«Дар освобождения», курс 42 «Сила мечты», занятие 5

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So we're just finishing how to think like a bodhisattva, and then we will start the six activities of a bodhisattva, if Geshe-la doesn't do too much fundraising. Okay. All right.

When do I have to stop? In 15, we go to Q&A. You tricked me yesterday.

No, we didn't have any class. Okay. Yeah, we'll do 15 minutes and then me and Stanley are going to do a dance, okay?

Right? Don't get excited until you see it. Okay, GNAL SBYOR THAMS CAD GCIG GIS BYA Yesterday I taught you GNAL SBYOR, and I'll give you not any money to tell me what's GNAL SBYOR.

Yeah, yoga. Yoga, okay? GNAL SBYOR is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit word yoga.

But there's two translation periods in Tibet. There's the early period where they translate by meaning, and then there's a later period when they translate by word. So in the early, early translation period, they have strange words.

Like nirvana is NYANG NGAN LAS BDE PA, what's that? Passing beyond grief. Passing beyond grief.

So there were creative translations in the early time. Then later they started to make just drier translation. Okay, so this is one of the early translations.

GNAL SBYOR means accurate practice. What do you call? Precision strike.

We can call it precision strike. The Tibetan word for yoga is precision strike. Precision, you hit marma, you hit that killing point precisely, immediately.

That's the word for yoga. It's very beautiful. Then he said GNAL SBYOR THAMS CAD GCIG GIS BYA You can do all the different kinds of yoga with one action.

By the way, Kwanye, you owe me, in January, that we will continue the YSI four-year program of the classics of yoga. We are teaching the classical literature of yoga, which is extremely difficult, extremely deep. In my three-year retreat, I translated a lot of it and I memorized it.

I made 12 courses. We are going through those courses in YSI. You should get into it.

It's very beautiful courses. We are inside of a book called Hatha Yoga Pradipika, which was written 500 years ago. It's the second great book ever written on the yoga poses.

What's the first great book? Lady Nygma. The Yoga Sutra doesn't teach asana.

There's one line about asana. Really, it's Lady Nygma, which we translated and we taught it, which is what we learned in the monastery. Then Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

How to do Hatha Yoga, which is Hatha Yoga. We are going to start the third chapter in January. What's the appropriate idiom?

I'm his idiom teacher. They promised me $20 per idiom when I teach them English idioms. They didn't pay me yet.

I taught them thousands. Good. Be there or be square.

It's probably the last time I'm going to teach Hatha Yoga Pradipika. It's very deep and very beautiful about yoga and inner prana practices. Very, very deep.

If you don't come, you're a loser. It's online. If you want, you can come.

We have a little bit in person also. If you want to come to BLC. The restaurants are much better than Kyoto.

There's only one. They only serve cinnamon rolls. That's my problem.

NYAL CHOS THAMS CAD GCIG GIS BYA You can do all your yoga practice with one thing. Come in January if you have time. It's two weeks, I think.

Two-week course. One hour every day or something. My class is an hour.

We have many other classes. NYAL CHOS THAMS CAD GCIG GIS BYA ZHES SOGS NI, BDE'I NYAMS SU LEN PA'I BU, DGE'I SBYOR NAS MANG PO MI DGOS If you understand lojong, you don't have to learn hundreds of practices. MI DGOS THAMS CAD BDAG GZHAN YAMS CAD GZHAN GYIS BSTAN DU BRAL TE You can just do one.

If you understand lojong, lojong means a special practice which opens your heart. It's called a heart-opening practice, lojong. It was invented about a thousand years ago.

People used it since then. Seiji's book, which is the next book we're going to publish, is excellent. It's one of the greatest presentations of lojong.

It's going to be available in two, three months, something like that. If the university doesn't give me too much work. BDAG GZHAN YAMS CAD People say exchange self and others.

It's not a great translation. BDAG GZHAN YAMS CAD is really two practices. Two practices.

