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Soundfile 19960831GRSR3P05

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

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Topic 3 Principles of the Path

Transcriber Xin Yan

Date 19/03/2021

By now, you have some idea of Bodhimind. And if you can generate Bodhimind, that is great, that is the best one. Even you cannot generate Bodhimind, (Rimpoche: Can you see me from there? Or if you move slightly this side, will be a little better. Okay, now you got good seat. Where is little Nick? You're okay? Little Nick. Ha Ha Ha. How little is he? It's big one. Ha Ha Ha. This way, not that way. Ha Ha Ha) If you can really think of Bodhimind, maybe I should share that with you. Bodhimind is what we call that, let's not do that. Let's do this. What we are talking here, we are talking 3 principle aspects of the Buddha's path or teaching that Buddha gave. I repeatedly told you number of times and every time I emphasize Buddhism is nothing than that of Buddha's personal experience of a journey through a spiritual path. Are you with me? That is very important point one has to remember.

If you look at Buddhism as some of kind of classical, Eastern religion meant to be either taught in the university or maybe put in the ??? (unsure of the word after THE) [0:02:17.3] archive or something, then it really doesn't work. Buddhism is nothing than that of Buddha's personal experience of a journey through the path. And on that basis, people who are following the Buddha's footsteps, they add up their experience. And it is still a living tradition, living tradition in the sense people still practice that, people still develop and the next generation comes up and practice the same thing and develops. And they make it through. That's why it is called living tradition. It is not a documentation, its not a historical thing, really. That's what it is. [0:03:24.9]

Out of all the Buddha's essence, not in the sense of religion, in the sense of western religion, you say sort of have to go and pray, you got to pray just to make it today. You don't have to do that. Remember that Alfred used to say that all the time.Anyway, so the essence of all these Buddha's experience, you will see there is lots of big, long steps lines and this and that, the real boils down to in the sutra, only 3 most important things. 3 important things. That's why we call 3 Principles of the Path, 3 most important points. Point number 1, we call Buddhist 101.

Rimpoche: What's that now? I’m sorry. What did you say Amy?

Amy: Determination to be free????(please recheck) [0:04:32.2 to 0:04:35.0]

Rimpoche: From what?

Amy: Samsara

Rimpoche: How?

Amy: Banishing our neuroses?? (please recheck)[0:04:39.3 to 0:04:43.0]

Rimpoche: Banishing? How do you banish them? You know the other day we are having one of the weekend and John??? (unsure of name) [0:04:57.8] got up and say, “Get over it!” Right? Get over it! That's how you banish?

Audience: I think... ??? (unsure of this sentence, audio unclear) [0:05:10.1 to 0:05:12.7] By acknowledging a situation.

Rimpoche: Great. By acknowledging. Everybody's contributing you know. What did you say?

Audience: Having compassion for themselves.

Rimpoche: What did you say, Lee?

Lee: Having compassion for themselves.

Rimpoche: Having compassion for ourself? Oh really? Good, good. Kate? Share your goal.

Kate: …..? (audio unclear) [0:05:32.1 to 0:05:40.9]

Rimpoche: The three of them together, they are all purifying all negativities by application of four powers and accumulating merit and wisdom. So she put 3 thing together. I don’t know. [0:05:59.2] Supa?? (unsure if this is what Rimpoche meant) [0:06:04.4] We need you here. Je Dop Lu?? (unsure of this name Rimpoche mentioned) [0:06:12.5] I’m sorry.

Audience: (someone said something about USED TO SEEKING FREEDOM) [0:06:16.7]

Rimpoche: Correct. That’s what it is. I’d like to say how? Come on. Je Dop Lu??? (unsure of this name Rimpoche mentioned) [0:06:26.5]

Audience: (audio unclear) [0:06:29.1 to 0:06:30.4]

Rimpoche: She’s not even looking at me. ??? (Rimpoche mentioned a name) [0:06:35.2]

Audience: (someone replied but audio unclear) [0:06:36.6 to 0:06:40.7]

Rimpoche: Not yet ??? (unsure of this sentence) [0:06:41.5] Okay then go ahead. Well, we talked bout for 5 days already and by now I should have some answer. What did you say?

Audience: Wisdom, enthusiasm, concentration, patience, generosity.

