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The Blessings of White Tara (Enschede, May 2019) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_00: Dank u wel.
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Goed.
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SPEAKER_02: En dan is het
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SPEAKER_02: Sorry,
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SPEAKER_02: sorry.
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Ja, het gaat vastzettend.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02: What's up?
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Amen.
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SPEAKER_02: Dank
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SPEAKER_02: MUZIEK
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SPEAKER_02: ik vind het wel mooi dat we elkaar vonden.
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SPEAKER_02: Ja, ja.
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SPEAKER_02: Ja.
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SPEAKER_02: Ja.
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SPEAKER_02: Ah, the late mama.
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SPEAKER_02: Many apologies.
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SPEAKER_02: I see.
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SPEAKER_02: So I need to see the altar.
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SPEAKER_03: Did we have three of these?
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, a little something I will find.
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SPEAKER_03: Like this.
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SPEAKER_03: I guess ways are worth more every time.
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SPEAKER_03: Got it.
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SPEAKER_02: Chocolate lemon?
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SPEAKER_03: No taco bar?
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SPEAKER_03: No, one of those.
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SPEAKER_03: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_03: And did we find a little birthday candle?
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SPEAKER_03: How about a votive?
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SPEAKER_03: A little one.
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SPEAKER_03: What?
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SPEAKER_02: I did not hear that.
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SPEAKER_03: Please make yourselves comfortable.
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SPEAKER_03: Just stick it there.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: This will go there.
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SPEAKER_03: We're making tormas, you see.
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SPEAKER_03: I didn't like make you get barley and butter and things.
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SPEAKER_03: So we're creating them.
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SPEAKER_03: So, let's see, first or second.
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SPEAKER_03: First, I want you all to
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SPEAKER_03: bring up all of your complaints,
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SPEAKER_03: all of your negativities, your angers at yourself and at others.
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SPEAKER_03: Why don't you bring them up like a big black ball and gently
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SPEAKER_03: Gentler than that.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm waiting for the fire to come.
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SPEAKER_03: Will you carry this around?
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SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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SPEAKER_03: And let people gently blow onto that cake all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: OK?
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SPEAKER_03: You've asked for the blessing of white Tara.
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SPEAKER_03: So this is part of how we'll do that.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you all have a mala?
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SPEAKER_03: How many people don't own a mala?
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SPEAKER_03: That's okay, I want the people who don't own it.
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SPEAKER_03: Come on, please, may I have the white bag?
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SPEAKER_03: Please come to me, the people who don't own a mala, either a wrist mala or a neck mala.
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SPEAKER_03: Hey, you didn't all stand up.
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SPEAKER_03: You can sit down.
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SPEAKER_03: And it's not enough for me to just give you a blessing.
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SPEAKER_03: You need to be able to bless yourself with this,
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SPEAKER_03: for which you need a tool.
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SPEAKER_03: Now, these malas are all a little different from each other.
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SPEAKER_03: I want you to play with it a bit for tonight.
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SPEAKER_03: And when it's time to leave,
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SPEAKER_03: if the mala I've handed you does not feel right to your fingers,
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SPEAKER_03: if it's too big or too small,
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SPEAKER_03: Then I want you to exchange it with someone else for whom the size
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SPEAKER_03: of the mala or the color of the mala doesn't float their boat.
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SPEAKER_03: A mala is a device for storing blessings.
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SPEAKER_03: When you do a mantra,
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SPEAKER_03: using your mala,
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SPEAKER_03: the energy of that mantra will go into the mala
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SPEAKER_03: and there it will be so that
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SPEAKER_03: in times of stress or fear,
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SPEAKER_03: simply to grab
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SPEAKER_03: your mala will give you back some of that.
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SPEAKER_03: And since there will always be times of stress and fear that happen in the life,
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SPEAKER_03: it's good to have a way that you can store the energy that I'm going to introduce
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SPEAKER_03: you to tonight.
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SPEAKER_03: That now for the moment goes on the edge of the altar closest to me.
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SPEAKER_03: Pepin, you've got big hands.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a nice sound.
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I'm going to try to work with it.
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This can go back in there.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, how wonderful.
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SPEAKER_03: I will need the yellow bag.
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SPEAKER_03: Is there by chance a small cushion?
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let's just put that.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, that's perfect.
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SPEAKER_03: No, one is good.
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SPEAKER_03: And then I have this.
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SPEAKER_03: I have a little rice.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, good.
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SPEAKER_03: Let's see if I move the rice to here and put the bumper there.
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SPEAKER_03: What is this?
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SPEAKER_03: And this?
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SPEAKER_03: Can the microphone for the webcast move back just a little so I can have my text
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SPEAKER_03: right up front?
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SPEAKER_03: Can you check the sound level with it there?
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SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_03: Suppose...
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SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_03: Here, hands.
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SPEAKER_03: Hold that.
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SPEAKER_03: What happens if I put it...
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SPEAKER_03: Now, how's the sound level now?
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, it can go there.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, the camera's there, I think.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, gotcha.
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SPEAKER_02: So no problem.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that's going to be fine.
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SPEAKER_03: You can set those back down here.
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SPEAKER_03: And I'll fish about in them in a minute.
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SPEAKER_03: So do we have saffron water in the bumper?
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SPEAKER_03: Wow, excellent.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Pepin gets it right.
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SPEAKER_03: Pepin.
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SPEAKER_02: Pepin.
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SPEAKER_03: Pepin always gets it right.
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SPEAKER_03: So the first thing I'm going to do is add a bit of magic stuff to the bumpa.
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SPEAKER_03: That's a bumpa.
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SPEAKER_03: I think it's called a bumpa because I get to bumpa you over the head with it
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SPEAKER_02: later.
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SPEAKER_03: This is myndrup, made by the wild yoginis of Kunur.
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SPEAKER_03: They used to spend all summer breaking rocks on the road to get enough money to make
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SPEAKER_03: their winter retreats.
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SPEAKER_03: But I have found sponsorship for many of them.
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SPEAKER_03: So now they spend the summers up in the high caves in retreat.
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SPEAKER_03: They don't have to break rocks on the road anymore.
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SPEAKER_03: And some of them are old.
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SPEAKER_03: And it's really hard to break rocks on the road for a living when you're my age.
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SPEAKER_03: So instead they make really powerful retreats all summer.
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SPEAKER_03: And they make this blessed medicine for me.
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SPEAKER_03: This mendrup.
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SPEAKER_03: And when they come down in the fall and I'm in India, they all bring me a little bit.
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SPEAKER_03: And I mix it together and it goes in the bumpa.
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SPEAKER_03: These are from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, putting in three, they're mani pills.
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SPEAKER_03: He is considered an emanation of Chenrezig, whose mantra is Om Mani Padmi Hong.
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SPEAKER_03: And as such, his great power of compassion
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SPEAKER_03: Manifests
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SPEAKER_03: in these pills that he and his monks make together with thousands and thousands
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SPEAKER_03: of mantras stored in them.
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SPEAKER_03: Ooh, these are the good ones.
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SPEAKER_03: And this little pill, very precious.
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SPEAKER_03: It holds a bit of relics from all four lineages of Tibet.
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SPEAKER_03: The fifth lineage, the bond, did not end up in those pills.
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SPEAKER_03: I have to put it in separately.
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SPEAKER_03: So now we have all five lineages.
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SPEAKER_03: Magic stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: We will drink this at the end together.
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SPEAKER_03: Share just a few drops of it.
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SPEAKER_03: You should know that it's gluten-free.
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SPEAKER_03: People ask me.
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SPEAKER_03: Vegan.
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SPEAKER_03: And the only possible allergen is the saffron.
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SPEAKER_03: I've never met anybody allergic to magic.
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SPEAKER_03: However,
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SPEAKER_03: I once met a person allergic to saffron,
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SPEAKER_03: and I had to make up special for her without the saffron.
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SPEAKER_03: We grind it up because the last thing any of us want is a clog in our bumper.
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SPEAKER_03: Could you move that red bag nearer to me?
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SPEAKER_03: So the first thing will be to feed the land spirits.
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SPEAKER_03: I'll need two assistants of the place.
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SPEAKER_03: You two?
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, you can sit.
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SPEAKER_03: I'll bring you up.
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SPEAKER_03: When the time comes,
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SPEAKER_03: you'll each take one of these fine plates with wine,
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SPEAKER_03: and you'll go out into the garden, but you'll go in different directions.
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SPEAKER_03: One of you go one way, one of you go the other way.
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SPEAKER_03: And go until you see perhaps there is somewhere that water runs or a special tree,
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SPEAKER_03: a place that has a lot of placeness, a place that you feel a bit of magic to.
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SPEAKER_03: Don't go really far, just around here.
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SPEAKER_03: Toss the contents of the plate and the wine Up into the air to that place,
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SPEAKER_03: keeping a good grip on the wine glass and the plate.
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SPEAKER_03: Do not let go.
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SPEAKER_03: The first step.
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SPEAKER_03: You'll want to know what we're doing, right?
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SPEAKER_03: As we do it.
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SPEAKER_03: The first step is to call Upon body, speech,
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SPEAKER_03: and mind of all Buddhas of the four times,
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SPEAKER_03: symbolically into the magic vase, the Bumpa.
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SPEAKER_01: Nice sound, Pepin.
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SPEAKER_01: Tombalane Sanche Rimboche
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SPEAKER_01: Jumbala me chancho rimboche,
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SPEAKER_01: Jumbala me gedun rimboche,
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SPEAKER_01: Chabne kunchak sumla cho paha bo,
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SPEAKER_01: Domba Lame Sanche Rinpoche,
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SPEAKER_01: Domba Lame Tamcho Rinpoche,
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SPEAKER_01: Domba Lama Yadun Rinpoche, Jamne Kunchoak
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SPEAKER_01: Sunla Chau Pahabu.
