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199801003GRNY 17th July 2022

Are you comfortable there? I don’t see over there because of the pillar. Will you move over here so I can see you better. You seat there. Okay, can you hear me, okay now? Good. Welcome here tonight. I was explaining , less people here tonight because of the rain. I don’t know. Anyway, welcome. Okay, last time we were talking , we were talking through that little piece of the prayer of the purpose that you have. And I believe we came to the point when we say Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha. Am I right? Thank you. So we are suppose to talk Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha. That’s tonight subject.

Before I go to the Om business. There is the Om business. Before I go to that, last Thursday couple of people had some questions , and particularly , some curiosity about the purification if I remembered correctly. Am I right? Purification , some questions I had, particularly people wondering how can anger sweep away the positive karma? If so, isn’t that two separate karmas, how can take away, how can one take the other way? Am I right? I think that was question, last question. Anybody else has any other questions before I go to Om business.

Audience : I have a question Rimpoche regarding dedicating mind.

Rimpoche : Yes, what is it? We have almost the same thing the anger sweeping the positive and dedicating merit will probably has the same principle. Anyway go ahead and put the question.

Audience : Well, it was just a to see if you might clarify some of the comments that you made about dedicating merit , having to do with dedicating merit of not for specific purposes or for one’s own end, but rather dedicating merit for the benefit and particularly total realization of all beings. Which you talk about it is a little bit true, you lost me.

Rimpoche : We have the purification and dedication. Two questions. Anybody else have any other questions? Maybe to be clarify, anything else? Do you remember that I didn’t answer any questions? The last Thursday. Not last Thursday. Thursday I was here . That was Thursday before last Thursday.

Audience : I understand a number of people have been speaking last Thursday. And that was one of the questions that was raised was how does it mean if you didn’t know about dedication. That all your good your good deeds you did before you became a Buddhist,

Rimpoche : I remembered that question.

Audience : Before you study Buddhism, that will be out of the window. And a lot of people have been talking about and were upset about it.

Rimpoche : Upset about it? What’s there to be upset about it but. Alright. We have three questions.

So before Buddhism any actions been gone out of the window. The answer is certainly not. That for sure. Answer is it is certainly not. If you don’t follow where I look, Buddhism offers tremendous amount of , what do you say, technique or maybe a bit of technical expert on the spiritual path . And there are so many good things, they , really throughout. There are really so many nice things are there. But not necessary, pre Buddhists, every thing is wrong or throw out of the window. It is not. Everything about Buddhism is absolutely right? And that is also not right. There is also many wrongs. A lot of wrong things in there too. Not that Buddhism or the Buddha is wrong. But as Buddhists we do a lot of wrong things too and that’s there. Okay, maybe I don’t know what I should say on that. Maybe I try to link up those questions. (0.08:13.0)

Let me pick up the dedication part first. Okay, when you dedicate. Somehow my brain is not working today, I don’t know. You can come up here. This side. Is there room there. Over there. That corner. So what you talk about the dedication. Dedication for all sentient beings, benefit for sentient beings.

Audience 1 : I am sure I was confused when you spoke about that last time.

Rimpoche : What did I said, by the way.

Audience 1 : Well, in a sense you didn’t recommended.

Rimpoche : I did not recommend? On what?

Audience 1 : You said something like that the karmas is not transferrable or something like that. That you can’t actively participate in one another’s karma. And I am unsure on this.

Rimpoche : Well, maybe, maybe not. What do you think? Is it dedicatable? What?

Audience 2 : It depends on what connection you have with that person.

Rimpoche : No, no, no. I didn’t mean what I said. When we here last Thursday. What did I said. You don’t remember? You tell me out of your own knowledge. Is it dedicatable? Positive karma.

Audience 2 : I think if you have some relationship with somebody. For example , your parents. In that case, it is possible.

Rimpoche : If you don’t have a relationship with that person, then what will happen?

Audience 2 : Then you don’t get any.

Rimpoche : That person didn’t get any benefit.

Audience 3 : I don’t think so.

Rimpoche : You don’t think so. Why not?

Audience 3 : I think it work just like you what said.

Rimpoche : Don’t tell me. Tell me what you know.

Audience 3 : Right now I am just saying what I heard you saying a few weeks ago.

