«Дар освобождения», курс 28 «Строю пространство для практики (ретрит в Таиланде)», занятие 3

[Speaker 1]
Let's meditate just a little bit. After lunch and after yoga, it's a bad time to meditate. So we'll just do a little bit.

Step number one. Turn off your cell phone. Step number two.

And try to make some noise with this now. Don't do it later. And finish your coffee.

Okay, let's go. Then start to watch your breath. Ten long exhales.

Small smile. Have fun. Then please bring your teacher again in front of you.

[Speaker 2]
Some teacher in your life.

[Speaker 1]
And think of some beautiful quality of this teacher. Then come to the center of your mind. Dark room, but comfortable.

[Speaker 2]
And beautiful silver seeds there.

[Speaker 1]
And very gracefully, one of the seeds opens. And a beautiful image comes out of that beautiful quality of your teacher. And like a bird, it comes out of your forehead.

And it settles over your teacher like a blanket.

[Speaker 2]
And because of that, you see this beautiful quality.

[Speaker 1]
Now start to make a story. How did I plant those seeds? What did I do?

And you can go back many lifetimes. To any country. You can be any person.

And you are making these seeds. You can use all the images you've seen in the last few weeks. Maybe you saw something on the internet.

Or you saw someone in the airport. Or you saw a picture in a coffee shop.

[Speaker 2]
Any images from your life or your memory, make a fun movie about your past life. How did you create these seeds?

[Speaker 1]
Have fun. And after this meditation, I'll ask a few people to tell us their movie.

[Speaker 2]
What was the quality of the teacher?

[Speaker 1]
And when did you plant those seeds? Then come back to your teacher. And respectfully ask the teacher to sit to one side.

And bring a second image of the teacher in front of you. This teacher is different. Looks the same.

But they don't come from your seeds. You met them by accident. They are not coming from something you did before.

They are accidental teacher in an accidental world. In a random world. We can call ...

I like to call in English a boo-boo world. This kind of teacher isn't coming from me. I met them one day by accident.

And we were born in this world at the same time by accident. And in fact, this whole world is an accident. It's not coming from me.

There was an explosion many billions of years ago. And dust started to fly in all directions. Then by accident, some of the dust pieces joined together.

And over many millions of years, it made stars. And then it made planets. On this planet, by accident, water came.

And by accident, small creatures grew inside the water. And by accident, some of them crawled out onto the earth. And then by accident, some of them became monkeys.

[Speaker 2]
And those haozi by accident became people. And among those people came my teacher.

[Speaker 1]
So imagine in front of you a teacher with whom you have no past history and you have no future destiny. It's all accident.

[Speaker 2]
No purpose.

[Speaker 1]
No reason. Try to feel how wrong this teacher feels. Part of your mind should be upset.

No, no, my teacher is special. We met each other many millions of years ago. We walked together through many lifetimes.

And in the future, we will walk together into enlightenment.

[Speaker 2]
And we have always been together.

[Speaker 1]
And we will always be together.

[Speaker 2]
And our destinies link together.

[Speaker 1]
This second teacher is fake. Not real. Actually I feel uncomfortable even to sit next to this teacher.

Then imagine they disappeared. Because anyway they are not possible. And that leaves a little kind of space.

That space created by kicking out the impossible teacher.

[Speaker 2]
That's called kong shing.

[Speaker 1]
And move the real teacher back. Please come back into this space and sit with me. Beautiful teacher of my destiny.

And enjoy them and sit with them. Coming from you. True teacher.

Then three long exhales. Don't move yet.

[Speaker 2]
And then slowly open your eyes.

[Speaker 1]
Take a stretch. Good. Stanley, can you please come up?

I need two husbands.

[Speaker 2]
Am I also?

[Speaker 1]
You guys are going to stand over there. I need two kids. Let me see.

You two be my kids, these two ladies. Just stay there. Stay there.

You are my kids, okay? Most of you saw this play. From this play you can learn kong shing.

[Speaker 2]
Easily. And you will never forget it.

[Speaker 1]
And you can also learn yin guo. Dependent origination. And we need it for this meditation you are doing.

In this meditation we have now two teachers.

[Speaker 2]
One is the real teacher.

[Speaker 1]
One is, they are coming out of my seeds. Silver seeds are opening. And this teacher is coming from me.

[Speaker 2]
Then we brought a fake teacher.

[Speaker 1]
They are not real. They are not coming from me.

[Speaker 2]
And they live in an accidental world. Like the scientists say, just pieces of dust bang into each other and create world and create ocean and create monkey. Then create you and your teacher.

[Speaker 1]
Everything a big accident. Then we cancelled that teacher who is not coming from me. So now we're going to do the same with a demonstration about two husbands.

