Дебаты дьявола с ангелом, часть 18 (2024, Мексика), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's start. We've been talking about how to have a ... basically how to have new ideas.

And where do they come from? And so we're going to talk about that because the devil debates the angel about that. And whenever you talk about emptiness, you have to talk about the thing that is not there in the empty place.

So, I take Aldo out to dinner with Ria to celebrate. I say, don't worry, I'll pay for dinner. Then we have a big dinner in Mexico City.

Then I reach into my pocket for my credit card. I'm like, oh I'm so sorry, I changed my pants before I came. They have one minute, they break Guru Yoga.

Maybe he doesn't have a credit card. So, that feeling when you're reaching your credit card. And you have to say, oh Aldo, I just saw emptiness.

But emptiness should have something that's not there, isn't it? So, we call gaksha in Tibetan language. The thing that emptiness is empty of.

When we teach the credit card story in DCI, for a hundred dollars, what kind of credit card? What company? Fernanda, Fernanda, Fernanda.

Discovery. It's called Discovery credit card. It's a special credit card in America for people who don't have money.

They will give you ten dollars on Wednesday if you pay two hundred dollars on Friday. It's like the credit card that's not a credit card. It's a fake credit card.

So, in the Aldo and Ria dinner story, the credit card that Geshe-la doesn't find in his pocket should be a discovery card. Because even if it is there, it doesn't work. And that's emptiness.

Emptiness is something that's not there that is fake. Why are we talking about that? First picture.

I love this story of this guy. I'm so happy it happened this week. It's good luck.

I showed it to you last night. Two days ago, this farmer in India found a 20 carat diamond on the ground. And he's supposed to be someplace else at that time.

But he heard a voice in his mind. Listen, it's not like God talking to you. That's a different thing.

I start to open the refrigerator to get the ice cream. Then God's voice is unique. Don't do that.

It sounds just like my Tibetan teacher. The teacher I lived with for 25 years. He had a car accident before I met him.

And he talks just like Star Wars. Don't eat the ice cream. So, when God talks to me, he has my Lama's voice.

Don't eat the ice cream. So, this Indian guy, where'd he go? It's not like he got the voice of Star Wars or God talking to him.

Turn left, look down, look, look, there's a diamond. It wasn't like that.

[Speaker 2]
Good translation.

[Speaker 1]
It's not like that. He just had a feeling. I have a feeling I won't go to work today.

And he's not expecting a message from God. He's just getting a message inside of his own mind. And it doesn't sound like someone talking to you.

It sounds like yourself talking in your mind. So, listen to the difference. Don't go to work today.

Go out in the field and look down. I don't feel like going to work today. I think I'll just walk around.

When I say a voice in your mind, I'm talking about the second. It is possible Buddha will talk to you. I don't know.

It doesn't happen a lot. But inside your mind, talking all the time, that happens all the time. I'm talking about that voice.

And it feels like that voice is part of you. And you say, I had a thought. You don't say, I heard someone talking in my mind, therefore I'll go to the toilet now.

It's not like that. You say, I feel like I got to go to the toilet now. It's not like, you go to toilet now.

You just feel like it. And you think you feel like it. You say, I feel like I have to go to the toilet.

But what this whole poem is about, after thirteen years we reach this special part. Those voices you hear in your mind that you think are you, they are not you. You are the listener.

You are not the speaker. What did Geshe Michael's wife Veronica tell him one thousand times that he didn't listen? When you're talking you can't listen Michael.

I had like a three hour meeting with Anatole and Aisha. In the last two minutes I realized I didn't let them talk about anything. I'm like, goodbye.

Oh by the way, how's your CSP program? We went through like three hours and I didn't ask them about their program. So you cannot talk and listen at the same time.

Someone else is talking. And this is a very deep thing about trying to be a happy person. Listen.

You don't have choice. What is talking in your mind, you don't have choice. Ask any depressed person.

