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Q&A with Lama Lena — Apr 2021 · Lama Lena Teachings

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  SPEAKER_00: You are live.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good morning, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is the all over everywhere question and answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can ask whatever you want,
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  SPEAKER_01: which oddly seems to be becoming a continuation of yesterday when I did guru yoga
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  SPEAKER_01: and was not sure how to communicate to you the common sense of the middle way
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  SPEAKER_01: of approaching it.
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  SPEAKER_01: How to avoid the extremes of enslaving yourself to someone while still being able
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  SPEAKER_01: to follow the instructions that will liberate you when they are counterintuitive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or, that's the wrong word,
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  SPEAKER_01: not counterintuitive,
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  SPEAKER_01: but counter your own personal, well-held, and long-cherished hangups.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a narrow path, that middle way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't answer all of the questions, so you can also broach that topic, if you like.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's entirely up to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is about what you want to know about Dharma.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chukku Kunduzango Gampo
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  SPEAKER_01: Doerjie Sempa Garab Doerjie Dang,
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  SPEAKER_01: Shere Singe Bardushin Labde,
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  SPEAKER_01: Deedang Mazantata Tu Sum Chi,
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  SPEAKER_01: Zogchen Jupe Lama La Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_01: Urgen Pema Junela Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ndur jie chang jie tila narodang,
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  SPEAKER_01: Marpa mila gompo tsa tsa pa,
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  SPEAKER_01: Na pupadang pal den drupasuk,
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  SPEAKER_01: Kargyu Lama namla solo adeb,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama namla solo
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  SPEAKER_01: adeb,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ndruchen Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kaginwati Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sakya Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nyendu Dayundrun Lama Namla Solva.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dear.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we allow questions to accumulate for a minute,
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to address some of the questions that were asked yesterday
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  SPEAKER_01: that I didn't really notice until I looked over later.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems we have a lot of people who are simply beginning their journey in Dharma,
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  SPEAKER_01: who are interested in doing it here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're a bit confused about where to begin.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we are working on having a practice group in Sutrayana.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sutrayana has to do with understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the first place you start.
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  SPEAKER_01: That group, which Elisa is going to be leading, we're looking at how we're going to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are texts on this,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they're a bit Difficult to understand in the beginning because they are in
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  SPEAKER_01: the context of another culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're looking at how to do that, and I think it should be beginning within a few weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that will be for you guys who are asking, where the hell do I start?
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  SPEAKER_01: It looks interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: That would be a good place to start.
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  SPEAKER_01: Read the sutras.
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  SPEAKER_01: Read the old stories,
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  SPEAKER_01: the biographies of Milarepa,
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  SPEAKER_01: of Mandareva, of Guru Rinpoche, of the 84 Mahasiddhas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Start with the stories because they are maps.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are maps of the path and you will see what is the same For each one and what is different.
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  SPEAKER_01: This gives you a bit of a map to follow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And start with Sutrayana.
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  SPEAKER_01: Understanding the basic premise of the path of Dharma.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do we have questions as yet?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they are accumulating.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, give me one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me paste it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: How does compassion tie into Dzogchen?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is its place?
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  SPEAKER_01: Dzogchen is not possible without bodhisitta.
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  SPEAKER_01: Compassion is a word in English which is not an accurate translation of any of
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  SPEAKER_01: the actual terms in Sanskrit or Tibetan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Compassion is a Christian term.
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  SPEAKER_01: It has an element of pity And of looking down on.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is not what's meant.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uda Sita.
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  SPEAKER_01: Literally Bodhi, gone beyond, thus gone, beyond the beyond.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sita, consciousness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gone beyond the individuality of assumptions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Among other things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or Ningji, superlative heart, open-heartedness, open-mindedness, great-heartedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: All these are ways you can translate that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know what you think compassion is,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's not a word I would use to refer to bodhicitta.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a bit egotistical.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I think of compassion,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think of, oh,
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  SPEAKER_01: I have compassion for the poor suffering deers,
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  SPEAKER_01: for the single mothers working three jobs.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a change in your energy channel pattern
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  SPEAKER_01: it refers to as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: The outer teachings I just gave you, the inner teachings is about your energy channel patterns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ever see one of those fiber optic light dilly bobs that people get to use as
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  SPEAKER_01: a nightlight or something with all the filaments coming out of the middle
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  SPEAKER_01: and they're all kind of glowing?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a decent analogy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It only goes so far because analogies only go so far.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's made of matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your energy channel body is actually made of light.
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  SPEAKER_01: But from each of your main chakras,
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  SPEAKER_01: And from a number of your auxiliary chakras,
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  SPEAKER_01: chakra, nexus, also wheel, place where many of those channels swirl together.
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  SPEAKER_01: From each one of your chakras comes out the many,
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  SPEAKER_01: many little lines of light, which is your energy body.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we do acupuncture,
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  SPEAKER_01: We use a map of where those channels flow right below the skin and
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  SPEAKER_01: by stimulating them in one way or another,
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  SPEAKER_01: and this can also be done without needles by pressure if you know where
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  SPEAKER_01: the points are, where the channels intersect the skin and in what way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acupuncture is based on that science.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'm back to bodhisitta, ninji, great-heartedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Usually,
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  SPEAKER_01: you hold your energy channels utterly wrapped around yourself in a sort of
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  SPEAKER_01: an egg shape.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're slightly pointed on top.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not a lot, but just a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And slightly wider in the middle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you wrap them around yourself because your channels follow your attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you pay a hell of a lot of attention to yourself,
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  SPEAKER_01: to what you think,
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  SPEAKER_01: to what you feel,
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  SPEAKER_01: and to what you perceive,
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  SPEAKER_01: and to what you think about what you perceive and how you assess it to be,
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  SPEAKER_01: and to how you feel about that assessment.
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  SPEAKER_01: You.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're self-thinking all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're self-focusing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the self-focusness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Obsessing with yourself, which includes your stuff by which you show off yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do you like your house neat if you do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because when someone comes in, they will think you're a good person.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do you decorate yourself with jewelry or comb your hair?
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  SPEAKER_01: So that when someone sees you, they will think well of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is all about you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the opposite of ninji.
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  SPEAKER_01: When your channels follow your attention outward towards others,
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  SPEAKER_01: the cramps and self-doubts and constant self-obsession with how you feel,
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  SPEAKER_01: how you think, what you think of how you feel, And judgments and all of that crap.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those cramps relax.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you feel a hell of a lot better.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's simply a matter of opening up your attention outward instead
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  SPEAKER_01: of constantly obsessing on yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you see why I don't think compassion is such a good translation,
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  SPEAKER_01: even though it's a commonly used one?
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, secret teachings.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was inner teachings.
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  SPEAKER_01: I gave you outer teachings first.
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  SPEAKER_01: All teachings have these three levels.
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  SPEAKER_01: The secret teachings, ew.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are not what you think you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: That changes always.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some days you think you're wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some days you think you're shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even some minutes it goes back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm still upset about burning supper last night.
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  SPEAKER_01: And thinking about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And self-focusing on what's wrong with me that I forgot to take it out of the oven.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was such a nice cauliflower au gratin.
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  SPEAKER_01: She'll have to do it again in this time, remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you see?
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  SPEAKER_01: You do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can give you examples in me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the secret teachings are that the you that is self-obsessing
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not real.
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  SPEAKER_01: You made it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: The you that you're obsessed with is a fictional character.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just an intersection
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  SPEAKER_01: of karmic patterns, constantly changing, constantly moving.
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  SPEAKER_01: No thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're obsessed with a fictional character that you made up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you think it's real and it scares you and depresses you and alarms you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's not even
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  SPEAKER_00: there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Interactive and interpenetrative with all life.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a perception, not an intellectual knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you were to do the Chenrezig sadhana,
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  SPEAKER_01: and there's a group practice that I have online for that one,
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  SPEAKER_01: because I think it's really helpful to a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you do it enough,
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  SPEAKER_01: that perception of interwoven,
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  SPEAKER_01: interpenetratedness of all life,
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  SPEAKER_01: symbolized by the Western Dhyani Buddha Amitabha,
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  SPEAKER_01: light beyond compare, symbolized by the clear light nature of the Dharmakaya,
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  SPEAKER_01: Becomes apparent.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's much relaxing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you don't have to maintain the will-o'-the-wisp
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  SPEAKER_01: that you're constantly trying to maintain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because there isn't one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not the way you think it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: The white fleshy heart is awake and its role in illuminating the mind is felt.