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SPEAKER_01: Chambhala me Sanjay Rimboche,
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SPEAKER_01: Chambhala me Tamcho Rimboche,
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SPEAKER_01: Chambhala me Gedun Rimboche, Jamne kunchok sunla cho pahabho.
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SPEAKER_03: Now bring to me the wine glasses.
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SPEAKER_03: Uncovered.
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SPEAKER_03: You may remove the cover.
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SPEAKER_03: Good work.
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SPEAKER_03: And then these can now be taken out and offered to the land spirits.
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SPEAKER_03: I still need it for one or two things.
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SPEAKER_01: Sanjay chin be je pe chin le zo, Che
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SPEAKER_01: nam cho chang sol waje betu,
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SPEAKER_01: Daksogun lane pe sep so su,
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SPEAKER_01: NEDANG UPUN THAP SU SHEVA DANG CHUDANG TASHI PILWE ZE DU
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SPEAKER_03: Did you hear the change in the tone?
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SPEAKER_03: The offering was accepted.
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SPEAKER_01: Chukku Kunduzong Bogomboi,
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SPEAKER_01: Dorji Sempa Garab Dorji Dang,
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SPEAKER_01: Shere Singe Bardushin Labdi,
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SPEAKER_01: Deidam Abzantata Tusum Chi,
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SPEAKER_01: Zogchen Jupe Lama La Soluwa
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SPEAKER_01: Deb, Urgin Pema Juni La Soluwa Deb.
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SPEAKER_01: Durjichang,
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SPEAKER_01: Citilu Narudang,
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SPEAKER_01: Marpa Milagompo Tatsapa,
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SPEAKER_01: Na Pupadang,
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SPEAKER_01: Palden Drupasuk, Karkyu Lama Namla Soluadeb,
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SPEAKER_01: Chagchin Lama Namla Soluadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Vahadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Vahadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Nyen Du Dang Yung Drun Lama Namla Sol Vahadeb.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_03: Could you take this around and have everyone take just a few grains to hold
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SPEAKER_03: in the palm of their hand?
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SPEAKER_03: So we need to try a mudra.
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SPEAKER_03: Hold your hands like this and bring them together like this.
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SPEAKER_03: So you grasp with your pointer fingers your middle fingers.
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SPEAKER_03: Your sun finger stands up.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, a lot of you know how to do this.
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SPEAKER_03: Great.
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SPEAKER_03: And you make a mountain with four continents
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SPEAKER_03: with your bit of grain in the palms of your hands.
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SPEAKER_03: At the end, we're going to visualize the grain as flower petals and toss it up into the air.
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SPEAKER_03: This is the Offering Mandala
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SPEAKER_03: to invoke the energies Of the body,
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SPEAKER_03: speech, and mind of all Buddhas.
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SPEAKER_03: Of the four times
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SPEAKER_03: in compassion for all beings of the three realms.
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SPEAKER_03: The outer mandala,
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SPEAKER_03: the mountain and the four continents,
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SPEAKER_03: is the same as the inner mandala,
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SPEAKER_03: your spinal cord, your four limbs, and your eyes are the sun and the moon.
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SPEAKER_03: Feel the outer and the inner as one.
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SPEAKER_03: If you know this, sing with me.
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SPEAKER_03: If you don't, simply imagine.
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SPEAKER_03: You're offering it to all Buddhas of the four times for the sake of all beings
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SPEAKER_03: of the three realms.
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SPEAKER_01: Saji Pukir
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SPEAKER_01: Juhug Shing Metog Tram,
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SPEAKER_01: Rirab Lingji,
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SPEAKER_01: Nihide Gyan Padi, Edam Guru Ratnam Mandala Kam Niriya Thayami,
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SPEAKER_03: All blessings are participatory.
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SPEAKER_03: It's never just one way.
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SPEAKER_03: When we talk about all Buddhas of the four times,
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SPEAKER_03: they are not other than all sentient beings of the three realms.
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SPEAKER_03: What did you think arose as Buddhas if not sentient beings?
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SPEAKER_03: The separations that we normally live with,
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SPEAKER_03: wisdom and ignorance,
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SPEAKER_03: inner and outer, enlightened and not enlightened,
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SPEAKER_03: they're not real.
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SPEAKER_03: Let's see, I need a person to lend a hand.
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SPEAKER_03: Can I have a volunteer?
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SPEAKER_03: Yes, you're a good one.
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SPEAKER_03: So, without touching the cake with your fingers,
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SPEAKER_03: no, no, not that one, the little one with the candle.
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SPEAKER_03: Don't let your fingers touch it.
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SPEAKER_03: It has all our ick.
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SPEAKER_03: Ick transforms.
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SPEAKER_03: So I need you to take that
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SPEAKER_03: outside and take it down the energy flow from this place.
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SPEAKER_03: So if there is a stream, you take it just a bit downstream.
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SPEAKER_03: If there is a hill, you take it a bit downhill.
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SPEAKER_03: Or you can go, if there is a road, you can put it beside the road.
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SPEAKER_03: On the side of the road in which the traffic goes away from this place.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you understand?
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SPEAKER_03: Just take it out for that.
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SPEAKER_03: The plate comes back, but slide it off without touching it or use a stick or a piece of grass.
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SPEAKER_03: It's good if it stays live.
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SPEAKER_03: So try to choose a place where that won't be a danger.
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SPEAKER_03: And if there is fire danger in this place at this time, then you can put out the flame.
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SPEAKER_03: We hold our ick precious.
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SPEAKER_03: We hang on to it.
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SPEAKER_03: Even though we want it to go away,
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SPEAKER_03: we bring it up again and again and think about it and chew on it and keep it well.
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SPEAKER_03: In the symbolic action of this, one is letting go of it, releasing it.
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SPEAKER_03: To flow down the energy to where it is not ick.
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SPEAKER_03: But in its proper dynamic of balance.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes?
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SPEAKER_03: Maybe to clarify, ick in Dutch
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SPEAKER_00: is I.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, sorry.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, also the ego.
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SPEAKER_00: Also this.
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SPEAKER_03: But in English, ick is slimy stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Yakiba.
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SPEAKER_03: Yakiba.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: You're making a film.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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SPEAKER_03: I have three versions of white Tara which I brought.
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SPEAKER_03: We need to choose, all of us together.
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SPEAKER_03: Because you see,
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SPEAKER_03: as emanations of all Buddhas of the four times,
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SPEAKER_03: us sentient beings are all in this together.
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SPEAKER_03: We're in the Yakiba and we're in the Buddhahood.
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SPEAKER_03: The division that you make between the two is not what you think it is.
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SPEAKER_03: So of these symbolic aspects of white Tara,
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SPEAKER_03: one resolves all poisons, both inner and outer.
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SPEAKER_03: The five poisons The twisted emotions that do not come up pure and clear to simply be felt.
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SPEAKER_03: One of them removes all suffering and sorrow,
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SPEAKER_03: works with the energies of tummo, converting sorrow into bliss.
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SPEAKER_03: They're all to long life, to good health, but they come at it from a different aspect.
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SPEAKER_03: And one of them is Zogchentara.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you all have a preference?
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SPEAKER_03: Number two, remover of sorrow.
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SPEAKER_03: Your preference.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, you're the only one who was willing to say anything.
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SPEAKER_03: Another vote for two.
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SPEAKER_03: And somebody wants number one, transformer of poisons.
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SPEAKER_03: No, now it's number two.
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SPEAKER_03: Then that will be it.
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SPEAKER_03: I could not decide when I looked at my texts the other night.
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SPEAKER_03: Which one of these you would want?
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SPEAKER_03: So I figured I'd ask you.
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SPEAKER_03: Now this has reached the point that it can be placed up there so that I'm not trying
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SPEAKER_03: to peer through the peacock feather.
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SPEAKER_03: Here, just over here where that other plate was.
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SPEAKER_03: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_03: There will be one more thing to go out in a little while.
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SPEAKER_03: And it will go out and go up in the crotch of a tree or other high place.
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SPEAKER_03: You put it on the roof.
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SPEAKER_03: Whatever works best for you.
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SPEAKER_03: So this is Dungal Selma.
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SPEAKER_03: She removes all sufferings and transforms suffering into bliss.
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SPEAKER_03: She is the remover of all sorrow.
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SPEAKER_03: This teaching is in the ancient Suryagupta lineage, which is my favorite.
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SPEAKER_03: Its old predates even Buddhism going up to Tibet.
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SPEAKER_03: It arose originally with Suryagupta, who was in India.
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SPEAKER_03: There is a more recent Tara lineage, which is the Atisha one.
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SPEAKER_03: This one had faded into disuse.
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SPEAKER_03: So there were very few people who held it.
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SPEAKER_03: And Atisha loved Tara, but he couldn't find this.
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SPEAKER_03: So he prayed and practiced and prayed and practiced.
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SPEAKER_03: And his lineage,
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SPEAKER_03: which is much simpler than this one, came to him as a mind terma, came in a dream.
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SPEAKER_03: But you know how it is all the complexities of the ins and outs
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SPEAKER_03: of details are hard to bring forth from a dream.
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SPEAKER_03: So in that way, what was brought forth is a much simpler set of visualizations and mantras.
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SPEAKER_03: I kind of like the old stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: To begin, let us take refuge together.
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SPEAKER_03: Until the heart of enlightenment is reached, I go for refuge to the three jewels.
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SPEAKER_03: I will attain enlightenment for the sake of all beings.
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SPEAKER_03: Utterly simple.
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SPEAKER_03: Understand that the three jewels
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SPEAKER_03: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are also Lama, Yidam, and Khandro.
1:00:48
SPEAKER_03: They are also Tsa, Lung, and Tigli.
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SPEAKER_03: As we sit here, I want you to feel your channels.
1:01:08
SPEAKER_03: Do you know the nine breaths?
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SPEAKER_03: Pretty simple.
