BDW 3 «Суть волшебной жизни», занятие 1

(2:15 - 1:16:58)
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand In other words, baby, kiss me Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore You are all I long for, all I worship and adore In other words, please be true In other words, I love you Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore You are all I long for, all I worship and adore In other words, please be true In other words, in other words I love you Palms Imagine me and you, I do I think about you day and night It's only right to think about the girl you love And hold her tight, so happy together If I should call you up, invest a dime And you'd say you belong to me, so ease my mind Imagine how the world could be so very fine So happy together I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life You, you, and you and me No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be The only one for me is you, and you for me So happy together I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life Me and you, and you and me No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be The only one for me is you, and you for me So happy together Ok, dear audience, online and on the site I hope my heart is flutters as yours, or no, vice versa Your hearts are flutters like mine Because our Immaculate Teacher is in the room So let us warmly welcome our Immaculate Teacher Who will guide us into the essence of a magical life Hello, hello, can you hear ok? Sure? A little louder maybe Welcome and thank you for coming to Arizona We were at Diamond Mountain this week, last week And the director of Diamond Mountain, Sunim, is she here? I don't know No, she's still directoring She said, wow, this is the two weeks when Arizona is not too hot So, it's good that you came at this time Ok, Arizona should be pretty good this time My job during this, my main job During this class Is I will teach twice a day And there's two beautiful books that I really love And I would like to teach those to you guys One is called Dang dzin shang deb Say, dang dzin shang deb Dang dzin shang deb It means argument between the angel and the devil In one person's mind, ok? And I think we all have an angel in our mind And we all have a devil in our mind And they argue all the time, right? Sometimes the devil wins, sometimes the angel wins But it's a very, very beautiful text It was written about 300 years ago, 350 years ago By His Holiness the first Panchen Lama So, in Tibet, the Dalai Lamas and the Panchen Lamas, they sort of alternate When the Dalai Lama is a boy, the Panchen Lama will run things And when the Panchen Lama is a boy, the Dalai Lama will run things So, philosophically or in the teaching lineage You can say that there was the Indian lineage And then it entered Tibet And then for about 400 years There was some confusion in Tibet about what's the meaning It's very similar nowadays in the western countries The ideas about Buddhism or these ideas are many, many confused ideas So, that was 400 years in Tibet And then Tsongkapa came And he cleaned up the mess And he, if you really understand the great books He's the greatest spiritual writer in human history In the history of this whole world I think so But he came around 1400 and he cleaned things up And then there started a very kind of I don't know, golden time of Buddhism For about 500 years in Tibet There was a very, very clear practice Very, very clear meditation, retreat, philosophy My wife says my butt fell off when I was a kid Never mind Okay Then Now I'll sleep Okay, let's do this Okay, so So really the first Panchen Lama Is during that golden era, during that golden time And I think he was kind of the perfect Buddhist He was a great poet Beautiful, beautiful poetry And I translated a book of his poetry And he was a great philosopher His books about Dharma are the most accurate Some of the greatest books For example, I know John Brady is interested in The transformation of the five heaps in the diamond way He wrote the best book about that Things like that And he was a great retreater He was famous for his retreats He was a peacemaker He got involved in some very difficult wars in his time And he made peace between the armies And between the fighters He risked his life And he was able to bring peace among two countries at war Just because he was so devoted and so dedicated So he's a beautiful, beautiful teacher And he wrote this book About the argument in one person's mind Between the good side of the mind and the bad side of the mind And my teacher introduced me to it And my teacher passed away before he could finish it And I always felt that I should try to finish it Because that's really, I think, the only major book he didn't He passed away in the middle of it And he couldn't finish it And so I thought it would be important for me to finish So I've been teaching it for 14 years And we're taking our time, if you notice In fact, maybe we taught it here 12 years ago or something Some of you might remember, the older people And the whole book is about 600 verses I finished it recently Because I'm in the Good Night Book Club But I'll tell you more about that later So I finished translating it recently It's 598 verses or something like that And nowadays I'm kind of writing a small commentary to it Because it's kind of, some of it is