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[Assistant] By the way, I think the $4.99 a month, I think it'd be a great stocking. It's a great stocking stuffer. If you have a Browns fan that you don't know what to get, what do I?


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[Assistant] Get them for 60 bucks. You get the entire year on the coaches tier. They get every day's overtime content for free. And as I've said before, that's when Bull does his strip tease every day on the overtime segment.


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[Assistant] There were like six jaw-dropping things that happened. There were. Six games.


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[Assistant] By the way, why does he have a defensive coach as his offensive coordinator? First of all, let me tell you this. Because it doesn't matter? Let me tell you this. Well, their offense sucks, so it certainly matters. Let me tell you this. For Bill, it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, look at the Lions offense since Matt Patricia.


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[Assistant] Very good. By the way, isn't it crazy that you said all the craziness of the weekend and you bring up the Patriots as the craziest? Well, that was just one example. No, no, but I'm saying like that's the standout thing, despite the biggest comeback ever, that's two days ago.


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[Assistant] I thought it was a really positive win. I thought that, you know, we talked about last week.


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[Assistant] What's, this team has four weeks to kinda...


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[Assistant] Show you what they're made of. Are they going to play hard down the stretch, or are they going to completely crater? And clearly, at least for one week, and I will suspect the rest of the season, they will not crater.


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[Assistant] Uh, it wasn't a perfect game by any means, but I thought they played with a lot of toughness. Uh, they again could not stop the run. I, I didn't know what Belichick was, uh, Belichick, what, uh, Harbaugh was doing. I don't know why they... Well, it was on Gar, it's on their offensive coordinator, not on Harbaugh. He threw the ball 30 times.


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[Assistant] And their top two backs, uh, Gus Edwards and J.K. Dobbins averaged nine yards of carry between them. I can't figure it out. Now, in the red zone, the Browns defense puffed up.


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[Assistant] And the secondary played well. I thought it was Denzel Ward's best game of the year. That pick he had was a fantastic play. Changed the game. Changed the game and he almost had another one.


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[Assistant] The misfeel goals, especially by Justin Tucker, were mind-blowing. Uh, the offense did what it had to do. Nick Chubb couldn't get much going until late. You know, obviously they had the lead, so they ran a lot late in the game. And he did what he had to do. And I thought, even though, if you just look at the stats and you see Watson's numbers, you're like, eh.


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[Assistant] By the way, I mentioned this in our post-game show. We often criticize Kevin Stefanski and the Browns fairly for it seems like nobody's held accountable. But in Parion Winfrey's case, he was. Remember they benched him for a few weeks. They had him inactive because they didn't like, I don't know what was going on behind the scenes, but they benched him. And since he's been back, he's played much better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, are other teams benching good starters, proven players that are? Yeah, I wouldn't even call him.


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[Assistant] They know that. That throw he made to Michael Woods. Remember that throw he threw like between some of his arms? Like that was a special throw.


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[Assistant] That's what he, that's the play. Yes. I thought you guys that, that you saw him, maybe it's cause he was at home for the first time, I don't know what it was, maybe it's just cause it was his third game, he, his body language was better in the,


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[Assistant] He was still throwing the ball, I thought, at guy's feet. But also, that doesn't account for throws that you miss, like, guys open and you miss it. Right, it doesn't, yeaah. So, you know, which is placed to his, not his accuracy, but his overall performance. But I give him a B for this game, because I think there's, I don't even think, it's so funny because,


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[Assistant] By the way, we had a conversation before the season and you think about it now how dumb this was. I don't know, I don't know if any of us


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[Assistant] Said this, but there was a conversation generally about...


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[Assistant] Would the Browns be better off if the Sean Watson missed the whole season? So the contract would toll? That would have been a disaster.


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[Assistant] Had that happen. Because he needed to play these six games to be in game action. That is going to help. Can you imagine if he had missed the hole?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think you have to, right? I mean, if he, Tim, as bad, I mean, as rusty as he's looked in these games, especially the first two, if he had missed the entire rest of this season, let's say he's spending it for the whole year,


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[Assistant] To me, it can't be a tough decision at all.


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[Assistant] You're moving on. The defense, they haven't given up a ton of points, but outside of borough, they have faced no, no good quarterbacks. They're not going to face any good quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] I'm giving away the Baker Mayfield, uh, Panther's jersey I have, so send me a tweet with the reason you should be the person I send it to. I'm gonna make a decision about it tomorrow morning.


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[Assistant] By the way guys, of the 20, so Kevin Svansky is a winning record in the regular season of course. Of the 23 Browns coaches in their history, that have, not including interim coaches.


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[Assistant] Of the 23 Browns coaches that have coached at least one full season.


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[Assistant] Including Kevin Stefanski, how many of those 23 have a winning record? Since, since 99? No, forever. Oh, I'd say four. Gee?


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[Assistant] Of those 23, how many have a career winning record as head coach of the Browns? Okay. Jason, four. I'd cut that back to three.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say three or four, three. There's actually five. Who are they? Paul Brown was 110 games over 500. Blanton Collier, what a great record too, back in the day. Marty Schottenheimer, 17 games over 500. Nick Scorich.


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[Assistant] Sam or Tigliano was 47 and 50. Who was Bud Carson?


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[Assistant] Give me the examples of 27 year old quarterbacks that played at an all pro level that all of a sudden stink. I agree with you. When does that happen?


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[Assistant] quarterback, but he had some time. Here's the bottom line. RG3's best year was his rookie year. He sucked after that, right? His best year was worse than the three Deshaun Watson years. He was never the same after the injury. He was never the same after the injury.


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[Assistant] You just gotta wait. If the Browns want to be a playoff contender next year, he's got to make his kicks. If he doesn't make his kicks early in the season, you have to cut him. Justin Tucker. I disagree with that. The Justin Tucker thing is a bad comparison. Justin Tucker in his first three years in the league missed 11 field goals. Right, and what I'm saying is in year four he missed seven.


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[Assistant] That's a fact. But by, I know it's a fact. Okay. It's also a fact that he had already, he had missed only 11 in his first three years and had already been an All-Pro. So of course you're not going to kick, cut him because he had, he had already proven he was an excellent kicker. You know what?


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[Assistant] Uh, all were great as rookies. Are we going to cut Boswell? Why would we cut Boswell?


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[Assistant] We saw it Saturday. We saw it. I mean, that game was crazy. I don't know what the Patriots were doing there. That was beyond stupid.


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[Assistant] Yes, the playoff matchups are set. In the first round, it'll be G versus Jason and me versus Earl.


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[Assistant] I understand that. No, that's a game that's full. That's inexcusable. That doesn't happen every year. That's an indie mini- Should the Browns have won the game against the Buccaneers? Sure. No, but no. Sure? No, they stole that.


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[Assistant] But Jay, to your point, Browns was so bad that people were like, okay, we're mediocre now with Baker, so let's not mess with it. And everybody's so scared in this town because they won one playoff game that a lot of people were so comfortable sticking with mediocrity. We've seen now that Baker's not even mediocre.


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[Assistant] I have been a bigger Homer for Kevin Svansky than anybody. I don't want to fire him, but like, I think he does need an ass kicker as a beauty. He needs a loud ass kicker.


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[Assistant] Jalen Hur, I hate the early MVP discussions, but since it's only three weeks left, I think it's reasonable. He's the MVP. Jalen Hur should be the MVP. I don't think it's too early.


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[Assistant] Gotta be one of the biggest year one to year two jumps from a quarterback. There's no question. I mean, he went from being like just a runner. He was just a guy that put it together. To winning the MVP. I mean, it was crazy.


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[Assistant] I know that, but I think it was the right move. I think it was clearly the right move, no matter how it turns out, because they weren't in the game. Well no, if it doesn't work, Bull, it was the wrong move.


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[Assistant] In your opinion, in my opinion, it was the right move anyway, because they had, they had no chance with Baker, in my opinion, so they had to take a chance with a quarterback that would give them a real shot.


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[Assistant] In fairness to Rodgers, Brady's got much better talent around him. Yeah, he does. Brady's got excellent receivers.


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[Assistant] That's, that's easy. They play head to head still. Baltimore and Sensi have another game. That's the last game of the year in Sensi.


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[Assistant] And the Bengals play the Bills on Monday Night Football on January 2nd. This may be the dumbest question ever.


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[Assistant] In the, first of all, that last touchdown the Raiders scored to tie the game. Oh my god, absolutely. It seemed like he was clearly out of bounds. I know! And then, did anybody watch the end of the Washington Giants game last night? I did. I turned it off. Now Washington may have lost anyway, but Washington, what was it, third down? Oh, when it was 17 to 12.


