«Дар освобождения», курс 39 «Ускорь своё сострадание», занятие 6

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And we have a whole room of sleepy people here. Anyway, we're getting used to waking up this early in the night. And I have to get unused to it later.

A couple days at home, I'm up here at five, four o'clock. Okay. I'm going to review one sentence that was important.

And I am slowing down. Although I had coffee. One sentence that we had from before.

And it says, Okay, look, you can use the seven-step method to reach bodhichitta. You can. MA.

MA means but. What's he going to say? You can get it stronger.

Yeah, good. And here's the picture. So that guy is the seven-step method.

And his arms are probably dollars. Huh? What two different ways?

What? He's the seven-step method. Huh?

Yeah, Alex got it. She's the word substitute in this class. Yeah, she already exchanged herself with word.

Financially. Okay, good. Yeah, it can be more muscular.

By the way, can you show that picture again, you guys? This is something we invented for the Lam Rim like a hundred years ago. It's called an idim.

Nobody calls it that except me. But anyway, I hope it catches on someday. Which means an idea image.

Idim. Okay, not idiot, okay? Idim.

And it's a mnemonic. It's a way to remember a concept. And it works.

It's really, really good. If you meditate, you can follow the whole Lam Rim. We're going to do 150 idims this course.

So if you just connect each one to the next one, you can meditate on the whole course without opening your eyes. And it's very powerful. So just try to memorize the pictures.

And then you can sit on the picture and think about what it means. If you're in a retreat center that emphasizes the Diamond Way, you could even pretend that they were sent to you by some angel, and there's deeper meaning to each one, and you're supposed to figure it out. And that's very productive to spend many hours trying to figure out why they sent you this one.

Why I'm mentioning that, bring it back again, is that, right Tim, we're going to have an idim contest, right? Yeah, so every time we do Lam Rim, we have idim contest. And we encourage each person who's participating to come up with one of your own idims for the course.

And then we'll compare them. We'll have presentations of them. Who can forget the presentation by, who was it?

I forgot. Haso, Juan Haso. His memorable party pill, which blasted away every other competitor.

I forget what the party pill was. I remember the pills, but I don't remember. Oh, okay.

Anyway, it was really funny, and I was here, I remember that. And I voted for him too. So, we're going to ask you to create your own pictures, okay?

And I'll tell you something. It's kind of dry to read hundreds of pages to Lam Rim. For me too, in Tibetan, it's a little dry.

So when I stop and I go look for an idim, it helps me remember what the class is about. And it slows you down when you're going through the Lam Rim. The Lam Rim can be kind of overwhelming with four discs, and it'll slow you down.

Looking for an idim will slow you down. And then you actually have to think of the meaning to choose a nice picture. And to choose a nice picture is not easy.

It takes a lot of time. I think Stanley does it a lot. It takes a lot of time.

You can do it quickly, and it doesn't mean much, or you can really try to find the perfect picture. And there's a website that we use a lot, which is called 123RF. RF means royalty free, and it's not.

Okay. But if you're interested in it, I don't know, ask Jigme. You can use my password.

I'll pay for it. And you can look for... The images are very sweet.

They're nice and clean and healthy. And they're creative, and they're high quality. So, I mean, all the pictures you want are in one website, and they're very nice.

They're very clean and nice quality, high quality pictures. Like this one with the muscles. Yeah.

Okay, good. I mean, usually they don't... Usually it's just a photo.

Anyway, you get the idea. So if you add the teaching on equal rights and exchanging self and others, I don't want to hear just exchanging yourself and others. It's always equal rights first, and then exchanging yourself and others.

And that's going to make your seven step bodhichitta development more robust and strong. And it'll be a lot stronger. All right, and then...

So keep in mind, we're talking about three methods now, right? With the seven steps to develop bodhichitta. What's the definition of bodhichitta for $100?

Oh, you mean so she could answer the question?

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Oh.

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Come on, come on. Yeah. I'll say $50 each.

Let's be democratic, okay? Good, yeah. So you can try to achieve that wish by doing the seven steps, which is really seven and a half.

Or you could use the equal rights and exchanging self and others, good. Now, something interesting happened in history, and that's where we're going now. Something interesting happened in history.

The teaching on exchanging yourself and others, was considered secret. So here it says, kādampa, which means, it's not the same as kādampa. Listen, kādampa, kādampa, da and ta.

