«Дар освобождения», курс 14 «Красота учителя», занятие 3

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:00 - 1:51)
Okay, here we go. DE'I PHYIR Therefore, THEG SANGS RDOD DE RNAMS KYIS THU MI STONG BA BZHIN DU RDOD DE ... THEG SANGS means it's a very good word to know if you're learning, if you're going to go to the monastery next fall, if you're in the Guadalajara group.

Like Victor, or Ayrton, or Geronimo, okay, THEG SANGS means now this, now this, now, now, now this? RDOD DE means like an assembly in the sense of a congress. RNAMS KYIS means ...

THU MI means they send a representative to represent them. So, some government group will send one person as a representative. Just like that, BZHIN DU, just like that.

What? What's he going to say? Yeah, all the Buddhas had a meeting.

RGYA BA RNAMS KYIS, all the Buddhas. RANG RE'I PHYIR DU, just for you, just for you. LAM BAR DRUL, they emanated one teacher for you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:51 - 1:55)
All the Buddhas emanated one teacher just for you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:55 - 2:26)
And they sent like their representative to you. So, LA DE LA BSTAN TSUL TSUL SHING BYAS NA By the way, if you're learning Tibetan, the repetition of TSUL is on purpose, okay? So, you're supposed to say, BSTAN TSUL, hesitate, TSUL SHING, okay?

It's not a mistake in the carving, okay? Although there are many mistakes in the carving.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:35 - 2:50)
Except this carving is almost completely pure because of the person who edited it, which is Trijang Rinpoche.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:50 - 3:05)
DE LA BSTAN TSUL TSUL SHING BYAS NA If we have a nice relationship with our teacher, SANGS RGYAS RNAMS KYIS KYANG MKHAN the Buddhas understand that.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:05 - 3:08)
They see that.

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CING RGYAS PAR GYUR PA YIN And they feel happy. RGYAS TSUL YANG How do they feel happy?

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DU TSIS SNYING PO LAS Say, DU TSIS SNYING PO DU TSIS Anybody know DU TSIS?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:32 - 3:32)
Yeah, nectar.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:34 - 3:34)
Amrita.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:34 - 3:54)
A means not. Mrita means die. Amrita means you don't have to die.

People mispronounce it as Amrita. Nectar. Nect means to die.

Like necro means death, right?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:54 - 3:58)
Nectar. Nect means to die.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (4:01 - 5:21)
Tar is an old Sanskrit and Greek root that means to cross over like Tara. So Nectar also means Amrita. Same meaning.

In Tibetan language we say DU TSIS. SNYING PO means what? The heart or the essence.

SNYING is heart. SNYING PO is essence. Or you can say SNYING PO heart also.

Yeah, heart. You can also say heart. SNYING PO So this is a very famous Lamrim book.

There are many Lam Rims. There are many books like the one we are studying. Then the Essence of Nectar was written, the person was born, the author was born in 1761 and passed away in 1816.

Then his name was Yeshe Tsondru. You should know his name, Yeshe Tsondru.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:24 - 5:26)
Yeshe Tsondru.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:27 - 5:36)
Then my teacher, Khen Rinpoche, he liked this Lamrim.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:36 - 5:37)
It's short.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:39 - 6:53)
It's easy for foreigners to understand. So he taught it to us. He translated it.

Some of his students translated it. It's called Essence of Nectar. You can buy it on the internet.

Amazon. It's a nice book to have. He quotes a verse from this Lamrim.

GZHAN YIN DANG PA TSUL SHING BSTAN BYAS When you have a good relationship with a good teacher, DE NI MYUR DU ZI LAS DRUL GYUR ZHES then they say you will quickly be free from your suffering. Who's they say? Who says?

All the Buddhas.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (6:54 - 6:56)
They're watching you.

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They see, oh, this person has a teacher.

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This person carefully chose a good teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:13 - 7:29)
And they are serving this teacher correctly. Oh, look, he's going to get enlightened very fast. They are talking to each other.

Oh, look, he has a teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:31 - 7:34)
He has a good relationship with the teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:35 - 8:08)
Okay. BU LA PHAN PAR GRUB PA MED TONG ZHING means it's like when the mother sees that the son is doing something really good. RGYAL BA MA LUS THOG YID STING NAS RGYAS All of the Buddhas are happy.

Not just happy. STING NAS is a nice word. STING NAS means deep, deep, deep inside they are like like that.

