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[Tibetan]: Rinpoche was reading Tibetan

(…): response or question from the audience that is either inaudible or could not hear clearly

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[…] So, please generate good motivations that gives you a little attention to the […]

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As you all know, we are talking about how to do a path to the Enlightenment.

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Or the development of spiritual development within the one individual […].

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And the general outlines and specific outlines are already distributed to you.

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So, you should see it for yourself and I don't want to repeat on it.

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But I would like to make a point here.

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So, the point is: Every chance when you put efforts to develop.

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There is always a positive point, and there's a negative point.

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The whole question.

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I mean the total question is why it is necessary for one individual to do this.

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And it was very relevant.

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Everybody will think, of course I know, because I want spiritual development.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah, I want spiritual development.

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And also everybody would say why do I need spiritual development?

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Everybody will say whatever the reason is ABCD,

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I'm not satisfied. I am not happy.

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I'm not this, I'm not that.

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There is also something you can give intellectually.

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Or even otherwise.

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And I don’t think this is important.

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I mean, it is important in one way, yes.

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But there's another thought that is important another way.

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You have to get some strong reason within yourself.

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Is it not that somebody told you.

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This has to be the reason, that has to be the reason.

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Somebody else told you spiritual is ultimate.

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And there is no other than that.

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Or somebody told you enlightenment will rise and wonderful.

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And that is the only ultimate achievement.

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Like what Tibetan Buddhism said that.

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All these sort of things don't really answer the question.

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So, you really wanted a really strong answer from within ourselves?

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I think it is very important to search […] that.

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Secondly, we also take for granted

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All the time we're taking for granted that enlightenment is good and wonderful.

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And for that also you have to find out yourselves. What is so good about it?

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What is the quality of the level of the Enlightenment?

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And why is it so great?

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By then, that's also important.

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Not only will it build the intellectual of knowledge, but it also true understanding.

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Apparently, one should be able to build that.

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Then you'll be able to see the real interest within you.

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Well, real input within you.

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And then the question began to come in one's mind. How to alter that?

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So, we have been taking a lot of things for granted.

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And every teaching we do, every tradition would suggest that.

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And it's very important.

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Not just to buy the traditional information. Try to get an understanding within the […].

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I know it is hard because we have very limited information on this.

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So, it's very hard.

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But whatever information is there, you have it.

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I'm trying to build an answer within oneself.

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That is, I think.

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That is most important.

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If you don't have that.

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And then the […] itself.

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Whether you try to gain shamata, a concentration.

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Well, they're trying to gain the vipashana, a little wisdom.

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Or whether you try to gain renunciation.

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Or you try to develop an altruistic mind.

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Would you really fix enlightenment?

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Or do we normally refer to as bodhicitta?

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Or altruistic minds?

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Or sort of […] attitude or mind, whichever you think.

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All the same.

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And no difference for the individual.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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I mean the value wise.

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There are tremendous different values among those achievements.

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Different achievements.

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But, when you do not understand the true value from our own way.

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Not from the book information.

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Or not from the intellectual information

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So it is almost the same thing whether you're trying to develop enlightenment or.

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Or whether you're trying to develop shamata, or your are trying to develop wisdom or vipashana.

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Or you try to develop renunciation all become the same thing, you know.

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It's like sweet and sour, everything.

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You know what I mean?

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If there's some taste in there.

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And there's nothing to say about it.

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It is whatever you try.

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It is the sweet and sour whether it is chicken or fish or vegetable.

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So that is not very good.

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And that is the obstacle for us.

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I said we don't understand.

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You cannot perfectly understand for sure.

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Tell it objectively.

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But remember the qualities and the level.

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OK.

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So, qualities and levels, but you have to get it yourself,

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or to read and raise questions, and to think about it. Discuss it.

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Do you see yourself what you're aiming at is something fantastic?

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There you know.

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Your interests will be much better tremendously.

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Because you know where you're going to go, where you obtaining it is not unlikely.

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You know every other student follow you too.

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And then that is one important point about […].

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Second important point.

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Also I have to say is the method on which you are using.

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Method that we are talking about here is the traditional good or bad, I don't know, Maybe a bad habit?

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or the Tibetan way, holding a tremendous amount of information.

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If you looked in the information that we were poured in, what you have got is the tremendous amount of information.

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Even it might have been very short period.

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Which really doesn't have a much sort of the detailed branches and leaves, but tremendous actual solid material has been poured in.

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If you look.

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Try to compare with the Western established spiritual information.

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Either in book form.

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Or tale

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Or lecture, whatever.

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There is tremendous time goes around.

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You know, going round and round and round and round and there's tremendous amount of branch.

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And actually information is very little.

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I have noticed that several times.

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Poured from tremendous and many little amount of information.

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Yep, there's a sort of detailed it's imagine I'm sort of, really, lot of you know, philosophical, psychological, or sociological.

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And maybe that helps to get it down for the individual.

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However, the information that is really poured tremendously is in tiny little quantity.

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Here the old Tibetan system.

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There's not really talk around whatever we are talking about.

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No, no branch, nothing.

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But really sort of solid steps.

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You know too much for it.

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And question arises.

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What happens to you?

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And then what would you do about it?

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And I'm quite sure.

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If you raise questions to yourself. Each one of us here.

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Let's question to yourself how much information you really got.

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OK.

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From my point of view, from the layout [???] point of view.

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Nothing. You got nothing whatsoever.

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Or whatsoever.

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But I mean, I can't say nothing, but it's not really nothing, but we've got some really.

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But if you are to question yourself, I think you know the answer.

[Rinpoche chatted with the audience. Several silent moments.]

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So, if you raise questions to yourself about how much information really you are poured in?

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With exceptional of few people, but I'm quite sure we've got quite a lot.

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Is unknown to yourself.

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You know, maybe you would like to be sort of become a humble person and saying no.

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However, but I'm quite sure you got a tremendous amount of information.

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You go out.

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And meet with other people.

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And discuss.

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Particularly people who are have been in dharma for a long time.

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Compared your information and how much they know

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I'm sure you'll be surprised.

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How much you have received yourself?

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I had a lot of information for I was just reviewing how much we went over here.

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From the material point of view, information we really have to get, as I'm telling you, we're not.

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But when you really try to compare it.

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For the part of what?

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And the question is how to use that?

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If you don't use it.

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It's not going to be good.

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You have to use it.

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That’s why

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We've been telling you to go meditate.

