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Soundfile 19961017GRBH3P

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Bloomfield Hills

Topic Three Principles of the Path

Transcriber Jill Neuwirth

Date 4/6/2021

(Opening prayers are sung) [0:08:49.7] Good evening everybody. I have begin to realize that we begin to a little bit getting late and then we have this saying prayers and mantras and meditation together which is making even further later. So I hope next week though I’ll be coming directly from Mexico City to here but hope to be on time. Okay, now last week what we did over here we explained this mantras, the meaning of the mantras. And I think we did up to Om mani padme hum. Anybody have any questions or any problems or anything else will be happy to discuss here. Well, nobody has any questions which means- I don’t know what it means, either. Everybody’s been happy with it or enlightened or doesn’t think about it. Alright, so having said that I also- I said, nice to see you, Amy. Having said that I mentioned, we did- did not do the mantra of Om tare tuttare ture soha last time I think. I did not explain that. Probably I owe you that one today.

[0:10:48.3] Tara is a very- we don’t have Tara picture here today, I thought I saw that last time. Anyway, is an extremely important kind, wonderful, female Buddha. Not only a just be a wonderful female Buddha, but it is such a particular an individual who choose to remain in the body of a female throughout her work. Throughout her work. You can’t forget the Buddhism came to India in the, in the two thousand five hundred years ago. It was a very strong male dominated culture in that so every buddha like to be appeared as a man and every bodhisattva many of them would like to be man and this and that because, because it makes difference at that time, at that culture. If a man comes out and says something which has different value then the woman comes out and says something in that culture at that time. Go back two thousand five hundred years ago. So that’s why a lot of those, a lot of those buddhas appeared as a male. But Tara is the only one, not only one, but one of them very stubbornly would like to remain as a female and appeared as a female and worked as a female. So it is one of the most important kind mother-like, what we call it yidam.

[0:12:57.1] The feminine energy, the feminine principle is also extremely important. Even you’re in a male chauvinated society, or whatever it is, the feminine principle is extremely important without which they cannot function. Whether it is spiritual or well, whatever it may be, there’s even an individual to be able to function as an individual within yourself even among our male, man, even our self, among our self there are female part of our energy, there are male part of our energy without which we cannot function. So the feminine thing is extremely important and Tara represents that virtually throughout the, the eastern, throughout the eastern religions. Not only eastern religions, even in the western religion you do have them, you don’t call it Tara. But they appears in that way. But throughout the eastern religion Tara represents very important feminine thing. Not only as a Drolma, or Tara in Tibetan but as Kuan Yin or bodhisattva (?) [0:14:29.1] in Chinese and Kanon in Japanese. That Canon camera and all this Canon business they named after her. So, so, so that’s what it is. And incidentally what happened is a few years ago, not few years ago, I think it was about ten years ago, His Holiness Dalai Lama visited Japan and Canon company invited him and he visited there. And, and one of the person who went with His Holiness told me they took him in one day in the headquarters and then they said we have to show our most important, the most valuable thing whatever they have.

[0:15:16.7] They wanted show to His Holiness. And there about seven or eight attendants with His Holiness and they been asked to visit it, they took them in the door and when they come to certain doorsteps they been asked stay behind. They requested not to come beyond that. In their own company they said there’s a number of vice president and all this and they also started to staying with the doorsteps and finally what happened is, is only sort of His Holiness and his brother and two those Japanese big whatever they, whatever, chairman, whatever there is, you know. So anyway person who really owns the Canon company and his son. Only two. And only four people came in they said finally. And then they opened those they, every time they have to open safe door they have to go through, go through, go through another door open, another door open, finally they came to the deep thing they said this much image of the Avalokitesvara male and female and they said this is our most important thing and this is Kanon. That’s that functions a lot in the eastern religion and I’m sure in the west, too because I don’t know much, that’s why.

