«Дар освобождения», курс 18 «Ретрит внутри ретрита», занятие 7

[Speaker 1]
So, for the three days, what we just did is the Thousand Angels, so, he's sleepy. What we just did is the Thousand Angels, and I'll talk to you about it today. But at this time, after you ask them to stay, they are still sitting on the cloud, okay?

Or the moon, if it's night time, and then you start your mantras, okay? So, let's do some mantras together, okay? It's a tradition, if you can, try to do with your left hand, okay?

It's a tradition. Then on your—you can do like this, right? Counting the mantras.

But there's a tradition to use your third finger, okay? And it needs practice, okay? It's not comfortable at the beginning.

Why do we do that? There's one special jing, meridian, comes down your left arm from your heart, and it goes to your third finger, okay? Then that has more power.

It gives the mantra more power. Left hand, third finger, okay? Then in the beginning, it's not comfortable.

Third finger means fourth finger, okay? If you include the thumb. Ring—we call wedding finger, yeah?

I think that's why people wear wedding ring on that finger. I think it's some ancient custom. So, you go like that.

If your fingers get tired, you can go like— you can do one hundred like that, and then you can change, you know, to use your hand. But slowly, if you can use your left hand, it's better, okay? If you can learn to use it, okay?

Then let's do one round together, okay? You can whisper the mantra, right? You can go, MIG MED TSE BA'I LTAR BYEN CHEN PO'I SRID MIG MED KHYEN PA'I DBANG PO BYAMS PA'I YANG RIG PO'I MA NANG SBYONG TE SANGS PA'I DANG, GANG ZHIG GIS PA'I TSUL KHYEN SONG NGAGS PA, BO SANGS DRAG PA'I GZHAN PA SRUNG DANG Okay?

If you want to, you can sing it. MIG MED TSE BA'I—okay? It's slower.

Or you can say it a little bit loud, okay? Out loud. MIG MED TSE BA'I LTAR BYEN CHEN PO'I SRID MIG MED KHYEN PA'I DBANG PO BYAMS PA'I YANG If you don't know the mantra, it's in your book.

What page, Bertha? 179. It's on the left side, 179, verse 11.

Number 11. So, in the beginning you can read it from there. Okay?

There's a tradition. It's good luck to say a few of them a little bit out loud. Okay?

So, some of them you can whisper, okay? MIG MED TSE BA'I LTAR BYEN CHEN PO'I SRID MIG MED KHYEN PA'I DBANG PO BYAMS PA'I YANG DUD BU'I MA LA'I BYAMS PA'I SEMS PA'I DAG DGA' BYAS SKYES PA'I TSUL KHYEN TSOGS DGOS PA BLO SANGS DRAG PA'I GZHAN PA SRUNG DANG Okay? But some of them you can sing.

MIG MED TSE BA'I—okay? You can get the recording. Some of them you can say out loud, okay?

MIG MED TSE BA'I LTAR BYEN CHEN PO'I SRID MIG MED KHYEN PA'I DBANG PO BYAMS PA'I YANG Why? Why out loud? It's good for your mind.

It stays in your mind. And? There are many spirits on this land.

There are many spirits. And they will come. What's this person doing?

And they will get a seed in their mind. Okay? You can help them.

When they die they can be born at Diamond Mountain. First as a dishwasher. Okay?

Like that. Or maybe finally as a dishwasher. I don't know.

But it helps the other beings. The animals here are very sensitive also. They can hear everything.

The birds hear everything. If you sing, they will come. They will sit outside and they will listen.

They love to hear people sing. Okay? The birds will sit outside in the tree and they will say, who's singing in there?

What are they singing? They will listen. And then you are putting a seed in their mind.

Okay?

[Speaker 2]
That's good.

[Speaker 1]
Ready? Let's do 21. I think that's more practical this morning.

So you can count 21. Three. Two.

Look, the bird already came. You can count 21. He likes it.

Big man is already there. Now, stop. Stop before you start.

What I want to show you this morning, main thing in this class, is what are you going to think about while you are doing mantra? You see? Because you are not really meditating.

Your eyes may be open. You are looking around, thinking about lunch. And then it's very important when you do a retreat, you should have a plan.

What are you going to think about during your mantras? Otherwise you are just going to think about everything. Like breakfast, or your bills, your credit card, who's going to fix your car when you get back.

Stuff like that. So we have to have a plan. Okay?

What are you going to think about? I can give you many suggestions. There are many suggestions.

The best one, I think, while you are doing your mantras, is to think about people who did nice things to you. Okay? Think about people who did nice things to you.

