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Soundfile 19960829GRSR3P03

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

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Topic Three Principles of the Path

Transcriber Xinyan

Date 28.01.2021

We’re talking again continuously on that little piece of paper called Root of Three Principle Aspects of the Path by Je Tsongkhapa. So out of these Three Principles of the Path, principle number one is determination to be free. To determine that what make yourself free of all our problems, negativities, problems caused by negativities, negativities caused by our neuroses. That is the problem. We all agree - we are responsible to ourself. Is there anybody who does not agree that we are responsible to ourself? None. We are responsible to ourself, no matter whoever it may be. Old, young, grown up, children, man, woman, whoever might be. We are totally responsible to ourself, right? If I did something wrong, I’m responsible and you did something wrong, you are responsible.

Like or not, we got to take responsibility. Even you don’t take it, the natural law or the karmic law will get you. Yeah, really. They’ll get you. So that’s makes ourself responsible. That’s what it is. That is all about the karma. Karma is nothing but then that of responsibilities, nothing but then that of responsibilities. [0:02:42.2]

(James and Dorris, why do you want sit that far here? Huh? Well, there are lots of seats available in this side, even here. Right over here where Kristin?? is. Right in front of Kristin?? there’s two seat available. Why don’t you two move up. Dorris too. Well, there’s one there, right? I think you staying in the middle here, aren’t you? so you can come here and sit. Not in morning but in the evening okay. As long as …..*Rimpoche laughs* Huh? That’s okay but you don’t have to be completely filled up then it’ll be too hot. To have a little empty spot area is good. Okay now I better stick to what I’m talking. Okay. What happened to Dorris? Move up. Thank you. Good for you, Jennifer, you lost your seat because somebody else took your seat) [0:02:42.9 to 0:04:08.9] [0:04:08.9]

Alright. So when you talk about karma, it is absolutely true the subtle point of karmic system is difficult to understand. But from the gross point of karmic, karma really means - I’m responsible to my deeds. If I did something right and something good, I get something right, something good. If I did something wrong, something goes wrong and I’ll be experiencing misery. And that is all about karma. Let’s not think bout very big mystery part of the karma. Straight forward simpleness.

So, the question rises ‘why we have difficulties?’ Mental, physical, emotional. Where its coming from? Is it from nothing? Which is not true. Its from something. Or it is manufactured by second or third person and imposed on us? I don’t know what answer I’m gonna get on that. I have to be little cautious. *Rimpoche chuckles* But if its given by someone else on you, you’re not responsible for your own deeds.

Afterall, we are responsible for our own deeds so it is the ‘we’ which created this cause. Whether we remember or we don’t remember, doesn’t matter. The karmic rule is as such – when we complete negative or positive karma, the imprint (kindly check if this word is the word used and meant by Rimpoche. The use of the word similar sounding to this is highlighted in green) [0:06:35.0] is imprint is on us. On our consciousness. We get. I’m not sure whether I’m right to say yes or not. I was talking to my brother 2 days ago, and he was telling me, when there was martial law in Lhasa and people went to Dae Bong (Please check spelling of this place) [0:07:04.1] for some festival and everybody had they put stamp on their face. So because its martial law and if you lose the stamp at night, you can’t get back. So you lost your total base of family or everything. You can get back. But karma is such thing. It is imprint, a stamp on your face. It is more than ‘I owe you’ note.?? It is more than public ??? sign at the side. (please recheck this) [0:07:43.0 to 0:07:46.5 ] It is the stamp that put on your consciousness that you did good or you did bad. It is the stamp on your face. So that’s how karma works. The moment you complete the karma, good or bad, you get stamped here. Invisible stamp on the consciousness. No matter how much time it will take, it will materialize one day and that’s why that is all about karma, that is how we are responsible to ourself. Are you with me now? Any doubt? Any questions? Is that clear? Anybody any problem? Jennifer? No problem. Okay. Who? Who are you? Oh yeah. I can’t hear you.

