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Transcript name: 20090905GRAAGLG3

Start Date: 01-20-2010

Transcriber Name: Sally Boyer

Finish Date: 04-04-2010

To continue what we’ve been talking this morning, we just talked about GA DAN right? And before I go and talk we didn’t even begin yet so the funny thing is we did not begin, but you people have discussion group and all that. Whether it is coming out of the discussion group or any individual, if you have any questions.

Audience: Rinpoche, this morning you spoke about the four different stages that a person passes through on the way through the path of seeing and you spoke about first step was you see the reality, which goes back to when you spoke about the big lie getting busted years ago and then the next thing you said which I never heard you say before which you said was the fourth thing was you can control reality. Could you speak a little more about that point?

Rinpoche: The level in which you understand the emptiness, that makes the difference. What do you mean by control? What do you want to know?

Audience: I want clarification as to whether that was because the big lie has been busted, then the method…

Rinpoche: You said the big lie you heard before and the third one you’ve never heard?

Audience: The third one I heard, the fourth one about after the big lie is busted there is the ability, the control of reality kicks in and I wanted clarification logically about….

Rinpoche: Logically, yes…that’s fine

Audience: That the reason I want …

Rinpoche: The reason, very simple…so there is suffering as normally functioning is they don’t have it, they are no longer subject to that. So therefore everything is controlled situation rather than uncontrolled situation. For example, the reincarnation is reincarnation willingly taking rebirth exactly where and when they want it and so forth. So that is what I meant control, logically. Logically because logically you may think it is karma controlling so what’s happened. Because it is no longer, it is the delusion oriented karma not functioning for that person, so it is substituted by their willingness, wishes, compassion and prayer. And so that is why it is controlled environment, controlled situation, it is no longer uncontrolled.

Audience: So that is significantly different than simply saying what Nancy O’Boyle said, “I have no control over…I’ve learned that I have no control over what happens to me but I have learned that I have control over how I perceive and handle it.” Is it beyond that?

Rinpoche: Yes

Audience: Finally, you used to use the phrase about relative reality becomes shy to you, is it along the same lines?

Rinpoche: I don’t know.

Audience: Okay.

Rinpoche: That I don’t know.Relative reality…

Audience: The walls become shy to you, you used to say.

Rinpoche: People walk through walls and so that’s really what it is.

Audience: Okay, it is the same logic. Okay.

Rinpoche: Do you know this is stintory, the scientists have something called stintory, which you can put the paper through the wall and all this. And scientifically, they also find it possible, so the spiritual people find that possible too. James?

James: I have two questions that came out of the group this afternoon. The first one is sort of on the same lines as Elizabeth’s question but it’s dealing with the first level about wisdom that you spoke of, and that’s what did you mean by imagining reality as the first step that you go through. Could you clarify that?

Rinpoche: Did I say imaginary reality? I don’t know, I may have to ask myself what I meant by that, what I was thinking at that time. And then… let’s talk about that. What I was thinking, imaginary reality.I think it is imagining, right? And this level of process that pop up on my head when I’m talking to you, first, people imagine and then they think about it and then things will shape up, things like that probably, that’s what I’m thinking about it. If you look at back in the books and say is there something called imagination level? No, I don’t think they talk about it. Okay.

James: Thank you Rinpoche. The second question was, would you mind repeating the name of the tantra that prophesize Je Tsongkhapa.

Rinpoche: I think it is Jechun jabejuk. Either it is Manjushri tantra one of those or… I think it is Jechun jabejuk. Don’t ask me to translate, I don’t even know the name of the tantra.

Amy: Should a person choose to do the Lama Chopa or Ganden Lha Gyema as daily practice based on their connection with it or say someone is already doing one of them but gets the teaching on another should they do both?

Rinpoche: Those good old Tibetans who are not so busy they do both. For us it is very difficult to do both, so I think either they can do. Lama Chopa has a lot of special of its own, very special values, extra values and so, but Ganden Lha Gyema not connected to… so the Lama Chopa has its own very special things within that, so one of them will do because if you look into the Ganden Lha Gyema, you are going to find seven limb and mantra saying and if you are going to deal with the vajrayana aspect of it and so there and all seven limb is in Lama Chopa and after doing Lama Chopa if you do Ganden Lha Gyema, it is also like redundant. Did that answer your question?

