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Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Summer Retreat

Topic White Tara

Transcriber Carol Shuford

Date 12-30-2021

0:00:00.0 [Tibetan]

0:00:10.9 Meaning that dependent arising dependent relationship are the karmic causal relationship functioning and emptiness as long as you separate them you have not got Buddha’s message.

0:00:29.6 [Tibetan]

0:01:02.1 So Tsongkapa’s very special thing is existence prove existence proved existence cleared the eternalistic problem. And empty solved the problem of nihilistic. Which looks totally opposite. Normally you should have said existence solved the nihilist and empty solved the existentialistic problem. It’s not Tsongkapa goes opposite direction. Especially for the purpose.

0:01:49.2 [Tibetan]

0:01:59.6 And so the existence will prove you the empty. That’s what I talked to you. How do we exist? And you can see you can see there’s no way you can exist independently and so and forth go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper you’ll find emptiness. And by emptiness and by seeing the emptiness ah

0:02:30.3 [Tibetan]

0:02:34.9 By seeing emptiness you don’t go too extreme nihilist because you see the existence. That’s how you solve the problem. It is the Manjushri’s gift for the mankind and that is the wisdom. I don’t know whether you got it or not got it. Ah I do not expect ah number one my message is just ah like one percent of ah one broken percent of the whatever the total message is. And I also do not expect you to understood. Ah twenty percent of what we talk about it. Maybe that’s too extreme hopefully it’s fifty percent. So that is about the emptiness the wisdom. Anyway what have we established? We have to learn something. We have to learn the wisdom is dealing in the absolute reality. We also learned that the that the the famous the Buddhist point of emptiness is not an empty. It is full of existence and we search to how we exist. By searching how we exist we’ll find how empty we are. Even you pick up a little doubt on that and a little curiosity on that it is great help.

0:04:26.1 [Tibetan]

0:04:30.1 Even you have a little doubt.

0:04:31.0 [Tibetan]

0:04:39.6 Even you raise a little doubt it will turn [tear] your samsara into pieces. That’s what it is. That is the beauty of the wisdom. Even doubt will torn the samsara into piece. Don’t and we will hope to understand better. We will hope to understand one day. To understand true emptiness not only you need the not only you require the knowledge but you also need the luck. You also need the purification. And you also need the unbroken lineage support all of them combined together then it works. Ah not by a single one of them. It doesn’t work. That’s why it is hard to understand. It is difficulty. When you get it you have done it. Really true. Really true. When you get it you have done it. But then the label of understanding will also number of understanding. Simple understanding by talking today alone you begin to think oh yeah that’s what about understanding followed by the word what you heard ah maybe something called emptiness or maybe that is true existence they said. It’s a little strange but maybe. And that is also little understanding of emptiness. And if you go a little bit deeper than that it’s a little better understanding. And then step by step it goes a little better here and there. That is the how the understanding of emptiness is. That’s how the that’s how the understanding of emptiness is built. So ultimately there will be time that you will be directly encounter emptiness as you have seen the little Jewel Heart mug here. Ha ha ha just like that and when you see it there’ll be time to you come. And it’s so important not to confuse. And ah there are a number of people totally get confused on the subject of emptiness. There’s a lot of places where you get confusion. And if you are caught in the confusion you are in trouble. It is really hard to get out. You’re in trouble.

0:07:53.5 And that’s why it is so important for the person for the looking into the emptiness. Draw it. Follow it properly carefully with every book that you can read in emptiness will not necessarily give you the true understanding of emptiness. Nor every tape that you can hear or see we can give you that. Tsongkapa did not find that emptiness easily either with great enthusiasm with great efforts. Though he’s supposed to be Manjushri’s manifestation. Not only reincarnation but manifestation of Manjushri. Almost like emanation of Manjushri. However even Tsongkapa went through tremendous hardship to find that. So it is so important to rely on reliable explanation reliable teaching. And that’s why the Kadampa tradition is considered extremely precious and important. It is simply that reason. I like to open for questions a couple of minutes. Oh my god. It’s ten to ten oooh I’m sorry. Okay you Robert.

0:09:47.2 [Robert]

0:10:24.6 Emptiness if you find in one it finds empty everywhere.

0:00:27.8 [Tibetan]

0:10:32.4 So if you find emptiness on apple you going to definitely find emptiness on ah pear as well as a human beings tables existence everywhere mind person everything. Ah though the apple emptiness is not emptiness of a human being but if you see the emptiness on apple you’ll see the emptiness in

0:10:58.2 [Tibetan]

0:11:01.5 It’s same thing. Same as compassion. But on the other hand compassion is ah ah emptiness.

0:11:09.9 [Tibetan]

0:11:11.2 So the essence of the emptiness is also essence of the wisdom is also ah compassion. The essence of the compassion also the rather the sharpness of the compassion is over the wisdom. There’s a tremendous amount of inter-link combination. It is separate to the individual from the beginning but it’s going to be drawing it together and then it works better. That’s the that is how it’s going to work. Yes Fred.

