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We're going to keep talking about bodhichitta and what it feels like. The next section he says, if you take the first steps to bodhichitta, which is thinking about all people equally, equanimity, and then recognizing that people have been your mom, remembering what they did for you when they were your mom, and then wanting to pay them back for what they did for you when they were your mom, GZHAN DON DUR NYER GYI BLO SKYE BA'I ZHI Those steps are the foundation for wanting to work for others. They lay the foundation.

What are the foundation? Think of everybody as equal. Recognize they've been your mom.

Remember what they did for you. Naturally, then you want to pay them back. Those four, which is really three and a half, are the foundation of wanting to work for other people.

Then he says the other ones, which is wanting those people to be happy, wanting to take away all their trouble. LHAG BSAM, I'm taking care of it. I don't care if nobody helps me.

I don't even care if people try to stop me. Do you care if people help you? No, I'm willing to do it on my own.

Do you care if people actively try to stop you? Nope, I don't even care about that. I'm the man, or woman.

I'm the one. It's on me. What's that?

It's on me. It's my good. I'll take care of everything.

I'll take care of him. Those ideas. I want you to be happy.

I want to take away all your problems, and I'm the man or the woman. I'll take care of it. Nobody helps me, I don't care.

Everyone fights me, I don't care. I'll still help you. Those three are called GZHAN DON DANG GNOD KYI BLO NGOS The real desire to work for others.

The first part of those seven was called laying the groundwork for working for others. Now we're to the working for others. These are working for others.

Here's the working for others picture. I'm on it. He's got his construction hat.

Looks like Daniel, right? On a good day. I'm on it, don't worry.

I got my hat. I'm taking care of this. Nobody's going to help you, I don't care.

Everyone's going to fight you, I also don't care. It's on me, I'll take care of it. Then he goes to a very famous place.

DE NAS RDZOGS KYANG THOB DU SKYE BA NA Once you decided that you're going to work for other people, we could say, SEMS RGYUD PA NI Say SEMS RGYUD PA NI SHEN DON CHOD YANG DAG RDZOGS PA BYANG CHUB DU The definition of bodhichitta. The definition. The most famous definition in history of bodhichitta.

Tim, who wrote it? Who wrote the Abhisamaya Avankara, which a certain new translator is going to be working on. Yeah, my translator.

Okay, so this is from the book that Tim's translating, which is called The Jewel of Realizations, written 1,700 years ago. And he mentions the definition of bodhichitta. And it's been famous ever since then.

SEMS SKYES PA NI SHES RIGS KYI RGYUR YANG LA RDZOGS PA'I PHYIR RIGS KYI RGYUR, okay. So you're in a debate in the monastery, and somebody's, what's the definition of bodhichitta? You just lay that out and you're covered, okay.

Whose definition? The future Buddha. Is he a Buddha yet or not?

Ah, now that's a question. That was my pre-geshe debate topic. Anyway, SEMS SKYES PA NI, what is the definition of bodhichitta?

Here's the translation of those two lines, okay. What is the definition of bodhichitta? GZHAN DUN GZHIR, for the sake of other people.

YANG LA RDZOGS PA'I PHYIR RGYUR YANG LA RDZOGS PA'I PHYIR I want to become a Buddha, okay. So it's called the two-focus attitude, two focuses. Focused on other people and Buddhahood, okay.

It's called two focus, two focuses. The attitude with two focuses. I'm looking at all the suffering beings in the universe and I want to become a Buddha for them.

That's the definition of bodhichitta, okay. Focused on all the people having trouble in this world, I want to be someone who can help them. And that's the definition of bodhichitta.

It's called two-part focus, okay.

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All right.

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I thought it'd be fun to memorize the Sanskrit. It was written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the language of the gods.

This line is very, very, very, very famous. So they say, if you want to plant a seed in your heart to become an enlightened being, memorize a little Sanskrit. Once in a while, okay.

