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Going or not going so so finally did go so just landed and then Alex and Emily picked me up and brought me here directly so little late sorry about it and I was thinking maybe I am talking to you tonight from Ann Arbor to here you know so that’’s what I mean thinking but it’’s finally made it and also those who are listening on this thing they are all welcome do you need a wall to lean you don’’t then you can sit right here in the front okay that double small cushion so you look much better nice very good all right you don’’t need the wall now that’’s good oh Cindy hi you do need a wall okay alright okay well having said that I have to make a brief report where I went 000153

and so I went to Europe and visited Jewel Heart in Holland and they are really doing very good Jewel Heart Holland now have two hundred fifty people and somehow they are doing something every day I do not know how they manage but they’’re really doing something every day and all their people are okay they are well except one doctor which I thought she probably was supposed to be had a very cancer and supposed to go like three years ago and she still there strong according to the medical thing she’’s not supposed even exist she herself is medical doctor and she is very strong and running around everywhere and doing everything and so they are all fine so that’’s that and they are doing their studies as I say something every day every day and they have they sort very carefully planned every study they call it they have the foundation of perfection and then they have these three principles and then they have this Lam rim Odyssey to freedom Lam rim then track one track two track three track four track five track six I don’’t know how does they do but they’’re doing very well at the same time they are also doing a teacher’’s training for those who can teach who will be able to teach they have like some sixty people who have applied and accepted only fourteen or nineteen and in an addition to Dharma they are also teaching last year the teacher’’s training was not doing very good we started that two years ago three years ago now not doing very good I thought we may have to discontinue that but this year they’’re doing very good because they got somebody from Germany who is trainer who trains teacher not like a horse trainer or something but who trains the teacher and the Dutch government hired him to train teachers in Holland and he is putting like three four hours a day voluntarily here so that’’s why it has become so good and not only Dharma they are learning but also management conflict and the conflicts between the teachers between the administration between students how to handle they practically create a conflict and then let the teachers solve000506

And so I think it is very good so they are doing good and I guess that’’s about it then I did go to Copenhagen to visit (?) Rimpoche and he is healthy and looks good active whatever he is doing that he does what they call it UD unity and duality course I mean he also has very different system of courses he runs he only teach the courses and the courses are sort of this just like Jewel Heart in Holland they also with start their courses in September and then runs for five years so so I did not know what they call it UD and I did not know what is UD so we are having a dinner and a number of his students there and I said what is UD and one of the girls said underdog so unity and duality anyway so on the whole my visit in Europe was very good helpful for a lot of people it is helpful for Jewel Heart Holland and what I do is every year about this time I go to Holland and they have a number of public talks and retreats and teachings and then the opening of the students begin in September so they opens in September so last year alone there is like fifty nine people joined and this year they’’re expecting more I don’’t know whatever I don’’t know how they’’re going to manage but they seem to manage okay that’’s it having said that we are back and so usually what we’’re doing here is the foundations of the perfections and we begin with the Ganden La Gyema and we have completed the Ganden La Gyema and we are on the foundation of the perfection level at which what I don’’t know is where are we which verse would you mind read that verse out and yes

Sensual gluttony the gate to suffering

audience: sensual gluttony the gate suffering is not worthy of a lucid mind empower me to realize the shortcomings of samsara and give birth to the great wish for blissful freedom

Rimpoche: thank you so we are in the sexual gluttony (Rimpoche laughs) actually you remember right from the Ganden La Gyema down to all the way through here actually the foundation of perfection will give you a very abbreviate very abbreviate point of the path that we follow path do you have a difficult for me to understand you don’’t okay because the Colleen complained me whenever I come back from some European or Asian tour she says I speak a different language000900

so I’’m probably picking up how the Dutch speak English so is it true yes so it’’ll probably take it comes with my jet lag together it goes away when the jet lag goes out so anyway so all this what they do is very short essence message of material for individual to meditate so each verse will give you a subject and a point where you’’re supposed to learn contemplate and meditate and adopt it as our way of life so each one of those verses and since we are not in the position to do right now so what they do is in the prayer form I’’ll pay I may be able to do that so this is we worked through the beginning to it goes till the end of this foundation of perfection1014