0:11:45.2[Fred]

0:11:55.9 Valid cognition yes. Yes. Then I normally give example of ah distance you see some kind of a ah a electrical pole or something and you think it is a human being coming there. And you keep on going and on the horseback and back in Tibet. Keep on going thinking that another human being coming. Don’t show up somebody else comes in between you and you say what happened to that person. He says which person? On that one over there. Oh that’s not a human being. It is an electrical pole. Oh it’s a villagers ah ah incense burner or something. Oh I see that’s not a human being. You look again and you see it’s not a human being. Though funny first thing you get valid cognition makes that difference. That’s what I’m. Yes you.

0:12:55.1 [audience]

0:13:09.2 First method to look into it well this is ah this is ah very untraditional but first look into impermanent. The gross impermanent and then look into subtle impermanent. The subtle impermanent is not an emptiness but the subtle impermanent will help you to move yourself onto the emptiness. And from that when you understand little better of the subtle impermanence then begin to look into the existence and emptiness. And that will work. That is workable solution. Huh? Yeah that’ll work. That’ll work. That worked before and it will work. It is scientific. Ha ha ha anybody can do it anywhere.

0:14:08.2 [audience]

0:14:16.0 No I didn’t say that. Lineage help.

0:14:18.8 [audience]

0:14:27.3 Purification too. Yep.

0:14:32.0 [audience]

0:15:02.7 It is science. Every human being can experience when the right condition comes. Ah what I’m talking here is lineage blessings help tremendously to get it. Purification will help. The luck will help. Without luck without purification it is difficult. Lineage’s blessings will be very helpful. I cannot say without lineage you will never see emptiness. That’s not true. Even okay now forget it. Okay. Leslie.

0:15:47.0 [ audience]

0:15:58.0 If you get in the wrong way of understanding of emptiness to then it takes time and difficulty to get you off that path and get on the right track. It is a lot ah it is a lot of additional hell of a work. Ah it’s almost like if you are a drug addict or something then you have to go through a detox program. Or you go through AA or something and then get you off the ah ah get you take you on twelve steps or something. Then on the thirteenth step you can begin to function or something. Like that it is that’s what I meant. In trouble. I don’t mean don’t think trouble as something again guilty feeling of stuck somewhere and blow it. It doesn’t. That’s also impermanent. The trouble is also impermanent. You get out of it. I’m sorry. Huh?

0:17:15.1 [audience]

0:17:17.4 Nihilism is trouble.

0:17:19.1 [audience]

0:17:23.6 As well as existentialist or something they call it. Right?

0:17:25.6 [audience: ..externalism]

0:17:34.4 All right yes lady.

0:17:36.9 [audience]

0:17:51.3 I’m not talking we’re here. Now I’m here. I’m not talking now I’m not there. I’m not talking that. That’s not my style. Ha ha ha.

0:18:02.3 Huh? [audience]

0:18:10.3 That’s right. What I’m talking about experience is you feel it. You feel it. Like if you look in the Lam Rim the first thing what you experience in Lam Rim the preciousness of human life. And when you when you understood that when you feel it and when you acknowledge that you swallow that you eat that you digest that you function that and then you begin to function the life is important and valuable. And you embrace the human life. And that’s what I mean experience. A knowledge is not an experience. Seeing what you call it experience but I’m saying that I’m experience you can’t deny that. Seeing is an experience in that way. However seeing alone I will not call it experience. Experience is something you have to feel it become a part of you and function it within you. Ah it’s not even a situation under control. It’s not an experience. Experience is something like that. That’s what I talk about. It becomes a part and parcel of your life. So what happens is and you feel a preciousness of it. You will never feel oh my life is terrible. You might have fucked up your life. You might have fucked your life. However your life is life is valuable and important and it it is precious. You have to embrace that. By embracing it you cannot fuck both. I’m sorry for using F -word. But that’s the reality. Excuse my F-words. Okay. So that’s what it is and that’s automatically you protect yourself. That you grab yourself. Nobody has to tell you. Nobody has to show you. You get it. You don’t forget. You don’t lose your awareness. That’s called experience. Okay? Sir. Chris. Sir Chris. You your given knight. What’s it called? Knighted. Knighthood. So Chris yeah.

0:21:08.0 [audience]

0:21:28.5 There’s a big hole down there under the emptiness and then go and boom down there.

0:21:34.7 [Chris]

0:21:57.9 Interesting question. Ah number one the understanding of the emptiness what I understood is it is a very gradual process. First you understand through hearing. Then through analyzing. Whatever you have understood through hearing is improved by analyzing. Which is improved by meditating. And finally so you find then you get some kind of rough emptiness. And then that’s going to refined and more refined and more refined and more refined. And finally ah direct ah cognition is the word right? Perception. Understanding. Seeing of emptiness. And experience what physical or mental experience what you have is I believe I have no idea but what I understood and believe is some kind of huge ah a void. And huge unstable instability. Even the walls move walk through all sorts of things and things like that. But that doesn’t last very long. And actually when you really see the direct emptiness it’s you are on the third path of the third path of ah meditation level. Third path divided into preliminary and actual and conclusion part of it so the actual part. At that moment at that particular period you don’t have any other at all. You almost merge yourself into that greater voidness. You probably see nothing feel nothing no eye no nose no tongue no hair no curse no sir and all this and but but then you need a little adaptation orientation and gets out and functions as normal. And ah I don’t know whether I’ve answered your question or not.

