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On this recording there is a Dutch translator. Every translation is marked with a DT and a time stamp.

Rimpoche: Up to the Tara. Tara in turn pulls huge amount of, of energies stream to ourself. Particular, in essence, it is the energy of elements, plus quality of Tara and dissolves to ourself, rejuvenate our elements within ourself. Our body, physical body restrengthening, and become the perfect human body so we can achieve ultimate enlightenment level. DT 0:00:44.6

Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha is sung.

Well you have to think that the collection of the energies, etc., completed all your problems been cleared and become healthy, perfect and spiritually developed. Individual better character, [inaudible 0:11:34.5] with all sorts of enlightened quality. DT 0:11:39.6 By constantly practicing the path of Noble Tara, may I

{All attendees join in} seeing signs of premature death, may I be a vessel worthy to have a vision of Tara or receive the powerful blessings of immortality. By this virtue may I quickly obtain the essence of Noble Tara and secure every being without exception in that state.

Rimpoche: K, that's that. I'm sorry I'm fifteen minutes over, but that's what you can do if you want to do everyday.

So now the second session on the practice. I think we have to begin the, from the beginning again, because every time, because, um, we forget. But we don't have to do three times, just go straight. Maybe you can say in Dutch now, because we said in the morning in English. That's close to it, not three times.

{Dutch audience recites Tara prayers.}

Rimpoche: Now, the next will be, um, light getting out of the Tara's body or the heart level or Tara's body and this time no liquid, it's only light. Sort of light getting out of Tara's, little difficult, how to describe or what. So the light coming out of Tara's body and dissolving to the individual, right? Make it this way. Dissolving through the individual and light inside the individual purifies all our own, or purify, purify. Purification I was talking last night. We stopped there right? So, that is the offering part only, but we can't jump that fast, ok. So I have to go back to that puri, making offerings, that's the light offerings, right? 0:21:29.5 LIght offerings. Offerings at the, we are talking on [inaudible 0:21:36.3] [mutters to self]

{Speaks in Tibetan.}

So when you're making the seven lamp [limb? 0:22:09.7] or seven branch offerings or accumulation of merit. So we're in the middle of that. So middle of that, we are talking about the purification, that's right. Now I know. DT 0:22:24.8

Where the, where we, the guilt business come out of this purification business. DT 0:22:39.5 Ok, now the question really rises. Is there any negativity which you cannot be purified? DT 0:22:52.5 The Buddha gives the answer to that saying NOT, not at all. DT 0:23:03.8 And he had demonstrated this guy who killed 999 human beings called Angulimala and that is the Buddha's living proof. DT0:23:19.7 So then after Buddha throw out the lineage, there had been number of different purifcations done by different people. DT 0:23:51.5 Such as, such as, look at India, the Naropas went through hard time with the Tilopa. DT 0:24:11.4

And Marpa's difficulties with Naropa. DT 0:24:25.1 And Milarepa's hardship with the Marpa is known. DT 0:24:37.9 The reasons why the Milarepa has to do, go through hardship, because Milarepa was black magician before. DT 0:24:49.6 By the insistence of his own mother, DT 0:24:59.3, and so the Milarepa, Milarepa has to involved in black magic and killed like 30 some odd people I think. I don't remember the number exactly. DT 0:25:13.0 By doing black magic. I forget what happened. Milarepa did some kind of black magic and his uncle's house was having marriage, you people, you people read that right? The uncle's house, they're having some kind of marriage. Uncle and Auntie's house. And so they, their house collapsed and everybody got killed or something like that. It's reminding me this Oklahoma incident anyway. DT 0:25:55.3

The Milarepa had the black magic. The Oklahoma has the material explosion things, I believe. DT 0:26:23.8 You know I was listening last night on the CNN and they are saying it's because of Waco incident. {Translator: Waco?} Waco, Texas. {Translator: It's the name of a sect.} No, the name of the sect is called Davidian something. It's the place. The place, right, you know, two, a few years ago the American police went and burned everybody out. {murmuring} Probably you don't know it. So anyway, so, so whatever it is, you know. So like that. Milarepa did a lot of black magic on that. DT 0:27:28.4