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SPEAKER_03: You take your ring finger
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SPEAKER_03: and lifting your elbow nice and high.
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SPEAKER_03: Nigel, didn't I get you to teach this the other day?
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: You want to do it again?
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SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm lazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's talk about Tenzin Wayan,
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SPEAKER_00: which is to put the thumb at the base
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SPEAKER_00: of the ring finger on the bum.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, for guys, it's different for guys and girls.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_00: For men, you start by blocking the right nostril, but for ladies, you start on the left side.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, see, I was about to teach you all to start on the left side.
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SPEAKER_03: I forget all about guys.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why
1:02:13
SPEAKER_00: he does it.
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SPEAKER_03: You do it with your first finger?
1:02:19
SPEAKER_03: I've got Nigma, I guess, with the Sun finger.
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SPEAKER_03: Doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so it switches around exactly.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_03: Let's do it this way.
1:02:33
SPEAKER_03: This is Bon.
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SPEAKER_03: It's a really nice old way.
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SPEAKER_03: Four fingers below the navel, where your uterus is.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you exhale forcefully.
1:03:03
SPEAKER_00: So I need to clear your nose.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_00: If you've got a slight block of it, you need to clear your nose before you do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_00: You do it three times on that side, and then switch to do it three
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SPEAKER_03: times on the other side.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm just going in with this one, switching it over in my Dian Tien to the other one.
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SPEAKER_03: Bringing it up and blowing it out through this one.
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Now you switch to the other side.
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SPEAKER_00: And the third one is both nostrils in,
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SPEAKER_00: down both side channels,
1:04:19
SPEAKER_00: and you're blowing out,
1:04:20
SPEAKER_00: you're imaginating out the central channel and shooting out the top of your head out
1:04:24
SPEAKER_00: of your crown chakra.
1:04:47
SPEAKER_03: Now we're going to add to this, having cleared the channels.
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SPEAKER_03: Very gently.
1:04:57
SPEAKER_03: Gently.
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SPEAKER_03: Not safe practice, okay?
1:05:02
SPEAKER_03: Gently.
1:05:04
SPEAKER_03: You're going to breathe in through both nostrils.
1:05:08
SPEAKER_03: You're going to bring it down to the Dantian.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_03: You're going to do a Kegel exercise.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_03: Ladies, do you know what that is?
1:05:17
SPEAKER_03: That thing that's supposed to recondition you after you give birth.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_03: You know what your muscles do when you have an orgasm?
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SPEAKER_03: That thing.
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SPEAKER_03: Where you pull in there.
1:05:29
SPEAKER_03: So you're going to pull in with that while holding it gently down just for a moment.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_03: And you're going to feel
1:05:43
SPEAKER_03: dissatisfaction change to heat.
1:05:45
SPEAKER_03: That holding it down,
1:05:47
SPEAKER_03: the little bit of pressure there as you hold it down,
1:05:51
SPEAKER_03: shifts it so that your normal airs,
1:05:57
SPEAKER_03: which have
1:06:00
SPEAKER_03: stuff in them, hopes and fears, by heating them up, they clarify.
1:06:06
SPEAKER_03: They become clear and red.
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SPEAKER_03: The energy of fire.
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SPEAKER_03: Can you feel that?
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SPEAKER_03: Try it.
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SPEAKER_03: Don't hold it hard.
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SPEAKER_03: This is a gentle little bump up from the bottom and a gentle little tap down.
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SPEAKER_03: And then you let go and it rises up the central channel.
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SPEAKER_03: The heat.
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SPEAKER_03: And you may start sweating.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_03: You may feel like a hot flash.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_03: Welcome to hot flashes, gentlemen.
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SPEAKER_00: How long do you keep it?
1:06:42
SPEAKER_03: A second, if that.
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SPEAKER_03: And gently...
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SPEAKER_03: Don't do it with force.
1:06:49
SPEAKER_03: This has to be done gently because you are moving the innate energy
1:06:54
SPEAKER_03: of vitality that pervades the universe,
1:07:00
SPEAKER_03: which manifests as love,
1:07:03
SPEAKER_03: as that urge to merge between people, as that antidote to loneliness.
1:07:11
SPEAKER_03: That energy, strongest energy in the universe, Mating instinct.
1:07:17
SPEAKER_03: That very energy is that fire.
1:07:22
SPEAKER_03: And by holding it like that, you're growing that fire ever so slightly, ever so gently.
1:07:32
SPEAKER_03: You do recognize tumult, right?
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SPEAKER_03: Gently.
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SPEAKER_03: Three times.
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SPEAKER_03: And it'll come up a little further each time.
1:07:47
SPEAKER_03: Don't try to force it more than it would.
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SPEAKER_03: But let it come up as it does.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_03: This has to be done unforced.
1:07:56
SPEAKER_03: The moment you try to force this, it squeaks.
1:08:01
SPEAKER_03: You will not like that.
1:08:04
SPEAKER_03: Trust me on that one.
1:08:05
SPEAKER_03: You will not like that.
1:08:23
SPEAKER_03: When you let it go, a little steam, a little energy comes out of you.
1:08:27
SPEAKER_03: Let it go into the central channel to raise as far as it does.
1:08:32
SPEAKER_03: Imagine that any extra energy is just going out the crown chakra.
1:08:36
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes you feel it up to your navel or up to your solar plexus,
1:08:41
SPEAKER_03: depending on the day and who and how you are in this moment.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_03: That was once again...
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SPEAKER_03: Relax your channels while you do it.
1:09:19
SPEAKER_03: There is a coolness
1:09:23
SPEAKER_03: in your crown chakra.
1:09:25
SPEAKER_03: Which as the heat rises naturally melts downwards so the heat rises and the coolness melts.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_03: The coolness is pearlescent to rainbowy white.
1:09:45
SPEAKER_03: It is the innate creativity.
1:09:51
SPEAKER_03: Have we any artists in the room?
1:09:55
SPEAKER_03: When you're in the groove,
1:09:58
SPEAKER_03: artists or musicians,
1:10:01
SPEAKER_03: when you're in the groove in your art,
1:10:04
SPEAKER_03: your music,
1:10:05
SPEAKER_03: and it's just as it is, and you're not forcing it and you're not struggling with it.
1:10:12
SPEAKER_03: This doesn't happen every time.
1:10:14
SPEAKER_03: But sometimes there is a sensation mentally.
1:10:22
SPEAKER_03: That is what we mean by Tashi.
1:10:28
SPEAKER_03: Not, oh, the bliss of I took ecstasy and everything is, oh, nice, good texture.
1:10:32
SPEAKER_03: Not druggy bliss.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_03: It's much more a...
1:10:35
SPEAKER_03: We just don't have the right word for it.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_03: I improvise with my bent and sometimes we...
1:10:40
SPEAKER_03: And it happens that I lost and totally away.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_03: That's...
1:10:52
SPEAKER_03: Yes, one is lost totally away, but there is a joyous playfulness in that totally away.
1:10:59
SPEAKER_03: And you're there in that you're doing, even though you're not there.
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SPEAKER_03: That's Tashi.
1:11:07
SPEAKER_03: That is the bliss that the transformation of suffering becomes.
1:11:18
SPEAKER_03: The peacock feathers are the symbol of that.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_03: The peacock eats poisonous plants and so produces these beautiful colors.
1:11:30
SPEAKER_03: If he did not eat poisonous plants, he would not produce these colors.
1:11:47
SPEAKER_03: Understand that
1:11:51
SPEAKER_03: when we speak of tsa, The energy channels.
1:11:58
SPEAKER_03: Feel the hollowness of them, especially your central channel.
1:12:06
SPEAKER_03: Size is relative.
1:12:12
SPEAKER_03: This dorji to a microbe is enormous.
1:12:20
SPEAKER_03: To a star is minuscule.
1:12:27
SPEAKER_03: In that way, the size of your channels has no reality.
1:12:33
SPEAKER_03: They are infinite.
1:12:37
SPEAKER_03: Infinitely open.
1:12:41
SPEAKER_03: Let your awareness, your attention,
1:12:46
SPEAKER_03: settle into the open awareness of the central channel.
1:12:53
SPEAKER_03: Warm and cool.
1:12:56
SPEAKER_03: Red and white without becoming pink.
1:13:01
SPEAKER_03: Fire and sky.
1:13:06
SPEAKER_03: Vitality and openness.
1:13:09
SPEAKER_03: Feel it.
1:13:12
SPEAKER_03: Identify yourself with the spaciousness of the central channel.
1:13:22
SPEAKER_03: Within that openness vast as the sky, there is wind.
1:13:31
SPEAKER_03: Qi.
1:13:34
SPEAKER_03: In the sky.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_03: The sky is not blown about by the wind.
1:13:43
SPEAKER_03: The wind is not a substantial thing.
1:13:47
SPEAKER_03: The wind is made of sky.
1:13:50
SPEAKER_03: It is not made of anything other than sky.
1:13:54
SPEAKER_03: Sky is no thing.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_03: You cannot bring me a handful of sky.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_03: Put down your Western scientific theories about nitrogen and oxygen.
1:14:05
SPEAKER_03: Okay, we're talking sky space.
1:14:09
SPEAKER_03: The sky that extends past the limits of the atmosphere out to forever.
1:14:15
SPEAKER_03: The sky in which the galaxy itself is just a dust moat.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_03: Sky.
1:14:25
SPEAKER_03: And the winds are made of sky.
1:14:27
SPEAKER_03: They are not other than sky.
1:14:29
SPEAKER_03: And the sky is not blown about by the winds.
1:14:32
SPEAKER_03: And your central channel is the infinite open awareness of sky.
1:14:38
SPEAKER_03: And the winds are the lucidity of that awareness.
1:14:44
SPEAKER_03: The aliveness,
1:14:45
SPEAKER_03: the vitality, The seer of all that is seen, the perceiver of all that is perceived.
