«Дар освобождения», курс 4 «Ретрит об энергиях», занятие 11

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Okay, we'll meditate. Please start by watching your breath. And please ask your heart nama to come and sit in front of you.

And bow down to the namaskara by thinking of some quality that they have that you would like to develop and make them an offering of something good you've done in the last few days. Try not to move and think of something you'd like to purify before you start your meditation. And tell your nama in your mind and think of something you're proud of, some good seed you've planted and make it stronger by appreciating what you've done.

Think of how you'd like to be different when this retreat is finished and you're ready to go home. What change would you like to see made in your life starting next week? And ask your nama to help you.

And ask your nama to stay near and guide you. And please come back to your breath. Keep your mind up against your breath.

Try not to move. And try to bring your mind to the present moment. Try to watch your mind.

Keep it to the present moment, this place, this time, these friends. Then watch your breath and your prana moving along a pathway of liquid glass from the spot between your legs up to the spot between your eyebrows into your skull. And think of someone who needs strength, who needs energy, who has trouble getting things done in their life.

[Говорящий 1] (11:41 - 11:54)
And match your prana to their prana. Match the flow of the liquid glass to theirs. Support their flow up and down their spine to the spot between their forehead.

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And we'll sit here for a while and just breathe with them, help them, send them strength. And then slowly come back to your breath, physical breath. Ask your nama to come into your heart.

And then open your eyes, stretch.

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DE DAG CI LEN DANG DAG NAS LAM BRAL ZAD PA NA So really the first lam rim in Tibet, the light on the path to enlightenment, Bodhipatthapradipa, was written really as a response to some questions by the king. DE PHYAG PHOS KYI CHU LO NAM DANG ZIN CHOS NAM RANG YAL DU SONG BA'I YIN Then just after Lord Atisha composed the lam rim and started teaching it to people, all the weird practices that have been going on in Tibet, RANG YAL DU SONG means they just kind of, what do you call it? Went away.

They kind of... What's another? They kind of just like...

They vanished. They just went away. And I think you find that sometimes we go someplace and there's a lot of weird ideas going on, a lot of weird books and some weird teachings going on.

Once people get a taste of the pen and they get a taste of some nice meditations and something based on kindness that makes sense, then the other stuff, you don't have to fight with people. You just teach what you've learned because it's beautiful and it's authentic and it helps people. And then all the weird stuff just kind of floats away.

Nobody wants to do weird stuff if they have something that's authentic and beautiful. And it helps people. So I don't, personally, I don't spend...

I don't think it's useful to spend any time disputing with people or like that. You just offer what you have. And if it's nice and beautiful and if it makes sense, then weird stuff will just, you don't have to fight it, it will just kind of float away.

I call it spiritual Darwinism. People will try different things and then the things that work will survive. And the things that don't work will just go away.

Okay. DE LTAR GYUR NA, DE LTAR GYUR NA, NGAR RIGS LTOS DANG, BSTAN PA'I BYA BA RGYA TSU'O BRTZE NAS, BLO GSUM RDZOGS PAR GNYIS BA NA So Lord Atisha spent time in Ngari in West Tibet, the kingdom, the ancient... By the way Ladakh, those of you who've been to Ladakh, that's just a leftover of the Ngari kingdom.

That's like a little, that's the edge of the Ngardi kingdom that didn't get wiped out. So he taught a lot there. RGYA PHYIR RDZUS NI, spread the Dharma.

Then LOD RDZUM RDZOGS NGES BA NA They got close to the end of the three years. LOD TSA BA LA GNAS THEN GYI DAM GCIG LA GAR BA'I GNAR YOD PAS LOD TSA BA Then Nagsel Lod Tsa Ba is the one who made the promise, right? He swore to bring Lord Atisha back before the end of three years.

Then he started to get nervous. Then he sent Lord Atisha a letter or something, a message, and he said, you know, it's about time to go now. Time to go back.

