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Suicide Apple White Hale Bopp value of human life

So sensual gluttony is the gateway to suffering Oh this is the verse which I already talked right? OK so I don’t have to repeat so I just simply go simple way so basically if you look in the Buddhism what the Buddha is teaching when you really look into the Buddha’s teaching it is simple you will see you can really see the individual as a traveler that we are traveling through this spiritual path and we try to get ourselves to the ultimate Enlightenment state we are travelers we are traveling I do not know whether our destination is behind the Hale Bopp, I hope not the incidents that have taken place right now in California is really sad indeed.

In my personal opinion it is definitely sad indeed I did hear that I was in Mexico actually keeping a holiday (he laughs) that’s why I skipped last Thursday and put Aura here anyways so I heard on the telephone from Philip Glass and he said I appreciate it we are very happy they’re following you and I said what are you talking about and he said we don’t get into trouble like this what trouble and he said oh you didn’t hear and I said no what happened and he said well thirty nine people have committed suicide and I said for what and he said to get on the spaceship waiting behind the Hale-Bopp so it was really sad indeed and then I said what is the name of the leader and he said Apple White and I said I heard that before somehow I knew that person how come so I don’t really recall where and how but I came across with the Apple White business because Apple White is a very strange name for me to remember that so whatever it is and I thought really it is sad indeed and I’d better tell you since I brought this up a lot of people may be thinking you never know the people’s idea is such that you never know what you’re thinking you never know what you get up to so I would like to talk, I’ve nothing against UFO or that type of thing or business however I am not very with the people committing suicide not at all though you own your life you can do whatever you want to do nobody has a right to say or anything it’s your life no doubt you have every right to do whatever you want to do to your life however I’m not a person who try to convince you to commit suicide the biggest and most precious what you have is your life and how many times we talked how important the people’s human life is just right now looking at here it says precious human life gained but once it is extremely important particularly the life what we have basically life is important extremely particularly the life what we have is we have a special advantage of this life that is we can understand we can think and we can act and we can do and we can make a difference not only to ourselves but to others and this is a tremendous amount of life it has a value so we keep on talking please embrace your life rather than reject it we are talking the qualities of the human life how much you can do how much you can make a difference and particularly the human life which is not only a pure yuppie life or that of a hippie life PO I said, so when you really mix with the proper spiritual practice and you’re making a hell of a difference not only to your self but to a lot of others when you’re committing suicide what happens is you’re taking away the opportunity that what you have in your own hand which is a terrible thing to do not only yourself but also the others so somehow I was sad indeed and then I kept on thinking and what makes the individual to conform this is the right time to go and what makes you confirm that actual spaceship is in waiting behind Hale-Bopp? And the confirmation I was trying to find out and a couple of friends were telling me you don’t need any confirmation and I said how anything can be a guy may be driving down the street and probably see the drivers lessons says H. L. Or something and he says okay here I got a message can go anything wrong so which is really sad indeed and that is that part now the second part what I’m not happy with this I must also share with you is if you are obtaining your spiritual development and if you were going to a pure land or whatever you call it close encounter of the third kind but that close encounter what you take away some of that you know where that close encounters come from whatever the extra different dimension or wherever if you’re really going there so if you’re going there you probably going through your mental body I mean look at it look what we have as a human being what we have we have the physical aspects of the physical body and we have the mental aspects of the mental body and when we remain as a human being when we remain as a human life we have a tremendous amount of relationship between our physical being and the mental being we build that connection we have that mental physical relation but when you die what’s happening? It’s the separation the separation of the mind inside and that physical body outside is separated right? And we talked that here and we mentioned that really means changing of our identity the physical identity discontinuation of the physical identity what we have right? So we’re opting we are picking up a new identity that is what we call it change from this life to