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[#1] Naked Awareness Spontaneously Arising (Mar 2025) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_00: You are live.
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SPEAKER_01: Good morning, y'all.
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SPEAKER_01: So since we finished the songs of the Mahasiddhis,
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SPEAKER_01: I've been saying I'm going to open a new set text and Zogchin this time.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to do so.
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SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you grab me some coffee?
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SPEAKER_01: Excuse my voice.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm in New Orleans,
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SPEAKER_01: where I now live,
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SPEAKER_01: and it's Mardi Gras time,
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SPEAKER_01: so I may be slightly short on sleep and a bit hoarse, but who cares?
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SPEAKER_01: It's Mardi Gras time.
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SPEAKER_01: That should do it.
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SPEAKER_02: Urgen Pema Junila Solva Deb.
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SPEAKER_02: Dorji Chang Chitalo Narodang
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SPEAKER_02: Marpa Milagom Putsatsapa Na Pupadan Palten Drupasuk
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SPEAKER_02: Kargyu Lama Namla Solva Deb.
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SPEAKER_02: Ochen Lama Namla Solva
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SPEAKER_02: Ndruchen Lama Namla Solva Dev.
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SPEAKER_01: Kaginwari Lama Namla Solva Dev.
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SPEAKER_02: Sakya Lama Namla Solva Dev.
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SPEAKER_02: Yandu dang yandran lamanam la,
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SPEAKER_01: Sol vah
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SPEAKER_02: adib.
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SPEAKER_01: Pal khandu joong dang yer me pa,
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SPEAKER_02: Van garab
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SPEAKER_02: dur jijin trak pa, Jeti den nisu me pae, Pal amanam chitin di,
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SPEAKER_02: Chong.
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SPEAKER_01: Self-liberating, naked arising.
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SPEAKER_01: Essence of the Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: This text was written by Guru Rinpoche and hidden as a terma until
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SPEAKER_01: the times were appropriate for Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: You see, we haven't much time left.
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SPEAKER_01: You haven't much time left.
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SPEAKER_01: You're going to die.
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SPEAKER_01: And even before then, just being a homo sapien does not mean you have a full human opportunity.
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SPEAKER_01: You could get sick.
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SPEAKER_01: Your government could get wonky.
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SPEAKER_01: A war could come through right where you are Where you'll be
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SPEAKER_01: so damn busy staying alive, you won't have any time or liberty to practice Dharma.
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SPEAKER_01: Or Dharma could become illegal around here.
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SPEAKER_01: It's happened before.
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SPEAKER_01: So be aware that there's no time left.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's why it's time for Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: Here is contained the text.
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SPEAKER_01: Spontaneous liberation, nakedly arising.
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SPEAKER_01: Naked awareness spontaneously liberating itself.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a variety of translations for the title.
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SPEAKER_01: But this itself is a direct introduction to the state of intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: We're talking about the natural state,
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SPEAKER_01: the one that's always been there from beginningless time to endless time,
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SPEAKER_01: but you've been so busy trying to get what you want and get away
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SPEAKER_01: from what you're scared of that you never noticed.
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SPEAKER_01: You actually are enlightened,
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SPEAKER_01: but in order to notice it, You're going to have to stop chasing your tail.
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SPEAKER_01: I think you can do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Just sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to get more money.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to get away from the cops.
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SPEAKER_01: Just sit there and let the display complete itself.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the essence of treachery.
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SPEAKER_01: Until such time as you can do that.
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SPEAKER_01: The Buddha sat still while Mara's sons and daughters danced in front of him.
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SPEAKER_01: This is symbolic speech.
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SPEAKER_01: Illusion.
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SPEAKER_01: Mara is the god of illusion.
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SPEAKER_01: His sons are your fears, the things that threaten and chase you.
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SPEAKER_01: Tax man.
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SPEAKER_01: Bored cops.
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SPEAKER_01: The other side in the war,
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SPEAKER_01: whichever war you're living through right now, there's lots of them going on.
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SPEAKER_01: They may well spread if you're not living through one right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, there could come here.
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SPEAKER_01: All of this, the display, Mara's sons and his daughters.
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SPEAKER_01: Save for retirement because you're pretending you know you're going to live that long.
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SPEAKER_01: Raise the kids well.
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SPEAKER_01: Worry about losing them.
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SPEAKER_01: Fear, love, hope.
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SPEAKER_01: Trying, achieving, the whole purpose of your practice is to improve yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: Fucking A, haven't you noticed you're perfect?
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SPEAKER_01: Just let go.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what's meant by the state of intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: From the profound teaching of self-liberation in the primordial state of
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SPEAKER_01: the peaceful and fierce archetypes.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorry, translators, I'm not word for word.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm fixing some of the translations.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't always agree with John Reynolds.
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SPEAKER_01: I call them archetypes and I call it fierce, tragpo.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not angry, it's fierce.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're not gods.
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SPEAKER_01: They're archetypes.
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SPEAKER_01: They are not separate from yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: And this points them out.
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SPEAKER_01: The peaceful, happy, and the fierce,
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SPEAKER_02: blood-dripping, demon-eating.
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SPEAKER_01: Archetypes are aspects
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SPEAKER_01: of your own innate peacefulness and fierceness,
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SPEAKER_01: which does not die or go away.
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SPEAKER_01: Enlightenment is not death.
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SPEAKER_01: The whole goal is not to snuff yourself out like a candle.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't work.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, I have heard tell that there is a method through the Southern School for doing that.
