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19981203GRNY 3rd Oct 2022

Very good to see everybody. And welcome here. What we have been talking here? According to the prayer, whatever you say. And last time we explained the Om Mani Padme Hum. And I think we come to the point of ? am I correct? I think we spent a lot of time talking about Om Mani Padme Hum. Did we spent a lot of time yesterday? I think so. So we are not going to spend any more time because if you have any questions and so I am not going to spend any more time here. How did you all managed? Anyway, good to see you.

Do you want to see on the chair or sit on the cushion. On the chair , alright. So, you did managed. So now Om Tare Tutarre Ture Soha is today’s subject. I am not going to speak much about Om today because did talk a lot about Om, the other day, Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha , I talked so much with Om. And even Emily told me so as though you spoke about Om , that we don’t have to do anything else. As if keep on saying Om, Om, Om, that will do. Almost to that point. It is true, it is true. It is called the jewel like mantra, Om. Not simply the beginning of a mantra but a jewel like mantra. Am I right, David? Yes, alright. David, come from. And probably David has been in the dharma practice for 30 years now? Or maybe 40. Not that long? Are you earlier or is he earlier? He is earlier, alright. Maybe at the same time. Maybe Oscar earlier. Are you? In dharma. We should list the seniority, don’t you think so? Some kind of hierarchy. Maybe a badge. Or stripes. Like a lieutenant colonel. Not a lieutenant. Just joking. Sort of that. Unnecessarily joke.

Anyway, it is jewel like mantra. Jewel like. I want you to remember one thing. They are talking about, you know. You know those magic lamp? The kids talked about that, right? Magic lamp and if you have magic lamp you touch that and wish a rabbit and genie comes out, right? Just like that, idea and if you have that wish fulfilling jewel, just your physical touch of that jewel can fulfill your wishes. So Om could do the same thing. I am not talking about the Om character, I am talking about this Om Om yoga centre here. The real OM. I am talking this mantra OM. (0.04:05.3) The reason.

Audience : He is calling Michael. Because Michael asked to come

Rimpoche : I know but where is Paul?

Audience : He is sick.

Rimpoche : What happened? Sick? I am sorry

Audience : Can he come?

Rimpoche : Sure, sure

What I am talking? OM, right? A U M, three letters. Represents. Let me, very briefly . A U M, three letters. Vajra body, vajra speech, vajra mind, I am suppose to say. That is indestructible body, indestructible speech, indestructible mind. OM, three letters together sounding that is inseparable that of body, mind and speech. Which means you are talking in the level of the enlightened level. So basically if you just remember bow down and said OM which probably has a tremendous amount of benefit which we talked Om Muni Muni as well as Om Mani Padme Hum. Didn’t talked much about OM on Om Mani Padme Hum. Didn’t talked much about OM on Om Mani Padme Hum but on Om Muni Muni, I talked. So, if we keep on repeating then we never get any where. O, basically I want you to remember that. OM.