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STING NAS RGYAS ZHES GSUM PA BZHIN RGYAL BA RNAMS KYIS MED BU GCIG LA BRTZE BA LTAR So he's commenting.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (8:25 - 9:50)
It's like a mother who only has one son or one daughter. And then RANG CAG RNAMS KHOR BA They see that this son or daughter is quickly, they are doing something which is going to free them from a lot of pain. My teacher, he used to watch the news to learn English.

If something he wants me to see, he lives upstairs, he will stamp on the floor with his foot. He doesn't allow me to have a TV. But if his foot's down, I have to run upstairs and look at the TV.

I remember one day there was a mother in New York and they are interviewing her. TV people are interviewing her. What about your son?

What about your son?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (9:52 - 9:58)
He's a good boy. Yeah, but are you sure? Are you sure?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (9:59 - 10:13)
He wouldn't hurt anybody. This guy killed, just killed ten people in New York. But of course the mother loves the son.

It doesn't matter.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:17 - 10:19)
He's a good boy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:20 - 10:37)
Of course, Rinpoche said, look, that's in the lamrim. This is the mother. Now if that boy does something good, doesn't have to go to jail, or they find out he didn't do it, like that.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:41 - 10:45)
Then how happy will the mother be?

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THABS KHO NA RDZEN PA So they see, oh, my kid, my kid is finally doing something to get out of trouble. They understood the most important thing in life is to find a teacher. And they are having a good relationship with that teacher.

DE KHYEN NAS SHES DON GRUB DON GRUB, say DON GRUB. DON GRUB DON GRUB In Sanskrit, DON is ARTA. Say ARTA.

ARTA And GRUB is SIDDHA. SIDDHA Put it together. DON GRUB means, oh, this kid is going to DON GRUB.

DON GRUB means SIDDHA ARTA. This is the name of the Buddha, right?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (11:53 - 11:54)
It's the name of the prince.

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It means the one who reaches their goal. DON GRUB PAS GNYEN PA YIN Why are they happy?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:09 - 12:20)
Because you are DON GRUB. You are going to reach your goals. So of course your mom is happy.

Who's the mom?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:21 - 12:26)
All the Buddhas. If you are, that's the second benefit, right?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:27 - 12:37)
If you are happy, have a good relationship with a good teacher, the Buddhas will be happy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:39 - 12:54)
Why? You're going to get enlightened very soon. That's what their business, they are in the enlightenment business.

I have to tell you, my teacher said one day, he's drinking tea, okay?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:58 - 13:00)
Hey Mike, he calls me Hey Mike.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:02 - 13:34)
Hey Mike, there's two good businesses in the world. Oh, what's that Rinpoche? First one is to sell alcohol.

I said, Rinpoche, you came in the monastery when you were seven years old, you never had one drop of alcohol in your whole life. He said, yeah, but I understand alcohol. What do people do when they are very happy?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:36 - 13:40)
They drink. When they are very sad, they drink.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:42 - 13:52)
I heard that about mezcal. I heard it about mezcal. I said, what's the second good business, Rinpoche?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:52 - 13:55)
I said, what's the second good business?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:55 - 14:34)
It's a Dharma business. It's current [?]. Why?

Customer never finish. Everyone suffering. Even the people who think they are happy, after one week they all suffer.

We always have customer. So when the Buddha sees you are finally out of trouble, one person on this whole planet is getting out of trouble. They are studying with a teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (14:42 - 14:43)
Then of course they are happy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (14:45 - 15:13)
Okay, next one. NYID PA NI LAM MA TSUL BZHIN MA BSTAN PAR If you don't have a good relationship with your teacher, SANGS RGYAS LA CHOS PA JI LTAR BU RYONG it doesn't matter how many nice offerings you put on the altar. Buddhas don't like it.

MI RGYAS means they don't like it.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (15:17 - 15:21)
That's a terrible feeling.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (15:22 - 16:41)
For example, I grow flowers because I want to offer them to my teacher. Then it makes me so happy to I work the whole year, I grow some flowers. Then when they are coming I cut some flowers and I offer to them.

Then imagine if they say I don't want your flowers. They throw it and say I don't like your flowers. Why?

Because this person is not have a good relationship with their teacher. This person is not respecting their teacher. So this is a very heavy sad verse, sad line.

