«Дар освобождения», курс 15 «Найти учителя, которому можно доверять», занятие 2

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Last night we were talking about dikto, what's a dikto? Rattlesnake. Friends who influence you badly.

And they are friendly, and they are warm, and they are cooperative, and they talk you out of doing good things. And they distract you, and they get you doing bad things. So I wanted to say, in the Buddhist tradition, when you run into a dikto, you're supposed to be cool with them.

You're not supposed to be righteous and say, you're a dikto, I'm not allowed to spend time with you. We are, in the Buddhist tradition, we're supposed to, when it's appropriate, and when you get stuck in a situation with some dikto, you're supposed to be kind and attentive. If they want you to watch a football game.

My, what do you call it? Lately deceased stepfather watched TV all day, at a very loud volume, all day. From the moment he woke up to the moment he went to bed, the TV was blasting through the whole house.

And I went to see my mom a couple days ago, and he passed away, and it was so quiet, and it felt like a monastery. But I didn't hassle him. We didn't hassle him.

We just kind of worked around him. We didn't give him lectures. We didn't get righteous with him.

We just let him do his thing, and asked him once in a while to turn it off for dinner, and things like that. So, in the Buddhist tradition, you're supposed to sort of, it's not that you're supposed to be righteous and say, you're an evil person, and I can't hang out with you, because you don't put protein in your shakes, or like that. We're supposed to be nice to everybody, and friendly to everybody.

And then we just design our life that we don't spend a lot of time with people who might sidetrack us. But if you get into a situation where you're in the room, and your stepfather's watching a football game, then you sit down and you watch a football game, and you make intelligent comments about the end receivers, and tight ends, and stuff like that. That's the Buddhist way.

You get along with people, but you try to generally design your life that you're not put in those situations much. Then he said, THA LTA RGA ZHIG GI, BDOD BYUNG CHOG ZHES BYAS PA DAG LA So nowadays, some people see those of us who are trying to be BDOD BYUNG CHOG ZHES. Say BDOD BYUNG.

CHOG ZHES BDOD BYUNG CHOG ZHES It's a very famous expression from the Abhidharmakosha, which was written 17 centuries ago. It describes a person who has chosen to become a meditator in this life. They would like to become a good meditator in this life.

One of the guidelines for a person who would like to be a serious meditator is called BDOD BYUNG CHOG ZHES. BDOD BYUNG means, and there's two parts. BDOD BYUNG is one part, and CHOG ZHES is another part.

BDOD BYUNG means few wants, few needs. So ideally, a meditator should be a person of few needs. They shouldn't crave a lot of stuff, a lot of extra stuff.

They're just living with not too many things. BDOD BYUNG Then CHOG ZHES means, I like CHOG ZHES. CHOG ZHES literally means to be satisfied with what you have.

But the way it was taught to me, it's some kind of a friendship with your possessions, like old shoes or old jeans and an old coat, and you become sort of friends. You say, old coat, I love you. I've had you for five years.

You fit me just right. I had you on when I met my girlfriend. Like that, you get a relationship with your possessions, which is kind of sweet.

And you don't have many possessions, but you use them well, and you use them thoughtfully. And you don't have a lot of possessions that you don't know very well. You see what I mean?

So that's called BDOD BYUNG, CHOG ZHES. And in the Abhidharma, this is a very good attitude for a meditator. People say, do you need this, this, this?

The last thing I said to my mom, I'm walking down to the sidewalk, to the car, to the rental car, and I'm like, so is there anything you need? And she says, why, no. She's always like that.

People who know her, she's very amazing. She thought about it and she said, no, I don't need anything. And it's true.

And then CHOG ZHES means the stuff she has, she takes good care of it, and she's not attached to it. She gives it away easily. And she likes her stuff.

She goes walking every morning. She has her walking shoes and stuff like that. She has a, what do you call it?

Walking stick. Yeah, and she likes them and she's not attached to them. So like that, BDOD BYUNG, CHOG ZHES.

So people see people like that, which is what we're supposed to be. And then, DE TZAM LUS MA STONG ZHIG means don't be so radical. They say don't be so fanatical about your spiritual life.

Easy, what do you call it? Loosen up a bit. Don't be so anal about your meditation.

You don't have to do it every day. You should take a break or that yoga stuff. It's nice, but don't go overboard.

To them, we look like we're going overboard if we have a sweet, modest daily practice. And they think you're a cult or they think you're fanatic like that. And you're just trying to do your quiet little daily practice.

So if you meet people like that who say loosen up a little bit, STONG ZHIG. LOD DANG PHRAD DAG NA MI DONG ZHES SOGS NYAN NYAN Then they'll say to you, if you get too involved in this stuff, MI DONG, you won't succeed. And they seem to talk sincerely.

NYAN NYAN means they seem very sweet. Their talk is sweet, sweet. NYAN NYAN means sweet, sweet.

A guitar in Tibetan is called DRA NYAN, sweet sound. Or a Tibetan lute is called a DRA NYAN, sweet sound. So they sweet talk you.

And they're like, don't go overboard. I mean, don't be fanatic about, you don't have to meditate all the time. You don't have to go to those classes.

You can go once in a while. Like that. And they sound reasonable.

NYAN NYAN LTAR MA BA YOD MA They do, I admit they sound reasonable, but DON DU GDIGS SGRONG NI YIN ZHING But those reasonable people who try to get you not to be too committed are real rattlesnakes. They are real GDIGS SGRONGS. GDIGS SGRONGS NI, the NI here, N-Y-I-D means that's what a GDIGS SGRONG is.

They're not like demons. They don't have pitchforks. They don't stab you when you sit down to meditate.

They are very nice people. And they're normal people with a normal life. And they say, don't go overboard on this Buddhism stuff.

It's okay. It's cool that you're going and it's cool that you meditate once in a while, but you don't have to do it every day or you don't have to go to every single class. What's the deal?

Don't be fanatic. But that's what a GDIGS SGRONG is. They're not people who are going to handcuff you and drag you to a movie or something like that.

They're people who seem very reasonable. YIN PHYING, DE LA NGOS SU GCIG RDZUS PA MIN SDONG Don't... How does it say?

Don't respond to them unkindly. Don't... NGOS SU means GCIG RDZUS PA.

GCIG RDZUS PA means with... Don't be sarcastic to them. Don't be...

Don't say, okay, your mom died last year. You're going to die next year. What are you talking about?

What's fanatic? If everyone's going to die and lose everything you own, what's fanatic? Don't confront them unkindly.

