«Дар освобождения», курс 26 «Реальность кармы», занятие 13

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So we're going to continue with that dessert, Sunday dessert. Jigme, you have that thing? Jigme, put it up here.

Oh, there we go. All right. I thought you might like to look at the text, okay?

Then I thought you might be interested in these two texts that we're working with right now. We found both of them in the last month, and then we emergency, we sent them to our data entry centers in India. And the refugees typed them in.

They're so good now, they can do a whole text in one night. So while we're asleep, the text gets input. And that's 31 years of work, and I'd like to thank ...

where's John Brady and Nick Lascia? I'd like to thank John for his talk today. And I'd like to thank all the venerables for vows last night.

Thank you. Okay, I thought I would start out ... we're talking about two different parts about this text.

Maitreya is talking about, oh first there's a period where you're in deep meditation, and then there's a period when you come out of deep meditation. When you come out of deep meditation, you understand, you have some insights into the Wheel of Life. So I thought I would do a little bit about the Wheel of Life from the same book, and that will lead into the lion's dance, how to do the lion's dance, and if we have time we'll try to dance the lion's dance a little bit.

If we don't have time, we'll just start tomorrow morning and do the lion's dance in the morning, okay? Okay, so here we go. NYIS PA RNAM SHA'I DE LAS RNAMS PA'I THU'I PHYIS BYAS THOB DU YANG BDAG PAR RTOG GO Then the text says, NYAMS SHA'I DE LAS RNAMS PA'I THU'I, when you come out of the meditation, Arya's meditation, THU'I PHYIS in the aftermath, which is the time afterwards, he kind of defines aftermath.

YANG BDAG PAR RTOG GO, this spelling means you examine the question, not that you understand it, okay? GANG LA NA, then if you're following the Tibetan you can see, sometimes the carvings are wrong. The people who carve the books in Tibet, millions of books, they're not following the Tibetan.

They can't read. And they're carving in a mirror image. They're carving backwards, right?

So what we're doing is, as we go we are correcting it. And so that percentage sign means we're making a correction to the carving. So what do they examine?

BSTAN CING BRAL BAR BYUNG BA LA'O, they examine how things happen in dependence on each other. This is that old, long, confusing, Buddhist word, what? Yeah, dependent origination.

It sounds like something your lawyer would write. So we're just going to call it dependence, okay? So I was my Lama's slave for 25 years.

I built his house, it's a very large house, and I had to connect it to an old house. And then the new house kept moving and the old house didn't move. So the roof got a leak in it between the two houses.

And water would come down in his precious books and he would freak out. And I spent many pleasant hours on the roof When a roof leaks, you never know where it's coming from.

[Student]
So if this roof leaks here, the hole could be down there.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And the water goes under the roof and comes out here.

[Student]
That's dependence.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You have to locate where's the water coming out, which is here. Then you have to find the real source of the problem. Which could be over there, or it could be over there.

[Student]
On the roof, you see? That's dependence. So when you think about dependence in the Wheel of Life, you're trying to figure out where's the trouble coming from.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I have trouble making money. Where's the problem coming from? That's Wheel of Life.

That's dependence in the Wheel of Life. So he says here, MER RIGS PA'I RKYEN GYIS BDU BYED RNAM SHES BYA BA SOGS KUN NAS YOD MONGS LUGS DANG THUN PA So when the bodhisattva comes out of seeing emptiness directly, they start to understand the process, the twelve step process. In English you can say chain reaction.

So the first cause of all causes, when you're talking about trouble, is what?

[Student]
You can say misunderstanding.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Misunderstanding the pen. It looks like the pen is coming from its own side. It looks like your financial problems are coming from their own side.

[Student]
But they're not coming from their own side. But there's an unexpected hole in the roof over there. You didn't understand that to make money, the only way is to help other people make money.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Stan Mike can only make money if Stan Mike helps Stan Mike make money. That's the same as? mismo que [?].

Same thing.

[Student]
Due to the cause of misunderstanding, MER RIGS PA'I RKYEN GYIS debido a la causa que es la incomprensión de cómo funciona la realidad, DU BYED, you make karma in the wheel of life.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You make karma that makes more lives in the wheel. Scott, you got that thing emerging? We call that, Maitreya calls it, the forward turning of the wheel.

