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Sound file: 19991104GRNYCGLG

Speaker: Gelek Rimpoche

Location: NY

Topic: Ganden la Gyemah

Transcriber: Steve Kelly

Date Finished: 5.2.21

Saved as: ODT

Highlighted areas had heavy edit to clear up meaning

Purification

Rimpoche: That book right? We are going through that book and we are on that verse, I don’t know what number it is but I do know we are at the purification part. What I do know is that we are at the purification. Do they have numbers for the verses? (Rimpoche has an aside) 000022

So we sort of dedicated for the evening to talk about purification because it is important that’s what I remember I talked to you about last Thursday right? So before we talk about the (Rimpoche has an aside)… Before we talk about the purification, it is important that we have to think and talk about “what do we purify?”

What do we purify?

What is it that we are thinking about? It is very easy for us, for me particularly to say negativity or negative action or negative karma, if I just dismiss it in that way it will be a little bit easy for me and maybe somehow for you to accept or not accept or whatever.000200

Then I try to go a little bit more stronger saying non-virtuous action or you know it’s the usage of terminology. Or you may want to say seems that you have committed you know? And then it becomes a little heavier you begin to wonder what the hell is it all about?

And then of course I know very little of the Judeo-Christian tradition virtually nothing but many people are already... I don’t know what should I say? Over threatened or you know guilt has been used too much it has over used and is to the point that the people are just going to forget about everything don’t bother about it. So just go completely opposite direction for hundreds of miles you go away from that. Then on the other hand you have all this alternate spiritual paths or teachings or whatever you call it. They come in and some of them go too far to the extreme there is nothing called negativity there, it doesn’t even exist.

Two extremes

All are fine and everything is wonderful and everything is beautiful and that’s what I see. That’s where we are, sort of we are pulled to one extreme, everything whatever you do is wrong you going to go to hell, you are never going to get out of it, you are going to be burned and tortured and whatever you know. Its going to last forever. That’s one side. Very strongly, very powerfully and many people are afraid of it and it went too far.

I don’t know if its too far or not but that’s what it is. Now on the other hand you have completely gone the other way around there’s no such a thing called negativity, there is no negative karma, everything’s fine everything is wonderful and that also I think is also gone too far there. Did I understand correctly? That’s my understanding of existing American spiritual path. I’m sorry. But really on this subject particularly because one side pushes so much and over use it, overpowered and then you know the counterculture part of it comes and say hey there’s nothing wrong and everything is fine.

And all this, that’s my reading if I’m wrong please tell me I’m very happy to be wrong on that. If that is sort of thing I may not be correct, I may not be perfect but that is the sort of level that we have to think a little more before we talk about purification. 000638

What is it that we need to purify? Is there such a thing that is really called,,, let’s not go to the non-virtuous and that extreme but negative actions or negative karma or how bad it is. I think this has become very important issue an important question that we have to deal with. It is easy for us to say well whatever it may be somebody up there will make the decision that is another easy way of dismissing it.

And also there’s nothing really called negativity negative karma nothing it’s all good and wonderful and everything that’s another way of dismissing it. Even if we accept both of them as negative karma it is negative action easy to push it away. So I think my thought is I think it’s very important for us to know. What is that we are talking about? What is it?

Is there really such a thing called negative actions? It’s almost like the question is…. is there really such a thing called evil or devil?

Perhaps this may be one of the fundamental principles when we are looking in the spiritual path. Particularly the spiritual path which is just a little more than simple sitting and simply sitting and meditating and just simply watching. And when you try to do something it may be very fundamental point where we have to get ourselves very clear on that.

Buddhism what little I know is built on the basis of individual responsibility individualization and individual responsibility.

Individual responsibility

And individual responsibility how do you accept the responsibility... it’s not really a question of accepting or not accepting. But it is really what’s happened and what will not happen. Let me just go and say a little more on that.

Buddha shared the idea that what he understood and what he gained experience is that anything that we experience - joy or misery, whatever we experience it is not just an external thing.

What am I saying? It’s not an external thing means nobody has given you that. Nobody has made you do that. Nobody sort of forced that on us. But it is our self who took that, who accepted.

But no the word accepted it is also wrong. We ourself who acted in such a manner so we are getting that result of pain or pleasure. It is not the creation of anything else or anybody else. It is all ours. It is all ours that’s why we experience pain or pleasure. It’s all our own doing, nobody else did it. And that’s why we become responsible for our deeds because it is our own doing.

