«Дар освобождения», курс 40 «Магия пустотных медитаций и тонглен», занятие 8

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All right, MA MA DANG SANGS RGYAS LA'ANG LUS CHOS CAN DU CHUD DE What was the question we stopped with after the first class? Yeah, what are you going to... Do the higher beings want a couch in a luxury apartment?

By the way, I think it's going to be fun to do shopping bags and stuff, like M&A at a dealer's department store or something, for the humans, right? MA MA DANG SANGS RGYAS, what do the Buddhists want? And what does your teacher want?

CHOS CAN DU CHOS DE CHOS PA'I CAN Samantabhadra, what's that? Yeah, this is this bodhisattva who, when he's making offerings to a Buddha, he doesn't offer one rose. He fills the sky with roses, and that's an old popular offering meditation for Buddhas.

When you're offering a flower to a Buddha, cover the sky with red flowers and offer that. That's called Samantabhadra. So he says, CHOS PA'I CAN CHOS means offering, CAN means a cloud.

KHUL DE But, this is the cool part. He says, imagine that the function of those offerings is to increase RGYAS PA, the ZAD PA and the DRIN LAS. You are supplying your Lama with resources to do their mission.

Somebody from Vietnam offered me some red envelope this morning. It already went to editing some books. So when you make an offering to the Buddha and the teacher, you're thinking, I offer you resources for your work.

And that's what they really mean. When you're talking about offerings to a teacher, then what they really need is resources. They need money, not for themselves, for their mission.

And they need hard work. They need people's time. I got to say, for example, for ACI, we have these amazing translators and staff, a large staff that keeps it going.

And it's international, huge international staff. There's these two weird Chinese people who pay like $100,000 a year for 100 translators to translate everything into Chinese. We should give them a hand.

Thank you. So when you're thinking about gifts to a teacher, they need two things. They need support to help people.

And they need TSE. TSE DING, lifetime. Offer them lifetime.

Offer them a few more months or a few more years. That's the offering. That's the DONG.

When you get to a Lama or a teacher, then offer them life. They need hours. If they don't have hours, the fundraising doesn't help.

So they need hours and they need support. And they need hard work from people. Lots of people ask me, do you have a job for me, Geshe-la?

And I'm like, I just look at them and I say, is this person going to work hard or do I need to babysit them? To be honest, it comes from my corporate days. I'm like, okay, I'll take you.

You're a hard worker. I know you work your ass off. That's a help.

To babysit people is not a help. That just takes time. So self-running hard workers who build a stupa on their own without any help at all from Geshe Michael.

We should give SON NAM LA a hand. There's someone up there enjoying it right now. It's fun for me to watch people enjoying it.

Anyway, congratulations on the beautiful stupa. We saw it yesterday. It's very, very beautiful.

And it's amazing. Made from our own stone here. Which is really cool.

All right, so he finished. So for dessert, do one day of the realms depressing meditation trying to build luxury apartments in the hell realms. And then for dessert towards the Thursday afternoon, do some offerings to Buddhas instead.

Like emanate as, I don't know, creme brulee or as red envelopes or as lifetime, more life hours. Emanate something beautiful that they can use. All right, then we're going to do a little more.

We have some time. Let's use it. GES TZAD GYUS And by the way, I repeat that after this class, Venerable Gyel Se and Venerable Khen, is it?

will be closing the retreat boundaries. That means silence. Silence means...

Oh, for the online group. Ours is at two o'clock. Anybody want to give a definition of silence?

No talking, that's good.

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Okay. Silence is different.

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That's the funny thing. GES TZAD GYUS SUM GYI I talked twice in my three-year retreat. I remember.

One, I was sitting with Christy early in the retreat. We were having breakfast outside and this huge red snake came up behind her like this. Like right behind her.

And I was like, move. The other one we got an argument, I think. And it broke out of silence into words.

Okay, all right. GES TZAD GYUS SUM GYI DGE'I LAS STONG CHOG DANG LUS LONGS SPYOD GNYIS MI DE'I DANG PHYI MA GNYIS MA STONG DE'I RTZA BA STONG YIN MED He says, when you're giving away GES TZAD, STONG, when you're giving away GES TZAD, what's GES TZAD? We had it a long time ago, like 10 minutes ago.

Your karmic bank account. You can call it your seed account. Your karmic seed account.

STONG CHOG STONG CHOG here means it's cool. It's chill. Do it.

It means it's okay. You want to give away your seeds? Fine.

Give them to people. STONG CHOG means go ahead. And you can do it for GYUS SUM.

GYUS SUM GYUS SUM Past, present, and future. No limitation. Good karma you did 10 years ago.

Good karma you're doing today by being in the class. Karma you're planning to do in the next two days of silence. He said, fine.