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[Assistant] It was 2012, the last drive of the game. It was 2012, Washington throws a touchdown pass, and they called, uh... No, they ran it, didn't they? They ran it. Oh, they ran it.


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[Assistant] It's very punitive. I think late hit should be reviewable. I am now 1 for 47 on water bottle shots. I want that on the record.


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[Assistant] So, my name is Jordan Fragan. I am the Senior Market Analyst for Esports at Nuzu. I've been in Esports for the last four or five years. So Nuzu is the most cited research firm, um, specifically focused on gaming. Accompanying the models, we put out an annual report each year, uh, that's, uh,


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[Assistant] Over a hundred pages long, full of very interesting insights and detailed information on the industry that gives key stakeholders


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[Assistant] All the information they need to know about what's been going on in the industry and key trends they need to be watching out for.


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[Assistant] Newzoo works with key stakeholders across the industry, uhm, you know, we're actually working on expanding our partnerships program right now, but some of the key names that you've probably heard of are Team Liquid, Vitality, Ninjas in Pajamas, Excel, Loud, Astralis,


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[Assistant] North American talent, you know, is now mostly import talent that's been there for long enough to no longer count against the import rule.


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[Assistant] You know, as a North American fan, it kinda sucks to, you know, tune in and see a bunch of people from Europe playing in the North American League who, you know, I'm supposed to be rooting for.


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[Assistant] Due to the fact that in certain markets, your money goes further. North America only accounts for 10% of the global esports audience.


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[Assistant] But the market accounts for 23% of global esports revenues. That's because people who are


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[Assistant] You know, between 18 and 34 are very young. You can acquire them early in their consumer lifecycle. You can then monetize them throughout that consumer lifecycle. So as soon as, you know, that acquisition cost gets, uhm, spread out over the years that you have them as a customer. And that's what we call sort of the desirable target demographic for most advertisers.


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[Assistant] That is hands down. League of Legends as a game is not the same game as it was a year ago, five years ago, however many years ago.


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[Assistant] You know, it changes constantly. And one of the skills that you need to have to be a good


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[Assistant] Most sports, the idea is that you get very, very good at one very specific part of the equation for whatever game you're playing. If I'm a point guard, I'm really good at shooting those threes. If I'm a kicker in football, I can, you know, land it in the uprights from 60 plus yards away. If I'm a mid laner, I have to learn a new champion


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[Assistant] Where they recognize that like, you know, oh yeah, let's get a physical therapist in here. Oh yeah, let's get a chef or someone to help like work out with the team even. People are recognizing that one of the problems that we're having is that people are burning out really quickly.


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[Assistant] North America tend to be a little bit more, uhm, loose in terms of


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[Assistant] What's allowed versus what isn't allowed. The classic example is like medication commercials. Maidshot did a sponsorship with Excedrin, which is like a headache medication.


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[Assistant] The way I want you to think about it is I have this horizontal axis, this is my x axis, and I have the vertical axis, this is my y axis, and for every input value x,


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[Assistant] If you think of x as going as an input to this function, it spits out some particular height here.


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[Assistant] Another intuitive picture for how we can think of a function is literally as a machine.


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[Assistant] My, and my, here's my fancy wrath word, my domain.


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[Assistant] And this is true for every possible input. So one output for every single input.


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[Assistant] Sleep relaxation scripts. And I just started reading them.


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[Assistant] Overall? No, what was there to begin with? Oh, the year? Overall? Well, I would imagine what J.O. Care Anthony Walker would be the highest.


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[Assistant] I haven't been trending well. Out of my four, out of my four leagues, I'm making the playoffs. Good job. Well done.


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[Assistant] Well, I think he does. I think he will feed off the energy. You know, you wanna, this is...


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[Assistant] Okay, so in his mind, first of all, he hears a lot of stuff, he sees the signs, he even admitted that it bothers him.


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[Assistant] So when he comes here and he plays, I think to him, he wants to show everybody, hey, yes, some mistakes was made. I put y'all through a rough situation, but I need to come out here and put a show on so y'all understand the type of player that I am. And I think, I think that this game should be tailor made for him to go out there and showcase his talent. Even against a really tough defense.


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[Assistant] I mean, what better way to show that you're a great quarterback than going out there and doing well against a good defense. So you expect it to be his best performance yet and a significant improvement? It's not going to be easy. I'm going to tell you that right now. It's not because Baltimore's defense is for real.


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[Assistant] Well let me tell you, before you say that, Amari Cooper's not 100%. Go ahead with your statement.


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[Assistant] These last four games, you're going to find out whether people love the game of football or they just here for the money. That's what these last four games, because if you love it, you going out there, you just going balls to the wall for the rest of the year. You going all out because you love playing football. Yep. If it's just about the money.


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[Assistant] Well, D'Quell, you know, a lot of, a very, uh, interesting point that a lot of people like to point out because I'm with you on that one. How much of that falls on coaching? Because that's just where every, no, it's never, it's never the player, it's the coaches. So how much is that, do you say is on the coaching?


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[Assistant] What about the, the strength coach with all these injuries is his job in question. Cause you know when injuries happen and it's a bunch of them, the first person they look at is the strength coach.


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[Assistant] They're going to win because they got some type of pride. All right, you want to they going out? They got no linebackers. Listen, that's fine. You need linebackers over pride. Listen, that means that people got to step up. You see miles gear that defensive tackle stand up the tackle.


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[Assistant] We can sell out for four weeks, like come on now, four weeks. After four weeks, you can go do whatever you want to do. I don't care. You can go party, kick it, whatever, but for four weeks, while we in this building.


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[Assistant] So this play right here, this is, this is one of the rare cases that all of the Cleveland Browns, you know, Joe Woods that dislike him for not blitzing this play.


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[Assistant] Check this out. We got a corn, we got a snickle blitz. We got Gnu coming off the edge right there. So we call these a fire zone. So to teach you a fire zone, anytime it's a fire zone, Corners is pretty much manned up on their receiver, right?


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[Assistant] Pretty much, okay? So you got this guy who's a hot to three, this linebacker, a hot to three. Hot to three, the best way I can explain it to you, it comes off as man, but you are supposed to relate to number three. You got this safety who has to come down and replace, he is now the hot to two guy. So he's relating to number two, meaning


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[Assistant] It's man, but if I say these two crisscross, like say, say this guy crisscross, he would take three. He would take two.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the reason being is because if you look at this guy right here, he's off the ball. You can't really press a guy that's off the ball.


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[Assistant] Like if he goes up here, say he was right there and he pressed and this guy went like that. I see what you're saying. You would get picked off. Oh, I see. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So back up. A rob.


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[Assistant] But they still play cover 3 like that, right? It can still be cover 3. So anyways, so after giving y'all that, and this guy right here is a hot to two player too. So meaning he would have his running back to his side because obviously the receivers number one is running back or whoever second eligible this linebacker would go to, which in this case would be mixing. This guy is the post safety.


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[Assistant] This play right here happens. Jamar Chase runs, you know, the little skinny post. The reason that this play happens is because you remember we was just talking about


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[Assistant] I think it was last week when we was talking about Ed Reed was saying that he would be on this side and when he goes to the middle, as a quarterback, you always look at the safety. Once you see the safety come down, you always go.


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[Assistant] But the ball is put in a great window. That's the ball right there. It's literally between two defense.


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[Assistant] He did it. He literally looked up and it was right there and he caught it. So that right there is all chemistry. It was a great, like the coverage is great. Obviously that's a great window. It's just a guy made a great play. It's a quarterback and a receiver making a


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[Assistant] It is without, I've always thought that. I mean, you're chasing a ghost. Alright, so the next play is this. The next play, they get this play where it is, he's going to run this deep comeback. This guy's going to run an over route.


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[Assistant] So the key to this is this. Y'all say, well, we need to get, we need to find a way to get Denzel some help. So if they're in cover three, obviously we know the cover three. Buzz, Player, Hook.


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[Assistant] Uh, buzzer, he's in man, but in this scenario they're calling seam alert because if these both go seams, he's going to take the outside seam, he's going to take the inside seam. Then safety's obviously going to lean to this guy. So, with that being said,


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[Assistant] When you get these, when you get this route concept right here and this guy goes over, this guy right here, I think this is AJ Green. He actually supposed to be.


