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Soundfile 20070504GRJHNL4M2

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Netherlands

Topic Four Mindfulnesses

Transcriber Jill Neuwirth

Date 11/16/2020

So do kindly generate pure motivation. Pure motivation will be motivating the, motivating the, generating bodhimind and, and that’s what we’re making you- I’m making request for you generate that mind and to listen this teaching. Teaching what you’re going to listen is the actual buddha of wisdom Manjushri has given important points to Tsong Khapa which later taking in the form of a song by the seventh Dalai Lama so on that basis we’re giving you this teaching known as Four Mindfulness. (Translator translates into Dutch) [0:01:19.6] Okay now whenever, wherever you look in the Buddhist teaching in general and particularly in that of mahayana or particularly that of Tibetan Buddhist teaching wherever you look the first and foremost we see made a so much emphasize on the life itself. (Translator translates) [0:01:54.5]

[0:02:06.4] So if you look in the Jamgon Tsong Khapa’s shortest Lam Rim, the short Lam Rim or Lines of Experience and there is verse particularly referring to this is called (Recites in Tibetan) [0:02:30.3] What verse is it? Audience: Verse ten. Rimpoche: Thank you. Verse ten in the Lines of Experience. (Translator translates and reads verse in Dutch) [0:03:05.9] The first word says pa we [0:04:02.7] in Tibetan and first word says pa we be (?) [0:04:06.6] that means leisured base or body or something. How does that go in English? Audience: Precious human life. Rimpoche: Precious human life. Right? It’s just precious human life. (Audience and Translator discuss book written in Dutch and Tibetan) [0:04:54.2] Rimpoche: The word tal (?) in Tibetan okay? If you have Tibetan side by side? Tal we beng (?) [0:05:03.1] So beng is referring to basis or foundation or whatever which meaning the, the foundation which process the leisure but tal (?) [0:05:19.9] leisure.

[0:05:22.0] Leisure is just mentioning leisure but within the beyond that word what is hidden message in here is opportunity. So the leisure and the opportunity-wise a very rich, precious human life. That’s what the first word, the first half word is referring to our life which has the all endowments as well as very leisured life and which is leisured and opportunity life. Which if you’re compare it, is much more valuable in terms of anything, in terms of money, in terms of accomplishment, in terms of achievement, in terms of goodness, it is much, much more valuable and important than even a wish-fulfilling jewel. This first word it says that. So you may have to explain it little bit okay? (Translator translates) [0:06:49.8]

[0:07:38.3] You may say you’re saying here at leisure. I don’t have a leisured life. I have a very busy life. I have to do this, do that, I have to do work, I have to get up, take care of kids, I have to clean the house or I have to do this, go for work, and come back the train, all this, you know all this times that we put it in and said where you have leisure? There’s no leisure. I’m very busy. (Translator translates) [0:08:38.8] It’s true in a way, a way true. On the other hand, we make ourselves extremely busy. (Translator translates) [0:09:00.5] Traditionally, traditionally when the Buddha taught and the great masters taught and they, they, they, they give you eight levels where there is no time. Eight levels. Eight. (Translator translates) [0:09:20.6]

[0:09:28.0] And those are the different lives such as hell realm, or the hungry ghost, or animal, or all that and that’s what they give them as, you know, a who don’t have time. If you look at the animals they have no responsibility in our view. They have no responsibility. They can stay in the zoo or outside the zoo wherever they stay looks like they all have the time. But here they count it and so doesn’t have time. (Translation) [0:10:07.9] And because they don’t have time management. (Translation) [0:10:38.3] Honestly. So when you don’t have time management there’s no time. (Translation) [0:10:47.0]

[0:10:51.0] Even you have the whole day doing nothing from morning to evening, if you don’t have the time management you don’t have time. (Translation) [0:11:06.2] Couple of hours you can’t get up in the morning. Couple of hours you can’t get up. Then you started moving and though you know, washing your mouth or brushing your teeth or whatever and take a while and then they do all that and by the time when you realize it’s about 3 in the afternoon or 4 in the afternoon. That is how, how they- when there’s no time management that’s how it goes. (Translation) [0:11:38.0]