Importantness of Theravadan base

So with those of you who come new here today I can see a few new people here and you are plugging in the middle of somewhere and I hope you get it so look up and look down back and forth you’’ll get something (Rimpoche takes a moment to cough) basically the foundation of the perfection itself is also just like a Lam rim in the Lam rim and labels been divided into three categories common with the lower common with the medium and the Mahayana path it’’s almost the same principle as the three principles but slightly different the division is different so if you look in the foundations of the perfections it is also divided in that way common with the lower level actually teach share and present and try to engage us in the principles that have been emphasized by Buddha in Theravadan teaching that is the Hinayana teaching both common with the lower and the medium level both are in the principles of the Hinayana teaching so but even though we are supposed to be Mahayana practitioner supposed to be Vajrayana practitioner quote unquote supposed to but we are not we are nowhere you know we are not even the level of the Hinayana at all however we are supposed to be Mahayana so even though we’’re supposed to be Mahayana and Vajrayana it was based on the principle of the Hinayana if you don’’t have the Hinayana principle what happens is you don’’t have a ground you don’’t have a ground so you may build a floating castle but you don’’t have a ground if you get a floating castle but we are lucky probably not we will going to get ice castle which going to be melted so really so the Hinayana principle is the ground zero level for all Buddha’’s teachings really it is ground zero level so it is important and it is a must and it should be there however you may not have to be very restricted like the Hinayana tradition will do you have to be very restricted that’’s not point it is interesting I think two days ago somebody asked me what you think it’’s going to be difference between the Buddhism in America and the traditional Tibetan Chinese Japanese Indian Buddhism oh that’’s right I went up north Michigan place called Petoskey Petoskey and I had a two-hour talk there on the northern Michigan University campus it sort of they range together so two hour talk and it was really well attended and I was a little surprised so many people there but most people there are old gray-haired people not students and I thought that was little over a hundred about a hundred so the next day the northern Michigan wrote a thank you note they said they counted literally they had a hundred and seventy five but mostly the community rather than the students so anyway one of them asked me what I think going to be the difference between the Buddhism that in America and Buddhism the traditional ones and so just ask me there so I thought the culture part is not going to be there the language is going to different that’’s what I said yes it is true if you look at the cultural part of the Buddhism and if you look at the Theravadan cultural part there’’s a tremendous amount of discipline I mean at least in the service the monks and nuns and they are supposed to they not move around they won’’t turn their heads around they were just straight looking and there is a very strict discipline oriented in that culture and that culture part I don’’t think it’’s going to be part of it the culture parts I think it’’s going to be dropped out but what you cannot drop out is the principal of the Buddha’’s teaching in Hinayana level we cannot leave them out you had to bring them in so what do you get in there in there you get if you look in the foundation of perfection what we’’re doing here and after this level whatever we talked the guru devotional practice importantness of recognizing a human life1733

importantness of it difficulty to find impermanent including death and all of those are the principles in this not only that karma is also very much in principle and they look very carefully how karma created you know at the Theravadan level you know what the difference between the Mahayana in Mahayana love compassion is more emphasized so the caring of the people caring loving it was much more emphasized there but in Theravadan level they are not emphasized so they are not mentioned so what the focus really is how to help me what I can do for me how can help myself how I can make myself ever to function by myself in this big whatever that I better use word because the people listening on this you know I can gesture with the hand here and I can get away here but people who are listening they’’re probably going to miss a huge thing in there so I don’’t want to use the word samsara but the thing that’’s where ever we are traveling or moving through things that way touch and go round life after life actually is the how to manage by ourselves in that and also recognizing the problems in the samsara and seeing the quality of the Nirvana and moving and traveling ourselves moving from the samsara into nirvana and that is the Theravadan principle and that we must carry this is our fundamental ground on which we build our spiritual practice so we cannot ignore just saying because we are Vajrayana we are Mahayana so I’’m going to I’’m not going to bother much about it and that is not going to happen and if you think that can happen we are totally mistaken we get nowhere we have no foundation we’’re not going to stand on our feet at all2023

