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Soundfile 19950400GRNLFF (02)

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Holland

Topic Liberation

Transcriber Nina

Date January 2. 2021

Welcome for the weekend, whatever you might call it. Whatever it’s called.

What is called? Liberation what? Just liberation ah.

Talking with audience: And the lady on the chair are you going to be conferrable there? You can, there’s a place here for you want to move? You can move here. You are in he middle of the road.And you too, you can move here. You are blocking the traffic. I’m kidding. Come here. There’s a cushion there too. Now you get double.

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Last, not this time, the last week, the week before, when I came into Holland, at the airport. I saw there was a huge a huge sign called, it says, welcome for the 50th anniversary of Liberation. I did not realize you are celebrating for the Liberation. Rimpoche laughs. And it is sad indeed. Ahem, When you talk about the war, and when you talk about the past war and ahm..and even own ?2:50.4 […? ]Of government last night and though it is you don’t see it much, he is telling me there is a war cemetery and this and that. And so my thought was popping up at that time. Seeing that the war cemetery, which means hundreds or people, maybe thousands of people getting killed for no fault of theirs.

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So it makes me think in a one way we call it a human race, this beautiful, kind natured and wonderful beings in one way, in another way, always if you look in the human history, there is always a fight, and a fight and fight all the time, on the basis of religion, on the basis religion which is supposed to be a key for liberating oneself, other on the question of religion. People getting killed for nothing. But on the other hand, those who get killed, not those who died, those who died voluntarily and saying, I’m doing great thing. So, sad indeed, you know. So this is what the human history will tell you. But on the other hand it is not even history, the same thing going on today. Everywhere, Everywhere. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, ahm. something like 137 or some different wars are going on throughout the world.

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Ah, a statement issued by the Carter International Center, is it called Carter International Center, anyway, Carter has some kind of an organization which is, tries to bring peace and catching up people, so the issued a statement saying that I think there are 137 wars going on. I’m not sure of the name if its called Carter International Institute or Carter Peacemaking Institute or anyway is it called Carter Library or something whatever it is, there is an organization in Georgia done by Jimmy Carter and try to make peace everywhere and they put up 137 wars. So it’s not even history it is going on today. And a war means, again, a lot of innocent people, children are getting killed for nothing.

And this is the human nature and not the beautiful nature of the human nature, the other side, the monster nature side of the human . But if you look, if you talk to each and every individual, people who is behind the wall, and they have their own very convincing reasons. So, the problem really lies in the lack of compassion. Ahhm, because of the lack of compassion, the priority what people choose is making more, self interest. And more for right and wrong issues.

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And a righteousness, too much righteousness, too much righteousness and too much right thing is the actually cause of, mhhh, actual cause of the religions wars. If you look at religions wars the reason why they fought is because, what I’ve been taught and what my system is and it is the best, and yours is the worst and you should be eliminated. Thats what they are fighting for. Right? If you are looking bottom down, down to the bottom, that’s what you get. Even in the medieval Europe here, and all this, this torture and suffering, that , call it witches or wise woman, ahh, the meaning of the witch is a wise women. If you look at it without thinking to witches, it sounds terrible .Right you get, witch is terrible, blah blah blah, you get some kind of a funny little picture of crazy old teeny lady riding on the broom and flying in the air or something you know. And however if you look very carefully it is a wise woman. And opportunities to the church was propagated. And that’s what I heard. What do I know. But opportunities to the church had been propagated. And it becomes threat. So that’s why they said it has to be eliminated. And that’s why millions of women been burned here.

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And simply, another way of healing which is not either officially accepted by 12:45.9[ ? ] at that time whether it is church or state or simply the thing is wrong and that is simple reason. But then you don’t want people to take advantage to your enemies and this and that. 13:05.7[ ????]. If when you have the idea of too much righteousness that’s what brings it. Fortunately or unfortunately it did not become a war. The same thing Hindus think Muslims bad, and the Muslims think Hindus bad.

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It is funny if you live in India you know this. And one side says you can eat pork it’s good the other says pork it’s so terrible you can’t eat. E And the other one say you can eat beef the other on say the cow is so sacred you can’t not eat. That’s what they fight for anyway. So, all of those, it stopped now? [ Talks to audience member: Still bleeding? ??? If you want you can lie down. ]

Anyway, and all of those problems what it causes, self righteousness. Not only it has caused problems in the society but it also causes problems in the individuals. Individually I want to be the important, I want to be the right, I has to be the most outstanding and I and I, I. This is our problem.

