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that we see everywhere.

We see an oriental, you know, that is Eastern religions as well.

But how, so how does nothing become everything? Well, so the divine noose, the intellect contemplates the latent, inexpressible, contents of the one.

And it starts out in very, very abstract, something like geometry, mathematics, these very abstract forms that are very difficult to understand.

That rules.

The Middle East, as some call it.

The Middle East.

That's true.

That's what it is.

All right.

Uh, so yeah, I saw, uh, one of my favorite bands have heart twice this weekend and first show was at the middle East upstairs, which I had forgotten.

That is like a tiny ass venue.

Yeah.

I had never seen it packed.

Okay.

So this says the capacity at Middle East upstairs is 194 people.

There was no space to even move in that place.

I have no defilements.

And in one of the Buddhist teachings in the Middle East Discourses called the Five and the Three, he spells that out.

He says, the mind says, I am at peace.

I am without clinging.

But, you know, in one of Joseph Campbell's books, because he was very, very... well-versed in mythology and religion from all around the world, he would say when a child who is growing up in China, when some situation brings forth the embodiment of compassion, they would see Guanyin Bodhisattva.

In Tibet, that would be a male figure of Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig.

In the Middle East, in a Christian circumstance, it would be Mother Mary.

And so the mind forms those archetypal energies according to what you've grown up with.

So what has happened? What has happened up until this point? There's been a great movement to achieve world peace.

With the Middle East falling apart and ISIS gaining power, a coalition forms.

That coalition says we have to stamp out this evil.

As this coalition is formed, there are those that say, look, we're not winning this battle and we won't win a battle in the Middle East or any other place until we have God's favor.

So things get so bad economically.

Things get so bad politically.

Its water was dried up.

Why? The kings of the east might be prepared.

Well, to be fair, they were willing to give us military intelligence and aid in making drones, and we turned them down.

They were willing to give us defensive capabilities against the Iranian drones in the Middle East.

We turned them down.

They were willing to give us tips on making our supply chain of drones more efficient and productive, and we've turned them down a lot.