0:24:47.1 I think something like that manner it happens. But at this moment it might not be reality for us even relevant for us. No matter whatever you think oh I’m experiencing great emptiness. It is all great. Number of people told me I’ve experienced clear light. And I said how is it? Oh it’s like a star in the night. Oh great wonderful good good experience wonderful wonderful. That’s what I say. You know what I think? Bullshit. [laughter]. So excuse my language again. But that’s what it is. And similarly and any any one of us we feel we have this experience that experience at this moment nothing but the devotion. So keep it in mind. You don’t want to go under the delusion control. Be on the ground. Move carefully. You’ll encounter with emptiness. Each and everyone of us as a matter of fact. It does not apply to Chris only. Okay? So the situation will be different then okay. And I better call it good luck and ah good night both. Yeah. And ah good luck for getting emptiness. That’s what it means. And ah and ah we have to do the dedication on that little booklet. What page is it? Eight in Tibetan right? Okay. Page eight are you there everybody on page eight that ah booklet page eight. Are you there? Okay.

0:27:02.1 [Rimpoche leads dedication in Tibetan]

0:28:31.5 [Rimpoche speaking privately]

0:29:32.2 Good morning everybody. And ah now we decided to stick with the Tara. And so we’ll be looking here. And ah if you look at the first taking refuge and generating bodhimind. Generating bodhimind part of it as I sort of I came to the point of ah generating ah love and compassion. And then being into the point that it is ultimate love and compassion. And then also also seeking the need relevant of the relevant of the need of buddhahood enlightened level. And that is the level I think I sort of left it there and ah so what I did not do is sort of cement it there and saying hey this is called bodhimind. And also that’s I think that’s where I left it last two days. Am I right or wrong? I don’t get any response from anybody but probably ah right? Right? Padma said yes and Mike. That’s where I left it right?

0:31:23.1 [audience]

0:31:29.4 Yeah that is the activities after generating bodhimind. But before that I have ah love compassion and ah then I said that even talked about the special mind taking personal responsibility. So what I left it then I introduced the relevancies of the enlightenment is why we need it. And I think I left it there and then went over to the paramitas. Should have been. Jonathan what is it?

0:32:06.9 [audience]

0:32:10.2 That’s right I left a gap in between and didn’t cement it. So let’s do the little cementing. So so that’s why this will join it. With that special mind ah those of you who have come new today but many of you know what we are talking about it. Jada does not need any more. Ah anymore refreshing. Nor does Bruce or what’s her name Esa. No I’m saying you don’t need it refreshing and so. So what does Nikki? What does Nikki? There are couple of people who’d like to take refuge too. Ah so I’m just going to repeat a little bit of the refuge business before I cement it in. Especially we would like to have the the younger generation people should be .. take one. Okay so when you look at it and you will see right at the beginning I take refuge in Buddha dharma and sangha until enlightenment. Right? So here what we’re talking about is a basic refuge. I believe sort of the doorway whether you are Buddhist or non-Buddhist is whether you have taken refuge to Buddha dharma and sangha or not. That’s the doorway right? You know about that don’t you. And so ah then taking refuge means basically refuge to Buddha to dharma or in Buddha in dharma in sangha. Ah when you talk about the Buddha basically two things the historical Buddha which is sort of Shakyamuni Buddha represents all historical Buddha and also buddha within the individual. So what is relevant is my own future buddha is more important to me then even then that of Shakyamuni Buddha historical thing. Historical thing is historical thing twenty-five hundred years ago we are vey grateful and wonderful and all of that. But what we need is ah that buddha within me has to become fully enlightened buddha.

0:35:30.2 And so making a connection to make open the seed within you to build yourself up and link with the historical Buddha. Seek protection seek guidance and seek connection and that’s what and then rely on is the actually the taking refuge to Buddha basically. I hope you don’t mind I’m just repeating that. But it’s always good to hear again and again ha ha ha. At the same time taking refuge to dharma is also so ah external dharma and internal dharma. Internal dharma is your own developments your own developments. Are you okay sitting there do you see me Greg Greg? Why don’t you move up here next to ah to next to Supa or something. I I if you want both of you move that’s fine but if you have to get out you better get out other side rather than going through here. The the I’m talking to you okay. Because I I’m not supposed to separate husband and wife right? Ha ha ha I’m just empty seats here so anyway so dharma is ah if they don’t if they do want to sit separately I’m not saying anything here either. And ah so so dharma is ah normally if you ask what is dharma they tell you the teaching is dharma the book is dharma the something like that. It is the relative dharma.

