So this is Jorge Salerno, Jorge Salerno, he likes monitoring things, including the cloud, including stacks of Raspberry Pi's with sensors, and he is going to tell us how to troubleshoot Kubernetes. Okay. So welcome, Jorge. Thank you. Okay, so today has been an intensive day for me, this is my third talk. Has anyone seen one of the previous ones? Can you raise hands? Whoa, cool. So, you know, Cezdik, I've shown this slide before. If you're here, it's probably because you are running Kubernetes or you're applying to do so. And until we got things like containers, Kubernetes, when we had to troubleshoot and find out what was wrong, what was broken on our servers, we used tools like that. But then when containers came around, things stopped working. Basically those tools, they were not aware of namespaces, of decrypts. We had to tweak them. They were not working as good as they were working before. And actually, this is a real problem. I've included here an issue on Kubernetes GitHub of project and someone trying to troubleshoot and the answer of the developers is, well, you know, like try to run bash, do some prints, see if somehow you can get visibility of what's going on inside of the containers. We love containers for multiple reasons. Probably four ones to mention is that they are simple. They are small, most of the times, not always. They are isolated from security point of view. That's nice. They have less dependencies. We ship everything. We don't have to deal with messing things around. But they are black boxes. We cannot see what's happening inside as we used to do before. Or we have to break these things and install the troubleshooting tools inside, which is not the desired or the best option. That's what we are trying to fix with SysDec. SysDec, it's like a combination of all those tools you were using before to troubleshoot your servers, HSTOP, BMSTOD and HSTOD, all of them, all together in one single tool, available as open source. We also have a commercial product, but that's not for today. And what we do differently is two things. It's two-fold. On one side we are able to keep complete visibility of everything that's happening inside of the containers. We have managed to do that instrument in the kernel. We installed a kernel module that basically does capture all the system calls. We copy them into ring buffer and then we let user space process to pick the data from the buffer. And suddenly we have everything to user space where we are more comfortable mumbling things around grouping and segmenting and everything. So yeah, we installed the kernel module, the agent, these kernel module captures everything. We moved that into the user space. It can either be a demo or we can even run inside of a privilege container, because we need to do an instance mode to install that kernel module. That kernel module builds dynamically using DKMS if we don't have binary. This is included in the distribution that you are probably using. If you are using Naples, we can still open the capture files, but we cannot capture Naples. Yeah, we dump everything into a file.  We discover, since that process, the Sysdig can see everything happening in your house. We can automatically discover every container you run. So there is no need to instrument to configure that, oh, I have a scale up replica or something and then there is a new container or there are less containers and I need to reconfigure things around now, forget about that. No instrumentation, so there is no need to install an agent in every container or funky things like that and full visibility. The con or the thing that you have to pay the trade off is that you need to install a kernel module. If you haven't been into my previous talks, I have mentioned this. The reason I'm going to answer this because probably otherwise will be a question that you will be making me at the end is when we started Sysdig, EBPF didn't exist or didn't exist as it is today. So we have no chance to use that. It has been evolving and for a period of time it has some limitations. So for example we have to copy everything on the buffers and EBPF has some limitation on the amount of data you could copy out from system calls. There are some limitations. Those they have been solved so maybe in the future we change. Then the other problem with Kubernetes or with containers and microservices is that we don't have single hosts and one, two, three a number of services running inside now. We have a scheduler and it's moving things around all the time. So when we need to filter, we need to organize things, we would like to get the view as close as possible where we can say, so I have my Cassandra service or I have my Redis and I want to filter things by that. Well, the other very cool thing we do at Sysdig is we talk to your container orchestrator platform. So either if it's just plain Docker or Kubernetes, OpenShift, DCOS, Mesos and even a bunch of other platforms we can talk to them, understand how you are deploying our containers, how you schedule them, how they are related to each other and use that information to filter. Because at the end of the day what Sysdig can do is capturing all these events that they are the system calls with some context. So we can understand better what they are doing, filter them and run scripts to change, generate reports and find out what these things are doing. We can do this live or we can dump things into a file which is similar to TCP DOM pickup files. We have container support, I have mentioned this before and we have common line interface but also we have our courses interface, something similar to H-TOP. And this is basically everything I have for slides. Now we are moving into the dangerous part of this presentation, which is the demo. I have a very cool use case of how you can or of a story that happened to us when running Kubernetes. I wanted to fully show it live but there was some last minute problem with the network because it depends on something external. But no worries because I have a system capture and I'm going to be able to show you exactly the same thing. But first of all we are brave and we are going to show you something live. So let me move this terminal background, you can forget about it. It notes so I don't forget the things. So basically I have here a Kubernetes instance. It's running different containers. I installed everything just pulling the different Docker containers. And first of all I want to show you how we can leverage, how we can use Cystic to understand how Kubernetes works. And I'm going to illustrate this with a very simple example of a service. So I'm going to, first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to create name space which is a critical app. Very, very critical. That's why I'm running it on Kubernetes. Then inside of this name space I have a service with a deployment. And I'll be deploying three replicas of an NGINX container. Simple as that. So let me deploy that. And let's see. Okay, it was catch. So that's running already. Cool. So one of the things it's very interesting or that Kubernetes does for us is managing the load balancer. You probably, I'm not going to discover anything new for you. So we deploy a service. Kubernetes plays load balancer in front and distributes the traffic between the number of containers we have there. There are multiple or different strategies. In this case I'm just using load balancer on one fixed IP address. We can do this with DNS from Robin, but in this case we keep it simple. So we know that our backend service gets that IP address.241. And I got these three different endpoints, my NGINX paths. What I'm going to do now is to launch one client just with curl. And I leave that on the background. And I'll open a new shell so we can follow up. Perfect. So this is my client. So now if I do curl backend, this works. So basically it returns the default home page for NGINX. Cool. Now that's a surprise. But do we really know what's happening behind the scenes here? We can imagine if we read the documentation. But the first step to get familiar and to use properly a troubleshooting tool is to understand how the infrastructure really works. So what I'm going to do is to leverage Sestec for that, I told you already. So one of the things, very interesting things of Sestec is that we can use on Kubernetes entities or objects to filter out things. I'm showing here the different labels we understand from Kubernetes. If you are using custom ones, we can also filter them. But these are the defaults, so pods, namespaces, like the usual stuff. What I want to do now is show you the course interface. So I'll be using Sestec, actually I wanted to show you this. Basically what we do here is to tell Sestec to connect to Kubernetes API. So we know how things work inside. So these are all the processes running in my machine. This could be htop, well, it's not. Because if we see here, this is probably one of the most interesting sections, they are different views that we have prepared for you. I showed some of them before, you know, talks like using tracers or using this for security. But if you have a look at it here, we have prepared views for different orchestration tools. In this case, we will focus on Kubernetes. So if I click here, I'm going to be able to see the different namespaces I got. So I have my critical app and also CubeSystem, which is the internal namespace. Well, let me stop here. I did close this. I could get this with using CubeCtl. What it's interesting here is that I'm able to show you some metrics, CPU, memory, file, network, aggregated by that information. So I could see what was the memory usage for the namespace or the network usage. In the same way I do these four namespaces, I can do four deployments with my backend deployment or four services. And what's interesting is that this is like a tree. There is a hierarchy here. So if I go into my backend and I hit enter, automatically I go to the level underneath and I see all the pods that they are running inside of that service. All the time I'm showing the metrics.  So this very same filter can be applied on the command line. So one of the things I want to show now is, as I mentioned before, I want to understand what really happens behind the scenes when I do curl backend and how all that connection is handled, all the load balancing and everything. So what I'm going to do is to open CSS Digi with a few filters. In this case I'm using the command line interface. So minus K for the Kubernetes API. Then I'm using event type open to see open CSS calls and files. And then I want to see every file that it's in slash etc. And also I want to see everything that's in the client path. So if I go back here and I do curl backend, automatically I see all the files that they were open in my client container under slash etc. Remember, I'm able to see this from outside. CSS Digi is running on my host in this case. Okay, that's cool. I can see the different open parameters and everything. But I'm curious and I would like to know what it's actually that I'm reading for those files. And in this case, what I can do is to leverage on CSS Digi. CSS Digi are some lower scripts we got that we feed all the system calls, all the events and all the related information. And with those lower scripts, we can reformat the information, aggregate it, manipulate it, and for example, generate a report or format the output. So I'm going to do see ecom fds. This is all right, come on, let me do a little check. Now I was doing spy file. It would be the same thing. Okay, so if I run this command again, nothing happens. Probably I'm doing something wrong. I will be using echo. I don't know why I have all my notes. What's wrong? This is the first step of the demo. There we go. Now this is what I showed you before. Well, otherwise I will move into the next command I wanted to show you. I'm not messing this with this. The other thing I wanted to show you, spy file, that should be working. If I use this other chisel and I was working. I can see