Интенсив по «Йога-сутре» (2011, Гонконг), занятие 1

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OK, so we're going to sing a Gertensong. So, we're going to do a Gertensong. First we sing, then we'll stop, then you sing.

OK? And don't get mixed up. I'll sing with you for a while, but then I'll sing with her for a while.

So don't pay any attention to me. In the beginning, when I start singing, you're going to sing. All right?

So here we go. And we're going to put the words up now.

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And it doesn't matter what you sound like. It's just important just to sing out in the distance.

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It means sing loud no matter how bad you sing.

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Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

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Okay, here we go. So we're on the second of three parts of the yoga sutra. How many people did their homework?

Raise your hand. How many people did homework with somebody they didn't know? All right.

Okay. All right. All right.

So everybody should have a reading. Does everybody have? This one?

Anybody doesn't have, raise your hand. I will ask you. No, I like it like this.

If they fall asleep, I put it closer. It's an old trick. So yesterday, I think the most important thing we learned was the death wish of yoga.

And he said, So then yoga means Chitta-vrtti-nirodha Chitta means mind. Vrtti means like how the mind twists things. Like read-vrtti means to turn around.

Sub-vrtti means to under-turn. You see what I mean? Vrtti means to twist or to turn.

The word wire comes from vrtti, okay? Because you use it to twist or to turn. Weird comes from vrtti.

The word weird comes from vrtti. So chitta-vrtti means the mind got weird and twisted things around. Why?

I'll give you an example. This is a very crazy example of chitta-vrtti. Chitta-vrtti doesn't mean anytime you think about something.

Some people say that. It's not correct. Because if you stop that, you will stop thinking.

And you can just... My teacher used to say, If you want to just stop thinking, then just drink a lot of beer. You don't have to do all this yoga.

Then you won't think anymore. It's not that you want to stop thinking, okay? You want to become an enlightened being.

You want to become a kind and compassionate person. And you want to help everyone. And that requires thought.

So chitta-vrtti doesn't mean stopping all your thinking. That's not the point. We are thinking something wrong.

Our thinking is weird, twisted. So I'm going to demonstrate very quickly. And don't be Hong Kong people, okay?

Talk loud. If I ask you a question, talk loud. I mean, don't yell.

What is this thing? Pen. That's good.

If a dog came in the room, and I waved this thing in front of the dog, what would the dog do?

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Chew it.

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The dog would chew it, right? So the dog obviously doesn't see this thing as a pen. Am I right?

The human sees a pen. The dog sees something to chew. Which one is correct?

Good. You can say both. You can say both are right.

I think animal rights. Both are correct. I think you can say both are correct.

Now I have another question for you. If I leave the pen here on the harmonium, and we all leave the room, all the humans leave the room, and all the dogs leave the room, which one is it? Neither.

I think you can say neither, right? Or in America you say neither. I think you can say it's not either one, right?

I think you can say that. If it's by itself, it's neither one. Now, so I have a question for you.

Is the pen coming from the pen? Or is the pen coming from me? You can just show me your hand.

Is it coming from the pen or is it coming from me?

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Me.

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Yeah, it must be coming from me. Because if it's coming from the pen, then the dog will see, and the dog will try to write to their dog girlfriend a poem. I like your chair.

Okay, like that. I think so. So it means the pen is not coming from the pen.

Can we say that? The pen is coming from me. Can we say that?

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Yeah.

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Then it means I have something in my mind which makes me see a pen. And the dog doesn't have that thing in their mind. We say that's a mental seed.

There's some kind of a seed in the mind and it causes me to see a pen. I look at this thing. The seed opens in my mind very quickly.

We say 65 seeds open every second. So you can't see it. You're not aware of it.

But a seed opens in your mind very quickly and you see a pen. That's why you see a pen. The dog doesn't have that seed.

Now the big question is how do you put that seed in your mind? How did that seed come in your mind? And we talked last night.

We said if you want to put a seed for something in your mind you must give that same thing. Shikuwa makes a shikuwa. Watermelon makes a watermelon.

If you want a pen, put a pen seed in your mind. You must give a pen to someone who needs it. When you let go of the pen and you watch yourself let go of the pen then your mind is like a video camera and it records the giving of the pen and it records the pen in the mind.

That becomes a seed for a pen. And the dog doesn't have that seed. Now how big is a shikuwa compared to a watermelon seed?

Maybe, I don't know. Is it a thousand times probably? A hundred times bigger or a thousand times bigger?

Shikuwa is this bean. It weighs a couple of kilos. Then the seed weighs a couple of grams.

And the small seed creates a big result. Your body lasts how many years? 50, 60, 70 years if you don't understand this book.

How many cells in the body? He looked it up on the line. 10 to 100 trillion.

10 with 100 trillion zeros. Is how many cells in your body. How many seeds created those cells?

It's a one. It's a one from your mother. It's a seed.

Egg. And one sperm from your father. Two cells created 10 with 100 trillion zeros.

So don't tell me that a small seed can't make many results. If you say no, you are shaking your head with your 10 trillion cells which came from the two cells. So then you have to use the head to nod.

You see, it's true. And all seeds are like that. Little seeds grow very big.

It means if I give one pen, how many pens will I see? Maybe a thousand or maybe a hundred. It depends if you understand how to plant a seed.