Most of you saw this before. But if someone asks you, what is kong shing? You can show them this.

[Speaker 2]
And it's correct.

[Speaker 1]
And you can use it in your life. If something is real emptiness, you should be able to use it for business, for family, for health. Okay, so here we go.

It's a five minute demonstration about the two teachers in the meditation.

[Speaker 2]
One is fake. One is real. Okay, ready?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so I'm a normal housewife. I have two kids. I have one husband.

[Speaker 2]
And I'm working. I have three main jobs in my life.

[Speaker 1]
One, I have to work all day. I have to take care of my kids. I have to cook.

Okay, and it's hard. A day is long. And my life is not easy.

Okay, then these are my two kids, okay? Then, hi kids. Then, listen.

Mommy's boss called me, told me tomorrow, I must come early to work. We are having a telephone meeting with a client in New York. And boss asked the mommy to come a little bit early tomorrow.

This is Wednesday. And I said, can you kids get ready one hour early tomorrow?

[Speaker 2]
Agree? Okay, you have to be dressed, shoes on, homework finished, ready to go at eight o'clock, not nine o'clock. Okay, kids agree?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good kids, I love you very much. Okay, then the next morning I come. Open their door.

They are jumping on the bed.

[Speaker 2]
Come on, let's go kids. Yeah, yeah, they are jumping. Fighting.

Jump. You have to jump.

[Speaker 1]
Fight, fight, fight. Then, yeah, come on, what kind of fight is this?

[Speaker 2]
Okay, then I say, I ask you kids to be ready. Mommy has to go to work. Even your shoes are not on.

[Speaker 1]
Then, oh, you are most stupid kids in Shenzhen. Or, I don't know, what's this town called? Hua Hin?

[Speaker 2]
Thailand.

[Speaker 1]
You are most stupid kids in Thailand.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay, sit down kids. Then, who heard me call them stupid? They heard.

I also heard. You are, that makes an impression on my mind, most stupid kids in Thailand. Every word made an impression on my mind.

[Speaker 1]
I also heard those words. Then after about two hours, those impressions become a seed.

[Speaker 2]
We say sanskara became vasana.

[Speaker 1]
In Sanskrit language.

[Speaker 2]
Now I have seeds in my mind because I called my kids stupid. Next week, I'm coming home. I'm tired.

I took the kids to school.

[Speaker 1]
I brought the kids from school. I had to buy groceries.

[Speaker 2]
I'm getting ready to cook.

[Speaker 1]
Then I'm thinking, my husband came home before me.

[Speaker 2]
I'm so happy. He will give me a hug today. Then I open the door and there's a fan tong.

[Speaker 1]
Then, husband call me fan tong.

[Speaker 2]
Fan tong means like stupid head.

[Speaker 1]
Rice bucket head. Okay, then what shall I say?

[Speaker 2]
Why he call me stupid? You know, I didn't do anything. I just came in the door.

I'm not stupid. Ni fan tong. You are stupid.

[Speaker 1]
Ni fan tong. Now, she will go like this.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know why he call me stupid. I didn't do anything. Is it true?

No, what did I do? Last week, I yelled at the kids. I planted a seed.

You are most stupid kids in Thailand. Then I planted seed in my mind. When I opened the door, silver seed in the middle of the mind opened.

Picture comes out. Ni zhe ge fan tong. Yeah, and my husband call me stupid.

[Speaker 1]
Now, we have to think about where is the kong shing here? Where is the dependent origination? Okay, then of course, first question.

[Speaker 2]
Is the wife stupid or not? I show you how to prove you are stupid. Okay, how to prove.

Ready? Ni zhe ge fan tong. Huh?

I didn't do anything. I just opened the door. I come in.

He call me stupid. I'm not fan tong. You are fan tong.

I'm not stupid. You are stupid. Did you see?

[Speaker 1]
You have wheel of life picture? You have wheel of life picture? It's coming.

Man man de.

[Speaker 2]
Slowly. Okay? Okay, wheel of life.

What's the meaning? Come on, wake up. Ni zhe ge fan tong.

No, you're fan tong. Okay, so when I came in, seed open. So, first I plant seed with them.

When I open the door, seed open. Then they call me fan tong. No, you are fan tong.

[Speaker 1]
You are fan tong.

[Speaker 2]
New seed. Then next week, no, not laughing, crying.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, yeah, yeah. Next week day. Then the next week I said, you are stupidest kids in Thailand.

[Speaker 2]
Then come back again. Fan tong. Stupid kids.

Fan tong. Stupid kids. Seed open, seed open, seed open.