[0:09:06.9]

Audience: (someone said something but inaudible) [0:09:06.9 to 0:09:11.8]

Rimpoche: Let’s not bring it up here for this moment. If we want bring, that’s fine. There are individual karmas, there are collective karmas. Individual karma is individual responsibility, collective karma is collective responsibility. The karmic computer is so powerful and they don’t make mistake, unfortunately. So and there is no the screws don’t get loose. They have more than enough RAMs to run through so they don’t get into problems. So I believe that’s what it is.

But once that clear, I would like to move one thing. I would like to move second step. Second step is once you have imprint on you, and I said no matter how long it takes, it will materialize. So the second question rises – how it becomes materialize? How it materialize? What makes it materialize? What makes it remain as imprint? And what makes it materialize? That is the question one has to deal with it? Can you see me okay? Huh? Okay.

So what makes it materialize? When the conditions are right, then karma materialize. When the conditions are not right, no matter whatever you do, it will not materialize. And that’s why if you eat the wrong food, you get sick. If you get cold, you get sick. If you get too hot, you get sick. All these – the conditions are provided. Karma, no matter how powerful, definite, fast-growing all these 4 qualities are there, remember? No matter how powerful, independent it might be, well I shouldn’t say that. I withdraw that last word, not independent, I will withdraw that. How powerful it might be, it is dependent arise and its dependent originated.

So in order to materialize the karma, you need to have all conditions has to be correct. It is based on the perfect condition. Right? Its like seed, the seed has a power to be able to grow as a whatever – greens or weed if you like it, wheatgrass juice. Seed has the power to be able to grow as green, right? Have the power, we all know that. But if you keep the seed on the bag, on your concrete garage, is it going to grow? No. it cannot grow. Why? Simply the conditions not right. [0:12:46.9]

When you have dirt or mud or whatever you call it, earth, you have water, you have heat – all of them combine together, the beautiful green grass will grow. Whether you drink juice or you smoke, whatever you do anyway. It will grow there, right? So it depends on the conditions. Not only the ground, not only the water, also the heat. They are all needed. Likewise, the karma will also depend on all these conditions so that then it works. It grows. It materialize. Okay? So since you are responsible to your own deeds, you can also manipulate the karma by making the conditions not going to be right. Are you with me? By making the conditions are not right and that’s why the purification works. And that’s why miracles can take place. That’s why people can pray and make difference. That’s why people can do all sorts of different things and make difference. Are you with me? So there is room for this. We are responsible to our own deeds yet we must accept all of those. What you call it, normal American language – divine intervention. Whether its Buddhist technology, whether its right or wrong but you get the message anyway. And the miracle works. The healers can come and heal it, doctors can give you drugs and make a difference. All of them because it is dependent arise. Are you with me? Okay. [0:15:30.8]

So when you created karma, you have created karma, you’re bound to experience the result. However, you can still have room to do, to make difference manipulating through the conditions. You may have a karma of getting stomach problem, if you keep on eating the brown rice all the time, you may not get stomach problem at all. Right, Robert? *Rimpoche and audience laugh* Huh? And the miso you said. Maybe a little bit of tofu in there. Tofu in there. Hahahaha. Its really true. That’s how condition make difference. So we have countless number of negative karma, whether we know it or don’t know it. I don’t know bout you but I’m from the background of believer of reincarnation. Of cos you know if I don’t believe in reincarnation, what will happen to me? I’ll lose my job. *Audience laugh* Right? So I must defend my bread and butter. I mean that was joke but the truth is I am a believer of reincarnation, do I have proof? No, I don’t. I don’t have scientific proof so but little bit thing here and there happens all the time anyway. [0:17:53.7]

