«Дар освобождения», курс 22 «Ретрит безграничной удачи», занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
So the meditations we're learning are all in this book. If you didn't get a book, could you raise your hand? These include two kinds of meditations.

There are, I think, nineteen meditations on death. And we'll be learning those. Then there's a part about the nine traditional meditations on death, after the pictures.

Those are covered in the pictures. And then last, you'll see some Kamalashila's meditations. Is Gina here?

Where is Gina? Yeah, Gina did all the work. Thank you very much.

And those Kamalashila's meditations we'll be doing in the afternoon. Today and tomorrow. Why did I use photographs?

You can remember the meditation if you just remember the photograph. So I encourage you to study the photographs. Then you can remember them when you're in the middle of your meditation.

You can just bring up the photograph in your mind. So what's the first photograph? Yeah, somebody doing yoga.

Two ladies doing yoga. And they are very strong. Very healthy.

And sometimes strong, healthy yoga people get in a car accident and die in five minutes. Then they're in another world. In five minutes they're in another world.

So we have to get ready. He's going to talk about it in the book. It means don't get depressed.

Don't get sad. It should make you happy. You don't have to do yoga anymore.

No, just kidding. It means if you think about your death, you won't waste your time. And you will enjoy your life.

I don't have to tell you you're going to die. You know that. But your whole life you are you are pushing it away.

And in Tsongkapa's tradition, we embrace our death. We don't say, no, no, I'm not going to die. I'm not going to die.

We say, yeah, I'm going to die. Maybe I'll die during Orit's yoga class. I came close many times.

Okay, and you it's better if you admit it's possible.

[Speaker 2]
You go.

[Speaker 1]
Then you can really enjoy your life. And you don't waste your time. Okay, so the purpose of death meditation is not some strange, dark thing.

If you do a good death meditation, you get very happy. Because you are using your life best way. It takes a lot of effort to push away death all the time, to pretend you're not going to die.

It's better to be honest. I can, even with my vitamins and my yoga and my green drink, maybe I can die in five minutes. My doctor makes me take like 50 kinds of vitamins.

Why? Two reasons. She wants me to be healthy.

And she also sells the vitamins. Then when I see that bottle of vitamin on my table, it's 30 tablets for one month, right? 30 pills for one month.

Then how many will I eat? How many will I finish before I die? Maybe I'll leave 20 in the bottle when I go.

So, everything around you is telling you about your death. Just the vitamins sitting on the table. How many can I finish before I die?

Who will Jigme give the rest of the bottle to? Oh, here's Geshe Michael's extra vitamins you can have. Okay, so when you see the things in your house, think about it.

And it's not sad. It helps you to live your life deeply and happily. And to keep pretending you're not going to die is foolish.

And it takes a lot of work. So, this class for one week, ten days, we learn to embrace death. Why?

Because we want to beat death. We learn to embrace it. And then kaladandha.

What's kaladandha? Kaladandha is a Sanskrit word. Kala means death.

Like, it means time. Like kala chakra is the wheel of time. So, kala means the time in your life and your death.

Dandha means a stick. So, we're going to beat up death. You're going to kill death.

What's the other way in Sanskrit to say put an end to death? I'll give you a clue. Death is yama, right?

Yama. Yeah. Yamantaka.

Yama antaka. Yama means death. Anta means end.

Antaka means ender, me, ender. So, the purpose of this class get familiar with death. Let it come close.

And then kill it. You don't have to die. One of the purposes of this class is to learn how not to die.

But to learn that, you have to learn to die. So, this week we'll think about death. Talk about it.

Get him close. And then kill him. Kala dandha.

Yamantaka. Adam, you going to help me? You got to help me.

Quick, quick, quick, quick. So, we're going to start the book. I always put the book up on the screen, the projector.

And you can see the Tibetan. You don't have to worry about it. If you're not interested in Tibetan, I don't care.

There's 100,000 books in Tibetan about how to kill death. Okay, in English there's 100,000 stupid novels.

[Speaker 2]
More.

[Speaker 1]
But I think you should learn Tibetan. Then, even if you don't want to, I'm going to talk about the Tibetan every day. And I will put a seed in your mind.

And by accident you will learn Tibetan. Okay? So, just open your mind.

Relax and open your mind. This book is about a thousand pages long. My teacher taught it to me for almost 30 years.

