Занятие 4, часть 2

[Говорящий 1] (0:00 - 32:36)
Okay, we'll start. We're on verse number 19. So, before we go into a meditation to prepare our hearts, we think these thoughts to ourselves.

Here we go. Now I, okay, the now I is a translation of Tibetan Dhamma. It means now we're shifting subjects.

Okay, now I. Okay, now. I and every living creature.

Can you put up please the image for, I think it's 20. Yeah. I and every living creature, every one of them, my own mother, have already suffered here in the cycle of life in general for time with no beginning.

And more particularly, we have each already been through a million kinds of pain in the three realms of misery. So, we're supposed to, before we meditate, we're supposed to, what do you call it? Acknowledge that life is painful.

And that there's a reason to meditate. The ultimate reason for meditating is to help ourselves and other people get out of pain. But to do that you have to admit to yourself that life is painful.

And I don't know. I always wonder if there's some rich lady in the world who hasn't had anything bad go bad yet. Like they got to 30 or 35 or 40 and nothing bad ever happened to them.

But as I get older, I don't think there is such a person. Even if you have a lot of money, something goes wrong or you see terrible death of someone near to you. This is very common.

I chose this photo for the meditation song. That's my own interpretation. You can do your own.

To me, this photo is, it summarizes life for me. And I first saw this photo, I don't know, I think I was 20 years old. And I saw it in a book somewhere and I never forgot it.

So, this is a very beautiful young lady. I don't know the story. She's well dressed.

She has gloves on. She has her makeup, her face is beautifully done. She has her 1950s stockings on.

High quality blouse and skirt. She went up to the top of the Empire State Building and jumped off. She landed on a car and she crushed the car and she died.

It looks like she's sleeping and it looks like the metal of the car is almost like sheets, like crumpled sheets. And I don't know the story and I think I don't want to know the story because I think of it in my own way. I don't need to know her story.

I can tell you her story. She was happy. She had everything.

Apparently she was comfortable. She was good looking. I imagine she was successful but she found life too much.

My own brother killed himself also. So, I think about it a lot. What is it about life which is so overwhelming and so painful that a nice normal person would jump off the Empire State Building?

In this tradition of meditation, before you meditate, you must acknowledge how things are and the way things are. We'll go through it right now. Next page.

Well, basically, let's put it simply. Even if you can not have financial difficulties, even if you don't get serious health problems, even if your relationships are all smooth and cheerful, which I don't know anyone like that exactly. Well, maybe.

Then still you have to lose everything. Most people work for their whole life. They have a career.

They build up a business or they build up a job and they build up a family. If you're lucky, you can buy some property, build a house, have kids. Then that's a successful life.

That's about the best it can be. You become financially, what do you call it? Independent or strong?

You have a home. You have a good family. Then you die.

Then they die. Then the house is sold. I don't know.

In my mother's case, we lived half an hour from here. We grew up half an hour from here. She worked her whole life.

She was a school teacher. She finally bought her own house. $15,000, I remember.

They built it. It was Northern and 19th Avenue, which at that time was the edge of the city. She bought her house.

She did the American Dream. Then she died. We sold the house within six months.

We tried to keep it and rent it and it didn't work. We sold it. Then we spent the money.

That was the end of it. Her whole life's work, I don't know, 30 years of work, was gone in six months. This is our life.

This is our life. That's the story of her life. Left untended, your life will drain away and you will die.

All the things you've done will also disappear. What meaning is... That's if everything goes well and it never goes well.

Usually you have some financial disaster in your life or relationship disaster or health disaster. Life is painful. We should recognize that and we should admit it and we shouldn't pretend and we shouldn't avoid.

I spent a long time on the internet trying to find a picture of a dead body and I couldn't. They had like killings and drug dealers shot or famous people assassinated but just a picture of anybody who died, it's very difficult to find a photo on. It's really weird.

People don't want to think about that. In this tradition of meditation and spiritual development, it's important first of all to acknowledge and to admit that life is dangerous and painful because then you can really help other people. Then you are free to address the bigger problems of life.