future life is you are picking up new physical identity so if you are living the physical aspects of it then for your traveling you don’t need a ship what are you carrying? Are you with me? What are you carrying? your body is left the mind doesn’t depend on the ship you know what I mean? It’s the mind does depend on the ship how do you get from here to there in between that there is some distance how do we get that do you know? It’s just my stupid thought (audience laughs) so that’s a point so the ship business or vehicle business the physical whether it’s a car or whether it’s a train or whether it’s a plane or a space boat or whatever it is it is virtually lifting the physical body of our self right? So we do need the physical body to lift we need a ship but when you leaving the physical body out and when you’re separating your mind forcefully out of your own body which is of course I normally refer to as a rented apartment when you physically force yourself out of your own apartment and when you only having a mind only the little mind and the little mind does not have a physical thing and so you don’t have to lift that so from that point it doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I’m stupid maybe I know nothing but it doesn’t make sense to me at all so that is one thing another thing is whatever little I know your spiritual development is within you you have to develop it within you you don’t go out somewhere else to pick up that normally I used to say you don’t want to put a different dress you don’t want to look different you don’t want to get away to some jungles in southeast Asia or India or you don’t want to go in the Himalayas a lot of people thinks as though you can go in that area and pick up your spiritual development as though it’s lying over there in a cave or under a tree and you can go and pick it up and bring it over normally a lot people think that way and it doesn’t work that way so it is within you very much within you so going out somewhere somewhere even out of your life to get something called spiritual development I couldn’t get it just somehow I fail to understand maybe it’s my stupidity so that’s why it is also very important and when you follow certain spiritual paths you make sure that this path is capable of delivering a proper spiritual development as I told you a number of times Tibetans have a saying if you want to drink a pure water the sources of the water must lead to the snow mountains. Because the Tibetans do not settle for lesser quality water than that of the great Himalayan snow mountain water that comes out of the Himalaya snow. 1549

Cults and authentic spiritual paths

Likewise when you try to follow the spiritual path you must make sure it is coming from a proper, in my case, from a Buddha so there are hundreds of different persons hundreds and thousands of different people who had developed their own spiritual development through that path. Thank you, you saw me coughing thank you is it cold water or hot water is it from snow mountain? (Crowd laughs) so that is very important and where is Bud Miller? He is working tonight? Lite Miller’s here and Bud Miller’s not here so anyway I was thinking about Bud Miller because I needed to look up a quotation and he would probably have it. Always the spiritual path is very important (he speaks Tibetan) did you understand that? (crowd laughs) (He speaks Tibetan again) it has to be an authentic essence of teaching of Buddha and Buddha’s disciples who had a spiritual development their own statement their own testimony of their spiritual development (he speaks Tibetan again) it should not be somebody’s made up story that builds up into some kind of strange path. It is the path that is practiced by the great many scholars and saints and experience developed and it has to be that it should not be some stupid fellow’s cooked up stories (he speaks Tibetan again) it should be great experience experienced by the great many many saints and scholars and it should not be somebody’s delusion (he speaks Tibetan) but it should be very big highway that leads us all to total enlightenment rather than the leading to some cliff somewhere where you can fall down. So this is important and in the United States particularly it is great period these days it is a great period in will a lot of us are open to a great many spiritual paths we are interested in one thing that is what we call it spiritual development we are interested that we want to become enlightened the word enlightened may or may not be appealing to so many of you but what we’re interested in is development making ourselves better kinder and gentler person and that is the general interest what we have and that is the great interest in the United States and the openness of this is a great thing what is happening in the nineties at the beginning of the nineties I was in the United States and I had an opportunity to be talking to a group of friends in Ann Arbor as well as New York and Allen Ginsberg was there with me at that time and I had an opportunity just thought pop up in my head and I said the nineties will be like that of the sixties which happens to be true somehow it swings from ultra conservatism in the nineteen eighties has moved slightly open into the openness in the nineties. Okay so it is open the