exactly what I was reading. It's very similar to the echo fds. So when I did open NSWitch, I did curl. So curl is try to resolve that name. So open NSWitch. I read that file. Then I open host.conf. Then I open resolve.conf. Then I read hosts. And with all that information, I didn't read anything else under slash etc. So this is a nice way to see where my application is actually reading from those files, because they could be changing automatically of things like that. Another use case of chisels. Another example I wanted to show you is spy users. Spy users is a chisel that will print everything I execute. So simple as that. Come here. Execute again. And I can see how the rock user executed.com. So these are the kind of things that are going to be very convenient to troubleshoot your Kubernetes when you have an issue. That's an example before we move to someone else. I'm using HTTP lock. So guess what? I'm going to decode system calls right into sockets. We'll decode the HTTP protocol. And we'll show me here the request, including HTTP method or return a response code, latency, things like that. So this is very interesting, but still I would like to know everything that's happening. So, and I mentioned before, I'm not copying everything. And I mentioned before, says they can see everything. So, okay, let's see everything. I'm going to explain you here this command. So again, I'm connecting to Kubernetes API. I'm using PK that's printing from which container is that event coming from. And then I'm applying some filters and I can already foresee this is going to fail. But, and then I'm applying some filters. My notes, they were not as good as I thought. Oh, that should be okay. I'm filtering all the traffic, that's network traffic with FD type. So file descriptors that they are actually IPv4 or IPv sockets. And then I'm using some Kubernetes filters saying, okay, everything on the namespace critical app or that it's sky DNS, which is the resolver I'm using. So if I run my command, I can see everything that works execute. So let me show you from the beginning. This is a bit complicated, but we'll go through it. So I'm just going to highlight the most important parts. Okay. So we get the socket. First thing we know we see that this is going to port 53. So it's the DNS resolution. And the DNS resolution goes into my DNS server. We can see the IP there. But then, and we see that it's coming from curl. Then we see that the next message is actually coming from sky DNS. We read from the socket, but we open a new connection to this guy on port 4001. So we know that that guy is ETCD. And what we do there is ETCD press request with this URL trying to find out what's the IP address associated with that domain name. We did that. We get the reply over here. I'm not going to get into the details. Let me find, there we go. You see there, JSON reply with the IP address there. Then that goes back to sky DNS. Sky DNS sends a DNS response. And then we see curl here that it got the IP address that we need to connect to. One very interesting thing that actually I don't want to miss is what is this 241? So if we go back to my Kubernetes, kubectl, not this one here, kubectl inspect backend. We see that 241 is the IP address of the load balancer. So what ETC replied was the IP address of the load balancer. Let's go back here. We see curl connecting to that IP address. Let's find it out. There we go. Or should we even... So it's connecting to this API address. 241 port 80. But then suddenly when we keep reading and we see the NGINX port on this line, we already see that this reply it's not coming from the same AP address. So this is different. 172, 1705, which is the IP address of the pod. This is tricky. This is thick. So we see the reply back. Or we see how NGINX gets the read. They get request. We do the write back, which arrives to curl and curl print. Okay. So we see how the system goes. Yes, we got a question. We don't have a way to export to... Yes, the question was if there is any way to export to pick up. We don't have a way now because probably if not all most of the filters that you can be using on TCP DOM can be used here already. Okay. So we did this. There was... And we saw the system calls, like all the sockets and everything, writes, reads, files being read to understand the DNS resolution. But we found out that there were some changes on the IP address. And actually, if we do IP tables, we'll see how Kubernetes has one... I am in the right place. This is a keyer. We have one place, Cube Services, where all the traffic that goes into the backend service because the screen is too small, cannot be seen properly. But we will... If we read this carefully, we will see how Kubernetes creates a chain on IP tables that all the traffic that goes into the IP address is split in three different chains with some probability deterministic module to load balance between the different containers, different pods, and the traffic goes to a different IP address. Okay. That's more or less how it works. Since it's very useful for this. And if we have some more time, I got something else prepared, which is one issue I experimented. And we have 45 minutes, right? So we have 10 minutes more. Okay, perfect. So this is life. This is very helpful to understand what Kubernetes is doing behind the scenes. But actually, the title of this talk was how we can troubleshoot Kubernetes. And as I said before, I wanted to have do this live, but there are some network external dependencies. So instead, I'm bringing a capture file of an issue that happened to us. And we were writing exactly the same scenario, but curl instead of returning immediately, it was taking close to 10 seconds, waiting there, and then it was working.  That things fails? No, that's great, because we can fix it. The worst thing that can happen is that things work very slowly, and we don't know why. So I took a capture of that scenario, and I'm going to show you how we found the problem using sysdake. So I'm moving back. Hopefully this is big enough. What I'm going to do here is, again, open, I think you're going to hate syscalls, I've already talked. Open a capture file, and again, into the IPv4 and IPvc sockets and filter by, again, my critical app on the SkyDNS. It's very interesting here, and as you see this, can you still see this? This is very slow. It's very interesting here. I'm going to go quickly. It's similar to what we saw before. We are going to see Curl trying to resolve a house name. We'll go to ETCD. ETCD will try, sorry, we'll go to SkyDNS. We'll try to resolve through ETCD and if the entry is not found in ETCD, it's going to try with different search domains and at the end we'll see that something unexpected happens. So actually let me go through directly to the points I want to show you. So we can see that first my request, or the request that goes through ETCD, it's very, very long. Oh, sorry, I forgot since the beginning. Now what we are doing differently is instead of using Curl backend, I'm using a fully qualified domain name because it works, or at least according to the documentation, if I use Curl or any DNS which my service, as we see then my name is space.cluster.local, Kubernetes offer that DNS entry by default. So by some reason, I see on the syscalls and all this tracing that we are crafting a very funny search or we are searching for a very funny domain name. So it's probably search doing funky stuff. We'll see here. We do this request that obviously it's not going to be found. We'll do the request again removing some parts of it. So the search domain, it's removing different parts. Again, not found. It does it one more time with less, it's not found. So we might think that we are losing time. So the original problem was this was taken to execute around 8 to 10 seconds. But if we look at the timestamps from the beginning, this was 41 minutes 39 seconds and I'm here. I'm still 41 minutes 39 seconds. So what's the problem here? Why this is not working? If we see already here, let me find... If we see already here, we start to see DNS request that they are adding or they are appending at the end something we are not expecting. Local domain. So let me keep searching because I want to find and actually I want to find the last request we do here. You see, I'm trying to do the local domain. I'm already at the end. And this is not working. So that's crazy. So what happened? What is happening here is that let's start to look at the timestamp on the left. So we go faster. 41, 47, 41, 43. So what happened in between... Oh, I lost it. So what's happening in here? Look, what we can see here. So what's happening is that the SkyDNS is going to ETCD is trying to get... Sorry, the DNS request is going to SkyDNS. SkyDNS identifies this request with a local domain appended at the end. And SkyDNS says, whoa, this is a domain. I don't have any Kubernetes. So this must be some external domain. So let's send this out to my upstream DNS server. And because my upstream DNS server it's not answering. It's answering very slowly or it's not even available. We wait for a full DNS timeout, almost four seconds. So this will happen one time, will happen two times and will happen three times until libc decides that it's enough trying to remove pieces of my full search domain and we will just try to resolve the fully qualified domain, vanilla, as I give it to my curl and then obviously it will work. So this is what happens at the end. So this is a very good way to when we have different services talking to each other how we can get visibility of things one side the other side. Cezdik and the filters are very convenient and you will say well but this was everything network. I could have done this with TCP-DAM and with more patients using my filters. I said okay yes but you want to be completely sure that what was happening on your client. So as I show you before Cezdik does allow not only to filter on your network traffic but on any file descriptor. So if I'm using the echo FDS as I showed you before and now I'm going to repeat it because now it will make more sense to you if I don't have the same problem I had before. So I can see that there was something appended at the end which was local domain that at the end we found that because it was being executed in a developer machine and the developer had that local domain added by probably some network manager crap or who knows and that was going or was being transmitted into Kubernetes and Kubernetes was creating the Docker containers with that search domain appended to it and how you can be sure that this is happening well again we know that we can use Cezdik to understand how Kubernetes is instructing Docker to create the containers. So I'm not going to use local domain here because this is not live on my example but I'm going to use just search. So if I run similar command to the one before but this time I'm filtering on unique sockets and if I try to launch a new container I'll see how Kubernetes is using the Docker API on a unique socket to tell Docker how you need to create this container according to the pod description. So I'm going to run this and now I'm going to create a different container different name there we go a foobar container and something is failing here again have a buffer, contain search well you will have to believe me well probably there is something wrong on my filtering I want to keep for five minutes for questions but this is the idea if or when you leave this talk now in five minutes what I would like you to remember or to keep for how much that you can use Cezdik to troubleshoot anywhere you can hook anywhere on your hosts if you compare this to other EBPF base tools this is way more simple to use you don't need to know exactly what kind of system call you want to hook you don't need to code any script just using something similar to what could be TCP dump both on asteroids and system call aware you can very quickly see a lot of things obviously it's not as complete it has different use cases but you