«Дар освобождения», курс 28 «Строю пространство для практики (ретрит в Таиланде)», занятие 9

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Let's do meditation first. The first meditation you learn in the monastery, when you are seven years old, is tonglen. And when you are 70, you are still doing tonglen.

So, let's do tonglen. Okay, so, step number one. Drop your cell phone.

Me too. Clear your throat. Relax your forehead.

Eyelids are soft. Fingers are relaxed. Little smile.

Shoulder blades together in the back. And slowly come to your breath.

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And try to watch ten long exhales. And think of somebody you know who's having some trouble.

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Imagine them sitting on their bed, in their own home, and see their face with problems.

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Little frown.

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And imagine you are sitting in a chair, not far from them. You are watching them. And you can see them, but they cannot see you.

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Then watch your breath coming in and out.

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Please imagine that the out-breath is going through your right nostril. And the in-breath is coming through your left nostril. And just imagine it.

Even if your nose is stuffed up, and you have to breathe through your mouth, still pretend that the breath is leaving your right exhale. And coming into the left nostril. We'll do ten rounds like this.

Long exhale from the right. Inhale from the left. Now look at your friend again.

Look inside their chest. And see their heart. And this trouble is like a small lump of tar inside their heart.

And you're wishing you could take it away from them. Even if it means you have to have this trouble yourself. Then come back to your left nostril.

You are breathing in through the left nostril. So decide you will breathe in this dark black cloud into yourself. And you breathe from your left nostril.

In from your left nostril. And that dark cloud begins to move. And it moves up to the upper part of their chest.

Then it moves up to their throat. You are sucking it up like a pump with your left nostril. It reaches their mouth.

Then their nose. They are breathing out of their right nostril. They are breathing in with their left nostril.

Same as us. So now pull that black smoke out of their right nostril. And it comes in front of your face.

It's floating in the air. Then think about how it will feel if you take it on yourself. My friend has a depression.

And usually I don't have depression. Am I willing to take on their depression? If it means they will not have depression.

Then decide you should take it. Then you are stronger. It won't hurt you so much.

And decide to take it. Then when I count to three, we'll take a deep breath in from the left nostril. And that black cloud will come down to my heart.

And in my heart there's a beautiful rose flower. And in the center of the rose flower is a beautiful diamond. And when that black cloud touches the diamond, it will be destroyed.

Nothing left. Just some thin smoke and then the thin smoke goes away. So get ready.

It's better I have this problem. I'm stronger. They will be happy.

One. Two. Three.

Comes to the rose. Touches the diamond. There's a flash of light.

And then just smoke. And the smoke dissipates. Then look at their face.

They don't know why. But they feel peace. They feel happier.

Physically they feel better. And they look very relieved. Then from your right nostril, we will breathe out a golden light.

And they will inhale it through their left nostril. And it will fill their chest with a soft golden light of contentment, happiness.

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Okay, go ahead.

[Speaker 1]
You can exhale a few times. Golden light. Enjoy their face.

Happy. Relaxed. And make a prayer they can stay this way.

And slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch. This is a special kind of breathing exercise, pranayama.

Optionally, you can use your finger to take the breath in. And then breathe out. But when you're doing a meditation, the fingers are a little bit distracting.

Okay, so today is a VIP class. I forget. I think we were in Guangzhou.

Best city in the world. I mean, today. And then we were having a VIP class for the wealthy people.

Then we suddenly ... I think it was me and Jasmine or me and Vivian. I don't remember.

We realized the real VIPs were the volunteers. Maybe it was Taiwan with Yaoli. I don't remember, but we decided the real VIPs are the volunteers.

And that's you. This is the largest retreat we ever did for a long period. Most people here.

And you know, while I started doing these retreats, my lama used to do retreats. He did every summer for ten days or something. And I was a volunteer for twenty years.

So I know about volunteer suffering. And I washed ten million dishes. I had special suffering.

Our temple didn't have air conditioning. And it was very hot inside. There's two small windows at the top.

It's like a stupa. And there are two small windows at the top. And he would tell me every morning I have to climb up a very high ladder.

And I don't like ladders. And I have to go up there and open the window. Then I have to come down.

Then in the afternoon I have to do it again. And I was very scared. So that was my worst volunteer experience.

But one day when I was up there, there were some paintings up there. And I realized these are Tsongkhapa. And there are fifteen paintings, tangka.

And they have about two hundred stories on them. Then after that I enjoyed being volunteer. Later we did this red Tsongkhapa book.