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  SPEAKER_00: The energy has started to flow up to the eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What to do now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're working on that channel,
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  SPEAKER_01: your practice relies and requires having stabilized trekture previously.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing in trekture to stabilize.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is that which is inherently stable.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are aware of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: In this practice that you are discussing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're talking, Togil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not doing is necessary.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not the doing of nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not the refraining from doing anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Refraining is a deed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doing nothing is a deed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let it happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Allow the display,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is all the sensations,
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  SPEAKER_01: feelings,
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  SPEAKER_01: and perceptions you're having,
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  SPEAKER_01: Plus the interpretation such as the one you just gave me of those sensations
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  SPEAKER_01: and perceptions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leave it be as it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't poke it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't grab it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't try to make it do anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll muck it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how Dorje got his hands stuck in the old board.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just sit there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And allow the display to display itself until it's complete.
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  SPEAKER_01: God, I never thought I'd give a togel teaching in a public online,
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  SPEAKER_01: but that is not enough for any of you to attempt togel on your own.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was simply instructions to someone who appears to be doing it and stuck slightly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next.
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  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you explain a little more about how to do a quick glance and check to see
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  SPEAKER_00: if my mind is still there?
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  SPEAKER_01: So the ability to do this depends on you having done other things first
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  SPEAKER_01: because those are what make it easy.
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  SPEAKER_01: The ability for you to rub your stomach and pat your head while riding
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  SPEAKER_01: a bicycle depends on your ability to ride a bicycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in order to accomplish this, you need to have a morning session when you first get up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And with your channels in excellent alignment,
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  SPEAKER_01: using a traditional posture,
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  SPEAKER_01: whether that be the Vajra Asana or the Maitreya Asana,
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  SPEAKER_01: using what methods you have been taught
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  SPEAKER_01: Relax your gaze either by the method of just knowing how to relax it or by
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  SPEAKER_01: the method of taking your glasses off or by the method,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you must focus your gaze,
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  SPEAKER_01: focusing it on a point in space two meters in front of you,
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  SPEAKER_01: which will be very hard to maintain and it will eventually relax.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are all methods of relaxing your gaze.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since your attention follows the gaze of your eyes, you'll know this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've said it often enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: By relaxing your gaze, you will be relaxing the point focus of your attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the difference between looking at something you're going to read with point focus
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  SPEAKER_01: And being aware of everything going on in your peripheral vision, eye-wise.
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  SPEAKER_01: With your gaze relaxed and your breath moving simply and easily,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you cannot bring yourself into relaxation,
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  SPEAKER_01: take a deep breath through your nose slowly and blow out even slower
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  SPEAKER_01: through your mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: This settles the Chi in your channels.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then gently open your attention from the usual point focus on what you're thinking,
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  SPEAKER_01: feeling,
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  SPEAKER_01: perceiving,
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  SPEAKER_01: known as phenomena,
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  SPEAKER_01: to where you're thinking, feeling, and perceiving your mind itself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do this again and again in your morning session.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why I say do it again and again?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you'll do it and you'll rest there for a while and
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  SPEAKER_01: then something will distract you and you'll follow some thought off.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you'll notice you did that because of a tool called mindfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you'll bring yourself right back and do it again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you'll rest in it for a couple of minutes or a couple of seconds,
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  SPEAKER_01: depending on your skill level.
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  SPEAKER_01: And eventually some sound or sensory perception or a feeling or
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  SPEAKER_01: a thought will grab your attention and walk it on out and you'll follow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I did that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you'll come back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do that in the morning for a little while.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do it as long as is comfortable for you to do this practice, plus about five to 10%.
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  SPEAKER_01: So stretch it a little, but not too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you can do 10 minutes, don't sit for an hour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sit for 15 minutes at the most.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you do this every morning,
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  SPEAKER_01: you will have set the pattern to make it easier for you to find your mind quickly.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, this will wear off after a couple hours.
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  SPEAKER_01: So every
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  SPEAKER_01: Six to eight times a day,
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  SPEAKER_01: you wanna take a break for about a minute to two minutes to up to five minutes,
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  SPEAKER_01: but no longer, and make a little mini session.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sit somewhere, your office chair will do,
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  SPEAKER_01: Open your attention into the mind itself.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not what you're thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not the idea of the mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is where the idea of the mind is occurring, not the what but the where.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there is no there to that there where.
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  SPEAKER_01: So six to eight times a day,
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  SPEAKER_01: just for a minute or two,
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  SPEAKER_01: In the West,
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  SPEAKER_01: the easiest time for most people is in the toilet
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  SPEAKER_01: because Western toilets are generally quite nice,
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  SPEAKER_01: comfortable, clean, a nice place to sit, smelling decently, and even decorated.
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  SPEAKER_01: This will not work in Asia where toilets are not like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is a Western method.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whenever you go pee, which will be six to eight times a day if you're drinking enough water,
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  SPEAKER_01: Use the stall, not the urinal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sit on the toilet.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just about the right height for most people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Align your channels.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do your business and make a little mini session.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then pull up your pants and go on about the rest of your day.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not Tibetan traditional.
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  SPEAKER_01: However,
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  SPEAKER_01: many Tibetans when they go off into the forest to take a leak will stop somewhere
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  SPEAKER_01: and make a mini session, although not necessarily where they took a leak.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tibetan bathrooms are clumps of trees.
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  SPEAKER_01: Indian bathrooms are
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  SPEAKER_01: unmentionably indescribable.
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  SPEAKER_01: Especially the public ones.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you do that,
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  SPEAKER_01: you will have set yourself up to have an easy time,
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  SPEAKER_01: as often as you can remember to do it,
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  SPEAKER_01: to quickly and briefly, without attempting to dwell on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I mean by don't grab it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Simply shift your attention
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  SPEAKER_01: to the where your thoughts be happening rather
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  SPEAKER_01: than what you be thinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You always be thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm using that verb tense on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it's exactly what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: You always be thinking in the same place, your mind.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: So all you have to do is notice that you're thinking, since you always are, that's not so hard.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then unfocus your eyes for a moment,
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: which unfocuses your attention,
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: which makes it easier for you to have a quick glance, not at the thought, but at the
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: Ground of mind itself from which all thoughts arise and into which all thoughts vanish.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: Do not intentionally look away from that once you notice it.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: Do not intentionally dwell on it once you notice it.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: Glance, relax.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Glance, relax.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: If you try to dwell on it,
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: you will quickly superimpose the idea or the words or the picture or the feeling
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: of ground of mind,
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: of the word mind,
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: of the word open awareness, of any other euphemism you've been given for this.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that's not it.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's a distortion.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: So instead of trying to dwell on it, just relax with it.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: It can last.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: It cannot last.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: It can come.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: It can go.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Just relax.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: And then do it again in a few minutes.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: And again.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: And again.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: This is the key to how to do short moments.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: But it is based on You being able to recognize, to perceive recognize, recognize.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: What I'm calling here the words ground of mind, but it's not a ground anywhere.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: And there isn't even a thing that you call mind.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's a not thingness.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: And any attempt I make to describe it to you in words is going to distort.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: So go see for yourself.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's easiest to see it in the morning before you have begun speaking during the day
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: for most people.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Before you have engaged your devices and looked at the news,
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: the book you're reading,
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: social media,
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: However you engage yourself with life, before you do that is your easy time.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: You're not yet engaged with a process.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Align your channels and relax into the natural state of not looking at.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is the first step.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Later, once this is easy,
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Rangrich is added,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: which means
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: to each practice session the question, who sees this, is looked at.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Not the question,
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: Wrong Rick, self seeing when there is no self.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is where the experience and the experiencer
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: and
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: the experience said
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: are not perceived as difference as different.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: It is the key to the
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: level of one taste.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: However, before then, you need to have accomplished.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: Accomplished.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's not an accomplishment.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: You need to have found, noticed,
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: The dance of stillness.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: We have a couple of related questions about pain in practice.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: One person asked, is there a practice that's good for physical pain?
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm awaiting hip replacement surgery in four weeks and the pain is increasing.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: And on a second related question,
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: How can we begin our practice if we are having extreme pain
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: and therefore difficulty maintaining focus?
