«Дар освобождения», курс 41 «Сила доброго сердца», занятие 1

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All right, we've been going through a special book and my teacher taught it to me for 30 years. He finished it three times. And 13 years ago, I promised my students I will finish it.

So the good news, we're about almost 90%.

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And when we get close to finish, Geshe-la always adds something more. And so we're going to do a special book that's connected to it.

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And that will take another seven or eight years, I think. And so my whole time as a student, every week I was always going to hear this book. And I thought there shouldn't be an ending.

It shouldn't finish. I used to call the book the gas station, the petrol station, because I will go there and I will fill up my car. I will fill up my heart.

And then I can survive until the next time my teacher teaches it. So it's not a book like in the school. It's an experience.

And it's a lifetime experience. And when I think about my teacher, so the whole time with him, I always got to go to the gas station. And he kept teaching it over and over again.

So I think that's what we have to do also. And Abuelo has to come back to Guadalajara many times. And we can keep going through this book.

The book is called Steps to the Path. And it's each step for the path to be a good person or a happy person. And I'd like to thank Tim and all ACI, Ale, everyone from ACI.

And you guys are doing a good job. I think as you can see in Asia, there's about, I think there's about 200,000 students now coming to these courses. And they're all learning about the good heart.

I don't know what's bondato. Okay, yes. Corazón, bondato, kind heart, okay.

Yeah, and so all over the world, people are learning about how to have a kind heart or a good heart. And it makes your life very happy. It makes your life very successful.

That thing you saw, that's a business. That's a business card. And so you can be successful if you have this good heart.

And your family life is good. And I think the most important thing is you have fun. You can have fun, okay, your whole life.

And I'm 70 years old this year. And I've been teaching this for 50 years. And I have to say it's super fun.

And your whole life can be fun. I think somehow that's the most important thing. So you can be successful, good family life, good business life.

But I think the main thing, and what we're going to study this week is how to have fun. Okay, and especially we reached the part about fun. This week, the main subject is how to have fun in your life.

It's more easy to have fun if you're successful. Like if you have lots of income, if your family life is nice. So we're going to be covering those things.

And this particular subject this time is called LO SBYONG. Please say LO SBYONG. LO SBYONG.

Yeah, LO means, here it means good heart. And SBYONG means like exercise at the gym. So it's how to exercise your kindness.

And it's a nice thing you can do every day. And you can learn and you can go home and you can use it. I met a guy in Shanghai recently.

He asked me, do I have time to talk to him? And I said, no, I don't. Then he waited by the elevator in the hotel.

When I go in the elevator, he come in. Then he talks very slow while the elevator is going up. And he said, I just want to thank you.

And I said, for what? And he said, because of what you taught last year, I made $10 million this year. And I'm also very happy.

And I just want to thank you. And I didn't see him again after that. I don't know his name.

And it's the same here. You're going to make $10 million heart. And we can learn how to do it.

And then you don't have to join Geshe Michael's fan club or Algo's fan club. Just take it home. And use it.

And maybe I see you after 10 years, I don't know. And you'll be super happy and super successful. So it's not like a religious thing, really.

Just share with you something that I was taught. Then take it home. Try it.

I went with my wife. I made a big mistake. I went with her to buy the jeans.

Bad idea, right? Yeah. Those stores, they don't have chair for the guys.

And you have to stand up and wait. And don't tell her I told you, okay? She tried 42 pairs of pants on, over two hours standing.

Hey, Anatole, guess how many pairs she bought? Perfecto. Still.

So everybody's different. The pants that fit me, maybe they don't fit you. Everybody has different pants.

And that's a good thing. So I'm going to teach you, share with you some nice pants that I learned about. And try it on.

And if it fits you, then wear it. And if it doesn't fit you, go look for some other pants, it's okay. So let's have fun together.

Definitely there are some things in here that you will enjoy. And it will make your life very happy. And that's the goal of why we are here.

So let's start. I'm going to give you a list. It's 11 different things.

And we're going to talk about it for one week. And it's 11 different things to work on your heart. And that's the whole week.

And starting tomorrow, I will call on people randomly. And if you can tell me the 11th, I will give you 100 US dollars. Okay?

