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[1/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 1.1 (May 2020) · Lama Lena Teachings

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  SPEAKER_03: Let me know when it's time.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, let me know when I am live, as always.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so yes, you are live.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, and is it time to start talking yet?
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Another 15 seconds.
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  SPEAKER_03: You'll let me know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're waiting for our Spanish translation to come online.
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  SPEAKER_03: So give it a few minutes, a few moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: You should be good to go.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_03: So today we're going to be opening the Flight of Garuda,
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  SPEAKER_03: not as a retreat,
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  SPEAKER_03: but as a set of teachings,
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  SPEAKER_03: which may turn out to be ongoing through that text over time.
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  SPEAKER_03: But right now we have three sessions this evening.
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  SPEAKER_03: Saturday evening and Sunday evening.
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  SPEAKER_03: This will do best for you if you practice what is taught in the sessions in between them.
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  SPEAKER_03: There has been some changes in scheduling.
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  SPEAKER_03: Last few days has been our first try at a Zoom retreat,
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  SPEAKER_03: a closed retreat for specific participants.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we've learned a lot from that, of what works, what does not work.
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  SPEAKER_03: In future,
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  SPEAKER_03: there will be some closed Zoom retreats,
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  SPEAKER_03: but they will be closed because there are specific meditative criteria for
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  SPEAKER_03: the practices being given, rather than a basic Dzogchen open to
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  SPEAKER_03: That one was open on a more or less for a particular Sangha plus first come first serve.
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  SPEAKER_03: It did get a bit buggy technologically, technically during the time.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are all new to Zoom and it was a very steep learning curve.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I think we've gotten most of the issues worked out for that.
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  SPEAKER_03: So those will be appearing on the schedule with specific criteria.
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  SPEAKER_03: This one, since it starts at the beginning, does not have specific criteria.
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  SPEAKER_03: However,
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  SPEAKER_03: if we do an ongoing flight of the Garuda,
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  SPEAKER_03: at some point it will have the specific criteria of having been at
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  SPEAKER_03: the beginning ones.
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  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully you're all signed on today who are interested in this text
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  SPEAKER_03: and interested in an ongoing possibility of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: If that does turn into a closed retreat,
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  SPEAKER_03: it will be closed to people who haven't had the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_03: However,
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  SPEAKER_03: probably some of it will be online and people will be able to catch up until
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  SPEAKER_03: a certain point.
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  SPEAKER_03: Practical questions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, technological questions go to Nyando.
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  SPEAKER_03: Scheduling questions go to Jam.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Dharma questions go to me by email.
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  SPEAKER_03: Practical questions about this
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  SPEAKER_03: and also Dharma questions about this can be put in
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  SPEAKER_03: the commentary section And at some point during the teaching,
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  SPEAKER_03: I will be answering them.
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  SPEAKER_03: There have been a lot of changes in scheduling with what we've learned from the last bit.
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  SPEAKER_03: I started doing this online teaching as a result of coronavirus being everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the primary shelter at home or lockdown or whatever the different nations are calling it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I started doing it place by place as if I was there.
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  SPEAKER_03: That didn't work so well.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we're changing it to topic by topic.
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  SPEAKER_03: And let's see how that goes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Apparently...
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  SPEAKER_03: With technology, placeness is no longer all that relevant.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tata Tusum Chi,
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  SPEAKER_03: Zogchen Jupe Lama La Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_03: Urgin Pema Junela Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_03: Durji Chang Chi Chilo Narudang,
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  SPEAKER_03: Marpa Mila Gompo Tsatsapa,
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  SPEAKER_03: Na Pupadam Palden Rupa Suk, Kargyula Lama Namla Sol Vah
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  SPEAKER_02: Dev.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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  SPEAKER_02: Drudchen Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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  SPEAKER_03: Shatchen Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yundrandam Yundula Lama Namla Sol, Wa,
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  SPEAKER_02: Ha, Deb.
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  SPEAKER_03: Al, Kwan, Du, Jong,
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  SPEAKER_03: Dang, Yer, Me, Pa, Gwan, Garab, Do, Jijin, Trat, Pa, Jeti, Dang, Nisu, Me, Pa, Ye,
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  SPEAKER_02: Alamanam Chitintir Chong.
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  SPEAKER_03: The song of the vision of cutting through to the clear light of the great perfection
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  SPEAKER_03: with the capacity to traverse quickly all the paths and stages.
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  SPEAKER_03: Namo Gurubya.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lamala Chapsuchiwo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Homage and reverence to the Lama Chukki Gyalpo,
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  SPEAKER_03: whose seven-horned mandala of all illuminating wisdom
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  SPEAKER_03: radiates all embracing beams
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  SPEAKER_03: of boundless compassion, instantly enlightening beings of the three realms.
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  SPEAKER_03: The mandala is Nirmanakaya.
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  SPEAKER_03: The all-illuminating wisdom is Dharmakaya in all its
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  SPEAKER_03: splendorous clear light,
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  SPEAKER_03: manifesting as the sparkle of the mandala,
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  SPEAKER_03: Nirmanakaya, and the great-hearted open-heartedness of path.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is that clear light nature,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is Sambhogakaya,
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  SPEAKER_03: the very vitality of your own mind,
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  SPEAKER_03: its aliveness, its awake awareness, its very lucidity.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are
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  SPEAKER_03: the light, the clear light that pervades infinite, open, vast emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Dancing as the mandala of phenomena, you are nothing other than this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Omage and reverence to Nangchang Dorji.
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  SPEAKER_03: From the clouds of loving kindness and great heartedness piled high in
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  SPEAKER_03: the vast expanse of his radiant empty Dharmakaya,
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  SPEAKER_03: The downpour of Dharma descends upon all earth,
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  SPEAKER_03: all form, all land,
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  SPEAKER_03: and upon his fortunate disciple vessels.
