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Sound file 20080613GRSGPBWIS

say Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Ann Arbor

Topic Dalai Lama

Transcriber Vicki Cahill

Date 11/27/2023

GR: Thank you so much for the nice introduction. And thank you so much for all of you be here tonight. Although you have to do some exercise. And when I’m coming in, you’re all coming out. (laughs) And maybe it’s a good exercise, I hope. And. And out of that introduction you said. And also thank you so much for having me here and arranging and I especially like to thank Eric to put lot of efforts to look in, not only his subject what he teaches, but also for the spiritual path that comes from east tradition. And try to make a difference and better in his life and thereby helping others try to make difference in their lives. I thank you. And thank you for that introduction, but I’m not symbolizing compassion, generosity, whatever the few words you have in there. I’m not. I’m trying to learn how to be. But His Holiness, the Dalai Lama is really. It is the true, not only symbolic. Symbolic probably wrong word. Is the true living compassion and wisdom and genuine world leader today, who really have something slightly different than all the politicians that we see. His Holiness is really unique. Actual living compassion and wisdom and kindness combined. We’re very fortunate to have, been able to get him to the Michigan in April and.

0:03:05.5 Although today’s teaching was a little short, but essence of his message which is compassion and wisdom. And I like to bring it again and reminding among us. So that our compassion and wisdom be developed through the message given by His Holiness, which really ultimately, it is the Buddha’s message. The wisdom that Buddha developed twenty-six hundred years ago. Which followed by great many earlier Buddhist teachers in India and Tibet. Tibetans had a unique opportunity to preserve and promote and experience in life whatever that Buddha’s experienced teaching. Or we may even call it Buddhist philosophy. Or whatever label we call, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that conveys some important message that is not a simply just a message. That message, when you think about it. When you meditate and when you put efforts in that, it make a difference, not only in our lives. But it really changed individual. Individual person, being a very ordinary, normal, usual, human being with full of negative emotions, such as hatred or obsession changes into something. Something very unusual. Kind, compassionate and caring and that experience within the individual person, making that individual improves and bringing, becoming better human being and bringing closer to total enlightenment in the Buddhist language.

0:06:03.0 However, bringing closer to God. Normal understanding. Kind, better, caring, compassionate and loving person. In reality, we all as human being, we have that. But somehow our true nature of good human being, kind person, caring, loving ones sometimes covered. Covered by negative emotions, such as hatred, obsession and when that happens, it looks different person. Although kind, compassionate in deep. However, it turn out to be little sort of cold shoulder giving person. So, what does this. The message that Buddha and His Holiness giving and that changes the individual. Those negative emotions, like, you know, orange, with orange and skins. .And those negative emotions are like skin, so you can peel them off. And then real true juicy tasty, sweet Florida orange comes out. Right? (laughs) Really. Otherwise, that skin, in one way protecting the orange, however it is bitter and you can’t eat it. You can’t do it. So, this message of compassion and wisdom should be able to bring out the goodness of within us, the individual. And that’s what I thought it is very important to at least, you know, remind us that message that His Holiness brought. And so talked last about little bit of compassion and wisdom so that we can improve our life. In one way, as I said earlier, we are all wonderful kind compassionate human beings. And each and every one of you, kind, caring, loving. You know, person, wonderful. However, in our life we have a lot of difficulties too.

0:09:01.0 This is also true. Whenever we face difficulties, and we forget that we are kind and compassionate person and we sort of, you know, move ourself in the different directions. Exactly. I mean, what’s happening. You know, we had a terrible incident. Nine eleven. Horrible experience we had. Because of that horrible experience and our fears up. When the fear is gone up and then we are able somehow, you know and we can adjust everything. You know. I’m always thinking, because I travel a lot. So, every time whenever I travel in the plane. So, you have to take off almost everything, you know, out. And if you think about it, before nine eleven, leave aside other people. Even me. If they tells me, take your shoes off. And your belts out. Take your wallet out. And all that. Will I do that? I will not. And nor does anybody else. Any American will not do it. But after nine eleven, we have that big fear, and we are willing to do everything. Maybe we will take off our pants out too, one day. Probably we will. If we have to, probably do it. So, this is how the fear changes person. And can you imagine, you know, the individual rights and all this. The Americans are never, never, ever going to adjust anything for freedom choice, individual rights, liberty. All that. But we’re willing to cut and adjust everything after nine eleven. Doesn’t matter, because we want safety. So, this is how, even fear and negative emotions combined together. And we’re even willing to sacrifice our fundamental basis. You know. So, this is how negative emotions do to us. So, I call anger, hatred, jealousy, obsession all of them; are negative emotions.

