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[12/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 10 (Apr 2021) · Lama Lena Teachings

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: You are live.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: This morning is a return to Flight of the Garuda.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: As usual,
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  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea what chapter we're on,
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  SPEAKER_01: although I did find a packet of throat lozenges in the text on song number 10.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: So we might be there,
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: but would somebody please confirm through chat
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: who actually remembers what chapter we're on in this itineration?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: .
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  SPEAKER_01: .
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Zogchenjupe, Lamala, Soluwaadeb.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Urginpema, Junila, Soluwaadeb.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Durjichang, Chitilo, Narudang, Marpa, Mila, Guampo, Tsatsapa.
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  SPEAKER_01: Na, Pupadang, Pal, Den, Drupa, Sook.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Kargil Lama Namla Sol Wadheb.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Druchen Lama Namla Sol Wadheb.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: Kargil Lama Namla Sol Wadheb.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Shakyah Lama Namla Soluadeb.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nindu Danyundran Lama Namla Soluadeb.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Nindu Danyundran.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: This more.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, what chapter are we on?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Any word coming in?
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: So the throat lozenges were correct?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So although I believe we are in the middle of 10,
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'll review a bit just to get you back into where we are since we're only doing this
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  SPEAKER_01: about monthly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Emma Ho, only children of my heart, most well beloved.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: All appearances are indeterminate and equivocal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So much so that what some can see, others cannot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this not obvious to you by now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Your experience,
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  SPEAKER_01: what you experience,
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  SPEAKER_01: The very way you see a tree,
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  SPEAKER_01: a house, a man, a dog, those are unique and specific to your own karma.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another person walking right beside you will experience
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  SPEAKER_01: and perceive differently Yes,
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  SPEAKER_01: there is homo sapien karma,
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  SPEAKER_01: which involves certain wavelengths of light,
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  SPEAKER_01: which involves a certain kind of eye organ having a certain kind of retina,
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  SPEAKER_01: having a certain specific number of cones and rods.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a group karma shared by homo sapiens, not by sparrows.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sparrows have many, many, many,
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember the numbers right now, more cones in their retina than you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cones perceive color.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see a little brown sparrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are hundreds of colors in those brown feathers that you don't see, that a sparrow does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Should you come with me in the dream time?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I teach you how to be a sparrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: You will be amazed by the colors you can see in that configuration.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a channel configuration which is based on a karma.
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  SPEAKER_01: What you see is not what everything else sees.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your nose blind, ask any dog.
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  SPEAKER_01: The infinite number of scents and the information provided by them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You haven't a clue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go on, ask your dog.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who was by this way yesterday?
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  SPEAKER_01: And what had they had for breakfast?
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  SPEAKER_01: Your nose blind.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the beautiful poetry of the sonar of the dolphins and the whales.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never perceived it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't unless you come with me in dream time and I show you how to be one
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  SPEAKER_01: of those where you are not trapped in homo sapien configurations
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  SPEAKER_00: unless you believe they're real.
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  SPEAKER_01: The purpose of these Dreamtime exercises are simply to point out
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  SPEAKER_01: to you what this chapter points out to you in words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Further regarding sentient beings of this world,
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  SPEAKER_01: some conceive of the world as earth,
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  SPEAKER_01: some conceive of it as fire,
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  SPEAKER_01: some as wealth, and some as suffering, and some as liquid.
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  SPEAKER_01: The tiny worms that swim through the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not solid for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: An entire universe in a clump of moss for a water bear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does a water bear know there is water?
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  SPEAKER_01: Infinite
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  SPEAKER_01: differences,
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  SPEAKER_01: infinite perceptions in infinite combinations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the intersection of these each thinks it's somebody like you.
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  SPEAKER_01: For a salamander, it's what the Western word for fire elementals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fire is home.
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  SPEAKER_01: For you, it is a heat source to cook your food.
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  SPEAKER_01: To a snowman, it is death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Perceptions are idiosyncratic.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the idiot, idio part of idiosyncratic is the thinking they're real.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a pun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some sentient beings see space as space.
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  SPEAKER_01: For others, it's their home.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lines of force of energy,
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  SPEAKER_01: gravity waves maybe,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what you'd call them in this language,
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  SPEAKER_01: that run between masses of matter throughout the universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those waves can be slid upon
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  SPEAKER_01: to a certain diffuse energy kind of being that lives
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  SPEAKER_01: between the Clumps of burning matter called stars.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what those are called either in this language.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very unique species.
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  SPEAKER_01: They reproduce by division, but they also meet and exchange genoplasm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Causing them to have an aversion rather than a,
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  SPEAKER_01: as we have, a liking for anything that's related.
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  SPEAKER_01: The known is disliked.
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  SPEAKER_01: The unknown is liked.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quite the opposite from Homo sapiens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, now I'm going off on all the interesting things that live out there
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  SPEAKER_01: that see things differently.
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  SPEAKER_01: Be aware.
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  SPEAKER_01: That this is the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you are having trouble believing me, do dream yoga.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come find me and I'll show you.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Can't show you around here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can only talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can't quite talk about it because you haven't got half the words.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: The languages of other beings are quite remarkable.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's a very specific word, sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the language of crows, for an entity that is crazy dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need that word.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure my vocal cords will do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's somewhat like quark.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quark.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's got the quark at the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whereas a simple predator is a kwa.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't pronounce it right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the right vocal structure.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of my Tibetan teachers taught me crow.
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  SPEAKER_01: He had befriended the local group of crows,
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  SPEAKER_01: and they would always tell him who was coming down his path.
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  SPEAKER_01: And occasionally they'd use the word for crazy dangerous, and he would simply not be home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lama Kunzeng Dorji,
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  SPEAKER_01: also known as Karmagyalpo Rinpoche,
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  SPEAKER_01: he's got a lineage and lineage holders up in England somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quite interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was one of my most beloved teachers up in the caves.
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  SPEAKER_01: He taught me some of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: But only what you can teach on this side.
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  SPEAKER_01: Documentably.
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  SPEAKER_01: Back to the text.
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  SPEAKER_01: This goes on in what we have done last time.
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  SPEAKER_01: All about different kinds of beings and how they perceive the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Understand that your particular sense organs with their limitations,
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  SPEAKER_01: the limitations of your nose,
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  SPEAKER_01: the limitations of your tongue and your taste buds,
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  SPEAKER_01: the limitations of your eyes, in what wavelengths you can see with your eyeballs,
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  SPEAKER_00: And what wavelengths you cannot.
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  SPEAKER_01: The limitation of your ears and what sounds you hear.
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  SPEAKER_01: The limitation of your Yi,
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  SPEAKER_01: which increases as you age and become more involved in language because it gets to
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  SPEAKER_01: the point where you can only feel those feelings you can talk about sometimes,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is a great loss.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot more feelings than that.
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  SPEAKER_01: 84,000 subtle differences of the feelings of sentient beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: 51, primarily homo sapien felt feelings
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  SPEAKER_01: with their subtle gradations within.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember we're categorizing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three, Primary feelings,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are categorized as five
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  SPEAKER_01: essential types of feeling,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are categorized as 51 flavors of homo sapien,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are categorized as 84,000
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  SPEAKER_01: feelings of sentient beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they basically drop down to three.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Make it go away.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is irrelevant to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will ignore it.
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  SPEAKER_01: These three, which themselves arise out of the oopsie
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  SPEAKER_01: of dualistic perception.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of thinking you are something other than all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Separate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Individual.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oops.
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  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore, All phenomenal appearance, phenomena, inner and outer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thoughts and feelings categorized as inner, although they aren't really.
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  SPEAKER_01: And stuff
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  SPEAKER_01: experienced through the sense organs categorized as outer, although it isn't really.
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  SPEAKER_01: Perception is what we mean by phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_01: They all have been perceptually defined.
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  SPEAKER_01: See an object?
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  SPEAKER_01: Name an object.
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  SPEAKER_01: Associate it with all the other similar objects you've ever seen.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't not.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you don't have to take it so seriously.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even do this in your dream time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see something that you've never seen before.
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  SPEAKER_01: You quickly define it as a black dog, a one-eyed old woman, me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nah, you know, just perceiving.
