the atom, the quarks, they're all always moving about. They're changing. Transitory.

Means everything that exists comes and goes. Everything is transitory. And it's transitory. And the second law is everything is, there's a law of non-self. We like to believe that there's a self. But everything that exists, exists only based on its supporting conditions. Right? It depends on something else to exist.

Right? Is there anything that exists independently by itself? Inherently? Without depending on anything else? Everything depends on something else. Right? So everything is transitory. And everything is conditional. That's what it means. So even if you just understand this intellectually, and then you'll see this directly when you gain the insight into the reality. And that's what really what the enlightenment is about. To change your paradigm, to see everything, the ultimate reality of the world, is that it's transitory and it's conditional. It's interdependent.

Everything is dependent on something else. And if you do the link analysis of how something comes about, okay, just anything. What is the supporting condition for this to be right here? Somebody had to bring it here. So there's transportation, somebody had to make it, there's people who made it, you know. But what are those people dependent upon to be who they are?

What about this material, you know, that was used, the wood, the leather, whatever it was used. If you did a link analysis of what all the supporting conditions that created this, that allowed this to exist, it's kind of infinite, actually. It branches out continuously, right? But we don't think about that when we do this. It's just a stick, you know? It has a little bit of cushion in it.

But if you look closely into everything that exists, you will notice that everything is dependent on everything else. That's why enlightened beings will say that everything is interconnected, and it's really interdependent. Everything is dependent on the entire universe. Even this little speck of dust right here you can't see, for that to be right here in front of my eyes right now, it took the entire universe, entire existence of every existence there is, for that to be right there.

It's kind of wild, isn't it? That's the truth. Everybody heard about the butterfly effect, right? One little flap of the butterfly can cause a tornado in Texas, you know, or wherever, you know, tsunami somewhere. Whether that's true or not, it's talking about how there's second, third order effect, fourth order effect, which causes fifth order effect, you know? So we're looking at the dependency, very similar.

Everything to be exists right now, right here. Whatever you're experiencing is here because of all those things supporting causal conditions, we're there to support this. Does that make sense? If that makes sense, then you understand what karma is. Karma just means action, meaning movements, activities.

That's its original definition, means it's activity. meaning, everything is karma, because everything is in active motion, right? Everything is energy. Even kinetic, or potential. So karma is all the choices that were made in the past, interconnected, and when the conditions are ripened, it comes out as manifested into an experience.

So when we understand that, when we truly understand and see that everything is transitory, comes and goes based on its supporting conditions, then you see that you can't really have anything. Not even yourself. Because yourself is also changing, right? Whatever you consider yourself as a self, this body is ever-changing, right? You are a result right now of all the past decisions that were made for you, by your parents, or by yourself, right? All these different choices, all these different supporting causal conditions, what you ate, what you did, what you thought, all of that created what you are experiencing right now, right? Whether those choices were made consciously or unconsciously.

So everything comes and goes, everything is changing, even our mind is continuously flowing with different thoughts. So you're actually a different person than a person that just walked in that door, right before you walked in that door, or even a moment ago. Because you've changed already, your thoughts have changed, your body has changed. But it's our memory and our stories that kind of create that binding, that creates that identification of me. But when you look into that identification, when I ask you, what is this I that you are so attached to? What is this self, truly? Not what you believe, but what is that? That which is aware, which is listening right now.

If you're not the body that's ever-changing, because if you want to claim your body as yourself, go ahead, but you got to continue to claim it moment to moment, because it's changing. You can't claim your mind because it's ever-flowing and changing. So what can you claim has truly to be me, I?

Anybody? Awareness? What is that? Where is that? Is that a thing, or is that an action or function? Don't know? Huh? Okay. Yeah. So you don't know. When you don't know, those are just concepts. That's why the Zen inquiry meditation is non-dualistic practice.

Trying to see something that you can't really see. By asking, what am I? But you're stuck with this don't know. Right? Anybody know? If you don't know, then you've got to admit, right? They don't know. But you can know if you want to know bad enough.

That's what that inquiry is about. But we're so identified with this so-called self, this I-ness, so identified with it, even though the answers that don't know, you're still identified with it, with a concept, with a thought of an I. Take a look, take a look really closely to your I. You know, everybody has I, right? Me. Take a look. What is that? What is I? What am I?

Take a look. Not assumptions and beliefs and concepts and thoughts you can conjure up. But what is that, truly? What am I? Don't know, right? Do you have something? May I ask a question? Yeah. So I've been asking myself, "How am I supposed to look?" Oh, yeah. Is that a distraction? Yeah. Just ask. Just have to want to know. We just don't have that enough drive to really want to know.

