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[25/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 23 (Sep 2022) · Lama Lena Teachings

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: You are live.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, y'all.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the continuation of Light of the Garuda.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Before we get started, two or three practical matters requests.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: Does anyone want to house-sit in my house in the Bay Area?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: In January
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: for a week or maybe two, let me know if you're interested by email.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Second of all,
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to figure out who actually is in the Bay Area among everybody out there
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: who are sometimes coming to my teachings.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: If you live in the Bay Area, would you send me an email stating that?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to stick it in a file and then I'll at least know who's local
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: if I do anything in person to send a focused invite out.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: And the third thing is if anybody is selling, how's my sound?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't have my mic on.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: No complaint yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if anyone is selling a secondhand,
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: third generation, Somewhere in the low teens, like
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: 2013, 2012, 2014, Prius.
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  SPEAKER_01: In good condition, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Send me an email.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: My car got totaled.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oops, nobody was hurt.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: Just the car.
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  SPEAKER_01: And since it was pushing a couple of hundred thousand miles and old enough to drink,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's time to replace.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't like new cars, so I'm looking for an older one.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: I do like leaving a low-carbon footprint, so I'm looking for a Prius.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you happen to have one or have a friend who's selling one
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  SPEAKER_01: because they're upgrading, drop me a line.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're somewhere sort of kind of in the Bay Area,
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  SPEAKER_01: Sacramento, Delta, San Jose-ish kind of, Within reason for me to go get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, much appreciated.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the business stuff.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now on to Dharma.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Chukku kunduzong bogombo yi.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Dorji senpa garab dorji dang.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Sheree singe bardu shen lep dee, dee dam abzan ta ta tu sum chi.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Zog chen jupe lamala so lo wahadeb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ergyen pema junele so lo wahadeb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doer jie chang, chie tillo narudang.
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  SPEAKER_01: Marpa Mila Gompo Tatapa,
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  SPEAKER_01: Na Pupadang Pal Dendrupasuk,
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  SPEAKER_01: Kargyu Lama Namla Solowadeb,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Solowadeb,
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  SPEAKER_01: Druchen, Lama Namla, Solo Ahadib.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Kaginwadi, Lama Namla, Solo Ahadib.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shakyah, Lama Namla, Solo Ahadib.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nyandudang, Yundrun, Lama Namla, Solo Ahadib.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Alkondujongdang iyermei paa,
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  SPEAKER_01: Gangarabdurjijintragpaa, Jeti dang nisumei paa,
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  SPEAKER_01: Palavanam ce tentee
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  SPEAKER_01: jong.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we are on song 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe if anyone thinks something different, let me know now.
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  SPEAKER_01: With a quick review of 22, which is interiorization of the mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is your basic root mandala of the Dhyani Buddhas.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Vajrasattva in the east, white in color.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Ratnasambhava in the south, gold in color.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Amitabha in the west, red in color.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Amoghasiddhi in the north, green in color.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we have Herotiana in the center, sky blue in color.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the mandala which shows the outside and the inside simultaneously.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the root mandala from which all other mandalas arrive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those of you practicing Tantra will recognize these archetypes
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  SPEAKER_01: as what is called initiation deities that come and pour the Bumpa
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  SPEAKER_01: into your crown chakra and make you notice you,
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  SPEAKER_01: make you notice,
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  SPEAKER_01: recognize yourself
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  SPEAKER_01: as your Yidam rather than having it dual, duality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Disassociated outside of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This Verrocana of the central direction, blue in color, he is himself a symbol.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all of these,
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  SPEAKER_01: I may be using the pronoun he,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they're non-gendered, which is shown by them together with their consorts.
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  SPEAKER_01: The duality of gender unified, non-binary.
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  SPEAKER_01: So these Buddhas are non-binary even though I may say he and name them rather
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  SPEAKER_01: than name them together with their consorts simply for ease of words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verojana is the reality continuum.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dharmata,
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  SPEAKER_01: Dharmadatu,
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  SPEAKER_01: Chuni, the union of Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya and Dharmakaya
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  SPEAKER_01: as one thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is mind free of movement in Mahamudra the stillness.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the true nature of sloth and depression.