GZO LA NGAR NAS GZOD ZIN DRUL ME GZO BA'I RKYENG DE LTAR BRJUN PA LTAR BYAS TE GZO means Lord Atisha. It means the Lord. Only he is called GZO.

GZOD TSOGS BSKABS PA is called Je, which also means Lord, but GZO is Atisha's. Everybody calls him GZO. They don't call him Atisha.

Now you've got to help me out here. DBYIN PA means to go, like PEPA. DBYIN PA LTAR BYAS LTAR LTAR LTAR LTAR BU Not LTAR LTAR LTAR BU Not LTAR LTAR LTAR LTAR BU BYAS It's DRA BA, like DRA BA.

GZHAN What's that mean? Like, he made as if to go. Okay, there's a little syllable there, and you've got to be sentimental.

BYIN PA LTAR BYAS It didn't say he got ready to go. It says he got ready as if to go. Okay, that's nice.

BU ZHENG DU BEP Then he went to BU ZHENG. BU ZHENG is... Nowadays it's the capital of the state of Ngari.

So it's a town. SBYOR LA SNGAG NAS BYAS TSUN GRUB MED PHOD DU RGYAS NYAN CHEN PO ZHIG LA So he started to go towards the border, Nepalese border. SBYOR LA SNGAG NAS BYAS TSUN GRUB MED PHOD DU RGYAS NYAN CHEN PO ZHIG LA BSTAN NAS BSTAN PA LA CHAGS PHAN PA RGYAS CHEN PO DBANG ZHES YANG DA'I YANG DU GSUNG ZHING Then Atisha was thinking, didn't Tara tell me that I was supposed to meet up with some special little upasika?

Where's my upasika? Where's my lifetime layman's vow holder, extraordinary special helper guy? YANG DA'I YANG DU GSUNG ZHING DE'I SKABS KYANG RGYAS NYAN NYUR DU DBANG ZHES YANG DU YANG GSUM PA'I Then Droma kept telling him, oh, he's almost here, he's coming soon, he's coming soon.

GSUM PA'I SBYOR BYED NYAN THAR BYA RA Those of you who know Tibetan, you got to be careful with BYA RA. BYA RA means to do. BYA RA means to be on the lookout.

It's a totally different word. So BYA RA means... By the way, it's often used with a certain mental function called in meditation, SHES SHING It's often used as a synonym for SHES SHING.

BYA RA Say BYA RA. BYA RA Yeah, BYA RA. Meaning the part of your mind that you split off to watch the rest of your mind is also called BYA RA sometimes.

It means the lookout. He was on the lookout for his upasika. NGES RGYUD PA SRID PA MA BYUNG LTAR BA'I RDZUN NI CHEN BYANG GSUM I don't think Tara could tell a lie, but I didn't see any upasika show up.

RNAMS SHES GSUNG BA'I TSE SNYING RJE'I RJE DAG GIS BYO DEN RANG PAS ZHUL DU One day Lord Atisha was invited to a sponsor's home for a meal. ZHUL DU SBYONG RIN PO'I PHYIR PHABS After he had left the place he was staying, Dromtonje showed up. Dromton is the little helper guy.

The facilitator. He's the most famous facilitator in Buddhism. Next to John Stewart.

Okay. DROM RIN PO'I PHYIR PHABS He came. SBYONG RIN PO'I PHYIR PHABS Then he came into the sleeping quarters.

SBYONG RIN PO'I PHYIR PHABS Then his students told Dromtonje, his students told Dromtonje, oh, he's gone to somebody's house for lunch. Sponsor's house for lunch. Then he's going to be back right away and you can wait for him.

DROM RIN PO'I PHYIR NGAG THEG PA CHEN PO'I SKYE BA'I ZHIN DROM RIN PO'I PHYIR NGAG THEG PA CHEN PO'I SKYE BA'I ZHIN Then Drom... Hang on. Dromtonje said, if I had to choose to wait another minute to meet my Lama, I would rather leave and try to find him.

