«Дар освобождения», курс 10 «Новогодний ретрит», занятие 10

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:08 - 1:41)
We're talking about how to offer each pile on the mandala plate, right? TSONG BU DGOS TSUL CHAR LEN DANG NA If you want to know how to put each pile down, ZHAR BU YUL LA BSTAN PA DANG RANG GI DON DU ZHAR BYAS PA GNYIS YOD PAS Generally, when you do a fire offering in this tradition, or you offer a mandala for example, you have to decide what will be the directions, north, south, east, west, east, south. Generally, when you offer a fire, the front of the person's body who's offering it is east.

It's considered east. And the fire is supposed to face east also, so two easts are facing each other. So the front of the body in India and Tibet, in Buddhism, is considered east.

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And the back is considered west.

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If you're going to stretch your back, you can call it stretching the west. PASH CI MOT TA NA ASANA In yoga, when you do a forward bend, seated forward bend, So UT means very much. TAN means to stretch.

The words tenuous and tendon come from that. So UT TA NA means very much to stretch. PASH CI MA means the west part of the body.

And if you're interested, which you may not be, but I don't care, P in Sanskrit changes to V in European languages. And then to W. And A always changes to E.

And CHA changes to T. So PASH CHI changes to west. The word west comes from PASH CI MA.

And like that, if you learn Sanskrit well, you can read a newspaper, English or Spanish, and you see all Sanskrit. Then when you're offering the world, in ancient India and Tibet, the world is a disk. And the word mandala also means disk.

Then in the middle of the disk is a big mountain like Mount Everest. That mountain has four sides. Each side has a different color.

One is sapphire, one is ruby, one is emerald, like that. Then there are four main continents. There are these things here.

These are four continents.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (4:53 - 5:08)
Then when you offer the world, you're offering the whole disk, and on top of it is this big mountain and four continents.

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We live on the, we're supposed to live on the southern continent. In Sanskrit it's called Jambudvipa. Jambudvipa.

Dvipa. Dvipa. Dvipa.

Okay, PAH means water. DVI means divide. Divide comes from DVI.

What divides the water? An island.

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So Dvipa means island.

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Then we live on the one called Jambu. People ask me, why is our continent called Jambu? Then I found it in the scripture.

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There's a mythical tree which grows near the ocean.

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Maybe it's like mango tree, I don't know.

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Sometimes the mango falls down into the ocean. Jambu? Jambu?

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So our place is called Jambu Island. So anyway, where to put east? Where to put west?

You can put east towards you, or you can put east towards the person, the lama, that you are offering the world. YOD PA'I PHYIR PA'I MANG LDOG SKABS SHAR GZOGS BZHIN DNGOS DANG Then when you are making an offering, you put the east towards the teacher. GSUM MDOB MANG LDOG SKABS SHAR RANG DNGOS LA PHYIR PA Then when you are mainly making an offering, you put the east towards your teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:29 - 7:49)
But when the purpose of the mandala is that you are having some trouble in your life, and you need some help, give me blessings, give me blessings, then you should put the east towards you.

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DNGOS DANG GSUM MDOB MANG LDOG SKABS SHAR RANG DNGOS LA PHYIR PA BYIN NABS TSOR ZHUGS Then the blessing will come in towards you. PHYI MA DE BZANG means better to do the second way. RI RAB LING NGAN PHYEN RIN PO CHE RIS SOGS DANG NA DUN DER BU'I NGEGS SOGS SKYES NYIN DAG DUD KYANG SEMS CHE SKYI MAN DANG SOGS DUN MA there are 37 parts to this world.

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RI RAB means the big mountain in the middle.

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LING means the four continents. LING PHRAN means each of the four continents has two baby continents next to it. Then there are four precious things that you will put on the continents.

Then there are seven precious things which a king has. Then there's a special, what do you call it, gold mine. You can call it a gold mine.

Then there are eight beautiful ladies, sun and the moon, and then a parasol.

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So let's count. Mountain, four continents, eight little continents, 13. Four precious things, 17.

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Seven things of the king, 24. One gold mine, 25. Eight beautiful ladies, 33.

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Sun, moon, the parasol.

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Then he added a victory banner. How many?

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37.