There are ways to plant a seed. If you are a good shikua farmer, you know how to put the fertilizer or you know how to put the shwei or you know which is the good tool. You know the water.

You know the soil. You know the fertilizer. You make the sunlight.

If you know how to take care of the watermelon seed, you will get a big watermelon. Inside that watermelon is what? How many seeds?

100? 200? Then you can make more watermelons.

You can just make more and more. Why are we talking about this? Why are we talking about seeds?

We said there are three things you can make seeds for that most people want. First one is money. If you know how to plant a money seed in your mind, then you can make money just easy.

Actually making money is easier than shikua. Really. Then I said I did it.

I made $250 million company in my spare time, in my free time. Then the geshe takes a lot of study. You have to memorize thousands of pages.

You have to memorize. It takes 20 years. In my free time I made the company.

Just for fun. If you understand how to plant a seed, you can get money. If you want money, you can get money.

You can change your health. We gave example yesterday. Many people came to me with breast cancer.

I taught them how to plant a seed to stop it. And they are fine. They are all healthy.

Then everybody would like to have a partner. Also a good partner. So you can use a seed to plant a partner.

Or if you already have a partner, you can fix them. With the seed. If you understand the seed, you can make...

It's not just pens are coming from the seed. Everything comes from the seed. Everything inside of you and everything outside of you comes from the seed.

Everything. How you feel. If you feel happy.

Or you feel depressed. Or you feel nervous. Or you feel confident.

Or you don't feel confident. It's all coming from seeds. What you feel in your mind is also coming from seeds.

You can change your seeds. And you can change how you feel. When you are finished with those three small things.

Money. What else did you say? Health and your partner.

Then after that you can work on Hong Kong. Hong Kong is like a pen. Hong Kong is also coming from you.

You can change Hong Kong. You can change the place you live. After that you can do the world.

And you can. You can change all the things in the world because the world is coming from you also. Okay?

So that's what we talked about yesterday. It means you have to change the way you see your life. Okay?

I was in Guangzhou. I'm going there tomorrow. Day after tomorrow.

Again. But I was there in December. We gave a seminar.

How to make money. A couple hundred people came. Then I started to explain how to make money.

Then one lady raised her hand. Wait, wait, wait. I said, what's wrong?

She said, I came here to learn how to make money. Not how to give money. Out of 300 people, only she didn't understand.

I think she was from Shenzhen. Then she said, I said, no, you don't understand. In this system, if you want money, you have to give money intelligently.

Okay? Intelligently. Don't just throw money everywhere.

If you want shikua, you don't just throw the shikua on the street. You don't do that. You do it intelligently.

If you give money intelligently, you will make, you can make a quarter billion dollar company in your free time. It was bought last year by Warren Buffett. I think he's the richest man in the world.

Sometimes he's number two. Okay? Because he doesn't know about the sea.

Number three, okay. Okay. So, he was number one.

Okay. So, what's I got to do with yoga? Yoga means chittavarti niroga.

Stop thinking about the world the wrong way. Stop twisting how you think about the world. How do we think about the world?

If I want money, I must compete with other people. If I want money, I must take money from other people. I must be faster with my advertising.

I must make better advertisement. I must make my product faster. I must stop the competition.

You know like that. We think like that. We are always thinking, I can make money if I take it.

In this system, you make money by giving money, intelligently. So, that's backwards. Like the lady in Guangzhou.

It's a backward idea. Okay? So, your mind all the time is chittavarti.

Your mind is looking backwards all the time. And yoga means change it. Stop the chittavarti.

Stop how the mind thinks. Mind is thinking wrong. Mind wants to take money to give money.

But, you think, if there is only one donut in the shop, I must take it. But in this system, if there is only one donut, you must give it to another person. Then more will come.

You will get a thousand. Maybe you will get 10 to the 10 trillion zeros. Then you don't have any place to keep them.

Like that. Okay? It's backwards.

People in this world, they are all making the same mistake. Six billion people are making a very, very serious mistake. And they work so hard.

And maybe they make money, and maybe they don't make money. And if they just understood this thing, they could relax. And they could be with their family.

And they could have as much money as they want. Okay? They don't need to work like that.

That's a mistake. Yoga means fix the mistake. Nirodha means stop making the mistake.

That's the meaning of yoga. That's what we did yesterday. So, today we are going to go on.

So, now we are on the second meeting. Get it ready. Tonight we are going to talk about Ashtanga.

Say Ashtanga.

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Ashtanga.

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Ashtanga has two words inside. Ashta and Anga. So, say Ashta.

Ashta. Anga. If you want to say Ashta nice, you have to do King Sha King Sha Turn the tongue.

Do you say like that? Flat tongue. Then Kwaishayin What's that?

Kwaishayin Flat tongue? Kwaishayin is Curled tongue. Isn't it?

Kwaishayin Sha. Okay? If you want to say Ashta well, you have to do Kwaishayin.

Okay? Ready? Turn your tongue back.

And say Ashta.

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Ashta.

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Then you are sounding like a riddle. Am I right? That is how you can talk like that.

No. Turn your tongue back. And say anything.

How are you?

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What are you doing?

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This is a Kwaishayin It's a special grammar thing. So, if you want to say it nicely, say Ashta. Ashta.

Ashta.

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Ashta.

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Hatha yoga. Hatha.

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Hatha.

