«Дар освобождения», курс 30 «Как пройти великое путешествие», занятие 5

[Speaker 1]
Okay, welcome again. I know it's hard to do a class in the afternoon when it's hot after eating. In Tibet, they have to do a class in the snow.

In India, we had to do the class under the sun. So this is easy, okay? Alright, just, you know, I'd like to first review the beginning of the lam rim.

So this is what we studied about six years ago, and we're going to do just the pictures, the remembering pictures, idims, okay? And the first thing I'd like to do is the most boring thing. At least you should hear the names of the eight great lam rims, okay?

And you don't have to remember it, but I just want to put it in your mind.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So these are the famous lam rims that went into this lam rim. The first one is called the Essence of Refined Gold, like melted gold. And it was written by the third Dalai Lama.

Whose name was Sunam Gyatso. All the Dalai Lama's name is Gyatso. The second historical lam rim was by the fifth Dalai Lama, and it's called the Word of Gentle Voice, the Word of Gentle Voice.

The third famous lam rim is called Path to Bliss, and I translated it and I used it for the first three classes of the Diamond Way course. So there are 18 courses for secret teachings of Buddhism. To study them, you have to finish the 18 foundation courses.

And the lam rim is considered so important that you're not allowed to study secret Buddhism without studying lam rim again. So I had to choose one of these lam rims to put it in the first three courses of the 18 secret courses. And I chose this one by the first Panchen Lama.

So there's two high Lamas in Tibet.

[Speaker 2]
One is called Panchen, one is called Dalai, and they kind of alternate.

[Speaker 1]
When the Dalai Lama is a kid, the Panchen Lama is like 40. Then when the Panchen Lama is a kid, the Dalai Lama is like 40. His name, the first Panchen Lama's name, was Lobsang Chuky Gyaltsen.

I really like him. He was a pacifist. He personally stopped a war by walking out between the two armies without, you know, just his monk's clothes.

He said, anybody who wants to kill each other has to kill me first. And he was very famous.

[Speaker 2]
So the two generals agreed not to fight.

[Speaker 1]
He also gave each of the two generals a big bag of gold if they don't fight. And he succeeded. Okay, I like him.

We translated some of his secret poems, and you know, you can see those sometime.

[Speaker 2]
The second Panchen Lama, Lobsang Yeshe, he wrote the fourth great lam rim.

[Speaker 1]
That one's called shortcut.

[Speaker 2]
Fast path, fast track.

[Speaker 1]
The name of the lam rim is fast track, nir lam. And it's kind of a commentary on the first Panchen Lama. I guess he, after he was reborn again, he decided to write some more.

Then Tsongkapa himself, who started our tradition, he wrote three famous lam rims. One is called the big lam rim, lam rim chemo. One is called the medium lam rim, lam rim ding.

Then the short one, he called it the song of my spiritual life, nyam gur. And then we don't count the three principal paths, but that's also a lam rim. That's the first of the 18 ACI courses.

So if you become an ACI teacher, you'll be spending some time with his short short lam rim. But we don't count it among the eight famous ones. Okay, then a lama named Ngawang Drakpa, who lived 600 years ago.

He wrote something called leksin nyingkul, like the juice inside the juice inside the perfect teaching. Something like that, leksin nyingkul. And his book is a special style called marthi.

Marthi means red instruction, colored red. Instrucción roja means like a doctor will call all their students to cut up a corpse to see where the organs are. And that became a special style of lam rim.

There's about three more lam rims I think you should know about. One was written by someone named Yeshe Tsundru.

[Speaker 2]
Yeshe Tsundru.

[Speaker 1]
He lived 250 years ago. He wrote a lam rim called The Essence of Nectar. And my teacher translated that into English, and it's a very popular book.

You can buy it sometime online, okay?

[Speaker 2]
On Amazon, you can buy it.

[Speaker 1]
The Essence of Nectar by Lobsang Tharchin.

[Speaker 2]
T-h-a-r-c-h-i-n.

[Speaker 1]
Then Nagarjuna wrote, 2,000 years ago, he wrote a book that you can you can say it's a lam rim. It's called A Letter to the King. The Sanskrit name is Suharlekha, which means ...

hurl comes from hurd. Hurd means heart, like Heart Sutra. So, it's ...

the name is A Letter to My Heart Friend. That book is divided into two halves, and my lama translated it, and he translated a famous commentary to it by Tsongkapa's teacher named Rengdawa, Jetsun Rengdawa. Then the first half of that book, Nagarjuna controlled himself and didn't talk about emptiness.