So I don’t have scientific prove but I believe and I also have very strong statement issued by Buddha for which I can rely on. I also have very strong logical reasons to prove that it is possible to have reincarnation. All of them there. So looking in the reincarnation, actually if you really see the reincarnation or if you believe in the reincarnation, the society which accept the reincarnation and society which do not accept reincarnation – there’s a huge difference in there. The view point of that society have a huge difference. Society that accept reincarnation, forget about society, why we bother bout society, the individual who accept the reincarnation have a huge spectrum of view. You can see it, tremendous! And the person who only see from birth to death, have also very narrow perspective. And if its only from the birth to death, the yappies are 100% right. We can all follow the Angela, Governor Angela of cos. That’s Michigan Governor, I’m sorry. *Rimpoche laughs* Just joking. So that’s what it is. [0:19:56.8]

So if you look in the reincarnation, then you see the flow of different karma of the background of different people. And that’s why each and everybody have something different, characteristic of individual, individuality of people. Physical, mental, emotional differences coming because of that. If there is no karmic differences in there, it will be like mass production, manufactured. You know like those little dolls that you get, what is it? Barbie dolls? Ya, all look the same thing, there’s no individual characteristic. Because mass production. But as a human being, we have different. Even you’re twins together, you have different look you have different character, you have different way of thinking. Where is that coming from? If tis simply manufactured, it should look the same. It should be duplicate. Its not. [0:21:46.2]

The individuality is because of the reincarnation we have it. Character, look, physical, emotional – all difference. Because we are carrying that ‘I owe you’ note, the stamp on our forehead. Because we have different habitual pattern though we all this terrible addiction for anger, addiction for hatred, addiction for attachment. We all know that, right? We do have that addiction. However, they are different individual lies, that is because of the reincarnation. (please check this sentence, word after INDIVUAL unclear) [0:22:33.5 to 0:22:36.6] Talking about addiction, that is our problem. You know what dharma mean? The word dharma in Tibetan is chö . Correction, change, change from negative addictions to positive. Can you call it addiction? Huh? Is that right or wrong, Amy? Positive addiction? No… you said no, right? Positive habit! Somebody said habit, who said? Robert. Thanks. Okay. So editor sitting over there and saying “addiction, no. she’s not giving me any substitute there.” *Rimpoche laughs* [0:24:00.1]

So that’s that. You know chö means correcting negative addiction to a positive habit. [0:24:06.5] tha is dharma practice. Believe it or not. You don’t believe it? ??? see see (Rimpoche mentioned someone’s name I didn’t get) [0:24:16.0 to 0:24:17.1] You believe it? Why? Because I say?! Oh…*Rimpoche and audience cheers* Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! What a joke. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! May I borrow your fan for a moment? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! (something happened here is difficult to be put in words/ explained) [0:24:17.5 to 0:25:22.1]

I’m lost somewhere around here. Better go back because I will be responsible. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! *Rimpoche and audience laugh*

Audience: Stanza 4, Verse 3.

Rimpoche: Ya. That’s right. By contemplating how difficult precious human is to acquire and how our life is not fixed. I think we have done that already. Fantasies concerning this life are reversed. Now we are here and by thinking again and again about infallibility, means I’m reliable of karma or reliable of karma. Okay, most reliable. It is true – karma is most reliable. However, do not forget it depends on the condition. Karma is not an independent monster that fixed, like you say – locomotor. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Its not that monster. It is dependent arise so therefore it is changeable. Therefore, there is room for everything. Okay? [0:27:11.2]

Oh where did I go. Karma and its fruit. As well as unsatisfactory nature of cyclic existence. Cyclic existence. Cyclic existence. ‘Lan Der Mi Kuar…..’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan) [0:27:35.8 to 0:27:41.3] So now, what we talked yesterday, is that me? ?? Here only right? (couldn’t get what Rimpoche said here) [0:27:47.8 to 0:28:01.4]

You know we have 2 fantasies - fantasy of this life and fantasy of future life. To have good future life will we our fantasy. The moment you think reincarnation, the moment you really begin to understand the reincarnation, then your goal will change. No question. You will change. Really, true. Until you understand the reincarnation, you’re not going to change your goal much. You know what I really notice? I was shocked, to tell you the truth. When you people sit, particularly in the west, when you buy the reincarnation straight away, the idea of reincarnation which is absolutely foreign to you, isn’t that? Am I right or wrong? Its foreign, right? (someone in the audience said something but inaudible) [0:29:09.7 to 0:29:12.3] Huh? That’s true. But when you bought that state where, it was shocking to me. It was really surprise and shocking to me. Wow! How can they get it? But you know what I’m understanding? Many of you truly not buying the idea of reincarnation, but you are simply buying idea of everlasting. That’s the problem. Do you realize? [0:29:50.5]

