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

[Speaker 1]
Number twenty-five, okay? Meditation twenty-five, page eleven. Now, the tenth refuge vow is that you're supposed to take refuge three times every day, and three times every night.

That's the tenth refuge vow, we'll talk about it later. But... the good news is, if you understand what taking refuge is, especially if you understand that taking refuge is deciding not to tell your husband how stupid he is, it's easy to do it six times a day.

Okay? Someone will irritate you six times a day. That's why we get married.

It's automatic, in your own house. You don't have to go anywhere. Okay?

Six times a day, your partner will upset you, okay? Big upset or little upset. I mean, Michael Dunn never does, I know, but...

you can borrow somebody or something, I don't know. Anyway, if you understand what refuge really means, this meditation is, can I remember the pen six times a day? Yes, okay, no problem, okay?

Otherwise, if refuge means I have to go to the temple and burn incense, then six times a day is a problem, I won't have time to do anything else, okay? It doesn't mean that. It means understanding emptiness six times a day, okay?

And...and I don't know, if I drive from my house to the village of Oak Creek, six people will irritate me in traffic. Then I'm like, thank you, now I'm done for the day, you know? Jigme can drive me home, you know?

Okay? I can cover it in just that 25-minute drive. I can do my six times refuge.

Seriously. Sometimes I forget and I just get pissed off at them. How's everyone doing?

Why are you driving? Okay, then if you just remember, oh, that's coming from me. Why do I have to see people breaking the rules so often?

There's a joke in DCI, what's the joke? I don't know why I have to see somebody talking too much, Nick, what is that? Nick's like...

Duh. Duh. Okay?

There's a DCI joke, you know? I don't know why I have to see people eating sweets all day. Okay.

So, 25 is just... you know, you will get sunburned, or some bug will get into your bed and keep you up for two hours, and... you know.

Something will happen during retreat, don't worry. Demons don't like people doing retreat. They will come.

The minute you put up your... what's the marker? It's an advertisement for demons.

Come to this house. Someone's trying to meditate. That's the real meaning of this OM AH HUNG.

Okay? Come, bother me. And you know, something will happen.

Last time what happened, I remember... that handle came off of somebody's bathtub, and all the water from every house is pushing out of the... one bathtub, you know?

Me and Tim had a... was it you and me? We had a good time that night.

Gyelse was the hero. Him and me were watching. We're like, oh my god, nobody will have any water in about half an hour.

And... okay, the minute you start doing retreat, something will happen. And...

because they want you to spend the rest of your life looking at cat videos on YouTube. Okay? They don't want you doing retreat.

Okay? They don't want you doing retreat. The demons don't like it when people do retreat.

And very, very serious things will happen to people in retreat, okay? And we proved it here. And it happens, okay?

So, when stuff happens, you should feel proud, you know? You know, Penny, did you get any obstacles? No Geshe-la, everything went smooth.

I got obstacles. The demons thought I was going to do something cool, so they came to my cabin and they left you alone. You know?

I attracted demons. I must have been doing some good practice. You didn't have any demons, don't worry, next time if you work hard you can get some demons.

Okay? Alright. Okay, so that's...

Demons are good, because it gives you a chance to take refuge. Okay? Then you can keep your refuge vow.

If the demons come six times a day, you should be happy. Yes, madam? Yeah, number one, demons don't like it.

It's called go-numba. In Tibetan there's a special word. If you stick your head up, out of the poo-poo, I'd like to get out.

Bam! They're looking to see if anyone is not looking at cat videos all day. You know?

They're like, I don't want to look at cat videos. Boom! Go back to the cat videos.

You know? When you stick your head up, it's called go-numba. They will...

take you back down. Okay? So, why they don't like it, is...

bad deed number nine. Because of our human tendency to be unhappy when other people succeed. We are so happy when a movie star...

Oh, Brad Pitt divorced Angela... Angela Jolie. Oh, really?

Tell me. He threw something at her. Oh, really?

No, you can hear it like for two hours on... the lawyers are... you know, talking about what he threw at her.

And... people... why is it on the radio?

Why they put it on the internet? Because we like it. Oh, really?

Tell me more. Did he hit her or just missed her? You know?

And... okay? And that causes demons.

Yeah, the demons are coming from us. Because we're so interested about... movie star's troubles.

Okay? Alright. And I am too, I mean it's almost un...

what do you call it? It's part of us, you know? What was that recently?

I don't know. Anyway. We love to...

Oh, those two guys got fired in the government. Yeah, one guy, oh, did you hear? He was talking to the Russians, but he said he wasn't talking to the Russians and...

so they fired him. Oh, really? Tell me more, you know?

And the other guy was just mean all the time. Anyway. Oh, tell me more.

Which one? What did he say? Who fired him?

You know, like that, okay?