Working is good. Making money is good. Having a family is good.

Eating good restaurants is... I like it. But we also have to take care of the bigger questions in life because they will...

If you don't, they will hurt you. They will always hurt you. Second thing, let's go on.

Still though it is a difficult... Verse 21, page 16. Still though it is a difficult thing to say how deep this pain will continue to go, how far its edge can spread.

Say you've had problems in your life but there will be more. There will be more. As you get older and as things start to fall apart in your body and things like that, you will see more pain than you have seen so far.

That's the nature of the life. And we believe that it continues after you die. So you can...

Maybe you draw a little comfort from the idea that it will naturally end in a certain amount of time but according to our belief, it doesn't. It goes on. After you die, it goes on.

Okay? And so this one time, I have attained the body of a human, a perfect body, a perfect opportunity, impossible to find but once found, capable of great things. So...

Well, let's go a little more. And this one time, I have met with the priceless teachings of a Buddha, impossible to find. So in our tradition, the first mental warm-up for meditation, it's called the marriage of fear and faith.

Okay? The marriage of fear and faith. All right?

Fear means what? Life is painful and if you haven't had major troubles yet, they're on their way. Okay?

Something in your body will fail. You will have a bump somewhere. Your eyes will fail.

Your ears will fail. Something will come. Your body, inside your body right now, lay already the seeds for the destruction of your life and how that will happen is not going to be easy.

Something very painful and something very depressing will happen to each of us. The body's nature is that inside the skin now is something that will kill you and the process will be painful. And the process of leaving and losing everything is very, very painful.

We have that already. That's the fear half, okay? What's the faith half?

The faith half is very, very profound. These teachings, what we do, our business, our product of these teachings is a path which it is claimed can save you from that. It is claimed in our tradition that if you follow the practices well, you don't have to go through those things.

Your body will change into light. You will become an angel. It's possible.

These teachings are designed to do that. So really, according to our belief, you always... What's that Robert Frost poem?

I came to a path. Two paths, right? I forget how it goes.

Path less... I was going to a forest and I came to a split in the path. One side was well worn and looked safe and the other side looked a little like an adventure.

I went for the adventure path. Maybe I'm going to get scratched a little bit or it's going to be unexpected, but I'd rather do that one. So in a way, we are...

You are always at a crossroads in your life. You can go on with a, quote, normal life. You can do your career.

You can try to buy property. You can try to have a family. You can try to be happy with only those things.

In the end, it will end and your body will kill you. Your body will kill you and you will lose everything that you spent your life. It's depressing how fast it dissolves after you're dead.

It might not take a week for everything you assembled to disassemble. You can take that path and everyone's going that way. In Phoenix there are five million people.

Tonight there are 50 people here. One out of 100,000 is here. The rest are doing something else.

That's the well-worn path and it leads to... My mom's house was sold in six months and everything was lost. All her life's work was lost in six months.

Or you can take this other... Last... What do you call it?

The path less traveled, which it is claimed leads to a state where you are enlightened and your body is made of light and you are able to help countless beings. Not just in this world, but in many worlds which you cannot see right now. You can reach a place where you can serve countless living creatures in worlds that you have no dream of right now.

You cannot even imagine them. So you have a choice. That's the faith part.

The road everyone else is taking is the fear part. It's scary. It leads to destruction.

There's no... There's obviously no solution that way. I don't think so.

I mean, you just get old and die and your stuff gets old. And that's the end of the story. This path, it is claimed.

You can have faith. You can have hope. Path of hope, path of fear.

Understanding that the left-hand path or the other path is frightening allows you to take this path of hope, a new path of hope. Is that hope for real? Does it really work?

You have to try it. I believe you have to try it. At least...

You know what I used to say to myself when I was young and I first went in the monastery? I said, at least I'm taking a shot. At least I'm trying to do something more than just eat, sleep, and die.

It may not... In 20 years I may decide it didn't work out, but I would rather do that than quietly die. Let me at least try something.

