«Дар освобождения», курс 41 «Сила доброго сердца», занятие 3

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We're going to do number ten. Up there. There you go.

All right, number ten. What was number ten? For zero dollars.

Yeah, it's called take responsibility.

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And I'm going to read the whole thing to you. It's kind of long. DE LTAR BDAG GIS SDONG NAS BYAS PA BZHIN DE LTAR GYUR BZHUGS DANG NIM DUG It means you do giving and taking.

You take other people's problems. You give them happy news. And then he says DE LTAR GYUR BZHUGS DANG NIM DUG means Then you should pause and ask yourself, did it work?

You know, I was trying to take other people's problems. And I was trying to give other people my happiness, which is the same as love and compassion. I try to give them good things.

I try to take away their problems. That's eight and nine. Then ten is, DE LTAR GYUR BZHUGS DANG NIM DUG means, did it work or not?

RANG NYID MOD PA'I TZAM LAS PA'I DANG NGON NAS PA'I DE LTAR GYUR BZHUGS DANG NIM DUG NIM DUG means no, it didn't work. I tried to take away other people's problems. I tried to give them my happiness.

Did it work? You know, this pranayama, this breath practice. Then it says NGON NAS PA'I TZAM LAS PA'I DANG NIM DUG means it did not directly.

I could not directly do it. After 19 years on the subway, was the people on the subway happier? And the answer is no.

So, is it a waste of time? RANG NYID MOD PA'I TZAM LAS PA'I DANG NIM DUG RANG NYID MOD PA'I TZAM LAS PA'I DANG NIM DUG Then you have to decide. And this is a very beautiful practice for your whole life.

It's called FLAK TZAM. Say FLAK TZAM. FLAK TZAM means, and by the way, everything you do in your life, FLAK TZAM is useful.

FLAK TZAM means I don't care if nobody helps you, I'm going to do it. It's like cleaning up this place after the thought. Suddenly everybody disappears.

And then FLAK TZAM means I don't care. I'll take care of it. And it's a very beautiful state of mind.

If you can use these retreats to reach FLAK TZAM, then the rest of your life is really fun. And it's the decision that I will take care of making this happen. I don't care if nobody helps me.

I think in my own life, I went a little bit too far. And I decided nobody's going to help me anyway. So, I just ignored everybody.

And tried to make things happen. And I think that's not healthy. FLAK TZAM means, if you help me, welcome, I love you, let's do it.

But if you run away or you don't have time, then okay, I'll take care of it. But I think there's a kind of negative FLAK TZAM. You're like, ah, you guys don't help me anyway.

I'll do it myself. That's not a good thing. I think FLAK TZAM means please help me and I'll help you help me.

I'll have shudos ready. But if you're too busy, I don't know if you're too busy or you can't help me. Listen, I'm going to do this thing anyway.

And I encourage the old man, abuelo, 70-year-old man, I'll tell you, it's a very beautiful skill to decide, if you don't help me, I'll do it myself. So, I encourage you to develop it. I will make this good thing happen even if nobody helps me.

That's called FLAK TZAM. All right, number 11. Oh, and by the way, FLAK TZAM comes, why it's so long, number 10?

It means look at what's happening around you. Good wishes are not enough. Oh, I give you my happiness.

Oh, I take away your troubles. Oh, I give you my happiness. Then everyone looks the same.

Then it's not enough just to do the pranayama. Then you have to do the work. It's nice to breathe on people, but it's not enough.

This is just a motivation key. It's just to improve your motivation. Then you have to do the work, and that's number 10.

All of these sound hard and all of these are really fun. I'm sorry, once you walk into this class, you're going to be a bodhisattva. And bodhisattvas work their whole lives for other people.

If you didn't want to be a bodhisattva, you shouldn't have come here. Now you're stuck. Now you have to be a bodhisattva.

And at the beginning it feels like too much work. What's a bodhisattva? That's number 11.