One causes two, two causes three, three causes four, four causes five. Do you have that wheel?

[Student]
La reacción en cadena que uno, el primer vínculo detona el segundo, y luego ese detona el tercero, y así una reacción en cadena.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Luckily the Buddha designed this wheel to match our modern clocks. You start with link number one, then number two, number three, number four. This is called forward spin.

Forward spin. We had it in Maitreya's text. He said the wheel of life spins and stops.

So spin means one causes two, two causes three, three causes four, like that. That's called the stinky spin. Then there's a way to stop the spin, which is called anti-spin.

That's called Buddhahood anti-spin. If you stop birth, then you stop death. If you stop ripening the karma, you stop rebirth.

If you stop these two kinds of desire, eight and nine, then you stop this ripe karma. That's called anti-spin. DE LA SNGA MA'I MA RIG PA RGAGS PA'I DUS BYED RGAGS BYAS SOGS RNAMS SBYANG SDUG BSBYUNG Or you can say, if you can stop ...

can I have the wheel? Come back to the wheel. Or you can say, if I can stop one, I'll stop two.

That's called a ... you can call it a purity spin. Stop number one, it stops two.

If you stop two, it stops three, like that. There's also a reverse spin for stinky reverse ... stinky anti-spin.

Why do people die?

[Student]
They are born.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Why are people born? Their karma ripens. Why does their karma ripen?

[Student]
They have these two kinds of desire.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Why do they have these two kinds of desire?

[Student]
Because they have feeling. Why do they have feeling?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Because they contact the outside world.

[Student]
Why do they contact the outside world?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
They have eyes, ears, nose, etc. Why do they have eyes, ears, nose, etc? In the womb they had body and mind.

[Student]
Why do body and mind form inside the womb? Because the mind entered the body like a monkey entering a house.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
What pushed the monkey into the body? The karma made by the potter [?]. Why did the person make karma?

It all comes back to this, misunderstanding the pen. Then somebody asked Kedrup Je, you know, spin, anti-spin, stinky spin, stinky anti-spin, pure spin, pure anti-spin. Why are you talking about all this stuff?

Because if you understand the wheel forwards and backwards, quickly, you will become a master in the four truths.

[Student]
You will become a master in the four truths. You will become a master in the four truths.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And we'll talk more about that later. DE YANG DI LTAR KUN NAS NYON MONGS KYI BSTAN DANG LUGS MTHUN DU BSGOMS PA'I NI, KUN BYUNG GI BSTAN PA RANG BZHIN GYI RTOGS PAR GYUR TE If you understand the spin, stinky spin, if you understand the stinky spin, which of the four truths do you think you understand?

[Student]
If you understand that misunderstanding causes karma, and karma causes the monkey in the womb, and yeah, source. Source.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Second of the four truths. Second of the four Arya truths. Where is this stuff coming from?

Over there. The roof is leaking here because of something happening over there. So understanding how each step triggers the next steps, helps you understand the source of pain.

So what's the source of the pain of the whole world? Yeah, misunderstanding. Misunderstanding the pen.

All war.

[Student]
All hunger. All sickness. Aging.

Death.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
All because people don't understand the pen. According to this wheel. DE LUGS SDOG TU BSGOMS PA'I NI, SDUG BSNGAL GYI BSTAN PA'I RANG BZHIN GONG DU BCUG PAR GYUR TE SKYE BA DANG RGA SHI BDAG LAS LAS NYON GYI BRAS BU MIN PAR THAR THUG If you understand...

Can I have the wheel back? Wheel? The other wheel.

[Student]
If you understand that the end of this circle, where is this circle going?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
If you get into this circle, where are you headed? Yeah, old age and death.

[Student]
If you get stuck in this wheel anywhere, which means if the only crime you committed was you misunderstood the pen, where that misunderstanding the pen will end up, is number twelve. Aging and death.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
When does aging start?

[Student]
At conception.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Sorry, aging is not a problem that's only for 60 year olds and higher.

[Student]
Okay.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's a problem for anyone in this room who got conceived inside their mother.

[Student]
The ultimate end of the wheel is this one, death and old age.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
This guy is carrying a corpse to a graveyard.