It sounds like this might be a real path. So, I don't have anything to lose. See what I mean?

If there's a 10% that works, it's logical to try rather than just simply quietly die, get old and die. And as you learn more, you learn that this path is a very valid path and it does work. And in your meditations, you can confirm that.

So, that process of recognizing the danger and of choosing a possible hope is called taking refuge. In Buddhism, it's called taking refuge or shelter. You don't go for protection to somebody unless those two conditions are present.

Number one, there's some kind of danger. Number two, you believe they can help you. And that's the two requirements for seeking protection, seeking a path which can protect you.

Got it? So, that's the first of the two warm-ups for meditation. It is represented on the next page, 18, by the two girls under the umbrella.

They have some protection. Refuge, going for refuge, going for shelter. Just think of the two girls under the umbrella.

They have an umbrella. They are protected. You can be protected by these practices, I believe.

You can be protected from death, sickness, old age, if you learn these practices. They become an umbrella for you in the rainfall of life. Otherwise, you're going to get wet.

Got it? So, I tried to select images in the text that you would always remember. I think the image of the lady on the car, you will never forget.

If you do your meditation every morning, if you use this book every morning, I want you to see that picture 500 times on 500 different days. I want you to think about why did a beautiful, young, healthy, well-dressed person decide to leave this life, to try to leave this life? What was it?

What did she know? Maybe she was right. I often think that about my brother.

He shot himself. He was so intelligent, super intelligent. Then I think, maybe he just thought it out carefully and saw there's no way, there's no future here.

He didn't want to go through the thing of collecting things and then die and have the kids sell them in six months. You see? So, I want you to think about that.

You cannot make progress in this path without admitting the truth about life, that it's suffering and it will end in suffering. To go through relationships which break up, to have the stress of a job and losing the job, or the fear of losing your partner or your children or your parents, this is pretty much the story of life. If there's a possible way out, I say it's worth it to try.

That's the umbrella. That's the meaning of the umbrella. So in this tradition, you don't start a meditation without thinking about the reality of life.

Because that motivates you to meditate. People tell me they don't have time to meditate. That's like saying I don't have time to eat.

It's not true. You have to eat or you will die. If you don't meditate, you will die the other way.

I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to give you some hope. The people who are not in this room are kidding themselves, in my opinion.

They're just kidding themselves. They are purposely ignoring what's obvious because it's too painful to admit it, that this is how it's all going to end. Don't be depressed.

We're going to get out of it. All right, now. One last thing and then I think I would like to take comments or questions.

Comments on what? How you'd like to see something interpreted so far. I just want your ideas.

I want you to start thinking. Then questions about anything, about your life or advanced Buddhist philosophy or the last person who yelled at you, other things. Anything.

Let's do one little piece and then we'll go on. I'll read the next piece. I think we stopped at verse 24.

I must work then from this one moment on to reach enlightenment, perfect, complete, ultimate freedom, free of all the pain of this endless circle. And if I fail, then there is no choice. One more time through a life of pain.

And this time it could be in the hells as an animal or a spirit driven by craving. This is a reference to what Buddhists believe happened to you after you die. I'm not asking you to believe in it and I'm not trying to sell it to you.

We believe that your mind does not stop when the body stops. That it's connected to the body but it has an independent existence and it will continue after the body dies. I'm not trying to prove that tonight but it's possible, right?

Why does Hamlet stay his hand and by something put an end to it. He has a knife in his hand, he's thinking to kill himself. And he's like, I could stop it all right now.

But, what does he say after that? And prefers to dream, I think. Pretends to dream, meaning what?

Maybe it will continue. Maybe the dream will continue after I kill myself. He stops.

He's a chicken, right? He can't take life. But when he gets to taking his life, I mean, he can't bear life.

But when he gets to taking his life, he chickens out again. Why? He says, maybe it will continue.

Maybe it will go on. So I'm not trying to prove that to you tonight. But of course there's certain odds that it's true that you go on.