And when Milarepa regretted what he had done, when he wanted to achieve something, he goes and finally goes and sees Marpa. DT 0:27:40.3 And Marpa realized that Milarepa needs to be purified of his negativites, the killing negativities of 30-40 people. It is 30, 40 people right? 34 or something the number. DT 0:27:55.4 Is there Dutch translation of Milarepa's biography now? There is. So there's a Dutch translation, not only English, so you know that. I think the number is 34 if I'm not making mistake. 34 people been killed. DT 0:28:20.3 The revenge is a problem. The mother wanted revenge. DT 0:28:32.1 Father died early. DT 0:28:38.5 So normally, normally instead of father leaving his wealth to the mother, left with Angula and Auntie to take care of the kids and the family. DT 0:28:50.6 And Angula and Auntie took total care of everything. {laugher} DT 0:29:01.4 And so the Milarepa and his mother had great hardship. DT 0:29:11.5 So the mother wanted revenge! DT 0:29:17.1 Sending her child to all different black magic learnings. DT 0:29:22.8 Things are coming around my head. Finally when the house collapsed she had one old dirty cloth or something. Put it on the stick and shouted from the roof or something. In old Tibetan primitive, uh, nomadic type of thing, you know, when they have fight, whoever wins they put a flag on the top and shout and scream. So she doesn't have any piece of clothes to put it up so go to old dirty, torn cloth and put that on the stick and started shouting, "I am taking revenge!." DT 0:30:08.9

That makes the FBI's job easier. {laughter} DT 0:30:49.6 So you don't have to go and search, you know. DT 0:30:55.4 So anyway, so Milarepa been able to purify and today we can see in Milarepa one of those greatest masters in the lineage accepted by all different Tibetan schools. But only the Kagyu school, but the Nyingma, Sakya, Gelugpa, everybody accepted Milarepa. Who doesn't accept Milarepa? DT 0:31:20.6

So become such a great person even after killing 34 people. I think the number is 34, I'm not sure. DT 0:31:46.4 So they've been able to purify, that's my main point. DT 0:32:28.5 Then we're looking at the Kadampa tradition. Both the Kadampa [inaudible 0:32:40.4] , the new Kadampas and old Kadampa traditions. You see all of those. Great many teachers like in the during, the earlier Kadampa period, the older Kadampa period, like Dromtonpa Rimpoche, [0:32:55.4 Jowo Drom?] who was the disciple of Atisha. And Drom Rimpoche. DT 0:33:04.7 [In the order ? 0:33:14.9] of new Kadampa there you can see the great difficulities [name? 0:33:23.5] that who is the nephew of [name? 0:33:31.7] who's a well-known disciple of Tsongkhapa, was a quite a well, punished by Khedrup Je. One of the Tsongkhapa's disciples Khedrup Je [name? 0:33:46.5] had lot of hard time. DT 0:33:49.7