[0:11:49.2] Although traditionally they tell you because there’s so much suffering and so there’s no time, in the hell realm it’s true. There is something called hell then it’s true. Hot and cold but there is no time because torture and pressure and torture so much. The hungry ghost also probably true, every time they take to find, to find food. The animal realm also they don’t have time because they have to protect their own territory and this and that then the territorial issue and so much with those animals you know. You can look at cats and dogs and there you can see how they mark their own territory. (Laughs) (Translation) [0:12:43.6] True, the truth really boil down to if you do not manage time you have no time for anything. (Translation) [0:13:45.6] For us you know I’m telling you with my own experience like to do everything tomorrow. (Translation) [0:14:00.2] When the tomorrow comes it be tomorrow again. (Translation) [0:14:03.1]

[0:14:08.8] So that is how, how we don’t have time. But on the other hand you have to go for job. You have to do this, like it goes if you don’t go to work you don’t get paid, you have bills not been paid, and all this. But on the other hand if you manage time you can do everything. (Translation) [0:14:48.6] We can socialize with friends, we can see almost every movie including Al Gore’s. (Translation) [0:15:08.0] And, and, and, we can be, we can be very funny, crazy, mischievous, everything. (Translation) [0:15:21.5] We can create trouble for everybody. (Translation) [0:15:39.7] So that indicates we are- we do have time. (Translation) [0:15:51.2] So time is very important for us I mean we know, you know material world people say time is money you know. I think the spiritual world you have to know that time is important. Otherwise we get nowhere. (Translation) [0:16:22.7] If you make the time, you have time. (Translation) [0:16:41.7] So what I want you to realize, realize is, just don’t use no time as an excuse.

[0:16:59.6] You have time, so make time to do dharma work because that will make a difference to you. All other work will not make that much difference. At most that will make you money. Money you don’t carry with you when you die. Dharma you do carry with you. (Translation) [0:17:37.8] So I want you to make very strong resolution or impact to yourself by this sort of step one here. Say look, I’m going to make time for myself for benefit me, my family, and my all mother sentient beings I’m going to make time to do dharma work. (Translation) [0:18:42.3] Not only you just don’t make a resolution, but you give yourself time to do. At least you know out of 24 hours you should give couple of hours, two or three or whatever you can. Or at least one hour to do something for your own benefit. (Translation) [0:19:31.6] Then the opportunity you know you have. You have better opportunity than anybody else (Inaudible) [0:19:58.8] (Translation) [0:19:59.2]

[0:20:05.7] If you came say, fifty or a hundred, or fifty years before you may not have that much opportunity. (Translation) [0:20:21.4] Because you’re not going to, to open your mind at all in any other in any other tradition. (Translation) [0:20:32.0] And any- even your own tradition you have full of dissatisfaction and difficulties. (Translation) [0:20:47.4] So that moment you don’t have opportunity, honestly speaking. (Translation) [0:20:59.6] The opportunity is available today because of the openness of the individual, open mindness, and openness, and experimenting life in the 60s and making hell of difference to us today. We have such a great opportunity. (Translation) [0:21:23.7] In another fifty years or hundred years you never know if that opportunity going to remain or probably shut down. (Translation) [0:21:52.3] So looking at this moment you have the opportunity and you have the time. And so that’s why Jamgon Lama Tsong Khapa compared this, this more important, more valuable than wish-fulfilling jewel. Te wa den de (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:22:19.3] (Translation) [0:22:19.5]

