«Дар освобождения», курс 20 «Ретрит непревзойдённой жизни», занятие 7

[Speaker 2]
Let's meditate about freedom. So, as soon as we start the meditation, think of all the freedoms you have, and who sent them to you.

[Speaker 1]
Here we go. Three deep breaths. Okay, stretch.

Ready for one more? Okay, one poco mas. Then somebody brought all those things together.

You were born in a city, in a country, with a family that has a house. Happiness comes to you. Beauty is around you.

You see people, harmony between people. You have peace, and you have, what's the sixth one? Yeah, you have freedom.

But something keeps it all together. And that was love.

[Speaker 2]
So, this meditation, think about the love that Joe must have had.

[Speaker 1]
Then all these impossible things come together. Adam, what's the Tibetan word for come together?

[Speaker 2]
Zong. Everything zong.

[Speaker 1]
There's a holiday in Tibet called Ngyenpa Gun Zong. Ngyenpa is the opposite of yapo. Yeah, ngyenpa means bad.

[Speaker 2]
What's gu mean?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, number nine. So sometimes in Tibet, when you want to say a million, you just say nine.

[Speaker 2]
Don't ask me why. It means a million. Bad things, ngyenpa gun zong.

[Speaker 1]
It means a bad luck day. You should just stay in bed.

[Speaker 2]
It's like Friday the 13th or something like that. So, zong means everything came together.

[Speaker 1]
So the love that Joe had brought everything together. Okay, ready?

[Speaker 2]
Three deep breaths.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, stretch.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, we'll start the book again.

[Speaker 1]
D-A-R-E-S da re len chik thakpay den sang gi chos su su dang ne Okay, suppose you waste this equipment you got. lar deng dzok tob ne dun den du je dukpa ni If you think you're going to get the same equipment later, unpo shik gi ser korpo chik ngepa Suppose there's a poor person who found a bag of gold on the street.

[Speaker 2]
And they went to the side of the ocean, and they threw it in.

[Speaker 1]
Then they said, I hope I find another one. Okay, a little bit stupid. nye ne de long chepar shok nyam na shing And then after I find one, in the next life I'll do something.

tsen dipar mi reway mun lam mi ka te rang chak la se jok tabu jel te mun lam tep gup tse rengwa nye me pa lam do'angwa shepa shik dangpo gong na ne jung wan yin So, it's hard for us not to... when we pray, So, it's difficult for us when we pray, we usually pray for something in this life. rang chak la se jok tabu jel te When we go to the main temple in Lhasa, and we meet this statue of Maitreya, and mun lam tep gup, we make a prayer.

We are usually praying for a long life. ne me pa, I shouldn't get sick. lam do'angwa, I hope I succeed in my business.

shepa dangpo gong na ne jung wan yin That's mainly what we're thinking about. de na chun juk le So, Master Shantideva said, dak gi chokpa dundre ni ni lu kyang thob min gyur The way we are acting now, forget being rich or peaceful or beautiful.

[Speaker 2]
You won't get a human body.

[Speaker 1]
mi lu tobpa ma gyur na If you can't repeat the human body, dikpa ba shing kyewa me Other forms of life only do bad things. Why do birds fly away when you walk up? Why do birds go like this?

Whole life. All the other animals want to eat them. All the other animals want to kill them.

[Speaker 2]
Even roaches.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes you can see one around here.

[Speaker 2]
You're like, hi!

[Speaker 1]
And then they go, they run away. They are used to being killed. Each animal wants to eat the other animal.

In the ocean, the fish cannot stay still. They have to swim. They cannot sleep.

Somebody wants to eat them.

[Speaker 2]
In those realms, everyone just wants to eat each other. So they're always doing bad karma.

[Speaker 1]
sungpa dang nger tsulten di la chu nam dak chik ni mi yongwa pel che thak chu la So it's pretty definite that we won't be able to do much Dharma with this body and mind. de ma jung na chi ma ngen song du klung sem ne And if we can't do something good with this body and mind, ngen song du klung, we will fall into the lower realms. der ne lar yang ngen song gi gyur druk ne And in the lower realms, you only make the karma to be born there again.

ngen song mu ta me par kyangpar gyur te So once you reach dog birth or hell birth, you are always hurting all the other people there. And because of that, you stay there. So right now, we came up just for a short time.

