«Дар освобождения», курс 39 «Ускорь своё сострадание», занятие 12

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We're going to cover a paragraph that we did yesterday. Are you ready? Or two days ago.

DA LTA RANG RE BDAG SEMS NA When you and I hear the word me, or Michael, or Rosa, or Karin, okay? GZHAN DU BYED ZHING PHANG LA We get a nice feeling. If they say Geshe-la's teaching, I'm like, what?

And we feel good about it. We feel happy when we hear our own name spoken. PHANG LA GZHAN DE LTAR MI LTA BA NI And then if they say, well, Jigme's going to teach, then we're like, well, yeah, okay.

And that difference, BDAG GZHAN MA NYAMS PA is a sign that we are not exchanging self and others. Sorry, that we're not equal rights. We're not treating each other equal.

BDAG GZHAN NYID LA SKAD PAR BYAMS PA DE TZAM MI RIGS TE But it's not logical to make such a distinction between ourselves and others because, for $100. Say again? Yeah, Daniel get the money.

You should...

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Yeah, yeah.

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You should start a special bank account here. Yeah, even an amoeba goes away from hot water. Okay, yeah.

And in that sense, we're all the same. That's all. We don't want trouble.

We want to have things. DANG PO DE LA DE TZAM LA GZHAN RIGS PA'I NAM DANG And he says, it doesn't need much more explanation than that. LO SBYONG GI SKABS KDIR MAR SHES DBYIN DRAN BDUN BYUNG When we talk about, in LO SBYONG, here in LO SBYONG, when we talk about the seven steps that we had before, seeing that people have been our mom, remembering what they did for us, trying to pay them back, those three, and at the end of the seven, what's number six?

Yeah, like I'll do it myself. If nobody else does it, I'll take care of it myself. That's a nice attitude, by the way, for your whole life.

You young ones, you young ones. It's a nice attitude. Just say, yeah, yeah, okay, blah, blah, blah.

I'll just do it myself, okay? So, I'll do it myself, and BYANG SEMS, actual bodhicitta, okay? He says, those five are kind of the same as what we did before, the seven steps.

But two of them, in between, between the three and the two, what's in between? Yeah, compassion and love. Like I don't want other people to suffer.

I don't want other people to, and I want other people to get what they want, okay? YID BONG GI BYAMS PA DANG, NYIN RJE NYID LA THOB BYED CHUNG There's a difference in the strength of them, okay? Between the seven step advice and hearing the lojong, okay?

Then he says a weird thing, and it took me a while to figure it out. So why should they be different? Why should the love and the compassion, when you're thinking of people as your mom, what they did for you when they were your mom, BYIN DE'I SKABS SU, SNGA MA LA AA MA BYAS PA'I SKABS KYI DRIN TSUL Why should there be a difference?

$300. It's weird.

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It's not what you'd expect.

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Why should the love and the compassion be different? That's an old argument, and that's not a bad argument, and you almost got some money. But it's not that here.

No, well, it's not about the order. Why should these two be stronger?

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One, I want to be happy, and the other one, I want to don't suffer.

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Yeah, well, you'd never get it. And it's a weird one. And here's a picture.

Ready? Where is that? Nah.

Is there a picture before nah? Oh, next picture. Next picture.

Yeah, this is my mom. And I'm on the right. And that's the famous number one in the middle of the three.

And number three, he's holding number three. He's probably trying to keep him from doing anything. And that's number four.

Anyway, the idea is that in the second system, people also gave us love and kept us from problems when they were not our mom. Okay? Does anybody understand it?

In the seven steps, we're thinking of them as when they were our mom. But what about lifetimes when they were not our mom? You see?

So the seven steps, the love and the compassion, the love and the compassion only cover when they were your mom. And in the second set, the love and the compassion cover also when they were not your mom. Okay?

In the seven step advice for bodhichitta, we are thanking people for when they were our mom. And in the lojong part, we're thanking them for all the compassion they ever showed us and all the love they ever showed us even when they were not our mom. So that's more.

That's more love and compassion that they gave to us. Make sense?

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Okay.

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Yay. It's kind of interesting. Like, I don't know.

They served you food in restaurants but when they weren't your mom. Okay? So...

Huh? Yeah, it does, but not in every life. That's all.

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Okay.

