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[24/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 22 (Aug 2022) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_01: The Flight of the Garuda.
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SPEAKER_01: So as we go forward, if any of you have questions, just put them in chat.
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SPEAKER_01: Stay on topic.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got an open Q&A tomorrow off topic.
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SPEAKER_01: So today, let's take questions on topic, should they arise.
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SPEAKER_01: Chikku kunduzong mogwamboe,
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SPEAKER_01: dorji sempa garab dorji dang,
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SPEAKER_01: shere singe bardu shin labde,
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SPEAKER_01: dedam abzon tata tu sum chi,
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SPEAKER_01: zogchen jupe lama la sol waadeb,
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SPEAKER_01: ergin pema juni la sol waadeb,
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SPEAKER_01: Durjichang,
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SPEAKER_01: Citilu Narodang,
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SPEAKER_01: Marpa Milagompo Tsatsapa,
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SPEAKER_01: Na Pupadang,
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SPEAKER_01: Palden Drupasuk,
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SPEAKER_01: Kargyu Lama Namla Soluadeb,
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SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Soluadeb,
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SPEAKER_01: Dhrudchen Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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SPEAKER_01: Kaginwari Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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SPEAKER_01: Sakya Lama Namla Sol Vah Dev.
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SPEAKER_01: Nyen du dang yundran Lama namla sol vodem.
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SPEAKER_01: Palkon du jong dang yer me pa. Gan garap dur jizyan trag pa. Desi dang nisume pa.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe we are on chapter 22.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to take a few moments to review 21, and then we'll go ahead with 22.
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SPEAKER_01: Chapter 21
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SPEAKER_01: is about recognizing the single flavor of Samsara and Nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: Nature of Mind, Dharmata, Chuni
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SPEAKER_01: Inseparable from the vast emptiness referred to as its Dharmakaya aspect,
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SPEAKER_01: from the vibrant lucidity
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SPEAKER_01: referred to as its Sambhogakaya aspect,
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SPEAKER_01: and from the sparkle of creativity referred to as its Nirmanakaya aspect.
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SPEAKER_01: Be as you are.
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SPEAKER_01: Without faking it or grasping after anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Without avoiding demons or seeking deities.
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SPEAKER_01: At night, sleep peacefully, naturally free.
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SPEAKER_01: Without concentrating or scattering.
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SPEAKER_01: Sleep in the space inherent within without.
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SPEAKER_01: Allowing the natural perfect attention to pure potential.
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SPEAKER_01: Each moment arises as it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Complete with its sensory sensations.
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SPEAKER_01: Its thoughts about those sensations and its feeling about those thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: But all of those arise as emptiness and emptiness, having neither substance nor duration.
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SPEAKER_01: Let them slip freely as they are.
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SPEAKER_01: When you practice in this manner,
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SPEAKER_01: Diseases and hostile spirits are automatically pacified.
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SPEAKER_01: View and meditation is brought to its resolution and your realization is like the sky.
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SPEAKER_01: Meditation and not meditation without differentiation,
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SPEAKER_01: it is naturally radiant and you are spontaneous like a child.
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SPEAKER_01: Without any frame or points of references,
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SPEAKER_01: you are free to act
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SPEAKER_01: spontaneously as needed without refraining from action
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SPEAKER_01: or forcing action.
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SPEAKER_01: Such a yogi who has realized this is worthy of enormous respect.
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SPEAKER_01: Far superior to the wishful filling gem.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the spontaneity of not doing where you're not forcing yourself a doing.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not making yourself do this and do that on the to do list.
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SPEAKER_01: You are also not refraining from whatever doings naturally occur.
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SPEAKER_01: This is easier if you have simplified your life.
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SPEAKER_01: But it can be done in a life full of complexity,
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SPEAKER_01: since there is neither a doing nor a doer involved.
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SPEAKER_01: Simply the unrolling
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SPEAKER_01: of phenomena, which dances freely and always as,
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SPEAKER_01: This is sometimes what is referred to as the conduct which arises from certainty.
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SPEAKER_01: Certainty arises from the meditative experiences.
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SPEAKER_01: And the meditative experiences arise from the illusion of effort.
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SPEAKER_01: Practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Until it is completely obvious without a shred of doubt
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SPEAKER_01: that there is neither practitioner nor practice being done.
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SPEAKER_01: Psalm 22.
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SPEAKER_01: Interiorization of the mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: Emma Ho.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet again, my beloved sons and daughters, listen to the song of this vagrant.
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SPEAKER_01: Verrocana is not outside, he exists within.
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SPEAKER_01: He is exactly the reality continuum, Dharmadhatu, the nature of mind free of movement.
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SPEAKER_01: The true nature of sloth, pure as it stands.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the real archetype, Barotzena.
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SPEAKER_01: When you experience sloth as a depression, you know that feeling where you just can't do it?
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SPEAKER_01: You just can't get up and get it done, whatever is preying upon you as a to-do?
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SPEAKER_00: Relax into that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's only a feeling.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip it naked of the story that supports it and suppresses it.
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SPEAKER_01: The story that says, I should.
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SPEAKER_01: The story that says, I can't.
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SPEAKER_01: All the words surrounding the feeling
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: arising and vanishing,
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SPEAKER_01: manifestation of the innate lucidity, the sparkle of the clear light.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go, relax,
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SPEAKER_01: leave those thoughts be what they are,
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SPEAKER_01: no thing in nowhere,
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SPEAKER_01: utterly transparent, without the least amount of solidity or duration.
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SPEAKER_01: Let them go.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't squish them.
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SPEAKER_01: That won't work.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't support them or entertain them.
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SPEAKER_01: That won't work either.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave them be as they are, no thing in nowhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Having done so, what remains is a feeling.
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SPEAKER_01: A sensation of the Yi and its attendant physical sensations of constriction round
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SPEAKER_01: about in your body.
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SPEAKER_01: These are sensations like smell or taste, no different.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave them be as they are.
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SPEAKER_01: With all the shoulda, woulda, couldas gone,
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SPEAKER_01: With all the orders gone,
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SPEAKER_01: those decorations
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SPEAKER_01: of sparkle.
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SPEAKER_01: Without those binding you tightly,
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SPEAKER_01: the sensation
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SPEAKER_01: is freed into its natural state.
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SPEAKER_01: Sloth is emptiness constricted.
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SPEAKER_01: Sloth, inability to get up and do it,
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SPEAKER_01: is the stress of that constriction.
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SPEAKER_01: When that constriction is released because you're no longer holding it tightly,
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SPEAKER_01: It opens into its natural state,
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SPEAKER_01: the midpoint of the mandala, infinite openness, longjenrabjam, vast expanse.
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SPEAKER_01: And you notice that it has never been anything other than this.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
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SPEAKER_01: Questions coming up yet?
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SPEAKER_00: Just one so far.
