«Дар освобождения», курс 42 «Сила мечты», занятие 7

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Okay, here we go. We're at CHOS CI DTAMS TSIG CHOS CI DTAMS TSIG Where's the confuser guys? I think.

Yeah, CHOS CI DTAMS TSIG means all the advices. Here it means advices. Generally DTAMS TSIG means like a pledge.

But here it means advices. CHOS CI means Dharma in general. General Dharma advices, try to keep them.

And specifically LO SBYONG GI DTAMS TSIG Your promise to treat other people the same as you treat yourself. That's all. LO SBYONG BDAG BZHIN NYAMS SBRAS Those two commitments.

That commitment, DTAMS TSIG GNYIS SOGS DANG BDOD PA'I GSUNGS Say SOGS DANG BDOD PA'I GSUNGS This language is very, very famous when you take a vow. And you say SOGS DANG BDOD PA'I GSUNGS GSUNGS means I will keep it. I will keep this commitment.

SOGS DANG BDOD PA'I means at the cost of my life. At the cost of my life. Then there's these very romantic movies.

Did you see the Shenzang movie from China? It's pretty good. Shenzang's story from China.

Good, they did a good job. When they teach this part of the Lam Rim, they say if somebody grab you and put a knife to your neck and say will you give up the LO SBYONG, you have to say no. Then they...

Unfortunately, you cannot meet this very often. It doesn't really happen. Most people don't care at all what you do.

That knife is just coffee and cinnamon rolls and Netflix. Netflix is the knife. Some people lose their life to Netflix and to coffee shop and things like that.

I don't think in our lifetime there will be some kind of revolution and all the Buddhist people will have to swear to give up Buddhism or die. It's very romantic. If you get a chance, good luck.

I suspect we won't die. But every day you have the same choice. Netflix has a knife here.

Every day you have the same choice. Give up your life or the Dharma. Which one?

Which one will you choose? The quiet, Netflix every day. Quiet, waste time every day.

That's how most Buddhists die. Their practice killed by that. By Netflix.

That's why we are sneaking into Netflix. I'm not supposed to fundraise for that, right Seiji? I'm not supposed to tell them, we have to pay some of the Netflix money to get into Netflix.

Do you understand what I'm saying? But this is ACI, so I cannot fundraise for Seiji's project. But he's right here in the white shirt.

It's an expensive project. All the world view organizations. It's supposed to help everybody.

It's supposed to help all of our organizations. Sometime I'll fundraise for it. If you would rather just talk to him privately, that's okay.

All right. NYON MONGS NGOS ZIN GAL BA DANG NYANG PO BSTAN GAL BA DANG RGYUN CHOS GAL BA GSUM LA NYIN RTEN DU SHES SHES PAR BYED NAS BSLAB GAL BA GSUM. Say GAL BA GSUM.

GAL BA means hard to do. Difficult to do. Difficult to do.

GAL BA This means there are three difficult things to do. GAL BA GSUM By the way, all of this section is like little advices, like the three toughs. The three tough things.

Then there's going to be the two exciting things. There's going to be the four like that. Then they just go very fast.

I think he's getting impatient to reach the six perfections. He starts to speed up. If you're very sensitive with scripture, you can feel it.

It's called TAB RGYUD. Say TAB RGYUD. Yeah, Nick knows.

It's called a horse race. When the Lama is running out of time because he talked too much about fundraising, then they start to teach faster and faster. They call it TAB RGYUD.

I feel he's doing TAB RGYUD here. NYON MONGS NGOS ZIN GAL BA This, we had it yesterday. NGOS ZIN We had the present tense yesterday and it was identify or recognize something.

Here it says NYON MONGS NGOS ZIN. What's it mean? It's hard to catch when you're having a klesha.

Klesha means negative emotion. I couldn't find a good English word. It's anger, desire, hatred, irritation, unhappy, blah, blah.

I call it klesha. Mental unhappy thought. Bad attitude.

He says they are difficult to recognize when you're having them. Why? Because you're having one.

When you have one, it messes up your mind. It messes up your mind so you can't recognize that you're having one. It's cute, right?

Negative emotion has a special self-preservation technique. When you get angry, you truly believe you are not angry. When you have bad desire, you truly believe you are not having bad desire.

You're sitting there at a cake shop in the Okoro Hotel, downstairs, first floor, in the middle, on the right side. You're looking at apple tart. You're like, I don't have klesha.