Okay, and number 11 is, okay, I'll take responsibility. Not just for my family, not just for my job. I take responsibility for my country, for my world, and by the way, for all the other worlds.

Why not? Okay, I'll take responsibility, and that's number 11. I will personally make sure everyone is happy.

We talk a lot about seeing emptiness directly. In DCI we call it touching the diamond world. I can tell you, I don't know, this cell phone, it comes from seeds in my mind.

This was not made in a Foxconn factory in Shanghai. This was made from your seeds. You created this thing.

You made this thing happen. Then that's understanding of dependent origination, cause and effect. What is dependence?

Half of Buddhism. Everything's coming from ... that's basically, everything's coming from you.

This was not made in a factory. Your mental seeds made the factory also. You made this thing.

What's the opposite of that? There's nothing else in the world. Everything was made by you.

Also, time is made by your seeds. When you're making out with your girlfriend in high school, like me and Veronica 53 years ago, we went to the driving movie. We get borrowed my mother's station wagon because it has a big back seat.

By the way, we were just kissing, okay? this guy, suddenly there's a guy banging on the window. He says, roll down your window.

There's security guard, you know. He says, you guys, you got to go home. He said, why?

The movie just started. He said, the goddamn movie ended two hours ago. You guys aren't watching the movie.

Then we look, the whole place is empty. It means when you're having fun, the time goes very fast. Alison and Stanley came with me recently.

I had a surgery on a tooth. That guy, he actually sat on my chest. He's like, Then I thought, it must be about three hours.

Then it was like, not that long, right? It was like half an hour or something. So time is also coming from your feet.

And time can go faster and time can go slow. And space is coming from your feet. So time and space is a color.

It's a perception. We call that, it's subjective. Okay, it's not objective.

There's not 60 minutes in an hour. Then there's, I asked my boss, he's from Israel, I said, how many grams in a kilogram? He said, only an American will ask this question.

Kilo means one thousand. Kilogram is a thousand. Understand?

I'm like, oh, but it's not true. There's not a thousand meters in a kilometer. It depends on, Einstein said that.

It's very, very beautiful. Einstein and, you know, Nagarjuna fit together perfectly. Einstein said time and space will change according to your perception.

There's a little tiny planet called Mercury. It's the smallest one. It's very close to the sun.

It goes very fast around the sun. Mercury is the name of some Roman or Greek, the fastest of the flying gods. And Einstein said, Mercury is so close to the sun that the light from Mercury, when the sun is here, and the earth is here, and Mercury goes around the sun, and when it first comes out and you can see it from the earth, that light, it's matter.

It's a kind of physical matter. When little physical matter gets near big physical matter, the thing falls down. The earth is fatter than my iPhone.

If I let go, the earth will not fall out. The phone will fall down. The light from Mercury, when Mercury comes out from behind the sun, and the light is coming to us, that light has a little bit of weight, and the sun's gravity will pull the light towards the sun.

So the light from Mercury doesn't come directly. It goes a little bit towards the sun, and then comes to me. And that takes longer.

When you see Mercury in a telescope, you are seeing yesterday's Mercury. You are not seeing today's Mercury. When you look in a telescope, you are time traveling.

What you are seeing is what was there yesterday, because the light was bent, and the light took longer to reach you. When you see the light from Geshe-la's special hair, it also takes some time. You are never seeing the light from Geshe-la's hair.

You are seeing Geshe-la as he was one second ago. In the drive-in movie, making out with your girlfriend, in the dentist's chair, when you are looking at Mercury, time is flexible. Time is coming from you.

Why, Geshe-la, why are you supposed to be teaching Tom-Len? When you touch the diamond world, when you see emptiness directly, for like 24 hours, you are able to change time, and you are able to change space. And on that day, you will meet every person in the universe, face to face, one by one.

Okay, how many people? There's no number. There's always one more after that.

It's like work, you know, there's always one more after that. Okay, when you're trying to meet everybody in the universe, there's always one more behind that one. And there's no end.