So I went and got it for you, okay. And I got the new dad to convert the Sanskrit for me. When you see that Mekron, long mark over the A, you say it twice as long.

Okay, so say, ,GCOD DOG PA DA, ,BCOD DOG PA DA, ,PHAR RAR LTA YANG, ,ZHAM YAG, no long X there. ,ZHAM YAG, yeah, ZHAM YAG. The M with the dot under it is a French nozzle.

They ask talk like the nose is stuffed up. ,SANMBO DUG NA, Sambodhikamata Sambodhikamata Here we go, together, slow. Whole thing.

One, two, very slow. Cittapada Parathaya Samyag Sambodhikamata Okay, good. Try to memorize it.

It's sexy. If you get lazy about the long vowels and stuff, you could use the second one. Cittapada Parathaya Samyag Sambodhikamata Citta means mind.

The mind. Like the citta and bodhicitta. Upadaya Upadaya means to give rise to.

When the citta meets upada, it changes to cittapada. When A meets U, it changes to O. So citta.

Upadaya. Sorry, citta upada. Citta upada is cittapada.

Cittapada. It means to raise the mind. It means to raise the thought.

It means to reach bodhicitta. There's two words for bodhicitta in Sanskrit. One is bodhicitta, and one is cittapada.

This is the variant. Cittapada. Para means other people.

What is it called when you go to the other side? Paramita. Paramita.

Here para means other people. Other side. What's artha like?

Siddhartha. The goal. Parartha means the goals of other people.

Parathaya. Parartha means the goals of other people. What other people want.

What other people need is called parartha. Aya at the end of a word means for the sake of that. In order to achieve that.

So the aya on the end of parartha means for the goals of others. For the goals of others. The aya, A-Y-A means for.

Prepositions in Sanskrit come after the word, and they're joined to the word. Like for cap. For cotton.

For cotton. Means for cotton. So pararthaya.

Samyak means total, 100%. Samyak means total. Sambodhika means enlightenment.

Sam means perfect. Bodhi means enlightenment. Bodhika.

Then A-mata. Say A-mata. Duh, to wish to achieve.

A-mata. Mat means mind. Mental comes from mat.

Mind comes from mat. A means very much. At the beginning of a word.

Alange means very much. That's why we call the Buddhist disciple Ananda, which means super happy guy. Instead of Ananda, which means the unhappy guy.

So long A at the beginning means very much. So A-mata, A-mata means really wanted, really obsessed with thinking about perfect, total enlightenment for the sake of others. It's the definition of chittopada or bodhichitta.

So you should learn it. You guys should learn it. It all has pieces of chitta, paruski, shittayu, ya chittayu, ya shittayu.

I consider you. Or I read. Chitta.

Chittat or to calculate in Russian. In Russian, Sanskrit roots are much more obvious. Anyway, chitta means to think.

But to fall down, for example. Some guy wrote a book.

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Yeah.

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What's that guy's name? Patanjali. It all means foot or fall or drop.

Patanjali. So here upada means to raise up. U means up.

So upada. Chittopada means to raise the desire for Buddhahood. To raise the thought, chittopada.

Para means other, artha means the goals, like siddhartha. What's siddhartha mean? What's the siddha?

Achieve the, achieve the goal, siddhartha. The aya means for the sake of them. Samyak means total.

Sambodhika means enlightenment. Amata. Amata.

I want. My mind is on it. Amata.

Cool? Try to memorize it. It's good.

I like to call it next picture till, yeah, before that actually. Yeah, there's an emphasis in the definition of bodhichitta that you are looking ahead to the future. I want that.

I want to achieve that. Oops, sorry you guys. I want to achieve that to help all living beings.

There's a looking ahead. I would like to achieve that so that I could really help people. Cool?

All right. Pabongka Rinpoche, at this point in the book, gives the most famous lines ever written about bodhichitta. They're written by Maitreya.

