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[4/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 2 (Jun 2020) · Lama Lena Teachings

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  SPEAKER_02: And you will tell me when it's time to start.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ten more seconds here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, now you're ready to go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, evening, as the case may be.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today we are working on Flight of the Garuda And I actually saved my place in here
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  SPEAKER_02: with you guys.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're going to be on song four with a short review of song three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Durji Sampa Garab Durjidam,
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  SPEAKER_01: Shere Singe Bardushin Labdi,
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  SPEAKER_01: Dedam Abzan Tatatusum Chi,
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  SPEAKER_01: Zogchen Jupe Lama La Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_01: Urgin Pema Juni La Sol Wadib,
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  SPEAKER_01: .
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  SPEAKER_01: .
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  SPEAKER_01: .
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  SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ndrudchen Lama Namla Sol Vah
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  SPEAKER_01: Dev.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shakchen Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nyan du da yong drun Lama nam la, Sol wa
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  SPEAKER_01: di.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pal kwan du jong dang yara me pa,
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  SPEAKER_01: Gwan garab dur ji jin trag pa, Jeti dang nisu me pae,
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  SPEAKER_01: Pa Lama nam che ten te,
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  SPEAKER_02: In song three, we looked at what is meant by the word mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sem in Tibetan.
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  SPEAKER_02: The thinker of the thoughts
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  SPEAKER_02: The chatterer, the gossiper.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions be happening.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what we call mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's important because it's the king of you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everything you do, you do because you decide to.
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  SPEAKER_02: You may not always remember why you decided to go into the bedroom,
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  SPEAKER_02: but at some point there was a thought process causing you to do that.
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  SPEAKER_02: This includes all those things that seemed like a good idea at the time,
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  SPEAKER_02: but maybe weren't or were.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is by thinking.
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  SPEAKER_02: Feeling and perceiving
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  SPEAKER_02: that you do all the deeds of your life and create all
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  SPEAKER_02: the karmas that you will experience.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this thinker, feeler, perceiver, this mind, this experiencer, it is worth investigating.
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  SPEAKER_02: Find your mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where does it come from?
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  SPEAKER_02: When you think about a tree or a building,
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  SPEAKER_02: a rock, apparently out there, does the thought come from the thingy?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or does it just sort of happen in your mind?
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  SPEAKER_02: And where would that be?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it in the rocks and the trees that you think about?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or is it somewhere else?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it somewhere inside your body?
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  SPEAKER_02: Where exactly would that be?
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  SPEAKER_02: In your ears, your eyes, your heart, your brain?
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  SPEAKER_02: You've all heard many theories.
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  SPEAKER_02: And depending on your cultural matrix, those theories will differ.
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  SPEAKER_02: Theories about where thoughts occur, how they occur, what they're made of.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is hearsay.
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  SPEAKER_02: You read it on the internet.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fact check it.
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  SPEAKER_02: By your own experience,
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  SPEAKER_02: Where do you find your thoughts to be happening?
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the essence of the inner mind, Ruchen, which is also in the text, Yeshi Lama.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it is also in here.
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  SPEAKER_02: When your thoughts move, do they go from place to place?
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  SPEAKER_02: How are your sense organs involved in this?
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  SPEAKER_02: When you look at an object, my favorite morning object,
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  SPEAKER_02: perceive its flavor, its texture.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is a sensation in your tongue,
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  SPEAKER_02: in your eyeballs,
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  SPEAKER_02: tactilely in your lips,
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  SPEAKER_02: but that sensation is processed.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have a feeling about it, liking, disliking.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have a story about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna need some more soon, but not quite yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where are those happening?
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  SPEAKER_02: Not the sensation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Those happen in your sense organs.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's pretty obvious.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your tongue tastes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your nose smells.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your hands and skin tactile eyes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your eyes see.
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  SPEAKER_02: But interpreting these sensations into an image with a name,
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  SPEAKER_02: feelings, perception, where do you do that?
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  SPEAKER_02: This is important.
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  SPEAKER_02: Keep looking
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  SPEAKER_02: until you don't find it for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: The dry associations and metaphors and hearsays that you've been told,
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  SPEAKER_02: such as mind is simply a function of neurons.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mind is emptiness beyond the beyond.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mystical
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  SPEAKER_02: and
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  SPEAKER_02: scientific and religious theories are just that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Theories made of thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where are you having those?
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  SPEAKER_02: Go find your mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: That is pretty much what the third chapter is about.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the fourth, we're going to go further into the nature of mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully you have been with us and have meditated since last time
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  SPEAKER_02: on what was learned in the third,
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  SPEAKER_02: because this teaching on Flight of the Garuda is cumulative.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is better for you No, I'm not enforcing this.
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  SPEAKER_02: It simply would behove you to have listened to the earlier teachings
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  SPEAKER_02: and contemplated them for some time before going on to the next,
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  SPEAKER_02: before coming in to join us in the middle.
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  SPEAKER_02: Emma Ho, Again, my beloved sons and daughters, gather around and listen.