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SPEAKER_00: One or two.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me have it.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: When both methods are perfected, is there any distinction between Treksha and Guru Yoga?
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SPEAKER_00: The more I practice, the more they rock the same.
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SPEAKER_01: They do be the same.
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SPEAKER_01: The words are different.
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SPEAKER_01: They're spelled different.
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SPEAKER_01: They point from different directions.
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SPEAKER_01: But the lineage in its full completeness in the fourth time is none other
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SPEAKER_01: than all sentient beings in their moment of enlightenment.
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SPEAKER_01: And within this moment which is always and forever
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SPEAKER_01: Beyond the time-space continuum,
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SPEAKER_01: beyond the possibility of constriction,
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SPEAKER_01: all beings,
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SPEAKER_01: their enlightenment,
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SPEAKER_01: bodhicitta and sunyatta, arise as a singularity in all its multiplicity of aspects.
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SPEAKER_01: And as such,
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SPEAKER_01: No, there is no difference between non-meditation and Guru Yoga,
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SPEAKER_01: between the culmination of Treksha and Guru Yoga.
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SPEAKER_01: However,
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SPEAKER_01: if you are experiencing something within time,
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SPEAKER_01: as in it is changing,
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SPEAKER_01: it is improving,
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SPEAKER_01: a beginning in time and a cause such as practice can be found, Keep going.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a Nyang.
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SPEAKER_01: A meditative experience which points.
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SPEAKER_01: A signpost you're on the right road, but not your destination.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: In real Dzogchen,
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SPEAKER_00: does one relate to experiences,
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SPEAKER_00: good or bad as they are, effortlessly and without tracks?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't try this unless it happens spontaneously.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot force this.
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SPEAKER_01: You can know this.
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SPEAKER_01: You can parrot the words.
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SPEAKER_01: But you cannot pretend it or make it happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Won't work.
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SPEAKER_01: But yes, that is so.
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SPEAKER_00: So does one relate to things in duality as usual
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SPEAKER_00: while implicitly knowing all is dharmakaya play?
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SPEAKER_01: As long as your knowing is not an idea that comes and goes.
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SPEAKER_01: As long as your knowing did not begin at some point in your life as a result of practice.
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SPEAKER_01: But is beyond time and space, then yes, that is accurate.
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SPEAKER_01: I keep trying to convince you all not to simply try to fake it
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SPEAKER_01: because you intellectually understand it.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to permit it to occur by relaxing again and again
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SPEAKER_01: without investment in the occurrence.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Next.
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SPEAKER_00: That's all the questions so far.
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SPEAKER_01: Go on to the next bit.
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SPEAKER_01: Vajrasattva, Eastern direction.
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SPEAKER_01: Is not outside, he exists within.
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SPEAKER_01: He is the mirror, the unobstructed medium of creative knowledge.
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SPEAKER_01: The true nature of anger and fear, pure as it stands.
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SPEAKER_01: The real archetype of Vajrasattva.
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SPEAKER_01: So when something startles or frightens you,
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SPEAKER_01: when you become angry at that something for frightening you,
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SPEAKER_01: when life's annoyances gather upon you,
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SPEAKER_01: When your experience is defined and storied as someone abusing you
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SPEAKER_01: or abusing others,
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SPEAKER_01: when that is the story you hear your thoughts tell
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SPEAKER_01: and anger arises spontaneously
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SPEAKER_01: as well as fear.
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SPEAKER_01: When this occurs, do the same.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip it naked.
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SPEAKER_01: The anger and the fear are symbols of the mirror-like wisdom as long
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SPEAKER_01: as you hold them in your grip as anger or fear wearing their underwear labeled.
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SPEAKER_01: They will not be released.
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SPEAKER_01: But when label-less there, a sensation accepted without argument,
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SPEAKER_01: Without suppression or entertainment,
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SPEAKER_01: released into its natural state,
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SPEAKER_01: which has always been its natural state,
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SPEAKER_01: not constricted by your doing,
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SPEAKER_01: grasping, pursuing, trying, attempting,
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SPEAKER_01: but simply left to be.
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SPEAKER_01: It resolves into the equanimity of mirror-like wisdom in its complete precision.
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SPEAKER_01: When you look in a mirror, it reflects everything equally.
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SPEAKER_01: One thing is not reflected more so than another thing.
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SPEAKER_01: All of it equally clear.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you understand this?
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SPEAKER_01: It's not outside of you.
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SPEAKER_01: What makes you angry is the story you tell yourself about what's happening.
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SPEAKER_01: What makes you afraid is the story you tell yourself about what's happening.
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SPEAKER_01: If I were to sit, this is a vulnerability of mine.
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SPEAKER_01: I have forgotten to pack something when I'm about to go on a trip
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SPEAKER_01: and it's something really important.
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SPEAKER_01: If I were to sit.
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SPEAKER_01: And entertain that idea and embroider it by going over all the possible things I did back.
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SPEAKER_01: Or did I pack that or did I not pack that?
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SPEAKER_01: And am I going to need this thing and am I going to need that thing?
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SPEAKER_01: And where am I going and what do I need to do there?
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SPEAKER_01: And which texts do I need and which backup texts might I need?
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SPEAKER_01: If I were to start embroidering and furthering that conversation,
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SPEAKER_01: I could actually push myself into a panic attack.
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SPEAKER_01: Couldn't you?
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe your vulnerability is somewhere else.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm dealing with the old age brain deterioration forgetfulness
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SPEAKER_01: that we all get around here.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why I always like scholars in the audience in case I forget a word.
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SPEAKER_01: Nominal aphasia is common at my age.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't really mind.
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SPEAKER_01: It's quite comfortable.
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SPEAKER_01: But you all have to bear with me when I can't remember what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you have any questions about fear and anger?
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SPEAKER_01: When we say Eastern direction, white in color, we are only giving you pointers.
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SPEAKER_01: Really, it's inside you.
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SPEAKER_01: It is your own clarity of perception.
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SPEAKER_01: Precise and equanimous, or however you pronounce that.
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SPEAKER_01: Did we get a question on this one yet?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: These are important.
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SPEAKER_01: This is why we're taking it slow.
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SPEAKER_00: Is applying compassion to a difficult feeling entertaining it?
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SPEAKER_00: Is trying to use love as an antidote too much manipulation?
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SPEAKER_01: In Dzogchen, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: In Kerem, it is the instruction.
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SPEAKER_01: So this will depend on whether you are in that moment on that day,
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SPEAKER_01: choosing to practice Dzogrim or Kerem.
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SPEAKER_01: Kerem is path of accumulation.
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SPEAKER_01: When you feel fear, anger,
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SPEAKER_01: It creates constriction, that's digpa.
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SPEAKER_01: When you apply bodhisitta to relieve it, that's gawa.
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SPEAKER_01: This, the Dzogchen will not turn over until the cause is ripe.
