«Дар освобождения», курс 26 «Реальность кармы», занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
Then please relax your forehead, and relax your eyes, put out your chest and straighten your back, pulling your stomach slightly, and try to come, oh I'm sorry, check your cell phone. Then try to sit like a stone, like a statue, and come to your breath. We'll watch our breath for a while, but during the watching the breath, please try to sit like a stone, and come to your breath.

Watch. Stay with your breath. Try to sit like a statue.

Then please ask your teacher to come sit with you.

[Speaker 2]
Knee to knee, and you can feel the warmth of your teacher.

[Speaker 1]
You can sense their heartbeat, and there's a beautiful fragrance of a flower coming from them. Then try to think of one quality about them that you love, something you would like to be. Something you would like to change about yourself.

Didn't think of something you did yesterday that was not so nice, and open your heart and show it to your Lama. Didn't think of something you did that was very beautiful yesterday, and open your heart and show that to your teacher.

[Speaker 2]
And with love, ask your teacher to continue teaching you. And then ask them to stay close.

[Speaker 1]
Then yesterday we had, in the teaching, the Lama talked about it's very good to have a strong meditation, and it's very good to study emptiness. Very important. But then he said we should do something for our community.

Like the service that people in Guadalajara are doing for elderly people, for the Huichol people who are sick, on the radio show. So, some kind of service to your community. And then you're a very well-balanced practice.

And it shows that you understand karma. So, we'll do a ten minute meditation. Just quiet.

Try to stay like a statue. And try to think of something you could do for your community. If you live in Austria or Vienna, what can you do for people in Vienna?

Or Berlin? Or Shanghai? Shenzhen?

Rimrock? Rimrock, Arizona? Try to think of some small thing you can do regularly, just to help the people in your community.

They are not Buddhists, and they don't know you're a Buddhist, but what's one thing you can do for them? And we'll stay here for ten minutes. Try not to move for ten minutes.

And watch your mind. If it starts to think about other things, then gently bring it back to, how can I serve my community? Ten minutes.

Then please do three slow, long exhales to send the karma to other people.

[Speaker 2]
Then you can slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch, have some coffee.

[Speaker 1]
I was thinking, where I live, it's a very poor place, and there's a road near my house. I don't know, Phil, you know, it goes down to the bridge. And a lot of kids have been hurt there, because the cars cannot see the kids.

And I always had this fantasy to build a sidewalk there. So maybe I'll work on that. Anybody else?

Or you're just asleep. Okay, microphone. So, I feel really committed to go into a nursing home where my mom has been off and on, and to teach the pen there.

What place? A nursing home for senior citizens, and also the senior center where they have lunch. I want to volunteer Katie to come with me and to teach the pen there.

Yes, I am very committed to go to a nursing home for seniors, to teach them the pen, and to go there.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
I want to go to Guadalajara. You translate it, right? In Guadalajara, there are many teachers who are already teaching DCI, and I want to pass everything I learned in Sedona on to formal classes for those who want to learn how to teach DCI.

And in Guadalajara, there are many teachers who teach... Ah, yeah. More coffee.

So, in Guadalajara, there are many people who teach the Diamond Cutter System, and I'm recently trained in Sedona College of International Management, and I want to share and teach them, update them on the teaching so they can be better teachers of DCI system.

[Speaker 2]
So, last month, Nick and I had the fortune to take a bed out to the Native American Reservation. Geshe Michael actually sent us out there to take a bed to a woman who lives on the reservation. And the conditions on the reservation are very poor.

People are living in houses with no plumbing, no electricity. Everything's broken. All the furniture is broken, if they have furniture.

And they were, I'm sure everyone knows, but people who are displaced. So, the government said, okay, here, live on this land, and you can have your old culture back, but there aren't any trees, there's no water. Now they're talking about taking their water away from them.

And the children, most of them, Geshe Michael actually informed us of this, that most of them are molested when they're children, and their parents all have drug problems, so they don't have a chance. They don't, they just grow up without even having a chance. So, Americans are very misinformed, because they say, well, they were given this land, and they're given a chance, you know, why don't they just grow up and, you know, work at a hospital, or whatever, but they can't, because of these conditions.

So, I don't know what we're going to do yet, but there are people who I would like to work with, and maybe to start with, to start, like, a furniture drive from, you know, we live in a very wealthy area of the country. Maybe we could start to collect things for them, using resources, and send them furniture, or just, you know, maybe people could go out and build at their homes. And another idea I've been thinking of is that we could start some kind of, like, group sessions for the children, so that they have some kind of emotional healing, and they can create the foundation to heal.

[Speaker 1]
So, I was thinking, I think about the ten virtues, no? So, I was thinking at least of how to plant seeds for each one. And so, all the talking is covered with Dharma.

All the talking thing. And for protecting life, property, and relationships. And I was thinking, the first thing that came to mind is that we've been attracting so many awesome people here that are already doing awesome projects.

Like Olga, over there. Can you stand? Sorry.