There's someone talking in my mind, it's not me. Let's be sad today. Yeah, okay.

Can we not be sad? I said, let's be sad today. No depressed person wants to hear that, but they cannot stop it.

Why? It's not them talking. They're just listening.

Those voices are coming from somewhere else. Stop thinking it's you, it's not you. Maybe it sounds like you, it's not you.

But, for three hundred dollars, now everybody woke up. You know what I hate in China? When I say three hundred, half the people raise their arm before I ask the question.

Maybe I will know the answer. Now I forgot the question. Oh yeah.

Who's asking the question in your mind? Who's talking in your mind? Wait, wait, who's going to...

you choose. I'll do this side. By the way, it's a short answer, don't give me a two minute answer.

[Speaker 2]
It's me created these thoughts in the maybe past lives. So, it's me, but in the past.

[Speaker 1]
That's a hundred dollars so far. Where's the voice coming out of? What's the voice coming out of?

It's me, but different. I'll give you a hundred. Somebody has to help you for two hundred.

Still two hundred left.

[Speaker 2]
From my seeds.

[Speaker 1]
So, the whole world doesn't understand that, and it makes them unhappy all the time. You don't have control today about what your mind is talking. Does that mean you don't have any control?

A hundred dollars. By the way, if you're wrong you pay me a hundred dollars. No, I'm just kidding.

Do you have control?

[Speaker 2]
You don't have control of the voices, because those are seeds opening in that moment, but whenever they open, they carry on. But you can plant the seeds to decide which voices are you going to listen to.

[Speaker 1]
Now, there's a special problem in your case. It's a payment problem. I asked a question.

I offered a hundred dollars, but she gave a two hundred dollar answer. Perfect, perfect answer. I cannot control what my mind is talking right now, but I can control what my mind talks about next week.

I'm not talking, let's go to the toilet now. I'm talking about great ideas for your future. Like unbelievable cool ideas for your business or your family life.

Personally, I don't care who's talking, I don't care who's telling me to go to the toilet actually. I don't care. I have to go anyway.

But if I can plant a seed to have a great idea next week for my business or for my tour of Latin America, then tell me more Geshe Michael, tell me more. I'm glad you asked. Or maybe it wasn't you.

Okay, next picture. Yeah, where did the seeds come from? We saw her yesterday.

Now there's three choices. There's three choices. Number one, those just come from anywhere.

They come from nothing. Those thoughts come from nothing. Some people get them, some people don't get them.

There's very few people I'm jealous of. I'm a jealousy expert, but actually no one's interested to do what I do. So there's no one to be jealous of.

But Elon Musk, I'm jealous of him. I'm jealous of him. He took a big hit last week.

Big problem. His salary went from 40 billion to 20 billion. I'm so sad for him.

But this asshole, excuse me, don't tell Veronica. He sent a Tesla car into space for fun, and I hate him. Just for fun.

I really want to do that. So, where does he get his ideas? How come he has those ideas?

First possibility, they just come from nowhere. Just pop up in his mind. Sometimes you believe that.

We all believe that sometimes. Why did you suddenly remember the ice cream that's been in there for six weeks, Geshe-la? It just popped up in my mind.

It feels like that. That's the first possibility. Second possibility, a car bumper created a pizza.

The bumper of a car created a pizza. Something completely different created something completely different. That's the second possibility.

There's no connection between the cause and the result. You can kick a car and you will get a pizza. No, you are laughing, but that's a serious second possibility.

So far, two possibilities. Number one, you can have a great idea in your business or your family by accident. Number two, you can do one thing, kick a car, and a pizza will come tomorrow.

There's no connection between the car and the pizza. Two completely different things will be cause and effect. That's the second possibility.

What's the third possibility? Third possibility. We just had peach trees, peaches, in my house.

We got beautiful, delicious peaches just this week. Where did they come from? We planted peach pits about four years ago.

