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[19/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 17 (Dec 2021) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_01: The beginning parts go before the ending parts, and each part has a set of practices in it.
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SPEAKER_01: So you do those practices over the month.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what makes it go in.
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SPEAKER_01: Just listening is fun, pretty, sometimes even inspiring.
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SPEAKER_01: But without the practice, that's all it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a good movie, fun and then gone.
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SPEAKER_01: It's with the practice that allows it to go deeply in and become part of you.
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SPEAKER_01: So remember that.
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SPEAKER_01: If you choose, do the practice.
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SPEAKER_01: If you don't choose, go study Lam Rim.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna die.
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SPEAKER_01: Do notice.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is a good reason to choose to do the practice.
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SPEAKER_01: One among many.
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SPEAKER_01: Other reasons are life hurts.
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SPEAKER_01: You spend your time in struggle.
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SPEAKER_01: Struggle to get what you want,
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SPEAKER_01: struggle to get away from what you don't want,
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SPEAKER_01: struggle to keep what you have, struggle to avoid what you would prefer not to have.
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SPEAKER_01: Like tax audits, you would prefer, or traffic tickets, you would prefer not to have those.
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SPEAKER_01: Interactions with the government,
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SPEAKER_01: we would all prefer not to interact with the government, it being
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SPEAKER_01: Like tigers, which are better not interacted with for people.
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SPEAKER_01: In this way, you struggle.
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SPEAKER_01: And unfortunately,
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SPEAKER_01: unless you choose to develop free will,
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SPEAKER_01: you repeat the same patterns of struggle again and again, and they don't work.
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SPEAKER_01: Is there some aspect of your life that is simply not working?
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SPEAKER_01: And yet, however you approach that aspect, you do not change your approach.
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SPEAKER_01: It's hardwired in.
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SPEAKER_01: It's built on your past, on your trauma, on your karma.
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SPEAKER_01: And so, as such, you do not have the free will to change it.
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SPEAKER_01: You keep trying to change it by poking at it outside.
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SPEAKER_01: Trying to fix financial issues by acquiring money.
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SPEAKER_01: Trying to fix health issues by repeatedly taking medicine of one kind or another.
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SPEAKER_01: Or by repeatedly avoiding medicine of one kind or another.
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SPEAKER_01: You try to fix love issues.
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SPEAKER_01: By pursuing serial monogamy,
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SPEAKER_01: changing partners again and again,
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SPEAKER_01: never quite satisfied with the fixer uppers you choose.
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SPEAKER_01: Whichever area of your life is problematic,
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SPEAKER_01: notice that you are Continuously approaching those problems the same way according
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SPEAKER_01: to your own patterns, your own drummed in patterns.
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SPEAKER_01: Stress, anxiety, anger.
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SPEAKER_01: These are the reactions you automatically have to situations.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't have to.
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SPEAKER_01: If.
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SPEAKER_01: You choose to develop free will.
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SPEAKER_01: The changes
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SPEAKER_01: need to be made inside through practice.
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SPEAKER_01: And there is for each and every set of foibles out there an appropriate practice.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's not all the same, which is why you need a teacher.
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SPEAKER_01: To help you sort out which practice might be appropriate now,
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SPEAKER_01: which is not necessarily the one that's appropriate in six months.
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SPEAKER_01: What I am trying to say here with a lot of analogies
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SPEAKER_01: and pointing out things I have noticed among friends and relations
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SPEAKER_01: within my own mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a rat in a maze,
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SPEAKER_01: the path before you lies, and the pattern never changes until the rat dies.
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SPEAKER_01: Simon and Garfunkel, long, long ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Unless you choose to practice some method that will change your pattern, it will stay the same.
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SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's already not working.
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SPEAKER_01: Hence, Teachings on Flight of the Garuda.
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SPEAKER_01: Zobchen, Jupelamala, Solwadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Ergen, Pema, Junila, Solwadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Durjichang, Chitlunarudang, Marpa, Mila, Gompo, Tatapa.
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SPEAKER_01: Pardon me.
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SPEAKER_01: Frogs.
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SPEAKER_01: Solvadev.
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SPEAKER_01: Nian du dang yundran lama nam la, Solvadev.
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SPEAKER_01: Pa kondu shong dang yir me pa, gun garab dur jishin trag pa, So we are on Chapter 17.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is almost a synopsis of the practice and path.
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SPEAKER_01: In shorter words, in short phrases, going over the instructions.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to review,
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SPEAKER_01: we've gone about halfway through 17 already,
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SPEAKER_00: but I'm going to review it just a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: As soon as I find a pair of glasses.
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SPEAKER_01: There we go.
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SPEAKER_01: They're all over the house because I'm always losing them.
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SPEAKER_01: Mostly because I don't need them every day, just some days.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's dusty.
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SPEAKER_01: There, now I look like Mrs. Claus.
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SPEAKER_01: My beloved son and daughters, listen up.
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SPEAKER_01: After you have fully grokked,
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SPEAKER_01: that's below conscious thought,
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SPEAKER_01: understood on a gut level,
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SPEAKER_01: intuited and established,
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SPEAKER_01: the essence of the conditions of Dzogchen vision.
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SPEAKER_01: You must release, let go of your attachment and your aversion to your family and homeland.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember me telling you don't make retreats in your own home?
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SPEAKER_01: Find another Dharma practitioner near you and switch homes?
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SPEAKER_01: You see, your home is full of your to-do list.
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SPEAKER_01: It needs cleaning, folding, dusting, repairing all those things, and they will bother you.
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SPEAKER_01: Go somewhere else.
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SPEAKER_01: Switch homes with somebody down the street or an apartment nearby just for a week
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SPEAKER_01: to make a nice retreat outside of the mandala that supports your personality
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SPEAKER_01: as it is now.
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SPEAKER_01: You see, this isn't you, the body.
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SPEAKER_00: This all is you.
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SPEAKER_01: Nando, could you just pan the camera around through the kitchen and the rest of the room?
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SPEAKER_01: I want to show you a picture of more of me.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, let me start.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just like that.
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SPEAKER_01: See if you can make it go once all the way around.
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SPEAKER_00: Probably.
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SPEAKER_00: I need to step to the side there.
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SPEAKER_01: And then our kitchen.
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SPEAKER_01: As you can see, I cook.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all me.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's all Nyando, my partner.
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SPEAKER_01: Nyando, stick your face in here for a minute.
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SPEAKER_01: This is part of my mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: I am my mandala.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: You are your mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: And it doesn't end at the walls of my house.
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SPEAKER_01: It goes on that-a-way and that-a-way and that-a-way and that-a-way as far as I can imagine.
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SPEAKER_01: So does yours.
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SPEAKER_01: I can show you mine.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to see your own.
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SPEAKER_01: That mandala holds your personality together.
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SPEAKER_01: It has your toys.
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SPEAKER_01: It's full of your toys.
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SPEAKER_01: We all play with different things.
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SPEAKER_01: I play with visual phenomena, form.
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SPEAKER_01: I love form.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to embrace it.
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SPEAKER_01: Make love to it and compass it.
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SPEAKER_00: Dissolve into it.
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SPEAKER_00: Dissolve it into me.
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SPEAKER_01: It is possible to do consort practice with the entire universe rather than just some guy.
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SPEAKER_01: Some guys are interchangeable.
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SPEAKER_01: If you wish to use them as the symbol for the universe, just pick one.
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SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_01: As long as you can train them up well.
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SPEAKER_01: It seems the training them upright seems overmuch effort to me when there is
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SPEAKER_01: the entire universe to fall in love with.
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SPEAKER_01: It can never betray you.
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SPEAKER_01: Too big, too multifarious, too singular.
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SPEAKER_01: This is your mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: So one of the first instructions is leave that.
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SPEAKER_01: Within it, you are less flexible.
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SPEAKER_01: Go somewhere else.
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SPEAKER_01: Anywhere else.
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SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_01: Mountains, forests, campgrounds.
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SPEAKER_01: This season, head south.
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SPEAKER_01: It's warmer down there.
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SPEAKER_01: Duck the tornadoes.
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SPEAKER_01: That is actually important for you to do at some point early in your practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Who are you when your mandala is not holding it together?
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SPEAKER_01: Holding you together as a person involving an entire past, a family, everything.
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SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
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SPEAKER_01: Go alone to the forest or a mountain hermitage.
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SPEAKER_01: The word alone is the important one here.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't take your husband, your lover, your kids.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe your dog is okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Abandon all physical work and dwell at ease.
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SPEAKER_01: Really, all you gotta do in life is eat, sleep, and shit.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing beyond that is any of your business.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything beyond that is just playing with your toys.
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SPEAKER_01: Shut up, cease all verbal expressions.
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SPEAKER_01: Remain in internal and external silence.
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SPEAKER_01: Transcend all objects of thought and let your mind merge with infinite open space.
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SPEAKER_01: In this state, relax without attempting to fix anything, change anything, do anything.