Amy: Yes, as I was kind of thinking since I was doing the Lama Chopa but I didn’t know if I should do the Ganden Lha Gyema too for a while or …

Rinpoche: Maybe not, just stick with lama Chopa but it’s going to be… if you look at like in verse one of the Ganden Lha Gyema will probably cover from in the Lama Chopa DHE TONG YEER MEY area, the generation of the field will be covered with that, that’s one verse and then verse two will be covering in the Lama Chopa KAR DHA DOR JE… all these two three verses, Lama Chopa much more detailed than the Ganden Lha Gyema, so that’s why. Probably, Lama Chopa if you stick to it that will be better, not better, but easier, maybe not easier but that’s okay.

Laura: For those of us that haven’t started doing the Ganden Lha Gyema or Lama Chopa, is there one you think we should do?

Rinpoche: After Ganden Lha Gyema teaching, you should do Ganden Lha Gyema for a while and then if you have Lama Chopa teaching, you may switch or you may continue, okay?

Mark: Last night you mentioned the six perfections and then the four additional, I’m not sure what you were referring to, the four additional.

Rinpoche: Somebody was counting last night, who was it? Somebody counted last night. Maybe it was Jamyang. This is actually, completely dealing with other people. Presenting nicely with art and talk something suitable with their mind but don’t talk over their head and also help mental, physical, emotional help all that is four paramaitas. There are four of those. I was telling Jamyang last night, I said some lamas, if you try to be very straightforward and not respecting and they will work with you and they will say yes I like that and this and that and that way they go because no one will say don’t talk to me in that manner or something but according to the need of the individual they will go. So these are the four paramitas and they will do.

