«Дар освобождения», курс 12 «Ретрит «Главный магнит»», занятие 5

[Говорящий 1] (0:00 - 5:40)
Okay, we're on Shenyang, right Adam? Yeah, good. Okay, here we go.

Did we do a mandala? Okay, so now he's going to talk about different ways of, he's kind of wrapping up the seven steps of preparing for meditation, and he's been talking about, he just talked about how each step acts as an antidote for a different negative emotion, right? Now he says Shenyang, yinlak dunpa di, these seven limbs also, sak jang pel sum du du te, you can say that they can be divided into three functions, okay?

All seven can be grouped into three functions. Sak means collecting new good karma. Why?

You're just about to go into a meditation. You're just about to go into a meditation. So you're trying to pump up your karma just before you start meditating, and you hope it'll last for the next hour or something.

Then jang, jang means what? Jang means to purify your negativities, okay? People, of course, I've been walking and talking with people and a lot of our needs in our life boil down to collecting more good karmic seeds, and a lot of the needs in our life boil down to clearing some old bad karmic seeds.

So that's called sak jang, okay? Sak jang. Then he says pel, okay?

Pel, which means to multiply. So we need to collect new karma, we have to clean out old bad karma, and then we have to do things that multiply the power, okay? And those seven, each of them fall into those categories.

Those of you studying Tibetan, yenlak, say yenlak. Che ngur, which means, yenlak means what? Yenlak means a branch or a limb.

It can mean a branch of a bank. It can mean your physical limbs, okay? A branch of a tree.

So those seven are called in Tibetan branches, okay? Like our shtanga, okay? The eight branches, okay?

Anga also means that. So yenlak dunpa, oh sorry, so yenlak che nga is a difficult expression. Che means half, and nga means five.

So in Tibetan when you want to say four and a half, you say half five, and then it's hard to translate. Lots of people get stuck there, okay? I don't know if it's in any dictionary or anything.

So che nga means four and a half. It means half five, okay? I cheated, I put them in there for you, okay?

Four and a half of the limbs, which is the first one which is bowing down, the second one which is offering, half of the fourth one which is rejoicing, the fifth one asking them to teach, and the sixth one asking to stay. Is that four and a half? Yeah.

The function of those four and a half, it's sok sak. What's that? Yeah, make new good karma.

Just before you go into your meditations. The function of four and a half of the preliminaries is to make new good karma, okay? Bowing down is to make new good karma.

Offering is to make new good karma. Asking them to teach is to make new good karma. Asking them to stay is to make new good karma.

Half of rejoicing is to make new good karma. Half of rejoicing goes somewhere else, okay? Okay, so that covers the new good karmic deeds just before you meditate part, okay?

Then he says shakpa jangwa. So shakpa which is limb number three, we're confessing, that's the one which cleans out old bad karma, okay? So just that one.

Four and a half of the seven limbs relate to collecting new good karma. One relates to cleaning out old bad karma, jang. Then yi rang gi chok chik means half of the rejoicing relates, and ngowa which is dedication, relate to multiplying your karmas, okay?

Multiplying the power of your karmas. So dedicating and being happy about what you've been doing. Coffee meditation, okay?

Coffee meditation functions to multiply your karmas, okay? Okay, this is cool. YIG CHA MI ZAL YANG.

YIG CHA is a difficult word. It means a document, but in the monastery it means a monastic textbook, okay? YIG CHA.

MI ZAL means it's not so clear in the monastic textbooks, okay? The ER means in the monastic textbooks, right? YIG CHA ER MI ZAL.

What's ER ZAL? Yeah, clear light. The clear light, emptiness, okay?

What is it in the Yoga Sutra? Do you remember? The Sanskrit.

[Говорящий 2] (5:42 - 5:42)
I don't remember.

[Говорящий 1] (5:43 - 15:48)
PA. Something PA. Anyway.

Nirbhasa. Yeah, that sounds good. Nirbhasa.

The corresponding Sanskrit is PA. BHA. Like Amitabha.

Amitabha means limitless light. And then that root BHA came into Greek as PHO, like in photo or photon, okay? Okay.