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: Pain is difficult to work with.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: It is difficult, especially to begin your practice while in pain.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: I recommend you take some drugs.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you're waiting for hip replacement,
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: the only practices I am aware of,
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: which really help with pain,
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: at least for me,
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: require I be sitting in a proper chair in a proper position,
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: which for hip pain,
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: which is generally worse on walking,
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: it doesn't hurt that much when you do that anyway.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: If
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: You have discovered already
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: what we call nature of mind, senngi gong ngō.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: Ngōsel, clear light nature of mind.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: And you are already quite familiar with that.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: You are then also familiar with the dance,
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: which is also known as the display,
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: which is a series of thoughts,
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: feelings,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: and sensations interpreted by the thoughts as perceptions about which
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: the feelings occur.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Being familiar with that, as well as with the stillness,
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: In the practice of trultranalj,
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: or dancing stillness,
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: when you recognize the indivisibility of the two as one,
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: the pain becomes irrelevant,
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: but the moment you are distracted from this not focused,
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: By say walking into a shop and comparing prices
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: on two things you're considering buying.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: Shall I buy this one or this one?
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: What are they per pound?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're focusing on the thought you've lost your focus and it hurts again.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: So if I may say for my personal practice, I'm still working on that.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: Being old is painful.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: This hurts and then another day that hurts and then the other thing hurts
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: and always something hurts.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: So old folks hopefully know what they're doing practice wise by
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: the time they're old enough that everything hurts.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: For a beginner,
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: all I can say is go see a pain clinic,
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: get the acupuncture,
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: get the drugs,
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: see your chiropractor,
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: deal with the physical problem causing the pain as best you can.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: To get it down to a level that does not disturb your focus.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's the best advice I can give for a beginner.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: There may be other teachers who know a better answer than this.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: I have a suspicion that Geshe Tenzin Wanjil Rinpoche Who is an expert at working
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: with the elements and shamanic work may have a better answer for you on this.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Even though he's still quite young, so he doesn't hurt all the time.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's worth checking in with him and his organization and inquiring.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: A couple of questions related to yesterday's teaching on guru yoga.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I figured there'd be a few coming back.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: One question.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: My root guru had a disagreement with the Lama and later told students to avoid him.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do I need to avoid the teacher in order to keep Samaya to my root Lama?
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: If
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: your root Lama is also your heart Lama
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: and is continually interactive with you,
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: you need to believe him.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: And since his disagreement with the other Lama may be a matter of he thinks
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_01: the other Lama is doing some harm,
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: Sticky wicket.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: I would say probably so.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_01: But not necessarily.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: This is going to be a judgment call.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's really going to depend.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: You won't break Samaya if you go near the other Lama.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: In the form of dropping you into the Vajranaraks or
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: in some other terrible thing affecting your practice.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: However, it is very unusual for a Lama to tell people to stay away from another one.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's as unusual as one doctor telling other doctors to stay away from another one.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: The worst thing I've ever heard a doctor say about another was a cardiologist saying
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: of the previous cardiologist, well, she is a cardiologist.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure she read the EKG excellently.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure she did too.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: There were just things going on that weren't in the EKG.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't me.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was someone else.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: So this is such an unusual situation.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: However,
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: there are esoteric reasons why if you wish to continue studying and orbiting around
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: the teacher who said stay away from the other teacher, you should probably do it.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: It may be an issue of
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get into this sticky wicket,
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: but
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: Tibetan politics are messy.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Tibetan politics involve poisoning and sicking demons on others.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: It is really important for Westerners who do not understand Tibetan politics to stay
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: the fuck out of them.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's like telling some sweet innocent Bodhisattva Lama to stay out
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: of American politics because they're messy and they don't get the ramifications
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: of our white supremacist and Trumpites and the liberals
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: and they could easily get themselves into a political mess.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: By taking sides in American politics.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: You can imagine some fresh off the boat Tibetan just out of Tibet
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: who really doesn't get all the details.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: Deciding he likes Trump because he seems like a nice man.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: Strong.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: Tibetans like strong kings.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: Without really understanding what's going on, don't do that to yourself.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_01: If they're doing Tibetan politics, you just hide yourself out of that.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I would say it would be better if your root Lama is also one with which you have
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: an ongoing relationship.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_01: For safety reasons of both you and the teacher, it will be important to follow that instruction.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: If your root llama is someone who opened your mind and you only met once
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: and they showed you your mind,
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: but it was somebody like Karmapa and you're not really close to them and you're not
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: in their orbit, then you're going to have to make your best guess.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: There are certain teachers that I will not,
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: Or I attempt to avoid sharing students with,
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: which is really unusual for me,
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: because of demonic issues, issues with Tibetan demons.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: I've been bitten by them before.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's a political issue.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's really got very little to do with Dharma.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_01: But it's political and they play rough.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going there.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: And sharing students with a teacher, which I really love to do.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: I like to share with the Bon, the Galupas, the
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yaquis, the Native Americans.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really happy all over the place with students going to others.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: But there's a couple of places that I'm not comfortable with,
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: which if a student wished to go there,
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'd speak with them privately and individually.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: Now, me being a Westerner,
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'd be really clear on why,
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: what I perceived the danger as and what I wanted them to do in regard to me
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_01: if they chose to nonetheless go there.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's me.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's my personality.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_01: I explain things.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: It is not culturally Tibetan necessarily to do so.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I think I'm too gentle, too nice with y'all, and not kind enough.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: A kind teacher thwaps you over the head with a stick when necessary.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_01: A nice teacher patiently explains again and again while it doesn't go in.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: That may be a failing of mine as a teacher.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: Just a little bit too nice.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: And not kind enough.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: Only you would know.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: Do you deserve a stick and I didn't give you one?
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oops.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'll try to next time.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: This other question is related to yesterday's teaching on Guru Yoga.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: At one point you were talking about the necessity of having a flesh
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: and blood teacher in front of you to learn from.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: And you use the phrase looking for a babysitter in regards to looking for a teacher.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: And one person asks,
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: they want more details on what you mean by looking for a babysitter
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: and how we proceed to finding the actual teacher if what we have is a babysitter.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: What I'm calling a babysitter I have also heard called a spiritual friend.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: They are anyone.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_01: Who you trust to receive teachings from even though you are not really wishing
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: or prepared at this time to enter into a full Samaya guru student relationship
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_01: or they are not prepared to do so with you.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: They can still teach you.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_01: Look, we have people, students of mine, who may or may not turn out to be somebody's guru.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_01: But that will develop over time.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Teaching student-led practice groups.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: Those are spiritual friends.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: Some of them are also Llamas.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: Others don't want the title but are just as good as.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: Some people don't like titles.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_01: So those are spiritual friends.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: You find somebody like that to teach you.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: What you want to know, how to do it.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: And you keep checking out teachers and you find several of them.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: They're not necessarily your root guru.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: Your root guru is whosoever shows you the nature of your mind in such a way
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: that you actually really
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_00: notice it.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: That glimpse, unless you run like fucking even then, Doesn't really completely go away again.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: There's probably going to be words with it, but the words vary.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: My teacher said to me,
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: haven't you noticed the sky is not blown about by the wind?
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: There will be a point where that happens.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's your root guru.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_01: You get only one.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: You're only a virgin once.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: You get one guy who was first or one woman who was first for you.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: And you hold them and cherish them somewhere in your heart.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, Douglas, if you're out there.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so is your root guru, but you may only meet them once in your life.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: It might happen during a gigantic Karmapa black hat ceremony.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_01: 16th Karmapa used to do that, 17th there's political issues why he hasn't got the hat.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: The hat is special.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_01: I had a friend who was the hat's driver for some time.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: And it was the most powerful experience of his life.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_01: And just from the hat, he got the first glimpse.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: So his root guru is a hat.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_01: A big black hat.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: You never know.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: Until that happens, everybody will teach you and they're all kind of like babysitters.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: They're spiritual friends, they're help mates and they're teaching you.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_01: Some of them may become your heart teacher.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: Often your root guru and your heart teacher are the same person.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_01: Not always.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: You may have more than one heart teacher.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's a closer relationship than what I call babysitter or spiritual friend
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: because it involves the absolute trust,
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_01: belief, or at least enough trust and belief.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't drink the kerosene.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: I told you I was a bad student.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: Enough trust and belief for them to be able to drop kick you off the cliff
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_01: of your made up pretend mind personality.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_01: So until such time as you have a root teacher,
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: everybody's a spiritual friend and a babysitter.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: And they guide you.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_01: And if you choose to learn Tantra or Dzogchen from a teacher,
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_01: you will eventually need to enter into a heart relationship.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_01: In order to get the fourth Wong to actually receive it, it is often necessary.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_01: In order to be convinced to let go of your deeply cherished Personal belief systems.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_01: You need to trust someone.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: And that's your heart teacher.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_01: Who may also be a root guru or not.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I think Langa Rinpoche was a heart teacher for the guy whose root guru was a hat.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_00: It happens.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: Why do we dedicate the merits of our practice?
