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Soundfile 199201GRJHNLBIW

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Netherlands

Topic The Relevance of Buddhism in ‘The West’

Transcriber Tracy Whyte

Date 12/12/21

0:00:00 (Introductory comments/asides “I do not know where to start… maybe due to time we can do meditation at the end… hope it is ok with everybody? How many people speak English here?” )

0:01:15 The topic for tonight, as I was told, it is the relevance of Buddhism in the ‘West’. Am I right or am I wrong? (Laughing Buddha Gelek Giggle)

0:01:40 Dutch translation

0:01:51 It’s true, Buddhism is Eastern Religion, there is no question, there is no doubt. Buddha was born, and worked, and developed enlightenment and all this historical evidences that have taken… not evidence sorry, historical events that have taken…are all in India

0:02:28 DT

2:51 But, the experience that the Buddha had gained and his sharing of experience is universal

3:09 DT

3:21 It’s the universal treasure that we can {bank on?} today, that is the Buddha’s knowledge, information…excuse my language it is not knowledge…it is the quality, because what is happening is very often the word between quality and knowledge get mixed up between Tibetan and Sanskrit and English…that’s why I’m getting trouble here…It is the QUALITY, what Buddha had gained, it is universally… we can really {bank on today?}

4:10 DT

4:51 The quality of a life. What a human life can achieve. What a benefit you can derive out of human life and these are the Buddha’s experience and the qualities that Buddha had gained and we all tremendously benefit out of that.

5:26 DT

5:41 As far as I’m concerned, I’d like to speak to…on the basis of GAINS that I personally experienced. It’s a, I’d like to speak on that angle rather than theoretically, or philosophically, or historical framework.

6:07 DT

6:23 So out of Buddhism what did I gain personally? And that is the point where I would like to first raise…raise it

6:37 DT,

6:53 O.K. The question raises to me what did I gain out of Buddhism {how bout/ probably nothing (hard to hear aside) followed by LBGG-Laughing Buddha Gelek (& sangha) Giggles}

7:10 While I have a great opportunity and fortunate enough to be able to dwell in the area in Tibet where the buddhism is really flourishing, not flourishing as… a sort of…number of people who are following the Buddha’s tradition but the teachings and the Buddha’s personal gains we try to…sort of… mix within our life. And how we think about it, how we…sort of…behave ourselves, and how do we use the materials valuable, and how much we should be contented and how much we should not be contented, what should we… dealing with this life…all this, these are THE important points, where buddhism really {touch?} you in dealing with one's life Aside: I am sorry it is a longish thing but if we start cutting short I’m starting missing all my points LBGG

8:34 DT

9:30 Rimpoche tries to help translator remember the rest, repeats…then says

9:56 Maybe we can have a little shorter version of translation because most of the people here speak English? Would that be…would that be… contented…aside explaining to ‘make it your own version’ to translator

10:31 So, I’ll try to make it brief and short but, ok

10:39 What has really buddhism… a gain with me? One very positively I have learned, learned or I have built as a man within me, whatever the quality of life, one individual may be having, to be contented. To be contented with whatever you have, because if you are NOT contented, that brings tremendous misery and problems for us

11:23 DT

11:36 Because our desire is so huge. And if you let our desire to take over ourself, then we will definintely have a lot of endless, endless, desire we get, and these desires tremenously push and make it difficult to us. That is smaller point, but the bigger point here is these desires will really bring tremendous unhappiness within the individual

12:27 DT

12:54 This unhappiness, I mean as a very simple, within each individual we will know, and if you cannot control the desire, so always you want a little more, and when you see your neighbors having different things, you needed that. You always push your limit beyond whatever you could, and so, makes the people have very difficult, in other words, the entitlement is growing too strong and then it brings a lot of unhappiness in life

13:40 DT

13:58 The question arises; Is it easy to have a… sort of contentment within life? No, it is definitley not easy. Sometimes it looks, in the ‘West’ it is more content than the ‘East’.

It is true.

You may think it is not true that the ‘westerns’ are much more sort of materialistic and eastern people are much more sort of spiritualistic. It is not necissarily true at all. If you go into the people in a Singapore or Taiwan and all these, if you look within the ‘eastern’, so generations of the people who have been within this spiritual framework there is much less contenetment than you people in the west. True.