So RGYAL CHO BDAG PO RNAM PAR RIN PO CHE. That's his own teacher, okay? And they call DON DANG LDAN PA KYANG TSE NGOS SU SMOS means, it's a very cool expression in Tibetan scriptures, it means, whose name I only speak out of great necessity.

Whose name I only utter out of great necessity. It means you shouldn't use your Lama's name in vain, something like that. It'd be like saying Jesus Christ or something like that, okay?

In Tibet you can't use your Lama's name except in situations of great reverence, and if you do it's a really, you're considered really bad manners or something. So he doesn't even call his Lama by his name, he just says the Supreme Savior from BDAG PO, which is like Kansas, the Precious Lama. He doesn't name him, he just says the Precious Lama, the Supreme Savior from Kansas.

BDAG PO is a place in Tibet. GSUNG RGYUN LA, according to the oral tradition of my teacher, YAN LAG BDUN LA LANG BYAS. Say LANG BYAS.

Do you see it up there? LAG RGYAS ES. That GYAS, if you don't have the S on it, it means what?

Lord, like Je Tsongkapa, okay? Je Tsongkapa, or Dorje, which is Lord of Stones, which is a diamond or a Vajra. You want to know how weird things have gotten karmically for us in China?

So in Beijing, where it has been tense in the past, we were put into a resort to do the retreat and the name of the resort is J Mansions. We're like, what's the J stand for? The owner says, well Je Tsongkapa, of course.

We're like, okay, it's like a billion, did somebody say it was a billion dollar new resort or something like that? It's like off the walls. Anyway, maybe you can get to go to J Mansion someday.

So that's J. But this spelling means after, afterwards. In Sanskrit it's ANU, right?

So J means after. LHAG means what? LHAG PA.

Yeah, so what it means is, here I have my trusty, the one that's not broken, and you press it, right? And it leaves an indent. It means an indent, an afterhand, an imprint.

LHAG CHE, I like the word. It's very important for the study of karma. What you expose your mind to puts an indent on your consciousness and it stays.

And that creates a karmic seed. So you can call them sanskaras. You can call them sabun, bakchang, but you should learn the word LHAG CHE.

That's a new one for you, I think. LHAG CHE means literally imprint. That's a LHAG CHE.

So each of the seven limbs leaves a LHAG CHE on your consciousness, on your mind. It leaves an indentation on your mind, on your heart. And so what are the ones for each of them?

And he says, you ain't gonna find this in any scripture. This is my Lama's personal instructions. That's what he's trying to say.

YAN NA BDU LA BYAS SU, MIN BZRA BA means there are various ones. YOD TE, number one. Then I split them out for you.

CHAGS TSAL BA'I. CHAGS TSAL BA means bowing down. And here it's instrumental.

So by bowing down, here's what will happen. TSUG LTOR GRUB. LHAG CHE SBYOG.

Say LHAG CHE SBYOG. So SBYOG means to put an imprint, to make an imprint. So LHAG CHE SBYOG is the verb, to put an imprint.

It gives you an imprint for TSUG LTOR. What's TSUG LTOR? You guys know?

Yeah, it's the, yeah, Ushnisha. It's the bump on a Buddha's head. My Lama had one already.

He really did, and he had those long ears already. But it's the karma for this special bump on a Buddha's head. I had one student like 30 years ago say, I don't want the bump.

I said, okay, I'll work it out with central office. TSUG LTOR GRUB PA'I LHAG CHE. What do you think the connection is between prostrating and having a bump?

I mean having a Buddha's skull shape. Maybe it's because you put your hand on the ground. I don't know.

LHAG CHE SNGAR BSHAD PA BZHIN. As I mentioned before, I don't remember him mentioning it before, but probably he did. Okay, number two, SPYOD PA'I GNYIS.

You get NAM GANG MDZOD. Say NAM GANG MDZOD. NAM GANG MDZOD.

We talked about that once before. Say again? Yeah, you can call it sky treasure.