Because the apple tart took control of your mind already. When you have klesha, you don't know you have klesha. NYON MONGS NGOS ZIN GANG It's difficult to know when you have a negative thought in your mind because the negative thought in your mind changes your mind.

You can't see yourself. Second one, NYON MONGS BSTAN DGA' BA What's NYON MONGS? Yeah, the antidote.

Like the antidote for apple pie is to eat it quickly. Then it's not there anymore. Right, Rob?

Me and Rob worked on one. It's difficult to think of the antidote when you're in the middle of a... When you feel angry at somebody, it's impossible to think about patience.

It's not possible. Third one, RGYUN GCOD DKA' BA This RGYUN, by the way, the Sanskrit is $100. RGYUN RGYUN What's the Sanskrit?

RGYUN or RGYUD? Aiyah! Tantra.

The Sanskrit is tantra. $100 for Nick. To get your surfboard.

So tantra means flow. Tantra means the flow. It can mean secret teachings, but usually the word means flow.

Tantra. Here, RGYUN GCOD DKA' BA means... You know GCOD from Dorje Chupa?

JIN GANG JIN To cut. To cut the tantra means to cut the flow. When you're in a anger attack, or jealousy attack, or upset attack, or apple pie attack, right Ram?

Then it's very difficult to interrupt it. Usually you only realize you had it the next day. Like 24 hours after it finishes, you say, Oh, I got angry yesterday.

Or I ate six apple pies yesterday. Usually you only understand the next day. So gyun chu kawa means, these are the three kawas.

It's difficult to know when you're having a klesha attack. It's difficult to apply the antidote. And it's very difficult to cut the flow before it runs its natural course, before it ends by itself, which sometimes can take ten years if it's a divorce.

It takes a long time to cut those naturally. They just run out of power. NEN RTEN DU SHES NEN RTEN means work hard.

Work hard. NUS SHES PAR BYED NI LAM Understand the nature of your mind when you're having negative thoughts. Study your mind like a scientist.

Study your own mind. There's a lot to learn about your own attitudes, about your own moods. Get to know your moods.

Get to know how to stop your mind. Don't let your mind push you around. The mind can be like...

I have a friend next door. He has this big dog. The dog's name is Winston.

He's really mean and big. When he gets off the rope, you're like, I just run into my house. He has a crush on my wife.

I'm kind of jealous of Winston because she just gives him treats every day and he has a crush on her. He comes by the house and he's like... Your mind is like a big powerful dog.

Your mind is like that. You have to put a rope on your mind and you have to control it. Don't let it go by itself.

You got to control your mind. You have to learn to get to know your mind. It's very difficult.

It's very, very difficult. Everybody goes to the gym to build up their muscles. Look nice.

Then they let their mind do whatever the hell it wants. You know what I mean? It's ugly.

The mind is ugly. Their body is very beautiful and their mind is ugly. I think my policy is eat apple pie.

Let the body do anything. Try to keep the mind beautiful. Alright, got it?

No, you should have beautiful body and beautiful mind. Okay, both. Both you should do.

LAM MA BSAM PO DANG PHYAL There's a picture now. Yeah, this is the right picture. Yeah, you guys got it.

I used to be in the Boy Scouts. I'm an Eagle Scout, by the way, which is the highest. It takes many years.

When you reach Eagle Scout, there's a secret award after that. I'm not supposed to talk about it. But don't tell anybody.

It's called Order of the Arrow. It's a secret test. They give a test.

When you finish Boy Scouts, maybe you are about 13 years old or something. Then if you... I don't know.

If your teacher thinks you're qualified, they have a special test. They take you way out in the mountains. They give you two matches.

They give you a knife. They say three days later, they say see you in three days or four days. It's hard.

It's really hard. You burn the first two matches immediately because it's cold. It's really cool.

It's a cool test for young people. It's pretty serious. To get to the mountains, you have to ride a horse.

You have to put the supplies on a horse. Or a donkey? Burro?

Burro is better. Horse looks nice. Burro carries more.

But Burro is a real asshole. That's why they call them ass maybe. They are very grumpy.

But you put everything on them. They carry... They can carry five people's load.

It's nice to have one. If you are going far, it's nice to have a Burro. The next one is called Loading Your Supplies.

The next part of the lojong is called Loading Your Supplies, which is called dzom. In Tibetan, it's called dzom. Lama Sambodanjel, number one.