1:14:55
SPEAKER_03: The seer which looks out from behind your own eyes.
1:15:02
SPEAKER_03: The wind.
1:15:05
SPEAKER_03: Dancing in the sky.
1:15:07
SPEAKER_03: When the wind blows, in sky,
1:15:11
SPEAKER_03: as sky, never mind the trees down below, up in the sky, when the wind blows...
1:15:17
SPEAKER_03: No thing moves.
1:15:20
SPEAKER_03: In the vacuum of space, there are what they call cosmic winds.
1:15:26
SPEAKER_03: They are not made of particles.
1:15:31
SPEAKER_03: There are theories that they are made of gravity differentials.
1:15:35
SPEAKER_03: There are many mathematical theories.
1:15:37
SPEAKER_03: Put those down.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_03: They're fun to play with and read, like internet porn.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_03: But just leave them be for now.
1:15:46
SPEAKER_03: And feel your central channel as sky space and the vitality of your aliveness,
1:15:53
SPEAKER_03: the seer that gazes out from behind your eyes and all eyes as the aliveness of that.
1:16:06
SPEAKER_03: And the cool white,
1:16:10
SPEAKER_03: white which is the mix of all the colors of the rainbow spinning fast together.
1:16:16
SPEAKER_03: Rainbow white,
1:16:17
SPEAKER_03: pearlescent,
1:16:20
SPEAKER_03: shimmery, sparkly
1:16:23
SPEAKER_03: creativity that arises
1:16:28
SPEAKER_03: as the lucidity of the awareness.
1:16:32
SPEAKER_03: And the sky and the wind,
1:16:35
SPEAKER_03: and the sparkle of the sky and the wind,
1:16:38
SPEAKER_03: the light,
1:16:39
SPEAKER_03: the light which illuminates the light by which it sees,
1:16:42
SPEAKER_03: the aliveness by which it feels, Cannot be separated into separate things.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_03: This is the three jewels.
1:16:55
SPEAKER_03: Your own channels.
1:16:57
SPEAKER_03: Dharmakaya of infinite open awareness.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_03: Sambhogakaya of that very awareness is lucidity.
1:17:06
SPEAKER_03: It's awareness.
1:17:07
SPEAKER_03: The awareness is awareness.
1:17:08
SPEAKER_03: The openness is awareness.
1:17:11
SPEAKER_03: Sambhogakaya where all the gods are born.
1:17:17
SPEAKER_03: And the dance of the arising and dispersing of phenomena,
1:17:21
SPEAKER_03: of your thoughts, your feelings, and your perceptions.
1:17:28
SPEAKER_03: Nermanicaia, the sparkle of the sky.
1:17:32
SPEAKER_03: Did I show you last year the sparkle of the sky?
1:17:37
SPEAKER_03: Did I teach you sky gazing?
1:17:40
SPEAKER_03: Jan, are you with me here?
1:17:43
SPEAKER_03: Would you be willing to take people outside and show them the sparkle?
1:17:50
SPEAKER_03: You'll be back.
1:17:51
SPEAKER_03: It's important.
1:18:24
SPEAKER_03: Pepin?
1:18:28
SPEAKER_03: Is Pepin still here?
1:18:29
SPEAKER_03: Oh, see if he wants to take the camera out and point it at the sky.
1:18:38
SPEAKER_03: And you're welcome to sit because you've seen these.
1:18:47
SPEAKER_03: That would be lovely.
1:19:01
SPEAKER_03: Right there.
1:19:04
SPEAKER_03: Actually, let's let you move that aside, but not onto the altar, just someplace.
1:19:10
SPEAKER_03: I'm going to switch for water at this time.
1:19:11
SPEAKER_03: It's pretty late in the day.
1:20:40
SPEAKER_03: No, but they're comfortable.
1:21:48
SPEAKER_03: Nigel, you don't play with this light version of Tumo.
1:21:52
SPEAKER_03: You're going to get the full version.
1:21:56
SPEAKER_03: This is just the way I'm teaching it is in the Galupa line.
1:22:03
SPEAKER_03: And probably no one will hurt themselves with it if they do it gently like this.
1:22:08
SPEAKER_03: You're going to get a much more intense version, which has to be done with supervision.
1:22:16
SPEAKER_03: Part of me is still wondering if I can go to that retreat.
1:22:18
SPEAKER_03: When does it start?
1:22:20
SPEAKER_00: Something like the 23rd of June.
1:22:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I have time.
1:22:25
SPEAKER_00: It's like three, four days after London.
1:22:29
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it would be a really fast turnaround.
1:22:31
SPEAKER_00: I leave on the Friday after London.
1:22:34
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:22:38
SPEAKER_03: And one can go for just a week, yes?
1:22:39
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you can, but it is for two weeks.
1:22:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm not going to get two weeks off.
1:22:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:22:46
SPEAKER_00: I think they come back on the 9th of July.
1:22:52
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I might be able to go for the second week.
1:22:54
SPEAKER_03: I need to really look at that.
1:22:56
SPEAKER_03: I have to go back to the Bay Area for a week.
1:22:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:22:58
SPEAKER_00: Analia's coming, I believe.
1:23:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:23:06
SPEAKER_00: But her mum's been diagnosed with cancer.
1:23:09
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so we'll see if she can make it.
1:23:12
SPEAKER_03: The retreat goes for two weeks.
1:23:15
SPEAKER_03: Yes, I believe it was possible to do one week or the other.
1:23:20
SPEAKER_03: And I might, I might accumulate enough money on this trip to pay for it.
1:23:24
SPEAKER_03: How much is it?
1:23:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's expensive.
1:23:28
SPEAKER_00: Because if you want a room there, it's about £1,000
1:23:35
SPEAKER_03: for the course.
1:23:35
SPEAKER_03: For the two weeks.
1:23:37
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:23:37
SPEAKER_03: So about £500.
1:23:37
SPEAKER_00: And it's about £1,000 per week for
1:23:41
SPEAKER_03: the room.
1:23:41
SPEAKER_03: Ah, so where are you staying?
1:23:43
SPEAKER_00: I count in the trees.
1:23:45
SPEAKER_03: You're camping in the trees.
1:23:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm a little too old for that.
1:23:49
SPEAKER_03: I wonder if I could share a room with somebody.
1:23:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'd have to take a room.
1:24:08
SPEAKER_03: They're all booked.
1:24:11
SPEAKER_03: I think I would have to look at, see if Onalaya has one that I can share with.
1:24:19
SPEAKER_03: I don't think I can tent camp.
1:24:21
SPEAKER_03: Oh, maybe.
1:24:22
SPEAKER_03: I'm not that old.
1:24:25
SPEAKER_00: If I come
1:24:31
SPEAKER_03: for the second week.
1:24:33
SPEAKER_03: Because I did get his permission to do so.
1:24:43
SPEAKER_03: So, air ticket.
1:25:17
SPEAKER_03: It is the right thing to do.
1:26:13
SPEAKER_03: Don't think I do.
1:26:15
SPEAKER_03: I think I can see where I can swing it.
1:26:20
SPEAKER_03: You need to look after your funds so that you don't have to go back to work any time soon.
1:27:13
SPEAKER_03: They're pretty, aren't they?
1:27:49
SPEAKER_03: So, these little sparkly, fast-moving can't quite capture them.
1:27:57
SPEAKER_03: These are a symbol of the innate vitality of the universe.
1:28:03
SPEAKER_03: When we perceive the refuge,
1:28:06
SPEAKER_03: the three jewels,
1:28:08
SPEAKER_03: as Tsar,
1:28:10
SPEAKER_03: Lung, and Tigli,
1:28:13
SPEAKER_03: the Tsar refers to the infinite open spaciousness of the sky.
1:28:18
SPEAKER_03: Without border or boundary.
1:28:22
SPEAKER_03: The lung, chi,
1:28:25
SPEAKER_03: refers to the aliveness of that,
1:28:30
SPEAKER_03: the vitality,
1:28:32
SPEAKER_03: the light, the luminosity, the lucidity of that infinite open awareness.
1:28:38
SPEAKER_03: The awakeness of it.
1:28:42
SPEAKER_03: And The little sparklies that cannot be captured,
1:28:47
SPEAKER_03: are not made of anything, are a symbol of tigley.
1:28:53
SPEAKER_03: They are not the tigleys in a different practice.
1:28:57
SPEAKER_03: That's something else.
1:28:58
SPEAKER_03: They are not tigleys.
1:29:00
SPEAKER_03: They are a symbol of tigley.
1:29:04
SPEAKER_03: Catch the difference?
1:29:07
SPEAKER_03: Something else is called the tigleys.
1:29:14
SPEAKER_03: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya.
1:29:18
SPEAKER_03: You think it's something highfalutin fine you're going to pray to?
1:29:24
SPEAKER_03: It's just this.
1:29:27
SPEAKER_03: The infinitude of your own mind, just as it is and always has been.
1:29:36
SPEAKER_03: As far as your imagination extends, the Dharmakaya extends.
1:29:45
SPEAKER_03: In its innate vitality, aware, lucid aliveness.
1:29:55
SPEAKER_03: Alive with the creativity, the shimmer, the sparkle of phenomena arising and dissolving.
1:30:06
SPEAKER_03: This is who you really are.
1:30:10
SPEAKER_03: We often refer to Tara as
1:30:15
SPEAKER_03: As the great mother ocean of Dharmakaya,
1:30:21
SPEAKER_03: who in her vitality,
1:30:23
SPEAKER_03: which is of the nature of compassion,
1:30:28
SPEAKER_03: of interconnectedness and of love, gives birth to all Buddhas of the four times.
1:30:40
SPEAKER_03: Yamchenmo, the white Tara.
1:30:47
SPEAKER_03: You will not be able to perceive the totality
1:30:51
SPEAKER_03: of yourself when you hold it tightly to this is me and that's not me.
1:30:59
SPEAKER_03: So put that down.