Sky treasure. And what it means is your karma as far as finances is so goddamn good that you can just pluck things out of thin air. You know, we need a kitchen and dining room.

Okay, here's $200,000. You know, it wasn't that easy by the way, but almost. It took 20 minutes.

But you create karmas that allow you to pluck things out of the air. It's weird. It's a weird karma.

You should believe that. Don't be cynical. Just because you haven't got there yet, don't think it's not possible.

If you collect the right LHAG CHES, you can see weird things happen, like J mansions in Beijing. Okay, I mean, try to understand. That's NAM GANG MDZOD.

You can pluck your needs out of thin air. From which of the branches? From which of the parts?

Offering. By doing the offering. So, you know, I have friends who are like, oh, I'm going to leave that peach on the altar another two days.

It's not quite mushy yet. You know, like they're too lazy to change the peach on the altar. And I'm like, for God's sake, you know, don't you want to stay in J mansions?

You know, that was a mansion. That place was unbelievable. And you know, from the J mansions you can see the Tower of Beijing in which the government meets.

I have a photo of it. I'll send you a photo of it. This is where the seven supreme leaders of China meet.

And you know, we're right below there. LANG CHOS DANG DGA'I RDZOD LA SNGA GNYIS. SNGA GNYIS means to have total power over that resources.

To have total control over resources. Number three. GZHAG PA, the confession.

GZHAG PA BAR BA means allows you to eliminate without any trace the DRIB GNYIS, the two obstacles. Okay, there are two obstacles in Buddhism. What are they?

SNYON DRIB and ZHES DRIB. I put them there for you. SNYON DRIB is what?

Obstacles to omniscience. Yeah, I'm sorry, nirvana. Yeah, obstacles to nirvana.

And then ZHES DRIB is obstacles to omniscience. It's a... those of you who care, the Tibetan is confusing.

Because in the first one they name what the obstacle is, and in the second one they name what it's opticaling. Okay, got it? So the first thing is called mental affliction optical, which means the mental afflictions prevent you from reaching nirvana.

And then in the second case they call it all things optical, which means an obstacle to the knowledge of all things, to omniscience. Okay, so it's a confusing pair and you've got to learn that. Okay, all right.

You got it? The power yet? Nope, you got it?

Okay, it's coming. Okay, YI RANG GYIS MTHONG NA MI THON PA MED PA'I DGOS GRUB PA YI RANG means rejoicing. MTHONG NA means if you look upon it, MI THON PA MED PA'I means there can be no...

[Говорящий 2] (15:50 - 15:53)
it means lack of harmony.

[Говорящий 1] (15:54 - 21:12)
But what it... the wording means lack of harmony, but what it means is no one can fail to be amazed or something like that. Like everyone...

there's no disagreement, okay, about how fantastic you look. Your GUS, GUS means the holy body. So if you...

this is a weird karma, okay, if you want... and all these people are spending so much money on cosmetics and you know, I've done that. My boss in the diamond company, she said, I'm going to Tokyo, you know, and I'm like, okay.

And she says, you're coming with me and I'm like, you know, I'm trying to run a company, I'm a little busy. And she's like, no, you're coming with me. And I'm like, okay.

And then I got there and I'm with her and she says... and she's got two huge suitcases, you know, and I'm like... and she takes me to Takashimaya, which is a big department store in Tokyo, the best, you know, and then she says, you stay out here.

I said, well what are you doing? She says, I'm buying cosmetics, you know, like we're going to put them in the two suitcases, you know. And she says, I have to have this kind and you can only get it here, you know.

We just flew like 18 hours. I'm like, okay. And I stood outside of Takashimaya with these two suitcases, you know.

You can save a lot of money if you know about rejoicing. It means you can have a really... a person who is rejoicing frequently, it changes the karma of their physical appearance, how they look to others, their beauty, how they strike other people.

It's all karma, right? It's all karma. You see, you hear terrible songs on the radio and they're number one, and then you know really great songs that never made it, right?

I just saw that movie, what's it called, Looking for Sugar Men? Yeah, like three people gave it to me and like two years later I was like, maybe I should look at it. And it's just some weird karma, like nobody in the United States wants to listen to this guy.

