The evening is on yours David and now the floor is open for you. David will now speak to you. Thank you. Thank you Rishan. Thank you for inviting me. Now I come to India to share an experience of joy and happiness and peace of mind that comes from a state of non-judgment and acceptance. And this is a state of mind in which opinions have vanished and non-duality or presence of oneness is what remains as the living experience. So it is such an honor really to come to India because of the deep spiritual traditions of India, the teachings of the Vedas, the great deep teachings of the Vedas, the Vedas of the Danta, the beautiful teachings of non-duality. And Rishana has invited me to come because I have studied and practiced a teaching from the West, a teaching that originates in the United States but has spread all around the world. And it's called The Course in Miracles and it's very touching that we have present moments as the name that Rishana uses in her seminars because this is the teaching of learning to live completely in the present moment without the distractions of the future and the past. There are many wonderful non-dual teachings on the planet and some of the most famous ones come from India, they originate from India. China and now we have a non-dual teaching for the Western world. And the Western world has been embraced by many wonderful teachers that have come from India. Recently the group of people that I live with and work with watched a movie of the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and it was very inspiring. And the more they watched the life of Yogananda coming to the United States in the 1920s and establishing what would become the self-realization fellowship out in California. Beautiful monuments and beautiful remembrances of this amazing teacher. And so for myself and those who work with me and follow my teaching, we have a modern day non-dual teaching. Very much like the lineages of Sri Ramana Maharshi, very famous Omara Namsala and Yogananda. Many amazing Indian spiritual teachers have been teaching these beautiful non-dual teachings. And what we find with the Course in Miracles is it uses modern day contemporary terms, terminology to convey the same teachings of these great Vedanta teachings from India. Using psychological terms which many of us know psychology is a factor in people trying to discover the mind and the psyche. Christianity uses terms that come from the tradition of Jesus Christ and we also have the terms from education such as curriculum and learning goal and so forth. So the teaching that I study and the teaching that Roshana is studying is called the Course in Miracles. It pulls from three major disciplines. It uses the vocabulary from psychology, Christianity and education. And that's why it has been regarded by many as a contemporary scripture whereas the scriptures obviously with the Vedantas go back many, many, many centuries. This is a teaching that came via a channeling process to a research psychologist in New York City and it began in 1965 and continued on until 1972. So the book itself is a scripture that leads one just as the Vedatas lead to a state of peace, peace of mind, inner peace and self-realization. Also it comes in many ways as a correction for Christianity. Christianity and many of the world religions will see a dualistic world, a world of heaven and hell. And the great teachings from India teach us that what we have perceived as hell or as pain or as suffering are illusions. They are distortions. They are distortions of reality. They are not reality itself. They are Maya. They are illusion. Same teaching from the West is teaching the same thing. That love is our nature. That peace, happiness and harmony, eternal happiness and harmony is our natural state of being. The state of pure oneness, absolute oneness is what reality is. People have asked me where will you go when you go to India for the first time? And I have enjoyed the size and the symbols as we have come here today. I see the candles burning back there. I see the Buddha and the rest of the teachers, Guruji, on the way over driving here today. A car drove by and Guruji was on the back windshield of the car, which to me is just a symbol that he is here with us today very much. And also when Naya and I were called to come here, things have unfolded that we ended up staying at the Shangri-La in New Delhi and coming to a presentation by present moments and we will travel tomorrow to Rishikesh to stay in Nirvana. So the locations I tell my friends in the West, I'm going to Shangri-La, present moments and Nirvana. Let's go our way to stay. To me these are all words but they're the symbols of what's in our hearts. We have Nirvana within us. We have the Kingdom of Heaven within us. We have happiness within us. My journey using the Course in Miracles has been very much like the journey of the yogis, of the saints, of the mystics. It has been a journey which was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. When I first saw Richard Attenborough's movie, Gandhi, my heart was touched to the very core. And it was so memorable that even to man here and to look on the rupees and to see Gandhiji on the rupees. It's the first time I've looked at any currency anywhere in the world and been inspired by just looking at the currency. And that shows how deep the traditions of peace, of nonviolence, of love are in India. The teachings that I learned was a teaching of learning to trust, divine guidance and divine intuition to lead me in everything in my life.  Meaning what you think and what you say and what you do has to be in perfect, harmonious alignment. Otherwise it's just another theology. Otherwise it's just another belief system. I think what I have found in my travels around the world, and India is my 41st country so I get to meet many people all over the world, is that people are in search of an experience. We don't need more theologies. We don't need more teachings that are just about theory. People want a practical experience, a peace of mind. People want to feel that harmony in their soul. And they want to have that harmony be consistent, not something that comes and goes. Many of the questions I can ask is how do you live a life without anger? How can you live a life without jealousy or envy? Is it possible to live in this world without competition? Can you be in complete harmony with all that is and live a life free from all competition? And I say that has been my experience. When I dedicated my life to spirit and gave everything over to spirit, and the rest has been given to me quite effortlessly and quite easily. That means that when I travel around, whatever the means are that are needed for me to travel, to speak, to meet the people, to hug the people, to listen to the people, everything comes and everything is beautifully provided. Some people call it a spiritual calling. It was Mother Teresa who was on a train in India when she received her calling of service. And her life was very much a demonstration of putting the spirit first and trusting that by living the life devoted to spirit, she would find the peace and happiness that everyone is seeking. And when I look at my work with The Course in Miracles, I see that it is a pathway of purification that all of us are praying to have our hearts purified so that our thoughts and our emotions and our words and our deeds, our very actions are all in complete alignment. That's what is most important is living a life of integrity. What this means is that when I give someone my word, whatever I promise them, in terms of anything in this world showing up to speak, visiting them, doing something for them, it means you keep your word, you follow through and keep your word. And this is the practice of letting the spirit guide so that every thought and every moment sends out a blessing to everyone in the world. That as we heal, we are all healed together. No one is healed apart. No one truly walks alone. We are truly all in this together. It has given me opportunities to go inside my mind and learn to trust the spirit to give me the words to speak and the places to go, the people to meet. So that everyone that I meet along my journey, I see as a reflection of the one. We are one spirit and the diversity of the bodies and all the images of the world are perceived as whole from a mind that is dedicated to homeless. There's a saying that I use often and that is if you spot it, you've got it. Meaning if you perceive it in the world, it starts first in your consciousness. So if there's hatred in the mind, the only place that that hatred can be corrected is in our own hearts. I was very touched when someone asked Gandhi about the devil. He said, Mahatma, what do you think about the devil? And he said, if there is a devil, he's running around in our own hearts. He's got to be in our own hearts. He's not an external devil. And I think that gives us all the opportunity to see that when we feel anger, when we feel hatred, when we feel even suffering and discomfort, that there's something inside our hearts that is calling for purification. It's calling for healing. So the teachings of course in here also teach that if you practice this course, you will learn to see everything as either love or a call for love. And that means that hatred is a call for love. Hatred is a call for help. Conflict is a call for help. And if we devote our life to being truly helpful, we will answer that call. We will not turn away. We will not conclude that we are different or better than anyone else. We will answer a call for love with love. It's really a very, very simple teaching in forgiveness.  