So, as I mentioned, my name is Tim Wicks and I live here.

I'm currently serving as head of practice, which is called Tanto in Japanese.

I'm a Tanto here and I'm not a Japanese artist, nor am I a Zen artist.

However, before I was Tanto, I was trained formally as a fine artist in the European style.

But I am, as I mentioned, a Zen priest.

So if you can sort of mix them together a little bit.

It's written actually into our legal documents.

Private property became a source of social necessity as it became a part of identity.

So that you were or are what it is that you own.

And this of course has a deep psychological effect on our sense of security and stability.

People can even justify taking their own lives if the things they own are suddenly threatened.

We're driven to build our whole lives around the ability to accumulate, with the idea that it will make us stable and happy.

The

Buddha who was with Ananda, his attendant at the time, as he often was, both of them were standing next to a rice paddy.

And if you know a rice paddy is on an incline and there's these little pathways where water flows, and the water flows down and out and gives nutrients to the rice, the rice grows.

We can eat the rice and then we become, we can then become exposed to the Dharma.

So the Buddha said, let's design the robe.

In fact, he said, Ananda, can you design a robe based on the rice paddy? And so he did.

And the way that we make our robes is they're made out of panels.

feeling.