Шесть путей духовного воина (1999, Голуэй), занятие 1

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First I want to say that it's really, really nice to be in Ireland, and really, really nice to be in Galway. It's my favorite city in Ireland. I've been to two so far.

And really, really pleasant. My family comes from Ireland. We think around Cork, but nobody knows for sure.

And it's just really nice to be here. And there are things that stir the blood here. You're not aware of it because you live here.

But if you live in America, this big, huge country, the interesting thing about America when you go there is that it's a huge country, and every place is exactly the same. Every town has the same McDonald's. Every town has the same Kmart.

Every town has the same television. And really, it's one big, boring country. And nothing happens there anymore.

It's just eating and sleeping and working, and no great heroic deeds going on. I mean, a hundred years ago, they were still fighting with the Indians and making log cabins and conquering the wilderness. And now there's nothing left to do.

Everything is a strip mall. Everything is a big highway. And on each side is a McDonald's and a Burger King and everywhere.

I mean, every place looks the same. Everything is covered with these highways. And this is the feeling you have in America.

Then when you come here, you feel something in your blood, especially if you grew up in an Irish family. Something in your blood stirs. And you go to all the historical bookstores, and you open up old books about Ireland that tell about all the great deeds of the warriors here and the Kevin of Ireland or something like that.

And you get inspired by these big heroes of Ireland. The Irish are known for crazy courage and crazy music and crazy drinking. And they know how to really experience life and have some kind of a deep life.

And also some kind of, I don't know, courage about life. And life is not ordinary in Ireland. You have all these mythical figures.

And life is not one big McDonald's stretching from the East Coast to the West Coast. And so when we come here, we feel some kind of excitement. And something feels very good about being here.

And you feel some kind of encouragement or some kind of inspiration that we're really missing in America. And then in Buddhism, it's very interesting. As you get into the higher teachings of Buddhism, there are special teachings called ngak.

And you can only normally study them after. In the monastery, you have to finish 18 years of study. And then you get to study these higher books, like these special books.

And inside of those books, it's very interesting. There's a rule that the biggest mistake you can make about your life is to think of it as something normal. You see what I mean?

At that point in the holy books, it says that the most dangerous thing you can do with your life is to imagine that you're just a normal person and that you have to live like a normal person. And you should just get up in the morning and have a normal tea and normal breakfast, and go off to work, and work in some normal place with normal people, and have a normal lunch, and come back and watch a normal television show. And then just live like that, get old, and die.

And they say in the higher teachings, that's called tamil nangchen. It means the mistake of living your whole life as if you were just a normal person, and just quietly eating and consuming and making money, and then quietly dying. And then you're just a normal person, and nothing exciting happens to you, and there are no big challenges in your life.

And I would like to spend this weekend talking about the idea of becoming something special. Something like those Irish heroes. You see, to us, when we look at Ireland, we think of these mighty heroes who would go out and battle and fight people.

And we haven't had anything like that in the United States for a long time. And we're sort of jealous of Ireland. So I'd like to talk about that.

There's a very important idea in Asia, in the Buddhist countries, about living your life as something special, and being some kind of a hero, or some kind of larger-than-life person, and having something amazing happen in your life. So I'd like to talk about that. We're going to use, and you're going to get, pieces of a very famous book.

And I'll write it up here. First I'll tell you the author. By the way, the way I run a class, I taught in New York for like 10 years, starting in the 70s, and people didn't learn very fast.

I noticed that people would come and visit and stay for a few classes, and then they would go home, and then they would come back after a few weeks and study some more, and they never gained anything. They never progressed. So about seven, eight years ago, I stopped teaching, and I made an announcement.

I had about 30 students, and I said, now I'm not going to do it that way anymore. You have to. Anybody who comes after next month, you're going to be examined every time you come into class.

Every time you come into class, there'll be a short quiz, like two or three questions, and you have to fill this out. Those people in New York are studying some of them in the Tibetan language, so you have to fill it out. And I made it a little bit tough.

Then I said, if you miss more than two classes in six weeks or eight weeks, you get thrown out. And you don't have to pay anything for class. In New York, there's no charge for class.

But you have to stick to this regimen. And then I give them homework. I say, here's homework you have to take home.

And ever since I did that, then now I had 30 students, right? Immediately it dropped to 15. And I thought maybe I made a mistake.

And I was thinking to drop the requirements and ask them all to come back. But I stuck to it. Now there's 500 people there.

And they're learning very well. And a lot of them have been through six years of study and have learned a lot. So what I'd like to do in this...

I don't teach anywhere unless the organizers agree that we can have homework. So you're going to get... Going out, on the way out, you'll get some sort of thing that says...

It asks you a few questions about what we talked about. And then it asks you to write it. And then when you come back for the next class, you bring it back with you.

And there'll be a little quiz. There'll be two or three of those questions will be on a quiz. Now people in New York...

I go to Boston, I remember I went to Boston. And some guy raises his hand and says, this is ridiculous. I'm not a high school student.

I'm not still in school. That was 40 years ago. And I say, that's all right, just try it.

And then what they did was they started to try it. And then after the course was finished, like Sunday afternoon, he came and thanked me. He said, I've never learned anything.

I've never really been forced to learn something. And he remembered everything, and then he could teach it to other people, and he could explain it to other people. So what I ask you to do is, if you have a paper and pencil, take some notes.

I will give you a homework at the end and ask you to do it. You know, I can't kick you out if you don't do it, but I like it if you do do it. And then what happens is you remember everything, and it has an effect on you.

Otherwise it's just you hear something, and then on Monday you've forgotten it already. So I'm going to write some words on the board. They're in a foreign language.

You don't have to write that. That's just to impress you, so you think I know what I'm talking about. By the way, all you people visiting from New York, you also have to do it.

Everybody. No slackers? There must be some word in Irish for that.

Lazy bones? I don't know. Anyway, you know what I mean.

And then I'll ask you to repeat this language, okay? Please say shiwa.

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Shiwa.

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Ha. Shiwa.

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Shiwa.

[Говорящий 1]
Ha. Okay. This is a famous Indian meditation master.

We usually know him as Shantideva, and he lived about 700 A.D. There's a famous story. He was staying in this monastery, and he was known for being lazy. He was in this ancient monastery called Nalendra, and it looked like he only did three things.

He was nicknamed Dushi Sumbawa. In Sanskrit, that's busuku. Busuku means Mr. Three Thoughts. And it looked like he only had three thoughts that he was thinking about. Food, sleeping, and going to the toilet. So his name was Dushi.

The other monks began to call him Dushi Sumbawa. It means the guy who only thinks about three things. Eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet.