And then there are like sweeping the floor, cleaning the house, cleaning the temple, making offerings, have done by so many great masters, even today late ages. Late ages. DT 0:34:22.4 If you read Pabongkha's Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, will also mention there that all these Dalai Lamas who after 50 Dalai Lama, all the Dalai Lamas are like the total head of Tibet, both temporal and spiritual. Which really means that both church and state combined together had total power. If you look in spiritual and temporal head, you look like that will looks very nice and wonderful there. But if you look from another way there is somebody who has all the powers in hand. Both the church and the state together. That's what it means, temporal and spiritual. DT 0:35:33.2 But if you look in that book, it says, if you look in those Tibetan government there's a treasure box you'll find brooms that used by the each Dalai Lama to clean the, to sweep the floor, and the broom's wrapped in brocade or something. I'm sure you people read it. Should be in the Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. DT 0:36:18.1 So like 13 or 14 Dalai Lamas. DT 0:36:32.4 And so the person who had both, you know, church and state power together doesn't have to sweep his floor. DT 0:36:43.7 But the reason why they did, the brooms are so short, and after the end, it is for purification. DT 0:36:55.7 And if you look in Tibet today, even [inaudible? 0:37:06.1] there's a guys comes from a distance far, red far east Tibet, to all the way to the center Tibet by prostrating on the road. You've seen them in videos. You have seen them in photos. You've seen them in magazines. DT 0:37:22.3 Not only they prostrated on the road this way, but road on this way you know? DT 0:37:39.3 All the way from Amdo somewhere up to center Tibet. Took three or four years, maybe five years. DT 0:37:54.5 And you see lot of those circumambulations going on in Lhasa and lot of people who are doing circumambulations, prostrations, circumambulations, just walking around. DT 0:38:14.3 And in front of the center temple people are prostrating day and night. DT 0:38:25.0 And so as Bodhgaya in India. DT 0:38:31.6 I thought I will do once 100,000 prostrations in Bodhgaya. I think I might have done 10 or 15 and then I stopped. {laughter} DT 0:38:44.8 So anyway, all of them is for purification. DT 0:38:59.2 The main point is, what are you trying to purify? DT 0:39:06.8 Not your body fats. DT 0:39:13.9 What it's not for your diabetes or high blood pressure. DT 0:39:21.9 It's not. DT 0:39:25.7 And they're trying to purify something else. DT 0:39:29.5 I know they try to wash their body either you know. With sweat. DT 0:39:35.7 Tibetans don't take a bath. They sweat a lot. DT 0:39:41.6 But, somebody told me they don't smell. Who told me yesterday or day before yesterday, somebody told me. DT 0:39:51.4 Who told me? You. Here you go. {Someone in audience speaks.} {laughter} Oh no [inaudible ? 0:40:04.3] there. What with the summer? It's a big problem. That means you only go where Tibetans are only winter. Just joking. So anyway, so the whole purpose is they try to purify negativities. DT 0:40:27.4 So that means everybody from Buddha onwards cannot be wrong. DT 0:40:38.2 So there must be a way to purify. DT 0:40:47.4 So what do they purify? DT 0:40:56.1 Their own negative deeds. DT 0:40:59.4 And you don't want to purify positive deeds. DT 0:41:04.6 Because you try to build that up. DT 0:41:08.3 So now you going to purify any neutral thing. DT 0:41:15.1 So what else left? DT0:41:18.4 Nothing, right? Any existence in this world is either positive or negative or neutral. You won't have anything else besides that. Show me one single. No one can show me that. DT 0:41:32.9 So therefore the negativities can be purified. DT 0:41:42.6 And if one negativity can purify, the others can definitely be purified. Why not? DT 0:41:51.8 If one person knows how to speak, the other person will know how to speak too, unless you're dumb. DT 0:42:01.7 If one person has the right, the other person will have the same right. DT 0:42:14.1 Unless you're not citizen. DT 0:42:17.8 But the thing is, you know really, it indicates the negativities can be purified. DT 0:42:27.5 So therefore, anything whatever you do wrong, you don't have to feel stuck. Leave back to the stuck business. DT 0:42:41.6 The principle of the purification is also one, two things. DT 0:42:54.8 To compensate whatever bad thing you did. DT 0:43:09.7 And to apply wisdom. DT 0:43:15.9 These are really the two main points. DT 0:43:21.3 To apply wisdom is the real truth part of it. DT 0:43:28.9 And that is we're talking about the emptiness. DT 0:43:36.7 And which we don't really get it at this level. DT 0:43:42.6 So to understand that better we look at the impermanence. DT 0:43:49.4 Impermanence, that means changing. DT 0:43:56.2 So the negative can change. DT 0:44:01.3 So that's the positive can change too. Don't think the negatives the only can become good and the positives always remain locked, sealed, confined in the safe box of bank. DT 0:44:18.6

It also change. DT 0:44:32.9 It is the principle of impermanence. DT 0:44:36.2 But the negative does not become a positive. Positive does not become negative. I said change, but doesn't mean that will become that way. DT 0:44:50.4 So what happened is value and power of the negativity loses. DT 0:45:03.1 And so does the value of positivity loses, so it becomes something else. DT 0:45:12.9 It's like sleep. DT 0:45:21.1 The sleep itself is neither positive nor negative. DT 0:45:27.0 It is a functioning, a mental functioning of human activity. DT 0:45:37.2 Mental, physical, both. DT 0:45:42.6 I think I should say, psychophysical, psychophysical, no, physiological and psychological, yeah. DT 0:45:54.0 Psychophysical I think is the right word. DT 0:45:57.8 Yeah, but it is neither positve nor negative. DT 0:46:05.6 But it can become positve. It can become negative. DT 0:46:12.1 And like that, everything you have is changeable. DT 0:46:19.1 So the nature of the negative does not become positive. DT 0:46:25.6 But the value and the power of the negative loses and then you can gain positive. DT 0:46:35.1 And can become positive with other process. DT 0:46:48.6 And that's what I mean it can change, but don't think of the negative becomes BUM and changed and becomes positive, I don't think so. DT 0:47:01.0 So that is very important point. DT 0:47:09.3 So have I convinced those who think there's guilt? DT 0:47:14.4 Hmm? He's very sweet. Alfred. He say, "Yeah, yeah." There must be two reasons. Either he wants me to go through and go through and do some, go through the schedule to work or I thought it's end of discussion. Or maybe that's the maximum you can get out, whatever the thought may be. He's kind of accepting. DT: You'd better leave Alfred.

