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Soundfile 20060429GRNL3Poisons2

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Netherlands

Topic 3 Poisons part two

Transcriber Michelle J. Sorensen

Date when completed

0:00:00 So, after lunch, what we’re talking this morning about the first of three virtues. And before I go and do this—this is goes to 4, right? Um, I’d like to throw the questions because some people may have, and if I leave it until the end, they may not have opportunity. So, if anybody have any questions regarding anything. I don’t know whether we all have it. There’s some people who may not have it at all. Um, you never know. Within the, um, few years ago, I was talking with Philip, Philip the musician, Philip Glass, and all of a sudden, he said, “And there a lot of bodhisattvas, if not a Buddha, but there are a lot of bodhisattvas who are not even be Buddhist. Isn’t it?” I said, “Yeah, definitely.” So, you know, you may see a lot of egoless people. Um, within the, within the, just ordinary people, not necessarily, you know, I mean within the businesspeople, within the workers, and the person who cleans the, you know who drive the garbage truck, or, you know, you may nearly see it. It is not necessarily the egoless people are, you know, like the rimpoches, or the lamas, or the monks, or the nuns, or sangha members, or you know, not necessarily, you know, maybe you find some, you know, some egoless people, I know, every. I don’t mean the rimpoches, lamas, monks and nuns and sangha members—there’s no egoless people. I don’t mean that. I meant that is what we presume, normally you’ll find it, right?

0:02:55.7 But then you have big surprise, maybe you find the garbage truck driver, or the toilet cleaners, or, in India have oppressed people called jamadas (unclear 0:03:10.04) who cleans the toilet. Or, in Japan who drive those truck and pump out the toilets’ containings, with the suction, suck them out. All those people, you may find, you know, I mean you can’t say everybody has it. But egoless is, I believe, it’s a development. Um, development that one person obtains through, through practice. It is not necessarily comes out of Buddhism, cause I know about Buddhism talks about it. Um, from the Buddhist point of view, the egolessness comes out of wisdom, the third virtue what we talk about was that is (unclear 0:04:11.5). The egolessness that comes in. (Audience member speaks Dutch.) And, um, I do remember very well, in old Tibetan society, lot of people, normal lay people, some of them not necessarily saying so many prayers, not necessarily meditating, but very good person. Some of them are saying lot of prayers, mala in hand, saying mantras almost the twenty-four hours a day, the mouth doesn’t stop moving, you know, keep on moving. Saying omanipadmehum, and (unclear 0:05:03.5) are very mean person. Always becomes that way. And they say, you know, that normally lot of people even say it, “Well, I don’t say much prayers, but I’ve never been mean person.” (Rimpoche laughs.) People used to say that. So, it’s not necessarily, you know, the more you think is the holy the person is, not necessarily is holy. Not necessarily egoless. It is, it is. Sometimes the Buddhist traditions also teach, and they say they say the lotuses are normally grown in swamp. And, um, likewise, you may find a wonderful, fully-developed people among the people.

0:06:01.0 Therefore it is so important, um, although we, as a presenter, or as a speaker, we talk ‘bout it: this is good morality; this is bad morality. We did talk this morning. However, it is very important: we also have to remember, at the side of our mind, and no one should judge anybody. Because you never know. Really, truly, the lotuses grown among the swamp. You never know. So, I want say, everybody has a stubborn ego. However, I have it. Because I want to protect me, inside there, somebody. I think there is someone from inside me telling me what to do. And now think there is someone inside me who get offended. Is there someone inside me think people have insulted me. I have someone inside me think that I need to protect that, and that’s my ego. If you don’t have that, lucky guy—lucky person—sorry (chuckles). I said lucky guy, lucky person. That’s the reason why we have stubborn, insistent, among us. Because we all feel that I have to protect me, and I am the most precious, most important, most handsome, most beautiful, whatever. And that one doesn’t have to put effort. Sort of there automatically (audience member speaks Dutch). It’s just, just comes out. Anyone who is going to hurt me, I’m ready to attack. Anyone who’s going to help me, I’m ready to, you know, accept. That’s sort of automatically we have. That’s what it is. That answer your question or you need more clarification? Is that OK? All right.

0:09:00.0 Any other questions. Anybody. I’m sure you have a lot. You are the one who make the decision. One there, one here. Two I see, hand. (Audience member: it is hard to choose. Laughter.) You, you, it is up to you. You speak the language.

Audience member: You refer to George Bush. You talked about George Bush this morning. And, uh, on the one hand, you said there’s nothing wrong with anybody, but George Bush does do bad things. How to deal with people who do bad things?

