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[#5] Naked Awareness Spontaneously Arising (Jan 2026) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_00: Now you're live.
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SPEAKER_01: Good morning, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the continuation of our Zogchen text from last year.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's been some debate about where we are.
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SPEAKER_01: Looks like chapter nine,
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SPEAKER_01: but since that was supposed to be right after chapter You had been introduced to
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SPEAKER_01: the nature of mind and you've probably forgotten that in the past year.
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SPEAKER_01: I think I'd better do a little bit of review and then we'll get to nine.
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SPEAKER_01: Shere singe bardu shen labdi,
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SPEAKER_01: de dam abzan tata tusum chi,
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SPEAKER_01: zog chen jupe
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SPEAKER_02: lama la solo wadib,
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SPEAKER_01: june la solo wadib,
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SPEAKER_01: dor di chang,
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SPEAKER_01: chitilo narudang,
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SPEAKER_01: marpa mila gompo
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SPEAKER_01: tsa tsa pa, Na Pupadam Palden
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SPEAKER_02: Drupasug,
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SPEAKER_02: Kargyo Lama Namla Soluwa De,
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SPEAKER_02: O Chan Lama Namla Soluwa De,
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SPEAKER_02: O Chan Lama Namla Soluwa
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SPEAKER_02: De,
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SPEAKER_02: Chaginwadi Lama Namla, Solo Adib.
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SPEAKER_01: Chaginwadi Lama Namla,
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SPEAKER_02: Solo Adib.
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SPEAKER_02: Chaginwadi Lama Namla,
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SPEAKER_01: Solo
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SPEAKER_02: Adib.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: I said, translators, go back to the second page of chapter five.
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SPEAKER_01: Because that's where I want to start a bit of a review of what went last year,
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SPEAKER_01: because it's been a gap of six months.
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SPEAKER_01: So...
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SPEAKER_01: With something as slippery...
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SPEAKER_01: As nature of mind, unless you've been doing a lot of practice, you're not going to retain that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's slippery because you see there's nothing there to get your teeth into.
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SPEAKER_01: You can sort of imagine the piece of Nirvana
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SPEAKER_01: as being an escape from the suffering of samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: Except...
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SPEAKER_01: That's elephants and camels.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not really what happens.
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SPEAKER_01: You spend your entire practice following the law of the Dharma,
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SPEAKER_01: the vows, the vinaya, the paramitas, and all the path of accumulation.
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SPEAKER_01: And you accumulate merits to be born in a better and better position in samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: But even an infinite number of merits will not necessarily get you enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, you can get enough to spend a long time in nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: But that's not enlightenment.
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SPEAKER_01: Nirvana,
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SPEAKER_01: as they describe it,
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SPEAKER_01: Peace and bliss, similar to the highest levels of the formless realms.
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SPEAKER_01: Utter peace, utter stability, utter bliss.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing happens.
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SPEAKER_01: So in there, the moving, the phenomena, the creativity is held in pure potential.
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SPEAKER_01: But nothing held in pure potential can avoid actualizing eventually.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the nature of potential to actualize itself.
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SPEAKER_01: When we look at types of energy, potential energy is one of them.
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SPEAKER_01: A large object in a high place has potential energy.
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SPEAKER_01: If you drop that object with the correct equipment attached,
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SPEAKER_01: You can change that energy to electricity as it falls down to a lower place because
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SPEAKER_01: of its potential energy, this basic physics.
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SPEAKER_01: So what you have to look at and realize is the sheer amount of potential energy held
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SPEAKER_01: in the stillness and the peace of nirvana will eventually have to release itself.
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SPEAKER_01: Might be a long time, eons upon eons.
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SPEAKER_01: But since you cannot separate the potential from the actualization or the space in
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SPEAKER_01: which it actualizes, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Dharmakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: you cannot in any way
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SPEAKER_01: Simply achieve Nirvana and think you can keep it.
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SPEAKER_01: In Mahayana,
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SPEAKER_01: we swear the obvious,
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SPEAKER_01: not to achieve individual enlightenment,
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SPEAKER_01: but to work for the enlightenment of all beings until the end of time.
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SPEAKER_01: This will happen whether you swear it or not,
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SPEAKER_01: due to the fact that there's no such thing as an individual.
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SPEAKER_01: So what's going to get enlightened?
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SPEAKER_01: You think it's you?
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SPEAKER_01: You can't take you with you.
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SPEAKER_01: You is a clump,
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SPEAKER_01: a conglomerate,
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SPEAKER_01: a heap of form and energy,
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SPEAKER_01: of mental predilections and physical neurogenic wiring.
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SPEAKER_01: Of karmas manifesting and the matter in which they manifest them,
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SPEAKER_01: occupying the space which you occupy at any given moment.
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SPEAKER_01: There's not a thing there.
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SPEAKER_01: As Rinpoche used to say, if you take a man apart, maybe because you don't like him much.
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SPEAKER_01: So you take him apart and you put his head in that corner and you put his leg in that corner.
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SPEAKER_01: You dangle his other leg from the ceiling.
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SPEAKER_01: You stick his torso over there and the arms over there.
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SPEAKER_01: Where's the man?
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SPEAKER_01: When you take apart you
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SPEAKER_01: and you separate the parts,
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SPEAKER_01: there's no thing in there that has or owns the parts.
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SPEAKER_01: Be noticing this.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, you could have a wonderful dream tonight of nirvana,
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SPEAKER_01: of peace,
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SPEAKER_00: of happiness or of childhood.
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SPEAKER_01: You're going to wake up tomorrow when the alarm goes off and you're going to have
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SPEAKER_01: to get up and do life.
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SPEAKER_01: So don't be thinking.
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SPEAKER_01: It's enough to make merits.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't be thinking that you can accomplish enlightenment.
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SPEAKER_01: Enlightenment is your natural state in terms of your own mind, as is the case with everyone.
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SPEAKER_01: Samsara and nirvana are inseparable.
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SPEAKER_01: The potential energy,
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SPEAKER_01: the aliveness, the awareness, the Rigpa, the seer.
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SPEAKER_01: In its potential to see, do, move,
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SPEAKER_01: you cannot separate the mover from the movement.
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SPEAKER_01: Doing so
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SPEAKER_01: is the first piece of duality, separating subject from verb from object.
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SPEAKER_01: You,
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SPEAKER_01: infinite open awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: without boundary,
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, just like you might be wearing a slightly snug bra today.
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SPEAKER_01: And you can feel it, but you also can ignore it.
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SPEAKER_01: So in your body, you're wearing a slightly snug form today.
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SPEAKER_01: Mildly annoying, but you can ignore it.
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SPEAKER_01: Ignore the form.
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SPEAKER_01: In all its snugness and aches and pains and itches.
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SPEAKER_01: Find the be-er.
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SPEAKER_01: Find the experiencer which is your own mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Know-thing-ness.
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SPEAKER_01: Stick your head over there and your legs over there and your limbs over there and
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SPEAKER_01: the torso in another place.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no you left,
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SPEAKER_01: but there is awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: awakeness,
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SPEAKER_01: perceiver,
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SPEAKER_01: which cannot be located or grasped,
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SPEAKER_01: for it is infinitely empty, often referred to as Dharmakaya nature of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Vast, open, Utterly free without boundaries.
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SPEAKER_01: And it would be still forever as Nirvana.
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SPEAKER_01: If it had no innate intrinsic awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: which we poetically refer to as the clear light nature of the Dharmakaya, that
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SPEAKER_01: Sense of being.
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SPEAKER_01: That vitality, that aliveness.
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SPEAKER_01: When you cease to attempt to stick it within your little bitty learned cultural boundaries.
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SPEAKER_01: And you let it go.
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SPEAKER_01: Into the vast open awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: The infinite potential uncrimped by what your mama told you.
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SPEAKER_01: What society said a good man was or a good woman.
