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Q&A with Lama Lena — Oct 11, 2020 · Lama Lena Teachings

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  SPEAKER_00: You are live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is another one of those question and answers where all
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  SPEAKER_00: of those odd little questions that have been bothering you with no one to ask,
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  SPEAKER_00: you get to ask.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I may not get to all of them today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your question was vitally important to you, And I don't answer it online today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Send it to me as an email.
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  SPEAKER_00: My email's on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think doing this occasionally is pretty important.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what you don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what you don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you're curious about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this helps me also to discover What teachings I should be doing next?
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  SPEAKER_00: Lately, I've only been scheduling about a week in advance,
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  SPEAKER_00: partly because I honestly don't know how long the Mandareva teachings are going
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  SPEAKER_00: to take.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll take what they take.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not something that I have taught under these circumstances before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're teachings that I've had Under over a course of years again and again
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  SPEAKER_00: in different ways in different formats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So distilling it down to see how long it takes to actually tell
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  SPEAKER_00: the story non coherently because it's not a linear story.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's experimental.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm seeing what it takes.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, We'll see.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the forum,
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  SPEAKER_00: we have a discussion of teachings that are wanted,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you're welcome to join there and talk about things that are more at length
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  SPEAKER_00: than I can teach them here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shere Singe Bardu Shin Labdi,
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  SPEAKER_00: Deidam Abzan Tatatusam Chi,
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  SPEAKER_00: Zogchen Jupe Lama La Sol La Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_00: Urgin Pema Junila Sol La Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_00: Durji Chang Chi Chilal Narodang,
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  SPEAKER_00: Marpa Mila Gompot Satsapa,
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  SPEAKER_00: Na Pupadang Pal Dendrupasuk,
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  SPEAKER_00: Kargyul Lama Namla Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nyan du da yundran, Lama nam la sol wa deb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halkon du jong dang yer me pa,
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  SPEAKER_00: Gan garab dur ji jintrag pa,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeti dang nisu me pa yi, Pa Lama nam che ten te,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nyam, while we're waiting for people to come up with questions,
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  SPEAKER_00: Would you make me a slice of toast or something?
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to do that preta teaching today that was requested yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I will do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yesterday among the questions when I was teaching Mandareva, I forgot to eat breakfast today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're just going to put one together now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to take a bite so it becomes a leftover.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll show you how to offer to the pretas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your leftover food.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can't, due to their karma, they can't perceive new food.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can only recognize as edible leftovers.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a karmic condition they're in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever known anyone who, no matter how much you love them, Cannot feel loved enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are many little karmic glitches where we can't get enough of something.
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  SPEAKER_00: With me, it is surface area.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never have enough space to spread out my stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: For some people, it's money, no matter how much money you give them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They always don't have enough money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things, hoarders, they never have enough stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if they can't even get in the house,
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  SPEAKER_00: can't get through the door,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's still not enough stuff and they bring more stuff home because they feel a lack
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  SPEAKER_00: of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of us have an issue Finding or recognizing enough food.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you don't recognize enough food on your plate,
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  SPEAKER_00: in your mouth,
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  SPEAKER_00: in your stomach, you have a tendency to overeat and get a bit pudgy like me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I recognize that one in myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's good, I may want seconds before I finished my firsts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm working on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But people who stress eat,
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  SPEAKER_00: you want junk food when you're stressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the reason I don't ever buy myself potato chips.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have an enough setting for potato chips.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't offer me potato chips, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have an enough setting with corn chips, pretzels, all those other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But oddly enough, I don't have an enough, I can't perceive enough potato chips.
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  SPEAKER_00: So by offering to the pretas,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're going to have several effects on the Western psychological level,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is the level of your own internal karmic matrix
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  SPEAKER_00: contained in the seventh level
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  SPEAKER_00: of consciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: What it does is it signals to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if you're doing this as a practice, you always leave a little bit on your plate.
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  SPEAKER_00: No clean plate club.
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  SPEAKER_00: No worry about starving in China.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just need to figure out what I did with something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had notes for this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was on the table.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything on the table got moved in the stacks it was in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hand me my iPad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since I cannot find.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the papers that are over there to see if that's where I put it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This set?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just look and see if there's anything with a scribble on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at the back.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I can find this real fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought I was prepared to give you this teaching,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I thought it was right here on this little pad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't stick it there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was somewhere in my Mandareva text.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you remember the name
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  SPEAKER_00: the nun who was a student of Trungpa Rinpoche
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  SPEAKER_00: and his very famous Annie?
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  SPEAKER_00: She does a lot of books and teachings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm going to have to do that by memory.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can only send leftovers to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the trick is going to be you have to take a bite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having taken a bite, you take your leftover.
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  SPEAKER_00: You usually eat more of it than this,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I don't want to waste a lot of time on this this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you squeeze it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got butter on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You squeeze it in your hand like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take your other hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the finger of the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the finger of wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the finger of manipulation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You use your thumbs to use tools to manipulate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You close off the ends with these two fingers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you say,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nina Valuki Hamanta Pararami Bawa Samaya Mahamani Dru Dru Hridaya Jnena Soha.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you put it back on the plate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will need a napkin to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is whatever's left of your meal and you make it a point to leave a bit
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  SPEAKER_00: on your plate to do this, one fistful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having done that,
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  SPEAKER_00: this sets aside and later on,
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  SPEAKER_00: whoever clears the table,
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  SPEAKER_00: you or however that's going in the meal,
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  SPEAKER_00: collects all these bits on one plate and then chucks it outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you can't remember that mantra, you can always just say manis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Om mani padme hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it will work.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one that I just gave you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Om janina avalokate, that's genrezig.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samanta Pranarami Bhava Samaya Mahamani Drudru Hridayajnena Soha.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a shorter mantra that I was looking for that I thought would be easier
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  SPEAKER_00: for you to remember, but this one works and Manny's work.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does a number of things, first of all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It creates Gewa, and you always need more Gewa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second of all,
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  SPEAKER_00: it gives you the
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  SPEAKER_00: sensation of having enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably,
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  SPEAKER_00: actually,
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  SPEAKER_00: what is first, the starving Pretas get something to eat, and they're hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you've been hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So solving their hunger is important to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, have people got questions up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: One question is this.
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  SPEAKER_01: During your address at Smith College,
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  SPEAKER_01: you spoke of the secret teachings among the circle of Tibetan women.
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  SPEAKER_01: Will you give us these teachings?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you misunderstood something I said.
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  Ah, so no, there isn't such a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_01: How does one know if one's found one's heart group?
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  SPEAKER_01: And see if you can find out who that was that asked that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how does one know who is one's art guru?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't get just one.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are all the teachers that you really love with your heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: that you have a heart connection with, that help you on the path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us have a number of heart gurus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lama Yeshi was my heart guru.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lama Kunzang.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's someone on the porch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lama Kunzang was a heart guru.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lama Lamke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rabjor Dorji.
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  SPEAKER_00: Annie Boomchung.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeshi Dorji and Dharamsala.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tenzin Wanjel of the Bon, Lopanla of the Bon,
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  SPEAKER_00: Situ Rinpoche,
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  SPEAKER_00: Shakya Tenzin's sister at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shakya Tenzin's sister was the one
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  SPEAKER_00: Where we really spent a lot of time talking about how to live a life of practice
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  SPEAKER_00: without refusing the life part or the practice part because it was something
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  SPEAKER_00: that she had to decide then.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had not considered it before.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was just merrily prancing along doing whatever I wanted, which at the time was Dharma.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have many heart teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your root guru is whosoever manages successfully to show you the nature of your mind
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  SPEAKER_00: for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like you're only a virgin once and there's always going to be
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  SPEAKER_00: a little soft spot in your heart for whoever was first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi Douglas.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wonder if you're out there somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the same way,
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  SPEAKER_00: a root guru is the first one to show you in such a way that you actually see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The totality of your own enlightened nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you spend a few years finding the stability inherent in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you only meet your root guru once for a day a week,
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  SPEAKER_00: but your heart teacher holds your hand as you walk the path and catches you
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  SPEAKER_00: when you slip.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes Your root guru and your heart teacher turn out to be the same person.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not uncommon.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you might have other heart teachers as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spiritual friends that you love.