[0:16:44.1 Anyway and that’s why Tara is so important and in Jewel Heart, particularly in Jewel Heart I introduced White Tara. There’s white, green, yellow, red, blue, pink, whatever, you know. There’s a lot of Taras in there color. But I introduced the White Tara in Jewel Heart and we do practice a lot of those that White Tara practice. And it is extremely important and very effective for healing as well as for fulfilling whatever the desires you have whether it is materially, economically, health-wise, or spiritual-wise. And she’s there to help. To help all, number one, to all sentient beings. Number two, all these people who are following your own lineage and particularly in the people who are connected with the Jewel Heart she will be very specially looking after and watching and helping very active. And number of different practice and meditations on this are available which at the different level I have introduced already to number of people and different level, because people go to different stages and over here we simply say Om tare tuttare ture soha.

[0:18:15.7] But with this lot of meditations and there’s a preliminary level of meditation, there’s an advanced level of meditation, there is, what do you say after advanced? Whatever, you know. More experienced people’s meditation more matured people’s meditation and then actually working and all different things are there which there some restrictions which gradually sort of goes away. So it’s a very effective and very important. And there are a lot of particularly, in this particularly you have a lot of healings, particularly on the basis of five element, so let me talk with this five element because I think I need coming up on both subject. Subject according to this is death and dying today. And so within Tara healing it’s also let me talk five elements, so that is important. Basically as we all know, being alive. What does that mean? To be in life, living. When you have- could you close that door please, Kathy? Thank you. Being alive here is when you been able to keep your consciousness within your physical structure of whatever your identity might be. Do you know what I mean? Fifty percent got it, fifty percent didn’t get it, they just watching at me, really looking at it. When your consciousness, anybody who are not familiar with word consciousness? No hand, well, I can tell you quietly you’re the only person. I’m just joking.

[0:20:39.7] Normal western sort of Judeo-Christian tradition they refer as “soul.” Right? So I don’t know what is really soul is. The Christian tradition says that, I have no idea. So I have to talk to you from the Buddhist angle because that’s only I know. So, so the Buddhists somehow choose to call it consciousness rather than soul. I don’t know. There must be reasons for it. I’m not aware, I don’t know. But anyway, the consciousness is slightly different than our mind. It is going beyond our body of course. They’re going beyond our mind, too. It is a slightly deeper than even mind. The real person, the real person. I think you don’t have name at that time because you’re gone already beyond that level. So whoever you are, so that real person, the continuation of that real person is the consciousness. There’s really consciousness. So as long as you can keep the consciousness within our physical body, if you don’t lose it so we remain in life, right? That’s what I look at it. If you lose your consciousness out of your body then you’re separated, you’re gone. So what depends, what makes the consciousness be able to remain within our physical body is when the physical body is serviceable, be useful, be serviceable to our consciousness then it remains. And the moment it becomes unserviceable, we leave.

[0:22:46.3] Are you with me? It’s like a rented apartment. So I always refer the body as rented apartment as long as the apartment has a running water, as long as the apartment has heat, as long as the apartment has air circulation and then you can the, I mean of course roof and all this, then you can use them. You can use them you can leave them. As long as it doesn’t work then you force way out, right? Then maybe you try to remain without water. Maybe you try to remain without heat for a little while but I don’t think you can stay very long in that Michigan cold winter anyway. So if there’s no air circulation you can’t stay there anyway. So all this just like that, as long as we can the body becomes serviceable to the consciousness we remain and when it is not serviceable we force that out. So to be able to remain in our body is depend the function of our five elements within our body. The earth element, the water element, the fire or heat element, and then the air element. These are the necessary our bones and flesh and all this are, it’s the earth element within our body. All the liquid in our body is water element. If there’s no air, there’s no circulation within, you know, no circulation then you know what happens, so there’s a air element. And well, if there’s no heat you cannot digest food, you can’t keep warm, so there’s another problem.

[0:25:00.1] So these are the elements we have to have it, basically. And not only we have to have it we have to maintain in balance level. If the heat is too weak then the water get frost, we get into problem. So it has, if heat is too hot then we get temperatures and all sorts of things, right? We get it so the balancing point is the actual point of health is really is balancing the five elements. I’m not a doctor but as a layperson who have no medical background but Buddhist tradition will teach you basically these are the basic things. So when you wanted, when you wanted healing energy comes in, when you wanted to heal, what do you do? What do you do? You actually connect the internal element and the external general element. And we, sort of we draw the power from the external sources, whether it can be an enlightened blessings or whether it can be a real energy from out of earth or water or fire or anything sort of that drawing from there and circulating and making movement and changing it, refreshing. It is the basically one of the way of healing whatever the problems, we get it. So in this basic Tara practice, practice there’s a detailed meditation of a collection of earth energy, collection of water energy, collection of air energy, and heat, fire energy, all of those are there. So it’s not my main subject, I’m not going to tell you how to do it.