Rimpoche : Okay, okay. A couple of weeks ago? I don’t remember . (0.11:02.0)

Audience 3 : You can dedicate your merit to someone else and someone else get the merit.

Rimpoche : What is merit, by the way? What is the business of merit? Well, you can call it benefit rather than call it merit. You get merit before. What does ? mean?

Audience 3 : Good deeds.

Rimpoche : You can just call it you did well.

Anyway, what I think, later I know. Normally in the normal dedication we say, like a Manjushri or those great Bodhisattvas as they have dedicated, I dedicate all those merits for this and that and all these you will find very common in Buddhists dedication. When you dedicating something and if that does not have any effect on anything else , so why take the trouble of dedicating. There no point at all. So, whatever we dedicate something there is a definitely benefit of, benefit connecting to that person. If there is a karmic connection then it is right. If there is no karmic connection, then it is a difficulty. It is true statement. It is true statement , that’s why it is funny , you know. And it is funny. In order to have the benefit of dedication. You try to build a karmic connection . We always do that in the good old Tibetan Buddhist tradition or even the Buddhist tradition in China. Or the Buddhist tradition almost every where else, even in South East Asia or Central Asia. They try to build a connection with the individual person and the person who you are dedicating. They try to build some kind of karmic , especially personalized karmic relation. They try to build that. That’s the reasons why. Now this is a funny way . It is true, what I came out with my thoughts right now, thinking about after the Martha’s statement. Thinking of these. And this may be one of the method in which the Lamas that collected money. Collected money. Ya, really true. What they do is people try to build a karmic connection so that e dedications will be helpful to the individual. And that’s why what they do is they do a personal offerings, particularly for that reason. They do that. And also people who died, and for the benefit for that person . And person who simply praying but praying and dedication , to be able to work with that, so they give some kind of gift , or personal belongings or cash or whatever they do that. And that’s the probably in order to answer to feel, to be able to have more effective to have the karmic connection. And if there is no karmic connection at all , it is not going to affect at all. The answer will not be , not at all, is not the right answer again because of your power, because of your thoughts, they will have some effect but when you have a relationship and the effect will be more powerful. When you have a close relationship the effect is even more powerful. And that is definitely, suppose to be true. (0.17:17.9) That is the , because Martha said , almost you have a karmic connection, otherwise it doesn’t work. You see them in all Sutras. A lot of Sutras they tell you , a lot of teaching books and they will tell you that. And that’s why karmic connection is important and it is necessary. It is helpful.

Over here I was, because it rain, driving. I am glad you are there. How long it took you to drive. Three hours. I am sorry. So, such a persistent effort should be dedicated. We are talking about dedication here. Now the recommended dedication always for the benefit of all sentient beings. Normally, also you can dedicate for all sentient beings . There is nothing wrong. But normally what people do id they dedicate for state of enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. That’s what normally they do. Because that is very important and almost ultimate goal. Am I through, you believe or do you need a little more detail.

Audience : Now it is quite clear clarification.

Rimpoche : You like it.

Audience : I don’t the thing but I..

Rimpoche : Okay.

Audience : It’s clear.

