«Дар освобождения», курс 14 «Красота учителя», занятие 2

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Okay, we'll start with the second sales pitch. Why it's nice to have a teacher. NYES PA LAM MA LA CHOS CI We're on end of 125B, just before 126A.

And I'll try to make it prettier next class, okay? It's kind of an ugly font. NYES PA LAM MA LA CHOS CI NYEN KHOR BA KYANG He's going to start talking about offering to your lama, making offerings to your lama, okay?

He needs a hotter mic. His mic should be hotter. Then it's a conflict of interest for me to teach this.

Because then it's like saying, oh, you have to make many offerings to me.

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But I have to follow the book.

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Sometimes I import another teacher to teach this section. But as we talk about offering to your teacher, please remember what is the highest offering to your teacher. What is that?

Your practice, okay? So, really I don't need a Toblerone chocolate bar state. Someone gave me from Canada.

Her mom always sends me chocolate. She's 87? Yeah.

Baby, okay. So I can't eat it.

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I have to give it to the kitchen. But when I see you doing good yoga, or I see good dancing, or meditation, then that really makes me happy.

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By the way, this is the lama phone, okay? Only lama is supposed to send me message on this phone. Okay, you got a good luck.

You got a good one. Also, some people they give me lots of things.

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But then they fight with the other students.

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And then that breaks my heart. And this is not ... you see, offering is not money, or food, or things like that, flowers.

It's okay. Especially if it starts with CHOS and ends with URDO.

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Especially if it starts with CHOS and ends with URDO.

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But really the teacher wants to see everyone is happy. Everyone is getting along with each other.

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This makes the teacher happy.

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So remember what is the highest offering. It's not money, or food, or flowers. You are practicing your practice.

And you are getting along with ...

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you are being happy and kind to other people.

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Then any teacher feels happy.

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Any parent feels happy also, right?

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Okay. NYID PA LA MA LA CHOS CIG NYON KHOR BAR KYANG If you pay respect to your teacher, and for me respect means affection. Some people, they make very good bows, but there is no affection.

For me affection is more important. It's like you feel love for each other. Teacher and the student.

And you are always joking with each other, and happy, and doing good things, happy, cool things, cool things.

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And always joking, laughing, being happy, doing good, fun things.

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So he never respects me, but he has affection for me. He calls me Oscar. Oscar.

Then I like it. That's a good relationship. Then that's love.

That's affection. For me it's better than, you know, like this. That's the highest kind of respect is affection.

But still you can't call me Oscar.

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Just kidding.

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I'll tell you how that started. Should I?

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Okay.

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In China they have a very good custom.

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To make foreign people comfortable, everyone picks a foreign name.

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And it's kind of fun.

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You can pick your own name.

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When you are 15 years old or 20 years old, you can pick your own name. So many of our Chinese friends have beautiful names, beautiful English names. Then we decide we want to choose a name also.

So I chose ... Chinese name is Long. Long.

Dragon. Because of my skin. No.

Then the Mexico Guadalajara team said, okay, we also want English name. So they gave me English name. I didn't ask for it.

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We gave you a Mexican name.

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Oh, I got Mexican name also. Yeah, Oscar. Oh, Oscar.

Okay, okay. I got it. Okay, so if you have affection for your teacher, you are close to enlightenment.

It brings you closer to enlightenment. SA RGYAS SU GRUB PA LA RTZOGS PA DU MED PA ZHIG ZAG DGOS LA If you want to reach enlightenment, you must collect infinite seeds in the mind. Infinite.

SDUG BSNGAL BA'I RTZOGS RGYAL CHEN PO'I DE LAG TU SDUG PA NI If you want to collect good karmic seeds easily and efficiently, LA MA LA SPYOD PA means make offering to your teacher. GNYIS So the Tibetan says GNYIS. Can you show the GNYIS?

Search for 126A, just do a CTRL F, Command F. Look for 126A. Yeah, there you go.

