«Дар освобождения», курс 24 «Пустой Будда — высшая защита», занятие 13

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Take out your dependent origination and emptiness. Turn it off.

[Translator]
When somebody leads the mandala offering, they say the first two words each time, and then we follow them.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, during that time, they are the boss. We have to follow them. If they go sa-yi-yi, then we have to go sa-yi-yi.

Okay.

[Translator]
She didn't. She is very beautiful.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Just like Buddha's voice. Okay. Let's meditate.

[Translator]
Because today is important day, we are going to take commitment.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
The best meditation we can do is to collect some good seeds.

[Translator]
Clean out some bad seeds.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And bring our teacher, heart teacher, into our heart. So, we'll do the usual preliminary meditation. People think, oh, that meditation is not too sexy.

Geshe La does that all the time. We want some new crazy emptiness meditation. But really, that one is the most powerful.

[Translator]
Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So, please get ready. Clear your throat. Turn off your cell phone.

[Translator]
Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And relax.

[Translator]
Little smile before you close your eyes.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Eyelids are relaxed. Fingers are relaxed. Stomach is pulled in a little bit.

Shoulders go back and shoulders go down. Forehead is relaxed. And then try not to move.

And slowly come to your breath.

[Translator]
Long exhales.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then in your mind, please invite your heart teacher to come. They're sitting down in front of you.

[Translator]
And you can feel the warmth from their body.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And a beautiful smell like a jasmine flower.

[Translator]
And they're looking at you with great love.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then think about one thing, one quality that they have that you would like to learn from them. Then make them an offering. I think a very nice offering is all the time and hard work you did to get here and to listen to all these classes.

It takes a lot of courage and strength.

[Translator]
我想一份非常美好的供養就是你為了來到這裡花的所有的時間付出所有的努力 我想一份非常美好的供養就是你為了來到這裡花的所有的時間付出所有的努力 Then open your heart and confess to your teacher something negative you did in the last 24 hours.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Maybe you were impatient with someone, or maybe you were a little pushy with someone.

[Translator]
然后打开你的心去向你的老师上师忏悔过去24小时你做的一些不好的事情 或许你对某些人不耐烦,或许你对某些人有点态度过于的强迫了 Then please tell your teacher something beautiful you did in the last 24 hours.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
然后请告诉你的老师你自己在过去的24小时内做了一些很好的很美好的事情 Usually it means you took your time that you wanted to do something for yourself and you gave it to somebody else to serve them and make them happy. 通常是指你把本该用在自己身上的一些时间给到了别人用来服务他人用来使他人开心 Then ask your teacher for teaching. If we just ask, they will teach.

If we don't ask, it's difficult.

[Translator]
接下来向老师请求教授,如果你请求的话他们就会教你,但是如果你们不去请的话,他们就很难来教你了 然后请求老师留在你的身边 Everybody needs someone to guide them in life.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
在生活当中我们每一个人都需要某些人的指引 And if it's someone very wise and someone who stays very close, then our life is a lot easier. Then think about all the good karma you've made in the last few days.

[Translator]
这一下的所有的善业,然后把这些善业送到这个国家里面的人们 送到你自己所在的国家里面的人民 以及送到给所有人,不仅是这个世界,而是许许多多的世界里 Then please come back to your breath.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Three long exhales. 三次深呼吸 慢慢地可以睁开眼睛 拉伸身体 非常好,非常安静,做得很好 Tim or Jasmine, can you come up? Here.

Nick, can you please put that image of Lord Buddha? 放上佛陀的图像 Ok, good. So, we are going to take refuge vows.

现在我们要来给予这个皈依戒了 If you gave us your name and you put your name on a list, 如果大家有把你的名字放在我们这个清单里面有报名的话 Then we chose a name for you. 我们有替你们挑选一个新的名字 花了我们三天的时间,很多个小时 Especially Jigme and Stanley and Alison worked very hard.

[Translator]
I like to thank them.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, probably we made some mistake and some people didn't get their name. 有可能会有一些遗漏,就是有些朋友可能没有拿到名字 Then, remember, that's coming from you.

