Овладеть своим умом, публичная лекция: спокойный и сильный ум для успеха в бизнесе и личной жизни (2012, Сингапур), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Good evening and welcome everybody. It's lovely to see everyone here tonight. I can see a lot of familiar faces and also some new friends too, so welcome.

Okay, first of all I'd like to thank Keshe Michael and Nandini Swalena for that very beautiful start to the evening. Perhaps we could give them another round of applause. We're very happy to have Keshe Michael back in Singapore again.

I was counting, I think it's the seventh time we've been very blessed to have Keshe Michael here. Now this time he's going to teach us all about meditation. So perhaps this is the most powerful tool for us to master our minds.

But many of us have heard how great meditation is and yet many of us have problems getting started to do meditation. So tonight and tomorrow night Keshe Michael will change that for us and help us to make meditation part of our lives and a key to our happiness and our success. So for those who haven't met Keshe Michael I thought I should take a moment to introduce him to you.

So Keshe Michael is a Princeton graduate and received the Presidential Medal from the United States President at the White House. He was the first American to complete a 20-year Keshe degree which is equivalent to a double doctorate in philosophy. He went on to start Angelina Diamond Corporation and it grew into a US $250 million company which was sold to Warren Buffett in 2009.

Keshe Michael is also the author of the bestselling The Diamond Cutter which has been translated into I think more than 20 languages. He founded and he directs The Diamond Cutter Institute The Asian Classics Institute and the Asian Classics Input Project. And he now travels the world to share these ideas so that everyone can find happiness and be expressed in their business and their personal life.

So please, again, let's welcome Keshe Michael. So I'll just tell a little bit about my story. Maybe some new people here.

So I grew up in America. I was a normal kid in America. I went to a normal school.

Then I was accepted to Princeton University. And then I was very happy. Everything was going very well.

As Jackie said, the President brought me to the White House. Gave me some milk. Then I thought, I'm going to have a very good life.

Then I got a telephone call one day. And they said, your mother died today. Your mother has passed away.

Then I was very close to my mother. And then I felt terrible. I felt really terrible.

Then after that, they called again. They said, your brother passed away. And then they said, your father passed away.

So three members of our family died in a short time. Then I was very, very sad. And very, very crazy.

Then I was taking a class in Buddhism in the university. Then there was one Indian boy in the class. And he said, you should go to India.

And then you can find your answers to your problems. So I didn't know. I was so upset.

I just thought, OK, I'll go. I asked the university, can I have one year off? I never went outside of America.

I never went anywhere. So I went to find an Indian boy. The Indian boy was supposed to meet me at the airport.

He never came. He was in America. I didn't know.

I came out. This is 1973, of course. After the airplane, the smell of Indian incense comes in the airplane.

And I come out. And everywhere is a crowd. Cows and bees and chickens and crazy elephants.

And I'm looking like that. And then I just got scared. And I went into the taxi cab.

I said, take me to a hotel. I don't care, any hotel. Oh, my brother has a hotel.

Actually, it was his house, right? And I went to the brother's hotel. Then I went inside my room.

I stayed there for two days. I didn't come outside. Finally, the brother got worried about me.

He knocked, and then he said, did you eat? And I said, I don't have any food. He said, OK, I'll take some food.

He made food for me very kind. He was very kind. And he explained Indian food.

And he made it. Then he said, you know, you can go outside. It's OK.

And I said, I'm scared. Maybe I'll just stay here. Then he said, why did you come to India?

I said, I want to meet Buddhist people. Then he looked at his watch. Then he said, you're a little bit late.

Then I said, what do you mean? He said, Buddhist people finish in India 1,000 years ago. Then I said, what can I do?

I have a three-month ticket. I cannot go back for three months. Then he said, where are you going?

There are some Tibetan people coming out today. They are Buddhists. Maybe you can meet them in the mountains.

You go to the mountains. So I went to the mountains. And then I started to meet monks, Tibetan monks.

And then I stayed for 25 years there. And I stayed in the monastery, learned their language, and then studied for 25 years. At the end of the 25 years, they have examination.

The examination is three weeks long. And you have to sit like here. In my monastery, there are 1,300 monks, more than you.

And each one will come and ask you questions in Tibetan language. It takes three weeks to finish. Then it looks like, we will show you later, okay?

They ask you questions like that. I have a picture, I think. This is part of the examination.

I was in L.A. for three weeks. Then day and night. Then you finish.

Then I got a graduation. What is that like? He is very happy.

Because everything is finished. Three weeks examination is finished. Then you get this big hat.

And if you get that hat, you can go off for the rest of your life. You just drink tea in your room. And sometimes you have to teach to the other monks.

So everything is... When you get this hat, he goes very happy. That's finished examination.

Now I can relax. Then my teacher called me. He said, you are the first white guy in 600 years in our monastery.

So, for you, we have special examination. Second examination. He said, you didn't tell me about second examination.

He said, yeah, we have a second examination. What is the examination? You go to New York.

And you start business. Diamond business. And you make one million dollars every month.

Then I said, this is stupid examination. I came to monastery because I don't want to be businessman. I want to be monk.

I want to meditate. I don't want to. I want to meditate.

I don't want to go to New York. In the monastery, very strict, the teacher is very strict. If you don't do what they say, they will, four guys will hold you.

And they will lift up your clothes. And they will hit you with a stick on the bottom. King by king.

Then he said, do you want to eat my stick? Then I said, I'll go to New York. And I went to New York.

And we started a business with three people in New York. We have only one table. We don't have enough money to buy, to rent office.

One room we got out. So we rent table inside the other man's office. And we are not supposed to move from the table.

And if we want to use the toilet, we have to ask key. So we are, we don't have any money. We borrowed some money.

So now our company is 10,000 people. I think there is a picture. Do you have?

That's our building in New York. Now it's in India. We built the office building.

And in the world we have 10,000 workers. And we reach 250 million dollars sales per year in US. And so three years ago Warren Buffett was there.

Then people came to me. And they said how did you do that? How did you make a business?

Then I said what's the next slide? Hmm. Chikantin.

Okay. Diamond Carver Sister. This is Chikantin.

It's a diamond carver sister. This is the oldest prettiest book in the world. In the whole world.

This book is the oldest prettiest book in the world. From China. So I asked my teacher what is our business plan for the company?

He said Chikantin. Diamond Carver Sister. I agree with Chikantin.

It's crazy. The book is crazy. Some guy, Buddha is there.

This was started in Charlottesville in India. So they are sitting in Charlottesville in India. Then Buddha is sitting with one guy named Subuddhi.

Then Buddha is asking questions to Subuddhi. This is Chikantin. Then Buddha says to Subuddhi, for example, he said is the mountain big?

Then Subuddhi says yes. Then Buddha says why? And then Subuddhi says because mountain is not big.

Then I go to my teacher, this is business plan? What am I supposed to do with this business plan? So he said you have to meditate a lot.

If you meditate you will understand. Then I didn't know much about meditation. But he said if you meditate then you have to do business.

Then I said business people don't meditate. Business people are not spiritual. They are always like they are not spiritual people.

Then he said something very beautiful. He said business people are the smartest people in the world. They are smarter than the monks.

Really they are. But nobody gave them a good explanation. So they don't believe on this thing.