Try to meet a good teacher. Be picky about your teacher. Be super picky.

They say don't be like a hungry dog that finds a dog biscuit. They say be a little picky. So be picky in advance.

It's very bad luck to meet a teacher, study with a teacher, and then decide you don't like them. It's better to check them first. A good way is to ask other people.

Ask other people. Did you study with this person? Are they honest?

Are they a good person? Check with the students. I like to check the students.

If the students are all angry, stupid people, probably the teacher didn't do a good job. Check a teacher carefully. It's okay to go to many teachers, try many teachers, but don't commit until you check them.

What's the story Geshe Michael always tells for $100? Jeans, $100. $100.

My wife is super, super beautiful. That's why I chased her for 50 years. 53.

I took her to the jeans store, the cowboy store in Cottonwood. She wants to buy a pair of jeans. I always tell people that store, I hate that store.

Many stores like Sephora, they don't have a place where the boyfriend can sit down. You have to stand up. It's like church or something.

I have to stand up and wait for her. She tried on 41 pairs of jeans. I counted.

Guess how many she bought. She said, let's go to another store. I almost got angry.

Like that. But that's how you should pick your teacher. You should be picky.

Don't try 42 teachers. No, try. It's a lifetime commitment.

It's a big commitment. Don't take a teacher easily. You can go to the store, that's fine.

How can you try? Never ever buy jeans online. It's so stupid.

Go to the store, try them on. I don't care what size they put in the internet. It's always wrong.

You try it on, two people can put it in the jean. Or half the people can put it in the jean. Go and try the teacher.

Try for a while. Say, I'm not committing. I just want to check you out.

In ancient times, there's a tradition to check for 12 years. Check the teacher for 12 years. There's a very famous joke.

One student went to the teacher and said, I'm watching you for 12 years and you pass. You're a good teacher. I'm going to be your student.

He said, let me check you for 12 years. The teacher said, let me check you for 12 years. So it's 24 years.

Don't be afraid to check. Anytime you buy something and the salesperson rush you, you're going to make a mistake. Like if you buy a new car.

If the salesperson is very pushy, don't buy. It means there's something wrong with the car. If the salesperson is like, I don't care if you buy it.

I got 200 other people who want to buy it. Then you should buy it. Don't rush it.

Don't let the Lama rush you. Just say, I'm checking you out. Check them out.

Don't be shy. It's a tradition. They should accept that.

If the Lama doesn't let you check them, then I would try a different one. I would try somebody else. A good Lama should say, check me, go ahead.

Talk to my students, everything. Check the internet. Look everywhere.

Take me if you find out I'm a good Lama. Take me. If not, find someone who fits you.

Every person has a different pigu. Right? Bottom.

Bottom. How do you say bottom? Puchka?

How do you know? Okay. Anyway, everybody's butt is a different size.

Maybe one teacher doesn't fit you. Maybe it fits your friend. Maybe it doesn't fit you.

Don't be shy. Just say, I like you. You look nice.

You're funny. But I think I need a different teacher. That's okay.

That's fine. My teacher said, well, there's not much market in America. If you find one, you better take it.

Anyway, that's a joke. Lama Tsongpa Dangyal means you met a good teacher. Next word.

LO LAS SU RUNG BA This is LER RUNG. This is the source of the word LER RUNG. LAS SU RUNG BA The full word is LAS SU RUNG BA.

RUNG BA means fit or ready. LAS means to do the work. LAS SU RUNG BA means ready to do the work.

Ready to do the work. It's like if you go to the gym and you want to lift, I don't know, 20 kilos, your muscle has to be fit for that weight. If it's not, you will hurt yourself.

LAS SU RUNG BA means fit. Ready for spiritual work. Ready for spiritual work.

LAS SU RUNG BA That's such a famous word that Diamond Way Retreat is called LAS SU RUNG BA. The short name is LER RUNG. LER RUNG This is a very famous word.

Diamond Way Retreat is called LER RUNG. Classical LER RUNG for Vajrayogini takes about three weeks. Three weeks of hard work.

Maybe four weeks. We call it LER RUNG. When you get an empowerment into Vajrayogini, you commit to do four LER RUNGS in your life.

Four three-week LER RUNGS. This one means LOW LAS SU RUNG BA. Your mind should be ready for the work.

You should have a good teacher, but your state of mind should be healthy. Well-rested. Peaceful.