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  SPEAKER_01: When sloth and depression is not squished by liking and disliking, woulda,
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  SPEAKER_01: shoulda,
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  SPEAKER_01: couldas,
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  SPEAKER_01: and all the crap you lay on yourself,
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  SPEAKER_01: when it is allowed to be in its natural state,
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  SPEAKER_01: it is itself the empty, still spaciousness
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  SPEAKER_01: of the dharmata.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vajrasattva in the East is not outside yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the mirror, the unobstructed medium of creative total presence.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the equanimity of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: The clarity of equanimity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Without judging, seeing things as they really are.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is fear and anger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not squished
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  SPEAKER_01: into woulda, shoulda, couldas, but released to take its natural state.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same with Ratna Sambhava.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is also complete satisfaction.
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  SPEAKER_01: It does not evaluate.
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  SPEAKER_01: It does not compare.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the true nature of pride and certainty, the wealth of isness.
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  SPEAKER_01: When miserliness and the desire for stuff,
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  SPEAKER_01: hoarding and all of that,
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  SPEAKER_01: Is released into its natural state from being compressed in the likings
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  SPEAKER_01: and dislikings.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the real Ratna Sambhava.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amitabha, incomparable light opame, is not inside or outside.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is where pleasure and emptiness vanish into the continuum of space.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is where grief,
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  SPEAKER_01: loneliness,
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  SPEAKER_01: and desire are no longer accepted or rejected,
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  SPEAKER_01: grasped or rejected,
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  SPEAKER_01: but are allowed to become their natural state,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is the very innate vitality of the entire universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also known as Gone Beyond Consciousness in Sanskrit Bodhisitta.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amogaciti Green in the North.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also neither outside nor inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the total accomplishment of not doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where what occurs, occurs most naturally as it does.
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  SPEAKER_01: And without your grasping at preferences, returns into its natural state.
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  SPEAKER_01: Comparativeness, jealousy, all of this is liberated by not being constrained.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was 22, a quick review.
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  SPEAKER_01: 23, Exteriorization of the Mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amaho, once again, my best beloved heart sons, listen with rising joy to my Vajra song.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you realize that the five Buddhas are inherent in the mind's nature and
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  SPEAKER_01: in what is known as emotional defilement,
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  SPEAKER_01: the five poisons,
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  SPEAKER_01: then the whole of phenomenal creation And the life therein is a book of instruction
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  SPEAKER_01: and is itself the ultimate mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not by grasping or trying that this occurs.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's by letting go.
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  SPEAKER_01: The parchment of diverse red and white phenomena
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  SPEAKER_01: Sunyata,
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  SPEAKER_01: Tigli,
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  SPEAKER_01: creativity
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  SPEAKER_01: of fire and moonlight,
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  SPEAKER_01: of blood and semen in the physical symbols.
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  SPEAKER_01: The bamboo quill of self-existent primal awareness and total presence
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  SPEAKER_01: in scribes baseless unattached ciphers liberated from beginning creating images
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  SPEAKER_01: to be read in the space of co-emergent appearance and emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was poetic.
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  SPEAKER_01: What they said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was in the complete freedom of not doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where the doing, the doer, the done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where subject, object, and process are not separated.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where the interconnections which think they're alive recognize themselves as nodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dancing,
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  SPEAKER_01: interpenetrating,
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  SPEAKER_01: continuously changing,
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  SPEAKER_01: interacting,
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  SPEAKER_01: taking on bits of each other, giving off bits of themselves, no self, no other.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet the dance continues in this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Without a doer,
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  SPEAKER_01: separate from the doing,
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  SPEAKER_01: separate from what is being done, the occurrence arises freely as it will.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what's being pointed at poetically.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the patterns of life are written
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  SPEAKER_01: euphemistically by the quill of vitality on
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  SPEAKER_01: the parchment of emptiness
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  SPEAKER_01: with the red and white ink of the union of sunyata
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  SPEAKER_01: and bodhicitta.
