Опыт смерти как путь к сущностному телу Будды (Аризона, 2016), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Candy, sweet name, difficult question.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you very much Geshe-la for your auspicious teaching. Every time that I come here, I feel like this is a very supreme vacation that I'm having. So last night, at the very end, you threw out one question.

You asked, someone who is not a bodhisattva, and who has not been trained with the higher training, can they go through the four stages of the crystal? Yeah, we forgot to answer this question.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
In the first stage that you taught us, for someone who has never had this higher training, and when they see emptiness, they will not recognize it. Can you explain more in this part?

[Speaker 1]
Good, good question. I'm going to read it to you from the book. I'll read you a commentary, okay?

Just for fun. Okay, since you asked, okay? I like it.

It's kind of long, okay? The writer is Pabongka. The subject is Tantra, okay?

The book is his commentary on Vajrayogini. Ching gang yu jang mo. Yu jang mo?

Yu jang mo. Ching gang yu jang mo commentary. Okay?

By Pabongka. Same person. DHE NA DE LA GSUM LAS So, this is just for fun, okay?

We are taking tantric break. It's not serious teaching, okay? PHYI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR BAR DO LONG KUL LAM GYUR SKYE BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR Say, PHYI BA PHYI BA CHU KUL CHU KUL LAM GYUR LAM GYUR BAR DO LONG KUL LONG KUL LAM GYUR LAM GYUR SKYE BA SKYE BA CHU KUL CHU KUL LAM GYUR LAM GYUR So...

I'm not going to explain the whole thing now, but I'll just put a scene in your mind. Because Candy asked a question. So...

PHYI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR PHYI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR Very famous, okay? PHYI BA means to die. To go through all this death process is called PHYI BA.

Okay? CHU KUL means the essence body of Buddha. The emptiness, which is the core of a Buddha, is called CHU KUL.

Dharma body. Dharmakaya of a Buddha. Okay?

PHYI BA CHU KUL And LAM GYUR is a very special word. Very, very, very... like secret word.

LAM GYUR means... you take a normal experience in your life and you use it to reach a high level. You see?

So, normally death is a bad thing. And normally death is a dirty thing. And normally death is an unhappy thing.

But you can use it as a path. We call LAM GYUR. LAM means path, like LAM RIM.

GYUR means to use it as a path. Okay? So, CHU...

PHYI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR means to use the experience of death as a path to the essence body of a Buddha. To the core of a Buddha. Okay?

PHYI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR Then there's two more practices. BAR DO LONGS KU LAM GYUR Say BAR DO BAR DO LONGS KU LAM GYUR That's where you practice the BAR DO. You practice going into the BAR DO.

And you use it as an unusual path to reach the Tushita? Heaven? Heaven of Amitabha.

Okay? You use it as a way to become Buddha in the Buddha's own home. Okay?

In their own home. Not here. This is not their home.

Okay? So, you use the BAR DO as a path to become a Buddha who's living in their own home. In their own Buddha paradise.

Okay? BAR DO LONGS KU LAM GYUR Then, SKYE BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR SKYE BA means rebirth. LAM GYUR, use it as a path to CHUD KUL.

What's CHUD KUL? Yeah, the body that the Buddha sends to this world. Okay?

Okay? So, you use those three bad experiences— death, BAR DO, rebirth— to reach the three bodies of a Buddha. Dharma body, paradise body, and the body which they send to this planet.

Okay? Earth body. Okay?

Okay. And Candy's question is part of the first one. So, I'm going to read you some commentary.

Just for fun. Okay? Not serious teaching.

DAM PO CHI BA CHU KUL LAM GYUR BSGOM PA NGOS LA So, here's how you do the practice of using death as a path to jump off the subway. Right? Okay?

DE LTAR RNAMS NGOR BAR MI'I SNGA DANG LAM CHOS KYI NUS CHOS KYI RNAMS BA'I SREL DU SGRUB PA'I SNGA BA STONG SANGS When the whole world and all the people in it dissolve into clear light, this is... that first one, everything appears as emptiness. SNGA BA STONG SANGS BAR Everything appears as emptiness.