So he took off into the streets because he didn't want to wait an extra minute. Then he met him in an alley. He did a full prostration in the alley.

Then it looks like they went to the sponsor together. Oh, first Atisha put his hand on Dromtonje's head and recited some verses in Sanskrit. Many, many verses of auspiciousness.

And then they went to the sponsor's house and he dragged, he brought along Dromtonje. When he got there, he said, my upasika here, he needs a kelwa. Kelwa, you see, here's the original meaning of kelwa.

We know kelwa, it means enough goodness in your heart to have special stuff happen to you. But here's the original meaning. It means he needs a share of the offerings today.

My upasika is going to need a share. It's bhagavan to have a share. I'm going to say, nam ne yupa de nang.

Sometimes you could read it as, he went to the sponsors before and he knew the upasika was coming and he asked for the share before he met Dromtonje on the way back. ,'JOD RJE NI NAM YANG ZHA MI ZHES PA'I, This is a beautiful thing. Just Pabongka Rinpoche is just mentioned something.

,'JOD RJE NI NAM YANG ZHA MI ZHA, ZHA MI ZHA. What's that mean? ZHA MI ZHA.

MI means not ZHA, means to eat. ZHA means meat. He says Atisha never eat meat.

He just says it in passing. Tibetan monks for a thousand years have eaten meat. When you press a Tibetan monk about why they eat meat, some monks will say, some monks will say you can't grow vegetables in Tibet, which is not exactly true.

Some will say, in ancient times you were a bhikshu, a beggar, and you held out your bowl and whatever someone put in your bowl, you took it and you ate it. But nowadays nobody goes begging in Tibet. Monasteries are very strong, powerful.

They own a lot of the land they used to. They can buy whatever they want. They buy their own food.

So then, I don't know, in recent years, I think a little bit from pressure by Westerners, a lot by pressure from Indians, local Indian people in the refugee monasteries. There's been a lot of pressure to stop eating meat, at least during the ceremonies, public ceremonies, that other people might come. And then especially Indian people would be offended if they were eating meat.

And the way they deliver meat in the monasteries, they throw a dead sheep in the trunk of a car and they drive through the monastery yelling meat. And then you say, it's like the ice cream truck. And then they open up the trunk and here's this 3D old carcass, and they cut off a piece and then half the monks get sick from that.

Because there's no legal way to kill meat in India. I mean there's a few legal slaughterhouses in Delhi or something, which are always being closed down by public protest. But there's no legal way to sell meat and kill meat.

So it's just all black market meat. So anyway, lately, at least Saramay has agreed not to serve meat in the temple. And that's nice, that's good.

Anyway, so it was very unusual that... It meant that Atisha was not eating meat on principle, because everybody else would have been eating meat. NAM YANG SHAL MI SHES PA'I DE NYID KYI SDUG BSNGAL DE LA SEMS DANG MAR BGRAG NAS On that particular day, the sponsor had offered...

It sounds like sampa and butter. So it's sampa and butter. Butter they also deliver in a sheep intestine, but that's another thing.

BGRAG NAS YOD PA DRONG GI SEMS DE ZHES So Dromtonche ate the... He ate the sampa. Then he took the butter and he made a butter lamp and he lit it that night.

And he placed it at the head of Lord Atisha's bed, next to his pillow. And it burned all night. And then for the rest of his life he offered one every night, at the pillow of his lama.

He never missed a night. I tried that one time. I ended up missing a bunch of nights.

RANG LA BRDOM PA'I MER CHE LA DBANG GOS DE Then NUM MO DE RANG On that very evening that they met, Lord Atisha granted Dromtonche Tantric Initiation as his spiritual son. As his main spiritual son. Okay.

We might get through this or not. Then BU RENG NAS GRIM GYI PHAB STE Then they tried to... They went south towards the Indian border.

