«Дар освобождения», курс 25 «Совершенное прибежище», занятие 16

[Speaker 2]
Sixteen. Then I promise you a break, 4.30, it's 4.27. Meditation sixteen. By the way, when we ...

we'll go through the schedule after the break, and your instructions say group one meditation, group two meditations, then we have to split them up, okay? Number sixteen, it's very very useful as you die to take refuge, okay?

[Speaker 1]
It's similar to the falling down in the airplane, okay? But, if you can just remember your Lama's name as you go through the red light, the white light, the black, the mirage, the tidal wave, the mountains falling down, okay? When you see it start, the hallucinations, they're called standard hallucinations, they come to everyone who dies, bugs, rabbits, fish, humans.

When you see them start, start saying your Lama's name, you know? If you can, try to remember Second Husband. If you can't, just say Lama's name, okay?

Okay? Alright? So that ...

the Lam Rim, when I teach you that from the book, it will say, just if your Lama's name is on your lips when you die, you're doing okay, you'll be okay, okay? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
I would say ...

[Speaker 1]
personally, okay, this is just my personal idea, I believe that if you have a good relationship with your heart Lama, and you say their name when you die, you cannot go to a lower realm, I would say that, okay? Minimum. Okay?

Yeah? I would go to Lama's name as a backup, and try to get emptiness in there, okay? But you know, I've been in those situations, and you're so scared all you can do is your Lama's name.

To be honest, this idea of Poha, that in the moment of death you can suddenly cancel all the 65 years of bad deeds, it's not possible, it's unlikely that you will suddenly change at the moment of death the habits that you've built up your whole life, it's unlikely. Gelugpa tradition, Tsongkhapa tradition, don't ... don't count on it, okay?

You're gonna be too scared, you're gonna be hallucinating heavy, it's as if you're very drunk, extremely drunk, or you're in the middle of a bad dream, it's the same, you can't—you don't have the capacity to go, oh Poha, yes, step number six, you know, it's not gonna happen, okay? So, take care of it now. Real Poha means take care of it now, you know?

Understand emptiness now, while your mind is clear, and don't wait till your mind is the most unclear it's been in your whole life, okay? Because you're not gonna be able to remember anything, okay?