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And it is true if you don’t have so much feeling of I this and I that then you will not have that feeling of mine this and mine that. All our hate and love is coming out of this. I and my and my friend, I and mine and my enemy. So what’s happening. Whats happening is not to talk about one individual person that’s me, one individual person, when I say one individual, you have to, when I say me, you should think about yourself, and not looking at the outside and think oh me he me other than [17:13:0 that meeting me if you looking that way. ] Well for me what is it, what is that make a difference to me because of my feeling and my perception? Because of my feeling and my perception that is making whole difference to me. And where the perception is where the feelings is, what is making difference is my acknowledgment. That is there. What I perceive. What I feel it. That is my perception and acknowledgment. Are you people with me or not completely?

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Ahh, What I’m trying to say is the most important thing is my mind. Because the mind is the first thing, first and foremost basis to perceiving, to acknowledge, to experience, to feel it, so if I feel good, I feel bad, I feel pain, I this I that. It all boils down to where you measure , what do you feel, or the basis, it is me, which is sort of a 19:38.2 [left corner of my mind?] Talks to translator. That ok? If I loose you I lost everything. Laughs. So the first and foremost comes my mind. And that’s where we measure. Where we make the measurement. Good, bad, feeling wonderful, feel terrible, miserable, then the measurements come. The acknowledger or perceiver, or feeler or experiencer, the me inside, which really first and foremost is the mind. I’m not trying to talk to you Buddhist philosophers emptiness at all but I am simply saying when you personal experience and are questioning that’s so how it is. Otherwise people might get confused, I’m trying to establish emptiness or something. No.

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The 2nd thing is what you see. Outside. And what you hear. Outside. What do you feel it outside. How do you connect and what do you perceive. And these are the 2nd things after the mind.

So, so when you feel some thing, you see something nice, you like it and you enjoy it. And your mind will perceive this as a nice thing, and then you say, how, how nice it is.

And there are a lot of terrible things when you see it, you perceive it you dislike it and you say, how horrible it is. But then you have to remember, something horrible to a person, person A, might not be horrible to a person B. And as a matter of fact it may become a wonderful thing for person C. So that’s why there is no certainty what you perceive and what you observe. It becomes more important what you feel and how you take it. On that ground, some teachers earlier even stated that everything is mind, the mind is most important. The outside is not that important. Not even important. It’s all mind which makes things. People say that.

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Whether the mind makes the external thing or not but how the mind perceive the external things makes hell of a difference. To the feeling of individual. So that’s why feeling of a joy and a feeling of a sorrow is very much on the individual how you perceive. But I did no say, but I did not say it is mind made it. Don t misunderstand. But it is true that to some people, you know, something wonderful and beautiful, beauty you figure out. Something they say. To some people they say, Oh its wonderful and beautiful but another person said Well I really don’t like it very much because blah blah bla…this reason, that reason . That is how individual is perceiving.

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So a lot of our problems or the pains that we experience, particularly emotional pains and emotional, ahem, sufferings that we go through. Is very much on the perception of the individual mind. Then there is another problems, the physical pain the physical suffering and all this, which everybody will perceive as a pain more or less. Not everything again. Even in the physical thing, you know, even though it’s a physical thing, even in the physical thing, some people will perceive as a pain that very pain will be perceived by some people as a pleasure. Thats right.

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It is very common in the west. Right, everybody agrees with with that? Don’t let me give you a vivid example. Audience laughs. Rimpoche laughs. Ja true. So even physical pains some people will perceive some people will perceive as a pain, some people will perceive as pleasure. So there again, the measurement of a joy and also suffering and where you putting it . You have to be the perceivers acknowledgment. Is the point where you turn. So, that’s why everything is depending inside. Not so much outside. But then outside is also related, it’s not there is no relationship, it is very much related. Thats why it says, quotes in Tibetan:

29:44.2 Zhin ni zhin in Tibetan….