[0:22:40.1] Not only the life is- life is great, I mean we cannot do without life. When you don’t have life you’re dead so that much life is that much important. And that’s alone is not the point. On top of that you have a opportunity and you have a capability a both are there so that is very precious. You know. Life itself we all have it, it is precious is important but on top of that you have the capability and opportunity both are there so that’s why it’s important and spiritually Buddha emphasized telling us you have such an important thing in your position that is your life which has the opportunity and capability both. (Translation) [0:23:46.1] So what I want you to do is not just because I said that so yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, okay, okay I have it. And that’s not good enough for me. (Translation) [0:24:21.2]

[0:24:28.4] And I want a strong commitment from you. Each and every one of you committing yourself strongly. Number one acknowledging that, realizing that. Do not underestimate your own value recognize, realize be happy about it. (Translation) [0:25:00.7] Just don’t say, my life pbbbt. You know just don’t say that. (Translation) [0:25:30.3] There is not. (Translation) [0:25:32.6] No matter whatever you may be. You may be sick. You may be crippled. You may be blind. You maybe can’t hear it. As long as you’re not crazy, completely- little bit crazy but completely if you’re not crazy we have the opportunity here. And I want you to recognize that very strongly a cherish your own life. And be appreciate. See, embrace the life, and don’t underestimate. Don’t look down just embrace it. That’s important. (Translation) [0:26:26.5]

[0:26:58.3] And how do I do that? And okay, well, sort of you have to say to be a little sexy I have to say meditate. (Audience laughing) (Translation) [0:27:16.4] And otherwise just think about it. Straightforward just think about it. And think about that points, go around, think about it. And you know thinking is meditation. Focus, concentrate, and think. Why, why focus is necessary? If you don’t focus you go everywhere else and so you are not you are not here on the point. That’s why focus is necessary. Concentration’s necessary otherwise you lose everything and you have no idea what you are sitting and thinking for, you know. So just give a little awareness and little alertness and think about it. Even you can’t think about it, talk to yourself. Talk I mean don’t let other people will think this guy’s crazy but not to that point but just talk about it.

[0:28:26.1] And talk about it. Talk hey- I have this life and it’s really important. (Indistinct) [0:28:33.2] My life’s worthwhile it’s all point. There’s nothing in there. I’m old, I’m sick, I’m you know I didn’t get what I wanted and blah, blah, blah it’s terrible. Well, it may be but if you don’t have it, if you’re dead what you going to do? Where you’ll be and what’s going to happen? This is important. I can still think, I can talk, I can plan it, I can do, I can make, I can make money, I can do everything whatever I really want to if I really wanted to. So if we keep on talking that you realize yourself, yes you do have that. And what we want is this realization we don’t want, don’t want you to be holy, but you know what really want realization and so that you will manage your time. (Translation) [0:29:26.4]

[0:30:50.9] So the recognizing of the life is very important so that at least no matter who we may be rich or poor, man or woman, young or old, sick or well, wherever may be, we have something very, very important and precious. Just embrace that. And that itself will protect you and help you not to fall in depression and all that if you do it early. (Translation) [0:31:38.7] And don’t do this heavy way. Very heavy way. Don’t do this very heavy way. But do it the moment you think about your life you, you will feel happy and feel light and happy you will smile. So that way you have to do it. Not as heavy, you have a life, you’re whole life is precious, Buddha says so, Tsong Khapa says so, Rimpoche says so. I have to think- not that way. And that is the- that is the wrong way of doing it. Looking in it and happy it’s here, I have it. Oh, I really have something really precious here. I mean it’s believe me, it’s a value of your life for you is more than multi-billion dollar with b. What would you do with a billion dollar b if you don’t have a life? Honestly think that way. There’s no value you can measure in times of money or anything else. And that is the life you have. Even you don’t think opportunity and endowments and these are the icing on cake that the life itself so much. (Translation) [0:34:01.5]