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  SPEAKER_01: This spontaneously accomplished mandala,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is the entire four dimensions of the microcosmic world systems,
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  SPEAKER_01: is consecrated by the natural sprinkling of rainwater.
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  SPEAKER_01: Its streets and alleyways form the natural lines of its design.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our footprints are the dots of colored powder.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our own bodies of apparent emptiness are the existential mode of the Yidim Buddha deity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our speech of auditory emptiness is Vajra recitation of mantra.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our thought detached and naturally liberated is the Buddha deity's spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all the movements of our limbs are mudra.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once again, very poetic.
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  SPEAKER_01: What it actually said was,
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  SPEAKER_01: in the spontaneously accomplished mandala, where doer, doing and done are unified.
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  SPEAKER_01: And occurrence occurs without anyone causing it to do so,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is the entire four dimensions of the microcosmic world system
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  SPEAKER_01: with depth,
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  SPEAKER_01: a line,
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  SPEAKER_01: A plane, a solid, with duration in time, dancing, moving.
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  SPEAKER_01: The microcosmic world systems are all the atoms and the bits which make up this reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just as we are an atom or a bit which makes up a greater large,
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  SPEAKER_01: not bigger, not greater as in better, greater as in bigger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Consecrated by the natural sprinkling of rainwater,
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  SPEAKER_01: the innate creativity and fertility of life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Its streets and alleyways form the natural lines of its design,
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  SPEAKER_01: the patterns that manifest of mind in mind,
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  SPEAKER_01: appearing outside, never were outside, never were specifically inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: Inside and outside aren't real.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our footprints,
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  SPEAKER_01: our doings,
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  SPEAKER_01: our movements are the dots of colored powder of red and white color written on
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  SPEAKER_01: the parchment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our own bodies are of apparent emptiness,
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  SPEAKER_01: are simply the symbol of the Yidam, as it is, not as you think it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our speech is empty, the true Vajra recitation of mantra beyond mantra, the real mantra.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our thoughts,
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  SPEAKER_01: Detached from our belief in them,
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  SPEAKER_01: and so naturally liberated as they are seen for what they really are,
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  SPEAKER_01: is the Buddha deity's spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: All sentient beings arise as all Buddhas in the fourth time.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what this is pointed at.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the movements of our limbs are the mudra.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the state of gone beyond, thus gone, which is what the word Buddha means.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, it's not a god we worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're still into that, go find a different teacher.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to show you a god.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to take you beyond the gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gone beyond, gone beyond the beyond, so be it, and so the dance is mudra.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Are there questions so far?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is a fairly thick
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  SPEAKER_01: chapter with a lot of symbolic language.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have a few questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: One question is, is there anything that is not twilight speech?
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  SPEAKER_01: As you mean it, no.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all symbols.
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  SPEAKER_01: This very reality,
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  SPEAKER_01: as you describe it to yourself, is simply a symbol of that which is beyond it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're right, it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel I am in the right path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does not grasping mean that I have to let go of my family as well?
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  SPEAKER_00: I do not want to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, that would be shoving away, which
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  SPEAKER_01: is simply the flip side of grasping.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not grasping is recognizing impermanence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your family will change.
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  SPEAKER_01: In your extended family or your family, new babies will be born and elders will die.
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  SPEAKER_01: Change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Accept the change without fighting it because you can't change it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't change the change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop the change.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's a certain kind of acceptance that there will be change and having
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  SPEAKER_01: the courage to love anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, do not reject your family.
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  SPEAKER_01: That would be a push.
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  SPEAKER_01: The trick is not to grab or shove, neither.
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  SPEAKER_01: Enjoy what is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And don't try to change your family.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're pretty set in their ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love them as they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's part of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I watch people, I see all past and future lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this a correct
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  SPEAKER_01: Since I am not inside of you seeing it with you,
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  SPEAKER_01: I am not sure whether you are making up the details
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  SPEAKER_01: and stories about
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  SPEAKER_01: the people you see or whether you are simply resting in the awareness
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  SPEAKER_01: that we are long body beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Best I can give you on that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything else?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you live your attachments?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way the question is worded.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's live your attachments or live with attachments.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't either, so I'm going to ask for clarification.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: A few more words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the questions we have up to this point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, continuing on with this lovely text.
