«Дар освобождения», курс 20 «Ретрит непревзойдённой жизни», занятие 3

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's get ready to meditate, okay? Turn off cell phone. We'll do five minutes on think about the things you have, you own, and how they came from Joe.

Joe sent them to you. He was dying, or she was dying, and she sent this karma into the future. The place where you live, the things that you own, the friends that you have, the family you were born into, they were all sent by Joe.

[Speaker 2]
Think about Joe, think about the things you have, and how Joe, you from the other life, sent you those things. Your house, your possessions, your car, your family. So, you're going to think about how you got the things from this life.

[Speaker 1]
And it's because Joe was very generous. Joe enjoyed giving to other people, sharing. And every day you have your city, your friends, your clothes, your electronics, you're using up those seeds.

You're using up that debit card. Okay, here we go. Just try very hard to focus for five minutes.

Come back to your breath. Come back to your breath. And slowly open your eyes.

Take a stretcher. We're going to go right into the second meditation. What's the second meditation?

What's the picture? There's the photo. What's the meditation?

Yeah, all the little happinesses I ever had, they came from keeping those ten good deeds. Don't kill.

[Speaker 2]
Don't steal.

[Speaker 1]
Don't mess around with other people's partners. Don't lie. Don't split up people.

Don't say mean things to people.

[Speaker 2]
Don't blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Speaker 1]
Don't be upset when other people get nice things. Jealous. Don't be happy when other people get trouble, even if you don't like them.

And then don't forget where your world is coming from. So every time you did those ten, I'm sorry, every time Joe did those ten, he sent into the future some small happiness for you. I live in Rimrock, Arizona.

Guangzhou is the biggest city in the world. Mexico City is the second. I think Rimrock is the third.

[Speaker 2]
I think we have three thousand people.

[Speaker 1]
So we have a post office. It's next to Cricket's. There's two ladies in there.

They worked there for a hundred years. You give them, you write a letter. So let's say you write a letter to yourself.

Geshe Michael, you are stupid. Put it, wrap it, give it to them.

[Speaker 2]
They are like ...

[Speaker 1]
Then they just throw it in a bag. Then it has to go about half a mile to my house. It will take about six days.

So after six days, the postman also like that. Give me the letter which I wrote to myself, and I open it up. Then it says, Geshe Michael, you are stupid.

Then I get angry at who? At the postman. You go home, your partner says you are stupid.

You are just getting a letter that you wrote a few weeks ago. The partner is just the postman. They are delivering your own karma to you.

So it's stupid to get mad at those two old ladies.

[Speaker 2]
They didn't do anything.

[Speaker 1]
You sent the letter, and you sent all the happiness in your life. Things have happiness inside them. Like music, there's some happiness inside.

[Speaker 2]
Or when you touch your partner.

[Speaker 1]
Or when you eat something like churro.

[Speaker 2]
Like when you eat something like churros. But who put the happiness in there? Was Joe.

[Speaker 1]
And sometimes you eat a churro, you get sick. Sometimes you try to play music to calm yourself down, and you get more nervous. That means there's not enough karma inside that thing.

So, every happiness you have, every good thing that happens to you, Joe put it in the food, or Joe put it in the music.

[Speaker 2]
Ready? Okay, second meditation. What things make me happy?

[Speaker 1]
And what did Joe do to put that thing in the thing?

[Speaker 2]
Like coffee.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes it makes you happy, sometimes it makes you nervous. Okay, here we go. You are very experienced, I don't have to do all the breathing and everything.

You can do it. What happiness did Joe send to me? Back to your breath.

And take a stretch. Third meditation. New one.

Joe sent us beauty. Two kinds of beauty. Joe sent whatever beauty you have in your face.

I have blue eyes, I like them. But I didn't do anything to get them. Joe sent them to me.

Then we feel, what do you call? Vanity? Pride.

Oh, I have blue eyes.

[Speaker 2]
I have nice teeth.

