«Дар освобождения», курс 40 «Магия пустотных медитаций и тонглен», занятие 3

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Okay, I'm going to start three paragraphs before where it says stop here. It says peranatsampa. So, just a bag of oatmeal on your belt comes from the effort of countless people.

And the place that you're staying in, somebody told me they were in a tent this morning, Joel. But still the tent was made by somebody, right? And then even your own clothing, like for a monk or a nun, it would be your shawl, something you're always wearing.

We gave a different example for you guys. Okay, and we're ready to start again. These are reasons why other people have an investment in your time.

And you have an obligation to them because you are already, by living, you are using up other people's time, okay? By eating, by wearing clothes, by staying in a building, by driving on a road, you are using up other people's time. So they have some right, just technically, they have some rights to your body and to your time.

Already they have rights to you. And we're going to start, we're going to continue on that idea. And the next one is kind of awesome, okay?

The whole thing is awesome, but okay. GZHAN YANG GNAS SKABS KYI MTHONG SBYOR GYI BSTAN NYES PA DANG So right now you have the 18 Leisures and Fortunes, and there's a nice summary of them in a new book by Sugeng that's coming out shortly, or longingly. And no, the ending of those books is a lot of work.

It's hundreds of hours of work, but it's close. But the fact that you have a human body, the fact that you're alive, the fact that you have time to come to Diamond Mountain. If you're not here, you're a loser, okay?

But that's just my opinion. So, no, I mean, it's the greatest retreat center in the world. I can say that without exaggeration.

I exaggerate a little bit, but it really is, as far as I know. Okay, so the fact that you have a body, the fact that you're alive is because you did good things to other people in the past, okay? The only reason you have eyes and ears to listen to this teaching, the reason that you're still alive, the reason your body's still working, it's because of good things you did to other people.

You are proof of millions of good deeds. So, actually, you owe them because of your body, and because of your eyes, and because that you're alive and you're breathing. You owe other people because if they hadn't been there for you to be nice to, you wouldn't be here.

Got it? So, now there's a new debt. Now, this one's the worst one.

The fact that you're alive and you're breathing and you're here is proof that you did countless good things to other people. And if there were not other people, then you wouldn't be here. Got it?

You'd just be floating between planets, which is a drag. I've been there. So have you.

So, you owe them for that reason. Your clothes, your house, and your body, and your mind, and your eyes, and your ears, you owe to other people. So they have some claim to those things.

And it's not exaggerated. They have a valid claim to some of your attention because they gave you eyes, and ears, and hands. You owe them.

THAR THUG BYANG CHUB TU SEMS SKYES BYING In fact, for you to study this subject right now, which is basically how to reach love for the whole universe and serve them directly, each person directly, that attempt or that occupation that you're in right now this week, you can't do it without them. So you owe them for that. You want to be a bodhisattva?

Yeah. Well, they're nice to other people. Okay, so you can't be a bodhisattva without them, right?

So you owe them already. You just want to become a bodhisattva. You're already in debt because you can't be a bodhisattva without somebody to be a bodhisattva for.

So you owe them again. It's getting radical, your debt to them. It's worse than MasterCard.

Okay, SEMS SKYES BYING SPYOD PA LA SLOB PA SANGS RGYAS THOB PA MAN BYAS Even for you to become a Buddha, which you will, depends on other people. So you owe them in advance also? That's like my credit card.

Okay, they start charging me interest in advance. SEMS CAN GYI GANG RIM DE SNYING RJE SKYE YOD DANG The fact that you have someone to have compassion towards. SEMS SKYE YOD The fact that you have someone to want to get enlightened for.

And then he starts going through the six perfections and that's really heavy. Who's going to give me the first one for $10? Because this is easy.

Wait, wait, wait, one by one, one by one. Okay, now wait, the exercise here is we're going to have how many perfections? Six, roughly.

And we want to know why they depend on other people. Like I can't get the first one without other people because? Because to be able to give, which is the perfection of giving, I need to be able to give to someone else.

