«Дар освобождения», курс 12 «Ретрит «Главный магнит»», занятие 2

[Говорящий 1] (0:00 - 0:05)
I thought before we got to the actual material, which is the 12, what?

[Говорящий 2] (0:06 - 0:12)
It's the kind of 12 hearts of moa gomlom.

[Говорящий 1] (0:12 - 5:46)
What's that? Moa gomlom. Yeah, dedication after seeing emptiness or meeting God directly, okay?

So there are 12 elements to that, which we're going to go over. But I thought I would catch you up on a few points from last course because they will be on the homework that you have to do, okay? And it's kind of a nice review of what we just did before this, okay?

So here we go. I'm just going to read some homework questions and make sure you know what it's all about. And then you're going to talk about them in your review groups, okay?

Number one, this is something we had last time, but I just want to repeat it. DER MA ZAD DPER NA GYIS ZER NGUL LTA BU LHAG KUR GZHAN TZAM This is a very cool idea about dedication, and a lot of people have asked me about it. So the word there and the one before it are, say, ZER.

NGUL, ZER NGUL. ZER means gold and NGUL means silver in Tibetan. And Pabongka Rinpoche is comparing your good karmas.

The good thing you did, okay, whatever it was in your mind, okay? Do you have that bowl next time? Did you get an email about a bowl?

Yeah, you were going to bring a glass bowl from a cafe. Does it have everybody's name in it? Not yet.

Okay, on your way, during the break this afternoon, you're going to put your name on a small piece of paper and put it in the bowl. And this is something I invented in Sacramento. That major metropolis.

Where are those Sacramento people? To make sure people are listening. So I say, I'm going to pick a name out of the bowl and ask a question to this person.

And then suddenly everyone is paying attention. And Ningbo told me it was a bad idea. It was mean to pick on people, but I think it's good.

Okay, so anyway, what I would pick out of the bowl now would be to ask you what was a good deed you thought of. And if I ask you a question like that, it's only if you don't mind sharing it. Then it's okay that you don't share it.

But for me it was something I did in China. I set up some kind of thing in China. So that's a raw material.

That's like an oblong of silver or gold. That's the point of this line. It's like an ingot of gold or silver.

And then you can decide what you make from it. And the example here, of course, is making a Buddha statue, or a Tara statue, or a Vajrayogini statue. What is this deity?

What is this deity? Do you know? Is it Shiva?

Oh, okay, cool. So Mike just gave me a Shiva. I don't know.

That's so heavy to bring from India. Then you can decide. That's intention.

Intention will decide what you make from the lump of gold or silver. You see? You have a lump of gold or silver.

And then you decide what you make out of it. And you can do the same with your good karmas. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

It's very sexy. You don't have to just sit by passively while that good karma ripens. You can mold it and you can shape it to your own ends.

You see? And it's very cool. If someone teaches you the process properly, then you can take a good karma and redirect where it's going to go.

So what he's saying in the example here, what he's saying in the scripture is that you can shape it like a lump of gold or silver. So think about the good karma you did that you were meditating on. And just be aware that you can send it.

Like if you're organizing something in Mexico, you made a film and you want it to be nice. You want the reception to be successful. You can start working on that now.

You can rent a venue. You can make the last finishing touches on the film. You can call all your friends.

And then you can send all your karmas there for about a month. You see what I mean? Every good thing you do, you can start now, ahead of time.

You can start a month ahead to make sure it's a successful opening of your movie. So you can start redirecting your karmas. You see, it's very cool.

It's a very cool process. So we'll be working on that during this course, how to redirect your seeds towards the things that you want, something nice to happen. You can learn how to do that.

And that's the point of this mind. Okay, next. Look for the word from that point.

Can you click on that point? And then look up K-H-R-O-D.

[Говорящий 2] (5:54 - 5:56)
Oh well, I'll just tell you.