0:37:25.3 [Tibetan] If I said some thing and I don’t said it was right then otherwise people said why are you talking about it? Because everybody says in books and in teachings and then here this fellow saying that. It’s Vasubantu and the other dharma says

0:37:42.5 [Tibetan]

0:37:47.6 So it is the the teaching oral part of the ah the dharma and the spiritual ah development development part of the dharma. The most important dharma is the development dharma dharma with in you. You get it? What is dharma within you? That is the question. What is dharma within you is any negativities let’s say if you wanted kill some insects or something. If you wanted to kill a fly fly fly a dead one that we had yesterday. Ants you know I didn’t realize I went in the boat and suddenly it’s cold and oww I went like that and an ant dropped. I tried to get it back but I couldn’t and the boats going like this the kayak going. I got hold somehow I couldn’t get it. So anyway that is the that is thing. And then what you do all these questions. So we feel like probably you wanted to kill some this mosquito mosquito right? Mosquito really comes and mosquito bites in here. And I really like to get it you know. So you like to get it and smash it out. And then you think about it. Well yeah that little mosquito has what does most precious for that mosquito has? Is the life as we do. So is it worth for us to take that. Or the bed bugs. You have the bed bugs. Do you have the bed bugs? You do. Okay. But the bed bugs

0:39:45.5[audience]

0:39:47.7 Or the flea you know the flea that jump and get them at night in your bed. And so it started eating religiously. You want to fall sleep and you say oww getting it again. First you think you put it out. Second time again you push it and third time you got so upset and get up and turned the lights on or use the torch light and find the flea wherever it is and catch it. And then you try to you know sort of before you just even smack it you try to rub it give it little more more punishment because it didn’t let me sleep the whole night. You know and you’re a little bit angry and you torture a little bit and finally the flea dies and get a little blood out and you say hmmm now you get it. You deserve it. So when you get that sort of thing what happening within that mind is you got a motivation called anger which irritated get a little more stronger and get a little angry and then you go to action torturing that being there and finally you’re taking the life of that little one and then you see the blood and you feel happy about it. It makes the perfect killing karma. Perfect. The cause the motivation is the anger. Action you squeeze and do all this and you do have the action. And then you do finally you kill and you’re satisfied and that makes cause action and completion. Perfect perfect the good killing karma. It is bad karma but it is perfect. Cause is perfect. Action is perfect. And result is satisfied. It is perfect. But even one of them is missing.

0:41:50.2 You’re not that angry. Ah you accidentally something happens and you get kill. And you’re not really satisfied that much of dying or killing and just sort of happens to die. So when that happens you do have the killing karma but not perfect killing karma. There’s some that karma has weaknesses. The motivation is not strong enough. It is killing karma no doubt about it but the motivation is not as strong enough. There’s not sort of torturing action is not the very much there. And there is no satisfaction at the end you say I’m sorry. You know ah so so sort of thing it is a weak karma. You know the weakness and the strong of the negativity depends on the motivation and action and the conclusion level. That’s what happens. This is what we deal with everyday life. That’s what it is. It is same thing it’s the same thing the killings are like that I mean we use the flea and all this as an example but that’s exactly what it is. And also it applies the same thing to the stealing or what is the next? Lying is not in all lying. The heavy lie is what we call it a black lie. It is not the color black but you know the black lie is the heavy one. The heavy one in the sense is because you know you you pretend you know very well you don’t have any spiritual development. You know very well you are no body but you pretend to be somebody. You try to cheat other people impress on other people try to project yourself who is no body but try to be somebody. Sort of you know that sort of lie is spiritually leading people down by pretend to be someone or something when you are nobody or no one you’re someone. So in that manner ah so that is the sort of the bigger lie. That is the big big lie. And the used car dealer’s lie ha ha ha what happened.

0:44:48.8 [audience laughter]

0:46:22.3 Ah when those cause action and completion when it is incomplete and it becomes weak karma. It goes the same thing to positive or as well as negative. It is ah it is sort of way and how it goes that’s what it is. So taking refuge in dharma that’s where I went and when you feel like killing something someone there and then you begin to decide well killing is that I’m taking the life of that little spider. And so it’s not worth for me to do. And when you decided not to take the life you decided not to kill it. So then you get the positive karma of not killing. By just sitting there by not killing alone might not be getting a positive karma of not killing. But when you when you feel like killing when you think about killing and then you decide not to and then you get the positive karma of not killing. However however if you have vows if you take refuge to Buddha dharma and sangha and say well I shall not kill. And if you taking that vow and then by sitting there not killing you get the positive karma of not killing because you have committed not killing. So therefore by not killing you get the positive karma of not killing. That is the refuge makes difference. Any vow that you take the power of the vow is ah difference on the positive or the negative side. And ah at the same time you sitting there not killing you get the positive karma of not killing. However if you kill it you get you get additional negative karma of breaking your vow plus killing karma. So you get that too. It’s sort of give and take business. Johnathan?

0:49:03.2 [audience]

0:49:28.5 So those who don’t have vow yeah. Ah the question is you have a question go ahead.