So he got a reputation like that, and in the monastery, they began to talk about him like that. They never saw him study. They never saw him do any serious prayer.

Nobody ever saw him. We have debating. He never went to debating.

He never did anything. Just Mr. Three Thoughts. Then to get rid of him in the monastery, they thought, well, we'll embarrass him, and then he'll be forced to leave the monastery.

So they purposely built... They asked him if he would like to give a lecture in the monastery hall to all the monks. And he said, you know, I don't know anything, but if you really want me to, I will.

So they said, yeah, we want you to. And if you don't do well, then we're going to kick you out of the monastery. So the day was set, and they put a big lecture hall.

And just in Tibet, the teacher always sits on a very high throne or something, about this high. And then there are always steps going up to the throne. So just to make sure that he would be embarrassed, they put the throne up like about 15 feet high with no steps.

And then so he went into the room, and there are about 700 monks there. And we always bow before the throne out of respect first. So he bows to the throne.

He looks up, and then suddenly he's sitting on the top. And everyone's talking to each other. What's going on?

I don't know. How did he get up there? I don't know.

And he's sitting at the top of this throne already. And then he leans down, and he says, well, you've asked me to give you a lecture about spirituality. Would you like something you've heard before, or would you like me to make something new?

So they're like, oh, you make something new? Yeah, right. You make something new.

So he says, OK, I'll make something new. This is something I wrote myself. And he started to teach a famous book.

It has nine chapters. Some people say 10 chapters. And this is called The Guide to a Warrior's Way of Life.

You see, like a heroic figure's way of life. And he starts to teach this book. And it's about six different ways of behaving which make your life like magical.

You see what I mean? It's a way to put magic back in your life. And I thought it'd be nice to go through that.

So anyway, he starts teaching that. And everyone is amazed because it's very, very beautiful poetry. And he's teaching over and over.

And he's going on and on. And then finally, he gets down to the last chapter. And the ideas start to get so intense and so amazing that he starts to rise off the throne into the air.

You know, like he's still teaching. And only a few people can still understand what he's saying. And that's on a mental level.

And on a physical level, he's starting to head towards the ceiling of this temple, of this high cathedral. So he's heading up. And people are trying to listen to him, what he's saying.

And then finally, only a few people can follow what he's saying. And then finally, he just disappears. And then everyone is sitting, shocked and amazed that this man could teach these things.

And you know, the person who only thought about eating and sleeping and the other thing. And suddenly, he's taught this wonderful book. And so they went looking for him for almost a year.

And they went all over India looking for him to see what happened to him. And finally, next to one temple, they found him. And they said, would you please come back?

You know, we apologize. We didn't know you were such a great man. And that's the greatest teaching we ever had in our monastery.

Could you come back? And he said, no, I don't think so. So then they said, well, would you at least give us a copy of the book you wrote?

And he said, yeah, it's in the monastery. I hid it in the rafters of my room in my cell. And you can find it up there.

And they said, well, how many chapters is it, finally? And he said, well, I started flying away on chapter nine. And there's still a debate on how many chapters.

You know, some people say nine, some people say ten. Nobody ever figured it out, okay? But we do have the book.

The book was written in Sanskrit. And what I'd like to do is go over some of the ideas from that book. It's a way to make your life a little magical.

You know, it's a way to make your life something like a warrior's way of life. And I'll write the name of the book. Please say, Chunduk.

Chunduk. Chunduk. Chunduk.

Chunduk. Okay. Chunduk means, I'll write it.

It's like, it's called The Guide to a Warrior's Life. Warrior is a translation of a Sanskrit word, which I'll show you. So it means the idea that you don't have to live an average life.

You don't have to live a normal life. I was once translating for the Dalai Lama's doctor about, I don't know, 20 years ago in New York. And this is a great Tibetan doctor named Yeshe Danden.

And he was teaching about cancer. And he said, the things that give you cancer are the chemicals in canned food. The things that give you cancer are the exhaust emissions.

And then he said, the rubber which wears off the tires, car tires, and comes into the air. And then he said, electrical wires of all kinds, especially high voltage wires. This is like 20 years ago.

And then he says, I think that was it. Oh, and then he said, television and radio waves, which are sent through the air. And then he said, these are what give you cancer.

So after he finished speaking, he had questions and answers. And some people raised their hand, and they said, I have a question. And he said, OK, go ahead.

And they said, I'm a normal person. I live in a normal city, New York. I have a normal job.

And I eat normal food. I go to the store, I buy canned food. I buy milk that's in a carton.

I drive a car. There's cars all around me all the time. I have electrical appliances in my house.

That's a normal house. What am I supposed to do if that causes cancer? How am I supposed to live?

And he says, he looks at me and he says, tell them that that's not, I didn't say that's what causes cancer. I said that's what gives you cancer. And I said, well, you know, doctor, honorable doctor, he's got an empty lap.

What's the difference? And he says, oh, oh, those things give you cancer. But you have to discuss what causes them.

You see? And that's treating other people badly. You know, that's hurting other people.

And that's why those things cause cancer. You see what I mean? And then he says, and then he turns to me and he says, and by the way, tell that guy to stop using the word normal.

You know? And I'm like, empty lap, why can't he call himself normal? He says, nothing's normal.

Never think you're normal. He got angry. You know, he said, your city's not normal.

Your life's not normal. Your job's not normal. And you're not a normal person.

You're living in this exciting world. You can learn all these holy things. You can become a warrior in your own world.

You can become like, you could almost become the Jesus of your own world. You see what I mean? We believe that.

We believe that if someone teaches you the right way to do it, you can become a warrior in your own life, in your own times. You can be, even at your own family, in your own house, in your own job, you can be some kind of a glorious warrior. You see what I mean?

And he says, tell that guy to stop using that word normal. You know? He got angry.

And that's what this is about. Warrior, I'll show you the word for warrior, okay? There won't be too many weird words, okay?

Not too many more. But just to get started, we have to have them. These are Tibetan.

And I'll show you some of the Sanskrit if you like. Each one has its own Sanskrit. Say, changchub?

Sempa. Changchub? Sempa.

Changchub sempa is the word for warrior in Tibetan. Changchub means like, knowledge. A person who has total knowledge, like enlightened state of mind, okay?

Changchub. Sem means that kind of a mind. And then pa means warrior.

Sempa means a warrior, okay? So changchub sempa in Sanskrit is called what? Do you guys know?

Bodhisattva, okay? In Sanskrit, I'm not going to give you any more foreign words, but that's one you should know. Changchub means like enlightened.

It's like an enlightened warrior. How's that? Changchub sempa.