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[Assistant] Somebody, somebody should be, cuz your responsibility as a buzzer, AJ Green's responsibility as a buzzer is you get 8 to 10 yards, and you get to the numbers. When you get to the numbers, you look at the quarterback. If the quarterback is looking towards you, you go ahead and you push through the numbers.


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[Assistant] So that's what he's supposed to do. He got caught up in the play action and all that. Make a long story short, it turned into a one-on-one route concept. If you're playing corner and you're playing cover three, you're thinking, I got a hook player right there. I got a buzzer up under me. So the only, and I got a safety that's in the post. So the only thing that really is a problem should be the deep ball.


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[Assistant] So that's the quote on quote that hit, that was, that's the help that you supposed to get as a corner. However, in this case, there was no one there. There's absolutely nobody. I remember absolutely nobody there. So that's why this play happened. That's on green. Yeah. You got to have a buzzer. Can we bring this one up or?


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[Assistant] And we're gonna, and we're gonna be fair on this. Okay. I said, as a buzzer, your job is to be eight to 10 yards to or through the number. The ball starts on the, what is this? The 35 yard line. That means at deep, he should be at the 25. He was there. Let's see where he ended up at. This ball was caught.


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[Assistant] So they was in nickel, so it's five, five DBs. You got two corners, a nickel and two safes. There was another play tie where we got


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[Assistant] I compare it to baseball. You know how when you watch baseball, it's a boring sport because everybody does. It's not a boring sport. Listen, to the average viewer, it's a boring thing because the ball gets hit and it's routine. The defense is always clicking. It's like only time that somebody gets on base if they make a great base hit or somebody makes a mistake.


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[Assistant] Same way to football. If you go out there and do your job, your responsibility every player, all, all officers can do is take check downs. And they will get bored with that.


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[Assistant] But the problem is, they put cheese in your face. They entice you to do things that you're not supposed to do and that's when the big play happens. Don't take the cheese.


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[Assistant] Uh huh. What I got? How many I got? I don't know. Two fewer than me.


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[Assistant] They've got all eight right. I expect Morty out of you. We do.


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[Assistant] What do you got? Ty, it's your turn. Okay, I got the floor. Okay, uh, four flex, Elijah Moore, Codero Patterson, Trey Lime Birch.


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[Assistant] Stillness Flowing The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Jayasaro narrated by Gozaka


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[Assistant] Chapter 1 A Life Expired The Death of Luang Por Cha


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[Assistant] He who wants nothing of either this world or the next.


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[Assistant] At the small provincial airport of Ubon Ratchathani in northeast Thailand.


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[Assistant] A group of Buddhist monks and lay supporters look up to the sky. Nearby them, a white ambulance is parked on the runway. A loud droning sound can be heard.


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[Assistant] Its door opens and reveals an unusual and moving sight.


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[Assistant] An imposingly large western monk starts to descend from the plain.


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[Assistant] This frail and helpless looking figure is the revered master Luang Por Chah.


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[Assistant] After five long months of tests and consultations in a Bangkok hospital,


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[Assistant] He has returned to Ubon in order to spend the last days of his life at home in his monastery Wat Nongpa Pong, surrounded by his disciples.


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[Assistant] The last days of Luang Por's life came to exceed 3,000.


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[Assistant] He had survived such a succession of medical crises that it had seemed to many of his disciples that he could both leave them at any moment and that somehow he never would.


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[Assistant] There was a hope and expectation that before he left the world, he would perform some kind of psychic marvel. But he did not.


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[Assistant] At last, when his kidneys and his heart could no longer function, he went gentle into the good night.


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[Assistant] The monks who were present, including Ajahn Liam the Abbot.


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[Assistant] They set to work with the utmost care and attention.


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[Assistant] Washing Luang Por's body and clothing it in a new full set of robes.


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[Assistant] As a chill morning dawned, monks, nuns, and close lay disciples began arriving to pay their respects.


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[Assistant] They did not come to mourn, and few tears were shed. But although Luang Por's death had been no surprise, it was nevertheless a shock. A heavy, stunned feeling hung in the air.


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[Assistant] As the day progressed, a steady trickle of people grew into a stream and then a river.


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[Assistant] Over a million people would bow to Luang Por's body before it was cremated exactly one year later.


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[Assistant] A seven-day period of royal funeral rites sponsored by the King was announced.


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[Assistant] In the evening, Dr. Chow Natsilawan, the king's representative, arrived to perform the traditional water-pouring ritual before the coffin containing Lungpo's body was moved to the main dhamma hall.


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[Assistant] In light of the plan to keep the body for a year, copious amounts of Chinese tea, tobacco and lime had been placed inside.


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[Assistant] Once in the Dummer Hall, the coffin was placed in a polished, dark wood casket, ornately decorated with figures carved in Mother of Pearl.


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[Assistant] A photograph of Lung Por was placed to the left of the casket, together with his robes and bowl and other requisites.


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[Assistant] Reeds from the King and Queen and other members of the royal family were placed to the right.


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[Assistant] In front of the casket, elaborate flower arrangements completed the shrine.


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[Assistant] The monastery announced a 15-day period of Dhamma practice, consisting of chanting, meditation and Dhamma talks open to all.


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[Assistant] Similar events would mark 50 and 100 day ceremonies of commemoration.


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[Assistant] Now is the time, senior disciples said, to wholeheartedly cultivate the Dhamma through body, speech and mind, and dedicate the accrued merit as an offering to Luang Por.


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[Assistant] Their wise and compassionate teacher was no more for this world, but they would never forget him or the things that he had taught them.


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[Assistant] Hatsune Miku was originally the face of a vocal synthesis software called Vocaloid.


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[Assistant] The product allows anyone to write songs by simply adding lyrics to a scale resembling a keyboard.


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[Assistant] We visited Yamaha, the company that developed this global hit.


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[Assistant] It was designed by Hideki Kenmochi, an expert on vocal synthesis.


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[Assistant] The product became a hit after another software company designed a character for it. So why did they choose the image of a girl?


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[Assistant] The global SNS market has been expanding rapidly, led by sites such as Facebook, which boasts 800 million users.


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[Assistant] Japanese SNS sites are also making international inroads. This is the Bastian family living in Japan.


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[Assistant] Fourteen year old Sarah is constantly logged onto one particular site.


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[Assistant] Amiiba Pico has over 10 million users in Japan and 4 million overseas. The site allows people to communicate with others using avatars.


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[Assistant] There are nine rooms for different languages and users can talk with people in other countries.


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[Assistant] The site was created by Cyber Agent.


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[Assistant] For example, users can create their own unique avatar by choosing from over one trillion different combinations of facial shapes, skin color, eyebrow types, and even hairstyles.


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[Assistant] Fashion magazines and even historical documents are used to generate new ideas.


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[Assistant] The service itself is free, but those who want special items must pay for them. One item costs about one dollar. Sales of items are the primary profit source.


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[Assistant] Ms. Amano visits shopping districts regularly to find out what young people want in the real world.


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[Assistant] Those efforts have paid off. With overseas sales reaching 1 billion yen in 2011.


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[Assistant] You might have noticed today that all 27 Starbuckses on your block were closed.


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[Assistant] This is a good move on Starbucks' part. I honestly believe this. Like, they've tried to do this training right. Partnering with the NAACP, hosting discussion groups, they're even doing video presentations. In fact, our own Roy Wood Jr. sent in a training video for them to use. Take a look.


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[Assistant] Dear brothers and sisters, prepare yourselves to receive the protective spirits of the forest.


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[Assistant] This is a great day for you. Your totem has chosen you.


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[Assistant] Quotum never gets angry without reason, John. You must try to understand him. Look into your heart.


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[Assistant] A totem never gets angry without reason, John.


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[Assistant] Len Barker taking his perfect game into the seventh inning, dawg. I've got three wins now. Three, three, three. Jay is 6-0, Bull and Tyvis.


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[Assistant] Compared to old league. Valorant just boasted just comment like 1v5. Because for example in league, there was strategy back in the days where it was like master taric, right? Or it was scale master. And you just smash in game. Very quickly, right?


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[Assistant] The Luang Por Cha that left such an indelible impression on those who met him during his trips to the West in the mid-1970s is, for many, the Luang Por Cha.


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[Assistant] Most of the surviving recorded talks, the well-known photographs, and the priceless seconds of footage in the BBC documentaries were all from that period of his life. It is a wise, chuckling grandfather figure with a potbelly and walking stick that has embedded itself in the Western Buddhist pantheon.


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[Assistant] Looking back 20 years, a somewhat different luangpor cha emerges.