Who was taking dictation? Arya Asanga. Arya Asanga.

What famous school did Arya Asanga help start? What famous school did his half-brother start? Abhidharma Vasubandhu.

What's in common between those two startings?

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Wait, who said the first thing?

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No, I want something else.

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$100. $100.

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Ask... I'll say it again. Collect your money from Elly.

We have a new system. It's not her problem to give you your money. You have to ask for it.

We're trusting that the whole universe only asks for money that they want. The cool thing about these two half-brothers is that in their heart, they are both middle way. They are both higher middle way.

But, because the students around them were dull and less dull, or dull and more dull, they dumbed it down. They made it more simple. Master Vasubandhu reports to Abhidharma.

In a way, Arya Asanga is just reporting in my normal school. We've been having a lot of fun lately with the Mind-Only School's presentation on seeds, which is the best. And where Tsongkhapa says, not too shabby.

Maybe we'll include it in the middle way. Tsongkhapa praises it highly, the Mind-Only presentation on seeds. He says, very useful for tantra.

Very useful for tantra. So, wow. That's like, must be cool.

Daniel is right. That's a very difficult question. I should give you more money, but nah.

Okay. All right, good. Here we go.

BYAS GSUM PA LTAR BRTZE NYID YONGS SU RDZOGS PA'I SEMS BSKYED LA NI Now he's talking about, look, let's talk about what's complete bodhichitta. If someone said, what's the definition of complete bodhichitta? Here's Pabongka.

BRTZE NYID YONGS SU RDZOGS PA'I SEMS BSKYED LA NI If you want to talk about bodhichitta, which is totally complete, BRTZE NYID YONGS SU RDZOGS PA'I SEMS BSKYED LA NI means totally complete bodhichitta, GZHAN DON LA DGOS PAR MTHONG BA'I TZAM GYIS GZHAN DON LA DGOS PAR MTHONG BA'I TZAM GYIS DRANGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS THOB BRTZAM GYIS MI CHOG It's not enough that you kind of want to achieve Buddhahood because other people need it. He says it's not enough.

Pabongka says that is the technical definition, but it's not enough. Just that you want to achieve Buddhahood because other people need stuff. He says, we kind of got to add something more.

What's he going to add? MI CHOG PAR DRANGS NYID SPANG DOG PHUNG TSUL SOGS PA'I DANG BRTZE NYID YONGS SU RDZOGS PA'I SEMS BSKYED LA NI GZHAN DON LA DGOS PAR MTHONG BA'I TZAM GYIS You must come to the realization that there is no choice but for you to become a Buddha yourself. You can say the definition of bodhichitta is the desire to reach Buddhahood so that you can help others.

But he says somebody should have added something here and there that said you ain't got no choice and you have to do it. You have to do it. I have to do it.

He objects. Who? Pabongka is objecting to Maitreya.

Maitreya said, I want to become a Buddha to help everybody. Pabongka is like, is that the best you can do? He's like, well, what else do you want?

He says, I don't have any choice. I got to do it. It's not like I want to do it.

He says, I object to your amata. Amata. I object to I wish.

It's I ain't got no choice. I got to do it. It's interesting.

Pabongka is like criticizing Maitreya. Don't say it's the wish for enlightenment. It's the compulsion.

I have to do it. I don't have a choice. I have to do it.

He wants it stronger. MA THOB KHA MED means I ain't got no choice. I have to do it.

MA THOB KHA MED is an idiom in Tibetan. It means I ain't got no other choice. I got to do it.

MA THOB KHA MED MED MA THOB KHA MED When you say amata, the wish to achieve, if you mean I have no choice, I'm with you. But if you didn't think I have no choice, your definition is a little wimpy. I ain't got no choice.

I got to do it. Now, what's a person look like when they're saying MA THOB KHA MED? I ain't got no choice.

Well, Tim, I ain't got no choice. I got to do it. Do they do that in Chinese?