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SPEAKER_01: And without diffusion or fixation.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the actual gone beyond of Dzogchen meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: This is how you do it.
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SPEAKER_01: These are instructions for a practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Go alone, off somewhere, out there, away from your mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: And just sit there without doing anything and stop trying to fix everything.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of your ambitions, your dreams, your hopes and your fears.
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SPEAKER_00: Sit there and watch the display as it occurs.
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SPEAKER_01: Your feelings Of relief,
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SPEAKER_01: of boredom, of jitsiness, of whatever you're feeling, that's part of the display.
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SPEAKER_01: Any thoughts that arise in your mind, that's part of the display.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts, feelings, and perceptions,
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SPEAKER_01: all part of the display.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow it to occur naturally without fixating on it.
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SPEAKER_01: Or diffusing away from it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's this month's practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually, that's the one I gave you last month.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody do it?
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SPEAKER_01: Too cold right now?
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SPEAKER_01: Cheap tickets down to Mexico.
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SPEAKER_01: I think Hawaii is open.
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SPEAKER_01: You could do it if you wanted to.
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SPEAKER_01: And it won't work until you do.
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SPEAKER_01: And I can't do it for you.
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SPEAKER_01: When the mind is free of all ambition and belief supports,
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SPEAKER_01: things are like this, things are like that.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the Dzogchen vision.
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SPEAKER_01: Rest in a state of non-meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Recognize Dzogchen's un-goalish goal of non-attainment.
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SPEAKER_01: Really, it is so much easier to go off and do this.
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SPEAKER_01: It is so much harder to do it in the middle of your own mandala.
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SPEAKER_00: Do it the easy way, guys.
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SPEAKER_01: Otherwise,
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SPEAKER_01: you're just going to get a nyam of nominatainment,
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SPEAKER_01: a nyam of being at peace,
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SPEAKER_01: an experience that had a beginning and is going to have an end.
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SPEAKER_01: And that will be like taking an acid trip.
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SPEAKER_01: Have fun for now, you come down.
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SPEAKER_01: Further,
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SPEAKER_01: when you are composed in equanimity,
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SPEAKER_01: living the vision, do not become entangled in any web of judgmental thought.
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SPEAKER_01: By saying to yourself, now I've arrived at a state of total presence.
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SPEAKER_01: I wonder if I'm doing it right.
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SPEAKER_01: Have I arrived at a state of total presence?
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SPEAKER_01: Now I'm caught in manic depression.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh dear.
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SPEAKER_01: No, let it be.
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SPEAKER_01: Stay wakeful in the continuum of reality without any notion of present or future attainment.
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SPEAKER_01: Flexible and responsive in unobstructed freedom.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what is the most frequently asked question I get?
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SPEAKER_01: Am I doing it right?
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SPEAKER_01: Usually the answer is yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Keep doing it.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the answer is not if you just believe the thought about
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SPEAKER_01: whether you're doing it right or not.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got to get past all of that.
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SPEAKER_01: Not get past thinking, am I doing it right?
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SPEAKER_01: I just thought that like 30 seconds ago as I was teaching you this.
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SPEAKER_01: Am I communicating it right?
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SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about that.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Feelings happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Depression happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Elation happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Hyper happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Insomnia.
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SPEAKER_01: All of this shit happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop trying to fix it and just ride with how it is.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you have these thoughts, you don't have to believe they're real.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't choose not to think, for that would be to become a big dead old nuttin'.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the formless realms.
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SPEAKER_01: When the non-thinking experience becomes grasped,
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SPEAKER_01: You get born in the highest realms among the gods.
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SPEAKER_01: 80,000 eons, nothing happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing at all.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you wake up
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SPEAKER_01: back here.
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SPEAKER_01: Just like it was.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's a nice rest, like a nap.
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SPEAKER_01: Seems an awfully long nap.
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SPEAKER_01: So, The whole point in Zogchan is to learn to stop trying to fix everything.
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SPEAKER_01: To do that,
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SPEAKER_01: you need to become familiar with and comfortable with Your thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: feelings, and perceptions.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to relax and allow them to be as they are without trying to fix them.
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SPEAKER_01: I've said two opposite things already this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: I've said you need to practice if you want to get anywhere without it.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't even have free will.
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SPEAKER_01: And I've said there is no practice to be done.
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SPEAKER_01: And I lied to you both times because I spoke in words and the reality is beyond concept.
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SPEAKER_01: From a certain perspective of the path, you need to climb the mountain.
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SPEAKER_01: From another perspective of the path,
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SPEAKER_01: There never was a mountain.
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SPEAKER_01: Both are true and neither.
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SPEAKER_01: In Kerim, which is necessary for Zogchen to work.
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SPEAKER_01: Zogchen will only work if you have created enough Gewa and shared it out so
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SPEAKER_01: that it fills the entire mandala without grasping a bit of it.
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SPEAKER_01: That is done through the practice of K-Rim.
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SPEAKER_01: When it's full enough, it spills over, it tips over, and flows naturally into Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: So we practice Zogchen Light.
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SPEAKER_01: By following the instructions,
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SPEAKER_01: making the retreats,
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SPEAKER_01: doing the things,
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SPEAKER_01: while knowing
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SPEAKER_01: that not doing
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SPEAKER_01: is the goal and it cannot be done.
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SPEAKER_01: It only arises by accident.
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SPEAKER_01: Because if you were to do not doing,
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SPEAKER_01: You'd be doing, you see.
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SPEAKER_01: Ah, words.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot perceive non-conceptual truth with your structured intellect.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not made out of thoughts, and thoughts will not wrap around it.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot reach the place of non-action through doing it.
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SPEAKER_01: Temporal activity is doing.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't do not doing because it's not doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Outer body rushen.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a nundro.
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SPEAKER_01: If you do it right, it leads to not doing.
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SPEAKER_01: But if you're not ready...
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SPEAKER_01: You'll just end up playing with your psychological crap.
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SPEAKER_01: If you want to attain the non-conceptual goal of non-action,
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SPEAKER_01: rest naked in total presence, free of dualistic grasping.
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SPEAKER_01: Put down your ethers and ors.
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SPEAKER_01: Put them down.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop trying to figure it all out.
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SPEAKER_01: The supreme vision is free of all conceptual duality.
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SPEAKER_01: Supreme meditation is freedom from the cultivation of some attributes and rejection of others.
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SPEAKER_01: Supreme action is beyond all striving and effort.
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SPEAKER_01: The supreme goal is ever imminent beyond aspiration.
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SPEAKER_01: This
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SPEAKER_01: This here, this now.
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SPEAKER_01: Just as it is.
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SPEAKER_01: When we say it's all perfect,
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SPEAKER_01: we do not mean that it is all whatever you think perfect would be.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a judgment.
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SPEAKER_01: When judgment ceases,
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SPEAKER_01: Things are permitted to flow freely in their natural patterns through the four dimensions.
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SPEAKER_01: In that free flow, there are no strictures.
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SPEAKER_01: All actions arise as spontaneity.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts arise simply as the sparkle of the luminescence of infinite awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: Your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: In its fullness.
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SPEAKER_01: Darmata.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of your hopes and fears,
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SPEAKER_01: your fixits, your internal and external to-do lists, your oughta, shoulda, wouldas.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: This does not begin now.
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SPEAKER_01: This is actually as it always has been and always will be.
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SPEAKER_01: It cannot be other than this.
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SPEAKER_00: In the fullness
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SPEAKER_01: of the fourth time,
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SPEAKER_01: all beings arise as all Buddhas.
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SPEAKER_01: And all Buddhas dance the patterns of arising.
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SPEAKER_01: The mandala is infinite.
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SPEAKER_01: Mind itself is infinite.
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SPEAKER_01: And there is no correction which needs to be or ever could have been made
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SPEAKER_01: As it is.
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SPEAKER_01: This is Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: And it does not change and it is constantly dynamically dancing and moving
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SPEAKER_01: with no thing actually doing the movement.
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SPEAKER_01: There is nothing to object to.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing to reify.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax, let go, and leave it be as it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not refrain from action.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not instigate activity.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow the natural flow of the patterns of the fourth time to manifest.
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SPEAKER_01: As it always has done, will have done.
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SPEAKER_01: To see this for yourself, follow the instructions.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though they're not real.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you think makes Guru Rinpoche's eyes look like that?
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SPEAKER_01: Do not be biased or partial to one thing or another.
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SPEAKER_01: Thus, by thus being,
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SPEAKER_01: you would spoil your free and easy,
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SPEAKER_01: uncontrived consciousness of here and now by clinging attachments,
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SPEAKER_01: by preferring this over that, grabbing this and shoving that.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do it.
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SPEAKER_01: The radiant insubstantiality of total presence of the here and now.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the highest peak of all vision.
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SPEAKER_01: This all-pervasive, all-embracing object of mind transcending the intellect.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the highest peak of all meditations.