And Olga works in an organization that they get together, for example, a person who made 180,000 houses for construction builders who cannot afford to have their own house, who live in the conditions like you're talking. And so, what they did is, this program, they hire them, they hire their family, they make their own bricks, they make their own house, they get paid while they're doing. Part of it is subsidized, and part of it is credit, because they have to pay, because just giving without, you have to pay for their own house, but in time.

And they do it with savings. So, the savings like with the cell phone, instead of talking to your friend, and how was the soccer game, blah, blah, blah, and then you're losing the credit, they save money. Instead of drinking like 10 Coca-Cola a day, you drink two.

And with this, they do the savings to pay the microcredit. And so, 180,000 families now have housing. And this is one of the many projects.

And so, I was just thinking to work with them more, because there's so many projects. I would take the whole class. So, this is what I was thinking.

And Gemma Santana, her boss or friend, is coming and teaching how to turn organizations into business models that don't depend on the nations, like ACI. So, we can help, but not ask for people. We want to give also, and also give money.

I also thought about a radio show with you, Santiago Cumplido. I also thought about a radio show. But, I thought that Olga and Gemma Santana and their organization came to mind.

They have an organization that gathers people who are already doing what we are studying to do. They are already washing dishes. They are already washing dishes.

And, for example, one did a project of 180,000 houses for the Salvañiles, and they don't have enough money for their houses. And so, they pay them, they pay their family, during the construction of their house, they make the bricks there with a special material. One part is government subsidy, and the other part is a microcredit of very low interest in the long term, that they pay themselves with a savings that they teach them how to save, for example, how to save, not to talk so much on the cell phone, not to drink so many Coca-Colas, all the micro-expenses that they can stop doing.

And with that, they pay for their house, they don't give it away. And so, they have already benefited 180,000 families. And this is an example of several projects that they bring.

And Gemma Santana is going to come and teach us here, how to develop projects that are really carried out and executed using government tools. All right. Sorry.

One more. One more. Well, I came up with the idea of working in my community, with the children, teaching them how to plant a seed that germinates and that the little plant, and in that way, start telling them how to plant a seed and that it is obtained in return, so that through them, with the parents, we can start talking about this topic.

So, I thought about the people in my community, neighbor community, to teach the kids to plant a little seed, a physical seed, a little plant that will grow and this will be, and make them all plant, and this will be the first entry program approach to deliver these teachings in a practical way to the community. Maybe it's two more. Thank you.

So, I really like projects, and I work a lot of projects, and I'm thinking of not doing so many worldly projects. Mostly now, I want to do projects that have to do with wellness, inner peace, happiness. So, I'm thinking of doing a project that has to do with wellness, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace.

So, I'm thinking about developing an app that shares the wisdom of retreats like this and other types of teachings. And this app also shares what's going on constantly, but the proceeds of this app goes for scholarships for people so they can come to the teachings. And well, the second thing is that here in Chapala, two hours away, in Agua Caliente, there are 8,000 people contaminated with heavy metals.

Here near Chapala, in a little town called Agua Caliente, here at Los Orados, two hours from here, there's 8,000 people who have water that's very polluted from metals, heavy metals. The kids are dying. And I'm working on a special kind of super food or medicine that cleans them from heavy metals of their body.

So my meditation was so they could all be healed with this medicine. Okay, cool. Maybe one or two more.

It's okay? This is karma. This is karma.

This one now or those ones?

[Speaker 2]
I'm Chinese. I say Chinese. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
So China. So, I come from China and I'm 31 this year, but I haven't got married yet, and now I have a chance to live in the States for a while. This is my first time to come to Geshe Michael's teaching, and I feel very happy to be able to talk in this class.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know how many of you know, but in China, if you're over 30 and you're not married, you'll face a lot of social pressure, not just from your family, but also from your work, your friends, all aspects, including a lot of secular pressure.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know if you know, but in China, if you are still single, you haven't got married after you reach 30, then you will have to face a lot of stress from different parties, like your colleagues, your friends, your family, even the whole social society. In the States, I've met a lot of single girls who haven't got married yet.

[Speaker 2]
I've also met a lot of single moms and girls who have come from China to the States. They are all very happy. I have a partner who has been married for 10 years and has a very cute mixed-blood son.

We have set up an organization together called the Saintess Wedding. There are already hundreds of members who are helping them to get married all over the world from an international perspective.

[Speaker 1]
After I went to the States, I have met many single women who are over 30 years old, and they are having a great life. Do you want to translate this a little bit longer? No, just keep going.

I'll try the same. They are having a great life. Also, I've met many Chinese women who are married to Americans and are now living in the States.

I met another partner who is married and has a very nice son, and she's having a good life. We formed a community called Single Women Mutual Supportive Community. We are going to help the women to get married and find a husband all over the world.

[Speaker 2]
Let me translate.

[Speaker 1]
I went to the United States, because of the social pressure in China after 30 years of being single. In the United States, there is no such thing. When I arrived in the United States, I saw many single women who were very happy, but also some married women who were happy, and others married with children.

We decided to form an association to help single women to find a husband all over the world. All right, then. Maybe one more.

This is Asuna Math.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. This is Poco Math.

[Speaker 1]
Yi Yi, Chen Chen, somebody.