Rimpoche: That’s how you ??? (word after YOU unclear) [0:07:13.6] May be. I can’t say you’re wrong. Je Dop Lu? (unsure of the spelling of the name of the person here) [0:07:20.3] You still thinking.

Audience: (audio unclear) [0:07:24.2 to 0:07:34.8] Acknowledging suffering.

Rimpoche: Anyway, Carol.

Carol: Realising?? (audio unclear) [0:07:40.1 0:07:50.0]

Rimpoche: Did you say realizing or abandoning?

Carol: Abandoning *audience laugh*

Rimpoche: Why? Real good lawyers do that, right? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Ya, very good! We call that Buddhist 101 is seeking freedom from bottomline. You know we cut out all the formalities and all these, just bottomline, straightforward language – seeking freedom from neuroses. Why? Because you may think. ‘Oh it is karma who does. Not so much the neuroses.’ But the karma is the result of those neuroses. And as long as you have neuroses with you and you keep on purifying karma, no matter how much you purify, it will rise up again, and again and again. Right? [0:09:01.3]

So therefore, point where you deal with, is the neuroses. In order to get yourself free from the first Noble Truth, you cut cause of the first Noble Truth which is the second Truth, which will be basically divided into 2 – karmic cause and delusion cause. You really deal with the delusion cause. Then karma will finish up. Negative karma will be finished. When there’s no more river or water coming from anywhere else, and whatever little leftover here, they will vanish one day. Finish one day.

So the real problem here is the neuroses. Actually practice you call it, you call it spiritual practice. Whatever we all it. The main point here is challenging the neuroses and actually really declaring war against the neuroses. And try to beat them up, defeat them totally by application of wisdom and love compassion. These are your tools – love, compassion, wisdom. What are you challenging? The neuroses. Declare war against neuroses and get yourself free from them. If we look, if you really search for enemy, not the guy who slapped you yesterday. The real enemy is our neuroses. They constantly beat us, beat and beat and beat! And they took our life number of times. Really, all our miseries are coming from them. So if you really need enemy, you have it within you, not outside. [0:11:22.9]

I forget name of that one Tibetan Lama *Rimpoche mentioned something in Tibetan* [0:11:33.0 to 0:11:44.4] One of the Tibetan master, very well-known , maybe the founder of ??? tradition, *didn’t get word before TRADITION* [0:11:51.4] he sort of little crazy wisdom in Tibet earlier. So one of the little village ruler and his prince got sick, and so they wanted to do exorcism and he made all these big arrangement of throwing the sacrifices and burning in the outside. And when he’s going out, he said, “I don’t have any enemies around here, where I’m going to throw?” He carried these up and down and the whole family thought this crazy guy what is he doing is terrible! Finally he went upstairs where the prince is really sick, with the real enemies here so he throw on top of that. So that’s the very important point to remember. So the object on which you really do exorcism is the our real enemy within us. *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:12:56.9 to 0:13:13.9] [0:13:13.9]

Anyway, in one of the first Dalai Lama’s prayers to Tsongkhapa, and in that, they also mentioned the real enemy is within ourself and when you see the enemy within you, if you try to perform exorcism outside, it is like the enemy is in the east you go to the war in the west. That’s not going to work, right? The enemy is here, you declare war at this side. It doesn’t work. Just like that. So the real problem, real cause of suffering, the true enemy is within us. And so if you really want a freedom, you got to get free from those neurosis. When I say seek freedom, seek freedom from our own neurosis and that’s the way. That’s what it is. I know you have question if I give you time, then I may lose my streak. Okay, ya, one. Go ahead. Only one, don’t raise hand. Kate, go ahead.

Kate: *audio unclear* [0:14:33.9 to 0:14:38.9]

Rimpoche: Oh, there you go. Beat them up!

Kate: I don’t think so.