15:01 DT

15:11 However, there ARE people who have been contented with life too. And the Buddhism will very much teach you, if you take Buddhism as a path, I mean doesn’t have to be Buddhist, but ideas given out of the Buddha/ Buddhism, if you take them, there are, the basic one of them is very… contentment. So when I look at Buddhist practioners, and those people who like to go to temples, put up some kind of incense, and say a few prayers here and there and which probably though it is within Buddhist atmosphere (as you’ve said atmosphere) but I don’t think they are within Buddhist, what do you call it? The gains, what the Buddhism is giving as a, {might not} be benefiting those people at all.

16:21 However, also it does not necessarily mean when you have to have contentment, it does not necessarily mean you cannot HAVE it. Do you know what I mean? People do think you should have contentment in the life, ‘you should be contented…but you haven’t!’ and then {it stinks? thinks?} “OK I have three shirts so…” that’s right that’s right [asides] So anyway I have three shirts so…that is that’s it…so sort of ‘you cannot have it’. That’s not contentment, it doesn’t mean that. What does really contentment means here? Is letting the attachment not [disturb] the individual. That is the real contentment, {hear/here} one point Buddha was trying to raise.

17:23 Aside to translator then DT

18:25 Another important point, what you gain out of those, is to be able to develop love-compassion. Love-compassion is one of the very important points you get. And… it is not that Buddhism is the only one who is carrying love-compassion, I don’t mean that. Every human being is a {beauty by natural?} so it has love-compassion within each and every individual. Human beings we have that, but…What you gain out of Buddhism is to be able to rebuild that love and compassion within your {source/selves?}... making it a little more work, making it a little more shine, making it a little more, sort of, effective and that’s, that was, that is very helpful from the essence of the Buddhism, very much, because… Basically Buddhism is a non-violent religion. The principle of the Buddha is definitley non-violence. Question does not arise. But then, of course, among the Buddhist followers, here violence coming through the monks and so forth, we’ve seen in Vietnam, we’ve seen in Tibet, we’ve seen everywhere you do this, that is different question. OK that is different question

20:05 However, basically Buddhism is totally non-violence. The principle of non-violence, if you really look into deep where the non-violence is coming, it is coming from love and compassion. If you don’t have love and compassion it is absoultely difficulty to be non-violence. What happens is instead of the compassion, anger takes over.

20:40 DT

21:48 So, if you don’t have love-compassion and then anger…Anger becomes the source of functioning, almost. Whereever you see some kind of social injustice, whenever you see…whatever you…I mean things which you disagree, so then probabaly you would like to fight for…against. And fighting, is a…instead of through compassion, and through love, then you get anger. Sort of, the anger is the one which comes up, and then it is/creates a lot of problems. THOUGH, there are a number of people who will tell you: ‘Anger is good’, ‘You are expressing’, you are ‘getting it out of your chest’, ‘don’t hold within you’, and this and that…’Let it out!’. People will tell you that sort of thing, but I disagree totally.

22:49 DT

23:13 I apologize if there are some therapists round here who like to do that [chuckles]

23:20 DT

23:28 On the other hand, I mean expressing anger will give you some relief, I don’t deny that, (give you relief) but what I disagree with it, is anger is a TREMENDOUS cost to the individual. It is VERY expensive.

23:49 DT

24:04 It is very expensive, it is very costly to the individual. What does that cost you? Two things… What does anger cost you? Two things, right? One; Spiritually it’s very costly, let’s leave that a little bit aside, people do care or people don’t care, so leave that little bit aside. What does anger really ‘takes away’ from the indvidual? Some kind of peaceful mind, whatever the peace within you, whatever you can gain, sometimes everyone of us have opportunity- I do not know whether the expression they use here or not but lots in America they say; “Once in a blue moon”. So sometimes you have…Let’s say you have a very good nights sleep, you wake up very clean, clear. And you feel great, you’re looking forward for the day of the work, what you’re going to do today and you’re happy and you’re going around and you first head down and walk in your workplace or office or something and you are really going with good mood, and suddenly somebody will give you some kind of problem , right? Whether it is some traffic in the car or the road, or whether the collegue in the office, or whatever it might be, somebody will get you at your nerves. And when that happens… if you watch your mind, what happens? At about that time the clean, clear, nice, looking-forward wonderful feeling of that particular mind is gone [snaps]. It is no longer crystal clean glass of water. It is mucky, moody, mud in it. Yea? And that is EXPENSIVE.