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SPEAKER_01: With all the overlays of thoughts that have been handed to you since infancy
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SPEAKER_01: in this form,
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SPEAKER_01: released,
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SPEAKER_01: there remains an infinite open sense of vastness with a sort of bubbly,
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SPEAKER_01: fizzy aliveness within it.
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SPEAKER_01: And by that aliveness, all phenomena is manifest.
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SPEAKER_01: Not elsewhere,
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SPEAKER_01: but in that infinite openness, the dance of the vitality.
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SPEAKER_01: I am describing Dharmakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: Nirmanakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: the three jewels, the thing that children thinks are a god of some sort.
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SPEAKER_01: It's you.
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SPEAKER_01: It always was.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's truly no need to fight for it, to accomplish it, to achieve it, or to grasp it.
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SPEAKER_01: There's nothing there to grasp.
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SPEAKER_01: Infinite, open, spacious.
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SPEAKER_01: And the grasper,
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SPEAKER_01: the grasping, And the grass bed
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SPEAKER_01: are inseparable.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's nothing for you to get.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing for you to achieve.
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SPEAKER_01: So relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though Samsara and Nirvana are inseparable,
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SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless,
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SPEAKER_01: because you persist in accepting and enduring attachments and aversions,
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SPEAKER_01: you will wander in samsara distracted from your innate potential.
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SPEAKER_01: You see, there's stuff you want.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's stuff you're scared of, you don't want.
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SPEAKER_01: And you run from one...
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SPEAKER_01: And you chase the other.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's a whole bunch of sort of gray shadings in between
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SPEAKER_01: that you don't even look at or notice.
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SPEAKER_01: This morning, did you drink your coffee with your left hand or your right hand?
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SPEAKER_00: Gray shadings in between you didn't even
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SPEAKER_01: notice.
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SPEAKER_01: You wanted the coffee.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually, you probably wanted to go back to sleep.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a gray day here with the rain pattering down.
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SPEAKER_01: Lovely to curl up in bed with a book.
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SPEAKER_00: Want.
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SPEAKER_01: Getting up and putting your feet down on the cold floor.
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SPEAKER_01: Aversion.
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SPEAKER_01: You see, we go through these constantly.
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SPEAKER_01: Desire, aversion.
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SPEAKER_01: And instead of sitting there and go, yep, that's a want going by, uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_01: Ooh, look at that, I'm scared of that thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Hmm, I wonder what it's going to do next, if it's going to come this way or not, that spider.
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SPEAKER_01: You could do that.
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SPEAKER_01: You could just let it be, but you're not gonna.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna grab and you're gonna shove.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna fish around for your slippers because the floor is cold.
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SPEAKER_01: Grab warmth, shove cold floor.
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SPEAKER_01: In your little actions of even the simplest of getting out of bed in the morning,
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SPEAKER_02: grab, shove, grab, shove.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's all so very
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SPEAKER_01: Your active dharmas and your inactive ones.
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SPEAKER_01: They both need to be abandoned.
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SPEAKER_01: Your active dharmas.
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SPEAKER_01: Accumulating Gawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Your inactive dharmas.
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SPEAKER_01: Sitting on the cushion and pretending to meditate.
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SPEAKER_01: Since self-liberation through seeing nakedly by means
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SPEAKER_01: of intrinsic awareness is here revealed to you if you
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SPEAKER_00: will just look.
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SPEAKER_01: You need to understand that all dharmas Laws, rules, binaya, parameters.
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SPEAKER_01: The how-to of it can be perfected and completed and transcended in the gone beyond
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SPEAKER_01: of total self-liberation.
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SPEAKER_01: And therefore,
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SPEAKER_01: whatever practice you do can be brought to perfection within the great perfection
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SPEAKER_01: as it naturally is.
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SPEAKER_02: Samaya, Jah, Jah, Jah.
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SPEAKER_01: Now remember, refraining from saying mantras
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SPEAKER_01: is an active practice.
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SPEAKER_01: To refrain from something is the same as to do it.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's not a matter of just putting down your mala.
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SPEAKER_01: Then what you're going to do?
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SPEAKER_01: Scratch your nose.
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SPEAKER_01: Jerk off.
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SPEAKER_01: Think.
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SPEAKER_01: Have a fantasy.
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SPEAKER_01: Think about how you'll redecorate the Hoosie Watchist.
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SPEAKER_01: Or cook the Witswatts.
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SPEAKER_00: Grasp.
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SPEAKER_01: So this does not mean physically put down your mala and shut your mouth because
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SPEAKER_01: that would be another doing, another layer.
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SPEAKER_01: It does not mean refrain from active practice or grasp active practice within the flow.
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SPEAKER_01: Something that looks very much like practice might or might not occur.
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SPEAKER_01: We talked about
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SPEAKER_01: working with thoughts, the key to all of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything you do, pick up your mala, put down your mala, is because you think about it.
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SPEAKER_01: If you didn't think to take a sip of coffee,
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SPEAKER_01: you wouldn't pick up the coffee pot and take a sip of coffee.
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SPEAKER_00: Now thinking.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people think
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SPEAKER_01: I think therefore I am.
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SPEAKER_01: You think to contain a false self.
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SPEAKER_01: But some people think that therefore thinking is evil
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SPEAKER_01: and they should stop thinking altogether and trance out.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you understand that that's just another grasping and shoving?
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SPEAKER_01: The key with thinking is sopa.
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SPEAKER_01: Out of Garabdurji, the third word.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow the thoughts to arise naturally and dissolve naturally.
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SPEAKER_01: For on examination, you will notice that no single thought Has duration in time?
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SPEAKER_01: Or size, mass in space?
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SPEAKER_01: They are no thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Nor do they have a specific location,
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SPEAKER_01: such as above or below, to the south or the north, to the east or the west.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not enough to parrot it out of my words and repeat it to yourself
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SPEAKER_01: as another friggin' thought.
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SPEAKER_00: What I just said were thoughts, words.
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SPEAKER_01: Look for yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: When you can see with absolute clarity and certainty
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SPEAKER_01: That this is true of all thoughts without exception.
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SPEAKER_00: Not, well, maybe this one is true or maybe that one is true.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll stop asking me which one's the real Tawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Are we there yet, Ma?
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SPEAKER_01: Am I doing it right?
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SPEAKER_01: Treat those as thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: And do not think that if I give you a thought of yes or no or maybe that
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SPEAKER_01: that is something other than a thought.
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SPEAKER_02: And then go ahead and think all you want.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts are the manifestation of the potential vitality.
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SPEAKER_01: They be happening.
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SPEAKER_01: But because you are not caught into believing each and every one while you think it,
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SPEAKER_01: But while thinking it,
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SPEAKER_01: not a moment afterwards as an overlay,
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SPEAKER_01: but right in the moment of thinking the thought like this thought right here
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SPEAKER_01: that I'm thinking and saying to you right now,
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SPEAKER_01: right in the middle of it, you see its true nature while you're
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SPEAKER_02: thinking it.
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SPEAKER_01: And you do that enough.
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SPEAKER_01: And you become sure.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's your key.
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SPEAKER_01: That's certainty.
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SPEAKER_01: To develop that absolute certainty is the third vital point, words of Garabdurji.
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SPEAKER_01: We're talking about the same thing here.
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SPEAKER_01: This sparkling awareness, which is called mind, thoughts are the sparkle of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Go in your life, find something that sparkles and stare at it for a while as an analogy.
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SPEAKER_01: Take it as a rushen.
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SPEAKER_01: A sparkler from the place that sells firecrackers.
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SPEAKER_01: Bubbly water, sparkling soda.
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SPEAKER_01: Mine's gone a bit flat, I'm afraid, so I can't show you sparkles in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Tastes okay, though.
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SPEAKER_01: If you have a lake or an ocean near you on a bright,
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SPEAKER_01: sunny day, go sit and watch the little sparkles on the waters.
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SPEAKER_01: Get at the right angle.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do anything with them.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't meditate on them.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't not meditate on them.