He went through it three times. It's called Enlightenment from A to Z. Everything you need to know.

Like Dummy's Guide to Enlightenment. And if you just sit here in this class, come to as many retreats as you can, you'll get enlightened. You'll become a Buddha.

It's fun to be a Buddha. Like if you help one old lady, you feel happy. If you're a Buddha, you can help one billion old ladies at the same time.

And you feel happy. So, this book tells you how. And this is written by the teacher of my teacher.

And I promised to finish this book We're about ... We finished about ... almost 400 pages.

So, we still have 600 pages. We did 22 retreats to reach here. So, that's about 30 more retreats.

But I'll promise to finish if you finish. I don't care if one person comes, I will still do it. If nobody comes, I will still do it.

But if you want to kill death, you have to come. If you don't have money, just talk to us. We'll work it out.

It's not for money. It's to kill death. It's free.

The room costs something, but we can talk about it. All right? Aldo has an extra tent.

Thank you. I'd like to thank Aldo for translating. Who's translating the Chinese?

Xiaoping? And Stanley? Can you guys please stand up?

Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

So, you ready Adam? Okay. We're going to start there.

DEN NA So, don't worry if you can't follow the Tibetan, don't worry about it. Just open your mind and receive it. And I'm going to talk in Tibetan because I want to put a seed in your mind.

Okay. DEN NA BYAS CHOS RGYEN GYI CHOS RGYEN He's going to make a quotation by a Lama named CHOS RGYEN. CHOS RGYEN It's an abbreviation for what, Adam?

Anybody know Nick? CHOS RGYEN It's an abbreviation. It's like calling Nick, Nick Law.

[Speaker 2]
CHOS RGYEN Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
LOB SANGS GCOD KYI RGYAL TSE Good. First Panchen Lama. He lived about 400 years ago.

He said, BYAS PA KYANGS PA'I LUS KYIS DGOS DU LUS You spend your whole life taking care of your body with great love. Geshe Michael has to go teach this morning. And he got a pimple.

Then he's like, Oh, I have to teach this morning. You know, like that. We take care of it for many years, right?

But when the time comes to die, I give this body green drink every morning. Andriana makes it for me. Andriana makes it.

And then Jigme gives me secret coffee. We don't tell Andriana much. Then I comb.

Try to find some hair here. And then make sure everything's nice. Do yoga.

Maybe people notice. And then you take care of your body. You spend a lot of time on your body.

But on the day that you die, LUS PA means LUS means it will cheat you. You took care of him your whole life. Then he's like, bye bye.

Wait, I took care of you my whole life. Yeah, I'm going now. I found another guy or girl.

Wait, I need you. No, no, I'm going. So you can't trust it.

It's like a bad husband. You can't trust it. He will leave you.

All the time you spend, he will leave you. GSUM PA LTAR THA NA BYAS PAR KHYAMS PA'I LUS DI YANG BRAL DGOS TSUL SOGS BSAM So we have to think about it. By the way, that's the last of the nineteen meditations on death.

You can check number nineteen. What's that guy doing? He found a pimple.

And he's checking his hair also. He's doing both. Okay, so that's the last death meditation we're going to do.

Maybe in three or four days we'll reach this one. So these are all the meditations which I taught you last retreat. So I'm mixing last retreat and this retreat.

So you can remember all of the meditations on death. DE LTAR RGYUD ZAN GSUM BSAM PA'I JUG DU So you have to think about the three reasons. Three reasons for what?

It's the third principle of death. There are three principles of death, and each one has three reasons. So these we call the nine traditional death meditations.

The third one is when you die nothing can help you except these classes and your meditation and the good karma you help other people. Nothing else can help you. Why?

There are three reasons. Number one, all the things you worked your whole life to get things they can't help you when you die. Nothing.

Car, house, family, job, name, yoga, nothing helps you except Dharma. What is in your heart when you die it will help you. The rest won't help you.

It doesn't mean you have to sell your car today. You need your car. Can I have a nice car Geshe-la?

Yeah, why not? You're going to die. Have a nice car.

It's not wrong to have nice things. It's okay. But you should get your Dharma ready also.

Good car, good house, good family, good Dharma. Have both, everything.

[Speaker 2]
That's okay.

[Speaker 1]
That's okay. If you don't have a car, you don't have a house, it's difficult to do Dharma. Okay, so have both.