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  SPEAKER_02: During the analysis and examination of your minds in the manner described before,
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  SPEAKER_02: when you failed to find a mind that you could point to and say,
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  SPEAKER_02: this is it,
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  SPEAKER_02: when you failed to find so much as an atom that you could call concrete,
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  SPEAKER_02: And when that failure occurred for you in the process again and again
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  SPEAKER_02: until you became quite certain of it,
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  SPEAKER_02: that certainty of failure was a supreme success.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because you're sure by your own experience,
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  SPEAKER_02: not by a rumor,
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  SPEAKER_02: by something you read on the internet or something somebody told you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mind itself has no origin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Since it is originally emptiness, its essence is substantial.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look at your mind with your mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is nothing to grasp.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is no thing there to that there where.
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  SPEAKER_02: No there as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: When vine sees itself,
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  SPEAKER_02: it does not find itself to be in a place or as a thing,
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  SPEAKER_02: to have substance or characteristics.
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you noticing this of your own accord?
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  SPEAKER_02: No location, no color, no shape does not move.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yet when you try to focus on it directly,
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  SPEAKER_02: it disappears without a trace, without going anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: Its activity is empty activity.
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  SPEAKER_02: Its emptiness is empty appearance.
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  SPEAKER_02: When mind rests in awareness of mind itself,
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  SPEAKER_02: mind, mind, seeing, mind, seeing, mind, Romeric self-seeing.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the clear,
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  SPEAKER_02: obvious certainty,
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  SPEAKER_02: experiential certainty,
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  SPEAKER_02: as certain as you are of the law of gravity,
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  SPEAKER_02: there is no thing there, nor anywhere to that there there,
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  SPEAKER_02: everywhere and nowhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: Without substance, center, or edge.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do not take my word for this or it just becomes another rumor.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_02: Be sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mind nature is not created by a cause in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nor is it destroyed by an agent or condition at the end.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is a constants to which nothing can be added or subtracted from.
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  SPEAKER_02: Incapable of increase or decrease, it cannot be filled or emptied.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look at mind with mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is nowhere there to put anything.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is no thing there to be removed.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is no change, and yet it is vital and dynamic.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that is a continuity, unchanging.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because even the very concepts of time and space are words,
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  SPEAKER_02: ideas that arise in mind and dissolve in mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: They cannot encompass mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_02: See, perceive, recognize mind with mind itself.
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  SPEAKER_02: You are neither more nor less than this.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is how there is nothing to be gained or to be lost.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yet,
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  SPEAKER_02: when the pattern of your channels is that of distraction,
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that of stress, tightness, distortion, and concern about the minute of arisings.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your attention is narrowed into this's and that's.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so you do not recognize the totality of yourself and all others.
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  SPEAKER_02: Relax into this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't grab.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't point at it.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's nowhere to point.
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  SPEAKER_02: Relax.
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  SPEAKER_02: Beyond time, which is an idea, minutes, hours, days, years, months,
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  SPEAKER_02: Beyond space, which is an idea, kilometers, miles, light years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Beyond concepts, don't name it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Just relax
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  SPEAKER_02: into the ineffable Natural mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Since mind's nature is all-pervasive,
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  SPEAKER_02: the ground of both samsara and nirvana, it is without bias or partiality.
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  SPEAKER_02: Y'all, dharmanoids out there,
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  SPEAKER_02: Practicing as hard as you can to get enlightened and to get away from that terrible samsara.
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  SPEAKER_02: Grabbing and shoving.
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  SPEAKER_02: Won't work.
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  SPEAKER_02: For as long as you lack equanimity Of mirror-like wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_02: You will run yourself around on the rodent wheel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do enough good deeds, you'll get born as a god.
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  SPEAKER_02: Die, and you'll be fucking homesick in your next life.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because it won't be nearly as good as being a god last time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And no matter how rich you get here, it's not perfect.
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  SPEAKER_02: You get zits.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your body stinks.
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  SPEAKER_02: You fart.
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  SPEAKER_02: And those who are reborn as humans after God Realm, and I've met a few, are never content.
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  SPEAKER_02: Always homesick to go back.
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  SPEAKER_02: Without the understanding that it's simply a matter of creating enough merit.
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  SPEAKER_02: If that's what you want.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you'll just die again and fall out.
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  SPEAKER_02: In time, within time, there is nothing you can keep.
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  SPEAKER_02: Therefore, look not at the past or at the future for enlightenment,
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  SPEAKER_02: because it's in neither.
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  SPEAKER_02: They say in practicing Sutrayana you can become enlightened in 400 lifetimes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course, they don't say whether you've already done 399 of them or not.
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  SPEAKER_02: They say in Tantrayana you can become enlightened in this very lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sutrayana is compared to walking the nice gradual path round and round like
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  SPEAKER_02: a spiral up the mountain to reach the sky.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tantrayana, you rope together with your teacher climbing the cliff.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shortcut, kind of dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't fall off.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't yank your teacher off either.
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  SPEAKER_02: Climb on the cliff to get to the top of the mountain so you can reach the sky.
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  SPEAKER_02: Zogchen
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  SPEAKER_02: notices
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  SPEAKER_02: that the sky is right here,
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  SPEAKER_02: right now, and there's no mountain to climb,
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  SPEAKER_02: for the sky pervades.
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  SPEAKER_02: The sky, space, same word in Tibetan, sky and space.