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That's the correct tongue. Really. I'm not making fun.

That's correct. Hatha yoga. Ashta.

Ashta means eight. Ba.

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Eight.

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Anga means branch. Branch. Like branch of a tree.

Or branch of a bank. It's called Anga. So, Ashta, Anga.

You can join the word together and you can make Ashtanga. Ashtanga. So, there's a teacher named Sridhar Tabijoj.

He lives in South India in a place called Mysore. And he used Ashtanga from the Yoga Sutra. It comes from the Yoga Sutra.

Then he named his asanas Ashtanga. So, people say, do you want to do Ashtanga today? And in the yoga studio, it means do you want to do the yoga exercises which were made in Mysore by Sridhar Tabijoj.

That's the meaning of Ashtanga in a yoga studio. But the meaning is older than that. And the meaning is that there are eight steps to yoga.

There are eight steps to yoga. Tonight, we're going to learn the Ashta Angas. How do you say that in Chinese?

Ba How do you say Anga? Branches. Ba Ba Like branches.

Eight branches. Ashtanga. Show me with your hand.

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Alright.

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Everything is coming from you. If there are eight steps, then you can understand how to use this to make money, make health, change Hong Kong. Change your husband is harder than Hong Kong.

Ashtanga. So, Ashtanga leads you to yoga. Ashtanga leads you up to...

you can stop thinking things the wrong way. That is the purpose to do Ashtanga. That is why we are doing yoga.

So, let's do together. Can I read this? Say Yama.

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Niyama. Asana. Anayama.

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Padyahara.

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Dharana.

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Dhyana. Samadhi. These are the eight limbs of yoga.

Very, very famous. Don't leave my class if you don't know these eight. You don't have to say them in Sanskrit.

You can learn them in English. Maybe in Chinese later. I don't know what they are.

So, tonight we are going to start the Ashtanga. We won't finish. We will do some tomorrow.

Maybe half of the limbs, steps of yoga we will do tonight and then we will do some tomorrow. So these are eight steps. You go through them one by one.

If you do them one by one, when you reach number eight, you will never think the wrong way. You will always do the right thing. For example, if your husband is always complaining to you at home, your husband comes home and he says, what's for dinner?

And you say, you know, I worked all day and I made roast duck or whatever for you. Then he should taste it. Then he says, I don't like it.

And he complains about it. He says, today I wanted something else. I don't know why you are always cooking duck.

Actually you work for four hours to cook the duck. Then he is complaining. Then you want to stop it.

You want to stop it. I am going to give you two choices. You tell me which one is correct.

Number one, you should fight with him. Tell him how stupid he is. Tell him how hard you worked today.

That's number one. Argue with him. Explain to him how long it took you to make the duck.

And how long you worked. I am giving you two choices. You didn't hear the second one yet.

Second one is just be quiet and suffer. Yes, husband. I am sorry.

You are right. We shouldn't have duck. You should have pizza.

Do you want pizza? I will go buy pizza. I am sorry I cooked for four hours.

Which is better? Neither. Don't do these stupid choices.

Don't do stupid choices. Don't do stupid choices. You are doing stupid choices.

For example, should you invest in stock or should you invest in property? That's the same as pizza and duck. Which one is better?

Neither one. You can't say plant the seed then do what you want. Plant the seed first.

Then invest in property. I invested in a building. I bought a 15 million dollar building.

Now it went crazy. The cost of the building is crazy. I don't know what is the cost of the building.

And it was a terrible building. Nobody wants it. Or invest in the stock.

If you plant the seed, you can do what you want. It doesn't matter. If you invest in stock, you will make money.

If you invest in building, you will make money. If you go to Yellow Glass in New York, someone will put money in your bank. I talked about it last night.

Someone put 100,000 dollars in their bank. That's all. Plant the seed.

You don't have to worry about what to do. How do you plant the seed to stop your husband complaining? You have to stop complaining yourself.

Just stop complaining. To whom? It doesn't have to be your husband.

It could be somebody at your job. It could be your mother. It could be your child.

You are doing complaining. Is it bigger than your husband's or smaller? Is your complaining, which is the seed for your husband, is it smaller than his complaining or bigger?

It's always smaller. It's the seed of the watermelon. His complaining is a sequoia.

Big. Your complaining is small. But if you stop the small seed, it will stop the big sequoia.

If you take the seed and destroy the sequoia seed, the sequoias will never come. If you want to stop your husband's complaining, just stop the tiny, small complaining you are doing. The nice thing about this system, you don't have to talk to your husband.

No fighting. No arguing. No complaining.

No negotiation. No explaining. No long talks at night before you go to bed and you are both tired.

There is no more. You don't need to do it. It doesn't help.

First, stop complaining to your worker. Then you can talk to your husband. It will work.

Or you can be quiet and that will work. It's not what you do. It's the seed you plant.

Got it? It's difficult. You don't think like that.

That's yoga. And to get to there, to think like that all the time, you need 8 steps. You need to go through 8 steps to become clear and to act like that all the time.

To understand how to act like that all the time, you need to practice 8 steps.

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I was just thinking also there is a subtle complaining. It's not about others but about oneself.

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Oh, absolutely.

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Criticizing yourself.

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That also comes from small criticizing of other people. You can change everything about yourself. You can become a really happy person all the time.

You never be unhappy again. It's very interesting. So there are 8 steps.

