«Дар освобождения», курс 10 «Новогодний ретрит», занятие 2

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So, one more homework question from last class, and then we'll start the new things, okay? There's a sentence in the Tibetan. Now I will start to read the Tibetan, okay?

First of all, it's a blessing. We call it lung. So, if you come to the whole 10 or 12 years of this class, you will get a lung for the whole text.

It means every word of the text will go into your brain directly. And then partly I want to create a record of the transmission I got of this book for 30 years. My lama was the end of a generation, I think.

My teacher was the end of one generation. So there was, I think you could say, a 600 year lineage in Tibet up to my teacher. Then it changed, and now there's a new lineage, I think, came to the other countries, right?

Like Mexico. And so, I'm like the last record of the old lineage, you see? So, I want to at least say each word of the book and explain each word of the book.

Even if it takes 10 or 15 years, I don't care. Then I'm not asking you to learn Tibetan, okay? But I'm putting secretly, I'm putting the seed in your mind.

Okay, maybe next life, you see? Okay, so there's a sentence from the old class which we finished already. NGOS SU YOD PA'I DUS SHES MED YOD MED KYIS BYIN RNAB DANG SON NAMS KYANG DE BYAS SU BRTAG BA YIN Means, when you ask your teacher to come and sit next to you, then of course, you can, many people will put a picture next to them.

Nick, put it next to him. Hold it up next to him. Then people will meditate.

I want Geshe Michael to come. They will meditate a picture.

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A painting.

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Geshe Michael is very flat. Then don't do that. Don't picture a picture next to you.

When you ask your teacher to come, they are alive.

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They are breathing.

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I like to smell the fragrance of my teacher. They say really great yogi or great teacher, meditator, they have special smell on their body, good smell. I smelled that smell from high lamas, big lamas.

I was lucky to be near some big lamas. It smells like the night jasmine here.

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So, when you ask your teacher to come, don't close your eyes and make some picture.

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Make a real body. You can feel the warmth of their shoulder. You can smell the fragrance.

They are moving a little bit. They are blinking. They are blinking.

Then this sentence means, when you make a visualization of your teacher next to you, whoever is your teacher, you are making strong good karma. Very strong good karma.

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Very powerful. Then he makes a suggestion.

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How do you make that karma more powerful? Then he answers his question. NGOS SU YOD PA'I DU SHES YOD MED means believe they are there.

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Don't doubt it. That feeling my teacher is really here, that makes karmic seeds.

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And if you lose that feeling, the karma is not so strong. So, that's the TRUG PA trick, to get powerful karmic seeds by having the teacher next to you. It's believe they are there.

What's the result of those karmic seeds? You are always with your teacher.

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You can always be with your teacher.

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People complain, they say, oh, my teacher is always in, what's that, Harbin, or Beijing, or Gengzhou. Then they are never here. Then you have to plant the right seeds.

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And they will come. The seed is this meditation.

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My teacher is sitting next to me.

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And believe it. That's the most important thing.

[Говорящий 1] (7:01 - 7:12)
Alright, now we are ready to start a new class. That was review from last time. So, I will say that to Gautama, and then I will translate.

[Говорящий 2] (7:12 - 7:15)
I will say it in Tibetan, and then I will translate.

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Nyingpo will put the... It's DE LTAR ZIN PA NA The second paragraph, the second line. Can you put the cursor, Nyingpo?

Yeah, okay. There is where we are. Here we go.

DE LTAR ZIN PA NA THUGS SU BA NI After you finish this, after you bring the teacher here, then there is a very beautiful custom in Tibet. I really like it. You should give them a bath.

You should offer your teacher a bath. So there is a beautiful practice in Tibet. It's bathing your teacher.

In your meditation, okay?

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In your meditation.

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I'm too shy. Say SOGS SHING. SOGS SHING This is SOGS SHING, okay?

This is SOGS SHING.

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SOGS SHING is very important for us.

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SOGS SHING is all of the teachers who came before Allison and Jessica and Jasmine, Vivienne, Vivienne. It means, somebody is going to ask you, who is your teacher? Who is your teacher's teacher?

Who is your teacher's teacher's teacher? Then in our system, we have on this painting, twenty-three generations back to Buddha, and about twenty-five generations after that.

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So we can name our teachers.

