«Дар освобождения», курс 26 «Реальность кармы», занятие 17

[Speaker 1]
We're going to do some questions and answers. Any subject. It doesn't have to be relevant.

Relevant. I just say that because people ask irrelevant questions anyway. I just say that because people ask irrelevant questions anyway.

Okay, Enrique. Thank you, Geshe. Thank you for the teachings.

Thank you, Geshe Lama. And an irrelevant question. How do I know I'm going on the good path?

I asked my Lama that question one day. I said, my question was, how do I know my practice is succeeding? And he told me he asked his teacher also.

And his teacher was Trijang Rinpoche, who was the teacher of this Dalai Lama. And he said ... That's what he said.

He said, if you are getting more and more happy every year, then your practice is successful. Then you're on the right path. It doesn't mean you won't have bad days.

You will have bad days. But generally, you're getting more happy every year. Then when Trijang Rinpoche gave that answer to my Lama, my Lama asked him to draw a Buddha.

And he went like this. And he drew a perfect Buddha. So I made a copy of it.

And at the bottom I put, your practice is success if you are getting happier every year. And I put it in my room for many years. Don't ask me where is this painting I'm drawing.

I don't know. But that's it. I don't know.

Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la, when you talk about karma, you mention that to obtain something we have to give it first. But, for example, in the subject of money or material things, which is like what you need when you have a physical body, you give money, but you give everything you have. And in five minutes you need to eat, or you need to buy something.

And karma is not instantaneous at that moment. How to make karma instantaneous? For example, it doesn't bother me to give.

I think it's something I've found quite enjoyable. But, do I give?

[Speaker 1]
Send it to me by e-mail. So, Geshe-la, you say that to make money, you have to give money. I mean, in the format of the material realm.

So I give all the money, but I need the money to come back in like five minutes. Because you have some bills to pay. Yeah, I have some bills to pay.

So, I wanted to make it ... How do you make it come back faster? Okay, good question.

First, I'll say two things more about making money, okay? You don't have to give money. Sometimes we don't have money.

You can give time also. So, if you don't have a lot of money to give, you can give time. The second thing about money, my main karma partner is John Brady's project.

How I helped to build the diamond business. We started with a $50,000 loan. We didn't have any money.

And we rented half a table from another guy in his office. We rented half table, three people. We can only use half the table.

And he will not give us a key to the bathroom. That's how poor we are. Then in 2009, I think, that company was sold to Warren Buffet.

It's the largest diamond jewelry company in the world now. Then what I learned about making money, at the beginning, I used to just give the money to the refugees. Then I thought, after I leave the refugee camp, after one month they are out of money again.

So, I thought I should find some work for them. I think you have this saying in Spanish also, instead of giving a fish, teach them how to fish, but don't teach them how to fish. So, there's three levels of giving money.

Number one, give them cash. Then one month later they have the same problem. Second level, teach them some skill.

Help them to make their own money. And it's a lot more satisfying also to help someone make money, than to give them money. Then there's a third level of giving, which is much faster.

Okay, so second one is faster than the first one. The third one you can do after they trust you. So, I gave cash for three years.

After that, I trained them to do ancient book preservation on the computer. And David Packard Jr., Hewlett Packard, he built our first refugee computer center. I tried for six months to get an appointment with him.

Then finally, my friend gave him a proposal to his wife through the kitchen window. Then he told me, okay, you have five minutes. Then I brought all these Tibetan books, two suitcases.

Then after five minutes, he canceled all his appointments for the day. So, second level, help them to make their own money. Then if something happens to you, they can, if you die suddenly, they can keep going.

But faster than that. So, I gave them money for three years, cash. Teach them for two or three years how to use computers.

Then I went to the refugee camp. I said, are you guys ready to go to level three? Do you trust me?

They said, yeah, we trust you. You gave us money for three years. Then you taught us how ...

you built a computer center, and you taught us how to use it, and you pay us. I said, okay, you ready for level three? Yes.