[aside “Sorry” to translator]

26:42 DT

27:35 Not only… you have lost your clean clear mind, after that, your mood has completely changed. Your face has grown a little longer, you know what I mean? Your face is a little longer. So it starts all the emotional problems/ emotional difficulties…or you’re moody nature will give rise for that. And that is the anger costs.

28:12 DT

28:35 And not only that but anger isn’t effective. You work very hard, you push, a lot of effort to ‘get it done’ something…but if anger is {above love?} your effort will also ‘lost ground’, so you lose interest…. You know what I mean? Some social injustice, if you are fighting, eventually you stop, because you lost interest, I mean you are discouraged. And your sort of {ballon?} down… it sort of looks like the ballon has lost air…you’ve gone down completely flat. That’s what happens. This looks like advantage, but also have disadvantage.

29:21 DT

Aside to translator “If your work was done by anger, instead of love and compassion” continues to re-interate “you do not fulfill the work, you will… sort of… stop it”

30:21 So now I will go on the spiritual side of it

30:25 DT

30:27 Spiritually speaking, according to the Buddha’s message (because that’s what I know)

So according to the Buddha, he said anger was…a minute of anger could even cost a lot of work that individual had put into a…positive energies could get burned by a minute of anger.

30:53 DT

31:11 In Buddhism they give a lot of methods and ways for purification, to purify non-virtuous actions, that one commited. And ‘versa versa’, they also said anger has equal power to burn the virtuous actions one commited.

31:37 DT

31:56 So, spiritually it also very expensive, the anger is.

32:04 DT

32:07 And more or less we cannot really afford to have it.

32:13 DT

32:15 Yeah, we lose too much.

DT

32:19 So, the Buddhism suggested here; replace anger by love and compassion

DT

32:35 And it is NOT difficult to develop love and compassion toward other beings. But the difficulty really lies…to develop good love and compassion to individual, to self.

32:56 DT

33:07 Everybody would like to show, ‘I’m compassionate’. Who doesn’t want to show? ‘I’m not compassionate’? Nobody. Everybody would like to say, ‘I’m compassionate’

33:21 DT

33:25 (whether you are or you’re not, that’s a different story altogether) everybody loves to say ‘I’m compassionate’ But to only say and not to show through actions? Something? Why? As I told you, because we are by nature a beautiful being. A human being if you look deep inside human beings, there is a beauty nature within there, a beautiful quality, a beautiful being, a being with kindness and compassion and a wonderful nature within them. What we Buddhists technically call Buddha Nature…and I am sure every religion has its own name for it…but it is there within them. So that’s why everybody had this thing to show. However, if you go in deeper than that and try to find out how compassionate, & that the first form is to be compassionate to ourself, each individual. My compassion. When I search my compassion, I need to find my compassion for me. If I cannot find my compassion for me, I have to question my compassion to the others

34:54 As in ‘ the west’, we would like to say;” Hey I like to help, oh yeah… help, I like to help” and we are very happy to help everybody, we love to help. But, the problem is we need to help ourselves first. We do ignore that very often.

35:23 DT

36:21 And Buddhism emphasize so much, that in order to generate love-compassion to others, we should also generate love-compassion toward ourself. In order to help …others, we should be able to help ourself

36:48 DT

36:59 It is true, if we cannot help ourselves, it is very difficult to help others. We know in our daily life

DT

37:20 Similarly, if we don’t have compassion to ourself I think it would be very difficult to see the compassion ‘n others, particularly when you find a difficult {point?}

37:35 DT

37:45 So, this, sort of, important points, whatever Buddhists give it to the individual, is very relevant to every bodies, every day life.

