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Earlier we have been talking about the qualities of teaching itself and we talked….. (reciting in Tibetan only few words) and the teachings of the great beings and the Buddha’s teachings, great being teachings are non-contradictories. Second quality is:….( reciting in Tibetan) So, all the teachings of enlightened ones, no matter whatever, sometimes, some teachings are so detailed, sometimes it’s so simple, just simple, just very simple, one sentence, and that’s enough. So, whether it’s a detailed explanation or just very short one, whatever it may be, all the teachings deliver a message, and Lum-rim helps for us, the individual, to get that message. By getting those messages as a practice and then you find what Buddha really wants you to understand, what an enlightened person wants you to understand. So, these are the Lam-rim helps, these are the qualities. Even if you read the translation here, it says without exception, draw on your mind as a personal guideline. So sometimes personal guideline can be very teacher liberate (0:03:32) or sometimes it can be very short. So, what to get is difficult. Sometimes you hear so many words and get anything, sometime you don’t hear anything, so, Lam-rim helps to streamline them. So, they are the four great qualities of the Lam-rim. Teachings are non-contradictory, and all, every teaching, whatever you are doing, detail, not detailed whatever it may be, it is meant for one individual to obtain enlightenment. And to understand the real message of the Buddha, and the last one is to protect ourselves from great downfalls. Ok, it looks like this verse is not in English, is that right? It is verse n. 8, oh 7 sorry, yeah yeah (reading verse) so to protect oneself from the great danger of downfall that because you get information, you get knowledge, so actually it gives you an idea what to do and what not to do and that’s why it protects you from downfall. When we don’t have the information, we don’t’ know what to do, so we do something and so maybe we do wrong. So, the Lam-rim is full of information, I mean you will see it with what will come. Then the next verse: (reading verse) So, because of those reasons and then no matter whoever, as long as you are an intelligent person who will not appreciate this because it has all these qualities, it helps the people to become what these qualities are. You know when we say the teachings have a quality, the quality is not meant to lived, lived with the teachings, but the teachings get to the individual, so the individual gets these qualities. Now for example: by having the Lam-rim teaching here you should be able to see all the correct, perfect teachings are non-contradictory. And if you are looking to a Buddhist window, then it will be whether it’s Battriana teachings or non Battriana teaching, or theravada teachings or whatever, should not be contradicting but should be contributing to each other. If you are looking from the Tibetan Buddhist window only then then should be not contradicting where there is ……… (0:09:14) (inaudible) whatever and they should not be contradicting. And if you are looking in general spiritual path, whether it’s guide-Christian tradition, Hindu Buddhist tradition, or Muslim tradition, whatever, they should not be contradicting. The teachings I mean, not necessarily the tradition. That doesn’t mean you can mix them up and create great American …..(0:10:19) (audience laughing) Because it has its own qualities and all that. So, there is nothing wrong to learn, there is nothing wrong to help yourself from any angle, whatever we can help, we need a lot of help. It’s also not so great to have all mixed, mixed all together and then finally have a great new age tradition. It’s not a tradition, great new age tradition. So, it’s really important here to get everything and do not make hotpot. Perhaps that is difficult. Maybe I should leave it there, should not talk too much, I’ll get into trouble. You know some people look different way, some people have a very different way of looking, I pick up this, I pick up that, and then put up all together, not as a chop-sew (0:12:43) and a mix like a new age, but you know they sort of organize and then they put them in one little box and then they level them as Buddhist, and then another one they level them Catholics, another one levels them Christians and another one put in box and levels them Jewish and Muslims and Hindus, I don’t know. So whatever let me even put …(inaudible)…, all those names on top. (0:13:15) but that sort of compartmentalize, putting separately int that, that is also not great. You know when I say do not mix them so you may think you have to have all boxes together, organized and called situation under control. (audience laughing). So, seeing the non-contradictory that really now bolds down too, what is your aim? what I your block? how do I get rid of it? So, every point wherever you are struggling, so any information that comes and hits that problem, or to overcome that problem, then bring them together at that level. Maybe helpful. But still I’m not talking about the subject classifications, and when I said that it looks like such classifications, it’s not. Anyway, so I think I will continue. (Reading verse..) so here tells you, even this is short, and maybe one time only you do it, whether you listen, teach, meditate, whatever, so you do have the benefit of really