0:49:37.1 [audience]

0:49:45.6 You mean the bug? Possible. But ah but ah possible but no guarantee. At the same time ah in the process we get negative karma of killing too. And if you can guarantee that bug’s going to have a better life if you can guarantee or you’re positively sure then you can do in exceptional cases. You can do that and then it will not become negative it becomes positive. That is the exceptional people could do that. And answer to Jonathan’s question well letting other people do you get the same sort of negative karma. The traditional teachings will tell you the generals will sit behind will get more the killing karma than soldiers in the front because they’re probably kill one to one. The generals by stroke of pen pen can kill hundreds of them thousands of them whatever. Ah the question is where is the bug? That’s what Robert says remember? You spare where’s the bug ah the of course I’m not going to encourage you to use chemicals. Ah but it is if you have to use it. If you know you’re going to get cockroaches it’s better to spray before the cockroaches come in so it’s lesser. I have lot of cockroaches in my kitchen in Delhi. Ah you know what I’m using DDT powders put in the put in the thing called the all the Americans will shake their head but Indians use the DDT poison all the time.

0:52:08.7 So that’s what it is. And it is of course abandoned here for ten or thirteen years ago right? Ten or fifteen years ago. Ah but it does very well doing the business continuously in what we call it from here? When we look from here what we call it under developed nations. When they look from there call it developing nations. So ha ha so whatever it is the DDT still doing business there. That’s the point. So that’s the secret. Maybe diving it well much less in the United States. However it’s going very well in what we call it under developed nations. Extremely well business. Your morals not going to be bankrupt at all anyway. So so yeah that’s what that’s what it is. But so so I have so many of these cockroaches and if you don’t take care of it crawl all over the place. So the choice is whether you like to live with the cockroaches or you going to take care of it. And you do have to take care of it but not only you but a number of people that comes to you and all their health and everything gets in danger and have difficulties. So what you do is you have to take care of it. And when do you take care of it. When do you take care of it it is the ah ah can you it’s open okay. Managed to get it. When do you take care of it before it gets on there. So some kind of a prevention method. So what I used to do in Delhi I used to clean my kitchen completely out by spring and even the fixtures I take out every year. Then I sort of spray the DDT for three or four days and you out of the place and locked up completely. And very few of them will die and comes much much less. So anyway I don’t know if it’s the right thing or wrong thing I just simply say that so I don’t know. So anyway anything preventive measure if you can take it will be less killing.

0:54:39.8 [audience]

0:54:50.4 I know but the I know. I know. But they not then die I didn’t say they not die. But what happened is it’s much less it comes. And don’t coming in sometimes they don’t come in at all. But I don’t know whether they did did does that or not but ah ah if you have a prevented measures you know sort of thing ah it may be better. And you know I have no answer for that. I know you raising hand one minute. Okay go ahead.

0:55:31.9 [audience]

0:56:17.7 Good question. Good question. When enlightened beings are manifested as an ordinary human being I’m quite sure you have all go through with every one of us goes through. It is the same way. If they try to show us a super human being or Superman for that matter and ah the purpose of the manifestation is being defeated. So therefore fore fore they will have the same thing. But as an enlightened being as a someone who is totally free of all negativities are probably free of insect attack. And ah yeah it’s a very good question but that’s my understanding of it. Ah even those let’s say even if there is some kind of ahhhh insect or bacteria or something but even then they are the fortunate ones. So I think it has its own sort of way of taking care of it and I think maybe it’s I don’t know. I hate to say maybe it’s beyond our comprehension but that is the escape I can take it. It’s sort of ha ha ah but I think it’s ah some sort of talk of a pure land and there’s talk of pure beings and things like that and maybe it is different. And also the story that when Shakyamuni Buddha the one of his summer retreat what he had is ah one of the benefits sort of lead to suppose ah the Buddha and his ah sangha. Ah they and then the food what they give him was very poor and weak and one of those attendants of the Buddha is Shariputra or Ananda or somebody. I think its Shariputra or somebody said well I’m really sorry that ah but we are okay but in Buddha you have to eat this horrible stuff and this and that and I’m feeling bad and this and that.

0:59:10.0 And he said well you don’t know what I taste. And somehow to understand yourself he’s supposed to pick up something but then he stuck something between his teeth and give it to him. And he tasted something fantastic something he’d never tasted. What they call it what they call it hundred different tastes of the the offering food or something. And there’s like extraordinary things like that. If you read the Vamilakirti Sutra Vamilakirti Sutra sutra. And that is translated into English. And ah Shariputra or somebody goes and tells the Buddha or every enlightened beings have a pure land and how come our Buddha is the worst land available here and suffering. And he said it not that I don’t have a pure land and he puts his toe down on the ground and show the pure land which surprises Shariputra. Read those Vamilakirti and they give you all these ideas I think. So ha ha ha so ah I think about a very good question. So where are we? Insects killing there you go. So yeah with the vow not not killing gets positive karma. Ah without vow decided not to kill gets the positive karma. And ah so what happened those very positive what the what I’m trying to get is a simple way to introduce. So when you don’t kill when you have the karma of not killing and then you build the foundation. Killing is an example for any other thing. Then you build the foundation of ah of the basic ah some kind of positivity. You know the ah some of these are usual in the quality of the school that they teach you. You go and borrow a hundred dollars at the corner of the bank and put it down somewhere else and pay your interest and keep on doing it you establish a basic credit lines right? In America. I heard that somewhere whether it is in television or whatever it is. When somebody told me or something like that. And very similar to this when you have that sort of ah ah the point of opportunity comes to build and not indulge in any of those the wrong things and then you establish your basic sort of credit line or basic positive line which is the base on which you build up your spiritual development.

