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Soundfile 20040424GRNLLR1

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

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Topic LAM RIM - ESSENCE OF LINES OF EXPERIENCE

Transcriber Nina

Date 8/13/2021

Rimpoche Chanting

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Welcome everybody and we are her together to do a study on the Essence of the Lines of Experience written by Tsonghkappa.

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So this is, what do you call it. One of the shortest texts on Lam Rim.

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Many people will know what Lam Rim is all about it and many don’t. I don’t know how many of you, any new, completely new for Lam Rim today here?

Is it only 1 person, 2, 3, 4. 5. 6. Ok 7, getting more and more, alright fine. Anyway let me explain very briefly, you know the Buddha came and did lot of teachings. And all these teachings, a variety of different teachings ah, everywhere, according to the needs of the people of that time.

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And the Buddha has collected works. And for the lay people the don’t call it collected works they

Call it buddhist canon which has little over a 100 volumes. So essence of all these 100 volumes are really, ah, the essence of all these 100 volumes are, included in some shorter version which is about 12 volumes which we call, which we call that, the Great Mother.

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Which is known as Prajna Paramita or the Transcendental wisdom. But for us to be able to practice I think we have to read 12 tibetan huge volumes which will make no sense and we won’t be able to do it, at all. So then there is a shorter version , again, shorter version of, oh forget about shorter versions, so then essence of all that teachings, there is, you know, the message is what they have is two messages, there is a direct message and an indirect message.

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The direct messages are, the wisdom message. And then indirect message are the compassion message. So in the essence, the message what they really have is, compassion and wisdom. And they both, the compassion and the wisdom is, a mental state that one individual can develop and obtain. And it is not some kind of a pure land where you can go and follow but it is something the individual can get it. In that state. The state is developed within oneself. And the way and the how the individual can develop that is some kind of organized manner put it in. It’s like stages. Like steps that you can claim. One after the other.

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So that is again, I’m not talking about the steps outside. I’m talking about our mind mental level, spiritual mental level, how can one individual take that step and then take the next one and take the next one and finally reach on the top where the Buddha was sitting. So that level of the stage in the mind can only reached by training your mind. And that also not one single thing. It’s like you know, in the west we know you say meditation. Or you say yoga or something or you will point it out one single thing one than an individual does that single thing and then becoming that. That alone not necessary get the individual anywhere.

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So there is a variety of things. So let me put the other one out. What is the state of enlightenment? As we, in the spiritual field, in the buddhist field, or anywhere we will say, I like to be that one. So that one is we are talking about, state of enlightenment . That is what we call the inner way state of enlightenment or not, another way is Buddhas state, another way it is the state of total knowledge or knowing, awakened state, all of them. Is referred to that. So is that something we can get it, or we simply worship and pray? Or can we really become that. And the Buddha says we can. And Buddha said, I become like a buddha I become a Buddha and I was just like you and me before and become a Buddha and when I can why can’t you. That is the Buddhas challenge to people.

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So, then the question comes, how did you become like that? So the Buddhas reply for this is:

Because I have been able to clear all the blocks that holding me back, or blocking me. I’ve been able to clear all of them. And I’ve been able to clear that, then I become total knowledge. Because that is nothing blocking me, nothing makes me not see, not know. So it is clearing all blocking or removing all the curtains that are blocking total view, so thats how I became total knowledge.

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So that’s how a Buddha says thats how I have become to this stage. I will share my experience with you and you try, and if you try you will make it because I made it. And another one like me, many others made it. So why not you. So then the second question is obvious. What is blocking this? What is the obstacles, what is the curtain , what is the block, what is it? So, it is some kind of, some kind of evil or evil activity or some kind of a evil trying to hold me back or what is it?

So the Buddhas answer for this. Yes it is your internal evil that is holding you back. So then the question is. What is my internal evil. How it looks like? Does that internal evil have some little things and horns? And tails or what is it?

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You know our normal image of evil you can see in the movies all the time. Or what is it?

So the simple answer for this is, Buddha says no there is no horn, there is no fangs, no tail nothing but it controls us completely. Who is that controlling us completely? In our mind we will immediately think it is maybe the god that is controlling us. Or it maybe my mother in law. Who is it? Who to you think it is? Anyway. So. It is a state of confusion.