If they got change, if business people got good change about meditation, they will be a better meditator than the monks. Because business people can do anything. Business people make buildings, business people ship oil across the world, like that.

Business people are tough and they can do everything. They are smart. But nobody taught them, nobody trained them.

They said you are a business person, you shouldn't meditate. In my teacher's head, if you want to be a good business person, you should meditate. And then you can make more money.

Your business will be better than other people. Like that. So he trained me like that.

So I, so for two nights, tonight and tomorrow, I will start to write and we will go for two nights and I will teach you some meditation. Myself and our other teachers of our company, we will start to teach you meditation. After those two nights, we have to go to KR to give a talk.

I think thousands of people are waiting there. And we will give a talk there. And then we will come back to JB and we will have three day retreat, meditation retreat.

Teach the business people or teach the regular people how to do meditation. How to use meditation for your life, for your family, successful family, how to use meditation for your health, how to use meditation for your business. And I use it.

That's why we make 2.5 billion, right? 10,000 people now. We use meditation.

So these two nights, I would like to teach you. We will start to teach you meditation. If you have time, also come Friday night or Sunday.

We will go to JB. It's like some resort near the beach. And we can go swimming and meditate also.

But seriously, I can teach you how to use meditation in your family life and how to use meditation in your business. And you will be much sharper than other people. So we're going to start meditating.

Right now. I would like you to try to meditate. So sit up straight.

Sit up straight in your seat. Okay. This is international contest.

International contest. Last month, I was in France. And 1,000 people came.

Business people came to the talk. Then I asked them, how quiet can French people be? It's difficult for French people.

They like to talk. But I made a recording of French people. How quiet can French people be?

And they went very quiet. Then after that, we went to Mexico. Guatemala.

And 1,000 people there. I said, I want to see how quiet you can be. I'm going to record you.

Okay? Seriously. It's a contest, each country.

Mexican people, they're actually happy. They cannot be quiet. So I want to see how quiet you can be.

So sit up straight. I'm going to ask you to close your eyes. We will start to meditate.

Okay? We will just start to meditate. First thing, I'm going to start by taking the corner down.

I want to see how quiet Singapore people can be. Completely quiet. Nobody's talking.

Nobody's moving. The head is completely still. The hands are completely still.

The feet are still. The back is straight. The eyes are closed.

No sound in this room for three minutes. No sound. I want to see how quiet Singapore people can be.

We will start now. No sound. No moving.

Okay. Good. You won.

And I'm going to give you a big applause. Quiet as a country guy. Very good.

Really good. Singapore. So you have a...

Each person has a table. And I'd like you to turn to the first page. Second page.

There are some pictures. People ask me after I built a business and we bought a building, people ask me can you teach us how to do this meditation for business? Can you teach us how to do it?

Using meditation. Then one book company came to me. They are called Double Day Random House in New York.

So they came to me and said, would you write a book about using meditation for business? Then I'll show you the book. I think there's a slide.

So this is the book. It's all over the world now. I think 3 or 4 million people are using it.

They are using meditation for family. Successful family. To fix their account.

And to do their business. It's also in Chinese. I think the next slide.

That's the edition in Chinese. And then the next slide. This is the one in Taiwan.

Many many people are using it. All over the world. I think it's in 20 different languages.

In that book it teaches you how to meditate. It can teach you how to meditate for business. I'll show you what we are going to use for the especially on the weekend.

Can you show the next one? This is a very old Tibetan picture. And it tells you 9 different ways to improve your mind.

How to improve your mind when you meditate. It comes from a Tibetan class a few years ago. And there are 9 stages.

At the bottom you can see an elephant and a monkey. The elephant is your mind. The mind is like a crazy elephant.

You cannot control the mind. He's all black. Monkey means he's speaking about everything.

Facebook, email, Twitter. The mind is like a monkey. Then slowly as you go up on the road, the elephant becomes white.

And the monkey starts to calm down a little bit. And you start to control your mind. So this is what we are going to learn on the weekend.

This is very old. It's about a thousand years old. And in there is all the secret how to do meditation for business.

So I want to give you some explanation about what can you get from meditation. Single person. What can you get in your life if you start to meditate?

Imagine a person who doesn't know how to lead. They are driving down Orchard Road. And they are looking at all of the shops.

They may see something on the shop. It says Zara or like that. But they don't know what is Z.

They don't know what is A. They don't know what is R. It looks some design on the store.

This is interesting design. I wonder what is this design. They don't know how to read.

They are walking through shopping district of Orchard Road. And they cannot read anything. Then their life is different from your life.

You can read. You can walk down. You can say to people, Oh, I think this is what she used to know.

I think this is hers to know. There is blue and company. I can get the dress that she is wearing tonight.

You know. I can. If you can read, you can enjoy your life.

If you cannot read, you are a strange person. You are walking through Orchard Road and you don't know where anything is. Why am I talking about that?

If you cannot meditate, you are like a person who cannot read. If in your life you don't learn how to meditate, you are like a person who cannot read. You are missing half of the world.

You are missing so many beautiful things. You are like a blind person if you don't know how to meditate. If you learn how to meditate, everything is possible.

You become a different person. Your evolution of yourself is different. I have a list here why you should meditate.

I am going to give you one by one. Number one is focus. Focus means in this world we think we are lucky because we have computer and laptop and we have iPad and we have iPod and we have iPhone we have all of these new things.

They are supposed to make you more important. You are supposed to be more intelligent. If you have an iPhone, you can check the news.

You can get the stocks. You can see the weather in Egypt and other important things. Right?

What it means is they are not making you more intelligent. They are making you more stupid. Those things are making you blind.

Now it is too busy. You cannot sit still. You are like a monkey.

You are like a monkey. I have to send an email. I have to send a text.

I have to check my email. I have to send a text. Here is a call.

You are like this. Modern people they are like I don't know. Check it out by the iPhone and by the iPad.

This is my phone. How did you record this? I also have an iPhone and I use it but I don't love using it.

I use it but I am not addicted to the phone. I know how to put the phone away. I own the phone and the phone doesn't own me.

I tell the phone what to do. I say, watch where you are now. No, no, you have to check your email.

No, you have to go. 15 minutes I can check later. No, no, you have to check your email.

No, it is ok. I didn't have it 3 years ago. My life was fine.

So, yeah, yeah. It is true, right? So, people are addicted to this.

I get up in the morning I say, I have to check my email. They say, why? I can just keep it for 2 hours.

It is ok. You don't need to check your email. You can take a break from your email.

If you learn to meditate Take number 1 on this paper. You can learn to focus. You can learn to focus.

Business person needs to focus. Your mind is strong. And you can look at one thing.

For example, I have to rent a building. This week, I have to move. My rent is finished.

I have to rent a building. Then I wake up. Then I should look on the internet.

It is ok. I have to find a building. But then your mind says, I have to check my email.

I have to check my mind. The mind is split into two. The old Buddhist teaching, it says the mind which is split into two is like sewing with a needle which has two points.

Ok? It is not possible. The mind should be immediate about Ekamana.

One point. Think about one thing. If you learn to meditate, you can focus on one thing.

I have to rent a building. I don't have time to do anything else. I don't have time to look at my cell phone.

I have to do a building. I am driving my car. Don't talk to me.