It's okay. BSAM LAS GCIG GZHON MED DEB Now this sentence is very important, Adam. DE LTAR GYI SEMS Oh, sorry, the second reason.

So, first reason, money cannot help you at that moment. Number two, your friends, your family cannot help you. They can hold your hand.

Oh, Geshe-la, please don't die. We love you. You will get cold, and then they'll like, oh, my ears.

Okay? So, family, friends, we love them. You should have nice family and friends.

Even the Mexico baby epidemic is okay. All my friends having babies. That's okay.

We need them. That's fine. But get your Dharma ready because even those children cannot help you.

And you go by yourself. You go alone. Nobody can help you.

All right? That's why we think about Lama every meditation. We think of Lama in the heart.

Because when you die, Lama can talk to you. Lama can guide you where to go. Okay, third one.

Even your body cannot help you. And the body will cheat you like a bad husband. It will go away.

Okay. Now, very, very important sentence. BSAM PA'I GZUGS DU means after you meditate about those three things, money can't help me.

Friends cannot help me. My own body cannot help me. After you meditate on those things, GCIG GZHU MED DES PAS MI PHAN It doesn't help to get depressed.

That's very important. When you teach this to your own students, don't let them go, oh, I'll kill myself now. The goal is not to be depressed.

Oh, I'm going to die anyway. I don't have to clean my house. I don't have to take a shower.

I'm going to die anyway. Okay, not like that. Don't get all sad.

And this sentence is very important. It doesn't help you to get sad. You have to take care of it.

Last night John Brady, where is he? He spilled all my soda on me last night. And we're like, okay, don't get depressed about it.

Clean it up. Take care of it. We're going to die.

Now take care of it. Get everything ready. You're going to go on a long trip.

In DCI we have a rule. And none of us follows the rule. 48 hours before DCI tour, your suitcase is packed.

Then you don't go crazy in last minute. Your death suitcase has to be packed. Pack the death suitcase here.

Then when, last minute, you're not like, ah, ah, ah. Get it ready now. Then you can relax.

Okay, so, and if your suitcase is ready, you can live. You can enjoy your life. The night before DCI tour, you can go out and have a nice dinner.

Because your suitcase is packed. Now you can enjoy. Okay, gung tang tenpay drun me This is a famous lama.

Gung tang pa. Gung tang is like Guadalajara. Mr. Gung tang means like Mr. Guadalajara, or Mr. Moskva, or something. He lived 1762 to 1823. lam gyu me kyi ken chu yin shing If you don't know where you're going after you die, the Dharma will help you. Your lama will help you.

After you die, they have power to help you. They can show you, oh, turn left, turn right. No, don't go there.

lam shul ring gi lam gyak che yin la lam gyak means lam gyak means supplies, like food for the trip. Provisiones para el camino. Protein bars.

DCI rule number six. Always take 20 protein bars. Because you never know what kind of food you're going to get in Kazakhstan or something.

So, protein bars means the Dharma. Get your Dharma ready. lam druk kye depen chu yinpe When things get hard on the trip, Dharma will help you.

Like a policeman. If something bad happens during your trip, Dharma will help you. So, come to as many Dharma things as you can.

Don't make excuses not to come to the Dharma. Make excuses to not do your other things. Okay, I'm sorry.

I can't go with you to the movie. I have to, you know, do my death meditation. You can also do death meditation in the movie, like Star Wars.

Everybody's killing everybody. That's okay. Okay, je mi le.

Yeah, Milarepa. Good. Milarepa.

Very famous. The most famous meditator in Tibet. He lived about 800 years ago.

Then he used to write very beautiful poetry. angge nyama pel dar bum sendang chu mo derpa chen seng di we chi ma shul tak rin gyak che drab su tsulak sam gyak che drab su ma chu na jenpa yinpe tang yang tsel He used to write a lot of poetry. He's good for us because he started his retreats at what age?

He was 50. So, don't tell me you're too old. Okay, he's most famous retreater in Tibet didn't start retreat until 50.

And this is in a country, in a time when the average age is 40. Okay, angge nyama pel dar bum So, he had a female student which is in ancient Tibet called nyama. Female student.

Her name is pel dar bum. pel dar bum And they were very close. They are very close to each other.