1:31:04
SPEAKER_03: All of it is all of us.
1:31:07
SPEAKER_03: And we're all in this together.
1:31:11
SPEAKER_03: Even your very personality, how did you get that personality?
1:31:16
SPEAKER_03: Some of it's genetic, high-strung, low-strung, a gift from your parents.
1:31:23
SPEAKER_03: Some of it's post-traumatic, a gift from old lovers,
1:31:31
SPEAKER_03: ex-husbands, and the like.
1:31:34
SPEAKER_03: Some of it is gifts from others,
1:31:37
SPEAKER_03: from authors you have read, things that have been said to you, interactions.
1:31:44
SPEAKER_03: There's not a single bit of you that is singular and solitary.
1:31:50
SPEAKER_03: Interactive, interpenetrating.
1:31:54
SPEAKER_03: And constantly changing.
1:31:58
SPEAKER_03: Growing.
1:32:00
SPEAKER_03: Maturing.
1:32:03
SPEAKER_03: Growing in wisdom.
1:32:06
SPEAKER_03: Growing in heart.
1:32:09
SPEAKER_03: All of this constantly changing.
1:32:12
SPEAKER_03: Buy your interactions with other life forms, including your biome.
1:32:21
SPEAKER_03: Don't leave them out.
1:32:25
SPEAKER_03: Biome in Dutch.
1:32:30
SPEAKER_03: You're not an individual, you're an ecology.
1:32:34
SPEAKER_03: And I'll bet that Gaia thinks she's an individual.
1:32:45
SPEAKER_03: And were her biome.
1:32:48
SPEAKER_03: Fucked up as it may be at the moment.
1:32:54
SPEAKER_03: I keep hoping for extra stellar probiotics.
1:33:08
SPEAKER_03: So in the awareness of the togetherness of all life,
1:33:13
SPEAKER_03: Interchanging,
1:33:14
SPEAKER_03: interpenetrating,
1:33:15
SPEAKER_03: sharing ideas, sharing feelings, changing each other, being part of each other.
1:33:25
SPEAKER_03: May all beings have happiness and the cause of happiness.
1:33:30
SPEAKER_03: May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
1:33:36
SPEAKER_03: May all beings know supreme happiness which is beyond suffering.
1:33:41
SPEAKER_03: May all beings rest in equanimity, free from attachment and free from aversion.
1:33:51
SPEAKER_03: That doesn't mean don't love, don't move, hold still.
1:34:01
SPEAKER_03: It is the fear of attachment that hurts because all things come and go.
1:34:10
SPEAKER_03: It is the fear of what you don't want that hurts.
1:34:16
SPEAKER_03: Because all things come and go.
1:34:23
SPEAKER_03: To be free from attachment in equanimity does not mean to be without feelings.
1:34:32
SPEAKER_03: It means to not mind the feelings.
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SPEAKER_01: .
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SPEAKER_01: .
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SPEAKER_01: .
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SPEAKER_01: .
1:35:10
SPEAKER_01: When I say this
1:35:25
SPEAKER_03: mantra, let all phenomena dissolve into sky space from which it arose.
1:35:33
SPEAKER_03: Let the continuous arising and dissolving Which has always been there and always will be.
1:35:43
SPEAKER_03: Relax.
1:35:46
SPEAKER_03: Let your awareness settle into the open awareness of sky space.
1:36:04
SPEAKER_03: From the infinite emptiness of mind,
1:36:07
SPEAKER_03: of space, of sky,
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SPEAKER_03: arises the letter pom,
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SPEAKER_03: which itself transforms into a lotus,
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SPEAKER_03: tiny as a dust moat, great as the sky, as big as the galaxy.
1:36:30
SPEAKER_03: A lotus,
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SPEAKER_03: Pure white in all the colors of the rainbow, rainbow white.
1:36:44
SPEAKER_03: And on top of that lotus,
1:36:46
SPEAKER_03: there appears the letter A,
1:36:50
SPEAKER_03: which itself transforms into a luminous moon, symbol of bodhicitta.
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SPEAKER_03: I myself arise,
1:37:11
SPEAKER_03: you yourselves arise,
1:37:12
SPEAKER_03: we ourselves arise,
1:37:15
SPEAKER_03: all together,
1:37:18
SPEAKER_03: as the letter Za,
1:37:25
SPEAKER_03: from which rays of light emanate, making offerings to all Buddhas of the four times.
1:37:35
SPEAKER_03: As the offering is accepted,
1:37:39
SPEAKER_03: All Buddhas
1:37:39
SPEAKER_03: of the four times dissolve and come into the Za until there is no separation between
1:37:48
SPEAKER_03: primordial Buddhahood, the Za,
1:37:52
SPEAKER_03: the offerings of manifestation,
1:37:55
SPEAKER_03: and we are offering body, speech,
1:37:57
SPEAKER_03: and mind, and we are offering thoughts, feelings, and perceptions in all forms.
1:38:15
SPEAKER_03: Instantly, we, it, all, them,
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SPEAKER_03: that arise as Tara herself,
1:38:27
SPEAKER_03: Tara of bliss,
1:38:31
SPEAKER_03: Tara of infinite creativity, Tara of utter relaxation, Tara of sky, Tara of wind.
1:38:42
SPEAKER_03: Tara of the shimmer of the luminosity.
1:38:52
SPEAKER_03: Her two hands hold the firmest furnace of Tummo.
1:38:55
SPEAKER_03: No, that's other lineage, Suryagupta.
1:39:00
SPEAKER_03: She holds the furnace of Tummo here, which is a triangular furnace shaped like a yoni,
1:39:09
SPEAKER_03: It's red, it's the furnace, no, a little bit low, solar plexus.
1:39:13
SPEAKER_03: She holds the furnace of tummo here.
1:39:17
SPEAKER_03: She is the fire of bliss,
1:39:20
SPEAKER_03: the fire of aliveness,
1:39:22
SPEAKER_03: the fire of interconnectedness, the fire of infinite open awareness.
1:39:29
SPEAKER_03: She is also the clear, cool whiteness of bodhisitta.
1:39:37
SPEAKER_03: There is no separation.
1:39:42
SPEAKER_03: She sits in a lotus position, right leg on top.
1:39:49
SPEAKER_03: She is of the center Buddha.
1:39:54
SPEAKER_03: She is of balance.
1:39:56
SPEAKER_03: She is of openness.
1:39:58
SPEAKER_03: And the channels are infinite and tummo is the aliveness that rides in the channels,
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SPEAKER_03: the fire of the furnace.
1:40:07
SPEAKER_03: Which transforms all sufferings into bliss.
1:40:14
SPEAKER_03: Her color is white, but the red shines through it.
1:40:19
SPEAKER_03: Not pink.
1:40:21
SPEAKER_03: Pure luminous white of the moonlight.
1:40:25
SPEAKER_03: Pure red of the hot fire of aliveness.
1:40:32
SPEAKER_03: The red of blood, the red of vitality.
1:40:36
SPEAKER_03: Both colors, no conflict.
1:40:40
SPEAKER_03: Imagine.
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SPEAKER_03: She, I, you, all, life.
1:40:56
SPEAKER_03: As this.
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SPEAKER_03: Adorned with the precious ornaments of the Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_03: On the forehead is a white om.
1:41:15
SPEAKER_03: At the throat is a red ah.
1:41:19
SPEAKER_03: At the heart is a blue hung.
1:41:22
SPEAKER_03: And light rays come out from the hung.
1:41:26
SPEAKER_03: Invoking all Buddhas of the four times,
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SPEAKER_03: which is simply the transformation in this moment of all beings
1:41:35
SPEAKER_03: of the three realms into their true nature, which has always been present.
1:41:41
SPEAKER_03: As such,
1:41:47
SPEAKER_03: all Buddhas in the forms of Taras.
1:41:52
SPEAKER_03: And as we, as I do the next mantra,
1:41:58
SPEAKER_03: All of the Buddhas absorb into one,
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SPEAKER_03: no separation,
1:42:03
SPEAKER_03: all beings,
1:42:04
SPEAKER_03: all Buddhas,
1:42:04
SPEAKER_03: all of us,
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SPEAKER_03: all life, not just specifically you, not just specifically me, everything.
1:42:17
SPEAKER_01: Om, Benza, Samza, Zah, Om, Bam, Om.
1:42:30
SPEAKER_03: As I do this, take the, not the Torma in the middle, the Torma to the side on its plate.
1:42:38
SPEAKER_03: You may touch this one.
1:42:41
SPEAKER_03: And go out and put it in a high place.
1:42:45
SPEAKER_03: You bring the plate back.
1:42:46
SPEAKER_01: Just put the Torma.
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SPEAKER_01: Om Aryatara
1:42:54
SPEAKER_01: Sapariwara Agamparti
1:42:58
SPEAKER_01: Soha
1:43:01
SPEAKER_01: Om Arya Tara, Sapariwara, Padam Parti Soha.
1:43:12
SPEAKER_01: Om Arya Tara,
1:43:18
SPEAKER_01: Sapariwara, Pupe Parti Soha.
1:43:24
SPEAKER_01: Om Arya Tara, Sapariwara, Om
1:43:37
SPEAKER_01: Arya Tara,
1:43:43
SPEAKER_01: Sapariwara, Ghande Parti Soha.
1:43:49
SPEAKER_01: Om Arya Tara, Sapariwara, The
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SPEAKER_01: energy.
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1:44:26
SPEAKER_03: Of the suffering of the five categories of twisted emotion, not the pure, the twisted.
1:44:38
SPEAKER_03: The five categories are competitive jealousy type,
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SPEAKER_03: anger fear type,
1:44:51
SPEAKER_03: dissatisfaction with unsatisfiableness type,
1:44:58
SPEAKER_03: Sticky, possessive
1:45:03
SPEAKER_03: lust disguised as love type and sludgy depression sadness type.