So I know it's a suffering. I know you are tired. I know nobody thank you.

But I like to thank you. Thank you. And I hope you will keep doing it for two reasons.

Number one, I don't want to do it. No. Number two, you will make a lot of good karma.

And the rest of your life will be happy. So all of my friends, they were like Princeton graduate. I remember my roommate in Princeton.

He became a famous lawyer. And then he died one day. Before that he told me I was a little bit stupid.

To be a volunteer in a small temple in the countryside. He said, you are wasting your Princeton education. And then he died.

The other roommate asked me for help. And then I realized to be a volunteer in a small temple was the best way to spend my life. And nowadays, I travel many places.

Oftentimes they give me the big room. Yao Li gave me a room in Kaohsiung. Do you remember?

I got lost in the room. At night, I go for pee pee. I couldn't find my bed again.

I think there were eight rooms or something. Next door is a Mayday band. I met them.

Learned their music. So anyway, why I have such happy life? It's because I did volunteer.

So, you are actually most smart people here. Okay, there's a special teaching. Most of you know the six perfections.

So, bodhisattvas, mainly they do six different things. They enjoy doing six kinds of actions. First one is what?

We had them in Shenzhen. Danabhoga. Danabhoga.

Say danabhoga. We had them in Shenzhen. What's danabhoga?

Giving. Sharing what you have with other people. That's the first perfection in Nagarjuna.

Bhogab means if you are generous with what you have, many things will come to you. Many like physical things and other things. Sukham shilat.

Say sukham. Shilat. What is sukha?

Happiness. From shila. Shila means morality.

Shila means morality. This is Nagarjuna's famous summary. Kshantya.

Kanti. Kshantya. Kanti.

Kshantya. Kanti. If you are patient, right?

That's the third one. Naishing. Then you will have a beautiful face.

Oh, that's very cool. Who did that? Sugeng?

Super cool. Thank you. These are Nagarjuna's famous summary.

Then say shamad. Dutik. Shamad.

Dutik. Shamad has many meanings. One is, mainly the root means to get tired.

And it means by serving other people. Like volunteer at the Thailand retreat. They have lots of shamad.

Got tired from serving. Then dutik. It's an interesting word.

It means lightning. Even nowadays in India, the Hindi word for electricity is vidyut. And it means you will be electrifying person.

And people will follow you. So, that's the fourth perfection. Shamad can mean get tired by volunteering.

But it always means to enjoy it while you are tired. So, it's difficult to be happy when you are tired. But if you can do it, serve like volunteer, tired, and happy tired, okay, not grumpy tired.

Okay. Two kinds of tired. One is like, oh Stanley, I'm tired but I'm happy.

We did a cool job. Everybody was really happy. Then, because of that karma, later people will follow you.

Like following Jasmine. So, in the past, I think she must have been happy tired. Then people are willing to listen to her.

Mostly. Okay. Fifth one.

Dhyanach Chantir Dhyanach Chantir Chantir So, Dhyana, we said in Shenzhen, the old pronunciation is something like Xian, Xian. And it means meditation. When it came to China and Japan, they said Xian and people heard Zen.

So, the word Zen is a mistake. It comes from Dhyana. So, Dhyana means meditation.

Then the next word is not really Chantir. It's Chantir. But in Sanskrit, when the T comes before Sha, the Sha changes to Cha.

Then the T must change again to Cha. So, really this is Dhyana. Chantir.

Chantir, you know, means peace. So, if you want peace in your life, meditate. Sixth one.

Mater Say Mater. Muktik Mater Muktik Say Muktik. Muktik Then there's a bad habit in India right now.

They mispronounce this. They say Muktikha. Shantikha.

It's a mistake. This is supposed to be a special consonant called rough breathing. So, it's Muktikha.

Muktik means freedom. The word before it is Mati. M-A-T-I I M-A-T-I Yeah.

And then the ablative, meaning from wisdom. It's a Matis. Matis.

And then S required to change to R. Like Ayurveda. Comes from Ayus.

Okay? So, this means ... Mati here means wisdom.

Understanding the pen. And then the last line is very beautiful. Say Kirpa.

Kirpa Sarvarta Sarvarta Sadhani Sadhani Kirpa Kirpa Sarvarta Sarvarta Sadhani Sadhani Kirpa means love. There's many words for love in Sanskrit. For example, Maitri.

This one means love which is a little bit sad. Like recently we lost one of our good friends in Sedona. A week ago or ten days ago.

