«Дар освобождения», курс 12 «Ретрит «Главный магнит»», занятие 8

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Okay. I was in Beijing and I had a meeting with some potential sponsors of ACIP. And he said, Are you going to teach any Buddhist programs in China?

And I just smiled, you know? We just got through teaching 5,000 people about the pen and nursing homes and changing the world and, you know? And he's like, Are you going to do a Buddhist program?

I'm like, I don't know. So I think sometimes it's good just to dress normal and, you know, some of the people you teach, it doesn't have to be in a Dharma setting, right? It can just be with friends and you just talk with each other.

And a lot of people I think you can have programs, company trainings and things like that. And you're not going to say, I don't think you should say Buddhism. And I don't think you should say karma or emptiness.

You should find other vocabulary. I think DCI has its own language, right? We almost have a, when you hear DCI teachers talking, it's like they're talking Spanish or something.

You're like, what? And it's a separate language has developed, you know, the pen thing and the shower thing, the socks in the shower. And I had a socks in the shower this morning.

Oh God, yeah, you know, so did I. And you know, there will develop a language. A lot of that language is in the new book.

I think it's almost all in there. The Karma of Love book. So I think in that book are the whole 12 DCI levels will come from that book.

So try to overcome the appearances of Buddhism. Try to overcome the external, what do you call, trappings. Just be that thing.

And don't try to impose on other people that they should have such and such a picture in their house or they should ring this kind of bell. What matters is the ideas. And the ideas can, my dream is that they exist in the world.

Transparently. And no one remembers where they came from. Like democracy in America is mostly a Christian thing.

It came from the teachings of Christ. But nobody says we should have Christian teachings in, you know what I mean? They don't understand where it came from anymore.

You know, people don't, the law, the code of law in the West has come from Moses. The basic code of law that's followed in the Western countries is Moses' rules. But no one thinks of it that way.

We don't say, I'm going to the court today to talk about Moses. You know, it has become part of our civilization and we don't remember where it came from. And that's my dream.

Like these ideas should be just in t-shirt and jeans. Okay, got it? All right.

Sometimes it's nice to wear robes and have rituals and things. Those are also nice. But jeans and t-shirt are nice also.

The idea is the important thing, right? The inside. Okay, we're at RGYAL CHEN CHU RGYUD SAB That's a misspelled, okay?

SANG, Z-A-N-G should be Z-A-B, okay?

[Говорящий 2] (3:42 - 3:51)
Z-A-B, yeah, with no N. Just Z-A-B.

[Говорящий 1] (3:52 - 33:12)
Okay, good. RGYAL CHEN CHU RGYUD and SAB MOD DAG RGYUD, these are the two great lineages which you are a child of. Okay, RGYAL CHEN means, do you know?

Widespread activities. Widespread. Yeah, widespread activities.

It means love, okay? So there's a love lineage, okay? A lineage of compassion.

That's called RGYAL CHEN CHU RGYUD. The RGYU here, those of you who are learning Tibetan, is B-R-G-Y-U-D. So when it's B-R-G-Y-U-D, it means lineage.

When you cut the B off, it means tantra or it can mean mental stream, okay? Samthana, okay? Then SAB MOD DAG RGYUD means what?

SAB MOD? SAB MOD DAG RGYUD DAG RGYUD RGYUD, yeah. That's the emptiness lineage, okay?

So you are, all of the teachings that we are doing and all of the DCI programs, whether it's in China or Malaysia or Mexico or it doesn't matter where it is, they all reflect two great lineages, right? One is emptiness and one is love, okay? The combination of those two is a kind of love which understands that people are coming from you, okay?

Can you love a person who is coming from you? That's a long story. But we would say you can't really love people unless you realize that they're coming from you, okay?

Does that mean you're alone in the universe and you're living in your head? There was a debate about it in ancient India and somebody named Dharmakirti wrote a book about it called GZHAN GYUD RGYUD PA which means the proof that other people exist. And he wrote a book.

So yeah, are other people coming from me? Yes. But as outside objects, as external to myself, as separate from myself.

I see you because of karma I made in the past but I see you as a separate person so I can have a relationship with you. By the way, two things that are not separate cannot have a relationship, okay? So the cell phone cannot have a relationship with itself.

There always has to be two. So you are separate from me. How I see you is coming from me.

Okay, RGYA CHEN GCOD GYUR NA SANGS RGYA MTHIL GYUR GNYIS KYI U'I STON PA This U'I means at the head, okay? STON PA means teacher. SON DEP means we ask them for help, right?

So now we've got to asking the lamas for help. And when I do it personally, I think of my lama. I'm in the room with my lama.

Then all the lineage lamas are up. For me it's more comfortable if they're sitting up near the roof. And they're not exactly in the right lines and stuff because they got to spread out.

It's like Lisa's dance class. To me, you can't pile them all up. She wants a bigger place next time, by the way.

I'm telling you, Nick, okay? GNYIS KYI U'I STON PA'I SON DEP So when you make a request to these lamas, RIM BZHIN DRIN PA There's two Buddhas there. Why?

Yeah, there's a head of each lineage. At the head of the love lineage is a Buddha, is the Buddha. This historical Buddha.

And at the head of the emptiness lineage is this historical Buddha. So there's two of them in the visualization. And when you do the prayer to them from the jorja, from the text which I'm going to teach you, how to sing the preparations for meditation, they don't call them the same name.

They don't say, Oh Lord Buddha who is the head of the compassion lineage and Oh Lord Buddha who is the head of the emptiness lineage. They call them by different names. One is called DGEN PA NYAMS MED which means matchless guide.

And the other one says MA BA DANG MED I'm sorry, DGEN PA NYAMS MED means unequaled guide. Then the other is called MA BA DANG MED which means unequal, how would you say, matchless speaker. One of the Buddhas is called the matchless speaker.

One of them is called the unequaled guide. Take a shot at which is which. The speaker is emptiness, okay?

The speaker is, the unmatched speaker is the, Buddha as addressed as the unmatched speaker is the head of the emptiness lineage. And then Buddha addressed as the unequaled guide is the head of the compassion lineage. Then Pabongka Rinpoche wants to know why.

And he says, one represents PHYIR SOGS SU BYA BA DE SOS RGYAS KYI LAM DANG MTHUN PA TSE BA DANG KHYAD PAR BUD DZO NA BYA BA So Buddhas have, continue. Buddhas have three qualities. If you want a quick definition of enlightenment, you can say, KHYEN TSE NUS SUM Let's say, say, KHYEN KHYEN TSE TSE NUS NUS SUM If someone asked you, what is enlightenment?