Rimpoche: Why not? W

Kate: *audio unclear* [0:14:48.0 to 0:14:48.1]

Rimpoche: Definitely not. Good idea. You know you really give me good point. So when you studying beating the neurosis within you, and you beating the neurosis, you’re not beating yourself. We’re getting wrong identity. What wrong identity is, we identify ourself with our neurosis. This is the one of the problem. Our neurosis and we identifying one. That is the trick that ego plays on you. This is our problem as long as we mix these 2 together, you cannot beat them because you’re beating yourself. So our neuroses are not ourself. Don’t you ever forget, as Buddha nature, as a deep person, as the deepest human being, a wonderful, kind, beautiful nature that we have. We are the person who will become fully enlightened being very soon, so we cannot be oneness with the neuroses. [0:16:14.3]

That is very important. Ego plays trick on us. So actually what happens is when you try to beat our own neuroses, we get those pain, we cry, we scream, we yell – all theses. Who is getting hurt? Not you, your ego. Your ego felt humiliated, your ego feels that you have been ignored. All of those are the ego. Ego. Remember. Let it cry, let it weep. So what? By doing that, you can come up. That’s very important. Make sure that you do not identify with your neuroses. If you’re doing it, that’s problem. Trying to separate yourself with your neuroses. Are you with me? These dualistic mind, bla bla bla all these, deluded mind, all these normally people talk, and that is the problem there. That is the problem. And no more questions, I’m sorry. Because then I will get mixed up here.

Anyway, so seeking freedom is Buddhist 101. And we did talk how do we seek freedom. 2 ways – looking at other people, generating love and compassion, realizing you are not only person, everybody is particularly person right in front of your nose, those who are with you, who you care, you love, all of them. Your children, your family, your companion, your partner, your homosexual partner or heterosexual partner, whatever it may be. The person that you love, you live with it, you share life with that and others. And all of them are having the same condition as you are. Recognize that, acknowledge that. And when you look back to yourself, you will also see you are not the only person who are suffering. You look other people, you see their pain too. [0:19:07.5]

Are you with me? So when you acknowledge their pain, when you see, when you recognize their pain, when see your own pain all these, then you begin to work – how to get away from them. Even wish will do! I and all sentient beings may be free from suffering and cause of suffering. I and all sentient beings, if you want to may remain in the joy that never know sorrow. Even wish! So I was try to tell you last couple of days, don’t keep on thinking ‘what can I do, what can I do, what can I do’. Don’t beat yourself inside ‘what can I do, what can I do’, and switch to the love compassion and caring for the others. When you make that transition, its automatically working. You are finding way how you can get rid of your neuroses by developing love and compassion and working for the others. By exercising 6 paramitas, 6 activities for the benefit of others is your working through. That’s how you get rid of your neuroses. Not looking ‘what can I do, what can I do’ that’s not going to do any good. And if you keep on saying ‘what can I do, what I can do, what I can do’ then for after little while you can do nothing, you simply pray. And that’s about it. I mean prayer has a value, I’m not denying that. But you can do better than that.

After all, we are intelligent human beings, educated people with all kinds of methods available. From the Judaic-Christian tradition to Hindu Buddhist tradition, to east to the west, all kind of, all of these are the method of doing that. So you do not have to depend only simply praying. If you only depend on prayer, you can go to the corner of this street, there’s a saying ‘you got to pray just to make it today’ and join that club. So the human value has gone. Human intelligence here, you must use that. Anyway, I’m sorry I talk too much. I didn’t intend to talk that way.

So anyway, Buddhist 101 – seeking freedom. Buddhist 102 - generating love compassion. Love compassion can be generated either by using, I’m sorry, Bodhimind can be generated either by using seven steps or exchange steps – which you will become 7-11. Its always been 24 hours. So anytime you can do that. Day or night, in one way we call it meditation, so you cut of certain time and give yourself – that’s wonderful. That’s wonderful. But if you can’t do it, any time you have that you get any time you get, you sit on and think about it and that’s becomes meditation. For me, these days it works very well when you stay on the throne (not this!), back there! You know what I mean. Huh? Or having a warm shower. These are the good time you can think. [0:23:52.8]

As matter of fact on this love and compassion, I think 2 years ago or 3 years ago. Allen did benefit for Jewel Heart – I do remember the date, its Feb 28th (I don’t know which year it is, forgot the year. Remember?) and Allen got me on stage and asked certain questions. The answer is love and compassion I know for sure. I forgot question, whatever it is. And I said love and compassion. Allen said something to me, something bush bush bush, something. I really didn’t get him what he said. And so that’s 4000 people there watching with spotlight. So I sort of smile little bit and get myself excused and Allen didn’t excuse me so much. But afterwards I asked Allen, ‘what did you say?’ ‘Oh I thought you didn’t get it, I said buzz word, I thought its Bonjour or something, what does Bonjour or something. ‘Buzz word.’ And I said, ‘what does that mean?’ So Allen give me long history where did the word come from all these, but the bottomline is too much usage by so many people and almost become meaningless. Am I right? Thank you. [0:25:24.7]

