«Дар освобождения», курс 14 «Красота учителя», занятие 10

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So I'm going to go for 15 minutes. Then I have a suggestion.

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Everybody here should learn how to take a 10 minute yoga break.

[Говорящий 2] (0:19 - 0:24)
When you are working on your computer all day.

[Говорящий 1] (0:24 - 0:37)
For me, it's afternoon. It's like 2 or 3 o'clock, I start to get like this. Then there's a thing called a 10 minute yoga break.

[Говорящий 2] (0:41 - 0:59)
It's very valuable to learn. So I'm going to ask Anatole, at 3.45 in 15 minutes, anybody who wants to, take a 10 minute yoga break.

[Говорящий 1] (1:04 - 1:08)
Can we allow to do it there? Not so good.

[Говорящий 2] (1:08 - 1:10)
At that dress?

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Under the tree?

[Говорящий 2] (1:11 - 1:20)
Okay, we'll do it behind here. Ah, there's tents already? Okay, so let's do it over there, yeah.

[Говорящий 1] (1:20 - 1:35)
Okay, so there will be, if you want, you don't have to. First do a 2 minute pee pee break. Then we'll have a 10 minute yoga break.

That's a very valuable thing to learn.

[Говорящий 2] (1:38 - 1:46)
Many people, American people, at 3 o'clock, they take chocolate break.

[Говорящий 1] (1:50 - 1:58)
To get some, to get fresh, to get more energy. They drink some coffee or they eat some chocolate.

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Junk food. Junk food.

[Говорящий 1] (2:03 - 3:17)
And it hurts your body. So, let's try, okay? 10 minute yoga break.

It's one of the most valuable life skills you can learn. Okay, let's go back to the book. DUS KYI SNYING PO LAS The lamrim called Essence of Nectar.

You okay, Adam? Are we on it? Okay.

DOR NA DOR NA means to summarize. GZHAN YIN BSTAN PAS If you have a good relationship with a good teacher, GNAS SKABS SU means in the short term. MI KHOM LAS LTAR means you can avoid the lack of opportunity.

You can avoid the lack of opportunity.

[Говорящий 2] (3:18 - 3:24)
That's a code word in Buddhism. Do you know what it means?

[Говорящий 1] (3:29 - 3:41)
Yeah, so what does it mean when we say leisure? What's the opposite of leisure? It's to be born in other places, okay?

[Говорящий 2] (3:46 - 3:54)
So, when you see that word in Tibetan, MI KHOM, MI KHOM, it means no leisure.

[Говорящий 1] (3:58 - 5:07)
But it's a code word. There are many, many code words in Buddhism. This code word means you are born in a place where you don't have a chance to practice.

It could be that you are born in a country where this kind of meeting is not allowed. It could be that you don't have money to come. It could be that you, physically, you have some problem hearing or seeing and you cannot practice.

You cannot engage in this class completely. Or mentally, you just cannot, you cannot grasp what's being taught. Like today, I took Latino dance class.

Eighty percent of what she did, I cannot even imagine me doing.

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What her hips are doing, I never saw anything like that.

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She said, do it! And I'm like, what do you mean, do it? I don't have capacity.

So some people don't have dharma capacity. They are born without dharma capacity. And even if you bring them here, they don't know, what are you talking about?

Space number three, space number ... I don't understand what you're talking about.

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You should understand something about yourself. If you are sitting here, doesn't matter what country you are from, doesn't matter how old you are, man or woman, how many classes you came to in the past, doesn't matter. If you are here today, this week, out of a hundred million people, you are the best one.

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You are the most amazing person out of a hundred million. I'm not saying I'm a special person. I'm not saying that.

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To hear about these things, to have the good karma to be here, each one of you, even the one who is asleep right now, you are one in a hundred million people. Please don't forget it. You are extraordinarily good karma.

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Your karma is, if I really told you, your head would explode.

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If I could show you how many thousands of years you worked to come here, you would go crazy.

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You are very special.

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Each person here.

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Sometimes when you feel not so special, you have low self-esteem.

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Try to remember.

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You worked for a thousand. If I told you how many years, you would go crazy. You are extremely special to be here.

