«Дар освобождения», курс 10 «Новогодний ретрит», занятие 16

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So, we left a book about the three guys in the restaurant. Maybe you noticed in the DCI tour, I changed it to three guys in a bar, right? They are sitting on three stools at the bar.

And they all ask for 1807? 1808? Tequila.

Then the guy, the bartender, takes one bottle and pours three glasses from the same bottle. And they all drink together. Then one guy falls down, dead.

Second guy is like, oh, ah. Then you are the third guy. Then you are, oh, I got to get this out of me.

Then who are the other two guys? Everybody in the world. You can see what's happening to everybody.

Losing their family.

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Terrible sicknesses.

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Terrible disappointments. War. Unhappiness.

Those people didn't know how to take out the old bad seeds. And we don't have to go very far to see, we can see everywhere. So, we should take out the bad seeds before we become like them.

DE PHYIR BDUN Those of you studying Tibetan, this BDUN is not DUN. DUN means meaning. BDUN means to take it out, get it out.

BDUN THABS GANG BDAG CI DAG BYAS GANG BDAG CI DAG means no matter what it takes, how many times you take it out, no matter how drastic the surgery, we have to do it. Automatically we want, it doesn't matter, okay, put a pump in my stomach, take it out quickly before I die.

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Those two thoughts will come automatically. Please pump my stomach. Number two.

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Then number two. I used to, you know, I worked in New York for almost 20 years. So, we used to go out for lunch every day.

And I went to some, there was a new Indian restaurant. A little bit cheaper. Then, I remember I ate Indian cheese, paneer.

I ate the Indian cheese. And I got really, really sick. Then, that was about 25 years ago.

Still, if I see that cheese, I have to cross the street. So, if you...

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You will have two thoughts will come in your mind. Number one.

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Please take it out of me. That tequila which I drank. And then number two.

I will never go to this bar again. This is not a good bar. Like that.

So, then you decide, it's automatic when you have a bad experience. In a bar or a restaurant. Of course you don't want to go back there again.

I won't do that thing again. Okay. We call shak dom.

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Shak dom.

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Shak means purify. Dom means restrain myself in the future. And I like the word shak, shakpa.

When you are cutting wood with an axe, and you hit the wood with the axe, and it goes, that's called shak.

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Shak.

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Then it means when you purify your bad seeds, your heart, here's everything I did. I show you everything I did. I don't hide anything.

So, when you do purification, it's very good to tell somebody what you did. Don't tell them, ha.

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Shak. Shak. I did this bad thing.

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And I enjoyed it. And I did it six times. I still want to do it.

Like that, like that. You have to tell everything. Make it clean.

I used to have some bad habits.

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And one day I decided, any time I do this thing, I will tell Ken Rinpoche.

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He's a very, very, very tough, old Tibetan Lama. Then I don't want to tell him. Then one day I have to tell him.

So I go up, Rinpoche, I have to tell you something. Then he said, okay, tell me. Then I turn on the television.

You want to see something on television? Turn on his television. Then he started to watch.

I said, by the way, I did something yesterday. Then he said, turn off television. It's better to tell somebody.

It can be your teacher, your friend. If you are very shy, you can tell somebody on the bus. It's very good to shuck, shuck.

Say, I don't hide anything.

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First time is very difficult.

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Later it becomes easier. So don't be afraid. People think if people know all of my bad habits, they won't like me.

But actually, if you tell people the truth about your weaknesses, everybody will respect you more. And they will love you more. Because they know you're honest.

Because everybody has the same weaknesses. Just shuck to each other. Shuck must come together with dom.

Some people just want to tell you all their weaknesses all day. I hate my mother. I cheat my brother.

You're like, well, what are you going to do now? I also cheat my school.

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They don't stop.

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So it has to come shuck and dom together. shuck means I have this bad habit. dom means I'm promising to you for one week I won't do it.

So don't bother other people with your shuck unless you're going to give them some dom also.

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It has to come together. Okay.

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All right. SEMS CAN NA MNGON BYAS BU DANG BDAG BA'I DUS PA MYONG BA'I BSAGS NAS KHA CIG BZHIN NAS YIN DO BSKYED SEMS KHA CIG SNGA BA DANG BDAG BA GROL GSUM GYI SBYONG NAS TSA BO BYED YIN DU SNGA BRTEN NGAN SEMS DU MTHUNG LA KHYAD DU Then we can see people around us who are experiencing the problems from not taking out their bad seeds. Everybody has drunk some poison.