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  SPEAKER_01: Food and drink are offerings of the nature of reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all tzok.
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  SPEAKER_01: This too.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the skull cup of intrinsic reality,
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  SPEAKER_01: the sensuous pleasures are gathered as an offering.
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  SPEAKER_01: But like in a tantric altar,
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  SPEAKER_01: where you have two sets of bowls,
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  SPEAKER_01: one in front and one behind,
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  SPEAKER_01: where you go ahead and you make offerings to the objects of reverence,
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  SPEAKER_01: which should be a stupa, a book, and an image,
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you go into the one behind and going back the other way,
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  SPEAKER_01: like you were standing behind the altar,
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  SPEAKER_01: you make offerings to yourself and all the universe so that it is shown symbolically
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  SPEAKER_01: in the offerings of a higher tantric altar
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  SPEAKER_01: that this is not separated.
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  SPEAKER_01: All phenomenal form stuff
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  SPEAKER_01: is the Buddha deity's body.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you have tantric precepts,
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  SPEAKER_01: not to harm your body because it is the Buddha deity,
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  SPEAKER_01: that includes stuff out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean you can't prune the rosebush for its health.
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  SPEAKER_01: The expressions of all articulated sound is offered music.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing to protect and nothing to be impaired in this natural Samaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here, Samaya translating as relationship, not vow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Samaya, all Tibetan words, are contextual for meaning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shinla can be, oh, he gave me a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: He stuck a power object on my head.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or it can be, There's a lot of shin lap in that object, power.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it can mean blessing or power depending on context of phrase.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same with Samaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: In some phrases, it means vow.
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  SPEAKER_01: In some phrases, it means relationship.
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  SPEAKER_01: A vow is after all a form of relationship.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you take marital vows, They're part of your relationship.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why you should pay some attention to writing them so that they suit the participants.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatsoever the yogin who practices in this manner does,
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  SPEAKER_01: he need not rely upon a path of cause and effect And diligent striving.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Sutrayana, it's all about Gawa and Digpa and understanding and striving to be better.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Tantrayana, Vajrayana,
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all about symbolically transforming Digpa into Geva.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stuck clench into open awareness using symbols.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Dzogchen, which is completion stage and comes after Sutrayana and Tantrayana in most cases.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is simply a matter of letting go.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you let go of shoving as much as you let go of grasping.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just
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  SPEAKER_01: let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not limp.
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  SPEAKER_01: Awake and aware.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you are not at this point relying on the rules of karma.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless,
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  SPEAKER_01: you do not lose your awareness or knowledge of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Dzogchen completion stage, real Dzogchen, Not developmental Zogchen, not Zogchen light.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not a matter of effort and striving because that is itself a constriction.
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  SPEAKER_01: A grasping.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're trying to get somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, Ma, are we there yet?
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: There is no there to that there where.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: Let go.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: Don't shove.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: Release.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: So in this case,
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: the yogin's instructions,
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: the creative stage of meditation, and the Samayas are all naturally fulfilled.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: To attain quickly the great miracle of the ultimate power without striving is
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: the special characteristic of the great perfection, my heart, sons and daughters.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Do not
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously, do not try to fake this.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Do not pretend you have it.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: Keep letting go and wait without hope or fear and without doubt.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: This natural arising will have always been there.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: Capisce?
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: Any questions at this point?
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: Good, because this is a chapter that's going to naturally tangle up for a lot of people.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Most people who practice Zogchen practice Zogchen.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: In this set of teachings,
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: starting with Chapter 1 over the past years and slowly working through to here,
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: we're past that.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you're not, that's okay.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: Take the blessing and go find the chapter you are at and work there.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: If you are in Madrid, the map that goes from Paris to Warsaw will not take you to Warsaw.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: So attempting to fake this or practicing on a higher level than you feel
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: in this very moment
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: is just gonna do yourself a mischief, okay?
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: And now I'm ready for the questions after warning people not to fake it again.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's really important.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, questions.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Can you talk about the interpretation of different realities?