Then. You want to do that? Ning, you want to do that? I am sure they can do it but they don’t like to play a little bit. Do any one of you carry the White Tara , the longer one? You do? Okay. The longer one. Longer version. This is the shorter version. Oh, the longer one. This is longer version. So, if you look at the longer version , it says , Tare liberates from samsara, Tutera liberates from the eight fears, Ture liberates from all illness. To you the great liberating mother , I prostrate. So, we have in that the longer sadhana, not the shorter but in the longer sadhana of White Tara, we have that. So if you look in this. At the beginning of each word, you probably see Om Tare Tutera Ture , then Soha , you add up. Tare liberates from Samsara, Tutera liberates from eight fears, Ture liberates from all illnesses. So the meaning of Om Tare Tutera Ture is that one. So it is easy for me. Oh ya, I am glad I looked into my notes. I forgot something. I forgot what? When I talked to you OM, just by the touch of the OM, you say you can fulfill all your wishes, I give you the example of the magic lamp. And Your mind will definitely raise question if you are thinking. How can just by saying OM can fulfill all wishes. How does that work? Like Emily told me, you don’t have to do anything. Just keep on saying Om, Om, Om. Will that do? It is a good question. Actually because of you said that, Emily. So, I thought about it and so the idea is really how? How come it works? What makes, I mean, from karmic point of view you need explain. Can you turn down a little bit because even I make very low it keeps on humming. Thank you. Or maybe. Is that okay now? Maybe that’s good. Okay. So, we need a karmically, karmic point of view, explaining, otherwise it will becomes total magic. And have no karmic explanation at all. Though mantras are suppose to be magical. And it is the mystical point of it. Suppose to be magical but every magical point that works has to have a karmic explanation otherwise but magic goes out of karmic law. And that doesn’t work. Remember that. Actually, truly speaking. Even the magic or miracles has to follow under a karmic rule. There is no miracles without, which is not governed by the karmic rules. Period. And whoever claims to have miracles without a karmic control and I think it is misleading people. I can said this very loudly not because I am saying it, but because it is been constantly mentioned by Tsongkapa, repeatedly. Repeatedly. Whether you are misleading people or not misleading people has been judged on the basis of karmic rules. Otherwise there is no spiritual points are very difficult to judge. Anybody can say anything at any level. Because we have no way of cross examining them. You know there is no cross examination. It is like a judge stars report. There is no cross examination at all. So, if you take a star as legitimate or real authentic legal point, fine. And if you wanted to have the American judiciary system that cross exam and prove to be or not to be guilty , whatever it is and if you go according to the law, then it is not to be taken at the face value. The same thing, the spiritual path, we have very difficult to exam anybody with the cross examination because our level of judging is too low for anybody who claims and the whether you can prove or disprove. It is very difficult. (0.12:23.7) Am I right or wrong? And that was the problem we had in the sixties. A number of gurus claim anything and all kinds of things and people simply followed with the good faith. Good faith without any cross examination or without any second thought. Simply buy because the guy happens to have a little long hair, shaved, and long hair and doddy or shaved with the red robes. It was a little too late, well, ya . My arguments are wrong. I was saying I am a little too late, I was not there in sixties. We would have argue, we would have come with suit and tie. It is easier for you to cross exam. But then Trungpa Rimpoche been there. So. It was a little hard to say that way. That’s what I thought and then I said, well, my argument doesn’t work. So anyway. The point of cross examining is the karmic rules. And if you go beyond the karmic rule, no matter who it may be. Whoever it may be. If you going beyond the karmic rule you are wrong. A lot of people will say Buddha is beyond the karma. Absolutely wrong. If Buddha is beyond then big problem. We all will have tremendous problems. Buddha is not beyond karma, that’s why he became a Buddha. Because he built the positive karma and cut the negative karma. That’s why he become a Buddha. And if you try to make that beyond karma, we are in trouble. So, please remember, no one is above or under the law. Okay? So that’s it. What’s happening in the country today. The President is not above the law nor under the law, right? So the same thing. Same thing even in the spiritual path. Magical, miracle, whatever it may be. Anything can be seen. You know what we call it normally? Skillful means or wise way, and all of those great excuses that we had. Repeatedly for number of years. And so all of them can be cross exam if it is within the karmic system. Or what’s happening. This is the principle. This is the principle. The principle or it is really principle. The Buddha’s word. This is really very important point. We should not commit anything unwholesome or something. Sometime I saw the word last week. Normally I will say avoid all negativities but one should not commit any unwholesome . I don’t know whose translation is that. Must be Alex Berson. It’s not yours, David? Oh, you used that. Maybe that’s his fault. Unwholesome. So you like holy, right? That’s why you call it wholesome and unwholesome. Anyway, just joking. So avoid all the unwholesome. And create all wholesome. How do you say? Create all the virtues. Perfect virtues, okay. It has to be perfect? What about imperfect virtues? What will happen? Yes, that’s right. It is correct, I am just teasing him. But imperfect virtue should be virtue too. Is it right? I am not sure. Imperfect virtues, some of them are, can be virtues. Not perfectly right but it is a virtue , you know. Like , if you say Om Mani Padme Hum with the , not a wrong motivation but without concentration. It is incomplete, imperfect. Imperfect or unperfect. How do you say? Imperfect. Virtue but it is virtue. So, anyway, built any , what did you say, perfect virtue, right? Most important thing is tame your mind. And that is Buddhism. The translation what I saw, this is the teachings of Buddha. But it really means Buddhism. This is Buddhism. So, that is basically the principle of Buddhism. So wherever, whoever, whatever it may be claiming. Whatever happens, no matter whoever says or whatever, so these karmic system is in principle for you , for us to have cross examination. To satisfy our minds, to satisfy our rationale minds, whatever it may be. Good mind, bad mind, or whatever, we need to satisfy. We need to have some kind of ground to be able to accept, to be able to hold it. Just because so and so said so, with a big title. (0.18:50.6) This Rimpoche, that Rimpoche. This Geshe and that Geshe or this and that or that holy man, this person and this and that. Just doesn’t make sense to me at all. I mean they are all totally, I mean it’s great but that’s it. So, why by saying OM, how does it work karmically? It creates, you know, it created a temporary condition. Condition in which you can link up all positive karmic that we have accumulated from the limitless of the beginning. It creates a temporary condition to be able to link with that. And that is not our power but the power of enlightened beings. Power of enlightened beings also they even have to justify to be able to magically produce whatever it may be and the way and the how you do is the imaginative condition connecting to your positive karmic that we have accumulated earlier. Which may be in the stage of sleeping right now, may be not active, so they all connected with that. That not because of our power, their power to be able to do. Now you may raise a question . If that is their power to do it, so don’t I have to do anything. Yes, we do. If you don’t do it and just simply say Om, Om, Om. Om doesn’t work for a number of times. No matter how many times we say simply doesn’t work because we are unable to connect, we unable to connect. But OM has that power to be able to do it. That because of the enlightened beings. And when we put in the right efforts, when we connected it right, it works. That’s why OM has the power. That doesn’t mean the moment we say OM, it work like a magic. Doesn’t mean. Okay? So, that’s what I. Because Emily questioned the other day. So, as though we don’t have to do nothing. Just say, just simply say Om and that’s good enough. So that’s this.