I am focused on the car. I have to focus on the street. I can't talk to you when I am driving.

Maybe I will kill somebody. Ekamana means focus. If you learn to meditate, your mind is strong.

And you can focus. The iPhone will talk to you. You are duplicating me.

You are duplicating me. I am busy. I am focused.

You can wait. You can wait. That is focus.

That is number one. You need focus. If you don't have focus, it makes you sick.

If you don't have focus, it makes you sick. You take somebody and you don't let them sleep for three days. You take a nice person.

Every time they start to sleep, wake them up for three days. No sleep for three days. They become crazy.

Even a good person, even your mother, she will become crazy if she doesn't sleep for three days. Why? People need focus.

When you sleep, you focus. When you are asleep, you focus. If you have a worker in your company and you give them a job and you interrupt them.

No, no. Change. Do this job.

Then they do this job. Then they get angry. After one hour or two hours, they will get angry.

Why? People need focus. It is food.

Focus is one kind of food. Buddhism sets out four kinds of food. One is Pringles.

The food that you put in your mouth. That is one kind of food. Second kind of food is sleep.

People need to sleep. If you don't sleep for three days, you will get sick. You will get crazy.

What is the third one? Hope. People need hope.

Buddhism sets out the third kind of food. Everybody needs hope. The fourth kind of food you need focus.

No interruption. Without interruption. If somebody interrupts you, you will get sick.

You will get sick and you will be unhappy. You must learn to focus or you will get sick. That is the first reason to meditate.

Second reason. Problem solving. If you learn to meditate all of that, then you have a problem in your business.

Very easy to find a solution. No problem. You can solve any problem.

Because your mind is strong. If somebody says, we didn't get our shipment from Korea on time. The box didn't come in on time.

Or something like that. Any problem you have, if you know how to meditate, OK, this is done. Meditate about that.

Then you will find the answer to the problem. If you know how to meditate. If you don't know how to meditate, you won't find it.

You are like a person who cannot breathe. And then the problem becomes bigger and bigger. OK, third one.

Peace. Then I think you shouted when we, at the beginning when we didn't say anything, right? For three minutes.

We were quiet for three minutes. It was very peaceful in this room. It was very peaceful.

Outside, all day, everybody is running. In Singapore, I don't know why, they can't walk across the street. They have to run across the street.

Everybody is busy. Very busy. Then you will die, OK?

You will get old. And you will die from running. OK?

It breaks you out. You get tired. Then try to have a little bit of peace in the day.

Even 10 minutes or 15 minutes. Sit down. Be quiet.

Don't talk. Don't move. Just be quiet for 15 minutes.

Then your mind will change. You can run across the street and you will be happy. You won't be like this.

You won't be running across the street like that. With joy, with happiness. Meditation can bring you peace.

And the peace you get from meditation, you cannot find it in yourself. It's a special peace. And it's a very beautiful peace.

We are going to teach you how to meditate on a chair. Or you can sit on the floor when you are at home. In the three days in JB, we will work with you in small groups.

We brought many teachers with us from different countries. America and other countries. They will teach you how to meditate.

How to sit. But meditation isn't only sitting. You meditate for 10 minutes or you meditate for 15 minutes in the morning.

But then the meditation continues all day. The meditation should continue all day. What is meditation?

How about I show you? Do you guys mind? We are doing it early.

I show you all the way. We will do Tibetan way. OK?

We talk about meditation. Are you guys ready? Come on.

We will do it all the way. Don't be nervous. It looks like Mushu and I are not going to be with anybody.

This is our old custom. How to How to ask questions. This is the old way.

This system is over 2000 years old. Buddhist system. These are three teachers.

One is from Israel. One is from Texas. One is from Arizona or Ohio.

I don't know. In the beginning you should be very respectful.

[Speaker 2]
Nobody can tell me how to meditate. You can tell me how to meditate. Sure.

[Speaker 1]
How do you meditate? First you have to sit down.

[Speaker 2]
Sit down. That's very smart. Good.

[Speaker 1]
Then you close your eyes. You should close your eyes. Yes.

Then when you close your eyes you should look at the back of your eyes. You should look at the back of your eyes.

[Speaker 2]
Then you see black. Then you see black.

[Speaker 1]
Then you have to think about black. Black, black. Everything is black.

Everything is black. This is good meditation. This is the best meditation.

[Speaker 2]
What kind of sleep does it put in your mind?

[Speaker 1]
About sleep. I guess this kind of meditation is good to sleep. For sleeping.

That's bad meditation.

[Speaker 2]
What is meditation?

[Speaker 1]
That meditation is watching your thoughts.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, just watch all your thoughts. Look, there goes one. This is good meditation.

[Speaker 1]
Exactly. This is good meditation. Exactly.

Yes, perfect. Mind is empty. What kind of sleep is this meditation?

Oh, empty mind. I think so.

[Speaker 2]
What is meditation? What is meditation? Meditation is Kong qi, stop going forward, go forward, stop.

[Speaker 1]
This is meditation. That's right. What is the meaning of meditation?

What is the meaning of kong qi?

[Speaker 2]
It's all illusion. Everything is illusion.

[Speaker 1]
That's the meaning of kong qi, right? That's right. How do you meditate on that?

Everything is the same. Nothing is good, nothing is bad. Oh, nothing is good, nothing is bad.

This is meditation. That's correct. So if somebody kiss you, you shouldn't be happy.

That's right.

[Speaker 2]
If somebody hits you, you shouldn't be sad.

[Speaker 1]
Exactly, it's all the same.

[Speaker 2]
Everything is the same. Right? Okay, you guys go.

I don't like this.

[Speaker 1]
This is the old system, okay? This is how we learn to meditate. We ask questions.

This meditation, close your eyes, and everything is black. What you meditate about, you will become. Okay?

What you meditate about, you will become that thing. You will become that. No, it's not meditation, okay?

That's not meditation. Then the second person said, Oh, just watch your thoughts. Look, thought is coming, thought is going.

Don't try to control your thoughts. Just let them go. Then, if you do that, you will be angry all the time.

You are something like that. It doesn't help you to follow your thoughts. You are not following your thoughts all the time anyway.

You don't need to meditate about it. Your thought is going. And you are listening to your thought.

It doesn't help you, okay? If you listen to your mind, just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, then you get, it's like being on Facebook all day all night. It won't help you.

Then the third guy said, Oh, everything is the same. Nothing good, nothing bad. Oh, so I won't kiss you, I will hit you.

Yes, okay. I'm happy. It's not true.

You know that. Everybody likes to have a kiss. Nobody wants to be hit.

Everybody likes to make money. Everybody would like to be successful. Everybody would like to be strong, healthy.

We would like to have a good relationship in our family, good partner. Everybody would like that. It's not true that everything is the same.

It's not true. It's real. Life is real.

Meditation should make you happy. Meditation should make you successful. Okay?

Good meditation, okay? Today I did yoga with one young man. His name is Zachary.

He's 10 years old. His mother and me and his grandmother, we did yoga together. I said, Zachary, what are you going to do today?

He says, I'm going to see the film, the movie. Then I said, what movie are you going to see? Born in Legacy.

Then I said, oh, that's a good movie. What is a good movie? You are like this.

Wow. Oh. What happens next?

Oh. Okay? You are on your chair like this.