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  SPEAKER_02: The sky, the space, pervades all phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_02: All phenomena exist in space.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why the hell do you need to be on top of a mountain to see it?
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  SPEAKER_02: That's Zogchen.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the Zogchen text.
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  SPEAKER_02: Since mind's nature is all pervasive,
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  SPEAKER_02: the ground of both samsara and nirvana, it is without bias or partiality.
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  SPEAKER_02: No form demonstrates its actuality more clearly than any other.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it manifests all and everything equally without obstruction, mirror-like wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a mirror.
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  SPEAKER_02: Can you see clearly in the mirror both the camera and things in the background just
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  SPEAKER_02: as clearly, Nyanda?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's, yeah, now we can see.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see the cord underneath the phone.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not what I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about things in the background.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that you can also see.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not very much, though, because it's still...
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  SPEAKER_02: How about now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, now you can see the background properly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, can you see it clearly?
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  SPEAKER_02: One thing is not clearer than another thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: All of it is in the same mirror, right there, on the surface.
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  SPEAKER_02: Even though you experience a sensation of depth perception,
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  SPEAKER_02: these images are not behind each other.
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  SPEAKER_02: They are right there on the surface of the mirror.
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  SPEAKER_02: See that?
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  It's what is meant by the equanimity of mirror-like wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mind cannot be established or defined as anything at all specific,
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  SPEAKER_02: since it goes beyond the limitations,
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  SPEAKER_02: all limitations,
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  SPEAKER_02: the limitations of existence and non-existence,
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  SPEAKER_02: as well as the limitations of here and there, now and then, is and isn't.
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  SPEAKER_02: Those are ideas.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're in mind, but they cannot encompass mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: These objects are in my basket.
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  SPEAKER_02: I cannot put my basket in these objects.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is an analogy.
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  SPEAKER_02: The nature of mind in its purity is like a stainless crystal ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: Its essence is emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_02: Its nature is clarity.
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  SPEAKER_02: And its responsiveness,
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  SPEAKER_02: its reflectiveness is a continuum of arising and dissolving of phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a crystal.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you see the transparency of the crystal?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you see the shininess of the crystal?
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  SPEAKER_02: The emptiness, the lack of inclusions,
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  SPEAKER_02: The clarity of it
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  SPEAKER_02: is Sambhogakaya.
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  SPEAKER_02: Light goes right through it.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can see right through it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Clarity, clear light, transparency.
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  SPEAKER_02: The shininess of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you see the shine?
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  SPEAKER_02: Nirmanakaya, phenomenon arising and vanishing.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a symbol.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the third Wong, it is customary
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  SPEAKER_02: to simply hold up a crystal and say nothing at all about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Some understand what is meant.
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  SPEAKER_02: In no way whatsoever is the nature of mind affected by samsara's negativity.
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  SPEAKER_02: From the very first beyond time and space it is Buddha nature in all its utter unfuckableness.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Tibetan word for that is kata.
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  SPEAKER_02: Notice this and become sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: You are not your confusion.
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  SPEAKER_02: You cling to the entertainment of your pain and confusion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not who you really are.
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  SPEAKER_02: Will-o'-the-wisps, arising and vanishing,
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  SPEAKER_02: In the dynamic continuity of no thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: No where.
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  SPEAKER_02: No when.
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  SPEAKER_02: Always.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look at mind with mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Relax and be reassured.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the true refuge.
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  SPEAKER_02: My own mind's emptiness, clarity, I take refuge.
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  SPEAKER_02: Such is my introduction initiating recognition of the original nature of mind,
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  SPEAKER_02: the very ground of being, our true existential condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are there questions?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we'll meet in a couple of minutes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Usually they stick some up by this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had it down while the teaching was going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but yes, questions should be coming quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody asking if you said will-o-wisps, and it's
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  SPEAKER_02: will-o-of-the-wisp.
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  SPEAKER_02: Will-o-the-wisp.
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  SPEAKER_02: Will-o-the-wisp.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's usually pronounced, yes, it's of, but it's usually pronounced uh when you're going quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
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  SPEAKER_00: None yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the crystal crystallized them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Could be.
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  SPEAKER_02: The next song is the Buddhist equivalent of original sin,
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  SPEAKER_02: original oops.
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  SPEAKER_02: How we got into this mess
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  SPEAKER_02: without being in any such thing as a mess whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is as a story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Am I whole?
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, my beloved at heart, sons and daughters, listen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hear how Dharmakaya Kuntuzangpo is free without need for so much as an instant
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  SPEAKER_02: of meditation and how the six types of beings wander in samsara
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  SPEAKER_02: without having performed even the slightest negative or vicious act.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this is like a guided meditation dream.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you like, relax and close your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_02: And feel following my voice.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the beginning, before anything was...
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  SPEAKER_02: Nameless Samsara and Nirvana were pure potential in the original ground of being of no thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Before time arose, before space occurred.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is how total presence arose from the ground at that time, awake awareness.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the same way that natural light of a crystal shines out when a sunbeam strikes it
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  SPEAKER_02: in multiple colors.