If you are not treating your teacher with respect or affection, you can put a lot of, you can make a candle and you can put a lot of flowers you can put a candle and you can put flowers.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (16:42 - 16:46)
The Buddhas will avoid it. It smells bad to them.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (16:48 - 17:08)
Okay, understand? Heavy, it's heavy. Okay.

Then he quotes Jampel Shellung. This is a lamrim written by the fifth Dalai Lama. His Holiness the fifth Dalai Lama.

Very, very, very, very, very, very famous verse.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (17:09 - 17:13)
Good translation.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (17:16 - 17:26)
If you want to learn Tibetan, if you want to just learn one thing, this is a nice verse.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (17:26 - 17:28)
This is five lines.

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Very, very famous.

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Okay? Here it is.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (17:33 - 19:06)
DI DON LDAN RGA SHIG LA SNGA NI DE'I LUS NAS TE GRUB PA'I GZHAN LA SPYOD PA LEN DE YID DE NYES RANG GI RGYU LAS KYI GRUB PAR BDAG CHE DANG DI DON LDAN means who have this good goal. RGA SHIG LA means to some of them. SNGA NI DE'I LUS NAS TE I will enter their body.

This is by the way Vajradhara, secret Buddha. I tell you, I will enter the body of some of the people around you. GRUB PA'I GZHAN LA SPYOD PA LEN And I will accept the offerings of other people.

DE YID DE NYES RANG GI RGYU And by pleasing me, RANG GI RGYU LAS KYI GRUB PAR BDAG CHE DANG means those people who make the offering, all their obstacles will disappear. Understand? What he means is I will enter the body of your teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (19:06 - 19:15)
When you are ready to make an offering to your teacher, what's the best offering?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (19:15 - 20:12)
Be nice to somebody. Be nice to somebody else. If I see you are about to make this offering to your teacher, quickly I will get into your teacher's body.

I will accept that offering. And it makes me happy. And then your mind gets pure.

Cool? Understand? This is a Tantric Buddha.

This is very famous. So, just before you offer, just before you tell your teacher about something good you did for somebody else, I suggest you pause for one minute.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (20:12 - 20:19)
Give the Buddha time to get into their body.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (20:19 - 20:23)
Then you are pleasing the Buddha.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (20:25 - 20:27)
So, go slow.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (20:28 - 20:54)
Those of you who are trying to learn Tibetan, the third line says GRU PO GZHAN LA CHOD PA LEN The LA is a little confusing. LA means I will give offerings to other people. It would be more comfortable if it said I will take offerings from other people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (20:55 - 21:04)
It would be more comfortable if it said If it said I will take the offerings of others, it would be better.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (21:09 - 21:53)
But the Tibetan, sometimes the Tibetan says I will give the offerings to others. So, I checked in Kangyur. We typed in half a million pages in the last 25 years.

So, I checked the old scriptures. It doesn't say LA. It says KYIS, which makes more sense.

It says GRU PO GZHAN GYIS CHOD PA LEN I take the offerings of others, not from or not to. It says of others.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (21:53 - 21:53)
That's good.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (22:03 - 22:40)
So, they say, he says that comes from a book by the Fifth Dalai Lama. There is a famous lamrim by the Fifth Dalai Lama and it comes from there. It's called The Word of Gentle Voice, or The Word of Manjushri.

But actually you can find it. It's a book on Mahamudra [?]. From ancient India.

Then there's a long quotation, but you're tired. I won't give you the whole quotation.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (22:40 - 22:45)
But it's very beautiful.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (22:58 - 25:59)
Okay. I was waiting for someone to say that. So, here's the whole text from ancient India.

Very, very old. Very ancient. GANG ZHIG RDI NI MA STOG PAR SANGS PA MA' BAR BYAS PA NI Anyone who says they are practicing the secret way, but they don't understand this thing.

DE NI NGA DANG, DE BZHIN GZHAN GNAF ZHUGS DE LA BYA BYED PA'I PHYING GI LO PAR MI BYED DO So, those people, for those people, I don't enter the body of their teacher. DE NI DON NAS RGA SHES LA NGA NI DE'I LUS NAS TE GRUB PA GZHAN LA CHOD PAR LEN DE'I NYES DE RANG GI RGYU LAS KYI GRUB PA GZHAN LA CHOD PAR LEN That's the verse that I told you. But some lucky people, I will enter their body, you will give an offering to that teacher, and then you get the good karma of offering to me.