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  SPEAKER_01: Many of the examples in this chapter are cultural of the time it was written.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Deviputra asked Sakyamuni, who made Mount Meru the sun and the moon?
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  SPEAKER_01: The Buddha himself answered,
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  SPEAKER_01: In answer to that,
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  SPEAKER_01: surely no creator exists other than the karmic propensities and habitual patterns
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  SPEAKER_01: and conditioning of our thought process.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you have limited yourself by naming.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go for a walk this afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Intrapture.
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  SPEAKER_01: With your awareness wide open perceiving.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't assume anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wear your mask.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maintain logic and practical common sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look both ways before crossing the street.
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  SPEAKER_01: It might not be a car coming towards you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It might be a train, a protector, or an elephant,
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  SPEAKER_01: or something else that you can't even imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter if it hits you, it's gonna smush you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look both ways anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: And act according to your perceptions on safety issues.
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  SPEAKER_01: While not taking a bit of it seriously.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give it a try.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just walking about wherever you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: But don't insist to yourself that the trees are really trees.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, those things that look like trees but aren't trees are unnoticeable to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll do it together this afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also will go for a walk, weather permitting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, Devaputra asked the Buddha,
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  SPEAKER_01: our habitual thought patterns and conditioning may inform the nature of appearance,
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  SPEAKER_01: but from whence comes the solidity and density of Mount Meru,
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  SPEAKER_01: the sun and the moon and so on?
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  SPEAKER_01: What this is asking is, okay, so we may put the tableness in this,
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  SPEAKER_01: but hear that?
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a solidity here regardless of whether I think it's a table or a chair and sit on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where's that come from?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what he's asking.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's using analogies Appropriate to the time in his asking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, this didn't happen in English.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all gone through a couple of languages to reach you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Buddha replied,
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  SPEAKER_01: in Benares there once lived an old woman who visualized herself as a tiger
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  SPEAKER_01: and transformed her human body into the body of a tiger.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Benares,
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  SPEAKER_01: having set eyes upon her, fled and the city was deserted in a very short time.
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  SPEAKER_01: An old woman can affect such a transformative transformation by visualization.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is indeed not probable that appearances have been created the same way when
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  SPEAKER_01: the mind has been conditioned by karmic propensities.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was the Buddha's example, which was local to the time and place.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want one local to now?
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  SPEAKER_01: There was an old man who was famous as a TV actor,
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  SPEAKER_01: and he played the role of contestant for the presidency of the United States,
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  SPEAKER_01: so well claiming to be deserving of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: so well that Many people,
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  SPEAKER_01: half the people nearly of the country believed him and so he became president for
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  SPEAKER_01: which he was utterly unqualified and proceeded to spend four years making
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  SPEAKER_01: a right mess while people went along with his mess even
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  SPEAKER_01: against their better judgment because he believed it so strongly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Found themselves falling in and agreeing with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: He even believed so strongly the story of Q,
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  SPEAKER_01: which kept giving dates that things would happen and they didn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet because of the speaking was such, like a cult they were caught and believed it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even at the end of the four years when he lost the election,
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  SPEAKER_01: he convinced enough people in this country that he had actually won to almost create
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  SPEAKER_01: a revolution.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even now they are changing voting laws so that most people will be unable
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  SPEAKER_01: to vote in the next election.
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  SPEAKER_01: Out of the claim that he actually won and they're believing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: How is this different from an old woman in Benares that thinks she's a tiger?
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  SPEAKER_01: There was an old man who thought he was a president and he thought it so hard and
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  SPEAKER_01: so strongly and visualized it with such intensity of his madness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everybody believed it and followed him.
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  SPEAKER_01: If an old man, a silly old man, a TV actor can do this,
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  SPEAKER_01: what in the universe is possible?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's your local to here and now analogy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus all things are created by mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: In beginning Dzogchen,
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  SPEAKER_01: before you enter the levels of Togel, it is necessary to follow this belief.
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  SPEAKER_01: This statement,
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  SPEAKER_01: which because it's in words,
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  SPEAKER_01: will never ring like a finger that points at a bell, is not exactly accurate.
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  SPEAKER_01: All things are created by mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, it assumes erroneously
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  SPEAKER_01: that there is such a thing as mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all the teachings I give you to go find your mind are based on that assumption.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oops.
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  SPEAKER_01: There isn't one.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's self secret.
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  SPEAKER_01: You aren't going to hear me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore,
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  SPEAKER_01: Hindu sadhus are wont to visualize themselves in a solitary place in order
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  SPEAKER_01: to prevent distraction from the mundane hustle and bustle
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  SPEAKER_01: and diversions around them.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've seen them do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: They'll be sitting on the Korah Path and seeing themselves as alone in the forest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you walk near them with your awareness open enough, you can see the forest too.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the only way to get their attention should you wish to inquire something
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  SPEAKER_01: of them is to step into their imaginary forest and ask there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise they can't see you.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're very hard to notice.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really easy to walk right past them and not even notice someone sitting there.
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  SPEAKER_01: After they have achieved a tangible solitude,
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  SPEAKER_01: even other people can recognize the appearance of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what I just said.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was in here too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once a Hindu yogin is alleged to have visualized a rock in the sky,
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  SPEAKER_01: and after it became as stone impeded passage of the human body,
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's stories about people who visualizing a rock in the doorway
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  SPEAKER_01: of their cave have accidentally walled themselves off and created many problems
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  SPEAKER_01: for themselves of being unable to leave their cave to go piss.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oops.
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  SPEAKER_01: To do this,
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  SPEAKER_01: and it's in the Hindu teachings and it doesn't require a realization,
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  SPEAKER_01: it requires Intense obsession with what you are making, visualizing, doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a certain level of looseness in holding reality,
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  SPEAKER_01: which would be generally considered insanity in Western culture,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you talked about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't talk about this stuff with people who don't want to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That just leads to the men in the white coats.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll never explain yourself successfully.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's what we mean by self secret.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are a certain number of people who thought to be here today, but didn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: For one reason or another, they overslept.
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  SPEAKER_01: They fell asleep.
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  SPEAKER_01: They forgot the date.
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  SPEAKER_01: Self-secret.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since all appearances are modified by conceptualization,
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  SPEAKER_01: they are the mind's self-manifest display and all such manifestations
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  SPEAKER_01: is
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  SPEAKER_01: in reality empty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you wish to realize this not on an intellectual level, but down in your gut?
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  SPEAKER_01: A combination of gum and dream yoga is the fastest way I know of to lead to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: See dream yoga teachings,
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  SPEAKER_01: see Three words of Garabdurji,
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  SPEAKER_01: instructions on the second word, gam, for the details of this, the how-to details.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, it's a matter of noticing it again and again, all day.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like the walk I suggested we take this afternoon, But not just for the walk.
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  SPEAKER_01: Relax into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not tiring if done properly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just be that.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_01: It won't frighten the neighbors.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing to see from outside.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one will notice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just be this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Notice it.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: What are you noticing?
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Tawa.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: In the noticement of Tawa, there is no separation between dream and wake.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's all the display.
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  SPEAKER_01: So to notice that you are dreaming at all times and to notice tawa are not in conflict.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: The real noticing of tawa simply affirms the lack of differentiation
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: between what we call waking and dreaming.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Further,
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Denizens of the short-lived hells conceive of their bodies as doors,
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: pillars, ovens, ropes, and so on.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: And they suffer the pain of this existence.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: In whatever way appearances are conceived to the mind, inevitably in form they manifest.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's not like there's just you.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: There isn't you.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: But there are many.
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  SPEAKER_01: None of them are real as entities.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: All of them are simply nexuses or cross points of energies,
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: energy channels energies throughout time and space,
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: perceiving themselves as entities between a birth and a death.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not really what they are, if you look closely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Any door.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Any twig that you see,
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: a tree, a flower, it might be a sentient being.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: It might be a karmic formation.
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  SPEAKER_01: You cannot say which by the category of perception.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot say that animals are alive and plants are not.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: Some plants are, some plants are not.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: And there are things that you may see that appear to be human beings that aren't.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: There was nobody there.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: But because of your karma,
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: the display of that time needed to see someone there,
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: so you projected what looked like an innocuous human being,
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: but it wasn't really there.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: Happens all the time.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: Things aren't the way you think they are.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: All pleasure and pain of all sentient beings of the six realms is created only
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: by their own minds.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: On account of this,
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: while you may remain absorbed in equanimity Strive for conviction
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  SPEAKER_01: that all things are your own mind's illusory magical display.