1:02:16.5 And that sort of lies lays down to to ah foundation of dharma within you. Ah I don’t know if there’s time or not there’s one thing ah

1:02:36.5 [Tibetan]

1:03:03.5 There was one benefactor one benefactor during the Buddha’s lifetime who would like to become a

1:03:12.9 [Tibetan]

1:03:22.3 There’s one lay person who ahhh who I don’t know the translation is in Tibetan is Pegey. I’m trying to get the name straight. And wanted to become a celi celibate. And ah so many of arhats refused to ordain the guy and saying that you don’t have ah positive ah base at all. In other words they will not extend any credit with him. You don’t have any credit line at all. No credit extended and no credit. So then Buddha said oh oh no you do. Then the arhats they don’t know. But I can find there. And he says some time ago some time you happened to be a fly who are in who are who had attachment to cow dung. The cow dung moved by a a river that flowed through the stupa or something. And it’s circumambulation of the stupa done because the river carried the cow dung and the fly happens to be sticking on the cow dung. And when it completes the circle of the certain ambulation and you said you had that basic credit line there. So therefore the credit can be extended to you. Ah so things like that so so basically very simple little way you can builds up and that’s how you build up the positive karma. So that very building is the basic dharma and that is dharma within you. And when it comes it becomes huge and you can become multi-billion dollar credit line or whatever. So when you become that level it becomes strong then you do have all the buying power selling power whatever.

1:05:36.2 So similarly you do have you become very powerful. That’s the how spiritual development you basically you look in that. It’s on the ground introduction for that. So when you take I go for refuge to dharma that’s what you are connecting within you. And that’s basic credit line going right up to the whatever multi-million or billion whatever it is you know. I don’t even know so. So that’s how it works. So even even ah even everyone of us it is always important to pay attention to the little things. And from the little things builds up and becomes huge one. Rather than attempt to get big one up there. If you are extraordinary person you can go up there and you can get it. Like if you’re born in with the Rockefellers or the Kennedy family or something you can get it straight away up there. That becomes extraordinary here ha ha you know just an example. So that’s how your dharma you look in. So when you say you take refuge to dharma so ah that’s your connecting. And ah then sangha I think I don’t need anymore explanation. And I would like to I would like to cement that things what I left it here and left it there. Left it here is the love compassion basically love compassion and things left there. And left here is the after developing bodhimind what do you do. And ah what do you do six paramitas and all this. And that’s what here and that’s the love compassion development is here now the time of the cementing point.

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1:07:59.1 It is the ah ..Abasamayalankara alankara Maitreya’s one of those five ah… what do you call it five Maitrya dharma? Maitreya dharma tracks or whatever. It’s called Chamchudeva in Tibetan. So anyway basic ah this is the this is the basic Prajnaparamita ahhhh I can’t say commentary but explanation done by Maitreya Buddha to Asanga. I’m sorry I’m using a lot of Greeks here now. So anyway in that in that Maitreya Buddha said

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1:08:57.7 So so the question rises what is bodhimind? What is this called mind of the bodhimind? And the answer here is mind of ah double pronged mind. And the prong one is the total dedication. Total dedication for the service of all beings which you are driven by the powerful compassion and love and special mind. Special mind you really throw you out of the edge and makes you do whatever it may be whatever it may take it I will do it. I will go all out of the way. I’m going to do it. So making that sort of push you out of the edge to put to sort of make you jump in is the the the springboard on the pool is the special mind. The special mind will pump you up throw you up and you can really jump in it. So why were you jumping in if you’re jumping in that commitment commitment of saving serving all beings. And for that for that the best tool seeking enlightenment. So committing is one prong seeking enlightenment is another prong and the combination of the two pronged mind. Combination of these two prongs mind together so it becomes the bodhimind.

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1:10:50.1 So seeking enlightenment for the benefit of beings other beings that’s when normally we talk all the time. That is the how it works around the circulates around that way. Okay? So that is the bodhimind. So so when you say well I may I develop such a mind and balah balah balah and even there is there is ceremonies you have ceremonies where you take ah where you take the bodhisattva bodhimind development ceremony. Or there’s a vow you take and all of them not necessarily grow bodhimind with you. They have some kind of vow maybe grow with you. Or the ceremony I don’t know anyway. Its the ceremony was done and something happens whatever it is. So but not necessarily you become a bodhi bodhisattva at all. Ah these days the lamas many of the different Tibetan lamas will give you a name and call the bodhisattva Bruce Smith or something. Whatever you know some kind of name. They also like to give you Tibetan name a lot. And so but whatever whether you have bodhisattva name or bodhisattva certificate or whatever it is it is very hard to accept to be a bodhisattva unless and until you have the bodhimind with you. And when you have the bodhimind you do not need a certificate or anything. Or the presidents when they travel around they do not need the passports. Ha ha ha ha. So the certificate is nothing but bu bu bu buz buzzword.