Now we have a couple hundred peaches. Super delicious. Why?

Peach makes peach. Peach makes peach. Now you have three choices.

If you want to plant something good in your life, don't do anything, and it will come. Choice number two. I don't know, pick your nose three times on the left side, then suddenly peaches will come in your house, and you'll have a good idea.

Second possibility. Third possibility. Do something connected to getting good ideas.

Actually, in our business, Dharma business, you just have to find the cause which is similar. Nothing is accidental. Everything comes from causes.

Everything comes from causes which are similar to the result. Peaches make peaches. If you want to have great ideas, by the way, my teacher forced me to start a business.

You go to New York City, you start a business. I'm like, sure. Because in the monastery business, you never say no to your teacher.

But the great students are masters of delay. You go to New York. You start a business.

Very soon I will go. Yeah, very soon. Next week.

Are you going to go to New York? Very soon. Very soon.

I'm happy to go to New York. Six months later, get your ass on the bus, go to New York. Start a business.

I really didn't want to. I was very happy in the monastery for eight years. I can stay there forever.

But after several years I understood. He wants me to prove to myself that this system really works. He said, don't tell me you are going to Manhattan every day on the bus.

You are going to the Dharma laboratory every day on the bus. Do you remember? It's a four hour commute, two hours each way.

He said, you plant the seeds on the way to New York. Here's the next picture. By the way, I talked to the AI for half an hour.

Put the pen in the dog's mouth. Dog chewing pen. Dog holding pen between teeth.

Dog sucking on pen. Dog about to write with a pen.

[Speaker 2]
Dog swallowing a pen.

[Speaker 1]
Then finally I gave up. I'm sorry. Maybe your AI is more AI than my AI.

Mine's not artificial intelligence, it's an artificial idiot. It's still AI. But the next one he did pretty good.

She's not eating the plant. I said, I want a plant coming out of a lady's throat. Then the artificial idiot, he's like, what?

I can't buy a picture online of a tree coming out of a lady's throat. I need you to make it. Then he's like, what?

I'm like, plant coming out of woman's mouth. Really, I tried for half an hour on the airplane. That's the best he could do.

But, I think really you should make a copy of this picture. You should take a photo right now. I have the copyright, okay?

Nobody else wants it. Okay, because I want you to remember, after this program is finished, just remember this picture. Please learn to plant a voice in your mind of some beautiful thing you want.

You don't have good ideas by accident. Nothing comes from nothing. Where's Aisha?

One, two, three. Comes from nothing. Nothing ever grew.

But somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good. Okay, that's an old Broadway play. It's called Sound of Music.

Maybe you know Sound of Music. The song says, nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could.

That's dependent origination and emptiness. Somewhere in my life or childhood, I must have done something good. So just learn how to plant those voices.

Why are we talking about that? Tomorrow, just so you believe me, I'll show you the verses. I will do a good job to confuse you with foreign language.

But for tonight, just get the feeling. I never planted peaches in my whole life. I bought the Cricket's Cafe.

Cricket is a small grasshopper. I have to change the name. Legally, I have to change the name.

I made Blue Sky Cafe. Somebody tried to sue me. That's our cafe's name.

I tried two thousand names online. Cannot find the name. Finally, Pea Street Cafe.

There was a Pea Street Cafe in Georgia. It went bankrupt. I took the name.

But I never grew peaches in my life. The first day I had the cafe, I had some Chinese friends who were with me. Stanley and Allison.

We planted three peach trees. That was five years ago. Now there's like, I don't know, how many?

300, 400? 300, 400 peaches. I feel so happy.

It's such a cool feeling. Everybody comes to the cafe, I would like to have a latte and a croissant. I'm like, you know I planted those peaches?

Just buy a peach. We charge one dollar for a peach. Actually, I don't want a peach.

Okay, I give you. I made it. I'm so proud.