[0:34:45.5] So do not abuse your life. (Translation) [0:34:52.2] I don’t know whether coffee abuses a lot. (Audience laughs. Discusses break time) [0:35:10.9] (Audio resumes) So we talked about the, the, the, time value and now we need to emphasize a little more on the opportunity. (Translation) [0:35:43.0] Basically as a human being we have the best opportunity than any other life we know. (Translation) [0:36:01.1] We presume and consider the other side, you know, other galaxy lifes may be more important. They have more intelligent. They have everything must be automatic for them. But ours is not. I think we may have a big surprise. (Translation) [0:36:30.0]

[0:36:49.0] I do remember watching it that movie called Close Encounter with Third Kind. (Translation) [0:36:59.8] And when the spaceship landed I was expecting some kind of huge radiating light, some kind of clairvoyant, big, huge, human being something. But then you know what comes out of it. (Translation) [0:37:25.4] What you see is even smaller and weaker than Ewoks you remember that ET movie has Ewoks? (Translation) [0:37:53.4] As matter of fact those Ewoks what they’re talking blah, blah, blah, it’s Tibetan. (Audience laughing) (Translation) [0:38:14.5] You know some of the kids saying the you better be here, better move here, for they’re giving you ten rupees, c’mon go, go- get over here! (Laughs) (Translation) [0:38:33.7] So, so when you, when you see, when you saw out of the Close Encounter of the Third Kind you really got something looked like a monkey look like some funny little standing up on two legs comes out you know, very weak and even lesser intelligent and more difficult than we are. So I mean it is science fiction but today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s reality anyway. (Translation) [0:39:16.0]

[0:39:35.3] So it’s definitely not necessarily other part of the other different galaxies other different beings are not necessarily more intelligent than we are, nor we are better than them. I mean is very reasonably as living being. Non-enlightened beings and naturally have a ignorance ego-oriented delusion, ignorance ego-oriented misunderstanding, and ignorance ego-oriented dualistic perception, and they all have it. And we all have it. (Translation) [0:40:25.4] And the teaching traditions will tell you that since we are born as a human being in this particular continent by nature of our physical body condition, condition, we have different opportunity than the others. Not only opportunity to be able to communicate and understand, but opportunity to utilize our physical body to be able to, to awakened our mental status and not only awakened our mental status, stabilizing our mental status. Not only stabilizing our mental status, our mental status bring into a joy and happy nature because of the connection with the physical body and that must be true. I have no reason why it has to contradict. (Translation) [0:42:18.0]

[0:43:00.8] Our mind in our body. And the mind in another body, not human, but non-human body. It is the same mind. But when the mind is in the human body the capacity differs tremendously as we see today. Physically by our self right in front of us. (Translation) [0:43:31.4] We don’t think about it. If we think about it, the mind that our paths like the dog or cat or snake or gerbil or whatever, it doesn’t matter. (Laughs) It is the same the mind as the human being’s mind. And that’s why even the animals you can train and give training and the bring them to the level what you wanted to do within the limitations. Even the chimpanzees can turn and bring to certain level but they can’t do even most closest to human is the chimpanzee but even then, the chimpanzees cannot do exactly what the human beings do in that lifetime that is because of the body. The physical body. The body mind relationship and which is something fantastic, this life has. (Translation) [0:45:29.0]

[0:46:16.0] Buddha talks about six realms I mean according to the Tibetan Buddhism. According to Chinese Buddhism they talk about ten realms. So whatever it is. So six or ten we know six. I know six. Let’s talk about six. Buddha talked about the six realms. And within the six realms they talk about it, they talk about the hell realm is the most, most, the lowest realm because nothing but, but, the physical suffering, suffering always, nothing there’s not even a single minute break. It’s always dominated and tormented life completely because of this suffering of sufferings. (Translation) [0:47:10.7] And hungry ghost realm they named as hungry ghost they’re always looking for food. No other opportunity again and is considered a little bit better than the hell realm but above that. (Translation) [0:48:01.2] And then the animal realm. (Translation) [0:48:20.2] And animal realm that we see. (Translation) [0:48:24.0] And their biggest problem is ter da (Quotes in Tibetan) [0:48:28.0] Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacharyavattara dedicated the, the, the, the animals may be free from the fear of one eating the other in life. (Translation) [0:48:46.6] Which is true. We see all the time. You know those animals eat each other that’s why we call them animals anyway.(Laughs) (Translation) [0:49:04.1]