[0:27:34.1] So that’s why Om tare, oh wait (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:27:50.3] Om tare tuttare ture. Ture the word, the last word ture is referring to Tara who has power to be able to help us to be rebuild all rather the heal all our illnesses. I’m going now backwards. Om tare tuttare ture. Okay? When you have this mantra when you’re looking Om tare tuttare ture soha, right? So soha and Om is beginning and end but ture is that, referring to that. Tuttare, above that, tuttare. Tuttare is the cause of the imbalance of the element where it is coming from. It is coming from the all eight different neurosis that we have. Anger is one of them, attachment is another, and hatred is another. Doubt is another. Now I don’t remember. So anyway there are eight of them neurosis with the, with the interesting, there’s with the metaphor of animals and elements are like a- I don’t remember anything today, sorry. Audience: Jealousy. Rimpoche: Jealousy’s what? Snake? Greed is what? Can somebody help me here? Audience: Pride is a lion. Rimpoche: Pride is a lion? You’re right. Why? Any reasons? What does lion think? Audience: He’s king. Rimpoche: There you go. He think I’m king of all the animals. So anybody come on my way on my way I can use my (Roar) [0:30:28.1] Right? So the pride does the same thing.

[0:30:34.7] So anyway they’re like those eight animal metaphors so I’m not going to go through that today. One, I don’t remember, two, even I remember but it’s not really the point. So tare tuttare ture (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:30:52.3] When you say the word tuttare, tuttare is referring to the one, the female buddha who had the power to protect eight nightmares of the spiritual practitioners. That’s why tare tuttare. These are the fear, jealousy, all of those you know. Like the snake is jealousy because you know- I forget now. Okay, so all those. So ture, what is it? (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:31:38.0] The moment you say Om tare tuttare, tuttare mean referring to the Tara who has the power to be able to protect spiritual practitioners from eight nightmares so that’s why, one, they’re calling from their help, two, you yourself from the pure point of view you can overcome all those eight fears. We call it fears, but really nightmares of those. So, so that’s why tuttare what it is now- Om tare, I even forget this mantra. Om tare tuttare ture, okay ture. Okay tuttare we’re talking now. Now the first one is left Om tare. Tare means Tara. Tara herself the name of Tara means “liberator.” Liberating the individual from the continuation of a life without any power, without any control, without any time for our self, we been our life is pushed and pushed and pushed and going and going and going. So that is the continuation. Buddhists call that samsara.

[0:33:03.7] Really what’s happening is we do have a life, we have a nice comfortable life, we looks we thinks and we sort of feels that we have some say in our life however basically we really don’t have much to say in our life. If you really look deeply in the life we really don’t have much to say in our life the things go, we cannot really hold back. The moment we’re born we’re going and we never stop. We never stop, we continuously go, we have no control at all. It’s really true if we have control we would like to hold back and sit down for a while but we cannot. Even we sit physically but we cannot. Our life’s going. Agree or don’t agree- there was a great mahasiddha- mahasiddha is a sort of really a beautiful person who developed spiritually so then you can have control, not only control on your own life but also can have control on the environment. And this guy said everybody is running in their life too fast, he wanted hold back so, so at that time in India and they said what makes the time go? He said that’s the sun who is going round, the sun is moving too fast. So that’s why he wants the, he want to hold the sun back. And he did hold, supposed to be hold the sun back for seven days in that period. Whether he hold the sun or he hold the earth moving, whatever it is, he did in that area the seven days continuously, the darkness never came for seven days. That was during the Buddha’s lifetime happened to India. So this particular mahasiddha is called Mahasiddha Who Hold The Sun. Whether he’s really holding the sun or not, but, but people had experience of that seven days continuation at that time. Looks like fairytale story now. I don’t believe it is a Hindu-Buddhist mythological story this is, this is actually what supposed to happen, really.

