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Importance of unbroken lineage

Short text you can buy great teacher Tsongkhapa and it is extremely short, even shorter than the shortest Lamrim. So actually it gives you a basically an almost complete training of the mind so we are going through an outline as well and the people who have the text have it with you so please read and so you know what we are talking where you are. And those of you who do not have a textbook with you as well as the lineage prayer and the protector’’s prayer those who don’’t have they need it and I think they should get it by next Tuesday. Will somebody please take responsibility of printing them again and have it available. And whoever that somebody might be but somebody who was able to do it. And make sure seven and eight switch around or six and seven what ever it is switch around. Okay so those who have the book earlier and Allen why don’’t you also attach this Foundation of Perfection with that particular book when you print it so that everybody will have but most of the people have with you.231

So basically we made a basic outline preliminary actual and conclusion. Preliminary is we do not discuss here because it was covered at the (?) level. An actual we have actual as root of all development guru devotional practice guru yoga practice and after that how to lead individuals how to train individuals mind training of the mind through the various (?) so the root of all development guru devotional practice we have covered last week did I give an opportunity to ask questions last week maybe not so maybe people may have questions on that anyway root of all development guru devotional practice is the basically the first verse how do you say?

Audience: Following the kind master the foundation of all perfections is the root and basis of the path empower me to see this clearly and to follow well

Rimpoche: (Rimpoche laughs) you don’’t have book with you Oh you’’re saying by heart okay okay so anyway root of all development is guru devotional practice from which I’’ve sort of talked three different ways the quality of the guru what should be what should we look for and the actual devotional practice I didn’’t really talk what quality of the master and what is the necessity of it and all this. We did not really talk about the practice of it but we talked the quality of the master and the necessity of unbroken lineage and how important to have the tradition and these are what we have done importantness of the tradition is very important if you don’’t have a tradition and all of a sudden an innovator can create an ism any ism you know you can create a

(?) ism or so true 538

(Rimpoche laughs) but that is okay intellectually presentable and things can be done however is that going to benefit individuals who try to follow I mean somebody is going to sacrifice their time opportunity and precious life to try to follow that the footsteps in the hope of gaining something and what guarantee can that person have it? And that is a problem so it is really a problem that’’s why, did anybody bring that Liberation in Palm? No did anybody read it in between because I would try to quote that quotation out of there. The 10 not 11. First line in Day 10 does anybody have the book here? Yes it is nice to if you have it is nice to look at it and say what it is maybe Kathy would have it here if not then where it your Palm? So that’’s why I was given the importantness of the tradition and I don’’t mean it has to be a Buddhist tradition I’’m not saying it has to be a Tsongkhapa followed tradition I’’m not saying that I’’m saying that it is important to have some kind of lineage masters 755

and so sort of you can follow the footsteps you can follow them like they’’re (?) I am talking from the Buddhist point of view you can see it you talk about it and though when Buddha died whatever happened to Buddha nobody has seen it but it is like you know there are millions of people there after keep on... so there are millions of people who follow the (?) And the lineage masters one after another so it’’s not a strange path or strange place that you go 845

Highway leads to enlightenment

And you reach through a proper way and so that at least to make sure that what effort you put in is not wasted you get somewhere. And that’’s why the tradition is important and otherwise would you like to read that very same quotation in the middle there I don’’t think there’’s commentary on that quotation. loud and clearly

audience: (?) Pabonka quoted the following phrase from the writings of (?) A great adept This is not the false invented Dharma because it is the pith of authentic oral teachings.951

This is not foolish talk because it comes from classical texts by the great forerunners this is not a shimmering mirage because Saints and scholars and adepts have tested it. This is not a perilous cliff because it is the highway to highest enlightenment

Rimpoche: thank you the word in Tibetan is (he speaks Tibetan) so in the short it is the rare path which really leads to the highway leads to the highest enlightenment actually the path really leads to the highest level where the main potential can achieve. So that is the inner way indirectly translate the quality of the tradition in another way it assures the individual there is a number of people that have followed they have achieved it is not some kind of whispering by somebody. There are a lot of those things. you know somebody he said early in the morning when I’’m half asleep and half awake my vision says blah blah blah blah blah and these are considered to be unauthentic an example of unauthenticness1131