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All right. ,BDAG GZHAN BYAS BA DE'I SNGON DU RGYAL KHYEN, ,BDAG CHEN ZIN GYI KHYEN DANG, ,THUN KHYEN GZHAN CHEN GYIS YIN NAS BSAMGOS PAS, When you think about how you and other people are equal, you kind of have to remove, there are certain kind of obstacles you might run into. ,BDAG CHEN ZIN GYIS KHYEN And the first one is the habit of being so in love with yourself.

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Okay?

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Which everybody is. It's kind of, I don't know, ironic when people try to tell you they're not. It's kind of like hard to listen to because they're kind of speaking from loving themselves more.

It's hard to convince someone that you're not more interested in yourself than other people. Somehow when you try to convince them, you're also doing it. How's that?

That's what I'm saying. ,THUN KHYEN GZHAN CHEN GYIS YIN NAS Then we're going to have to try to consider why being biased towards ourselves is not advantageous and why taking care of others or thinking of others is pretty cool. We're going to have to think about that in this.

And there's a balance here. Yay, picture. Yeah, I reused one of these before.

This one's a little bit different. But there's a balance here between thinking about how cool it would be to take care of other people and thinking about how much trouble it causes us when we take care of ourselves.

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Nice bird.

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We reached a section called ,GNYIS PA BDAG CHEN CING GIS ,KHYUN DGOS DUS MA NAS SANGS PA NI thinking of how much trouble it causes us when we focus on ourselves. And then after that, we're going to think about how cool it is when we focus on other people. ,BLA MA CHOD PA Yeah, how do you get ,BLA MA CHOD PA?

How do you get ,BLA MA CHOD PA? You order it on Diamond Cutter Press website. The Three Treasures book.

Yeah, and it's a nice... Those are... If you want to do retreats, that's the book you need.

And it was so much trouble in the old days before the press put it out. You had to go try to find those three books and it was hard. There weren't any.

So if you just get that, you're set for retreats. Any retreats you want to do, you're set. So you're crazy if you don't get it.

,RANG NYID BYED PAR BRDZIN PA'I SBYONGS NAS ,RANG NYID BYED PAR BRDZIN PA'I SBYONGS NAS And it says the habit. SBYONGS NAS is an interesting word. It means chronic disease.

So you see people who have had some kind of, I don't know, I don't know, some motor problem for 20 years. They've had some kind of same problem with their arm for 20 years. And that's called a jongne.

Jongne means some kind of illness that doesn't go away. It just lingers and lingers and lingers. Which one?

Yeah, focusing on yourself. Focusing on yourself. RANG GI BYAS PA RDZIN PA'I JONG NAS DI And by the way, Seiji's text is the ultimate.

It's hundreds of pages about this subject. MIN GYUR SDUG BSNGAL SKYES PA'I RGYUR MTHONG NAS I finally woke up and realized that focusing on myself is what made me miserable for all these years. SOGS DANG And here's a picture.

Chronic pain. What? Focusing on myself.

It's not a shoulder pain. It's a mental pain, a chronic pain. I think it's a great picture actually.

The chronic pain of focusing on yourself. Sometimes we have a certain pain in a certain joints for a couple of years, but this one's a pain in the ass. CHUN GYUG LAS GCIG RTEN DONG YANG CI NYES PA DE KUN DAG DE DUS LAS BYUNG And this is from...

What's CHUN GYUG? Avatara. Bodhisattva Charya Avatara.

Master Shantideva. Guide to the Bodhisattvas, remember? GCIG RTEN DONG YANG CI NYES PA Every single pain in the world from, I don't know, hurting your toe up to dying, DE KUN DAG DE DUS LAS BYUNG all of them come from wanting to take care of yourself first.

Every pain. War, war, stomach aches, headaches, pulling a hair out, single hair. Ultimately, it all traces back to taking care of yourself.

That's weird.

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And here's a picture.

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I don't know, you see these pictures for... Okay, you want to hear a bad, something really sad? So there's a magazine called Surfer Magazine, and it came out when I was 16 or something.

50 years ago or something. And it's so beautiful. It's all, they take out of thousands and thousands of surf pictures, they take the best ones.

And they'll have like 20 pictures of surfers. And they're unbelievable. And so if you ever surf, you subscribe to Surfer.

And they still put it out in paper. And you still get it. And I keep them in the big stack in my bathroom.

And I don't know, if you've ever been to my house, you probably went to the Surfer Magazine when you were meditating. And so they wrote me and they said, we're going out of business. I almost gave them all my money because I thought that would be terrible.

But they did, they went out of business. I guess it's too expensive. And there's no paper anymore.