0:12:05.0 Well they are emotions within us. These emotions. You know, influences the pure aspects of great human being. I had this very funny way of talking, presenting. When I look at the mind, and I can’t find any, anything to explain about the mind. What little I know about it, because mind is not tangible. Mind has no shape. No color. It is just mind. You know. The mind is. So, nothing. So, I was thinking. So, one day I noticed this light in front of me. So, I thought of. I thought of using mind as a clean crystal-clear lampshade. Although there is no, no physical shape, but clean clear crystal lampshade. Those emotions, whether it is positive emotion, such as faith, compassion or kindness. Or negative emotions, such as hatred, obsession, all of them are light bulbs. Whether it is red light bulb or the green cool bluish lightbulb or neutral lightbulb. So, every lightbulb. When you turn on the red lightbulb, that clean clear crystal lampshade also looks like red lampshade. Because the bulb inside is red. So, it influences. It effects. Exact same way, our negative emotions; hatred or anger or anything will influence this beautiful wonderful kind pure luminance nature of the individual mind change into this hatred influenced thing. Thereby changing the individual person from kind, compassionate into hatred influenced person.

0:15:02.2 So, this is the most important point. Those of us who are interested in the spiritual field to look in. Not only to interested or not interested spiritual field. But those of us who would like to be good person. Kind person. Compassionate person. Caring person. Loving person. Need to watch those. Because that is the internally we change. We don’t know. We don’t realize we are changing. We don’t notice. Change is taking place in our, within ourself every day. Every minute. Every moment. We don’t recognize. We don’t realize. It is not necessarily always changing into better way. .Sometimes we change worse. Bad to worse. Many times we change forward. Good, better, excellent. So, change are taking place all the time within ourselves. It is the mind that’s making difference. And we have to watch our mind, by ourself. Otherwise, no one else will watch. Even the family members do see change sometimes. First, they won’t even tell you. They won’t even. They hesitate to tell you. If it’s better, they will be more than happy to say. Hey, you look good. But if it goes little bit the other way, they won’t say it word. And even they tell you, you’re not going to buy it. You’re going to get angry, upset. What the hell you’re talking about it? I’m the same old good person. You know. Right. So, we do that. So, it is important to watch ourself. Way and how we watch is our mind. Since mind has no physical shape or color. So, we see our thoughts. Our ideas. Thoughts and ideas are the one who changed the individual. If we are getting very strongly hatred; person such as yourself not going to entertain hatred or anger easily.

0:18:13.4 I mean, really truly speaking. I’m not even joking. Truly speaking, especially the good kind Americans really like to be good and kind. They don’t entertain anger and hatred easily. We are wonderful people. Honestly. If you look at, I’ve been. I’ve been born in the east in Tibet and then brought up in Tibet up to my age of twenty. And then I become a refugee. And throughout in India all through Southeast Asia and then I’ve been in Europe. And I live in America. I had a, you know. Well, sixty-eight years experience of seeing a different life’s people. Americans are very, very kind and caring and wonderful person. We can be really proud. I am proud of being American. At least one of you. Honestly. Been proud. Not because we’re rich. Not because we have green dollars. The value’s going down. Don’t worry. It’s going down. Euro is going up. (laughs) But not that, but kind, compassionate and loving and caring personality. So, we don’t simply easily give up. We are kind person. We are strong person. Kind person. But when the fear comes in, and then we’re willing to act just for everything. Even the material world we know. I told you we are, I won’t be surprised if we take our pants off when we are going to the plane. You know, I mean, begin with the jacket. Remember? Bags and jacket. And then more and more and now we. Nobody asks questions if we take off our shoes. Nobody told me to take off the socks yet. And pants. You know, I’m sure they will one day and we will take off, because of the fear. Because of the fear. But the. But by the way, in Europe, you don’t have to take shoes off.

