«Дар освобождения», курс 20 «Ретрит непревзойдённой жизни», занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
We'll do two meditations. First one is about, think about some beauty in your life. Something beautiful about your body or your face.

Something beautiful about the place that you live. Something beautiful about the ocean. The sky.

The moon. Think about all of that was sent to you by Joe. Every time Joe didn't get upset when he was in Mexico City traffic in 1962.

Just before he had an accident and died.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding.

[Speaker 1]
But he sent you all that beauty. So, think about, think about some beauty in your life. And think about where it came from.

Just the sky. Just a beautiful blue sky. Joe worked many years to create this sky for you.

Okay, here we go. Follow three breaths. Don't move yet.

Follow three breaths. You can slowly open your eyes.

[Speaker 2]
Stretch.

[Speaker 1]
We're going to do one more meditation. We're going to think of all the people in your life who respect you.

[Speaker 2]
Who listen to you.

[Speaker 1]
Who listen to your opinion. Who try the ideas that you suggest. Children of yours who listen to you.

Bosses at work who respect your opinion. Okay, and all the respect you see in the world. You go to some countries, nobody respects the law.

[Speaker 2]
The big politicians, the police, the normal people driving, and it's dangerous.

[Speaker 1]
No one's respecting the system. Then you go to other places. I met one guy in India when I was there.

He's from England. He's so polite. He does everything, he respects the rules and the laws about everything.

We were waiting in a line in India for a bus. A line in India waiting for a bus is a mob of 400 people trying to get on a 20-person bus and kicking, pushing, spitting, you know, to get to the front.

[Speaker 2]
With some old ladies trying to crawl between the legs of the people.

[Speaker 1]
Then he said, boy, England's not like this.

[Speaker 2]
We make a proper queue. He said, we are so polite. If the guy in back kicks the guy in front of him in the ass, that guy will turn around and say, I'm so sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so where does that come from? Being happy about your practice. Your sadhana.

Having fun. With your daily practice. If it's not fun, then change it.

If you can't have fun with your yoga practice, then do another one. Nowadays on YouTube there's like 5,000 yoga classes. Then you can find one that's fun for you.

Okay, don't be satisfied to have a grumpy practice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so happy practice. Enjoy. Have fun, you know.

Play some rock and roll during your practice, I suppose.

[Speaker 1]
I was invited to the house of the founders of Jivamukti Yoga. And they are wife and husband. They are unbelievable yogis.

The husband, they take photos of him for calendars. Like super unbelievable body, you know, and he's very quiet, you know, he doesn't talk much. Then I slept at their house.

They bought a new house, you know, and then he said, excuse me, I'm going to do my practice. And they have a barn, like a big building like this.

[Speaker 2]
So I went to spy on him. Because he never shows his practice to anybody.

[Speaker 1]
Just you can see this calendar, he has one leg here and one leg there. So I want to see his practice. So I sneak over to the barn, you know, and I peek in the window.

And he was playing rock and roll, like And he was like, he was having really fun, you know. Then after finish, he's like, Okay, should be like that. Okay, so we're going to think about all the people who respect us, who listen to us, and all the people we see who obey the law because it helps everybody.

They respect it. Okay, here we go. And Joe sent you that by being happy about his practice, or her practice.

Who respects you?

[Speaker 2]
Three deep breaths.

[Speaker 1]
Then slowly open your eyes. Relax. Stretch.

[Speaker 2]
Breathe.

[Speaker 1]
When the Lama in Tibet taught this book, I think there's a few thousand people there.

[Speaker 2]
1920s.

[Speaker 1]
He teach for 10 hours a day without stopping.

[Speaker 2]
So if your legs hurt, don't worry about it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, you are welcome to stretch your legs, okay? Usually we're not supposed to point the foot at the Lama. But if you have pain, it's fine.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Sit any way, I don't care. You can sit on my head, I don't care.

[Speaker 2]
Just listen.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, I don't care how you sit.

[Speaker 2]
Just be comfortable.

[Speaker 1]
If you're not comfortable, you are thinking about your legs and you are not thinking about the teaching. Okay, now they're going to talk about how difficult it is to get this equipment.

[Speaker 2]
This body and this mind.

[Speaker 1]
And they're going to talk about it three different ways.

[Speaker 2]
The first one is that each part of your body, fingers, arms, chest, heart beating, anahata.

[Speaker 1]
Anahata. What's it mean? What does it mean?

But what's the meaning? Anahata. An means not.

Ah means very much. Hata means hit it. The root is the same as ahinsa.

This drum is beating without anybody hitting it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Then, who made it? Each beat has a cause.

[Speaker 1]
In Buddhism and also in science, nothing happens without a cause. Anahata chakra. There's a beating.

You know, there's nobody hitting that drum. The drum is playing itself. Looks like.

But we know there must be some cause.

[Speaker 2]
Each heartbeat takes about a hundred seeds.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, you are using up a hundred seeds from Joe's debit card every time your heart beats. And then sometime the debit card will run out.

[Speaker 2]
And then it stops. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so he's going to talk about Sumba... There you go. Okay.

Sumbanyikawasambalasumme. So, there would be three ways to think about how difficult it was to get a beating heart. DANG PO RGYU'I DGONG NAS NYED GA' BAR BSAM PA NI From the point of view of the causes, this body is very rare.

[Speaker 2]
This equipment is very rare.