[Speaker 2]
Because I got coughing, so I did the meditation outside. In China, in Guangzhou, I've been doing the D7 for seven years.

[Speaker 1]
Sorry, repeat that again. I couldn't understand anything. Louder.

I couldn't hear you.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Slower.

[Speaker 1]
Slower.

[Speaker 2]
I had a coughing, so I did the meditation outside. I've been in China, Guangzhou, and doing the D7 program for seven years.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay. I couldn't understand that again.

Okay. I've been doing the D7 program for seven years.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. That's it. That's it.

[Speaker 1]
Slow. After training these students with our DCI groups, we would organize these people to go to the nursing home on a regular basis every month. Right now, we are not only taking them to the nursing home, we are also taking them to the orphanages.

Also, we are organizing events, such as these people who are working on the street, that they are cleaning the city. They are cleaning the street and cleaning everything. They are actually from the countryside, and they are not really having very good living conditions, so we would organize events to help these people, because they are serving the whole city.

Okay. After teaching three months, you said, or three years, or six years, after the teaching, you go to the orphanage, the nursing home, and the street. Okay.

It has been for seven years. Ah, seven years. Yeah, they are doing that.

The philosophical part, how they wash the dishes, they go to the nursing homes, then they go to the orphanages, and they also have a program to help people who clean the streets. They are people who come from villages that are outside the city, who have a different type of education, they are poorer, and they help the students, and they help everyone who studies this.

[Speaker 2]
Last week, we had more than 40 students who went to visit the orphanage workers, and we also raised some money, and each of them received a 100 yuan red envelope, and they bought some food. These orphanage workers were very happy. I have an idea, when I was doing this meditation, I want to have more opportunities to get closer to them.

If I have the opportunity, I would like to share stories with them, so that they can live more confidently in this city. We also want to do this service for a long time.

[Speaker 1]
We want to have a better life, and when I was having this meditation just now, I had this idea that in the future, we would organize more events like this, and we would like to share the Penn story with these people, and to help these people to have a better life in the city, and have more confidence. Can you tell me how much is 100 RMB in dollars? Fifteen.

Fifteen, yes. So, la semana pasada hicimos un evento, llevamos a 40 personas de nuestro grupo, y ayudamos como a 100 personas, de estos trabajadores de limpieza de la ciudad, y les dimos como 15 dólares, como 300 pesos a cada uno, y en mi meditación, pensé en hacer muchos más de estos eventos. Cool.

Thank you for sharing. We'll do some more. Let's do like 15 minutes of book, then we'll do 10 minutes of special room, and then we'll do more book.

Tim, you ready? We're at YANG PHAG GCIG GYIS DE DE CHOS BSTAN LA GOR BA GOR BA ZHIG NAS LHAR BSKYED PA DANG Then not only was there the cow pie rider, there was also one pig. He got chased by a dog around a temple, and because of that karma he was born as a worldly deity.

What subject are we on? Yeah, fourth law of karma. We're studying the fourth law of karma.

Just plant anything. Something good will happen. RGYAL PO PA SKYES PA ZHAG RGYAL BA RNAMS KHA STAG NA CHOM LDAN DE RANG NYID KYANG GUS RGYAB SNYING BA'I TSUL PHAN Then I told you about this king named Virudhaka.

He attacked the people of the Buddha, Shakya people, and many of them were killed. Over 70,000 were killed. By the way, some of those people ran into the Buddha's house.

They held on to Buddha's arm, and still they were killed. So, we believe in karma. We don't believe Buddha can just go like this and your karma will go away.

So it's your responsibility. Okay. Then even the Buddha at that time had a backache.

Then the book here says TSUL PHAN. At the end of the sentence there's two words, TSUL PHAN. Anybody can tell me?

Huh? He pretended. Okay.

TSUL PHAN means he pretended to have a backache. It means sometimes Buddha will show some pain just to teach us something. Like, there's a lot of lamas, they will say, oh yeah, I have the same problem, you know.

My lama used to say, you know, oh, I have the same problem, you know. I also, that happens to me also, you know. Then I would go up to the Buddha and I would say, I would go up to his room and I would say, you don't have this problem.

He said, yeah, but it makes the student happy if they think I have a problem, you know. Same problem. DE YANG NGON NYAB PA MANG PO NYA CHEN PO NYID ZHIG SEMS SA BYAS SKABS That backache is supposed to come from a small karma he did in his past life.

There was a bunch of fishermen. They caught two very large fish. SEMS SA means they ate them alive.

Like, people in North America eat lobsters in the restaurant, the lobsters are alive, then they kill the lobster for you and you eat it, you know. NYAB PA'I THU DGOS One of the children of one of the fishermen, thought it was really cool that they are killing these two fish. And just that very brief thought in the child's mind, after he became Buddha, that karma ripened as a backache.

PA SKYE PO CHOS KYI RGYUD DU DE KYANG MED ZIG PAS RAB DANG Then eventually that king who killed the Shakyas, he was swimming in a lake like Chapala. Chalapa? No, he was just swimming in a lake.

He was just swimming in a lake like here in Chalapa, Chapala. And his body caught on fire. And he died in a fire in the middle of the lake.