Rimpoche: You want to say something? Alfred: No. Rimpoche: How about you? So nobody wants to talk to me, so maybe I'd better go now. {laughter} Ok, so now where and how you purify? DT 0:48:20.1 The first and foremost problem that we face is the denial. DT 0:48:30.5 This is funny, huh? Extreme in the west. Either you deny completely or you feel guilty about it. You know people are scared of feeling guilty so they refuse to accept, acknowledge. It's time to take a little sort of shelter, try to hide, you know. Sort of, the denial is the one. DT 0:49:00.0 The denial is a big deal around here. I don't know, but not so much in Netherlands, but in the west in general, yeah. DT 0:49:16.9 A lot of people will tell you and you can see it. They're very angry. But they keep on, "Look, "I'm not angry." But it is my duty to tell, or it is the difficulty I face. You know with this big blah, blah business will come. But the big statement comes ahead. "I'm not angry, but bum bum bum bum bum." DT 0:49:44.9 Or you say I don't particularly care, but this is the situation, you know. DT 0:50:08.3 So which is actually you are denying. Denying your anger. Denying your attachment. Deny your hatred. DT 0:50:29.3

Right? People said that. It's none of my business, but you shouldn't do this, this, this. DT 0:50:43.4 Which means you're denying the attachment. DT 0:50:53.6 So, things like that, people do all the time. DT 0:50:59.3 So it serves very good purpose for the negativity. DT 0:51:06.4 The shelter for the negativities and number one shelter is the denial. DT 0:51:21.8 Because if you keep on denying, you're not going to work with that. DT 0:51:31.7 But at the same time it's bothering you all the time. DT 0:51:40.5 It's there behind your mind. It's back of your mind somewhere. You keep on denying, but it's there. It pops up little bit here and there. DT 0:51:51.4 Maybe it's better than feeling guilty about it. DT 0:51:59.9 I don't know. DT 0:52:05.2 But where and how you purify, you cannot deny. DT 0:52:10.5 The recognition. DT 0:52:21.4 The recognize I am angry. DT 0:52:27.9 Recognize I have a problem. DT 0:52:34. Recognize I'm attached. DT 0:52:39.0 Recognize I'm jealous. DT 0:52:43.8 Don't say I'm not jealous, but. {laughs} DT 0:52:49.7 So recognition is number one. DT 0:52:56.4 Nothing can ever work without giving recognition. DT 0:53:04.2 The Buddha says the direct antidote of anger is patience. DT 0:53:13.9 But patience never work against anger of yours on I'm telling you recognize you have anger. DT 0:53:29.3 To help reduce attachment Buddha recommend meditation on impermanence. DT 0:53:43.4 But, I don't think that the impermanence meditation can immediately affect. It's not easy to affect the attachment without giving a recognition plus appreciation. DT 0:54:10.6 So, for purifying anything, first you have to see what you're going to purify. DT 0:54:24.9 So recognize. DT 0:54:32.5 This is the first "R." DT 0:54:41.4 The second "R" is regret. DT 0:54:58.2 Because if you do not regret, you want, there's no reason why you have to purify anything. DT 0:55:18.5 So the recognition of it and regretting, both of them have reduced lot of power of anger or whatever it is. DT 0:55:35.0 And do this exercise with yourself and find out within you how it works. Buddhist two R's. DT 0:55:50.1 Just shut your down and sit by yourself and think about it and if don't have room to shut the door, go to the bathroom and think about it. DT 0:56:09.6 And you will know yourself. DT 0:56:23.0 These things can experience by ourself. DT 0:56:32.5 So you have to better grasp than that of reading or telling you. DT 0:56:41.0 My job as a spiritual friend is here to point it out and inform you. DT 0:56:54.4 Your job as a practitioner is to try to feel it and experience it. DT 0:57:06.2 And that is how you work. DT 0:57:12.0 Otherwise you must be wondering how we work. That's how we work. DT 0:57:18.9 This is one of them. Take this two "R" and go to the bathroom. So find out if you're angry. DT 0:57:36.7