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: If we are in the same space and interpret different things, why is that?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because we think different thoughts.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: Because we have different karma, different sa, nadi, channel patterns.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: So when the winds, the chi, flows through those channels, they create different thoughts.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: And those different thoughts describe different realities.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's physiological based on karma.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: Can't be helped.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: I am at a point in my life when I'm trying to free myself of things.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: The Tibetan practices with the mandala, the chud drum, the altar items all seem excessive.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: Are they necessary?
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Not at all stages.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: For some people, sometimes.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: If they are not necessary to you at the moment,
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: I recommend you invite your sangha over and have a house cooling party.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: Which is one of the reasons I want to know who's in the Bay Area,
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: because I intend to have one of those.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, look at all this stuff.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: All I really need there is a stupa, a book, and an image.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, there's a few teaching tools, but beyond that, not really.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're anywhere in the Bay Area,
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: y'all email me, because there's going to be a house cooling party one of these days.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: Stuff is sticky.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I just digressed on you.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: How do you know if you are faking it?
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: Goodness, I know when I'm faking it.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: How would you know?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't know, then I have no idea how to answer that question.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_01: If you were in Paris and you were pretending to be in Madrid,
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: how on earth would you not notice?
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, try a different question or different words or something
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: because I don't have any sure way for you to know.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: In SOPA.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: The third word of Garibdorji.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: To develop absolute certainty is the third vital point.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you have doubts, keep practicing
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: until the absolute certainty is certain.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: That doesn't mean you won't have thoughts about doubts,
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: but by that time, you really shouldn't need to believe any of them.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Why is the title of Psalm 23 Exteriorization of the Mandala?
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because it is talking about the dance through time and space.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because in the space of clear light, Ocel,
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: transparent light reality,
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: the teachings,
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: the creative stage of meditation,
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_01: which is all the doings,
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Such as chudd and sadhanas and sitting practice and standing practice
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: and anything else that is done by a doer separate from the doing and the done.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: The samayas, the relationships, the vows, Are completely and naturally fulfilled.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing left to be done.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: The key to Zogchen
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: is it knocks the ripe fruit off the tree.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like when you pick olives,
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: you spread a sheet under the olive tree and you take a broomstick and you hit
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: the tree.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: And there's an exact hardness you hit the tree so that all the ripe olives fall down
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: on your sheet and you gather them up and press them into olive oil.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the special characteristic of the great perfection is that
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: the stick strikes this tree with exactly the right force that it doesn't knock down
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: the green olives, which would be a loss, but does knock down all the ripe olives.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's our analogy here.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: To attain quickly the great miracle of the ultimate power without striving is
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: the special characteristic of the great perfection.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: The analogy is picking olives.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: What is mudra?
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_01: Gesture.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: Pointing.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: The pointing out.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: The Four Wongs are called the great mudra, maha mudra in Sanskrit.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_01: When you make offerings,
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: agam padam,
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: pupe dupe
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_01: aloke,
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: The hand gestures are called mudras.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's a symbolic pointing.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: All the pointing is a mudra.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: And when all the movement directly points to innate reality,
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_00: then it's all a mudra.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: Even the wind through the trees.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now the questions are coming.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: If Dzogchen is our main practice,
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: is it okay to do the, quote,
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: lower, unquote, tantric practices simply because we find them fun or beneficial?
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_01: You do not abandon the tantras too soon.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: Unripe olives do not produce good oil.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is really an excellent idea while practicing Dzogchen to practice
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: the tantras along with it.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_01: And even a bit of Sutrayana and reading philosophical texts,
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: no harm for those who don't get caught there.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's a few people I've told to stop reading those.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: Does going back to gum rule out natural sopa?