There are a great many adepts what is the word? like siddis right? Adepts who also have a great vision and who will tell you great things which is really also true and there’’s a number of us like us they have half a deluded mind and half projected deluded (Rimpoche laughs) anyway so you get that you know half hallucinating and half confused and all this and you get something else and then unless you are constantly checked counter checked and reassured otherwise you will be misleading a lot of people. Or even one single person if you mislead it and then that wastes that person’’s life waste your own life and ultimately both the master and the student will be suffering in the hell realms for a number of eons 1315

So that is something to be avoid (audience and Rimpoche laughs) so not to have that so it is important the path is not misleading and that is very important to see. And when you see the path is not misleading there is an uninterrupted lineage a number of people have practiced and it helped and it gains and it is continuously affecting the individual then it is some kind of signal that you’’re getting some kind of sign some kind of message that it is okay and so sometimes certain things will be very helpful to the individual. But it is not necessarily an individual will lead to the highest enlightenment level the highest place where the human potential can lead it might not be needed. But even they’’re not liberating the individual and they are there a little help here and there I don’’t mean I’’m looking down but even you do follow some kind of psychologist or psychotherapist or all this and that will also help you and gain you but I don’’t think that is considered a spiritual path. 1447

and I don’’t think that is going to get you spiritually developed and get your free1454

How Buddha is proved to be faultless

It may help you to relieve a certain amount of pain and certain things it is very helpful but that’’s not considered a spiritual path that’’s not going to lead you spiritually in a higher level so that is the same as all other things and if you cook up a collection of information here and there sometimes something helpful but that is not going to lead the individual ultimately that’’s why it says the highway leads to the highest enlightenment. It is not a shimmering mirage there good words leads to better path (?) So it is important to whatever the path you follow to have that those problems are not there and making sure the individual really moving to the highest level. Even if you don’’t want to go to the highest level it’’s okay but something that is going beyond the normal mundane samsaric relief and that is absolutely necessary 1618

To be able to even qualify to sort of claim a spiritual path. Anyway I told you the Dharakirti? When he tried to prove how Buddha is perfect he did not prove because Buddha was the head and Buddha does this and so therefore Buddhism is perfect he doesn’’t it’’s the other way around. (He speaks Tibetan) so it is the way how to prove the Buddha is perfect because Buddhism is perfect the Buddhism makes perfect help to the individual and it protects the individual and it leads to that’’s the word the same thing the highway leads to the highest level and so therefore Buddha is faultless. That is how it is even the traditional bred Indian scholar like Dharmkirti proved that way word is (he speaks Tibetan) so it goes both ways 1740

Combination of unbroken lineage, purification, merit, perfect practice are all essential

Back and forth ether way you know because Buddha is perfect the path what he showed is perfect because it helps because it leads the individual to the highest level or the other way around that practice leads the individual to the highest level so therefore the practice is perfect when the practice is perfect you are showing the path is perfect. So it’’s both ways it goes that way. So anyway so it is important the master is important if the master is not good and if you expect the disciples to be better than that it is impossible. Almost next to impossible. Because this spiritual knowledge or the quality knowledge is the wrong word because the word (?) In Tibetan sometimes goes to education sometimes goes to quality sometimes that’’s why I get confused on my own here. So anyway the quality of the spiritual is not really built from the information from the book you can’’t do it you do need an unbroken lineage you do need a perfect practice and that combination of a perfect practice combination of unbroken lineage combination of the purification and the combination of merit all together then something happens. Not singly nothing happens so all of them is needed so it is very much connected to the master that who you take it as a master. And as I mentioned the other day the purpose of the master is the link between the enlightened society and our ordinary society. Or the bridge between the enlightened society and the unenlightened society is the spiritual master and that’’s why I call that Ambassador of enlightened society representing to me from the society of enlightened beings. Actually I said that in Italy two years ago right I said that in Italy in one of the other Dharma centers 2025

not at Jewel heart another group there asked me to go another Rimpoche and his group and I started teaching in Italy I said that and they asked me if I could go to Brazil in one of their centers too which is probably a month later or two months later not too long so I went to Brazil and I saw the T-shirt in it ““Guru is Ambassador of Enlightened Beings”” and then also I said another one ““Rejoice is the Best Investment”” they also have a T-shirt of that too (he laughs) so I said oh, so anyway within just two months they made the T-shirt in Europe and it’’s all valuable in Brazil. So that is interesting. So anyway and that’’s what the master really does it is the link between enlightened society and unenlightened society.2132