Rimpoche: Point them out. (Audience laughter.)

Audience member: Why not?

Rimpoche: Point them out. (More audience laughter. Audience member speaks in Dutch.) George Bush is not the only person. And, unfortunately, last couple of years, um, even good people like Tony Blair behaved so funny. Even in the Holland you have um, I mean, it was such a great country. If I remember, when I was first coming here, it was so clean, so wonderful. And so good. And no political matters (murders? Unclear 00:10:34:6). Nothing. And um, the, I always feel this (unclear 00:10:35:9), this so nice and wonderful. But now you know, now is one of those European things you know (chuckles). I’m sorry (chuckles). And the uniqueness of it is gone. It’s all of the political things that happens. But that also, all of them, is not the nature of the person. Not a nature of the person. The nature of the person even Bush or Blair or whatever you have got here—the guy called (audience member: Darth Vader; audience laughter). I was about to say Harry Potter or something, you know. (Audience member speaks inaudibly 00:11:26:02.) Anyway, so all of those, you know, it is the conditions, and circumstances, and act what they engaged, and that made the individual person bad. Not by their nature.

0:11:48.8 Not by their nature. Even, I’m sorry to say, is not my word, it’s Dalai Lama’s word, I’m going to repeat. Even Hitler has a good nature, nature. But what happened is good aspects of the individual is never used it. And is always used by the bad aspects of it. Bad circumstances. We all have good side, bad side. You have, I have, we all have it. Bush has it. Hitler had it. And everybody has it. And when you deal with the bad side, condition, circumstances, then it becomes bad. Creates bad. When you deal the good side of it, good side of it, and then it is, uh, it becomes good. That doesn’t mean that everything what that person did was good. Even Clinton we think, and I think, he does great. It doesn’t mean everything he does is great. Lewinski’s issue is not great (chuckles). It happens, you know. But it is conditions, and circumstances, and terms: conditions that make bad and good. I want to make that more clarify. I mean, let me do that first here. Actually, His Holiness was asked by a journalist in Jerusalem, and he was talking about good human nature, everybody is wonderful, blah, blah, blah. And a journalist, you know, in a press conference—I don’t know why His Holiness talking press conference good human nature, but one journalist asked him but what about Hitler. And he has to say he has good nature. (Rimpoche laughs.) That in Jerusalem (chuckles). That made headlines in Jerusalem, you know, Dalai Lama says Hitler has a good nature or something. Anyway, so, but the reality is, uh, truly. And that way, you know, so the new age people who said there’s no bad, maybe they have value (unclear 0:14:34:02) for it. I don’t know. I don’t think so. I don’t want justify that anywhere. It is the conditions and terms: conditions that make difference.

0:14:50.8 That means original. Originally, there is nothing solid of something called bad and bad person. I don’t want to say that. Bad person or even good person. Nothing originally exist. It is the terms and conditions that make the individual. Like, uh, Chancellor (unclear 0:15:33.0), or Bush, or during the Iraq War, whatever happened. All these leaders. It’s their decision made them bad. Not the person themself. During the Iraq War, when they’re talking about it in the UN: when they’re talking about war sanctions and this and that and the, you know, this German Chancellor, Schroeder, right? (Audience member: Schroeder?). Schroeder. What is the French guy’s name? (Audience: Chirac) Chirac. And decided to go against and a few of us thought it was good. And we see them as good person. Jacques Chirac. We see them good person. But then we look back few years earlier, when he was mayor of, mayor of France, and all that, and not necessarily everything good. So, this is the, really the, it’s conditioned. Terms and conditions that make it. And I jokingly said point it out, but, uh, honestly, when it is terms and conditions, when it works out the terms and conditions, and um, the way the democracy system, and in that, and the people have tremendous power no matter whatever you say, whoever says whatever. People does have power. Although immediately sometimes you can’t do much. Looks like you can do nothing. When Bush is running crazy, you looks like you can do nothing; but, people does have a power. And people can make difference. And you are the people, you know. So that’s, that’s really what the solution is. It is such a system that it’s built in everything. Any other question, anybody? Thank you so much, and I should also say thank you to everybody in the Jewel Heart made this possible. (Moderator speaks in Dutch.)

0:18:11.7 Rimpoche expresses his thanks to a range of people who have made his visit and Jewel Heart possible, which is translated into Dutch by the moderator.