1:45:13
SPEAKER_03: These five categories of sticky emotion are transformed by leaving them be.
1:45:26
SPEAKER_03: Into the pure emotions,
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SPEAKER_03: naked of story,
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SPEAKER_03: naked of belief system,
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SPEAKER_03: the sheer competence of not interfering with your own actions.
1:45:54
SPEAKER_03: The pure openness
1:46:05
SPEAKER_03: of having neither hope nor fear
1:46:10
SPEAKER_03: and therefore able to dance freely
1:46:15
SPEAKER_03: with others as
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SPEAKER_03: others without anything to grasp or be held.
1:46:25
SPEAKER_03: That which fulfills all wants.
1:46:29
SPEAKER_03: The bliss which arises when dissatisfaction is released and the moment is taken as
1:46:36
SPEAKER_03: it is without striving to perfect or make anything improved.
1:46:44
SPEAKER_03: And so in the restful relaxation of this very moment with all its multitude,
1:46:52
SPEAKER_03: Of thoughts,
1:46:53
SPEAKER_03: feelings,
1:46:53
SPEAKER_03: and perceptions which are just fine as they are and don't have to be fixed and you
1:46:58
SPEAKER_03: don't have to get all your ducks in a row and there's no more to-do list
1:47:06
SPEAKER_03: in that relaxation.
1:47:10
SPEAKER_03: Where love arises and loneliness cannot exist.
1:47:19
SPEAKER_03: Not the lust which is loneliness manifesting as grasping and then you get an orgasm
1:47:25
SPEAKER_03: and then you want to do it again.
1:47:27
SPEAKER_03: And it never ends and it never satisfies and the other person is never enough and
1:47:31
SPEAKER_03: you think you're never enough for them.
1:47:34
SPEAKER_03: And then it never works and then it little works and then maybe it works and doesn't
1:47:38
SPEAKER_03: work and you worry if it's going to work.
1:47:41
SPEAKER_03: Not that one.
1:47:44
SPEAKER_03: The utter certainty.
1:47:47
SPEAKER_03: Of being able to open your heart to all life in your own certainty
1:47:53
SPEAKER_03: of vitality without seeking to gain from it or fearing to lose from it.
1:48:04
SPEAKER_03: And the infinite openness of awareness,
1:48:09
SPEAKER_03: which is the transformation of depression,
1:48:15
SPEAKER_03: Where you can't be bothered to do anything.
1:48:19
SPEAKER_03: You don't want to.
1:48:20
SPEAKER_03: You can't even go and make a meal.
1:48:23
SPEAKER_03: You're just going to sit there to the infinite openness of just sitting there and not doing.
1:48:31
SPEAKER_03: Just a little bitty bit.
1:48:38
SPEAKER_03: This is the blessing of the pattern of the Dhyani Buddhas.
1:48:43
SPEAKER_03: The transformation of the five categories of twisted poisons
1:48:50
SPEAKER_03: into the five aspects of bliss.
1:48:56
SPEAKER_03: By leaving them as they are, the twist is something you're doing.
1:49:02
SPEAKER_03: When you stop doing it, they naturalize.
1:49:08
SPEAKER_03: The twist is a grasping.
1:49:11
SPEAKER_03: A trying to make it better, an idea of how it should be.
1:49:15
SPEAKER_03: All the shoulda, woulda, couldas that you carry around on your back.
1:49:21
SPEAKER_03: You have permission in this moment to put that down.
1:49:33
SPEAKER_03: So from the seed syllable,
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SPEAKER_03: hong at my heart,
1:49:38
SPEAKER_03: Light rays emanate in the five directions to invoke the free immaculate energy
1:49:48
SPEAKER_03: of the five Dhyani Buddhas.
1:49:52
SPEAKER_01: And we release, we let go, we put down.
1:50:07
SPEAKER_03: The twists, the hopes, and the fears.
1:50:13
SPEAKER_03: In trust of Tara, in trust of our own selves as Tara, in trust of all living beings as Tara.
1:50:26
SPEAKER_01: Om Sarwa Tata Gata Beshika Samyashiri Om
1:50:39
SPEAKER_03: The five Dhyani Buddhas melt into me.
1:50:44
SPEAKER_03: And all of my feelings are freed to the dance of Dakinis.
1:50:50
SPEAKER_03: To arise and vanish
1:50:52
SPEAKER_03: in their natural state without being twisted by what I think they ought to be,
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SPEAKER_03: hope they will be, or fear they might be.
1:51:01
SPEAKER_03: Relax.
1:51:04
SPEAKER_03: Let go.
1:51:07
SPEAKER_03: Leave it be.
1:51:10
SPEAKER_03: Hand it over to Tara in bliss as bliss.
1:51:16
SPEAKER_03: There is nothing you need to maintain here.
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SPEAKER_03: In my heart on a moon seat, the letter Za
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SPEAKER_03: surrounded by the mantra.
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SPEAKER_03: And this is the Lung.
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SPEAKER_03: So you will repeat after me, yes?
1:51:42
SPEAKER_03: And hold your malas if you have one here.
1:51:44
SPEAKER_03: Om Tarei Tu Tarei.
1:51:52
SPEAKER_01: Om Tarei Tu Tarei.
1:51:58
SPEAKER_01: Turei Motsana.
1:52:01
SPEAKER_01: Turei Motsana.
1:52:03
SPEAKER_01: Soha.
1:52:05
SPEAKER_01: Om Tarei Tu Tarei Turei.
1:52:31
SPEAKER_03: Let light go out from the mantra from Tara,
1:52:38
SPEAKER_03: who is all life,
1:52:40
SPEAKER_03: all beings,
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SPEAKER_03: Mother of all Buddhas,
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SPEAKER_03: not separate from you,
1:52:48
SPEAKER_03: not your personal self,
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SPEAKER_03: all possibilities through time and space.
1:52:57
SPEAKER_03: And let us say the mantra, Amala Round.
1:53:01
SPEAKER_01: OM TARE TU TARE TU RIMOTSANA SOHA
1:53:27
SPEAKER_01: Make your own pattern, make your own tune.
1:53:46
SPEAKER_01: OM TARE
1:53:51
SPEAKER_01: TUTARE MUTSANA SUHA
1:54:01
SPEAKER_01: Om tari tutari turimutsana soha.
1:54:03
SPEAKER_01: Om tari tutari turimutsana soha.
1:54:06
SPEAKER_01: Om tari tutari turimutsana soha.
1:54:09
SPEAKER_01: Om tari tutari turimutsana soha.
1:54:12
SPEAKER_01: Om tari tutari turimutsana soha.
1:54:16
SPEAKER_01: ... ... ... ... ...
1:54:31
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Mutsana,
1:54:34
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Mutsana,
1:54:38
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Mutsana,
1:54:41
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Mutsana, Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Mutsana, ... ... ...
1:55:01
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turi Mutsana Soha.
1:55:16
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:55:19
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:55:22
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:55:32
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Motsana.
1:55:35
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tu Tare Turi Motsana.
1:55:46
SPEAKER_01: OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA
1:55:49
SPEAKER_01: OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA
1:55:55
SPEAKER_01: OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA OM TAREH TUTAREH TURRI MOTSANA SOHA
1:55:59
SPEAKER_01: OM TAREH TUTAREH Om Tare Tutare Turimotsana.
1:56:17
SPEAKER_01: Om Thare Tutari Turi Mutsana.
1:56:20
SPEAKER_01: Om Thare Tutari Turi Mutsana.
1:56:23
SPEAKER_01: Om Thare Tutari Turi Mutsana.
1:56:27
SPEAKER_01: Om Thare Tutari Turi Mutsana.
1:56:29
SPEAKER_01: Om Thare Tutari Turi Mutsana.
1:56:31
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari, Tutari, Tutari, Muttsana, Soha.
1:56:46
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:48
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:50
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:51
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:53
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:56
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:56:59
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana.
1:57:01
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana Soha.
1:57:06
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana Soha.
1:57:09
SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tutari Turimutsana Soha.
1:57:16
SPEAKER_01: Om Tare Tutare Turimutsana Soha.
1:57:52
SPEAKER_01: Chaksalaya Coknyam Jalpa,
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SPEAKER_01: Ladangme
1:58:00
SPEAKER_01: Amci Tenma, Kune Gocha Gya Vajiki,
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SPEAKER_01: Codangme Lam Ningba Selma.
1:58:15
SPEAKER_01: Homage.
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SPEAKER_03: Great sovereign pinnacle of hosts divine.
1:58:27
SPEAKER_03: Mother of all Buddhas.
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SPEAKER_03: Symbol of awakeness.
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SPEAKER_03: Willingly served by man and gods.
1:58:44
SPEAKER_03: Here is where, take the vision of Tara there in front of you in the sky.
1:58:50
SPEAKER_03: But also it is you,
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SPEAKER_03: not your personality,
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SPEAKER_03: but the you that we all share,
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SPEAKER_03: the shared place of all life,
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SPEAKER_03: the aliveness we share,
1:59:04
SPEAKER_03: the openness we share,
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SPEAKER_03: the arisings,
1:59:07
SPEAKER_03: the phenomena we all share that we have,
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SPEAKER_03: perceive, experience phenomena, but we all experience it differently.
1:59:20
SPEAKER_03: Oneness and multiplicity are not in conflict.
1:59:27
SPEAKER_03: So you are Tara and you have Tara as your friend, as your refuge, as your go-to.
1:59:35
SPEAKER_03: When you feel caught in yourself and insufficient, she is there for you.
1:59:41
SPEAKER_03: You can reach to her.
1:59:44
SPEAKER_03: When you feel awake and aware, you know.
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SPEAKER_03: That she is not other than you,
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SPEAKER_03: not something outside,
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SPEAKER_03: not big mama,
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SPEAKER_03: big daddy in the sky,
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SPEAKER_03: but an aspect of mind of all life in its infinite vitality,
2:00:05
SPEAKER_03: its luminous, lucid awareness,
2:00:10
SPEAKER_03: dancing with the aliveness, the sparkle of phenomena.