[Student]
So that kind of spin, where you're focusing on the end of the spin, that kind of spin, which of the four truths?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
First one. Who said that?

[Student]
Who said first? Ronit said.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Oh, Hag Sameach. Okay, good. That's his question.

Okay, next one. NAMS SBYANG GI BSTAN PA'I LUG MTHUN DU BSGOMS PA'I LAM LDAN GYI RANG BZHIN RTOGS PAR GYUR TE MA RIG PA'I NYAM PO BDAG MED RTOGS PA'I SHES RAB GYIS MA RIG PA'I TSA BA CHOS NUS PAR RTOGS PAR RGYUR BA YIN Now, spin, spin, pure spin. I need the wheel back.

Pure spin.

[Student]
If the end of the wheel is always this, death and old age, then where can you stop the wheel?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Which of one of these do you have to stop to stop the wheel? Yeah, number one. It always comes down to number one.

If you can understand that the pain of death and old age is coming from your seeds, which you planted in your mind by Stan Mike giving a pen to Stan Mike when Stan Mike didn't have a pen. Stan Mike took his two hands. He put the pen in the two hands of Stan Mike.

Stan Mike took the pen with his two hands and then Stan Mike got a pen seed in his mind.

[Student]
Stan Mike gave Stan Mike a pen. Stan Mike's hands put a pen in Stan Mike's hands and as a result, Stan Mike received a pen and planted a seed in Stan Mike's mind. So if you can get a good teaching about the pen, you are shutting down the wheel.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
That good teaching on link number one is called which of the four truths?

[Student]
Four. The path. What's the path?

Study the pen.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
What's the path?

[Student]
Study the pen.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Why does Geshe Michael really repeat the pen every time, in every single city, in every single year, again and again? Did he forget he taught the pen?

[Student]
I need the whole wheel. I need the whole wheel. What happens if you get a good teaching on the pen?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's powerful enough to guarantee that you don't get born in these three lower realms. Ghost realm.

[Student]
Hell realm. Animal realm. If someone gives you a good teaching about link number one, the pen, you escape these three forever.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You just killed half the wheel of life with one stupid repetition of the pen. You think I like to teach it hundreds of times every year? Okay.

DE LUNG RDOG TU BSGOM PA'I SGOG LDAN GYI RANG BZHIN GANG DU SPYOD PA'I RGYUR TE NYON MONGS PA CHEN GYI MA RIG PA'ANG PA'I BRAL BU THAG TU PA NI SKYE BA DANG RGA SHI RGA PA NYID YIN PAR RTOG PAR RGYUR BA'I PHYIR RO What's the ultimate place where... What's the last place you will end up if you stop link number one?

[Student]
If you stop or eliminate link number one, where do you end up?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Where will you end up? Well, yeah, but in the meantime, you'll end up here in eleven and twelve.

[Student]
If you get a good pen teaching at one, and number one shuts down, then eventually, eleven and twelve will shut down.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Which of the four truths is that?

[Student]
Yeah, we got one left, so probably it's number three.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
That's called the truth that there is an end to pain. There is an end to pain. I told you before, but it's kind of cool.

In the Geshe program, so the whole monastery system is pretty much for the purpose of producing Geshes. In my monastery, my combined monastery, it's about 3,000 monks. Some are cooking, some are farming, some are doing the accounts, some are cleaning.

About 500 of them are in the debate ground, debating. And the whole thing is geared towards producing someone who can teach. Who can teach the Wheel of Life, for example.

And help people shut down the Wheel of Life. Then, I think the most precious moment in a monk's life, in one of these major monasteries, is the last five minutes of the Geshe examination. After 25 years, the last five minutes.

And it's very moving, because you're watching young men, they're maybe 35 years old, 40 years old, and they are about to finish a lifetime of work. And on that final day, all the monks come, 3,000 monks come, when it's a combined Geshe, Sera Geshe. Both colleges.

Then they hand out a Geshe hat to every single monk, even the seven-year-olds. Looks like Nicholas or Kiri with a Geshe hat on. You can't see the baby monk, all you can see is the hat.

Then there's big ceremony, the debate master comes up to the candidate, right? He asks the final question. It's always the same question.