So this is karma, okay? We'll do five more minutes, okay? So just hold it.

SANGS RGYAS KYI CHER BU PA SDUG BSNGAL RGYUR MA ZHUGS NAS KYI THEBS TE PHYI BA LUNG BSTAN PA NA Then there was a bad teacher in India. And Buddha said, if you continue to teach people to hurt other people, if you continue to teach other people to hurt others, you will die from Moctezuma's revenge. Moctezuma.

Moctezuma. So the guy thought, I will cheat the Buddha. So he started, he didn't eat anything.

And he just drank water with sugar in it. And then he got Moctezuma's revenge just from water and he died. It means he had the karma.

Okay, last thing, then we'll take a break. This is a story, it's hard to find stories about Nagarjuna's life. So he was like the most important Buddhist teacher after the Buddha up until Tsongkapa.

Then he was, his books are unbelievable. All of our emptiness teachings come from him. Nick is translating an important book by him.

He's translating an important book by him. And he's going to teach it to us, what day? Tomorrow.

Okay, tomorrow evening? Afternoon. But there are not many stories about Arya Nagarjuna's life.

It's hard to find a history. So my Lama wrote a history. It's very beautiful.

I think it's the best one I ever saw. And they say Nagarjuna lived for 900 years. And he was an alchemist.

He could make gold out of iron. Then, I don't know, there was a there was a young man who wanted to be king. He was one of many princes and he wanted to be the king.

But the king had a lot of faith in Nagarjuna. Then the mother told the son, we have to get rid of Nagarjuna. So the mother told the son, we have to get rid of Nagarjuna.

And the mother said, I have an idea how to do it. She said, you ask Nagarjuna for his head. What did she say?

Yeah, ask Nagarjuna to give you his head. Like John the Baptist. And he said, okay, he's a bodhisattva.

He's a high bodhisattva. He will agree. So the boy went to Nagarjuna and he said, can I have your head?

And Nagarjuna said, fine, you know, that's fine. Then the boy took a knife and he like sawing at Nagarjuna's head. Nothing happened.

And he said, ah, this is a problem, you know. Then Nagarjuna's like, don't be upset. Yeah, use this instead.

Then he cut his head with a piece of grass. POP, just cut off, like easy. Then, you know, then Nagarjuna died.

That was the end of Nagarjuna. And people ask, why it was so easy to cut with a piece of grass but not with a knife? And they said in his past life, Nagarjuna was a farmer and he was like cutting the corn with a sickle.

You know, on the communist flag you can see this. And there was an ant on the grass. And he cut the ant's body in half.

And because of that one karma, the boy could kill him with a piece of grass, you know. It means the greatest Buddhist saint after the Buddha. If he can die because he killed an ant by accident, then maybe, maybe we should be nervous.

Okay, understand? Fourth law of karma. Fourth law of karma.

Okay, don't forget. All right, let's take a pee-pee break. See you in 10, 15 minutes.

Okay, let's start. We're going to go back to the text. NYAN THOS MA RGAL GYI BU RDZU DRUL CHEN GYI CHOG KYANG KUN TU RGYU YUG THOB CI BU CHEN RNAMS KYI YUG PAS SDUG BSTAN Okay, then that student of the Buddha named Maudgalyayana.

He was very good with miracles. He could do any kind of miracle. He can fly in the sky.

Then one day he got chased by another group, another school, and they called ... their name is Yugtok Chipu. It means carry a club, and they have this top knot.

And they chased him. Then they shatsok rudzok, say shatsok. Shatsok.

Rudzok. Rudzok. Shatsok.

Rudzok. Rudzok. Smashed his body and smashed his bones.

It's a joke. Then in the end, his whole body looks like avocado which got smashed. Then I learned some wisdom about avocado, but I can't talk about it.

BYAS PA'I TSE ZHA RIG PU, then Shariputra, who's the famous guy from the Heart Sutra. He said, why didn't you do your miracle power thing? Why did you let them beat you up?

Then he said, I couldn't even remember to fly away, much less fly away. Then he checked his past karma. Why did he couldn't remember to fly away when they're beating him up?

And then he realized it's because he said a small, bad thing to his mother when he was a young man. And that seed SPRUL MA GZOD means that tiny seed survived for many years and then suddenly opened. DE NA LAS NGAN PA'I BRAL BU NI STOBS SHING BZHAG SDOM BYED DE DAG THUB PA ZHIG MA CHUNG NA If you made some mistake with your mom when you were young and crazy, or other similar things, you should use the four powers.

STOBS SHING, here's the four powers. Now it came for the first time in this text, STOBS SHING, four powers. BZHAG SDOM, say BZHAG SDOM.

BZHAG SDOM BZHAG SDOM The purpose of the four powers is to clean out all bad karma seeds. And of course we have to talk about it. If you teach DCI well in a new country like Chile, if you give one or two days of level one well, then the more intelligent students will come to you automatically.

You don't have to say anything. They will say, excuse me, Lucia, I have a question. Sir, excuse me, I have a question for you.

Okay, I understand all this thing. If I use the four steps of karma, I can get a success in my life. I understand.