Now, let me. Okay, the temporary conditions, I hold questions at the end if you don’t mind. The temporary conditions again. So the moment I said the temporary conditions. True, I didn’t explain anything. So what we said Sonam Gelek. What is Sonam Gelek? We have a great translator here. David? Action, positive. Are you going to agree with this? No, no, no. I am talking to him. See, this is what we have. They are great translators, they are great people. They all have different ideas. Great meritorous , also very good work. The energy also. When did you get here? Oh. Nice to see you. Okay. So, I mean, I am sure when Osla raised her hands so I am sure she is thinking that doesn’t make sense. How is that going to link? What did you say? Meritorial? Meritorious actions. So the sonam gelek , I am going to used these word. I don’t exactly know. Anyway it is positive action. (0.23:34.1) Not necessarily linked with wisdom. That’s what they really referring to. The bottom line is, when it is links to wisdom , it becomes, what they call it, yesheke. Yesheke Cho. That is the wisdom influence. That’s where the line is drawn. In case you are wondering. Karuna. Karuna is compassion, right? In Sanskrit. Okay. So, and again the question rises, how does it link up with sonam gelek. Sort of, it is like a torch light that you touch with gas and it burns. That is exactly how it works. When you turn that knob it goes pop, pop, pop and burns, right? Exactly that way, it works. So, okay. Let me go Tare. Naturally we call in Tibetan, Dorma. Tara is Dorma. So actually Tara is Dorma. Dorma means who liberates. What does this one say. Just this word, we read. Liberates. So Dorma means liberates. Liberating from what? From samsara. What is samara? Pay attention, okay? I don’t say very often things. Pay attention. The moment you raise the good word, samsara. How many people don’t even know what is samsara means. Is there anybody, raise your hands. Is there anybody who doesn’t know what is samsara mean. Okay, I got two. I can talk to you later. Just joking. Basically, you know, in the Buddhist principle we say samsara is suffering, nirvana is peace? That’s what we are talking. I am sorry. It is very brief. But keeping that in mind, I am going to talk to you what is really samsara. And a lot of people will say to you the building, the house, the city, the environment, the human beings and everything is samsara. Is it true? But that’s not. What really is , talking about? One need to know, very, truly, what is samsara. We are not going to ask you because I am going to say it. Because it is going to take time. (0.26:44.3) Did you understand? You got it. This is very difficult to understand even to Tibetans. The language is not difficult to understand but people who picks that up. How would you say in English? There are a number of people who say the “ bur” is samsara. That is a big mistake. Truly big mistake. Right? I was listening some people in Washington, they keep on talking that “ pon bur “ is samsara. Keeping on talking and everybody going through. I was amazed. And what happen to the formless people. Absolutely stupid statement. Really. And , I don’t know. How do you say? Continue? Contaminated aggregates. Did you hear that? Do you agree with that, Joe? Life systems. Well. She bound to burst out. You have another idea? No, you agree? Good. You don’t agree but you don’t have another idea. Okay, that’s fine. My little understanding, very little understanding what I have. I am going to share with you. You know, I would like to use identity. Normally we refer ourselves with our identity. What do we do with our “Pon bur” or the skandas. The purpose of which we use as identify ourselves, right? We see the face, we looks like this, we look like that, we look like this or that. And we say, hey, that is that person. We use that as identity. You don’t have to have face, sometimes we can identify the person by voice. Identify by person, by hair, body or even genes, DNA and all of those. So, it is sort of identify. It is contaminated , continuation of the contaminated identification that we constantly. This is not technically correct translation from word by word. But that is my understanding. That continuation of contaminated identity that we carry, constantly, continuously, continuation is really samsara. (0.30:52.5) And doesn’t have to have it aggregates, the form. There are subtle forms and all that. But people keeps on repeating that as form, form, form. And is a problem because there are formless people. A lot of formless people are in samsara. What are those? So, that’s a problem. So this is the samsara. And when we say we want to free ourselves, it is very easy for me to talk to you, getting freedom from the neurosis and negative emotions. It is very simple and very easy for me to speak, and for you to understand and acknowledge and tell me , I am cutting down my anger, I am cutting down my jealousy, I am cutting down my attachment and all this and that. You can tell me back and that is all fine. But when you truly talking about it, even you go a little subtle than that and when you talk about samsara and nirvana, it is what we are not free. And that continuation of the contaminated identity. This is, even we die, we pick up another one, in bardo, in rebirth, in this, in that. And continuously we are picking it up with and without form. With and without form. That is the true samsara. True samsara. When you say Om Tare means liberating from samsara. Here we are talking about it, this . And that’s why you read Khabje Trijiang Rimpoche’s explanation of Om Tare , right? You read that, right? So in that, he tries to put Tare, Om Tare Tutarre Ture. Forget about Om. Tare Tutare Ture is Four Noble Truth, right? Do you remember that, Marty. You almost forgot? Let me remind you, Om Tare Tutarre Ture is Four Noble Truth. Khabje Trijiang Rimpoche puts on the Four Noble Truth. This one or the translation of what we have here. Ture, liberates Tulare, the eight fears, Ture and all of those. Basically when you say Om Tare Tutarre Ture, you are really talking about the Four Noble Truths. That’s what it is. That’s why it is so important, so relevant to our lives today. A lot of people think mantra or yantra , Vajrayana are not so relevant in our lives. When you about Lamrim and the Three Principles, they are relevant. Vajrayana is not relevant. You making big mistake. Om Tare Tutarre Ture is talking nothing except Four Noble Truth. Or, Three Principles. Or three Lamrims. Are you with me? Tare, liberates. Liberates from samsara. Liberates from the continuation of contaminated identity. This is our problem, we need to cut this. That is the real negative side of . Free of that is called nirvana. Are you with me? Good, if you are. So the continuation of the contaminated identity is the suffering and the cause of suffering. And that make sure we are continuously suffering. That makes us so difficult to get free. Even if you cut one, you get another problem. Even you cut one, you get another problem. So this is because of that. The continuation. This is our biggest problem. This is our internal ego. This is our internal devil. That’s why Buddha goes to the extent , of even going selfless, selflessness and emptiness and all these. (0.36:42.9). And all those, too much they have to go is because this is so hard to get it, right? Tare.