I forgot to say again to what?? Anyway it is the, it is the mind which really makes a hell of a difference. And a lot of our sufferings and our problems are, not a really the actual true pain. But it is a lot of them acknowledgement. So, to relieve this pain, and a lot of people, the psychologists and Psychotherapists and all these people do a lot of work, try to relive this very pain. And it’s a wonderful thing. And I really respect and have a great regard for it. And however it is not a problem 31.24.9 […??……. ] again. Since I am going to say it, I say both criticism and respect together. There are two possibilities. Rinpoche laughs. The other possibility is, again, try to relieve pain and you create another pain.

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And many of the society, societies in the west, many societies in many places, many families.

The children having a problem with parents, and the young kids in their 20’s started suing their parent. Translator: Started what: GR: Started suing, legally to go to the law and bring the parents, father particularly. It’s also so when you try to work with the mind, that’s what you create sometimes. I am not criticizing all psychologist in general, but some of them will try to digging, digging, digging, digging, and people have a fear, people have some discomfort, something frightening, so you try to dig, dig dig, and go through 80 years of age or 7 years of age, and then what are you afraid of. And then this child says, I don’t know why but I’m afraid of a bearded man. And it’s the truth.

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Then the next question is, does your father have a beard? Or your uncle had a beard or something you know. And then, oh yeah! So then hi, here's the breakthrough. Thats your father who had molested you when you were 8 years old. Rimpoche laughs. And it solved your problem. So I keep on thinking for a while about 1 year or 2 and keep on thinking the poor little girl, probably a woman now, keep on thinking, what happened to me when I was 8 years old and blah blah blah blah, blah, and after a little while I can not take it anymore. You must stop this so they go to the law and sue their father. And that created another problem. So this this is a game of mind. And not only one persons mind, two persons mind, four persons mind [ 35:37.4 as unknown? ] and it is creating a problem. So which is, which is our facade of fears today.

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Whether it is in family, whether it is with friends, or whether it is between the nations. So all of those, the wars we have been talking, the family problems we have been talking, the big the nations going to war, the small, the family fighting, the bearded one, or then is actually a mind, which is making that. So and if you ask me, is that true, is it only the mind and there is nothing wrong in that and that also not true. There is something wrong too. So all of them, is caused by this mind, mind of mine, mind of yours, which does not somehow tell it together. Thats what it is. If you really look, and this is cause for the family, cause problem in school, cause problem in children, cause problem everywhere So the Buddha call that untamed mind. So it is is wonderfulness in the mind and it is also wildness in the mind. Both. Ah, you know what the earlier Tibetan teachers give as examples for this? Leading the monkey in the temple. Leading move the monkey in the temple. So if you let the money move here , what they do, knock all the waters out, fires through. Then goes down and throws images out and jump around and do all sorts of things, and so that’s sort it means, wild monkey letting it loose in the temple .

So, when you have that, what you going to do? So there is no time for us to put any of this out, put water straight, first you have to catch the monkey. Rimpoche laughs. If you don’t, no matter how much you put up the monkey, it will keep coming knocking things down and that will never ending. So first and foremost, now catch the monkey! So where is the monkey? Not out there, inside. So you have to catch it. Even inside it jumps all over the place. You think it’s in there, it is somewhere outside? Whether its in the market or in the bar or someplace. You might think its in there, thought your body is here, but the monkey is inside the body, trapped in. But you realize the monkey’s in the bar, somewhere else, or monkey is across the ocean all all over the place.