[Translator]
记得,那是从你而来的 No. Then, just tell Jasmine or Tim. Give them your name.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
We will give you one, so don't worry. We were very tired last night, very late. So, probably some people got three names also.

Then you can pick the best one. If you didn't give name but you want to take a vow, 如果你没有给我们你的名字,但是你还是想要受戒的话 That's fine, you can do it today. Then give your name to Tim or Jasmine.

And happy to give your name. 我会很愿意为大家起这个法名 Your group leader will give you your card with your name on it. That will happen during the break this morning.

Then, the names are always special. You have karma to get that name. So, it must have some deep meaning for you.

So, you have to think about it. And every name has a spiritual meaning. And if you want some more explanation of your name, it's good to ask one of the teachers who taught couple days ago.

The teachers, the ACI teachers. They have a lot of experience. They can tell you the deeper meaning of your name.

Usually the name has some meaning meaning of some quality you have. Like nam kha karma It means a dancer in the sky. Then, everything has meaning.

Sky always means emptiness. Karma to dance in the sky means your intelligence is very strong. Your mind goes through emptiness very easily.

So, spend time with your name.

[Translator]
Think about it.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
We put the Tibetan name. For Chinese participants, we put the Chinese character for the sound. And the meaning of the name, we put English and Chinese.

Okay. Then, please this morning remember the contract.

[Translator]
Twelve part contract.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
This morning I was late. I was rushing. I have to choose between cappuccino and lamrim.

[Translator]
No time for both.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, there is a problem. Every time you have a program, some students get sick or something. Then I was like talking to someone how to help the student.

[Translator]
And I was like blah blah blah.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Cappuccino lamrim student. Then the person, it was Janice actually. She is like very respectfully.

Geshe La, maybe we should use the four steps. Then I am like... So, that is the main vow.

That is the main commitment. Which I forgot on the morning that I am giving you the vow. So, the main vow is to deal with problems or to deal with your dreams by using the four steps.

And what it means is what you want, you must do it for someone else. Yesterday, I had this long interview. And the lady said, Oh, four steps is very similar to law of attraction.

Then I don't know what is law of attraction. So, I said, can you explain it to me? And interview lady, I don't know if she told me correctly, but she said, if you want to lose weight, if you feel like you ate too many youtiao, then you want to lose weight.

Then you can sit quiet in your chair and close your eyes and very clear visualization Geshe Michael skinny. And then it will make a impression on your mind.

[Translator]
And you will attract skinny.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then I said, that is pretty good for step number one. Of the four steps. In step number one, you have to have a vision.

What do you want to happen?

[Translator]
I want Geshe Michael skinny and I want to eat youtiao at the same time.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And I get very clear picture. I want Geshe Michael rental car healthy.

[Translator]
Before I have to give it back, at the airport, at the end of my life, I want the car to work good.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So, that part of law of attraction is okay. It's what I want. But then I told the interview lady, in this system, ancient buddhist system, there is mainly two more parts.

What I want healthy body, then I must plant a seed. And the only way to plant a seed is to help somebody else's body be healthy. So, just to picture what I want, that's just first step.

Then second step, I must help another person to get that nice rental car. And then third step, I must put water and fertilizer on that seed. Otherwise, maybe it won't open for 10 years or 20 years.

Maybe give the car back and then the car gets healthy. So, I have to do my coffee meditation.

[Translator]
Please remember the coffee meditation has two parts.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Number one, I'm happy that I helped another person to be healthy. I encourage them not to eat meat at McDonald's and KFC. And I encourage them to do yoga.

Or whatever you like. You can golf. I don't care.

[Translator]
Some kind of exercise. So, I'm happy that I helped people.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
But secondly, I'm so happy I have a system that works all the time. Every time you help another person to be healthy, your body gets healthier.

[Translator]
It always works.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So, when you do your coffee meditation, you can think, I'm so happy I found the secret to life.

[Translator]
I can have anything I want.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I can stop any problem in my life.

[Translator]
I just have to help another person.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, it's a kind of fei chang fang song. I feel so relaxed.