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SPEAKER_01: Snuffing yourself out like a candle.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's not Mahayana because Mahayana is based on the fact that we are all in this together.
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SPEAKER_01: Since there is no such thing as an
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SPEAKER_01: individual who is separate from everyone else,
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SPEAKER_01: we're all interpenetrating, interconnected, intercreating each other.
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SPEAKER_01: In that case, who the fuck gets enlightened alone?
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SPEAKER_01: Since there is no individual eternal entity,
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SPEAKER_01: what would experience individual enlightenment?
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SPEAKER_01: It's a group thing.
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SPEAKER_01: The peaceful and wrathful deities are, we say, emanations of the Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: This intrinsic awareness is Dharmakaya nature of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: The dance of creativity.
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SPEAKER_01: The ability to create.
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SPEAKER_01: Which, to be fierce,
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SPEAKER_01: to be peaceful,
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SPEAKER_01: to feel,
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SPEAKER_01: to think,
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SPEAKER_01: just the ability,
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SPEAKER_01: not the thoughts themselves,
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SPEAKER_01: not the feelings themselves,
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SPEAKER_01: but the ability to,
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SPEAKER_01: is what is symbolized by Sambhogakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: Nature of Mind,
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SPEAKER_01: which is drawn,
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SPEAKER_01: imageried, as all the peaceful and fierce archetypes of the three times.
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SPEAKER_01: What is created,
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SPEAKER_01: the multiple dancers,
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SPEAKER_01: your little mind, your thoughts, your feelings, your stuff, that's nirmanakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're not separate.
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SPEAKER_01: Homage to the trikaya.
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SPEAKER_01: The three kayas, Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: And to the archetypes who represent the inherent luminous clarity of intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: Look, intrinsic awareness always was, always will be.
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SPEAKER_01: It ain't doing nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: But it has an aspect of aliveness.
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SPEAKER_01: Giving it the potential of doing everything, of being everything, of creating everything.
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SPEAKER_01: This vitality, which is symbolized by clear, transparent light.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is luminous lucidity.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Creates all the phenomena of Nirmanakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: These three are not separate.
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SPEAKER_01: They are a singular with three aspects.
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SPEAKER_01: Stability, vitality, creativity.
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SPEAKER_01: Herein I shall teach self-liberation.
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SPEAKER_01: The naturally self-arising liberation of naked awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: When you strip all the frou-frou,
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SPEAKER_01: thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: feelings,
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SPEAKER_01: sensations,
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SPEAKER_01: perceptions, frou-frou, when you strip that off the awareness, it is naked.
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SPEAKER_01: When it is naked, it self-liberates.
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SPEAKER_01: It naturally arises as the three kayas, as it always has been.
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SPEAKER_01: The key to recognizing this yourself is to strip it naked of frou-frou.
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SPEAKER_01: And you love your frou-frou.
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SPEAKER_01: What you need is the direct introduction to intrinsic awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: how to notice what's always been there,
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SPEAKER_01: not how to acquire, not how to create, not how to get good enough to deserve.
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SPEAKER_01: Ain't none of those.
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SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_02: Intrinsic as in completely natural always was and will be.
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SPEAKER_01: Does not come and go.
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SPEAKER_01: If you get something out of your practice, put it back.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not yours.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't keep it.
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SPEAKER_01: If you can say ever since such and such, this has been happening for me.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a nyam.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't care how good it is,
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SPEAKER_01: how symbolic of reality it is, it's still an experience because it had a beginning.
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SPEAKER_01: One of the things you learn in your first weeks in the Dharma,
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SPEAKER_01: in the traditional methods, is impermanence.
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SPEAKER_01: And the basis of impermanence is that anything that has a beginning is going to end.
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SPEAKER_01: You all can't think of anything That begins and does not end.
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SPEAKER_01: Enlightenment does not begin in a moment.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no achievement to have a moment of achievement.
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SPEAKER_01: It's right here.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now.
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SPEAKER_01: And it ain't going nowhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Dharmakaya nature of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is what awareness is when it's stripped naked of its creations,
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SPEAKER_01: its froufras, its perceptions, phenomena.
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SPEAKER_01: But do not think that the ability to create these is destroyed by enlightenment.
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SPEAKER_01: It brings nothing new and it gets rid of nothing old.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing gained, nothing destroyed, simply a releasing.
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SPEAKER_01: Not even a shift of attention, for if it shifts, it gonna shift back.
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SPEAKER_01: First thing I asked,
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SPEAKER_01: the first Tibetan monk I met,
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SPEAKER_01: in a garden on a hilltop that I was on for assorted reasons and purposes,
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SPEAKER_01: I had not spoken with Tibetans before, and there was a Tibetan monk in the garden.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd been studying with the Hindus and had some occurrences, adventures, and experiences therein.
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SPEAKER_01: I said to him,
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SPEAKER_01: do you guys have anything that doesn't wear off or require maintenance anymore?
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SPEAKER_01: In the way of dharmas, realizations, whatever you want to call them, cities.
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SPEAKER_01: And he said, yeah, we do.
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SPEAKER_01: Stick around, kid.
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SPEAKER_01: And so I did.
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SPEAKER_01: And yeah, they do.
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SPEAKER_01: But you're not going to get it someday.
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SPEAKER_01: It's right here in this now.
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SPEAKER_01: And every single now that ever happens.
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SPEAKER_01: From the profound teaching of self liberation in the primordial state of
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SPEAKER_01: the peaceful and fierce archetypes
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogaya.
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SPEAKER_01: This text comes out of the very vitality.
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SPEAKER_01: This text is spoken by the lucidity.