Don't be too hard on them. TSUL TSIGS MA GDUD RANG GI LAG LEN DE BZHIN MI CHE DGOS SU Just avoid being like them. In a gentle, thoughtful way, don't buy into their viewpoint.

But don't hassle them or try to fight with them. He's saying, be sweet to them also. All right.

That, by the way, completes the first homework. So we're kind of on schedule. We'll see if that continues.

So we finished the first five problems of having some kind of negativity enter your relationship with your teacher. And then we're on... What was problem five?

What did we just finish? What's the problem? What happens to you according to problem five?

Two parts. Yeah. The good spiritual qualities you were born with or you came into this life with, which are most of your good qualities.

You can't take credit for almost anything good about you. It was all Joe's fault. Joe means your last life.

And so you'll lose the good habits that you came into this life with and you will not be able to develop new ones, good new ones. These are the two parts of problem number five. What's the problem of failing in your relationship with your teacher?

Failing to be sweet with your... respectful and affectionate with your teacher. It doesn't mean fanatic things where you cut your fingers off.

That's not helpful and that's not... No real teacher wants that kind of thing. They want you to be happy.

They want you to be successful in your life. They want you to have good relationships. They're not asking you...

If someone asks you to do really weird stuff, just tell them, you know, that's okay. I don't do that kind of... When you see emptiness for the first time, what's the relevant...

Yeah, there's a bad attitude called overdoing it in almost a violent way or dangerous way. Dangerous over religiosity. Like go stand out in the sun for 12 hours or make yourself sick or hurt yourself fast too long.

We're not allowed to do things like that. We're supposed to be middle way. Take care of your body.

Take care of your mind. Get enough sleep. Have an honest livelihood that doesn't hassle other people.

It can be a modest livelihood, but it should be honest and you shouldn't grub off other people. But don't do fanatical things. We're not...

That's not allowed in our tradition. DRUG PA TSE'I MDIR NAS SO MIN GDUG PA'I TSE PA NI The sixth problem is that you will be harassed by all kinds of problems, day-to-day problems. For example, serious health problems or things will come up in your day-to-day life such as sickness that hurt you because you failed in your relationship with your teacher.

So he's going to quote Lama Ngap Chupa. What's Lama Ngap Chupa? Yeah, the 50 Verses on Lamas.

So this was written by a master named Ashvaghosa. What is it? Are you doing it?

He's after... Yeah, similar name. Yeah.

Ashvaghosa lived... Ashvaghosa is cool because that's the oldest book we normally use in our tradition, in the tradition of the Dalai Lamas. The oldest book that we use, which is not a Buddha's teaching, is Ashvaghosa's 50 Verses on Lamas.

It's 50 verses of poetry about how to have a good relationship with your teacher. So I think it's kind of significant that that's the oldest book we study normally. Like the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Cutter Sutra, these are older, right?

By 600 years. But between the Buddha's time up to just before Nagarjuna, we don't have any books from those times. There were no...

nothing survived. A lot went to Sri Lanka, the Pali texts. But we don't have...

In our tradition, we kind of picked up at 200 AD or 100 AD. So Ashvaghosa is 100 AD. He has another name in Sanskrit, which is Shura, which is translated into Tibetan as Pao.

What's Pao? Warrior, okay? So his other name is warrior.

When they say the warrior, they mean him. And he wrote a book called the 50 Verses about 100 years before Nagarjuna, Arya Nagarjuna. That book is the most important introduction to the higher teachings, to the secret teachings.

It's considered the highest introduction there is to the secret teachings. How to behave towards your teacher is considered the foundation of the secret teachings. A lot of the vows, of the secret vows, are based on this book, are directly taken from this book.

Those of you who went through the seven-year course at Diamond Mountain, you know that, of course. LAM MA NYID MA'I LHAB CHOG KHYAD ZIN GYIS PHUN DAG RGYUN GYI BRAL DAG BYAMS PA PO MOD GYUR ZHIG LA SDUG BSNGAL BYAMS PA MA MA SANGS RANG GI PO PO LAS STONG PA NYID PO'I BRAL DU TSAR BA DANG LTA'O MA'I DANG DE NAS ZIN GYIS LTA'O MED DANG PHYIL MI YIN MED PA'I DE TSAR DU GYUR ZHIG SOGS DANG DE NAS ZIN GYIS These are the vows, which you're not supposed to know what they are. So he quotes the 50 verses on Lamas.

LOP PON LA NI MOD PA STE YAM DANG TSE BA'I GNAS RNAMS DANG DON DANG RIM DANG THUGS RNAMS KYIS MONGS CAN DE NI PHYI BAR GYUR LOP PON LA NI MOD PA STE A person who has criticized their master. And again, we're not talking about criticizing Geshe Michael or something like that. We're talking about, you seek a master in your life.

You seek a spiritual guide. And that's the most important priority for a Buddhist, is to find your heart teacher. And then when you find a person who's a likely candidate, you investigate them for years and you go to their classes and you listen to what they say and you see what they're doing.

You investigate their private life. You check them out thoroughly. And then if you're satisfied and if they seem to be the special person in your life, then you request that they become your teacher.

After that, you have to be very careful with them. Heavy karma, very heavy karma. We were joking about Adam's t-shirt, which is guru.

The word guru is related to the word gravity in English. The word gravity comes from the same root as guru. Guru means to be heavy.

The word guru in Sanskrit means heavy karmic object. It means be careful. You can get enlightened if you have a good heart teacher and you have a sweet relationship.

Affectionate and respectful relationship. But if you screw up in that relationship, then it's extremely heavy the other way. You have very, very powerful negative karma.

So here he says, someone who checks out a person for a long time and then makes the commitment to be close to them as a disciple, if they criticize their master, YAM DANG TSE BA'I GNAS RNAMS DANG MONG CHEN DE NI CHI BAR GYUR The last line in this first verse means that fool or that deluded person, meaning who criticized their teacher, CHI BAR GYUR will die as a result. The karma will kill them. How?

Then he lists the ways that they could be killed. YAM means infectious disease, like AIDS or... What else is there nowadays?

HIV, SARS, things like that. These are diseases which spread easily from person to person. TSE BA'I GNAS means...

TSE BA'I means very serious, deadly diseases like cancer, different forms of cancer. DANG is a difficult idea, but it means mental diseases that come about through the influence of really serious bad karma. So depression, very serious suicidal tendencies, deep depression, low self-esteem.

The word means evil spirit, but in practical terms, it's deep states of depression or confusion or anxiety or low self-esteem. Mental disease. RIM means different kinds of plagues.