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  SPEAKER_02: When the primal awareness of total presence was vitalized by the life force,
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  SPEAKER_02: the seal of the vase of eternal youth was broken.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: Imagine, if you will,
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  SPEAKER_02: That you are no thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Not occupying space.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_02: Not having duration.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_02: Beyond time and space, a total isness that is forever and never.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_02: And you are this.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_02: But not dead.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_02: Not a big dead old nothing, not a black void.
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  SPEAKER_02: Clear, transparent, awake aware.
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  SPEAKER_02: That very beingness.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_02: Innate vitality.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_02: Which is the clear light nature
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  SPEAKER_02: no thing, no when, no where.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_02: Before even the very thought of when and where arose.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: That clear, primordial, transparent, awake aware light
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_02: Neither dark nor light.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: But the clarity of infinite emptiness strikes the prism of awake awareness,
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_02: creating the shine of the multicolored lights of the rainbow.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_02: This is nameless samsara and nirvana as pure potential ground.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_02: But as the light fragmented by vitality, aliveness, like a crystal when a sunbeam strikes it,
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  SPEAKER_02: The total presence vitalized by the life force which breaks the seal and causes movement.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_02: Movement creates space and time, but it is the nature of vitality to be movement.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: The multicolored lights, the different wavelengths, vibrations, movements of light.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_02: And so this movement creates time and space for what is movement if not something,
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_02: thinginess, traversing space, moving from one place to another over a duration.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_02: Immediately, this is phenomena arising.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: By the nature of vitality in emptiness,
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_02: it Moves, vibrates, energy, light, multiple colors, dancing, play.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_02: And so this spontaneously originalized Originated clear light shone
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_02: the infinite sky-like vacuity,
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_02: like the light of the rising sun and the rainbow colors formed
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_02: as infinite pure lands of pure beings and primal awareness.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_02: Dharmakaya kuntuzangpo sambhogakaya kuntuzangpo normanakaya kuntuzangpo Recognized
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  SPEAKER_02: himself as himself and understood this to be a spontaneous manifestation
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  SPEAKER_02: of vitality.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_02: And instantaneously the outer light of pure being
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_02: and primordial awareness are recognized as the inner clear light, not separate.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_02: In the original ground of being pure from the beginning, Buddhahood is.
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  SPEAKER_02: Always was.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_02: Always will be.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_02: We sentient beings,
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: however,
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_02: in that same moment,
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_02: in that same process,
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_02: as that same thing,
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_02: did not recognize the nature of the spontaneously originated appearance
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_02: of rainbow-colored light was our own natural radiance.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't recognize and got confused.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_02: Unmindful perception and bewilderment were the results.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_02: This is called the ignorance that accompanies every perception.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_02: You think it's real, you grab at it, you shove at it.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: And just makes more of them.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_02: Karma.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: This did not happen long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: This happens.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_02: This momentary misperception and grasping happens in each moment.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_02: Until it doesn't.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_02: Never did.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_02: Right now, let go.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_02: All the arisings in your six sense organs arise in mind and dissolve in mind.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_00: They are simply the shimmer of rainbow
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_02: colored light,
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: clear light fragmented by the innate awake awareness of vitality of the universe.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_02: And so, multiplicity dances, creating time, space, is-is, isn'ts, things, beings.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: Just don't grab any of them.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let go.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_02: Also at that time,
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: the clear light and appearance arisen out of the ground
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_02: of clear light were perceived as two.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_02: So that phenomena and the light by which phenomena is seen,
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_02: this is an analogy,
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_02: are seen as separate things and the perceiver and the perceived are too.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: They aren't really.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: You are made of what you perceive.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_02: You are creating what you perceive.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_02: Let it become obvious.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: When the clear light and the appearance risen out of the ground
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_02: of clear light are perceived as two, it's called conceptual ignorance.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: You think things are this or that, and you're this and it's that.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_02: Oops.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: Again and again, we do that.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_02: It is at this juncture, at this moment, that we fall into the trap of ignorant dualism.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_02: This is and that's me and it.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_02: Once that happens,
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: once you've got dualism,
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: the potentialities of our experience proliferate with a gradual winding of the scope
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_02: of activity.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_02: It complicates itself, getting more and more complex.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_02: The entire gamut of samsaric action emerges.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_02: The three emotional poisons appear, attraction, aversion, ignorance.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: Together with the five poisons that evolved from them,
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_02: the emotional categories of jealousy and competition, of fear and anger,
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_02: Of desire.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: Well, not desire sexually,
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: but of want something that you don't have constantly striving to get more,
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_02: more, more, more.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_02: And loneliness and sexual desire.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_02: And exhaustion, depression.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: These five categories.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_02: From them.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: Fifty-one human emotions and from them the 84,000 forms of passion
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_02: which come each unfolding and so on.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: Since then, which is now, until this very moment, this now,
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_02: We have endured the pleasure and pain of the wheel's constant revolution again
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_02: and again,
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_02: making the error of this's and that's duality,
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_02: grabbing and shoving at things we think are outside and creating more
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_02: and more intricate karma for more and more sensual arisings
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_02: until we are absolutely overwhelmed in confusion.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_02: We have endured the pleasure and pain of the wheel's constant revolutions.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_02: We spin endlessly in this samsaric existence as if tied to a water wheel.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_02: You made it all up.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_02: Not on purpose.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_02: A momentary misperception of your own rainbow-colored light
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: as being something out there and the momentary instinctive action as a baby to grab
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: for the pretty.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_02: No evil.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_02: No bad.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_02: Just oops.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_02: And now look at it all.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_02: Things everywhere.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_02: And you think they're real.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: Are there questions?