[0:49:12.4] Then yeah, then the intellectual capacity what they have we know. We don’t have to tell, we know. (Translation) [0:49:20.7] Then the human beings. (Translation) [0:49:28.5] And you see we have such a great capacity. (Translation) [0:49:35.9] Then these demi-gods and samsaric gods. They’re supposed to be more intelligent than we are. (Translation) [0:49:43.9] And they have more clairvoyant than we are. Karmic, karmic gift of what we normally in the west known as gift but karmic gift of knowing past, present, and future life. (Translation) [0:50:06.5] But they have tremendous joy and it’s just like a spoiled rotten rich kid. They- you know honestly they, they think nothing but just that. (Translation) [0:50:29.9] During the Buddha’s lifetime and the one of the most important disciples of the Buddha called Sariputra when we say read the Heart Sutra, Sariputra said this to Avalokitesvara, and Avalokitesvara did this and this and that, that’s Sariputra. (Translation) [0:51:00.2]

[0:51:11.1] Sariputra has a disciple that is totally devoted to Sariputra. Sariputra’s teaching and bringing that disciple up. And it’s almost level where he be, he be, you know, getting liberation. (Translation) [0:51:32.0] Somehow the guy died. (Translation) [0:51:49.6] So the Sariputra tracing him through, the after death and with the bardo and Sariputra saw him to taking rebirth in the samsaric gods realm. (Translation) [0:52:04.7] And according to the Sariputra’s description- you know, when you take samsaric gods realm, take rebirth and you don’t become baby and then become mature you become sort of teenage grownup straightaway you born in that way over there. (Translation) [0:52:35.8]

[0:52:44.7] So the Sariputra saw him and that he had an elephant. (Translation) [0:52:51.6] And he rides that elephant and goes around. (Translation) [0:52:58.1] So Sariputra went there and stand in front of the elephant. Sariputra knew you know when he was in previous life he’ll be immediately jumping and running around to Sariputra and tried to build up more. But at this time he saw Sariputra. Sariputra expecting that because you know they have this karmic gift of knowing previous life, future life, and the present life. So he knew, and he recognized Sariputra just raise hand and gone. (Laughs) (Translation) [0:53:40.7]

[0:54:11.0] So the Sariputra got a big shock and went back to Buddha and asked him what happened. He said this is what happened and don’t know why. (Translation) [0:54:21.9] Sariputra said if you don’t know that much what do you think you know? And this is samsaric god’s realm. And this is the nature of that’s reality. Although that person will know their previous life and they will see their future life but until, unless and until they begin to see begin to concentrate what they’re going to be in their future life, until then they have this problem. So this is a problem for them and this is the reality.(Translation) [0:55:04.5]

[0:55:29.6] So even they have a better intelligence than we are they can never use it. (Translation) [0:55:36.0] That is karmic thing. (Translation) [0:55:43.4] And their intelligent cannot benefit themselves or us. They also have no time management and you know it’s just day in and day out and always playful. (Translation) [0:56:02.5] But so our human life is such we’re balanced. According to the Buddha it is balanced. The pain, the suffering, the joy, the everything and so, so that’s why Buddha saying this life, the human life is, even though lesser intelligent than that of samsaric gods or even demi-gods, but even then this is jewel-like. More precious than wish-fulfilling jewel because not only we can experience, we can understand, we know suffering, we know joy, we know misery, we know good, we know bad, we have good, we have bad, we have ugly, we have a excellent. All of them are available within the us and we have a capacity to understand and we’re intelligent enough to make it right or wrong so therefore this is more than wish-fulfilling jewel. (Translation) [0:57:40.8]