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SPEAKER_01: In order for you to effectively practice the letting go of Dzogchen,
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SPEAKER_01: There needs to be enough Gewa in your mandala.
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SPEAKER_01: So
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SPEAKER_01: that is the appropriate practice in Kerim and do not disrespect Kerim.
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SPEAKER_01: If you cannot fully release your anger, And completely see through its supporting story.
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SPEAKER_01: Such as what recently happened politically with the Supreme Court.
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SPEAKER_01: Angry about that?
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SPEAKER_01: I was, am.
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SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless.
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SPEAKER_01: The story supporting it and of what it will lead to and the amount
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SPEAKER_01: of suffering it will cause to sentient beings.
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SPEAKER_01: And all of that,
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SPEAKER_01: if you cannot directly see through the story as simply something you're playing
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SPEAKER_01: with, wanking off with for your own entertainment.
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SPEAKER_01: And let it go to be as it is, no thing in nowhere, lacking substance and duration.
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SPEAKER_01: The arising and vanishing of thoughts release it into its nature.
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SPEAKER_01: If you can do that,
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SPEAKER_01: and even take the underwear off,
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SPEAKER_01: which says, I am afraid, I am angry, which names and labels it.
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SPEAKER_01: If you can really strip your emotion naked,
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SPEAKER_01: In this moment on this day with this emotion, then do that.
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SPEAKER_01: But if by chance today you can't in this moment with this anger,
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SPEAKER_01: then antidote it with patience and bodhicitta.
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SPEAKER_01: Your practice is not the same in every moment because you are moving
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SPEAKER_01: and practicing It is a dynamic stability even when it is stable.
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SPEAKER_01: And you cannot pridefully say, I am a Zogchen Practitioner.
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SPEAKER_01: I won't do K-Rim.
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SPEAKER_01: Please don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna hit moments when you're all fucked up and the Zogchen ain't running.
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SPEAKER_01: Make some Gewa.
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SPEAKER_01: You needs it.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Next question, if there is one.
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SPEAKER_00: If we feel tension or sort of closing sensation after working with a specific fear,
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SPEAKER_00: should we just sit with it?
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SPEAKER_00: Or does that mean that there is still something that we need to strip?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's still something that needs to be stripped.
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SPEAKER_01: And it is
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SPEAKER_01: in your energy channels, which is why you may have this sensation.
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SPEAKER_01: Although there are ruchens,
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SPEAKER_01: such as inner body ruchens,
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SPEAKER_01: designed for stripping these imprints,
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SPEAKER_01: greater and lesser PTSDs from post-traumatic stresses from many,
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SPEAKER_01: many lives which are caught in your channels.
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SPEAKER_01: The most effective way,
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SPEAKER_01: if you can do it at this time with this feeling, is to feel the sensation.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not focus on the sensation.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax into the sensation and accept it as the sensation moving
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SPEAKER_01: through your six senses in this moment.
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SPEAKER_01: And leave it be.
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SPEAKER_01: That is likely to allow it to release.
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SPEAKER_01: However, many of us have traumas that are entrenched.
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SPEAKER_01: And we are unable to do that exactly as instructed with them.
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SPEAKER_01: If you know the trauma,
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SPEAKER_01: Western PTSD therapy such as EMDR and others may be useful and is quite fast.
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SPEAKER_01: But since much of this has accumulated from past lives
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SPEAKER_01: that you probably don't remember
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SPEAKER_01: and is currently simply karmic formations
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SPEAKER_01: and constrictions in your channels,
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SPEAKER_01: You might consider doing the Inner Body Ruchen to flush that out.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll be teaching it in the spring.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now I'm traveling, so I'm not teaching any big retreats until I get back.
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SPEAKER_01: But when I'm done traveling, I will.
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SPEAKER_01: And we'll be doing retreats most weekends.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just I can't quite keep up with that while traveling.
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SPEAKER_01: It's too unpredictable.
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SPEAKER_01: The airplanes don't go when they say they'll go.
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SPEAKER_01: Trains don't even go when they say they'll go.
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SPEAKER_01: And although I can maybe sort of do it from a train,
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SPEAKER_01: depending on where it's passing through, not always.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll wait until I'm done traveling for that.
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SPEAKER_01: Did I answer your question effectively?
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SPEAKER_01: If not, ask again in different words.
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SPEAKER_01: Anything else for me here?
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SPEAKER_00: Is it okay To strip the feelings or perceptions naked with an out-breath.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel it's easier that way with fear and anger.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is okay to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: You see,
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SPEAKER_01: in through the nose,
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SPEAKER_01: out through the mouth,
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SPEAKER_01: that simple breath, whether you do the visualized stretch or not,
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SPEAKER_01: Settles the chi in your channels.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't move as fast.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore,
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SPEAKER_01: if it's moving through an irritation,
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SPEAKER_01: it doesn't create as big a sensation because it's moving slower.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a leak in my garden hose,
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SPEAKER_01: a little pinhole leak, which is only apparent when I have the water on full.
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SPEAKER_01: When I have the water on half, It goes right on by and the leak does not get affected.
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SPEAKER_01: However, it squirts me in the nose when I turn the water on full.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm learning not to turn the water on full.
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SPEAKER_00: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: There aren't any more questions on this specific topic.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, then we will go on.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a review of working with emotions, number 22.
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SPEAKER_01: Which was in 13, 14, I think.
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SPEAKER_01: Might have been 12.
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SPEAKER_01: If you did not hear that one,
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SPEAKER_01: you might want to go find it on YouTube and listen to make this one make more sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Ah, this I like.
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SPEAKER_01: Ratnasambhava, the wish-fulfilling jewel, is not outside.
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SPEAKER_01: He exists within.
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SPEAKER_01: He is the sameness that rejects nothing and indulges nothing,
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SPEAKER_01: judges nothing and evaluates nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: The true nature of pride, pure as it stands.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the archetype Ratnasambhava.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember I once gave y'all the instructions for finding the wishfulfilling jewel,
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SPEAKER_01: the treasure map?
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SPEAKER_01: Step one, get rid of everything.
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SPEAKER_01: Have nothing except having nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're sleepy, wherever you find yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: And living in that simplicity, anything you desire will arise in front of you.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course,
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SPEAKER_01: once you realize that,
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SPEAKER_01: you're going to start playing with it and getting yourself all sorts of cool toys,
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SPEAKER_01: and then it's going to wear off.
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SPEAKER_01: And the toys are going to need support.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're going to find yourself stuck like I did,
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SPEAKER_01: working three jobs to support the mansion,
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SPEAKER_01: the man, the wardrobe that needed dry cleaning and ironing.
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SPEAKER_01: And someone to do that for me, etc., etc., yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: However, the thing I am pointing at is if you can refrain
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SPEAKER_01: from grabbing stuff,
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SPEAKER_01: stuff arises.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not the same as shoving.