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RGYAL BA RGYAL TSUL LAS DAG DOGS KYIS CHEN PAS RGYAL BA YIN TSUL BAS RGYUR MA RGYAL TSUL TU Like that. We sing it every two weeks in the monastery. You ask me, who is my teacher back to the Buddha?

Every generation. I can tell you.

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And that's what this picture is for, okay?

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Then Allison has to squeeze in down here, or Jasmine or Vivienne. Your students, they have to add you here somewhere.

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Your own students, they should add you here.

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So for us, this is a very important picture. SOGS SHING LA DIG GRIB DANG SNAG SNOG SOGS BDAG CHAD MED KYANG They don't need a bath. They don't have bad karma.

They don't have obstacles. They don't have some body odor or something like that. Buddha doesn't have these problems.

SNAG SNOG means some dirt on their body or something.

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They don't have.

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BDAG CHAD MED means they don't need you to give them a bath. KYANG But, KYANG means but. JI SKAD DU means the book says GCOD KYI KHUL BAR PHYI MA MI SNGA YANG SRID ZHUGS BKUR TE RIM ROL TSUL TZAM DU That's a famous poetry.

It says the body of a Buddha, they don't have any bad smell or something like that. But if we give them a bath, we can make good karma. If we show them respect, a good teacher doesn't need, oh, they didn't show me respect today, I feel bad.

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They didn't give me money today, they don't like me.

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They are not worried about that.

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But if we show respect, then we make good karma. Then our life is more happy, and our life is more successful.

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So of course we should give them a bath. We have to grab them and say, please stay still for five minutes, I have to give you a bath. I know you don't need a bath, but I need the good karma.

Like that. ZHES SOGS LTAR RANG GI LAS GRIB SOGS SBYONG CHIR BYED So we should do it to clean our karma.

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By cleaning them, we are cleaning ourselves.

[Говорящий 1] (12:46 - 13:39)
Okay, so here's how to do that. It's a ritual. It's a special ritual.

KHRU GANG SKYE RLUG NA TSOR YOD KYANG There are many ways to produce the bathing, what do you call it? Like a spa. First you need a spa, right?

So first in your mind you have to create a spa. In the old Buddhist tradition, there are many spas you can create. DIR LAM MED DANG BRAL BA DIR LAM MED DANG BRAL BA means but this Lam Rim teaching, this teaching we are doing, it has connection to the highest tantra, to the highest form of tantra.

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We call Anuttara Yoga Tantra, the highest tantra.

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Therefore the bathing house should be a special shape like a mandala. This is very convenient, this place. This is a great place.

It should be like this shape, square.

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Who built this place?

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Yeah, you did. You made this place, right? And you made it the correct shape for today.

So thank you for that. Okay, so it should be four sides. It should have four doors.

LTA BU'A THAMS CAD PA LTA BU'A, those of you trying to study Tibetan, LTA means what? Do you know LTA?

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What is LTA?

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Do you or as a horse, right? Ashwin. BUP means to fall down.

Like Patanjali's name is like BUP, right? So it means there should be like a porch.

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Four porches.

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Because that's, if you are riding a horse, it's easier to get off. In Tibetan language, the porch word is get off your horse. THOG CHEN MED, it means it doesn't have a normal roof.

RIN PO CHE DKA' BA ZHI It has four pillars made of jewels, like ruby and emerald and sapphire. RGYA PIP means this roof like this, right? Like in India or like in Russia.

RGYA PIP DAG DE YOD TU MU THUGS KYI BSLAB RAS Say BSLAB RAS. So there's a custom in Tibetan, in Buddhism. You can see in Thailand also or other countries.

I went to a teaching in Thailand.

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The monk was teaching outside.

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Then it rains a lot. It rains a lot. So they will put a special like a canopy above him, like a square canopy.

And it stops the rain. We call it BSLAB RAS. In Tibetan we call BSLAB RAS.

And then it should have pearls hanging from. MU THUGS means pearls. RGYUD DU THUGS KYI DZIN BU ZHAL GYIS SA ZHIG LA Then in the center, like here, there should be a pool of water.

Susanna has one in her house outside, but if you want to see, you can go to her house.

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It's the correct shape. It's round.

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THUGS KYI DZIN BU ZHAL GYIS SA ZHIG ZHAL GYI CHEN MA BRAL BA means it has sand in the bottom of the water. There is sand. But that sand is gold dust, real gold.