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: A couple of questions from the people watching on the Spanish translation.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_00: So there's one.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let me find it.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: How to go through emotions to recognize nature of mind.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: Attend the Working with Emotions retreat.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: The scope of that won't really fit here.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_02: Next.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: A comment from someone saying, my mind seems to be nowhere in particular, but always here.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's the statement, I guess, they're commenting on the...
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_02: There's no question mark there.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_02: I can't answer it.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_00: How can this recognition be stabilized during post meditation?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_02: First of all, stop grabbing it and trying to hold it still.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's got to be dynamic.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_02: The word stabilization will lead you astray.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_02: What you want to do is make it spontaneously present at all times.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_02: Rather than try to hold it still.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_02: Which is why stabilization is probably not the best word to use when you talk
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: to yourself about it.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_02: First, become very comfortable at relaxing into it on the cushion.
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  SPEAKER_02: But don't try to make it last.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_02: Don't grab.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: You'll squish it.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_02: You'll end up with the idea of it.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's a thought.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_02: Or the feeling of it.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_02: That's a feeling.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: Or the perception of it.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's a perception.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_02: Relax on your cushion and become comfortable with relaxing into open awareness.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: Then When you are not on your cushion at all times and on all occasions,
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_02: notice open awareness and relax into it.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's easier on your cushion, less distractions later.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_02: You will find that you can notice it freshly,
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_02: don't grab,
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: don't hang on,
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_02: don't maintain,
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_02: just freshly notice,
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_02: while say doing simple activities like making a cup of tea,
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_02: taking a walk.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_02: The idea here is to make a few Long ish 10, 20 minutes, 30 minutes sessions every day.
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  SPEAKER_02: Many short one minute or 30 seconds sessions,
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  SPEAKER_02: but sitting with your back straight in position a day.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_02: And then a whole hell of a lot of quick glancing to see if your mind's still there.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_02: During the day, this develops a certainty and that certainty is what is called stabilization.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_02: Certainty like you're certain of the law of gravity.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_02: None of you have been sitting there worried about drifting off and bumping your head
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_02: on the ceiling.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_02: It never occurred to you to worry about that because you're so sure of the law
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_02: of gravity that it's going to hold you down in your seat.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_02: How would you get that sure of the law of gravity?
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_02: Because you haven't been thinking about gravity sitting in your seat.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_02: That sureness has been just There,
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_02: as a background that does not require your thought,
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_02: your grasping, or your doing anything to be sure of it.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_02: This is an analogy.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_02: So how'd you get that sure of gravity?
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_02: You sat in your high chair and you dropped things on the floor.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_02: Spoons, peas, anything you could get your hands on, you picked up, you held out, and you let go.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_02: Every time you did that, it went down.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_02: You also, as you began to go about crawling, discovered that you frequently went down.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_02: Eventually you had so many concerted experiences of the law of gravity that you got sure of it.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_02: Learning to walk took some effort because it is a dependence on the law of gravity.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_02: It depends on the certainty of the law of gravity of putting one foot ahead of
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_02: the other,
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_02: leaning forward and letting gravity pull it forward while maintaining your balance.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_02: It takes a while to learn, but learn it you did.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_02: Just do that again with this.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_02: Stabilization is not that it holds still.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_02: Nothing among the moving will hold still.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_02: Only that which is outside of time is still.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_02: And in truth,
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_02: it has never moved and there is no need to stabilize anything
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_02: for it is inherently stable.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_02: But within the realm of the moving,
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_02: Instead of trying to get it to hold still and stay stuck,
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_02: simply get so damn familiar with it that you're as sure of it as you are of the law
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_02: of gravity.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's your trick.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_02: Next question.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: In song three, can we simplify the inquiry with the question, who am I, what am I, what is mine?
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_02: That would not work for me.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_02: As I was taught, and what works for me is to focus on the where, not the what.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_02: The what ends up and the who ends up being intellectual.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_02: When I think who am I,
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_02: I sort of focus on my personality,
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_02: which is a moving target, especially as you get older.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's also a moving target when you're a teenager.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_02: When I think those things, it does not draw my attention
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_02: to the ineffable.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_02: Whereas focusing on where the thoughts be happening,
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_02: where the thoughts were before they happened, where did they come from?
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_02: As they arose being thought.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_02: And where did yesterday's thoughts go?
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_02: A moment ago's thought, where'd it go?
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_02: Can I follow it home as it vanishes, the one I'm having right now?
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_00: Can I watch it really well and see where it goes when it disappears?
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_02: For me, and as is traditional in the lineage, the wheres,
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_02: Seem to work better to lead to the experience of not finding.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_02: You can try it the other way.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_02: Let me know how it works.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_00: What is the Dharmakaya aspect in regards to the crystal?