Wheel of life. Okay, this is not rebirth. Once every lifetime.

This is every week. This is every week.

[Speaker 1]
You are planting circle with your family.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, relax.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
So, how to prove you are stupid? Plant new seed. Then your husband is correct.

Okay, now, if you went to Thailand ACI retreat, how will you act? Ready? Europe!

Be quiet. Go to toilet. Open the door.

Look in the mirror. You are fan tong. Okay, understand?

Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Now, why are there two husbands here? One of them coming from me. Because I yelled at my kids last week.

One of them is dependent origination. They are coming from my seed. Who wants to be dependent origination?

Okay, she's dependent origination. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
One is come from me. Okay, other one.

[Speaker 1]
This one.

[Speaker 2]
I didn't do anything. He yelled at me. Okay, ready?

I didn't do anything. Is it true? No, you yelled at my kids last week.

It's never true. I didn't do anything. He started yelling at me.

Okay? So, this one did not come from me. Okay, understand?

Now, one of them is real. Really exists. One of them is not real.

Doesn't exist. Which one is real? Who's the real ...

who's the one ... which one exists? You're a white one.

Fiery Byron. That one's real. Come from me.

Okay, how about this one? Real? No, not real.

Why? No dependent origination. I didn't do anything.

Okay? Come from nothing. Okay, now, deeper question.

Deeper question. When you get angry, I'm not phantom, you're phantom.

[Speaker 1]
Which one are you yelling at?

[Speaker 2]
Black one.

[Speaker 1]
Why?

[Speaker 2]
I didn't do anything. He yelled at me. But you cannot be angry at the white one.

[Speaker 1]
Why? You understand where she come from. Oh, sorry, he.

You understand where she come from. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
If you understand where she come from, come from yelling at kids, it's impossible to be angry at the white one. He starts to say, no, you're a phantom. Then you're like, oh, this one come from me.

This one, my fault. Okay? So, it's always impossible to be angry at the real one.

[Speaker 1]
Is it possible to be angry at the fake one?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, of course. I didn't do anything. Mr. Black hates him. I didn't do anything. He said, I didn't do anything. Doesn't even exist.

Okay? He's supposed to coming this way. I didn't do anything.

Now, you want to go deeper? Every person, every person in your whole life that you didn't like is Mr. Black. Okay?

Everyone. Every enemy in your life your personal enemy, country's enemy, they're all Mr. Black. I didn't do anything.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
If you understand you planted them, you cannot get angry. So that means every time you got angry in your whole life, that one wasn't there. Okay?

Now, last question. What's the word that we use for the guy who was never there? Emptiness.

That's emptiness. He doesn't exist. You can leave the stage, please.

Okay? Now, this place here. This place here is empty.

Empty. There's nobody there. Okay?

Who is there not there? Mr ... I didn't do anything.

You can call him Mr. Black. You can call him ... I didn't do anything.

Same. Okay? Now, you understand emptiness.

In two thousand years, many, many millions of Buddhist people didn't understand emptiness. Now you understand.

[Speaker 1]
Learn to teach it like that. Get two of your friends who are kids. Get two of your friends who are bad husbands.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? Now you can teach emptiness and dependent origination correctly. Okay?

What's the result if you see kongshin? Nirvana. What's meaning of nirvana?

Cannot get angry. Nobody can make you angry. Oh, you're a phantom.

You don't even exist. Maybe I'm phantom, but you don't exist. You can go sit down.

Go make dinner.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Mr. Emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
Got it? Understand?

[Speaker 1]
So tonight, don't get upset at your wife or your husband.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Take the lam rim home.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Use it at home.

[Speaker 2]
Now, why are we talking about this?

[Speaker 1]
We were talking about the two kinds of teachers in the meditation.

[Speaker 2]
One comes from you.

[Speaker 1]
One doesn't come from you. Kick out the one who doesn't come from you. In this lion's dance meditation, we are focusing on the teacher who comes from us.

Okay? Real teacher. And this is a beautiful meditation.

[Speaker 2]
Every beautiful person you met in your whole life coming from you.

[Speaker 1]
It's part of you.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? So, the sweet people, loving people, intelligent people, they're all coming from you. Then you must have done something in the past.

Okay? Maybe we don't remember, but you did something, and you created them.

[Speaker 1]
Now, say DE NAS. DE NAS. SENG SKA'I RNAMS KYIS SPA'I STING YIN ZIN LA MYONG ZHUGS NAS BSTAN CING BRAL BCUNG LUG MTHUN DANG LUG MI MTHUN LA lung mey tu na, tokpa che.

[Speaker 2]
This is Maitreya's word.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? When he taught lion's dance, it's called senge nam gingpay ting-yin dzin. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
This is the original language.