But, however, however, or but, pero, not perro, damn shit, damn shit. But, when I was 16, I did a lot of bad things. I have a lot of bad seeds.

Before I heard about this system, I made a lot of boo-boo. So what should I do? Then you have to have the four powers ready.

Take out of your tool kit, and give them the four powers. So here there's an important idea about the four powers which the DCI people should learn. It says shak dom.

Shak dom. Shak dom. Shak means you split the wood with the axe.

In Buddhism it means show your lama, split your chest, show your heart, say, look, I have a black spot here. I said something to my mother when I was 16. Do the same thing you do with the wood, cut it, but with your heart, and open it, and show it to your lama, and say, look, here, when I was 16, I said something to my mother, and confess it to her.

So Buddhist confession has two parts. Shak dom. Shak dom.

Shak means show what you did to your teacher, or if you don't have a teacher there, tell your friend, tell somebody. It's important. Then the second part, we don't talk about in DCI much, dom means you catch a mugger, you catch a thief on the street.

Then if they're really crazy, you have to put the handcuffs, right? Dom means handcuffs. What's it mean?

Control yourself in the future. So you cannot get rid of a bad seed unless the four powers has these two parts. Shak.

Then admit to somebody, I did this thing. Then dom means self-control, self-handcuff. I won't do it.

I won't do it in the future. Which one kills the seed? Yeah, the second one.

The self-control kills the seed. Your self-control will not be perfect. You are stronger than your handcuffs.

You will make another mistake. But every day you can control yourself, you make powerful good karma to stop permanently later. Like if you decide to give up coffee, then you can't control yourself.

Then they say in the Buddhist sutra, every second you can hold yourself, do it. Then the last few seconds, it's like holding Urdhva Dhanurasana, an extra three. No, that's when you make the muscle, right?

It's the last three, four seconds when you're like this and you want to stop. Dharma Mitra said that, yeah? It's the last few seconds when you build your strength, you see?

And it's the same with everybody has bad habits. All of us have bad habits. The worst bad habit is to say you don't have bad habits.

Then shak means, okay, I have bad habits, just admit it. Then don means have a happy fight. Don't get too serious, you know?

I cannot drink coffee. Just say, now shut up. Go away.

Yeah man, I know you want it, but just just run around. Then finally, okay, drink. And finally it's okay.

But the happy fight, not nervous fight, okay? Not like you have to enjoy that fight. You have to be happy.

You don't have to be like this, angry, fighting, fighting with that. The last few seconds are the heavy karma to improve in the future. You see?

dak tupa shikpa chung na So if you're not able to shak dom those old bad karmas you made with people like your mother when you were young, sipa tamapa gyurpang sipa tamapa means a person in their last life in the wheel of life, just before they get out of the wheel of life. Even those people will experience the results of what they said to their mother when they were sixteen if they don't clean it. You can read that in many famous sutras, okay?

And we have a nice translator group, strong group starting at the college in Arizona. They are translating, I think, nine different important books at the same time. One of them, Seiji is translating.

It's all about karma. Like awesome book, it's like 500 pages about karma. That's based on these sutras.

One is called do dzang lung Sutra of the Wise and Foolish. Some are wise men and some are foolish. There's a song about it.

do de le gyapa means karma shataka. There's a famous sutra about different kinds of karma, karma shataka. Hundred stories about karma.

tok chu gyapa tok chu gyapa means hundred stories about the karma of people who are not Buddhists, saints from India. And then dulwa lung means Alison is translating that. Where are you?

Yeah, she's working on that text. This is Vinaya Sutra about vows. le gye dik nyi sak zin ne debu chu sutte mepar gyurpa mi si This is maybe the most important sentence here.

Once you have planted a seed, good seed or bad seed, mi si means it's not possible that it will just fade away by itself. There's no such thing. Therefore, lang dor tra shing trawa ne che gu sung you have to be extremely high awareness all day.

Am I hurting someone? Is there a chance I can do something good in the next five minutes? I thought, you know, we're always trying to think of new translations for these ancient words to make them easy for modern people.

Like in English, morality is too old-fashioned. The word is too, it feels like old people's clothes. I used to wear these old man suits to the DCI talks.

Then I met a mafia guy in Bulgaria. I helped him make more money without mafia, but he bought me a really nice mafia suit. So we need more hip words for these old words.

Like mafia suit, you see? Then for a while I used to say ethical life. You should follow ethical life.

Ethical a little bit better than morality or something. It's like 50 year old guy's suit instead of 60 year old guy's suit. Then I found the mafia suit word for morality.

It means it's just not cool. It's just not cool, man. Okay, what do you suggest?

That thing you're doing is, if you say it's not moral, it's not ethical, it sounds like an old man's suit, right? But what really morality means is it's just not cool. What you're doing is just not cool.

You're hurting somebody.

[Speaker 2]
It's not cool.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, cool. Anyway, so LANG DOR MTHRA ZHING MTHRA BA Be careful with small things. Nobody in this ...

you don't have to watch your purse in this room. You can relax in this room. No one in the ACI course is going to steal your purse.

I think so. But we do small mistakes, small mistakes. You say something small.

You don't pay ACI on time. How much money I owe you? No, how much money I owe you.