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SPEAKER_01: This unforced, detached, free, easy spontaneity.
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SPEAKER_01: Detached, no, it's not detached.
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SPEAKER_01: It's intricately interwoven with all phenomena, none of which has any reality whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: This spontaneous accomplishment present from the very beginning is the summit
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SPEAKER_01: of all non-attainment
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SPEAKER_00: as well as of attainment.
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SPEAKER_01: There's nothing more to be done.
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SPEAKER_01: One of the last question that,
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SPEAKER_01: or a question that Guru Rinpoche's teachers Frequently asked him
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SPEAKER_01: while he was studying,
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SPEAKER_01: this is in one of his autobiographies, was, are you satisfied?
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SPEAKER_01: Each time he answered, no, not quite.
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SPEAKER_01: And I am mostly satisfied until the last time he was asked.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he just smiled.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you satisfied?
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SPEAKER_01: The matrix of vision is observation of emptiness and radiance without clinging to it.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not grab your realizations.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not maintain them.
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SPEAKER_01: Fresh and spontaneously free in each instant as it occurs.
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SPEAKER_01: The matrix of meditation is maintenance of reflexive release without clinging.
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SPEAKER_01: To maintain meditation, to stabilize meditation, is to stabilize the act of releasing it.
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SPEAKER_01: You see that?
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SPEAKER_01: As you meditate, you enter into states of meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: And you try to keep them, and that is counterproductive.
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SPEAKER_01: Release each state you enter.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the stability of release, not of acquiring, that we're looking for.
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SPEAKER_01: The matrix, the mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: A vision is observation of emptiness and radiance without clinging to it,
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SPEAKER_01: noticing without grabbing.
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SPEAKER_01: Matrix of meditation is maintenance of reflexive release without clinging to it.
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SPEAKER_01: The matrix of action is relaxation with free and easy response to the six sense fields.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
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SPEAKER_01: Don't withhold.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't grab.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't sit on it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't suppress.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't force.
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SPEAKER_01: The matrix of the goal is collapse of all expectation and apprehension.
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SPEAKER_01: When the mind has no limitations, we see the highest vision.
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SPEAKER_01: When it has no point of reference, we practice the highest meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Until then, meditation has a point of reference.
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SPEAKER_01: But develop the habit of letting go of those as they arise in Dzogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: When we are free
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SPEAKER_01: There's a page here somewhere.
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SPEAKER_01: I see what it's done.
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SPEAKER_01: Give me a moment.
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SPEAKER_01: When we are free of all inhibition and indulgence, neither.
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SPEAKER_01: We perform the highest activity.
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SPEAKER_01: When mind is free of hope and fear, we have attained the highest goal.
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SPEAKER_01: By repressing your hopes and fears, that's not going to get rid of them.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just going to sneak around behind you and come out your ears.
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SPEAKER_01: Release them in this way.
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SPEAKER_01: As there is nothing to see,
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SPEAKER_01: abandon all fixed ideas of what you might see,
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SPEAKER_01: all preconceived notions and all parameters of vision.
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SPEAKER_01: As there is nothing upon which to meditate, let whatever arises arise as it does.
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SPEAKER_01: As there is no particular way to behave,
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SPEAKER_01: Give up your evaluation, judgment, and criticism of others or of yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not act crazy to fake this state.
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SPEAKER_01: I have seen a few try that.
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SPEAKER_01: They have done themselves a serious mischief by it.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot fake it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't even try.
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SPEAKER_01: It will happen quite naturally.
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SPEAKER_01: As there is nothing to attain, forsake all expectation of results.
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SPEAKER_01: But it won't happen if you're waiting to pounce on it.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_00: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Whatsoever can be is total presence.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not cling to any one thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to stabilize anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow the free flow of the pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: You are not separate from that pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: You are not an entity in that pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: You are a partial manifestation of that pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: As is everything else.
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SPEAKER_01: No more important or less important.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing is it.
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SPEAKER_01: So stop trying to find it or get it.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not judge and criticize and decide what isn't it.
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SPEAKER_01: No intellectual concepts are valid.
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SPEAKER_01: So don't presume it's this way or that way.
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SPEAKER_01: As Saraha says, and even the jewel ornament of liberation is no more real than any of these.
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SPEAKER_01: Jewel ornament of the Dharma.
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SPEAKER_01: The Dharma is a rope you climb up the cliff.
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SPEAKER_01: You do not need that rope once you have reached the top.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you turn around and look, it was never there.
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SPEAKER_01: Patterns.
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SPEAKER_01: Primally pure intrinsic awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: naturally radiant, transcends the intellect and objects of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: So there is no thing to see.
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SPEAKER_01: As its existence has no root or ground, there is no thing to meditate on.
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SPEAKER_01: As its reflective release is beyond all limitations and extremes,
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SPEAKER_01: There is no thing to do based on conscious and rational design.
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SPEAKER_01: No thing to do on purpose.
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SPEAKER_01: As it is beyond striving accomplishment and ambition, there is no fruition.
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SPEAKER_00: Relax.
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SPEAKER_00: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Its essence is emptiness, so abandon self-denial and self-improvement.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all got into Dharma to try to become a better person because you noticed you were nuts, right?
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SPEAKER_01: That's why I got into Dharma.
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SPEAKER_01: I noticed I was absolutely bonkers.
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SPEAKER_01: And I wondered if maybe there was something to be done about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't give up.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm still absolutely bonkers.
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SPEAKER_01: Its nature is empty radiant, so let your diligent effort drop away.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything is unobstructed, so forget about your preferences.
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SPEAKER_01: Just as phenomena arise, let them be.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not cling to them.
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SPEAKER_01: It's okay to play.
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SPEAKER_01: It's okay to play with your toys sometimes, if that's what's arising.
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SPEAKER_01: Your hands are not going away.
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SPEAKER_01: As hand-havers, we play with objects.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not refrain.
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SPEAKER_01: As
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SPEAKER_01: much as you do not on purpose do stuff because you're going to get something out
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SPEAKER_01: of it, do not refrain from play.
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SPEAKER_01: Chukuropa.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to have to give somebody that name one of these days.
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SPEAKER_01: Play of the Dharmakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Just let a phenomena arise as it arises.
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SPEAKER_01: Let them be and do not cling to them.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember phenomena,
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SPEAKER_01: inner and outer,
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SPEAKER_01: thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: feelings,
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SPEAKER_01: and perceptions, which are simply a clump
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SPEAKER_01: of sensations of your six sense organs.
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SPEAKER_01: Wound around with thoughts describing them.
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SPEAKER_01: My eyeballs perceive red in patterns here.
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SPEAKER_01: My thoughts call it red flowers.
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SPEAKER_01: My perception of red flowers is the sensation of my eyeballs.
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SPEAKER_01: Combined with what I think it is and my emotion,
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SPEAKER_01: which is I happen to like red flowers and I happen to like
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SPEAKER_01: the interesting silver vase I found in the second hand shop yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you see perceptions?
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SPEAKER_01: Phenomena, all of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: feelings,
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SPEAKER_01: and sensations which interact and are wound about with thoughts automatically from
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SPEAKER_01: which arise feelings called perceptions.
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SPEAKER_01: All of that is constantly in flex and change.
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SPEAKER_01: Move your head.
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SPEAKER_01: Your visual perceptions change.
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SPEAKER_01: Your thoughts change.
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SPEAKER_01: Your feelings change.
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SPEAKER_01: There is no point in clinging to a bit of phenomena
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SPEAKER_01: because you can a keep it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's okay to play with it, but don't expect it to last.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't grasp, just enjoy.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to teach you not to take yourself Or phenomena too seriously.
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SPEAKER_01: Meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Religion.
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SPEAKER_01: Rules, vows, laws, strictures.
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SPEAKER_00: Pshah!
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SPEAKER_01: Let them scatter as they will.
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SPEAKER_01: The yogin's perception is like the flight path of a bird in the sky.
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SPEAKER_01: The bird's flight path vanishes without a trace.
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SPEAKER_01: Each previous perception vanishes without repercussions,
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SPEAKER_01: without a trace,
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SPEAKER_00: without even creating more karma
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SPEAKER_01: because there is no doer or deed.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not attempt to prolong a perception by pursuing it and clinging to it.
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SPEAKER_01: The bird's future flight path is as yet non-existent.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not anticipate the next perception.
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SPEAKER_01: You limit what is possible to perceive by that.
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SPEAKER_01: You limit your reality to what you believe in.
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SPEAKER_00: And most of you don't believe in magic.
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SPEAKER_01: How limiting.
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SPEAKER_00: Rinpoche had a student
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SPEAKER_01: for whom I translated
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SPEAKER_01: who once asked Rinpoche very seriously
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SPEAKER_01: to please show him a miracle because he needed it for his faith.
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SPEAKER_01: He was having trouble having faith and if he could just see one miracle By Rinpoche,
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SPEAKER_01: then he would have the faith he needed to go on with his practice.