I think in America nowadays it would be things like... There are plagues in the United States. One is overeating is a plague.

If you go to a country where they don't overeat, like we were just in mainland China, people don't overeat and they don't eat bad food. It's just not part of their culture. They don't like donuts and they don't like wheat, big wheat ball things.

You can offer them a pizza and they're like, I'll just take some green vegetables. They don't have a custom to eat poorly. Then you fly home and in the airport, it's very depressing.

It's very sad. You feel like, oh, my people, my country's people are killing themselves. They're destroying their precious bodies, their beautiful precious bodies that they were granted, they are destroying them because they can't control themselves.

That's called RIM. RIM means internet addictions, which I think is probably the most serious problem in the modern world, is the internet addiction or all kinds of addictions, pornography, sex, alcohol, pills, not so much drugs. Not a lot of people are addicted to heroin or something like that, but many people are addicted to taking all kinds of pills that doctors happily give them and charge them for.

We're addicted to those things. Television is a terrible... I think television was invented by a demon.

There's a joke in Tibet, they believe that there's a Tibetan cheese, chura khampo, say chura. Khampo. It's a dried Tibetan cheese.

It's this shape of a dice, a cube, and they drill a hole through it and you string it on a string. You put the string over your neck and you ride your horse to East Tibet. Then when you get hungry, you pull a piece off and you stick it in your mouth.

It's very, very hard. It's like a rock. It melts in your mouth if you hold it in your mouth for like six hours.

You have to kind of chew away at the corners of it. But in Tibet, they believe that chura khampo was invented by the devil because you can't recite OM MANI PADME HUM while you're eating chura khampo. You're like...

If you don't pronounce it correctly, it doesn't count. There's a joke that dried cheese cubes were invented by the devil. I think television was invented by the devil.

It just wastes your time. Just totally wastes your life. You wake up, you're 60 years old, and suddenly your life consisted of watching foolish things done by foolish people about foolish subjects.

Nothing. So anyway, we do have plagues in our society. Then I would say...

Then the last one here is THUGS. THUGS means toxins. I translated for the Dalai Lama's doctor for quite a while when he came to the United States.

I remember he was in New York. Alice Karen was in her mother's arms. That's how long ago it was.

She's our accountant. She's, what, 35 now? She was in her mother's arms.

I was translating for the doctor. He said... Somebody asked him...

He had a question and answer. Somebody asked him, what are the causes of cancer? He said, canned food, all preservatives.

In all of your American food, all the preservatives are carcinogens. Then he said, one of the largest causes of cancer in the United States is automobile tires because as they wear out, the powder of the rubber goes into the air and then it enters your lungs and it's a carcinogen. All electrical appliances, all electrical circuits in your walls are carcinogens.

They're all electromagnetic. All your internet, all your cell phone transmissions are carcinogens. We were like...

Somebody raised their hand. It was so cute. Somebody said, if those are the causes of cancer, it's hopeless.

What can we do? That's everything we use and eat. I translated to him and he looks at me and he's kind of confused.

He got a little angry and he said, I didn't say those were the causes of cancer. I said that was what was giving you cancer. I said, yeah, well, it's the same thing.

He said, no, it's not. The cause of cancer is not having enough love for other people. It's not stuffing your food.

He was very offended. He said, the reason we get cancer is we don't have compassion for our fellow man. That creates the carcinogens.

It was a beautiful exchange. Anyway, so that's duk. Duk means toxins in your world.

Car pollution, internet. I believe 50 years from now they will outlaw the kind of internet, wireless that we now use and cell phone transmission towers will be outlawed. They'll cause serious damage to people's bodies.

Then he says, RGYAL PO ME DANG He's not done with things that will kill you after you. Things that will hurt you, harass you if you have problems with your relationship with your teacher. The one that you chose after many years of careful investigation.

RGYAL PO ME DANG, GROL DUG DANG RGYAL PO means government damage. Damage done by the government to you. Like sending you to Iran or overtaxing you.

Things that the government... We were in Ukraine and I love the Ukraine and we're going back to the Ukraine but it is the most corrupt country in the world. All the money for roads is stolen by the government, by the politicians, all of it.

You can't drive on a highway in Ukraine. There's one highway working. It's the first five miles from the airport to Kiev.

The rest of the country, which is the largest country or was by land mass in Europe, doesn't have a highway. This is Ukraine. So the government will hurt you.

Your own government will hurt you. RGYAL PO means the king and the royal government. ME means fire.

You'll be caught in a fire. You'll be burned. GROL DUG means poisonous creatures like rattlesnakes and diamond.

Okay. Diamond is not so bad. Diamond has a lot of snakes.

The old retreat place, it was covered with snakes and that was fun. CHU means flooding, like our friends in Colorado. Sudden hundred-year floods or hundred-year, thousand-year, anyway, unusual floods.

Khandro. What's khandro? Khandro, what's the Sanskrit?

Dakini. Dakini means an angel flying in the sky. But in ancient times, the word dakini also meant a spirit.

Any kind of negative spirit was also called dakini. So this khandro, sky-goer, also in the old days meant like an evil spirit, something like that. These are unseen living beings who can affect your mind state.

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And you don't believe in them, so I guess they don't exist. All right. KUN PO means people who steal things from you.

Okay. I was in Sacramento giving a teaching and two of the cars were broken into during the teaching. Sacramento is the capital of California and the people are all middle class, reasonable people.

But a lot of them use drugs, so they need money. And they told me, never park your car where you can't see it in Sacramento. I'm like, this is like this little small town with lots of green trees and dogs.

I'm like, what? They said, never ever leave your car where you can't see it in Sacramento. Because people just smash the window and take whatever they can because they need $10 for math.

So to live in a town like that where they steal everything if you're not looking at it, it's one of the results of that kind of karma. DON DANG LOGS CAN RNAMS KYIS KYANG We had DON already in the last verse. It means negative spirits.

But this is a special kind. It goes with LOGS CAN. What's LOGS DANG?

Wrong view. So LOGS means wrong. LOGS CAN means people who persuade you to follow a path which is not useful, which wastes your time, wastes your life.

CAN means to. You know the word CANG NAS, right? CANG is a form of the verb CAN.

They're the same verb. CANG means to pull or to direct or to interpret something that the Buddha said. Figurative means CANG.

CAN, okay? HE YAR TA What do you call that? Figurative language.

But this CAN means someone who pulls you the wrong way. Someone who influences you the wrong way. So it's just like someone who wastes your time.

You study. They talk you into studying some... I don't know.

