«Дар освобождения», курс 43 «Современный бодхисаттва», занятие 3

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Okay, who's on the Tibetan, is that Chloe? THOS SANGS SGOM THOS SANGS SGOM, number two. Yeah, okay, you guys ready?

Okay, calm down. They're so excited to sleep through my class. Okay, THOS SANGS SGOM GSUM THOS SANGS SGOM is the traditional way to do Dharma.

THOS means classroom time. SRAB PA GZHUS TE, listening in Sanskrit. It means classroom hours.

A lot of people think you don't need classroom hours to do Dharma, and it's very mistaken. You need as many hours as you can do. You have to sit there, even if you're half asleep.

It's even better, because it's like hypnosis. Okay, so classroom hours, Buddha said you need classroom hours. The more hours you can sit in here, the better your life is going to be.

And I'm, how do you say, I spent my whole life sitting in my Lama's classes, and I'm very happy, super happy, and I believe it's very fun, and I believe it's going to change your whole life. So don't be lazy about it, just do it. You don't have to be super genius, and you don't have to listen very carefully, but just be there.

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Okay, LTOS.

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SOM means think about it. When you go home, when I think of SOM, I think of time in my car. So it's just time, usually I'm alone, I'm driving, and I'm just thinking about things, and that's SOM, that's typical SOM.

That's about the only time I can be alone and think about things. And then DGONG means formal meditation. So LTOS means hear about the Dharma.

SOM means think about it when you're alone, or you're, I don't know, I have a special room in my house. Right, I do the SOM. My wife says, you know, other people also have to poop, you know?

And I'm like, all right. She said, you've been in there for 45 minutes. I'm like, okay, that's a good place to contemplate.

And then DGONG is meditation. Okay, TSUL BSAM DGONGS SUM. BCUG GI ROL NYANG ROL NYANG is the important word here.

Say ROL. ROL NYANG So ROL means taste, the taste of something. NYANG means to experience the taste of something.

So he says you have to learn to experience the taste of the Dharma. And what's it mean? DE LA MI RTOGS PAR, JI RTEN GYI GTAM DANG, SONG DANG MAG SOG We tend to have kolok.

What's that? Backwards. We tend to enjoy the taste of things that are not going to help us.

And I think the internet is the ultimate example. I think your phone is the ultimate example. It's tasty.

It's attractive. I also enjoy reading three different versions of today's news. And I don't know why.

I also enjoy it. And if I don't get it, I feel like I'm missing something. So he says, get your taste, what do you call it?

Taste enjoyment. Do it with the right things. Do your taste enjoyment, which is a good time, Lindsay, to talk about...

So during the pandemic, I got more and more into my phone. It actually happened with the last presidential election in the United States, and I was very worried about it. And I remember even sitting in Gelse's outhouse and following the electoral vote.

And I started to read the news on my phone. I never did it before that. I had friends who did it and I thought they were stupid.

Then I started to do it, and then it was okay. So I don't know, I kept reading. Then I started reading more and more.

Then I started watching movies. Then I started watching Korean soap operas, which are really good. Then I started watching war movies.

Then I started watching all kinds of bad movies. Then I got real addiction and I was doing it late at night. I'll wake up at two o'clock and I can't sleep and I'll go eat some food in the refrigerator and watch part of a movie.

It got worse and worse. I have a friend, Prescott, Will Duncan, who was a student here and he said, he has a small retreat center. I think he does two or three people come there for the weekend.

He takes away your phone at nine o'clock or something and he locks it. We were talking about it. He was telling me about it and I kept thinking I would like to try it.

So I started this thing called Good Night Book Club. You promise to give up your electronics at, I say ten o'clock. When I'm here I do nine because I get up earlier.

But I do ten o'clock, I put away my computer, I put away my phone. I put them in a drawer and then at two o'clock I get up and open the drawer. Then I realized I cannot have it in the house.

Actually Rob comes to my house. He lives near me. He picks up my computer and my phone at ten o'clock.

He brings it back at six o'clock. When I'm at Diamond Mountain he comes and gets it here. If I'm traveling or something I have to add the TV controller from the hotel room.

Then he found out there's two in my room. But now it's a good, I put everything away. We have a special bag.

Lindsay's in charge of this project. Will you stand up? Yes.

And she has, we have representatives around the world in this one of the representatives. Olga? Olga?

Where's Olga? Yeah, Olga's another one. Mr. Bin is another one. So if you're in Europe or the US you talk to, if you're in Latin America you talk to Olga. If you're in Vietnam you talk to Mr. Bin. If you're in, I don't know, that it?

Oh, China, you talk to Tina Lu. Pacific Rim, you talk to Sugeng Hsieh or his wife Xintian. You can sign up for this.

Rosa, so I have a charity where I sell jewelry and I sell expensive things and we give the money, we give the profit. After paying our staff and taxes we give the profit to the country where we sold the stuff. So like if we sell jewelry in China we donate the money to a project to help save the books at Dunhuang.

In Vietnam we, Mr. Bin has built over 800 homes for poor people. So we give the money locally. We made a fancy valise case.

It has a lock on it. It has a time lock on it and you can set the lock for 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. I always wanted to get up early. Everybody thought I got up early, but I didn't.

I just struggled to get up at 7 or 8 o'clock. I didn't get up early since my three-year retreat. I don't think I got up early.

So now I go to bed at 10, I get up at 6, and that's how I finish Seiji's book. It's 800 pages. I had time.

I had time to focus and do my practice. I really, really, really encourage you to join this book club. There's a joke, Mr. Bin. It's called Good Night Book Club. Then when Lindsay's in a rush she says, Good Night Club. Then everybody says, Night Club?