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Go on to meditate. You have to use it.

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When you use it, I mean this using this right it is really like a fighting [???]

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Or is this lack of or whatever you call it?

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Maybe not in any other business.

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You tried to gain something.

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You were looking for a certain goal.

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So, it has to be used to gain over what we call it delusion.

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Is this rather you should use it to fight delusion?

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Actually, to fight with dilution.

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Because, to gain spiritual development, it's absolutely necessary to overcome the obstacles in delusion.

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Every time when you overcome certain obstacles.

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Or certain delusion, whatever you call it.

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Terminology is a borrowed one, language is a borrowed one.

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Don't forget that.

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Language is borrowed word.

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So, to overcome the obstacles or delusions whatever.

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That is the major purpose.

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The purpose is not to gain positive here

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But to overcome the negatives.

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You know what I mean?

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When you overcome the negative.

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The positivity emerges.

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It's automatic.

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Even you don't know.

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So much of quality.

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Whatever you going to aim at it

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But if you know the disadvantages of the negative.

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That itself will help us to generate strong interest.

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Everyone of us here, we say have an interest. No doubt.

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And our interest is a superficial interest, I’ll tell you.

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It is a superficial interest.

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Our interest is not really deep although you may think it is.

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There's still more.

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Because if you don't see it, what are we going to get?

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And also we don't see when […] will die.

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What does the negativity do?

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I listen until you see the disadvantage of anger.

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Otherwise, there is no way you can really convince yourself that anger is bad that I must get rid of totally.

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Every act that you do will be superficial until you are convinced and […].

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Similarly, till we see the attachment is bad, and disadvantages and Inconvenience and after the result of the suffering and the pains that one experiences which brings through the attachment.

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There is no way, we will say we will say attachment is bad.

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Though you may superficially agree with the religious information.

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But from your bottom of heart, you're not doing the same.

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So, to be good spiritual part.

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Either you see the quality.

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Of the development that you are aiming at it or holes of the negative result that one experiences through the dilution.

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So you have to see it.

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That's why.

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Buddhism taught pain all the time.

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That’s why the Buddha chose to call the first noble truth – the truth of suffering or pain.

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It is easy to understand for persons like you and me.

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Me rather than you.

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Who knows who you are. So, that's why I rather choose to say me.

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What's it like me?

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Is it easy to understand the pain, rather than the positive part of it.

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Because examples of the great positives are very little with us.

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Examples of the pain are tremendous with us.

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Every point that you touch has a pain.

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I forget about it.

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Lower realms and all this.

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Even though you should not.

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And for our own information.

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The things that we experience.

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On this life, this very day.

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Every point that we have with us.

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You have a pain in it.

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So it's easy for us to understand.

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The Shantideva’s Bodhisattva’s Way of Life says [Tibetan]

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Put me in the ground of the burning iron or whatever.

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Where do all these fireballs come from? Talking about the point here? [Tibetan]

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They're all the result from the mind of the negativity.

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To tell you the truth.

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That is it.

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But it is a lesson that means I'm not denying there is a hell. OK.

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There is.

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I'm not denying there is a hell, but there is hell. We experience it.

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I don't believe there is such area, which is like, you know, we call it […]. say, here is the United States, these are the border borders, these are the boundaries.

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Here is the Canada.

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I don't believe it's such a place you really call that.

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It is hot.

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Here is the heaven.

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This is the border.

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Here is immigration officer.

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Here is the custom officer going into the […].

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I don't believe that.

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One experiences it.

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It's very hard.

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For me to say one is being held on this lifetime.

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Just because of the Buddhist philosophical information that I have.

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Then, it is hard for me to say.

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However, you cannot deny.

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Or the one future life. [???]

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One definitely can experience.

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But, hell-like sufferings, we also experience.

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When you try to catch it, what is that?

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There is nothing that you can pinpoint it out.

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But it is there, you experience, you feel it.

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You feel miserable.

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No, there is no matter. [???]

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And who knows that there is nothing and the one who doesn't know there is there is nothing when you feel them together, when you go through the situation together, one feels and one does feel.

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Although there's no one who doesn't feel it, you may call them […].

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And then, you may […]?

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You may think about it.

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But it could be happy go lucky. [???]

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So anyway.

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Knowing pains is so important.

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If you do not know the pain, there is no way you want to get rid of it.

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If there's no way you want to get rid of it, all your intentions are a little selfish, I tell you.

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You want to meditate?

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Because people say it is good.

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They will say it's good, that's all I'm doing.

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You want to say mantra because people say it is nice.

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So I'm saying.

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He says, she says something.

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And that won’t help.

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That won’t help.

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You may gain some virtue.

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Yes, we will use a mantra.

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You get some comfort, because you meditate.

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You feel a little better.

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Because You put some time in there towards the virtue.

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You feel solid a little bit because you have something to carry when you go because you devoted certain time.

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Towards it.

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And when you come back by the days, by the week, by the month, by the year, we've got number of hours to carry.

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For […].

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Yes, you did have something to say, provided it was not destroyed by anger.

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Is something to hold on.

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Well, for sure, but that's for now.

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You want something better than that.

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In order to look into that, it is, one must, very important.

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One has to use.

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All this information that you have up to now.

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Use that.

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In order to use them properly.

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You want to see either point.

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Positive or negative points.

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Then you get it.

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Then there's sort of automatic design.

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You know, until now you have maybe yourself to do and then by you push yourself in there.

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Until now, you have to force yourself to develop the work flexibility. [???]

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To do something good now before shows up.

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You're not seeing them properly, that's why.

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Once you see it, you don't know the force.

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You go yourself. Anyway.

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So, it is very important to spend on that and think.

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With lots of thought.

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Secondly is what I am giving yourself. [???]

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Using them in both ways.

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Concentrated way and analogical way.

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And nobody told me so far.

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But I know for a fact.

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When you try to do the concentrated and analytical.

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One destroys the other.

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The moment you think of analogical [analytical???], it will destroy your concentration power.

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The moment you concentrate on it, it will also distract your intellect of looking into the depths in the analogical way.

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As a matter of fact, I am surprised that I didn’t hear anybody.

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Now it is a bit strange.

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Strange in the sense.

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Maybe you are not thinking enough.

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Maybe we are building a color.

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If you build the color.

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It won't work.

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You know what I mean.

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Build color.

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This is red.

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This is blue.

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This is my concentrated meditation.