In Tibetan it's as different as cheap and jeep, which I heard a joke that Germans can't hear the difference. Cheap and jeep. I've got a cheap jeep.

I bought a cheap jeep. Anyway, every country has their own words they can't pronounce. The difference between da and ta is a big thing in Tibetan.

So kādampa is a movement of hippies exactly a thousand years ago. It was a hippie movement in Tibet. It really was.

And they were cool. There hasn't been anything like that since then, except for the 60s. So kādampa.

Then here it says kādampa. So you could easily mistranslate it. Kādampa means it was kept secret.

So tampa means closely held. So kādampa means the method of exchanging yourself and others, which we still haven't talked about, which is not what it sounds like, was considered secret. It was held secretly.

Just that part. What's the first part that was not so secret? Equal rights.

Okay, all right. Then he says, and this is interesting. If you know Tibetan scripture, Pabongka Rinpoche says, this practice of exchanging yourself and others.

And tong len, which is what? A hundred bucks. Sometimes people give a hundred dollar answer before the question.

Don't forget to collect from my banker. Yeah, so tong len means, actually it's len tong. First you take, then you give.

First you take other people's problems and len, and then you tong. So this practice of giving and taking, that and exchanging yourself and others. He says they were linked together and they were separated out as a separate, high, almost secret practice called three hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, wan tong.

Who said that? Damn. I'm glad you said it before I got to a thousand.

Now that's, I never heard of that. I never heard of that. So lo jong, which is trying to develop bodhichitta really, the good heart, developing the good heart.

So he's saying it was made of two secret practices. The first was, and that was a long time ago that we talked about it. Yeah, tong len.

No, the second was tong len, and the first one was exchanging self and others. So that's an interesting equation. Take exchanging self and others, add tong len, which is taking away others' pain and giving them your happiness, equals lo jong.

That's a very sexy idea. If you know lo jong, if you studied ACI or whatever it is, fourteen? Fourteen?

Fourteen. Why did I do lo jong after logic? I lost half my students during the logic class.

I had 80 students, I lost 40. You were there, I think. I lost 40 students.

I was bleeding bad. I said, we need something that people can understand. And we did lo jong after that, and they all came back.

Okay, so that's an interesting idea. Here's an idim. Yeah, the equation.

Exchanging yourself and others, plus giving and taking, which is really taking and giving, equals developing the good heart. Very interesting. And supposedly she's got this developing good heart idea in her mind with the light.

Although she looks a little too serious for this practice. So think about it that way. And it was...

Oh, and by the way, next picture. Idim. This is lo jong.

So people mistranslate it badly. You know how when you have a mean person that has a dog and they're hitting it all the time and whacking it? Some people do that with words.

They're like abusing the word lo jong. And it hurts me. So it doesn't mean enlightenment mind.

It's all wrong. Lo jong means developing a good heart. So here's a picture for it.

The girls helping this girl have lo jong. That's all. That's just lo jong.

Don't think of it as, I don't know, what do they call it? Mind training. Mind training, ooh.

Somebody's hitting the dog. That sounds like some Nazi, you know. What do you call it?

Brainwashing thing. Yeah, no. Forget the mind training thing.

That's the one I... Yeah, you're right. That's the one that hurts me.

It's like hitting a dog. Okay, that poor word. Lo jong.

All right, so just remember, when you hear the word lo jong, here's the picture for lo jong. Yeah, all right. They're lo jonging her.

They're not, what did you say? Training her mind or something. They're not training her mind, right?

They're just showing they have a good heart. Okay. Now he's off on how do you practice exchanging stuff and all this.

And here it comes. BDAG GZHAN BYAS CHUN DI This practice of BDAG GZHAN NYAM BYAS. By the way, did he say NYAM BYAS or did he say BYAS?

Did he say BDAG GZHAN NYAM BYAS? He just said BDAG GZHAN BYAS. That proves there's two steps.

Equal rights and exchanging yourself and others. Because here he says exchanging yourself and others. He doesn't say equal rights and exchanging yourself and others.

Okay, got it? There's a big difference between BDAG GZHAN BYAS and BDAG GZHAN NYAM BYAS. Because the word we usually hear is BDAG GZHAN NYAM BYAS.

And you got to think of it as two parts. Equal right to what? Happiness.