Yeah, you can't be a bodhisattva. You can't be a bodhisattva if you don't do the six perfections. You can't do the first of the six perfections if there's nobody to give stuff to.

So you owe them again. All right, we're getting, that's the hard one. Now here comes the easy one.

Uh-oh, she's checking the six perfections. TSUL KHRIMS Go ahead, what's the second one? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, and they say vinaya or morality or TSUL KHRIMS or there's many, many words for it. But in the end, morality boils down to being nice to other people.

I don't like the word morality too much. It's kind of a weird word. Ethics is too technical, but being nice to other people, it's a nice definition of morality.

So you can't do that without other people to be nice to. All right, who's got the third one? No, that's selfish.

Hand it around. Third one, third perfection. Yes, but why is it relevant here?

Yeah, without... We are so lucky to have a good supply of annoying people. Otherwise we couldn't do the third perfection.

So you owe them. Number four. Ding, ding, ding.

Full effort. And why does it require other people? Why do you need other people for number four?

Because... Fundraising.

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We need to bring people happiness.

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Say again? Because we need to bring people happiness. Yeah, and you have to work hard.

Yeah, good, yeah. You need other people to work for. Otherwise, there's nobody to work for.

You don't have to do the fourth perfection. It's work hard. But what's the definition of the fourth perfection?

Yeah, having fun doing. Having fun helping other people. So whether other people are nice or whether people are annoying, you need them to have fun with.

It's easy to have fun with nice people, but real bodhisattvas enjoy having fun with irritating people. Okay, now, just imagine, it's easy to have fun with nice people. But if you can reach this point in your practice where you can have fun with really irritating people, like building inspectors who come to your cafe for four years and always find one more thing.

If you can have fun with them, then you can have fun all the time. You see what I mean? So you need other people to have fun with.

That's the real fourth perfection. If you can have fun with people who are not fun, then you really have fun. Okay, fifth one, who's got the fifth one?

What? Microphone. But why does it depend on other people?

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I'm guessing because you test yourself. If other people irritate you and you still test.

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Good answer. You test yourself. People are so irritating and people interrupt you all day when you're trying to focus or do your meditation or do other things.

When you're trying to focus, it seems to be the harder you try, the more people come to interrupt you. It's a special Buddhist practice to interrupt people. So you can't develop focus without interruptions.

So all the garbage truck drivers in Geneva? Where do you guys live? Lucerne.

Lucerne, sorry. All the garbage truck drivers should get an award from all the Buddhist meditators for helping you develop your focus. I miss the garbage trucks in New York because it was a good way.

If you can meditate to a garbage truck visit, you can meditate anywhere. Okay, sixth one. This one.

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The sixth one is the wisdom. We need the people, at least at the level of knowledge, understanding that the absence of anybody not coming from me.

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Nice, nice. Good. So there's two kinds of emptiness.

The emptiness of people and things. The emptiness of people is very necessary. To see emptiness, you have to understand the emptiness of the people around you.

So you need that. You need people to think about their emptiness. What is their emptiness?

Nguyen said it very nicely. They're coming. There's nobody in your life who's not coming from you.

There's nobody in your life who's not coming from you. When people are nice to you, you don't think so much about where they're coming from. But when people are bad to you, you think about, why me?

And what did I do? So especially irritating people are excellent objects to meditate on emptiness. You want to reach a RGAG BYA.

You want to reach the thing that's not there. It's an irritating person who is not coming from me. You don't need more emptiness than that.

You never met a person who wasn't coming from you. If there wasn't other people around, you could never remember that. So seeing emptiness depends on other people.

So you owe them. Thank you for being empty. Thank you for irritating me so I could remember that you're coming from me.

So you can't do any of these six perfections without other people. You want to go deeper? It's really irritating for Mr. Loneheart because then I never get enough done in the retreat, but I don't care. There's 10 perfections. Let's go to the last four. SDUG BSNGAL PO ZHIG The four ways of collecting disciples.

Anybody? Give me any of them. I don't care.