Young. And he died suddenly. We feel Kirpa.

Kirpa. It means we are feeling love for ... Can you keep that up?

We are feeling love for him and for everybody. A little bit sad way. Somebody from Mexico said ...

It's like now when I say goodbye to my friends, I say, maybe I won't see you again. Then we feel some love. The word grief comes from this Kirpa.

Sarvarta means all goals. Sadhani means you can achieve. Sorry, Sadhani.

You can achieve. So, with love, all those six goals you can have. Now, these are called six perfections.

Nagarjuna added number seven. He says love is equal to all of them. Then there's an argument, why are they called perfection?

Bolomido. In Chinese language, Bolomido. Why are they called perfection?

Bolomido is from Sanskrit. The Sanskrit is paramita. Paramita.

Itta means gone. The English word for exit comes from itta. Ex means out.

Itta means go. Paramita means gone to the other side. It means perfection.

These are called the six perfections. Now, question for you. These are the six main activities of a bodhisattva.

Is a bodhisattva perfect? No, they're not. Wait, you're a teacher, you cannot answer.

Okay. You just hold that lady's hand and don't... I'm kidding, go ahead.

It's sweet. We don't know if we'll meet each other again. Paramita.

So, no, they're not perfect. And there's a joke in scripture. It says, these are not six perfections.

They are perfectionizer. They make you perfect. They are not perfection.

If you do them, you become Buddha. Okay? Then, these are not normal sharing.

Morality. Patience. Effort.

Meditation. Wisdom. Those are not perfection.

Okay? If you do them with wisdom, if a bodhisattva does them with wisdom, we can call them perfection. But if you do them without wisdom, they are not perfection.

For example, giving. What's a normal giving? Someone's your friend, and you give something to them.

Like an expensive watch. I'm just a model, okay? They didn't give me the watch.

The model doesn't keep the clothes, you know? So, we will give a watch to our friend. That's normal giving.

Normal sharing. But sharing with perfection. You understand.

Actually, you are the one who is receiving. When you give something, you plant seeds, and much more comes back. So, actually, you are giving to yourself when you give to other people.

If you understand that, you are giving with perfection, with wisdom. You are doing number one with number six. You are using mati, wisdom, with dana, giving.

Then we use mati with each one. Let's take shila, morality. Shila, the root word means cool.

Because morality is cool. Also cool. Cool comes from shila.

But, normal morality. Your mother told you, don't hurt your brother. When you were young, you fight with your brother.

Right? And your mom says, don't do that. It's not nice.

Then, that's morality. Government tells you, this is against the law. The monk tells you, don't do that.

School teacher tells you, don't do that. But if you do shila with mati, with wisdom, for example, if you don't eat meat, who are you helping? Mainly you.

Of course it hurts the other person when you kill them for their meat. But if you stop killing, you will live longer life. If you kill by eating meat, then you make your own life short.

So morality with wisdom is perfection. Then when you're really hungry, if it's a perfection, still you will not eat meat. Because you understand.

It's better to die from hunger than to kill another person. If you die from hunger, you just die one time? If you kill the animal for food, you die many times.

Now the third one is called kshantiya. This is the one I want to talk about today. Patience.

Kshanti is related to shanti. Oftentimes the K will drop out. It becomes shanti.

Sometimes the sha becomes wa. Sometimes the sha becomes wa. Quiet.

Quiet comes from this word. How to use wisdom with patience? How to make it perfection?

That's what I thought we could talk about. How do you use emptiness in patience? Now I want to make it more interesting.

What we studied in Shenzhen is a great book by a Chinese master student of Yuan Tze. Chuan Zhang. Sorry, Chuan Zhang.

His name is Yuan Tze. He wrote a beautiful book about what did Buddha really mean. I think it's one of the great books of China, one of the five best books of China.

It's been lost for a long time. I think it's going to be very cool. We are translating it into modern Chinese.

He talks about Buddha's life. There were three parts of Buddha's teaching career. We call three turning of the wheel.

During the first turning of the wheel, first part of Buddha's life, he said everything has its own nature. And then second part of his life, he said nothing has its own nature. Then after he finished the second part of his life, his students are completely confused.

In the first part of your life, you said nothing has any nature. In the second part of your life, I'm sorry, everything does have a nature. And in the second part of your life, you said nothing has any nature.

Then which one is correct? And then that became the third part of his teaching. He's discussing what did he really mean and what he didn't mean.

So, during these three parts of Buddha's life, he taught six kinds of emptiness. Six different emptinesses. Five of them are wrong.