Then halfway through the book, when he reached adultery, he said, you can't understand adultery if you don't understand emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
Adultery.

[Speaker 1]
Then the whole rest of the book is ... he gets to do what he wants. He teaches about emptiness.

And it's a very powerful teaching on emptiness. So, the second half of that book is all emptiness. Basically, the story is if you divorce your husband or wife to run away with another man or woman, by that karma, your new wife or husband will cheat on you also.

[Speaker 2]
That's the emptiness of adultery.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, seriously. And so, if ... we should teach that sometime, that book.

[Speaker 2]
It's not very long.

[Speaker 1]
That would be a good Nagarjuna book to do. And the last one I would like to mention is called the Tenrimchenmo. Which means the Great Book on the Steps to the Teaching.

And then Tsongkapa, 300, 400 years later, 300 years later, wrote a book called The Great Book on the Steps of the Path. He changed one word in the name. Can you show Trijang Rinpoche?

So, did I tell you this story? I had a chance ... I used to stay at Trijang Rinpoche's house for the debates, and he was a great ...

oh, I told you he met the Pope. He was a great book collector. And this book was missing.

This last lamrim was missing. All the copies in Tibet were burned. It's the longest lamrim.

It's a thousand pages. And I asked the young reincarnation, can I can I look through your last life's book collection? And we found a lamrim there.

We found this lamrim. So, it's very exciting, and we typed it, and we published it.

[Speaker 2]
John Brady's group published it.

[Speaker 1]
Later, I was translating Tsongkapa's life story, and during his life, 300 years after this first lamrim, this lamrim was also missing. And there's a painting of him discovering it. So, it's very exciting that John Brady did the same as Tsongkapa.

By the way, there's also one more lamrim. The first lamrim in Tibet is called the LAM GYI BRDZON MA. Light on the Path.

It's like flashlight on the path. By Atisha. And that became like the mother of all lamrims in Tibet.

So, you have eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve nice lamrims. Thirteen if you count this one. Okay, now the boring part is over.

I just want you to to remember. Now, let's go back to the crowd cheering.

[Speaker 2]
I told you the reaction to this lamrim that you are studying. It became a instant number one internet hit before electricity.

[Speaker 1]
And everybody was really excited, and they carved it immediately, which is very unusual in Tibet. Usually, you have to wait a few hundred years. Then I thought you'd like to hear what Trijang Rinpoche says about, you know, he took the notes, right?

[Speaker 2]
Trijang Rinpoche, what he thinks about Pabongka Rinpoche's teachings.

[Speaker 1]
un kyang nyam nyong gyur tok tu gyelway me nga kyi nyen ga nong je na shindu pangpe rang lu kangpob shik sendri su gyi par This teaching was so amazing, that I was afraid I would forget some parts. So, it was difficult. I was afraid to do it.

But I decided to ... I would try to write as fast as the Lama is talking. And I tried.

I wrote everything he said, I wrote down. This is like a feather pen, right? je su je lama chok ne kyang, chu drilung ma ngepa nam lang mot, ne sur du chepar ka shing Then later on, I showed it to my teacher, and he corrected it for me.

And he gave me some more details about emptiness and things like that. Then, chi tob shik kye nangwa pep, I got his permission to print it. drupa sulen drupe drok shen lang namay sung la tsab tabur, then I thought of my friends who couldn't come to the teaching.

The book would be like Pabongka Rinpoche for them. chu hle me, you should understand I didn't add anything by myself. And hle me means I didn't corrupt anything.

Everything is perfect. Okay, Nick, next? Next, idim.

This is a famous Russian painter, Nikolai Rerich. He traveled to Tibet, and he studied there. And he was a painter, and he painted many places in Tibet.

And then in New York, they opened a special museum just for him. And his son's name was Yuri, Yuri Rerich. And he translated, you can say Rorich in English, R-O-E-R-I-C-H.

George, they call him George Rorich. It's Yuri Rerich, right? And he became one of the greatest Tibetan translators in history.

So, I thought it would be nice to have this painting from the Russian master. And if you look carefully, there's a ... there's a meditator who's going like this.

Yeah, and it's Milarepa.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And his nickname is Tupagar Shrutyananda, who ... the guy who likes to listen. So, in the class, he was always listening.

He wasn't like, okay? It's a very famous ... in Tibet, he's the most famous meditator, but he's also the most famous listener.

[Speaker 2]
Then, when I show you this painting tonight or tomorrow, and I pull your name out of the bowl, because you forgot to pay Tim $20, Geshe-la, this morning it was only $10.

[Speaker 1]
This evening, it's going to be $30.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding!