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_01: You see,
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: there is a practice called rushen in Dzogchen, separating.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_01: Which is all about separating samsara from nirvana or separating doing
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: from not doing or separating moving from stillness.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_01: So
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: in the spontaneous arising non-meditation,
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: if there is even a hair
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Of this is not that.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_01: Then keep doing gone.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Because what you have is this close.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: But it's not a banana.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: Keep going.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: I keep going.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: You can too.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've hit bottom when it wore off too damn many times since I've been with Rinpoche
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: and listened to him laugh at me.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: Rinpoche always looks and wore off.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: Keep going.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: When releasing,
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: how to be sure you're relaxing and not just falling prey
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: of your own karmic tendencies?
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: To fall prey of your own karmic tendencies is to do something and to attempt
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: to influence the outcome.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: Relaxing, it doesn't feel like that.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: It feels like relaxing rather than trying to fix something,
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: acquire something, get something or even somewhere.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: Run yourself a hot bath.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: Climb in without an agenda.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: You're not trying to get clean.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: Don't even try to relax.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: Just kick back.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_01: Pour yourself a glass of wine with that.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_01: See what relaxing actually feels like when you're not Forcing it.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_01: And if you have toddlers,
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: put them somewhere else while you do this with granny or something.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a magnetizing activity in Dzogchen
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: or can we use magnetizing tantric practices to navigate obstacles?
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_01: There are no obstacles in Dzogchen, only sensations
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_01: of the six sense organs.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you are experiencing obstacles,
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_01: definitely you should use tantric practices to deal with them.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_01: Parchi Lamsum, excellent prayer.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_01: Go find it out at...
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: Lutzawa House.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's really good on obstacles.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: I may get around to teaching it sometime.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see when I've got a weekend day off, because it would be a public teaching.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: Give you all the lung and explain what it says.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_01: Nyando, can you help me remember that that's a thing that would be useful to people?
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: The...
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_01: How to remove obstacles, Parchi Lamson.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_00: The prayer.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, obstacle removal.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_01: There are no obstacles in completion stage, Sogchen.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: Only sensations.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, when the 16th Karmapa was on his deathbed, his last words were, Nothing happens.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_00: Is cutting through a thought the same thing as grabbing or pushing it?
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: It depends on what you think cutting through the thought means.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you think that is an action, then yes, it is.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: If you think that is something that happens naturally without any effort
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: on your part, no, it isn't.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: Treksha means cutting through,
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_01: but it is not the action of a entity cutting through a substance to obtain
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_01: the result.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_01: Cutting through,
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: in this instance,
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: Treksha,
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: is the innately natural dissolvement
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_01: of the gluons that stick the thoughts together,
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: making a thought chain discursive.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: So you might be said to cut through the talk in Nam Talk because
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: the mind does not lose its lucidity and ability to be active.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: The dance of
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_01: perception, feeling does not end.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: One's misunderstanding can end.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_01: And one's misunderstanding,
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: marigpa,
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: obscuration,
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_01: thing that keeps you from seeing clearly,
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_01: is made of your opinions about what's going on.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: The stories you tell yourself.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_01: Be careful with this information.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_01: It can be used for gaslighting.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not something for you to convince another person about when you want them
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: to do things your way.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm not teaching you a tool for that.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_01: It has to go inside, not outside.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if you are cutting through something
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_01: to get the result of having cut through
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: that something, you're shoving.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: If you are naturally watching the
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_01: Transparency of the Nam, the thought particles.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_01: And seeing how the talk is not a real thing.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_01: So that it cuts through itself of its own accord without any effort on your part.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_01: Then you're doing it right.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a difference how Zogchin and Mahamudra approach thoughts?
