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I would like to end with a poem
called "california lessons."

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Since I've been in California,
I've learned a great deal.

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And I am constantly embarrassed
about what I did not know,

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coming from the East.

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I can remember when I, for
instance, could not distinguish

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between Chinese people
and Japanese people,

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and I am embarrassed about that.

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I learned a lot of good stuff.

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"California lessons."

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One: geography.

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Let's see, what you
should know here--

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do you know who Gautama was?

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Siddhartha?

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He was the one who was
enlightened and became

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the Buddha.

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And well, I'm a great believer
in karma, and I'll say that.

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One: geography.

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Over there is Asia
watching from the water,

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astounded as Siddhartha.

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Over there Asia, waiting
in the water for what

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is surely turning on the wheel.

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Here is California,
swinging from the edge

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of the darkening of America.

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And over there sitting
patient as Gautama

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enlightened in
the water is Asia.

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Two: history.

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The Miwok-- these
named are peoples.

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History.

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Guard your language.

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What bird remembers the
songs the Miwok sang?

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Guard your life.

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Pomo, Shasta, Esalen.

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These were peoples, not places.

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Three: botany.

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Quote, "All common figs
can produce fertile seeds

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if the flowers are
pollinated," end quote.

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In Concord, in 1985, a Black
man was hung from a fig tree.

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Quote, "The fruit is dark
and sweet," end quote.

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Four: semantics.

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In 1942, almost all the Japanese
were concentrated into camps.

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Internment, but no doctor came.

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Five: metaphysics.

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Question, what is karma?

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Answer, there is a
wheel and it is turning.

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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