«Дар освобождения», курс 41 «Сила доброго сердца», занятие 6

«Дар освобождения», курс 41 «Сила доброго сердца»

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[Geshe Michael Roach]
Okay, we're going to talk about those three animals.

Thank you for practicing and being able to do it. I'm grateful. Maybe tomorrow for a hundred dollars, explain these three animals.

Wait, you guys have to show the animals.

Oh yeah, you do.

Okay, let's talk about it. The bottom one looks like a cow, but it's actually a pig. It looks like a cow with a dog face, but it's a pig.

So let's say somebody criticizes you, and how does the pig think?

Pig thinking. Porco.

Yeah, he says, this person is a bad person. This person criticized me. What does the pig not say?

Thank you. No, first of all, he doesn't understand it's his own seeds. There's a joke at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center.

We had a long teaching. We explained that every stupid person you meet is coming from you. If you meet more stupid people, you are more stupid.

Then a lady came to the program.

She was a very irritating person, and one day she stood up, she said, this Diamond Mountain is a bad place.

I'm surrounded by stupid people. And everybody's like ...

Okay, understand? So, pig doesn't understand. Then, because pig doesn't understand, pig gets angry.

And that's the snake, poison snake. And then the chicken or the rooster, and sometimes they paint a pigeon. It means desire.

It's not wrong to want things. It's fine. In the Buddha paradise, everything is beautiful.

Nobody ever painted a thangka where the Buddha paradise is ugly. It's always beautiful. It's not wrong to want a beautiful life.

It's not wrong to want a Tesla car. It's okay. It's fun.

That's all right. So Geshe La, what's the rooster? Why are we not supposed to have desire?

That rooster is not normal desire. That rooster is stupid desire.

What's the difference between intelligent desire and stupid desire? What she said is, intelligent desire, let's say you want a Tesla car.

Intelligent desire helps other people to get a car. Then you plant the seeds to get your Tesla car.

For example, last week, those two Ukrainian ladies, their house was being bombed. People around them were dying. Then we pulled them out, we brought them to Arizona.

Maybe it's worse than Ukraine, I don't know. But we pulled them out and Rob is going to buy them a new car this week. We found sponsors and they're going to get a new car this week.

By the way, people ask where's their families? Where's their husbands? Where's their sons?

They all have sons.

One has a 12-year-old son.

We can bring him, I think in the next week or two weeks. But the older sons and the husbands are all fighting.

They cannot leave the country.

So, we are trying to prepare a place for them when they can come.

So, as usual, the wife is doing all the work.

Then the husbands will come later.

Two of them have sons who are 30 years old and they cannot come until the war is over.

Anyway, what the lojong says here, yul yi du, oh, so it's not wrong to want things.

It's wrong to hurt other people to get them.

The most stupid way to get more land for your country is to try to take it from another country. The best way to get more land for your country is to share your land with other countries. But it's not wrong to want more land.

It's okay. The way you get more land is to give it to other people.

That's the opposite of war.

As long as human beings are still trying to take land when they want land, then they need lojong. And they need lojong teachers.

That's why the Guadalajara teachers are going on a tour of Latin America.

And grandpa and my friends, we will find a way to pay for the airplanes. But everybody, in English we say, get your finger in the pot. Get your finger in the dulce de leche.

In the dulce de leche.

Get your finger in the dulce de leche.

It means, give one dollar, give two dollars, something. Get your finger in the South America, Latin America tour dulce de leche. All right.

YOD GSUM PO'I GANG RANG DE DAG NA LA MI NI SEMS CAN GZHAN GYIS NA CHAG DANG SEMS KYI NGON MONGS GANG ZHIG PA NI YIN GYUR These three animals are the cause to have an unhappy life. And RANG NAS SEMS CAN THAMS CAD CHAG DANG THI MUG MED PA'I DGE RTZA DANG LDAN PAR CHE SONG YANG BA'O'I RIG PAS GZHIN GYIS ZHES When in the lojong, when we try to take other people's trouble, so part of the lojong practice is to take other people's trouble. And it's very sweet to do it anonymously, like Jesus said.

In his time, it was a very good custom to fasting, not to eat in the morning.

Then he said, when you're fasting, keep it secret.

Try not to look hungry. What's up? Are you fasting?

Like this.