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Okay, let's leave it. I think that's correct. SROG BSNGAL CHOS PAG GI CHAGS SU BZHIN DANG So as I said before, I talked to you about the nephew of the big Lama 800 years ago who made the Mongol king a Buddhist.

He also invented the Mongolian alphabet, which was used in China for, I don't know, one dynasty was Mongol dynasty, right? So that 37 is his system. BYAS RANG LUGS NI GNYER GSUM MA YIN Then Je Tsongkapa had a different system with 23 parts.

MAN GDOG SONG BU GNYER GSUM DANG GNYER NGAR Then there's a 23 and a 25 also. So there are really three systems. 23 piles.

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25 piles. 37 piles.

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I don't remember. Phil and I looked on the computer for like an hour.

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And we got it straight.

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And we will forget tomorrow. But if you want to know, ask him. Then the difference between the 23 and the 25 is whether you count the ground, the plate.

And there's some mountains around the plate, whether you count those two things. MAN GDOG SKABS LING ZHIG RIGS RAB DANG BYAS PA RDZUGS KYI LUGS LTAR BYAS DGOS PAS If you're going to do a traditional mandala offering, you should understand the shape of this planet and all the continents. According to the system of the Abhidharma, Abhidharma came to China.

Very famous. Very old. And in the third chapter of that teaching, Abhidharmakosha, there's a description of the world, shape of the world.

BYAS PA RDZUGS LTAR DANG MA LTA'ANG RAG RIM GZHAD DGOS GZHAD Then you should learn the Abhidharma system about the shape of the world. Or at least understand the basics. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about it.

Then I have a ... we call in English pet peeve. Pet peeve means my favorite irritating thing.

Nowadays the big lamas from Tibet, they teach in the whole world. Then they start to explain the shape of the world according to Abhidharma. For example, Abhidharma says, if you go too far you will fall off the edge of the world.

Then they met all these scientists. And the scientist says, you are crazy, the world is round. Your idea is very primitive.

Then nowadays the big lamas are afraid to talk about the shape of the world. Or they begin to talk about Abhidharma and they start to say, I'm sorry about Abhidharma.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (15:12 - 15:17)
Then I have two answers about that.

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Number one, when you and me are offering the mandala, I don't have a problem to say eastern continent is North America. Western continent is Latin America.

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This one is Europe. Europe. This is Asia.

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The whole world.

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I don't have a problem with that.

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When I offer the world to my teacher, Guangzhou is here. New York is here.

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Guadalajara is here.

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Moscow is here. I don't have a problem with that. All of those places become perfect and I want them to become perfect and I will give that to you.

And we will fly around DCI tours until it becomes perfect. And I offer that to you.

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And it's happening.

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Guangzhou is here. Munich is here. Guadalajara is also here somewhere.

North America, even Paris is here a little bit. And okay, it's coming.

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Don't rush, it's coming. Almost there.

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You can have a song, Piyalangwa [?], in... What do you call Jasmine? Moli, Molihua, in the same room as you can have, you know, flamenco.

We are close. After hundreds of thousands of years, we are close. So you should be happy.

That's my first answer about scientists criticize Abhidharma. My second answer, somebody asked me, after a relationship book, what is your next book? And I said, I'm going to write a book about science and explain to them why they are mistaken.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (18:19 - 18:31)
The most popular book in modern times is Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (18:32 - 18:58)
Five years on the London Times Best Seller Top Ten. Then I met a publisher in New York His partner is here. Where are you?

Yeah, she's there. So he asked me, I was in his office. He asked me, what's your next book?

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What's the title? I said, A Better History of Time.

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And he went like that.

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Then he said, look behind you. Then there's one bookcase.

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All the books are by Stephen Hawking. I'm Stephen Hawking's publisher. Then I said, I'm going to make a better one.

Then that's a long story.

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We don't have time to talk about it.

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But it's enough to say, if you read the science book from 50 years ago, everything is wrong. Don't think that we discovered the ultimate idea just because it's 2013. You can improve science also.

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But that's a long story.

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Who put the strength into steel? What gives a steel its strength? Steel.

In the future, they will understand. It comes from karma. From how do I treat other people.

So you cannot divide science from ethics. Kindness gives the power to steel and concrete. This building is held up by kindness, by the power of kindness.