Rimpoche. Okay, that’s one thing. But also dedication is sort of safe guarding . That part I would like to come back here. That part because emotions are so powerful. One powerful emotion can really , undo or even neutralize the power of certain positive or negative emotions. And I don’t want to go into the very dharmic way. Dharma , dharmic way. Dharmic way, what does it means? But if you look into the very normal way of our functioning and when you watching, observing our own mind. Certain thoughts , certain powerful thoughts, powerful emotions that we get within our minds. And the positive realms give effect to the individual calmness, relax, enjoyable and negative emotions gives disturbing, all of those we see very clearly, right? When we are having very positive, nice effect of calm and quiet and wonderfulness. And suddenly you notice a negative thought of anger or something and then if you look back, the nice, quiet effect that we had. What happens to that? Are you with me? Okay, let’s say we had a good night sleep, once in a blue moon. We had a very nice, relax , good night sleep. And we woke up, nicely, reasonably good timing, whatever, 6 or 6.30 or 7. Whatever. And we , sort of excited , you are happy. You are looking forward at the beautiful day that is going to come., looking forward. Suddenly you stuck in traffic and can’t really move. Or your boss gave you a dirty look. Or your own secretary ? Or whatever. On the day happens and it’s irritating. Whatever it is. It is irritating. The moment you are irritated, and if you look back, to the nice, calm and beautiful, harmless dream that you have. And what happened to that. Pop. Pop. It is begin like a glass of water like the Indians do after eaten their food. Instead of becoming clean, clear, crystal looking beautiful glass of water it became mushy, sort of muddy glass of water. That type of things happens within our mind, right? Am I right or wrong. Okay. That is how negative emotions affect to the nature. That’s no quarrel. Let’s accept that. The question is how can such a negative emotion can have affect another positive emotion and it is karma. So then the question really arises , how can one karma affect another karma? These karmas are , in a one way, it is independent karma. On the other hand, it is connected. Connected with that individual and that individual’s deeds and is the basis of the own individual. Maybe we cannot read so much into boxes. So, it might not be functioning that well. So definitely connected. And the effect to one’s affect , either this other karma or destroys the other karma. That’s the reason why purification works., That’s the reason why the dedication works. Though you may not be able to undo what you did. It is difficult to undo what you did. That , it is really , I don’t know. If I make it so simple and clear I might be doing a disservice to you. That’s my hesitation. Whatever it may be let me put it out clearly. We created a negative karma. Negative karma will bound to be give a negative result, right? Okay, that’s bound to be because it is a karmic thing. It is bound to be. However is it going to work immediately? It is going to take time for the karma to ripen, to mature or to make it effective. It is going to take. When it take time, what else is it waiting for. Is cooking or is it waiting for sometime like the bloom of flower and wait for it to rise, right? Are we waiting foe that? No it is not. Why doesn’t arise immediately because the conditions are not right. (0.27:29.5) When the conditions are right, it may affect immediately. When the conditions are right, it does and it will. When the conditions are not right it cannot affect immediately at all. It is going to take a long time till the conditions are right. Are you with me?

So what does the other positive or negative karma do. They affect the conditions to be able to materialize or not? And that is how one karma affects to the other karma because it affects to the conditions. And if conditions never happen to be right, these karmas will , they will not happen. They will not be able to materialize because the conditions never right. The karma depends on the conditions. And why these conditions never getting right? Because you intervening. Intervening with different karmic things. Your intervening. And that’s why never work . That’s why you do pujas, you pray. And that works. And there is room for anything happens because it is dependent on the conditions. I believe that’s the idea how it affects to one’s emotion to the other emotion. How it affects individual. One karma to the another karma. One’s actions to another actions. And then these affects others goes on the individual. Am I talking okay or completely senseless? Is it okay with you? I don’t think I will talk much more and I think I keep up to that much level and say. ( 0.29:32.6)

Audience : I still don’t see how one person’s karma can affect another person’s mind stream

Rimpoche : Not necessary affect the other person’s mind stream but it affects to the, you know, the karma is not so simple as we look. There is individual karma, there is collective karma, there is all kinds of karmas function together. The collective karma, like what happening today, this moment, to all of us is the consequences or result, I shouldn’t say consequences, results of our common karma. So this is the common karma plugged in with all kinds of , we have here, 60, 65 , 70 , whatever people we have here. All these people’s karmic , each and every individual’s karma and plugged in the general, common, karmic thing and that’s why whatever happening here together with us , experiencing whether it is too hot, or too cold or comfortable uncomfortable, whatever it is. All of them are effects of the individual plus the common karma. So, it is not so simple as black and white. It is very , it is not white but grey. That is how it functions. So we really have to look so much , the more problem with the western mind , we box everything , we organize, sort them up and put them up into boxes. And then we look them and we open them and we describe them and close boxes, we do all these. And that is our basic way. But none of it can necessarily everything can be black and white and put it in that way. It is so many things they are involve. I don’t think one person’s mind is interfering with another individual’s mind. Which can be in the one way. It cannot be rule out. One individual’s mind can definitely interfere, intervene with another person’s mind stream which we have talked, discussed , gain information, gain knowledge, all of them are one person’s mind stream affecting another person. We can pick up knowledge, habits from another person. We can pick up knowledge, addictions where the other person have, we can pick up. We can , doesn’t take time. Person who drinks a lot. I don’t want to say the thing. If you go out with a person who drinks a lot, doesn’t take that long for the person to affect to the person who is not a drinking person. It doesn’t takes time. It takes almost immediately. And that is the effect . It might not be affecting the mind stream but at the same time it is influencing and it somehow affects there. If you try to think that each and every one of us completely independent, I doubt it. There is so much interlinked . There is so much interdependent, there is so much interconnection, that even in scientifically, we begin to see much more before how interconnected we are. Every single thing . Even a butterfly moves in China makes a difference in United States. Don’t we see that? You are not going to doubt that, aren’t you. So we see that, right? That’s how we can see the how interconnected we are . It is really not so much that individual wise is square box covered up. Might not be really true functioning of a live.