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  SPEAKER_00: That help you walk the path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_01: On first a comment,
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  SPEAKER_01: somebody had asked for the text you read from for the Predas,
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  SPEAKER_01: and someone else has posted a link from FPMT.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's where it's from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where I first learned this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later on,
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  SPEAKER_00: I learned a shorter mantra,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I quite liked because I'm a lazy person, from, name of that nun?
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  SPEAKER_00: Pema Chudun.
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  SPEAKER_00: From Pema Chudun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was looking for the short mantra because it was not coming to mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of old, you see.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's so much stored in there
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  SPEAKER_00: that sometimes my retrieval system,
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  SPEAKER_00: my filing system is not the best of information.
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  SPEAKER_00: So like I'll have to fish through all over the place to find a text.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll also sometimes have to fish through many places in my
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  SPEAKER_00: memory to find a mantra
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  SPEAKER_00: that I know perfectly well.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's why I always have the paper for the lineage in spite of the fact
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  SPEAKER_00: that it's well memorized in front of me because you just never know
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  SPEAKER_00: when you won't find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes what you can't find is say the word for umbrella.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, my partner's really used to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know that thing that you put up on a stick to keep the rain off you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you seen ours?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think this is something to do with getting old.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I find that, I will post it on Facebook for you and or give you the loom next time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and does it matter which hand the food is in when you do the practice?
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  SPEAKER_00: Non-dominant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for me, it would be left, but for my condo, it would be right because she's left-handed.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got a stupa for my altar and it has a small chamber at the heart and a big chamber
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  SPEAKER_01: at the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do I put in it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Relics.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have any relics from Wang de Rinpoche, you would put that in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or from another Lama.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed pills,
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  SPEAKER_00: jewels, precious substance, turquoise, coral, gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't have any of these things, juniper will stand in.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you should visualize that you are placing inside in such a way
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  SPEAKER_00: that you actually believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's more than just visualize visual, it's mentalize, imaginize.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with adding the element of,
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  SPEAKER_00: since nobody around here knows what's real from what is not, I,
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  SPEAKER_00: just like the president,
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  SPEAKER_00: I can choose my own reality and I choose to believe that this stick
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  SPEAKER_00: of juniper is many precious substances.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that idiot can do it, you can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially on something like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So imagine That it contains all the relics of the past ten Buddhas of our world system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, eight, nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Piece of information missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody type in how many Buddhas our world system has had.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like having scholars out there in the audience because when
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  SPEAKER_01: I forget something,
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  SPEAKER_00: I have resources.
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  SPEAKER_00: And since it's something I once knew, I will generally recognize if it's real or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why when you don't have an answer to a question about Dharma,
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  SPEAKER_00: to the Google is not always your best resource.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an awful lot of what I think of as Dharma rumor out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody heard something from a teacher in a particular context for
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  SPEAKER_00: a particular purpose and took it out of context and made a rule out of it
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  SPEAKER_00: and passed it on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially in Dharma forums.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, do they get going on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be a little careful with Dharma information that you find in random places.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a few websites that I trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wiki is pretty good, but I've found errors in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or not, I won't say errors, opinions stated as fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lotsawa house is pretty good for translations, although they still have the may I problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every time the Tibetan grammar of monlam,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is stating I will take rebirth as a Buddha in a thousand emanations, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: In English,
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  SPEAKER_00: the translators translate the grammar as may I,
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  SPEAKER_00: as if they're asking permission to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not in the Tibetan.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not even in the meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not asking permission.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're creating a monlam, a statement of intent.
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  SPEAKER_00: So who else?
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  SPEAKER_00: FPTMC is pretty reliable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good reference.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find the information on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: They vet it pretty well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who else do I know?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want historical intellectual information, Alex Brazen's pretty good.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's still a lot of opinions in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you just fish through them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But historically, intellectually, I quite enjoy his writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who else?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bond sites are quite reliable in the Bond lineage.
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  SPEAKER_00: They vet them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean Lingmonte as a site.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others, some are better than others.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't trust what you hear from guys in the forum unless you can find a reference
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  SPEAKER_00: to the text and double check it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The assorted forums.
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  SPEAKER_00: They try to be accurate, but rumors get in there really badly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Usually someone refutes them eventually, but it takes a while.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_01: What must be the qualities of a person who teaches Dzogchen?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not a matter of qualities.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not a matter of understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are Geshe's From whom I have had lovely Dzogchen text teachings where
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  SPEAKER_00: the finger points but the bell doesn't ring.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are simple yogis
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  SPEAKER_00: who have said things to me almost in passing that have pointed out.
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  SPEAKER_00: The qualities would be
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Having a valid lineage where Dzogchen,
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: beyond words,
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: even beyond symbols,
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: has been passed down from Kuntuzangmo, Kuntuzangmo, Primordial Buddha, Yab-Yam.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: From person to person, to person, to person.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: And by person, I don't mean Homo sapiens.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: To person, to person, to whoever's teaching it to you.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'd say lineage, which is an aspect of guru yoga, is the most important.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: I found it.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: Twice in recent online streams,
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: His Holiness the Dalai Lama mentioned the end of the galaxy in terms of
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: a few decades, about a hundred years or so.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: Can you say something about this?
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't hear that, so I can't tell you the context of it.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: Nor do I know what word he was translating as galaxy in Tibetan.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: There is a word which is commonly translated as galaxy,
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: but I've also seen it translated as world system.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: There is the belief that we are approaching,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: we are in the Kali Yuga, approaching the end of that where everything resets.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't know that dates have been given,
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: so I can't really address that not having been there or heard it.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: You'd have to ask him what he meant by that.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: On a related note,
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: what practice do you recommend is the best one to prepare and go through
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: the election to help ourselves and all sentient beings, especially in America?
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you can do it, Treksha and Zogchen are the most powerful practice,
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: at least in my opinion.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I would say, in this case, you may feel you want something more practical.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Tara.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Specifically Moonlight Tara.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: Fishing for text.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: Who is either number two or number three.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: She is the most effective for good governance.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the front.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: And a long text.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's supposed to be like that.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: Moonlight Tara.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: White the color of moonlight.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: Very beautiful.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: Carmo ladang droma.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: White as the autumn moon.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: Om tare tu tare ture shen.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: In the Suryagupta system, she is the second Tara.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Very powerful.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: And she governs good decisions,
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: good government.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: She's very effective on that.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: She liberates sentient beings by peaceful methods,
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: which we're hoping for, and pacifies all their disturbing attitudes.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: She is standing.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: She's also good for infectious diseases, fevers, and inflammation.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: Pacifies hindrances and gex.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: Patron of wisdom.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: She's white and sparkly, glittery, diamond rainbow sparkles.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: So the color,
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: let's say you painted your nails a luminous pearly white and
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: then put those little tiny Mylar glitters all over and a shiny top coat, that color.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: I would say this would be the best practice.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: Come here, text.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Would you like the loom for her mantra?