can see network you can see file descriptors everything that has Cezdik attached and this is everything I have for today I'm living here three links this very same talk it's fully explained in the last link so if you're very tired and you want to look at the Cezdik Cezdik calls more carefully to be here in your hand more relaxed go through it you have the same capture so you can play with filters yourself and everything totally recommended I hope you like it we have five minutes for questions now the question was how can I run this on any system like DCOS well in this case it was a command line tool that it was installed through a package but Cezdik can be installed just pulling the container from Docker Hub any place where you can run a Docker container you can run Cezdik the requirement is that needs to be a privileged container because we need to pin the kernel module insert it and we need to execute in small so that happens the question was when I have a multiple machine scenario how can I correlate the event so the system calls between all of them at the moment there is no tool to merge the different capture files yes we have the commercial tool that does something similar to run on multiple hosts shouldn't be very difficult in the same way we have tools to merge two P couple of files together you could write a very simple tool to merge this and then open the only thing to take into account is that these files they tend to grow very very quickly remember that they store all the system calls with all the IO buffers everything being executed on your machine so just a few seconds on a production server can be a few gigabytes so you need to be careful with filters to keep only the information that you are interested in well if you have more questions send me a tweet message or anything I'll be happy to answer thank you


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Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share with you all of my favorite Christmas picture books. I'm really excited you guys about today's video because this is in collaboration with Rachel from 7 and All where she has invited a whole bunch of us to come together to share all of our favorite Christmas books. This video you guys was really hard for me because I have a lot of Christmas picture books and I really had to pick and choose my favorites to share with you guys in today's video. So without further ado I'm going to go ahead and start sharing some of my favorite Christmas picture books. So the first picture book I have it's called pick a pine tree and it says on the back pick a pine tree from the lot slim and tall or short and squat long straight limbs or branches bent just smell that piney scent and you guys this is such a cute picture book where it follows along a family as they are picking their perfect Christmas pine tree to kick start the holiday season. I really love the rhyme and the repetition in this book and I really love the sense of family and friendship and community that this book really really presents and it puts in the forefront. My two younger ones they definitely love the back of the picture book when it shows the family's Christmas tree all decorated they really really enjoy that pop-up page and this is a great one to kick start the holiday season especially as you know we're decorating and we're getting our homes prepared for Christmas. Another favorite Christmas book we have that we read last year is called there's a lion in my nativity and it says Mary is all ready to take the starring role in her nativity play but then things take an unexpected turn come on stage with Mary and narrator Sam and enjoy the surprise on every page as Mary discovers there's a lot more to Christmas to the Christmas story than she thought and you guys this is a cute cute cute picture book about a group of kids putting on the classic Christmas story and just things just take a turn as they are putting on their performance for their parents this definitely was a cute cute cute rendition of the Christmas story and my kiddos they definitely love this one as well last year. Another book that we added to our collection last year is called Christmas and Lagos and this was definitely a fun one because last year we did a whole continent study on the continent of Africa and I really wanted to incorporate it even when we were studying Christmas and this just goes along a story of a young girl named Ronnie who is kind of embarrassed when her teacher asked her what her holiday plans are because all of her other friends are going on these big grand trips and these big grand vacations and she feels like you know well I'm just going to be here in Lagos it's nothing special so her teacher actually challenges her to write a journal and to write down all of the things that her and her family gets up to during the Christmas season and Ronnie is surprised at the end to be able to read back her journal and to see all the fun things that her family got up to I really really love this take on this Christmas story and I really really love hearing Ronnie's perspective as she's finding out that her Christmas is just as special as her friends even though they didn't go to some big grand place her family their traditions it really really means a lot to her at the end of the day and Brielle really really enjoyed this story Christmas in Lagos and I thought it was a great one so I'm really really excited you guys to read this one again this homeschooling year another book that I have that's actually new to our library this year it's actually called I got the Christmas spirit and this follows along a young inner city girl as she is going around her whole city and she is trying to figure out what this Christmas spirit is all about I love again the rhyme the repetition the poetry that's in this book and hopefully my daughters will love it too I actually already read this one they haven't read it yet so I'm really really excited for us to read this one I got the Christmas spirit another Christmas book that we read last year that my daughters really really enjoyed was Grace at Christmas and this follows along Grace during the Christmas season when her family they actually are inviting two visitors to join them in their Christmas celebrations and at first you know Grace she is not up with it she's not feeling it and she's like you know I'm used to how things you know are with us and I don't want to you know invite these new visitors in our home during the Christmas season but you know Grace she definitely gets a surprise when actually her Christmas actually turns out to be one of her favorite yet and I really really love this one again for that sense of community for gatherings around the holiday season and this was a great one that we read last year one that is new to us this year is actually called under the Christmas tree and this actually is a book of poems written by Nikki Grimes and is illustrated by Kadir Nelson and Kadir Nelson is the one who actually illustrated the book Heart and Soul he actually illustrated a lot of other things too as well but I really thought it would be fun this year to have like a specific book that's going to have a Christmas poetry this book it says on the inside that they wanted to show different areas of inner city kids of different things of Christmas time I really really enjoyed this one it says Nikki Grimes reveals in the the site sounds and feels that makes the season so special so I cannot wait you guys to read like all the poems that is in here the illustrations look great and hopefully we can get some hot chocolate going and get a little Christmas poetry time in our household this year another new one that I have and this one was on the Heritage Moms Christmas book recommendation is the Nutcracker in Harlem and I'm really excited about this one because this one definitely gives a different take to the original Nutcracker story it talks about just the jazz and the Harlem Renaissance era and it really brings it in in this book the Nutcracker so hopefully Brielle will enjoy it and maybe we can compare the original Nutcracker story to this one so I'm really really excited for us to read this new one the Nutcracker in Harlem another Christmas picture book that I have is actually Silent Night and this actually just goes along the hymn of Silent Night and it just shows the Christmas Nativity my younger two they definitely love this one and they actually learned how to sing the song Silent Night by me reading this book to them over and over again last Christmas season so I really really enjoyed this one again this one is Silent Night and the last Christmas book you guys that I'm going to share with you in today's video is called The All I Ever Wanted Christmas Doll and on the back it says Dear Santy I've been good most of the year I love my sisters most of the time I help mama and daddy as much as I can I know there's a depression going on but I've got my heart set on baby Betty she is all I ever asked for please from a very good girl Laura Nelson Pearson and it says PS I'm sorry I'd hit Harry but he hit Dessa first and you guys I really really enjoyed this book last year and again this is actually a nonfiction account of a young girl in the rural South during the Great Depression era and it's just so amazing for us to read these like historical events of how Christmas actually was celebrated during these hard times and how these families they had so little but their spirits it was high they had each other and my daughter really really enjoyed this book last year and hopefully she will enjoy it again and again this is kind of a sneaky way for me to incorporate history in Christmas time as well for her but we really really enjoyed this one and again this one was definitely another recommendation from the Heritage Mom Amber on her blog for her Christmas picture book list so you guys these are just a few of my Christmas picture book favorites that I wanted to share with you guys in today's video I want to thank again Rachel from 7 and all for inviting me to join in this collab and I hope you guys enjoy seeing all of my favorite Christmas books as always you guys thank you so much for watching and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye


Millions of America's youth, September 14th, marked the opening day of school. To our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High, it was the day for which she had been fervently hoping. Yes, I'd been fervently hoping it would never come. It isn't that I just like school. It's just that I think vacation time is the greatest invention since the pilgrims and Phil Harris discovered Plymouth and White Rock. But when my landlady, Mrs. Davis, called me to breakfast that morning, my mood was far from grim, for by that time I had convinced myself that facing a new term at school is not, after all, like returning to prison. Good morning, Connie. Good morning, Warden. Hand me the box of sweet bits, please. Oh, that's not sweet bits, Connie. It doesn't matter. I like almost any kind of cereal. Cream, please. Well, all right. Here you are, dear. What kind of cereal is this, Mrs. Davis? They're dog biscuits. Funny, that's the one kind of cereal that doesn't agree with me. I'm sorry, Connie. I should have ordered cereal from the market before you got up. I usually get fast delivery service, you know. That's because the delivery boy has a crush on me. But it's nothing like your romance with Mr. Boynton. You mean he's tried to get fresh with you? No, but I haven't given up hope. Oh, that's probably Walder Dent to drive me to school. Come in. Morning, Walder. Park is the first day of school, and once again the nostrils of America's youth methodically dilate to the pungent aroma of pencils and blackboard. How do you feel about it, dog, Walder? I'm miserable. How do you feel about school opening, Miss Brooks? Anyone for Russian roulette? Now, those are my sentiments exactly. Oh, say, I found this potted plant on your porch. Isn't it a dilly? Evidently another floral offering from your delivery boy, Mrs. Davis. Oh, my goodness. He must have left it for me last night when he brought over my yogurt and Danish blue chewing. Good on, Walder. The yogurt is on me. I'll have plain milk if you don't mind. Boy, it certainly is neatly gift-wrapped. You can see the plant right through the cellophane, Mrs. Davis. It's never green plant. It's a dilly all right. The trouble is I have too many potted plants around the house as it is. I don't know what in the world to do with it. I have a suggestion, Mrs. Davis. Since this is the first day of school, it might be a shrewd political move on my part to present the plant to our beloved principal. Hey, that ought to get you in real solid with old Marvel head. Mr. Conklin, I mean. I agree, Connie. I think it might be important that you start off on the right foot with your principal, these terms. As he said to me when I saw him in the drugstore yesterday, oh, dear, now what did he say? Oh, I'm getting too absent-minded lately. Oh, let's see now what did Mr. Conklin say to me? Mrs. Davis, how about getting Walter a glass of milk? No, that wasn't it. Mr. Conklin doesn't care if Walter gets milk or not. Connie, I just remembered what Mr. Conklin said to me yesterday. He wants you to help him reclassify his files for the new term, dear. So he said you're to report to his office at 7.30 sharp and no excuses. 7.30? What time is it now? Uh, 5.08. Fine, if I hurry, I'll never make it. Holy cow, what are you going to do, Miss Brooks? I'll bet old Marvel head's blood pressure's about to explode with atomic fury by now. And now it's already forming the mushroom. Oh, I'll have to call him and try to explain. Mrs. Davis, this phone is dead.  It isn't really dead. We have a chap on our new party line who's rather eccentric. He keeps leaving his receiver off the hook. What? Well, he's got his nerve. Hello? Hello? Thanks a bus, my eardrums, madam. The name is Miss Brooks. Since we're on the same party line... My telephone happens to be right by my bed, Miss Brooks.  Do you realize you left your receiver off the hook? Certainly. I always do that to preclude my being startled from slumber by the hideous clanging of a phone bell. I prefer to be awakened gently. Maybe the company will give you a bell with a feather on it. Look, if I should report this matter to the superintendent... You're threatening me? Fine. My name is Craigway, Milton Craigway. Go ahead and report me. Now goodbye and stop bothering me. Well, I can be mean too, Mr. Craigway. Since you refused to clear my line, I'll make certain that you will not be able to call anyone either. Don't do anything you may regret, Miss Brooks. Mrs. Davis, I've left our receiver off the hook, and don't you dare hang it up.  Come on, Walder.  Sure thing. Say these little biscuits are very tasty. You've been eating those biscuits, Walder? Well, yeah. What kind are they? Want to sublease my doghouse? See how smoothly she runs since Ferguson's garage tuned up the motor, Miss Brooks? It doesn't seem like the same car. No, it doesn't. But Walder, perhaps we'll get to school faster if you take the wheel. No, no, I want you to drive, Miss Brooks. Just look at that harebrained woman crossing against the signal. I'll have to...Walder, what's wrong with these brakes? Oh, I forgot to tell you, they don't work. What? I'll have to operate the handbrake for you. Mr. Craigway, she dropped her glasses and we ran over them. Well, at least it wasn't a total loss. Don't you look where you're going, young lady. Who, me? My name is Constance Brooks. I'll be happy to reimburse you for your glasses, Miss. If you just... It isn't, Miss. It's Mrs. I'm Mrs. Gregory York of 212 E 2nd Street. Now, kindly pull over to the curb and I'll... I don't release the brake and we escape.  There's no turning back now, Miss Brooks. Mrs. Gregory York is lost in the distance and there's a dozen cars in back of you. Well, nevertheless, I... Besides, did you want to waste the entire morning gabbing with her while old Marblehead's blowing a metal gasket waiting for you? Mr. Conklin, in the confusion I'd almost forgotten about him. Walder, I have a sensational idea that'll settle all my problems. What is it, Miss Brooks?  Sorry, I'm late, sir. It's great to see you back at the old desk. Yes, indeed. I know I was due at 7.30, sir, but your seat was like this. Miss Brooks. When you hear the sound of my fist pounding the desk, the time will be exactly 20 minutes past 8. What's the idea? Mr. Conklin, sir, allow me to present to you this beautiful potted evergreen plant as a token of my esteem. Trying to butter me up, eh? Sorry, paper, by offering me a bribe. Miss Brooks, did you actually believe I would accept that plant as a gift from you? I'm sorry, Mr. Conklin, I'll take it out. Put it down, you Indian givers. Aye, aye, sir. No, much as I dread boring you with school business, it's my duty to inform you that there is to be a meeting here in my office at 3 this afternoon. A meeting which you, in your capacity as faculty advisor, must attend. Oh, I'll be here 3 o'clock, yes, sir. It's to be a routine meeting restricted to school personnel, I presume. By no means. We'll be rubbing elbows with an official from the State Board of Education who literally holds our jobs in the palm of his hand. Mr. Milton Craigway. Huh? The power Milton Craigway wields in our sphere is fantastic. We must therefore exert every effort, Miss Brooks, to make a good initial impression on him. You know, start off on the right foot. Yes, sir. Rest assured that heads will roll if we should in any way displease Mr. Craigway or his assistant. His assistant? She's a distinguished member of our school board. Mrs. Gregory York. The door. What a daily double eyepick. Good morning, Miss Brooks. Hi, Mr. Boyden. Miss Brooks, I've got a problem. You've got a problem. Quite serious, kept me awake all night. I have here a list of names whose homes I visited yesterday upon my return from a camping trip. I've scratched off the names of all those whom I've since contacted. When I've scratched your name, I will have scratched all but Mr. Conklin. I suppose all this sounds rather mysterious to you, Miss Brooks. It does, in a scratchy sort of way. What's your point? Well, near the campsite I happened upon some interesting fauna, one specimen of which I brought back to town. I had the plant with me when I went visiting, in fact. That's why I know I must have inadvertently left it at one of the homes on my list. It's a potted plant wrapped in cellophane. That one. Mrs. Davis thought the delivery boy had left it. It was found on our porch this morning, Mr. Boyden. Gosh, it's certainly a relief to know where I can lay my hands on it. It's cellophane wrapping is for protective reasons. You see, I wouldn't dare expose it until the moment I can actually put it to use in a biology experiment. Biology experiment? Oh, yes, Miss Brooks. That plant happens to be poison ivy. Poison ivy? Mr. Boyden? What is it, Miss Brooks? You don't have to scratch Mr. Conklin. By now, he's scratching himself. The bombshell in my lap, I promptly dashed over to Mr. Conklin's office. But neither he nor the poison ivy plant was there. Such was the case each time I returned to the scene of the crime during my morning classes. But finally, when I came back, I came back to the scene of the crime during my morning classes. But finally, when I entered the school cafeteria at noon, there was Mr. Conklin at the steam table with his daughter Harriet. As he picked up his tray and headed for a table, I leaped into action. Mr. Conklin! Oh, the tray I knocked over your tray, sir. If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked unbreakable meatballs. I'll tell him you want the same order, Daddy. Excuse me, Mr. Conklin. Mr. Conklin, sir, an urgent matter has come up. You may save any urgent matters for our three o'clock meeting, which has resolved itself down to a routine personnel council, Mr. Conklin. Shortly after you left my office this morning, Mrs. Gregory York called to say that she and Mr. Craigway will be unable to attend. Heavens, what a dreadful blow! About the potted plants that I saw. It'll be ready in a second, Daddy. Let me finish, Harriet. As I intimated at the time, I cannot ethically accept any form of bribe-tinted gift from a faculty member, Miss Brooks. Therefore, without bothering to so much as remove its wrappings, I tossed the plant pot and all into the incinerator. Oh, thank you, Mr. Conklin. I'll order my lunch now, sir. Thank you, sir. Odd beaver, isn't it? Did you really burn that plant, Daddy? Of course not. I used it for political purposes, Harriet. That is, I walked over to the Board of Education and presented it to Mr. Stone, the head man himself. No wonder I couldn't find you in your office. If I'd known you were with Mr. Stone... Went the entire morning with him, yes, indeed. Naturally, he expressed keen disappointment when I told him that our meeting should not be graced by the presence of Milton Craigway and Mrs. York. What? Oh, apparently you didn't read the message I left on your desk a half hour ago. Mrs. York called back and said that she and Mr. Craigway will be able to make the meeting after all. Oh, splendid, splendid. Ah, here's my order. Here we are. Thank you. Now then, let's grab that table over there to the right. Oh, that one to the left just beyond Miss Brooks is closer, Daddy. Come on. From you want the same order, Daddy. I knew we should have gone the other way. Well, see you later, Daddy. Oh, Mr. Compton. Oh, just a minute, Miss Brooks. If you see Walter Denton, would you tell him he left his jacket in Daddy's office when he moved some files for me this morning? Certainly. Mind if I go now, Mr. Compton? Not at all. In fact, I'll give you a shove. That won't be necessary. The wind is with me. Bye, sir. Bye, Harriet. Bye. Sit right down, Miss Brooks. Here, let me help you with your tray. Oh, I have wonderful news, Mr. Boyden. Mr. Compton, post your pot into the incinerator, the poison ivy plant. Still gift wrap. In the incinerator? And that isn't all. Mr. Craigway and Mrs. York won't be able to attend the meeting. Aside from Mr. Compton, there'll be nobody there, but us faculty advisors. You and me. Just the two of us. Small world, isn't it? Yes, but... It'll be just a routine meeting. Bring.  You and me. Just the two of us. Twenty of time. You might even have time for a date this afternoon. How does that hit you? Good, huh? Fine. Let's drink to it. Tea. Tea for two. Not for me and you. How does it hit you, Mr. Boyman? Good idea. I see no harm in our planning a date now that you're out of the woods, Miss Brooks. But where shall we go? How about back to the woods, Grandma? I mean, well, we'll think of something. At least I will. Excuse me, folks. I left your jacket in Mr. Conflict's office by now. I gotta talk to you, Miss Brooks. I just went over to Ferguson's garage to pay him for the work on my car. You see, the janitor had to let me in this morning because Ferguson wasn't around. Never saw such confusion. Must have been 50 geloppies there. Well, Ferguson specializes in geloppies like mine, you know. He does great work. Well, as I remarked while you were driving to school, it didn't seem like the same car with a new paint job and everything. So I... Well, I just hope Mrs. York didn't take down the license number. What are you trying to say, Walter? Miss Brooks, you were driving a stolen car. Nonsense. I wouldn't dream of letting you take a taxi over to the meeting, Mr. Cragway. I'll pick you up. You're at 6th and Maple, you say. Oh, I see. You'd prefer to walk over to the newsstand at 8th and Main and wait for me there. Anything you say, sir, yes. Just wait right on the corner. I'll be over in a jiffy. Goodbye, Mr. Cragway. Hi, Daddy.  