«Дар освобождения», курс 30 «Как пройти великое путешествие», занятие 15

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's do the last meditation, okay? If you don't have a recording and you want a recording, this is a good time to do it. And maybe Tim can project the ...

What's up? What's up? Then you can play the recording for four or five days.

And then after that, you probably don't need it after that. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Uno mas. Usually I sell these afterwards.

If you need a cheap recorder, talk to me afterwards. I can give you a good price. Last day, lower price.

Okay, here we go. Please turn your cell phone off if you're not using it. Sit ups.

Good to blow your nose if you need to. Clear your throat. Make sure your bottom is comfortable.

If you need a different cushion, there's some cushions here. Shoulder blades are together in the back, so the chest comes out. You can also do that by sliding your hands back on your legs, like this.

So, don't try to hold your knees like that. Then you collapse your chest. So, pull your hands back.

You can meditate like this, with your hands. You can meditate like this. I find they fall asleep if I'm like this.

They fall asleep if they're like me. So, I go halfway between. So, you see what's comfortable for you.

Some people like this. A little bit distracting for me to keep the thumbs up. I'm like ...

then they fall down. So, you can just put them on the palms also. Okay, here we go.

We made a special ring for meditation. Maybe I'll show you later. All right, here we go.

Lips are soft. Forehead is soft. Little Mona Lisa smile.

Stomach comes in a little bit. At the end of the exhale, if you push more exhale out, then your stomach automatically will come in a little bit. When the stomach's a little tight, then it helps the back to not be too tight.

Don't be too serious. Don't wrinkle your forehead. Have fun.

Just relax. Everything's okay. If you keep doing a little bit of meditation every day, you'll be happy for all your future lifetimes.

Then it's like we're in the lobby of a hotel, and this is the lowest floor. This is the foundation of the meditation. We're going to pick a sound outside and glue the mind to it.

Today, because it's the last day, we hired some children to make noise. We'll see. Glue the mind to the sound.

It would be quieter if I went to my heartbeat. So, come to the feeling of your heart beating in your chest. If you live in a very quiet place, you can try to hear your heartbeat.

If your chest feels tight, or you feel a little bit nervous, oftentimes it's because in meditation we are breathing in more than we are breathing out. Then extra air gets in and it makes you feel nervous, because that extra air is connected to your prana. So, when you exhale, and you come to the end of the exhale, then a tiny pause, then push a little more air out.

Not very strongly, just a little bit. The lower abdomen will tighten. The air will come out of the lungs, and there will be less buildup of prana.

It would be quieter if I went inside my heart. So, place your mind inside your heart, inside your chest. It's supposed to be you cannot hear outer sounds anymore.

But, of course, our meditation is not perfect. Especially if someone makes a loud sound outside, or a loud bird. So, of course, the mind will go out of the heart to the outside world.

Then don't get nervous, and don't get flustered. Just bring the mind back inside the heart. And the inside of the heart should be a very beautiful, wide meditation room.

I like to put lots of cushions and blankets on the floor. And it's very important that there's lots of sunlight, as if the walls of the heart had a lot of windows. Now, let's expand that room.

It's like a pretty big penthouse apartment. Lots of light. And I'm sitting in the center of the center, in a room in the center.

The walls of the penthouse apartment are still beating. But it feels far away, and the sound seems far away. Next to me, on a small table, there's a small sugar pot.

And I put the third finger of my left hand in the pot. And I pull it out, and there's a few tiny white grains of sugar there. And I focus on one of them.

And I put my mind inside the sugar. It's even more quiet. I cannot hear the walls of the heart beating anymore.

And inside the sugar crystal. It's a very wide meditation room. Very, very spacious.

Lots of sunlight. Very comfortable. Very cozy.

Very peaceful. And now suddenly my mind becomes the entire Pacific Ocean. Inside the sugar crystal.

Thousands of miles wide. Very, very deep. Very peaceful.

Beautiful dark blue color. And I expand my mind to the sky above the Pacific Ocean. The beautiful light blue sky.

So now my mind covers both sea and sky. Very quiet. Very peaceful.

Now sometimes thoughts, random thoughts, random images, random feelings, come through the sky of my mind like little bit noisy seabirds. So I track them, and then I catch them, and I push them out of the sky of my mind. Then my mind becomes almost totally silent, as if I had turned off my mind.

Even just catching those random tiny thoughts, it's a little bit noisy, so I'm going to now ... I will turn off my mind. The thoughts may come, but I will leave them alone, and I will not listen to them.

Now think of one of the teachers in your life, and it could be any teacher. Your parents, school teachers, spiritual teachers, any religion. The person who taught you your job.

Some historical teacher like Jesus or Buddha. Or perhaps it's an ideal teacher that you think about sometimes. And ask them if they would like to come and meditate with you.

And very happily they agree. And they come and sit in front of you knee to knee. Their eyes are open, and they are looking at you with great affection.

Your eyes are closed, but you can still see their eyes. They are not a picture, they are alive. Their chest is moving as they breathe.

You can smell a slight beautiful fragrance like jasmine flower coming from their body. And you just sit together, enjoying each other without talking. Then choose some beautiful quality that you really enjoy about your teacher.

Maybe we don't see our teacher as perfect, but there's certain qualities about them that we really, we really enjoy. So, let's focus on that one. Choose one.

If I'm seeing this quality, I must have seeds for it. As those seeds open, that quality comes out of my mind, and it floats to my teacher and glues itself to them. And the only person who can put seeds in my mind is me.

So, perhaps in a past life, I planted these seeds. So, let's go on an imaginary trip to my past life. I don't have the power right now to see my past life directly, but I can guess, and I can imagine, and I can make a story about what I did that was similar to what I'm seeing.

So, go back in time. You can go hundreds and hundreds of years. You can go anywhere in this world.

You can go to other worlds that you can only imagine, and you can be anybody. Man, woman, any occupation, any race, any age, and have fun. Two steps here.

First of all, decide on a past life, and a past job. You can even be a different kind of being. You can be a dragon, or you can be a fly.

So, first choose your body and your life. Then make a movie about something you did, which created the seeds to see your Lama, this beautiful part of your Lama. Have fun.

If you get tired, just take a break and then come back to the story. Don't struggle, don't fight with your mind. Follow the little hints and clues that your mind gives you.