In the Buddhist opinion, the fact that you're here proves it goes on. But I'm not trying to convince you of that. Suffice to say that it's possible that the pain continues after you die.

Suffice to say that suicide is a foolish thing to do because if you're alive, you can try to transform your body. If you die, you go back to... You may go to another place where you don't have that chance.

Possible. And so the beings here before me, my Lama and the Three Jewels, possess the power to protect me from this pain. At this point in the meditation preparation, you are supposed to imagine that right behind you are your mother and your father.

They are sitting right here. You can't see them. They're out of your, what do you call it, peripheral vision, but they are...

Oops, sorry dad. They are sitting right behind you. And behind them is a crowd of people that stretches to the horizon.

Billions of beings sitting behind them. You are at the apex. You are at the front of a group of millions of people sitting with you in meditation.

And you are up in the front and your mom and dad are here and all the other ones are behind you. Those humans represent all the creatures of this planet. Human or not.

Fish, birds, bugs, javelina, kota mundus, rattlesnakes. Okay. In their outer form, they are human in this meditation.

But they represent all the creatures of this planet, human or animal. Okay. Fish, birds, all in a human form.

And all suffering. All suffering. All of them doomed to die.

All of them doomed to get old. All of them already having things inside their body that will kill them. Billions of suffering people.

Creatures. And they are all hoping that you are going to do something. See, no pressure, okay?

And your dad and mom who served you so well, they are the first ones. They are the ones who are counting on you the most and then behind them are the rest of them. So they are all there.

So when you get to verse 27 and it doesn't say it in the verse, and you should have this in your notes at the end of your copy, you are sitting, you are at the front of a huge triangle of all the creatures in the world and they are depending on you. You are the one who is in a situation where you could help. You have some kind of crazy path that might help because the choice is nothing.

There are no other choices. All right. Verse 27.

I too then must become a Buddha, a completely enlightened being for the sake of every single living creature, each one my own mother. And I'll finish in two minutes and we'll go. We'll get your suggestions for the performance.

That's why I put the other photo on page, what is it, 18? And it's a child drinking from their mother's breast. And this reflects a Buddhist teaching that your mind, your spirit, your soul if you want to call it your soul, has been here for millions of lifetimes.

You have passed through this world millions of times and other worlds. And you have lived countless lives as countless beings. I always joke around and say, you've been Miss America.

Every guy in this room, you've been Miss America like a zillion times. You've also been President of the United States zillions of times. You've also been Hitler zillions of times and killed six million people.

You've done everything countless times. It's true. I'm not trying to freak you out.

I have reason to believe it. Someday if you meditate well you will see it. I believe that.

But hear it, at least hear it. You have been here millions of times and you have been everything. And you've done every kind thing and you've done every cruel thing countless times.

And you and I have been everything to each other countless times. And I have drunk milk from your breast and you have drunk milk from my breast countless times. And that's true of every person you ever met and every animal you ever petted and every bug you ever smashed on your windshield.

They fed you from their own breasts and they sustained your life and took care of you. And you did them also. So, I want you, whenever you meditate, if you don't have time to read this whole ritual, which I understand, it's true.

Very few of us have that kind of time. Maybe do it once a week or something on Saturday or Sunday. But at least, you know what you could do?

Flip through and look at the photos. And then meditate. That's an easy way.

And I think it's valid. To me the photo of the child is worth a hundred Tibetan verses. The photo is enough to remind me I drank milk from the breast of the last insect it smashed into my windshield.

I will remember. I will honor that. And as I mentioned on this last weekend, for those who weren't there, this is a great meditation when you're having trouble with somebody.

Someone, your ex, whatever it was, boyfriend or girlfriend, wife, husband, business partner. Anyone that you have a really difficult, bitter relationship with, I advise you during meditation to attempt a visualization of you drinking from their breast. Even if they were a guy.

Because you have and you did. They bore you from their womb countless times. The person you have the most trouble with in this life right now, usually it's ex-something.

They have breastfed you countless times. In the moment you visualize that, it's very hard to dislike them the way you did before that. It's very difficult to dislike a person 100% if you can pretend that you drank milk from their breast.