The seeds, you can give away the three times. LUS DANG LONGS SPYOD GNYIS MI But when you're talking about your body and your possessions, he says, you can give this life's body and possessions or your future life's body and possessions, but not DGOS PA, not your past life's body and possessions. I don't know about that.

I think that's debatable. Or maybe when you give it, it's a present memory, something like that. But he says, if you're talking about the seeds you collected last year, you can offer those to the hell realm beings, for example.

But, I don't know, last year's car, or the car, SUGENG, the car you had when you were 16. You don't want to offer that anyway, right? So, he says, you can't do that.

I don't know. I think that's debatable. STONG BA'I SKABS SEMS CAN RNAMS NGAR BSHAD PA LTAR DE BA'I PHUNG LUGS BSAMS NAS BYAMS PA TSOR BSKYED CING He says, as I mentioned before, STONG BA'I SKABS means when you're doing the STONG part of STONG LEN, SEMS CAN NGAR BSHAD PA LTAR DE BA'I PHUNG LUGS you're supposed to think about what people need and what they don't have enough of.

And then you're supposed to use love. BYAMS PA, maitri. You're supposed to use love to give it to them.

And then he says, LO SBYONG GI MI PA'I DE NI LA THUGS DAM GYI RTZO BAR BYED DGOS Hold that feeling of love that you feel when you're doing the STONG part of STONG LEN and use that exact same feeling when you get to LO SBYONG. He says, hold that feeling. Got it?

So the good feeling you get when you're giving away stuff to people mentally, hold it, keep that feeling, be able to bring it back up because you're going to need it when we get to LO SBYONG. What's LO? SBYONG means practice.

What's LO?

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SBYONG means buddy today.

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Yeah, buddy today. It's not mind training, like doing the multiplication tables or something. Okay, that's also mind training.

All right, good. MI PA'I DE NI LA THUGS DAM GYI RTZO BAR BYED DGOS Shenyang, now we got five minutes. Let's cram in the thing you're going to do Thursday evening.

For dessert, dessert. My wife criticizes me for having dessert, dessert. She says, dessert's okay, but a second dessert?

I'm like, I don't know. Okay, DE LA BRTZAN PA KUN BA'I... It's nice for you guys to know I have a boss who tells me what to do.

DE LA BRTZAN PA KUN BA'I PHYIR SPYOD LAM KUN DU TSIG GI SBYONG This is another quotation from the seven-part Lojong. And he says, make a mantra for doing your SDUG BSNGAL. And it can be personalized.

It can be personalized. Make your own mantra for in the next two days, you guys are responsible to make your own mantra for when you're doing construction in the hell realms and stuff like that. I want a mantra from you.

So we know you can create a mantra, for example, from your Lama's name. OM, fill in the name and then say, OM SHIN CHEN HUNG PHET OM SHIN CHEN HUNG PHET OM SUGEN HUNG PHET You can make a, it's called a name mantra. And to me, that's the one I did for three years.

I didn't do the OM OM OM, that one. And I still do it all the time. When I walk around here, I do that one.

But he says, in the ancient tradition of tong len, I want a mantra that you mumble while you're doing. Or that you can, not when you're in deep meditation. But like if you're walking around Diamond Mountain to get some exercise, watching carefully for snakes, never walking jack barefoot.

You're just foolish in a place with snakes because Geshe Michael will have to fundraise for the hospital bill. And I don't want to. So, we need a mantra for your tong len.

And he says, use your own imagination. Use your own imagination. Make yourself a mantra.

And he gives an example. It's kind of corny in my opinion. SEMS CAN KUN GYI SDUG BSNGAL BDAG LA MIN BDAG GIS RGYAS BA'I DE KUN DE THOB SHOG That's the one from the 12th century.

I think it's corny. I think you can make something more slick. But that one says, may the suffering of all living beings ripen on me instead.

LEN BDAG GIS RGYAS BA'I DE KUN DE THOB SHOG May all my happiness tong to them. May they have all my happiness. I don't like it.

Me suffer, you happy. Something like that. How about me happy, you happy?

You happy, me happy. But it's called a SANG KHAS. SANG KHAS means something you can mutter under your breath while you're washing dishes and you're walking around.

Just something you can repeat to yourself quietly, secretly. Something that means something to you. Some little thing to remind you of tonglen.

So that's your other assignment. I'm going to test you on Friday in front of my boss. So you better do good.

I want some sexy self mantras for tonglen, for your tonglen practice. Make it yourself. It's legal.

There's a rule for mantra making and it's legal. Daniel has a final question. Say again.

What is the anum? Yeah, make your own mantra. Make your own mantra for tonglen.

What's your mantra going to be for two days? Not when you're deep in meditation. That becomes a disturbance.

But like when you're eating, cooking, cleaning, Marie, what's her name? And Kando, and stuff like Kando. Kando.

Kando's in the hell room. Okay.

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All right.

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Okay.