Okay, purification, dedication. Did I leave something out? Nothing will fall out from the window. The positive karma will have a positive result, the negative karma will have a negative result. It is also true, where a powerful positive emotion and a powerful negative emotion can intervene with that other , whatever it is. It is intervenable. That’s why when it is presented, the dedication , sort of, safe guard, security or insurance policy. That’s what it is, that’s what it is. Insurance policy. That’s where dedication almost becomes , almost like insurance policy. Because you know why? Now the question may rise within your mind. Okay, if you have dedicated , nothing goes wrong. If you have not dedicated it can be wrap out. Why? That is the point here. Am I right? Maybe that is the point. That is the point we have to think. Are you with me, with that question. Marty? You think of what I said earlier of the come back on this. Any question on that? (0.37:06.6)

Audience : I probably can’t understand the conversation regarding ? because what it makes me think it becomes very self serving which takes you back to the negative phase because you are building a ? for yourself versus somebody who unconsciously is a very good person.

Rimpoche : Not necessarily insurance policy building to yourself. It is simply a insurance policy to safeguard your positive karma. What is wrong with that? That is not negative thought. That is not selfish thought. That is not personal interest. That is a very genuinely needed thing. What is wrong with that? Why is it negative? I don’t get it. Do you? Your thought maybe. What is not for the benefit of all sentient beings and therefore it should not be, right? Is that the reason?

Audience : It seems like, the early conversation what we talking a little bit about the karmas creating a balance, an equilibrium within and the energy that is sharing between us is helping to create that balance. And so,

Rimpoche : Wait a minute, I am getting a little more confuse where this energy comes from. And equilibrium and energy.

Audience : When you were talking about karmic connection, I see it is about exchange of energy. That’s probably wrong.

Rimpoche : I don’t really clearly know what energy is, by the way. Anyway, let’s not deviate that today right now. Let’s stick to the karmic, to the vocabulary like karma, effect or this or something like that rather the energy, equilibrium and all these. Gets me more confused. So, go ahead now. That’s okay. Anytime it may come back .

Audience : Can I, for two nights, from what you just said everything is negative, right? More than we realize. As safeguard our merits not just for ourselves, for everybody.