No big arguments or fights with people. Your mind should be ready. LAS SU RUNG BA LER RUNG means ready.

Your mind should be ready. Receptive. THUN GYEN ZHES DGOS TZANG BAR Then to do serious practice like retreat, you're going to need some money.

He says stock, food, place to stay. You need Diamond Mountain. You need a good retreat cabin.

You cannot do deep retreat anywhere. It should be a retreat cabin. It's better.

It should be in a beautiful place, quiet place, and there should be a beautiful cabin. If people did retreat there before, it's very good. It's like good vibrations.

So the cabin should be... If the cabin is built for spiritual retreat, then the feeling is going to be much better. Try to find a place like that.

And that means sponsors. You're going to have to find someone to pay. And Diamond Mountain, basically, if you're serious, we'll find a way to let you do a retreat.

If you're serious, we'll try to help you to do a retreat. But don't just go from your bedroom to your bathroom and do a retreat. It's better to get out to a special retreat house to do these two, three week retreats.

Start with two weeks. Start with three weeks. Then do one month.

Then do two months. Then do three months. Then do six months.

Then do one year. Then do three years. Like that.

Then nothing now. All right. Those people at Diamond Mountain, before I let them do three year retreat, I gave them seven years of training.

Seven years of training to do a three year retreat. So don't get all excited about three year retreat. One day of retreat with no preparation is miserable.

Three years of retreat with no preparation is miserable, miserable, miserable, miserable. You need training. You need preparation.

All right. SKYE'EN SREG DGOS TSORG BSANG BA STE CHOS BYAS PA'I RGYUR YI TSOR SBYONG THUB PA'I MUN LAM BDEB MUN LAM BDEB means you should start making prayers that you get these three supplies on the donkey. Who's the donkey?

You are. What are the three supplies? Good teacher, and your mind is ready, trained, and you have some support from good sponsors, good people.

Sponsors are very important in Buddhism. I know it's not nice to talk about money. It's not fun to talk about money.

If you want to do serious retreat, it's expensive. It costs money. The food costs money.

Things like that. The cabin costs money. It's good to get it ready.

You want to hear a funny money in retreat joke? This is why grandpa is so entertaining for you. I was fortunate when I started to learn yoga.

What time am I supposed to finish, Tim? Where is Tim? 20 minutes.

When I started to learn yoga, I was very lucky to get two of the best teachers in the world. They are teaching Pavarotti. They are teaching Sting.

This is David Life and Sharon Gammon. Great yoga teachers. They trained me to do yoga because I was going to go into three-year retreat.

I thought I should learn to do some exercise in one room because mainly I didn't leave that room for three years. It's a very small room. I thought yoga is perfect because I can do yoga inside the room.

I studied with them. I learned how to do it. They are good teachers.

They are very strict, hard teachers. I learned from them. Then I went into retreat and I asked them, will you agree to come and see me every six months or something?

I cannot talk to them but they can talk to me. There is a rule in retreat. Your teacher can come and see you.

Teacher can come and give you advice. They said, okay, we will come. After six months retreat, they came.

We had a special yurt, Mongolian house, small one, for meeting teachers. They don't come to my yurt. I go to this meeting yurt.

We built a special yurt for meetings with teachers and we put a toilet next to it in the desert. You dig down like 10 meters. You dig down 10 meters and then you just have a small wooden house with one seat and a hole in the seat.

You try not to fall down. We have one like that. We have a rattlesnake who lives at the bottom.

They are very poisonous and very dangerous. He fell down. He never came out.

He lived down there. When you sit down, you can hear the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. But he cannot reach you.

It's too far. Anyway, David and Sharon came to see us and we sit in the special place. They killed us.

You know this thing? They say, bend over. She took my hands and she put it on the ground.

On the other side. I'm like, ah. She's like, good.

She's very tough. Crazy tough. We did the yoga and then they said, by the way, something bad happened.

We're like, oh. They say, they ran out of money for your retreat. There's no more money for your retreat.

We're like, in retreat your mind is very delicate. You're like. This is after one year, six months.

We're like. They said, don't worry. Ellie has a solution.

She has a. We're like. They say, I think we had six retreatants or something.

She said, we will rotate. You come out for one month. Come out of retreat and work at McDonald's and make some money and support.

Then each retreatant will rotate out for one month, two months, work at McDonald's. We're like. Then they said, ha ha, April Fool.