[Speaker 1]
My ear has good shape. You didn't do anything. Joe gave you that.

You were born with that. But still you feel, oh, I'm so great.

[Speaker 2]
But it's a gift to you from Joe.

[Speaker 1]
Are you consuming it or are you serving with it?

[Speaker 2]
Are you just using it, up, burning it, up?

[Speaker 1]
Or are you using it to make more karma?

[Speaker 2]
You seem happy.

[Speaker 1]
I like that.

[Speaker 2]
You're either a consumer or you're a server. If Joe gave you healthy body and some beauty, then use it. Help people.

Don't just play with it.

[Speaker 1]
Get more boyfriends. Like that, okay? You have a choice.

What you do with what Joe gave you, you have a choice.

[Speaker 2]
If you decide to use it to get more boyfriends, you're a consumer, and you will lose it, and you get older, and you will lose all those things.

[Speaker 1]
If you serve with them, they will get more beautiful. A few old people are more beautiful than young.

[Speaker 2]
That's because they were serving people.

[Speaker 1]
Like yoga. Joe gave you a good body to do yoga. I can do this, or I can do this.

That's because Joe gave that body to you. If you serve with it, you can do yoga for many years. Dharmamitra is, how old?

Seventy?

[Speaker 2]
Seventy-six.

[Speaker 1]
He's still doing, what do you call it? No, it's called niralambana shushasana. Niralambana shushasana.

With no hand. He's doing headstand.

[Speaker 2]
Headstand without hands.

[Speaker 1]
Anyway, it's because he's so nice to people, and he serves people. So, that's inside beauty.

[Speaker 2]
Then there's outside beauty.

[Speaker 1]
Who made this unbelievably beautiful place? Who made the sky blue? Who made the beauty you hear in the birds, or the ocean?

Okay, so the beauty you hear, the beauty you see, Joe sent it to you. The sky was blue when you were born, the day you were born.

[Speaker 2]
You didn't do anything. But it can go black if you're a consumer.

[Speaker 1]
If you just use that karma, then one day you will lose the blue sky, and it will be darkness.

[Speaker 2]
Most people go that way.

[Speaker 1]
So, we're going to do a meditation.

[Speaker 2]
It's a very pleasant five minutes.

[Speaker 1]
What kind of beauty did Joe give you in your body? Everybody has fingers. We are not all handsome like Stanley, but Joe gave me fingers.

They're very useful. All of us can be happy about our fingers. Alright?

Think about the beauty you have, and the beauty in your world. Even just the sky.

[Speaker 2]
The sky, this world's sky is super beautiful, and many people don't have it.

[Speaker 1]
We are lucky.

[Speaker 2]
Joe did a good job.

[Speaker 1]
What created the beauty of your face, the strength of your yoga body, who created the sky blue? What did Joe do to make those things? Joe didn't get upset.

In the traffic, in Mexico City, Joe was like, okay, you know, and when people say, you are stupid, he's like, yeah, okay, you know, and the dinner wasn't ready on time. Joe's like, great, I can do a five minute meditation. Maybe four or five of them.

He's just so chill, chill.

[Speaker 2]
He's so chill.

[Speaker 1]
That karma created everything beautiful about you. So are you going to be as chill as Joe was? If you're more chill than Joe, the sky where you live will do amazing things.

I'll show you a picture outside their house. Let me send it to you right now. So if you're a server of beauty, no, sorry, of not getting upset, then the blue sky will get more amazing.

And you will keep seeing unbelievable things happening in the sky. And if you're a consumer, that's outside of Scott Norritt's house.

[Speaker 2]
Like last week, whole sky, beautiful pink color, isn't it?

[Speaker 1]
So if you do better than Joe, more patient than Joe, then everything becomes more beautiful. But if you're not, then bad weather, and your face will get old.

[Speaker 2]
So we're going to do a meditation about beauty. The beauty in your body and the beauty around you.