You promise? Yes. Give half of your computers to the other refugee camp.

Then they're like, teach them seeds, you see? Then that level is very, very fast. That one's very, very fast.

And I believe that's what made the diamond company so big. Pranically, pranically, lung sem jukpa chipa then if the prana moves, then the mind will move. And if the mind moves, the prana will move.

So, you know, we call it coffee making. We call it coffee meditation. Just before you go to bed at night, lay down on the bed, and think about the good things you are doing.

For example, you are helping them to make money. Or you taught them the four steps. And be happy about what you are doing.

Not pride, happy. What's the difference? Pride says, I give much more money than other people.

I'm the best money giver in Guadalajara, probably. That's pride. But a coffee meditation is a kind of a relaxed state of mind.

And it's partly happy about the system. I'm so happy I found a system to make money which is not competitive. I'm so happy, I'm so smart that I am making money by helping other people to make money.

Then when you think about a good seed in your mind, the prana moves with the thought, and it heats up the seed. My students in Shanghai call it mama chicken on the egg. They said, Geshe-la, you can just say mama chicken on the egg.

Mama chicken keeps the egg warm. So the more time you spend being happy about helping other people, the faster it will grow. And it's possible to plant a seed in the morning and get the result in the afternoon.

But it takes a lot of mama chicken. Okay, so main thing, be happy about what you're doing. And that you are trying a new system which is really win-win.

Okay, another question. Thank you, Geshe-la. You're welcome.

Thank you for your amazing teaching here. Oh, hi. My question is a little bit long.

Don't give him the microphone. It's too difficult. Just kidding.

So my question begins with the beginning of the Bible. In the beginning was the Word. And then the more I study from you about translation, the more I feel like really the Word is a very deep, basic reality of different cultures, different countries.

And I keep having this thought that only by mastering the Words, the language, can we really master the teaching and keep it safe. And you really showed us what an amazing master of language is and what we can do to preserve the lineage. And you showed us the capacity.

Since you are a very good master of translation, you showed us the capacity and what you can achieve if you master the language. In conclusion, my question has two parts. First, how do you train yourself to become a master translator?

What's the key components? Like seeing emptiness, you have a key component. And second, how do you see the relationship between the master translator and preserving the teaching?

Okay, cool. I forgot one thing about Laramie, okay? You don't have to spend much time helping other people to make money.

You do not have to spend much time. One hour a week is okay. Why?

Yeah, Karmic law number two, right? So you cannot say, I don't have time to try this new way of making money. But you can't do less than that.

And you can't skip a week. So you cannot say, I don't have an hour a week, Geshe-la. Teach me a different way.

If you cannot commit a week, every week, then you won't get any result, okay? So you have to give it that much time. Then people say, oh, I don't have an hour a week.

Geshe-la, I have to work, you know? Then you will never have a lot of money, you see? Okay, your question.

So we have a translator team, and I help them to learn to translate. And how did I learn to translate? Mainly, I went to live with my Lama.

There were two young men studying with my Lama, me and this guy named Art, Artimus. And Lama likes him better than me. And his Tibetan is a thousand times better than mine.

After studying for a few months, one day he got angry, and he was saying bad words in Tibetan perfectly. And my Lama's like, what? Who taught you that?

I don't know, it just came, you know? He's like channeling Tibetan, you know? I mean, in six months he was translating Abhidharma, right?

Then, of course I was jealous of him. And so, he and my Lama always talking in Tibetan language. Then I wanted to learn, you know?

So I talked to my Lama in Tibetan. He said, later he told me, first thing I told him was, I want Buddha. Then he got angry, you know?

He got angry a lot. Then he said, stop speaking Tibetan. I said, but that's why I came here, I want to learn Tibetan, you know?

Art gets to speak in Tibetan. He said, no, you're going to teach me English. I'm like, what?

Yeah, you have to speak only English. Then I'm like, but how am I going to learn Tibetan? He says, I don't care.