openness it is very rare and very hard to get and the openness is so important and we have it along with that openness there is all sorts of spiritual paths are valuable for people to buy its becoming a big spiritual shopping mall? Or is it becoming also a spiritual supermarket or department store so like all sorts of things whether it is authentic or not authentic whatever it may be all sorts of things are valuable also so when it is valuable what the individual must do is you have to make the selection you have to make the choice because the sellers are sellers you know how the used car sales person will do you know better than I do so the sellers will do their best to sell and the buyers must choose what you want and what you want you really have to make the choice otherwise you’re wasting tremendous amount of your valuable time which you don’t have it as well as you may be wasting your money and may be wasting your energy and all this and that’s also not so bad but if you waste your life that is ultimately what you have the best and you really can’t afford to do that so it is very important that you have to make a proper choice and so unless you do that you know you remember we used to share that Umgulimala story that during the Buddha’s lifetime some guy is killing nine hundred ninety nine human beings and that’s also been misled by a wrong spiritual master the wrong spiritual master told him if you can kill one thousand human beings and cut their thumbs or finger or whatever had put them round and have a rosary round and when it is one thousand come back to me and I will liberate you right? So that is the wrong path and when you follow the wrong spiritual master you’d do that sort of thing and fortunately for that person Buddha happens to be appeared at the nine hundred ninety nine level and so the person later became an Arhat and be able to he is a very fortunate one but everybody is not so lucky as Ungulimala was 2429

Reincarnation and Samsara

And so when we have such a trouble with fellow spiritual practitioners it is sad indeed and we must also share our thoughts and prayer at least those people sort of ended their life in a rather bad way however they have a good motivation certainly they will not want to die for nothing. So they have a good motivation, motivation of becoming something whether it is enlightened or whatever it may be so we can only hope and pray that they will meet a perfect path in their next life since I’m coming from the background of reincarnation I must talk to you next life otherwise I will lose my job (audience laughs) I won’t be an incarnate lama so I lose my value title job everything right? That’s a joke! (audience laughs) anyway so I’m talking to you from the point of next or in reincarnation so therefore we should really pray strongly that they will find a perfect rebirth and where they could find a perfect path and they have true internal development without depending on whatever it is you know all this ship business spaceship business we do have a continuation of life no question I’m talking to you from my own point of view I don’t care whatever you think but I must share that with you because the continuation is definitely true though nobody has seen it and nobody has seen it nobody has come back from the rebirth nobody has come back from Bardo and they did not shake hands with me however when you look at it when you think about it when you look very carefully what’s happening is the continuation is definitely there look at ourselves and we look at the days we look at the sleep period we have the waking period and during the sleep period we go unconscious we go into deep sleep or light sleep or whatever it is we go through that and we will wake up the waking stage which is clearly an example of that stage of dying and rebirth a continuation sure because we do have attachment to our identity would do have a contaminated continuation of identity and this is what we call it the life that goes one after another it is there so what happens is the body the moment the person is separated from their body they started looking for their next identity what they could get so what ever that identity might be so the people are definitely within that identity so therefore in my personal mind I don’t have any proof to you because I don’t have any scientific black and white proof but there is a continuation the continuation definitely follows because the days follow the weeks follow the months follow because we have the waking period the sleeping period it just rotates one after another and so life is the same thing they will do it so it’s there so whenever you look in your life it does having said that I must also take an opportunity whenever you look in your life do not think only from the birth to death that is in narrow period you are viewing you must look at the variety of life after life so you scope whatever you’re looking at in your life will be much more broader much more huge you have much more thing to consider in the possibilities. Death yes it is unavoidable it will be there but that’s not the end it does not end we will continue. So that’s why we should pray for those people for that second or whatever the next reincarnations might be hopefully they will meet something with a great path that can be capable of