Базовый курс ACI 2: Буддийское Прибежище — собрание великих идей из Совершенства мудрости (2019, Мексика), занятие 5

[Speaker 1]
So we had ... we're basically doing a chocolate sampler of the perfection of wisdom. And we finished two kinds ...

two classes about refuge, protection, and we finished two classes about bodhichitta, and now it's time to try the other chocolate called Nirvana. So it's very cool, by the time you reach ACI course two, you are finding out the real meaning of Nirvana, okay? So I travel all over the world, there are many bars called Nirvana, okay?

I didn't go, I just saw it in a newspaper, okay? And when I was a kid, right? So, 200 years ago, Nirvana means, oh you just disappear, you know?

When you reach Nirvana you just disappear. And that's a famous wrong idea about Nirvana that even happened in Buddhism also, okay? The word Nirvana, which comes from nis and van, the root van means to blow.

The English related word is fan. Or ventilation, or wind, okay? Probably similar in Spanish I guess.

Nir means ... in math we call zero nil, nil means zero. So Nirvana means like when you have a birthday and you blow out the candle.

So next time we have a birthday, you can tell the person, please Nirvana the candle. So, people thought it means, oh blow out ... when Michael achieved Nirvana, he blows out Michael.

For zero dollars, what do you really blow out when you reach Nirvana? Yeah, your negative emotions, okay? Jealousy, desire, anger.

And I told you, when I was ... so I had ... we were four brothers, no sisters, no father, and I mean after I was 12 or something, and we fight, man we fight, you know?

And we broke ... there were holes in all the doors. Some of the windows were broken.

The last fight I had with my older brother, we broke all the furniture in the living room, on each other. We stand up and say, hey man, we're too old to do this, you know? Let's shake hands, chokkala.

Yeah, chokkala. And we never had a fight after that. Why am I talking about that?

Oh, yeah, my little brother, his occupation, and his goal in life, is to make me upset. And he really tried hard. He feels pride that he can do it, in 100 different ways, okay?

Then, if I reach Nirvana, he will fail. Cannot ... it's impossible to make me angry.

Now, I'll tell you something. Using normal psychology methods, according to Buddhism, it's not impossible to remove anger from a human being permanently. The only way to remove anger, according to Buddhism, is when you realize the person you're angry at, doesn't even exist.

I'll give you an example, that if you're married, you probably ... maybe you had it happen to you. So, like, you know, you come home from work, you go in the bedroom to change your clothes, and your husband's there, his back is to the door, and he's like this ...

I hate this feeling, you know? He's like, hee hee, hee hee, you know, hee hee. Then you're like, I'm home honey, you know?

And he's like, oh hi! Then you're like, who are you texting? Uh, texting?

Me? Yeah, your phone is behind your back, you know? And you had this big ...

we call big stupid smile on your face. Who is that, you know? Who are you texting?

Oh, it's, you know, it's nothing, you know? Don't worry about it. Let's have dinner, you know?

Then it bothers you for three, four hours. Who is he texting? Maybe he has a girlfriend, you know?

And it gets worse and worse in your mind, you know? The husband can also do the same thing, you know? And I don't know about you Aldo, but I get jealous very easy.

Veronica says she met a boy in the first grade, and I'm like, what? How can you do that to me? So, you know, you're feeling like ...

then you go to bed, you get out of bed after one hour, because you can't sleep. You crawl on the floor around the bed, very quietly, and you get her telephone. Okay, I'm going to teach you guys a secret, which you need to know if you get into a serious relationship.

The girl always use her mother's birthday as the passcode. It's easy, you just put the mother's birthday. So, you put the mother's birthday, and you find out she was on Amazon buying your birthday present for next week.

Now, question. What happens to the jealousy in that moment? I'll tell you, it just goes ...

just ... okay? That's probably why they call it nirvana.

Just ... okay? It just totally disappears, and you feel stupid.

Why? That thing you were jealous about, probably you had a picture of the other guy. He's two inches taller than me, his arms are like telephone poles.