So that’’s why the devotional practice it’’s not really devotional in such a way the traditional not really a traditional way but in between you know nowadays particularly last two decades or so way of guru devotional practice is exploded in a lot of different ways and means and sometimes even to the extent of people demanding people respect and saying oh you have to get up bow down or what else you know sort of demanding and that is totally wrong and a misusage. Actually devotion really comes from the heart from the heart of the people and if you have the practice and if you are sort of happy with this and when you see the benefit to yourself you don’’t have to demand from the devotion they give you. And that is the best devotion for that individual practitioner whoever it is and that’’s why I object in Jewel heart people sort of copy it2257

And they gets folded hand and bow down I said please don’’t that is the reason why because people don’’t know what they’’re doing and half the people think it is a Tibetan custom and doing a gesture half the people think I’’m giving a devotion half the people think it is the culture half people think they don’’t know why but the other ones are doing it so I might as well do it. I have a story here I will name it a very elder and well-known Tibetan Rimpoche teacher who came over here and told me how these Western Dharma practitioners are so great and I said what’’s so great about it? He said they are so devoted and I said how? And he said oh they get up and bow down and you don’’t have to tell them and look at our young Tibetans all they’’re doing and they probably think that Buddhism has destroyed Tibet as a nation if you don’’t keep on talking love compassion we would have fought with the Chinese and overthrow them (Rimpoche laughs) and they blame us and we do that but look at these people how devoted. I said do you think so? And he said yes because you can see it there’’s no argument about it. And I said okay and when you walk by there is some couple of ladies who have been following this person from Hawaii and standing there so I said what you doing? She’’s going like this. I said where you doing? And one of them said did I do something wrong? I said no but what you doing and one lady said he’’s a nice guy I’’m giving him a good gesture I said okay another one says isn’’t it a Tibetan custom? And I said did I do something wrong and that is what it is it is a misunderstanding the other side the old Tibetan lama thinks it is a total tremendous amount of devotion on the other side the other person is thinking well I’’m doing some kind of gesture which is a Tibetan custom. It is easy to adopt in Americans particularly because American culture really doesn’’t have such a type of gesture and least in India they have folded hand they do2514

America does not have either you shook hands and say hi how are you or you don’’t really have that sort of different gesture or you wave hands or something you know and that’’s not going to be suitable for that thing so you have to adapt something so it goes that way it becomes easily adaptable that’’s my opinion anyway but the reality is what is happening is one is fooling the other and the other is fooling herself. So it is already they were fooling each other so that’’s why I say in Jewel Heart please don’’t do it. Don’’t get up don’’t have to don’’t bow down don’’t do folded hands don’’t don’’t don’’t (Rimpoche laughs) so that’’s what I say really and so what happens is if you don’’t do that I mean the people benefitted and they help I noticed they really like you they really like you not because you’’re handsome not because you’’re a stranger not because you’’re a mystery guy but it benefits.2624

So that is the basis of the devotion it is really if there is a master and the disciple relation or if there is a guru disciple relation whatever it is it should come from the heart and not by gesture and not by demanding and not by somebody’’s telling you to do it and if they try to tell you to do it to hell with that really and if you like it and then you really get it from the heart and that is the real relation you establish. And that relation is important without which again without which you will never develop anything. Never develop anything that’’s why it’’s called the root of all development. Spiritual gain spiritual steps developments and that sort of trust and understanding you gain on the basis of your experience not by somebody telling you not by you read somewhere and you think you have to do. 2744