What we learn from Course in Miracles is that when we perceive evil or when we perceive error, it is our own consciousness that needs the correction. It is not other people that need to change for us to find inner happiness. It is a surrender of the erroneous thoughts and beliefs in our consciousness that lock away. And when we surrender those thoughts and beliefs, we come back into that state of pure awareness, pure awareness. This puts the responsibility for our state of mind fully on our consciousness and does not make it into an equation where we believe that other people have to treat us in a certain way in order to be happy. And just like all spiritual traditions, it requires an internal discipline and an internal practice to let go of all grievances and all hurts and all judgments. Sometimes people believe that forgiveness is letting somebody else off the hook when actually when we hold a grievance, we bring heaviness to our self, to our own heart. And it is our mind and our consciousness that needs the forgiveness. When we are offended by someone, the spirit gently reminds us, pluck the offense out of your own mind. Do not hold on to the offense or you will not know the love that you are and the love that is real or true. Now, among the great nominal teachings, there's always an interesting aspect of trying to explain answers to these ontological questions. How is it that we live on planet Earth? How did we come together? How did this world of time and space, this cosmos of time and space start? What beginning did it have? These are very deep questions. Sometimes this thing called relic, this thing called the great play and I feel that those who go on this spiritual journey to go deeper and deeper into this experience that I'm talking about start to see the world more as relic. It's just a play of ideas. It's a play of images. It's a play of concepts that are very transitory. Always shifting, always changing, always moving. Where did they come from? Scientists talk about the big bang as an explosion of hot guesses that occurred millions and millions of years ago as if it's an origin. And what we learn from A Course in Miracles is that there is a state of pure stillness and pure love that precedes the big bang. That before this cosmic explosion of images is peace eternally. And since the big bang we believe time moves forward. We keep track of history, past, present, and future. And what we are learning from quantum physics, what we are learning from the Vedas, what we are learning from A Course in Miracles is that the state of mind in which there is perfection is prior to time, prior to the cosmos. And therefore the Buddha taught us to empty our mind with everything we think we think and think we know in order to find the experience of Nirvana. Jesus taught us the kingdom of heaven is within. He wasn't teaching us some external heaven and sky of somewhere in the planets and stars. He was teaching us the Buddha talk of presence that is deeply within us. So my practice for the last quarter of the century has been to be very still. It's been a practice that has involved meditation. But most of all it has been a practice of being used. Having prayer by heart to let the spirit use me in the most helpful way for the entire planet. What will be most helpful? And therefore the way that it played out for me was going around upon invitation to wherever I was guided to speak. It's different from religion of trying to convert somebody or change somebody. And it's beautiful, beautiful for me coming to India because India has such great diversity of the people, diversity of the religions, diversity of language, diversity of dialects, an amazing epistry of diversity and yet a harmony that is underneath the diversity. Harmony and a respect that is there. We arrived yesterday and already we have had the most wonderful fascination with the traffic into Delhi or I might say the driving into Delhi. She has been watching from the car of all leaving cars and motorbikes moving across lines. Artificial painted lines in the streets that don't seem to mean anything to anyone. And she's come from Canada where lines mean something. Where cars are not supposed to come close. It's not good for cars to come close to other cars. Where she comes from if one car gets too close to another car, there's a hump, a beep. And she was saying there's an anger behind a beep. So right away we notice the fascination of all the cars leaving. Not to surprise they are all alive. And effortlessly, everyone seems to be. We were amazed where Shana was talking on her cell phone, leaving, living out, multitasking. And multitasking while driving in Delhi. Amazing thing. And you know what's so beautiful about that is because even the traffic, even driving in the traffic, is a demonstration of respect, is a demonstration of love and harmony, and of letting go of control. You can't leave the building with your car or your moped or scooter with an attitude of control. You wouldn't go anywhere. And how could you have a grievance when you're driving in Delhi? No. You know to me this is a contrast because I've been in 41 countries and one time I went down to New Zealand. And New Zealand is very picturesque. It's where they filmed Lord of the Rings who might have seen beautiful spectacular mountains. And the roadways were so clean I couldn't find a speck of garbage anywhere. I went all around the South Island looking to see if I could find a piece of garbage. Not a speck. Pollution? I don't think they know what pollution is in the island of New Zealand, the South Island, and so forth. It's amazing. But when I was in New Zealand I said, everything is so clean and beautiful. I said, what is it that is your number one problem down here in New Zealand? And they said, road rage. They have nothing else to be angry at. They get angry on the road. So you see, we have to allow this anger to be released. What's the point? Life is too short. You have to be angered in grievances. Now, we start with the streets, but then once we start to get into relationships, once we get into families, once we get into interpersonal relationships, or Rashana said, once you get into parking in this district, then the anger could start to come. You could drive and flow and flow, but don't take my parking space. Because the possession, you know, it's this sense of still the mind wants to have some kind of control over the world. And the greatest teachings, the greatest traditions tell us to trust and go with the flow and stay in the harmony. And don't point the finger, don't try to blame the world. Don't try to blame your brothers and your sisters and people of the world for the upset that you may experience. It seems to be that in interpersonal relationships, this provides the greatest challenge. Because most of the suicides, obviously the suicides are the number one cause of death in the world. But once we look at homicides, there are so many such a high percentage of homicides that are in families and couples, people who know each other, who get triggered so much that anger comes out so much that the homicide comes through that anger. And this is where we must release the ego. We must release the error in the mind that believes so much in privacy, so much in possession, so much in ownership, so much in control that the ego would rather kill than be wrong about its position. The teachings, of course the miracles, are the teachings that the ego made this distorted world of time and space. And that this distorted world of time and space is a cover over the love that's in our hearts. That we actually were created by love, by God, by spirit as well. And we just allowed this ego in our consciousness to have control. We've given it relief. We've taken the power of our mind, of our consciousness, and we've given it over to the ego. So, of course the miracles is a way of systematically training our mind to undo the ego, to withdraw all our faith and investment in the ego so that we can come back to the state of perfect, eternal pure love. And what the Course of Miracles offers as a methodology is a workbook that has 365 lessons, one lesson for every day of the year. It tries to keep us very focused and very simple. Now, the great teachings of India, meditation is extremely important and we have things like mantras. A mantra is a way of focusing the mind, having a very loving thought and using the power and energy of your mind to focus on that thought, to transcend distractions, to transcend temptations, and to transcend distortions. And so, I would say Course of Miracles is very similar in the sense that it advocates stillness and peace of mind. The whole workbook is a training program going deeper and deeper into deeper states of meditation. That's the whole purpose of it. It's not designed to give you more money or a better family life or help you attain possessions or attain power or control in the world. It's designed to take you deeper and deeper states of meditation. The more you do the workbook, the more you go down into deeper states of meditation. I would say that every single day, every new workbook lesson gives you a new mantra for the day. A new fresh mantra where you take the mantra and you practice that mantra all through the day with whatever you do. Because the purpose is to take you into a unified perception so that you see the sameness of all friends. And the differences which are of the ego start to fade away, fade away as you keep practicing and practicing. You see the connections which feel the love and the connections and the differences fade away. So for me that has been my experience. I spent 10 years in university in undergraduate and graduate teachings. And then the course of miracles came into my life and I decided that as much energy, time, effort, money and energy that I put into those 10 years of full time education that I would dedicate that same effort and energy into peace of mind. I would forego a career, I would forego a future and future ambitions and future goals for mind training, discipline, purification and coming into deeper and deeper states of mind. That was a decision I made back in 1986. The last year I was in university and the first year of course of miracles. So I left behind my academics, all of my academics and decided to dedicate my life solely to a purification process. It was very short after that when I started to see very strong guidances of what to say, what to do, where to go and to learn to trust. So it took me a while of reading in your literature over here but I turned into a Sanyasi just by my desire to go into deeper states of mind. What does that mean? For those visiting in the western world they need education, they don't know where the Sanyasi is. Most of you know. It meant that I started off traveling with no means of support, no visible means of support. Just like a yogi or Sanyasi walks away from all attempts to be provided for by the world through jobs or through various interactions with family and partners and societies, I dropped away from that. And so from 1991 to 1996 I had no house, no tents, nothing that we would call a residence. You might have said prior to that I was a householder, to use the terms, but not the Sanyasi. The Sanyasi is not a householder. And the reason I think I was guided into this period of being a Sanyasi was just to learn trust because I didn't know where I would lay my head down at night. I didn't have a house or a tent so I had to trust. Every single night or five years, this was not an experiment for ten days, this was for five years. I floated around, floated around and it was very interesting to see what would happen every day. When the sun was going down I was interested in where this body would be laying down. Many of the places where I was welcomed, where I was received, was horse and miracles groups in the United States. I traveled around to 49 of the 56. I didn't go to Alaska. I heard it's pretty cold out there. I hadn't quite reached Yogi's status yet, so I didn't want to test out Alaska. But I did travel around like a woman called Kisto who traveled around like that. And I was most often welcomed into horse and miracles groups where they're studying a nominal teaching of pure love and pure forgiveness. And they treated me like I was their own brother, their own sister, their own child. Well, come home and stay with me. What do you mean? You know, this is a tradition in many parts of India. The Sanyasi's part are welcomed into the house because of their dedication and devotion to self-realization, to spiritual enlightenment. They are welcomed. But most people don't