So why am I telling you all this? They said, since your subscription is already paid up for next year, we're going to send you a free copy every week of Men's Health Magazine, which is how to build muscles, how to make cocktails, how to shoot animals, the fastest cars available. And it's a weird magazine, but it was fascinating, I have to admit.

And there's the picture. Where's that picture? The last one.

Yeah. It's full of these happy people pictures. And I don't know if you've ever been to one of these parties.

And it's on the beach and everyone brings alcohol and you're all got sun tans. And there's a big barrel of beer and ice and everybody who drives by is looking at you and thinking how happy you are. And you're trying so hard to be happy.

And everyone in the picture is miserable. Everyone's having a bad time. The guys who drank too much are throwing up.

The guys who didn't drink enough are bored because there's nothing to do. And then these five people, I don't know, you've been there, right? You tried it, right?

And they're not happy. But they're trying so hard to make themselves happy. And it's just, we could say tokta par sum.

Famous Tsongkhapa poem, tokta par sum. Miserable in the beginning, miserable at the end, and miserable everywhere between. Tokta par sum.

So this is called the great mistake in Buddhism. This, I don't know, continued, hopeless, fruitless effort to make yourself happy and ignore other people. It just never works out.

And I don't know how many years you have to try it to... I mean, I gave up the beer parties. I don't know.

I was about 16. When did you... We won't ask.

Okay. Last week. All right.

All right. ,'JIG RTEN BDAG NA, ,SE BA GANG YOD DANG, ,'JIG RTEN SDUG BSNGAL JI NUS YOD GYUR PA, ,DE KUN BDAG TU BRDZON PA LAS CHUNG BA, ,DE CHEN DE KHO BDAG LA CI ZHIG BYA, Yeah, here's a picture, okay? And when you teach a lot, people give you little gifts.

And I don't know why, but when you go to Europe especially, Germany, okay Daniel? People give you chocolates. Boxes of chocolates, you know?

And what Uta always gives me chocolates. And at a certain age, you realize you can't eat them. You shouldn't eat them.

They're not good for you. And you can't... And this is weird, okay?

People often give me that kind of stuff at the airport before I get on the plane. And now I have a system. I smile, I thank them, I look at the box, I turn it over.

I get my passport out, I go through customs. And on the other side of customs, I throw out the chocolate. And I cannot open it.

If I open it, I'll eat it. I can't even open the ribbon. I have to leave the ribbon on.

And I have to hold the ribbon and throw it out. Because if I don't throw it out right away, I'll eat it. And it took me 50 years to figure that out.

And it's funny, right? It took me 50 years. Because a part of me felt guilty to throw food out, but it's not food.

And then a part of me said I should give it to somebody, but it's poison for everybody else too. And it's weird. Finally, I realized these fine chocolates belong in the garbage.

And they shouldn't be left around where someone might eat them. Because it's just going to give you diabetes and heart problems. And it's just not possible.

There's nobody who can eat it. You see what I mean? And that's, to me, that's a perfect example for dak chen dzin.

Yeah, all attempts to make yourself happy. All attempts to, all attempts to, all biased attempts to take care of yourself and ignore other people. Every time you try to take some action to make yourself happy at the expense of other people, it's like a box of chocolates for me.

It's useless. There's no possible outcome except misery. That's weird, right?

Like it should be 60%, 53% are successful. Attempts to make yourself happy at the expense of other people, some percent should work out. But it's zero.

All attempts to favor yourself over other people are boxes of chocolate. Make sense? They're all worthless.

They never work out. None of them. You always mess up.

That's what Shantideva says. ,'JIG RTEN BDAG NA MTSE BA GANG YOD DANG, Every problem you ever encounter in your life, ,'JIG RTEN SDUG BSNGAL JI NYE YOD GYUR PA, Every time you were scared, every time something went wrong, all of them come from the prejudice you have of taking care of what you want first and then taking care of what other people want. And then he says, ,'JIG RTEN, He calls that the ultimate devil.

The devil of this world is not a separate person. It's the habit of taking care of yourself first and then paying attention to other people. It's the devil.

In English we have, in Christian we have the devil, the one super bad guy in the universe. Okay. ,'JIG RTEN BDE KHO, Then Shantideva says, what the...

What's the use? What use are you? What possible...

Why are you still around? Why are you still in the world? You're so useless.

Taking care of myself first is so useless. Why are you still around? Why didn't people throw you out a long time ago?

