Занятие 5, часть 2

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Okay, here we go. We have, I think, about another half hour. Am I correct?

It's kind of confusing today. Yeah, yeah. A year.

GZHAN YANG Are we okay on the readout there? GZHAN YANG DGOS GZHAN YANG Second paragraph, third line in the middle. Oh, I'm sorry, second line in the middle.

GZHAN YANG GZHAN YANG, good, okay. GZHAN YANG DI LA BSGOM LUGS GNYIS TE There are two different ways to do the meditation. Where?

Coffee meditation. Where? On your bed, with your head on the pillow.

There are two ways to do this meditation. BSGOM LUGS GNYIS YOD TE You can appreciate yourself and you can appreciate other people. Those are the two ways to do this meditation.

Appreciate the good things you are doing yourself. Or you can appreciate the good things other people are doing. Or you could do both.

I like both. Because a lot of nights I can't think of anything good I did all day. No, just kidding.

GZHAN GYIS DGE BA LA YI RANG BSGOM PA'O You can be happy about the good things that other people are doing. DANG PO LA NYID This is very, very important and very subtle and you have to learn it. This is maybe the most important thing in this book.

DANG PO LA NYID means appreciating yourself takes two different forms. Appreciating yourself takes two different forms. NGA MA'I DGE BA LAS BYAS PAGS MTSAN MED GZHEL BA'I DGONG NAS YID RANG BAR DANG MTSAN DI DGE BA LA NGON TSAM MTSAN MED GZHEL DE RJES SU YID RANG RGON PA'O Okay.

PRAK JAG SHANG LU MA RGYUR MA Say PRAK JAG SHANG LU MA RGYUR MA PRAK JAG SHANG LU MA RGYUR MA What's that from? The other sutra, first chapter. The three ways of perceiving anything.

There are three ways of perceiving anything. They can be summarized in two ways, because anumāgama can be one. Pratyakṣa means in front of your eyes.

In fact, akṣa means eyes, and it came into German as auga. Akṣa changed to auga, and then the G changed to Y and became eyes. That's why there's a Y in the word for eye.

It used to be a G, which used to be kṣa. Pratyakṣa means stuff in front of your eyes, things you can see directly. The people in this room, the ceiling, the lights, the floor, these are all pratyakṣa, things you can see directly.

That's a reference to the things you are doing nowadays in your life, or things you remember doing earlier. You can get mileage out of things you did 10 years ago or 20 years ago. There's no expiration date on the karmic seed.

Even if that seed has already gone off, if you, something good you did in your life, if you are happy about what you did, the seed gets replanted. So that's a really good deal. Be happy about good things you did any time in your life.

Even if those seeds have already ripened, they will be replanted. Their power will be replanted. That's a cool deal.

So those are pratyakṣa. Those are things you remember doing or you're doing now. What about anugrahaṅgama?

Deduction, right? So how can deduction play a part in appreciating yourself? Any ideas?

Yeah, Daniel. He said something pleasant is happening in your life and you can deduct that you must have done something similar. Somewhere in the past, it could be a million years ago.

It could be a million years ago. His answer is perfect. Perfecto.

His answer is perfect. That's what Pabongka Rinpoche says. Every single good thing in your life is happening because of something good you did before, even if you don't remember what it was.

You can assume it was something similar. I just got a donut and a half during the break. If the person hadn't been so interesting to talk to, I would have got two donuts.

Okay, Daniel? Then why could I eat a donut tonight and a half? I must have shared food with someone in the past.

I must have. I don't remember which food sharing it was that created those two donuts. It was probably a Cheerio and a half because karma grows, right?

But I can deduce that I did something kind to someone and if I'm happy about that, that karma multiplies again. I get more karma. I think for most of us, this is the coolest goldmine to be mined for rejoicing because everybody has something cool happening in their life.

One of the coolest things is you are in a body and don't take it for granted. The fact that you are in a body which is still functioning on any level, okay? Some people, less.

That's a miracle. It took hundreds of thousands of kind deeds to be in a body for five minutes. For to be in a human body for five minutes took hundreds of thousands of good deeds towards other people.

So lay that body down on the bed, put that head down on the pillow and every one of us can say, I did something good. Why? I got a body.

Okay, you laugh. You think, oh, that's just kind of dumb. Everybody has a body.

It's not true. Well, first of all, lots of people lose their bodies and lots of people are born with bodies that are broken or defective. So, if you have a body, it proves you were one of the nicest people in the world last time.

Okay, if you have a human body now, it means you were the Mahatma Gandhi or the Mother Teresa or the Argentinian Pope. No, it means you were somebody special before or you wouldn't have this body. So you could be happy about that.

You should be happy about that. Now, to sit in this room and to hear these teachings once in your life proves that you were one out of a million people in the past. Only one out of a million will make it to this room.