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SPEAKER_01: The name that teacher gave me,
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SPEAKER_01: that first monk who eventually I took refuge with,
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SPEAKER_01: whose name was Lama Tuptaneshi,
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SPEAKER_01: the name he gave me in my first refuge,
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SPEAKER_01: my first Tibetan name that I've kept ever since, Yeshi Ketu.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeshi refers to that primordial wisdom,
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SPEAKER_01: which is the nature of the vitality,
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SPEAKER_01: which is the nature of the Dharmakaya with its clear light nature,
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SPEAKER_01: which is intrinsic to it of the Sambhogakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: the primordial wisdom from which this text comes.
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SPEAKER_01: Ketup simply means can talk.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I can.
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SPEAKER_01: It had been noticed.
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SPEAKER_01: Truly, this introduction to your own awareness should be contemplated well,
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SPEAKER_01: O fortunate sons of a noble family.
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SPEAKER_01: Samaya, Jaya, Jaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you see that, Samaya?
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SPEAKER_01: Interactive.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not a vow here.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a relationship between you, I,
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SPEAKER_01: and the bugs on the wall and the lizard crawling across the ceiling
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SPEAKER_01: and the birds
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SPEAKER_01: that fly and the fish that swim The runners and the burrowers
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SPEAKER_01: and all
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SPEAKER_01: the people interconnected,
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SPEAKER_01: intercreating each other, interpenetrating from beginningless time.
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SPEAKER_01: That relationship,
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SPEAKER_01: which is Bodhicitta,
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SPEAKER_01: the essence of Bodhicitta,
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SPEAKER_01: is that connection,
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SPEAKER_01: which when not Resisted or talked about is of the nature of love.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the Samaya.
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SPEAKER_01: That was the introduction to the text.
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SPEAKER_01: No questions you have right now could be useful because there are no words to answer them.
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SPEAKER_01: Emma Ho
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SPEAKER_01: translates as Eureka in English.
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SPEAKER_01: You can look it up if you don't know that word.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the single mind Which encompasses all of samsara and nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: The bond make quite a difference between sem and semnyi in the equivalent teaching here.
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SPEAKER_01: We're talking about semnyi, real mind, big mind, true mind.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the single nature of it which encompasses all samsara and nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: Your big mind, samnyi, is not in samsara and you have to get it out of samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: Samsara's in it.
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SPEAKER_01: People talk about wanting to escape from samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like you want to escape from your brain?
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SPEAKER_01: Your heart,
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SPEAKER_01: your lungs, well,
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SPEAKER_01: I can understand why one might occasionally feel that way when troubled,
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SPEAKER_01: but really, you can't.
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SPEAKER_01: You are that.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not in samsara to escape out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Not in Dzogchen context.
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SPEAKER_01: Samsara is in you.
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SPEAKER_01: You just have to put it down, leave it go, let it be.
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SPEAKER_02: Even though its inherent nature has existed from the very beginning,
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SPEAKER_01: you've just not recognized it.
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SPEAKER_01: Look, right now,
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SPEAKER_01: you're sitting in a chair someplace or on a bench with your cell phone or in
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SPEAKER_01: the driver's seat pulled over.
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SPEAKER_01: I hope you're pulled over if you're watching this.
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SPEAKER_01: If not, pull over.
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SPEAKER_01: So you're sitting there.
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SPEAKER_01: You're a person, Joe Smith, Ann Riley, whoever you are.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you?
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SPEAKER_01: You have sensations of your body.
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SPEAKER_01: Feel the chair under your ass.
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SPEAKER_01: Taste in your mouth,
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SPEAKER_01: emotion of desire,
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SPEAKER_01: emotion of satisfaction,
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SPEAKER_01: feelings, sensations, thoughts, whatever you're thinking about what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_01: You're thinking about what you're going to have for lunch.
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SPEAKER_01: You're thinking about what you have to do today.
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SPEAKER_01: All those.
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SPEAKER_01: You got these three things.
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SPEAKER_01: Sensations of the six sense organs, which include sensations of the ye, the six sense.
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SPEAKER_01: People call it their spidey sense,
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SPEAKER_01: where your hair stands on end when somebody's behind you,
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SPEAKER_01: even though they didn't make noise.
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SPEAKER_01: But also where you experience brain chemicals.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, if you were actually paying attention,
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SPEAKER_01: you should now have a sensation going on in your Yi.
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SPEAKER_01: Feel that?
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SPEAKER_01: That's what a sensation of the Yi has.
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SPEAKER_01: I startled you into releasing some adrenaline.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like right in your solar plexus.
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SPEAKER_01: That doesn't work every time, but I haven't done it for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: All of that,
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SPEAKER_01: sensation,
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SPEAKER_01: feeling,
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SPEAKER_01: emotion, desire,
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SPEAKER_01: aversion,
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SPEAKER_01: types of emotion,
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SPEAKER_01: thoughts about the emotion and whether you will act on it or not,
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SPEAKER_01: and yeah, will I take another glug of coffee or keep talking, yada, yada, yada.
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SPEAKER_01: That is all phenomena.
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SPEAKER_01: Sensations, thoughts, and feelings make up a perception of this moment.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're paying attention to your perceptions because you have from beginningless time.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Where is it all going down?
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SPEAKER_01: Traditionally, it's easier to do it with thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Just follow them home.
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SPEAKER_01: Where would they be happening?
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SPEAKER_01: Relax your attention from what you think,
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SPEAKER_01: what you believe, how you feel about it, and whether it itches you or not.