So I thought that a lot. Really, I thought that a lot. Love, compassion. Love. I think compassion’s there too. Okay, maybe love. Okay. Anyway love or compassion. For me the thought was both of them together. What I’m thinking, that’s overused. What it really means…a number of times I thought. And then I turn on TV and you know who showed up? Pat Robertson comes up and talking bout the love and compassion. And I begin to realized it is overused and meaningless. Its becoming meaningless - to the right extreme Pat Robertson, to the left extreme Ram Dass. Everybody uses love compassion, love compassion. There is a compassion construction company in Australia. So its really overused and become meaningless. If you lose the meaning, you lose the value. The compassion or love becomes valueless. Its only become buzz word. Now I can say buzz word. Really. [0:26:52.3]

So to making sure the love compassion you feel the love compassion. You must have feeling for that if you don’t feel, why you have to be compassionate? If you don’t feel the pain, and then your compassion wil be valueless. Remember during the last election? Bush doesn’t know how much a carton of milk cost or pound of meat cost. Remember? But Clinton could tell. And people say he’s out of touch, so he lost the election. Right? Not that recent but he really lost that. So if you are out of touch and if you simply using the word, doesn’t work. You must touch. And way and how you understand the pain of other person if you realized how difficult its on you. even you have to crawl little bit right now, its not bad. Its not only a cause of seeking yourself free from the negative emotions but it also a cause to develop pure love and pure compassion for others. Even you have to cry, even you have to shed crocodile tear right now, doesn’t matter, it has value. Okay? So I’m getting lost now. Love and compassion. Okay? That is the second principle. So you already read. [0:28:46.0]

The third principle the transaction from the second to third, from second to third is cutting down the idiot compassion. Bottomline, cutting down idiot compassion. How can you cut idiot compassion if you have wisdom, then you can cut idiot compassion. If you don’t have wisdom, then you cannot cut idiot compassion. Idiot compassion is compassion, compassion is also compassion – it doesn’t makes much difference because it will do. If you cut down idiot, a number of people asked me, ‘in this principle, if I become a doormat, should I continuously remain to be doormat?’ Certainly not. You become a doormat because you are influenced by idiot compassion, lack of wisdom makes you doormat. You understand that? I want you to clearly understand that, you know. Wisdom is extremely important. Each one of those Bodhisattva activities must have wisdom within that. If you don’t have wisdom, then it’s a problem. So picking u the wisdom, most important wisdom in Buddhism is what Buddha introduced – its emptiness. Right? Emptiness. Where are you going to find emptiness? Where would you look? [0:31:00.5]

You know during the teachings in Tibet, particularly at the time of the Lama Chopa teaching and Mahamudra teaching. Particularly during the Mahamudra teaching, Kyabje Trijang Rimpoche in the ??? *didn’t get words after Tirjang Rimpoche) [0:31:20.5 to 0:31:22.5] In one day, he make ?? [0:31:27.2] you know over a month in some remote monastery, some corner. So we went there and teaching going on everyday. And one day he stopped teaching. And told everybody and go and search the ego. Searching ego - go through the mountains and valleys and everywhere and go and search ego. So he did that. So there’s an empty valley, you run up and down to look for emptiness. *audience laughs* Emptiness must be in empty valley somewhere. What do you think? Do you think emptiness can be found in empty valley?

Audience: No

Rimpoche: No? Did you say no? Why?

Audience: ……….everywhere including the entire..???? *audio unclear* [0:32:32.4 to 0:32:43.9]

Rimpoche: *laughs* What do you want to say?