Geshe-la started a night club? I said, No, it's a Good Night Book Club. Everybody's like, I'll join.

Maybe we should start a night club, Mr. Bin. Anyway, and I never slept so well in my whole life. I never slept for 8 hours in my whole life.

I sleep 8 hours and I feel wonderful and I meditate really well. Oh, yeah. That's what Rob does every night.

So I really encourage you to do it. And that's RON YANG. RON YANG means enjoy the taste of the Dharma.

DONG MGO LOG MGO LOG means you get addicted to the taste of news or sports or stupid things, movies. A good movie once in a while is a Dharma practice. But a good movie twice or three times a day is not a Dharma practice.

So be sensible. It's good to relax and I enjoy good movies. If I'm really tired I watch one, but I'm not addicted to it.

So he says you should be addicted to Dharma and that's RON YANG. But don't be addicted to news. Here it's called JIG RTEN GYI STAM.

SONG means talking about business or it's good to do business. It's so, so good to make your own money and not grub off of other. GRUB means you just borrow money from other people or you're always taking money from other people.

It's good to be independent financially and have your own money. But don't go crazy and do business 12, 14, 18 hours a day because you will die. So do a good business.

Work hard. Enjoy. Have fun.

But don't let it take over your whole life. And then MARG SOGS. MARG SOGS means talking about current events.

MARG means war. And sometimes we just get into reading about the war. We don't intend to help about it.

We don't want to help. We're just addicted to reading about it. So he says try to get addicted to your good night book club practice and don't get addicted to these other things.

Addiction is good if it's the right thing. All right, that's number two. Don't do backwards addiction.

There's an English expression, ask backwards. Completely opposite. Number three, SDIG BRCAN LA SNYING RJE MI GONG BAR SPYOD PHYIR RGA BA SPYOD PA LA SNYING RJE Or SPYOD PA SNYING RJE DGOS PO Then he says backwards compassion.

And he says we should have compassion for SDIG BRCAN. SDIG BRCAN means people who are doing bad things. We should have compassion for them.

The people who are organizing these wars, who are promoting these wars, who think that killing people and taking their property is going to give them more property. It's crazy. It's insane.

So we should have compassion for those people. And we should, real compassion. Not where you just hate them, but you don't say you hate them or something like that.

But you're like, wow, these people are really messed up. These people are really sad. Be compassionate for them.

The ones who are organizing this violence and stuff like that. SPYOD PHYIR RGA BA SPYOD PA Then he says, we tend to, somebody says, oh, you know, John Brady, they took their group to Turkey and Maria and Peter, and they're stuck in that hotel meditating all day. Poor guys.

They should go to Paris. They did go to Paris, and they didn't take me either. Anyway, so he says, don't have compassion for the wrong people.

You should not have compassion for John Brady and Peter and Maria who are stuck in retreat in Turkey. Are you doing it again this year? When?

October. Don't forget to take your friends if you go to Paris. Okay.

It's a wonderful retreat. But we tend to have compassion for all these poor guys at Diamond Mountain, poor cats stuck in a retreat cabin all year. You should have compassion for the other people who are not in a retreat cabin.

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Number four, SPYOD RNAMS DANG GRUB PA LA YID MI BDUN PAR JI RTEN GYI BDE GYIS STOB SBYOR LA YID MIN PA BDUN PA BSGOL LOG BDUN PA means aspiration. What do you want? What do you dream about?

BSGOL LOG means what? Yeah, ask backwards. Don't have wrong dreams.

What's the dreams? He says, you should dream about being an excellent Dharma practitioner. Do you have a regular meditation?

Yes. Did you join the good night book club? Yes.

Do you actually sleep all night? Yes. Do you look at the news?

No. Do you meditate in the morning? Yes.

Do you read your Dharma book? The best way to go to sleep is to read a Dharma book. Madhyamika.

Excellent. You won't last six minutes. We tell people, lock up your electronics, get one of those books, and try to read two pages.

And you're like, oh. Completely asleep. So, dream about all the cool practices.

By the way, nobody's perfect. You're going to... Your practice collapses every six months.

If your practice doesn't collapse every six months, it means you're not practicing. The only way to not have your practice collapse every six months is don't practice at all. So, if you have your practice collapse every six months, you should be proud of it.

Why? Because you have a practice to collapse. So, once you've been doing this for a couple years, you notice a pattern.

You don't go like this, okay? Figure it. Learn.

You go like this. So it's like this. It's not...Dharma doesn't go like that. I'm sorry, for nobody. Not for Buddha. It goes like this.

And you just try to get a little higher collapse. We should write a book, Maria, The Higher Collapse. Go like that, okay?

,'JIGS RTEN GYI BDE GYI, ,STOMS SBYOR NA YIN PAS, Don't dream about money and position. The best way to ruin your Dharma practice is to dream about being a famous Dharma practitioner. Then you really ruin your Dharma practice.

So like that. Okay, number five. ,RANG LA RE DUS BYA BA BDAG, ,PHYI MA PHAN PA'I PHYIR LA MIN SBYOR BAR, ,SONG DANG GANG PHYIR SONG, ,PHYI MA NUS TZAB BYAS MO ZHIG, ,BLO PA SOGS NYER SEMS KHO LOG, NYER SEMS KHO LOG means...

How do you say? SDUG BSNGAL NYE ROL means what are your goals? What are your ultimate goals?

KHO LOG means backwards. Say RE DUS BYA BA. RE DUS BYA BA.

First line here, RE DUS BYA BA. That's the definition of taking refuge. That's the definition of taking refuge.