And the Sanskrit is bodhisattva. I'm not going to tell you any more foreign words. Almost no more foreign words, okay?

But I just want you to know that one. So what this book is about, is how to live like a bodhisattva. Now, I think every person here, every person who's sitting here, senses that it would be nice to not live a normal life.

You know, it would be nice if you had some kind of a... old, you know, like the old days in Ireland, or England, you know, like the Arthurian times, or something like that. When magical things were happening, you know.

And people think that magical things can't happen anymore. Like, those are just old stories, and half of them aren't true, and they're just exaggerations from the past, and there's no such thing as dragons, and no such thing as fairies, and no such thing as warriors who, you know, fought with evil spirits with their swords, and defeated them, and had glorious victories, and things like that. I mean, you think like that.

You're putting your world on their world. You're saying, you know, the world of old Ireland was all just fairy tales, and nothing serious, and there's no such thing nowadays. And there's no people like that nowadays.

And what this book is about, and it was written, you know, 13 centuries ago, is how to make your life like a warrior's life, and how to make something exciting happen in your own life. How to make your life like something very magical. And that's a lot more fun than not.

You see what I mean? I think everybody in the room has some urging, or something inside you wants your life to be something special. And the older you get, the more you despair.

You say, oh, you know, it's starting to look very normal. You know, things are, you know, I've been at the same job now for 15 years, it's the same boring people, I have to do the same boring work, and, you know, I don't look very like I'm going to be a warrior, you know, I'm having a lot of tea and biscuits, and I don't feel like a warrior, and I don't think I could be like a warrior, and maybe in my younger days I could have been a warrior, but I can't be a warrior now. And there's this idea that those days are gone. For Ireland.

And there's also this idea that those days are gone for you personally. You think, I'm not going to be any kind of special person now, it's too late. Or, you know, I don't see how I could be something like that.

You know, like Joan of Arc or something like that, somebody special, somebody amazing. And this book is about six different things you can do that make your life start to become magical. And there's six different ways that you can change who you are inside.

And these are very, very sacred things, these are very powerful things, and we believe that if you follow them, six different kinds of activities, and if you make it part of your life all the time, if you start acting this way all the time, then something will start to happen in your life. You will start to become an unusual person. You know, you'll start to become a very special person.

And then incredible things will start happening to you. We believe that if you keep doing this for long enough, I'm going to teach you six different actions, six different activities. If you keep doing them long enough, and if somebody teaches you how to do them properly, then surprising things will start to happen in your life.

We say you go through like this many levels. And it's not some kind of fairy tale, or it's not some kind of... I'll show you how it works, okay?

I believe that to do it properly you have to know how it works, how it really works. And we'll get into that later. But for right now, if you keep doing the six things that I'm going to teach in the next few days, then the first thing that happens in your life is some kind of improvement.

Improvement means in an outside world and in your inner world, meaning outside of you, at work, people become a little more friendly. You know, your boss starts to treat you a little better. Your family starts to be a little bit more nice to each other.

And things in your family, your financial situation starts to get slightly better. This is a result of just starting on these ideas, these six different activities. If you start doing them in a small way, then pretty quickly you start to see improvement, okay?

Some kind of small improvement. Your health gets slightly better. You know, like if you had trouble walking upstairs, now it seems a little easier, and things like that.

That's a result of living this warrior's life, okay? The second thing that happens, surprising things start to happen, okay? Like what?

Your boss comes into work, and after three years of no raises, he says, you know, I've decided to give you a 10%, 15% raise. And you're like, what's getting into you? And he says, I don't know, I'm just watching you work, and I'm just very impressed.

I said, you haven't been impressed for three years. Now suddenly you decide I should have a raise. What is that?

That's surprising, okay? This is a result of living this way of life, okay? Six different activities, six different ways of thinking.

And this is the second result. Surprising things start to happen, you know? Somebody in your family who's always been sort of an irritating person in the family starts to become some kind of strong person in the family.

And they start to become different. They change. Their attitude starts to change.

Your health starts to change in a surprising way. Like some kind of backache that you've had for five, six years, it just starts to go away. And you're aware of it.

You say, boy, that's surprising. You know, I wouldn't expect that, you know? I thought I'd have that pain for the rest of my life, or something like that.

This is what we call the surprising level, okay? Third one, amazing means like that. Amazing means, and now I'll tell some true ones, okay?

Somebody comes up to you and says, Michael, I think you should stop working. I'll give you a million dollars, you know, and support you for a while, and the people that work with you. You know, I just think what you're doing is great, and here's a million dollars, you know?

Somebody else comes up and says, you know, my uncle died, and there are no other people in the family. He had an estate called Godstow. It's worth like three million dollars, and we thought we'd give it to you guys so you guys could use it because of the good work you're doing.

I mean, things like that, true stories, okay? Like something what you call, we're up to amazing, yeah. You know, like not impossible, but nothing you ever expected.

You see what I mean? Suddenly a major health problem that you've had for a long time starts to go away, and it's just amazing. You know, it's not supposed to go away.

Or you feel much, much stronger than you did last year. Or something, your hair starts growing back in your bald spot. I like Ireland because there's so many bald guys, and I feel at home.

You know, I was in Mongolia. It was terrible. Only the 80-year-old guys lose their hair, you know?

So, okay. Then what you call miracles, okay? Miracles means, you know, true miracles.

Like, you're in a restaurant. I mean, in New York we eat in restaurants. You know why?

It's more expensive to buy food than to eat in a restaurant. I'm not kidding. So we just go out and eat in a restaurant, you know?

And on my street, there's like 15 restaurants. You know, they all happen to be Indian, which is really bad luck, because the whole street smells like curry, but that's another thing, okay? So, you go into a restaurant you've never been before, and there's this old Israeli lady who's the waitress, and she's standing there, and she's helping to serve the food, and she's making the dishes ready, and she comes over, and she serves you your dinner, you're eating with a friend of yours, and at the end of the meal, you know, this is all over the world, you go like this, right?

So you don't have to know English. If you've traveled a lot, you just look at them, and you go like that. That means, bring me the check, bring me the bill.

So then the lady comes over to your table, and she says, Aren't you the guy that's been trying to be a warrior? Didn't you study that book by Master Shantideva? And you're like, and this is an old Israeli lady, right?

And she says, I would never think of charging someone like that. You're on a warrior's path. You're on a magical path.

I wouldn't think to charge you anything. You know, would you like any dessert before you leave, you know? And...

And I'm not kidding. These are not... I'm not making up stories or something like that.

People start... Things happen to you like that. You say, How did you know that?

You say, Never mind. Have a nice dinner. I'll see you.