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  SPEAKER_03: The winds of diligent blowing into the unfurled sails of high aspiration.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know.
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  SPEAKER_03: That you have enlightened nature already within you.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not something you have to grasp, attain, create, or be good enough for.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know that it's already there.
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  SPEAKER_03: So there is no reason to feel yourself incapable of actualizing the totality of it all.
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  SPEAKER_03: The ship of vision carries all beings drowning in the ocean of existence.
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  SPEAKER_03: For in truth, we are overwhelmed by phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: We cannot.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nyando, you're being called.
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  SPEAKER_03: You see, the mandala is always manifest.
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  SPEAKER_03: I has a family.
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  SPEAKER_03: I suspect I am about to have a cat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Would you like one?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, give me the cat if it's the end of my head.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is no separation between focus and concentration, between distraction.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, hello.
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  SPEAKER_03: Between myself,
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  SPEAKER_03: the cat, the family, you, the Dharma, it's all the manifest mandala of Nirmanakaya.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, this too has Buddha nature inherent in it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is, however, obsessed with phenomena, being petted, chasing bugs,
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  SPEAKER_03: Generally, being a cat, this is part of the mandala of phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: You've been there, done that, and everything else we all have.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we are drowning and overwhelmed in phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: To the Island of Jewels, the Buddha's trikaya.
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  SPEAKER_02: Three bodies, trikaya.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not bodies as in meat.
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  SPEAKER_03: Forms not even.
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  SPEAKER_03: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya.
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  SPEAKER_03: The
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  SPEAKER_03: three jewels, jewel, the word jewel, symbolizing that which is most precious among form.
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  SPEAKER_03: Three,
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  SPEAKER_03: the number,
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  SPEAKER_03: symbolizing the trienary rather than binary nature of that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Homage to the captain of that ship, Janyang Gyatso.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ocean of open-heartedness.
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  SPEAKER_03: The son of wisdom and love of these my three llamas,
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  SPEAKER_03: radiating warming rays of potent grace,
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  SPEAKER_03: struck the white lotus Of this lucky vagrant.
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  SPEAKER_03: The bud of total presence fully unfurling.
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  SPEAKER_03: A thousand petals of mystical experience and insight were exposed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bloom.
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  SPEAKER_03: Be watered by the flow
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  SPEAKER_03: Of the clear light of great heartedness of the Dharma.
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  SPEAKER_03: And allow, don't force, don't create, don't make it happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: Allow the lotus bud in your heart to come into full bloom.
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  SPEAKER_03: Piled high on the pistols of intelligence, Lies the nectar that liberates by taste.
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  SPEAKER_03: The ambrosial nectar of these song visions that I offer to my lucky disciples.
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  SPEAKER_03: The swarm of bees to drink in devotion to their heart's content.
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  SPEAKER_03: Shakbar wrote that as the preface.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because Guru Yoga is at the very heart of the Dzogchen path.
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  SPEAKER_03: Coming soon.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's on the schedule.
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  SPEAKER_03: Go to the website.
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  SPEAKER_03: Have a look.
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  SPEAKER_03: We'll be a teaching on Guru Yoga.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I will not go into it in detail right now.
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  SPEAKER_03: But without the experience
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  SPEAKER_03: Of being interactive,
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  SPEAKER_03: interrelated with someone who sees your innate Buddha nature past all the fluff
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  SPEAKER_03: of your personality and their personality.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is very difficult to see it yourself
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  SPEAKER_03: because of your billion,
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  SPEAKER_03: trillion, gazillion years of obsession with phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: Compulsively poking at it and trying to fix it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is very hard to know where to look beyond that,
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  SPEAKER_03: how to look beyond that,
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  SPEAKER_03: without somebody coming and pointing out
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  SPEAKER_02: your own true nature.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is the heart of Guru Yoga.
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  SPEAKER_03: Your teacher does not have to be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_03: You have to see the impeccable perfect Buddha within them so that that aspect,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is the true aspect of the totality,
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  SPEAKER_03: can point for you to the impeccable nature of Buddha within you.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that mother and child luminosity unite
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  SPEAKER_03: And what always was and will be is recognized as what is seen without separation.
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  SPEAKER_03: Emma Ho.
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  SPEAKER_03: This carefree and free speaking vagrant with the deep intelligence now sings
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  SPEAKER_03: the flight of the Garuda.
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  SPEAKER_03: A Garuda is said to be a bird which can fly so fast it can be in two places at once.
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  SPEAKER_03: Consider the prophecy when iron birds fly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Consider what is known of the theory of relativity and the effect of traveling
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  SPEAKER_03: at light speed when light is the nature of awareness that pervades
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  SPEAKER_03: the infinite openness of the spaciousness of universal mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: Consider this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Play with it.
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  SPEAKER_03: As ideas and thoughts with your impeccable intelligence and then let go.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look right through those ideas of space travel, of faster than light, of Garudas,
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  SPEAKER_03: of airplanes.
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  SPEAKER_03: All those ideas, delightful as they may be,
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  SPEAKER_03: Our thoughts arising in your mind and dissolving in your mind
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  SPEAKER_03: and they have never had any reality other than your mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: Simply notice this and let go.
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  SPEAKER_03: This a song of vision.
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  SPEAKER_03: Facilitating fast ascent of all the stages and paths.
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  SPEAKER_03: Listen attentively, my beloved sons and daughters.
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  SPEAKER_03: And what is meant by fast ascent of all the stages and paths?
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  SPEAKER_03: Fast.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now.