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SPEAKER_01: The pride this refers to is the archetypical pride
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SPEAKER_01: of
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SPEAKER_01: being complete in and
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SPEAKER_01: as you are in each given moment.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the ego pride of, oh, me better.
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SPEAKER_01: That would be the comparative pride of the northern direction.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the pride of certainty that you have enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Enough love.
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SPEAKER_01: Enough money.
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SPEAKER_00: Enough food.
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SPEAKER_01: No need to overeat since there is enough food to eat more if you become hungry again.
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SPEAKER_01: Even Enough surface area, which I seem to have today, so okay.
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SPEAKER_01: That sense of enoughness,
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SPEAKER_01: of completeness,
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SPEAKER_01: of lack of hunger for something,
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SPEAKER_01: even hunger for enlightenment,
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SPEAKER_01: is the pride, what they call here the pride of Ratnasambhava.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you have questions?
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SPEAKER_00: An earlier question.
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SPEAKER_00: In Psalm 21,
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SPEAKER_00: you said something like,
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SPEAKER_00: you gotta notice tawa while thinking, not think about tawa while being.
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SPEAKER_00: Would you show this again?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, that wasn't in Psalm 21, but it was somewhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Unless it was last time.
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SPEAKER_01: And of course, I don't remember that by now.
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SPEAKER_01: Nyando, read the phrase again, because I like it.
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SPEAKER_01: Sounds like something I might have said.
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SPEAKER_00: You gotta notice Tawa while thinking, not think about Tawa while being.
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SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_01: Intellectualization
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SPEAKER_01: is the trips over it of highly educated Westerners, highly literate.
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SPEAKER_01: Tibetans trip over religiosity
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SPEAKER_01: and self-disparagement.
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SPEAKER_01: Westerners tend to trip over,
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SPEAKER_01: here in Dzogchen, the thinking about it, the understanding it as if that was enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Understanding it is thoughts No thing and nowhere, constantly moving, changing.
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SPEAKER_01: If you understand it now, you won't understand it later, even if you memorize the words.
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SPEAKER_01: So the whole point of Treksha
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SPEAKER_01: is to be able to think without it disturbing your meditation.
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SPEAKER_01: And to be able to meditate without it disturbing your thinking.
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SPEAKER_01: This allows wisdom and confusion to arise as the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: You've heard that phrase, where confusion arises as wisdom.
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SPEAKER_01: That's this.
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SPEAKER_01: Where Tawa is not an idea or even a name, strip it naked.
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SPEAKER_01: Tawa is your own nature,
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SPEAKER_01: who you always have been,
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SPEAKER_01: always will be, doesn't come and go, unborn, undying, all of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: And there is no reason it should interfere with your thinking.
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SPEAKER_01: The idea of Tawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Will definitely interfere with your thinking because then you can't think the idea
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SPEAKER_01: of seven times 12 is because you're too busy thinking the idea.
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SPEAKER_01: Tawa.
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SPEAKER_01: 84.
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SPEAKER_01: Probably.
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SPEAKER_00: Used to be much faster at that stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: When, by the practice of gom,
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SPEAKER_01: short moments,
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SPEAKER_01: without grasping the open awareness which is noticed in short moments,
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SPEAKER_01: eventually as a result of that,
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SPEAKER_01: provided it's not done with forceful trying,
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SPEAKER_01: but simply done in relaxed openness frequently,
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SPEAKER_01: The result of that will be that those short moments tend to up and merge with each other.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't make them do that.
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SPEAKER_01: There is no way you can make them do that.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to allow them to do that when they're ripe.
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SPEAKER_01: Just as the fruit when it's ripe falls from the tree.
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SPEAKER_01: So this will fall when it's ripe.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's not an idea.
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SPEAKER_01: Unripe, it's an idea.
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SPEAKER_01: Unripe in GOM, I should check and see if my mind's still there.
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SPEAKER_01: Glimpse.
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SPEAKER_01: That involves thinking and effort.
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SPEAKER_01: You use thinking and effort in that way.
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SPEAKER_01: Until it is an of course and you don't need to use thinking and effort that way.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the absolute certainty of SOPA.
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SPEAKER_01: And that will arise when it's ripe and you cannot force it.
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SPEAKER_01: You can encourage or permit it by practicing GOM very frequently.
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SPEAKER_01: And then it will occur when it's ripe.
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SPEAKER_01: And when it's ripe,
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SPEAKER_01: Tawa is a...
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SPEAKER_01: Of course.
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SPEAKER_01: Always been there, always will be.
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SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter if I'm looking at it or not.
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SPEAKER_01: The sky is up there, whether I think of the sky or I've got my nose buried in a book.
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SPEAKER_01: The certainty is the key.
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SPEAKER_01: Hopefully this helps.
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SPEAKER_00: Other questions here?
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SPEAKER_00: Other questions, there are some, a couple more questions on emotions of fear and anger.
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SPEAKER_00: When I am exposed to an angry person, their anger rings my energy like a bell.
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SPEAKER_00: Do I rest in the uncomfortable chaos of their energy?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: By observing it, I resonate with it.
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SPEAKER_01: So now it's your anger too.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Do the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Here your story is that they're angry and that you are resonating with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip it.
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SPEAKER_01: Same practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter whose anger it is because now in your resonating with it,
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SPEAKER_01: you are experiencing your own fear anger.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip it.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip even the idea that it belongs to them.
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SPEAKER_01: They did it.
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SPEAKER_01: They caused it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's their fault.
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SPEAKER_01: All those stories.
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SPEAKER_01: Strip it naked.
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SPEAKER_01: Take off the name.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow it to dissolve.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't yank.
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SPEAKER_01: Why do you prefer smooth to rough texture?
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SPEAKER_01: There is something to be said in beauty for a texture of a rough wood carving.
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SPEAKER_01: While touching it even.
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SPEAKER_01: Or this quilt which is not smooth.
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SPEAKER_01: Why do you prefer that to the texture or why do you prefer the texture of satin to
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SPEAKER_01: the texture of brocade?
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SPEAKER_01: One is rough and one is smooth.
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SPEAKER_01: You are preferring the internal sensation of peace to the internal sensation of jangle.
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SPEAKER_01: Get over it.
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SPEAKER_01: Sit with the jangle with the story off it.
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SPEAKER_01: Let it open
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SPEAKER_01: into the precise mirror-like wisdom of equanimity.
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SPEAKER_00: Another one?
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SPEAKER_00: What to do with anger of ex-Lama teacher that in my opinion performed misconduct against me?
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SPEAKER_01: The same thing with any anger.
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SPEAKER_01: You have a story that what they did was wrong or misconduct against you.
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SPEAKER_01: That story is based on many things, but it doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a story.
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SPEAKER_00: Strip it.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you get some advantage from holding onto it?