If you know philosophy, if you did the Geshe course, RE DUS BYA BA is the ancient, ancient word. RE DUS BYA BA means put all your hopes in somebody. Who's going to help me?

Then you put all your hopes in some person. RE DUS BYA BA. By the way, some of the words in Tibetan are not, some of the letters are not pronounced.

Like this L here is not pronounced. The S is not pronounced. So get used to it.

RE DUS BYA BA means you put all your hopes in... Who do you put all your hopes in? Who do you put your hopes in?

It should be somebody who can manage a whole universe. There's people who can manage not a whole planet, a whole universe. People who can walk from planet to planet in a few hours.

Those are the kind of people you should put your hopes in. Don't put your hopes in little powerful people. Think about the big ones.

The people who walk through the universe from planet to planet and who can help billions of people at the same time. Put your hope in really amazing people. And there are people like that.

There are people like that. There are people close to us who have walked the planets. Put your hope in those people.

Don't say, oh, this guy, oh look, his Tesla company is 12% up today. Yeah, and it's 18% down next week. You know, don't...

That poor guy. I mean, it's better not to make $18 billion and lose it the next week. Or 800, I don't know.

RE THU BYA BA BDAG, PHYI MA PHAN PA'I PHYIR LA MI SBYOR BAR If people put their hopes in you, then do something for them which is big. Don't like give them some few dollars and stuff like that. Oh look, Geshe-la is so kind.

What? He gave me a used car. That's not fulfilling people's hopes.

Give them some hope for future lives, next lives. I'm looking at Alex Rivas. Me and Alex have a project.

He said, let's do a project. And I'm like, yeah, okay, what is it? We decided there's too much war in the world and one of the things we could do about it is to help children understand how bad is war.

So Alex agreed to go to elementary schools in Mexico, where he lives, and he went to teachers and students and we asked them to write a suggestion how to stop war. And we asked the people who still have a clear mind, which is under 10 years old, can we say? So we got all these answers from the mouth of babes, we call from the mouth of children.

We got all these suggestions from children in Mexico of how to stop war. The problem is Alex sent them to me. I can't read them because they're in Spanish.

So I brought them to Diamond Mountain. Look at, they're so cute. So Alex can read them to us sometime.

Thank you so much. And they say kids have, let's find a time, but they say kids have a more clear mind. They'll say stop doing this and you're like, duh, that's what we should do.

So if you're interested, you can sit with Alex or other guys from Guadalajara and read them together. And thank you for doing that Alex. I think we bribed them.

Didn't we bribe them? Did we bribe them? We bribed them.

We gave them a little more. Okay. All right.

Okay. Number six. What are these six?

KHO LO Yeah, backwards stuff. RANG BZHIN GYI DGE BA DANG BZHIN GYI BDE BA LA YID RANG MI BYAS PAR MI DGE BA DANG DGRA BAR DGRA BAR SDUG BSNGAL CHUNG BA LA YID RANG BA LTA BUR YID RANG KHO LO What's YID RANG? YID RANG means to celebrate another person's good deeds or something like that.

It's one of the GYOR CHOS, right? Number four? Yeah.

Celebrate other people's good stuff. And he says, celebrate the good things that other people do. Like this thing we just did a YID RANG.

It means celebrate what people do which is nice. And don't celebrate people mess up. And he says our tendency is to mess up, is to celebrate when other people mess up.

We hear, oh, did you hear this person got a divorce? Or did you hear this person had a big fight? Like that.

We tend to celebrate, we tend to get interested in people's failures rather than people's successes. There are politicians who fail daily and the news is full of their news. And then the ones who do good stuff, there's no news about them.

So that's called backwards interest in people's failure. All right. Here's a cute story in support of the six koloks.

SNGAR DGE SLONG ZHIG GIS RANG GI BRTAN DAG ZHIG LA PHAM PA CHUNG BAR GANG NAS YID RANG PHYIR PAR RGYAS SHI PO STO BA'I SEMS PAS PHAM PA CHUNG BAR DE BA'I KYANG YID RANG PHYIR PAR DE SDIG BYAS PAR CHUNG BAR GSUM PA BZHIN NO There was a great Geshe named Potowa in the time of the Kadampas about 900 years ago. This Geshe heard that someone was celebrating and he asked him, what is he celebrating? He said, I heard that this other monk who I don't like did a PHAM PA.

PHAM PA is one of the four most serious breaking your vows, like murdering somebody. And then you lose your vows immediately. So he heard his enemy committed a PHAM PA.

His enemy committed a bad deed that would make him lose his monk's vows in a second. And he was so happy because the guy was his enemy. Then this Geshe, Kadampa Geshe, he heard about it and he said, you just committed a PHAM PA worse than the other guy's PHAM PA.

Got it? Being happy that someone else failed in their vows is worse than the guy who failed. Got it?

Celebrating that someone else failed is worse than failing itself. And I think we tend to do that with people we don't like. When we hear that they had some trouble or they failed or, you know, some guy you don't like in business, then they go bankrupt, and then you're like, you're trying not to smile, right?

Or somebody at work that you're jealous of and then they fail. They get yelled at by the boss and you're like, oh, I'm so sad. It's too bad.

So there's this kind of backwards rejoicing that other people failed. And he says the karma of that kind of enjoyment is worse than the failure. Your karma is worse than the other guy's karma.