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: If so, repeat after me.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: Om tare tu tare tu re shantin kuru so ha.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: Om tare tu tare tu re
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: shantin kuru so ha.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to give them this mantra, make sure you photograph the Tibetan.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: So am I scanning this?
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just the Tibetan.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: The Tibetan and the English right under it.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Scan or
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: just do a
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: photo.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a photo would be easier, I think.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: Just make sure you focus and get the Tibetan.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: I always give things out with the Tibetan.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: So that you can reference them, where it came from, what it was when it was at home.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: That context, I think, is fairly important.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't like, if I can't find a text that has the Tibetan in it, I don't share it.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can't vouch for it.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: The translators who don't can put the text in Tibetan either in the back of the book
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: or somewhere really annoy me.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you wrote the book,
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: like Pema Chuddin writes a book,
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Trungpa Rinpoche wrote a book,
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: you don't have to put the Tibetan in unless you want to share it
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: with your Tibetan students.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: But if it's a translation,
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: you probably want to put the original in,
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: and if you have the Sanskrit, put that in too, because things change.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: For example, the arrow symbol in Tibetan, Dara.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: The word Dara in Sanskrit means symbol.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: So in Tibetan, Dara,
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: or Dar, Dar,
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: means both arrow and symbol,
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: therefore the arrow has become a symbol of the symbolic nature of the Sambhogakaya.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: Semantics.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: Actually it's a pun that became a deep symbol.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: Do we have another question?
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, we have many questions today.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: Once people get going, they usually do.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's an interesting question here.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, two that are related.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: One is, what are blessed pills?
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Who blesses them?
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: And related,
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: talking of relics,
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: do you have good stories and teachings about ring cells of masters?
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: So let's start with the first one,
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: which is that
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: there's different kinds of blessed pills.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: One kind, you gather together, did I put that here?
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, stop, where did I put it?
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: I've got a bottle here somewhere of Aru, Paru, and Churu.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is this it?
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: Which are Ayurvedic herbs.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: You can buy them in India.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: They hold energy really well.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to make a blessing pill, you gather together Aru, Paru, and Churu.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's three herbs.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you add...
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: Other holy substances such as Tibetan jewel pills,
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: you grind them up and you put them in a magical bowl,
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: a special bowl that's for that.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's what makes it magical.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's just for that.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: And then you go in to retreat with a bunch of people.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: The more people, the better.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: And you do vast quantities of monlam and mantra for a long time.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: I often get pills that have been made up in Kunur during the rainy season retreat,
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: where all the nuns go into retreat and make these mani pills.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's also a set made by His Holiness and His Monks,
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: also during the summer retreats,
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: the monsoon season retreats,
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: which are traditional,
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: where they find a spot,
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: sit down in it, and do millions and billions and quadrillions of manis and empower.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: They put the manis,
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: they blow on these little powdered herbs They blow on them and they bless them and
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: the energies put into them.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_00: And then you mix them with a little Sampa until you can make a clay-like substance
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: by adding some matrix like a water.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Water will work or milk is more common because it's one of the white substances.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you add the three sweet substances and the three white substances,
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: being milk, yogurt,
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: and butter, and being honey, garam,
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: and there's one other that I can't remember.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's not coming to mind.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: Molasses, maybe.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: This all goes in and you get it into a dough and then everybody sits there
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: while continuing to mutter the mantra and makes these tiny little pills.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: And those are called mani pills.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then they give them to all their friends after and acquaintances and they get passed around.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: And when I travel, I'm pretty much always giving them out to you.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, I'm not having the opportunity to do that.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I'll be moving around again.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you some mani pills.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: So that's one kind.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now, relic pills are another thing.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: And this one needs a story.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: When my root teacher, Wang Dor Rinpoche, went back to Tibet the first time to see his parents,
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, it was the second, third time, because by then we were financially doing okay.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: The first time he went, he barely had the money to
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: make it.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: We were still broke cave yogis.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: But it was after he was teaching that he went back,
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_00: and he put a new roof on the monastery that the Chinese had torn down,
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: helped rebuild it.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: To a great extent because he had some funds at the time.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: So everyone was very happy with him for doing that.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: And they dug up the treasure chest that they hid from the Chinese.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: And inside were 73 packets, each labeled carefully,
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: of different relics.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: So there were a bit of tilopas hair.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_00: Some nettles left from Milarepa.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: Relics of the Kargyu and the Nyingma going all the way back.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: Bit of Guru Rinpoche's fingernail trimming, something like that.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember all that was in there, but there's this long list.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: We wrote it out.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: And when he had those, And he was still visiting.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: He heard of not very far away an old Shakyayogi of the Shakya lineage.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: And he had been collecting relics in the Shakya lineage for long and long,
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: for his whole life.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: And he was very old.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: And Rinpoche went to him and said,
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_00: my dear Yogi,
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have collected and have now in my possession all the relics of the Nyingma lineage
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: and the Kargu lineage, but I'm a Rimei and I have no Shakya lineage relics.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody can look sad like Rinpoche.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_00: He's got this puppy face he can do and it always works.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: It even works on cops.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: So the Shakya yogi couldn't resist Rinpoche's puppy face and gave him a little bit
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: from each packet that he collected throughout his entire lifetime.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: When he got back to India,
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: he went to His Holiness,
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: the Dalai Lama,
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: and he said to him,
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_00: when I was in Tibet,
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was able to acquire All the relics of the Nyingma and Kargyu and Shakya clans.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: But I have nothing from the Galupas.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: Dalai Lama couldn't resist it either.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: So he gave him blessed substances and relics from the Galupas.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: And Rinpoche took all this back to Guru Rinpoche's cave where he lived.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_00: And he ground it all up into a powder.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_00: And he mixed it with aru, paru, and churru.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: Which I have a jar around here somewhere to show you, but...
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's probably up in the cabinet or somewhere.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: That would beat my ears.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: And Sampa, of course.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_00: And made little pills of it.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: And for years he passed them out.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I have a few of those.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: After some time,
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: when he was running low,
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: he ground them up and made more because it works homeopathically.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: Relics do.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I have some and I've been saving them.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: Until I can get some relics of the bond lineage.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: So that we have all five.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then I will mix it with aro, grind it all up and mix it with aro and parro and churu.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: And make little pills out of it.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: And share it with y'all.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: And it's incredibly powerful.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: We used to put it in the...
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_00: Bumpa, whenever we taught so that the Bumpa blessing had all the lineages
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_00: of Tibet contained therein.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: So these are the two kinds
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_00: that I am familiar with.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: There's also Mendrup.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and Lama Kunzang,
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_00: using some mantra,
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_00: probably Ekizati,
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: For a few months made these hindrance-removing pills that were quite something.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_00: You remember those?
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_00: They removed people's husbands.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_00: They removed people's jobs.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: Anything in the way of your practice.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: Ow.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you ate one.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: So they weren't that widely distributed because most people were scared of them.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you're attached to your hindrance.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: Can't say they didn't work, though.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: They worked.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think I've still got one of those left.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: I stored it with a little piece of mushroom that the weird sorcerers down
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: in North Africa told me the effects were permanent.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: I still have half of that left.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_00: But that's a different story.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: You also wanted to know about Rinpoche.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: The only experience I personally have with Rinpoche is Wong Dor Rinpoche's.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: I have seen Rinpoche from other places,
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: but Rinpoche,
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: when he was cremated,
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_00: there were Rinpoche all over the place, not just where it burned.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_00: They look like tiny little pearls.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_00: They've got that pearliness, that rainbowiness to them, and they're very, very tiny.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: And we found them wherever the smoke touched,
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: on the roof,
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_00: around the cremation,
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: outside in the flowers and in the lawn,
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: up on top, up on the roof, on top of the tin roof.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: On top of the roof of the gompo where the smoke had blown.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: Were you there then for all the ringsel hunts?