Many of us think the reincarnation is person is gone in the bathroom, have a shower and out a different make up and come out and occupy the same old seat. With the same old position. Idea of living rather than idea of dying. Check with your own think. Think about it. What is your reincarnation? What are you thinking, what are you hoping for? Actually its attachment to this life, attachment to your material, materialistic round. Attachment to your comfort, attachment to your friend, attachment to all is really holding. So the reincarnation is very good answer for that. I’ll come back and occupy it. I will sign my cheques again. *Audience laugh* I’ll collect my interest again. Right? So that reincarnation is what I’m not talking about.

Unfortunately, there’s good and bad news in that. The good news is continuation, bad news is – its some kind of continuation very subtle consciousness, extremely subtle consciousness that follows, which has no memory of anything else. Most of us. It is such a subtle, so much subtle that’s why there is no memory cannot be obtain. Memory is mental faculty. Its not mind. In order to carry a mental faculty along with the mind, you need a strong mind to be able to carry the mental faculties with you. so when it becomes subtle, you delete everything. You drop all other things so you drop memories, too. And that’s why memories is wiped out. And when you come back again, look like different person. Totally! Not only look different, but feels different and as almost different being. And that’s bad news in that reincarnation. [0:33:02.8]

Anyway, so thinking that even you get life just like now, what will that get you? Another 50 years. Or maybe another 70 years. Or at most 80 years. Right? Then what happens? Even worse, during that lifetime what would you do? You will use all the good work that you have done, good karma, you make good use of it and you have nothing add up. And then you can get bankrupt good karmic storage. That’s what it is. Bankrupt good karma. You’ll be bankrupt, no more left. Are you with me now? Margaret? You understand? Okay.

So we will continuously have negative karma builds up. So we are back to the ground zero level once again. No use. So that’s why Buddha recommended look for Nirvana. Don’t look for samsara at all? Are you with me? So seeking freedom means looking beyond whatever this call – (how do we pronounce this?) cyclic. That’s we’re talking bout it, okay? So going beyond that, ‘The Va Ra Kon………’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tib) [0:35:10.8 to 0:35:18.8] When you train your mind, mind is trained such a way not only you let it go the fantasy of this life, also you let it go the fantasy of the future life. And then if you’re really looking for freedom, a total freedom, day and night. That is the sign of development of Buddhist 101. Don’t think Buddhist 101 is cause here, think Buddhist 101 as development, training. That’s how you get trained. Okay? [0:36:01.8]

‘The Ra Kon………’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan) [0:36:01.6 to 0:36:10.1] Somebody asked me last night question, - when you talked bout let it go, do I have to give up everything? Do I have to shave my head, go into the forest or get into the Himalayas. Somebody asked me that question last night, who was it? Is the person here? You are the one! Thank you. What’s your name again? (Audience: Kathleen) Kathleen. Oh, I know one Kathleen here. Ha Ha Ha. Anyway, so she asked me that. What will be the answer? Anybody can give me answer. What about you, Mike?

Mike: I don’t think changing your hairstyle has much effect..(inaudible)

Rimpoche: Question is do it have to give up family, do I have to give up my house, do I have to give up my children, do I have to give up my parents and this and that. Not hair alone. Right?

Mike: I don’t think that will help.

Rimpoche: He says he doesn’t think that will help.