[Speaker 1]
Think about where did it come from. Nothing comes from nothing. What's that song?

Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could. Sound of music.

That's before your time. John Brady knows about it.

[Speaker 2]
It's a song before a lot of people were born.

[Speaker 1]
Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could. She's talking, she's singing about her boyfriend.

And she says, she looks at how handsome he is, and she says, I must have done something good.

[Speaker 2]
I'll play it for you.

[Speaker 1]
That's true. She's thinking correct. That's a Buddhist thinking.

I have some beauty. My sky is blue. I must have done something good.

Okay, you ready? So this meditation is very pleasant. All the beauty in your life.

[Speaker 2]
Your partner Ria's face.

[Speaker 1]
Your baby. Papi's baby. All of those sent to you by not getting upset.

Okay, here we go. Come back to your breath. After a five minute meditation, you can always do three quiet breaths.

Then you can come out, stretch. I like this app. It automatically shows you the faces of everyone who was meditating during that time in the world.

It's like 500 people. We're meditating during that five minutes. Very cool.

Okay, let's go to the book. Then we just finished the part that said the people in Amitabha's heaven are praying to be born here while all of us are praying to be born there. RGA' ZHIG GI NOR BU Are we okay, Adam?

NOR BU DGOS DU KUN ZHUNG DGOS DU KUN ZHUNG SBYOR BZHAG LA BU LA GOR ZHING This was hard to translate. RGA' ZHIG GI means some people. What's NOR BU?

SBYOR like Rinchen.

[Speaker 2]
NOR BU is Goya.

[Speaker 1]
DGOS DU KUN ZHUNG They want jewels, so they go to ZHO BO. ZHO BO is a famous statue in the middle of Lhasa, Tibet. I think it's Maitreya.

They say that there's the knee of the statue. This jewel inside the statue is a KUN DU NOR BU LUG NOR BU means it gives you all of your wishes. So if you do some ...

if you touch the knee of the statue, or you walk around the knee of the statue, then if you make a prayer at the knee, MAN LAM BTAB TSE GRUB you will get whatever you want. It's like the wall in Jerusalem, right? Something like that.

But if you pray at this wall, you will get your wishes. BTAB TSE GRUB TSE BYAS ZAN NAS DE'I THE'I MAN LAM BDE PAR BYED MO So people like to do their prayers at the ... DE'I THE'I means in front of ...

[Speaker 2]
at the level of the knee of the statue.

[Speaker 1]
NOR BU DGOS DU KUN BYUNG BRUNG PHRAG MANG PO ZHIG But if you get this kind of jewel that will give you your wishes, it's called Cintamani. Cintamani is Sanskrit. It means this ...

[Speaker 2]
what you want, this jewel will give to you.

[Speaker 1]
In the Western mythology, we have Aladdin's Arabic myth or Muslim myth, there's a special lamp and if you rub it, then a guy comes out, you know, and a genie, like a spirit, and you can have three wishes.

[Speaker 2]
Then there are many jokes in my high school that I cannot tell you.

[Speaker 1]
I will tell the boys later about guys who made some wish but they didn't get what they expected. So anyway, if you have one million of those lamps, BUM PHRAG MANG PO ZHIG NYES NA NGES DANG RGA SHIGS KYI BRAM GYUR BYED NAS NGES is a difficult word. Let's do a dictionary entry.

Obscure. So, generally SANG SNGA LTAR NA SNGA has meanings of before or earlier, but this one is completely different. SANG SNGA LTAR NA SNGA'I S-N-G-A-S S-N-G-A-S It means pillow, the pillow under your head.

BRAM means this part of your jaw. BRAM GYUR means this mudra, right? ARGAMS, PADYAM, BUD PAS, DUG PAS, ALA SKAD, GAN DE, NA'I BZHIG RGYAS, ZHAG LTA and then BRAM GYUR.

Okay? Coffee meditation mudra. So there's a new one.