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_01: Not for the ringsel, no.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was running around finding ringsel.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_00: They're magic.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was having trouble finding ringsel at that time.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_00: Because...
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't quite have enough faith in ringsel.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: So the first few days I would find a ringsel and then my mind would project onto it
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: that it was a pebble,
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: a grain of rice, a mustard seed, and I would not believe in it and it would vanish.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that kept happening.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I asked some of my Tibetan friends for help finding Ringsol because I wasn't doing...
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: They kept disappearing on me after I found them because I couldn't...
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: I kept...
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_00: The... Levels of consciousness...
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_00: Eight levels of consciousness...
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_00: The first six are your six sense organs.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: We include Yi, where you experience the sensation of thinking and feeling.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: Solar plexus.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: The seventh is assumptions.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: The moment you perceive something with one of your six sense organs,
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_00: you develop an assumption about it Within your subscribed reality checklist.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_00: Possible, not possible.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's why Westerners can't see dragons.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_00: Took me forever to see dragons, too.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not good at this.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very earth-type, grounded, solid.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_00: So you gotta really kick me in the ass to get me to shift over into other realities.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, now I can see dragons, but it took a while.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't see ringsel for the first couple of days and hunting for them.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: So finally I was given some ringsel by my friend.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then I saw them in my hand and several other people were looking at them
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_00: and they were all looking at them with faith.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so my lack of faith in the existence,
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: the possibility of such a thing, being a Westerner, couldn't overcome their faith.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so the ringsel didn't vanish into rainbows and disappear.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_00: They sat there.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked at them for quite a while and then kept them in a little packet.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_00: They're in one of my gows.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_00: After that,
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: then I began to be able to see them and find them without my mind doing
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: that seventh consciousness,
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_00: that ignorance of assumption thing to them that made them vanish.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_00: Some people are naturally more flexible than I am.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_00: And have an easier time taking one step sideways into alternate realities.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_00: It has always taken a lot of determination.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: Fortunately, together with the solidity that I suffer from, stubbornness goes with it.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I will simply stubborn at it until it shifts.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_00: So...
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_00: After 50 years,
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: my assumptions have become much more transparent.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_00: Those are ring cell.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to take a gal apart right now and go hunt them out.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_00: They're put in protected places.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_00: I gave one to Ankush.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_00: Who helps me as a medic in Solpema at a clinic when I was first there
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_00: before I felt I was a little too old to practice medicine anymore and too forgetful
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_00: and also not traveling too much when I was traveling, beginning to travel and teach.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_00: So he looks after my patients and my disciples medically
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_00: and I tell him what he needs to give them.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I gave him one, and I just got an email from him that it had babies, and now he has three.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_00: What you do with a ring cell is you put it in a quiet place in a gal on the altar,
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_00: and you leave it alone for a while.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_00: You don't poke at it.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_00: And eventually, when you check, it has babies.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then you get more ring cells.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_00: You can keep giving them away Rinpoche used to shed them in his bed.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_00: I had to warn people as we traveled when they go to make the bed after him,
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_00: check carefully because he leaves ring cell all about in the bed.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so many people found good collections of ring cell from Rinpoche that he shed in the bed.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think Lynn has some of those up in Seattle.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the other people we stayed with.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: Those who could see them.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: Lynn's an artist.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_00: She's much more flexible than I am.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: It really didn't take her any effort to find them at all.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_00: And there was a young man in Bolinas whose grasp of common reality is fuzzy enough
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: that he's actually been in and out of the hospital for it.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_00: And he used to find them every time we stayed there really easy.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think I have told what I can on those questions.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to add one comment on medicine pills.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is to...
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_01: Remind people,
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_01: if you have seen the Guru Rinpoche statue in Sol Pema,
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_01: the Kapala that the statue holds is not empty.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_01: It actually contains giant-sized medicine pills.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_00: With real stuff in them.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_01: With real stuff in them that were made by the cave nuns and the monks of
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_01: the Ziggur Monastery communities.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_00: Somewhere we have photos that I think I have.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think you passed them to Tasha.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_00: She has photos of that going up on the website.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_01: But yes, that was actually a thing they did.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_01: The whole statue, as a matter of course, is not empty.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_01: It is filled with things to evoke the body, speech, and mind of Guru Rinpoche.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_01: So there are relics in there, but I've been enjoying not to say which ones.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: I can say for certain there's one in his Vajra.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's Guru Rinpoche's, we can say this, because we had to smuggle it all over the place.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_01: So we couldn't say what it was, just...
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: I think now we can.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_00: Guru Rinpoche's Dorji.
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_01: And it is in there.
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's in there.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_00: I got hit on top of the head with it several times,
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: which really alters your consciousness, just...
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_00: And we had to smuggle it through security.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_00: And Rinpoche would smuggle it through in his underwear and everyone would ignore him
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_00: and I'd get strip searched every time while we were carrying that.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was really, and he's going, done playing with the security guards?
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_00: Which one did you think was cute?
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he used to tease me about that.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_01: Did you finish with that piece of paper I gave you?
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to put it back before I lose another text.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm also going to post the image, if I may.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have a better, no, it's not better.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just like it better, but it's not an actually better image.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go ahead.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and I brought this up because someone had a question about using a Kapala.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_01: How should you use a Kapala in Salk offerings in Highest Yoga Tantra?
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: The blessed liquid substance is placed in the Kapala and Kapalas come with
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_00: a little spoon
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_00: or you get a little spoon and in there is placed
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_00: an alcoholic substance and you go around and you put a little bit
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_00: in the hand,
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: usually left.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_00: Of the participants and they drink it.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's how it's used.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_01: Serious question.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: What is the Zogchin view on suicide?
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: I have a kindergarten student,
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_01: a four-and-a-half-year-old boy who's very depressed and may be considering it.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_01: What should I do?
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_00: Get him help.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_00: Under most circumstances, and everything is circumstantial, is context.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_00: Suicide is a really bad idea because it doesn't work.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_00: You can't die.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_00: You can only kill the body.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't resolve depression.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_00: Then you're a depressed ghost.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_00: You're still there and you still feel like crap.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't solve anything.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you are dying
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_00: and wish to choose your time and circumstance of it very close to
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_00: the end,
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_00: choosing to stop eating or drinking is not considered a negative suicide action.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_00: Choosing to discontinue life support is not considered a negative suicide action.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_00: So under certain contexts of severe illness while dying,
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_00: managing to live a little longer or a little shorter so that you can die in
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_00: the proper circumstances.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_00: To have your best chance at practicing in the bardo
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_00: is not always considered negative.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_00: It depends on your abilities.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_00: For most people who attempt suicide to solve a problem, it doesn't work.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_00: There you are dead and you've still got the same problem.
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_00: So highly disrecommended and a four-year-old who's depressed definitely needs some help.
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_00: These times are really difficult for children.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_00: Hell, it's always difficult being a kid,
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_00: but in particular now is exceptionally difficult with COVID,
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_00: no school, online school, strange grownups doing odd, inexplicable things.
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_00: Stay there, stay organized.
• 1:03:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is all Tara texts.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: At least it's organized enough to know that if I want information on Tara,
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_00: this is the bundle it's in.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's the best I can do.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_00: Someday I'm gonna get around to going through all those texts and labeling them on
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_00: the outside Because only half of them can I remember what I put in there.
• 1:04:17
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_01: How can I practice self-compassion without falling into laziness?
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_01: I find it much easier to be kind, forgiving and compassionate with others before myself.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_00: It would really depend on where your Pogcha is stuck.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you expect perfection from yourself?