OK. Now. Now there's a third "R" too. DT 0:57:53.6 Do you remember what the third "R" is? {Audience responds.} Repentance is a big heavy Christian word. {murmuring} What? What did they say? It's a Rolls Royce. Is that Rolls Royce? Yeah, I know. {laughter} It goes only, no it goes through the Rajneesh only. Rolls Royce goes through Rajneesh. You know Rajneesh? You never heard Rajneesh? Bhagwan Rajneesh. Rolls Royce goes there. {laughter} Non reputation. DT 0:59:14.0 Non reputation. DT 0:59:25.6 And then antidote there's some, some kind of R there. Oh repair, you're right, I forget that. Repair. DT 0:59:42.8 Redirect. I think it's redirect, isn't it? {Audience responds.} Yeah, but I think it's redirect. I think might have changed it to redirect. So probably redirect. It's alright to repair, but repair will give you funny sense of broken bicycle you want to repair, but I think it's redirect your emotions. DT 1:00:37.5 So with the four "Rs." Did you get it? Or is it become joke? DT 1:00:59.7

So there's no Rolls Royce here. Maybe after four "Rs" it may become Rolls Royce. After four "Rs" it may become Rolls Royce. {Audience: Why?} Why. It's become perfect, good, big, wonderful, luxurious one. DT 1:01:40.1 OK, so that is it. What did you say? Huh? {DT: I was explaining the image of the Rolls Royce. Things are rolling like a Rolls Royce then.} OK. Yeah and then it rolls like a Rolls Royce. That's right, yeah. Alright.

{Speaks in Tibetan.} So what you really purified all your negativities. And where and how you purify is regret, redirect, and uh, recognize and by recognizing, what you do, you substitute. You do something, right? By recognizing. By recognizing I have done something wrong. So you convince it. So what do you convince it? If it's an enlightened one, you take refuge. If it's a non-enlightened one, you meditate love compassion. And that is how you recognize. Not only you recognize you do something wrong and by recognizing, you do something for the other one too. DT 1:03:21.9 This morning's chat that I ran over by drunken driving, is another thing which you really can do is, generating great compassion over there. DT 1:04:10.5 And generating compassion to itself is doing something. DT 1:04:27.4 It's not that you can do nothing. DT 1:04:35.5 So something, whatever you do, you don't have to restore in the old level of whatever it is. DT 1:04:44.8 The idea of "I will not be able to bring it back" is extremely basic the wrong idea. DT 1:04:57.8 A, it is wrong idea because whatever you can do is not unnecessarily bring the same old level. DT 1:05:10.0 B, it's not true that you cannot bring back. DT 1:05:19.8 You can bring it back with the reincarnation. DT 1:05:28.6 And you may not be able to bring it back same old looking, with the same old parents, same old age, no. DT 1:05:38.4 But you can bring it the same person back with more brighter, more younger, more beauty, more handsome, more whatever. DT 1:05:54.1 And they're all possible. DT 1:06:02.3 If you're going to shut your eyes on that, then it's your choice. DT 1:06:08.3 So that is the recognition. DT 1:06:13.9 And um, then non reputation Is if you have [still?] regret or not you're not going to die again. If you die, but you're not going to drink again. That is there what it is. DT 1:06:26.8 And redirect. Is the energy in the negative way whatever you wanted in there is by regretting and you do a positiveness is the redirect. 1:06:51.4 The action, not energy, sorry. The action. DT 1:06:56.3 So when you redirecting it, redirecting your action you can do something. DT 1:07:12.1 But if you're going to think it's never good enough, that's also not right. Sometimes it can be far better. DT 1:07:25.2 But because if you're going to think it is only what you can see it under direct your eye, that is only limited to the birth to death inbetween period. But if you take little bit bigger, bigger view, a little bit of opening mind, little bit of opening, you can do a lot. DT 1:07:50.1