We can see in our own life many of them died already and gone. They will go someplace. They will go someplace.

Your mind doesn't end when the body ends. That's like, oh, every time a car is broken on the highway the driver must be dead. This is just a car.

The mind, it's in the car but it can also go other places.

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I have a serious question for you.

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Tonight when you get home is there any good food in your refrigerator? Not much, just the old stuff.

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Your mind just went home to the refrigerator.

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The body is still here.

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The mind is not limited by the body.

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So we can see people die. They are still alive. They are someplace and it depends if they were happy people before they died they are someplace good.

And if they were titty-titty then they are in a titty-titty place.

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We know people who died.

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They are not gone.

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It's crazy to think after you die you are gone because you came here.

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If something can happen one time it can happen a million times. Duh! Duh!

Okay. Some people didn't clean out the bad seeds but they are having miserable life. We can see them.

And they have dzong ne. Those of you studying Tibetan dzong ne is a special kind of word. Ne means sickness.

Dzong means what do you call it? Long time sickness. Chronic, yeah.

Chronic sickness. It stays for years and years. SA PO'I PHYIR NA DE NGAN TSOR DU MTHONG BA SKAD DU YOD NA They are not dead yet but they are on the edge.

They are leaving us soon and we know it and they know it. SKAD Those of you studying Tibetan SKAD DU means on the edge, just above. RANG CAGS RNAMS KYANG LAS DE BYAS SEMS PA LA SKYES MED PAS And we are doing the same things that they did when they were alive before they died.

We are not special. We are not different from the people who died before. So if we don't clean the bad seeds, of course we will go the same way as your grandparents and your great-grandparents and everyone.

DE LA RGYUR PA DANG MTHONG SEMS CHE MED PA LA'I LAM DOG PA'I MTHONG SEMS DE LAS PAR GZHAN DU BRTAN PA CHAGS DGOS GYIS Therefore we must have all the four powers there to take out the old bad karma. First one was just think about the pen again. Everything is coming from me.

If it's not coming from me, then Jessica's presentation yesterday is true and the dog will write some poetry. Power number two, I must kill that seed now, today. Don't keep a seed inside you for 24 hours.

Kill it.

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Get your pistolas and cowboy hat and kill it.

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Immediately. With step three, power three. What's power number three?

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I won't do it again. Just decide.

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Have power, don't be paralyzed. I won't do it again because I want to kill it.

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The decision not to do it again kills any bad seed.

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MED PA LA'I LAM DOG PA'I MTHONG That's called MED PA LA'I LAM DOG PA'I MTHONG MED PA means bad thing. LAM DOG means turn around, go the other way. SDOM SEMS TE, ZHIG TU BSTAN PA CHAG BSGOS KYI ZHAG PA'I PHAN YONG PHRAD NAS JI NI NYAMS PA MI MDZO Listening to the teaching on the four powers doesn't stop your bad seed.

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No.

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You have to do it. I think you can do it on the airplane or something.

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In the car, going back to Guadalajara.

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SDOM SEMS BYAS LUGS KYANG TSIS TU SOGS BHAJA'O NYID BA RNAMS LEN CHE, BRTEN NAS MI CHE CHE DE'I TSIG TZAM BRJOD PA BRDZUN DU RDOR GNAS ZHING So in the DCI tours, we spoke about this many times. And here's the source. SDOM SEMS BYAS LUGS KYANG When you decide I'm not going to do that thing again, TSIS TU SOGS BHAJA'O NYID BA means but if it's something that is easy to do, like yelling at your partner, criticizing your partner, it's so easy.

RDOG NYID BA means it's almost happening all the time. Then don't make a promise you will never do it again. BRDZUN DU RDOR GNAS ZHING BRDZUN DU RDOR GNAS means you're going to be a liar after one week.

Of course you will break it. If it's something like an abortion or something, you can say, okay, my whole life I will never do it again. When I was involved in an abortion, when I was in college, I didn't know anything.

Then I made a promise.

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Never again.

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Partly that's why I became a monk. You can say, rest of my life I won't do. But yelling at your partner, of course you're going to do it maybe by the end of today.

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So, make a reasonable limit which is improve your strength.

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Maybe each week a little bit longer. I promise next time Alejandro gives a three-day retreat, I won't yell at my husband for three days because I will go alone to the retreat. And they take away my cell phone also.

Like that. Set a limit. Then I have a problem with jealousy.

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Someone comes to me and says, Geshe Michael, good news.