Little sort of strange that we have to think that way. So what is it that our dream which caused pain and what is it that our doing which caused the pleasure? That question comes.

Second if that’s correct so our doing of hurting hurting beings anything whatever we do we hurt anybody that including ourselves when we hurt and those actions of hurting either yourself or the others or both or one of them so any one of those actions that type of hurting that causes the pain for ourselves and help whatever we did and that causes pleasure.

That’s what the Buddha is finding and the Buddha’s conclusion. So hurt and help is there we know we know very well. 001439

I mean we are not fools to have to be wondering whether there is hurt or help we are not really fools on that level we do know it’s there.

So maybe any actions that we have been taking hurting, to hurt might have been called might have been able to label them as negative and vice versa any action that we have taken causes help might be able to label as positive good. 001544

So going to the extreme of there is no negativity at all doesn’t make sense and going to the too much extreme of “oh yeah it is terrible negativity it is a done deal business you’re gone you’re hopeless and nothing will happen and except everything has to go wrong and you have to burn down there for whatever you know.

Forever or whatever I think that’s also too extreme. So it is not for me to say truth is in the middle but what the Buddha really says seems to be in the middle of it. It may be the point, you should think about it. You should think about it. And to me personally taking the two extremes of both sides completely to the right to the extreme saying that everything is hopeless and doomed and whatever you know is too extreme and everything there’s no such a thing called negativity or negative karma or something that also is too extreme.

I think we are better I mean if you really think, if you really put our own energy and our own ideas, I really think we know better than that. 001744

But we don’t let ourselves to think we like to let somebody else to tell us what is it. That might be a problem to some of us.

Because hurt and help is there we know and that makes a difference to that person whoever we are dealing with. Quite a big difference helping and hurting quite a big difference. Maybe they come together sometimes you never know it happens.

But that is there and that’s why it tells you because sort of quite clearly know there is…. I hate to use this word I don’t know but that’s what it is. I hate to use that word you know. And to say there is no such a thing is maybe too extreme.

So when you did something wrong, then you are wrong forever that’s also not right. Absolutely not right. We do a lot of things wrong and we do a lot of things right that’s basic power again I don’t like it but I have to use it - it’s human nature.

Nature of humans and animals

Why I don’t like it? I have to say because I said I don’t like it. Do you know why I don’t like it? It is not only the human beings, all the animals will do the same thing. All the animals will do the same thing. It’s not really a human nature but we can understand better the that way. It’s our nature we do.

Why we do that, why that is our nature again it’s very strange. Why that is our nature? Because in our nature we have this attachment and hatred. Like and dislike.

A little more stronger, attachment hatred we have that. Sort of normal American language we have that in our blood. Really that’s what it is that’s why we have all this. So it’s quite clear unless we ourselves unless we make ourselves the fool. It’s quite clear to our rational mind with our common sense we can see, we do act in both ways in our daily life, in our every day life.

So to tell you the truth my way of looking here, there will be not a single human being of our category. I don’t want to do every human beings. There are extraordinary human beings such as mother Theresa. Or the Dalai Lama and to a certain extent Nelson Mandela. And there a lot of people, some people who are very quiet, don’t show up their name doesn’t pop up they’re wonderful human beings.

There a lot of them there. But normally ourselves such as yourself and me and when you count and look in this there will be no such person who does not have both of them the negative as well as the positive we do.

You can do and undo

That’s why we have human beings. That’s why we are called human beings that’s why we can do and undo and it is our human quality. Are you with me?

This is very hard to understand - very hard. You have to give yourself ample opportunity to think and analyze.

Is there really such a thing called negative action and positive action? If you think….. let me put it another way, if you meditate, make it a little romantic. (audience laughs)

If you meditate and you begin to see it there is. See what I went through, we can help, we can hurt either ourselves or others and helping is a little more difficult. Hurting is a little easier - for everybody even to yourself.

It’s very easy for me, if I want to hurt myself I just have to go and get a couple of chocolates. 002524

That’s good enough. So we could do that. So perhaps the extreme of not having any negativity or negative action such as never exist, the vocabulary does not exist. That may be a little too far.