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And you can see the world in many different ways.

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And they are all correct. Okay? That's my other answer to science.

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Anyway, so he's going to tell you Abhidharma system.

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In the Abhidharma, there's a big mountain. Many mountain chains like circles around that. I think eight, I'm not sure, seven or eight.

And between each mountain range is water. So there are seven or eight oceans.

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After the last mountain range, there's the outer ocean.

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And in that ocean, there are five continents. In the middle of that mountain, as I said, it has four sides. Different jewels.

Why is our sky blue? The mountain on our side is made of sapphire. And it makes the sky blue.

This is the Abhidharma. So, shar lü pak The eastern continent is white color. The southern continent is blue.

The western continent is red. The northern continent is gold. Sorry, yellow.

nying de dang, de dak tu rimpo che, riwo sok man du, chu bur, bung bur sang Each continent also has mountains made of precious things. Then we offer four precious things. rimpo che, riwo, paksam gyi shing, dö jowa, ma mö pay lo to So these are four precious things that we offer.

Then he explains them one by one. rimpo che, riwo sok shi po, nyi ling sok sok kye po, no tabu yinpe, ling gi tsong bu, teng du gur So, when you offer those four things, you dump them on top of each continent. Then here are those four precious things.

First one is called dö jowa. dö jowa means, he says, rimpo che rang shing chen It is made of precious things.

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He says it is made of precious things. And when it peepees, and when it goes poo poo, it's all pure gold.

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It's nice to have a cow like that.

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A cow?

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Yes, a cow that makes peepee of gold, and poo poo of gold. So you are offering that on one of the islands. ma mö pay lo to Crops that grow themselves.

So like corn that grows itself. You don't have to work. If you study the third chapter of the Abhidharmakosha, it says that in the beginning of the world, we all lived in a garden, a paradise garden.

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We all lived in a garden, then slowly we messed up.

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And later we will cause a war which will cover the world with fire. And only a few people will survive. Then the world will start again.

And after many of those, the sun will start to expand. And it will burn away all the plants on this earth, and it will dry the oceans also. And it will melt the earth, and the earth will just dissolve.

And then that sun itself will die much later. So that's Abhidharma system. Then it has, what do you call it?

Particle physics is there. All of the atoms and subatomic particles are in the Abhidharmakosha, third chapter. And it explains light years between the planets.

So that was written 17 centuries ago. Anyway, if you have crops which grow themselves, nang nge na nup kye if you harvest the crop in the morning, by the evening it will grow back. nup nge na nang bar kye la If you harvest it in the evening and go to bed, when you wake up in the morning, there's more crop there.

shimpa sok mey be je shik go Then the rice there, no cover on the rice. Just rice comes from the plant. You don't have to clean it.

tsongpo nyang nga ma ling pul wey de dak dun gyi bulwa la gong ne tsongpo lok su ma dzepa yin Then in the system where there are only 25 piles, when you offer the four continents, automatically you are offering the four precious things which are sitting on those continents, like the gold poopoo cow. So you don't have to put down four more. You can cut four of those piles.

Now he's going to talk about, we call this the seven riches of the king. And when you offer this big mandala, you say kordo renpoche, mongpo renpoche, tumor renpoche, mangpo renpoche, tatso renpoche, mapo renpoche, like that. Seven.

Then he wants to talk about them a little bit. Rinchen dün: dzambu chuway ser len lek che shing He quotes a book about those seven things. These are seven possessions of an ancient Indian king.

de dak ling shi rikjab la nyeway par nang la chok sam tsul go When you lay down the rice, you put them inside the continents, between the continents and the mountain.

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Seven piles.

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Venerable Jigme is going to explain those seven in detail. They are not just seven possessions of an ancient king. They are also seven spiritual attainments.

And he quotes a famous book about them. He quotes the first line, dzambu chuway ser len lek che shing It is made from the gold dust which is found in the rivers of the earth. Then I thought you would like to...

I'm just going to explain the first one because it's sexy. That? Really?

Then maybe we take a break after this. So the first possession of an ancient Indian king.

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The first possession of an ancient Indian king is a chakra.

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What's chakra? Yeah, a wheel.

