«Дар освобождения», курс 12 «Ретрит «Главный магнит»», занятие 6

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Do you know, Adam, where we are? I don't know where we are. Oh, sorry, yeah, dushe.

Dushe is a beautiful thing. Dushe means... I'll tell you the whole story.

Then it will take 20 years to finish this book. The example in the Abhidharma Kosha is that what are the karmic implications if you decide to... and I apologize for the example, but it's not mine.

It's from the Abhidharma. You decide to murder someone in their sleep. So you take a knife and you walk into a bedroom and you see a form under the blankets and you stab it like 10 times and you throw the knife away and you run away.

But the guy knew you were coming and he put all his pillows in a row and he covered it with a blanket and he's in the closet. Then what kind of karma do you get? You see, that's a discussion in the Abhidharma.

They say it's not a LAS KYI LAM. It's not a complete karma. Why?

The dushe was mistaken. Dushe means how you conceive of the object towards whom you are doing the karma. In that example, your dushe was that it was a living being, but the reality was that it was a bunch of pillows.

So if that's the case in the commission of a karma, it's not a complete karma. Why are we talking about that? We want to do the opposite.

We want the karma. We want to have a perfect dushe so that our karmas ripen faster. So I'll challenge you to come up with a better dushe of the old lady in the nursing home.

I'm open to suggestions. He said she represents all beings. I would correct that to she is.

I mean, whatever you do to her is going to multiply to all living creatures because of the boyfriend revolution principle. So don't think of her as a simple old person. Don't think of her that way.

Because if you do, you limit the seed. I like the example of the pen. You all know the pen thing.

I had to do it on the video today. It was so difficult to do it the hundred thousandth time. But it's good.

What is this to a dog? It's a chew toy. What is this to a human?

It's a pen. But what we don't often point out is that to a Dharma revolutionary, this is a sword. This will change the world.

This little thing. I could change 1.2 billion people in China with this thing. I mean, if you really had an elevated state of consciousness, you'd be like...

In Tibet, you're not allowed to put a pen on the floor. And you're not allowed to step over a pen. In fact, it's a tantric...

you break a tantric vow if you step over a pen or a scripture. Why? Because this can change the world.

You can change the world with a pen. So you have to honor pens. You're not allowed to put a pen in the garbage.

There are special depositories for holy objects in Tibet. You have to go down the street to your tsatsakang, which is a little Adobe garbage bin, and you throw your pens in there because they're too holy to throw in the garbage. Okay, got it?

It's very interesting. You don't throw holy things into the garbage. Even into the garbage.

Even if they don't. Even if they're out of ink. the du she of the old lady, right?

Why not think of her as... or an angel? Functionally, she is.

You see, how you feel about her, how she looks to you, could be one thing, right? But functionally, she's the right person in the right time for you to change the world. That makes her an angel.

She may not look like one or act like one, but functionally, she's going to help you change the world. If you think of her that way from the beginning, which I'm trying to get you to grasp, it doesn't cost you anything. It's no effort, right?

It's just a little change in how you view her. Then your karma will ripen like a billion times faster and bigger, and you'll be in China talking to a thousand people. It's weird.

Weird stuff will happen. So think like that. Don't think small.

This is not an old lady in a nursing home. She was put here by deities for me to interact with so that I could change the world because that's my mission. What do you call it?

That's why I was born here. Hopefully it's occurred to everybody in the room to wonder why you were put here. At some point in your life, probably when you were 16, and not too much since then, you're wondering, why me?

What am I supposed to do here? The answer is you're supposed to save the world. Each person here is supposed to save the world.

Yes, but there's only one world. Duh. You save your version of the world.

I'll save my version of the world. There's lots of worlds. Countless.

You were put here. You were born here to change the world. If you grasp what's going on in these classes, you have the power.

You have been given the power. No, Spiderman had to get what? How did he get this power?

He got bitten by a radioactive spider. I read all the comic books a long time ago. We don't have superpowers.

You're like, okay, why was I born here? I have an instinct that I'm supposed to do something to save the world, and I would like to save the world, but I don't have any superpowers. In these classes you are being granted superpowers.