So you're supposed to keep it secret.

So there's a lojong practice here. Take other people's trouble, take it anonymously, and try to feel that you are taking the three animals away from them also. Who caused the bombs in Kiev?

Who caused the bombs?

Who's bombing Kiev?

Kiev people.

They are bombing Kiev.

The other people are just the instrument of the animals.

When you meet an irritating person, I need a pen.

Just throw it. They are coming from you. Every irritating person you meet is coming from you.

Excuse me for bad language, don't tell Veronica. Every asshole you meet is coming from another asshole. And that's you.

Anyone who bombs your city is coming from you. So actually, if the Latin America tour is a success, then people will start to understand that. And then maybe the bombing will ...

we can stop the bombing.

In the Vietnam War, I went to jail. I was put in jail.

I protested against it.

My priest, I was living with a couple of priests. There was several hundred people in the jail. After 24 hours, he came and rescued me.

He said, I don't know what he did, but he said something to the jail people. I got out, only one. Then many people, my friends, they said, this is stupid, we went to jail.

We stayed in the jail for six months.

To get out, we had to pay like a couple thousand dollars. Then the government used that money to make more bombs. Then we said, this is stupid.

We cannot stop the war. So, actually, how to stop the war?

We have to stop our own emotions of anger.

Because the war is coming from that. So, don't tell me you can't do anything to help that war. You can.

If you turn on the news, and you see the news about the war, that news is coming from you.

As long as you see the news, there's something wrong with you.

So, everybody has a chance to stop that war.

We can all stop the war. Because we created the war. So, stop being angry at your family members.

Control your mind, and then the war will stop. So, you don't have to go to jail. You don't have to do this thing.

Just stop making the seeds.

We all have power to stop a war which is 10,000 miles away.

And it's very cool.

All right, so what he says here, if you're a very strong person, when you take away other people's pain, imagine you also taking away their three animals. I will take away, I will invite you to America.

I will get you a visa.

I will commit to pay for your expenses. We've committed for two years Rob, that's all. After that they have to go to work.

By the way, they're going to work in the cafe as long as they want to. So, anyway, I will pay your expenses for two years. But while I take your expenses, I will also take your anger.

And I will also take your pig. Okay, you don't understand what I'm saying.

You don't understand the pig.

I will take it.

I will also eat your misunderstanding.

So, first level lojong practice. I will take your pain. I will take your pain, your suffering.

I will take you from Kiev.

I will bring you to my home. I will pay your expenses. But on a deeper level, I will take your misunderstanding and I will destroy it in the tonglen practice.

I will take the source of the war away. Cool?

Okay. So, if you're a real lojong person, it's not enough just to take away their pig. You have to eat their pig also.

Take away their misunderstanding.

Okay, all right. Next idiom. You guys got an idiom for me?

This is, I don't know, I tried to look up like Walt Disney. In the book, it's called The City of Happiness. And the next subject is called The City of Happiness.

TSE PA DANG NA MTSA SOGS THAMS CAD KYIS LEN TSAG CHEN DRIN DU MTHONG NAS What causes conflict in the world? If you look for the TSA BA, TSA BA means the root.

If you look for the root, it's my habit to take care of myself first.

Who caused the war in Europe?

Each one of us.

How did you cause it?

I took care of myself first.

And that created the war. It's very deep. Everybody has power to stop the war.

Even if you're sitting in Guadalajara, you have power to stop it.

Stop taking care of yourself first. Take care of other people first. The war will stop.

The war is coming from us.

MTHONG NAS RANG GI LAS NGAN PA'I BDE BU ZAD PA'I RGYU DANG GZHAN GYI SDUG BSNGAL So, if you know that the war is happening because you are taking care of yourself first, then every time something bad happens to you personally, you should feel more and more relajante. Very more relaxed. Did you have a bad day?

Yes. That's great. That was amazing.

What? I'm so glad you had a bad day. I thought you were a Buddhist.

Why are you so glad I had a bad day?

Think how many bad seeds you used up.

We should have a celebration.

Every time something terrible happens to a lojong person, they're like, I'm so glad I used up the seed today and I didn't have to wait until tomorrow because by tomorrow the seed is double. Nice translator. Here it says, SKYE NGAN GROG ZHUGS SHAR SKYE NGAN GROG ZHUGS SHAR means trouble is your friend.