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We have seven chakras in our body.

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So it means they have a wheel.

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So, I'll read the verse in Tibetan for good luck.

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Then I'll translate it for you. But this is the first thing you pile for the seven riches of a king. This is not in the book.

You have to go somewhere else to find it. He just gives you the first line. dzambu chuway ser len lek che shing chik tong denpay pak tse ngak kya pa ni ma nyid pa tabur kar pak te pak tse bum lam ni ma chik gi chok dey tu nam khe lam ne bung sok shi ling shi la ne dhammo dru je pe kor lo rincheng pu wei dro wa kun chuk gi si lam wang gyur topa shok om vajra chakra ratna pa di dzok wang Then there's a mantra for that wheel.

There's a special mantra you can say when you offer the wheel, okay? There's also a special mudra. We do mudras.

argam pa dhyan pung shpe dukpe agar kye geng de nyu de shep ta There's a ... like the Chinese song.

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It's like the Chinese song.

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So there's a ... the mudra for the wheel is like this. Because it's like the spokes of the wheel.

So when you offer the wheel, if you don't have anything to do that day, you can do all the mantras and all the mudras. So you can impress your friends also. If you go to a nightclub, it's really cool.

Then you can go. So this is ... I'm serious.

That's a chakra. That's supposed to be the spoke of the wheel. Then Venerable Jigme will teach you the seven mudras.

But I want to translate it for you. Fashioned with excellence from the finest gold of the rivers of Jambu continent. This wheel is 500 miles across.

And it has a thousand spokes. When you see it in the sky, you think a second sun has come in the sky. And it can travel a hundred thousand miles in 24 hours.

This is ... I offer you this wheel.

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This is the power that was used in the beginning to bring people to the four continents from another place, another world.

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So it's a flying saucer. It's not just a wheel. And you can fit on that flying saucer.

It was used for military purposes. You can fit four complete armies in one wheel. And that was the first possession of an ancient king.

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It's a flying wheel, which can carry people from another world.

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And when you give it to somebody, they say in old times, the king who has those wheels can control the earth.

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So when you offer the wheel, you are saying, may each person in the world become the king of the world. And may the world become the Dharma. So may each person become the king of the Dharma.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (36:35 - 37:54)
And then you offer the wheel like that. Okay, so you can learn the rest from Venerable Jigme. Seven mantras, seven mudras.

I like the first one because I like science fiction. But maybe it's not fiction. Okay.

,RGYAGS SOGS SKYES NI, ,RI RAB GYI BANG RIM LA YOD CING, ,SNGAR GYI DE DAG GI NANG DU BSTAN LA DGOS, So, where do you put the eight sexy ladies? There's a building in Taipei. Right Mandy Chen?

101 building. It goes like this. It's 101 floors.

It used to be the tallest building in the world. And they built it like this. Am I right?

Yeah. Then that's the shape of this mountain. It has, what do you call that in farming?

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Terraces.

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Here and here, there are four of them. Those are called bang rim. Bang rim in Tibetan language.

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Bang rim.

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So you can put the eight ladies there so everybody can see them. Then there are GYES MO MA, like that GYES MO MA, BYAS MO MA. GYES MO MA means each one has an offering.

One is offering light. One is offering flowers. The first one is called GYES MO MA.

She goes like this. Like that. She's just like those fashion models in the photographs.

That's called GYES PA. GYES PA means to show the different postures for photography. So you can, don't forget about her.

YI DAG GYI RNAM DU MTHONG NA DGOS When you put the piles, they are very, therefore they are very close to the middle because she is on the mountain. NYER NGA MAR This MAR, by the way, those of you studying Tibetan, is a locative of NYER NGA MA. In the twenty-five system, NYER NGA MA LA RIGS RAB BU BA'I DE DAG BLO GSUM MI GUS PA TSE If you put the central mountain in the twenty-five system, you don't have to add eight more piles because they are sitting on the mountain.

Then I like it, at the end of the mandala offering, you also offer the sun and the moon. You can put them on the right side and the left side of the main mountain. Then there's a special parasol.

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You can put that behind the mountain.

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And RGYAL ZIN RANG BDUN DRAN DANG NAS KYI YOD You can put the victory banner here. Then this is an Indian custom. When you win a war, you have a flag.