I don't know. In American English, it's like, do you have to do it? I ain't got no choice.

I got to do it. So when you see this mudra, I ain't got no choice. Okay.

It's like, I ain't got no choice. So when you see that picture, don't forget what it means. I ain't got no choice.

It doesn't mean I can't pay you back today, Stanley. Okay. DE YANG RANG KHO NA'I DON MIN PAR NGAR BYAMS PA NYIN RJE LHAG BSAM LUNG GI SKABS SHEN DON DU NYIN GYI RLOB BYED PA'I KHYAD PAR DAG SHEN DON NYIN RLOB TSUL Then he says, RANG KHO NA'I DON MIN PAR Needless to say, it is not the wish to achieve Buddhahood just for yourself.

Just to do something for yourself. That's not the point. NGAR BYAMS PA NYIN RJE LHAG BSAM Because of three of the steps you went through already, which was BYAMS PA, my tree.

I want everyone else to be happy. NYIN RJE, I don't want anyone else to have problems. And LHAG BSAM, I'll take the heat.

I'll get it done. I don't care if nobody helps me and I don't even care if everyone fights me. I'll still do it.

That takes some spiritual maturity. When you try to help people and they actually hurt you back. It takes some maturity to say, okay, I know you hate me.

I'm still going to pay your bills for next month. It takes some kind of maturity to say, I know you're unhappy and I don't care. I'm still going to make you happy.

Okay, all right. NYIN RJE, without any kind of, what do you call it? Resentment.

People hurt you back. You help, help, help, help, help. People hurt you back.

You say, oh, that's cool. We do that to our mom, right? They help, help, help, help.

Then we criticize them. They're like, yeah, okay, here, I made your lunch also. That's how she responds to criticism.

GZHAN GYI KHAB GZHAN DON DON GNYEN GYI LO CI LTAR KHYAB PA LTAR GZHAN DON NYON DANG PO'I BYANG CHUB THOB DUG GIS TZAM PA ZHIG GIS DGOS Okay. Having bodhichitta with the right flavor requires those previous steps of BYAMS PA, NYIN RJE, and LHAG BSAM. I want you to have all good things.

I don't want you to have any problems. I'm on it. I'll take care of it.

You don't actually have to worry about anything. I'm taking care of it. Those are required to have a properly bodhichitta with the right taste.

You got to have those three thoughts before. I want you to have everything you want. I don't want you to meet up with any problems.

And I'm on it. Then you can have the proper bodhichitta is produced by those three.

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Okay, cool. And the way he says it here... Let me see.

I want to show you another picture. Are you ready, Tim?

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It took me a while. I looked up on my stock photo app, handcuffed people. I got a lot of photos that wouldn't be appropriate to show.

I saw my wife was next to me. But the point of this picture is you don't have a choice. By that point in your mental state, even if you didn't want to help people, you couldn't help yourself.

You are handcuffed by your own love. You are handcuffed by your own... You couldn't get out of this commitment even if you wanted to.

You are locked in. You are locked in. You don't have a choice.

Because you did the three steps before, wanting people to have what they want, wanting to take away their pain, taking personal responsibility, then when you get to bodhichitta, you are locked in.

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Aimless and vision.

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Mix of helpless and vision. You have this vision for what you want, and you are out of control in a good way. You are out of control.

You couldn't back out even if you thought to. You couldn't get out of it. Your previous bodhichitta step study is forcing you to keep going, and you don't have a choice anymore.

You are out of control. In control? Finally in control?

By being out of control. DE LTAR BSGOM KYANG THOB PA'I THUB NYAM NA Eyyah! We had it earlier.

I'll give $100. Eyyah! Eyyah!

This is a long time ago.

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It's four.

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What?

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Four.

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Say again?

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Four.

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Four?

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I'm not sure.

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Yeah, $100. God, he's the big bucks man. Be careful, people usually get pregnant right after that.