,'DI'I RTZA' BTZIG LAS KYANG, ,LAS LEN THAMS CAD GCIG LA BDAG, By the way, Yeah. And then he says, ,LAS LEN THAMS CAD GCIG LA BDAG, Picture.

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Natanya.

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Yeah. If you... The finger touching the domino is trouble.

It represents trouble here. And sooner or later, all trouble traces back to one thing, which is the preference of taking care of yourself first. All trouble.

All bad things in the world. Ukraine problem. Car accidents.

Diabetes. Climate change. It all traces.

If you follow the chain of events back, somewhere, somebody was trying to take care of themselves at the expense of other people. Okay? Every problem in this world, if you trace it back like a domino, it'll trace back to somebody, somewhere, taking care of themselves before other people.

Every negative thing in this world. It's kind of amazing. So the very famous line is, ,LAS LEN THAMS CAD GCIG LA BDAG, It all goes back to one.

The blame always goes back to a single thing. Somebody was trying to take care of themselves first. ,LAS LEN THAMS CAD GCIG LA BDAG, ,ZHES PA LTAR RANG RNAMS DU PA GANG SBYUNG BA, ,THAMS CAD RANG CHEN TZIN LAS CHUNG BA, Then he starts on a long, it's a long litany, litany, new word for you.

A long list of same, he always looks up new words, which is why his English is so good. L-I-T-A-N-Y It means a religious, right? A religious list or something like that.

But he goes off on a long, long list of bad things in life. And then he says, they all come back to taking care of yourself. So here we go.

Here's the list. Okay. Son, the existence of weapons on this planet traces back to someone taking care of themselves.

From knife to nuclear bomb. From knives to nuclear bombs. The existence of a weapon.

Every weapon you ever see is a, how do you say that? Is a signpost of somebody somewhere in history wanted to get something for themselves. Every weapon you have, guns, knives, spears, rocks.

They all trace back to somebody wanting something for themselves and taking something from somebody else. All weapons are for that. Up to nuclear bombs.

Tuk, all poisons. The previous Prime Minister of Ukraine was poisoned by a single grain of a high quality Novichok or something. A single grain, a salt grain is enough to kill you.

And it didn't kill him, it just half killed him. And his face is black now, permanently. And so, tuk, the existence of those poisons to kill people traces back to someone who invented it or paid to invent it or someone wanted something for themselves.

The existence of poison on this planet is proof of the habit of taking care of yourself first. ,LHA LUS SOGS MI MA YIN GYI GNOD PA, Then all, so in Tibet there was a worldview that a lot of the problems in life are caused by spirits, negative spirits. And they're called, they can be called naga or deva or other kinds of spirits.

But in Tibet, in, I don't know, a couple hundred years ago, when they walk outside in the morning, there's an intense awareness of spirits around you, good ones and bad ones. And so we don't have that in America or I guess in many countries. But in Tibet, they saw, they would walk out here, especially Diamond Mountain, and they would be aware of many spirits, good and bad.

So all the negative spirits in the world who are hanging out in all kinds of places, anyone who died anywhere, there is some residue of their presence there. And all the negative ones, which are 50%, trace back to someone taking care of themselves first. That's all.

All the spirit harms that exist in this world trace back to somebody preferring to take care of themselves. So this list is going to be long. I mean, you could pretty much list any problem in the world and he does.

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Nyalwa, Tim, Nyalwa, anybody, Nyalwa. The existence of the hell.

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The existence of hell. The caverns of hell. The realm of hell.

Where, by the way, it doesn't have to be in a special location, right? If your seeds are bad, you will see this as hell. The existence of hell is due to people's selfishness.

The existence of pretas. The existence of animal life. The animal realm where the goal is to kill other beings.

What's, I gave a talk, I built a school for the refugee kids. One of the best things I ever did. There's 500 kids there.

So I built the school and then paid for it. And then I had to do the opening. I was at the opening and they asked me to give a talk.

So I said, there were like 200 kids at that time, all these little kids. And I said, what differentiates a human from an animal? And there's this big quiet.

I said it in Tibetan, right? And then finally one kid's like, I know, I know. And then I'm like, what?

And he said, oh, kushala kila shugayu. Oh sir, dogs have tails. And I'm like, no.

What's the difference between a dog and a human, right? It's that the animals will take what they want from other animals without any thoughts of mercy. They'll just take what they want without any hesitation.

There's no, when a, I don't know, when a javelina eats some smaller animal, they don't pause. There's no hesitation. The desire to take care of themselves at the expense of other animals is pure, 100%.