Yeah, the first one is generosity. The first one is, so why does that depend on other people, Daniel? Because you need other people to be generous towards.

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You need students, right? The other people, if you're a teacher, then who are you going to teach if there's no other people?

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Yeah, you cannot do the seventh perfection without someone to feed or give money to or give, what do you call that Tim? Free rides at Diamond Mountain. You need students.

You need needy students. Or you can't do the seventh perfection. What's the eighth one?

What's the second of the? Whoa, are you sure this is a good idea?

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The eighth is try to help your students practice what you teach.

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Yeah, at least that's one of them. Try to get them, try to help your students to practice what you preach. Don't let them become, somebody told me, wow, Geshe-la, I'm going to teach a class at the retreat.

And I said, they said, do you have any advice? And I said, well, you are rising to a new level of hypocrisy because you get to look people in the face and tell them to be honest and good when you're not yourself. You see what I mean?

So yeah, if there weren't other people around to be a good example for, you wouldn't have any reason to be a good example. If you were alone in the world, you could steal and lie and cheat. But it wouldn't matter.

I got two more here. Anaili. Praising them lavishly?

Yeah, praise them lavishly when they do something right. And obviously you couldn't do that if you didn't have other people around. What's the last one?

That's a lot of class, you know. Yeah, never mind. That is an important one.

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Is there like being fierce, being tough when you need to?

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No, that's ZHIG GI'I DBANG DAG. That's the four modes. Whoa.

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As I remember, the last one is do what you teach.

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Yeah, the most difficult one. Do what you teach. Do what you preach.

Right?

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Isn't that the same as good example?

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Yeah, maybe. You got another one, Tim? I can't remember the last one.

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DING SHING MA. Teach according to the capacity of the student? Is it?

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Do I have to look this up in the database? Can't. Have fun with them.

No.

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Nobody? I think it's finding a good place to have the teachings.

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I'm going to look it up if you don't get it.

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Maybe it's rejoicing.

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This is getting too slow. That's what I think.

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To see them disappear from your perception.

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That's the ultimate dream. Okay. It's called doing.

Let's ask John Brady. What is it? According to Google.

I don't trust Google.

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To be pleasant, teach according to the person's needs and act in accordance with what you teach.

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Teach to the capacity. That's what Sonama said. So she gets the $50.

KHO BA RDZIN PA, which means help them out physically and financially. NYEN PAR MA WA, praise them lavishly when they do something right, which doesn't require much time. DON SPRING PA, act in accordance.

And then DON SPRING PA means do the thing. I don't know. DON SPRING PA.

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Tim, Tim, Tim.

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So to do the thing is to do what you teach. Do what you teach is number four? Right.

And number three? Is teach to the capacity of the student, the level that they have. Okay, and that sounds okay.

All right. Oh yeah, okay. Here it says, DON SPRING PA'I MDOD BYED MDOD DON DANG THON PAR SPYOD PA Yeah, not only to their capacity, but also to their wishes.

So there's a slight difference there. Okay. All right.

Then he quotes, he says to do the perfections, you need other people. Then he quotes Bodhisattva Chayavatara. And he says, SEMS CAN NAM DANG RGYAL BA LAS SANGS RGYAS CHUN GRUB DRA BA LA RGYAL BA GOS BYA DE BZHIN DU SEMS CAN LA MIN CI'I TSUL DRA BA means since you need other people to get enlightened as much as you need Buddhists to teach you how to get enlightened.

Since you need other people to get enlightened with to practice the perfections. Since you need other people. And since you need Buddhists also to teach you to get enlightened.

RGYAL BA LA GOS BYA DE BZHIN DU Why do you weird guys respect the Buddhists? SEMS CAN MIN But not other people. He says it's not logical.

If you need other people to get enlightened as much as you need Buddhists to teach you how to get enlightened. And if you accept that you should respect Buddhists because they teach you how to get enlightened, then why don't you respect other people equally? Cool?