So you are like, ,MIG MED RTZE BA'I BRTAN DRIN BYAS PA'I SRID, ,'KHRID MED KHYAD MED DBANG PO BRTZE PA'I, Oh my mom was so nice to me. She bought me my first surfboard. At Pacific Beach.

She paid $100. She didn't have any money. I couldn't believe it.

I used that surfboard for 15 years. I had so many good rides because of my mom. I also took it to Hawaii.

Like that. Think about your mom. Think about people who helped you.

That's the best one. I think. While you are doing your mantras.

You can make a list of those people's names. The first day the list will have five names. After three days there will be 100 names or 200 names.

When you start to think about it, you will find many people to thank. And that's the best minute. That's the best thing to do while you are doing mantras.

Okay, you ready? Let's try that. We're going to do 21 mantras.

I won't bother you until I finish. But I didn't have breakfast, so I'm going to be faster than you. So, if you get your prayer book.

The Chinese prayer book is coming today. Okay, sorry. The Chinese translators worked very, very hard.

Some of them are sick. Okay. Yeah.

Didn't get much sleep. So, you have to thank them. Let's read it together.

From page... What is that? 169.

We'll do verse by verse in English. You ready? Okay.

Verse one. Please come to me, Lobsang Dharpa, King of the Dharma, who knows all things. Come with your sons riding upon the clouds of clouds like mountains of pure white snow.

Come. Come from the heart, the land of a thousand angels living in the heaven of bliss. So, this is where you're asking...

This is the first thing we did this morning. You're asking Tsongkhapa to come sit on the clouds. He's coming from Buddha paradise.

There's a Buddha paradise of Buddhists who are waiting to come to this world. It's like a waiting room to Sita. For example, Maitreya is there.

Maitreya is the next Buddha. Coming very soon. We are lucky in this world.

So, Maitreya will come very soon. Very close now. Tsongkhapa, like Maitreya, you can ask them, please come.

Don't stay in the waiting room. Just come to this planet. Come to Diamond Mountain.

Come to the clouds. Like that. That's inviting them.

Then while you recite that, you can pause after that and you can think they came to the clouds. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Like that.

[Speaker 1]
Here's the second verse. Sit in the air in front of me on a throne with cushions of the moon and the lotus set on the backs of lions. My holy Lama, with pure white smile, happy with me, I ask you to stay for a million years to spread the teaching.

Stay, for there is no one higher than you with whom I may make merit by goodness of my faith. So, you're asking them to sit in front of you. When we say throne, in Tibet a throne just looks like this.

It's not like a king's throne in France or something like that. It's like a platform. Then they are sitting on, their meditation cushion is, there are three.

One is the moon. One is a lotus. Sometimes we add a sun.

Then you have to squish the sun into a flat round thing. Like that. In ancient India, they thought the sun was flat and round.

That's the meaning of the word mandala. Mandala means a flat coiled thing. He's sitting on the moon cushion and sitting on the lotus.

Sometimes we add a sun. There's a sun cushion and like an Oreo cookie. Three parts, right?

I don't know why I always think of cookies, but there are three parts. Then like a cookie. Then there's a lotus and moon and the sun.

Usually there are those three. What are those? Who knows?

What do they represent? Yeah, the three principal paths. The ACI course number one.

Three main ideas that every Buddhist should have. What's the lotus? Which one?

Yeah. First, the lotus means renunciation. Renunciation is a big word.

It means this world is broken. I'm tired of this world. This world is not a good world.

Right now there's a problem. Many wars. People nowadays are killing each other.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. Killing each other. Terrible.

Innocent people. Just killing, shooting them. Bombing people.

Like that. Both sides are doing very bad things. Sickness.

Old age. You can see it everywhere. Everyone's having problems.

If you are jealous of somebody, wait for one year. They will get sick. They will lose their child.

Then you'd feel only compassion for them. We all have trouble. Even the famous people.

The big people. It's a difficult world. We want to change this world.

It's not nice. Why does the lotus represent feeling the pain of the world? Lotus grows in the worst place.

First time I saw a lotus I was in India. I was in a car. Outside of Bangalore.

This is a big city in India. We drove and we found this lake. There was a lake.

There were many lotuses on top of the lake. I was like, wow! Finally I saw a lotus.

I jumped out of the car and I ran. Then somebody grabbed me. One monk grabbed me and said, don't go there.

I said, why? He said, that's not a lake. I said, what?

He said, that's the poo-poo from Bangalore. All the pee-pee and poo-poo from Bangalore is in that place. They just go in the river.

There's no sewer system, nothing. Then the smell hit me. He said, if you want you can hire this Indian boy.

He will swim out there and get you a lotus. Then I said, no, no. I don't need it.

It's okay, I'll just look at it. Lotus always grows in the stinky place. It means a Buddhist person tries to find a difficult situation.