Follow your imagination. Nothing is crazy. If you can think of something, then you have a seed for it, and you deserve it.

Okay, here we go. Now slowly come back to your teacher. Look again at this quality that they have, and appreciate that it's coming from your seeds opening right now.

Try to understand that quality is not inside of them. It's not inside of them, and then it's coming out and you see it. It's coming directly from seeds opening in your own mind.

They are real. The quality is real, and it's beautiful, and it belongs to your teacher, but you gave it to them. Which means somewhere inside of you, you have this quality very strongly, or you couldn't see it.

So again, enjoy your teacher. Enjoy their beauty, and enjoy that it is your own beauty also. Try in the future to keep your mind on this fact that this beauty is coming from you.

If you experience something beautiful, then talk to yourself and say, I must keep planting these seeds. If you see things in your life that are not so beautiful, then think to yourself, I need to plant some more beautiful seeds. I need to do more things for other people.

And if I keep planting seeds, I will see this beautiful teacher forever. Then you kind of excuse yourself from your lama, I need to go back down the elevator. Come back to the mind with thoughts passing through it, and we are ignoring those thoughts, and it's very quiet.

My mind is the ocean and the sky. There are thoughts and even noises outside, but I'm just ignoring them. Then try to block some of those thoughts.

Come back to the ocean and the mind. Vast and peaceful. Then the ocean by itself.

Then again, you are yourself sitting inside the sugar crystal. Lots of light, very comfortable. Like a small apartment.

Elegant. Filled with sunlight. Then that is a larger penthouse apartment.

Lots of sunlight. I'm in the middle of the middle. Far away, I can hear the walls beating, because the walls are my heart.

The walls of my heart. And now I'm in my body, and I'm watching my heartbeat. We're tired.

The body's tired. The knees and the bottom are tired. The mind is getting a little bit impatient.

This is when we make progress. If I can keep focusing for ten more minutes, my meditation will get very strong. Back into the heart.

Beautiful space. Elegant small apartment with lots of sunlight. And now it's bigger.

It's a penthouse. And I'm in the center of the center. The heartbeat is far away.

I pick up a grain of sugar. I move inside the sugar. Beautiful small elegant apartment.

Lots of light. Super quiet for meditating. Suddenly my mind is the Pacific Ocean.

Huge and very peaceful. Deep and a beautiful blue. Then my mind expands to the entire light blue sky.

And there are small little noisy seabirds, outside sounds, thoughts coming to my mind. As soon as I see them, I block them. And the mind gets very quiet, as if I turned it off.

Still slight noises coming. Let them come. Let them go.

I stay quiet. My teacher comes again. I see this beautiful quality about them.

I know it's from my seeds. Remember a little bit how you planted them. There's no beauty I see which is not a reflection of beauty in myself.

I will try to serve more people. I will try to make this even more beautiful. Slide back to the body sitting under the tent.

Now I'm really tired. Now my knees and my bottom really hurt. This is the time when I can make progress.

One more time up. I will keep my focus. If I can learn to hold my meditation, even when it's not comfortable, I can see emptiness.

Don't forget the trick about the exhales. If your chest feels nervous, a little bit tight, push some more breath out at the end of the exhale. Come back inside the head.

Ah, here's my lama. Here's that teacher. Think about that beautiful quality.

Oh, that's a reflection of me. Come to the center of the center of the sunlit penthouse. My teacher is also here.

Nothing about their beauty is not coming from me. That's emptiness. Let's go into the sugar crystal.

My beautiful teacher is also here. Since the teacher is coming from me, because they are coming from my seeds, I can meet them anywhere. The beauty in my teacher can start to appear in other people around me.

Because it's my reflection, it's coming from me. I can be by angels who help me all day. Suddenly my mind is the Pacific Ocean.

Even the ocean, the wind, can be the beauty of my teacher. Now there's a beautiful blue sky. Even the beauty of the sky is coming from me.

And it's also a reflection of my teacher. Come to the inside of the quiet, quiet mind like the sky. Even that silence during my best meditations is a reflection of me.

And it's a piece of my teacher. Now bring the teacher in front of you. Feel how happy they are that you are meditating.

How happy they are that you are doing a meditation that will keep beauty in your life forever. Then ask them, please stay with me. Influence me.

Make me a good person. Guide me. Please come inside me.

Then they're very happy that you asked, finally. And they start rising up off the cushion in front of you. And as they rise up, they get smaller.

And then finally they're seated on top of your head. They shrink to the size of your thumb. And then they come down your central channel, and it feels like warm honey.

And they come to your heart. Very beautiful, filled with sunlight. Very beautiful teacher.

Anytime today that you have any kind of problem, or you need some inspiration, you can just think about them. Deep inside your heart, in an elegant sunlight-filled apartment. I would like to share these seeds with everyone in the world.

I will make my breath like the smoke from the fire offering. And I will offer it to the sky and to touch the whole world. Three deep exhales.

Push the breath out without too much effort at the end. And share this blessed smoke with the world. Then slowly open your eyes.

Take a stretch. Take a break. Come and get your phone before I sell it.

Have a pee-pee. And then we'll come back. Okay, you guys want to do the mantra?

Okay. All right. So, I'm just going to read Choney Lama's explanation of the mantra.

DE LTA BA NA ZHIG RA GYI PHAR BAR TU PHYIN PA'I NGA'A ROL PA'I PHYIN PA'I NGA'A LA RNAMS PA'I PA'I NGA'A MI NYAMS PA DANG NYAMS PA'I NGA'A, SDING NA THAMS CAD ROD TU ZHUGS PA'I PHYIN PA'I NGA'A MI RDZUN PA'I NA LDAN PAR ZHIG PA BYA STE, very famous.

[Speaker 2]
Before Buddha speaks the mantra through his student, so the mantra comes at the end of the sutra, and before he speaks the mantra, he advertises how great it is.

[Speaker 1]
First he calls it ZHIG RA GYI PHAR BAR TU PHYIN PA'I NGA'A. It's the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, okay? Which in Sanskrit is prajnaparamita.

Prajnaparamita, right? Then prajna means wisdom. I understand my husband is coming from me.

[Speaker 2]
Which husband? The one who comes from my seeds, because I yelled at my three bad kids. Okay, the other husband?

[Speaker 1]
I didn't do anything. I just come home and he started yelling at me.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, that husband doesn't exist.