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SPEAKER_01: He had been doing some practice that was not working for him
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SPEAKER_01: and it was shaking his faith because he was sure he was doing it properly.
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SPEAKER_01: So while he's doing this, Rinpoche reaches out and he moves his hand right through his table.
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SPEAKER_01: To grasp his water bottle,
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SPEAKER_01: takes a drink,
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SPEAKER_01: sets it down,
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SPEAKER_01: and moves his hand right through the table again while
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SPEAKER_01: the guy is explaining how important it is that he see a miracle.
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SPEAKER_01: Rinpoche does this several times, moving through solid matter on the stuff around his table.
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SPEAKER_01: Finally,
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SPEAKER_01: the guy runs down and Rinpoche looks at him with great sadness and said,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, I can't show you a miracle.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there trying to keep a straight face through all of this
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SPEAKER_01: because translators are supposed to keep a straight face.
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SPEAKER_01: It's almost as good as the time the guy wanted Rinpoche to blow on his penis
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SPEAKER_01: and we both had to keep a straight face.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, after that, Rinpoche said that he was so sorry he couldn't do that for him.
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SPEAKER_01: The guy said, okay, I understand.
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SPEAKER_01: I still trust you, Lama,
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SPEAKER_01: and I still think you're a wonderful Lama and a meditator,
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SPEAKER_01: even if you can't do a miracle.
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SPEAKER_01: Your reality is dependent on what you can, what you perceive as your reality.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember, perceive is the input to your eyes and ears and nose and mouth and ye and touch.
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SPEAKER_01: Is what you define that input as and your definitions will be about
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SPEAKER_01: the reality you subscribe to.
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SPEAKER_01: When you let go, when you allow your subscription to run out,
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SPEAKER_00: Anything can happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Anything at all.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not attempt to prolong a perception by clinging to it.
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SPEAKER_01: Future path is not occurred yet.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not anticipate what you will see for that will form.
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SPEAKER_01: What you will think you see.
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SPEAKER_01: Hopes and fears.
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SPEAKER_01: The present bird print in the sky is colorless and shapeless.
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SPEAKER_01: The present perception has an ordinary unremarkable form.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone and refrain from contaminating it or modifying it by applying antidotes.
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SPEAKER_01: In, I think it's Sutrayana,
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SPEAKER_01: in that path,
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SPEAKER_01: which is often one of the earliest paths that people pursue in their seeking
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SPEAKER_01: for enlightenment,
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SPEAKER_01: there is a teaching where you antidote negative emotions with positive emotions.
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SPEAKER_01: So when you experience anger arising, you meditate on patience.
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SPEAKER_01: When you experience fear arising, you meditate on refuge, fear or anxiety.
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SPEAKER_01: When you experience desire arising, you meditate on renunciation, et cetera, et cetera.
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SPEAKER_01: I once met a man who had been practicing that for a good 30, 40 years.
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SPEAKER_01: I asked him if it was working.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, maybe a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: This is faster.
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SPEAKER_01: And it doesn't wear off.
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SPEAKER_01: Just as phenomena arises, let them be and do not cling.
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SPEAKER_01: Those little blue bracelets that are going around that say in Tibetan and English,
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SPEAKER_01: relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
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SPEAKER_01: Are exactly these Dzogchen instructions in short form.
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SPEAKER_01: If you don't have one, perhaps at some point you will get one.
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SPEAKER_01: They happen here and there.
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SPEAKER_01: This is radical, essential practice during the daily round.
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SPEAKER_01: Let it be as it is, don't grab it.
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SPEAKER_01: Consider that your perceptions are like butterflies that land on your fingers.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't close your fist on the butterfly.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll squish it.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll deform it and break its wings.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
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SPEAKER_01: No grabbing.
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SPEAKER_01: But don't shove it away either.
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SPEAKER_01: No suppressing.
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SPEAKER_01: No supporting.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the path of the Skywalker.
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SPEAKER_01: If you do not cling to whatever
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SPEAKER_01: or however phenomena appears,
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SPEAKER_01: emotional defilements are naturally freed as sublime primal awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing has duration.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing has substance.
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SPEAKER_01: Space.
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SPEAKER_01: Moving in space as space.
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SPEAKER_01: And seen from the fifth dimension, the patterns.
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SPEAKER_01: The vision is unoriginated, non-conceptual, capable of any departure whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: For intense concentration, the vision has no specific concept.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore it is open and could contain anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Simply allow it to be without grabbing.
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SPEAKER_01: And the first time you see purple elephants, you will tend to grab them.
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SPEAKER_01: But after a while, it will get ordinary.
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SPEAKER_01: And that is the key.
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SPEAKER_01: Hold all phenomena as ordinary without grabbing or shoving,
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SPEAKER_01: regardless of whether it fits your preconceptions or not.
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SPEAKER_01: Meditation is a natural innate process of being free.
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SPEAKER_01: For in intense meditation, there is non-meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Conduct is a performance of magical illusion,
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SPEAKER_01: innocent of any distinction between giving and taking, abstinence and indulgence.
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SPEAKER_01: Intense activity is purposeless.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what I mean by play.
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SPEAKER_01: When a little child plays, they are not trying to get anything out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just playing.
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SPEAKER_01: Try to remember how to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: All your possessions are your toys.
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SPEAKER_01: Your house is a toy.
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SPEAKER_01: Play with it.
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SPEAKER_01: If you like.
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SPEAKER_01: And not if you don't feel for it.
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SPEAKER_01: Play
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SPEAKER_01: with your toys.
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SPEAKER_01: Play is not goal-oriented.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't play as a child because you want to accomplish something.
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SPEAKER_01: Is it video games you like to play with?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: In moderation, no problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Play.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not going to get anything out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't even do it to get relaxation.
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SPEAKER_01: The moment you do it to get something like relaxation,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm doing this to relax myself, you're getting something out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not what we're talking about.
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SPEAKER_01: I just want to play for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: That's fine.
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SPEAKER_01: Take yourself so seriously.
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SPEAKER_01: Play with your practice of meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Play in your sadhana.
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SPEAKER_01: The nature of the goal is absence of both hope Of attainment and fear of failure.
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SPEAKER_01: For with intense practice, the goal vanishes.
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SPEAKER_01: This is intense relaxation, relaxation with gonzo, with intense enthusiasm.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the blah relaxation.
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SPEAKER_01: That you can't help doing when you're depressed because that isn't really relaxation.
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SPEAKER_01: That's actually a tightening down and an inward focusing with the inability to move.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's not what I'm calling relaxation.
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SPEAKER_00: Relaxation
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SPEAKER_01: gives energy.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't take it.
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SPEAKER_01: In past, present, and future, the mind is a Casual and acausal and baseless.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing made it happen.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the natural state of the infinite openness to be alive.
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SPEAKER_01: That very vitality
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SPEAKER_01: that pervades all phenomena, allowing it to perceive itself
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Its spontaneous manifestation of vivid appearance is a constant wonder.
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SPEAKER_01: From the first to the last, the nature of all experience is pure.
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SPEAKER_01: Miraculously arisen, eternally free, completely free, effortlessly established.
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SPEAKER_01: You didn't on purpose make all this be here.
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SPEAKER_01: It's simply the pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: The ordinary consciousness unforced and authentic is the Buddha's dynamic,
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SPEAKER_01: a vast space without limitation.
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SPEAKER_01: What is more,
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SPEAKER_01: with effort examining and contemplating the mind,
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SPEAKER_01: you do not see its intrinsic original nature.
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SPEAKER_01: You get close, but no bullseye.
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SPEAKER_01: In unthinkable,
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SPEAKER_01: inscrutable,
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SPEAKER_01: ordinary nature of reality, there is neither meditation nor non-meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: Neither distraction nor non-distraction.
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SPEAKER_01: Many are finally liberated through natural non-meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: In the unthinkable,
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SPEAKER_00: inscrutable,
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SPEAKER_00: ordinary nature of reality,
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SPEAKER_01: there is no difference between freedom and bondage.
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SPEAKER_01: No matter what arises, when you perceive your original nature, the joy arises automatically.
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SPEAKER_01: And oh, what joy.
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SPEAKER_01: Tashi, bliss, delight.
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SPEAKER_01: And it goes away if you grab it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Trapped by the thought of desiring thoughtlessness.
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SPEAKER_01: Conflicting thoughts multiply.
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SPEAKER_01: In the mounting frenzy you run aimlessly hither and thither.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax and merge into the primal space of total presence, which is free of coming and going.
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SPEAKER_01: Cut loose and just let it be.
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SPEAKER_01: We are that.
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SPEAKER_01: Always were.
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SPEAKER_01: Then ready for anything, you remain firm and stable as a rock.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a dynamic rock.
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SPEAKER_01: Stable beyond time and space.
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SPEAKER_01: Utterly flexible within.
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SPEAKER_01: Grasp this paradox, my sons and daughters.