LAM BAR CHOS THOS PA SOGS KYI TSE NGAN CUNG BU GZUGS SKYE NAS SNYING KHA SHES DRIM PHRAG PAS DGE SBYOR MI BYED MI BYED DGU BYED LA BAS KYANG SKABS SHIG NAS THANGS CHE DE DGE SBYOR LA MI SBYUG PAS If you want to learn colloquial Tibetan, which is much, there's about three or four different levels of Tibetan language. It has an honorific form. It has a high honorific form.

It has an epistolary form for writing letters. It has public forms. It has Dharma forms.

It has colloquial forms. If you want to learn to speak to someone in everyday Tibetan, this book is the best in the world. And there's no book like it.

Colloquial Tibetan, Tibetan spoken between friends has no spelling. Because nobody writes it. But in this book, they do.

So if you have an AI project, we have an AI project, I'll tell you about. You can teach it to colloquial Tibetan, good colloquial Tibetan. So this book is unusual, very highly unusual.

LA MAR CHOS DE PA SOGS NGAN CING So I want to teach you a word. Say NGAN CING BU TSOS NGAN CING BU TSOS It's in the first line here. NGAN CING BU TSOS NGAN CING means what?

Renunciation. Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend. Now I'm just going to do retreat the rest of my life.

Like that, this Dharma, what do you call it? Temporary Dharma feeling. Oh, my friend died of cancer.

Now I'm going to get serious. That's called NGAN CING BU TSOS BU TSOS means goose bump. When you get cold, like if you have the bad luck to sit in front of the air conditioner here.

Right, you guys? She's got a jacket on. By the way, we designed it wrong.

I'm sorry. If you can do it better, you're welcome. But the people in the middle are hot and the people on the side are cold.

So the goose bump when you get cold, it's a famous colloquial Tibetan expression for short-term renunciation. Someone close to you dies of cancer. Then you meditate really hard for three days.

And then you're like, God, this is too hard. And the sadness wears off. It means the sadness wears off.

And then you get used to life again. Somebody committed suicide yesterday. Then for two days you feel very religious and then it wears off.

That's called BU TSOS. BU TSOS means, the bump comes up when you're cold and it goes back down fast. So if you want to make a joke to a Tibetan, you can say, how's your NGES BYUNG BU TSOS?

It means your five minute renunciation. It's kind of an insult. You might not want to use it.

YIN GANG ZHES SBYIMS PHRAG SBYIMS means you focus. You focus really hard on your practice. PHRAG means, what's a PHRAG PO you guys know?

It means fear steady. But with renunciation it means you work really hard for like two days. And then you just get back to normal.

So SBYIMS PHRAG means you over-focus. DGE SBYOR Then SBYIM is hard to read. You got to say, say, listen, DGE SBYOR DGE SBYOR MI BYED MI BYED GU BYED GU BYED DGE SBYOR MI BYED GU BYED MI BYED GU BYED So you got to read MI BYED GU BYED together.

MI BYED GU BYED means every which way. You try a million things. GU means nine in Tibetan.

But in English we say, somebody close to you dies of cancer, then for one week you're doing like a million meditations. And then you get over it and you forget meditation. So MI BYED GU BYED means you pull out like a million different kind of practices.

And then the person's gone for a week and you start to forget about them and then you get back to normal. So MI BYED GU BYED means you get, ah, you get real, what do you call it? Yeah, you get all fired up.

GU BYED means you do everything. You try everything. And then it wears off.

Even with your mother or something, when your mother passes, you have MI BYED GU BYED for like six months. And then even that wears off. So MI BYED GU BYED LA BAS KYANG SKABS ZHIG NAS THANG CHE What's THANG CHE?

Anybody THANG CHE? THANG CHE means you get tired. THANG CHE means, this Dharma stuff, I'm going back to Netflix.

THANG CHE If you're going to learn to speak Tibetan, THANG CHE is a very, CHE means to cut, like Dorje Chupa, Diamond Cutter Sutra. THANG means your power. THANG CHE means, ah man, I kicked ass for six months.

That's probably enough. And then you get tired. THANG CHE And then you go back to watching movies and stuff like that.

THANG CHE BYED LA BAS KYANG THANG CHE DE RGYAS SBYOR LA MI SBYUG means you give up your Dharma practice. That's enough. Temporary renunciation.

Temporary renunciation. When someone close to you dies, use the time. Use the chance.

Because it will wear off. It will wear off. So when someone close to you leaves this world, use it.

Use the time. Because it will wear off. You won't remember them six months from now.

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Next picture, you guys. Tune it like a guitar. I'm going to read the Tibetan here.

DE DAG REN SBYOG MI CHAL BAR REN SBYOG is another colloquialism. So this book is full of... You could write an AI dictionary of colloquial Tibetan from this book and it would be very interesting.

REN SBYOG means hot, hot and calm. You work hard, then you quit for six months and then you work hard and then you quit. REN SBYOG means you flip-flop.

REN SBYOG MI CHAL BAR BSGOM PA RIN CHEN LA MED Then he quotes a Lama who lived about 500 years ago. He said, MI GYANG ZHING YI RGYAL SKAD GONG SONG LHOS GSUNGS PA And this is practice advice. Everyday practice advice.

MI GYANG ZHING GYANG means distance. ZHING means long. And he says, keep your focus far ahead.

Like on your old age and your death. Me and my wife are at this point where we discuss buying stuff that probably we won't live to see it finished. You see what I mean?

We buy something that's going to last 20 years and we're like, I don't know. MI GYANG ZHING means look ahead. Don't be stupid.

Look ahead. Keep your eyes ahead. Look at what's coming.

In your life, you will get old. You will lose your energy. You will die.

So keep your eyes ahead. Don't get all hypnotized by your last bonus or something. It's not going to last.

Keep your eyes far ahead. MI GYANG ZHING YI RGYAL SKAD means think big. Think big.