It's got to hurry. I've got to pick up Mr. Cragway at the corner of 8th and Main. Or did he say 6th and Maple? Yes, yes, that's it. Out of my way, Charlie. But I don't understand, Daddy. How can you pick up Mr. Cragway when your car's in the repair shop? Holy cow, I've plummed for God. What'll I do? I can't keep a man of Mr. Cragway's importance waiting on the street corner. This is an emergency. Daddy, that's Walter Denton's jacket. Now, what did you take out of his pocket? Denton's key. I'll take his car. Sorry, Walter, I'm in a hurry. Where are you going? I don't know, but I'm in a hurry. Actually, I'm due at the meeting, Walter, but I'm such a bundle of nerves. I don't know what I'm saying. Well, I've got a couple of dandy flashes for your nerves, Miss Brooks. Flash number one. I went outside to take a look at our stolen car, and guess what? It's been stolen. Hold on to my arm and give me flash number two. Gladly. Well, right away, I scurried back into the building, and that's when I saw her. Mrs. Gregory York. Mrs. York? She's here? New glasses and all. Right now, she's inspecting some of the classrooms. Oh, there must have been a change in plan. Did she happen to see you? See me? Oh, we had a lengthy chat, but she must have been blind as a bat this morning without those glasses you ran over. She didn't even recognize me. Really? Well, I can't risk letting her see me, Walter. I've had it. Mr. Boynton's probably at the meeting by now. I'll run over and tell him I've decided to head for the border. Oh, there you are, Sonny. Yipe. Hi. Hi, Mrs. York. This young lady is a member of your faculty, I presume. Oh, yes, ma'am. This is our Spanish teacher, Senora Gonzalez. She's delighted to know you, Senora. Olé. Laonga. Senora is from Brazil. Oh, charming. Familiar about you, Senora. Haven't I seen you somewhere before? Not too clearly, I hope. Not too clearly do I place the face. I've not too long been coming over from Brazil, I think. I've seen to your homeland many times, Senora Gonzalez, how you must miss it. See, Senorita. Oh, thanks. But I'm no longer a Senorita, my dear. Oh, no, indeed. I have an 18-year-old boy. About your age, I'd say, Sonny. I was only 16 yesterday. Of course he has aged a lot since then. Please, I just remember an appointment must go. Sorry, you have to rush off, Senora. I do hope we meet again sometime. Thank you, Sharon. I'm in conference with Mr. Cragway, Mr. Milton Cragway. So if your classroom is in order, you may go home. Goodbye. Not so fast. Will your manners, Mr. Boynt, introduce me? Yes, sir. Mr. Cragway, sir, this is our French teacher, Miss La Darcy. I know you, mademoiselle. Merci. Bonjour. I feel tower. Pardon, monsieur, I must go erase my blackboard.  Well, don't just stand there, hop to it. Yes, sir, very, very good, sir. Well, if I seem in, is humor, Miss La Darcy. Let me explain that I've had an incredibly nerve-racking day.  Grateful experience, you have no idea. Oh, but I do. Sacré bleu, I do. I understand you stutely touching, my dear. There you are, saignora. Caramba again. You again, Mr. Cragway. I see you've already met saignora Gonzalez. What on earth are you talking about, Mrs. York? This happens to be mademoiselle La Darcy. No doubt you have confused me with my twin sister, who also teaches here. The saignora Gonzalez is your twin. Let's see, a week. Go up in France with papa. She's growing up in Brazil with mama. When we have babies, our parents are getting a divorce in California, so they are splitting the twins' community property. You have observed, mademoiselle, we are identical twins.  How do you do, Mr. Cragway, Mrs. York? I ask this chap to bring me here to prove to him that I am principal of this school. Allow me to present Officer Cheney, who arrested me for driving what he termed a hot car. Okay, well, that's absurd. How do you do, Officer? I can vouch for this man. I'm Milton Cragway of the State Board of... I don't care who you are. All I know is I caught this bird driving a stolen car that's registered to Donald York. Ridiculous. It's Walter's entry. Why do you can identify the car, Mrs. Brooks? Brooks! A blind fold and fire when ready. Brooks returns in just a moment. And now, once again, here is our Mrs. Brooks. Well, fortunately for me, my duplicity went unnoticed. As Mr. Conklin and Mr. Cragway became involved in quite an argument about the responsibility for Mr. Conklin's arrest. Now, just a minute! If this outrageous is your fault, Mr. Cragway, I wouldn't have been caught if you'd been waiting at 6th and Maple, as you said you would. I told you I was going to walk over to 8th and Main, Conklin. I wanted to stop at home to drop off a potted plant that Mr. Stone had given me. What? There, Mr. Stone, give you a lovely gift-wrapped potted plant that I gave him.  What? At the time, I had no idea it was poisonous. Mr. Heavens, I unwrap that plant. He'll believe it in my hands. Shake hands, Mr. Cragway. What's good enough for a member of the school board is good enough for me.


What is the number one guaranteed method to make depression, anxiety, all types of human suffering disappear? Drumroll. There isn't one. Ta-da! There are as many ways to hear from pain and suffering as there are people and that's why here at Mental Wealth TV we like to talk with people from a whole range of backgrounds and all walks of life because there's something for everybody here and I had the great pleasure recently to sit down with a very special guest, my dear friend Hanshi, Dina and I do, one of the world's leading karate masters and I wanted to talk to him about how he helps thousands of people around the world in over 54 countries heal from suffering and pain and helps them build their character and their lives and definitely a very exciting interview. What you will like about this interview is that Hanshi Dina is a wonderful storyteller and of course he kept his best story for last so you want to stick around right to the end Without further ado, here is my interview with Hanshi Dina and I do. Enjoy! So I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friend Hanshi Dina and I do. I met Dina a long time ago, many years ago and it was almost an immediate friendship and we got talking and we never thought that years later I would be interviewing him from one side of the world to another side of the world I'm here in Spain, Costa del Sol and Hanshi happens to be in Sydney so that's a long way and since then Hanshi Dina and I do has had podcasts and videos that have gone right through the world. I believe your podcasts have touched the people in 54 countries over with that. How many people would you say is it going to? I didn't even calculate it but it's quite a number. Quite a number, yeah okay and your main objective is if I gather correctly and this is what this is about getting to know you is your main objective is to help people people suffering. When people are suffering you care about that and you want people to be happier. Is that correct? Absolutely, it's about helping, it's about service to humanity, making people, we all have the potential to become better. It's just the proper guidance and the influence and you know people need assistance in understanding themselves. So my idea is firstly to help people understand themselves in so doing they will be able to improve their life. In my karate I'm you know one of the very few karate teachers that teaches kiazu for instance and kiazu is about human values, community values, character development so my idea is to help humanity become better. In the interest of transparency I mean my wife when she was a little girl she actually studied with you she went to karate with you and one of the things that she tells me all the time is that with sensei at the time you were sensei there you're hanshi but at the time she said with sensei we did a lot of talking about spirituality and about morality and about living the right life she says that was just as important as knowing how to kick and how knowing your katas and knowing how to punch. So no wonder we we get along so famously well you and I because we have basically the same quest although we approach it a little bit differently but we do we are interested both of us in helping people suffer less or being able to manage their suffering because life is about suffering and also knowing how to live life in a way that they thrive and they can be happy while they're doing it and have a sense of purpose that's something that that I admire about you it is this strong sense of purpose and I think you do that really well but before we're rushing to all these things I just want to get people to know you a little bit I mean what's your what's your story let's go back yeah I just want to before I say that I just want to say mental wealth is about the richness of the soul absolutely it's a discovery that the soul is rich it's wealthy it's rich right so when you look at the word soul support on uplifting life that's what I call it support an uplifting life so this is what you do and this is what we do we support to uplift life because we discovered that every human being has this riches as well but they can't discover it so we help them to find it within themselves that's very nicely said yeah absolutely good so um before we go on with your story because I think what's important I want people to understand um hanshi hanshi is what does it mean hanshi means grand master now as you know in karate you achieve you know the q-gradings which is the learning stages of a student and then you become a black belt which is first dan then as you travel along this journey which is up to tenth dan so each dan grading represents something so when you reach third dan you're a sensei and when you reach fourth dan you're a professor and so so what happens is people progress through the ranks and when you reach uh eight dan nine dan and tenth dan you become a master of the arts so the title hanshi means master master of the arts grand master I would say so the grand master of karate so I've reached that I've been given that title by fuji moto heroshi hanshi which was a japanese master and tino sabrano hanshi who is the australian father of karate so both these gentlemen have got together and have given me that recognition of grand master so it's the highest ranking in the karate world congratulations congratulations a lot of work has gone through it you know I did a lot of work I started training at 11 years old you know non-stop till I'm now 73 and I'm still training and and love it like the first day I got into the art well so it basically took you over 60 years to get to hanshi so it's a big deal yeah 60 years of dedication love you know fortitude and you know reaching but my main objective to be honest with you my main objective is to help people so the more it's not about you know walking around with a garland wrong my neck saying I'm hanshi you respect me it's more about delivering a service towards humanity to help humanity develop so karate is the means I use to help uh human beings develop so and that's what I do that's great that's great how many hanshis would you say there are in the world though you mean living once yes preferably living yes you know there's a lot of hanshis in the world but not genuine hanshis they're real hanshis like you know when people are given titles by another hanshi another grand master so I would say you know there's only about 10 hanshis in the entire world okay so it is a fairly big deal um in the karate world so I just wanted people to understand that that you not just a do-gooder trying to you know off the cuff but you have trained for this you have been recognized by your peers as somebody that carries themselves with the authority to be one of the few hanshis in out of seven billion people only 10 10 hanshis of this kind it is it's a big honor it's a big um it's a big reputational aspect to your to your advice so one of the things that in in mental health we do through the mental health the workplace mental health institute wmh i we're firm believers that there's not one size that fits all so it's not just um people find the healing through many different ways some of them are evidence-based what we would call in academia evidence-based but you know the majority of people find healing outside of that