Okay, and hear these things, okay? Only one out of a million. You are an extraordinary person, okay?

You were the Shakespeare and the Tsongkhapa of the last time. You were, in the country in which you lived, you were one of the five or 10 most amazing people who helped others, okay? Or you wouldn't be in this room.

It's funny because you're like, you want to come to the teachings? No, I want to go to a movie. You know, you're like, jeez, you know?

You know, like, it's so weird. Please come to the teaching, you know? It's just weird.

Anyway, the karma to be here is only one in a million people has it, okay? And you have it. For some good luck, you think this is something worthwhile.

And that makes you one out of a million. For every person here, there's nine, you know, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine people who are not here. So you can be happy about whatever you did that got you here, even if you don't remember what it was, okay?

And you should be happy, you know? You should fantasize about, you were maybe the Dalai Lama of the last world you were in or something like that. You see, you were somebody extraordinary, really extraordinary, or you wouldn't be here, okay?

Out of 330 million people in this country, or if you throw in Mexico, you know, in Mexico City, right? 30 million, 25 million? What, four are here, five are here.

You are 30 million. Second largest city in the world after Chongqing. You are amazing.

It's a miracle. And if you're happy about that, you make more miracles happen. That's all.

You just have to be happy that you made it. And that's a nice, cheap way to make more good karma than you can do in a year, okay? On your bed at night, tonight, with your head on the pillow, okay?

No one's allowed to think about their credit cards, even me. Think about, damn, I must have been, I was the Dalai Lama or something last time, okay? I'm special.

You are. Or you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't be here, okay?

And some people get close and they get spit out. Karma spits them out. It's really sad.

In the three-year retreat, it was like that. It's any big thing that's happening, your car breaks down or they cancel the flight or something like that. This karma is also very fragile.

It's very expensive karma and it's fragile karma. Okay, if you are here, you should be happy and you'll make more karma, okay? YID RANG BA DANG TSAN DI RGYUR LA RGYUN TSAMS SEMS BYAS DANG PO NI TSEN DE'IR BSTAN SANG PO THOB PA DANG CHUG GI THUN DGE'ANG SBYOR PA SOGS LA DMIGS NAS If you want examples of using deduction to figure out that you must have done some special things before, you can just look at your own fine body, your working human body, okay?

Or you could look at the fact that you had the karma to be in this room. He mentions it. Okay, SOGS LA DMIGS NAS BDAG GIS SKYE BA SNGA MA'I RTEN DER TSUL KHRIMS GSUNG BA RGYUN PA STONG BA TSOS PA BSGOM PAR SOGS GZHIN DU LEGS SDUG BSNGAL DU YANG YANG TZAM Your former life, the person you were before you were born, the person you were last time must have been a master of the six perfections, okay?

Must have been, there's no question. They were a master of the six perfections. He gives some of them.

TSUL KHRIMS GSUNG BA They kept their morality. They never hurt another person. I went to the funeral of a friend of mine's father, high school friend, and his wife got up.

I'm just being polite. I wasn't even sure I should go. I'd never go to funerals because it's too late to help anybody.

I went because he asked me to go and then I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay. His wife got up and she swore that in their life together he had never said a bad thing about another person. In a whole lifetime of marriage.

He died at 70 something, five or something. She had never heard him speak ill of another person. And maybe she's exaggerating, but probably not much, right?

Then that's TSUL KHRIMS GSUNG BA. He kept that way of life, not to hurt other people. SBYIN PA LTAR BA means he was generous or he or she was.

Who's he or she? You, in your fast life. He or she must have been a very generous person.

BSOD PA BSGOMS PA must have been a very patient person. Never got angry. Nothing could make them upset or nervous.

Nothing. Last time. GZHIN DU LAS GDUG SNYAM DU YANG YANG SANGS GZHIN DU LAS GDUG means, god damn, I was good.

YANG YANG means over and over. Think about it over and over. On your pillow at night, you should never be without something good to think about yourself.

There's always something. If your head is on the pillow, you created the head. So already you got something to be happy about.

You must have done something good. There's that song. ♪ Somewhere in my youth or childhood ♪ ♪ I must have done something good ♪ That's an old Broadway play.

Okay. GZHIN DU LAS GDUG SNYAM YANG YANG SANGS GZHIN NA TSE SNGA MA THE'I DUN DU LUG MA NOR BA THA RE BRAL SPYOD PHUN SOGS BDE DAG CHUNG BA RE The way in which my previous self, Dundrup, what's the Sanskrit for Dundrup? Dee dee dee dee dee dee Siddhartha.

Siddhartha.

[Говорящий 2] (15:37 - 15:37)
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[Говорящий 1] (15:37 - 29:52)
That was the Buddha's name, is Dundrup. In Tibetan, it's Dundrup. In Sanskrit, it's Siddhartha.