If you practice these 8 steps, your understanding will be strong and then you can be a happy person. And your whole life will be happy. And you can have oxygen money.

What's oxygen money? It's like air. You don't have to think about this room.

You're not worried how much oxygen is in Hong Kong. The government didn't say please don't breathe very much. We have to conserve the oxygen.

You want oxygen? Go outside. It's OK.

There's enough for everybody. Money can be the same. My money is my oxygen.

I don't think about it. I just don't have to think about it. Ever.

Never. I don't carry money. He carries money.

I say pay that thing. He pays it. I don't know how much he pays.

I don't know what it is. It's just oxygen money. If you want to be like that, learn your shatanga.

Learn your shatanga. Now if you go to a yoga studio and they say we are teaching shatanga, they are not teaching music. They are teaching hatha.

That's a different shatanga. Here we go. We're going to do the 8 limbs.

At the end of the 8 limbs you're going to know how to fix your husband and make oxygen money. And then we can fix Hong Kong and every place. After you fix Hong Kong, can you fix Arizona?

That's where I live. You have to come and help me. So here we go.

Let me see if it's on the next page. Page 2. Page 2.

Say Yama. Yama means self-control. Yama means self-control.

It's a long story why it means that. I don't think we have time to talk about it. Yama means self-control.

There are different kinds of Yama. He talks about 5 kinds of Yama. I'm going to give you 10.

You get 5 for free. No charge. In my monastery when they teach the Yama they always teach 10.

So I'm going to teach you 10 kinds of Yama. Why is Yama important? These are basic seeds.

Yama is 10 basic seeds. If you have those seeds your life will go smoothly and happily. They are foundation seeds.

These are minimum seeds. Everybody should have these 10. If you have these 10 then everything will work.

It's like the foundation of the house. First one is protect life. Protect life.

Don't hurt other people's life. People means animals also. They also feel bad.

Why does the bird fly away when you come close? They are afraid of you. Why?

Because they saw many birds are hurt by people. Can they feel? Of course.

If they couldn't feel they wouldn't fly away. Come on. All the wild animals run away from people.

Why? Because they hurt them. Can they feel?

Of course. Because they hurt them. They feel.

Somebody told me fish doesn't feel. My father used to take me on the boat. We used to fish in the ocean.

You catch the fish in the hook. Then he fights you. He runs.

Then you have to pull and he pulls. You pull harder and you kill him. It hurts.

When he feels it, he runs. Then you have to fight. We used to fish for tuna.

It takes like 15-20 minutes. You have to fight with them. They are running because it hurts.

They all hurt. So first Yama is if you want to have a good life, a happy life if you don't want people to hurt you don't hurt other living things. People or animals.

Don't hurt them. He said should we be vegetarian? You know people in my country I'm going to talk about my country.

So who is the first president of America? He's called George Washington. We believe he's a very great man.

In our country we say he's on the one dollar bill. We say he's a very great man. But he kept slaves.

He kept black people in his farm. He had black people. They steal from Africa.

They hit them on the head put them in the boat and bring them to America. Then somebody asked him why do you keep those slaves? He said they are animals.

They are not human beings. He believed that. He believed that.

And Jefferson also. Then nowadays we think oh they are so stupid. I have many black friends.

In my university there are many black teachers. And then you think how could such a good man think that that black person is not a human being? How could he think like that?

What's wrong with him? 100 years from now people will say do you know people used to kill animals to eat them? Did you say why?

They didn't have enough vegetables? No, no, they had enough vegetables. But they killed the animals to eat them.

But why kill the animal? It hurts the animal. They understand that it hurts the animal.

But they still kill the animal. No, can't be. I saw many pictures.

They have dogs, they have cats. They are taking care of them. They spend millions and millions of dollars to take care of the cat.

They can't kill the animals. I don't believe you. They will talk about us like we are talking about George Washington.

I'm telling you, 100 years from now your children's children will say can you believe grandmother used to eat eat living things, used to kill them and didn't understand why they got cancer and didn't understand why they got heart attack. They are hurting. So it comes back.

You put a seed in your mind for killing you will die, that's all. If you want to die, if you want to have a heart attack, if you want to have cancer, then eat them. Kill them, eat them, wear their skin on your skin.

It's okay. But it will come back. If you want money, you have to give money.

If you want a pen, you have to give a pen. If you want to live, you must give life. You must allow other beings their life or you will die.

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The same would go for being vegan.

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Say again?

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The same would go for being vegan, for using animals.

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Oh yeah, if they are causing suffering to animals. Is it possible to make milk and eggs, unfertilized eggs, without hurting those animals? I think it's possible.

You could have a nice farm, you take care of them, you don't kill them afterwards. There is a couple of places like that in America. I think it's possible.

It could be possible. Right now, if you drink milk or eat eggs, you are supporting the suffering of those. You are not killing them, but they are locked up.

Like in a jail. You won't die from that, but you will be locked up somewhere. Everything comes.

Everything comes back. I'm not telling you what to do. If you go out with me, you can eat meat.

I cooked meat for my teacher for 20 years. I was the cook. I cooked the meat.

I didn't eat it. I can't tell you what to do. You do what you want to do.

Then he got cancer. Then he stopped eating meat. He came back from the hospital, he stopped eating meat.