[Translator]
Now I know how to live.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, that's a coffee meditation. So, the main commitment this morning, while you take the vow, just think, I will use the four steps as much as I can remember. I will use the four steps.

And I will try to stay near people who use the four steps like Janice, because she will remind me when I forget because I'm so busy. Then, in the Buddhist sutras, there are many stories of demon.

[Translator]
Then, in America, we don't believe much demon.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, in America, hundreds of years ago, in America and Europe, people believe in demon. Devil. But, nowadays, we don't believe much.

Then, people ask me, is there demon? Is it real? I say, yes.

[Translator]
They exist. I've seen them.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They really exist. Today, during the vow taking, it's possible a small demon will come. Where?

[Translator]
In your mind.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's very famous. Because during vow ceremony, you are going to put your hands like this. This is promise mudra.

Not like this. Like this. Then, you hold it to your heart.

Then, as soon as you do this, I don't know why, you start to think about your ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend. Then, the lama is giving some vow. You are like, why she said that to me 8 years ago?

You know. What is that? Demon.

[Translator]
That's real demon.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Came into your mind. Look. It's so cold in here.

What's going on? What's wrong with Tim? First, Tim make it too hot.

Then, he make it too cold. It means demon came in. They don't want you to think about four steps.

So, fight them. During the ceremony. It's so cold.

Shut up. Four steps. Yeah, but my ex-husband.

[Translator]
Shut up.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Four steps. Tell your mind. We're doing four steps for like five minutes, okay?

After that, we'll think about Tim and ex-husband both.

[Translator]
But, during the ceremony, let's focus.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, Buddha is here. Okay, it's just a picture.

[Translator]
But, when we put the picture up, we are asking Buddha to come.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So, we are taking the promise to Buddha. Okay, that's a serious contract. The other person is a little bit serious person.

That's all. You ready? Okay, be careful.

Watch for demons. For me, demon comes as a big youtiao. Then, youtiao comes.

Here we go. It's tradition to bow down to Buddha. I'm going to ask you to stay in your chair.

And, we are allowed when there is a big group. If we all stand up and try to do prostration, it will take two days. Somebody will step on somebody.

So, there is tradition.

[Translator]
You can put your thumbs inside.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then, touch to the forehead. And, you say om. Then, to the throat.

[Translator]
And then, chest. Heart.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Om. Okay, now towards the Buddha.

[Translator]
You ready?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, we'll do together.

[Translator]
If you are not taking vow, you can do some prostration.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You can still get some good karma.

[Translator]
Here we go.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Om. Ah. Om.

Ah. Om. Ah.

Om. Okay. Now it's tradition you do three times to the teacher who is sitting here.

I'm not Buddha. I'm just his lawyer. Okay, but there is tradition to also respect the lawyer.

Okay, here we go. Om. Ah.

Om. Ah. Om.

Ah. Okay, good. Then, you put your hands like this.

If you are taking the vow, and put it to your heart. Then, I will say the first part myself. Stanley will translate.

And it's a very short ceremony. So, during this ceremony, please try to remember these things. No matter where you are born in this world, you will suffer.

You will get old. You will lose everyone you love. Finally, you will lose your own body.

So, I will try to become Buddha, which is the real protection. Because then I can help every living being in this world and all worlds. To help me become Buddha, I will take refuge in the Three Jewels.

And I will take these vows of refuge, twelve vows.

[Translator]
And I will keep these vows until the day I die.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay. Just think for one minute.

[Translator]
I will take these twelve commitments and I will keep them until I die. Mainly, I will try to use the four steps for everything.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Everything I want, I will get it by helping another person to get it. Watch for demons. Okay.

[Translator]
Keep your hands like this.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I will say some words three times. Then, please repeat them after me. First, I will say them in English.

Do your best to repeat. Then, Stanley will say them in Chinese. Say them in Chinese.

We will say them three times. At the end of the third time, I will snap my finger. Then, it's very famous.

In taking a vow, you must have toklo.

[Translator]
Toklo means I got it.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I got the vow. Then, actually, something changes about your body. After that, you have some kind of spiritual light in your body.

It actually comes out. If you are very sensitive, you can tell this person has vows and they are keeping vows. Okay.