[0:58:07.0] And every human life, we have the same life, but every human beings doesn’t have the same opportunity as we do. (Translation) [0:58:17.8] Some have tremendous amount of pain and suffering. The people in Darfur or the war in Iraq or all of them they have no opportunity to learn about this and they have no opportunity to meditate. Because there’s nothing you know maybe somebody will shoot you in the back or whatever you know. So they don’t. (Translation) [0:58:54.0] Even little better than, little better than that and tremendous economic suffering people they have no opportunity to do anything because it’s a 24 hours day and they utilize their body and soul, body, mind, and soul to make some money so that family can have some food. And there’s not a single opportunity, no weekday off. Nothing. That’s reality. (Translation) [0:59:48.5]

[1:00:09.5] Nor does the yuppies have opportunity. Honestly speaking. Look at the yuppies. And they’re good, wonderful. But you know, but you know, two people are working together and try to make a living and maintaining whatever their status is, maintaining you know, I mean it’s not so simple they have to have, they have to have a dress even. Their desks are expensive. Even you’re not yuppie, even you hip-hoppers. They looks funny and terrible but if you look at their clothes it’s extremely expensive. You have no idea how much they pants and jackets cost, you know? (Laughing) Hip-hoppers, you know, right? Yeah really it’s expensive. They have to maintain. (Translation) [1:01:04.3] And looks silly and terrible, bulky, doesn’t look good, right? It’s extremely expensive. (Laughs) (Translation) [1:01:38.0]

[1:01:43.1] Then if you’re overly industrialized and overly busy and business in the world and there will, you will 24 hours slave of your business. (Translation) [1:01:56.5] Every time we try to make life easy. You know by adding up the material like computer. You add up computer and try to make our life easier. You think a lot of works that human beings don’t have to do the computer will do. But then those who are dealing with computers suffer two things. One, they downsize the company will downsize so the jobs are lost. And two, the computer doesn’t work so you have additional time to fight with the computer. (Laughs) (Translation) [1:02:57.1]

[1:03:31.4] By downsizing, reducing people, so the two or three people job is given to one person, so that makes you work much more. (Translation) [1:03:43.1] So but I really think the European life in general and particularly Dutch is extremely great. I don’t know whether you appreciates or not. And if you don’t work or can’t work or something and the social service is so good you’ll be never be hungry. You always have a shelter, you always have food to eat and nowhere else we see- I seen it. (Translation) [1:04:23.4] You have additional opportunity to do something. This is an additional opportunity, honestly. (Translation) [1:04:51.7] But I’m not encouraging you not to work you can please. (Audience laughing) Definitely not. (Translation) [1:05:03.0] But there is opportunity too, you know. (Translation) [1:05:10.1] And you look down, looking down in the into the Belgium, Greece, Spanish, Spain and they don’t have that. Translator: Belgium? Rimpoche: Belgium also, yeah. Very limited and social services better here than Belgium. (Translation) [1:05:28.0]

[1:05:38.7] I have no idea about Germany. Probably better or worse? Audience: Worse. Rimpoche: They’re worse, see? (Translation) [1:05:50.2] But you know, but that’s also true if you have this side the other say better, and if you are that side, this side is better. It is human, human way of looking. (Laughing) (Translation) [1:06:08.9] Anyway this opportunity as, as- not only there’s opportunity, this is time that you have. (Translation) [1:06:28.5] The opportunity begins when you have interest. When you have open mind and you begin to look where the suffering’s coming from. What causes suffering? Why it is happening? And then you begin to realize you know there’s basically four noble truth is Buddha’s such a wonderful thing. It is, it’s taught 2600 years ago and is relevant and true then and it’s relevant and true today. And that itself tells us that we have opportunity. (Translation) [1:07:13.7]