think of the United States as having that same tradition. You know, you don't hear stories. You think it has centuries of living, centuries of rural teachings, centuries of mysteries and mystics and saints. And so to me, this was quite miraculous. That's why they call it the course of miracles to move around the United States and be welcomed in. Come here. Come home. Here's some food. Here's a couch. Oh, I have one time they said, here's a closet. This is a closet. But I was offered places to stay. And the most important thing for me was to learn to trust that I would be provided for just by my devotion to living a life in the spirit. Not using degrees that I had from university, not using skills that I had developed, but using trust. If trust was a muscle, like a muscle in your arm, except it's a muscle in your heart, that's not what the muscle I had to learn to develop. And what are the benefits of this trust? The trust was part of the purification and not relying on my past learning, but letting my present trust and guidance lead the way with everything without exception. What are the benefits? I learned that safety was a state of mind, not a condition in the world. I learned that health was a state of mind, not a condition of the body. I learned the power of consciousness that if I cleared away all my judgments and negative thinking, that the body would be completely healthy. That there was no need for hospitals and doctors when consciousness was pure. Because the same thing that the yogis have been teaching us, the yogis that taught us that even temperature is part of the state of mind. They could transcend even things of temperature. Like we're doing right under the air condition right now. We're getting hit with those. Nice icicle air is coming out of your body. Naina asked for, she said she would like a name and you know in Indian tradition sometimes the teacher in the guru would give a name. So her name is Naina. So I have a sectionally called her Naina Nanda. Naina told the beautiful eyes and Naina means happiness. That's pretty nice. Beautiful eyes and happiness. That's your nickname. And so part of our guidance is to travel around and to be naturally happy, naturally joyful, wherever we go. We don't have to be speaking to big groups. It's everyday. It's everyone. It's everywhere. It's so beautiful how when we came to India people said well you'll do fine if you remember only one thing. If you go to India, don't have any expectations. Naina, don't expect anything. You'll do fine. And that's been beautiful. That's what our journey is. Not just for India, but for daily life. For everywhere. Contentment and peace of mind go together. When we have all kinds of expectations for how our life should look, how our life should be, or even how the traffic should go, then we're putting ourselves in a state of mind where we are vulnerable to error. And when we learn to trust and we learn to just show up as bringers of peace, as bringers of joy, as bringers of happiness, then we find that the world is very happy. If you have happiness in your heart, you will draw forth reflections and consciousness of that same happiness. That's been a joy for us. Now to come down here, we both took off in Sweden. We took off to come to Dubai and then to come down here. And I've been flying for many, many years and I've had some amazing kind of miracles with airlines. And I know Mother Teresa had a lot of miracles with airlines too. But on our trip to India, for us it's the first time to come to India, we started off going to the airlines in Sweden and we were in row 32. Row 32. And we went to check in and we could tell the things were getting shifted around. And they put our tickets in and they came out and they said, no, there's been a ticket change. You are no longer in row 32, you are in row 7. That's business class. We didn't try for this. We're just happy. We're very happy to receive business. For me, I have long legs and I could actually lay down and take a nice trip down here. I see those as just reflections of consciousness. And you're not trying to get something, you're not trying to make something happen. You're not trying to force something. You get these beautiful soft reflections back that come so effortlessly, so easily. I don't believe in accidents. I don't believe anything in this world is random. I feel that every person we meet is sent into our life, into our awareness, into our consciousness. A number of years ago, I was amazed to find this beautiful movie from India called Slumdog Millionaire. It really touched my heart. Because from Slumdog Millionaire, I got the sense that there is a destiny. Not all have a destiny. And there are signs and symbols around us every day that we are trying to reach our awareness to tell us that we have a destiny for God, for love, for spirit. Yes, we let it in. And that movie to me was a strong reminder that we are always taken care of. We just have to be aware of things. When I was watching the movie Gandhi years ago, I felt like my heart opened up so much from watching Gandhi. And recently, I was in South Africa this past December. And I was taking a ride with a friend of mine. And he said, oh, by the way, that's where Gandhi built his ashram in South Africa. And so I drove right past it. And it reminded me of a scene in the movie when Gandhi was building his ashram in South Africa. And an American reporter was with him. And he turned to Gandhi. And he said to Gandhi, Mr. Gandhi, you're quite an ambitious fellow. And Gandhi turned back to the reporter and said, I hope not. So here is David watching Gandhi, raised in a culture of capitalism, of culture of business, bigger, better, more. Materialism accumulates, have big careers, earn big money. And then I'm watching the movie Gandhi and he replies to, I thought it was a compliment. I thought the American was actually complimenting Gandhi by saying you're quite an ambitious fellow. But Gandhi's answer struck me. Gandhi said, I hope not. And if we go into the Bhagavad Gita, if we go into some of the deep scriptures, it teaches us that the life of the senses, the life of materialism, the life of pursuing bigger and better things in the world, is actually a distraction from the stillness of our hearts in the present moment. And I have to say that when Gandhi said, I hope not, something inside of my heart jumped for joy. Something changed in my life when I heard Gandhi say, I hope not. Because I can see that having loving connections with your friends, with your family, with those who meet, is more important than anything we could achieve or accumulate or accomplish in all time and space. That when it comes to the point where you take your last breath and you pass away from this earth, it won't matter what you accomplished or accumulated in this world. It's only the love that we ascend in our hearts that will count. That's the only thing that is really worthy of our devotion and our attention. So, to me, I made the decision many years ago to devote my life to love and having disciplined my mind, I have come to a state of mind where I will not allow anything of this world to be a distraction to the love in my heart. Nothing is more important than being loving. Nothing is more important than being friendly. Nothing is more important than being kind. Nothing is more important than showing respect and having a giving heart, being truly generous. When somebody is there looking you in the eye, you give your full attention. When I travel around the world, I really feel like I'd like to be fully present with those whom I'm with.  I don't go back and rehash the past anymore. I think it's over. I can't change the past. So I will make no attempt to go over the mind anymore. Just let it go. And I love spontaneity and I love being very spontaneous, so I'm not really interested in future plans. I don't have ambitions. I don't have any ambitions for a future. When I was in South America a number of years ago, somebody from the audience raised their hand and said, Okay, what happens if you're in an airplane and suddenly the airplane starts going this direction? How happy are you then? And I say I'm very happy, actually, because I had no regrets, had no plans for the future. If the plane starts going on a nose dive, you can bet I will be the one celebrating in the seats on the way down. I will enjoy every moment and every second because I have no ambitions and I have no regrets. Nothing I wish I could have done differently from the subject of me. That's what the goal of spirituality is, is to start to be so full of the process that the love is there in your heart. Love is flowing through you. So we're just happy to be here. We have had much joy and much laughter. We have been lavished with such welcome and love since we've been here. We've only been here for two days, less than two full days, but we have been so warmly received. And it's been quite amazing too. We've met some people here already in our two days and it's been very, very touching for us. I find to me that spirituality is not a theology. It has to be a practical experience, otherwise it doesn't really count. Sometimes people will sit next to me and they will strike up a conversation and I actually reached a point where I don't really put faith in beliefs. So someone can tell me that they believe in God and someone can tell me that they don't believe in God. I would love them to think. I would love to believe her like I love the atheist. I love when I come to India, I love the sense of inclusiveness that we have. We went out to dinner last night and we were having dinner with Rishanar, and they were saying, in Delhi, we are all Delhiites. We have no true differences. All are Delhiites, all are united as Delhiites. No Muslim, no Hindu, no Jew, no Christian, Delhiites. And to me that was a beautiful reflection of community. We pull together, we don't accentuate differences. We don't try to make something of differences. We value the sameness of our being, the sameness of our hearts, the sameness of our core above any differences. And therefore we show respect. And isn't that a wonderful way to live, living a very respectful life? So I have heard that we have a roving microphone that is available for questions and comments. This non-view of the word, what exactly does that mean, or non-view of the teachings you used in the beginning? Yes. Non-dual in the most basic way is not too. So for example many religions teach that there is heaven and there is hell. And heaven is good and wonderful and loving and hell is not. It is a very dark condition of suffering. And so it's describing as if everything has two parts to it, of good and bad. Non-dual teachings teach that that love is actually real and is all that there is.  They are distortions. And so that everything that is part of the distortion will come to an end because it never had a beginning, it doesn't have a source. So that's why the non-dual. And are there religions that are non-viewed? I think or is it just philosophy that are non-viewed? I don't know if you would call them religions. I mean some people do. I would say that out of India in the Vedas came a Veda Vedanta. So there are many, many hundreds of thousands of people around the world that practice a Veda Vedanta.  