So we talked GA DAN and instead of talking of Pure Land of GA DAN we went into the Ganden Monastery and Ganden and all that but here GA DAN refers to GA is part of gawa, is joy and DAN is having joy and it becomes joyful land. Joyful referring to Pure Land of joyful which is known as Tushita. Tushita is Sanskrit word. It is so funny. Just funny incident I remember, in 1960’s somewhere or 70’s somewhere, this ? began to set up dharma centers. They set up one dharma center called Tushita in Dharamarsala and those days Indian government was so suspicious of anything was happening. So then they have a report saying that they are setting up a center called Tushita, so legally everything is fine so they couldn’t figure out and then somebody I know in Home Ministry, that is internal affairs and they wanted to ask me questions. So one of the big directors came and asked what does Tushita mean. I said what? I was wondering what was going on with me or something. So what does Tushita mean? That’s supposed to be Sanskrit. Oh, it is Indian language. So anyway, so Tushita not Tushita Center but Tushita Pure Land. It is supposed to be, now I put my two fingers out to bracket, supposed to be most closest Pure Land geographically because most supposed to be closest to Pure Land because you know what happened is when you have those three realms, the desire realm which goes from the lower hell realm to the highest samsaric gods realm and then you have the four form realms, and above that you have four formless, right? So somewhere around there Tushita falls in one of those seventeen layers wherever it is. It can’t be formless because there is form so… may be I have to read, may be this one will tell you hopefully. Gandan and Yegachunse Pure Land is about a mile above the normal Gandan land, that I remember clearly but where is that Gandan Land? I completely forgot, anyway just don’t remember, and I see nothing here.(Audience read something aloud from a chart). So thank you for pointing it out, so there you are because I keep on thinking it is somewhere above the space like or conscious and then there is no form at all so how that’s going to work out? So that’s the complex on my head and then that’s good, now there we are. So that even within the desire realm then even more closer than... So anyway Tushita supposed to be the most closest to Pure Land geographical point of view, that is desire realm and form realm and formless. You know equivalent to these three realms in Buddhist terminology in our normal English is hell, heaven and earth, so then they are referring this within the earth itself, and within almost below the heaven, is sort of within earth’s highest level possible almost not really highest, anyway you have the chart available there. Somehow it is completely forgot out of my head. So that’s it. Now I’m beginning to remember things here and there, so anyway geographically supposed to be there and there is realm almost realm called Joyful Land GA DAN and then particularly this Tushita Pure Land is called Yegachunse the mind remain happy dharma continuing, that is the name that must be the name of Tushita, that’s why Tushita doesn’t translate into English. Mind remain joy dharma continuing and that is within the Joyful Land, it is supposed to be separate, almost like Shambala, Shambala is supposed to be within continent itself, somewhere mystery land hidden somewhere within that. Very similar to that, they have this Pure Land Tushita Yegachunse. Yega, mind joy continuing dharma. So please don’t worry about English, probably somebody who is very… the English speaking probably say, what is this nonsense? Mind joy dharma continuing, what does that mean? They probably say think it’s a thing but sometimes it happens, so then you know the translators will not translate, they will put the word in it because there are probably reasons why Tushita carrying Tushita everywhere rather than translating into English must be that reason or could be because I don’t really know what does Tushita mean in English despite questioned by the Indian officer, my answer was it’s Indian language and Sanskrit and all that and that went well, anyway but that’s what it is, and Pure Land of Tushita. So now you have to imagine or you have to visualize if you want in romantic way, and if you want it straight way you have to imagine Pure Land. That Tushita Pure Land is within the Joyful realm. Joyful realm is almost look like a big city, big area but Tushita is within that, some kind of slightly different than the normal land, the description given is about a mile above the space. It is not on the mountain top, hill station, it is not hill station, it is not higher up on the mountains but it is mile above, looks like fort in the air above this normal land somewhere it is exclusive land and not everybody who is in that Joyful Land cannot go in there. It’s not they have guard and electrical fence and all that but somehow karmically they cannot go, it is sort of secluded area Pure Land and then GA DAN refers to that. So in your visualization, the best environment, whatever you think you can think. Of course it is green, no doubt about it, everything is green, the land is green and if you read the description they will talk to you the land, the tiles are turquoise and all that type of thing there but every environment in that absolutely clean, clear, beautiful green land and it is almost like well maintained British golf course, very well maintained British golf course or something in that. And the whole area and the buildings around are not ordinary buildings because it is part of the Pure Land so therefore it is interesting, transparent, if you look from inside, but if you look from outside, probably you see nothing. You have tinted glasses sometimes, if somebody sitting inside the room and then you are looking out and then you see everything, but somebody from outside tries to look in you see nothing, right? You do get that tinted glasses we see today, even in our ordinary human beings, supposed to have that. So maybe similar to that because one of the qualities of Pure Land is transparent from inside out but not two way street. It is almost every pure land buildings are like that. And then everything is automatic, we utilize electricity for matter of using temperature control, close the door, opening door, closing window, shutting down our curtain and so on and so forth, human beings use electricity, right. So over here they don’t depend on electricity, but it is functioning that way, even more efficient, much more efficient than electrical functioning. Electrical functioning sometimes can go wrong, electricity not there, door can’t open, can’t shut and all these problems we have and they don’t