And you are looking at the movie like that. And you are meditating. Okay?

This is good concentration. When you go to see a good movie, your mind is like this. Oh, look out.

Oh, no. Here's a bomb. Watch out.

If somebody says, do you want popcorn? You are like, no. Don't bother me.

He's going to get shot. That's meditation. That's focus.

That's real focus. What does good meditation feel like? Good meditation feels like your favorite movie.

Okay? Good meditation feels like your favorite movie. Or some really good rock and roll song.

Okay? I was in the taxi cab today. The guy had on a blue leather shirt under the rug.

Then he had Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Lady Natasha. Altogether, he's saying to them, together. It's okay.

[Speaker 2]
It's okay.

[Speaker 1]
But focus. He heard the song on the radio and he said, shh. This isn't the song.

That's focus. How does meditation feel? Meditation feels happy.

Meditation feels like a good movie. You are like this all the time. Not just 10 minutes in the morning.

Not half an hour in the morning. You are all the time like, wow. Yeah.

Play that song again. Alright. I love this book.

Meditation is sharp. Mind is happy. It's not like this.

Okay? Meditation is like this. Like a good movie.

Mind is sharp. Mind is sharp. Mind can do good business.

It's not like this. Okay? Think about that.

That. That. This is not meditation.

The purpose of meditation in the morning, you meditate for 10 minutes. You meditate for 15 minutes. Whole day you are like this.

Okay. What's the problem with business? How can we make better business?

What's the problem with my life? I can fix it. No problem.

Think about that. Mind is happy. Mind is sharp.

This is meditation. Next one. Number 4.

Harmony. If the people in your business or the people in your family are not cooperating with each other, if there is no harmony with each other, it will kill your business. It will kill your business.

You can have good products. You can have cheap price. You can have nice floor.

But if the workers are fighting with each other, they will kill your company. It doesn't matter. Okay?

And in the family it's the same. Okay? You come home.

You come home. You want to have some food. You want to have some dinner.

But the children are fighting with each other. And the children are fighting with the mother. The food doesn't taste good.

Nothing tastes good. Nobody is happy. Harmony is very important.

If everyone is a meditator, if they know how to meditate, it's okay. You are telling me I should teach all the workers in my company to meditate? Yes.

We are going to meditate on your time. You want me to pay them while I meditate? Yes.

Okay? You will make more money. Give them 15 minutes to meditate.

Teach them how to meditate. They will love each other. They will help each other.

The company will be successful. If the workers love each other, if the workers are peaceful, cooperation, there's no price for that. You cannot buy that.

Then the company will be successful. In my company, okay? In New York, we have 800 people.

I'll tell you a true story. So, the CFO, financial director, came to me. He said, we have a problem.

Michael, we have a problem. What's the problem? Everybody is going home and meditating.

We have a new problem. Time clock. Time clock?

Everyone's time clock says 9 o'clock. Then I said, so, why are they spending extra hours? They are very busy.

He said, no, no, we are not busy. In America, you have to pay one and a half salary after time clock. So, if they are paying $20 an hour, then you have to give them $30 an hour after time clock.

So, I said, tell them to go home and time clock. I have a meeting with all the workers. Go home and time clock.

Don't go home and time clock. I want to see time clock. Then, after a week, CFO, we have a problem.

What's the problem? All the time clock says 9 o'clock. So, I said, okay, I'll take care of it.

I went to the clock. I fixed the clock. I broke the clock.

It always says time clock. I said, okay, you can go home and time clock. But the clock was the time clock.

Next week, security policy. We have the entire business. We have two doors.

Three steel doors. You cannot go to the second door until the first door closes. Even the floor is made of steel because somebody will be under the ground.

So, everything is steel. The whole building is steel. Security policy.

There's a problem. What's the problem? Everybody is going home at 9 o'clock.

What? Yeah, all the workers are going home at 9 o'clock. Why?

I broke the clock. It says 5 o'clock. Then, I have a meeting with all the workers.

Why are you going home at 9 o'clock? They said, I said, that's why you want to stay. I said, what do you mean?

They said, we like it here. We will stay 4 hours extra. You don't have to pay.

We just like to stay with each other. We don't want to go home. It's like that.

If you have bargaining in the company, you will be welcomed. Meditation makes people peaceful to each other. Then your workers leave.

If the workers don't know how to meditate, you won't get any money. Next one. I like number 5.

I like number 5. Teaching the future. You can see the future.

If a business person is meditating very loud, they have instinct. What does instinct mean? For example, when we bought that building.

Do you know that building there? That building there? When we bought the building, this building, everybody said, you are crazy.

This is not a good section of New York. This is a bad section of New York. This is not a good section of New York.

We bought the building $15 million. We bought it in the bad section of New York. Everybody said to me, why are you buying this building?

I said, I don't know. I have a feeling this is a good building. So we bought it.

We bought the building. Then, in the dining business, you should put steel on each floor. So there are 15 or 12 floors, and each floor you have to put steel.

And every wall has to be steel, because everything is diners. Everywhere. The diners truck, they will come under the building.

Then steel goes. Truck comes in, we put the delivery, then they go out and close the door. Everything is steel.

So we have to pay extra to the architect to make the building strong. Because every floor is heavy. Then the architect came to me.

I said, how much is going to cost to make the building strong? He said, zero. Nothing.

I said, what? He said, this building, do you know why this building is here? I said, I don't know.

He said, 1920 they built this building. It's old. Then I said, it should need more strengthening.

It should need more work. No, no, you don't understand. At that time, in America, alcohol is illegal.

Not allowed to drink alcohol. For five years, they failed. They made a law not to drink alcohol.

This building was for making alcohol. Secret. Secret alcohol.

So they had to put extra strength on every floor. Because to hold the liquor, the alcohol, they made the building double strong. So architect said, you don't have to pay anything.

You just pay $10 million. Right there. Then I had a feeling about this building.

Then he said, how did you know about the building? I said, I didn't know about the building. He said, but you told me about some feeling.

How do you get a feeling? He said, oh, I should buy this stock. I should buy this building.

I should design this kind of dress. Now, this week, I should design this kind of dress. How do you think about that?

Meditation. You can see the future. You can see.

You don't see, you know, lottery numbers or letters. You can't go to the casino and play cards and it's not like that. I'm not talking about that.

But in the beginning, you have a feeling. Oh, I should buy this building. You don't know why.

You don't understand why. But you think, I should buy this building. This is a good building for me.

If you meditate, if you learn to meditate in business, you are ahead of all other people because you have a feeling. Why? You are seeing the future.

Meditation helps you to see the future. Your mind, human mind, has power to see 500 years ahead. You have the power.

Your mind has the power to see 500 years. I don't mean tomorrow. I don't mean next week.

Human mind, your mind has the power to see 500 years ahead. If you meditate, you can learn to see 500 years ahead. You're not next year.

What is his popular dress next year? That's another world. What's the popular dress 500 years from now?

You can see it. Human mind has the power. But it's crippled.

It doesn't know how to meditate. If you learn how to meditate, you can see 500 years ahead. It's very interesting.

It's very cool to see 500 years ahead. Then your life is a little bit more expanded. It's very interesting.