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  SPEAKER_03: By the practice of Lam Rim, you may become enlightened in 400 lifetimes.
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  SPEAKER_03: By the practice of Tantra, it is possible to achieve enlightenment
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  SPEAKER_03: in this very lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Dzogchen is not like any of these.
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  SPEAKER_03: Zogchan brings you to enlightenment in the now.
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  SPEAKER_03: This now,
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  SPEAKER_03: this gap between past and future which has no existence in and of itself,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's right there.
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  SPEAKER_03: It always was, it always will be.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you follow Tilopa's six nails and let go of the past and the future and cease
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  SPEAKER_03: to make anything out of the now right now but leave it to be as it is in
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  SPEAKER_03: the totality of the moment, that is enlightened mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in this moment you have an idea what that might be.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not your idea of what it is.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not your perception of the moment.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not the feeling of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Beyond what arises and vanishes,
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  SPEAKER_03: Phenomena,
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  SPEAKER_03: both inner and outer,
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  SPEAKER_03: thoughts and feelings, inner phenomena, stuff, outer phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: Beyond the comings and goings of phenomena,
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  SPEAKER_03: in the fourth time that is neither past, present, or future.
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  SPEAKER_03: The always now is now.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it is beyond moments.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it is not contained in phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like the roar of the dragon,
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  SPEAKER_03: the great name of Buddha resounds throughout the universe,
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  SPEAKER_03: completely filling both samsara and nirvana by Buddha here.
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  SPEAKER_03: We do not mean Guatemala Lion of the Shakya Clan, a man
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  SPEAKER_03: who saw beyond.
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  SPEAKER_03: We mean the actual meaning of the word Buddha which has been applied to this man
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  SPEAKER_03: and many others.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thus gone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Gone beyond.
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  SPEAKER_03: Gone beyond the beyond itself.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thus gone pervades,
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  SPEAKER_03: like the great roar of a dragon,
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  SPEAKER_03: all of samsara and nirvana,
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  SPEAKER_03: constantly vibrating in the minds of the six types of sentient beings inhabiting
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  SPEAKER_03: the six realms.
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  SPEAKER_03: How wonderful that this resonance is not silent for a moment,
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  SPEAKER_03: for the vibration of this roar The great roar of the dragon is itself
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  SPEAKER_03: the infinite openness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vibration is movement with no thing moving.
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  SPEAKER_03: The vibration of the sound of my voice,
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  SPEAKER_03: nothing comes out my mouth, up from my speech chakra, and strikes your ears.
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  SPEAKER_03: A sound wave
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  SPEAKER_03: vibrates the molecules in a microphone which send across through the internet.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vibrating
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  SPEAKER_03: microphone in your device, in your computer.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which vibrates the air around it.
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  SPEAKER_03: No molecule of air moves from that microphone to your eardrum.
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  SPEAKER_03: But each tiny molecule moves an infinitesimal of a bit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Striking the next molecule,
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  SPEAKER_03: which strikes the next molecule in a wave pattern of vibration,
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  SPEAKER_03: which strikes your eardrum,
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  SPEAKER_03: which moves a little hammer,
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  SPEAKER_03: which stimulates some little hairs,
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  SPEAKER_03: which gets translated into puffs of chi,
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  SPEAKER_03: which run through the tsa in your brain and heart.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tsa, energy channels.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nothing went from my mouth to your ear.
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  SPEAKER_03: A vibration which is movement with no actual thing moving.
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  SPEAKER_03: The way my sound of my voice is transmitted to you is the analogy
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  SPEAKER_03: the dance of stillness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which pervades both in phenomena and out of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: For Nirvana is lucid awake and aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: Therefore it contains the potential of movement.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in the arising of movement space and time arises.
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  SPEAKER_03: For what is movement other than something
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  SPEAKER_03: Traversing space over a duration.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so the time-space continuum arises in each moment fresh,
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  SPEAKER_03: poignant with symbolic meaning,
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  SPEAKER_03: holding no meaning beyond the very moment in which it arises.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this vitality
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  SPEAKER_03: Is unmistakable, unmissable, like the great roar of the dragon.
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  SPEAKER_03: Many may be ignorant of Buddha's nature within,
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  SPEAKER_03: but how amazing that fools look for him here and there in this place and that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I will go to India, maybe I will find him there.
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  SPEAKER_03: I will go into a retreat cabin in the country.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I will find it there.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's neither here nor there.
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  SPEAKER_03: For infinite open awareness pervades all time and space.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact,
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  SPEAKER_03: the very concept of movement Creating the time-space continuum is a concept
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  SPEAKER_03: that arises in mind and dissolves in mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: How could it possibly be otherwise?
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  SPEAKER_03: Look, look at your own mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hear, see, feel.
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  SPEAKER_03: The great roar of the dragon.
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  SPEAKER_03: Has the potential of awareness.
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  SPEAKER_03: The innate lucidity, the clear light nature by which the seer sees.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's always there.
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  SPEAKER_03: How could you possibly miss it?
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  SPEAKER_03: Clearly visible like sunshine, bright and radiant.
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  SPEAKER_03: How amazing that so few notice when it's utterly obvious.
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  SPEAKER_03: The mind, the Buddha itself, thus gone, gone beyond, having neither mother nor father,
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  SPEAKER_03: Being neither a cause nor a result.
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  SPEAKER_03: How wonderful that it knows neither birth nor dying, neither arising nor ceasing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Suffering all our multifarious feelings.
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  SPEAKER_03: How marvelous that it is unaffected for better and worse.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is Kathak.
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  SPEAKER_03: The white scarf that you offer to the teacher at the end of the teachings.