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[Assistant] At that time in his life, although he appears a powerful and impressive figure, he is also perhaps a less engaging one.


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[Assistant] If in his later years he might have been compared to an absolute monarch at ease in a peaceful kingdom,


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[Assistant] Then, in the 1950s, the comparison that would have come to mind was that of the warrior king of a troubled land.


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[Assistant] In the memories of those who lived with him in the early days of Wat Pa Pong, Luang Por was a spare, stern, vigorous figure.


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[Assistant] The few photos of him from this period convey an intimidating intensity.


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[Assistant] The images speak of a honed and disciplined mind, focused unwaveringly on its goal.


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[Assistant] It was a period in which he felt the culmination of his practice to lie within his grasp.


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[Assistant] Seeing the kind of momentum and intensity of effort needed to break through the last wall of ignorance, he was in no mood for compromise. He pushed his disciples to their limits. Those who could endure it stayed. Those who could not, left.


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[Assistant] He would say to them that if they genuinely aimed for liberation, they should know that Nibbana lay on the shores of death.


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[Assistant] The intensity of the schedule that Luang Por maintained at Wat Bap Hong during the first period of its existence was the natural outcome of the prodigious efforts he was putting forth in his own practice.


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[Assistant] As he led a small, tightly-knit community, with few of the teenage novices and elderly men that were to swell and somewhat dilute the intensity of the sangha in later days, he did his best to carry his disciples along in his wake.


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[Assistant] Patient endurance, praised by the Buddha as the most excellent incinerator of defilements, was the virtue that featured most prominently in Luang Por's exhortations to the Sangha.


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[Assistant] It was also the most striking feature of his own practice.


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[Assistant] The respect and awe in which the young monks held their teacher was inspired not only by the peace, wisdom and compassion that they recognized in him, but perhaps, above all, by the fact that he seemed so much tougher than everyone else.


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[Assistant] Over the centuries, it has become common throughout the world, for men at least, to look on spiritual endeavor as akin to warfare.


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[Assistant] In theistic traditions, the enemy that must be overcome is conceived of as an evil being. In Buddhism, it's the mental defilements.


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[Assistant] The idea of the spiritual warrior is one that has always appealed to young men, and in the early years of Wat Ba Pong, it was the dominant metaphor.


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[Assistant] Lung Po, at this early stage of his teaching career, had much of the battlefield general about him. He appears as a rugged figure, always leading from the front.


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[Assistant] Hard but fair to his disciples, and a master tactician.


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[Assistant] He portrayed spiritual life to his disciples as a long campaign requiring endurance, guile and supreme self-discipline.


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[Assistant] He urged them to grit their teeth and stick to their guns, because the rewards of victory were great.


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[Assistant] His Dhamma talks often featured forceful martial and boxing imagery. The monks were urged to fight the good fight and kill greed, hatred and delusion. Or at least to get up in the ring and beat them to pulp.


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[Assistant] It was good stirring stuff, an expertly pitch to the needs of his young audience.


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[Assistant] The members of the Sangha at Wat Bapong had all grown up in the midst of a hierarchical and authoritarian society. They felt comfortable about deferring to elders. They responded well to clarity and bluntness.


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[Assistant] To a 21st century eye, Luang Por's style of leadership at this time of his life can seem harsh and autocratic.


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[Assistant] But seen in the context of the times and the prevailing culture, it was by no means unusual.


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[Assistant] He was a strict disciplinarian, scolding the monks for their failings with a spontaneous, startling ferocity.


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[Assistant] But nobody questioned that he had the right to speak to them in such a way.


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[Assistant] Indeed, for most young monks, having a teacher who struck fear into their hearts was inspiring. It was how it should be, how it was meant to be.


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[Assistant] The training at Wat Ba Pong was characterized by a very precise attention to the extensive list of observances and regulations that augmented the main body of the Vinaya.


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[Assistant] Another military analogy may best describe the rationale for this approach.


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[Assistant] In the monastery, where life is understood as a state of emergency.


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[Assistant] Care over the smallest details can make the same difference between life and death as it can in wartime.


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[Assistant] Sharpness and clarity of mind were to be enhanced by grounding awareness in the concrete realities of the monk's daily life.


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[Assistant] Today, that early period has attained the status of the good old days, a golden age from which subsequent generations have fallen.


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[Assistant] Monks who later confessed how afraid they felt of Luangpor then did so with a pride that they were there and a nostalgic smile.


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[Assistant] Initially, Luang Por led the monks in the ruthless head-on style that worked so well for himself. As he got older, his style mellowed.


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[Assistant] Whether the later period is viewed as an evolution or a decline, as will be seen there were monks who held both views, there is no doubt that throughout his life,


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[Assistant] Luang Por would look back to the early days of the monastery as a time when the cohesion, dedication and faith of the sangha were at a level never to be surpassed. In those days,


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[Assistant] Ajahn Jan and Ajahn Tiang still didn't understand the practice, but they endured. They did as they were told, obedient to their teacher's instructions.


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[Assistant] Whatever I taught them or told them to do, they accepted it without argument, willing to listen to my words and reflect on them.


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[Assistant] That's why one of them was here for six years and the other for seven.


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[Assistant] During that period, Ajahn Jan and Ajahn Tiang never left the monastery, never went off tripping around the countryside aimlessly, wasting their time on things of little value.


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[Assistant] They sought the Dhamma from their teacher and practiced all the things that led to progress. That gave them great energy, both physical and mental.


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[Assistant] I led them in the practice, taught them to act courageously, to fear nothing at all, and they followed me.


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[Assistant] Ajahn Jan has spoken in detail of the daily life in Wat Bap Hong in those days.


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[Assistant] The bell would be rung at three o'clock for the morning chanting and meditation session. Lumpur would usually be in the Dhamma hall first. We would all arrive at about the same time.


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[Assistant] And sometimes there would be a check to see if everyone was there. If anyone was slacking in their practice and not coming out, he would ask where they were.


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[Assistant] You had 15 minutes to get to the Dummer Hall from the time the bell was rung, and if you didn't make it, something would be said.


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[Assistant] There will be a period of sitting meditation first, followed by chanting.


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[Assistant] Lumpur would give basic instructions on how to overcome the hindrances. We all tried hard and he kept an eye on everyone. If anyone was nodding, he would call out to wake them up.


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[Assistant] When he spoke, everyone was completely silent. We respected him. We were in awe of him. Nobody dared to fidget or speak.


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[Assistant] If anyone had to speak while they prepared their bowl and robes for arms round, they whispered,


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[Assistant] The longer routes would leave first. Lumpur himself went on a short route. He never went to Banco. He said the virus was still inside him. He meant that he still felt a trace of attachment to his old village and the people in it.


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[Assistant] If he went every day and saw the old place where he used to live, his brothers and sisters, his nephews and nieces, it might bring up old attachments. So, unless it was unavoidable, he wouldn't ever go to Banco. He'd go on arms round to Banclang. During the time before the arms round, after the monks on the long routes had left,


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[Assistant] He would pick up a broom and do some sweeping, or, some days, remove the leaves from the shallow ditches along the side of the paths.


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[Assistant] At three o'clock in the afternoon, the bell would ring again. Before leaving your kuti, you'd close the door and windows.


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[Assistant] And take in your robes or any cloth that was out on the line, so that if it rained you wouldn't have to run back. Then you'd bow. You always bowed.


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[Assistant] If you suddenly realized halfway down the path that you'd forgotten to bow, then you had to go back.


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[Assistant] You'll be carrying a broom and a water kettle in your hands.


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[Assistant] With your bathing cloth folded and tucked under your arm or on your head. When you got to the Dhamma hall, you'd put your things down and go and bow to the statue of the Buddha inside.


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[Assistant] You'd put your kettle on the monk's seat and then go out. If the sun was strong.


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[Assistant] You'd put the folded bathing cloth neatly on your head and then help sweep leaves.


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[Assistant] Lumpur would be there and we would sweep in a big line across the cleared area of the forest.


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[Assistant] There was no conversation. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, nobody spoke. All that you could hear would be the sound of the brooms.


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[Assistant] In those days, there was rarely anything sweet to drink in the afternoons. All we'd get would be a bitter infusion made from borapet vine, s'more, and Indian gooseberry mac and palm.


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[Assistant] There may not have been much sugar, but there was plenty of some more. We'd eat them pickled or dipped in dried ground chillies and salt. But it wasn't every day. If there were some, Luang Por would have the afternoon bell rung early.


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[Assistant] And we'd meet under the big mango tree at half past two before chores.


