I don't understand how my practice in the present, my becoming more peaceful, calmer, with more loving kindness and compassion, can help my grandmother my ancestors, my grandmother, my grandfather, my uncle, how it can help make their life more beautiful when they were killed in concentration camp. I don't understand how our practice applies to mass horrors like genocide.

There is affliction, there is suffering within us. And that suffering is not only individual. Our suffering represents the suffering of our ancestors, our parents, our society. And that burden of suffering, we carry it for all our ancestors, our society and also our children. Every time we practice mindful breathing in order to take good care of our body, our feelings, we are relieving some suffering in us.

And of course, as individuals, we get the benefit of the transformation, of the healing. But all the ancestors, all the society also get the benefit of healing and transformation. Any smile that you can produce in you will have an effect on society.

And society can be touched within yourself. Any step you make in mindfulness, any step that can bring to you a little bit more solidity, more freedom, more joy, that is also for society, for ancestors. Do not think that what you do to yourself will not have an effect on the rest of society and the world. And freedom always begins with the practice in us. And we know that the one contains the all. The emancipation of the individual is also the emancipation of society, the collectiveness. The victory of Siddhartha at the foot of the Bodhi tree is not for an individual alone.

It is for peace, joy, and emancipation for many living beings. So if transformation takes place in us, At the same time, it takes place in the world. Even if you don't see it, the transformation has taken place.

If peace is there in yourself, peace is possible everywhere in the cosmos. When you have peace in you, you look at the world, it is different. I think many of us have already had that experience. When you have peace in the world, and you look at the world, the world has already changed.