What I'm trying to tell you, if you learn how to plant the seeds for great ideas, and you just try it, you will be so happy the rest of your life. It will be super fun. It's super fun.

I don't care too much about success, but I like fun. It's fun to be successful. Listen, it's really, really fun to have great ideas every day.

You just plant them this week, they come next week. They don't come because you want them to come. It's like constipation.

You can't have a good idea on demand. It doesn't work like that. You just drink that stuff today, tomorrow it's like, and a good idea comes.

Of course, in this group we're talking about good ideas which help other people. That's the most fun of life. I'm 71 years old.

I tried everything. The day I met the Dalai Lama, first time, with my mom, the first question he asked me, we were having a private meeting. This is 50 years ago.

In front of my mom he says, did you ever take LSD? Then I'm like, here's my mom, here's that. I'm like, yeah, kind of.

My mom's like, what? I said, I can't lie to him. He was curious, he wants to try it.

He was thinking to try it. Then he tried it, he actually tried it. Then he said, nah, meditation's better, because you can get what you want.

When you take drugs, most of the time you get some terrible thing, but when you plant seeds, you get beautiful things, what you want. So you can control the process, but you have to be patient. If you say, Geshe-la, teach me to make a peach in my hand, then I say, I can teach you to make a peach, but it doesn't work like that.

You have to plant it, and then it will grow, and you just have to be patient, and you have to follow instructions. My wife said, if you want a peach tree, go ahead, plant a peach tree, but you have to water it well every week. I'm like, okay.

She said, did you hear the word you? I always plant new flowers and stuff, and then she has to water them. You can have a peach tree, but you have to do the work to water it, you have to prune it in the late autumn.

You have to do many things, and if you're willing to do the work, we will have a peach tree. So, do you want to do the work? I heard two people, I think.

Okay, so I can teach you to plant an idea tree. Show the lady with the voice tree. I can teach you to plant that tree, but there's one thing about seeds.

Only one person can plant a seed in your mind for $500. Now you got it. I'm running out of money, I know.

Just borrow. What was I going to say? There's only one person who can put a seed in your mind.

Yeah, I said there's only one person who can plant the seeds in your mind to have good ideas every week. For $500? No teachers.

For $500? For $500? What's the proof of that?

Now all the hand went down.

[Speaker 2]
Well, you are the only person that can plant the tree because with your seeds, you do it.

[Speaker 1]
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. I'll say it again.

[Speaker 2]
I'll say it again.

[Speaker 1]
No one else can plant the seeds I'm teaching you these two days. Nobody else can do it. It's like Geshe Michael's peach tree.

You have to plant it and you have to water it. What's the proof of that? By the way, with so much money, I only offer it two times, three times, then I stop.

[Speaker 2]
Your seed?

[Speaker 1]
Wait, who's choosing? You're choosing.

[Speaker 2]
Someone in my head. There is a perfect proof. We can prove it right now.

Let's take one hand, take one finger, and try to show what in this room is not coming from me. So the only person is me.

[Speaker 1]
Maybe it's a good answer, but it's not the one I want. Okay, one more chance, one more chance. One more chance.

I'll give you a clue, I'll give you a clue. If another person could plant those seeds in your mind.

[Speaker 2]
The peaches.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, one more try. I'm getting frustrated. One more try, one more try.

[Speaker 2]
The Buddhas.

[Speaker 1]
Yay, $500. Okay, she got it. Where's Rob?

Rob disappeared. I got to find some money before tomorrow. Listen, Buddha loves you.

Buddha loves you more than you love you. If it's possible to plant good things in your mind by another person, Buddha would have done it 20 years ago. There's no one more compassionate than that.

But he cannot. He cannot plant a seed in your mind. Only one person can plant a seed in your mind, and that's you.

That's the nature of seeds. If you want to have fun for the rest of your life, if you want to do successful, beautiful things for other people, you have to plant those seeds. I'm going to teach you right now.

Okay, next picture. Not that one. Yeah.

