Занятие 7, часть 2

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Let's do a little more text, is that okay? I had the whole iced tea. I'm up for it.

This time of night is a good night to teach. You're not going to be up too late, I don't think so. Let's do like half an hour, it's okay?

So, he's about to start his actual teaching. He urged his listeners to ask themselves, why are you here? And that's finished, okay?

Now we start the actual steps to enlightenment. DE LA DANG PO NYANG SEM NANG DE PHYIR GYEL GYUR PA SANGS RGYAS KYI GSUNGS PA'AN DU BSTAN RNAM KYI ZHES PA BSTAN LA BHAB PA GRUB PAS DBANG PHYIR CHEN PO RNAM KYI DGONGS PA'I NYAM RTOG THUG RGYUD LA CHUNG PA ZHIG LA NYAM NEN BYAR DGOS KYI He sets forth three things to look for when you're thinking about following a certain spiritual path. So, different people have come to you and suggested a spiritual path to follow.

And then he gives three suggestions for things you might want to look for in a spiritual path, in any spiritual path. Okay, here we go. SANGS RGYAS KYI GSUNGS It should have been first set forth by a being who was already enlightened, okay?

Some kind of divine being. If you're going to practice something, in the way that a river flows, you know, a river derives from snow mountains, somewhere, you should look for an authentic source. It should have come from an enlightened being, and not less.

That tradition should have come from an enlightened being. DANG NYID DU NANG GI SHES PA TEN LA PHA PA There's a process, okay, in this tradition, in the Buddhist tradition, which is interesting, okay? Lord Buddha lived two and a half thousand years ago.

Lord Buddha lived for, he taught for 51 years after he became enlightened, okay? So we're lucky. In the Christian tradition, Lord Jesus taught for, I don't know, he taught for two years?

We have records of his teaching from the age of, I forget, 29 to 30. Something like that. We have 50 pages of his own speech.

The red print is maybe 30 pages. And based on 30 pages, millions of people have had high spiritual realizations over a course of 2,000 years. I mean, it's extraordinary.

In Buddhism, we're lucky because Lord Buddha taught for 51 years. And we have, out of thousands of teachings he gave, we still have complete records of 1,500 of them. So we have 100,000 pages of Lord Buddha's own teaching.

So we're lucky in that way. But we have another tradition in Buddhism is that that teaching should be represented each generation. In each generation, someone who's well-trained or people who are well-trained should interpret that for their generation.

You need someone to bring it to your own vernacular. You need someone to speak it in your own language and in your own times. What I'm saying tonight will sound outdated and badly outdated in 20 years or 30 years.

It won't be attractive to people in 20 to 30 years. It'll sound old-fashioned. The language will have changed.

Different ideas will be popular. There will be different sensitivities. To remain alive, to remain authentic, a tradition must be represented in each generation or it's corrupted.

Get it? If you just leave it in the old original book and you don't present it for your generation, that's a corruption. If you over-interpret it, you corrupt it also.

So it's a very delicate process. Something about the way that Buddhism stresses adherence to your personal teacher's training and wishes has made it a very pure lineage. It's extraordinary.

It's extraordinary. If you can read this book, which was spoken in 1921, you can read a sutra from 500 BC, no problem. They're the same.

It's extraordinary. The lineage is extraordinarily pure and demanding. You cannot add stuff.

You cannot take away stuff. You interpret it for your generation, but there's no change in the thinking for 2,500 years. It's pure.

The lineage is... I can't describe to you. You can't imagine it, okay?

The lineage is pure after 2,500 years. And you can read a newspaper. If you can read a newspaper, you can read this, and you can read a sutra that was spoken in 500 BC.

And they're the same. It's all the same. It's very, very beautiful.

The process of each generation presenting it to their own people, right? To people of their own generation has not resulted in a corruption of the teaching. It hasn't resulted in a gradual clarification of the teaching.

You see? It's a very, very beautiful thing. You see?

If you want to know what the Buddha said, we go to this book, 1921. And that takes us to Keduk Denpa Dargye, or you could say the first pension lamas, say 1600s. That takes you to Keduk Denpa Dargye in the 1500s, which is studied on Monday.

Okay? That takes you to Je Tsongkhapa in the 1400s. That takes you to the Kadampas of the 1000s.

That takes you to Kamalashila and Balaviveka in the 800s. That takes you to Dharmakirti, Chandrakirti in the 500s. That takes you to Gunaprabhan in the 400s.