[Speaker 1]
I get criticized on the internet. Geshe Michael said ... Anyway, okay.

[Speaker 2]
I didn't say it.

[Speaker 1]
It's just a joke.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, and this painting is supposed to remind you that when you come in the class, ten minutes early, which is traditional, you're supposed to come in ten minutes early before the teacher comes, and you sit down, and you close your eyes, and you say, why did I come here?

[Speaker 1]
You know, like, because of the teaching this morning, you can say, this morning we learned about all the people getting old, all of us in this room. When I met him, he's like 16, or mentally, I don't know. Then, I always think he's like 16, you know?

But we're not. He's not, and I'm not. Time keeps moving.

He's got gray, I got gray, I got no gray. Oh, he's got gray. Okay, so, when you sit down before the class, you know, it's like we're all running off a mountain cliff, you know.

We have a chance to stop it. We don't have to die. And if you don't die, you can teach other people how not to die.

Jesus used to say, I'll take you to the kingdom of eternal life. And people think, oh, you know, after I die, maybe I will go sit next to Jesus. I don't know where there's room.

There's all people there. But he didn't, he's not talking about a future in heaven, or, he's not talking about that. There's a famous incident where he's told his students, he's sitting with his students, and he says, some people sitting here will achieve eternal life before they die.

I'll find it for you. I'll find you the quotation, okay? And it's possible, okay?

But you need to work, we don't have much time.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so when you come in, you come in a little bit early, be like Scott, like he says, Geshe-la, we have to go to the talk now. Like, Scott, what time? It's only two o'clock.

He's like, yeah Geshe-la, but it's at seven. Let's go now. You know, I'm like, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Be like him, okay? He actually gets everything ready before the talk. The projector, the microphone, all the images to be projected.

[Speaker 2]
Then when I come in, we just start.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, anyway, come ten minutes early. You don't have to come five hours early. Then just think to yourself, why am I here?

You know, and I'm trying to ... what's the secret initiation happening next week?

[Speaker 2]
What's the ...

[Speaker 1]
it's a special angel called Yamantaka. So that word has two parts, yama and antaka.

[Speaker 2]
Yama means Lord of Death. Antaka means kill him.

[Speaker 1]
Next week, these guys with John, they're getting secret initiation, but it's not secret, okay? I mean it's secret ... it's not secret that we're doing it, but it's a secret that you can't get in unless you've finished your 18 courses.

The name of the initiation is Yama Antaka.

[Speaker 2]
Kill Death.

[Speaker 1]
So that should be your motivation when you come in here, you know? Okay, why did I fly here from Hong Kong with my husband? Well, there's a sun here, not much in Hong Kong.

So, chalapa is the most important thing, but also I'm going to kill death while I'm here. If you're new, don't worry. I know it's supposed to be chapala, but I call it chalapa for so many years by accident that I have to call it this.

So sit down, think, I'm going to learn how not to die, okay?

[Speaker 2]
So, I'm going to teach you how not to die.

[Speaker 1]
And if you learn how not to die, you know how popular you get? Well, either they nail you to a cross, What's this guy raising Lazarus? Who gave him permission to save the dead?

[Speaker 2]
And what is this guy doing reviving Lazarus? Who gave him permission to resurrect people?

[Speaker 1]
That was the beginning of the end. All the priests got jealous because this guy raised the dead person.

[Speaker 2]
On that day, they decided to kill him.

[Speaker 1]
It's amazing. Because they have to die, their kids have to die, their parents have to die, but the jealousy is stronger. Anyway, it should be the reason you're here, okay?

If I can learn how not to die, then I can teach my family. My parents, my children. We can change the whole world.

Okay, so this is the meaning of this THOS PA RGA. The guy who enjoys listening to the class. Okay.

THAL BA'I RTEN NI YOD SHING NOR LAS LHAG, RDIN DE NYID PA DAG RE TZAM ZHIG YIN, NYE DKA' BYAS LA RNAMS SKYES LOGS DAM DRAG TSUN GYIS BSAMS NAS JIG RTEN BYA BA KUNG PUNGPA BYA BA ZHING DU RTOG GYUR NI NYIN TSE GOS DU NYIN PO LEN PA'I LOS NYANGS SBYOR BA'I NGES KYANG SNYAM LEN DE LTAR BYAS THAMS TOD KHYAD KYANG DE BZHIN GYANG RTZAL LOGS Very famous from Tsongkapa. This body is better than Aladdin's lamp. Aladdin, yeah.

You rub this lamp, you can get anything you want, right? There's a famous joke about it, but it's a dirty joke, so I will tell the boys later. Anyway, your body, your mind, is more precious than the lamp of Aladdin.

