Занятие 11, часть 2

[Говорящий 2] (0:00 - 7:42)
Okay, I'm not going to take a break, but let's at least do a meditation, okay? Then please come to your breath. Please try to be still.

Then try to place your mind on your heart chakra. So at the level of your heart, in front of your spine, run your mind like a hand across that area and see if you can feel a bump or a ball. You might have to go up or down or left or right.

When you feel it, then stay there. Then go inside that chakra and see a small pool of glass, liquid glass, your prana, your nice energy. Then bring your mind back to your heart nama, sitting in front of you.

Then look inside them, under their chest. The whole body is liquid glass, not a tiny little pool. The whole body is made of prana.

The whole body is made of light, clear light. Then ask them to help you, give you life strength so that you can help others, that you can serve others. Ask them for a gift of their prana, some of their prana.

Then this beautiful bar, like a pillar of prana, comes from their heart to your heart, from their chakra to your chakra. It's flowing like water from a fire hydrant. It's clear like glass.

It's bursting from their heart to your heart. Then think how you have now more than enough prana, liquid glass to share with others, yourself. You can be a net exporter of energy.

In any group, in any group of people, you can be the one who's excited and happy and serving the others. Slowly come back to your mind. Ask your nama to come to your heart, stay in your heart.

Then you can open your eyes, stretch.

[Говорящий 1] (7:44 - 30:18)
There are two things you need to do with your prana. You need to be offering it to other people. Match your breath and your prana movement up your spine to them.

That's the first thing. Then second thing, go to the gas station once in a while and get a fill up from your teacher. Those are the two things you need to do.

In the next few weeks, months, that's your big assignment. I like to do it in the weirdest... I used to do it on the subway all the time.

I had to take an hour and a half bus ride to Port Authority. Then I had to take a subway down to Tribeca. I would do it on the subway because there would be so many tired people on the subway.

The subway is gray and the people are gray. They're exhausted. I would just sit across from somebody and give them prana.

Imagine giving them prana. Or you're standing up in the subway and holding on to those bar things. There's just some tired person sitting there.

You could be like two feet away from them and you're not even looking at them and you're just sending them prana. It's a very beautiful seed to plant. Then you always have energy.

It's just fun. You could just read the advertisements that you've seen for three weeks already on the side of the subway. Or you could give someone prana.

Then you use your time. It's very uplifting to do that. They don't have to know, but they will know.

They will sense it and they'll be happier. They'll sense something's going on and they'll be happy. Okay.

LOD TSA' BA BZHIN DU DGAN NAS ON NA BUD DU MAR BYUN Lord Atisha said to Naksa Lod Tsa'a, it's not your fault. It's an act of God. It's a war.

We can't do anything about it. Then he's like, yay! He says, let's go back to Tibet.

So then Lod Tsa'a teamed up with Domdurme and said, let's go back to Tibet. ZHES GZHON NAS, DE NAS SBYOR BA BUD DU MAR BYUN PA THU THAG BYAS It was decided that Atisha would return to Tibet. DE DU LAM DU THUG PA BYUNG STE SBYOR PA'I MA THUG PA NI DE LTAR SBYOR PA'I MA THUG PA'I RGYA RGYA RGYA DU BANG CHEN ZANG NAS Then they sent a BANG CHEN.

A BANG CHEN is a synonym for a PHO NYA, a messenger. So it's a tantric. It's a very important tantric expression.

When they define PHO NYA, they always say BANG CHEN. So BANG CHEN, they sent a BANG CHEN to India, to Ratnakara. Sorry.

GNAS BSTAN GYI GANG ZHING SBYOR PA'I BO BDEN DRANG KYANG We were following, we were honoring our commitment. We did take Lord Atisha south and we ran into a war. MA CHUG GI BDEN DRANG MA THUG PA We couldn't bring him all the way down.

RE ZHIG SPYIR LOG PHAB DGOS So for the time being, we had to return to Tibet. LA RDU ZING JAG TZAM BDEN DRAN GZHUG CHOG PA DANG We will make every attempt to return him as soon as the war calms down. SBYOR PO DE PHAB NAS BDEN GZHUG KYANG BDEN DRANG BA'I TSE Then they wanted to appease the Indians.

So they sent the book. They sent a copy of the book. They said, you know, look what he's been doing in Tibet.

Something valuable. SBYOR DON YANG BZHIN DU CHE BA'I It's of great benefit to all living beings. RAB TU PHOD DU ZHUG CHOG PA So wouldn't it even be better if you allowed him to stay in Tibet?