Victory flag. Then that's like the last thing that you put down. Why?

This is a victory over your mental afflictions. I had a war. With whom?

Myself. Then my mind wants to be jealous.

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My mind wants to be angry.

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Then we had a boxing match. I hit him many times. He also hit me many times.

But finally I knocked him out. And now I don't have anger. I have a friend in Ireland.

His name is Maroon, right? He's from Lebanon. Then his daughter, he has a small daughter.

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She said, Daddy, why do you meditate every morning? I want to play with you.

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Then he said, How long Emma, is Daddy meditating? Since one year ago. During that year, did Daddy get angry in the house?

No, Daddy didn't get angry for one year. That's why Daddy has to meditate.

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Then he meditates for one hour.

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Then she asked him, Could Daddy meditate for half hour and play with me for half hour? So anyway, the goal is to beat your own mind.

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So the last piece of rice, victory flag.

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I won. Daddy doesn't get angry anymore. Okay, like that.

RGYAL ZIN LHA BAR DGOS PA STE Or, he says, or you can put the sun in the west. You can put the moon in the east. You can put the parasol in the north.

Or you can put the victory banner in the south. DE LA'ANG BRTEN DANG YOD means that also has a special good luck. Why?

Why?

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Why?

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Why good luck to put the victory banner in the south? That's a Jambu sign.

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Jambu? Jambu? Jambu?

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That's us. We are in the south. So sometimes it's good luck to put the victory banner in our place.

LHA NI BYAS NOR YUL GOS THAMS CAD RIGS RAB GYI ROL GZUGS PUNG NAS BU Then at the end, you can just keep throwing piles in the middle. And build up those two rings. And put the little top, what do you call that thing?

On the top. Sombrerito. TSE LING YONGS SU RIN PO CHE BRAL HUN NAS BYAS BUA CHUNG NA MI SDONG YONGS RTOGS SPYOD PA SRID PA'I PAS LTAR Then there was a famous lama called TSE LING YONGS SU RIN PO CHE.

He wrote a very nice book about stories about all the teachers of the Lamrim. And it would be nice to translate it someday. Somebody did pieces of it, but not the whole thing.

But he said something interesting. TSE LING, those of you who are learning Tibetan, TSE LING is an abbreviation for, can you guess? It's an abbreviation for TASHI LHUNPO, which is the fourth great monastery in Tibet.

Then, like we served the coffee this morning, in the monastery they always serve tea in the morning. When you have a teaching, everybody gets some tea. Then they won't start drinking until the last person gets their tea, because they have to do prayers.

And sometimes there are 3,000 monks. So, to give tea to 3,000 monks, it takes about an hour.

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It's a butter tea, with mantequilla.

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Tastes like chicken soup. Then, of course, the leader of the monastery should get the first cup.

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But he cannot drink it until you do the prayer. You can't do the prayer until the last monk gets his tea.

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Last monk is seven years old. He's sitting about one kilometer away. Then the abbot has to watch, did he get his tea yet?

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Then they can do the prayer, and drink the tea.

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So, of course, everybody's looking at the tea for one hour. And, of course, the coldest tea is the abbot's tea. And there's a big layer of butter, frozen butter, on the top.

Then, always when he goes home, the abbot has a butter mustache. I'm telling you monks' secret, okay? But this monk, he was bored, so he's looking at his tea.

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And he saw a bubble, a small bubble.

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He's waiting for the youngest monk to get his tea. I can see my whole face reflection in the bubble.

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Then he said, it's possible the whole universe can fit in a small place.

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So, when you offer the world in your hands, you don't have to think one planet. You can think of a hundred planets, are in your hand.

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Also, in the way that your face can reflect in a mirror.

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Or, he says, if you have a needle, and you hold it close to your eye, you can see a mountain through the hole in the needle.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (49:51 - 49:59)
So, you can compress the universe into your hands, no problem.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (49:59 - 50:32)
A whole complete, other world's complete world. So, this is a special meditation technique. He said, when you offer the world in your hands, look at the world as if you are an astronaut.