1:13:04.1 Buzzword the certificate and names are really it’s almost. In vajrayana yes you do need a vajrayana name because you are connected with one of those five Buddha families. So so they give you a family name when you join the family. So you give the family name. So that’s what it is in vajrayana. And ah in the refuge ah it’s okay I have no objection. But I thought I thought it’s a little bit of showbiz. So giving a name in the in the and the you know refuge and vajrayana buddhism bodhisattva sort of monk and all this is a little bit of showbiz to me. And ah so that’s that. The real bodhisattva when you develop that mind step by step development either or seven stage or exchange stage or seven-eleven open twenty-four hours. So you can go anytime. You know you can go anytime anywhere and that’s what you do. I wish there is a one- eight-hundred number so you can call it but. Huh? What do we have it? Okay you can have it if you are willing to pay for it. Ha ha . We can open one- eight-hundred number ha ha ha. One-eight-hundred bodhimind. Okay. I just joking ha ha ha. So that’s what it is. So the so the step by step the first caring loving dedication special mind and even you want to exchange and all this. And each and every one of them each and every one of those minds is that going to grow within our today’s level of the rough mind? It’s very hard. So what you have to go you have to go basis of all. You give me in writing yesterday I put it in between the flower here and somebody changed the flower and I lost the writing.

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1:16:09.3 So basis of all is called sin qua.. sine qua non. Aequanimitas. Huh? It’s on the cushion? Oh there you go thank you so much. Thank you thank you. Sine qua non. Yeah that’s what I mean I’m trying to get to that. And ah Rachel Ramen used this here. When you talk about equanimity I thought wow that’s that’s it. So you know basically when you say may all beings experience equanimity we always say that. So that is the if you don’t have that basis you have no basis. Is that that mean sine qua non? Sine qua non. Sine qua non. Aequanimitas. Aequanimitas so without which nothing that’s right. So without which balanced mind without which you’re not going to get anything at all. So so it come in with the balancing point. The balance the rough mind will have to be settled and balancing point. I’m glad I found that back. Sine qua non without which nothing that’s great. Ha ha ha I’m happy with the aequanimitas. So so the basis of all this and bringing the level of you know sort of the near and distance not distance ah what do we have? Aequanimitas is free of what? Huh? Aversion and attachment. Aversion eeech and attachment mmmm. So you have to be free of that right? So that is the basis that you build up. And so how do you build that up big question big question. How do you build up? It’s not that it’s really it’s so much hate to the enemy. Ah it is a problem. And so much over attachment is another problem so where you really have to be balanced.

1:19:12.5 And I not yeah that is the basically balancing point. Too much hatred is also has to be cutted down. Why you hate the person. Oh if you hate the mental faculty no quarrels with that. Buddha liked it. But you don’t we don’t have quarrel we don’t pick up quarrels with mental faculty. We pick up quarrels with the person. A person didn’t do it. It is the it is the mental faculty which made you do it. The person didn’t do it. So that is the main point. And ah just give you little hint. Don’t really have time to go on and building that. But ah so that is how you reduce the hate. But all this harming one after another the bombardment coming towards yourself. Why that person is throwing that at you and not because of the person but because of the mental faculty which took over that being that beautiful wonderful being over there could not show its wonderful-ness and they have to give you the rough shoulder. If the rough shoulder is coming out of those negative mental faculties. So it is not really the fault of the individual. It is the fault of the fault of the ah fault of the the negative mental faculties the negativities. There’s a silly example a very silly looks but but makes sense and useful. The example goes like this if you get a slap by somebody in the middle of a lot of people so who you going to get angry? And of course you going to get angry to that person. Why did he hit me? Why did he hit me? Right? So when you think about it the silly point is this well he didn’t hit you his hand hit you. What a silly person. Hand doesn’t fly the guy did it right? So the point here is the guy didn’t do it it’s the mental factor anger did it. The truly if you look at it anger is the one who did it not the person. Sensible person with a normal sense is not going to hit anybody. When it’s overpowered by anger it’ll hit you.

1:22:30.8 We all do that right? So this is sounds silly but makes sense. So you cannot go and get angry to the hand. That is silly. So you get angry with the person. But why do you get angry with the person? Why don’t you get angry with the anger which really made it? If you do that then it becomes dharma. But if you get angry with the person and you don’t get angry with the anger it doesn’t become dharma. See it is silly thing it is very subtle but makes a difference. That is how you begin to build up equanimity. Yeah.

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1:23:33.6 Well if you can get if you can ah isolate that anger and bite it go ahead. But the problem is you cannot you know. You can not you can not express you cannot isolate the anger away from the person because it’s like the red bulb.

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1:24:02.4 Well it is well it’s very close. It’s too close. But the but the but the pure being is not angry but angry includes the pure being the pure person. So it is the trouble maker is the anger of the individual rather than the individual. That I will stand on my point. I will not shake. I will sit there and stand there. I will not shake that. But ah when you really have to separate it’s hard because it’s all sort of really mixed them together. And identity what we have is only the person the anger and the mind both of them are neither tangible nor has a color nor has a shape. That’s why you can not. Now I’m going too detailed anyway. I wanted get down.