suppose to have that. So everything is functioning by nature and that is when you say if you see the reality you begin to have control, that’s Elizabeth’s question earlier, what it is. So when you see the reality you begin to have control over the elements because you know how to function at that, so that is why this Pure Land has that because it is controlled atmosphere. Not controlled atmosphere like communists controlled atmosphere but it is really well functioning and then normally quality of the Pure Land is…which means if you walk it will sink and then if you walk away it will pop up old ground, supposed to be tamperpetic land, so tamperpetic land , okay? So those old Pure Land descriptions are now we are using as our goods, like the tamperpetic bed does the same thing right? We sit on it and then exactly your body will fit and they are supposed to be. Go and sit and then you walk away and it lifts up right? So it’s supposed to be. So must be something like that because for a thousand of years it’s written in this description (in Tibetan)… means if you press it will go down but if you lift it, it will pop up in normal level, so it is tamperpetic, so all land are tamperpetic land but green in color and beautiful rivers running around and wonderful trees, something very unique normally not available but very unique trees are available and those and you know what they don’t have? Hurricanes. They don’t have hurricanes over there because it is Pure Land. No typhoons, so that means every breathing air has to be exactly where you want it. Normally we never get anything exactly where you want it, here because it is desire realm, the difference is in Pure Land you can get exactly what you want because it is Pure Land. Desire realm is a land of suffering so you don’t get exactly what you want, either too cold or too warm and it is very hard to adjust here, but over there it is supposed totally, everything is fine. In short, you remember the firm called Shan-gri-la, Lost Horizon right? And so whatever they showed you, sort of fiction type of thing made in there, whenever you are there you are young, youthful blah blah blah and then you go out and you are a hundred twenty years old and suddenly everything crumbles in pieces and all that, so that effect supposed to be carried in Pure Land. You don’t age in Pure Land, you don’t get sick in Pure Land, there is no flu, no swine flu or H1N1, nothing is there, no Mao flu, no Asian flu, no allergy, all of those things are not there. There may be bugs but the bugs what you want, and the bugs you don’t want will not be there because it is controlled environment, not controlled in bad way. So for Americans, when we say controlled environment you probably think it is communist jail or something but not that way controlled, it is very nice, so that sort of quality, beautiful, whatever the best you can imagine. For me, it is funny you know, it is because in childhood I had seen those Tushita drawings which even you people see in the Ganden Lha Gyma thankha sometimes you have that up there, a little little room, little place where there is a little greens around and then Maitreya sitting right? But then you know you pull that you know, sort of zoomed picture of that, pull back and enlarge it you know so hit the square box on the top of the computer as many as you can, so it is going to be huge of that land and that and plus this according to the descriptions, this wonderful birds and singing, and singing thing are the dharma messages and also if you want it to be dharma message, it is very important dharma message, and if you want it to be just simple entertaining song sung by Britney Spear or whatever you want it to be and that can be. These are the qualities of the Pure Land so whatever, that can be function. So at the center of that, the center here, don’t think of old fashion one big center or sort of palace in the middle and everything around, but the center from the point of your own practice that center is where the Maitreya Buddha sits there. Maitreya buddha’s Pure Land and Maitreya Buddha’s house, Maitreya Budhha’s residence, Maitreya Buddha’s office and so that. Why Maitreya Buddha here? This is not simply not only imagination but Maitreya Buddha is waiting over there to able to transfer from the Pure Land of Tushita as a second Buddha but to be able to transfer himself to the human land as official Buddha, the fifth official Buddha of this fortunate eon. So for that reason, Maitreya Buddha in Tushita always depicted as sitting on a chair rather than the Western style of throne, rather than the Eastern style of throne where you sit down in cross legs. Why you don’t do cross leg, because cross-legged sitting down is not easy to get up even young people like you unless you are kungfu or yoga person who kungfu person has to be very alert and sitting because if you have enemy coming at the back or wherever you will be alert and stand straight away and hit around with whoever around, that is what a kungfu person supposed to do and that is what they learn and they can do it. If Bingong is here, he would demonstrate but now he got knee problem. He would demonstrate, so really even they cross legs, they sit down like us to put our butt down and relax but they don’t, they somehow sit in very strange way you know, they are sitting on the butt but still they are sitting on the legs because if anything happens they quick straight away circle it and get up and hit anyone on the way up, so that’s what they do, right? So the yoga people do too, same thing, so but then to depict that idea of Maitreya is sort of anxiously waiting to become the fifth Buddha, so that is why Maitreya is always given Western style of throne rather than Eastern style of throne, that’s why sitting on the chair. It is also the Pure Land of Maitreya. It is land of love, land of compassion. At heart of Maitreya, and let’s say if you are going there and start seeing Pure Land and see the Pure Palace, somehow we get ordinance going through his office, Maitreya buddha’s and find Maitreya Buddha sitting in the middle and looking at his heart level and you begin to see this endless knot type of thing, in another word, window, they don’t want to tell you window because where you can peep through, sort of window, may be it is old, some kind of Indian or may be it is some kind of art that Indian, Kashmere, Gopta period of art ,so you see all this type of thing, you see almost oldest temples in Nepal, Newali temples and but even in sort of things like that you see that old fashion, a lot of different places, even in China, you see all these, this is probably central Asian art from Kashmere, Gopta period moved through the Himalayas as well as Silk Road and all that