0:20:40.8 Rimpoche: Any other questions? Looks like no questions. Oh, you have one. Oh! You know why? You really want to know why? Really want to know why? (Audience laughter.) Are you sure? Because it’s dependent-rise, because it’s dependent-rise. You get what I said, right? That’s it! Any other questions? (Audience member speaks in Dutch.) Yes, sir. (Audience member: My father has kidney disease. You were talking about, uh, breeding people for, uh, breeding organs, and then I understand you, but what I think, thought of, I have problems with that (unclear 0:21:29.5; then audience member translates into Dutch).

Rimpoche: Ohh, OK, I know. I understand. Thank you. I think so. Well, my problem with this, if you clone a person—you know, clone a person—if you clone a person, and the person might be retarded. May not be real human being, you know, may be retarded. So, we may consider that as a non-human being, non-person, and we treat them like a field where we grow the wheat and, um, corn and all that. And we may treat them like that. And taking their, harvesting their vital organs. Then, and I think very definitely, ethically, morally it’s wrong. Because, although, that cloned person might not be perfect human being, it’s sort of half-retarded type of thing, it may become, but I think that is a being: a living being. So, I’ve think morally, ethically, it’s wrong, because you’re really taking some other another person’s organs just by cutting them out. I think that’s wrong. But on the other hand, on the other hand, if you have stem cell, the stem cell which doesn’t have any complete human being but is simply growing, uh, kidney, or one or two better organs with a stem cell, using for this, and I don’t think, don’t think a being, or particularly human being, can function out of just a simple stem cell which otherwise would be wasted anyway.

0:24:03.1 And I think I’d like to draw line there, but I’m not an authority on that. But I think that’s where it grows. The differences there. And I’m not sure whether a just mere stem cell is able to grow kidney or not. I don’t know. But I think some doctors think it can. Some, some thinks doesn’t, so. And so, as long as it’s not a being there, uh, that’s my, I'm try to, I think that lines. I don’t mean I’m right. But I think that is lesser danger and more beneficial. Well, kidney’s such a big organ whether you can really grow or not, I’m not sure. There’s another point on this kidney, you know, issue: everybody two kidneys. Some gives kidney to somebody, and it happens quite a number of times. So, if someone gives kidney to somebody, is, and if they have two working, so it is great generosity. Umm, its admirable generosity act and great, too. But that doesn’t lose the other person’s life, and saves the other’s life, and it works well, and so, I don’t think, that is not harvesting from somebody. Because you know, so you produce something there and you make look like them retarded thing and then started cutting them. You know, we, as human being, earlier, Americans thought African Americans are some kind of animal. They brought them from Africa, and chained them down, and kept them like domestic animals, right? So, we don’t know that human beings, so we don’t want to repeat same trouble. Is my history wrong? (Audience member speaks inaudibly.) Is my history wrong? (Audience member: Not as far as I know, but it’s not just the Americans.) That’s what I said. (Rimpoche laughs and some audience members do as well.) They brought, they brought, this huge black people, you know, probably between the gorilla and human being, they thought is very good thing to use as domestic thing, you know. Years, I was told, they been chained them down, look like animal. At night, keep them all outside. (Rimpoche laughs.)

0:27:02.0 So, so we made that already mistake once. We don’t want make it again. So, let’s, there’s no more questions, right? Is it OK? Good. (Audience member speaks inaudibly.) So now, number two virtue, that is concentration. Concentration, you know, in a very detail. You can, you could, very detail, we can talk shamatha, and samadhi, and all of them are perfect, good, uh, concentration. But that is a little bit long way for us. Specially when we try to do right in the day, I mean, in the everyday life. Not so much invested in the practice. And so, so, for us, the concentration of here is the awareness. Lack of awareness get us a lot of difficulties and troubles. Also lack of awareness when is creates lots of negativities. Lack of awareness did not complete our work, whatever, we’re supposed to do. So, your normal, normal saying, half-hearted work cannot accomplish much. (Audience member translates.) Is that OK? Half-hearted work. (Rimpoche chuckles.) Or another word, another example is, if you have a needle with two prongs, never can stitch. So, whatever you wanted to do, you have to have a solid mind, solid concentration, solid awareness. Whatever you have it, things will achieve. Many of us who claims to be spiritual practitioners—we do practice something: we say mantras, we keep our mouth busy, we keep our finger busy counting mala (chuckles). Sorry. (Rimpoche chuckles again.) Sorry. But not solely focused, not solely, you know, on the spiritual or whatever. Whatever.