First English, then Chinese. If you just speak Chinese, you can wait for Stanley. During this time, you have to say your own name.

Okay? So, that part, we all say our own name. It will sound crazy.

[Translator]
Two hundred different names. It's okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
This is custom. Okay, here we go.

[Translator]
Push the demons out. Focus.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Focus here, in this room. I beg you, O Holy One, to hear me.

[Translator]
My name is Chen Hanxin and I go for refuge and I go until the day I die to the highest of people Who is the Buddha?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Who is the Buddha?

[Translator]
I go for refuge to the highest form of freedom which is the Dharma I go for refuge to the highest community which is the Sangha and I ask you Holy One Zun Zhe Please consider me Qin Shi Wo Wei a person with refuge vows Yi Ge Chi You Gui Yi Jie De Ren until the day I die Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang Okay, second time.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Watch for demons. I beg you Holy One

[Translator]
to hear me My name is Chen Hanxin

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I go for refuge

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Wo Gui Yi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
until the day I die

[Translator]
Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang

[Geshe Michael Roach]
to the highest of people

[Translator]
Zui Gao Ji De Ren Qun which is the Buddha which is the Buddha

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I go for refuge to the highest form of freedom

[Translator]
which is the Dharma

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I go for refuge

[Translator]
Wo Gui Yi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
to the highest community

[Translator]
Zui Gao Ji De She Qu which is the Sangha Ye Jiu Shi Seng Tuan and I ask you Wo Qin Qiu Ning Holy One

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Zun Zhe Please consider me Qin Shi Wo Wei a person with refuge vows

[Translator]
Chi Gui Yi Jie Zhi Ren until the day I die Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang Third time

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Very careful watch for demons And at the end

[Translator]
I will snap my finger Then be happy Oh I have vows I have real protection

[Geshe Michael Roach]
No demons I beg you

[Translator]
Wo Qin Qiu Ning Oh Holy One Zun Zhe to hear me Ting Dao Wo De Sheng Ying My name is Wo De Ming Zi Shi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I go for refuge

[Translator]
Wo Gui Yi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
until the day I die until the day I die

[Translator]
Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang

[Geshe Michael Roach]
to the highest of people

[Translator]
Zui Gao Ji De Ren Qun which is the Buddha Ye Jiu Shi Fo Tuo

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I go for refuge

[Translator]
Wo Gui Yi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
to the highest form of freedom Zui Gao Ji Xing Shi De Zi You which is the Dharma

[Translator]
Ye Jiu Shi Fo Fa

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I go for refuge

[Translator]
Wo Gui Yi

[Geshe Michael Roach]
to the highest community

[Translator]
Zui Gao Ji De She Qu which is the Sangha

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Ye Jiu Shi Seng Tuan

[Translator]
and I ask you Wo Qin Qiu Ning

[Geshe Michael Roach]
My Vow Master

[Translator]
Wo De Shou Jie Da Shi Please consider me Qing Shi Wo Wei

[Geshe Michael Roach]
A person with refuge vows A person with refuge vows until the day I die

[Translator]
Zhi Zhi Wo De Si Wang

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You can relax your hands and I am supposed to say the vow is given then I will say this is how we take the vows of our refuge Please keep them well Then the last thing you have to say

[Translator]
You say very well

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Ok, ready?

[Translator]
Here we go

[Geshe Michael Roach]
This is the way to take the vows of a refuge holder Please keep them well Yeah Congratulations Congratulations Thank you for doing it I think we will take a break and then try to meet with your group leader I think it will take some time and a little bit of confusion

[Translator]
So please be patient If you didn't get a name

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Just tell Tim or Jasmine We will do it for you

[Translator]
Teachers will be here

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Teachers will be here If you want to know a little bit more about your name

[Translator]
You can ask them Ok, thank you

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Ok, let's do a little bit of the Lamrim So There is an easy definition of Buddha They are called Khen Tse Nu Den Khen Tse Nu Den