And don't think of it as a problem.

Every time, I want to say a bad word but I know my wife won't approve. Something up [?].

When the world, you should be happy.

Wow, so many bad seeds opened today. My bad seed bank account went down today. I'm so happy.

Alright, that's a real lojong person. When you can think like that, you have traveled to the city of happiness. And that's the picture of the the last idiom.

How do you get to this city of happiness? Be happy when you have trouble. Every idiot can be happy when things are going well.

Every idiot? Idiot. Stupid person.

When things don't go good? When things are going well. Any stupid person can be happy.

The sign of a real practitioner is you are also happy when things are going bad.

If you're happy when things are going good and if you're happy when things are going bad, how often are you happy? Always. And that's a real lojong practitioner.

Those people you meet who are happy all the time, it's not that they don't have problems.

It's that they know how to change the problem into happiness.

It's how to change the problem into happiness.

Okay? When you meet really happy people, sometimes they have terrible, terrible things happening in their personal life. But they know how to change it to happiness.

They are happy they are using up their bad seeds. And, there's another technique. And I'm going to read it.

SKYEN NGAN CHUNG ZAD TZAM YANG MI THEG PA means usually you and me, if we have a small problem, we feel overwhelmed. I'm supposed to sing a song in Guadalajara and the microphone stopped working at that very moment. It's so bad.

Then he said, if you're a real Buddhist, you learn how to use problems to help you. And he gives an example. In Tibet there was no cars.

My teacher asked me to teach him how to drive. He never even saw a bicycle. His whole life in Tibet they didn't have one car.

Then he said, can you teach me how to drive the car?

Then I was very stupid, I said yes.

It took like six years. I almost died many times. I remember one day we are driving to a small neighborhood, very quiet.

One guy is mowing his lawn and he had like three garbage cans waiting for the garbage truck in the front of the house.

My teacher has a problem when he drives. His hand is not connected to his eyes. So he's driving.

Then I say, be careful.

And he's like, what? And he was like, what? Then he hit all the garbage cans.

He smashed all the garbage cans.

Then the guy is like, then I said, sorry.

Then I said, quick, drive to the highway.

He's going 20 miles an hour in a 75 mile hour drive. Then this guy come up to him, make a special sign. He said, what's that mean?

I said, oh, he's just saying welcome to our country. So in Tibet, there's no cars and people when they go to sell, like they go to another city to sell something, and they have to walk and they have to take a horse and it starts to rain.

If you are a lojong person, you say, I'm so glad it's raining because robbers don't like to go out in the bad weather.

So nobody will mug you. By the way, if you don't want to get mugged in a big city like New York, just walk around at 5 o'clock in the morning. All the muggers are sleepy.

They don't like to wake up early to get mugged. Or maybe they are watching Peachtree Show, I don't know.

So it means you can find something good about every problem.

You can say, oh, I'm so happy it's raining. Me and Aldo, we understand the problem of rain. Rain.

No hair. It's very loud. What it means, there's something good about every problem.

If you're going to practice this lojong, look for the, look how to use the problem for something good. Always, you can use every problem for something good. Like I had a problem in my cafe.

Black Hole Cafe.

I mean Peachtree Cafe.

When money comes close to the cafe, it disappears.

Sometimes I call it Black Hole Cafe.

Then we couldn't get all the licenses to open. Many, many licenses. And the local government people are, either they're very lazy or they want something.

Then I have a policy, I don't give bribes. So, the opening went slower and slower and slower. So, it's a problem.

It's a skill in life.

When you have a problem, use it. And make something good out of the problem. So, I put a good recording studio and tech in the cafe and we created Peachtree World News.

Because you don't need a food license.

And we opened the cafe and we did the Peachtree World News.

So, the problem became a big benefit.

Every problem is usable for something. So, open your mind.

Don't be whiny. I have a problem. The government won't give me the food license.

Shut up and do something cool. That's a new mantra.

You got a rosary? Anybody have a rosary? Mala?

Use your problems. And then, amazing, the Peachtree show is much more important than the cafe. It helps much more people.

So, every problem you can use it for something. And that's lojong.

In fact, if you get very good at turning problems into opportunities, you will start to pray, I hope I have a problem today. Oh God, please send me extra problem. I need extra opportunity.