delivering the goods. So that’s it and also what makes you to stuck here what makes you to stuck here is the attachment because of that it says sensual gluttony is a gateway to suffering. Are you with me? Attachment is the most important thing which makes you to continue if there is no attachment it makes it easy to go attachment holds you back so therefore earlier Tibetan teachers used to say attachment is the glue to Samsara. You know what Samsara is? How many people does not know samsara? Raise your hand. Oh very few hands that’s very nice. Anyway Samsara here is the continuation of life and death and birth death birth death continuation. Continuously going round in a circle without your own control or choice, though you are responsible to yourself though you are responsible to yourself but you really don’t control the circle by yourself your deeds control you not the third person who is sitting up there and doing all this twisting around they don’t do that. However you are the one who are creating you create your deeds and your deeds will control you because you are responsible to your own deeds and that is what we call samsara. I believe it’s a Sanskrit word so and what is Samsara it is suffering there’s a lot of suffering in there in samsara all of us have a tremendous amount of suffering you know it you don’t have to think you don’t have to make analysis you don’t have to meditate to know that we have a lot of suffering there are people who says I don’t want to talk about suffering I don’t want to think about suffering but by not thinking it does not make you don’t have suffering if that so that we can all forget about it why we should we even think about it the problem is the suffering comes in whether you think or whether you don’t think whatever you do keep on denying but the person who denies becomes older and older day by day he builds more wrinkles day by day he pickup more gray hair day after day the sufferings are coming continuous that’s what it is right? Are you with me? Young lady over here you are? Good I’m glad so that’s what it is that is with us all the time whether you like it or not you become older you become more ugly you become uglier day after day you put up more makeups put more and more everyday because you want to look better change your hairstyle all sorts of things we do because you want to look better whatever you do suffering is there whatever you do and the denial will definitely not help so therefore it is important to recognize and acknowledge as long as we’re stuck in the samsara whatever we do we have that suffering that doesn’t mean there is no pleasure there is a lot of nice little picnic spots what we call it samsara’s delights are there right? All of them there too but that doesn’t mean there is no suffering even if you keep on enjoying the Samsara’s delights continuously you still have suffering because that’s how it functions that’s why Buddha says the first Noble truth the truth of suffering and a number of people think Buddhism is the religion of suffering I had somebody told me once when I was traveling on a plane you’re a Buddhist? Oh yeah I know that that’s a religion of suffering so I said I don’t think so Buddha really introducing ourselves the true reality of what our really life is about it and that’s why he introduced the truth of suffering and we do have it we do not only have the suffering of aging and looking ugliness are but we also have a mental and emotional suffering and we also have even if you’re young you also have a lot of worries and pains and how to get this done and how to get this done so many pains we come across with everybody every time the older you become the shorter you are you have more pains 3637

Sufferings and loss of memory before death

Let’s say your long lost friend when we meet each other and when you talk to each other and when you share what has happened in our life in between that period actually we’re sharing what difficulties we went through the suffering that is the true reality of our life it doesn’t matter what ever you are whether you are rich or poor black white man woman it doesn’t matter we have that sufferings its in our true reality in normal American language I should have said we are born with it it is. continuing is suffering changing is suffering when you change we suffer when you continue we suffer don’t we? We do when we are sharing our life experience when we are unfolding the melodrama of our life what do we unfold the sufferings the different sufferings(?) that is our life and Buddha recognized that and tells us (he speaks Tibetan) this is the truth suffering the truth of suffering the purpose of introducing by Buddha the truth of suffering is not to get frightened not to get threatened but Buddha introduced that because we can acknowledge and we can work it out (he speaks Tibetan) so the purpose of introducing the suffering is to know it to acknowledge not to deny and Buddha really wants us to acknowledge because he himself acknowledged suffering and he looked for a way out and found a way out and that’s why he said hey you don’t have to be stuck there there is a way out but first acknowledge are you with me? And that is the truth of our life right or wrong if it’s wrong tell me. Everybody rich or poor man or woman young or old everybody