[Translator]
Khen means

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They are like a good doctor

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So they check us

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and they can see they understand what we need Like That's the purpose of Lama, right? They can see inside of us They can see our past lives They can see our future lives Then that's Khenpa Khenpa means They understand our situation Very perfectly Sometimes a doctor understands your situation but they don't care about you Oh, you have cancer, goodbye Like they don't have big care for you So Buddha is not like that and our Lama

[Translator]
is not like that

[Geshe Michael Roach]
The second quality Tse They care about us

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and they want us to be happy

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They want to take care of us They are like a big

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taking care machine

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They just want to take care of us So they know what sickness we have

[Translator]
They know what we need Perfectly

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Better than we do Tse means

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They love us They want to help us

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then sometimes Somebody understands your problem and they care about your problem but they don't have the power

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to help you

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You have some kind of cancer I love you I want to help you but there is nothing I can do

[Translator]
It's too late So Buddha is not like that I see your problem I want to help you

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and Buddha has power

[Translator]
Ultimate power

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So this is almost like a definition of a Buddha

[Translator]
Khen Tse Nu They understand what we need

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They want to help us

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and they have power to help us

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Khen Tse Nu Den Den means they possess those three Then this Rinpoche said de she je kyang ngun shakya ga che sewa shi ne So shi ne Buddha as you know was a prince of a clan called Shakya So Shakya is a people who lived in India two and a half thousand years ago and it's a different word from Sakya

[Translator]
Sakya is a group of teachers from West China, Tibet

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So in the Buddha's time there was a man named Nandaka in the Shakya clan

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Then he died Then

[Geshe Michael Roach]
some people fake teachers they were like we can do a special ritual and Nandaka will come back

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and talk to his family

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They do a special ritual and they put out like

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things to eat, things to drink

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and they invite this

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this dead person to come back

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay So, ja su yulpa de shin che de ne dun nam kyi de shakya ga che ngun yin sampa Then a spirit came and start to talk to the family Then Buddha was sitting there and he said wait wait wait This spirit is not the real one This is some other spirit being Then he just pretend to be this person but he is not the person So it means we don't even have power to see spirit But Buddha can see that this spirit is not the spirit he says he is

[Translator]
It is

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It just means they say that

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the human eye

[Geshe Michael Roach]
can only see like 20% of all the colors and all the kinds of light energy like ultra violet and infra red These are two kinds of light we cannot see and the universe is the same

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What you can see normal person That is about 20%

[Geshe Michael Roach]
80% of what is happening right around us

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We have no idea

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I was in the ocean yesterday and I used to surf a lot So you are on the surfboard and your legs are in the water Then sometimes I think how many big fish looking at my legs like Mcdonald french fries Then it is better I don't know

[Translator]
who is down there

[Geshe Michael Roach]
looking at my skinny legs It is better I don't know So maybe 80, 90% of the fish I cannot see

[Translator]
Then our life is like that What you see the people you see the things you see right around you in this room It is only about 20% and there are many beings in this room

[Geshe Michael Roach]
that we cannot see Maybe it is better we cannot see them because we will go crazy But Buddha can see everything 100% Buddha can see the people building this hotel this room in the hotel I don't know 20 years ago Buddha can see this ballroom fall down maybe 100 years from now

[Translator]
At the same time

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then they told another story Then Buddha said everyone should have a small bag like the bag your mala is in The people living in his village they didn't believe he has special power So he told everybody bring a small bag and on it inside you put your family's name and close it in the bag and then they brought

[Translator]
like 100 bags

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and he is like ok, this one is John this one is Xiaoping's family

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he guessed all of them correctly

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It means he can see past and present and future and also whole universe Then

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your mind has this power now you already have this power

[Geshe Michael Roach]
but you don't know

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you don't know how to use it If you meditate a lot

[Geshe Michael Roach]
you can see many worlds you can see what

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hundreds of years from now

[Geshe Michael Roach]
what's going to happen but if you don't meditate

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everyday

[Geshe Michael Roach]
it's not possible If you keep the vow

[Translator]
you took this morning

[Geshe Michael Roach]
that will also give you power and you will find you can do things

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which you couldn't do before because now you have power of a vow