Why? Because this "I", we're so comfortable with this illusory self, which we call ego. We're so comfortable with this belief. We're so entrenched, so deeply and rooted in this identification. And there's really not that motivation to really even know. Because when you walk out that door, this is all just a philosophy and concept.

When you're engaged in daily life. But if you want to use these laws to truly benefit your life, how do we apply this?

To truly benefit. Benefiting meaning find that happiness versus miserableness. How do you define happiness? We define it as peace of mind, joyful heart. How do I truly benefit? If you understand that everything is transitory based on condition, what was the causal condition for that sound?

This was the causal condition, right? It's transitory, right? I want you to hold on to that sound and take it with you. Can you do that? It just disappeared. How are you going to take that? That's how everything is, right? Everything is transitory. Everything is conditional. But we have this, because of this thought of I, we also solidify identification of everything else that I can have, that I want, that I don't want.

That desire and aversion comes out of that illusion of I. And that's the cause of all of our suffering. All of our suffering. All of our suffering. It's based on what I like and what I don't like. I can't have what I want and I have to experience what I don't want.

Right? That's the suffering. The stress. What do we stress? Because I don't want to experience that. There's a resistance to all that work, all that pressure. There's resistance. I don't want that. I want this instead, but I can't have it. That's suffering. I want to hold on to my loved ones forever. But what happened?

Everything is transitory, right? So if you gain that insight, then you don't have to be miserable. Does that mean you don't care? No, you care. If you lost people that were special to you, you don't have to grieve, though. You can celebrate their life.

Right? But we have social norm that says we must grieve. That's why we grieve. And not only that, because we lost something that I still want. So it's really about me when we're sad. Not really about them who's passed on to maybe something better.

It's always that attachment that comes from those desires and aversion. Attachment to things. That is the source of all suffering. That's what Buddha had come to realize, you know, that came to enlighten and realized. The truth, the absolute truth of all that exists.

That's why we're devoted to the truth. not a person. Buddha was a guide who was gone beyond this conceptual world and realized the truth. So the teachings are more like pointers to our path. The reason we have to practice is because

we don't see the truth. Because you don't know, you have to ask, what is this? To know and strengthen that intention to know. Does that make sense? Am I confusing people? Yes, you have a question? Um, uh, are you saying that all sadness is uh, attachment?

When you're sad? Yeah, when you say sadness I've got some degree of attachment. So, give me an example when you're sad. When you were sad. Well, give me an example when you felt sadness. Never been sad? I don't feel as much these days. Okay.

Well, then, you don't have to worry about being sad. For your wife? Don't worry about her, 'cause she's not here. Yeah. 'Cause you can't, you can't, you can't change her. Well, if your dog died and you're sad, it's obviously 'cause you lost something, you don't wanna lose, right?

Right. Right, that's an attachment. Yeah. Do you have to feel sad? 'Cause your dog died? Yes? I mean, isn't it like, it's become natural to feel sad. Right, but do you have to feel sad? No, I guess you don't. Is it a must thing that equals, you know, a dog dying equals sadness?

It doesn't, right? It's only because of what? 'Cause you're attached to the dog. Are you sad that all these dogs are dying nowadays? You know, there are probably dogs dying like almost every minute, if you look at the entire world. Are you sad every, every single time?

No, but you would be sad if you lost your dog, right? I get sad when I see like, roadkill. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Do you have to be? So it's, it's an unconscious choice. It's an unconscious choice. Yeah. Just recognize that.

But is it like sadness or any of these negative feelings inevitable since life is different? Is it? Is it? That's why we didn't end at life is suffering. Four Noble Truths. We talked about the cause, right? The craving and attachment is the cause of suffering. That's number two of the Noble Truth. What's number three?

The cessation of suffering. Yeah. And then fourth is the path to the cessation. Cessation of suffering is nirvana. Nirvana. Yeah. That we can be liberated from all suffering. But we have to recognize the cause. You know, that's the diagnosis of our suffering. All suffering. Can we choose to mourn the loss of our pet and not consider it suffering, but consider it something noble for something for the sake of love? That's what your mind can do for you. To justify.

I mean, when you love someone. Yeah. You know, it's a beautiful thing. And when, when that's missing gets to you, do you, do you, do you, you know, it's gone. Is there, you had an attachment to it. Right. You had a pain to it. And, and, and missing it and mourning that loss is ennobling. Okay. Now, it's four years down the line and you're still not getting out of bed. And, you know, you haven't filmed a dog. Now, maybe you don't have a problem. Yeah, yeah. So it's a choice. It's a choice. Somebody misses me when I die. Well, well. And my dog, you know, you guys tell me that that's, you know, me, and my ego. Yeah. But there's an essence, there is an energy, an essence of all of us.