[Speaker 1]
The Sanskrit is ... say singha.

[Speaker 2]
Singha? Singha? vijjambhida.

Singha?

[Speaker 1]
Vijjambhida. And Maitreya said, go up those eight levels. Go to level nine.

Bring the teacher.

[Speaker 2]
And see their dependent origination. And see their emptiness. Okay?

And meditate about it. About your past life. Okay?

What did you do in your past life to create this teacher?

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Got it? Okay.

And if you don't remember what's the difference between the two teachers, then you can remember the two husbands in the kitchen. Okay? If you can't remember the two husbands in the kitchen, just go home.

You can meet one of them. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Understand?

[Speaker 1]
So, alright. Let's go to the lam rim. And we'll go back to the ...

there's five parts to the lion's dance. I never ... I only taught the second part once.

But you guys are pretty sharp. So, we can do the second part tomorrow. And if it looks like you're ready, I will do the third part.

Okay? Okay? Alright.

Adam, I'm at ... you can look up YUL CI. Y-U-L.

Y-U-L space S-P-Y. I think. Oh yeah.

Okay, we are still talking about the third quality of a teacher. RIGS MTHO. RIGS MTHO.

Became a little bit high in your society.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And then people will respect you. Is it correct that we don't respect people lower in the society? It's not correct.

It's wrong.

[Speaker 2]
But people do it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? So, if you are going to be a teacher, plant the seed that you are a little bit higher in your society. Okay?

And the seed for being higher is to be humble and respect people older than you. Then there's a famous story. I don't know if you guys can find the four animals.

[Speaker 2]
Good luck.

[Speaker 1]
There's a famous story that a about the elephant, the monkey, the rabbit, and the bird. And it's a long story from the sutra. I taught it last time.

I'm not going to teach it. Should I teach it again? I'll teach it short.

Short.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? I took it out of the sutra last time.

[Speaker 1]
So, this story comes from Kashi. Say Kashi. Kashi is the old name of Varanasi.

And this is an important city in India. Nowadays, it's famous because Ganges River is there. And Hindu people, they believe if you can die in Kashi, and if they burn your body in Kashi, and throw your ashes in the Ganga River, then you can become like a Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
It's not that easy, but it's a nice story.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Then, coincidentally ... So, that's the culture capital of India for three, four thousand years.

In the north part of Varanasi is Sarnath. And this is the deer park. And this is where Buddha gave the first teaching.

So, for us also, for Buddha's people, Kashi is an important place. And I'm happy to say, you know, we have a project for 31 years to save the ancient Buddhist books. And we saved about five million scans.

One million are searchable, database. And Nick is in charge of that project. He's there.

Raise your hand. I want to thank him. And a few weeks ago, they bought some land in Varanasi.

The land there is very expensive, because every Hindu person wants to have land there. But they bought ... they're able to buy some land.

And they are building a school, special school, to study Sanskrit language, to save the old Sanskrit Buddhist books. So, in that city, many thousand years ago, there was four animals. Elephant, monkey, oh here's a picture, rabbit, and a bird.

And they live in the forest there. And they like each other. They were friends.

Then they were having discussion. You know, we should have some order here. It's better the younger people respect the older people.

[Speaker 2]
By the way, this story comes from Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
It's a book called Vinaya Vastu.

[Speaker 2]
And Buddha is telling this story to his monks. He said the four animals had a meeting.

[Speaker 1]
Let's decide who shall respect who. And we have to decide who is older. Then a younger one should respect the older one.

So, they went to a special tree. It's called Nyagrodha tree.

[Speaker 2]
Nyagrodha tree.

[Speaker 1]
It's a kind of a fig tree. And fig has a very small seed. And they went to the tree.

[Speaker 2]
You can see the tree in the picture.

[Speaker 1]
And these trees grow very big from a tiny seed. And they said, does anybody remember when this tree was smaller? And the elephant said, yeah, I remember.

When the tree only came up to my shoulder. So, I think I'm older than all of you. And you should respect me.

You know? And then the monkey said, uh-uh, wait, wait, wait, just a minute. Monkey said, actually, I remember when this tree was the same height as me.

Much smaller.

[Speaker 2]
So, actually, I'm the oldest one here.

[Speaker 1]
Everyone should respect me. Then the rabbit said, actually, you are not the oldest. I remember sleeping by this tree, and it was only as high as me.

So, obviously, I'm the oldest one here.

[Speaker 2]
Everyone should respect me.

[Speaker 1]
Then they all said, yeah, yeah, you're oldest, you're oldest. Then bird said, actually, good translation. Actually, it's not true.