practicing, learning, reading, thinking of all the teachings of the Buddha because it has all the essence of the Buddha’s teaching in there. So, in another verse again, this is so great, maybe I shouldn’t, oh that is good enough, let it be. So, the Lam-rim practice provides a fundamental, important base of practice to anyone who ever do whatever. So how do we study Lam-rim? There are 3 ways: the first is learning, the second is contemplating and the third is meditating. So, they are really linked together. If you do not meditate, nothing happens. And if you don’t know on what you have to meditate, your meditation will not be perfect. So, you need to find what subjects you have to meditate. So, in the order to find that, you need to understand learning. So, the step how to do this is first learning, then contemplating and then meditating. The learning also, so you can collect information as a base of information, like reading books or learning from professors, in the college, education or in that style? But in this case, they are not good enough. So, what you need is, you need a continuation of a teaching from Buddha himself. The continuation does not mean, Buddha said somewhere, said then it remains in books or tips or something didn’t get lost and you rediscovered and opened it up, that doesn’t mean it is continuation. Here, the continuation means a living tradition, so one life teacher giving teaching to another life person and then continuing living tradition, what we call unbroken limit and all of them, learning through that way, plus added up all reading informations will be the way to learn. And if you don’t have that living tradition then there is no force. So, it is important to have that living tradition, and whatever you have learnt and when I use the word contemplating, contemplating can mean anything, so, actually contemplating means you study it and you can study in any way, you know, through discussion, through reading, through analyzing, through anything. So that is contemplating here. So, that’s why the first and foremost over here introduces true devotion of practice. So that is, (reading verse….) Do we have that right? Do we have that in Dutch, right? So, you can hand over to the lady the Dutch version and she can read it. Lady reading translation in Dutch. So now this is what we call famous guru devotion of practice. So, it is a big question in our life, the question really is, the guru thing is a big issue, everybody else knows, it’s a big issue. What is it? Do we need it? Why? Why not? There is a countless question on that. And if you look at in here there that says: (silence for a while) We have a very worthy translation here, you should see the …..excellent, for the great … of good (inaudible (0:26:34)… very, very strong beautiful wordy? thing here. What is really saying here, (reading verse in Tibetan). It’s saying our good things for this life and future lives, really lies to guru devotion practice. This sounds very strange, particularly in the Western culture, saying all good things are coming from there, it’s much too much. It is acceptable to say: this is good one, but if you say every good one comes from here, it’s too much claim, isn’t? But in the true reality it is not too much, it was said it is true, that’s the real, what it is. Why it is? It is very interesting, if you look here, why it is? When you look into the Buddhist window, then every individual person, every one of us, whatever we do, whatever is happening to us, the responsibility lies to the individual, him or her so. It is not necessarily, not even not necessarily, it’s just not a creation of some third thing. Each one of us is responsible, I’m responsible for my deeds and you are responsible for your deeds. And you know this, we know this and somehow, we do not accept it, but we knew it. And the question one has to rise to one individual: what does that mean? That means, if I do something good, I get something good, if I do something bad, I get something bad. Or if I hurt somebody, I should be responsible for that. So, that is culturally accepted. And if you don’t own the responsibility, then they will assume you, get all the lawyers busy. All the lawyers standing in front, with the blue dresses, one after another, haha. Everybody is wearing blue here. Marylin is in blue, … is in blue, Annamaria is in blue, haha, blue people will catch us, right? (everybody laughing) So that means knowing culture. With someone is excepted, we know, we cannot sew anybody in the spiritual field. (audience laughing). That means you understood me, forget it. (everybody laughing). That’s a joke, ok? Ok, so we are responsible for ourselves. So, so, so really that means each and every one of us are our own leader. It is true if you cannot lead yourself who else can lead you? So, we are our own leader, you have to remember that, this is Western culture, too. It’s not strange Eastern religions. Punky things. If that so, where do I get my information? And my information is now I’m maintained from the enlightened source. Not just from CIA. If you get the CIA information you landed in Iraq. (hahah) So it’s not the right thing to do. So, the spiritual thing is we have to have reliable information. That reliable information comes from the enlightened source and the messengers who carry that information are the representatives of enlightenend society. So, they are called Gurus in Sanskrit and masters in normal or English