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This is my analytical concentration.

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If you have been here long, you will hear that.

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And then try to force yourself in there.

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Not trying enough?

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If you try enough

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You will see how they contradict each other.

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In reality, […] feeling […]

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That is the sign that you are thinking enough.

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And then you think more.

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Then you make peace between the two.

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Well then make peace between the two.

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Then you feel it differently.

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That will be the second step.

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At the simultaneous […].

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It is also very important.

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The normal popular Buddhist meditation.

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Normal popular.

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You know what I mean?

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You all know that.

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[…]

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Get in touch with the […] and this and that.

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Be with yourself.

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Give it time to yourself.

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To be with you.

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To think.

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To add job employer problem.

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Look into your sorrow.

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Look into your happiness.

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Share all this.

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Normal popular Buddhist meditation.

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As everybody here should auto mode [???]

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And that also.

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A good thing to do.

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Don't sit idle.

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People may or may not even realize.

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Why they insist on counting the breadth?

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Why you?

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Why you ever touch with breadth?

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Why you listen to your own thoughts?

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Why do you go with your breadth?

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I don't know what they give in the West.

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I'm sure they have a lot of people talking about a lot of things and there's a lot of money.

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But the two points are there.

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One temporary point.

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And the three ultimate ones.

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The temporary point is not to be idle.

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Can't sit idle.

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Sitting idle is.

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I don't know.

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Whether we have it here or not.

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Do you see it?

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In Tibet, we used to have a little retreat area.

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I had a lot of logs on Cape [???].

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And that's a little animal with both […].

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[…]

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Not animals, Insects.

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[…]

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But you have here, sometimes comes lizards.

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Thank you.

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So let me look at the lizard.

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My teacher used to point out that if you don't think.

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Is it lizard?

00:39:12 Speaker 1

If you look at this, it sits on the high point of a rock and open their mouth.

00:39:26 Speaker 1

Some people say this.

00:39:27 Speaker 1

Sucking air in […]

00:39:31 Speaker 1

That won’t help.

00:39:33 Speaker 3

Is it?

00:39:35 Speaker 1

In order to avoid that, that's what I believe the point is being given.

00:39:42 Speaker 1

So, don’t sit idle.

00:39:50 Speaker 1

And a lot of people will tend to sit idle.

00:39:54 Speaker 1

That is dangerous, not the straight leg as it is dangerous.

00:39:58 Speaker 1

Why is it dangerous?

00:40:05 Speaker 1

You know, you lose your intellect.

00:40:09 Speaker 1

You gain a lot of your concentration power.

00:40:18 Speaker 1

Even if it is a concentration power, you are gaining it with lesser intellect.

00:40:27 Speaker 1

What do we call it?

00:40:32 Speaker 1

Thinking. Thinking mind.

00:40:35 Speaker 1

They love thinking mind.

00:40:37 Speaker 1

Everybody gets it and everybody recognized it, but the subtle thinking mind is very hard to recognize.

00:40:44 Speaker 1

People think it is a good power from sitting.

00:40:50 Speaker 1

OK, that will make you stupid.

00:40:54 Speaker 1

Real stupid, I tell you.

00:40:57 Speaker 1

Real stupid.

00:41:02 Speaker 1

People sit.

00:41:04 Speaker 1

They have locked their years together.

00:41:08 Speaker 1

I don't know.

00:41:09 Speaker 1

I mean every day, once a year.

00:41:14 Speaker 1

Thinking that they did.

00:41:16 Speaker 1

They're thinking more and more and then.

00:41:19 Speaker 1

They grow older and older and older.

00:41:22 Speaker 1

Age goes up on one side, the thinking goes down on the other side. Ultimately you become a sort of a funny little person who doesn't even know what's happening?

00:41:34 Speaker 1

But there is something to throw it out.

00:41:37 Speaker 1

Something to […]

00:41:42 Speaker 1

We will go up to that.

00:41:47 Speaker 1

So that’s why they always give you a brief moments, people pick up the great exercise because it was very important. [???]

00:42:00 Speaker 1

The very reason I heard. A lot of people are giving it a lot of reasons.

[…]

00:42:20 Speaker 1

But the true reason is […] not to the idle, but everybody’s reason is the liberation of the air in the body.

00:42:37 Speaker 1

AIR, A-I-R.

00:42:41 Speaker 1

The […] or you call it mind or whatever you call it.

00:42:47 Speaker 1

Or thought.

00:42:50 Speaker 1

Or whatever you like to call it.

00:42:52 Speaker 1

OK, doesn't matter.

00:42:55 Speaker 1

I'm so-called the person to be identified is always with the air. [???]

00:43:13 Speaker 1

Air of the body.

00:43:15 Speaker 1

The Companion of the Soul of the person.

00:43:18 Speaker 1

Consciousness is air.

00:43:22 Speaker 1

For a lot of Buddhist texts , if you look a little more detail very often it will mention the air as the horse.

00:43:31 Speaker 1

And the person as the rider, the person who rides a horse.

00:43:44 Speaker 1

That is the ultimate reason.

00:43:47 Speaker 1

While breathing.

00:43:55 Speaker 1

Why is it the ultimate reason?

00:43:57 Speaker 1

This is ultimately.

00:44:03 Speaker 1

What do you really have as the process is the vajrayana.

00:44:13 Speaker 1

You're not going to practice theravada, I know.

00:44:19 Speaker 1

You're not going to practice Mahayana sutra, I know.

00:44:29 Speaker 1

You are going to practice the ultimate Vajrayana. Why? Because it is profound, it is deep, it is great, you name it.

00:44:40 Speaker 1

So that's why we need it.

00:44:45 Speaker 1

So what is ultimately Vajrayana will do, it will exercise with the air, with the kindness and with all sorts of things.

00:44:58 Speaker 1

And that's why from the beginning.

00:45:06 Speaker 1

To give the direction for pushing in that way.

00:45:13 Speaker 1

[…] they use anything?

00:45:17 Speaker 1

From yak’s horn to the donkey’s tail, came whatever you can concentrate.

00:45:30 Speaker 1

The cloud, the fire, everything and Anything you need, you can do it.

00:45:41 Speaker 1

But that doesn't really help you because there's no other reason for it.

00:45:53 Speaker 1

Sometimes they recommend to use a visual image of the Buddha.

00:45:58 Speaker 1

Or image of the field of merits or an image of this and that because it accumulates merit.