He said, now I understand I shouldn't eat meat. Then he was OK. He was very interesting.

He used to make fun of me because I wouldn't eat meat. Then he stopped. You know?

Anyway. So that's the first one. Just honor other people's lives.

Are you going to kill any humans? No. You have to be very careful.

You see, if you are driving your car, don't talk on the cell phone. Don't do that. Because you are making danger for other people.

You could kill the other people. So be careful what you do. If you see something which is dangerous, fix it or move it.

Even if you see a pen on the ground, maybe somebody will fall. Pick it up. And protect life.

Take care of life. I'm going to talk about abortion. I'm not trying to tell you what to do.

You can do what you want to do. In India, and in Tibet, and in the Buddhist tradition, the child is a living person at conception. When the sperm meets the egg, that's a human being.

In this tradition. So you have to be careful about that. I was involved in an abortion in college.

When I was young, I was involved in an abortion. And I didn't know about it. I thought it was okay.

My teachers all told me it's okay. Then I was in one. So I'm speaking from my own experience.

I was in New York. I gave a talk. A child was dancing outside.

She's Chinese. She's about this tall. She was so beautiful.

She has this beautiful pink dress. She was doing ballet. I was watching her while I was waiting for people to come.

Then I was thinking how beautiful she is. Afterwards, one woman came up to me. She said, you don't know me.

I came to your talk six years ago. I was pregnant. I was going to have an abortion.

I changed my mind when you talked. That's my daughter. Then I felt so happy.

I started to cry. I feel so happy. Then she said, thank you.

The most beautiful thing that ever happened to me was my daughter. Then I had another lady in my class. She had an abortion.

Then she went crazy. She went to the hospital. They called me and said she's trying to kill herself.

You come. Then I spent six months going to the hospital and trying to talk to her. I don't know any woman who had an abortion who didn't feel sad after that.

I'm not telling you what to do. You can do what you want to do. I'm not trying to talk about the policies of the government.

This is my own experience. This is my own life. Just do what you have to do not to get pregnant.

Then you don't have to worry about it. Respect life. That's the first one.

Don't talk on your cell phone while you're driving.

[Говорящий 2]
If one had done something like you said you were involved in one, then how do you...

[Говорящий 1]
You can clean the old seat. 100%. We will talk about it tomorrow.

Anything you did. You killed 5000 people. You can clean it.

100% you can clean it. I did. That's why I became a monk.

That's one reason. I can't have this problem. So you can...

Anything you did doesn't matter how bad. You killed 30,000 people. You lied your whole life.

You cheated million dollars in your business. You can clean anything. We talk about it tomorrow.

So number one is don't kill anything. Protect other life. When you get a chance somebody's poor, help them.

If your friend is overeating and they are eating bad food, then trick them. Say, come to my house for lunch. Then give them some healthy food.

Like I'm always giving my friends almond milk. Taste this milk. Just taste it.

Then they say, that tastes good. You want to see how to make it? I made a movie.

I made a video. You can see on YouTube. I said, look, it tastes so good.

You feel younger. You feel strong. I like that.

So help your friends to eat well. Encourage your friends to eat well. When you go out with them, eat well.

Protect life. Protect other people's life. Last night we talked about a way to help people sleep.

That's also protecting life. So teach the people. Before you go to sleep, think about all the good things you did.

Think about all the good things you saw. Because sleep is a big part of life. If you cannot sleep, your life will be shorter.

So if you help people to sleep, you are doing Yama number one. Yama number two. Don't steal things.

Don't steal things. Respect other people's things. Respect other people's things.

So you are not the people who go and take the person in the street and hit them and take their money and run away. You are not like that. You are not this kind of person.

But I'm going to talk about the kind of stealing that you maybe didn't think about. So I'm going to talk about a very popular subject. It's taxes.

Pay all your taxes. 100%. I always overpay.

I pay extra tax. The government checked me one time. They said, what are you doing?

I said, I pay extra tax. They said, you're crazy. I said, no, no, you don't understand.

You are Chittamurti. You have to think the opposite way. I like to help people.

I use my money to help people. Because then I made more money. So the government is very useful.

They are building roads. They are protecting the country. They are making airplanes.

They are controlling the traffic on the air. They are doing all these things for whom? How many people?

How many people in Hong Kong use the roads in Hong Kong which were built by the taxes? Everybody. Now, I can go around Hong Kong and give money to everybody.

I can't finish. I don't have time. Just pay extra tax.

Let them give the money. If you have that motivation, you can make more money. But you have to change your thinking.

Don't be stupid. Don't cheat your tax. Don't say, the government won't find out.

I'm doing some yoga classes. Private classes. I'll just take some money and I won't tell the government.

That's stealing. You are stealing. What happens if you don't pay your tax?

Who pays it? Not somebody else. If you don't pay the tax which you are supposed to pay, who has to pay?

Everybody in Hong Kong. Everybody. How many people did you cheat?

Everybody. It's stupid. It's so stupid.

In this system, this is really stupid. Then you get as many bad seeds as there are people in Hong Kong. How many people in Hong Kong?

8 million. You are making 7 million bad seeds if you don't pay your tax. I'm telling you.

You say, Geshe Michael, this talk is crazy. I say, I'm $250 million crazy.

[Говорящий 2]
What about in a corrupt government?