Not that way that is totally wrong way. but by understanding by getting affection by benefitting the individual then you recognize you automatically gain the respect and that respect is the basis really the fundamental basis for the development on the individual and it is the fundamental relationship the fundamental guru devotional practice is that. That is the real guru yoga and I’’m giving you a simple little example but that is how it works. Without which spiritual development will not grow so you have to put affection in that without which and so normally you use the word for that sort of faith sometimes use intelligent faith and all this we talk but it is not an intelligent faith faith as such but it is really a sort of a proper relationship and that is the basis of it without which nothing will grow (he speaks Tibetan) it is the word from a sutra called (?) (He speaks Tibetan again) they give you that as an example. (He speaks Tibetan again) they give you that as an example of a mother2929

Without the mother of you cannot give birth no matter how great the father may be (Rimpoche laughs) he can be great but he can’’t deliver he can’’t give birth at all right? And it’’s like that no matter how much great wisdom you may have it and great sources of wisdom but if you don’’t have that sort of thing you cannot give spiritual birth at all so it becomes a dry intellectual information or it becomes I don’’t know something becomes very dry rather than juicy stuff which you can enjoy (he laughs) it becomes dry that is because of that. So (he speaks Tibetan) so if you don’’t have that that basis and no great spiritual thing will not grow with you. They give the example if the seed has been burned. If you are growing barley Tibetans grow barley or wheat if the seed of the barley or wheat is burned and then you can’’t hope to get a good crop right? It’’s not going to grow at all. If you roast your seed and try to throw them and put also the manure on that and give water and do whatever you do no matter how many years you keep on watching it’’s not going to grow so that is the example they give in (he speaks Tibetan again) so that is the really foundation.3130

Special person Arya has no forccable reincarnation

So when you call the foundation of perfection the first what they call (?) is that foundation not only that those of you who are studying Lam Rim if you look at that it’’s called root of all development okay that’’s why it’’s the root. If that’’s not there nothing will happen you know the great intellectual? and great intellectuals are great intellectuals and that’’s about it. So that’’s what it is I’’m not criticizing intellectuals but don’’t misunderstand me and it serves a purpose and it’’s a great thing but beyond that it doesn’’t go in the spiritual path is supposed to cut beyond all this and that’’s why it’’s different.3220

Anyway so now today’’s subject oh any questions? Because I did not allow you to ask questions last time because it’’s a very controversial point and very difficult and very hard for a lot of people so I should really allow questions. Yes sir.

Audience: if a seeker is interested in rebirth and being reborn again how do you go about (?) For the next life?

Rimpoche: Why do you have to seek rebirth? Do you know what Nagarjuna said? (He speaks Tibetan) Nagarjuna said want you to try to not to have a reincarnation that is the greatest achievement. Because the reincarnation is according to Buddha is an automatic process and every individual will have its automatic. Reincarnation so what we are seeking is not to have a reincarnation did you get it? Not to have reincarnation the reincarnation is bound to be there because when you die or not going to disappear your identity will be changed your physical look will be different right? Today I may be fat and the next time I may be hairy. (Audience laughs)3422

So the identity will be changed. Identity will change right? today’’s bald head will probably have a lot of hair tomorrow could even have (holes?) too yes (holes?) too and really and that’’s the reincarnation how it works. There’’s no certainty of what future life will be but the future life will definitely be there. So Nagarjuna said try not to have reincarnation (he speaks Tibetan) so if you achieve that you don’’t have the reincarnation that means the forcible reincarnation the normal automatic reincarnation if you don’’t have that it should be great. (He speaks Tibetan) when you become what they call it a special person called (Arya?) In Sanskrit called (Arya?) When you become a (Arya?) What will happen why are you called a special person that person at that level actually out of the five paths on the third path out of five paths on the third path out of the ten Bhumis they call it, stages, it’’s the first stage when you got that level what will happen you become Arya which means you become a special person below that you’’re called ordinary above that you’’re called special Why are you called special? Why are you called special (he speaks Tibetan) so when you become an Arya you don’’t have (he speaks Tibetan) then you will be free from the sufferings of illness aging and dying so therefore there is no automatic rebirth for them. And that’’s why Nagarjuna says you try to achieve not to have reincarnation so it is a great achievement 3700