I'm going to walk the planets. I'm going to help a billion people. Think big.

Don't think about stopping the war in Ukraine or Gaza. Let's stop war on a billion planets. Think big.

If you cover a billion planets, you also cover Gaza. Seriously. So YI RGYAL SKAD means think big.

Think big. GONG SANGS SLOD is the important one here. Say GONG SANGS SLOD.

This S-R is just S. L-H is H-L. That means the picture of the guitar.

This is a very common Lam Rim example, is tuning a guitar. Don't make it too tight and don't make it too loose. It means don't make your practice too tight and don't let your practice get too loose.

If you're too tight and you're always nervous about your practice, you practice to the point where your hands are shaking, it's too tight. You're going to mess up. The string is going to break.

Don't tune your practice too tight. Then you're going to be uptight and you won't be able to meditate well. So don't go crazy.

Slow and steady wins the race. Just don't go crazy and try to meditate 12 hours a day. It's not going to last.

What's a meditation teacher's advice with a new meditator? Start with 10 minutes. Please, please, please start with 10 minutes.

No, Geshe-la, I can do two hours. No, you can't. I can stay still for two hours.

So can a rabbit. That was my teacher's answer. They don't meditate.

They just sit there. Okay, so tune your practice. Also not too loose.

Tomorrow, I'll meditate tomorrow. Today I'm really busy. Shut up.

Sit down. You're not that busy. Don't get into this Dharma organizer trap.

Oh, I'm so busy organizing meditation classes that I don't have time to meditate. That's what yoga teachers do. Once you become a yoga teacher, you're in trouble because then you're like, I have to have a school.

I have to organize the classes. I don't have time to do yoga. So don't get into this.

GZHOS Not tight enough. Too loose. Tune the guitar to the right sound.

Practice. Don't be all like nervous and don't get lazy either. Keep the tuning correct.

It's a very beautiful metaphor for your meditation practice. Don't over meditate and don't under meditate. All right, first of all, DGE SBYOR LA DANG LHOS There's the very, very colloquial expression.

DANG means too tight. LHOS means too loose. REN PA means just right.

REN PA You won't see that word anywhere, Tim, for example. It means just to the right. What do you call it?

Tension. It's like a guitar. Enough tension, but not too much tension.

REN PA BYAS NAS GNOD GZIN TE I don't know what's GNOD GZIN. I got to look it up. Okay, sorry.

GZIN means, I think it means be there for the long run. Be there for the long run. Don't get too tight.

Don't get too lazy. Keep it going for the long run. GNOD GZIN Now, beautiful, because the author of this Lam Rim, the speaker of this Lam Rim is one of the most amazing diamond way practitioners in history.

So this is not a basic, elementary text. This is a secret diamond way explosion manual. People don't know that, but Pabongka Rinpoche was maybe the greatest Vajrayogini practitioner of all time.

His commentary on Vajrayogini is used in our diamond way courses, 18 courses. The diamond way course at Diamond Mountain, started at Diamond Mountain, is the best in the world that ever existed. And you will never see a course like that.

We took the best of the best of the best for the last 2,000 years, and we made a course out of it, and it's amazing. So anyway, DANG BA'I GNOD SBYOR He's referring to Vajrayogini practice secretly, which is how you should refer to it. What is DANG BA'I GNOD SBYOR?

NYAL DANG DANG DANG BDUG TSE NYAMS SEMS MED LAM MA BDAG LHAR BSKYED GRO BA BTAG PA'I GNOD SBYOR DANG BA'O BA LON CING GI LO What? What does Vajrayogini practice start with? NYAL Sleep.

I like. Any practice that starts with sleep, I'm on board. The first of the Vajrayogini secret yogas is go to bed.

I like it. It means go to bed with a special motivation, and go to bed with special thoughts. And then the second of the great yogas of Vajrayogini practice is DANG, which is how do you wake up?

How do you wake up as her? How do you get out of bed? Got it?

You don't just jump out of bed. You do it slow and remember who you are. And you always put the correct foot out first.

You don't like jump out. DANG BA'I GNOD SBYOR means GNOD SBYOR means the yoga of waking. So it's so beautiful.

In the middle of a Lam Rim, he's at the end of the Lam Rim. DANG BA'I GNOD SBYOR NAS GSUNGS TE Starting with your wake up routine, with your tantric wake up routine, starting with your wake up routine, RANG GIS RANG LA'I GCIG GSOS NAS Get yourself ready for the day. In Vajrayogini practice, it's a whole getting your vision of yourself ready for the day.

God is getting out of bed. God is making coffee. God is getting ready for work.

I mean, if you put it in Christian terms, it's something like that. It's radical and it's beautiful. So start RANG GIS RANG LA'I GCIG GSOS.

Get yourself set for the day. Are you divine? Not really.

I'm still sleepy. Okay, take a few minutes. Get it together.

Don't get out of bed until you're divine. It's a beautiful idea. CI NAS RGYAS SU STANGS Start basic.

Get your, I don't know, step out with your left foot, get your hair right, and then start adding stuff. RGYAS SU STANGS means start adding stuff. When you drink your coffee, serve it to a billion angels sitting in your heart.

Then start getting more, what do you call it? Yeah, like RGYAS SU STANGS means that's the RGYAS in SANGS RGYAS. Send it to the ends of the universe.

By the time you have your cereal, I'm getting hungry. By the time you have your cereal, your practice should be totally divine. Then when you go to work, no problem.

BAD GYUR GYI NI is going to work. GRIG SOS BYAS DE SA CHOS BYAS TE SA CHOS BYAS, again, extremely colloquial. SA CHOS BYAS means your practice will advance in leaps and bounds.