It's a people who live by these traditions of non-duality. Of course the miracles is now sold somewhere between one and two million copies all over the world. It has now sold more copies in Spanish than the original English. It was received in English but the Spanish cultures have picked it up like a wildfire. And so I believe the course exists in 17 languages. Most people wouldn't describe the course of miracles as a religion. I myself say that religion is inner peace. Theologies that lead to inner peace, any theology that helps you come to peace of mind is very helpful. But most people see the course as a book that they study and they practice in their daily life. The course doesn't have hope. The course doesn't have bishops or cardinals or high priests. It doesn't have a hierarchy. It's just a book that individuals use practice training their minds to come to a deep sense of peace and stillness. One of the benefits of a course of miracles is because you can take the lesson and practice it all throughout the day with any situation you have. You can practice it at home, you can practice it at work, you can practice it when you're hiking. You go up to Nepal, you're hiking. You learn practice with everything that you perceive in your world. And it works to start to take you into a deeper state of mind. So I find that extremely practical. Also, I know in ancient times, oftentimes yogis and sannyasins would leave their families and go off to live a life of moral isolation so that they could practice the principles and to go deeper into meditation. But what I find is, for example, with Naima, she's practiced the course of miracles for a number of years using the context of her family.  Yes, I'll give you a good example of that. When I first picked up a course of miracles, I had a personality and a self-concept of being extremely shy, extremely shy. In my high school, I was the quietest person in the whole place, everywhere. And so I would say the reason was I had a lot of self-doubt, unworthiness, concerns, questions, doubting myself. And when I started to practice this new curriculum and learned to practice training my mind and forgiving, it built my confidence up in being guided and being intuitive. I became much, much, much more intuitive. Yet I think the most helpful thing for me was becoming intuitive, confident in my intuition enough that I would then start acting on my intuitions and having very powerful, positive experiences. Each time I would receive an insight for something that was helpful, guidance, and then act on it and it would feel like my whole life would open up from that in amazing ways. And we might call them synchronicities or the feel that you're not alone, that there's a bigger plan and you're starting to tap into that bigger plan. And so that's what builds the confidence. When you have conflicting emotions and conflicting thoughts, that can just perpetuate self-doubt. But I need miraculous, harmonious experiences to start to gain confidence in a new way. And that didn't seem to take time. I would say it was most definitely a guide. I had been raised in Christianity but I never had felt an extreme connection. But as I went through this process, I started to feel the presence of Jesus guiding me and leading me and I was in the place of surrender and complete following to that presence. So for me, a guide is very important. That's the way. I started off with the book but then that helped me make the strong connection to the guide. Thank you. I feel like that's exactly what I'm talking about. We have to come to a very strong, intuitive feeling. We have to honor those intuitive feelings. Because those intuitive feelings may differ from society and they may differ from family, voices and influences. And to take this journey towards what's called truth or an experience of divinity or love requires a lot of stepping out of the boxes of thinking in very structured ways and coming to nurture ourselves, to give ourselves permission to discover for ourselves an actual experience. It's something that I think it brought Nina and I together because we're so strongly devoted to being intuitive. Another thing we learned was that guilt, no matter what country, no matter what culture, guilt is very suffocating. And any theology or any teaching or religion that still incorporates guilt that you should feel guilty for this or that, I would say just misses the mark. We're not condemning or praising certain behaviors and actions. We're saying let's look at consciousness or the psyche and let's discover a way to innocence. Let's discover a way to peace and harmony and connection and not let theological beliefs come in between us. Because Indians are different than other parts, other countries of the world where there have been religious wars. There have been the riots between the Muslims and the Hindus. And we've seen it in different parts of the world that religion, if we're going to cling to religious beliefs as an identity and start to judge and point the finger at others who have different religious beliefs. Where is the love? Where is the harmony? Recently, 9 and I watched this beautiful movie called My Name is Hung. And it's such a beautiful movie because the mother in the movie teaches her little boy that there really are only good people and bad people. There are no Hindus, Muslims. She teaches her little boy that the religious differences make no difference at all. And it literally carries him all the way through his life. And he becomes an inspiration to hundreds and thousands of people by just taking the teaching that his mother taught him, which was to be good, to live from goodness, and it carries him through his whole life. So for us, we hope to see what you're talking about, but it's not that we should hold on to religion as an identity when religions and theologies can actually be used by the ego to separate and to push away. The other thing I like is when people say to me, religion, I just reinterpret it to mean inner peace. And that way I see that there really are no religious differences. If all the prophets and the avatars and the saints are all expressing inner peace as important, then that's a unified religion. Not the theology though because the theologies are so different. And we don't need to keep pulling hairs out over this belief versus that belief. To me, those after a while are not very important. I was raised with probably the same core values as you and a lot of people. And then I got deeper into the teachings and the practice of this nominal teaching. And it started to be like a cleansing or a washing of my mind of this idea of external causes. Starting to say, oh, I believe in a lot of external causes. Like I believe external causes with soup, for example, people would say don't drink too much strong coffee with caffeine at night before you go to sleep or you may not be able to sleep because if the caffeine heats you up or around sickness, germs, or genetic transmitted diseases that go back generations that were transmitted to the genetics of DNA. This book and I would say, oh, nominal teachings start to change our thinking process from having external causes to starting to see that if there is a cause of guilt and pain and suffering and death and murder, it is within our consciousness and it can be healed. To me, I thought the same as you, I thought that's going to take a lot of work. It's enough to try to stop smoking or drinking and behavior on occasions far enough. But changing consciousness, changing the very realm of consciousness seems to take an enormous mental discipline. And we know from the yogis that that's exactly what they're saying. They're not saying you can just affirm your way. They're saying you have to go through very strong mental practices to achieve the goal of a peace of mind or experience in the mind. With this book, A Course in Miracles, I saw that the workbook was giving a systematic way of practicing this change of thinking. And when I started doing the workbook lessons, a very interesting thing started to happen. My daily life started to have so many synchronicities as if everything I was experiencing during my day would actually plan somehow for me to do my lesson. So instead of David having to deal with all these separate people and separate stresses and difficult situations, I found it came around to my practice, my consciousness. And then at some point as I went deeper and deeper with it, I started to do a lesson on sickness. Lesson 136 of A Course in Miracles is about sickness. It's a distance against the truth. And that day I got sick and I got to practice my lesson. Instead of taking medicine and instead of going to the doctor, I actually used my lesson and I had a miracle. All the symptoms went away in one instance. So that's what I thought, but then again I thought, this is my path, so I better give 100% to my path. Even me asking the question of how many other people would benefit would be a distraction from him. I willing to practice it to the best of my ability. And I practiced it so much that I actually had an experience one day where the book said that I could heal the sick and raise the dead. And that is extraordinary when you have a book that's telling you you can raise the dead. And I actually had a day where I was doing a lesson and that was my lesson. And I walked into a grocery store and there was a woman laying on the tile. And I looked at her and the paramedics were there. There were four or five paramedics doing CPR and working with her who tried to revive her. And then I watched for like five minutes and they stopped. And they all moved away. And I watched and it was just the body laying, literally dead right in front of me on the tile floor. But I'm still doing my lesson of the day. And this particular lesson was telling me there is no death. This was part of the lesson of the day that death is not real. That even death is an illusion. Now there aren't too many cases in human history. I mean if you read the Bible it talks about Jesus raising the dead. But it's not that common throughout history where dead people come back. Some of this terminology had these things called near-death experiences where people stop breathing. And sometimes they're gone for a long time and they come back. Well I was practicing my lesson and it was very strong. And with the paramedics I just was looking at this dead woman. And in my mind, my mantra, my one mantra for the day was there is no death. But it was so strong in my mind and it was like I was watching this whole scene just for my mantra. Like that was what I was saying. And then I felt like up around my third eye all this energy. And I felt a huge amount of energy in my heart. And this rush of strong energy moving through me. And as I watched her diaphragm, her stomach, started to breathe again. I watched her breath till her feet come back into the body. And so what I'm saying is with a book like this and a teaching like this and with devotion. Not thinking of the