Equal right to happiness. And then exchanging self and others. Here he took out BDAG GZHAN BYAS, exchanging, BYAS means exchanging.

Exchanging self and others. He says, now if you want to talk about how to exchange yourself and others, let's look at the avatara. There's two famous avataras.

For zero dollars. It's so easy, I'm not paying for it. There's Madhyamaka Avatara and there's Bodhisattva Charya Avatara.

So guess which one? Yeah, how to act like a bodhisattva. How to be a bodhisattva.

Avatara means how to get into the deeds, how to put on that identity. Therefore, the movie Avatara. It comes from that word, to put on that identity.

,GANG ZHIG BDAG DANG GZHAN RNAM NI, ,GNYUR DU BSKYED PAR GDOD PA DE, ,BDAG DANG GZHAN RJES BYA BA, ,SANG BA'I DANG PA BYAS PA BYA, ,GANG ZHIG BDAG DANG GZHAN RNAM NI, ,GNUR DU BSKYED PAR GDOD PA DE, If you want to protect yourself and others, ,GNUR DU, quickly. Then, ,BDAG DANG GZHAN RJES BYA BA, you should learn to exchange yourself with others. ,SANG BA'I DANG PA BYAS PA BYA, Practice this highest sangwa.

Tim knows the word. He's busy. Secret practice.

So who calls it a secret practice? Shantideva. Shantideva.

This kind of friendly, warm, nice guy. He says, hey, you want a real secret practice? Yeah.

Just exchange yourself with Daniel this morning. Okay, got it? He refers to it as a highly secret practice.

That's weird. He says sangwa dangpa. Dangpa means the highest of secret practices.

You want to help yourself and other people? Then exchange yourself. If you really want to help other people, exchange yourself with other people.

And that's the highest of all secret practices. That's Shantideva's saying. What does it mean?

Oh, here's the ultimate secret. You got a picture, I think. This is, I don't know, is it Tim as a kid?

Nah, his hair is too straight. The reason I chose this theater is I want you guys to tell me. I want some, what do you call that?

Guessing? What's the polite word? Conjecture.

Conjecture about why it would be almost a tempting practice to exchange yourself with other people. I think that's one aspect. When you're doing it, if you're doing it well and you're not bragging about it, which is what I would do, nobody knows you're doing it.

That's good. Anybody else? No.

Yeah, now what she said was, she noticed something, and let's go that way. She didn't say exchange yourself with others. She didn't say put yourself in cat's shoes.

Imagine how hard it is to plant 10,000 trees. He didn't say that. He said, put yourself in cat's body Geshe Michael and look at Geshe Michael and see how she feels.

That's a different idea. It's not that, oh, try to be sympathetic with the big job that cat has to do with Rio and all those guys. Alex, 100,000, 10,000 trees?

100,000 trees. 10,000 trees. 4,500, sorry.

So it doesn't mean, exchanging yourself with others doesn't mean put yourself in cat's place and try to feel how much stress she may have. It doesn't mean that. It means put yourself in cat's body, open her eyes and look at you and see how other people see you.

And what a, I almost said asshole, but it's not good. Maybe think about how you look to other people sometimes. And that's the real dak shen nyam je.

Then does Alex's statement follow from that? Yeah, it would be freaky. It'd freak you out.

It would be a hard thing to know how people really think about you. It would be a hard thing. We are somehow protected karmically from really hearing other's thoughts about us.

When you see emptiness directly, for the rest of the day until you go to sleep, you can read other people's minds. And then you realize it's a good thing you've been protected from that because it's freaky. It's really, really freaky.

It's very difficult to really hear other's thoughts about you. For example, you might go to sell your car to buy a diamond. And you go to the car dealer and you have a Firebird.

It's the Tesla of the time. You can date it from the, you can look up Firebird and see when it was popular. And the guy says, well, what do you do for a living?

And you say, I'm a cook in a temple. And then you hear the guy say, ha ha, stupid little guy. Let's offer him $100 for a Firebird.

This is like Tesla, a new Tesla. And you can read the person's opinion of you and what they're thinking about you. And it's very hard.

Therefore, it should be kept secret. Only people who are really mature, spiritually, could take it if they really heard what other people, if they heard what everyone in the room was thinking about them, it would be overwhelmingly depressing. So let's keep it secret for a while.

