AGOL 26, Объяснение медитации 2 — стенограмма

[Speaker 1]
Tim, can you put up image number two, and it's a husband doing what every husband should do. He's not only washing the dishes, he's smiling. This picture, when you get your reading tonight, or tomorrow, or some other ...

[Speaker 2]
century, I want you to remember the pictures, okay?

[Speaker 1]
The war picture is easy, that was the first one.

[Speaker 2]
You're going to remember Syria. And there was a woman thinking, right? About her seeds.

[Speaker 1]
And then there was a ... a boy holding the father. It means the boy is learning ...

[Speaker 2]
karma, which is the real protection. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Now, this is the second meditation. You have thirty, okay? This is the second one.

What's the story of this picture? Can you guess from this morning? Huh?

Yeah, smoke ... well, yeah, that, but also the Pabongka Rinpoche said, it's not enough to be a expert in the Buddhist books, you know? It's not enough to be a three-year retreater, you know?

It's not enough to talk about emptiness all day. You also need to ... to do nice things for other people.

Sometimes it's very irritating to be around Buddhist people. In my Lama's house, every two weeks he will invite all of his students to come for dinner for ... Seichu, right?

And me and the other attendant, the young Tibetan guy, we hate Seichu.

[Speaker 2]
All the Buddhist students will come. They will eat for like three hours.

[Speaker 1]
Then they all say, I'm busy, I can't help to wash the dishes, I have to go. And sometimes we don't finish cleaning until two in the morning or something. And I did that for 25 years, and I got so tired of Buddhist people.

They talk about emptiness during the whole dinner, you know? And they can describe all the ...

[Speaker 2]
all the strange ideas about emptiness, but they don't know how to wash the dishes.

[Speaker 1]
So, what ... what he said, if you understand karma, you have to do something, okay? It's not enough just to study all the time.

I was in Shanghai. I met ... I think her name is Tina Lu, and we were having a debrief in the pizza parlor.

And she said, oh Geshe-la, I came to a DCI ... ACI retreat, and I ... I almost became Dharma junkie.

[Speaker 2]
I said, what's Dharma junkie?

[Speaker 1]
She said, you know, have to come to retreat, have to come to retreat, have to come to all the teaching, you know? But forgot how to wash the dishes. So, we're going to meditate, okay?

And think about it, okay? What's your practice? Study Buddhism, do your yoga, you know, do your meditation, and help people, okay?

Wash the dishes once in a while. So, we're going to do a meditation, and in the last two, three days, you know, what practical things did you help with? Okay, did you help clean up?

We just left a big mess in the music room. That was pretty epic. Then the Buddhist teacher has to go quickly to the class.

And I don't know who's going to wash the ... somebody has to wash the dishes, probably when they ... when they get home tonight, right?

So anyway, I'd like to ... we'll start a meditation, and then I'll lead you through it. It's just five minutes, then we'll take a pee-pee break, and I want you to think about, you know, am I helpful?

Okay? I'm knowledgeable, I'm doing my practice, but am I helpful? Because the Lama in the book said, if you really understand karma, then you should be helpful.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Dishes, and cleaning, and all the dirty work for a retreat. She's going to need help starting with ... now.

[Speaker 2]
She's preparing a fire offering.

[Speaker 1]
Two? Two or one? Two.

Two fire offerings. It's a lot of work. It's fun to throw in the stuff, but it takes many days to prepare.

[Speaker 2]
So, you have to think about it. If you really understand Buddhism, then you understand karma.

[Speaker 1]
If you understand karma, then part of your life is to serve other people, help other ...

[Speaker 2]
just help with the small things. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And a person who says they're a great yogi, or they're a great meditator, but they don't know how to wash a dish, is suspicious. My Lama forced me to wash the dishes.

[Speaker 2]
I washed all the dishes for eight years.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes two, three hundred people will come. My secret initiation was a dish initiation. And I think it was helpful.

I think it made me a better person. And sometimes I wish I could do it to you, but I don't have so many dishes. Okay, let's meditate.

Ready? Then my Lama forced me to cook. I was the cook for all the monks for eight years.

[Speaker 2]
Every meal.

[Speaker 1]
I just wanted to learn philosophy. And he said, no, you're going to cook, you know? And my hands got hurt, you know?

And they used to bleed a lot, you know? And I had special gloves. He was very tough on me, you know?

I had to do all the cleaning in the house, and all the laundry, and all the lawn mowing, and take care of his stupid flowers. It's still going on. Not stupid.

But he just forced me to work so hard. And now I understand it was a great thing. So I encourage you, you know?

The ones who are lazy and are doing philosophy and aren't helping with the dishes, they won't hear what I'm saying right now. It's some kind of magic with the ears. But you will never succeed in your meditation, and in your understanding of emptiness, if you don't help with the dirty work.

It's not going to happen.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And I thank my Lama. Nancy met him before I did, I think.

[Speaker 2]
He was tough, right?

[Speaker 1]
So, just remember that, okay? And you know, don't make people ask you to help. There's certain people are always there, they're just always ready to help, and they're just always waiting, you know?

And then there's other people, they're just ... when it's time to clean up, suddenly they disappear. It's like magic.

You will never succeed in your practice, if you don't help with the normal stuff. Then you can become a great yogi, okay? There's not ...

you can't do it otherwise. Okay? Alright.

Have a break.