The GNYIS, just below the colored sections. NYID NYID, just below the page number. Yeah, okay, GNYIS in Tibetan means, like you know STONG PA GNYIS means what?

STONG PA GNYIS Emptiness. It's the ness and emptiness. It's the TA in SHUN YOD TA.

It came into English as SHUN, T-I-O-N, or ness.

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Sorry. GNYIS is... Oh, let me say it this way.

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But in Tibetan, it can mean only.

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So those of you who are learning Tibetan, here, the GNYIS, it means only. It means only.

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LHAG PA MED means there's nothing higher. Nothing higher. Then just that, that's the only thing.

It means that's the only thing.

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Make offering to your teacher.

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Nothing at all higher. At all means GNYIS. Nothing at all is higher.

Then he has a quotation from scripture. Listen to the poetry. GANG PHYIR CHOG CHOS SANGS RGYAS DANG CHANG PHYIR SEMS PA'I GZUN NAMS PAS NOG BU'I LHAG BU KUN GYIS CHOG DE PHYIR NOG BU'I PHYIR BYAS PA This is a poetry, Tibetan poetry.

GANG PHYIR CHOG CHOS SANGS RGYAS DANG CHANG PHYIR SEMS PA'I GZUN NAMS PAS Again, those of you who care, it's the instrumental for the comparative in the second line. Better than making offerings to all the Buddhists in the universe. Better than all the good karma of the bodhisattvas is a single bapu of your lama.

Bapu means pore of the skin, the tiny hole in the skin. So if you're learning Tibetan, bapu can mean the pore, but it can also mean the little hair that comes out of the pore.

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LO BOS means your teacher.

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Bapu, kun means the hole. PHYIR, one. CHOG, it's better.

Higher.

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LO BOS means the teacher. Bapu, the pore of the skin, is higher than all the Buddhists and bodhisattvas. For you.

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One pore. DE PHYIR Therefore, LO BOS PHYIR BYAS PA if you make an offering to your teacher, SANGS RGYAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS ZIG then the Buddhists and the bodhisattvas will look at you. It draws the attention, it draws their attention.

Like when Johnny O plays a good song.

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Everybody comes in and they're like, what's that?

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Oh, that's so cool.

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When you make an offering to your teacher, all the Buddhists in the universe what?

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Oh, that's so cool. Then they look at you.

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They are watching you.

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They're happy. So, of course, he didn't say where that comes from, that quotation.

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So I went and got it for you.

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The text is called RGYUD THAMS CAD KYI BLANG SHES DANG SANG CHEN PA'I LKUN DU KA BRJOR SHES BYA BA BA'I RGYUD KYI RGYAL PO RGYA CHEN ZHES PA RIN CHEN PHREN BA But it's a commentary on Vajrayogini.

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Called The String of Jewels.

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That is a very famous, it's a commentary on a very famous tantra. The tantra is called Khajur. And Khajur can mean the kiss, the kiss.

To connect the mouth. Okay, the author of that is named Virabhadra, Virabhadra. SHES PA LTAR RGYUD DANG RTEN CUNG MANG PO CHOG CHU RGYAL BA ZHES BYAS THAMS CAD YI LA CHOS PA PHU BA LAS Many secret and open texts say that it's a greater good karma to make offering to a single pore of your lama's skin.

Then to make offering to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the whole universe. We'll explain why later.

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We have to talk about it.

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BYAS SA PEN GYIS KYANG BYAS SA PEN means Sakya Pandita. Pandita means wise man. It came into English, they say Pandit.

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Pandit. His name was Pandita. His name was Kunga Gyaltsen.

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He was born 1182. Passed away 1251. Very famous lama, Sakya Pandita.

Very, very famous. He said, RGYAL PA STONG DU PHA ROL CIN PAS TSUL You can practice the open teachings for a thousand eons. DGO DANG GANG LAG LTOGS PA STONG BA'I TSOG You can cut off your head and give it to somebody.

You can cut off your leg or your arm and give it to somebody.