confusing Some of it is very difficult So I'm writing a small commentary And then you'll be able to get it, okay? So let's start And the reading I gave you guys It starts out, I took the one first paragraph of the book And I keep putting it in each time I give a reading This is the 21st session we've had So 21 sessions over the last 14 years And the first part is the same, okay? It says, this is an argument that happened Between wisdom and her opponent And her enemy, wisdom's enemy inside your own mind Is called the habit of thinking that things are real The habit of thinking that things are real So what we have in this book is a discussion Between wisdom and this bad habit of thinking things are real And what does that mean? We got to talk about it, okay? And the argument started about the Sanskrit word called Mahamudra Say Mahamudra Maha means big, like magnum, magnificent comes from that And then mudra means a seal Like the seal that a king would put on a paper or something like that It can be the seal or it can be the instrument The wooden or the iron seal that they use is called mudra, okay? And Mahamudra is a very very famous meditation Where the object of the meditation is your own mind, okay? And that's a special object of meditation called Mahamudra So when you say, you know, what are you doing nowadays? And you say, I'm doing Mahamudra meditation It means you are meditating with your own mind as the object So you are kind of stepping back from the mind And then watching the mind talk, okay? And you are kind of a spy on your own mind, okay? And that style of meditation is called Mahamudra Later, that became a whole diamond way category So there are, in our database, John Brady's database There are about 165 different tantras So Vajrayogini is just one Kalachakra is just one Yamantaka is just one And no one has ever catalogued them all And John's project has And there is 167, something like that Different tantric systems And so Mahamudra has entered that list I don't know, maybe a thousand years ago, okay? When you say that practice has become diamond way or tantric Then there will be a whole body of literature That grows up around that style or that topic So typically there will be a root tantra from ancient India Then there will be explanatory tantras Maybe five to ten explanatory tantras These are huge works These are a thousand pages, two thousand pages each And then they, when it enters Tibet Through Bengal, through northeast India Then these tantric lineages got stronger and stronger, more defined Then people started writing separate commentaries on the fire offering Or how to close the retreat, how to do the retreat How to do the mantra, how to do the empowerment How to do powa, how to leave your body at the end of your life Things like that There will be a whole separate system dedicated to that tantra So Mahamudra is one of those And John Brady's project total is 80 million words so far 37 years of hard work So we have a whole system of secret practice called Mahamudra So when you say Mahamudra, either it means an entire cycle They call it a cycle of teachings Like maybe 20 to 100 commentaries And then the meditation of Mahamudra This book is more about the meditation called Mahamudra Although it automatically covers some of the secret practices Alright, so I'm going to pick up I'm going to start at verse number 352 How far did we get in 14 years? How many verses total? 600, 598, something like that So we are just over half way through It's good luck And I'm not going to speed up, I'm sorry I'm going to teach it sweetly And the way we should teach it And it's very very deep It's very very deep Listen to his poetry, it's all in poetry NANG BA RTEN NAS SKYES PA DI NANG BA RTEN DU THA NGES DANG NANG BA RTEN MED THA NYID ZER NANG BA RTEN PA MED PA NI NANG BA RTEN DU THA DE DANG NANG BA RTEN MED THA NYID ZER Like that, it's very poetic And he's talking about NANG BA Say NANG BA Say TONG BA Say NANG TONG Okay, three things, okay? Here's the first one, NANG BA Good, TONG BA NANG TONG Okay, good We're starting this class And by the way, every day I will teach one class from ANGEL debates the devil And then I'll teach one class from SONG OF MY SPIRITUAL LIFE The second class is meant to prepare people for Diamond Way teaching If you do the full ACI course in Diamond Way It's, I don't know, it's 18 different courses It takes 7 years If you do it properly, it takes 7 years to get through the 18 courses And then you have to take 18 courses to prepare So the whole, the classical ACI presentation Open Teachings, then Secret Teachings Takes 36 courses And normally it's 14 years of study So I'm kind of in my old age I would like to make an easier way for people to enter Diamond Way Traditionally, for people who did the 3 year retreat in Diamond Mountain Starting 2010 They had 7 years of training in Open Buddhism in New York And then at Diamond Mountain they had 7 more years of training And then they started their 3 year retreat, okay? So we, for that course The first year of Diamond Way study Is to study a book called DELAM Or THE PATH TO BLISS And that was written by the same author, okay? The first Panchen Lama So if you take the traditional style, John Brady style You get to John Brady, Connie, Jigme La If you have a chance to do the whole 18 courses The first 3 courses that you go