If you want to stay with me, you have to speak English. Then my relationship with my teacher, you're not supposed to fight with your teacher. So I would go on strike, and I don't talk at all.

We're having breakfast, you know? And he's like, let's talk English, you know? I subscribe to a Tibetan newspaper, and I read the newspaper quietly by myself during breakfast.

Then my relationship with my teacher, after two days I will feel guilty. I'm a bad person. He's the Lama.

I'm going to Tibetan newspaper hell after I die. Then, okay, I'll speak English to her, you know? And I helped him with his English for 25 years.

I told you, I used to translate his English into English. Then now, when I look at these books, some of what I'm teaching you is two and a half thousand years old. And it looks just like English to me.

Everything's 100%, totally clear. And then it's weird, it's like a drug or something. You saw this movie, the guy take the drug and get 1,000 times smarter or something?

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that. It's weird.

I stopped going to the monastery because there's nobody left to teach me, you know? And I believe it's because I helped my Lama with his English. So we encourage the translator team to help John Brady's project.

So they translate for about six weeks, and then they have to help John Brady's project for six weeks. To save the ancient books. So that's the real key, I think.

My vision for the translator team, the translation should be two things. Number one, highly accurate, highly correct. Muy precisa.

And then secondly, highly readable, easy to read. And that's our goal in the translator team. We try to make 100% correct and highly readable.

Because a lot of those translations, it still sounds like Tibetan after they translate into English. The sanskara duje in the Vavana chakra is convenient to the Ida Pingala, and then you switch to the ... and then they just put A and IS between all the words.

Shit. But my dream is every word is translated into normal English. And the English speakers on the translator team are the minority.

We have a lot of ... we have Spanish speakers, Chinese speakers, we have an Arabic speaker, and the goal is to translate the books into all languages. So their work will be in readable, accurate English.

Then we'll send it to Guadalajara, or we'll send it to Moscow, or we'll send it to Berlin or Munich, and have the second wave of translation. But these books are so sexy. If you put them into Spanish, it will change Spanish-speaking culture forever.

It's like a huge tsunami will hit Spanish-speaking world. So I think it's very important to develop ... if the guy in charge of the Guadalajara Sangha can create a team of 20 translators, that would be great.

And we have the money to pay them due to the kindness of ... K Chen, where are you? Is she here?

Oh, back there. Hi! Her team in Taiwan, they already raised money, and they want to support putting all the books into Spanish.

So the team in Sedona can create English versions, but we need you guys to start making a team bigger here. The team's not big enough. Okay, in Germany, of course.

Russia, of course. Canadians. What's this all about?

Okay, next question. One more question. You have too many questions.

Wait, somebody else. Okay, Olga? You have one?

Okay. You earned it. Let's give her a hand.

[Speaker 2]
How to maintain the momentum and the motivation we got here for our daily life, and how to keep the best rhythm to have a representative advance in the long term and in the correct moment as individual and as a group?

[Speaker 1]
Translate for me.

[Speaker 2]
How to maintain the motivation and everything we generate here when we go back to our daily lives, and how to maintain the best rhythm, a rhythm that allows us to have a long-term representative advance at the right time as individual and as a group?

[Speaker 1]
Good question. Because these retreats are only once a year. How do we keep this energy?

And how do we grow it? So, like DCI, for example, we operate in how many countries, Scott? I don't know.

We operate in 25 countries. We have teams like this in 25 countries. Then the goal of my teaching, and the goal of DCI, is to create DCI teachers, Lam Rim teachers, in every country.

So people can learn in their own language. So my goal is to help you learn the material, and then you teach it. Then I can go to a different country.

Or I can sit on my porch in the rocking chair. And then I'll be there on my terrace, in a chair. The first country which had all local native teachers on the stage, seven local teachers on the stage, answering questions, the first country to reach that level was called Mexico.