What voice do you want? You have to decide what voice do you want. I made a short list.

Here's some choices. I want a voice which tells me how to make money. Number two.

I want a voice that tells me how to have successful emotional relationships. Number three. I want to have a voice that teaches me how to be happy all the time and never depressed.

Number four. I want to have a voice to be a nice person. There are many choices.

My suggestion, Grandpa's suggestion, tomorrow is 49 years since I had my big breakthrough. Tomorrow. 49 years.

I can give you 49 years of good suggestions. Focus on the seeds for creativity. Then you can be creative in money, creative in relationships, creative in happiness, creative in everything.

I want to suggest that we focus on tonight and tomorrow, how can you plant the seed to have super good ideas. It's the voice of all voices. Then you can use it for money.

You can use it to find a good husband, which is rare. Rhea has a good one. Anyway, I say, I'd like to teach you how to plant the mental seed to have new ideas about new ideas.

So, in general, there's a technique for planting bad seeds and making them strong in your mind, and there's a technique for planting good seeds in your mind. You guys learned it a long time ago. I'll give you an example of how to grow bad seeds in your mind.

This happens to be bad seed number nine of the ten bad seeds. I'll show you the picture. No, come on, you guys.

Oh, sorry, you're right. Yeah, that's the one I wanted. Okay, next one.

Yeah, this is bad seed number nine. For one dollar! What's bad seed number nine?

Regocijarme de lo malo que le pasa a los demás. Celebrate the bad things that happen to other people.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, good.

[Speaker 1]
When you say celebrate, that's a $50 answer. Rob's running out of money. I'll find some money.

If you want your bad seeds to be strong, you can do number nine. Every bad thing you ever said to somebody else, every time you hurt somebody else, think about it and be happy. He really bothered me.

He yelled at me like ten times. Then I was patient for a while. Then finally I told him what I really wanted to tell him.

I'm so happy. That's rejoicing in bad seeds. Rejoicing in bad seeds helps bad seeds to grow bigger.

What's this? No, hang on. Okay, I don't want to get in trouble.

Be careful about that one. If you want ... Okay, listen.

Next time you want a good idea, you have a challenge in your life. You need a big extra income in the next ten days. You ask your mind, do you have any ideas?

He says, yeah, come on, talk, talk. You're always talking, come on. Rob, he came to my early classes in New York.

27 years ago? When you had hair. When we both had hair.

I used to interview every student at my lunch hour, at my diamond business. One guy came, he wants to join the ACI class. By the way, ACI is 30 years old recently.

I'll tell you more about that in about five minutes. One guy came to me, we sat down for lunch, and I said, do you really want to take these ACI 18 courses? Yes, I really want to take them.

Then I said, why? He says, I want to learn to meditate. Then I said, why?

He said, I want my mind to stop. I want my mind to stop talking. It makes me crazy.

Please teach me how to meditate. Teach me how to stop my mind. Then I said, yeah, you come to the course, we can talk about it.

By the way, what's your occupation? What's your job? I rob houses all over Manhattan.

I break into apartments and steal everything. Then I'm like, oh really? Then I'm like, interesting.

I said, how did you start this kind of work? He said, I need a lot of money. Why?

I have heroin. I'm a heroin addict. I have to shoot up every day.

Then I'm like, oh, I never talked to a heroin addict. He says, you know, but it makes sense because I want to stop my mind. The reason I want to meditate is my mind makes me crazy.

My mind talks terrible things all day and I want to stop it. Just teach me how to get my mind to shut up. But sometimes when you want a new idea for making enough money to pay your rent next week and you ask your mind for an idea, finally your mind is completely quiet.

Now listen. You have to plant the seed the week before. Don't tell me, Geshe Michael, I don't have any peaches today.

Did you plant the peach tree? No. Then you don't get peaches.

But I want them now. In this system you cannot have it now. It never works that way.