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  SPEAKER_01: Insubstantial appearance within empty essence.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: You can't realize this by striving to pretend it's like that.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen people try that and then they go pretend a truck isn't really there
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: and it runs them over.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that actually happened out in Nepal back in the 70s.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: I was there, poor guy.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't kill him, but he was in the hospital a while.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: You have to,
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: by the process,
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: to realize this,
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: to follow this instruction,
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: You need to notice it is so by following the instructions in GOM.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's the how-to of it.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: So where it says here,
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: strive for conviction that this is so, you can't.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: What you have to do is check and see if it's so often enough that conviction arises.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: You can't on purpose convince yourself of something.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you can, but you have to be a little bit nutty or a little bit crazy on the Dharma.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: One time my teacher got pissed off at me, or I don't know what was going on from his side.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: I've never been able to figure him out effectively,
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: but it appeared to me at the time that he got pissed off at me for arguing with him
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: about stuff, which I was a very argumentative little kid.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: And said,
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: if you had a teacher,
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: if I'm your teacher, you should believe me even if I tell you the sky is red.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then he looked me right in the eyes and I am telling you the sky is red.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now get out of here and I don't want to see you again until you believe me.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: Took me a few days of really working at it.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: To notice often enough to be certain that the sky actually is red.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: And if you look behind the blue, there's red there.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's just right behind the blue.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: Look, blue wavelength, ultraviolet wavelength, violet is a purpley.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Past the ultraviolet is red.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: The same red as infrared because it's circular and you just have
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: to extend your eyes further and look past the sky
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: to see the red of it.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that was hard the first time I did that.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: Worked though.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_01: Once I knew the sky was red,
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: I could learn to know all sorts of things that I had not previously noticed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really is red.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: Go look.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: And for those of you who truly believe I'm your teacher, you need to believe that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go find it.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: Wait for a clear day if it's cloudy where you are.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to see the red in a cloudy day.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: You just see the white of the clouds.
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  SPEAKER_01: The red is behind the blue.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: There's your hint.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_01: Further,
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: it is said in the scriptures that the three dimensions of microcosmic world systems
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: of suffering beings exist in a single speck of pollen on a pistol of a lotus that
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: the saint mountain lake Muni Himvarasara holds in his hand.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, macro and micro are directions you can journey in in the dream time.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you can go bigger,
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: so bigger,
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: that you come to the next universe up Where the entire multiverse
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: that we normally live in,
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: including all of its galaxies and local groups and still points and everything else,
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: the nebulas, all of it, exist within.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: Not as, but within.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because there are others in there too.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_01: A single grain of pollen.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: On the stamen of the Lotus in the hands of a saint in the macroverse.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so on in the direction of smaller too.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: Time changes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Smaller is generally faster.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you can spend an eon in the smaller direction and come back here after a few minutes.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: But you can spend only an instant in the bigger direction and come back here after a few hours.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: Time runs differently according to size out there.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because after all, it is called the time-space continuum.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: They're interwoven and interpenetrating together and utterly dependent on each other.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_01: Am I getting through to you guys?
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: There is no reality other than the one you're making up.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't like it,
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: make a different one.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: Come share mine.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's called Dharma.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: The Buddha made it up.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: Are there questions out there?
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_01: I need to know if you're following me.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm giving you a lot of examples of a chapter that Westerners often have a lot
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: of trouble with because of the nature of the analogies in it being somewhat out
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: of date.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: Nyando, could you have a look and see if anybody is asking anything?
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: If dream yoga is not available to me yet,
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: what is the method to work with perceptions in addition to gong?
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: Just gong.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: Why is dream yoga not available to you yet?
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to be an advanced practitioner.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, I learned it when I was three the first time.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: My daddy taught me.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: So, not quite sure how you perceive it as unavailable,
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: but perhaps you are uncomfortable with it and therefore perceive it that way,
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: which is okay.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_01: Just do gone.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: Anything else?
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_00: Not very much yet.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: I personally wanted to hear a bit more, go into a little bit more detail about self-secrecy.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_00: Is that something that's tied up with karma?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_01: If you have a group of people that receive a teaching over a couple of hours,
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: no one actually is paying attention to every single word for two hours.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't happen.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: You get distracted.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_01: You wander off thinking about something that was said, miss the next thing.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's how self-secrecy manifests.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_01: You miss the bit that isn't for you.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: You catch the bit that is.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: You could yell the excellent tenants of Zogchen with a bullhorn in the main park around here.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: And you would get not a single enlightened being out of it.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: They just think you were nuts.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_01: Wander off, not interested.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_01: All the different reasons they will explain to themselves why it's not going in.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: It will go in when it can go in.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: And not before.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: Self secret.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's not up to me to keep it secret.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_01: Look guys, Dzogchen is about the reality of your own true nature.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: How could I hold a man's own nature secret from him?
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: That wouldn't be proper.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's not up to me to keep it secret.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: It will be understood and heard by those who are ripe.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_01: They have the karma to be present and the karma to be interested.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: I have one student, dear love, who I often saw in person.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: And every time we got to certain teachings, he'd fall asleep.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I wouldn't let people wake him up because he needed not to hear those.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: Every time, hit that subject.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was really quite amusing.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_01: Self secret.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_01: Has anything else come through or shall I return to the text?
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: We need a couple more minutes for some questions to filter over from the YouTube side.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, yes.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: Here's another question.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_00: Give me a moment.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: My spiritual thinking has been fairly dry as of late,
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_00: so this is putting me back in touch with something else.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_00: However, I'm confused about the path to take.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's easy.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: Gom.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh well, it's self-secret.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: The path is Gom, the second word of Garobdorji.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_01: All you have to do is what is called,
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_01: a term I've heard by Lama Candice, which I really like, is short moments.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_01: I've always called it brief glances, because I'm visual.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_01: Which works with Tibetans who are also predominantly visual culturally.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_01: So what it is is very simple.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_01: Having been introduced to Tawa,
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_01: you notice Tawa again and again all day.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_01: The quote from Garab Dorji,
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_01: and this is in the teachings of the three words that strike the heart
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: by Garab Dorji.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: At all times and in all circumstances, notice the already known Dharmakaya nature of mind.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_01: You will excuse me for not having exact English words for things like Dharmakaya and Tawa.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_01: There aren't.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_01: So you're going to have to learn a new word.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: Tawa is the infinite openness of awareness that is the natural state
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: when not obscured by obsessive compulsive thinking
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: and obsessive compulsive paying attention to what you're thinking,
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_01: which is the way most people live all the time.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: So instead of paying attention to what you're thinking,
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: You pay attention to where the thoughts be happening,
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_01: which is an ineffable,
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: indescribable,
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_01: open infinity,
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_01: which we sometimes call mind or real mind, semny, not to mind.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's a different ny.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing there.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: No thing there.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_01: But it's not a big dead old nothing.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: Vital and alive.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: Aware and awake.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: Lucid.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_01: All of these words are symbolized by the phrase osel, clear light, transparent light.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_01: Not with the eyeballs.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: Light as a symbol of energy, energy as a symbol of vitality, vitality as a symbol of awareness.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is the awareness which permits the liveliness of the play of the Dharmakaya,
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_01: Chukurupa, also called
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: That very awareness is itself Sambhogakaya, which manifests as symbols.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_01: This is Tawa.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_01: Notice it again and again at all times and on all occasions,
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_01: while walking and talking, while getting up and sitting down.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: All the time you're doing things while you do them.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_01: Notice this.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_01: This is the practice of gom,
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: which is sometimes translated as meditation,
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_01: but in this context refers to a specific meditation called quick glances.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_01: You are this, not I'm here and I'm looking at it.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_01: Your very own awareness,
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_01: the seer, you, what's looking out from behind your own eyes, that's Sambhogakaya.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's awareness.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_01: That is itself the clear light, the inherent vitality of the openness.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: This is not something you construct out of words that you think about.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's something you relax into by not thinking about things which distract you from it.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_01: Or, if you can't stop thinking,
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: and some people can't because they just can't, thoughts are transparent.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_01: You just look through them at the where rather than the what.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now put your hand here.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_01: Look at me through your fingers.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_01: You see me quite clearly.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: Look at your fingerprints.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_01: Now you don't see me quite clearly.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_01: Look at me through your fingers.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: Now you do.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do you see depth perception?