I can remember. One day, I ate a fig, but I ate too fast. I got upset stomach.

Then I came to this place.

[Speaker 2]
Seed came out. This started the tree.

[Speaker 1]
My ... with the seed. So, even though I'm the smallest one here, I'm actually older.

Then those animals, like many animals, are more intelligent than people. And they said, okay then. Bird is elder.

We should respect the bird. And the rabbit is second. Monkey is third.

And the elephant is four.

[Speaker 2]
Elephant should respect all the other ones, because elephant is youngest.

[Speaker 1]
Even though more powerful. Okay? So, this is ...

actually, we consider in Buddhism, this is a story about a good society, where the younger people respect the older people.

[Speaker 2]
I think that's a good idea.

[Speaker 1]
And then society is more smooth.

[Speaker 2]
Because we can learn a lot from older people.

[Speaker 1]
They saw everything. Speaking from myself, I made every mistake many times.

[Speaker 2]
So, I have more experience.

[Speaker 1]
So, then in that jungle, all the animals started to talk to these four.

[Speaker 2]
And they all agreed to keep the system. Younger will respect the elder.

[Speaker 1]
And because of that, karma, in the kashi, in Varanasi, in the forest, flowers grow, fruits grow, all the animals are happy. They're all respecting each other. They even start to keep the ten good deeds, Buddhist good deeds.

[Speaker 2]
Then also in the city, more and more food, more and more happiness.

[Speaker 1]
Then the king was talking to his advisers, and he said, I think I'm a pretty good king, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Why? In my city, everyone's happy, everyone cooperates, there's a lots of food.

[Speaker 1]
Then one of his ministers, he's a wise man, he said, your highness, I'm sorry to tell you, the happiness of Varanasi is not because of you. It's because of four animals in the forest.

[Speaker 2]
Then the king is like, what? Let me meet these animals.

[Speaker 1]
Then he went and talked to the animals. He learned ten good deeds from them. And because of that, Varanasi became holy city.

[Speaker 2]
Last word in the sutra, Buddha said, by the way, the bird was me.

[Speaker 1]
The rabbit was Shariputra, from Xinjing. And like that, there are four famous Buddhist teachers. So, I didn't tell you the whole story.

It's long. If you want, you can go to Jamie's knowledge base.

[Speaker 2]
I told the whole story before.

[Speaker 1]
But here in the Lam Rim, the teacher says ... let me find it for you. Oh yeah, de dar chung na means, if the younger people respect the older people, then in the whole country, there will be happiness.

I think partly that's the karma in China right now. People are so ... they're so prosperous right now.

And in some other countries, there's a lot of violence right now. And I think it's connected ... it may be connected partly to this custom.

Then he says, ngar chungpa bun shi gen shung korim dar gur di che. So, these four animals in Varanasi, chim sungpe kar shi yul na de kyi shindu chewa chung tsul dulwa lung ne song ne sung. You can see, he said, in the Vinaya, scriptures, the story of the four brothers.

They're called ... these four animals are called the tungpay bun shi. Say tungpay.

Tungpay.

[Speaker 2]
Tungpay.

[Speaker 1]
Bun.

[Speaker 2]
Shi. Tungpay.

[Speaker 1]
Bun.

[Speaker 2]
Shi.

[Speaker 1]
Four harmony brothers.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, that's their name.

[Speaker 1]
We are still talking about the third quality of a teacher, that in their society, they have been born wealthy, and special in their own society. And that's a ...

[Speaker 2]
it's good for a teacher.

[Speaker 1]
People will listen to you. Okay, now we're going to start on the fourth quality.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, it's called, say, wang chuk chewa. Wang chuk chewa.

[Speaker 1]
It came before, but I will repeat. dang dzor che shing kor mang means you are born with a lot of money.

[Speaker 2]
In your life, money comes to you. Okay, money doesn't make a good person.

[Speaker 1]
Many good people don't have money. Many bad people do have money. But money is useful.

Like this project to save the old books. They finished five million pages. The whole project for thirty-one years, we think it took about twenty million dollars.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? And it's free online. Everybody can use it.

We estimate it will take 150 more years. So, we need money. So, if you have money, you can organize classes.

[Speaker 1]
You can translate books. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
And if you don't have money, it's difficult.

[Speaker 1]
So, I'm not stupid. I don't want to have too much money. It's a lot of problems.

And I don't want a big big house. If you have a house with 25 rooms in it, it's much more cleaning every day.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? I'm lazy.

[Speaker 1]
I don't want to clean a house all day.

[Speaker 2]
I want to do other things.

[Speaker 1]
And my car is an old second-hand car. Reliable. Toyota.

Easy to fix. Easy to fix. My friend, he has a Rolls-Royce.