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SPEAKER_01: And the anger around it?
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SPEAKER_01: Here in your practice,
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SPEAKER_01: Real and unreal are irrelevant.
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SPEAKER_01: You will never know
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SPEAKER_01: what that person was thinking they were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Only what you thought they were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: You will never know how it appeared to them.
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SPEAKER_01: Only
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SPEAKER_01: How it appeared
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SPEAKER_00: to you.
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SPEAKER_01: You will never know how the interaction affected them internally.
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SPEAKER_01: Only how it has affected you down the time stream.
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SPEAKER_01: So all we can address here is the effect on you.
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SPEAKER_01: And the effect on you is a scrinched anger
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SPEAKER_01: Strip the story,
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SPEAKER_01: even the name of the feeling,
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SPEAKER_01: and relax into it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's Zogchen.
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SPEAKER_01: Because it requires
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SPEAKER_00: an adamantine internal integrity
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SPEAKER_01: And a willingness to jump off cliffs.
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SPEAKER_01: You may or may not choose to practice it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's entirely up to you.
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SPEAKER_01: But should you wish to practice it, you are going to have to let go.
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SPEAKER_01: All your stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Even the very ground you stand on.
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SPEAKER_00: Not easy.
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SPEAKER_01: Not required.
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SPEAKER_01: You can get there with Krim.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a little longer.
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SPEAKER_01: If Dzogchen is not your cup of tea, please try Tantra or Sutrayana or Vipassana.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not the only way.
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SPEAKER_01: It's simply the fastest way.
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SPEAKER_01: Tantra, if done properly, We'll get you enlightened in one life.
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SPEAKER_01: Believe they say 400 lives for Sutrayana, but that's okay.
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SPEAKER_01: You can have lots of picnics and fun on the way.
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SPEAKER_01: Dzogchen gets you enlightened now.
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SPEAKER_01: This now and every now as it arises.
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SPEAKER_01: With a dynamic occurrence of the moving phenomena and the stillness,
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SPEAKER_01: infinite openness,
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SPEAKER_01: both arising in the nature of open awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: which is aware of phenomena and stillness and recognizes both of these
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SPEAKER_01: as its own true nature with nothing occurring elsewhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you gotta let go of that one too.
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SPEAKER_01: Not forgive, release
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SPEAKER_01: the story of what you think happened.
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SPEAKER_01: And do not bother trying to figure out what they thought happened.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll never know.
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SPEAKER_01: If a Lama who had gotten themselves into a mess with some students,
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SPEAKER_01: causing possible fracture of Tantric Guru Yoga were to ask me the question,
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SPEAKER_01: I might answer it much differently.
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SPEAKER_01: I myself had an experience with a student who I thought was a better practitioner
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SPEAKER_01: than they were.
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SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't a sexual occurrence, it was a financial occurrence.
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SPEAKER_01: It is possible to misjudge how the student will take something
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SPEAKER_01: and how they will react, even for an experienced teacher.
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SPEAKER_01: We shall see if we can repair that.
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SPEAKER_01: I got distracted.
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SPEAKER_01: Is there another question?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, not on this topic.
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SPEAKER_01: Then let me go on to the next piece.
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SPEAKER_00: Amitabha.
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SPEAKER_01: Oppame.
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SPEAKER_01: Light beyond compare.
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SPEAKER_01: Is not outside, it is within.
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SPEAKER_01: Sensory discrimination,
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SPEAKER_01: where pleasure and emptiness vanish into the continuum of space.
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SPEAKER_01: The true nature of desire, pure as it stands.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the real Bhagavan archetype Amitabha.
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SPEAKER_01: Lust, loneliness, the urge to merge,
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SPEAKER_01: to embrace phenomena and role in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Or to fire all of your guns at once and blast off into space dissolving into it.
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SPEAKER_01: These urges.
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SPEAKER_01: This lust.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether for oblivion or for all the colors and shapes of life.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether for a mate or a friend.
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SPEAKER_01: This permeates the entire world.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything mates, except foot fungus.
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SPEAKER_01: That doesn't mate, oddly enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Asexual reproduction, on account of it's trapped in shoes.
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SPEAKER_01: Biology class.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything, the bugs, the birds, the bees, they all want to mate, reproduce.
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SPEAKER_01: Touch another in the way that they do.
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SPEAKER_01: Even spiders.
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SPEAKER_01: That urge to not be alone.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the root of the love which is Bodhicitta.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is love and light beyond compare,
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SPEAKER_01: which is symbolized by Amitabha, which is within you, not without.
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SPEAKER_01: Desire.
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SPEAKER_01: For satisfaction.
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SPEAKER_01: Release.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of the damn story about what you want.
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SPEAKER_01: Why you want it.
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SPEAKER_01: And whether or not you deserve it or will ever get it.
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SPEAKER_01: See the thoughts arise and vanish moment by moment as no thing in no air.
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SPEAKER_01: The infinite emptiness sparkling of its clear light nature.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing more, nothing less.
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SPEAKER_01: And in seeing the nature of thoughts while you think them,
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SPEAKER_01: not thinking the nature of thoughts after each thought.
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SPEAKER_01: Big difference here.
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SPEAKER_01: They are freed into their own nature.
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SPEAKER_01: And your desire is stripped naked.
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SPEAKER_01: Permit it.
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SPEAKER_01: To be as it is without trying to
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SPEAKER_00: satisfy it or suppress it.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave the sensation be just that and accept it.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow it to open into the infinite clear light of the vitality of the lucidity of
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SPEAKER_01: the universe, which is also known as Bodhicitta.
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SPEAKER_01: Light beyond compare.
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SPEAKER_01: Yar that.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't need anything from outside.
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SPEAKER_01: Yar that already.
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SPEAKER_01: Questions?
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SPEAKER_01: On that one.
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SPEAKER_00: Not so far.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm squirting it, I think.
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SPEAKER_01: Amogo City is not outside, he exists within.
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SPEAKER_01: He is total accomplishment,
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SPEAKER_01: knowledge arising unimpeded and naturally liberated,
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SPEAKER_01: the true nature of jealousy,
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SPEAKER_01: comparativeness, competition, pure as it stands, the real archetype Amogo City.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the accomplishment naturally occurring in each moment
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SPEAKER_01: When you are neither pushing nor shoving,
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SPEAKER_01: you are neither doing nor refraining from doing,
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SPEAKER_01: but permitting the flow of phenomena to occur freely without grasping or shoving.
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SPEAKER_01: And in this freedom,
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SPEAKER_01: all accomplishments arise
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SPEAKER_01: without any Specific Accomplisher or Accomplished.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the true dance of not doing.
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SPEAKER_01: The way that SOPA,
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SPEAKER_01: third word of Garudurji, manifests in non-action, which is not lack of action.