MANG YUL GYI SDONG DU PHAB They reached a place called GYI SDONG in MANG YUL. DE NAS PHAL YUL RGYUD DE RGYAL GOD DU DRIN DRAN SRID BYED KYANG Then the plan was that they would escort Lord Atisha to India through Nepal. RGYAL NAM DU MAG ZING CHEN PO LANGS PAS But the road was blocked by a major military confrontation.

Somebody was fighting somebody. There was a battle going on and the road was completely blocked. No roads to India were available.

DE'I TSE DROM GYI PHOD DU MAR DRAN DRAN THAB SO BA'I RTZE Then DROM DROD RJE was like... What do you call it when someone's in the Congress? You're trying to get the Congress to do something, big businesses.

Oh yeah, DROM DROD RJE was lobbying to turn back to Tibet. Okay, let's go back to Tibet. SNAG TSOD NI RGYAL GYUR DU DRAN DRAN THAB SO BA'I RTZE Then SNAG TSOD LO BRTZA BA, he took the vow in front of this high Lama.

He was advocating trying to find some other road or like that. DRAN DRAN THAB SO BA'I RTZE LAM GYI MA THUGS KYI DRAN DRAN MA THUGS PA'I BLO BRTZA BA CI DAG LA THUGS TE YID BLO LONG PAR GYUR PA LA Then there's this picture. You have to get in your mind this picture of SNAG TSOD LO BRTZA BA having a crisis.

Like he's having a mental crisis. And he's long, long, long, long. His mind got long, long.

He was like, I don't know what to do. He was torn and he was confused. He was upset.

He had a decision facing him. And it was too much. And he was like going cuckoo.

So then, SBYOR BA BLO BRTZA BA LA DE TZAM SEMS LAS MI DGOS Then after he said, don't worry about it. Don't go crazy. GYUR PA MA GNYIS PA NA LA GNYIS PA NAS It's not your fault.

You tried. You tried to take me back and you couldn't take me back. So I was thinking, when I travel the world, we travel the world, I see a lot of SEMS LONG LONG BOS.

There's a lot of people doing this LONG LONG BO thing. They're like worried all the time. And they have decisions to make.

And they are troubled. There's people who are immediately troubled. Meaning they just lost their job.

They got to decide whether to have an abortion or not. Hard stuff, big stuff. And they're all LONG LONG BO about it.

Then there's the rest of the population, many of whom have a LONG LONG BO going on deeper. They have life decisions going on, on a deeper level. And worries and decisions to make.

And they often come to me with options. They come to me with an option. They say, should I try to push on through the battlefield with this atisha or should I turn back to Tibet?

They come to me with these. Pretty much that's all people want to talk to me about. No, and that's natural.

I want to help. That's my job. We go to Bulgaria.

People I don't know, 20 people I don't know will stand there in line and they'll ask me, should I do this or should I do that? And then in this system, in the system of karmic seeds, in our lineage, those are false questions. They're all false questions.

You see? It's the, what do you call it? Red lipstick versus pink lipstick question.

Lancôme or what's the other one? I forget. It sounds like Calvin Klein but it's not Calvin Klein.

Sephora is where you buy it. Anyway, there's another one. Clinique, yeah, Clinique is good.

Clinique, you're in Sephora and you have a choice between Clinique or Lancôme. And then people are always asking me these questions. And I'm like, look, just plant the real cause and then relax.

Just relax. They're like, I don't see watermelons coming up in my garden. Just plant one.

Turn on the, I have a timer on a drip system. Turn on the drip system. Plant the watermelon seeds.

Throw some phosphorus stuff on there. And then go to Bulgaria and relax. And when you come home there'll be a big watermelon there.

You see? You don't have to think about it. You don't have to sit there and all the worries in your life are useless.

They're all irrelevant. There's no reason to do that. And it breaks my heart.

I walk around the world and so many people are worried about stuff. Should I use Clinique? Should I use Estée Lauder?

Where am I going to find my boyfriend? Should I do this or should I do that? What am I going to do with my life?