That's Shantideva. ZHES GSUNGS PA BZHIN SANGS RGYAS KYI SGOS PA'ANG YANG BYAS LA MA'I KHAR BSTAN DANG BYAS, BYAS means half. It's a beautiful word here.

So BYAS means half of what you need to get enlightened comes from the Buddhists. But half of what you need comes from the kindness of other people who irritate you, who take your money, stuff like that. Okay, good?

Who needs you. So why it's illogical that you don't respect all these other people the way you respect your teacher. I got respect recently.

I was on a flight to Vietnam and Japan and I have this status with United Airlines, which is called, what's it called? Global Services. It's not on the website.

You need to, it's a vote by the board of directors of United Airlines. It's a secret category. And you get this, they vote and they tell you, now you're Global Services.

And they prostrate to you at the ticket counter and everything. And I'm like, God, now I know what it feels like to be a Lama. Because when I go on these long flights and they come to my seat and they thank me and they say, do you need anything?

And I'm like, wow. Okay, I'm not complaining. I get pampered a lot.

Then he's going to quote, look, if you need other people so much to get enlightened, then actually they are your ticket to heaven. We call it ticket to heaven. What's the Lojong expression?

Wish-giving gem. Nice. MTSAN TU MA NI Okay, a wish-giving gem.

And we have a picture here. Kind of corny. Yeah.

This is not the diamond and the rose thing. This just means, that's my, that's the closest picture I could find to a wish-giving gem. And the Lojong, the ancient books from about 1,000 years ago, the Kadampa's, they say there is a special jewel.

You find it under the ground or something and then you have to, as I've mentioned, sorry. You have to put it up on a flagpole. You have to do certain prayers to it.

And then it will give you, sorry, anything you want. All right, I think I'm allergic to Lojong. Okay.

GNAS KHAB DANG THAR DE GYI LDAN THAMS CAD GDUG PA LA YID BZHIN GYI SNOG BA RIM PO CHE DANG RTOG BA'I GZHAN BYAS PA'I RDZUS PA'I RGYUN GSUNGS So other people are like a wish-giving gem. If you have other people around, you can reach your goals. If you don't have other people around, you cannot reach your goals.

And I think if you've done a three-year retreat, those of us who have done a three-year retreat, I don't know, Cat, if you had this experience, but you start to miss other people to do things for. And it's kind of weird. It's kind of weird to spend three years meditating and there's nobody around physically to do nice things for.

And you kind of get hungry to get out of retreat and do things for people. So I think when you do a retreat, you sort of become very sensitive to how lucky you are when you have other people around to help, to do things for. Because that's what really makes people happy.

That's what makes people happy. Shintian was telling me, I was bragging about my grandkid who I'm going to see on my day off in Tucson. And she said, oh yeah, all my relatives, when they had kids, they were all working.

They sent the kids to me to babysit. I don't know, like three families, four families, kids. And she was saying how fun it was and how she treasured it and how she misses it now that they grew up.

So it's like that. You need other people. They are like a wishing jump.

Okay, now you should jump up and down and celebrate. No, I'm kidding. We reached another day.

What does that mean? Huh? Time to meditate.

Say again? Time to meditate. No, no.

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Another day in the teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche?

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Yeah, so this is a 24-day teaching. And we reach a new day, like once a year or something. And so I'd like to announce you have reached a new day.

Okay. So I am making progress, Tim. Day 18, okay, out of 24 days.

But we have covered 21 and 22, I think it is already. So actually we're getting close. And just to remember, this Lam Rim was an oral teaching for 24 days.

I don't know, 1,000 or 2,000 people. Veronica asked me, how did they teach that many people? We were watching The Chosen, which is a beautiful TV series about the life of Jesus.

And it's crowdfunded and 100 million people have seen it. And it's a beautiful series on Netflix. No, now you just look it up, The Chosen, and it's free.

And it's a beautiful series about the life of Jesus. And by the way, today's Easter. And those of you who are Christian, congratulations.

And happy Easter. I hope you get chocolate eggs. I didn't.