Audience: I wanted to say…??? *audio unclear* [0:32:52.6 to 0:33:01.4]

Rimpoche: When you talk bout the emptiness, remember yesterday? I said please underline 3 times here - Hence apply yourself through the method of understanding relativity. Relativity. Relativity. Underline. So when you go and run around empty valley, you’re not going to find neither the emptiness nor you going to find ego, nor you going to find object of negation. You’re not going to find. If you keep on emptiness in zero, you’re going to find only zero. I told you that last night, its still fresh with the warmness there, how can you forget? Ha Ha Ha Ha okay? [0:34:02.0]

So, where you look for? Where you look for? Look in the relativity. Relativity how do we exist? If you look in the where and how we exist, you will find we exist dependently. Are you with me now? Dependently. Kate? Dependently. Not independently. Dependently. What does dependently mean? You depend on your existence. Right? There is no such thing according to Buddha, whether its human being or particles, whatever it might be. There is no such thing where you can point it out ‘This is it!’ There is no such thing. Even the atoms are supposed to be the last piece, right? So now you can see it, it divided into 3 categories and each one of those 3 different categories will also divided into 3, right? Neutrons and the whatever the names I don’t get. I wish Tony is here but he’s gone back to Tokyo. Ha Ha Ha Ha Protons and photons and then something. And that also divide into 3 catergories. Ya, all these. So the Buddha’s main point is, you know no matter is scientist look into the detail and they can say up to here and they can recognize, the can discover again, it’ll come down. The Buddha’s point is, there’s no single item which cannot be divided into. And that’s the one of the reason why the Buddha’s point of existing on the dependent and the relativity. I’m talking about even scientist would accept that. Okay? That’s what it is. [0:36:34.5]

So since it is dependent arise, there is no independent. Zero of independent self existing, independent self existing. Are you with me? So that’s why Tsongkhapa says, ‘look in the relativity’. He could have easily said, ‘look in zero’ – he didn’t say that. Look in the relativity. So once you dependent arise, then empty of independent existent. Even ourself, we are depend on the combination of body and mind, and you may say, ‘ah, mind in all there, its okay. Let the body go. What happens after the body go? Mind will still go.’ – Ya! There are lot of other particles of mind, mental faculties, every time collectivity, collectiveness. Collection, okay. Collection of things or collection of mind, its all of these- you never going to find a single one. You get it? That’s your wisdom. Since its dependent arise, everything makes difference. There’s room for everything. ‘Kal La Thung….’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:38:35.0 to 0:38:40.3] If there is emptiness, everything have room for everything. Every moment you can have it. Every cause can come, every karmic can function, every miracle thing happens. Everything! There’s room for everything. It is all vast, huge wonderful thing. If there is no emptiness, then everything, there’s nothing, there’s no room. Everything blocked. Are you with me? So that’s your wisdom. Every single thing. Cold, hot, well, sick, joy, suffering – everything. Collective of things. So you have room to play everywhere. That means you are responsible to yourself. Are you with me? [0:39:50.4]

Once you begin to see the wisdom, emptiness, if you’re losing the relativity and the cause and nature, then you’re lost. Your emptiness is wrong. It should be saying in the next verse, it should be saying there. (Could you give that book? I don’t remember that. I normally have by heart, I don’t remember now.) ‘Maw Wa Deng…..’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:41:02.0 to 0:41:09.9] So the moment the emptiness and relativity if you’re seeing separately, last night somebody talked about it when we read that verse. Didn’t we? What verse is that? *DIDN’T GET THIS VERSER MENTIONED HERE* [0:41:28.2] ‘on the appearance side, the relativity of dependent arising on the emptiness side and understanding of the lack of true existence. So long as these 2 appears to the mind as separate. One still has not achieve insight of the master.’ ‘……..’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:42:05.9 to 0:42:07.5] The real intention of the Buddha we still not understood. So once you separating that, even you get some sort of understanding followed by word, and that understanding is called wisdom that follows the information. Even at that level, we are separating the relativity and the emptiness and we’re not getting it right. Not only that, number of people who thinks when they mastered on the point of emptiness, then they think they can totally ignore the cause and effects, they can totally ignore cause and effects because they think they have mastered the emptiness. It’s a clear sign of people have wrongly understood the meaning of this particular word here saying ‘so long as those to appears to the mind as separate, it’s the wrong side?? (unclear) [0:43:39.1] So the right side should be, ‘by seeing that way, indirectly what they’re telling you these 2 should appear together. One should be complementing each other rather than contradicting each other.’ And if you think what doesn’t matter at the end, everything is empty, if that’s true emptiness, there will contradict with cause and effect. Are you with me? [0:44:13.2]

There are great number of teachers who preach and the number of people who saw at the end there is no problem, its all empty. Ah great, its all empty, good bye! Really true. That’s what happens. So when you really getting through that point, at the end its everything empty doesn’t matter, its for little while we have to go that way, which you totally ignore relativity. The more you understand emptiness, you should gain more respect to cause and effect. And that makes people really a principle you practice what you preach. You know what I mean? That’s what it is. You practice what you preach. If you’re not doing that, you’re wrong. You’re misleading. Anyway, I better go on.