But what it means, what the name means is achieve the spiritual goals. Artha means spiritual goal. Siddha means achieved.

Siddhartha, Siddhartha. DUN DU LUG MA NOR BA'I Your past self understood Siddhartha. Understood how to make things happen by being kind to other people.

Your past life self got it straight. Your past life self understood those things. MA NOR BA means, and they never slipped up.

When they wanted money, they helped other people make money. When they wanted to be healthy, they went to the hospital to help the sick. When they wanted a girlfriend, they went to the nursing home.

They knew how to Siddhartha, how to get things they want. They knew. MA NOR BA They understood without misunderstanding, like most people do.

Your past life's person that you were understood the pen perfectly. Then they forgot because they got in the womb and all that. It's kind of traumatic there.

DA RES DANG SBYOR PUN SROB They created your body and your opportunities now. The last guy. I will tell you a story.

Some of you heard it 5,000 times. I don't care. I have a good friend in Australia.

His name is Salim Lee. He was brought up in Indonesia. He's a very successful businessman and architect.

He's a famous architect. Then he got a job in a university. They begged him to be a professor there.

He's a famous architect. He's in the university. He's built a chain of nursing homes that are state-of-the-art.

The core is a computer room with lots of videos on it. Grandchildren come to play on the machines. Then they're stuck with their grandparents for the whole day.

He's really smart. He built these things for the grandchildren and they all come to the nursing home every day because they want to play. Then their grandparents get to be with their grandchildren.

He's really smart. We were driving in a car near Perth, Australia on the way to a business dog. I'm like, Salim, can I ask you a personal question?

He's like, yeah, you can ask me a personal question. He's always very respectful. Then I said, why are you so good?

Why are you so amazing? Why are you so devoted and intelligent and talented? Everything's perfect.

His family's perfect. His wife, his children. I'm like, what's your secret?

He said, Geshe-la, it's not me. Joe did it. It's Joe.

I'm like, he said it like I should know who Joe is. I can't remember half the names of the people in all these groups in all these countries. I go up to them and say, hi, it's good to see you again.

I'm trying really hard to remember their name. Sometimes I just fake it because it's thousands of names. It's hard.

Anyway, then finally I just said, look, I hate to admit it, but I don't remember who Joe is in your group. Who is Joe? Because maybe I should meet them.

He's like, oh, Joe isn't in our group, Geshe-la. Joe was my last life. My last life was named Joe.

Everything I have, Joe gave me. It's not me. I didn't do anything.

I'm just what Joe did. I'm just a result of what Joe was doing. Then he says kind of a disturbing thing.

How are we doing? Five minutes. I shouldn't leave you with a disturbing thing, but it is next.

,BDAG SKYE BA'I PHYI MA LA BRJAN DAG ZHIG TU, So your present opportunities, your present dharma opportunities, your present body and beautiful mind were created by the efforts of Joe in the past life. It's really poignant when you meet young, talented people. They're very intelligent in their universities.

Or they win the singing contest on television. They don't understand they didn't do anything. It was all Joe.

Since they're not doing anything now, they will be an obscure ex-singer in 10 years. They won't know what happened. They didn't do anything in the first 16 years of their life that was so good that it could make them a great singer or something.

It's all Joe. If you don't work your ass off now, it'll just wear out. Your voice will crack.

You won't be able to do those yoga poses. You've got to work now to keep it... What Joe did, you have to keep working to keep it going.

Anyway, here we go. ,BDAG SKYE BA, What you are now, Joe gave you. ,BDAG SKYE BA'I PHYI MA LA Now how will it be next life?

,BDAG SKYE BA'I PHYI MA, ,BDAG SKYE BA'I PHYI MA, ,RJES NE ZHIG TU SKYE BA, ,SKYE RLUNG LA RANG GI ZHES DE SKYE RLUNG LA is a very cool word. The LAGS, L-A-G-S, is the LAGS in Geshe-la. We don't say Geshe-lac, but it's the word.

That's the real word, Geshe-lac. LAGS means honorable one. So SKYE RLUNG LA is in the monastery.

DGE SLONG LA is a polite way to refer to another monk or to a group of monks. You say, O DGE SLONG LA means, O Honorable Monks. It's like when you're going to say some high pronouncement to the monks in a monastery, you go, O DGE SLONG LA, O DGE SLONG LA.

What does he say here? DGE SLONG LA RANG GI SHES TE You can figure out what's going to happen next time, O Honorable Monks. You can figure it out.

I don't have to tell you. Who got you here, Joe? Where are you going to take you next time?

You don't have to ask me. You can figure it out. RANG GI SHES TE Then he quotes something.