[Geshe Michael Roach]
ok ,GZHAN YANG SDUG BA LUNG LAS BYUNG BA LTAR, ,ZHING THAMS CAD MED ROL ZEGS NAS RGYAL TSUL, ,SNANG DU YUN RIM PAR GRUG STE, ,SANGS RGYAS LA BU NA, Then if you took all the trees in Thailand and you made a big fire

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and then you burn them all

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and you have that ashes and you throw it in this ocean

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and you wait for a few days

[Geshe Michael Roach]
like through a big storm and then Buddha will sit on the beach and if a small piece comes in

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he can take it

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and he can say this piece is from the third tree from the left in front of the bottom then somebody said from the top or from the bottom? He said bottom He can see all these things then what karma we did for each thing in this room like this design on the carpet who made that design on the carpet?

My seed made

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so

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if you don't like it don't blame the designer every single line

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you made

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and there is no accidents and there is no random there is a reason why each shape is there and each color

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every detail in this room those walls

[Geshe Michael Roach]
they are like I think fake wood or something probably made in Guangzhou Guangzhou make one half of all the world's things I think we should thank Guangzhou it's true then when you see a piece of wood like that

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you go look at all the lines there is a reason why each line is there

[Geshe Michael Roach]
nothing is by accident

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you said something millions of years ago you did something

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and everything you see

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has a purpose

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and if you are sensitive

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there is a message in everything you see

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then it's good sometimes just to sit and look at the wood and what feeling do you get from each line

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or Climbing [?] did a dance

[Geshe Michael Roach]
who designed the dance

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you did

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then you have to think why is she doing that movement right now what did I do to make that movement you can be happy I did a good dance this morning like that and only a Buddha can see all the connections only Buddha can tell you 2000 years ago you went like this

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for your mom mom said

[Geshe Michael Roach]
can you do something and you went

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then it created this dance

[Geshe Michael Roach]
only Buddha can see this dance

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you can learn

[Geshe Michael Roach]
so Buddha is very good at separating the karmas this karma made climbing's

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right hand movement

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and this karma made the color of her

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dancing clothes

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and this karma made the color of her hair

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Buddha can divide it

[Geshe Michael Roach]
DER MA ZAD GUS BYAS SU BSTAN PA'I PHYO RTOG DU BYA PHYIR BA THAL BUMS SOGS JI NI YOD PA RIGS RIGS SDUG BSNGAL GYI THUB PA BSTAN PA DANG we talked about that yesterday Buddha has the power to split his body or her body into many parts so you and me, we get stressed out when too many people need us one person is at the door asking one question and the other person is over here and the other person is over there

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if you care enough

[Geshe Michael Roach]
about all the people who need you I think it will force you to learn to split your body

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every mom knows how to do it

[Geshe Michael Roach]
split the body for this kid split the body for this kid keep the husband happy

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keep the mother happy

[Geshe Michael Roach]
but if your love is strong enough it will force you to learn to split your body and everybody in this room has that capability you just have to wake it up GSUNGS KUN DU RGYUD PA'I PHYO RTOG DANG and at the same time you can talk to all those separate people after you split your body and you can speak all those separate languages and you can go inside their mind and decide what's the best thing for them to hear right now and you can do it all at the same time ultimate multitasking so these are called PHYO RTOG PHYO RTOG means miracle Buddha can do miracles then Buddha has this cool ability it's called GCIG RTEN PA'I THUG [?] it means like special miracle ability and I don't know let's say in my room I made a mistake I start to feed the birds

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on the balcony

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then they think my wake up time is the same as their wake up time so like 5.30 they are like then Buddha has a strange special power Buddha can bless the birds to read other people's mind

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Buddha can bless the birds to read other people's mind

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Buddha can go like this and then the bird will go like oh, it's too early you don't want to wake up now

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I'm reading your mind

[Geshe Michael Roach]
you are actually irritated about me I'm so sorry so Buddha has a strange power

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can change the other person's mind for a short time even the ant

[Geshe Michael Roach]
can read the mind of the person and he said one more thing here DE BZHIN BSHAD PA'I THUG BSGOM BSKYANG BSHAD PA and even the ant can read the mind of the Buddha