[Speaker 1]
DE LTAR LDAN BRJOD KYI BSTAN NYES PA'I DI BRAL CHEN PO YIN ZHING So, I already told you how important your body is for short-term goals and for ultimate goals. DE MA ZAD NYE'I KYANG ZHIN DU DKA' BA'I YANG YANG MI THOB To collect the karmic seeds to create a body like this, I had a jewelry factory. We made like 3,000 rings a day.

We made, in total we made about 50 million pieces of jewelry. One out of four women in America at that time had one of our pieces of jewelry. Then we have factories in many countries, including Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

And this kind of ring, it only has two parts.

[Speaker 2]
The metal and the stone.

[Speaker 1]
So in the factory, they just have to put the stone in the metal. And we have 30% defect rate, 30% brick. Your body has 50,000 parts.

They have to work together perfectly.

[Speaker 2]
If there's one small problem, you die. Then to plant the seeds for 50,000 parts working together perfectly, it's almost impossible.

[Speaker 1]
So he's going to talk about that. Why is he talking about it? He says, don't think you're going to do it later.

Don't think you're going to have another chance. Oh, if I don't make it in this life, I'll do it in my next life. Next life, you're probably going to be a roach, because your teacher was a roach.

Three thousand lifetimes, okay? Very difficult to get a body like this. So, don't think you're going to do it some other time, okay?

YANG YANG MI GYI, you can't get it again.

[Speaker 2]
Some books say you cannot get it ever again.

[Speaker 1]
Technically, that's not true. You will have another chance, but maybe it will take a billion years, okay? So, this is one chance you have.

NYES KYANG BA ZHIG MI NA NI, if it wasn't difficult to get this equipment, BDAG RA'I DUS MED DU SONG NGON YANG, if you just mess up this time, SPYIN CHE THOB PA'I SKABS SUB ZAB GYIS, DON DEN DU BYED PA'I CHOG MOR KYANG, Oh, next time I'll be more careful. Okay, I'll, you know, after this one dies, I'll just get another one, and I'll work harder. KYANG, KYANG, but BDAG RA'I DUS MED DU THOB PA NI RGYUD KHYEN MANG PO ZHIG SROM STE, SON NGON DANG MI NANG GYI DBANG GI LTA BU DE'I CHUNG BA LAS, This body that you got, it depends on many parts and causes.

[Speaker 2]
Millions of have to come.

[Speaker 1]
SROM is a useful word. SROM means for all the good stuff to come together.

[Speaker 2]
SROM means for all the good stuff to come together.

[Speaker 1]
Let's have a retreat in Guadalajara, Mexico. Then many things have to SROM. Air China has to do all the maintenance on their airplanes.

[Speaker 2]
Correctly.

[Speaker 1]
You have to have the money to get to airtime. You have to have the time to come. Then the Guadalajara team has to dome like a thousand things.

They have to arrange this place. They have to buy all the different parts of the food. They have to rent all these musical things.

The teacher has to translate many, many things. There are hundreds of things have to happen for us to sit here for one hour. All those things SROM.

They all came together here. Stop dictionary entry. MANG PO'I ZHIG RDZOM STE SON NAMS DANG SMON LAM GYI DBANG GIS You made good seeds, but also you made SMON LAM.

So SON NAMS means good karma.

[Speaker 2]
But SMON LAM, it means prayer. So Joe, he did two things for you. He did many good karmas.

[Speaker 1]
Each part of you came from a different kind of good karma. Every single physical object in the city in which you were born was created by Joe giving, sharing with other people what he had.

[Speaker 2]
Every five or ten seconds of happiness you ever felt in this life, he produced it by being nice to people.

[Speaker 1]
You can call ethics, you can call morality, you can call it being nice to people. I like to think being cool, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Every beautiful thing in your whole life, every flower, every star, you know, every taste of every good food you ever ate, he sent it to you. How?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he didn't get upset when he should have got upset. When every normal person would get upset. When it was reasonable to get upset.

But he didn't get upset. Then every beautiful thing you saw in your life, okay, and what's the next one? Every person you saw in your life who's cooperating with each other, I told you this story, I'll tell you again.

I went to teach in Mongolia, in the biggest stadium there, which is not very big. And, so I was teaching, many people came.

[Speaker 2]
And we were walking home one night, and it was dark, and there's not very good street light.

[Speaker 1]
Then I saw, you know the sewer cap, the metal plate on top of the sewer? The one that Dharma Mentor does the handstand on, with no arms. It came up.

And a small animal came out. Dark, dark animal. And about this big.

Then it went, it came out and it goes, like that. And I'm like, you know. Then I asked my friend, what is that?

You have a wolf, or what is that? He said, no, that's a child.

[Speaker 2]
You know, that's a human child. Damn right. What are they doing in the sewer?

They don't have parents. They are orphans, and they don't have anything.

[Speaker 1]
And Mongolia is a cold country.

[Speaker 2]
They live in the sewer, because the poopoo is warm.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Thousands of kids living in the sewer. Then he said, if you see them, don't talk to them, don't touch them, don't do anything.

[Speaker 2]
Why? They will bite you. They are like wild animals.

Okay? They are just like wild animals. Like you shouldn't pick up a rat, right?

[Speaker 1]
They will bite. I picked up one when I was a kid.

[Speaker 2]
I picked up a kid rat, and it bit me.

[Speaker 1]
Mom! Then they said, that children will also bite you like that. Then they, no one taught them anything about how to live.