[0:35:36.2] So anyway, so what have I raised it for? Oh, so we don’t have control, it’s running. That’s what this is basically our life. We run all the time. Physically you may sit here, but mentally you run. The life itself is getting, going, every day, every minute, it is going. We’re getting older, get a beard, we get a bald headed, put glasses, it’s running. You cannot stop that, it’s continuous. That’s what I mean. We don’t have control on that. That is the nature of life, the moment we’re born until we die we see that. Right? We see that. It is with everybody, we see that. But what we don’t see is that also continuously running even thereafter. So the running. So the earlier great masters they call it, we’re the traveler who never reach anywhere. There number of those things I forgot. So it is true we’re the traveler who never reaches anywhere. So what we’re doing spiritual practice what we’re trying to do? We’re trying to make that we reach somewhere and we have some rest and we have some function way and how we want to. Lot of things we have say in life, lot of things we have no say in our life at all. How we should look like, how we look like function, how our physical condition should be, how our financial condition should be, and many of them we don’t have much to say. It is true. You can make money. You can keep on making money and some people keep on making money, keep on making money but you never become rich. You never make it enough even. There- not everybody, but there are a lot of people have that problem. Some people you try to be very conscious, cautious of your health and this and this and that, and no matter whatever you do you get mostly sick. We get all sorts of problems, you do.

[0:38:38.8] That doesn’t mean you should not take care of health, okay, do not misunderstand me but I’m trying to tell you here we don’t have control. And no one wants to die, but we all die. No one wants to die. When you’re young and so healthy and just check, you just had your annual check with the doctor they say you are healthy good enough, so you may think, “Yeah I don’t mind dying.” But when you’re really sick and problem you don’t want die. We all have that problem. That will show you we don’t want die. But you cannot help it. You cannot help it, we go through. This is the, the life where we are. Because of this rented apartment. This rented apartment can help lot of external help, taking care of the right eating, the right food, and doing the right thing that’s one help. Spiritually, you can help, you can collect energies and do this and that, you can help. And you can help through medication, the all this you can help. Despite of all this, there’s still time no one can do anything and that is bound to happen to all of us.

[0:40:13.2] That’s why it says I must remember that death is quick to strike for spirit- what is it? Quivers in flesh like a bubble in the water. The what is this? Foundation of Perfection you know. So therefore our basic body and mind combination is extremely fragile like a bubble, right? The water, the bubble comes up you touch it, it go. It’s very fragile. And one never know when the death comes in. There is no certainty of it. And last week I didn’t say it and I say it today so basically those of you who are meditating on this you have four important points to remember. The point number one is death is definite. It is definite no matter whatever, whoever you may do it, you cannot skip. You may be able to cheat it but you’ll not be able to skip. I said there’s reasons behind that, okay? Cannot forget definite. Not from any power. Not by spiritual power, not by material power, not by military power, nothing can put the stop there, no one. Nothing. I’m telling you only what Buddha said. No one can do that. Even Buddha himself, Buddha appeared here as a two thousand five hundred years ago actual living human being. There people talked to him, asked questions, and he says whatever he wants to say, and then he ate, and he slept, and he walked, and he talked, and did everything like us and we talk today, Buddha did something, Buddha said this, Buddha did this as though we looks, Buddha is just now gone to the bathroom. That’s what we do.

[0:43:11.9] But if you look at, if you think it’s two thousand five hundred years ago and that had happened. And gone two thousand five hundred years. And that’s for all spiritual- great masters, spiritual leaders that have come whether it is Judeo-Christian or Hindu-Buddhist tradition, east or west, or Native Americans or whoever may be and all of those spiritual masters who have come are gone. So it shows you the spiritual power does not put the footstep on there. No military power, you know that. We talked so much of Napoleans and whatever, you know, all of those we talk and it’s all become story today. It’s history today. So that tells us no power whatever may be, spiritual, military, economic, whatever cannot put footstep on this. Only today you may be able to say the doctors will embalm your- no not embalm- what you call- freezing your body and hopefully wake you up some, when some cures comes whatever it is. But that’s very doubtful. The very doubtful. Very doubtful. But I must tell you one thing the body will wake up one day. Believe me they will wake up one, somebody will talk to you out of that body too for sure. Sooner or later it definitely going to happened. Because of what Buddha really preached that’s why I’m saying it. But not necessarily that individual person. There may be some another kind of spirit of something will enter in that body and be able to function too. (Audio cuts) [0:45:29.2]