Try. I tried. It worked for me.

I only hate them 95% now. I'm just kidding. I don't hate people.

I'd like to stop there tonight. You know the pictures now. Just flip through the photos sometimes.

The little girl is sitting correctly in meditation. The Buddha's hand is controlling the four demons. Those are all the lamas of the lineage there.

The lady, she admitted what's life and she killed herself. She saw it. She confronted it and she decided to try to end it.

We believe you don't end it, but anyway. Then the two girls have some protection against those problems. The child at the breast means if you're going to free yourself, you can't ignore other people.

That would be like eating a big Thanksgiving dinner with 50 other people who couldn't afford it. Imagine sitting in a restaurant eating a nice French meal or something. It's surrounded by starving people.

It's not fun. You can't enjoy the dinner. If you learn how to get yourself out of these problems, you can't abandon the other people who fed you at their breast in all those lifetimes.

It doesn't work. It doesn't work that way. Whatever problems you're going to have when the cancer takes you or starts to grow in your body, everyone has those problems.

You can't fix your problem and say good luck to the rest of the people on the Titanic and jump in your little boat and sail away. You can't do that. It's not right.

If you find a path, and if you practice that path, and if it works for you, then you must share it. You can't just tell everybody else good luck under the water in the inland. You can't just bail out and leave other people.

They have fed you milk. You owe them. Give me a verse number and tell me what you think would be cool to do.

It's not binding. I'm just curious if anybody had a thought. Do you have an extra mic?

If you guys have an extra mic, you can share. And then we'll go home in about 10 minutes. We're all tired.

We had a long weekend. Very emotionally draining, powerful weekend with a lot of beautiful people. Please.

You ready? Then Rob has to keep notes.

[Говорящий 2] (32:36 - 32:54)
I don't know the verse because I don't actually have the books. You just started speaking about the now I, the suffering of, marriage of fear and faith. I just think that would be a good play, drama.

Finding somebody realizing their fear and then finding their teacher and working through that.

[Говорящий 1] (32:55 - 43:04)
Cool. A little vignette, theatrical vignette in which someone expresses their fears and then find the teacher. Okay, I like it.

The director is taking notes. No kidding. Okay, somebody else.

Come. Oh, I'm sorry. On verse seven, the preliminaries and just act like in a play, each one of them.

You mean the, say again, how? Okay, on verse seven, the preliminaries, so each one of them, act them out in a play. Okay, the llama on the throne and like that?

Yeah, each. Just act each one of them. Okay, yeah.

Good. Next. Don't be shy.

By the way, this week, it's not a llama standing up here teaching. It's a group thing and you got to come up with some cool stuff. I think it would be cool to act out the four distractions and the overcoming of them.

Like you could have someone sitting in meditation and being tempted by beautiful women or money and things like that. The four demons. Yeah, have them show that.

Cool. A small theatrical, few minute piece in which a meditator overcomes the four demons one by one. Cool.

By the way, the advice I got from my teachers about this idea was they pointed out that there would be no audience. Like we are, the plan is that together we make something that we do in this room. We perform it in this room for the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who are invisible.

I like to think of them hovering up near the ceiling. But we are going to do an act of faith. We're going to do a performance for people that we can't see.

And each one of us will do something not for the people but for the enlightened beings. And they're like sitting there and say, oh, I like that song. I have to pick that one up on iTunes.

Then my teacher said, we're going to drop our idea that people are watching me and I'm performing. It's between us and God. Each person is performing for God or Buddha or whatever you want to say.

I'm not going to be nervous in my song or my piece because I'm not doing it for that. I'm not thinking about how I look to you. It's between me and these divine beings and it's an offering.

So there shouldn't be any nervousness or shyness. Next. I had a dream this morning.

One of my brothers, he was holding me and I was supposed to relax completely. He was taking me through some motions as though we were in the water but I just had to completely let go and relax. Even to the point I was drooling on my shirt and I just trusted him so I completely relaxed and then when he let me go I did this some kind of dance where I just didn't have any like joints or I don't know.