[1:07:50.5] The next verse will tell you de da ne (Quotes in Tibetan) [1:07:53.6] To find such opportunity is the only this time. (Translation) [1:08:04.6] So it is important to realize that otherwise our laziness is so powerful, say we can do it tomorrow next time, next life- oh yeah, this time I’m so dull, so busy, so weak, and so this or that, but next time I will do it. So our laziness is so much will push everything for tomorrow so that’s why emphasizing par(?) (Tibetan phrase) [1:08:40.7] only this time. With the word tsam means “only.” (Translation) [1:08:48.2] So it adds a more value, more importantness, not only just life which has the time and opportunity, but this time only found it. So that makes more valuable for us. You know even you have a some kind of material whatever it is, this is the only thing, this is the only copy in the world that makes the books more precious, right? Just like that, this is just now we happened to be that’s only about it. (Translation) [1:09:51.5]

[1:10:13.7] So in other words it’s adding up. Adding up on the value of life. Not only the value of life, not only the intelligence part of life, not only the opportunity part of life, but happens to have this precious opportunity. Maybe this is the only time we get it. So makes much more important. (Translation) [1:10:38.8] So I’m talking this to you, I’m not giving you lecture. I’m giving you meditation material. Please remember that okay? This is how I want you to meditate. This is how I’m urging you to meditate. This is how you think about it. This is how you talk to yourself. This is how you perceive your life. This is how you use your life. This is how you consume your life. This is how you utilize your time. That’s what it is. I’m not telling you story and that thing happened here- sorry. That thing happened there, this thing happened here, but I’m telling you think in that way. And so that you realize how important you are. What is value you have. (Translation) [1:11:51.8]

[1:12:25.4] One thing I know for sure meditation. That is, that is you though give you meditation instructions you say sit cross-legged and this and that and all of those. That is normal instruction. But true meditation you don’t have to do that at all. And your normal thinking. Whatever you’re thinking that is meditation. I mean you – otherwise there is no way people meditate 24 hours dharma blah, blah, blah we hear all the stories all the time. And nobody sits 24 hours cross-legged. And nobody do that. So it is matter of thinking, where you think, how you think, it becomes meditation. Even you’re sitting on the toilet it is thinking about it is meditation. Don’t think while you’re driving it’s dangerous. Specially bicycle. (Laughing) (Translation) [1:13:30.7] And to me it is the mental engagement. (Translation) [1:14:12.7] And if you engage your mind in dharma, dharma things and then it is dharma meditation. (Translation) [1:14:24.1] If you engage your mind in the hatred, then it’s becomes hatred meditation. (Translation) [1:14:39.6] And if you engage in the obsession, it’s becomes obsession meditation. (Translation) [1:14:55.0]

[1:14:58.1] And what does meditation do? Make a big impact in your mind. (Translation) [1:15:04.3] And that’s what we’re looking for. (Translation) [1:15:10.9] That’s why we urge to have positive meditations not negative meditations. (Translation) [1:15:19.3] So, so, so this, this- even you don’t get time to sit down and have like ten, fifteen, twenty minutes but even then just you know, whenever there is time if you’re thinking about this so the mind’s getting used to it. Mind is lead to those important points. What Buddha and spiritual teachers have done is shared the important points. Our knowledge what we’re supposed to lead our mind to acquaint with the those, those link with this, engage with this, so that have a positive impact to us. When we have the positive impact that positive impact cuts negative influences. That’s what that is means cutting the negative emotions. And that, because of that we have a positive deeds. Because of that, we have positive karma. Because of that, we have a joy and not suffering. And that’s I believe is the mechanism how it works. (Translation) [1:16:46.1]

[1:17:39.6] Different level, different meditation comes in. (Translation) [1:17:45.6] The Lam Rim meditations or whatever, it is the you know we call it stages, but it is the level for different meditation for different people. (Translation) [1:18:03.9] In certain level, certain level you know, at this level for us, at this level for us is actually it is the struggling period. We struggle against our negative activities, negative karma, negative emotions, because they cause negative karma, negative karma cause suffering, this is our challenge, this is our struggle, so that’s what we do with this at this moment. (Translation) [1:18:47.7] And different level, different meditations. (Translation) [1:19:04.1]