00:46:07 Speaker 1

Accumulation of merit, purification and applying method have to go shoulder-by-shoulder, side-by-side.

00:46:29 Speaker 1

You have all the information.

00:46:36 Speaker 1

But you don't have any accumulation of merit or you don’t purity, it doesn’t work.

00:46:47 Speaker 1

That's why it answers you, why you have to say mantras, why you do this and that.

00:46:55 Speaker 1

Why you say you’re Buddha [puja???]

00:46:58 Speaker 1

There's the answer.

00:47:05 Speaker 1

And if you do a lot of those things.

00:47:08 Speaker 1

Thousands and thousands and thousands of them.

00:47:12 Speaker 1

And you have no information whatsoever.

00:47:17 Speaker 1

Or solid [???]

00:47:19 Speaker 1

And that also.

00:47:22 Speaker 1

So you're simply collecting and accumulating merit. That's all.

00:47:26 Speaker 1

You don't use the actual method at all. That also doesn't work.

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00:48:15 Speaker 1

So, when I say you use your information.

00:48:19 Speaker 1

It means you must know you have to use it in all these three divisions away.

00:48:26 Speaker 1

We are accumulating merit, we are performing purification, and aware of falling information and applying it on.

00:48:44 Speaker 1

Actually, I'm not trying to copy […] rinpoche, but actually.

00:48:50 Speaker 1

It is a war.

00:48:54 Speaker 1

It is a war.

00:48:55 Speaker 1

The war between delusion and ourselves.

00:49:00 Speaker 1

Coincidently we may not be Shambala warriors, but we are all warriors.

00:49:09 Speaker 1

We are fighting everyday with the delusion.

00:49:17 Speaker 1

It is all true.

00:49:22 Speaker 1

I mean, that way it connects to people’s minds better. It is sort of a war.

00:49:36 Speaker 1

Do your fighting.

00:49:39 Speaker 1

You are fighting with anger.

00:49:43 Speaker 1

You're fighting with attachment.

00:49:45 Speaker 1

You're fighting with hatred.

00:49:48 Speaker 1

And above all, you're fighting with ignorance.

00:49:57 Speaker 1

What does the practice mean? A medicine?

00:50:07 Speaker 1

It is to clear yourself and drive away from the delusions and the illusions or whatever.

00:50:26 Speaker 1

And that involved fighting, struggle.

00:50:33 Speaker 1

I mean, you're struggling every day if you do not.

00:50:38 Speaker 1

If you let it lose.

00:50:41 Speaker 1

Let it go easy way.

00:50:43 Speaker 1

You're going to be a loser.

00:50:46 Speaker 1

You are not going to gain it at all.

00:50:49 Speaker 1

You would be the loser.

00:50:53 Speaker 1

You got overtaken by and without even knowledge, you will be overtaken by ambition without anything you know.

00:51:02 Speaker 1

You will be overtaken by any single damn thing you don’t know.

00:51:08 Speaker 1

With all that said.

00:51:10 Speaker 1

Now all these things will really overtake without you realizing. You don't even realize what's happened to you.

00:51:18 Speaker 1

You won’t know it.

00:51:26 Speaker 1

So, the constant vigilance is important.

00:51:40 Speaker 1

That's why.

00:51:41 Speaker 1

Some people said mindfulness all important.

00:51:44 Speaker 1

Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

00:51:46 Speaker 1

It takes you to be mindful.

00:51:49 Speaker 1

To be really mindful, I'm opening, I'm walking and this thing, I'm doing this and doing that.

00:51:54 Speaker 1

They call it walking meditation.

00:51:57 Speaker 1

They're standing meditation.

00:52:00 Speaker 1

They call it this meditation, or that meditation. I am opening the door, ...

00:52:01 Speaker 1

I'm closing the door, I'm walking, I'm putting my right foot, I'm getting my left foot.

00:52:06 Speaker 1

You are.

00:52:09 Speaker 1

Whole blown truth to be vigilant .

00:52:14 Speaker 1

And that is sudden, exaggerated or to suddenly as the intelligent mind.

00:52:21 Speaker 1

So maybe detail and walking, sitting, closing with opening.

00:52:26 Speaker 1

Blah blah.

00:52:30 Speaker 1

The idea is to become vigilant.

00:52:34 Speaker 1

Vigilant and walk

00:52:41 Speaker 1

If you have a group of soldiers sitting at the, I mean, look at those Indian movies.

00:52:46 Speaker 1

Indians and the Western movies.

00:52:52 Speaker 1

Cowboys and Indians who look ahead, if there is a lot of vigilance, then somebody who's watching from distance, you get a surprise attack and we will lose them.

00:53:03 Speaker 1

If there is somebody who is watching and you get the information, even you know exactly what you're doing.

00:53:12 Speaker 1

So, we know that we can see through these little boxes.

00:53:16 Speaker 1

We can see how important the vigilance is.

00:53:35 Speaker 1

So that is the whole information on mindfulness goes down with this.

00:53:39 Speaker 1

To be vigilant.

00:53:41 Speaker 1

Then vigilantly you can go at this level mindfulness on this, at this level mindfulness that, at this level mindfulness this.

00:53:50 Speaker 1

There is the trailer [???] when you whatever the level you are.

00:53:56 Speaker 1

When you don't have level. I'm working on this today. I'm doing this thing, I'm doing that thing. I'm drinking. I am this and that.

00:54:04 Speaker 1

Want this to be occupied, to be aware of.

00:54:14 Speaker 1

So is one of those points.

00:54:19 Speaker 1

Or the outlines.

00:54:22 Speaker 1

Every outline. I have 4 information on this to use them.

00:54:30 Speaker 1

Used in all three different ways. Use them as a weapon to fight with the delusion. Use them matter to open a development.

00:54:50 Speaker 1

Use them as a visual aid, so that you are not overtaken by those delusions.

00:54:57 Speaker 1

Use them to accumulate in merit and use them to purify.

00:55:10 Speaker 1

If you do this, it is impossible that you don't have spiritual development.

00:55:15 Speaker 1

Impossible! But every spiritual development, whatever you have to do it.

00:55:30 Speaker 1

Though you may not acknowledge it, because you don't have a funny supervised thing, you begin to know somebody else in mind.

00:55:43 Speaker 1

You begin to know things that you cannot do to be able to do it.

00:55:49 Speaker 1

Not at that time. That is the higher state.