and they believe that some people find healing through karate or the spiritual teachings of karate or some other techniques that you you you bring on board so tell us a little bit about your story now i'm getting back to the original question tell us a little bit about your story you were born in in south africa born in south africa 1949 on the 16th of january at 3 a.m in the morning now there was a riot there was a riot in the country where you know two races were were in conflict and my mother gave birth to me out of fear so i was born four months premature now my father was a police officer he couldn't attend to my mom so this poor lady was by herself and i just dropped out and we were taken to my grandmother's house adopted grandmother would took care of me she sent her chauffeur to pick up my mom and myself and that's how i survived in south africa and of course south africa being the country it is and you've been to johnsburg um in the old days it wasn't safe at all and um so there was a lot of violence and i grew up in an environment of violence so i learned you know how to use a knife i learned how to use a gun and i learned karate so i got very equipped i would say very equipped to to handle myself so i've been in a number of of situations where i had to protect myself against one two ten twenty people so karate saved me and if i hadn't done karate i wouldn't have been here today i would have been bedded a long time ago karate taught me you know the physical uh aspect of defense it also taught me character development right so i learned both both to keep in balance you know the physical ability to defend as well as the character to also to protect yourself because i've learned that goodness is the tool that protects the good right so i developed this this attitude and thanks to my teacher gogan yamaguchi that i went to see in japan and lived with him and trained under him and he guided me to develop good character okay so you're waiting for the fighting aspect and then kind of stayed because of the character aspect exactly right i went there to become a bit of fighter and i came back being a better person i suppose you know right in your opinion i mean in your opinion is the world class opinion what makes a good fighter well a good fighter is a fighter that has no fear you know if you have no fear you become a good fighter you know i stand with my students sometimes and i have fighting with them and they stand in front of me i won the battle already because they're not sure what i'm going to do and they think in their head oh i'm facing anchi he's gonna kill me so immediately their confidence is dropped and i just walk all over them it's easy for me to do and also karate is has developed in me the sense of awareness you know the sixth sensibility of being able to read your opponent like i showed them last night how to read your opponent and know exactly what they were they are going to do so karate has helped me develop to be able to read people like you for instance if you are meeting a client for the first time or you're meeting somebody for the first time just by the facial expression you know the kind of character that person is whether it's a likeable person or not a likeable person whether you can work with this person or you can't work with this person so just by looking at somebody's face the energy that they give off will tell you exactly the kind of people they are so karate we learn to read people we learn to read very good and the kind of character that you are do you have competitions do you go in competitions do you that's a good question the organization that i was connected with in japan gojukai my teacher originally started competition because he wants to make karate popular so he developed competition and this was an error on his part it was an error he told me i made a mistake he said i made i created a monster i couldn't kill what he didn't realize at the time that in when they brought in competition the ego started to develop and with the result people wanted to be a winner at all costs so they become winners at all costs which means hurting the opponent or doing something that's not legal so this kind of mentality this ego of easing goodness out uh disappears you know you you have an ego that you want to be better than everybody else and we know that nobody's better than anybody we're all the same so i did not do competition i don't do competition i teach traditional karate i teach self-defense i teach character development okay yeah and i guess that's working out for your students as well yeah my students worldwide enjoy the kind of teachings i got look i'm not worried about 90 percent of the people in the world i'm only thinking about 10 percent i only want to educate 10 percent of the world i've done my job so if i can reach out to 10 percent of the population and teach them how to develop good character i've done my work okay so what is good character good character is think good be good do good equals live good so your thoughts what your head things must be examined by the heart and done with the hand i call that the 3h right in order to be successful 3h equals ga to the power of s what does that mean 3h is head heart and hand so what the head things must be examined with the heart and then done with the hands that's the 3h equals ga which is goal achieved and and s is the power of success to be successful these this is what we need okay and how would you define success i mean i ask you both as a hanshi and as a human being that has been trying to teach people this for so long since you were 11 you were in contact with this now you're 73 that's a long time what is success for hanshi dina and i do right success is achieving your goals my goal is to be the best human being i can be to be ideal as a husband to be a high deal as a father to be ideal as a grandfather to be ideal as a son a friend a person of of this community this country the world this is success for me when i become an ideal person in all the roles i play i am successful great so this this is great for um i would imagine people that are healthy for example people that want to achieve goals and that's not always the case that's not always the case the people that come to you sometimes i would imagine that they're not well um some of them i imagine through over the years would have come to you with mental health issues and what what have you found in with with this type types is such bad with these individuals with these human beings that are suffering that deserve our compassion um what have you found were some of the problems that they were presenting to you with what was the the quintessential problem from your point of view this is why we're talking to you because we want your your unique point of view what is the difference between one person and the other there's nothing that is different we are physical beings we have a mind and we have life energy which people turn a spirit we have the three things everybody also everybody you meet has those three things the condition that makes us different is the mind right so when we change our mindset when we change our mindset when we are influenced by people of of greater knowledge of greater understanding or know how to cope with life and we learn the the the keys and the the of how to reach this point to to reach a better state of mental condition right we all become the same so the difference between a person that reaches success and a person that doesn't reach success is the condition of the mind it's a mind and the mind is a powerful tool right i teach sma for instance right i teach seven levels of consciousness so i teach uh the ordinary mind consciousness which is the doing mind when you think of something that you want to do you go and do it that is the ordinary mind when you do habit forming techniques when you're doing things that are repetitive it becomes habit which means it is buried into your subconscious mind for instance like walking is a subconscious action so we have ordinary people use the the ordinary mind consciousness which is the conscious mind the subconscious mind then you have five other levels above it you have for instance a higher mind consciousness which i use in karate the higher mind consciousness is the sixth sense the ability to be able to do things knowing such and such is going to happen like i gave you the example earlier on about when i'm sparring with my student i can read that because i am now using the sense of awareness to be able to do that kind of thing and and of course we reach different levels now when we meet people that have a a mental issue for instance now as you know i work for vision australia now i had a client of mine that was at very little vision he had intellectual difficulties he had he didn't have much cognitive skills and so i took him for a job interview now when i sat in the car with him this guy couldn't even put two lines together and as i took him along towards this place called black town on the way i was educating him about the mind i said to him how much do you need this job and he said very much i really want this job and i said so you really want to do it you're not going to neglect this job you're going to do it getting up every day and traveling to work he says that's not a problem i said so you really need it right so he was really engrossed in this and he and he felt within his consciousness that he needed it so i told him okay now the interviewer is going to ask you these questions and these are these are your answers so in the car i educated this guy now remember this guy couldn't put two words together to make a sentence because he used to stutter his intellectual abilities wasn't good enough but i made him i made him understand that he could do this because he needed this job and this journey took me three quarters of an hour throughout the journey i educated him when he got to the interview and he sat in front of the managing director the managing director asked him a few questions i couldn't believe i was hearing this guy speak his interest and his feeling to get this job surprised me it was like a miracle i didn't know whether it was the same guy speaking he put it all together so well he got the job and the boss said to him start on monday so the condition of the mind is that is what we need to do we need to be able to give people the confidence that they can do it they can do it they can do anything anybody can do anything you can be a multimillionaire or you can be a pop up the only difference is the condition of the mind if you have the enthusiasm to drive yourself you can do anything right if you put in the work behind it right because dream is just an illusion right you're going to make it happen right i did it with paren smith and reman smith yesterday uh these are great footballers absolutely powerful guys i did a thing called the punching technique so i got remas who placed for the melbourne storm very powerful guy is six foot five i'm a dwarf in front of him and i got him to punch a pad that i was holding and he punched it and i said punch hard and he punched hard and he did it three times and i said you hold it and i'm gonna hit it i hit it once and he moved back he said whoa that was amazing now what is the difference between remas and me is the technique all i did he's 10 times more powerful than me but i knew the technique how to do it so mental health mental health is knowing the techniques and this is where you guys come in because you know the techniques what people need to better improve themselves i do it out of karate i make people that are white belts black balls all it takes is the effort takes the effort and the mindset i say you can do it you can do it yeah technique is very important and the right attitude is very important isn't it we talk about mindset which we basically is you know how do you use your mind uh what are your goals what are your your missions what what is it though that you see i mean 73 years in this world it's a long time to to