So anyway, we were watching the Sermon on the Mount, which is, what's cool about that TV series, we should do something like that. It's kind of lame that we didn't think of it at first. But they have, if you crowdfund, you get to be in the series.

See what I mean? So people who give $5 to the crowdfunding get to be at the Sermon on the Mount. And they dress you up like a Palestinian.

And you get to be in the audience. And I think it's really fun. It's really cool.

So Vranag asked me, we were watching it, and she said, how did those Buddhist teachers talk to 1,000 people or 2,000 people? And I said, they were loud. And there was no microphones.

And they would find natural amphitheaters. And if you've ever been to one, they're very beautiful. And if you speak loudly, you can speak to a couple of thousand people and people will hear.

And then there's this other thing where people, tell the people behind them what they said. And my teacher was at those teachings, not this series, but a later series. Ken Rinpoche was there when Pabongka Rinpoche gave those teachings.

And there's a famous scene, which I've told you before. My teacher was a goofball, not serious student, enjoyed putting some tags on the paths where the monks would walk barefoot. And that was his total connection to the monastery.

And then he got stuck with working in the kitchen. And Pabongka Rinpoche came into the kitchen and touched his head. And he says, this one looks good.

This one looks smart. And then he just went away. And something happened to my teacher.

And he became the greatest Geshe of his time. He beat 15,000 people in the debates. And so it's kind of a cool story.

It means there's hope for us too. All right, okay. So 18th day.

So at the beginning of a, when the, oh, and by the way, I think you should say that there was a young reincarnated Lama in the audience named Trijang Rinpoche. And he took notes. He took very careful notes.

And then he showed the notes to Pabongka Rinpoche, the speaker. And Pabongka Rinpoche said, wow, your notes are awesome. Can you do the whole teaching?

So he took notes for 18 days. And then he wrote them up. And it took him about 10 years to finish the manuscript.

And that's why we have the Lam Rim. And he became the teacher of the Dalai Lama, this Dalai Lama. And he was my teacher's teacher.

So that's Trijang Rinpoche. Okay. And it is the greatest book ever written in Tibetan language.

Extremely beautiful language. Okay. And funny at many places, which is also beautiful.

Okay. Okay, CHOS KYI RGA BO MTSONGS SKABS PA CHEN PO'I BSRUNG Then he quotes, so when you start off a new day, he'll give a pep talk. Why?

People are not settled down yet. You have a thousand people coming in. People are milling around.

People are talking. People are not focused yet. So it's tradition to quote something and get people settled down.

So he quotes MTSONGS SKABS PA. And he quotes this line, ZHUGS RTOG CHU BO ZHI'I RGYUN GYIS KHYER which means people are swept away by four fierce river currents. And then he, here's a picture.

Dun-dun. Okay, that's us. But it's worse than that.

So when he quotes a single line, he's quoting a verse. And I like to go get the verse for you and teach you the whole verse. And it slows things down and I don't care.

Okay. So here's the whole verse. And I taught it in Mongolia.

I went to Mongolia just after they got their independence back within six months after they got their independence back. And they were going wild about Buddhism at the time. And they put me in a stadium.

It's the stadium where the Mongolian circus uses, which is their football team. And I taught with Bakalar Rinpoche, who's a great, great Ladakhi Geshe and a prince of Ladakh and a member of the Indian Congress and the ambassador to Mongolia. So we taught together.

He was very old at the time. And people were bringing paralyzed people on stretchers and pushing them onto the stage to see if we could heal them. During the teaching, I'm like, Bakalar Rinpoche, that's your thing.

But he was very old at the time. And there was a problem in Mongolia, people drinking, too much drinking. And he would go out at night on the street and find drunk people and yell at them and take away their alcohol.

And he's like 80. And so it was a wonderful teaching. So we taught this verse.

I remember this verse. We taught this verse and it was very beautiful. GZUGS RTOG CHU BO ZHI'I RGYUN GYIS KHYER People are carried away on four great rivers.

