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Soundfile 19930101GRARWT3

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location ?

Topic White Tara

Transcriber Constantijn Koopman

Date May 8 2021

[File starts with last bit of what seems to be a prayer by Rimpoche in Tibetan]

Rimpoche: ...ni tenpa uz. Did you hear that? [laughter] So, avoid all non-virtuous and build all the virtue and the positivity whatever you could. And most important thing is: watch and develop your mind. And that’’s Buddhism. That’’s just four lines. So, it is the answer that Buddha gave. The Buddhism really doesn’’t mean much in the sense of religious things, but it really means avoid all negativities and build up all the positivity whatever you could and, most importantly, watch and develop your mind. And that is Buddhism. That’’s what the Budddha said. So Buddhism or no Buddhism, so whatever we have to do to ourself as an individual for the benefit of the individual, through our journey to the spiritual path or to our own achievement. What is our problem? Actually, it is strug gle, struggle between two things. The one is negative and the other is positive. It is the actually really the…… it is a struggle between the negative and the positive. So, what is one?? fighting for? What do you call it? The stick. What you’’re fighting for is the individual; whether the individual is going to be through the negative influence or is going to be positive. And so, that is the really thing. That’’s why individual is involved because it is the individual, for the sake of the individual, for the benefit of individual. Or what you call it the struck/strike??? If you fight the stick what you have is the individual. But you’’re going to be going bad and negative or the positive. That is really…… it boils down to almost tothat point. And so we do all kind of spiritual path to be able to open ourself up, to be able to receive things for the positive way within ourself. And all of them we do. So why are we doing it, all of them? The question really rises why we are doing it. 0:03.02.4 I mean, everybody in this room is on spiritual path. Everybody. The question really rises is: why are we doing…… why we are doing what we’’re doing? Did anybody ever thought that? I’’m sure a lot of people thought about it. But ourself will be what? I wanted to be a beggar. I wanted to be clear. I want to…… whatever the reason you may have, I want to receive... whatever. You know? All these reasons you have. If one is seeking clarity, the opposite of it is ignorance. So, you have to reduce the ignorance and it automatically builds up the cleary/clarity???. If one is seeking patience, the opposite of it is anger. One has to reduce the anger, so the patience comes automatically. Or: use the patience to build up…… cut down the anger. Or: one is seeking pure love, the opposite of is attachment. Or…… so and forth. So, each one of those positive things what we seek, it also has its own negative thing to block it. Do you hear me? Okay? So, it is a true fact. And I don’’t have to hear and sit and smile through it through??? But if you check with your mind, if you think with your mind, if you analyze within your mind, you know this is a fact. There is no question: this is a fact. So when we just normally say, ““I seek positive,”” it is great. 0:06:01.4 But you have to know what your are seeking. And each one of these positives is there. Definitely, it’’s there. But why are we not getting it? Because we have obstacles. The obstacle is just exact opposite of what we are seeking is there, it’’s blocking. There’’s a word in Tibetan we call that dipa???. Dipa means somebody who sort of hides you, somebody who doesn’’t let you see it. Someone who doesn’’t, you know, do this. Yesterday, I mentioned in the morning: we all have a beautiful nature within us. I did not say that just out of nowhere. We call that as from the Buddhist background and Buddhist point of view you call it buddha nature, we call it. Because it is naturally you’’re going to become a buddha later. From the Buddhist point of view the Buddha is the highest ever you can go. It’’s almost like what we say all-mighty or…… So in that sense, almost same as there. So, but Buddhist say, from the point of view buddha is the highest you can go, so we call that a buddha nature. You can call whatever nature you want to, but it is the pure nature of the pure being. And that is the true being of the person which has no fault for whatsoever in its own nature. It is pure, it is wonderful, it is kind, it is loving. It is very beautiful nature. It is clear, it has no ignorance. It has all positive qualities that we seek. And that’’s there, with each one of us we have that. There’’s been not a single human being who does not have that quality at all. It is not only a human nature, but it is also more than that: the nature of abeing. Being, like a human being. Whatever the being you may be. It’’s nature of being. [silence] It’’s nature of being.