through Are by the first Panchen Lama Same author, same writer, okay? So here in this class, for this week We will do, first class will be First Panchen Lama Debate in the person's mind This first class is 75 minutes The second class is 60 minutes Just because people get tired and I get Supposedly I get tired So we'll do 75 minutes the first class Which means we have some extra time for Q&A, okay? And I enjoy Q&A I usually talk too much And we don't have time for Q&A But I'll try to control myself And so if you want to make a note About any question you have Probably at the end of this class The last 15 minutes or so I'll try to do Q&A, okay? And I enjoy all kinds of Q&A, okay? I don't care what kind of question you ask, okay? It could be personal, it could be business It could be Dharma, it could be translation I'm happy to answer any question That's what a Geshe is trained for 25 years To answer questions So, you know, I'm ready, okay? And I'm happy to do it And I enjoy asking my teacher questions My teacher stopped eating meals with me Because I asked too many questions He made me bring his meal to his room And then he locked the door And then I found out I had to drive him to teach in other states Sometimes five hour drive And I would ask him questions And then he would pretend to sleep the whole way And anyway, it's a tradition, okay? So I enjoy questions And I'm happy to answer questions Any topic is okay Then the second class Well, as I mentioned, it's a short lamrim By Je Tsongkapa And it was used As an introduction to Diamond Way Initiation About 100 years ago, okay? And that teacher was my teacher's teacher One of my teacher's teachers So I thought it would be sweet To use that song of my spiritual life Tsongkapa never talks about his own practice He never talks about himself He wrote 350 major books And he never once talks about himself Except in this one book, okay? So I thought that'd be so cool To teach the book where Tsongkapa talks about himself And he mentions how to enter Diamond Way So we're going to use that book And the translation I did Was based on an actual teaching That was given to students Who were preparing for Diamond Way, okay? So it's cool Alright I'll read the English translation, ready? The appearance of things is the fact That things arise dependent The appearance of things draws a line To stop things being real The appearance of things Banishes the two extremes Where nothing exists at all The appearance of things Proves that nothing is real The appearance of things Destroys the extreme That anything is real The appearance of things Banishes the two extremes Where nothing exists at all, okay? So this appearance Is the word nang Say nang Yeah Nang lo tong [?] Means inner Like nangpa Is the Tibetan word for Buddhist It means the person on the inside Nangpa And then if you change the tone And you go nangpa Nangwa Say nangwa That means the appearance, okay? And you gotta get this Feeling in your heart When I say appearance Nangwa It means like A soft pleasant light From the moon Or from even sunlight But not Arizona sunlight, okay? And some kind of Ukrainian sunlight Like a gentle sunlight, okay? That's called nangwa When there's a Kind of a [?] I know it's been difficult Then If you know some kind of Light bulbs are Frosty white or something And they give like a gentle light That's called nangwa Anytime Something makes its appearance Anytime something gives light That's called nangwa, okay? It's a very interesting word And then It is the sister Of tongpa Say tongpa So tongpa means empty And nangwa means Light You know, soft light The appearance of light, okay? Soft light On one side And then emptiness on the other side And it's a very very famous Brother and sister It's called nangtong Say nangtong I think we have a picture, you guys Francisco, are you ready? Maybe Let's see Not that guy This one Yeah I tried to find a picture It's supposed to be darkness and light Okay? Then You can say that nang is on the right And the tong is on the left Okay? And So nang is appearance And then tong is more dark Okay? More like night time Like daylight And darkness Okay? These are nangtong Okay? And This whole section Of the first Panchen Lama He's Lobsang Chokyi Gyeltsen He's going to talk about By the way, his first name is taken from Tsongkapa's first name Okay? Lobsang, okay? So He's going to talk more about nangwa Now So you've got it in your mind Geshe La is talking about Like soft daylight And then dark Okay? Soft daylight and dark And it's called nangtong Okay? So get that in your heart first And then I'll explain to you why it's wrong Okay? So In our text It has a different meaning And Nangwa means The appearance of things To us Okay? When we meet somebody When we look at a building You know, when we see the blue sky That's called nangwa Okay? Things are appearing to us Okay? And then tongpa means The way they really are Okay? So in this case Nang The meaning of the word is appearance But it means all the stuff that's appearing to us Whether it's outside or inside Your thoughts are also nangwa Okay? The thoughts you hear in your mind are also nangwa And then all the stuff you see All the people you see Is called nangwa And then Somewhere That's somehow That's light And then somewhere there's tongpa Okay? And now I'll tell you a secret All the stuff you normally see