Reincarnation

Becomes special person (he speaks Tibetan) then you may raise another question saying then how come the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and all these great persons coming back again and again why are they coming? How are they coming? is that automatically? second question so they said they have not come by the force of karma but they have come by choice and by (prayer?) by (prayer?) by choice so it is two different things when you talk about general reincarnation everybody will have to be reincarnated even if you say I don’’t want to do reincarnation we have it we have it. But the second one is choice of reincarnation the first is without choice the second is with choice. The first one is no choice the second one is with choice get it? So that’’s what it is. So though every reincarnation is not necessarily great everybody has. Each one of us is the reincarnation of somebody whoever that might be.3824

From the ground hogs to the birds in the air we could be any one of their reincarnations. But the total focus of the Buddhism total path is actually leading how can an individual can (seek?) once sort of fate granted karmic delusion controlled reincarnation which has no choice to wisdom oriented choice rebirth that is the whole practice is geared towards that. The sutrayana mantrayana, the Theravadan, Mahayana, all of them is gearing towards that. Sir?

Audience: the reincarnation of a human being does it have to be as a human or can it be as an animal also?

Rimpoche: can be animal also can be not only animal can be in hell realm as well or can be samsara gods also. The Tibetan Buddhism talks six realms many of you are not here when I did the last course in the last course we have issued a general motors chart here. Which is provided by Dr. (Key?) right does anybody have the copy I’’m sure somebody will have a copy. You have a copy see that copy there have a look at that copy there if you look in that copy and that gives you that chart will tell you how many possibilities of rebirth how many realms and the subdivisions and this is sort of a detailed chart quite a detailed chart. And it has like fifty two or something isn’’t it? With two pages and have fifty to right? I think it’’s about fifty two or some different spots. Some are little miserable spots some are picnic spots some are resort areas and some are hot some are cold some are quite good in temperature but all this type of thing there are fifty two different levels fifty two or whatever it is basically we talk about six realms4134

And then that goes and you know subdivision goes and a lot of them so that is the free movement actually free reincarnation can go anywhere else within that and if you can get out of that loop normally people try to fight to get in the loop (audience laughs) so what Buddhism will try to tell you is get out of the loop and if you can get out of the loop and you get free. We are not sort of forced in a circle you get out of the loop so almost all the purpose of the practice making special person is how to get out of the loop. Okay so any other questions? Yes Douglas

Audience: I understand about what you talked about last week with the necessity for (?) And comparing that with (lesson?) history the Catholic church sort of dominated religious thought in the middle ages and then the reformers came along like Martin Luther and John Calvin and they said that you don’’t need anyone to intermediate between you and God you and the Bible or at least you and your own meditation and prayer can have as direct, immediate and profound experience of divinity as you could ever achieve through the hierarchy of the church through the priest’’s who traced their lineage back to Jesus Christ. So I was thinking about that and I was wondering if there was a comparable thought within Buddhism does Zen have a similar attitude that you don’’t need necessarily the lineage or the tradition or all this study you can have an immediate experience of divinity or of your own enlightenment in and of yourself. Can you achieve that yourself or is it essential that you have this lineage or the guru who intermediates for you? 4350

Rimpoche:

no no no I heard you exactly you know my background with the Catholic Church and Christianity is zero I know nothing about it. Whatever I could talk is what I know and so that’’s my background. So according to my background both are absolutely necessary both both without a guru without a spiritual master especially without an unbroken lineage I will have no idea what I am doing. What I am doing and therefore it is not right for me to do. And the spiritual development is something that you have to achieve by yourself within yourself not third person or second person can deliver that to you if that is so fully enlightened people would have been delivered long ago why did (?) wait so that’’s not that’’s not so it has to be both both and both particularly the proper lineage the proper thing as I mentioned the other day the Tibetans have a saying if you want pure water pure great water the source of the water must come from the snow mountain so if you want a pure practice the tradition has to lead to the Buddha and that is the Tibetan Buddhist way of saying it 4542

So you can get a certain experience you can get a certain extent of divinity within you you can get certain experience certain divinity without depending on external guidance it is possible. But fully not possible. What ever I know within that I can say clearly not possible with an underline underneath the not. (Rimpoche laughs) because you know anyway okay there’’s a lot of reasons yes.

Audience: did the Buddha have a lineage?

Rimpoche: yes!

Audience: and he didn’’t achieve his own enlightenment?