In your hands is the whole planet.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (50:32 - 50:36)
Don't think it's very small.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (50:37 - 50:49)
The whole planet, in its original size, is in your hand. And that's a meditation skill.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (50:54 - 51:08)
After you finish that, you can visualize tong tsum, then rab jam, then gyatso, then gyatso gyu sum, gyatso gyi sum.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (51:08 - 51:17)
What are these things? Tong tsum means a universe.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (51:17 - 51:19)
One universe.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (51:20 - 52:51)
One thousand groups of one thousand planets is a tong tsum. Some people say ten million, some people say one million. Some texts say ten million, some texts say only one million.

But why not put ten million planets in your hands? That's called tong tsum. Then rab jam.

Ten million tong tsums. Ten million universes. Then let's put ten million of those in your hands.

And then ten million of those in your hands. So you're holding billions and billions of planets in your hands. Why?

Mandy Chen thinks we just want to help Taiwan. She thinks if everybody in Taiwan will go to DCI events, she can retire. It's not true.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (52:51 - 52:52)
Why?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (52:53 - 53:08)
We have to take care of other planets also. I'm not kidding. So sometimes in the night time, you should go outside.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:10 - 53:12)
Look up.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:12 - 53:44)
Look at the stars. That's your next assignment. I'm not kidding.

You will go there. I will send you there. Really, and then you have to take care of other worlds.

So from the beginning you should get used to those places. Put them in your palm.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:47 - 53:50)
Like M&Ms. Like chocolate candies.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:53 - 54:16)
Because you will go there. You will teach on other worlds. Billions.

All right. That finishes the sixth class. But we have a few more minutes.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (54:18 - 54:23)
So I'm going to do the first sentence of the next class.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (54:25 - 54:50)
SA BZHI BU GYIS SOGS BTAG TU NGOS SPYOD PAG LA BU'I SKABS KYI TSIG NYON NYAMS PA BTAG NYON NYAMS PA BTAG Say NYAMS PA BTAG. NYAMS PA BTAG It's important if you're going to translate a book. NYAMS PA means, I think so.

BTAG means, let's check.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (54:51 - 54:53)
BTAG means, let's check.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (54:54 - 55:45)
It means the Lama who is teaching the class. They can't remember exactly, so they say NYAMS PA. I think so.

You check, okay? You check the book. What is the NYAMS PA BTAG in this case?

The Pabongka Rinpoche who's teaching this class. I think I remember where this mandala system came from. SA BZHI BU GYIS Exactly those words which we are doing every day.

I think I remember the book. The book's name is Gyetongpa. Jigme is cataloging it nowadays.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (55:45 - 55:54)
It was taught by the Buddha two and a half thousand years ago.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (55:54 - 55:57)
Gyetongpa means 8,000 sections.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (55:57 - 56:01)
The book has 8,000 sections.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:02 - 56:11)
And there's one chapter called RTAG TU NGU RTAG TU NGU In Sanskrit this is SADAPRARUDITA.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:12 - 56:16)
SADAPRARUDITA In Sanskrit it's called SADAPRARUDITA.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:16 - 56:47)
SADDHA means all the time. When you say, in yoga they say SADDHA SHIVA, SADDHA SHIVA. It means Shiva all the time.

Then SADAPRARUDITA means it's a story of a bodhisattva and his name is SADAPRARUDITA. In Tibetan we call it RTAG TU NGU.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:50 - 56:53)
RTAG TU means all the time.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:55 - 57:28)
NGU means he's crying. He's crying. The bodhisattva's name is Mr. Always Crying. He's always crying. It's not true. He's not always crying.

I will tell you the real story. I read it many, many years ago. He was like us.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (57:28 - 57:32)
He's living in Guadalajara.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (57:32 - 57:42)
Just normal life. He's pretty happy. Then he heard a voice in his head.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (57:44 - 58:03)
Stand up. Go out the door. Walk to the east.

Then he's like, who is that? Get up. Now.

Walk to the east.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:04 - 58:17)
How far? Until I tell you to stop. Then he thinks, maybe I've gone crazy.

I don't know why, but he got up.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:17 - 58:26)
He walked out of his house. He started to walk to the east. One block.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:27 - 58:44)
Maybe they are sending me to the store. He reached the store. Keep walking.