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why does this work and why is it so powerful?
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: Outer answer.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever you do a practice and a accumulation of what is called Sonam,
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_01: And may be considered or thought of as bits of stressless openness are created.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you hoard those and later on you lose your own stressless openness acquired
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: from it by becoming angry at somebody who cuts you off in traffic, you destroy them.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: You squish them.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: They're gone.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because you kept them.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: They were just in you, in your channel pattern.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: So when your channel pattern got changed by a circumstance, there they went.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_01: All gone.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_01: You just wasted all that work.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: However,
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: if at the end of the practice,
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_01: you do what is called dedicating the merits, which is a term for
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: An action of shifting them outwards to be shared.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_01: They are no longer just on you in your karmic pattern.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_01: They are in the shared mutual karmic pattern of the mandala.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so by a mistake of yours cannot be destroyed.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: On an inner level,
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_01: your Energy channels,
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_01: we're talking energy channels again, called Sa, in which Lung rides, called Qi.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_01: So your energy channels are not, I mean,
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_01: you do try to keep them wrapped around yourself,
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: but you think of your friends and the people you meet and all those other things,
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_01: so you're still utterly interwoven.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, look at who you are today.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_01: How'd you get to be that person from who you were 10 years ago?
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: You had experiences.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_01: What kind of experiences?
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_01: Interactive experiences with other living beings.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: You read books, so you interacted on a level with the author.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: You watched TV shows, so you interacted with the team that created that.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_01: You talk to people.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_01: You bought objects from people.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_01: You went to work and associated with people.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_01: So all of that experiences has made you who you are.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_01: You're not an isolate.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_01: You're interwoven with everything.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_01: When you create Sonam, Sonam is created as a channel pattern.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sonam is a Stressless.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_01: Digpa is stress, tightness, scrinch.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: Sonam is open relaxation.
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  SPEAKER_01: You create it in your channels by your practice.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: At the end of your practice,
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  SPEAKER_01: you reach out with your channels and allow all of
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  SPEAKER_01: that open relaxation you have created by your practice,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Geva,
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_01: the Sonam,
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  SPEAKER_01: also known as Merit,
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  SPEAKER_01: to flow outward and become completely enmeshed in all your mandala's channels.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: So as the day goes on and stresses occur and you get squinched,
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_01: Which will happen because one does.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: Those channel patterns of soft, gentle, open-hearted, open-minded relaxation are not squinched.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: They're out there and in the fullness of time will reverberate and echo back to you
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  SPEAKER_01: and to everyone else.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_01: This is the inner teaching on why we dedicate the merits.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because we are interwoven, interpenetrating with all others.
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  SPEAKER_01: On a secret level,
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  SPEAKER_01: there are no
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  SPEAKER_01: permanent Things such as living entities.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: And yet there are nodes, nexuses,
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_01: sentient beings.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: Each one a clump of channels, of energy, of karmic patterns held by that or held in that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Each one of those karmic patterns throughout time and space has a point of utter relaxation.
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  SPEAKER_01: That point is enlightenment.
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  SPEAKER_01: To share the merits is simply the way that all Buddhas of
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  SPEAKER_01: the four times pick themselves up out of all sentient beings of the three realms
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  SPEAKER_01: by their bootstraps.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is so as it has always been.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact,
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  SPEAKER_01: when you sing prayers that dedicate merits,
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  SPEAKER_01: these merits that I dedicate,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I have created here,
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_01: as those who have gone before me implied go with me,
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  SPEAKER_01: implied will go after me,
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_01: Have always and will have always done, funny grammatic term.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let it be so.
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  SPEAKER_01: All sentient beings do arise as all Buddhas.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is obvious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where else would they come from?
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: Or go to?
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_01: In such a way they have all done this as you do.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_01: The secret teachings are of course self-secret and may or may not make any sense
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_01: to you whatsoever, which is okay.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: Just follow the outer ones if that's what you get.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_01: Or the outer and the inner.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_00: Or all three.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_01: It is very important to do.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_01: All sessions,
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  SPEAKER_01: all practices,
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_01: traditionally,
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  SPEAKER_01: as all Buddhas have done before me,
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  SPEAKER_01: as all Buddhas do with me,
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_01: as all Buddhas will have done after me,
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_01: are begun by a combination of refuge,
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_01: which is guru yoga, and bodhisitta, which is also guru yoga.
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  SPEAKER_01: You take refuge and arise Bodhisitta as the purpose,
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: the motivation for all practices, and you dedicate the merits.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's a really funny term, dedicate the merits.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_01: Offer out the benefit at the end.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like little gold stars,
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_01: and merits is a weird word, but it is a way that Tibetans think of it.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: As little points that you gather.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's a harder way for a Westerner to think of it.
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_01: And it's only a way of thinking of it, not what it really is.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_00: How to avoid feeling overwhelmed when trying to help other beings,
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_00: but there are too many coming to you to receive it?
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_01: This starfish.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: Get yourself a little piece of jewelry.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_01: It can be a pin,
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_01: a necklace,
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_01: or an earring, or even a ring in the shape of a starfish
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_01: to remember this story.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_01: I have to talk to you in analogies here.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_01: One day there had been a big, terrible storm at the seacoast with massive waves and winds.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_01: And the next morning it dawned clear and a little girl was walking along the beach
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  SPEAKER_01: and all the starfish had been washed up by the waves and were dying in the sun on
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: the beach.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thousands and thousands of them.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: And as she walked along,
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_01: she was picking up the starfish and flinging it as far as she could like
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_01: a frisbee out into the water.
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_01: And picking up the next one and flinging it as far as she could
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  SPEAKER_00: like a frisbee out
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  SPEAKER_00: into the water where it could live.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_01: And some people came and said to her, why are you doing that?
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: There's 84,000s and thousands of starfish on this beach.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_01: You'll never save them all.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_01: You're really not making a difference.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_01: And she said, well, perhaps not.
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_01: But to this starfish,
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_01: and she picked one up,
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm making a really big difference to this very individual starfish.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_01: And she flew it back, threw it back into the water.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_01: And she picked up another one and said, and to this one too, what I'm doing is very important.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_01: And she threw it back in the water.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_01: Remember the starfish.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_01: Do what's in front of you again and again.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot necessarily save them all.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_01: But to this individual that you help, it is vitally important that you do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So go ahead and do that.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_01: One by one.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_01: Starfish by starfish.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_00: What do you do on days when the resistance to practice is too big?
• 1:00:17
  SPEAKER_00: How do you work with lethargy and resistance to practice?
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_01: I go read a book, take a walk, cook something interesting.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_01: Those days happen.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_01: Usually there's a bit of minimums I'll do.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I do a little bit.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't feel like it and so I don't.
• 1:00:44
  SPEAKER_01: Be careful if it goes on for more than a couple of days.
• 1:00:48
  SPEAKER_01: Then you might want to look into it.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_01: But those just resistance days that arise, you just need a rest.
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_01: Let it go.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_01: It'll come back much fresher when you get back to it.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_01: Such is my experience with them.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I get those.
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_01: Hell, if I teach too many days in a row, it's like I can't do this.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even think about Dharma right now.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I go cook something interesting, or I take a walk, or I hang out with a friend, or I...
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_01: There's thousands of things I can do instead.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_01: Read a good book.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_01: Sci-fi.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_01: A comic book.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, why not?
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_00: I am worried about being lost in the formless realms or ending up in the Preda or Hell realms.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_00: What can I do to ensure a good rebirth?