Might not be true might not be reality. We go too far. We begin to have to think who is cheating whom?

Then anything gone wrong and then you’re very terrible blah blah blah that’s also too extreme. Too extreme. That’s not the reality either.

A) there won’t be any human being who did not do anything wrong that is a solid reason! Otherwise every single human being than ever exist has to be doomed dead. Isn’t it because there will not be.

Even special persons that we have mentioned you can definitely find negative actions and faults there just because they’re human beings its there.

Milarepa had faults too

We don’t have to go very far and we talk about the Milarepa right? The Tibetan great Milarepa, mahasiddhi blah blah blah.

Oh, I don’t know. If you read the biography, which is available in English it tells you he killed like what, quite a number of people. I don’t know if the numbers are in the 30s or 70s I don’t know but he killed a lot of them because the uncle and auntie business, you know.

So you have that there so all holy are not that holy! There is always a certain problem that are there. So that’s, I believe that’s the reality. And that’s why everybody can’t be dead doomed and terrible right? There won’t be anybody left who can be good and everybody will have to go in. That’s number one.

All are impermanent and changeable

And number two, whatever action might be that action is not permanent. It is impermanent, it is changing it is changeable. So every good action every bad action everything is changeable, changeable. (Rimpoche has an aside)

So when it’s impermanent it changes. So the bad has to change. The good will also change. So the helping actions causing pleasure however it gets finished it gets exhausted and it runs out and everything is possible. Because of its impermanent nature so then the hurting actions, the actions of hurting people keeps you in the pain. 003002

That’s how the life basically is governed that’s how our life is, it’s basically governed in that way. It’s not the rotating sometimes all the bad ones come together. When they come its one after another they will pop up.

Sometimes all the good ones pop together sometimes good bad both comes up together and then who is more powerful and that takes over that takes over.

Mixed pain and pleasure

And sometimes together pain and pleasure together many times we experience that many times. So the pain are not necessarily completely pain and the pleasures are also not necessarily complete pleasures.

There’s a lot of mixed circumstances. 003118

All of them because of this help and hurt. It is, are you with me? So we are responsible for ourselves sure, but how are we are responsible to ourself is on that basis more after this. When I did something to hurt I will pay for it, I have to. When I did something to help, I will gain I have to. That is the basic call it natural law. According to Buddha okay?

Purify any and all

So now the question comes if you did something wrong, is there anything I can do? I don’t want to use the word undo because when you did something let’s say if you kill someone, like the killing of Matthew Schaefer or something. Can you undo and bring him back? No we know that right? Then do we have suffer for that? Or is there any way….. you are going to hear me contradicting myself okay? So is there any way anything that I can do for me not to have to be suffering though I did something bad.

That’s the question. So the Buddha showed us during the Buddha’s life time. There was a very dedicated human being who was determined to free or to liberate whatever that may be quote unquote word liberation to liberate himself. For he was looking for the way and how he can liberate himself from the suffering, from the pain from the negative emotions he doesn’t know maybe he doesn’t know negative emotions cause pain at that time.

Ungulimala

So he met with a teacher. Unfortunately the teacher happens to be somebody who is not very nice person or teacher. So that teacher told him hey you go and kill 1,000 human beings in a week and when you’ve killed each and every one of them, cut their thumb and put through a string and make a rosary of 1,000 thumbs. Wear this rosary come back to me and I will liberate you.

The guy is totally taken with that. So he got a huge sword which he carried and he chased everybody he can kill. And to the point, this looks like a fairy tale story but if you read it those are traditional Lam Rim teachings, everywhere you’re going to find it, all of them there. Its called Ungulimala. It is coming from Sanskrit origin and then translated and coming out.

So he got 999 human beings, he managed to get it. By that time everybody runs away from him and nobody’s around except his own mother. So this is a big question because mother is afraid of him cannot go very close however she couldn’t give him up because the mother’s love drove the mother to try to help.

So when I use the phrase, “mother’s love” please don’t imagine don’t put a picture of your own mother and put the picture of you being a mother. So your caring and your love to your children use that and that gives you a different picture.

But I’ve never been a mother or father whatever no but I can see that and that gives you a totally different perspective about it. 003825

So the mother couldn’t give up and somehow from a distance she was afraid yet she was coming and he also hesitated. I don’t want to kill my mother but I hope I get someone before the week is over. Sort of playing this cat and mouse game between the mother and this guy.