If that's what you want. Good. Yeah, if that's what you want. Yeah. Excellent. But here's the thing. That's where, this is why I'm explaining karma. If you understand the karma, all those agitation of the mind accumulates. Our what? Agitations in the mind. I didn't hear what you said. Accumulates. Oh, oh. Accumulates. Yeah, that's why you're, you're just a compounded accumulation of your past karma.

So you can embrace your sadness and say, I want to be sad, because I think it's a beautiful thing to be sad, but that's what you're choosing. Yeah, I'm choosing not to see it as a suffering, but as an innoble feeling. Okay, and then it will continue to accumulate into experience that you don't want to experience. That's how it works. How so? You mean, when more and more people die, and I stop getting dogs, or I keep getting dogs, and they keep dying. So when you lose your dog, when you mourn, what do you mean when you mourn? I miss them. I cry. You know, I feel the absence. They're not by my feet. They're not in the kitchen, looking up at the counter. They're not, I'm not taking the daily water.

So you have to admit, you have to first admit, that comes from attachment, right? Of course, I love that. Okay. Then be it so. That's okay. That's how, that's how it works. That's how the ego works. I'm just telling you, that's how the ego works. It's so attached that it justifies its attachments.

And if you want to be continuously be attached, then that's what you're going to experience. And then at what point do you not have any, so, all right, so I don't have, I'm not attached to my dogs, or my parents, or my, or anything. So what, what, what, what are you about? Where do I find, then, where do I find meaning and purpose?

So, for you, you're finding meaning and purpose through attachments. That's the difference. Where else might I find? I don't find meaning in attachments. Where do you find it? And the truth. And the liberation from suffering. Yeah. There's liberation from suffering. And helping others to be liberated by realizing the truth.

Yeah. That's where the intention lies. That's where my true meaning of my life lies. For me, if you're asking me individually. To awaken others to the truth so they don't have to suffer. Because I don't have to suffer. Because I don't have to be sad. Because I know I don't have to be sad. I don't choose to be sad.

Yeah. I respect, appreciate my parents. Because I know that they will transition, transform. I don't have to be sad. Yeah. I'm not sad about it. Right. Everything. Right. So, but if you want to be sad, and if you want to justify that, go right ahead.

But that's how everybody justifies their sadness. What I'm telling you is that that's not what you have to experience. But everybody chooses that, whether you can justify it or not, whether it's unconscious or not. We choose our sadness, we choose our miserableness, we choose our suffering.

And we can cover it up with justifications for it, but it's still suffering. And the suffering is continuous, continuous until you liberate yourself from it. It will continue to create, become additional condition, causal condition for another experience. That's how karma works. That's all I'm telling you. I'm not telling you to choose one thing or another. So, with sadness then, you're saying that sadness is suffering?

Yes. Yes. Because, do you want to feel sad? Maybe, sometimes. Okay. So, make it into a simple question. Do you want to be happy or miserable? I prefer to be happy more often than miserable. But, do you, if you had a choice of being happy all the time, you would still choose miserableness?

Well, my dog does, yes. Okay. Well, that's the choice people make. That's why we suffer. Yes. That's just how it is. Everybody's seeing now. Thank you. Because people can see now, what I'm saying, is that you choose your suffering. Your happiness is also a choice.

Okay. So, everybody understand that? It's a choice. Was there ever a time when you were sad? Hmm? Was there ever a time when you were sad? Yes. Of course, you know. But now I know I don't have to be. It's a choice. I can maintain the peace and joy. You know, when I see people suffering, I feel that, not as a sadness, but almost like an

empathetic level. Empathetic concern, maybe? You know? I feel it, you know, like sensation, when I see people suffering, see animals suffering. You know, I feel that. But I don't call it sadness. It's more of a, this is how that must feel, you know, this uneasiness, you know?

So, what I can do is pray for the person, try to generate that compassion, which is a positive thing. It's not a negative thing, right? When you lose your loved ones, you can still pray for them. You can still send a lot of positive energy.

There's the thing about sadness, and sadness is a negative energy. The energy is different. It's the different levels of consciousness, different levels of energy. That's where it matters. So, when you are choosing, for whatever reason, frustration, sadness, you're choosing lower levels of energy that attracts lower levels of energy.

is a split-second choice? It's a, it's more of a habitual reaction. But subconsciousness is a... Right, it's something that you built. Tendencies. Right? And some people will justify their rage. Well, if only the person didn't. You know? They didn't just cut me off.