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_00: Practice Bodhicitta.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_01: Just that.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_01: Simple.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_01: Easy.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe not that easy.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_01: Moderately easy.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_01: Practice it as best you can.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_01: Continue to create Gawa and dedicate them.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_01: Offer them up and out.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_01: Gawa, those merit thingies.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_01: Relaxations.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_01: Stresslessnesses.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_01: Or get yourself an insurance policy.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_01: We do have them, you know, for your rebirth.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_01: Dewa Chen is set up in such a way that you can get in there born in a closed or
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_01: an open lotus without any
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_01: achievement spiritually, simply by the mantra.
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_01: Insurance policy because you're not sure you're good enough.
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_01: The usual self-doubt, crappy, crappy, crappy.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_01: Om, Ami, Dewa, Khri.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_01: Om, Ami, Dewa, Khri.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_01: Om Ami Dei Wahri.
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_01: Simply make a habit of this mantra so that that habit Reoccurs,
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_01: that it's habitual enough that it reoccurs when you hit the bardo of becoming.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_01: And this creates like Velcro loops on you,
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_01: which the hooks of that Pure Land,
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: it's a design issue,
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_01: can catch you up and pull you in there even if you haven't a clue what you're doing.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_01: So you could get an insurance policy.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_01: You will experience the pure land of Amitabha on multiple levels.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_01: The simplest for those who without developing any other spiritual abilities
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_01: or awarenesses simply recited the mantra will come to a land
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_01: which is extremely comfortable and beautiful.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_01: In which birth does not occur sexually,
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_01: but rather spontaneously in lotus flowers that bloom in the pools there.
• 1:05:23
  SPEAKER_01: So there's only one gender.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_01: There is no gender discrimination because there is not two.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_01: There is only one race.
• 1:05:31
  SPEAKER_01: There is no race discrimination because there is not a variety.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone is similar to each other enough.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_01: That
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_01: there is very little strife in that place
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_01: as people tend to strife around differences.
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_01: And there are people
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_01: in that place It's like a holding pattern
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_01: where teachings are given slowly according to interest
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_01: and slowly one's development occurs until one transcends the solidity of
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_01: the holding pattern and recognizes the nature of the light of which it's made.
• 1:06:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you can do that if you like.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_00: As practitioners, how do we help those who have died due to suicide?
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_01: Light lamps for them, butter lamps, votive candles.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_01: Shortly after they've died in places they used to frequent,
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_01: longer after they've died,
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_01: either at the cemetery or where the cremation has been spread or
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_01: at holy power points around you.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_01: These can include churches and temples, stupas, statues.
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_01: Do this in their name, offer light.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_01: That is probably the single most powerful practice.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_01: It is good to say the Amitabha mantra while offering light.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_01: Regardless of how anyone has died,
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_01: this is the most effective that I can think of.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_01: For doing after some time.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_01: There are things you can do immediately with the body.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_01: But generally when you're asking me this, it's like some months later.
• 1:08:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm talking about what you can do some months later.
• 1:08:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you come upon a recently dead body,
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_01: be it a mouse your cat has gotten,
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: or a friend who's OD'd, Or a parent or older person who has just come to their time.
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_01: Before it's been messed with,
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_01: there is a text,
• 1:08:47
  SPEAKER_01: a magical text,
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_01: which you can circle their head three times and touch their top knot.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_01: I have it somewhere and we'll see if I can find it and put it up on the website so
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_01: that you can print it out.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wrap it in a bit of brocade and keep it for that purpose.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_01: You just touch the crown three times clockwise.
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: Am I going clockwise?
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_01: Three times clockwise around the top of the head.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_01: Touch the crown chakra.
• 1:09:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is very powerful if done at the time of or shortly after death.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we take the ashes and have them made into tsatsa,
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_00: little stupas,
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_01: and leave them about in PowerPoints.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is also good for the individual.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_01: So there are magical things you can do, but the offering of light is one of the best.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_01: Especially if done with the mantra of light beyond compare.
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_01: You see,
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_01: in the mandala of the Dhyani Buddhas,
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_01: which is a symbolic rendition of the inner and outer psyche experience
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_01: of sentient beings.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_01: The center is space.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_01: The south, golden, blue in color, sky colored, infinite open space.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_01: To the south lies the golden richness
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_01: of form,
• 1:11:00
  SPEAKER_01: the earth element.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_01: To the west lies the brilliance.
• 1:11:12
  SPEAKER_01: Red.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_01: The red of the sunset.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Fire element.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_01: To the north lies the indomitable efficiency.
• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_01: Green.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Of the water element, sometimes black.
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_01: To the east lies
• 1:11:47
  SPEAKER_01: the pure mirror-like equanimity, even awareness of openness.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Primordial purity, unsullied and unsullible of the air element.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so this dance of mandalas symbolized by the Dhyani Buddhas,
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yab and Yum, is the inner and outer pattern.
• 1:12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Light, fire, love, passion, open-hearted bodhisitta.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_01: The light is the symbol of life.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_01: And life itself is the symbol of movement and movement is the symbol of energy.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_01: And that energy itself is the symbol of all pervading everywhere vitality,
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_01: the lucidity by which you can think,
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_01: feel, perceive, by which all beings can and which does not end.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Unborn undying.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_00: So offer light as the
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_01: symbol of this.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Next, after which I need more coffee.
• 1:13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the practice you just described, is that Poa, or am I thinking of something?
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_00: It is not.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, a couple of students were asking if that's something you teach is the practice of Poa.
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not that good at it.
• 1:13:40
  SPEAKER_01: There are other teachers who are better at Tsalung stuff, and Poa is Tsalung.
• 1:13:47
  SPEAKER_00: My channels are kind of grotty.
• 1:13:48
  SPEAKER_00: I like cigars.
• 1:13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 1:13:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I would refer out to an expert
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_01: for this.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_01: Jane Dedman, what is she called now?
• 1:14:11
  SPEAKER_01: Jane is really good at POA.
• 1:14:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's her best thing.
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_01: She's down in Brazil, I think.
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_01: She's Chanda Tuku's wife.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember what they're calling her now.
• 1:14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know your endo remember what they call Chandatuku's wife now?
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't.
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody in the audience may.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody in the audience may.
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, she's an expert at BOA.
• 1:14:48
  SPEAKER_01: And someone I would happily send you to.
• 1:14:51
  SPEAKER_01: But she's in Brazil.
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_01: And Brazil is a mess.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_01: You can't get there right now.
• 1:14:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I suspect it needs to be taught in person.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_01: There's other people who are better at it than I am.
• 1:15:07
  SPEAKER_01: I would rather refer you out for that one.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Can we have another question?
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because I really don't have an answer to that.
• 1:15:17
  SPEAKER_00: A question about astral travel.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Someone mentioned having Out of body experiences while meditating and was wondering
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_00: if there are practices that actually help you achieve astral travel.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, dream yoga.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Practice that.
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, there's no such thing as two places.
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Second of all, there's no such thing as a soul.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_01: So what are you going to travel with and to?
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless, it's perfectly possible to have that experience.
• 1:16:06
  SPEAKER_01: I would say study dream yoga would be your best bet for that.
• 1:16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Your experts on dream yoga would be Alan Wallace and Geshe Tenzin Wanjil Rinpoche,
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_01: although I've taught it also.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I've had Geshe Wanjel on here on YouTube teaching it from my channel.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_01: The fourth teaching he did.
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I did the first three.
• 1:16:36
  SPEAKER_01: So it's quite doable.
• 1:16:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I would say if that's your interest,
• 1:16:45
  SPEAKER_01: you might pursue it in that direction.
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Many questions.
• 1:16:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, they always are.
• 1:16:57
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get as many as we can today.
• 1:16:59
  SPEAKER_00: What practice can we do to improve the karma of children suffering with child sexual abuse?
• 1:17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Love them.
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_01: And keep them safe.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_01: So much would depend on the individual.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_01: But be gentle.
• 1:17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Don't force anything.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I would basically start with just doing manis around them because they are soothing.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_01: And make one feel safe.
• 1:17:54
  SPEAKER_01: But I would also make sure that I wasn't creating a false sense of safety
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_01: when there wasn't safety.
• 1:18:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess that's what I can give you for that.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Manny's might be the best.
• 1:18:15
  SPEAKER_01: You could, if you wished,
• 1:18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And if the child wished,
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_01: and only if they were interested,
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_01: teach them to work with Tara, which is also useful.
• 1:18:35
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not going to be useful or necessary in all cases.
• 1:18:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's really going to depend on the individual circumstances.