Why? To use Aladdin's lamp, you have to know what you want.

[Speaker 2]
You have to get a picture in your mind, and then you have to rub it, right?

[Speaker 1]
Where the lam rim will take you is so cool, you cannot imagine it. So the lam rim is more precious than Aladdin's lamp. DUS DE NYES PA LTAR BA'I TZAM ZHIG YIN Your body consists of about 30,000 parts cooperating with each other perfectly.

The only thing keeping you alive is karma.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? If one of those parts start to fight with the other part, like cancer cells start to fight with the other cells, you will die.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? It's a miracle your body is still working. 30,000 parts are cooperating perfectly, and it doesn't take much to change that cooperation.

NYES KA'I JIGS BLA RNAMS SKYES BLOG DRIN DAG Your body and your mind are hard to get on like this. It's a very famous poetry. NYES KA'I JIGS BLA RNAMS SKYES BLOG DRIN DAG It means your body's difficult to get this 30,000 parts.

Each part comes from many good deeds to other people.

[Speaker 2]
JIGS BLA can fall apart easily. BLO DRIN DAG can fall apart easily.

[Speaker 1]
RNAMS SKYES BLOG DRIN DAG comes and goes as fast as lightning. GSOS NDIR BSAM LAS JI CHEN BYA BA KUN, BUN PA BYA BA BZHIN DU RTOG GYUR NAS So throw away all your stupid things you are doing in your life that are not helping you. Then a lot of people, especially young people, they say, Oh, Tsongkapa said I shouldn't get a job.

[Speaker 2]
I should meditate all day.

[Speaker 1]
Do a little bit of yoga. Tsongkapa said, throw away all the garbage you're doing and do a little bit of yoga.

[Speaker 2]
And Tsongkapa said, throw away all the garbage you're doing in your life.

[Speaker 1]
Don't think like that, okay? Who sent me to the diamond company? My Lama.

[Speaker 2]
He bought me the suit and the tie.

[Speaker 1]
He said, go! Perfect your education in New York City. Perfect your spiritual life in the business.

So their shirt was orange. The tie was pink and green. So this is a spiritual dilemma.

Do you always wear the suit your Lama gave you? Because it's a good color for Tibet. I used to change on the way to work, okay?

Tell you the truth. I'd change in the bathroom in the subway.

[Speaker 2]
I don't think ...

[Speaker 1]
Okay, anyway, working, having children, having family, this is part of a spiritual practice. Who can listen to this young lady sing and not understand that? The whole thing is part of life.

Okay? And you have to help your country, your city. You have to do something.

This is part of spiritual practice. Okay, so when he says run away from samsara, it doesn't mean run away from a job, okay?

[Speaker 2]
And when he says run away from samsara, it doesn't mean run away from a job.

[Speaker 1]
What is samsara? Yeah, you yell at your workers at work and you come home and your kids are bad and you yell at your kids and then your husband starts yelling and then you get unhappy and you yell at your workers at work.

[Speaker 2]
And you yell at your kids and that makes your wife yell at you and you yell at her and that makes you yell at the workers and at the kids, and so on.

[Speaker 1]
So, kids and work and ...

[Speaker 2]
Wife, wife?

[Speaker 1]
These are not samsara.

[Speaker 2]
How you behave with them is samsara. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And you will reach nirvana with the people you are with now. Don't think you're going to go someplace else. I was really nervous when they landed on the moon.

I thought they're going to mess up some Buddha paradise. Buddha paradise is just past the moon.

[Speaker 2]
Not true, okay? It's here.

[Speaker 1]
You have to run away from samsara here. NYAL CHOS NGES KYANG NYAMS RLAMS DE LTAR BYED I am the yogi and that's what I did.

[Speaker 2]
That's what I did.

[Speaker 1]
LTAR DE SKYES KYANG DE LTAR KYANG TSA LO You want to get to nirvana? Do like me.

[Speaker 2]
Who's talking? Tsongkapa.

[Speaker 1]
That's his small lam rim. It's called Song of My Spiritual Life. And each verse, at the end it says, okay, do it like that, okay?

It works. I tried it. Okay.

We're still reviewing, right? We're not doing our today's lam rim. We're reviewing from six, seven years ago.

Next idim, Nick. Yeah, this lady, I think the lady's a little too much. Too much makeup, too much dress.

I mean, this is the kind of lady that frustrates everybody else. And she's not real. They did it all with Photoshop.

So don't worry about it. There's nobody like that. But she has a ...