[Speaker 1]
What will Buddha say? Never existed, doesn't exist now, could never exist in the future.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Which one? I didn't do anything husband. Where's Ayrton?

He's the best one.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, can you do it?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, en espanol? Yeah, okay. Good, you can have him do it every time you teach it.

That husband doesn't exist, okay? So, if you understand the two husbands, right?

[Speaker 2]
One comes from my kids, one cannot exist.

[Speaker 1]
Together, that can be called in Sanskrit, the word shut up. I'm still upset. I'm still upset at him.

I have to do all these international transfers now. Upaya, okay? Which means spiritual truco.

Truco spiritual. Truco spiritual. Okay, tricky way to help people.

Okay? But together, if you understand the two husbands, it will paramita. Who wants to tell me what it means?

[Speaker 2]
Paramita. It will take you to the other side. What's the other side?

You will walk through the kitchen to the other side of the kitchen, and you will go in the bathroom, and you will look in the mirror, and you will say, you're stupid!

[Speaker 1]
That's paramita. Okay, got it?

[Speaker 2]
You don't yell back. Para means other side.

[Speaker 1]
M, the M on para means to the other side. And ita is past tense, to go. We have it in the English word exit.

Exit, to go out. So, paramita, okay?

[Speaker 2]
So, in the husband in the kitchen, what does it mean to go to the other side?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, go to the bathroom. He says, you're stupid. Then you say, I'm not stupid!

Oh, oh, oh. Okay, okay, okay. Important thing to remember, is the husband stupid?

Yes, all husbands, I told Pau, all boyfriends, they're stupid, you know? But don't say it. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
You will collect more seeds.

[Speaker 1]
Your kids will be bad.

[Speaker 2]
Next week.

[Speaker 1]
So, if you can shut up, then that's a paramita. And oftentimes paramita is compared to crossing an ocean. Successfully crossing a big dangerous place.

What's the big dangerous place? The kitchen! Okay.

Then korway gyel tsar le paro tu chenpa, you will go across the ocean of samsara, which is called? Kusina?

[Speaker 2]
Kusina.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, don't think samsara is some big thing that's like Lake Chalapa.

[Speaker 2]
Samsara is your kitchen, okay?

[Speaker 1]
On a bad day when both of you are tired and grumpy and words stole all your money, the kitchen is a dangerous place, okay? Then, if you can get through the kitchen without saying something bad to your husband, that's the perfection of wisdom. Or is it?

Yeah, I think next year you take the class by internet, okay?

[Speaker 2]
With your microphone turned off.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay, that understanding, it's not the perfection of wisdom. It brings you to perfection. I wish I had more money I would offer some.

Let me see. Okay, $200 check. If you can, if anyone can pull out of their memory, when does the perfection of wisdom actually happen in the kitchen?

And I want both parts of the answer.

[Speaker 2]
There's two parts of the answer.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you want to try? If you're wrong, you give me $300, right? Okay, $200, $200.

Two parts, two parts. In Spanish it's $175. Because I don't know what he's saying.

Maybe you have an agreement with him. Wait, translate.

[Speaker 2]
Or self-translate.

[Speaker 1]
That answer is so perfect. I'm going to give you my luggage overweight charges, and Nick will bring my extra bag home. I thought nobody would give perfect answer, you know.

You guys have to stop listening during the Lamrim, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Just relax. Think about lunch.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 2]
So, first moment of the perfection of wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
You say to your husband, I'm not stupid! Then you stop yourself. Because you realize, first of all, you realize he's not even there, right?

And then sometimes that takes, you know, 24 hours. Okay? You say, no, I'm not stupid, you're stupid.

Then 24 hours later, he's like, oh, I shouldn't have answered, you know?

[Speaker 2]
I shouldn't have said it. Now my kids Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So that's correct. Yeah. So that time, how much time it takes to remember the perfection of wisdom.

If that gets shorter and shorter, that's the goal. Okay? Okay, so first he says about the mantra, SHES ROL GYI PHA ROL DU BYIN PA'I BSNGAGS, this is the mantra of the perfection of wisdom.

And if you say the mantra, if you buy a rosary, okay, sorry, I should have bought you a new one. I went shopping for rosaries, but all I could find, they're not very nice, in town. Get a rosary.

Half the time you can do your old Hail Mary's, that's also good. And then half the time, you can do your mantra. Okay?

Why? Protection. So we did the mantra at the wedding, Hema and Fernando.

How does the mantra protect you?

[Speaker 2]
You see, before you come home to the kitchen, in the subway, on the bus, do your mantra.

[Speaker 1]
GATI GATI PARA GATI PARA SANGS, GATI BOD DE SOGS HA. Do a lot of mantras. GATI GATI PARA GATI PARA SANGS, GATI BOD DE SOGS HA.

Why? That mantra is perfection of wisdom mantra. It has another name.

Shut up just before you say something bad mantra. You know, so if you do a lot of those, just do them when you're relaxing, okay? You know, when I met Ling Rinpoche the first time, Dalai Lama's teacher, older teacher, he was in a train station taking a train, okay, and the whole time I'm talking to him, he's going like this, you know, we use this finger, it's lucky finger.

You can do mantra here, or you can do mantra here.

[Speaker 2]
You trust me Alison?

[Speaker 1]
You trust me? Come on. I won't hit you.

You got one left at home, okay. You know, usually we do mantra with our first finger, right?

[Speaker 2]
With our thumb.

[Speaker 1]
But there's a prana channel here, for wisdom and for love. So, if you can do it on your third finger of your left hand, it's good, it's more powerful. It will change your mind, okay?

Then, if you get tired doing this way because you're not used to it, you can go back to your first finger, okay?

[Speaker 2]
It's a tradition to throw rosaries in the monastery, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So, when I met Ling Rinpoche, the whole conversation he's like this. He's talking to me, you know, that the funny thing is what?

He didn't have his rosary.

[Speaker 2]
He's so used to it, he's going like this, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Then I asked my teacher, what's he doing, you know? He's counting heart sutra mantras, you know? So like, if you're in your business office, you don't want everybody to know, you know, you can just do like this, you know?