The spider is biting you. It just bit you actually. You won't know for a while, or it won't come out for a while.

He didn't discover his powers until he had to jump off a building and the sticky stuff came out of something. It takes a while. You don't realize.

It's true. Something will happen and you'll be put in a situation and you'll see that you have the power. Now you have the power to be someone who changes the world.

I grew up in a Christian church and I loved the Christian church. Jesus was very much... I admired Jesus.

The priests in my particular church were extraordinary. They were incredibly fine people and extraordinary beings. I was always...

These were my role models. I wanted to be like them. I was an altar boy for 12 years, so I got to hang out with them in the back.

They were unbelievable, beautiful, intelligent, devoted, extraordinary people. Somewhere down inside you want to be Jesus. I'm telling you that.

You want to be. You would like to be. There's something inside of you that says you will be that and you will be because you have knowledge that will help you save worlds.

Not just one world. There will come a time in your meditation when you will see other worlds and you will see how you will help them. That's a very sweet thing to happen in your life, to see it.

Tell me again where we are? Oh, we're on YOM MONGS. We finished DU SHES.

KUN LONG is conceive of the situation. Your motivation should be I'm changing the world when you visit the old lady. The DU SHES is don't think of her as a normal person.

That's a mistake. She's not. I'm not saying pretend that she's special.

She is special. I proved it. If you interact with her correctly, you will change the world.

That makes her divine. So don't underestimate her. Anybody.

Again, where? Then the third thing is NYON MONGS. What's NYON MONGS?

What's the Sanskrit? Klesha. Which is the subject of the second chapter of the Yoga Sutra also.

AVIDYAS MI LTA RAG GI DU BAS SHES RAG GI DU BAS SHES KLESHA Sometimes the scripture says punch a klesha. There's two versions. Klesha means a mental affliction.

So in the study of karma, they approach it from a negative viewpoint. And I don't do that. I like to approach it from a positive viewpoint.

Rather than telling people don't kill, I would rather say protect life. To me it's a lot... you get a lot more mileage out of me if you make it positive.

My boss at the diamond company used to scream at me, you have to work late. I'd say, no, I have to go to class. Every night I had to go to class.

Rinpoche would hold the class. If the bus was late, he would hold the class. And I would rush down.

I ran to the bus station. And then I'd do class. But he would get mad at me.

He threatened me and all this stuff. And I'd say, okay, I'm leaving. Then one night he called me and at five o'clock he's like, Mike, you know, the company needs you.

You're the only man who can do it. This order that we got to get out by midnight tonight, you're the only one who really can pull it together. And I'm like, I'm here for you.

So I mean, rather than saying don't kill, say, put it positively, protect life. Unfortunately in the Abhidharma, they present karma in a negative way. So NYON MONGS in this case means what high feeling or emotion do you approach the old lady with?

The example in the scripture, the word is NYON MONGS or negative emotion, but the meaning is how high of a feeling of joy can you have as you approach her? As you reach the nursing home. I don't know about you, like I go to the prison that Jeff Eddy goes to all the time.

What do you call that? I make photo-op appearances at the prison. Click, click, and then I'm gone.

He goes every week. And Nick, those guys, they actually take care of the prisoners. But I find it difficult to be there.

It's hard for me to be there. I like to do the good deed, and I'm not afraid of the prison, although there have been some incidents. But I just feel overwhelmed by it.

It gives me like a headache afterwards. It's so much suffering. It's hard for me to be there.

I'd rather talk to a thousand people in Beijing and have them applaud. So I can do those good deeds, but it's hard for me, and I don't approach it with a sense of high joy normally. I'm like, okay, I'll come, because I feel obligated.

But the point of NYON MONGS is that if you can find some kind of feeling of joy about visiting the old person. If I tell you, will you donate $35 to the project to save the Tibetan scriptures, then people will say, yeah, okay. It's like pulling teeth.

And then if I say, we're going to, what's that cafe on Camelback and Central Journey? St. Francis Cafe for brunch on Sunday, and they're playing jazz. But it's $50.