for someone like you that has been reflecting on life consistently and the state of the world what do you see as the biggest problem for our society right now in terms of in terms of mental wealth leaders leaders is the biggest problem we don't have leaders in the world we don't have leaders we we have opportunists and we have egoistic leaders that is only interested in their own well-being and the monetary gain and to demonstrate ego they're not real leaders when we look at real leaders that have passed Mahatma Gandhi for instance or Martin Luther King for instance you know these mother Teresa these were great leaders who lived their life of goodness so today we don't have leaders that are interested in you and me and everybody else all they're interested in how can they win how can they be richer and more powerful and have control you know they've lost that human dignity you know that welfare thinking about other people i'm not a very rich man but i'm a very comfortable man i live a very comfortable life i'm not rich my wife said that if i charge exorbitant amounts of money i would be very wealthy today but where is that wealth going to take me but today i can stand on a platform and nobody can point a finger at me and say that i've done them down or i've cheated them or misled them and that's that's something important isn't it i mean for people to to there's a lack of integrity in the world at the moment at every level it's not just the leaders but the leaders make it compound the problem when when elections are won as a marketing as a marketing gimmick you know whatever whatever people are going to vote for that's what i'll believe in if i if they change in the next five minutes i'll change what i believe in the next five minutes so we have we have entered a an interesting time in human history where the media tells us what to think and there's no more not much more questioning is happening and and and there's a lack of integrity to to stand for and there's also a lack of accountability isn't it i mean we we're here of laws and constitutions and being violated and fraud committed at the highest levels and nothing seems to happen but it's interesting isn't it like the examples that you mentioned like Mahatma Gandhi Mandela Luther King Mother Teresa whatever you think of those individuals maybe they were not saints you know they didn't have to be but they stood for their lives stood for something they stood for something service to humanity is service to the divine so these like that service to humanity is service the divine so these four individuals and of course there were a few others these four individuals was about serving humanity do not want or what Kennedy said do he said something about the country don't depend on the country to do for you you should do for the country or something like that i forget the words ask not ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country i think that's exactly why yeah that's exactly you gotta thank you for that yeah yeah so so what we need to do is what can we do for other human beings not what those human beings can do for us but what can we do for them to improve their life that's what i see i see karate is a tool i see sma is a tool i see kiazza is a tool to improve people so that they lead better lives they become better when they look back and they say i have been a good father i've been a good mother i've been a good husband i've been a good wife and so on and so forth all the roles that they play they can stand back and say on the last breath i did the best i can in all the roles i played what do we take with us when we pass the planet we don't even take our bodies with us we don't take the only thing we take is our experiences and the love that we have in us we take nothing else what do you mean by the love that we have in us what do you mean by that what the okay love in us is to me i call everybody an embodiment of love no matter how bad they are no matter how bad they are they're an embodiment of love that love may be a tiny spark or it may be a bonfire but they still have love the fact that they have life in them that is love so we have come from love we go back to love and we develop love through this process of life that's what i believe in so i call everybody love embodiment of love when i spoke to the nuns in in tokyo i was living with the nuns in tokyo and i said to them i said after listening to their prayers i said you know stop condemning yourself stop saying bad things about yourself and i said you are an embodiment of love you are an embodiment of love you know those nuns were crying they've never heard that before when my when i was a young boy my father called me to the window when you said son come and have a look at this we looked outside the window and there was a notorious guy called norman when norman was the gangster he was a really bad guy he was in and out of jail he was not afraid of anybody and so on and i'm looking at norman norman goes down on his knees takes out his bag in his bag he had some sandwiches and he fed a stray dog a dog that was hungry he gave it his sandwiches now here was a hardened criminal here was a notorious guy and what did it prove he had love in him hmm it's interesting isn't it and how how how do we access that personally but there are two questions here how do we how do we access our intrinsic love because i agree i wholeheartedly agree with your statement we are embodiments of love however how do we access that love that is already there in a more effective way right let me let me tell you a couple of stories here let me tell you a couple of stories now my friend atong jumsai who is a is was a scientist scientist for nasa he developed the landing gear for the mariner that landed on on mars many many years ago right now he's a brilliant mind and he was teaching at the university of thailand so he had 12 students and he was one day out of the blue he spoke about love and one of the girl scientists the young student scientist said professor you talk about love how can you prove it exists we are scientists you have to be able to prove that love exists so he says okay next week we'll do an experiment so the following week he got 24 plants for 12 of his students he gave them two plants each and he said to them and said all right what i want you to do i want you to take this into the green room place one plant on the left side one plant on the right side the plant on the right side i want you to give it a name call it charles dick harry mary whatever you like the one on the left no name what are the plants every three days the same but the ones on the right side i want you to treat it like family i want you to talk to it i want you to tell it the problems i want you to tell it you love it you are affectionate you like it and all that kind of stuff and they said okay so uh he also said to them treat it like your best friend they said all right there's an experiment we'll have a go at it these were quick growing plants three months later he said okay time to check the plants when they walked in the plants on the right side was three times taller than the ones on the left side so you see love exists you know uh professor immortal and people can look at youtube professor immortal he took water a container of water and he put it into 10 little containers and on each one of those containers he named it evil devil bad hitler and then goodness love peace and so on so he had bad names and he had goodness he took a droplet of each of those and put it under the electron microscope and looked underneath what did it look like so all the containers with the good names was beautiful crystals and all ships you can see it on youtube your your listeners can watch it on youtube okay all those bad names were grotesque and ugly but grotesque and ugly so just by words in itself changes the frequency of energy right are you are you saying then that how do we talk to ourselves or the words that come out of our mouths the words we choose can be life giving or death giving absolutely the words you chose so if i said to you i said peter you are a horrible man i just don't like your energy how do you feel you feel hey what is wrong with this guy why would he say something like that but if i said to you hey peter you're such a awesome guy you know you just you're when i see you i radiate with this good feeling i love your company how do you feel then you feel so much better so even even though this is just a play immediately that had a different feel for me words have emotion or when you say words with emotion and i when i say i love you and i really like the way you are as a person it's not just words it's an emotional feeling yes so this emotional feeling has a connection yeah but if i throw bad words of you immediately there's a wall in front and you don't want a connection because you don't want to hear these horrible things how do you personally and i talk to you because you're you're here as the expert they're hanshy how do you make sure that there are good words going around your head well the thing is look everything is energy everything is energy right this whole world the seat that i'm sitting on is energy you know the computer in front of me is energy everything is energy right now i believe i believe sincerely in my heart that every human being every human being is love incarnate so when i talk to this person no matter how bad it is okay let me give you a story to make you understand the story better when i was teaching karate when i was teaching karate i had a parent quite upset with me he was upset because i was reprimanding his kids for bad behavior i said to the guys you mustn't behave badly get down and do some push-ups and i gave them some punishment so the parent was watching this and he was very upset but i was doing it out of love and the father was upset because i was punishing his kids so the next day he came to my martial arts store that i had at rudio and he abused me now there's two things i could have done to this guy assaulted him or forgave him so what i did in my head while he was abusing me i said i forgive you and i love you just in my head without saying any words just in my head so he walked out of my shop very angry two years later i had customers in my shop he walks in tears running down his eyes and he says sensei i'm really sorry for what i did to you two years ago i said that's fine i forgave you the moment you said it that's what love is to be able to forgive immediately you never hold on to that you know revenge digs two graves right revenge digs two graves never be never have this anger never have malice never have these things that are not good for the human spirit we must develop love even for the most the worst person on the planet we have to love them love them love the life energy in them but not the actions you never love a bad action but you love the energy that is in them that life energy in them has to be loved very good and and that's how we externalize it and that's that's a gift isn't it that every time we do that we do a two-folded gift when we we give a gift to the person that we're even the love to and we're also giving ourselves love by giving love you know i mean the one one sure fire method to feel love is by giving it by giving it you know there's too far too many people waiting for people to love me i want people to love me so i can experience love that's not how you experience love you experience love by giving it and that's what you're talking about is a gift and i think that's brilliant i'll give you another quick story i had the captain of a i won't name the the biker gang i had the captain of an the most notorious biker gang he came to see me one day and he said sensei he said sensei i said yes he says i'd like you to train my children i said interesting why me i said there's so many karate schools around why have you brought your kids to me he said i heard about you people talk about you he said i want my children to be like you and not like me so he recognized