However, when we inter-react with other persons, we cannot show the beauty nature of the person. We don’’t. 0:09:00.1 Instead of that, we give (what you call it, the American language) we give cold shoulder to that person. Yeah, cold shoulder you say, right? Could shoulder you give. Simply why? Because of those problems, those negative emotions we have. And they are surfacing, rather than beautiful nature of the being [inaudible]. Naturally, a lot of people will say, ““Why are you so upset with me?”” People do ask that, right? ““Hey you, what’’s wrong?”” You say, ““Oh not you, it’’s just me.”” A lot of people will tell you that. ““It’’s not you but it is sort of just me.”” Anyway, they’’re telling you truth. It’’s just me, but not the good me, but the me which has been full of…… I can’’t, there’’s ?? bad words in my mouth. Anyway, so... full it this problems, you know? So, that is the problem. So, journey what you seek, or the clarity would you be seek…… what we seek is the point that those negative emotions are cleared a half??? and separate from them, they separate from them. And that is the important point. Because first time that last night I have been able to extend the lecture…… and it is the first time by me to exposen…… my sort of being exposure…… (exposure you call it, right?)…… exposure to this part. And what I’’m noticing is: when they tells you, separate from the personality the other not know what information you got it, what I’’ve been hearing is separate the individual out of those negative emotions. I have been hearing that. So negative... not necessarily emotions, and all this negativities. 0:11:52.7 Which is very, very similar to and how the Buddha thought: separate the negativity out of the individual, so that naturally the individual, the wonderful beings, will shine itself.

Sort of thing you have. So, any path that…… any spiritual path what you’’re really seeking is a betterment of the individual, you call it; or uplifment of the person, you call it; or bring closer to the nature of reality, you call it; or bring closer to the God, you call it. Or whatever you may call it. The point will really boils down to is removing the negativity and building the positivity within you. It is not necessary that you have to say a lot of mantras and doing prayers all the time, which is a lot of Buddhist people will do. Which to me it seems a little more too extreme. Some of them are too extreme, can’’t even have time to drink a tea: blah-blah-blah…… All the time, they do. And morning to the evening, you know? Maybe probably only that they leaves a fly?? a lot, which, if you have a nice parrot, they will do the same thing too. You give them plenty of nuts; they’’ll do the same thing. At the same time, if you pay no attention at all, it’’s not necessarily great either. Because you have to pay the attention. So, the point really is: cutting down the negativity. And when I said yesterday, ““We have to heal the individual,”” ““heal the indvidual,”” the mind healing is the same thing. How do you heal your mind and nothing else? You try to heal the wounds that our mind, or ourself actually, receive from the negative emotions. That is what you need to heal. There is nothing else to heal. Right? The wound that we received from the negative emotions…… I mean, you get all the time. All the time you get negative emotions. And we act so strange, and we think we’’re throwing things out. Don’’t we? When somebody says something to us, and we immediately react ourself, and we sort of become a popco pine?? , and ready to shoot anything. 0:15:04.6 You know? And so then we start shooting things out. But that is: we think we’’re shooting out, but at the same time, at the same time we’’re also getting ourself hindered. You may think we’’re shooting outside, think it hindered??? ourself. So, these are the wounds need to be healed. And that is the one little called consciousness receiving all these wounds all the time. The self is receiving all these wounds. It’’s like a heating duck…… You know some of the flesh…… They put a duck there and you put air and??? heat and heat and heat, and duck will go like this all the time. So, that is exactly the self is in that manner: keep on heating all the time and never get healed / a hear??. So, it keep on receiving. It’’s like…… You know, they have this board where you throw all the ducks…… [inaudible reactions in the audience] Huh? Shooting ducks. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. I have them…… I have in Michigan I’’ve got a house there, and in the house they have that there already. And that’’s removed two days before I left here. But no matter you much you shoot, it’’s go there???, right, and stick there? They don’’t shoot back [laughter]. And same thing is what is happening with our those emotional things. We think we’’re shooting back, but we are really hitting ourself. And that is the problem. And these are need to be healed. So, during this thing what we do here, so you can focus the light and the liquid coming from the Tara body in white light and white liquid and touch to ourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and so that it heals our body, our mind and spirit. Not speech is that, it’’s spirit. So, that is the one thing what we do. And we can do that, you know, negative emotions. And the negative emotions itself is that. That’’s not enough. If it’’s only the negative emotion, it is okay. 0:18:01.4 Not that bad; it is bad but it’’s not that bad. But most of our trouble is the after-effect of that emotion. You know, the anger, the attachment, the hatred, the jealous, all of them, when it is up it is up. It is burning, yelling, screaming and boiling hot. But for a little while it’’s that. But it’’s not that bad. I am paying??? with the after-effect what we have. You know, afterwards we get a lot of those things. It keep builds up, builds up, builds up. And one time you can’’t held that. It get bursted out. You all know that, right? It is because that is not the direct anger itself but the after-effect of the anger. And that is what I call it the wound on the self. So, these things you can sort of spiritually, with your psychic power, your mantra power, your meditation power, and power of the enlightenment, all combined together, you can try to remove them from you, all these negative effects. And we have received tremendous amount of negative effects. We can remove them, remove them from, we can separate them from our pure being. This is meditative way. And normally, basically, truly speaking, you have to have the direct opposite of it. Direct opposite of of each one of them, and then it works better. But here you can do it very generally. So, when we do this, the purification part of it…… so I can probably talk to you at that moment. So, I’’m not going to talk too long. So, could you please open the page that what we’’ve keeping…… you have that with you.