Buddha appears

And suddenly Buddha popped there as sort of a monk who sort of walking minding his own business and walking there. So Ungulimala said oh great now I don’t have to go after the mother I can get this guy so he runs after him and Buddha just sort of walks away as a monk. He didn’t show as Buddha you know just as a monk and walking away and he’s chasing him running and Buddha is walking slowly but Ungulimala could never catch up. So you cannot rule out the magical activity. These are magical activity. So no matter how much how fast he ran, no matter how slow it is he started chasing him and he couldn’t catch him.

So Ungulimala decided to break the ice and he said hey wait, so that is how the ice was broke, he said hey wait, wait for me and Buddha says I’m waiting why don’t you come faster? So that is the how the conversation started, talking to each other. So then finally Buddha has been able to convince this guy whatever you did was wrong and there’s no way you can liberate yourself just by killing 1,000 human beings.

Intelligent faith vs blind faith

Somehow Buddha was able to convince him and he developed doubt, the doubt rose in his thoughts on his mind and then the doubt will change into a true understanding of yes it doesn’t make sense killing a human being. You know and then the doubt became faith and that I normally emphasize very much this intelligent faith.

When the doubt becomes faith with the true understanding then it becomes intelligent faith. If there’s no doubt just sort of straightaway bought it, straightaway bought it and that becomes blind faith.

The blind faith normally creates tremendous amount of trouble. It also has a lot of help too. People cannot use their own mind their own intellectual capacity at all for them. In some cases blind faith works provided the path you are following is right and a good one.

And the person who’s leading you on that path also happens to be a good guide. Then blind faith works. Otherwise the experience that we had like the Jim Jones all kinds of experience that we had remember? All this cult system is bad whether it is really cult or not who knows but whatever it is.

Anyway things like that can work differently. Remember about two or three years ago there was…. Heaven’s Gate that’s right thank you.

There’s a star called Hellbob or something right? And some kind of vessel waiting behind that…. actually I’m saw movie last night on the television that was very similar to that anyway. (Rimpoche has an aside)

So these are the all possible to be able to function happens that way it is because of blind faith. So faith is necessary but what you really want is intelligent faith where does intelligent faith comes out of? Doubt! Critiquing and raising doubts not buying it just because the seller looks good right?

When you’re buying a secondhand car you will buy a second hard car because the car is good you will not by the secondhand car because the used car dealer can talk right? 004524

It’s normal good example of American unreliable talk right? The used car dealer, so that’s what I’m trying to get at. 004537

So you have to be convinced yourself 004545 (tape cuts out) 004557

And we need to use it. Why do we have to lock our mind in somebody else’s closet? Why do we?

So that is our biggest problem. So when you get out of that what you call it warp or whatever you know. So when you watch the Syfy channel and you are there and something goes through warp you get to the other side so that’s where you’re locked in.

So when you get out... what you call that thing? Warp okay. That’s why you get in, that is what I saw in a movie last night somebody on the bridge and get somewhere else and then there’s an old church (Rimpoche as an aside)

You know one funny thing... so for me the movie is entertainment so it doesn’t matter whether I get in the beginning, the end or the middle it doesn’t matter I get entertained.

So you know really and I don’t even know, it very often it happens but the real truth is when you get out of that warp and then you begin to see it.

And you begin to see it and it’s the reality there is help and hurt and that makes feel difference to me to others and to everybody!

People can get hurt, people can get help. And every action that we take will make a difference directly to the person or to yourself.

The consequences are bound to be the same thing and that’s why there’s both positive and negative there is both positivity and negativity. It may be labeled as virtue or non-virtue that’s only labeling but what is really there is hurt and help and we know it ourselves how we feel when we get hurt.

We know it ourselves how much we feel good and appreciate when you get help. How much relief we get, we know it.

Our own experience our personal experience, in life we go through every day just you think to yourself only 24 hours before if you begin to think I’m sure you’ve gone through it here the hurt as well as help, both.

See you don’t really have to doubt whether there is such a thing really is or is not. That is that. Now the point where I am teaching I skipped is the purification part of it, what I skipped can you do something even if you have done something wrong?

I skipped it. Can you undo? Probably not but can you do something that you don’t have to experience the same result? And that’s where the Buddha comes into the picture and says yes! I have experienced I have the experience I know how to do it and I have done it.