[Speaker 2]
If we slip again, we will stay there.

[Speaker 1]
de pa dang sherab dang ngen jung sok gye way chok ni jung tse tsam yang me la Animals cannot say, I have faith in my Lama. Animals cannot look at the pen and go, ngen jung means they cannot feel sad about the pain of other people. gye way chok ni jung tse tsam yang me They're not capable of even the smallest bit of those things.

gyur chak sher dang nga gyel sok mi gye way le druk che ni chak tsa tar mar nyenpar gyur te per na kyi tabur de kyang shing nu But the negative emotions, like, I want that bone that you have. You know, I hate you.

[Speaker 2]
I hate you.

[Speaker 1]
nga gyel Animals have pride? I don't know. He says they do.

mi gye way le druk che ni All the negative emotions you need to do bad karma. chak tsa tar mar nyenpar gyur te They have all of them. They have all of them.

[Speaker 2]
Complete set.

[Speaker 1]
gyur te per na kyi tabur ten tepe If you just look at how a dog acts, except for Gracie, okay, we know.

[Speaker 2]
Except for her dog.

[Speaker 1]
Her dog is like the nicest person I ever met.

[Speaker 2]
Her. Her and Adam's dogs.

[Speaker 1]
It's nicest person in Sedona, I think. But most dogs, you know, if they see the other dog and there's one bone, they will fight. You don't see a dog get a bone, put it by the side, and the next dog they see, they give it to them.

she nyu means, you can understand, just watch a dog. nyen sung du kye sen ne, mi lu drup pa ni, ten ti ne sang gi drup pa le, kyang kak tsik chik te Okay, listen. Once you fall down to like an animal birth, or hell birth, after that, to become human again, it's much more difficult than becoming a Buddha now.

[Speaker 2]
It's easier to become a Buddha before you die, in this body, than wait till later, you're a dog or you're in hell or something, to become a human after that again.

[Speaker 1]
It's much more difficult than becoming a Buddha in this life. ta ta mi lu drup pa di sang gi, bap do ri kye la lepe tsultsam yin, bap do means a boulder.

[Speaker 2]
It rolled halfway down and you're trying to roll it back up.

[Speaker 1]
sang bap ri kye la ya lepa de, te ne yang dra ma duk nang, mar ma shorwa che gu kyi You are like a boulder. You came halfway down the mountain. Then in this life, try not to let it go down farther.

At least try to stay where you are.

[Speaker 2]
It's not easy. But to roll it back up is difficult. But at least hold it.

[Speaker 1]
At least stay where you are. You're pretty high now. Don't lose that.

mar ma shorwa che gu kyi, shor na la ri kye du kye la wa ang ka shin, Then if you let the boulder roll down to the bottom, which are animal births, just to go up halfway again is almost impossible. gen drip tarpa dang dren chik khyenpa su lam kong me dokpa tsopa shik ma jung na'ang, nyen tun ma sungwa tsam shik dang, If you can't meditate and reach some high meditation level, he's like, at least please don't become an animal, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Because from there everything is impossible.

[Speaker 1]
tsam su shik teng chok kyi, aka ma drukpa, don't mess up the chance you have now. shik ma chen na, der chik tung tse ngen song ne ngen sung du khyenpa lar tharpe kap trawa tabu yin, Once you reach the lower realms, the tendency is to stay there for many rebirths. So try not to go there.

lam kha trak ne chuk na rim gyi je cher, chuk drowa tar yinpay, Okay, so, let me think about it. So you are driving to Mexico City, but you live in Guadalajara.

[Speaker 2]
And, I don't know, you are looking for the Holiday Inn hotel, and you get pretty close, but you make one wrong turn.

[Speaker 1]
Then, usually after that you will make more wrong turns. Especially in Mexico City. We were talking, should we walk back from the venue, or should we drive?

[Speaker 2]
Unfortunately, we decided to drive.

[Speaker 1]
It's like, you know, then we came to the hotel.

[Speaker 2]
So once you make one mistake in the road, the tendency is to make more.

[Speaker 1]
chuk na gyur, rim gyi je cher, chuk drowa tar yinpay, taray ten diang, tenny ma chokwar che gu, So don't mess up. rang gyi ma chungway lenpa ma tok, rang gyi chung na sok gye kyang gyi luk mi gopa, khyim dak pel kye tabu yin, What does that mean? rang gyi ma chungway lenpa ma tok, rang gyi chung na sok gye kyang gyi luk mi gopa khyim dak pel kye tabu yin.