00:55:56 Speaker 1

But you do have a certain point where you have reached. You do have a certain level where you have reached. You can’t change that.

00:56:09 Speaker 1

I'm trying to go further. That’s why we talked.

00:56:11 Speaker 1

Giving all this outline.

00:56:14 Speaker 1

And the particular outline we'll reach is the suffering of the hell realm, hungry ghosts and animal realm.

00:56:35 Speaker 1

I do not remember exactly where, but I think I have talked the hell realm.

00:56:45 Speaker 1

And I have. I don't know that I have or have not talked about the hungry ghost.

00:56:50 Speaker 1

When do we talk? [The audience responded]

00:57:07 Speaker 2

It is not just cold in there, Cold is good. […] Let's not from the cold.

Let us feel it.

00:57:23 Speaker 1

How much […]? Give us a problem.

00:57:34 Speaker 1

The point is that it is so uncomfortable.

00:57:40 Speaker 1

[…]

00:57:44 Speaker 1

[…] you can think you can do.

00:57:50 Speaker 1

If you multiply them more. Don't go 100,000 times whatever the hell floors, and […].

00:58:00 Speaker 1

Multiple this by 10 times.

00:58:04 Speaker 1

And think about it. […] What can we do?

00:58:10 Speaker 1

We can't do anything. We may not even be able to exist.

00:58:19 Speaker 1

If you do exist. If you did exist, it will be like a black hole. Really.

00:58:38 Speaker 1

So, even this heat, maybe the same temperature if you look into the thermal measure.

00:58:56 Speaker 1

Maybe 7 humidity if you look into the whatever biomatter or whatever you call it.

00:59:04 Speaker 1

And you look among ourselves. Some people can take it more, some people can take it less.

00:59:13 Speaker 1

What do you think that's? You may have some scientific explanation or something to do with chemicals.

00:59:21 Speaker 1

Maybe. Maybe true?

00:59:26 Speaker 1

Then I think it is the result of karma.

00:59:37 Speaker 1

I am not joking to you, […] who made the ground of the fire? The iron burning fire.

00:59:46 Speaker 1

Who made all this big fire burning now? It is the mind of the delusion.

01:00:00 Speaker 1

Interesting. I will tell you one thing.

01:00:08 Speaker 1

When Buddha appeared as a Buddha, every food that their people had offered to Buddha and they offered him the same food, but the Buddha has […]. Buddha has a different taste than everybody.

01:00:40 Speaker 1

Every food that Buddha had eaten, it has a special, tremendous amount of taste, nourishment.

01:00:51 Speaker 1

Which actually has nothing to do with the nature of the food, but it is the person who consumed it.

01:01:01 Speaker 1

To prove that he had given some pieces out to a lot of people and they can’t experience.

01:01:17 Speaker 1

That explains even sufferings are the mind of delusion.

01:01:23 Speaker 1

Every pleasure […]

01:01:38 Speaker 1

But when I said that. Oh, in that case there is no such thing called pure Land.

01:01:44 Speaker 1

There is no such thing called this, and that is also because of mind.

01:01:49 Speaker 1

That's not allowed.

01:01:50 Speaker 1

There is a pure land.

01:01:53 Speaker 1

But pure land cannot necessarily be separated again. As I mentioned to you, hell realm has boundary in different areas.

01:02:05 Speaker 1

The Pure land suddenly […].

01:02:10 Speaker 1

We cannot rule out 100%. No.

01:02:20 Speaker 1

So, it ultimately boils down to the mind.

01:02:29 Speaker 1

So, the mind attribute develop is so important that is the whole thing.

01:02:38 Speaker 1

So, what can mind achieve? Enlightenment.

01:02:44 Speaker 1

It’s the highest one.

01:02:46 Speaker 1

One cannot or one should not settle less than that.

01:02:43 Speaker 1

All other things you could do.

01:02:48 Speaker 1

Compelling enlightenment.

01:02:52 Speaker 1

At the level of enlightenment, everything is happening together.

01:02:57 Speaker 1

You meditating.

01:02:59 Speaker 1

You're functioning.

01:03:00 Speaker 1

You are working.

01:03:01 Speaker 1

You are not meditating.

01:03:03 Speaker 1

You putting, you're not.

01:03:05 Speaker 1

You don't put any effort. Things are effortlessly functioning.

01:03:12 Speaker 1

When you see the absolute, you see the relative. When you look at the relative, you see the absolute.

01:03:21 Speaker 1

This is not simple concentration, simple pleasure, simple harmony is not enlightenment.

01:03:30 Speaker 1

Not at all.

01:03:36 Speaker 1

Enlargement is knowledge with no measure.

01:03:39 Speaker 1

If there is anything to be known, it is not enlightenment.

01:03:44 Speaker 1

It is ego.

01:03:46

I mean.

01:03:48 Speaker 1

That's why they call it [Tibetan] - all know.

01:03:56 Speaker 1

Tathagata […]

01:04:10 Speaker 1

So the.

01:04:12 Speaker 1

Enlightenment description some people try to give.

01:04:17 Speaker 1

Even less than concentration power.

01:04:22 Speaker 1

Shamata

01:04:24 Speaker 1

The power has a certain harmony in body.

01:04:29 Speaker 1

People try compared to others in life.

01:04:41 Speaker 1

Samadhi power higher level samadhi power has more stronger development.

01:04:50 Speaker 1

Large initiative of […] enlightenment.

01:04:53 Speaker 1

That is true.

01:05:11 Speaker 1

Transcendental development

01:05:18 Speaker 1

Has […]

01:05:21 Speaker 1

Then that of.

01:05:23 Speaker 1

samadhi development, harmony and pleasure, bodhi mind, both.

01:05:29 Speaker 1

That's been referred to as enlightenment.

01:05:38 Speaker 1

[…]

01:05:40 Speaker 1

That is the first level of steps toward enlightenment.

01:05:53 Speaker 1

So, when we say the word enlightenment.

01:05:56 Speaker 1

It's very easy.

01:06:00 Speaker 1

When you think about it, it's very hard.

01:06:06 Speaker 1

It has the extraordinary qualities, but it is impossible to […]

01:06:11 Speaker 1

For example.

01:06:13 Speaker 1

Every part of the body of an enlightened being is equal to that of every part of mind.

01:06:22 Speaker 1

One doesn't have to be a mind for the enlightenment to do, the body knows. The body and mind are combined in symbolism [symbiosis???].