Tutarre. Normally Tutarre, sort of eight fears. These are more or less not a fear as fear in the western sense of fear. They are talking about eight negative emotions such as anger, pride, jealousy, all of those type of things, ignorant, attachment. What else there, I don’t remember. Oslo, do you remember, anything. Doubt, you are right. And then what else. Fear itself, yes and wrong view. Hatred. So there is a beautiful poetry written by the first Dalai Lama . So anyway, I used do even workshop on that by putting the eight fears into eight different animal forms and all of those. Anyway Tutarre means actually creation of the suffering itself. The second Noble Truth, cause of suffering. That is negative cause. Sorry. Emotional cause and karmic cause. The karmic cause is actually a by product side effect of the emotional cause. (0.39:18.4) If you don’t have those negative emotions , you are not going to create that karma. Karma is consequence, is the side effect of those negative emotions. So that’s why bottom line of the sufferings causing by the negative emotions are always taught here. It is because of that reason. Any negative karma that we do create is caused by the negative emotions that we have. If you don’t have the negative emotions, not going to create negative karma that much at all, anyway. If you have sort of happy go lucky or. I don’t want to say funny things. Sort of happy go lucky attitude. If you have that attitude, you ae much mor peaceful than you are so serious. That doesn’t mean I am trying to make all of you happy go lucky. Don’t do it. So, anyway. Tare Tutarre Ture. I forgot what did I write.