How do you know you reached enlightenment? You'd say you have KHYEN TSE NUS. When you have KHYEN TSE NUS, you're a Buddha.

What is KHYEN TSE NUS? What's KHYEN? Yeah, you know all things.

Past, present, future. Anywhere in the universe. Your mind currently has the power to do that.

It's just blocked. It's weird. It's hard to appreciate.

Your mind was built to know all things. Your mind is supposed to be knowing all things. Then someone pushed you into a closet.

You see? Called the present moment. And to a Buddha that feels really, what do you call it?

Claustrophobic. To only be in the present moment and in one place. To a Buddha, it's very uncomfortable.

Why do I have to stay in this closet? Why can't I know everything that's going to happen and everything that did happen? And why can't I be everywhere at once?

Why do I have to stay in this closet? To a Buddha, the way we live would be intolerable. They'd be like, why do you live like that?

Who'd want to spend their whole life in a closet? Let's go out to a restaurant, man. Let's have a pizza, do something.

No, I want to stay in the closet. If you want a short definition of Buddhahood, ken means their mind has expanded to all knowable things. Your mind already has that ability.

If you could practice a little bit more seriously, you would break through. You'd have a breakthrough. And you could see countless planets at the same time.

Your mind has the capacity. Your mind has the capacity to see all things that will be and to see all things that were. In 20 minutes of a good meditation, you can see 500 years ahead.

Then what would your life be like if you were a person who could see 500 years ahead pretty clearly and you had to live with people in a closet? If you had to live with a whole planet of other people maybe who didn't see that. So how would it feel?

How would it feel? I don't know. It feels strange, I think.

And probably you'd have some, I don't know, you'd have some run-ins with them somehow on a subconscious level. You're acting in ways that are meant to address concerns 500 years out. And then other people are not.

So there's going to be some disconnects like that. So that's khyema. TSE means love.

And the way they explain it in the scripture is that it's of a doctor. Like the best doctor would be someone, right? The best doctor would be someone who, you came into their office and you don't feel well.

So they looked into the future and saw what medicine would work best for you. You see, if I gave him this medicine, how will he feel in six months? Let me check.

No, that's not what he said. You know, like that would be a good doctor. That would be a cool doctor.

And so khyema means they know your condition, right? Out to the end of your suffering, out to your enlightenment, they can see your condition. They can see what's going to work for you and what's not going to work for you thousands of years into the future, right?

But do they care, you see? What if you had a doctor who was just kind of a scientist and said, oh, let's see if this medicine will work for them next month. Oh, no, it's not going to.

Okay, here it is. What if they didn't care, you see? So they say, it's not enough to be omniscient.

You have to care. So that's the second quality of a Buddha, infinitely cares for you. They see everything about you but they also care what happens to you, okay?

Then why do you need something more than that? Why do you add NUS? Why do you say GYEN ZE NUS?

What's the NUS PA? Power, but why is it relevant? Yeah, if someone could see that you're going to have a problem in six months and they cared to tell you about it but they couldn't do anything about it, then they're not complete.

They're not enlightened, okay? So a Buddha has to have all three qualities. They can see your future.

They can see your past. They know tiny, tiny, tiny parts of your mind that you don't know about. And then they love you.

They're concerned about your well-being and then they have the power to do something. Then that's the definition of Buddhahood. That's one way to describe Buddhahood, okay?

So we call PHUN TSOGS. So there's a monk in New York, right, named PHUN TSOGS. It means perfect or excellent, okay?

What's the Sanskrit? Yeah, atisha, atisha, ati-isha. It's ati-isha, okay, if you care.

Ati means to the end. Isha means gone. PHUN TSOGS, okay, perfect.

Excellent, okay? So SE BA PHUN TSOGS, perfect love, is reflected in the name Unequaled Guide and KHYAB PA PHUN TSOGS, perfect knowledge, is reflected in the name, what's the other name? Unmatched Speaker, okay?

Then on your homework, I put that on homework too. So we're finally doing homework too. It's kind of late.

But anyway, I put it on your homework. And I'd like you to free associate about why is an emptiness teacher called a speaker and why is a compassion teacher called a guide? And you can't get the answer wrong.

Okay, it's a nice question. If you write anything, it's okay. I'm just curious what you think.

I want you to think about if your student comes to you in a year or two years or tomorrow and says, well, why do they say guide and why do they say speaker? I want you to, what do you call it? Speculate about why.

And then you answer the question correctly, all right? If you just speculate. I want you to think about it.

I don't have an answer for you, okay? I want you to figure it out, okay? All right, here we go.

,MA BA DAG MED KYI BDUN THUB PA'I BSTAN BYUNG GSUNGS PA LA, ,SNGAGS PA YIN TSUL GSOGS GSUNGS, And I cut out the verses for you and I'm skipping them because we're going to do the Djordje later, okay? So MA BA DAG MED means unmatched speaker. What's DAG BA?

Moon, okay? But it also has a meaning of a match because the moon is the match of the sun. So when you say no match, no moon, it doesn't mean you, well, okay, it means no match, okay?

Like in honorific Tibetan, in aristocratic Tibetan, which is an art in itself to speak aristocratic, to be among aristocrats in Tibet and speak their language is kind of fun. Then you don't say, how's your wife? You say, how is thy, how are thy kunda?

Say kunda. What's KU? Yeah, what's DAG?

Match. How's your body match? How's your holy body match?

Which means your wife. Okay, got it? It's nice, I like it.

So that language is being lost because the aristocrats were lost, but I grew up with it and it's kind of fun to know. There are many dialects within Tibetan. There's an epistolary dialect.

When you write letters, you use a different language. When you debate, you mix Shakespearean with colloquial. Thou art, sorry.

Thou art confused, stupid. And normal Tibetans can kind of watch a debate and have no idea what's going on. They have no idea what these guys are talking about.

Or a person who hasn't been trained in epistolary Tibetan can't read a letter that's written in it. Or a person who hasn't been among aristocrats would not understand what they're talking about. And an aristocrat who came into a monastery wouldn't have the least clue of what people were saying.

It's kind of interesting, but it's difficult to learn that many languages. So we're making some videos. We're making some YouTube videos.

I want to make a hundred because I want to pass on that and have it recorded somewhere because it's being lost in Tibet. Tibetans are forgetting Tibetan. I called a monastery in Tibet recently to get a book and nobody could speak Tibetan.

And finally they found one old man who came and talked to me and he was like, I find book, you send me. And that was it. There was one monk left at Joni Monastery.

There's only one monk who could speak Tibetan to me on the phone. So I think it'd be important to make these videos and record it. So we're working on it.