So even though whole Lam rim teaching or all this foundation of the perfection teaching is a Mahayana teaching even though it begin this level and this level is so important we have to make note of it and if you’’re going to especially if you’’re listening here and not simply picking as knowledge but if you really practicing by yourself by you try to help yourself through meditation then you cannot build up anything above that without having this ground because everything will build on top of another so it is so important to pay attention not necessarily the guru devotion guru devotion is important and very important and extremely important it will come later the importantness of it come much later though it was introduced here but it really begins begins here the recognizing the life and try to realize importantness of it and its purpose and it’’s value and embracing life rather than rejecting undermining you know what our negative emotions would like us to do is reject life undermine our negative emotions will force us to recognize the difficulties we face they remind you and they will remind you this difficulties not as a part of difficulties anywhere we are going to experience as long as we are in this life but they will remind you as some kind of specific difficulty for me at this particular period which is not true any difficulty that we go to through for our life in paths everything even though we say oh that’’s my suffering its me why this is happening to me but it’’s not me it is a lot of people are having the same thing what one goes through whatever sufferings that we go through it is the part and parcel of this existence itself and many people experience that but our negative emotions tell us this is you and you and I and I am the only one who experiencing because I am no good and I didn’’t do something right or I’’m terrible and drive you to the point of undermining yourself as best as they can as best as you can they will take you as the lowest level they can so that is the job of negative emotions. In counter that it is our job to understand better yes the sufferings that experience individual experience different sufferings each and every individual have a different suffering and that is real it is true it is genuine suffering even it is only emotional or mental alone even then it’’s real for the real person it’’s real that’’s what it is however it is not only me it is the part of the whole samsara itself and that’’s why Buddha says samsara was suffering or samsara is suffering or the samsara will suffer forever and nirvana is peace that is the division why Buddha make this nirvana is peace samsara is suffering so that is the thing so in order to deal with this in order to be able to handle that the recognizing the value of a life the rareness of it importantness of it and yet impermanent how impermanent it is all of those we have already covered in the verse two am I right I think so verse two2554

Am I right I think so verse two and then what it does not really present here here they present impermanence and it says everything like bubble of the water (he speaks Tibetan) so what they did is the impermanence and the karma impermanence particularly represented by the death and the karma joined together in one verse one verse impermanent which is also absolutely true we take our life granted but it’’s not so many people have so many emergency here and there and suddenly it happens all the time from nowhere something fall and hit on your head and you get all kinds of trouble from nowhere you know a car come up and crash against you and you get into trouble and these are all from nowhere all of a suddenly pop up so that shows you how impermanent it is how it shows you how we can not take it granted whatever it is though it is our American system if you can manage for a couple of months a couple of years and then why not you can manage because everything is built on that perception if you’’re in business in ten years you are bound to be in business in another ten years even you don’’t have any capital you’’re working for credit right? So that’’s how the American mind builds up in that but we’’d like to taking granted everything and it was built on that ground it is false perception but it is true to a certain extent and it is also false into a lot of extent anything (Rimpoche laughs) so I mean to prove that is false because we have chapter eleven so that shows you that tells you it is false so anyway so we do the same thing we take granted our life so whatever had happened for the last one year is going to happen for the next one year hopefully get better and sort of thing you know but that’’s not the point it’’s not right even there is nothing to be granted as I just told you something can fall and hit on your head I remember here a few years ago two friend of mine went in somewhere in some teaching is that you ginny some teaching somewhere you and Amy I think some teaching somewhere in the Columbia and a brick fall down that’’s you right and lucky the brick did not hit your head it hit your shoulder is that right see I remember correctly seven eight years ago right yes maybe ten years ago so just remember that you know that is you and Amy right that is right Dharma teaching somewhere in Colombia a brick fall down and hit so nothing happened but it could have hit here too so that shows how impermanent it is how uncertainty so taking granted is absolutely wrong taking day by day is a great way of living really great way of living of course the all the economists and everybody will tell you you’’re crazy but that’’s the way it is and lesser worry lesser problem you manage so that’’s it actually okay I better keep my mouth shut (crowd laughs) okay because I may do a disservice so I’’ll keep my mouth shut okay so I’’m not done yet so would you mind wait till the end okay thank you so then we go and the karma too anyone where karma sounds very mystical and important and I was talking last night in Ann Arbor actually in the Borders bookstore I been talking there last night so they asked me to speak there and I said I don’’t even have a book out I don’’t know why they want (crowd laughs) normally they invite people who have a book to sell I don’’t even have a book out but well it was nice last night a lot of people so it was nice and what did I say that for I said something oh karma I said sometimes you know the karma people may think some kind of like a Buddhist god sometimes they do it’’s almost everything is karma karma then you can’’t do anything you know everything is somehow is beyond human control and then it is it is in reality in people’’s mind you know a lot of people have difficulty to accept God and particularly the former Catholics or whatever anyway so then they get into Buddhism and then suddenly you get a Buddhist god called karma so the replacing that into that way it’’s not right so you may think karma is something beyond our control beyond our manage absolutely not true but the true fact is we each and every one of us and I am the creator of my own karma I create my karma I am creator of my karma so that self we will see it the karma little bit less shrink rather than seeing huge monster over there but it shrinks down because it’’s my creation I made it it is my products so I am responsible too3338