• 1:18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Anything which is an increase of stress can be smoothed.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_01: So give that a try.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:19:04
  SPEAKER_00: There was a related question about saying mantras for others,
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_00: even if they aren't Buddhist.
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you could talk more about that,
• 1:19:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think people were Are you concerned about whether or not you need permission
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_00: to do such a thing or can you do it as more general practice?
• 1:19:28
  SPEAKER_01: To specifically say a mantra for another, it is better to have permission.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_01: There are people who think that Dharma is demonic.
• 1:19:48
  SPEAKER_01: There's a student whose wife thinks that and he is having a great deal
• 1:19:52
  SPEAKER_01: of trouble practicing and taking the teachings because of it.
• 1:19:57
  SPEAKER_01: So if they think Dharma is demonic,
• 1:20:03
  SPEAKER_01: it would be better not to impose that on them for it would create a stress or
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_01: a tightness.
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: You could only pray for them as all sentient beings.
• 1:20:17
  SPEAKER_01: But not, I wouldn't do it specifically by name.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_01: It would be unkind.
• 1:20:24
  SPEAKER_01: It would be a push.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_01: And what you want to do is an offer.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Now, conversely,
• 1:20:33
  SPEAKER_01: if you wish,
• 1:20:35
  SPEAKER_01: if you work in, say,
• 1:20:36
  SPEAKER_01: a hospital cafeteria and you wish to say manis for all the sick people in
• 1:20:41
  SPEAKER_01: the hospital, that's fine.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need individual permission from all of them.
• 1:20:49
  SPEAKER_01: It will go into those who are, for those who are receptive and out.
• 1:20:54
  SPEAKER_01: There was an interesting study done at San Francisco General,
• 1:20:59
  SPEAKER_01: goodness,
• 1:20:59
  SPEAKER_01: it must be 30 years ago,
• 1:21:02
  SPEAKER_01: at the ICU where they randomly separated patients in the ICU into two categories,
• 1:21:10
  SPEAKER_01: two groups.
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody knew which group.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_01: It was a blind story.
• 1:21:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was a control group and a group for which Assorted random groups of people prayed.
• 1:21:22
  SPEAKER_01: Offerings were made or the names were given to different prayer groups to pray for them.
• 1:21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Because this was an actual official study,
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_01: people had to sign a thing willing to take part in the study and they didn't know
• 1:21:35
  SPEAKER_01: which group they were in.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was found that there was a great difference in time to discharge from ICU to
• 1:21:48
  SPEAKER_01: the step-down unit alive for those who were prayed for.
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_01: They got better faster.
• 1:21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting study.
• 1:21:59
  SPEAKER_01: You can still sometimes find records of it online because everything's online.
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_01: I was actually there when it was done.
• 1:22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Not involved in it,
• 1:22:09
  SPEAKER_01: but around peripherally and heard about it and saw the announcement
• 1:22:14
  SPEAKER_01: that they were doing it on the bulletin board and stuff.
• 1:22:17
  SPEAKER_01: It was back in my paramedic days.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting study.
• 1:22:25
  SPEAKER_01: So it does have effect.
• 1:22:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is why I have arrangements with our Nyurpa accountant at the cave community.
• 1:22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Every month they do prayers.
• 1:22:41
  SPEAKER_01: I send them money.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because it works.
• 1:22:48
  SPEAKER_01: You all can do that too.
• 1:22:50
  SPEAKER_01: You just send me an email, how do I contact the NERPA to send funds and I'll deal with it.
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'll send you back how there's a, I've got a template.
• 1:22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Or Onalaya has a template because I'm not doing that so much all by myself anymore.
• 1:23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Prayer is powerful.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Mantra is powerful.
• 1:23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I would get permission if I was going to pray for an individual.
• 1:23:19
  SPEAKER_01: The individuals I pray for, I have requests to pray for.
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Either they or a family member with their permission presumably has requested it.
• 1:23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Also categories,
• 1:23:35
  SPEAKER_01: all the sick ones,
• 1:23:37
  SPEAKER_01: all people who are ill,
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_01: all people who are suffering poverty, from all people who are down with COVID.
• 1:23:44
  SPEAKER_01: You can do categories quite fine without needing permission.
• 1:23:51
  SPEAKER_01: I would get individual permission.
• 1:23:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's not Dharma, that's good manners.
• 1:24:02
  SPEAKER_01: You don't do stuff to people without their permission.
• 1:24:10
  SPEAKER_01: It would be digpa, unkind.
• 1:24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Unkind causes stress.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Stress is digpa.
• 1:24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:24:24
  SPEAKER_00: A practical question about Treksha.
• 1:24:26
  SPEAKER_00: Can the session be done sitting in a chair with a straight back?
• 1:24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's how I do mine at this age.
• 1:24:39
  SPEAKER_01: I used to be able to sit all night in a full lotus, but that was long ago and far away.
• 1:24:51
  SPEAKER_01: This is one of my favorite chairs, the one I talk to you from.
• 1:24:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's just the right height for me.
• 1:24:59
  SPEAKER_01: And the back is nice and straight and gives me the support I like.
• 1:25:06
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:25:08
  SPEAKER_00: Is it a bad thing to pray for, quote,
• 1:25:11
  SPEAKER_00: in order to help more sentient beings,
• 1:25:13
  SPEAKER_00: I wish to achieve worldly successes when doing Zambala
• 1:25:18
  SPEAKER_00: or Dharma protector practices?
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_01: Now go ahead,
• 1:25:23
  SPEAKER_01: just make sure you arise bodhicitta and take
• 1:25:26
  SPEAKER_00: refuge first and dedicate the merits
• 1:25:29
  SPEAKER_00: after.
• 1:25:32
  SPEAKER_01: I and all others is your phrase.
• 1:25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Don't like grab the I in order that I and all others
• 1:25:45
  SPEAKER_01: may attain worldly success
• 1:25:48
  SPEAKER_01: in order to be of benefit to each other in a better way.
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_01: I will do this practice.
• 1:25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like that.
• 1:25:59
  SPEAKER_01: It'll work better for you.
• 1:26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:26:05
  SPEAKER_00: And comment about Chandatuku's wife.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:26:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's known as Chandakhandro.
• 1:26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Chandakhandro, there we go.
• 1:26:13
  SPEAKER_00: She's a teacher at RIGPA, sometimes in Oregon, but people can contact the RIGPA organization.
• 1:26:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and you might find her that way.
• 1:26:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I hear her poet teachings are excellent.
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's like for Chud, I tend to send people to Sultra Malioni if they can afford it.
• 1:26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Can you talk about the state of Rochic?
• 1:26:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:26:48
  SPEAKER_00: A few more details about that.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_01: So in Mahamudra, Rochik comes after Laktong.
• 1:26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Laktong is direct seeing, sometimes translated as Vipassana.
• 1:27:05
  SPEAKER_01: In Dzogchen, Rochik is an aspect of Treksha.
• 1:27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Rochik is where you start walking through walls and floating occasionally.
• 1:27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Cities come and go.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually they stick, some of them, whatever.
• 1:27:26
  SPEAKER_01: But by the time that happens, it's not happening to anyone.
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Rocheek is the realization that outer phenomena,
• 1:27:39
  SPEAKER_01: the stuff,
• 1:27:45
  SPEAKER_01: and the one who perceives the stuff,
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_01: And the act of perceiving the stuff
• 1:27:57
  SPEAKER_01: are not in the least bit separate.
• 1:28:00
  SPEAKER_00: They are exactly the same thing.
• 1:28:03
  SPEAKER_01: The perception creates the perceiver, and the perceiver creates the perception.
• 1:28:20
  SPEAKER_00: It sank.
• 1:28:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's in here.
• 1:28:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is a pair of mirrors currently reflecting the tripod,
• 1:28:37
  SPEAKER_01: the video, the window across the room.
• 1:28:48
  SPEAKER_01: What are they reflecting now?
• 1:28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Can you see?
• 1:28:59
  SPEAKER_01: The outside reflects the inside reflects the outside.
• 1:29:06
  SPEAKER_01: Continuous creation of the pattern of karma rolling through time, holding time and space open.
• 1:29:25
  SPEAKER_01: There is not a me and a you.
• 1:29:32
  SPEAKER_01: What you perceive as me, you're making up.
• 1:29:38
  SPEAKER_01: But it's changing you in this very moment,
• 1:29:41
  SPEAKER_01: in this middle of this interaction,
• 1:29:42
  SPEAKER_01: giving you new ideas, things to think about, pointing and pointing.