And then they just disappear out the kitchen. And then you leave, you know, and you didn't have to pay anything. We left her a huge tip, by the way.

But something like that, you see? These things start to happen to you. And things that...

Miracles, okay? Just miracle things. Your body starts to get younger.

Clearly younger than it was ten years ago. You're clearly able to do things you weren't able to do ten years ago, okay? This is the result of this way of life, okay?

This is really the result of this way of life. And then your whole life becomes like some kind of magical thing. Just in restaurants you start to meet people like this.

On the street you start to meet people like this. The people around you start to change, you know? You start to see flashes of something magical in the people around you.

So I think it's very fitting to be in Ireland and talking about, you know, magic coming back to Ireland. In common people's lives, you know? You don't have to be a monk.

I don't wear this at work. I wear normal clothes, you know? For five years I didn't tell anybody I was a monk.

You know, just you live a normal life. No, not normal, right?

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Just...

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What I'm saying is you don't have to be a priest or anything like that. You don't have to have a Buddha in your house and you don't have to do strange things and you don't have to say strange things and blah, blah, blah. You know, it's not like that at all.

Anybody in the world can do these six kinds of... follow this path. It has six different things in it.

And then just see how it works, you know? And you'll see. It doesn't matter who you are.

It doesn't matter what country. We've been on four continents in the last three weeks. And people on every continent are learning it and doing it.

And it's wonderful. Normal people, just plain people. In Mongolia there were goat herders and there were taxi drivers and there were nomads and, you know, strangest collection of people you could find.

And they started about a year ago. We went there first time about a year ago. And people are already...

These amazing things are happening to them. And they're like... Last year it was...

You know, I think 30 people came. The first lecture. This year it was a thousand.

And... Because they're excited, you know? Because they start to work for them.

They're all excited about it. So... Try it, you know?

We're going to do six different things. What time do you have? Okay.

I'll just put the name up and then I'd like you to take a break and have some tea. And then we'll start after that. But let me give you the first of the...

I'm going to... So it's going to be six nights. Six classes.

Six different things to do. Okay? And tonight we're going to cover the first one.

Sorry? But four classes, right? Six classes, sorry.

Six separate classes. Okay? Two classes on Saturday.

Two classes on Sunday. One tonight. One tomorrow.

Tonight. Okay? Alright, here we go.

Okay, please repeat the word, okay? Say jimba. Jimba.

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Jimba.

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Jimba is the first of the six. We'll spend the rest of the night on jimba. Jimba means giving things to other people.

Okay? Giving things to other people. If you want your life to start being magical, if you want unusual things to happen to you, surprising things to happen to you, you have to start trying jimba.

Jimba means giving things to other people. Now, what are some examples? We can say there's four kinds of jimbas.

Four kinds of giving. The first kind of giving is to give away things. Okay?

Things. What are things? Money is the biggest one, right?

A place to stay. Things like that. Food.

I saw these signs coming in about collecting food and clothing for people in Kosovo. This is jimba. This is really good.

This is the idea. Okay? Things that people need.

And there's a lot of rules about how you give things, alright? I'll tell you some of the rules. Number one.

What you give to people, you should own. Okay? No, I mean, some people get excited about all this stuff, and they say, Oh, right, I'm going to do giving, you know?

We call it the perfection of giving. I'm going to do the perfection of giving. And they say, You know, I decided to give $500 to this person.

And you say, Well, do you have $500? They say, No, but I borrowed it, you know? That's not quite the idea, you see?

It has to be something that you own already. It has to be something that you already have in your hands. It's not something that you take from other people.

Especially, the money has to be, or what you give away, your family has to agree. Okay? If it's money that you own with your wife or husband, or with your family, there should be a consensus.

Everyone in the family should agree. Okay, it's important to give this money. You see what I mean?

You can't go home and say, Okay, I heard about this book, and we're going to give the family's money away. You know? It has to be something that you've checked with the other people in your family, and they all agree with it.

The thing that you give to people shouldn't be something which would hurt them. You see what I mean? Like, in New York, you get lots of people come up to you and say, I need money.

You say, Why? And they say, You want the truth, or you want me to make up something? And you say, Tell me the truth.

Well, tell me the made-up one. They say, I need to eat something. You say, Tell me the true one.

They say, I want to buy some wine. You know? So, should you give them the money?

You see? We say no. We say, it is not giving if you give something to someone that harms them.

If somebody wants to buy a weapon, or somebody wants to buy drugs, or somebody wants to buy alcohol, or something that's going to hurt them, then you don't have to give it. That's not giving. You see what I mean?

That wouldn't be an act of giving. That's the first kind of giving. It should be also something that you won't regret later.

Don't get all excited and say, I want those miracles to happen by next summer. So, I'm going to give away all the money. You see?

And then after a few weeks, you're like, sorry for it. We say that if you're sorry for it, then it doesn't work. You see what I mean?

It has to be a kind of giving that you feel comfortable with. And you have to be able to be happy about it. So, it's better not to give something that's beyond your capacity.

You know? Your spiritual capacity. Like, some people can give away their house and not have a regret about it.

Some people can't give away a pound and not have regrets about it. You see what I mean? You have to decide what's your capacity.

Master Shantideva says, start with potatoes. Okay? Start with a glass of water.

You know, start with something that you're capable of doing. And then build up. It's like exercising.

Like, every day, if you try to do it more and more, then you'll be able to do it better and better. But in the beginning, don't try to give away to other people more than what you can. And we don't think it's important to give away all your house and all your money, and then what next week?

Next week, you're going and bothering other people. Could you loan me some money? Okay?

So you don't give away more than... You don't give away so much that you would have to be going back and bothering people later. We say that a person who's practicing this spiritual practice shouldn't be giving away so much that they have to bother other people later.

We say that it's a virtue that everyone should have their own livelihood. And it should be honest living. You know what I mean?

And you shouldn't be imposing on other people. You should have your own... I don't mean...

In a family, it's okay. Right? But in general, we think it's a virtue if you're supporting yourself and you're not imposing on other people who don't want you to.

You see what I mean? A lot of people hear about this and they say, great. And they give away everything and then a week later, they're starting to borrow money from other people.

So it's not like that. That doesn't work. So that's things.

Second one. Second one is help. Okay?

Different kinds of help for people. This could be in the form of... You know, if you see someone who's being bothered by another person or someone who's being hit by another person or someone who's being, in any way, hurt by another person, if you protect them, if you keep this person off of them and you keep them like that, we call that, that's help.

That's giving help to people. And that's a second kind of help. You see?

You're not giving them anything physical. It's not money or a place to stay or food or anything like that, but you're protecting them. This could be also, if you have a friend who's depressed or someone who's sad, someone who's having a relationship and it's not working out right, and you go to them and you advise them and you talk to them and you help them or something like that.