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SPEAKER_01: Just watch how they have neither location nor duration for sure.
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SPEAKER_01: It's an analogy for what your mind be doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Your awareness, which sparkles with thought, which are no thing at all.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though one says it exists, thought, awareness, mind, location, tawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though one says that that's the it here.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though one says it exists, it does not actually exist.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not real.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why I laugh so hard at you when you ask if this is really the real tawa.
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SPEAKER_01: No, Tawa isn't real.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a concept.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a word.
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SPEAKER_01: None of them are real.
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SPEAKER_01: Get used to it.
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SPEAKER_01: On the other hand,
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SPEAKER_01: as a source,
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SPEAKER_01: this mind,
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SPEAKER_01: this nature of mind,
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SPEAKER_01: it is the origin of diversity and all the bliss of nirvana and the sorrow
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SPEAKER_01: of samsara.
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SPEAKER_01: A dance of movement, of phenomena.
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SPEAKER_01: As for its being something desirable, it is cherished alike in the 11 vehicles.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody wants to get nature of mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody wants it.
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SPEAKER_01: There ain't no it there to be getting.
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SPEAKER_01: What the heck have you done?
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SPEAKER_01: I was talking to my text.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't be going away on me.
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SPEAKER_01: With respect to its having a name, everybody
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SPEAKER_00: gives it a name.
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SPEAKER_01: Infinite in their numbers.
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SPEAKER_01: Mind, mind itself,
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SPEAKER_01: the self,
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SPEAKER_01: the absence of self,
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SPEAKER_01: the mind,
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SPEAKER_01: perception of wisdom, tawa,
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SPEAKER_01: embryo hood of Buddhahood,
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SPEAKER_01: the great symbol,
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SPEAKER_01: mahamudra,
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SPEAKER_01: the unique sphere,
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SPEAKER_01: dharmadhatu,
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SPEAKER_01: dimension of reality,
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SPEAKER_01: alaya, the base of everything, consciousness,
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SPEAKER_01: or even ordinary awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: I sometimes call it George.
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SPEAKER_01: You've met George, yes?
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SPEAKER_01: Take a moment.
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SPEAKER_01: Stare at George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't think about George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't tell yourself stories about George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't make up a past for George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't make up a future for George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't like George.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't dislike George.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave George alone.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop poking at him and leave him be.
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SPEAKER_01: Just look.
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SPEAKER_01: You are George.
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SPEAKER_01: Hi, George.
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SPEAKER_01: It's so, so simple.
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SPEAKER_01: The great roar of the dragon pervades each and every realm of the universe.
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SPEAKER_01: How could you possibly miss it?
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SPEAKER_00: Now, when you are introduced to your own intrinsic awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: the method for entering into it involves three considerations.
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SPEAKER_01: Basically, you've got to get to know what thoughts are.
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SPEAKER_01: Because they're what trip you up.
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SPEAKER_01: All your confusion is in your thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: It's what you think.
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SPEAKER_01: You confuse yourself by telling yourself stupid stories.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know they're reruns.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not even making up brand new stories.
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SPEAKER_01: You got old faithfuls.
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SPEAKER_01: Pretty so often you watch a movie and get a new story out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: It gets real popular.
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SPEAKER_01: These are thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: So what were you thinking last Tuesday?
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SPEAKER_01: At 2 p.m.
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SPEAKER_01: You got no idea, do you?
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts that have occurred previously, they are empty and they leave no trace.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot go back and find them.
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SPEAKER_01: It is an illness when thoughts have left a scar in the channels.
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SPEAKER_01: This is called PTSD.
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SPEAKER_01: Something's happening, and while it's happening, you're telling yourself a story about it.
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SPEAKER_01: And that story gets into your channels.
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SPEAKER_00: Think back to a PTSD incident.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to try to unravel it for you this time, but I'm going to show you.
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SPEAKER_01: Something was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: You were in a place...
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SPEAKER_01: And generally for PTSD, it's something you did not like was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: And you reacted to that
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SPEAKER_01: in a way.
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SPEAKER_01: Now mine is I reacted to that in a way that I found shameful even at the time.
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SPEAKER_01: I reacted out of fear.
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SPEAKER_01: However, my fear was not of what was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: My thoughts at the time that I was making up were of judgment against some people
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SPEAKER_01: that I feared and ideas of what they would do to me if I confronted them
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SPEAKER_01: over what they were doing and tried to stop them.
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SPEAKER_01: And that swirl of thoughts of how wrong what they were doing was and they needed
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SPEAKER_01: to be stopped compared to the fear of what they would do to me if I even attempted
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SPEAKER_01: to stop them or made any noise at all.
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SPEAKER_01: Left a swirl and a channel smooch somewhere.
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SPEAKER_01: I can still feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: PTSD, but it's not about what those people were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about what I thought about what I thought those people were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: They might not have been doing anything like what I thought they were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought they were taking a teddy bear away from another kid who'd lost her family
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SPEAKER_01: and had nothing but the teddy bear and were cutting it in pieces to flush it down
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SPEAKER_01: the toilet.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what somebody said they were doing.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think so now as a grown-up.
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SPEAKER_01: Probably not.
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SPEAKER_01: That's too off the wall.
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SPEAKER_01: They were pretty crazy, but I don't think they were that crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet that was what I thought was going on at the time.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think it did.
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SPEAKER_01: I ended up seeing her with her teddy bear some days later.
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SPEAKER_01: But it was what I thought was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think they would have maybe even done anything to me if I'd yelled at them about it.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet I thought they would.
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SPEAKER_01: I was quite a young child.
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SPEAKER_01: And the shame of not reacting out of fear
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SPEAKER_01: left a real snarl in my channels.
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SPEAKER_01: To this day, I work on combing that one.
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SPEAKER_01: So go look at yours.
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SPEAKER_01: It didn't really happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, that doesn't make the snarl go away knowing it didn't happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't think it's going to do anything about that.
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SPEAKER_01: Because the snarl was caused by the belief system.
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SPEAKER_01: Now it's in your damn channels and you're going to have to comb it out.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's different ways of working with that.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you understand what I'm saying about thoughts in the past?
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing happens exactly the way you think it did.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at six people watching a car crash.
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SPEAKER_01: The next day, ask them separately what happened.
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SPEAKER_01: Boy, are you going to get a lot of different stories.
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SPEAKER_01: We witnessed this on the news.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, on the news, some of them are
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SPEAKER_02: doing it on purpose and changing the story for...
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SPEAKER_01: Whatever reason.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of those poor ice guys are really going to end up with a snarl to deal
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SPEAKER_01: with later in life or in the next.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts of the past.
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SPEAKER_01: Can they find them anywhere?
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts that occurred in the past.
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SPEAKER_01: They're done.
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SPEAKER_01: You can think about what you think you thought,
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SPEAKER_01: but that's not what I think I thought back during that traumatic occurrence.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think I really thought exactly that.
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SPEAKER_01: I might have thought something similar to it,
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SPEAKER_01: but I don't remember exactly, so I'm making up new thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: To put on a little kid who doesn't have any frontal lobes left.
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SPEAKER_01: I wasn't barely a teenager, 12, 13.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, thank you, Akazade, for making your presence known.
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SPEAKER_02: Those are thoughts, too.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts in the future have not happened yet.
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SPEAKER_01: There are no traces of your past thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: There are no traces of your future thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: This allows your future thoughts to arise unconditioned
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SPEAKER_01: by anything whatsoever to be fresh, new,
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SPEAKER_01: You don't even have to take a high dose of acid to get that out of them.
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SPEAKER_01: New thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: They're all new.
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SPEAKER_01: Just the way they are.