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SPEAKER_01: But simply a release of action to occur as it will and must.
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SPEAKER_01: And so we complete 22.
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SPEAKER_01: Or did we?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, let me check that.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, because I'm looking at the wrong place.
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SPEAKER_01: 22 was short.
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SPEAKER_01: 23 is next.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think that you should practice 22 for a time.
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SPEAKER_01: Short though it is,
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SPEAKER_01: let me entertain your questions about the mandala of the Dhyani Buddhas,
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SPEAKER_01: which you are familiar with also as the initiating deities,
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SPEAKER_01: as they're called in your tantric sadhanas.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the base mandala from which all other mandalas arise.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the pattern
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SPEAKER_01: of
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SPEAKER_01: the arising of phenomena for homo sapiens.
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SPEAKER_01: Did we get anything in the way of a question?
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SPEAKER_00: Related to the Dayani Buddhas?
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SPEAKER_01: Related to what we've been talking today.
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SPEAKER_00: There's one that says, if we are all ready, then why seek?
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SPEAKER_01: Does it hurt?
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SPEAKER_01: I know what that means.
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SPEAKER_01: You seek because we hurt.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you not hurt?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you not fear cancer?
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SPEAKER_01: Messy death?
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SPEAKER_01: In a hospital with hot and cold running nurses?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you not fear loss of your loved ones?
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SPEAKER_01: For as long as you fear samsara,
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SPEAKER_01: seek nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: Once you have found the union of samsara and nirvana,
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SPEAKER_01: then you will not have a need to seek.
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SPEAKER_01: Fruition does not preclude path.
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SPEAKER_01: Path arises as fruition and fruition arises as path.
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SPEAKER_01: You do not throw one away to keep the other.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though you may be well aware of nature of mind,
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SPEAKER_01: of Sogchen, if you would rather eat cake than shit,
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SPEAKER_01: keep your karma clean.
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SPEAKER_01: Practice Gewa so that cake is what gets presented.
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SPEAKER_00: For so long as you have even a
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SPEAKER_01: hair of preferences,
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SPEAKER_00: practice.
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SPEAKER_01: In those moments, times,
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SPEAKER_01: outside of time,
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SPEAKER_01: when there is no hair of preference,
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SPEAKER_01: there is also neither a practice nor a practitioner.
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SPEAKER_01: But when you feel yourself there, here,
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SPEAKER_01: practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't stop too soon.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't stop because you know the answer.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't stop until you are the answer.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Next.
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SPEAKER_00: Do we need eventually to accomplish every Dayani Buddha or five categories of emotions?
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SPEAKER_01: Neither.
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SPEAKER_01: You need eventually to accomplish seeing the nature of thought,
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SPEAKER_01: seeing the nature of emotions,
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SPEAKER_01: And seeing the nature of phenomena.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to accomplish these things and there are many methods.
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SPEAKER_01: Working with the Mandala of Dhyani Buddhas is the method I like and the one
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SPEAKER_01: that I am comfortable teaching.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the only one.
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SPEAKER_01: Nor do you have to accomplish a particular pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to come to recognize that all feelings are occurring inside of you.
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SPEAKER_01: They are not coming from whatever you're having the feeling about.
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SPEAKER_01: So if Joe Smith just threw a pie at you and you are pissed at Joe Smith,
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SPEAKER_01: recognize that the pissed is yours, not Joe Smith's.
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SPEAKER_01: He's dealing with his own stuff, whatever it may be.
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SPEAKER_00: You deal with your pissed.
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SPEAKER_01: We categorize emotions into the five categories to make it a little bit easier
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SPEAKER_01: to work with them.
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SPEAKER_01: Really, there are not five categories.
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SPEAKER_01: We made them up.
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SPEAKER_01: They are an inherent pattern
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SPEAKER_01: four limbs and a central nervous system.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me reassure you that octopi see the mandala quite differently.
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SPEAKER_00: It is simply a tool.
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SPEAKER_01: No more real than any other tool.
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SPEAKER_00: Other questions?
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SPEAKER_00: Is it important to balance, purify or revert these five directions or is there a way around it?
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SPEAKER_01: You don't need to purify them.
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SPEAKER_01: They are inherently pure.
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SPEAKER_01: They are Buddhist.
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SPEAKER_01: Revert?
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SPEAKER_01: I have no idea what you mean by that.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to recognize them as symbols of things going on within you, your emotions.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to recognize your emotions as being in you,
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SPEAKER_01: not in what you are having the emotion about.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_01: Your desire for a particular person, sexual desire, is not about them.
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SPEAKER_01: You're having it.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_01: Your fear of a certain situation is not about the situation.
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SPEAKER_01: It's your fear.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about you.
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SPEAKER_01: All your emotions are not about phenomena outside of you.
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SPEAKER_01: They are your emotions.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to recognize that,
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SPEAKER_01: that the mandala of the Dhyani Buddhas is a symbol of that which is within.
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SPEAKER_01: And eventually that within and without are silly boundaries that somebody made up too.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not like you have to do something with them.
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SPEAKER_01: You just have to free your emotions into their natural state.
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SPEAKER_01: All your emotions, all 84,000 subtle shades of them.
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SPEAKER_01: Instead of entertaining and justifying the emotion with a story or suppressing
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SPEAKER_01: the emotion because good practitioners don't do that,
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SPEAKER_01: don't feel that,
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SPEAKER_01: instead of doing these two habitual things,
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SPEAKER_01: you stop constricting on it,
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SPEAKER_01: squishing it, and let it open and relax into what it really is, which is wisdom.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_01: And just as a big pile of wood gets you a much bigger bonfire than a little bundle
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SPEAKER_01: of wood gets you.
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SPEAKER_01: So with the strength of your emotions,
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SPEAKER_01: the strength of the wisdom arising from the transformation occurs.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you are emotional, that's great.
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SPEAKER_01: Learn how to utilize that as wisdom.
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SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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SPEAKER_00: When angry,
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SPEAKER_00: the coarse thoughts may come and go,
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SPEAKER_00: but sometimes I feel the sensation of chest pressure or being frozen.
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SPEAKER_00: It feels like my conditioning is to repress.
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SPEAKER_01: Probably is.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Break the conditioning.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you break a habit?
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SPEAKER_01: How do you stop smoking or drinking?
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SPEAKER_01: Use the same methods if you need to.
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SPEAKER_01: When You feel anger and you can release the thoughts that justify the anger
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SPEAKER_01: and you feel the constriction of your muscles trying to repress the anger
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SPEAKER_01: because good girls don't get angry.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax your muscles intentionally.
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SPEAKER_01: Accept the anger.
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SPEAKER_01: In all its beauty,
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SPEAKER_01: without needing to act on it, which,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: when you get angry and you yell at somebody,
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SPEAKER_01: then you feel better, it releases your anger.