I have friends who did ten years of... I'm not even going to say. They just wasted their time for ten years.

They followed something and then after ten years they kind of just decided it didn't help them at all. And that's LOGS DANG. Waste your time.

People who waste your time. Spiritually. LOGS CAN RNAMS KYI KYANG SREG NAS SEMS CAN NYANG BAR DGOS They will kill you.

You will die. Wasted your time. Or in a flood or in a fire.

From a mugger or something like that. I don't know if you've had friends who were killed by muggers or things. But it's very sad.

They killed them for a wallet. I've had friends. I've lost friends like that.

As you get older you lose more and more in different ways. SREG NAS, they will kill you. SEMS CAN NYANG BAR DGOS means...

NYANG BAR means... You know NYANG BAR? That's NYANG BAR.

This is NYANG BAR. NYANG BAR. NARGA.

Yeah, the hells. The hells, NARGA, the hells. NYANG BAR means the hells.

They are sometimes called SEMS CAN NYANG BAR. Which means hell beings place. So it's a very difficult expression.

SEMS CAN normally means person, being. And then NYANG BAR means hell. But SEMS CAN NYANG BAR means the place where the people live who live in hell.

It's a strange expression. It's an unusual expression. GYIS KYANG So you will die and you will go to those places.

More verses. More jolly verses. Hopefully we'll get through this part and go to the qualifications of a Lama.

NAM YANG LOB PA'I DAG GIS NI KUN DU SEMS SGRUB MI CHAG STE NAM YANG means never, ever, ever, never. I have this Bob Harper DVD. He teaches me yoga every day on tour.

It's a one hour yoga DVD of this kind of crazy guy. And he makes you work really hard. And if you bend your leg, he's like, never, ever, never, ever.

He's like, don't straighten out that leg. Okay, okay Bob. NAM YANG is that kind of emphatic never, ever.

Ken Rinpoche used to say, never ever. Never ever. LOB PA'I DAG GIS NI Your master's possessive.

KUN DU SEMS SGRUB means disturb their peace of mind. Don't disturb your teacher. Don't do things, don't say things that would disturb their day.

That would mess up their day. Like don't ever, never do anything or say anything that would disturb your Lama's peaceful day. That's a very big Buddhist no-no.

That's a very... And I'm just teaching you tradition. I didn't make it up.

But it's a beautiful tradition. If you get into it, it's a beautiful tradition. Watch your Lama.

Do not disturb their heart. Don't ruin their peace of mind. You can't hurt their peace of mind, but you can mess up their day.

How? The biggest way you can mess up a Lama's day or make them have an unhappy day or something is to fight among each other. When two students of the same Lama are hurting each other or unkind to each other or less than beautiful to each other, that disturbs the Lama's heart deeply and that directly affects their health.

Immediately it affects their health. So you have to be really careful with that. That's the way to really ruin the Lama's day is if you are unkind to each other.

Or if you hurt each other, or competitive with each other, or jealous of each other, or not serving each other, then it hurts the Lama's body. SEMS DUS So never ever, he said, never ever upset your teacher. Okay?

There were many, many occasions on Ken Rinpoche, I would just swallow the problems. Like, you know? I would just, he never knew.

I remember one day he found out that he, that the phone wasn't free. You know? After 15 years or something.

He's like, you have to pay for the long distance to India? I'm like, yeah. He's like, I never knew that.

I said, yeah, we didn't want you to know. We just paid it. He never had to...

If you're really good and you're really close to Lama and you're attending them, then swallow the problems. You take the problems and you fix them. You don't bother them.

You don't waste their time. Don't waste their time on, I call it refereeing. I'm also often called upon to referee between my students.

It's very irritating. It's the most irritating thing. She doesn't want to do this, Geshe-la.

Then I'm like, just talk to her. I don't like her. Can't you just talk to each other?

No, you write her an email. Tell her she has to do... Okay, but I still think you should just talk to her.

That's the... Refereeing is the worst thing. Anyway, I don't like it.

All right. Just work it out with each other. That's better.

,GAL TE RMONGS PA'I PHYED GYUR NA, If you do, oh idiot, RMONGS PA means... RMONGS PA means idiot. Or retarded or something.

RMONGS PA, ,GAL TE RMONGS PA'I PHYED GYUR NA, If you are a person with such a dull mind that you would upset your Lamas, hurt them in that way, ,GAL TE RMONGS PA'I PHYED GYUR NA, ,RDZE PAR GYUR, there is no question that you will ,RDZE PAR, in the hell realms. ,RDZE PAR means... It's an ancient word.

Don't forget this text is now 1,900 years old. You will... What do you call that?

What do you do to a momo? Before you eat it, Rob. Oh, no, in the pot.

Steam it. Yeah, you will be steamed in the hell realm. That is a specific verb for steaming momos.

TSE PA. You'll never see it anywhere, so don't bother learning it. Okay.

TSE PA GYUR, you will be steamed in the hell realms. There are eight hot hells, there are eight cold realms, and we can talk about it some day. It's not very fun.

GNAR MED LA SOGS JI RUNG BA'I The, what do you call it? Terror-striking, terror, something that strikes terror in your heart. Terrible?

Terrifying, good, terrifying. The terrifying hell is called GNAR MED. GNAR MED means in Sanskrit, avicci, which is the lowest of the eight hell realms.

And it's a terrible place. You live your whole life enveloped in fire. And it feels like you're enveloped in fire.

Thousands of years, millions of years. So, GNAR MED LA SOGS JI RUNG BA'I GNYEL BA LTEN PA GANG YIN PA Those hell realms which were taught by Lord Buddha, LOB PAN LA NI MUD PA DANG, they are reserved for those who criticize their teachers. And DER NI GNAS PAR YANG DANG ZHES Buddha said, you will stay there.

You will have to live there. CHOS SUM PA BZHIN PA YIN Okay. SUM PA BZHIN, LOB PAN LA NI MUD PA GZHOR NA If you happen to, right?

GZHOR NA Yeah, if you slip up and you criticize your teacher, either mentally or verbally. The verbal is not so hard. We can control our mouth.

If you have many years of practice, you can control your mouth. But the mind is wild. The mind is, the mind will think five thoughts before you even know.

But those are karma. Those are raw karma. GNYEL BA'I GZHOR NA SEMS DE'ANG YANG MIN DU GNAG DGOS BYUNG STE Even in this life, forget after you die, many different weird things and things you don't want to happen will happen.

GNAG DGOS, those of you learning Tibetan, GNAG means NAT SOGS. SNA means a variety. And DGOS means the number nine, but it's a pluralizer in Tibetan.