38:04 DT

38:10 And I am not claiming that love-compassion belongs to Buddhism, nor am I claiming that anger control is/ belongs to Buddhism. But I’m sharing my own personal experience of the/ this type of thing, whatever I gain out of the Buddhism is it relevant today in the western society? Me, this Gelek individual, living in summer, in the midst of this world, is it relevant? Everyday

38:51 DT

39:24 And in addition to that, One of the essence of the Buddha’s teachings is to watch one’s mind. To avoid non-virtues, to build positive energies or karma as much as possible avoid negative and watch one’s mind

39:53 DT

40:04 As Buddha himself had said {Tibetan}

Aside: “Well that is …still have to be translated” to translator LBGG

40:24 So, exactly I told you earlier as avoid negative actions and build positive energies. Watch your mind. This is Buddhism. That’s what Buddha said. That’s the words what I said. This is Buddhism. And Buddhism is very he’s very and I should not say that but is…

DT: I would like to translate

Rimpoche: OK [gives recap for translator]👆🏽 This is Buddhism. It’s very simple.

DT

41:17 K, which is

Totally relevant

I’m not going to talk just now; avoid non-virtuous and build virtuous business. But I am going to talk about ‘watch mind’.

41:32 DT

41:39 When you say watch mind you’re not worrying, we don’t worry about losing our mind…when…says to watch it. Or some kind of thief comes into our mind and we have to watch it [laughs] Like the security guy/guard on the outside, not

41:56 DT

42:04 So but what do we have to ‘watch it’? We have to WATCH IT, the functioning of the mind. Particularly unawareness. We do a lot of things without awareness.

42:29 DT

42:50 Our anger, our attachment, our jealous(y). All of them are very active and functions within our mind.

43:04 DT

43:12 They pop up…like a toast…out of toaster [chuckles]

43:22 DT

43:26 & the Tibetans have an interesting way of calling it; We call them the mental faculties. We label them as “the mental faculties”.

43:39 DT

43:46 & mental faculties are the one who influences the mind.

43:54 DT

43:58 Mind is… looks like a clean clear crystal lamp shade.

44:04 DT

44:13 Mental faculties are like colored {barf?} in there…🤮 {vomit?}

44:20 DT

44:25 so when that changes every time it pops up it change once… and sometimes looks like red and sometimes looks like blue and sometimes looks like green… that’s what mind appears to be.

44:42 DT

44:52 &when you are watching you are watching THAT.

44:56 DT

45:01 & how do these things poped up? this mental faculties poped up?

45:06 DT

45:09 They popped up like a habit. As automatic… as a habit…they habitually popped up actually

DT

45:19 So we are patterned. Very heavy ‘ingrated’ habit,

And set a pattern within ourselves.

45:31 DT

45:35 So, when we are watching we are watching those habitual patterns. And those mental faculties popping up, and their influence to the… to the mind itself.

45:51 DT

45:58 So, how does the habitual patterns set up? How does the mental faculties ‘pop up’? And this is a very important…very, very relevant for every day life.

Aside to translator: “But I have to stop here right?”

46:16 DT “Whatever you like”

46:30 Rimpoche: Ok ten-fifteen minutes break…

46:48 Rimpoche prompting “OK mental faculties poping up” followed by DT

Aside and giggles

47:10 I use the term…’pop up’ …because it doesn’t really need anything. Just a tiny bit of little incident, immediately draws our anger or… any other little attraction or attachment…little, sort of, disliking… Will draw the anger and the hatred. It’s sort of completely change that love {shade?} color.

47:50 DT

48:24 It doesn’t take much of us to “ boo” somebody… really we can easily “boo” them…

“Boo” -LBGG

48:38 DT

48:45 Do you do the “boo” in Holland?

Yes & LBGG

48:55 I am glad you didn’t “boo” me today

LBGG

49:00 Anyway, it really doesn’t take much time, and it’s very easy to get irritated & to get “boo” really easy…and that is… that doesn’t require any thinking, does not require any analyzing, does not require anything you will do it like that (snaps fingers)

49:20 DT

49:31 It doesn’t take time… to change…for…to become our self red.. or longer faced (from the smiling face) It just goes.

49:41 DT

49:53 We straightaways say; “ Hey, you were talking about ME!” Me…you know…that’s what we say.