U BYUNG THO ZHING THA MA BA It's a little bit strange that the swimming pool sides, they go up a little bit, and then there's a pool. So it's a little bit of like a... They say RU BRAL GYI RGYAB DRA BA means like a turtle's shell.

Like this. Then there's water.

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There's water here.

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RGYAB DRA BA LAM MED CI RDO LTAR LAM MED CI RDO means if you want to follow highest tantra. ZHING BRTEN RNAMS ZHING GIS Then they should have a very comfortable bench or chair to sit on while they are getting ready for their bath, or waiting for their bath. I was in Tokyo.

That's a nice place. They have nice bath houses. I'm too shy to go, but some of our members want to go, so I had a meeting in the bath house in the front, and then they had a bath.

It's very popular with the mafia. Some came in, but that's another story. So you can have a wooden bench.

Or seng chi. Seng chi means a platform like this, but it doesn't have legs.

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There are four lions holding it up on their backs in each direction.

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It means that teacher has power. So the lions are holding the chair. sok shing gi dang nyam ku means it should be that many lion thrones equal to the number of lamas in this picture.

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How many lamas are there?

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You guess.

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Just a guess.

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You didn't count them, right? Yeah, but I think you have to watch them again. Maybe two hundred, something like that.

Something like that. chok sum na bap dek sum re re yang Then in three directions, there's a platform for them to go down into the water. And there are steps going into the water.

takpo du rimpo che tekpo means there's also a platform that goes around the outside, made of gemstone. Like ruby or sapphire. Yeah, made of gemstone, made of jewel.

What else do you need if you're going to give somebody a bath? Soap. Yeah, you need soap.

They say you should have some hooks which they can hang their clothes on, the old clothes. What's that mean? You also have to have some new clothes for them.

You have to go to Macy's or Juicy Couture. Get some new clothes ready for them. They should be there also.

sarpa bu li na se sarpa By the way, those of you who are studying Tibetan, this word na-sa, which is repeated here twice, na-sa, they pronounce the prefix letter. So they say napsa, napsa. And it's a very, very high word for clothing.

So for a high lama or king or your wife, you say napsa. Also when you make a statue, like if you put this cloth on Jesus, and we're not allowed to call it clothes, we have to say napsa, because it's special. So that's a special word for the clothes of a Buddha.

Okay, napsa. bumba sokye bumpa means you should have some vases, because you're going to have to pour the water on them. Then in the old days, well, there's a custom in Tibet.

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I like it.

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We actually do the bathing. And there's a special kit you have to have, special kit. So Ula, who's from Poland and Germany, where are you?

You can't buy these things in America. You have to make some of them. So we worked together and we made a set.

We made some sets. Kits. So I'm going to do a bathing practice, and you can watch and you can learn.

We bought some nice things. We have about how many sets? Twenty?

How many? Twenty-four sets she has, but they are expensive. They were expensive.

So they say you can make your own if you want. We have twenty sets she has. If you want to have this week, she has, but it's expensive to make.

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Okay.

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All right, so I'm going to teach you how to do it. First you have to have some water, so you should have a nice pitcher.

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Nice bowl, beautiful bowl.

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Then you put the water in the bowl. Then this should be a special glass or mirror. It can be a mirror or glass.

This should be some silk. You have to put a drill hole in the mirror or glass. Then you tie this very securely to this, because if it falls off, it will break.

If you are right-handed, you can hold this in your left hand. If you're left-handed, you can hold it in your right hand. The idea is your hand never touches the glass.

So you hold the silk, and then you hold it like that. This is the bathing place. This here is the room for bathing.

So you shouldn't touch it with your fingers.

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It should be clean, like crystal, like limpio.

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Then there's a tradition to have a feather. I think it's better to walk through the forest and find a feather which the person gave voluntarily. I don't like this.

They killed this animal, probably. So we have some, but I encourage you to... It's also nice to walk through the forest and find a feather.

Then you take it like a pen. Then you dip it in the water. Then you make...

You know tic-tac-toe? You make two lines this way, and you make two lines this way. Exactly the same.

So we have good karma that we have tic-tac-toe.

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So you draw two lines this way, and then you draw two lines this way.

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You can't see, but it looks like tic-tac-toe. Now there are nine squares. Then those nine squares represent the bathing house.

The spa. Then you put four dots... Sorry, five.

One in the middle. One away from you. One to the left.

One towards you. And one towards the right. So now there are five dots in the tic-tac-toe.