Nothing else. You can't... Nothing show itself to you.

No hamburgers. You know? No TV.

No WeChat. Only kong shing coming this way appear to you. Okay?

SNGA BA STONG SANGS BAR NGES NGO RANG BZHIN GYIS MED PA ZHES NGES NGO RDZIN STANG RANG BZHIN GYIS MED PA NGES PA'I STONG NYID GOM The second one, which means how do you take it? Okay? RANG BZHIN GYIS MED PA It has no nature of its own.

What's that mean? I need help. Is this a pen by itself?

No. So, we say it doesn't have nature of being a pen. Okay?

Nature means from its own side. Okay? So, in this case, nature means...

Is the nature of fire hot? Catherine is correct. Is it the nature of Neil Young's music is the best rock and roll in the world?

Okay? It depends on who's listening, right? And we just said that a Prada put their hand out to fire, feels more cold than without a fire.

Okay? So, even fire doesn't have nature to be hot. Water doesn't have nature to be wet.

Okay? This is highest Buddhist belief. Nothing has any nature.

Okay? Water is not wet from its own side. If you have a karma, you can walk on water.

Okay? Water won't be wet for you. Okay?

Okay? So, NGES BAR RANG BZHIN MED PA means... the way you take that emptiness is that you understand nothing is any way by itself.

Water is not wet, fire is not hot, Neil Young is not the god of rock and roll by himself. Okay? Even Neil Young.

Okay? Forget fire here. Thank you.

DZIN STANG... This is his explanation of those four. RANG BZHIN MED PA NGES PAR STONG NYID BSGOM So, DZIN STANG, he mentions the word DZIN STANG.

How do you take it? How do you interpret it? Oh, that's...

you recognize it as emptiness, called DZIN STANG. Okay? Very difficult in logic we study how does the...

how does the object appear? How do you take it? How does the direct perception take it?

How does the logical perception take it? How does the reported perception take it? It's all complicated.

DZIN STANG... RANG BZHIN MED PA NGES PAR STONG BA NYID BSGOM Then you start meditating. DE YANG SNGA LA SOGS PA'I CHOS THAMS CAD All the things in the world including me.

Okay? What is it your name is? If your name is Jasmine or Kili...Akeli. Or...

What day are you teaching? I have to be busy the day she teaches. Even...even me is not me from its own side. Okay? Michael is not Michael from Michael's side. MA GRUB PA'AM BDAG MED PAR BSGOM PA LA MED GYI BDAG TE NGES PAR BYAG DGOS So, those of you who are interested in studying emptiness deeply, here's an important word that should be burned into your brain.

MED GYI BDAG MED GYI BDAG Okay? We teach it in DCI when I get up there with Miss Phan Tung, Alison, and Stanley, they taught me this important word. What's Phan Tung?

Rice bucket head. Okay? Phan Tung?

I said it correctly? Phan Tung. Okay.

If you want to insult your husband, you call him, or you're just a Phan Tung. You have rice bucket head. Okay?

Then, when we have DCI program, we practice Phan Tung on the stage. So, she will be like the wife, the husband. Alison will be the husband.

Then Peter is like second husband. Then I do the wife. And then, I come home from work, I open the door, you know, I'm waiting for big hug from Peter, and then he says, you're just a Phan Tung.

Then, whenever you get insult by another person, there's always two insulters, not one. There are two Peter Phan Tung talker persons. There's always two.

Okay? One of them is coming from me, from my seat, because I yelled at my kids last week. And the other one is number four.

I didn't do anything. Okay? Those are two words in English.

It's number four. I didn't do anything. You can hear, if you listen to American stock, I didn't do anything.

I didn't do anything. He start calling me Phan Tung. I don't understand.

Okay? So, there's two husbands yelling at you. One come from you, from your seat, you yelled at your kids last week.

The other one doesn't come from you, I didn't do anything. Okay? One exists and one doesn't exist.

You tell me which is which. The one coming from my seat, because I yelled at my kids last week, exists, really exists. Okay?

Now the other one, I didn't do anything? Number four? It's number four?