Eyyah! Never mind. Eyyah, it means...

Yeah, $100. But you got to collect it now. New system.

DE LTAR BSGOM KYANG THOB PA'I THUB I understand that it would be very noble to work for all living beings. I understand it would be very noble to want to take away all their pain. I understand it would be very noble to take responsibility myself.

I understand it would be very noble. But is it even possible? Is that kind of commitment even possible?

Answer. DE NGES PAR THOB NUS TE BYANG CHUG GI SEMS PAS SKYES PA'I THUB LTAR BA'I LAS LHAG PA MED TE Then he says something cool. He says, Can you achieve it?

You can. And it's time, honey. It's time.

You think you're going to get a better time later? You're an idiot. The time is now.

Can I achieve that? Yes. And you got to do it today.

Because who knows what's going to be tomorrow? Who knows you're going to be alive? Who knows what realm you're going to be in?

You're going to be one of those waggers. You could be a dog tomorrow. Pabongka's answer is very beautiful.

The guy says, I don't know if I can do that. He says, Well, god damn, it's the last day. This is the day.

You got to do it. There's not going to be a better time. You're a human.

You're still alive. You're still breathing. Don't ask me if you can do it.

You got to start now. You got to do it now. Who knows where you're going to be in 24 hours?

That guy could push the nuclear. I mean, we're very close. We all could be on a vacation tomorrow.

We don't know. He says, Yeah, you can do it and you got to do it now. NYES PA THOB, DE SKYE BA'I DU DAG NAS LAS LHAG PA MED There's no better time.

You have never had a better chance than you have now. There's no better time to decide to do this. SANGS RGYAS KYI DGOS PHANG, LUS RTEN DI LA DUS PA'I CHOG PA'I RTEN THOB Because you have the right mix of body and mind.

LUNG SEMS SGRUB PA'I PHYIG PA, $100. Yeah, $100 for Mr. Stanley. Now he goes there.

He goes there. What's he saying? You got the body.

You got the prana. You got the chi. You got the channels.

You got the body. You got the mind connected to the body with the channels. You got it all.

You're on the edge of becoming a Buddha. You have a body with the prana and the nadis and the chakras. God, you're halfway there.

Just do your stupid yoga every morning. It's going to push you over the top. You got a body that was built for enlightenment.

You have a body that was pre-designed to turn into an enlightened being's body. If you have those nadis, if you have that prana, if you have those chakras, you were built for enlightenment from the factory. Your body was built.

SBYONG MA'I You were built with those channels, central channel. You were built to become a Buddha. Do it.

You don't know. You're going to have dogs' bodies. They ain't got such good prana.

They wag okay, but that's about it. You got the perfect configuration, pranically, to do tantra. You can do yoga.

You can do tantra. You're built for enlightenment. Come on.

You got everything you need. Let's do it. It's beautiful how he leaps to the chakras.

It's so cool. He's like, God, you were built to become a Buddha. What's wrong with you?

You think you're going to get out of this BMW and get into a Toyota? You think you're going to do it later? You're in a BMW, get it done.

I have a friend who has a BMW and a Tesla. Depends on which city he's in. I'm just kidding.

Don't take it personally. Anybody who's doing good practice will be successful. They can't help it.

It's not their fault. Probably their teacher. PHYIR NI SANGS RGYAS KYI BRTEN PA Listen, as far as your body, you're already half enlightened.

Come on. Take advantage of the chakras you have and the prana you have. PHYIR NI SANGS RGYAS As far as Dharma, you got SANGS RGYAS KYI BRTEN PA.

You got Buddhist Dharma. You got, as far as teachings, you got Lord Buddha's teachings. Are you crazy?

You're going to wait for something else? DE NANG NAS THEG PA CHEN PO'I CHOS Not only do you have Buddhist teachings, but among the Buddhist teachings, you got THEG CHEN. THEG PA CHEN PO'I Mahayana.