01:06:32 Speaker 1

Wherever the part of the body there is a mind, wherever their mind is, there is the body.

01:06:40 Speaker 1

And the mind is also so funny.

01:06:43 Speaker 1

Whatever being new.

01:06:47 Speaker 1

If we knew something, that mind is there.

01:06:51 Speaker 1

Is not their knowledge of our knowledge, and their knowledge is different.

01:06:55 Speaker 1

Our knowledge of information is recollection.

01:06:59 Speaker 1

Or the information.

01:07:04 Speaker 1

Either through experience, recollection.

01:07:06 Speaker 1

Or through hearing or seeing.

01:07:14 Speaker 1

That is our knowledge.

01:07:16 Speaker 1

Their knowledge is pleasant feeling.

01:07:32

Right.

01:07:50 Speaker 1

[Rinpoche chatted with the audience]

01:13:01 Speaker 1

So, people may think.

01:13:04 Speaker 1

What is this necessity of meditating on sufferings and pains?

01:13:13 Speaker 1

So, without that.

01:13:17 Speaker 1

The whole interests.

01:13:21 Speaker 1

For enlightenment cannot work.

01:13:32 Speaker 1

We're talking about the qualities of enlightenment.

01:13:37 Speaker 1

Of their mind, their body.

01:13:41 Speaker 1

And they are totally different from us.

01:13:44 Speaker 1

Wherever their mind is.

01:13:46 Speaker 1

Their body is there.

01:13:50 Speaker 1

So, well, if so, that means this is very funny.

01:13:58 Speaker 1

It's almost like Christian said, the god is everywhere.

01:14:03 Speaker 1

So that really answers.

01:14:06 Speaker 1

Why the god is everywhere?

01:14:10 Speaker 1

How come god is everywhere?

01:14:18 Speaker 1

Because if there is something to be known, is known to the God, in this case enlightenment.

01:14:29 Speaker 1

So, whatever they know is known as a pleasant feeling, not as the knowledge of recollection.

01:14:37 Speaker 1

Or information.

01:14:39 Speaker 1

Even information is recollection.

01:14:42 Speaker 1

You read the book.

01:14:44 Speaker 1

Somebody told you.

01:14:46 Speaker 1

You gain understanding and that the information is the recollection of whatever been informed.

01:14:54 Speaker 1

When that recollection is lost, you call them, you forgot it, but it's not there.

01:15:05 Speaker 1

In the words of the karmic law, we can call it shred [???].

01:15:18 Speaker 1

Because memory was lost.

01:15:20 Speaker 1

The information out there is shredded.

01:15:27 Speaker 1

But the enlightened one, knowing is not like that.

01:15:32 Speaker 1

[…] person to person at the present.

01:15:38 Speaker 1

The feeling.

01:15:40 Speaker 1

With the experience, with seeing, with hearing. Everything is always present.

01:15:49 Speaker 1

Not as the past, not as the future or the present.

01:15:57 Speaker 1

So, they are there, they see, they hear.

01:16:01 Speaker 1

They feel it, they know it.

01:16:06 Speaker 1

That's why the “all known” business coming.

01:16:11 Speaker 1

That answers when they when the mind sees they see as a present.

01:16:16 Speaker 1

And then mind sees that Bodhi […].

01:16:19 Speaker 1

That's why Bodhi is their mind.

01:16:22 Speaker 1

It's combination.

01:16:25 Speaker 1

So the level of enlightened beings is extraordinary level and if you really go into the Buddhist […], we will come, we will come next.

01:16:35 Speaker 1

But little bit, not very much.

01:16:38 Speaker 1

But when you go into it, enlightened qualities.

01:16:42 Speaker 1

are far beyond the Christian god is

01:16:47 Speaker 1

Even far beyond that.

01:16:55 Speaker 1

That's all I want to talk to you today.

01:16:57 Speaker 1

And any questions, anything to be talked, discussed, I'll be very happy.

01:17:05 Speaker 1

Most important, use the information OK please.

01:17:10 Speaker 1

You don't use it, it's useless.

01:17:18 Speaker 1

Using the information is very simple.

01:17:23 Speaker 1

You use individually, you use it collectively.

01:17:27 Speaker 1

The collective use is another important aspect.

01:17:31 Speaker 1

Very important.

01:17:34 Speaker 1

In the Buddhist term it is called Sangha or community.

01:17:45 Speaker 1

Sangha.

01:17:47 Speaker 1

And if you don't have Sangha

01:17:52 Speaker 1

Then you live alone by yourself.

01:17:57 Speaker 1

When you live alone by yourself, it is very frustrating.

01:18:03 Speaker 1

You cannot develop.

01:18:06 Speaker 1

You have nothing to share, you know, not improving, nothing to ...

01:18:10 Speaker 1

So, I mean, there's no containing [???].

01:18:16 Speaker 1

The collectively use is very important.

01:18:21 Speaker 1

The collective usage will bring.

01:18:28 Speaker 1

Not only.

01:18:30 Speaker 1

A development easier.

01:18:36 Speaker 1

And also it brings a sense of belonging.

01:18:48 Speaker 1

When I say a sense of belonging, I don't mean you have to register yourself.

01:18:53 Speaker 1

Sign on the bolded notes.

01:18:56 Speaker 1

And become a member, no?

01:18:59 Speaker 1

A sense of belonging, sense of feeling to be a part of the puzzle.

01:19:04 Speaker 1

When it becomes a sense of belonging?

01:19:07 Speaker 1

It enjoys the sense of protection, sense of help.

01:19:11 Speaker 1

Sense of protective development, guidance.

01:19:20 Speaker 1

It also brings a sense of discipline.

01:19:25 Speaker 1

Spiritual part has a lot of discipline.

01:19:29 Speaker 1

It is not the wild goose chase.

01:19:34 Speaker 1

It has a lot of discipline.

01:19:37 Speaker 1

If you don't have the discipline, it doesn't work.

01:19:47 Speaker 1

There's tremendous freedom.

01:19:49 Speaker 1

Yeah, there's tremendous discipline.

01:19:57 Speaker 1

It is open.

01:19:59 Speaker 1

But it is tight.

01:20:06 Speaker 1

This is really wide open, but it's narrow too.

01:20:17 Speaker 1

So, a sense of belonging.

01:20:20 Speaker 1

The sense of responsibility.

01:20:22 Speaker 1

And the sense of discipline.