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And all of the things you own. But, if you use the path of the lama, it's called the path of the lama, SKAD CES GCIG LA BDOD means you can make the same amount of karma in one second with your teacher.

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It's interesting, by the way, those of you who studied higher teachings, that he is contrasting the open teachings and the path of the lama. Because in the open teachings you can reach enlightenment, but it might take millions of years.

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In the secret teachings you can reach in one lifetime. But when he talks about the secret teachings he didn't say secret teachings.

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He, what did he say? Path of lama, path of your teacher.

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He referred to them as the path of the lama, the path of the teacher.

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Okay, that's important. RIM DROD GCOD means show your lama respect. GA BA SGOM GA BA SGOM means be happy, be happy.

Be happy because you have a way to reach enlightenment in one lifetime.

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If you have a teacher.

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GA BA SGOM ZHIG ANG ANG means wow.

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ANG Okay, ANG.

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I couldn't find a separate book by Sakya Pandita. It's just maybe he said that one day.

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I don't know.

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ZHES RGAL PA MTHONG DRAG TU SGO DANG GANG LA SOG MTHONG BA'I TSOR RGYA CHEN PO'ANG It's a lot of good karma if for a thousand eons you can give away your head or your leg or your arm. I was thinking this morning when we did the meditation, I'm thinking about would I have the courage to give away my kidney. And there are many stories in Buddhism of people who give away their arm or leg.

SOG RGYA CHEN PO That's good karma. But the ANG means but. PO'ANG means but.

RANG MA LA NYES PA GRUB PAS But if you please your teacher with your practice, SREG CHUNG BU GCIG GI It's just easy. And DUM means you can make the same karma in just one hour. Okay?

Like that. SOG CI TZAM RANG SOGS PA NYUR BA DE TZAM GYIS SANGS RGYAS KYI DGOS PA'ANG LA NYES The faster you can make good karma, the closer you come to Buddhahood. Then there's a list of who you can make offerings to.

And the karma of each offering is bigger than the last one. So here's his list. DUN DRO DUN DRO means help an animal.

Give some food to a dog or a cat.

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I like to feed the birds. Second, human being.

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So, more good karma to feed a human being than an animal. Some American people don't like that. When I say that, they don't like it.

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They say people and animals are equal.

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To the Buddha, people and animals are equal. They want to help them equally. But a human is closer to enlightenment.

Easier to teach a human this book than a dog. So, just from that point of view, actually they are equal. But if you want to help someone to become enlightened, it's easier to start with a human.

So, human. Then what we call NYAN LTOS. NYAN LTOS means a person who's ...

they're called listener.

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They have a lower understanding of emptiness.

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For example, they might say you are empty because you are impermanent. You are empty of permanence.

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So, they know the word emptiness, but they don't understand it 100% correctly.

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But if you give a food, hamburger, to someone who heard about emptiness, it's more good karma than to someone who didn't hear about emptiness. Then RANG RGYAL. RANG RGYAL means self-made Buddha.

Self-made Buddha.

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In this case, it's a person who reached nirvana.

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Then to offer them some food is more good karma than the other ones.

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Next, bodhisattva.

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Someone who wants to save the world.

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It's more good karma to feed them. Next, every Buddha there is, better karma.

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Then, above that, your teacher. That's all. More good karma.

People are always calling me, can you come and have a meeting? I say probably.

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Why can't you say yes? Maybe my lama will call me. Maybe they need something.

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I don't know if I can come. Just to cook for your lama. Or do a small thing for them.

It's more important than anything else.

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So, I say I don't know if I can come.

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RTOGS CHE means more powerful. RTOGS CHE YUL RTOGS CHE means the object is more powerful. Okay, there's a beautiful one here.

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You will always remember these stories.

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I heard them 40 years ago. I still remember. So, there was a Geshe called Geshe Tulungpa.

His real name was Rinchen Ningbo. Rinchen Ningbo.

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Rinchen Ningbo.