They didn't have mother or father. Then, if we didn't have good mother and father, we would be like that. You went, mom said, don't do that.

You took something, mom said, you cannot do that.

[Speaker 2]
You went to your neighbor's house, you came home with all their cookies, mom said, you cannot do that.

[Speaker 1]
Mom made you not an animal.

[Speaker 2]
Mom made you not an animal.

[Speaker 1]
So you are respecting, you are respecting human customs. And you are around people who live that way. There have been societies in the world where it was normal to invite the other family, neighbor family, to dinner and kill all of them.

Genghis Khan, Mongol king, conquered half the world. That's why Russian people look Mongolian. He killed 400,000 Austrian troops in one day outside of Vienna.

Then he grew up in Mongolia, in the mountains.

[Speaker 2]
It was normal to invite the neighbors for dinner and poison all of them and take their house.

[Speaker 1]
Then we don't live in a place like that. People respect each other. We don't bite people that we don't like.

We want to, but we don't do it. Then why do we live in a place like that? Because Joe enjoyed his yoga and his meditation.

He enjoyed serving people. He probably played rock and roll at the Dharma talk, like that. He enjoyed helping people.

And he has fun helping people. Because of that, we don't live in the sewer where we're biting people. So all the human customs which make us not bite each other, you are living in that kind of world.

It's not perfect, but it's amazing. Generally, most people respect each other. You're not afraid that she's going to bite you.

[Speaker 2]
Or steal your money out of your pocket.

[Speaker 1]
We have some human respect for each other. Why was I born in a place like that? Because Joe had fun doing his practice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, got it. So, he did good things, and that's what we are meditating about. But he also did, we call mun lam.

Pranidhana, prayer. He made prayers. He's like, next life, I'm going to create a nice person.

I send you all my good wishes. I send you all my love. I send you all my power.

Please do a good job. Then he died or something.

[Speaker 2]
And then he died. So, he made prayers. Good seeds, and good prayers.

[Speaker 1]
And that's why we are here. Okay, mun lam nguy gwang gi tab le which in colloquial is, no, lekpo is yakpo. So, what?

Where is word? He knows everything. What's that expression for, oh, you know, tab ya.

Okay, say tab ya.

[Speaker 2]
Tab ya.

[Speaker 1]
Like, you go to your lama, you say, oh lama, I made a million dollars today at my work. Then my lama will say, oh, tab ya, tab ya. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool, cool.

You know, like, yeah, that's cool. He doesn't care, right? Tab ya means, yeah, you got lucky.

You got lucky. Like, super lucky mistake. You made some money today.

Tab ya. So, he says, here you say tab lek chuwa. Okay?

The fact that you are here, in English, we say dumb luck. Dumb luck.

[Speaker 2]
Stupid good luck. You're just here by accident. Okay, then he tells a story.

[Speaker 1]
ngar sokpay lama shik gi, chu nang kap gyami shik gi. This is funny for the Chinese students. So, there was a Mongolian lama.

The generation after Genghis Khan, they became Buddhists.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? All Mongolians became Buddhists. And they became very good Buddhists.

And many stopped eating meat, and stopped killing people.

[Speaker 1]
They carved 1,500 books every year. Okay? So, they were very great students.

[Speaker 2]
Like Mexican students. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
They were not Buddhists.

[Speaker 2]
They were very violent people, killing their neighbors. Genghis Khan's father was poisoned by the neighbors. Then they became Buddhists.

Very good Buddhists.

[Speaker 1]
And the books written by Mongolian lamas are excellent. Like the books you are going to write when you get older, you Mexican people.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Buddhism comes to a new country. Those people are more ... they work harder than the old Buddhists.

So, a Chinese Buddhist came to listen to a Mongolian Buddhist, even though Chinese Buddhism is much older. Then it's not clear from the wording, but I learned it from my lama. The Mongolian lama was teaching how rare it is to become a human.

[Speaker 2]
Humans are extremely rare. Extremely rare.

[Speaker 1]
Then the Chinese student said, ,BLA MA NYID RGYAS NA THUG RDOR MA MYONG BA YIN, If you had gone to China just one time, you wouldn't think human being is rare. We have 1.4 billion, I mean, most of us. Lots of us.

Then RGYAS NA MI MO BOS YOD SRED LTA So, don't think like that. For every human being, there are billions and billions of other creatures. To get the equipment of a grasshopper or mariposa, is not very rare.

Humans are rare. Okay, don't think like that. ,'KHRIR MI MANG YANG RANG NGAN DOR SONG NA MI PHAN PA'I, ,'CHI ROL DU MI GZHAN DAG MANG NYUN SOGS LA MI LTA BAR, Also, it doesn't matter if you live in a country with a billion people.

You don't have to worry about how many people are in your country. You just have to try to keep yourself out of the hells. ,'CHI ROL DU MI GZHAN DAG MANG NYUN SOGS LA MI LTA BAR, ,RANG GIS PHYI NAS NYE DKA' MI GANG RANG RGYUD LA BRTAN CIG GI, ,GYI TZAM MIN BYAS PAGS TSE MA ZHAL BOS TE, You have to use BYAS PAGS TSE MA.

Yoga Sutra has three kinds of perceptions. What are they? ,PRA BYAG SHANG LA MA RGA MA, ,PRA BYAG SHANG LA MA RGA MA, That's the Sri Pitabhi Joyce, okay.