Everyone's like, I got it. I got $50. And that's reversed.

The NYON MONGS, the emotion about going to the prison should be the same as hearing the jazz at the Sunday morning brunch at St. Francis. I can't say I'm there yet. I still really enjoy that brunch.

Have you ever been there? The jazz is really good. It's Sunday.

It goes from 11 to 2. I have a dream of playing there with Mercedes and other friends. Anyway, so NYON MONGS means approach it with a sense of joy as you would a brunch on Sunday with your friends to hear the jazz.

And then the karma is much stronger. Now to answer Tim's question, of those three, which one is more powerful, do you think? KUN LONGS DU SHES or NYON MONGS?

The motivation, the intention, or the perception, or the feeling? It's the intention. It's the intention.

I want to save the world. I want to get a boyfriend and thereby save the world. You got to think like that.

Don't think either or. Don't think I'm going to be spiritual and not have a boyfriend and save the world. Unfortunately, you always get them together.

And if you watched, what's that called? Transformers, you would know. He always gets the girl.

He gets a Camaro. And he saves the world. And he's done it three times.

And it's not like you have to give up the girl or the car to save the world. It's always a package. You might as well go for the big time because the little stuff comes.

In Tibet they say when you plant corn you get weeds also. So don't worry about it. The girl and the Camaro will come.

Work on the world. Because they always come in the same package. So what I assert to Tim is that if I collected karma by helping an elderly person at the nursing home and I wish to redirect it to financial prosperity so I could help more people, the intention to help the world would be the same.

It's the same action in a different package. ZAD CIG RDOG PA LTA STE What's that, Mercedes? That's a polite way to say it.

ZAD CIG RDOG PA LTA STE is an old logic term. But it means different manifestations of the same Jungian archetype. And one day I was in a 7-Eleven with my Lama.

He said, let's go, I'm really hungry. And he looks around and he takes each package out and he's like, Oh, what's in it? Let's check what's in it before we eat it.

Because he had diabetes. He's like, 90% corn syrup, 20% wheat. I can't eat that.

Then he picks up five things and he's like, God, this stuff is all ZAD CIG RDOG PA LTA STE. The same crap in different packages. And everything in the 7-Eleven is the same stuff.

It's the same corn syrup and flour in a different wrapper. Why did I talk about that? Yeah, the intention is the same.

So I assert that you can redirect the karma. And that's the end of the answer. Thank God.

By the way, I wanted you to learn how to make your seeds more powerful because that's what this whole course is about. If by next year you don't have your dream come true, it's not my fault. I always wanted to see China change.

Everybody wanted to fight with China and punish them for their past crimes. I was always thinking, why can't we just all be all cool together? Anyway, here we go.

Number six, I think. We were talking about karmic imprints that are created by each of the seven limbs. We're on number six.

NYANG NGAN LAS MIN DAG BAR GSOL BA'I DES PAS If you ask your lama not to pass away from this world, the word is nirvana, right? And the euphemism in scripture is the lama passed into nirvana. And that's a euphemism for dying.

And people take it that way. But this is literal. It means a real lama doesn't have a physical form and they're just manifesting from some paradise and they can withdraw that anytime.

So you have to ask them not to. GSOL BA'I DES PAS GUS TSE RING RDZIN RNAMS, MDOR BYED KUN YOD PA DANG Say RING RDZIN. RING RDZIN is a weird word.

It means... It's very common in other traditions of Tibet, like the Kagyu. RING RDZIN means knowledge holder or something like that.

But it means to have a special tantric skill or something like that. Here, GUS TSE. What's GUS TSE?

GUS TSE means the life. It's you have a tantric power over your life force. Meaning you can live as long as you want.

Nagarjuna lived I think 900 years. He was an alchemist. He was the greatest emptiness teacher of his time.

Like that. So you have that power. And MDOR BYED KUN means...

NYOD PA means to find or to gain the diamond body. Meaning indestructible diamond. That's also in the Yoga Sutra.

I forget what they call it. It says like a diamond. A body like a diamond.