They will think you have some scratch, itching on your finger, you know? Okay, then if you do the mantra a lot, it will protect you, and that's why we do it at a wedding, or if we open a new center, like your new translation center, which was funded by the Taiwan team of Yao Li, We Like You, and Emily Chan, Tuesday. Yeah, when you do a new building, for example, a new wedding, a new wedding, your water breaks, okay?

Time to do mantras, okay? Okay, and they will protect you more if you understand them, okay? Okay.

Okay. BAR DO THU CHEN PO'I SNGAGS, RIGS PA CHEN PO'I SNGAGS, RIGS PA CHEN PO'I SNGAGS means mantra of great ... these are ...

what am I talking about right now? What section of the book? It's the advertisement for how cool is the mantra.

So, before Buddha sells you the mantra, he tells you how cool it is. BAR DO THU CHEN PO'I SNGAGS, RIGS PA CHEN PO'I SNGAGS, RIGS PA CHEN PO'I SNGAGS means BAR DO THU CHEN PO'I SNGAGS, RIGS PA CHEN PO'I SNGAGS means mantra of great knowledge. Why?

[Speaker 2]
Why is it called mantra of great knowledge? Mantra of great understanding in the hot moment in the kitchen.

[Speaker 1]
Choney Lama says he called it the mantra of great understanding because it kills great misunderstanding. Okay, since I spent even my travel money, I'm offering this excellent sandhya. Yugo?

Yugo Sandhya.

[Speaker 2]
Yugo de Sandhya.

[Speaker 1]
For the correct answer. Yeah, my clothes are next. No, just kidding.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding.

[Speaker 1]
BAR RIGS PA MED, BAR RIGS PA SRED PA MED PA NAS, RGA SHI MED RGA ZHIG ZHIG PA'I BAR DU YANG MED DO Who wants to drink? Nick? It's for your wife, right?

Go ahead. Hot! Yeah, where does misunderstanding come in the Heart Sutra?

So, you're all wondering what happened to the Wheel of Life in your photograph. It says Wheel of Life Retreat. There's no Wheel of Life mention yet.

Okay, here it comes, finally, inside the Heart Sutra. BAR RIGS PA MED, BAR RIGS PA SRED PA MED PA NAS, RGA SHI MED RGA ZHIG ZHIG PA'I BAR DU YANG MED DO Okay, if you can stop your misunderstanding in the kitchen, RGA SHI ZHIG, then you can stop the problems of getting old and dying, which we spent all week discussing during our depression sessions. So, here's where the Lam Rim class connects to the Heart Sutra class.

If you learn how not to answer in the kitchen, and you keep doing that over and over, you will not get old and you will not die. Okay? So, but you have to do it really good.

So, we talked about the time gap, right?

[Speaker 2]
Ah!

[Speaker 1]
It took me 24 hours to remember not to call my husband stupid. Then Perfection of Wisdom is, shorten the time gap, shorten the time gap, shorten the time gap, shorten the time gap, shorten the time gap.

[Speaker 2]
Then he says, you're stupid. Then you're like, I'm not stu- Can you shorten the time gap even shorter?

[Speaker 1]
Before you walk in the kitchen you are already ready not to answer. Your wisdom is so strong, it stops the idea to answer.

[Speaker 2]
Stopping your mouth is the easy part.

[Speaker 1]
I told you all husbands are stupid, but I was just exaggerating. Everybody's stupid. Then, if you can fix your answer as you think of the answer, because thinking always comes just before making a bad seed, you see?

So, if your meditation is good, and you are used to grabbing sea birds in midair, then when you come in the kitchen, before he calls you stupid, his face is all red, and he's like, you know? Then can you catch your idea to answer long before the lips start moving? That's called RIG PA CHEN PO.

That's called great understanding, and it kicks in before the mouth starts, and if that becomes a habit, then you will not even make mental karma.

[Speaker 2]
And then the small mental karma, blue topaz, small mental karmas, those constant small mental bad karmas, before the mouth starts to move, those are the ones that make you get old.

[Speaker 1]
So, the mantra can help you.

[Speaker 2]
RIG PA CHEN PO'I NGAG, to have great knowledge, which stops even the thinking process which will cause the mouth to move.

[Speaker 1]
And if you can catch and stop those little sea birds as they start to fly, then you don't even make the daily small bad seeds. Then the Heart Sutra itself says, RGA SHI MED, RGA SHI ZAS PA'I BAR DU YANG MED DO, you will not age, and you will not die. So, it has that power, the mantra, and the meaning of the mantra has that power, okay?

My goal is that, you know, it's in, I don't know, five, ten years, when you are teaching, you can say, oh Geshe-la showed us a picture of his classes with his teacher, and half the people were dead already. But in this picture, nobody's dead. They all did their mantras.

They all understand wisdom. In fact, not only people not missing, but there's a lot of extra kids now. The future of ACI.

[Speaker 2]
I'm not kidding, you know.

[Speaker 1]
Of course, not all of the kids will become a teacher, right? But definitely some of them will. So, I think it's really cool that you are planning for the future of ACI in Guadalajara.

All right, then he says LA NA MED PA'I SNGAG. Say LA NA MED PA'I SNGAG. SNGAG means mantra, okay?

It also means tantra, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Same thing.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, then he says LA NA MED PA'I SNGAG. LA NA MED PA means nothing higher than that, okay? And Choney Lama says, nothing higher than that means there's no higher path than that, okay?

There's two ways to deal with anger in a marriage. Number one, you go to the marriage counselor, and you will hear many many many kinds of advice, okay? You know, you try to take some deep breaths before you come in the kitchen, okay?

Or, let your husband know that if he calls you stupid in the kitchen, you're not cooking in the kitchen anymore. Or, if he continues to call you stupid in the kitchen, then in the bedroom learn to say, oh tonight I have headache. This is called blackmail system to control the husband.

Okay, so you can learn many many methods to get the husband to stop saying bad things, okay? But the big question always comes, does blackmailing your husband with dinner and the other thing always work? I like to tell this joke, you know, she says, I guess you don't want dinner and you don't want the other thing later, right?

Maybe he will say, oh you know, I'm so sorry, I will never call you stupid again. But maybe he will say, at Domino's Pizza I also have some cute girls there, you know? I can get both.

Goodbye, I'll see you tomorrow. So, we don't know how he will react. Will he react the way we want, or will he react the opposite way?

Those are all marriage counselor paths. Then there's lanamepe path. Lanamepe lam.

[Speaker 2]
What?