That's infinite. But, if time is coming from you, you can meet everybody in the universe in 20 minutes. On the day that you touch emptiness directly, you get power to change time.

And you can meet every living being face to face. It goes like this. Hi, what's your name?

I am Martian number 55. Sorry, Martian number 55. Martian number 56.

Nice to meet you. Mucho gusto. How are you doing?

Life is hard sometimes. You know what, number 55 from Mars, I'm going to take care of you personally. You don't have to worry about anything.

LHAG BSAM Number 10. I'll take care of it. I'm having a difficult life on Mars.

Hey, you met the right man. Or the right woman. I'll take care, personally I'll take care of you.

Are we good? Yes, very good. Okay, see you later.

Then the next person comes. Billions and billions of people in 20 minutes. That's real bodhisattva.

So that's the direct experience of number 11. It's not a wish. It's not an intention.

It's not a prayer. You meet every living being directly. And you have a small chat.

And you talk a little bit. You good? No, very difficult on my planet.

Hey, I'm here man. I've got LHAG BSAM. I'm used to it.

I'll take care of it. You go back to your planet and relax. I'll take care of everything.

Thank you. And you do that with a billion people in 20 minutes. And that's number 11.

That's a real bodhisattva who has seen emptiness. We call Arya Bodhisattva. To be a super bodhisattva, you have to touch emptiness directly.

Because you can't meet and comfort every living being if you cannot change time. There's no time. Okay?

So you have to touch emptiness. That's where emptiness meets compassion. You can't take care of everybody unless you can mess around with time.

There's more parents in our Mexico group than in any group in the whole world. That means there's more really busy people in this room than anywhere else. And if you're a mom or overworked dad, wouldn't it be nice to have 30 hours a day or 48 hours a day?

When you really understand emptiness, you can do it. People ask me how you do ... We have 200,000 students.

Geshe-la, how do you have time? Mess with the seeds. Make more time.

Okay? And you can do it. That's why it's so important to study emptiness if you want to be a bodhisattva.

Because emptiness means you can manipulate time. It's a necessary job skill for a bodhisattva. That's why when we finish this section, we're going to do emptiness for five years, so you can mess with time and space.

Then you can be a real bodhisattva. Kind of to be the ultimate mom or dad, you have to be in two places at the same time. That's why we have to study emptiness after we do this bodhisattva section.

Okay, Tim, I'm ready to start the class. That was the review of the 11th. How much time I got, Timothy?

Till 9? Till 10. All right, okay, half an hour.

I'm going to start introducing to you IDIM. I-D-I-M It means idea, image. Idea, image.

IDIM. In the Geshe program, we do 25 years. Study, it's very difficult.

And three, four hours every day we have to go to debate. SEMS RGYI GYI RTZEN NI ZHAG GI MED PA'I PHYIR DA MA GYUR SEMS RGYI GYI RTZEN NI ZHAG GI YOD PAR THABS DGOS ZHOG MA YIN PAR THABS DGOS ZHOG SEMS RGYI RLAS LA ZER NA RANG NYON NON YON NON NYON NON YON NON NYON NAS MA YIN PA'I PHYIR ZER NA RANG NYON NON YON NON YON NON NYON NAS MA YIN PA'I PHYIR YOD PA'I PHYIR YOD PAR THABS DGOS NYON Like that, we have to do it like that, from memory. you cannot take the book into the debate ground.

My first day I took a book in the debate ground, oh my god, they like threw me out. No books in the debate ground. How do you remember all this stuff?

We cheat. We use pictures. We use mental pictures.

So I'm going to teach you this system, and so we're going to start using pictures. This week's class has 50 pictures. If you remember what the picture is about, you don't have to memorize the book.

So, I'm going to start showing you pictures. Each picture has a meaning. You just have to remember the meaning.

Starting tomorrow, I will ask you, what's this picture? What's the meaning? If you explain it, maybe you get $100.

If you cannot, maybe you pay me $100. Sound good? No, I'm just kidding.