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‘?” said : confusion means you’re not really clear. You are not knowing. You are confused right?

So traditionally they call it ignorance. But they truly now called Ego. State of confused. And totally covered with the all kinds of, the total source of all negative emotions and negative karma and every negativities. It is quite a simple if we look in our life we see the state of confusion and the fear combined together then we make all kinds of things, which hurt us all the time. Even in our every day life if we look at, not knowing clearly what’s going on and what’s going to happen, plus you have some fear comes in, and then you do everything, whatever is possible, just to relieve your pain or suffering, we do everything, I don’t know, drink, even if you give up drinking you repeat cause and if you don’t get in where you are you go to Paris and get drunk.

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Or, here you can go to coffee shop. The coffee shop not that bad. People don’t satisfy there and you go beyond. So if you look at them what makes the individual to do this? The confused state of our mind for sure, plus fear adds up you know, the fear will make the sense of urgency you got to do something and run here, run there, do this, try that, try this. So that’s how it really works in our life everyday right? You ask any junkie they will tell you. Thats how they became junkie.

Right? I mean you know better than I do. Laughs. So, so that is now everyday life right? That is what we see. I thin. But then you go beyond that we don’t see. Or don’t know directly. It is the same way. So confused state, that is what we are. Absolutely, We are absolutely, we are in confused state. Every signal our life, we’ll see we are in confused state.

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No matter whatever we might be. High. As high as President Bush or just like us, we are all in total confused state. If we are not in confused state what are we doing in Europe? Or for that matter from everywhere. Everything, so it is confused state. Whether you are the world leader or individual. Individual if you are not confused why are we in that mess? So the confused state is our life that is we are all in it. I don’t want to say it but it almost looks like its our nature. So on top of that we add the fear. Some kind afraid of this, afraid of that, don’t have this, don’t have that, so fear comes in. That’s your perfect evil. From that we pick up. Me and my and you and yours.

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So that brings aversion and desire. So, so when we are basically in confused state, plus there is a fear, then you add up the desire and aversion and then there you are. We get this pull -push fight within ourselves. And that is the reason why I say the source of all our negative emotion sand negative activities and negative karma because of that. So that is the block that is the curtain that makes you not to see, that is what the Buddha talks about. So that has been in our habit, for, according to Buddha, that has been in our habit ever since we can think of it. Not only we can just remember it, we can really imagine and think of it. That is our deepest addiction. Because it’s been with us ever since we can think. We can even imagine, life before life, life, life you know, zillions of lives. So it is all so, that is why it not easy to get rid of it. If is simple we can just wash our hands and walk away. But you can not. It drives us around.

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And also it has many faces. Tremendous amount of faces. To some people it is a frightening face. To some it's a loving face. All kinds of things. countless. And that’s why to get rid of that there is also so many variety to do. And if you have to do everything one by one our life is not good, not long enough. So there is a better way of handling that. So the Buddha sums up that into a sort of a number of steps that you can follow. Put them all together. That is what the Pranja Paramita is or Transcendent Wisdom is. The Wisdom Sutra is so important because of that reason. So, that message within that Transcendental Wisdom was made as simple for one individual to think one after another. With words. With commentaries. With mediations. And that is Lam Rim. So now get what Lam Rim is all about. Many people say Lam Rim was written by Tsongkhapa. Yes Tsongkhapa made Lam Rim explanations but that does not mean Tsongkhapa is the creator of Lam Rim.

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So the Buddha and maybe buddhas are the really the writer of the Lam Rim or the center of

Lam Rim. So that's why if you look here, what I see here is, I think you call it Page 12, what I have here. Page 12 here. And it says: I abide to Guru Manjugosha, Manjugosha is another name for Manjushri or the Buddha of Wisdom. What is Buddha Manjushri? Do you hear that very often, Buddha of the Love, Buddha of Wisdom, Buddha of Compassion, this and that. You hear very often. But what are they? I do not know how to explain this. But when people became awakened state called Buddha state and then you are reaching some state which has no limit whatsoever. No limitations. So you can do anything you want to .