Okay, learn it. That's why you're here. No whining for the next six months.

Just happy face.

If I meet you in one month, Daniel, why do you look so happy? Oh Geshe La, I got more problems.

I use them for opportunities. He gives another example.

When it rains and you are walking through Tibet with valuable things to sell then the robbers don't bother you.

When it snows, when the rain stops and the snow starts, in Tibet they don't have good horseshoes so the horses will break their hooves on the stone but when it snows it's automatic cushion.

The horses' hooves never break during snow. If you're walking from Guadalajara to I don't know, what do you call that place on the Chapala?

Chapala, okay.

If you're traveling from Guadalajara to Chapala and don't tell me it's pronounced wrong and if it snows you should be happy. Much easier for my automobile tires.

Much smoother.

You can always find something positive in your problems and I say you can always make profit from your problems.

After we opened the Peachtree show before we sold one coffee at the cafe we made a profit already.

The cafe already made like six months profit.

So just be happy with problems and learn to use them.

Okay, we got, I know Tim we got 12 minutes, right? Alright, how many cats? Okay, that was a great video you guys.

I love to embarrass Tim. So Shantideva ate the tea [?]? Seriously?

Okay, alright.

I'll turn the problem into an opportunity.

Okay, Shantideva said a very, very famous verse and I use this quotation every day. GAL TE CHOS SU YOD NA NI DE LA MI RGA CHI CHI YOD GAL TE CHOS SU MED NA NI DE LA RGA BA DE LA MI RGA CHI CHI PHEN When you have a problem if there's something you can do about it then god damn it do it.

If you have a problem and there's nothing you can do about it then god damn it just relax. End of story.

Okay, that's Shantideva.

I'll say it again. If you have a problem if there's something you can do about it then please shut up and just do it. Don't tell me about your problems.

If you have a problem and there's nothing you can do about it today you can also shut up because there's nothing you can do and just relax.

And it's very beautiful advice and probably you'll get a chance to use it today.

So don't be afraid of problems and don't think problems are a bad thing. Problems are empty. All things are empty.

What's emptiness? What's vacuidad?

It means no problem is a real problem.

Inside every problem there's a great opportunity.

If a problem is a problem to you it's your fault. If you can be a super creative person every problem becomes a great opportunity. Decide.

I'm going to stop whining oh I have a problem, I can't do anything.

Just learn to tell yourself ah shut up. People say oh I want to study diamond way.

I want to study tantra. I want to study the secret way.

I'll tell you the secret way.

There's a secret opportunity inside of every problem and you just have to have an attitude when a problem comes to you. It's like a math problem in third class in the elementary school. Oh my wife is yelling at me this morning.

There must be an opportunity here. Then it's like the teacher said you figure it out. You're like okay there's a problem.

There's supposed to be an opportunity inside of it.

Then just pretend life is quizzing you. It's like a game. It's like those television game shows you have to guess the answer.

Life will give you a problem. Then can you guess the opportunity?

No. Try harder. Life will give you problems.

There's an opportunity inside of each one. Life wants you to figure it out. Take it like a game.

Have fun.

When you have a problem have fun with it.

Just say, there's some kind of opportunity inside here.

Everything that happens to you can become an opportunity.

I use this. We started a business with $50,000 loan.

It became the largest diamond jewelry company in the world. Quarter billion dollars every year.

How you do that?

Take the problem and find the opportunity hiding inside.

Every problem is an opportunity to make more money.

You just have to figure it out.

Do that ten times every day and then Warren Buffett will buy your company. Stop whining. The time it takes to whine about problems, you are losing time.

Just take it as a riddle, as a puzzle.

Somewhere in this problem there's an opportunity.

I'm supposed to figure it out. That's what meditation is for. My teacher, he got in a car accident before I met him.

He hit his throat. He talks just like Star Wars.

Darth Vader.

Every problem is an opportunity.

Every time a problem comes to you, there's a chance to find an opportunity.

If you take the problem as a problem, then the problem is you. Good translator. We'll keep going.

DE YANG RGA ZHIG LA NA LTAR SOGS KYIS NA STE MA ZHIG TZAM CHUNG BA NA lamrim SOGS LA THOB PA CHOS TU LTA BU'I MYUN KHYEN Yeah, next idiom you guys. I'm hoping you guys will I'm hoping you guys will learn the idioms. Then you don't have to memorize the whole book.