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SPEAKER_01: All of that phenomena is the dance of Mara's sons and daughters.
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SPEAKER_01: Just be there.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't look at anything in particular.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to see your mind where it's all happening.
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SPEAKER_01: Just let go of that and be.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try.
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SPEAKER_01: Effortlessly.
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SPEAKER_01: Release effort as well.
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SPEAKER_01: Effort is a sensation of the ye.
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SPEAKER_01: Let it all go.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax again.
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SPEAKER_01: The fears dissolve in emptiness, so do the hopes.
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SPEAKER_01: Even the hoper and the fearer,
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SPEAKER_01: made of bits of influences from books and movies, conversations.
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SPEAKER_01: Even that ever-changing.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing changes.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to do anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Not even to relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Just let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though its clarity and presence has been uninterrupted,
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SPEAKER_01: You have been too busy to yet encounter its face.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of the busyness.
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SPEAKER_01: Just relax, just for now.
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SPEAKER_01: You can pick it up later if you're worried about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though its arising has nowhere been obstructed,
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SPEAKER_01: all your digpa, your hangups, your pagcha, your demons, They're part of samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: You are not in samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: Samsara is in you.
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SPEAKER_01: Cease maintaining them and let them go.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though its arising has nowhere been obstructed, you have not comprehended it.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore, this direct introduction is for the purpose of bringing you to self-recognition.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to make it fancy.
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SPEAKER_01: To complexify.
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SPEAKER_01: To obtusify.
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SPEAKER_01: Utter simplicity.
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SPEAKER_01: Just this.
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SPEAKER_01: What, you want to get something you never had before that makes your eyes bug out
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SPEAKER_01: and your mouth drop open?
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SPEAKER_01: No, not going to happen.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just this.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop fighting it.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything that is expounded by the victorious ones of the three times.
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SPEAKER_01: In the 84,000 gateways of the Dharma.
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SPEAKER_01: Victorious ones of the three times means all Buddhas of the fourth time.
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SPEAKER_01: Past, present and future, outside of time, beyond space.
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SPEAKER_01: You, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Because in the fullness of time you fully expect to achieve enlightenment someday, right?
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SPEAKER_01: That was a facepalm.
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SPEAKER_01: For obvious reasons.
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SPEAKER_01: You stand among all Buddhas of the fourth time.
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SPEAKER_01: You always have, you always will.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're trying to find yourself because you're a young teenager, that's where you are.
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SPEAKER_00: Go look.
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SPEAKER_01: In the fourth time, outside of time and space, the totality of yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not even that hard to find.
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SPEAKER_01: You just have to stop trying to paint it purple or put glitter on it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's for Mardi Gras, not Enlightenment.
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SPEAKER_01: The 84,000 gateways of the Dharma,
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SPEAKER_01: it's said that Gautama Buddha gave 84,000 different teachings.
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SPEAKER_01: 84,000 is a symbolic number in Tibet.
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SPEAKER_01: That means there was a number of things and it was too big to know what that number was.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the same as numberless, which means infinite.
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SPEAKER_01: So he gave a finite number of teachings,
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SPEAKER_01: but there were so damn many since so many were contained in each.
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SPEAKER_01: It's packed, dense.
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SPEAKER_01: But there was, he never said a single word that wasn't pointing here.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, some of you are over there, and some of you are over there, and some of you are over there.
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SPEAKER_01: The map from Paris to Lhasa is not the same as the map from South Africa to Lhasa.
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SPEAKER_01: If you try to follow a map that doesn't start where you are, it won't take you to your goal.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is why there's 84,000 different ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Because of the 84,000 different types of sentient beings capable of communicating,
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SPEAKER_01: or types of human Not homo sapien, don't mix up those two.
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SPEAKER_01: Types of humans.
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SPEAKER_01: Each of which is coming from a different place.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of which have very different nervous systems.
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SPEAKER_01: Different channel patterns.
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SPEAKER_01: All of this,
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SPEAKER_01: all of the teachings, you have misunderstood.
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SPEAKER_01: It is incomprehensible unless you understand intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: In the first teachings given to a Buddhist in the Mayana system, the first thing that is done
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SPEAKER_01: Is pointing out that you have Buddha nature inherent within you.
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SPEAKER_01: Now,
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SPEAKER_01: some schools tell you to worship that
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SPEAKER_01: or to fall in love with a symbol of that.
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SPEAKER_01: These are all valid methods
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SPEAKER_01: of unifying with your own Buddha nature.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people fall in love with the person of their teacher.
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SPEAKER_01: No, you aren't really.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the person.
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SPEAKER_01: It's what they're a symbol of, what they're showing you that you're in love with.
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SPEAKER_01: Your own intrinsic awareness, mirrored by the teacher,
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SPEAKER_01: A good teacher is not simply, you don't say that a good teacher is themselves enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: A good teacher is one who knows that you are enlightened and sees that in you at all times.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what will attract you to a particular teacher, that you can hear them see that.
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SPEAKER_01: And it helps you eventually to see it.
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SPEAKER_01: So truly the Dharma is in its true nature totally incomprehensible without
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SPEAKER_01: the clear understanding of Buddha nature being inherent within you.
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SPEAKER_01: Here in this text, it's called intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: And it ain't nothing special.
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SPEAKER_01: It's always been there.
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SPEAKER_01: You felt it before, but then you've gone and gotten busy again and paid no attention.
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SPEAKER_01: It's right there.
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SPEAKER_02: It's the one
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SPEAKER_01: that is looking out from behind your own eyes.