He has hair in the middle. You know? You have ...

for four hours you have a picture in your mind of this guy, you know? And when you see ... probably when you reach the Z in Amazon, your eye goes ...

that guy just disappears. Okay? So, after that ...

moment, it's not possible to feel the jealousy. You just feel stupid. Now, anger should be the same.

Okay? Ignorant desire should be the same. Okay?

That's what nirvana is. Okay? So, here's the technical definition of nirvana, which is the first question on homework five.

Word for zero dollars. I know you know it, so just forget it. You're not getting any money out of me this time.

He got $3,000 and I told you, in one ... in one hour. In Tibetan?

No, in Urdu. Okay, Tibetan's okay. Tibetan's okay.

I always forget. I forget. Huh?

I always forget. What? You don't know?

I'm so happy today. I'll give you the first two words. Nyun drip ...

Nyun drip ... so-so ... Ah, get out of here.

If Nick was here, Nick's probably ... they're probably having a baby or something. We were practicing a song, that's why I was late, and Aaron's supposed to say, baby, baby, baby.

I said, we got to change this song, you know? If you go, baby, baby, it's going to come out.

[Speaker 2]
Work remembers.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Gyalse, go for it. If you get it, I'll give you a hundred bucks. In Tibetan, in Tibetan, in Tibetan.

Say it again, slow. You got $80. Uh-oh.

Throw in pangpay, I'll give you pangpay.

[Speaker 2]
Nyun drip ma lupar ...

[Speaker 1]
Nyun drip ma lupar pangpay. Okay. You show those boys how stupid they are.

Okay, so here's the definition. Nyun drip ma lupar pangpay so-sor tong go. Nyang de kyi chen ni.

Nyun drip means your negative emotions. Nick, you just lost a hundred bucks for your wife. I'll give you a hundred bucks.

Nyun drip means your negative emotions. Ma lupa means all of them. Pangpa means got rid of them forever, stop them forever.

So-sor tong means because you saw them one by one. You saw them one by one. And we're not talking about this bodhichitta experience, that's not it.

Them here means all the aspects of emptiness. Yeah, the Arya Truths. Sixteen things that a person sees when they ...

after they see emptiness directly. Well, most of them. We can shorten the definition to the permanent stopping of your negative emotions, because you saw emptiness directly.

Okay? Cool? That's the definition of Nirvana.

Cool? That's Nirvana. Okay.

Now, the technical ... the technical definition, they don't say because you saw emptiness directly. They say because you saw the sixteen details that a person sees after they see emptiness directly.

Or during. Seeing those details has a technical name that you have to put on your homework. It's called individual analysis.

I'm sorry. Okay, alright. So, in the definition of Nirvana, when it says individual analysis, it means you saw emptiness directly.

Okay, because only a person who saw emptiness directly can ... with the second husband in the kitchen. Okay?

Only a person who saw emptiness directly, which is similar to secretly checking your wife's cell phone, can get rid of their negativity permanently. Okay, sometimes those negative emotions have another name, which is negative emotion obstacles. Okay, last part of this homework.

Last question on the homework number five. There's a special Nirvana called a natural Nirvana, and it's very simple. It's just emptiness.

Okay, it's just emptiness. It's not real Nirvana. Real Nirvana is when you stop your ...

real Nirvana is when your little brother cannot make you angry. Impossible. Because you ...

now you understand the ... it was Amazon. Understand ...

we're speaking a new language right? Because ... the handsome guy with the arms like telephone poles and hair here went poof.

Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Get it?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good. So, natural Nirvana is emptiness, and it's not Nirvana. And all objects, all things have natural Nirvana.

For zero dollars, because I think I'm getting low, what's the connection between natural Nirvana and real Nirvana? Raul? Go ahead.

Yeah, good. You should be the organizer in Mexico City. I'll give you two great ...

two great people to work with you. Okay, I'll tell you later. Alright, so ...

so it's called ... yeah, when you see natural Nirvana directly, when the boyfriend goes poof, then you reach real Nirvana. And no one can make you jealous about him at this moment.

Okay.