«Дар освобождения», курс 14 «Красота учителя», занятие 8

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:00 - 0:11)
You ready? DE LTAR YANG DUG CI SNYING PO LAS So he's quoting that lamrim again. By the way, I want to go fast because I like the next part.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:16 - 0:19)
We are in benefit number six.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:20 - 0:20)
Benefit of what?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:22 - 0:30)
Having a lama and having a good relationship with that lama.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (0:31 - 1:04)
Okay, and this part is about, if you have a sweet relationship with a lama in this life, it will perpetuate itself. You find a lama, you create a lama, sorry. You're sweet to them and they are sweet to you.

It creates gyu tun [?], chepa gyu tun [?].

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:04 - 1:24)
It creates another cause to have another sweet lama, which creates another cause to have another sweet lama. Unending sweet lamas.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:24 - 1:49)
A roll of sweet lamas. A roll. You see, on the roll.

Samsara. Samsara. Samsara is a bad thing.

You come home. Open the door. Husband yells at you.

Why?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:50 - 1:55)
Because you yelled at the kids last week.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:55 - 1:58)
Maybe he called you stupid.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (1:59 - 2:01)
You are stupid.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:01 - 2:11)
Then what's the best way to prove that you are stupid? Yeah, call him stupid. No, you are stupid.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:14 - 2:21)
Then you prove you are stupid. Because you plant another seed.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:22 - 2:33)
Maybe next week in your office, your boss calls you stupid again. That's samsara. Negative downward cycle.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:37 - 2:38)
Chepa gyu tun.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:40 - 2:47)
Upward cycle. Lama, I love you. Create another lama.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:47 - 2:49)
I love you too.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:49 - 2:55)
I love you too. I also love you. And then you just keep going up.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:55 - 2:57)
And you keep going up and up.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (2:58 - 3:08)
So it's an anti-samsara. Perfecto samsara [?] or something. I don't know.

Okay, it's a good samsara.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:08 - 3:10)
It's a good samsara. Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:11 - 3:36)
So here's the quotation from the Lamrim. SEMS DIR LAMA TSUL SHES NYES BYAS PAS If you make your lama happy in this life, how do you make them happy? Give them money?

Run after them and carry their things or something like that?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:40 - 3:41)
That's okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:42 - 3:44)
But better.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (3:44 - 4:04)
You are loving the other students. I love when you guys are cheering for the Chinese dance. I feel so happy.

Every country cheering for the other country.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (4:05 - 4:47)
It makes me really happy. The lama wants to see the students are loving each other. That's real lama service.

Not to fight over who's going to make the tea. SEMS DIR LAMA TSUL SHES If you make your lama happy, RGYUD CHUN BRAS BU'I TSER RAB THAMS CAD DU You will create an upward spiral and for all of your future lives, DGE BA'I GZHAN YIN CHOG DANG BRJAN GYUR ZHING you will meet more teachers.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (4:48 - 4:55)
CHOG means ultimate teachers.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (4:55 - 5:15)
TZANG LA MA NOR DAM CHE THOS PAR GYUR TZANG here means you will get the whole teachings, not just one piece or two pieces. You will get the whole teaching. The LA here means and.

It's not at. It means and.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:18 - 5:19)
And.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:19 - 5:34)
MA NOR means correct teaching. Absolutely 100% pure and correct. DAM CHE THOS PAR GYUR You will hear it from those teachers.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:38 - 5:40)
Just be sweet to your teacher.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:41 - 5:44)
Make them happy. How do you make them happy?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:46 - 5:54)
Be sweet to other people. That's the only thing that really makes them happy.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:54 - 5:56)
Okay, we finished benefit six.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:57 - 5:57)
Yay!

[Geshe Michael Roach] (5:59 - 6:06)
Benefit seven. I want to do a little bit because it's so funny and I like funny things.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (6:10 - 6:45)
We have eight minutes. DON PA NGAN SONG DU MI STON BA NI If in this life you connect with a good teacher and you have a sweet relationship, NGAN SONG DU MI STON BA after you die, you will not go to hell. You will not become an animal, some kind of spirit.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (6:45 - 7:07)
We call lower realms, lower realms. In Tibetan it's called the realms of pain, the realms of pain. Okay, I saw the big falcon flew to the tree.

We freed the big falcon.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:08 - 7:10)
It was a hawk or eagle, I don't know.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:11 - 7:13)
Hawk, big hawk.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:13 - 7:19)
We freed the big hawk. Then they went to the tree.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:20 - 7:23)
Me and Aldo were holding each other. It was very sweet.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:23 - 7:41)
We are watching the big hawk. We are enjoying the big hawk. Then I noticed all the small birds, they are like this.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (7:41 - 8:09)
Then I'm like, oh I hope he doesn't kill one in front of everybody. Then, why do animals run when you come near? Because they don't want to die.