2:00:16
SPEAKER_03: Immersed in joy, absorbed in bliss.
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SPEAKER_03: And remember, this isn't bliss like when you take ecstasy.
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SPEAKER_03: That's a funny word to translate.
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SPEAKER_03: Think of it as Tashi.
2:00:29
SPEAKER_03: Tashi Dili.
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SPEAKER_03: The word Tibetan Tashi,
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SPEAKER_03: which is when you're totally in the groove,
2:00:37
SPEAKER_03: in the here and now, without anything else that you need or want.
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SPEAKER_03: There's nothing that you're trying to get.
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SPEAKER_03: You're not even...
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SPEAKER_03: You'll find this creativity in your art, in your music, in your dancing.
2:00:56
SPEAKER_03: She clears away the nightmares of life and soothes the conflicts both internal and external.
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SPEAKER_03: For she is of the nature of primordial wisdom.
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SPEAKER_03: Through our praises and prayers to the Great Mother Ocean of Dharmakaya
2:01:23
SPEAKER_03: in all her vitality and manifestations as everything that has ever lived
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SPEAKER_03: in the past, present, and future.
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SPEAKER_03: May sickness, poverty, and warfare end.
2:01:44
SPEAKER_03: And may the dharma of relaxation and good fortune increase.
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SPEAKER_03: This is the blessing of Tara.
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SPEAKER_03: If you will say her mantra,
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SPEAKER_03: even once every day, You will not lose this blessing.
2:02:47
SPEAKER_03: It will remain with you and grow as a seed is planted.
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SPEAKER_03: On the days when you have time,
2:02:55
SPEAKER_03: if you say her mantra more times and sing it to the birds and the bugs and the
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SPEAKER_03: babies, it will flourish and manifest for you
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SPEAKER_03: In the form of freedom from tripping over yourself,
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SPEAKER_03: sabotaging yourself,
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SPEAKER_03: poisoning yourself and casting nasty spells on yourself like you know we do.
2:03:29
SPEAKER_03: You know the mantra, the bad mantras we sing like we go around going, I'm an idiot.
2:03:34
SPEAKER_03: I'm an idiot.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm an idiot at length.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, that's mine.
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SPEAKER_03: Perhaps you have your own bad mantra, I'm fat, I'm fat, I'm ugly, I'm ugly.
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SPEAKER_00: Trish.
2:03:45
SPEAKER_00: Hmm?
2:03:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm trash.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: But you know what I'm talking about, bad mantras.
2:03:54
SPEAKER_03: These little repeaters that you keep repeating that somebody told you when you were
2:03:57
SPEAKER_03: a little kid and it went in that was not a good idea.
2:04:03
SPEAKER_03: She'll protect you from those.
2:04:06
SPEAKER_03: When you find yourself caught doing one of those, grab your mala.
2:04:10
SPEAKER_03: It has enough stored energy if you've been doing the mantra with it to pull you out.
2:04:16
SPEAKER_03: Nothing terrible will happen to you if you don't do the mantra ever again.
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SPEAKER_03: Except the blessing will wear off.
2:04:31
SPEAKER_03: It's up to you.
2:04:32
SPEAKER_03: If you like the flavor, you might want to keep it around.
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SPEAKER_03: Are there any questions about the blessing of this Tara?
2:04:41
SPEAKER_03: Tara who resolves all sufferings, the Tara of great bliss.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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SPEAKER_03: Dream time?
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SPEAKER_03: Imaginary times?
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SPEAKER_03: All those times that aren't past, present and future?
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SPEAKER_03: In a galaxy long, long ago, far, far away.
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SPEAKER_03: That too.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes?
2:05:08
SPEAKER_03: I think you call this specific one Duknal Selma?
2:05:15
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
2:05:16
SPEAKER_00: Duknal Selma.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes.
2:05:19
SPEAKER_03: Is there a specific Selma connected to what you just
2:05:28
SPEAKER_03: gave us?
2:05:28
SPEAKER_03: Yes, we just did it.
2:05:29
SPEAKER_00: And that's the whole thing?
2:05:33
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
2:05:42
SPEAKER_03: Is there a text available for someone?
2:05:44
SPEAKER_03: No, I can eventually give you a text.
2:05:49
SPEAKER_03: You don't guys happen to have a Xerox here?
2:05:53
SPEAKER_03: A copier?
2:05:54
SPEAKER_03: Pepin will take a photograph of this.
2:05:58
SPEAKER_03: Or scan this little text here, which is a prayer.
2:06:02
SPEAKER_03: That and the mantra I can get to you.
2:06:06
SPEAKER_03: Sure.
2:06:09
SPEAKER_03: Okay, you've got a...
2:06:11
SPEAKER_03: Come here, come here, come here.
2:06:15
SPEAKER_03: So the mantra is not the right mantra for this particular text, so I'm folding it under.
2:06:24
SPEAKER_03: I'll give you the mantra on a different piece of paper.
2:06:33
SPEAKER_03: I just don't want to confuse you.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, so this is it.
2:06:38
SPEAKER_03: And I'm holding it there.
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SPEAKER_03: Can you get that?
2:06:40
SPEAKER_03: You can
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SPEAKER_03: have a picture too.
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SPEAKER_03: And here's the mantra.
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SPEAKER_03: So is there someone here who would like to manifest as an aspect
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SPEAKER_03: of Tara for the sake of all sentient beings today?
2:07:31
SPEAKER_03: Get that from Pepin and it's your job to send it to everybody.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_03: Is that okay, Pepin?
2:07:38
SPEAKER_03: I know you do so many things, including whoever was online.
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SPEAKER_03: That was a nice prayer.
2:07:50
SPEAKER_03: The prayer and the mantra together would be the best for you to do for this.
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SPEAKER_03: Without the full Wong,
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SPEAKER_03: which is not what I did tonight,
2:08:00
SPEAKER_03: I just did the blessing of the sadhana and of the energies,
2:08:06
SPEAKER_03: without the full Wong, you wouldn't do the full sadhana yourself.
2:08:12
SPEAKER_03: However, you would do the prayer and the mantra together.
2:08:16
SPEAKER_03: And you would perceive Tara as both you and all life,
2:08:23
SPEAKER_03: not as you individually, as you plurally, all of you.
2:08:31
SPEAKER_03: And you have a choice of seeing yourself as an aspect of her,
2:08:35
SPEAKER_03: part of her, as we all are with everybody else in Bodhisitta.
2:08:42
SPEAKER_03: Or of seeing her separate and in the sky and yelling help.
2:08:47
SPEAKER_03: And it really just depends on the circumstances you find yourself in.
2:08:53
SPEAKER_03: Other, yes?
2:08:55
SPEAKER_00: The furnace, how does she hold it?
2:09:01
SPEAKER_03: Like this or like this?
2:09:01
SPEAKER_00: I understand that she holds it like this, but the triangular shape itself.
2:09:06
SPEAKER_03: Her hands make the triangle.
2:09:09
SPEAKER_03: And she holds it in her hands.
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SPEAKER_03: Here.
2:09:14
SPEAKER_03: And itself is triangular.
2:09:19
SPEAKER_03: Different pictures.
2:09:20
SPEAKER_03: I've got a picture actually with it both ways, with the point on top and the point on bottom.
2:09:32
SPEAKER_03: There is a really beautiful image of her done in Indian iconography rather than Tibetan.
2:09:42
SPEAKER_03: Yep, she's in there.
2:09:46
SPEAKER_03: So if you happen to like that image, I prefer the more Tibetan images, but that's just habit.
2:09:56
SPEAKER_03: Other questions on this?
2:10:01
SPEAKER_03: Then ladies, I can't see you, but please ask your question.
2:10:05
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
2:10:28
SPEAKER_03: They're all actually the same person, but she changes her clothes just like you do.
2:10:34
SPEAKER_03: And her makeup.
2:10:35
SPEAKER_03: And her color hair and, you know, all of this stuff.
2:10:38
SPEAKER_03: Like we do, you know.
2:10:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, number of arms, hairdo, color.
2:10:46
SPEAKER_03: We do that too.
2:10:48
SPEAKER_03: Why do you have the green tara?
2:10:53
SPEAKER_03: Because in general, the green tara is considered to be the basic, her default setting.
2:11:00
SPEAKER_03: Can anybody say default setting?
2:11:01
SPEAKER_03: Default setting,
2:11:04
SPEAKER_00: it doesn't.
2:11:06
SPEAKER_03: It doesn't.
2:11:09
SPEAKER_03: When she doesn't have any makeup on and she just got up in the morning, she's green.
2:11:21
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
2:11:23
SPEAKER_03: The green is the energy of doing.
2:11:28
SPEAKER_03: So they're all very important and we work with all of them.
2:11:33
SPEAKER_03: But The green one is the base one because she is of the northern direction.
2:11:40
SPEAKER_03: So that's the energy of competence.
2:11:44
SPEAKER_03: So she's really good, like,
2:11:47
SPEAKER_03: as your car's going off the cliff, to yell her name quickly because she'll grab it.
2:11:54
SPEAKER_03: Oh, this happened to my teacher, Wangdo Rinpoche.
2:11:57
SPEAKER_03: He's driving in Tibet in a truck,
2:12:00
SPEAKER_03: and because he's the llama, he's got the front seat next to the driver.
2:12:04
SPEAKER_03: with one other person and then there's a whole bunch of other people up on top
2:12:09
SPEAKER_03: of the truck on top of all the goods and luggage and they're driving
2:12:14
SPEAKER_03: in calm and they're going along this mountain road which is cliff up on one side and
2:12:19
SPEAKER_03: cliff down on the other
2:12:24
SPEAKER_03: and it's raining and mudslides and like that and the truck
2:12:31
SPEAKER_03: As they're going around the curve,
2:12:32
SPEAKER_03: it's way overloaded, starts to tip off the road, and it gets to about this angle.