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: In Zogchen,
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_00: it's all about recognizing your innate perfection that requires no effort
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_00: to maintain and relaxing into it.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_00: I need more to answer that question because it's not going to be the same answer for everybody.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's not one that's across the board informational.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's going to be specific to the context of the personality asking it.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_00: So let's try a different one.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_00: That one probably ought to go by email with a little bit of a statement
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_00: of exactly what you mean by that.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_01: Can you tell us how we can resolve lung imbalances through Dzogchen practice?
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_00: Relax.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_00: Just relax.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_00: Lung is caused by a combination of strong, usually upward flowing qi, And constricted channels.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_00: If the channels aren't constricted, it doesn't matter where the chi goes.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's welcome to go up and out the top.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's when it goes through a constriction that problems arise such as strokes,
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_00: headaches,
• 1:06:17
  SPEAKER_00: migraines,
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_00: physical symptoms such as that,
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_00: mental symptoms such as nuttiness,
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_00: inability to concentrate, agitation, Inability to sleep.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_00: Recommend that you treat it as a medical illness.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_00: See a Tibetan doctor.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_00: They have excellent treatments for it.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_00: For a basic first aid home remedy, fried cheese.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_00: Protein might work.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_00: Fried potatoes, greasy fried potatoes with cheese on them.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_00: Potein with a lot of cheese curds under the gravy.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_00: That'll do it.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_00: You can make a soup involving the
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_00: hooves and feet
• 1:07:25
  SPEAKER_00: of Well, yak is traditional.
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: But you can use sheep, goat, probably even pig, but it's a bit cold.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_00: I prefer to use beef.
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_00: Hooves and feet, boiled for hours.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_00: Very gelatinous soup.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_00: You would add to that because it's not very digestible.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_00: Orange peel.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_00: And the lower parts of asparagus,
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_00: right between the root and the tip that you like to eat as asparagus,
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_00: there's a part that you break off that's tough,
• 1:08:09
  SPEAKER_00: that goes in there and cooks with it.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_00: So orange peel for it to be digestible.
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_00: A little bit of cayenne pepper to open the channels.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_00: And
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_00: To moisturize the inside of the channels is where you put the asparagus.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you make that and you freeze it up in an ice cube tray.
• 1:08:40
  SPEAKER_00: And every time you get lung, you use the broth as a basis for whatever you're cooking.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's good for you.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_00: I used to make a vat of it every year and freeze it up.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_00: Pass it out to patients.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_01: I tend to be drawn to graveyards and do meditation.
• 1:09:03
  SPEAKER_01: What is your take on this?
• 1:09:05
  SPEAKER_01: Practice should.
• 1:09:12
  SPEAKER_01: Would you ever consider teaching should?
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm not good enough at it.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_00: I will see about getting a visiting teacher to teach it here online.
• 1:09:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to have next month,
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_00: November,
• 1:09:39
  SPEAKER_00: a further continuation of Dream Yoga by Geshe Tenzin Wanjil Rinpoche,
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_00: who has elements of Dream Yoga in the Bon that I am not experienced enough with
• 1:09:55
  SPEAKER_00: to teach you.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I've asked him to come and teach that.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm familiar with him, but don't feel comfortable teaching them.
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because I haven't had yet every possible accident you can have with those methods.
• 1:10:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm accident prone.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_00: So not yet knowing where the holes are,
• 1:10:12
  SPEAKER_00: I've asked him,
• 1:10:13
  SPEAKER_00: who has used those methods, and is an excellent dream yogi, to come and teach that.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_00: And he's agreed to do so.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're working out exactly the details.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_00: But it will be a continuation for those who have been attending
• 1:10:29
  SPEAKER_00: the previous dream yoga teachings.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we do have guest teachers in here sometimes
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_00: when it's something I'm not comfortable to teach you myself.
• 1:10:41
  SPEAKER_01: There's also a comment saying Lama Sultra will be giving the loan
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_01: for normal Rinpoche's short suit
• 1:10:48
  SPEAKER_00: next weekend.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 1:10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 1:10:52
  SPEAKER_00: You might enjoy that.
• 1:10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Does she do, is it Machik or Troma?
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say in the comments.
• 1:10:59
  SPEAKER_00: I think she is Machik because she is considered to be an emanation of Machik Labtron.
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so generally teaches Machik Chud.
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_00: But she's excellent at it.
• 1:11:11
  SPEAKER_00: Getting it from her would be lovely for you.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Apart from Treksha,
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_01: what practices open up to seeing the impossible
• 1:11:23
  SPEAKER_01: that our consciousness otherwise refuses to see?
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Nundro.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_00: I found the best effects in Nundro working in the mandala practice,
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_00: which I will be teaching in about six months
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_00: because we have a Nundro group.
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_00: They're working their way through prostrations.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'll teach Vajrasattva.
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm teaching it in pieces and doing a lot of hand-holding here because there's
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_00: so many people who have been trying to do Nundro forever
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_00: and have lost their enthusiasm.
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I figured I'd take a group through and just stick with them and hold their hand a bit.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_01: How does one begin the practice of Sajjana?
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Receives the pointing out, the teachings, and then practices them.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you get it, great.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't get it, try something else for a while and then try again.
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Create the cause to actually Receive the direct pointing out,
• 1:12:46
  SPEAKER_00: the mind teachings, the fourth wall.
• 1:12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: Will you be giving teachings about Ekidzadi, the guardian of Saucin?
• 1:12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 1:13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Not publicly.
• 1:13:08
  SPEAKER_01: And can you talk a bit about protector practice and its benefits?
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_00: You need,
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_00: in order to be able to relax,
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_00: a feeling of safety which is not sludgy,
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_00: not bored, but safe.
• 1:13:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's levels of the way that can be experienced,
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_00: but the protector,
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_00: setting up a protector mandala around whatever you're doing,
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_00: making it feel protected,
• 1:13:40
  SPEAKER_00: the place you're in,
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_00: the circumstances you're in, feel safe, is very helpful to your practice.
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_00: You kind of need that, otherwise you're going to stress about stuff.
• 1:13:54
  SPEAKER_00: And stressing is a distraction, especially with treacherous.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Another one?
• 1:14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm looking through.
• 1:14:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really going through them this week.
• 1:14:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's, oh yeah, let me.
• 1:14:13
  SPEAKER_01: I have arthritis and cannot prostrate to the ground.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Is there a modified method?
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I have shown one or two people a tabletop method.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_00: That can be done if you have had knee replacements.
• 1:14:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because doing full prostrations,
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_00: having replaced your knees, requires going down on your knees for a moment.
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_00: And you can't do that even on a pillow.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's not good for your prosthesis or the flesh around it.
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_01: But it's...
• 1:14:55
  SPEAKER_00: Only to be used in strong extenuating circumstances.
• 1:15:02
  SPEAKER_00: And you visualize it as going down to the ground.
• 1:15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 1:15:13
  SPEAKER_01: What is Rene?
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned it earlier when you were talking about the relics.
• 1:15:18
  SPEAKER_01: The opposite of Suri.
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Suri
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_00: My lineage is better than yours is.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's the only true one.
• 1:15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Rime is practicing and accepting and finding the truth in all lines.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_00: It is non-sectarianism, I guess I'd call it in English, whereas Suri is sectarianism.
• 1:16:03
  SPEAKER_00: My way only.
• 1:16:05
  SPEAKER_00: There are a few teachers.
• 1:16:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm not going there.
• 1:16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Can I practice Parnashavari after receiving the lung recording from you?
• 1:16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, lungs can be received by a recording.
• 1:16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Can you tell the story of how you became a Lama?