So it is important to recognize the karma is not a substitute for God it’’s not but it is also equally powerful what may not be equally but it is very powerful karma sometimes we cannot handle it3407

we have a difficulty of handling our karma particularly when the karmic consequences is happening and you really can’’t do anything no matter whatever you try to do it you have to wait that period has to go you have to close that chapter and then it has to be until that you can try to save here and there but no matter whatever you do you really cannot change anything3445

unless until that period completely closed and started something new period that is the problem with karma that makes the karma powerful and difficult but we can change everything before that because I want you to remember that karma is not independent karma is dependent arise karma depends on condition we provide we create the karma and then we provide the condition then karma will materialize good or bad that’’s how karma works so we create the conditions right even though it is accident suddenly what a table fall on head when you’’re not careful then you create the condition and table does fall on your head and then you get a headache headache hopefully only for three months nothing more (Rimpoche laughs) so we have created karma provided the condition not be careful walking in a place where things falling down or not paying attention bounce your head bump your head what ever so all of them even though it is accident we create the condition everything and then the funny thing is once we created that karma it functions like a shadow and the body when you move your body the shadow is there all the time you don’’t have to carry it it comes with you all the time it’’s there that is the how karma functions traditional example shadow they give you or body and body odor those who had a smell in body and that’’s together that is there no matter how much you wash it but there so you have to apply something else to overcome right so if you pay attention if you don’’t pay attention everybody sitting next to you have to move a little bit far away or that way or this way but that’’s not part of it that is the karma how functions these are the Theravadan principles (Rimpoche talks privately with the audience) anyway then comes too so then you know and then which is not mentioned in this foundation of the perfections right what did not mention is the refuge which comes in between here the question is we know about the karma so knowing karma is so important what do you really know about karma is if I created negative karma I’’m going to have negative results and if I created positive karma I am going to have a positive karmic result that’’s what we know about the karma so what is negative and what is positive that’’s a big question but simply I try to draw a line is not a sort of definite but just to satisfy our mind to understand better I would like to draw the line when we are hurting the actions that causes hurt when you hurt anybody including our self is negative action and when you are not hurting and helping then it is a positive action included our self this is sort of very broad way very gross level but there’’s a lot of gray area will come here and there and all those type of things but sort of in that line what we learned is when we create the positive karma we get a positive result and when we create the negative karma we do get negative result that’’s what we learned about the karma then the question rises but if I cannot do anything if I die or something happens how can I help myself then answer comes the refuge which is not mentioned here but normally it’’s there this is the refuge the reasons why we take refuge is to protect4101

Buddha Nature further explained

if I cannot purify my negative karmas is if I keep on continuously producing negative karma and then what do I do so emergency cases I take refuge yes taking refuge its sort of a solution however it goes back to the same thing take a refuge to Buddha Dharma and Sangha Buddha meaning the historical Buddha represents and also establish the Buddha nature within ourselves try to bring to the level when I’’m talking about the Buddha nature within ourselves I’’m not talking about we had originally created a Buddha within ourselves I’’m not saying that do not misunderstand that that’’s a very important because I noticed in Europe because the language limits you and so when it has been translated somehow when I am saying Buddha within ourselves of course we are definitely talking about this Buddha nature but somehow then I begin to realize the message is getting across as some kind of already created established Buddha within ourselves that is not the case that not the case we have a Buddha nature within ourselves actually two kinds of the Buddha nature the natural Buddha nature and the Buddha nature that be able to grows and all of them there but this is another philosophical problem so I don’’t want to bring it right now so what is the natural Buddha nature then it goes we go another one zillion years on that so we don’’t need to bring that in but we are talking about the Buddha nature which is like a seed right now like a seed the capability to be able to develop otherwise you know otherwise you have to say well I’’m already enlightened if you accept pre-naturally establish the Buddha within you then you have to say I am enlightened when I first came in United States in Ann Arbor I was staying there and watching a television and then a number of people (?) so the new age people been interviewed on television I saw those type and a couple of ponytail guys sitting there and they keep on telling I’’m already enlightened I am god myself and I keep on hoping I wish they say something better you know I remember that that about ten years ago I keep on seeing that now I begin to realize why they came to that level because Buddha nature if you understood that already as established Buddha then you have to be already pretty enlightened4429