[0:45:36.2] Audience: October 17th. Rimpoche: October 17th, 1996. Right yeah? They will definitely move, the body will move. And definitely somebody will- and with knowledge and remembering in that life they will tell you. But that not necessarily guarantee you that the same person is there. Even they have knowledge, okay? So that’s like that much I like to share today on that. Audience: I don’t understand sir, what you’re saying the body will wake up? Rimpoche: Yeah it will wake up, somebody will talk to you. Somebody out of that, those will wake up one day. They will talk to you. But you have no guarantee who that person really is. The consciousness within is can be different consciousness. Not only can be, but should be and will be different consciousness with the knowledge of what had happened during your lifetime every single thing. Okay, that is we are talking something totally different. I shouldn’t have said that but I brought trouble for myself, but that’s what it is. Now, basically as a actual human being and actual living being and we will die. No question. We will die. But what makes you to die is because your body the base of identity becomes unserviceable. These elements will give up. They’re no longer functionable. The elements will give out. Elements will give up. No longer serviceable. So each and every individual will have a signal of each and every elements giving up. Basically truly you get signals. At the time, when you die there is a signal which recognizable by yourself. The first signal is the noticing, what you notice is the sign of water. Sign of water. The water element within your body will become more vivid. Right? Means more stronger and see it more vivid. Then that of earth element. So you have a vision or you literally see it and have feeling of mirage. You know what a mirage, when you drive in the desert you see water over there in the middle of sand. That’s not really a water, but waterish, right?

[0:49:00.7] So the mirage, vision of mirage literally you see it or you feel like you’re seeing it, depends on the individual. Lot of watery. Which actually signal of earth element saying goodbye. It’s going away so the water become more vivid. Then the second thereafter, second thereafter meaning, I don’t mean after a second, but the next step will be from that mirage-looking you will begin to pick up a smoke, sort of smoke the room has been filled up with as though your room that like a ten smokers are smoking or something. Ten people are smoking in your room sort of thing you know, sort of smoke feeling. Ten might be little exaggerated, but you know couple of people smoke you see the feeling of the smoke. The smoke is actually a vivid sign of fire which means water is saying bye bye. So the fire, right? The normally where there’s smoke there’s fire. Right? Tu le (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:50:38.1] Normally we will say how do you know so and so is bodhisattva? And we’ll say one, way and how they look, way and how they behave. So like when we see smoke there’s fire and when we see that that bird will always remain when there’s water what is that, geese or something? Seagull, thank you. When there’s a seagulls are not moving flying there try to sit in one level we’re sure there’s water underneath. So the smoke is the sign of fire so that’s why you see smoke.

[0:51:39.1] And the next is the sign of air. Air moves, right? Air. So the feeling what the individuals gets is as though there is some kind of little burning, not electrical, even electricity sometimes they have this little light which goes bim bim bim, bim bim bim, you know? Audience: Spark. Rimpoche: Not electrical spark, there’s some little special bulbs that gives you this little squiggle light you know? Let’s say if you have candle lights and candle was put in the, with the little wind there, not too much wind it doesn’t blow it completely but somehow it moves. Flickering, yeah. So if the light is doing flickering and if you’re in the room what do you get? You get some kind of light coming up and going down, that sort of thing right? You’re not looking at the light but the reflection of the light. So that sort of feeling you get. That is the sign of air because that’s why light comes, light goes sort of become brighter and sort of goes down, goes sort of down. Sort of the air. So the air becomes vivid to the individual because the- what is it, the fire’s going away. And then finally, that sort of little flickering, right? It’s also disappear. But disappear and that time you’re observing yourself into your consciousness totally. And by this time, time what they call it in medical terms? Brain dead.