Cannot be destroyed. Diamond is a corruption of adamas. It was supposed to be a diamond.

A diamond. Diamond was cut short. The word was truncated from a diamond, which came from Greek adamas, which means undefeatable.

Adamantine. Adamantine. Damayanti means in Sanskrit to overcome somebody or overwhelm somebody.

So adamas means... Diamond means that thing which cannot be destroyed. That's what the diamond body is.

The body of immortality. How do you get that? Ask your lama not to pass away.

Ask them to stay. All right, number seven. DNGOS BA'I SANGS RGYAS KYI YIN LDAN CI THOB PA'I LAM RJE SBYONG When you dedicate, then the imprint on your consciousness is all of the good qualities of a Buddha.

That's a, what do you call it? Catch-all karma. All right.

GSUM BDEBS KYI MA LTA'O DI YAR BYAR BA DANG MAR BYAS PA'I LUGS NI YOD KYANG When you do the supplication at step number six, the general step number six, you can, there's two ways of connecting it to the other limbs, the other parts. One says you should join it to the previous part and one says you should join it to another part. MAR BYAS PA'I LUGS NI YOD KYANG YAR BYAR BA CHAGS SHES KYI RGYUN YIN So should you, I'm sorry, the mandala in which you make a request for help, should you connect it with the request to teaching or should you connect it to the request to stay?

And here it says to the request to teach. So that's why we do this mandala thing when you ask someone to teach. In the old days you had to pay a bag of gold dust for these teachings, each teaching, which meant the teacher had a lot more free time.

But it's become a custom in Tibet to offer the world the perfected, the perfected world, mandala, mandala, which comes from, which came into Spanish as mundo, the world, and came into English as mundane, meaning worldly. They all come from Sanskrit, mandala. So anyway, it's a tradition to offer the world in exchange for a teaching and you don't offer the world in its current condition.

You offer it after the boyfriend revolution. The world as it will be after the boyfriend revolution. What's it look like?

Long lines outside of nursing homes demanding an old woman. I need one. I got to have one.

They're all booked up, honey. Come back next week. Maybe I can get you in.

You laugh because it's not the case now. Nobody wants to go to a nursing home. They're dirty.

They stink of urine. The people there are moaning and unhappy. Those things will change.

Those days will change. There will be lines outside of nursing homes and old people will all be dressed up and eating popcorn at the movies. All right.

YAR BYAR BA CHAGS SHIG GI RGYUN YIN ,'DI NYID RGYAL PO CHEN PO'I SDUG BSNGAL CHEN ZHIG ZHU NA, ,'BUL BA LTOS CHE BA ZHIG DGOS PA LTAR, It's a custom, especially in Asia, when you approach a powerful person, a politician or an emperor or a judge, that you give a gift in advance. You should offer a gift. You don't go to a court case without sending a gift to the judge first.

At least if you want a chance of winning. This was the tradition. He's saying, if you're going to ask your teacher for something valuable, you should offer something valuable before the teaching.

That's a mandala. There are two mandalas, by the way. One is the request for teaching.

You offer the world. Technically, a Buddhist teacher, a good lama, is not allowed to teach unless you ask. We're not allowed to proselytize.

We're required to wait until you offer the whole world. Then we say, yeah, okay. Then there's a DANG RAG MANDALA.

Say DANG RAG. DANG RAG DANG RAG MANDALA means after the teaching you should offer another mandala as a thank you. It's called a thank you mandala.

That's why we do a mandala before and after. The first one is a bribe. The second one is a thank you.

All right. ZHIG DNGON DU BU ZHUGS DGOS PA LTAR RANG RES RNAMS SOGS SHING LA DON GAL SHIN DU CHE BA GSUM ZHUGS DGOS PAS DON DU MANDAL BU BA'I YIN Therefore, we offer a mandala to the SOGS SHING, right? The lineage, the lamas of the lineage.

So Nick is going to do a small class on the lineage lamas. There's a huge poster that you saw last time. We borrowed it from Diamond Mountain and we broke the glass and it was kind of difficult to get it borrowed again.