*Audience laugh*

Rimpoche: I’ll pass the message. Meaning I don’t think that is the point. We’re missing a point here. We’re missing a point here. The point is if we are in the earlier period, what if you can remain as a celibate (please recheck if this is the word Rimpoche meant. Rimpoche first use it here. The use of this word is highlighted in blue from here onwards. Kindly recheck each and every one of it. Thankyou) [0:38:12.2] if you remain as a celibate for the rest of your life and you know what that celibacy. Okay. What does really celibacy mean? I need that meaning. If you just change from your grey shirt into a red and maroon and yellow and gold and all these, I don’t think you will become celibate at all. Celibate at all. The point of becoming celibate is, if you can retreat from attachment, if you can retreat from anger, if you can retreat from the hatred, if you can retreat from jealousy – that is the real….. now what is it (audience: celibacy) celibacy. Thank you. [0:39:51.0]

So its not hair. That’s why Mike says. I don’t think it will help. Its not the dress. That’s why Mike says I don’t think it will help. As matter of fact, at this level, this time of the year, what you really need - you need a perfection. Perfection. You should be perfect in your spiritual path, you should also be perfect in your material work. Both must go together. The earlier Tibetans, the elder generations elder than us, used to be very proud of the system in Tibet called combination of religion and dharma. They say ‘Lung Nyi Chi song de…….’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan) [0:41:11.5 to 0:41:15.9] They call it ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De ……’ (Rimpoche repeated the same Tib phrase) combination of dharma and material activities together. They are very proud of it. I did not get message. It took me long time to get that message. I keep on thinking ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De ……..’ (Rimpoche repeated the same Tibetan phrase) [0:41:34.4 to 0:41:36.8] combination of religion and spiritual together, I don’t know what’s talking bout, then finally I sort of thought, it may be Dalai Lama is head of Tibet so temple ?? (didn’t get the word after SO) [0:41:36.2] and spiritual ruler of Tibet. Maybe that’s why this thing together. [0:41:54.7]

Then I read a book. Then I read a book written by really great person in Tibet, and I read the book it says ‘Oh the combination of religion and the temporal (didn’t get the 3 words after RELIGION) [0:42:10.2] come together ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De…..’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tib) [0:42:13.2 to 0:42:15.9] begin by the fifth Dalai Lama bla bla bla bla bla. It made me more confused. *Audience laugh* I didn’t get it. So I thought: oh, maybe it is some kind of historical blowing self trumpet or something. I left it out. And when you begin to think the quality of the members of the Shangri La community, are you with me? The members of the Shangri La community, you know what Shangri La is? Kathleen? Well I see the movie called The Shangri La. Go back and look in that. *Audience laughs* Lost and Rising. So anyway, the members of the Shangri La has an extraordinary quality which we don’t have it. Which we even the Tibetans when we came out of Tibet, we lose that quality. [0:43:27.1]

The younger generations Tibetans really having the life of having that quality. When you begin to look in that quality, in the quality, that quality has, combination of spiritual and paying our bills together. The togetherness, togetherness training your daily life, daily chore into dharma practice. Every work that you do can be made into a dharma practice. And that was there. That’s why it is Shangri La. That was there. That is the real combination of religion and spiritual together. That is the ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De …..’ (Rimpoche repeated the same Tib phrase) [0:44:26.4 to 0:44:27.9] essence of that.

Audience: You are saying religion is being temporal and spiritual…..??? (someone asked a question but audio unclear) [0:44:31.0 to 0:44:34.6]

Rimpoche: Ya but religion’s practice, spiritual practice in daily life and the making pay your bills, doing your job together. Which is really the combination of spiritual and temporal life. (please recheck this word TEMPORAL LIFE, unsure if it’s the same as what Rimpoche meant) [0:44:50.7] That is the true ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De’ (Rimpoche said a Tib phrase) [0:44:55.9]

Its not really politics we’re talking bout it. We’re talking bout it daily life. You make your living, you pay your bill and each one of them change into a spiritual practice. And that’s the need of today and that’s the need of the year 2000 in the United States. I told you who…..