And you can explain that two different ways. I think the best one is KHYER RGYA NA CI. What's KHYER RGYA NA CI?

For a hundred dollars. KHYER BA RGYA BA NA BA CI BA Rebecca? Birth, aging, sickness, dying?

Yeah. Birth, aging, sickness, and death. So people are swept away by these rivers.

They don't have a choice. And everybody's drowning. Everybody in this room, everybody on this planet is drowning.

Everybody is drowning. You didn't ask to come here. You don't have a choice about getting older.

You get sick from time to time. And in the end you have to die and you have no choice at all. You are in a huge, mighty river and you're being carried off and you don't have any choice.

And so people are GZUGS RTOG CHU BO ZHI'I RGYUN GYIS KHYER So that's okay. That's not too bad. RDOG KA LAS KYI PHYIN BA DANG PAS DANG But you are handcuffed by your karma.

You have limitations on how much you can study, how much scriptures you can read, how many teachers you can meet. You are, you have handcuffed by limitations. You're thrown into a huge, mighty river and you are handcuffed by your karmas.

You can't swim. I guess you have to kick hard. Right?

And then DANG CI'I MCHAG GI MTHRA BA'I BU TSOS Just after they handcuffed you and before they threw you in the river, they stuck you in an iron cage and threw that in the river. Okay? They stuck you in an iron cage and threw that in the river.

What's that? DANG CI'I Even as the pen is explained, even as you explain the pen, you believe it's not coming from you. That's the irony of it.

Even while you're teaching the pen to people, you believe it came from a factory. Even as you hold a pen up, you believe it came from a factory. Okay?

So, you couldn't get out anyway. Suppose you could swim hard or someone threw you a rope or something. You couldn't, you're handcuffed by your past karma.

You're, I hate to say fate, but I have Chinese friends. It seems in Chinese culture, fate is a big thing. And Chinese friends are always asking me, can I break my fate?

And you can, but it's extremely difficult. Most of your life was preordained at birth by what you did before you came here. You're on a certain path created by your past karma.

Even that's enough to drown you. But before they put the handcuffs on, after they put the handcuffs on, they threw you in an iron cage and then threw that in the river. And that's that, you tend to repeat the same mistakes because, and that's why the wheel of life is a wheel.

And you tend to repeat the same mistakes because you firmly believe that things are not coming from you. And that's like hopeless. Four rivers, handcuffed, jammed into an iron cage, thrown into the river.

MA RIG MUNG PA'I MAG CAN GUS NAS THIB And it is night time. And they can't see anything. It's the dead of night.

And that's again, MA RIG PAR, which Sugen can tell you, it's a personal ignorance about your own self and your own condition. Forget pans, you don't even understand yourself. And that causes all your suffering.

You are a result of your past deeds. And you are coming from you. And your thoughts are flowing from your seeds.

And you're just listening. You're not thinking. You're just watching thoughts open from past seeds.

If you don't even have the freedom to think, how are you going to get out? It's dark. You're smothered in darkness.

MA RIG MUNG PA'I MAG CAN GUS NAS THIB MUNG MES SI BAR SKYE BZHIN GYI BAR DU And you have been in this condition for countless lifetimes. It's not a new thing. It's like birth number billion, 10 billion, zillion, jillion.

SDUG BSNGAL GSUM GYI RGYUN CHE MED PAR NAR You are tortured by the three kinds of suffering without a break while you're here. What are they? $50.

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The first one is suffering of change. Everything is changing, going up and down.

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Okay, that's the second one. The second one? What's the classic?

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Oh, like the first one is the suffering of suffering or something like that. Like a broken leg or broken heart.

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So number one, outright pain. You got a headache. Someone, your back hurts, something like that.

You have a bad day with your wife or husband. Okay, that's one. Number two?

Change. The way they say it in the scripture is a nice French dinner. Third one?

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It's the inheritance, the fact that you have to die.

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Yeah, just your overall lousy condition. The fact that you have to get old and die. $50, okay?