The corners are empty. Then these five dots, when you put them down, one, two, three, four, five, you have to think five Buddhas are there.

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Five Buddhas.

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Those of you who know tantra, then these are the five Buddha families.

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Amitabha is one of them.

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Very popular in China. So one of these is Amitabha. It's actually the one closest to you.

Then you put those five Buddha families. Then it's time to give a bath. Then you can say your teacher's name, or if you know the lineage names, you can say their names.

YANG BA RGYA TSE RIGS DANG RDOG PA'I PHYIR YANG BA YIN RDOG DOG BYED MYUR DOR MA RGYA TSE THUB PA'I MA RDOG PA'I ZHAG TSUL DANG BRAL TSOGS GYI RGYAS BSHAD TSUL Like that.

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Then you bathe them one by one.

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I like to pause.

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Close my eyes. See my teacher.

[Говорящий 1] (30:36 - 30:56)
So, if you can see them with your eyes open, it's okay, but I like to ... there's a power to do the thing with your hands and then close your eyes. Some people say, I don't need all those things, Geshe-la.

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I will just do it in my mind.

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That's okay if you're on an airplane or something, but to do with your hands, it makes it more powerful in the mind. There's a connection between the body and the mind, so you can just bathe them. Then you imagine that you are washing your teacher's body.

Even if you're not a Geshe, you can be a Geshe. Geshe? Geshe?

You can wash, you can bathe, bathe the teacher. It's a very beautiful practice, like some days, especially if you are feeling sad, get out your bathing kit, and bathe your teacher. So now you understand why we have the bowl.

You don't do it on your lap, and it pours onto the bowl. And then you're visualizing I'm giving them the bath.

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It makes you very happy.

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If you don't feel happy, try it.

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Try it.

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Then when you are finished, you can dry that. You dry that, yes? And you put this back in here.

And then you can store it in the bowl. The bowl should be a little bit bigger. And then you keep it like that.

You can keep it in a little bag. I suggest you have one that you don't use for other things. Keep it in your house.

It's very nice. Okay? That's a bathing practice.

I'll do a little bit and then we'll take a break. We'll take a break. In the afternoon it's difficult to sit for a long time.

Okay. And also in the afternoon, because it's not, for me the afternoon is a very low time. It's a little bit hot.

I just ate an excellent meal from the and I feel sleepy. So in the afternoon sometimes I like to do questions and answers. So also after the break if you have questions, any question.

It doesn't have to be about bathing the lama. It can be about your girlfriend also. Or it can be philosophy.

It doesn't matter.

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Okay.

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But when you want to ask the question, try to think of a question which will help the other people also. Okay. CHOS BYAS YUN NA CHOS SHONG DU CHOS DZIN CHOS BYAS BUM CHUD DANG GZHONG SREG LUGS CHOS BYAS YUN NA CHOS SHONG DU CHOS DZIN CHOS BYAS BUM CHUD DANG GZHONG SREG LUGS If you have a bathing kit, he says, which is THU CHE in the Tibetan, then you should imagine that this bowl, which is called THU ZHONG, THU ZHONG, you should pour a little bit of water in it.

Then in the bottom you have to imagine that's the pool in which you are, the bath in which you are going to bathe in. MED LONG LA BUM CHUD PHRAD DU RIG MO NYID DANG Then take the mirror or the glass, this, and draw two lines this way and draw two lines this way. U DANG CHOG SHER BUM CHUD TIG LAS RE BYA TIG LAS means what?

TIG LAS. He said drop. Take the feather and put a drop in the middle and then put drops on the four sides.

RIL MI'I DGUR DRUG GANG RIL MI'I is a useful word, DRUG GANG. DRUG GANG is a difficult word to know in Tibetan. It means a...

Huh? No. RIL MI'I is a tough word.

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RIL MI'I means a chart.

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It means a chart. Like a spreadsheet. Rows and columns is called RIL MI'I.

It's important in astrology. You should know the word anyway. RIL MI'I.

So there are nine boxes. TIG LAS NGES RGYAL BA RIGS NAG MTSON The five drops are the five Buddha families. Then there's a special prayer that you can sing while you are doing this.

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And I'm going to teach it to you next time.

[Говорящий 1] (36:51 - 36:54)
Because I have to translate it. It took me a long time to get it.

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I got it but I didn't have time to translate it.