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One Tibetan monk is coming to Guadalajara next month.

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He's also going to teach us.

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Very good, very good. I don't know. Then I say, oh, this is a bad habit.

I have to shak.

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Shak.

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Then I have to dom. Then how long can I make a promise not to be jealous? Jealous of what?

That other monk coming next month. In a... I break in one minute.

I cannot hold it for one minute. So for the mental bad karma, make it very short, okay? Maybe 30 seconds, I won't think about him.

Then get a good churro. All right. DONG SEMS ZHIG MED NA THOG ZHIG MI TZAM RAS Then I'll do one more thing, then maybe we do some other things.

I have a Christian friend. We grew up together. We are best friends.

Still we are best friends. Then one day he came with me to retreat.

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I did a three day retreat by myself. He came to visit me.

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Then he said, is there any way to clean the bad seeds? Then I said, yeah, you can do the four powers.

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I taught him the four powers.

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Then he's like, this is fantastic. This is like morning after pill. I can do any bad thing I want.

Then next day I just do the four powers. Then they say here, not true. DONG SEMS ZHIG MED NA THOG ZHIG MI TZAM If you don't make a commitment to stop that thing, it doesn't work.

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All four must be there. The most important one is a commitment I won't do it again.

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It's not like morning after pill. RTZA BA NAS PONG NUS PA DAG RTZA BA NAS DANG BLO DANG LTA BA DANG THEG RIGS KYI NYID MA BDU LA MI BYAS NYAMS PA SOGS MI RE ZHING YANG LUS GANG THAG CHOG PA DANG GANG THUGS SPANG NA MIN CI ZHIG PONG BCU DE MED YOD Means, so make a commitment for as long as you can. RTZA BA NAS means if you can, then make a promise never to do it again.

BLO DANG means okay, I will not do it for 2013 I will not do it. On New Year's Day 2014 I will do it again. Or for one month.

Or for one day.

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Make a commitment.

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Then if it's a short one you can make it over and over. DE LTAR BYAMS PA'I RGYUN CHE NUS PA DAG GIS LAMA RIN PO CHE MAN NGAG THAG KHAD KYI THUGS PA THUGS KYI CHEN PO YIN GSUNGS If you practice the four powers you can cut the flow of the karma. And it's like a powerful machine.

So in Tibet in 1924 that was a big thing. NYON PO KUN TU SPYOD PA'I THOB Power number four, we didn't talk about it yet. Then we can relax.

Power number four is called in Tibet it's called NYON PO KUN TU SPYOD PA'I THOB NYON PO KUN TU SPYOD PA'I THOB means do something to balance the karma.

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In power number three you make a promise not to do something again.

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In power number four you make a promise to do something positive. So that's the difference between three and four. So from the old books they're going to give six examples of power number four.

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So in the old, old books we have six choices what we can do for power number four.

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So number one you can sing the names of angels and buddhas. And there are old jin sutras they have those names inside. Like, thirty-five buddhas or something like that.

But to sing your teacher's name is better. So your own heart, whoever is your own heart teacher. The second one is to do mantra, JO Like, yadu yadu bolo yadu bolo yadu yadu bolo yadu JO JO JO JO JO Let's do some mantra.

You can mix number one and number two. It's extremely powerful. You can make a mantra out of your heart teacher's name.

You can make your own mantra. The first word of the mantra should always be OM. So you can say OM.

Then the last two words should be A HUNG.

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Let's practice.

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A A HUNG Then some people say HUM. It's not HUM. A A Like Pari HUM MO You don't say MA MO HUM A HUNG Then you say OM.

Then put your teacher's name Barack Obama. Shi Jin Cheng New Chinese Premier Shi Jin Cheng Then you say A HUNG. So you say OM.

Then you say the teacher's name.

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Your own teacher. Your heart teacher.

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Then you say A HUNG. Then you can get a rosary. You can do one hundred.

Yesterday I heard about the Buddhist teacher, other Buddhist teacher coming to Guadalajara.

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Then I got jealous. So I want to clean it.

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So I will do my teacher's name one hundred times. Like that. Then you do one hundred.

Then that's the power number four. So you have six choices. Number one, the name of some Buddha or angel.

Best name is your own teacher's heart teacher's name. Somebody asked me I don't have heart teacher. How can I find heart teacher?

Then of course you just have to plant the seed. You don't have to go to India and get extra diarrhea. You can bring them to you.

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Just plant the seed.

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It's like you don't have to go to nightclub or internet to find a girlfriend.