so, because you see a lot of that in Nepal, you see some of the old Indian Bahari areas, so anyway so that is why it is depicted here, even at the heart level of Maitreya, now it is given the opportunity of transparent from the other way around, from outside to inside, so through the shape of endless knot because they got the center holes there. So when you are peeping through holes where you can see and at heart level within wherever the physical heart should be, in that level you see again the smaller miniature Maitreya within that heart level along with Atisha, Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa, that sort of where the Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa sort of Pure Land where he supposed to be residing at this moment and we be able to peep through from the heart of Maitreya buddha, sort of transparent through that. And there are a number of reasons. Number one, it is inseparable that of Maitreya Buddha. Number two, it is the embodiment of love and embodiment of wisdom because it’s Manjushri and all that. Anyway, GA DAN LHA GYA . LHA stands for god, GYA stands for hundred. It doesn’t mean hundred god it means hundreds of gods in that Pure Land of Tushita, their leader, Maitreya. GA DAN LHA GYA GON GYI TUG KA NE. TUG KA is heart level, when you peep through you can see the Jamgong Tsongkhapa, Atisha another miniature duplication of Pure Land Tushita that you see the drawing miniature within. You know why? This miniature business is very important for us particularly for Vajrayana practice. The miniature is very, very important because … I can’t say Vajrayana point of view but the Sutrayana point of view, even non- Vajrayana, sutra alone, in The King of Prayer, you have that in English available, in that there’s a verse called, even one item of dust and you will find hundreds of buddhas in that, and not only buddhas alone, but Buddhas surrounded by bodhisattvas and so on and so forth. So that is a possibility, just like computer. Within the computer you can have a tiny little place we can save, download and save so many things, just like that, it happens. So that is reality we now know today from the technology point, we now know it’s a reality. So that is why one big thing outside and smaller thing within that, another smaller, smaller, smaller thing, countless number of things you know like Russian dolls filled up with Russian dolls. You know you open it, another one and another one will come. But our capacity is limited, at end we have the last one but when our capacity is not limited, unlimited and then the last will not come, it will continue more and more and more and more. So the miniature becomes reality and that miniature becomes a big one is another reality. So our reality is not really the size of measurement or anything, they are all some kind of the physics bound us measure and put us in that. And you go beyond that and then all these measurements go off. In the essence of the Vajrayana practice, when you get into completion stage, so even if you remember the one ball of light becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, eight becomes… and all that goes and then comes back without making mistake and going back and forth like this and so that is the really reality within us, that is why at the zooming big level, the drawing of Tushita within Maitreya’s heart within that heart, within that heart, within that heart, can go deeply as much as you want to and transform them easily, anywhere you want to. Our understanding, for us the Star Trek is very important point because there is the beam up or beam out, whatever you do, the beaming business, it is through the electronic light and you can transport people or whatever, up and down. Here you do transport them through the meditative mental functioning rather than electronically, so where and how we like to transport the Tsongkhapa, instead of beaming light we get cloud, like pure fresh white and I don’t know why, maybe could not find better example than fresh yogurt. You are talking about clouds and all of a suddenly like fresh yogurt, it’s all going to drip and leak everywhere. But anyway, so the vivid example, may be the Tibetans were quite dirty those days, so may be the fresh yogurt may be most white, clean example, may be, whatever the reason is… so RAB KAR.. GA DAN LHA GYA GON GYI TUG KA NE. RAB KAR is very white, ZHO SAR is fresh yogurt, PUNG DRAI CHU DZIN TZER is it is like a pile of fresh, very fresh, very white yogurt, cloud that pure, white, clean like fresh yogurt. CHU DZIN, CHU is water, DZIN is holding, one who holds the water, which is cloud, cloud holds water and rain. These are the Tibetan poetry terminology. TZER, is at the tip. The way they transform, where they beamed the Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa is through the cloud and on the tip of the cloud and you invite. But before you invite, actually it would be nice if you can imagine Field of Merit in front of you, Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa and the two disciples, Gyeltsab Je and Khedrub Je right in front of you if you can imagine. It is not only if you can imagine, you should imagine and then these are the Field of Merit and then the wisdom beings are invited from the Pure Land of Tushita on the tip of a cloud. CHO KYI GYAL PO KUN KYEN LO ZANG DRAG, CHO dharma, GYAL PO king, KYEN LO ZANG DRAG total knowledge. LO ZANG DRAG PA is because of the wording, LO ZANG DRAG is enough. If you make it LO ZANG DRAG PA then the word will not stand. Within the nine line ligit, first the tenth will come then it won’t level it therefore. SA DANG CHA PA, SA stands for the two sons or the two children all together, NE, this place, SHEG SU SOL, invite. So in your visualization, from the heart of Maitreya Buddha, Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa has been invited, not Atisha, so Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa come along with the two disciples and they come in and then whatever you have imagined in front of you, Tsongkhapa and two disciples dissolve with them and become one and that is the invocation, right? Okay. I will repeat again, this time I will not going to explain what the words say but in your imagination and you are imagining the Pure Land of Tushita and that is a beautiful land, at the center of that you have this wonderful palace and in the middle of the palace, you have the Buddha of love, the Buddha Maitreya. At the heart level of Buddha Maitreya you can see the inhabitants of that Pure Land among them, along with Atisha and Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa. So then we invite Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa with folded hands and then we say the verses of