So I thought we will do one more meditation and then we take a break. So just think, on the other side of the meditation, there is a reflection. So I'm going to ask Kathleen to come and teach us some meditation.

She will be translated by who's Kathleen? What? Okay.

Kathleen is one of our teachers and Ryan is one of our teachers. They will be teaching in Jigme. Now I will teach everyone a very simple meditation.

It's one of the most simple meditation called practice meditation. Everyone of us know how to breathe. Find a comfortable place in a comfortable position sitting at the front of the chair and don't lean against the back.

Don't lean against the back so you are sitting at the front of the chair. Because when you lean against the back your force is easy. Gently put your hand at your back.

Straighten your spine. Imagine the strength that pull your spine at the top of your hip. Relax the bone.

Relax your neck. Relax your shoulder. Relax your face.

Relax your eyes. Gently close your eyes. Relax your knees.

Your tongue at the top of your teeth. Take a deep breath. Focus on your breath.

Breathe out.

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Breathe in. Feel that your body is more relaxed now.

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Breathe in. Let's count one to ten. Breathe out.

Breathe in. When your mind drift away gently turn it back and focus on the breath. Breathe in.

Feel the cold air to breathe in. Feel the warm air to breathe out. You can feel that your body is more relaxed.

Now get right back to your body. Put a smile on. Open your eyes.

Just open your eyes. Now, before we take a break, I'd like to introduce the teachers who will be teaching, especially this weekend at the duty retreat. But also, these teachers have been trained, some of them for many years, some 15 years, some 10 years, some 5 years.

I'm going to ask them to come on to the stage. There's six staff from Singapore. Yafi Peng, Lloyd Peng here already, Jackie Fisher, Jamie Wall, Kenny Lai here, and Alan Leak.

These are Singapore staff of Diamond Cutter Institute. And then we have, mostly from the United States, and some from Europe, Christine Walsh, who just got back from teaching in Beijing, Jamie Blount, who was stationed in China, Bonnie Baptiste from, used to work for Apple Company, or Siemens, Eric Franklin, certified Microsoft, or IT producer, Mercedes Paleta, who you heard singing. She's a pretty famous recording artist in the United States, and writes song records.

She has a CD, you can get, if you'd like. And we have Cox from, he runs our business in Israel, and part of Europe, and also China. So these people are your teachers for this weekend.

The groups are very small, so you can have small groups and you can learn from the teacher directly. But tonight, they are working for you, okay? So during the break, you look at them, okay?

Like shopping. You know which one you like. Those who speak Chinese, can you raise your hand?

So, during the break, when we take a break, they will sit on the stage, is that okay? They will sit here, they will spread out on the stage, maybe where you are in front of the stage, and they will sit on the stage. If you have a question about meditation, you can ask them.

If you have a question about business, you can ask them. I was doing one job. One lady asked me, this thing we are teaching about business, can I use it to fix my husband?

Then one man raises his hand. Also, can I use it to fix my wife? Then I said, yeah, you can use it.

So then after that, everybody started asking questions about their husband. So it's okay, all right? They are working for you tonight.

So you are the boss. You can ask them any question about anything that you like, you can ask a question, okay? During the break.

So, and I will stay here. I will sign the books, I will take a photo. If you have a question, I will stay after the talk, okay?

We don't have time in this break to answer, or need to answer questions. Just be sure to sign the book. But if you have a question, they are going to take us down at 10 or 10.30, but after the talk, if you have a question, you can ask them, okay?

So we will take 15 minute break, and please enjoy, and we'll see you when we come back. The line for this myself is starting here. Why do we have 12 levels?

We want you to learn to teach this thing, okay? So each person here can become a teacher. You saw the people from Singapore, there were six people, and people from other countries who are teaching.

They started like you. They came to one park, maybe in Europe or Los Angeles or Buenos Aires, Paris, and then they listened, and they learned the Shabbos, and now they are teaching. So I'm hoping each person here can learn to teach.

For example, in Russia, we teach many companies, and we teach the teachers in the company. Then the teachers are teaching in their own company. So that is our dream for Singapore also.

If you didn't have a chance to finish Level 1 or Level 2, you can finish it with one of the teachers in Singapore, but later you should become a teacher, and you should teach in your own company, and you can have your own teachers. That's our dream. That's our program.

So you can learn to do that. Level 1 and Level 2. Level 3 is about meditation.

Level 1 and Level 2 is about how to get the things you want. Maybe some people want money, $250 million or something. Then maybe some people want to be happy, strong, young.

A lot of people are strong and young. Then some people like a relationship, a partner. Then Level 1 and Level 2, we taught you already how to get those things.

There are four steps. There are four steps in the Dalai Lama system. You can use the four steps.

If you didn't learn them already, I suggest you write them down. If you didn't learn them already, I suggest you write them down. You can use for anything.

You can use to make a successful business. You can use the four steps to make money. Or you can use the four steps to find a good partner.

Or if already you have a partner, you can upgrade to business class. It means you can change your partner. If you learn the system, you can change your partner.

It doesn't matter how long you are married. You can make improvement using the four steps. So I'm going to teach you the four steps.

Why? You can use these four steps to get anything. What are we trying to get in Dalai Lama?

What do we want to get? Meditation. You want to learn meditation.

You can use the same four steps for meditation. So if you want money, I can show you tonight how to make money. If you want to find a husband or wife or partner, I can tell you the four steps.

If you want your husband to wash the dishes or even cooking, you can do with four steps. If you want to learn to meditate, you also need to use the four steps. Four steps are how to plant a seed in your mind.

How to put a seed in your mind. In this system, the Dalai Lama's system, you don't have to work so hard. I work six months a year.

Six months I have vacation. This is equal. You guys are crazy.

Fifty weeks working, two weeks vacation. This is a bad deal. It should be fifty-fifty.

It should be twenty-six weeks working, twenty-six weeks vacation. I work like that. I work six months.

I only work six months a year. Then six months I'm home and I'm relaxing. Why?

I know how to plant a seed. What I want, I know how to plant a seed. So there are four steps.

And I will teach you the four steps now. Because you can use it also for meditation. You can make money.

You can find a partner. You can make your husband learn to cook. Or you can learn meditation.

With the same four steps. The steps are the same. Step number one.

Ready? Step number one. In one short sentence, tell me what you want.

Just tell me what you want. Short. Okay?

For example, I want to learn how to meditate. Or, I want to learn to speak French. Or, I want my husband to cook nice French food.

Or, I want to make one million dollars by next year. Or, I want to find a good partner. You decide what you want.

Just one thing. You cannot put many N's. I want money and I want money and I want money and I want money.

You chose just to do one thing. I told one guy in New York, tell me what you want. One thing.

One sentence. He said, I want to make a million dollars. And I want a good girlfriend.

And I want to be strong. And, you know, just choose one. Okay?

Just choose one. Step number two. Okay?

Step number two. You must find another person who wants the same thing. You must find another person who wants the same thing.

If you want to make a million dollars, you must find a person who wants money. If you want to find a partner, you must find a lonely person. Okay?

Okay? If you want to be healthy, young. You want to raise children well.

You want to have a lot of children. Then you must find a sick person. And you must help him.

Okay? Then I was in Detroit. I talked with a automobile company.

Then one young man said, I found her. I found her. I said, what did you find?

I found an old lady. Also she is sick. Also she has no money.