If he could produce this kind of stuff. ZHUG DANG MI YONG NA'AM ZHES ZHUG ZHUG YID DANG LAM BRDUN SBYOR BA'I CHAGS BRDUN NGO MA ZHIG Then they sent a copy of the text that had been calligraphed ZHUG FA by Atisha himself. He had written it himself.

SEMS RANG PO CHE Then they also sent a pretty good quality of gold. RGYA RGYUR DU DZANG They sent it to India. DE'I RTZE RGYA RGYUR DU RANG RE'I PHOD DANG MI BGRA BA BLO GCIG GI SNANG DU BRTEN CES SAR PA GANG CHUNG BA'I RNAMS PA NI LTE RNAMS SOGS So he says, it's not like nowadays in Tibet.

In those days, a thousand years ago in India, you didn't just put books out at random. All the books were held for a year. Then they were all put out at the same time.

But every book that was written, I'm talking spiritual book that was written, every new book went to a... the wise men of the... the wise people of the country would have a meeting once a year.

Then they would evaluate all the new books. Then they would hand out page by page because the pages are loose, right? They're palm-leaf.

So you hand out page by page and it goes around the room and everybody reads it and makes comments on it. BYUNG PO DE BZHIN BRAL LA BRTAN NAS TSANGS PA'I DE BZHIN GZIGS NAS GZIGS DON LA SKYEN MED PA RNAMS If there was no mistake in the composition and if there were no mistake in the meaning, then they would approve it. My English teacher in high school, God bless her soul, Katherine Mortenson.

She made us write an essay every day. Like three-page essay. Then she would grade it for content, right?

Then she would grade it for format, including spelling. For every spelling mistake you made, she took a grade off. Like it went from A to B.

And you got to F really fast. I was really upset. I remember complaining about her.

But for two years she taught us to write. She taught us Dante and Shakespeare. She was like this old cranky lady from the University of Chicago.

So anyway, in India, the form is considered as important as the writing. In the case of dharma, in the case of dharma things, then you should never cheap the dharma. You know what I mean?

Like that Tsongkhapa book. That cost a fortune. The big picture book.

That cost a fortune. We fundraised for it. So we wouldn't have to charge much money for it.

But you should spend the money it takes to make it beautiful. And you shouldn't make it cheap. You shouldn't put out flyer homa offerings on paper plates.

You should go buy some nice crystal plates and do it up nice. Next time. I mean, it should be nice.

And a book, it should be well written. And it should be edited well. And the Tibetan should be spelled correctly.

It should wait until it's perfect. And then the format should be beautiful. And the cover should be sexy.

And the whole thing should be done like, with dharma it's got to be perfect. And the meaning should be perfect. Like they published some...

He went to the hospital over working on it. The last three retreat teachings. So they thought, oh, we'd like to publish them and get them out by this three retreat teachings.

So they sent me a list of... They didn't just print it. They said, oh, this looks like...

We want to make sure these things are correct. So they actually sent me a list of things to check to see if they're correct, which I really appreciate. And Jigme worked on it.

And then they demanded that I check it. And then of course I didn't check it till the week before. That's where he got into the hospital, I think.

And then they stayed up all night and cleaned it up and got it published by the morning of the three retreat teachings. But it was beautiful. And they did it.

They made sure it was correct and accurate and spelled everything correct and beautiful. And then they put it out. And that's the way it should be.

With dharma that's the way it should be. SEMS SBYOR BA'I PHYIR NI MA PHAG PA Then they would offer it to the king who would give the author a reward if it were both meaningful and well done. BSTAN CES BDE'I KHYAB BRAL DU BYAS CHOG PA And then the king would issue a declaration that this book could be spread.

When I say it to you, it feels like censorship. But when I heard it from Rinpoche, I guess I don't know if I'm expressing it correctly. It was beautiful.

It was like having the Dalai Lama check a book and say, you know, this book is cool. Like that. I don't mean to say some kind of, what do you call it, inquisition type of thing where you can't write a book unless the church approves it, imprimatur, right?

So I think there's a distinction between when it gets to be bureaucratic and small-minded people are telling people what they can write in spiritual books. And then having the, what do you call it, the comfort of knowing the Dalai Lama checked the book and said, this would help people. So it was more the second thing.

Yeah. We're getting there. It's true.

SKYE MED PA'I RNAMS RGYAS PA LA ZHUGS TE KHYAB BRAL DU BYAS CHOG PA'I BRAL DAG GCIG SBYOR LAS KYANG If the composition was flowery and sweet and nice, DON NA SKYE YOD but the meaning was defective, which pretty much describes American literature. Just kidding. RIG RIG GYI BSTAN GYI That kind of book, they would tie it to the tail of an old dog and chase him through the street.