Yes, sir?

Audience: Earlier you said, instead of important activities according to the [inaudible] …… the beginning activity with this motivations [inaudible] …… The activity, you didn’’t……

Rimpoche: Thank you. Really great. Thank you, because I sort of drifted away myself. Drifted away. So, that is great. The beginning activity is pure motivation. The motivation makes a lot of difference. From there I went. What happened is: there was a great teacher in Tibet. And one of the persons asked him, ““Hey, I’’m doing great Mahayana practice. Isn’’t that wonderful?”” 0:21:06.1 And he said, he replied, he said, ““The Dharma or the practice what you do, it being the Mahayana practice is not good enough.”” He said. ““But the person must be able to be Mahayana practitioner.”” That’’s what he said. The practice what you do is good. That’’s not enough. The person must be good; person must be Mahayana practice. And that shocked the guy a little bit more. ““But, that you taught the Mahayana practice, I’’m doing it!”” He said, ““Yes. No, I didn’’t teach you the Mahayana practice, Buddha taught you the Mahayana practice. However, that’’s not enough. But you have to be good.”” So, one of them then he says, ““What do you mean?”” He said, ““It’’s a motivation. The motivation, if you have the Mahayana motivation, whatever you do is the Mahayana practice. And if you don’’t have the Mahayana motivation, whatever you do it will not be Mahayana practice.”” That is his answer. He said, if you have a Mahayana motivation and you give a little of piece of food to a street dog or something, that very practice is a great practice, it is the direct cause for the individual to be able to become a buddha one day. But if you don’’t have that motivation, you may spend twenty-four hours saying mantras, doing whatever you’’re doing, you spend on that, but even then your karma will not going to be a direct cause to become a buddha at all. So, that is the motivation. So, the motivation is very important. And then, normally, in our usual, habitual patterns that we have, what we do, whenever we want to do something good, and we always try to say, ““I like to do the good because I want to be good.”” We always have that I-interest, don’’t we? We always do. It is very funny. And last year, I believe or a year before last, there’’s a guy named Glenn Raugh???, that environmental person, you know. Glenn Raugh, [inaudible] things like a photograph and things like that. Glenn Raugh, I think. 0:23:59.6 And he went to Tibet and took a lot of photographs in Tibet, and then produced a picture book. And he took out all the pictures, I think he showed all the pictures to His Holiness Dalai Lama. And whatever the Dalai Lama comments on each picture, he started taking notes and then made a book out of it. It is a picture book on Tibet. Sort of Glenn Raugh, right, name is. Right? So in there, one picture I noticed –– it’’s so funny. There’’s an elderly lady who’’s praying. And obviously you know very clearly, you know she’’s praying very hard by looking at her face. You know, she’’s totally praying in front of the central temple in Lhasa. Those of you being in Lhasa, you know. There’’s a central... in the middle of Lhasa town, that big old temple. Which is supposed to be built in Seventh Century, I don’’t know. That’’s what they say. But a number of scholars say…… they took out a piece of wood from there, and checked and this and that, and they found it’’s built... the woods and (I don’’t know), the matters. They say they think it’’s Twelfth Century. But all scholars has to say something different anyway [laughs]. Whatever it is, anyway. They think it’’s the Twelfth Century. Whether it’’s the Twelfth Century of the Seventh Century, whatever it is, so it is a very old temple there. So, obviously she’’s praying there very strongly. And there’’s a bicycle behind that, you know. In the picture you can see that woman praying and the temple. You know its environment, it is the temple. So, there is a bicycle there. I think that Glenn Raugh picked up the picture. And there is, you know, I’’m sure there goes hundreds and hundreds of pic..., the photos probably went through with His Holiness’’ eyes?? at that time. Probably they had two, three hours to do that thing. So, hundreds of pictures went through. And