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SPEAKER_01: And awareness at this very moment,
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SPEAKER_01: when your mind remains in its own conditions,
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SPEAKER_01: Without your poking at it or anything, just leave it be.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't make anything out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Awareness at that moment, in and of itself, is quite ordinary.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly, without any discursive thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: Since there is only this pure observing,
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SPEAKER_01: there will be found a lucid clarity,
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SPEAKER_01: clear light,
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SPEAKER_01: lucid luminosity,
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SPEAKER_01: clarity,
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SPEAKER_01: without anyone being there who is the seer, separated from the seeing.
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SPEAKER_01: Subject and object are the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: This lucid clarity sees itself as lucid clarity.
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SPEAKER_01: Yar, George, Tawa, whatever you want to call it.
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SPEAKER_01: And you see yourself as such.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's nothing fancy about it.
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SPEAKER_01: As Rinpoche used to say, what?
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SPEAKER_01: You think you're going to find something that makes your mouth drop open and your eyes bug out?
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SPEAKER_01: It's just absolutely ordinary, this.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing more, nothing less.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly,
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SPEAKER_01: Without discursive thoughts trying to tell you a story about what you might see,
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SPEAKER_01: will see, do see, whether it's it or did I do it right?
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SPEAKER_01: Have I found it?
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SPEAKER_01: Are we there yet?
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SPEAKER_01: Without any of that crap superimposed on it.
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SPEAKER_01: Just pure observing.
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SPEAKER_01: Without telling yourself a story about what you're observing.
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SPEAKER_01: This is your key.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't ossify it into words.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it open.
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SPEAKER_01: Just as it is.
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SPEAKER_01: No observer, no observe-ed.
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SPEAKER_01: Only naked awareness manifesting as the present moment.
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SPEAKER_01: This awareness is empty and immaculately pure.
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SPEAKER_01: Not being created by anything whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: Uncreated, it is not lost.
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SPEAKER_01: It does not come and go.
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SPEAKER_01: Have you found something?
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SPEAKER_01: You will lose it again.
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SPEAKER_01: If you made something,
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SPEAKER_01: you will forget thoughts are moving.
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SPEAKER_01: If there's even a hair of thought in there, it will move.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore, it must be independent.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, it makes up your thought stream, but it does not depend on your thought stream.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the creator of your thought stream,
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SPEAKER_01: your stream of thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: your stream of feelings,
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SPEAKER_01: your stream of perceptions, but it
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SPEAKER_01: is not contained within them or created by them.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
43:52
SPEAKER_01: This is not algebraic.
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SPEAKER_01: If A equals B, B will equal A.
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SPEAKER_01: Put down the algebra.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not a mathematical thing.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easier to say that in Mandarin.
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SPEAKER_01: Authentic, unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness.
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SPEAKER_01: Not permanent.
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SPEAKER_01: Not created by anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Not impermanent.
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SPEAKER_01: Not lost by anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Beyond permanence and impermanence, coming and going.
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SPEAKER_01: There is an energetic isness,
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SPEAKER_01: often referred to as the seer, which is not separate from what is seen.
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SPEAKER_01: It is not merely a nothingness or something annihilated because it is
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SPEAKER_01: Ah, or something annihilated.
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SPEAKER_01: It is lucid and present.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not a blank.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not a big old nuttin.
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SPEAKER_01: Big old nuttin isn't lucid, alive, vital, potential.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: It does not exist as a single entity.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it is present and clear in terms of being many.
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SPEAKER_01: You and me and them and
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SPEAKER_01: they,
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SPEAKER_01: everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Same, same one, not different.
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SPEAKER_01: On the other hand,
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SPEAKER_01: it is not created as a multiplicity of things because it is inseparable and of
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SPEAKER_01: a single flavor.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you see that?
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SPEAKER_01: It's everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: In everyone.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now we all see it.
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SPEAKER_01: Are it, be it.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet it's only one.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not shared like a pie where once people have eaten half the pie,
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SPEAKER_01: there's only half a pie left.
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SPEAKER_01: No limitations.
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SPEAKER_01: The whole thing is everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Each individual.
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SPEAKER_01: The whole thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's the same thing
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SPEAKER_00: in each individual.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not yours or theirs.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not here
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SPEAKER_00: or there.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax and let go of all those things you maybe need it to be.
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SPEAKER_01: This inherent awareness does not derive from anything outside of itself.
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This is the real introduction into the actual condition of things.
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SPEAKER_01: Within this intrinsic awareness, the trikea
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SPEAKER_01: are inseparable and fully present as one.
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SPEAKER_01: Trikea.
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SPEAKER_01: Triple bodies.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Dharmakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Nirmanakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Those ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Together, Svabhavakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Dharmata.
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SPEAKER_01: Since it is empty and not created anywhere so ever, it's called Dharmakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Since it is luminous, clarity represents the inherent transparent radiance of emptiness.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Since it is nowhere obstructed or interrupted, the
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SPEAKER_01: manifestation goes on.
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SPEAKER_01: It is the Nirmanakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: These three, the trachea being completely and fully present as one, are its very essence.
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SPEAKER_01: The three jewels are not outside of yourself somewhere to be worshipped.
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SPEAKER_01: Dunkora around.
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SPEAKER_01: Bowed down to or prostrated to.
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SPEAKER_01: They are you and every bug everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: When you kill the mice, you're killing Buddhas.
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SPEAKER_01: And to not know that, to think, oh, but I've hired someone to kill the mice for me.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not going to be my karma.
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SPEAKER_01: That level of ignorance astounds me.
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SPEAKER_01: In a Dharma center.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you
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SPEAKER_01: When you eat an oyster,
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SPEAKER_01: you feel the tearing within yourself as you pry the shell open,
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SPEAKER_01: the acid of the lemon juice and the hot sauce burning,
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SPEAKER_01: and the crushing destruction as your teeth chomp down on you.
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SPEAKER_01: It's very hard for me, admittedly, to eat raw oysters.
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SPEAKER_01: The sensation is so intense in my body, in their body.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you separate it?
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SPEAKER_01: It's quite a challenge.
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SPEAKER_01: If the oyster is already on ice, it was going to be it anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's not
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SPEAKER_01: the point.
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SPEAKER_00: The point is you can feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you can't, you need further training in Bodhisattva.
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SPEAKER_01: Next month's retreat.
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SPEAKER_01: Come along.
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SPEAKER_01: And now we have caught up.
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SPEAKER_01: That was your review.
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SPEAKER_01: Two-minute break if you have to go pee or something.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to sit here and drink coffee.
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SPEAKER_01: Shut my mouth for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm tired of talking.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, guys, it's not the words.
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SPEAKER_01: The words don't even really contain it.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
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SPEAKER_01: The rest, this next part, number nine, is the great roar of the dragon.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you remember what I said?
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SPEAKER_01: About the great roar of the dragon that pervades all and everything.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you possibly say you don't hear it?
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SPEAKER_01: How can you possibly miss it?
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SPEAKER_01: That's the next chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: A little bit more.
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SPEAKER_01: When you are introduced in this way,
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SPEAKER_01: through this exceedingly powerful method for entering into practice,
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SPEAKER_01: did you understand the introduction?
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SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of everything.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it be, don't poke it.
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SPEAKER_01: Those are the instructions.
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SPEAKER_01: You discover directly that your own immediate self-awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: just this right now,
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SPEAKER_01: this here, this,
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SPEAKER_01: nothing else, nothing special, nothing woo-woo, wow-wow,
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SPEAKER_01: Just this ordinary awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: this awakeness,
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SPEAKER_01: this vitality that permeates you,
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SPEAKER_01: this ability to think, feel,
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SPEAKER_01: perceive,
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SPEAKER_01: not the thoughts themselves or the feelings themselves or
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SPEAKER_01: the perceptions themselves,
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SPEAKER_01: simply their potential, which is your aliveness.
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SPEAKER_01: Just this,
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SPEAKER_01: in its own moment,
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SPEAKER_01: fresh in every moment, changing continuously, Unchanging from beginningless time.
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SPEAKER_01: It's only the manifestation of it that changes.