BDAG PA SNGA MA'I RGA'I ZHAL NAS Some saints, some holy beings of the past, some great practitioners of the past have written a poem about it. Here's the poem. MTSAN NGON SKYE BA RIM PO CHE THA STE MI LUS RIN CHEN BRTZAL THA STE DGE SLONG RIM PO CHE PHYI MA YANG DU MA RGYUR ANG MTSAN NGON SKYE BA RIM PO CHE means the RIM PO CHE from your last life.

RIM PO CHE means like Dalai Lama. The RIM PO CHE, the high saint that you were in your last life. THA STE MI LUS RIN CHEN BRTZAL has granted you the precious gem of this body and these circumstances.

The saint of the last life has given you this priceless diamond of your life now. THA STE DGE SLONG RIM PO CHE Now, O precious monk, PHYI MA YANG DU MA RGYUR ANG I beg you not to throw the next one down off a cliff. Please don't throw the next one off a cliff, O honorable one.

The last guy did his job. That's why you're here. Now try to have some, try to be nice to the next one, meaning the next you.

All right. GZHE GSUNG We have like one more minute, let's see. I like this and then we'll stop.

It's one more sentence. It starts with DE NA, okay? DE NA.

Are you okay, you guys? DES NA After the verse, DES NA DE NA THA LTA RANG GI CHOS SU LA BTAG NA SKYE BA PHYI MAR GAL GYI ZHES GNOD KYI SNGON SHES YOD PA SOGS LA MO RTAG ZHUGS MI DGOS SUNG What the verse is saying is that you don't have to run around asking high monks to do MOs for you. I keep talking about the MO in the skull and the dice in the DCI talks.

Here's the spelling. Just so you can see, in Tibetan, the third line in the middle, MO RTAG, MO RTAG. MO RTAG means you don't have to ask some high Lama to do fortune telling for you, to see what's going to happen to you.

You don't need that. MO RTAG, uh-oh, I lost it. MO RTAG ZHUGS means to request the MO.

MI DGOS, you don't need it. You don't have to run around asking high Lamas to tell you what's going to happen to you in the future. SNGON SHES YOD PA means some high Lama who's supposed to have, what do you call, clairvoyance.

You don't have to go begging them to tell you your future. RANG GI GCUD TSUL LA BDAG NA, you look at how you're acting towards others. Look at how you're treating other people and you can do your own MO about what's going to come in your life and after you die.

You don't need some big Lama to tell you what's going to happen. Look at how you're treating people and you can do your own MO. BDAG NA SKYE BA'I PHYI MA GAR GYAS ZHES NUS You will be able to know where you're going after you die.

You don't have to ask some Lama. You can guess yourself by what you're doing now. You are the Joe for the next guy.

You are the Joe for the next guy. So cut him some slack. Think about him or her.

Try to consider, be considerate of who's going to come next from you. And don't screw them up. Be polite, be nice to them.

The you who you will be, be nice to them. It's a good exercise. I'd like to do this thing that's a little naughty.

Yeah, it's going to mess up my next guy. Okay, maybe I won't do it. It's going to hurt him or her next time.

So okay, I won't do it. You should think like that. All right, we'll pick up tomorrow at GNYIS PA NI.

Oh, sorry, Thursday. So these are 10 days of teaching. I always take a day off just to relax.

And that's an important spiritual practice and you should all be sure to do it. You can't serve other people if you're nervous and exhausted. You should build into your life enough time to rest.

And this is an important spiritual practice. It's an important part of your spiritual practice. You should do your daily meditations.

You should do your yoga. You should serve other people. And you should rest when it's time to rest.

Very nicely. Like surfer magazine, laying on the bed for an hour. I mostly just look at the pictures because the articles are so ridiculous.

But anyway, it's true. Okay, we'll stop there. NEKYI MA DE BAR MA DANG GUS KYI CHOS SHING MED TOG CHENG RI RA BING ZHIG YIN TE RGYEN PA DI SANGS RGYAS SHIN TU MI DE DUNG BA YI RUG NAM DAG SHING LA GYUR PA SHOK YIDAM GUR NA DANG MA DANG GAM NUYATHA YAMI DI RGYEN BO KUN SAN NAM YI SHE SO TSONG SHING SA NAM YI SHES ME CHUNG BA'I DANG PA KUN NYID DUG PA SHING Okay, cool.

Thank you for coming. Thank you for asking me to teach. I love teaching this thing.

For me, it's a treat. And it's only hardcore people that would sit through it. Thank you for that.

Thank you for being hardcore. And I love teaching it. Your job is to do your homework.

I beg you to do your homework. It's not for you. It's for all the people that you will teach.

Okay? So please, for the sake of them. And you cannot answer all the questions on the second homework yet.

When you reach a question you can't answer, stop. Because we're going to cover that on Thursday night.