And then every day I do five or 10 people, okay? So I'm bribing you. So usually we bribe the police and things like that.

But in this class, a teacher bribed you. Okay? So there's 11 ways to make your heart happy.

And we're going to learn about it the whole week. We're going to learn how to meditate on it. Guess what?

When you meditate, what do you do with your eyes? You close them. Okay?

So you cannot look at their computer. You have to remember these 11. Then you can do a really sweet meditation.

And that's the old tradition, 2,000 years old. Just learn 11 things. Keep it in your heart.

People ask me, Geshe-la, when do you meditate? You are so busy. I meditate on the airplane.

I meditate in the car. I do a lot of meditation in the banyo. Okay?

Any place I have some free time. And those 11 are here.

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This is my cell phone. I just close my eyes. And if you're sitting in that special place, it's going to fall in the right place.

It's okay. Then, you can meditate. Okay, here's the 11.

And you've got to remind me tomorrow. And I really will give bribes. Okay, number one.

Treat people equal. Treat people equal. Very simple.

That's the beginning. Every person is equally important to me. And I will treat them equal.

So tomorrow, when I call on you, you don't have to give 10-year commentary. Just say equal. Number one, equal.

Okay, number one. Number two. They are your mom.

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Ellos son tu mama.

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So you can say equal mom. I don't care. Equal and mom.

And this is a little difficult, but it's okay. You used to be someplace else before you came into your mom. Okay, we don't know where.

I also don't know where. It's like darkness. I cannot see there.

But I know I was someplace. If you have a dice and it has six numbers on it, and you roll it a billion times, then you will get lots of ones, you will get lots of twos, you will get lots of twos. If you can come here once, then you can come here twice if time is infinite.

The odds are infinite. You rolled the dice a billion times, billion, billion, billion, you cannot count. If you can be alive once, then must be you were alive someplace before that.

Because time and space, infinite, infinite. You have lived infinite times. And each person in this room has been with you infinite times.

And they have been your mother infinite times. You came out of my body a million times.

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You came out of my body a million times.

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At least make me some juice or something. So, number two, try to understand. Everybody's been your mom.

All the kids in this room, all the ninos have been my mom. Try to understand. Everyone has been your mom.

What number is that? Two. Okay, number three.

It's hard to be somebody's mom. I was watching the moms down here, arranging pillows with grandma, I guess. Some Americans, they say, I don't like my mom.

I say, listen, there's a thing called abortion. Even, anybody can get it. You take a pill.

To give a baby is to risk your life. And every woman knows that. Your mom risked her life to give you life.

And she decided to do it. And she decided her life is not as important as your life. Then the real work starts after the real work.

Take care of the kid for 10 years, 20 years, 60 years. So much trouble. A million troubles.

I watch my friends have kids. I'm like, God, how can you do that? Just every day, difficult.

So I don't care how you feel about your mom. You can not deny she risked her life to give you money. And then she feed you like three times a day forever.

And she'd kill herself to work for the money. So you should think, what's the third word? What are we going to use, Anthony?

Equal.

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Mom. Too complicated.

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We call it kindness. Kindness. Okay, first one, equal.

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Second one, mom.

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Then think about how much kindness they gave you. I don't like my mother. She complain about me.

But she worked so hard for so many years. Okay, so kindness is number three. I'll give $100 right now.

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You got Rob's gun? It's in the red bag. It's in the red wallet.

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Okay, you're the man. You're Santa Claus, okay? Don't tell me you can't find it.

No, red purse. Red purse. In the main, yeah, there you go.

It's full. It used to be full. Okay, if number three is kindness, Rob, then you got to stand up and wave it around.

And then you decide. Mr. Haggerty decides who gets to try the answer. Wait, now, I get really upset when people raise their hand before I ask the question.

Number one, equal. Number two, mom. Number three, kind.

Number four, get... Rob choose, Rob choose. Number four.

No, you choose the person. You have to go stand next to the person and wave the money in their face.

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Yeah.

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Rob, tell her if she gets it right, you can split it. Nah, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. What's number four?

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Yeah. Up to you, Rob.

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Good, payback, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, woo-hoo. You pay her back.

If someone risked their life to give you your life and you don't try to thank them, you're a really strange person. So, you know, tell your mom. Thank you, mom.