There's a meditation you can do.

Just bring the pictures one by one.

Then you know the whole week's program. You can remember.

Memorize the pictures. Tomorrow I will give $100 for each picture we had so far. We had 17 pictures already.

Okay? So, ask the tech guys if you don't have the pictures.

Tomorrow I will check the 17 pictures so far.

I will give $100 for each picture. Okay? I mean 17 different people.

Okay. so what he says with this picture, even people who never went to Primavera, Villa Primavera, they will have lojong breakthroughs if they have disaster. One of the purpose of lamrim is to recognize the suffering of life.

By the way, it's not depressing. Then, you know, a real Buddhist teacher, I'm supposed to tell you you're going to get old, you're going to get sick, your face will fill with wrinkles, you will forget every teaching you ever had, you will die in a hospital bed, you will do permanent shavasana.

That's my job. My job is to tell you all these things.

But for lojong person, that kind of life is perfect. It's full of opportunities. Every time something bad happens to you, you can make something good.

And then the Lama in this section, he says even normal people understand that.

Some people go to ACI retreat in Guadalajara and they learn renunciation. This life is very short and very painful. Then I should do something to help other people.

Then he said it's human nature to understand that.

And a normal person, they never heard of ACI. They get cancer. They go to the hospital.

They are laying there all day.

Those people develop Buddhist attitudes automatically. Suffering has this good quality. They start to wonder what's going to happen after.

The cancer becomes their Buddhist Lama and they start to have all these questions, Buddhist questions.

So he says, look, even people who never heard about lojong, the normal pain they have teaches them to be gentle and kind to other people.

So if you're, if you sit in this class, you should be happy when those stuff happens to you.

You're going to become a more sensitive person and you will understand other people's problems. When they put me in the wheelchair in the airport, suddenly I had compassion for all the people in the wheelchair in the airport and that was the first time I ever had compassion for all the people in the wheelchair in the airport. Then he's always saying a real lojong person has to go farther.

I'm so happy I got cancer. Now I can really do all those meditations that Geshe La taught me all those years. Now I can do the real one.

Then you want to go to the advanced version? Like, I went to the advanced I went to the, I had a very funny time a couple of years ago.

My teacher's nephew came to Diamond Mountain Geshe Lothar he's the former debate master of Sera and he helped me a lot in my life.

He helped me finish the Geshe then he came to visit you know and on that day I got a gall gall bladder like blew up or something. Extremely painful and Venerable Jigme is going to drive me to the hospital.

It's two hours away and I actually had to lie down on the floor and she's getting the car and Geshe Lothar's like everybody stop.

Why? Oh Geshe Michael I wrote a prayer for you.

I wrote a long life prayer for you. It took me like six weeks.

Can you just stay a few minutes and I will read it? I'm like I'm like this you know I got to go Geshe Lothar. Then he said no I will just read it okay?

I said Geshe I'm going to be the first person who died during his long life prayer.

So anyway it was a long prayer and then Jigme drove me to the hospital I was yelling the whole way it hurt so much. So then I went there and they put me in the hospital they did the operation and this is a true story when I woke up there's a lady looking at me right over me she's like and she's Tibetan and I'm like I woke up from the anesthesia I'm like who are you? Where am I?

She said my name is Tsering which means long life and I'm like of course your name is Tsering and I'm like what are you doing here?

She said I'm your doctor I said what? I said I don't know there's any Tibetans in Tucson Arizona she says there's two and I'm your doctor and I'm like wow that's really cool then the guy next to me he had a heart transplant very dangerous and we became good friends she used to give me this she used to come and say did you enjoy the painkiller? I'm like yeah which one you like better?

That second one I feel like I'm swimming in an ocean

of warm water

she's like okay

we'll give you that one

then the guy next to me he's very nervous because they're going to cut open his heart and we were talking for a lot and I'm thinking I already have a serious

problem

but lojong says I'm supposed to take

his problem also

and it was really hard I just want to tell him you know that curtain you can close the curtain I'm like can we close the curtain

I don't want to

I have enough problems

I don't want to but if you're lojong person then even when you're having serious problems

you have to embrace