DI DON NA BA PO BYED PAR GANG GI DUS SU GNAS PA DER, SANGS RGYAS BSTAN PA RIN CHEN MYANG GNAS PA RAB TU SHES PA YIN And as long as that's happening, as long as a student is honoring a teacher in a place, the Buddha's teaching is in that place. RGYUS PA'I RIM PA DU BYED NAS SANGS RGYAS BSTAN PA RIN CHEN MYANG GNAS PA RAB TU SHES PA BYA But if in a place this custom is broken, that the students are respecting the teacher, then we can say, GNUG means we can say that the sun of the teachings has set in that land. There is no sun of the teaching in that land.

Okay, I think we may be not done. SHES PA LTAR RGYA BA RNAMS CHEN MA GRANGS KYANG LA MED GUS LA ZHUGS NAS So, if you are having a good relationship with your teacher, CHEN MA GRANGS means even if you didn't invite the Buddhas to come to that place, LA MED GUS LA ZHUGS they will come. They will enter your Lama's body.

RANG GI CHOS PA RGYA SHIN SHES PA RGYUR And they will accept your offerings.

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Happily.

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Then he says a cool thing. I like this thing. I don't know.

This is the things I get excited about. He says a beautiful thing. RGYA BA ZAD CES LA CHOS PA BUD KYANG So think about it.

You can make an offering. In your mind you can offer to all the Buddhas. You can put this candle here.

In your heart, in your mind you can say this is for all the Buddhas in the... May all the Buddhas in the universe see this with their own eyes. And you get one good karmic seed.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (26:48 - 27:00)
You get a special karmic seed that you offered this thing to all the Buddhas in your heart.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (27:02 - 27:39)
But LAS means but here. RGYA SHIN SHES PA'I PHAN YIN MI SBYUNG You don't get to watch their reaction. You can imagine, but you cannot directly, you cannot see.

I saw a nice joke the other day. It's a cartoon in the magazine. There's birthday things all over.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (27:42 - 27:47)
And there's a big box and it's open.

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And the Dalai Lama has a box in his hand.

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And he's like, he looks like this.

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And then he says, just what I always wanted. Nothing. So you don't get to see the reaction when you offer a karma.

You don't get to watch the face of the person who gets the gift.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (28:26 - 28:44)
But if the Buddhas come into your Lama and you offer it to them, you get a special second karmic seed. What's that?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (28:46 - 31:00)
You get to see their reaction. You tell your Lama, I've been jealous of this other student for 15 years. I know because I did it for 25 years.

But today I felt harmony with them. Today I was happy for them. Then of course your Lama will go, wow, that's so great.

Then you get the karma of seeing their face. This plants a special karma in your mind. So it's nice to ...

We had a nice talk a few weeks ago in Phoenix. A Christian priest came to talk to us. He was unusual.

He's hip, pretty hip. He teaches once a week in the bar. It's pretty cool.

He has like 50, 60 people follow him. It's nice. I don't know him.

I didn't meet him before, but he came to give us a talk. He has a bag. In the bag there's a can of peas and one pair of his old pants.

Then he said, you know, I don't know all of you Buddhist people. This is my first time to talk to you. So I thought I'd like to give each person a gift.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (31:00 - 31:05)
So I thought I'd like to give each person a gift.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (31:05 - 31:37)
He gave me the can of peas. Then of course, I'm the monk. I have to say, oh, thank you.

Then he gave the flour [?] to Adam and Katie, I remember. Then Adam's like ... Then he gave the pants.

Who gave the pants?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (31:38 - 31:39)
Oh, he passed them.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (31:40 - 32:56)
Then he said, these are some old pants. They are my pants. They won't fit you.

Also, they have a hole in the ... Then we're all ... we get confused.

We are confused. We're like ... Then he gave a very nice talk.

His specialty is to help poor people and the homeless people. Then he said that people are always giving homeless people things. The church will have toy collection drive.

They will get many toys. Then they go out to the homeless children and give them these big toys. But they don't think the child has no place to put the toy.

They can't carry the toy around all day. They don't have a house.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (32:57 - 33:15)
So he said many times religious people they give gifts to other people but they don't actually study that person to see what they want.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (33:16 - 33:29)
They just want to give something and they feel religious. So he said, if you want to be a real generous person, check out the other person.

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Get to know them.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (33:33 - 33:39)
What do they like? Then give them that thing. Same with Lama, okay?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (33:39 - 33:41)
Same with Lama.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (33:41 - 33:47)
This story, whole story is about your Lama. Check out the Lama.