April, the first of April, it's a joke day in America. You make a big joke to somebody and they're like, ha ha ha, April Fool's. We're like.

Then after two hours, David said, I have to go pee pee. We're like. We take him to the special toilet.

He closed the door and we are listening. Then there's. He ran out, his pants are down.

It was so beautiful. We're like. Better to make sure you have the money before you do retreat.

Otherwise you're going to have some problems. That was so much fun. I think Q&A, Tim, am I right?

Do we have any time? No, but what's the plan? Say again?

Is the Q&A supposed to start at 4 or 4.15? No, but when was it supposed to start? He's so polite, it's hard to get him to tell the truth.

But the plan was 4.15. Right now it's not just 4.15. The session ends at 4.15. Okay, good. So Q&A for 15 minutes. I tried to time the joke at the right time.

Three kinds of questions. Number one, about the topic, which is usually unusual. Second, if you have a personal question.

I'm very happy to answer questions. Don't be shy. Listen.

I heard every embarrassing question a hundred times. Many people have done more terrible things than you. Don't be so proud you're number one.

Any questions are okay. Thirdly, if you have a philosophy question, emptiness question, you're welcome. Okay, I'll let you guys pick first.

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Thank you, Geshe-la, for your teaching. I have a question about, I heard about a saying in a sutra, saying that the outside world is aligned with our inner world. So like the star, like the color, like the animal, it's all aligned with our inner body organ or body parts.

Where can we learn more about this? I heard that the Kalachakra was discussing about that. I checked, but I was not able to find it.

So could you please elaborate more on this? If we could make use of this, then it's much easier for us to work inside.

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Cool.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you very much.

[Говорящий 1]
Sure. Two comments. Number one, I think I told the story to some of you.

I told all these stories. Please be patient with me. I teach every day of the year, almost.

I don't remember which story I told you and which story I didn't tell you. So anyway, I was translating. We have a book series called Classics of Middle Asia.

The Mixed Nuts books are these big major books. Nick's book is 700 pages. In fact, it's two books because it's too fat.

Then we have pocket books, which are supposed to fit in your purse, or you can put in your pocket, and you can carry them around. Like I used to take them to work, and when I do my lunch hour, I will read this. It's kind of easier Dharma books.

We are reprinting them. Rosa is reprinting them. They're on e-book now.

Just came out something. There's two already ready. Gibson is working on two more.

So we have these pocket books. I ran into some difficult translation in one of them. It's actually a Diamond Way book.

I couldn't understand the words. There were some strange words. I went to my teacher.

I had a dictionary called my teacher. I never had a paper dictionary. I didn't need it.

I had my teacher. I remember where he taught me each word. Almost I can remember where I was.

Like we were in a coffee shop or something. So I asked him, I don't understand these words. He said, oh, don't worry, those are astrology.

Those are astrology words. Then I said, wow, Pabongka Rinpoche, Diamond Way text, very deep. Astrology in the middle?

Because in my country, astrology has a bad name. Astrology is like hippie people who take your money, and they tell you anything. Oh, Pluto is in the eastern part of the sky.

That means instead of $25, you have to pay me $50. Then you're like, what? We don't like it.

Mainly we feel uncomfortable with it. I was surprised. I said, wow, astrology.

He said, don't think it's stupid, it's very deep. Buddhist astrology is very, very deep. I said, how?

He said, these words are Buddhist astrology. There was an astrology master in our monastery, and he explained all those words to me. I asked my teacher, when do you study astrology?

It's not part of the Geshe course. He said, only the person who finished the Geshe is allowed to study astrology. It's like yoga.

Those two things, you have to finish Geshe. I'm like, wow. What is astrology?

He said, it's from the Kalachakra Tantra. It's Tantra. It's secret teaching.

He said, we have this onion skin theory. Like your body has a kernel, and then it has layers, many layers. You have your physical body, then you have your prana body, and you have your karma body, and you have your emptiness body, chi body.

These are all like layers of onion. According to the inner mental body and the chi body, the skin and the bones will also change. This is your outside envelope, and then inside the envelope is your mind, and inside the mind is emptiness.

Between there is a seed. If the seeds are good, the chi is good. If the chi is good, the chakras are good.

If the chakras are good, the body is good. If the body is good, the sky is good. Interesting.

The next envelope. It's a very beautiful idea. It is true that if you learn to read the stars and the planets correctly, you can tell a lot about your inner body.