And I'm sorry. If you want instant peach trees, go someplace else. It's not possible.

You cannot plant a peach tree in two minutes. You cannot change your mind in one day. You can plant the seeds.

You can make them grow fast. And it works 100% of the time. But you have to be a gardener.

You cannot be a manufacturer. It takes time. The more you know, the faster it grows.

If you want bad seeds to grow faster, when you put your head on the pillow at night, we call it anti-coffee meditation. Think about all the people you hurt this week. I'm so glad I upset my mother.

I'm so glad I had an argument with my wife. I'm so happy I told my boss what I really think about my boss. That's like a bad meditation when you go to sleep.

And that's how you can make your bad seeds stronger. Now I want to teach you what I understood after 49 years. It's a great system for having new ideas come in your mind every day.

$100, tell me how many companies and organizations I am running right now. Nobody can guess, forget it. Forget it, it's okay.

[Speaker 2]
Forty-two.

[Speaker 1]
International companies. Some of them have 150,000 clients. How to do that?

Just plant the seeds. Plant the right seeds. After 49 years of planting, what's the best way to plant the seeds for new ideas and new concepts to make new companies, for example?

I'm going to tell you and you won't believe me, but I don't care. And by the way, I did not tell people before. But for the specific seed to have great ideas every day, after 49 years of trying this system, here's my opinion.

That's not it. Next picture. I'll come to that.

What is that? What is that? No, that's correct.

What is it? It's sitting in that terrible translation class. Completely confused.

What they talking about? We're supposed to discuss it, but I didn't understand anything. What did Tim say this morning?

If you don't want to learn anything, go to a class where you understand everything already. If you want to learn something new, go to a class where you don't understand anything. Okay, there's a system in the monastery.

The Geshe course is 25 years. Every year you change to a different course. You go up for 25 levels.

Then sometimes in level 8, your teacher will say, don't come to my class today. Go to that Geshe's class. But he's teaching level 20.

What's the teacher saying? I'm your teacher. It means shut up and do what I told you.

So you are level 8. You finished 8 years of Geshe study. Then the 8th year teacher tells you, tomorrow, for the next week, you go to the 20 year class.

For one week you go to a class you don't understand one word. And also you have to debate with the 20 year class that night, every night, three, four hours.

[Speaker 2]
You can't tell me what's the definition of a classical comment. You can't tell me what's the definition of a classical comment.

[Speaker 1]
What did Asanga say? What did Maitreya say? It's like that for two hours.

It's very embarrassing. But for 12 years those ideas cook inside your mind. 12 years later you enter the 20 year level class, and suddenly you understand everything, because you planted the seeds.

So, in my opinion, and by the way, I'm going to take questions in two minutes. I have 15 minutes for questions. Now, because I did 25 years of Geshe debate, I enjoy every kind of question.

Personal questions, philosophy questions, silly questions, I don't care. Any question you want. I don't know.

Okay, any question you want. Wait, not yet. Let me finish the class first.

So, in my opinion, the best way to plant the seeds to force your mind to talk to you next week and give you new ideas is to sit in the classes about new ideas. We hold them twice a week. Saturday morning Arizona time, which is now world central time.

What time? Eight o'clock? Nine o'clock.

Eight o'clock. Or Monday night four to six thirty Arizona time. The class is free.

If I go to China, we hold it at the same time. If I'm in Europe, we hold it at the same time. Just come and enjoy.

I cannot see you. You can turn off your camera. You can eat ice cream for two hours.

Geshe-la won't know. Also, try to take the ACI courses. It's called 30-30-30 program.

Ta-da! Good translator. What's 30-30-30?

Number one, it has been 30 years since we started ACI in New York City. At a tiny little place called Three Jewels. In the last 10 or 15 years, that little place has become the number one yoga and dharma center in the United States.

And we have the director here, Hector Martí. Thank you. And anytime you're in New York, go see it, okay?