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's emptiness of inclusions.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_02: This is an analogy, remember.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_02: We speak of Dharmakaya as a word used to speak of the lack of characteristics of mind.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_02: Characteristics such as size,
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_02: Shape, color,
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_02: characteristics such as location,
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_02: center, edge,
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_02: beginning, end.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_02: So it is the lack of any such things.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_02: We say Dharmakaya is empty of characteristics.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_02: Its clarity, its actual, the word would be ocell, its luminous clarity or its bright clarity.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_02: The fact that
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_02: if I put something beside the crystal, come here, you can kind of see through it.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_02: Or at least I can see the camera and you guys threw it.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_02: That clarity,
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_02: which is a transparency which has,
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_02: which illuminates because For instance, clear light between my hands.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_02: This is clear light.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_02: This is Osel.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_02: What it means is it's transparent completely.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_02: And if I stick an object in it, you can see the object because there is light.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_02: It's all analogies.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_02: We can only speak in analogies here because the reality is ineffable.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_02: Inconceivable and indescribable.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_02: So the analogy is the fact that anything entering the emptiness, no,
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_02: not quite the right way to put it, because of its clarity,
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_02: transparency,
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_02: the luminosity,
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_02: which is the analogy or the way of describing its vitality,
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_02: its innate awake awareness,
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_02: Because of that,
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_02: because it's not just a big dead old nothing without characteristics,
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_02: it's an awake nothing.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_02: It's a vital nothing without characteristics.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_02: And it is the nature of aliveness, of awareness, to be aware of something.
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_02: Hence the creation of all the phenomena of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_02: Nirmanakaya.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_02: The vitality, Sambhogakaya.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_02: The emptiness, Dharmakaya.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_02: The creativity, Nirmanakaya.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_02: Lack of characteristics.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_02: No way to describe it beyond words, Dharmakaya.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_02: Clear, transparent light of that, Sambhogakaya.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_02: Dance of illusion, Nermanakaya.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_02: But you see, they're not three separate things.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_02: These are three words used to describe characteristics of one thing.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_02: This is one thing.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's a Lama Lena.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_02: It has a topknot,
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_02: eyes,
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_02: And political opinions.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_02: These are all characteristics of one thing.
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_02: This is a thing.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_02: It has the characteristics of being a flower.
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_02: It has the characteristics of having leaves.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_02: It has the characteristics of being about, oh, a foot long.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_02: But it's only one thing.
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_02: It just has different characteristics depending on how you want to describe it,
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_02: by its size or by its... Come on, flower, get back in the face.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to need to add water to that today.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_02: Is this making sense to you?
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a difference between Rigpa, awareness, and consciousness?
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_02: Semantics.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_02: Rigpa is a word in Tibetan that literally means the see-er,
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_02: as in the experiencer, which is translated into English as awareness.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_02: Consciousness is often Used as the Sanskrit word alaya,
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_02: which is something
• 1:02:32
  SPEAKER_02: more
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_02: individualist.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_02: You can have consciousness as this being and you can lose consciousness
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_02: under anesthetic or from a hit on the head and then you can regain consciousness.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_02: So consciousness, Is considered something more personal that comes and goes.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_02: Alaya.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_02: But this is all semantics.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_02: We're just discussing words and how they're used.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm going to bet that everybody uses them slightly differently.
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_02: And to different people of different cultures and linguistic backgrounds.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_02: Since I don't think any of us are native Sanskrit speakers.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_02: We're going to use them all slightly differently from each other.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_02: You have to understand that this was probably all,
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_02: not this text,
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_02: but many of these concepts, ideas,
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_02: ways of explaining started out in Sanskrit,
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_02: which is a language, which is amazing for discussing philosophy.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_02: You can stick
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_02: particles together and get the most Really amazing sets
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_02: of concepts stuck together in a word.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_02: You do that in Tibetan also, but you don't stick as many together.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_02: You really only stick one, two, or three together.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_02: You can do a few more for a phrase, but it gets dicey.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_02: But it's still a fractal language.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_02: English, you have to have a word for each thing.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_02: Which in Tibetan you don't.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_02: So if you get some new idea in Tibetan, like a computer, it's called an electric mind.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_02: Since electricity is new itself, it's called lightning.
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_02: So a computer is a lightning mind.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_02: And email is lightning writing.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_02: The way you stick syllables together to make new things.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_02: So we don't have that in English.
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_02: So understand that all the words you're using are approximations
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  SPEAKER_02: and no matter how much you get into the semantics,
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  SPEAKER_02: you're still going to be playing with approximations.
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_02: Next question.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when I wake up,
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_00: I experience a kind of subtle chatter of thoughts, no particular meanings.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_00: When I open my eyes, I see a band of bright white light.
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_00: Is that the clear light?
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have a color, the clear light.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the clear light between my hands.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_02: However,
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_02: what we call that band of chatter that has no meaning That's having your mind
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_02: in neutral gear.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_02: You just haven't engaged your gears yet during the day.
• 1:05:40
  SPEAKER_02: One of the methods of entering into meditation,
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  SPEAKER_02: if you cannot shut up and stop thinking,
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  SPEAKER_02: is to put your mind in neutral gear where it may be chattering on,
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  SPEAKER_02: but they don't have any meaning.
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_00: From the Spanish channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when relaxed into the display, Is curiosity the state of mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: When resting in the dynamic display, what happens with intention?
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_02: Well, if you truly are resting in the dynamic display, the question would be whose intention?