[Говорящий 1] (37:00 - 37:39)
But it says here under the canopy, lovely. Then there's two ways to invite the lamas to come for their bath. You can go UR DING GI.

UR DING GI means they can come like... What do you call? When there's a big flock of birds eating on the ground.

When a dog comes or something, then they go... That's called UR DING or UR DING.

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There's no word in English for that. It's like...

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You can do that way. You pull out the... you say, I got a bath for you.

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And you say, I got a bath for you.

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Then they start... Then all the lamas come down.

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Yay!

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That's called UR DIR system. Or SKAD DANG TSUL. SKAD DANG TSUL means, or they can just walk in and they can walk up the stairs.

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SKAD DANG TSUL can also be that they walk up the stairs.

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Personally I like that. UR DIR.

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UR DIR.

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ZHIG MED MA PA'I GANG RIGS CHE So whichever you choose, you have to visualize that. Can I do 15 minutes more, then we take a break?

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Let's do that.

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DE DAG CHUN ZIN LAS After they have arrived, RE RE KU DON DU DI DI SNGAGS DANG BRAL BA'I In front of each teacher, the teacher can sit down on their seat.

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Then in your mind you create three angels for each teacher.

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Each teacher is going to need three angels. If the teacher is a boy, I think they like that the angel is a girl. If the teacher is a lady, I think they like three handsome guys.

Then those three angels, each they have a job.

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Each one has a job.

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One of them is the bathing angel. One of them is after the bath, they put on the oil, that special oil. Then of course one of them should put the new clothes.

CHOS LHAG GSUM GSUM BRTROD means you have to emanate them with the power of your mind. BRTROD KYI TSE, DZIN BU NAS, SPYOD DE'I PHUL BA'I THU RGYUD LA DE BA CHEN PO'I THUN PA'I MED PA BYED When you bathe them, BRTROD KYI TSE, DZIN BU NAS means from the pool, you are pouring water over their head. I like to use a shell.

You can use a vase. That's when you are pouring the water in the bowl. So the first angel is scooping up the water, and then pouring it over their head.

It's a very rare word if you care about the Tibetan. Did you ever hear LUM LUM CHUD DE? Those of you who know Vajrayogini, it comes in the kusalitsa.

They are using a special cup. That's LUM LUM CHUD DE. It comes here.

Very rare. Then they are bathing. CHU ZIN NAS After they have been bathed, it's time to dry them off.

ZHI BA means to... ZHI means to wipe.

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ZHI means to wipe.

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With a towel. Then in Tibetan, if you are the helper of a big lama, they call you SHAB GYIS. It's a good word.

It's a high... Oh, I'm the SHAB GYIS. I was my teacher's SHAB GYIS for 25 years.

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But the word means wiping their feet.

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Feet wiper. SHAB GYIS. So here, GYIS means somebody is going to have to dry them off.

RAB NAS SKABS KYIS CHUD DAG GIS SNGAGS BSGU LUG LTAR BYAS TE BRAL DRIN THUG PA BUNG GO NYID DANG BYAS SNGAGS LA REG PAS NAN THAMS CAD KUN NAS SNGAGS DUS TE So, there's a custom called the RAB NAS. Say RAB NAS. RAB NAS means in Israel, they are building a sister retreat center for Diamond Mountain.

They are building their own Diamond Mountain this month. And they laid the foundation, and then they are doing the roof now, right? They are working on the roof.

So before you start the construction, you always do RAB NAS. RAB NAS means you bless the land. So, when you do RAB NAS ceremony, you use a piece of paper.

You use a piece of silk also. And you say a mantra, and you touch the silk to the ground. So, in a similar way, when you are drying your teacher, you don't just wipe them like that, okay?

They don't like it. You are supposed to take a piece of silk, and you touch the head. You touch forehead, chest, shoulders, that's all.

And that's all they want. They don't want anything else. They don't wash themselves like we do.

So, they can bring the water to those five places. You just touch them.

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Then you have to think when the water pours on them, they feel some bliss. They like it.

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RANG RE THU BYAS PA LTAR DGO SBYUG THAMS CAD DU BYAS PA LDAN DRAG MI DGOS Don't, never try to dry them off like you dry yourself off. It's a little more, it's special for them. They have a different way.

Okay, so we are in the middle of step number five, and we're going to do another twenty minutes about the bathing, finish up the bathing. Then if you have any announcements, I'll leave the five minutes, okay? SBYUG PA'I TSE SBYUG PA'I TSE means after you bathe them, and after you dry them properly, that's strange, right?