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Just plant the seed. Then relax.

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They will knock on your door. I saw it. I thought it happened.

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How do you plant the seed for boyfriend, girlfriend?

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I think we should all start that Norway custom in our own country.

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Maybe we do it together in each country.

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We approach the movie theaters. They are always half empty, right? Can we make a program if a young person comes who brings the old person, then the old person is free.

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Two for one.

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We can all start that in our own city. We can start. They can pay for popcorn.

To help lonely people plant the seed for boyfriend or girlfriend.

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And to share what you learned creates the heart teacher. If you want to go to India, you can go to India.

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But before you go, and on the airplane, share with other people what you learned. Then it shouldn't be missionary, missionary. You better believe karma and emptiness.

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All other religion is a mistake.

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Only Geshe Michael is a true religion. Not like that.

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Somebody comes to you.

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I have a problem at work.

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My boss is criticizing me.

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Then you can say, you know, I don't know, I heard this thing. I don't know if it's true or not, but it's logical. They say the reason someone criticized you is because you are criticizing somebody else and it puts a seed in your mind.

Then you can wave the pen, you know. Share what you know. Help other people.

You don't have to call it Buddhism. And I don't care. And Buddha also doesn't care.

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You can call it seeds.

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You can call it pizza. It doesn't matter. What picture you keep in your house, it doesn't matter.

Keep the picture which your parents kept in your house. It's okay.

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But in your life, use the seeds. Because it works and it makes people happy. People can have everything they want.

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If you teach it gently, in a friendly way, when people want it, that seed creates heart teacher. Until you meet them. Meet is a bad word, right?

Meet. We should say plant them. Until you plant them.

You can give them some other name, temporary name. Like, Om Heart Teacher Ahon.

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Om Heart Teacher Ahon.

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My lama taught me a prayer.

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It worked for me. So, I have a heart teacher, beautiful heart teacher.

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Perfect. Then I said, teach me a prayer to help the heart teacher to come. Then they said, when you go to sleep, this prayer is very simple.

My heart teacher loves me, please come. Over and over. That's all.

All right. I owe you four more step number four, right? We said six.

Six possible. I like in China, they have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, what's nine? Nine, ten.

You can show with one hand. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Anyway, here's number three.

DO means you can study. I will study half hour ACI course. The ACI courses are online.

There's ten thousand pages of new translations.

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It's free.

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Unfortunately, it's in English. You should translate it. Each country should translate it.

That's the Geshe course. You can study everything in Geshe course. It's online for free with the original text.

So, if you get jealous of the teacher who's coming to Guadalajara, and you want some step number four, okay, I will do half hour of ACI course.

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To kill the karma.

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Then just go online.

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Do half hour online.

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It's enough. Okay, number, which number? Four is the most important one.

Well, Lama's name is most important, most powerful. But number four is also very powerful. Think about emptiness.

Just think about emptiness. You can use the emptiness tool.

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It's called chew toy.

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You can, right? Just think about You want to know a simple way to learn emptiness? Okay, you ready?

I'm going to give you the answer to 2,500 years of problems. For 2,500 years, people misunderstand what the Buddha said. Then you can learn in 10 seconds.

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Raise your hand. Left hand is good luck. Now, get your finger ready to point to something.

Ready? We are almost ready to see emptiness.

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Here we go. Ready?

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Ready?

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Point to one thing in this room which is not coming from how you treated other people. In every country you can see people go. Every country in the world in the DCI tour, they see emptiness suddenly.

Nothing. That's emptiness. Not so difficult.

Do you believe it? Do you accept it?

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Do you believe it?

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Yes or no?

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Yes or no?

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That means you can never complain again in your whole life.

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Okay. Number five.

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You can make offerings. The best offering is a selfless offering. Go to the store.

Buy a nice flower. A little bit expensive. And then go to the forest and put the flower on a tree and say, that's for you.

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And go home.

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Make an offering.

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Make an offering. You can also say, I'm sorry I got jealous of the other teacher.

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But if it's possible, could they cancel his flight?

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No, no, just kidding.

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Just kidding.

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Okay.

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Just kidding. KUS ZING LA BSTAN PA RNAMS GANG GI I don't know what KUS ZING LA BSTAN PA He has number six. I don't understand it, but I'll give it to you.

And then maybe that's a good place to stop. Be near to their holy body. Near to their holy body.

But he doesn't explain it. Okay. Do you have some more?

I think that's a good place to leave the teaching, but I'd like to do some more. Thank you.