And I think it was in Mexico City or it was in Guadalajara, at the university. And suddenly I realized I'm the only gringo up here. There were seven Mexicans.

So four things have to happen. Number one, you have to keep studying. And keep going to the ACI courses.

As the older teachers reach the Vajrayana courses, then the younger teachers should start the next generation. For example, in New York, as I told you, it's on the fourth generation now. The student of the student of my student is starting ACI course number one.

So keep up the ACI classes. And I'm very happy that Aldo is teaching, for example. Yeah, yeah.

And Tres Mujeres are teaching on the radio. That's also cool. So that's the first thing.

Keep studying. Second thing, keep up your personal daily practice. Your own meditation every day.

And then in the class you're meeting all of your friends once a week or every two weeks for ACI classes, right? Third thing, serve the Dharma. Organize the Lam Rim retreat in Chalapa.

So you're already doing that kind of thing. Help to translate the books into Spanish. We have a small team doing the videos, some easy video translation.

Keep doing that kind of thing. So that's three things so far, right? Fourth thing, serve your community.

You guys have Casa Huichol. You don't have to serve it as much as you did in the past, like all day, all night, like that. But I think you have a very good opportunity to serve there.

You have many other places. But do something every week, okay? We teach a lot of people in prisons.

Nick taught in the prison, how many years? He taught in the prison for three years. He had to stop because they wanted to keep him.

Just kidding. Well, actually they moved the program to very far away, so it was difficult. So those four things.

Then maybe I'll add a fifth one. Diamond Cutter Institute, programs for success, the five kinds of success we talked about this morning. It's all over the world.

It's very exciting. It's like an epidemic. But the weakest place in the world is Latin America.

We don't have a strong DCI presence in Latin America. It's the only place in the world where we have a strong DCI presence. We don't have a strong presence, and it's the only place in the world where we don't have a strong presence, in Latin America, as DCI.

I think Scott, me, or Rit, we're happy to support you. But the push has to come from you, okay? Dharma Lamas Push!

Push! You know Lamas? It's a childbirth system.

I have to teach you. You got a virus and you don't know about Lamas? Lamas is how to push when you're having a baby.

It's a very famous system in America. I don't know about you. The push has to come from you guys.

And you have to be persistent. Send an email. No answer.

Send another email. No answer. Make ten coffee cups that say DCI Guadalajara 2018.

DCI Paraguay 2018. You have to push, okay? Because we are super busy.

But we need to help Latin America. We have many unanswered invitations. Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, and what's that?

Brazil. But Brazil is Portuguese, right? Brazil is Portuguese.

That's my suggestion. And maybe your generation can push the DCI. Push!

Push! Okay, let's do the book. Alright.

What time is it? What time is the class ending? What time is it?

5.30? Okay, I'll give you a pee pee break in a while. Okay, don't worry.

Okay, NYID PA CI YANG GI BSKYED PAR LA GRUB LAS Now that he finished the ten karmas, top ten karmas, then there comes a question, which karma is heavier than other karmas? What makes a karma heavy? And Scott Dorit, I think it's something we should include in the DCI, eventually.

And this has six factors. It has six factors that make a karma more serious or less serious. So in Tibetan it's called CI YANG GI BSKYED PAR CI YANG GI BSKYED PAR CI means heavy, heavy karma.

YANG means light karma. BSKYED PAR means, what is it that makes a karma very serious or not so serious? And there are six different things you have to know about.

Okay, first one. NGO BO'I SGO NAS CI BA NI Some karmas are more serious than others. Some karmas are more serious just by their nature.

For example, LUNG SNGAGS KYI BDUN LAS Traditionally, they will group together the seven physical karmas. What's that mean? Three that you do with your body, and four that you do with talking.

So those seven, sometimes we just put them together and we call them the seven physical ones. Then there are three mental ones, right? LUNG SNGAGS KYI BDUN LAS SOGS SPYOD SOGS For example, killing, which is the first of those seven.