There's no hesitation at all. They just kill. And there's people like that too, right?

There's no hesitation to take what they want and destroy the other person. There's no feeling how they might feel. They just take what they want.

So that habit in the animal realm comes from you and me taking care of me first. According to this idea, then the existence of that cruelty, instant cruelty in the animal realm comes from me taking care of myself first. It's depressing.

All right, SKYE BA'ANG RANG DE'I THOG CA'I SKYE ZHIG THOG PA'I REL BA BYED NAS SKYE means we're only thinking of what profit I can get out of things. THOG PA'I REL BA BYED NAS GZHAN GYIS SOGS BYAS PA So I kill others. There's Genghis Khan.

Genghis, you call him Genghis. Genghis Khan. He conquered the entire world on a horse 800 years ago.

Okay, now you got to understand, horses don't go very fast compared to tanks and cars and armored vehicles. Short horses, stocky little Mongol horses, much better than the Chinese stallions for shooting arrows from the back, which was their advanced weapon. And he took the whole world.

Genghis took the whole world. He killed 400,000 Austrians, his generals outside of Vienna. And he took Moscow.

He took Vietnam. He took Korea. He took the Middle East.

Why is Afghanistan a wasteland? He figured out if you really wanted to destroy your enemy, you rope off half an acre and you overgraze with your army's horses and then you ruin the topsoil and nothing will grow there for hundreds of years. And that's why Afghanistan is a wasteland.

You see what I mean? He planned it that way. His strategy was to kill all the people in one city, separate the heads from the bodies so to confirm they were dead and leave five people alive and told them to go to the next city and tell him what happened.

And they have the right to surrender and then he'll let everyone live. Or if they don't surrender, he'll separate their heads from their bodies. And he took over the whole world.

What made such a person? What created such a person? And this was a Mongol custom.

They lived in little camps in Mongolia and it was a tradition, which the Scottish also had, to invite your enemies to dinner and poison them. So that's what happened to Genghis Khan's father. He was poisoned by his neighbor.

His neighbor liked his Tesla and his wife. And you got to understand, his neighbor was attracted to his wife and his horses. So he invited them to dinner and poisoned them.

And I mean, to think that that's what a community is in a whole city. A whole city of 100,000 people living together ready to poison their neighbor if they like their car or their wife. I'm trying to imagine that's the law, that's the custom, that's how it works.

That's how humanity has been until recently and we have laws and rights and civilized behavior. We don't put poison in our neighbor's food anymore, right? No, but that difference between Mongolia 13th century and Europe 21st century, that's the only difference.

That's the difference. It's called civilization. It's called thinking what someone else might want.

You see what I mean? And we're not that far from it, are we? We didn't move much.

We didn't change much. So all those weapons and... I mean, to think that someone could want to poison their neighbor is...

Anyway, in his argument here, it's just a manifestation of a state of mind that we all have, which is to take care of me first. All right, GZHAN GYI SOGS SPYOD PA DANG GZHAN NA SPYOD PA All hesitation of humanity to share their money with other people. All hesitation to share your money with people who need it comes from one attitude.

What he's trying to say, all the evil in the world comes from one thought, one kind of thought habit. GZHAN SKAD DU BSAD PA SOGS The human capacity to overlook the needs of other people. People are, 2.4 million people are suddenly homeless. And these are not normal homeless people. These are all professional people, our friends in Kiev. These are people who had nice apartments and they have beautiful kids.

And they go to good schools. They wear nice jackets. They take vacations in Spain.

Now they're all hungry in the subway somewhere, in a train station and getting bombed. So this habit of, our habit of overlooking their situation, it all traces back again to that one state of mind that we all have. All right.

Here's the cause of all the terrible rebirths that ever took place. Picture. Ta-da.

Just like, okay, got it? All wars were caused by this picture. Got it?

They like spending their money on new pants. I can't buy jeans anymore. They're all like $300.

I'm getting the most mileage I can out of my old one. I don't know why. It's like oil prices.

Jeans prices keep going up every... It's weird. Jeans used to be for normal people.

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Anyway, the habit of...

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The habit... By the way, once you get into buying jeans, you're in trouble. Because then you want the better one.

So you buy some jeans. Before they wear out, you see nicer ones. You get rid of the old ones.

You buy the nicer ones. And the price keeps crawling up. She used to design them, I know.

The price keeps crawling up. So the argument here, and I'm not... I'm just the teacher.