There's an eighth but not added a ninth one. BRAM GYUR means if you sleep on those one million wishing jewels, CI TSE but when you die, NGAN TSUNG DU MI DOR MA'I PHAN it won't help you not to go to hell. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
If you did bad things to other people and your whole life you sleep with a pillow that has one million wishing jewels, it won't protect you one second after you die.

[Speaker 1]
BSTAN GYI GDUN CHEN PO'I LA DE LTAR GRUB TU YOD But this equipment which Joe gave you, this body and this mind, much better than those jewels. Okay? This is super precious.

Much more precious. People tell me, you know, Geshe-la I went bungee jumping.

[Speaker 2]
Bungee?

[Speaker 1]
Bungee jumping. You know, I went skydiving. I'm like, you know, don't risk this jewel.

[Speaker 2]
It's super precious. You can't get another one.

[Speaker 1]
Don't go bungee jumping. Don't waste it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Okay? I heard about many people got hurt very badly doing those things. Okay?

So Joe gave you something more valuable than this wishing jewel. Okay? Why?

[Speaker 2]
To ask that spirit for what you want, you must be able to imagine it. But if you plant seeds, karma, like for beauty, you will get more beauty than you can imagine. Okay?

So it's more valuable.

[Speaker 1]
Wishing jewel, you have to be able to imagine what you want.

[Speaker 2]
If you have to depend on your own wishing, you can't imagine what this body can give you. This is more precious.

[Speaker 1]
You can become anything.

[Speaker 2]
You can become like Tara, but you cannot imagine it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so you have to take good care of it. ,NYIN GCIG LA PHAN PA'I NOR BO DANG, ,MI LO RGYAL LA PHAN PA'I NOR BO NYID LA PHYI MA LHAG PA, ,RTEN DE'I GRUB NUS PA THA RIG GI RTEN DI YIN, Which is better? A jewel which can help you for one day, or a jewel which can help you for a hundred years?

And of course the second one is better.

[Speaker 2]
That's your body, which jewel gave you.

[Speaker 1]
,RANG CAG RNAMS SOGS SU CHOS NYAMS LEN MA CHUNG BA MA RTOG, ,JES MI LAS THOB PA'ANG MI LUS DI DANG BRAL ZHIG RANG THOB PA YIN, So for this one you have to know Milarepa. Okay. Milarepa was the most famous meditator in Tibet.

He wrote a beautiful poetry about his meditations. I think what gives us hope is that he started his heavy retreats when he was 50. So, you know, you have time.

And we believe he became a Buddha. His name, Milarepa, means the special cotton towel, like a towel. And he didn't have time to buy clothes.

He just used this, like a loincloth? He just used this cloth.

[Speaker 2]
He didn't.

[Speaker 1]
And he ate nettle. Nettle is a green thorn, like on a rose. Which actually has a lot of protein and very good for you.

And he didn't have any money, he just ate the, he made soup from this nettle and he lived on that. The body and mind that Milarepa's Joe gave him is no different from the body and mind which your Joe gave you. He started with the same equipment.

You know, it took him a long time to get started, until 50. And then he became Buddha. But the equipment he had, it's the same as what you have.

RANG THOB PA YIN, MILAREPA'I BRTAN DANG NGES TSUL LUS BSTAN LA SANGS RGYAS BA MED There's nothing about his body or mind which was better than yours. DPER NA, BRJOD KHRIMS MI LA DANG, LUS RGYAL PO NYID KYI KHYAD PAR LA BRTAN NA SHES TE How many people saw Lord of the Rings third movie? There's a dragon called Smorg?

Smorg? Huh?

[Speaker 2]
Smorg. Big powerful dragon.

[Speaker 1]
He sleeps on a billion dollars of gold. This is talking about Smorg? Smorg?

[Speaker 2]
Smorg.

[Speaker 1]
LUS RGYAL PO PHANG BRDZOD Say PHANG BRDZOD. BRDZOD BRDZOD you know means kosha. Kosha in Sanskrit, right?