• 1:29:49
  SPEAKER_01: You are being created anew in each moment.
• 1:29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Buy this me you're making up.
• 1:29:58
  SPEAKER_01: And not only that, but all this else as well.
• 1:30:10
  SPEAKER_01: One taste refers to the perceiver, the perception, and the perceived, the stuff.
• 1:30:24
  SPEAKER_01: As having exactly the same flavor,
• 1:30:29
  SPEAKER_00: water into water.
• 1:30:35
  SPEAKER_01: This will result from
• 1:30:42
  SPEAKER_01: directly perceiving the nature of mind and turning around
• 1:30:47
  SPEAKER_01: and looking at who
• 1:30:52
  SPEAKER_00: perceives it.
• 1:31:02
  SPEAKER_01: So you start working on directly perceiving the nature of mind again and again
• 1:31:10
  SPEAKER_01: until it's easy,
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_01: until it's,
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_01: and of course,
• 1:31:14
  SPEAKER_01: until the innate stability of that is absolutely apparent
• 1:31:20
  SPEAKER_01: to the perceiver.
• 1:31:23
  SPEAKER_01: By which time the perceiver is that, of course, it always was, whatever it perceived.
• 1:31:29
  SPEAKER_01: So when you turn around and look at the perceiver, you see the perception.
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_01: And there you aren't.
• 1:31:41
  SPEAKER_01: One taste.
• 1:31:44
  SPEAKER_01: The symbol is the Kapala.
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where I put it.
• 1:31:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's in the bedroom.
• 1:31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Patro Rinpoche's biography mentions how he snaps his fingers so the deities
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_00: in his body disperse before he dies.
• 1:32:07
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 1:32:12
  SPEAKER_01: He's talking in symbols, of course, because it's the only way you can talk.
• 1:32:19
  SPEAKER_01: There are shapes in the channels.
• 1:32:28
  SPEAKER_01: Even those words are symbols.
• 1:32:32
  SPEAKER_01: Those shapes may be interpreted as the Tibetan pantheon of archetypes.
• 1:32:43
  SPEAKER_01: There are, dammit, I can never get the numbers right.
• 1:32:48
  SPEAKER_01: 48 and 52, or is it 62?
• 1:32:55
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, the fierce ones are in the channels that nexus in the brain.
• 1:33:04
  SPEAKER_01: And the peaceful ones are in the channels that nexus in the heart.
• 1:33:11
  SPEAKER_01: As your chi at the time of death withdraws from the channels
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_01: into
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_01: the central channel, which it's going to do,
• 1:33:30
  SPEAKER_01: The sensation of the Chi moving past these
• 1:33:36
  SPEAKER_01: intrinsic shapes
• 1:33:41
  SPEAKER_01: will be perceived
• 1:33:43
  SPEAKER_01: as these archetypes, peaceful and wrathful.
• 1:33:55
  SPEAKER_01: If
• 1:33:58
  SPEAKER_01: You bring the chi smoothly into the central channel.
• 1:34:04
  SPEAKER_01: While the heat rises and melting,
• 1:34:08
  SPEAKER_01: the coolth comes down,
• 1:34:12
  SPEAKER_01: the moon drops come down to encapsulate in the red and white of the heart.
• 1:34:18
  SPEAKER_01: If you are conscious enough at the point where that reopens,
• 1:34:24
  SPEAKER_01: If your channels are just in the right condition,
• 1:34:27
  SPEAKER_01: you go back out all of them, blowing them out to infinity, and that's Rainbow Body.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I think what he's talking about,
• 1:34:41
  SPEAKER_01: and I'd really have to ask him to know for sure,
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Is a matter of a method he has symbolically that smooths the channels,
• 1:34:55
  SPEAKER_01: which will make it easier for him to recognize the apparitions in the bardo.
• 1:35:02
  SPEAKER_01: But that's a guess.
• 1:35:04
  SPEAKER_01: One Lama trying to explain what a Lama meant,
• 1:35:07
  SPEAKER_01: another Lama meant by their symbolic rendition
• 1:35:11
  SPEAKER_00: is not necessarily
• 1:35:14
  SPEAKER_00: a hundred percent accurate.
• 1:35:19
  SPEAKER_01: So I was guessing what he might have meant by that,
• 1:35:22
  SPEAKER_01: explaining the patterns culturally that are known that that might be a riff off of.
• 1:35:31
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the best answer I can give you.
• 1:35:36
  SPEAKER_00: How is the pure perception of Vajrayana compatible with knowing exactly the faults
• 1:35:43
  SPEAKER_00: of a student in order to correct and help him or her overcome them?
• 1:35:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's not the faults of a student that are important to notice.
• 1:35:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's their Buddha nature.
• 1:35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes if they present to you with their channels in a snarl,
• 1:36:01
  SPEAKER_01: you can say, you know, you'd better comb that out, which is giving them a method.
• 1:36:07
  SPEAKER_01: But in general,
• 1:36:08
  SPEAKER_01: as long as the teacher is focused on the student's Buddha nature,
• 1:36:13
  SPEAKER_01: rather than their hangups, the student's attention will follow the teacher there.
• 1:36:19
  SPEAKER_01: And slowly over time release those hangups.
• 1:36:26
  SPEAKER_01: Today's little glitches are the terrors and playground fights of a three-year-old.
• 1:36:35
  SPEAKER_01: For all of us.
• 1:36:36
  SPEAKER_01: Really not worth focusing on.
• 1:36:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's your Buddha nature that needs to be focused on.
• 1:36:45
  SPEAKER_01: By both of us.
• 1:36:51
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:36:52
  SPEAKER_00: I've been following Lama Tasha's yoga and feeling nyams of bliss and sensation.
• 1:36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Can you advise how to integrate this to avoid attachment?
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_01: Don't grab it.
• 1:37:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a nyam.
• 1:37:07
  SPEAKER_01: Treat it like any nyam.
• 1:37:14
  SPEAKER_01: It comes, it goes.
• 1:37:16
  SPEAKER_01: The Japanese Zen word for nyams is comes and goes.
• 1:37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because they do.
• 1:37:23
  SPEAKER_01: If you like and you have the training and the nyam is stuck,
• 1:37:30
  SPEAKER_01: you can hit it with pet and look behind it.
• 1:37:33
  SPEAKER_01: Or you can repeat verbal prayers to your root guru to bless your mind and carry you past it.
• 1:37:43
  SPEAKER_01: These are two methods for unsticking a stuck nyam.
• 1:37:48
  SPEAKER_01: However, if it's just passing through, leave it be.
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_01: It'll go.
• 1:37:57
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:37:59
  SPEAKER_00: Can you tell us the first time you recognized your nature with your teacher?
• 1:38:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I already did that today.
• 1:38:10
  SPEAKER_01: I looked up at a clear sky one day.
• 1:38:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think we were sitting on his terrace.
• 1:38:14
  SPEAKER_01: He might have been cooking something.
• 1:38:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
• 1:38:20
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, have you noticed the sky is not blown about by the wind?
• 1:38:37
  SPEAKER_01: One more.
• 1:38:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:38:40
  SPEAKER_00: What are the subtle obscurations which are said to,
• 1:38:44
  SPEAKER_00: quote, steal treksha meditation because they remain unseen by the yogi?
• 1:38:53
  SPEAKER_00: Treksha Meditation.
• 1:38:58
  SPEAKER_01: Doing Treksha Meditation is a subtle obscuration.
• 1:39:03
  SPEAKER_01: You'll need to get over that.
• 1:39:05
  SPEAKER_01: And you'll think it's real.
• 1:39:07
  SPEAKER_01: The subtle obscurations are almost
• 1:39:13
  SPEAKER_01: realizations, nyams of realizations.
• 1:39:18
  SPEAKER_01: The idea of meditation,
• 1:39:20
  SPEAKER_01: the idea of progress,
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_01: the idea of accomplishing something, the idea of having gotten somewhere with it.
• 1:39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oops.
• 1:39:33
  SPEAKER_01: Those.
• 1:39:38
  SPEAKER_01: You'll just keep walking without hope or fear of getting somewhere or away from something.
• 1:39:50
  SPEAKER_01: One foot in front of the other because it's a habit.
• 1:39:54
  SPEAKER_01: And why not?