No, you have to tell me today. Okay, I have to pay. I have to pay.

I also didn't pay yet. Okay. Everybody pay today, please.

Okay, yeah. So Jigme, you have to ask him what I owe. All right, she's my banker.

Jigme, he's my banker. God bless you. Then, PHYI MA DE NYID GYI SKABS GDIG PA ZHAG PA DANG DGE BA GONG GROL MI SBYONG BA'I THABS SAM STE Okay, so the last two laws of karma.

Number three and number four. Number three means if you don't do something, nothing's going to happen. Number four is if you do something, something's going to happen.

GDIG PA ZHAG PA So be careful to admit your mistakes. Then he says something important, okay? DGE BA GONG GROL MI SBYONG DGE BA GONG GROL MI SBYONG DGE BA means your good seeds.

GONG GROL means get upset. Get upset. MI SBYONG means don't disappoint.

Don't destroy your good seeds by getting upset at other people. So for bad seeds, what you said to your mom when you were 16, those seeds you have to try to stop them from opening completely, right? But you also have to think about your good seeds.

Your debit card. Okay, your whole life you've been putting money into your debit card. You've been doing good karmas your whole life.

Everybody. Now your debit card has, I don't know, a few thousand dollars in the debit card. Because you worked for many years to put the good karma seeds in your debit card.

When you get upset at other people or traffic or weather or flies, it's like somebody stole your debit card. It's like somebody stole your debit card. And they are on Amazon.

They are like... Your debit card is going to be like... Every moment you are upset at another person or traffic or flies, mosquitos, every moment it's like a guy stole your debit card.

Every moment he's on Amazon, he's spending it. Every second you're upset, he's spending your karmic money buying things on Amazon, on the internet. So on one side you have to do shak dom, right?

You have to clean your bad seeds. But the other side, you have to protect your debit card. People say anger for kontra, right?

Anger. And when you get angry, you lose your karmic seeds, right? Good seeds.

That's an old man's suit translation. It just means he got upset. It just means you got upset.

Did you get angry today? No. Did you get upset?

Yes. Just now. That kills your debit card.

Money is going out. Every moment you are upset, you are losing money from your karmic debit card. SABS CAD DI ZHIG LEN BRAS LA YI PHYIR SKYES BU LA TSOR CHE BA'I DE LA BRTEN NAS LEN BRAS LA BLANG DOR CHE BRDOD PA CHUNG BA'I TSE BLANG DOR BYANG SA SBYUGS PA'I DE BA'I CHES DU SGES DE'I CHE LONG RAB PA TZAM DUS TE LAM CHU CHU BSAM PA BZHIN Okay, so if I have to be careful with my karmic seed management, can you give me a summary of what's a good seed and what's a bad seed?

Those of you learning Tibetan, there's a word here, say CHE LONG RAB PA CHE LONG RAB PA It's in the third line, I think. Very famous word from Stanley's text. Stanley's translating Abhidharma Kosha.

And this is a very famous expression from the fourth chapter. CHE LONG RAB PA means actually there's 84,000 bad karmas you can make. CHE LONG RAB PA means somebody tell you, look Geshe-la, I don't want to learn 84,000.

Can you just give me like the top ten? CHE LONG RAB PA means top ten. Top ten.

Give me the top ten. Literally, CHE LONG RAB PA means most rough, most rough gross division. Most roughest division.

A much more generalized division. It's not that specific, but very general divisions. Somebody went to Buddha and said, look, I don't have time to learn 50,000 bad deeds.

Just give me the top ten. Just give me the top ten. Basic Buddhist, I'm going to say morality, but let's say cool behavior.

Then who needs it? Then he quotes Chandrakirti. Chandrakirti is the emptiness master of all time.

SO SO SKYE BA RNAMS DANG, GSUNGS SKYES DANG, RANG CANG CHUB LA, BDAG NYID NGES RNAMS DANG, RGYAL TSE RNAMS KYI NGES PA LAS PA DANG, MUN THOS RGYUD NI TSUL KHRIMS LAS GZHAN MED He quotes Chandrakirti. Then Chandrakirti likes to talk about different levels of Buddhist meditators. Lowest one.

SO SO SKYE BA Never heard about emptiness and if you teach them, they're also not interested. Like your mom.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Not this one. So SO SO SKYE BA means people who they don't want to learn about the pen. They didn't learn about the pen and they're not interested to learn about the pen.

Then the second one here is called GSUNGS SKYES. GSUNGS SKYES means born from the word. Born from the word of the Buddha.

And in ancient Buddhism, this is a synonym for lowest of the three tracks, listener track. So far we have two. We have people who are not interested in Buddhism.

Then we have people who are a little bit interested. They just want to make themselves happy. Then they call confirmed in enlightenment.

Confirmed in enlightenment means confirmed in enlightenment. And it's a name for a second track people. A self-made Buddha.

They call self-made Buddha. Yeah, they are definitely inside Buddhism. They are pretty strong.

[Speaker 2]
Pretty strong.

[Speaker 1]
So now we have three kinds of people. This one, SO SO SKYE BA, they're not interested in the pen. Don't tell me about this stupid stuff.