(no audio) [0:45:30.4 to 0:45:44.0]

Whoever may become president by next November, whether it’s Al Gore or Bill Clinton, will make no difference. Our bills are going to be bigger anyway. So we have to pay bigger bills anyway. So we don’t have much time, we’re gonna build up more pressure, shortage of time more. We’re not going to work 8 hours day, we’re going to work 10 hours day or 12 hours day or 16 hours day. And then what would you do? We need way how we have both material and spiritual richness, quality. Both! And that’s what they call it ‘Nung Nyi Chu Si Song De……’ (Rimpoche said a Tib phrase) [0:46:35.4 to 0:46:36.7] Combination of what they call it religion and politics, doesn’t really mean politics, it means actually living life. Combine them together. [0:46:51.0]

How can you do it? This is the biggest question. How can you do it? Now we have to sit through Buddhist 102. Okay. Not 101 but 102.

……. (Rimpoche said something in Tibetan but I don’t get it) [0:47:08.2 to 0:47:17.8]

‘Nyi Jung…….’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tib) [0:47:18.1 to 0:47:30.8] Yet if this stabilized mind is not conjunct with the pure Bodhisattva aspiration, it does not serve as cause of highest enlightenment - perfect bliss. The why is therefore cultivate supreme Bodhisattva mind. Okay? Right from the beginning I told you – motivation, motivation, motivation, motivation, motivation. Are you with me? Motivation, motivation, motivation, motivation. That is the key, key, the really true key, is the motivation. You know I need to get free, I want go out, I’ll be gone beyond, I would like to go beyond samsara, I don’t want the suffering, right? So how can I do it? How can I do it? What should I do? What should I do? How can I do it? What I should do? You can’t keep on thinking that, if you keep on thinking that, you’re going to get depression. *Audience laugh* Right or wrong? Or too hot? You’re gonna get too hot. The fans will break. True. [0:49:14.4]

So what do you do? When His Holiness was in Chicago that day. Phillip was playing and Richard Grey ?? came up (unsure of his last name) [0:49:29.9] and spoke. And he said: ‘When I been able to do something for others, I feel happy.” Didn’t he say that, right? That’s what it is. If you keep on saying here “What can I do? What can I do? What can I do?” You’re not gonna do anything. You going to get yourself into depression. That’s all. So then you look at Choda Rimpoche (please recheck name of Rimpoche mentioned) [0:50:01.5] yesterday said: “When you’re in the plane and plane gets some kind of engine trouble and is going to fall down,” and then he said: You think I’m going to die, I’m going to die, I’m going to die. You never think these are going to die. *Audience laugh* That’s what he said yesterday. Remember?

Oh! And that’s what’s it is. You keep on thinking ‘I’m going …. What can I do? What can I do?’ You don’t think of the others. What bout these other people? Are you the only one in that condition? No! No! No! The person that you care the most, whether its your lover or whatever it might be, right? Whatever it might be, it’s the same condition. Whether its your wife or your girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever it might be. Its in the same condition as you are. Even worse! Did we ever think that? We don’t think that. So if you keep on thinking those lines, there are worse condition than you are, some of them. Some of them are better, maybe. But most of them are worse condition. [0:51:33.5]

So what bout this one that you love, that one you care most. What bout this one? So you got to do something, right? You cant think only me, me, me, me, me! What bout this one? what bout that one? Everybody has the same problem. And if you look in each one of them, ‘Su Da Chu…...’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tib) [0:52:13.3 to 0:52:31.2] Is this the word call swept? (Audience: swept) Swept along by the currents, (Rimpoche: is that of?) (audience: yes, OF) of the four raging rivers. Now this is the poetry right. If you look in each people in bad condition, what are the bad? How bad they are? Include ourself. How bad are they? How bad are they? Yes, we couldn’t stand on our own feet. We’re carried by the powerful current, river. Powerful rivers. Not only one but four of them coming from four different directions. True. It is coming from four different direction – attachment’s coming from one direction, sweep you from this way; the ignorance comes from another direction push you that way; desire, the river of desire comes from another direction pushing the front. Did I get four rivers? Only three. ‘De Way Chu…..’ (Rimpoche said a Tibetan phrase) [0:54:05.7 to 0:54:14.4] Or the wrong view. Knowing wrongly. Everything’s knowing wrongly. Another current. That is the dualistic mind and all these wrong view that another current push you another direction. [0:54:29.2]

So you are actually caught four powerful neurosis pushing you right and left. Don’t we feel that push and pull all the time? Just think ourself. Think within ourself. We get that push and pull all the time, don’t we?