Does that one exist? Does that one exist? No, never did, never could, never will.

Jasmine, yeah, nice. Cannot exist, okay? Now, the key to nirvana, the key to nirvana, ready?

When you get mad because you came home and your husband called you Miss Rice Bucket Head, when you get angry, which husband are you getting angry at? Always. It's number four.

It's number four. I didn't do anything. Okay?

And that one never existed, cannot exist. Every time you got angry in your whole life, you were angry at a person who wasn't there. Every time you got upset in your whole life about something happened to you, you were upset about something that wasn't there.

And there's a special word for the husband who's not there and the husband who is there, in Tibetan. And here it is, I've been waiting for this word to come. Nick's gonna learn it, we're gonna learn it, the rest of you don't care about it, I don't care.

Okay. MED RGYUD DAG Okay? M-E-D M-A-D-R-G-Y-U-D-A-G-Y-U RGYUD means cause, right?

MED RGYUD DAG means the person who's there that can't exist. Okay? The person who's there that can't exist.

And that's the one who's, it's not my fault, I didn't do anything. Okay? Got it?

So, it's here, here in the text. MED RGYUD DAG DE NGES PA BYAMS SGO You must identify the husband who doesn't exist if you want to reach nirvana. Okay?

If you want to stop your anger forever, in Buddhism there's only one way and there's only one possible way. You have to realize that guy is not there. Then you can, then you can control your anger.

All other anger controlling methods are temporary, they don't last. If someone push you a little harder, you will break. They push you, you say, oh, I'm Buddhist, I shouldn't get angry.

Push, push! Oh, I'm Buddhist, I shouldn't get angry. Push, push, push!

Ha! Psh! Psh!

But if you understand the husband who's not there, push! Ha! Not there.

Push! Not there. Push, push, push, push!

Not there, not there, not there. Okay? It never breaks.

Okay? Got it? RANG REL CHOD DANG GANG ZAG GIS GANG SNGA BA THAM BYAS DE DANG DE ZHES KHUR RANG GI NGON NAS TSUL KHRUB PA LTA BU TSUL KHRUB LING NGAL BA ZHIG RANG ZHUGS KYI Every person and everything that we ever saw in our whole life.

Okay? It looked like RANG NGON NAS TSUL KHRUB TSUL KHRUB It looks like it was coming this way. The pen, my husband, my life, Hong Kong, looked like coming this way.

Okay? NGON NAS TSUL KHRUB PA LTA BU TSUL KHRUB It looks solid. The husband who called me phantom, who didn't come from me, he looks very real.

You know? Okay? PHYI'I PHYI'I PHYI'I TSUL KHRUB LING NGAL BA LING NGAL BA means like super, super bright, you know?

There, real, super real. The husband who called you phantom, not come from you. ZHIG RANG ZHUGS KYI ZHAR You don't think, you know, you open the door, your husband says phantom, then you don't think, oh, I wonder if he's coming from me or not.

You know? It just comes out like automatic. You know?

Feel like he's coming attack you, you know? I didn't do anything. It's not my fault.

Then he's like... Then it looks... RANG ZHUGS means it's automatic, everybody has it.

It's automatic. You don't have to think about it. If you don't think about it still, you will think he's coming from him side.

Okay? Automatic, RANG ZHUGS onward. That's the GAC CHA.

What's GAC CHA? Say GAC CHA. GAC CHA.

GAC CHA. GAC CHA. When you tell Nick and Aaron, you will take them to Kuchina Rustika, most expensive restaurant in Sedona, for dinner, which doesn't happen very often.

And you say, I will pay. You know? Then you take them, you eat a big dinner, it's time to go home, everybody's happy, everybody's pregnant, boys and girls.

And then, you say okay, and you're like... and you forgot your credit card. Okay?

GAC CHA means the thing which is not in your pocket. Okay? The thing which is not in your pocket is GAC CHA.

Okay? Or you can say... you can say that, the thing which emptiness is empty of.

The thing which emptiness is empty of is the impossible husband who didn't come from me. Okay, got it? What does...

what's not there when you say GONG? When you say GONG, what's not there? Credit card.