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And you are extremely precious for the future. Your mind, your brain floating in this place, it's extremely valuable now.

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You have ideas in your mind which make your mind more than platinum or gold or diamond. Your mind is more precious.

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You are a Dharma virus and you are extremely precious for the future. So please take good care of your body.

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Just remember, you are very precious. Like somebody asked me, Geshe-la, you want to go bungee jumping? I said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I have to take care of this. Very precious.

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No, what I have inside of here can save the life of other people. So don't do dangerous things.

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You are precious.

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Each person here is precious.

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Take good care of yourself.

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The world needs you.

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Okay, we... We can retire. So if you have a good teacher, because of that karma, you will also have the karma to hear Dharma and to be able to go to classes.

Your life will change. MI BSTAN SONG NYE means you will be healthy and your mind will be clear. THAR TU KHOR BA'I SDUG BSNGAL KUN ZAD PAS And in the end, you will escape all pain.

GNAS LA'I SGO PHANG DAM PA THOB PAR GYUR And you will reach the highest evolution of a living being, which is enlightenment.

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And you will be able to help.

[Говорящий 1] (10:51 - 10:56)
You will... People will give you a planet to take care of, okay?

[Говорящий 2] (10:58 - 10:59)
You take this planet, okay?

[Говорящий 1] (11:05 - 11:53)
Me and Alejandro, we are taking a coffee break. Can you cover this planet for a couple thousand years? A thousand years, okay.

It will come. All right? The time will come.

SBYOR BO CHEN PO'I LAM MA RGYA DANG SNAB BCU TZA NYID BSTAN KYANG CI SKYIS KYANG THUB LA MA LTA PA MED GSUNGS PA LTAR So Lord Atisha, who helped to bring Buddhism to Tibet in West China a thousand years ago, he had 152 lamas.

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Then he said, there was not one who didn't save my life. Each one saved my life.

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Okay? GZHAN YIN RTEN TSUL LAS PAR BRDZAD PAS And then he served each one correctly. RGYAL PO NYID NA BRDZAD CAN RNAMS GA DANG NYAMS PA CHUNG BA SOGS LTAR YIN NO And because he served those lamas, his teachings spread all over Asia.

[Говорящий 2] (12:39 - 12:46)
And now it's spread to Guadalajara.

[Говорящий 1] (12:47 - 12:55)
Alright, that's a good place to stop. We finished the eight benefits of finding a teacher, good teacher.

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Unfortunately, now we have to start what?

[Говорящий 1] (13:08 - 13:36)
There are eight very, very serious problems if you break that relationship. If something goes wrong in that relationship, there are some very serious problems. So this is depressing for me and depressing for you also.

So let's take a yoga break.

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So let's take a break.

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Eight problems are the opposite of the eight benefits. So for example, what would the first one be? You don't get closer to Buddhahood.

You are walking farther away from Buddhahood. LAM MA DANG POR BSTAN NAS, BYUD DU BSTAN TSUL RLONG NA, BZHIN GYIS GNYER PA BYAS BA'I This is an extremely important sentence. LAM MA DANG POR BSTAN First, to take a person as your teacher and make a formal relationship with them, BYUD DU BSTAN TSUL RLONG NA and then to break that relationship or to fail in that relationship, BZHIN DU GNYER PA BYAS BA BZHIN DU GNYER PA BYAS BA means horrible, terrible karma.

Extremely, maybe it's the worst, I think it's the worst karma there is actually. That's the worst karma there is. BYAS BA'I DANG POR BSTAN RLONG NA MI RUNG So first, you should check them out.

Don't make the relationship until you investigate this person. Dig into their personal life. Talk to their students.

Talk to the people who criticize them. Talk to people who knew their teachers. Check out what they are teaching on YouTube or you can check books that they wrote or things like that.

I think maybe the most important thing is to go to their classes. Listen, listen, you can go to many classes without making a commitment in your heart.

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See what they are teaching.

[Говорящий 1] (16:15 - 18:06)
Then especially how do they behave outside of the class. This is my answer to the diamond dealer question. Should you do yoga break or should you drink coffee?