[Говорящий 1]
If you don't support what the taxes are being used for, you stand up and say it out openly. You do it with courage. You do it with honesty.

You don't sneak the money. I've been in jail. I went to jail.

Not in China. I went to jail in America. For what?

For speaking out against the war. I was in jail. How about in Iraq?

I haven't spoken out yet. I'm not encouraging you to go to jail. According to the law of your country, whatever is the law of your country, respecting the law of your country, it's probably legal to write to your congressman or you can say, I request that my money shouldn't be used for Iraq war.

You don't cause any problem. Whatever is the law in your country, follow the law. I encourage you to follow the law.

According to the law of your country, express that you don't support it. If your country is doing violence to people and you don't express that you don't support it, you are getting the seat for that violence. If somebody kills somebody in Iraq, American government, then I will get the seat if I paid for it.

So I have to say something according to the proper law of your government. I'm not telling you to do something against the law. Express properly, I will pay my tax, but please don't use it for the war.

That's enough, then you don't get the seat. Please don't use it that way. I'm just requesting.

That's enough, then you don't get the seat. If you don't say that, you do get the seat. Same as the soldier.

You have to know that. They make a seat for life. You make a seat for compassion.

It's okay. Number two is stealing. Pay your taxes.

Don't leave a mess in public places. Don't throw things on the street. This costs money.

Somebody has to clean up. I go to the bathroom in the airport a lot because I'm always in the airport. I don't know why if you go the boys, if you go to the bathroom in your own house, you will shoot into the toilet.

It's not a problem. You can do it. I don't know why in the airport, they're always shooting outside.

It means they are thinking this is not my house, I don't have to worry. They don't have to clean it. Somebody else has to clean it.

If you have to clean it, you will hit the target. If you don't have to clean it, it's very disgusting. It becomes very dirty.

So, if you purposely don't hit the target, then somebody has to clean. You're stealing money. You're stealing from all the people who pay that person.

You're stealing that money. If you throw garbage on the street, somebody has to pick it up. They have to pay somebody to pick it up.

Then you're stealing. From whom? 7 million people.

I'm telling you how to make money. I'm not crazy. I own Jewelry.com.

Look it up. It's like the most expensive website for diamonds. And I'm telling you my secret.

I'm not trying to, you know, say you're a bad person and you have to be religious. I don't care. I'm just trying to help you make money.

That's all. I'm not trying to say you have to follow this religion or that religion. I don't care.

I don't care what picture you keep in your house. I don't care if you don't keep any picture in your house. It doesn't matter to me.

I don't keep any pictures in my house. I just try not to throw garbage on the street. That's all.

That's okay. That's enough. Number three.

Don't mess around with other people's wife or husband. Don't mess around with other people's wife or husband. Why?

So you see some beautiful guy or you see some beautiful lady and you say, you know, will you go out with me? And they say I'm married. And you say, I don't care.

Let's go out anyway. Okay? Then maybe you can discuss with them and they will meet their husband and they will come to stay with you.

What seed did you plant? Losing a partner. What will happen in six months?

You'll be alone. She will cheat you. Don't be stupid.

I'm not trying to tell you you are immoral. You're a bad person. I'm not saying do what you want.

But if you take another person's partner someone will take her. That's all. It always happens.

That's a seed. If you want to have an unhappy relationship, steal the person from somebody else. Then definitely you'll be unhappy.

In six months you'll be unhappy. Because you plant the seed. That's all.

If in your country there's a legal way to divorce properly and the person gets divorced according to the law of your country then you can go out with them. That's okay. If both partner believe they didn't go to the court, they didn't get the legal divorce but they both feel they are not husband and wife anymore then it's okay.

Then you don't make a bad seed. That's not a bad seed. If you are dating somebody and you both understand I'm going to date other people that's okay.

That's not a problem. If you went to the place you got married you filled out the papers you put on the ring both of you think you are married then you cheat on them, then you made a bad seed. Okay, understand?

That's the seed. In our tradition they say also you don't want to flirt with other people because then your partner will flirt with other people. You know that.

They say don't do or say anything to another person that you wouldn't do if your husband is standing with you. That's easy rule. Okay?

Don't, you know Hi!

[Говорящий 2]
Hi!

[Говорящий 1]
If your husband is there you won't do it, right? But if your husband is looking over there and you are like No, then you are This is easy rule, okay? Don't do anything you wouldn't do with your husband or your wife standing next to you.

Okay? That's all. That's number three.

That's easy, right? Not too complicated. Number four.

Tell the truth. Number four is tell the truth. Always tell the truth.

I'm going to tell you what truth means. Jinda. Jinda, right?

Jinda. Not jia. Truth means Someone asks you What did you do this morning?

Then you say something to them. After you are talking if they have the same idea in their mind about what you did this morning that you have in your mind about what you did this morning that's the truth. Alright?

That's telling the truth. Yeah. You tell them what you did this morning.

And they understand something. If what they understand is the same as what you understand that's truth. But if you twist the words and then they understand something else from what you did this morning if the understanding in her mind about what I did this morning is different from the understanding in my mind about what I did this morning after I tell her what I did this morning then I like it.

That's a lie. Got it?

[Говорящий 2]
So you can't make it interesting or colorful or exaggerated a bit? I don't know.

[Говорящий 1]
People ask me, can you just, you know, spice up things a little bit. I ain't never do that. If you, there's a rule.