[1:19:06.8] When we talk about the Four Mindfulness, the first mindfulness is mindfulness of guru. (Translation) [1:19:14.3] And at that level the meditation will be focused to the guru. (Translation) [1:19:30.5] Second mindfulness will be mindfulness of compassion. (Translation) [1:19:40.5] At that time your mind will be engaging to the compassion. (Translation) [1:19:51.6] Third mindfulness is mindfulness of purity of physical body as a yidam. (Translation) [1:20:02.8] At that time you have a different object, object, different, different negatives to be get rid of it. Negativities you have to get rid of those, at those time will be the ordinary perception and ordinary conceptualization and therefore your mind engaged as pure, pure, not only just pure, but pure your body as yidam. (Translation) [1:20:41.5]

[1:20:56.3] Then fourth mindfulness will be mindfulness of nature of reality. (Translation) [1:21:03.1] At that level you have it- you have object whatever, object whatever you have to get rid of it. It’s a dualistic perception and ego-grasping perception and all this and seeing the nature of reality which is, which is relaxed manner and you know focusing and seeing what truly what it is. (Translation) [1:21:42.0] The openness, spatiousness, spatiousness. (Translation) [1:22:07.1] No pressure. (Translation) [1:22:10.1] Oneness. (Translation) [1:22:14.1] All of them will come so this is how mind will engage at that time that way. (Translation) [1:22:22.4] Each level there is a target of what to get rid of it. Each level there’s object what we gain in. Each level there is way and how to sustain what you gain in. (Translation) [1:22:46.2]

[1:23:05.7] So when we talk about the capability of a human life and we as human being who are interested in the spiritual freedom and we have the opportunity to do that, the others don’t. Because they’re yuppies, or they’re hippies, and because they’re rich, because they’re poor. So whatever the reason is. Because they’re conservative or socialist, communist, whatever the reason may be. You know. (Translation) [1:23:44.7] De ta (Quotes in Tibetan) [1:24:14.6] That’s what nye ka. [1:24:20.7] Next verse will go- this is what the conclusion of second verse. Such we found only this time (Tibetan phrase) [1:24:28.7] (Translation) [1:24:34.2] Nye kar, jig la [1:24:40.2] Then next verse says nye kar. Means difficult to find. Nye kar it’s difficult to find. (Translation) [1:25:05.2]

[1:25:08.2] And that also you have to think three different ways of difficulty particularly most important why it’s difficult to find bec- from the causal point of view. What makes this life so good? What is the cause? What did I do right to have this life? Like the other day I said Buddha had told the people that you should be grateful to your previous life for giving the such wonderful life this time. So what did I do to get this? (Translation) [1:25:51.2] And what, what is, what, what did we do? Somehow we had a great morality as base. (Translation) [1:26:40.2] We be able to have congented(?) [1:26:48.7] such an important morality with a perfect life through prayer, practice, everything. (Translation) [1:26:57.6] We also have the help of the six perfections such as generosity and all. (Translation) [1:27:16.4] So all of them came together handy for us to be able to get this life. (Translation) [1:27:27.4] That’s why Buddha be grateful to previous life for giving this. (Translation) [1:27:39.4] And that’s the reasons why it’s difficult to find in future. (Translation) [1:27:52.5]

[1:27:57.4] How much morality we have? (Translation) [1:28:01.7] How much six perfections we have? (Translation) [1:28:10.7] And how much pure praying conjunctions(?) [1:28:18.9] we have? (Translation) [1:28:20.6] So when we see the cause and the conditions are not there how can we expect to get result? (Translation) [1:28:37.5] And that’s why nye ka, difficult to find. (Translation) [1:28:47.5] Okay next verse, next word is jig la- easy to go. [1:28:53.8] Easy to go. (Translation) [1:28:58.9] (Speaks to audience about time and stopping here) (Translation) [1:29:16.4] Sa zhi (Audience and Rimpoche recites mandala offering)