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SPEAKER_01: Rigpa, the seer.
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SPEAKER_02: Just that.
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SPEAKER_01: With all the frou-frou,
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SPEAKER_01: the explanations about the stories it makes up about what it sees and what it means.
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SPEAKER_01: Nakedly seeing.
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SPEAKER_01: Spontaneously arising.
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SPEAKER_01: Indeed, the victorious ones do not teach anything other than the understanding of this.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though there exist unlimited numbers of scriptures equaling their extent to
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SPEAKER_01: the sky,
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SPEAKER_01: yet with respect to the real meaning,
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SPEAKER_01: there are three statements,
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SPEAKER_01: heart statements,
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SPEAKER_01: pith teachings, that will introduce you to your own intrinsic awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: This introduction to the manifest primordial state of the victorious ones.
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SPEAKER_01: This itself right here and now.
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SPEAKER_01: Just for a little while,
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SPEAKER_01: sit there
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SPEAKER_01: and let everything drift or scurry by as it does.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't run from the scary ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't chase the pretty ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Just
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SPEAKER_02: sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: Add no complexity onto this.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it utterly simple.
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SPEAKER_01: Just
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SPEAKER_00: sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: This introduction to the manifest primordial state of
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SPEAKER_01: the victorious ones is disclosed by the following method for entering into
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SPEAKER_01: the practice where there exists
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SPEAKER_01: no antecedent nor subsequent practices.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing leads up to this.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing leads away from this.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to give you this text very slowly so that there is a possibility of eating it.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's starting at the top with the very highest teachings,
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SPEAKER_01: with the last teachings given first in case you get them.
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SPEAKER_01: Then it goes down one into some method and down one.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to leave you until we meet again and continue on chapter five.
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SPEAKER_01: With homework.
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SPEAKER_01: From time to time, sit down and let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't use a method to let go.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a thousand methods.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll teach you one next time.
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SPEAKER_01: But they're only methods.
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SPEAKER_01: Things that might make it easier.
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SPEAKER_01: They're complexities.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's try it for a week or two.
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SPEAKER_01: Every day, somewhere, out and about, in, as you will, just sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't make anything out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't meditate, don't not meditate.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try to become enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try not to become enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow the thoughts to arise and vanish,
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SPEAKER_01: which they do naturally when you don't grab them and start chewing on them.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow feelings to occur or not.
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SPEAKER_01: Unless you have a sensation of pain,
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SPEAKER_01: such as you happen to be sitting in front of the fireplace and your foot starts
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SPEAKER_01: to hurt, at which point then do remove it from the fire.
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SPEAKER_01: People have been known to burn their socks all up and get minor burns
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SPEAKER_01: because they've decided to ignore a sensation because they're meditating.
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SPEAKER_00: So don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not instead of common sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Eventually it is possible to react to the moving and move with it without doing anything at all.
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SPEAKER_01: That may happen.
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SPEAKER_01: You may find that you get up and you do something and no doing occurs and no one does it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't refrain from moving.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't hold still.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't go do something.
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SPEAKER_01: Just sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: Let the thoughts arise and vanish as they will.
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SPEAKER_01: Without following them or suppressing them or justifying them with other thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: Leave all the stories be.
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SPEAKER_01: Let the physical sensations arise and vanish as they will,
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SPEAKER_01: without suppressing the need to scratch,
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SPEAKER_01: nor justifying that you scratched.
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SPEAKER_01: In a completely natural state of awareness, naked awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: I will accept a few questions.
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SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: There's only a couple so far.
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SPEAKER_01: This isn't something that's going to get a lot of them.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the first part.
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SPEAKER_01: But I wanted people to have a chance to work with that bit before going on to method.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the questions had to do with is this a practice that can also be done
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SPEAKER_00: in movement, say as you're doing chores around the house or walking somewhere?
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SPEAKER_01: Once you are good at it, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: But it is much easier and I would recommend at this time,
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SPEAKER_01: since it has just been shown, that you try it without
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SPEAKER_01: Adding in the complexity of doing stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Later on.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a question about how can the display complete itself and what is this display?
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SPEAKER_00: It's been there since beginningless time.
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SPEAKER_00: What is it?
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SPEAKER_01: Phenomena.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a whole bilblah entanglement of your thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: your feelings,
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SPEAKER_01: and your physical sensations,
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SPEAKER_01: creating a series of perceptions lined up together called an experience.
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SPEAKER_01: Your experience is the display.
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SPEAKER_01: It has always been there.
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SPEAKER_01: It always will, but you don't have to be caught in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a fly in a web.
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SPEAKER_01: Struggling, you wrap the web tighter around yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what I'm going to have you tie this practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Just sit there and relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Let it go.
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SPEAKER_01: Let it all go.
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SPEAKER_01: The display is everything you experience.
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SPEAKER_01: Experience does not end but being caught in it
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SPEAKER_01: and fretting about it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's optional.
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SPEAKER_01: There's plenty of stuff to fret about out there.
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SPEAKER_01: Out there is your experience.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a combination of, you see, you don't actually know what might be out there.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody does.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what's in your reality tape, which is caused by your conditioning.
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SPEAKER_01: You have a bunch of sensations and you tell yourself a story about them
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SPEAKER_01: Then you have feelings about the story you just told yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: I had a student who was really, she was sure I was mad at me and stayed away from me for a year.
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SPEAKER_01: You see,
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SPEAKER_01: there had been a day when I was teaching and I had eaten some beans for supper
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SPEAKER_01: the night before and I was extremely windy.