Okay, MA BA DAG MED KYI BDUN The meaning of unmatched speaker, THUGS PA'I RTEN CUNG GSUNGS PA He's a master speaker because the THUGS PA, what's THUGS PA? Yeah, good. Whoa, where'd that come from?

Okay. One day I was driving with Anipalma in the car and with three other people and she's in the backseat. And suddenly, it's all quiet, we're all working, and then suddenly there's this, CHUNG DEN PAS And I'm like, what?

CHUNG DEN PAS And I'm like, what? And she says, I don't know, it just came into my head. What's it mean?

It's Bhagavan, right? Anyway, it was like that. THUGS PA means able one, right?

The Sanskrit is muni. Which is related to the word mauna. What's mauna?

Yeah, mauna means to keep silence. It's the practice of keeping silence. Like you meet some yogi in India and he'll say, I'm going to keep mauna for a week and then he won't speak for a week or something like that.

So the ancient root of THUGS PA is it means silent one who doesn't speak. And that's probably more accurate. The Tibetans translate it as able one, but the mauna is more accurate.

Anyway, DANG PO'I BRTEN CUNG He is a matchless speaker because he talks about dependent arising or dependent origination. I'd like to, nowadays I'm trying dependent creation. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

What's an example of dependent creation? The pen, yeah, you can always say the pen even if you're not sure why. The pen's existence depends on a seed opening up in my mind.

That's all. The creation of the pen depends on a seed opening up in my mind. That's all.

Unfortunately, it's a very complicated word, dependent creation. It just means for a pen to happen depends on something else. For a pen to be here in the room depends on something else.

What's the something else? A seed in my mind, a karmic seed in my mind. Okay, that's all.

Because the Buddha teaches that fact, he is a matchless speaker. Okay, he's a matchless speaker. There's nothing cooler you could say than that.

Let's put it that way. Since we're wearing jeans and T-shirt today, you could probably change the verse to nobody talks cooler. You see what I mean?

Than you. Nobody has anything cooler to say than you. Why?

You talk about the pen. That's it. In a nutshell, that's it.

I mean, take away all the flowery language, that's the bottom line. Okay, all right. You are a matchless speaker if you talk about the pen.

On DCI tours all over the world, whether it's in Bulgaria or, I don't know, Paris or Buenos Aires or Beijing, we have a meeting. The teachers have a meeting. We actually get to the place three hours early and we practice and we debate and we practice and we eat together and we run over everything because they're going to do big question and answer on the stage, which is not staged.

It's actually people asking questions, profound questions like, if I fart right now and if it spreads all over the room but I was trying to hold it, do I make a bad karma? This is in a thousand people. What country was that?

Maybe we shouldn't say. We have a book of DCI bloopers. It was Guangzhou, sorry.

Maybe that's an important question, I don't know. But we try to practice the possible questions we might get. Some we can't anticipate.

So we're sitting there and then we're all ready to go out on the stage and we all say, look, if you get stuck, just say, it's the seats. If somebody tells you, why blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you can say, it's the seats. What should I do about seats?

Then you're a matchless speaker. That's what it means. And you really are.

It's always a good answer. Okay, it's always a good answer. Ningbo said I should have a tape recorder in my shirt pocket.

And when people, people come up during the intermissions to ask me questions and I say, what should I do about blah, blah, blah, blah, and I turn it on and say, it's the seats. And then I can have tea while it's talking to me. We want to try it in Mexico City?

Put one, well, you bring a ventriloquist and I can go. Okay, anyway. So, SNGAGS PA YIN SONG GSUNGS SNGAGS PA here means, SNGAGS is tough because SNGAGS means tantra, but this spelling, B-S-N-G-A-G-S, means to praise.

So he's praising the fact that he's teaching about the seats by calling him an unmatched speaker. DE NAS DON CHEN PO DPON LA ZHUG RNGOL CHEN ZHUGS PA DGOS PA BZHIN DU DE NAS means, this is a cool section, and I've been prepping you for it, but you didn't know. DE NAS means, and then, DON CHEN PO means some great purpose.

DPON LA ZHUGS means if you are going to go to a local, DPON means like nobleman or prince or authority, a local authorities, like the judge of Cochise County or something. Okay, DPON, that'd be a DPON. In Sanskrit, what's the Sanskrit for DPON?

Acharya. Acharya. So, an archery master is called a DAPAN.

So DPON means a master. A karate master is called GONG FU DPON. Like that.

DPON means the master of whatever came before him. Here it means, suppose you need to ask a very powerful person in the state that you live for some big request. You have a big request of a very powerful person.

ZHUGS PA Then you should have a, RNGOL CHEN means someone who's connected. You need a, it's very important in China. You don't go to them directly.

You go to a middleman. You don't go ask the governor of Shandong for some big request. You find out who's connected and you have to go to the connected person.

I was trying to think of an example. I was in India when I was studying in India like a long time ago and we had to pay for a visa. We had to bribe somebody to stay in India.

We had to bribe somebody. But we couldn't give them the money. So you had to call some, there's a special office and you go to the office and you say, I need a visa.

Okay, I understand. And then you go to the visa office. The officer sits there.

You sit here and the other guy sits here. And then literally under the table, you hand this guy the money and then he hands it to the officer. Because the officer trusts him.

So you need a go-between. That's a NGO CHEN. ZHU BA PO means somebody to make the request for you.

DGOS PA You don't approach Obama directly. You find someone who knows him. There's this thing, did you ever read that?

We're all within five? Is it three? Three?

Six. Six NGO CHENs. You can talk to Bruce Springsteen or something.

At the time it was that. DGOS PA means you need somebody as a go-between. GZHIN DU Therefore, DUN GYI RTZA BA'I LAMA You take your root Lama.

You take your heart Lama. DUN means who's sitting in front of you in this meditation. And GEL DU KHYI RNAM PA CHEN means in the form that you normally see them day to day, in their day to day form.

Meaning wearing a t-shirt and didn't shave today. ZHU BA PO RNAM PA CHEN LAS Then you imagine RANG RANG NYID PA means a clone of them. MTHUN DE means rises out of them.

And RAG GI CHUR ZHUGS sits on the top of your head. And then they shrink and they turn around their face the same way. Then when you ask for the help of the lineage Lamas, they have to help you first.

They say, this is Michael. He wants to ask you for something. I know him.

He's okay. We're tight. So you can probably do whatever he asks you for.

He's talking, he's representing you to the Buddhas. So it's just a custom. So you bring the Lama to your hand and then they ask for you.

Or you can imagine that they're speaking as you speak. He's a go-between or she's a go-between. GSUM BDEB NYAM DU MDZAD DE means make your request together.