0:29:59.6 If you do sort of a half, half, half, doesn’t do much good. Although, better than nothing, but still not great. So not only solely, you have to be, whatever you do, not a spiritual alone, whatever you wanted to do. If you want to business, if you want to do (unclear 0:30:23.4), whatever, you know, any, successful artist, businesspeople, scientist, spiritualist, whoever, if you look at them, they are 100% behind their work. I keep on watching how Allen, the late Allen Ginsberg, how does he do his poetry? Body, mind, speech, all together. Totally together. And make his poetry works. I mean, totally together. The push, even you reading the poetry, you just don’t read it. I mean physically moving, jumping, shaking, everything, together. And it really puts them together, really makes it work. So does all other artists. Many artists say, yeah, you know better than I do, cause you literally do it. Whether you are painter, or whether you are musician, or whether you are poet, or whatever you are. Anybody who is solely putting the efforts makes—half-hearted musicians don’t feed themself—forgot about being successful. They have an interesting profession. You know, when I was first come to America, I was saw a lot of those musicians around, you know. A lot of them don’t make it. They don’t have money to buy their food. And so, when they fill the form, I saw, they have the form where you fill towards your work, towards your profession, right? They have a beautiful thing to write. They all write, what they write? Self-supporting artist or self-supporting musician, or something they write. Self-employed, self-employed musician (chuckles) or something. Is beautiful writing, but doesn’t do, doesn’t give you food.

0:33:01.4 Lack of concentration. Lack of focus. Lack of wisdom. That makes unsuccessful. So, even you’re not, not whatever, whatever, you’re not learned or whatever: you have to have some knowledge, some knowledge of what you’re doing, and that knowledge has to be carried out whole-heartedly, focused. If you’re not focused, your mind will be overtaken by earlier what we have mentioned: negative emotions. Such as laziness. Such as wandering mind: daydreaming. Wandering mind means daydreaming. I mean there any wasting time. You know we have a tremendous amount of wasting time. Tremendous. The best wasting time is in our own room. A square box. (Audience laughter.) It’s called television (chuckles). When you, when you have jet lag, when you don’t sleep at night, and you keep on watching the television, and you don’t even know it is five in the morning. It’s, honestly. Laughter. That’s what happens. So, that is how lack of awareness waste our time and not only even you try to do something, it is not a solid, doesn’t do anything good, so concentrate. The purpose of the concentration is two things: to cut the mind that wonders around or to sink the mind, to sink mind. Cutting these two are the purpose of concentration. And that also includes, umm, enthusiasm, too. Because if you are not enthusiastic, you won’t have concentration. Concentration requires enthusiasm. Enthusiasm requires admiration. Admiration requires appreciation. So, that appreciation is beginning of establishing faith. When I use the word faith here, I don’t mean blind faith. You know in the west, when you say faith, normally people understand blind faith. You know, you know, people say that all the time: have faith that God or Jesus love you. All the time. You know, you say, (laughs).

0:36:00.4 The other day, I had a taxi driver in New York City. I didn’t realize he’s crazy: believe me, literally crazy, you know. And, uh, he was driving very strange way. And he keep on shouting, “Jesus love you, Jesus loves you, Jesus love you” all the time. And when he started shouting, then I thought, oh my god, he is crazy. And, then, you know, he was driving round and there’s huge traffic, so you know, cutting through the east to the west, New York, you know, Manhattan, cutting through. There’s traffic. He got in the middle some, he made u-turn by driving on the, you know, where the people walk, and drove through that, and went back to the other main street, and turned other side, then police came and stopped him. And he got up and give hug to the policeman, and gave him a kiss and “Jesus loves you, man!” (Audience laughs; Rimpoche chuckles.) The funny thing is, the police did let him go. (Audience laughter.) Really! I was waiting to get out of the taxi. But, but, he took me where I’m going. Really. Didn’t hit anything. Didn’t hit anybody, either. You know, so, got there. So not talking ‘bout that faith. Jesus loves you, or the, you know, have faith in God. I’m not talking ‘bout that faith. I’m talking ‘bout intelligence faith. Intelligence faith is faith that followed by understanding. And you believe it because you have strong, solid reason. And that’s faith I’m talking ‘bout it. So, that faith will really work as a, as a, you know, mother-like. The childrens are coming out of mother. So, mother-like. Oh, now, here in Holland I can say childrens are coming from mother, so, no problem, here, you know (laughs). Everything is from here, either Dutch language or whatever it is. It is, you say, everything from, Karen from Rome (unclear 0:38:34.6), or, you know (laughs). That (laughs). So, the children coming from mother, so, that faith works like a mother. (Dutch translation/explanation given by audience member.)