Treasure.

[Speaker 2]
Tesoro.

[Speaker 1]
So in yoga we have panchakosha. The five layers of our being. So BRDZOD means kosha.

And PHANG BRDZOD means like that billion dollars of gold. His whole treasure, the dragon's treasure. Don't confuse PHANG with MBANG which means populace.

The populace of a country.

[Speaker 2]
The people of a country.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so I taught you all the MBANGS now. The smoking MBANGS is a different thing. MBANGS BRDZOD DU YI SHING KHYAD NOR BUR BUNG PO SPUNG ZHING So these dragons, king of dragons, they have the jewel that, what they sleep on, their treasure is all wishing jewels.

Then they also have a jewel here. A special jewel.

[Speaker 2]
This is the one that Frodo was trying to get in the movie.

[Speaker 1]
You have to study the movie, okay? CI TSUG SOGS NOR BUR RGYUN CHAGS CI NI DE YOD KYANG TZAM RGYA RGYUD PAR ZHOGS Can those jewels help the king of the dragons? Become a Buddha?

No. And nowadays it's like investment fund or something. Like, oh, I have a 30 billion dollar investment fund.

I used to work with the Soros family. The father, George Soros, in Britain, he made 30 billion dollars in one day. Sorry, one billion in one day.

He has so much money that he can, if he sells the English currency quickly, he can ruin the government of England. Then he did it. He sold it short.

It means he predicted the pound will drop by, I don't know, two percent. Then purposely he made it drop. And in one day a billion dollars went from all of the British people to his pocket.

Then he's like that dragon. He's sitting on this money. But it can't make him a Buddha.

Your body and your mind is more valuable than George Soros' all his money. You are more powerful than George Soros.

[Speaker 2]
Because you have a mind and a body, you can become a Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
PAR ZHOG You should learn this word. PAR ZHOG means PAR ZHOG means needless to say.

[Speaker 2]
Needless to say.

[Speaker 1]
There's another word called MA MI DGOS which is the same thing, or LTA CI DGOS. These are different words for it. Not only those gemstones cannot help the dragon to become Buddha, NGAN SONG GI SKYE DGOS TZAM YANG RKAG MI DUS that can't even close the door to the lower realm five minutes after the dragon dies.

The karma of stealing a billion dollars from every person in England, that money cannot protect him. Five minutes after he dies, he will go. Cannot protect him.

But your mind can. Your body can. Your five minute meditations can protect you.

They are more valuable than a billion dollars. You are rich.

[Speaker 2]
You are super rich.

[Speaker 1]
Of course it would be nice to have both. That's DCI. Because then you can help a lot of people.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
MI LA NI TZAM PA DANG ZHES RGYU MED PAS TZAM PA YANG What's TZAM PA? Yeah, TZAM PA is Tibetan breakfast food.

[Speaker 2]
I like it.

[Speaker 1]
Monks use it a lot.

[Speaker 2]
You take barley. You roast it. Then you crush it.

[Speaker 1]
Huh? Oh, we have TZAM PA roasting parties. You get a big THANG RANG means a big roasting pan, like this.

And it has two handles on the side. And one guy holds one handle, one guy holds the other handle. Then you make a big fire.

[Speaker 2]
Outside.

[Speaker 1]
At night. And you have to keep moving the barley. Then there are barley roasting songs.

And it's a party. You do it all night.

[Speaker 2]
It's really fun.

[Speaker 1]
And then you grind it up in the morning. And every monk has a little TZAM PA bag. And you tie it on your belt.

Then you don't have to eat.

[Speaker 2]
You don't have to cook.

[Speaker 1]
When a monk eats, they just take the TZAM PA, just mix it with tea, and they eat it. Like this. And then you go to debate, or you go to study.

You don't have to waste time cooking.

[Speaker 2]
And it has a lot of nutrition.

[Speaker 1]
So it's like super food fast food. So anyway, MI LA NI TZAM PA YANG SHES RGYU MED PA He didn't even have any TZAM PA.