Dharma is medicine you must do Buddhas cannot do it for you

And then you get into trouble you have to say I am God what else can you say so so then probably you become a god who doesn’’t even know what’’s going to happen next minute so or the God who cannot even find out what is in the pocket of the other person facing you’’ll be big problem so it’’s not right so it is the Buddha nature it is not a developed there is a capability the Buddha nature so connecting the Buddha nature bringing them to the level of the historical Buddha is actually taking refuge with the Buddha within you so Buddha within you does not mean it is a fully matured and fully established Buddha no it is only Buddha nature and then yet the historical Buddha represents the Buddha Dharma and Sangha in that three categories in there and it comes like a guide or the doctor type of thing and actual medicine is the Dharma so it bounced back again although we take refuge but then they will say yes we will help you but your actual medicine really is the Dharma so that’’s what you have to handle it so that really goes back Dharma to karma again so it is a few years ago I was up in (?) And Colleen and me went into boat on the boat in the river in that lake went out and then a little far away there is the rabbi (?) In another boat is there so we been talking on the boat and suddenly I saw his oar is taking moving away in the water so I said your oar is going so he tried to grab that oar back and he got the oar back and then he said oh if I lost this oar I will be karma without Dharma that’’s what he said that so I remember that it’’s an interesting remark so karma without Dharma so we’’re stuck there you can’’t move (Rimpoche laughs) karma without Dharma that is what he give the expression so it is the Dharma who moves you again and then it is again you yourself so it comes back in that way so however the taking refuge is a solution and the solution is also comes back to you to ourselves so if you want this (?) what we can do we are guide what we can do we are doctor I can give you diagnosis and I can recommend medicines but I cannot remove your pain and I cannot get inside you and twist it and change it and cannot that’’s why (he speaks Tibetan) so they said the Buddhas cannot wash the negativities by water4814

even though they may sprinkle a lot of holy waters but they cannot wash negativities they cannot remove sufferings of the people by hand nor they can transfer their spiritual developments to one to the another it’’s like they are more restricted than American Express card non-transferable but then still is you can be on somebody else’’s card I’’m still on somebody else’’s card (Rimpoche laughs) anyway and then only they can help you is sharing the truth with you that is the verse so it’’s really true even though taking refuge is a solution but then the responsibility falls on ourselves so if you follow their true sharing if you follow it what we’’re really doing is reduction of the negative karma and thus guaranteeing our self a positive life however we die we forget everything we got a new life just like this we may repeat the same thing again so then this thing comes sexual gluttony get we huh sexual?

Audience sensual!

Rimpoche Sexual?

Audience: sensual!

Rimpoche: (Rimpoche starts laughing) thank you sensual gluttony the sexual gluttony is also may be the gateway of suffering too equally to a certain extent yes it’’s true anyway and that verse comes in (Rimpoche speaks Tibetan) so what happened is those gluttonys sensual gluttonys are something that we will never satisfy we enjoy and no matter how much we experience we wanted more we wanted more so we will do anything for that what we are talking about it addictions I’’m not talking about this well I am talking about it sexual addictions too but I’’m talking about all the addictions the addictions do that no matter how much you take it you want more never satisfied so that’’s what it is you want more5155

So it is the gateway to suffering when we are at this level when we are not really badly addicted in chemicals and we will look at the person who’’s addicted in the chemical and we see that picture and we look at that person and treat it a little bit less than respectable we do that its automatic attitude that we take it which is very wrong absolutely wrong but they are a little worse than us their addiction is a little more vivid than our self we are also very very addicted to our anger hatred jealousy attachment all of them everything even way of our life if you have to change a little bit in our life how hard it is forget about this changing of life but even changing of you route which train you take to get here what you call this Canal Street and if you have to change that alone how difficult it is so it is so that’’s the addiction we have and we just see that person who’’s addicted in drugs and then you see they do everything to get a drug to the extent of stealing robbing all the trouble they can get into it make easier so we can see this is how it is gateway to suffering is we do not have to meditate and try to find it we will see it in New York City all the time basically the people are not going to steal it basically people are not going to hurt any of the person no but they are forced to do it by their addiction and when that happens and that person will not hesitate whoever that person may be your own mother or your own children to that level they go because the addictions make them the same thing with us we have the knowledge we have the information saying that the negative karma creates sufferings so we say well negative karma may be creating suffering right now I needed this no matter whatever what happens I don’’t care maybe two maybe three (silence on tape) I know somebody back in Ann Arbor work in the same office knows cigarette smoking creates lot of trouble and get into a lot of trouble and continuously coughing and puffing together coughing and puffing together smoking together and that’’s you know it’’s causing and this is difficult and painful and all that yet still you have to smoke cigarettes continuously that’’s the addiction and you know it is wrong you know it harms you know it creates suffering still you have to smoke because the addiction5652

same thing that’’s what we see it directly with our own eyes as something with our mind we know it any one of those dissatisfaction not necessarily all sensual gluttonys are trouble negativities no no but dissatisfaction always wanted more go to the extent and they can kill you to that level you go that is the true gateway to the sufferings5735