I can do two things at one time. You know, I can plan to change things at one time. Okay?

But in this kingdom of existence, you cannot get what you want unless you find somebody else who needs it. You cannot plan to sleep with yourself. She must plan with other person.

So you must find another. You don't have a chance. Okay?

If you want money, find somebody who needs money. If you want to start a business, find the other person who wants to start a business. Okay?

If you want to be strong and young, then help the sick people. Okay? If you want to find a partner, then find a lonely person.

Old person. Okay? That's...

Then make a plan. This is also part of Shabbat. Find them and make a plan to help them.

Make a plan. Where should you go to help them? Is it Shimakwa?

Shimakwa? Stavros? Okay.

That's step number three. Step number three, take them to Stavros. I don't care where you want to go.

But it will help my country's economy. If you take them to Stavros. Okay?

You must take them, for example, for tea. Or take them for coffee. For one hour only.

One hour. If you want to start a business, find the person who wants to start a business. Take them to coffee shop.

Have some tea with them. You must do. That's step number three.

Take them, give them help. Give them support. You don't have to quit your company and join your company.

Okay? It's just one hour per week. Take them to a coffee shop.

Like Stavros. Give them help. Give them advice.

I gave this talk in Argentina this year. Five days. Same.

Two days open talk. Three days retreat. Then again and again and again I said you must take them to Stavros.

You must take them to Stavros. After the talk, one guy came up to me. I want to meet you.

It's a very good talk. And I said, oh, thank you. What is your work?

I am the manager of Stavros in Argentina. So, step number three. Take them out.

For example, if you want to plant a seed for a boyfriend, girlfriend, then you must find a lonely person. You don't have a choice. You don't have a choice.

Don't look at the internet. You are wasting your time. The guy who is on the internet, he is a nerd.

Don't go to the nightclub. That guy also, he is the kind of guy who goes to the nightclub. So, don't look for them.

Make them. Plant them. How do you plant them?

Find a lonely person. Find a lonely person. You must find.

You don't have a choice. That's step number two. Step number two.

Take them out. Take a lonely person. Some old woman.

I had my old woman. 20 years. She is now 86.

I take her every week. Because I want to see. I want to plant a seed.

She is very valuable for me. My friends try to steal her. I say, she is mine.

You find your own. So you must find a lonely person. Find a person who wants what you want.

If you want to learn to meditate, how? Step number two. Step number two.

What? Find a person who wants to learn to meditate. They don't have peace.

They don't have peace. They are always nervous. They don't have to tell you, oh please, I want to learn to meditate.

It's not like that. You check. Who is my friend is nervous.

They have no peace. They are always unhappy. You are lucky to find this person.

You have to be happy. Oh, I found a peace. I found someone who is unhappy.

Now, I can plant my seed again. I can use this person to plant my meditation seed. Step number one.

I want to learn to meditate. Step number two. I must find an unhappy person who has no peace in their life.

Everything. You can find everywhere. Step number three.

Take them to Shimla and tell them. And say, look, you don't have to say you are the most unhappy person in the world. You can just say, look, I went to a talk the other night.

This guy teaches me how to meditate. By the way, I don't care if you are a Buddhist. I don't care if you are a Christian.

I don't care what you are. It doesn't matter to me. I teach in the Indonesia Muslim people.

I teach in the United States Catholic people. We have 35 Buddhists in Israel. They are Jewish people.

It doesn't matter. Everybody can meditate. It makes you successful.

It's not religiously. It just makes you a happy person. And it makes you sharp.

And successful. So, but you must plant the seed. If I tell you you sit here for 3 days, you close your eyes.

You don't move. Don't say anything. This is not how to teach meditation.

This is not Jihad Jihadist system. This is not Diamond Cutter system. Diamond Cutter system, always the same.

Four steps. Plant the seed. Even meditation, plant the seed.

How to plant the seed? Help someone who doesn't have peace. Find someone who is unhappy.

Take them to Starbucks. Say, let's talk for one hour. Let's just talk for one hour.

How do you feel? What do you need? Can I help you with anything?

Just like that. That's all. You are planting the seed for meditation.

You don't have to go to the mountain and find cave. Just go to Starbucks. Plant the seed for your meditation.

Plant the seed for meditation. Step number 4 is very beautiful. We call...

That's a long story. I told you last year. Should I tell you again?

You want? OK. It's a long story.

So I used to go to... I lived in once very sometimes near New York. It's a Mongol monastery.

Then I lived there. Then my teacher is there. He is a big monk.

Then I have to drive 2 hours from New York in the morning. I have to drive 2 hours back in the night. I'm tired.

When I get home, I'm tired. Then in our monastery the monk is not supposed to watch TV. Except the big monk.

OK. So he has television. Then I come home.

I'm very tired. Then I think, how could I get to watch television? Then I thought, the monk likes to have some tea.

I should put him some tea. Then I would take the monk the tea. Then I give him the tea.

Then slowly I sit down. And I watch television. Then sometimes he asks me, go away.

Why are you here? Then I said, oh, I'm very tired. I just want to watch a half hour.

He said, did you meditate today? I said, no. I don't have time.

I have to go 2 hours to New York. I have to work for 8, 9, 10 hours. I have to come back.

When am I going to meditate? He said, you can't watch television until you meditate. You have to meditate now.

Then I said, what kind of meditation? Then he said, like this, OK? You should meditate like that.

We're going to teach you that meditation. Do you want to learn? He's very happy, relaxed.

He's not like, you have to cross over the wall. Not like that. It also hurts very much.

Are you ready? We're going to teach Jackie. Jackie will teach us.

This is a meditation from me. OK, so this is also one of my favorite meditation. Because, you know, I have a tendency to, like, criticize myself.

Or a tendency to criticize other people in my mind. But this meditation is about being happy about what we've done. So this is a really nice meditation.

And it's also a real-time meditation because you don't sit up this way. Which is also very good. But this is a good way to change.

So this one, you can just sit back. So everybody, sit back. And it's really nice to recline back.

Can I get comfy? Very good. So then, you know, you can just let your eyes close.

It's nice. So we usually do this meditation at the end of the day. So we're just going to get ourselves into that place first.

OK, so you just imagine that you've finished work. You're heading home. You're ready to go home.

And then you're approaching your house or your flat. Coming through the door. Then you do what you usually do in the evening when you've got problems.

Maybe you get changed. Maybe you just lock down for a while. Whatever you do.

Then you head back to your room. And then after that, maybe you take a bit of time out. Maybe you wash your feet.

Maybe you do a bit of this or that. Whatever it is, maybe you check in there for a while. Just while you're there.

Then it's getting time for bed. So you have a shower. You hop into your pyjamas.

And then you get into bed. But we're not actually going to get in bed yet. We're going to be on top of the bed.

And we're going to settle back into position. Nice and comfy. And imagine that you close your eyes.

So this is a very special coffee meditation. So just for a moment, take a couple of breaths and let yourself relax here. Let all the stress of the day wash away with your breath.

So we're going to imagine that we've been doing what Geshe-la was talking about. We've decided what we want. And we've been working on planting those seeds.

So maybe just think, imagine that we've already been doing it. And think about the thing that you'd like for one sentence. Maybe it's a better job.