use. So, the word Guru is a Sanskrit word, and the purpose of the Guru and what Guru is supposed to do, all of them, as follows now. I do not understand from you people what sort of idea do you get when you say the word Guru. Some people will get an image of whatever, those chitenanden, mutenanden??? (0:37:32) and all that type you know of thing. Who knows what gets? How many people here, well how many, let us say 50 or whatever it is. So, you may get 50 different visions. Think about yourself, what do you get. And what do you understand by the word Guru. If you translate that, Gu-Ru I believe it’s called heavy, translator asks: heavy like heavy weigth? Yeah heavy. That doesn’t mean heavy in weight, but heavy in quality. Guru is a guide, Guru is a role model, so if you don’t’ have good quality you become bad role model. So that’s why this word heaviness comes in. And that word in Tibetan is actually Lama which really means lama ………(0:39:50) no one better than that. So, these are just words, so no one better than this one. Interesting, isn’t it? Perhaps it’s true, it’s true to the individual, in my case I should look personally to my Gurus, and when I look to my Gurus they are the best, they are the best that I can get. I’m not here to judge on those who are better among them, I’m here to see they are the best for me. So, it really becomes nothing better, nothing better than that for quality. So, I see them as an object of refuge, I see them as a source of joy, I see them as a source of inspiration, and I see them most importantly, representing total enlightened beings. So, our connection to the enlightened beings through the bridge of Guru is perhaps one of the best that we have established in our life time actually. So, you see a number of spiritual people around and some of them have a very good, extremely good information but not that helpful. And some of them may not have that much spiritual information but very helpful. Some have both, which is excellent. So that very much depends on the relationship between your own spiritual master and yourself. I see a number of people in the world, some are extremely popular spiritual persons but not very helpful to so many people. Because that individual is a wonderful speaker, but when you look at that person, as a practical point of view, it’s not that great. I’m sorry to say that, but it’s reality. I think the Guru is the most important, the Guru devotional practice mixed you individual be helpful for people????? (0:46:50). I think the early Tibetan teachers have said: if you do not have great respect to your Guru, and they give the metaphor of Guru as a snow mountain, and they give the metaphor of respect as sunshine, if you don’t’ have good sunshine on snow mountain, the river streams will not flow through the snow mountain. I thinks it was the …….who said (reciting in Tibetan), (0:48:26) that’s the founder of the ……tradition says: if you don’t’ have that great respect then you don’t get the rivers stream, so that’s first and almost important for us to do. And Sonkawa has said: quoting in tibetan……….(0:49:02) so he said it’s the rule of all, good qualities for us, in this particular text. I think in a practical form, not theoretical, but in practical form Buddhism is one-one is Guru devotional practice. So, what does then mean devotion. Again devotion is, like before in language, there can be so many things in there, so Sonkawa here had it made clear here. “Quoting in Tibetan…(0:50:18) Devotion in thoughts and action it’s quite a clearly mental. It says here: a …. Devotion in thoughts and action to your secret Guru who shows you the path to the enlightenment. There are two things which is thought and action. And both are important and specially thoughts are important, when I say thoughts are important I do not mean thoughts are more important than actions, I have to clarify that more. So, what kind of thoughts are we talking about? So, this is your practice, so you have a goal, whatever you want to get and you have obstacles. Two of them. The goal what they recommend is actually seeing your Guru as a Buddha, even whatever your practice is, it has the quality of Guru devotion, too. If it’s just ordinary, usual, Terabadana level of practice then you should see the Guru as Buddha. And if it’s Mahayana practice you see the Guru as equal to Buddha. And if you are a Battriana practitioners Guru is inseparate from Buddha and that is important. It is not important to the Guru, it doesn’t matter whatever you think, if you think the Guru is a devil he doesn’t become a devil, if you think Guru is a Buddha, Guru does not become Buddha. If you think Guru is good, Guru doesn’t become good, if you think Guru is bad, he doesn’t become bad. It doesn’t matter to the Guru, not a penny makes a difference. And it makes difference for me, for the practitioner. If I think he is Buddha I get Buddha’s help and blessings. And if I think he is an ordinary human being and get ordinary human beings helps and blessings. So, it makes a hell of difference to me, not to the Guru and plus it’s the living representative of the enlightenend society. So the religion should be here now is the thoughts and actions, it’s not the relationship that you have to have, every individual has to have some kind of relation or what we call it….(inaudible.