Okay, he walked three blocks. He's close to his mother's house.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:49 - 58:55)
Maybe I'm supposed to go to my mother's house. Keep walking.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:56 - 58:57)
He walked for months.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:00 - 59:02)
Months and months.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:02 - 59:22)
Then he thinks, maybe I'm going crazy. Because the voice never stopped in his head. Then one day, he's walking and he saw something in his mind.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:22 - 59:24)
Just for a second.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:24 - 59:29)
One teacher is teaching a group of people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:30 - 59:37)
Then gone. Then he's like, I saw something. Keep walking.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:39 - 1:00:19)
Then he keeps walking. Then that vision gets stronger and stronger. Every day, more and more times, he can see some teacher is teaching.

He doesn't know who it is. And he's like having hallucinations. Now maybe ten minutes, he stopped on the road.

Then he can see the teacher clearly. Then he starts to, oh, I have to reach the teacher. I have to reach the teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:00:23 - 1:00:34)
Then it starts. He can hear the teaching. Just a few words.

Emptiness. Compassion.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:00:36 - 1:02:32)
Then he's having these hallucinations. He needs to just keep walking hundreds of miles. Then finally, the hallucination is almost all day.

And he comes to a special city. Town. Like Tequila.

Then he feels the teacher is here. Today I will meet my teacher. Heart teacher.

Then he's like so happy. Then he says, I should take some flowers. Or some Oreo cookies or something.

McDonald's french fries. Or a Starbucks coffee. Then he goes to the market in the square, in the middle of the town.

Then he's like, everything is there. Flowers, everything he needs. Then he realized when the person told him to leave his house, they didn't tell him to bring some money.

He doesn't have any money. Then he's like, what can I do? I shouldn't go to the teacher without a flower.

Then I don't have anything. Then I will cut some of my arm and I will sell it.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:02:32 - 1:02:34)
As meat.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:02:34 - 1:02:58)
I will cut some pieces from my arm. So he cut his arm. Then he went to the market in the middle of the square.

Meat for sale, meat for sale. Then some devil came.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:02:58 - 1:03:01)
And he blocked his voice.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:03 - 1:03:12)
So he's yelling, meat for sale, meat for sale. Then nobody can hear anything. Then like, what's wrong with this guy?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:12 - 1:03:13)
What's he saying?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:15 - 1:03:16)
Nobody can hear anything.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:17 - 1:03:19)
Then he started to cry.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:19 - 1:03:28)
He started, he's like, ah! And then he started to cry. Then he can't stop crying.

That's why they gave him the name.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:29 - 1:03:43)
He's crying from frustration. Nobody can hear me. I cannot sell my flesh.

Then there's a good ending to this story.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:03:44 - 1:04:11)
There was a very rich man in the city. And he has a big mansion on the square. And he has a beautiful daughter.

So the daughter is standing on the top of the roof. In India the roof is flat. It has a small wall.

And she's out taking some fresh air.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:14 - 1:04:18)
Then she's looking into the square.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:19 - 1:04:30)
Look at that cute boy. He's so guapo. Then she's like, I'd like to meet him.

He looks a little crazy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:30 - 1:04:33)
He's always crying.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:33 - 1:04:38)
And he's yelling, but he doesn't say anything. Then she went down.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:39 - 1:04:43)
Went to meet him. What's your name?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04:44 - 1:05:01)
Why are you crying all the time? Then he said, I have to meet my teacher. I don't have any money to buy flowers.

Then something in her happened. She fell in love with him. Come on, let's buy flowers together.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:05:03 - 1:05:06)
My father will pay for everything.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:05:06 - 1:06:04)
Then they went and bought a lot of flowers. Then he went, finally he reached the class. That teacher's name in Tibetan is Chöpak.

And he doesn't tell you in this book, but I looked it up. I found it. He said to check, right?

So I went and checked. So I found it. They built a little house made out of flowers for the teacher.

So where the teacher was sitting, they built a big, like a little house of flowers. And that was the first mandala offering. That's where this custom came from.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:06:04 - 1:06:04)
Pudding [?].

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:06:07 - 1:06:51)
So that's the whole story. By the way, that book is the most famous book to teach emptiness. That's the beginning of the books to teach emptiness.