That takes you to Vasubandhu and the Sangha in the 300s. That allows you to read Nagarjuna from the 200s. Then you can go into Ashvaghosa from the 100s, which might let you read Malinda from just before Christ, which would lead you back to Lord Buddha.

And you would understand it perfectly. It's a beautiful, beautiful lineage. It's all so beautiful.

You can't imagine how beautiful it is. So the process of succeeding generations of Indians and Tibetans, and Chinese, explaining it, has only made it more beautiful. It has not become corrupted.

It's very interesting. Time has not made these teachings corrupted. It has brightened them.

Then there's this debate, like what? Lord Buddha wasn't clear enough? And they say, Nagarjuna says, Look, if the moon shines on a whitewashed wall, is it more white?

It's just like, I can't explain it, and I can't explain to you how exciting it is, or how beautiful it is, but each generation has made it more beautiful. And the teachings have become more accessible and more beautiful with each generation. And it hasn't stopped.

It's for two and a half thousand years. Every 30 years, somebody comes and makes it more beautiful, and more authentic, and more accurate. It's amazing.

So it's a lineage which was begun by an enlightened being, and it was interpreted by our immediate lineage by 47 generations, whose names we recite every two weeks. Gyalwa Gyatso Rigda Dorje Tu, Gyalwa Nyamje Dorje Nyamje Mo, Gyatso Tu O Naraka, Vajrapsura Vajrapsura, We recite the whole lineage. We know the whole lineage.

And it's just more and more beautiful, more and more pure. You are 48. I'm 47.

Okay? Like that. It's a beautiful thing.

You will be 48. And your students will be 49. It's like that.

And it gets more beautiful with each generation. So look for a tradition which has an authentic source, an enlightened source. And then look for a tradition which has been passed on responsibly and purely, and accurately.

Third, Drupay Wongchuk, Drupay Wongchuk, Chamhon Namke, Gombe, Nyamto, Tukyula, Chumbashigla, Nyamlenchigla. And then look for a lineage where people have tried it, and it worked. Like things, weird cool things happen to them.

All right? It's nice, right? Look for a lineage which was begun by an enlightened being, has been passed down, and made more brilliant each generation.

And then see if people had cool things happen to them by doing it. All right? And we have.

Okay? It has been miraculous for many of us, for me and for many other people. It works.

And we can attest to it. It's a miracle. What you are going to learn is miraculous, and it will make your life a miracle.

Like a happy miracle. Your whole life. Every day.

Okay? Weird things will happen to you. You will meet angels and be taken under their wing.

You know, it's like a dream. It's like what you always wanted in your spiritual path. You know?

And it works. It really works. Okay?

It's cool. That's what you're about to embark on. CHEN DU SANGS RGYAS KYI MA SUM PA KHYAD RIGS GZHAN GYI MI SHES PA'I ME NGAG SAB SER BA CI TZAM GONG KYANG DRUG PA YANG SANGS RGYAS KYI KYANG MA NYID PA GZHAN LA'I DRUG PA ZHIG ONG YIN YIN He makes a joke.

Okay? This is a monk joke. All right?

Oh, okay. If you don't want to practice something like this, then you go find something. You go find a teaching which was not spoken by an enlightened being.

And you go find some supposedly previously undiscovered spiritual thing which no great yogi ever practiced before. Okay? And then you meditate on that a lot.

Okay? And you will come to some new spiritual realizations which no enlightened being has ever encountered. Get it?

Okay. GZHAN LA'I DRUG PA ZHIG ONG YIN And which no one has ever experienced before among all the perfect enlightened beings who have come before. You know what I mean?

Like that, he's being critical. There were people, they'd come and say, I found this under a rock. This is a new thing.

This is better than what came before. You know, there were... Like that, okay.

DE NA DANG POR NYAM SUR DANG RJE CHOS LA DAG CING CHE KUR TE Then he goes off. This will be the last thing, okay? He goes off on something very important.

He's going to say, look, your soul is... your soul is a valuable thing.

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Your spiritual real estate, what you expose your mind to and what you open up and expose your heart to is... is very, very grave decision. What are you going to open your heart to?

What are you going to let inside of you to touch your spirit is a very grave decision. It should not be made easily. It's like getting married or something.

Much more serious than getting married. What you decide to listen to is more dangerous than getting married. Okay?