One of them is correct. Okay? Now, why will he teach five ways wrong?

Because the audience had jet lag. And he has to make it easier. Alright?

So, there are six famous versions of emptiness. And what's interesting is they're all helpful. And I thought today, we could talk about how to use them for patience.

Remember, there are two kinds of patience. Who can tell me? You can say no anger and no anger.

And no upset. What's the difference? No anger at people.

And no upset at things. Okay? People's easy.

Like husband in the kitchen. Okay. How do you say lao gong?

Kitchen?

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Or husband?

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Which one? Which is husband? Husband is lao gong.

Oh, lao gong. Okay. And then, upset at traffic.

Airplane delay. Air condition is too cold. There's six kinds of emptiness you can use for anger and upset.

So, I thought to, you know, six kinds of mati to use for kshantiya. Kshantiya. Sorry.

Kshantiya. Okay, and that's on your paper. Okay?

So, you can, if you want to, you can look at your paper. Number one. This too will pass.

Dakhi. Dhongwa. Dhongwa.

Dakpe. Dakhi. Dakhi.

Dhongwa. Dhongwa means gong, kong? Kong.

Empty. Dakpa means permanent.

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Okay?

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Empty or permanent. That's the first kind of emptiness. Things are empty of being permanent.

And that's the first kind of emptiness. Okay? Now, all the schools of Buddhism in India, four great schools.

First one, like Abhidharma school. Second one, logic school. Third school, mind only.

Fourth school, middle way school. Middle way split into two. Lower middle way, higher middle way.

So, really there are five schools from India. This one, the lower middle way school, they believe this is the emptiness of a person. Okay?

They think this is one kind of emptiness. What does it mean? This too will pass.

This is a famous expression from Persia. Iran. Like 2,000 years ago.

It means this is also impermanent. And the American president, Lincoln. We had a civil war.

China had many civil wars. We also had. I don't know, 150 years ago.

Many hundred thousand people died. And the president at that time, in the worst part of the civil war, he's very religious. And he has to make a decision to kill 100,000 people.

Then he, his face got very old very fast. Then he said, they said, any good thing about this war? He said, this too will pass.

Nothing is permanent. Buddha said nothing is permanent. So, if Jasmine tell you, I want two of you to do a job together.

But she puts you with the worst person in the group. This is leader's special skill. My teacher will always make me work together with the guy I'm jealous of him.

I said, no, anybody else is okay. Not him. Then the teacher will always find out who doesn't like who.

They would say, okay, you guys, you work together on this project. So, in the middle of the worst meeting with the worst volunteer, you can use the first kind of emptiness. Okay?

It won't last forever. Actually, in my case, it lasted 25 years. Later, I moved, you know.

Actually, I never got over my jealousy. I just moved to another state. But it didn't last forever.

So, first kind of emptiness. Lowest kind of emptiness. Nothing is permanent.

Everything is empty of permanence. And you can use it for kshanti. You can use it for patience.

That's using the lower, middle way, one of their kinds of emptiness. Nothing lasts forever. And who taught that?

Who taught that kind of emptiness? Buddha taught it. Okay?

Is it correct? Is it real emptiness? No.

Why did Buddha teach it? Because two volunteers were jealous of each other. They didn't get along with each other.

They don't understand higher emptiness. Buddha said, I'll teach you emptiness. Why?

Don't worry, the other volunteer, they will move away, they will die, something will happen. Nothing lasts forever. Okay?

That's kong shing. Buddha taught it in the first turning of the wheel. Okay?

In the first turning of the wheel. Okay, second one. Say, RANG RANG.

RANG RANG. CHEN GYI. BDAG GIS.

MTHONG BA. RANG RANG. RANG RANG.

CHEN GYI. BDAG GIS. MTHONG BA.

Sometimes it's called RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG RANG That's another story. No. So, we usually feel like our body is like a car.

and we are like the driver. You know, we feel like that. This is my car, and I'm the driver.

And we feel like the body will listen to us. Watch. Arm.

Go up. Okay, now come down. Go towards Stanley.

Pinch Stanley. Okay, come back. Good, good.

Then we feel like we are boss, and this is work for us. Okay? Michael is up here somewhere.

I think in the shining part, and he tells the arm what to do. You know, whole life, we feel Michael has power over the arm. Didn't get old.

Go to the hospital. Even the arm did yoga many days. Down dog.

Up dog. You know? Then you can tell what to do.