But we're going to learn how to remember the class from the pictures. Okay, here's the first picture. You guys ready?

I saw a movie on the airplane. So it's a 12-hour flight to Japan, and I always watch a movie. It's a very sad movie.

They were making a documentary about this guy, and he's a famous motocross guy. So they were following him, and they were filming him, and in the film he had an accident, and he broke his spine. So, like today, he's the most famous motorcycle rider in the world.

Every young lady wants to meet him, and then in the evening he cannot go to poop. He's pooping in his own bed for the rest of his life. He cannot reattach his spine.

Then they had many discussions with him in the movie, and something happened to him. And here's the story from Shantideva. You guys got it?

It's called, it's page 322? You got it? Yeah.

CHUN CHUD LAS GSUNGS PAS means Master Shantideva, 1,300 years ago, in the book called Bodhisattva's Way of Life, which is 50% how to be a nice person, and 50% emptiness. Why? If you want to be a really nice person, you have to be able to change time and space.

You have to be able to do 48 hours of work in 24 hours. So, you've got to understand emptiness if you want to be a bodhisattva. Okay, and what he said in his book, GZHAN YANG SDUG BSNGAL YIN PAS NI, RGYAL BA'I PHYIR THAMS SA BA'I PHYIR, KHOR BA PA LA NYID KYIS, THIG PA RTZEN BZHIN, DGE LA RGA, that's his advice.

When you break your spine riding your motorcycle, try to appreciate all the good stuff that's just happened to you. When you have a terrible tragedy in your life, try to understand one thing. It's going to smash your pride.

No girls are chasing him anymore, because the main relationship is to wipe his bottom. No girls are chasing him now. And his head is straight, his mind is clear.

Like he went through some terrible months of suffering and disappointment. Unhappiness. And now he's an extremely beautiful person.

He changed his life. The suffering changed his life. So, the idea is if you want to be a bodhisattva, if you're lucky you will break your spine, and then you will really have compassion for other people.

And if he was just famous his whole life and made lots of money, he would never find compassion. So, the whole argument of the book at this moment, number one, you should be happy when disasters happen in your life. They make you a better person.

You should pray that disasters happen in your life, if you really want to be a bodhisattva. And then that's the first half here. korwa pa la nying je kye, when you break your own spine, suddenly you notice all the other people who have spine problems.

A couple weeks ago, I was coming back from Japan. I tripped in the passport. I fell down, and I kind of broke a bone in my foot.

I was with Seiji and Tim, right? And I'm like, I can't walk. And they're like, okay, let's get a wheelchair.

And I'm like, oh no, I don't want to be like all those grandpas and grandmas. So, I tried to walk for like half an hour, you know, with a broken foot. Then I'm like, you know what Tim, I'll take the wheelchair.

And then they just drive me around in a wheelchair. Okay, what's the only place in the world where people treat me like a llama? United Airlines.

You know there's gold, platinum, silver, all the diamonds. There's a special level, it's a secret level, and the board of directors of United Airlines has to vote. And then they call you, they say you are global service.

They call global service. Here's how you know you are global service. I got off the airplane in San Francisco, I have to get on the airplane to Phoenix.

There's a guy with a sign, Mr. Roach. I said, I'm Mr. Roach, is there a problem? He says, I'm your limousine driver.

Then I'm like, but I'm not stopping in San Francisco, I'm going to Phoenix. Yeah, I know, I'm the limousine driver to your next airplane. Then I'm like, how far is it to the next airplane?

He said, it's right there. I said, you're going to drive me in a limousine to the next gate? He said, yeah, it's right downstairs.

You come down the stairs, get in the limousine, we drive you to the airplane, you go up. I'm like, you know what, I'll just walk. There's a Starbucks also.

Then he's like, well, congratulations, you are global service now. He started to prostrate. I said, no, it's okay.

No, I'm kidding. But, global service with a wheelchair? They're like, Mr. Roach, are you okay?