Is not in either one Okay? All the stuff you normally think All the stuff you normally see around you If you ask Geshe Michael Is that nang or tong? Is that soft light or is that emptiness? And I'll say Neither one Why? Hundred dollar question His name got changed Yibai Rob Hargony's name got changed to Ibai Yibai means one hundred dollars in Chinese language Everybody says Hi Yibai Okay What was the question? I forgot Yeah Well how come there's appearance And then there's emptiness And then there's everything else And everything in this room Is outside of light and dark It's different Okay There's light The light side of things Nang There's the emptiness side of things Tong And then everything here All your thoughts All your feelings Every person here Everything in the room Is not either Why? Maybe Geshe La Because it looks like self-existent? Can't hear Looks like self-existent? Good Hundred dollars She said So there's all the stuff you think is in this room Okay There's all the stuff you think is in all the people All the objects The whole building The town The city The mountains around the city If you ask me Are those like positive reality? Or are those negative reality? Nang or Tong? I have to say Neither one Okay Everything you see Every person you see Was never there Was never there Not possible Okay They are impossible Okay All the things you see All the thoughts you have All the feelings you have Yourself Everybody else Okay They don't exist at all Okay The way you feel about them They don't exist Okay They don't exist at all Okay And it takes many years of practice Meditation Study Thinking Yoga It takes many years of practice To realize That all the things you're looking at They never existed at all You're completely Totally Mistaken Okay Everything Everything around you The way you feel about everything is Completely mistaken You're walking around in a circus That's not real Okay And I'm sorry And if you say Geshe La Maybe I'm just 1% correct I say no You're not Everything you think you see is Not what you think it is Okay And we got to talk about that So the real light And the real dark Okay This is This picture is you know In the world Is it day time or is it night time Okay That's one division of light and dark Okay But there's another division of light and dark Here it is Francisco Ta-da Huh? One of this is Nang One of this is Tong Okay One of this is Nang One of this is Tong So You know This lady is making Tea for her teacher And she's She's looking at a pot Okay You know She's opening the pot On the left side And she's going to put water in the pot Okay And she has a certain feeling about the pot As she's Filling it with water She has a certain feeling about the pot Okay That feeling Very deep down Very very deep down Is that the pot is out there And the pot is appearing to me Okay That feeling [?] If you know the word It seems to be The pot is out there Geshe La is out there And then Geshe La is appearing to me You know We even say in physics Light is coming down Hitting my body And then reflecting to you So then you think Geshe La is out there That's your natural feeling And then The light is coming from him to me Geshe La is out there That's how she feels about the pot When she's filling the pot with water This refers to a real experience that I had 50 years ago This year Okay And I was studying hard Meditating hard Serving really hard And I remember Filling up a pot with water Okay Because that was my job I was the cook For 8 long years My teacher got either meal A or meal B Because I only knew how to cook 2 things I don't know how he survived But you know I had to do all the dirty work For 8 years You know So anyway You know I was making him some tea And I was putting water in a pot And it felt to me Like that pot was Out there You know And I reached for the pot And I put the water in the pot And the water come from the faucet And I put it Okay That pot That water Never existed Cannot exist Okay If you think Someone made this pot And someone made the plumbing To bring the water here And you turned on the faucet And the water filled the pot When you feel like that And when you look like that Which is all the time Ever since you were born Every single minute You feel like it's out there And it's appearing to you That pot on the left side Okay It doesn't exist at all Okay It doesn't exist at all The pot which is not coming from her The pot which is not coming from her Didn't ever exist Couldn't ever exist Doesn't ever exist You see Cannot Impossible Okay So Geshe La How could she make tea without a pot? That's the pot on the other side That's the pot on the stove Okay And then I was cooking for my teacher I was making Tibetan tea And I was studying hard, hard, hard You know And meditating hard And serving hard I built his house Two-story house Painful And I paid for it And I I served everybody in the whole town I was [?] Public horse I was the only person who had a car So I I drove everywhere Everybody I was a slave for the whole town And I was serving, serving, serving And studying, studying Meditating hard And then I was watching the pot I was standing there watching the pot Under the influence of deep meditations Hard service of my teacher Hard, hard study I was fanatic I went home once in 25 years When my brother died For one day You know That's all And I worked hard