500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 65

[Speaker 1]
This is some of the early classes by my teacher. The most handsome guy on the left is me. That's when I used to have hair.

And that's my lama sitting down. Now, what does this picture mean? What's the meaning of this idim?

The guy with the white beard, not far away from me, white hair.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, a great professor of philosophy.

[Speaker 1]
He wrote many books.

[Speaker 2]
The next tall guy, kind of in the middle with the mustache and the glasses, he wrote the Gopher search program, which we still use.

[Speaker 1]
The guy, the kind of older guy on the right in the back with the glasses, he's a famous diplomat in Latin America. He represents the United States government in all of Latin America. The hippie guy at the bottom right kneeling, he and I typed the first ACIP book together.

[Speaker 2]
He and I transcribed the first ACIP book together.

[Speaker 1]
We input the first hundred pages of the ACIP projects, because we didn't have anybody else.

[Speaker 2]
A thousand or a hundred pages? A hundred pages. Cataloged to the congier.

[Speaker 1]
Then of course, there's my Lama. To his left are two ladies. One is a famous professor in Washington DC.

The other one helped to run the Department of Education. All those people I mentioned are dead. Okay?

Half the people in this picture are dead. What was my Lama teaching during that time?

[Speaker 2]
He was teaching this lam rim. What part was he teaching? This part.

It says ... this is the idim, okay? There will come a day when half the people in this room are dead.

[Speaker 1]
You know, and we're all sitting there like, yeah, yeah, okay, but when is lunch? What's for lunch? Nobody's going to die this afternoon.

Come on. We're all here, you know. We have two legs, you know.

We have head, you know.

[Speaker 2]
Then we didn't believe him, you know. We didn't believe the book, and now it came true, okay?

[Speaker 1]
All those people, important people, they did good work. They did some work for the Dharma. All of those people are amazing people.

But they didn't work hard enough. They didn't work fast enough. And they died.

I don't know where they are now, okay? But, don't think, don't think this is theory, you know. There will come ...

the idim is, do it now.

[Speaker 2]
Finish it now, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Get your rainbow body, then have lunch. Okay? Work hard now.

There will come a time when you are teaching ... Nick is teaching his students, and he will put up the picture from this retreat, and he will say half the people are dead.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Got it? This is logic, right? Half the people in that time died, so half the people in this time are going to die.

It's logical.

[Speaker 2]
But human being doesn't like to think that half of the people in this time are going to die.

[Speaker 1]
But human being doesn't like logic, you know. Oh, did half the people in this picture die already? Yeah, they died.

So, do we have also a group?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Are we also studying the same book? Yeah.

So, will half the people in this room die? What's for lunch, Geshe-la?

[Speaker 1]
Your mind doesn't want to think about it, you know.

[Speaker 2]
So, try. Use logic, okay?

[Speaker 1]
In your Tibetan human dictionary, it's called RIGS PA'I GO TSUNG. RIGS PA'I GO TSUNG. Parallel reasoning.

Okay, let's ... this wasn't supposed to be depressing, but it is.

[Speaker 2]
But it is depressing.