GA DAN LHA GYA GON GYI TUG KA NE

TAB KAR ZHO SAR PUNG DRAI CHU DZIN TZER

DHO KYI GYAL PO KUN KYEN LO ZANG DRAG

SA DANG CHA PA NE DIR SHEG SU SOL

But the moment you say this verse, this is your invocation, as you have invited Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa on the tip of this fresh cloud from the heart of Maitreya Buddha, on the tip, come right in front of you, us and our imagined Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa with the two disciples dissolve together and there, you have not only the commitment being of the Field of Merit but the commitment being is also filled up with wisdom beings. Commitment beings, wisdom beings. Commitments beings are beings you have imagined, like you know if you are doing sadhana of Yamantaka or whatever, and you imagine yourself into rise yourself as full fledged Yamantaka, right? And that Yamantaka is the commitment being and at heart level of that Yamantaka you have Manjushri, which is the wisdom being. At the heart level of that Manjushri you have the letter HUNG or DHIH or whatever, and that is the absorption being. So three beings we talked about it, right? Three beings means essence, essence, essence. The real, the real, the real. The real of the real. So sort of you know not just physical body but living being within that. Not just only a living being, but total functioning the real essence of the live itself, that’s really three beings. So the commitment being here is, but if you want to know Tibetan word for that, that is TUM ZHIG SUM BA. TUM ZHIG SUM BA is the commitment being. TUM ZHIG SUM BA is samaya too. Then YESHE SUM BA is the wisdom being. Then absorption being is DINGE GE SUM BA . SUM BA SUN SIX, so three beings, that’s how it works, right? So, GA DAN LHA GYA GON GYI… So that is invocation. Now, we begin with seven limb.