And Maserati. And when the car breaks, it's very difficult to fix. My car is ...

I can fix it myself. Okay? So, I don't care about money, but I would like to have extra money.

Then if my friend wants to come to Thailand, they don't have money, I can say, yeah, okay, here, I will pay.

[Speaker 2]
I would like to have extra money. So, quality number four of a teacher, it's useful to have some extra money.

[Speaker 1]
And then you can hire people to work for you. Okay? So, that's quality number four of a teacher.

What is the cause of that? And here we go to the lam rim. Next paragraph, Adam.

LONG SBYUR CHUNG BA'I RGYUD NI, BSTAN TSUN LA MTSON DANG, LA SA SRAR PA'I BSBUL BA, LO MO BA LA SA STON DGE SOGS DGE SOGS BYIN ZHING. So, how do you get money? Okay.

You can build temple. Okay? You can make Buddha statues.

You can help people having emergency.

[Speaker 2]
In the three gardens.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? This is a Buddhist expression. It's called the three gardens.

Okay? So, those of you who know DCI, you studied the three gardens. And they are here.

Okay?

[Speaker 2]
This is where the DCI teaching come from.

[Speaker 1]
Three things that make the karma more powerful.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Three kinds of people to help. And those of you who teach DCI, it comes from this paragraph.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, there are ...

[Speaker 2]
we call three gardens.

[Speaker 1]
It means good soil to plant your karma. Most powerful soil. For example, I live in a desert.

[Speaker 2]
I have a garden.

[Speaker 1]
Every flower I have to work for weeks and weeks and weeks.

[Speaker 2]
The soil is very poor. More rocks than soil. Difficult.

[Speaker 1]
But there are three kinds of easy soil to plant your karmas.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? So, we call the three gardens.

[Speaker 1]
And it's here. Okay? Number one is called pendok gi shing.

Say pendok. Gi shing. Pendok gi shing.

Shing means garden. Good soil. Pendok means the person who helped you in the past.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, for example, if you want to give financial help to somebody, you are all good people. Okay? If you came ...

you paid to come here to lam rim. You're already a nice person. Okay?

I can see many purses are here. Nobody's worried someone in this room will steal their money. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Purses are all open, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Somebody lost a cell phone.

[Speaker 2]
It wasn't somebody stole it.

[Speaker 1]
Probably it's in the toilet, I think. Nobody in this room is a bad person.

[Speaker 2]
You're only making good seeds.

[Speaker 1]
But you have another responsibility. What is the best good seed, and what is the second good seed? Your life is short.

[Speaker 2]
There are millions of good things to do. Then you need priority.

[Speaker 1]
Which is better good thing? Which is lower good thing? Your problem is not choose between good thing and bad thing.

[Speaker 2]
Your problem is decide what's the best thing.

[Speaker 1]
What's the lower good thing? What's the higher good thing?

[Speaker 2]
There are three guidelines. Number one, pick the powerful karmic object.

[Speaker 1]
Someone who helped you in the past. Okay? Of course, your mother and father.

Okay?

[Speaker 2]
They help you more than anybody. Then your school teachers.

[Speaker 1]
Maybe people who taught you your job. Anybody who helped you. So, if you have choice, buy a new TV for your parents, or give some money to your friend.

[Speaker 2]
Pick your parents.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Karma seed is bigger.

[Speaker 1]
Now, that's the first one. Second one. Here it says, dungyel kyi narwa nam la'i.

dungyel kyi narwa nam means those people having an emergency. Okay? Just had a car accident.

They are going to lose their house. They cannot pay the rent.

[Speaker 2]
They have a bad disease. They are refugee in a war. Then help them.

Okay? People have emergency. That's the second kind of good soil.

[Speaker 1]
Third one is ... here it's called yun den gyi shing. yun den gyi shing.

It means people who are helping many other people. Okay? If you have a choice, you can help one sick person, but if you have a friend who's a doctor who is helping many other people, then make donation to the doctor, because they are helping many other people.

So, those of you who know about DCI, this is the source of that teaching. Number one, look for person who helped you in the past. Number two, look for person having emergency.

Number three, look for the person who is helping many other people. There's this picture of a Guanyin with 1,000 arms. That's the idea.

[Speaker 2]
If you find one person helping a thousand people, like a doctor in a refugee camp, and you help one person, then you grow a thousand arms.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? So, that's the idea. Here it's called yarchu marjun.

Say yarchu. Marjun. Yarchu means give the financial help to the higher karma object.

Like your pet, like your parents. Marjun means ... and give the money down to the people having emergency.

Okay? Give money up, give money down. That's the meaning of this.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Fifth quality of a teacher. Say cik.