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Can you get that? No problem right? Ok. Because sometimes this sort of a metaphor doesn’t get message. Do you really think literally a monkey gets over there. How does a monkey get over there, you know? Rimpoche laughs. That’s the one thing that is difference between the body and the mind. The body makes you the 4:14:4 [the carries it out?] And if you want to go to the bar you have to go, you carry the body up to the bar. And if you have to cross the ocean you have to carry the body to cross the ocean. My mind does not need it. The mind boom, jumps here, boom jumps here, boom jumps here, that is the mind and body difference. That what I mean, monkey gets everywhere. So it is more difficult to catch the physical monkey than the mental monkey. Oh I mean it’s more difficult to catch the mental monkey than the physical monkey, sorry. Rimpoche laughs. So, the most important point whether you call it spiritual path or you call it buddhist practice whether you call it good Christian or whether you call it the road taken to the Hindu, or whether, what do the Muslims call it? Good Muslims? says the translator. GR. Is it? I don’t think so.something called, some particular identification. Or Allahs Servant or something. Isn’t it? I think they call it Allahs Servant or something. Maybe I’m wrong. But. Whatever it might be, the taming of the mind is the key for everybody. Everybody. Whether you are judaea christian orientation or Hindi muslim buddhist whatever may be or paganist too. Because it it simply good and bad definition. Really boils down to whether you make people, other people, miserable, including yourself. Miserable or comfortable. And you know about 50% if not 80%, 50 percent of the peoples sufferings caused by people. Either yourself of other person. And there are people who like to be mischievous, (translator does not understand the word mischievous and audience is trying to help her) GR. Is that a problem? Who like to do funny things. How can mischievous become problem for you? GR laughing.

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In the sense, in the sense, ok I’m trying to explain it, in the sense, people would like to create little problems for another one. They enjoy doing it. May not be so big problem but create a little trouble. I believe that is called mischievous. Another type of people, if you deal with the people you know it, basically nice people, who are always kind and wonderful, but then somehow, somewhere they had to do something wrong. And have to tell a little bit of a lie, a little white, but a little bit of a lie, try to create a little superior picture for yourself. And try to create a little bit of bad picture for the other, Not so much by vicious mean, not so vicious. Vicious. Repeats but just do it. You see people that type and they also know they are doing it. And they go on doing it. They can’t help it. It goes without 47:25.1 [ through????]

And but then then you realize its a little bit gone. So this are the, basically, how the mind creates problem. So all this solution it the taming of the mind. So as I said, monkey is going everywhere,

So first and foremost, important solution, sort of solution number 1, sort.of solution. Number 1 to training this wild monkey, is. to try to tie it down. So tying down here, that why Buddha designed the mind for mediations.

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So the mindfulness mediation is the first to actually catch the money and hold it. And that’s why object of mediation whatever it might be, it does not matter. The early Tibetan masters used to say from the cow downs to the yak horns. So whatever it may be. It is try to be focusing now.

And when you focused, you need to be able to focus a little bit. And that means the monkey became to relax his muscles a little bit. So even you get a one tenth of second, to be able to put it down.

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It is a good achievement,. It is for the first time you are giving yourself, you are giving your mind a rest. Body can not go without getting a rest, so we sleep. The mind goes, anything you see, your mind starts dreaming around and gives you all sort of things, you can hold it dream business comes immediately . When the body’s asleep. So how complete life other side is the dream life. Everything a total melodrama of our life this side, is shown in the dream side. It’s really 50% of the other half life. So mind is busy with that. So when you’re able to settle down a little bit, this is for the first time, they get to be able to say, hhhhh (G.R. exhales). So this is I believe the first solution, the solution number one, let's keep the numbers down today, solution number one of the liberating yourself, from yourself, by yourself, for yourself, Thats what it is. Really true!

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And that is mind mindfulness. Then there is mindfulness of the feeling, and mindfulness of the perception, and the mindfulness of the acknowledgment. So Buddha then gives now 4 different mindfulnesses. So, so this mindfulness is the beginning of things we can do for ourselves. Now the 2nd point, question rises here. I may or not may rise this question. It is the question of the why. Why do we need it. Why do we need it? Because we are not happy. We have been experiencing so many pains. Every time when you separate from your friends. And when you meet them together. And every time we have a lot of things to talk. And things what you talk is the experience of yourself. This experience are mostly talk about the suffering.

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Very few people will say hi, I had a wonderful time. But then within the wonderfulness and you have this problem and that problem, that problem. Basically it’s a wonderful time but then you have this problem, that problem. That is why. Then number 2 is that is obvious, we have something called illnesses. And then of course we have something called death. And aging too and all of them is our problem. And we are not free of that at all. On top of that, whether you believe it or not, there is something called reincarnation. So all of them are problems. So Buddha categories them together. So Buddha tried to catalog them, and in the catalog number One comes the truth of Suffering. It’s called Truth of Suffering. It is true we experience, it is real that’s what we go through. We pain it. We cry. We laugh. We joke, we enjoy, we cry, it is real. So it’s called Truth. And then later on they add a word Noble. Noble Truth. Noble or no Noble it is the truth. Truth of Suffering is the Truth. So then then another question rises. Where does it all coming from? Is this a creation of some, another person? Or is it coming from nowhere? Or is it coming from one single force? So interesting thing. So Buddha’s finding for this or the Buddha found you know. And Buddha did a lot of meditations for us. He did a lot of analyzing for us.