Right? You can justify all of your feelings and say, I have the right to be angry. Of course you do. But does that make you happy? Does that bring that peace and joy? Is it really beneficial to be angry, sad, frustrated? Is it really beneficial? Ask yourself that.

You can justify it saying, this is what I want to feel, but is it really beneficial?

That energy of sadness. The loss. Venerable. Yes. When we meditate in our metta prayer and we talk about a mother's unconditional love for her only child, and that child is stricken and that loss, can you explain how a mother finds joy in that?

Compassion. You have to understand compassion. So the mother feels compassion, the child is gone, and I can feel-- We're using that as a, as a, as a metaphor of an energy. A mother would have for her only child, that's a compassion. She would be willing to, you know, give up her life to save the child. That's the type of energy, the bright, compassionate energy that we are willing to give to others is what we're using. Not when we're stricken, not we're sad. That's, that's not the, that's not the energy we're asking for. One of the greatest loves that there, that, that we can, that we can imagine is to manifest that love that a mother has for her only child. To bring it back to the feeling of sadness, how then do, is that mother to, to grieve the loss of such an, such an unconditional love?

So you equating compassion to grievance? I'm asking the question. It's completely different. You're not, you're not accepting my answer though, you're asking questions. I'm asking a question and I'm trying to understand your answer. Right, because you have your set way, you want me to give you what you want to hear. No, I don't, I want to hear your answer. There's compassion, right, it's compassion and sadness. When we generate love and kindness, prayer, we're generating compassion, not thinking about when we're sad and then thinking about sadness. So why are you asking about sadness? Because we were talking about sadness, and I could think of the greatest love being a mother's love for her child. Right, but that's not sadness.

Is it? Like when the child is stricken and taken from her mother. But now you're creating a situation where you're sad. I'm not asking you to do that. It's just the love that we're talking about. I think people are just conditioned to believe that sadness equates care. Not if you don't feel sadness and you don't. Right. That's how everybody believes it. That's a social norm.

But it's not a reality. That's what I'm saying. Just because you're compassionate doesn't mean you have to be sad.

So there's a story in Buddhist time. A mother, after trying, after trying, after trying, finally after like very old age, you know, had a child. She was so in love with this child. But the child died, not even a few weeks after. She was so in love with this child. So happy. And she tried to, she wouldn't admit that the baby was dead. So she would take it to the doctors, at the doctors, at the doctors. They all claim that he's dead.

And she couldn't accept it. She was so sad, she basically kind of became mad, carrying the dead child around everywhere, trying to help, trying to get help. And then, finally, somebody said, "You should go see the Buddha. He will save her. He will save him." So she went to the Buddha.

And then, you know, and asked him to save her child through the miracle. And Buddha said, "Okay, I'll save your child. But here's what I want you to do first. I want you to go to the town and find me a mustard seed. But that mustard seed, just a little bit of mustard seed, not even much. Just get a handful of mustard seed from a house." Because mustard seed at the time was very common. You know, everybody would have them for the flavoring and stuff. "But that house must not have experienced any death."

Okay? And she said, "Okay, I'll find it." So she went to this house. "Can I have some mustard seed?" "Of course." "But did you have any death in the house?" "Of course." "My father passed away last year." "Okay, I can't accept this." "Next house." "Well, my brother passed away two years ago." "Next house." "Well, my son died a year ago." "Next house." She went through every house for several days and realized there's no house that has never experienced death.

and came to realize, wow, on her own, everybody experiences death. And she came to accept her baby's death. That was a miracle. She accepted it as is. As is. No more remorse. No more mourning. As is. Because it is what it is. Everybody dies. Everybody has to experience loss. It's what she physically experienced by talking to everyone that had loss.

And she decided, okay, I don't need, I don't need to be attached anymore. Because she was able to let that go, she became his disciple and later became an arahant, fully enlightened. Okay? That's what I'm trying to help you realize. Is that understanding, truly seeing that everything is transitory and conditional.

Okay? There's no need to be holding on. Because holding on creates suffering. Because that holding on is attachment. And attachment creates other attachments. Negative energy creates other negative energies. It accumulates. It's a chain reaction. Just like butterfly effect. That's why we have to be conscious on choosing what we say, do, and think. And emotions are part of the thinking, our mental activities.

What we say, do, and think creates vibrational energy, which is a karmic energy. Okay? So if you choose to be sad, it's your choice. But take responsibility for that.

Yes, you have a question? No? Okay. How do we, I understand that, as long as we create karma, we can't attain liberation. How do we stop? So like a vehicle going 100 miles an hour, can you make a right turn? Like a 90 degree turn?