[Speaker 2]
MI LA RE PA BYANG PO means he was broke all the time.

[Speaker 1]
YIN KYANG DE'AL TE RIN PO DE'I THOB PA'I TSE DE LA SANGS RGYAS PA YIN PAS But he used his equipment and SANGS RGYAS and he became Buddha in this life. DE LTAR BSAM STE DE'ANG PHYIR BSTUN CING BYAS LUGS NYON SBYOR PA BYIN PA So there was a great yogi. His name was Amey Changchub Rinchen.

He was born in 1015. Died in 1077.

[Speaker 2]
He had a student called Cheng Ngawa. Tsultrim Bar.

[Speaker 1]
We had a story about Cheng Ngawa before. He had a student called Geshe Tulungpa.

[Speaker 2]
Tulungpa was making a big meal for all the monks in one state.

[Speaker 1]
And he was too busy to help his lama. Then while he was cooking, the lama's dog came in. Then he had suddenly, he understood something.

My lama is more important to me than all of the monks in this state. And even the dog of my lama is more important than all the monks in this state. And he took the food and he gave it to the dog.

[Speaker 2]
And he got more good karma. So we had this lama before.

[Speaker 1]
Then the teacher, the dog's owner lama, his dog, his lama before told him, you know, you are practicing too hard, relax a little bit. We say back off a little bit. Don't work so hard.

DE LTAR RTZA BA LA BSTAN BYUNG NI NYES PAR BKA' BA GSUM PA LTAR GOS ZER And the student said, look, I'm worried. I don't think I'm making enough good karma to get this chance again. You know lama, I respect that you asked me to take it easy a little bit.

But I'm afraid I'm not making enough karma to get this chance again. So I think I better kick ass now. Okay, he told his lama, you know.

[Speaker 2]
I have to do it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, a few more minutes. DE NA DE LTAR BA BSTAN NYES PAR BDUN MED DU SONG BAR NA So if you get this kind of equipment and you waste it, just try to have fun.

[Speaker 2]
Just eat. Just have sex. Just try to have some good feelings.

[Speaker 1]
UL PO ZHIG GZER GYI'AL PA GANG NYES PAR So this is a story about a poor person.

[Speaker 2]
It's a story about a poor person.

[Speaker 1]
Like, they live in a small ... they rented a small house of stone. Very poor.

Very small. You can see those houses in India. Just somebody put some stones together, you know, and this poor guy rented it.

Then one day he saw one stone is loose, and he opened it, and he found a big bag of gold. You know, he's like, and then he goes, he puts it in his pocket.

[Speaker 2]
He goes, walks to the city to buy stuff.

[Speaker 1]
When he got to the city, he realized he lost a bag of gold.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know, like Jack and Jessica buy you an iPhone 6. And you put it in your pocket. Then you go to Starbucks, and it falls down.

[Speaker 1]
You know, in the morning you're so happy, I have an iPhone 6. Then before you make one text, you lose it. That's Lama.

Good one.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, you got a $900 iPhone 6 for free. And before you can text, you lose it. Before you send one text.

In the old days, we say bag of gold. Nowadays we say iPhone 6. NYES DE GANG GANG TZAM YANG SNGON CHU RGYUD MA BYUNG BA He couldn't spend a penny of the gold.

LHAG PA LHAG PA means he lost it. He left the iPhone 6 at the Starbucks and somebody else got it.

[Speaker 2]
Before he could even use it.

[Speaker 1]
GZHIN DU PHANG PHANG means waste. Or a big loss. Like, you blew it.

What's he talking about? Waste your body and mind. Use it for stupid things.

BAN GYI BAN GYI BYAMS PA'I BAN GYI BYAMS PA'I Okay, we have a few minutes. Let's go a little bit further.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
I know it's a long time on your butt and your knees, but ten more minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Keep your precious mind here for ten more minutes. Ten o'clock, right? Ten o'clock?