The other day I met a very, very hard core, scientific doctor. I forgot his name. Normal something [Sherwin B. Nuland] who wrote the book called How We Die. DT 1:08:23.7 And he told me. I understand he said, "Out of all the religions, the Buddhism explains very close to scientific explanation." DT 1:08:42.1 He told me I do understand the concept of reincarnation. DT 1:09:00.8 He said, "I don't accept." DT 1:09:06.2 He also said, "I do get instance where I cannot explain anything." DT 1:09:15.1 He said, "I seen people with the memory. I see the memories coming." He said, "I can read it. I can talk to. I can get through with the some kind of very important, super-sophisticated machine." "I can see it," he said. "But I cannot explain." DT 1:09:36.0 And he says until I have explanation, I'm not going to accept. {laughter} DT 1:09:50.5 He said this is scientific principle. DT 1:09:55.9 And then he said, "I'm not going to accept bardo until I meet somebody who comes back and shakes hands with me." {laughter} DT 1:10:05.1 So he said, "So far I haven't met anybody to come in there from bardo, so therefore I do not accept that concept." DT 1:10:18.9 But then he said, "I have a lot of incidence." And he said, "I consider them as incidents, because if I try to repeat same thing to another person, doesn't work." Exactly, that's what he told me. DT 1:10:37.0 So that's that. DT 1:10:48.8 What did I say this for? {DT: reincarnation?} Oh, reincarnation, yeah. So, that's right. And so, so, so I think we would like to be open minded person. So should look in that direction. Even the very rigid scientist will also now looking in that direction. DT 1:11:16.6 And Dr. [Yatwah?] was telling us the day before yesterday or yesterday they found certain genes that probably have permanent, what you know, immortality, whatever that is. Permanent living and which I would not be surprised because Buddha said it can definitely be found. DT 1:11:47.9 Right, you said that, right? {Audience responds.} That's right. So this can definitely go on. DT 1:12:16.1 {Audience responds.} Where Buddha said is. Whatever is spiritually possible, can also be achieved materially. DT 1:12:48.7 So spiritually it is possible to extend one's life to 2 to 300 years. It has been very many incidents there. DT 1:13:04.3 So it is scientifically they will definitely find. DT 1:13:13.6 Or whether it is immortality or not, but. DT 1:13:28.0 But prolonging you go. Life prolonging will go. DT 1:13:34.4 Anyway, so what did I say that now?

Yeah, reincarnation, yeah. So. Purification. Antidote action is the redirecting. Do something. Do something positive. DT 1:13:58.0 Meditating on emptiness and seeing emptiness is considered one of the best. DT 1:14:14.5 Seeing emptiness. DT 1:14:21.1 They used to call that, it is one medicine which destroy a hundred different illnesses. DT 1:14:31.2 Then meditating and developing bodhimind. Not only meditating, but developing bodhimind is the second best. DT 1:14:44.0 Shantideva's in the, uh sorry, Bodhisattvacharyavatara. It says, {speaks Tibetan.} So, bodhimind has tremendous amount of purifying any negativities. Shantideva said such a powerful negativity, what action can destroy it beside great bodhimind? DT 1:15:27.6 Then like, you know, saying mantras and doing prostrations and doing circumambulations, all these things, are the class below that. DT 1:15:58.3 It goes to that and saving life, generosity, etc., etc., anything whatever it is. All of them are there. DT 1:16:21.2 This is your redirecting your [action?]. DT 1:16:32.3 Then I think we explained all four now, didn't we? So with this sort of power, application of four power, no matter if you do it strongly and consistently, with enthusiasm, apply six paramitas on that. Because you need consistent, you need patience. You do need discipline. You have to be generous. You have to concentrate. You have to apply wisdom, so the four powers with the six perfections will work. DT 1:17:22.0 So, this is the not the traditional way of talking about it. Traditionally, we talk six paramitas over there and application of four powers here. But if you really look carefully, this is how you work. It is a part of your daily life. So even for purification, you apply six paramitas here. DT 1:18:06.9 People may say six paramita is the bodhisattva activity; purification is even available in Hinayana and all this and that. But you don't have to worry about it. That is how you apply in your life. DT 1:18:35.3 One good thing in Buddhism and that of Tibetan Buddhism, it is applicable to everybody's life. It's not in this [inaudible?1:18:58.4] DT 1:18:59.0