I can't see from here, but I think she has a jewel in her hand. So the idim here, in Tibetan it's called grab the heart. It means do something important with your life.

It doesn't mean become president of the United States. We know that didn't work out. It means become a good person.

And serve other people.

[Speaker 2]
Make other people's dreams come true.

[Speaker 1]
Then you are using your life. Don't spend your whole life eating and looking at YouTube videos. Also, don't go home and say, Geshe-la said we can't eat and we can't watch YouTube videos.

A good spiritual person knows how to have a good time. The best parties I ever went to was my friends in a certain city who know how to have a party. And that's a big part of spiritual life.

Understand how to have a good time. Learn how to enjoy yourself.

[Speaker 2]
Use the internet, but don't be internet slave.

[Speaker 1]
You can enjoy a good dinner. Make good dinner.

[Speaker 2]
Veronica and I, we cook for three hours sometimes.

[Speaker 1]
Then offer it to the Buddhists and then after they finish, eat the rest. They like a good French dinner.

[Speaker 2]
They don't like, you know, McDonald's.

[Speaker 1]
So, it's okay.

[Speaker 2]
Enjoy your life. In between those times, serve other people.

[Speaker 1]
Then you have fun.

[Speaker 2]
Good life.

[Speaker 1]
So, when I show you this picture tonight or tomorrow, and you didn't pay Tim your $50, I pick your name out of the bowl, and you're going to say, this picture represents get the meaning out of this life before it's finished. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Do some beautiful things for other people.

[Speaker 1]
Do some fun things for other people. Hero and his mother helping the Huichol people in this clinic in Guadalajara.

[Speaker 2]
This is awesome.

[Speaker 1]
She's really getting the meaning out of her life.

[Speaker 2]
I think so. You know?

[Speaker 1]
And I think they have fun. I mean, you know, it's hard with flat tires and things like that. But I think they are much happier people than normal people, because they are serving all day.

Okay, so that's the meaning of this idim. Otherwise, it's like someone gave you a big diamond, and you throw it in the garbage. Pabongka says, if you waste your life, if you don't help other people, DE LAS GYONGS CHE BA there's no greater loss possible.

DE LAS MONGS PA means and there's no more stupido than that. DE LAS RANG GI RANG LUD TZOB CHE BA And in the end, if you don't use your life to serve other people, you are only cheating yourself. Next idim.

This is some of the early classes by my teacher. The most handsome guy on the left is me. That's when I used to have hair.

And that's my lama sitting down. Now, what does this picture mean? What's the meaning of this idim?

The guy with the white beard, not far away from me, white hair. Yeah, a great professor of philosophy. He wrote many books.

The next tall guy, kind of in the middle with the mustache and the glasses, he wrote the Gopher Search Program.

[Speaker 2]
Which we still use.

[Speaker 1]
The guy, the kind of older guy on the right in the back with the glasses, he's a famous diplomat in Latin America. He represents the United States government in all of Latin America. The hippie guy at the bottom right kneeling, he and I typed the first ACIP book together.

We input the first hundred pages of the ACIP projects because we didn't have anybody else.

[Speaker 2]
A thousand or a hundred pages? A hundred pages. Catalogued to the Kangyur.

[Speaker 1]
Then of course, there's my lama. To his left are two ladies. One is a famous professor in Washington DC.

[Speaker 2]
The other one helped to run the Department of Education.

[Speaker 1]
All those people I mentioned are dead. Half the people in this picture are dead. What was my lama teaching during that time?

[Speaker 2]
He was teaching this lam rim. What part was he teaching? This part.

It says, this is the idim, okay?

[Speaker 1]
There will come a day when half the people in this room are dead. You know, and we're all sitting there like, yeah, yeah, okay, but when is lunch? What's for lunch?

[Speaker 2]
I don't know.

[Speaker 1]
Nobody's going to die this afternoon.

[Speaker 2]
Come on.

[Speaker 1]
We're all here. We have two legs. We have heads.

Then we didn't believe him.

[Speaker 2]
We didn't believe the book.

[Speaker 1]
And now it came true. All those people in particular, important people, they did good work. They did some work for the Dharma.

All of those people are amazing people. But they didn't work hard enough. They didn't work fast enough.

And they died. I don't know where they are now, okay? But, don't think this is theory.

There will come ... The idim is, do it now.

[Speaker 2]
Finish it now, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Get your rainbow body, then have lunch. Okay? Work hard now.

There will come a time when you are teaching ... Nick is teaching his students, and he will put up the picture from this retreat, and he will say half the people are dead. Okay?

Got it? This is logic, right? Half the people in that time died, so half the people in this time are going to die.