So when you say he had nine problems, it means he had a billion. He had a zillion. It's a way to say millions.

It's nine, but it doesn't mean nine. GNAG DGOS means like a zillion different varieties of problems will come to you in your life. DNGOS PAR GYUR NA LOB PAN SANGS RGYAS YOD SHES KYI Then he tells a very striking story which I have never forgotten.

Oh, I forgot to look up the story about Krishna Charya for you. I'll try to do it tonight or this afternoon. I never forgot this story.

It really struck me. I remember when I was hearing this book for the first time and I remember hearing this story. It struck me very deeply.

DNGOS PAR GYUR NA Long ago in the land of Pagpas. Yeah, India, which means the land of Aryas, people who saw emptiness. Because there were a lot there relatively.

LOB PAN SANGS RGYAS YOD SHES SANGS RGYAS YOD SHES is a personal name. It means Buddha's jnana, wisdom of the Buddha. It's a monk's name.

GYIS CHOS GSUNGS PA'I TSE He was teaching the Dharma outside to a public gathering. And then KHONG RANG GI LAMA, his own teacher, his own lama. You see what I mean?

He's teaching the class, but his own teacher. GRUB BYENG PHAGS SANGS GRUB BYENG means the great Yogiciddy or yoga master. The great master named Phagtsang.

Phag means, do you know Phag? This is not the Phag that means Arya. Yeah, this Phag means pig.

Who's Phagmo? Varahi. Yeah, that's Phajagiri.

Phagmo, the sow, the sow. And the Sanskrit is Varahi. I love to tell people the derivation.

V-A-R-A-H-I Just visualize it. V-A-R-A-H-I Change the V to F, change the F to P, change the A-R to O-R, and the H changes to K. Pork.

And the word pork comes directly from Varahi. And if you learn Sanskrit well, and you learn Indo-European and how it comes into English, you will see all these connections. It's kind of cool.

You can read the New York Times and see the Sanskrit behind every word. And it's very cool. Anyway, pork means pig in this spelling.

With a different spelling, it means Arya. Same pronunciation, pork. Pork, tsang.

Tsang means a nest or a home. Like mi tsang means family, a human nest. Dratsang means what?

A monastery. The Tibetan word for monastery is a monk nest. Dra means draba, means monk.

And draba tsang means, dratsang means, the two colleges of Sera, Sera Mey and Sera Jey are called dratsang. That unit of monastery is called dratsang. So this tsang means pig keeper.

He was a swine herd. His teacher was a pig farmer. And he walked around with herds of pigs and made sure they didn't run away and fed them and slop and stuff like that.

So he probably smelled bad. But he was a high yogi. He was a high master.

And in India, the high masters used to do, probably nowadays they'd be working at Walmart or something. They used to hide as normal people like that. Paktsang, paktsangpa, tilopa means, the name tilopa means the guy who makes oil from til.

Til means sesame. And he made his living crushing sesame seeds into oil. That's all he did.

And he was one of the greatest yoga teacher in India. So anyway, Ranggir Lama, der chenpa, his lama walked by, the pig herder walked by the back of the group, the audience in the teaching. So ma tongway tsul du dzu, he pretended that he didn't notice him.

He looked the other way. Pretended that he didn't notice his teacher. Because he was embarrassed to admit in front of his students that the pig keeper was his teacher.

Dzu ne, je su lama nge ma tong. And then on top of that, he added a lie. Dzu means he lied.

What? Lama ma tong. I didn't see my lama.

Oh, I heard later that he had walked by, but I didn't see him. Nge means by me, was not seeing the lama. I didn't see him.

Lied, dzu. And then, shu be, shu is the word to speak to your lama. We don't say, I told my lama.

We say, I offered these words to my lama. We speak in high language. Shu means offered those words to his teacher.

So we know from the verb shu that he was talking to his, he was lying to his lama. Shu be, ming de ngu su chir dun. Ming de means your eyeball.

The eyeballs came out and fell on the ground. He lost his eyes. His eyeballs actually fell out of his head.

You don't believe it, but anyway. Ngu su means it really happened. Chir, this chir doesn't mean because.

This chir means out, came out. Dun means to come, to come out. Popped out.

Sar phung means, what's chur phung? Chur phung. Yeah, Patanjali.

Who said that? Good job. Yeah, Master Patanjali who wrote the Yoga Sutra, his name in Tibetan is chur phung.

The one who fell into the water because he appeared in his mother's hands when she was praying for a boy. And she was offering anjali, which is that water that you put in your hands. So here we have phung meaning fall down, on the sa, on the ground.

Fell down on the ground. Ha sa means, yeah, Los Angeles, the city of the gods. Lo gyu dang.

Lo gyu means he told that story. He told us the story. Who's he?

Pabongka Rinpoche. Who's talking? Chitra Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama's teacher.

Current Dalai Lama's teacher. He's saying, he told us the story of the swine herd. Then he's going to go to...

How are we doing on time? Are you guys okay? Can you, do you need a pee pee break?

Let's do a pee pee break. What time are we supposed to start? So let's do a pee pee break in like five or 10 minutes.

We'll take a mini break. See how fast, okay. DAG PO BYAMS PA'I LHAN DROB RIN PO CHE DAG PO is a place in Tibet called DAG PO.

BYAMS PA'I LHAN DROB is a lama's name. RIN PO CHE means the precious one. And this is the name of Pabongka Rinpoche's heart teacher.

Why do you know his name? He wrote the meditation song, which we'll be studying. We're going to go back and study more of that by the end of the week, okay.

The DROB CHE, the Book of Preliminaries for Meditation were written by this lama. Okay. Oh wow.

It is a minor problem. Okay, come back, come back. Rinpoche, GNYIS GNAS means there was a disciple who was close to him, who stayed near him all the time.

GNYIS GNAS means a disciple who's an attendant, constant attendant to somebody. And his name was Sutram Lhag. So Sutram is just a personal name.

Lhag means that guy, like Geshe-la. Geshe-la, it's kind of like honorific. So they'll call him Joe-la or Nick-la or something.

So there was a close attendant named Sutram. THEGOS MED MA ZHIG RJES SU He would show disrespect towards Pabongka Rinpoche's teacher. And after that, he went back to Gokar.

Gokar is an area of Tibet. In that pass, near a mountain pass, KUN MA, he met a bandit, DGO BA RDZOGS BSDOD CHUNG And there was a, what do you call that kind of stone where you grind corn or the big ones? Yeah, like a millstone.