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You can manifest it. So the wisdom oriented mental state takes a physical form of Manjushri.

Or, Buddha of Love Maitraya, Buddha of Compassion Avaloskiteshvara or something, some kind of a physical form where we can identify and label it and deal with it and that’s what manifestation is all about, it think. All these are in reality they are all Buddha, not only are they all Buddha maybe they are all one Buddha. But they have different forms here and there. Just like those dancers who one person who dances wears a different mask and costume and says I’m this and I’m that and they come and do their performance and we get entertained. But we all know, in reality they are all the same guy. Whoever the dancer is. Guy or person, whoever.

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So thats why you have so many different deities here and this and that and all of them is in reality if you press down on it, is one. Yet there’s different manifestation for different purposes. And a since our objectivity that we have to get rid off it, is ego and confused state to overcome that is a wisdom. Therefore they chose the Wisdom Buddha as of here, first two.

And then next, the first verse is the praise of the Buddha. [

41:06.3 quotes in tibetan Something tunde ku] So when you you talk about Buddha and for us when we say a John and we are looking at one person who don’t make much distinction. But when you looking at the Buddha or even at John, when you look at it carefully, you get what we call John has a three or four, a lot of aspects there. A lot of aspects, and a lot of them, whatever even when we look at the microphone here there are so many aspects put together and it becomes microphone, right. Even when you look at this little strawberry here, and this little strawberry if you look in there carefully there are so many different molecules put together and it become a strawberry.

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And like wise when you look at the person there are so many things but basically you do have the physical aspects of the person what we call body and the sound of expression aspect of the person what we call sound and then the mental aspects of the person what we call the mind. Basically you have 3 important aspects, the John, the combination of Johns body, Johns speech and Johns mind. John that be able to communicate, John that be able to think and John that be able to move. So you have this body mind and speech, is the real essence of every beings we have that.

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So when you praise Buddha, you just don’t praise Buddha, just say, Hey, you are Buddha, you are great I bow to you, that does not make sense. So what makes sense is, let me put this first. Why do we praise Buddha? We don’t praise Buddha just because we praise him because we want him to like us. That means we are bribing Buddha, you can’t bribe Buddha and also it’s silly.

So what is more important here. Is praising Buddha because we like Buddha, we like your body, we like your speech, you like your mind and I admire yours and I like to become like you. I would like to have your mind, I would like to have your quality of speech, I would like to have your quality of the body. That is what praise is all about here, not just hey you’re great you know. In the judeo christian tradition you can’t’ say hey Mary, Hail Mary whatever. GR laughs. Not even if you’re catholic. And if you have no dealings with our self, we have nothing to do with ourself, you’re great, alright, you’re great, good bye. You’re great and I’m great so I’m going this way, you going that way, bye bye. So there is no connection, whatsoever.

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So even we pray in church, we pray in church, because you know. we kneel down, we put our hands together and then we ask something. Cause again it’s a personal connection that we are looking for with a God or whatever in church. Is not that you just say you’re great, bye. You don’t say that right? And here, the connection you are building is even more than what we are talking in church. You know you’re talking in church, you praise, praise praise and then we ask something, good health, good business or whatever you know. But here, it is more then that, You are looking at the body of the buddha and then you say hey, the body of yours is such a fantastic. That does not mean you’re handsome or thin or fat or, we are not talking about that. We are talking about that your body is made out of, here it says born out of, but your body is made out of, you know everything is made out of something.

Even our physical body that you and I have it, is made out of a lot of, many things right? So there you are looking at the Buddhas body and say, hey, your body is really made out of tens of millions of

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Virtues and this is sort of really a perfect accomplishment of all physical things. And so you really look at it and saying, It is just not flesh and bone and all this, but it is a really millions of virtues came together, this is really the ultimate perfection of the physical level. So that’s what you have and I admire this and I want to get that. This one I want it. Thats what the prayer thing about the body is all about it. It says, well, does not one for me to read the [ 51:04.2 lineage?] so..