[Говорящий 1] (6:00 - 9:03)
The question in the homework is, what mild complaint about his life does Pabongka Rinpoche make concerning the act of dedicating good karmas and how does it apply to us? Then he makes a, he kaveches a little bit. He makes a complaint.

And he says, you and I must have dedicated our past karmas in our past life to learning and teaching the Dharma because we are swimming in it all the time. He came from Serra Monastery. He came from the best college of Serra Monastery, which is what?

Serra Mae. And then he came from the best house in the best college, which is gyero, which is our house, which is your house. You are members of gyero house, since we're learning together.

Then he said, here we are in Serra Monastery in Mae College, in gyero house, and all day long, all we do is meditate, debate, learn scriptures, get amazing instructions. We must have dedicated a lot of past karma to make this happen. Then he's whining a little bit.

He says, I wish we had dedicated more to being alone in a quiet retreat valley somewhere and doing a long retreat together. He's kind of whining about it because he was so busy and he was teaching thousands and thousands of people. He had a ritu, he had a hermitage up above Serra and it was a cave.

They took adobe blocks and they built out the front of the cave and he lived there for a while. It's still there. You can still go see it.

I think the application to us is that he's expressing that we should do more retreats also, that we can't just study all the time. It's good to study. It's good to do tours of the world and teach people and make people happy.

But then we have to have our quiet time and we have to go into retreat sometimes. It can be a three-day retreat. It's fine.

It can be a seven-day retreat. It can be a three-year retreat. It just depends on you.

That's what we're trying to do with Diamond Mountain. The kitchen was very important. We worked very hard to get the kitchen.

I think that will allow Diamond Mountain to become a place where people from many countries can just come. You know you have a place there. You know you have a cabin there.

Certain people built them for us. So you know you have a place to come. After April, when we...

[Говорящий 2] (9:03 - 9:09)
What do you call that? No, what do you do?

[Говорящий 1] (9:10 - 12:28)
There's a clam on a rock and you pry them. Yeah, after we pry them out of their cabins, we will have places for you. Then I want to put a seed in your mind.

You can come by yourself. You can come with three friends. You can come with 10 friends.

There's 29 cabins there. If you count the other houses, there's 30 places to do long retreat. And now there's food, because he'll try to cook all the time.

If you don't mind pizza every day. No, just kidding. He's got bigger rage than that.

So think about it. I'm just putting a seed in your mind. This is an important part of our lives, to do the tours and to study together and things like that.

But you also should do your solo retreats. Or you could take three friends or five friends and go do a retreat together. It doesn't have to...

I'm not sure three years is such a good idea. I'm not going to tell them, but I think a year is probably better. But definitely a week, a silent week.

Whatever your occupation is. When I was in the heaviest part of my corporate life, big corporate life, I would go take a week off or two weeks and do a retreat. It so energized my corporate life.

It made my corporate life fantastic. Because then I would have all these ideas and come back and I'd be fresh and I'd have silence in my mind and then I could see things that other people couldn't see in business or whatever you do. You can do it better if you take a week off once in a while.

And you sleep for the first three days if you're in the same corporate life that I was in. And then you have wonderful things happen to you. So anyway, I'm just encouraging you.

And that's what he's trying to say. Send some of your seeds to your week-long retreat at Diamond Mountain a year from now. I'm encouraging you to do that.

I'm calling it a retreat resort. And we'll talk more about that. It's going to be cool.

You guys all know the answer to question three. The act of dedicating our good seeds is meant to protect them. From what?

Anger. In answering, please refer to a famous Buddhist classic. It's a guide to the bodhisattva's way of life.

And in there he describes that you can lose thousands of years of karma by being angry at a bodhisattva. And there's different levels of bodhisattvas and you lose more. You get larger deductions from your debit card depending on who they are.

And unfortunately we never know who's a bodhisattva. So we can't get angry at anybody if we want to protect our good seeds.

[Говорящий 2] (12:28 - 12:37)
That's the idea. Yeah, okay, that catches us up to now.