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SPEAKER_01: They feel worse, but you feel better.
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SPEAKER_01: Without doing that,
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SPEAKER_01: without having to act on the anger,
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SPEAKER_01: but also without having to suppress the anger and in some way pretend you're not
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SPEAKER_01: as damn pissed as you are,
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SPEAKER_01: Sit with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Feel the sensations.
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SPEAKER_01: Accept those sensations without labeling them with words.
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SPEAKER_01: Just feel them.
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SPEAKER_01: You may have to sit quite a while before the constriction releases.
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SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, do that.
1:08:18
SPEAKER_01: When anger releases.
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SPEAKER_01: Such a clarity.
1:08:30
SPEAKER_01: The same for fear.
1:08:34
SPEAKER_01: Fear and anger, they're sort of flip sides.
1:08:36
SPEAKER_01: They kind of ride together.
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SPEAKER_01: Most of us have a pattern.
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SPEAKER_01: As Buddhist practitioners of suppressing anger because nice Buddhists don't get angry.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sure, fuck that.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we do.
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SPEAKER_01: But we don't need to act on that anger.
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SPEAKER_01: We can just feel it
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SPEAKER_01: without the need to release it by acting it out.
1:09:16
SPEAKER_01: And without the need to suppress it because our ego says we shouldn't be doing it.
1:09:24
SPEAKER_00: Roll in it.
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SPEAKER_00: Feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't constrict.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't act out.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_01: Feel the sensations.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax your muscles.
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SPEAKER_01: Try it.
1:09:51
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:10:00
SPEAKER_00: Just checking through the questions we do have.
1:10:10
SPEAKER_00: How is Bodhichitta experienced or seen as For an advanced Dzogchenpa.
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SPEAKER_01: Lineage Guru Yoga.
1:10:28
SPEAKER_01: A great heartedness, open heartedness.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_01: A sensation of love for all.
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SPEAKER_01: Form by sky for sky by form.
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SPEAKER_01: Liveliness, lucidity, love,
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SPEAKER_01: embrasure.
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SPEAKER_01: With a little bit of humor lubricating it.
1:11:08
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_00: Does that mean that sexual desire should not be enacted or I guess acted upon?
1:11:20
SPEAKER_01: It depends on the circumstances.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it should not be acted upon.
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SPEAKER_01: And in those times, say you feel sexual desire for a beautiful woman with a great ass.
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SPEAKER_01: But she is not interested in you.
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SPEAKER_01: Great,
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SPEAKER_01: this is a wonderful time to practice with the emotion of desire and to accept it
1:11:52
SPEAKER_01: and not suppress it and not act on it.
1:11:57
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes there is mutual interest between consenting adults who are not precluded
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SPEAKER_01: by other vows and then you might act on it
1:12:15
SPEAKER_01: Because sometimes you will.
1:12:19
SPEAKER_01: I'd hate to tell you y'all had to be celibate.
1:12:23
SPEAKER_01: Just avoid sexual misconduct.
1:12:29
SPEAKER_01: Avoid having sex with someone who is not allowed to have sex with you by their vows.
1:12:41
SPEAKER_01: Or someone who does not want to have sex with you.
1:12:47
SPEAKER_01: Also, take responsibility not to reproduce children.
1:12:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you guys too.
1:12:57
SPEAKER_01: Until such time as a mutual agreement has occurred.
1:13:03
SPEAKER_01: Practice safer sex for long life.
1:13:07
SPEAKER_01: Use a condom.
1:13:09
SPEAKER_01: Ladies, condoms come off and break.
1:13:11
SPEAKER_01: Use another form of contraceptive as well.
1:13:15
SPEAKER_01: Unless you have decided that you wish a child at this time.
1:13:19
SPEAKER_01: And then make sure the guy's on board with you and also wishes a child at this time.
1:13:26
SPEAKER_01: No getting children on guys that didn't want to.
1:13:30
SPEAKER_01: That would be sexual misconduct.
1:13:33
SPEAKER_01: I don't have to go into the details.
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SPEAKER_01: Within that, anything that pleases you both is fair game.
1:13:43
SPEAKER_01: Right side up, upside down, or in costume.
1:13:47
SPEAKER_01: Have fun.
1:13:50
SPEAKER_01: Fun is not bad because fun is relaxing.
1:13:55
SPEAKER_01: So sometimes, yeah, go ahead and have sex.
1:14:00
SPEAKER_01: But there's going to be lots of times when you feel an attraction
1:14:03
SPEAKER_01: to someone that's inappropriate.
1:14:05
SPEAKER_01: Either they're in a monogamous marriage or relationship,
1:14:09
SPEAKER_01: or they're not interested in you,
1:14:12
SPEAKER_01: Or circumstances are such like they're at work and that would be overly complicated.
1:14:20
SPEAKER_01: So that's the time when you practice with desire.
1:14:28
SPEAKER_01: The universe will present you lots of opportunities for sexual attraction
1:14:34
SPEAKER_01: that would be inappropriate to act on.
1:14:40
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_00: What about the time you threw a chair at the guy in the bar who was being racist to your wife?
1:14:49
SPEAKER_00: Actually, you didn't throw a chair, you just threw the guy...
1:14:52
SPEAKER_01: I just took the guy in a headlock and dragged him out.
1:14:54
SPEAKER_01: He just wouldn't let go of the chair and it got broken.
1:14:57
SPEAKER_00: Was that you acting out?
1:15:00
SPEAKER_01: That was appropriate to the situation and necessary.
1:15:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he did need it.
1:15:08
SPEAKER_01: He needed to be removed from that place because he was...
1:15:11
SPEAKER_01: Making the New Year's Eve party unpleasant for everyone.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_01: I didn't do anything until he insulted my wife because I sort of figured,
1:15:23
SPEAKER_01: well, maybe it's kinky and the other people like it.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: But I know that my wife didn't like that.
1:15:33
SPEAKER_01: So I put him out of the party.
1:15:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't think I was that angry.
1:15:40
SPEAKER_01: It just appeared to be now necessary that this occur.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_01: I was
1:15:48
SPEAKER_01: a little embarrassed the next day when I had to carry the chair through town
1:15:51
SPEAKER_01: over to the blacksmith and get it fixed.
1:15:57
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:15:59
SPEAKER_00: One of our Spanish viewers asks, when I meditate, I frequently tense up physically.
1:16:06
SPEAKER_00: It disturbs me less and less due to the application of the practice.
1:16:12
SPEAKER_00: But if it keeps coming up, does it mean that I am doing something wrong?
1:16:18
SPEAKER_01: It means that you are holding stress in your body.
1:16:25
SPEAKER_01: This is not wrong, just counterproductive.
1:16:28
SPEAKER_01: Have you tried a massage?
1:16:31
SPEAKER_01: Have you tried doing stretches?