The last Ture. Tare Tutarre Ture. It is almost like calling the person. Calling Tara and saying , hey, I needed help. I really needed help. And help me, guide me and help me quickly. That’s what you are talking about Om Tare Tutarre Ture. That’s how you are talking to Tara. I am not talking to, just like we are talking to human beings to human beings. You are talking through the mantra. I am talking to her. And also looking at your situation. The samsaric situation. The first two Noble Truth. And opposite of that is the last two Noble Truth , working against cause of suffering which is negative emotions brings the cessation which is the path brings third Noble Truth, right? Make sense. So Om Tare Tutarre Ture Soha. I haven’t talk about Soha yet. But simply you are talking about Four Noble Truth. And then you may say, if you are talking about Four Noble Truth about yourself. What Tara has got to do with this? Who is she? And why is she standing here for, right? You may think that. So, if that is so. The reason is. We have to find out who is Tara, by the way. I talked to you earlier. I don’t know whether it make sense or not. Normally it says Tara is all the activities of enlightened beings taking a physical form and physical identity which we call Tara. In absolute reality all the enlightened beings. This is a skillful way. The true skillful way means how the enlightened beings can manifested in the different forms. In the form who like to be perfect discipline form. For them, they appeared as Buddha. Buddha Sakyamuni who the robes and begging bowl in hand. For those who like to be peaceful, joy, laughing, wonderfulness and kind, you have those like Avalokitesvara, Tara , this and that. All of them appeared in that way and then those who to be a little bit wrathful and you have those big, wrathful ones comes in. And that is true skillful means. And true skillful means is to be able to manifested in that form and created a total activity and lead people totally to the liberation, free from that continuation of contaminated identity. Free from that to be able. That is a skillful way. Not simply somebody, just sort of going a little crazy and be over usage of correctional method, wine, woman and what. Well, I think I would like to have three of them loose here. (0.45:29.4) So, to be able to justify a way of functioning as a skillful way is not right. This is true skillful, manifested, function, lead people. This is skillful way. In the female form, Tara comes out. People have seen it, talk to, liberated and there is a total tantra on it. There is a total practice on it. And that is a skillful way. So by practicing that it becomes the path. That is the fault. So, there is a great teacher, pandit called Jema Lama Rimpoche. It was early nineteen century. During the period of Pabongka. One of the Great Pabogka’s teachers. Not talking about the present Pabongka but the Great Pabongka. It was like two generations before. Two reincarnations. The Great Tashe Nyinpo who wrote the famous book that we read all the time “ Liberation at the palm of your hands” and all of the other things. Jema Lama Rimpoche in this particular point he said. “ Drolma, Drolma Sintu Drolma “ , what is it? Tara Tutarre Ture. So Drolma, Drolma, Shitu Drolma. Really meaning , liberating, liberating, quickly liberating. That’s the way how he would like to read it. And the way and the how he read it. The way and how he explained was liberating, liberating, quickly liberating. The first liberating he referred to was free ourselves from the negative emotions which is the first principle common to the lower level. We say. The first Lamrim, the freedom from the negative emotions and samsara is the first Drolma, he were referring to. Am I right? I am wrong. See, when I am going through I am losing one. For the first liberating. Liberating from the lower realms. The direct sufferings that we have. Powerful direct sufferings. Either we fall in lower realms or the physical, mental, emotional sufferings that we go through. Liberating that. That is the first Tare.