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: There is a recent history of yogis achieving rainbow body with Zogchin,
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: particularly bond practitioners.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not aware of Mahamudra ones achieving that.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: There is no real difference between Mahamudra and Dzogchen at the end.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_01: There are differences in how you enter the practice.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mahamudra begins with sine,
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: with an object,
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_01: learning to focus and unfocus the mind,
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_01: learning to control your orifice of attention.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is a doing.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_01: It moves on to sine without an object.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then Ruchen is done, separating.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: Way early on, before you've even got a glimpse.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: In
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_01: Dzogchen, Ruchen is done after several years of practice, not in the first year or two.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_01: So the approach, how you get into it is different, but not what you are getting into.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: A swimming pool analogy.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you walk in at the shallow end,
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: splashing yourself and getting used to the cold water,
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_01: and if you walk out bone dry and jump off the diving board,
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: you're getting into the same pool.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_01: You just got into it differently.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_01: According to your nature.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_00: No more questions on this topic.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let me go forward then.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now is also a good time to remind people of the Q&A session happening tomorrow.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, those of you who are putting in questions that are not on this topic,
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_01: put them in again tomorrow, where we're doing Q&A, which takes all topics.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_00: Even recipes.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: Or cat buds.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_01: Or cat buds, yes.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, the cat's over there sleeping.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_01: She's not trying to sit on me.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_01: When we practice like this consistently,
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_01: just as clouds vanish and dissolve into the sky,
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_01: The welter of thoughts and concepts of Samsara and Nirvana dissolve into
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_01: the primal ground of being.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_00: You don't make them do that.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_01: You relax.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_01: You let go without shoving.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you leave things be as they are.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_01: While resting in treachery,
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: without grasping treachery,
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: or shoving non-treachery,
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_01: whatever you think is non-treachery,
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_01: and without believing any of those thoughts that assess
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_01: whether you're doing it right or not, or whether we're there yet or not.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_01: After the Dharmakaya is revealed,
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: as the clear light of intrinsic awareness like the radiant,
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_01: unobscured solar mandala,
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_01: we are able to raise the dead and comprehend the mysteries
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_01: and demonstrating various miracles we can direct beings.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_01: There's your camels and elephants.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_01: And yet every word is true
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_01: in the fullness
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: of direct awareness
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_01: of the innate
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_01: and natural clear light,
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_01: which is by its nature unobscured and everywhere.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_01: The fourth dimension
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_01: is not separate from the first three.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_01: Time is not what you think it is.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're not making zombies.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_01: Roll on.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_01: You are able to travel through time and space and realities.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: The miracles come from outside, not inside.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_01: You don't do them for the sake of sentient beings.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_01: You've come to a point where you can simply stand still and allow sentient beings
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_01: to project such things upon you without flinching.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_01: For a miracle to occur, the relationship, the samea, must be there.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_01: The observer of the miracle,
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_01: the doer of the miracle and the whatever deed is being done,
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: like walking through a wall or a stone.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_01: Without the proper relationship going on in that moment, which is called miracle happening.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_01: Not really.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's not something a being does on purpose.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that's why I call it camels and elephants,
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: because by the time they're happening to you, you're not really steering it.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_01: The only one I know who used to be able to do miracles on purpose
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_01: Was a particular teacher who couldn't even walk in the garden without people hanging
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_01: on to him so he didn't vanish.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_01: Constantly somebody had to be holding on to him.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if he was inclined to float off into the sky or dissolve into moats.
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting, Lama.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_00: Apo?
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's a stone with his handprint in he did out a terra mandala for them all.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea how he did that.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, on purpose.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_01: Told them he was going to do it and then did it.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_01: I guess he got them all keyed up enough to perceive it.
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_01: He did make them wait half the night for him to get there.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh well, I wasn't there at the time.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_01: After performing all the qualities of the ten stages and the five paths
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_01: without exception,
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_01: individuals of superior capacity are liberated into the pure ground of being
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_01: in this lifetime.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: Individuals of middling capacity Are liberated at the moment of death.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_01: And those of lesser capacity in the bardo, the after death state.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore remaining forever inseparable from the pure awareness of the three modes
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  SPEAKER_01: of being in the continuum of reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is phrased as an instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are forever inseparable from the pure awareness of the three modes of being in
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  SPEAKER_01: the continuum of reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: How could you be anything other than that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Emanating apparitional bodies to transform all beings in whatever way is required.
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  SPEAKER_01: We work unremittingly to give ultimate meaning to all sentient beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep the significance of these words in your mind and surely the inner sun
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  SPEAKER_01: of happiness will shine upon us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Questions?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is the dissolving into moats part of treacherous?
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  SPEAKER_01: You are moats.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean dissolving into moats as if it's something you're going to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: You are moats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything is moats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go look at the little dots in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_01: At twilight, when it's easier to see, go look at the little dots everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can see them.