SNGA MA SNGA MA CI LA CI MA CI MA YANG The earlier numbers are more serious, and then it goes down from there, less serious. So by nature, in its nature, killing is more serious, for example, than stealing. Stealing is more serious than sexual misconduct.

By its nature, sexual misconduct is more serious than lying. Lying is more serious than splitting up other people. Splitting up other people is more serious than using bad words.

And using bad words is more serious than useless talk. Now that rule, earlier, more serious, only applies to the seven physical. So he's not finished talking about the seven.

Then he's going to talk about the three mental ones, okay? DE'I RGYUD ZIN DE DAG GI TSE BAR BU PA LA SDUG BSNGAL BYAS CHUNG JI TZAM YOD PA'I RIM PA'I CI YANG CHUNG BAR BSTAN It's because, I'm sorry, the earlier ones are more serious because they cause the other person more pain. Okay?

Killing an animal, for example, causes more pain than talking about what Trump did today. Except for me, sometimes it's more painful to talk about what Trump did today. DE'I RGYUD ZIN DE DAG GI TSE BAR BU PA LA SDUG BSNGAL BYAS CHUNG JI TZAM YOD PA'I CI YANG CHUNG BAR BSTAN BAR NA NGES TSOR RANG BZHIN GSOS DRAG ZHIG YIN YANG SOGS LA BYAS ZHING SPANGS PA'I JIN DRAG BYAS PA'I DE TZAM YOD BYAS LA MI BYAS PAS And then he says, for example, everyone has the same and everyone treasures their life more than their possessions.

All of us do that. Someone says, would you rather I kill you or steal your car? Then you say, take the car, right?

Okay, SOGS LA BYAS ZHING SPANGS PA'I JIN DRAG BYAS PA'I DE TZAM YOD BYAS LA SOGS LA BYAS SOGS SPYOD DANG MA JIN LAS NYID LA Therefore, you can you can feel the difference. The pain that a person gets when you kill them and the pain that a person gets when you take away their car. Tell me what he's going to say about the three mental ones.

They go like this, right? They go like this. Number eight is less serious than number nine.

Number nine is less serious than number ten. Number eight, unhappy that someone else got something. Number nine, number nine, happy that someone else had a problem.

Number ten, don't be happy that someone else has a problem. Don't care about karma. It's not correct.

Why is number ten the worst of the ten? Yeah, it's the source of all pain, but also if you do number ten, you will do the other nine. If you don't believe in karma, you will do the other nine, especially if nobody knows you're doing it.

If you can do it in private, or secretly, then you will, if you don't believe in karma, you will do it. If you believe in karma, it doesn't make any difference if you do it publicly or privately. It reminds me of the famous story of the monk.

Some lady did a nice thing for him, and she said, well, will you do something for me? And he made a mistake. He said, I'll do anything you want.

Then she said, well, you know, you're a monk, so I'm not going to tell you you have to do anything you want. I'm not going to tell you you have to do something. I'll give you a choice.

Two different things I want. Number one, I want you to have sex with me. This is the first monk's vow, no sex, right?

That is like, that's not so comfortable. What's number two? Come have a couple of margaritas with me.

Okay, Tibetan margarita, okay? Then he's thinking, oh, drinking alcohol is not number one bad deed, it's like number 15 or something, for a monk. He said, I'll take the alcohol.

Then what happened? He had sex anyway. Why are we talking about that?

If you have number ten, you will do the other nine anyway. Number ten is like alcohol. Then if you don't believe in karma, you will easily do the other nine.

So the most important one to keep is number ten, right? Okay, that finishes the first of the six reasons why a karma would be serious. Just serious by its nature.

Now, number two. SANGS PA'I SGO NAS, chiwa means your emotions are particularly strong. SANGS PA NYON MONG BZHIN DU DRAG PA BYAS PA STE, ZIG RDZUGS LTA BU'O NGO BO SGO NAS YANG YANG So your emotions are particularly strong while you commit one of the ten.