But one day, in the hospital, when you get old, I'm thirsty. Can you get the cup? Get the cup.

Get the cup. It won't listen to you. Okay?

It proves you are not your arm. You are not your arm. It also proves you don't have control of your arm.

You think you do, but you don't. Okay, so that controller Geshe Michael, who controls his arm, driver of this car, Kong. No Michael like that.

Feels like that. Sometimes look like that, but not really. Okay?

You don't have control. In the present moment, you cannot control anything. Even, you know, try to meditate.

Oh, I'm going to meditate. Then close your eyes. Then the mind is like, what's for dinner?

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What's for dinner?

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Also, that other volunteer, I don't like him. Shh, shh, shh, shh. We are meditating.

Yeah, but what about tomorrow? What are we doing tomorrow? Actually, you cannot meditate.

Seeds opening. Thoughts coming out. Okay?

It's too late. If you want to meditate, you should have planted better seeds last week. This week's meditation comes from last week.

What you did last week. Today is too late. You don't even have control over your own thoughts.

It's not possible to meditate. If you made other people's minds peaceful last week, and you planted those seeds, then this week when you meditate, you will hear quiet. But if you fought with another volunteer last week, and this week you try to meditate, then seeds will open.

What's for dinner? What are we doing tomorrow? I don't like this other guy.

He made noise. Okay? Like that.

Okay? You don't have control at the present time. Body or mind.

Neither body or mind. And that's the second kind of emptiness. You are empty of controller.

That's the second kind of emptiness. This is accepted by two schools. Mind only school.

And again, the lower middle way school. They both believe this is emptiness. There's no controller.

You are empty of controller. Is it real emptiness? We say no.

Is it true? Are you empty of controller in the present moment? Yeah, it's true.

Okay? Is it real emptiness? No.

Who taught it? Buddha. Okay.

Why? Yeah, jet lag. Different kind of jet lag.

The student who had less jet lag, a little more awake. Then Buddha taught them second kind of emptiness. Okay, let's go to third kind of emptiness.

I don't know, Jin? Are you there? Hi.

You have that tree branch with two branches coming out. Good luck. It's in there somewhere.

Okay. This is the main emptiness of the mind only school. Okay.

And let's say I meet Stanley. Let's say I'm a volunteer and he's a volunteer. Okay?

And he wants to do something one way, I want to do it differently. So, I don't know, Jasmine gave us a job. We have to sell things at the store or something.

Then I say we should put things like this. He says, no, no, we should put like this. Then we get a fight.

Okay? Then we need third perfection, right? You know, calm down, be patient.

Okay? We need third perfection. Yeah, we are fighting.

Okay, use mind only emptiness. Buddha taught it. Is it correct?

Number six is correct. All the other ones are wrong. Okay?

This one also wrong. Not real emptiness, but it's pretty cool. Okay, what's it say?

So, last month ... yeah, here you have a picture. Okay?

Thank you, Nick. At the bottom of the picture, somebody planted a seed. Okay?

Like, I don't know, a month ago, I had a fight with my sister. Okay? A month ago, I had a fight with my sister.

And that is the seed at the bottom of this picture. Then the tree grew for one month. Then it split into two.

Two parts. Okay? One is called Stanley, one is called Michael.

Okay, one seed, grow, grow, grow, grow, split into object and subject. I got angry at him.

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Okay?

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Who put him here? Who put him ... yeah, who put him on Jasmine's team?

I did. Why? I plant the seed at the bottom.

Then that seed grow, grow, grow, grow, split into Stanley and me. Okay? So, this is mind-only school.

Okay? There's no ... there's no person that you meet who is separate seed from you.

No such thing. That's emptiness. What?

Really? Gender? Sure?

345? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

I thought it was four o'clock. Okay, we'll do fast. Okay.

Now, if I realize I created this person, will I get angry? No. It's my fault.

I created this guy. I plant the seed. So, but is this real emptiness?

Not really. Okay, it's very, very close. Why it's wrong, I will teach you next year in your VIP class.

We have to go, we have to go fast. Okay, number four. ,GTAN NAS SBYUG PA'I SBYUG SHES RANG GI TSE NAS KYI SBYUG PA'I STONG BA, This is also ...

who taught that? Yeah, mind-only school. Let's say someone's irritating you.

They put bad music on the radio? Okay. Why are you laughing at me, Chen Zong?

Is that hinting something? Yeah. Somebody's playing bad music.

Okay. Now, they say, oh Stanley, let me let me show you this new song. Then they turn it on, you know.