He's like, Mr. Roach, are you okay? Can I push you in a wheelchair? Suddenly, I feel like those old people in the airplane.

I'm like, don't get out of the chair, just sit there. I'm like, okay. And it's so good for your pride.

That's the idea. When things happen to you, when you fail, you get fired from your job, you get fired from your marriage, then suddenly your pride relaxes a little bit. So, it's good for us.

Those disasters. When you have a disaster, try to think, now I'm not so proud about global service. Now they're pushing me in a wheelchair.

And then you get, in English we say you get more real, you become a more genuine person. Koropala Ninja Canyon. So, you start to sympathize with the other people in the wheelchair.

I never noticed how many people are in the wheelchair in the airport. Now I feel like Paisano. Hey, chocolate!

You're like, yeah, man. Then suddenly you notice all the people in the wheelchair. So, it's good for your heart to have some good disasters.

So, next time you have a disaster in your family, or your job, you could say, yay! Now I'm a better bodhisattva. Now I really understand all the people in the wheelchair.

So, when you have a problem, feel like lucky. You should feel like unlucky. Then he says, diglak zem, which means once you have a disaster, you will be more careful not to hurt other people because that's geshe-la, that's why you ended up in the wheelchair.

That's why you broke your foot. You must have hurt someone. So then, after you get to the wheelchair, you have to be ...

it makes you more careful not to do bad things to anyone. Then if you get more trouble, more problems, your compassion gets better and better. You don't have to go to Diamond Mountain to do retreat.

Ria, Ria, Ria. Just break your foot a few times. It saves a lot of time, and it saves a lot of meetings with strange creatures.

Lucia told me there was a big creature outside my retreat camp in Diamond Mountain. The first night we went there, like 24 years ago, we stayed in tents, each person in their own tent, and Venerable Jigme was in a tent, and it was a cold, pretty cold night, and there was a snake at the, we call grandpa's snake, abuelo, we call him, serpento abuelo. He's about four meters.

His body is like this. Ellie's asleep in the tent. She's warm.

Understand? Then abuelo came on the other side of the tent, and he snuggled up to her. Then she's like, ahhh!

And when stuff happens to you, you have to say, great! This will improve my compassion for other people who meet snakes. This is a new way of looking at problems in your life.

You don't avoid them, you embrace them. They call, in English they call, character building exercise. Having a big poisonous snake snuggle up to you is a character building exercise.

He used to come and watch me do yoga. He was unbelievable. He's like, you know, like, I'm just doing yoga, man.

One day he was out with a rabbit in his mouth, and the way they eat a rabbit, they sting the rabbit, and then they don't have teeth to chew the rabbit. So, they start with the leg, you know. And they're like, you know, slowly, you know.

Then I did retreat with this very brave lady. What's her name? What's her name?

Petra, yeah. She saw the snake swallowing the rabbit, and she jumped out of her retreat cabin and said, God damn it! And she pulled the rabbit away.

And she took it back to her cabin, and his leg was gone from the acid, the stomach acid, and she fixed him up, and he lived with us for two years. He's only, he just has three legs, you know. And he's fine.

And so, anyway, when problems happen, when you break your spine, maybe it's the best thing that ever happened to you. And as you reach the golden age of 70 or 80, I don't know, your opinion about disasters will change. You will say, that was the best thing that ever happened to me.

So, don't freak out when something bad happens. Bodhisattva uses everything. Every accident, every disaster is a teaching from the Buddha.

Relax and see what's the teaching, and your life will be very cool. All right, ,ZHES SDUG BSNGAL BYUNG BA NA, ,BYOR BA LA LA LA LA LA, Okay, yep, that's what he said. Next pic, oh, did we get the picture from the last one?

Oh yeah, we did. Okay, second picture. Credit card problem.

Maybe you met this one. By the way, tomorrow I'm testing you. What was the guy with the motorcycle?