Rimpoche : Wait a minute. Even if we safeguard for ourselves, what is wrong with it? This my question. What did I do wrong? Where did I do wrong if I did something good for me? Am I not deserving? I am talking about me. I am talking about each and everyone of us. Am I not deserving? That’s not wrong. To tell you the truth, we said for the benefit of all sentient beings . All mother sentient beings but who are you working for? Me. I want to get myself to get a little credit . I want to get myself to obtain enlightenment, so therefore I am making for all sentient beings. Really true. You know when I was young there was those funny thoughts in Tibetan which says. Whether you look from the right to the left you reach to the woman who sells the bread. Whether you look form the left to the right, you reach to the woman who sells bread. If you go anticlockwise you reach to the woman who sells bread. The purpose really is to liberate ourselves. Whether we want to go for all sentient beings this way or for myself that way, and the point really comes we are all trying to get ourselves to be enlightened. Is there anybody who doesn’t want that? Would you raise your hands. I don’t see any hands here. So we are all, including you and me, we are both for that. So you can’t deny that myself for the benefit of me, what is the purpose. Even for all sentient beings , it has to include me. It doesn’t say all sentient beings except me. We don’t say that, do me. May all sentient beings, except me have peace and happiness. May all sentient beings except me , may be free from sufferings. They don’t say that. Why do we deny ourselves the very normal Christian language, God giving both rights of our own benefit. Why do we deny that? And that is a very important point. And that you have to think more. If you think more , where is the thought coming from? That thought coming from some undermining self. I am not talking about the neurosis of that person, don’t take it. I am talking about those of us who have those thoughts, where those thoughts coming from. Those thoughts are coming from a undermining individual ,self. Why do we undermine individual, because we don’t like ourselves. We hate ourselves. Many individuals do hate myself. I dislike myself. So this disliking to the individual self is the mind that is undermining the self interest which thinks self is bad, should not be there. (0.44:26.6) If you take out the self, where is all sentient beings, they are all not there. ALL, underline. It’s not there. They become except me. So how is that going to work? It is some kind of self disliking thought, self, I don’t know, what you call that? Somehow you don’t like yourself so much. Somehow I hate myself. And that, all of those thoughts are coming from because you are very disappointed with yourself. Any individual who is very disappointed with yourself and that what they have that. Why are you disappointed with yourself? We will not accept that. We are not disappointed with ourselves. We argue about that. However you are very disappointed with yourself. Whatever the reason it might be. It might have something to do with your childhood. It may have something to do with what you cannot fulfil with what you wanted. And it might have something to do with whatever it may be. With your dirty tricks by yourself. Maybe other reasons. Maybe it is just simply or just simply misunderstanding of the individual. Whatever it may be. These are the signs that could create very difficult problems for individual. For individual. It could have been very important past for creating a strong depression. Excuse me for using the word for that. It could be. To remove that out, from that individual and so they will change the focal point. Why? If you really look in there, again you look in there , you denying yourself. However if you really look in there, if you look the two layers down there , there is a layer of so much desire, so much of seeking, so much of wanted for me, is hidden down there. I am not talking about you as individual. Don’t take it personally please. Otherwise I will be in trouble tomorrow. Really true. But that is there. Underneath there, two layers below that is dissatisfaction. And what can I do. How best way I should do. Which way I should do. Should I cut my hair short or should I keep my hair long. Should I wear a wig? Or should I put up makeup like this? Should I put up that? Should I a little more red or should I little more dark. Should I little more bright. Should I little more. All of those. You seeming getting yourself, underneath there crying child. In there. That crying child has been dissatisfied with your life. Dissatisfied with whatever it may be. We try to push them down, push them down, not for me, for me, all sentient beings.That is the, what you call that, the bubble coming out from that. So these are the symptoms of the individual, sometimes you get it. If you seat down with meditation. Some people, nothing else but cry, cry , cry. There was a professor who come in Jewel Heart. At the beginning very early. Nothing but she cry all the time. And then we took a brief picture, that was early time, all we have was fifteen, twenty people. With a group picture. She was there, she was not coming in future. And we said come here and she said I am not coming in there and she started crying. The photographer is also in Jewel Heart and he said cry, cry, cry more and he took the picture. Smiling. Anyway, all of those is the sign, underneath there is a dissatisfied little child is crying. And it is always nice to turn around and get touched with that little child a little bit and see what it did. Why is she dissatisfied. And so many denial. Whatever the reason might be. There comes all of those. These or whatever maybe. Whatever the reason , whatever it may be but it is there. Hidden. These are the symptoms and if you really recognize , it will be really helpful. I don’t mean personally. Don’t take it please. It just happens today’s question. It is a good question. (0.50:18.5) So, I would like to share that with you. In touch with that. That’s where you build up. And I have a very difficult time. Oh, I forget. I better do my business . The Om business. If I don’t start , I won’t get there. I wont get dinner from home. You see me here. You see me on Om business.

Okay, let’s go back the point , Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha. That was the first mantra we had, right. It builds like that. Are you people looking at the little piece of paper that you had? Okay, just leave it. I am going through with this because we say that everyday here, whatever it mean. That’s why I am going through with that, okay? So, Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha, that was first. Now, function is the Om business. That is big business. So, what is Om? What does it mean? It is not only a Buddhist, or Hindu. And Everywhere there is Om all the time, right? Even in that , maybe, what is it? Steve Martin, that’s what I am thinking. All of me, they have the Om business, right? All of me. Even there is the Om business in there. What is Om. What is it? This is important. This we have to talk from the Vajrayana point because it will not going to be effective, it would not do the service if we only talk from the Sutra point. Normally you hear from here, from me so far, is only Sutra point. Not even Tantra , not even Vajrayana point. So, when you reach to Om this Tantra. It is Vajrayana. We call it Vajrayana, right. Indestructible vehicle. Not only a Big Vehicle but it is indestructible vehicle. So Vajrayana. So, in Vajrayana, so we ever talk about Om. So if you live the , let me just ask a question here and see what Om mean to you. Does anyone want to make a statement on that? Anybody. I don’t see any hands at all. There are two. The lady go ahead first.

