In that position of this commendable cause that the Dharma Foundation has taken up, I

would like to say that, for thousands of years, with the longest period compared to anything

on this planet, this wisdom, this dimension of knowing has lived on, without any kind of true

organization or a certain kind of leadership or any other kind of organized support, out of sheer

efficacy of what it is, it's just lived on. A time has come in the world where even truth has to be

protected. When we talk about East, we are not talking about a particular geography, this must be

clearly understood. We are not talking about East and West as geographical features in the world.

Any number of great minds in America have said things of great reverence and admiration for the

so-called Eastern Western. Thoreau, one of the greatest minds America produced, went out to say,

every morning, I bid my intellect in this dependence and cosmogunno knowledge from the East in

comparison, all our modern world and literature is puny and trivlo. I think Mark Twain went out to

probably gave out the best compliment to the East when he was into the India for little over three

months. He said anything that can ever be done either by man or God has been done in this land. Any number of

others, open hammer, Walden, Amazon, any number of people have said many, many things. Why? Why is it

important to preserve and nurture this dimension of life? The fundamental reason why it seems to be so

significantly different is because it is not a product of human intellect. It is not

deductions that we made out of our intellect. This dimension comes from a profound inner experience

where there is no right and wrong, there is no up and down just seeing things the way they are.

And when we say Dharma, we are not talking about a religion as modern translators went about

interpreting Dharma as Hindu Dharma or whatever, another religion because they came from a mindset that

everybody has to belong to some segment of humanity. They come from a mindset where humanity has to be

divided one way or the other because they come from the surface intelligence of human nature which

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