What can I do for you? How can I pay you back? What number is that?

Number four. Okay, now it's a little bit different. And we go to a...

there's a meditation inside the meditation. And I don't think you can guess. Number five is everybody has equal right to be happy.

So, it's similar to number one. It's similar to number one, but you can say equal right to be happy. Everybody has equal right.

Number five. By the way, this list was made 1,300 years ago.

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Nice list.

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Okay, I'll show you the picture of the author later.

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I'll show you the picture of the author later.

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Number six. Taking care of myself first is a bad idea.

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Taking care of myself first is a bad idea.

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That's number six.

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That's number six.

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How do you want to say it short way? Selfish bad. Yeah, I mean, if I have equal right, if everyone have equal right to be happy, then why Geshe Michael always take the first churro?

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Geshe Michael always eats the first churro.

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Why I'm staying for the prayer after this talk?

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I saw all the churros in the bag.

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Then everybody has a right to those churros. But human nature, I will take one first. That's not respect equal rights.

We all have equal churro rights. Number six. It's wrong to take the first one.

It's wrong to take care of yourself first. That's number six. Rob, now, if you know what is number six, you can guess number seven and make a hundred doubts.

Up to you, up to you, you choose. He's going to be the most unpopular in here. Take care of other people first.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Number six. When you try to take care of yourself first, there's a lot of trouble. Number seven.

Just relax and take care of other people first. And that's the main fun. It's much more fun to give a churro than to take a churro.

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It's much more fun to give a churro than to take a churro.

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That's one of the most valuable things we are learning in this week. Everybody wants to be happy. Everybody wants to be successful.

I don't know what you guys were doing during COVID, but I made 20 more organizations. And the income is crazy. That's why I can give away a hundred dollars.

But the main essence is give to other people first. Take care of other people first. Then really, everything you want, it will come like tsunami.

I had a fight today with Ellie. How to put a lot of extra money in the bank. And I'm like, wow, what's going on?

The money came and she couldn't put it in the bank. There's some problem. If you take care of other people first, you will have this problem.

It's strange, right? By the way, there's a famous quality of the Buddha. We were translating it in Ben Kramer's book.

Buddha knows what's real and Buddha knows what's not real. GNAS DANG GNAS MIN PAR KHYIM PA Like that.

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GNAS The real situation, GNAS.

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How it lies. GNAS DANG GNAS MIN KHYIM PA He knows the real situation and he knows what's not the real situation. I'll give three hundred dollars.

Nah, you can't guess.

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Forget it.

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What's not the real situation? If I give more, I will have less. If I give more, I will have less.

That's a lie. It's not true. But every human being believes it.

Geshe-la, don't ask me to give too much. Then I won't have enough. Don't you know how you get things?

The only way to get things is to give them. That's reality. You want things?

Give them away. You don't want things? If you want to have a shortage for your whole life and not be able to pay your rent, then don't help other people.

And you will always be struggling. Got it? It's the opposite.

Okay, so what number? We're on number seven. Eight.

No, but six was, if you take care of yourself first, it's a big mistake. It's the best way to have not enough money. Or churros.

I care more about churros than money, believe me. Where's Ayrton? Maybe we change my cafe to a churreria.

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Okay, okay.

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Alright, then number seven. It's a good thing to take care of other people. Take care of other people first.

If you're smart, take care of other people first. By the way, you young people, so I went to register for voting or something. They asked me, what's your birth year?

I said, 52. Then I said, 1952. The guy looked at me like, is it 1852?

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He says, no.

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So you young people, you have a chance. This is valuable information. I wish I knew this when I was young like you.

Then I'll be so successful and so happy. Take care of other people first. That's the best way to take care of yourself.

I go all around the world. All year, I live in the airplane. My friends told me, Geshe-la, when you retire, we will put an airplane in front of your house.

We will take off the tires, so you can feel comfortable. Because you can go sleep in the airplane. It's the same story, every country.

Please, just try it. You're young. If you make a good habit now, you're going to be super, there's going to be 6,000 people.

Even when you sing the rock and roll bad, they're like, wow. Take care of other people first. And everything will be good.