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SPEAKER_01: And at one point in the conversation,
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SPEAKER_01: I must have looked at her while trying very hard not to fart.
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SPEAKER_01: And I didn't even notice her.
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SPEAKER_01: I was paying attention to my innards.
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SPEAKER_01: She thought it meant I was mad at her.
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SPEAKER_01: She interpreted the sensation in her eyeballs of the expression on my face
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SPEAKER_01: to mean I was angry at her,
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SPEAKER_01: took it personally,
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SPEAKER_01: and went through whim-whams for a year
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SPEAKER_01: about all what horrible things she must have done to piss off her teacher
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SPEAKER_01: and finally asked me.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember that day.
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SPEAKER_01: I was exceptionally windy and trying not to be public about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing to do with you, dear.
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SPEAKER_01: I think she was very disappointed.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, at least then I would have noticed her.
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SPEAKER_01: Your display is your perceptions lined up in a row through time.
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SPEAKER_01: The perception of each moment, each moment, each moment stuck together through time.
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SPEAKER_01: Creating an experience.
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SPEAKER_01: What happens if you don't stick them together?
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SPEAKER_01: If the now arises as itself and vanishes at the end of itself,
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SPEAKER_01: which is the end of that now and the next now arises new and fresh.
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SPEAKER_01: There's still a display, but you are not trapped in it.
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SPEAKER_01: You recognize that you are not in Samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: It is in you and you release it.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing changes.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything
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SPEAKER_01: is as it was rather than as you think it is, fear it might be or want it to be.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: I can find stillness,
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SPEAKER_00: but later trying to comprehend it or caught in emotions,
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SPEAKER_00: and I feel as though I'm not doing enough with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Those are thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Please put them down.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do anything with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it be and relax.
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SPEAKER_00: Part of the question was, I'm afraid if I let go, I will lose purpose.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Your purpose right now is to chase your tail.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll never catch it.
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SPEAKER_01: It stopped being funny a long time ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of that purpose.
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SPEAKER_01: You're worth more just as is.
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SPEAKER_01: Your purpose is made up, a will-o'-the-wisp, a false light to chase.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't need to believe it's real if you want to chase something.
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SPEAKER_01: Badminton cock?
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SPEAKER_01: Play badminton and chase the ball all over the place.
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SPEAKER_01: Or table tennis.
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SPEAKER_01: Why do we all need something to strive for?
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SPEAKER_01: It's right here.
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SPEAKER_01: You might as well simply allow yourself to enjoy it.
52:40
SPEAKER_01: You know,
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SPEAKER_01: there are people working on their seventh million
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SPEAKER_01: who are afraid they don't have enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Their purpose was to get enough money to retire.
52:52
SPEAKER_01: Their purpose was to work hard, get enough money to stop working hard.
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SPEAKER_01: And then they're afraid of losing their purpose, so they work themselves to death.
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SPEAKER_01: And they never retire.
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SPEAKER_01: And the lawyers take the money.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: Should you close your eyes during this practice?
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SPEAKER_01: You'll probably fall asleep, but perhaps you need a nap.
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SPEAKER_01: Not a problem.
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SPEAKER_01: Take a nap.
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SPEAKER_01: There is no should here.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of the should.
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SPEAKER_01: And just relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Anymore?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_00: There was a question, give me a moment to find it.
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SPEAKER_00: It had to do with movement and is it more helpful to move slowly while trying this practice?
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SPEAKER_00: Does it help ease you into letting go by moving slowly?
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SPEAKER_01: It might for some kinesthetic people.
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SPEAKER_01: I know for myself,
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SPEAKER_01: if I don't move within this because I get a goal like getting another box packed
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SPEAKER_01: or unpacked, I will injure myself.
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SPEAKER_01: But then I've got Akazade helping.
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SPEAKER_01: It really is a good
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SPEAKER_02: way of learning.
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SPEAKER_01: If you end up covered with bandages every time you see.
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SPEAKER_01: Next.
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SPEAKER_00: A question about physical responses to meditation.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: The question is,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm a practitioner and when I meditate,
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SPEAKER_00: I feel my palms and my fingers getting warm, almost burning.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't have any health issues.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you have any ideas about this reaction?
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SPEAKER_01: We've talked about that together before.
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SPEAKER_01: See if that happens when you don't try to meditate and you just sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: Try this practice instead of meditating.
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SPEAKER_01: This isn't meditating.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's not not meditating.
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SPEAKER_01: It's the final practice in the line of
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SPEAKER_02: linear practices of Mahamudra.
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SPEAKER_01: Give it a try for a couple of weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we'll step back one.
56:29
SPEAKER_01: And then we'll step back one, and then we'll step back one.
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SPEAKER_01: That way, if there's a chikchawa out there, there they go.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't want to miss a chikchawa.
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SPEAKER_01: That's someone ripe enough,
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SPEAKER_01: a fruit on the tree that's ripe enough that if you just touch it,
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SPEAKER_01: it falls off in your hand.
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SPEAKER_01: I need to point out,
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SPEAKER_01: it is not necessary with all dharmas to agree with each other.
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SPEAKER_01: Imagine the end of my nose.
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SPEAKER_02: I am pointing in very different directions,
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SPEAKER_01: but I am pointing at the end of my nose.
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SPEAKER_01: So one Dharma will say this and one Dharma will completely disagree and say that.
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SPEAKER_01: Look for the point in the middle.