He'll say, does pain of this world have an end? Will the pain of this world ever end? The monk's supposed to say, yes!

Then he'll say, why?

[Student]
Then the final answer is, because the truth is stronger than a lie. It means the truth about the pen, sooner or later, it will fix the world.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's so true that the whole evil in the world, war, hunger, death, cannot stand against this one pen. And if the war, if the real war starts, if the people with the pens go out against the world, then they must win because truth always wins. Then everybody goes, and everybody takes their hat off, and they throw it like a frisbee.

Like the little monks have been waiting all day.

[Student]
Who can throw it the highest?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Three thousand lama hat frisbees. And you're supposed to scream as loud as you can. Then it's over, and the guy's a Geshe, he gets to keep his hat.

Everybody else has to give it back. It takes like an hour to find the hat.

[Student]
It takes like an hour to find your hat. The final end of this wheel, here, it's always the same.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Death loses. People stop dying. There are worlds where this happened a long time ago.

Somebody asked Buddha, this planet Earth, how do we compare it to the other planets? He said, you're at the back of the class.

[Student]
You're at the back. You're the last one in the class. You guys are the dumbest.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
We're just a little bit behind everybody else. I'm just wondering how far... Do you want to do that sexy meditation, or do you want to do the links, the twelve links?

I don't know. We'll do the sexy one anyway. Twelve links?

Both. Gina says both. She's a real diamond dealer.

Okay, I'll just take you straight to that. Let me see how much there is. Okay, let's go straight to his text.

DE'IR NANG GI KUN NAS NYON MONGS KYIS RTEN CING BRAL BAR BYUNG BA YAN LA CHU GNYIS KYI THA BYAS PA LA So let's talk about the twelve links. We will cover YAN LA CHU GNYIS PO SO SONG NGO BO What are each of the twelve links? ZAD DU ZHIG LA RDZOGS PA How many lifetimes does it take to finish one time around the wheel?

Then there's a thing called satsung [?] which I'm not going to cover. It's a long discussion about if you die in the desire realm, can you go to the form realm? If you go to the form realm, was your ignorance in the form realm or was it in the desire realm?

We're not going to do that. So here's Kedrup Je's unique explanation of the twelve links. It's not the same as many other lamas.

DANG PO LA, by the way, he's going to a little bit give it mind only school way. MA RIG PA NI GANG GI DBANG GIS, BSTAN PA DANG LAS BRAS SOGS LA RMONGS PAR BYED PA There is something which causes you to misunderstand the four truths. Causes you to misunderstand the karma which you've learned about all week.

It's a function in the mind. It works against understanding. And that's his definition of the first link.

Then there's a small debate. DI MTHONG BA'ANG DANG BSGOMS PA'ANG GANG YIN ZHES NA Do you get rid of that the first time you see emptiness? Or does it take like seven lifetimes?

Is it something that you can get rid of in the first few minutes of the path of seeing? Or does it take like seven lives of hard work after seeing emptiness directly? Then he says it would be incorrect to say that misunderstanding is only eliminated during those seven lives.

[Student]
Which means some misunderstanding is eliminated forever when you see emptiness directly first time.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
MTHONG PA'ANG GYI MA RIG PA LAS DE LA SGOR BA BDAG PA'I LTA BA NGAN PAR BSKYED PA DE NGAN DU BSKYED PA PHAN PA MI SRID PAR LTA BA'I PHYIR RO MTHONG PA'ANG GYI MA RIG PA Because after you see emptiness directly the first time, it's impossible for you to have a ... what do you call it?

[Student]
Intellectual misunderstanding of reality, which would take you to the lower realms. Then there's a long argument, and I'm going to skip it. The result of the argument is that some of the first link you get rid of in the first 20 minutes is that part of the first link that generates the wheel of suffering, you eliminate part of that link in the first 20 minutes that you see emptiness directly.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
But all of the first link you only get rid of during those seven lifetimes. DU BYED NI MA RIG PA DE'I DBANG GI SAGS PA'I YANG SRID PHAN BYED KYI LAS SO What is the definition of the potter? It's karma, which is PHAN BYED KYI karma.

Karma which is strong enough to throw you into a new life.