And it's all, the tragedy is it's not necessary to worry. There's no reason. There's no reason at all.

Once you understand planting seeds, you just plant the seeds. And then just relax. Just chill.

Sit back and relax. The result will come. You can't stop it.

I wanted to go to Paris. I told my assistants, there's only one place in the world where I would invite myself. And they said, where?

And I said, Paris. I want to go to Paris. Nobody's inviting me.

I mean, at that time. And then they're like, well, how are we going to get there? And I said, well, let's plant a seed.

So I planted all these seeds. Then we went to Jakarta. And we gave a talk on Chinese TV.

And there's a French businessman there. And like, Resetti says, you're French? He says, yes, oui.

Then she says, okay. And she grabs him. And then he turns out to be the head of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Paris.

And he's like, you guys got to, he heard the talk, and then he's like, you got to come. And then we went, and we had a really good time, and we gave a nice talk. And then, Cecile, you translate for me.

And then somebody was in the audience, and they are friends with the national chairman of the Chambers of Commerce of France. So we're going back to speak to 2,000 business people in Montpellier on the Riviera in July. You got to translate, okay?

I know it's going to be a hardship. see, you don't go trying to call the national chairman. You don't try to find out his name and then wait outside his door and bug him.

You just don't do that. You just plant the seed. And then you go to Jakarta.

And then some guy is there. You see what I mean? And I'm not boasting, I'm just saying, I'm talking about methodology.

Have a true concern that the people of Tibet should have good, pure Buddhist teachings. And then when the three years is up, there'll be a war. And it will block the road.

And you're good to have Atisha for the next 16 years. He never got back. He spent 19 years in Tibet.

Just plant the seed. Rinpoche says, Pabongka Rinpoche says, ,'JOG PAS MA THUG PA NI, ,PHOS CI GSOS RNAMS YIN PA LAS, ,JOG PAS MA THUG PA NI, ,PHOS CI GSOS RNAMS YIN PA LAS, ,JOG is JOG. ,PHAS means to go.

,MA THUG ,THUG PA means able ones, right? ,MA THUG means he wasn't able to go. The fact that he wasn't able to go is PHOS.

PHOS Tibet. ,CI like CI CHE DAG. General.

,GSOS RNAMS Virtue. ,CHI SEMS of the Tibetan people. It was the general good seeds of the Tibetan people that he got blocked by a battle.

And he couldn't get back. What I'm saying is just remember the battle scene. And remember ,NAG MTSON LOD ZA BA.

He didn't have to have all this crisis and his long, long, bold mind. He just plant the seed and relax. Something will happen.

Something weird will happen. You can't even guess what will happen. You go to Jakarta, the guy's sitting there in a Chinese audience, like, what is that?

So don't even try to guess what's going to happen. Just plant the seed and relax. And in this big watermelon, you get home and there's this big fat watermelon sitting there.

And all the worry that you do is not necessary. All the decisions you have to make and the things facing you in your life, just plant seeds. Take care of somebody else.

Do something for somebody else. Then just relax. The money will come.

The boyfriend will come. Then go in the Sephora with a blindfold on. And walk down the aisle and just grab the first thing you feel and go home and put it on.

And in that case you have to help a lonely person, right? You have to be helping lonely people. I like to say you can adopt an elderly woman or something.

So I have one. I have one in reserve. I've been taking care of her for 20 years or something.

We go every time we go to Phoenix, we do something for her. And make the seed with a lonely person. And I don't, we see her once every three weeks.

I don't like sit there in her house and take care of her. I don't have the resources. But as far as I'm able, I take care of her.

And then that plants a seed. Then go to Sephora with your eyes closed and put on anything and then the seed will be there and people will find you attractive and you will have companionship and you will find a nice partner. Just plant the seed, then relax.

Probably they'll send you a sample in the mail. Seriously. Let's take a...

Do we take a break in the morning? We don't take a break in the morning. Okay, I'm not going to take a break.

But let's at least do a meditation.