All right, now what number? Geshe-la is so slow. When other people have trouble, put yourself in their chair.

We call, change yourself with them. Like if Aldo is having trouble, then Geshe Michael has to put himself in Aldo's body to feel how Aldo feels. You can say compassion.

You can say empathy. But learn how to have compassion. Number eight, I don't care, just say compassion.

Even if you say comp, or actionable. I don't care. Put yourself in the other person's body, in your imagination, and see how they feel.

That's number eight. Okay, number nine. Practice love.

So what was number eight? Comp. Comp.

Comp. Okay, eight is comp. And nine is love.

Now what's the difference? Compassion wants to take away other people's trouble. Love wants to make them happy.

I always think about a kid on a bicycle. When they fall down, and they hurt their knee. What's the first thing mom has to do?

Oh, like that. Like that's number eight. Then number nine.

Oh, here Aldo, have a candy. Have a candy. First you fix the hurt.

Then you give the candy. You don't give the candy if it's hurting. So first, feel the pain.

Say, I feel your pain. And then do something nice, give them something. Number eight is comp.

Nine is love. Love. Okay, nine is love.

I'm going to just do it. I'm going to do it. If you do it this way tomorrow, you get a hundred.

And it's not one person. I want to do like ten people tomorrow. Why can't I do it?

Because I do this and that's why I have the money.

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Alright. Number one.

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By the way, no papers tomorrow. The eyes tomorrow are closed. Don't write it on your hand.

Okay? I'm not stupid like your school teacher. Okay, number one, igua.

Number two, my mom. Number three, kindness. Number four, repay.

Nice.

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Number five, equal right.

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You and me have equal rights. Number six, stop taking care of yourself first. Then number seven is easy.

Take care of other people first. Number eight. Comp.

Passion. Compassion. When other people hurt than you.

Then nine is automatic. Love. Give the candy.

Give them candy. Oh my gosh. This is the easiest money you ever made tomorrow.

By the way, tomorrow's class is also open. Also open online. You don't have to pay.

We don't charge for these classes. If you want to do the extra activities, we ask you to pay for them. But tomorrow, everything's free.

So just come with your eleven tomorrow. And it's all free tomorrow. Online also.

All right. By the way, I used to be in the diamond business. For 19 years.

I built the largest diamond jewelry company in the world. Quarter billion dollars every year. Warren Buffett bought the company.

Now, guess. What's more money? To teach like this or to have a diamond business?

Yeah, if I want to make money, I can sell diamond, okay? ACI, we are not making money, okay? We're just making happy.

Make people happy. But, I came here on a thing. It's called an airplane.

When I bought the ticket, I said, I'm teaching compassion. It should be free. They said, get out of line, sir.

Next person, next person. So, you know, we have to pay the airplane and all that. Nobody's making money.

Okay, nobody's making money.

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We have expenses.

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All right, number ten.

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Number ten.

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What's in number ten?

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What's this?

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This says Taiwanese Mexicans. Okay.

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This is long.

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Oh yeah, okay, this one.

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Yeah.

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Somebody has to take care of this world. Somebody has to take responsibility for this world. Number ten is responsibility.

I take responsibility. We saw all this news for one year about Ukrainian people suffering. They are bombing them.

And finally, our group in Arizona, we contact them. We said, come to Arizona. We will pay everything.

And we give you a place to stay. We just bought a new car. If the governments can't figure it out, well, god damn, we can figure it out.

You just come and stay with us. And we'll have fun. And so we got two came already.

And a mother and her son are coming in two weeks or something. So, number ten? I take responsibility.

I don't wait for a government program. What if these two ladies die during the government program decision? Okay, I'll take care of it myself.

If the government with a billion, billion dollars can't figure it out, god damn, I'll do it. That's number ten. I'll take care of it.

By the way, it's very useful at a program in Villa Primavera. Who's going to clean up after the party tonight?

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I'll take responsibility.

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Like that. It's not always international. Sometimes it's inter-churro.

All right. I'll take responsibility. All right, number eleven.

I would like to take responsibility for every planet. What? I'll take care of this whole planet.

That's number ten. And by the way, I'll take care of the other planets as soon as they find them. I'll take care of it.