And a lot of his poetry is to her. seng dang, listen to me. chuk mo depa chen You are rich, but you have Dharma also.

seng di we chi ma shul tak rin This life's road is long, but the road after that is longer. gyak che drab su tsulak sam Is your suitcase packed? gyak che drab su ma tsul na If it's not packed, jinpa yinpe dang yang tsel then you should share what you have with other people.

Okay, so he's telling us how to pack our suitcase. If you have money, you have a house. I really like the German group when the refugees came from Syria.

They took some. The one is living with Sylvia, right? In her house.

So Sylvia's bag is packed. It's not easy to bring someone into your house. Feed them, take care of them.

But if you want to pack your ... this is how to pack your suitcase. Share what you have with other people.

Okay, we always have enough to share. Then he has another, he says, angge nyama pel dar bum Oh, my beloved disciple, pel dar bum. Tsen diway chi ma jikpa che This life is a scary thing.

When I look at Kiri, Kari, little Anatole Aisha, when I look at that baby, I'm like, oh man, you're going to see a lot of stuff in your life. Life is a lot of things in this life. A lot of scary things in life.

chi ma jikpa che But you ain't seen nothing yet. After you die, it's much more scary. You know, you think there's terrorists in this life.

Wait till after you die. You're going to see, then you're going to see a real terrorist. This is not, this world, nothing compared to the next world.

kyal ma drab su tsu lak sam Is your suitcase ready? kyal ma drab su ma tsu na If you don't get your suitcase ready, hlak che yinpe che kyang tsel then do some Dharma. shesungpa tar rang chiway du su lam drub pa'i sak hen dang The person who's going to guide us after we die comes from Dharma.

depen lam gyak kyang chu yin The person who's going to help us when we're in trouble is putting a refugee in your house. lam gyak kyang chu yin What you're going to eat on that trip comes from sharing with other people. chu je gyu ma chungwa sangpar kyi kyi gen gyalwa shiwa dang kyi me du chi na chi rak sam te chu je gyu ma chungwa If you think you don't have time to do Dharma in this life, if you think you don't have time to do Dharma in this life, sangpar sangpar means so you have a house and there's a fence around the house.

Like in Guadalajara we have these big walls, right? sangpar means between the house and the wall. Like where's the grass, right?

kyi gen means dirty old dog. Not like Sindora, okay? Like old dog.

Her cat is very beautiful. Kyi gen means this gen is the one you use to talk to a teacher, right? Oh, gen, gen.

It means elder monk. But kyi gen is a big insult. It means dirty old mutt.

Mutt, like old dog. Gyalwa means kyi gen gyalwa is a very famous word. You should learn it.

Kyi gen gyalwa. When people learn a foreign language, they always learn the bad words faster than the good words. My lama's nephew stayed with us.

My lama said, teach him English. I tried for like two years. Then finally I went to my lama.

This is Geshe Lotar. Then I went to lama, I said, it's impossible, he can't learn English. Then he said, if he can't learn English, he has to get a job.

So, he got a job in a hamburger restaurant. Just cleaning the dishes and things like that. Then one day he came home.

He was cooking dinner. And he burned his hand. And he goes, ah!

I said, Geshe Lot, don't say that. It's a bad word. It's not a bad word.

Geshe Lot, do you know what it means? I know what it means. What's it mean?

It means, I burned my hand. I said, who told you that? He said, nobody taught me.

When the cook burns his hand, he always says, oh, he's a bad cook. When the cook burns his hand, he always says it. Anyway.

So in Tibet, if you want to say a bad word to somebody, you can say GYI RGYEN RGYAL. GYI means dog. RGYEN means old.

RGYAL means the old dog has these hair here. Like that, his long hair. GYI RGYEN RGYAL But in Tibet, it's an example for somebody who doesn't know anything.

Like, just an old dog doesn't know any philosophy or anything. GYI RGYEN RGYAL ZHI BA DANG SKYE MED DU CI NA Are you going to die like an old dog? Old dog doesn't get ready.

They didn't learn how to pack their suitcase. So, are you going to be the same? Are you going to die like one of those dogs on the road gets hit by a car?

Is your death going to be the same as a dog? Or are you going to die with KON STYLO? With style.

You know, die with style. Don't just die like an old dog. Okay, we'll do one more sentence, then we'll do some more meditation.

Scott, what time are we supposed to ... Yeah, I made the morning teaching very long. Because people are fresh.