[Student]
Because of your misunderstanding previously.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then what is the monkey? What is the third link?

[Student]
NAM PAR BSHAD PA What is the mind that enters your mother's womb?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
RGYU BYED DE LAS KYI BA BYA'I GANG LA DGOS PA'I KUN ZHIG GI NAM PAR BSHAD PA'O It is the alaya vijnana. It is the storehouse consciousness.

[Student]
It's the compartment in your mind where all your karma seeds are stored.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Some people call it storehouse consciousness. Okay, you yogis in the back. We talked about this consciousness at the yoga talk in Guadalajara, but it was a whole week ago.

What's going on when you look at this part of your mind?

[Student]
When you watch this part of your mind, what do you see?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Yeah, say again. Yeah, Aldo went like this, okay? Aldo went like this.

You see yourself, and you see somebody you're having an argument with. You are actually, in the mind only school, you are watching your own mind. There are seeds living there.

You planted those seeds when you got mad at your kids last week.

[Student]
Then those seeds open inside your mind. A week later, the seed splits into two parts. One becomes you, and one becomes your your husband or your partner yelling at you.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, last week you yelled at your kids. Who heard you? Who heard you?

Well, your kids did. I hope. Probably not.

[Student]
Then you also heard yourself, okay? Then every word you said created an impression on your mind.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
That impression becomes a seed in your mind. What's the easy name for that seed? Easier word.

[Student]
Karma, okay? That's karma. Karma.

That's the meaning of karma. In DCI language, when we teach executives of the ruling council of Dubai, we can't say karma.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Or maybe we won't leave Dubai.

[Student]
Maybe we can't leave Dubai.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So we say, it creates a seed. Okay, so in this Lama's presentation, what's happening with the monkey? What's the consciousness we're talking about?

It's the one where the seeds live. And when those seeds open, a week after you yelled at your kids, part of the seed becomes your husband.

[Student]
Part of the seed becomes you. And then because the watermelon didn't taste good, the watermelon that comes from the seed doesn't taste good.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And your husband is yelling at you. And the interesting thing about the mind only school, they say the person who lives in that box and watches seeds opening into wives and husbands fighting, ignorance means they don't understand they are inside their own head. And because of that, they can get angry at the husband.

[Student]
And they get angry at the wife. And they say something to the husband. That plants another seed.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
That seed stays in that little box of your mind for a week. When it opens inside of your mind, next week, you see your kids being bad. Then you yell at them.

[Student]
And it plants another seed in the little box.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
One week later, your husband yells at you again. It's almost like a wheel of life. That's why Buddha painted it as a wheel.

Because we keep making the same mistake over and over and over again.

[Student]
Is your husband stupid?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Yes, all husbands are stupid.

[Student]
But don't say it.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, stop the wheel.

[Student]
Then your kids will be nice.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, so it's very interesting, Kedrup Je, when he explains the wheel, he wants to teach that during the monkey, while he's explaining the monkey.

[Student]
That whole thing I just told you, 15 minutes, that's all monkey. That's all picture number three. This wheel has all of Buddhism in it.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's an amazing invention. Two and a half thousand years ago. Okay, MING DANG GZUGS NI.

We reached link number four. It's the two guys in the boat. Can you show the two guys in the boat?

[Student]
Who are those two guys?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Yeah, mind and body. Who said that? Aldo, don't give all the answers correct, okay?

[Student]
I have to do something.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, so mind and body inside the mother's womb. SKAD CIG GNYIS PA NOR NOR PO LA SOGS PA'I GNAS SKABS SU BYUNG BA'I PHUNG PO NGA'O So this is NOR NOR PO, etc. NOR NOR NOR NOR NOR NOR PO I'm going to give you the whole list, okay?

Hang on. So I will search about five million pages in three seconds. Are you ready?

[Student]
One, two, three.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Finished. It's not the one I wanted. Yeah, here we go.

There's a full list.

[Student]
Yeah, I mean if you wanted we could do all the stages in the womb.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
In the first week, it's called MER MER PO MER MER PO and the child is like a few drops of cream. In the second week, the child is NOR NOR PO instead of MER MER PO. Like a spoonful of yogurt.