(0:56:18) hahaha). Thoughts and action, so since this is like a two day Lam-rim and I can’t spend so much time talking here, so you have a detail things in all your courses, you will have it, it is in the course of, almost everywhere actually, in your three principal courses, you have …..courses (…0:57:08), you have Lam-rim courses, you have Basriana courses, wherever you go you’ll find this. This is a tricky, funny, dangerous and it’s important. And it’s tricky because we have to introduce experience; we have good experience with the Gurus, but we don’t remember. We have a lot of bad experiences with the Gurus, we’ll not forget. This is exactly what happened in the ’60ies, 70ies, 80ies and that’s why it is very tricky. And it’s important at the beginning because it’s like a guide. It’s important in the middle because it’s a source of inspiration, it’s important at the end because you become that. So, we are going to conclude that way, rather than going to talk too much here because it’s unlike before. You have so many things that you can read, the Lam-rims texts are valuable, you can read a lot of them, that’s a lot of them valuable, and so I just give you the basic information. The king of a year? (0:59:54) is to be able to see the Guru as all the Buddha and get the benefit the Buddha being at your service. So, if you want to meditate on this you have to meditate. And what you meditate is, you know like a usual meditation thing, that is very funny. The way and how you meditate will come at the end of this, not at the beginning. But everybody knows how to meditate. I don’t have to tell you how you sit and all that, you know it. And foremost important and start watching your thoughts and if you see in your own thoughts some kind of undesirable thoughts it’s important not to let that thought take over. So, change, change it to great body-mind. In brief, when you think for the benefit of all beings I would like to practice this and become perfect Buddha. And that will be your motivation. And in the Lam-rim teachings, this has been very short and we didn’t go through, but in the Lam-rim teachings you do have a privileged set of practice as here? (1:03:03) like generating body mind, four Immeasurables and the seven level practice, I’ve just simply mentioned that and many of you know already and those who don’t know, so read about it, ask your Guru leaders or anybody else within that. Make sure that you ask the right person, the right question. But if you have doubts you can confront them, countercheck, nothing wrong with that. So, then finally you can meditate lama, inseparable, that of Buddha either in front of you or on your ….(1:04:35). So, you see, and observe yourself and you see why am I stuck here, even today. That because I’ve been unable to lift myself up even to the first step. So, I and all scented beings may be able to have a perfect practice of Guru devotional practice, both thoughts and actions. I may be blessed to be able to do that. And then the enlightening comes from the Guru, inseparable that of Buddha, purify all our negativities in general and particularly the obstacle to the Guru devotion practice. So purified myself completely in both, physical and mind. And the obstacle here are mostly not having a propriate intelligence faith and doubts and misunderstandings. The doubts will come here, and normally the doubts are helpful, but if you have too much doubts all the time, then it’s a big problem. It is a big problem because too much doubts will make you not to do anything. And not having any doubt at all will also create a problem. The examples are countless. We don’t have to look very far. The incidents of the Jim Johns, Heaven’s gate, and all of those tell us not having any intelligence check, but simply accepting faith values will create those problems. So, you do need questions, and you do need get an answer. And you have to get a right answer and so that you don’t wait until the cows come home. You know too much doubts is the problems cows never come home. So, again you have to balance yourself, not engaging you in blind faith, but also not completely faithless. That faith is like a mother, a mother gives birth to the children and that faith gives you birth to your spiritual development. (Reading verses: (1:10:53…) so it’s like a mother, mother does not only give the birth, but also protects and promotes and nourishes the children, so the Guru devotional practice does that to you, to us. If you don’t have it, that faith, (reading verses……(1:11:44) then nothing will grow, it’s like no seed, you have all the moisture, heat, ground everything, but no seed. So, no right thing will grow, lot of weeds will grow. So, the root, when we say the essence of Guru devotional practice is really the relationship, the intelligent faith, please remember, intelligence faith. I think that’s the real essence of Guru devotional practice. So, I was told it’s tea-break.