We don't avoid difficult situations. We look for difficult situations. Because then you can help more people.

Go to the tough places. DCI, we like to go... We go to China or Taiwan.

We charge them extra money. Then we go to the difficult countries. We go to Ukraine.

We were in Ukraine the day after the plane was... Our plane was in the air 24 hours after the other plane was shot down. We try to go to the difficult places.

We take the Chinese money, go to Ukraine. We don't charge. We give everybody scholarship.

We go to the tough places. Buddhist person should go to the difficult places. Help.

If there's an earthquake, then go there and help them. Like that. Like Tzu Chi Foundation does.

So nice. What's the moon? Yeah, the moon is cool.

The moon... In Buddhism we say the moon gives light, cool light. If you feel angry, you can go stand out in the moonlight.

If your boyfriend said something bad or your boss won't give you a raise and you feel upset, then go out and stand in the moonlight. It will make you calm. Very great therapy.

It's in Tibetan medicine, Ayurveda. SO BA'I RIG PA Go out and stand in the moonlight. It's very cheap also.

You don't have to pay for, what do you call those drugs to get calm? Just go stand in the moonlight and it will make you calm. So it means bodhichitta.

What is bodhichitta? Bodhichitta means I want to save the world. I want to help the whole world.

The only way to do that is if I change myself. So bodhichitta has two parts. In Tibetan, SEMS BSKYED PA NI GZHAN DU SPYIR YANG DAG RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB DU I want to make myself a good person so I can help other people.

You can't help other people until you make yourself a good person, right? So those are the two parts of bodhichitta. That kind of attitude is like moonlight.

When you feel upset or hurt or self, it comes from selfish. A lot of upset thought comes from selfish. Most depressed people are focused 100% on themselves.

It's the quality of a depressed person. They're always focused on themselves. I don't feel happy.

Like that. Then if they can start to think about other people, this is the best medicine for them. That's moonlight.

Think about other people. This is moonlight. Anytime you feel upset, just try to think about somebody else's problem.

My father was in World War II. He was in a submarine in the Pacific. Very small submarine.

Very dangerous. Many of them disappeared. Nobody knows where they went.

He was fighting and then he said, I felt bad because I didn't have good shoes when I'm running and I don't have good shoes. Then I saw a guy with no shoes. He's fighting with no shoes.

Then I felt, my lousy shoes are okay. Then later he saw somebody lost their foot. Don't have a foot.

Then he said, definitely my shoes are okay. My old shoes are okay. I have a foot.

Like that. If you feel sad or upset, there are other people have much worse problem than you. You don't have good socks and some people don't have shoes.

You don't have good shoes and some people don't have feet. Then think about other people. When you have a problem, think about other people.

It's like moonlight. Then you feel relaxed. Then the third question is the sun.

What's that? Yeah, it's understanding the pen. Can you find my pen?

It's in the same place as this one. It's an old one. Why is it like the sun?

Yeah, this is the pen which I found on the mountain a few days ago. It's from the cowboy times. I like it.

I think it's a good sign. We found it on the next land. There's a big land north of here.

It means if you understand that pen, it's like a hot fire. It can burn your negative emotions. It can burn your anger.

It can burn your jealousy. Why? Oh, my husband complained about the food, but I understand.

Then I felt upset. I got angry. But when I think about the pen, I realize my husband coming from me.

Then that burned my anger. That understanding burned my anger, like the sunlight. It burned away my anger.

Then I thought, I have to be nicer to my kids. I shouldn't complain to my kids or my boss. Then my husband will stop complaining.

You can stop your husband complaining without talking to your husband. It's so great. You don't have to say anything to them.

No negotiation. How do you know when your relationship's about to collapse? You start talking a lot.

Like all night you'd start talking. Let's talk. Okay, let's talk.

Then six weeks later you'll break up. In this system, you don't have to talk to them. If you want to change your husband's complaining, you just stop complaining to your kids.

Then he will stop without discussion. That's very nice. That's like sunlight.

Alright, next verse. Verse number two. By the way, in verse number two, the Lama has a big white smile.

I put a handsome boy with a big white smile on the next page. That's not a handsome boy. That's a Lama.

Number three. Your mind is knowledge that wraps around the entire mass of knowable things. Your words are jewels of good explanation that we the fortunate wear on our ears.

Your body shines forth, shines with brightness, shines with a glory the world will see. I bow to you, just to see you, just to hear you, just to think of you, brings great things. Okay, good.

So, this is the first part we did this morning. You are thinking about the good quality of your teacher. Your favorite teacher.

Outside looks like Tsongkhapa. Inside could be Mrs. Butts. Do you know Mrs. Butts?