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  SPEAKER_03: The symbol of your own innate and utter unfuckableness.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you offer it to the teacher because it's the best thing about you.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the teacher accepts it in delight and returns it to you to symbolize
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  SPEAKER_03: That it is the same as theirs, not separate.
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  SPEAKER_03: So in the simple act of offering a kata, the pointing out occurs for those with eyes to see.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's always happening everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_03: For all phenomena is a symbol of awake awareness.
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  SPEAKER_03: And awake awareness itself is a symbol of the clear light nature of
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  SPEAKER_03: the infinite open unbound vastness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look and look again.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look at the infinitude of your own mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you try to think about it,
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  SPEAKER_03: define it, limit it, talk about it to yourself, you are applying a constriction.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do not bother to do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is of no benefit.
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  SPEAKER_03: The original face of the mind,
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  SPEAKER_03: unborn and primally pure, How wonderful its authenticity and natural perfection.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: Look, look again at your own mind and see that this is so.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_03: Intrinsic knowledge itself, our natural liberated nature.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_03: How marvelous that it is.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_03: No matter what occurs, It is released by leaving it be.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: This is chapter one.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_03: Buddha nature is your own innate nature.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_03: Are there questions arising?
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_03: Specific to this?
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: To anything.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: Which translation do you read from?
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_03: I am reading from mostly Keith Dowman's,
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: but I have read a number of them and will occasionally shift to one of the others
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_03: in my memory that I think expresses a particular line in Tibetan better.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_03: Keith has an ability to keep it simple without losing the poeticness that I'm delighted with.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: Without Sa Lung practices, can we experience four joys through chakras?
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's all in there.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: In Mahamudra, in Tilopa's Song to Naropa, there on the banks of the Ganges,
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_03: He teaches him first this, Treksha.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_03: And at the very end, he says, and if you didn't get this, you can go back and do Tzalung.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's a preliminary.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_03: And like any good teacher,
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_03: When the students seemed to have the potential to actualize,
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_03: he gave the highest teaching first.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: But if you don't get this, we can go back and do a few other preliminaries.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: There will be a closed retreat coming up on the inner rushen, a form of Zogchen Nundro.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: It is the inner speech rushen.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: It is particularly assistance when you find you are scattered all the time.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_03: It improves your sensation and ability to focus your attention.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_03: It is specifically to that purpose.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: So anyone who has entered into the belief system that they are too unfocused
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_03: to accomplish this and that that is among their hindrances would benefit by doing
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: that.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: It will be a closed retreat because I don't want to have it open to those
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: who have not been practicing Dzogchen long enough
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_03: To be a bit stuck in maintaining their practice.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_03: In, I hate to use the word accomplishing their practice,
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: but in seeing through their crap, let's put it that way.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_03: Because the crap keeps grabbing their attention and they go off in a belief system with it.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's for that.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_03: People who have not already had the pointing out of Zogchen and practiced it for
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_03: a time to become familiar with it do not need this teaching.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_03: That's why it will be a closed retreat with prerequisites.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_03: And my technology permits me to do 49 or 58 people at once in a Zoom retreat.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_03: 58 means I've got two screens up and I can't see you all.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: I have to look between the two screens.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: But it may be doable.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_03: So if you sign up for that,
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_03: and I do not know who is wrangling that or hosting it,
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_03: probably need a volunteer of somebody to host that who has requested it or wants it.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: So y'all can send me an email saying you are willing to host it.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: You have the technological ability to work with zoom.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_03: You're not a complete Luddite and we will put you up as the host
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_03: and people will contact you and you'll track the numbers.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_03: If there are too many people for a single retreat.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: We'll just do a second one for the other people,
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_03: so get yourself on the waiting list if you want it,
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_03: if there isn't room in the original retreat.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_03: The first one will be up and scheduled shortly.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_03: Jan is working on that right now.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: Do you need any empowerment or preliminaries to practice these teachers?
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_01: I just gave you the empowerment.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_03: The fourth Wong.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_03: Over the course of this,
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_03: I will be giving you the first,
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_03: second, and third Wong over the course of these three sessions.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_03: You need that to practice Zogchen.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: There are, surprisingly enough, to both Rinpoche's and my amazement, Chik Chawa out there.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_03: They're rare.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_03: But they're out there.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_03: A Chik Chawa is someone who attains full enlightenment immediately upon hearing
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_03: the Dzogchen teachings and receiving the fourth Wong the first time.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: Rinpoche and I, we saw one once.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_03: We were very surprised.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_03: We just sort of looked at each other like they really exist.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's not just in the old texts.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_03: What happened was this.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_03: There was a middle-aged woman.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_03: She appeared to be,
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_03: just from looking,
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_03: some kind of Eastern descent mixed, maybe Filipina mixed with something, something.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_03: A regular American woman who lived in Marin.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: And she had been meditating Shiné, which she had been taught while young.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_03: Since she was young, and she looked middle-aged, I guess in her late 40s.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_03: And one night she had a dream.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_03: And in that dream, a man dressed in very exotic clothes came to her.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_03: While she was in her dream meditating on Sine and touched the top of her head and in
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: the dream she experienced complete enlightenment.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_03: When she woke up in the morning,
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: she remembered the man,
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: she remembered the story of the dream,
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_03: but she did not remember how it was exactly to be fully enlightened.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_03: Only that it had happened in the dream.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_03: So she thought about this in the days to come.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: And one day she was walking past a bookshop.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, what is the name of that bookstore that Steve Borage always had Rinpoche teach in?