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[Assistant] Anyone who tossed the seeds away in a careless fashion would be in trouble. He'd say, you've soiled your virtue. We weren't to throw the seeds away just anywhere.


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[Assistant] We had to put them all together in a neat pile, and then afterwards, one of us would dispose of them in the proper place.


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[Assistant] After we'd finished, Luang Por would say a few more words of Dhamma, and then, at three o'clock, we'd go to work.


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[Assistant] We'd prepare water for drinking and general use.


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[Assistant] In the early days, we'd haul the water from the well.


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[Assistant] And then carry it to the places it was needed in old kerosene cans.


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[Assistant] These cans would be carried, suspended from a bamboo pole with a monk at each end, taking the weight on a shoulder.


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[Assistant] Lumpur would be one of the ones pulling on the rope. And I would be the one who would lift out the bucket full of water and fill the tin cans.


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[Assistant] In those days there weren't many monks. Six, eight, ten. The numbers steadily increased.


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[Assistant] Everybody would help with the water hauling, young and old, and it was done in silence. Longpa would be observing us the whole time. The monks were careful, respectful. We had a deep faith in what we were doing.


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[Assistant] When water hauling was over, then we'd sweep the dumber haul.


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[Assistant] And then go out onto our walking paths to practice some walking meditation. As soon as the bell was rung at six o'clock.


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[Assistant] We pick up our robes and shoulder bag from the kutte.


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[Assistant] Close our windows, bow, and set off for the evening session at a brisk pace.


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[Assistant] Luang Por was always reminding us to get to the Dhamma hall promptly and not to keep the senior monks waiting.


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[Assistant] After the evening sitting, there would be a period of chanting, and then Luang Por would get up onto the Dhamma seat. Most days he'd read a passage from the Bhubhasi Ka and then expand on its meaning. It would usually be around 10 or 11 o'clock before we'd pay respects to the Triple Gem and return to our kuddhis. Sometimes it would be midnight or one in the morning.


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[Assistant] If he saw that someone had thrown something away in the forest, an old plastic dipper, say, or a spittoon, that was still usable or whatever, he'd retrieve it. He'd say we were wasteful. You've soiled your virtue.


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[Assistant] That was one of his favourite phrases, you've soiled your virtue. When I first went to live in Wat Bapong,


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[Assistant] I couldn't understand how you could soil your virtue so quickly or easily.


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[Assistant] What he meant was that you'd said or done something inappropriate. You'd say something wrong. Do something wrong.


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[Assistant] Put things away poorly, lose your awareness, be in a daydream, and that would be soiling your virtue. He tried to have us use requisites frugally so that we wouldn't run out of things. Some people didn't understand. They said Lumpur was always complaining that he nagged


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[Assistant] That he was stingy, but it was really just that he had a standard that he was trying to maintain.


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[Assistant] Every observance day we'd keep the sitter's practice, monks and laity. Everybody would refrain from sleeping for the whole night. It was very difficult to leave the hall. You'd be sitting there in agony.


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[Assistant] But nobody would have the courage to be the first to go outside.


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[Assistant] Because it would mean showing yourself up in front of the others, and you'd worry about that. But once one had gone out, others would follow. It wasn't that people wanted to lie down and rest.


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[Assistant] They wanted to stretch their legs and do some walking meditation. Some nights though, if you couldn't bear it,


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[Assistant] You might actually lay down for a few minutes on the forest floor, but...


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[Assistant] Lumpur would say, going outside is for changing your posture. Don't get into conversations.


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[Assistant] He himself just sat there motionless for the whole night.


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[Assistant] Those two could talk all day and all night if you gave them the chance. Long Po would say, alright.


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[Assistant] Now the monks and novices can hear a talk about lay life and how hard and full of troubles it is.


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[Assistant] Then, one of the two would tell us all about the sufferings of life in the world. And actually, we learnt a lot.


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[Assistant] In later years, Ajahn Tiang was sometimes teased for exaggerating the purity of the practice in the early days. Some monks said that he projected too much of the fierceness and lack of humor in his own personality onto Luang Por.


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[Assistant] Nevertheless, his account of that early period is a powerful one.


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[Assistant] The heart of what Lung Po was teaching, the two things he was emphasizing above all else, were the Vinaya and meditation practice. The monastic regimen was not to be discarded or interrupted under any circumstances.


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[Assistant] If it wasn't absolutely necessary, then there were no breaks from group practice. If there was a break, it never lasted more than 15 days or so or at most a month.


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[Assistant] You were told to practice walking and sitting meditation. Keep putting forth effort, morning, noon and night.


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[Assistant] If you had some task to perform, you were to see to it and then return to your meditation.


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[Assistant] The monks weren't interested in chatting or playing around. Everyone kept to themselves and did their practice. The lay people who went to the monastery did the same. They listened to talks and learned about the Dhamma.


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[Assistant] He never told jokes or acted in a high-spirited way.


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[Assistant] He never spoke of worldly things, or led the monks into bad habits with talk of the sensual world.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, he would forbid such talk.


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[Assistant] He told the monks not to socialize. He said it led to cliques and disharmony. His sights were set firmly on practice.


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[Assistant] He was intent on the three-fold training and the study of the Dhamma and Vinaya.


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[Assistant] In those days, he would give regular instruction based on the Puba Sikha. Every day after evening chanting, we'd listen to the Vinaya.


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[Assistant] We trained ourselves to cut and sew our own robes and to make tooth woods.


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[Assistant] We incorporated those things into our daily schedule and used them to overcome sloth, torpor and laziness.


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[Assistant] That was the way he taught. If you feel sleepy, then don't sleep. Find some skillful means to get through your drowsiness.


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[Assistant] In the middle of the day, if nothing else works, you can always make tooth woods.


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[Assistant] Sometimes we'd practice until 11 or 12 at night before he'd let us go back.


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[Assistant] That would give you two hours of rest. How could you go to sleep for two hours? You just ended up sitting propped up against a wall or tree somewhere near the dhamma hall. You'd never be in time to ring the bell. Lumpur would always be there first. We tried our best, but who could make do with as little sleep as him?


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[Assistant] If it was a walking period, you had to walk. No question.


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[Assistant] If it was a sitting period, you had to sit, you weren't to get up. He wasn't joking, it wasn't in him. You had no alternative.


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[Assistant] If he saw you being stubborn, he would call you over and scold you. He scolded the monks, he scolded the novices. He'd even call a meeting to do it.


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[Assistant] You couldn't sit around relaxing anywhere, even for the blink of an eye. You couldn't drift in and out of the dumber hall. He'd ask straight away, what did you go outside for? If you'd gone out to urinate,


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[Assistant] And disappeared for an hour, then that would be it. An hour to urinate.


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[Assistant] Next time you go, let me know. I'd like to see that for myself. How could you fail to be afraid?


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[Assistant] You couldn't skip anything. He didn't joke, and he didn't let anything go.


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[Assistant] If you didn't have a proper walking path, or the central area was left unswept, then that was it.


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[Assistant] You'd hear about it that very day. Why not? Are you unwell? If you're not feeling well, then why didn't you come and tell me? Or, if you couldn't do that, why didn't you tell somebody else? How can you just follow your own mind like that? You're a member of a community, aren't you? Or do you think you're living alone? He'd pull you up on everything. You couldn't move an inch. You couldn't wander about.


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[Assistant] Once the session was over, and you could carry on practicing on your own, even still, if he saw someone walking about, then that was it. Venable sir, venable sir! What are you playing around at now? He had really sharp eyes. He didn't let anything go.


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[Assistant] Even very minor matters. If he told everyone to walk and you didn't, then it would be a big deal.


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[Assistant] If the session was over, you had to go straight back to your kuti.


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[Assistant] If he hadn't given permission, then you couldn't go anywhere.


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[Assistant] If there was anything the matter, then you had to mention it. So there were some great stories in those days. It wasn't so much that he forced anybody, but he had absolute sincerity.


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[Assistant] That's the way he ran the monastery in those days. But, to be frank, we weren't quite up to it.


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[Assistant] The first thing he told us to do was establish a stable mindfulness, to make it continuous, not to get lost or distracted or let it be cut off.


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[Assistant] He said his Dhamma had no top and no bottom. It wasn't short or long.


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[Assistant] He said that he had pressed it into a ball that was shaped like a coconut. He taught us to establish mindfulness.


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[Assistant] Nurture our faith. Incline our minds towards the triple gem of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.


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[Assistant] He himself had genuine reverence, and he taught that reverence to us too. He taught us to be mindful while we were bowing.