Okay, that's her real name. I didn't make it. She's my fifth grade teacher.

Her name fit her. Very tough teacher. But she taught me how to write.

So, I'm grateful to her. So, maybe tomorrow when I start the retreat, outside will be Tsongkhapa. Inside, Mrs. Butts. She had those glasses like that and the hair like this. She always talk like that. But I can think, outside she's Tsongkhapa, inside Mrs. Butts. And thank you. Thank you for teaching me to write in fifth class, in fifth grade. So, in this verse we are thinking about the good quality of our teacher.

Any teacher, favorite teacher. You can change it every day. It can be Mrs. Butts today, Mrs. Fow, which is the fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Evans, and then Mrs. Melvin, which goes five, four, three, two, one. I think about them all the time. Thank them. I found my sixth grade teacher, still alive.

Took them out to dinner recently. It was very fun. Then they took a card out of their pocket and it was my picture.

And they kept it for 40 years or something. And they said, I remember you. It was very beautiful.

Okay. If you just think about those people, good people, it infects your mind. Then you, some of that good thing rub off on you.

If you think about this person is very honest, then you become more honest. Like that. So, if you appreciate other people, then it sticks in yourself.

You will change. So, think about their qualities. That's number three.

Let's go to number four. I make in my mind and place here as well an ocean of gifts that could cover the sky, presents to please all of your senses, every different color of flower, sweetest fragrant incense, lamps of light, perfumes upon your body, and other gifts as well do I offer you. There is no higher with whom I may make merry.

So, DCI people who took DCI courses in China, you know there are three things that make the karmic seeds stronger. Three kinds of people are more powerful if you do good karma to them. Tell me any one of those three.

Someone who helped you. The person who helped you the most. If you give them a flower, it's more seeds, more powerful seeds.

Then the people who help you the most are your mother, father, school teachers, job teacher who taught you your job, and people like that. I have a brother, he taught me a lot, like that. What's the second one?

Somebody having emergency. Somebody having an emergency. Like, we are trying to help people in Africa.

We went to the Middle East last month. We are trying to help people in Ukraine. You know, people who are in a war, or people who are starving, like that.

People having an emergency. What's the third one? Yeah, people who are helping other people.

Like, to give a flower to a doctor who's helping 300 refugees is better than helping just one of those refugees. Give money to the doctor, you help 300 people. So, in this verse, we think about that kind of person.

If you stay near the doctor who is helping 300 people, if you help that doctor, if you think about that doctor, it will change you. It will change you. Alright, next verse, number six.

Here in the age of degeneration, right? Oops. Sorry, let's do that one.

One, two, er. From deep within my heart, I am sorry deeply, and openly confess, one by one, the harm that I have done in my acts or words or thoughts. Any and every wrong kept with me from time with no beginning, especially what I may have done against anyone of the three different kinds of vows.

So, this is where you tell your Lama the mistakes you made. Could be the last 24 hours. It says openly confess, right?

Openly means in your mind, say it clearly in your mind. When you're doing retreat, you're alone. So, tell them in your mind what you did.

Then we had a question yesterday about addiction. Addiction to alcohol or food or cigarettes or sex or any of those things. In Buddhism we say every result is also a cause.

So, the addiction is a result of something bad you did before. But it's also going to cause you trouble in the future. It's a cause of trouble in the future.

It's a result of something bad you did in the past. So, anything wrong in your life now, you have a fight with somebody or you have some physical problem or you have some kind of depression sometimes or sadness or you have doubt or you're not sure what to do with your life. All of those are results from something you did before.

So, even though you don't remember what you did, if you have any problem in your life now, you can confess it. I have a friend who's really irritating. I confess it.

It means I did something irritating before. I have back pain. It means I didn't take care of sick people in the past.

Then I confess it. Any problem in your life, you can also confess that. It means from beginningless time.

Those problems come from ... The reason you have a backache now is you didn't help a sick person. The reason you didn't help a sick person is you didn't help them in the lifetime before that.

The reason you didn't help them in the lifetime before that is because you didn't help them in the lifetime before that. It's beginningless. You've been doing ...

You've had back pain for countless lives. It's not just this one. So, confess all of them.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Buddhist says both. You cannot have chicken without an egg.

You cannot have egg without a chicken. Who made the first back pain that you had? There's no beginning.

There must be a bad karma before that, and there must be a bad habit before that. So, it's beginningless. Next page.

Here in the age of degeneration, you made every effort to gain great learning. You threw away the eight worldly thoughts and so made use of your leisure and fortune. Savior, we rejoice.

We are glad, happy deep inside for what you have done, so good and powerful. Here we are being happy about Tsongkapa's good deeds. He did a lot of hard work.