• 1:16:42
  SPEAKER_00: People started asking me for teachings.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can't really say no if it's something you know.
• 1:16:55
  SPEAKER_00: My teacher's teacher noticed and said to me,
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_00: so are you teaching in Tibetan yet to the Tibetans?
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, huh?
• 1:17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you should be.
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_00: After some time after that, some Tibetans came and made the request for teachings.
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_00: And as my own teacher became older
• 1:17:35
  SPEAKER_00: and
• 1:17:38
  SPEAKER_00: want to say less interested in words
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_00: was
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_00: the impression.
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_00: His teachings got shorter and shorter.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_00: They went from two hours,
• 1:17:55
  SPEAKER_00: which is what I usually do now,
• 1:17:58
  SPEAKER_00: to an hour and a half, to 45 minutes, to half an hour, to 15 minutes.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_00: And after he would teach for however long,
• 1:18:15
  SPEAKER_00: just to give the piff, he'd say, if they've got questions, you answer them.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: So it was an organic process as is really most common among the Tibetans.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Someone is considered a Lama when people go to them for teachings and
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_00: when they behave like a Lama by looking after their students and their people.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Both sides giving teachings and taking care of people are the expectations of a Lama.
• 1:18:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's not enough Just to be able to teach.
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_00: You also have to take on the responsibilities,
• 1:19:05
  SPEAKER_00: which depending on whatever karma you've created will vary.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_00: But there's usually a group of students that you are supporting,
• 1:19:15
  SPEAKER_00: taking care of, teaching, making sure they have enough to eat, that they're healthy.
• 1:19:24
  SPEAKER_00: It just works like that.
• 1:19:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you can't put someone in retreat and not feed them.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_00: So you make sure they're gonna have food.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Most Tibetan teachers have a monastery somewhere.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Or centers or some such that they look after.
• 1:19:55
  SPEAKER_00: In my lineage, we didn't really have those.
• 1:20:04
  SPEAKER_00: Centers are a cause for hassle.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_00: They have politics.
• 1:20:14
  SPEAKER_00: They need lots of attention.
• 1:20:15
  SPEAKER_00: They're always broke.
• 1:20:18
  SPEAKER_00: So Rinpoche never wanted any.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm about the same.
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've got online stuff,
• 1:20:25
  SPEAKER_00: but not trying to purchase land and build edifices and all of that.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_00: There's enough llamas doing that.
• 1:20:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's centers all over the place.
• 1:20:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't need to do it too.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I can do something else.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_00: But I would say in the Tibetan way, I became a llama in a very organic manner.
• 1:20:51
  SPEAKER_00: It just sorta happened.
• 1:20:58
  SPEAKER_00: After a while, my teacher started calling me Lama Lena.
• 1:21:02
  SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, of course, he laughed his head off every time he said it.
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_00: I was perhaps the last one expected ever to turn into a Lama among all the homies.
• 1:21:18
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't on purpose.
• 1:21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oops.
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Is it normal to experience a high amount of synchronicities after starting this practice?
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_00: You always do.
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_00: You're just noticing them.
• 1:21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Be careful of finding them where there aren't.
• 1:21:48
  SPEAKER_00: Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence.
• 1:21:53
  SPEAKER_00: It takes really three things patterned together to make a true synchronicity.
• 1:22:00
  SPEAKER_00: And they're usually symbolic.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:22:08
  SPEAKER_01: There was one moment while I find it.
• 1:22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Karmically speaking, why is there such rise in autism spectrum?
• 1:22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 1:22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Personally, I think it's a rise in reporting.
• 1:22:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's probably a rise in noticing it.
• 1:22:40
  SPEAKER_00: But
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think there was and has been all along
• 1:22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Neuro-atypical people.
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_00: I can look at what caused mind karmically,
• 1:23:04
  SPEAKER_00: which had to do with being a prig of a scholar with absolutely no bodhicitta,
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_00: high status and some wealth,
• 1:23:15
  SPEAKER_00: leading to several lives of brain farts.
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Dyslexic last time.
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_00: And Autistic this time.
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Last time I was excellent with social interactions.
• 1:23:28
  SPEAKER_00: So good at that.
• 1:23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Couldn't read or write barely.
• 1:23:33
  SPEAKER_00: The letters wiggled.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Couldn't recognize them.
• 1:23:37
  SPEAKER_00: And this time I'm a compulsive reader
• 1:23:43
  SPEAKER_00: has to do with not having made the best of
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_00: an opportunity I had three lifetimes ago, I suspect.
• 1:23:55
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see if I've still got brain farts next time or if I've resolved the geck.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 1:24:07
  SPEAKER_01: What meditation practices or mantras do you recommend for children?
• 1:24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Manny's.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_00: And Manjushari.
• 1:24:19
  SPEAKER_00: The magic of before you speak.
• 1:24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Or eat or drink first thing when you get up.
• 1:24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Saying the Manjushri mantra with repetition of the seed syllable.
• 1:24:36
  SPEAKER_00: It really helps the growing brain and the intellect.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_00: You do it like this.
• 1:24:44
  SPEAKER_00: As many D's as you can.
• 1:25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Very powerful practice for children while their brains are growing,
• 1:25:16
  SPEAKER_00: say up to the age of 25 or 30.
• 1:25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Helps develop the neural tissue and its flexibility and ability to recognize patterns.
• 1:25:37
  SPEAKER_01: And another one.
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:25:43
  SPEAKER_01: You've mentioned a meditation practice you know of that helps with pain.
• 1:25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Can you talk more about it?
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's treacherous.
• 1:25:57
  SPEAKER_00: There are two things going on with pain.
• 1:26:02
  SPEAKER_00: There is the physical sensation.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the rejection, the not liking, the aversion to that particular sensation.
• 1:26:20
  SPEAKER_00: So when you have pain,
• 1:26:25
  SPEAKER_00: if you take a comfortable but positioned with alignment as best you can depending
• 1:26:31
  SPEAKER_00: on what hurts,
• 1:26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Take a deep breath in through your nose and flow out through your mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: To settle the Chi in your channels and relax the body.
• 1:27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Relax the speech.
• 1:27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Relax the mind.
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  If
• 1:27:18
  SPEAKER_00: you notice you're holding tension somewhere in the body,
• 1:27:24
  SPEAKER_00: intentionally relax those bits.
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Don't fight with your thoughts.
• 1:27:37
  SPEAKER_00: Trying to shove them away.
• 1:27:42
  SPEAKER_00: Don't follow them either.
• 1:27:45
  SPEAKER_00: Entertaining them.
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_00: Leave them be in their own nature.
• 1:28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Rise easing in mind, dissolving in mind.
• 1:28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Inseparable from infinite open awareness.
• 1:28:14
  SPEAKER_00: The dance, the play, thoughts and feelings arising.
• 1:28:23
  SPEAKER_00: Do not be distracted by the sensation of thinking
• 1:28:31
  SPEAKER_00: or the tactile sensations of the body.
• 1:28:35
  SPEAKER_00: Or what you see, hear, smell, or taste.
• 1:28:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do not grasp or reject any of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not engage
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  SPEAKER_00: In explaining,
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  SPEAKER_00: describing,
• 1:29:13
  SPEAKER_00: grasping or rejecting.
• 1:29:24
  SPEAKER_00: Notice
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  SPEAKER_00: that the doer is the deed.
• 1:29:36
  SPEAKER_00: And the seer is what is seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest there
• 1:29:50
  SPEAKER_00: and allow the six sensations to arise and vanish as they do.
• 1:30:05
  SPEAKER_00: Relax into it as it.
• 1:30:22
  SPEAKER_00: When you become skillful,
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_00: accustomed to doing this,
• 1:30:34
  SPEAKER_00: Pain arises, but it isn't interpreted as negative.