And you're talking like muddy streets. That's where the manuscript would be stored. CHUNG KHYIR GYI SANG BA'I PHYI'I DE TSONG BA PO DANG BYAS PA I don't mean to say all American literature is useless.

I've read some, like the Secret, what's it, History of Bees or something? Secret Life of Bees. That's a classic and it's a novel and it has great meaning and it's very helpful and it's uplifting.

So I don't mean to say it all has to be Buddhist philosophy. But you know, there are books that are just harmful for people's minds. Most of what Ningbo reads, manga.

But no, we enjoy, we give each other science fiction books. We buy them in airport bookstores and then we share them together. Personally, I think science fiction, especially the star traveling kind, is very uplifting.

So books are empty, right? I mean, whatever uplifts you or inspires you, that's okay. Whatever makes you a better person.

Why don't we say that? RGYAL BU LA GZHAN NAS CING BYAS RTEN CES DE Then they would tell the king, look, we don't approve of this book. And then the author would be disgraced and nobody would buy their stuff.

DE DAG BYAS SU YOD PAS SBYOR BA CHEN PO GSUNGS NA LDAN DE'I RTAG CIG BYAS MI DGOS KYANG So it wasn't necessary to do that kind of examination of Atisha's book. But YUL KYI LUGS SU BZHIN But they still kept to their custom. They still said we have to, it has to go through the process.

BANG DI LTAR BRAL DU DANG NAS So they handed it out among the meeting of the banditas. RGYUD TU BSTAN PA'I NAM DON GZHOG PA GSUM PA DE'I NANG DU RGA'AN MDOG RGYU THAMS CAD KYI BYA MA TZAM BA MED PAR DUS NAS RTEN CING Then all of the wise people gathered there came to a realization that in these three pages were contained all of the open and secret teachings of Buddhism. In three pages.

DE LA BSTAN NAS GSOS RAM THAMS CAD DANG SNGAGS TU ZHAR BA'I Then there's a phenomenon, there's a beautiful phenomenon. It's called DANG SNGAGS TU ZHAR Say DANG SNGAGS TU ZHAR DANG SNGAGS TU ZHAR DANG SNGAGS TU ZHAR It means, like every day I get up here and we open this Tibetan book. This is the original, right?

Then Rinpoche gave me a copy of this book. That was his own private copy on Tibetan paper when I became a Geshe. I don't know who took it, but if somebody finds it I would appreciate it.

This is some cheap offset reproduction. But anyway, the words are the same. It's in a yellow cloth with black polka dots on it.

It's very distinctive. All right, I think Lama Palma stole it. Anyway, So anyway, I mean, I'm not sure and I can't say.

But anyway, Oh yeah. So I don't get to this because I have a better version here from the database. It's more clean and it has all my notes about Ashvajit and Shariputra.

By the way, the big deal about that story, I forgot to tell you. So Shariputra met that monk who looked so cool and then he saw ultimate reality, right? He walks down the road and runs into Maudgalyayana, who's the other great disciple of the Buddha, who wasn't a disciple yet.

He was just a wandering mendicant. Maudgalyayana, whose name is Kotila at the time, catches sight of Shariputra and says, he walks so nice, he looks so kind. Then the whole story got repeated.

Then Shariputra told Maudgalyayana the same verse and Maudgalyayana saw emptiness directly the same day. That's how the two disciples of the Buddha... Then they went to the Buddha and the Buddha said, you're a monk.

Suddenly their hair fell off and their beard fell off. It's not going to happen to you, Nick, don't worry. He's more of a Vajradhara.

He's third stage Buddha. He's already ahead of that. That's the story of how...

Those of you who don't know Shariputra, he's the one who's the hero of the Heart Sutra. He's the one who says a lot of the stuff, most of the stuff in the Heart Sutra. Anyway, kadambhashava means, we always open up the book because it's convenient, it makes you impressed, and it's a good place to put my notebook on.

But I always try to read a line. I just try to see... In Tibet it's considered a...

What do you call it? It's almost like telling your future for the day. Like you take a holy book and you go like this.

Let's do it. This is your prediction for the... How about for the whole post-retreat experience?

I hope it's not something about your mother. Lama... Wow.

I go for refuge to my lama. Okay. That's pretty good.