So you're saying, I would like to have more wisdom from the emptiness side. I'm asking that the emptiness lineage guys give me a little more wisdom to deal with my husband. When he gets irritated at me, I need more wisdom.

So you're like, I need more wisdom. I'm asking the Garjuna and all the emptiness Lamas for more wisdom in dealing with someone that I'm having trouble with. Then your Lama says, okay, listen, he's having trouble with his partner and he needs a little more wisdom.

And we were wondering if you could. Okay, got it? You got the idea.

I think to do it is going to be fun. RGYAL ZE CHU LA UR DRAN GYI GZOD DU MDZAD PAS DMAR PA'I And so keeping that in mind, then start to recite the verses of the jorja in which we ask for help. And the wording in the jorja is, SPEL DANG TSA BA'I RNAM BAR DGOS PO CHE, BDAG GIS BYUNG BA'I BSTAN PA'I DE'I RLAGS, GA RIN CIG PAS BSGOM NAS GYUR ZIN DE, KHO SUM THUGS KYI NGUR DU RTZAD DU TSUL, you ask, the first person you ask for help is your own Lama.

How they interpret for you, I'm not sure. Okay, KHO SUM THUGS KYI NGUR DU RTZAD DU TSUL, then I'll teach you how to do it next time. So this section is going to be a little weird because he's going to keep referring to the prayer.

KHO SUM THUGS KYI NGUR DU RTZAD DU TSUL means, will you please teach me to act like you, to speak like you, to think like you, okay? Please bless me to act like you, speak like you, and think like you. Then in my own case, I can think of my Lama, my heart Lama, and I compare how they act to how I act.

And there's a gap. I don't consider myself a terrible person, but I can perceive the gap between how I act and how they act just by watching them or being around them. I see how I would respond to something.

I see a big difference. So then I would, in my heart, I would say, bless me that I could be more like you. How gracefully you answer these questions.

How gracefully you respond to someone who's criticizing you and how kind you are to everybody. Even people who are very, what do you call it? Down and out, and everybody ignores them, and Lama's always taking care of them.

And I would like to have that ability. So I say, could I have, could you help me to be more like you?

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Wait, wait, wait.

[Говорящий 1] (33:13 - 58:35)
Okay. So you ask three times, or there's a custom to ask, he says two times, okay? You repeat, please bless me, please bless me.

You say it twice. First time you say it, the clone of the Lama comes to the top of your head. The second time you say it, honey comes out of your Lama's body down your spine, okay?

And they start to sink into you. Your teacher sinks into you. Then it's easier to act like them.

You see what I mean? By the way, the honey, what I'm calling honey in Tibetan is what? Dutsi, say dutsi in Sanskrit?

Amrita. Everybody mispronounces Sanskrit. And it's important to pronounce it correctly because it's a holy language.

It came from the sounds inside the chakras. So if you pronounce it wrong, it clashes with something in your inner body. So anyway, it's amrita, it's not amrita.

Amrita is a root that came into English in mortuary or mortal or murder. Okay, and it means death. Amrita means negative, right?

It's called the privative A in grammar, which means negative. It's in Greek also, atheist, agnostic, apathetic. Pathos means passion.

Apathos means bored. Apathetic or agnostic or atheist. Not theist, right?

Not believing in God. So anyway, amrita means deathlessness. The nectar of deathlessness.

The Greek is very interesting. Nektar, okay? Nekt means death.

Like necrophilia comes from that. And then tar comes from the root tara, which means to go beyond, to pass beyond. Transportation comes from that.

Okay, trans comes from tara. So anyway, nektar means to go beyond death. Nectar, okay?

So amrita is exactly nectar. Anyway, duci, duci bep jang. I'll teach you that, okay?

You ready? Duci bep jang. It comes in tantra a lot, but it also comes in lama chupa or similar lama practices.

They're called lama nildra, guru puja or guru yoga text. And maybe we should just do it together. What time do we have to stop today?

4.30? Okay, let's just do it together, okay? We'll do it as a meditation.

That's the way you should do it. Duci bep jang. Some of you know it or you'll recognize it when you hear it.

I'm going to go to text because you tricked me and we already had a question and answer. Is that okay? Yeah, because we only have half an hour.

Is that okay? That was really pleasant for me though. Somehow it's different to do it on the floor together.

Okay, I'm at, we're at, we did the bep jang, okay? Adam, you got the bep jang? Yeah, so that was the bep jang.

That was the meditation we did of clearing out, sending the crap down. And it's so appropriate to stuff it into the Lord of Death's mouth and say, okay, that's enough. Now you go away.

In the scripture, you're supposed to think the dog went away forever. The dog is like, hmm, that was nice. They're like, okay, I don't need you anymore.

All right, next paragraph. BYAMS SHAL SBYOR CHOS SU TSIG KHANG ZHIG PA So BYAMS SHAL is, what is it? BYAMS PA'I GZHAN LUNG Say BYAMS PA'I GZHAN LUNG.

It's the word of Manjushri. And I believe it's a lamrim by the fifth Dalai Lama. Okay, it's another lamrim.

BYAMS PA'I GZHAN LUNG GZHOR CHOS In the preliminary practices, each lamrim, each historical lamrim, many of the historical lamrims have their own GZHOR CHOS. They have their own seven-lim puja song. Okay, and in that one, TSIG KHANG ZHIG PA means the fourth line of the verse.

Okay, the fourth line of the verse. LEN NYID DONG PA CHAGS BSHAD MI RDZAS KYANG They don't repeat the fourth line of the verse twice. Okay, in that lamrim tradition, in the tradition of that lamrim.

Okay, MI RDZAS KYANG But DE NYUR, what's DE LAM and NYUR LAM? Yeah, Path of Bliss and the Quick Path. Those are two other lamrim traditions.

Okay, then in those traditions, in the GZHOR CHOS, in the song before you meditate, you repeat the fourth line twice. Let's give an example. KUSUM THUGS KYI DNGOS DRUG TSAL DU GSUL Help me to act, speak, and think like you.

And then in those two lamrims, you say it twice. Help me to act, speak, and think like you. Help me to act, think, and speak, and think like you.

You will repeat it twice. The last line. And there's a bunch of verses because you need a different verse for each lineage, like the compassion lineage, the wisdom lineage, etc.