We fixed it, but it was really expensive because it's big. It's a visual representation of all the lamas who have passed down this knowledge in the last two and a half thousand years. There are different lineages and they stack them on top of each other.

On one side are all the lamas of the emptiness teachings and then on another side are all the lamas of the compassion teachings. And in the center are five different lineages of the secret teachings. So when we offer a mandala in your mind, you can offer it to all these lineage lamas.

We're very big on lineage, okay? In Sanskrit, what's it called? Do you know?

PARAM PARA, right? PARAM PARA. Like at the beginning of the Hatha Yoga Padipika, we memorized it in three quarters of it before we ran out of time.

The first wording of the whole sutra is who taught it? Where did it come from? What's the lineage?

In Asia, that's considered very important, that you establish that what you're learning has an authentic lineage. Otherwise, you shouldn't waste your time on it. If this is something that somebody made up last week, somebody was trying to convince me to study psychology.

I said I did that in college. I was supposed to be a psychology major. I quit after the first semester.

They said, why'd you quit? I said, I went to Princeton. They brought down the best psychologists from New York City and each one gave a presentation every week.

This lady came down and her hand was shaking like that. I never forget this four inches here. She was telling us about how to be happy and how to control your mind and how to treat sick people.

This coffee was spilling out. I quit. I quit.

On that day, I quit. Go for something that has a decent lineage. It's not like last week's bestseller that they suddenly discovered something that no one figured out for two and a half thousand years and that's going to be for sale at Barnes & Noble's discount table for 45 cents next week.

You know that's how it goes. Everyone's like, oh, this is it. This is the book.

You got to read this book. People give me those books. I have piles of them and I don't want to look at them.

Give me a book that has a lineage. Give me a book that's helped people for 2,000 years. That's the only ones I'm interested in, frankly.

Anyway, we set great importance in lineage, in an authentic lineage. In this part of the practice, you are asking the lamas of the lineage for their help and you're offering a mandala. That mandala has three goals.

I'm about to give you three goals. By the way, I'm just going straight through to ten. Is that okay?

That's ten, right? I'll give you the three goals. DON CHEN PO GSUM NI Here there are three great goals of offering a mandala.

TSE RING BA DANG GNAS MED PA LTA BU RANG DON ZHIG LA MI ZER GYIS Praying for something for yourself, such as to live a long life free of illness, is not included. He sets that out first. He says, that's not a great purpose.

I'm not talking about that kind of thing. I'm talking about number one. GZHAN YIN RNAM PAR DGOS PA SOR, PHYIN CI LOG GI BLO NA, RGAGS PA'I DON ZHIG May I never have a really bad thought.

May I never develop really wrong attitudes and then live by them for years. That's called BLO NA. He gives an example.

GZHAN YIN RNAM PAR DGOS PA May I never develop the very destructive attitude of disrespecting my teacher. Once you take a teacher, you shouldn't take a teacher easily. A yoga teacher you can do.

A Tai Chi teacher you can do. A pottery teacher you can do. Piano teacher you can do.

But a Dharma teacher, you shouldn't commit to them for a long time. And you should check them out. You should, what do you call it?

Investigate their life. Talk to their students. Talk to the people who don't like them.

Find out everything about them. Dig into their life. And then go to a lot of their classes.

And as I mentioned a couple days ago, the tradition in Tibet was up to 12 years. To check them out for up to 12 years. And then commit to be their student, their disciple.

So the relationship between a disciple and a real Lama is much more serious than a marriage or something like that. It's a multi-lifetime thing. Your mind streams will be joined for thousands of lifetimes.

So you don't enter that relationship lightly. And our relationship is, I see it as, I'm just teaching you. Some of you want to be my particular disciple.

That's fine, we can negotiate. But I encourage you to find the teacher that fits you. Teachers are like gloves.

And I encourage you to find the one that fits your personality and fits your hopes and dreams. And check them out and be very critical and careful. And then ask them to marry you.

But after that, after that you can't disrespect them. You have to show them high respect. That's just, or else your whole life will be ruined.

It's better not to have ever met them, if you ever come to disrespect them. All right, number two. So the first reason for offering your mandala is, may I never have such thoughts.