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_01: You can see right through your thoughts at nature of mind if you don't focus on
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_01: the damn fingerprints.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, sorry, thoughts.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's an analogy.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how you do it.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's very simple.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_01: You just have to actually do it rather than just kind of think about doing it soon.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_01: Soon ain't never going to happen.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do it now.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this very now, not when we're done talking.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, this now.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's always now.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_01: You got nothing but now, so you gotta check it out now.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: Besides, I'm making it easy for you.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm shouting.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: Utterly simple.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_01: Totally open.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: Blissfully aware.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: Playful in its nature.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_01: The clear light sparkles.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: Chukuroba.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_01: Anybody come up with any more questions?
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just a short one.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: Is this describing a taste of heaven?
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_01: Heaven is where you get into if you have a meditative accident and die while maintaining that.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_01: You end up being born with lots of powers and very long life and all sorts
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_01: of delightful sensory pleasures and it lasts a really long time and then you die.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's heaven.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is not heaven.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: This is beyond the beyond.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: So if we see the true nature of mind in this life, what happens when we die?
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_01: Famous last words of the 16th Karmapa.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing happens.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't change anything.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_00: What is the importance of sadhana practice related to this?
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Is it important?
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: For many people, yes, because it says what I just said in words in symbols.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: And you dance the symbols by doing the sadhana.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: And this tells you what I just told your conscious mind.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_01: It tells your unconscious mind.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: So they both end up going together, which is what's necessary.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: You can't talk logic to your subconscious.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_01: However, it hears symbols really well, and that's what sadhanas are.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_01: Everything I'm telling you in words from this text In every Mahanatarasadana
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_01: that you do, Yidam level, the symbols say exactly this.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's just that the language of Tantra is different.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's not English.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_01: And even when the images are translated into English, the communication is in Tantra.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_01: Symbols.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: Sadhana is very important.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: If you can't knock it loose directly, hit it with a sadhana.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_01: That'll do it.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's very effective.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: I perceive in my dreams that I am thinking, but I can't look through it.
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have a method that would help to relax looking behind those thoughts or
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_00: beyond those thoughts?
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: Well, how are you doing when you're awake with that?
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_01: And if the answer is fine, then I would say do a sadhana in your dreams.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_01: You're going to have to tell your unconscious how.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_01: We got another question coming?
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_00: Is it possible that if people don't get the symbolic language,
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_00: the sadhana is just further conditioning?
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_01: But you're a homo sapien.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_01: You hold the necessary patterns to hear that language.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_01: Why would you not get it?
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_01: You're not supposed to get it in the way, understand it, conscious mind.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_01: It patterns the channels in the subconscious.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to get it, as in understand it.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: You just have to do it.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: What was the second half of that question?
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_00: Is the sadhana just further conditioning?
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_01: You are so conditioned that you're going to have to condition a door into it.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: So in that way, yes, but it'll work.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_01: All experience conditions you.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_01: Sitting here is further conditioning.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_01: You are simply an interconnection of conditioning.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_01: If you take away all the conditioning, there's nobody there.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_01: Not wanting to add more conditioning is pointless when the not adding
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_01: of conditioning conditions you.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_01: Not doing creates karma.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_01: No, let me say this better.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_01: Avoiding doing something creates just as much karma as doing it, but it's a different karma.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_01: Not doing,
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  SPEAKER_01: when you put a dash between those two words,
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: not dash doing, describes
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_01: sopa, the third word of Garabdurji.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_01: And is very difficult to enter into for most people who spend their lives doing things.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_01: We have an entire retreat where we try to get you to enter it by accident,
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_01: mostly by overwhelming your doing.
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's not one I teach online.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's in person.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_01: It will end up on the schedule when I can travel again and people are vaccinated
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: and it's safe to do it.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_01: So don't be worrying that something's going to just add to the conditioning.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_01: Avoiding that something is just going to add to the conditioning the same.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_00: I just had it in front of me.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: Earlier you referred to how a plant may or may not be an entity.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_00: Can a person you know well be at one moment an entity and not an entity at another moment?
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_01: No, it doesn't work like that.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, you might see from a distance something you think is that person,
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_01: but when you get close, you discover that they're gone.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_01: And that might have been your own karmic projection rather than that person.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_01: But interactively, no.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot think of any circumstances in which that would happen.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not how the karma of that works.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: Unless you suffer from schizophrenia.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I can see an instance where someone is schizophrenic and hallucinating.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I can also see an influence under the possibility,
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_01: under the influence of a certain drug where one might Perceive a hallucination of
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_01: a person you knew well, but it would not actually be the person.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_01: But that would require either a certain very specific and dangerous to work
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_01: with power plant that I'm not going to go into the details of,
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_01: at least somebody decide to try it.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or schizophrenia, full hallucinatory schizophrenia.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_01: Other than those two circumstances, I can't think of an instance where that would happen.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_00: You also mentioned that you will explain why we forgot who we really are.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_00: Would you like to add to that comment?
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let me try to remember what the hell I meant by that.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_01: As we get close to open awareness and to settling into that and letting go of
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_01: the illusions that we normally maintain,
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_01: there is a discomfort that sometimes arises.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_01: Due to that discomfort, we generally will grab for an entertainment.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: Those entertainments are often one of our well-loved delusions.
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_01: Why we do that?
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_01: Karma.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_01: Not quite ready to let go all the way yet.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_01: Don't thwap yourself about the noggin for it.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_01: Just go, oops, and keep walking.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_01: I've run into that one multiple times.
• 1:04:42
  SPEAKER_01: So will you probably.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_01: Happens.
• 1:04:55
  SPEAKER_01: Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep walking.
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's like falling off a horse.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_01: First you catch the horse, then you get back on.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_01: I
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: got it in front of me.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_00: Bear with me a minute.
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm going to take this next one and then I'm going to go back to the text.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_00: If you are philosophically inclined, can Majumika be a support for the noticing of Gong?
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_01: Damn if I know.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_01: In my experience, no, and I am philosophically inclined.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_01: I found Madhya Mika to be useful until I got the teachings of Gom and then
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_01: to be counterproductive and need to be set down.
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_01: But that's my personal experience of this path according to my own personal karma
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_01: and your experience may differ.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_01: I suggest you ask an expert on Madhyamika that question,
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_01: since I was never sufficiently an expert there.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_01: So what you want is to find a Geshe
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_01: who holds both Galugpa,
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_01: which is Madhyamika, and either Nyingma or Bonn.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_01: That means someone who has studied to its full extent Majamika and followed the path
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_01: of Gam, of Garabdurji.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_01: I would suggest asking such a person.
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_01: They may have a different answer than me because I can only speak
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_01: from personal experience and found it actually hinderful for me.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of those distractions that you grab back on because you don't want to really see it.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_01: For me, those entertainments I was talking about in lieu of why we forget,
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_01: why we choose to forget.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, it was not.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_01: Best answer I can give you.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_01: Please ask other llamas the same question.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because I have no idea if it will be for you.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know who's asking the question.
• 1:07:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's getting relayed to me through typed in rather than in Zoom.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_01: And let me go back to the text for a while and then I'm going to take some more questions.
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_00: Eh, glasses time.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_01: I just noticed the text was being fuzzy.
• 1:08:28
  SPEAKER_01: The scriptures also assert that when the Yogan adept on the path
• 1:08:34
  SPEAKER_01: of immediate crossing, I think that's Treksha.
• 1:08:40
  SPEAKER_01: No, immediate crossing is Togyal.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_01: Has fully potentiated his vision of reality as total presence.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_01: He sees boundless Buddha fields and also boundless fields of residents
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_01: of sentient beings of the six types.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_01: In each and every pore of his body into each of the six realms,
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_01: he projects emanations to transform the different beings.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_01: And the ultimate purpose of all those beings is served as in a dream.