Okay, NYID DON PA'I DANG POR Then he says, RTZA LAS SKABS SABS RGYAS GNYIS DANG RGYAL CHEN CHU RGYUD KYI BLAM MED SKABS RGYAL CHE BA'I LAM DANG SA MO LTAR BA'I RGYUD KYI SKABS SABS MED LAM KHAS RIM PA RGYUD LA SKAD BA'I MI MTHUN CHOG BYAMS PA'I MOD PA DANG If what you're focusing on, when you say the fourth line the first time, is this getting too complicated? Yes. When you hit the fourth line and you say, please help me to act, think, and speak like you, the first time you say that, if you're going to say it twice, the first time you say that, if you're focusing on your heart Lama and asking them for blessings, you should imagine that nectar is coming down into you, which removes obstacles both to love and to understanding emptiness, because your Lama combines both. Then, if you're focusing on the Lamas of the love lineage, then when you repeat the fourth line the first time, you should just imagine that all obstacles to your being a loving person are being removed. If you're focusing on the emptiness lineage, when you hit the fourth line, the first time you say it, you should think that nectar is coming down and removing obstacles to thinking correctly about pens and stuff.

Okay, got it? That's the first time you hit the fourth line. Okay, the second time, GNYIS PA'I SKABS LAMA DE RNAMS LAS RANG DAG RE RANG LA BSTAN PA'I Imagine that a clone from each of the Lamas of that lineage is descending into you.

Nick's going to go through some of those lineages and I think it will take him many retreats to get through all of them. And then he'll be, for example, I think you're covering three important Lamas of the lineages in his talk. Then you're supposed to imagine that a clone, he's going to cover Master Shantideva.

So you imagine a clone of Shantideva coming into your body. RANG RE LA BSTAN PA'I SABS RGYAS GANG YIN GYI RTOG PA SKYE BA'I SMOD PA BYA Then imagine that the corresponding obstacles have been removed. If it's Shantideva, what?

Obstacles to emptiness. Shantideva's book is in the MA BYAS MI KHA section of the Tenggir. All right, middle way, emptiness.

Okay. RGYUD PA YANG SPYIR DAG GANG DANG MA MIN PA'I RGYUD PA MNYAMS SBYOR BA'ANG CHUG PA'ANG BSTANG LDAN BSGOM PA BA ZHES SOGS RGYA CHEN CHUD GYIS GYIS RNAMS NAS BCUG TU BYAR BA'I So now he's talking about all the lineages which are contained in the massive poster, which Nick is going to talk about. And we worked on it for many days.

And we tried to identify each Lama. I think we did it, but it took a long time. And it took half a million pages of scripture.

We had to comb through half a million pages of scripture to find who they were. I don't think you could do it without a database. So we identified everybody and we identified what lineages they are.

So he's got it down. And it was fun, but it took a long time. RGYUD PA YANG, so generally speaking about the lineages, GCIG STONG means, generally speaking, KHA DAM LAM RIM PA'I RGYUD PA The lineage of Lam Rim as taught by the Kadampas.

Who are the Kadampas? These are the first Buddhists in Tibet. They were like us.

They were the pioneers of Buddhism in their country. And they were hippies. They were misfits.

And they were weird people like us. They didn't quite fit into society. And they went to India and they got some teaching and they came back and they started teaching it in these little dharma centers that were family-owned operations.

They weren't monks yet. And it all started like that, as little dharma centers spread through Tibet. Weird little dharma centers like Bodhihara.

It was just a family thing. And they met in somebody's home. And that was called Kadampas.

Those were the Kadampas. So a Lam Rim lineage began with them. Those family-operated dharma franchises.

And their Lam Rim tradition started among those family. And I like that. And many people believe those were the golden times of Buddhism in Tibet.

When it was sort of a public thing or sort of of the masses and it wasn't of the theocracy. So I kind of think that we're in the golden days. We had long discussions in China.

A lot of people in Beijing asked me about it. I said, I sincerely feel that the future of this wisdom in this era belongs to working people, normal people. I don't think it's going to be a priesthood.

That you have to go to the priest to talk to God. He has to bless the wine and then God has blessed it. I feel like we're in a new era of this wisdom and it's going to be spread by men and women equally.

And the teachers are going to be lay people. Most of them are going to be normal people. And that's, to me, very healthy.

Why did I get there? Oh, Kadampa's. So those were Kadampa's.

They were not monks. Most of them were not monks. RGYUD PA'I GNOD SBYOR DBANG CHUB DANG DANG DGONGS PA BA So when you do your prayer to them, the first one is, Lord among yogis, the glorious DGONGS PA BA.

When you recite those lines, that group of guys is on the right side of the poster. Our right, which is which? Yeah, sorry.

No, our right. It's wisdom, you're right. Okay, I'm sorry.

Our left, which is Je Tsongkapa's right, is the love lineage. Left is always wisdom. Women's energy is wisdom.

Man's energy is love. Whether you believe it, I don't know. So when you pray to the Lamas of the Lam Rim from early to bed, they are all clumped on the compassion side Lamas.

They're clumped in with the compassion side Lamas. SBYUG TU SBYAR BA'I Therefore, you might think to yourself that they are part of the compassion lineage. And he says, it's not like that.

DE LTAR MIN NA They don't belong to that lineage. They just got clumped there. So that's going to make it all more complicated.

They're clumped over there, but that doesn't mean they're part of Maitreya's lineage. I'm sorry. BYA' KHOR GAN CHEN GYI GSOS BDEB SAB CING RGYA CHE CHOS DANG LA NYES PAS When you get to the supplication of BYA' KHOR GAN CHEN, he was one of the Lamas that we identified.

And the lines of asking for help from that particular Lama, they say, SAB CING RGYA CHE CHOS DANG LA NYES PAS You are the master over both the wisdom lineages and the compassion lineages. After that, SBYUG PA'I DBANG CHU CHEN PO TSUL KHRIMS PAR ZHES SBYUNG BA'I After that, you start talking about a Lama named TSUL KHRIMS PAR. ZHES SBYUNG BA'I So you might think that those two are connected.

And he says, it ain't that way. So it's not as easy as it looks. It's more complicated than it looks.

But we separated them out. We separated out those groups. So don't worry.

He's got it straight. I don't remember. DE LTAR MIN TE DON NUG MED NGAG BZHIN RGYAL CHEN CHOS RGYUD KYI SBYOR BA'I BAR LAS BZIN NAS RGYUD PA'I CHOS DE BYED KYI DKA' DANG PAR MIN ZHUGS PAR LTA RGYUD KYI SBYOR DUM YOD SEMS LA THUGS KYI BAR DON DON NUG MED NGAG BZHIN When you recite these prayers to the Lamas, RGYAL CHEN CHOS RGYUD KYI SBYOR BA'I BAR you follow the love lineage down to SBYOR.

Who's SBYOR? Lord Atisha. BAR LAS BZIN NAS When you get that far, RGYUD PA'I CHOS DE BYED KYI DKA' DANG PAR MIN ZHUGS PAR CHOS CHUN DE BYED After Lord Atisha, what happens to the lineages?