Sometimes disaster is the best thing that ever happened to you. When you have emptiness understanding, you cannot say that the accident was 100% bad. Maybe it's the best thing that ever happened to you.

He will say it's the best thing that ever happened to him. If you talk to him now, he will say that. He found out who his real friends are, and I'm happy to say his beautiful girlfriend, she stayed with him, and she took care of him, and they're still together.

It's so beautiful. And those other friends disappeared, right? So, you find it's a good thing.

Alright. The next sentence says, people like you and me, we think it would be better if good things happen to us, and disasters don't happen to us. But he said that's not the way it is.

Then he quotes a poem. kyi na mi ga duk na ga, kyi na nang sak sunam se, duk na leng yin dik dik jang. This is a poem.

And the teacher of this book, who was the teacher of my teacher, and maybe the greatest teacher in Tibet, he quotes this poetry, and he doesn't tell you where it's from. But luckily we have John Brady, and we have 12 million pages, and it's a database. I can check this quotation in about three seconds.

It will search 12 million pages in three seconds. So, here's the meaning. kyi na mi ga, you should be unhappy when things go smooth, and you should be happy when things screw up.

Because when things are going smooth, you're burning up your good karma. So, don't hope that things go smooth, because then you're going to burn up all your good karma. But, when you break your foot at the airport, you should be happy.

You're burning up your bad karma. So, when things go smooth, you should be sad. And when things F up, you should be happy.

Geshe-la, what's happening with your foot? I'm burning up bad karma. It's so cool.

Alright, got it. How do you feel? How was lunch?

It was great, but I just burned up a lot of good karma.

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I'm sorry.

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So, what's going on with the credit cards? That lady went to Guadalajara retreat. She's unhappy because all her credit cards are paid off.

And she doesn't have a chance to burn up her bad karma. You have to do the credit card prayer. I hope the 28% interest rate gets higher and higher.

I can burn up so much bad karma. That's okay. That's a bodhisattva's prayer.

I hope the electricity blows up 12 times today. Electricity. I can burn up so many bad seeds.

By the way, there's dharma people who talk like that. You know, I'm so happy. Oh Jose, my car broke down today.

I'm so happy. You know, and you and me, we tend to think they're a little bit, you know, cuckoo. Don't be so idealistic.

I mean, don't take it too far. Don't get happy every time you have a disaster. It's just a book, you know.

But actually, those people who take it literally, they are the smart ones. They go out of this room and they feel so happy when their car breaks. They are not the crazy ones.

We are the crazy ones. The normal people are the crazy ones. And those very, you know, I'm so happy I broke my car.

They are mentally healthy. Okay, so let's try to be like them. When you have a serious problem in your life, think about it.

You are burning up bad karma. That's okay. That's okay.

I can take it. I'm happy. And if you live as long as grandpa, I'll tell you something, when you burn up a bad karma, when you have a disaster in your life, it's very, very common that the next week or the next year is extremely happy.

You lose a relationship. You lose a job. And then the next year is like unbelievably sweet.

You're free to have a better relationship. And you're free to find a better job. And you burn off the bad karma.

So when something seriously bad happens to you, just be like, I wonder what's coming up next. At least I burned a lot of karma. So be happy.

If you're interested, I found that poem in the database. It comes from about 200 years ago. It's from a book called The Dance in the Lotus Garden.

And it's by a Dzogchen master. He's a master of Dzogchen. So Dzogchen is another tradition.

It's called Great Completion. It's a different tradition than what we are doing. And they have very beautiful poetry.

And they don't understand emptiness. And I'm not critical, I'm not criticizing. But they don't really understand emptiness.

But the poetry is very beautiful. So it's good. It's okay.

But you can get really good emptiness, you can get correct emptiness teachings at ACI. And they will make you happy for the rest of your life. And successful.

And you can sing rock and roll songs off key and 6,000 people will cheer. Okay? That's emptiness.

Power of emptiness. You can sing bad music and everybody thinks it's great. That's real emptiness.

All right.