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[Assistant] He said that if we let our minds wander, and our mindfulness was poor, then there would inevitably be some fault or other in what we did. He would say that when your mind is not calm,


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[Assistant] Making mindfulness constant and smooth without interruptions. Not allowing it to be broken.


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[Assistant] Whether standing, walking, sitting, lying down or eating, you had to be mindful.


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[Assistant] Because if you lose your mindfulness, it's the same as losing your life. That's what he'd say. If there was a work project going on, for instance.


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[Assistant] And we complained that we didn't have the opportunity to practice. He would ask us,


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[Assistant] If our breath stopped while we were eating or lying down, how could you be too exhausted to meditate when your breath is so immediate and ordinary? There's nothing more to it than the breath. If you practice and you're mindful,


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[Assistant] It's nothing more than being with this ordinary breath. That was all he taught. Mindfulness was the main part of it. If you lose your mindfulness, what kind of meditation technique are you going to use?


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[Assistant] What sort of concentration are you going to develop? What purification is going to take place? You won't know how to achieve any of those things. It's mindfulness that's important.


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[Assistant] Coolness and tranquility arise in the presence of mindfulness. Internal and external well-being come with mindfulness. Dhamma. Vineya.


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[Assistant] Every one of the monastic regulations depends on mindfulness. Without mindfulness, what are you going to make your object of awareness? That's how he taught the fundamental principles.


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[Assistant] He'd say, don't get puffed up about being monks and novices. Don't look down on others.


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[Assistant] Don't be attached to your family background or nationality. That's not virtuous, and it's not the dumber. Wash your hands of that kind of pride.


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[Assistant] Aim at abandoning all conceit and views.


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[Assistant] He told us not to make too much out of each other's faults, to keep considering how similar we all are, and not to dwell on thoughts of who's right and who's wrong. Admonishments are normal.


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[Assistant] After you've done something wrong, then put it behind you. Don't hold on to feelings of right and wrong.


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[Assistant] As soon as there's holding on an attachment, it's not Dhamma and it's not Vinaya. If something is in line with the Vinaya, then it's in line with the Dhamma as well. By keeping the Vinaya, you're practicing Dhamma. Luang Por treated them as interconnected. He never separated Dhamma from Vinaya.


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[Assistant] He taught us to practice the different aspects of the path simultaneously.


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[Assistant] That's why he said, his teachings weren't short or long, but were pressed into a sphere, like a grapefruit or a coconut.


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[Assistant] Monks who arrived in the mid-1960s, as the size of the community steadily increased, might have found a slight relaxation of Lungpo's intensity, but by no means did they have an easy time of it.


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[Assistant] He still sought to create within his disciples the enthusiasm for the training and the patient endurance that was needed for them to succeed in it.


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[Assistant] His aim was still to foster within them a whole new attitude to their lives. An attitude in which everything matters. Nothing was to be done in a slipshod manner. Care, attention and respect had to be given to every action.


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[Assistant] Luang Por tirelessly admonished the monks when they were heedless. He drummed into them how essential it was to sustain mindfulness in every activity.


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[Assistant] With laxness or negligence in minor matters of procedure, bringing down such wrath upon their heads, few monks could even contemplate larger, more serious transgressions.


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[Assistant] In most cases, a sense of wise shame and fear of consequences, although artificially quickened, soon matured. As Ajahn Anake remembered it,


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[Assistant] If anybody did something that deviated from his instructions, it would be an issue immediately.


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[Assistant] Suppose Luang Por heard the sound of buckets clanking at the well, outside of the time he'd laid down for hauling water.


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[Assistant] Or of someone chopping jackfruit chips to make dye at the wrong time, that evening we would hear about it.


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[Assistant] He would get up on the dumber seat and lay down the law until late at night.


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[Assistant] On some occasions, he would keep going until three in the morning. By that time, it wasn't worth going back to our kuttis. And after he got down from the seat, we would launch straight into morning chanting.


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[Assistant] So we would have to keep nudging and reminding each other if we saw anyone doing anything at the wrong time, because we were afraid of another dressing down.


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[Assistant] Even if there was only one miscreant. Long Paul wouldn't let anyone else go back to their goodies. Everyone had to sit there and listen to the admonishment.


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[Assistant] It was no different than if you yourself were being told off, and it was frustrating for those who wanted to meditate, or had other business to see to.


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[Assistant] We monks were really afraid. Afraid that we'd have to listen to a long talk. If Luang Por knew someone had done something wrong, then he would never leave it overnight.


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[Assistant] He'd either call over the individual monk at fault or speak to the whole Sangha. He was always very strict and vigorous.


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[Assistant] Anyone who had any kind of business, no matter how important or trivial, would have to go and ask his permission first before seeing to it.


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[Assistant] You couldn't just go ahead and do something on your own authority. If you did, you could be sure that that evening you'd be in for a long talk.


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[Assistant] If anyone missed chanting, or came five or ten minutes late, it was a serious matter. As you approach the Dhamma hall,


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[Assistant] You had to walk as softly and silently as possible.


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[Assistant] Making a noise was completely unacceptable.


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[Assistant] If you did, you'd be admonished for disturbing the people already meditating in the hall.


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[Assistant] Luang Por said that making a noise close to people who were meditating was ill-mannered and bad karma.


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[Assistant] What's more, it indicated a lack of mindfulness, self-awareness, and sense restraint.


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[Assistant] He said that for a practitioner of Dhamma, it was disgraceful behavior.


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[Assistant] I don't really recall. If you went out to urinate, you'd be admonished.


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[Assistant] You had to endure until the end of the session. He'd say, other people can do it. Why can't you? You're a human being the same as they are. You've got all the same organs. What's so difficult? That's how we did things in those days. Your robe would become completely soaked with sweat and you'd lose so much fluid that way that the ache to urinate would disappear.


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[Assistant] We were also afraid of Luang Por, really afraid when he started getting onto us like that. You eat a lot and sleep a lot.


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[Assistant] If you eat a lot, then you have to shit a lot, drink a lot, and you have to piss a lot. I've heard those words so many times. But, as a result, in our eating, in our actions, we were always very moderate.


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[Assistant] In those days there was a great care and precision in how we did things.


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[Assistant] The atmosphere at Wat Pa Pong was not however as grim and harsh as some of the preceding passages might suggest.


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[Assistant] Luang Por's exhortations were given in a semi-tropical forest in which, for months every year, stifling heat and humidity encouraged sloth and torpor.


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[Assistant] His audience was an easy-going group of young men, raised in a culture that did not instill a crippling sense of guilt or self-aversion that might have led them to take such brow-beating unwisely. The heavy hand was, in short, a medicine whose benefits outweighed its side effects.


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[Assistant] After some time, monks became accustomed to the novelties of the monastic life.


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[Assistant] If their meditation practice was yet to bear much fruit, it was difficult for them to maintain their original enthusiasm.


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[Assistant] The constant urging and upbraiding from Lumpur sought to invigorate the regular cases of slumping zeal.


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[Assistant] His words were, in some ways, the equivalent of a Zen Master stick.


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[Assistant] Not everyone could endure it, and some monks left. But for the most part, they enjoyed the fiery talks in the same way that they relished fiercely spiced food. Common praise for a more abrasive talk was that it really got down to the chilies and ginger.


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[Assistant] But there were also times when the sangha came as close as bald-headed monks could come to letting their hair down.


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[Assistant] Every now and again, Lord Paul would invite everyone over to his kuti in the evening.


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[Assistant] Cigarettes would be passed around, and the monks would sit in the lamplight, outer robe removed, smoking and listening to Longpaw's anecdotes and stories.


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[Assistant] He would talk about the wisdom of enlightened monks, the hard-earned triumphs and comical failures of unenlightened disciples, encounters with wild animals and ghosts, tales from the time of the Buddha. Monks would laugh a lot.


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[Assistant] There would be questions in the sharing of experiences.


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[Assistant] These occasions were treasured by the monks. The warmth, companionship and emotional support they felt as they sat there, their answered needs not met in the formal gatherings of the community.


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[Assistant] On these occasions, Lung Po affected an apparently effortless switch from commander in chief to father figure.


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[Assistant] The ambiguity of the monk's feelings towards Luang Por became obvious on these occasions.


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[Assistant] At the same time as fearing him, almost as mice do the cat, or in his own simile, as burglars do the policeman, they loved and trusted him completely, and would savour every moment of their time in his presence.