It's that one. What does emptiness mean? It doesn't mean you close your eyes, think about nothing.

It doesn't mean close your eyes, everything is black. It doesn't mean don't be happy, don't be sad. Those are all two and a half thousand year old mistakes.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:06:54 - 1:07:10)
You know the meaning of emptiness. We can do it in one minute. Twenty-five years of study in one minute.

What is this thing? Pen.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:07:11 - 1:07:27)
If a dog comes here, do they see pen? No. They will chew it.

If you ask the dog, what is this thing? They will say what?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:07:28 - 1:07:34)
Chew toy. If you ask a human, what is this thing?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:07:35 - 1:07:37)
They will say, pero, pen.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:07:38 - 1:07:47)
Who's correct? Both. Dog can chew.

Human can write.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:07:48 - 1:08:07)
The human says, don't chew on my pen, you are ruining my pen. And the dog says, you are a fool. All day long you are doing this.

Just chew it.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:08:09 - 1:08:19)
Tastes fantastic. Very good for stress. Now, last question.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:08:20 - 1:08:51)
If I put it here, all the dogs go out of the room. All the people go out of the room. At that time.

Is it a pen or a chew toy? Some people go like that. Even in China.

Some people go. Even in Moscow. Doesn't matter where you go.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:08:51 - 1:08:59)
In many, many countries. At that time. When everybody is gone.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:09:00 - 1:09:31)
Is it a pen? Is it a chew toy? Those answers are all correct.

Can you do a blank white screen? That's the meaning of emptiness. Blank white screen.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:09:35 - 1:09:46)
Your husband, your boyfriend, your wife, your girlfriend, is a blank white screen.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:09:48 - 1:09:56)
If they irritate you today, it's not coming from them. It's coming.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:09:56 - 1:10:14)
You are the projector. You are projecting irritating partner. Everybody you meet, every place you see, you are projecting.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:10:16 - 1:10:17)
From where?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:10:19 - 1:10:20)
Your own mind.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:10:23 - 1:10:53)
Who decides what picture is projected? What movie is projected? You.

When did you make the movie? Last week, last month, last year. If you are nice to other people, it puts a seed in your heart.

In the projector.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:10:54 - 1:11:08)
Then next week, the movie will be a happy movie. And if you are not nice to people, it puts a negative seed.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:11:09 - 1:11:35)
Next week, the movie will be irritating. Then Jesus talked about that a lot, right? Do unto others what you want them to do unto you.

What you plant, you will reap. This is very famous. Same.

It's all the same.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:11:36 - 1:11:48)
If you are nice to other people, because the world is empty, next week you will see a beautiful world.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:11:49 - 1:12:00)
If you are unkind to people, because the world is empty, the same world next week will be painful.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:05 - 1:12:12)
There's no world that's not coming from you. That's emptiness.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:13 - 1:12:21)
So if you understand it, you can create a perfect world. You can make the world happy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:24 - 1:12:25)
Peaceful world.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:26 - 1:12:33)
No hunger. No war. No sadness.

No lonely people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:35 - 1:12:43)
If it's not coming from your deeds, you can't change it.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:44 - 1:12:49)
If it is coming from your deeds, then you can make a perfect world.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:51 - 1:12:52)
Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:12:53 - 1:13:42)
Okay, here we go. John? Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:13:56 - 1:13:56)
Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:13:57 - 1:14:12)
One last thing. I taught that story about that bodhisattva many times. Then I had some, what do you call, very hard questions.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:14:13 - 1:14:16)
But I had some hardcore students.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:14:16 - 1:14:53)
Then they thought, oh Geshe La wants me to cut my arm and offer my meat to the lama or something like that. Fanatic. Yeah, fanatic.

Then they tried to do some things like that. Some got hurt also. Then it's much more difficult if you want to do something fanatic.

Be patient with your partner for half an hour.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:14:57 - 1:14:59)
Much more difficult.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:14:59 - 1:15:53)
Much more macho. Okay, that's the real offering. It's easy to cut your arm.

I don't want it and I don't need it. Be patient with your partner for half an hour when they are being you know. That's a real offering.

A good teacher is not going to ask you to do something like to hurt yourself or something like that. It's much more powerful to be a good person day to day, hour by hour. Okay, see you later.