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if Buddha bless them

[Geshe Michael Roach]
for a short time

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as long as they have the seeds even ant can understand

[Geshe Michael Roach]
what's the Buddha feeling what's the Buddha want

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what's the Buddha feeling

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then Buddha can do opposite can hide their mind

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even from very powerful person

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then you know when I started to study with my Lama I was 22 then I came to help him and some professor came from Washington D.C then he asked my teacher can I learn Abhidharmakosha from you

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I want to translate the book

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then my teacher said okay then I said please can I sit in the class when you teach the professor

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can I also sit

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and he's like okay

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but you have to make tea all the time you know I said okay and you can't say anything I said okay by the way in January at our new college

[Geshe Michael Roach]
in Arizona U.S we will start ACI teacher training

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with your help

[Geshe Michael Roach]
you gave a lot of money yesterday it's enough for I think about 15 scholarships

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thank you for that

[Geshe Michael Roach]
so we will have 2 courses everyday about 8 hours

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for 10 days

[Geshe Michael Roach]
5 times a year you can come to learn to be ACI teacher but there's a separate course how to translate the ancient books and anybody can learn

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and then my way of teaching how to translate ancient books

[Geshe Michael Roach]
we have to have a good team we need 200 translators if we have 200 translators we can finish all the important books in 150 years

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5 generations

[Geshe Michael Roach]
so we need people

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but my way to teach

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I don't do exercises I give you your own ancient book I say let's translate it

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we do it together and then you publish it

[Geshe Michael Roach]
for example Nick just translated a nice short piece by Nagarjuna that's 2000 years old we did it in the coffee shop in Singapore

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and Vietnam so if you come you can translate your own book and then you can teach it so I asked my lama can I sit in the class so I asked my lama can I sit in the class

[Geshe Michael Roach]
he said okay then after about 2 months that professor quit he said this is too difficult then my lama look at me you have to translate then we did it

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we did it for 12 years

[Geshe Michael Roach]
we finished the Abhidharmakosha commentary by first Dalai Lama

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600 years ago

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then I tell you something

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in that whole book

[Geshe Michael Roach]
how much I understood

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first time

[Geshe Michael Roach]
was about half an hour half an hour out of 12 years really whole book about something it's like level 13 of meditation level 14 level 236 of this meditation

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good translation

[Geshe Michael Roach]
so spiritual things levels of meditation there are hundreds of levels and I have to translate the whole book even though I don't know any of them

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so highest level meditation

[Geshe Michael Roach]
is called bodhisattva se sipa tama means bodhisattva in their last life before they become buddha

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like 10th level bodhisattva what's it like

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I can't you can't understand if we talk for a whole day you can't understand what's the difference level 10, 9, 8, 7 it's impossible

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it's like

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Abhidharma

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I can tell you whole day but you won't really understand

[Geshe Michael Roach]
but unbelievable high bodhisattva then long time ago they learn to read other people's mind but if buddha

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doesn't want them to read his mind

[Geshe Michael Roach]
he just

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close the mind

[Geshe Michael Roach]
okay? so he has these two powers

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if the bird want to see his mind

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then if the 10th level bodhisattva

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want to see his mind he can close it

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then he has another cool power when buddha taught emptiness in this world

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while he's talking about emptiness

[Geshe Michael Roach]
he said Carol what's your friend's name who owns the hotel Hiro so we have a friend in Taichung he owns a hotel then his name is Hiro

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then

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I was going there to teach

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public talk

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I'm supposed to stay in a hotel which I can afford which is not the size of the bathrooms in this hotel

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then they found out

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I'm coming so when I got to the hotel

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they said

[Geshe Michael Roach]
oh we prepared special room for you on top floor then I went up whole floor you know many rooms like 10 beds 6 bathrooms I tried to pee pee in different bathroom each day sleep in different bed each night sometimes I get lost

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I cannot find the front door

[Geshe Michael Roach]
then I told you the other day I thought

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we should have Dharma teaching here it feels like Amitabha's heaven

[Geshe Michael Roach]
even the clouds are outside so I called all my friends

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we had special teaching there