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SPEAKER_01: There is not so much as a mote of dust upon which to meditate,
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SPEAKER_01: but it is crucial to sustain unwavering attention with presence of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: And that does not go in two words very well.
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SPEAKER_01: Hence it arises as a paradox.
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SPEAKER_01: Doing and not doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Until such time as the happy accident
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SPEAKER_01: of the Dzogchen fruition, of which there is no fruit.
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SPEAKER_01: There is intentionally done practice,
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SPEAKER_01: but as experiences arise in that practice, do not attempt to Maintain them.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not practice to get something out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Practice because you like it.
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SPEAKER_01: How to arrange to like it.
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SPEAKER_01: Condition yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: Every time you sit down to practice, eat a piece of chocolate.
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SPEAKER_01: Pick something simple.
1:08:11
SPEAKER_01: You will associate it with good taste.
1:08:20
SPEAKER_01: That's how we train the little boys, the little monklets, to love ceremony.
1:08:27
SPEAKER_01: We always feed them during ceremony.
1:08:30
SPEAKER_01: And since little boys are always hungry,
1:08:36
SPEAKER_01: they develop that starting at four years old.
1:08:38
SPEAKER_01: That's where good tasting food comes from.
1:08:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they feed the meals outside of that, but the good taste, that's in the ceremony.
1:08:48
SPEAKER_01: So they end up being really attached to ceremony.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_01: They like it, and they don't even know why.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_01: Feels homey, feels comfortable, feels delicious.
1:09:01
SPEAKER_01: Go on, condition yourself like that.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_01: It's how you change, you condition.
1:09:07
SPEAKER_01: If you want to change, no change is necessary, and yet every change is necessary.
1:09:17
SPEAKER_01: Have we got questions about now?
1:09:19
SPEAKER_01: This was a of course chapter for some of you and unfathomable for others.
1:09:26
SPEAKER_01: And the rest of you are right in between and maybe a question or two would help you clarify it.
1:09:32
SPEAKER_01: See if anyone's putting something up in chat for me before I start trying
1:09:37
SPEAKER_01: to start another chapter.
1:09:43
SPEAKER_00: One question is, is this non-doing even possible when emotions afflict us so badly?
1:09:52
SPEAKER_01: But they don't have to afflict you.
1:09:57
SPEAKER_01: They're just energy.
1:10:01
SPEAKER_01: You simply have to not suppress them or entertain them.
1:10:09
SPEAKER_01: Working with emotions is a chapter further back in here that we did,
1:10:15
SPEAKER_01: which is the short version.
1:10:16
SPEAKER_01: For those who it doesn't work in the short version, sometimes the longer retreat is helpful.
1:10:23
SPEAKER_01: But basically, when an emotion arises,
1:10:29
SPEAKER_01: feel the emotion and don't mind the feeling.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_01: Why do you hit people when angry or throw things or yell?
1:10:39
SPEAKER_01: However you react to anger or sit and fume,
1:10:46
SPEAKER_01: you want to release your anger.
1:10:48
SPEAKER_01: You take action on anger to make it go away because you don't like the sensation.
1:10:54
SPEAKER_01: Next time you get angry,
1:10:58
SPEAKER_01: accept that sensation just as it is.
1:11:05
SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
1:11:06
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to suppress it.
1:11:08
SPEAKER_01: Make it go away.
1:11:10
SPEAKER_01: Have it change into something.
1:11:16
SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_00: Sit and notice it.
1:11:23
SPEAKER_01: Become okay with that sensation called anger.
1:11:34
SPEAKER_01: You may notice that it's not actually what you thought it was,
1:11:43
SPEAKER_01: but an incredibly brilliant form of energy, mirror-like wisdom.
1:11:51
SPEAKER_01: It always was.
1:11:52
SPEAKER_01: You mistook that sensation as anger.
1:11:57
SPEAKER_01: Afflictive emotions are not really what you think they are.
1:12:02
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, how could they bother you?
1:12:09
SPEAKER_01: Go practice working with emotions.
1:12:12
SPEAKER_01: Go back a few weeks in here, a few months, and you'll find that chapter.
1:12:23
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:12:25
SPEAKER_00: Once resting in traction, what path to follow within the practice?
1:12:31
SPEAKER_01: None.
1:12:33
SPEAKER_01: You're not going anywhere.
1:12:37
SPEAKER_01: Relax.
1:12:41
SPEAKER_01: Rest in treacher at all times and on all occasions while walking and talking,
1:12:47
SPEAKER_01: eating and sleeping, standing up and sitting down.
1:12:52
SPEAKER_01: Rest in treacher.
1:12:53
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to change anything.
1:12:55
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to follow anything.
1:12:56
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to go anywhere.
1:12:58
SPEAKER_01: Just be back.
1:13:08
SPEAKER_01: You're not going somewhere.
1:13:14
SPEAKER_01: You are there.
1:13:17
SPEAKER_01: You always were and will be.
1:13:21
SPEAKER_01: Relax your attention so that it can notice this.
1:13:27
SPEAKER_01: Usually we pay attention through a tiny little orifice of our own making.
1:13:34
SPEAKER_01: We look at this, we look at that, we think about this, we think about that.
1:13:40
SPEAKER_01: We pay attention to our thoughts,
1:13:43
SPEAKER_01: to our feelings, to our perceptions, one by one, as they constantly change.
1:13:52
SPEAKER_00: Relax the orifice of attention.
1:13:56
SPEAKER_01: Just that.
1:14:04
SPEAKER_01: Not to get anything out of it.
1:14:08
SPEAKER_01: Not for a point of some accomplishment that you believe exists out there somewhere
1:14:13
SPEAKER_01: in the illusory future.
1:14:18
SPEAKER_01: But for what it is right now, in this moment, without changing it.
1:14:27
SPEAKER_00: Relax into it.
1:14:33
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:14:35
SPEAKER_00: Why do we rest in traction at the end of a sadhana?
1:14:40
SPEAKER_00: Does it function to make the practice work better in some way or is it just pointing?
1:14:45
SPEAKER_01: It functions to make the practice work better in several different ways.
1:14:51
SPEAKER_01: One, notice how relaxed your right hand is in this moment.
1:14:55
SPEAKER_01: Mine is not particularly relaxed.
1:14:57
SPEAKER_01: It's sort of, I can tell because I have a very slight old lady tremor.
1:15:03
SPEAKER_01: Take the two fingers of your other hand and squeeze them as tight as you can for
1:15:08
SPEAKER_01: as long as you can.
1:15:22
SPEAKER_01: Let your muscles get really tired.
1:15:24
SPEAKER_01: Squeeze tight, hard.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: Okay, now relax.
1:15:35
SPEAKER_01: My hand is much more relaxed.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_01: My whole arm is more relaxed, having tightened it.
1:15:42
SPEAKER_01: That's one of the ways your sadhana works.
1:15:45
SPEAKER_01: You are visualizing detailed, very detailed, things.
1:15:54
SPEAKER_01: The archetype you're working with usually has many hands holding many objects,
1:16:00
SPEAKER_01: all of which is important.
1:16:01
SPEAKER_01: It's wearing certain very specific jewelry.
1:16:05
SPEAKER_01: Each of which is a symbol, clothes, what it stands on.
1:16:10
SPEAKER_01: Standing on dead demons or standing on a lotus, however that is, or on an oven.
1:16:16
SPEAKER_01: I think there's a Tara that stands on an oven.
1:16:20
SPEAKER_01: She's rather beautiful.
1:16:21
SPEAKER_01: A triangular oven, which represents Tummo.
1:16:28
SPEAKER_01: Or riding a goose.
1:16:32
SPEAKER_01: Geese are fierce.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_01: Never offend a goose or a swan.
1:16:38
SPEAKER_01: In some pictures, it looks more like a swan that she rides.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_01: When I was a paramedic, I got a call for a woman mugged by a swan.
1:16:47
SPEAKER_01: Broke her arm.
1:16:49
SPEAKER_01: Beat the hell out of her.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: Took her sandwich.
1:16:55
SPEAKER_01: Police report was quite interesting.
1:16:58
SPEAKER_01: Fun to read.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_01: So the point I'm making here
1:17:07
SPEAKER_01: Is that as you tighten your mind in point, point,
1:17:10
SPEAKER_01: point and the lights go in and the lights go out and you're singing it out loud
1:17:15
SPEAKER_01: and you're visualizing it with as much precision and intensity as you can.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_01: And you finally get to the end and it all absorbs into yourself, into itself.
1:17:27
SPEAKER_01: And you are it by then.
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: And you absorb with all of the mandala and everything into the seed syllable.
1:17:36
SPEAKER_01: And you relax.
1:17:38
SPEAKER_01: And for a moment there, your tired attention orifice opens a bit more.
1:17:52
SPEAKER_01: So two things are happening in a sadhana.
1:17:57
SPEAKER_01: Each word you say is creating monlam.
1:18:00
SPEAKER_01: That's why we recite them out loud in Tibetan.