Ok, and then the next is rejoice. DT 1:19:17.4 {speaks Tibetan} So, rejoice is the direct antidote against. Rejoice is redirecting negative energy of jealous. DT 1:19:38.0 Right? The jealous will tell you, you don't appreciate. DT 1:19:51.8 This is funny. Appreciation is one very important thing in one's life. DT 1:20:00.9 It is life. It is important to your spiritual work. DT 1:20:08.3 It is important for your mending daily work, family life. DT 1:20:15.5 It is important between the parents and the children. DT 1:20:22.5 It is important between the husband and wife. DT 1:20:27.8 And it is important between girlfriend and boyfriend. DT 1:20:33.6 And it is important between friends. DT 1:20:37.2 Even you're not girlfriend or boyfriend, just friends. DT 1:20:40.7 But we are happy to patterns with not let you appreciate and would let you compete and become a control issue and competition and um, we see everyday. You know, we see. Then you see husbands doesn't like their wives more capable than themself. And sometimes wives don't like the husbands more capable than themself. They're all {laughs} they do that you know. DT 1:21:15.4 And you want do better than your friend. DT 1:21:37.6 You want to have a more superior and better quality things than your friends has, instead of appreciating what they have. DT 1:21:49.1 If you watch, this is what is mean our habitual patterns. DT 1:21:59.5 Instead of that, if you appreciate it. DT 1:22:07.2 It is wonderful that my wife can work better than me and brings more money and more helpful. DT 1:22:17.0 And it is wonderful that my husband can work better and bring more money than I do. DT 1:22:30.0 So there is peace in the house. DT 1:22:36.6 Already. Right? So half the problem is solved. DT 1:22:42.9 In the house. DT 1:22:46.8 {laughter}

Likewise, everywhere. DT 1:22:56.1 So the, the concept of openness, concept of appreciation, the concept of cooperation is much more important and valuable in people's life than jealous and competition. DT 1:23:23.8 But if you use the competition to bring a better concept and that if you know where to cut it, then it might not be bad. DT 1:23:44.0 So from the Buddhist point of view, what Buddha said, is {speaks Tibetan} and Buddha says it is the one of the best way to achieve, accumulate, to, to accumulate merit. You don't have to work, you appreciate, you get the double the benefit. DT 1:24:18.3 True. DT 1:24:31.2 So, there is a risk free, a profitable investment. DT 1:24:40.6 And costs free too. DT 1:24:48.1 Really true, but we don't do it. DT 1:24:52.9 But we want to, we want to do a business which all of us have a lot of risk and lot of difficulties. DT 1:24:59.9 Here is something you can do very easily. This is spiritual business. DT 1:25:08.6 Risk free. Free investment. [Every year.?] DT 1:25:21.7 Ok, so that is the rejoice. DT 1:25:27.5 So see how works in life and we're making this as offering. Way and how I live my life: jealous-free, appreciation life. This is the wonderful way I offer this to the great Mother Tara and Buddha. DT 1:25:49.6 And you're not offering your life there, but you're offering way and how I conduct my life which they will appreciate. They will enjoy seeing it. That's how we make offerings in that way. DT 1:26:12.8 {speaks Tibetan} Then we make a request to guide and help to the beings whatever level suitable to them. DT 1:26:32.4 And the guidance always has to be suitable. DT 1:26:43.2 And you know when Buddha was alive there was one king, I forgot his name. King Bimbisara or something who killed the father, right? Bimbisara is it? Who killed his father. Whatever, I never know Sanskrit and Hindi, plus I forgot the Tibetan names. So there was a king in India during the Buddha's lifetime and DT 1:27:24.9 and this king is friend of Buddha's cousin anyway. DT 1:27:32.1 And Buddha's cousin and this prince actually, not king, prince, and they're friends and they decided the prince will kill the king and the cousin will kill the Buddha. DT 1:27:47.7 Yeah, so then they decided they will run the whole thing. Buddha's cousin will run the spiritual control issue and the prince will become king. DT 1:28:13.1 So whatever might be and this king, the prince somehow overthrew the king and arrested the king and put them in jail. Put them in jail. DT 1:28:33.1 And while in jail the king become arhat. DT 1:28:46.3 So just before he died, but the I'll make the story short. Just before he died, the king died, and the son who, prince, who is now king, had some kind of regret at what he, treatment to his father because his father, he realized his father was trying to [?] or something. DT 1:29:09.7 So, he decided to release. DT 1:29:21.9 And then all the ministers are very happy when the king decided to release the old king. DT 1:29:29.7 So they thought I'll go, I'll go. So everybody's running to release him. DT 1:29:40.2 And the king thought lot of people running on the rooftop, running down, so he thought well now they're coming to kill me. I better die before they kill me. DT 1:29:52.8 So he died. DT 1:30:03.1

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