0:21:02.2 It is amazing. You know, I don’t know if it’s amazing good way or not. I was a little surprised, you know. I was taking off my shoes. They said, “Oh. Don’t take your shoes off.” I said, “Oh. Ok.” So. So, anyway. But here we do take off the shoes. Right? So, when the fear comes the negative emotions, fear combined. So, taking off the pants or shoes, it doesn’t matter. It’s not a big deal. But it give, sometimes, give a feed to our hatred. And that’s not good. That is very difficult, because hatred. You know, consequences of hatred is not good. We all know what’s happened in Iraq. I mean, mind you, those lives were lost. More than four thousand of our young kids. Eighteen, nineteen, twenty. They’re sweet. Grow up, you know? And suddenly get killed. For what? And that’s not one, not two, not ten, not a hundred. Four thousand. And plus, how many Iraqi’s? Who knows the number? Some report even says six hundred thousand. Believe it or not. They denied, of course. But then, that is more than half a million human beings. It’s just hatred. Hatred brings violence. Violence brings violence. The result of violence is nothing good. Nothing but violence. That is a problem with negative emotions. It’s not that killing. It is not that war. But it is the mind factor that set up, creating the war. Going into this, whether it is justifiable or not. Justifiable or not. It doesn’t matter whether the Sadam Hussein has to be throw it out, or not throw it out or world is better than without Sadam Hussein or with Sadam Hussein. All these are immaterial, kids’ talk.

0:24:02.1 What matters is amount of lives that lost. People that much got killed. And inconvenience of uprooting the lives of those people who are living there. We have a tremendous suffering and pain. This is man-made suffering. We have tremendous natural elemental problems. The earthquake in China. Over sixty thousand people got killed. A million got lost their homes. Kids die in the school. Just in one building alone, about a thousand. Nine-hundred something. Just like that. Sitting in the class. And look in Burma. The water problem. These are. These are tremendous suffering and pain that we go through. Look in Darfur and Africa. What’s happening. So, if we don’t develop compassion, and we don’t develop care, who else? Or what are we? What are we? So, you know, this is a really what the world what we are in today. And the only thing what helps is the compassion, wisdom and non-violence. Non-violence is something very difficult to achieve any result, because no one will pay attention. I mean, you do have difficulties. But you have to struggle against that. But the way and how we do it is by non-violence. So, nobody going to bother because it’s non-violence. If you have a little violence it makes something huge, terrible. But then it is terrible.

0:27:01.5 I mean, looking back. Looking in the Tibetan situation. The Tibetans been struggling against the communist Chinese government and it is control over the Tibetan people. Not having, as far as I’m concerned, not having a right to follow the faith that you want to follow. To utilize the fruit of your labor. Whatever you wanted to use it. And that is a struggle. Some people will fight for the freedom. Independent. That is a political issue. Not. I mean, not my issue. For me, it is the spiritual. People should be able to worship, whatever they want to. And utilize the fruit of your labor by you. And that is the struggle. And that struggle’s been going over fifty years, since 1950’s. Over fifty years. And non-violence. The moment it becomes a little violence, during this 0:28:28.1 (???) one big thing, issue. And every world pays attention. But it is not good. It’s terrible. It is violence. It is especially non-violence. The Dalai Lama emphasize non-violence. Not violence. Anyone can do violence. Violence is such a horrible thing. You only need twenty odd people. Or some thirty or twenty odd people to create all kinds of terrible things. And you created enough trouble for a small country or a small area or whatever. Maybe boil down to twenty or thirty people. But you can make a huge thing. But then it hurts people. People lose their life. What are you fighting for? Honestly, that is the important point here. Non-violence. Non-violence is principle of compassion. But compassion does not necessarily make ourself a doormat. You know what I mean. Door mat. Door mat. People can walk over, wipe their foot and you know, walk all over. That’s some people have a misunderstanding. So that is the problem.