When the phantom happens, who's... what's not there? Yeah, stupid husband attacking you.

Okay? He's not there, his fault. His fault husband is not there, that's GAC CHA.

The thing which is... Okay, left hand, left finger, point to something didn't come from you. You found GAC CHA.

Okay? The thing which is not in this room is GAC CHA. The thing which didn't come from you.

Okay? You can say impossible thing, not empty thing, not coming from me thing is called GAC CHA. Okay?

So, I'm still answering Candy's question, okay? GAC CHEN, DE GZUGS PUNG SOGS GANG DUG DAG NA Okay? So, when you look for your body, where's my body?

GANG DUG DAG NA NGES GZUGS KYI PHUNG PO SOGS ZER BA'I SKABS LTA BU NGAR RUNG ZHIG GI YOD PA ZHIG BRTAN NAS NYE DU MED You cannot find even Michael's body which is not coming from Michael. Okay? Which not coming from what I did to other people.

There's no such body. If I look for the body of Michael which is not coming from something I did to other people, I will never find any body. Any body.

ZHIN DU CHUD THAMS CAD DE'I ZHIN DU CHUD THAMS CAD RANG RANG GI RGYUD PA DUS TZAM YANG MED There's not one atom of any object in the whole universe which is not coming from your seeds. Okay? ZHIN DU TZAM YANG MED PAR NGES PAS NGES SHES SKYES When you...

when you understand it, you recognize emptiness. Okay? That second part, right?

Emptiness appearing to you. When you understand the husband, you understand the emptiness, okay? From its side, it's showing kong, kong, kong, kong, kong.

From your side, oh, I know kong, kong, I met you before when Geshe Michael talked about the pan. I remember you. Okay?

You're the phantom guy. You know, okay? That whole explanation he's talking about NGES NGOR RANG BZHIN MED PAR How do you take...

how do you take the emptiness? Then he gives the answer to Candy's question. Yay!

BAR THEG THAMS CAD LA YOD Um... BAR THEG THAMS CAD LA YOD THAMS CAD LA YOD Um... Well, anyway, hmm...

BAR THEG THAMS CAD LA YOD All Mahayana schools recognize those two. You can learn those in the not-secret teachings, okay? In the highest not-secret teachings you can find those two things.

What? The husband who appears to be empty and the husband you take to be empty. Those you can find in...

you don't have to study Tantra. You don't have to study secret teachings, okay? But, what?

Number three, RANG SEM DE BA CHEN PO Okay? My mind is bliss. The mind perceiving emptiness is bliss, okay?

RANG SEM DE BA CHEN PO LO DE CHEN TU'I NGOR SKYES PA MED PAS SANG SNGAGS LA DE'I RTEN STONG NYID NGES KYI YOD CING LO NYUGS SEMS DE CHEN PO'I NGOR SKYES PA'I NYONG YOD DE BA CHEN PO ZHIG DE BA CHEN PO'I YOD ZHIG GI STONG NYID NGES PAR BYED PA YIN And this is an answer to somebody's question. Jigme. Yesterday, okay?

We'll go deeper, you ready? LO DE CHEN TU'I NGOR SKYES PA MED PAS It's not natural that your mind at that moment should be joy, or happiness, okay? But, SANG SNGAGS LA DE'I RTEN DU But, in the...

open teachings, okay? Even bodhisattva teaching, open teaching. The first two you can find, okay?

But the third one you cannot. Okay? It's bodhisattva...

First two are bodhisattva teaching, but not secret bodhisattva teaching, okay? LO DE CHEN TU'I NGOR SKYES PA MED PAS SANG SNGAGS LA DE'I RTEN STONG NYID NGES KYI YOD CING LO NYUGS SEMS DE CHEN PO'I NGOR SKYES PA NYONG YOD DE BA CHEN PO ZHIG In the higher teaching, in the secret teachings, the state of mind that is seeing kongshin is NYUGS SEMS DE CHEN Say, NYUGS SEMS DE CHEN NYUGS SEMS DE CHEN So, you are drilling down, mountains are falling, tsunami is coming, sun is burning, the wind is coming, the mirage is coming, the fire smoke is coming, the spark is coming, the flame is coming, the white comes, the red comes, the black comes. And the mind is going like this, and then, crystal, okay?