Okay, that's the, you're right, Alex. I think that's the main idea. But the other is also part of it.

The other is also part of it. Okay, here we go. So anyway, that idim, let's show it again.

The purpose of the idim was, I want you to do that. For what? Yeah, why was it secret?

It seems so basic and so friendly to put yourself in other's shoes. But it's not. It's actually quite overwhelming.

It could drive you crazy to really hear what other people think about you. Why would you want to hear what other people think about you? You could improve yourself.

Yeah, oh, I am an asshole sometimes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. You could say your perception of me as an asshole is actually asshole. You could improve them.

That's what I would do. No, I'm kidding. Yeah.

No, it is true. It is true. But it would be overwhelming.

I think it would be mentally overwhelming if you could really hear other's thoughts. And perhaps many of the people who are super depressed or seem a little crazy, maybe they have a real capacity to hear what other people are thinking. And maybe it's overwhelming for them.

Maybe a lot of crazy people are just super sensitive people and it's overwhelming for them. All right. ZHES GSUNGS PA LTAR NUS MIN GYI LOR MI CHOD Okay, here it is.

NUS MIN means people who couldn't handle it. It means not a worthy vessel, what they call not a worthy vessel. But what it means is people who couldn't handle it.

MI CHOD means it would overwhelm them. CHOD means it would overwhelm their capacity if they could really hear what other people were thinking about them. LOR MI CHOD PAS SBYOR BA CHEN PO Therefore, the Lord, Atisha, CHE KHA' BA'I GCOG CHOS SU ZAD GCOG means GCOG GYUR Yeah, hidden.

He passed it on to GCOG KHA' BA. Atisha passed it on to, sorry, from Atisha to GCOG KHA' BA. I don't think he was a direct disciple, no.

So during that period, it was kept GCOG. GCOG means hidden. They didn't teach it publicly.

They kept it private. And they passed it on to people that they thought were spiritually mature enough to hear other people's thoughts. It was called GCOG CHOS.

And here's a picture. You tell me why it's relevant.

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Say again?

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Yeah, but what have we been talking about? Oh, she said it's the quality of the cup, like the three images of a cup. But what did we just talk about?

Yeah, it would overwhelm the vessel. It would be too much water for the vessel. GNOD MED means the person's mind couldn't hold the feeling.

They'd get depressed or they'd go crazy. If they really heard the voices in the heads of all the people around them, about them, it would overflow their capacity. That's the idea.

It would flow over the top of the vessel. And it means you'd go crazy. You would go crazy.

So therefore, let's keep it private. Let's only teach it to disciples that we know have the capacity. That's deep, right?

You think of, oh, Dakshin Yenchen, let's go do Dakshin. Nah, it's too easy. But it was kept secret for a long time because they didn't want to make people crazy.

GOG CHUR ZAD ZAD NAS KA RGYA, KA RGYA MA. Say KA RGYA MA. So sometimes, John Brady and his team, for 35 years this year, it's been 35 years, we've been going to find ancient books in libraries around the world.

The big libraries we've done were St. Petersburg. And by the way, the Russians are extremely deep book people. And I went there in 1991 to negotiate their library, their great Asian libraries.

And I was amazed in the subway, everybody's reading Dostoyevsky. Everybody, it's weird. Business people are reading Dostoyevsky and hanging on the subway pole and reading Dostoyevsky.

And it's weird. They have a deep love for deep ideas. And they are, the Russian people are extremely deep.

And they're all sitting there reading amazing books. And they kept the, they were the only ones in the world who kept all the Tibetan and Sanskrit books carefully since the time of the Tsar for 500 years. They kept the books in a warehouse.

The warehouse is the former palace of the Prince of Russia. It's in the palace. Dvaryat, it's called Dvaryat.

It's the palace of the Tsar. They kept the Asian books, the Tibetan books. 141,000 Tibetan books are kept in the palace of the Tsar.

The most beautiful building in Petersburg. So, we were there a cat long. And it's amazing.

It's just amazing. So, sometimes you come to a book that has a, it's wrapped. It has a string and it has a wax seal on it.

And it's sealed. And the only person who can break the wax is the abbot of the monastery. No one else is allowed to open the book.

And it's called kakyama. So, here's the word kakyama. It means sealed, literally sealed book.

Top secret, sealed book. Why does he mention it here? Yeah, the books on exchanging me and you, let's call it that, right?

