So tonight I was actually talking about I was of course reading about horror number

743 in Florida of 17 kids getting brutally murdered.

And then, of course, the next thing I read is that

Trump is up there not even acknowledging

that rapid-fire guns, assault weapons are responsible, just making

it all about mental illness and had nothing to do with just how widespread the proliferation of firearms are in this country.

And as always I got disgusted and so I just couldn't give a talk without acknowledging that and

sort of talking about resistance, the psychology of resistance, which is an interesting thing to look into for me.

On one end the world has always been a shithole as the Buddha said.

He didn't say that literally, but he did say, uh,

Avi a de de de de suja.

He did say, I look around me and everywhere there is fighting and

something like people living like fish flopping about

in an ever dwindling pool fighting over dwindling resources.

And so there's, the Buddha says, and then as I looked around in all directions,

I saw that the future is dismal and boy did we really cap that brilliantly right now we've like

brought we've really brought that to bear.

In another suit of the Rata-Pala, the Buddha said the world is swept away,

nothing endures.

There is no safe shelter and no one's sane is in charge.

So yeah, right now we've got well a shithead in charge and feels almost a matter of course that every day you wake up and your president has threatened nuclear

war has gutted the Affordable Health Care Act, has ended our involvement in the Paris Climate Agreement, has defended white

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