Lowest level interested in the pen. Can I make some money? Next level.

Can I not get old? Then bodhisattva level, top level. Here it's called GAL TSE.

Children of the Buddha. Daughters and sons of the Buddhas. These four tracks, if you ask me who needs to learn how to behave cool, just those four.

Nobody else. Got it? It's a joke.

Just those four. People who don't care about the pen. Low level DCI.

Medium level DCI. High level DCI. Only those people have to learn how to act cool.

Other people, it's okay. And you know there is no other people, right? Okay, that's a famous verse from the second chapter of Entering the Middle Way.

So that book is the mother book for understanding emptiness. Utpala, Venerable Utpala is translating. She's working on that one.

By the way, when you come to Sedona you can take two different courses, right? Two different degrees. One is become a DCI teacher.

And the other is to become a translator. I can teach anyone to translate. They just have to work hard.

There's a Chinese gentleman, Sugeng Shi, right? He came in January. He never saw a Tibetan word in his life.

He reads Tibetan perfectly now. The sound, the sound. He can read the sound perfectly.

Anybody can learn. It's just you have to be tough. You have to work hard.

It's like Dharmamitra yoga training. So think about it. And it's tough to get into that class.

It's tough to get into the DCI class, but it's much harder to get into the translator class. But we are partly, we are looking for people who can translate into another language after that. Who can go from Tibetan to English to Spanish, for example.

Or Tibetan to English to Chinese, modern Chinese. Or Russian, or German. We need those people.

BYAS PA LTAR RGYAS BA'I RTZOGS PA'I LAM CHOS NI LAM MA ZHUGS KYI GANG ZAG GI SNGON THOS RTZA BA'I RTEN Even if you haven't become a, if you're not interested in Buddhism, still those top ten are important for you. SNGON THOS RTZA BA'I RTZOGS PA'I LAM CHOS NI LAM MA ZHUGS KYI GANG ZAG GI SNGON THOS RTZA BA'I RTEN SNGON THOS RTZA BA'I RTZOGS PA'I LAM CHOS NI LAM MA ZHUGS KYI GANG ZAG GI SNGON THOS RTZA BA'I RTEN If you already started on a Buddhist path, you want to have a happy life. You're not so worried about other people.

You're not a bodhisattva yet. You also need those ten. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA RNAMS KYI BLANG NA MED PA'I YANG LTA BUR RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB KYI RTZA BA'I RTEN And also, if you are already on highest track, bodhisattva track, what's a bodhisattva?

Definition. Great. SEMS SKYES PA NI GZHAN DON SPYOD YANG DAG RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB DU Say, SEMS SKYES PA NI GZHAN DON SPYOD YANG DAG RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB DU I want to become a beautiful person so I can inspire other people and help the whole world.

That's all. That's the definition of a bodhisattva. I want to become a good person so I will be a living example ji voy premier for the whole world.

But all three, all of these guys what's it called? Second floor, third floor, fourth floor, fifth floor. They depend on the lobby.

All my examples are hotel and airplane examples. Can you guess why? Here's the people not interested in Buddhism.

Second floor. Third floor. All the guys who want to use karma to get rich.

Fourth floor. All the people who are in the fourth floor who want to be happy forever for themselves. Fifth floor.

All those super cool people who want to help the whole world. But for all of them the lobby, the first floor. I think in Germany it's the second floor.

Anyway, I don't care. You need the ten good karmas. You need to know them.

Who's on the sixth floor?

[Speaker 2]
Vajrayana. Vajrayana. Diamond.

[Speaker 1]
What you are going to start this year to prepare. That secret teaching, that super depends on the lobby. Ten good deeds.

The higher you go, the farther you fall if the lobby is not strong. The higher you go, the farther you fall if the lobby is not strong. If the foundation is not strong.

So we got to learn the ten good deeds. Geshe-la, I already learned them before, a long time ago. I don't care.

You have to learn again. So, here we go. We reached now a new section of karma.

What section did we just finish? Yeah, four laws of karma. So this ten day retreat, you will become a karma expert.

If you stay here for ten days, you will know karma, and you can teach it to other people. That's all there is. After the ten good deeds, we're going to talk about the four steps.

SHI BSAM PA SBYOR BA LTAR TU Then we're going to talk about the four flowers. How does karma open? Then we'll talk about karma priority shipment system.

Did you pay for overnight delivery or not? How fast will the karma open? There's a whole subject about that.

So that's the goal for these ten days. You will know everything about karma. GNYIS PA SO SOGS CHE STE BSAM PA LA GSUM We're going to go deeper into karma.

SNAGS PA LEN DE BSAM PA means we will cover the ten black karmas. Then SNAGS PA LEN DE BSAM PA Then we'll cover the ten white karmas. SHAR LA THOB LDAN GYI LAS KYI DGOS DU DE BRTAN PO Then the third section, how do we make a seed more powerful?

What can you add to the gasoline to make it stronger? Okay, here we go. We're starting on the ten black karmas.

SDOM PA LA GSUM SNAGS PA LAS LAM NGOS First I will tell you about LAS LAM. Say LAS LAM. LAS LAM Karma is not the same as a karmic path.