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This is a very short way of saying the quality of the Buddhas body. Otherwise there’s a lot of way of saying. And I think Tsongkhapa or somebody says:

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Quotes in tibetan

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Then Tsongkhapa says ‘When you start looking in the quality of the Buddha in the body or speech or mind whatever, it;s like the great eagle, the big one. When they keep on flying in the air and the other little one, the birds get tired and have to be landed on the ground rather than finishing the sky or the space. You know they can never finish the space. Just like that, when you looking at Perfection Body quality and the other little ones no matter whoever’s looking we get tired and we have to stop there not because there is nothing you know extra length that we can not say it, thats in the short of it, of the quality of the buddhas speech. Not necessarily the Buddhas, only don’t think of the historical buddha but think of the Buddha that you and ourself will become in the future and that buddha has that quality. - the quality of body.

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The 2nd line here, [quotes in tibetan] and that is about the speech and again, there is countless qualities of the speech, they are the most important of all . The speech has the capacity to fulfill the wishes of people. The speech grants the wishes of limitless beings, it says here. But speech grant wishes that does not mean you go to Buddha and Buddha says yes yes yes. It does not become granting the wishes. But the quality of that speech, the most important speech is, to be able to communicate to us, to a level where we can understand and comprehends, what can I do to help me?

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[On the basis of you, the Buddhas experience ]You get me? It’s not wish granting means, Buddha sits up there and we pray and he says yes yes yes, granted, granted, granted. Doesn’t work. If we are granted to have we are through, if we are not granted to have we are through. So you never know. Doesn’t work that way. And the way and how you fulfill our wishes is to give us the knowledge, information and the capacity that to learn what to do. That is most important way.

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We know in our every day work, every day life, we know the communication is one of the most important things. We all know that there is not question. If we miscommunicate or communication breaks we are getting into trouble, we know that. And especially if we are drawing on the experience of somebody and that experience must communicate it. Otherwise we won’t know. I mean look at it anyway, look at scientist and their work and they discover something. And whatever they discover, if they can not communicate to anybody and what is the use of the discovery. It is the communication that becomes so important and it is almost like a life line for our functioning we know today. n So the Buddhas communication to us, and if it’s not it stops, we don’t get the message and we don’t get the benefit of the experience that Buddha had. So that’s why this communication is really a gem for us. It is really a jewel for us.

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And thats what fulfill our wishes. So you praise that way. Though they traditionally say, what, there is 12 qualities and 81 of them and there is millions of different qualities and a

1:02:42.2 quotes in tibetan a

sunjen ye…..

and so maybe you speaking a lot and [????????and blah blah]

All of them they are but most important is the communication so it makes the wish fulfill.

And the last one is mind.

We read now, we talk about that speech, giving message, communications but where that message really comes from is the mind. And the words, that wonderful body were talking about it. Who has it? The mind. So if that mind doesn’t have a perfect knowledge then you can not communicate anything perfect. If you don’t have it. Even in our ordinary level, everyday in our life, if you look at the people, you deal with the people and peoples level of understanding and knowledge and experience and the quality that expressed through speech, through body, anything makes difference and helps, people we know that, right? And when there is no knowledge and there is no information and there is not quality in mind then we will say ‘empty headed’, nobody is living in there, right?

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And there is all of you hear that …………….?

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Even among ourselves, if you have a good education, knowledge, experience or something and we consider that person has something more than a look. And when you don’t have the expert that sort of how we made ourself, through that door? So everybody’s equal, everyone’s the same, everyone is wonderful and all that but you know in our own mind we know, we know, we all judge people by that way. Don’t we. Am I right or wrong? Thats because someone is living in there, right? So the Buddha’s there has to be total knowledge. Total knowledge. So no blocking. No curtain. Nothing. So that's why you call that total knowledge or thats what you call that awakened state. So that is the mind we are talking about. So the difference between our mind and enlightened mind is how much we see.

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We see the present tense with confusion. And we see no future, we can simply guess on the basis of our knowledge, experience and information, thats what we are. So the enlightened mind, that’s why it is called the enlightened mind, sees everything, Past, present and the future. So it’s a huge difference. Right? So that is the quality of the mind. So we, the historical Buddha who represents all these qualities are, belongs to the Shakya caste of the traditional Indian whatever, the caste system. We say I bow to you the great Shakya guy. Rimpoche laughs. It is really true!