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[Assistant] The monks sometimes felt that the points of Dhamma that they gleaned from these occasions went deeper into their hearts than the teachings they received during formal Dhamma talks.


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[Assistant] They would return to their kuttis after these sessions, charged and refreshed, eager to meditate.


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[Assistant] Not everyone was happy that there were monks in Pong Forest. There were local prejudices and misunderstandings to overcome. One of the first points of contention with the villagers was the sensitive issue of water use. We dug a really good well in the forest.


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[Assistant] We put up a sign in front of it saying, for monks only, not to be used by laypeople, and filled a separate earthenware jar with water for anybody coming through the forest. We got criticized for that.


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[Assistant] They go to all the trouble of becoming monks and learning about the Buddha's teachings, and they end up so selfish they won't even share their water.


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[Assistant] You'd think they weren't dependent on the laypeople for their food every day. There. All because of a misunderstanding. In my own village as well. In fact, they were welcome to drink the water.


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[Assistant] It was just that when the villagers haul water themselves, they use buckets that they've been storing frogs and fish or tadpoles or whatnot in, which make the water dirty. I didn't want them to do that.


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[Assistant] So, when we hauled water every day, we put some in a jar specially for laypeople. But people didn't tell the whole story.


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[Assistant] They just said that we wouldn't let them use our water. So when poor Nupi heard just that, he was so angry that he stormed out of the village.


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[Assistant] He said he was going to drive the monks out of the forest. What sort of monks are these?


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[Assistant] Who do they think they are? Have they forgotten that we are the ones that feed them? He'd only heard half the story.


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[Assistant] It took a long time to explain to him, but then when he understood, he became a disciple, and later on, the monastery's head layman.


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[Assistant] Villagers, some of whom had formerly cut timber illegally, hunted and raised cattle, etc. on the edge of the forest, were now unable to do so. They were angry at the disruption of their livelihood. Some of the disgruntled villagers came up with a plan to discredit the monks.


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[Assistant] Unwittingly repeating a ploy going back to the time of the Buddha himself, it involved compromising one of the monks with a woman.


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[Assistant] The monk who went on alms round to that village was informed by a well-wisher of what was being considered. Worried, he informed Lung Po.


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[Assistant] Luang Por said that he would go on arms round to the village himself.


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[Assistant] Inevitably, monastery lay supporters objected. Ajaan! Don't go on your own!


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[Assistant] They say that they're going to get a young woman to hug you and then shout out that you tried to rape her. Long Po unfazed, joked with them, bring her on. I've never been hugged by a young woman in my life. Let her try. It should be great.


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[Assistant] In the end, the villagers lost their nerve. Who knew what coming retribution they would be calling down upon themselves, they worried. Better safe than sorry.


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[Assistant] And from that point onwards, relations between the Wat and the villagers slowly but steadily improved.


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[Assistant] Another problem arose when it became known that the nuns had planted fruit trees.


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[Assistant] At the beginning, people would come in to ask for a few of the papayas, guavas, lemons or bananas. After a while, they came to steal.


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[Assistant] One of the nuns resident of the time remembers the skillful way Luang Por solved the problem.


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[Assistant] The thieves would usually sneak in at about eight or nine at night while the monks were attending the evening session.


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[Assistant] One day Luang Por told some postulants to cut down some of the largest calm thorn bushes and conceal them by the side of the path used by the thieves.


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[Assistant] That night, he had monks wait at three points along the path. He himself was at the first point, close to where the thieves would steal the papayas. The second point lay halfway along the path, and the third was near to the thorn trap.


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[Assistant] At the expected time, the thieves came into view carrying bags and baskets.


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[Assistant] While they were engrossed in picking the papayas, Luang Por gave a signal and the thornbushes were placed lengthwise along the path.


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[Assistant] The bushes were big. Every branch was covered with sharp thorns, and they covered the path completely.


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[Assistant] When Lung Po estimated that the thieves had almost filled their baskets, he coughed softly.


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[Assistant] The cough wasn't loud enough to make them panic and throw away their booty immediately.


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[Assistant] But it was enough for them to decide they needed to leave quickly.


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[Assistant] The thieves lifted the baskets to their shoulders and hurried off, half walking, half running.


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[Assistant] When they reached the second point, Long Po shouted out from behind them, Did you see anyone go that way? Where are they? Where are they?


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[Assistant] The monks hiding at the second point shouted back.


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[Assistant] Hearing these voices, the thieves got really scared and started to run like crazy.


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[Assistant] When they reached the third point, the monks hiding there made a commotion. Meanwhile, behind them, the monks from the first two points were chasing them down the path.


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[Assistant] The sound of shouts and whoops filled the forest. Now the thieves really panicked. They threw down the baskets and lengths of cloth wrapping the papayas and sprinted away straight into the thorn bushes.


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[Assistant] The first thief suddenly felt the pain and pulled up sharply.


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[Assistant] The second one cannon into him and the two of them crawled around trying desperately to free themselves from the thorn bushes. Their groans of pain were deafening. Anyway.


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[Assistant] They were so afraid that finally they managed to get free and ran off back to their village.


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[Assistant] Long Po had the postulants gather up the evidence, the baskets and the kama cloths.


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[Assistant] He knew the identity of the thieves would be no secret, because they'd be laid up in bed for two or three days before their children would be able to pull out all the thorns.


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[Assistant] After that time had passed, he sent for the village headman.


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[Assistant] Long Po said, tell them to come and collect their baskets and cloths. They dropped them in the forest.


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[Assistant] Tell them they don't have to be afraid. Tell them to come and get them from me.


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[Assistant] They've left them here a long time already. If they don't hurry, the papayas will have dried up and they won't be able to sell them. One of the thieves came.


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[Assistant] Longpo spoke to him kindly, without scolding, and taught him to carry on an honest livelihood and to give up thieving. The papayas weren't worth the bad gammah. After that, the theft ceased.


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[Assistant] It has long been a custom in Thailand to release unwanted dogs in village monasteries, where the monks feed them from leftover alms food. But when people started to do this in Wat Pa Pong, Luang Por had to explain why he could not agree to it.


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[Assistant] We don't like cats and dogs here. We already have a lot of creatures, squirrels and shrews and jungle fowl in particular, and we're trying to conserve them for future generations.


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[Assistant] The dogs you let go in the forest kill these animals. Please don't do it again.


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[Assistant] Whoever brought these dogs here, then take them away with you. If you don't want to take them, then I can get one of the monastery lay supporters to see to it. But don't bring dogs into the forest again.


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[Assistant] The squirrels, the shrews, the forest chickens, they belong to all of you as much as to me.


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[Assistant] When your children and grandchildren have grown up, they will be able to come and see these different kinds of creatures in the monastery.


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[Assistant] There's not many left of the ones living outside the monastery. We've all got to help look after these creatures in the forest.


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[Assistant] Relations between Wat Bapong and the monks in the surrounding villages and the city of Ubon were strained. The tensions were familiar ones.


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[Assistant] Since the appearance of the Lungphu-man lineage some 40 years before, friction between the forest monks and local sanghas had occurred frequently. Urban scholars and administrators tended to look on forest monks with disdain.


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[Assistant] Their custom of giving Dhamma talks in the Isan language rather than Central Thai, and of employing a plain, unvarnished style rather than delivering text-based sermons in elevated language read from palm leaves, was considered disrespectful to the Dhamma.


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[Assistant] With some reason, scholars worried that the impromptu style of teaching, unsupported by frequent reference to Pali texts, easily led to uneducated opinion being passed off as the Buddha's teaching.


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[Assistant] The forest monk's lifestyle of keeping to the ascetic practices, such as eating once a day from their bowls, was seen as excessive, out of date and uncouth.


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[Assistant] The forest monks threaten the prestige of the urban monks.


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[Assistant] Although the forest tradition was largely unknown in Ubon, anyone who had read or heard stories from the scriptures could see that their way of life was much closer to the ancient ideal than was that of the urban monks.


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[Assistant] The local village monks often felt intimidated by the presence of monks strict in Vinaya. Formerly there had been no standard to measure them by.


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[Assistant] Their laxness was just the way things were, and people were used to it. But now things had changed.


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[Assistant] laypeople who had been to Wat Bapong came back inspired and compared it favorably with their local monastery.


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[Assistant] Long Paul did not just accept their offerings and chant a few blessings in Pali, they said.


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[Assistant] He taught them the value of precepts and how to meditate.


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[Assistant] Jealousy of Luang Por sometimes found expression in scorn and abuse.