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So what he found out is not from nowhere its coming, neither is caused by one single cause nor is it created by one third person unknown. So he found out what it is and he found out it is ourselves who are causing these problems and within the problem, a joy too. And lot of people think in our life there is no joy, it is totally suffering and all this, that is absolutely bullshit. There is a lot of joy in life too! And that also joy day and night. Whether is is absolute joy or not that is a different issue we enjoy our life too.

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So all of them is, not somebody else made it and give it to you, but it is our own deed.

And that’s why we are responsible for ourselves. The principle of the responsibility accepting responsibility. It is actually the part of the 2nd Noble Truth. What causes suffering, what causes joy, who made it and who are responsible. Which means you are responsible to yourself. So, so accepting responsibility is the actual essence of the 2nd Noble Truth. And the part of accepting this responsibility will also give you a responsibility of a looking a way out. Looking a way out. You don’t get it. How do I get out of this mess. The way out. How do I get it? Hmm?

Translator: Can you say again what you mean to say?

GR: Alright, I’m in this trouble and how do I get it out, how to I solve out. Is there a way out or no way out? [Ahh you’re really funny I’m sorry] GR laughs. How do I get out of it, how do I be free from here. Is there anywhere I can do or can not do? If I am responsible, if I should be able to do something. We do changes, how do I do it. So that means way out.

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So. Looking out for the solution and finding the solution and ahh, and ah putting it in your life is actually what we call the 4th Noble Truth but the 3rd thing what you do. So, so by doing this and automatically you develop a cessation of free of pains. So this will be a basic thing of these 2 days you are going to work. So to introduce the thing, we talk a lot of time on it you know, So anyway, ahh, what I would like to share is that really the true teaching of the Buddha or true experience of the Buddha which you really label then the 4 Noble Truths. Instead of leaving it in some of kind of boxes, called the Truth of Suffering, the Truth of Cause of Suffering, Truth of Path and Truth of Cessation of the Path. So the packaging and putting it on this box. And then say ah here it theTruth of Suffering. Lets look in it, so when you look at it there’s ahh, there is a 3 kind of fears or 8 kinds of there or 16 kinds there or instead of doing that way, where how I would like to deal with this

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[ kid as an principal in mind?] that is the basic framework that we are dealing with it, so each and all of them is applicable to our daily life. Rather than in the future what we can do instead of looking that way, look as daily and in todays’ our life, what is going on. And how is it related to that. Sort of a basic Buddhas experience of the 4 Noble Truths we try to bring it in our todays life. And to deal with it. So, today what were are experiencing is the problems we described earlier. So, it is time for us to share the difficulties people face. You know each and everybody have a problem. I know ourself. If I said would you please raise your hand if you are free of problem. And I tell you nobody is going to raise hand. If you do so we will all think oh that person is stable.

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Just one hand! GR laughs. Someone in audience says something. Everyone laughs.

GR: Onette right? ? How do you pronounce? Ono, not Onette.What’s you problem Ono Are you getting married! GR laughs. 1:08:55.5 Onette asks a question..…GR:I need more translation. Did not get it. Ono speaks again.]

Translator: Well, as I understand it the question is this. If I have countless numbers of lives, and then every life I made a part of a religion, Buddhism or another religion, then isn’t it inevitable that in the end I will reach enlightenment and that the problems I am experiencing now will become non problems in the end. Inevitably. GR: It is inevitable. And have a good nights sleep. Go ahead. Audience laughs. Ya, is a good path. It is true and every time you encounter with the different solutions and every time we don’t get to succeed it. The chances of a meeting with a solutions are may not be that bad, I mean, traditionally religious texts will tell you it is only the one times you ever have it and blah blah blah.