And then in South Africa he's a national hero. And that's just karma, and that applies to your appearance also. Like how people see you and what you see in the mirror is totally coming from your karma.

There's nothing objectively good about Sugar Man's songs, and there's nothing objectively bad about them. And it's proven by the fact he was a national hero and he didn't know in South Africa. He sold half a million records in South Africa, in a small country.

And then they found him, they went looking for him, and he was working in a construction gang in Detroit, because he gave up his musical career because nobody wanted him. He sold six albums or something, you know, in America. And the South Africans went and found him.

And if you rejoice in other people's accomplishments, then it changes your physical appearance, and it's cheaper than going to Takashimaya. Okay, kudrupa dung. Oh, you got the tower?

Why did we talk about the tower? I don't remember. Oh yeah, this is the view from Jai Mansion.

Okay. That's where they keep the lawnmowers at the Jai Mansion. And then that's where the government meets, of China.

The Supreme Council of China meets there. So anyway, chung kor korwa, number five. Okay, I'm skipping down to five.

I went and researched a lot about that Takashimaya thing, and I just wanted to make sure that's what it was and it is, so I'm skipping all that. Those are my notes, okay, from other scriptures. chung kor korwa kurwa means, what's chukyi korlo?

Dharma chakra. The wheel of the Dharma, right? And then korwa kurwa means asking your Lama to turn the wheel of the Dharma.

Why do they call something like these talks, turning the wheel of the Dharma? It's because it passes from heart to heart. It's that thing again.

Okay, I give it to you, you give it to your students, they give it to their students. Okay, I got it from my teachers, and it passes to people like a wheel. Okay, so think of it like that.

What's the karmic imprint in your mind if you ask your teacher to teach, right? You get sang nyang. Okay, well, I was going to look up the...

here, I'll show you something cool. Oh, you can't see it. Rest your head.

I'm going to look up the Sanskrit for that because I didn't have time to do that.

[Говорящий 2] (21:14 - 21:24)
Okay, in Sanskrit, it's bhagma gosha.

[Говорящий 1] (21:25 - 30:37)
Okay, bhagma means... it's a Hindu deity, right? They mispronounce it as Brahma or something like that.

Yeah, it's bhagma. And then gosha means voice, like Manju Gosha. It's Manjushri, right?

Or Ashwagosha. So anyway, if you ask your teacher to teach, you will get this special effect on your voice. Okay, your voice will change in very extraordinary ways.

One way, the coolest way to me, is that whatever language you speak in is understood by people from other countries. Okay, so the things you say or the way you word things is understood by people in many countries. Okay, and in the end, in the Yoga Sutra, it says, do you know sarva-bhuta-ruta-jnanam?

What's that? Sarva-bhuta-ruta-jnanam. You can speak all the languages of the world.

Okay, and in its extreme form, you speak your language and everyone hears their own language. Okay, because of your karma. Okay, and on a lesser level, as teachers or as people talking to other people about these ideas, you should attempt to relate to where they are.

Okay, like one day, I commuted for 19 years, two hours each way to this corporate job in New York, because I had to be back at the monastery every night. And one day we broke down outside a bar. The bus broke down.

Everybody had to get off the bus. I called my friend, he came to get me. But in the meantime, I'm sitting in the bar next to this...

I've never been in a bar. I'm next to this guy, and he's like this big rowdy guy, and they're like, what are you talking about man? And I'm like, I'm from Jersey.

And you got to talk like them. You see what I mean? As a teacher or as a person, you got to talk like the people you're talking with, and that's a skill that you have to develop.

You should try to adjust the presentation, even of your physical appearance, to fit the people that you're trying to relate to. Otherwise it won't work. They asked me in China, why do you wear your hair like that?

And I said, well, if I shave my head and wear robes around and go to Singapore and stand up in front of business people, they'll just won't invite me back, no matter what I say. So it's traditional to try to make other people comfortable, and try to look in a way that makes them comfortable, and try to speak in a way that makes them comfortable. I never wear robes.