They get mixed. So Atisha was a master of emptiness and then he went on a trip to Indonesia, Sumatra, and Bali, I don't know. Then he got the compassion lineage there.

He went on an extremely dangerous sea voyage a thousand years ago in a cheap little leaky wooden boat from India to Indonesia to get that lineage because he wanted to mix the two lineages. And that lineage at the time only existed in Indonesia. So Indonesia was a Buddhist country.

Now it's Muslim. And we taught there. We taught to a very nice Muslim group there and we did a TV show there.

And they're very wonderful and they love Diamond Cutter. They love that stuff. We just don't have time to go.

But then we flew, we took a flight in the evening to a place called Bodobodur which is a mountain that was carved into a mandala and has hundreds of huge panels as big as these walls describing the events of Lord Buddha's life and the events of other saints. And I found the Wheel of Life there. I found the history of the Wheel of Life there.

And I had a big meeting with the administrators of the place. It's a UNESCO Heritage site. And we had a big meeting and we're going to do a book together because they didn't know what it was.

And it was very exciting. Why am I talking about that? Oh, that's where Atisha went.

In those days that was a Buddhist country. Okay. That mountain was covered by the jungle for centuries and then some Dutch guy explorer found it.

Like, what do you call? Who's that guy? Harrison Ford.

What's his name? Indiana Jones. There was a tender moment when the Dalai Lama came to Washington DC and there was a dinner to honor him and Rinpoche went because he had to have a meeting.

And I was the driver. So I always got to sit in on those meetings which was pretty intense. So Harrison Ford got up to welcome His Holiness.

And I said to Rinpoche, you know who that is? And he says, yeah, he's a senator. And I said, no, no, guess again.

And he says, I know. And I said, who? And he says, Indiana Jones.

So anyway, once you get down to Atisha, the two lineages join. The wisdom and compassion. A thousand years ago with the first Indian guru to end up in Tibet, the two lineages joined in our tradition.

,RJOY PAR DU LAS TSUN NAS, ,'GYUR BA'I CHU BO RDZA'I, ,'JES SKYI GANG DANG DBANG MIN JUG PAR, ,DAR GYI GYIS BYOR DROM YAB SRED LA THUG CA'I PAR BDAM, I'm not sure what this means. I have to study it. I think it means some of the Kadampa's missed that mixing.

But I'm not sure. I want to study it a little bit. So I'll check it.

,LTA RGYUD KYI SBYOR DRUM YOD SRED LA THUGYI BAR LDAN, Then on the wisdom side you can keep going down through Atisha to his main disciple who is Dromtonche who is famous in Tibet because he never took ordination. He was a lay person. He's one of the greatest lamas of Tibet and he never became a monk.

And so he's famous for that. And I think he's sort of a model for many people in America or in the West, Mexico, sorry. What do they call you in China?

Mashko. They call you Mashko. You are from Mashko.

I'm like, what's Mashko? I'm from Mashko. ,DE NAS DE GZHON GYI DBANG GIS BSGOM PA BA DANG PAR BYED PA'I DKA'I DANG SNGAR MED PA SNGON GYUR RGYAL TSUL GYI BAR, ,DE NAS, after that, DE GZHON GYI DBANG GIS.

Okay, I'm sorry to do all this technical stuff but my commitment is to give you the whole scripture. It'll make more sense next time when we go through the whole lineage. But I have to do it.

I'm sorry. And I'm sorry for sniffling, which is kind of irritating. ,DRE BZHIN, ,DRE means, what do you call it?

Packing order in the monastery. The seating in the monastery is extremely complicated. So when the monks all meet in the main temple to do a meditation together or something, you all stand around until the high reincarnated lamas show up.

And they're always late. And they might be 10 years old, like this one. So that's Kim Rinpoche.

He's arriving at Sera this month. I think he's seven. He's my teacher's reincarnation.

So he will be seated at the front. He will be seated at the front row of the first row. And we can't sit down until he shows up.

And being a seven-year-old, he might decide to stop for candy on the way. And it happens all the time. And then these 80-year-old high Geshes are waiting, because they don't count as much as an incarnated lama.

So that's called ,DRE BZHIN. It's the seniority system in the monastery and it's very complicated. And if you make an error, you can get really in big trouble.

So that's why it's so hard for a foreigner to survive in those monasteries, because you don't know those things. Anyway, ,DRE BZHIN GYI DBANG GIS, according to the pecking order, Gunbawa will be first. And then there will be the Kadampa Lamrimpa.

We go down to the Kadampa Lamrim teacher, Namkhya Gyeltsen. ,DE TZAM GZHUNG BA BA'ANG PO RTOG BA NAS GZHUGS BSKYAB SANGS PAR, Then you switch over to the GZHUNG BA BA's. Say Lamrimpa.

GZHUNG BA BA. Lamrimpa. GZHUNG BA BA.

GZHUNG BA BA means a person whose spiritual path tends more to the deeper teachings, more detailed, more difficult. They go deeper. Their questions are deeper.

Their practice is deeper. That's called a GZHUNG BA BA. GZHUNG BA means the classics.

They study the classics. And that's the Geshe program. So they do the five classics and it takes 20-25 years.

That's a GZHUNG BA BA. Lamrimpa is a person who doesn't want to do all that. They kind of would like a summary of the whole practice and that's a Lamrim.

Which one did you guys get? Yeah, I'm doing both. I want you to have both options.

So I did GZHUNG BA BA for seven years in New York. And we're doing Lamrimpa for 12 or 14 years. So then you'll have both lineages.

That's my plan. And then you choose what you want to give to your students. But your toolkit is bigger.

I think you should have a big toolkit. Somebody told me, I'm not so interested in Lamrim. I said, but that's not the point.

You have to have it in your toolkit. Even if you don't choose to practice it yourself, you'd be a fool not to put it in your toolkit. Because you might run into somebody who wants it, who only responds to Lamrim.

So as a teacher, like as a doctor, you should know many procedures. Because each patient is different and they might need a procedure that is unique. And so you shouldn't ever say to any procedure, I don't want to learn that one.

It's foolish as a doctor. And Shantideva said, he even threw in fixing cars and changing filters on air conditioners and cleaning the boiler in New Jersey. Rinpoche's take on it was you should learn everything.

You should know how to do everything. You should know PayPal. You should know Square.

You should know Facebook. You should know Twitter. I don't choose to use Facebook.

I once looked at my Facebook page once. There's thousands of people talking to each other, but stupid, crazy stuff, and I'm like, whoa. But you should know about it.

Every Buddha should have as many skills as you can collect because you might help somebody. You should never ignore a skill. So I want you to have all possible spiritual skills in your toolkit, in your medical bag.