1:25:05.8 [audience; about children]

1:25:07.5 Yeah. There you can. There you can make a distinction because the love is very powerful. Love is very powerful so there you can make a distinction there. That’s very nice example thank you. You can make a distinction. But when somebody is very angry with somebody you you don’t see the line. You see the whole thing is the the culprit culprit culprit culprit and you want to shake the whole thing rather than rather than. So that’s why what we call a delusions and this and that. We can not we lack of wisdom. Yes sir this is going to be the last question. I don’t I want go down okay.

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1:26:26.7 Yes Mr. Bodhisattva.

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1:26:39.7 That’s you’re coming from there so all blame has to be blamed on the one point. And be grateful to all beings. Yes Mr. Bodhisattva but a lot of people are not that level yet. So so ha ha ha ha ha ha ha what? There you go. There you go Mr. Deputy Bodhisattva ha ha ha ha ha . So you know in the bodhisattva you know there’s the training of the mind. You have that right? Blame all blames to what

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1:27:26.2 Yeah that’s right. So ah ah?

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1:27:36.3 Yeah drive all blames into one. And be grateful to all something like that. So that’s what it is. And ah it is true but at the same time that that negativity within other person is also ah equal negativity. And ah I think you do have a right to get angry at that negativity. Or maybe I’m making too much statement. Is it anger negativity. Do you have a right to become if you start debate that way I will have a problem. However ha ha however I think you can you deserved you can you have right to be angry at anger. So let’s cut here. Ah so that’s the anyway basically I also said huh? What did you say?

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1:28:49.9 Sure sure I’m just giving listen I’m giving the anger as an example.

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1:29:03.6 Yes Madame Ambassador. Remember your title ha ha ha ha. It is true. But also it is important ah at the beginning level not everything blaming towards yourself and going towards well that’s maybe the bodhisattva way. And that’s what it is. What did you say all blame into one or something. Drive all blames into one. And ah that is maybe the ultimate way but ah but easy start is much better and much smooth too go then. But if you if you focus too much on that level before it is ready ah it creates little difficulties and ah and ah loses some steam and ah become a too positive or too negative. Huh? I used to call she’s known as Madame Positive among us. Ha ha ha Madame Positive ha ha. So right? So that’s what it is. So don’t be admitting to something at the beginning level. When you become a bodhisattva level when you are capable of handling certainly no doubt. It is absolutely true too. But let us get to go at the level where we are. You chew you bite what you can chew. I almost said you chew what you can bite ha ha ha ha ha. You bite what you can chew. So ah move that way okay. So so so the now we have the ah uh oh. One thing I forgot since I talked refuge. In addition to that basically

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1:31:39.2 So knowing ah the quality of the Buddha dharma and sangha they have the capability of helping and ah giving protection. And then rely on is the basically ah basically the refuge. And ah however the Mahayana refuge also must have compassion in it. So with the compassion with the powerful compassion and ah taking refuge will become refuge Mahayana Buddhist. Mahayana refuge. That’s it. So I better jump down now. By the practicing generosity at the positive edge may I attain enlightenment. Oh and we talking about that. Equanimity okay equanimity. So the basis of the equanimity basically if you really have the balancing point the traditional teachings will give you if you want to do more a mural painting on the walls. All mural painting done on walls right? When you want to do a mural painting you have to have a smooth wall. And if the wall is not smooth the painting is not going to be smooth because the basis of life depending is going to be rough. So the equanimity does that. So its really gives you the meaning of ah sine qua non. Because if you don’t have that you don’t have it. Basis about which you really can’t build up. All this bodhimind and all this are built up on the basis of equanimity. Equanimity you have to be totally you know you sort of really geared we are so much geared toward hatred and all this. We’re at the peak level you know. Tara Rinpoche used to say. Ah we have reached the highest level of the development of the anger attachment and hatred.

1:33:57.7 Remember that and it’s very you know it’s very true we have all this level up there you need to sort of deal on them. Unwind them completely and get in touch to the basis and which is the the equanimity level. Sort of and from there you can build up the positive as well. So so you may be able to develop something. So anything whatever we try to do try to build our compassion. Try to build our ah love. All of them we get into trouble all the time because the foundation is weak. When there’s a weak foundation there then no matter whatever you build on top of it you can not carry much. Even they did carry even your force field build up then it collapse down become like card house house of the playing cards or something. So that’s the really people have to pay a lot of attention to to aequanimitas. Yeah. So that’s why out of the Four Immeasurables why you put the aequanimitas aequanimitas there. That is one of the Four Immeasurables and on top of that then you wish them happy. You wish them free of suffering. You wish them whatever you do wish them. Or happiness and then suffering free and joy. So then everything can be built up because you have the foundation. You can do any mural painting you want to do. You have the base. So let’s move now. I take refuge in Buddha dharma and sangha until enlightenment. By practicing generosity and other positive actions may I attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. May all beings

1:36:16.1 [audience recites Four Immeasurables]

1:36:27.7 OM SVABHAVA SHUDDAH SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDOH HAM Within the sphere of emptiness appears a white lotus above it is moon disk

1:36:41.9 [audience recites Tara sadhana]

1:36:46.8 Light radiates from the TAM and transforms

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1:38:24.5 [end]