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_02: Because you're not there when you're really doing that.
• 1:06:26
  SPEAKER_02: You are the dynamic display.
• 1:06:28
  SPEAKER_02: You're not resting as you in the dynamic display.
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_02: You're resting as the dynamic display.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_02: Nonetheless,
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  SPEAKER_02: phenomena as it's called a display will continue to arise and the phenomena
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  SPEAKER_02: of intention may well arise according to your karma.
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_02: There is a...
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, holding still is an intention.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_02: Refraining from acting on intention is an intention.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_02: Acting on intention is an intention.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_02: They occur,
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  SPEAKER_02: but they do not actually belong to anyone.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_02: Read me that question again.
• 1:07:22
  SPEAKER_02: There were subtleties in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when relaxed into the display, is curiosity the state of mind?
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: When resting in the dynamic display, what happens with intention?
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_02: Curiosity is an aspect of the dynamic awareness.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_02: So is playfulness.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_02: So is bodhicitta.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_00: Read me the second half.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_00: When resting in the dynamic display, what happens with intention?
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_02: Intention simply becomes as it is, without projection of shoulds and shouldn'ts upon it.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to fake this.
• 1:08:26
  SPEAKER_02: You'll do yourself a mischief.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_02: Any attempt to fake crazy wisdom where intention and non-intention are the same
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_02: and things arise spontaneously,
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_02: if you're not all the way there, you're going to make a frigging mess.
• 1:08:47
  SPEAKER_02: And such an urge to fake realizations.
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_02: Don't do it.
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, don't do it.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_02: Even if someday for some minutes you have that realization and that happens, that's fine.
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_02: But if it seems to be not happening in a given moment, you've got to let that be fine too.
• 1:09:10
  SPEAKER_02: Never, never grab and try to fake it.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_02: Some of you will understand what I mean by this because it's important.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do we all originate from the same primordial ground of being
• 1:09:32
  SPEAKER_00: or do we each have our own separate primordial ground of being?
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_00: Same.
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  SPEAKER_02: Separate.
• 1:09:45
  SPEAKER_02: Understand that the ground of primordial being is beyond the idea of same and separate.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_02: So you can't even lay that much of a trip on it.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_02: We all, however, are in there together.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_02: There is a unity to the multiplicity and a multiplicity to the unity.
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_02: But every time you're going to try to hold this still by refining it down into
• 1:10:16
  SPEAKER_02: a statement that you can say is or isn't about, you're going to skew.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_02: Come back to ineffable.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Inconceivable, unspeakable.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to pin it down.
• 1:10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Next.
• 1:10:47
  SPEAKER_00: In Dzogchen,
• 1:10:48
  SPEAKER_00: are we going back to the original ground before recognition of its own clear nature?
• 1:11:01
  SPEAKER_02: The original ground has always...
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_02: Your question makes very little sense in the light of how it actually works.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_02: The original ground is not back in time.
• 1:11:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's outside of time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right here, right now.
• 1:11:28
  SPEAKER_02: There is not a going back to anything previous.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_02: There is a letting go of confused misunderstandings,
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_02: which is not the same as shoving away confusion.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Don't shove.
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_02: Don't grab.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_02: We are not actually going anywhere because there is no there there.
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_02: We are simply attempting to shift our attention
• 1:12:12
  SPEAKER_02: from its continuous obsessive compulsive point focus on this is and that's
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_02: to relax it and allow it to expand into the natural ineffable focus.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_02: On.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wordless.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_02: Have no word for what it's on because it's not on a thing.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_02: When you let go.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Your constant peering at point focus and understanding and poking at
• 1:12:58
  SPEAKER_02: the little things which has throughout time and space for you become
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_02: an obsessive compulsive disorder.
• 1:13:05
  SPEAKER_02: When you break that,
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_02: no thing,
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_02: no when, no where.
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_02: Not a big ol' nothin', not a void.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_02: Alive, vital.
• 1:13:27
  SPEAKER_02: Sparkling with the dance of creativity.
• 1:13:32
  SPEAKER_02: With no thing actually being created or destroyed.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_02: You might as well understand a pizza as understand Zogchen.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_02: If I were to offer you a pizza,
• 1:13:55
  SPEAKER_02: would you really try to understand it or would you simply eat it?
• 1:14:01
  SPEAKER_02: Do the same with the teachings.
• 1:14:05
  SPEAKER_02: Just do the practice.
• 1:14:10
  SPEAKER_02: If you attempt to understand it and pin it down into this set of words or that set
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_02: of words that it's like this or like that,
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_02: You will simply add to your own confusion.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_02: As Saraha said, all is's and isn't's aren't.
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_02: It's one of my favorite lines from his poetry.
• 1:14:49
  SPEAKER_02: There's a joke in here, I think.
• 1:14:55
  SPEAKER_02: If you need elaboration intellectually on this topic,
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_02: consult Kuncinlong Chempah's Treasury of the Supreme Approach and The Dense Cloud
• 1:15:09
  SPEAKER_02: of Profound Significance, among others.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_02: And if anyone actually has either of those texts, I'm curious.
• 1:15:27
  SPEAKER_02: The letter might be a joke, although it may also be a text.