,PRA BYAG SHANG LA MA RGA MA, Pratyaksha? Pratyaksha? Pratyaksha is direct.

You see a color, for example. Anuma is logic.

[Speaker 2]
What's behind my back? A pen. You saw it here.

That was Pratyaksha. Anuma is this.

[Speaker 1]
You can still see the pen, but only with your logic. Then, here's, I will teach you Agama.

[Speaker 2]
I swear there's a pen in my other hand.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Then you trust me. I'm not perfect, but I'm not going to lie about a small thing.

Okay, those are in the Yoga Sutra.

[Speaker 2]
These are three ways to see things.

[Speaker 1]
One is with your eyes. One is with your logic. And one is by believing the word of a person you trust.

[Speaker 2]
Here he says, you should use the second one.

[Speaker 1]
Je Pab Tse Ma Anuma. Okay? You should use Je Pab Tse Ma.

Logic. Deduction. Okay?

To what? To figure out if you're going to get a body like this next time. Then some people can see directly what kind of life they're going to have.

They can see directly. It's called yoga pratyaksha. It's called the direct perception of a yogi.

A great yogi can close their eyes, and they can see what they are going to be. Then most of us cannot. So we have to use logic.

Okay, so for me to breathe, for my heartbeat, for one heartbeat, I must do about a hundred kind, selfless things for other people. To make the karma to have one heartbeat in my next life. I have to do, each heartbeat, I have to do about a hundred nice things.

Conscious, purposeful, nice things for another person.

[Speaker 2]
Now use your logic.

[Speaker 1]
Can you see your future life? Many, most people I think, cannot see directly.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so use your logic. In this life, so far, did you do enough good things to make this heartbeat for one year?

[Speaker 1]
You have to say, I don't think so.

[Speaker 2]
That's what he says here.

[Speaker 1]
RANG RGYUD LA BRAL BYO GYI RGYUD TZANG MIN BYAS PAG TSAD MI GSHEL DGOS GSHEL here is an ancient word, GAU SHALA GSHEL, start dictionary entry, okay? GAU SHALA GSHEL BA means to weigh like vegetables on a scale.

[Speaker 2]
To estimate, to calculate, to weigh, it's called SHAL BA.

[Speaker 1]
He says, you SHAL BA your chances of having a beating heart next time.

[Speaker 2]
You figure it out.

[Speaker 1]
GSHEL DGOS, you have to do it. PER NA. PER NA means, what does it mean?

Where's my word? What does it mean? Yeah, for example, he's my human dictionary.

His Tibetan is quite good. So is Adam and Nick.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
PER NA CI RUG GI GNAS DANG MTHRO On the outside, GNAS means barley.

[Speaker 2]
MTHRO means wheat.

[Speaker 1]
We will use GNAS and MTHRO and RAS and ZHO. We will use 15 different things for the fire.

[Speaker 2]
Friday night.

[Speaker 1]
We will do traditional Homa.

[Speaker 2]
This custom is 5,000 years old.

[Speaker 1]
My teacher was a great master of Homa. And he taught it to us for 30 years, 25 years. And it's very difficult.

It's very difficult to learn. And one day I was in Varanasi. This is the holy city of India.

And somebody said, you want to go see a Homa?

[Speaker 2]
And I'm like, yeah, okay, let me go see Homa.

[Speaker 1]
And it was exactly the same as my teacher was doing. So it's an India custom for 5,000 years. They use a little bit smaller hole.

Then the rest is almost the same. So hot. Everything is...

They are doing the same. So anyway, barley and wheat. LA SOGS PA'I DON THOB BAR BA GANG RGYAS BA'AM Even if you take one handful of rice, for example, they all depend on planting seed in the springtime.

Last spring.

[Speaker 2]
One handful of wheat, or rice, or barley. When you look at the barley, you can... If you close your eyes, did you ever use an ox to plant food?

Ball. Big ball. Like in India.

[Speaker 1]
When I first went to the monastery, they are all refugees.

[Speaker 2]
We have to work in the field.

[Speaker 1]
We have to plow with the animal, with the ball. Then they said, look, you are American. You don't have to do it, okay?

Then Americans are very democratic. Then I said, okay, I will do it. I survived like three hours.

Then I said, okay, I don't want to do it.

[Speaker 2]
You have to stand on the plow. It's like this big.

[Speaker 1]
Then you have to whip the ball.

[Speaker 2]
Then you fall off, and the ball steps on you. So, when you look at one handful of grain, if you close your eyes, and if you're a sensitive person, you can see the work of hundreds of people in your head. Okay?

Planting, watering, fertilizing, harvesting, driving, cleaning, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Try to clean like 10,000 pieces of corn by hand. Your hands are bleeding by the hand.

[Speaker 2]
We did it. So, when you hold a handful of grain, one day's food, if you're sensitive, and close your eyes, you can see hundreds of causes.

[Speaker 1]
,DE MA ZAD, ,MED THOB RTZA MA GANG SKYE BA LA, ,'NGON DU SA PA'I MA THAB PA MI'I BYUNG BA, You just go out here and see these roses.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? Somebody planted them. It's a lot of work.

[Speaker 1]
You have to dig about one meter down. Take out all the stones. It's a lot of work.

Just for one flower. ,'NGON DU SA PA'I MA THAB PA MI'I BYUNG BA, If somebody didn't plant it, it won't grow.

[Speaker 2]
That's just a garden. One flower. Your body, your mind, to live for 50, 60, 70 years.