So now we can have a coffee with the Shakya. Continue from where we start. The next verse is:

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Na me tumba ……- Rimpoche quotes

So the first verse does not really exactly stay here. Anyway, the first verse in tibetan,

Na me tumba tey josh??? Quotes in Tibetan.

Referring to the Buddha himself and saying that equivalent less, another word, there is no other person like you, referring to all the buddhas not necessarily a Buddha. But all enlightened ones, there is no equivalent, those are peerless. If you are to compare between the enlightened and the non enlightened earlier I did talk before we had tea break we talked. Our mind and the enlightened mind, what do we see what we don’t see, how they see. There is no comparison at all, thats why. No equivalent. So as a peerless, peerless teacher in english. So which is referring to Buddha, peerless master, Buddha,

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Na me tumba taa said shok …..so among the best spiritual followers. Or the spiritual children of that great peerless Buddha are, the two outstanding. Two outstanding, not because two are good and others are not so good, because two came out. Why? Because we talked earlier, to overcome our negatives and particularly ego and we talked about the wisdom, then we talked about he compassion, so it’s the 2 major lines of important message experienced teaching and that’s why it is 2 wives. So that’s why 2 disciples. The Manjushri and Maitreya. The Manjushri and the Maitreya, one is the wisdom aspect of it and one is the compassion aspect of it. So thats why Maitreya Buddha and the Manjushri named here but what is really message giving you is the two most important that the Buddhas experience come sharing to us is the Wisdom aspect and Compassion aspect and the front runner or the banner carrier of these two messages are Manjushri and Maitreya so that’s why admire and prostrate to Manjushri and Maitreya.

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The next verse , quotes in tibetan

How whatever it is, sasoo na or sasoo nag or whatever it is. Quotes in tibetan again.

So there when you taking about the Manjushri and the Maitreya we are talking about the non human level, non human level where there’s Buddhas outstanding disciple who carry the message and carry the banner as Manjushri and Maitreya and what they expressed is, what they call 1:17:01.6 the garray ung?? Which is think is called here the mother of Buddhas, mother of buddhas which is Prayna Paramita, the transcendental wisdom we talked about it. That is what they are referring to the mother of Buddhas. Transcendental wisdom which has a direct message of wisdom and indirect message of compassion. Is the Creator of enlightened beings, so therefore it’s called Mother of the Buddhas. So earlier we talked about that the Buddha said, the experience I gained to overcome the blocks or the curtain, we said the wisdom is the key and along with that, compassion. So really the 2 main points. And so, 2 main points carry the message, carry non human level, Manjushri and Maitreya Buddha and then at the human level right in front, earlier in India, is Nagrajuna and Asanga. There’s, I don’t want to go into detail, but they are known as the forerunners of the, or the path openers of the Buddhist, called the, the first driver who drives through a difficult road, or something like that. Whatever the expression might be but these are the 2 important messenger of human level. The first and most important human beings are the Nagrajuna and Asanga. So thats why they are outstanding.

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They are referred as ornament of the world. Quotes in tibetan.

Why it is called ornament? It looks like there was nobody, there was a world called ornament of the world, so looks like they got that word. What did they do to get such an award, such a title and their mainly job was to explain the mother of the buddhas.

1:21:32.0 Shinpa …..quotes in tibetan. Which is so difficult to understand. Why is it so difficult to understand? Not because its [????.language] it is difficult, not because its such a high poetry, maybe it is correct poetry but not because of those reasons. Because of the reason is, difficult to understand is not the meaning of the word we are talking about it. And we are talking about meaning of the word in the message and to be able to comprehend that by ourselves with our standard. That was difficult. Not difficult to read book. Maybe is a little confusing too. But what’s so difficult to understand is we don’t get it. Variety of reasons. Why we don’t get it. All kind of reasons. The culture. The capacity.

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When you said difficult to understand and many people might think it’s hard to read it’s not that.