It sounds terrible, you know. Stay patient. Stay patient.

Remember emptiness. What's the emptiness? Different people hear different things.

Okay? Different people hear different things. He hears good music, I heard bad music.

Stay patient. Is it emptiness? It's not real emptiness.

Who taught it? Buddha. Okay, good.

,BLO NUS MED LA SNANG BA'I DBANG GIS BZHAG BSAM MA YIN PAR, ,YUL RANG GI THUB MO MED YIN PA'I, ,'DU LUS SU SBYUG PA'I STONG BA, Very famous. ,BLO NUS MED LA SNANG BA'I DBANG GIS BZHAG BSAM MA YIN PAR, ,YUL RANG GI THUB MO MED YIN PA'I, ,DU LUS SU SBYUG PA'I STONG BA, This is the fifth kind of emptiness. Lower middle way.

Okay? And they say the world is like a magic show. In India, I saw it.

It's pretty amazing. There are these special magicians, and they will take a thing like a spoon, and they will do a special mantra. The old meaning of mantra is magic, magic word.

In English, we have one from Persia also, abracadabra, abracadabra. Then you throw the spoon on the floor, and everybody sees a horse. Okay, because of the mantra.

So, this is the old meaning of mantra. So, this school believe when you look at the pen, 50% pen come this way. 50% pen come my way.

Okay, understand? What do we say? 100% come this way.

This school says, oh, that's too much. There must be something out there. When the magician, he use a spoon, even magician needs a spoon.

Pen come 50% this way. Pen come 50% this way. If that's true, then any problem that comes to me, I can use it as a path.

Positive thinking. Okay, any person come to you who's a problem, if you are smart, you can find a way to use it as an opportunity. Okay, like teach them to go make you coffee.

Then they will not bother you, and you get coffee. Understand? So, if you understand emptiness number five, nothing is 100% problem this way.

50% come from me. Then I can use this problem. If I'm smart, I can use it for something good.

Okay, that's fifth kind of emptiness. Last kind of emptiness, husband in the kitchen comes 100% from me. That's the highest kind of emptiness.

Okay, emptiness means something is missing. What's missing in the kitchen? The husband who came this way is missing in the kitchen.

That's emptiness. That's the highest kind of emptiness. Why?

If you understand this one, you can make anything happen. Money, health, relationship, peace of mind, perfect world. Okay, you can make.

Now, you want to go deeper? Because you are VIP. You are tired.

You are sleepy. I made a mistake. It's late.

But I want to teach you something super sexy. Because you did such a good job. Okay, now, in Buddhism, we say in every group, there's one person already Buddha.

Okay, in this volunteer group, there's one person who is already Buddha. Then they are disguised, in disguise. They're pretending to be normal person.

Also, don't think they are the nicest person in this group. Maybe they are the most irritating person in this group. And they are real Buddha.

And they are making everybody else stronger by being most irritating person. So, if the nicest person can be Buddha, and maybe the worst person is Buddha, then maybe everybody between is also Buddha. We don't know.

So, in the higher teaching, Vajrayana, higher way, it's a very interesting emptiness. This is secret. Only for VIPs.

Okay, there's a higher emptiness. Person who cannot be Buddha. Person who cannot be Buddha.

Person in this group of volunteers who cannot be Buddha, is like the husband who's coming from the husband. Okay, it means no such thing. Impossible.

Person in this group, who's definitely not Buddha, this group is empty of that. That's emptiness number seven. Top secret.

Top secret. Okay, highest kind of Buddhism. Highest kind of emptiness.

Okay, choose a person in this room. Okay, lower emptiness. Show me your left finger.

Point to something in this room that is not coming from your seeds. That's cold. Ready?

That's lower. That's what we call open Buddhism. Higher Buddhism.

Higher Buddhism.

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Ready?

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Again. Point to one person in this volunteer group who cannot be a Buddha. Right now.

Show me the person who's not already a Buddha. We don't know. Okay, that's higher emptiness.

About yourself, you think so? Maybe. But maybe you're lying.

Buddha always says they are not Buddha. The stupid people say, I'm Buddha. Then the real Buddha says, I'm not Buddha.

I'm not Buddha. It's not me. Understand?

You can't believe either one. Okay? Don't forget.

Highest kind of emptiness. And it will make you happy. If you think about it.

Jasmine said, you have to work with this guy. You can use six kinds of emptiness. Or, number seven.

He's a super irritating ... Must be Buddha. Okay?

All right.