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SPEAKER_01: The inherent energy of it is always there.
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SPEAKER_01: The inherent self-clarity,
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SPEAKER_01: which is entirely unfabricated if you're making it up.
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SPEAKER_01: You're poking, you're grasping.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: If you made it up, unmake it up, put it down again.
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SPEAKER_01: This entirely unfabricated nature of mind How can you speak of not understanding
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SPEAKER_01: the nature of mind when there is nothing there to be understood or spoken of?
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SPEAKER_01: Moreover,
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SPEAKER_01: since you are meditating without finding anything
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SPEAKER_02: there to meditate on,
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SPEAKER_01: how can you say that your meditation does not go well?
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes there's a lot of thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, they can be there.
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SPEAKER_01: Will-o'-the-wisp, they aren't made of nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: They aren't going to go anywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: They aren't doing nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: So leave them be.
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SPEAKER_01: If they want to be, be.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes no thoughts want to happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't have to.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether thinking or still,
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SPEAKER_01: at all times, on all occasions, that innate life force essence is always present.
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SPEAKER_01: Since you are meditate without finding anything there to meditate on,
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SPEAKER_01: how can you say that your meditation goes poorly just because you're thinking
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SPEAKER_01: or not thinking?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, I had a good session today.
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SPEAKER_01: I just couldn't get a session going today.
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SPEAKER_01: See those two phrases?
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SPEAKER_01: You know what they have in common?
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SPEAKER_01: They're made of nam talk.
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SPEAKER_01: Thoughts, discursively.
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SPEAKER_01: How dare you believe one or the other?
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SPEAKER_01: Don't you come to me with you can't meditate.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a thought.
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SPEAKER_01: You think I haven't got any thoughts of my own?
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SPEAKER_01: I don't need yours.
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SPEAKER_01: Meditation is not to think or not to think.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of your hope
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SPEAKER_01: and your fear,
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SPEAKER_01: of your judgments and what you think it should be.
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SPEAKER_01: The story that somebody else made up and told you on Reddit.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_01: Want to buy a bridge?
1:00:04
SPEAKER_01: I got a great one out in New York.
1:00:07
SPEAKER_01: Very cheap.
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SPEAKER_01: Since your own manifest intrinsic awareness is just this,
1:00:23
SPEAKER_01: both the searcher and the search ed,
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SPEAKER_01: the searched for,
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: How can you say that you cannot find your own mind when that which is searching
1:00:35
SPEAKER_01: for your mind is your mind and that which it's searching for is your mind
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SPEAKER_01: and how can you not find yourself?
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SPEAKER_01: Where are you?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm here.
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SPEAKER_01: Find your mind with your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Boucher would say, mind, mind looking.
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SPEAKER_01: The searcher and the search head is the same, relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop running about trying to find the back of your own head.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give somebody the homework next of sticking their elbow in their ear.
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SPEAKER_01: Tibetans had me trying to do that once.
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SPEAKER_01: Secret yoga, up in the caves.
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SPEAKER_01: When this great yogi comes to me one day,
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SPEAKER_01: I say, you want to learn one of the most secret yogas?
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SPEAKER_01: It's got a secret mantra with it.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, and I realize that the bushes are giggling a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, but I'm not paying attention to this.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh, cool, because I'm new and this is this highfalutin yogi.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, very well realized.
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SPEAKER_01: Lama Kunzang Dorji, Karmagyalpo.
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SPEAKER_02: And I said, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to wear, I want to wear.
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SPEAKER_01: He says, okay, stand on one foot and put the other foot on your knee.
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SPEAKER_01: Balance.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, stick your thumb up your nostril and your elbow in your other ear and then say
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SPEAKER_01: the mantra, er, er, er, er, ooh.
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SPEAKER_01: So there I am jumping around and jump.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm jumping around on one foot with my thumb up my nose and might try
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SPEAKER_01: to get my elbow in my ear, crowing like a cock.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the bushes were really giggling.
1:02:35
SPEAKER_01: Apparently we had the whole retro out to see that one.
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SPEAKER_01: I pulled it on students occasionally in the right environment.
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SPEAKER_01: If the teaching has been too serious for too long,
1:02:48
SPEAKER_01: We get one of them jumping up,
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SPEAKER_01: one of the wannabe guys,
1:02:51
SPEAKER_01: you know,
1:02:52
SPEAKER_01: the wannabe yogis,
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SPEAKER_01: jumping up and down the middle of the room, crawling like a rooster.
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SPEAKER_01: Always breaks the tension.
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SPEAKER_01: Now I'm going to be hard-pressed to get you all that saw this, unless you'll forget.
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SPEAKER_01: You forget everything.
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SPEAKER_01: It's thoughts, you know?
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SPEAKER_01: You can't keep them.
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SPEAKER_01: The mind is just that which is thinking, the thinker.
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SPEAKER_01: Its thoughts are made of itself, inherently transparent with neither substance nor duration.
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SPEAKER_01: They're called nams.
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SPEAKER_01: When they hook together, making it complex concepts like, I'm no good at this.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a bad day for meditating.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not getting it today.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't understand this.
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SPEAKER_01: I got it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got it now.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm enlightened.
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
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SPEAKER_01: all those concepts,
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SPEAKER_01: that's when your little noms,
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SPEAKER_02: which like a patter of rain, no one raindrop is really noticeable.
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SPEAKER_01: Get hooked together with talks.
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SPEAKER_01: The hooks are called pop.
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SPEAKER_01: So all your noms get hooked and they're called nam talk,
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SPEAKER_01: which usually translate as discursive thoughts, thoughts that provide a concept.
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SPEAKER_01: And although you have searched for the thinker, how can you say that you have not found him?
1:04:52
SPEAKER_01: Just follow your thoughts home.
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SPEAKER_01: Look where they're happening.
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SPEAKER_01: That's your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: With respect to this, nowhere does there exist the one who is the cause of mental activity.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet since the activity exists,
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SPEAKER_01: thinking,
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SPEAKER_01: feeling, perceiving, you cannot say that such activity does not or should not arise.
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SPEAKER_01: Since merely allowing thoughts to settle into their own condition,
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SPEAKER_01: allow them to be exactly what they are without your hope that they are true or fear
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SPEAKER_01: that they might be true.
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SPEAKER_01: Getting involved in them.
1:05:51
SPEAKER_01: Since allowing thoughts to settle into their own condition without trying
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SPEAKER_01: to modify them in any way is sufficient, stop poking your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you get a mud puddle?
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SPEAKER_01: To be clear enough so that you can take water from it and boil it for drinking.
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SPEAKER_01: Big nasty old mud puddle.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you think you can poke it with a stick enough to clarify it?
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SPEAKER_01: No, that won't work.
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SPEAKER_00: It'll just make
1:06:29
SPEAKER_01: it muddier.
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SPEAKER_01: The more you poke the mud puddle, the muddier it gets.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone.
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SPEAKER_01: Just let it settle after a while.
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SPEAKER_01: The top layer will be quite clear.
1:06:42
SPEAKER_01: And so on down.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you can take up a few cups of it and boil them up for drinking.
1:06:57
SPEAKER_01: In case you don't have a good water source and it's been raining.
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SPEAKER_01: Your mind is like a mud puddle.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop fucking poking it.
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SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone for a while and it'll clarify.
1:07:25
SPEAKER_01: Since allowing the thoughts to settle into their own condition without trying
1:07:29
SPEAKER_01: to modify them in any way is sufficient,
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SPEAKER_01: how can you say that you are not able to remain in a calm state?
1:07:41
SPEAKER_01: Since allowing thoughts to just be as they are without trying to do anything
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SPEAKER_01: about them is sufficient.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you say that you are not able to do anything with regard to them?
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SPEAKER_01: Stop suppressing the ones you think are bad thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop stroking and entertaining the ones you think are good thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Cut it out.
1:08:08
SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone.