[0:53:50.5] However, the individual is still continue within the body for a little longer. So there’s a slightly difference between the spiritual practitioners and medical professionals at this moment. I’m sure they will pick up later. They might be picking up anyway. So what happened is even after that individual will still unable to separate still unable to let the body go. Still unable to let you go so there’s a still more four more internal signs. These are the gross signs of external physical body detachment. Followed by internal the secret body, secret body detachment signs will follow, four more. That is very simple. We go like whitish, reddish, black, and out. Whitish, reddish, black, and out, right? We say that. Why red, black, and out? So just like the mirage type of thing here, you’re observing some kind of light. Light like moonlight you know, not that sort of that sort of bright but sort of little more whitish feeling as though you might be looking at what, a wall that painted white, or not seeing very well darkness with a light sort of whitish feeling. That whitish feeling will pick up the red sparks. Red sparks. In that you sort of feel white but within that whitish feeling as though somebody came up in the dark room with handful of cigarette and you throw it in the air, you see the sparks everywhere, right? Like that sort of red sparks. While the individual’s observing that sparks of light and then suddenly you go in darkness. In darkness. And each one of them has its reasons which I shouldn’t be talking here but can talk later. You people can pick up later.

[0:56:57.9] And that darkness, within that darkness some people remain quite longer period, some people remain shorter period. But the moment you come out of that darkness you have a beautiful, wonderful, like a autumn early morning type of like there’s a little moon reflection clean, crystal fresh air. A beautiful period that you can go in. In that period everybody goes through. But in that period you can, some people can remain long period, some people remain very short period. This period we refer, usually we refer, technically we call it the combination of mother-like clear light and child-like clear light, clear light. It is the really union of the real union of the mother and the child. Mother and children should I say? Or child? What is it, what is right? Child. Mother and child union. And that is the beautiful, wonderful period. From there process will be reverse. Go back, backwards. Four of this, four of that, and then come out as “Wahhh!” (baby crying) we’re back.

[0:59:09.0] So, basically now according to the Buddhist point of view what’s happens the dying person, this is the process thing which you go through and from there you reverse back. You know what I mean? And we cannot put stop, we cannot choose, we have no control. Nothing. We even lose, even our memory. We lose everything in that process. We leave everything, every single thing that we have, it is we leave. It is very important at that time not to have attachment. Not to have attachment for anything. And not to have hatred. Not to have jealousy. In other words the mind try to be remain as pure as you can. It is so important your mind is not been influenced by any neurosis at that time. And each one of those neurosis what will happened is when the reverse process goes back these neurosis will influence and makes our future different. You know what I mean? So that’s why they have the idea- (Speaks to audience) [1:00:47.9] And that is the death and dying process and each one of them and individually can feel it, can see it, can acknowledge and mindfulness at this time is acknowledging what you’re going through. Mindfulness at that time is you have to know yourself at the end that such a special period coming at that moment I would like to be careful, I would like to do whatever you can.

[1:01:41.2] There’s a lot of different things to do but actually bite what you can chew. Do not try to be something extraordinary where wonderful thoughts, wonderful things but you have no idea how to do it, it’s not going to help you. So make sure you bite what you can chew. Has to be if possible nature of reality, true nature, nature of emptiness, meditate on that. That’s nothing better than that. And if you have no idea head and tail out of that, then you simply meditate on love compassion. And even you have a problem with that even your love sometimes becomes attachment and compassion sometimes bring attachment or you know, sometimes even bringing hatred too. And you have that problem, you better not do that you better take a refuge or something, you know? Take refuge or something. And even you can’t do that, at least remember a positiveness. At least think of you’re going in that sort of space-like wonderful beautiful place. When Timothy Leary died, when was it, in the summer this year. This year. And just before he died Allen Ginsberg called me couple of times and I was traveling through San Francisco and I been retreat and all this, I couldn’t get a hold of, you know every time we’re playing the phone trick and finally when he’s really dying and I was back in Michigan, and he’s now dying please talk to him so they called me. So Allen called me followed by they called me and that’s- I never talked to him in the life so I don’t even really know really guide him. I started saying Om muni muni maha muniye soha. That doesn’t really make much sense. Then I sort of mentioned the next future life going into some kind of space-like, wonderful, beautiful something in the positive then I keep on chanting little Om muni muni maha muniye soha. And after I telephone this he said he called everybody up and saying he got up he said why? And he said why not? (Laughs) I don’t know what does that mean. Whether he get it or not get it whatever it is.