The native, the Navajos use them. Yeah, it's a big stone. It's not, what's it called?

Mitate. It's those big, huge stones and you use another stone and you grind the corn. So that bandit was hiding and he took the stone and smashed it in his skull of the student.

CHUNG NAS ZHI BA HIN GYI DA'I And so these are things that happened in Pabongka's own dharma family. Okay, you want another depressing story? Let's do it.

Let's take a bathroom break. The next story is a little bit of a long story. And I researched it for you and I got the whole story.

So it'll take some time. So let's take a bathroom break until five. It's about a 10 minute little mini bathroom break.

SOGS BRTZAL Nyusulpa is a very unusual name and it refers to an early Kadampa Lama. So one of the early lamas of our tradition. His dates are 1042 to 1118.

His monk's name was Yeshe Bar. And he had a student, Loma. DAM TSIG NYAMS PA means he broke his commitment.

Probably to his teacher. They don't say, but probably to his teacher. DAM TSIG NYAMS PA ZHIG ZHIG BAR When it came time, on his deathbed, JIG NANGS BYUNG TSUL he went into a state of terror.

BYUNG TSUL SOGS, etc. Meaning there was a longer story. TSAL means the lama told us that whole story.

Who's the lama? Pabongka Lama. So Chidam Rinpoche doesn't tell us the whole story.

He just says, at this point, Pabongka Rinpoche told us the story of Nyusulpa's disciple. What happened to him. So I went and got it for you.

And where I got it is from a beautiful book called SHING YIN RTEN TSUL which means How to Behave Around Your Teacher. And it's a 50-page treatise written by Pabongka Rinpoche. It's a separate book about how to behave, or how to have a good relationship with your teacher.

And maybe it would be nice to study someday. It's a beautiful book. And it seems to be a classic.

It would be an interesting book to study in our free time. Okay, so I'll read you that. I cut it out on the computer and I'll just read it for you.

I didn't put it, oh, I didn't put it up there. That's just the raw, this is the raw mother text. And in my notes, I chopped out other scriptures, but I didn't want to show you all that because it would be too much for you.

NYUSUR PA'I LO MA RGYAS TSUL ZHIG GIS There was a RGYAS TSUL, a novice monk who was a student of NYUSUR PA. LAMA BSTAN TSUL LOGS PA'I He made, he failed in his relationship to his teacher. Somehow the relationship got, went bad.

LAMA RGYAS TSUL KHO MA'I PHYI'I KHONG Then he got a, one day he got a fever. He had a serious fever. And by the way, I'm supplementing that book with another book by Je Tsongkapa, which is called The Brief Presentation on the Steps of the Path.

So Tsongkapa wrote three. He wrote a shorter presentation, medium presentation, and then the Lam Rim Chenmo. So quoting the lesser presentation, shorter one.

This CHI KHYEN CHU GSUM GANG RE GYI He was dying. He started to die. He got a serious fever and started to die.

And then his teacher, NYUSUR PA, said, go tell him he should apologize to me. Somehow he disrespected his teacher. And the teacher said, tell him he should apologize.

And he refused. The student refused. SREG NAS DRAG PA GZIN NAS, NYUSUR PA'I SREG NAS CING ZHUGS PA YIN KYANG The teacher started to get frantic at begging him to apologize.

He refused. NGES MED DU BYIN NAS Then he went into this kind of delusion. What do you call that?

Hallucination. That the mountains, the monastery was in a small valley surrounded by mountains. And he thought the mountains were starting to fall down on him, which is something that is in a hell realm.

There's a place like that. THO LA GCOD CUNG NGO Then he started screaming. The student started screaming.

And then he felt like the whole monastery was on fire. He said, our monastery is on fire. It wasn't on fire.

Only he saw the fire. And then he felt as though the room that he was laying in caught on fire. And then he felt as though he was catching on fire.

And he started screaming. And then he died like that. And they say he went to the hell realms.

He died screaming. And then there's a verse about it. When I watch people around their teachers, I sometimes, there's words pop into my head.

It's called children playing with razor blades. Those words pop into my mind. It's very weird.

For many years, it's been like that. I served my teacher for 25 years. I saw many students come and go, hundreds.

And that phrase used to pop in my mind all the time. Oh, they're children playing with razor blades. They don't know what they're doing and they're cutting themselves.

Okay, the next cheerful section is problem number seven. So problem number five was good qualities you have will degenerate and you won't be able to get new ones. Problem number six was, just many kinds of problems will come in your life.

Serious, and eventually they will kill you. Like cancer or things like that. Seven is, SDUG PA PHYI MA NGAN SONGS MU THA MED PAR KHYAMS PA NI If you fail in your relationship to your teacher, then you will wander.

KHYAMS PA means wander. NGAN SONGS means lower realms. MU THA MED PAR means endlessly.

GNYIS MIG BYAS ZHUGS PA'I This is the worst one. LAM MA LA NYES MED BYAS PA'I DE NI A person who criticizes their teacher in their mind or in their words. LAG NAG DOR BYED DBANG KUR BA'I RGYUD LAS GSUNGS PA LTAR YIN It's like the story that you find in LAG NAG DOR BYED.

What's LAG NAG DOR BYED? Or CHAGS NAG DOR BYED? Vajrapani.

LAG NAG DOR BYED The one who has a diamond in their hand. LAG means hand. LAG NAG means in the hand, DOR BYED.

His name is the one who has a diamond in his hand. PA NI means hand, Vajrapani. DBANG KUR BA'I RGYU means the tantra in which there occurred the empowerment of Vajrapani.

The tantra dedicated to the empowerment of Vajrapani. It describes what happens to people who disrespect their teacher. GZHAN NYAL BA'I RAB MANG PO RDO LAS GSUNGS KYANG In the sutras, in the open teachings, in Chinese, we were in China, I was teaching a very exclusive teaching in China for a week.

They have the word jing, like shin jing, or jing kang jing. It means sutra or old book. But they use it for all old books.

Like Dao De Jing is an old book. It just means kind of like old book. So I was teaching them the three meanings of the word sutra.

Because jing can be translated as sutra. Sutra can mean a short book. Like Yoga Sutra just means a short book on yoga.

Sutra can mean, how do you say, as opposed to shastra, which shastra, which means a commentary, ancient Indian commentary, which is the tengyur, or the sutras, which is the kongyur. Teachings given by Lord Buddha or teachings given by other Indian Buddhists. Then sutra can mean open teaching as opposed to tantra.