Can't, right? So what do you have to do? Take a break. Slow down first, right? Yeah. So you have to understand what mile per hour you're going right now. Your momentum, your karmic momentum has a direction that's creating all of your preferences, all of your choices.

That's what's happening right now. So if I asked you, would you rather have a pizza or a hamburger right now? Your choice is based on all those karma you think you're choosing right now, but all those choices are based on your karmic tendencies.

That hundred mile per hour momentum. So in order to change the momentum, we have to slow down. That's what this training is, to slow down. Slow down all of your thoughts, desires, and attachments by becoming more aware of it. By being more aware.

And it takes practice. It takes practice to slow down, so you can make that turn. And direction of our momentum, our life experiences, they're depending on that momentum. That direction can only be changed based on where we want to go, right? Like if you need to turn, make a 90 degree turn, because you want to go that direction, right? Not this direction. That's where we set what, Michelle?

Yes. Intention. Intention. Intention, intention, intention, intention. Intention to be liberated from this karma. Intention to be fully awakened.

For what? To be beneficial to others. And later on, when you actually get inside, you know there's no others anyways. So compassion, true compassion comes out. Not about others. It's about all as one. It's because we're interdependent, we're interconnected. It's inevitable to be compassionate.

Yeah. You may, with somebody crying for their parents, you may sit there and cry with them. Not because you're sad. But because that's what they need. Because you're compassionate. All right? You may be stern. And yell at somebody. But not because you're angry. Because that's what is necessary. To change that behavior or make a point.

Okay? So it's not about, you know, the surface. It's about how you are within. So true realization is about beingness. Not just knowingness. Yeah. So there's a lot of spiritual practitioners that, you know, learns this and that. Reads this and that. And gains a lot of intellectual knowledge.

And think they're awakened. Not according to the Buddhist teaching. To become truly realized and awakened, your beingness changes. Because your paradigm changes. You don't choose sadness. You choose to be peaceful and joyful. Because that's beneficial. To me and others. Yeah. You don't choose those negative energy. You choose positive energy. No matter what.

You see all these people that are causing suffering onto others. We're powerful people, right? You can still send, instead of angrily reacting to that, you send positive energy. Hoping that they will gain that wisdom and compassion. Someday. Not this lifetime, maybe in the future like that. So it's a choice whether you choose positive energy or negative energy.

Even that's more of a, you know, judgment base because, but I have to express it that way. For you to understand, there's a life supporting beneficial energy and life hurting negative energy. What would you rather choose? Right? Yeah. So choose. I can't make you choose.

Yeah. Because if you choose to be angry, you know,

but just realize, understand the karma and how it works. That everything we say, do, and think, accumulates. It gets embedded into our consciousness. You see, it makes an imprint. That's the memory of consciousness. Sometimes they call it Akashic Record. Everything is stored in our consciousness.

Because it makes an imprint. All of our experiences, all of our thoughts, even if you've never expressed it, that anger, that ill will that we had, the negative energy within, you know, you held it in, but it accumulates. That's why it blows up later. It turns into something else that you don't want. That's why the PTSD happens.

Because you haven't processed those traumatic experiences. Yeah. It accumulates. It gets entangled. All those emotions, it gets entangled. Yeah. So sadness, grieving, although it's socially accepted and expected. Remember, it accumulates. Okay. So celebrate that life. Be compassionate. Pray for that person that has passed or animal that has passed to come back as a human so that they can practice and learn this dharma for the final liberation, just like I am right now. That's the way we deal with it.

Yeah. Even if the mosquito you kill. You have to pray and bless them to show, you know. Yeah. Sometimes you have to do, but there's a different karmic, there's, there's a different, there's a different karmic consequences for it, but you're also sending a lot of positive energy to it. And it may have an impact, right? Yeah, don't pull those wings out there. Yeah.

Yeah. So always try to look at things positively and see what can I do that's beneficial. So it's not about being a good person or a bad person based on the social standards. It's about what is truly beneficial to me and others at the same time. That means choosing that positive energy.

Okay. Make sense? Okay. She's giving me a sign to finish it. Yeah. Oh, wow. That clock says 25 and I forgot that that clock is really, uh, it's not right. It's 20:40 already. Any questions? I know everybody's eager to go home. Huh? Do you have any questions? There's so many more questions, but I don't know.

Okay. You should ask them. put it away okay all right so um let me end this with our metta prayer okay let's bring our palms together and repeat after me may all beings be safe may all beings be peaceful may all beings be joyful may all beings be joyful may all beings awaken to their true nature may all beings awaken to their true nature may all beings be free may all beings be free have a great evening