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is a description of rainbow body and immediate crossing is togyal.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_01: So when a yogi is adept at togyal
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_01: and has allowed the display to complete itself,
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that he's fully potentiated his vision as total presence and all time,
• 1:09:44
  SPEAKER_01: every here and all space,
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_01: all time and space and every here and now is simultaneously aware in awareness.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is what the scripture says about how it feels to be rainbow bodied.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_01: No matter how long the finger points at the bell.
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, the bell's over there.
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_01: No matter how long the finger points at the bell, it will never ring.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_01: So much for descriptions, even scriptural ones.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_01: In such ways,
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_01: all experience of samsara and nirvana Is the natural spontaneous manifestation
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_01: of one's mind.
• 1:10:43
  SPEAKER_01: And the ground of this spontaneous display is emptiness.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_01: You must cultivate and sustain conviction in the dimensions of emptiness
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_01: and radiance, free from all attachment to it.
• 1:11:03
  SPEAKER_01: How shall I cultivate it?
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_01: By returning my attention again and again
• 1:11:12
  SPEAKER_01: to this which I have already noticed.
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_01: To re-notice
• 1:11:21
  SPEAKER_01: repeatedly in all times and all in circumstances.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_01: This causes the conviction which is SOPA
• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_01: to occur naturally.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is the how-to.
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_01: And don't grab it.
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_01: So when you're doing the brief glances,
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_01: and you glance at Dharmakaya nature of mind with your attention,
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_01: not your eyeballs,
• 1:12:01
  SPEAKER_01: you simply look past the fingerprints of your thoughts.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Not the where they be occurring.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_01: This.
• 1:12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Repeatedly.
• 1:12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Until a certainty occurs naturally.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_01: To develop absolute certainty is the third vital point.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Quote from Garab Durji.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_01: How do you develop certainty?
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Through experience.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_01: How do you create the experience?
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: By repeatedly checking at all times and in all circumstances whether your mind is still there.
• 1:13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Or if perhaps you've lost it somewhere.
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm referring to real mind, big mind.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Tawa.
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Tuni.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore,
• 1:13:24
  SPEAKER_01: it is said that in a single speck of dust,
• 1:13:29
  SPEAKER_01: There are as many Buddha fields of infinite dimension and also innumerable realms
• 1:13:35
  SPEAKER_01: of sentient beings of the six types, as there are motes of dust on earth.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_01: The victorious Buddhas have said that none of these Buddha fields and realms
• 1:13:50
  SPEAKER_01: of sentient beings intermingle, affect each other, or produce any ill omen.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_01: Even though all phenomena is connected,
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_01: the connection between the karma arising in a moat of dust and
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_01: the karma around here has only the weight of the dust.
• 1:14:28
  SPEAKER_01: So there is not a great deal of interaction between microcosm and macrocosm,
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_01: just as there's not a great deal of interaction between our world
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_01: and a world in
• 1:14:49
  SPEAKER_01: a galaxy which is a member of a different local group far,
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_01: far away and long, long ago.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Not that much interaction.
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Do you wish to change reality for the better?
• 1:15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Write the story.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_01: My teacher, Wang Dor Rinpoche, always said that Jean Roddenberry was a great bodhisattva.
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_01: For having created IDIC,
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_01: Infinite Diversity and Infinite Combination,
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_01: which is really the RIME philosophy taken to its extent.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_01: For having created the
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_01: dream of harmony between species
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: as well as supermarket doors
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_01: and cell phones.
• 1:16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Spin the dream.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_01: Our idiot ex-chief
• 1:16:17
  SPEAKER_01: was a damn good dreamer.
• 1:16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Not good as in morally good, good as in skillful.
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_01: He was a TV actor, a fictional character.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's how you spin a dream.
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, guys, you do realize I'm not real.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_01: I am a fictional character you've created called Lama Lena.
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_01: There is a cartoon character in a parallel universe.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this is real.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_01: I found it by Google.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_01: Created by a woman named Lena called Lama.
• 1:17:07
  SPEAKER_01: So it comes up when you Google Lama Lena.
• 1:17:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'd never Googled myself, so I got curious.
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting.
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Go check it out.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_01: I really like the cartoon character.
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's me.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_01: I think I'll keep it.
• 1:17:27
  SPEAKER_01: Go on, go Google Lama Lena and follow it to the cartoon.
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_01: Digressing, but he gotta do that a little bit.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise he get all serious.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_01: It would be a shame to be a serious fictional character now, wouldn't it?
• 1:18:02
  SPEAKER_01: And again,
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_01: people say that in the stomach of every insect there is an infinite number of hives
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_01: of microscopic insects.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about a biome within a biome.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_01: People also believe that in the reaches of space there are infinite number of cities.
• 1:18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Constructed upside down and likewise innumerable other cities built on their side,
• 1:18:31
  SPEAKER_01: right side up and sideways.
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_01: Japan, Australia.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Hey guys, if you're in Australia, I'm upside down in California.
• 1:18:49
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're over in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, I'm sideways.
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe now I'm right side up for you.
• 1:19:05
  SPEAKER_01: Consider this.
• 1:19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Up and down are not real.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is the chapter that Rinpoche hated teaching.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_01: He said nobody was ever going to understand this.
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_01: It just wasn't going to go in.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody could understand how a city could be sideways to another city.
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Not a problem for me.
• 1:19:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've been around the world.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_01: I use airplanes.
• 1:19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, he thought the bit about the old woman turning into the tiger was easy to understand.
• 1:19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Culture.
• 1:19:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you would question who made these cities in this way,
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_01: the answer given by the victorious Buddhas is that they were all conceived in
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_01: the minds of sentient beings who perceived them.
• 1:20:04
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're living in Perth, you think you're living in Perth.
• 1:20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's your karma to think that.
• 1:20:19
  SPEAKER_01: And if you dream you're living in Perth,
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_01: you dream you're living in Perth because it's your karma to dream that.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_01: And there really isn't all that much difference.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_01: You must understand the nature of mind from the beginning is like space and
• 1:20:45
  SPEAKER_01: that all experience is also.
• 1:20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Necessarily is like space.
• 1:20:54
  SPEAKER_01: All relative visual and auditory experience is only the natural
• 1:20:59
  SPEAKER_01: and spontaneous manifestation of mind itself.
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_01: You are making it up.
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Your reality that you believe in so deeply as real That you have been traumatized by it.
• 1:21:23
  SPEAKER_00: You made it up.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_01: You want to get free of your PTSD?
• 1:21:37
  SPEAKER_01: Come to realize this on a gut level and let those channel cricks unravel.
• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_01: Although indeed there are changes in the mind stream at death,
• 1:22:02
  SPEAKER_01: it is the mind's projection that change.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_01: There is no external change.
• 1:22:09
  SPEAKER_01: Remember my answer?
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_01: So what happens when you die?
• 1:22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 1:22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Your perception changes and you perceive yourself dying.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing happens.
• 1:22:27
  SPEAKER_01: So there's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to regret.
• 1:22:36
  SPEAKER_01: You're always dying.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_01: The you of now is not the you of 10 minutes ago.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_01: You changed.
• 1:22:51
  SPEAKER_01: The little death and bardo between each moment The bigger death and bardo
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_01: as you fall asleep and move from dream to dream,
• 1:23:01
  SPEAKER_01: the bardo of the dream, and the bardo between death and birth.
• 1:23:11
  SPEAKER_01: They're all the same bardo.
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Since all experience is the manifestation of mind,
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_01: All manifest appearance is baseless and empty.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Sustain the experience of the state of total presence where there is no duality
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_01: between radiance and emptiness.
• 1:23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, radiance is the vitality of awareness, the awakeness of it.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's innate lucidity, ability to think.
• 1:23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Which is awareness, ability to feel, ability to perceive.
• 1:23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Not the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
• 1:23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Simply the ability to have them.
• 1:24:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's the radiance.
• 1:24:02
  SPEAKER_01: And there is no duality between this ability and the emptiness which has, is this ability.
• 1:24:12
  SPEAKER_01: They are the same thing.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_01: The ability is empty in nature.
• 1:24:20
  SPEAKER_01: Where there is luminous appearance without substance like the reflection of the moon in water.