That can tell you a lot about your mind. There is a system to pay attention to that. That's one answer.

That takes a lot of training, and you have to find a lama who knows kala chakra. It takes a long time to learn. Those books are some of the longest books in Buddhism.

Like Khedrup Je wrote two, I think. They are difficult. You can find a kala chakra master and study well with them.

It takes a long time. But there is a similar training coming up on the next page of the Lojong. Just wait one day.

We'll talk about it tomorrow. It's coming tomorrow. Okay?

Alright. How are we doing on time, Timothy? Are you okay?

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I often experience a problem between life and death. The problem is, I may see their decision at the next moment, that this person is going to die. Last year, I tried to change a person's life with seeds.

But under the decision of my family, I can't do anything. I want to know, I learned this system, so I can do something for this person at the moment of death or coma. What can I do?

Thank you. Your friend is in a coma, but you can't stop her family from removing her seeds. So basically, one of her friends is in a coma.

Sorry, sorry. My friend is in a coma, and their family might be making some decisions of letting him go. I've been trying to plant seeds to stop his death, but it seems that nothing is working yet.

I want to ask, how can I plant some powerful seeds to really help my friend, I'm sorry, from this tragic...

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, good question. We had a similar question yesterday or the day before about euthanasia.

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The answer is the same. If you're a Buddhist, if you really understand the teaching. There's a famous story of Buddha.

Someone asked Buddha, how many people are going to hell after this life? And how many people are not going to hell after this life? And Buddha said, he touched the tip of his tongue, and he touched the tip.

Normally, he teaches in a garden. He touched the dirt. And then he showed a few grains of dirt on his finger, and he said, so many of them are not going to hell.

And then he said, well, how many are going to hell? And he said, the rest of the planet. Billions and billions and billions of tons.

Only this many are not going to hell. The rest are going to hell. And it's not to be interpreted.

It's literal. That's the percentage. It's the people.

It's very common to go to hell.

[Говорящий 1]
If you could see the hells, or if you could experience them, if you can read about them and you don't really believe them, nobody believes it. There's a joke in the Christian religion that the devil's greatest achievement in this century is people don't believe in hell. But if you could really see the hell, and if you know about this one, you will keep everybody alive as long as possible.

No matter what, you will keep them alive. Whatever suffering they have in the hospital, whatever suffering they have in a coma, it's nothing compared to where they are going. If you could see where they will be one hour later, nobody would ever kill someone because the next place is much, much worse.

It's in Buddhism. If you really understand Buddhism, it's better to try to keep them alive, even if they are suffering. Even if the suffering is very serious.

So give them... My father had, it's called Brompton's Solution. It's ya-pin.

It's cocaine and morphine. Give them cocaine, morphine. Keep them from having terrible pain, but don't kill them.

Don't let them die. I know that's a difficult answer, and I know it's not a popular answer. I'm not afraid to give unpopular answers.

Maybe you noticed. But that's the official Buddhist position. But, DANG SHES If you don't really accept hells and you don't understand them, and you just see the suffering of the person, and you understand, everybody understands there's no hope for them, and you feel you want to stop their pain, in my opinion, if you do it with that motivation, it's good for you and it's good for them, in my opinion.

If your motivation is pure, and you really want to help them, and you, we say pull the plug if you take out the food or something. I believe personally, motivation is number one. Motivation is always 99%.

If your motivation is good, I believe you make a good seed. I believe if your motivation is pure, it's possible you can help that person. Then you should study carefully all the best prayers and the best practices to help them as they die.

They look like they are unconscious, but they can hear something, and they can feel something. It's possible to help them. If your family decides to pull the plug, and you cannot stop them, I think to make everything peaceful, it's important that people die peaceful, and the family shouldn't be fighting in the room or disagree.

If most of the family doesn't understand Buddhism, and they want to end the person's life, I believe a real Buddhist can make it a good thing. I believe a real Buddhist can do powerful prayers and powerful prana practices. I believe if you are well trained, you can help them a lot.

It kind of depends on the motivation. I wouldn't fight with your family. I would try to respect the family's wishes.

You are not going to change their mind in one year or something like that. I think it's better that there should be peace in the family. If the person is dying, they can feel the emotions in the room.

I think it's important that the family is united and supportive of each other, and they are not fighting about should we pull the plug or not. I think that's more important. Cool?