He worked very hard. Endlessly. We started one retreat center.

He started hundreds. We translated one book. He wrote 10,000 pages.

He's extraordinary. So, you can be happy about what he did. At this number six, you can also be happy about what you are doing.

Be happy about what you are doing. That's more powerful. I'm not Tsongkapa, but I drove to Tucson and I helped to print the Three Treasures Prayer Book and I gave $10 for it.

Like that. Then you can be happy. You did something like that.

Okay, let's go to number seven. One, two, three. Holy Lama's High, wrap the sky of your Dharma bodies in massive clouds of knowledge and love and let them pour upon the earth of your disciples as we are ready.

A shower of rain, the teachings deep and wide. Then you're asking the teachers to teach you. That's the picture of the child.

He's asking for rain. Please, please bring the rain down on me. Dharma.

Not like one class every month. Rain on me. Give me rain all day.

Teach me all day. And then of course you know the best teachers in your life were the ones who hurt you the most. Oftentimes.

They made you strong. They taught you about karma. They made you examine your own life.

They made you think about what you are doing to other people. So of course, it's not just the Dharma teachings which are valuable for us. The people who hurt us or cause us trouble, oftentimes they are teaching us more.

So be careful when you recite this verse. You are asking for trouble. Then if on Saturday somebody hurt you, you have to say, okay, I asked for it.

Look, the rain has come. All day from my partner. Thank you.

Like that. Don't forget you asked for it. The negative teachings make you really, really strong.

The bigger problem, the more strong you become. Really. I'm 62 years old.

I'm long year. I saw many years. And I believe it.

I had terrible problems in my life and they made me strong. I'm really strong. I don't have any...

Nobody can move me. But if everything was easy, I would be lazy. Next.

Number eight. One, two, three. May any goodness I have done with this my prayer be a help to the teachings and to every living being.

I make a special prayer too that for many years to come, I may carry forth the light, the essence of the word, the teachings of Je Tsongkapa. Then that lady is carrying the light. It means she's sharing these things with other people.

Then, when you go back to Taiwan or you go back to Shanghai or Xiamen or Beijing or Berlin. Guangzhou, I don't know. Berlin.

Berlin or Buenos Aires. Then you should share with other people. Share what you learned.

Don't bother other people. That's not sharing. That's bothering.

Don't say you have to become Buddhist. That's terrible. Don't bother people.

Especially your partner. You get home and you say, okay, I found out you have to do yoga every day. They won't like it.

Then they just get angry. Don't bother other people with your religion. Just share.

If someone is having, somebody found out they got cancer or someone's having problem with their husband, talk to them. Tell them about seeds and how to clean the seeds. Those people want to hear.

But don't bother people. They will get angry. You'll make bad seeds.

Alright, next one. Oh, by the way, number eight is giving away the good karma you did in the retreat every time you do a meditation session. So you have to recite verse number eight.

Give away the good karma. To sit in this retreat cabin for three days is more good karma than you can make in three years. It's more good karma than you can make in three years.

So, you have to put it in the bank. What's the bank? Give it away to other people.

When you, in your mind, give it to your friends, give it to other people. Say, here's my good karma. Give it to them.

I used to give away a big part of my income. Every six months my company will cut a check and give it to, usually to the Buddhist book project. So they will take all my profit, hold it for six months, and then they will donate directly.

Then I save the taxes also. It's legal. Every six months I will go to the CFO and I will say, okay, I need my check.

Six months. I need all my profit. Give me the check.

I had holes in my shoes. I didn't keep much money. Give the money.

Then one day he said, Mr. Roach, let me talk to you. He took me in his office. He said, I have to talk to you about something.

I said, what? He says, you don't have any retirement program. You are giving away all your money.

That's a very good thing. You are very religious. It's very good.

He's also Catholic. He's like, that's very good, but really you should put a little bit of money in a retirement fund because you cannot work forever. Someday you have to retire.

You need some place to keep your money safe. You should put your money in the bank. Then I said, I do put my money in the bank.

I put my money in the bank of other people. It's safer than your bank. It's a karma bank.

Your bank can collapse. Your bank can fail. Your stock market can collapse, but people bank never collapse.

Karma bank never collapse. I'm going to have so much money. I'm not like you.

I have a retirement plan. When you do good karma, it's like that. Give it away.

Send it to other people. Then it's protected. Protected from what?

Anger. Anytime you get angry or upset, you burn your good karma. Many, many karma.

Every time you get angry, you burn your karma. If you give it away first, it won't burn. Right after you finish your meditation, before you get up to go have lunch, then in your mind, send the karma back to Colorado or someplace safe.

Not your head. Don't keep it in your head. Send it to somebody else.