1:18:06
SPEAKER_01: Because you can't really say half the stuff in here in English.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_01: Tibetan words don't actually go into English.
1:18:16
SPEAKER_01: You have to use whole sentences to clarify them.
1:18:22
SPEAKER_01: So you should see me trying to translate names yesterday when it was like
1:18:27
SPEAKER_01: an entire paragraph to translate what's two words in Tibetan.
1:18:38
SPEAKER_01: When
1:18:40
SPEAKER_01: you do this,
1:18:45
SPEAKER_01: each of the symbols points out in a different way.
1:18:51
SPEAKER_01: They're pointing from all sorts of different directions at the same thing,
1:18:55
SPEAKER_01: which is this final point of Zogchen.
1:19:02
SPEAKER_01: So that naturally,
1:19:05
SPEAKER_01: having pointed your subconscious at it,
1:19:10
SPEAKER_01: when you finally relax the orifice of your attention,
1:19:13
SPEAKER_01: it is more likely to open a bit properly into the Dzogchen Treksha.
1:19:26
SPEAKER_01: The words are done by Manlam, which create a karma.
1:19:31
SPEAKER_01: By saying things out loud, karma is created.
1:19:36
SPEAKER_01: So monlam is created by words.
1:19:40
SPEAKER_01: It's called wish path.
1:19:41
SPEAKER_01: It's what we use instead of prayer to a deity on account of Buddhists don't do deities.
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: Archetypes, yes.
1:19:52
SPEAKER_01: And they're not entirely inside of you either.
1:19:55
SPEAKER_01: They also have existence outside as Karmic imprints in the dream time or in
1:20:02
SPEAKER_01: the other dimension.
1:20:06
SPEAKER_01: So they're quite real.
1:20:09
SPEAKER_01: But we don't really pray to them.
1:20:14
SPEAKER_01: Like, Lord, oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes?
1:20:18
SPEAKER_01: Or I really need to find a lover or...
1:20:23
SPEAKER_01: Tara's more patient than some of the others with those things.
1:20:35
SPEAKER_01: In the practice of sadhana,
1:20:38
SPEAKER_01: you have both the tightening of the orifice of attention so
1:20:41
SPEAKER_01: that you can later loosen it,
1:20:44
SPEAKER_01: the pointing of the symbols and the creating of a karmic path of gewa in the form
1:20:50
SPEAKER_01: of manlam.
1:20:51
SPEAKER_01: So all of this synergizes.
1:20:54
SPEAKER_01: Body, speech, and mind.
1:20:56
SPEAKER_01: You're also making gestures with your hands at the same time,
1:20:59
SPEAKER_01: so your body's involved, which imprints.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_01: All of this synergizes so that when you finally,
1:21:07
SPEAKER_01: at the end,
1:21:08
SPEAKER_01: relax into Treksha,
1:21:12
SPEAKER_01: the completion stage of the sadhana,
1:21:15
SPEAKER_01: the Zogchen part that's in every advanced sadhana.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_01: It's most likely to actually be treacher.
1:21:32
SPEAKER_01: Makes it easier.
1:21:34
SPEAKER_01: Makes it happen spontaneously.
1:21:37
SPEAKER_01: A little bit better.
1:21:38
SPEAKER_01: You can still, you know, grab at it and squish it.
1:21:42
SPEAKER_01: But if you can refrain from doing that, it's much easier.
1:21:47
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:21:49
SPEAKER_00: You say not to instigate action.
1:21:52
SPEAKER_00: But isn't going away on retreat an action?
1:21:56
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:21:58
SPEAKER_01: The question is, are you satisfied?
1:22:02
SPEAKER_01: If not, then the happy accident has not occurred yet,
1:22:07
SPEAKER_01: and you need to continue to create causes for its occurrence.
1:22:13
SPEAKER_01: So if you are not satisfied, you should follow the instructions.
1:22:21
SPEAKER_01: Until such time,
1:22:27
SPEAKER_01: as it all shifts out to make sense and you are satisfied by the goalless goal
1:22:35
SPEAKER_01: without grabbing onto that satisfaction or trying to maintain it,
1:22:43
SPEAKER_01: even that, don't grab, let go.
1:22:52
SPEAKER_00: It's a sensation, a feeling.
1:22:54
SPEAKER_00: Let it arise.
1:22:55
SPEAKER_01: Let it vanish.
1:22:58
SPEAKER_01: The moment you grab it, you've distorted your trection.
1:23:08
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:23:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm stuck in the mischief that arose from smoking and drinking scotch while practicing trection.
1:23:17
SPEAKER_00: How do I undo this?
1:23:19
SPEAKER_01: Well, considering that I have been known to smoke and drink scotch
1:23:24
SPEAKER_01: while practicing trepture,
1:23:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm not quite sure why it caused mischief to arise for you.
1:23:32
SPEAKER_01: More details, please.
1:23:36
SPEAKER_01: And we'll come back to that person.
1:23:37
SPEAKER_00: We'll come back to that.
1:23:39
SPEAKER_00: Hang on, I have the question in front of me.
1:23:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:23:45
SPEAKER_00: Going back to the subject of retreat,
1:23:48
SPEAKER_00: The question is,
1:23:50
SPEAKER_00: if we were to go on retreat to do this practice, would we still have a schedule?
1:23:55
SPEAKER_00: And if yes, what could it be?
1:24:01
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:24:02
SPEAKER_01: Not if you are actually doing this practice.
1:24:05
SPEAKER_01: If you are ripe to the point where you are even capable of understanding how
1:24:11
SPEAKER_01: to do this practice, no, it's not done with a schedule.
1:24:20
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is imposed upon it, nor is anything expected from it.
1:24:37
SPEAKER_01: I will teach completion stage openly.
1:24:41
SPEAKER_01: It is self-secret.
1:24:44
SPEAKER_01: I will not make a great deal of sense to some of you.
1:24:48
SPEAKER_01: I will make impeccable sense to others at different times.
1:24:54
SPEAKER_01: My teacher said to me,
1:24:57
SPEAKER_01: since Zogchen is about a man's own true nature,
1:25:05
SPEAKER_01: what right would you have to hold his own nature secret from him?
1:25:14
SPEAKER_00: You haven't that right.
1:25:16
SPEAKER_01: It is self-secret, but it is not the business of the teacher to keep it secret.
1:25:23
SPEAKER_01: Shout it from the rooftops.
1:25:27
SPEAKER_01: If anyone hears, that's wonderful.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_01: And so I am teaching you completion stage,
1:25:35
SPEAKER_01: but if you are not right,
1:25:40
SPEAKER_01: then you would want to come to a different teaching about KRIM.
1:25:45
SPEAKER_01: How to ripen yourself.
1:25:50
SPEAKER_01: You must decide where you are in practice.
1:25:56
SPEAKER_01: Beginning Zogchen is still trying to find real Tawa.
1:26:03
SPEAKER_01: Intermediate Zogchen is attempting to stabilize what they have found, which is a joke on them.
1:26:13
SPEAKER_01: Because you can't stabilize anything that moves.
1:26:19
SPEAKER_01: And this is advanced, this stuff.
1:26:25
SPEAKER_01: So, you have to know yourself where you are on the path.
1:26:36
SPEAKER_01: If you are halfway up the mountain,
1:26:43
SPEAKER_01: Keep walking up the mountain.
1:26:48
SPEAKER_01: If you are at the top of the mountain, keep walking up the sky.
1:27:04
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:27:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, a clarification from the scotch drinker.
1:27:09
SPEAKER_00: It says here,
1:27:10
SPEAKER_00: I guess I'm concerned I'm drinking and smoking more,
1:27:13
SPEAKER_00: and I'm wondering if it's related to doing it during trekture.
1:27:18
SPEAKER_01: Since trekture is done at all times and on all occasions,
1:27:23
SPEAKER_01: there is nothing you should be doing that is not during trekture.
1:27:29
SPEAKER_01: Usually, if you are drinking and smoking more, it has to do with your stress levels.
1:27:35
SPEAKER_01: Which means you're not relaxing enough.
1:27:39
SPEAKER_01: So to rectify the problem you're having with perhaps drinking a bit much,
1:27:45
SPEAKER_01: and this is right now during COVID, the mandolic stress is very high.
1:27:53
SPEAKER_01: You can't not be affected.
1:27:58
SPEAKER_01: The stress in the world with the economy being peculiar,
1:28:02
SPEAKER_01: housing being almost impossible to find for people,
1:28:07
SPEAKER_01: Food getting more expensive,
1:28:09
SPEAKER_01: a nasty disease chasing people,
1:28:11
SPEAKER_01: tornadoes all over the south of the United States,
1:28:16
SPEAKER_01: floods here, incredibly cold weather somewhere else.
1:28:21
SPEAKER_01: With the Mamos this active,
1:28:24
SPEAKER_01: sentient beings, not just you and humans, will experience an increase of stress.