Ding. Who did the ding? Now it's good.

You touch crystal. That state of mind is called NYUGS SEMS. And it's a very difficult word. NYUGS SEMS means the part of you which has lived forever, and will live forever.

Okay? The part of you which has lived since forever, and will live in the future forever is called core mind? Something like that.

Core. Your core. Your soul.

Okay? That's called NYUGS SEMS. And its nature is bliss. Its nature is happiness.

Its nature is joy. If you die, and you go... the last thing left, the last piece of life, the last spark of life, which never goes out, ever, is NYUGS SEMS. Your...

your joy. Okay? Got it?

Which sees emptiness. Okay? NYUGS SEMS DE BA CHEN PO'I NGOR BSKYED PA'I MYONG YUL DE BA CHEN PO'I ZHES DE BA CHEN PO'I YOD ZHIG GI SDONG NYID NYES PA BYAS PA YIN So for that, bodhisattvas have two possibilities.

There can be bodhisattva who didn't get permission to study secret teaching, or there can be bodhisattva who did get permission. Okay? Which are you?

You're getting secret teaching right now. You must be the second kind. I think so.

Okay? You want more? Okay.

Okay. DE SEMS BYUNG NA NGAG GI DE STONG BYA BA TZANG ZHING NYONG YONG DE BA NI RGYUD DE OG MA LANG YOD PA'I DE CHUG KUN LAM KHYAD PA'I DRUG BA YIN LAS BRTENG DE CHUG KUN NGA RGYAL RDZOGS PA Okay. There are...

So those are the first three of the four inside the crystal. Everything looks empty to me. Okay?

And that's why I talk about husband. Phan Tong husband? Uh...

It's very good time to practice emptiness. Okay? No, really.

Okay? What's the definition of nirvana? Huh?

Yeah. Permanent ending of negative emotion because you saw kongshin. Okay?

And that's the only way. So, the husband... Phan Tong husband is not a bad example.

It's the best example. When you don't get mad at Phan Tong husband, you reach nirvana. That's the definition of nirvana.

Because you understood emptiness. Okay? Got it?

So, it's not a stupid example. It's the only real example. Forget all the philosophy.

When you reach nirvana, you will reach an in the kitchen with your Phan Tong husband. Okay? Okay, anyway.

So those three, everything appears empty, I take it as empty, and my state of mind is that joy, deep joy, which has always been part of me. When you take away all the other things, my skin dies, my meat dies, my blood dies, my eyes die, my ears die, what's left after white light, red light, black light, what's left of you is called happy mind that sees emptiness. And you are nothing more than...

And you never lose that. You can put an atom bomb in your pocket, blow up, that mind will stay. Okay?

That mind won't go anywhere. Deep happiness sees kongshin. Everybody has it.

Okay? Those first three. So, we have to go deeper.

We have ten minutes. How many groups of tantra are there? There are four.

There are four groups of tantra. There are four systems of tantra. Okay?

What's the difference between them? The lower ones are more external rituals. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, bong, bong, bong, bong, boing, boing, boing.

Okay? These are lower tantra. You wear a big hat, you know, you know, everybody knows you're doing tantra.

Okay? You...anyway, I won't get in trouble. In the higher tantra, you are secret.

Nobody knows. You don't have big hat. You are not ringing bell.

Everything is secret, you know. Like, tantric people are supposed to do things with their left hand. In our tradition, okay?

In our system, Pabongka's system, Tsongkapa's system, you're supposed to do things with your left hand. If you reach for coffee, you reach with your left hand, and everybody knows. The secret people know, oh, Geshe-la reached for coffee with his left hand.

His right hand is closer, but he reached with the left hand. Hahaha. That's higher school, okay?

Everything is school. Everything is like, nobody knows what you're doing, okay? Just Buddha knows, okay?

Got it? So, in the lower three systems of tantra, they have the third quality inside the crystal. They have the first three.