• 1:24:32
  SPEAKER_01: All visual appearances, everything that you see are spontaneous manifestations of mind.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_01: The chalice,
• 1:24:41
  SPEAKER_01: the inert phenomena of the world that form a receptacle is the mind,
• 1:24:48
  SPEAKER_01: the elixir,
• 1:24:50
  SPEAKER_01: The animate existence of the six types of sentient beings in the world is also
• 1:24:55
  SPEAKER_01: the mind.
• 1:24:57
  SPEAKER_01: The blissful phenomena of gods and men of the upper realms,
• 1:25:01
  SPEAKER_01: the painful phenomena of the lower realms are mind.
• 1:25:07
  SPEAKER_01: The loss of awareness and the passion that manifests as the five poisons are mind.
• 1:25:15
  SPEAKER_01: The noumena of total presence and primal awareness,
• 1:25:20
  SPEAKER_01: self-existent and spontaneously arisen are mined.
• 1:25:26
  SPEAKER_01: The manifestations of negative thought process created by the cyclical mental habits
• 1:25:32
  SPEAKER_01: and patterns that potentiate the transmigratory tendencies are mined.
• 1:25:45
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand this?
• 1:25:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's using big words.
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_01: Your mental habit patterns that take you from life to life and experience
• 1:25:57
  SPEAKER_01: to experience, it's mind.
• 1:26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Your channel body is your mind.
• 1:26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Not made of matter.
• 1:26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Not constrained by form.
• 1:26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Only constrained by your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, let go of them.
• 1:26:25
  SPEAKER_01: And be free of constraint.
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_01: The manifestations of positive thought patterns, the Buddha fields are also mind.
• 1:26:41
  SPEAKER_01: The phenomena of obstacles, Erected by hostile forces, spirits, demons, mind too.
• 1:26:50
  SPEAKER_01: All your ghosties you're talking to, they're all in your mind, just like your neighbors are.
• 1:27:01
  SPEAKER_01: They may be someone in their own minds, but who you perceive is in your mind.
• 1:27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Who they perceive in their own minds,
• 1:27:10
  SPEAKER_01: their own fictional character, you'd have to ask them about.
• 1:27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Fully manifest affinity and spiritual powers are mind.
• 1:27:26
  SPEAKER_01: Magic is mind.
• 1:27:30
  SPEAKER_01: The manifest diversity of discursive thought is mind.
• 1:27:35
  SPEAKER_01: The phenomena Occurrence of one-pointed thoughtlessness is mind.
• 1:27:46
  SPEAKER_01: The phenomena of apparent concrete entities with color and shape and other attributes.
• 1:27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Mind.
• 1:28:01
  SPEAKER_01: That which is indeterminate and without specific characters.
• 1:28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Mind.
• 1:28:11
  SPEAKER_01: Phenomena in which there is no duality of unity and multiplicity.
• 1:28:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's mind.
• 1:28:24
  SPEAKER_01: Phenomena that cannot be established in any way as either existent or non-existent.
• 1:28:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's mind.
• 1:28:36
  SPEAKER_01: Madhyamika philosophy is not real.
• 1:28:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's in your mind.
• 1:28:47
  SPEAKER_01: And the only use I've found for it is like all other kinds of thoughts
• 1:28:51
  SPEAKER_01: and things found in the mind, to simply follow it home to find the mind.
• 1:29:00
  SPEAKER_01: No different than thinking about pickles.
• 1:29:13
  SPEAKER_01: There is no nominal or phenomenal manifestation whatsoever that is not mind.
• 1:29:21
  SPEAKER_01: The mind is like an artist.
• 1:29:25
  SPEAKER_01: The body is created by mind as are all the many worlds existing in
• 1:29:30
  SPEAKER_01: the three dimensions of microcosmic and macrocosmic world systems.
• 1:29:37
  SPEAKER_01: All of them are also drawn by mind.
• 1:29:42
  SPEAKER_01: All beings possess this puriel mind and are seduced and inveigled by
• 1:29:48
  SPEAKER_01: the pictures drawn by their thought process.
• 1:29:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so they go grabbing at some of them and running away from other bits.
• 1:29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oops.
• 1:30:06
  SPEAKER_01: In Majumeka,
• 1:30:10
  SPEAKER_01: there is a debate about whether there is one reality or two realities.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_01: The debate basically Has,
• 1:30:23
  SPEAKER_01: and different lamas have different belief systems within this debate,
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_01: has to do with whether there is a real reality and whether or not there is
• 1:30:38
  SPEAKER_01: a real relative reality in which we exist.
• 1:30:44
  SPEAKER_01: And the debate says that there must be a real relative reality because
• 1:30:48
  SPEAKER_01: if you step out in traffic, you get run over.
• 1:30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Shared experience.
• 1:30:58
  SPEAKER_01: This debate goes on.
• 1:31:00
  SPEAKER_01: I remember talking about it with my first teacher, my refuge Lama, Lama Tukdineshi.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_01: But he pretty much said,
• 1:31:09
  SPEAKER_01: if there is a relative reality,
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_01: a real relative reality, no sentient being has ever seen it.
• 1:31:19
  SPEAKER_01: One of the nature of a true relative reality is that it is only actually perceivable
• 1:31:24
  SPEAKER_01: by a Buddha who no longer has obscurations which distort that perception.
• 1:31:31
  SPEAKER_01: Since no one has ever seen it, and no one ever will see it,
• 1:31:39
  SPEAKER_01: who cares if it's there or not?
• 1:31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of ended the discussion there.
• 1:31:46
  SPEAKER_01: He walked in on a couple of students debating it.
• 1:31:55
  SPEAKER_01: Thus it is of crucial importance to cultivate absolute conviction
• 1:32:02
  SPEAKER_01: that all things are the illusory magical display of the mind.
• 1:32:10
  SPEAKER_01: How do you do that?
• 1:32:13
  SPEAKER_01: Gom.
• 1:32:20
  SPEAKER_01: What is that conviction?
• 1:32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Sopa.
• 1:32:31
  SPEAKER_01: Such is my introduction,
• 1:32:34
  SPEAKER_01: initiating recognition of mental projections,
• 1:32:38
  SPEAKER_01: concepts of dualistic thought process as mind.
• 1:32:46
  SPEAKER_01: Thus complete song 10,
• 1:32:48
  SPEAKER_01: which is a big enough and intense enough song that I'm not going to try to add in.
• 1:32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Song 11 today.
• 1:33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Ask me questions if there is something you have not understood.
• 1:33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Even though I tell you that it's all mined,
• 1:33:11
  SPEAKER_01: you should accept my words like buying gold in the Banaras Bazaar.
• 1:33:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, madam, pure gold.
• 1:33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Go check it out for yourself.
• 1:33:36
  SPEAKER_01: Don't just believe me.
• 1:33:38
  SPEAKER_01: Except if you think you're my student, you're supposed to go believe that the sky is red.
• 1:33:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's good for you.
• 1:33:46
  SPEAKER_01: We got any questions now?
• 1:33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a couple of practical questions.
• 1:33:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:33:51
  SPEAKER_00: We like those.
• 1:33:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:33:53
  SPEAKER_00: I forget to take small glances at Tawa outside my formal practice.
• 1:33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a good way to remember looking more often throughout the day?
• 1:34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:34:06
  SPEAKER_01: Find an article of jewelry that will bother you.
• 1:34:14
  SPEAKER_01: A ring that is large enough and which you are unaccustomed to wearing so that it'll bother you.
• 1:34:20
  SPEAKER_01: A bunch of clanky bangles.
• 1:34:23
  SPEAKER_01: If you normally don't wear such.
• 1:34:27
  SPEAKER_01: An earring that's too long and sort of gets caught on stuff.
• 1:34:32
  SPEAKER_01: Or take one of those little dorgies if you have one from me.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Or some other little dharmic dilly bob.
• 1:34:39
  SPEAKER_01: And hang it here from your glasses so that it hits your face and bugs you.
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_01: And every time it bugs you, check and see if your mind is still there.
• 1:34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Once you have developed the habit,
• 1:34:54
  SPEAKER_01: the article of clothing or jewelry that you're using to bother you enough
• 1:34:59
  SPEAKER_01: to remember will eventually stop bothering you.
• 1:35:04
  SPEAKER_01: You'll stop noticing it.
