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The human being is complete, like a circle.
And my father very much was working with this principle of completeness as a human being.
And I think that is something we can explore. And I certainly invite you to do that.
And I know that that’s something that's going forward in this particular time;
we are all too familiar with being reminded of faults of being human.
And even when you use the term human,
it usually indicates faults, that "that’s very human".
And I think it’s sort of interesting from that point of view.
And the way that we’re using the word human
is the notion of completeness and almost perfection.
Not that we do not make mistakes.
We make obviously very... sort of a lot of stupid mistakes;
and we also..., on a daily basis. [Laughter]
And we also, as a global culture, we make horrific... we do horrific things;
and that is completely clear.
And what I want to express is that this situation of human goodness,
how to influence human culture, isn’t coming out of some sort of naïve approach to life.
It’s not just a New Age trend, by the way. [Laughter]
And I always joke; my father left,
the inheritor of the two-thousand-five-hundred-year tradition of Buddhism.
So he was the kind of cornerstone of tradition in his culture; and then, as Richard said,
got off the boat here and then he was considered New Agey. [Laughter]
So something happened on the boat ride, obviously. [Laughter] I’m not sure what.