then, all of a sudden, a picture up, and His Holiness jokingly said, ““I don’’t know what she’’s praying for. Maybe, her son is giving a pressure?? for... on high??, would buy a bicycle for her. So maybe she’’s praying for bicycle. ÝÝou know? [laughs] His Holiness said that. And I’’m sure he’’s jokingly said that. But somehow, they printed that as comments on the thing. It is a little funny. But, however, it is also possible, the motivation. Maybe, His Holiness read her mind, and out of (what do you call it?) clairvoyance he sort of read that and said it. 0:27:07.1 Or, he’’s just making comments. Who knows? [laughs] But the comment is printed in the book; and is very popular book and a lot of people are buying it, picture book. And all the environmental people and everybody is buying that because of the subject interest. You know? So, that’’s the point. If your motivation is just to get a bicycle –– which might not be right but whatever it is. If the motivation is just to get bicycle, then your efforts whatever you put will go to get bicycle. So, if you don’’t have enough money to buy bicycle, so probably you pray and put a lot of efforts in that. And somehow, your karma will link to be able to open up something to be able to buy a bicycle. So, that effort is gone for that purpose. But, on the other hand, if you put the efforts, if you’’re motivated whatever you do, we do for benefit for all beings. The benefit of all beings. That is A-L-L, all beings. Right? All beings. Mark my word: all beings. Which include yourself too. Lot of people like to think, say, ““All beings is excluding yourself and all others.”” So, which is great, no doubt. But you’’re also a being. So, you have to be included in it. So, that’’s why the beginning the motivation, ““For the benefit of all beings, I would like to do this practice and achieve state of the Buddha Tara. And when I become the Buddha Tara, I have limitless capability, and with that capability I will help everybody. I will help all beings, without exception of anybody, I will do whatever I’’m capable. So, as Buddha Tara you have a limitless capability. You can work twenty-four hours for million different beings at the same time. And that is the limit of the enlightened beings: simultaneously you can do countless things together for countless beings without causing any difficulty and tiring or problems to the individual. 0:30:03.5 That is the extraordinary quality of enlightened beings. They can do million things together or billion things together at the same time for a million different areas. And that is the extraordinary quality of enlightened beings. That makes different between us and enlightened beings. We are limited, they are unlimited. You get me? So, why we want that? Because we want health/help???, me and others. My friends and so and forth. And their friends and then everybody. Who you’’re going to leave it out? No one. So, that’’s what it is. That’’s why the interest of becoming Buddha Tara is important. And if you have that, you can do everything whatever you wanted to do. For a million of years, really true. And you can do it. So, I would like to obtain the state of Buddha Tara. And sort of I can help all beings. And helping is a great thing, for which the Americans are really very great. They always wanted to help. Whether you know how to help of not, but they always wanted to help. Really true. I admire that and I appreciated that. I will tell you why, true. You may be laughing but it’’s a true fact. I’’ve been kicked out of Tibet in 1959 when the Communist Chinese took over, took a heavy hand. And they don’’t…… no one told me, ““Get out of it,”” but however I can’’t stay there. So, sort of running out. And that’’s how I have been kicked out. And when you’’re running out, you’’re not prepared. I left my monastery in Drepung just to get on the mountains at the back. I did not leave monastery to get to India. Today in India we, the Tibetan refugees, call it we left our country for the sake of something, something. That’’s our/all propaganda. The true thing is, (to my personal experience is) I run out of the monastery to hide in the mountains. True! Because the shells are coming, the blitz are coming. So, you can’’t stay there and you have to get out of it. 0:33.02.3 So, get up and get out of