Okay? If you make a mistake. Don't just go listen to anything.

It's like television. Anything you expose your mind to, it stays in your subconscious for your whole life. Every detail of what you watch on TV or what you listen to or people you hang out with, all that stays with you your whole life.

It stays in your subconscious. So he's saying, be a little more discriminating about what you let into your soul because it will affect you deeply. Okay?

Don't just do any practice someone talks about. Be a little bit more careful about who you let into your inner heart. CES GYUR TE JE'I SAKYA PANDITTA This following was spoken by Lord Sakya Pandita, Kumbhagyaltsen.

Okay? It's 1200s. BDAG PA NGUR BU LA SOGS PAS CHUNG SRE TZAM GYI MYUR THONG LA KUM LA JI ZHING BDAG NAS BYAS TSEN GYI BYA BAR CHUNG SRE LA THAR TE BAS PAR BYAS PAR THONG SKYE BAR BSTENG GI LAS NI DAG PA'I CHUNG LA RAG LA'I KYANG CHUN GYI KHYI KHA SRE ZHING SANG YIN GANG RUNG MI CHOD PAR GANG BYAS TE LA GOS PAR ZING So this is a famous quotation from a very great Sakya's master from the 1200s, okay?

I think it's from his Legshade Danza. He wrote a book of sayings. Very beautiful.

BDAG PA NGUR BU LA SOGS PAS People go out in the world to buy a horse or a gemstone. In this country it would be a car, okay? CHUNG SRE TZAM GYI MYUR THONG LA So okay, they go out to buy a car.

People go out to buy a car. GUNG LA DING They ask everybody, you know? Somebody asked me yesterday, who was that?

They said, I never bought a car in my life before. What should I buy? You go and you ask all your friends, what kind of car should I buy?

DAG NAS CHOD And they read all the, what do you call it, consumer reports and they ask all their friends. They take their time. It's a lot of money.

Let's say a new car. Let's say a $10,000, $20,000 car. And you're going to be making payments for three lifetimes.

And then you ask people. You know you're going to be stuck with this car. You know?

And you ask people. You know? You say, did you ever buy a Jetta?

Did you ever have a problem with it? Do you think it's a good car to buy? You ask people, okay?

CHEN GYI BYAR CHUNG SRE LA This is a small thing which will not affect you any further than your last breath in this life.

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The effects of a decision to buy a car will go no further than your last breath in this life. DAG NAS CHOD We see people like they work really hard. They make a lot of effort.

They ask everybody. They check online. They make price comparisons.

They go shopping at different dealerships. They find friends who are mechanics to go along with them and check the car. And if you're going to spend a lot of money on a car, that's one lifetime.

Whether or not you made a good decision, it's not going to affect you past your last breath in this life. But there are other decisions which will impact upon the way thousands of lifetimes progress. Okay?

A few thousand lifetimes from here on are in the balance. There are other decisions we make in this lifetime which will affect thousands of lifetimes into the future. DAG NAS CHOD LA RAG LAS KYANG How the next few thousand lifetimes go depends on your spiritual life now.

It depends on what you learn spiritually now will determine how the next few thousand lifetimes go. What spiritual teaching you decide to expose your mind to will have repercussions on thousands of lifetimes. But people treat it like the way that dogs in Tibet treat food, okay?

So I told you already. Dogs in Tibet and India, it's a bad life, okay? To be a dog in Tibet or India is not like being a dog here.

In India, I was all shocked. You know, I went to India. You see a nice little...

I was 20 years old. A puppy dog came down the road. I'm like, you know, whistling at him.

And then some Indian runs up next to me and picks up a rock and tries to kill him. You know, he just tried to kill him. Right there, right then.

Tried to kill this little dog. And I'm like, what are you doing, you know? He says, it's a dog.

And that's how a dog lives in those countries. You see? You just throw rocks at them and you try to kill them.

And then they can't find any food. They're wild. We have them in the monastery.

We have packs of wild dogs in the monastery. You don't go out after lunch. And they roam and they try to find food.

And they learn to eat excrement. They learn to eat human excrement. In the old days, in my monastery, the monks went out in the field and pooped, came home, went to bed.

Then the dog packs came out and ate it. And then they go into the forest at night. And that's how a dog lives in India and Tibet.