DUN GYI NAM KAR SENG TRI PA DFAI TENG

Now these are very simple,

JE TZUN LA MA GYE PAI DZUM KAR CHEN

DAG LO DA PAI SO NAM ZHING CHOG TU

TEN PA GYA CHIR KAL GYAR ZHUG SU SOL

So, DUN GYE NAM KAR SENG TRI PA DAI TENG, DUN GYE NAM KAR SENG, right in front of me, space before me, SENG TRI, the lion throne, SENG stands for SENGE and TRI stands for throne. And SENG TRI is lion throne. PA stands for Padma, padma means lotus. SENG TRI PA stands for lotus, DAI stands for DAIWA, moon, so lotus cushion and moon disc, moon cushion. TENG, above that. JE TZUN is actually venerable, translated. What does venerable mean? Audience: to be respected, worthy of veneration. So venerable is someone who deserves to be venerated. Who fits to be venerated. Actually, if you really think about this, it is venerable. The word JE tells me learned. TZUN, tells me morally rich and then knowledgeable, morally rich. Within that, in between that is kind, compassionate, so JE TZUN DZUM the three qualities of learned and morally rich and kind, compassionate, combined together makes the venerable, JE TZUN refers to lama, right? LA MA means no one above or better, not only their rich of the three qualities, but no one better, above than you. The word LA MA means no one above, no one better. Spelled it with ll, long neck, no one is taller, that’s what it is. I used to know a doctor in Texas, he passed away. He collected llamas, with double l, he had those llamas from Puru right? He brought them and he had those llama named like Tilopa, Naropa, and all that and after he passed away, his wife called me one day and so I was going through Arlington Texas somewhere and at that time I dropped by, and she called me. And I just went and looked up her and she was quite old then. And she got a new llama called Gelek. Tilopa, Naropa, Tsongkhapa, Gelek, all these llamas are there, so why I thought double l. GYE PAI, the words GYE PAI stand for happy, joyful, happy. DZUM KAR CHEN means laughing. CHEN doesn’t mean anything, one who has those. One who has long hair, then you may say long hair chen, that means one with, you know. DAG LO, big DAG means self, me, I, all of those. LO is mind, put the umla on it. You know why? The umla will connect the next thing. DAG LO DA PAI, my mental faith. So it’s become mental faith. If you don’t have LO, what will happen, DAG LO mental, DA PAI faith. Then it becomes boom, boom, boom, and there’s no connecting, so DAG LO DA PAI so mental faith is DAG LO DA PAI. Again, PAI, connecting. SO NAM, merit. So that is again, SO NAM ZHING CHOG TU. SO NAM ZHING, field of merit. CHOG TU, CHOG is best, right? TU is dative- locative. TEN PA is Buddhism, GYA CHIR, in order to spread or develop. GYAR ZHUG SU SOL. GYAR ZHUG means hundreds of eons please remain. What happens is you invited the first verse, invocation, invited; second verse will say please be seated here, please sit down , relax and you are not going to go anywhere, you are going to sit here hundreds of eons for my best field of merit, for the purpose of developing, spreading teaching of Buddha, all that. So making request to remain. In normal seven limb order, request to remain doesn’t come first, but in the Ganden Lha Gyema they bring that first, the idea out of this it says, you invite somebody, and the first thing you say please come in and sit down rather than open the door and start talking there your business. So they say first you invite, nice, gentle, polite way of buttering way of you know, sort of, the technical name for that is buttering, right? So that is how you butter, first invite in, you ask them to sit down, then that is the invocation and request to remain are completed. So two of seven limb are completed. So now if you close your book and whatever you have in your heart, whether you have… probably in English, so when this thing goes: first imagine the Pure Land of Tushita, the principle Maitreya Buddha, at heart level, through the heart of Maitreya Buddha, you see Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa, Atisha, etc. and then invite Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa with invocation that you say, Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa with disciples come out on the tip of a cloud straight away from the Pure Land to right in front of me in my own place, in my own little dirty room and just come in straight away and sit and dissolve my imagined Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa. Then if you have an image of Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa with two disciples, or Tsongkhapa alone and you can also think that Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa coming through that cloud, dissolves to that too and that same as what you have imagined and it is sort of you imagined living Jamgong Lama Tsongkhapa but you have image, and that image is the reality, the real living, you can think that way too. But whatever you have, if you have it anything, field, whether it is three dimensions, two dimensions or whatever it is but always think of living. And first and foremost, making them sit, not only just to sit, sit and relax and enjoy the hospitality of throne, throne that lift the lion, lotus and the moon which actually represents the renunciation, compassion and wisdom all that and throne and request and then you please stay here and enjoy, stay and not only just stay alone, but joyfully, happily stay, that is why with sort of happy to be here, not that you are forced to obligate it but don’t want to be there but, that will not work, so happy, joyful. And also remain here for the best field of my merit and also to spread the teachings of Buddha. Not only stay but stay for hundreds of eons, so making request, that’s that. And then praise.