So SA CHOS means you can cover a million miles in ten minutes. SA CHOS means like a jet airplane covering the miles, as opposed to a horse. If your wake up motivation is divine, then SA CHOS BYAS, before noon you've covered a billion miles.

Your practice has gone a billion miles before noon. If you wake up with the right vision of yourself, and that's tantra, that's Diamond Way. SA CHOS BYAS means you can cover major ground before noon.

SA CHOS BYAS Then he says GZHIG DANG GYIS BAS PA'I LTAR YIN TSUNG Apparently there's some story in Tibetan about the race between the lice and the flea, the bed bug and the flea. Fleas jump, bed bugs crawl. If you don't know about it, go to India to study.

That was gross. I mean, my early years in India, they sleep in the beds. We had wooden macrame beds, string beds, no mattress, wooden frame, and the bed bugs live in them.

Then they come out and suck your blood at night. They start out really small and they get filled up with your blood. Then they're all full and they hang on to the wall and they're like, mmm.

Then when you wake up, there's all these bed bugs on the wall. Big red balloons. Like if you hit one by accident, blood goes down the wall and you're like, anyway.

Bed bugs move slow. Fleas move fast. So don't pet a dog in India either because they jump on you.

Okay, got it? It means be like the flea and don't be like the bed bug. Make progress, make major progress every day.

Be a jet engine and don't be a horse. Be like the flea that can jump half a meter or something. Don't be like a bed bug that has to crawl around and wait for night to suck.

Make progress while you can and tantra is the best way. Diamond Way is the best way. When you wake up like Vajrayogini and you do two hours of Vajrayogini in the morning and the rest of the day you have a breakdown, you're making fast progress.

Okay? It's better than just some dull, long Dharma day. Got it?

Okay, that's Diamond Way practice. Next picture. That's my wife's surgeon and that's her new knee and it's titanium.

I always knew my wife was titanium. So, I was there, unfortunately, and her knee got worse and worse and worse. She's an athlete.

She's a runner. She's the fastest runner at her school. She beat all the boys.

That's why I didn't go to her school. Then she wore out the cartilage and they had to replace her knee. I was there, me and Stanley Nelson were there.

They put you outside and they say, okay, you know, I get to hold her hand until they put the drugs. Then they say, okay, now you can go outside. Then I hear this, and I'm like, oh my God.

They're cutting her bone off. They're cutting the edge of the bone off. Then they drill a hole.

Then they get a hammer and they slam the knee in. You can hear this, bam, bam. I'm like, oh.

The surgeon, this is the assistant surgeon. The surgeon surgeon was a Christian, very strong Christian. We liked him a lot.

We interviewed many surgeons. We said, what's your experience? He said, I had 10 years doing knees in Uganda or something, as a volunteer, for free.

He did 2,000 knees in Africa for 10 years. We're like, we want you. He came out and he said, okay, we're ready to start.

He said, do you mind if we do a prayer? I'm like. Then he did a prayer.

It was so beautiful. Then he said, you go. Then he went, shoom.

He didn't hesitate. He didn't sit around and go, ooh. He's just like, shoom, and cut her leg open.

That's what it's talking about here. What do you call it? Don't F around.

Be decisive in your practice. When you start, you start with a circular saw. Don't go like, ooh.

When you jump into your practice, jump. Don't hesitate and don't be wimpy. When it's time to cut, cut.

Be like, shoom. Be decisive and cut. RGYUL CHOS SU BYANG BA means cut through your indecision.

Don't be wimpy. Don't say, I think I want to meditate, but I'm not sure. Shut up and sit down.

Who are you talking to? Yourself. Shut up and sit down.

We're going to meditate. Don't hesitate. BLO SBYONG LA BLO LING GI RGYAL BA Throw your heart into BLO SBYONG.

Don't hold back. If you're going to do this, do it 100%. Don't say, maybe I want to meditate and maybe I don't want to meditate.

Then shut up and don't meditate and go away. You're going to die. You don't have much time.

Stop pooping around. Go for it. BLO SBYONG LA BLO LING GI is another very, very, very beautiful colloquial expression.

It means give it 100%. Give it 100%. Don't mess around.

LING GI RGYAL BA SONG KHYANG MAN PAS CHAGS LTAR BA NA RTZA DANG PA PA STING CHOS PAR MNYAM DU BYAS PA So in the ancient medical system of Tibet, Tibet's unusual because geographically it's halfway between Chinese traditional medicine, CTM, and Ayurvedic medicine in India. So geographically it's between the two places. And the medical system of Tibet is very, very amazing because they took the best from India and they took the best from central China.

So Tibetan medicine is unbelievable. And I translated for a couple of years for two of the greatest doctors and it's amazing. So they have a system of moksa bastion.

You do acupuncture with a golden needle. It's called serka. And then you put cotton on the golden needle and you light it.

It's really fun being a translator because I saw these old, rich New York ladies going wah, wah, wah. And so anyway, you have to be decisive. When you're doing acupuncture or when you're doing work with people's bodies, you can't be indecisive.

You have to move with confidence. You have to say, okay, I might mess this up, but here we go. And then do it with chutzpah.

Yeah, like, I can do this. And then don't be like, oh, maybe I can do it. Maybe I can't.

So, ting che, ting che means cut to the bone in the first slice. Don't mess around. ting chupa chepa shin LO SBYONG DANG RANG GI RGYUD DO RU THUG PA BYAS DO RU THUG PA means let the bone and the stone meet.