They have the first three. Which is what? Emptiness appears, take it as emptiness, perceiving with bliss, okay?

Perceiving with happiness, okay? The lower secret schools have the first three, but... what's he gonna say?

Yeah, they don't have number four, okay? Only the highest school of tantra has number four, okay? What's number four?

Yeah, DE NGA'O, or AHAM. AHAM. That's me, okay?

I'm that. What? I'm the missing fan tong who didn't do anything.

Got it? Okay, that's me. I want to be that.

I'm jumping off the subway. I want to be that. I want that to be me.

I want to be the thing which can free all people. Okay? I have a Christian friend, and they said to me, oh, you don't believe in God, you know?

And I said, it's not true, you know? I believe there's a God. Then they said, what is God like?

You know? Some people think big white beard, lives in the sky, you know? I don't know.

Then they said, what do you think is God? I think God is seeds. God is seeds.

You see? Truth. All things come from seeds.

That's God, okay? Truth is God. You see what I mean?

That runs the whole world. Okay? It doesn't have two arms and two legs, okay?

It's a... truth. Everything comes from seeds.

For me, this is God. Then they say, oh, you don't believe in God. If you believe that, you don't believe in God.

I said, no, I do believe it. Then they say a very interesting question. So, is that a person?

Is dependent origination a person? Is emptiness a person? In Buddhism we say, yes, Buddha is that.

That's part of Buddha. That's the Dharmakaya. That's the essence body.

That's the emptiness body. That's 25% of a Buddha. Okay?

Alright, got it? The fact that if you do something nice, something nice will come to you is 25% of a Buddha. Got it?

Okay? Got it? So, it's not strange to say, I am that.

I want to be that. What? I want to be the truth.

You know? I want to have a body that's made of that. I don't want...

This is not too efficient. This rental car is a lousy. This is a budget rental car.

Yeah. I want... This one made of skin.

I want the one that's made of the fact that good people get good things. I want that body. That's a...

What's that expensive car the guy has in... No, the one in Beijing. Huh?

There was a Maybach also. Maserati. What is a Maserati?

No, the little one. That's so uncomfortable. Maserati.

I want a Maserati. I don't want a body made of blood and meat and bone. I want a body made of truth.

What is truth? If you do good things to other people, good things will come back to you. I want that body.

DENG NA'O. My new me is that one. Okay?

Got it? Is it a person? It can be.

It can be. It can be not a person, but it can be a person also. And from that 25% truth body, you can put the other bodies.

You know, like the body in the paradise. Okay? Got it?

You can build a Buddha's body from that one. Okay? In the Jinkan Ding, in Kamalashila number two, Buddha will say, the marks and signs that make you a Buddha don't exist.

He will say that. This time, if we don't die before. He will say that.

He will say that. And... So, there are 32 marks and signs and 80 marks, right?

Of a Buddha. 112 parts of a Buddha. And the...

the famous book which teaches those 112 things you get when you become a Buddha was written by Maitreya. And who was his secretary? Asanga.

Okay? Maitreya wrote the book. He spoke the book.

Asanga wrote it down. Okay? So, during Kamalashila I'm going to teach you the 112.

We'll do the 112 from the book of Maitreya. Okay? But those are outside signs.

Okay? Inside is an emptiness body. Okay, got it?

Okay, here we go. We're not finished with her question yet. LHAG YAL SBYOR PA DGOS You have to think, that's me.

DE'I BYUNG NA CHUG KUN LAM GYI GYUR GNAS TZAM BAR YIN If you do it, then you have succeeded in turning death into the subway jumping off into become Buddha. Then you were able to jump off the subway if you can do it. Okay, got it?

GNAS TZAM BAR YIN LHAG YAL SBYOR PA DGOS GYUR GNAS TZAM BAR YIN DE'I BYUNG NA CHUG KUN LAM GYI GYUR GNAS TZAM BAR YIN DE'I BYUNG NA CHUG KUN LAM GYI GNAS TZAM BAR YIN That's all. We'll stop there. Okay?

It gets more complicated. Okay, yeah. Good question.