[Student]
In the third week, they are LTAR LTAR PO.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
The yogurt gets a little more solid. In the fourth week, PHRANG RGYUR means the yogurt gets a skin on the yogurt, right? And you get the first indications of arms and legs.

Then this author stopped there, but anyway, there's a separate word for each week in the womb.

[Student]
I'm not going to describe the process in this text, but there's a teaching, a study about each week that happens in the womb.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Since the baby fever is so strong in Guadalajara, someday you should learn it. It's beautiful. Okay, LNGA PA SKYE MCHED Link number five.

SKYE MCHED GRUG NI MING GZUGS PA'O BA LAS MIG LA SOGS PA'I DBANG PO GRUG DOD PA'O After the body and mind develop further in the womb, you get the fifth link, which is some houses. Can you show that?

[Student]
The houses?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
These are some empty houses with windows.

[Student]
Empty houses with no people around.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
DBANG PO GRUG DOD PA'I SOGS The six senses form inside the kid's senses form. The eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth. Then there's contact with the outside world.

The Buddha chose a couple making love to show the idea of contact. And there's also Vajrayana meaning here. When I was going to do my three-year retreat, I met this very high lama, and I said, you know, I'm going to start a three-year retreat.

Do you have any suggestions for me? And he gave me a long teaching about how all the objects of the senses are women angels. Colors, sounds, smells, tastes.

He said all of them are female angels. Each time you see blue, it's another female angel.

[Student]
Then the senses, your senses, your eye, your ear, your nose, each of those are male angels.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And when you see blue with your eye, the male angel and the female angel are in a passionate embrace. And their central channel is open. And they understand what's happening with the seeds inside their consciousness.

And they never yell at their kids again.

[Student]
And they get enlightened just by looking at blue.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
She's like, don't forget, okay? He said, that's something you can do for three years stuck in a cabin by yourself. You can just look at blue for a while.

But it was a very beautiful teaching.

[Student]
And this is the picture, right?

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So your eye consciousness, your eye power is connecting with the outside world. The outside world has three kinds of things. Some are nice, and some are bad, and some they don't matter.

Just neutral. So when your male angel connects with the female angel, because there are three kinds of objects in the world, you always get some kind of feeling.

[Student]
It feels good. It feels bad. It feels neutral.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And that's the next link, which is a very scary picture of a guy with an arrow in his eye. Okay. This is where the baby starts crying in the delivery room.

The cold air of the room hits their skin for the first time. Contact. Male, female, angels.

And then the baby screams. That's the first reaction we all have to the world. Because it's so painful.

It's so overwhelming. So when they paint it, they show an arrow in the eye. It's like, this is the cold air hitting the baby's skin for the first time.

Then you start to get attracted to that, as time goes by.

[Student]
And you're 15 or 16 years old, and your hormones wake up.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Next picture. This is called RGYAS PA SRED PA. RGYAS PA SRED PA means you learn about desire.

This is where you start learning about different kinds of wine.

[Student]
Different kinds of pastry.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You learn about what's a crepe. All the objects of desire. And you start to hunger for life.

Someone can tell you, look, this is going to a bad place. This is headed to a bad place. All these crepes and all this wine and all these desserts, they are headed towards the hospital on the last day.

[Student]
But you don't care.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
You want more. So this is called, you learn desire for those things. Then NYE BAR LEN PA, number nine.

NYE BAR LEN PA Come on, NYE BAR LEN PA. Then the monkey spends their whole life trying to get crepes and wine and donuts and houses and cars and things like that. Those two kinds of desire, they arm the karma.

They change fresh karma into ripe karma.

[Student]
It's like arming a bomb.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's like hooking up the electrical wires in a bomb.

[Student]
To do that, those two kinds of desire, what they do is finish the construction of a bomb about to detonate.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And all the karmas you had in your mind, all the karmas you planted back in link number two, they get armed. The bomb gets activated. And then you get the activated bomb, which is the next picture.

This looks like a Tibetan Donald Trump. Especially the stomach. But actually it's a pregnant woman.

The bomb is ready to go off. Okay. Now, since we have five minutes left, you don't mind if I give you the mind-only explanation of the pregnant lady?