0:30:07.2 Compassionate. Yes. Caring, loving. Yes. Struggle what you want to struggle. Stand for what you want to stand for. But you can’t hurt anyone, including ourselves. It is important. When you talk about the compassion. You know, Tibetan Buddhism is a tremendously. I don’t know. Think. I think it’s very rich in compassion. And I used to think when I was in Tibet and brought up to India as a refugee, I used to think, compassion’s almost belonging to us. Because, you know, Buddha, Buddhism and that of Mahayana Buddhism. Compassion is ours. You know. Mine. My home and everything. I used to think that. But when I left Tibet. When I kicked out of Tibet, I came without anything. Without food. Without money. Without anything. When I crossed the Himalayas, the first and foremost what I saw is the Western people. People like yourself, through your kind donations. And people are there. You know those, those Christian workers. And tried to give us a pill. The first thing what I got is two red pills. I don’t know what that pill is for. (laughs) whether it is vitamin or anti-malaria or whatever it is, when you are coming through the Himalayan mountains, they give me two pills. I ate it. They say it is medicine. Medicine for what? I don’t even know or could even be. I don’t think there’s a tylenol at that time. 1950. Fifty-nine maybe. Maybe an aspirin or whatever it is. Two pills, I took. Followed by the nice little cloth to wear. I got a 0:32:42.6 (?)pajama. Actually a pajama, sort of a bluish greenish pajama. Must be wearing by some six-foot, some tall guy. And it’s a huge one. Doesn’t fit me. Fine. Even then, there’s something to wear. I have to roll the sleeves up and everything’s. I’ve been walking around.

0:33:04.4 And it is wonderful to receive that compassionate gift. And that was the first and format I know. Compassion is not only, doesn’t belong to the Tibetan Buddhist. And everybody else cares. They have compassion. I am aware of that, first time. Followed by getting to India. One of those Indian professors. We had to some conference and one of the Indian professors. Very nice professors called Dr. 0:33:47.8 Upadhaya (?). From the Kasi pundit, from the. They’re from Varanasi. So, he is a very kind person. Very wonderful person. He said, “Oh, you people are great. You people are Mahayana. You are great; high and wonderful.” But how high and how wonderful you are, we have to measure from the ground zero level. So, therefore Hinayana is so important. Without ground you cannot know how high you are. And that make me second time realize compassion is grounding to, not only Judaea-Christian tradition. But even other, you know, small vehicle, we call it. Funny way. Theravadan, Hinayana traditions have it. So, I begin to realize compassion is not only a Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana thing. Everybody else have it. And it is true. When I get here, over here, the Judeo-Christian tradition, which I know nothing. However, when you look at it, and they tell you, if somebody hit on your right cheek, turn the left one. It is kind. Caring. Wonderful. Greatness. A beautiful thing. But then, what I know about the Buddha’s message of the compassion, there’s a slightly difference. Slightly difference. Buddha’s message of the compassion. Yes. Of course. Accept all of them. But on top of that. On top of that. Compassion must be looking inwards. Not only looking outwards.

0:36:04.1 When you see someone suffering. Feeling of the compassion is a fundamental basis we must carry. On top of that, we must also look in. Look in, in ourself. And see if you can develop compassion for yourself. So, when we talk about compassion and looking in yourself it may be contradicting from the language point of view. I’m not sure. I don’t know. However, from the meaning and message point of view, it is extremely important to look in. Look in ourself. And look in my own situation. And develop caring for me. Take responsibility of myself for me. It is my compassion for me. When you’re looking at yourself, we have tremendous difficulties. Suffering outside is vivid suffering. Suffering inside is tormenting nagging, constantly nagging ourself. How much internally pain and suffering we carry. Beside ourself, nobody else knows. We don’t want them to know. We want to hide them. In order to hide them, we put different colors in the face. I’m joking. (laughs) Honestly. In one way I’m joking. In one way, I’m truth. We like to hide all our suffering. We don’t want you to know how old I am, So, I paint my face with makeup. Earlier it used to be only ladies and women who does. Nowadays man does too. (laughs) So, actually we try to. We try to hide our pain. Everything. We also grow a beard to hide.