And they don't ask questions. The dogs don't say, you know, if they find some poop, they don't, you know, they're not like, well, I'll get back to this one if I can find a better one. They eat it now and they fight over it.

They have fierce fights. The dogs often have big pieces ripped out of their bodies. They have fierce fights over their feces, you know, because that's all the food they can find.

And they don't ask questions. They see something, you grab it and you run. You eat it and you run.

So he says, Sakya Pandita says, you know, as far as a car, you ask everybody. As far as the spiritual teaching you expose your mind to, you're like a dog with a piece of shit. You know, you just grab the first.

Anybody comes in a yoga class, says, I'm going to teach you some meditation. You're like, oh yes, please. You know, you don't think.

You're totally indiscriminate. You can't divide what's going to affect you for perhaps thousands of lifetimes from something that might save you and your family within a few years. You're not capable of discriminating between the two.

You don't have any basis to discriminate between them. Sounds okay to me. Nobody walks out of a yoga class because the teacher said to do a kind of meditation that might harm them.

Because they don't know any better. They don't know. If you go to a yoga class and they ask you to do asanas that hurt you, and you have experience, you say, okay, I'm not doing that asana.

You know what I mean? But then they say, meditate on this, and everybody goes, okay. They just don't know any better.

To ruin your shoulder is only a few years thing. To ruin your capacity for compassion or something like that, that's a big thing. That's a very serious thing.

You can ruin your inner body the way you can ruin your outer body. CHOS KYI KHA SOGS SHING SANG YEN GANG LUNG MI CHOD PAR They don't look at whether something is helpful or not. GANG REG DE LA GUS PA TZIN Whatever they run into, they think, oh, okay, I'll try that.

KHYAD SUM PA LTAR RANG CHAGS RNAM He says RANG CHAGS. What's that? Guys like you and me.

He's like putting himself in there, okay? He's a high incarnate lama. He's the incarnation of the personal lama to the emperor of China.

He's like, you know, schmucks like you and me, RANG CHAGS RNAM LTAR LTAR BU MYO TZONG CHEN NAM LTAR CHE NAM DANG NAM MA By the way, we'll stop in five minutes, okay? Hang in there. People like you and me, we buy a car, we sweat over it.

We don't get any sleep. We're like, should I believe the Toyota thing or should I get the Honda, you know? THUB DAM LTAR PA SHU We even...

People in Tibet went to lamas to say, will you do a prediction of whether I should buy this horse or not? In America, it would be like, just like, can you look into the future and see if I should buy the Toyota or the... A certain guy named, because Nana won't mention Michael Wake.

LAUGHTER Because he won't mind. He's a sweet guy. He used to come up to Ken Rinpoche and say, Ken Rinpoche, he said, yeah, what?

And he said, this was... Nancy, this is when you guys were buying apartments, I think, 30 years ago or something.

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Whenever it was. 50 years ago. LAUGHTER But I remember he came up to Rinpoche and he said, oh, Rinpoche, you know, should I buy this apartment or not?

Can you do a prediction, you know? And... Yeah.

LAUGHTER You know, this is about an apartment, you know. He's asking the highest karambha geshe of the 10,000 graduates of that year in Tibet to predict which apartment is better rather than asking about his next life. You see?

OK? Fabulous. Shenmonggo Nangdi.

You know, we ask a lot of other people. Even those of you who are really good monastics, OK? Would a monastic be worried about a car?

No, they're not supposed to have any... They're not supposed to own anything. So he said, those of you who are really good monks...

You know, in Tibet, it was different. I mean, they would come and feed you. They don't do that here.

OK. We go out to buy a brick of tea, OK? Tibetan monks drink a lot of tea because it keeps you awake and talks like this.

We check the colour of the tea. It's a block. They come in blocks.

From China. Bricks. They come in bricks.

We check the colour. We heft it. We see if it has a good shape.

We turn it over and over and we examine it, OK? Choose shalwa. You see if any of the leaves have been damaged by water.

The tea leaves, right? Shalwa soaking. You see edo up there somewhere?

Edo means, hey, I wonder if it has any problems like that. Edo means, I wonder if it has any problems. Edo.

We work hard on that. We ask our friends, do you think I should buy this block of tea? If you screw up in the purchase of a brick of tea, what's the total loss?

A few cups of tea. The total loss is a few cups of tea. It would be like buying a car.

What's something insignificant? I don't know. Buying a new blouse or something.