Okay. rang gyi ma chungway lenpa ma tok The only person you have to blame is yourself. And then I guess in that teaching there were some older monks.

And he said, don't worry, you don't have to have gyi luk. Say gyi luk. It's not the same as gye lukpa.

Gye lukpa means follower of Tsongkapa.

[Speaker 2]
Gyi luk means to get discouraged.

[Speaker 1]
Start dictionary entry. sa ga tar ga ya tar gya gyi gyi ga da gyi luk la shuk gi luka luk Gyi luk. So gyi luk means to think, you know, I can't do it.

I got too old. I don't think I'm going to have time to get enlightened. Then he said, khyim dak pel kye tabu yin.

There was a monk named Srija. He became a monk at the age of 100. And then Maudgalyayana is one of the two great disciples of the Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
And he trained him.

[Speaker 1]
And he reached nirvana in this life.

[Speaker 2]
So it's never too late.

[Speaker 1]
And as I said, Milarepa started his big retreats when he was 50.

[Speaker 2]
So if you're a little bit older person, don't worry about it. Just start. You can do everything.

If you don't start, you can't.

[Speaker 1]
But anybody can understand the pen. It's never too late to start.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so all of those things, and all the meditations we did up to now, they are talking about how hard it is to get this body and mind from the point of view of the causes. Joe had to share everything.

[Speaker 1]
Joe had to be super careful not to hurt anybody.

[Speaker 2]
Joe never got angry.

[Speaker 1]
Joe was always playing rock and roll at the Dharma.

[Speaker 2]
Having fun. Doing good things.

[Speaker 1]
Somebody asked me a question, is it perfection number four if you have fun doing bad things? No, it's not. When we say fun, we mean fun doing nice things.

[Speaker 2]
Joe worked very hard to meditate. Joe thought about the pen a lot. Joe didn't fall asleep when Geshe-la taught the pen again four or five hundred times.

Then he worked very hard, and he had the glue which holds it all together.

[Speaker 1]
Amor. Okay, love. He had.

Then those are the causes that created you. Many, many, many thousands of good things he did. He sent you in the mail a good body and a good mind.

But to do that was almost impossible.

[Speaker 2]
But he did it. So all the causes that give you a body, a good mind, 65 good actions every second, it's very expensive to have this body and mind. He gave it to you.

But from the point of view of the causes, it was very expensive.

[Speaker 1]
More expensive than Iron Man's suit. Now, we have the second part of this section. He's going to give us a metaphor or an example to show how difficult it is to get this kind of body and this kind of mind.

Here we go. NYID PA PE'I SGO NAS NYED DGA' BA'I NI Give me a metaphor to show me how difficult it was for Joe to send me here. Then there's a book called PUTO BA'I PAS CHOS.

PAS CHOS means book of metaphors. PUTO BA is an early Lama in Tibet. And he wrote a book called PAS CHOS RIN CHEN PUNG PA The Pile of Precious Jewels, which are examples for cool things.

And his dates are there. He was born in 1027. He passed away in 1105.

KHAR RTOG RTZA DANG ROL PA'I DRIN ZHES SOGS GSUNGS PA BZHIN So there's one line from his poetry book. It says KHAR RTOG RTZA Say KHAR KHAR RTOG RTOG RTZA KHAR RTOG means the roof of the building. This RTZA with the WASR, with the V in it, it means grass.

It's like grass growing on the top of your Macbook. Grass growing on the top of your Macbook.

[Speaker 2]
In theory, is it possible?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I mean, one Macbook out of a million, if it's as dirty as my floor of my house, actually I have a clean floor because I have garbanzo. But you know, garbanzo is my robot vacuum cleaner. Beep, beep, beep, beep.

Okay, anyway, I really love him. But in theory, it's possible. You spill some coffee here.

Many times.

[Speaker 2]
There's this much coffee.

[Speaker 1]
And then a grass seed falls there.

[Speaker 2]
Then you spill your coke on it.

[Speaker 1]
And it will grow. But it's like almost impossible.

[Speaker 2]
So when you say grass growing out of the roof of the house, or grass growing out of your Macbook, I mean, it's possible, but it's almost impossible.