0:39:04.8 I don’t want a quarrel with bearded people, so, I’m not going to go for that anyway. So. So, these things we do. So, internal pains we go through. Which is really tormenting. And we have that. To the old people like me and the young ones, kids, and everybody carrying that internal suffering. Mental, even physical sometimes. Emotional. Losses. Loneliness. Not fulfilling our wishes. All kinds of things. So, if we don’t care for ourself, who is going to care? So, to take care of me and myself. To help me and myself. My first priority. Compassion is two things. Looking outside. Looking inside. Looking inside and leading me to help myself, will lead me to help others. Buddha’s way of helping others is the exact way how Buddha himself helped himself. And when Buddha did help himself. So, he exactly knows how can help others. That is important. That is exactly what we need to do. Sometimes we think compassion’s only out-looking. Seeing the suffering people. Feeling it. It’s true. But at the same time there must window looking inside. Inside me. And looking at me. When I said earlier, torment, suffering, lonely pain. All that.

0:42:03.8 These are normal, usual human problems. Plus, we have negative emotions. Negative emotions, such as hatred and obsession are both are daunting on us. Hatred will push us. Obsession will pull us. All this pull pushing, all these are internal struggle. Tremendously within us. If you or me. If I do not notice my pain within me, who else going to notice that? If you do not notice your difficulties within you, who else going to notice that? If I don’t care myself with my internal pain, who else going to care? If you don’t care your own pain within you, who else going to take care of? This is the fundamental basis of compassion looking inside. That’s why we have to make a difference to ourself. I have to make a difference to me. You have to make a difference to you. No one else can. No one even know what we have ourself, within ourself. We have to make difference. And way and how we make difference is creating a positive within us. This is common to Judeo-Christian tradition. Common to Hindu-Buddhist tradition. East. West. Wherever you look, it is. The positive good virtuous way of functioning our life is making difference to us. Our motivation of anything whatever we do, will make hell of difference to our life.

0:45:04.7 Even. This is funny. What Buddhism tells me. What I learn as a, back in Tibet. Good old Tibet. Way and how I help me, is the way I help others. When I’m helping others. Helping others is the act that I conduct and that result help me. This is very tremendous relationship between me and you. The internal individual person and the whole world. We are living. Not only living, we are in the world which is really existing on the interdependent nature of existence. None of us are independently existing. We all depend on each other. Interdependent nature. Interdependent nature makes everything makes difference. You know this. Today’s scientist tells us, a movement of butterfly in China makes difference in the United States. This is scientifically. Every scientist telling us today. So, that is thousands of miles away. We are thousands of miles here. But they are making difference because we are sharing one world. We are interdependent in nature. We are dependent. Each other. I depend on you. You depend on me. We all dependent on each other. So, where else are we going to walk away. No way. We’re all interconnected. So, this is the basis of compassion. This is the base of how we help others helping me. Helping others is the way. And it is the way to help me. This is the basically compassion that brought the individual person to become Buddha. To become total enlightened.

0:48:04.2 It’s because that’s the way they brought in. That is how they developed. Today the Dalai Lama as an example, unique person. In his presence, we forget our problems. We enjoy. Some kind of joy that he provides and so we ride on that joy. And somehow, we don’t have our suffering and pain directly tormenting us. We forget. And that is. It’s nothing but his spiritual achievement. His spiritual achievement; been able to bring that joy to all of us. And each and every one of us are capable of doing that. Each and every one of you are capable. And it’s the only matter that you are looking in and develop. Having very kind thoughts, motivations, compassionate, caring. Not only yourself. Not only the all beings, including yourself. Don’t forget yourself. Sometimes people like to say compassion and all that. Other people. I don’t care about me. You know I brought in Tibetan Buddhism. Born in there. Brought in there. I don’t use the. We don’t use the vocabulary, but I can almost say “born again Buddhist”. (laughs) They don’t use it, but I sort of in. And so, what I learned everywhere, every book that I look. Right at the beginning it says, “I and all sentient beings may never know, may be separated from the sufferings. I and all sentient beings be never be separated from the joy that has never known sufferings. I and all sentient beings remain in equanimity.” I see that everywhere it begins. I and all sentient beings. Never said, all sentient beings except me have all free from suffering. It never said that. Neither they said, I am free from the sufferings and don’t care for the rest of you. They don’t say that either. So, it moves together. That is together, you, me and everyone together can move in this path.