So it was 30 years ago we started it. One of these 30s, I don't remember which one, by 2030, in six years from now, I taught Steps of the Path now for how many years, Tim? Fourteen years.

I'm going to finish soon. And then I'm going to record 100 meditations. Free recording, okay?

And I've already started actually. So I hope to finish that by 2030. So 100 meditations by 2030.

To do that, I need funding for the teachers who go to other countries to teach free classes. I went to United Airlines. Aldo and his team have to travel to all Latin America countries.

It's a very important dharma job. Please give us free airplane tickets. Not one company agreed.

They even tried to charge us extra. So it's also a fundraising idea. If all the people who take the ACI courses for free, if you could donate like one dollar a day, or five pesos or something, then I can afford to help these people.

Unfortunately, even those serious ACI teachers still having babies. They should be too busy, but unfortunately they have more energy. So I need to give a little support to some of the people.

So if you can join the 30-30-30 program, I don't care, two pesos per day. When we see people sign up, we feel encouraged. We feel brave.

Okay, oh, 200 people signed up. Geshe-la, they all signed up for one peso. It's okay.

At least they're trying. So please sign up. I don't care.

As long as the number is not negative. Then it's good. So please help.

I need to help my kids. And they're helping many, many people. Those Pataguay guys, today I saw so handsome and stuff.

Okay, so let's do it, okay? All right, Q&A, right? Did I say good?

Okay, you guys choose.

[Speaker 2]
Hello, I'm Shanti. I'm eight years old. When I grow up, I want to be a businessman.

What should I do to help people and be a millionaire?

[Speaker 1]
Hola, mi nombre es Shanti. Tengo ocho años. ¿Y qué semilla debo desembrar para que cuando crezca sea un millonario y pueda ayudar a muchas personas?

Let me think about it. Here's my suggestion if you want to be a millionaire. Every day.

Okay, this is a suggestion for everybody, actually. Here's the real karma to have these good ideas in your mind. My first suggestion was what?

Sit in the twenty year class. Sit in the class you don't understand. Just be patient.

I am planting seeds. I don't understand what the hell is going on, but I'm planting. That's the first suggestion.

Second suggestion, especially for you Shanti, but for everybody. And it's a very simple meditation. Simple meditation.

You can do it all day. Silently, you can do it in your own mind. Nobody has to know.

And it is, why did I just meet what I met? Good things and bad things. I don't know.

I went to a, Juan Hasso took me to a new coffee shop today. It even has a great name, Madre Coffee Shop. And I really enjoyed the place, so beautiful.

Then just, I meditate, when I reach the door, Geshe Michael asked Geshe Michael, what did I do to make this place? What did I do to make this place? And you don't have to tell anybody you are meditating.

Just inside your own mind, what did I do to make a place like this? By the way, the seed might be 10 million years old. That's not the point.

Try to guess. Just try to guess. Maybe I built a nice coffee shop in a lousy little poor town in Arizona.

Why? Just say why. Why do I see Madre Coffee Shop?

Ask yourself inside your own mind why. Then with the negative stuff, I don't know, you meet some really irritating person, and don't say anything to them, okay? But it's okay inside your own mind, why do I have to see this person?

What did I do? Then try to guess. Whole day, good things and bad things.

Talk to yourself. Why is this happening? What did I do?

It's always guess, right? Maybe I did something like that. Maybe I did something like that.

Sometimes you can say, definitely it came from last week, I got mad at my dog or something like that. When you keep asking yourself, why do I have to meet this person? Why did this happen to me?

Try to guess how did you plant those seeds. That's the most powerful meditation to make good ideas come in your mind for the rest of your life. And the cool thing is, nobody has to know you are meditating.

You will go to a party. You will meet a very talkative Dharma student. Let me tell you about the retreat I did, and I did a big meditation also, and also I can leave, I also know Tibetan, I don't say anything.