You can say sutra and shastra, or you can say sutra and longer books, or you can say sutra as opposed to tantra. So here we're, in this case, we're talking about tantra. MANG PO RDOG LAS GSUNGS Sorry, the open teachings, the sutra teachings, they describe the, there are many stories there about the hell realms.

There are many stories that take place in the hell realms. But, KYANG, LAM MA LA NYID MO'I BYAS PA DE NYAL BA DIR GYUR ZHES MA BSTAN You rarely see anyone directly say what happens to a person who disrespected their lama, and which hell they go to, and what happens to them. You rarely see it.

BSTAN LA, but, RGYUD DER But in this particular tantra, so I think he's justifying his use of a tantra. Normally, Pabongka Rinpoche was very careful not to speak about tantra in a public teaching. I think what he's trying to say is that I have to go to a tantra.

RGYUD DER LAG NAM DOR BYED In this tantra, Vajrapani asks a question of the Buddha. So don't forget that there are eight close bodhisattvas, close disciples of the Buddha, and they have names like Manjushri or Avalokiteshvara or Maitreya or Vajrapani. They weren't recognized as tantric deities till later.

They were bodhisattvas. LAG NAM DOR BYED So Vajrapani asks a question to the Buddha in that tantra. Here's the question.

BYAMS DON DE GANG DAG BLOB PON LA NYE BAR GYIS PA DE DAG GI RNAM PAR MIN PA JI LTA BU LA BYAMS DON DE means oh victorious one. Bhagavan in Sanskrit. GANG DAG Those people, BLOB PON LA NYE BAR GYIS PA who disrespect or criticize their teacher.

DE DAG GI RNAM PAR MIN PA What's the karmic result? What's the ripening of that karma? MIN PA JI LTA BU LA What's it look like?

ZHES DE'I RNAM MIN GSUNG BAR GUL BA NA In those words, he asked Lord Buddha. He exhorted Lord Buddha, please tell us what's the karmic result of criticizing your Lama. Then BYAMS DON DE KYI GAG RTZA BA means Lord Buddha replied, LAG NAM DOR BYED This is the evocative case.

Oh Vajrapani. He's addressing Vajrapani. Oh Vajrapani.

LHA DANG BYAS PA'I JI RTEN DRAG PAR RGYUR GYI DE SKYE MA MA Don't ask me. The world will shudder. The world will cry.

The world will weep. Don't ask me this question. Just don't ask the question.

You can't ask me this question. Then SANG BA'I BDAG PO'I ON GANG BYUNG ZHIG SGRUB PA BYA So he's kind of persistent. I wonder if he's breaking his Lama.

Anyway, he says, could you just give us a hint? You don't have to say much. Just give us a hint.

SANG BA'I BDAG PO Lord of Secrets ON GANG BYUNG ZHIG SGRUB PA BYA I'm sorry, Lord Buddha is speaking. I'm sorry. SANG BA'I BDAG PO means Lord of Secrets.

Who's that? Vajrapani. He's talking back to Vajrapani.

BYUNG ZHIG ON GANG means however. BYUNG ZHIG SGRUB PA BYA means I will say something. I will say a little bit.

So I'm sorry I misinterpreted. It's not Vajrapani talking. BYA'I The possessive AGE KU'I The apostrophe I on B-Y-A It's the...

disjunctive. Yeah. It's not possessive.

When you see an apostrophe S at the end of a sentence in Tibetan, be suspicious. It's a disjunctive particle. It's but.

It's not of. You don't say of at the end of a sentence in English either. Something I won't speak of.

Anyway, just kidding. He says but. PHA WO BRIM DE means oh you young warrior.

BRIM DE NYON CIG means... BRIM means focus. Like if you drive a car and you're not focusing.

The way I learned the word BRIM was I'd be looking at... I was Rinpoche's driver for 25 years and he's like, BRIM DE. Concentrate on the road.

BRIM DE NYON CIG means I'll tell you a little bit about that karma But, and you listen. You better listen. GNYON GCIG means listen.

Then he says, TSA MA'I LA SOGS MI SRED PA NYAL BAR GANG DANG NGES SHES PA DE RNAMS KYIS NI GNAS SU BRJOD DE NI RGYAL PA DA'I SO DE LTAR BA'I NA RNAMS KUN DU RNAM YANG LOB PA NYES MI BYA TSA MA'I LA SOGS MI SRED PA I have already described to you the five TSA MA'I. What's that? The five greatest bad karmas in Buddhism.

What are they? Kill your mother. Kill your father.

Killing Arhat. Draw blood from a Buddha with evil intent, which gets the nurses out of trouble. And then splitting up the sangha.

Causing a rift in a dharma group. Which is, we can't do that. I mean, we're not going to kill our mother.

We're not going to. There's no Buddha around to kill right now. But breaking up a dharma group is very easy to get involved with.

So we have to be careful. TSA MA'I LA SOGS MI SRED PA These unbearable NYAL BA GANG DANG NGES SHES PA The hell realms, which I have described for you, which are for people who commit those five most serious Buddhist sins. DE RNAMS KYIS NI GNAS SU BRJOD This is where those people go.

What people? The people who disrespect the Lama. Criticize the Lama.

NI GNAS SU BRJOD And how long? SKAL PA The other day, I forgot the number yesterday. 10 to the 60th power.

Is how many eons it takes to become enlightened. 10 with 60 zeros on it. And then each of those eons is many millions of years.

Hundreds of millions of years. SKAL PA THA YED THA YED means what? THA means limit.

YED means no. It means infinite. Infinite number of SKAL PAS, they will stay there.

For what? Criticizing your teacher. That's the Buddha's answer that he didn't want to give because it would upset the whole world.

The world, if they heard it, they should cry. THA YED SU DE LTA BA'I NA RNAMS KUN DU RNAM YANG LOR PA NYID MI BYA Therefore, please never criticize your teacher. This is Lord Buddha talking.

In a tantra. And I looked it up. It's called the Arya Vajrapani Abhisheka Maha Tantra.

The tantra of the great empowerment of Vajrapani. And it's there. And it's quoted correctly.

What they don't quote is the next verse, which I kind of like. I went and got it for you from the tantra. SANG BA'I BDAG PO BAD VAJRAPANI LOB PA LA BLO ME'I JI LTAR BYA BA GZHAN NA How should we behave towards our teacher?

How should a student behave towards their teacher? And then he says, SANGS RGYAS CHEN PO'I DE'I RNAMS LA JI LTAR BA GZHAN DU As if they were the Buddha. Who's talking?