0:51:06.3 And that is the compassion message in essence that His Holiness gives and wanted to remind and urge you to think, whenever you have time, about it. See every day if you can think in the morning, “I will make myself good person. Kind compassionate person for the rest of my life. Particularly today.” That is very important. Whatever you are follower of Judeo-Christian tradition, Hindu-Buddhist tradition. Or no follower. Whatever you are. Atheist. Great human being. There are many great human beings. Not necessarily claiming to be any follower of any religion’s tradition. But be a good person. That is most important. Important to be a good person. Kind, caring, compassionate motivation for everyone, every day, in the morning. And if that motivation becomes a little weak in the afternoon, remind yourself once again. Try to be. So. So, that our twenty-four hours been utilized for a good action. Good action itself gives us positive result because karma is nothing more than reality. That is exactly how we function. Maybe I’m talking too long. I’m sorry. And these are the aspects of this compassion. Thank you. And aspects of the wisdom is more complicated than that. But maybe the compassion is good enough for all of us today So, at least you have something to take home And that is the compassion, has the window looking outside and the window looking in. And motivation to try to be good person the rest of our life and particularly today. So, if you do that every day, will make a huge difference in your life.

0:54:03.8 Maybe that’s it, I can say. And thank you. Is that too short? Or too long? Or what? (applause) (laughs) Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I guess that’s it. So. No questions. Right?

Moderator: Rimpoche. Do you want to take questions and answers or not?

GR: Yeah. If there is one. I don’t have answers. Honestly. Kathy is telling me, question, question. So. Kathy is telling me, question, question. So. Yes sir.

Audience: Maybe that’s enough you’re talking about. You talk about compassion. You said, maybe that is enough for the evening and then you said something.

GR: I’m sorry. What?

Audience: In your words about compassion this evening. At the end you said something about wisdom and maybe the talk about compassion is enough. I was just wondering if you could allude to the difference between the wisdom and compassion.

GR: The essence of the compassion is wisdom. The essence of wisdom is compassion. But I’m not trying to push you out on that. But. But. The wisdom normally known in Buddhist tradition is what we call emptiness. Which is not, not nothing-ness. It is really interdependent-ness. I said earlier. Interdependent-ness. Interdependent-ness. Give you a little example. We normally think as a normal human being, we think, “I did this. I did that.” I and me. My ego. And all very powerful important we treat as though we look somebody called me. Right inside me. Right?

0:57:01.8 So, we say that. But what Buddha tells us. Whatever. Whoever we call “me” inside me, is not solid, independent existing. It is something interdependently functioning. Sometimes these words, and some people feel, “I’m so hopeless. I’m so sad. I’m horrible. I’m miserable. I’m useless.” The other day a friend of mine called me on the telephone and saying that. Saying that. Crying. Huge. “Ah me. I’m not worth for living. No one appreciates me. My body is horrible. My mind is dumb. I mean stupid. I don’t make money and I’m useless and hopeless and dependent and this and that. I’m going to. It must not worth for me to living here. I’m going to die. I’m going to kill myself. I’m going to end it. “ You know. Screaming. So, the question rises, “Who’s talking inside me?” Who’s listening? Who’s telling who? Who is that one who is useless. Who is the one acknowledging useless. Who is it? If you keep on thinking carefully, you begin to realize there’s neither somebody speaking, nor somebody listening. It is certain circumstances. Certain conditions that come across. And that person think, “I’m hopeless. I’m useless. My life is worth for nothing.” And who is saying, “My wife is worth for nothing.” Who’s life is it?