[Speaker 1]
Somebody planted millions and millions of seeds.

[Speaker 2]
So, if you're a sensitive person, you hold one handful of rice, and you just go like this.

[Speaker 1]
If you're very sensitive, you can feel the work. You can see hundreds of people working.

[Speaker 2]
But if you put your hand on your chest, feel the heartbeat.

[Speaker 1]
If you're very sensitive and close your eyes, you can see Joe working for 50, 60, 70 years very, very hard.

[Speaker 2]
He made it beat.

[Speaker 1]
If you're sensitive, you can feel it. ,'CHU RNGON THOB LUR, ,RTEN TZAM PO BA LHA LTA BU'I, ,DE'EN GROR TZAM THOB PA LA'ANG, ,TSUL KHRIMS NA RE GSUM DGOS BZHIN, ,THAMS CAD KYI RTEN DIS PA LA THOB PA'I RGYUD NI, So, generally, if you want to get a nice rebirth, there's a whole list of good things you have to do. ,THAMS CAD KYI RTEN DIS PA LA THOB PA'I RGYUD NI, So, how did you get this equipment?

[Speaker 2]
How was it planted?

[Speaker 1]
,LUD GRUB KYIS, Who's LUD GRUB? Nagarjuna.

[Speaker 2]
Nagarjuna.

[Speaker 1]
So, now he's going to quote Nagarjuna. If you want to learn some important Buddhist, if you want to memorize something, this is great. If you want to learn Tibetan, if you want to understand Buddhism, it's very nice to do this, this kind of, to memorize things.

What's that in the Yoga Sutra? Khanden? Swadhyaya.

Swadhyaya. Sorry, yeah, Swadhyaya. So, swad means yourself.

[Speaker 2]
Swadhyaya means study.

[Speaker 1]
Then everybody who translates the Yoga Sutra, call it study yourself, or something like that. It's a complete ridiculous mistake translation. It's just an old word for learning to memorize some Buddhist book, or some scripture.

And you recite it every day. And then you memorize it. And then Nagarjuna is talking in your head from time to time.

[Speaker 2]
It's very cool.

[Speaker 1]
In the monastery, when you join, you have to memorize all the books that you study. Before you can study them, you have to memorize them. And I attended one, what do you call it?

We call Sangama. What do you call? Satsang.

Satsangama. The short word is satsang. I attended one question and answer by Sri Patabhi Joyce, who's her teacher.

And he has a lot of swadhyaya. Every answer he gives, he gives from a book. He's like, oh, Pratyakshana Magama.

I mean, everybody knows that.

[Speaker 2]
He would just quote the book.

[Speaker 1]
You should do the same. At least a few small things. This one's, I think, one of the best.

Then at the top, you can say, ,'BYIN PA'I LONGS SPYOD PHYIM GYI BDE, Say, ,'BYIN PA'I ,LONGS SPYOD ,PHYIM GYI ,PHYIM GYI ,BDE So, some letters change. You don't worry about it. ,BYIN PA'I ,LONGS SPYOD ,PHYIM GYI ,BDE That's the first line of one of the most important Buddhist poems in history.

It's written by Arya Nagarjuna. It is the classical statement of the correlations.

[Speaker 2]
It's the most famous. What's correlation mean? You will understand.

,BYIN PA'I LONGS SPYOD Say, ,BYIN PA'I ,LONGS SPYOD ,LONGS SPYOD You want money? Share.

[Speaker 1]
What you have.

[Speaker 2]
With poor people. With other people. You want money?

[Speaker 1]
Give. ,BYIN PA'I LONGS SPYOD All the money in your life, all the things in the city where you live, came from ,BYO Sharing.

[Speaker 2]
Your ,BYO never didn't share anything.

[Speaker 1]
Did you say double negative?

[Speaker 2]
It's difficult to translate double negative. In Spanish double negative sounds sometimes weird.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay. Let's do it again.

[Speaker 2]
Your ,BYO never didn't share anything.

[Speaker 1]
If your ,BYO had a If your ,BYO had a coffee, he always shared it. If your ,BYO got $10, he always gave $5 to poor people. Everything.

[Speaker 2]
Everything.

[Speaker 1]
If your ,BYO had a car, half the time he was driving somebody else someplace. Geshe-la, how do you know it? Can you see my past life?

I hate it when people ask me that.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Lama, can you see my past life?

[Speaker 1]
No. I don't have that.

[Speaker 2]
No, but you can see my future life.

[Speaker 1]
No. I cannot. Not directly.

[Speaker 2]
But from my logic, I can tell you, your past life was unbelievably generous.

[Speaker 1]
Then I don't tell them about the future, okay? Okay. So, this poem is so famous, the author of this book didn't didn't give it the whole thing.

He just gave the first line. So, because of John's work, I went and got you the rest of it. So I put it, I put it here from the original book.

[Speaker 2]
So I went back 1,800 years and got this book for you.

[Speaker 1]
So, jinpay longchu, if you want money, share what you have. chim gyi de All the happiness in your life comes from being nice to other people. Even just like two minutes of happiness.

Like, you listen to Hero's song. I was enjoying the last two, the last I don't know, 15 seconds, where they say niryatayami. To me it was very cool.

That much happiness. 15 seconds of happiness at the end of the song. That's 9,000 good deeds by Joe.

He was nice to other people 9,000 times.

[Speaker 2]
Is that exactly true?