[Speaker 1]
The highest one. Why? Because Geshe-la is a nice guy?

Because John Brady collected the three million pages to support this idea?

[Speaker 2]
No, because it works every time. Okay? Change your seeds.

Work on your seeds.

[Speaker 1]
If the husband's coming from you, I told you the story of the lady in Singapore.

[Speaker 2]
Her biggest desire in life is that her husband should wash the dishes. After one year of using seeds, he's washing the dishes.

[Speaker 1]
Pachi's like nervous, and he cooks, and he cooks, and he cooks every night. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Use seeds, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Now, fifty dollars. No more choices. What's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
Stop making, stop making decisions.

[Speaker 1]
Come on Anahi, you're a DCI teacher.

[Speaker 2]
Forget it, I'm not giving you a penny for ten years.

[Speaker 1]
Fifty dollars. Hmm? What was the question?

I forgot.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, what does it mean stop making decisions in the kitchen, for example?

[Speaker 1]
You sure? Okay, go for it.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay, good, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
At the bottom of the purse, there's the last fifty. Yeah, don't wait till you're in the kitchen and you're like, you know, should I refuse him supper, or should I refuse him the other thing?

[Speaker 2]
Which one's going to work, you know? Don't get in a position where you have to make decisions. Take care of it the week before.

Plant the seeds, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And then when you come in the kitchen, everything's finished. The nice thing, okay? Why is this lam namepepad?

[Speaker 2]
Because you don't have to talk to him. Plant the seeds.

[Speaker 1]
He will do what you want without negotiating. How do you know a marriage is in trouble? You start having heart-to-heart talks all night.

You repeat the same thing every 16 minutes. You can save so much time, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Plant the seed for Aipachi to do what you want. No discussion necessary.

[Speaker 1]
With your extra time, and with your extra breath, then you can do your Heart Sutra mantra. MI NYAMS PA DANG NYAMS PA'I SNGAGS This is a difficult part of the advertisement for the mantra. MI NYAMS PA DANG NYAMS PA'I SNGAGS.

You going to take a shot at that? It's free, okay? I'm totally ...

I'm out of coffee money for the airport. Yeah, good.

[Speaker 2]
It's equal to the person who is beyond all equal.

[Speaker 1]
Did you meet the Buddha today? I did my mantra.

[Speaker 2]
I did my Heart Sutra mantra.

[Speaker 1]
I understood the kids, and I understood the ... I understand. Yeah, I understood this guy also, okay?

While I was doing the mantra, I thought about emptiness of the ...

[Speaker 2]
I didn't do anything husband, and I thought about the dependent origination coming from my kids.

[Speaker 1]
U Paya.

[Speaker 2]
If you understand these two parts, you met the Buddha today.

[Speaker 1]
Don't think Buddha is like, you know, big bump on the head, big ears, you know? I remember my teacher was taking a student through the ... we call CHUN GYUR.

CHUN GYUR means meet the Dharma. Meet the Dharma.

[Speaker 2]
It's the Tibetan word for seeing thangkas. If you want to get a rosary blessing on your head, walk around the temple like this, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Then your lama will go ... You're supposed to go like this. Then I remember my lama took one student to the temple, CHUN GYUR.

[Speaker 2]
She said, put your hands together, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Then he said, how do you like the paintings, you know?

[Speaker 2]
He's too many arms.

[Speaker 1]
Then there's the Buddha one.

[Speaker 2]
Big bump on his head, like he hit his head on the windshield, okay? Then these long ears, you know?

[Speaker 1]
I think I don't want to be a Buddha. Don't worry about it, okay? I used to teach my students, you want to see your future Buddha?

If you're a man, go buy GQ magazine. They still make GQ magazine?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
If you're a woman, go buy Vogue magazine.

[Speaker 2]
Pick out which Buddha you want to be.

[Speaker 1]
You don't have to have these long ears and the ... okay? You can look ...

you will look whatever you think is most beautiful, okay?

[Speaker 2]
But that's not the Buddha, okay?

[Speaker 1]
When you catch your mouth in the kitchen, then you met the Buddha. So, don't wait for some day when, you know, you're in a good mood, and you had a nice cappuccino, and you meet some guy in your house with a bump on his head. Oh, I finally met the Buddha.

Don't think like that.

[Speaker 2]
If today, you catch yourself, even inside your mind, and you stop a bad thought or a bad word, because you understand the Heart Sutra, then you met the Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
MI NYAMS PA DANG NYAMS PA'I SNGAGS. You have ... now you are equal to the one who has no equal.

Okay, we're still in the advertisement, okay? I'm saving the mantra so you pay attention until the end of the end, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Santiago knows you always save the best two songs for the end, right?

[Speaker 1]
SDUG BSNGAL THAMS CAD RAG TU ZHIG BAR BYED PA'I SNGAGS. This mantra stops all pain. Why?

Kitchen. In the kitchen, what? $50.

Which pain was stopped? No, which pain was stopped? I got to borrow money or something.

No, come on, you guys are teachers. You are famous radio teachers. Even people in Poland are watching them.

What pain was stopped in the kitchen? Yeah, nice, but what is the anagatam pain in this case? Okay, since you cooperated together, and I don't know who gave the right answer, but I did hear something about niños.

The kids acting up next week, you stopped it when you shut up. You guys negotiate. Okay?

SDUG BSNGAL THAMS CAD RAG TU ZHIG BAR BYED PA'I SNGAGS. This is the mantra, this is the understanding, which stops all your suffering in the future.

[Speaker 2]
If you break the Wheel of Life at that moment, No, I'm not stupid!

[Speaker 1]
If you break the Wheel of Life there, then you have stopped problems with your kids next week.

[Speaker 2]
SDUG BSNGAL THAMS CAD RAG TU ZHIG BAR BYED PA'I SNGAGS.

[Speaker 1]
You have shut down your future suffering. By the way, just for free, okay? I'm really having financial problems.

Will that understanding stop the husband from calling you stupid?

[Speaker 2]
In the kitchen now.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, no, okay? And if you're a Buddhist, you have to accept this fact, okay? You cannot plant a watermelon seed today and get a watermelon today.

It just doesn't happen, okay? So Geshe-la, what am I supposed to do with the pain of having my husband yell at me? Do the best you can.

It's gonna hurt. There's no magic to take it away now, okay? Deal with it.