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Don't just give them something.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (33:52 - 34:39)
Check out what do they like. This Lama, they like to hear that you stopped your jealousy for one hour or two hours. It makes me happy because I couldn't stop my own.

So choose the thing which they enjoy. Anytime you give a gift, think about the other person, not about yourself. Many people cook for a meal for somebody else what they like, not what the other person likes.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (34:46 - 34:56)
So for your teacher, see what they like, give them what they really want, and then you get to watch their face.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (34:59 - 35:38)
They're like, cool, you weren't jealous for two hours? Well, maybe one hour. Then you get this, it's a special karma to see your Lama's face really happy.

When you see that face because you made the face happy. It's a special karma, and you will be a very happy person. All right.

We'll do a little bit more and then I'll take some questions then we stop, okay?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (35:42 - 35:53)
I want to thank all the people from China, Singapore, all of Argentina, because they have jet lag.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (35:55 - 36:44)
Then it makes me happy because I always have jet lag. Next time I come to China and Beijing, you have to remember. Okay, we just do a few more, half hour.

We're on benefit number three. First one was you get closer to Buddhahood. Geshe Michael got confused because it had two parts.

Okay, I don't remember what they were, but oh no, you do what your teacher asks you, you get closer to Buddhahood.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (36:50 - 36:59)
And if you make proper offering to your teacher, you also get closer to Buddhahood.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (37:01 - 37:01)
That's number one.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (37:03 - 37:04)
What was number two?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (37:07 - 37:25)
Yeah, I mean all the Buddhas are happy. It's like a party, Buddha party. Look, look, he met a teacher today.

Oh! Finally, he's doing something right. They're like your mom.

They're happy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (37:27 - 37:30)
Okay, benefit number three.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (37:30 - 37:43)
GSOS PA'I DUS DANG, DU SROG GI MI TSUGS PA Negative forces cannot touch you if you have a good relationship with your teacher.

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If you have a good teacher and you have a good relationship with them, negative spirits cannot touch you. And SDIG SROG cannot touch you.

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SDIG SROG is a special word in Buddhism. It means bad friend. The friend who gets you in trouble.

Maybe you had a friend like that. My little brother had a friend like that.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (38:32 - 38:34)
Some friends like that. SDIG SROG.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (38:39 - 38:50)
They were teaching him how to do drugs and how to use guns and things like that. Real, really SDIG SROG. Later he killed himself.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (38:50 - 38:54)
Later my brother killed himself.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (38:54 - 38:58)
I believe because of the influence of all these kind of crazy people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (38:59 - 39:09)
You know, bad people. So that's a SDIG SROG. We'll talk more about SDIG SROG.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (39:09 - 40:14)
MDO LAS GSUNGS PA GZHAN GZHAN YANG TSUL GZHAN DU BRTEN PAS GZHAN DU BRTEN PAS NI GSOS RNAMS CAN PO'I PHAL LA If you, the sutras say, if you have a good relationship with your teacher, then all of your good karma increases. And that increase in your karma is like a shield. The negative forces cannot, they try to hurt you, but they cannot touch you.

Then he quotes a sutra as an example. This sutra is called GYA CHER ROL PA in Tibetan. In Sanskrit, it's LALITA VISTARA.

It means the, what do you call it, this is a nice one, the playground which is as big as the universe.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (40:23 - 40:28)
Like the football field which is as big as the universe.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (40:31 - 41:00)
It means when you learn these things and your meditation is good, then the whole world is like your playground. You go to China, you're having like a lot of fun. You go to Guadalajara, you're having also fun.

You go to Norway, you're having fun with Norway people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (41:03 - 41:05)
That's the meaning of this sutra's name.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (41:08 - 42:00)
That sutra said, GSOS RNAMS CAN PO'I PHAL LA GSOS RNAMS LDAN PA'I MI'I SANGS PA RNAMS KUN KYANG GRUB DU BYONG NAS NI BYANG CHUB MYUR DU RE BAR GYUR A person who has this kind of good karma, they get all the things they dream of, and they destroy all their demons, and they quickly reach enlightenment. They think about, should I read you the whole sutra? I don't think so.

It's kind of long. Let me see. Let me just see if it's...

I'm going to skip this one, okay? Because there's a more important thing coming. But I found it.