Lord Buddha, okay. Got it? And then, and if they do, if they do, THAG TU RGA' BAR GYUR BAR GYUR they will live in a state of endless joy and endless happiness.

DE NI JI RTEN THAMS CAD LA And by honoring their teacher, they help all planets. JI RTEN THAMS CAD LA PHAN PAR BYED PAS And SANGS RGYAS GYUR And then they, SANGS RGYAS GYUR They become a Buddha. They become a Buddha and they help all worlds.

Those who honor their teacher. I like to say they have affection for their teacher. I have lots of students who disrespect me.

They call me, what was they call me? Oscar or something. Where was it?

In Mexico. They were making fun of me. But it was with great affection.

So I think, we call KUPA KAM PO dry respect. It's the same word used for dry dog poop. And that kind of respect which is very sterile and unjoyful and anal and tells other people don't talk to the Lama and leave the Lama alone.

That's not respect. I don't consider it respect. I think after many, many, many years, my whole life trying to behave properly towards my teacher, I think what they really want is affection.

They want your affection. They don't care if you call them dickhead. But it should be with affection.

And then that's better than calling them oh, Geshe-la and then being unkind to everybody. You see what I mean? I think it's kind of an affection thing.

Pema Chöpa If you have that kind of joyful, sweet, fun relationship with your teacher, then you actually affect many planets. That behavior, what do you call it? Like ripples.

What do you call that? Yeah, it's like reverberating. It sounds like reverberating.

It just ripples out to many other planets. It has repercussions on many other worlds. Even as you're doing it, it causes happiness.

Yeah, it has ramifications in many worlds that we cannot see. There are many worlds of beings are brought great joy if you have a joyful, affectionate relationship with your teacher. Then that actually enlightens other worlds.

So that's, I like, you know, I told you this story, but my boss used to try to get me to stay late and I'd be like, no. And he'd be like, you have to stay or I'll fire you. And I'm like, fire me.

I don't care, fire me. I have to go to class. I have to run now to the bus station and go to class.

And he's like, I'll fire you. And I'm like, fire me. And then I call him in the morning, you want me to come in or not?

And he's like, all right, come in. And then one night, I remember, I'm like, I got to go. And he's like, Mike, sit down.

I got to tell you something. I'm like, what? And he's like, we got a big order from JCPenney.

It's a thousand diamonds we need tonight. You're the only one who can do it. You're just the linchpin of this company.

We depend on you. If you're not here, we can't make it. We won't be able to do it.

You're just the guts of this company. I'm like, I can do it. I'll stay.

I'll stay till midnight. And he's like, yeah, okay, thanks. We really need you.

And for me, if you tell me being sweet to my Lama is going to reverberate to a thousand worlds today, that it will make people happy in a thousand other planets, for me, it's a lot better than saying, oh, you're going to go to hell if you don't make Geshe Michael a cocoa this morning. I don't know, but I didn't write the book. Okay, last thing.

ZHES LA DANG BYAS PA'I JI LTAR PAR GYUR ZHING The Buddha is saying that if he were to describe in detail what happens to people who disrespect the Lama, PHRAG means to be frightened. PHRAG CHUNG means I got scared. The worlds, even with a laugh, the worlds with the devas.

So what's that mean? Planets with... Each planet in Buddhism is said to have all three realms.

A form realm, a formless realm, and a desire realm. So, tri loka, right? Three worlds.

It means not just the humans in those other planets. Even the deities, the, what do you call it, Tencent deities, the temporary deities who live in those worlds. They will also be scared to talk about this subject of what happens to a person who disrespects their teacher.

ZHES LA DANG BYAS PA'I JI LTAR PAR GYUR ZHING Unfortunately, the people who have to hear this teaching don't come. BYANG SEMS BDAG NYID CHEN PO'I RNAMS KYANG RGYAL BA'I RGYUR BYANG SEMS BDAG NYID CHEN PO'I means those bodhisattvas. What's BDAG NYID CHEN PO'I in Sanskrit?

CHEN PO'I means Mahatma. Mahatma. Mahatma.

This is the translation of Mahatma in Sanskrit, from Sanskrit. It's very cool. Mahatma means, was long before, it was a word that was used by the Buddha and it means great soul, great being, Mahatma.

Those bodhisattvas who are Mahatmas. Why does he say, why doesn't he just say bodhisattvas or great bodhisattvas? Why does he say those who are Mahatmas?

What's in the Heart Sutra? Why do they say BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS SEMS PA CHEN PO'I? The great bodhisattvas.

Yeah, they're mainly Aryas. They've seen emptiness also. Mainly that.

If they hear, even those very powerful bodhisattvas who have seen emptiness directly, if I really told you what happened to people who disrespect their teacher, RGYAL BAR GYUR, this spelling of RGYAL BAR, B-R-G-Y-A-L, means to fall down unconscious. What do you call it? They would pass out or they would faint.

They wouldn't be able to hear it. GONG NAS. GONG NAS means, this is the GONG in GOMS PA RGYAL, which means having that in mind.

SHIBS DU GSUNGS MA BOS TSUL GYIS It was as if he didn't dare to speak in detail. Who's he? Lord Buddha.

In the scripture, it almost feels as though Lord Buddha is afraid to go into detail. TSUL GYIS GNAR MED DU LOR GRANGS MANG POR NAS DGOS PA TZAM ZHIG BSTAN So he taught that a person would have to stay for many years in GNAR MED, the lowest of the hells. TZAM ZHIG That's a terrible word there.

TZAM Like what's TZAM TZAM mean? I just taught TZAM TZAM in China for a week. Mind only.

So why does he say only here? This is Pabongka Rinpoche. Lord Buddha taught that people who criticize their lamas, TZAM, go to the hell realms.

Yeah, there was more, but he was afraid to say it. MA BOS PA means he was afraid to tell us. He stopped.

And there's more, but he didn't want to say it. Lord Buddha didn't want to say it. He was afraid to say anything for us.

He didn't want to hurt us. We'll stop there, but the next paragraph gets more depressing. It's a little piece about the effects of being around people who have collected that kind of karma.

What does it do to me? Does it rub off on me if I'm around those people? Or if I make a mistake with my teacher, how does that affect people around me?

Does that hurt the people who eat lunch with me or hang out with me? Am I hurting others when I disrespect my teacher? That's a big question.

What am I doing to the people around me? So he's going to go into that. Let us have a jolly...

It's dinner time, I think. I kind of changed the homework structure so that hopefully you could finish most of the homework after each class. It's more work for me, but it's better for you, I think.

But I might get behind. Gunnar, are you ready?

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