In your heart, in your mind, just say, okay, all that good karma I did this morning, I send it back to Durango or Silverton or wherever you're from. Bank it. Put it in the bank.

Give it to other people. Alright, let's do the next verse. Number nine.

Come, I pray, and sit my Root Lama, shining and precious upon the lotus atop my head. Take me after you in great kindness. Grant that I attain your body, speech, and mind.

This is actually where you bring them to the top of your head and then they come down the jongmai, the central channel, into your heart and they stay there. Little tiny teacher, Mrs. Butts in a Tibetan outfit. Maybe that's why Tibetan lamas have those high hats.

Then, because her hair is like that, right? What do you call it? Bun or something.

Beehive. Yeah, yeah. She had the beehive.

So, this one you bring the Lama into your heart. It means, please don't die. Please stay with me.

Please stay with me. Please stay in my life. Don't leave me.

In a Buddhist book, there's a thing called the Big Mistake. Capital T, capital B, capital M. It's called the Big Mistake.

When the Buddha was, I think, 81 years old, one day he said, I don't feel so good. One of his disciples who was close to him, I think it was Ananda, I'm not sure. Is it Ananda?

I think so. Then, he didn't ask the Buddha to please stay. He was busy, or he was thinking about lunch probably, which is what I'm doing.

He forgot. He didn't say, oh, please don't be sick. Please stay with us.

Then the Buddha died. Then, ever after that, for two and a half thousand years, people say, oh, he made the big mistake. If you ask, they will stay.

If you ask sincerely, they have to stay. We shouldn't make a big mistake. Like that.

Wait. Okay, so then that's the whole preparation. What we just did, the long version is called the jor kye, which is the first 150 pages.

If you want to do the long way, do the first 150 pages. Like once a day during your retreat, you can do the long one. I don't know how many verses.

It's the first 183 pages, I think. If you want to do a really nice one, first 185 pages. Those are long version of what we just did.

If your spiritual hamstrings are really tight in the morning, you can do the 185 pages. You can recite those. Then it will warm you up.

The same parts are there that we just did. Ask them to come. Bow down to them.

Make them an offering. Tell them your mistakes. Tell them the good things you did and other people did.

Ask them to teach. Ask them to stay. Send other people the good karma.

All of those steps are from the jor kye. If you want to do a deluxe puja, do the 185 pages. I'm suggesting, I'll give you a schedule this afternoon.

Suggested schedule. But in the morning you are fresh and your knees don't hurt yet. That's a good time to do the jor kye.

Then you can do your meditations. One more page. Where are we?

Page 179. Then you can start your mantras. Then you can start your mantras.

You can do some mantras. Walking maybe is good, because at that time you've been on your... if you do the jor kye you're on your bottom for 40 minutes or 45 minutes or something.

And your knees are hurting. When you reach page 179 you can start to do your mantras. You can do some walking meditation with the mantras.

Then you don't feel sore. Don't suffer in retreat. You should feel happy, light.

Don't get all like this. When you do yoga you shouldn't be like... Try to relax a little bit.

If you are struggling in yoga, your breath is off. If your breath is off, the prana is not moving, because the breath and the prana are connected. If your smile is off, your breath is off.

Like that. If you feel tight in retreat, you're not doing a good retreat. You should feel relaxed, happy.

If you feel like the room is too small, your knees hurt, get out and go take a walk. Don't go crazy. The worst thing you can do in retreat is to get all...

They call kusudopo. Say kusudopo. Kusudopo means you go to an old city, Medina, right?

What's Medina? It's the old city in any European city or Arabic country. The middle city, inside the wall, is called Medina.

You can't drive a car there. All the buildings are like this. So kusudopo means like this.

Your head gets like this. You sat too long. You're tired.

You feel grumpy. You're wondering when this retreat is going to end. Everything is tight.

Your mouth is like that. You're all tight. Then don't get like that.

Go walk. Go relax. Can you be relaxed for three days?

Can a modern person relax for three days without a cell phone? Is it possible? Can you survive without Facebook and WeChat and YouTube?

Is it possible? Can you be happy for three days without doing anything? This is a big test.

It's a big test. You should be happy. You should be relaxed.

If you don't feel relaxed, get up. Go for a walk. Walk around the room.

Do your mantras. Or go watch this beautiful land. It's a beautiful, beautiful land.

Don't get lost when you go for a walk. We won't find you for three days. Take a hat and take some water.

Take your water bottle. If you don't have a water bottle, ask Aral. Always take your water.

In the desert, number one rule, take your water and your hat. Don't get lost. Always watch.

You can see some building. If you can't see a building, you're in trouble. Then maybe you will walk to Mexico or something.