If you're interested, someday I can show you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (42:04 - 42:06)
Then he quotes another sutra.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (42:09 - 43:19)
And I'll go for five more minutes and then I'll take questions, okay? If you don't have any questions, I'll send you to bed. GZHAN YANG GSOS RNAMS LDAN PA'I MI LTA LA LHA' AM DU GYIS RIGS LTA GYIS BAR BYED CHA BAR MI NUS SO If a person has enough good karma, then nothing can cause, nothing can block them in their practice.

Neither, there's a special beings called, what do you call? Like, I don't know how to say. DE BA DE BA means angel, but it can also mean like a negative, a negative spirit.

It's possible. Okay, so this sutra I'll read you. I looked it up.

It comes from a book called Vinaya Vastu.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (43:24 - 43:25)
Vinaya Vastu.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (43:25 - 43:43)
This is actually the first book in the whole Buddhist canon. It's the first book in the Kangyur, okay? And it's all about how to take vows and Pratimoksha vows, how to not hurt other people.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (43:49 - 43:53)
Pratimoksha vows, how to not hurt other people, not hurt others.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (43:53 - 45:31)
DE NAS BYAMS DANG DE'I KHYAD SONG PA KHA KUN DANG SANGS PA BYIN PA DE LA BYAS SU YI RANG BA'I BYAS SU YI RANG BA'I BYAS SU YI RANG BA'I BRTZE STE Then the Buddha was talking to the businessman and to the other person named SANGS PA BYIN and the Buddha was being happy about being happy The Buddha was doing rejoicing meditation about coffee [?] meditation about rejoicing meditation. You can do that, right? I'm happy, why?

I did rejoicing meditation yesterday. What did you do your rejoicing meditation about? That I did my rejoicing meditation last week.

Okay. You can keep going, okay? GANG GI DON DU BYIN PA STANGS DE'I DON DU RGYUR PA STE DE BA'I DON DU BYIN STANGS NA DE NAS DE BAR GYUR PA YIN For whatever reason you are helping other people or giving them things or helping them to make money that becomes helping yourself.

Helping yourself.

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When you help others.

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DE BA'I DON DU BYIN STANGS NA And if you're giving something to someone to make them happy DE NAS DE BAR GYUR PA YIN it would just make you happy.

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You know that when you feel depressed you never think about other people.

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Then you get more depressed. The best thing for depression is to just do anything for somebody else. And that karma will change your depression.

SON NAMS LA MIN DE BA DANG SANGS PA YANG NI RDUG PAR GYUR The karmic result of being nice to other people is happiness for yourself. And the things you dream you will accomplish. NYUR DU ZHI BA DANG PA YIN NYANG NGAN BDE PAR RTOG PAR GYUR And quickly you will reach nirvana.

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Which is the highest peace.

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BAR DO LAS GCIG GNOD PA NI LHA DANG RDUG GI RIGS BDAG GIS All the problems are ...

[Geshe Michael Roach] (46:55 - 46:59)
Okay, let me talk about this.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (47:00 - 47:02)
So there's a word in Tibetan called RDU.

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RDU means demon. Evil spirit.

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Then there's a cute book. You should read it. It's a Christian book.

If you see any good book, you should read it, okay? This is a great book.

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Tao Te Ching.

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It's great. It's not Buddhist. But if it's a great book, it's good to read.

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It's good to memorize.

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So there's a book called Screwtape Letters. Screwtape Letters. It's a Screwtape.

It's just a guy's funny name. Screw means like screwing. Tape means like tape.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (48:00 - 48:03)
Like Screwtape. It's the name of a devil.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (48:04 - 48:20)
It's a devil's name. It's by C.S. Lewis. He wrote the Narnia stories for children.

There's some movies nowadays, right?

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He's a great writer.

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Do you know who's his best friend? Tolkien. Who wrote The Hobbit.

These two guys are writing together all day, having fun. During World War II, but that's a long story. World War II.

He's talking about, these are letters written by the devil to his nephew. The nephew got sent to earth. His job is to ruin one young man's life.

He's getting advice from his uncle, who is the devil. C.S. Lewis said when he wrote that book, it was very disturbing for him. He has to imagine what will the devil tell to his nephew to ruin a young man's life.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (49:47 - 50:05)
Then in one of the letters, the devil writes to his nephew, there's one great achievement of the devil in modern world. Then the nephew says, what is it?

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We made people, modern people think devil doesn't exist. Modern people think it's stupid to talk about the devil. It's not fashionable to talk about the devil.