I worked really hard And then I'm looking at that pot And Okay, here's nang Here's the real nang You ready? Real nang Real appearance of things Means It starts with how you treat other people Okay Nang starts with How you treat other people Are you nice to other people? Are you kind to other people? Do you share what you have with other people? Okay I was looking for 20 years I'm looking for a word for the first perfection I hate No, there's a worse one Generosity Then even giving I don't like it anymore I like Sharing You know Okay If you're practicing the first perfection And you are sharing Really sharing what you have Because sharing in English means You take what you have And you split it And you say Okay, this is for you And I'll keep this And you take that And that's what the first perfection is If you're working hard On constantly splitting your assets You know If you're an asset splitter Your bank account The objects in your house Your car Everything You just always Every day it's like atomic fission You just keep splitting Splitting Splitting You know Oh, you wake up You take what was 100% yesterday And now it's only 50% And suddenly it's 25 and 25 I was working on it in the car On the way down here Rob Ressinger's on strike With my account Anyway Okay If you've been giving Okay Then you have a seed in your mind Okay You have a karmic seed in your mind Okay And you walked into the kitchen With a karmic seed in your mind Okay Then you stood in front of the stove And the seed opened Okay And the problem is that Karmic seeds open so fast Okay 65 per second Okay You know Okay, watch You ready? One, two, three Boop That's about 300 seeds Okay Wow, that's the longest boop I ever saw yesterday So it's like 300 seeds came out during that time It's impossible to catch them They are so fast Your whole life You are creating things with your seeds And you don't know Because it's too fast It's going too fast A normal person cannot see it The seed opens in your mind On the day that you understand this Something beautiful happens You catch one seed opening Directly You watch it Okay And I'll tell you how it feels And it's weird It shouldn't feel like anything Because a seed is not physical A karmic seed is a possibility Okay How many possibilities can you put in my hand? You know I mean it's possible I'm gonna have a good dinner tonight If things go right But it's also possible They'll burn it or something Right? In my hand How many possibilities can I put? Zillion, billion Doesn't matter They don't take up any space Okay People always think Geshe La How many seeds will fit in my mind? It's a dumb question It doesn't It's not physical It's not even mental It's a possibility It's a maybe It's a quantum Maybe it will be positive Maybe it will be negative We don't know It's just a maybe Okay Your mind is full of maybes You planted them there Okay So I had a possibility Of a pot with water in it In my mind And on the day that it happens to you That you see nang Of nang tong Okay When you see nang Directly It will be like that You will say It feels like The seed was back here That's probably why John [?] here With both of us It feels like the seed is back here And it feels like the seed opens And it feels like a picture of the pot comes out It feels like it goes to the Bhrumadhya Bhrumadhya Between the eyebrows It feels like that A little higher It feels like the picture comes out of there And then the picture goes down to the stove And makes a pot Okay And that picture is so good That it's real Okay That karmic picture of a pot You can boil water in it Okay So it's real It is real Okay And it's coming from By the way Get this okay And don't forget this This is the only thing you really have to know this week That means The whole world Is coming From how you treat other people That's all It's not that you have a responsibility As a Buddhist to help other people That's not the point If you're a good person You should help other people That's not the point Every Atom Of your reality Around you Is being created By how you treat other people Okay And if you're like Lazy being nice to other people By the way My phone is Cycling something And about to burn up in my pocket Maybe my wife is yelling at me So, oh it's a bill Okay Okay We'll catch you later That's That's the real meaning of nang Okay When he said appearance Appearance Appearance It means Your mind is like a flashlight Your mind is Like an automobile light You know Your mind is Sending things out 65 per Second Millisecond And that in Buddhism Is called the appearance of the world Okay Appearance is a Code word Appearance is a secret word It And you don't see appearance For what it is Until you're almost ready to touch emptiness Okay I'm explaining it to you You are conceptualizing it While you conceptualize it You are thinking of it the wrong way While I'm explaining it to you You are misunderstanding it It's amazing It's cool Nah Okay So You know You are creating me Your seeds are opening In your mind According to how nice you've been to other people And then They are creating every Every detail of your life That's called Appearance In Buddhism That's called the appearance of things It's coming from you Okay Okay Nang Say nang Okay We're ready to go to the second word That's why it took 14 years to get here Say tong So I'll give a hundred