It's logical. But human being doesn't like logic. Oh, did half the people in this picture die already?

Yeah, they died. So, do we have also a group?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Are we also studying the same book? Yeah.

So, will half the people in this room die? What's for lunch, Geshe-la?

[Speaker 1]
Your mind doesn't want to think about it, you know?

[Speaker 2]
So, try. Use logic, okay?

[Speaker 1]
In you Tibetan human dictionary, it's called RIG PA'I GO TSUNG. RIG PA'I GO TSUNG. Parallel reasoning.

Okay. This wasn't supposed to be depressing, but it is. Next item.

This is very meaningful in Chalapa. The mosquitoes are bothering this girl. Okay, and what's the ...

When I show you this picture tonight or tomorrow, and I say, what's the meaning? If you don't pay Tim the hundred dollars. In this part of the Lam Rim ...

by the way, Pabongka Rinpoche is just warming up the people. He's not teaching yet.

[Speaker 2]
He's just getting them in the mood. He didn't start the steps to enlightenment yet. Then he looked somebody in the eye, I don't know, maybe it was Andriana or Chunzong, and he said, where are you going to be next year at this time?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Geshe-la, I will come to Chalapa program number six. Wait, how do you know? Where will you be at this time next year?

Then Pabongka Rinpoche, he says it very hard. He says a very hard way. Maybe you will have a tail.

Maybe you will have four legs. We don't know. So he plays the game like that.

He says, wait, are you going to have horns or tail? Which one? You'll be running away from the McDonald's executives who say you don't have feelings and they need you for a Big Mac.

Oh, I should have done something when I was a human to stop this custom, right? Then I thought maybe mosquito is better. To become a dog, the mom has to get pregnant, she has to cook the baby, the baby has to come out.

I don't know how long. It takes probably a month or something?

[Speaker 2]
Six months?

[Speaker 1]
What's those little bugs that were last night that were ... I was enjoying them. Bobos, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Mini mosquito.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, anyway ... They don't bite or they do bite? Yeah, anyway, it's possible that someone in this class will be bothering us later in the week.

Okay, in theory it's possible.

[Speaker 2]
Somebody die in a car accident tonight, have an unexpected heart attack.

[Speaker 1]
Nobody expects a heart attack, they just get a heart attack. Men and women, old and young. My niece got one.

She was 18. She said, I don't feel so good. And she sat down, and she died on the chair.

My brother's daughter. So, logically, you cannot say that you will not be the dumb bothering us on next Wednesday during the initiation. Okay, so if I ask you what is this picture?

The correct answer is where will you be next year this time?

[Speaker 2]
Or next week?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, got it? Alright. This is really depressing.

Doesn't it do anything happy? Let's leave it, let's leave it there with the mosquitoes.

[Speaker 2]
And let's go to the suffering of death.

[Speaker 1]
Veronica asked me, what are you teaching in Mexico this time? Depressing and super depressing. That's kind of why I added the heart sutra, because everything else was so miserable.

Okay, so Nick, we're going to the lam rim. You can look for apostrophe P-H-O D-A-N-G, apostrophe P-H-O D-A-N-G. That should hit the right thing.

Yeah. So, we are in the middle of a list of the sufferings of being a human being.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I think we have twenty more minutes. Am I right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, you're right.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so let's do a little bit. So, the fourth of the sufferings of a human being is called CHI BA'I SDUG BSNGAL.

[Speaker 2]
It means the suffering of death.

[Speaker 1]
RGYA CHER ROL PA LAS He quotes from the Lalita Vistara, The Play of the Universe. CHI DANG PO DANG CHI PO THU BYAS PA PHANG ZHING SDUG PA'I SKYE BA BDAG TU BRAL CHER MYONG ZHING PHRAD PAR GYUR MA YIN ZHING LAS LO BRUL DRA ZHING LUNG YON MTSUNGS CHI means people in our life die. PO BA And they move to their other world.

They move to another world. We can call CHI PO, we can call die, move. Die, move.

Die and move. Die, move.

[Speaker 2]
Die and move.

[Speaker 1]
You can call it DU BYAS PA, your time has come.

[Speaker 2]
In any case, you have to leave all of the people you love.

[Speaker 1]
You always go alone. You come alone, you die alone. You go alone.

[Speaker 2]
You say goodbye to everybody. CHER MYONG You can't come back.

[Speaker 1]
PHRAD PAR GYUR MA YIN You can't meet them again. When a leaf falls from the tree, it never falls back up on the tree. When you sit by the side of the river, the water goes downstream and you don't see the same water again.