• 1:30:40
  SPEAKER_00: It simply is.
• 1:30:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, this doesn't make it go away.
• 1:30:47
  SPEAKER_00: It simply makes it not a problem.
• 1:30:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is easiest to do while sitting.
• 1:31:03
  SPEAKER_00: With your channels in alignment.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is gone.
• 1:31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Treture.
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_00: However, when you get up, do not change
• 1:31:19
  SPEAKER_00: your treture or your gone.
• 1:31:25
  SPEAKER_00: Leave it.
• 1:31:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just like that.
• 1:31:37
  SPEAKER_00: Personally,
• 1:31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I find that when moving around,
• 1:31:42
  SPEAKER_00: cooking dinner and doing things,
• 1:31:45
  SPEAKER_00: it more difficult to relax to the extent of this level of torture.
• 1:31:57
  SPEAKER_00: So if I know I'm going to be busy, I tend to take a pill.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas if I'm not going to be busy,
• 1:32:08
  SPEAKER_00: I generally don't bother because if I'm just sitting,
• 1:32:16
  SPEAKER_00: it doesn't really matter if it hurts or not.
• 1:32:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's just a sensation like all the others dancing through emptiness.
• 1:32:35
  SPEAKER_00: But you have to do a lot of practice for this to happen.
• 1:32:40
  SPEAKER_00: And you may have to take a pill while you practice if you're a beginner.
• 1:32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Or you won't be able to relax into this and you'll just sit there and fret
• 1:32:50
  SPEAKER_00: about how much it hurts.
• 1:32:57
  SPEAKER_00: And let's see if we have one or two more that seem important.
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Does one's karma go into the next life as a collective personality or as
• 1:33:09
  SPEAKER_01: an end result of a life journey?
• 1:33:15
  SPEAKER_00: If you mean what I think you mean by that as a collective personality.
• 1:33:30
  SPEAKER_00: All of you.
• 1:33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't all reincarnate at the same all of you.
• 1:33:40
  SPEAKER_00: All of you shares karma as a group karma.
• 1:33:45
  SPEAKER_00: You and your biome.
• 1:33:50
  SPEAKER_00: But also as slightly individual karma.
• 1:33:56
  SPEAKER_00: Your biome.
• 1:34:00
  SPEAKER_00: As constantly being born and dying, as are you, changing in each moment.
• 1:34:11
  SPEAKER_00: Karma is the pattern
• 1:34:18
  SPEAKER_00: held by or in or as the eighth consciousness.
• 1:34:28
  SPEAKER_00: The eighth consciousness, we've talked about the first seven.
• 1:34:32
  SPEAKER_00: The seventh being all your damn assumptions.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_00: The eighth is your sense of being.
• 1:34:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think therefore I am, I, me.
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's not quite the same as ego, but similar.
• 1:34:55
  SPEAKER_00: All of the seven together create the eighth.
• 1:35:06
  SPEAKER_00: All of the sensations of the six sense organs are interpreted via the assumptions
• 1:35:17
  SPEAKER_00: and all of that together creates an interpreter.
• 1:35:24
  SPEAKER_00: And due to the oopsie of duality,
• 1:35:30
  SPEAKER_00: the doer is not recognized as the same as the deed.
• 1:35:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so a disassociation occurs between perceiver and what is perceived.
• 1:35:46
  SPEAKER_00: This block is what keeps your treacher from stabilizing.
• 1:35:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because you are doing trekture.
• 1:35:58
  SPEAKER_00: Subject, verb, object.
• 1:36:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oops.
• 1:36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Trekture is doing you.
• 1:36:12
  SPEAKER_00: Doing.
• 1:36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Being is you and trekture.
• 1:36:23
  SPEAKER_00: You see, language isn't quite going to go there.
• 1:36:26
  SPEAKER_00: It never does.
• 1:36:33
  SPEAKER_00: What moves from moment to moment,
• 1:36:39
  SPEAKER_00: held by, in,
• 1:36:42
  SPEAKER_00: as that sense of being,
• 1:36:45
  SPEAKER_00: of being an entity,
• 1:36:47
  SPEAKER_00: a clump of this,
• 1:36:50
  SPEAKER_00: separate from that,
• 1:36:52
  SPEAKER_00: that Changes in each moment and that changing in each moment and experience
• 1:37:02
  SPEAKER_00: of being is not affected by death or birth
• 1:37:11
  SPEAKER_00: or going to sleep or moving from dream
• 1:37:15
  SPEAKER_00: to dream or waking up.
• 1:37:21
  SPEAKER_00: It changes.
• 1:37:23
  SPEAKER_00: Continuously.
• 1:37:25
  SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't end.
• 1:37:32
  SPEAKER_01: And one more.
• 1:37:34
  SPEAKER_01: How do I decide if I should aim for Amitabha's pure land in the bardo
• 1:37:40
  SPEAKER_01: or any other rebirth for that matter?
• 1:37:43
  SPEAKER_01: Should your chosen destination be decided before you die?
• 1:37:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good idea.
• 1:37:51
  SPEAKER_00: To make plans.
• 1:37:54
  SPEAKER_00: Choose the one you like.
• 1:37:56
  SPEAKER_00: Read the descriptions of the different Pure Lands.
• 1:38:00
  SPEAKER_00: See which one floats your boat
• 1:38:07
  SPEAKER_00: and go for that one.
• 1:38:11
  SPEAKER_00: Anitabha's Pure Land is considered easiest to get into.
• 1:38:18
  SPEAKER_00: You need to at least be on the first level of Bodhisattva having developed
• 1:38:26
  SPEAKER_00: At least an inkling of the real rather than the fake bodhicitta.
• 1:38:34
  SPEAKER_00: Fake bodhicitta is kind of like pity and it's all mixed in with ego.
• 1:38:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you poor thing.
• 1:38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm better than you.
• 1:38:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to give you this.
• 1:38:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like, oh, what do they used to call it?
• 1:38:50
  SPEAKER_00: White man's burden stuff crap from the days of colonialization.
• 1:38:59
  SPEAKER_00: Man, was a lot of digpa created that way, thinking it was Gawa.
• 1:39:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
• 1:39:13
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, those who were doing that then are experiencing the result now.
• 1:39:27
  SPEAKER_00: As you go on through the changes
• 1:39:30
  SPEAKER_01: of life to life,
• 1:39:33
  SPEAKER_00: moment to moment,
• 1:39:38
  SPEAKER_00: everything,
• 1:39:39
  SPEAKER_00: every choice you make,
• 1:39:41
  SPEAKER_00: every intent,
• 1:39:42
  SPEAKER_00: every movement, every doing,
• 1:39:47
  SPEAKER_00: has an effect on what will be experienced.
• 1:39:52
  SPEAKER_00: If I get up and walk into the bathroom, I am doing something.
• 1:39:57
  SPEAKER_00: And the experience of my sense organs are changing because of it.
• 1:40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Constantly.
• 1:40:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's karma.
• 1:40:08
  SPEAKER_00: Cause and effect.
• 1:40:11
  SPEAKER_00: Pattern.
• 1:40:15
  SPEAKER_00: You got one more for me?
• 1:40:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:40:17
  SPEAKER_01: Can you say a few words on Mahakala and his practice?
• 1:40:26
  SPEAKER_00: Not here specifically.
• 1:40:33
  SPEAKER_00: Is the great master of time, Kala.
• 1:40:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's another pun.
• 1:40:46
  SPEAKER_00: He masters time and the patterns of time.
• 1:40:50
  SPEAKER_00: He protects you from falling into The illusion of occupying only a single point in
• 1:40:58
  SPEAKER_00: the space-time continuum.