Exchanging me and you were sealed. They were kept sealed. There's a beautiful picture of John Brady in Ladakh, 12,000 feet, showing up.

I was there. He was showing up in the back of this tiny little plane while we're trying to land between two mountains. And the plane's going like this and the mountains are, and John's like, blah.

I'm like, John, get in the back. We found a lot of kakyamas and they allowed us to open them. So, this is the kind of work that John's doing for 35 years.

Very amazing. Anyway, they decided to keep it as a kakyama. From in that period between Atisha, Lord Atisha, which is 982 A.D., up to Chekaua. LO SBYONG GI KHOR LA MA BYA'I DUG SBYONG You ready for some money, honey?

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100 bucks?

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Why don't I do 50 or 25? I don't know.

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Let me do 100.

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There's a LO SBYONG called MA BYA'I DUG SBYONG. Say MA BYA'. MA BYA'I DUG SBYONG MA BYA'I means a mire in Sanskrit, peacock.

And then DUG means poison. SBYONG means to destroy it. Somebody tell me why.

Wait, Tim doesn't get to answer. Oh, you're just passing the mic. Come on, let's go.

You guys never went to Mixed Nuts class? Who's got it? Good.

Say it louder. Wait, wait for the mic, wait for the mic.

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Peacock can destroy the poison in the plants that it eats and transforms it into beautiful colored feathers.

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Nice. Okay, yeah. There's a tradition in ancient India that peacocks prefer poison plants.

They go into a garden. Here's a $25 question. They go into Oshada garden and they choose the poison rather than the Oshada.

What's Oshada? It's one of the only Sanskrit words that starts with an O. Oshada.

It's Ayurvedic plant, medicine plant. Oshada means medicine plant. So they go into a garden where the gardener is cultivating Oshada and they ignore the Oshada and they go for the poison plants.

Desert Marigold, you have it all around here. Dhatura also. You have two poison plants here.

Dhatura is the big lily looking thing. It's poison. It was used to make, what's that ancient stuff that the Vedic priests used to take?

She'll think of it. To get high before their rituals. Soma, it's soma.

It grows here naturally. It's a poison. Taken in small amounts, it allows you to see things.

Taken in misjudged amounts, it kills you. But there's another plant here, that cute little daisy. The cute little yellow daisy that grows everywhere here, it's poison for cattle.

It can hurt cattle. It's not good to eat. It's good for growing in your garden if you have a gopher problem.

Because the deer and the gophers know enough not to eat it. But it's a cute little yellow flower here everywhere. Why am I talking about that?

Yeah, the peacock lives only on those plants and they convert it into the rainbow colors of their feathers. Why are we talking about that here? Meaning?

Yeah, you take other people's abuse and turn it into... It makes you look better, like you're a Ukrainian and you take other people's violence and you turn it into beauty by being non-violent yourself. So you convert the poison into beauty.

That's the idea. MA BYA'I SDUG BSBYAMS So that was actually the name of a lojong. There is a famous lojong called The Peacock Who Destroys the Poison Plant by Eating.

That's a nice thing. There's this whole concept of taking other people's crap and eating it and turning it into beauty. Someone comes in the room, they're all angry, or they're upset, and you just absorb it and you turn it into some beautiful experience.

All right? Aspirationally. All right, BYAMS PA'ANG CHOG LO SBYONG GI LAM GYIS NUS YONGS SU RDZOGS PA NI The whole thing of a short lojong practice called The Peacock Practice.

Whose book is peacock-oriented? Yeah, Seiji Arao Takahashi, the Vice President of DCI, is translating the ancient source book on the peacock practice. He and Nur, who's a Syrian refugee, Muslim, so this Japanese, he's so pure Japanese, he did the 24andMe, 23andMe?

He did 23andMe. They said, your family for eight generations is from the same three-mile area in Japan. So he marries a Muslim Syrian refugee.

The son is very beautiful. And they are translating, they are mixing Rumi with lojong, with the peacock practice. They are teaching people Rumi, the great Muslim poet, Sufi poet, and they're teaching it together with the peacock practice, which is very beautiful, with a very famous Russian author, Muslim Russian author, named Norbiakov, Mitsakari Norbiakov.

And it's very beautiful. So they'll be doing that again this year. If you have time, you should come.