[Speaker 1]
Then he had another example. Say, Rubell Djin. It means the throat of the turtle.

Okay, so I'm going to skip. We can skip through my notes. Go to den dro ten.

B-D-E apostrophe G-R-O. B-D-E apostrophe G-R-O. Yeah, there we go.

den dro ten, SPYIR STANG NI Generally speaking, RI LUNG LA SKYES PA'I RTZA LTAR MANG LA DE'ANG GROL TSA BA'I BRTAN NYID GANG PAS RTOGS KYI RTZA THOB Is it possible for grass to grow pretty high on a mountain?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it's pretty possible.

[Speaker 1]
This shaman took us up on the mountain two years ago. I almost died. Unbelievable.

Wangsha walked up there. Unbelievable. Anyway, there was a little bit of grass up there.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, but on the top of your Macbook, that's rare.

[Speaker 1]
The grass on top of the mountain represents every being who was born as a human or like that.

[Speaker 2]
But those who are interested in Dharma, like you guys, they are like grass growing on the Macbook.

[Speaker 1]
There's 30 million people in Guangzhou. There's 25 million people in Mexico City. That's 55 million people.

There's less than 100 here, I think. You are like the grass that's growing on top of the laptop.

[Speaker 2]
Extremely rare.

[Speaker 1]
RUG PAS RDZIN SHES PA NI So what does it mean, the neck of the turtle? What happened? Go back to this picture.

There you go, stop. Go back. Okay, I found a turtle picture.

I chased one of those one day. I was in Hawaii and my brother was an oceanographer. He said, you want to see one of those big turtles?

[Speaker 2]
Then I'm, yeah. He said, come with me. Then he walked to an active volcano.

[Speaker 1]
It was very hot. The ground was very hot.

[Speaker 2]
And a little bit wet. Then I'm like, is this safe? He said, yeah, don't worry about it.

Then he took me to the ocean. The lava is going into the ocean. He said, this is a good place.

The turtles like the warm water.

[Speaker 1]
I'm like, I hope it doesn't blow up. Then he said, okay, we're going to go find a turtle. Then I'm like, okay, let's go.

He said, no, no, you have to wait until nighttime. Then I'm like, you're going to go into the ocean next to an active volcano in the middle of the night and the waves are like 30 feet high. Is that like that?

He's like, yeah, let's do it, man. Then, when you're the older brother, you have to act like you're not scared. I'm like, yeah, okay, let's do that, man.

Then he said, you hold the flashlight, I'll catch a turtle. So, we are in what's called the Molokai Express. This water goes about 40 miles an hour past Hawaii.

It takes you out to the ocean. He said, man, let's not wear the tanks. Let's just wear the snorkel.

Let's make it interesting. Go underwater, dark, everything dark, has one flashlight. We got one.

We rode him around. It was cool. So, suppose there's a turtle like that.

RUG PA BSTAN, RGYA MTSO CHEN PO RLUNG GI YANG PAS ZER GYI NYA ZHING BU DGOS PA BU RGA' GCIG PAR ZHIG TU RUG PA'I BLO BA BLO RGYA RGYA NAS TSO KHAR DGOS RTOGS TZAM RE BYED PA'I BRAL PA MI SPYOD PA ZHING DU RA RE RNAMS RGYA MTSO CHEN PO means the great ocean. There are smaller oceans in Buddhism. I'm not going to talk to you about it.

RLUNG GI YANG PAS ZER Then suppose... You know when somebody falls off a boat and you throw them, what do you call that? A life ring?

Some ring, like this?

[Speaker 2]
And there's a rope on it.

[Speaker 1]
They fall off the boat, you throw this thing.

[Speaker 2]
They try to put their hands around it.

[Speaker 1]
Then you pull it in.

[Speaker 2]
Suppose one of those fell off a boat. Like ten years ago. And it's just going around the ocean like this.

Pacific Ocean.

[Speaker 1]
Then there's a turtle living at the bottom of the ocean.

[Speaker 2]
Special turtle.

[Speaker 1]
He only has to come up for air once every hundred years.

[Speaker 2]
Also he's blind.

[Speaker 1]
Then what's the odds, what are the odds that when he comes up every hundred years he will put his head to this ring? What are the odds?