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SPEAKER_01: When you find two teachers telling you things that appear
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SPEAKER_01: to be diametrically opposed,
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SPEAKER_01: see if
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SPEAKER_01: you can find what they're both pointing at from different directions.
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SPEAKER_01: Any more questions?
58:02
SPEAKER_00: A question about motivation and how to be motivated for this practice
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SPEAKER_00: without pulling or pushing, desiring or avoiding.
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SPEAKER_00: How do you get the gumption?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, if you run around a lot, you will eventually want to sit down.
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SPEAKER_01: Then you sit there.
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SPEAKER_01: So, go play.
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SPEAKER_01: If you want to motivate yourself to this, get tired.
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SPEAKER_01: Make your feet tired.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you'll want to sit down, and then you just sit there for a while.
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SPEAKER_00: Does diet make a difference?
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SPEAKER_00: For instance, garlic and onions, do they affect this practice?
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SPEAKER_01: Not one whit.
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SPEAKER_01: They affect other practices, but not this one.
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SPEAKER_01: This is pure Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: I've tried to talk to you all about it before with different texts.
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SPEAKER_01: This text starts in pure Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing affects it.
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SPEAKER_00: Before sitting,
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SPEAKER_00: do you recommend, for instance, Guru Yoga, the seven-line prayer, or Bodhicitta?
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SPEAKER_01: Nope.
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SPEAKER_01: Those should be intrinsic in you.
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SPEAKER_01: Bodhicitta is the life force that allows you to move.
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SPEAKER_01: Guru Yoga is the nature of your heart and emotions.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_01: The nature of your interconnectedness with all people, it is a self-obvious matter.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_01: So you don't have to do them or create them.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_01: They're right there.
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SPEAKER_01: Inherent in it.
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SPEAKER_01: No, there's nothing you should do here.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_01: Neither any shoulds nor any doing.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_01: Just sit there and cut the crap.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_01: Thoughts come up, thoughts dissolve.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_01: Feelings arise, tensions in the body, sensations.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't explain them to yourself.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_01: There's no whys or wherefores.
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SPEAKER_01: Just relax and sit there and let it all happen.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot.
1:01:17
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: In light of these teachings, how do I distinguish Bodichitta from Stockholm Syndrome?
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SPEAKER_01: You don't.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_01: There's both thoughts.
1:01:30
SPEAKER_01: You're trying to do something with thought.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't need to distinguish anything from anything.
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SPEAKER_01: It'll be obvious.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_00: Stockholm Syndrome.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_00: It's in the question.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's where you end up in love with your captors.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: Because they had the power.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_01: Look, we're all kinky on some level or another.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_01: That's just another kink.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_01: Let it come, let it go.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_01: Who cares?
1:02:02
SPEAKER_01: And Bodecita doesn't look anything like kink.
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SPEAKER_01: At least not to my knowledge.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: Bodicita is more heart-based.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_01: No, the life force energy of sexual energy is actually Bodicita on some level.
1:02:22
SPEAKER_01: So let me take that away and say, yes, can get involved in Bodicita.
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SPEAKER_01: Which gets complex with some kinks.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_00: What is the best cause for realization?
1:02:48
SPEAKER_00: Should I attend more teachings or do a personal retreat?
1:02:53
SPEAKER_01: Create Gewa wherever the opportunity arises.
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SPEAKER_01: Gewa is the cause for sentient beings to recognize.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_01: Gewa is openness and relaxation.
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SPEAKER_01: The more Gewa,
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SPEAKER_01: the more openness and relaxation happening in one's mandala,
1:03:17
SPEAKER_01: since all the mandalas are intersecting circles,
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SPEAKER_01: intersecting to the end of the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: The more Gewa you strew around your mandala,
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SPEAKER_01: the more relaxation and happiness gives somebody some money.
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SPEAKER_01: It'll make them happy.
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SPEAKER_01: They'll feel more relaxed having the money than not having the money.
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SPEAKER_01: Give them an amount that's appropriate to the situation.
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SPEAKER_01: Give stuff away.
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SPEAKER_01: When someone receives a gift that it was something they wanted or finds in
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SPEAKER_01: a free box something they wanted, it makes them happy.
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SPEAKER_01: Happy is relaxing.
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SPEAKER_01: Create Gewa.
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SPEAKER_01: And let it spread out the goal.
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SPEAKER_01: The goal is accomplished.
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SPEAKER_01: The goal is accomplishing.
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SPEAKER_01: In every moment it arises.
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SPEAKER_01: In every moment it is freed.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: One of our Spanish viewers asks,
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SPEAKER_00: what are the differences between the practices given to neurotypicals and autistics?
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SPEAKER_01: Not much occasionally.
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SPEAKER_01: See, there's not just one kind of autistic.
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SPEAKER_01: We're all different.
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SPEAKER_01: If you've met one Aspie, you've met one Aspie.
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SPEAKER_01: My grandson and I, both autistic in very different ways.
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SPEAKER_01: I need stuff smooth, clear, and lined up.
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SPEAKER_01: If his stuff isn't everywhere, It makes him just as nervous as it makes me when mine is.
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SPEAKER_01: We tried to live together.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that didn't work.
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SPEAKER_01: He was a little kid, but I would put his toys in the toy boxes.
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SPEAKER_01: Where's my toys?
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SPEAKER_01: Threw them all over the house.
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SPEAKER_01: Then he could relax.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like, okay, kid, we got different kinds.
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SPEAKER_01: So I have made adjustments for certain individual autistic people of a practice
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SPEAKER_01: to make it work better for them,
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SPEAKER_01: including certain people with ADD, but that's a very individualistic thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's no basic difference.