Second, Om Tare Tutarre. Second Drolma, is liberating from samsara the continuation of contaminated identity. Liberating from that. The third, quickly liberating . Quickly liberating from both samsara and nirvana. Remember the Mahayana, very special point different from than the Hinayana. Hinayana thinks and accepts and practice once you are liberated from samsara , you are in Nirvana. You are fine, you are done, you are gone, you are done, right? It is sort of like warm state where you remain very inactive. Doing nothing. Simply gone for lunch forever, sort of thing. Do nothing. So which Mahayana calls another extreme. You know, we can seat here, very conservative some of the extreme conservative Republicans ,we can call them extremist, in one way. We can look extremist liberal. You have another extreme one , right. We always like to go free of both extremes and go into the middle somewhere. Even in politics we do that all the time. We don’t want to support total extremist Republican nor we want to go very extremist, liberal Democrats either. So, American public seems to like the middle one, move in the center, right. Very much like that. So This is again two extreme of the nirvana, which is doing nothing. Starting point sort of freedom opposing freeze level which considered by Buddha as extremism from the Mahayana point of view. So, they look this as wrong so therefore before you go beyond that level, that’s why the total enlightenment came into the picture because of that. You read any Theravada teachings whether it is from Thailand, Cambodia or Kampuchea, or Burma or Ceylon or Sri Lanka or what else? Did I miss any country there? Laos and then ? I don’t there is any Laotian Tripakas. I doubt it. That’s Burma. New name Myanmar, anyway. India has a new name Bombay. New name Myanmar or something. Bombay, okay? So whatever. So anyway, if you read anyone of those. Any. They will never talk to you as enlightenment or the Buddhahood as a goal for an individual for liberation or obtain. They never talk about it. Never talk about it. Because that is not within their scope. That’s why they are called the Thervada. It is total interest for self liberating. Once you are in Nirvana, you are liberated. That’s it. Until you disappear out of your body. Once you disappear out of your body then they will said , you totally, even the left over from samsara is gone, and therefore you totally disappear like the wax is completely finish and therefore the candle disappear. Even the feelings are gone, even the perceptions are gone. So there is no perception and acception and therefore even the consciousness disappear. And that is the Theravadan point of nirvana. So the Mahayana says this is too extreme. Wrong. You don’t disappear , you continue . You continue in the form helper now not in the form one who suffers but in the form one who help the others. So Boddhisattvas idea are totally pop up. The love, compassion are becomes important. And that’s why the ultimate goal becomes Buddhahood. Not just liberation. Not just Arhat. That is the difference. So, since you people have been coming here every other Thursday for so long, so I have to share that with you so at least you know what you are talking, what you are thinking. What all this is about. And even you are saying so many times Om Tare Tutarre Ture Soha , so you know what you are saying now, okay? (0.56:31.1) So, Drolma, Drolma, Shintu Drolma. Liberated, what is it ? Liberate, or liberation, liberator or liberate. Liberator. Liberator, liberator, quickly liberator. When you come to the quickly liberator, you come to the two extremes. I am not talking about emptiness. The moment I said extreme, you probably think, oh , middle path, blah, blah, blah. The Dalai Lama aways talks about middle path, so you probably think that way. Not talking about that. Because I was said two extremes and you probably think, oh ya, middle path, blah, blah, blah. No I am not. So talking about it. The extreme peace and extreme suffering. Getting out of both. Our balancing point is wonderful. And that’s why so total freedom , not simply freedom from neurosis alone , or from samsara alone. That is basically Buddhism. Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism, that’s what it is.

Negativities that we challenged which is not really working against the negativities itself. Purification, purification, people say ya, ya, ya , wonderful, purify, purify, purify. Sure, go and take bath all the time. Stand under the shower all the time. 24 hours a day, 365 days , stand under the shower, so what? Cleansing. It is not the point. Not point, not the point, ya, I am not. Sometimes when I talk, looks like I am against. Looks like I am talking against purification today. But I am not, believe me. I admire people who can do all these all the time, purification, Vajrasattva, Vajrasattva, Vajrasattva, wonderful. But don’t miss the main point. It is not so much working against the negativities that we created. But making sure we not created again. That is the main point. But if you keep on doing it and you keep on purifying, keep on doing it, keep on purifying. That’s what I mean stand under the shower 24 hours a day. So, put some more soap, wash it again, put some more soap, wash it again, put more soap, wash it again, so what? There will be no end to it. So, way and how you working, is making sure not created negative karmic again. So that means where does negative karma comes from, negative emotions. Cutting them down. In that also directly going through against the ignorance. So it is so important. The bottom line, practice, falls into two. One part cutting your own ego or ignorance down. Not only down, but eradicating it, completely removing it. Completely cutting it to be never be grown again, for that matter. Second part, portion is. Generating compassion, love and all other activities such as generosity, morality of that category. Patience and all that. These are the two points. No matter wherever, whatever you do. The most important thing is combine them together is working, is the beauty of a spiritual path. Combine them together working. Combine them together really means. How you can combine them together is whatever you do make sure you hurting your ego. Make sure you are hurting your ignorance. Make sure you push right button. That is the right way. If there is no way to hurt the ego in your own practice. Then that is clear sign that your practice is not perfect. Are you with me? (1.02:33.7) That’s it.