Maybe it's a good boy. Whatever it is. But we imagine that we've been working on it.

So we're going to think back about what we've been doing, about the seeds we've been planting, so that we can figure out things in our world. And we're going to feel really happy about what we've been doing. So for example, if we want a new job, we think about all the plans we've been making to help others get jobs.

All the times we've said, Oh, yeah, I think I know someone who'd be happy with that. We think back about how we've planned to have another friend who feels very stuck. And we feel great about all the planning we've done.

So for you to think about the thing that you're working on, and think about all the plans that we've been making to help others get that through. And now we're going to go to the next step, so we have to do it. So we're going to think back about the time that we took our friend down to Starbucks.

And the time that we gave them a lot of advice about jobs, and really listened to the kind of job they would like. And really tried to think about the steps they could take to get a job. So when we think back about what we did for them, we just feel really happy about the effort that we made.

And then lastly we think, not in a prideful way, but we think that it's really nice to be this kind of person. The kind of person who likes to help others. How we can be an example for other people as well.

So we feel really good about that too. And so with this happy feeling, we just let our hand drift away from our head, and then we just sit down forever, snuggle under the blanket, and happiness in our heart. Maybe we can have a drink while we're here.

So that's your coffee meditation. And you can throw your coffee if you want. So those are the four steps, right?

Let's do it again. Number one, what do you want? Decide what you want.

You decide. Could be money, could be partner, could be change husband, could be step number two. Number three, you must find the other person who wants that thing.

You need another person who wants that thing. You must find that. Some people told me, I want my husband to wash dishes.

But I didn't find anybody who wants their husband to wash the dishes. Then I said, you didn't look. If you look, you will find one other in one way.

Okay? I don't know any old person who is lonely. You didn't look.

Before, you didn't care about them. Now you need them. If you want to make money, you need four persons.

You have to find them. If you want to find a partner, you need an old lonely person, right? Then these persons will become valuable.

Step number two, find a person who has a problem. This system doesn't work if you don't find a person who has a problem. You must put your feet there.

Step number three, take them to Starbucks. Step number four, step number four, you come home and you do a yoga step. You lay down on your bed.

Step number four is meditation on your bed. Okay? Why?

Also, do not sit carefully. Don't sit straight. Just sit like that.

And look at Buddha and say, today, I did a good job. I took the old lady to the coffee shop. Okay?

And why? Because I wanted my boyfriend. I didn't go to Sephora or Zara or...

You see? It's also cheaper to clap the seat. Okay?

I'm trying a new system to find a boyfriend. I find an old lady and I clap the seat. Clap the seat always works.

Okay? Clapping the seat always works. Look for a boy on the internet.

Maybe you will have a problem. Okay? Look for a boy in a nightclub and you will have a problem.

I think so. Clap the seat. He will come to you.

You don't have to do anything. Okay? Just relax.

Clap the seat and relax. If you want money, if you want a big business, help somebody else to start a business. This is unnatural.

This is unnatural. This is not human nature. Okay?

I want to start a business. I don't have time to help somebody else to start a business. You are crazy.

You know? I should do my own business. I shouldn't worry about other people's business.

This is human nature. And that's why 7 million people are working so hard. Okay?

50 weeks of work so you will have 2 weeks vacation. You are crazy. Okay?

You are really crazy. Don't work like this job. It doesn't work.

Even if you work 50 weeks, maybe you are making money. You know that. Some people work...

The hardest workers don't make... They make the least money. Right?

In Singapore. The people who are on the street working so hard, they make the worst money. It's true.

Just clap the seat and then relax. Okay? Then you can have your life with your family.

You can have your family life also. Not 50 weeks for job and 2 weeks for family. It's crazy.

Okay? Make it half and half. Right?

Try this new system. Okay? Try this new system.

Also for meditation. You can use it for meditation. So now, we have a few minutes.

I want to tell you some suggestions about meditation. Okay? Some suggestions.

Then tomorrow we will continue. Okay? You will learn more kinds of meditation.

If you have time, come to JB. Okay? I'm not trying to make business.

Okay? I just want to help you. I'm clapping my seat in you.

You see? I'm very smart. Okay?

if you don't have money to come, then talk to Roy. I will give you a headache. Stand up.

Alright. If you want to come or you have problem to come, talk to me. Okay?

It's important to have good chance to learn meditation. Okay? Everybody should learn to meditate.

So I'm going to give you some suggestions on how to learn to meditate. Number one. You need a teacher.

Okay? You need a real teacher. Someone who knows meditation.

Someone who relevates old way. Okay? The old system.

But he uses it in a new way. Okay? It should be, the system should be this system that you are going to learn is one thousand years old.

And we will study the old way. We will teach you the old way. But in the modern world, you don't have to sit in the cave.

Okay? You should sit at your desk for ten minutes. Okay?

And then meditate. Then make money. It's okay.

People need money. People need partner. In this system, you are also helping the world.

If you use G-19 to get money or to find a boyfriend or something, the system is helping the world. You are helping yourself by helping the world. So it's a great system.

You are making other people happy when you meditate. So, everybody is happy. Okay?

You cannot use this system unless you help other people. And they are happy. So it makes happiness for everybody.

It's a cool system. How to make money? Give money to other people.

Do they like it? Yes. Will you make more money?

Yes. Understand? It's a very interesting thing.

The system causes happiness for everybody. And also you make money and also they make money. So it's a perfect system.

The system is very helpful. So this I think is the number one you need if you are going to teach. If you haven't seen before, there are six teachers right here.

And they can teach you. So tomorrow, for example, in the break, you can grab one of them and say teach me how to meditate. You need a teacher.

It's like piano or to learn French or something like that. You need a good teacher. If you get a bad French teacher, you will also speak bad French.

OK? My name is Kasler. You know.

You need a good teacher. Then you will become like a teacher. Right?

That's the only thing. Number two. In your house, make a place for meditation.

In your house, make a place for meditation. You have a cooking place. It's called a kitchen.

You have your Facebook place. This is your computer desk. You also have an important place called a washroom.

That also has different things that you can do there. On your bed, you are supposed to sleep. If you want to learn to meditate good, then you should have a place in your house which is for meditation.

It doesn't have to be a big place. But don't use the bed. Why?

If you meditate on the bed, you're positive. The meditation which Jackie taught us, you should do on the bed. That's what we should do on the bed.

When you fall asleep, you're supposed to fall asleep in that meditation. What is that meditation? You're supposed to think about all the good things you are doing.

Today, I did many good things. Then you fall asleep, thinking about it. Why?

Those seeds will cook all night. Those seeds will increase all night long. What do we do?

We go down, we put our head down to sleep, and we think, Oh, she called me stupid today. I don't know if I can pay back my business loan. I have some money I have to pay back.

I also don't know if my customers want to pay me. Also, my husband said many stupid things to me today. We are meditating on stupid things before we go to bed.

Everybody is worried before they go to bed. They can wake up in the night time like this. Oh, my credit card.

Oh, my credit card. This is how you sleep. The sleep is not that strong.

The sleep is disturbed. So, in this system, step number four, which Jackie told us, you have to do it. You have to do it.

If you want to make $200 million, you must do step number four. If you want to have the most wonderful partner in the universe who also cooks and cooks and dishes, you must do number four. You must do number four.