The understanding goes beyond of reading and getting message. In every every day life when we try to communicate with our parents especially the stubborn father and we try to talk to him and try to get him to understand what we are saying but however he its not going to get it. But you want him to get it. Right. And so it goes he does not get it. No matter whatever you do. Say it, speak, Dance, monkey dance do whatever short temper, do whatever you do, he doesn’t get it. So that is the difficult part of it, that’s difficult to understand, thats what they are talking about it. Not read word or what does the word say, and that because, that because, the culture, not necessary the Western or the Eastern culture, but the culture of the personality. And the culture of the persons. And so that is why we don’t get it. And where does that culture comes from? That culture comes from our emotions. And our thoughts and our beliefs and our understanding and our habits, so when you say difficult to understand, means that. Is not a difficult in language, language, confusion they are all there, we all know every language has that. But more or less that’s it. So what Nagrajuna and Asanga and many other great masters have done is try to bring that into the culture where we can understand. And where we can be able to communicate and all that. And that’s why becomes the ornament of the word. Its like icing on cake. The message of Prajnaparamita is like a cake and then you can have the cream on top of it and make it smooth and a wonderful, right?

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And in some …you can bring the water in mouth all that but because of that, just like that, the interpretation of the explanation make as suitable for us to consume and to use it .That sort is difficult to understand is all about it I think.

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Not only they have interpreted for easy to understand but also interpretation is one thing sometimes you can interpret and loose the essence. And if you interpret and loose the essence then it is lost, you completely lost the root. So why they are so excellent, not only not lost the root and maintained the root and make it grow and have a personal experience and then bring to the culture and to a level where we can understand . So now you have to think these are the lineages. Lineage that Buddhas experienced and shared by Buddha and then comes through the 2 great ones. An example, there are zillions but two great ones example Maitreya and Manjushri followed by the Nagarjuna and Asanga. Each one of them are representations. But there are zillions. Sort of a true message, maintain true. Not only true but personally experienced and interpreted to be able to understand in the culture that we are used to, we can use it. That’s the Nagarjuna and Asanga why they are called so excellently.

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The next verse goes ,shimba.. quotes in tibetan

Next is referring to …?? Or ….Atisha. Is is not that Atisha is a disciple of Nagarjuan or Asanga but there is a long lineage in between since we can not go through everything, so then Atisha becomes one important one, and that is why they pick up Atisha here. So, the English part here’s says transmitted intact from the 2 great forerunners (foreigners?] what does it mean whether I, can be included with in it? Whether it can be included or can not be included does not matter. But word that I wanted is transmitted, transmitted intact from the 2 great. So the 2 Great,referring to Nagarjuna and Asanga and,

1:35:35.3[……..quotes in tibetan) so with no mistake, perfect instructions are brought. You know, if you make mistake, then you have a problem. If you have a problem at this level then you are going to have a problem to continue in the future. So that’s why it says improvising here. Atisha without making any mistake. Picked it up, a message that has come through these 2 great masters, through a lot of in-between but through these 2 great masters and why Atisha? Because Atisha is the one Mongolian prince who brought this to Tibet and thats why specifically mentioned him, and also the Atisha is the founder of a Kadam tradition in Tibet. Kadam, KA-DAM really means every word of the Buddha has a specific message and a meaning, so nothing has dropped, nothing has wasted, everything brought intact. That is what really word Kadam mean. When you say Kadampa, the person who has learned the Kadam system. So the Atishia is the real founder of the Kadam tradition,

1:37:30.0 [so thats why Aisha’s one of the many reasons ]why Atisha is specifically mentioned and prostrated here.

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The next verse is the old masters.

Quotes in Tibetan

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Very difficult to read this tibetan ….

Tibetan

Anyway this particular verse is all the masters, direct lineage, the reasons why,

Quotes tibetan

What these teachers, masters, group leaders, are brining is. They confide that I is able to see the difficult message, they are talking about. Remember the mother of the Buddha? The message is provided us the I that will be able to see the message.