And then when your student needs that, you can pull it out and give it to them. Did you have a question, Daniel? Yeah, same thing.

Sannipa. You can call him a sannipa also, which means a logician, which means a classicist.

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Okay.

[Говорящий 1] (58:36 - 1:06:52)
All right. So anyway, there's two groups of them on the poster. Chukyap Sambupar.

They name Mengakpa. Then there is a group called Mengakpa. Say Mengakpa.

Mengakpa means a person who doesn't study, but who attaches themselves to a Lama, maybe as an attendant, and lives off their Lama's comments. And that's the extent of their spiritual education. They don't read scriptures.

They don't do Lam Rim. They just attach themselves to a Lama, try to stay close, be their attendant, wash their dishes, cook for them. I did it for, I don't know, 25 years.

I washed dishes. We... And drove cars and ran lawnmowers.

Wash clothes. We didn't have a washing machine because we couldn't afford it. And I had to go to the laundromat.

And I was so happy because they played rock and roll there. Rinpoche, don't you need your clothes washed today? And so that's called a Mengakpa.

Okay. Which is better? It depends on your own...

What do you call it? What do they call it? Propensities or inclinations, yeah.

Your psychological makeup, your spiritual psychological makeup. Some people respond better to the classics. I'm going to give you a classic, by the way, okay?

I translated one of the most important classics. I'm working on it because my teacher taught it to me for 12 years. One of my scripture teachers taught me the greatest book on emptiness for, sorry, eight years.

And so now I'm finally translating it. And then I finished about 50 pages of it. And I thought, I'd really like you to see it because it's a real, it's the real thing.

How to approach one of the great classics. And it's deep. It's Tsongkhapa on emptiness.

Just emptiness for 500 pages. But it's hard. And I thought, oh, it'd be sexy to give you the first part.

So I'm going to give you 50 pages by the end of the week, okay? Everybody. And that's a classicist approach.

There was once a contest. One of Lord Atisha's attendants was complaining that he had to watch dishes all the time and didn't get enough time to memorize scripture. Then he said, let's have a contest of spiritual level.

I don't know exactly how he did the contest. They don't say very clearly. But he had this contest to see who was more advanced spiritually.

And of course the dishwasher won. Hands down. He wiped out the other guy.

So anyway, I think it's a diamond deal. I think you should be able to teach Lam Rim. I think you should wash dishes for your teacher, whoever that is.

And you should learn the classics. And you should be all three. I think that's the best.

Anyway, in the poster, there's three groups based on their primary interest, right? Of course the dishwasher studied scripture and the classicist washed a lot of dishes. Okay.

Chengla Tsultrim Bar is one of them. And they go up to Namkhagyaltsen. And you're going to learn that next time.

DE TZAM RGYUD PA'I CHU BO GSUM GCIG BDE GSUNG DGYUR PA BYAS RIM PA BYAS GSON DTAB GCIG LAS MIN BYUNG LA DE YANG DRIN LAG GI SKYE DMIGS TSE MA BDUN DE TZAM When you reach that point in all these lineage Lamas, RGYUD PA'I CHU BO GSUM the three great streams, the three great lineages, GCIG BDE GSUNG DGYUR PA they get combined in a single person. We've only been talking about two lineages. Why does he mention a third?

You can't answer because you're doing it. Yeah, it's Tantra, okay? It's the wisdom lineages on Tsongkhapa's left, which is our right.

The compassion lineages on his right, which is our left. And then there's these five lineages coming down from the top. And those are the tantric lineages.

And to separate them and to clear them up, it took us, I don't know, six months. But we worked it out. We figured it out.

So these are five important tantric lineages. Those three streams, he calls them, are combined in a single person. Guess who?

Gyatsongkapa, okay? So he combined those three lineages. GSON DTAB GCIG LAS MIN BYUNG means in the prayer, there's only one verse devoted to Gyatsongkapa, okay?

So he says, GYIN LAB GYI SKYE, so if you want to jack up the... How do you say jack up in Tibetan? BOG DBYIN PA BOG DBYIN PA, okay?

That's the meaning of BOG DBYIN PA. BOG DBYIN PA means take it to a new level. So if you want to BOG DBYIN PA the GYIN LAB, the blessing that you get, at this point, you should recite MIG TSE MO.

Take it away, Nick. No, no, no, hand it out. It's okay.

He was getting excited. So mantras, generally mantras are secret, right? 99% of all mantras are secret.

There's one open mantra. I mean, there's one famous open mantra and it's in Tibetan. Okay, so normally mantras are spoken in Sanskrit.

There's one famous Tibetan mantra and you're going to learn it in the next 10 minutes. You're so lucky. Say MIG TSE MO.

MIG TSE MO That was defective in the notes. I cut it out of a text and I glued it in there and then later I realized it was missing a line on purpose. The Tantric lineage is not there.

So you have it in your hand, okay? That's called MIG TSE MO. This is the mantra of Je Tsongkapa.

And it's the only common Tibetan mantra there is. And it's open. You can learn it without taking a Tantric initiation.

So I would like to go over the MIG TSE MO mantra with you. And it's very appropriate to do a whole retreat on the MIG TSE MO mantra. If you want to do that, come down to Diamond Mountain after April 4th when there's cabins available and you can do a Tsongkapa retreat and you can do 10,000 MIG TSE MOs or 100,000.

Lock yourself up with Tsongkapa for a month or a week or whatever you want. Okay, it's very beautiful. It's a lot of fun.

That's what we use that place for, okay? All right. Okay, first thing in tradition is to give a lung.

What's a lung? Yeah, so just close your eyes. I'm going to say it three times.

And four centuries of blessings going to pour into your head. No kidding, okay? Here we go.

So concentrate. Don't think about dinner. Guenka used to say, don't think about monkeys.

Then we're all like, why did he ask me not to think about monkeys? Okay, here we go. You ready?

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Let's be quiet for a second. Okay, good, nice.

[Говорящий 1] (1:07:46 - 1:12:08)
So it's all been poured into you. Let's explain it, okay? The important thing is the name of the mantra, okay?

Miksema, say Miksema. Ma is the feminine ending in Tibetan. Like mama.

When I got to India and started learning Tibetan, there was a place for foreigners to learn Tibetan and I didn't know any Tibetan. And they were having a Master Shantideva class. They were just starting a long, like a year-long Shantideva class and I really wanted to get into it.

But you had to know Tibetan. Then they had an examination. They had a quiz.

There was a board of three lamas who decided whether you could be in. So I was really good friends with one of those lamas who's called Sharpa Rinpoche. And he's in the Vajrayogini lineage.