Negative emotions the we forgot we put in pop up like toast from a toaster

Physically we see mentally the same thing mentally what’’s happening physically what’’s threatening is this life mentally what’’s threatening is your spiritual life that goes life after life and that is the point where we’’re having trouble that’’s the reason why cutting down the negative emotions are actually way how we liberate ourselves because our addictions are the negative emotions they pop up from nowhere you know when you’’re having breakfast you forgot you put the toast in there suddenly pop up toast and it is almost the same way all the negative emotions pop up like toast in our mind (audience laughs) toast out of toaster it really does really does and that is the addiction the problem what we have is that that is the real every problem every discomfort every pain everything what ever we experience it physical mental emotional that’’s coming out of that that is the dissatisfaction addiction unreliable what we’’re addicted is something very unreliable didn’’t that verse say that right not worthy of lucid mind okay but we think it is worthy and that’’s what we work for what delusion we’’re having is we think that is the good one that is the really true delusion we have so if we are a spiritual practitioner spiritual oriented person if we want to help ourselves whether your spiritually oriented or not oh interesting you know when I was in Holland they had a dinner one evening dinner for pioneers those who began when we began fifteen years ago jewel heart in Holland pioneers we call it right pioneers we had a dinner and only like a couple of people less than ten there and that’’s a very nice man called (?) Marrianne Souters husband and he give toast in that he said fifteen years ago from a far far away place a strange fellow came and visited us and he said whatever that person saying we couldn’’t understand much he keep on about the cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, I thought he’’s one of those anti-a smoker person so then it turned out to be secrets not cigarettes (audience laughs) and then that fellow kept on talking separate you separate you so thought well I just met it (her) only a couple of years four five years ago I am not ready to separate what he is talking about it but then I realized he saying spiritual not separate you (Rimpoche laughs) so that’’s probably my English fifteen years ago so anyway so spiritual or separate you or whatever it is so whether we are spiritually oriented or not if we wanted to help ourselves make ourselves better better life and better person and better and then there’’s no other solution there’’s no other key no matter whatever I’’m not saying Buddhism is the only key don’’t misunderstand me but this is key no matter whatever the tradition you follow Hindu Buddhist Judeo-Christian and they always tell you the same thing unfortunately really so that’’s the point so the delusion what we have is our object our aim our goal is wrong we want happiness we want the joy but our happiness and our joy we have a different picture than those Buddhas and all these spiritually developed people I think that is the the delusion really is and not a lot of people like to address that because though it is the principle it is the point but people avoid talking that because just because people won’’t like it and that’’s why traditionally Buddha used the principle one as a renunciation renouncing but nowadays we change that completely seeking freedom or caring yourself and we have to dilute the strength of the renouncing into a softer because people may not like it that’’s the reason we do10516

but then somebody has to say sometime so we talk about the dualistic delusion and all this are here this is it what do we think happiness is what is our goal of peace and happiness and what we have and what the spiritually developed people think is a big difference I think we need to understand that if you are seriously want help yourself that is the key so think about it what do you think your happiness is find out by yourself what kind of a picture you get what is your goal for your life what do you want to get it think those then you get a picture and then think that picture is right or wrong picture that’’s how you help yourself if you really want to help yourself if you want to fool around it’’s okay we can fool around we can say those things nice and high and nice bye and all that we do but that’’s you really have to project yourself very carefully what you hope to get it what is your goal what is your aim is it the family is it the money is it the health or maybe both wealth and health or what is it10728

We can help ourselves a lot just to find that then if you find your goal if it’’s money then you are put all your efforts to making money rather than doing a spiritual or separate you then you have to make a separate you so I think that’’s important point I don’’t want to go more than that I want to leave it here because that is a point I want you to remember and I of course have to give you an opportunity to answer questions but before I do that I have to otherwise I forget we be here tomorrow night but those of you who come for the retreat tomorrow night right seven or seven thirty seven thirty and then the Saturday and Sunday that retreat we have here and then this Thursday teaching the next will be Kathy would you like to say it she told me something yes (they discuss jewel heart business)