Rimpoche: Sir! Gentlemen from Texas. Jack/Jeff?? (unsure if this is the name Rimpoche metioned) [0:54:58.0]

Jack/Jeff: Yes.

Rimpoche: You do get pull and push, don’t you? we all get that. Not only you. We all do. Why? This is the problem. Attachment pulls you out, desire push you out, the anger push you other side. That’s why you have pull and push all the time. As you have, all everybody else have it. The person next to you also have it. Everybody that you care will have that, right or wrong Sir?

Audience: Right.

Rimpoche: You’re a Doctor, right? Thank you for the good respond. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Specially you should tell me. You’re the psychologist, right?

Audience: Right.

Rimpoche: See. Its hot.

*Audience laugh*

Rimpoche: Not only you push and pull by the four powerful neuroses. And that’s why every time we cry, every time we want to do something, you can’t get it, every time and some time its physically manifested into some kind of terrifying fear attack. Anxiety attacks are coming from those powerful currents within us. How many times did we cry ourself? All by ourself for the reasons you are knowing or not knowingly or whatever. How many times did we sit in the corner of the room and say: “I don’t want talk about it.”

*Audience laugh*

Rimpoche: Really true. These are all because of these things. Okay? These are all because of these. [0:57:06.1]

‘Shuk Da Cho….’ (RImpoche said a phrase in Tibetan) [0:57:06.2 to 0:57:10.9] So if there’s only currents going back and forth alone, maybe its okay if you’re good swimmer. You can swim. ‘Shu Da Cho Yi……’ (Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan) [0:57:27.5 to 0:57:31.8], you cannot swim because your hands are tied. Not by the police, but by your karma. If you read here it says same thing, isn’t it? Tightly bound by karmic (Rimpoche: what is it?) (Audience: shackles) shackles – ‘Shu Da Cho…..’ (Rimpoche said a Tibetan phrase) [0:57:55.9 to 0:57:59.0], not only your’re tied, if you’re tied and thrown in the river, maybe you can move and maybe there is a chance of getting loose. But you don’t even have that.

‘Dong Zi Chy……’ [0:58:14.5 to 0:58:20.0] – caught in the island web of ego-grasping. Not only your hands are tied, you cannot swim but you’re also in the web, like spider web. You know? You remember when you see, there used to be movie show called what? Spiderman. When he throw the spider and nobody can move. Right? We also got the spider web there, of the ego-grasping spider web. So no hope of losing it at all. Even if in that all these conditions if its daylight, there’s hope of somebody will see you. But not even daylight.

‘Mal Di Mem Re……’ (Rimpoche said a Tib phrase) [0:59:07.1 to 0:59:15.0 ] and the lost in the thick fog of ignorance. So this is the reality of ourself; this is the reality of my friend; this is the reality of the person I care, I love, I owe everything. This is the reality according to Buddhism, this is the reality of my mum.

‘Na Ge Ren……’ Rimpoche said a Tib phrase) [0:59:48.3 to 0:59:52.8] – This is the reality of mum. And when I said mum, don’t look up for your own mum and say: “Oh, I don’t really care what happens to my mum.” Don’t look through that window. But look through the mother’s window. If you look from the mother’s window and mother’s love and mother’s care, from the mum’s point of view to your children and from your point of view looking to your mother is big difference. Isn’t it? I never been mother so I don’t know. But I witnessed it. [1:00:46.0]

The mother will not hesitate if its called by children, whether it is 3 in the morning or 4 in the morning. If you have to drive 100 miles and pick up, you will not hesitate. I’ve seen it. So if you look from the mother’s window and the love and the care given to your children and from your window looking to your mum is big surprise. Big difference! So that is the situation we are all in.