DT

50:00 anytime someone says something…we say “Oh, you are talking about ME…what did I do…me…oh”

Immediately you get hurt

50:07 DT

50:11 and this is very long engraved within our habit

50:19 DT

50:24 and I have said from the Buddhist point of view…for number of LIVES it’s been ingrained. So it’s not A number of months or weeks

Or years

50:35 DT

50:46 so it is very easy for us to pick up

And similarly, like children if you look into the children, you will see them very clearly. When you look at children…&…the parents will tell; “ Well the children shouldn’t look at this television program”, “They should not read this book”, “They should not be looking in this type of magazine” You know what I mean? So they try to take them away from particular programs. Or you try to hide them, to make them… not to see.

51:30 DT

51:56 however children surprise their parents all the time

DT

So that is the long-term ingrained, habitual patterns

52:12 DT

52:19 In short [chuckles]… In short, no body has to teach anybody how to get angry

52:28 DT

52:33 and nobody has to show anybody how to get jealous

DT

And nobody has to show anybody how to get attachment

DT

52:50 but you have to work hard, you have to put effort in it… how NOT to get angry

52:59 DT

53:03 How not to get hooked in attachment…and the last…

DT starts

[Rimpoche Laughs “Sorry”]

53:17 DT

53:22 and how not to get… did we get to jealous?

DT: “No”

Rimpoche: Ok [chuckles] How NOT to get jealous.

DT

53:33 and then we have to learn how to appreciate others

Aside to translator: “Appreciate”

DT

53:51 how to be patient

DT

How to be kind

DT

And all of them we have to put effort in and learn

DT

54:05 so what does that… what does that tell us?

DT

That tells us…There are engraved…habitual patterns, which… always leading us, to those things which we don’t have to put effort into

54:28 DT

54:40 so one of the important points that the Buddha tells you here…Buddha’s message is…change

DT

54:52 and it’s very easy for Buddha to say ‘change it’

DT

And it’s easy for me to repeat that [LBGG]

But when you have to do it, it’s very difficult

55:09 DT

55:12 Right?

Even a small little habit, let’s see if you are taking a bicycle, through a certain particular route from your home to your workplace, and you are doing that every day, in the morning and then going back every day in the evening. Same route if you’re doing…

55:31 DT

55:38 if a friend tells you… requests you…”Could you take two streets up?…and take a sort of u-turn and take that from me and go with that?”

55:51 DT

55:57 & what is our…response will be?

DT

We will probably have 10 different reasons that we cannot do it. Even you may do it… but out of obligation… but within yourself you will be saying; “ I am going to be late …I am going to be cold…I am going to be…this is not the road I’ve taken…blah, blah, blah”… and you have all 10 different reasons why you can’t take two streets up

56:24 DT

56:36 so if you do it, it might not be that difficult to do it…

DT

And you could easily…eh… manageable

DT

56:54 But our resistance… it very much resists…even

DT

So when you have to break and change habit…it means you have to break that resistance

57:15 DT

57:26 So, it is difficult… but unless we change it, it’s not going to benefit us much

DT

57:44 As a matter of fact, Whether you are following Buddhism or Hindu, Judeo Christian or Muslim, or whatever the spiritual path, or combination of all…Whatever. Whatever you may be following, but actual practice for the individual, to a placement of the individual soul or whatever you like to call it… Upliftment of individual or improvement of individual… whatever you may call it… but unless you be aware of those things…you’ll be able to change those things…I don’t see any other way.

58:34 DT

58:58 So that it’s really very relevant for our lives

DT

I mean I am sure nobody will say it’s not relevant…[chuckles]

59:17 These are the… these are the major points…I mean to me, what I really did learn, out of Buddhism…and to be aware of those, and to be ‘watching’, and if you try to break, you can break them

59:33 DT

59:52 And if you not…if you decide not to break it, then try a bit more, try to do it.