*No audio* [0:45:27.5 to 0:46:30.8]

‘Ngi Shi Nyu……..’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:46:31.5 to 0:46:54.7] When the true understanding occur as one without imbalance, the simply perceiving untelling of dependent rising destroys the misapprehension of the ultimate natural things. At that time, the sense of the view of emptiness is complete. Okay? ‘Nung Shi Ren…….’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:47:36.0 to 0:47:43.6] so that’s why if you looking in the dependent arise, the dependent arise one depends on the other, the dependent relationship by looking through that cause and effects and looking through path in the particles combined together makes things exist. Then you by seeing that, if you begin to realize there is no inherent existence – which is really means we cannot point out this is it and there is no more deviation! We cannot get. [0:48:23.1]

Once you see that and without destroying the relativity, that is the time – then you have completed the wisdom with you. Such a wisdom when you are able to comprehend, your ignorance has gone, eliminated. And that’s how you totally abandon your neuroses. Your neuroses within you, they all rotted to that ignorance because that ignorance of not knowing separation from ‘me’ and ‘my feelings’ and ‘my neuroses’ and that’s why you provide lots of sensitive buttons when somebody push that button, you feel ‘ouch’! Right? That’s what it is. So if you can master that wisdom, what happens then, that eliminates the ignorance completely. When the ignorance is gone, the red carpet under the feet of neuroses been pulled out. So what they will do? They will collapse sooner or later. They’re bound to collapse. [0:50:12.8]

That’s how you get truly abandon your neuroses. Once for all. Once for all. Okay? That is Buddha’s special thing over none Buddhist teachers during the Buddha’s lifetime. ‘Tsu Chu……’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:50:37.6 to 0:50:48.0] One of the greatest Hindu master who had become a Buddhist follower, ‘……….’ *Rimpoche mentioned a few phrase in Tibetan* [0:50:53.9 to 0:51:03.5] Anyway, I think that Dharmakirti or Chandrakirti or one of them, so great Buddhist master who had the talented/challenged Buddhist teachers and the Buddhist university in Nalanda, and they debated. And afterwards, ???? lost *didn’t get word before LOST* [0:51:23.2], he got lost on the basis of, on the basis of karmic point and somehow he accepted, you know ???? *didn’t get phrase after KNOW* [0:51:35.4 to 0:51:37.0], so sometimes he has to accept the karmic so he has to accept the karmic and the result together, so he has to accept when one and goes up on a little grass, he said there are one hundred elephants on top of that grass. But that time he could no longer debate and he flew in the air. So that Buddhist teacher chased him, chased him and finally got him down, and put him in the prison, there’s no other prison so they put in the some kind of old library where all of the books, destroyed books and they put him in there. And he sat on there, so he started reading the Buddhist books here and there. And finally one little piece of paper he pull out from under his ass and started reading and Buddha mentioned about it 200, 300 years before and there will be such a teacher and will have this debate and this and that. He got biggest shock and then he finally give up and then he wrote praise to Buddha and he said difference between Buddha’s application of wisdom and his old school application of wisdom. [0:53:00.7]