So that's kadambhashava. Ka means scripture. Dambhashava means you open it up and then suddenly it's boom, it hits you, as if it were personal instruction.

You open a book at random and you get a secret message from your teacher. And that's kadambhashava. And that got abbreviated to kadampa, which is the name of the first Tibetan, the first Buddhists of our lineage.

We're called kadampa. It means people who opened books at random and got private messages from the lama. Kadampa.

Wow, you guys did really good. Usually I get like, this was printed... So that kadampa thing happened to the guys who were checking his book.

The whole thing was kadampa. They're like, boom, wow, he's talking to us. Pudupepe.

Pudupepe nam la lekpa ma set. Nge gyakwa nam la shintu lekpa chung. Tam tse ha le ne.

Say ha le. Ha le. Ha means wow.

Okay, ha means wow. I'll teach you the Tibetan word for aluminum. Say hayang.

Hayang. So I heard this story. Somebody offered the 13th Dalai Lama an aluminum pot, right?

From India or China or something. And he picked it up and he said, ha, yang, which means wow, light. Then they named the aluminum hayang.

Wow, light. So then all the Indian rice guys were like, ha, this is amazing. This book is amazing.

Ha le ne. Din Jigdu unanimously said, not only was it good for the Tibetans that Atisha went to Tibet, but it turned out to be the best for us too. Because we got this book.

It was the best for India also. ,MTSOR RGYA RGYAL DU ZHUGS NA, ,RGYA RGYAL BA'ANG RNAMS SHES RAB DANG, ,SEMS PAS CHE BA'I RTEN CING NI, ,LA LTA BU'I TSUN, When Lord Atisha was residing in India, he never gave a teaching like this because the Indians were too intelligent and had too much effort. But the Tibetans, ,LEN CING TSUN GYIR BYUNG, they're kind of stupid and lazy.

To accommodate them, he had to write a short book. But he had to pack in all of Buddhist knowledge in a little three-page book. So it's so great that he went to Tibet.

Because otherwise we never would have had a book like this. ,PHOS DU ZHUGS PA LA SNGAGS BYIN MANGGOS GSUM DE, Everyone was praising, singing their praises of his trip to Tibet. ,GNAS RTEN RANG LAS GAR A, And also that old grumpy Ratnakara, he was, ,LTAR BA'O, ,SPAN DE NI RNAMS KYIS KYANG SNGAGS BYIN DE LTAR ZAD, Well, everyone seems to be happy.

All's well that ends well. ,BYO BO YANG BU DU ZHUGS PA LA RGYAS, I guess it's all right that he stays there. ,GRO DU YANG DON CHE BA DANG YOD, Seems like it will help even more people if he stays there.

,BYO BO BU DU ZHUGS PA CHOG PA, So he gave his permission that Atisha could stay in Tibet. ,KUR TZAB DU LAM BRDZON DI LA RANG RGYAL ZHIG RDZAS NAS KHO SHOG, But then he sent a message to Atisha. He says, we need, I want to say it right.

We need someone to stand in for you. So could we have an auto-commentary? Could you write a commentary to your own little Lam Rim?

And that will be you for us in India. ,KUR TZAB DU LAM BRDZON DI LA RANG RGYAL ZHIG RDZAS NAS KHO SHOG, He gets a job in Naxal Shindugar. Naxal was over, what do you call it?

Okay, I'm going to tell you a dirty joke, but don't repeat it. So we went to Bulgaria and we gave these teachings. And especially our staff, the DCI people did an awesome job there, like Mercedes and Ningbo and Naomi and people like that.

They all did a great job, Jigme. And then we asked the participants in the retreat to ride us for three weeks and tell us that they're doing their meditation every day. They're supposed to email us every day.

They don't always do that. But anyway, we got an email from, I don't know the guy's name, but it said, Dear Mercedes, I'm oversized with pleasure.

[Говорящий 2] (30:19 - 30:19)
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[Говорящий 1] (30:25 - 38:16)
We were thinking to call our next album Oversized with Pleasure. She claims it was Google Translator. So anyway, Makto Lotso was Oversized with Pleasure.

Abner's Successful Outcome. I don't want to see this in the newspapers next week, okay? People do that.

Ngekyi Khori Tsamshik Khurwa. Then he said, that old man from India had put a load on me as big as a mountain, meaning get him back in three years. And today that load was taken off my shoulders.

He was really, he was oversized. Tenggir chu du shukpe rangrel du drakpa. Then Pabongka Rinpoche makes a side comment that nowadays there is a book in the Tenggir which is said to be that auto-commentary, but it's not.