[1:04:18.2] So anyway that’s what you do. And when you wanted to and if you are usually spiritually practitioner you know what you’re doing is just a lot of ways you can guide it. And when you don’t have that, and you don’t want you know, you don’t want bring so many things in that and some kind of positive nature if you can put it up and that will be very helpful to connect something wonderful what they like what they seek throughout their lifetime some sort of image and imagination to be able to click that up that, that white the moonlike period will be wonderful and soft and nice and nature of positive which have great hope of connecting some positive karma because each and every one of us have zillion different karmas. You may think I can purify, you may also think- we say it you can purify. You may say it well I did not really have that much negative karma on me. However, we carry a tremendous amount of karma. We are the treasurers of the good and bad karma. No question. We’re much more richer than that of U.S. Treasury. So that’s what it is. Karma. So only the thing what we can do is to be able to click and connect with the positive karma. If the positive karma is connected, it will help tremendously to build nice future life for that person because that is karmic rule, that’s how it has to function. That cannot go wrong. That’s what it is.

[1:06:02.1] So that’s why at the time of the death you say no angry, no attachment and all the spiritual teachers will tell you all the time let it go, let it go, let it go. What do you think they’re talking about it? Not to have any attachment to anything at the time of the death. You know it is very important to realize, to realize not to have not to have attachment to the, to your saving family, children, or parents, or your cloth, or your food, whatever, who knows? Attachment is such a thing you have no idea where one can caught, you can get caught some for nothing you know. Sometimes they can really get caught for nothing. I will share very often one of my teacher called Kyabje Gompo (?) Rimpoche [1:07:00.6] He died in 1970 something, he died in 1970. He is a very simple and very humble person, he doesn’t show off like Rimpoche in that big way. He sort of he works as a, a, the parents of what you call those orphanage. He worked as orphanage so people the Tibetans would come from Tibet and been in India for ten or twenty years and thereafter they don’t really know who really he is and they used to call him Home Number Fifteen’s Father. He’s the father of the home number fifteen, the kids you call home number fifteen’s father.

[1:07:55.1] And he had very selected strong group who studies with him and who does practice. And they’re two of them among them there two, two formal Tibetan government official in Tibet in before in 50s. And two of them are his, among his disciple, two of them. And he taught them and one day and somehow they said they’re going to die. And they took like couple of months in between but they going to die. So they had a talk between him and these disciples, the government official they talked and they knew exactly when this guy’s going to die and they have this you know funny story. And these guys came from northern India to another part of India. So they had brought a sort of housemaid with them belonging to the other part of the country some normal Nepali Indian person who cooks for them and who makes tea and you know all this sort of thing. Domestic helper, that’s the word. They brought a domestic helper. So, so he paid the domestic helper whatever he needs to pay bought even the train ticket to go back and that will be exactly like the six, seven days after he died him back brought the train ticket because in India you don’t get train ticket on the spot. You have to work so hard for that. So bought a train ticket and all this. One of them died as scheduled and as a planned and one didn’t.