For example, ZIG RDZUGS hard speech, number six, okay? On a list of one to ten, what number is it? Serious.

Nine. I will kiss you except you have a beard, okay? Okay, number nine.

So it's not very serious. But if you say a bad word with a great anger, very powerful anger, then it becomes very serious. Okay, hang on.

Translator team. Seiji. Nick.

Who else is here? Huh? Stanley and Allison.

Jigme. Chunson. You ready?

This is stopwatch. You have 15 seconds to find the bad word example he gives. Go!

Two. Four. Five.

Twenty bucks each. Seven. Ah, damn!

Nine sixty-five. What's GYI RGYEN mean? Yeah.

GYI RGYEN mean? What it means? This is just GYI RGYEN, not GYI RGYEN RGYAL.

So I get the money. Half the money? Okay, anyway, it's a big insult in Tibet to call somebody an old dog, even though me and Phil and John are old dogs.

And Phil. Phil. Oh, sorry.

John and Michael. Okay, so anyway, it's a big insult. What he means is, you call somebody, I don't know, excuse me, but if you say asshole, for example, I don't like to translate that word.

Okay, you don't have to translate. But if you say it with great feeling, which I will not demonstrate, that becomes much more powerful. Depends on how angry you are.

And there's a long, there's beautiful commentaries about how long do you have to sustain the anger? Do I have to keep it for 30 seconds? Do I have to keep it for 60 seconds?

Do I have to keep it for three days? How many days do I have to be angry for number nine to become number five? We'll study that another day.

Okay, so we have two kinds of serious karma so far. First one, serious by nature. Second one, serious by emotion.

We'll do one more and then we'll take a pee-pee break, okay? I'm sorry, cappuccino break. Oh, what time is that?

4.30? Cappuccino break. All right.

All right, let's do that. Let's finish, let's go to the, well, you need to, Come on! Stanley!

Yeah, you have to make space for the cappuccino. So we have to stop in five minutes. Understand?

Okay, I understand. Okay, number three, SBYAR BA'I SGO NAS CI BA SERIOUS SERIOUS BECAUSE OF HOW YOU DO IT SERIOUS BECAUSE OF HOW YOU DO IT SBYOR BA SROD DANG NGAN PAR I taught you DANG, but I don't know if you remember. I taught you DANG, but I don't know if you remember.

ZIN TONG in the study of emptiness. It means the how you do it. What's the source of the word?

GNAS The gate of a horse.

[Speaker 2]
Right?

[Speaker 1]
The galloping of a horse. The galloping of a horse. It's okay, I only taught it to you 12 times or something.

It's okay. Okay, so here, what's a SROD DANG? Yeah, how do you kill the person?

How do you kill a person? NGAN PAR BSDUG LAS NA DGOS means you torture them first. You cut off their fingers, like that.

DANG NAS SRED PA LTA BU YIN That's more serious. If you just cut their head off fast, that's better. Then he says something kind of interesting.

YANG BU SRED PA BA'I RNAMS PO CHE SRED PA SDIG CHI BA LTA BU Yeah, it's more serious karma to kill something like an elephant than to kill a worm. Why? RGYUN ROL GZUGS PONG GZUGS PONG means the size of the animal, the size of the body.

GZUGS PONG CHE BA DAG SRED PA SDIG CHE BA'ANG According to the laws of karma, an animal with a bigger body feels more pain than an animal with a smaller body. LUS STOBS CHE BA'I GZUGS KYI SDUG BSNGAL CHE BA'I However robust their body is, they feel more pain when you kill them. Maybe they have more nerves or something.

I don't know. SBYOR BA'I SGO NAS CI BOR DRO And so, that also counts as this kind of serious. YUL RGA SHES NA BAL PA DANG KHYIM BYA BU SOGS MED ZEGS NAS SRED PA LTA BUR NI BLO DANG SBYOR BA'I CI LUGS GNYIS KA TZAM He says in some parts of Tibet, people have a custom of eating frogs, chickens, and different kinds of insects.