Number one is to think about that every human being has equal right to happiness. Actually, every living being has equal right to happiness. Everybody has equal right to happiness.

Not one country has more right. Not one species has more right than the other species. Animals have equal right to this earth.

Human countries have equal right to happiness. Everyone has equal right to be happy person. Fish, birds, everybody.

We cannot ruin the home of the fish, the ocean, for the humans. That's not fair. We all share the same world.

We're all a living being. Everyone should have equal right to happiness. That's called NYAM.

NYAM means equal right. So this meditation, LO SBYONG, it has two steps. Number one, NYAM.

We all have equal right. We all have equal right. Animals, people, equal right.

Birds, fish, dogs, snakes, rattlesnakes, equal right. Human beings, countries, each country, each race, each religion, has equal right to happiness. That's called NYAM.

[Говорящий 2]
J means do you believe in equal rights so deeply that you will give your right away to another person?

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Do you really believe in equal rights? Do you really believe in equal rights? Your country has more money, or your country has more land, or your country has more oil.

Do you understand equal right enough to share everything you have? To make equal, to create equal. If you're below equal, you support this idea.

If your income is very low, you support the rich country should help the poor countries, right? But if you're in the rich country, do you believe in equal rights enough to share what you have? Without government asking you, without revolution, without suffering people, do you have the strength to put your money where your mouth is?

Oh, I support equal right. Okay, so give half your income away to the people who are having war right now. I'm very proud in Sedona, the people there are doing it.

They're really doing it. They are supporting refugees. John Brady's project is on refugees for 35 years.

What happens to refugees? When there's a war, refugees are created. They go to other country.

Everybody feels sad. Everybody donates for six months. Then they get tired.

Or there's new refugees. Then they have to support the Gaza refugee or something. There's new refugees.

It's very bad to be a refugee after one year or two years because everybody moved to the next refugee. The refugee who is still poor, still hungry, still don't have a place to stay, then they get real problems. We are supporting John Brady's project.

Where is John Brady? We support them for 35 years. We are helping them for 35 years.

We don't give them money. We have a policy. We don't give them money.

We give them skills. We teach them computer work. They make their own money.

They support themselves. If I die, if John dies, they will continue. They have a special skill.

I was in New York. Me and John Brady did a fundraiser. 1997?

Something like that. At... What's it called?

What's that famous cosmetics company? It's bubble and bubble, but they were sold to... Let's stay louder.

Anyway, we want to do a fundraiser for John Brady's project in New York City around 1997 or something. We know the guy who is a big fat cat in Estée Lauder, the bubble and bubble division. He has a theater in his company in Manhattan, which is very expensive.

We said, can we borrow the theater for a fundraiser? He said yes. Me and John Brady went there.

We taught the King of the Dharma book. We tried to get funds for the refugee input project. We had to go the day before and decorate the place and get the refreshments ready.

We worked very late. Whenever I go to New York, I stay at John's apartment, which he sold. He had one of the most expensive apartments in Manhattan at the penthouse of Central Park.

This is like a little bit lower than Toshida Paradise. I don't know what's the value. He was a real fat cat executive.

He had one of the most expensive apartments in New York. By the way, later he sold it and gave all the money to the input project to save the books. A few years later, someone gave him a very expensive house in Sedona.

I don't know why. We went home and we were really tired. He said, let's go to bed.

He had two rooms and he had a, what do you call that kind of bed? Murphy bed. The bed comes out of the wall.

I get on that bed. He gets on the couch. I sleep there.

I said, usually I like to have fresh orange juice in the morning. He said, I don't have any oranges. I said, well, can we get some?

He said, well, the stores are closed. It's midnight. But there's a small fruit store.

It's open all night. So I went there and I start to look at the fruit. Then there's two Asian ladies in the store and they start talking Tibetan to each other.

I didn't say anything. I'm listening. I'm picking the oranges.

Then I went to pay for the oranges. I said, where are you guys from? They said, we're from Tibet.