[1:09:38.4] One didn’t. And Gompo Rimpoche’s waiting, he goes up there and when people die they will come and say pray for him. So he’s waiting somebody will come and say pray for this guy. And he keep on waiting he said he couldn’t nobody came. Supposed to be like ten in the morning and twelve, one, two, nobody’s coming. So he couldn’t wait so he went down. He went down to the house and see what’s happening. To see what’s happening. He said there’s some people around they’re busy and doing nothing. Some police people and all sorts of people there. And he went and they say what happened here? Oh he got sick and badly sick this morning around about 9:30, 10 he’s terribly sick so we took him to the hospital. So they took him to the hospital. And then he said which hospital? Said in Mosuri (?) [1:10:31.2], place called Mosuri in India. He said we took him to the American hospital. And he said he thought Gompo Rimpoche told me he said, “Now I have to go to the hospital by hook and crook, I have to get there.” So he went up there I don’t know how did he manage finally he got in intensive care unit. The guy’s there under all sorts of thing, you know? And then he asked him, “What happened?” He said, “Nothing but the all this steps are coming through and suddenly they’re going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and I got too much pain and all this started screaming and they came and brought me here.” That’s what he said. And then he looked through what happened he doesn’t really know. He couldn’t figure out what happened he talked for a while and then he looked through his body. He’s got a new shirt. He said, there’s a new shirt. Gompo Rimpoche notice a new shirt. And he so new shirt, Nothing else. A new shirt. And then he said, “Where did you get this?” “Rimpoche don’t you think this is good shirt? It’s good shirt.” So then he realized this fellow just has single little attachment to the new shirt and that is the problem. So the Gom Rimpoche told him, told him “I want that shirt please give it to me. Please give it to me.” And he with all hesitations you know finally “You really want it?” And then he said “Okay I give it to you.” He took it out and give it to him and Rimpoche tear off shirt over there. Over there. So, so then, then worked out okay thereafter. So little, little sort of holding on that shirt holds you back. And if you keep on thinking your investment and your what your stocks and all this sort of thing and you know where you’re going to be born. The next probably a cockroach in the Wall Street. Okay? So that’s why it’s important.

[1:12:49.6] That’s why it is important not to have attachment. Not to. At the same time, not to be feeling bad about it. Not to feel sad because everybody dies. No one leaves. And if you’re spiritual practitioner and you have little way of making, shaping little bit of your future you are the most fortunate person. You are the very lucky person. You are with help. You are with spiritual guide. You are with Buddha. You’re with the dharma, you’re with the sangha, you’re guided. Most fortunate. One or two out of millions. That’s what it is. So it’s very fortunate have to remember all this. And this is that’s how death comes. So the death is the big total because otherwise we can never have total you know of our life. We can have this, and you have subtotal here, subtotal there, and you can never have. But the death is the big total it will come total, everything will stop. Everything, right? You cannot, you have to miss your job that day. You have to. So you have to forget you have to miss your phone call. You have to do all this. That is the big stop. Big total. Which comes like this.

[1:14:33.7] Nobody can plan it, nobody can do it. So therefore is there much worth for our life to have lot of calculation, manipulation and lot of multiplication. Is it really worth, think very carefully. Death is definite. When it’s going to come, nobody knows. What can help you at that moment. Nothing. Not your bank balance. Not your deposit certificate. Not your, what is that, IRS, whatever that is? Audience: IRA. Rimpoche: IRA. Not even your life insurance. Nothing can help you. Nothing goes with you. The great Tibetan teachers will say the king who dies in the palace surrounded by the ministers and queens and whatever and the dog who died in the street with no one looking will be shoulder to shoulder together after death. Goes together. The position of the individual will be the same thing. Okay? And the kings (Quotes in Tibetan) [1:16:16.6] The kings will leave their estate and the beggars will leave their begging bowls, that’s how we go. So nothing can help at that time except your positive karma can help, your negative karma can harm, and that’s make you are responsible to your own deeds. When the general total comes you have nothing. You’re not counting your profit. You’re not counting your investment you’re counting your positive and negative karma. And makes yourself totally responsible. No insurance company can shelter you at that time. And that’s where we go. That’s our life is. And you never know when it’s comes. That doesn’t mean you forget whatever you’re doing today and pack up and go to the mountains or retreat or whatever in the forest or nothing. You must live. You must live respectable, wonderful life. But within that you must have influence of love, compassion, and kindness to others and to yourself. Make every minute that you have become worthwhile. Worthwhile for this life and worthwhile for future life. This is the key how you have to handle your life. Both rich materially as well as spiritually, that’s how you make it. Are you with me? Thank you. How I told you number of times, A. motivation, B. awareness. C. dedication. That is the basic your breakfast, lunch, and dinner and if you have that you’ll be okay. If you don’t have it, then that’s it. So those of you who are meditating on this death and dying stage, first death is definite. When it’s going to come there’s no certainty. Third, only the spiritual development and positive karma can only help you. That is not actually death meditation but however you put there because that gives you the what to do. So that’s why how you meditate. Those who are meditating. Those who are not meditating this is for your information only and thank you. I’m quitting. (Speaks to Audience about future meeting times and places) [1:20:00.3]