500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 28

[Speaker 1]
So, let's go to number four. Do something. Okay?

Okay, this is a famous charge by Teddy Roosevelt up a hill in Puerto Rico. I tried to find a charge. I couldn't find a good one.

I worked really hard on it, and then I got tired and I just took this one. But they are doing something about it, okay? They are running up the hill to attack dullness or agitation.

Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, you know, and they're attacking the problem in their mind. Okay, so the idea is you attack the problem in your mind. Do something, okay?

What was problem number four? Yeah, good, and it a little bit fudged that image. Anybody tell me why?

Yeah, you actually should have put somebody sitting on their ass. But so many people are sitting on their ass in a meditation course that I thought, I'll put the... See, the problem is not running to fix the problem.

The problem is not doing anything. But I just put the doctors running to save a guy's life because it showed urgency. We should have urgency.

When you detect a problem in your mind, don't be lazy, like deal with it. It's like, I don't know, your sink is leaking, like fix it now. Your car is acting weird, take it to the repair guy now.

Don't wait till you're on a highway and it breaks. So they're doing something. What are they doing?

This is a typical case in which I ask a question and you should answer me with a question. Yeah, are you talking about the lady on the couch or her husband falling asleep next to her? Yeah, what are we going to do about the husband falling asleep?

Yeah, uplift the mind. Think of... Eh, just think about how amazingly lucky you are.

Okay, to be, you are... Nobody in this room can ever have low self-esteem again because we proved that you are one out of 150 million people in the world. That's not bad.

You want to be better than, you know, try to give yourself a little credit, okay? Karmically, you made it into the best room in the world. Okay?

And about 7 billion other people didn't. Maybe you're special. There's a Louis C.K.? Maybe, maybe if you bomb other people's country for three years, maybe they will shoot at you when you come there. Something like that. Okay, that's another subject. So, then what's the lady going to do?

Yeah, yeah. And there will be a picture later, right? Won't there?

When we reach impermanence in the Lam Rim, there will be a picture of death, death meditation. Okay? All right.