Audience 1 :First sound?

Rimpoche: Good

Audience 2 : And it also mean body, speech and mind

Rimpoche : Body, speech and mind. Where did you hear that from ?

Audience 2 : From books.

Rimpoche : Books. How did that becomes body speech and mind. Can you clear that a little more?

Audience 2 : As you pronounce and read the sound.

Rimpoche : A really hidden point. A hidden right point. You are on the right target and so does she. Can you clear it a little more, or should I?

Okay, I will do it. Alright. When you say Om, how does the sound of Om comes out if you watch very carefully. It is more A. If there is no A, there will be no Om, right? There must be A U M. Then Om sound comes in. If it is only A, the Om doesn’t comes in. So when you say Om, it is actually AUM. A U M. It is Om. If it make it slower it is AUM, right? So the combination of the three syllables that is A, syllable that is U , syllable M or Ma. So three of them. So each one of those letters represents body, represents mind, represents speech. Represents too? Just heard. Not sure. Am I right or wrong? Okay. ( 0.57: 03.4)

Then the letter AH is the fundamental sound. Without AH , you cannot produce anything, any sound at all. It is fundamental and it is really the basis of all. So that was the any speech. All our speech really depends on this AH. If you cannot say AH, you cannot make any sound. Even the baby first tine is AH. If you cannot say AH, you cannot say any sound at all. It is fundamental for sound and speech. Sound and speech, actually. There is a point for this. Then MA or M. M doesn’t really very much. But the MA is the real physical thing,. Therefore it is the body. And O , AH, O, either O , AH, M together it represents natural mind. So it is the body, mind and speech. Of whom? Of me, individual. However it is saying of tantra or Vajrayana practice. So, whatever, whoever, the individual person working with Vajrayana. Om , your body, your mind, your speech. Okay? Are you with me? So, Om, you are working on your body, you are working on your mind, you are working on your speech. What kind of body? What kind of mind? What kind of speech? You raised that question. ???

So let us talk about ourselves. What about we talk about them. We began talking about ourselves first. When I tried to say OM, what am I trying to wake up, what kind of body, what kind of mind, and what kind of speech, that I am working on? I am working on not only my physical body that I have. I working on my body of birth, my body of death, my body of bardo. Did you hear me? Death, bardo and birth. Birth, death and bardo. Are you with me? Did anyone ask me in between that? Did I ask anybody? Yes.

It is not necessarily be a physical body. It is not necessarily a figure of speech. Not necessarily this physical mind. We are also working with a mind that is going through a period, what we call it , death period. Okay, that level we call death. Also, not necessarily we are talking about, taking about this difficult thing. We, also talking about bardo, life in between. We are also taking about rebirth. All of those things together. So, body, mind and speech is also dealing with death, bardo and rebirth, all together. It is the individual’s whose process who is the , don’t know, the keeper of body, mind and speech who is also ging through death, bardo and rebirth. Okay? And these vary that, what we have, what we are going to get it. This vary bardo what we are going to encounter. What we will encounter. This vary rebirth ,what we take. It is call impure at this moment. According to Vajrayana it is called impure. Are you with me? It is called impure. It is dirty, it is filthy, it is bad? No. It is called impure. Because we are not purified. So naturally it is dirty like anything. Not necessarily. They are talking something else. Why it is called impure. Because that makes the individual continues. The cycle continues. Birth that follows death, those that follows bardo, those that follows rebirth. It is a cycle continuing. That’s why it is called impure. Why? Because you have no control. Continuing cycle, we have no control. Are you with me? Sometimes it is even referred in the bardo level Buddhism. It is even referred as the mechanical cycle. It is a mechanical cycle functioning by itself. We have no control. It is automatic. Mechanical functioning like the good old Swiss watch, if you look at it, one moves the other pushes the rest and the time moves, just like that mechanically functioning. (1.05:24.6) So as long as you can intervene in that. As long as you can cut that mechanical functioning and it makes the human functioning, then it becomes pure.