Number two. ,'CHIN GYIS MA LOGS PA'I LO, ,THA DAG SKYE BA DON GCIG, Secondly, may I have all healthy thoughts. I offer a mandala in the hopes that I may have all beautiful and healthy thoughts.

And then the third purpose of offering your mandala is, ,'CHI NANG GI BAR BYED ZHI BA, ZHI BA means what? Shanti, shanti, shanti. By the way, that shanti, shanti, shanti repeated three times is from an Upanishad.

So when you do it in a yoga class, it's actually got a very ancient sources. And it was meant with regard to the three forms of suffering. May they be put to rest.

Shanti, shanti, shanti. What are the three forms of suffering? Number one.

Outright suffering. Headaches, backaches, breakups with your partner. Those are suffering number one.

Suffering number two. Suffering and change. What's the classical example in the scripture of the suffering and change?

A delicious meal at an expensive restaurant. Why? Because you'll get hungry again.

And you'll poop it out. In the end, it's just another kind of suffering in a different package. Anything that turns bad is bad at the beginning also.

It's not real happiness. Got it? Okay, what's the third one?

Yeah, khyapa du che kyi dunyel. The fact of being mortal. The fact of having to die.

Lose everything you had. So when you say shanti, shanti, shanti in a yoga class, traditionally it was meant to address those three. May those three be stopped.

All right, so that's shiwa. Parche means obstacles. I spent, I don't know, I'm going to brag about our trip to Asia, but frankly, the first two hours in Singapore trip were spent at the coffee bean on Orchard Road, listening to the board of directors of the Singapore group fight it out with each other about how difficult things had been.

Not really. I mean, they love each other. They're like a family that squabbles.

Then I went to Malaysia and the Malaysia team asked me, could we have a meeting? It was a repeat, exact repeat. It happens in every country actually, so don't think you're special.

Why? Why do personality conflicts come up in Dharma groups? Because you're trying to do something important.

There are negative spirits in the world and they will affect your thinking. They will enter your thinking and they will affect it. As long as you keep your head down and just watch videos and work quietly to get a little house so when you die you can lose it all.

The demons are like, leave them alone. But the minute you try to organize a talk in Mexico City, you were having a nice quiet life in Tepoztlan and meditating fine and doing your yoga and then suddenly you decide to help do a big talk and then suddenly there's all these problems. That's the dynamic of any Dharma thing.

Anytime you try to do something to help a lot of people, obstacles will come. The bigger the help, the greater the obstacles. Just get used to it.

You have to become like a diamond. You have to become, okay, I'm doing this thing. What was that John Brady brought?

When the Diamond Cutter came out in America, he had his car filled with all the books. He was headed towards Barney's old building, which is where the Rubin Museum is now, to have the book released and he got in a car accident. Then Dr. Taylor brought all the release for ACIP books to Washington for the release party. Those things cost, the whole project cost $800,000. He had, this is to save the ancient books, he had all the catalogs in the back of his car and someone put some, he asked them to move them to a car, they were supposed to put them in his trunk and they put them in the wrong car's trunk. They all disappeared.

No one ever called S.R. Somebody unloaded 50 boxes of books and threw them out. It was incredibly expensive for us. These are typical of Dharma.

Once you're going to do something important, then just expect parche. The third important goal of offering a mandala is to prevent, he calls it inner and outer obstacles. Car accidents with the books in the car.

Inner obstacles are you start to have doubts. I was happy in Tepoztlan. I was just meditating, doing my yoga.

I didn't have to deal with all this crap about renting a venue and so-and-so can't register but they want me to drive them. There's no money. That's an inner obstacle.

When you offer a mandala, you can think that those obstacles are being beaten back. Beaten back means they're going to come back. If you're going to get into the Dharma business, get used to it.

The more people you help, the greater the obstacles will become. They will become serious, very serious. You just got to be determined.

You can roll over and start watching videos again all day or you can just keep going. I prefer to keep going because that's all there is to do actually. All right, last thing.

Yeah. Why do the obstacles come from the demons and not from us? Oh, the demons come from us.