01:20:25 Speaker 1

We'll all become collectively.

01:20:30 Speaker 1

Individually, unless you are great.

01:20:36 Speaker 1

Unless you are really great.

01:20:38 Speaker 1

It is very hard to have discipline

01:20:46 Speaker 1

That's why I admire people who can hold discipline all by themselves, year after year.

01:20:56 Speaker 1

That is.

01:20:57 Speaker 1

Very hard.

01:21:21 Speaker 1

OK.

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01:21:36 Speaker 4

In the sense of concentration and analytical meditation, is analytical.

01:21:42 Speaker 4

Is the proper analytical meditation related to absorption?

01:21:50 Speaker 1

[…] is concentrated.

01:21:51 Speaker 2

I wanted.

01:21:54 Speaker 1

Proper analogical concentration will find subject to what you can see.

01:21:59 Speaker 1

Only one viewpoint.

01:22:03 Speaker 1

And proper concentration will absorb the task.

01:22:11 Speaker 4

Do they work together that way?

01:22:13 Speaker 1

Oh, you told me.

01:22:16 Speaker 4

So the two types of concentration will help each other?

01:22:21 Speaker 1

Always. So, later it will help each other.

01:22:26 Speaker 1

Beginning it will contradict each other.

01:22:30 Speaker 1

We have to get used to it.

01:22:33 Speaker 1

When we get used to it, they support each other.

01:22:35 Speaker 1

That's why you really begin to […].

01:22:40 Speaker 4

Good. Thanks.

01:22:42 Speaker 1

Yes.

01:22:45 Speaker 2

That's sort of the same thing on the mantra when we're saying the mantras.

01:22:51 Speaker 2

My previous two of the last few sessions I would visualize and.

01:22:55 Speaker 2

Om muni muni maha muniya svaha. I can see my mind clearly saying that mantra.

01:23:03 Speaker 2

And then you told us that it means the first is victory, victory, great victory.

01:23:11 Speaker 2

And that sort of.

01:23:13 Speaker 2

My mind will I start to think whether it is about the victory over delusion or victory over ignorance?

01:23:18 Speaker 2

And I have a hard time seeing the Buddha and trying to recall my ignorance.

01:23:26 Speaker 1

Good. That's what I'm missing.

01:23:28 Speaker 1

That's what I've been trying for.

01:23:33 Speaker 2

So, how do I practice?

01:23:35 Speaker 1

Actually concentration and analyzing doesn't work.

01:23:40 Speaker 2

Is it better to sit down and say OK, this time I'm gonna be a Buddha and the next time I'm trying to think about delusion?

01:23:48 Speaker 1

No

01:23:51 Speaker 1

Several points, you said it was about 100, we think about.

01:23:56 Speaker 1

3/4 of it.

01:23:58 Speaker 1

So then […]

01:24:01 Speaker 1

And keep on doing it and others […].

01:24:03 Speaker 1

After some will […].

01:24:04 Speaker 1

[…]

01:24:13 Speaker 1

That means mind will gain one more capability of using both together.

01:24:19 Speaker 1

That's how it works.

01:24:22 Speaker 2

So 3/4 of ...

01:24:24 Speaker 1

Or half and half.

01:24:31 Speaker 1

But the, muni muni is good that way.

01:24:35 Speaker 1

Well, these will all be accumulation of merits.

01:24:40 Speaker 1

And if you utilize light and liquid, follow washing and all these will be usual business again.

01:24:48 Speaker 1

One more step beyond the bridge.

01:24:51 Speaker 1

Everybody knows, […] liquid form washing this and that.

01:24:56 Speaker 1

That will become purification.

01:25:02 Speaker 1

You know you are likely in the good business.

01:25:06 Speaker 1

You don't know that. Ha, ha.

01:25:11 Speaker 1

Come on.

01:25:12

Thank you.

01:25:14 Speaker 1

Yeah, I know.

01:25:17 Speaker 1

This is very common. Eveybody knows, right?

[Rinpoche chatted with the audience]

01:25:51 Speaker 1

So, I guess that's it, so please don't forget the point.

01:25:55 Speaker 1

And try to concentrate on the points.

01:25:59 Speaker 1

Even you don't get develop points or the outlines main points.

01:26:04 Speaker 1

Even if you don’t have development now, just now.

01:26:08 Speaker 1

Just go over the one after another.

01:26:11 Speaker 1

Not necessarily every day you have to go through all of them.

01:26:15 Speaker 1

You may go over one thing one day, two things or three things and 1/4 and five things or, you know, do whatever way.

01:26:24 Speaker 1

But there you know, and what you get to is you after some time you get better.

01:26:31 Speaker 1

In other words, you get used to it.

01:26:33 Speaker 1

And you can.

01:26:34 Speaker 1

Become very fast.

01:26:37 Speaker 1

And then you know what will happen is even a single short period of us about 10-15 minutes, you'll be able to overviewing all the different outlines of their meanings and points.

01:26:53 Speaker 1

And then you are moving steps forward in the right direction.

01:27:03 Speaker 1

You know what I mean?

01:27:13 Speaker 3

There's the question that I have is that would necessarily

01:27:18 Speaker 1

Live, live on that, yeah.

01:27:21 Speaker 3

There's a lot of teachings right now from other parts of the places those digital about this change of the harmonic conversion, we call it within honest time.

01:27:34 Speaker 3

It's got to do.

01:27:35 Speaker 3

Native American stuff, and Hopi prophecies and.

01:27:39 Speaker 3

And it's supposed to occur in August.

01:27:43 Speaker 3

[…]

01:27:44 Speaker 3

The window will open up and then.

01:27:47 Speaker 3

We're going to pass through this time, this change.

01:27:51 Speaker 3

And that the next five years will be.

01:27:54 Speaker 3

Suppose they have […] talking about it with some other teachers.

01:27:59 Speaker 3

The next five years will be a time of real purification and we'll move through that.

01:28:06 Speaker 3

He has been through it.

01:28:09 Speaker 3

Can you say anything about it, please?

01:28:13 Speaker 1

I have no idea.

01:28:15 Speaker 1

But whenever you can purify, you can do it all the time.

01:28:20 Speaker 1

But David Hahn?

01:28:22 Speaker 1

The circle of […]

01:28:27 Speaker 1

That definitely helps.

01:28:30 Speaker 1

A bliss […] The helicopter.