Then you should put some oil on their body, nice oil. Now you are the second angel, right? You became the second angel.

You put some oil on their body. SIR LTA BU means make the oil is like a gold, shining gold color. CI ZHIN DU BSAM PO means smells great, like night jasmine in Guadalajara.

I want to steal this plant from my family. RGYUD NI MAR MIN PA'I BCUG PA It means the substance of the oil uses something, but don't use... In Tibet sometimes they use butter, but it gives a little bit bad smell afterwards.

So they say don't use butter, but any other oil you can use. DE BZIN NAS DE BZIN NAS means after that, you gave them a nice oil. SHI MTHO RAB BYAM SO SOG CHA LUG NI NAB ZA ZAR PA BUR NAB ZAR ZAR PA RE BUR means offer each teacher a new set of clothing to fit their enlightened nature.

SHI, say SHI. RGYE DBANG PHRAG SHI RGYE DBANG PHRAG Four natures of the teacher and of good mother also. What is that?

SHI means peaceful. Please clean your room. You are talking to your kids, right?

Please clean your room. It looks so nice when you clean your room. That's peaceful approach.

SHI, SHI. RGYE means generous. If you clean your room, we will go to see a movie.

The Hobbit just came out. I'll even buy popcorn also. This is RGYE.

As a teacher or as a parent, this is generous.

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You can call bribing, bribing.

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SHI RGYE DBANG DBANG means clean your room.

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DBANG means limpia tu cuarto.

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Like that, clean your room. A little bit tough. DBANG means powerful.

A good parent has to be all three. And a good teacher has to be all three. Please be a hobbit.

Please wear your name tag. If you do your homework, we'll give you special dessert tomorrow. DBANG means if you don't wear your badge, you have to wash your dishes.

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A little bit tough.

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The fourth one is CHAG. CHAG means angry. Fierce.

My teacher did to me a few times, not very much, like only a few times in my life.

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One time I made a joke about an older monk.

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Then poof! Then I was like, then I, what happened? He hit me.

Really hard. He hit me. I'm like, what?

Then he said, never again. Never make fun of an older monk. Okay, okay.

Claro, it's claro. Sometimes mother has to do. The child is going to walk into the traffic.

There's no time for negotiation.

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You know?

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You have to do it sometimes.

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Good mother, good teacher.

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Why are we talking about SHI RGYAS while we're talking? When you dress them, give them the clothing which fits their nature. This teacher needs nice white robe.

They are very peaceful.

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This one should look like mafioso.

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Give them some boots and hat. Okay, like that. When you dress them, you have to dress them according to their nature.

So, she told Rabjan means there are billions of ways to treat a student. And there are billions of costumes for those ways. Rabjan means billions.

Billions and billions. So, you choose. What do you call it?

The wardrobe is infinite because it's your imagination. You can put Alejandro in a ballerina's costume also. Your mind has the power to do anything.

So, fit their nature.

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Adjust to their nature.

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Rinpoche, DROG LA NI YI PHAG GYI LOR PA CHI RE NGON PO CHEN LA SKYE BO GSUM GYI LAM CING DU DU NYES KUN PYI TZAM BYAS TU DROG LA NI YI PHAG GYI LOR PA CHI RE NGON PO CHEN LA SKYE BO GSUM GYI LAM CING DU DU NYES KUN PYI TZAM BYAS TU DROG LA NI GYI LOR PA CHI RE NGON PO CHEN LA So, there was a custom in Tibet when you could make the clothing also represent the good qualities of that teacher. So, there was a lama who used to visualize blue silk clothing. Inside there is fur, like a sock.

Yi pak means a lynx, which is close to me. And there should be some design, three parts, and then a special belt. So, the monks we wear, I can't show you, but it's just a piece of rope.

You put it around two or three times, then you tie it. So, this lama, when he offered the clothes to his teacher, he was always careful to put the belt around six times. Then the three parts of the rope represent the three principal paths.

And the sixth wrap of the belt represents the six perfections. Then I'm not going to tell you what they are, but it means that that teacher, I want to remember, that teacher has six great qualities.

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So, you can invent your own clothes.