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SPEAKER_01: Since clarity,
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SPEAKER_01: awareness,
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SPEAKER_01: and emptiness are inseparable and spontaneously self-perfected,
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SPEAKER_01: means you don't have to create them, so stop busting your ass to try and do so.
1:08:30
SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Let go of your hopes and fears and leave your mind be and the clarity will out.
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SPEAKER_01: All by itself.
1:08:54
SPEAKER_01: How can you say that nothing is accomplished in your practice when there is nothing
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SPEAKER_01: to be accomplished in your practice?
1:09:04
SPEAKER_01: And that itself is the very accomplishment.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_01: The ceasing to try to accomplish.
1:09:13
SPEAKER_01: Since intrinsic awareness is self-originated and spontaneously self-perfected
1:09:20
SPEAKER_01: without any antecedent causes and conditions.
1:09:25
SPEAKER_01: Look, if it was something you got, you would lose it again.
1:09:30
SPEAKER_01: If it was something you created, it would come apart again.
1:09:36
SPEAKER_01: If it was something you achieved, you would unachieve it.
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SPEAKER_01: If it has a beginning, it will end.
1:09:48
SPEAKER_01: Since the true enlightenment
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SPEAKER_01: is not ending, it cannot have a beginning.
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SPEAKER_01: So stop trying to make it begin now or tomorrow or build up to it or
1:10:04
SPEAKER_01: in this session thinking you're going to get it someday.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_01: You got it.
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SPEAKER_01: Right here and right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You always have had.
1:10:22
SPEAKER_01: You're just too busy thinking and listening to your thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: Feeling and tracing the ones you liked and trying to get away from the feelings you didn't like.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_01: Phenomena constantly arose in your face and your thoughts about it and feelings
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SPEAKER_01: about it which ride your thoughts distracted it
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SPEAKER_01: Distracted you.
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SPEAKER_01: Relax and let go.
1:10:52
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to be distracted.
1:11:03
SPEAKER_01: Because it's utterly natural and always was and will be.
1:11:16
SPEAKER_01: Since intrinsic awareness is self-originated and spontaneously self-practiced
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SPEAKER_01: without any antecedent causes or conditions,
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SPEAKER_01: how can you say that you are not able to accomplish anything by your efforts?
1:11:38
SPEAKER_01: Those damn efforts.
1:11:42
SPEAKER_01: Since the arising of discursive thoughts
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SPEAKER_01: and their being liberated occur simultaneously,
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SPEAKER_01: like writing letters on the surface of water,
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SPEAKER_01: the letter happens and dissolves in the same moment.
1:12:04
SPEAKER_01: How can you say that you are unable to apply an antidote?
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SPEAKER_01: What antidote?
1:12:10
SPEAKER_01: They're gone by the time you get around to slapping a Band-Aid on them.
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SPEAKER_01: Since your own immediate awareness is just this,
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SPEAKER_01: how can you say that you do not know anything with regard to it?
1:12:36
SPEAKER_01: That was Chapter 9.
1:12:40
SPEAKER_01: Which I believe was what we were supposed to do this week.
1:12:46
SPEAKER_01: Do you have questions?
1:12:54
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so yes, there's a number of questions.
1:13:00
SPEAKER_01: One question... Give me stuff on topic.
1:13:01
SPEAKER_01: What?
1:13:02
SPEAKER_01: Give me stuff on topic.
1:13:03
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:13:04
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:13:10
SPEAKER_00: Why is Nundro recommended so often for Zogchin lineages before you see the awareness?
1:13:23
SPEAKER_01: Usually,
1:13:24
SPEAKER_01: at least my experience has been with my teacher,
1:13:28
SPEAKER_01: that when he got me, I was so damn fucked up.
1:13:32
SPEAKER_01: There was no chance I could have heard this text.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_01: Oh, for compassion to take on a crazy little kid like that monkey, they called me.
1:13:45
SPEAKER_01: Because I'd try anything anybody else did, and some of it was really weird.
1:13:49
SPEAKER_01: I
1:13:55
SPEAKER_01: mean, that's the fun when I'm out there, is I'm with all my homies.
1:13:59
SPEAKER_01: These guys grew up with me.
1:14:13
SPEAKER_01: Annie Kandro and Annie Boonchung.
1:14:18
SPEAKER_01: Chini.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_01: Womatsering.
1:14:29
SPEAKER_01: Ergin Chutu.
1:14:33
SPEAKER_01: Kalsang.
1:14:37
SPEAKER_01: Sanji.
1:14:38
SPEAKER_01: Sanji's gone now.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:14:45
SPEAKER_01: Memories of old friends.
1:14:52
SPEAKER_01: Did you give me a question?
1:14:54
SPEAKER_00: The question...
1:14:56
SPEAKER_01: I got distracted thinking of people.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, the question was about why is Nundro recommended?
1:15:06
SPEAKER_01: Because you probably need it.
1:15:09
SPEAKER_01: It's not recommended to all students by all teachers.
1:15:15
SPEAKER_01: I tend to recommend it after showing them Zogchen if they don't get it.
1:15:20
SPEAKER_01: Especially if Zogchen scares them a little bit.
1:15:24
SPEAKER_01: Means they're not ready for it.
1:15:26
SPEAKER_01: So let's give you some stuff to keep you busy until you grow up a little bit.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: Avanundro.
1:15:35
SPEAKER_01: Of one kind or another.
1:15:39
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:15:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm feeling pain in the body,
1:15:44
SPEAKER_00: and because it is ugly to feel, I react in the moment with some kind of aversion.
1:15:50
SPEAKER_00: Could someone feel pain without any aversion?
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SPEAKER_00: How could that be?
1:15:54
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hell yes.
1:15:57
SPEAKER_01: What city are you in?
1:16:02
SPEAKER_01: I'll try to send you to the nearest place where you can find a play party.
1:16:08
SPEAKER_01: I know they have them in Amsterdam...
1:16:12
SPEAKER_01: Down here in New Orleans and over in San Francisco.
1:16:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, somebody told me they had them in Chicago too.
1:16:24
SPEAKER_01: The New York ones are said to be really bad.
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SPEAKER_01: Not much fun at all.
1:16:30
SPEAKER_01: But the costumes are great.
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SPEAKER_01: Lots of people do.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_01: Come on, it's just called kink.
1:16:39
SPEAKER_01: So you don't like pain.
1:16:40
SPEAKER_01: Somebody else does like pain.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_01: Fine.
1:16:44
SPEAKER_01: These are your aversions and attractions.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: I don't quite understand.
1:16:52
SPEAKER_01: You seem to be asking the question, how can somebody like pain?
1:16:55
SPEAKER_01: And I said, go to a kink party and watch.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think it's more how they should deal with the pain as they're practicing.
1:17:03
SPEAKER_01: It's a phenomena.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_01: The first important thing is not to catastrophize.
1:17:08
SPEAKER_01: Which you do with thoughts.
1:17:11
SPEAKER_01: So, oh my God, it's pain.
1:17:13
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I hate the pain.
1:17:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wish it would go away.
1:17:16
SPEAKER_01: So you start believing those suckers.
1:17:19
SPEAKER_01: And then you're going round
1:17:20
SPEAKER_02: and round and round.
1:17:23
SPEAKER_01: Instead,
1:17:29
SPEAKER_01: when you have a pain and it gets extreme,
1:17:32
SPEAKER_01: I'm just moving the knee in such a way as to have this to talk about.
1:17:38
SPEAKER_01: Don't call it pain.
1:17:41
SPEAKER_01: I'm having a sensation in my knee.
1:17:45
SPEAKER_01: It's a little electric tingle.
1:17:48
SPEAKER_01: As well as a, oh, come on, do it again.
1:17:53
SPEAKER_01: There we go.
1:17:59
SPEAKER_00: Right at that angle.
1:18:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you don't have to call it pain.
1:18:07
SPEAKER_01: Call it warmth or cold or click.