Rimpoche: Buddha yes Buddha had if you’’ll go deeply inside and the Buddha actually had opened enlightenment a number of (the tape goes silent Note Hartmut can you ask Rimpoche to fill this part in I would really like to know what he said here) spiritual master. Not only that Buddha Shakymuni is the fourth Buddha within this fortunate era not the first Buddha Shakymuni is the fourth Buddha and there are only three different Buddhas even in this era itself has been passed actually it is the tenure of the official Buddha’’s office. So the first Buddha was the somebody called (Numsi?)4727

And then (?) What is it I’’m getting mixed up (Sagyen Numsi?) (?) (And Shakya toba?) Shakyatoba is the fourth one. So it is the official office tenure of the Buddha Shakymuni we fall under that before that it was Buddha Amitaba and before that there is another one before that the first one is called Numsi and the next one is the Buddha Maitreya the Buddha of love which is going to be the fifth Buddha so even in this one era not one era in this what call it fortunate era there are books translated into English there are one thousand Buddhas something it is also valuable in English I think I have a copy too we do have a copy here somewhere so all this and that goes in that line here. Yes Bruce I so you raise your hand 4839

Audience: I guess because when he posed the question he poses relevant to what I’’m thinking about and feeling since none of us know what our previous incarnations were all of us have the potential to be enlightened as Shakymuni Buddha was.

Rimpoche: all of us have the potential to be did you say right?

Audience: does the guru devotion quicken that process of enlightenment is that the main benefit from guru devotion practicing guru devotion in this particular lifetime?

Rimpoche: I believe so4914

Guru Devotional practice

The reason why because they give example is the potential of catching a fire if the dry grass is there the potential for the sunlight to be able to catch fire is there but to make it quick and to make it faster moving if you bring the magnifying glass in between it helps to catch the fire first and that’’s what the actual example giving for guru devotional practice in that reason by the earlier Tibetan masters about a thousand years. Alright any more questions? But on the other hand (he speaks Tibetan) (Rimpoche laughs) we have also a saying in Tibetan if you have to follow everything what you say then don’’t say funny things. And if you have to look at every act of yours as great then don’’t do funny things and that also has to be balanced It is important and there should be check and balance and the question really rises the ultimate question the ultimate question what will benefit me and that is the ultimate question (?) Ling Rimpoche one of the greatest teachers one of my late masters5116

Always says at the end of this at the end of all this guru devotional questions and ways and how it is everyone seeks advantage and no one speaks disadvantage. So I want to seek my advantage I don’’t want to seek disadvantage and that is the bottom line. The bottom line of that seeking advantage. So whatever helps me I take it whatever doesn’’t help me I don’’t take it that is the bottom line. Okay I should move to the second step the first step is absolutely as I said the root of all development it’’s important however one doesn’’t spend all total time on that 5234

Embracing human life

Because somebody can just spend a whole life for struggling that question. Is it right or is it wrong is it proper is it not proper am I taking advantage or is it a good one is it a bad one is that the right person is that the wrong person is this the right path is that the wrong path is it good is it not good why do I have to be intelligent it has to be good for me I have to stand for my rights or I should not stand for my rights all these big questions all this big push and pull all this one will spend the whole life in that so therefore it is recommended by the great teachers as one path you can go with this and another path you should follow the actual training of the mind so the first step of the training of the mind is embracing human life. The first training of the mind is embracing the human life not rejecting not renouncing not reprimanding and not insulting not undermining but embracing human life5350

And acknowledging its quality so for that you don’’t have it somebody with a book can you read the second verse loudly and clearly please who has it? A lot of people have it. Who? Go ahead loud so that everybody can hear you.

Audience: precious human life gained but once has great potential but is easily lost.