Zumba.

[Speaker 1]
Say cik.

[Speaker 2]
Cik. Wake up.

[Speaker 1]
Cik.

[Speaker 2]
Cik.

[Speaker 1]
Cik.

[Speaker 2]
Cik. I'm older than anybody except Phil.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? I'm not sleepy, but it's easier to talk than listen. Say cik.

Zumba. Cik. Zumba.

Another goal of a ... another quality of a teacher is people listen to you.

[Speaker 2]
What you say, people say, okay, I will try. What you ask them to do, they do. Okay?

That's called cik. Zumba. You can say intelligent things, and half the people will do it, and half the people will not do it.

[Speaker 1]
You can also say stupid thing. Half the people will do it, and half the people won't do it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? It doesn't depend on what you say. It just depends on your karma.

If you have karma, everybody will say, yes Geshe-la, yes Geshe-la.

[Speaker 1]
And if you don't have karma, they will say, no Geshe-la, no Geshe-la. It's all karma.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, if you want to be a teacher, and everybody in this room should be a teacher, you need to make the karma that people will listen to you. So, that's quality number five.

[Speaker 2]
What was the first quality? Long life. Second quality?

Nice face. Third quality? A little bit higher social ...

okay. Fourth quality?

[Speaker 1]
You have some money. You can pay ... you can go to Thailand.

Okay? You can pay for things.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Fifth quality?

[Speaker 1]
People should listen to you. Now the Lama gives the karma. SIG GSUM PA'I RGYU NI, what is the cause for ...

karma cause for people to listen to you? NAR BAG DANG LDAN PAR BYED TE, be careful what you say. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
When you talk, check what you're going to say first. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Don't just blah blah blah blah blah. Don't hurt other people's feeling. Don't say angry words.

Think about what you say before you say. Is this a nice thing to say? Is this helpful?

Will the people be happy? Is it a helpful thing to say? Okay?

SNGAGS KYI MI DGE BA RNAMS NEN BRTAN DU SPO BA means don't make mistake with your mouth. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
There are three ways to make karma. What you think, what you say, what you do.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
For this one, be careful what you say. I think especially if someone upsets you, or if you feel very strongly, I have my own personal rule.

[Speaker 1]
If somebody criticizes me, say they send me an email, or they criticize me, I always wait for three days before I answer. First day, I have many things to say. I'm not stupid, you are stupid.

Second day, I'm really not stupid. Third day, maybe I'm a little stupid. Like that.

So, don't answer immediately. Think about it.

[Speaker 2]
If you answer quickly, you will say something bad.

[Speaker 1]
So, when you feel upset, try to keep this one closed.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And you can talk tomorrow. Okay? Wait till tomorrow.

Then your mind is more peaceful. Okay, number six. How should we say?

Power. Okay? Teacher, if you have some power.

There are many kinds of power.

[Speaker 2]
One is like political power, or power in your society, or power in your group, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And later, he will talk about using power for good things.

[Speaker 2]
In this part of the lam rim, we are learning eight qualities. Like wealthy, looks nice, people believe you.

[Speaker 1]
Then you can use those eight qualities for good thing or bad thing. Okay? And of course, we are planning to use them for good thing.

So, number six calls to be powerful. Wangcheway gyu ni, khen lob dang, kuang chok, pa ma sok, shing kyepa chen dang, rang le genpa sok la, ku shing chupa dang, rang le yin teng na sok, jung war mun lam dup su. This means respect your teachers, and also help them.

Okay? Like my teacher, I built his house, and I went to ... I gave him most of the money from the diamond company, because he's helping many people.

So, respect the teacher.

[Speaker 2]
Help them if they are doing good things.

[Speaker 1]
Kuang chok means respect Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.

[Speaker 2]
Help them. Pa ma, mom and dad, help them also.

[Speaker 1]
So, mom and dad karma helps with many things. We had it before. Okay?

If you respect them, people will respect you. If you respect them, you will be powerful. Okay?

Shing kyepa chen means special gardens. Rang le genpa sok, people older than you.

[Speaker 2]
Respect them. Help them.

[Speaker 1]
Rang la yin teng na sok, jung war mun lam dup pa sok so. Then sometimes when you are by yourself, make a prayer in your mind. You know, I should have those good qualities, like my teacher.

[Speaker 2]
My own teacher.

[Speaker 1]
Very kind to people. Very respectful. Always makes time for the poor people, old people.

[Speaker 2]
Recently, she met a homeless guy.

[Speaker 1]
She invited him to move into their house. He said he will leave after three days. I think he stayed for three months.

[Speaker 2]
She said, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Feed him. He's very sick. Take care of him.