That's a second kind of giving. Third one. Third one is love.

This is a special kind of love. In Buddhism, we have these meditations where we look at other people and we try to imagine how they're going to die. You see what I mean?

When you meet somebody, this is very non-Western. This wouldn't be popular at all in the United States. In the United States, we're not supposed to talk about dying.

Everybody's supposed to be young and healthy. And if you're not, then there's cosmetic companies who will supply the necessary goods. You know what I mean?

In America, you're supposed to exercise until the day you die and you're supposed to look young until you're 70 or 80 and then you die. But this kind of love is where when you're walking into a room and you look around and you think, how is each person here going to die? Will it be a car?

Will it be cancer? Will they slip on the front steps and hurt themselves? Will it be something they're eating?

Will some well-intentioned doctor kill them? You see what I mean? I mean, we look around the room and we try to imagine, and we look at each person.

When we walk into a room, we're trained to look around the room and say, okay, how's this person going to die? How is this person going to die? And what that does is, it's not depressing, okay?

It's a little depressing. What it does is, it gives you some kind of love for other people. Like, you walk into a room and you realize that each person in this room is going to die somehow.

Each person in this room is somehow suffering. And each person in this room will sooner or later lay down and not get up. And then you feel some sort of love for them.

That's the kind of love we're talking about, okay? It's this kind of love. And you give, you treat people as if this was the last time you were going to meet them.

Okay? Like, you treat each person you meet, you look at them, you see what they need, and because you imagine that you or they are going to die tonight. Okay?

And that's an exercise. It's a spiritual exercise that you go around and each person you meet, you think, okay, this is the last time I'm going to meet this person in my life. You know, they're going to die or I'm going to die.

And then you treat them like that. You know, you treat them with that kind of love and that kind of tenderness. I think it's like almost a tenderness, right?

That, you know, this person's not going to live until tomorrow. And so, what's the use of fighting with them about something or struggling with them about money or food or something like that? Treat them with kindness they're going to be gone tomorrow.

Okay? And that's a kind of love. That kind of love.

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Last one, then you can have some tea. Last one is spiritual knowledge. Okay?

Some kind of spiritual knowledge which will help other people. Like what we're doing right now. Okay?

So, the Chinese attacked Tibet. I remember, I didn't know where Tibet was. I got some kind of a grant from my university to go to meet the Tibetans.

You know? And I had to buy a book to look up where is Tibet. You know?

And they said it's north of India and I hardly knew where India was. And I remember staring at this map and trying to figure out where I'm going to go. You know?

And then I found this little country called Tibet. You know, they were attacked in 1959. These great masters, they've been living up in the Himalaya mountains quietly.

People couldn't attack them up until now because you have to have an airplane to attack them. You see what I mean? So, up until like 1940s, you couldn't really attack Tibet because you have to fly supplies in.

It's too high and there's too many mountains around it. So, suddenly, all of these great ideas, they have a hundred thousand books like this. You know, we're talking about one.

They have a hundred thousand books like that. These really wonderful old books about, you know, how to do these things, how to really pray, how to really live your life. And they start pouring out over the mountains into the other countries.

You see what I mean? So, so this is like some kind of new information that hasn't... You know, it all came out in Tibetan language.

And then, it took time. It takes about 15 years to learn their language nice and to learn to speak it. And then you talk to these people and they start explaining to you what these books mean.

And so, now, it's really interesting. In our generation, there's some kind of information pouring out of this country, this strange country up in the Himalayan mountains. And these beautiful, beautiful things.

And they work. You see? They really work.

and this information of people. If you say, look, you have some health problems, try this. You know, try this thing.

See if it doesn't go away. And, and this is called spiritual knowledge. This is sharing spiritual knowledge with other people.

And that's the last kind of giving. I was in Mongolia, you know. We were on...

We did a five-day series on television, okay? And, we're talking about ethical living. And the first of the...

We have ten commandments in Buddhism. First one is no killing. Anything.

And so, I'm up there and I'm talking to these people. There's like 800 Mongolians that night. And, we start talking about the different kinds of killing.

We believe killing people is bad. We believe killing animals is wrong. Anything that can feel.

You see? And we also believe that killing babies, unborn babies. We believe abortion is wrong.

We believe that's murder. You see what I mean? And, so I'm up here explaining it.

Mongolians used to know all this thing. Then for 70 years they were under the Russians, communists. And they were...

All their religion was killed. All the monks, 15,000 monks were killed in a week and buried in this mass grave. and so all these ideas have been gone for 70 years.

So I'm talking about killing. And I'm saying, the next day we're on TV again and I'm asking each person, what do you remember from last night's talk? And this one woman in the front row she says, I remember one thing.

And I said, what? And she says, you said that killing a baby was bad. An unborn baby.

You said abortion was killing. And, the nice thing is I went home and my sister was thinking to have an abortion and I told her, you know, this is what we believe. We believe that they're alive and you can't kill them and that's murder, you know.

And she said, so I talked her out of it and she decided not to do it. You see, and this is spreading spiritual knowledge. You see, you talk to someone and you help them with something that prevents them from making a big mistake or something like that.

And we believe that mistake would affect her health for many years or something like that. Not just her psychological state. So that's the last kind of giving is giving that kind of understanding to people, you know, telling people, look, this thing is alive, you can't kill it and then they, if they act on it, then that's kind of the best kind of giving, you see.

It's like teaching someone to fish rather than giving them food. You know, it's like teaching someone a skill that they can use for themselves, okay. So those are the four kinds of giving.

What I'd like to do is take a break and then after that I'd like to tell you how we think this really works. You see, it's one thing to stand up here and say, oh, you should be a good person, but it's another thing to explain to someone how it works, okay. So we'll do that after.

Take like a ten minute tea break, okay. And if you have any personal stuff to talk about, I'll be up here and you can just come up and talk, okay. Okay, we'll start again.

I told you I was going to teach you six different things and I want to teach you the name of those six different things. Okay. Please repeat that word.

Say par. Par. Chin.

Chin. Par chin means in Tibetan, perfection. Perfection.

So we call these the six perfections. They're like the six virtues or something like that. In some of the ancient books it says that perfection means something which makes you perfect.

You see, it should have been called perfectionizer or something like that. So, it means, perfection here means, it doesn't mean that you're perfect at it. It means that if you keep doing it long enough, your life will be something magical, something like approaching perfection, you see?

Then there's a question, you know, that comes up, how do you... how do you do this thing, you see? How does it become perfect to give something to other people?