1:00:05.6 I didn’t mean, my wife. I mean my mouth might have escaped. My life is not worth, worth for nothing. Who is saying it? Who is listening? Think very carefully. Neither there are someone saying it, nor there somebody acknowledging it. It is all circumstances. The next minute. If circumstances change. You think, I’m so happy. Wonderful. This and that will go. And who is that happy? Who is that sad person? So, if you are really looking very carefully, you don’t have it. It is circumstances .It is conditions. And it is the terms and conditions. When that comes to a certain level, it’s all. Whole looks like 1:01:12.8 doomed(?) . But that is all conditions and circumstances. Neither this person, nor that person. When the circumstances change, same old me, same old you. Making happy. It really tells you, deeply, there is nothing of that sort what we perceived to be. If you keep on thinking on those lines, your idea of “I’m hopeless” will also become weakened. I’m helpless. Also become weakened. It’s the same time. I’m so happy. Wonderful. Flying in the air is also weakened. Then you become. You. Stable conditioned. When the conditions right or wrong accordingly functioning normal, kind, compassionate, human being, you begin to see. Because these negative emotions are, you know, like running. Like a dam bursting. And that don’t see the beauty person inside. See only the horrible miserable things and see no end to it and thinks that I am it. That is only the condition of negative emotions flowing through. When you sort that out, you begin to see the wonderful person inside.

1:03:07.0 Deeply in there. As I said the beginning, peel the skin of the orange. You’ll see the juicy Florida orange. Is Florida considered best? Maybe not. Do we have orange here? No. No Michigan orange. Right? Anyway. So, these are the basic idea of Buddha’s wisdom. Lady over here. Lady in the front. Thank you.

Audience 2: I think I hear you saying that we are to recognize that we are divine, inside. And that brings out the compassion and the wisdom and the love and the kindness that you speak of. That we recognize that wonder within us.

GR: I’m not sure whether I say we’re divine. But I will say, kind, compassionate, wonderful, pure. That’s it. Thank you. Gentleman.

Audience 3: Hello Rimpoche. I’m Daniel Harris. I had you on my show just two days ago.

GR: I’m sorry

Audience 3: I had you on my music show two days ago.

GR: Oh yeah. Did I. Yes. Thank you

Audience 3: It was wonderful to have you on. It’s also wonderful to see my dear friend Red Hawkins, who is also been on the show. My question is, “I understand the form of detachment within. An understanding that the Buddhist that can call himself, that can forget he is a Buddhist, has learned that, you know, all of our suffering is through attachment. So detach from all of it. I was wonder if you have met a Buddhist, who has forgotten he’s Buddhist and how good is he at chess.

GR: To tell you the truth, I’m in such an area where I cannot only

Audience 3: I apologize

GR: Echoes and nothing. Did you hear? I didn’t hear the question. I got a lot of echoes. Nothing but echoes

Moderator: I think he has question about being attached . Does that sort of cover?

Audience 3: Yes. And then what happens after all the attachment has left you.

GR: Ah. All the attachment left, you have pure love left. Honestly. Pure love. Sometimes cannot come out because of our attachment. And it is very difficult to see the difference between the pure love and the attachment, because.

1:06:00.7 But normally for me, it is easy to say, escape. Excuse is attachment is sticky stuff. Pure love is not sticky stuff. When you going beyond the sticky stuff, then you’ll find the pure love. (laughs) Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.

Audience 4: You mentioned that

GR: You’re the last one Ok. Thank you

Audience; 4: You mention that we human beings are not supposed to be violent. But does that mean we don’t have right to self-defense if attached by mothers.

GR: We do have right to have self-defense for sure. But you know, the best self-defense is non-violence. Look at Gandhi. Look at the Buddha. Look at Nelson Mandala. Look at Dr. Martin Luther King. Physical violence. Look at Hitler. Recently, look at Sadam Hussein. These are the external examples. But then you look within ourself. Family. Person who cares, who loves, people love them. Person who’s bully, we don’t respect them. (? ??) Thank you.

Moderator: Our dean would like to give you a little gift. Thank you.

Dean: I would like to thank you on behalf of the University, so much for your words tonight. And please accept a small token of our appreciation.

GR: Thank you so much

Moderator: Thank you Rimpoche. Ok. Before you leave, I just have a couple of closing words. A few closing words. And again, thank you very much Rimpoche for your wonderful.