I said, wow. How you get a, what do you call, visa? How you come to United States?

I thought you don't have passport. You are a refugee. They said, yeah, we are refugees.

But we live in a special refugee camp in India. I'm like, oh, what's it like? She said, well, it's very strange because we have a computer center in our refugee camp.

I said, what do you guys do? They said, we take ancient books and we input them for this crazy two American guys. I'm like, really?

They said, yeah. This is all in English. Then I didn't say anything.

I said, how did you get a visa? They said, we learned programming because we have a computer center. Then we got a special visa for programmers.

We were allowed to come to America. We got green card. I'm like, wow, that's a beautiful story.

Then I said, did you meet those two crazy American guys? They're like, no, we never met them. I said, okay.

I didn't say anything. But I went outside and I started to cry because they said those guys save our life. Those guys save our family.

I went outside. I'm crying. He's crying.

We're like, wow. Give me five, Chi Chang. What do you call it in Mexico?

Chocolat. We give high five. Then we walk home.

I said, John, get those guys to come tomorrow. We can raise a lot of money. He sent his assistant to the food store.

We told them, come tomorrow. We told them wear the Tibetan lady's beautiful outfit. Then no one can refuse money.

They came all dressed. We had a big reunion and we're all crying. It was beautiful.

Why am I talking about that? Generally, people don't help refugees after a year or after two years. There's no The feeling when you help a refugee is I'm giving you money and you should be grateful to me.

That's not LO SBYONG. That's not LO SBYONG. LO SBYONG says those refugees have a right to half of your money.

They have a right to it. You cannot refuse them. You must give it to them.

It's theirs. Temporarily you got, somehow you got it. Somehow you got too much.

But now voluntarily you have to share. It's very similar to the introduction of socialism in China. It's very similar.

It's like time to share. Now everybody has to share what they have. It's voluntary.

Each person does it by themselves. We call it BDAG GZHAN NYAMS BYAS. BDAG GZHAN NYAMS BYAS means you have equal right to my money.

Everybody has equal right. Everybody should have equal income, equal house, equal car, equal income. If you do it voluntarily you are practicing LO SBYONG.

No one tells you you have to do it. There's no revolution. No one shoot you if you don't do it.

You do it from your heart. It's an inner revolution. Geshe-la just mentions it once and you do it.

And share what you have. Share what you have. It's not yours really.

It's somebody else's. You have to share. You don't have a choice.

Don't give me this $5 for ACI thing. Come on. Share.

Really share. Don't give your extra. Okay, last story.

Then Stanley is going to talk. My Lama, he had a bell. It's for a dog.

It's a dog bell. When you ring the bell, the dog will come. Then he told me, when I ring the bell, you come.

I'm like, whoa, whoa. Then he will, if he wants me, he will ring the bell. I live downstairs, he lives upstairs.

I build his house. That's what happened to my hands. So he lives upstairs.

Then one day, he rings the bell. He says, get out here quick. Get out here quick.

I'm like, okay. What was the story? No, it was something else.

Huh? Never mind. I'll tell you later.

Huh? No, but why he ring the bell? So he will ring the bell when he wants me.

Huh? You know all the stories. Come on.

Huh? That's it. So he ring the bell and then I run up and the pope, the Christian pope, came to New York City.

He came to Giant Stadium. This holds 60,000 people. He's sitting in the middle and he says, listen to this.

This is really good. I'm like, okay. The pope said, at that moment, I don't know how my teacher know what he's going to say, but the pope said, don't give your extra.

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Give half of everything.

[Говорящий 1]
Don't give 2%. Don't give 3%. Give half of everything you have.

Give it. I'm like, yeah. He's like, yeah.

Alright. That's what this lojong is saying. You don't need me to be your police.

Just do it. Shut up and do it. You don't have to tell anybody.

I like to tell people because I'm a bragger, but you don't have to tell anybody. Just do it. It's the right thing to do.