• 1:41:10
  SPEAKER_00: Very powerful protector against your own glitches.
• 1:41:17
  SPEAKER_00: And another one, and I'm about done.
• 1:41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, how many seem really important?
• 1:41:24
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just do a quick run through here and see what's what.
• 1:41:33
  SPEAKER_01: One from the Spanish translator.
• 1:41:36
  SPEAKER_01: If the illusion of decision and action is determined by karma,
• 1:41:42
  SPEAKER_01: how can we really decide to do Gewa or Digpa?
• 1:41:49
  SPEAKER_00: Let go of either or.
• 1:41:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's where you're stuck on this one.
• 1:41:58
  SPEAKER_00: Either it is predestined or it is not predestined.
• 1:42:06
  SPEAKER_00: Let go of neither nor.
• 1:42:11
  SPEAKER_00: It is not predestined and not not predestined.
• 1:42:19
  SPEAKER_00: These are dogmas.
• 1:42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Is's and isn't's.
• 1:42:33
  SPEAKER_00: In the words of Saraha,
• 1:42:39
  SPEAKER_00: in the natural or innate vastness of awareness,
• 1:42:46
  SPEAKER_00: where all is's and isn't's aren't.
• 1:42:51
  SPEAKER_00: Always loved that quote.
• 1:42:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's from the Songs of Eight Mahasiddhas,
• 1:42:56
  SPEAKER_00: a Kargu text that's very, very beautiful Mahamudra poetry.
• 1:43:06
  SPEAKER_00: And that's from the Song of Saraha upon realization.
• 1:43:15
  SPEAKER_00: As long as you attempt to understand the Dharma,
• 1:43:22
  SPEAKER_00: With a belief in things being either this way or that way,
• 1:43:29
  SPEAKER_00: you will not be able to go past the first of the three main levels,
• 1:43:34
  SPEAKER_00: which is Sutrayana,
• 1:43:38
  SPEAKER_00: Kerim,
• 1:43:42
  SPEAKER_00: and Kriya Tantra.
• 1:43:47
  SPEAKER_00: For Zogchan,
• 1:43:52
  SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to let go of that assumption.
• 1:43:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I cannot answer this question in the context of either or,
• 1:44:05
  SPEAKER_00: but rather from the view of the fourth time, all Buddhas are all Buddhas.
• 1:44:18
  SPEAKER_00: From the view of the fourth time, all sentient beings have arisen as all Buddhas.
• 1:44:30
  SPEAKER_00: The intent
• 1:44:35
  SPEAKER_00: has already occurred
• 1:44:40
  SPEAKER_00: and yet Within the stories that we tell and live
• 1:44:46
  SPEAKER_00: and experience here and now as the symbols dance and are interpreted as
• 1:44:56
  SPEAKER_00: all of this
• 1:44:57
  SPEAKER_00: that we think is whether it is or is not.
• 1:45:05
  SPEAKER_00: There is the illusion or the reality Because there is neither a separation
• 1:45:12
  SPEAKER_00: between illusion nor reality of there being free will and choice.
• 1:45:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you choose the karma you will create by choosing the deeds.
• 1:45:28
  SPEAKER_00: Of course,
• 1:45:29
  SPEAKER_00: who you are that makes this choice or that choice has been created
• 1:45:33
  SPEAKER_00: by your past imprints and past karma.
• 1:45:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let go of either or, of is and isn't.
• 1:45:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let go of all those damn assumptions.
• 1:45:55
  SPEAKER_00: Don't shove.
• 1:45:57
  SPEAKER_00: If you try to shove them away, they're gonna shove back at you.
• 1:46:01
  SPEAKER_00: Just let go with a giggle and find the comfort
• 1:46:09
  SPEAKER_00: Of relaxation into your own true nature.
• 1:46:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's where I would like to end unless there is something
• 1:46:23
  SPEAKER_01: critical or crisis.
• 1:46:26
  SPEAKER_01: No, the earlier children's question was the most crisis driven, I think.
• 1:46:33
  SPEAKER_01: The one about suicide.
• 1:46:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, get help for that kid.
• 1:46:38
  SPEAKER_00: Professional help,
• 1:46:39
  SPEAKER_00: someone who knows how to work with small children who are having a hard time.
• 1:46:47
  SPEAKER_00: Which is not CPS.
• 1:46:54
  SPEAKER_00: As a result of today and our interaction and the Samya relationship created by our interaction.
• 1:47:05
  SPEAKER_00: May all beings arise as all Buddhas in the Four Times.
• 1:47:13
  SPEAKER_00: So it is Sopa.
• 1:47:20
  SPEAKER_00: Nge-wan-di-hi-nyur-du-da.
• 1:47:50
  SPEAKER_00: We are complete for today.
• 1:47:54
  SPEAKER_00: If any of you in the interest of creating Gewa And merging your practice with
• 1:48:01
  SPEAKER_00: the yogis would like to adopt or sponsor any of our yogis out in Solpema
• 1:48:13
  SPEAKER_00: who spend
• 1:48:14
  SPEAKER_00: and have committed their lives to practice.
• 1:48:18
  SPEAKER_00: Most of them are women.
• 1:48:21
  SPEAKER_00: The guys are down in the monastery having monastery politics.
• 1:48:27
  SPEAKER_00: That was a snark.
• 1:48:33
  SPEAKER_00: The women are up in the caves in retreat or in shacks about the town.
• 1:48:37
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're interested, it's about 20-25 bucks a month to keep somebody in retreat.
• 1:48:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's well worth it.
• 1:48:47
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to do that, send me an email.
• 1:48:50
  SPEAKER_00: Do not mix that with personal questions.
• 1:48:55
  SPEAKER_00: Separate email.
• 1:48:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:49:01
  SPEAKER_00: And if any of you particularly liked this teaching,
• 1:49:05
  SPEAKER_00: if you have enjoyed yourself and wish to offer Dana,
• 1:49:09
  SPEAKER_00: there's a PayPal button on my website.
• 1:49:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next week,
• 1:49:16
  SPEAKER_00: where there is, I believe, Mandareva again, where we'll continue looking at that.
• 1:49:24
  SPEAKER_00: And there will also, I think, be a refuge.
• 1:49:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, there is.
• 1:49:30
  SPEAKER_01: Refuge is Sunday, Mandareva is Saturday.
• 1:49:34
  SPEAKER_00: So refuge is a limited group, 30 people at a time.
• 1:49:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's how many I can do a full ceremony with online.
• 1:49:45
  SPEAKER_00: However, I do it again and again.
• 1:49:46
  SPEAKER_00: I repeat it.
• 1:49:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you aren't in this group for refuge and you want to be in the next group
• 1:49:53
  SPEAKER_00: and you have not already taken refuge, or...
• 1:49:59
  SPEAKER_00: You've messed it up somehow.
• 1:50:02
  SPEAKER_00: You can consider applying for the next group.
• 1:50:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think upcoming, we're going to have a flight of the Garuda again soon.
• 1:50:17
  SPEAKER_00: And possibly if enough people sign up are working with emotions.
• 1:50:25
  SPEAKER_00: So check the website.
• 1:50:28
  SPEAKER_00: Usually, right now I'm doing short scheduling because I'm mixing it in with the Mandareva.
• 1:50:33
  SPEAKER_00: So usually it comes up Monday or Tuesday what's on for the next weekend.
• 1:50:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm pretty regularly teaching every weekend at Pacific Standard Time,
• 1:50:44
  SPEAKER_00: 11 a.m. Perhaps I'll see you next weekend.
• 1:50:50
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 1:51:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you are no longer alive.