[Speaker 2]
I don't know. One in a hundred billion or something.

[Speaker 1]
SOGS PA'I GO RDOGS TZAM RE BYED PA'I BRDOS PA MI CHOS PA'I GZHIN DU RANG RES RNAMS SKOR BA'I RGYAL TSOGS CHEN PO We are also swimming in the ocean of the circle, of the wheel of life.

[Speaker 2]
Then our negative emotions and our old bad seeds they are pushing us around like the wind.

[Speaker 1]
SHES RANG GI MIG SDONG NAS And we are blind about the pen. It doesn't mean without eyes. It means, where is this eye?

[Speaker 2]
Okay, first time Geshe Michael taught you the pen, he ruined your makeup.

[Speaker 1]
Why? Third eye open here. They paint the third eye in the paintings, right?

[Speaker 2]
It's true. First time you heard about the pen, you want to know what part? When I put the pen here, I said all the dogs go out, all the humans go out.

Then at that moment, is this a pen or a chew toy? Then in your mind you think about it. The dog sees it as chew toy.

The human sees it as pen. If the dogs go, all the dogs go out that door and they close the door, and all the humans go out there and they close the door, then which one is it?

[Speaker 1]
Then your third eye opened just at that moment. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
That was the moment.

[Speaker 1]
Just after your third eye opened, you went like this.

[Speaker 2]
It's like, it's nothing at that moment. Konghing!

[Speaker 1]
Okay, alright? Okay, so everybody in this room has a third eye. I gave you a third eye.

[Speaker 2]
Now you have to buy new sunglasses.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? You think those, what are they called? Ray-Ban?

You think Ray-Ban are expensive? You have to see the one with three. Okay.

I was in the Guadalajara airport. I saw some nice sunglasses. Was I with you?

[Speaker 2]
I don't remember.

[Speaker 1]
Then I said, come on, let's go. How much are these sunglasses? I asked the lady.

First, I took a long time to pick out some sunglasses. Because I know I have to play a what do you call it? Rap song.

Me and Yohai are playing some 1950's jazz. I thought, I need some sunglasses. Then the lady said, 2,200 pesos.

Then I'm like, that's okay. I will buy it in the Oxxo store.

[Speaker 2]
Probably made in the same factory.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, anyway. Don't forget to give me some glasses. Who's giving me my sunglasses?

I don't remember. I need a rapper hat also.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I don't need the pants that fall down and show your underwear. My butt very small, they will fall down all the way. Okay, so ,ZHES BYED RNGAN SONG NAS ,RNGAN SONG GI GNAS NAS, ,RNGAN SONG GI GNAS SU KHYAMS TE DUR PA Mostly we are just wandering from lower birth to lower birth.

What do they call that in English? We are bottom feeders. We live on the bottom of the ocean.

When we travel, we just go from one bottom place to the other bottom place.

[Speaker 2]
We don't come up.

[Speaker 1]
,RGYA LA GAL TE RNGAN SONG NAS, ,THAR TE MI GNAS SU YUD TZAM, ,SHES SKYE BA LEN PAR SRID PA'I DBANG DU BYED KYANG Okay, so, RGYA LA Let's learn that word, okay? It's a dictionary entity. ,RGYA LA Say RGYA LA RGYA means the number one hundred.

LA means in. So, RGYA LA is a Tibetan expression. It means one chance in a million.

Then we come up for YUD TZAM. YUD TZAM means like three minutes. Like YUD TZAM means just a couple minutes.

SHES SKYE BA LEN PAR SRID PA Okay, it's possible.

[Speaker 2]
You can be born as a human. It's possible.

[Speaker 1]
But ,'JIG RTZIS KYI GANG ZHIN DU RGYAL CHE BA DAG GIS ,CHOG DANG CHOG TZAM ,KHUL BU DAG NA ,NGES MED DU DAG BZHIN GYUR BA'I SANGS RGYAS KYI ,RTEN PA ZER GYI GNYER ZHIN LTA BU DANG PHRAD PA NI ,ZHIN DU DRIN DU'ANG KUN Even if we come up for a few minutes, what are the chances we put our head to that circle? The circle represents the SANGS RGYAS KYI RTEN PA What? Yeah, teachings of the Buddha.

Okay, it's possible you'll be born as a human. You know, one chance out of a billion is possible. The blind turtle will come up to the surface.