SHE JAI KYON KUN JAL WAI LO DRO TUG

KAL ZANG NA WAI GYAN GYUR LEG SHE SUNG

DRAG PAI PAL GYI LHAM MER DZE PAI KU

TONG TO DRAN PAI DON DEN LA CHAG TSAL

The first praise is praise your mind, your mind is total knowledge. What does total knowledge mean? Whatever to be known and your mind, you measure it, it will just match it. So to be known,as big as to be known, your mind is that big. In another word, there is nothing that you don’t know, your mind does not comprehend, your mind does not understand, your mind don’t see it, there is nothing. SHE JAI is phenomena to be known. KYON means whatever the land and the deep and whatever there are land and deep, whatever how big whatever it may be, so you can not only comprehend, but you can see it clearly, measure, straight away. So your mind is total knowledge, total knowledge is you have to think of present knowledge, past, present, future is present. That present should be the person sees as the present even the future may change and become present. Whatever the present going to be and whatever the present is, whatever the present has been, all seen simultaneously together. That means measure your mind to be known, measure is equal, meaning there is nothing that you don’t know, there’s nothing beyond your knowledge, that is what total knowledge is all about. So that is praise for the mind.KAL ZANG NA WAI GYAN GYUR LEG SHE SUNG, the speech. Speech is the ear ornament of the fortunate one or something, right? Fortunate one refers to lucky ones, the bodhisattvas or the vajrayana practitioners or theravadin practitioners or just the general spiritual practitioners. So whatever the level you may be and your teaching becomes ear ornament. Ear ornament means it is sweet music to the ear of those people. I don’t think ornament has to be earrings so that is the pleasant quality of speech. (Rinpoche read in Tibetan). Tai be bai, tai bai in Tibetan is sort of well known, well versed and all that sort of thing, very popular, bai is glorious popularity, meaning according to this, tai be bai, there are two, the common explanation will be the one who has all qualities of buddha’s body, that is eighty minor and thirty two major signs of the Buddha body. So having that it is the common explanation. Uncommon explanation will be again the body is also total knowledge as we talked about the mind, the body is. So whatever the mind can measure total knowledge, body can measure in total knowledge. So in other words, the frequency in which the body and mind functioning in our level is separate, body has tremendous amount of limitations, mind has a lot less limitations than body but it is a lot of limitations in our case. But in the case of enlightened beings, body and mind become same frequency, same happening. Wherever their body is, there is mind, wherever their mind is, there is their body. It is the same functioning that is extraordinary quality of enlightenment. In our case, it is separately function, limitations we carry but in enlightened level, no separation between body and mind, they called it even union of body, mind, so that is what it is beautiful body, the outstanding, the glorious popularity, whatever. TONG TO DRAN, so it is worthwhile seeing, worthwhile to remember, worthwhile to hear about it, so this the quality, it is worthwhile. Worthwhile meaning it is worth to remove suffering, worth to protect the individual from the downfalls of negative emotions, so worthwhile to see, worthwhile to hear about it, worthwhile to remember and so even you remember, even if you heard about it, even if you see, all of them, whatever you have, if you have all three or even single one it is definitely worth for the individual. TONG TO DRAN PAI DON DEN LA CHAG TSAL. LA is again to, CHAG TSAL is prostrating. Prostrating here, again CHAG is respect. Respecting because you admire the qualities, and TSAL is the word indicates I admire your qualities, I seek your qualities. The prostration does not do justification for the translation of the words CHAG TSAL. So we just covered two seven limb and when you say the last verse, SHE JAI KYON… at this moment you have to think qualities of the body, speech and mind and all of them are not only worthwhile but tremendous value of seeing this, thinking about this, hearing about it, anything to deal with this with you is definitely tremendous value and that is why so you are such a valued person, even thinking about you or talking about you make it the sufferings of living beings eradicated or stopped and that’s what it means worthwhile and so such great quality you have and I also not only admire and respect but I also seek the qualities you have is also for me, for the benefit of all beings, so that is what the words what you say have to be backed up by this thought. Next is offering, before we go to offering, we’d better offer ourselves dinner. So I think that much will be today and so whatever I have talked to you today and if you could think about it tonight a session for yourself, reviewing, thinking about it and tomorrow, one session if you could do one more…so tomorrow one session and today one session then reviewing whatever we talked about, but in the shorter form so that everyday when you say the Ganden Lha Gyema or whatever you say, you have something in essence to think.