Quotes in Tibetan

By seeing that particular path and difficult to understand, that making it easier to know, giving us a path to be able to follow us to the liberation. So kind person. Who is wise. So these are the masters, the teachers. The Group leaders. And all of them at their job. It is a job description here. Job description here. To be able to provide the eye to be able to see, the difficulty to see. Hear, the difficulty to hear. Understand the difficulty to understand. Show the path which you are able to follow so then you become object of refuge. So that’s why the masters been?

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Ok? After here, I think the first and foremost word of Tsongh Kappa here to praise the Buddha and Manjushri, Asanga, Nagrajuna, sorry, Manjurshir, Maitreya, Nagrajuna, Asanga, Attisha and masters. So that part is over. Now I have to read my tibetan and because I can’t read over there.

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So when you really read in here, these are the prayers and these are the reasons and this why and here you come to a commitment and this and. That. So. Im not going to do that. We are going to read through. Simple way.

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Reads tibetan

So here they are. Talking about Lam Rim. What is great Lam rim is all about it. It is. What does Lam Rim do? Where does. Lam Rim come from ? What does Lam Rim do we talked earlier. Where does it come from? Is it from Buddha? And then toward the Maitreya , Manjushri, Asanga, Nagarjuna, Attisha, Tshongkhapa and throughout all master. They come from there. So what is that one? Where does such a great thing that is come from?

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Quotes in tibetan

So this is referred as wish fulfilling. Why is it wish fulfilling? Whatever our, the peoples desire, can be fulfilled by this. So it is referred as Jewel. A Jewel is you know, it is Asian culture not even true, Asian culture even in the Western culture you have the magic lamp and all that, always they use it in kids stories, anyway, magic lamp, the Genie there. So if you have a Genie, a magic lamp, you shake the magic lamp, the Genie pops up and whatever you want. But in our story, the genie has limitations. You can do 2 or 3 at most. 1 or 2 or 3. But here you don’t have that limitations. You can fulfill all your wishes so therefore it is jewel light.

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So this needs to be explained a little bit. Otherwise you think you talk about the genie, you talk about lamp and then what are you talking about here. And here is this. If you have developed. Development of this stage of Lam Rim then whatever you desire maybe you can get out of. Your most important desire will be freedom. Freedom from suffering. Then you have your second desire will be, by that time, you will want nothing else except feeling compassion, being kind and love and that can be given out of here. And then also becomes not only I liberate myself but I also want to liberate everybody else.There you need the wisdom. So all of them you can get out of here so that’s why its Genie like lamp.

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Our desire will be joy and happiness. Joy and happiness can be delivered by this. Not by this book, not by this information, but information if you process with into your self. And you bring yourself up and then this works. Thats what they are talking about it. Otherwise people think oh this information can deliver. You know we have a funny joke in Tibetan. There was a great sutra called ‘White Umbrella”, there is deity also White Umbrella. So when you read ‘The White Umbrella’ and it says benefits it says, this will protect you from fire, this will protect you from water, this will protect you from poison and all of that. They say in that book.

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So a Nomad in Tibet got a book and got one of those book and he thought this protects from fire, thieves, poison and everything else so he kept it up there nicely that book , And then the Nomads would deal with the butter and the milk products, dairy products all the time so the book probably got a lot of butter effects and so forth 1:51:46.1 So one day an animal went up there

and ate the book. So that Nomad said, what if it protects from fire, water, poison and everything but can not protect from the animals?

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So thats a misunderstanding. So again saying this book is not a genie, this book is not a wish , you know, fulfilling jewel but message maintained through this and if individual develops through that way then it can be Genie, it can be the magic lamp and it can be everything you want.

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Rimpoche quotes in tibetan

This is also ocean like, treasure, you know in the ocean you get everything. Right? Whatever you want to. Everything is there. Really. In the ocean. It’s an ocean like treasure to maintaining all informations. The ocean maintains all the streams and the rivers that come throughout the world or wherever. Its a family float to ocean. Just like that. All the messages, informations and everything is maintained in this tiny little few verses. Everything, so thats why it’s like an ocean here.