So, during these particular meditations, then a very practical problem many people face is when you are focusing on your masters, some like very well-known people like his holiness the Dalai Lama or something and then you won’t have much problem, but the individual, spiritual masters that has been very close to ourself and when you begin to look at that person you begin to see the problems of the individual, we look at the persons for years, great, but a very short tempered or angry person, all kinds of problems and we will see it, we’ll see it physical, mental, emotional problems, we will see it. And these are practical difficulties. It’s somehow very rare but it’s true, somehow not. But whether it’s true or not true, the idea is not true to forget or overlook, but not emphasize from the problem point of view. ???? Whether that person has that problem or not, it’s the person’s issue, not my issue. For me, I want benefit of rejoining with the Buddha. And it is the reality of the enlightened beings, if you really look as Buddha and you can’t help Buddha’s help and blessing and If you look as a Bodhisattwa you get Bodhisattwa blessing and help and if you look as ordinary human being you look at ordinary people’s blessing and help. That is reality. To conclude this to ourselves the reason what we give to ourselves, all I want is benefit, I do not want disadvantage and therefore I’m going to follow it. And that is only personal, some people will misunderstand this, as you see this, well, there is a problem and they sweep it under the carpet, don’t worry about it and I’m not saying that. Now the sign of development of Guru devotional practice finally will ben when you are looking at your spiritual masters and you will almost merge them with the enlightened Buddha and become like almost in your mind, it almost becomes one, merging into it. I think that’s it before I fall asleep. (audience laughing) Ok and next is….(reading verses 1:20:24) Now, we are moving to the second point. Second point is embracing human life. One thing I forgot to tell you earlier, you may think it’s brain wash, it’s not. There is no brain to be washed, (audience laughing) if I have time I can go and talk about details but I don’t have, so it’s not a brain wash and somehow it’s a very tricky point, it’s our biggest struggle with this, this is our biggest struggle, once you break through from here you go very fast, but I tell you break this through and will stuck here. That’s why it’s called root of all development, root of all development, it really becomes the spiritual root and it’s very funny, very difficult but that’s reality. Second point as I mentioned embracing human life and you may think: what has that got to do with spiritual practice. Because …(1:22:54) …I know it’s important, I know it’s value, what are you talking it. I’m here to learn spiritual practice and not to learn human value. These are the human intelligence job. What are you talking about? But this is also important, in normal cases, Lam-rim is a such, until you develop one stage you normally don’t’ move to the next. But over here Guru devotional practice is so difficult to make through, so it’s recommended you go side by side together. Tzong Khapa says: the life is more important than that wish-fulfilling jewel. It is true, it’s true, if you have a wish fulfilling jewel or a Ginny? (1:25:01), lamb and then you can get anything you want from this life, magic carpet or whatever we want, but we do not recognize, but if we look carefully, this life is more than ginny?. It can give us anything we want to, it’s the quality of human life. Human achievement is fantastic, if you look at whatever we have it’s a human achievement, if you look at the scientists, look at Einstein and saying look what he had achieved, it’s a human achievement. If we look at the Buddha and Jesus and all of them, their achievement is also human achievement. So from the life point of view, this is a wonderful life, really truly great life, but we fail to recognize this, we really fail to recognize this and we do so many things and there is one: we take granted our life, two: we abuse our life, three: we abuse our body, four: we abuse our mind and we do that all the time and that’s why it’s important spiritual practice to recognize , realize, embrace and it is a great source, capable of delivering any spiritual, material, any achievement. We have a big, bad habit of abusing ourselves. That because we don’t appreciate our life and so that’s why Tzong Khapa has said it is modern than wish fulfilling jewel. And one way of abusing this, we sort of taking it for granted and it’s always there (1:29:44) ????? But the truth is, it’s not always there. It’s almost very rare that we have them there, it’s extremely difficult to find, from various reasons. Number 1: What it is? What is it made of, our life. It’s made of not only just our genes, but it’s also made of lot of our lucks. And lot of good fortune, a lot of good Karma, such a life does not come out from nowhere, it’s expensive, we can’t always get it (…..1:31:36) inaudible. We don’t have that much good luck to pay. True, true, because it looks as it’s there, it is always there, but it’s really expensive life. Now what makes for us to have a perfect life like this? The foundation, the fundamental bases is perfect morality. Good dedication and tremendous help from those …..(1:32:58) so that makes this life comes together, our life made out…….so how much morality we have, so our mind is directed to ourself, there is no secret. You get it right? No secret, we know it, so don’t have to say to anybody, you don’t have to tell to anybody else and look ourselfes and look back and what kind of morality we have. We are already liked, we are already liked lot of good morality. Means true, look at yourself, how we judge ourself, from the moral point of view, it's a sort of, sort of almost like a …………….or ………….