God, you're not stuck in the Abhidharma school or Vinaya. These are two masters. They're translating the classics for those two.

You're not stuck. You're in Mahayana. You got Mahayana.

First of all, you're not those people with no teachings. Second of all, you got Lord Buddha's teachings. Third of all, you got Mahayana.

A hundred dollars cutting. What's he going to say next? Among the Mahayana, you got...

Damn. A hundred bucks. You got to collect it.

New system. That's exactly where he goes. How does he describe the word tantrayana or diamond way?

He says, SREG CIG LA TZANG RGYA SREG CIG LA TZANG RGYA SREG CIG Yeah. SREG SREG RING SREG RING LIFE SREG CIG Yeah. He describes tantrayana as SREG CIG LA TZANG RGYA.

You have a system which in a single lifetime can get you there. He doesn't say mantrayana or tantrayana. He says the one life system.

You're sitting here in a group of people at a place that was dedicated and built for the practice of the one life system. You're at Diamond Mountain. God, you can't do it here.

Don't say, I wish someday I could become a Buddha. God, shut up. They built this place for Vajrayogini practice.

This place was built for Vajrayogini practice. A lot of people worked for many, many years to get this place ready for you. I was with David Stump a week ago.

He brought his South African student. Where are those South African students? They talk a little funny, but they're all right.

Yeah. God, you got a place that was built for that. Don't tell me you can't do it.

Where are you going to go? Are you going to go to Cincinnati or Dongguan? I mean, there's nothing there.

You're here. Come on. Don't tell me you're going to do it sometime, somewhere.

If you can't do it here, then there's actually no better place in the universe to do it than here. Seriously. It was built for that.

This place was selected for that. The actual place was selected for that. Come on.

You got to do it. All right, let's go through some pictures. Slow, Mr. Tim. The first one is Daniel with his hat.

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What does that one mean?

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Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to do the work. I'm ready to work for others. I'm up for it.

Which of the seven steps might this refer to? The last three. Wow.

Mainly Champa, Nyingje, and Hlakson. I think he did mention the fourth one. Nope, those three.

Those are the actual wanting to work and then the foundation of wanting to work was? Yeah, equanimity, know that your mom, think about the kindness, want to repay them. Okay, good.

Now, what's the next picture represent? Whose definition? Maitreya's definition of bodhichitta, which is also called chittopada, which means to raise the thought.

Chittopada. It's a synonym for bodhichitta. Chittopada.

Bodhichitta, chittopada. I don't know why he used that. Okay.

Then what's this next slide? No, there was one before that. Yeah, that's Maitreya's definition.

You should learn the Sanskrit. You should learn it, it's not so hard. It'll put a good seed in your mind for enlightenment.

Just learn, it's fun, learn it. I used to keep a little notebook in my shirt pocket when I was first studying and I would pull it out and read it while I was walking places. I would just open it up and read it.

I was learning sitar at the same time. Then I would go home and read this on the way. One day I left my guru's music studio and I walked halfway home studying these definitions and I realized I forgot my shoes.

This is in the Himalayas, so it's kind of a big deal. I ran back to the sitar studio. I said, oh my God, I forgot my shoes.

He said, now you're a real sitar player. Now your mind is elsewhere instead of your feet. Okay.

Next picture. Yeah. Thank you.

I ain't got a choice. I got to do it. I'm sorry.

It's not enough to say I want enlightenment for all living beings. My trail was wrong or incomplete. I don't got a choice.

I got to do this thing. I'm compelled to do this thing. I can't get out of it.

Alright, next one. It got worse. I'm chained by my commitment.

I got to do this thing. I don't have a choice. Alright, next picture.

What is that? We didn't do this picture. A hundred bucks.

I know it's Vienna. Come on, you guys can do it. Yeah.

You got the channel. Venice has got the channel. You got the channel.

Don't forget, Alex, you got to collect. She's probably going to run out of money today, so get to her early. Who's Venice?