Collect from Jigme. If you don't collect, it's not my problem. Okay.

,GNAS KHAB LDAN DER, ,'GYUR PA'I MA LAM GYI SNGOM TSOL BSAM NAS, ,GZHAM CHOG SKYE PAR MDZOD, Get bodhichitta by thinking about how everyone else is in this condition. That's all. That's the verse.

He started the teaching with that verse. All right. I'm at MUN GRO KUN LONG, There you go.

MUN GRO KUN LONG CHOS PA DOR DU DANG KUN LONG CHOS PA for $100. And this is not CHOS, that's Dharma. There's an apostrophe in front of it.

There's a different spelling. CHOS PA, KUN LONG CHOS PA. Cancel the bet.

If the microphone fails, you don't get the money. It's your bad motivation, right? Say again?

Like bad motivations? No. Nope.

Say again. Bad motivation. No, it's the opposite.

Good motivation. Yeah, CHOS PA here means to fix your, it means to, in English we say, raise your motivation before class. Like they don't like to start a class in the ancient times without thinking about why you're in the class.

That's all. So you're not supposed to start a class before you think about why you came to the class. That's called KUN LONG CHOS PA.

It's a pep talk. It's a Dharma pep talk. KUN LONG CHOS PA.

DOR DU DANG, SA BYAS NGON DU JI LTAR SONG BA RNAMS SUM BYAS Then he went over the outline that he's in, and that's a Buddhist tradition. Put the teaching in the flow. I'll give $200 for the five points of our outline.

Yeah. Do you know you have to give me $400 if you don't get, no, I'm just kidding. How much money did you say?

$200.

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Everyone has an equal right to success.

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Equal rights to happiness.

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Equal right to happiness. The problems of self-cherishing. Yeah.

The advantages of taking care of others. Three, yeah. Exchanging self and other.

Yeah. TONG GLEN.

[Говорящий 1]
Did I tell you 100 has to go to Ben? Take him out for dinner. Okay.

Tell him I miss him. All right. Good.

BYANG CHUB SEMS SBYONG KHOR NA'I RGYUN GYI MED NA'I DUN LA RGYAL ZHES RGYAL ZHES means he reviewed the seven steps to, what do you call it? Getting bodhichitta according to whose system? Mine?

Is it Atisha? I'm not sure. But if you can give me the seven, I'll give you $100.

And I put him up here. I got to check my bank account, right, Jimmy? Sugeng?

He's going to read the Tibetan. The first one is to think of everybody as your mother. Or understand they have been.

Understand that, yeah. Okay. And then the second is to understand that they have been very kind to us.

Yeah, remember their kindness. And then number three is to, that thing that we want to repay the kindness. Nice.

Repay the kindness, number three. And number four is to have their love to them. Give them nice things, yeah.

And then number five is to take away their suffering, compassion. Number six. Number six is LHAG BSAM NAM DAG, to do it no matter what.

Personal responsibility. And number seven is the bodhichitta. Yeah, nice.

All right. You have to collect from Tim. No, I'm kidding.

Jing may start to cover it. What time? Tim, what time do I have to start?

Yeah, let's do a little meditation, okay? All right. We'll just do about 10 minutes and we'll do another meditation in the second hour today.

But I, at least once this week, I would like to take you through how to start a meditation. And I know you did it a hundred times, but I want to make sure everyone's doing it, okay? So just once this week, we'll do a proper preparation for a meditation, a mental preparation, okay?

And I've been doing this for almost 50 years. And I still enjoy doing it. It's very beautiful.

And I don't meditate without doing this. So I'll do it every day. When I meditate, I do this every day.

And I think it's a beautiful way to, it's beautiful to do it once a day. Okay, so I spend a lot of time to get ready for a meditation mentally. And it takes about, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes just to go into a meditation, okay?

So I strongly advise you to do it and get used to it. And you don't have to do it every day if you're on a short schedule. If you're the treasurer of some major city in Colorado, you can shorten it or go straight to your meditation.