bucks If anyone can explain tong to me In terms of nang And it can't be inner every time It can't be what? [?] Okay So Nang is the light that comes up As dependent origination And tong is the darkness But in the sense of an absence Empty Emptiness There is no Pot there Other than the one that's Coming from that seed Okay good A hundred bucks Yeah Okay good Yeah To repeat what Juan said How many pots are on the stove That are not coming From how you treat other people Zero That's tong Nang tong is All reality comes into two parts Nang And tong Okay Nang means How much stuff in a positive sense Is being created by your mental seeds That's called nang The appearance of things It's not the normal meaning of appearance Okay At all Appearance in this text Means all the stuff that's being Cooked up by your seeds Okay That's nang How much stuff isn't being created that way That's tong That's emptiness Okay And that is a powerful reality It's not just not there Okay Emptiness doesn't mean Something's not there It doesn't only mean that It's a profound 50% of reality Okay It's how many pots You ever held in your hand That were not coming out of your mind And the answer is Zero In Buddhism If you come to a class I hate to tell you this You have sworn to pass it on Okay In a Buddhist class When you attend a Buddhist class Isn't that weird You have to pay And then you have to work afterwards Okay In Buddhism If you hear 10 minutes of teaching You have You swear To pass on that 10 minutes of teaching To other people And by the way It could be your sister It could I get out of it On the plane I talk to the person next to me Did you know about nang tong They're like no So I do 10 minutes And I say okay that's all You can relax You can sleep now Okay You have a responsibility By coming to a class It's assumed in Buddhism That you have promised To teach Okay In your own way In your own style You know My My teacher said You can teach anywhere And that's teaching I'll tell you a cute story So I commuted to the diamond business For 19 years 4 hours per day on the bus Okay I didn't I didn't take the money to buy a car I donated everything to John Brady Which is a good habit So I didn't have a car And I And I had to stand out in the snow Rain Heat Wait for the bus You know And then the bus It was 4 hours a day on the bus For 19 years Okay That's why I should get a new car No Karmically speaking But My teacher said I could I should teach anywhere So one day the bus broke Halfway back to Howell It broke up near Perth Amboy And It was cold dark night Usually I was on It was midnight or something And We all have to get out of the bus We don't have cell phones in those days Okay And We'd all look around There's 50 businessmen You know Looking around And there's a bar There's just a bar You know With a go-go girl You know Which I have never seen And I've never been in a bar Like that And I'm like Then I have to call My friend Art You know So I went in the bar And I sit down And I called my friend I said you got to come get me I'm stuck on the road You know And then there's a guy Two guys sitting next to me They're like Hey man what's up And I said Did you hear about Nang Tong You know They're like Huh? So what I mean is Wherever you go in your life Try to share with somebody Okay Don't bother them If they say you're bothering me Then shut up Okay You're not allowed to bother people In Buddhism You're not allowed to bother other people With your religion Okay Stay quiet Stay chill Wait for them to have three beers And then start talking They don't mind Okay Anyway I did teach in the bar Okay So now you know Appearance And emptiness Nang Tong Okay Then all the stuff you ever saw In your whole life And all the people you ever met In your whole life I'll ask you I'll confirm Are they Nang Or are they Tong They are neither They don't exist at all Okay Because you had the wrong feeling about them Got it? That's tricky You have to say that Okay Geshe La your computer is there That's true So are you saying it doesn't exist It doesn't exist the way you feel it exists Therefore that computer that you feel is up here Is not here And that's neither Nang or Tong It's outside of Nang Tong It's zero It's not there It was never there Okay Especially people who irritate you Are not even there Okay That's the That's a tragedy You know Eight billion people irritating During the day At nothing That's tragic That's a disaster That's a global disaster All the wars All the disagreements All the arguments They are all about nothing Literally nothing Okay People say Don't argue about nothing You say it's not nothing to me But it is nothing Okay There's nothing there Okay So Nang and Tong Okay All right Tsongkapa wrote a book called Three Principal Paths I think it's You're going to try to stop me with a timer You're assuming I will look at it Oh I'm getting close Okay He wrote Tsongkapa wrote a very famous book Probably his Well One of his greatest books Three Principal Paths And in there There's a famous verse Okay Nangwa He talks about Nangwa means How you treat others Comes back to you Exactly the way it should Nothing ever breaks the laws of karma Nothing ever breaks the laws of karma Okay Nangwa tendrel luwa mepa Luwa mepa means There's never one percent Variation from reality Okay You get Everything that happens to you Is exactly what's