I didn't write the book. But the argument here is that going to the mall, buying something that's a little special for yourself is the single cause of nuclear war, or something like that. He's arguing that.

He's saying that. That's his argument. DE BZHIN DU DA LUNG PHYI'I BAS CAN GZO Say LUNG.

LUNG PHYI'I BAS CAN It's not bacon, okay? BAS CAN These are the three doshas of the Ayurveda system. These are the three constituents of the body in Ayurveda, and probably Chinese traditional medicine.

But these are three forces inside the body that cause all disease. And they are not negative. They're just like warmth in the body, or fluidity in the body.

They're called wind, bile, and phlegm. In ancient medicine. So these are three energies in the body.

They are not bad. They're just like wetness, warmth, motion inside the body. But in Ayurveda, they're called dosha, which means, what does dosha mean?

Comes from dos, which comes from this, which came into Greek as D-Y-S, like dis, all the dis words. Dysfunctional, yeah. Okay, it comes from dosha.

So the three elements of the body that create your body, warmth, moisture, air, why are they called dis in Ayurveda? Why does Indian ancient medicine call them the three problems? They kill you.

They kill you. Yeah, they're always out of balance. Health in Ayurveda, health is an accident.

Okay, in Ayurveda, health is abnormal. Okay? Being healthy is an accident.

Being healthy is a weird balance, is a weird accidental balance of three energies in your body, okay? Health is not a normal condition. Health is something that happens by accident once in a while.

And the normal human condition is to be sick. Okay, got it? So the three energies of all human bodies are called the three sicknesses.

What do you call that in Ayurveda anyway? Yeah. Okay, so your body is evidence of the universal habit of taking care of yourself first.

Your skin, your bones, your meat, your stomach, your heart is all evidence of a bad attitude. It's weird. It's a weird argument.

This page is weird, right? It's like super depressing. Okay, who you are is evidence of who you were, of how you used to think.

Okay, got it? All right, DA'I JIG PA DANG All fear of competition. Okay, like applying for a job and someone else might get it, or going to the store and trying to pick out the best oranges, which is what I do.

And then someone else, some other lady's there and she's like, you know, and you're like, you know. And even this thing of, even this thing of subtle driving, right? Driving down the road and someone's trying to take that lane and you want that lane.

It happened to us on the way here, right, Jigme? It was weird. There were a couple of truck drivers, 18 wheelers, right?

I don't know if they were on drugs or something. They were doing chicken all the way here from Texas Canyon. They're like, vroom!

And we're like, whoa, it's okay. It's like, we're just a little car, you know? And they were driving like teenagers and it was really weird.

So all that stuff of small competition while you're driving for the lanes is evidence that I must have tried to take care of myself first in the past. That's weird. The weird behavior of drivers around Tucson comes from me trying to get better jeans at the mall.

Okay, got it? It's a weird, this page is super depressing. Yay.

Gyalpa, all interpersonal conflict, all irritation with other people comes from taking care of yourself first. All irritation with other people comes from trying to get the best bananas at the store before somebody else does. Okay?

Move faster so you can get to the bananas first. Okay, got it? It's weird.

Kam chu, kam chu means legal, the whole legal profession, our lawyer friends. They exist because somebody wanted something before somebody else could get it. Got it?

The existence of the legal profession, the existence of laws, the existence of courts, if you go back, back, back, domino, domino, domino, domino, somewhere it starts with somebody wanting something for themselves first. Okay, got it? And that's a chong ne.

It's a chronic disease and we all have it. We all have this bad shoulder called taking care of myself first. Okay?

All right. I got one more minute, Tim, I know. GANG PO'I KHRIMS KYI GRIG PA SOGS THAMS CAD SPYAD PA SONGS Fear of mistreatment of the law, which happens.

People get... What were you talking about? Jigme and I have friends who are still in prison for marijuana, which is legal now, but they're still in prison.

So this whole thing of being abused by the law, being the victim of how the law is applied to people, that also comes from taking care of yourself. And there are... We used to teach at the jails here in Tucson, Florence.

And it's amazing how many guys in there... Of course, all the guys in there say they didn't do anything, but there are a pretty big percentage of guys who really didn't do anything, and they just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the cop was not happy, and they are in this. But this whole thing of people being wrongly imprisoned or accused of things, traces back somehow to someone taking care of themselves rather than their neighbor.

A preference of taking care of me first, even if it's slight, is the cause of all these problems in the world. Are you depressed yet? Okay, I got more for you if you want.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I got to use it first.

Yeah, I got to use it first.