we that problems suffering mental physical and emotional who doesn’t have it? Anybody here who is free of mental physical or emotional suffering please raise your hand I’ll be happy to shake hands. See there’s not a single hand we all have it do we have to learn to live with that or is there a way out Buddha says I found a way out so he introduced the second Noble truth are you with me? The second Noble truth cause of suffering he said nothing comes out without anything everything has a cause cause and effects what causes suffering who is responsible who makes what causes of course very easy for us to say it is our karma right? How many people does not know karma? would you raise your hand if you don’t know karma and there is not a single hand again so I’m happy everybody knows about Karma actually we talked right? so we say our karma but who made karma and how nobody else except ourselves we made our own karma that’s why we become responsible to our own deeds please remember that this is extremely important we are responsible to our own deeds what ever you do you you do good ones you will enjoy you behave bad you’ll pay for it you are responsible I am responsible for my deeds good ones as well as bad ones so does you so therefore when the Buddha begin to search is there a way out he began to realize the way out is not working with the symptoms but working with the cause and what caused the suffering ultimately the neurosis that we have our neurosis that cause the suffering our delusions that cause the suffering so when you can work with that when you can cut that you will find a way out until you did that you will continuously going around continuously go life after life death does not end that is what I have been saying life after life will continue in that way of course with a different identity different memories because you forget what you have earlier because death itself is nothing but than that of disconnecting disconnecting really means you gradually you forget things even before you die you don’t recognize people you don’t even remember your name the doctors will always tell you what is your name? Right? They will always ask you what is your name so they will try to see whether you remembers your name or not all this these are the clear signs that death is nothing but than that of disconnecting your self so you forget everything reduces completely a very subtle mind so that your knowledge information in all of this goes away obviously even long before you die it goes away to some people so therefore when you come back if you are expecting to come back with your memories and all this it’s not going to happen you know it because you’ve already forgotten even before you die how can you expect to come back with your memories it’s not going to happen so therefore you continue again 4510

Cannot castrate your mind you must convince it and work with it

With that tiny little very subtle mind with some kind of whatever it may be a tiny body if you are lucky it will be a human baby if you’re not lucky it’ll be some kind of a wild yak (Rimpoche laughs) up in the Tibet Plateau or maybe a wild little shack down into Atlantic Ocean or something you know that is whatever it is that’s what’s going to happen so what happens is when you were dying all your karma is around and you going to connect (silence on tape) so that’s what happens so as long as you cut this attachment as long as you cut the delusions particularly the ignorance of wrong knowing when you’ve been able to cut that then you begin to make a difference to yourself within you you begin to correct the cause of the suffering when you correct the cause of the suffering you are correcting your suffering until you correct the cause of suffering you don’t. I don’t know last Tuesday the Tuesday before that what did I say Tony? You don’t work with your karma or something. You don’t work with your delusions you work with your karma because of that you raise question on last Tuesday, I believe. Well whatever it is it doesn’t matter I heard today but I forgot. Anyway so that is the how our lives are really function so the four Noble truths basically what Buddha is talking about the four Noble truths is really the true situation of our life it is absolutely true whatever we are experiencing now what is cause, is there a way out and how you get out all of them are perfectly true though we don’t see it how we can get out we don’t see it but how we get in how we are functioning when that is true how we get out that would be true too because the person who really recognizes and experiences can share it. Right? And when the scientist says this is what happened that is what happened we all buy without any question but when the spiritually developed person says this is what happened that’s what happens we say well maybe right? So this is what we have this is our life too and I don’t blame you because we don’t see that in black and white we don’t see it however we have a lot of experience on that point. Anyway so that’s why it says sensual gluttony is the gateway to suffering attachment. Attachment to the wrong Samsara’s delights is the sensual gluttony to me are you with me? So that’s that so what happens with the other two Noble truths? truth of the path and truth of cessation. Truth of path is whatever we