DT starts

Rimpoche: “It’s a free country” [chuckles]

DT resumes

1:00:10 So, that is the…the real essence of the Buddha’s message

DT

1:00:20 and I’m quite sure all the religions do the same thing. Although I can’t say it because I don’t know… my knowledge of Judeo Christian is equal to {Xeromanes?}

1:00:37 DT

1:00:50 well I don’t have many things to tell you… and I think it is…essence of the Buddhism. Not as Buddhism but as in ones life…one’s wat if living. There is no question…that it’s not relevant. It is very relevant. If you raise the question of Buddhism…as a Buddhist…with some kind of cultural garbage of the ‘eastern system’ altogether, I’m not really sure how relevant that is…I have a different feeling for that…

1:01:27 DT

1:01:38 And I’m sure it helps a few individuals… and if it doesn’t help any individuals …there’s no reason why you people would be here tonight

1:01:50 DT

1:01:57 I have a nothing more to say if you have questions I’d be happy to answer them

Otherwise we can think the host here and go home

[giggles]

DT

1:02:20 if anybody has to catch an earlier train or something…

Yes

Questioner [muffled]: You have spoken about not being angry…muffled…what do you …when there is no peace around you, no peace between the people who are nearest you? What do you do?

10:03:06

Rimpoche: It is very… important… relevant… personally you have to handle almost every day…that question you are putting…

The question is…[stammers] the point here…is…where does the anger within individual get there? It gets…from the individual…

OK, Let me put this way…

1:03:48 I have a friend, you know.. I don’t call them students I call them friends, I have a friend, A black lady in New York City, her name is Louise. She had been with me for about four or five years. Last year she said: “ I thank you Rimpoche”

I said “What?”

She said ever since she’s been talking to me, all these grocery store people…the people who are in the grocery store, they treat me better.

And I said “ why do they treat you better?”

She said “every time when I went to the counter, they always say something bad…and we always have fight…and ever since, now month after month, year after year now, they never fight with me”

1:05:00 I said “Do you say something bad to them?”

She said: “Why should I say bad to them? They didn’t fight with me…we almost like each other, and I thank them, they thank me. And I say goodbye to them and they say ‘take care’” that is what she replied

1:05:20 Did you get the message?

Q: I get the message but still…

R: The POINT is…listen…the point is, instead of…we are thinking “he is angry with me” …instead of

Q: not with me

R: No, no…whoever maybe…whoever, maybe the other person around, instead of thinking he or she is angry with me. Instead of thinking that, if we check…Am I angry with them?

1:05:55

Q: [muffled] the point is they are angry with each other…and that’s really…I try…to accept…still not to be angry in my life, but I see it as wrong in them as they are angry too long…too much…and they won’t make peace with each other and won’t see arch other anymore

1:06:37 R: So…OK…I Understand that…

Q interupts

R: I understand that… so in that case… fault is not with me, the individual, but fault definitely lies within the concerned individuals. So if each one of those concerned individuals, Put their finger to themself, and turned their mind, turned their eye, inside, started to look in once… inside, within each individual…see “Did I do something wrong?” “Am I getting something mistaken here?” If either one of them let’s say if there’s two people fighting, if one of them started doing that, that situation would be much easier, but as long as, people including ourselves, refuse to look in, and are always looking out, and so naturally everyone points their finger there (outside) That is our habitual pattern. And I point finger at you…you point finger at me and that’s what we do. That’s our habitual pattern

1:07:58 So if anybody been able to turn that around once and started to look internally, the moment that you started to look… each individual started looking internally, the situation will definitely {get better?} BUT there are a number of people who refuse to listen to that…who will definitely say…not ‘number of people’ almost everybody, when it comes to our own habits…each one says “No, I am right”..”I am right”, “They are taking my rights away” “they are taking my…” “I did this…I did that…you don’t listen to me…you don’t do this…ba-lah, blah blah” All of them you turn up…this is our habitual pattern

1:08:42

Q: Now they don’t listen to me then I say “Stop being angry, perhaps you are right, but stop being angry” They won’t listen to me

R: That’s all. That’s your limit

Perfect

At least you don’t have to feel bad. You did everything whatever you could

1:09:02 Any other questions?