1:28:31
SPEAKER_01: The more you relax,
1:28:36
SPEAKER_01: The less that stress will cause you to medicate it.
1:28:42
SPEAKER_01: But,
1:28:52
SPEAKER_01: what I have found useful for myself,
1:28:57
SPEAKER_01: who also drinks scotch and occasionally enjoys a cigar,
1:29:05
SPEAKER_01: Is to make a decision how much I will enjoy day by day and stay within that.
1:29:18
SPEAKER_01: Occasionally to not enjoy it, not to have any, have something else.
1:29:27
SPEAKER_01: Fizzy water, milkshake, a lassi.
1:29:35
SPEAKER_00: As a beverage.
1:29:38
SPEAKER_01: Although admittedly, tis the season of eggnog.
1:29:50
SPEAKER_01: It is not possible not to experience the stress which pervades the mandala.
1:29:58
SPEAKER_01: If you can,
1:30:00
SPEAKER_01: This is a practice for you that will help you unhitch from over drinking,
1:30:05
SPEAKER_01: over smoking.
1:30:08
SPEAKER_01: There's a little willpower involved.
1:30:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you have to decide what's too much and stay under it.
1:30:13
SPEAKER_01: But in order to make that easier,
1:30:16
SPEAKER_01: I have a question for you that I want you to discover in your practice.
1:30:24
SPEAKER_01: What is the real difference in flavor between stress
1:30:33
SPEAKER_01: Excitement and desire, sexual desire.
1:30:40
SPEAKER_01: See how easy it is to flip one of those into the other.
1:30:50
SPEAKER_01: Work with these three.
1:30:53
SPEAKER_01: Stress, basic excitement,
1:30:56
SPEAKER_01: like you're excited because you're going to a party,
1:31:00
SPEAKER_01: and the excitement that It comes before an orgasm.
1:31:07
SPEAKER_01: You may notice that the energy of all three of these has the same flavor.
1:31:18
SPEAKER_01: The stress is stress and you medicate against it because you don't like that sensation.
1:31:27
SPEAKER_01: And yet you like excitement.
1:31:30
SPEAKER_01: You like the pursuit of orgasm.
1:31:34
SPEAKER_01: What are you doing to make the stress unpleasant and the excitement pleasant?
1:31:39
SPEAKER_01: I want you to look at this in your practice.
1:31:47
SPEAKER_01: I want you to find a way to enjoy the stress without having to over-medicate it.
1:31:53
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, you can still enjoy your scotch from time to time, but you do have a liver, right?
1:32:01
SPEAKER_01: And you do need to take care of that liver, right?
1:32:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can take some milk thistle, too.
1:32:14
SPEAKER_01: It's good for your liver.
1:32:18
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:32:20
SPEAKER_00: How is avoiding diffusion... Let me see what's going on here.
1:32:26
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:32:27
SPEAKER_00: We should be back.
1:32:30
SPEAKER_01: I haven't seen anything happen on the camera yet.
1:32:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, something hiccuped, but okay, back to the questions.
1:32:37
SPEAKER_01: Diffusion is a fuzziness.
1:32:42
SPEAKER_01: When you are letting go of each moment in time,
1:32:47
SPEAKER_01: there is a clarity of the moment while it occurs.
1:32:54
SPEAKER_01: Subtle difference.
1:32:55
SPEAKER_01: See if you can find it in your practice.
1:33:00
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:33:05
SPEAKER_00: There was a brief one here.
1:33:16
SPEAKER_00: Is glancing occasionally at Rika advised?
1:33:20
SPEAKER_01: Neither harmful nor particularly helpful.
1:33:24
SPEAKER_01: There are practices of sky gazing Doing those practices are helpful
1:33:34
SPEAKER_01: and frequently Rika is there for you.
1:33:40
SPEAKER_01: But there is not a particular practice involving watching the Rika,
1:33:45
SPEAKER_01: but rather sky gazing and the Rika is part of it, but not all of it.
1:33:55
SPEAKER_01: So those practices, the sky gazing practices are very useful.
1:34:01
SPEAKER_01: Basically,
1:34:04
SPEAKER_01: you should find a place to do them in,
1:34:06
SPEAKER_01: in which you can see the sky straight ahead without looking up.
1:34:11
SPEAKER_01: Point one.
1:34:13
SPEAKER_01: You should sit in a proper meditation posture with your eyes straight ahead gazing at the sky.
1:34:22
SPEAKER_01: Mountaintop, shore, shore of a lake sometimes, if it's a big enough lake.
1:34:28
SPEAKER_01: Shore of the ocean, top of a mountain.
1:34:33
SPEAKER_01: On your roof, on the planes.
1:34:48
SPEAKER_01: Gaze and allow your attention to dissolve into the sky.
1:34:53
SPEAKER_01: Attention follows the eyeballs.
1:34:55
SPEAKER_01: Relax your eyeballs in the sky.
1:34:58
SPEAKER_01: Do not try to watch the rica.
1:35:00
SPEAKER_01: Do not try to not watch the rica or not see the rica.
1:35:04
SPEAKER_01: Just relax your eyes into the sky.
1:35:09
SPEAKER_01: Relax your mind into the sky.
1:35:13
SPEAKER_01: Relax and just sit there.
1:35:18
SPEAKER_01: Thoughts may arise as little particles of thought.
1:35:22
SPEAKER_01: Don't grab them.
1:35:23
SPEAKER_01: Don't stick them together.
1:35:24
SPEAKER_01: Don't make anything out of them.
1:35:28
SPEAKER_01: Just relax into the sky as the sky itself.
1:35:36
SPEAKER_01: Like that you do it.
1:35:40
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:35:42
SPEAKER_00: One of our Spanish viewers asks if there is some ritual To cut off the familiar,
1:35:48
SPEAKER_00: unconscious, emotional, and ideological demands.
1:35:55
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:35:58
SPEAKER_01: Consider the speech rushen for that purpose.
1:36:03
SPEAKER_01: It's not a ritual so much as a practice.
1:36:08
SPEAKER_01: It's probably up on the website.
1:36:09
SPEAKER_01: You can sign up for the retreat at some point.
1:36:16
SPEAKER_01: Do we have a lot more questions?
1:36:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm losing my voice.
1:36:21
SPEAKER_01: There's a few.
1:36:22
SPEAKER_00: There's a few.
1:36:23
SPEAKER_01: I'll do them.
1:36:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:36:24
SPEAKER_00: Hang on a moment while I do some house cleaning here.
1:36:29
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:36:31
SPEAKER_00: Another Spanish viewer asked about the small vase yoga, the breathing practice.
1:36:39
SPEAKER_00: Is that something that's relevant to...
1:36:43
SPEAKER_01: It is one of the many methods,
1:36:47
SPEAKER_01: base practice, breathing practice, for
1:36:55
SPEAKER_01: bringing forth the ability to do Zogchen.
1:37:02
SPEAKER_01: In Tilopa's teaching,
1:37:05
SPEAKER_01: he sends one back to do that if the Zogchen teachings given on the bank of
1:37:12
SPEAKER_01: the river Ganges Don't work.
1:37:21
SPEAKER_01: So generally that comes before Zogchen.
1:37:25
SPEAKER_01: That's part of the whole set of Tsalung practices found in,
1:37:30
SPEAKER_01: oh, there's a number of different systems.
1:37:33
SPEAKER_01: Most famous is the Kargu Six Yogas of Naropa.
1:37:39
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:37:45
SPEAKER_00: When I let go, emotions don't seem specific, but just a big rush of energy.
1:37:52
SPEAKER_00: It's not bad, but quite strong, how to get used to it.
1:37:57
SPEAKER_01: By doing it often.
1:37:59
SPEAKER_01: Practice.
1:38:00
SPEAKER_01: That's how you get used to it.
1:38:06
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:38:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, and don't mind intensity.
1:38:10
SPEAKER_01: Intensity is all right.
1:38:29
SPEAKER_00: How to reconcile the Bodhisattva path which involves some kind of discipline and in
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SPEAKER_00: which we strive to help others with the Dzogchen path in
1:38:39
SPEAKER_00: which we must abandon all efforts.
1:38:46
SPEAKER_01: Because of the matrix of Bodhisitta,
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SPEAKER_01: which is not separate from Zogchen,
1:38:53
SPEAKER_01: upon abandoning all efforts, you will arise as benefit to others.
1:39:01
SPEAKER_01: The wish-fulfilling jewel does not intend to effortfully fulfill all wishes,
1:39:11
SPEAKER_01: and yet anyone who wishes upon it gets what they wish for.
1:39:15
SPEAKER_01: The wishful filling tree is the same.
1:39:21
SPEAKER_01: The sun warms the earth without which we could not live.
1:39:30
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't do that on purpose.
1:39:37
SPEAKER_01: Winds blow, rains fall.
1:39:43
SPEAKER_01: They also Do not do that on purpose and yet we could not even survive without it.
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SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta.
1:39:58
SPEAKER_01: Little Bodhisitta is the intent, the discipline, the intent to help others.