But maybe a couple of times a week, do a nice preparation, okay? Any? After almost 50 years of meditating, actually it is more than 50 years, I still think it's good to start with a breathing practice and 10 breaths just doesn't do it for me.

I need a hundred breaths. It's about five minutes. So we're going to do a hundred breaths.

You're going to lose count three or four times. That's okay, come back. Focus on the exhale first and then on the inhale.

Then we'll go through the seven steps preparation. The first step is supposed to be prostration. Personally, I like to choose someone that I've been around in the last week or so who is an inspiration to me.

And I do a mental prostration. And oftentimes they are not a Buddhist. They're just someone who is acting in a very good way and who inspires me and somebody I would like to be like them.

So I do a mental prostration by thinking of someone who is inspiring to me. And it's not necessarily a famous person or something. Oftentimes it's just someone I met who's doing something beautiful for other people.

The next one is prostration or offering, chakso chod. So I like to imagine that I'm offering them something. And I always come back personally to offering them something good I did in the last week or so.

I make a small offering of something that I did good in the last few days. The third step here is confession or admitting some mistake I made in the last week or so. So try to think of some mistake you've made and be honest about it.

It helps a lot to purify a karma, to, sorry, admit a mistake that we made in the last week or so. Eventually it helps a lot to tell somebody else. It's good to do it in your meditation, but it's nice to have some friends that you can share your mistakes with.

Then you can really improve quickly. And then share something good you did with this person in the last week. People have a natural tendency to focus on their mistakes and we all have some, trouble to admit when we're doing something right without pride.

So don't be afraid to admit that you're doing a lot of good things. And just choose one good thing and without pride, rejoice and be happy. And the next step is to ask for teachings, number five.

And for me, teachings might come in two different ways. One is oftentimes when I'm looking at the great books, the great Buddhist books, I see beautiful teachings from my day. I see things that are going to help me today.

And then oftentimes I'll get teachings from other people. Either somebody will say something sweet and I'll get a teaching from it, or someone will challenge me. Someone will cause me some trouble.

And then I will take a teaching from that. So ask for those teachings and pray that you get positive teachings and teachings through difficult things and difficult people. And number six, ask your teachers to stay.

And I have a lot of teachers who come to me in the world, or who come to me through the great books. But I also have some very, my dearest teachers are still alive. And ask them to stay in your life.

And normally we would start our meditation, whatever is our meditation that we're working on. And then after that, we would dedicate the good karma. I like to think of specific people I know who are having a hard time.

Maybe they are sick, or maybe they're having a hard time personally in their family life or something. And then I will send the good karma of the meditation to them. So let's dedicate the karma.

And then slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch. Drink something.

If you're in Arizona, you have to drink. The blood goes through the brain. The blood is mostly water.

If you don't drink, you get stupid. Seriously. We're going to stop there, Tim.

And then I'll take questions. We'll come back in half an hour, okay? And I'll take questions at the beginning of the next class.

So 15 minutes of questions. And have a break, a stretch. Go to the emergency room.

We'll see you in half an hour, right Tim? Oh, one last thing. Senor Ultima Cosa, you have an image, Sugeng, of Diamond Cutter Press is offering some books for free, which is a good deal.

So there's three books today that Rosa and Jigme would like to, and Katie would like to offer everybody. And here's the one in the middle is The Art of Sharing. This is the translation of the story of King Sri Sena.

We translated it. It's done. Anatole helped me check the English.

And it's a beautiful story from the Lam Rim. And Diamond Cutter Press is working to publish e-books of the ACI courses and give them away for free. So that's a lot of work.

Rosa and Jigme did a lot of work. And they're going to try to do all the courses. And so the first two courses are done.

And I did not have time, and I will not have time to check them for small corrections. But they're about 99% clean. So they'll be publishing all the 18 Foundation courses.

And then I'm sure they'll go on to the 18 Diamond Way courses in time for any possible Diamond Way teachings. Okay. Say again?

Yeah. Okay, take a break. Get your free book during the break.