All of us. Yeah, we have the channel. We have the channel.

We got the necessary canal. Now, if you can explain this last one, I might let you go to breakfast early. Yeah, you can go to breakfast early.

We're going to keep going. Yeah, diamond way. As far as capacity, you were built to get enlightened.

They put the chakras in you. They put the channels in you. They put the prana in you.

You personally, your personal body was built for enlightenment from the factory. Seriously. And as far as the Dharma, you are sitting in the epicenter of tantric practice on this planet.

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Not bad.

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Good? Somebody else, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for?

All right, we have a little bit of time, and I'm a firm believer that you shouldn't waste. We have five minutes extra. I'm going to dip into the next class slightly.

Here we go. Tim's like, ah, I didn't get that one. Oh, in fact, I didn't send it to you yet, which probably has some kind of connection there.

I'll just read it to you, okay? Don't worry about it. We'll look at the photos tomorrow.

Okay. DE'I BCUG DAG RI MED LA YOD PA'I KHYAD CHEN YIN Say RI MED. RI MED is a famous movement in Tibetan Buddhism called RI MED.

RI means system. RI MED means non-aligned school. There came to be a school called the non-aligned school.

They weren't connected to the galukpas and the nyingmas or the kagyus or the sakyas. They called themselves the non-aligned school. Of course, that became a school.

People said, I'm a RI MED. You're like, okay, okay, it's all right. So RI MED.

But here it means, it doesn't matter what school of Tibet you are in or what school of ancient India you are in. We are all fortunate that we all have these teachings that can get you enlightened. BYAS TSONG KHA PA CHEN PO NYIN GYUR GYI BSTAN PA In general, it's true that RI MED, without regard to what school you're practicing, they can all bring you enlightenment in one lifetime.

The tantric teachings in all schools can bring you enlightenment in one lifetime. Now, whenever some Tibetan says, we're all the same, he'll tell you immediately afterwards why we're special. And it's true.

Anyway, look, you can get enlightenment one lifetime in all the various traditions of Tibet if you practice the secret teachings. Yeah. But, you know, here in the TSONG KHA PA system, LO CHU NYID In 12 years, you can reach your goal in 12 years.

It's possible to reach your goal in 12 years. And that's a very famous number. You can reach enlightenment.

And that comes from the tantras. That comes from ancient India. Oh, sorry.

You can reach your goal in 12 years. Tsanggyakwa knew it's possible. And DE LAS KYANG You could also speed things up from the 12 years.

And here's... oh, you don't have the picture. BLO GSUM Three years.

There is a system inside of TSONG KHA PA system where you could achieve tantric enlightenment within three years. So he said, look, you have a body that was built for enlightenment. You are sitting in a place that was built for that practice.

And you have a teaching that... any teaching from Tibet you could achieve in one lifetime. But you, in particular, if you followed TSONG KHA PA's teachings, you could achieve it in 12 years or even three years.

TSANG RGYAL BA GNOD ZHING, DE LAS KYANG CHEN PO'I GNOD PA ZHING GSUNG SBYUG GI DGOS PA THOB PA MANG PO CHUNG BA And it's happened a lot of times before. SNGAR RGYAL BA YAB ZAD DANG PA KHO MO'I DUS MIN NAM THAG YIN And you can just read these religious histories, these biographies of these people and you can see what happened to them. So there are these accounts.

You can read them. King of the Dharma. You can get it online by email.

Easy. I like it. I have it on my computer.

I look at it every once in a while. So you have these credible, believable histories of people that you can read and study. And the King of the Dharma book is a good example.

If you study that book carefully, you can understand why he achieved enlightenment in one lifetime. And you'd be crazy not to read that book from time to time because it's all there. That's what he's saying.

Go read these books. Go read these histories. You can see what happened to people.

So don't be lazy. All right, DGE BA'I DI NYID You're all good. We'll see you tomorrow.