I'm not kidding. Be careful. You should always be able to see a building.

Don't go out just before dark. Why? It will get dark.

Then you don't know where you are. Be careful. We're almost done.

Five more minutes. There are three verses after that. Twelve, thirteen, and fourteen.

Twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. During those three verses, you can do the meditations which we learned. After the mantra, in the thousand angels, is the time to do your meditations.

Three kinds of cleaning. Seven kinds of golf. Siddhas.

Three kinds of cleaning. Seven kinds of golf. I owe you, how many golfs?

Two more. This afternoon I'll give you. Three kinds of cleaning.

Push down from the top. Push up from the bottom. Explode at the heart.

For cleaning. You can do that. Then do the...

You choose. You don't have to do all seven for the golf. You choose the golf that you want.

I like number six. I'm going to teach you this afternoon. Number six is a blessing for how to argue with other people about Dharma.

It's called the wheel of knives. It's like a helicopter blade. It means if somebody disagrees with you, you go...

Okay, I like it. It's a blessing for debating other people. Somebody say, I want to become a re-education lawyer in my life, but I don't want to pay taxes.

Then I have to cut up that idea. I have to say, that's so stupid. Okay, like a lawnmower.

Okay. You have to make hamburger out of them. Okay, that's number six.

Then there's a little bit... There are some dessert verses for dessert. Just before you go have lunch, you say, there are two verses for dessert.

These are sweet. These are like yo chow or churro. Alpha hoarders.

We looked it up, me and Se Tsar. We looked it up. It's an Arabic, a Moorish word.

It means a stuffed, something stuffed with something nice. It comes from the Moorish. It looks like, right?

Also, some Moorish come from that. Okay. Verse number 15.

Let's go. One, two... We didn't do 12, 13, 14, right?

Let's just read 12, 13, 14. You ready? Sorry.

One, two, three. Come, I pray and sit, my root lama, shining and precious upon the lotus in my heart. Take me after you in great kindness.

Granted I attain your body, speech, and mind. Come, I pray and sit, my root lama, shining and precious upon the lotus in my heart. Take me after you in great kindness.

Granted I attain both common and highest goals. Come, I pray and sit, my root lama, shining and precious upon the lotus in my heart. Take me after you in great kindness.

Stay here, never moving until the Buddha's essence. Until the Buddha's essence is another name for Buddhahood. Enlightenment.

It's a synonym for enlightenment. BYA CHUB NYID PO'I SPAR DU It means the until I become Buddha. In verse 13, you're asking for common and highest goals.

Common goals means I would like to become financially independent for the rest of my life and not have credit card debts. I would like to have a nice relationship with a partner. I would like to be healthy, reasonably healthy.

Those are common goals. Higher goals are like I would like to help the whole world. I would like to become a Buddha, like that.

Alright. Last verse. 16.

Page 1. I didn't do 15. Okay, sorry.

15. 1, 2, 3. Through all the string of my future lives, may Tsongkapa the victor come to me and serve himself as my spiritual guide in the teachings of the greater way.

Okay, good. Then you're just asking that Tsongkapa and Mrs. Butts will come to you in all your future lives. Please stay with me.

I was very lucky. I grew up in Arizona. The schools were very, very good.

We were not rich. We didn't have a lot of money. But the teachers were very kind, very dedicated.

They had a terrible salary. But they were very, very good teachers. They were well trained.

They were good at teaching. They were very honest. Good integrity.

We had really, really good teachers. That's a karma, right? That comes from karma.

We want to make sure that in all our future lives and in the rest of our lives, we meet good teachers. Good, honest, clean, well trained teachers. Okay?

So you pray for that. Okay. People ask me, what are you?

Are you Buddhist? What are you? Are you Tibetan Buddhist?

In my mind I think, I'm Tsongkapian. I'm a Tsongkapist. Like that.

That lineage. Now you are part of that lineage. It's like 44 generations.

You are number 44. Your student will be 45. Okay?

It's a very, very, very beautiful lineage. Very pure. Very clean.

Very happy. Very joyful. Very well trained.

Has everything. Retreat, meditation, serving other people, kong shing, everything. Seeds, dzong dzin.

Everything. The system has everything. I don't need anything else.

Personally, I don't need anything else. It's all unbelievable. My teacher started teaching in 1975?

73, in America. Then I came in 1975. I was sitting in the class.

Next to me is a scientist from Bell Laboratories. Very famous. He was young.

He said, excuse me Lama, how long does this training take? How long does it take? Like six weeks?

How much? My Lama said, I can teach you for 30 years and I won't repeat one thing. I can teach you for 30 years.

This Tsongkhapa is so deep and I won't repeat one thing. Then he's like, okay. 30 years later, we were sitting in the same room, in the same chairs.