[Geshe Michael Roach]
so Buddha has

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this power

[Geshe Michael Roach]
when Buddha wants to teach something like emptiness

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it can go like this

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and the whole room will become top floor of Hiro's hotel

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it has this power

[Geshe Michael Roach]
during the teaching on emptiness Buddha has power to change the room into Buddha paradise for everybody

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temporarily

[Geshe Michael Roach]
of course then I have to go back home

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small house ok but Buddha has this power

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I think you can feel

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in this room when we talk about emptiness

[Geshe Michael Roach]
because emptiness is so holy

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or when we take vow

[Geshe Michael Roach]
you can little bit feel the room is changing this morning feel little bit like

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Buddha paradise

[Geshe Michael Roach]
ok, so that's coming from your seeds ok now we reached khen tse tse means so what is the love of a Buddha what is it like some people get so upset sometimes they even want to kill themselves yu kyi dro nam bu dang drawa dak gong ne so some people about themselves

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they even hate themselves

[Geshe Michael Roach]
they have no love for themselves but you Buddha

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how you feel about other people it's like they are your children

[Geshe Michael Roach]
this is my own son

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this is my own daughter

[Geshe Michael Roach]
you have this amazing love you love us more than we love ourselves the day my mom died then I thought suddenly something happened to me now I am really alone she loves me more than I love myself so Buddha is like that

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for everybody ok

[Geshe Michael Roach]
drawa dak gong ne no gyur chak tsam thuk kye gong pa rim po shik ne dangway na dang dra lang la tsewa de kyang khe tuk nyi je chak mi pot then even people who try to hurt Buddha Buddha just love them more and basically the love that a person has for themselves is the most powerful love in the world we love ourselves more than anything one night I had a dream about my brother so he's had three children and I dreamt I was with him and he was looking down at one of his babies and I was inside his mind and I felt his love for the baby so I haven't had any children myself

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so I don't know how it feels but in the dream I was inside of him

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I was looking at the baby

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and it's a strong, strong love

[Geshe Michael Roach]
his own baby

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but it's mixed up

[Geshe Michael Roach]
with love for himself because baby looks like him and then those parents don't have that kind of love for the neighbor's baby they only love their own baby and I think partly because it looks like them

[Translator]
so that love for ourselves for each person for all of us me too

[Geshe Michael Roach]
self love is the strongest

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Buddha

[Geshe Michael Roach]
here it says chak mi pot chak mi pot means the love you have even for yourself is not 1% of Buddha's love

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for you

[Geshe Michael Roach]
for everybody Buddha's love for everybody hundred times, thousand times stronger than the love you have for yourself

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hundreds of millions, billions of times

[Geshe Michael Roach]
sanggye gyi sem chen la tseway chak she tsang la dun dun me la yang dung dang chen gyi sem chen tong na kye la mi tong na mi kye way pa drip ren gyal way nying je then we feel love for people when they are around us you know, so if we love somebody and they are in our room

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then the love gets stronger

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and then if we don't see them for a few weeks we start to forget about them so during these ten days we are all together you are thinking a lot about Geshe Michael I am thinking a lot about Ben and Uta and Ruby but when I go home

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I will be busy

[Geshe Michael Roach]
and I don't think about everybody else so much

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so human love

[Geshe Michael Roach]
when the real person is nearby

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and

[Geshe Michael Roach]
we think about them we love them a lot

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then when we go home we are so busy

[Geshe Michael Roach]
we can't think about everybody

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then we think about people in our home

[Geshe Michael Roach]
sometimes you will think about Geshe Michael or Ben or Ruby but mostly you think about the people around you

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and that's natural

[Geshe Michael Roach]
natural

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it's ok it's impossible to think about everybody all the time we don't have capacity to do that but Buddha

[Geshe Michael Roach]
love everybody whether they are close or whether they are going somewhere far away

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so whether they are close or far away they love you so that love doesn't matter about the person being close

[Geshe Michael Roach]
love for every

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living being close or not

[Geshe Michael Roach]
equal

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love

[Geshe Michael Roach]
ok Buddha I think we stop there