And it's traditional to cook them alive. As I said, in the US we have that with lobsters. When you go to the restaurant, the lobsters are in an aquarium, and then you pick them out.

I want the big one. Then they take it out and they boil it alive. Then he says, that's serious karma both by nature and by method of killing.

So you can pile up these six, you see? You can compound them. What's the most serious of the physical seven?

Killing, yeah. And what's the nastiest way to kill a creature? Cook it alive.

Cook it alive. So then you get a compounded interest. Okay, we did karma is heavy because of the nature of the action, like killing is more serious than stealing.

Then we said your emotion at that moment makes it heavy also. Like if you do it with very strong anger. What was the third one?

Yeah, the stilo? You know, tang, su tang. How do you kill them?

Do you kill them quickly? Or do you boil them in water? ZHI DGOS NAS CI BA NI Now we reach number four.

This is similar to the ZHI in ZHI BSAM PA SBYAR BA THAR TUG. In that case it meant what's the raw material you work with? And we said in sexual misconduct, the raw material is another person's partner.

And with stealing the raw material is something that belongs to somebody else. But here the word ZHI means a karmic object. A heavy karmic object.

In DCI we teach another presentation. Which gives three ways in which a karmic object can be heavy. Give me any one of them.

Someone who helped you a lot in the past. For example, your parents, or your teachers, or your priest. Second.

Somebody in great need, emergency. Like your brother's always borrowing money from you. That's not emergency.

But then his landlord say, if you don't pay by a loan, by 12 o'clock tomorrow, I'm throwing your stuff out the window. Then your brother just became a heavier karmic object than he was the day before. Third one.

Helping someone who's helping a lot of other people. So if Hema has a project that 180,000 people are getting a house to stay in, and you give her a donut, it's stronger than giving a donut to someone who's not doing that. I always give the example of I had a chance in the monastery, someone gave me money and said, this is for helping the sick refugees, the ones who are sick.

So I made an announcement, me and my Lama made an, we had $20,000, we made an announcement in the monastery. Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, we will pay for everyone's medicine or doctor visit. We had two conditions.

Number one, you have to bring the receipt. Number two, we will stamp the receipt and we will stamp your hand. Otherwise people will come again and again, with the same receipt.

Next morning there was a line, I don't know, it's like half a mile long, and we gave money for like six hours. It was a little bit intense. Then we ran out of money and it got more intense.

Then the next time we hired a doctor to live in the refugee camp for six months. You see? It's a better use of the money.

Okay, so help someone who's helping other people. Now here's the Lam Rim presentation, his presentation. ZHI'I SGO NAS CI BA NI What's a heavy karmic object?

LAM MA SLOB PA'I BYANG SEMS RGYEN DONG PA MA SOGS SHING BSKYED PA CHEN Extraordinary karmic objects are LAM MA here means your personal spiritual teacher. SLOB PA'I here means the person who gave you vows, for example. Or the person who's teaching you religious texts, but they're not your personal Lama.

So I had 12 main teachers in the monastery, but only one was my personal Lama. Then BYANG SEMS means bodhisattva. And that means somebody who's helping a lot of other people.

[Speaker 2]
Definition of bodhisattva, bodhichitta.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, SEMS RGYEN PA NI Say SEMS RGYEN PA NI GZHAN DONG PHYIR YANG DAG RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB BSDOD You want to make your life successful so that you can help the whole world, by example. That's DCI language.

[Speaker 2]
Same thing.

[Speaker 1]
RGYEN DONG means ordained people. If you go stay in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for, I don't know, six weeks, you will find out there's also angry people there. There's also people there who cheat each other.

There's also people who lie. I mean, it's not paradise. It's not Shangri-La.

And if you read the history of Buddhism, it's not much more peaceful than the history of the Catholic Church. Same. So you should know that, and you shouldn't be naive about it.