From the Buddha’s own mouth. Even from the Judeo-Christian tradition point of view though it’s sort of really gives some people if I understand correctly maybe I am wrong I hope I’m wrong. But some people thought when you’re wrong you’re wrong completely forever. You’re going to go away. But even in that tradition if you look at it they give you all kinds of purification. 005105

Where do you get all these little boxes where you go and confess and you know say all this and James bond is sitting on the other side of the door? Where do you get them off from? Because there is a way out and that’s why you have that what do you call it, confession?

Buddhist version of confession

You have all of them there. In Buddhism too true, we do have that but it’s different. We don’t go to that box we don’t. It is very nice Buddhist confessions are very nice way you know.

So when I was a monk so I know that we do that every second week we do that so whatever you have 364 mistakes or downfalls or all of them when everybody gets together and somebody will start leading, so killing a human being and then everybody’s killing human being and stealing and everybody in the building is saying the same word! So no one is singled out to be able to blackmail later.

For that matter James Bond is hiding and listening dressed like a father or something. You don’t you don’t because it is just everybody together every possible negative actions physical mental emotional verbal all of them listed together and they all say the same words memorized and say them together. So we do the together thing so it’s sort of eliminates the opportunity to be able to misuse that from the different phenomena or the institutions or whatever.

I remember a few years ago I had a dialogue with the…. I don’t know what he is, a father or something he is the head that big church in Cleveland Shaker Heights. So we had the dialogue going between me and him and in his church. I think there was maybe about, I don’t know 1,500 to 2,000 people. So I said the same thing something like this and he turns around and says you’re lucky you can get away by saying that. If I said the same thing I would have to go to some different office tomorrow. So he said you can get away with this.

So I said institutional corruption, I think that’s what I said, the monasteries have the same old corruptions too, I mean they are not free of corruption. It’s everywhere you know.

So he said you can get away with that. Anyway so the number one point of purifying, the Buddha said the application of the four powers really need four strong powerful actions.

So the number one now, this is Buddhism talking okay? The number one is the okay I forget I sort of get little out of a little tradition system of the Buddhist system, I get out of that at little bit.

Power of regret – most important

So I make it an important point the point which I’m going to count the most important power what you really needed is the power of regret. The power of regret. The action what ever you took you need to find yourself regretting what you did. And if you do not find regretting what you did, there is no need for you to purify because you don’t want to purify.

Basically really because you don’t regret, I don’t mean when you watch those quote TV and all this and then they want to give you a little more bigger punishment because you have no remorse and all that.

I’m not talking about that okay I don’t mean that I really mean if I want to purify something that I must know what I am purifying. That way I know is I must really regret something what I did.

Whatever it may be I really do need to regret. If I hurt you somewhere and I must regret that. The problem in our society today is a lot of people do a lot of things and they do not regret. Forget about regretting, they don’t even acknowledge. 005801

They even deny all kinds of antisocial activity. If you look at the person who rapes a woman. The person who does racial whatever that thing is called. And many of them enjoy doing it unfortunately! They do not regret. Am I right or wrong?

No regret no purification

Yes if you find a rapist or something and they enjoy doing it unfortunately. They keep on repeating doing it again and again because they enjoy doing it. There is no regret. So therefore there is no purification in those points. 005920

Likewise the professional killers, they enjoy killing. There is no regret. So no purification. You can’t purify. The negative action sticks against your own consciousness. It remains there.

So I’m getting out of the Buddhist system I’m getting out really the most important point. In the Buddhist tradition, I have to say base first but I’m saying this because that’s the most important. The regret is necessary without regret you cannot purify, you cannot do it.

Because if I don’t know I did hurt somebody, unless and until I’ve been informed and I’m aware of it, how do I go and purify it? How do I regret? Unless that person tells me - you hurt me. Or I knew that I hurt the person. So the regret is important the number one point.

Regret is not guilt

So whenever we want to purify we have to regret the action that we do. That’s power number one. When I say this powerful regret do we have to feel guilty about it? I don’t think so. If I understand what the word guilt really means, the guilt we carry around I’m more concerned with that rather than guilty verdict the guilt that we carry around and I don’t buy that at all.