I know, look, right now it's not real. Right now there's not, we don't know where the other planets are. But it's that infinite thing again.

The planets are infinite. Try to understand something. When you say the planets are infinite, there's a planet somewhere right now where the same halfway bald guy and the completely bald guy are giving a talk right now.

Definitely. And there's a person there who looks just like you. Because the planets are infinite.

There's not one person who looks just like you. There's countless people who look just like you. Then number eleven is like a prayer.

Look, I can't see that handsome person who looks just like me. I didn't meet them yet, but the odds are infinite. There must be a person like that.

And number eleven is, I take responsibility for them too. I take responsibility for planets with no number and people with no number. And I take it, I sign the contract in advance.

You can check later. My signature is on the paper. Geshe-la, there's two guys from Mars.

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They got two heads and four legs.

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Can they stay at your house?

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I don't know.

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But you promised, that was number eleven. You promised in Guadalajara. Okay, okay, I put the contract.

Number eleven. Every planet.

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I can't see them right now with my eyes, but I can see them with my thinking.

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Is there a lot of churros in the next room? Look, Geshe-la told you there is. No reason to lie.

You can see those churros, but with your third eye. Why do those Buddhas have three eyes? Just logic, just logic.

Oh, can you see those churros with your two eyes? No, the door is closed. Can you see it with your third eye?

Yeah. Geshe-la probably won't lie about it.

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Then we say third eye.

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Then those other people in the universe. Other planets. A person who looks just like you.

Not one, million. And you're going to sign a contract now. When I meet you, I will take care of you.

And I agree. Alright, got it? Those are the eleven.

And we spent about two years on it. You guys are lucky because you're finishing one night. It's like express train.

Tim, what time are we supposed to stop? Oh, I thought she's just... It's eight, okay.

Ocho. Okay. I will finish on time, Tim.

Alright. We're going to start the class. Sensei, senpai damta.

Special Geshe class.

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Whole night.

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Are you going to show the book, Tim? I don't know. We're on Ngatsa Khen Ngen.

Ngatsa Khen Ngen. It's about two pages then. I'm going to show you the ancient book.

You don't have to learn it. You just have to learn eleven things. But we like to teach it word by word.

And you don't have to learn it. I'm planting a seed in your mind. We have a date in the next life.

And you're going to learn this language. I'm getting ready now. You don't have to think about it.

I don't care if you don't look at it. I'm planting a seed for next time. Okay, we're going to start the book.

And we'll just do five minutes and then we'll continue tomorrow. NGATSA KHEN NGEN SOG CHUNG SKABS PHAGS PA SRAB PA'I NYAM LEN MI ZHUG PA STONG NGAN SOGS MEN DANG DU BYAS PA KHYEN CHE GSUNG When you get sick and when you get problems, it's important to watch your selfishness level. When we have trouble, when we have debt, when we have some kind of diseases, when we're super busy, then that compassion, we forget about it.

When we have trouble, we forget about other people. And what he says here is, it's more important when you have trouble not to be selfish. When you don't have enough money.

Nowadays people have a time problem, they don't have money problem. I don't have time to help you. So when things are difficult, when you don't have enough money, when you don't have enough time, and when your body is giving you trouble.

I heard a good friend of mine has cancer, I found out today. Then give more.

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When you are sick, when you don't have money, when you don't have time, give more.

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And then things will come to you, don't worry. When you think you don't have more to give, you always have more to give. And if you get used to giving more when you don't have more to give, you will feel so happy.

Just make a habit. When you don't have more to give, give a little more. And you will always be a happy person.

And you will always have enough, don't worry. Buddha said an interesting thing. Buddha said, if any person gives more when they think they don't have more, and they don't get much more back, then I'm not Buddha.

He said it like that, then I'm a liar. What did Jesus say? When someone steals your coat, give them your sweater also.

Got it? When someone takes your coat, don't fight with them. Say, hey, do you need a sweater also?

I also have a sweater. So these great people like Buddha, like Jesus, they really understood. When you give the last thing you have, when you give your coat, and then the people are still cold, then give them your sweater also.

Don't worry about it. Got it? And you will always be happy.

And your life will be so like that video. Really! It really happened like that.

Just give. Alright, we'll continue tomorrow.