• 1:35:05
  SPEAKER_01: But by that time, you should have created the habit of checking.
• 1:35:12
  SPEAKER_01: And once you have the habit,
• 1:35:17
  SPEAKER_00: you have the habit.
• 1:35:20
  SPEAKER_01: The other thing is that you can tie it into something you do often.
• 1:35:27
  SPEAKER_01: For example, do you have a habit of running your hand through your hair or messing up your hair?
• 1:35:37
  SPEAKER_01: Every time you do that, check and see if your mind is still there.
• 1:35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have a habit of Glancing up from your work to stare out the window frequently.
• 1:35:51
  SPEAKER_01: Every time you stare out the window, check and see if your mind is still there.
• 1:35:56
  SPEAKER_01: Tie it into an already existing habit.
• 1:35:59
  SPEAKER_01: Do not tie it into a bad habit.
• 1:36:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because working like this, it will sometimes increase the frequency of the habit.
• 1:36:08
  SPEAKER_01: So if you are a smoker or a drinker,
• 1:36:11
  SPEAKER_01: neither of which is good for the body to increase beyond minimal levels,
• 1:36:17
  SPEAKER_01: What you want to do is not use that.
• 1:36:21
  SPEAKER_01: Not every time I take a sip of wine.
• 1:36:26
  SPEAKER_01: It'll simply increase your wine consumption.
• 1:36:29
  SPEAKER_01: Not every time you light a smoke.
• 1:36:31
  SPEAKER_01: It'll simply increase your smoking.
• 1:36:33
  SPEAKER_01: So don't use those.
• 1:36:35
  SPEAKER_01: Use something harmless to the body because whatever you choose may well increase
• 1:36:43
  SPEAKER_01: in its occurrence.
• 1:36:47
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:36:49
  SPEAKER_00: Someone who is stuck.
• 1:36:51
  SPEAKER_00: I've tried to work with the perception that my mind is in my head,
• 1:36:55
  SPEAKER_00: like with thoughts and emotions, but it doesn't dissolve now.
• 1:37:00
  SPEAKER_00: They can't move past the idea that their mind is somewhere in their head.
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_00: So what should they do?
• 1:37:06
  SPEAKER_01: Tantra.
• 1:37:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to get that unstuck.
• 1:37:12
  SPEAKER_01: You've had an oopsie.
• 1:37:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's definitely stuck.
• 1:37:16
  SPEAKER_01: Direct Zogchenweis aren't going to work on that kind of stuckness.
• 1:37:20
  SPEAKER_01: So go do Tantra for a while.
• 1:37:27
  SPEAKER_01: We offer Vajrasattva and we offer Chenrezig, currently among student-led practices.
• 1:37:38
  SPEAKER_01: But if there's another one you prefer, go do that.
• 1:37:42
  SPEAKER_01: Don't fight this.
• 1:37:44
  SPEAKER_01: You got it stuck in your head.
• 1:37:45
  SPEAKER_01: You really want to stop trying to find it for a while.
• 1:37:49
  SPEAKER_01: How the hell did you get it stuck in your head?
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, infinite creativity of sentient beings is always amusing.
• 1:37:59
  SPEAKER_01: Just go do Tantra.
• 1:38:00
  SPEAKER_01: I suggest the Chen Raising because it's very heart-based and it doesn't go into the head at all.
• 1:38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Do that for a while.
• 1:38:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's a decent sadhana.
• 1:38:12
  SPEAKER_01: You can also do the full sadhana,
• 1:38:15
  SPEAKER_01: not the part of the nundra one,
• 1:38:16
  SPEAKER_01: but the full Vajrasatva sadhana, which is also quite powerful.
• 1:38:21
  SPEAKER_01: And if you have a yidam and a sadhana for your yidam,
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_01: like Vajrayogini or Purva, then do that one.
• 1:38:31
  SPEAKER_01: Do it a lot.
• 1:38:36
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:38:37
  SPEAKER_00: Why is the word Tawa used throughout here instead of Rigpa?
• 1:38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Just curious.
• 1:38:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm not actually talking about the seer,
• 1:38:49
  SPEAKER_01: although Tawa includes the seer,
• 1:38:54
  SPEAKER_01: but I am also talking about what is seen by the seer.
• 1:39:02
  SPEAKER_01: So Tawa and Rigpa are not interchangeable.
• 1:39:13
  SPEAKER_00: Awareness and thoughts are not separate, right?
• 1:39:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's like awareness is a mirror and thoughts are reflections in the mirror.
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Is this right?
• 1:39:23
  SPEAKER_01: That is a usable analogy.
• 1:39:25
  SPEAKER_01: However, do be aware that it is only an analogy.
• 1:39:35
  SPEAKER_01: And no analogy is really right.
• 1:39:38
  SPEAKER_01: They just
• 1:39:39
  SPEAKER_00: point out.
• 1:39:43
  SPEAKER_00: Am I doing this practice to rid myself of suffering or is the doing happening now
• 1:39:49
  SPEAKER_00: on its own due to my past?
• 1:39:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:39:57
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 1:40:00
  SPEAKER_00: How do I remain in Tawa when dealing with difficult triggering moment with other people?
• 1:40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Don't grab it and try to remain in it.
• 1:40:13
  SPEAKER_01: Refresh it repeatedly.
• 1:40:18
  SPEAKER_01: You are trying to stabilize something which is moving.
• 1:40:22
  SPEAKER_01: You are trying to stabilize the perception of Tawa.
• 1:40:29
  SPEAKER_01: However,
• 1:40:29
  SPEAKER_01: as we all know,
• 1:40:31
  SPEAKER_01: thoughts,
• 1:40:31
  SPEAKER_01: feelings,
• 1:40:32
  SPEAKER_01: and perceptions are all phenomena And as such are continuously in a state of change
• 1:40:40
  SPEAKER_01: or movement.
• 1:40:42
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore they cannot be stabilized.
• 1:40:48
  SPEAKER_01: What you want to do instead is become certain of that which is stable inherently.
• 1:40:59
  SPEAKER_01: Which is tawa itself, not the perception of tawa.
• 1:41:05
  SPEAKER_01: Subtle difference here.
• 1:41:08
  SPEAKER_01: One moves, the other doesn't.
• 1:41:13
  SPEAKER_01: So just keep looking again and again.
• 1:41:22
  SPEAKER_01: What is happening when someone triggers you is
• 1:41:32
  SPEAKER_01: Leading your thoughts into a state which
• 1:41:38
  SPEAKER_01: co-supports a feeling,
• 1:41:42
  SPEAKER_01: they are loud enough to catch your attention.
• 1:41:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if I were to blow up a paper bag and then pop it next to your ear
• 1:41:53
  SPEAKER_01: while you were focusing on something,
• 1:41:55
  SPEAKER_01: you would startle and it would catch your attention.
• 1:41:58
  SPEAKER_01: So that's all that's happening.
• 1:42:00
  SPEAKER_01: You can't keep it from catching your attention.
• 1:42:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's a loud emotional noise.
• 1:42:07
  SPEAKER_01: So instead, relax.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let it catch your attention and then check and see if tawa moved while it caught your attention.
• 1:42:22
  SPEAKER_01: Subtle difference.
• 1:42:23
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you followed it.
• 1:42:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm getting tired, so let's just have the last few good ones.
• 1:42:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:42:35
  SPEAKER_00: If we look behind the curtain of our illusions,
• 1:42:38
  SPEAKER_00: is it proper to find pleasurable aspects of reality, I guess, to look at?
• 1:42:44
  SPEAKER_00: If you're getting pleasure from what you're seeing.
• 1:42:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of your illusions, as is pleasure and pain.
• 1:42:56
  SPEAKER_00: What book should I read to become more familiar with these teachings?
• 1:43:02
  SPEAKER_01: Three words of Garab Dorji.
• 1:43:06
  SPEAKER_01: Not golden letters.
• 1:43:08
  SPEAKER_01: He obtusifies.
• 1:43:14
  SPEAKER_01: Tantra by Lama Tuptenyeshi.
• 1:43:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think, um, somebody's got a decent translation of three words out.
• 1:43:33
  SPEAKER_01: I got mine from an ancient compilation of texts called Crystal Cave.