They're coming from demons. The obstacles are coming from demons that come from us. That's true.

I would say a lot of it might be competitiveness or jealousy of people who are trying to undertake good things that are looking better than us and we get jealous or we feel competitive. Then because of that, when we try to do something important, demons are born from that karma and they hurt us. Okay.

They're us. They come from us. ,SNGAG RTEN BYAR NA, ,GZHAN YIN LA MA DGOS PA NAS GSUNGS DE SNANG PHRAD MTHO GSUM, ,GYIS GNYIS SNANG PHRAD MA BAR GYI ZHES BYAR, So when they talk about obstacles or wrong thoughts in the jor chu, what's jor chu?

Jor chu is a general name for the six preparations for a meditation session. Preliminary practices. But it's also the name of a genre of literature.

So they write books about these six practices. There's a very famous one called, ,GAL SANGS RDZIN GYEN, which means a necklace to adorn the throats of those with high good karma. We're going to study it.

That's our next retreat. Or Phoenix. We'll be studying the necklace.

Why they call it a necklace? It means when you sing that ritual, it's as if you're wearing a necklace, a diamond necklace. He will refer to that text a lot, in this text, because it was written by one of his teachers.

And we memorize it in the monastery. Anyway, we're going to study that. And it's extremely beautiful.

Rinpoche made us memorize it before he would teach us tantra. ,SNGAG DANG BYA NA GZHAN YIN NA MA GOS PA NAS, So if you're going to do... ,SNGAG DANG BYA NA means to give you the tantric version.

,SNGAG means tantra. It literally means what? Mantra, right?

Tantra and mantra are synonyms. So in the secret teachings, he says, what are the obstacles that could come? He gives a range of obstacles.

From this to that. What's the range? Starting with GZHAN YIN NA MA GOS PA.

Starting with disrespecting your teacher. And ranging all the way up to... and I split it by a comment that I was working on, so don't try to read that.

,GNYIS SNANGS BYA MO, What's GNYIS SNANGS mean? GNYIS SNANGS Anybody know? GNYIS SNANGS It's duality.

Duality. BYA MO means extremely subtle. So there's an experience in the final stages of enlightenment, in the last final steps before enlightenment, before your body transforms into a Buddhist body.

There's this tiny obstacle inside your mind. Extremely tiny. And it's connected even to the process of death.

And you have to overcome this extremely infinitely subtle obstacle to make it through death to Buddhahood. And that obstacle is called SNANG BYAS THOGS GSUM Say SNANG BYAS THOGS GSUM The process of breaking through it is called SNANG BYAS THOGS Breaking through those subtle obstacles. And that's a very high tantric teaching.

SNANG means illumination like a lamp. BYAS means... SNANG is a very unusual word.

It means proliferation. Proliferation. For example, if you light one of these pine trees and then a very heavy wind comes and it goes whoosh!

And it suddenly becomes a forest fire with thousands of trees. That's called BYAS. Illumination.

Sudden expansion of illumination. And then and then a blinking out of existence. So these are three very high stages of tantra.

And within those stages are the most subtle obstacles of all. And they are tiny, tiny, tiny. They are atomic obstacles.

So he's saying from the big ones to the subtle ones. What's the biggest one? Disrespecting your teacher.

What's the subtle one? The thing that keeps you from enlightenment in the last few milliseconds of your practice. The obstacles that hold you back in the last few milliseconds of your spiritual career which has lasted for millions of years.

The last few seconds of a million year in practice. Okay? And that's a very interesting subject.

Now normally we're not supposed to teach that, but since he mentioned it, I thought Venerable Phil could explain it to us. So when he gets back from his trip towards the end of the week, I asked him to give you a lecture about it. Okay?

Because he has studied that nicely. Okay? So he'll talk about those subtle obstacles.

He asked me how much detail can I say. I don't know. I think you should follow your feeling.

But I think if people made it this far and he mentioned it, probably you can talk some detail about it. Okay? That's my answer to your question.

You ready?

[Говорящий 2] (45:14 - 45:29)
Okay.