And again, it's a very, very colloquial Tibetan and it means kick ass. Let the bone and the stone meet. Kick ass.

Don't mess around. Go for it. DO RU THUG Say DO RU THUG DO means stone, like DO RJE means diamond, right?

RU means bone. THUG means let them, it's like let them smash into each other. Let the stone, let the stone crash into the bone.

It means throw your heart into it. Go for it. Don't hold back.

Go for it. With your practice. Don't hold back.

Tim, how's my time? 15 minutes. Okay.

I'm not going to take questions in the second session because we got to cover some ground. SA CHOS PA We got to, what do you call it? Make progress.

DE YANG BLO SBYONG LA RTOGS SPYOD KYI CHOS BSGOM BYAS BZHIN DU THA CHOS PA BYAMS Say CHOS BSGOM So here it is. If you learn the three kinds of meditation, what are they? BZHAR BSGOM, BYAS BSGOM, CHOS BSGOM BZHAR BSGOM means list meditation.

Go through a list. What are the seven preliminaries, for example, and review them in your mind with your eyes closed. That's called BZHAR BSGOM.

That's a good one to do before you go to work in the morning. I have very successful business executives in Taiwan, for example, who use it every morning. They do a BZHAR BSGOM on what they're going to do.

They walk through the day before they go to work. When they get to work, they're all ready and they kick butt. So that's called BZHAR BSGOM.

Step by step before you go. BYAS BSGOM means take a question, put it at the center of your mind, and work it out. It's a problem-solving meditation.

BZHOR BSGOM, focus on one picture, like a llama's face or Vajrayogini's face, or put a face in front of you and hold it and sink into it. That's called BZHOR BSGOM. He says here, BYAS BSGOM, do a problem-solving meditation about meditation.

What's that mean? Decide. Ask yourself in the morning, do you really want to spend this much time meditating?

Why? Like, interrogate yourself. BYAS BSGOM here means interrogate your own heart.

Are you going to meditate? Yes. Why?

Well, I don't know. Geshe-la said to. Not good enough.

Give me some reasons. Give me some good reasons why you're going to meditate. Debate yourself before you start your meditation.

Why are you spending this time? And then, make sure you have good answers before you start meditating. Don't meditate because it's a habit, or your teacher said you should do it, or your friends are doing it, or something like that.

Debate yourself. Why should I spend this hour meditating? Well, I'm going to die, right?

That's good. You're on the right track. Got it?

Okay. BYAS BSGOM NYON MONGS GANG ZHES BYAS BA'I NYON PO BSTAN This is a very nice advice. By the way, this lam rim is the greatest book of advices ever.

I was having lunch with my wife's mother and her short-lived boyfriend. She was already 80-something. We were talking about what's the greatest book ever written.

She's of course Bible. Mom is Bible. I'm like, no, it's this lam rim.

It's liberation in the palm of your hand. Anyway, it says, NYON MONGS GANG ZHES BYAS BA'I When you're deciding what to meditate on, do a review of your negative emotions and pick the worst one. Review your life.

Review your personal psychology. Identify your greatest weakness and go for it. So, ZHES BYAS BA again, Tim, if you're interested, very colloquial.

ZHES BYAS BA means what's the worst one? Which is the fattest one? Go for that.

What's your worst negativity? Go for that first. NYON PO BSTAN means apply the antidote.

Okay, next picture. Binocular is Francisco. Yeah.

SEMS CAN GYI BSTAN RANG GI GRUB OS ZHING It is completely appropriate that you should spend your hours of your short life serving other people. That's the best thing you can do. What's the best way to spend the extremely short hours of your life is help other people.

Spend as many hours as you can helping other people. DGOS PA here means, DGOS PA means it's worth it. That's the best way to use your time.

You don't have many minutes in this life. The more you can give to other people, the better. Okay, good.

Good job. DGOS PA GRUB PAR SKAD LA'ANG ZIN PAS Once you've agreed to help other people, DE GRUB PAR NA GZHAN GZU LA'ANG YOD MI BYED Okay, do you want to live the bodhisattva's way of life? Yes.

Do you promise to try to be a bodhisattva? Yes. Do you understand it's serving other people?

Yes. Are you willing to serve other people almost all day except for snacks? Yes.

Then shut up and don't expect any thanks from anybody. YOD MI BYED means don't expect anybody to thank you. Don't help people and then stand around like, do you want to thank me or anything?

And they're like, no. As a bodhisattva, get used to it. You kick ass, you help other people, give them all your money, give them all your time, and then they're like, could I just, could you help me for one more hour?

And you're like, I just gave you six months of my time. And they're like, yeah, but I have one more thing I need. And then don't expect people to thank you.

If you're looking for thanks, you're in the wrong business. Bodhisattva business is thank less business. No one's going to thank you.

You're going to do some charitable work in a Mexico school. You're going to spend day after day and you're going to spend all your money and you're not going to sleep and you're going to overwork for other people and just get, if you're in the bodhisattva business, forget getting thanks from people. If you're a good bodhisattva, you not only won't get thanks, you'll get criticism all day.

And tell them, fuck off. All right? I'm serious.

They're going to say, oh, Geshe-la didn't hear. I say, I don't care. I'll serve you too.

Someone criticizes you. Someone takes all your money and criticizes you. Do you need anything?

Your reaction to these people should be to serve them and to help them. That's the real bodhisattva. If you're expecting people to thank you, if you think you're going to get praised, just forget it.

That's not the business we're in. That's not the business we're in. The Buddhas will praise you and the Buddhas will thank you.

That should be enough. You're not going to get, you could get really, really serious criticism from people. And I think as a serious bodhisattva, you got to get used to it.