And I made the afternoon teaching very short. Because people always fall asleep. Some people learn better when they're asleep, you know that?

Okay, GDUG PA PA YOD DU GRO GANG TSUD GYUR GYUR CHAGS BZHON MI BYED PAR I don't know about your room, but in my room half the things are broken. Two of the ... all of the lights in the bedroom don't work.

The water just comes out of the sink. It just keeps going. Anyway, it's nice.

I have lots of water. And last night, during emergency time, the toilet's not working. And then to tell you the truth, I don't care.

I'm not going to fix it. Why? It's not mine.

I don't live here. I'm leaving after 10 days. You know, I'm not going to go to Walmart and buy all those things and fix everything.

That's what he said here. Guests don't fix the stuff in the house. What's it mean?

We're not here very ... don't spend your life fixing stuff. You're not going to see it.

You're going to die. You're going somewhere. So, when your husband says, I don't want to fix this stuff in the house, he's correct.

Okay? We're not going to be here very long. Why fix it for the kids?

Let them fix it. Okay? People who are going on a trip, they don't fix the toilet.

They don't fix the lights. They just get their suitcase ready. My suitcase is ready.

Okay? Everything's there. For the next place we're going.

What's the next place we're going? What's the next place? I don't know.

Oh, Vietnam and Indonesia. Like, I'm ready for Singapore. Like, I'm ready for Singapore.

I've got all my suitcase ready, but I don't care about the lights here and the toilet. I let the next guy fix it. SAGS SU GSOD THAB BYED PA BZHIN SEMS DI CI BA'I MA GOS PAS CHOS KHO NA BYED PA THAG BCAD DGOS SO So, you should just make a decision.

I'm not going to get all tied up with stuff that is going to be gone in a few years. It doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the toilet in your house. It means take care of your suitcase first, and then take care of the toilet.

Then you can relax. Yesterday we were leaving Susanna's house. Like, when I woke up, I got the suitcase ready.

Then I had a great yoga class, and we had a great meditation, and we had an unbelievable breakfast. But if my bag's not packed, I have to worry about the bag, you know. If the bag is packed, I can enjoy the breakfast.

If your dharma is ready, you're ready to die. Then you can really enjoy your life without guilt. You're just ready.

Somebody's doctor says you have cancer. You're like, okay, I'm ready. That's cool.

Get your suitcase ready. Then you can enjoy your life. Where are you going to go after you die?

I took care of that. I was meditating a lot, and I took care of it. I know where I'm going.

I know who I will be. So, I have an idea about homework. And Jigme's going to help, and Stanley.

What I'd like to do is, every day I'll give you a homework question. And I'd like you to answer by WeChat, on your phone, okay? This comes from China, mainly.

So, I'd like you to ... the assignment for today, is they're going to start a ... we have to start a WeChat group, right?

So, Stanley can help you with that. And then, we all have to get the application. And it'll be like Chapala Retreat WeChat group.

And then I want you to send a text. Describe something in your house, which reminds you that you are going to die. Okay?

I'll give you an example. When my father got cancer, he got really bad lung cancer. Then he couldn't eat food.

So, I have to make fresh orange juice for him. For like a couple of weeks, he lived on fresh orange juice. So, when someone makes fresh orange juice for me, I'm like ...

I really like it. I really like fresh orange juice. But I always think about my father.

And it reminds me of my own death. And stuff like that, okay? Like, send a WeChat about something that in your house which can remind you of death.

In a good way, not depression, right? Like now when I take vitamins, I'm going to think about Jigme giving away the rest of them. Like that.

So, I want you ... And then you're going to send a WeChat to the WeChat group. And say, this is the thing in my house.

And explain a little bit. It can be Spanish, Chinese, English, Russian, I don't care. Then I want to ...

The best ones, I mean the cool ones, we'll put on Facebook, okay? Where's Tim? We can put it on our Facebook, right?

Something? And the best of the best, I'll put on my Facebook. Okay?

Any language. Your own language is fine. So, Nicole and Stanley, I hope you can get that set up by afternoon class maybe.

And then Stanley will ... or Nicole, Nicole teaches what to do. Okay, and then every day it will be a different one.

Okay? That's your homework. This is modern homework.

Took me a long time to figure it out. Also, in the evening class and the afternoon class, I'd like to have some music. Or you can read a poem.