supposed to happen to you Okay And you know You talk about the power of God You know Eight billion people Are getting their karma back to them At this moment Exactly what they deserve And there's no collision It's weird You know So if Stanley has the Karmic seed From arguing So I know from [?] Saying nice things to his retreatants Then he's gonna see this computer As something useful And then if Kat I don't know If you were yelling at somebody yesterday You're gonna see the same computer As something sinister Something not so nice Okay The computer is the same But karma Allows Eight billion people To get exactly what they deserve With no collisions That's unbelievable The objects have to stretch To fit the karma Okay The objects have to This computer has to be able to look bad And good at the same time Okay It's amazing It's unbelievable Okay so Tsongkapa said Nangwa tendrel luwa mepa dang Tongpa khelen drelwe gong nyi And The understanding of emptiness Which he calls Dangerously He calls it Khelen drel Khelen means position Take a position Drel means Void of any position And that Three syllables Has caused a lot of trouble For hundreds of years Okay Ji si so sor nangwa de si du If you think this light And this darkness Are separate things Da dung tubpay gongpa tokpa me You still don't get what the Buddha meant So I'll leave you with that Okay What did Geshe La just say? The appearance of the pot on the stove Okay The pot on the right Okay It's amazing That you You just understood I just talked about the picture And you took it away I finally got to the picture Yeah The pot on the right Is the one that Geshe Michael saw The seed coming Opening And the picture coming out Okay That's the pot on the right The pot on the left Was two minutes before that The pot on the left Was two minutes before that I did not I Two minutes before that I had never seen a karmic seed open In my life And then two minutes later I did See what I mean? Okay So The lady on the left Is dealing with something That's not there She's putting a lid on something Which is not there Okay The pot on the right is Good It's making tea You can make tea with it Okay Real tea Okay You got to think about it You got to think about it Okay Is one of these two pots Nangwa? Yeah, the one on the right Because I already Understood that it's coming out of my seeds Okay Is any of the pots in this picture Tongpa? Yeah, the one on the left Okay Because it's not real It's empty of being real Okay She's got emptiness in her hands And she doesn't know it Okay Very It's very interesting This is This is the clash Of angels and devils Really This is real light and real dark In the moral sense This is real truth Fighting with lies You know This is light and dark In the sense of war Or hatred Okay This These two little pots Are the world Okay Got it? Okay Q&A Let's do Q&A I got through One third of the class Not bad Any Any question about anything I don't care If you don't I'll go to dinner Geshe La I'm a little bit confused Because in one part If I teach Sorry If I teach to someone that Doesn't know about this Maybe I will confuse more them And I don't want to plant that seed But at the same time If they are coming from me They're just I put them just to practice teachings So should I be more More empathy And maybe not teaching These deep teachings Or just teach Good question It's a famous Bodhisattva vow Not to teach people emptiness too soon It's a famous bodhisattva vow There should be another vow that You taught them too late Okay But You know This is what we call Tabke or skillful means Upaya in Sanskrit In The teacher The one giving the teaching With sincerity And with love They have to judge the student's level They have to judge the level of the student And normally Real emptiness teaching like we gave today Is something that takes a few years of training For the student The student should not hear this kind of teaching Unless they've had some training before Okay And we break a bodhisattva vow If we Confuse a person about emptiness So It's a very delicate thing I would say you break a vow If you don't teach Gently Something about emptiness But you also break a vow If you really confuse somebody about emptiness So You know You have to use your best judgment And I think When you talk about bodhisattva Bodhisattva vow Bodhisattva behavior It's so nice to be able to use Buddhist words In this audience by the way I don't have to [?] some business talk It's so nice Bodhisattva means You really Hoping that this person will reach ultimate happiness All the time All your interactions with other people You're like What can I say at this moment That will help them be a good person So that's all Yeah And I I'll show you a way to teach emptiness though And I mean my friends know this Show me your left hand Point your left index finger And by the way If you're ever asked to teach emptiness You can do it this way And you're totally safe Nobody Nobody will have a problem In the room Okay Okay you guys are ready Everybody got their left hand index finger Now Please point To something in this room Which is not coming from the karmic seeds In your own mind Then you gotta be an actress Or an actor You gotta go You know You gotta In English we say you gotta hammer it up You gotta be like a comedian That's why Zelensky is such a good leader by the way And Always