01:28:37 Speaker 1

But the actual reality?

01:28:39 Speaker 1

Individual efforts.

01:28:42 Speaker 1

Whenever viable.

01:28:46 Speaker 1

And after some time

01:28:48 Speaker 1

So then, then the day time.

01:28:52 Speaker 1

Everything immaterial again.

01:28:57 Speaker 1

No the reasons I tell you why.

01:28:59 Speaker 1

I'm just beginning.

01:29:04 Speaker 1

I'm in […] helpful.

01:29:10 Speaker 1

Generally we talk about the fortunate Aeon.

01:29:15 Speaker 1

And then there's the unfortunate aeon.

01:29:19 Speaker 1

Then we talk about cause of spirits [???].

01:29:23 Speaker 1

On the call this […]

01:29:27 Speaker 1

Yeah, I want to call that a degenerated age.

01:29:33 Speaker 1

All sorts of them till we talk.

01:29:42 Speaker 1

Generated period, degenerated period. This month then a particular date .

01:29:48 Speaker 1

Absolutely it goes through the individual […]

01:30:00 Speaker 1

[Tibetan]

01:30:10 Speaker 1

So all this is degenerative age and this this happening it is the […].

01:30:15 Speaker 1

Do they need?

01:30:17 Speaker 1

People are doing this thing.

01:30:18 Speaker 1

People are doing that.

01:30:21 Speaker 1

And now listen.

01:30:24 Speaker 1

And further advising, he said the general period doesn't belong to us.

01:30:32 Speaker 1

But the water period belong to us is where […].

01:30:39 Speaker 1

That's true.

01:30:42 Speaker 1

We contribute to […] .

01:30:46 Speaker 1

It is […]

01:30:48 Speaker 1

We have the control and we contribute.

01:30:51 Speaker 1

But the main thing is how?

01:30:58 Speaker 1

There is […]

01:31:03 Speaker 1

You know what I mean?

01:31:07 Speaker 1

Why are you looking at me so strangely?

01:31:10 Speaker 4

I didn't quite understand the last one.

01:31:12 Speaker 4

A […] for more words that I could figure out when?

[…]

01:31:20 Speaker 4

Pretty much.

01:31:21 Speaker 1

What is it?

01:31:22

But I figured out. […]

01:31:27 Speaker 1

That's fine.

01:31:28 Speaker 4

And it's individual efforts.

01:31:29 Speaker 4

That you said that there are times advancing.

01:31:30 Speaker 1

Yeah, but there is no such thing called great Massai will come.

01:31:38 Speaker 4

We ride [...] . [Audience discussed among themselves]

01:31:51 Speaker 1

It will never happen.

01:31:52 Speaker 3

You're talking about the sense of community, being very supportive.

01:31:58 Speaker 4

That's awesome.

01:31:59 Speaker 1

Enhance each other and moves, but there is another sort of, you know team where certain people in this land, I mean the top of the Shambala war and all the organized [???].

01:32:11 Speaker 1

Doesn't matter.

01:32:14 Speaker 1

But I don't think it's really sort of for everybody on the planet will come and look both up.

01:32:20 Speaker 1

I don't think that.

01:32:23 Speaker 4

It might be [...] There might be some pressure in the sense of community sharing and prayer and stuff.

01:32:30 Speaker 1

Yes, yes.

01:32:31 Speaker 1

Community development, Community contribution, Community discipline, community helping.

01:32:38 Speaker 1

But what do you gain?

01:32:40 Speaker 1

Who do you go?

01:32:41 Speaker 1

Where do you go?

01:32:42 Speaker 1

What is then?

01:32:43 Speaker 1

That is the one.

01:32:50 Speaker 4

I said the same thing.

[Tibetan]

01:32:57 Speaker 1

OK, when you were born single, come single. When you go, you go single.

[Tibetan]

01:33:06 Speaker 1

Nobody is going to share your suffering. All the [...].

01:33:10 Speaker 1

Buddhism is very much individualized.

01:33:19 Speaker 1

At the same time, it is a collective too.

01:33:23 Speaker 1

It looks like a lot of contradicting today.

01:33:26 Speaker 1

We're talking open but narrow.

01:33:29 Speaker 1

Collective but individualized.

01:33:34 Speaker 1

It is ultimately an individual.

01:33:36 Speaker 1

Nobody becomes sort of, you know, born [???] together.

01:33:42 Speaker 1

It's not the cruise that you can go on fishing together.

01:33:53 Speaker 2

What about [...]?

01:33:58 Speaker 2

I have a [...]

01:33:58 Speaker 1

Japanese do make for Sushi Buddha board.

01:34:03 Speaker 1

The Chinese have a buddhist [...].

01:34:14 Speaker 2

Another question about the paper that we read from and the Mandala offerings.

01:34:23 Speaker 2

I don't know.

01:34:24 Speaker 2

I have a question about how to do that when I say this.

01:34:27 Speaker 2

Is because I don't know any mandalas.

01:34:30 Speaker 2

But what I do is.

01:34:31 Speaker 1

You know, this Mandala and Mandala offering is one word, two different meanings.

01:34:38 Speaker 1

The Mandala in Sanskrit actually means … what does mandala mean?

01:34:45

I don't know.

01:34:45 Speaker 3

What it literally means.

01:34:46 Speaker 1

Well, I don't know.

01:34:47 Speaker 2

Circle of time.

01:34:48 Speaker 1

It's called universal [universe???].

01:34:52 Speaker 1

For the universal.

01:34:57 Speaker 1

When you talk about two different mandala, is the mandala this side or mandala universal that side? [???]

01:35:05 Speaker 1

So the universal of that side is the different yidams, deities, etc., which is universal of that particular universal.

01:35:13 Speaker 1

So that's what we call [...] mandala.

01:35:17 Speaker 1

Or the mandala you offer is the universal we are, or do we have collectively or individually as a bargain parcel or whatever contributed for that?

01:35:29 Speaker 1

Whatever we have, all good part of it.

01:35:35 Speaker 1

But there is.

01:35:36 Speaker 1

Rather it's true we again go whether it's on by someone else or not. [???]

01:35:41 Speaker 1

But I have taken from the from my mind and offer.

01:35:45 Speaker 1

It is true.

01:35:47 Speaker 1

For the [...].

01:35:53 Speaker 1

That is the mandala whatever you're talking.

01:35:59 Speaker 1

Also involved.

01:36:00 Speaker 1

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