There was some kind of thing where I could just completely move with perfect freedom and so I thought that would be good for doing this verse 27 and 28 because I thought that once he did that to me I wanted to do that to other people. So here it says I too then must become a Buddha completely enlightened being for the sake of every single living creature, my mother. To help me do it I take my shelter now in my lama and in the triple gem.

So maybe some kind of dance for that where someone is holding, like your teacher is holding you and then you become liberated and you can help other people. Oh, that's nice. Nice image.

Yeah, a dance for your teacher is, I think from your description I'm thinking of the Pieta statue and she's holding her Christ or just like supporting them and then suddenly he's free or something like that and then he can help other people or she can help other people. Anyone else? This was verse 24.

I was sort of picturing a stage of people in confusion and one by one and they're all running from something and then one by one they sort of take the point in the beginning of the pyramid of people in front and when they're at the front they sort of, you know, I'm doing it and they take turns though being that person in the front. There's not just one person. So they all take turns and they show their expression.

Bhagavati. I get your picture. Like it'd be nice on a stage to have the pyramid and the person in front is somehow, to me they'd be more calm than the rest.

Like they'd somehow found peace and the others are still agitated and then they might rotate and then the one on the different side of the triangle comes out to the front and that person has peace but the people behind them don't or something like that. Like they're an example. Yeah.

But the triangle would rotate and there'd be a new person at the head again. I don't know where the verse is but it came to me while you were teaching tonight. There's a poem by Pablo Neruda and it's about where poetry came from.

So in my mind I kept imagining reading that poem but next to me is maybe one of the someone speaking Spanish, the line kind of going line for line and it's sort of this idea that he wasn't sure where poetry came from. He sort of turned the corner and it just sort of came out of nowhere and hit him. So I felt like it was somewhere in the going for shelter part about using that as my interpretation of shelter as an individual poem.

Yeah. By the way the things we create don't have to be our own. You could play a recorded song by someone else that you think is good in that place.

You're my wonder, whoa. That song's in my head because we heard it in yoga the other day and I think it's some kind of refuge song. You're my shelter, you see.

So you could choose a song that already exists and just play it for us. Okay, I like that. You could use a piece of video.

I'm going to show you an important piece of video tomorrow called Harry Met Sally and you know, other instructional videos and you can choose. It doesn't have to be a creation. It could be something that's your favorite minute out of a movie or your favorite song.

To me I take my favorite song and I force it into one of the verses. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Anyone else? Yeah, it was verse 7 and 8. I just visualized a beautiful painting of Buddha sitting on top of the moon in the sun with the lions.

Yeah. You said it was the personal llama inside that we should see in our meditation and it was a mix between the traditional Buddha and my own personal llama for me coming out. It was a nice mix between the two and I just think it would be a beautiful painting.

Yeah, by the way, you're welcome to go out and buy some paints. You're welcome to get a canvas. You're welcome to do it on a computer and Photoshop it.

Don't limit yourself, okay. You're welcome to paint something. We're going to be taking the afternoons and doing this thing for four or five days and you're welcome to just bring your own canvas and work on it.

The idea is that you get four or five days to work on what you'd like to do. Okay. Good.

I think you could Photoshop your teacher's face. That's what we did on Page... Where is Louise?

Page... 18? 20.

The Buddha on Page 20 is a close friend of ours and Osiris's mom, I asked her, I asked, well, he asked him and he hired her, but they Photoshopped Louise's face onto the Buddha. So you could do it in Photoshop. You could do that.

That'd be great. How you see it and then get a bunch of lion pictures off of Google Images and stick them in there, okay? And if you need help then you would team up with somebody else who's good at Photoshop.

You see what I mean? All right. Others?

Other suggestions?

[Говорящий 2] (43:07 - 43:36)
When I first moved out to Diamond Mountain to support the retreat, there was a song that arose that I hadn't thought of for many years and it was the Beatles singing Blackbird. Blackbird singing in the dead of night. And it was so powerful for me and maybe after looking at where our life is going and we have this choice to take the other path and seek enlightenment, we could play that song.

