And so society from six feet will tell you you've got a face, you've got a body, you've got to set up against a background. You're English, you're American, you're whatever, you're this old, you're that. But now,

have the independence to for yourself as well. Not denying that, but look for

yourself now and say, ask yourself, who am I? It's the great question. Who are you? Are you a thing? Because if you're a thing, like society says you are, you'll be separate from every other thing, every other person, and you will have a beginning, a birth, and you'll have a death.

See? And

that's what the Buddha noticed. He noticed that everyone is born, everyone suffers, everyone gets old, everyone gets ill, and everyone dies. And he looked for, you know, however happy you are, however rich you are, you die. And he looked for freedom because there's no freedom in that. And he tried to get off the wheel. You see, well, how do you get off the wheel? Well, what I'm saying is in this modern way, the head just sways. Don't deny what I'm not asking to deny what others say you are, but just check, be independent enough for this moment now, for this hour and a half, to put aside just as much as you can, what society is feeding back to you and look for yourself. And these experiments are looking, they're not primarily thinking or even understanding. That's the bare ground. And as you come back to it, you see it doesn't develop. You can't develop nothing. But your understanding will gradually develop if you water the root. So being with friends, working it out, recognizing it doesn't ever change, there's not always a wow, you see. Gradually, I say that I gradually at ever deeper levels say yes to

the truth. And another thing that I've learned, which is something

I'm still learning like mad as I meet people, say I understand. I understand. You see, when you say empathy and you see yourself from the point of view of others. You don't actually, you only ever have your own point of view.