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_02: There's some really odd Dzogchen jokes out there.
• 1:15:40
  SPEAKER_02: Now, although your Lama's profound personal instruction has made you aware of
• 1:15:48
  SPEAKER_02: the self-deception and delusion harbored in the dark cave of your mind,
• 1:15:55
  SPEAKER_02: You have also recognized that your mind is Buddha.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's not anywhere else.
• 1:16:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's not up there or out there.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_02: And you don't have to be good enough to get it because it's already there.
• 1:16:18
  SPEAKER_02: You have encountered the original face of the original Lord, the Adi Buddha.
• 1:16:26
  SPEAKER_02: And you know that you possess the same potential as Kuntuzangpo.
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_02: My spiritual children contemplate this joy from the bottom of your heart.
• 1:16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Once you recognize
• 1:16:49
  SPEAKER_02: that Buddha nature is inherent in you,
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_02: To the point of you actually believe that.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_02: Adherent, already present.
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_02: The sense of relief is overwhelming.
• 1:17:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's how you can know if you got this.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_02: A feeling of relief and joy that it You don't have to keep scrabbling,
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_02: trying to get something that seems to always be a step ahead of you.
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_02: You can relax, it's right there.
• 1:17:37
  SPEAKER_02: Relax again and again.
• 1:17:44
  SPEAKER_02: Mind, mind, seeing.
• 1:17:53
  SPEAKER_02: Without trying to figure out whether you are one or many.
• 1:18:05
  SPEAKER_02: Whether we are all one or many.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_02: Simply follow your own thoughts home.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_02: And that
• 1:18:25
  SPEAKER_02: The not finding.
• 1:18:31
  SPEAKER_02: The finding of the not finding.
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_02: Ineffable,
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_02: infinite,
• 1:18:39
  SPEAKER_02: open awareness where all thoughts come and go,
• 1:18:42
  SPEAKER_02: arise and vanish without ever leaving or becoming.
• 1:18:46
  SPEAKER_02: Relax.
• 1:18:56
  SPEAKER_02: There's nothing to stabilize because it's never gone away.
• 1:19:04
  SPEAKER_02: Your distraction by the minute of daily life
• 1:19:11
  SPEAKER_02: and your emotions is just
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_02: a surface layer that will fall away the more you notice.
• 1:19:23
  SPEAKER_02: So find your mind,
• 1:19:24
  SPEAKER_02: the thinker of the thoughts,
• 1:19:26
  SPEAKER_02: the feeler of the feelings, the perceiver of the perceptions
• 1:19:33
  SPEAKER_02: and relax.
• 1:19:35
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to keep it.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to push everything away.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_02: It's a subtle change of focus from focusing on the minute
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_02: Minute of this is,
• 1:19:57
  SPEAKER_02: and that's,
• 1:19:58
  SPEAKER_02: and the other thing,
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_02: and the letters in the book you're reading,
• 1:20:01
  SPEAKER_02: and the video game,
• 1:20:02
  SPEAKER_02: and the how,
• 1:20:03
  SPEAKER_02: what do I have here,
• 1:20:04
  SPEAKER_02: and the cleaning that,
• 1:20:06
  SPEAKER_02: and that's your minute of daily life that you obsess with all the time.
• 1:20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Take a little break, 10 minutes, maybe 20.
• 1:20:19
  SPEAKER_02: Sit with your channels in alignment In the proper position,
• 1:20:24
  SPEAKER_02: either Maitreya or Full Lotus or Half Lotus or Japanese kneeling as is
• 1:20:30
  SPEAKER_02: the case that's proper for you and your body.
• 1:20:37
  SPEAKER_02: Unfocus your eyeballs, let your attention follow the gaze of your eyes into
• 1:20:46
  SPEAKER_02: Open, open wide the awareness, open wide the eye gaze.
• 1:20:57
  SPEAKER_02: When you take a little rest from your point focusing, it's obvious.
• 1:21:05
  [music]
• 1:21:20
  SPEAKER_02: Vital, luminous.
• 1:21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Shimmering, sparkling with the dance of awareness.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_02: There is no separation between the minutiae and where it all arises.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_02: But you get there, to that awareness.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_02: By releasing your grasp, your habitual compulsive grasp on the minute eye.
• 1:21:53
  SPEAKER_02: By relaxing the focus of your eyeballs.
• 1:21:58
  SPEAKER_02: By relaxing your attention.
• 1:22:27
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to hang on to it.
• 1:22:31
  SPEAKER_02: Let it arise fresh in each moment again and again.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_02: For that which has never known coming and going does not leave.
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_02: And that which arises fresh in each moment is merely habit.
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_02: Eventually,
• 1:23:00
  SPEAKER_02: Mother and Son luminosity unite.
• 1:23:05
  SPEAKER_02: And the ineffable ground of being which has always been.
• 1:23:11
  SPEAKER_02: And your awareness of that will come together.
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_02: Relax.
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Don't grab anything and don't shove.
• 1:23:28
  SPEAKER_02: Just leave it be.
• 1:23:30
  [music]
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Nge Vandhi,
• 1:23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Nir Duda,
• 1:23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Jee Chee, Sahala,
• 1:23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Gopasho.
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  SPEAKER_02: We will practice.