[Говорящий 1] (12:37 - 18:07)
So that was the first half of the fourth homework which brings you up to now. Here we go on the twelve parts. I'm just going to read it for you.

Can you please search for Y-O-N-G-S space S-U Yeah, that yellow part at the top. Good, stop. Okay, here we go.

MYONG SON NGON BAR SKYES PA CHEN DE'I PHYIR PAR CHOG YIN NO DE NI SNYING MED RNAMS PA CHEN PHYIN CI MA ROL TSE NI DO BRTAN DANG SANGS RGYAS SU RNAMS TSOG RANG BZHIN BRTAN PA'I SPYOD PA'I PHYIN THAB BYED MTSAN MA MED PAR DANG SANGS RGYAS GYIS SU YI RANG DANG KHAMS GSUNGS RTOG PA MA YIN DANG CHEN DANG RDUNG DANG CHEN PO'I YID BLO BA GZHAN NYID RNAMS GSUM PO GZHAN RNAMS CHEN PO'I BYUNG DAG NI DANG ZHIN Okay, those are the twelve kinds. Let's talk about them. I went and got you a commentary on them.

What was that commentary? Oh, by Choney Lama. Who wrote the Diamond Cutter Commentary.

He's a great scholar from Amdo, east to that. He's good for us because he had sort of a western mind and he described things in western terms. It's a little bit easier for us to understand.

So he broke out those twelve and he explained them. So I'm going to go through those twelve. What are they of?

Twelve things about what? Dedication by a person who has seen emptiness directly. Probably it's good to start now if you haven't seen emptiness directly.

Why not? Okay, number one. Can you go down some more to RGYUD KYANG, RGYUD KYANG, RGYUD KYANG Yeah, stop at that one.

BYAS PA CHOG DANG LDAN PA'I NGO BA DANG BYAS PA CHOG means... These are my own notes, okay? So sorry for that.

So let's say that in a common example for DCI, in DCI we're trying to help people be successful in their daily life. And a lot of people ask us about relationships. So I want to find my soulmate or I want to find the partner of my dreams.

And then we tell them, the joke in China, we ask them, should you go online to find them or should you go on matchmaking TV? So in China when you want to find a boyfriend, you turn on these special... what do you call those things?

These private channel TVs? What do you call that? Like cable.

Yeah, you turn on cable TV and there's like 45 dating shows. And there'll be a boy with 12 girls or 12 boys and one girl and they'll grill the boys. And then at the end of the show, they give you all the boys' email addresses.

And then you contact the one that you're interested in. So the joke in China was, if you wanted to find your soulmate, should you go online on a dating site or should you, like somebody we know did, who succeeded wildly, or should you... Can I tell people that?

No. I just did actually. Anyway, they met.

They just got married. I just performed their wedding and they met on a nice dating site. So should you go on a dating site or should you go on a matchmaking TV, cable TV show?

And then the punchline is you should go where? To a nursing home. Yeah, you should go to a nursing home.

So if you go to a nursing home, you will make a karmic seed and then you will meet the person because you create them. You will create your soulmate. She did it.

I'm going to show you a photo later, maybe tonight. There was a wedding on the stage of the second night of Open Talks in Singapore, this trip. There was a wedding on the stage and the two people used the diamond cutter.

They used the seeds. They didn't know each other and they both used the seeds. And then they met each other and they got married on the stage.

And the judge was there, this old Chinese judge. And the parents came and everybody was crying. It was kind of cool.

It was a great advertisement. But anyway. So anyway.

And I didn't ask. They said it all. It wasn't my idea.

I'm trying to say it wasn't my idea. But they tried it and they met somebody. Now you could hear this thing go through the audience.

There was 900 people there. You could see like 150 ladies going, and guys. And you had this distinct feeling during the wedding of many people thinking about a nursing home.

I could sense it in the room, in this big theater. So many people are thinking about the closest nursing home. That's called SPYOD PA CHOG.

That's the law. SPYOD PA CHOG means... Nyingpo's got me reading.