[Говорящий 1] (43:37 - 43:37)
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2] (43:37 - 43:44)
Like Shelter. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. Take these sunken eyes and learn to see.

[Говорящий 1] (43:45 - 46:17)
I think segues are going to be a big deal in this attempt. I think they're going to be important. The transitions are going to be difficult.

Like somebody's going to dance something and the next person has to do a poem. And then what do you do between? I don't want it to just stop and we're all sitting around and waiting for the next thing.

It would be nice to have songs like that to come up as the transition to the next theater piece or next dance or the next song, a recorded song. That could be a way to achieve the transitions, I think, that make it look less amateur. Because we're all amateurs.

Anyone else have an idea? We'll do like three, four more minutes and then I think most of us are really tired for the weekend. You can go get some sleep.

I think, why is it feeding bags? For the Four Modes of a Teacher, I'm not sure what verse that was. It was the hands.

And your homework has to figure out how it applies. We could do something like either, I mean, it's still pretty vague to me, but like one musical piece that goes through the four modes or four different musical pieces together or some music video compiled that really conveys the different modes. Yeah, good.

I was thinking you could take famous scenes from movies. I don't know, Kung Fu Panda. No.

Yeah, okay. I like that idea. I've always thought that to do the four modes on a stage or in music, it'd be really powerful.

The first song is very peaceful and then it gets expansive and then it gets powerful and then it gets severe. And that'd be great. You may have noticed that these exercises are going to drill the ideas into your mind.

If you have to sit there for 12 hours and choose the music and do the segues in the music, you're never going to forget the four modes when it comes time to teach it to somebody. Okay. Next, anyone else?

Juanita.

[Говорящий 2] (46:20 - 46:27)
Okay, so in the refuge part there's a picture with these two girls under an umbrella.

[Говорящий 1] (46:28 - 46:28)
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2] (46:29 - 46:55)
I was picturing maybe in a dance like someone with an umbrella and people around maybe sick or suffering and you just and we can put as much people as we can under an umbrella dancing and maybe we can also use Rihanna's song, but I don't know exactly what it says. Okay.

[Говорящий 1] (46:56 - 48:02)
Yeah. Umbrella, umbrella. Yeah, it's a different generation.

I like, what I heard from you was that maybe on the stage starts with a bunch of people suffering. Some person looks sick, some person maybe even dead. Some person's sad because they lost their boyfriend or something on the stage and then you show up or somebody with an umbrella and you take the first person and you put the umbrella over and then suddenly they get cured and they're under the umbrella with you and then two of you go to the next person and then at the end everyone's under the umbrella and they're all good.

Yeah, I like it. Something like that. You see, if you perform in that piece or you write that piece, you design that piece, you'll never forget the idea of refuge.

You see, that's the point of doing a show. One more and then let's go home. No.

Nobody else wants to hear anything. Dennis, let's go.

[Говорящий 2] (48:04 - 48:12)
So there's this play Convergence that just came out and it was about a sweat lodge incident that kind of happened.

[Говорящий 1] (48:12 - 48:21)
It's a play? It was a take from it. They took some of the ideas of the incident and memory of it.

[Говорящий 2] (48:22 - 48:49)
So part of it was about a student and their teacher and the teacher asked the student about faith and things about their faith and demanded that they look into their eyes while they were doing it. So whenever this person slipped, the teacher got really fierce. Maybe we can steal some of that.

[Говорящий 1] (48:49 - 49:27)
Yeah, okay. Okay, cool. All right then.

Let's go home. We have a tradition in our lineage that at the end of the evening, because we've made so much good karma together, that we give the karma away to other people. So there's a little weird thing you do with your hands.

If you know it, you can do it. If you don't know it, you can just go like this with me. I'm going to ask Venerable Phil who has a good singing voice and is going to lead his chorus later in something to please do this prayer.