Or you can read something that you like. And share it with all of us before the class. So, if you have any music you want to do, or poetry, the Chinese guys sang last time together, like ten people, right?

And then, you guys, anything you want to do, okay? Talk to Nick. Don't wait till Friday.

Because everybody waits till Friday. And we don't have time for everyone after that. Okay, so just talk to Nick.

He's there. You want to stand up? Okay, good.

Okay, let's do a little more of the text. And Nicole has to figure out a way to keep track of who did their homework and who didn't. If you do your WeChat homework, you'll get a certificate at the end of the course.

And then you can share the course with other people. If you don't do your homework, you don't get a certificate. Okay?

Alright, so Nicole's going to figure out how to keep track. Okay, Adam, we're at day on, I think, right? Oh, I'm sorry, you're right.

Yeah, you're right. Okay, NYID PA CI BA'I RNAM PA BSGOM PA NI So, we finished the nine traditional death meditations in the book, but we'll be meditating on them all week, so don't worry about it. If you don't know what the nine are, we're going to do it every day.

Then the next part in this book CI BA'I RNAM PA BSGOM PA means practice what it feels like to die. BDAG GIS BLA MA RIN PO CHE MED NAG GIS It means this is not part of the traditional ancient books. This is from Pabongka Rinpoche's teacher.

DI MTSO NYONGS SPRIS KYONG TSUL YIN PAS KYONG SKABS KYANG DE LTAR BSAM LA LEGS PA GSUNGS So really, there are different ways to teach Lam Rim. And one of them is to try to get the real feeling of that subject. Like, what does it feel like to die?

It's easier to pack your suitcase if you know what to expect. What's the temperature over there? Are there any mosquitoes?

You have to ask these questions. Should I pack a sweater? Will I need an umbrella?

So, we have to talk about it. Okay. DI KYANG SKYAB BYED THUG BYED MA DANG So there are some traditional Tibetan teachings and prayers for how to get ready to die, and what you should pack.

One is called SKYAB BYED THUG BYED MA means NGAN SONG KUN DRO The name of the book is You Are My Compassionate Protector. NGAN SONG KUN DRO means you will save me from going to a bad place after I die. And we're going to have two special classes this week.

What day are they? Do you remember? It's on the schedule.

Path of Preparation. You can tell us that. And I'm going to teach you there's a special guarantee you can get that if you die suddenly, or slowly, you don't have to go to a bad place.

So, we're going to have two classes about that. Which days? Monday is the first one.

Monday and Saturday. We'll have a special class about that. Okay, there's also another book by CHOS RGYEN Yeah, CHOS GYI RGYAL TZAM Who said that?

Wow, that synapse was like blech! Okay. And he wrote a book called PHA RDO THANG BRAL PHA RDO THANG BRAL PHA RDO means the place between dying and rebirth.

[Speaker 2]
The spirit world.

[Speaker 1]
The place between death and rebirth. People say BAR DO, right? It's pronounced as BAR DO Between dying and rebirth.

THANG means Okay, I live on a MESA I live on a mountain. And then there's a cliff. And way down below there's a small river.

You can swim in the river. You just have to get flat. Very flat.

And your stomach is scraping on the rocks. Sometimes I like to go down there. I can take off all my clothes and jump in the ...

You can't jump in the water. You roll into the water. But there's no path down the cliff.

But I found the deer path where the deer go. And it's like this wide. And you have to be really careful.

It's like this. And if you fall, you fall. I have a friend.

He climbed Mount Everest. He said the last ... Maybe Adam knows, but it has a special name.

The last ten meters. What's it called? Hillary Stack?

Step. It's about this wide. And it's ice.

And you can't use ropes. It won't help you. You just have to balance like that.

The last ten meters up to Mount Everest. If you fall this way, you fall 2,000 meters. If you fall this way, you fall 3,000 meters.

Nobody can help you. You just have to go by yourself, and the last ten meters is like that. That's a chung.

That's the chung, meaning in Tibetan. Chung. So when you die, you're on this ...

In the spirit world, you're on a narrow, dangerous path. And that's called chung. So bardo chung means a narrow, dangerous path between death and rebirth.

Because if your suitcase is not completely prepared, you will fall. So it's a very dangerous time. It's a very dangerous few days.

You have to be very careful. drol means like droma. It means free.