Why do birds go like this?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (8:11 - 8:14)
They are checking their back.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (8:14 - 8:24)
In their world, called animal world, it's very, very brutal and dangerous.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (8:25 - 8:42)
In one second, if you don't watch your back, some hawk which was released by those Buddhist people, you are enjoying the blue sky.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (8:42 - 9:10)
Then, you know, suddenly you are food. That's the life of an animal. Hell is worse than that.

You cannot see hell. Much worse. Then if you don't want to go to those places, find a teacher.

Make a sweet relationship with him.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (9:13 - 9:15)
It will protect you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (9:16 - 9:44)
How? I like it. Okay, let's go.

SHIN YON TEN TSUL TSUL BZHIN BYAS NA If you have a sweet relationship with that teacher, DE'I RGA RGYUN PA TSUN GYIS When they hassle you and criticize you, they are using up your karma to go to the hell.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (9:49 - 9:59)
You're so lucky to have a lama to criticize you. Yell at you. Tell you you are stupid.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:01 - 10:08)
Every time they say stupid to you, you are using up some bad karma.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:09 - 10:12)
That's how they protect you.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:13 - 10:32)
Okay? I lived with my teacher for 25 years. He never said one good thing about me in 25 years.

Then finally I gave up. I said, it doesn't matter. I can become the only American Geshe.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:38 - 10:42)
I can save all the books of Buddhism.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (10:42 - 11:12)
I can build him a beautiful two story house. He's not going to thank me. He's not going to say I did anything good.

I just got used to it. Then one day all my friends came from my job. We want to meet your lama.

A lot of them are Chinese. We are working together.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (11:13 - 11:41)
Can we meet your teacher? Okay, okay, you can meet. This is after like 10 years we are working together.

I said, you can come to my house. But I want to warn you, he never said one good thing about me. So please don't be upset.

Then they came.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (11:43 - 11:54)
I made them tea. He has a little bell like this. It's a dog bell.

Used to call the dog.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (11:58 - 11:59)
Who's the dog?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:02 - 12:13)
He has a little bell. He rings it upstairs. I'm supposed to run upstairs.

If I walk, I will get in trouble.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:15 - 12:17)
He has to hear [?] on the steps.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:21 - 12:42)
Some days when I'm angry, I just stand on the first step and go like that. Then he's like, what took you so long? He rang the bell.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:45 - 12:51)
Then everybody went upstairs. He said, Mike, you don't come. You don't come.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (12:53 - 13:12)
I stayed downstairs. Then I said, he's probably saying very bad things. Then they all came down.

I said, what terrible thing did he say about me? He said, you're the best student he ever had, but he doesn't want you to hear that.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:23 - 13:32)
So this section, if you are lucky, your lama will hassle you all the time.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:35 - 13:48)
And use up your bad karma. So I think tonight many people will thank me. Then he gives a story, okay?

Let's do the story. You okay?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:50 - 13:51)
It's very short.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (13:53 - 15:02)
It's almost as short as Dodo's story. Geshe Lhatsowa, there was a Geshe named Lhatsowa, Lhatsowa. Geshe Tulumba was his teacher.

NAM RJE LA REG GIS Every time he saw him or met him, LHATS SO BA LA DKA' KHYUN BA ZHIG MDZAD His teacher never said anything good. Always criticized. Every time they just see him, he said, you're stupid.

Just complained. Every time, just see him for one minute, you're stupid. Then RANG GI BLO MA NYAG MO BA is a misspelling in the carving.

The carving is wrong. It should be NYA RGA MO.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (15:03 - 15:11)
NYA RGA MO Then his student is named NYA RGA MO.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (15:14 - 16:53)
Then he said, I looked it up for you, okay? They don't say, but the student said, my grandfather, your teacher, your lama. Kind of tough, isn't he?

Then the Geshe said, no, no, don't say that about my lama. NA LA DE LTAR MDZAD REG GIS Every time I meet him, when he calls me stupid, HE RUG BSKYED JIN GYI BSLAB PA It's like Heruka gave me a blessing. Heruka is a big Buddhist deity.

Every time he says to me, stupid, it's like I am getting initiation from Heruka. Okay, HERU KA'I JIN GYI BSLAB PA RE'ONG YIN And I love it. Okay, got it?

Because I'm using up my bad karma. He's helping me to use up my bad karma. Okay, I think we stop there.

Tomorrow we continue with the criticism of the students. I like that. Scott, you ready?

[Geshe Michael Roach] (16:53 - 16:55)
Okay, Scott, listo.

[Geshe Michael Roach] (18:01 - 18:34)
Thank you for coming, because I like to teach, and I'm very grateful for that, so thank you. And thank you to the translators. I used to translate for my teacher in the monastery.

Sometimes I'm really tired. I feel like my head is going to explode. So, thank you for the hard work.

Good night.