DE LTA BU'I LEN PAS GONG ZHIG RNAM SHES KYI BRTEN GYI LAS KYI BA CHAGS DE NI ZOD LTAB STE So, in your little box in your mind, millions of seeds are swimming around.

[Student]
They're floating.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then in the last moment of your life, as you breathe your final breath, one of those karmas gets selected. My lama was really amazing. The way he saw the world was completely different than me.

Then he would watch TV.

[Student]
Somebody bought him a TV.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Sometimes he would watch the evening news. And then if he saw something cool, he would bang on the floor. I was living downstairs.

[Student]
He would bang on the floor.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then it means, get up here fast. And I'd run upstairs.

[Student]
Open the door. Look at the TV.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
There's this unbelievably beautiful lady in a really short mini skirt. I'm like ...

[Student]
I look at my lama and I'm like ...

[Geshe Michael Roach]
He entered the monastery when he was seven. He doesn't even know what a mini skirt is. He's like, watch this.

Look at this. I'm like, what? He says, watch, watch.

Then she spins this big wheel.

[Student]
It has all these balls inside, with numbers on them.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Then she wiggles her bottom and reaches in. The camera's just showing her bottom. Then she comes out with a ball.

This is the person in New Jersey who won five million dollars tonight.

[Student]
He's like, that's it! I'm like, that's what? That's link number ten, right there.

That's link number ten.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
I'm like ... I thought he was looking at the lady. All he sees is link number ten.

[Student]
He says, I've been waiting to show you.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
In link number ten. Come on, give me link number ten. The mind in the last moment of life.

Reaches into the wheel, and pulls out a number. In terms of mind only school, KUN CI RNAM SHES KYI RTEN GYI LAS KYI BAG CHAGS The karma seed which is living in that little box in your head, SOS BTAB, SOS BTAB means gets activated by the mind. The lottery.

[Student]
The lottery. The lottery is about to happen.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
SKYE BA'I PHYI MA SNGON PAR DUG PAR BYED PA LA NUS PA THOS CAN DU RGYUR PA'O That karma goes past the return point. No more return. That karma is going to go off like a bomb.

It got activated.

[Student]
And then in the next moment, the mind goes into a new birth.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Depending on which karma bomb got activated. In English we say, in North American English we say, it's a crapshoot. It's a crapshoot.

It's like gambling. It's like rolling the dice. Tomorrow, we will study, what are the rules about which karma package gets delivered first?

What makes a karma become FedEx overnight package? Many karmas are like the United States Post Office. Maybe they will get delivered, and maybe not.

Maybe it will take one month for a letter to come from your neighbor. But other karmas are fast track. Other karmas are FedEx.

[Student]
And there's a system.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
There's a marking system. Like, which one gets to go priority.

[Student]
And we're going to learn it tomorrow.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
When does that happen?

[Student]
At link number ten.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
And that's why we have to be careful when a person is dying.

[Student]
And that's why we have to be careful when a person is dying.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
The room should be quiet. People should not grab their body and pull on it. Don't make loud noises.

Don't argue in front of a person who's dying. Because the lottery is happening. The lady in the miniskirt is reaching into the ball.

And conditions should be perfect. The person is warm. The room is peaceful.

[Student]
The relatives are thinking about sweet things, loving things.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Nobody's like screaming and grabbing their arm or something. It's very important that a person goes very sweetly, very smoothly. That's link number ten.

Okay, birth is just entering the womb. Sorry, coming out of the womb. No, I'm sorry, going into the womb.

[Student]
Yeah, in Buddhism. In Buddhism, rebirth takes place at conception. And then the last link, aging and death, he defines it here, SOGS RGYUR PA'O.

SOGS RGYUR PA'O Your life energy leaks out drop by drop.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
It's called life. It's called living.

[Student]
Living is the process of dying.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, last thing. He makes the same point I told you before, but why do they include aging and death into one link? Why don't they make aging is link number twelve and death is link number thirteen?

Huh? Yeah, some people die a few minutes after conception.

[Student]
They don't have time to age.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
So aging is almost optional, you see.

[Student]
Aging is almost optional.

[Geshe Michael Roach]
Some people don't have the chance to age. Okay, we'll continue tomorrow. I still owe you one sexy meditation.

We'll do it in the morning.