Both. I told my teacher, okay, I told him. He said a few sips, okay, not the whole cup.

So, check them out. You know, after I got this teaching, I had not finished my university studies. I went to India and I still had one semester to finish.

And I got all these, I learned this lam rim there. Then I came back to finish my last semester of university. My big lama there, I told him, I want to stay here with you guys.

I will throw away my passport, I will live like a yogi in India. Some French people used to do that. Then they asked me, did you finish your university studies?

Then I said no, I have six months left to go.

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Go home. Finish.

[Говорящий 1] (18:12 - 18:20)
Because it's a bad habit not to finish. So, why did I bring that up?

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Why did I bring that up?

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What's that?

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Breaking relationship with your lama.

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I don't remember, where was that? Huh? Check them out, I don't remember.

Oh, yeah. If I remember, I'll tell you. So, first check them out.

Oh, yeah, I remember. So, I went back to the university. And I said, I should check out my professor before I take the class.

Then I tried to find information about that. I couldn't. This is before the internet, okay?

Then I went to the admissions office in the university. This is Princeton University. I said, can you give me the biographies of the teachers that I'm going to take their course this last six months?

Then they're like, why do you want that? Why do you want to know about them?

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To them it seems strange to check out the teacher before you take the class.

[Говорящий 1] (19:45 - 19:54)
And it was very difficult for me to get information. So, check out before you make a...

[Говорящий 2] (19:54 - 20:02)
I should say personally before you go to their class, check them out.

[Говорящий 1] (20:04 - 20:23)
Why? When you go to the class you are exposing your mind to that person. If that person has problems then they will infect your mind.

We said your mind is very precious.

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And when you listen to some teaching part of that person is going into your mind.

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So, be very careful who you listen to. Open your mind only very carefully. LAM MA DANG POR BSTAN NAS SBYUG TU BSTAN TSUL LONG NA BZHIN DU NYES PA'I PHYIR BA'I DANG POR BSTAN RUNG NAM Check them out.

RTAG NAS Check them out. CHOS ZHU BA And then ask them for classes.

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Good, you must do that.

[Говорящий 1] (21:05 - 21:35)
And check with many people. I mean, you know the elephant story? The ten blind guys are touching the elephant.

Somebody said, ask one of them, what's the elephant like? There's this long thing. And at the end there's a lot of boogers.

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I think they are like a snake. Get the opinions of many people. And find out the truth yourself.

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Some people will see the person as a chew toy. Some people will see them in a special way.

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Compare.

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Ask everybody. Don't avoid problems.

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Dig into the problems.

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Then after you are satisfied, go to their class. Dharma class is not like high school class or college class or yoga class. When you go to Dharma class, when you make chundel, Dharma connection, this is a very, very, very deep connection.

With your root lama, it's much more serious than getting married or something like that. Then you have to be very, very careful. It's not like your relationship with your science teacher or your mathematics teacher or like that.

It's completely different.

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This person can take you beyond death if they are qualified.

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This person maybe is going to or is changing the whole world.

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This person is changing the world.

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Not like your science teacher. It's different. The name is teacher, but it's not a teacher, right?

It's like lama, lama. So that relationship is very deep, very, very deep.

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And if you find a good one, it's the happiest thing in your life.

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Whole life is beautiful. So I had 25 years, I lived in the same house with my Tibetan teacher. Of course we had many bad days.

It wasn't always happy for me. But my relationship with my teacher is the most beautiful thing in my life. And there's nothing more beautiful than that.

So try to find your teacher. Find who is your teacher. Sure?

Okay, a little bit. What about attachment to teacher? We talked, well I'll give a couple of answers, okay?

In Buddhism, there's a tradition that you cannot hurt another person to protect your teacher.

[Говорящий 2] (25:26 - 25:40)
Okay, that's pretty heavy. If someone attacked Geshe Michael, the Buddhist tradition is you love that person.

[Говорящий 1] (25:40 - 25:57)
And you take care of that person. And you help that person. They say your lama can take care of himself.

So this idea that you have to fight people who try to hurt your lama or something, that comes from bad attachment.