So the name of the book, bardo chung dro means you are free from the dangerous path between death and rebirth. And that book teaches you how to be safe at that time. Then there's another book by the same name.

And people translate that as Tibetan Book of the Dead, or something. And that book is mistaken. And it's translated many years ago into English.

It's called Tibetan Book of the Dead. So that's mistaken. Forget it.

Don't waste your time. I had my classmate in the monastery. He studied that book and he went crazy.

And they put him in mental hospital. So forget that. This is a better one.

What you hear this week, it's correct. So that book was written by First Panchen Lama. So we're going to learn that together.

GSOS DANG LAS GSUNGS PA RNAMS KYANG BRTAN PAR BYED NAS So you should learn that book and you should remember it. BDAG NI PHYI NA PHYI LA DE'I TSE JI LTAR BYAS PA DUS LTAGS PA NA PHYI BA LA GNAS BA'I TSE BAR DO GSUNGS BDEBS LAS So he gives ... We have to think to ourselves, okay, I'm going to die.

Sooner or later I'm going to die. And then you have to think about what's going to happen to me. And then he says, here's some advice from the book by the First Panchen Lama.

MED MED PAR ZHING RIM GRUB RTOGS DU MED The doctor tells your family, that's all I can do. My father, the doctor said, take him home. Let him die at home.

We're like, when are you coming? The doctor said, I don't have to come. Now it's out of my hands.

MED MED PAR ZHING RIM GRUB RTOGS DU MED RTOGS DU MED means, you can call all the lamas, or you can call all the priests, but it's too late. There's nothing to do. NYEN RNAMS GZUN DU RE BA'I RE THAG BCAD Then all of your family, they also decide, okay, that's it, he's going to die.

My father, they did a very expensive operation. They broke all his bones in the back, and they opened them up like this, and cut some lung cancer out. Then they're like, nah, just put it back together.

RE THAG BCAD means, it's too late. RANG NYID CI JAG LTUL MED GYUR PA'I TSE And then you yourself, your family gives up hope, and you yourself are like, what's going to happen to me now? SNGA MA'I DANG NGAR BRTAN PAR JIN GYI LOG May I remember the words of my teacher.

That's the only thing that will help you at that time. Anything you heard in this class will help you. So JIN GYI LOG means, this is a prayer you can do before when the time comes.

I hope I remember something my Lama said, and I don't remember some argument I had with him. I hope I remember something my Lama said, and not an argument I had with my girlfriend. ZHES PA LTAR MEN BYAS RIM BLO JI LTAR BYED KYANG NAS BYAS THOR BSRUNG So they'll reach a point where your sickness just gets worse and worse, and everybody gives up.

MEN PAS KYANG And the doctor, DANG NYID ROL You guys want to take a shot? DANG NYID ROL DANG NYID ROL Huh? DANG means to discuss, right?

NYID is a number. Number two. ROL means he starts doing it.

The doctor starts talking two different things. What are they? Yeah, to the patient you say, oh don't worry, it looks like you're going to get better.

Then they tell your family, get ready, he's going to die in like three days. So the doctor splits. Their talk splits.

NYEMS SHES RNAMS KYIS KYANG NGOS SU SKAD BYA NYANG PO RE ZHES Then your family and your friends, they come to your bedside. Oh, you're looking much better, you know. You got some ...

complexion is looking better, you know. KOG TU You know the word KOG because you know KOG RGYUR Hidden, right? Like not evident.

here's a good real example of the word used in real life. So Adam can start adding that to the dictionary. We're doing a video dictionary.

So let's start. So sometimes I will stop and I will explain a word, okay? It's for a video dictionary.

So KOG TU means in private or they do it in the next room where you can't hear them. Your family. And KOG can also mean the inside of the body or the inside of the chest.

So it means where you can't see it. So KOG TU means where you ... So KOG with the aspiration means inside of the chest.

But KOG means in another room or where you can't hear them. So in the study of perception in Buddhism and logic, KOG RGYUR means things you cannot see. Like like if, I don't know, if something happens to you, you can figure out where ...

your boyfriend splits up with you. If you're Buddhist, if you studied, you know why. It's because you didn't keep your promises.

Then you cannot see what happened, but you understand from your logic. I must have broken my promises. So that's called KOG RGYUR.