A new lipstick. What? A new teapot.

A what? A blender. An almond blender.

You ask a lot of people. It's like 20 bucks. You're spending 20 bucks.

You ask a lot of people and you compare. You price compare. You look up the consumer reports on the blender.

Then you approach spiritual teachings which will impact on your soul's progress for thousands of years. You're like a dog with a piece of shit. You just grab what you can.

You don't even think about it. Somebody says, you want to meditate? You're like, yeah, teach me that.

Whatever the yoga teacher says, you just do it. You don't have any concept that it might really mess up your mind for a long time. Not in an evil way.

It's not that they're trying to hurt you or something like that. They just don't know anything. They don't know any better.

They teach you something that's not helpful. I've been doing yoga classes, I don't know, 12 years now. I've been going to hundreds and hundreds of classes.

My first yoga teachers, David, Life, Sharon, Gannon, and Ruth, Lady Ruth, the first thing they taught me was you travel a lot, right? They said, everywhere you go, take a class. Just check on the internet, and go to a class.

And you will learn something. I actually did it. And whenever we travel, we go to classes everywhere.

We go everywhere. Every country we go to, we take classes. I've taken hundreds and hundreds of classes from hundreds and hundreds of different teachers.

I think Jenny is one of the best that I've run into. That's why she's here. That's why I asked her to come.

You find a jewel. One out of a hundred, you find somebody really amazing. Mirrors like that.

So anyway, then after, maybe after five or six years, you get to be good enough at taking classes that you know when someone's not teaching you well. And you get good enough to know when they're going to hurt you. After a while, you're not that way at the beginning.

You walk into a class, and you just do what they tell you to do, and you screw up your shoulder, and you think there's something wrong with you. And then after taking a few hundred classes, you walk into a class, there's a guy who's 23 years old, and he tells you to do something, and you're like, no. That could tear out my shoulder, and then I would be stuck with that shoulder for 20 years, or 30 years, you know.

And David Swenson told me that. I said, do you do these poses? He says, no, I wouldn't do those poses.

Because they could ruin your shoulder or your knees for your life. And I wouldn't do them. But you see, it takes a lot of experience to know when a class is dangerous.

Because the teachers inexperienced, or not well trained. You're talking about your tendons, and your bones. The same thing is true for meditation.

Somebody can mess up your mind, and the way you meditate. Someone who teaches you a poor style of meditation can ruin your meditation for many years. Guess who's an example?

Michael Witt. Same guy. And he won't mind if I tell you his story.

He came to Howell, New Jersey in 1970. And someone taught him to meditate. And he got bad...

They taught him the wrong thing. And he got a very serious... He used to be a very strong, strapping big guy in those days.

And he did the meditation they taught him. And he got very bad body condition. And he has never recovered.

He's almost... He just retired, right? Is he 60?

How old is he? Nancy, how old is he? He's 55?

65. Yeah, he never got over it. He's never recovered.

And that was 40 years ago. And he can't meditate. He can't meditate the way he'd like to.

Because he was trained wrongly. And then that kind of damage it lasts a long time. So what he's saying is be a little more careful about who you expose your spiritual real estate to.

It is very sensitive property. It is easily damaged. Be careful what practices you choose to do.

But the problem is, the paradox is, when you begin you don't know. I did my first few years of yoga with a crazy Ashtanga teacher. Not that Ashtanga is bad, but with someone who didn't know how to teach it.

And I hurt myself over and over. And I never knew that it was that they were teaching me wrong. So it's the same with meditation.

It's the same on the inside as it is with your bones. Got it? CHER RAB BSTAN GYI DU MED ZHIG SANG YANG TSUN RANG GYI CHOD You are talking about the ultimate purpose of many lifetimes.

Damaged by an improper practice. BYA'I GANG YANG MI BYAS PAR KHYI'I KHA SA'I BZHIN DU GANG BYAS ZHIG GI CHOG PAR BYAS PAR NANG MO DE LTAR I'm almost done, okay? DE LTAR BRTEN NAS MI RUNG STE ZHUGS NAG ZHIG RAB BSTAN GYI DU MED ZHUGS DRO If you mess up on choosing which spiritual practice to follow, you mess up for many lifetimes.

DE NA GANG YANG TSUN RANG GYI CHOD DE YANG LAS PAR THAG ZHIG CHEN NAS DE LA ZHUGS You should not submit yourself to a spiritual path unless you have examined its value and its methods ahead of time. That's all. I'm not saying this one is better or that one is better.