If you are seating simply. That’s why we emphasize so much the analytical meditation. Because analytical meditation can hurt and kill your ego, not the concentrated mediation alone cannot. Are you with me? If your practice is not doing anything to your ego, you know your practice is not good. That’s how you make your own judgement. Tare Tutarre Ture Soha. Now comes to the point Soha. Any people have different way of translating Soha. Sometimes Soha can be lay foundation. If you go and see the Hindu Soha. They go blah, blah, blah, Soha. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. At the end of every mantra. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. All the time in India. Actually can be many different ways of translating. The OM has so many of translating. Interpreting, not translating. Lokewise Soha has so many ways of interpreting. So basically lay a foundation. The foundation of pure body, mind, speech of Liberator, Liberator, quickly Liberator within my Body, mind, speech. Are you with me? In other words, make it possible I become you. Does that make sense? That’s what it is. Make it possible I become you. Sounds funny, right, in English language. Make it possible I become you quickly. That’s what it is. And when the Hindu Sadhus normally goes on with the little thing. You know, you have a little fire puja. You can see this all the time. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. Blah, blah, blah, Soha. That thing. What they are doing actually they are telling all the joy and bliss may be given to me. That is another way of translating Soha. Develop the joy and the bliss within me , my body, my mind, my speech. Another wors, may I have a wonderful body, wonderful mind, wonderful speech that free of all sufferings, and full of joy and blissful. That’s what Soha tells you. Make sense? Thank you. Okay, I think I have done my job. The first question is Osla. You have no question now. Okay, anybody has any questions? (1.06:38.2)

Audience 1 : Why she is a woman? Why karma and why we are doing this.

Rimpoche : Well, I have a question for you. Why not a woman.

Audience 1 : I think it is great.

Rimpoche : Great?

Audience 1 : You don’t see a lot of woman

Rimpoche : Oh ya, we do. We do. People don’t show you but we do. Tibetans like to hide the women. They don’t give you a long gown to wear. To cover your face. I am just joking. Ya, she, the Tara represents almost like a feminine principal within the Buddhism. And she is so important because, you know. Every Buddha, every enlightened being when you look at it. Look at their background, look at their history, they all ordinary human being just like you and me. Who had come to that level rather than son of God, who has just bumped down. Or something, you know. And when you, I am sorry, I don’t mean that. And when you looking that way, in her. On her own mind, she really chose to remain in female figure and remain in female energy and wanted to be a woman. All other Buddhas , all those other Buddhas, thousands and thousands of these different Buddhas. They like to switch become a male and at the end become a Buddha. But she is the only person, almost the only person, who like to remain as a female. So generated in her mind, in other words, she made up her mind in the beginning into female form. And she worked everything, contemplated everything in the female form. And she succeeded in the female form, and she continuously function in the female form. That’s why she represents the feminine principal, within Buddhism. Why so may colors? Why not? We have white Caucasians , black, Asians yellow, red. Do we have any green human beings? No we don’t , right? So, there is a Green Tara here. So, in the same way. Every possible way to be able to function. In absolute reality , it is one Tara. Different manifestations in different levels of tantra. And When you are in the different level manifestations and different level of tantras, you have to follow that rather than saying it is all same and at the doesn’t matter . Doesn’t function that way. And that’s call discipline. Discipline, so like White Tara, we look them as an Kriya. There are lot of discipline, you have to wash, you cannot eat meat, you don’t garlic you don’t eat onion, this and that , when you are doing her practice in that form, in that manner. At least they are there. At least, okay. But then if you do Tara in Maha Anuyoga tantra, you don’t follow those disciplines. It’s all different because you follow the tantra itself. (1.11: 03.2) And the way she appeared, how she is guided, how she wants you to function. So, following that is called discipline. So without discipline and you follow Vajrayana, you get into trouble. You get no where. That’s what it is. Dimitri.