The last trip to see your agent, I didn't wear robes once, because it wouldn't be appropriate. Except in, we took a trip to Taiwan for four hours, and I changed. Taiwan's like a Dharma paradise.

So I had a meeting in the airport hotel, the Novotel, and I could wear robes, and it wasn't weird. So anyway, okay. So by asking your teacher to teach, your voice will change.

And people will hear what you're trying to tell them. That's the basic thing. It's called 60 qualities of an enlightened being's speech.

I just told you one. There's 59 others. We don't have time.

Okay, you can skip five pages down, because I made notes about the whole thing. Okay, let me see if I can. Yeah, if you care, it's one of the qualities of a Buddha.

How many qualities of a Buddha are there? How many marks of a Buddha are there? 80 and 32.

Okay, 32 major marks, 80 minor marks, total 112. You can find them in the eighth chapter of the Abhisama Angara, okay, of Maitreya's book that we spoke about yesterday. And they're there.

And it's a beautiful chapter, because the whole book is in a meter, you know, like da-dam-pa-ta, pa-dam-pa-ta, pa-dam-pa-ta, pa-dam-pa-ta, pa-dam-pa-ta, pa-dam-pa-da, and then suddenly it goes, pa-da-ta-ka-ma-da-ma-ga-tang, ta-pa-ta-gu-nda-ka-ma-tang, ta-ha-nda-ka-na-ma-ga-nda-ta. And when you're reciting it, everyone goes, whoa. And then that's when you hit the qualities of a Buddha.

It's weird. It's like mystical. It's like the meter changes into some kind of very weird thing, like a Buddha is talking.

And, you know, so if you want to know about that, what do you call it? Brahma Gosha. If you want to know about that karma to speak and all people hear you, it's in the eighth chapter of that book, which would be a nice thing to study someday.

It's a presentation of the 112 marks and what they mean. Why does a Buddha have wheels imprinted on their palms? Things like that.

There's a whole long story about it and you should study it someday. But that comes from the Prajnaparamita in 100,000 lines. And I found it for you and I pulled it out here and it discusses that speech quality.

And that's what I just told you about. So the ultimate source of all of them is Lord Buddha's teaching in the 100,000 lines. That was abbreviated to the 25,000 lines.

And that was abbreviated to the 18,000 lines. And I have all the quotations there if anyone wants to write a doctoral thesis about it someday. So you can skip all the bold.

I think it's about five pages of notes. Oh, you might want to know that the sixth Dalai Lama's name was Sanyang Gyatso, Brahma Gosha Saraha Ocean. Why?

What's he known for? He didn't live very long. We don't even know when he died.

He disappeared at the age of in twenties, in his early twenties. There's often a lot of political intrigue around the Dalai Lamas and they tend to disappear or get murdered. So he did disappear.

But before he disappeared he gave up his ordination and he had a lot of... his writings are love poems. He was known for his love poems and they're exquisite and they're spiritual love poems.

And someday we could read them. But his name is Sanyang. It's that Brahma Gosha.

His name was the one who speaks and all people hear. Because he spoke love poems. So that's kind of cool.

And the Tibetans really revere him. The Tibetans really believe in him. They didn't think it was a scandal or something.

They thought he's special. He's like somebody unusual and they love him. They revere him.

First I went to Russia to catalog the books there. So we spent 14 years there. We cataloged 141,000 Tibetan books there.

The director of the library is an ex-KGB and naval captain. And the reason he is the director of the library is that as his PhD thesis he translated his love poems. Because he was interested in spiritual things but he couldn't, under the communist regime, he couldn't translate philosophy.

So he just called it poetry. And he wrote a nice book about those poems. If you want to read it someday.

Okay, we should take a break. That's been a long time. Let's take a break.

I'll sit down here. Yak noises. And then there's this long story.

And then he tricked the king into, he was saying, yaks make noise like quack quack. And the king says, no, no. And he's like, they don't make a noise like quack quack.

And he's like, no, no. Yaks go quack quack quack. And then the guy won the bet, you know.

Questions? Any questions?