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_01: Open Secrets.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_03: Open Secrets in Marin.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_03: And you know there's this really big book.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_03: With all the different Tonkas in it, a big picture book, expensive book.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that was sitting propped open in the window to a picture of Guru Rinpoche.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_03: And she's, you know, a little window shopping, walking by, lunch hour.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_03: And she glances in and does a double take.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_03: It's the guy in the dream she sees in there,
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_03: in the picture, exactly dressed as he was, looking exactly like he did in the dream.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_03: Only in a more cartoon-like drawing, but obviously recognizable as the guy in the dream.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_03: So she goes into the bookstore and she asks the people behind the counter,
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_03: who is that in that picture?
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_03: And the guy says, well, that's Guru Rinpoche.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_03: Says, okay, now I have a name.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_03: Guru Rinpoche.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_03: And time passes.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_03: And another day, she's walking by a grocery shop bulletin board.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: You know,
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: in small towns,
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_03: the grocery shops,
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_03: they put out little bulletin boards in front,
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_03: and people stick up stickers like house cleaner available and stuff.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_03: Well, there was a flyer for Wongdor Rinpoche,
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_03: who was going to be teaching in Marin
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_03: at the invitation of Steve At Open Secrets.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_03: And so she looked at that and thought to herself,
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_03: Rinpoche, Guru Rinpoche, Wanda Rinpoche, they must be related.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_03: They have the same last name.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'll go to this and maybe he will tell me where to find Guru Rinpoche.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_03: And that night, or the night that was advertised there, maybe in the next week,
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_03: Wang Dua Rinpoche was teaching, and he was teaching the pointing out.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_03: I was doing the simultaneous translation, as I do, and he did a beautiful teaching.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_03: And the end of the teaching,
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_03: as people were coming up,
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_03: offering katas,
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_03: making offerings,
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: having a little bit of conversation,
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_03: She told him what had happened
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_03: and described briefly in a sentence or two
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_03: the result
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_03: of his teaching.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_03: And he realized,
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_03: we both realized as she explained it and I translated it to him,
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_03: that she'd gotten it all the way.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_03: And we looked at each other.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_03: And he muttered under his breath, Chik Chawa.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_03: Kunchak soon, Chik Chawa yee.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_03: And I muttered under my breath, Lai yee.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_03: And we grinned.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_03: We never saw her again as she was completely satisfied.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_03: And had no further need.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_03: But they do exist.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_03: We saw one once.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I don't know if you're in and on here, Steve,
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_03: but you have caused the enlightenment of at least a single sentient being
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_03: by your activities.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: Don't forget to dedicate the merit.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_01: What is the exact meaning of Im-ma-ho?
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_03: Eureka.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's an exclamation of wondrous amazement.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_03: Eureka is not exact.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's got a bit of oh wow in it.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_03: Listen to the tone of voice.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_03: Emma, ho.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_03: That's the meaning.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_03: Some things don't quite translate.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_03: For example, got a word for Dharmakaya?
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_03: How about Sambhogakaya?
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can call Nermanicaia the perfection of phenomena.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_03: You can get a little close.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_03: But the other two?
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_03: Can't do it in English.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_03: I doubt you can do it in Spanish either, Martin.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_03: Next question.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is any of this possible without a looper?
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, no.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_03: Garab Dorji.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_03: Guru was Vajrasattva, Manifestation of Sambhogakaya Nature of Mind itself.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_03: Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, Lion of the Shakyaklan.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_03: Did not have a living guru.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_03: He was so ripe that through his own efforts,
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_03: he saw.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, it is possible.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_03: Are you likely to manage it?
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_03: Nah.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_03: Even our chick Chawa had a guru, Wang Dor Rinpoche.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to live with your guru.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_03: You don't even have to get to know your guru.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_03: You need the pointing out.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_03: 99.9% of the time, sentient beings need somebody to say, look there.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_03: But there are historical references of a few.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_03: The only ones I can think of offhand,
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_03: because Tilopa had some woman in a charnel ground who gave it to him.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't talk about her much.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_03: I think they may have had a complex relationship.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_03: There are very few textural instances of anyone maturing their mindstream
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_03: without
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_03: a teacher,
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_03: even if that encounter with the teacher is only once and very brief.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_03: Come here, book, reference.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_03: This book,
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: Buddhist Masters of Enchantment,
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_03: is the stories of the 84 Maha Siddhas of India
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_03: with really nice drawings
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_03: and well worth a read, not too thick, illustrated,
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_03: Many of the Siddhas in here only met their teacher once.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_03: Some wandering yogi pointed out their nature of mind and they spent the next
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_03: while practicing and were able to clearly perceive it.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_03: So there's your answer.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's not a flat yes or no.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's usually you need a teacher.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_01: How does Trektur relate to the four activities,
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_01: pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and subjugating?
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_03: The four activities arise spontaneously in a real state of Trektur.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to do them on purpose.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to think about them.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_03: In fact,
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_03: the moment you start thinking about the four activities as activities,
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_03: you distort them.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_03: They are spontaneously arising that arise in their place out of Ngoche
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_03: and should not be poked at, but rather seen as aspects of the Yidim.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_03: Next.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_03: And thank you for enumerating them so I knew which four you were talking about
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_03: because as things get into English,
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_03: there's a rather bunch of for this's and for that's,
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_03: some of which can be translated as activity.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_03: So it really helps me with a little detail when you're asking about something in
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_03: a traditional practice to figure out what you just said in Tibetan.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_01: What is Tudam?