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SPEAKER_01: You always adjust things for people as a teacher,
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SPEAKER_01: or at least go look among all the stuff you know and have heard of And find one
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SPEAKER_01: that might suit them for now.
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SPEAKER_01: Until it's time to give them a different one because they've changed.
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SPEAKER_01: Because you're changing all the time.
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SPEAKER_01: So you give one that suits you for them.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why people often have more than one yidim in their whole life.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people.
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SPEAKER_01: Others have one for three lives in a row.
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SPEAKER_01: It's different.
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SPEAKER_01: Dharma is not a bathrobe.
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SPEAKER_01: It is not one size fits all.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm a scientist who's working on a project where I need to monitor progress over several years.
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SPEAKER_00: Due to practice, I change a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: I personally,
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SPEAKER_00: and I don't understand how to believe in the same person
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SPEAKER_00: who started
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SPEAKER_01: Why would you believe in that person?
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SPEAKER_01: Let the new person continue it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's often worthwhile to have something occur over several years,
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SPEAKER_01: passed down from one personality to the next within an individual,
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SPEAKER_01: and then if they die by body,
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SPEAKER_01: passed down to their assistant, who then becomes head of the project.
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SPEAKER_01: Some projects take generations.
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SPEAKER_01: Reforestation, for instance.
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SPEAKER_01: One doesn't expect to survive to see all those trees fully grown.
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SPEAKER_01: Not if you're planting redwoods.
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SPEAKER_00: What is the difference and or similarity between the display and Kilcore?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that's the Tibetan word for it.
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SPEAKER_00: What if I think I'm not thinking anything?
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SPEAKER_00: What is to let go of?
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SPEAKER_01: The idea that you're not thinking anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Because you see, you think you're not thinking anything.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a thought, dear.
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SPEAKER_01: This practice is very subtle.
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SPEAKER_00: One of our translators is commenting that Kilkord is mandala in Tibetan.
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SPEAKER_01: So the display is your perception of your mandala.
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SPEAKER_00: When you're asking about the practice, when you get there, how long do you stay?
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SPEAKER_00: Is that all the practice?
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SPEAKER_00: It feels like charging a battery, shouldn't I do something with this battery?
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SPEAKER_00: It feels a bit selfish to me not to.
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SPEAKER_01: If there is something to be done, it will occur.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me see if there's other questions.
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SPEAKER_01: Certain amount of trust and faith is necessary to let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Or you can be conditioned into it, like they do in the military.
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SPEAKER_00: Another question is,
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SPEAKER_00: I phase out many times during practice, how do I remove this mental dullness?
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SPEAKER_00: What causes it?
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SPEAKER_00: It disturbs the continuity to my awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you getting enough sleep?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, basically,
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SPEAKER_01: that's the first thing I'd ask in this busy world
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SPEAKER_01: where people keep themselves extremely busy.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're not getting enough sleep, you're going to phase out during practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Or maybe you're just tired.
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SPEAKER_01: In this practice, don't worry about it.
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SPEAKER_01: If that's what happens, let it happen.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll phase in, you'll phase out, you'll have all sorts of sensations.
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SPEAKER_01: What you are calling phase out...
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SPEAKER_01: That's a thought, a belief system that this is a phase out and not good.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of that, please, for this practice.
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SPEAKER_00: In Tantra and Completion Stage,
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SPEAKER_00: we are deliberately generating bliss in the body,
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SPEAKER_00: but in Dzogchen, we are encouraged to pop bliss states because they hide Tawa.
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SPEAKER_00: How do these two practices complement each other?
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SPEAKER_01: There's the fake bliss state that comes and goes that you can generate and that will wear off.
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SPEAKER_01: It gives you a taste.
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SPEAKER_01: It makes you want more.
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SPEAKER_01: And then there is the real bliss state.
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SPEAKER_01: And bliss is a funny word.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure I would call it that.
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SPEAKER_01: Delight
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SPEAKER_01: that's fresh in every moment
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SPEAKER_01: and is not an occurrence and is not acquired.
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SPEAKER_01: It is a natural state.
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SPEAKER_01: Somewhere in between bliss and humor.
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SPEAKER_01: It's Bodhisitta.
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SPEAKER_01: The real bliss state is Bodhisitta.
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SPEAKER_01: It's the feeling of the interconnectedness.
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SPEAKER_01: The bliss of that sensation.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: I think we may have gone through all of the questions for today.
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SPEAKER_01: Go and don't do this.
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SPEAKER_01: All beings are complete, whether they know it or not.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next time.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure what the schedule is, but it's up on the website.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just not looking directly at it right now.
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SPEAKER_01: What's our next public?
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SPEAKER_00: Our next public
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SPEAKER_00: is the pointing out instructions on the 8th.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: I just did that.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll do it again.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll go from a different direction.
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SPEAKER_01: This is today is the pointing in no direction whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: For there are no directions and no one to go in them.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a simple matter of relaxing as that which looks out from behind your own eyes.
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SPEAKER_01: Without adding anything else.
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SPEAKER_01: No ideas.
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SPEAKER_01: No hopes and fears.
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SPEAKER_01: No, don't fight those.
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SPEAKER_01: Just let them drift away.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not made of anything anyway.
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SPEAKER_01: And relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Nakedly, as spontaneously arise in awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: Riddpa, the seer, spontaneously arise in seer, experience-er.
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SPEAKER_01: Naked of experience.
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SPEAKER_01: We are complete.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: One moment.