it, and the best thing we thought is the mountains at the back and the ??? rocks on there. So, what you’’re prepared is: you’’re prepared only to get couple of hours or maybe some day behind the rock. And that’’s how you leave. So, just you put on shoe and run, virtually. That’’s what it is. So, when you get on the mountain top there’’s no place to hide. There’’s some problem there. So, you started going up, up, up, up in the higher hills. And then, you know, we are so…… sort of, you know, technologically we’’re such a backward in Tibet at that time. It’’s extremely backward, we have no idea. So, suddenly the Chinese soldiers have a torch light, something, and it goes up in the air. And some light goes up and then comes down; it becomes like a torch light. And there is a far away. Far away, like a couple of miles away. They shoot that up, and light comes down. So, when you want to see is: we see your own shadow there. So, we keep on thinking they’’re seeing us. So we’’re hiding between the mountains like this. So, we hide between here, and we count when they’’re going to shoot. Shooting going to go up, and according to the counting, when it’’s goes down we run across here. And then hide here, another lights go. That’’s what we’’ve been doing. And there’’s nobody shooting gun or anything nearby. But we’’re running ourself like that manner, thinking that they’’re seeing it and are going to shoot. You know? So, there’’s nobody near us ???, but we did. So anyway, and we run in that manner and then finally came to India. And when we finally reach in India, so we’’re very happy to be able to came out to freedom without losing your life. And we don’’t think about it, food or cloth. But then you get hungry, you get cold. And you need something to eat and all this. And suddenly, those relief, you know the food, donations and all this comes in. It’’s very great when you’’re at a receiving??? end. It is so great. Actually, I have nothing to eat. And suddenly, you get this huge lump of cheese or piece of, bag of rice or sack of potato, or something. They just throw out of the plane to stop you. And one or two people [laughs] ??? and run. [laughs] But still, you know, but still everybody gets something to eat, and it is very great. 0:36:03.01 From that angle, it’’s very great, and great. So, I always admire the people’’s kindness and generosity what they have. Which is really very great to that extent??? At the same time, you can also help slightly different way. And that help of a little food or a little medicine or clothes, which is great and very helpful. For which, you know, from the receiving point are very grateful. However, and that doesn’’t solve the problem totally at all. It helps, but doesn’’t solve the problem. So if you can help more than that... I don’’t mean not by giving more money or more food and clothes, but more removing their internal pains, which we already have within ourself as well. Those of you who are givers, you also have the internal pains and problems. So if you try to remove those and give help through that direction to ourself as well as others, it will be... how wonderful help it will be. It’’s needed. And that’’s we can do it if we achieve the capability. And that’’s why we do need capability to be able to help ourself and others. And that’’s what we do. So that’’s you take a motivation, so that every work you do go to that direction. Sorry, I’’m talking too much. So, we should really start with that. I have that book somewhere. Thank you. But I have too many things in here too. I don’’t know. [searches] Thank you. So, we should start the same like yesterday. And then…… I don’’t have to explain today.

[Chants] OM SOBHAVA SHUDDA SARVA DHARMA SOBHAVA SHUDDA ‘‘HAM.

DOM PO LA LE…… …… ONG GUR TSEM BAN NE GYI UNG DEN GYUR

[0:40:17.2] When we say that in English, and you try to visualize whatever we talked yesterday.

[Recites text with audience] All is empty. From the sphere of emptiness appears white lotus. On it is moon disc. And upon this …… takes the form of syllable TAM, which is transformed into utpala flower. The flower is also transformed, becomes white Tara, the noble one granting ??? Tara has one hand, two arms, seven eyes and six with??? white moon discs at her back……

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