[Speaker 2]
Try not to make more bad seeds.

[Speaker 1]
But Buddhism doesn't say, and Buddha didn't say, he can take away the pain of the husband yelling today.

[Speaker 2]
And we say nobody can take it away.

[Speaker 1]
What's the idim? 9-11.

[Speaker 2]
The guy 9-11, okay? It's too late, okay? It's already happening.

[Speaker 1]
You cannot push a tree back into the ground, okay? Just don't plant any new ones, okay? Okay, SDUG BSNGAL RAB TU ZHIG BAR BYED PA'I SNGAGS.

This is the mantra which stops all of your suffering next week. He didn't say next week, but you know, he's doing an advertisement. SDUG BSNGAL THAMS SBYOR BAR TU ZHIG BAR BYED, MI RDZUN PA'I SNGAGS BSTAN PA ZHIG PAR BYED MI RDZUN PA'I SNGAGS BSTAN PA ZHIG PAR BYED, that can ...

yeah, the person ...

[Speaker 2]
the person who taught the mantra, for example, is a person who cannot lie, even if they want to, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Not possible for them to lie. MI RDZUN PA'I SNGAGS BSTAN PA ZHIG PAR BYED, okay? This mantra is true.

Everything about it is true.

[Speaker 2]
And the person teaching the mantra cannot lie.

[Speaker 1]
Now, mantra. Okay, the word mantra. There's a very famous explanation in the tantras, okay?

And Choney Lama quotes it from Tsongkapa. If you're interested, it comes from the Vajrashikara, the Dorje Tsemo tip of diamond. Dorje Tsewa.

[Speaker 2]
The tip of the diamond. Tsewa. Dorje Tsewa.

[Speaker 1]
The tip of the diamond.

[Speaker 2]
Tsewa. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
It's a tantra. It's a whole tantra system. And in there, Buddha said, you want to know what mantra is?

[Speaker 2]
And Choney Lama quotes it from Tsongkapa. But I put the original in there for you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, he splits the word into two pieces. MAN and DRA. Okay?

MAN is easy because it means mind or mental, okay? And DRA, DRA means to protect. So, MAN DRA means protect your mind.

So, do those mantras on the way home. You can even do it in a car. I got a traffic ticket from memorizing the Heart Sutra in Chinese in my car.

I used to put it on my dashboard, you know? And then I forgot how fast I'm going, and I'm like, subway, Kong Kong, way, so, do, do, do. And then I was like, wew, wew, wew.

That's why I didn't finish the shin jing jong wen da. I couldn't finish. I got ...

it was a big ticket. It was like 20 miles over the speed ... I told the police officer, I will see you in court, you know?

He's like, in Cottonwood, and he's like, yeah, I'll see you in court, man. Let's try, let's do it, you know? Then I went to the court, you know, and I saw him in a police car in the parking lot, you know?

And he said, talking to this other policeman, you know? I thought, that's strange, he should be inside, you know? I mean, I was over, but I wasn't that much over, you know?

Then we went inside, you know? And I told my thing, you know?

[Speaker 2]
I didn't tell him about the heart sutra, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Then the policeman get on the stand, you know?

[Speaker 2]
He ... yeah, he was going like 30 miles over the speed limit, you know?

[Speaker 1]
Then I want to say, look, judge, my car is old, it can't even go 30 miles over the speed limit, you know? He said, no, no, it's not your turn, it's his turn, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Then the policeman said, look, my friend was with me. The other policeman was there, you know?

[Speaker 1]
I'm like, there wasn't any other police ... then the other policeman go, yeah, he ... I was there, he was going, you know?

Then I decided I should stop exaggerating in the class. Anyway, mantra, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Protect your mind.

[Speaker 1]
Do the mantras on the way home, but pay attention to your speed also.

[Speaker 2]
Then when you get home, in the kitchen, and the husband call you stupid, the mantra will tra your man. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
The mantra will ... it will protect your mind, okay? Yeah, my husband's yelling at me.

I can't stop it in this moment, but definitely I'm not going to answer. Then my three kids will be better next week. And then the mantra protected your mind, okay?

Now, Choney Lama's not satisfied with Tsongkapa and the Buddha, which is why I like him.

[Speaker 2]
He says, yeah, but you know, tra comes from ter.

[Speaker 1]
Tra is a secondary verbal root.

[Speaker 2]
It's derived from a primary root. The primary root is ter, which means to cross over, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And what's the example? For free! Tara, yeah.

Tara's name ... for example, the name of a very famous and delicious coffee shop in Guadalajara.

[Speaker 2]
In fact, if you go there and you drink that coffee, it's easier to say the mantra. Tara means cross over.

[Speaker 1]
She takes you to the other side. So, Choney Lama says, mantra and something other word are the same. Another word, not this word.

[Speaker 2]
Nice!

[Speaker 1]
Oh my gosh, you should have waited till I offered some money.

[Speaker 2]
He's got this strange karma, he answered like 20 things correct.

[Speaker 1]
Iyata visyebhyesplatna. Everything was free of charge.

[Speaker 2]
Anyway, he's correct. Choney Lama says, you know what's cool?

[Speaker 1]
This is the mantra of the perfection of wisdom. This is the prajnaparamita mantra.

[Speaker 2]
But they're the same thing.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Perfection of wisdom, stop your mouth at the right moment. Mantra also stops you at the right moment. Protects you.

[Speaker 1]
Protects your mind, mantra, because it takes your mind beyond answering mantra.

[Speaker 2]
Then Choney Lama's like, cool! Choney Lama, wow!

[Speaker 1]
Okay, mi dunpa na denpa shepa jyatir. Now, yay! Prajnaparamitayam ukto mantra.

Ukto means, I'm finally going to tell you the mantra. You ready? Say, tat yata.

[Speaker 2]
I'm going to repeat it three times. Repeat it with me. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
This is called the blessing of the lineage. So, then the mantra gets glued in your mind.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Why they do it three times?

[Speaker 2]
Because two times you will mess it up.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, ready?

[Speaker 2]
Tat yata. Om. Gatte.

Gatte. Paragatte.

[Speaker 1]
Parasangatte.

[Speaker 2]
Bodhi. Soha.

[Speaker 1]
Some people are doing their phone recording.

[Speaker 2]
That's a good idea.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, here we go again.