1:40:04
SPEAKER_01: It is done until such time as real Bodhisitta spontaneously arises and
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SPEAKER_01: then One can be nothing but a help to others.
1:40:22
SPEAKER_01: Intention is not required.
1:40:23
SPEAKER_01: It simply arises that way.
1:40:27
SPEAKER_01: But it's become automatic by then.
1:40:31
SPEAKER_01: By walking the path, sufficient Gawa occurs.
1:40:39
SPEAKER_01: That the openness required for the ultimate bodhicitta spontaneously arises and
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SPEAKER_01: so it can freely manifest.
1:40:51
SPEAKER_01: So you start by practicing the six parameters on purpose.
1:40:59
SPEAKER_01: You cultivate generosity, patience, morality, perseverance, and meditation.
1:41:11
SPEAKER_01: You cultivate,
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SPEAKER_01: you water,
1:41:13
SPEAKER_01: you weed the garden,
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SPEAKER_01: you cultivate like a farm these things, and eventually they bear fruit.
1:41:35
SPEAKER_01: By the practice of the bodhisattva vows, we sow the seeds.
1:41:42
SPEAKER_01: Of the ultimate bodhisitta.
1:41:45
SPEAKER_01: By practicing and repairing our vows,
1:41:48
SPEAKER_01: we water and weed and fertilize the fields of mind,
1:41:54
SPEAKER_01: the mind stream,
1:41:57
SPEAKER_01: so that the fruition of the ultimate union of bodhisitta and sunyata may bloom.
1:42:16
SPEAKER_01: Like that.
1:42:20
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:42:25
SPEAKER_00: Does non-duality, I'm having to paraphrase a little bit here.
1:42:30
SPEAKER_00: Does non-duality include being aware all is a spontaneous display?
1:42:36
SPEAKER_00: To clarify, being aware in the gut but not in thought?
1:42:42
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I think what you're pointing at.
1:42:46
SPEAKER_01: That is a retreat practice that leads to the real awareness of that as a spontaneous display.
1:42:55
SPEAKER_01: Thinking it's a spontaneous display is where we begin.
1:43:01
SPEAKER_01: Feeling it's a spontaneous display is what we transition through.
1:43:11
SPEAKER_01: Knowing That it is and always has been a spontaneous display
1:43:21
SPEAKER_01: is where we arrive.
1:43:25
SPEAKER_01: This is working with perceptions retreat.
1:43:34
SPEAKER_01: It is one of the many entrances
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SPEAKER_01: To the complete Zogchen, one of the many doorways.
1:43:49
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:43:51
SPEAKER_00: What is the name of the technique of turning the attention back
1:43:56
SPEAKER_00: onto itself like two mirrors facing each other?
1:44:00
SPEAKER_01: Wrong, Rik.
1:44:03
SPEAKER_01: Wrong, self.
1:44:05
SPEAKER_01: Rik, root of the verb to see, root of the verb rigpa.
1:44:12
SPEAKER_01: It's called Ronrick, self-seeing, int.
1:44:20
SPEAKER_00: Ain't nobody there, empty mirror.
1:44:24
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:44:26
SPEAKER_00: How do we know that it is Lama Lena teaching us in the dream time and not a demon?
1:44:32
SPEAKER_00: You recently taught me to see spirits using doors in a dream.
1:44:39
SPEAKER_01: The dream time is a funny place.
1:44:46
SPEAKER_01: Because we have all sorts of dreams, some of which are shared and some of which are not.
1:44:53
SPEAKER_01: Spirits exist, just like squirrels, rabbits and tigers exist.
1:45:05
SPEAKER_01: One feeds the squirrels and the rabbits and one avoids the tigers.
1:45:13
SPEAKER_01: They're nothing remarkable.
1:45:15
SPEAKER_01: They're just another kind of critter.
1:45:24
SPEAKER_01: I do not have a memory of that dream, but that doesn't tell us one way or the other.
1:45:30
SPEAKER_01: I guess you'll never know.
1:45:35
SPEAKER_01: Will you?
1:45:37
SPEAKER_01: You can't grab anything there and solidify it, can you?
1:45:47
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:45:50
SPEAKER_00: What is the recommended minimum amount of time to go on retreat outside of the everyday mandala?
1:45:59
SPEAKER_01: Three days.
1:46:01
SPEAKER_01: Five to seven is better.
1:46:05
SPEAKER_01: Ten days to two weeks is much nicer or even three weeks.
1:46:09
SPEAKER_01: A moon cycle is excellent.
1:46:13
SPEAKER_01: Three moon cycles will definitely have time for
1:46:25
SPEAKER_01: Three years will definitely do something
1:46:34
SPEAKER_01: if you have the proper instructions for
1:46:36
SPEAKER_01: the retreat you're making.
1:46:40
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:46:44
SPEAKER_01: You're different people, so different times are appropriate at different times in your life.
1:46:49
SPEAKER_00: What are the four time patterns that manifest?
1:46:56
SPEAKER_01: Past is the first time.
1:46:59
SPEAKER_01: Present and future are the three times.
1:47:04
SPEAKER_01: Outside of time, beyond time and space, because they're interconnected, is the fourth time.
1:47:14
SPEAKER_01: It's one of the ways we say beyond time and space.
1:47:21
SPEAKER_01: It is nothing but patterns.
1:47:26
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:47:28
SPEAKER_01: And pick me one or two more because I... Yeah.
1:47:32
SPEAKER_00: Well, we are coming up on two hours here.
1:47:35
SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
1:47:43
SPEAKER_00: Is it essential to complete samatha?
1:47:47
SPEAKER_00: That may be a Sanskrit term.
1:47:49
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:47:50
SPEAKER_00: For Zogchen to be effective.
1:47:58
SPEAKER_01: It is not essential to complete Samatha first
1:48:05
SPEAKER_01: for Zogchen to be effective.
1:48:09
SPEAKER_00: It can occur during.
1:48:15
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:48:18
SPEAKER_00: How do you define free will?
1:48:22
SPEAKER_01: The ability to change your own damn patterns rather than be prey to
1:48:28
SPEAKER_00: them.
1:48:33
SPEAKER_01: The ability to notice when a pattern of yours is not serving you
1:48:40
SPEAKER_01: and be able
1:48:41
SPEAKER_01: to change it through practice, through different methods.
1:48:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes, this is Path of Accumulation,
1:48:52
SPEAKER_01: Krim, but as such, damn useful and generally comes before Zogrim.
1:49:05
SPEAKER_00: One more.
1:49:10
SPEAKER_00: The Flight of the Garuda is a trilogy.
1:49:16
SPEAKER_00: Would it be possible to teach the other two books?
1:49:21
SPEAKER_01: I am not sure what you are referring to.
1:49:24
SPEAKER_01: Please send them to me as ebooks in an email attached as PDFs,
1:49:32
SPEAKER_01: and I will be able to answer that question
1:49:35
SPEAKER_01: because I don't know quite what you're referring to as the other two books of Flight
1:49:40
SPEAKER_01: of the Garuda.
1:49:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that was not much of a question, so one more.
1:49:48
SPEAKER_00: Okay,
1:49:49
SPEAKER_00: let me look through here.
1:49:50
SPEAKER_01: Or rather, I couldn't answer it, so.
1:49:53
SPEAKER_01: It's a good question, I just couldn't answer it.
1:49:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:49:59
SPEAKER_00: When I focus on my third eye chakra, I feel vibration and sound.
1:50:05
SPEAKER_00: Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
1:50:07
SPEAKER_00: How can I leverage this to improve my practice?
1:50:12
SPEAKER_01: This is...
1:50:14
SPEAKER_01: Your third eye chakra is the chakra of form.
1:50:18
SPEAKER_01: So of course you will experience sensations of form there.
1:50:24
SPEAKER_01: Neither here nor there, that's... We do not do a practice that involves focusing there.
1:50:33
SPEAKER_01: It is not particularly good for you physiologically.
1:50:42
SPEAKER_01: So...
1:50:43
SPEAKER_01: I suspect you are practicing,
1:50:45
SPEAKER_01: if you are doing something involving specifically focusing on the third eye,
1:50:52
SPEAKER_01: some lineage that I am quite unfamiliar with.
1:50:59
SPEAKER_01: I would suggest you ask your teacher within that lineage because I cannot think
1:51:04
SPEAKER_01: of any advantage to that.
1:51:11
SPEAKER_01: Perhaps there is one that I don't know about.
1:51:16
SPEAKER_01: And I think we are complete for today.
1:51:20
SPEAKER_01: I am losing my voice, which sometimes happens.
1:51:26
SPEAKER_01: But I will see you all again for chapter 18
1:51:33
SPEAKER_01: next month, since we do this monthly.
1:51:37
SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, practice 17.
1:51:42
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:51:49
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:52:08
SPEAKER_01: Sala Gopashu.
1:52:17
SPEAKER_01: We are complete.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, you are offline.