Audience : What do you mean?

Rimpoche : Pure.

Audience : No, before that.

Rimpoche : By functioning by human beings. Meaning in other words within your own control. Controlled by you, not by the machine with the mechanical system. Are you with me? (1.06:06.0) So, I am talking about the Om. AUM. When you become Om control, the consequences of that, the body what we have, the mind what we have, the speech what we speak will be the pure one. It will be pure body, pure mind and pure speech. Okay?

So when you are talking about the Buddha mind, Buddha body and Buddha speech, we are talking about the result level. When the time you will become a Buddha. That will be your body, mind and speech. We are talking about result level? Are you with me? Result level. We are not talking about what is happening now. The result level. Gaining control , we are talking about in between, from here to there. We are talking about in between. We are talking about that. In between. Are you with me? The impure death, the body and mind, we are talking about now, here. We call these base, path , we call that result. Okay? So when you are talking about Om, you are talking about cutting these impure death, bardo and rebirth by the path. By the path. Bardo, rebirth and death. And transforming becoming the result level. Are you with me? So among the lotus, when you have AUM join together, you produce sound Om. So when you have this base, path, result combined together , your impure death, bardo and rebirth, transforming and become pure death, pure bardo and pure rebirth. It is called union. So when you say why Om is so important. Why it is sound of the universe. Why it is the sound of primordial whatever you call that. Primordial existence. Why? Because of that reason. That reason. When we are unable to combine them together. Unable to combine them together, we are having a realistic attitude. We are having a realistic perception. We are having a realistic presentation. We are having a realistic attitude. We are having a realistic functioning in that way. And once re able to unionize them together, the dualistic perception, perceiving , all of them wear out. That’s why Om is so important of the three syllable things functioning together. Are you with me? Not only that. Body, mind and speech in our level functions separately. They have a coordination but body is body, mind is mind, speech is speech. We don’t put them together. We pinch our body, we perceive pain. We perceive something. We send a message to the principal consciousness but the body consciousness ouch. Right? The principal , something pinching something. The principal consciousness said, oh that is the pain. The body will say ouch. All functioning separately. Are you with me. It is separate. You feel, you understand and the result say ouch. When you are talking about the meaning. It is body, mind together. There is no separation between the body and mind at the enlightened level. Union really means union of the body and the mind. Oneness. Union of the perceiving and the perceiver. (1.12:30.3) Union of the subject and object. Union of the male and female. Does it make sense to you or completely lost? Nobody says anything so I better keep my mouth shut. So really, basically we are talking the moment Om . Om is called mantra of jewel, jewel mantra. Why it is jewel? It is so important, it is so simple, just simply Om. Just simply Om. Yet, it has , it talks total Buddhism in there. Truly speaking. If you really look through, total Buddhism, you will find in Om. That’s why it is so important , it is jewel mantra. And that’s why it is beginning of all mantras. Everybody raises, beginning of a mantra, Om, Om, Om, Om and Om. That’s the reason why. It is so important.

I am sorry I didn’t make it simple to understand that. If I make it very simple , I don’t think I can. And then I lose the principle of what Om really functioning. Basically, you can think body, mind, speech, A, U, M comes together becomes Om. Body, mind, speech function together. Becoming union. And then only unionize body, mind and speech. That unionize body, mind and speech, impure, transforming and becoming pure body, mind and speech. If you think even that much. Even that much. The actual process which makes impure, pure. The transforming. We call that very often. And if you really look actual process in that. Process is nothing than that of touching with the primordial, nature which I really like to call emptiness. Which we call emptiness. The moment we call emptiness you may get the idea of something , nothingness. Or something empty. But it is not. It is the primordial thing. Wherever we come from, original source. Getting a touch with the really deep down in original source. That’s why you have the long lasting child union with their mother. And those ? which is really , forget it. I didn’t said that, okay? So, all those type of things is the really , getting a touch with the original source.

Audience : Can I ask you two questions?