he recognized something he recognized that his children can be molded and become better human beings from my influence and he hated these influence he hated the way he was as a person he understood love didn't he there's a part of me exactly yeah understood love yeah yeah one one of the issues a lot of people have in in the mental health space is with their thinking their thinking tends to be fairly negative so at some level they're choosing the wrong kind of words to describe the world around them so obviously you're a human being too and as a human being like all of us you you must have had times in which your mind goes negative so how do you notice when that happens and what techniques if do you use maybe it's become automatic so i'm asking you to now think back on your process and what techniques do you use to correct your thinking so it's a powerful kind of thinking rather than a negative hurtful kind of thinking am i making sense is absolutely okay you know they say you you can't stop the birds flying over your head i like that but you can't stop them building a nest on it very good oh i like that yeah you can't stop the birds flying over your head but you can't stop them building a nest on your head right so negative things are everywhere everybody receives negative things but don't be attached to the negative stuff when you attach you become part of the negativity right so i say immediately if i have a negative thought i say those thoughts do not belong to me the moment i say that you know that it's gone the moment i say that those thoughts don't belong to me it's gone so your technique is saying those thoughts don't belong to me i like that yeah and and do you breathe do you do something physical with that are you standing up are you yeah i'm always relaxed no matter what i'm always relaxed and calm and cool about it and i just say when a bad thought comes for instance let us say i'm thinking about something about my neighbor you know making a lot of noise or something you know i say those thoughts don't belong to me he's a great guy don't and you remind yourself that he's a great guy i remind myself and he is a great guy so i shouldn't be thinking those things we don't belong to me hmm so how how we this is an important thing too isn't it how we label the people around us will have a huge impact on their ability to love others and to love ourselves won't it like if i'm thinking my neighbor is the worst person in the world that's gonna that's gonna be a very different feeling to saying my neighbor may have actions i don't approve of however they are the personification of love that's a completely yeah you become what you think you become what you think when you do negative things about somebody else you become that negative stuff if i said to you if i said to you uh for the next five seconds don't think about giraffes what are you gonna do you're gonna make me think about giraffes you just made me think about giraffes how dare you you gave me an impossible command so you become what you think right you become what you think you think negative stuff that energy surrounds you because everything is energy right and immediately the energy around you is negative and then you think more and more things and until you explode and you get angry and you wonder why am i thinking bad things like i said to my students at karate start in the morning don't think about bad things think only good when you start the day with goodness you fill the day with goodness you end the day with goodness you become a tool of goodness so don't spoil your day don't pollute your day by thinking bad things in the morning yeah i completely agree 100% with that in air courses we give people really practical techniques so they can start controlling their mind in such a way that it turns out powerful actions powerful and a powerful what you were calling about before a successful life you know and i imagine that you you you talk about these things in your podcasts i talk about this on my podcast i teach my students at karate you know constantly my sma i run courses sma which is spirit mind awareness sorry sma stands for spirit mind awareness spirit mind awareness mind awareness so i run these courses people can do these courses i do sma meditation i do sma leadership course living with sma knowledge about sma and i also got a new course called the sixth element so these courses are all about helping people to understand life on a deeper level right so we're not spiritual beings we're spiritual doings right spiritual doings very nice what does it mean to you when you hear that when you say that yeah do do everything that is righteous be a righteous person lead a dynamic life which is the lead lead a life of goodness right find little excuse little excuse find little excuse to do bad things don't allow yourself don't allow yourself to become a victim of your negative self don't allow yourself lift your consciousness i am love lift your consciousness i am truth i am peace i am righteousness i am non-violence this is me i am statement very powerful and well chosen i am statement because we do i am statements all the time i am you know people that are suffering have got very very bad i am statements i am a bad person i am a failure i'm not good at anything i am poor i never have anything i want those are i am statements we're really good at them but we're not very good at and that takes practice is i am statements that are powerful they're well designed and they're you know that our spirit can listen to them and act accordingly so you raise a very good i mean if you start saying i'm fear i am a sinner i'm a wretched soul if you keep saying you live that life of of being a sinner and a wretched soul and everything else you're going to be very miserable yeah yeah i am i am beautiful i am beautiful there's no ugliness in me you know i am the child of love i'm an embodiment of love i am loved that's a powerful one i am loved sometimes we don't realize that yeah so um what are we gonna do is we're gonna put your your url podcast link on the description so people can go and they can listen to your podcast if they want to and they can also reach out to you if they if they actually want to um i think it's a very important work that you're doing um dina and um i thank you for that because we need more people in the world doing this work especially these days where things have become a little bit confusing um and there's a lot of pain in the world so how do we how do we step up then ourselves and impact at a global level is that possible just for absolutely i mean you look at this analogy that i got right if if a pond if a pond can be filled with with omelba in 24 days and omelba as you know divides itself into two so one becomes two two becomes four four becomes eight so it takes 24 days for the pond to be full of omelba so we are on the 23rd day which is half full so if each one of us can influence another one other to be a better person than they are help them to become that right on the 24th day the whole world will change and we need the world to change you know i think there's goodness in everybody if we're willing to look for that goodness what is it that we can hold on to and what is it that we can promote in each other um that that will stop that level of of aggression and violence and negativity that is permeating the world it's the mindset it's the mindset you know i'd like to go to every prison in america and britain and everywhere else in australia and go and sit down with the prisoners and tell them you are embodiments of love and help them that's great yeah i love to do that so if there's anybody listening and they have an influence of being able to get mean to any prison in the world anyway to sit down with the most hardened criminals and for me to tell them that the embodiments of love that will change them absolutely absolutely and that that that connection that you just talked about the mindset with the embodiment of the feeling of the embodiment of love is what i call the hard set not the mindset but the hard set when you've linked your mind to your feeling of love that's the hard set you've opened up and you're using now your hard set which is the next level of evolution of course you first got to get this one right and this one and then you can join them into the hard set yes absolutely absolutely great thank you very much has she's been a really a really um pleasant very nice conversation we've talked about our favorite subjects i think that's always a good sign but it's been really enucidating and it's been really informative and thank you for giving us a little bit of an insight into hanshi dina naidu very privileged to have you around hopefully for many many more years i can't believe you're 73 you look so young must be all the good thinking must be all the good thinking all the nice hard set that you put out into the world must be coming back to you you know the amazing thing i just had an accident not so long ago probably five months now i heard about that car smashed me into my garage and i was able to hold a car from crushing me to death the paramedics said you should have been dead we don't know how you lived they found me under the car they had to push a trolley underneath them pick me put me out of the car it was all smashed broken arm and wow but i survived it you know i survived i didn't realize i thought you got your leg got pained or something but no you the whole body i broke my i broke my arm and my body was damaged my ankle was damaged they thought my ankle was split broken into two just twisted the other way but for some reason or the other resetted it itself and there's nothing wrong with the ankle and just my human is was snapped into two which they fixed but uh physically i'm okay i'm physically wow that's that's a very fast recovery good won't you and the funny thing is when i was with the paramedics in the ambulance they gave me drugs to kill the pain right and uh when i had these heavy drugs i started seeing have hallucinations of beautiful colors and all that and i said to the guys i said where can i get some of these drugs i said they are good party drugs yeah i think it's called morphine they should be widely available and you know i had one helicopter two ambulance five police cars two fire brigades all come to rescue me right and then i'm sitting they took me into the ambulance and i said why are you you guys taking me they said to the hospital in an ambulance i said no no no no i believed there's a helicopter take me on the helicopter it sounds like a very good party drug uh it was amazing you would have made a very good wimpy the paramedics was saying the paramedics was saying they've never had a patient that has just come out of the most traumatic accident and laughing all the way to the hospital that's good attitude no wonder you you recover so well which you know that's the last gift that you give us here is that how we think how we connect with a heart can actually help us physically to recover physically this is a well proven fact and we're not making things up this has been a study a study validated study that shows the impact of the mind over our bodies and how recovery takes a very positive attitude everything is possible that's a nice story that's a nice story very nice motivational story to end with great thank you very much dina yeah this is good this is good it's been really really good i i'm i'm going to make sure i'm going to do a little introduction to this video i'm going to make sure that people stay until the last story because it's a brilliant story thank you very much dina hi i'm emi golding director of psychology for the workplace mental health institute we hope you like the video if you did make sure to give it the thumbs up we have more and more videos being released each week so when you subscribe you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published so make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself your colleagues and your loved ones