It's very beautiful. It's a beautiful marriage, the Syrian and the Jap, no, the Rumi and the ancient Buddhist text. It's very beautiful.

And she's translating the Rumi, fresh from the Arabic. It was written in Persian, but she's translating it from Arabic. Anyway, MA BYAS LO SBYONG YONGS SU RDZOGS PA NI DON DUN MA BRTAB PA So this practice of the expanded peacock poison practice, the expanded, the whole practice was called the seven-part lojong.

LO SBYONG DON DUN MA Say lojong. DON DON MA The seven-part lojong. The seven-part mind training.

I mean, no. The seven-part practice for developing the good heart. It was called that.

And I was trying to, I thought, God, somebody's going to ask me, what are the seven? I better brush up on it. And I found it in a course called lojong.

The whole thing. I was like, wow, that's really good. So that was ACI course 14.

We've translated it there. So it's there, if you're curious. We'll talk about it.

BRTAG PA DE NYID NYIN PAS DE'I BRTEN NAS MNYAMS SU RLANG NA SNGA MA BA'I KYANG PHAN TZAB BYAS BA If you practice this particular lojong text in seven parts, PHAN TZAB BYAS TZAB BYAS is an interesting word. It means almost violently more powerful. That seven-step lojong is almost violently more powerful than anything before it.

It's a weird word. It usually means violently powerful. But it means that practice for improving your heart, your good heart, is more violently powerful than previously.

BYAS PA'I PHYIR DE LAM RGYUR DON DROD MED TSA BA'I YIG SNYING KYI BRTEN NAS GCIG BU YIN Therefore, I am offering you this teaching from YIG SNYING. It means these early lojong practices, because they were secret, they were passed on by oral lineage. They were written oftentimes in poetry, with rhyming poetry, so you know if you're missing a line.

I was thinking about Jack and the chair stack that he's going to... Something like that. I was thinking about Jack and hoping he would come back.

So then if you miss a line, there's a Jack with no back. Got it? So they would always write it in poetry with rhyming lines.

So he said for a long time, this was passed down orally with rhyming lines. Finally, it was written down, and I got one of the original copies. Pabongka Rinpoche, in 1921, is saying, I got one of the original copies from 1,000, from 900 years before.

I'm teaching you from YIG SNYING, which means I got one of the original copies, and I'm teaching you from that manuscript, which was one of the first ones written down. So because it was oral for so long, some people say it was oral from the time of Lord Buddha. So for 1,500 years.

There are many variants. Each student memorized it wrongly in a different way. All right.

That's one of those games where you whisper something. You know this game? Do you have that game in China?

You whisper it in somebody's ear, and they whisper, and they whisper, and they whisper. And then by the time it gets to every other, it's always completely changed. All right.

PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA Here's a picture. I like to say how many people came to this program on a horse. How many people arrived from Tucson on a horse?

Raise your hand. Not even cat, I can't believe it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. So the reason we didn't come here on a horse is because cars are PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA. Almost violently more efficient.

They are so more efficient, or they are so more powerful. Almost everybody would rather get here in an air-conditioned car in three hours than take two days on a horse in the sun. So that's called PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA.

So this car is PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA compared to the horses. Why are we talking about PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA? The seven-step lojong is PHEN TZAB PHYAL BA than even the earlier lojongs.

Much more powerful. Much more powerfully beneficial. All right, good.

DE LA SHES LUGS MI DANG BA MANG YANG Look, there's many ways to teach this text, the seven-step lojong. DA RES DIL MU CHUD YOD SREG GIS CI YIN DANG BYAS PA YIN Personally, I prefer the presentation by Quicksilver. So MUL CHUD.

MUL means silver. CHUD means water. Silver water means mercury.

And it's very important in Buddhism. Mercury was used by Nagarjuna in small amounts, not poisonous amounts, to convert iron into gold, for example. Alchemy depends on the use of Quicksilver, mercury.

And it's very poisonous and it's very dangerous. So don't try it. Every time I say don't try it, people wake up, what?

Where do you buy it? If you want some tolerable levels of mercury, go buy a good swordfish in a good restaurant and you'll get just enough mercury not to kill you. Their bodies retain it.

It's bad to eat them. I don't know why meat should be unhealthy. So MUL CHUD YOD SREG means Quicksilver Lama.