• 1:39:59
  SPEAKER_01: Realizations come and go.
• 1:40:01
  SPEAKER_01: Never grab them.
• 1:40:02
  SPEAKER_01: Don't shove them away.
• 1:40:04
  SPEAKER_01: Leave them alone.
• 1:40:06
  SPEAKER_01: Meditation occurs or not.
• 1:40:11
  SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone.
• 1:40:14
  SPEAKER_00: Let it be.
• 1:40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Once we're to this point,
• 1:40:34
  SPEAKER_01: fish out text.
• 1:40:49
  SPEAKER_01: There's a really good text on this.
• 1:40:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's actually born.
• 1:40:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's the cuckoo of awareness.
• 1:40:55
  SPEAKER_01: They're the Cuckoo's song.
• 1:41:03
  SPEAKER_01: I need these more and more these days.
• 1:41:14
  SPEAKER_01: Pal Gipal.
• 1:41:18
  SPEAKER_01: Pinnacle of pinnacles, peak of peaks.
• 1:41:25
  SPEAKER_01: Homage to the Buddha Primordial.
• 1:41:35
  SPEAKER_01: To the body, speech, and mind.
• 1:41:37
  SPEAKER_01: Of great bliss I prostrate.
• 1:41:56
  SPEAKER_01: To the Admantine heart of great bliss.
• 1:42:02
  SPEAKER_01: Unshakeable, I prostrate.
• 1:42:07
  SPEAKER_01: Nau tzok rang xin.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_01: Ni zhi chang?
• 1:42:12
  SPEAKER_01: The intrinsic nature of variety is non-dual.
• 1:42:20
  SPEAKER_01: But, ca sha nitro.
• 1:42:27
  SPEAKER_01: Nidutro, Dangtral.
• 1:42:32
  SPEAKER_01: Things aren't this and that.
• 1:42:36
  SPEAKER_01: Particularity is utterly free from complexity.
• 1:42:49
  SPEAKER_01: Look, all of it.
• 1:42:52
  SPEAKER_01: Variety is utterly non-dual.
• 1:42:58
  SPEAKER_01: See the interrelation, interconnectivity.
• 1:43:06
  SPEAKER_01: But notice that that in itself, that non-duality is utterly simple and free from complexity.
• 1:43:17
  SPEAKER_01: The words tangle, let them go.
• 1:43:19
  SPEAKER_01: Go on, let go.
• 1:43:25
  SPEAKER_01: Suchness is non-conceptual but.
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  SPEAKER_01: Primordial Buddha is inherent in the knowing,
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  SPEAKER_01: is apparent in all forms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jinpa Tsulwe Nangwanti.
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  SPEAKER_01: Having abandoned the Mali's of striving, since one already has it and always has.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lungi Nipajakpai Ing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Through being here and now, spontaneously without attempting it, leave it exactly as it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: No thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Moo.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since what holds you tight to existence as an entity,
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  SPEAKER_01: the illusion of existence as an entity,
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  SPEAKER_01: Is your hopes and fears, your striving for this and fleeing from that.
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  SPEAKER_01: You cannot possibly become free on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what we do, all of our practices is simply to create the karma for the happy accident.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't get there by running at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't get there by running away from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't get there by refusing to run at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't get there by refusing to run away.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doing and not doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are your subtle obscurations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of a yogi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ah, give me one more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does Dewa Chen exist as a real place we might go to after the body dies?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or is it an archetype place?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It exists as a real place as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: It exists as a place as real as this one.
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  SPEAKER_01: No more, no less.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I think we are done for today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever your practice is, practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: By practicing,
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  SPEAKER_01: you will
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  SPEAKER_01: create the cause, the karmic pattern.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is actualized in all beings arising as all Buddhas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep practicing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chi Chi Sala
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  SPEAKER_01: Goparshu
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  SPEAKER_01: This here Gewa that has been created by our interaction today,
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  SPEAKER_01: just as all those who have walked before me,
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  SPEAKER_01: all those who have walked After me,
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  SPEAKER_01: all those who walk with me have, will have, are doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I offer to the benefit of all life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So be it.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those of you who enjoy practicing with others,
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  SPEAKER_01: we have a number of group practices available to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Check the details of the schedule on the website,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we have 21 Taras for those who have problems.
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  SPEAKER_01: Physical problems, financial problems, psychological problems.
• 1:49:00
  SPEAKER_01: She's really good for those.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Chenrezig for those who need more love and more light in their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: What else have we got up there?
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  SPEAKER_01: I know that's not all we have.
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  SPEAKER_01: Working with Emotions,
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  SPEAKER_01: but that's for those who have taken that retreat,
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  SPEAKER_01: done the retreat,
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  SPEAKER_01: and want to continue to practice with others witnessing their practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Refuge, which people have asked about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intermine Ruchenne.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, no, I'm talking about our daily, our weekly, led by student things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, those, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chin-raising practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we've got Vajrasattva up now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, for those who think they have glitches that need removal, Vajrasattva.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those who think they have problems and need to solve them, Tara.
• 1:50:04
  SPEAKER_01: For those who want more love and light in their life, Chenrezig.
• 1:50:09
  SPEAKER_01: What else is up there?
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  SPEAKER_00: For the dailies?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not the dailies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Each one's on a weekly day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, there's Vajrasattva and then there's also the Vajrayoga, which we mentioned earlier.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's the Vajrayoga for those of you who need or who like to do physical aspects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, Emotions, Treksha, Chin Raising.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Treksha for those of you who like to actually sit and meditate together.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are all groups that happen during the week at different times
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  SPEAKER_01: with different students leading them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And coming soon,
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  SPEAKER_01: we hope to have Sutrayana,
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  SPEAKER_01: which will be more of a discussion group,
• 1:50:52
  SPEAKER_01: sort of a book club kind of thing for talking people.
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  SPEAKER_01: It will have a lot of words in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not all of these do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of these have more words than others.
• 1:51:02
  SPEAKER_01: The Treksha group doesn't have many words in it at all.
• 1:51:08
  SPEAKER_01: The Tantra group,
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  SPEAKER_01: such as Chenrezig and Tara and Vajrasattva,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's a few words and it's a guided meditation, guiding you through the sadhana.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you want,
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  SPEAKER_01: you can listen to the recordings with the full lung,
• 1:51:31
  SPEAKER_01: which are also up on the website and available.
• 1:51:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what we have going for the next couple of weeks.
• 1:51:39
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see anything else on there?
• 1:51:42
  SPEAKER_00: In terms of either the Thursday sessions or more like weekend sessions?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's on this coming Thursday?
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  SPEAKER_00: This coming Thursday...
• 1:51:52
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, that's actually, no, that's actually a private session.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, not this Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, but following on the 22nd will be Mahamudra,
• 1:52:02
  SPEAKER_00: and the Thursday following will be Nundra Prostrations.
• 1:52:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we, oh, we have ongoing Nundra classes.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't have a practice group for doing it together.
• 1:52:14
  SPEAKER_01: That, people are all over in where they are and how much they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was not Seemingly the best idea,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we are continuing on with Nundro for those people doing it,
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  SPEAKER_01: and you can join if you wish to do Nundro.
• 1:52:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't make you do Nundro.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's entirely up to you if you wish to do Nundro.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are some circumstances in which I advise doing Nundro,
• 1:52:43
  SPEAKER_01: and there are some circumstances in which I do not advise doing Nundro.
• 1:52:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you get to choose.
• 1:52:53
  SPEAKER_01: Those are extreme circumstances.
• 1:52:55
  SPEAKER_01: Generally, most of you fall in the middle, and you're welcome to do it if you want to.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some people like to.
• 1:53:01
  SPEAKER_01: Some people don't.
• 1:53:03
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what's going.
• 1:53:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to, I think, take next weekend off.
• 1:53:07
  SPEAKER_01: Next weekend's not scheduled.
• 1:53:09
  SPEAKER_01: I need a little time off, so I'm going to take next weekend off and do some other things.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'll continue the Thursday classes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll see you all in a couple of weeks.
• 1:53:24
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 1:53:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and do offer Donna to your translators if you enjoyed this and you heard it in
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  SPEAKER_01: a language other than English.
• 1:53:35
  SPEAKER_01: Your translators got to eat too.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to encourage them to keep doing this so you can keep hearing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So offer them some Donna.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's on the Donna page on the website.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can turn it.