But what are the chances they will put their head to one ring which is floating on the whole Pacific Ocean? ,ZHIN DU'ANG ,ZHIN DU'ANG Good. More rare than rare.

Super rare. Super rare. ,RU BAL DE ,BDAG TU TSUL BA'I RTEN DU ,'ONG NA SKABS SHIG LA ZER GYI GNYER ZHIN DANG PHRAD PA RUNG MA Okay, if the turtle is floating in the Pacific Ocean staying on top of the ocean all the time, then, okay, it's possible he'll put his head to the gold.

,DE'ANG LO RGYA RGYA NA LEN RE LAS MI RGYUD But he doesn't come up only once in a hundred years. ,PAS DE BZHIN DU RANG CHAG YANG ,DANG YANG DU MI RTEN ZHIG GNYER NA ,NAM ZHIG LA SANGS RGYAS KYI RTEN PA BYUNG BA DANG PHRAD PA ZHIG YANG Okay, so it's possible if Joe gave us a human body again and again and again and again, it's possible we could hear one Buddhist teaching. ,DE LTAR MIN PAR MI RTEN DU RGYAL LAM NAS RE NYID TZAM LAS MI RTOG But we only get a human birth every billion years or something.

It gets worse. ,ZER KYI NYA ZHING DE CHOG CIG GI BSDOD PA'I ZHIG YIN NA If the ring would stay still, ,RU BAL TSOR BA'I RTEN DU MI THON PA YUN RIN ,YUN RIN YANG THON PA RGA ZHIG GYI SKABS SU PHRAD ZHIG SMOS If the ring is in one place, then okay, if the turtle only comes up every hundred years, it's possible he could put his head through the golden ring. ,DE YANG MIN PAR ZER KYI NYA ZHING DE ,RGYA ZHING DU CHE BA'I RGYAL TSUL KHAR ,PHIN ZIN DU CHOG CIG DU MI NGES PA RGYU BA ZHIG YIN But that golden ring is just wandering around the ocean.

And there's no pattern. It just wanders aimlessly. Now, get this, okay?

,PA'I DE BZHIN DU In the same way, ,SANGS RGYAS KYI BSTAN PA the teaching of Lord Buddha, ,'JIG RTEN GYI GAM GCIG DU ,BDAG TU NEN PA ZHIG YIN NA If the Buddha's teachings would stay on the planet all the time, ,'DOD RE ZHIG NA MI LUS THOB TSE ,BSTAN PA DANG BRAL BA SRID KYANG then if we got a human body we would just meet the teachings. But, ,SANGS RGYAS KYI BSTAN PA ,'JIG RTEN GYI GAM GCIG DU ,NEN PA'I NGES PA MED CING Buddha's teachings don't tend to stay in one world very long. And they move from country to country.

The teachings will be available in one country for a hundred years.

[Speaker 2]
Then they will die. Or they will move. So the teachings are going like this.

And you are going like this. And you won't meet them.

[Speaker 1]
You think because there's Buddhist teachings in your country right now that they are going to stay there. It's not true. Where did Buddhism begin?

India. There's no Buddhists in India.

[Speaker 2]
They are all dead. They are all gone.

[Speaker 1]
And other countries, it's almost gone. Abhidharmakosha.

[Speaker 2]
Great great great Buddha. great Buddhist book. One of the most important Buddhist books.

[Speaker 1]
I translated it for 12 years. And then I got to the end, I was so depressed. It's a vast encyclopedia of all Buddhism.

[Speaker 2]
But at the last page, it says, by the way, this teaching will die in the world in two steps. First, it will die in the hearts of people. If somebody say, what's gong shing?

Someday, on this world, there will be not one person who understands.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Not one. So first it will die inside people. Then all of those videotapes of the monk talking dirty jokes and things, you know, there will be some in Guadalajara, some in China, some in America.

People, what's this book? You know?

[Speaker 1]
What is this? What are they talking about? I don't know.

Kind of weird, these pictures. You know? Okay?

I spent, our team spent 14 years in a Russia library in the coldest city in the world. Worse than Harbin. If you go to Harbin, you need one stick.

Why? This is the coldest city in China. I went there.

Why you need a stick in Harbin? My friend told me, where are you going on your tour, Geshe-la?