What is number four? When you make that mistake, today, I did my good deeds. Don't think about your business.

Oh, I didn't make any money today. Don't think about the person who doesn't like you. They are happy if you will your sleep.

Okay? If you worry about the person who doesn't like you all night, you are cooperating with them because we want to be happy. They also don't want you to be happy.

So, say, in English, I'm not going to think about you tonight. I'm thinking about good deeds. Before I sleep, I'm going to think about today, I took the old lady to the coffee shop and I listened to her story about her boyfriend in Singapore in 1953.

Which she told me twenty times before when she moved out. Then, I did a good job. I counted the city for boyfriend.

I'm smart person. I'm not wasting money going to the supermarket buying new things. What's the French word?

I didn't give all that money to her at all. I counted all the places. I counted the city.

Boy or girl? Nothing can stop me. You can hire me.

Ask me if you want. Why not you? I saw it.

Count the city. Before you go to bed, don't think about the people in your life. They are happy if you go to sleep.

Don't think about them. Say, I'm going to think about the good things I did today. And I'm happy.

Then the sleep is very good. All those doctors who are selling medicines for sleeping, we can put them out of business. You can meditate.

What is meditation? I'll show you meditation. I'm going to lay down to sleep.

Kissing my girl. Come home. Lay down to sleep.

Oh my God. We didn't pay for the airplane ticket. Oh no.

The mind wants to go to the back place. You see? The mind is like this.

The mind is going to the back place. Then you grab the mind. With the mind.

Grab the mind and say, No, no, no. We are not thinking about problems tonight. We are going to think about the old way which we helped ourselves.

Yes, yes. I have to pay the bills. No, no.

Come back. Think about the good things which you did. No, no.

He called me stupid at work. No, no. Come back.

This fighting of who? Fighting of who? Your mind.

Your own mind. Everybody's mind is controlling them. They are not controlling their mind.

You are not the cause of your mind. Your mind is the cause of you. Okay?

You check tonight. You lay down. I'm going to think about good things.

He said, think about good things. But I didn't pay my credit card. I got enough.

Maybe I can fight. Fight the mind. You fight your own mind.

Come back. Think about good things. We want to go to sleep happy.

This fighting, what is the name? What's the name of that? Moshan.

No. Meditation. Moshan.

Is it meditation? Yeah. Meditation.

This is why. Fight your mind. Fight your mind.

You don't think about that. Don't think about that. It's here.

Come over here. Look how many good things happened today. Look at it.

You did so many good things today. Everybody was... Everybody is talking to you.

You went to the store and somebody is making food for you. You went to the restaurant and somebody is cooking for you. You went to the telephone.

Some guy is killing the telephone. You have a good mind. This is good.

You have many good things happening. Don't think about this stupid guy. That's meditation.

Meditation is fighting your own mind. Your mind wants to think about stupid things. When you control the mind, this is meditation.

At night, before you sleep, think about something good. So anyway. Number one.

Find a teacher. Meditation teacher. Who knows what they are talking about.

Don't find a French teacher who doesn't speak French. That's true. There are so many meditation teachers that don't know how to meditate.

You can see they are all nervous. I will teach you to meditate. I don't know what meditation you are doing, but I know what you are doing.

Find a real teacher. Find a real teacher. Number two.

Make a place in your house. Make a place in your house to meditate. Don't mix up the places.

If the place is for sleeping, don't meditate there. If the place is a bathroom, don't meditate there. Make a place, a separate place in your house.

Maybe the house should be clean. You cannot meditate in a dirty house. It's not possible.

It cannot stop everywhere. Then the light will be also mixed up. So the place should be clean.

Before you meditate, you should clean the house. Make everything clean. Your clothes, pick them up, put them away.

All of the newspapers and things, put them away. Don't meditate in a dirty place. It should be clean.

It should be nice. This is your meditation cushion. Then you should buy a meditation cushion.

The back of your feet should be higher than the front. There are many kinds of meditation cushions. You should experiment.

You try 10 or 15 kinds of meditation cushions. Then you will find the one which lacks a wall. Because you have to sit on it for a long time, he is going to be overwhelmed.

Find a good meditation cushion. Then try many different kinds. I have a friend.

He sits on a piece of wood. It looks terrible. But he likes it.

So each person has a different model. Then you have to find a child-friendly cushion. Then there is a special way to sit.

There are 8 things you have to watch when you sit. For example, I have one friend. When they meditate, they meditate like this.

The shoulders should be down. Shoulders should be equal. The head.

If you put the head too high up, you will think about lunch. Lunch for lunch. In the Bible, if you put the head down, you will fall asleep.

These are the two. Tomorrow, we will talk about the two problems of meditation. There are two big problems of meditation.

Number one, you are thinking about something else. Mine went out. You are supposed to meditate about your business.

How to fix this problem? Or you are supposed to meditate about something you might have. Then the mind doesn't want to stay there.

The mind wants to think about what's for lunch? What are we going to have for dinner? Or my ex-husband doesn't like me.

My boss said something to me three years ago. He forgot about it three years ago. You are still meditating about it.

It's true. My ex-husband said something to me three years ago. He forgot about it three years ago.

You are still meditating about it. The mind wants to go out. If you hold your head up to the mind, then the mind will think about other problems.

If you hold the head too low, then you will fall asleep. You will get sleepy. One day, I was very sleepy.

I was meditating near a wall. I fell asleep. I hit my head.

I got a big bump on my head. That's another thing. When you meditate, you should have enough sleep.

Don't try to meditate without sleep. Also, don't eat before meditation. Don't eat food before meditation.

Get up. Have some tea. A little bit of tea.

Clean the room a little bit. Then sit down to meditate. Do your meditation in the morning.

Most people like it in the morning because mindless is more fresh. Then after you meditate, then eat. We will practice in the gym together.

We will sit together and we will practice. But you should do it like that. Don't eat before you meditate.

Two big enemies of meditation. Number one. Think about many other things.

Number two. God's sleeping. These are the two big enemies.

We will talk about them tomorrow. In Tibetan, they are called Shiva and Gopal. Shiva means sleeping.

Gopal means think about something else. Meditation is like driving a car. Last thing.

When you drive a car, you look at a person's hands. They are going like this. When people drive a car, they are always moving their hands.

I have one mom. I tried to teach her to drive a car. Then I'm sitting here.

Then I said, you hold this like this. Then we are driving. You should do it like this.

She said, what? Okay. We are in a car.

Go that way. He said, what? Okay.

We need to learn to meditate in the beginning. The mind goes like that. Okay.

Where? Over here. God's sleeping.

Then the teacher said, you are sleeping. You are just sleeping. You must brighten up the mind.

Freshen up the mind. Oh, yes. I will think about lunch.

Okay. Don't think about lunch. Come back.

Then he gets sleepy. Like that. So the mind goes like this.

And good meditation is like this. You are like driving a car. Oh, I'm sleepy.

Wake up. Oh, I'm too tired. God's sleeping.

Oh, thinking about lunch. No. Calm down.

Too calm. Sleepy. You have to brighten up the mind.

It's like this all the time. So we will learn about it tomorrow. We will take lunch tomorrow.

So thank you for coming. You won the contest. We will check it in tomorrow.

You stay quiet. I think. This is very good.

Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for coming.