But those monks and nuns, what they're trying to do, and the system inside the monastery, it's the most beautiful thing in this world. It's not perfect. The Catholic Church is not perfect, but it's maybe the most beautiful thing in Mexico.

So anyway, respect those priests, respect those monks and nuns. They're the only people talking about next life. And they have their own problems.

But they're the only people talking about next life. Okay, PHA MA PHA MA What's it mean? Mother and father.

When I first went to the study with Tibetans, I met this young reincarnated Lama. His name is Tenzin Chinle Sharpa Rinpoche. He's in the Fire Offering Prayer.

[Speaker 2]
His previous life is in the Fire Offering Prayer.

[Speaker 1]
Then I said, I want to get into the translator class. And he said, well how much Tibetan do you know? I said nothing.

Similar to some people who talked to me earlier today. Then he said, I'm sorry, there's an examination. You have to come to the board, examination board.

There were three Lamas, and they have to test your Tibetan to get into the translator class. Then I said, please, please help me. Then he looked at me and he said, I think he's checking my mind.

He says, okay, tomorrow there will be an examination, you come. Then I went the next day, the three Lamas are sitting very, like this, and then I came in for my examination. And he looks at me, he says, I'll take care of this one.

And he looks at me, he says, okay, translate the following. PA MA PA MA Here it is, okay? PA MA Then I'm like, Papa, Mama?

He says, you pass. Okay. Then we read the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.

That was the translation class. SON NAS Now you're not going to forget PA MA, right? SOGS means other special karmic objects like that.

People who are helping many people. People who are having an emergency, like your brother, only on the day he's going to get kicked out. SHING KHYAD PAR CAN LA MI GLOB LTA BA I don't know.

Okay, you ready Monica? You're the Lama, okay? I'm the student.

Then you say something like, the fire offering went too long last night.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe Michael, the fire offering was too long last night.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, did you catch it? I went like this. That's called MI GLOB LTA BA.

MI GLOB means look out the side of your eye for a second because you don't like what the person said. So towards your personal spiritual teacher, towards the person teaching you these books, towards your mother or father, this becomes serious karma. Okay, this like just look one time like that.

Okay, understand? Because the karma object is so powerful. Okay, even a small thing.

Okay, people will treat me better for about 20 minutes, I know. Then we go back to normal. Okay, anyway, I told you.

Number five. It's easy. Number five means something you do all the time, over and over.

SDU BDAG TU BYED PA'I PHYI BA means heavy because you do it all the time. The example he gives is number seven.

[Speaker 2]
SNGAGS BSKYAL Useless talk.

[Speaker 1]
Useless talk. What number is number seven? Who do I have to kiss?

Okay, we'll do it secretly, okay? Just kidding. Alejandro is going to punch me.

LTA BU'I SDU BDAG TU BYUNG BA DE Okay, so a person who ... the lightest karma is number seven. Useless talk.

By the way, I forgot to mention when I taught it, what's the most serious kind of useless talk? You have a rosary?

[Speaker 2]
Maybe you have a rosary.

[Speaker 1]
Just throw it. In the monastery we throw it. I forgot to tell you there's a tradition.

When you teach number seven, you should talk about doing prayers. Like, let's say you're doing OM MANI PADME HUNG. Alright, and you decide to do 100 OM MANI PADME HUNG and you are going like OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG and you're thinking about those donuts were so delicious.

I think you can forget the cup with the Chalapa 2018 on it and you can just send me a photo of those donuts. Mexican donut, wow. You're saying your prayer, right?

OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG, OM MANI PADME HUNG But your mind is thinking about Chalapa donut. That's a special kind of number seven. Serious, very serious.

If you're going to do prayers, do prayers. If you're going to think about donuts, think about donuts. Don't mix them.

Okay, we're going to do number six tonight, especially to answer a question that someone gave me who killed a dog when they were young. So, the person in the audience tonight is the time.