«Дар освобождения», курс 25 «Совершенное прибежище», занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
All right, DE DAG MI SHES PA'I NI NGOR SANGS RGYAS MI KHYAB PA'I YONDAN DANG LDAN PAR SHES PA'I SANGS RGYAS DE GANG LA'I CHUNG NA So, you can explain to the person about all the cool things of the Buddha, okay? SGOGS LAM SOGS RTOGS PA DANG LUNG GI CHOS LA BRTEN NAS BYUNG ZHING BYUNG BA'I NA But really, you have to split Dharma into two kinds. Somebody tell me what they are.

Yeah, the books and the ideas, okay? The books and the ideas. You know, is this book Dharma?

Yeah, it's Dharma, okay? And it can protect you, it's okay. But the idea, the understanding, the two husbands, that's real protection, okay?

Whether you use it or not, I don't know, but it can protect you if you use it, okay? But you have to use it, okay? So, here it says RTOGS PA DANG LUNG GI CHOS.

You have to use both really, right? This expression RTOGS PA and LUNG is so popular in Buddhism, that some monk's name is LUNG RTOGS, you know, okay? BRTEN NAS BYUNG ZHING BYUNG BA'I NA CHOS LA DE DAG SKYES PA'I YIN TAN GNYAMS DU BSAM So, that brings us to this meditation number four.

[Speaker 2]
Can you show the photo? Yeah. When you get to ...

when you're in your three-day retreat, you'll be doing a meditation on this picture, okay? And it's supposed to show both kinds of Dharma jewel, okay?

[Speaker 1]
This is both kinds of Dharma jewel. What's the first one? The book.

What's the second one? It's the idea behind that smile, okay? There's an idea like six inches behind that smile, in here, okay?

And that's the real Dharma jewel, okay? So, this picture is supposed to show the two kinds of Dharma jewel, okay? And when you do that meditation, you can think about the two kinds of Dharma jewel, okay?

Like all ... how many Dharma jewels do I have in my life? I have Lam Rim, I have Kamalashila, I have Disayi level one, level two, level three, okay?

You can count the physical Dharma jewels you have, okay? And then you have to count the mental ones you have. Mainly three.

Lam ... so ... nam ...

sum ... three principle ... path.

The word path in Buddhism means idea, it doesn't mean road, okay? Three principle ... what are three principle paths?

First one? Yeah, just see ... life is trouble, life is trouble, okay?

If you don't do anything, you will get old and suffer, okay? It's life, okay? Life is a problem, you should feel sad about it, okay?

If you think things are going well, just wait a while, okay? Wait till you have to go to doctors every day, you know? Like, the body falls apart, okay?

I was reading a Princeton magazine about ... they're trying to cure old age, but what they figured out was they can't cure old age by curing separate diseases, like you can't cure diabetes and then cure cancer and then cure heart attack. It doesn't matter, because what they found out is ...

a person who gets ... a person who dies from diabetes is gonna die in three months from heart attack anyway. You see, if you cure the diabetes they will die from heart attack in a few months.

If you cure their heart attack they will die from cancer a few months after that, because the body all falls apart at the same time. That's why they got diabetes, you see what I mean? You have to change the cells or you have to change the karma, okay?

But, the first principle path is just be aware how messed up things are, okay? Just be aware. It's not ...

things are not going well in this realm, okay? People are killing each other, people who are getting old and are gonna die anyway are killing other people who are gonna get old and die anyway. Why spend the time, you know?

Do something else for a while, because you're both gonna die anyway, okay? Why bother to kill somebody, okay? That's the world, it's messed up, okay?

The world's messed up right now, okay? This realm, there's other realms that are not messed up, we're just in a bad neighborhood, okay? Alright, second principle path?

Yeah, bodhichitta. I would like to do something to help everybody, okay? Very basic.

I would like to change my cell to help everybody else, okay? Third one? Yeah, understand it, understand the pen, that's all.

Those three ideas are Buddhism. Those three ideas are dharma jewel, the real dharma jewel, okay? The world's messed up, I would like to do something to help it.

And understanding the two husbands is how we can get there, okay? No more fighting, okay? I talk about Diamond Mountain all over the world, I say Diamond Mountain is one place where people will say...

somebody calls them stupid, they go like this, no, you're... Like, that's the sign of real practice at Diamond Mountain, you know? I call it half-finished sentences, you know?

That's a sign that dharma is going on at Diamond Mountain. There are more half-finished sentences here than any place else I ever saw. People are like, no you...

Okay.