He said the difference is, they will emphasize to sitting and cutting down the, avoiding dealing with the neuroses and the keep in mind the pure as much as possible, keep on sitting and sitting and sitting. And that the negative thoughts will be reduced. But Buddha’s way is using this wisdom and removing the red carpet from underneath the neurosis – ‘Cheh Chi…..’ *Rimpoche said a Tibetan phrase* [0:53:43.8 to 0:53:52.2] He said those following him used to be sitting and sitting and sitting and reached to the peak of samsara and live up there for hundreds of eons without any feeling, almost like vegetable, dry vegetable. Beautiful dry vegetable. Then something happens. Something happens. He give example, somehow the mice comes and bit his hair or something and certainly reflects back on the anger and loses the power of concentration. And he fall back. That’s why one of the reason why Buddha keep on saying, ‘there is no fall back’. That’s the point. And he goes on saying, ‘Tre Je…….’ *Rimpoche said a Tib phrase* [0:54:49.4 to 0:54:52.3] – those who are following you, they do not even get to the level one of Samadhi sitting. However you remove the root of the samsara like crows removing dead bodies’ eyeballs. ‘Dung Di Mi…….’ *Rimpoche said a phrase in Tibetan* [0:55:09.1 to 0:55:11.4] – you destroy the whole samsara. That is the beauty of this wisdom. That is Buddha’s best gift. And clarified by Tsongkhapa. It’s the best gift for us and we hope make best use of it. Anyway, here’s the information, its up to you. That’s it. Okay, I’m going to stop here tonight. I got to stop here because there is a number of reasons. [0:55:42.2]

Rimpoche: Do you need 10, 15 minutes? Go ahead, take your time then. I will sort of make chit chat here for 10 minutes.

Audience: *audio unclear* [0:56:09.3 to 0:56:16.0]

Rimpoche: You are right. It is dependent arise. You know these idea of atom dividing down into the neutron and these and that? It is so much so, sometimes I wonder how people take things. How people take things. Everyone one of us depending on each other, that’s why so much connection, interdependent thing. Whatever happens in China, will definitely affect here. Whatever happens here, it definitely affects everywhere. Yet people still goes on and doing all those constantly continuously they don’t stop, I don’t really understand that how we expected to live. I do not expect this traction of the world is one big boom one day, at least for a while. But however, those environmental damage doing everywhere is tremendously affect every part of the world. We’re so much dependent, you know. The people are dependent, the earth is dependent, the nations are dependent, everything is dependent. We exist only by depending on the other particles. This is the basic principle of Buddhist emptiness. Making it simple language, simple talk. Maybe if I make it too simple, I may be doing disservice for you. I’m not sure. Hopefully not. Anyway, that’s that. So the point what I have to raise tonight, now material. You remember that combination of spiritual and the temporal together? The material part of it. Material part of it, I mean the new ones you have no idea. Most of you know that we have a sort of, we already talk about the raising funds only twice in the year during the summer retreat as well as during the Winter Retreat. So I would like to simply say, I don’t talk all the time. And it is sort of almost embarrassing and difficult to say. Whatever, but you still have to talk. Jewel Heart is functioning, doing okay and doing quite good service as far as I’m concern to all of us. *Rimpoche and audience laughs* Generosity – you know when I first came in United States in 1964, I saw Johnson on the television keep on saying people, urging people spend money. Do you remember that at all? It was spend money, Johnson. In 1964 I think, urging people to spend money, some economic system. Whatever that’s happening. So I thought ‘wow, these americans are very much Buddhist because in Buddhism, the generosity is the cause of work. Buddha himself said - ‘Men De…….’ *Rimpoche said a Tib phrase* [1:00:33.2 to 1:00:39.5] so the Buddha recommended Bodhisattvas, the first action – action of generosity. Because generosity is the cause of joy, particularly human beings without having wealth, you cannot have comfort. And the cause of the wealth is the generosity, not the ??? *didn’t get this word Rimpoche said* [1:01:08.4], generosity.

Okay. And beside that, you all know how important generosity is and there are 3 things you can be generous about – doesn’t have to be the money only and the best generosity is sharing your qualities, sharing your knowledge, sharing your spiritual way is considered one of the best generosity. And second category of generosity is material generosity – that is giving medicine, shelter for the homeless and all of those type. And the most again important one is generosity of protection from fear – that is the most important too. Generosity of protection from fear. Anybody who are in the difficulty, who are under threat, giving protection, saving lives, you know what’s happening here when somebody started shooting in the middle of the day and people going by up and down has never heard bout it, never seen anything – that is no good. One must give protection for others who cannot defend themselves. That’s called giving protection from the fear. These are the 3 most important recommended by Buddha so I’ll leave there now. I think some thing’s happening, people started giggling in and out. One more minute? I have nothing to say, what to say now.