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Again, that does not mean these few pages have every information available there, it does not mean that. You cant’ have zillions of pages of information can not fit on a few pages. We all know that, Clearly, but what it meant is, the essence of this message, if maintained by individual, so all variety of informations, will be stored, will be available. It’s like saving on on the computer. So what kind of a message is mentioned in here? Not how to m make money. Not. The message whatever meant here, quotes in tibetan.

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Sang…in tibetanMeans the fortunate people who will be able to deliver themselves to a total enlightened level, that message is mentioned in here. So those is the essence, the real, I’m using to much essence here, so it almost sounds like Chinese medicine, essence of this, essence of that. Rimpoche laughs. The real main practice, main work that has done by the great masters such as Nagarjuna, Asanga, Attisha, Tsongkhapa and all of them. So so that’s why it is ocean like. And it’s also not ocean like, the dumped everything in there, but its sort of organized, organized manner in which we are easy to take it and practice. So thats why it’s like an ornament.

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What other do put individual?

Quotes in tibetan

So the foremost important quality in this very specific quality, are the Lam Rim. What does that Lam Rim do? Lam Rim is so small sometimes, sometimes its huge volume, but whatever it may be, small organized, short practice within the one individual can understand all these teachings, of all different, you know I said once, without contradicting to each other.

This is particularly true today in the west, number of people tells us, that by studying these Tibetan teachings, particularly Lam Rim teachings, I understand my tradition of catholic or judaism much better than I used to understand. So many people even told me personally, the Professors, the religious teachers, the preachers and many scholars they tells us. And that is prove to be without contradicting to see all of them together.

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So without contradiction to understanding is more important. If you don’t get this we get the wrong message. And the wrong message, you know what happens to the world today. If you look back in history we fought almost all the wars in last century or century before that in the world is on the basis of religion. Believe it or not. So all these problems we are looking back, not only in past, even today, all of our problems are, sort of somehow grounded in this religious problem.

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Antisemitism, Jews killed Jesus or whatever, so all of those. And within the different sects of the christian tradition, you know. All of them. And the hindu vs. muslim, muslim vs. hindu. Now you know, all of those. And the Buddhists are not free of that scandal either. So that is the lacking, the lack of understanding of non contradictory manner. So, it is so important that this Lam Rim message must get delivered today throughout so that we can challenge extremists. It is not only the muslim extremist is the problem. It is also great many, you know, you know what extremists are, as though we think it's only the muslim. But it's not. Especially with the effects of this Mel Gibsons movie “The Passion of the Christ” and you know what’s happening throughout the world. So the extremists have so much problems and buddhists are no exception at all. Because of what we went through 2:05:13.2 [with Tibet and ? ?]all problems you can see. Extremists are everywhere, every tradition.

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And that is non contradictory nature of the enlightened beings experience. If you look from that window you’ll see it. We can see it through our eyes, our compassion, and love, we see that love compassion message as essence of almost every religion have that. And when you look through, even in the Judea christian tradition you will see it for the years we saw compassion and love and there was a, you get a hit on your right cheek turn the left one, and all this and it worked out absolutely well. And served tremendous humanitarians, so many human beings, so many difficulties, so many disasters, they have done so much to educate people. To bring education, to bring the matters, to bring the help, to bring food, to bring shelter to have done so much. And we waiting to the extent of seeing the goddess love, love is god, god is compassion, compassion is god, we wait up to that extent.

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Same as Buddhism, Buddha is love., Love is Buddha, Buddha is compassion, blbllblblbl…we are up to that extent. And now if you look from the wrong window, and I like to look the movie,

The Passion or what is it called ? Translator says “Passion of the Christ’ If we look in that movie and you don’t see the life of Jesus throughout how much you know they been helping and did great things you are looking at the 12 ? hours, last 12 hours of suffering, torture can you even change the guard into this macho guy, so you know, it is true, if you don’t look from the non contradictory manner you get into tremendous trouble, you know thats what it is. And so much antisemitism, all kinds, all the extremism going on today is because of this problem.

Lack of this problem. And then you know it becomes like my god is the great god and yours is terrible and if you don’t listen to me here you go, bonk. So thats exactly what’s happening. So it’s really need of today. But the first is first. You know, we hav to fill up our stomach.

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