What's the point of giving something to other people? Let's say you give money to somebody, somebody needs rent money, and and you... you understand that they need the money, and we say that in really serious giving, that person has to be looking to you for...

for help, you see? If you're in a position to help somebody, and they know you, and you're the only resource they have, and you have enough money to give them the money they need, you see? If it's a reasonable amount of money that they're asking for, if you have that much money, if you haven't promised that much money for something else, you know, if you're like the only person they can turn to, and you know that, then if all these things come together, you must give the thing to them, you see what I mean?

You must... you must be there for them, you must... when somebody's looking for you, and they really need your help to give them something, then you must give it to them, and that's what we call perfection.

Then there's a big argument in the Buddhist books, they say, well, what makes giving perfect, you see? What's the difference between if someone just gives somebody money, and somebody gives them money perfectly, and we're going to be talking about that. So, these six perfections, these six actions, are not just normal giving to other people, you see what I mean?

There's a difference between giving, and the perfection of giving, you see what I mean? There's a big difference between normal giving, and the kind of giving that's going to make you into some kind of warrior, you see what I mean? The kind of giving that's going to make your life something different, something magical, and we have to start talking about it tonight, and we'll keep talking about it later.

The main thing in your mind has to be something special, it has to be... it can't be something normal, you see what I mean? If somebody comes up to you and says, I need 50 more dollars to make my rent, and you give it to them, you just give it to them without any other thought, we say that's not the perfection of giving.

For the perfection of giving, you have to have some bigger thing in mind, you have to have something else in mind. I'll teach you a little bit about it tonight, and then we'll go more into it later. There has to be this idea that when I give you something, part of what I want to reach is some kind of very...

I don't know how to say... I want to reach some kind of saintliness myself, you see what I mean? And then I'll really be able to help many people.

So when you give somebody $50, you have to have in your mind that by giving this money, may it make me a little bit closer to some kind of real saint, you see what I mean? You have to have this idea in your mind, I want to be, in the future, some kind of magical person. We say if you keep up this kind of six actions more and more, you will actually become like one of the great saints, you know?

I think people say all the great saints died 600 years ago, you know what I mean? Like, they'll say that the Pope has come out and they've made a new saint, you know? And you'll say, who?

And they'll say, oh, it's this lady who lived in the 1400s. And then there's a few from the 1920s or something, but there's never any saints alive nowadays, you see what I mean? Except for Mother Teresa maybe, or something like that.

But you... there's this idea, I don't know about you, but if somebody's not 500 years old, it doesn't seem like they should be a saint, you know? Because saints are special people, and I could never be a saint, you know?

And the idea of these six things that you're going to learn, is that as you give the money to somebody, you should be thinking, I want this to be an expression of a saint. I want to be a saint, you know? I want, in the end, to be like a real saint.

And these six... or, we think the word saint and the word warrior are very close to each other, you see what I mean? Like, the strength or power of a spiritual warrior, or a spiritual...

some kind of hero, heroic figure, you know? That... that's why you give.

When you're giving it, in the back of your mind you're thinking, this is just one more step in a process by which I will become a really inspiring person, you know? I will become a person who in this world is like a jewel, or like a gem, you know? I'll become one of those special people in the whole world, who other people can look up to, and they can count on them, and they're doing pure things with their whole life.

The idea is that eventually, if you keep doing these six, you can look at your life and say, I've lived a perfect life, you know? My life is perfect. I'm totally honest to everyone I meet, I give everybody everything I can, I keep an ethical way of life in my business and in my work, and all these things...

I do my prayer, I pray, I know how to pray, and I do prayer, which is going to be coming up later, you know? And I know how to do all these things, my life is saintly. And there's this kind of a satisfaction that you get when you know how to live like that, and then you're really doing it, you see what I mean?

Your idea of yourself starts to change, and your idea of who you are. And when you can go to bed at night, and just before you go to bed you say, have I lied to a single person today? Or have I given the slightest misimpression to another person today?

Or during this whole day, did I have a single unkind thought towards another person? And when you can say, no, I haven't, you know? And I gave to every person who asked me, within my capacity, I gave, I did give every time someone asked me.

I was ready to do it, and when they asked me, I did it. And then you start to become a saint in your own mind, in your own knowledge, that you are living a saintly life. This is a...

your heart tells you you'd like to be like that, you see? Everybody in this room has this secret desire to be like Jesus or Mother Teresa. Everybody secretly would like to be like that.

In your own mind, in your own heart, you're thinking, okay, I don't want to go to Calcutta, because that's a little dirty, but I would like to be like her, you know what I mean? I'd like to be strong enough, strong warrior. I would like to be a strong enough person to say, I didn't find it necessary to get angry at a single person today, because I was strong enough.

I'm not... I'm a saint. I'm a strong...

I'm a warrior. I don't live like that. I'm above all that, you see?

I mean, I've learned how to do that. And the idea is that, at some point, each time you give something to somebody, you think, I'm doing this so I can become like Mother Teresa, you know? And it doesn't mean you have to give up your family, or join a nunnery, or go off to Calcutta, or something like that.

Within your own family, within your own life, within your own office place, you become a saint, and you become some kind of a special person, like we say a warrior. And the point of this, as you give the thing, is that you become like that, you want to become like that. In the back of your mind all the time, it's not just giving three pounds to somebody, it's not just giving some vegetables to someone, it's not just finding them a place to stay.

By that action, may I become a saint, you see what I mean? May I become a great person. And we call it, it's a special attitude.

Say sem kye. Sem kye. Sem kye in Sanskrit is called bodhicitta, and what it means is, even as you do a small thing, you give somebody a little bit of money, you find some place, a place to stay for one night, you give them a little bit of food or something, but in your mind you have to think big, you have to think, this is one more step in becoming like a saintly person.

And everybody in the room would like to be like that, you know, in your heart you feel... one thing I find all over Ireland, is people come to me and say, people have been trained well, the religion is strong, and they come to me and they say, I don't feel happy, and I say, why? And they say, because I know what I'm supposed to be doing, but I can't do it, you know what I mean?

Like, I have these faults, I have these weaknesses, I've done these things to people, and they come up to me, and each person, many people come up to me, and they say, I need to talk to you for five minutes alone, and they come and tell me, you know, I have this weakness, or I can't overcome this thing, but what it means is, in the Irish mind, in my... you know, I've been here a whole week, you know, but I've already decided about your whole minds, okay? You really want to be good, you know, you really would like to be strong, and to be...

we call a warrior, like Joan of Arc, or something like, somebody would die for their principles, or something like that, and everybody has this urge inside them to be like that. Sem key means, as you do a small good thing to someone else, as you give them something small, or as you help them with something, that you think in your mind, I'm doing this, this is one more step in becoming like a saint, and I will become a saint, you see? It's a decision, it's a decision to become like a...

when I say warrior, and you think saint, it's the same thing, you see? A saint is like a person who's not afraid of anything, like, you want to be good so bad that you're not afraid to do anything that's necessary, like, you're not afraid of being hungry, you're not afraid of not having enough money for yourself, you're not afraid to give away the things that other people want, that's just some kind of a warrior, you see? That's some kind of a courageous person, and it doesn't mean you have to go out and get burned on a stake, okay?