Just check. Just learn to be more discriminating and careful about what you expose yourself to, your spirit to, your soul. Then he's going to give us some guidelines about how to check.

That's all. He's not trying to sell you his version. He wants you to just check more carefully before you practice something.

DE LTAR BYAS PA LA CHOS NI BYANG CHUB LANG GI RIM PA DE LA'I CHOG TU GYUR PA MED TE SA NAG GI SA THYAD KYANG LA RIM LA RAR LAS ZHING LAM SOGS SUM RGYUD LA MA RGYAS PAR NGON DU LA LA. That's too long. I think we'll rest there.

It's after ten. What he's going to talk about now is very beautiful. He's going to talk about tantra.

He's going to talk about the high secret teachings. Again, tantra is not something where, what do you call it? Wild sex practices or cutting chicken heads off and drinking blood.

No, there have been people said that and it's very, very, very wrong. It's like saying I went into a church and they were all getting drunk, but actually they were all having communion or something like that. They have no concept of what's going on.

We gave an example of tantra. What was it? You went to the Paradise Café to do homework with...

Yeah, you went to Paradise Café to do your homework with some other people. There was somebody you didn't know from Virginia. You were sitting with them talking about the homework questions, which Geshe Michael didn't finish for you tonight.

But you can go over your homework three again. You'll get a homework late tonight, like midnight, okay? She'll get it and she'll give it to you tomorrow.

Maybe by the end of yoga, how's that? So you can work on it tomorrow. So I'll do that.

But we gave an example of tantra. We said you're sitting in your homework group with your teaching assistant, and suddenly you decide that the person sitting next to you is the teacher of the first dharma. You suddenly have a deep insight into the fact that the young lady from Virginia sitting next to you is Tsongkhapa.

Is the teacher of the first dharma. You have this sudden flash of insight, true insight, that Tsongkhapa has disguised himself as a young lady from Virginia who's sitting next to you in the homework group. And then you realize that the last three things she said saved your life.

Something like that, okay? You realize that the last three things she said, she said because she could read your mind and she knew everything that happened to you since you were born. Okay?

Like that. To have an experience like that, right? A true experience.

That's tantra. That's real tantra. And then they begin to, what do you call it?

They begin to happen more often. Okay? It's like, what do you call it?

It's a kind of opposite of paranoia. Paranoia, you think everybody's out to get you, right? In tantra you think everyone's out to get you enlightened.

Like all these people around you are angels and they're working on you. Okay? That's tantra.

That's really tantra. Why did I bring that up? He said, look, a lot of people, they want to go straight to chakras.

They want to go straight to emptiness. They want to go straight to tantra. They want to go straight to enlightened experiences in the Paradise Cafe.

And he says, the foundational attitudes presented in the Lam Rim. Compassion. Simple kindness to others.

Simple courtesy to others. Simply being diplomatic to other people. Simply cleaning up after yourself in someone else's home.

Very, very primitive kindnesses. Those are the foundation of tantra. The most simple kindnesses that your mother taught you.

If you sleep at someone's house, make their bed. Help them wash the dishes. Get up early and make them wash dishes.

You see what I mean? Just simple manners. Simple considerations.

And the other attitudes of the Lam Rim. Simple kindness to people around you. That's how you get to tantra.

He's about to say that. You want to have mystical experiences? Wash the dishes.

And he's not kidding. Got it? If you nod, you can go home.

He's saying, you want to have high mystical experiences? Just be a nice... Dharma Mitra, did you ever go to his class?

First he kills you for like an hour. And then he makes this joke that he tells over... Is it a joke?

I'm not sure. He says, now we'll begin the class. You know?

He just killed you for an hour. And he's like, now we'll begin the class. You're like...

Then he kills you for another hour. And then he... Then he makes you sit down.

And then he gives you the same old talk. And the end of the talk is always the same thing. So be nice to people.

That's like the deepest tantric thing he can say. Be nice to... When you leave here today, please be nice to people.

And what he's going to say in this Lam Rim is that simple kindness and consideration to others is the foundation of tantric experiences. Okay? Cool?

So we'll do... We'll do more tomorrow. And again, we're starting a little bit late at 2.30. Maybe everybody should have a huge Thai iced tea before...

You can keep up with me. Alright.

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