(Silence)

1:09:12 well there’s no question so…

I promised, I said some meditation we will do at the end, so (aside) I’m sorry…ok…so

1:09:31 So it’s…everybody is really familiar with meditation…you started moving and…[chuckles] …and relaxing…and hands in the position…whatever this way or that way [LBGG]

anyway

1:09:56 Normally, under normal circumstances, you all know…you like to…meditation is always easier, if you are used to it, to sit down on the floor and cross legs and so on and so forth, but here is not…comfortable, everybody is in chairs…relax and put your feet on the ground. Sort of, make it solid. Touch it, don’t fly in the air. That is important. Do you know people sometimes …you look and you see…looks like their foot is on the ground, but you can look at it, their shoe is touching, but you don’t touch the ground…so a little bit…people do that. So touch the ground. It is very important. It has a lot of effect. It has effect of elementary effect, from the element point of view, as well as a practical effect. So make sure if you are sitting on the chair, make sure you touch your foot to the ground. And both of them. And remain in touch with it. And put your hands on…whatever the way you want to, it is easier…if you are sitting cross legged even you can put on your…either this way or touch to your knees…or whatever you want to do, hands…it doesn’t matter, whatever you are used to, do it there and …relax

[Meditation]

1:11:29 Relax your body. Give a little time…to your mind, to be able to relax

1:11:42 [Mediation in progress]

1:11:49 Concentrate on the breath

1:11:56 If that is difficult, just add the…nostril where the air pass through, where the sensation/feelings are, concentrate on that…

1:12:18 and acknowledge the breath going… out…then in…

1:12:28 [Mediation in progress]

1:13:13 We’ll now change the focus, inside, at your center, of your heart chakra

1:13:45 The beautiful being… the pure nature…the Buddha Nature being

1:14:01 Kind, compassionate

Light radiates from that being

And fills your body completely

Just the touch of the light within you, inside the body, internal organs, if there is any ailments ecetera

Good

1:05:00 Healed by the touch of that light

1:05:17 Yourself…empty…clean…cleaned of non-virtuous actions

1:15:29 Pure

1:15:34 Light radiates out from your body

Reach everybody in the room, wish them well, and just touch them with the light from your own body, particularly from the heart.

1:16:14 Transform…everybody as a Buddha being

1:16:27 Light goes out of the room

Fill the whole city

1:16:47 Just by touch of the light, every environment becomes pure and inhabitants become pure being and beyond the city…fill the whole country…

1:17:17 Beyond that…fills up all Europe

Just by the touch of the light every environment becomes pure and inhabitanats become transformed as pure being

And beyond Europe… fills up whole universe

1:18:09 The universe becomes pure, environmental

Inhabitanats become pure being

Beyond this…every direction, reaches all the different galaxies

1:18:54 Just light…whenever reached to the enlightened beings… make offerings, non-enlightened beings touched by the touch of the light, purifies them, fulfills their wish.

Very pure

By this time every environment is pure

Every being is a pure being

I rejoice

This {?}

1:19:41 [Mediation in progress]

1:20:01 These pure beings

1:20:19 Departed to their {own lands?}

Light radiating from your heart starts to come back from all galaxies, to this universe

1:20:47 Until completing activity

So coming back from whole universe

To the whole Europe

To this country

To this city

To the building

To the room

And finally to yourself

1:21:37 ourselves also started dissolving

within the light

Alone with the light

1:21:57 From the crown down towards the neck, chest, simultaneously the legs and the stomach, the whole body, and finally radiating light from the center of the heart chakra

And also becoming smaller, and smaller and smaller

And finally disappear

And concentrate on that emptiness

1:22:50 From that point of emptiness, suddenly you appear yourself, as an ordinary being

You pop up like a bubble out of water

1:23:32 Also dedicate

Good karma we’ve collected from this mediation and all our good works, we dedicate it, for peace.

We dedicate it for one being,of ourself

Our loved ones, nearest and dearest ones and all other beings

1:24:29 Thank You 🙏🏽

1:24:35 Thank You So Much

Until next time…Oh…

Q: Rimpoche can I make an announcement?

R: Please

1:24:50 Dutch announcement

1:27:07 Q: I’d like to thank Gelek Rimpoche for coming here tonight and we hope to see you again one day

1:27:14 R: Thank you so much, I’d like to thank everybody, for being here, and thank you for inviting me/us here. And I thank you

Sorry Ingave you a hard time (laughs) and thank you so much

1:27:44 Applause