1:18:13
SPEAKER_01: It's in how you define it with your thoughts.
1:18:19
SPEAKER_01: And you tell yourself it's bad and awful.
1:18:23
SPEAKER_00: Some people tell themselves, ooh.
1:18:29
SPEAKER_01: Let's see if we can ride this thing.
1:18:35
SPEAKER_01: It's like root beer floats and my teacher, Wang Du Rinpoche.
1:18:40
SPEAKER_01: We were traveling somewhere in the Midwest and we stopped
1:18:44
SPEAKER_01: at some ice cream place hole in the wall.
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SPEAKER_01: And somebody said, oh, I'm getting a root beer float.
1:18:51
SPEAKER_01: And Rinpoche says, what's that?
1:18:53
SPEAKER_01: He says, well, you got to try one.
1:18:54
SPEAKER_01: We'll get you one.
1:18:56
SPEAKER_01: So we got him a root beer float with vanilla ice cream because he always likes vanilla.
1:19:01
SPEAKER_01: And he takes one taste of this thing and it's like,
1:19:07
SPEAKER_01: Puts it down, fishes out his toothbrush and heads for the loo.
1:19:13
SPEAKER_01: He comes back and say, that is the nastiest thing I've ever tasted.
1:19:19
SPEAKER_01: We passed it on to someone else and got him a vanilla milkshake
1:19:22
SPEAKER_01: because we knew he liked those to get the taste out.
1:19:27
SPEAKER_01: He also never quite understood how Westerners like chocolate.
1:19:32
SPEAKER_01: I started a rumor that he loved chocolate, of course.
1:19:37
SPEAKER_00: Pass down.
1:19:43
SPEAKER_01: You will find there are sensations you like better than others.
1:19:50
SPEAKER_01: But take your pain and take the pain off it.
1:19:58
SPEAKER_01: You're having a sensation in your whatever it is or wherever it is.
1:20:08
SPEAKER_01: Now,
1:20:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to admit something is that I can only do this up to a certain level and
1:20:13
SPEAKER_01: then I have to be sitting down or lying down with it.
1:20:17
SPEAKER_01: I can go up to a five and keep doing what I'm doing.
1:20:22
SPEAKER_01: Six, maybe.
1:20:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm pushing six.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_01: But when it gets up to a seven and eight,
1:20:28
SPEAKER_01: the only way I can shift it from being a disliked pain into other sensations is
1:20:37
SPEAKER_01: to actually sit In a chair with my back straight.
1:20:46
SPEAKER_01: It's just easier.
1:20:48
SPEAKER_01: Remember way back in the beginning,
1:20:50
SPEAKER_01: I taught you all the physical positions and the eyes and the breathing
1:20:54
SPEAKER_01: for doing Dzogchen.
1:20:56
SPEAKER_01: These are not necessary.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_01: But they do make it a little bit easier to relax your body and mind.
1:21:10
SPEAKER_01: For example,
1:21:11
SPEAKER_01: if you've got the right balance with the right backrest in
1:21:14
SPEAKER_01: the right sitting position with chairs that are the right height and your hands in
1:21:19
SPEAKER_01: the right place, you won't fall over.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to put attention into holding up your body.
1:21:31
SPEAKER_01: You can relax your muscles.
1:21:48
SPEAKER_01: When you do the breathing, you're very relaxed in the diaphragm.
1:21:54
SPEAKER_01: It's similar to the breathing that people do after the skanda form has absorbed on
1:22:04
SPEAKER_01: the way to death.
1:22:09
SPEAKER_01: In the last hours,
1:22:21
SPEAKER_01: Anything that helps you relax is good,
1:22:24
SPEAKER_01: since your habit is to be unrelaxed,
1:22:28
SPEAKER_01: grasping at thoughts, feelings, sensations, phenomena.
1:22:42
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_00: What is the difference between intrinsic awareness and just plain spacing out?
1:22:53
SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic awareness doesn't come and go.
1:22:57
SPEAKER_01: Spacing out is a doing, something you do because you like to.
1:23:06
SPEAKER_01: When I just space out,
1:23:10
SPEAKER_01: there is usually a feeling, a sensation
1:23:16
SPEAKER_01: or a story.
1:23:22
SPEAKER_01: That I am spacing out into.
1:23:29
SPEAKER_01: It's not naked.
1:23:32
SPEAKER_01: It's got clothes on.
1:23:35
SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic awareness is inherently naked, always has been.
1:23:39
SPEAKER_01: And there's nothing there to put clothes onto.
1:23:45
SPEAKER_01: So you can't clothe it.
1:23:47
SPEAKER_01: Space out has clothes.
1:23:51
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:23:53
SPEAKER_00: How do we deal with thoughts about harmful actions we did in the past?
1:24:02
SPEAKER_00: Highest level.
1:24:05
SPEAKER_01: Recognize them as thoughts.
1:24:08
SPEAKER_00: With no more reality than any other.
1:24:17
SPEAKER_01: Nat Zogchen.
1:24:20
SPEAKER_01: Tantra.
1:24:21
SPEAKER_01: Confession with Vajrasattva.
1:24:27
SPEAKER_01: Kerim, make amends.
1:24:32
SPEAKER_01: Practice the six parameters.
1:24:36
SPEAKER_01: In Tantra, it's important to understand of yourself why you did the action.
1:24:44
SPEAKER_01: And important that you make the decision not to perform that action correctly.
1:24:49
SPEAKER_01: Under those circumstances again, not to make that error again.
1:24:54
SPEAKER_01: You
1:24:58
SPEAKER_01: always have to decide to make a new error next time rather than the one you made last time.
1:25:05
SPEAKER_01: You'll run out of errors eventually.
1:25:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm joking, it's infinite.
1:25:13
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:25:15
SPEAKER_00: How do we know we got it?
1:25:17
SPEAKER_00: Is there a change in attitude or way of being we can recognize in ourselves or another?
1:25:24
SPEAKER_00: Or is it, quote, only Buddhas recognize Buddhas, quote, and us humans are stuck in me, me, me?
1:25:36
SPEAKER_01: Those are thoughts.
1:25:43
SPEAKER_01: You'll never know
1:25:47
SPEAKER_01: If you think you've got it, you're having an oops.
1:25:53
SPEAKER_01: If you think you haven't got it, you're having the same oops.
1:26:00
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I think I've got it.
1:26:02
SPEAKER_01: That's a thought.
1:26:03
SPEAKER_01: It can come.
1:26:05
SPEAKER_01: It can go.
1:26:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, gone now.
1:26:07
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I think I haven't got it.
1:26:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that can do exactly the same thing as the thought that I have got it.
1:26:14
SPEAKER_01: They're not real.
1:26:14
SPEAKER_01: They're thoughts.
1:26:16
SPEAKER_01: Why would you try to pick one?
1:26:20
SPEAKER_01: Eh, you're making no sense to me.
1:26:23
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:26:25
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it sings that Rigpa is not bright enough or there isn't enough aliveness.
1:26:33
SPEAKER_00: Is this a problem?
1:26:34
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:26:35
SPEAKER_00: What should be done about it?
1:26:38
SPEAKER_01: Practice Bodhicitta.
1:26:39
SPEAKER_01: You need to use more methods to arise Bodhicitta.
1:26:45
SPEAKER_01: The brightness of Rigpa is the source of energy of the universe,
1:26:54
SPEAKER_01: the potential of Sambhogakaya,
1:26:57
SPEAKER_01: the pivot point between emptiness and manifestation,
1:27:04
SPEAKER_01: the vitality
1:27:08
SPEAKER_01: which manifests itself in phenomena
1:27:13
SPEAKER_01: as the urge to merge with
1:27:17
SPEAKER_01: Lust, love, loneliness.
1:27:29
SPEAKER_01: In the real bodhicitta, there can be no loneliness.
1:27:38
SPEAKER_01: Lust and loved are recognized and opened and spread wide.