at the end of that comedy Go like this Then Okay and that means There's nothing in this room that Not come from you Not coming from your seeds Right You can't find anything When you wanna teach an emptiness To a group of people So This is very powerful And very correct And I've never had anyone really Take off their clothes and run around You know With this particular emptiness Okay So I think it's pretty safe I think it's pretty safe And it's easy to remember when you're on a When you're teaching a group of people You feel a little nervous You can say Okay everybody raise your hand Then you can also see who's dozing Who's sleeping They're like They don't raise their hand They say everybody raise your hand Then it's a Every once in a while as a public speaker You can try to wake up the whole audience Which is a challenge Okay Other question Can I ask a question? Thank you Talk loud okay Okay The acoustics are weird from where I sit Okay Thank you Geshe La For this beautiful teaching And the obsession for me With the nangwa and the tong Is the self I'm trying to deconstruct How I constructed the self And I'm so attached to my eyes I'm so attached to my ears I'm so attached to all these parts That are functioning in my body So that I can listen to the teachings See what's coming All your slides And all these parts And yet the end goal The part of the self that I think is existing Is wrong And I think that I'm going to get there And experience something So can you help me to apply The nangwa and the tong To where I'm at right now So that I can help to work on the self Inside me So that the mirror outside me Can be more powerful moving forward To get to the end goal Okay great First of all we have to talk about The word self in Buddhism Okay It's so nice to be able to say the word Buddhism Right John? So Buddhism we always talk about Dak or self Self in Sanskrit Atman You know And You know you heard in Buddhist talks So long That self grasping is a bad thing And you're a bad person Because you think you're yourself You know And it gets very confusing And it gets very useless To think You shouldn't think yourself So the word self In Buddhism Listen okay Listen The word self Atman Dak Means Anything Which is not coming From a seed in your mind That's all Okay The pot on the stove Which is not coming from you Is self That's all It doesn't mean You shouldn't think you're yourself I mean That's led so many Buddhists To be so frustrated For so many years I shouldn't be myself You know Who? Me But that is yourself Well But it's wrong I know I'm Somehow I'm a bad person You know And it's just one more thing To feel bad about yourself You know You should be By the way The second teaching today Is about How you should treasure your ear And your eye And your fingers And your human body And that self is the most precious thing Anyone ever gave you And you should be attached to it And you should take good care of it And God bless you You know It's a good thing You have to take care of yourself Okay So it's not wrong I mean By the way I'll tell you something cool I was in a discussion A big discussion With a bunch of famous people And they said What? This is in Peru by the way And they're like What's the basis of Buddhist ethics? You know And I'm like I bet you cannot guess What it is in Buddhism That makes something right or wrong Okay Why is war wrong? You know Why is sharing what you have right? You know I bet you cannot guess What it is What divides right from wrong In Buddhist ethics I'll give a hundred bucks Do it I hope we got to find some more money I don't know I forgot to rob my piggy bank But we'll work it out We'll go to the bank What divides right or wrong in Buddhism? Can I say? Say again? Can I say the answer? If you want a hundred bucks But if you don't want a hundred bucks I just grabbed the microphone I'm so happy to be here Thank you, Geshe La It's nice to have you here by the way Yeah, I'm so excited Anything you do to other people That will make you suffer in the future Is a bad deed And the opposite Yeah, good Okay The definition of good and bad In Buddhism If it hurts you In the future if you do it That's bad And if it helps you Just you In the future It's good And that's the line between good and evil In Buddhism Okay? It's very interesting There's a small print The only way you can help yourself Is to help others But anyway It's very interesting If you undertake an action And it hurts you That's evil And if you undertake an action And it ends up helping you That's good And that's the only measure Of good or evil We had I went to Princeton I was in the religion department We argued for hours and hours about If one person has to die To save a hundred people Is that good or bad? You see what I mean? Should they die or shouldn't they die? We had these kinds of arguments You know? And from a Buddhist viewpoint If that action would create happiness for you Then it's correct And if that action would create pain for you Then that's incorrect Okay? That's evil Okay? Cool? We're out of time Now Explain the bathroom [?] here How long do we have? We have You wanna say anything? You wanna come up and say anything? We have a 30 minute break The bathrooms are out here, right? And That's all Right? See you at what time? See you at 4.45 Okay And we'll start the song of my spiritual life Thank you