[Speaker 2]
Tat yata. Om. Gatte.

Gatte.

[Speaker 1]
Paragatte. Parasangatte.

[Speaker 2]
Bodhi. Soha.

[Speaker 1]
One more time. Get your phone on if you want to. I can't teach Heart Sutra every year.

[Speaker 2]
We have to go to other things.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, here we go. One, two, three. Tat yata.

[Speaker 2]
Om. Gatte. Gatte.

[Speaker 1]
Paragatte. Parasangatte.

[Speaker 2]
Bodhi. Soha.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. Okay, you got the mantra now. Now, what's it mean?

It's a very cool meaning. Okay? There are five steps in the spiritual evolution of all people.

It doesn't matter where you're born, what's your religion, it doesn't matter. All people in the world go through the same five stages in their spiritual evolution on the Christian path, or on the Buddhist path, or on the Hindu path, it doesn't matter. Okay, so those five paths, here's what they are.

By the way, om is just a mantra introduction word. It's traditional for all mantras to begin with om. And om has three parts, okay?

And once I translated, I made a whole essay about it from the ancient books, okay? Twenty years ago. It's funny, if you live long enough, you lose all your earlier research, you know.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe Jigme usually can find it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so if you're interested, talk to her. She can send you the om essay, okay? So, om is traditionally called ngo je, ngo je.

The opener of the door, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
It means traditionally, it's the first word of the mantra.

[Speaker 1]
When you say om, it means, I'm going to do a mantra. It has three parts. A, u, and ng.

[Speaker 2]
A means may I act like a Buddha. U means, ukta, may I speak like a Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Ng means, may I think like a Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
Ng. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, the ancient pronunciation. So, you can hear the om goes through three parts, right?

[Speaker 2]
Let's do it together, very slow, you ready?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, that's for all you yoga teachers, you can ... Okay, it's om. Om is the short version, okay?

Okay, then the first path of the five paths, it's called path of ... yeah, collecting good karma so you can see emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
So, the first of the five paths, the first of the five stages in the spiritual evolution of every person on this planet, doesn't matter what country, doesn't matter what religion, is what?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, a personal tragedy. A disaster in your life. There's a car accident.

Someone close to you dies, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Terribly.

[Speaker 1]
Or you're born ... one of your children is born with a lot of problems, okay? Or something like that, okay?

You lose your wife, you lose your husband. That kicks you in the ... kicks you in the butt ...

we should call it kick you in the butt path, okay? Then you're like, boy, I got to do something, you know? I have to understand, I have to ...

this life is ... I got to do something, you know? That's the first part of the mantra.

The mantra has the five paths inside of it. GAT TE, okay? GAT TE means go.

Okay? Go. Okay?

GAT TE means go.

[Speaker 2]
It means go to the first path.

[Speaker 1]
You can do prayers for your friends who are drinking, or playing, or gambling, or doing stupid things, you know?

[Speaker 2]
You can give them blessings.

[Speaker 1]
OM GAT TE. I pray that you have a disaster in your life that wakes you up. Okay?

That's the first GAT TE. Go.

[Speaker 2]
Go have your first disaster, okay?

[Speaker 1]
People who are not interested in spiritual things, people who will never come to the Lam Rim, their problem is they didn't have their personal disaster yet. So, you can pray for them, you know?

[Speaker 2]
OM GAT TE.

[Speaker 1]
Go. Go meet your disaster. Okay?

And don't worry, everybody does, okay?

[Speaker 2]
It's just ... how long? How long does it take?

[Speaker 1]
Now, it's not enough to sit in your disaster. The second step of all evolution of all people is the second GAT TE. What's that?

[Speaker 2]
Path of preparation.

[Speaker 1]
Understanding emptiness intellectually. And the most common way to give that understanding to someone is ...

[Speaker 2]
is the pen. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
It's the pen. Okay? So, you can imagine how many people reach the second of the five steps in their lifetime.

[Speaker 2]
I think it's one out of ten million or something like that.

[Speaker 1]
So, you can have two different reactions when Geshe-la teaches the pen in Taiwan for the ten thousandth time. I'll teach you the reaction of a guy in Singapore. I'll never forget it, you know?

He's ... okay, he's not from Singapore, he's from another country. So, after I gave the teaching in Singapore, the sixth year of going to Singapore, he came backstage.

He was very agitated, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Geshe Michael! Geshe Michael! You can guess the country.

I'm not saying.

[Speaker 1]
This is the sixth year you come to Singapore.

[Speaker 2]
Each time we are paying the money, we want something new. Then you keep teaching this pen. I think you are getting a little bit old.

[Speaker 1]
You forgot you taught the pen last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before! So, I don't mean no respect for you.

[Speaker 2]
He has a good French accent. Oop!

[Speaker 1]
But, maybe next year you teach something new, right?

[Speaker 2]
Then you have to understand something, okay? If you reach the second path, if you have the incredible blessing of hearing the pen, and if you understand it clearly, it's impossible to go to a bad place after you die.

[Speaker 1]
Why does Geshe Michael keep repeating this pen every talk he gives, every country! Yeah, okay. And that's the second path, okay?

Go, go there! Go try to get a pen. Gatte gatte, okay?

Om gatte gatte. I split the word in the book because otherwise it looks like gate. I'm afraid people will say om gate gate.

I put ga hyphen kye gatte, okay? Then don't be satisfied with the pen. Para gatte!

[Speaker 2]
Para gatte.

[Speaker 1]
Go farther, go farther, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Para means farther, you know? Gatte is go, right?

[Speaker 1]
Para gatte. Go to the third part of human spiritual evolution. What's that?

[Speaker 2]
For free!

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, a path of seeing.

[Speaker 2]
Para gatte. See emptiness directly.

[Speaker 1]
The best way for a human being to see emptiness directly is to do the lion's dance every day. Aha!

[Speaker 2]
And you got it!

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so just play the thing on your phone, you know? Even if you only have a ...

[Speaker 2]
you are late for work, you only have ten minutes to meditate.

[Speaker 1]
Put on the phone.

[Speaker 2]
Start!

[Speaker 1]
Then turn it off, tell the phone, I'm sorry Geshe-la, I ran out of battery. It means I have to go to work, okay?

[Speaker 2]
That's okay.

[Speaker 1]
Just do a little bit every day, okay? Para gatte, para gatte. Go further, okay?