been talking here is the truth of the path the truth of cessation by practicing a individuals get free from those sufferings so basically the number one step in the Buddha’s teaching seeking spiritual development is seeking freedom from our neurosis if you’re getting freedom from your neurosis you are getting somewhere in your journey. If you’re not getting freedom from your neurosis and instead it’s building up more then something is wrong somewhere it is time for you to sit back to see what is going wrong what did I do wrong where am I going wrong it’s also important if you don’t do it and then if you keep on going even if it is right or wrong just keep on going it that is not that great if you think back twice and check yourself am I reducing my delusions am I cutting down my neurosis and if you see it is happening to you whatever you are doing is right. If you don’t check up or if you check up still well I don’t really know let me go more if you do that you get into trouble. Those thirty nine people plus one in California yesterday I read in the New York Times on the way back on the plane so forty people at least we know so far. If they set back and check their own spiritual path if they are doing well thinking improving there against their neurosis then they won’t have that consequences what we pay see? Forcefully cutting neurosis doesn’t work what you call that? You can cast yourself? You know cutting the balls off... castrating yourself. You can keep on castrating but that’s not going to cut your attachment (audience laughs) yeah it doesn’t you can force yourself not to think about it but your mind would like to somehow sneak it out and think it doesn’t work that way it doesn’t. The mind has an independent way of functioning and it has an independent way of doing it so you have to convince your mind you have to convince yourself discipline may help, may but a big question but not necessarily. The Japanese go around behind you and hit you with a big stick if you’re falling asleep when you’re meditating and that may help you wake up but I don’t know if that will really makes you not to think what you’re thinking the mind is such an independent thing you really cannot control by castration (Rimpoche laughs) you cannot cut the mind out. You can cut anything else but the mind doesn’t so it doesn’t help you the only way how can you help to cut your delusions is to suggest to have a dialogue with your mind let the mind see the consequences let yourself understand clearly and give them a time and opportunity to adopt again and again and again when you commit I will not do something else you are bound to break your promises you that it make three hundred times a day but make sure you get up three hundred times that is three hundred times falling but to get up three hundred times and keep on doing it and that’s the way how you improve yourself and that is the way how your mind will accept and when your mind accept that and your attitude and your way of thinking and your way of approaching things will be different than what it used to be and that is how you improve your mind that is how you improve yourself not by hitting on the head and not by cutting and chopping things off you know what I mean? 5549

Allen Ginsburg Death have a compact practice

So that’s what it is spiritual development is very easy to talk you can keep on yapping day and night but it is difficult to experience but you do need number one a perfect path that leads you to a perfect stage which is extremely important number two you need diligence that is also necessary without diligence you get nowhere hard-working diligence efforts because our laziness is so powerful within us it takes over anything even your minutes it will take over I noticed myself when I have to say my prayers or do something I get the most excuses available well I want to watch this program on the television (audience laughs) and well we will watch that and well I don’t have much time left I only have what one hour left well let that go so I needed a little more than that and all sorts of laziness will take place within your mind so they will delay you to do so the laziness everything in our lives how powerful the laziness is whether it is spiritual or even otherwise right? The laziness is a big problem so that diligent hard-working persistent efforts is absolutely necessary to those of us who are on the spiritual path and if you try to force yourself for a long time to do something it’s not going to work because number one I cannot afford to have those times number two you know all this excuses watch your own mind Bob? You get it you have all this excuse I don’t have time I can’t afford to have it I have to do this I have to attend my business I have to go here I have to clean my car I have to clean my cloth you name it any excuse one after another comes and that is laziness coming in a different variety of form and it becomes true because you yourself are taking too much time for do that whatever your spiritual path is so therefore in this upcoming new millennium you need a precise small compact practice if you don’t have it you’re not going to get anywhere. And also it is very important to have your practice done while you are well and while you are perfect a number of our friends particularly one that likes (hexing?) who used to have a radio station running in New York City and later a very good spiritual practitioner he is a very nice and kind gentleman and by the time when he gets sick and when we began to see he is going and they said virtually I can do nothing because the time and the family’s hope of continuing living and both of them together makes it very difficult to push anything at the last minute virtually last-minute doesn’t really work much unfortunately I have to share.... What did you say? I’m sorry (he has a private conversation) unfortunately I also have to share a sad news that’s what Kathy said sad news that Allen Ginsberg is not well and is going and he called me when I was in Cancun and a very formal official report and he said Rimpoche I talking to him and he said as is Allen Ginsberg and I would like to report you that my doctor came back just now and told me that it is not good news and I told him cancer? And he said yes then I told him beyond reversible? and he said yes and than I told him how long do I have? and he said a month to four but judging from my own weakness I may not have that much that is what he said judging from my weakness of my body I may have only two months or something maybe. So then he said well I’m surprised that I took it so calmly I’m very much surprised that what he told me and so we all it is sad indeed no doubt sad indeed no doubt sad indeed then I suggested we don’t look into an empty life and I said well anyway it took me two days to accept that truly it took two day but however so I told him well if you look at your seventy years old you have contributed tremendously to the society it is almost like five lifetime’s contribution that you have and if you look at the sixties I don’t think you ever thought you could live after seventy years. So exactly he is taking in that way and almost coming to the point of celebrating the Allen Ginsberg’s going you know yesterday he told me I wrote my own poem to be read at my own funeral (Rimpoche laughs) he had completed that too so this sort of thing I would like to share with you because Allen is one of the very important pillars of Jewel Heart and well it is sad indeed but on the other hand that is possible and to each one of us to get the same news from the doctor not necessarily from the same doctor from a doctor and if you get that how am I going to react what will be my hope what will be my chances what will I do that is also very important to think that no doubt Allen is going to be contributing tremendously to the people who freaks out like me if I get that news I’m going to freak out why it’s hard for me to accept that Allen scared for two days so if it is my own case no doubt I’m going to freak out and each and every one of us it is nice to visualize imagine that I am receiving that news and when I received that news what do I have how do I think how do I make my own preparations it is not the preparation of how you going to go you’re going to go anyway whether you like it or not it is the preparation how I’m going to resume my life and that is very important point it is not that death is a problem what happens thereafter is a problem and many people don’t even think about it many people don’t want to think about it many people doesn’t want to think about it but that is our problem so how are we going to handle it what do I have do I have anything to carry with me I told you (Kushep Bakula) the very senior Lama who came here and gave the Yamataka initiation told me today I have not prepared myself for my future journey he said my journey my Lam Jah I did not put my Lam Jah today so a person like him with that status who has clairvoyance without any problem at all and the person of such a thing to think about their Lam Jah remember the word Lam Jah we use that so the preparation for our journey so what do I have my Lam Jah this is important to think by each and everybody because that news is going to reach to each and every one of us one day sooner or later so what do I have? So it is very important when you are well when you’re perfect when you are young or old but when you’re in a good sense and when your mind is functioning properly make yourself the preparations make yourself ready have something to carry with you don’t go empty-handed we have come to a great place with a great body with great opportunity and if you have to go with empty-handed is a big loss. A big waste too. So therefore it is very important to have such a compact small short whatever it is but a performed practice something you do something you training your mind you train your mind in proper way properly so that you aim at the right development and you follow the right path 10831

Compact practice to take with you