[Speaker 1]
No. Why? Yeah, the seeds double every day, so I'm exaggerating as usual.

To make 9,000 good seeds, you just have to plant one. And water it for about a week. How?

How? Okay. Coffee meditation.

You can easily double your seeds every 24 hours.

[Speaker 2]
You just have to be happy that you planted them.

[Speaker 1]
That's all. I was interviewed by the New York Times well long ago. What's your secret to make a $200 million company?

I went like that.

[Speaker 2]
They didn't understand.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So, chim gyi de, all the little happinesses you had in your life, even a little piece of hero song, Joe planted it by himself. By being nice to other people.

[Speaker 2]
In those ten ways.

[Speaker 1]
That's also in the Yoga Sutra. These punya, good deeds, they are the same for all the world. Great mighty codes of conduct, it says.

[Speaker 2]
They are good.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Anyway. punya punya hetu dvad That's what the line says.

punya punya hetu dvad hetu means cause. hetu dvad means comes from the causes. punya punya means good deeds and bad deeds.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Next one. The second line.

[Speaker 2]
Say, söpe dangden söpe dangden dzunpe ji söpa means patience.

[Speaker 1]
Not getting upset when you should get upset.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Dang means beautiful complexion. Like a shining complexion without what's it called? Shilio hand cream?

That very expensive, what is that Japanese? Sale. Yeah, it's like, I don't know, $600 for a little bottle.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
It makes your face shine like you're very healthy, like you just finished the Astanga class. But the real cause of that shining beautiful face is söpa. Söpa.

Don't get upset when things are hard.

[Speaker 2]
So that's the third one. If you want money, share. If you want to be, if you want the wine to make you happy, the wine to make you happy, be nice to other people.

If you want the song to make you happy, first be nice to other people. Then play the song.

[Speaker 1]
And it will lift your heart.

[Speaker 2]
Third one, if you want the cream to work on your face, don't get angry when stupid people say things to you.

[Speaker 1]
Tsunpe ji. Ji means, if you want, ji means si ji. Say si ji.

I'll tell you how I learned this word because I still remember it. I was sitting with my lama. Why?

For thirty years, that's the only way I could watch television.

[Speaker 2]
I'm not allowed to have TV. He has a TV.

[Speaker 1]
When I hear the TV is on, I go up and sit with him. Then he was watching the news. And they had a news, what do you call it?

News announcement about Queen of England. And there were five old ladies standing next to each other in a line. And my lama says, I'm going to teach you a new Buddhist word.

I said, okay. He's always watched TV with his mala.

[Speaker 2]
He's like, hey Mike, I teach you a new word.

[Speaker 1]
He's like this. He watched TV for thirty years. I'm not sure he ever saw it.

I think maybe he just watched TV to make me comfortable.

[Speaker 2]
Hey Mike, I'll teach you a new word. What? CG.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, you want to know what CG is? Which of those five women is the Queen of England? Then I said, the third one.

[Speaker 2]
How do you know? She's...

[Speaker 1]
like chutzpah. She got chutzpah. She's...

There's a word in Spanish. No, something. Gallardia.

She has gallardia.

[Speaker 2]
The other old ladies are like this. And she's like...

[Speaker 1]
Okay? That's G. That's G, okay?

It means people respect her. She has some karma light of power around.

[Speaker 2]
You know, like...

[Speaker 1]
It's difficult to find an English word. Presence or something. She has presence.

Okay, she has something.

[Speaker 2]
That's called G. How do you get it? Have fun doing your practice.

[Speaker 1]
You know, like, come on. When you do your shtanga, you're like... Like those young guys who I hate already.

Okay, I'm like, wow, watch this. Have some fun. Don't be like...

You don't have to be a good yogi to have fun. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
If you want to be queen of England, have fun.

[Speaker 1]
That's so cool. Everyone's trying to be the boss. Many people ask me, Geshe-la, I want to plant the seed to be the boss of my company.

[Speaker 2]
Should I work harder?

[Speaker 1]
Should I get a better computer? What should I do?

[Speaker 2]
Have fun doing good things.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? That's the karma for that. Okay, really, seriously.

You cannot buy that and you cannot practice it.

[Speaker 2]
You have it or you don't have it. It comes from past life. She has it.

[Speaker 1]
If we try for three years to learn that, we cannot.

[Speaker 2]
She has it.

[Speaker 1]
It's just something she has. It comes from having fun with your practice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, who said that?

[Speaker 1]
Second Buddha. Buddha number two.

[Speaker 2]
Alright, third line. We have time to finish. We have nine more minutes.

SAM BSTAN GYIS ZHIG Say SAM BSTAN GYIS ZHIG Okay, so sometimes in your life, like I saw some people on the grass here, and it doesn't come very often, but sometimes in your life, I can remember I went to a garden in India, high on a mountain. It was built by the British.

[Speaker 1]
When I got there, it was abandoned for 35 years. But I walk into that place, all the flowers are growing like insane. No one took care of them for 35 years.

[Speaker 2]
And I just sit down.

[Speaker 1]
Look, I'm in the Himalaya mountains. Look over, you can see the whole plain of India from there. And then I remember, I was like 21 years old, and this great healing of peace came to me.

[Speaker 2]
Unexpected. Unplanned.

[Speaker 1]
You know? I didn't think I'm going to have it.

[Speaker 2]
Just sit down, and suddenly I feel this great peace.