Rimpoche: good stop there and that’’s all I need. Precious human life has great potential gained but once. Okay now we are moving to the second outline. Second outline how to training the mind so the first one under that how to train mind ABCD will follow unfortunately in Tibetan Buddhism the steps which the western people don’’t want what they hate is under one blah blah blah I believe it has been in the so many everywhere it’’s like that so people don’’t want it people want simplicity but that is simplicity if it is too simple it won’’t get you anywhere and too simple we simply say sit there and think nothing and you will be liberated yes you may be liberated one-day or you may become stupid one-day (audience laughs) 5539

But you never know you never know so if you read I’’m not saying that just because of jokes if you read this Liberation in Palm it mentions somewhere where (?) Pabonka came across with someone I think it was an eastern Tibet a number of very well-known sort of in the area well-known great intelligent guy who keeps on sitting and thinking nothing and reduced his intelligence completely and it is almost to the extent that the person was unable to distinguish between whether it is something (to be excrement or to be eaten?). He could not make it out so to that extent it is mentioned I’’m not making up a story it’’s mentioned in the Liberation of Palm there so that’’s why sometimes too simple (Siddhi?) May become complicated. And those who are even introduced as simple (Siddhi?) Will also if it’’s authentic it will take you back to that same step gradually first look like very simple and then it becomes a little more then these steps are necessary if it’’s too simple and too easy why not everybody achieve? Is it true?5725

So anyway the first step is embracing the human life and I will tell you straight away I will not make a mystery out of it the purpose of making a meditating on embracing the human life actually there are two reasons one to rejoice and to have a high sort of source of joy two second point it is to overcome laziness. With these two reasons you know each one of those meditations have some reason what are you trying to cut down and what are you trying to build out. And what are you trying to cut down is the one reprimanding self sort of depressing and so and forth so in order to go against that you build joy and joy and rejoicing and that is the one reason and the second reason at the same time (attempt?) Not let you overtake by the laziness.5853

Quality of Human Life

So embracing human life is the first one. So just by telling you embrace life doesn’’t mean anything I know that right? We all know that but at the same time you say I’’m terrible I am this and that and that is normal to some people said I’’m glad (Rimpoche makes an excessively happy expression?) So all of them neither too extreme of (Rimpoche makes a happy expression again?) is great nor extreme of (Rimpoche makes an unhappy expression?) so you have to be in between that is the reason why so the question rises how to embrace human life. Again not just by saying a word by the recognizing the quality of human being recognizing the quality and capability of the human mind and the human body and the combination. The human body the human mind and the combination of it what sort of quality it give you? It is a tremendous quality in that particularly life what we have today it has even better quality than that of those of our forefathers period ancestor period has a better quality today and these are the important points traditionally Buddha introduced eighteen different qualities in this eighteen different qualities it’’s called the

ten endowments and eight leisures. So by putting ten endowments and eight leisures together it becomes eighteen different qualities10117

It is absolutely true but it is a funny way of presenting the traditional way so if you read the Liberation in Palm I don’’t know from what page to what page it comes maybe the Essence of Nectar or something is better than Liberation in Palm do you have Essence of Nectar with you? Is the Essence of Nectar in there? What do we have there? Essence of Refined Gold that will also should do that will be Essence of Refined Gold will be what chapter that should be the second verse right? Second verse in practice (he speaks Tibetan) if you look in this Essence of Refined Gold in there there is a verse on this it probably should give you qualities. What they tell you here is Tsongkhapa10237

Gives example for this life as a wish fulfilling Jewel they call it like you know the children’’s story the magic lamp that’’s what you see all the time in the TV. The magic lamp comes you rub them and zoom the person comes up and fulfills whatever you ask right? Likewise and they give the example like this and a little elder story not a children’’s story but an elder grown-up story in Tibetan I believe they call it the wish fulfilling Jewel so if you ask that jewel whatever you want it they give you it’’s almost like a magic lamp but what Tsongkhapa tells he says what he recognize is that this life is more valuable than that of a magic lamp. That’’s what he says (he speaks Tibetan) so it is far better than the magic lamp right? Magic lamp. And then he gives you the eighteen different qualities on that why it’’s better than the magic lamp. It is true and that is what you meditate actually. If you meditate in that and if you carefully meditate without doubt and without sort of you know without raising oh I’’m imagining or oh I’’m projecting it if you carefully meditate that your depressions will go away no question because you really rejoice. Anyway so I think I’’m getting late so should cut it here so we will continue to talk that in the next time and next week I hopefully will try to cover not only the embracing the human life but impermanence as well. I should be able to cover that verse today but I could not I’’m sorry I have to stop here okay now I don’’t think anybody have any announcements to do do you? No?