LONG CHOS You lose all the money, all the work, all the house, all the car, everything you worked for your whole life, you lose it in one day. TZAN CING You lose your mother, your father, your kids, your friends, everybody. And the final insult, you lose your rental car.

I have a very dear friend, she got cancer. You guys know her.

[Speaker 2]
She did two three-year retreats.

[Speaker 1]
And now she has a very bad cancer. And she's on the Facebook, she's writing some beautiful things. She's like, I never thought about my body like a tool that I can use.

Your body is your connection to all other people. If you don't have a mouth to talk, if you don't have arms to touch people, then really you're alone. You cannot say anything to anybody without a mouth.

You cannot touch any other person without arms. I have a friend, he likes to save money on automobile tires. He wants to save ten dollars on the automobile tires.

You know, so then he goes to the discount, discount tire place.

[Speaker 2]
They sell these old, dangerous tires.

[Speaker 1]
Then, I'm over sixty. When you reach sixty, you have wisdom. Before that, you don't know anything.

Ask John Brady. When you hit sixty, something happens to your mind. Then you become a philosopher.

So I said, sit down, let's work this out. Sit down. He's like, yeah, okay.

Then I said, you're going to buy a dangerous tire to save ten dollars. He's like, yeah, Geshe-la, I can do so many things with ten dollars.

[Speaker 2]
Then I said, but if the tire breaks and if you die in the car, you don't have hands to pick up the ten dollars. You understand? He's like, he's not sixty, so he doesn't understand.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, but Geshe-la, I'm saving ten dollars.

[Speaker 2]
Then I try again, you know.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, but if the tire breaks and you die, you can't use the ten dollars.

[Speaker 2]
There's no hands.

[Speaker 1]
He's like, okay Geshe-la, okay. Then when they say, okay Geshe-la, I know that they don't ... they don't know, they don't care, they didn't understand.

Esta bien, Geshe-la, is a polite way to say shut up. Okay, so what's the next idim? Sorry, now we're in the new idims, right?

We're in this ...

[Speaker 2]
These are the idims you're supposed to learn now.

[Speaker 1]
These people lost someone in their family, and it's over.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
You know how many kids rush to the hospital and get there ten minutes after mom died? You know, and they're all like, I wanted to tell my mom I loved her, or I wanted to apologize for calling her stupid three years ago.

[Speaker 2]
Do it now while mom is still here.

[Speaker 1]
Tell her you love her more than anything.

[Speaker 2]
Tell her you love her more than anything.

[Speaker 1]
Apologize for all the stupid things you did when you were sixteen, right? Santiago.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding.

[Speaker 1]
We all ... The brain fails between sixteen and seventeen. The hormones stop the synapses, and you make all your big mistakes during this year.

So, anything you have to say to someone else, say it now. Okay? Because they will come, this day will come.

Okay? What is it? John Mayer song, right?

Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Okay, tell people now how you feel.

I love you, word, even though you're a human dictionary. Just in case me and Alex go off the road on the way to the airport. Part of this idim is help people who lost somebody.

It's a terrible suffering. It's a terrible pain. If it didn't happen to you, you cannot imagine it.

It's like the whole world collapsed. And nothing else matters to you. So, say the things you have to say.

Understand ... We don't know how long we can say them. Tell your mom you're sorry for everything you did bad.

Then go home before you have another argument. Okay. CI TSE SDUG BSNGAL DANG YID MI BDE BA GRAB PO NYON BA SOGS DANG When your own time comes to die, inside your mind, you go crazy.

SPYI BA CHUNG TSE THAB GZHAN GYI RDOG PA'ANG MI NUS PAR BRGYA SPO LA DAM PAS RDO LAS GSON PA NGAR SPYI BA DRAN TSUL GYI SKABS SU SHES ZIN PA LTAR There comes a time when there's nothing people can do to keep you alive. And it's like the story I told you before from the sutra that the Buddha taught the king.

[Speaker 2]
This is not the same as Nagarjuna.

[Speaker 1]
Then we covered that already. But it's basically a story about SKYE RGA NA CI It's a story of our life. Four words are the story of our life.

[Speaker 2]
Born. Got old. In between, lots of sickness.

And then dead.

[Speaker 1]
SKYE RGA NA CI Very famous. The fifth suffering of a human life. We have nine minutes.

I'm going to use it. The fifth suffering of a human is losing ... What do you call it?

Being separated from the things you love. DUS PA DANG BRAL BA'I SDUG BSNGAL It's called the suffering of being separated from the ones you love. This is a beautiful sentence in the Lam Rim.