Then para sang gatte. Para sang gatte. Go further than further.

[Speaker 2]
Fourth stage of spiritual evolution. What is it? Use it with your husband.

[Speaker 1]
Don't leave the pen in your intellectual, okay? Don't make it intellectual. Don't leave the lion's dance on your meditation cushion, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Take it to your kitchen. Use it on your husband, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Kick out one of those two husbands, then you won't have to kick out the other one.

[Speaker 2]
Which the one you're going to kick out?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I didn't do anything husband. I think Tara's going to grow up, you know, saying, oh, I didn't do anything. Dad always says I didn't do anything.

Para sang gatte means please, please, please, practice. Practice doesn't mean you're sitting on your meditation cushion all day. It doesn't mean you do a three-year retreat like John Brady, or Earl.

It doesn't mean that.

[Speaker 2]
Use it in the kitchen, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Don't leave your Buddhism in the book, okay? Don't leave your Buddhism on the meditation cushion, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Use it on your husband. He will cook. He will wash the dishes.

It's a good system.

[Speaker 1]
La na me pe nga. This is the coolest system. Those boys, if you help me get my dad back to work, I will teach you the mantra for not washing dishes.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding, okay? On the video, just kidding.

[Speaker 1]
People cut things for the internet.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Geshe-la's trying to get more money.

[Speaker 1]
I always lose more money in the teaching than I get, but then I make the karma that more money comes to me, okay? Okay, bodhi soha. Bodhi soha.

Bodhi means enlightenment. You will become an angel made of living diamond. You can go to any world and help every person on that world, okay?

That's the bodhi, fifth path. The end of your evolution.

[Speaker 2]
Bodhi.

[Speaker 1]
Soha means ha ha! Damn! It's like damn in English, damn!

So cool. Mas chido. Soha is chido.

[Speaker 2]
No, so is mas, ha is chido.

[Speaker 1]
Soha, mas chido. So cool. Okay, got it?

The soha is very important. The letter is svaha, but the ancient pronunciation is soha. In India they don't have V, they have waha.

[Speaker 2]
Soha means I nailed it. So cool.

[Speaker 1]
So cool. Okay, now, the tadyata at the beginning, it's not part of the mantra. It's Sanskrit, but it's not part of the mantra.

[Speaker 2]
You don't have to say it.

[Speaker 1]
If you're reciting the mantra you can say it, I mean the whole sutra you can say it, okay? But what does it mean?

[Speaker 2]
It means, here's the way it is. Here's what you gotta do.

[Speaker 1]
OM GATE GATE PARA GATE PARA SANGS RGYAS Okay, got it? Okay, so do the mantra.

[Speaker 2]
Because you had the lineage of the explanation, it will be much more powerful for you.

[Speaker 1]
Can this mantra protect a person who has no idea what it means? If two things are there, it can. These are the secret two engines of every mantra airplane.

And it's very very famous when you teach a mantra, the people listening to you, they should understand what's the engine for a mantra.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, those motores, there's two engines for a mantra.

[Speaker 1]
Can you fly a plane with one engine? I say don't try.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't work. You got to have both engines, okay? Number one, the person in this world who first spoke the mantra should be a pure being.

[Speaker 1]
The source of the mantra must be a pure being. And that's the Buddha, and you don't have to worry about that one.

[Speaker 2]
That engine is there in the mantra. It was first taught by the Buddha. Super pure being.

[Speaker 1]
What's the second engine? The person who says the mantra must be trying to live a pure life. I didn't say they must be living a pure life, did I?

They must be giving ... I'm not even going to say they must be doing their best to live a pure life.

[Speaker 2]
I'm not even going to say that. Okay, what I say and what Buddha said, they should be trying pretty well to live a pure life.

[Speaker 1]
We all have bad days. We are all more ...

[Speaker 2]
we're all less pure than we think we are, and we make mistakes every five minutes, but generally, try to serve other people. Try to take care of other people, you know, as often as you can, according to your capacity and your personality.

[Speaker 1]
Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Help other people.

[Speaker 1]
Bien chido.

[Speaker 2]
Be cool. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And if that ... if you're ... generally, if you're trying to be a pretty good person, the mantra will work for you.

That's the second engine of the mantra. Okay? Got it?

The first engine is already there. The person who taught it was a pure being.

[Speaker 2]
Lord Buddha was a pure being.

[Speaker 1]
The second engine is up to you. You don't have to be Mother Teresa.

[Speaker 2]
Just be nice to people.

[Speaker 1]
Bien chido.

[Speaker 2]
Then the mantra will work for you.

[Speaker 1]
How does it work? Do some mantras whenever you have some time, like Traffic Jam in Mexico City. Those are the best traffic jams in the world.

I love traffic jams. I pray for traffic jam, you know. You know how many mantras you can do in a Mexico City traffic jam?

[Speaker 2]
So, you have choice in a Mexico City traffic jam.

[Speaker 1]
You can do anti-mantras. God damn this ... Okay?

That's anti-mantra. You can complain about the traffic. Or you can bien chido.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, we got traffic today.

[Speaker 1]
Well, I guess I'll do some mantras. Even if you forgot your rosary, you can do Ling Rinpoche mantra. You know, if ...

Okay, do your mantra. Okay? Then the power of the mantra is, when you get home, and your wife is ...

let's say your wife is there in the kitchen.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, I'm going to reverse it.

[Speaker 1]
She was in the same traffic jam, but she forgot to do her mantras.

[Speaker 2]
She's like already ... she's already halfway angry before you said anything, aren't you? Then, because you did the mantra in the car on the way to the kitchen, you will remember how to react when your wife says you are Then it mantra.

[Speaker 1]
It protects your ... you can say it protects your heart.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Cool? So, when you have free time, do the mantra. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
A human being who came to Lam Rim should never waste their time.

[Speaker 1]
You're waiting for the car to take you to the airport, and it's late because somebody didn't organize it.

[Speaker 2]
You have choice. You can be pissed off, or you can say, okay, what the heck?

[Speaker 1]
It's a beautiful place. Let me do some mantra. Okay?

Now you have a way to spend your extra time.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
Final. Mandala Lucia. Are you ready?

[Speaker 2]
It's a talking. Sunam yeshe nejungwe. Dampar kuni drupar shok.

Cool.