Here's the rule. If you don't mind someone else will do that to you, it's okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Like poetry.

[Говорящий 1]
That's all. Because they will. Whatever you are doing, if you don't mind that other people are lying to you, it's okay to lie.

Alright? If you don't mind, it's okay. How do you confirm that the other person had the right understanding of...

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, good, good, good.

[Говорящий 1]
I have to be, I have to say one more thing. Your intention is the most important thing. Like maybe you don't know how to talk so good.

You know, maybe you don't know the Chinese word. And you say jianba in this way. Then they think, oh, he's talking about pizza.

Because the pronunciation is wrong. But my intention is I want you to understand what I'm saying. Then that's okay.

That's not a problem. You get a little Chinese tea that later somebody will say something and you won't understand. That's okay.

What about a white lie? Yeah, so he gave an example. Somebody is dying and if you tell them something, they will die upset, which is very, very bad.

It's a very bad thing to die upset. It hurts where you're going to go next. So he gave an example.

Should I lie to that person? They ask me a question. Is my husband okay?

Actually, my husband died in an automobile accident yesterday. But if you tell them the truth and then they die with that thought in their mind, it's very bad for them. So is it okay to tell a white lie?

Somebody asked me down in Mexico, I think, last month. They said, can I tell my husband a white lie? I said, do you mind your husband tells you a white lie?

That's the test. That's all. That's the test.

I think in your example, it's okay. It's compassion. This is compassion.

In your example, it's okay. If I'm dying and I want to die with a clear heart, I don't mind if my wife will lie to me. It's okay.

I allow it. You have to think like that. Just think like that.

And then you can judge for yourself. What number? Five.

Look, I know you like Joe. I know you're friends. Normally, I wouldn't tell you what she said about you yesterday.

Well, maybe I won't tell you. You see what I mean? Then I just created some suspicion or division with my words.

They are friends. And I say something which creates distance between them. Some suspicion or some...

Now they're not so close anymore. That's number five. That's number five.

I'll tell you something interesting. The intention in number five is you don't want them to be friends anymore. You want them...

You're jealous, you know. You want to spend more time with Vicky, so... Now Joe's spending a lot of time with Vicky, so you...

You want to split them up so Vicky will spend more time with you. You see what I mean? That's the intention.

What I want to say, and then I'll answer your question. The words can be true or the words can be false. But the intention is to split them.

So even if the word is true, it's still bad. You're trying to... If your intention is to split them...

What's your question?

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
She gave... If I know that my girlfriend's husband is cheating on her, but she doesn't know about it... And if I tell them, she will split.

They will split. Is that wrong? It's not wrong.

Because your intention is not to hurt them. Your intention is to help them. So that's just telling the truth.

If your intention is to help them... If you are jealous of her because the husband is so cute... You're hoping the husband will be available next year.

And then you tell her. That's a different motivation. But if the motivation is...

You want to protect your friend. And the husband is hurting her. Then it's okay.

If your intention is to protect her... Because maybe he will come to his senses and stop. And you don't want to hurt the relationship.

You want to watch another few weeks and see maybe he will get tired of the new girlfriend. And come back and everything will be okay. And you don't have to mention anything.

Then your motivation is good. That's a good thing to do. A lot of it depends on what is your motivation.

What number?

[Говорящий 2]
Six now.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. Then you say to somebody, you know... You're just incredibly stupid.

Like, what do you call it? Harsh words. Unkind words.

You're stupid. I'm going to say a bad word. Excuse me.

I'm just giving an example. In my college... I stayed for four years with the same guys.

And we have special names for each other. So my roommate calls me shit face. But he loves me.

And the word is used as a friend. It's a friend word. That's not number six.

Because the intention is to feel closer. He loves me. And he just gave me a name.

And, you know, we make a joke with each other. The purpose of jokes is to make people feel closer. And feel friendly.

Then, what if you say, Oh, Eric. Yesterday... Let's say he's in a...

I don't know. He's selling jewelry to... Sogo?

Takashimaya. He's selling jewelry to Takashimaya. Yesterday he lost the account.

He lost 10 million dollar account. Then I say, Eric. I heard about the great job you did yesterday with Takashimaya.

The word is good word, right? What's the intention? I want to put a knife in his heart.

Oh, I heard you did a great job with Takashimaya. So, see, that's the opposite of shit face. Shit face is a bad word for a good intention.

This is a good word for a bad intention. So, same. That's all.

What's the next one?

[Говорящий 2]
Seven.

[Говорящий 1]
Did you yesterday go... Did you understand that the world cricket match was on? I think Argentina was playing Australia or something.

And did you see in the third period, the guy with the white hat dropped the ball? Waste people's time. Just let's talk, okay?

Did you know Angela Jolie... She had a fight with Brad Pitt yesterday. And I read about it in the newspaper.

And you want to know what she did? She threw something at him and he ran away. You don't want to give people information.

You just want to waste time. Just waste time talking. Waste time talking.

Gossip. Gossip. Waste time talking.

Why is it waste time? What's the problem? It's useless.

This is a special seed, okay? I'm going to tell you something. A lot of people come to me and they say, Geshe-la, I can't finish my project.

I start a new... I want to learn a new language. I can never finish.

Or I start a new job at work and I can never finish. Or I'm planning to write a book, but that book took 10 years and I only have finished now. Many people will hear that, right?