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But if you mean love and affection for that lama, the desire to serve them, and the deep wish that they will stay in your life forever, for many lifetimes, we don't call that attachment.

[Говорящий 1] (26:29 - 26:46)
That's a very healthy idea. There's a deeper meaning of attachment. What is that?

Yeah, to think that that lama didn't come from you is attachment.

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To think that the teacher didn't come from you is attachment.

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How do you find a teacher?

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Go to India?

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Share with other people what you understand. Geshe-la, I don't understand much. You are like one bad doctor in Mexico City.

Okay, Mexico City, imagine, 25, 30 million people. You are the only doctor. And you didn't finish medical school.

Then if I break my arm, will I come to you or not? I will come. I know you're not a 100% doctor, but can you help me?

The numbers are worse than that in the world right now.

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Millions and millions of people don't have any hope.

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They will eat, and work, and die. And they have no choice, no idea something else is possible.

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So if you can help them a little bit, it's good.

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Share what you know. Then the teacher has to come to you, no choice. You are like honey for the bee.

And the bee cannot control themselves, they have to come. We have a group in Bulgaria. Very small country.

All of Bulgaria will fit into one quarter of Shanghai. Then the lady came from Sofia, Jana Ivanova, she came to see me in Germany. She said, will you come to Sofia?

Where is Sofia? Bulgaria. That's under Russia and above Egypt, right?

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Yes, correct.

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I said, listen, honestly I don't have time.

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It's a small country.

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Then she said, how can I get you to come to Sofia? Then I taught her about this, share what you understand. She published all my books in Bulgarian already.

She finished everything. We just got the Karma of Love in Bulgarian. I'll show you tomorrow, later.

You know where it is. Then I don't have a choice, I have to go. We have three strong groups in Bulgaria.

Beautiful, very good students, like Guadalajara team. So, that's how you find a teacher.

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You create them. It's like a husband or wife. You have to plant the seed for them.

[Говорящий 1] (31:09 - 31:32)
Okay, now we have about ten more minutes. Let's start the most depressing subject in Buddhism. I'm sorry about it.

It's my job to teach you what the book says. Problem number one. There are eight problems.

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Here we go.

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NYE MED DANG PO LA LAMA LA NYES MO'I ZHO NA RGYAL BA KUN LA NYES PA NI When you criticize your teacher, your lama, after you check them out, after you made the relationship, then you are criticizing every single Buddha in the universe. He's polite. When he wrote this book he was polite.

He said NYE MED ZHOR. ZHOR means if you slip and criticize your lama. If you slip and criticize your lama.

It means he's trying to tell you you're not so bad. Of course I know you wouldn't criticize your lama, but if you just slip a little bit. Something very, very...

By the way, not to do this, to avoid criticizing your teacher, it is the most important vow in the secret teachings. Number one vow. It's the first vow.

LAM MA NYE MED BLA BYAS KHYAD ZHIG RGYAS PUN LA KHYEN CHUG BRAL DAG CHOG PA PO MO'I GCOD SEMS DANG SDOGS LA CHOS LA MOD MA MED ZANG SDOGS RANG GI PHUNG PO NYES SDOGS PA NYID PHUNG DU CAN RTZA BAR RTEN LTA BA MI DANG DE LAS ZIN PA'I RTEN DE LAS ZIN RGYU MED MOD PA'I DE KHUS MED MOD PA'I DE RTZA DUNG PHYIR GZHI SOGS DANG RGYUR TE GSUNG Fourteen root vows in the secret teachings.

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By the way. First one. First one.

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Don't criticize your Lama. And in that vow, there are two parts. The smaller one is to criticize them verbally or in writing or on the internet.

Okay. This is the smaller half of that vow. What's the bigger half?

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In your mind.

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Boy, that's difficult. Very difficult. Oh look, Geshe Michael's overeating donuts.

And you're like, oh no, no, no. Probably he's meditating on emptiness. Okay.

So the mental vows are very difficult. Again, I'm not talking about me. You have to find your own teacher.

You have to make your own connection with them.

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If you want, I'm happy to be.