0:39.01.3 So, uh, that is the, uh. So, you know, when I said mother-like, meaning the mother gives child, mother gives birth to child. So, faith gives birth to spiritual development. So, some of you may think, you know, well I came to see alternative in Buddhism, and today, there is faith, and there is, um, morality, and uh, don’t think you’re back in the Catholic church. No, but, intelligent faith is must, you know. Not blind faith, intelligence faith. That is, you know, really you believe it what you do, not just blindly believe it, believe it with reasons. And that is intelligent faith. When any practice or anything what you do, and it is born out of that intelligence faith, there is much easier to have enthusiasm, and much easier to work with, and much easier to put your time, and you’re much happier to do what you’re doing. Otherwise, it will be like huge tax that you’re paying. That brings you to the concentration and focusing. Even you have concentration and focusing, and you have good morality, but if you don’t have wisdom, you cannot balance your life properly. Wisdom is knowledge. Wisdom is information. Information is power. So, so, I mean really, the wisdom is power. Like it same, generosity. Even generosity, to be generous is great. But, what to be, what not to be has to have information on it. For example, I--like me--I’ll be happy to give a Euro to a beggar. Maybe there, now there is a beggar in Europe. I’d be happy to give a Euro to beggar. But if I think that beggar is drug-addicted, and that is just going to add one more drug on that, I will not give it. However, if that person has a terrible withdrawal symptoms, and then I will give it. Otherwise, it threatens life.

0:42:04.1 And this is the example of wisdom on generosity. And the likewise, there is example the example of wisdom for morality, and, uh, patience, concentration, and, uh, enthusiasm. Even wisdom have wisdom, so basically, and I’d like to, I have to conclude. So basically, earlier, when you’re raising question from that gentleman over there, and I’m saying it’s ego, what happened, blah, blah, have it, doesn’t have it, doesn’t have it. But whatever it is, I begin the talk by saying confusion. What is confusion? We’re talking about it. I’m not sure this going to be service for you or disservice for you. However, I’m going to say it. What Buddha told us, what Buddha shared with us, what Buddha told us, I keep on saying in between, it is circumstances, it is the condition, it is dependent arise. Didn’t you hear all this words in between? You know today I’ve been saying, you know, in the afternoon, it’s the circumstances, it’s the conditions, dependent rise, and in another words, it is wisdom I been talking. What really Buddha told us, there’s this, that ego which we think we’re inside there. Something that’s precious, we’re protecting. Something, something that, we, you know, we really want to guide and guard against enemies, and, uh, you know, sort of show off our friends, and something great what we think what we have. Buddha tells us, no, there’s none. So, when there is none, Buddha told us, that’s fine, that’s fine, we’re good. That doesn’t mean we believe it, so what we do is really see ourself, truly, is there. Something that what we think there is. When you’re thinking, analyzing, collecting your information and analyzing, and pointing out, pointing out: is it really true there is somebody in there? When you really look it, and you not going to really find it. (Audience member speaks in Dutch.)

0:45:00.5 (N.B. I am not exactly sure when Rimpoche is saying “wipe” or “whack” in this next section.) The idea of dependent arise means everything has terms and conditions just right, just functions. When one, when one of those, either time or condition, or one goes wrong, it doesn’t function anymore. And when it’s not functioning, then it’s not there. The definition of existence is functioning or not functioning: functioning rightly or not functioning. So, when you begin to think those lines, when you begin to see it, when you really begin to see it, there is not, how dependent it is, how dependent, how terms and conditions combine together, how it functions, when you really see that, you wipe off the ego completely. There is nothing to hold. Completely wipe off. Wiping off the ego is easier than establishing self is more difficult. Anyway, when you wipe off the ego, you really shaking the foundation of all your hatred and obsession. Not only shaking, but destroys. Who is the one you are protecting? Where is it? Show me. Is it your head? Heart? Or body? Mind? Or what is it? That’s how it works. I mean, this is just a glimpse of Buddha’s wisdom. How we cut our negative emotions. And, um, and if you’re, if you’re more interested, there’s a detail, there is books to read, courses to take, and they been helpful for you. We can’t whack off the ego in five minutes, you know. (Audience laughter.) Really true. And the other day, in New York, I was talking with one of the person who comes to Jewel Heart all the time, lately last two, three years. Is a big scientist, what you call it, scientist, who is also the chief research, umm, medical research scientist to Merck, the chemical, pharmaceutical company called Merck. Merck, right? Merck. Right? Am I say correct, right? Merck.