future where this is heading or how many years it will take me. Because I've been at this for 25 years. But all I could say is I had to put my full faith and devotion just into my work with us. One lesson, one mantra. And I practiced it so strong that I started to see witnesses in the world. But more than that, I noticed that when I was traveling from third world countries, when I was going on my travels all around these 41 countries, I noticed myself getting extremely peaceful and not bothered by anything. And I thought to myself, this is working. This is actually working. And then I just continued on even further and further to feel so much love in my heart that I couldn't contain it. I had to go and share these teachings and share these experiences because it was so important to me. One time too, I went back and my father, my earth father, went to his church and told the minister that I was a saint. How many of you have had your parents call you a saint? You know, but we call our parents. Yes, my father and I was the saint. Yeah, because we're so inspired. And to me, I say that we're all saints in training. Every one of us is a saint in training. And I think that way. I really believe that, but I know that I have to do my lessons. I have to intuitively do my lessons and keep practicing. And every time there's even the slightest temptation to blame or point a finger at somebody, then that's my lesson, to heal. I take it that way. And there's one beautiful line from A Course in Miracles. It says, would you rather be right or happy? And I think all of us were starting to go for the happy. It's more important to be happy than to be right. And it also says, seek the people who have happened within, and all who want to show the eye to them to you. How do you seek the people who have happened within? Yeah, I feel like, in my life, it was first coming to an honesty of what I wanted from the world. So I started to make a list of what I wanted from the world. I could see that peace of mind had a lot of other desires mixed in with it. And so, for me, it started by saying, well, what if I put the peace at the top? My peace of mind is the most important thing. Let me do an experiment like Gandhi did to see if I can really do this. Like, for example, in economics, when people work for a living and have money concerns and economic concerns, the peace can slip underneath that concern for survival. And so I knew that I would have to develop a stronger trust. And that way, kind of the traveling symbiosis experience, what I was followed up with, was me starting to get invited to share my experiences in many places, and starting to live on donations. Very different from me from 10 years of university, and degrees, and education, and reciprocity of receiving a paycheck to go out like a sannyasi and live on donations. But the benefits were enormous because I never was going to people going, give me, I was simply in a place of openness to receive and accept, but not to ask for or demand.  It's the fabric on which this whole world is based. So to me, that was the most important thing was learning to let more trust come in and more confidence in that trust. And that started to change my whole consciousness. And I just kept going. I just, like a rocket ship, I said, I'm going to break the gravity of this world. I kept going. Every insight I would have, I would publish it to the whole world. I would make websites. I developed ways, pathways to God, like three or four different pathways to God, one using movies. And so I developed the Movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment for people who like movies. Maybe there are temples, synagogues, meditation, all the rituals, but they like movies. And frankly, I've come to India to tap into Bollywood. I feel I have a huge, untapped territory to one of the largest, most wonderful movie industries in the world is right here. To me, that's a gift that I want to discover more about. And before we came down here, we were sitting in an Indian restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. And they had a Bollywood movie of their apparently tooth-famous, an actor and actress they had just seen. And my name is Tom. We saw the dancing and everything. We were barely eating the Indian food. We were like, both of them. We were like, oh, I want more of that. But that is it. So through music, through movies, through different kind of techniques that I've discovered work for me, I put them out on the internet so people can have easy access to them. And also movies, people feel very relaxed when they're watching the movie. So that can be a good way to train your consciousness. Instead of just going to pure entertainment value, you can watch movies in a new way. So I think it can be enjoyable. I don't think it has to be an extremely difficult path ahead. It can be enjoyable. Maybe you can just give us an example of any one of those 365 days. It's just an example. Okay, I can do that. Yeah. I can give you an example. So, for example, this is a book about changing your perception of yourself and everyone and everything in the world. To look at the world in a different way, to have peace of mind. So the very first lesson in the book is number one. Nothing I see means anything. That's number one. Number two in the book says, I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me. I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me. Yes, yes. You can see this is just the beginning of this very powerful transformation of consciousness. 365 lessons, but those are the first two. And then as you move on, like for example, three of the most helpful lessons for me were five, six and seven. They're very early. Five, six and seven. I'm never upset for the reason I think. Oh, I'm never upset for the reason I think. Number six, I am upset because I see something that is not there. Mmm, that's amazing. Lesson number seven, I see only the past. Everything I'm perceiving is the past. And then as you move along, it says I see nothing as it is now. Then it works your way further into the book. There's a lesson number 48. There is nothing to fear. You see how powerful that is. If you could fully give your mind over to that one thought, there's nothing to fear. Lesson number 50, I am sustained by the love of God. It's taking you more to that intuition, to that actual experience of that love in your heart. Now what happened to me is I had many, many miracles over a number of years using the book. But then suddenly one day, I was meditating with a friend of mine, a woman. And it was an open-eyed meditation. We were just sitting, looking gazing into each other's eyes. And I started to go deeper and deeper into my mind that got very, very still. And all of a sudden the whole three-dimensional world just turned into two-dimensions. It was like a picture. And then after that, everything went to light, just pure light. It actually went beyond the veil of this world into an actual direct experience of just pure light. And that was the first time it happened. Then it happened the second time and then it happened the third time. And then after three times, this started to look like a painting. Each time more like a painting. Like the characters weren't what I thought they were. And these are the discussions because we have these experiences. Mine was saying, I feel like I know these people. I just landed in India for the very first time. But you feel like you know them. You know them. Yes. It's the warmth. So I do. I have put A Course in Miracles on the internet for free. So you can go and read to your heart's content. Or you can search data. Yes, just search data. Free A Course in Miracles and you'll find your way. Because that's part of what my job is, is to make it available. And is this a single author's work? Or did you mention when it was written or who wrote it or who developed it? It was channeled by a research psychologist between 1967 and 1972. And it comes from Jesus. Jesus is the author. Although he hasn't been around for 2,000 years, he's back. And it's out of copyright. Yes, it is. It actually is out of copyright. And the thing is, most people around the world see Christianity as very dualistic. I know many people in India, for example, would say, wow, heaven and hell stuff, it has to go deeper than that. And I would say that this teaching shows that Jesus is a non-dualist. The same as Parampastha, Vilga Nanda, Ramana Maharshi, all the great mystics and saints. He was another non-dualist. And that's why he could raise the dead, heal the sick, because he had transcended the Maya, the religions.


You can help a child learn about the difference between quiet and loud by using your voices. You can start by whispering, This is quiet. Can you speak quietly? And the child can speak quietly. Then you can loudly say, This is loud. Can you speak loudly? And the child can speak loudly. You can both have fun saying things quietly and then loudly. And you can also try the same thing with singing. By doing this, you are helping the child understand that sounds can have different volume.


Hi everyone. Welcome to Istocon Virtual. Welcome to our speak. We will be talking about expanding horizons, advance deployment strategies in multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. We are Eduardo Bonilla Rodríguez and Francisco Perea Rodríguez, and we are going to present the agenda for today. So first of all, we are going to give a bit of introduction of who we are, where do we work, then we are going to talk about the why. So why are we presenting this speak, which problem are we trying to solve with it? Then we are going through all the technologies that we have used for develop this solution, which is the concepts deep dive and then we are going to talk about the how to. So how have we implemented this solution? Then we are going to go through a demo, through a live demo, and finally we are going to talk about the conclusion. So let's go with the introduction, who we are. Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to be here as a speaker at Istocon. First of all, I would like to thank the organization for the opportunity of being here and also thank the attendees of this session. I'm introducing myself. I am Francisco Perea Rodríguez, Cloud Consultant at Red Hat. I'm focused on service mesh and GitOps projects. I'm passionate about the these technologies and other cloud-medic projects as well. And today I want to discuss alongside my colleague Edu how to integrate service mesh and GitOps tools to create an environment with complex deployment capabilities. Thanks, friend. So I am Eduardo Bonilla Rodríguez. I am a customer and a success engineer at Solodotayo. I am focused on Istio and Envoy in cloud environments. And I am also passionate of all the CNCF projects. That's why we brought this topic in which we will be using Istio as the key point of a solution in which we will integrate several CNCF projects to be like GitOps approach. So let's go. Well, I would also like to thank you the organization for letting us be here and also to all the people that is attending the session. So let's go with the next topic, which is the why. So here we will be talking about how, like which problems are we trying to solve with this presentation. So imagine that we are a huge company, for example, let's say that we are a bank and we run different clusters in different cloud providers. We also have on premise clusters in which our development teams are working to give a service in production to our end users. We have a high availability architecture. That's why we have several clusters deployed in several availability zone because we don't want any outage to our end users. The development teams of the banks have been working on the Hello World application, which is currently running the version B1. And they are facing some challenges because they want to upgrade this version to B2 version. This is a tough process at this moment because they have to upgrade this application individually in its cluster and it can have some errors because they don't have a centralized process of doing that. It is also very time consuming because they have to do this process individually in each of them. So let's go with the current process. Imagine that they deploy now the B2 version of the Hello World app and they get this version in progress. What would happen here? They currently have a load balancer that is front in this application. So when they have the version two ready, they can get rid of the version B1. So let's get the service now to the version B2. And as we are seeing here in the cloud provider cluster, everything went fine. We are giving service in production to our end users. But as this is a separate process on every cluster, we can find some errors in which in some clusters. For example, in the on-premise cluster, we have now the B2 version in red, which means that we found an error and this application is not able to give production service to our end users. So how can we avoid that? How can we have a centralized procedure to treat every cluster as if it was only one? It doesn't matter where our applications are running. The bank has started thinking about this, so they decided to install some CMCF technologies, mainly focusing on the project in Istio. So they deployed Istio in both clusters, also the ingress gateways and east-west gateways for providing multi-cluster communication, both north-south and east-west. So let's see here the flow of the communication. We will have no traffic from the ingress and east-west, all the clusters will be communicated between themselves. And we also provide an extra layer of security using Istio. As you can see the log, now we have secured our communication between our services. Apart from the multi-cluster communication, we need a half-cluster, which the bank deployed, for making all these processes automated and synchronized. That's why they decided to take advantage of all the Istio metrics and federate them in a federated Thanos running in the management cluster. They also installed argocity multi-cluster in order to sync all the applications and Istio resources across all the clusters. So the key point here is that we will use argorollouts and make use of its perfect synchronization between argorollouts and Istio to take the metrics that we federated in Thanos to make all the roadmap processes automated in a tested way. So argorollouts will be taking the metrics from Thanos and automating some tests in order to upgrade the application V2 in every cluster at the same time, taking a look at the same metrics. So we will have now a centralized, automated and tested process. So that's a bit of our architecture and how will we solve this problem? Having said that, we will go to the SS slide with each concepts deep dive. So we will be talking here about the technologies that we have implemented in our solution. First of all, let's talk about Kubernetes. So who doesn't know what is Kubernetes nowadays? Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of front-line-rise applications. It is planet-scale, so it's designed to allow multiple companies to run billions of containers a week. Huge companies are using them because they can scale without increasing your operation fee. They never add grow.  They have a lot of flexibility and consistent, so it's very easy to change them from environment. So this leads us to the last topic, which says that Kubernetes run everywhere. Here we have a bit of architecture of our three clusters, the half cluster and the cluster one, cluster two, which are the workload clusters. From the half cluster, we will have the central management, the monitoring and the applications deployment from Argo CD multi-cluster. So we will have here all the metrics and the management from Argo CD. In our workload clusters, we have installed several of them in order to provide high availability in different availability zones. We will also deploy here Argo CD rollout, and we will install Istio for making all the applications networking. So the key point here, as we said before, it's Istio which will provide all the traffic management. Both multi-cluster is West and North. Also, it will provide us with all the metrics, all the servability that we will later take for automating our test. And it will also provide us with an extra layer of security. Okay, thanks, Edu. Let's talk now about Argo CD. Argo CD is a declarative. GitHub's continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Argo CD was accepted to CNCF in March 2020 and is at the graduated Project Matri 11. The Argo project is a suite of tools for deploying and running applications on Kubernetes. These tools are Argo workflows, Argo CD, Argo rollouts, and Argo events. Argo CD provides the ability to manage applications and infrastructure in a multi-cluster environment, a feature that we will see in this presentation later. We continue with Argo rollouts, which is a Kubernetes controller and a set of custom resource definitions, which provides advanced deployment capabilities such as blue-green, canary, canary analysis, among others. Argo rollouts integrates with ingress.glores and service messages using their traffic-shutting abilities to transition traffic to the new version during our update. Although this is an optional feature, it's impressive when working in environments with Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, and GitHub's model. We are using this feature in this case. Regarding monitoring, we should talk about two projects, Prometheus and Thanos. I'm sure that you all know Prometheus. It's a monitoring project which was accepted to CNCF in May 2016 and is at the graduated Project Matri 11 as well. Prometheus is a real-time, time-serious database with a query language designed to provide aggregate insights from data series. On the other side, Thanos is a height-available Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities. It was accepted to CNCF in July 2019 and is at the incubating Project Matri 11 so far. In this case, we use both Prometheus and Thanos to setup a full monitoring stack in a multi-cluster environment. And Istio, Iali, and Argo rollouts will use this monitoring stack and we will see later in this presentation. So, how have we done it? As we saw before, the top level architecture comprises three Kubernetes clusters. A half-cluster and a half-cluster and two world-level clusters. On the left side, we find the half-cluster, which has Argo CD and Thanos. Argo CD has the Git repository configured and the applications and application sets are created there. Argo's application controller creates the user applications on the world of clusters. Besides this, Thanos has stored the metrics received from Prometheus deployed in the world of clusters. On the other side, the world of clusters have installed Istio, Prometheus and Argo rollouts. Istio is installed to achieve the multi-cluster setup, adding a security layer by default with mutual DLS and traffic shopping abilities. Prometheus generates application metrics, which are stored in Thanos as I commented before. And finally, Argo rollouts, which will deploy the user application, in our case, Hello World application. About Istio, in this case, Istio is installed in a multi-primary and multi-network mode. Thus, we have set up a single mesh with more than one primary cluster on different networks. Both clusters have visibility with the API service of their cluster from the point of the story. Service workloads across cluster boundaries communicate indirectly. This communication is done via dedicated gateways for this worst traffic. The gateway in each cluster must be retrieval for another cluster, obviously. Argo CD is a Kubernetes objects generator. Argo CD liberates gate workflows and tools like help, customize and Kubernetes manifest to manage infrastructure and applications in Kubernetes. Argo CD is installed in the Hub cluster and it's connected to Git repositories, which is the source of traffic. So how does Argo CD work in our case? By using the app-op-app spatter, in addition to application sets, we create. And a main application which generates two application sets. This is a bootstrap application. An application set which deploys the Istio resources used in this case. This is the gateways, the virtual service, and the destination rules. Finally, another application set which deploys the rollout object in both workload clusters. Finally, the objects created into Argo CD look like this. Here we see an app-op-app spatter architecture. On the left side is the bootstrap application. The bootstrap application creates two application sets. Each application set creates multiple applications that deploy the resources in the workload clusters. The monitoring stack is configured with federated Thanos web prometheus. Thanos is installed in the Hub cluster and the metrics are restored and centralized there. Here, Argo rollouts and also Kiali will use Thanos to query metrics. Prometheus is installed in both workload clusters and it's used to scrape metrics of the applications and Istio components deployed in its workload clusters. Finally, two additional resources are created to scrape metrics and send them from Prometheus to Thanos, the boot monitors and the service monitors. These resources are created in both workload clusters as well. Finally, let's talk now about Argo rollouts and the rollout process. A rollout resource is created in each workload cluster. The rollout is the definition of the Hello World application, which is the applications used in this case. This resource is used by Argo rollouts and it's very important to bear in mind the highlight lane template name because this means that the rollout will use an analysis template to roll the application. How does Argo rollouts work? Once the Hello World rollout is created, Argo rollouts creates the Kubernetes resources defined in the rollout. This is the pod, the service, the connected service and also a virtual service has been already created by Argo City. The next step is to update the rollout. In this case, the rollout is changed to use the version 2 of the Hello World application. At this point, Argo rollout starts deploying the version 2 of the application considering