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[Assistant] Longpaw's reply was to quietly carry on with his practice and the training of monks, and to behave so impeccably as to deprive the snipers of their ammunition.


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[Assistant] From very early on, the monastery established by Luang Por in Pong forest was known as Wat Ba Pong. But it was not, in the technical or legal sense of the word, a Wat at all.


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[Assistant] What is a designation conferred on a monastic residence by the Crown on the advice of the ruling body of the National Sangha?


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[Assistant] It denotes a formal recognition of the monastery's legitimacy and orthodoxy from the powers that be.


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[Assistant] Application for this status is a natural and expected progression for monastic communities that have firmly established, have all essential buildings erected, and have a steady lay support.


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[Assistant] Wat Bapong would not become a Wat in the eyes of the law until 1970.


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[Assistant] In the early years of its existence, its insecure legal status made it worrisomely vulnerable to hostile forces.


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[Assistant] Luang Por was keenly aware that the long-term security of Wat Ba Pong was dependent on establishing a good relationship with the Sangha elders in the city, or at least one based upon mutual acceptance.


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[Assistant] While it was true that there was no danger that powerful figures would seek to interfere in the way he ran Wat Bapong on a day-to-day basis.


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[Assistant] Long Por and his monks were answerable by law to the administrative jurisdiction of senior monks appointed on the rural, district and provincial levels.


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[Assistant] If Wat Bapong became the subject of these monks' enmity or suspicion, it would be difficult for the monastery to survive.


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[Assistant] Monks branded as vagabonds and renegades had been known to be evicted from their hermitages or even forcibly disrobed.


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[Assistant] Accusations that forest monks were communists was becoming an increasingly effective slur.


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[Assistant] To the monks in village monasteries surrounding him, he was unfailingly polite, and often made donations to them of excess requisites or tools.


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[Assistant] Gradually, Wat Bap Hong became a recognized member of the local scene.


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[Assistant] By asking the head monk of the local district to be his disciple's preceptor, Luang Por gave this powerful figure a personal interest in the welfare of the Wat Bap Hong Sangha.


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[Assistant] He arranged textbooks for monks who wished to take the Naktam Dhamma exams, and the impressive exam results of the Wat Bapong monks earned them a grudging respect amongst the urban scholars.


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[Assistant] Luang Por made a particular point of showing deference to the senior monks in the local town of Warin and the city of Ubon.


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[Assistant] He tried to let them see for themselves that he and his disciples were not revolutionaries bent on overthrowing a corrupt establishment.


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[Assistant] They were simple forest monks seeking a quiet place to practice.


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[Assistant] Once a year, at the start of the rains retreat, he would take his sangha to pay respects to their superiors. Even if, as often occurred in the early years, he was spoken to sarcastically or patronized,


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[Assistant] Luang Por would maintain a bowed head humility that disarmed his would-be antagonists.


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[Assistant] As the years went by, Luang Por's seniority and fame steadily increased.


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[Assistant] Burgeoning lay support, both local and national, provided a buffer against his detractors, and the Watt became secure.


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[Assistant] At the same time, a number of locally prominent scholar monks, such as Ajahn Mahamon, became disciples, giving the Wat Bapong Sangha a certain intellectual legitimacy in the eyes of the Pali scholars.


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[Assistant] Suspicion and distrust of Luang Por lessened considerably. Jealousies went underground.


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[Assistant] More and more monks asked to come to train at Wat Ba Phong.


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[Assistant] Adverse reactions from village and urban monks were not a wholly bad thing.


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[Assistant] The perception that the Wat Ba Pong monks held of themselves as a beleaguered minority, the only strict and dedicated monks in a sea of corruption and decline, intensified their commitment and sense of community.


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[Assistant] It seemed reasonable to assume that the harmony and unity that became such a distinctive feature of Wat Pa Pong was in part built upon this early perception of the Wat as a solitary island of authentic practice.


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[Assistant] It was true that from time to time, the arrogance that usually accompanies feelings of being special could be seen to surface amongst members of the Wat Phapong Sangha.


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[Assistant] But with Luang Por constantly urging them to confront defilements head on.


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[Assistant] Most monks were too painfully aware of their own failings to sustain serious feelings of superiority.


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[Assistant] He could be happy with the results of his efforts at Wat Pa Pong.


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[Assistant] The growing number of monks, novices and nuns, was an indication of a monastery in rude good health.


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[Assistant] Luang Por was learning more and more about how to teach and train his disciples.


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[Assistant] Almost a hundred years after the birth of its founder, Lungpu Man, in an outlying village, the forest monastic lineage was finally taking root in Ubon.


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[Assistant] Say, look bud, if you don't want to buy anything, will you please scram?


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[Assistant] I called him a couple years ago when the sticky stuff was first coming, becoming a thing and banning the substances. I called him and he had COVID.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. I feel, and he served, this was like in the, in the teeth of COVID. Right. I feel like, and he served, I talked to his wife and she said Gaylord's not feeling well. He's got COVID. He'll talk to you when he's feeling better. And I thought, I called our desk and said, just so you know, yeah, Hall of Fame pitcher's got COVID. This isn't looking too good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we did. And he pulled through and survived and unfortunately I dropped the ball and never called it back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was asking around yesterday. So does this mean he's not going to talk until post game Sunday? I was told no, he is going to talk, which leaves today or tomorrow. The Friday news dump type thing makes a lot of sense. Just wait until Friday, but the Browns are going to open the locker room here in about 10 minutes. I heard he may speak today.


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[Assistant] I'm sure it's happened. I mean, I did the NBA for 10 years, but the last four I've been in the NFL world, I can't recall the quarterback not talking. I don't either. Unless he's hurt, obviously, but if he's, and even if he's hurt, then the replacement talks.


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[Assistant] Honestly, she stole it. Have you learned anything? Is there anything that have you changed at all? Is there any, because he's never gonna admit to what he did.


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[Assistant] Listen, I've had issues with Tony Bosby in the past. I think it's really dirty on his behalf. We had it out on the radio.


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[Assistant] This is cathartic and therapeutic for the women as well. And that's why I wanna be very careful with where we're taking this thing. Yes. Because I agree with a lot of what you guys are saying.


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[Assistant] But the only people, what Boal said earlier, the only people who know what happened is the women and Deshaun. That's the only ones who know for sure. And if these women


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[Assistant] He should be talking, 11-15, locker room open. Okay. He should be talking within the next five minutes.


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[Assistant] As somebody who lives this and does it every day and works in it.


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[Assistant] I was talking to someone on our desk at the athletic and I said, I'm done. I have nothing else to ask on this. I've written the columns. I wanted to write. I addressed this. I have nothing else to ask. It's time to get back to covering football. And that's not trying to be insensitive or dismiss what happened.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing. I'm kind of flipped on this. I've thought all along this game was going to be close and they were going to struggle. Texans have given up.


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[Assistant] I think he will be running a lot. I see a lot of RPO with him. I can't wait to see that. It's him or Nick, you know, it's either give it or pull it back.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's gonna run for touchdown. You know, like, it's tricky, these questions are tricky because you get it down to the goal line or you get it down inside the 10 or even the 15, he'll just run it in.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So I, that's why I say, I say, and plus see that. I don't know that I trust all the receivers.


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[Assistant] Yet. So I think, I think you're going to score multiple and he may throw for one or run for one.


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[Assistant] Well, I was talking to Wyatt Teller about this, this week, and he said linemen love playing in this offense, be kind of what you were talking about. Look over here, we're going over here. You look there, it's the misdirection, and they, the linemen love that.


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[Assistant] Do you see the Twitter clip Hayden Grove put out yesterday?


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[Assistant] So can they overhaul this offense in three practices this week? Deshaun took a lot of snaps in training camp for this reason, I think, trying to fast track this once he was eligible. But can you crumple up everything you were doing, three tight end sets and throw that out and overhaul what you're doing with just three practices?


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[Assistant] And I did say that there were other things for him to address. There is a new allegation. So there, there are pertinent questions to ask, but at this point I'm just fatigued by the whole thing. And maybe that's the wrong attitude to have, but I don't know what else he can say that he hasn't said. I don't know that we can ask.


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[Assistant] It depends on how this season ends, depends on if he plays well, and it depends on


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[Assistant] And I said the other day, I think it's gonna be a Netflix special in a couple of years. And I absolutely believe that. I think he's gonna handle it himself. When he really tells his story, I think he wants to be in control of it. It's gonna be big.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, there will be articles done. He will do sit downs. I, I don't know that I even want to do that. Frankly, like I don't know that I want to be in that position.