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Okay. NGES RTEN PA'I SEMS CAN DU GARA GUS KHA'I LA LEN GRUB KHOR BA ZHIG BU RGYUR MOD PA'I CHEN NA RTEN BDAL GYI GNAS GZHAN DU BYED Then it becomes even more, this is a, RTEN BDAL GYI GNAS means, those of you who are studying Tibetan, this RTEN BDAL doesn't mean dependent origination.

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Usually it means dependent origination.

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Here it means good luck. RTEN BDAL GYI GNAS means, this is crucial for good luck. Okay.

DE BYED SO SO RGYEN DANG CHAGS CAN YANG BUL Then you put on their jewelry. Okay. There's a custom in Tibet.

For example, when you wear an earring, it means you want to hear good teachings. When you put on a necklace, you want to speak sweetly. And then each teacher has their own special instruments.

Like, I don't know, my teacher should have a club, I think. Stick, danda. But you can see in the paintings, the different teacher has holding different things.

DAR TANG RGYUR LA SHES SOGS KYI TSE LA YANG DAG YIN BYIN PA'I NAS SO SOR YANG ZHIG DE DE'I SNGA GZHAN ZHUGS PA'I MOD PA BYED NA SA NYID PA RNAMS Then there's a special part of the prayer where you say, thank you for coming. What's that mean? Bye.

You don't say bye-bye. You don't say, leave my room, I have to go to work now. I am late for TV station.

Go, go, go. Then to say goodbye to them is also important. You say, it's been a pleasure to watch you.

Then I have to go to work. If you please, we will go back to your place, but come again when I ask you to come. They're all clean and they have new clothes.

Then some lama said, but what do we do with the old clothes? MA PSA NYID PA RNAMS OD SRED PA RNAMS PAR RANG GI MIN TZAM GZUGS BSTAN This is very beautiful. Anything your lama was touching is holy.

Anything you have which your lama touched is holy. So, you know, it's good to have them. You don't want to throw them out or something like that.

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So, in the meditation, all the old clothes change into golden light and comes to here.

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It comes in here, where the central channel starts. Then it blesses your body like that. Then you have a blessing.

Lama's blessing. I carry around some of my lama's old clothes. I have one of my lama's teeth.

I have one old tooth from Rinpoche. He had the tooth taken out. I took it.

Then you can carry them around with you.

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I do that. You can take them with you.

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Okay. MIN TZAM GZUGS BSTAN PA RIG TU SO SOGS SO RE RE'O BRTEN TE BRTEN BSKYAR BA BSAM NA'ANG PHYOGS RIG TU SO SOGS SO RE RE'O BRTEN TE Then you can also imagine that living beings have come to ask you for some of those old clothes. Many people come to ask you, can I have one piece of your lama's clothing?

Then you say, why do you want it? Then they say, I want to put it on my altar, for the altar cloth. Then you can imagine that not just human people, dogs, cats, birds, bird cubs, give me just a little piece for my nest.

It will bless my babies. When I have the eggs, it will bless the babies. You can make a whole story like that.

Fish come, I want a little bit for baby fish, you know. Obama comes. I have a desk in the White House, we need something important there.

Okay, you can take his underwear. Like that, you give to each person. Then it's all gone.

So there's two ways to get rid of the old clothes. Give them to help the world. Or it goes into your head.

Okay, we're almost done.

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Let's see.

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Yeah, we're doing good. MTHOG, those of you who care, in the Tibetan, without the M, means it's also permissible. Now what are we going to do with the water?

Okay, THUGS RGYUD NA YOD KA GRUG YOD PA NAS So you have to imagine that there are six outlets to the bathtub. What do you call those things the rich people have? It goes, whirr, whirr, whirr.

Jacuzzi. Yeah, yeah. It's a jacuzzi.

Yeah, yeah. So, it's a big bathtub. It has many currents and hot water, and it does all these special things.

It makes a lot of noise. Very uncomfortable for me. I tried one time.

But it will have six outlets to let the water go out of it. Then that water should go... Why are there six outlets?

The water shall go to the six realms of the universe. The realm of the animals. The realm of the humans.

The realm of the spirits. There are six realms, right? Hell realm, Little God realm, and Little, Little God realm.

All these people are suffering, and the water goes to give them comfort. Okay. That's interesting because Tibet is also...

It is like the source for many great rivers that come to Tibet. It flows to the east, to Shanghai, right? To Vietnam, and to India, Ganga.