Death is such a thing it will come young or old man or woman it will be there for sure. Maybe soon maybe later that is always the case but whenever it comes we should have something solid to carry that is the essence of our life if you have that your life will become meaningful worth if you don’t have that life is we enjoy it we had it we enjoy it it’s gone that’s what happens then it is a waste particularly those of us here who are touched with the perfect path like what the Buddha had it doesn’t have to be Buddhism any other great tradition whatever it may be Judeo Christian Hindu Muslim or whatever it may be a perfect path is necessary otherwise you landed on the Hale-Bopp so that’s what we don’t want and that’s what earlier that Tibetans teachers word I caught it saying it leads to a perfect path not to a cliff and that’s what’s leading to a cliff so that’s why it’s necessary to have a perfect path and to have something to carry with us and that’s why you come here every Thursday every Tuesday and we try to talk and we try to make it essence and talk is talk I am not an entertainer I am not the reincarnation of Johnny Carson (audience laughs) you get me, not! so what ever we are talking here try to get message out of that make something for your self precise and small and short but is meaningful meaningful it makes a difference touch with your own consciousness touch with your own soul and make it working and that’s what you need so when you have that and you repeat that day after day day after day week after week month after month year after year it makes a difference it makes a difference to your consciousness and that’s how you change your self not by cutting and chopping that’s what I like to share with you. (He discusses Jewel heart business) I would like to inform you you know we would really you people who are really interested should have some kind of perfect precise small little practice and what we know in the Tibetan tradition is the Lam rim or even the shorter version of the Lam Rim this Foundations of all Perfections but the Lam Rim stage of meditation which is very important and which will make a difference to the life and which is the really precise point. And I would like to do that this summer retreat so the Jewel Heart always has two retreat in a year the winter retreat is a closed retreat because it’s Vajrayana so only people who’ve had exposure and experience to the Vajrayana practice is the only allowed and it was during the Christmas and New Year period which is cold so we call it the miserable retreat. But we also have the summer retreat which is open for everybody and which is on the lake near here in Fenton Michigan and we meet there it is a very nice place it is not a very good resort area it is not in a hotel where you can enjoy a holiday it is a YMCA camp and we meet there like a week, can you tell me the date? August twenty fourth Sunday through August thirty first Sunday so it is a Sunday to Sunday week. And normally what we do is in the morning we have a certain healing practice followed by this Lam rim teaching and followed by in the afternoon the groups will be divided and the group discussions and later in the evening a larger general meeting and the discussion question and answer and giving teachings and I would like to invite each and every one of you if I tell you now you can make your time valuable because if you know only in August or July you won’t have time to prepare yourself so I would like invite you each and every one of you there and have a practice and learn something and have something at least we try to make an attempt to have some path which will not only make a difference to this life but also the life thereafter follows. So even though it is a rustic area but you’re welcome and you will probably get mailings and brochures and all this but they will only come sometime in August only or if you’re lucky you may get in July so it is happening with us all the time sometimes the brochures are arrive a week before the retreat anyway so that’s what? I would like to share with you and also I have a friend (?) He has been to one of our summer retreat two years ago and he shared a lot of the wonderful experience and he happens to be in New York doing something and I said please come here and see me and so he came today to visit so I brought him here together and I should have been giving him to give the talk tonight but I begin to realize that I only have two Thursdays so I thought I would take it officially and deprive(?) The opportunity of talking to you I would really like to welcome you here we are very happy though we didn’t really get a chance to hear from you but we are very happy to have you around here and I hope you’ll come back and spend some time and do some teachings around here and that we will look forward to he speaks perfect English far better than me really and I was shocked when we’re watching it there’s no grammar mistake perfect British style real English English perfect you know it’s fantastic anyway so having said that I believe Kathy has another announcement to make (they discuss Jewel heart business) and one thing I would also like to share with you the Jewel heart meeting in New York on the twelfth and thirteenth weekend and yesterday I was talking with Alan and Allen wanted to come for the meeting and I said Alan I will come to see you and he said I would also like to see the sangha he said so any one of you who would like to go in for the meeting of the Jewel heart meeting in the weekend of the twelfth and thirteenth and I don’t think he will come in both days but he will be there and so that’s what I would like to share with you and anything else? I did not give you any opportunities to ask questions because I am hungry and I have to go (crowd laughs and Rimpoche laughs) and so we will see you on Thursday the seventeenth okay thank you.