And he's from a county in Tibet called MUL CHUD, Quicksilver County. And then he came to be called Quicksilver Lama. His real name is Dharmabhadra.

He took a Sanskrit name even though he was Tibetan. So he's called MUL CHUD Dharmabhadra, Quicksilver Dharmabhadra. He's very important for Vajrayogini practice.

He wrote the greatest commentaries. Okay? Yeah, he is a passionate devotee.

And he wrote two commentaries on Vajrayogini. One is highly secret and we translated both. They are both in the Tantric course.

I'm only a Tantric. MUL CHUD Dharmabhadra. And his son, spiritual son, YANG CHEN GZHUG PA'I MDOR BYED and he wrote a great Vajrayogini commentary and we translated all of that.

Somebody asked me, somebody in Vietnam asked me, oh Geshe-la, we heard you're practicing with a partner. Is that okay for a monk to do? And I sent them, I printed out the list of books about that practice from the Tengyur and Kangyur.

It's, hang on. It's 500 tantras in the Kangyur and it's 1,800 commentaries. It's 2,300 books about it from ancient India.

I said, maybe it's okay. And we translated, I don't know, we translated 15,000 pages. It was a bit of work.

So maybe we did it properly. Possibly. Anyway, he wrote some of the greatest commentaries and they are proper and they're beautiful.

And Lord Buddha used the same method. He had a spiritual partner. He followed the same method.

Okay. So that lineage is said to have been sealed. Kagyama from Lord Buddha up to Lord Atisha.

Atisha's dates, if you're interested, are 982 to 1052. So for 15 centuries, they were kept secret. This practice was kept secret because it would blow people's mind.

That's a good answer, right? It would blow their mind. And then also through the great disciple of Lord Atisha in Tibet, the Tibetan, who babysat Atisha, took care of Lord Atisha, Dromtönche.

He's special because he's a high, high, high lama of our lineage who never became a monk. He was a businessman. But he helped start Buddhism in Tibet.

Without him, we wouldn't be here. So he's important. I think he's important as an example for modern day people.

We don't have to be a monk or nun in this culture to be a great Buddhist teacher. And maybe it's in this culture, it might be more efficient to be a family person or a business person. Right, Vinaya?

Dromtönche. DE SLO MA RNAM LA LER MIM SOGS SPYOD Then from that point after Dromtönche, so after 1050 AD, they taught it, DE SLO MA RNAM LA. He began teaching it to his students as a thing called Lam Rim.

It started to be passed down as part of Lam Rim. SOGS SPYOD SOGS SPYOD means taught in public. It was taught in public.

SOGS means, in this case, it means a group of students in a temple. SOGS SPYOD DANG DE'I SANGS RGYAS BSGOM NAS BO LTA BA LA SOGS LA SNANG ZHIG Then parts were kept secret. Parts were, the Lam Rim part was taught publicly and the Lojong part was taught privately, but together.

So you would go to the temple to get your Lam Rim and then the teacher, if they felt you were ready, they would give you Lojong privately. So you could say they went from the secret years to the... That's the secret years.

That's a kakyama, by the way. That's a kakyama. Now, the Lam Rim became, yeah, that's it.

What's that?

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Hybrid.

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It became a hybrid teaching. Some parts were electric, some parts were gas. Some was open.

That's the Lam Rim. If you sit there at home alone thinking about teaching at Dharma and trying to find silly pictures, it helps you remember the subject. So I think the word hybrid, it fits what was happening with Lojong at that time.

The Lojong part was still kept secret, but the Lam Rim part, they started to teach it openly. So those are the hybrid years. What's going to happen after that?

They're going to degenerate to all gas, which is where we are now, which is teaching Lojong openly. Got it? Okay?

Help you remember? No, more confusing. Okay, all right.

All right, we're going to stop there and take a pee-pee break. Right, Uncle Jim? We'll see you guys in 10 minutes for the open teaching on Lojong.

All gas. Yay! We're going to play the who-who?

Party field? How to do money? Oh, we're going to show you Haso's award-winning presentation.

How to make an idim. We had a competition here a few years ago and this young man from Guadalajara won. By the way, I think I mentioned it, but I like to brag about it.

I watched Haso, won Haso. I watched him wipe out a Geshe in a debate. I was the translator and it was cool.

Just so you know, he's not just a good idim maker. Okay, take a break.