1:16:36
SPEAKER_01: Or going for a run and tiring your body a little bit before you meditate.
1:16:43
SPEAKER_01: Try some different methods because your body tensing up
1:16:47
SPEAKER_01: during meditation is somewhat counterproductive.
1:16:53
SPEAKER_01: You want it to relax.
1:16:57
SPEAKER_01: So slowly work on finding ways to help it do that.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_01: Try different things.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_01: A nice cup of tea.
1:17:07
SPEAKER_01: Half a beer.
1:17:10
SPEAKER_01: See what works for you.
1:17:13
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:17:16
SPEAKER_00: When by saying learn to utilize the wisdom, do you mean realizing its bliss and emptiness?
1:17:27
SPEAKER_01: That is not a set of words I think I said.
1:17:34
SPEAKER_01: Learn to utilize the fire of your emotions,
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SPEAKER_01: which arises as wisdom
1:17:45
SPEAKER_01: by releasing them into their natural state as wisdom.
1:17:51
SPEAKER_01: But I have no idea how you would utilize wisdom.
1:17:58
SPEAKER_01: It might utilize you, but that's a different story.
1:18:20
SPEAKER_01: I really don't want to take you guys into the next chapter,
1:18:26
SPEAKER_01: which again brings the mandala back out.
1:18:32
SPEAKER_01: I want you to Perceive it in well first.
1:18:39
SPEAKER_01: Remember, this is a teaching text.
1:18:41
SPEAKER_01: It's why I don't just run it through,
1:18:44
SPEAKER_01: but do a chapter each month so that you have time to practice the chapter.
1:18:49
SPEAKER_01: Not all of you are going to do so,
1:18:51
SPEAKER_01: but there are enough of you doing so that I want to keep to that.
1:18:57
SPEAKER_01: So your practice for the month.
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SPEAKER_01: Is to be aware that all phenomena arises in mind.
1:19:12
SPEAKER_01: There is no phenomena that doesn't arise in mind.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_01: There is no phenomena that arises anywhere other than in mind.
1:19:23
SPEAKER_01: So as you go through the month and it appears that things happen to you.
1:19:32
SPEAKER_01: And you feel emotions about how you interpret and think about those happenings.
1:19:40
SPEAKER_01: Here's a couple of experiments to try.
1:19:45
SPEAKER_01: Next time a neutral happening occurs,
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: you go out for a walk and you meet a man with a dog and have a minor hello and go
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SPEAKER_01: on your way as an example.
1:19:59
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty neutral.
1:20:02
SPEAKER_01: I want you to start telling yourself a story about what terrible things he thought
1:20:07
SPEAKER_01: of you and how he judged you horribly and see what emotion arises.
1:20:15
SPEAKER_01: Then I want you to go for another walk and take another neutral occurrence
1:20:20
SPEAKER_01: and tell yourself stories about how incredible You were for him
1:20:28
SPEAKER_01: and how much you benefited him by that little interaction and blessing
1:20:33
SPEAKER_01: and how totally pleased and how much he admired you.
1:20:41
SPEAKER_01: Try those two.
1:20:43
SPEAKER_01: And then on a third occurrence, don't make a story.
1:20:53
SPEAKER_01: Let it happen without any definition, without any ongoing description.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_01: You know that little voice that's constantly saying what you're doing and...
1:21:09
SPEAKER_01: Without that.
1:21:12
SPEAKER_01: This is play.
1:21:15
SPEAKER_01: This will help you to see how all the stories you tell are your own stories.
1:21:25
SPEAKER_01: When you go about during this month,
1:21:28
SPEAKER_01: an occurrences occur that give you strong feelings, whether negative or positive.
1:21:35
SPEAKER_01: Your friend gives you a beautiful loaf of bread, positive feeling.
1:21:42
SPEAKER_01: The bus driver yells at you for not having exact change, negative feeling.
1:21:50
SPEAKER_01: In both of these cases,
1:21:55
SPEAKER_01: Take these feelings and recognize that they're happening in you.
1:22:00
SPEAKER_01: They are not coming from the bus driver.
1:22:04
SPEAKER_01: On one day when the bus driver yells at you for not having exact change, you think it's funny.
1:22:11
SPEAKER_01: On another day it makes you pissed.
1:22:16
SPEAKER_01: And on another day you just want to cry because how terrible you must be
1:22:20
SPEAKER_01: for making this mistake.
1:22:26
SPEAKER_01: And those are yours, not the bus drivers.
1:22:31
SPEAKER_01: You need to recognize that all phenomena arises in mind.
1:22:39
SPEAKER_01: Start with thoughts.
1:22:43
SPEAKER_01: Because your feelings are not going to be about what happened.
1:22:48
SPEAKER_01: They're going to be about what you think happened.
1:22:55
SPEAKER_01: You may see a man and woman who appear to be fighting or wrestling teenagers.
1:23:07
SPEAKER_01: You may see a brother and sister roughhousing.
1:23:15
SPEAKER_01: Watch your interpretations.
1:23:16
SPEAKER_01: Watch how you make your interpretations and notice that you will have feelings
1:23:24
SPEAKER_01: About your interpretation, not about anything going on external with yourself.
1:23:33
SPEAKER_01: At night in dreams,
1:23:37
SPEAKER_01: especially if you are a lucid dreamer,
1:23:42
SPEAKER_01: do notice how that happens there too.
1:23:47
SPEAKER_01: If you are not a lucid dreamer,
1:23:50
SPEAKER_01: When you wake up and remember your dream, notice
1:23:58
SPEAKER_01: that it all happened in you.
1:24:02
SPEAKER_01: Notice that you did exactly the same thing of describing the visual circumstances
1:24:07
SPEAKER_01: as this or as that and feeling the appropriate emotions to go with it.
1:24:17
SPEAKER_00: Homework.
1:24:20
SPEAKER_01: Work on this this month.
1:24:23
SPEAKER_01: And we shall go to the next bit next month.
1:24:28
SPEAKER_01: Check and see if a last question arose.
1:24:30
SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, I think I'm going to let us sign off.
1:24:34
SPEAKER_01: That was enough meat to chew on.
1:24:36
SPEAKER_01: It's not the time.
1:24:37
SPEAKER_01: It's to give you enough to chew on for a month so that your practice can develop.
1:24:42
SPEAKER_00: I think that's it.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, if any of you were benefited by a translator during this session,
1:24:58
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SPEAKER_01: Give them the gift of Dana.
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SPEAKER_01: If you don't have much, don't give them much.
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1:25:12
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1:25:21
SPEAKER_01: And I want to give my personal thanks to our translators today.
1:25:27
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your time and your energy.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_01: Deeply appreciated.
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SPEAKER_01: Chiche, Chiche, Sala,
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SPEAKER_01: Ngopasho.
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SPEAKER_01: We are all in this together, both
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SPEAKER_01: confused and enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: We are complete.