If you talk about the devil, you're old fashioned. Then the devil said, this is one of the greatest achievements that we did in the 20th and 21st century. Nobody believes in the devil.

Then in Buddhism we believe. We believe there is such a thing as a demon. Then if you meditate a lot, you can see them.

It's very disturbing. Why? Because mainly they show up as nice friend.

They don't have horns. They show like your ... just your childhood friend.

They say, where are you going? You're packing some bag, where are you going? I'm going to Guadalajara, Mexico.

Why?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (51:48 - 51:54)
There's a teacher there and he's going to talk for 10 days.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (51:54 - 51:59)
What's he going to talk about? How not to die.

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Come on man. We're going out for some beers. Forget that crap.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (52:13 - 52:41)
Who believes that stuff? I was in Ireland. I'm sorry to say, this is one of my home country ...

my ancestors, some of them came from Ireland. We were putting posters up in Galway, Ireland for a talk, Buddhist talk. And some guy is reading, huh, there's a Buddhist talk tonight.

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There's a Buddhist talk? Yeah. You're the guy in the picture.

Yeah, that's me, yeah. He said, you're a Buddhist monk?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (52:57 - 53:03)
Yeah, yeah. Oh, my whole life I wanted to meet a Buddhist monk also. A whole life I want to meet.

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So see you tonight. Tonight? Tonight?

It's Friday night man.

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It's pub night. It's pub night. I can't miss a pub night.

He didn't come.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:28 - 53:35)
So that kind of friend, they are not like, what do you call it?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (53:35 - 53:37)
They are not shooting heroin into your arm, okay?

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They are cool. They are hip.

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They are modern. You say, I'm going to Guadalajara for a spiritual week. Then they don't bite you.

They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Om, om, om. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna.

Then you don't go. That's a demon. That's a real demon.

Someday you'll be able to see the demon under the person's skin. If you meditate a lot, you will reach that. But if you have a good teacher, and you have a sweet relationship, like affection, you are like Iron Man.

They try to say, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, and then you're like, yeah, I think it's cool.

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They can't touch you.

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The scriptures, the word, the word is cannot touch you.

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So those beings exist.

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You have to understand that. Don't think it's some superstition or some old Buddhist idea. It's not like that.

They are cool. They are hip. They are subtle.

And they are persuasive. They'll put you in a blog or something. They'll write some blog about you.

Make fun of you. Then you feel shy to go to the spiritual talk. You see?

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Like that. If you have a teacher, and if you have this very sweet relationship with the teacher, nothing can shake you.

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Nothing.

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Nobody can shake you. The world can fall apart, you are happy.

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You are strong. Nobody can change your mind. So to have a teacher will protect you.

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Protect your life.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (56:48 - 57:06)
I had all these cool friends in the university. My two roommates in the university. Both became lawyers.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (57:08 - 57:10)
Pretty rich and famous lawyers.

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Now they're always writing me letters. Oh, I got a heart attack. What should I do?

What should I do?

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So you are doing the right thing. Later you will understand.

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All your friends will ask you, please help me, please help me.

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Prepare now.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (57:39 - 58:45)
Learn these things now, while you are young. In your whole life they will protect you. And later everybody will say, oh you were the smart one.

Only you were the smart one. The one lawyer died. In my university, you are required to learn to swim.

This rule is, I don't know, like 150 years old. Then my roommate, he went to the school officials. He said, I'm not learning to swim and you are not going to throw me out of school.

This is a stupid rule from 150 years ago. And I will sue you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (58:46 - 58:47)
This is the American system.

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So they said, okay, okay, you don't have to learn to swim. Then he got married, he has two nice children.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:00 - 59:07)
He is a lawyer for the European Atomic Energy Commission.

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He was walking near a small river one day.

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He slipped, he fell in, and he drowned.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (59:25 - 1:00:00)
That night, I didn't hear about it, but I had a dream about him. He was on the other side of a big glass wall, like this glass. His wife and his two kids were in the kitchen, at the table.

And they were crying. Then he was beating on the glass, like that.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:00:03 - 1:00:08)
He was trying to touch them or make them hear him.

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And they couldn't hear him.

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So those things will happen in your life.

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You're doing the right thing. You're doing the smart thing. To be here you are hip and you are also cool.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:00:41 - 1:00:44)
Okay, all right.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:00:48 - 1:01:58)
Let's do it. Let's do it. Chant.

Chant. Chant. Chant.

Chant. Chant. Chant.

Chant.