So, we have to generate compassion. You have to generate love. You have to generate compassion. Okay? Having said that, I don’t have much time. I’d like to finish it off but having said that, I must introduce you what is love and what is compassion. This is extremely important. Every one of us will talk love, compassion – ya, wonderful thing. We talk bout it but we need to know what is love, what is compassion. If you don’t, we’re in trouble. It is extremely important to make difference between love and attachment. Its very close.

What is compassion? What is love? I share that story very often. I was with Kyabje Ling Rimpoche one day, and had the opportunity accidently some of ??? out of my mouth (didn’t get the word before OUT) [1:03:02.4] What is this love and compassion all about it? Just slipped out. Its not appropriate to ask question that manner but somehow slipped out of my mouth. And ?? Rimpoche (didn’t get name of Rimpoche here) [1:03:17.5] he eating something, he’s having food and he had napkin and showed me napkin. “This is love, this is compassion.” (Rimpoche is probably gesturing) Did you get message? Sounds like very zen. *Audience laugh* but its not. [1:03:43.5]

Love, compassion basically is one mind. One mind, two different aspects. One aspect is this way, so you care and you wishing these people be free. The person whoever you are having compassion, you wishing to be free of all the pains that person experiencing. You like to go all out and free the pain. The feeling of the pain, you feel more pain sometimes than person whose in the pain. The mothers will tell you if their child is in pain. Those of you being mum, please speak up. You know it! I’ve never been mother. At least if I remember. Ha Ha Ha. I said reincarnation already right? Ha Ha Ha. Really true. You feel the pain almost more than the person and wishing you really need to be free them, even in minutes is too late to get free and that sort of feeling is called – compassion. Are you with me? Is that clear to you? If its not clear, raise your hand. So everybody understood. [1:05:27.1]

Lets turn the napkin round. Sorry the book. Whatever it is anyway. The other aspect is wishing that person remain in the joy, in the joyful manner as long as you can maintain them. That wish of keeping them in the pleasantness, joyfulness is the love. Are you with me? It is one mind, two aspects, focused in one person, two person or more than or all sentient being. It is the greater compassion is to all sentient beings. But let us talk with the person that want cares for or loves for, and wishing them to be really joyful nature. It’s the love, wishing them to be ?? (didn’t get the word after BE) [1:06:33.90] that experience. Any being you can do relief the pain - that is compassion. I’m giving you that example as a one single person, one person to person and similarly then you can expand it then. And the greater compassion is focused on all sentient beings having same aspects and same feeling, its become greater compassion - the great compassion. That is love, that is compassion. Are you with me? You understand? Padma? (unsure if this is the right spelling of the person’s name) [1:07:25.6] David?

David: I don’t know if I understand but I heard you.

Rimpoche: You heard me? Think more. You will understand. Really. And that’s what it is. That is love, that is compassion. And when you generate love and compassion, you generate on the basis of one person, that’s how you train your mind. Though we may say: “All sentient beings may remain with the joy and peace and whatever we may say.” But in our visualization, we’re taught and that is correct we will think that ‘I am the big leader and all sentient beings around me’ but then what happen is if there is nameless, faceless dots, you started dictating them, you be free of suffering or you remain with the joy then nameless, faceless dots will accept. One day, somebody with name and somebody with name and face say: “No, wait a minute!” so then you say: “Oh you’re not supposed to say that. You’re supposed to follow me.” Some people instead of building love and compassion, they even build pride. Because you’ve been always dictating nameless, faceless dots. So you got to make sure it doesn’t happen. It happens one to one, with the name, with the face develop love, develop compassion. Then expand. [1:09:16.7]

Once you be able to do that, then you’re getting through Buddhist 102. Bodhimind level. Okay? So with that, I have to conclude tonight because I already overtook your, overtook its gone beyond the 10 o’clock. Do we have any poem, Allen?

Allen: (someone said something but inaudible) [1:09:46.7 to 1:09:57.3]

Rimpoche: Correct. You have question? Okay (recording stopped at [1:10:01.3] )