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: Tudam.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_03: If
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_03: you know how to die having been trained in that practice and apply it at the time
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_03: of death,
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_03: it is possible to
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_03: pause in the death process.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_03: In the bardo of clear light,
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_03: where that pause occurs is channel wise in the death process.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_03: When the white descends from the brain and the red comes up from the uterus
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_03: and they come together in the heart
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_03: An experience arises.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's an experience, a perception, because it has a beginning in time and a cause.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_03: It is sine indharmakaya in its clear light nature.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_03: One may pause there.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_03: For quite a long time.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_03: A week, ten days.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_03: Usually a teacher does not get stuck there.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_03: After three days, a week, ten days, we've had Westerners actually manage to
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_03: One I know of who managed just for a few hours but did manage it.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_03: And one who probably managed it for a few days but they were only seen towards
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_03: the end of it for the last two and a half days.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_03: One is no longer alive and not quite dead yet.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_03: So
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_03: When someone has died, there are certain physical signs of the completeness of death.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_03: Morbid lividity arises.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_03: The blood seeps into whatever areas are laying down.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_03: So if you look underneath, there's a purple all along whatever part was lying.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_03: Rigor mortis, the texture changes.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_03: If you were to put someone on Tudum,
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_03: in Tudum,
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_03: on a heart monitor,
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_03: which has not yet been done,
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_03: but somebody will do it sometime because Westerners are so friggin' creative,
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_03: you would probably find agonal pulse,
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_03: agonal heartbeats, one every three minutes electrically.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_03: If you touch the heart chakra of someone in Tudam, there is still a little bit of warmth.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_03: It hasn't fully cooled.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_03: Their texture hasn't gone to that rigor mortis texture.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_03: When you touch a dead person who's been dead for a few days, there's a real change in texture.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's really noticeable.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_03: You can even see it.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_03: When Wang Dor Rinpoche had died,
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_03: we would go in every morning and check him without touching,
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_03: just to check and see if he was in Tudong remaining because we planned to have
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_03: the big cremation that we were preparing for whenever he finished his Tudong.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_03: I was sleeping at that time in the room next door in his lounge room,
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_03: his living room, on the couch.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_03: When someone is in Tudam, it is incredibly powerful to sit and practice with them.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_03: They are in the state of awareness of Dharmakaya Sambhogakaya.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_03: You can easily follow them in there.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_03: Now they're not shouting it like in the pointing out, it's a little bit more subtle.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_03: But you can very easily follow them in there and sit there with them.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_03: So it's an incredible blessing to everyone in the vicinity.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_03: And during that period,
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_03: we attempted to broadcast some of it
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_03: for those of you not in the vicinity to have
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_03: the blessing of it.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_03: Rinpoche, I believe, lasted close to 10 days.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_03: And then one morning we noticed that morbid lividity had set in during the night.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_03: He had left.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_03: And so he was taken out and placed in the gompa in a special way for 49 days.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_03: And at the end of 49 days we had the cremation ceremony.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_03: And got lots of ring cells.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_03: And for those of you who are students of Wangdur Rinpoche.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_03: When I travel again, I have made from his ashes.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_03: Pierced with a hole so that you can wear them on your heart chakra and continue
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_03: to receive his blessing of Sogchen after his passing.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_03: When I can travel again,
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_03: I will be giving them out unless some volunteer here in the Bay Area wishing
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_03: to create merit Chooses to send them out by post for me to people who request them.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_03: If that happens, they can come to my house and pick them up and do that.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_03: And I will pay postage.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_03: So all of you just have to,
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_03: who want these,
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_03: if someone volunteers,
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_03: which has not happened yet,
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_03: all you would have to do is Figure out your approximate postage and offer it
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_03: in my PayPal account, pay me back.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_03: But I'll front the postage on this because I think it would be a good thing
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_03: for everyone to have.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_03: I have them for his Tibetan students too.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_03: I made a lot.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll see if anyone volunteers to undertake that project.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's a big project.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_03: And whoever volunteers Must complete it.
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_03: None of this then flaking out as some of you do who volunteer
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_03: for little gardening projects and things for me.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care if you flake out on my garden.
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  SPEAKER_03: But this is Dharma.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's Domsig.
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  SPEAKER_03: So don't volunteer unless you intend to complete it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And really will.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bad karma for taking it on if you're not going to do it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So be careful.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't volunteer on the first impulse.
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  SPEAKER_03: Think about it for a day or two.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we'll see if it happens.
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  SPEAKER_03: Can you remind me what the question was?
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_03: I digressed into something important, but I did digress.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is Tudom?
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  SPEAKER_01: So Tudom is the name of that state.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bob, the poet, the musician, died this year.
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  SPEAKER_03: And also sat Tudong for a while, which was a delight to see.
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  SPEAKER_03: But he was a very strong practitioner, writer of wonderful Zogchen poetry.
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  SPEAKER_03: No interest in teaching, but his poetry is really good.
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  SPEAKER_03: And points.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you understand that you are capable of fully accomplishing the stabilization of treksure?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna change the terms.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are fully capable of becoming aware of the innate and natural stability of
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  SPEAKER_03: the real treksure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Really, you are.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is no one among you not capable,
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  SPEAKER_03: and you don't have to be better or smarter or more experienced than you are.
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  SPEAKER_03: All you have to do is follow the instructions, and it works.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is Rainbow Body a Tudam also?
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  SPEAKER_03: No.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, Rainbow Body happens before the First Vardo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Rainbow Body happens
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  SPEAKER_03: during the absorption of the elements.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_03: There's coming up an open teaching on how to die.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because really, you're gonna.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's worth knowing how to do it effectively.
• 1:04:22
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, if you were gonna drive a car, you'd want some instructions.
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_03: If you were going to open a Zoom account, you'd want some instructions.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yet the biggest,
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  SPEAKER_03: most important thing you're ever gonna do in your life,
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  SPEAKER_03: you're gonna try without first reading the manual?
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  SPEAKER_03: So there'll be a teaching on that,
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  SPEAKER_03: but basically rainbow body occurs when the elements
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  SPEAKER_03: dissipate in a different way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Instead of one by one absorbing as they do in a normal death process,
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  SPEAKER_03: they
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  SPEAKER_03: Dissolve or, no, they transform
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  SPEAKER_03: into, no.