the analysis template configured. For this, both version 1 and version 2 application needs traffic because we are measuring Istio records total metric. Both applications are receiving traffic. The virtual service is being updated by Argo rollouts to split traffic between both versions. If the version 2 of the application starts successfully, Argo rollouts configures the networking resources to route all the traffic to this new version. Finally, the rollout process has finished and all the traffic is route to the new version of the application in both workload clusters. Thanks, friend. We are now going to go with the demo to show you this scenario in real time. We have prepared a video for you to see it. As you can see, we are using Temuqs. We have three windows. On the top window, we have the half cluster in which we are going to apply the application set. As you can see here in Argo CD, this application set will deploy the Hello World app in the workload clusters and also the Argo CD rollouts. This is deployed as an app of apps and we will see it now in the workload clusters. In the left window, you can see the Hello World application that has the version 1. And in the right window, you have the workload cluster 2 with also have the Hello World running in version 1. We are going to let what's running for the Argo rollouts object in which you can see that it is stable, ingrained, and both of the workload clusters has a version 1 which means that they are running the Hello World v1. In the top screen, we are going to let Argo run in every time. Also, you can see here that we are hitting the different pods from cluster 1 and cluster 2. So with the help of Easter multi-cluster, we are distributing the traffic between both clusters. From Kali, you can see with a better visibility the traffic that is going from one cluster to another. We have here the ingrained gateways and the eastward gateways and we have the traffic being split between them. You can see the percentage here and you can also see that we have the lock which means that the communication between clusters is being encrypted. So we did this for having a better visibility and what we are going to do now is change the Argo rollouts from version 1 to version 2. Okay, thanks, Edu. So now we are going to change our code to use the version 2 of the Hello World application. Just call it and boost the code to the GitHub repository and let's go to Argo CD interface to force the refresh of our application. Even this process is automatic, Argo CD replaces the application between three minutes by four. Here, I'm forcing it for demo purposes. At this moment, after the refresh action, we can see in Argo CD a new resource analysis run in progression state. This means that the rollout process has started. Now we can see in the top of the terminal the version 2 of the Hello World has started receiving traffic and also the Argo rollouts are in progress in both clusters. We can see it on the bottom of the terminal. See that the revision of the rollout is to reduce its statuses canary, so the traffic is being route to the version 2 gradually. Also, clearly, the graph has been updated showing the version 2 of the application and the percentage that will gradually increase. Here, we can see a 5, a 6, even an 8 percent. What's happening now? Both versions of the Hello World application in both clusters are receiving traffic. Argo rollouts is queried in Thanos to fetch the Easter request on magic in both clusters so that the rollout process is progressing between the step configure. Here we have 8 steps in our rollout. And Argo rollout is configuring the Easter virtual service to change the weight for each version of the application. Now, we just have to wait for the rollout process to finish. So far, the rollout process is in the step 7 of 8. It's very important to see does this process is running simultaneously on both clusters. Now, we see that the application in Argo CD is in sick status, so the rollout process has finished. At this point, all the traffic is being routed to the version 2 of the Hello World application. Let's check in Kiali the progress and the traffic distribution. Here, we must give some time for Kiali to refresh the state, but we see the percentage is increasing bit by bit to the new version 2 of the Hello World application. Also, we can check that both ports are running in each cluster as one version 2, but only the version 2 is absorbing traffic. This is because the Easter virtual service has been configured to route all the traffic to this new version 2. Finally, after some time, Kiali refreshes its graph and the version 1 of the Hello World will disappear shortly. Yeah, as Fran said, we are making all this process synchronized in every cluster. As you can see, it was exactly simultaneously in both clusters as they are both being federated using the same metrics. So both Argo rollouts, even they are independently, they are taking the same metrics from Thanos Multicluster. An idea that Fran and me got to improve even further this process is that we created an issue in Argo in order to have also an Argo rollout synchronized for multicluster deployment. And as we can see now, Kiali finished and all the traffic is going to the version 2 application. So if we go to our conclusions, we have led you here some links of some blogs that we have created. These blogs are writing for this solution to be deployed in both EKS and KBM, but it's very easy to change them from one environment to another. And also we have led you the github repos in case that you want to deploy this on your environment. And yeah, we wanted to show you, how can we treat an environment which is multicluster as it was only treated with one process as if we only had everything in one cluster using Istio as the key point between multiple technologies, making this process automated, tested and easy to manage. So thank you very much to everyone for attending to this session and we really hope that you have liked it. Thank you very much for the comments. I hope you find our session interesting and helpful and feel free to reach us on social networks to communicate with us any topic of this presentation. Thank you very much.


Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered brings a beloved, if underappreciated, multiplayer classic to the Nintendo Switch. It is a shame, then, that the implementation leaves so much to be desired. Complaints about the game's awkward multiplayer setup and lack of local co-op are already beginning to circulate. According to Square Enix, for development reasons, it is necessary to select either offline or online, so we selected online multiplayer so that more people can play. Development reasons is a very nebulous explanation, especially for such a core feature of the original game. This is far from an isolated incident. When Final Fantasy IX was re-released on modern consoles last year, it contained bugs that Square Enix had known about for three years, but failed to address before launch. Similarly, when Final Fantasy X and XII were re-released in 2015, bugs were so prevalent that Square Enix had to offer an apology, stating, and rest assured that we are in the process of creating a patch to fix them. Details on timing will come soon. We're sorry about the bugs, but this is your story, and we want you to be happy with it. They can't have been that sorry, because three years later, Square Enix re-released Chrono Trigger in such a shocking state of disrepair that it became something of a joke online. I particularly enjoy indie developer Fred Wood's summary. This looks like someone's first attempt at making an RPG maker game. Time and time again, Square Enix releases ports and remasters of classic games, and seemingly every time something goes horribly wrong. So why can't Square Enix get a Final Fantasy re-release right? Obviously, nobody at Square Enix has ever come out publicly and explained why the company always delivers such lackluster re-releases. As such, it would be wild speculation to try and narrow down exactly what is causing these problems. That said, representatives of the company have spoken candidly about the culture of game preservation within Square Enix, as well as the studio's philosophy for pushing forward to new projects at all costs. For example, it probably hasn't helped the Final Fantasy re-releases that Square Enix has lost the original game assets from earlier titles in the series. Speaking to Game Informer, Square Enix president Josuke Matsuda explained that archiving games is not the company's strong suit. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but in some cases we don't know where the code is anymore. It's very hard to find them sometimes, because back in the day you just made them and put them out there and you were done. You didn't think of how you were going to sell them down the road. Sometimes customers ask, why haven't you released that game yet? And the truth of the matter is it's because we don't know where it has gone. Josuke is not exaggerating. In 1997 Square and Eidos worked together to develop a PC port of Final Fantasy VII. Somehow, when providing Eidos with the source code for the game, Square failed to give them the finished product instead handing over a development build that was filled with bugs that had later been fixed. It then took a lot of effort to get the game properly running on PC, all because Square hadn't properly archived their finished code. Then things actually got worse. According to Keith Boski, who was the CEO of Eidos at the time of the PC port, the funny thing is I got a call a couple years ago from Square because they wanted to re-release the PC version and they asked me if I knew where the Gold Master was. Yeah, they lost it. Now, in fairness to Square Enix, the company is often good at responding to criticism when a game re-release falls flat. The Chrono Trigger PC remaster was heavily reworked after fans complained about its flaws and Square Enix often works to provide bug support for legacy issues. None of this though really explains the issue at hand, why the implementation of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles re-release is so ill thought out. To that we have no solid explanation. We will note however that in his every public statement on the Square Enix website, Yosuke Matsuda is quick to highlight new emerging technology and less interested in looking at the company's legacy. In one such statement he said, the environment surrounding the entertainment industry is transforming at an incredible pace. Amidst this surge of technological innovation, we endeavor to continuously evolve, working each and every day to create entertainment experiences for a changing world. That is what we strive to continue to do at the Square Enix Group. This is all well and good, but it does sound as if Square Enix is so focused on the future that the company struggles to pay proper attention to preserving its past. That then is the moral of this story. By all means, chase your dreams and continue to move forward. Just try not to lose sight of where you came from along the way.