So, it's very similar to that high place. Victor said, shen nam la so-so du-myo se che du gyur song nyam pa. Then you have to think, that is washing away the pain of all the universe.

mi nam dupa cheway, ko gu yor je du gyur pa mu. If you like, you can imagine that more water has gone to the realm of the humans, because they want more things. Okay, mer shing, dru ka so mi mi par sam.

Then imagine that the whole spa disappears in one second. And it's all gone. Disappears.

Then you can get up and go to work. Okay. So, we reached the fifth of the ...

yeah, okay. We are generally ... there are six preparations for meditation.

Clean the room, set up the altar.

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Put some offering on the altar.

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Sit down in the correct posture and prepare your mind.

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What's the next step?

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Then we must make new, fast, powerful karma and clean the old karma quickly, just before you meditate. Then start the meditation. If you wait half an hour before you meditate, you'll have a fight with your kids.

So, the idea is get the karma fast, then start to meditate immediately. The way to do that, that's in step number five, right? There are seven parts to the fifth step, okay?

Buddhists love long lists. The fifth preparation for meditation has seven parts. It's very famous.

The most famous part is the mandala. So, now we are starting the seventh, and it's a long teaching. It will take the rest of the seven parts, but if you learn to do Ganden Lhagyama, for example, that's the seven.

Those are the seven. So, I'm just going to give you the opening line and then we will stop, okay? It's good luck not to start at the end.

DGOR BCUG BSNGA PA NI RGYAS SHES BDUL PAS, ZHAG LA TSOR SOGS DANG BDOD PA BYONG, LHA DANG LAM MA LA GSOS BA'I BSTAB ZHING, RU ZHING DANG BYAS TE NEN TENG GI ZLA MA LA BLO RGYAL MI KHYAD NYAM PAR ZHIG KYANG, DU BYED SRON NA MI BDOD PA'I CI ZHIG LTAR LA SKYE BA YIN, I didn't tell you the sentence is half hour long. This is a famous Geshe. His name is Geshe Dolpa.

Geshe Dolpa. Say Geshe? Geshe Dolpa.

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Dolpa.

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Some people call him Dolwa. And then he wants to explain how important is step number five. So, he said, ZHAG LA means, before you start your meditation, you must collect new good karma.

And you must clean your old bad karma. Two steps so far, right? Make new good karma.

Clean the old bad karma. Then there's a third one. Ask your teacher to help the meditation.

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Help me during this meditation.

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RU ZHING DANG BYAS, those of you who are studying Tibetan, ZHING RU ZHING is difficult. ZHING RU ZHING.

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ZHING RU ZHING is difficult. It's difficult.

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The first ZHING means and. RU means bone. The second ZHING means tree.

It's a different ZHING. So, ZHING RU ZHING means your spine should be like an oak tree. But it means with great, what do you call?

I don't know. It must be GAYA DE. Like, huh, huh, huh.

Like, you ask the lama for help, you don't go, please help me. You're like, I'm going to meditate. DCI is going to go to every country.

Give me some power. Like that. This is called, the spine is like an oak tree.

RU ZHING DANG BYAS TE NEN TENG GI BSAM NA BLO RGYAR If you prepare yourself these three things for meditation, before meditation, make good karma seeds quickly, kill some old bad seeds quickly, ask the lama for help. Then, BLO RGYAR MI SKYE NYAM PA ZHIG KYANG You can reach a kind of meditation that you think it will take you a hundred years to reach, you will reach it in five minutes. So, a meditation which takes one hundred years to master, you can master in five minutes, if you do those three steps correctly.

DU BYED SON NA MI BDOD Those of you who care about the Tibetan, SON NA is a very difficult expression. SON NA MI BDOD means, in English we say nothing ever stays the same.

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In English we say nothing ever stays the same.

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Everything is always changing. So, even your bad meditation can change. Some people try to meditate now for one year, or five years, or ten years.

And they come to me, they say, can I walk with you to your room?

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And they ask me to walk with them to my room. My meditation is not improving.

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Last six months, nothing. Nothing changed. Then Buddha said, everything changes.

Even your lousy meditation also will change, because everything changes.

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Everything is impermanent.

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Your bad meditation is also impermanent. So that Geshe said that. He lived a thousand years ago.

He said, if you do those three steps, even your lousy meditation can change. Okay, that's all. All right.

ZAG CANG GAL CHE To make new good karma, to cut your old bad karma, very important, before you meditate. Before you meditate. Okay.