• 1:43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Not the text Crystal Cave, which was also in there, but a book called Crystal Cave.
• 1:43:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that was a nice translation.
• 1:43:48
  SPEAKER_01: I also have my own hand-done translation.
• 1:43:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um...
• 1:43:57
  SPEAKER_01: See what you can find.
• 1:43:59
  SPEAKER_01: I would say Tantra by Lama Yeshi because he'll show you how to get that working so
• 1:44:04
  SPEAKER_01: that you can use it to synergize with this.
• 1:44:08
  SPEAKER_01: Combined with
• 1:44:12
  SPEAKER_01: the three words of Garabdurjee is a good place to start.
• 1:44:17
  SPEAKER_01: You do not want to read the text,
• 1:44:21
  SPEAKER_01: Three Words That Strike the Heart by Garab Dorji until you have received
• 1:44:25
  SPEAKER_01: the teaching.
• 1:44:26
  SPEAKER_01: It is recorded and many people have been able to experience the transmission from the recording.
• 1:44:36
  SPEAKER_01: So give it a try.
• 1:44:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you are not sure you got the transmission,
• 1:44:44
  SPEAKER_01: simply join one of the pointing out retreats where
• 1:44:48
  SPEAKER_01: the transmission will occur repeatedly as it did today.
• 1:44:53
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're not sure you caught it, keep listening.
• 1:45:02
  SPEAKER_01: Next.
• 1:45:05
  SPEAKER_00: Are there any specific practices associated with this part of the flight of the Garuda?
• 1:45:13
  SPEAKER_01: GOM.
• 1:45:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any sort of,
• 1:45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I guess,
• 1:45:17
  SPEAKER_00: step-by-step specifics of GOM,
• 1:45:19
  SPEAKER_00: or is it just... Well,
• 1:45:21
  SPEAKER_01: the step-by-step specifics of GOM are gone into great detail in
• 1:45:30
  SPEAKER_01: Three Words
• 1:45:30
  SPEAKER_01: That Strike the Heart by Garib Dorji.
• 1:45:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I keep referring you all to that text.
• 1:45:36
  SPEAKER_01: Here, they are assuming you have been taught the how-to,
• 1:45:41
  SPEAKER_01: and they keep telling you here to do that so that this becomes apparent to you.
• 1:45:49
  SPEAKER_01: So for those of you who have not yet got the how-to,
• 1:45:53
  SPEAKER_01: go listen to the three words that strike the heart by Garib Dorji.
• 1:46:02
  SPEAKER_01: There is more than one teaching by me up there on it.
• 1:46:06
  SPEAKER_01: And there is a beautiful teaching by Wongdor Rinpoche translated to English,
• 1:46:11
  SPEAKER_01: which is up there on it.
• 1:46:14
  SPEAKER_01: Pick your favorite.
• 1:46:19
  SPEAKER_01: There's that exact and specific step by step how to, which this text assumes you already know.
• 1:46:34
  SPEAKER_00: How can we break the limits we superimpose on Tawa?
• 1:46:44
  SPEAKER_01: Good question.
• 1:46:50
  SPEAKER_01: By learning to relax more and more,
• 1:46:55
  SPEAKER_01: the greater your relaxation in Tawa,
• 1:47:01
  SPEAKER_01: The less the limits you superimpose upon Tawa
• 1:47:08
  SPEAKER_01: can catch.
• 1:47:12
  SPEAKER_01: So you get to relax past those limits, allowing your Tawa to mature.
• 1:47:23
  SPEAKER_01: Gom matures it, but also in your sessions, You have to learn to relax into it.
• 1:47:33
  SPEAKER_01: Your sessions of tawa attract you.
• 1:47:38
  SPEAKER_01: You do not point at tawa like a bird dog.
• 1:47:47
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:47:49
  SPEAKER_01: You slide into tawa like a hot bath.
• 1:48:04
  SPEAKER_01: Just keep going.
• 1:48:08
  SPEAKER_01: Your experiences.
• 1:48:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, let me find some words here.
• 1:48:18
  SPEAKER_01: Keep going.
• 1:48:21
  SPEAKER_01: Relax more and more.
• 1:48:26
  SPEAKER_01: It is not possible to effectively push a river to flow faster.
• 1:48:33
  SPEAKER_01: Rather by relaxing you remove impedance to the speed of the flow so that
• 1:48:42
  SPEAKER_01: the natural state where the river flows into the sea and there is no differentiation
• 1:48:50
  SPEAKER_01: between river and sea
• 1:48:55
  SPEAKER_01: occurs in its time appropriately for each drop of water
• 1:49:05
  SPEAKER_01: Relax and practice.
• 1:49:08
  SPEAKER_01: That is all you can do.
• 1:49:15
  SPEAKER_01: One more.
• 1:49:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:49:17
  SPEAKER_00: What is the difference between the inherent joy of realization And pleasure
• 1:49:24
  SPEAKER_00: of pleasure versus pain, those sensations, does it feel joyful?
• 1:49:29
  SPEAKER_00: How is it experiential?
• 1:49:31
  SPEAKER_01: Although we use similar words like Tashi
• 1:49:37
  SPEAKER_01: for the bliss of awareness,
• 1:49:39
  SPEAKER_01: it does not feel the same as common pains and pleasures.
• 1:49:59
  SPEAKER_01: I do not have a good analogy for you.
• 1:50:12
  SPEAKER_01: All I can do is answer and it is not the same.
• 1:50:17
  SPEAKER_01: We simply don't have words other than the words that are the same,
• 1:50:23
  SPEAKER_01: but what they are used to refer to In the bliss of enlightenment,
• 1:50:28
  SPEAKER_01: the bliss of union between bodhisitta and open awareness,
• 1:50:34
  SPEAKER_01: what these point at is not the same as the bliss of single malt scotch,
• 1:50:46
  SPEAKER_01: or the pleasure of, or good sex, or chocolate.
• 1:50:55
  SPEAKER_01: Those are pleasures around here, but they are not the same as that.
• 1:51:02
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, we do not have other words, so thereby the confusion.
• 1:51:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's as much as I have
• 1:51:11
  SPEAKER_01: for you this morning.
• 1:51:16
  SPEAKER_01: Practice.
• 1:51:19
  SPEAKER_01: Whether you are practicing sadhana Or you are practicing Treksha and Dzogchen.
• 1:51:32
  SPEAKER_01: You have to practice now.
• 1:51:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because later never comes.
• 1:51:43
  SPEAKER_01: Each moment is always a now.
• 1:51:48
  SPEAKER_01: So practice in this now.
• 1:51:59
  SPEAKER_01: Ge-wandi-hir-nyur-du-dah-chi-chi-sa-la-go-par-shu.
• 1:52:32
  SPEAKER_01: I will see you all next weekend where we have one of those fun Q&As where you get
• 1:52:39
  SPEAKER_01: to ask anything.
• 1:52:42
  SPEAKER_01: And teaching on Guru Yoga because there's been a lot of misunderstandings going on about that.
• 1:52:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's time to do it again.
• 1:52:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that's next weekend.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you have been listening to this in a voice other than English,
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find a PayPal button on the website.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nyanda, would you type in the URL for the website?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just in case you accidentally wandered into this on Facebook looking
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  SPEAKER_01: for something else totally and stayed with it,
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  SPEAKER_01: you can find more of the same on the website.
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  SPEAKER_01: If any of you wish to adopt and merge your practice with one
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  SPEAKER_01: of our Tibetan old cave yogis up in the Himalayas,
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  SPEAKER_01: which will cost you about the cost of a pizza and beer every month,
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  SPEAKER_01: 25 US dollars or Canadian dollars or euros,
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  SPEAKER_01: about like that, it's enough to keep someone in food and retreat.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you support a person's practice emotionally or physically,
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  SPEAKER_01: the results of the practice are shared by you and them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're stuck
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  SPEAKER_01: or you're at a phase in your life where you have more money
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  SPEAKER_01: than time, Which is usually somewhere between the ages of 30 and 50 for most of us.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a good time to get some help with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they will.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you want to do that, send me an email that you want to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But don't mix it in with all the emails about your practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: It should be a separate email.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise I'm likely to like miss what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll see you all next weekend if you feel like it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
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