500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 74

[Speaker 2]
Tsongkapa, he has a famous quotation. He says, if you delay your enlightenment you're hurting everybody. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
If you don't work at your maximum capacity, you're hurting everybody. Okay? If you become an angel ...

by the way, if you become an angel you don't have to leave your house, your address is still the same, don't worry about it. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
You don't have to leave your family or something like that, right? You can be on a thousand planets at the same time. Okay?

One body you can leave at home, you don't even have to pack. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Then, we have a responsibility to practice. Okay? In a happy, relaxed way.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
Why?

[Speaker 1]
Because you lived millions of past lives.

[Speaker 2]
Every combination has been done countless times.

[Speaker 1]
You have been my mother countless times.

[Speaker 2]
You have been ... all the boys here have been Miss America countless times. All the women here have kicked the final successful goal in the World Cup.

[Speaker 1]
Countless times.

[Speaker 2]
You have kissed me countless times, you have murdered me countless times. Every combination has been done. Okay?

Why am I talking about that?

[Speaker 1]
We're supposed to focus on the fact that everyone has been our mother.

[Speaker 2]
Only an American would ask the next question.

[Speaker 1]
My Lama said, everybody's been your mother. You can't disappoint them. You have to help them.

[Speaker 2]
Then some ... you know, I don't know why Americans will always ask this stupid question.

[Speaker 1]
I'm American, so I'm just telling you. Yeah, but everybody also killed me countless times.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay, I agree, but don't worry about it. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Try to focus on the good side.

[Speaker 2]
Every person you ever meet has been your mother. She carried you around for nine months, right Sophie?

[Speaker 1]
She didn't know if she would live or die to give you life. She decided to try, even at her own life's risk.

[Speaker 2]
Some American will raise their hand, you know. Yeah, but my mother doesn't like me. Yeah, okay, maybe not.

[Speaker 1]
Now I understand why.

[Speaker 2]
But, if your mother loved you, didn't love you, hurt you, didn't hurt you, she risked her life to give you your life. You are a life that proves your mother was cool. So, you have a responsibility.

[Speaker 1]
You have to work as hard as you can. Working hard doesn't mean fanatic, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Fanatics work hard for six weeks and they say bad things to everybody. Just relax. Review the lam rim ...

you know that ...

[Speaker 1]
you know, review them at breakfast before you go to work. Do your best to be a good person. Most important, learn the two husbands in the kitchen.

[Speaker 2]
Everything's there. John Brady and me, our goal is to save 200,000 books. Where are you John Brady?

[Speaker 1]
John Brady and I, our goal is to save 200,000 books.

[Speaker 2]
There's a question nowadays, will the 200 books get saved first, or will me and John Brady go to Nirvana first? But one thing I can tell you, so far, you know, we saved, I don't know, 30,000 books. 30,000?

[Speaker 1]
There's nothing in those books which is not in the husband in the kitchen.

[Speaker 2]
Cool?

[Speaker 1]
So, just remember the husband in the kitchen.

[Speaker 2]
What's this idim? Come on, don't you want to help your mother? Okay, help your mother.

All the idims up to now in this review, the meaning of them was, how are you supposed to have a motivation when you walk in this place? Why do you sign up for these retreats?

[Speaker 1]
Why do you suffer through these retreats? Somewhere in your mind, there has to be this idea, oh, I believe I can stop death. I believe I can help other people.

If there's a chance, I will sit through these retreats. Okay, that's the motivation, okay?