And he really wanted me to be in the class. So he said, I'll be his questioner. And then they said, okay, give him some Tibetan words to translate.

And Rinpoche leans over and he goes, what does mama mean? And I'm like, mother. He's like, right.

And then he says, what does papa mean? And I'm like, father. And he says, you're in.

By the way, in the Dhaka, it's Tenzin Chinle Shep. Tenzin Chinle Shep. And he was a young man when I met him.

If you see the movie Kundun, he plays His Holiness's teacher. He's Ling Rinpoche in the movie, which is kind of cool. Anyway, he was one of my first teachers.

And so anyway, ma is the feminine ending. And it makes him ma. The name of the mantra is makes him ma.

And holy things in Tibet, particularly holy prayers, are often given the feminine ending. Like gan den ha gya ma. Or the alternate name of the Heart Sutra is chom den de.

Ma, the bhagavati, feminine. The woman who conquers. Anyway, so mik tse ma.

The mantra is feminine, the name. Mik means, here means mik me. Mik is an abbreviation for mik me.

Which means what? With nothing it sees. Look at the title of the mantra.

The with nothing it sees is mik me. Mik me. Next time you come home from work and you set down your coat and you walk in the kitchen and your husband starts screaming at you for no reason at all, that's the husband which is mik me.

Got it? He doesn't exist. There's a husband in the kitchen who does exist and there's a husband who doesn't exist.

The one you're mad at doesn't exist. Which implies that every time you ever got upset at any object, animate or inanimate, in your life, you were upset at something which didn't even exist. And that's the tragedy of human existence.

And the lines on the face of seven billion people were put there by something that didn't exist. Okay? Anytime you're unhappy, you're unhappy at a thing that doesn't exist.

That's pretty intense. The whole world's suffering is aimed at something that doesn't exist. I mean it would be okay if it were, if there were irritating people but there aren't.

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Okay?

[Говорящий 1] (1:12:11 - 1:19:18)
All right. So mik me. Tsewa means love.

So mik tsewa means love with nothing it sees. Your love got over thinking that the husband was there for no reason at all. Was unkind to you for no reason at all.

That's the name of the mantra. It's a reference to the first line. So I'm going to go through it.

I mean there are ways to teach this that take weeks. There are whole books, there's a whole body of literature around this one mantra. There are thousands of pages written about this mantra.

One day we can do one of them. Anyway, mik me tsewa tera chen chen re zik. Chen re zik refers to, called loving eyes in English, and it means the Avalokiteshvara and His Holiness the Dalai Lama is believed to be that deity.

And the OM MANI PADME HUM is the mantra of that deity. Avalokiteshvara. Avalokita means looking down.

Check it out like this. Like you have a crush on somebody and you're like, okay, that's his name. Avalokiteshvara means Lord of Compassion.

So Avalokita, Ishvara is Avalokiteshvara. Or chen re zik, in Tibetan chen re zik. Re zik means looking, gazing with this sort of, you know that, what do you call that gaze?

I don't know if there's a word in English. It's like, you're just in love. You're looking at your boyfriend in high school and you're like, you know, crush gaze.

Let's call him Crush Gaze God or something. Okay, that's his real name. DER CHEN means gold mine.

Vast deposit of something precious. It's called DER CHEN, of love. Who is that?

Je Tsongkapa. This verse, this mantra is accusing Je Tsongkapa of being all of these guys, masquerading as a human. So all these five, four, three, deities are masquerading as a human.

They got together and decided to masquerade as a human. So, oh, I'm not fooled. I know you are the God of Compassion.

I know who you are. Okay, that's the first line. Second line, PHYI MA'I KHYEN PA'I DBANG PO BYAMS PA'I YANG You are Manjushri, who is the Lord of Immaculate Wisdom.

You are Manjushri, who is the Lord of Immaculate Wisdom. Some people say Je Tsongkapa's teacher was Manjushri. Some people say he was Manjushri.

Got it? That's kind of an irony of his life. But most people think he had human teachers.

A few people think he had Manjushri as a teacher. And a few special people realized he was Manjushri. Okay, got it?

That's what this mantra is saying. Three, GDUG PUNG MA LUS BYAMS PA'I SEMS BA'I BDAG Lord of Secrets, who destroys the armies of the demons. MA LUS means all of them.

That's a reference to Vajradhara. Okay, who's Vajradhara? Lord Buddha, when he teaches Tantra, takes a different form.

So when Lord Buddha teaches Tantra, he has long hair, he wears silk and jewelry, and he probably plays Jimi Hendrix. Right, Rick? We decided that in the Paris subway one day.

But I mean, he's different. He's like divine. He looks divine.

So it's a different form that Lord Buddha takes when he teaches the secret teachings. GANG BYANG KHAS PA'I TSUL KHYEN TSONG KHAS PA You are the crowning jewel of all the sages of the land of snows. You are Tsongkhapa.

BLO BZANG DRAG PA'I ZHAG LA GSUNG BA'I MDAB Please help me. Help me out. BLO BZANG DRAG PA BLO BZANG DRAG PA is this monk's name.

Okay, and BLO BZANG is a very common name of an ordination name in our lineage. And if your teacher's name was BLO BZANG, you get the name BLO BZANG often, oftentimes. So my monk's name is BLO BZANG because my teacher's name was BLO BZANG.

Okay, all right. So if when you're asking for help from the lamas of the lineage, if you're having a really rough day or you're having a really rough year, or if you're doing some special project and things are hard, ask for help. Just sit there and ask for help.

And if you recite this in English or Spanish, somebody has to translate it. Already translated? Or Hebrew, it's already translated.

Translate it into your own languages and say it over and over and things will get better. Ask for help and ask for Tsongkhapa's help and things will get better and better. That's what he's saying.

If you want to BOG DRIN PA, your help requesting, say this mantra. Use this mantra. It will help you out.

And you really are supposed to say like 20 of them. 21 is a good number. Do 21 of them in a row.

If you're, okay, so keep this paper for emergencies. This is like, I keep Excedrin in my backpack. I take it once a year, but I keep a bottle of it in there because when you need it, you need it.

You don't want to go looking for it. Or if you're in China, you're not going to find it. And so I keep a bottle of Excedrin.

There's like four pills in there and I use one every year or something. You should keep this paper somewhere handy where you know where it is. And when you're having a really rough time, when the poop hits the fan, pull out the MI'KTZER MA.

And you don't have to understand anything or believe anything. Just recite it. And something, it will work.

Got it? It has that power. It has that much power.

It's like Excedrin. I don't know what's in Excedrin, but it works for me. All right.

So you're ready. You're the lineage man, I guess.