Rimpoche : Don’t ask questions. We are getting touch with the original source. Getting touch with the deep down original source is the actual process. There is , I always thought there is something, process called transformation of negative, which we talk very easily. When we take initiation, they will simply say you have, you know, basically ordinary five skandas of our body, now transformed and becomes this Buddha, that Buddha and Variocana, all these types of different names of five Dyani Buddhas, they give you, transformed this becomes this, becomes that. Those of you who took initiation knows that. We hear that all the time. (1.17:48.0) All the time. And then you keep on hearing bliss void all the time. Jacqueline was telling once, if I hear bliss void one more , I will throw up. So it still goes out after that all the time. And if you really keep on thinking there is some kind of another blessing type of glasses which really goes through and make it. It is a process , nothing but dipping into the original primordial sources. Dipping through that. That and coming out. So really, basically, the total Vajrayana practice of transforming impure body, impure mind, impure sound into pure body, pure mind, pure sound and they unionizing completely must presented into one simple little sound called Om. That’s why Om has become so important. Whether it is

Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha or Om Mani Padme Hum or OM HRE TE WITI TA NANA HUNG PHAT or Om Syaha Vita or whatever. Whatever, wherever the Om is, that is the Om business. That Om business takes you a total A to Z level of the total life , even beginning of the primordial to the total enlightenment level, they will take you through that completely. And that is Om. It is not that simple. Saying it as Om and then you will make it a very holy thing, right? Om. And you can even carry that little part within somebody’s conscious in there. With Om, remember that? So, that, I mean is Om.

So, I promise to talk to you Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha. I am not sure, I am stuck with Om. Because it is 9.30 , I don’t want to delay you because , some of you, I don’t know. Is it still raining? Hopefully not. No. Great. So, that’s it. That is really Om. And I shared that with you because a number of people who really extreme in the Vajrayana practice and who really in it and who really wanted to and that’s why I shared that with you. And if you hear another explanation on Om and one cannot never say that is wrong but you can refer that to me. What I said is definitely right. I absolute true of that. If you need it. However when we hear something else, don’t ever deny. Don’t ever deny because Om is such it can be explained million different ways. Because it is such a thing. (1.22:03.6) Fantastic. It is a simple little key can opens everything. It is a simple little brush which can picks up all different colours and makes different things. It is. And it is really important and so you can pick up any other information you can get it. But this is also one of them and this is important. It deals with your total Vajrayana practice. It deals with your life. It deals with your death. It deals with your bardo. It deals with yourself becoming familiarizing with the Buddha. It also deals with the path that makes you to become a Buddha which is all clear light. And it also deals with the path that clear light produces accord illusion body. And it also deals with the combination of the union between illusion body and the clear light together. This is not a joke. This is not small. This is big. If you want to anyway, it is all Om, beginning of the mantra, that we also do. It is all Om that we also do. It is Om because it says Om, we also do. That is fine. That’s the way it is. The moment we say Om you are really dealing with the total evolution of the individual and even completely going through. From starting to the end. It is called evolution , right? What about evolution. Evolution of total life. That’s what you are bringing in. Okay?

So Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha is very simple. Whether you call it conqueror, conqueror, both conquerors or victory, victory, great victory, doesn’t matter. But that’s what it is. We called in Tibetan, what is manage, manage and greater manage. What did you manage first? You manage the great delusions. What did you manage second? The subtle delusions. What you manage great, the imprint of delusions. In other words, you are talking total enlightenment. I can talk to you again next Thursday. Actually it didn’t work . Next Thursday I can talk to you that and Om Mani Padme Hum. And then the Saturday is White Tara, and we can talk Om Tare Tutare Ture . This is perfect. Two Thursdays, not next Thursday. That will be twenty, twenty second , we can continue form here, and talk about Mani Padme Hum. If we cannot finish we will carry over to White Tara on Saturday and it will do. So, other words, Om Tare Tutare Ture Soha, Okay? That’s why Om is important. If you have Om business it is great. Okay? So, thank you for coming even in bad weather, particularly you have driving for two hours. When you are driving there, that three hours? We should all dedicate for your efforts, really. Okay? Anything else? Okay, thank you . We do Mitsigma dedication, maybe long one. (1.27.0.0)