It might mean that you give someone else a cup of tea, and you don't get the tea, or something like... it starts with things like that, like saintliness, or becoming a saint, or a warrior, what we call a warrior, it starts with small things, okay? It starts with, I serve you the tea first, or I make sure that you have...

what are those great things you call... scones, you know? We don't have scones in America, it's the most wonderful thing, you know?

But you have one scone left, and you say, okay, I'm going to, today I'm going to be a warrior, and this is not, I'm not joking, you say, I will give up this one scone to the other person, and I won't get a scone today, and this is how you start to become a warrior, in the end, you can give your life, you know? In the end, you will be the guy in the newspaper, who jumped in front of a car, and pushed somebody out of the way, gladly, without any hesitation, but it starts with scones, and I'm not, and I'm not kidding, okay? We believe that, we believe that you have to start with something small, and you have to make it a habit.

They say that great saints weren't born in a day, they say that the people who can jump in front of car, or jump on a grenade, or something, these people didn't just happen in one day, they spent years getting ready for that moment, you see? And they started with the little things that they wanted, and they gave it up for somebody else, you see what I mean? And you start with a scone, you start with some tea, you start with your, something small, and then you get stronger and stronger, you get more and more like a warrior every day.

So, everybody in this room would, I personally, I would love to be the person who, you know, in my mind, I don't have the courage to do it yet, but I'd love to be the person who is in the newspaper, he jumped in front of a car, in front of this presentation school, and pushed this lady out of the way, and we'd like to thank the dead American, you know? I would like to go out that way, I'd be proud to do that, but I don't have enough courage yet, you see? We say you have to start with small things, like small possessions, like a scone, or a tea, or your favorite shirt, or something like that, and you start giving away, but you have to start now, and the idea is that as you give it, you think, I'm giving this so I can reach that other state later, that I could become a real warrior, like I could be a real brave man later, and do something for somebody, and give up my whole self, you see? But I, so, we say it's very important as you give away the little things, like start tonight, you're sitting at a table with your mother, or your children, or your spouse, and you say, okay, you have the scone, and they say, I know you like scones, and you say, I do like scones, but I want you to have it, and then you just build up from there, and every day you try to give up something a little bit bigger, and then finally you'll reach this place where you can just stand there, in front of a car, and push someone else out of the way, and this would be a meaningful way to live your life, and a meaningful way to end your life, you see what I mean? So, that's what sort of gives you the feeling of a warrior.

Last question, okay, there's a joke in my New York classes, they say, you have so many last questions. If a person becomes a true saint, okay, if you become a true warrior, you know, if you're able to do this thing, like, if you're able to become perfect, what is perfect giving? You see what I mean?

Is perfect giving where nobody in Galway is hungry tonight, is that, is that perfect giving? What makes giving perfect? We're talking about perfect giving.

Now you get the difference between giving and perfect giving? Ordinary giving is giving the scone now and again. Perfect giving is you give the scone, and in your mind you say, this is the first step, and every day I'm going to try to give up something a little bit larger to someone else, and eventually I'd like to become like Mother Teresa, or something like that, okay?

So there's a big difference between giving and perfect giving, perfection of giving. So, is it perfect giving if there's still, if there's a person in Galway who's able to give perfectly, and there's another perfect, if there's another person in Galway who's still hungry, can we say that the giving is perfect yet? In other words, if I try to give you some money, and I, and I give you a lot of money, and then it turns out that it ruins you, you see what I mean?

Like, some wealthy people I know, when they give their children a lot of money it ruins their life, you see what I mean? It's not a kind thing, the child becomes ruined. Is that person doing perfect giving or not?

That's my question. No and maybe. Any yeses?

It depends on the state of mind, you see what I mean? It really depends on the state of mind. What I'm trying to say is that, as you try to do these four kinds of giving, and you should try, and don't forget, every time you do it now you're gonna think, I'm doing this with the secret motivation that I should become a person who's strong enough to stand, a warrior who's strong enough to stand in front of a car and push someone else out of the way, but I know I have to start with scones, okay? And I'm not kidding.

It sounds funny, but that's how you start. You start with small things. You have to build up every day.

It's like exercise, you know, and you get stronger and stronger every day. You can't go and now and stand in front of a car and push someone out of the way happily, maybe if you were like crazy, but it takes practice. It's like playing piano.

Being a perfect giver and playing piano are very similar. It takes about that much practice. You have to practice every day.

We say, you know, every person in this room should try to do each one of those four every day, and then it's like playing piano, and then you get better and better at it, until you get more and more brave about it, more courageous at it, and you get more skillful at it, until finally you're really good at giving things. But I ask you again, if you do a perfect act of giving, does it necessarily have to help the other person? No, okay?

It's all in your intentions, you see what I mean? It's all in your motivation as you give it. You're giving it to the best of your knowledge.

This will help the other person, you see? That's an important part of giving. Not to get disappointed when you find out that this person went out and bought a gun and shot somebody with the money, okay?

I mean, not to be disappointed. Your intention is the main thing that makes it a perfection or not, you know? It's perfect giving if your intention is perfect.

You cannot control what happens with the money. You can't control what happens with that person afterward. So the intention has to be perfect.

What's the intention? In the short term, I hope this gives them what they want. I hope, you know, I hope they can have something eight to nine, I hope they won't be hungry tonight, I hope they have this...

that's in the short run. What about the long term? This is the first step in my saintliness, okay?

Don't forget. Otherwise it's just ordinary giving, okay? Last, last thing, okay?

Last, last thing. We believe if you give things with this new intention, you see what I mean? If you give things and in the back of your mind you're thinking, I want to become a spiritual warrior, you know, I want to become like the saints of old Ireland, you know, I want that in 1999 in Galway there should be a person like Dunn, or by 2000, okay?

If that's in the back of your mind when you do the giving, okay, that should be in the back of your mind as you do it, that you're thinking, I would like, I want this to be that kind of giving. How does that work, you see? What happens to you as you do the giving?