[Говорящий 1] (34:49 - 34:57)
But every hand needs a different glove. Maybe you should have a different kind of teacher.

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But once you make that commitment, then the worst thing you can do, the worst karma you can make is to criticize your teacher.

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Even mentally. Now he explains that vow, that, sorry, that problem. LAM MA NI SANGS RGYAS THAMS CAD KYI CI SU RANG DU BYED DU BYUNG PA THU MI LTA BU YIN Don't forget that your lama is like a representative sent from the Buddha Congress.

BYED DU BYUNG PA It's a beautiful word. You got that one, Adam? BYED DU?

BYED DU? BYED DU means tailor-made for you. The Buddhas got together.

They had a meeting. Okay, there's a Nick Lausho.

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He needs a lama.

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Let's design a perfect one for him. In China I teach a lot, right?

[Говорящий 2] (36:21 - 36:22)
I always wear a business suit.

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Whatever you read in the newspaper, I have never seen a Gucci business suit. Gucci or Armani? Sorry, Armani.

My business suits were made in Vietnam on the sidewalk in one night for $75. They forgot to finish some of the legs. Then I was in...

Where was I? Zhengzhou. I was in Zhengzhou.

One guy came to me, one very nice Chinese man. Then he said, look Geshe Michael, I love your teaching. It's fantastic.

But your suits. I never saw such a terrible suit.

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He said, I have a suit company.

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He's pretty famous. Then he said, let me make a couple suits for you. Then he flew a tailor from Shanghai.

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He came to my hotel room and I had to stand there like a monkey for two hours. And this guy, like two guys, they're like touching me everywhere.

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Then they made a suit.

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And it's perfect. Everything is perfect.

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Every part is perfect.

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Custom made for Geshe Michael.

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Your root lama was custom made by the Buddha tailors for you. They took your measure. Your mind.

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Your courage.

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Your heart. Your, what do you call that? What do you call it?

The ability not to have a nervous breakdown when you have too much work. Endurance. Your endurance.

They check out your endurance. Fortitude. Then they designed a teacher for you.

Just for you. That's the meaning of the word chedu. I love this word, chedu.

Dul means, in order to dul you. Dul means tame you like a wild horse. Dul is the Tibetan word for taming a wild, crazy horse.

And they sent a lama to tame you. Custom designed tamer of your wild mind. Then it's like in the ancient times, the king will send a representative to another government, right?

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Very powerful king sends his representative to you.

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And you spit on that representative.

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What will happen?

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Some problem will come.

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Then it's the same.

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Your Buddha was sent from every ...

[Говорящий 2] (40:44 - 40:52)
Sorry, your lama was sent from all the Buddhas.

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If you disrespect them, you are disrespecting all the Buddhas. DE GCIG LA'ANG YUL NYANG BAR BTAG DGOS NA Then if you meet one Buddha, if you are Catholic and you walk into a room and Jesus is standing there, probably you should be a little bit careful with him. Don't do something wrong with him.

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Respect him. Then he says, if one Buddha came to your room tonight, walk into your room. Of course, you have to be careful.

Don't mess up. Okay?

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Then what about all the Buddhas? Like a billion times more. Of course, you have to be extremely careful.

Mindful. Very mindful. Oh, this is lama, you know.

I have to be careful. What was that? We have a student in Taiwan.

His name is Jeffrey Tso. Very, very beautiful man. My Taiwanese brother.

Then those of you who have Vajrayogini initiation, I'll tell you something interesting.

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We are driving from Taipei to Taichung.

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He always drives a car. He's the head of all public relations. for DuPont Corporation in Asia.

He's in charge of tens of thousands of people. But he always takes his own vacation time and drives the car to Taichung. Then I'm like, you know, Jeffrey, in China there are only a few last names.

Like should be Chen or Sha or you know, like that, Wu. And then there are like five big last names. Everyone is something Jones or something Smith in China.

Then I said, your last name Tso, I never heard that name before. A little bit unusual. Then, what does it mean, Tso?

[Говорящий 2] (44:14 - 44:17)
He said, it has a strange meaning.