0:47:59.5 And he is attending those wisdom teachings for ‘bout maybe year and half now. And the other day he was saying, “Yeah, it whacks ego easily. You know, just all of a suddenly, nowhere,” and um, he said, “I can’t still figure out this compassion business (chuckles). Wisdom is no problem,” he said, it is really. That’s what happens with scientist, this compassion thing is just imagining and praying or what? He said, “This, the whacking ego is not a big deal,” he says, “just whack off. Compassion I have to believe it.” (Rimpoche laughs.) So, so this is what it is. So just glimpse of Buddhist wisdom. So, that is really how you cut your own (all? Unclear 0:48:57.0) hatred, obsession. And um, ego itself, so that individual be free of problems. Free of suffering. Free of difficulties. I have to tell you this, why? Because ego produces the negative emotions. Negative emotions produces negative karma. Negative karma produces negative consequences. That is, what we call it, suffering. When you cut off the ego, then it’s cut off ego’s influence. Which means, we cut off the negative emotions. When you cut off negative emotions, you cut off negative karma. When you cut off the negative karma, you cut off the negative consequences. And that is how, is how it blocks (unclear 0:50:09.01). So, Buddha himself says, because of this, that has been grown. Because of that, this has been created. Because of this creation, this consequence has developed. This is how forwardly developed, within our life after life, and this is how backwardly we cut off within life for future. And that, and the reality of existence itself, Buddha has seen it, and whatever he has seen it, he has taught us. And that is why Tsongkhapa called Buddha greatest teacher, because you taught what you saw it, what you know it.

0:51.05 The essence of the Buddhism is, Buddha himself has said, avoid negativities. Build all positives you can. Most important, watch your mind. Avoid negativity is the moral issues. And build positivity is the concentration aspects of it. And watching mind is the wisdom. So, so when you have three poisons, three objects, and three solutions, and really, in essence, it is the experience and the teaching of the Buddha. And whatever we talked here today is just glimpse, there’s so much detail. It’s based on the Lojong, called “mind training.” So, what does that do? That make ourself, uh, once and for all can cut all our problems. The key’s with you, the choice is yours, information is available. Whether you do it or don’t do it, it’s your choice. We’re here to provide you that information. Whether you take it that, make best use of it, or whether you take it that, throw in the garbage, it’s your choice. OK. So, I’d like to conclude with a little meditation here. This is Buddhist meditation. (Audience member speaks in Dutch; Rimpoche chuckles.) But adaptable to everyone, every tradition. As you know, normal meditation, I’m not going to talk to you detail. You know more than I do. So most important thing is relaxing yourself. Relaxing physical, mental, emotional. Just sort of let it go, let it go. Drop your shoulders and down. And relax completely. Leave all your worries, doubts, suspicions, hope, everything for minute. Let us just focus in front of us, in open space. Beautiful space like pictures we saw taken by the satellite in the orbits. Within the midst of that space, in that open area, suddenly appeared our contact to divine beings.

0:54:04.7 Whatever you want to do: in the form of Jesus, or Mary, or I’m going to talk in the form of Buddha. So, whatever you like it. Even image is not very clear to our imagination. It doesn’t matter. A beautiful, gentle, kind, sweet, golden, light nature: a being which I call Shakyamuni Buddha represents all enlightened beings. no matter from what tradition you’re coming, but all enlightened beings. Me here, leading all sentient beings, requesting to the enlightened ones, to purify our negativities. Requesting it by praising the great deeds of the enlightened beings and making offerings. Actually arrange and mentally fabricated. With single solid mind request to use the enlightened beings’ power and energy to purify our wrong deeds. And the light and the liquid coming from that object coming into me and all other living beings. Just by the touch of the light, just by the touch of the liquid, purified all negative karma, negative actions, every wrong karma we’ve created. Simply purified like light shining in the dark room. As the darkness in the room is disappeared, likewise, our negativities been disappeared. Dissolved in the natural of emptiness. The blessings of the enlightened beings fulfilled our body, mind, speech.

0:56:56.5 Thus, we developed perfect morality, perfect concentration, and stainless wisdom. And not only received those, we also become ourself fully enlightened. We again send light out from our body to all living beings who are not enlightened yet. Just by the touch of light from our body, purify their negativities, gain the positivities. Thus, there is no negative, nor negativity, ever exist. Everything become pure, wonderful, happy, joy. We all remain within that joy. Thank you. And we have a dedication at the end. (0:58:10)