And you can't be scared and you can't be wimpy. You can't collapse every time someone criticizes you as a bodhisattva. You just got to say, thank you for your opinion.

We're going to put you on hold even though your call is important to us. And then just go away. Let them stand there criticizing you and you're already in the next state.

Just relax. You got to learn to relax as a bodhisattva. Okay.

MANG PO'I ROL ZER GZHAN GYIS MA RAB PA LA SOGS PA MI MTHO BA SOGS GONG ROL MI STONG MANG PO'I ROL ZER means in public, online probably, GZHAN GYIS MA RAB PA People will criticize you. They will troll you. Troll?

They will troll. Do you say that way? Do you say troll?

Trolls will troll you. People will criticize you. By the way, they just want attention because they can't do anything themselves.

So it's easier to criticize the people who are doing something. So just laugh. Okay, thank you for your opinion.

Your troll is important to us. We'll be getting back to you soon. And then turn it off and never write them back.

Don't waste your time with those people. Don't waste your time. Don't even waste the time to think about them.

I have this special Buddhist practice of forgetting the names of people who criticize me and I'm successful. I swear I can't remember any of their names because I don't think about them. So just relax.

Helping people, business, you're going to get criticized. What are you going to do, quit? So just, okay, thank you.

Your opinion is important to me. MI CHO BA SOGS KHO RLUNG MI DONG Don't get irritated. KHO RLUNG means don't get pissed off.

Don't take it seriously. By the way, all the people who criticize me are gone. I don't even know where they are.

They died. They're somewhere. They're just gone.

If you live long enough, all the people who gave you trouble will be dead. Just keep going. What else are you going to do?

Are you going to give up? Are you going to go back to Netflix? What else are you going to do?

All right. SKYEN PHRA MO RE DGA' CHO DU CHO CI SKAD RNAMS KAR YOD TZAM PA MI BYA Here's a picture of storm clouds. This is weather in certain parts of the country.

Not here. Here it's sunny and nice all year. But there are places like Japan during sakura when you pay four times the normal hotel rent to take your whole family there to watch the cherry blossoms open and they decide to wait two weeks.

And you go home. And on the way to the airport, they're just opening. Right?

Tell me that's what happened this year. Mr. Arika was like, I never saw this happen, Geshe-la, I promise. I'm sorry, thanks.

Anyway, the weather change, don't be like the weather. Don't be like, be steady. Don't be like raining one minute and sunny the next minute.

LO SBYONG Dharma practitioner, you got to be steady. You can't be like this Kyoto weather and sakura. By the way, I'm not complaining.

I'd still rather be in Kyoto. But don't be, be steady. Don't let little problems in your life, don't let, especially criticism.

Don't, I mean, listen to it if it makes any sense. But since it doesn't, just let it go. All right.

PHAN DAG PA LA LEGS SO'I DTAMS SOGS RE BA CHEN PO'I DON DU MI NYER BA STE DE DAG NI BSLAB BYA'O When you help somebody, say LEGS SO. LEGS SO, LEGS SO. SIDDHA, SIDDHA.

That's the Sanskrit. That's the famous line in the Heart Sutra. It's the only line spoken by Buddha himself.

Buddha uses two students like puppets and has them have a conversation with each other. That's the whole Heart Sutra. And when they finish giving this brilliant teaching, which is just him, he says, oh, so good, so good.

It's actually him talking, right? Say LEGS SO, LEGS SO. So LEGS SO in colloquial Tibetan became a word that means good job.

Good job. So in the Heart Sutra, Lord Buddha says good job, good job to the two guys whose mouth he controls. And he says RE BA means don't hope that people are going to come up to you and say, oh, LEGS SO, Inna, thank you so much.

You did such a good job on the good night. Book club, Lindsay. You're so wonderful.

Thank you so much. It's not going to happen. So don't sit around waiting for LEGS SO.

Don't sit around waiting for LEGS SO. In one way, it's a lonely business. Dharma business is a lonely business.

People are not going to come up to you and say how wonderful you are. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, right? If you're a surgeon and you can save a life, what do you care if they ever see you afterwards?

You saved a life. DE DAG BYAS NA, ZAD NYID MA SOGS NYID MA NGAG DOR YANG KHYEN GNYEN BYANG CHUB KYI MA RGYUR NYID NYID SHING Then he starts on a subject called turning problems into opportunities. I was studying all the lojongs of history.

There's about a hundred major lojongs and I just spent a couple months studying all of them. I was trying to define what makes a lojong a lojong. One of the things you have to say is that the theme of turning problems into opportunities is through all the lojong.

All the lojong texts, all the lam rim texts, they have this one theme that when a problem happens in your life, you should turn it around and make a profit out of it. As a business person, and we did make the largest diamond jewelry company in the world. Warren Buffett bought it in 2009.

This skill of taking a problem and turning it into an opportunity is really, really cool. It's really, really useful. It is a lam rim basic skill.

How to take crap and turn it into gold. How to take a business problem and make it into something really fun and really amazing. That skill, if you learn that lam rim skill, it will serve you for the rest of your life.

Personal problems too, when you're having personal problems with another person, if you learn to transform those into opportunities, then every kind of crap that comes your way becomes beautiful. So the beautiful stuff is already beautiful. If the crap becomes beautiful, everything's beautiful.

Got it? So if you have these magic fingers who can take a problem and turn it into something really, and I'm not talking you take a problem and you learn to live with it. I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about you take a problem and you learn to make a huge profit from it. That's really useful. That's really, really useful.

And we're going to cover it tomorrow. Okay? Okay.