That's a seed that's put in the mind by talking, wasting time. The seed for... If you just blah blah blah blah blah, then that seed in the mind is that you will not be able to finish what you want to finish.

That's a special seed. If you want to know how to not finish everything, just waste people's time. Talk about, did you hear Obama's wife, how much she did yesterday?

I don't care. Did you hear about Bill Clinton, what he did? I don't care.

Don't tell me about that. Teach me Yoga Sutra. Tell me something meaningful.

Okay, next one.

[Говорящий 2]
Number eight.

[Говорящий 1]
So, let's say... Let's say we are working in the same company, okay? And then the boss fires him, right?

And then I feel... I'm sorry, forget that. Let's say the boss gave him a raise, okay?

He got more money yesterday. Then I feel angry. I feel upset.

I feel jealous. Okay, that's number eight. I'm unhappy that someone else got a good pay.

Because I don't like them. Oh, they made him, he's now number one yoga teacher at Yoga, Pure Yoga Central, you know? Then I don't like this guy.

Then I feel angry, I feel upset. I don't want him to succeed. Don't want other people to succeed.

Don't want other people to be happy. Upset if somebody else is happy. Upset if somebody else gets a raise by somebody, or they get some money, or something like that.

They get a new girlfriend, very cute. Then you feel bad about that. That's number eight.

Number nine is the opposite. What do you think? Yeah, he had some problem yesterday.

Boss fired him, or his wife left him, or something bad happened to him. Then, you know, let's say we are working in the same office. He is competing with me for vice president job.

Then someone comes to me and says, oh, his wife left him yesterday. And you're like, I'm so sorry. I know, that's terrible.

Okay, like that. Feel happy that something bad happened to somebody else. We do, by the way, there are 84,000 young us.

There are 84,000 ways to make a bad scene in your life. These are the top ten out of 84,000. So think like iTunes has 84,000 songs, but the ten songs which people are playing all the time.

It means you do this every day, ten times, twenty times. We all do. We feel happy someone had a problem.

Look in the newspaper, it's all about other people's problems. Oh, look, so many people died. Oh, look, Angela Jolie had a problem.

Oh, look, Brad Pitt lost his money. And then we are interested. We are like, oh, tell me about it.

We're doing this all day. We are doing it all the time. If it's in the top ten out of 84,000, we are doing it all the time.

So you have to be aware. What's number ten? If I want money, I have to compete.

If I want money, I have to cheat the other people. If I want money, I have to get up earlier. If I want money, I have to advertise more.

If I want money, I have to... You see, like that, thinking the wrong way. Thinking the wrong way.

How often do we do this? About five times every minute. I can eat the other person's body, nothing will happen to me.

I can eat a hamburger. I won't tell anybody. I will go to McDonald's at 3 o'clock in the morning.

I will eat a hamburger. Nothing is going to happen to me. Think like that.

Thinking like that. So which one of the ten is the worst? Number ten.

If you believe number ten, you will do the first night. Okay? I can not pay my taxes, nothing is going to happen to me.

Like that. I can... I can cheat on my husband.

If he doesn't find out, it's okay. You see? Like that.

These are... Number ten is the worst one. Now, last thing.

Then maybe we take a break, right? Yeah, that's time to take a break. Last thing.

The first three you do with your body. Killing, stealing, fooling around. First three you do with your body.

Next four what? You speak. You do by talking.

Next four you do by talking. But the most difficult ones are the last three because those are in your... Mind.

They are just in your mind. It takes one second to... Do you write number eight?

It takes one second in your mind. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to do anything.

And you still find a bad seat. You are unhappy that someone else got something nice. You are jealous.

You are jealous. Or you are happy that someone else had a problem. Just...

In five seconds, you are on the toilet. You are just meditating on the toilet. Just you thought, I am happy my friend had a problem.

Then already you made a bad seat in your mind. Then you want to live in a world where everyone is happy that you are having a problem. Understand?

What thing you think will come to you? I am happy you have a problem. Then all the people around you will say...

You say, Oh, today I have a headache. They will all say, Oh, I am so sorry. Like that.

Wouldn't it be sad to live in a world like that? To live in a world where nobody is sympathetic to you, where nobody likes you, where nobody is friendly to you. You say, I have a problem.

And they are all like, Really? I am busy. They don't feel sad.

They don't support you. Or something happens good. You say, I got a raise today.

And everybody is like, Unhappy. Nobody says, Come on, I will take you to Peninsula. What is it?

Felix. Let's go to Felix. I am happy you got a raise.

Let's go to Felix's restaurant. You can pay for dinner. We will go together.

No, you see. It is nice to live around people who are happy. And cheerful.

And support you. And they are not jealous all the time. And they are not unhappy all the time.

You see what I mean? If you do number eight and number nine, then you live in a family. Everybody is arguing.

Nobody is happy. You know, like that. You make your world.

By thinking. So, number eight, nine and ten. These are very important.

Alright. Have a nice break. We finished Yama.

We finished the first of Ashtanga. Okay. Alright.

Have a break for ten minutes. I think there is refreshments. Right?

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah. There is some fruit.

[Говорящий 1]
There is healthy refreshments. Because we want to protect your life. If you have a special problem.

If you have a special question. You know what to say in the group. It is about your husband.

You can come talk to me now.