He's next to me. Then the Lama's teaching, and he stopped and he said, he looked at that guy and he said, hey, you asked me a question 30 years ago. Do you remember?

He said, yeah, I remember. He said, what question did you ask me? I said, how long is this going to take?

How long does it take to learn this Tsongkhapa thing? Then what did I say? You said you could teach for 30 years and not repeat anything.

Then he said, so was it true or not? He said, yeah, it's true. It's very cool.

Really cool. He's in the same chair. Terrible chairs.

They are wooden folding chairs. They are made by some kind of torture expert. Okay, verse number 16.

One, and then we're done. One, two, three. In all my lives, may I never live apart from my perfect Lamas.

May I bask in the glory of the Dharma. May I fulfill perfectly every good quality of every level and path and reach then quickly the place where I become myself, the one who holds the diamond. Okay.

Why is that lady pictured there? Yeah, she's the one who holds the diamond, okay? What's the Sanskrit word?

What's the Sanskrit word? No, for... Vajrapani.

Pani means in your hand. Vajrapani. She's Vajrapani.

She has diamond in her hand. Vajra means diamond, right? Vajrapani means hand.

Chag na dorje. They have a diamond in their hand. Every picture has a meaning.

You have to figure it out. It's not just silly pictures. There are secret messages in each picture.

Chigme helped me to pick the pictures. Okay, any announcements?

[Speaker 2]
Chanting Chanting Chanting One more thing.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes my friends call me Mr. One More Thing. In the first part of this Three Treasures in the Georgia, there's a list of all the lamas who came before you. You will be in here next time.

Okay? Your students will put your picture in here. Okay?

That's how it's supposed to be. So if you look on page number... What is that?

Fifty... Five. Fifty-four.

Okay? Page fifty-four. Is that next page?

Yellow, there's a Tsongkapa? Okay. That's a statue of Tsongkapa.

It's called Ngan Dhamma. Say Ngan Dhamma. Ngan Dhamma means Hey!

Looks like me. The statue's name is Hey! Looks like me.

It was made during Tsongkapa's life. When he saw it he said Hey! Looks like me.

So it must be pretty close. Okay? And that statue, unfortunately, it was destroyed during the war in 1959.

But that photo was taken in the 1940s. Okay? So we still have it.

Maybe we can make a new one. Okay? That would be nice to have here.

Okay? So, somebody asked me yesterday, what does Tsongkapa look like? He wasn't handsome, okay?

He had a big nose. His enemies called him Mr. Big Nose. He had a very big nose.

The big ears are good luck. Buddhas have big ears. But he wasn't, he was powerful, but he wasn't like, you know, a movie star, you know.

He was just beautiful inside. Okay? Alright.

Okay. Thanks. Oh, sorry.

Wait. Go back. 55, right?

One more thing. Anyway, there's the more recent teachers. Can you find Pabongka Rinpoche?

Yeah, it must be here. 123? Yeah, so on 120, on page 120, we don't have, that was before cameras, okay?

And that's Pabongka Rinpoche's teacher. Pabongka Rinpoche wrote the book that we are studying for 12 years, right? So, his teacher's picture, we don't have photograph, we just have a carving, okay?

The next page, 122, that's a picture of Pabongka Rinpoche, okay? He wrote the book which we are studying for 12 years. My teacher met him when he was very young, okay?

And that's a beautiful story, I won't tell you today, that my teacher was in charge of the cooking for the retreat because he was just a young monk. So, he's supposed to wash the dishes, do the cooking, and then Pabongka Rinpoche came for 10-day teaching, but he got stuck in the kitchen. But then Pabongka Rinpoche came to the kitchen and he touched my lama on the head like this, and he said, this one's going to be a smart one.

This one's going to be best one. Up to that time my teacher was a goof-off. He was causing trouble everywhere, all the time.

Then something changed in his mind, he became number one Geshe out of 10,000 monks, okay? Okay, next picture is Trijang Rinpoche. That's my teacher's root lama, and that's the root lama of this Dalai Lama.

So, that's my teacher's teacher, okay? Next page is my teacher. He didn't like this photo because he didn't have his robe, his upper robe, he didn't have it on because he had to take a passport picture.

And I went with him. This is 1976. I went with him to take the passport picture, but I loved the picture because he looks very intense.

So, I kept the picture. He didn't know. Okay.

Then like that, you can see all the picture, okay? So, you are in a very strong lineage. Your lineage goes back for a thousand years.

No break. And the lama's names are there. You have a strong unbroken lineage.

You shouldn't mess it up. After a thousand years, it got messed up. Don't do that.

Don't mess it up. Keep it pure. Okay?