[Speaker 2]
I'm going to Harbin. Yeah, don't forget to take a stick. Why?

It's so cold there, when you pee-pee, it will freeze. Then you have to keep breaking it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
In Russia, you need two sticks.

[Speaker 1]
We spent, I don't know, 14 years there. Then there are a hundred and forty-one thousand Buddhist books, including many books stolen from Dunhuang. Yeah, Dunhuang.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it's a famous city in China. Then for a hundred years, no one opened those books, and they cannot read them. Okay?

Understand? There will come a time, in this world, when nobody understands one Buddhist book. So, first it will die in the heart.

[Speaker 1]
Then what happens in those libraries, when nobody can read the book, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Why are we keeping all this stuff here, you know? The air conditioning costs a lot of money, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Just, let's throw out these books. Nobody can read them. And that will be the end of Buddhism.

[Speaker 2]
Who said that? Abhidharmakosha. But he's just repeating what the Buddha said.

Where did Buddha say that? Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Junkanjin. In Junkanjin. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
He will die.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? So, it's rare to have this teaching in the world.

[Speaker 2]
It's moving from country to country. It dies in one country, it moves to another country. And then it dies in all the countries.

Okay? NGES PA NGES PA MED NGES PA YIN DU BZHIN TU MONG BA YIN Even if it comes to a country, it doesn't stay very long.

[Speaker 1]
DE LTAR RUG PAS DANG GNYER SHING BYAS PA NI Why? Why does Buddhism so fragile?

[Speaker 2]
It comes from seeds. Okay? Then the seeds open.

[Speaker 1]
You know, a bunch of people get together in Guadalajara. They have the book that your dear teacher translated all these things for you. Then you pick up this book.

[Speaker 2]
When your eye touches the first picture of the lady kissing the guy with the tennis shoes on, in that moment the debit card starts to drop. Look, 65 seeds. Add 65 seeds.

This 65 seeds. Picture 65 seeds. It costs like a thousand seeds to look at it once.

So they don't stay very long in the world.

[Speaker 1]
Bad habits stay forever. Corrupt people stay forever.

[Speaker 2]
That doesn't take a lot of seeds. Alright, this is very expensive. This is very expensive.

[Speaker 1]
Buddhist mind, Buddhist body, very expensive. DE LTAR RUB PA'I GNYER ZHING PHRAD PA NI MI SRID BYED MAR MI SDUG TZAM Okay, okay, somebody said, are you saying it's impossible for me to become a human in a Buddhist place? Okay, it's possible.

[Speaker 2]
I have to say it's possible.

[Speaker 1]
DE'ONG SBYOR GYI RTEN DI THOB PA DE LAS KUN ZHING SRID PA MA RGAGS TZAM YIN But it's, the Tibetan means barely at the edge of possibility. It's this close to impossible. DI'I DE'I DANG SBYOR BA'I RGYAL TSOR NI KHOR BA'I NAS So he's going to explain the different parts of the metaphor.

[Speaker 2]
We have twenty more minutes.

[Speaker 1]
The beginning of a ten-day lam rim is very exciting, especially if there's a wedding. Then the last few days are also exciting because you get to go home and eat your own food again. Then in the middle it gets hard.

Your legs are sore. You didn't get enough sleep. You are missing your refrigerator.

So be tough. It's very expensive to get here.

[Speaker 2]
My lama never charged for teaching in his life.

[Speaker 1]
He taught us almost every day and most of the day. Then one day we asked him, Rinpoche, all those other lamas charge like $300 just to get initiation. And you never charge anything.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
He got angry.

[Speaker 1]
He was angry all the time. He said, What the hell do you think I'm going to charge? How much enlightenment costs?

[Speaker 2]
How much do you charge somebody for enlightenment? You tell me. A million dollars to me?

[Speaker 1]
He got really angry. In Peyton it means there's no price. If you put a price on one word of Dharma, it's too low.

Di Peyton Jorwe Gyatso Ni, what is the ocean in this example? Sansara. Sansara.

Not Samsara, okay? It's not like Sam's Club.

[Speaker 2]
It's a French, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Right? Sansara. Sansara.

In Montreal they say correct.

[Speaker 2]
Sansara.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, it's not Samsara, okay? Sansara. Rubel, who's the turtle?

Yeah, me. I am. Longwa Ni, what is the blindness?