It's not something you can see. It's not something you can hear. But it's something you can figure out with your logic.

Okay, end dictionary entry. So KOG RGYUR means in the other room, in the other room where you can't hear them, DU SOGS BDAG They start wrapping up your life and your stuff. And if you want to know a nice ...

let's start another dictionary entry, I'm sorry. DU SOGS RGYAGS means to tidy up your room. So here it's BA'O SA DE DAG SA DE DE DAG ZHAG GI SDUG GANG SA NA RO SOGS PA SOGS DU SOGS RGYAGS means if they say DU SOGS RGYAGS, if your lama says, DU SOGS RGYAGS your room, it means clean up your room.

What's it mean here? KOG TU They start wrapping up your stuff. They start wrapping up your life.

Who are we going to give this table to? Where's their bank accounts? Do you have their bank account?

Anybody have their number? Who's going to get the car? This is where the family starts fighting.

Very, very common for the family to start fighting. DU SOGS RGYAGS KYI ZHI RGYUR THAG SPYOD They already decided you're going to die. Sometimes the person doesn't cooperate and they don't die for two years.

Okay. RANG LUG GI THUD DUS Then slowly when you die the warmth of your body, your fingers get cold, the tips get cold first, and the toes get cold first, and then slowly the cold comes like this, and you can feel it. The cold starts here and it starts moving like this.

And then you know you're dying. And then, UG ZHIG UG means breath, right? Breath meditation is called UG ZHUNG UG UG ZHIG means you start to have trouble breathing.

UG ZHIG means you start to have trouble breathing. You can put that in your dictionary also Adam because this is the correct spelling of a colloquial expression which is UG ZHAG GI DU UG ZHAG GI DU Like if Geshe Lothar didn't do enough exercise and he's always like we say UG ZHAG GI DU UG ZHAG GI DU So it sounds like in Tibetan it sounds like the word for eating but it's not. This is the correct spelling.

UG ZHIG Okay, UG ZHIG You start to go longer exhale, okay? Just like yoga. NA ZHONG NA ZHONG means your the holes here start to shrink.

NA ZHONG significa que los poros de la nariz empiezan a encoger. Then GCOD MDZAD means your lips start to curl like this. Tus labios empiezan a torcer así.

DANG ZHOR BA DANG means the healthy complexion, like a little bit pink, you start to lose it. CI RNAM GYI RNAM GYUR MI SDUG PA Many ugly things start to happen outside and inside. SNGAR BYED KYI SDIG PA LA NI RGYUR And you start, you remember all the things you did to hurt other people.

And you start to regret all the bad things you did for other people. So, if we're all going to die, then the people who hurt you the most in your life, you know, you were married for 10 years or 20 years, and this guy did something terrible to you. Let it go.

Let it go now. Let it go now. Don't hold any of it.

Don't hold 10% of it. It's not for the bad guy, it's for you. Just forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive.

You don't want to die with this kind of hatred or this kind of anger. So, someone hurt you, someone stole something from you, someone ran away with another woman, and immediately forgive. Let go.

It doesn't mean he didn't do something wrong. It doesn't mean that. They did a very bad thing, and it's true they hurt you.

And it's true it was very bad karma. But karma will take care of it. You don't have to worry.

From your side, let it go now. Because when you are lying and you are dying, it will hurt you. So right now, give it up.

I hope you live a happy life. I hope you like your new girlfriend. I hope you have many good times.

I forgive you. 100%. Just let it go.

Because when you are dying, you will remember, all those things will come to you that you didn't let go. And they will make a dangerous path in the bardo. They will make it very dangerous in the bardo.

And just let it go. And then you can die with, you know, peaceful. And we don't know when we're going to die.

So let it go now. All of us have some tragic story about somebody did something to us. Amen.

If you take it to your deathbed, it will make very dangerous in the bardo. So just let it go. Not because you are compassionate.

But I don't want to die bad. I don't want to have a bad death. I hate you.

You did a very stupid bad thing. And I forgive. I don't want to carry that to the bardo.

So let it go. It doesn't mean they're not a bad person. They are a bad person.

But let it, just let it go. Like, okay, you're gone. I'm free.

If I die today, I'm free. If you're still thinking about that guy when you die, probably you have to go through it again. And you're like, no, no, I don't want that.

Okay, let it go. All right, we'll stop there. Adam, we're at Shaktom.