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However if you really think very carefully the chances meeting the spiritual are very good all the time. You do have it. You really do. And this is true, and against the traditional teachings on this one. You know there is a very logical reason. I am not simply saying that. There is a very logical reason. The logical reason is that the meanings of enlightened beings and who has nothing else to do except try to help. GR laughs. And if you don’t encounter with them, then how is it going to work. So logical has many things. But so therefore I think the chances of encountering a solution life after life is very much, No matter wherever you are born, The 10 different realms, the 6 different realms or whatever how you count it but wherever you are born, the chances you meeting with the solution is very good. However, the chances of making it is harder. Why? Because to make it we got to work. Without working you can not make it. Otherwise we go to sleep and have a good nights sleep and the enlightened will work behind you and you be liberated when you woke up.

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And that’s when I say good night to you earlier. Remember when you have that question? That’s what it means. Behind that. And that’s what people look. You know what is all this experimenting the drugs? Ya, in the 60’s, Ram Dass or Alan Ginsberg, And all these people, you know why they experiment that? They thought wow this is great, over there I can be liberated. That is the whole reason whether you accept or no accept, And every people who took the drugs,

and looking for joy and a wonderful kick in the air somewhere. And that’s what it is. I’m sure you people have more experience than I do. The reason it did not work, the reason it did not work is because you didn’t put effort. So Ram Dass needed to go to India and get this Guru, what Neem Karoo Bas or something in English? And Alan Ginsberg has to go around and get buddhist practice and write his poetry and all this. Cause the drugs doesn’t work! Actually drugs should. there is something else than that?

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You can not completely dismiss or say, oh it’s bad, its’ [?..] you can not do that. Or this is the Netherlands, you can talk about it. There is no Newt Gingrich here. So, laughs, so can really talk about it. They have done something good to a lot of people. I mean no drugs, the Ram Dass will not be the Ram Dass of today, nor a Allen, This is two examples that just popped up, there are 100’s of those. So done something good too. But it doesn’t work properly, completely by that either. Because we create lot of junkies, that’s what it is. Because they think it’s only the solution you don’t have to do anything keep on remaining high all the time and you become a junkie. The simple reason why it didn’t work is because you put no efforts. And period. Theres a full stop. Period. Nothing more to talk about it. - Translator speaks to audience and audience starts laughing. What happens asks GR? Translator: I’ve just explained to the people that I’m not completely fresh today. Rimpoche laughs. I don’t blame you. Thank you .

GR: So the reason why we need to work, why sleeping or remaining high didn’t work because of the cause of the pain.

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What created this pain? So, this morning while I’m eating my breakfast, I thought, what I’m going to do today. And then the words came up on my head. It is Maitreya’s Buddha Mantra.

1:20:09.0 Tibetan: “ Nam she za nes zi tu ne pangala, de ne torza, menem temba….

So that verse came out of my head, if you don’t understand don’t worry that is Tibetan. The verse says: If you are sick you have to recognize the illness. So I thought it is great today, I am diabetic. That’s what I thought. I’m sharing my thoughts. And if I don’t know I am a diabetic, right if I don’t have the acknowledgement of diabetes. Let’s say 20 years before or 40, 50 years before I don’t know anything about diabetes. So I can not acknowledge that I am a diabetic. So by not acknowledging that I am diabetic I can not take care of myself. At least not eat sugar. Right? So the most important thing becomes, [1:21:57.9 nam me zhezhe as the Buddhist Tantra said], the Illness has to be recognized. So which means the purpose of the 1st Noble Truth, talking about Suffering is, Buddha keeps on talking all the time about suffering, is not to make people frightened, not to threatened, nor it makes life miserable but it is simple acknowledgment.

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The acknowledgement here means overcoming the denial. So if you do so you can take care of.

If you don’t you can’t take care of. Let’s say if I keep on saying, how can I be diabetic, I’m not a diabetic, you are crazy Doctor. You are crazy you are crazy I’m not diabetic. If I keep on denying and eating sugar all the time I will die. I could do that too! Right. But he consequences will be on me. So that’s the reason why acknowledgment. The purpose of introducing the 1st Noble Truth is to acknowledge. Nothing more than acknowledge. To 1:24:24.7 [don’t understand the word.i think he says it in tibetan, .,] to recognize. To acknowledge. So if that is acknowledge it, the 2nd quest..audio cuts off.