If I understand that, it means that I did something wrong, I cannot help it, I cannot do anything else, I have to live with this I have to die with this and I have to suffer with that.

If that is the guilt, you are talking about, forget it. That vocabulary does not exist within this person. No, no! Regret yes! That type of helpless hopeless have to live with this and die with this and burn with this - forget it! No! Just because it’s impermanent that is strong enough. Even if you don’t know anything about emptiness in nature that is very powerful reason but if not that even if you don’t know that just impermanence, changing nature itself will tell you, you don’t have to be with that guilt feeling.

You don’t. But you need strong regret you have to dislike what you did. And you want to find a remedy for it. That will be the power number. You must draw a line between that okay? The regret what I call regret and what I call the guilt.

That’s different. If I understand correctly the word guilt and guilt feeling it’s hopeless helpless nature. There is no such a thing called hopeless helpless. Ungulimala, that guy who killed 1,000 human beings also followed the Buddha and became liberated. And we did not kill a single human being we? Otherwise you won’t be here right? You will be somewhere else. So it’s not that hopeless at all. It’s not that we are absolutely correct and faultless that’s not correct but we are not hopeless also.

That’s where we are so the actions that we indulged in hurting others we must regret. Powerful regret is antidote power number one.

And it is the most important! Because if you strongly regret that action, you’re not going to repeat it again. You don’t have to tell yourself again don’t do it you have to say it, you don’t have to urge yourself, you don’t have to appeal to yourself, you don’t have to remind yourself. You just won’t do it because you simply strongly regret it.

So not non-repeatable is power number two. Now the Buddhist point which should have come first is the Buddhist point is when you hurt somebody you really want to compensate that person. Compensation right? So how do I compensate?

I don’t even know who I hurt, I’m sure I’d did directly when you do something these are the regrettable we can do it we can compensate whatever it may be right?

Whatever the way that person wanted to but whatever it takes. 010720

But there are zillions of others we don’t recognize that have been carrying over the lives. Even within our life we won’t know many things which we did from the birth to today.

In my case, I am 60 do I remember everything whatever I did from the day one to 60 years? Never ever no. No I won’t remember what I did yesterday forget about going 60 years back no.

So there are a lot of them there. So we cannot leave them there though we may not have that strong powerful regret as we are mentioning however within that pocket of whatever we are having strong regret within that mentally we try to include everything knowingly or unknowingly whatever I have done from the limitless of the beginning.

So this is Buddhist what you call it, style or way Buddhist functioning way and that’s how Buddha try to be helpful for everybody tried to cover the maximum possible coverage you know you can give. So that’s what it is.

So that’s why from the limitless beginning whatever whatever I may have it so I try to regret together by having that powerful regret of that particular action along with that just like that I might have done a lot. So you purify it together.

So the compensation what we do is also we don’t even know that person. Many of them we don’t even know. Many of them are dead. Even if I remember many of them you don’t know many of them carries from different lives, so how do you know who that person is? So it doesn’t matter who that person is but it does matter that I have to compensate something. So what do I do? If that person is or was or is enlightened so I take refuge. If that person is or was non-enlightened, I generate compassion.

I generate Bodhimind technically we call it but is the ultimate unlimited unconditioned compassion. I generate that so taking refuge and generating ultimate compassion becomes the base. On that base we compensate so they call it the power of base. The power of regret, the power of non-repeatable, and the power of base, and the power of antidote action.

Antidote

Antidote - so if you indulge in killing an animal or insects if it happens to be, so the antidote action recommended will be saving a life. If it was lying well just tell the truth once, just tell the truth don’t lie. If it was stealing then be generous now, act of generosity - sharing.011241

So anyway sort of antidote action that was important, meditative mantra oriented antidote actions are there, they are great no doubt but actual physical action is equally important.

Now meditative point of view, like generating a Bodhimind is one of the greatest… Deh doh toh..

Bodhisattvachayattavara says, such a powerful negativities cannot be overpowered by anything else except this mind which is the mind of the altruistic bodhimind. That is sort of attributed to that mind and the wisdom of true understanding of emptiness. 011354

We really totally this negativity and positivity happening with us what is happening with us is happening on the relative basis. In the absolute basis it is not happening. So when you really truly get the true nature of emptiness all this relativity level whatever it was whatever we are functioning it all becomes illusion.