Audience 2 : I have a question then. If you do not think that ???

Rimpoche : We don’t do that. We built ego. We don’t cut ego. When we get rejection, we get very upset. We get angry. We cry. We do all these. We go into lower, extremely low. First we hit the ceiling and then we bounced down and we go very low. And we are not doing anything with the ego. We are doing, I mean, we are doing something with the ego. We are not cutting anything against ego. And all these. We are not. We are not cutting ego. We are not hurting ego. You are building the ego. Even you are rejected, even you are low. Low stream. And that what you don’t want. (1.12:58.0) That’s what you don’t want. And you know, you are Vajrayana practitioner, aren’t you? So you build your pride , deity pride. This is a important point I like to talk to you because there are a number people, I am sure, they may be of some help. When you say I am , let’s say, I am Vajrayogini or I am Tara. And you are building the pride of Tara. And you are building up the clarity and pride, both. On what basis are you building. Are you building me, with this physical identity? Or what, on what you are basis you are building? This is a very important point to remember. Did you say something? You can’t build pride on emptiness. You start from there, right? I don’t think I am going to tell you. I want you to think about it. On what are you building pride. You are not building pride on an ordinary perception and ordinary conceptualization. You are not. If you do that. You are not hurting your ego. You are building your ego. You don’t. And that’s why analyzing right. She says emptiness. It is one part of it. Actually, there was a great teacher called Kumpang Jampayang. Kumpang Jampayang went to central Tibet. At that moment, the most important teacher available in central Tibet was Rada Lama that is the Londrul Lama. Londrul Lama , not Rada Lama . So Londrul Lama was talking to Kumpang Jampayang. Londrul Lama asked Kumpang Jampayang . Why do we say OM SVABHAVA SHUDDAH SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDOH HAM at the beginning of everything? What we normally say here is , what is it? How do we say. Nature, empty , everything is pure, naturally pure, pure , that’s what I am, right? So, why do we say that at the beginning all the time? That’s what Londrul Lama asked Kumpang Jampayang. And Kumpang Jampayang replied because emptiness is important. And the he said why emptiness is important? Kumpang Jampayang said, it is base of which you can rise as a deity. Londrul Lama said, that’s may be true but there is a more important than that. There is one more point important than that. Then he asked what is that? He said the ego grasping is so strong and so powerful without which we cannot cut them down. We cannot cut it down. That becomes so important. Which in other words, ego grasping is one we can, nice little word. Basically we are talking about ordinary conceptualization and ordinary perception. And that’s the. That is biggest problem here. As long as we have this ordinary conceptualization and perception we keep building ego no matter whatever we do. That’s why any practice without proper wisdom is very hard to hit the ego. (1.18:29.1) No matter how long you can seat, without moving, seating and meditating for weeks and months without moving, even cannot hurt ego, and you are wasting life. That is the beauty of Vajrayana Buddhism. Anyway, I am talking too much. I better shut my mouth. I am talking a lot because we are getting close to the Vajrayana retreat at the end of the month. That’s why maybe the Vajrayana sparking around here too much. So, that’s also linked to the mantras. So, that’s it. Jonathan, you are going to be the last question.

Audience : Cutting down the ego, do we

Rimpoche : Not reduce, don’t do this. It is not an asset. You know there is an advertising for , cutting down . Not this.

Audience : Right. That answer my question. However you have the ego that you emanate. Even a little contamination. You either viewing as your conception or not, you have some contamination, right?

Rimpoche : It goes after that. This is the purpose of cutting it and after that everything disappears.

Audience : what about before that.

Rimpoche : Before that continuously there. It goes up and down, to tell you the truth. We will work very hard and try to reduce that and all of a sudden you find huge amounts again up there. So, that’s really true. True is that. But you can’t say that otherwise all practice will be useless. And that will become too extreme, you know. That’s the reason why you cant say. It is true. That’s what it is. That’s why, ya.

Okay. Thank you. I will here one more, Thursday, 17th. Is that Tsongkapa’s day? ( 1.22: 04.1)