[Speaker 2]
What is the blindness?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that turtle never heard the pen. He never came to DCI talk.

[Speaker 2]
He's blind.

[Speaker 1]
What is the ring?

[Speaker 2]
Teachings of Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Nyekawar Samba Je Drub Khampe Sunggyu Yinsung Then who explained it this way? It was a Lama named Drub Khampa. At Diamond Mountain we have a new program.

It's called Carriage Adopter. Then we have 30, about 30 retreat cabins there. And all the people who came to the retreat last time, they agreed to help pay for one cabin.

Then this way we're going to keep the cabins going.

[Speaker 2]
So when you want to do retreat, you can come. There's a cabin ready for you. The name in Tibetan for those cabins is here.

[Speaker 1]
Drub Kham. Say Drub Kham. Drub Kham means Enlightenment House.

The name in Tibetan for retreat cottage is Enlightenment House.

[Speaker 2]
If you go in there and sit down for a week, or two weeks, or three years, right?

[Speaker 1]
Like she did, you get enlightened and you get white hair also. You get enlightenment and your hair turn white also. Or you lose your hair.

I'd rather have white hair. DE MA SOGS CAN BYANG NI RKA' BAR BSAM PA BYED DU KUN DU So this custom came from a lama who lived about 300 years ago. Then we'll continue that tomorrow.

But let's talk about the pictures. And we won't do the meditation tonight, we'll do it tomorrow. Oh, yeah, I'm off for two days.

I'm going to Hawaii to check the turtles. Not really. I'm staying in my room and working all day.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Here's the next picture. It's a guy, he's thinking.

[Speaker 1]
I use this photo because he looks a little bit like Stanley, but not much. He's thinking, am I doing as good as Joe did or not?

[Speaker 2]
So that will be our next meditation.

[Speaker 1]
If I die today, is the letter I sent, have all this good equipment or not? Does the letter I sent to myself in the future have the same equipment that Joe sent me? Maybe in this life.

[Speaker 2]
He's thinking about it. But to me he looks a little bit worried.

[Speaker 1]
Understand? Okay. Show the next picture please.

This is grass growing on top of your laptop. Okay, very, very, almost impossible. Next picture.

[Speaker 2]
What's that? It's the ring floating around the ocean.

[Speaker 1]
So those three meditations we'll do tomorrow.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, last thing. Last thing. I have dates for the next two retreats.

Okay, and again I apologize that this retreat we didn't have enough. I didn't give the Guadalajara team enough time. And I apologize for that.

So here are the dates, and don't complain I didn't give them to you. On March 11th up to March 20th, 90% sure, we will have this retreat at Diamond Mountain.

[Speaker 2]
In Arizona.

[Speaker 1]
March 11th to March 20th. There's like a tiny chance it will change by one week, but I don't think so. Okay, then Guadalajara, July 8th to July 17th.

July 8th to July 17th. There's a small problem with that date. One mom will give birth about that time.

But we'll just have to deal with it.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe like Jesus can be born in the in the retreat center.

[Speaker 1]
We'll see what we do. But, you know, maybe maybe you have to, one of your team have to translate if you have to run to the hospital. Okay, and I think that's good.

I liked what the Chinese team is doing. They encourage different translators every day or three days or something like that. And that way we can have more translators.

Okay. I think we'll stop there tonight. Okay, I'll see you.

I will take two days rest. Actually I have meetings for two days. And then I'll see you again on Thursday morning.

And then there'll be teachings by other teachers. If you think they are not as important as Geshe-la's classes, you are making a big mistake. Okay, those are very, very good teachers.

And they spent many years like three year retreat, 28 years saving these books. Those are heavy pang mao, pang mao teacher. Heavy teacher.

Okay, so come to those teachings.

[Speaker 2]
And enjoy. And when you watch those teachers, I want you to think next time it will be you. We need more teachers.

[Speaker 1]
Not five or ten teachers.

[Speaker 2]
We need 10,000 teachers. Okay, so when you see them, in your mind, think, I will try to teach sometime here.

[Speaker 1]
I hope you all will become a teacher.

[Speaker 2]
It's my hope and my plan.

[Speaker 1]
Otherwise we cannot help enough people. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Agree? Agree.

[Speaker 1]
Does that mean agree? Okay, all right.