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19980723GR2-01 4th May 2022

Can I seat here and do the prayer here? She want to go the room upstairs. There is a little tumbler which I have, personal (0.01:28.1) I said no, no. I am doing some retreat myself, so you better not go up. You can seat in the living room next to the that. And then, I think she left. The next day, she came 8.30. I said don’t change my house to Jewel Heart temple. But you can stay here. She was annoyed. She sort of two minutes, went away. I didn’t even know she went away. Then she called me on the phone. I said, you here. She said no I went away. I don’t want to hear. I am not trying to change your living room to Jewel Heart temple. Blah, blah, blah, all these. A little later while I was watching television , she came back. She was trying to do my prayers. She didn’t say anything.

Then two days ago, she completely. Then I said what happened? After I said my prayers, all these problems pop up like boiling hot water. And I said, that’s great. Because you know why. She’s not giving any opportunity for her thoughts, to be process. She keep on absolutely busy running here, running there, doing this, doing that, doing this, doing that. All sorts of things, not giving her any opportunity. And when it get burst, I told her , when it get bursted, we will have to take her to the hospital to get morphine injection. And that’s where you are going to be landed. But luckily you said your prayers. It give a little time for your thoughts to filter what the hell. That’s why you survived in this intense condition. Physically shaking like this. And doing everything, intense condition. Happens two three months. At least you do your prayers. So after that you give yourself a little time. I am not saying the prayer did it. Because you give yourself time and that’s why these thoughts pops up. You can argue, see it and air out. So you don’t need a morphine injection yet. So that’s it. Thoughts are there and the more intense you are , the thoughts becomes more intense. And when you are under pressure, the thoughts will give you more pressure. That’s that. So, even if you need to reject or preserve the thoughts, when you can do that, you begin your happiness. You begin your spiritual path. Not true. You did not begin your spiritual path. But you really being your happy. You will be a little more happier. And when you knew it yourself. You are responsible to yourself. And that is your action, that makes a difference. Then you begin your spiritual path. So I lied to you earlier. There is one more step in between. So, all of them built on the mind. So, whether we talked about Odyssey to Freedom or Lamrim and all these. It is absolutely nothing but mind training. But don’t think like super mind training. We are not focussed in that way. We are focusing, we focused on the way of training the mind to bring positivities in our lives for ourselves and for others. I believe that is the theme of Tibetan Buddhism and if you are interested in the spiritual path, lead by, shared by Buddha on the basis of his experience. That’s the way to go. (0.06:15.6) Doesn’t begin with prayer. Doesn’t begin with mantra. Begin with watching yourself. Does not begins by watching others. We are good at that.

Buddha shared some stories. During Buddha’s life, Buddha’s time. There were two groups of monkeys and . Two groups, they have been fighting. Against each other. There was a small river going in between. May not be river, some groove, must be. And the middle of one side of the monkey, some one came out of manure. Manure, right? A lot of the, doesn’t shave and all those. And still he is eating and he started to look at the other side. The leader of the other one has a tiny little manure at the tip of the tail. So this one who covered his body with manure said “ Look, look. Loke at him. He has manure on his tail” And that’s what we do. We see others and see all their faults and we don’t know ourselves, totally in that. So the spiritual path tells you not to look at the little manure on the tail of the other monkey but try to look at yourself . Maybe I have to grow a little fat here and there. What more you find here. I think that’s how we begin. And all the other steps that we shared on Odyssey to Freedom is that. I think that is basically what I taught in Mongolia, in Bakula Rimpoche’s monastery. I just shared that. More or less. ( 0.08:46.3). I did not shared the jokes.

I guessed we have to call for questions. Go ahead .

Audience: You talked about the mind training is not physical training. What about saying mantra , using mala as a tool to calm the mind down.

Rimpoche : Purpose of the mala is to keep your number. Nothing more than that. To tell you the truth. You know, if you have to say 100,000 times, you have to keep count. And that’s the mala does the job.

Audience : What about saying mantra?

Rimpoche : It will help. It will have it’s own contribution as good as yoga, martial arts, prostration, circumambulation. They have the same efforts. But then you have to be good at it, right? Especially effecting from the mantra, you have to be saying a lot of mantras, a lot of efforts, to be fainted. The bottom line to me is the mind level. Not the physical, not the sound. That’s what it is. It all helps, it all do good things. My point is, not us not hold a branch of the tree but hold the tree trunk or the root. And that’s why it really grows. ( 0.10: 43.0)