Hey everybody, Sean's going to do something cool. You want me to spit on it again? Spit on it, when you spit on it. Nice to meet you. I almost fell walking. The board slide, you can do it. You want me to spit on it? Do you want me to spit on it? Toy machine. You're wack, that's that Templeton poop. It is, that's Templeton. He came straight from his bunghole. Yeah, he pooped it out like this. Yeah, straight onto the rail. No pop out. Just go up the end, you're right? Yeah, go up the end. I told you. Be easier. What are you doing? Yeah, I mean, I'd be sick. I think you just have to light foot onto it. I don't look at it as a warm-up trick. That's like a trick. Yeah, seems a bit scary. It is. It would be sick, bud. It would be sick. That's a hard post. Once you run it. Two more tricks, no, two more tricks. Kick flip. Have I won that, that box over there? Wrong box, but that one. It's a long line. Look at him, taking his time. Tail slide on whatever you want. Cool though too, no slide. Great flip, anywhere. That was fakey, do a regular one.  Reality is, Arjun is going back to the east. Yeah, I'm sad about it too. He's a bit bummed out and it's making me think about the motions of like thinking like if I had to go back to Oz right now, how bummed I would be. So yeah, we're going to spend the day together and have fun. It was last day in California. Go out with a bang. And yeah. So Arjun and I are going to get some food today. We're just at the pike down here at Long Beach. The city where the skinny carry strong heat. We're going to go to Hooters. He suggested Hooters. He asked me if I'd been. I'd been to Hooters one time, back in Oz at Hooters at Campbelltown before they shut down. Before I was a vegan, but apparently they got vegan wings here at Hooters. So I might try some vegan wings. We're just doing American stuff today, guys. We went and skated. We're going to go to Hooters now. I was able to find a pair of C-Tas pro highs. All this time I've been wearing size nine and they were a bit too long. So I got size eight and a half. And for the first like 40 minutes, my toes really cramped in the front, but now they fit really well. So yeah, all these years, I've been wearing the wrong size converse. Hooters.  It's just like girls and sports. Is it? This is a PG channel, man. You know, a PG fifth. We got all the fried foods. There's no vegan options. So I got fried jalapenos and tater tots. So we ate at Hooters. Now we're going to go check out the pike. Do a little bit of skating on the pike here. And then chill, chillax. P.F. Changs, probably the worst Chinese get. We're at the Long Beach pike, what you call this three set stage thing. Three up, three down. Three up, three down. There's really chunky ledge here. I just want to get a really nice, no slide around it. I want to no slide it.  Cause I got to do a bog. So I'm going to have to go to the toilet over the road after we're in the here. This father and young son. Yeah, I don't think that has anything to do with us. We're in California. They don't, they don't kick people out. You reckon? I don't think this is the spot they would kick us out of. It's not like a. It's clearly well used. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, get that slappy nose slide. Try to get a quick word. Bye bye. You got it right here. Whoever is in need of assistance right now is also in debt. Yeah. I'm very sad everybody. Very sad to be going home to New Jersey where the sun doesn't shine so often.  I can't even, I can't even skate right now. I'm so sad. I'm bummed. This is, I've been here for three and a half weeks. I maybe took one day of rest where I didn't skate. This is the second. Yeah. You know, I kind of, I'm not happy about it though. I don't want to like get on the plane all sweaty and smelling. Yeah. I mean, at least I'm going to like feel fresh. No, 100%. It's like an overnight flight. Yeah. So I'll wake up. You wake up in the morning. Oh, I'm going to wake up in the morning.  Oh. Jersey. Hey, your weight's too far forward. Yeah. And there's not enough wax on my latch. Dan says it counts. Just so you know. Someone's had too many schooners in the Outback Steakhouse here and done themselves a mischief. So you've got, yeah, a few police is here and the EMTs are coming into the stretcher.  So how do you feel about being from the state that made Jersey Barriers popular? I don't know if that's a thing. Like, I don't know if that's necessarily a thing. Why do they call them Jersey Barriers? Maybe because it's like really common in Jersey because we don't have much else to skate. So people just build them, like, you know. People like, you'll creed it and like a tall can of beer, tall can beer is the perfect height to like, slant the Jersey Barrier on so that you know how to drive. Really? Yeah. If you come up with that unit of measurement. Hash skateboarders. It's just kind of a thing. Wow. Like, I feel like if you've ever built like a Jersey Barrier before, like, or if you've ever seen someone build one, you chance in New Jersey chances are you'll see them do like, they'll lift it back and they'll measure like the transition by like a tall can beer underneath of it. And you know, if like the beer fits underneath then you're ready to creed. Wow. What kind of beer? Does it, does it matter perhaps cause light? I mean, if I'm skating, I prefer course light. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that's such a strange unit of measurement. It works, it works. Yeah. It's like the perfect angle. So it's not like too big. Yeah. And it's not like still straight up. They should, they should measure it, open it, drink a bit, then pour it on the cement while it's drying to like, like baptize it. I wonder if they would ruin the cement. No, I think more water for the cement while it's curing is better apparently. So it doesn't dry and crack. Well, maybe here, but I'll see. Oh yeah, on these coasts it might be different. No weather fluctuates here. Yeah. I've always seen people treat the concrete like with, I mean, I've seen them treat it very carefully. Like after it starts pouring, yeah, it's like, don't. Don't touch it for like five days. And if it rains, like you're fucked. Oh, dude. So you got to like make sure whenever you're pouring, like do it on a day where you're like not expecting rain. Yeah, the struggle. Yeah. We pull up to Rosie's dog beach. Look who's here, the man. Do you have anything to say to the Australian fans? You've got some Australian fans out there. Hi, my name's Dale. I really like Parkway Drive. I got these beautiful red curbs out here at Rosie's dog beach, Long Beach. Take it away, mate. Look at that sunset. How much more California can this little clip get? Skateboards, sunsets, red curbs, good blokes. Hoey. Yeah, mate. Look at that sunset. Did you ever listen to the ghost inside? Don't look at the sunset. You're going to go blind. Did you ever listen to the ghost inside? I've heard the name, but I can't. They've got a lyric and it says, I'll see you in the sunsets. I guess, yeah, I'll see you in the sunsets. It's not really all that deep, is it? What do you really think about it? Dude, look at the colors. It's going to be all backlit, so where are you? There you go. Kelly Boys. Kelly 2K, Namia, 23. I know I've said it a plenty of times by now, but look at the sunset, guys, honestly. What a vibe. This is palm trees. There's a nice fade in the sky there. Orange over here, a bit of an orange-yellow fade. If anybody remembers the first Nike T-Ens, he based them actually off palm trees and sunsets. So that's the colorway for the first set of T-Ens. It's like orange to fade. I don't know how many people will know about Nike T-Ens, but if you know, you know. I've got to come to the beach more often. It's been such a nice, relaxing vibe out here at the beach. I need to make an effort to come to the beach more in California. I've spent probably 20 minutes at the beach the whole time I've been here. That's crazy, dude. I've spent more time at the beach. He has. You honestly have. I've spent more time at the beach than Kelly. Well, I don't even live here. I just, I'll be back. He'll be back, everybody. I'll be back probably in the summer, honestly. Yeah, we've even been talking about if Dan and I came out to the East Coast. You guys should definitely do that. We could fly out. You guys could stay at my house.  Yeah, rent free. And then we could skate the East Coast. Yeah, New York, Philly, to my hand. Comment below if you'd like to see that. We could go to Baltimore. You know, Washington, D.C. is actually only like three and a half hours. Really? Yeah. I've never been to the East Coast, so it would definitely be an experience. I want to go to Bam's house. We could do that. Let's go to Bam Majors. Yeah, he's not, you know, there's a skate park. Yeah, we can go to Bam's house and like skate Bam's house and say, I went to Bam's house. It's a big deal for me. We'll run it out. We'll stay as- Can Airbnb Bam's, Castle Bam. Airbnb it, yeah. Yeah. Arjun's last few hours here in California, so naturally we've got to do him a good send off here. Yeah, at the inn and out and during the inn and out, hold the fries. Ha, ha, ha. Well, it's that time, guys. Arjun's- I think he's still the way along. It is? We've got to be masked off. Okay, there we go. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, the handle's had a way. Yeah, I got it, I got it. You got it? Arjun's gonna be on his way. It's a sad day, but it'll be a sad day. In a couple hours, they'll get different videos. Yeah, we want to see some East Coast crust. Oh, we're gonna see it. Ha, ha, ha. Don't you worry. I want to see the most crustiest spots East Coast has to offer. Oh, you'll see them. So I know- Just about every single one. So I know what I'm getting myself into. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man. Thank you. Oh, man. Uh, safe travels. Yes. Safe travels. Everybody go subscribe to Arjun. Yeah, subscribe to me. His channel will be in the description below. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, man. I'll see you guys in a couple of months. I'll see you. Yeah. Either I'll come out your way or you'll come out this way. I'm gonna be back in the summer. Okay, cool. Yeah. We're gonna get in the winter. It'll fall.  Oh, yeah, man.


Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with our last filler pack to unlock the signature series baseball break last six spots here in this one and Big thanks to Martin Kenneth and Brian just the three of you in this filler. Thank you very much guys all the teams are in We're gonna make you sweat it out a little bit. We'll do the break first six and a three nine times for names and teams one two Three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time six and a three nine times for the teams one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time. All right, so here's the first half of the list right here The second half of the list right here. No trade windows and this sort of stuff, but there it is Sort by column a Or column B that is Print this out and rip this up and then we'll do another dice roll and see who's gonna win those Those final six spots. There it is gang final printout hot off the presses Good luck. Clark Schmidt Old Schmidt Oscar Hernandez clean kershaw Red, white and blue. Oh some stained glass Nice There's your rookie of the year John than India. All right some interesting things happening here John than India Going to Martin and the Reds. That's a red, white and blue rookie. You're reigning NLMV NL reigning NL rookie of the year Mickey Moniac Who is a former number one overall pick? Kenneth with the Phillies, maybe he's gonna make some noise this year And a Ronald Acuna junior red, white and blue stained glass And that's for Kenneth and the ATL. I Feel like in baseball the stained glass are a little more common But that's a red, white and blue one so that might be a lot more short printed So be sure to double check the values on that let's flip back to the screener here Not a bad filler pack now. Let's gather everybody's names. Here's the whole point of this break Who's gonna win those final six spots new dice new list? So it'll be the top six after six two and a four six times one two three four five and six and final time after six Well from seven on down this can be sad times a lot of sad faces here But I appreciate everybody giving it a shot Top six you're happy because you're in the very next break Brian is happy So is Martin Martin Kenneth Brian and Martin Martin with three of the six spots Brian two of the six spots and Kenneth you got in there as well after six I'm Joe. I'll see you in the next video for the next break. Bye. Bye