(1:34:25) we can make it. And the way and how to do that it just look back to your last day which is yesterday. So, what did we do yesterday? So, from that we can see, it’s a sort of good or snapes for lot of our days are almost same, all together and if you look back see how naughty we’ve been yesterday and how good we’ve been yesterday and that is the base of judgement. You can figure out from there. And that’s why it’s expensive and we cannot afford it and that’s why it is so rare chance that we happens to have that life. So, Tzong Khapa here says: (reciting in Tibetan…1:36:19) it is just one occasion we happened to be found, and he says:……….it’s so difficult to find. Easy to destroy like lightening, so to conclude this. You have to embrace life, you have to recognize how important it is, I didn’t even talk about this, yes I talked something, anything you want you can achieve in this life. Really think this a little bit more carefully, if we have different life than this life, can we really achieve what we want to achieve, anything. No, we cannot, the life what we have here, yeah, here you may think: ah, life is something, there is some kind of extraterritorial, whatever is it called? Extraterrestrian life there, ore there is close encounter with third kind, there is this, there is that, if you keep on thinking this we are running in crazy part. If you look in the life what we really have, beside human beings here. What do you have in the Netherlands, lots of houses, horses, cows, pigs, dogs, cats. And all of them, compare a little bit, I’m coming from the background of incarnation so if you look and compare, we happen to be human beings who had a better chance of communicating and understanding than that of cows, and horses and dogs and cats and so on forth. So, that’s why this is important. It’s by chance that it happens to be this. Maybe you should translate that. I think, even among the human beings, if you think the junky person in the street……..(1:40:05) and ourself the difference is very little, don’t think we are great, don’t think they are bad, the distance is this much, less than a millimeter. By share chance, share like it happens to have our mind straight. They happen to have it slightly crooked. That’s what happens, that much difference so we are lucky to be in that way, but we have to struggle to maintain this all the time, we do struggle all our usual habits or addictions try to pull us all the time from every step through anything, alcohol, drugs or anything, laziness, whatever, it’s really this much between ourself and craziness. So, we have to appreciate what we are, what we have. Really, the gap is very, very little, thinner than a piece of paper, thinner than toilet paper, honestly. So not only it’s difficult to find it, but it’s easy to loose, normal traditional teachings would say easy to loose, here we talk about impermanent. The life is impermanent, it’s true, impermanent, but now in this time and day to lose this you don’t have to die, have a cup of extra bottle of beer and we will be there. Really, that happens to so many people. It doesn’t take anything, except a couple of extra bottles or two or three joints more or couple of pills, maybe half pill will do, so it’s easy to destroy, very easy to destroy. Even we’ll be able to safe if, even we will be able to safe it, not to fall on that side, but the life itself is not long, it goes. Dutch people seem to have longevity, nice life, but that doesn’t mean that every Dutch person will live that long either. Not soon or later but soon we’ll go, nobody ever lives, nothing is permanent, the moment we are born, we are somehow designated to die. They don’t give us a minute to rest. Our life is like a clock. I’m sure you here two days of our lives, the sand strolls through hours, our bottle, right? our glasses, thank you. I can see that not so many people are watching the day so, hahah, I used to, when I first got in the United States, I was not busy, I had nothing to do, there is our life. But you know the years later is still same old character, doing same old things and I’m sure even I look now, ten years later even then I’m sure they are doing the same thing. That’s ok, you don’ have to translate. (everybody laughing) so anyway, it’s really goals? So where do we go, what do we do, what happens, it’s completely a different subject. But then do we get back exactly like here, as though we went to the bathroom, we took this coffee break and then you came back, right? When we try to, we come exactly like that, no way. If that is the case life is easy, but it’s not the case. By chance, even if you get back, by chance, say even you get back, whole process, whole environment, everything is brand new, believe me, is brand new. It is interesting when you look at the life of the people, how it comes in, how it goes out. It looks like we come in with all our …(1:49:36)..news and …..and everything together, the ….. and ….is a funny way of saying it, but correct way of saying will our own, individual lives, universe bring in. And we plug that in the general universe, so you have my universe, your universe, our universe together. Some places will overlap, some places will not overlap, that’s how it is here. Then we go out, when we leave out, I unplug my own universe, that’s how I go, that’s really what it is, the whole universe of mine will collapse when I go. So do you, each and everyone of us. It’s like computer, many computers linked together, suddenly one computer goes bad and unplug and disappears, that doesn’t affect other computers. So that’s our life. So that’s how we go, so when goes, what happens? What do we carry, are we prepared, these are our questions? And we are never prepared anyway. In movies we see dying persons saying: Oh, I’m ready to go. In reality, it’s very difficult. Why we are not prepared? Because in our life we are engaged in most in our life in meaningless things. Meaningless, material life that we devote ourselves. Many of our life, our activities, if you really look, how much is worthwhile, how much is worth less? And most of are less. Because it will let you down the day when you mostly need it. What are we building? We are building wealth, we are building health, the day you’ll die our wealth will let you down, our health will let you down. That’s what it is, that’s how you die anyway. So that’s why I call it meaningless. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to build anything. We do need wealth, otherwise you can’t pay our next day bills. We do need health otherwise we will not survive the next day. This is the reality we are in, so we have to know how to balance and that also, not only the balance of our physical life, also physical health and that also, we have to balance our mental health as well. So that it is, and spiritual health. Because spiritual life is that life continues one after another. The mental health is not the health that continues one life after another, many of these mental health problems come not in balance, they end when the physical body ends. However, there are sudden mental health which continue in life after life. So, for example our crazy mind is not a new here, its coming from previous life in crazy form. The funny thing I would like to say here is this life gives us the opportunity to detoxify our mind. So, we have to meditate, exactly the same format like the Guru devotional practice, you meditate, your spiritual master inseparable in that from the Buddha and then pray, to be able to see this clearly, to see this clearly means it should be in the culture of the individual. When you see it, it should come in our culture. That is the perfection of this meditation, that is the real achievement of this spiritual practice, it becomes part of my culture and when that becomes, it works. Seeing it doesn’t mean to see it like a movie, but seeing it means adopt it, becoming part of it, so all of us, there is an awareness of life is precious, I don’t want to waste. I’m sorry. You know meditation is a tool, tool that will make you to adopt that particular point on which you are meditating. In other words, by meditating that and as you pick up, as your personal whatever, we have been saying culture, but it’s a personal habit, when you say habit, it sounds funny. So, think difficult to find, important and terrible to waste, shortly back and forth, back and forth, back and forth will make you realize this and adopt that culture. And once you’ve adopted it, and it’s easy, just riding bicycles, the Dutch people can sit, jump on bicycles no matter how big it is. And if I jump on a bicycle, I’ll fell this or on the other side, so that’s the difference. Do we have more time? I think not. Five o’clock, oh 4.45, sorry. Oh, we didn’t go much far today. I’m sorry, let me finish one more here. So, meditate and try to pick up that as a culture. So, the next verse says: (reading verse in Tibetan….) So, when we die what happens, do I have a guarantee? Do I know or do I feel that I will not go to some suffering place? And if you have it you are fine but don’t cheat yourself, that’s important. We like to cheat ourselves, if you don’t have any guarantee you pretend to have it and that’s cheating yourself. If you knew it, it’s great, if you don’t know it, you feel it don’t rely on. It’s a guessing work, so the question comes, I did not have time to develop anything, the death comes, so what do I do? I take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sanga. Buddha, Dharma and Sanga come from Buddhist point of view. But you can take refuge to any enlightened being, as long as it’s really enlightened, doesn’t have to be Buddha, doesn’t have to be Dharma, doesn’t have to be Sanga, anything, perfect object of refuge. So to make it short here, the question comes if you are a Buddhist practitioner, if you die what makes me not to fall into to ……(2:06:09) there are many things, but a simple, easy, mostly it’s if you remember Buddha, if you remember your ……(2:06) if you remember your Guru, it helps, not only it helps but sort of leads you, delivers you to the right place. So that’s why taking refuge is important. But at the time of dying, you have to remember. But at the time of dying, I like to remember you, if you have a little practice, habit, then it will come then. Remember Doctor Yet here? A few years ago, Doctor Yet before she had fainted and then a year later, when I came and she said when I fainted I don’t’ remember anything, maybe just Buddha and so I thought maybe that’s just good enough. So that’s one key, simple but it’s one key. But if you are taking refuge and you are not dying and then you take advises and follow the Karma, probably, hahaha. And I think there is a talk on Karma, somewhere, right? Anyway, there is a talk on Karma, so I can do that one day. And dying is also some……. (all talking together). And whatever you have learned today, try to think a little bit and see if you can make a little concise thing for you to think every day without depending on time, that would be great. Thank you.