And I'm just gonna give you just a one-minute thing, and then we'll stop, and I want you to think about it till tomorrow, okay? We believe that the mind is like a tape recorder, we believe that the mind is like VCR, what do you call? Yeah, like a video recorder, okay?

We believe that your, there's your consciousness, there's a part of your mind which is recording everything that you do, you see? Like, when you talk about good deeds, or bad deeds, or sins, or virtues, we believe that all of that is recorded in the mind, okay? So, as you, as you see yourself give the scone to somebody else, you know, as you see the hand go out, right?

It's going farther away, it gets smaller, right? Like that, slow-mo, slow motion, and the hand goes out, and the fingers open up, and the scone is there, and the other hand gets bigger, right? And it comes to the scone, and takes the scone, and pops it into this big hole, you know?

And you're watching this, so you've seen the transfer of the scone from your hand to that hand, and into that mouth, we call that the giving of a scone, and it's recorded by the mind. We believe that that, that image gets imprinted into the mind, like, like a seal, or like a footprint, or something like that. We believe that, that an imprint is made into the mind.

Then we believe that, that imprint goes down into the subconscious mind, okay? It stays in your mind. You know, when did you learn ABC?

When did you learn alphabet? I remember, I was in first class in the United States, the teacher said draw an A, a big A, and I drew a big A like that big on the paper, and she came over, she said, you're crazy, what are you doing? I said, you said to draw a big A.

She said, no, I just wanted a capital A. So I said, why didn't you ask me to draw a capital A? I would draw a capital A, you know?

I remember this incident, you know? So, I remember learning ABC. Where is ABC right now?

Where are your ABCs? I mean, you still remember them, because you're taking notes, most people. Where are your ABCs?

Where are they? No, it's some kind of imprint on your mind, you see, same thing. We believe in the Western sense.

You see, the teacher gave it to you over and over again for about a year. Your imprint-making machine was a lot sharper in those days, and it made a clear imprint, and that imprint is still in your mind. Every time you need it, you can go to your mind and find your ABC.

We believe that. We're talking about the same thing. When you give the scone, and you see the hand go out with the scone, and then you see that other hand come and take the scone and put it in their mouth, we believe all of that creates an imprint on your mind, okay?

Some kind of strong imprint is made on your mind. Then it goes into the subconscious, it stays there. It's not like you're always walking around playing the replay of the video all day long.

Oh, I gave a scone. Oh, I gave a scone. Oh, I gave a scone.

It's not like that. We don't believe it's playing in the conscious mind, but we believe that in the subconscious it's working. It's working on your heart.

It's working on your mind, okay? And we believe that in the time it spends in the subconscious, like incubation time, it becomes stronger and stronger, you see? Every time you do some small act of giving, it makes your mind stronger and stronger, inside.

And all of those good things you've done for other people, beginning with giving, are working in your subconscious mind. And you will become a saint by giving scones. You see what I mean?

That gives you the power to move up to two scones, and that gives you the power to move up to a pound, and that gives you the power to move up eventually to stand in front of a car, without fear, you see? You're like a warrior. The goal is that.

The goal is that you could stand and risk your life for someone else, without any kind of hesitation, or any kind of fear, or any kind of hesitation. This person's life is in danger, I'll give my life for them. Easily.

And you just stand there, because you practiced with scones, okay? You start with small things. And we believe that the small things have an effect on your heart, okay?

So the idea is to become a real saint like that. I mean, that would be magical, wouldn't it? You know?

That would be worth living. I mean, as you get older, and as you get close to dying, there's this distinct impression that you wish you would have done something important, or you wish you would have tried all those things that you were afraid to try. Now it's too late, you see what I mean?

And this way, all your wishes will come true, you see what I mean? You will look back on your life and say, yeah, I remember that guy gave that talk, and the next morning I started to give away scones, and then, here I am, ten years later, I can stand in front of a car, did it the other day, and push the person out of the way, and there wasn't any fear in my mind at all. I became like a saint.

And that's a lot of fun, you see? It's a lot more fun than being a normal person. It's a lot more fun than being a regular person.

And the idea is, if you teach yourself, it's like playing piano. If you practice every day, you can become a person like that, you know? You can become these very great people from Irish history, you know?

You can become like them, and you don't have to live a normal life like that, but you have to practice, and it's like playing piano. You have to start with small things, then you have to get stronger. I'll talk more about how it works in your subconscious tomorrow, and the next day, because you have to understand how the process works to be good at it, you see what I mean?

We believe that you have to understand how it works to be good at it. So if you give things tonight, give them with that idea that I'm gonna work up to the point where I become a spiritual Superman, you know? That's where I'm going, that's where I'm headed, that's why I'm giving things, you know?

Then I can really do something for other people. And then that's a life well-led, that's a life with meaning, you know? A person who's reached that point, they can look back and say, you know, I learned how to have a life that was meaningful, and my life was meaningful, I didn't waste my life, and now I'm some kind of really happy person, and I'm some kind of holy person, okay?

And that, it's very, very, how do you say? Fulfilling. It's what all human beings really want.

So you just have to practice a little bit, okay? We'll stop there. I'll take some questions tomorrow if you like.

What we usually do at the end is we stay quiet for another minute or two, and you think about what we said, and what we say, we call it the ripple effect, like if you have one of these Irish locks, and it's in the morning, very early, and there's no waves on the water, and you throw a pebble in the water, and then these ripples go out like that. So, we believe that when you go to a talk like this, and you hear important things, you hear somebody say something important, that you'll come out of here slightly changed, and then the first person you meet will sense it, they will sense that you've changed somehow, and then that will change them a little bit, and then they will meet somebody who will sense that they got changed, and we say it's some kind of ripple will go out tonight. So we say at the end of a good talk, you should sit for a few minutes and think about this ripple.

Ripples going out from here, and helping people, okay? So we'll do that for like one minute, okay? So sit up straight, and then put your mind on like some very wonderful thing is going out like a ripple from this place, and touching other people tonight, and helping them in Galway.

Okay, thank you for that. I have one more thing, I didn't cover every question on the homework, and you're gonna get very frustrated at me. So I want you to make a note of which questions to answer, okay?

So I'll just write it up here. We mentioned four kinds of giving, things, help, love, and spiritual knowledge, okay? Excuse me?

No, I haven't told you all six yet, I just gave you the first one. Let's do all six, it's on your homework. Okay, it's your fault.

That's Kevin, Kevin, you did that, okay? They were, they were almost home. That's all, that's on your homework.

Those are the six things we're going to talk about, okay? Each night we'll do a different one. Don't try to answer question number two, because I didn't give it to you.

We'll talk about it tomorrow, all right? That's all. So see you tomorrow, tomorrow night, okay?

Thank you, thank you.