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  SPEAKER_01: How could it be anything else?
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Relax, let go,
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  SPEAKER_00: leave be while resting in traction, but is not a resting is just implicit traction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that so?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yup.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, some people keep trying to do traction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doing it hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trying Really,
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  SPEAKER_00: really hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: That won't work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the questions for this section.
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  SPEAKER_01: OK.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep the significance of these words in your mind,
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  SPEAKER_01: and surely the inner sun of happiness will shine upon us.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who has expressed such aspiration in song as the Vigrant Sangdrograndro,
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  SPEAKER_01: the writer of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: Through its virtue may all those many aspirants
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  SPEAKER_01: who have such good fortune swiftly dissolve all the defilements inherent in loss
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  SPEAKER_01: of awareness and in emotional thought in the primal continuum of purity.
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  SPEAKER_01: May they attain the goal of Buddhahood in this lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_01: This song of the vision of cutting through,
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  SPEAKER_01: Treksha,
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  SPEAKER_01: to the clear light of the great perfection,
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  SPEAKER_01: which has the potential of leading us quickly through the stages and paths,
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  SPEAKER_01: is called the flight of the Garuda, Kadanshola.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is based on many scriptural treasures of Zogchen,
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  SPEAKER_01: such as introduction to direct visions of total presence,
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  SPEAKER_01: By Urgen Rinpoche,
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  SPEAKER_01: Seven Treasures,
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  SPEAKER_01: Three Chariots,
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  SPEAKER_01: An Afterward of the Great Perfection,
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  SPEAKER_01: The Three Cycles of Space,
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  SPEAKER_01: The Vast Cloud of Profound Truth,
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  SPEAKER_01: Heart Drop of the Zogchen Dakini,
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  SPEAKER_01: and Buddha in the Palm of the Hand, all by Longchenpa.
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  SPEAKER_01: The secret instruction of my lamas and my own meditation experience decorate its margins.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is written by Jatang Tsogdrug Rangdrul for the sake of many devoted disciples.
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  SPEAKER_01: May it cause boundless advantage to the tradition and to sentient beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since these Vajra songs were composed for all those concerned Buddha mind is all-pervasive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sentient beings' awareness is fragmented.
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  SPEAKER_01: To create openness like the sky is of great advantage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Show just as Sri Sima advises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Identify total presence with the vast space of the sky,
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  SPEAKER_01: infinitely increasing its height and depth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And out of this space which embraces all sentient beings,
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  SPEAKER_01: sing these songs to benefit your meditation and vision.
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  SPEAKER_01: Samaya, Jaja, Sarvamangalam, maintain the commitment.
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  SPEAKER_01: May all beings be happy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so today we have completed Flight of the Garuda.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will be headed towards India next month.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, I will not be opening a new text for you all until I return in December or January.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are complete here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Any final questions?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, someone commented that the Lama you were referring
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  SPEAKER_00: to earlier may be Adzun Paolo Rinpoche?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had forgotten his name because I don't know him personally.
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  SPEAKER_01: I only know tales of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the other question is, by this time or stage, is there no more personality?
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever met a Lama without a personality?
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  SPEAKER_01: One needs a personality to communicate with sentient beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't like it communicating with a
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  SPEAKER_01: nobody in here.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, you get to keep your personality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you explained cutting through,
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  SPEAKER_00: I picture a thought as a glass window and that the cutting through is to see what is
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  SPEAKER_00: on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_01: But glass is transparent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do you need to cut the window?
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  SPEAKER_01: I just took your analogy one step forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: No need to break the window.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's transparent already.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just look through it to see what's on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are the motes the little rings with spots in the center?
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  SPEAKER_00: They always sort of float around.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, those are tiggly.
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  SPEAKER_01: The motes are called rika, Sanskrit term, and there are little tiny dots everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: That everything seems to be made of.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not real.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're an interaction between form and eyeballs.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then so is red.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those were the last of the questions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well then we are good for today
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  SPEAKER_00: and perhaps I'll see you all tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: May all beings be happy.