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He was thinking maybe I will make a dinner for all the monks in the whole town called Tulung. It's actually bigger than a town, it's like Jalisco. He was thinking maybe I will offer make a dinner, like a Thanksgiving dinner for all the monks in Jalisco.

Then his teacher was named Lopa. His full name is Chen Ngawa Tsu Chumbar.

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Chen Ngawa Tsu Chumbar.

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Then his teacher had a dog. Then Tulungpa Geshe, this Geshe saw the dog. This is a thousand years ago.

He started to make dinner for all the monks.

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Then he saw the dog. Then a strange thought came in his mind.

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Is it better karma to give a little piece of food to this dog or to finish this dinner? What is better karma? Then he gave the piece of food to the dog.

Lama's dog.

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He cancelled the dinner. And he made more good karma.

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Then after that, he's all the time he's looking around for little pieces of food. Every monk, we have a wooden bowl called porpa. It's more important than your robes.

You have to have this bowl if you're going to have breakfast. You run to the temple and they will put some breakfast in it for you. So every monk has a porpa.

He used to walk around and if he saw some nice piece of food he would put it in his porpa. Then he would run and give it to his teacher's dog. So you can say Geshe Tulungpa's bowl.

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You can remember Geshe Tulungpa's bowl.

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Let's do a meditation, okay?

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Meditation.

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I'll do about another ten minutes then we'll take a break, okay? Because the afternoon is a little bit long. I just have allergy, not a cold, okay?

So don't worry.

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Too many flowers.

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DE YANG RGYUD LAS Tantra also says, secret teaching also says, DU GSUM SANGS RGYAS KUN CHUD PAS BLA MA'I BA BU GCIG CHUD LHAG It is more good karma to offer to one pore of the lama's skin than to make offerings to all the Buddhas past, present, and future. Then there are many quotations like that. We heard two already, right?

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Then I always had a problem with this quotation. What's the problem?

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How do you make an offering to your lama's pore? I tried to make a very small pizza.

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I tried to make a very, very, very small pizza.

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So luckily Pabongka Rinpoche explains it here. BLA MA'I BA BU KUN PO CHOD PA STE When we say make offerings to one pore of your lama, I'm skipping to the end of the line. BU RANG RGA BA LA MI ZER We're not talking about his actual pore of his skin, or her skin.

We're talking about lama's chipta. chipta means horse, the horse that they ride. GO GYIS GO GYIS means the dog that guards their house, guard dog.

KHOR means their close students who help them. YOG means people who work for them, like printers, or cooks, or like people here who are working for us.

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YOG means people who work for them, like printers, cooks, people who work for us, like here.

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Etc. This is the meaning of the lama's pore.

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Anything connected to the lama, wash their car, if someone is arranging their plane tickets, buy them a Starbucks card.

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The poor person who has to make their schedule.

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Always nervous.

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I don't know how to fit this into this time. These kind of people who are helping the lama to do what they do, when you make just a small gift to them, it's better than making gifts to all the Buddhas in the universe. Okay, so now we know what the hole is.

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Now we know what that hole means, that pore.

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I went and found the tantra. If you're interested, it's called YOGA SARVA TAT PA U MUTRUM means Alakanama. It means the light of emptiness for all yoga, people practicing yoga.

It's a yoga text. You might not be able to find it later, so I'm just going to quote it to you the way it is in the ancient book. GAL PA RGANGS RGYAS BYAS NYES DU ZAL GYIS RGYAL BA'I PHYIR PA GUS LA MED PA BU GUNG GCIG LA GUS NYE'I SONG LA BSKYED PA PAG If you took all the eons equal to the number of pieces of sand in the Ganges River, or drops of water, sometimes they say drops of water.

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If you took all the eons equal to the number of pieces of sand in the Ganges River, and you made offerings of gold to that many Buddhas with respect, it's more good karma.

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BSKYED PA PAG means much more good karma. To NYES PA their BA BU NYES PA means to massage their skin.

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Like that.

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So that's the ancient source. If you ever try to find it, you can find it. That's a good place.

We'll pause there.