2:12:40
SPEAKER_01: You know, as it's full, I don't remember, she goes, Om Jetsu Madroma Chicheno.
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SPEAKER_01: Om Tari Tari Tari Tari So, Om Tari Tari Tari So.
2:12:48
SPEAKER_01: He's sitting there with his mala just really
2:12:50
SPEAKER_03: quick, and the truck stops.
2:12:54
SPEAKER_03: And he doesn't move.
2:12:56
SPEAKER_03: Everybody else leaps for solid ground off the truck.
2:13:01
SPEAKER_03: And so everybody gets off the truck and the driver gets out.
2:13:05
SPEAKER_03: Rinpoche doesn't move.
2:13:06
SPEAKER_03: He's sitting there just holding it.
2:13:08
SPEAKER_03: And then they get ropes on it and they get all the big guys to,
2:13:12
SPEAKER_03: you know, roll it around a boulder and hold.
2:13:16
SPEAKER_03: And then it's like, okay, Rinpoche, you can get out.
2:13:19
SPEAKER_03: And then they open the door and he climbs up out.
2:13:22
SPEAKER_03: And they,
2:13:23
SPEAKER_03: when he stopped doing the mantra,
2:13:25
SPEAKER_03: the people could really feel the ropes take up the weight.
2:13:30
SPEAKER_03: And they were able to pull it back onto the road.
2:13:35
SPEAKER_03: Things go off the road a lot in the Himalayas.
2:13:42
SPEAKER_03: They just do.
2:13:44
SPEAKER_03: And it was monsoon time.
2:13:48
SPEAKER_03: Don't travel there in the monsoon unless you're really good at grabbing for a Tara mantra.
2:14:00
SPEAKER_02: Can you do also
2:14:14
SPEAKER_03: the white or
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SPEAKER_03: the green mantra
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SPEAKER_03: for improve your relationship with your children?
2:14:23
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
2:14:23
SPEAKER_03: The green one.
2:14:24
SPEAKER_03: The green one, okay.
2:14:24
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
2:14:25
SPEAKER_03: This white one, to some extent, there might be other versions.
2:14:27
SPEAKER_03: I'd have to look through my different sadhanas.
2:14:31
SPEAKER_03: Thinking of maybe number three, which might be stronger for that.
2:14:41
SPEAKER_03: But the green one does everything.
2:14:45
SPEAKER_03: I mean, anything you can do when you're dressed up fancy,
2:14:48
SPEAKER_03: you can do if you're not dressed up, right?
2:14:51
SPEAKER_03: It's just fun to get dressed up when you're going to go,
2:14:53
SPEAKER_03: you know, and put on horse riding clothes when you're going to go horse riding.
2:14:57
SPEAKER_03: But you could do it in your bathrobe if you had to.
2:15:01
SPEAKER_03: So if you think of it like that, that's an analogy.
2:15:07
SPEAKER_03: Other questions?
2:15:15
SPEAKER_03: That's what I remembered.
2:15:17
SPEAKER_03: I just figured you had a different version.
2:15:19
SPEAKER_00: No, when you went outside to do your sky gazing,
2:15:21
SPEAKER_00: I'd spin to automatic mode and I used the right finger,
2:15:24
SPEAKER_00: and I realized I showed you off.
2:15:26
SPEAKER_00: So it's a thumb at the bottom of the ring finger, and then you're using the ring finger as well.
2:15:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Karmakagu uses this finger,
2:15:34
SPEAKER_03: so it's, it really, a lot of this changes, like the mudras of offering that I did.
2:15:41
SPEAKER_03: I'm doing an old Galupa version,
2:15:43
SPEAKER_03: because they're the first,
2:15:44
SPEAKER_03: that's the first place I got it, and it went in as a habit.
2:15:48
SPEAKER_03: Every so often I tangle it up because I've been taught so many different ways since then.
2:15:52
SPEAKER_03: But it's all about intention, right?
2:15:57
SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
2:15:58
SPEAKER_03: So you could make up your own.
2:15:59
SPEAKER_03: There are tracks or patterns
2:16:01
SPEAKER_03: in the universal unconscious and if you go along with one
2:16:04
SPEAKER_03: of them it works a little bit better and easier.
2:16:07
SPEAKER_03: It's like following a track through the jungle versus having to take a machete and bushwhack it.
2:16:16
SPEAKER_03: So we usually follow one of the known methods, just because it's easier.
2:16:23
SPEAKER_03: Other questions?
2:16:23
SPEAKER_03: Could you
2:16:27
SPEAKER_00: say something
2:16:32
SPEAKER_03: about the meaning of motor?
2:16:33
SPEAKER_03: Sanskrit.
2:16:33
SPEAKER_03: I don't speak Sanskrit.
2:16:43
SPEAKER_03: Although I will just check and see if I recognize the...
2:16:55
SPEAKER_03: I don't recognize the Tibetan.
2:16:58
SPEAKER_03: It's not one of those really complex Sanskrit words that would give me a hint.
2:17:03
SPEAKER_03: Mo, however, is the...
2:17:09
SPEAKER_03: With this spelling, is the...
2:17:13
SPEAKER_03: Female.
2:17:16
SPEAKER_03: Like Nagmo.
2:17:18
SPEAKER_03: A female Nagpa.
2:17:20
SPEAKER_03: Instead of being a Nagpo, it's a Nagmo.
2:17:26
SPEAKER_03: That's about all I've got.
2:17:28
SPEAKER_03: I have Sanskrit, so it could be something else.
2:17:31
SPEAKER_03: Get a scholar.
2:17:33
SPEAKER_03: I'm just an old cave yogi.
2:17:35
SPEAKER_03: I'm no scholar.
2:17:38
SPEAKER_03: Other questions before we close for the evening?
2:17:44
SPEAKER_00: If I have the spelling right, the Sanskrit means release, liberation, freeing, or delivery.
2:17:52
SPEAKER_03: And that would fit with this.
2:17:55
SPEAKER_03: Release, liberate.
2:17:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:18:01
SPEAKER_03: Mo-tah-na.
2:18:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, well thank you,
2:18:05
SPEAKER_03: I didn't know that.
2:18:07
SPEAKER_03: Google.
2:18:08
SPEAKER_03: Google is good.
2:18:11
SPEAKER_03: Of course, they could have gotten it wrong.
2:18:12
SPEAKER_03: You always have to put a little salt on what you find on Google.
2:18:19
SPEAKER_03: So we are complete.
2:18:29
SPEAKER_03: Small gift, because green is the base color of Tara.
2:18:35
SPEAKER_03: These were blessed by my teacher, and I have blessing cords for you.
2:18:41
SPEAKER_03: Now, a couple of things about blessing cords.
2:18:44
SPEAKER_03: You wear them, if you choose, on your arm or your neck, not on your ankle.
2:18:52
SPEAKER_03: It's been known to happen.
2:18:55
SPEAKER_03: And if at some point you decide you no longer want it,
2:18:59
SPEAKER_03: tie it to a branch of a tree above eye level.
2:19:06
SPEAKER_03: Just in the forest, any tree, any forest, rather than throw it in the garbage.
2:19:19
SPEAKER_03: Ah, I didn't mean tie it as a loop.
2:19:23
SPEAKER_03: Just tie it once around the branch and let them dangle.
2:19:27
SPEAKER_03: If a bird wants it, it'll take it.
2:19:30
SPEAKER_03: No, don't leave loops in the forest.
2:19:32
SPEAKER_03: Things do get caught in them.
2:19:40
SPEAKER_03: So could someone give me back my Boompa?
2:19:49
SPEAKER_03: And let's save Pepin Stammeroo.
2:19:54
SPEAKER_03: Pepin Stammeroo.
2:20:08
SPEAKER_03: So those of you who would like to come up for a bonky where I get to hit you
2:20:15
SPEAKER_03: over the head with a bumper and give you a blessing cord,
2:20:21
SPEAKER_03: this is a good time to do that.
2:20:25
SPEAKER_03: I'll come to this side.
2:20:29
SPEAKER_02: Nigel, would you show everybody how to do it?
2:20:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let Nigel go first.
2:20:35
SPEAKER_00: He has a chariot.
2:20:43
SPEAKER_03: Yes, so watch what Nigel does,
2:20:46
SPEAKER_03: and I'll describe it as he comes, and it's a little Tibetan ceremony.
2:20:51
SPEAKER_03: So he's coming,
2:20:52
SPEAKER_03: he's putting his envelope on the table,
2:20:54
SPEAKER_03: and he's offering me the scarf which symbolizes his complete unfuck-up-able,
2:21:01
SPEAKER_03: unmess-up-able innate Buddha nature.
2:21:04
SPEAKER_03: He's giving it to me because it's the best thing he has.
2:21:08
SPEAKER_03: I'm giving it back to him to symbolize that we share it.
2:21:17
SPEAKER_03: And then I'm touching the top of his head with this and pouring a bit in his palm.
2:21:23
SPEAKER_03: And he's drinking it and then wiping it on the top of his head.
2:21:28
SPEAKER_03: And then I'm giving him a blessing cord.
2:21:35
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
2:21:35
SPEAKER_00: So borrow one of these and just pass them on.
2:21:47
SPEAKER_03: And you come on up and make a mosh pit.
2:21:50
SPEAKER_03: You don't have to hold back.
2:21:52
SPEAKER_02: Maybe also for Geertje.
2:21:53
SPEAKER_03: Oh, for my daughter.
2:21:54
SPEAKER_02: Can I have one for my daughter?
2:21:55
SPEAKER_03: Oh, absolutely.
2:21:57
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
2:21:58
SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
2:22:04
SPEAKER_00: Maybe make the line from the back.