Okay, here we go. GSUM PA NI SDON CES GSUM PA NI means third category. He's going to summarize why every part of your equipment is so precious.

SDON CES TSUL GNYIS GYI RTEN DU PAS CHAR NI ZTEL ROL BA'I MED NGAG LA So I want to add a few things.

[Speaker 2]
About how this equipment is important for small goals, like having a nice rebirth, and big goals, like becoming a Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
PAS CHAR here means scripture. MI LA RE PA The RE PA means cloth. PAS CHAR means scripture.

So what's a scripture cloth? We call it PAS RE. PAS means PAS CHAR, book.

RE means cloth, like MI LA RE PA. So the scripture cloth, the cloth is called PAS RE.

[Speaker 2]
Then we are doing a cool project. I'll squeeze you later about it. We want to help the refugees in Europe.

[Speaker 1]
Number one, because they are running away from terrible, dangerous war. Number two, because a few Muslim people are killing people, and then everyone else hates all the Muslims. So we have a project to hire those refugees to make a cloth, a scripture cloth.

But I'll tell you about it later. In the dangerous moment, during war, or crisis, and when everybody is angry at Muslims, then Buddhist people are like, let's help the Muslims.

[Speaker 2]
Let's love the Muslims. Okay, that's Buddhist.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. PAS CHAR MI SREL BA'I MED NGAG LA So I'm going to give you some advice that is not clear in the books. GNYIS MA RE RE DANG SKYE GCIG MA RE RE DON CHE BA SHES PA GNAN NA PHAN CHE BA'I Every day you should push.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Don't waste a day. Don't waste an hour. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
The next meditation is about enthusiasm and fun.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
In Buddhism, when we say push, don't waste a day. Don't waste an hour. We don't mean like this.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? We mean have fun. Okay, then let's play some rock and roll.

And like that, okay? Hard work in Buddhism doesn't mean like nervous, okay? You know, tired.

Oh, I have to do yoga with Anji again. Like, have fun. Okay, I can't do what Eric does.

It's okay. I'm going to have fun in the yoga class. She's saying, jump two.

I'm going to jump three times. And so, Buddhist hard work means fun. And take care of yourself.

[Speaker 2]
But don't waste time.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? And here's the advice from the lama's mouth, not from the book, which unfortunately became part of the book now.

[Speaker 2]
Unfortunately, it's already in the book too.

[Speaker 1]
BU GANG GCIG BAR YON TZAM LA'ANG DON MED LA MI DANG BAR So, you have this incense, stick of incense.

[Speaker 2]
You light it.

[Speaker 1]
How long it takes to burn? I think about five minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Twenty minutes.

[Speaker 1]
He said, don't waste that much time. I think in modern world we can say the time it takes to drink one coffee.

[Speaker 2]
That's the measure.

[Speaker 1]
Don't waste more time than that. Okay, you can waste five minutes. You can waste ten minutes.

But not more. Okay, like a Buddhist person shouldn't waste more than ... Anytime you have five minutes, ten minutes, I want to see this in your hand.

You are not watching a video. You are doing your five minute meditation. Okay?

Now you have a tool.

[Speaker 2]
You can use your enemy as a tool. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
This is the enemy of meditation. You can ride on the tiger. Use the cell phone for your meditation.

Okay. RGYUD PA'I YON TZAM LA'ANG DON MED LA MI DANG BAR SOGS SOGS DRIB BYANG LTA BUR TSUN NA Try to make new good seeds. Try to clean old bad seeds.

THAMS PA DANG, THAMS CAD KHYEN PA'I RGYUD PAG TU MED PA'I DRIB BYANG And in those five minute little times that you save, those are the seeds that will make you a Buddha. It's not the three years. Sorry John.

[Speaker 2]
It's not the three years.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, he's like, oh. It's not the three years meditation. You can get enlightened using those five minute pieces that you take, that other people are wasting.