[Говорящий 1] (44:19 - 45:36)
It's called the man of the left hand. Oh, okay. Anyway, why did I mention him?

No, before that, I forgot what I'm talking about, Jeffrey. I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe I'll remember later. No, it's before that. Anyway, anyway, if you're supposed to be careful with one Buddha, then obviously you should be careful with a billion of them.

So be very careful about your teacher. Oh, okay, I remembered, sorry. I asked him one day, I said, so you work for DuPont Corporation.

Yes. You make chemicals.

[Говорящий 2] (45:38 - 45:39)
Then he said, yes.

[Говорящий 1] (45:39 - 46:13)
Then I said, I'm just curious, what did you do today about chemicals? He said, I was handling a shipment, I think it's called titanium oxide. I believe it's called titanium oxide.

I'm handling a special chemical called titanium oxide. You need it for certain kinds of pain and things like that. But it's like, I don't know exactly, but one pound can poison all the water in Taiwan.

[Говорящий 2] (46:18 - 46:24)
One pound can kill many people.

[Говорящий 1] (46:24 - 46:33)
Then they have a special, obviously they have a special container. That goes inside another special container.

[Говорящий 2] (46:35 - 46:38)
That goes inside another special container.

[Говорящий 1] (46:38 - 46:56)
Then there's like 50 guards. They are taking this to Taiwan like this. Very carefully.

They are watching everything. Then Lama is like that.

[Говорящий 2] (46:58 - 47:03)
You have to be extremely careful.

[Говорящий 1] (47:03 - 47:05)
Don't make small mistakes.

[Говорящий 2] (47:06 - 47:08)
It's a lot of pressure.

[Говорящий 1] (47:10 - 47:17)
Somebody, some Lama told me, it's very easy to adore the Lama that you don't have to live with them.

[Говорящий 2] (47:17 - 47:22)
It's very easy to adore the Lama that you don't have to live with.

[Говорящий 1] (47:22 - 48:13)
But if you have to stay close to them, then of course you will see mistakes. Or bad habits. Then the person who is close to the Lama, it's a very dangerous position.

They have to be more careful. They get, we call, SKAD NYEN CHEN PO Say SKAD NYEN CHEN PO ESTE FANG High risk, high yield. High risk, high yield.

Very dangerous to be close to them. Very, very profitable if you stay close to them.

[Говорящий 2] (48:15 - 48:19)
High risk, high profit.

[Говорящий 1] (48:20 - 50:07)
There's no higher profit than that. If you can stay close to one, it's the best karma you can make. And it's the most dangerous place to be.

Okay? Understand? So, people ask me, maybe I shouldn't be close to my Lama.

I think you have to have guts. This is like a card game. This Buddhism is like a card game.

Sometimes you have to take a big risk. You're going to lose all your money. But if you're going to become a Buddha, if you're going to make that much karma, you have to be on the edge a little bit.

You have to take some risk. They say, maybe I shouldn't stay with my Lama. Then I always say, go for it.

I'll tell you the last thing, then they will stop. Somebody asked my teacher, Ken Rinpoche, said, I don't know if I want to stay close to you. It's so dangerous if I make a mistake.

If I make a mistake with you, maybe I have to go to hell. Then he's like, no, no, you should be close to your teacher. We're all going to hell anyway.

[Говорящий 2] (50:12 - 50:17)
But when you go to hell, you can say, I'm not like you other hell guys.

[Говорящий 1] (50:22 - 50:23)
You know how I got to hell?

[Говорящий 2] (50:25 - 50:27)
I was serving Ken Rinpoche.

[Говорящий 1] (50:29 - 50:32)
I'm not just anybody. I was serving a great Lama.

[Говорящий 2] (50:32 - 50:36)
You can brag in hell.

[Говорящий 1] (50:40 - 52:09)
He said that. I hope it was not serious. Okay, you don't have to go to hell.

And take a risk. You have to risk something to gain something, right? Okay, who do we have?

Daniel, you ready? Daniel. BU RGYUD CHOS BZHIN MED DOG MTHONG THANKSGIVING Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Говорящий 2] (52:11 - 52:13)
Thank you.