He says, le du shukpe. Le du shukpe means somebody got a hold of it and stuck in some of their own ideas. In Tibet it's called, say, le du shukpe.

Le means, what do you call that when somebody, like they, I was in Ukraine, oh well anyway, they cut up medicine with something else because it's cheaper. That's called le. What do you call it?

It's adulterated. Pabongka Rinpoche said, beware of the version in the Tenggir. It's adulterated.

Somebody later stuck in their own ideas and ruined the book. So we're not going to do that, right? Nga te chu chu.

We got like seven more minutes. Hang in there. Le shukpe yinpa re.

Yinpa re. Yin means there is. It's corrupted.

Yinpa re means it seems like that. It's like yinpa re. Is he going to come today?

Yinpa re. Seems like. It means he's being careful himself not to criticize something that might be, conceivably could be the original.

DE LTAR SBYOR US SU BYUNG PAR NYE BAR NA DRANGS RIN PO CHEN NGON DU U KYI MI CHEN NAM LA Oh, this is a cute story. Okay. This is short.

Then they said, well, why don't we send Lord Atisha to central Tibet, which is now the center of power in Tibet, right? Lhasa is in the middle of U. U means central Tibet.

So the kingdom shifted, especially in the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama, to the center of Tibet, out of the west of Tibet. DRANGS RIN PO CHEN NGON DU U KYI MI CHEN NAM LA Then the great facilitator went ahead to buy the oranges and the almonds and find a blender that would work on central Tibet electricity. DRANGS RIN PO CHEN NGON DU U KYI MI CHEN NAM LA Then he met the great, he met the leaders of central Tibet and said, NGES KYI SBYOR BUS DEN CI DRANGS CHE YID KHA'I CHUNG NA KHYS NAM LA CHAL DU PHYAB TSUL LA'ONG DGOS SHES GSUNG YOD PA LTAR RGA BA ZHAG YOD DANG DBANG PHYUGS LA SOGS PAS UR DON RNAMS CHAL DU SBYOR PHYAB TSUL LA ZHOGS BYAS PA'I PHYAG RTE Then he said, I would like to bring Atisha to central Tibet and I think it would be appropriate if you send him an invitation so that he should come quickly. Then there was a lama named Shakyawangchuk and his name is Kawa, meaning he was like a pillar of the community of central Tibet. UR DON RNAMS CHAL DU He agreed that they should write a letter to invite Lord Atisha to central Tibet.

DKA' BA'I UN ZAD PAS BUR DON RNAMS PHYAB TSUL LA BYAS PA NA So they finished writing the letter and then there was a lama named Kutan and then he said, You left out my name on the invitation letter. So, you know, Kutan is like, you left out my name. Then they said, but we put LA SOGS PA LA SOGS PA means et cetera.

You're in the et cetera. He said, I don't belong in et ceteras. I'm a big lama.

I shouldn't be in the et ceteras. KUSUM BRJOD PA'I UR MI NGA MIN ZHES DNGOS NA BRJOD PA'I He got on a horse and ran off to try to greet Lord Atisha before the rest of them got there. Like Atisha's walking to central Tibet.

He jumps on a horse and tries to outride everybody else. Then they all jump on horses. All these big lamas jump on horses and they start chasing Kutan.

Then Atisha looks up and there's this like, what do you call it, when horses go, when they break out of their corral there's a stampede. He's like, ah! He's like, there's a stampede coming at him.

They say, put the lucky in charge of him. Then Lord Atisha, he had his sand, right? This is called a sand, right?

So he had his sand on. Not like me, he had it on all the time probably. Then he said, demons are coming.

There's a stampede of Tibetan demons and he covered himself. He like covered himself. Then all these lamas jumped off the horses.

Then they put on their robes and then they greeted him. Then Atisha was pleased that they had come and he did a chaklen. Chaklen is a beautiful custom.

Like someone's bowing to you and then you acknowledge the prostration. It's like some kind of thing like this. His Holiness is really good at it, right?

Chaklen. That's a good place to stop. The Central Tibetans have almost stampeded.

I was there when His Holiness came to the United States the first time. We brought him. We went to the White House, we got permission for him.

We got him his visa, his first visa. He was refused a visa for many years. We had a friend in the White House and we got him a visa.

He was flying into JFK and then the Mongolians found out that he was coming in our community. They rented, like 300 people got on buses. They ran and rented some buses and they ran to the airport and then they crushed him.

They almost hurt him because they all wanted to be first to touch him. It's really funny. Anyway, same thing.

Are you ready?