[Speaker 1]
What's the karma for that? Shanty, shanty, shanty, right? That shanty is very famous, that three shanties.

You want to know? There's three kinds of suffering, right? In Buddhism.

First one is direct suffering. The classical example is a headache, or backache. Jasmine, is your back okay?

[Speaker 2]
Sure?

[Speaker 1]
100%? That's direct pain. That's pain number one.

[Speaker 2]
Pain number two is change.

[Speaker 1]
You meet a girl or a boy, you say, finally I got the right one. After six girlfriends, they were all five, were so stupid. This one is the one.

Six months later you're like, I can't, she's exactly the same as the other ones.

[Speaker 2]
That's the suffering of change.

[Speaker 1]
That's the second kind of suffering.

[Speaker 2]
In the scripture, the classical example is the taste of a good dinner.

[Speaker 1]
Is the taste of a good dinner suffering? A Buddhist will say yes.

[Speaker 2]
Then you say, why?

[Speaker 1]
We say, because you will get hungry again.

[Speaker 2]
You can't keep it. It will always change. Third suffering is death.

[Speaker 1]
Old age and death. So everybody has that suffering.

[Speaker 2]
Then the word shanty is both a result and a cause.

[Speaker 1]
So the word shanty, which means peace, but in Sanskrit and in Tibetan, it means two things. The stopping, sorry, how you feel when pain has stopped.

[Speaker 2]
Like you take the headache medicine and the headache goes away, and you feel some peace. That's called shanty. But the power of the medicine to stop the pain is also called shanty.

[Speaker 1]
So, you want to shanty your pain. If you shanty your pain correctly, you reach shanty. Okay?

Like that. So here, SEMS RTEN GYI ZHI means if you want that feeling of peace, and it doesn't come very often because we are so busy. In English we say a strong feeling of well-being.

[Speaker 2]
In English we also say the world is right.

[Speaker 1]
Today the world is right. The world is correct. Today the world feels like a really peaceful place to me.

And it doesn't come very often.

[Speaker 2]
Why? The karma for that is meditation. The fifth perfection.

Meditation. So, in this life, you know, you are listening to a nice kirtan song, Destiny.

[Speaker 1]
And you start to feel like this peace. It didn't come from the song.

[Speaker 2]
It came through the song. The song is the postman who sent the letter. Joe.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Got it?

[Speaker 2]
Every time in your life you had even a little bit of peace, it was sent to you by Joe. How did he send it?

[Speaker 1]
He did a good five minute meditation. Ding! Ding!

Okay? And each time he did one, he sent you many experiences of peace. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
We're almost finished. I'll go just a few minutes extra.

[Speaker 1]
LO'I DRUL Say LO'I DRUL. LO'I DRUL LO means mati in Sanskrit. It means jnana.

What is that? Chitta? Yeah, the mind.

Here, it means the mind which understands the pen. I think there's one person in this room that didn't hear me teach the pen ten times.

[Speaker 2]
Let's do it super fast. What's this thing?

[Speaker 1]
Pen. If a dog comes in here, what would they do?

[Speaker 2]
They'll bite it.

[Speaker 1]
Does the dog see this as a pen? I'll try to do it as fast as ... let's try.

Okay, you ready?

[Speaker 2]
The answers must be fast. I'm going to time it. Okay.

In Guadalajara, 2015, we are going to do the fastest pen explanation ever done. Okay, you ready? I have a timer.

[Speaker 1]
It does hundredths of a second.

[Speaker 2]
Ready? I need fast answers, okay?

[Speaker 1]
I don't want any, uh, uh ... Okay, ready? Go.

What's this thing? If a dog came in here, what would they do? They'll bite.

Does the dog see this as a pen? Does the human see this as a pen? If I put it here, all the dogs go out.

All the people go out. Is it a pen or a chew toy? Huh?

Neither. Okay. If the human comes back, what do they see?

Is the pen coming from the pen or is the pen coming from the human? How does the pen come from the human?

[Speaker 2]
A picture comes out of their mind. What does the picture come out of? A seed in their mind.

[Speaker 1]
What's another name for that seed in Sanskrit language? Karma. Okay.

Sorry, I have one more question.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, how do you plant that seed? Share a pen. Stop.

[Speaker 1]
One minute, nine seconds. We'll try to break it in Guangzhou, okay? Partly it was my fault.

Okay, so LO'I DRUL LO'I DRUL The sixth perfection.

[Speaker 2]
DRUL means freedom.

[Speaker 1]
Moksha. Freedom.

[Speaker 2]
How do you get it? Understanding the pen.

[Speaker 1]
This is very interesting. All the feelings of freedom you ever had in your life. Mexico has a lot of problems.

America has a lot of problems. In America right now, it's popular to go into a school and shoot twenty people.

[Speaker 2]
But generally in America, in Mexico, you have freedom.

[Speaker 1]
You want to go to Mexico City tonight, you can go. You will get stopped by the steka? What do you call those guys?

The gang. Teka.

[Speaker 2]
Tekas?

[Speaker 1]
Setas. Yeah, they will stop you and kill you, but anyway, you have freedom to go if you want. You don't have to ask anybody.

You can sit in a Buddhist class, you can talk about Dharma, no one's going to put you in the jail. You have in Mexico and in America almost total freedom. You can do anything you want.

Nobody cares. You can teach Buddhism in Rimrock, Arizona. People will say you're a weird, weird guy.

But that's all.