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  SPEAKER_03: I cannot explain to you in English how Rainbow Body is accomplished.
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  SPEAKER_03: I can give you the instructions for how to.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I cannot explain to you how it works because I have not done it yet.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_03: According to the teachings I've had and the texts,
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  SPEAKER_03: it does not involve the normal death process of earth element,
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_03: water element, then water element, then air element, then space element.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
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  SPEAKER_03: Air element, fire element, space element.
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  SPEAKER_03: It works differently.
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  SPEAKER_03: I've got the how-to.
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  SPEAKER_03: Perhaps I will accomplish it.
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  SPEAKER_03: This time or next.
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  SPEAKER_03: If I don't, I do know how to die.
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  SPEAKER_03: I've done it often.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I've made a royal mess of it on occasion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And done it better
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  SPEAKER_03: other times.
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  SPEAKER_01: My practice makes perfect.
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  SPEAKER_03: So the instructions for Rainbow Bodies, what I'm giving you in this retreat.
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  SPEAKER_03: Treacher.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are other instructions called togal, which speed up the process slightly.
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  SPEAKER_03: And are done in your final retreat.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you're going to go into Togel retreat, do not expect to come back out.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's your last retreat, the one you do not emerge from.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you're not ready to not come back out, then you're not ready for that retreat.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_03: The teachings are given before then.
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  SPEAKER_03: But you really need to have a good grasp of the innate stability and experientially,
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  SPEAKER_03: not intellectually, of Treksha before even getting those teachings.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_03: Some teachers may differ on this, but I'm going with Rinpoche's.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do some well-known Rinpoches not manifest rainbow body?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: You'd have to ask Ben.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is impossible to guess why another person did something or didn't do something
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  SPEAKER_03: and actually be correct.
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  SPEAKER_03: The closest I can come is to say, because no cause for it was created.
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if you're cremated before Tudon ends?
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  SPEAKER_03: Oops.
• 1:09:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's scary.
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, don't do that.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_03: We're rather careful.
• 1:09:12
  SPEAKER_03: Among those who know how to sit two dom and what is involved,
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_03: to make arrangements with our family to make sure that doesn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like you don't call it in.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like Norbu Rinpoche,
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  SPEAKER_03: when he was passing,
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_03: first somebody said he had passed and then they said, no, he's in the process.
• 1:09:32
  SPEAKER_03: What that meant was first his heart had stopped and he was Western style dead.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_03: But they realize that it's illegal to keep someone after they're all the way dead,
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  SPEAKER_03: Western style, probably in Italy.
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  SPEAKER_03: So they changed it and said he's in the process.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_03: He was in Tudor.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the process.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can say that and still be telling the truth.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you simply don't call it in as they're dead.
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  SPEAKER_03: Come pick them up until they're all the way dead.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_03: So nobody bothers the final coma.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_03: Call it a coma.
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  SPEAKER_03: A dying coma to the Westerners and nobody will bother it.
• 1:10:15
  SPEAKER_03: And get them home and off the heart monitor if it's going that way.
• 1:10:21
  SPEAKER_03: Next.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you residing physically at the moment?
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_01: Just being curious.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bay Area.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_03: San Francisco Bay Area in the East Bay in a little town on the edge of Berkeley,
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_03: which you may have heard of, called Albany.
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  SPEAKER_03: A little bit north of Berkeley in a house belonging to a friend.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are we to analytically meditate on the teachings,
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  SPEAKER_01: practice the meditations themselves, or do both?
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_03: Your homework for the next day is
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  SPEAKER_03: find your mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can first sit and analyze
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  SPEAKER_03: where are your thoughts occurring,
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  SPEAKER_03: but that will cause you to become involved in hearsay,
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  SPEAKER_03: what other people have told you.
• 1:11:38
  SPEAKER_03: Now, in this day,
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  SPEAKER_03: With the amazing amount of crap out on Facebook.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_03: Conspiracy theories.
• 1:11:57
  SPEAKER_03: Weird remedies.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's into something.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you really want to believe on something this important?
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  SPEAKER_03: What somebody else told you?
• 1:12:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, I read it on the internet so I know it's true.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right?
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_03: We're not going there.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_03: We're too smart for that one.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_03: So instead of intellectualizing,
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  SPEAKER_03: which you can do at first until you're tired of it, just to get it out of the way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Feel.
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  SPEAKER_03: Use your heart.
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  SPEAKER_03: Use your feelings.
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  SPEAKER_03: Feel around for where your thoughts are occurring.
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  SPEAKER_03: Often by visualizing, and this is the inner mind, Nundro, from the text, Yeshi Lama.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it is the gate, the entrance
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  SPEAKER_03: to Treksha.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the door.
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  SPEAKER_03: By looking for your mind, you are knocking on the door.
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  SPEAKER_03: An experience arises from doing this with the same intensity you look for your car keys.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you find something you missed,
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  SPEAKER_03: it is an experience of not finding a thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: See, all your life,
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  SPEAKER_03: when you have looked for things such as your car keys,
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  SPEAKER_03: You've looked in front of you and behind you,
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  SPEAKER_03: to the left or the right, maybe even above or below.
• 1:13:55
  SPEAKER_03: You've looked inside such as in your pockets and outside such as on the table.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I'm trying to get you to find something which is neither a thing,
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  SPEAKER_03: nor is it in one of the five directions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Neither to the left, nor the right, in front or behind, above or below.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not in any of-
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  SPEAKER_03: And getting you to turn your attention
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  SPEAKER_03: in another direction altogether may be difficult.