Okay? So, then make a prayer.

[Speaker 2]
I should be like that. I want to be a person like that. That prayer is a karma.

[Speaker 1]
To be powerful person. Okay? How many now?

Six. Yeah, let's do. We have time for one more.

Number seven is controversial. Okay? In India, two thousand years ago, the men are in charge of everything.

They keep the money.

[Speaker 2]
They own the house. Only they can vote.

[Speaker 1]
Only monk, for example, only monk can become Geshe. Woman cannot become Geshe. And to be honest, for many years in Buddhism, the male's role was emphasized.

The male was main teachers.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
But in the higher Buddhism, which I was taught for many years from my teacher, we call Vajrayana.

[Speaker 2]
Diamond Way. Higher Buddhism. All the Buddhists are women.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Jingang Yujia Mo.

[Speaker 1]
Then we follow her. So, but in the lower Buddhism, in ancient times, everything's about men. Then in this number seven, you have to read it a special way.

I would like to be born in a world where men and women are equal. And we don't treat someone better because they are man or because they are woman.

[Speaker 2]
We treat them equally.

[Speaker 1]
And this organization, ACI, we started 1991, I think.

[Speaker 2]
Twenty-six years ago.

[Speaker 1]
And this was the first organization in the world to teach a Geshe course to women. And at that time, many people called me crazy. Now, women allowed to do Geshe.

Only last year or something. But we did it 26 years ago.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, we want to create the karma where men and women are respected equally.

[Speaker 2]
And that's number seven.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Yeah. And DCI teachers are about 50-50s God?

More women, I think. Slightly more women because they are more intelligent. Just kidding.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, here it says, SKAD PA'I NI RGYUD NI, SKAD PA'I RTEN LA DGA' BA DANG PHUG MED KYI DNGOS POR LA MI DGA' BA RLUS LA NYES MED ZAD TE So, make a prayer that people are treated equally. SKAD PA'I RTEN LA DGA' BA DANG PHUG MED KYI DNGOS POR LA MI DGA' BA RLUS LA NYES MED ZAD TE In the future, when I'm reborn, I will be man or woman. I don't care.

[Speaker 2]
You know? Who can help more people? I will be man or woman in my future life.

Something interesting.

[Speaker 1]
Buddha's body is a 50-50 inside of Buddha. Their male and female is balanced, and they are perfect, enlightened being. Outside, they can show Tara, or they can show Gautama, girl or boy.

But inside, their energy is balanced. Then this author, he gives a special prayer that we can say to pray for a world where men and women are treated equally. So, if you're interested, you can learn this prayer.

[Speaker 2]
I want to live in a world where men and women are equal.

[Speaker 1]
And this is the ... you want to say? Let's do the ...

anyway, I'll do the Tibetan first. Yeshe.

[Speaker 2]
Say Yeshe. Lama. Okidok.

Deshen. Manam. Lodrudang.

Wangpo.

[Speaker 1]
Shidang.

[Speaker 2]
Jamyangla.

[Speaker 1]
Dagny Kube. Chaktsalok. This is a special prayer for a world where men and women are equal.

I translated it into English. I bow in respect.

[Speaker 2]
Let's do it together. I bow in respect to the Lama of wisdom, to the spear of light, to the heart of prayer, to quiet senses, and the gentle voice.

[Speaker 1]
These are the names of five special bodhisattvas. Yeah, go ahead.

[Speaker 2]
...

[Speaker 1]
And if you like, sometimes you can do this prayer. And they say the names of those five bodhisattvas.

[Speaker 2]
To say them, to sing their name, it will create a world where men and women get equal salary, equal power, equal responsibilities.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? I'll give you the Sanskrit names. Just listen, okay?

Jnana Guru. Jnana Guru.

[Speaker 2]
Should I repeat or no?

[Speaker 1]
Let's say, Jnana. You can do it right now, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Pray for equality. We are better than a hundred years ago, but we are not good yet. Those big political groups, like 98% men, corporate presidents, 98% men.

[Speaker 1]
Let's do a prayer that it will be 50-50. Say, Jnana. Guru.

[Speaker 2]
Prabha.

[Speaker 1]
Ketu.

[Speaker 2]
Pranidhana. Mati.

[Speaker 1]
Shan. Andriya. Last one you know, Manjushri.

Okay, one, two, three.

[Speaker 2]
Five names.

[Speaker 1]
And if you say them, it helps create a seed for a world where people are equal.

[Speaker 2]
So, that's the seventh quality of a teacher. You want to live in a world where men and women have equal rights to study, to meditate, to do retreat, to become teacher. Cool, ma?

[Speaker 1]
Okay.