[Speaker 2]
No one's going to put you in the jail.

[Speaker 1]
You have freedom.

[Speaker 2]
Why? Joe planted it. How?

He understood the pen. That's all. So, personal freedom.

Freedom in your family. Freedom at your work. Freedom with your friends.

Freedom in your country. Freedom of Nirvana. Freedom of Buddhahood.

It all comes from Joe. Each time Joe thought about the pen, he created special seeds for you to have freedom. Because all your freedoms come from Joe.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we covered the six perfections. There are no other ones. Basically.

Usually, people just teach the first three lines.

[Speaker 2]
Because it covers all the seeds. Six kinds of seeds. But I like the next line.

It's important.

[Speaker 1]
Now listen, this is very cool.

[Speaker 2]
So Joe was generous. He shared everything he has.

[Speaker 1]
And because of that, I have a shirt, and I have pants, I have microphone.

[Speaker 2]
Joe honored the rules. He wasn't biting people like rats.

[Speaker 1]
Because of that, I feel pretty happy. I have... All of us have pretty nice human body.

I'm not supermodel, but my body is okay. Joe gave me that because he didn't get angry.

[Speaker 2]
Sometimes my students listen to me. Why? Joe had fun practicing.

Sometimes, I'm just sitting in the car, and suddenly I feel this intense peace.

[Speaker 1]
Or I see the sunset.

[Speaker 2]
Not very often, but sometimes I get this, this intense feeling of peace.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I didn't finish the shanty shanty shanty. Sorry. In the Upanishad, where that comes from, you repeat shanty three times.

[Speaker 2]
Always.

[Speaker 1]
Because you want to stop the three kinds of pain. The direct pain should stop. The pain of your partner changing should stop.

The pain of getting old and dying inexorably, like day by day, you can't stop it.

[Speaker 2]
Should stop.

[Speaker 1]
Shanty, shanty, shanty. So we always say it three times.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, anyway, that any peace you feel, who sent it to you? Joe. How?

[Speaker 1]
Ding, ding. Okay, he did a ding ding. Not ding dong, okay?

That's one American churro.

[Speaker 2]
Yo, Joe.

[Speaker 1]
Anyway, then all the freedoms in your life comes from thinking about the pen.

[Speaker 2]
And ultimate freedom from death, from sadness, from war in the world, okay? All of them come from understanding the pen.

[Speaker 1]
But what ties them all together into Michael?

[Speaker 2]
You see? Why isn't the peace over there, and the money's over there, and the G is over there? What's the karmic glue?

What is the karmic glue that keeps them as one person?

[Speaker 1]
Ning tse wey ni dun kun druk Say, ning Ning tse tse wey ni wey ni dun kun dun kun druk What ties them all together was Joe's love for other people.

[Speaker 2]
Joe had love for other people.

[Speaker 1]
And that ties all six together. Ning tse wey ni dun kun druk dun kun druk means Siddhartha. It accomplishes everything.

Okay? If you don't want to do those six, just do number seven.

[Speaker 2]
Love. Just love other people. It's the glue that keeps them all together.

It's the karma for all good things.

[Speaker 1]
It's the love for other people.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Okay. We finished the most famous verse.

[Speaker 2]
We'll do a lung.

[Speaker 1]
Lung means the Lama will repeat it three times.

[Speaker 2]
you repeat it.

[Speaker 1]
Then every Lama does this for their student. We have about 85 generations. We call parampara.

The list of the Lama, student, Lama, student, Lama, student, Lama, student. So, you are like number 85 to get this. Okay?

This, the blessing of these words have been passed down for 2,000 years.

[Speaker 2]
So, I will say it. Then, don't think about anything. Let the blessing come in your ear.

[Speaker 1]
So, kind of go into like some kind of quiet place. Don't think about anything.

[Speaker 2]
Just the sound.

[Speaker 1]
Then you have that blessing.

[Speaker 2]
Then you can give it to your student. You can pass it on. Three times.

Why we do three times?

[Speaker 1]
Because halfway through the first one you are going to think about dinner or something. But we'll catch it on the next one. Okay, ready?

Okay. Like, meditate a little bit.

[Speaker 2]
Please repeat. Jinpe Longchuk Timgy De Serpe Dangden Sempe Ji Samten Kishi Loi Dro Nyingche Weini Dunkun Dru Two more times.

[Speaker 1]
After the third time I will snap my finger and you got the blessing.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Then stay quiet for just a second.

[Speaker 2]
And that seed will stay in your mind until you become Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, second time.

[Speaker 2]
Jinpe Longchuk Timgy De Serpe Dangden Sempe Ji Samten Kishi Loi Dro Nyingche Weini Dunkun Dru Okay, focus.

[Speaker 1]
This one is the most important one. And when you hear the finger snap, the seed was planted in your mind. And then just enjoy it for a moment.

Be quiet after that for a moment.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, here we go. Jinpe Longchuk Timgy De Serpe Dangden Sempe Ji Samten Kishi Loi Dro Nyingche Weini Dunkun Dru Okay, relax.

[Speaker 1]
That's all the karma which created this equipment. So now you know how to do it again. Okay, so if you can, try to memorize this.

You can get it. If you want, I'll record it tomorrow or something. Okay?

And that's all I want to do tonight. This is all you need to create this body and mind.

[Speaker 2]
Joe did a good job. Joe did all of this. That's why you're here.

[Speaker 1]
Don't waste it.