It becomes a delusion illusion lie, fiction. So when you really understand the emptiness all your lies have been burst and that’s why every negativity has been dissolved at that level because the basis on which they are functioning really has been busted.

That’s why true wisdom becomes one of the most powerful antidote of all no matter what kind of negativity it might be, it really busts them all. So maybe the wisdom emptiness is the ghost buster. And that’s what it is and then there’s a mantra such as Vajrasattva recitation and all that 21 times minimum, even if you can’t say a long one hundred syllable mantra, you can simply say Om varjra sattva ah….

Whatever you want to say it doesn’t matter. Om Varja Sattva Ah Hung, twenty one, we simply stop multiply.

So not only those negativity and positivity supposed to be remaining with us but keeps on multiplying all the time like the body cells multiply, right? Just like that those karmic actions multiply too. So stop multiplying is the Vajrasattva recitation 21 times, they say it stops. But once you are doing it, twice you are doing it, three times you are doing it, it you think its going to destroy it – no they are not.

But constantly continuously day after day week after week month after month if you keep on applying that then you get your headway. Because simply just arranging all these four thoughts, and put them together and generating a little love and compassion, I mean that’s what it is.

But if you think that once you’ll do that you’ll clear everything that’s a little too easy, it won’t. 011717

Though in this teaching, I am supposed to say it will clear and then particularly on top of that if you add up a little emptiness, it makes it more profound and this and that. True, I’m supposed to say it and I said it but just once doing it will it work? No it doesn’t. If you have that building within your life completely building, incorporated within your chores, within your daily functioning, if you have that within that, then it makes its headway. By the time when you become 60 you may have a little bit of thing to show. That’s what it is.

Just simply doing it once it’s good but that’s not enough. But if you sort of constantly continuously do it, then it’s power builds in right? Same thing those people who meditate most of you do meditate. So when you do it every day it become stronger and powerful just like that!

Saying prayers or saying sadhanas all this. When do it everyday it makes a difference. Purification is the same thing. So if you’re saying Ganden Lah Gyema or if you’re simply saying I purify all my negativities. We say that, you know one line, within one line saying that word, you can incorporate all of those. So this is the magical way of purifying I don’t know whether it is magical or not because it just one word right? I purify all my negativity or whatever they say. (Rimpoche has an aside)

No, in Ganden Lah Gyema at least there are four lines but in normal thing….

Okay, I purify all negatives accumulated since the beginning of time or something. Okay…. How long did that take to say? A couple of seconds or maybe less than a second. So mind thinking, when you try to think that beginning, it will take a long time.

Once you get used to it, the word what you say from your mouth when you finish that word the thought is completed already. 012016

It automatically runs when you get trained. When you get used to it (?) So how long will it take? A couple of seconds as part of your daily chore. And those if you read the word particularly the vows that we have taken anything going against any vows that we have taken particularly three mentioned that this self liberation vow that goes to the vows that monks and nuns take. And then the bodhisattva vow, which a lot of us take. And the Vajrayana vow, my god, that is another huge vow against negativity against those vows are like of snowstorm all the time it’s happening with us. Anywhere so occasionally whenever you have an opportunity time purifying them is a good way of getting yourself ready whatever you’re doing. Liberating getting freedom becoming Buddha, close to the God whatever you’re doing. So this is one good way of doing it… Nin deh...

Okay so wow sorry I didn’t realize, its almost getting to 9:30 I have to stop. So now I’m stopping for awhile actually though I will be here next Tuesday but I’ll be with Ribur Rimpoche, I will be here next Tuesday and I’m not teaching.

I may be the person who is translating what he will say or if you find another good translator, we will do that. And then Ribur Rimpoche comes three Tuesday’s right? (Rimpoche has an aside)

He is a very good teacher you will see yourself. Very old and one of those very very old grand old lamas, grand old lama and he’s living upstate upstate New York right? (they have a discussion) Richard Gere has built a house for him in his place so he’s living there so he is going to come up three Tuesday’s because I could not get myself here next couple of Thursdays so he sort of helping me to work with you. So next Tuesday I’ll be here but then I’ll be away until…. so I’ll be back and then (Rimpoche has an aside)

Rimpoche: Oh, if you help to clean up the place this is one of the purification’s (audience laughs) Thank you very much (they close with the dedication)

Thank you and good night.