My Lama, if he hears me teaching, sometimes he says, Oh, did you find a sentence that wasn't beautiful? Okay, anyway. RANG GI LA LOB We have our teachers, we have our students.

We have our friends, we have our relatives. We have our parents, mother and father. There are people we don't want to be away from them even the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.

But we will be torn from them.

[Speaker 2]
Life will separate us.

[Speaker 1]
DGOS SA STONG SBYOR LONGS SPYOD SOGS DANG BRAL People struggle to get a position. When you meet somebody, Hi, I'm Michael Roach. You know I'm a Geshe.

So, you want to tell everybody your position. I'm actually vice president of my company. You bring up the thing within five minutes.

Hi, I'm Michael Roach. I travel to 35 countries in the world every year. 225,000 people come to see me.

Veronica's like, shut up, shut up. I'm like, yeah, but also I translate also.

[Speaker 2]
She's like, shut up, shut up.

[Speaker 1]
Do you know? Anyway, we all do that. Maybe.

[Speaker 2]
So, it doesn't matter how powerful you are.

[Speaker 1]
It doesn't matter how important you are.

[Speaker 2]
You can do it. You lose everything.

[Speaker 1]
You lose your global services status. We got off a plane, I think in Los Angeles. There's a guy standing there with a sign, Michael Roach, you know.

Then I'm like, Hi, I'm Michael Roach, what's the problem? He says, the board of directors of United Airlines just selected you as global services.

[Speaker 2]
Then I'm like, what's global services?

[Speaker 1]
There's bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, and you're up here. You live in the airplane.

[Speaker 2]
We made so much money from you.

[Speaker 1]
He says, so we have a limousine waiting on the runway for you. I said, but I don't need it, I'm connecting flight. They said, he's like, no, Mr. Roach, you don't understand, we are driving you to your connecting flight in the limousine.

[Speaker 2]
We're at gate 68A, right? A68. I said, well, what's my next gate?

[Speaker 1]
A69.

[Speaker 2]
So, you want me to walk down the stairs, get in your limousine, you're going to drive me over to where Gina is sitting, then I have to walk back up the stairs and get on the next plane.

[Speaker 1]
He's like, yeah, you're global services. Then I'm like, you know, this time I'll just do it myself, okay? So, after you die, nobody cares your global service, okay?

I just like it because they treat me like I'm a lama, they treat me with respect, you know? If you want a United Airlines person to salute and you just say, I'm global services, they're like ... But you lose everything, even your global services, okay?

RAB BYUNG YIN YANG RGA ZHIG TSUL KHRIMS DANG THAL BA'I LTA BU'I SDUG BSNGAL SOGS NA TSOGS YOD Even people who are monks and nuns, not supposed to have a lot of money or house or family or things like that, even they have suffering when they die because they remember every small rule they broke. DE DAG KYANG RANG RANG RGYAS LA MI YOD PA ZHIG CHUNG BA MIN GYIS KHOR BA PA LA RANG CHES SU YOD PA'I LTA YIN All of these problems, you lose your family. You lose all the apartment, the house, the car, the money, the savings account, the stocks, everything you fought to earn your whole life.

Then he says a funny thing, he says, don't think God is picking on you. In English we say, it comes with the territory. If you decide not to get out of samsara, you bought it.

You deserve it. If you don't like it, you should have gotten out when you had a chance. Yeah, it's one package paqueta.

[Speaker 2]
You can't complain.

[Speaker 1]
If you don't work to get out of here, then you have to take what comes. If you're going to live this dangerous life called not studying, not meditating, then you can't complain when they tear everything away from you. Okay?

Cool? No, but anyway, it's cool that I finished. Okay, we'll continue making you depressed later.

No, tonight we'll do a Heart Sutra, which is very ... really, it tells you why you have hope. How to stop all these problems.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
The goal of this class is to stop death. Nothing less than that. And I say it's possible.

Otherwise, there's no reason to come here. Okay? Alright.

Hustle? You ready? GEN PADI SANGYE SHIN TU MIKTE U ANGYI DROKU NANDA SHING LA CHU PAD SHOK YIDAM GURU RAKNA MANTAR LAMPAM NIRYATAYAMI GYE WA DIGYE OKUN SON NAM YIN SHEN TSOR TSOR SHING SON NAM YIN SHEN ME CHUNG WE DRAG PAR GUR NYID DROG PAR CHOK So, in the break, please review the pictures we finished.

It's not very difficult, right? And then be ready, because I'm going to take an examination. You're going to take an examination tomorrow.

[Speaker 2]
Random examinations. Okay.