And then you can be like, There's a cute, Hector, there's a cute New York, what's that magazine? New Yorker. There's a cute cartoon, two people at a cocktail party, and the guy's trying to hit on the girl.

And she's like, no, I don't want to know your secret mantra. He's trying to impress her. You can be a secret meditator, all the time.

By the way, it's a natural meditation. When something very good happens or something very bad happens, it's natural to say, why did this happen? If you want to be a planter of future good ideas in your own mind, this is the most powerful method, and it's natural.

Of course you should think, what the hell did I do to meet this person? Because you don't want to do it again, or you do want to do it again. All right, so that's my millionaire advice also.

And your mom can help you. All right, thank you. One more question.

Beautiful. Hi, Geshe. Hola, Geshe.

[Speaker 2]
You were talking about the breakthrough. You said that the most important thing is to plant seeds that have to do with new ideas. And you said that the most important seeds were creative.

I'm going to show you this. You have the right.

[Speaker 1]
You said that my AI is more intelligent, but it's sure more creative than yours. He has AI that can make a dog with a pen in its mouth. Your AI must be AI.

[Speaker 2]
Definitely more creative.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, thank you. Okay, one more question. One more question.

Hello, Geshe Michael. I have a question for you. I've been working with the silent time meditation that you described in the Diamond Cutter.

And after a few days, the challenge is to try to recreate a scenery when you are upset or get angry with someone. And then you think about emptiness and then you see what you can do for having a different reaction. After a few days, I realized that the person I am most angry with is myself.

I am wondering if the karma activates when you do something for someone else.

[Speaker 2]
Does it have any sense to think about a conversation with myself and trying to not getting angry with myself?

[Speaker 1]
Good, good question. After I stayed with my teacher for several years, I got a phone call from my father. He said, your little brother committed suicide today.

I was like, oh my god. And I talked to my teacher, and we had a very intense conversation. And I'm like, my brother just killed himself.

Then, we always talk about hurting other people or helping other people. Then I said, if you hurt yourself, is it also a bad seed? Because you're always talking about either hurting other people or helping other people.

And he said, your brother just destroyed his chance to become Buddha in this life. So, in a way, he did the worst thing you can do. And he said, of course, hurting yourself is one kind of hurting.

Getting angry at yourself is one very powerful kind of anger. And it will make bad seeds. Hurting yourself is almost more destructive than hurting other people.

Because while you're hurting yourself, you don't have time to study Dharma, for example. You are wasting hours that you cannot get back. So, definitely, hurting yourself is a very serious bad seed.

Getting angry at yourself is a bad seed. So, Geshe-la, what? Should I be happy when I do something bad?

In the Abhidharma kosha, there's only one negative thought in the whole world, which is a good karma. And that's regret that you did something wrong. The only kind of sadness which is good karma is to be sad that you hurt somebody.

And that's a good karma. But you shouldn't hurt yourself. That's not productive.

That's a bad seed. You have to eat well. You have to sleep well.

You have to use your hours well. You have to expose your mind to beautiful things. You have to take care of yourself.

That's your number one responsibility. Okay, last thing. Last thing.

So, when I graduated from Princeton, you have to write a thesis. Then two professors in your department have to examine you about the thesis. So, I wrote a thesis about the perfection of giving.

And that was my graduation thesis. Then one professor is very smart. And he said, what's the definition of paramita?

I said, you know, you want to help all living beings. And then he said, I have a final question. If you pass, I will give you honors.

Honors means super degree. Then I'm like, okay. He said, so paramita means you have to help all living beings.

Yeah, yeah. Are you one of the living beings you have to help? Yes.

Okay, honors. So, that's the answer. If you promise to help all living beings, there's one you shouldn't treat better and you should not treat worse.

You are one of all living beings. You promise, bodhisattva promise, help everybody equally. So, you have to be nice to yourself also.

That's your bodhisattva vow. Because you are one of the people. Cool.

Okay, see you tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you Aldo.