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  SPEAKER_03: So by looking for where your thoughts occur,
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  SPEAKER_03: and you can think in pictures and look for where the pictures are happening.
• 1:15:08
  SPEAKER_03: You can think in sound and look for where an imagined tune is heard.
• 1:15:16
  SPEAKER_03: You can think of texture and look for where an imagined sensation of burlap It's not
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  SPEAKER_03: in your fingertips.
• 1:15:27
  SPEAKER_03: You may be imagining touching it with your fingertips, but where's that imagination?
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_03: Imagination is part of your mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: Where is all that happening?
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  SPEAKER_03: And don't follow the hearsay about somebody told me it was neurons
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_03: or somebody told me it was the energy channels in the chakra of my heart.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Or somebody told me it was the movement of the chi in my liver,
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  SPEAKER_03: which are the hearsay of different cultures.
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  SPEAKER_03: Find it yourself.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look and look again
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  SPEAKER_03: for the thinker of the thoughts, the feeler of the feelings.
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  SPEAKER_03: The perceiver of the perceptions.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if you don't find anything at all,
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  SPEAKER_03: and yet an experience of vast openness arises,
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  SPEAKER_03: allow your awareness to settle into that openness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Without grasping after this or that.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are the instructions to be followed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Next question.
• 1:17:02
  SPEAKER_01: What indicates that stability in the real meaning of treksha?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it when the question no longer arises?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_03: When the very idea of attainment and non-attainment are funny.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there is,
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  SPEAKER_03: as there always has been,
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  SPEAKER_03: all-pervading awareness in emptiness as emptiness that does not come and go
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  SPEAKER_03: Is unaffected by whatever phenomena arises.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you yourself are identified not so much with a particular personality full
• 1:17:55
  SPEAKER_03: of hopes and fears, but with that very unoriginated open awareness.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're no longer trapped.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_03: And the boundaries of your personality.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_03: Nonetheless, your personality is utterly free to manifest in whatever way it will.
• 1:18:26
  SPEAKER_03: If you wonder if you're there yet, you're not there yet.
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_03: If you think you're there and you believe that thought, you're not there yet.
• 1:18:42
  SPEAKER_03: If you think you're not there and you believe that thought, you're not there yet either.
• 1:18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Why do I want to live?
• 1:18:58
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look and see.
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Some people want to die.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_03: Each and every one of them have their own reasons.
• 1:19:15
  SPEAKER_03: Suicide does occur.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Why is it okay to send light to all sentient beings without having been asked by them to do so?
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_03: Because you are not invading an individual.
• 1:19:35
  SPEAKER_03: You are sending out blessings of light.
• 1:19:39
  SPEAKER_03: And those who don't want it won't accept it.
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_03: You're not shoving it down anybody's craw.
• 1:19:45
  SPEAKER_03: You're offering.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are welcome to offer anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: You just can't shove.
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_03: And when we send light out, we're not shoving it out.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are offering it out.
• 1:20:02
  SPEAKER_03: Next, and I think I'm going to take two more questions and then close.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_01: When in a state of open presence,
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: how to let go completely of any remaining sense of I or how to see through it?
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_03: Go find it.
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_03: If there is a remaining sense of I, turn your attention to that very thing.
• 1:20:30
  SPEAKER_03: This is Romerick.
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  SPEAKER_03: Name of the practice.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was an easy one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Next.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who are the Dakinis?
• 1:20:53
  SPEAKER_03: Manifestation of Nirmanakaya in all its purity.
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  SPEAKER_03: Dakas and Dakinis.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sky Dancers.
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  SPEAKER_03: The symbol
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_03: of the free flow of phenomena when not constrained by hopes and fears,
• 1:21:19
  SPEAKER_03: ises and arts.
• 1:21:30
  SPEAKER_03: Who was it?
• 1:21:32
  SPEAKER_03: Reynolds?
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_03: I've always loved Vajra Dakini, one of the early, early translations back when we were kids.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_03: He translated it as Diamond Fairies.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_03: I've always loved that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It makes me think of some big bearded guy in a tutu with a diamond tiara twirling
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  SPEAKER_03: through the castro.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it makes me smile.
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  SPEAKER_03: Diamond fairy is my very favorite translations.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_03: I've had a few wonderful bloopers myself,
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_03: like the frog of one taste
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  SPEAKER_03: and the pigs gently evaporating in the morning sky.
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell those stories another time.
• 1:22:31
  SPEAKER_03: I think we are done for today.
• 1:22:34
  SPEAKER_03: If you are beginning this practice, or feel unstable in this practice,
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_03: go find your mind.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_03: If you are quite already comfortable in this practice,
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_03: continue to rest in Treksha.
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  SPEAKER_03: At all times and on all occasions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever you're doing while you're doing it,
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  SPEAKER_03: recognize the already known Dharmakaya nature of mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we will return, I believe, Saturday night
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  SPEAKER_01: for this group?
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
• 1:23:26
  SPEAKER_01: I need to double check on that.
• 1:23:27
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just double checking, but I think it's Saturday night that we're back with this group.
• 1:23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just get this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Something else has to happen tomorrow night that's different.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_03: It's on our mutual calendar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, that's what I'm checking.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, Saturday would be the next one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then I will see you Saturday night at 8 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_03: Practice well.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_03: Practice with joyful enthusiasm.
• 1:24:08
  SPEAKER_03: Don't push, don't force, nor be distracted.
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  SPEAKER_03: The joyful enthusiasm of a child with a new toy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because each moment, each arising is brand new.
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  SPEAKER_03: Offer the light.
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  SPEAKER_03: To all beings.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are complete.
• 1:25:28
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• 1:25:30
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