Karma means you just do something without understanding. It's not so strong. Good karma.

But LAS KYI LAM LAS LAM means a karma path. You can call it a total karma. If you want a karma completo, you have to do the four steps.

Then the last subject here will be the second subject will be CI YANG GI SKYED PAR means which karma is more serious, which karma is not so serious. And then DE DAG GIS BSTRAD BU What do I get from these karmas? What's going to happen to me?

,DE LTAR LEN DE GAL CHE LA LTA ZHING ZHIG PA, ,DE LTAR YIN NA DE LA BLANG DOR BYA SRED ZHIG GANG ZHEN NA, Okay, if karma is so important in my life, and it's so subtle, like if I make a small mistake with a bug a thousand years later, someone can cut my head off with a piece of grass. So if karma is so important and so delicate, like where do I start? Where am I supposed to start?

He said start with the ten. Top ten. Then he quotes Stanley's book.

The goal of Stanley, for example, translating or Allison, these books were translated into China 500 years before the first Tibetan ever saw a Buddhist book. And they have all those books translated already. But the language is the language of 17 centuries ago.

It's worse than Cervantes. It's worse than Cervantes. It's worse than Shakespeare or Chaucer.

One bata prela with his shora soto, the drokta of march of pesa, terorota, and bata de brevean in swish lakor, of which virtua engendered is the flor. This is English. Yeah, 600 years ago.

That's Chaucer. Try to imagine three times older than that. That's Chinese.

That's ancient Chinese. So it's difficult for people to read nowadays. So our goal is to update all that.

He's re-translating the Abhidharma into modern Chinese. That's a small job it will take. Well, in Tibet it took 700 years.

But we have WeChat. So it will be 600 years. Okay, here's Abhidharmakosha.

DE LAS BYAS RLONG DU NAS NI DGE DANG MI DGE'I PHYI RIGS PAR LAS KYI BSLAM NI SPYOR BSRUNG ROL Buddha said, you want to know what's a good karma and bad karma? Then study the top ten. Study the top ten.

BYAS MI DGE'I RAG PA RNAMS SPYUR DU DE If you take all the karmas in the world and you make the elevator presentation, you know what this means? No. You want to meet a rich guy because you want him to invest in your project.

Like when we started ACIP, I met the owner of Hewlett Packard. I met David Packard. He said, you have five minutes.

In English we call elevator summary. It means what can you say in the elevator before I reach the top? So we call it elevator summary, elevator.

Because it's everything you can say in what takes the elevator to go up. That's what you can say in that presentation. So this is the elevator summary of karma.

[Speaker 2]
The ten karmas.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, David Packard Jr., he canceled all his appointments for the day after the first four minutes. That's how we built our first center, ACIP center. John Brady.

His project is thirty-one years old. It's the main help for the refugees. They finished about, how many Phil?

20,000 books. And they are free on the internet. So nowadays that's mostly Nick and John and I think we should give them a hand.

Nowadays there's a lot of the children of the first operators. They are sitting next to their mom and they are working together. Let's finish this sentence and then we'll finish.

ri ni rab tu chungwa ma se, khyenpa tsun che, gyi kyang lang dor jar ku These ten are not just important for monks and nuns, but they are very important for everybody, even if you never become monk or nun. Then there was a very famous Lama in Tibet called Longdu Lama. He was a great scholar, very, very great.

He had his own ACIP project and because of him they carved many thousands of books. But for him the most important one we call petung. He did a small little book.

You know those little tiny books in Tibetan? He said the most important one I ever did was this little one. So he helped carve many hundreds of thousands of pages.

Somebody asked him, what's the best book you ever did? Oh, it's two pages. What's the subject?

Ten good karmas. Two page book. He said that's the best book I ever did.

So we're about to start on the second great topic of karma. The ten good karmas. They like to teach them negative way, the ten black karmas.

But I'll tell you a one minute story, okay? So I was in the diamond business for 19 years. Then at the same time I'm finishing my Geshe study.

And usually when we started the company, we started with three people. Now it's 10,000 people. And it was very, very difficult.

We have to stay till one in the morning, two in the morning, every night. Then I said, no, tonight I have class. My Rinpoche is teaching me a class.

I have to go at five o'clock. Then the owner is tougher than Rinpoche. He said, you have to stay.

I said, no, I have to go. I have to go at five o'clock. He said, I will fire you.

I said, you fire me. Then he's like, okay, go at five o'clock. Then he learned more about me because we were close for 19 years.

We're still very close. Then he will call me to his room like 4.30, right? Mike, you are the key of this whole company.

You are the engine for the whole company. We need you. We can't do anything without you.

We have a big order for JCPenney's. We have to finish it tonight. Without you, we are hopeless.

I'm like, yeah, I can stay. I can do it. I will lead the company.

Then he learned how to make me to do something. I think after many years of teaching Buddhism, it's better to teach the ten good karmas than to teach the ten bad karmas. People get more excited about doing something good.

So, I will follow the traditional presentation. It's about how bad you are. But as we go, let's say, let's think about the positive ones.

Because like with my boss, it motivates people better if you talk about the positive karmas.