1:27:45
SPEAKER_01: Rather than held in narrow focus of jealousy.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_01: Instead of loving your kids and letting whatever happens to the other kids happen,
1:28:12
SPEAKER_01: spread it out, spread it out.
1:28:17
SPEAKER_01: And that will increase your ability to perceive the inherent intrinsic brightness of
1:28:25
SPEAKER_01: the luminosity of the Dharmakaya.
1:28:30
SPEAKER_01: So if you're finding it a bit dull or dim or dark,
1:28:35
SPEAKER_01: go practice real bodhicitta.
1:28:39
SPEAKER_01: Methods within tantra of doing so
1:28:46
SPEAKER_01: Kerim and Tantra, I'm going to bring up in the next retreat.
1:28:49
SPEAKER_01: That's why we're doing a whole retreat on Bodhisattva.
1:28:53
SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of you are focused on the emptiness and missing the brilliance of its vitality.
1:29:03
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:29:05
SPEAKER_00: One common question has to do with recent events in Minneapolis.
1:29:11
SPEAKER_00: And I guess the question could be summed up with,
1:29:14
SPEAKER_00: How do we continue or incorporate our practice during such events?
1:29:27
SPEAKER_01: If you are there,
1:29:31
SPEAKER_01: take a stand, go out, film them, be ready to duck back.
1:29:38
SPEAKER_01: If you can't run fast, that's not your, you shouldn't be doing that.
1:29:42
SPEAKER_01: Then you do something else.
1:29:44
SPEAKER_01: From the background.
1:29:47
SPEAKER_01: Join the resistance.
1:29:48
SPEAKER_01: Take your stand.
1:29:55
SPEAKER_01: Do what you can.
1:29:56
SPEAKER_01: Remember the starfish, the little girl in the starfish.
1:30:00
SPEAKER_01: If you can save one person from them, save them.
1:30:06
SPEAKER_01: If that's a matter of delivering groceries to those who can't leave their homes, do it.
1:30:14
SPEAKER_01: That's something you can do without taking the risk if you're a slow runner.
1:30:19
SPEAKER_01: You want to be pretty fast at running to get anywhere near actual ice.
1:30:25
SPEAKER_01: Of course, they'll shoot you in the back.
1:30:32
SPEAKER_01: If you have one of those kid backpacks that's bulletproof, wear it.
1:30:43
SPEAKER_01: As for your practice, there's no change.
1:30:49
SPEAKER_01: Except being willing to act in phenomena if any plausible action is presented to you.
1:30:59
SPEAKER_01: If there's anything you can see to be done as an action of bodhicitta to help others, do it.
1:31:15
SPEAKER_01: Within your comfort of safety, some actions are more risky than others.
1:31:25
SPEAKER_01: You choose.
1:31:32
SPEAKER_01: But it would not change the practice of Sogchen, which is the union of emptiness and Bodhicitta.
1:31:45
SPEAKER_00: To sit,
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SPEAKER_01: not sit,
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SPEAKER_01: to be in the inherent nature of mind for one session
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SPEAKER_01: will in and
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SPEAKER_01: of itself create more Gewa
1:32:06
SPEAKER_01: than should a monk spend his entire life keeping
1:32:11
SPEAKER_01: the Vinaya perfectly.
1:32:14
SPEAKER_01: And copying out texts while reading them out loud, reciting them.
1:32:26
SPEAKER_01: Should a monk do that for his entire life, it would create a vast amount of Geva.
1:32:33
SPEAKER_01: But a yogi who sits for one session in the recognition of inherent of nature mind,
1:32:41
SPEAKER_01: nature of mind,
1:32:49
SPEAKER_01: Creates more gay wah.
1:32:53
SPEAKER_01: So take that when you get up
1:32:59
SPEAKER_01: and offer it to the immigrants who are suffering there.
1:33:07
SPEAKER_01: Offer them the luck you have created.
1:33:13
SPEAKER_01: Because survival for them is really just a matter of luck right now.
1:33:28
SPEAKER_01: And it's not that Zogchen will stop you from doing actions
1:33:35
SPEAKER_01: when opportunities to act arise.
1:33:37
SPEAKER_01: Do not let it do that.
1:33:39
SPEAKER_01: You're still here within the dance.
1:33:47
SPEAKER_01: I told you somewhere in Q&A the story about the beauty of the third printing
1:33:54
SPEAKER_01: of this series of Zen texts.
1:34:05
SPEAKER_01: And how the first two printings were always more beautiful.
1:34:10
SPEAKER_01: Basically, an old monk gathered money to do a reprinting of the basic texts.
1:34:17
SPEAKER_01: And when he had almost gotten enough money, there was a great storm that came through his area.
1:34:25
SPEAKER_01: And he spent the money on rebuilding the villages.
1:34:30
SPEAKER_01: And he started collecting again, gathering money.
1:34:34
SPEAKER_01: And when he'd almost got enough money,
1:34:39
SPEAKER_01: there was an incredible drought or flood,
1:34:42
SPEAKER_01: something like that came through, natural disaster.
1:34:46
SPEAKER_01: I'll have to reread the story again to get it exactly right.
1:34:50
SPEAKER_01: And he spent all the money buying food for the people.
1:34:57
SPEAKER_01: And then he started up collecting the money again.
1:35:00
SPEAKER_01: He was old by now.
1:35:02
SPEAKER_01: But in his old age, he had collected enough money and nothing happened.
1:35:06
SPEAKER_01: And he managed to print the text.
1:35:09
SPEAKER_01: Beautiful edition.
1:35:10
SPEAKER_01: One of the most beautiful editions there is of those texts out of Japan.
1:35:14
SPEAKER_01: But everybody say the first two editions were better.
1:35:20
SPEAKER_01: So
1:35:22
SPEAKER_01: should you have the opportunity to fish a bug out of a puddle, hide a refugee,
1:35:33
SPEAKER_01: Deliver food to those in need.
1:35:37
SPEAKER_01: Do not refrain using Zogchen as an excuse.
1:35:43
SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
1:35:48
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:35:51
SPEAKER_00: What's the relationship between the grabbing, shoving you spoke about and the survival instinct?
1:36:02
SPEAKER_01: That's what makes you grab and shove.
1:36:05
SPEAKER_01: You know what overcomes the survival instinct?
1:36:09
SPEAKER_01: The mating urge.
1:36:12
SPEAKER_01: Look at teenage boys on motorcycles showing off for girls.
1:36:18
SPEAKER_01: Mating urge has definitely overcome the survival instinct.
1:36:24
SPEAKER_01: Look at teenage girls on a cobblestone street going down to the pubs in four-inch heels.
1:36:34
SPEAKER_01: Mating instinct has overrode the common sense of survival.
1:36:44
SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta, which will manifest as the mating instinct strong in teenagers.
1:36:55
SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta.
1:36:55
SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta.
1:37:01
SPEAKER_01: Overcomes the survival instinct.
1:37:03
SPEAKER_01: It's the only thing that does.
1:37:07
SPEAKER_01: So if you want to be able to stop grabbing and shoving, practice Moda Sita.
1:37:14
SPEAKER_01: Full instructions coming up.
1:37:18
SPEAKER_01: After Mardi Gras.
1:37:22
SPEAKER_01: I think it's the weekend after.
1:37:24
SPEAKER_01: There'll be a few hangovers, but still.
1:37:29
SPEAKER_01: I think one more question, then we're about to time.
1:37:34
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:37:35
SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
1:37:36
SPEAKER_00: There's, that is not the correct app.
1:37:39
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
1:37:43
SPEAKER_00: Would you please speak about Ropa?
1:37:45
SPEAKER_00: Is it the laughter one finds in Sambodacaya?
1:37:52
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:37:56
SPEAKER_01: We say the playfulness of the Dharmakaya is the Sambhogakaya, Nermanakaya.
1:38:06
SPEAKER_01: The laughter,
1:38:07
SPEAKER_01: that little potential giggle that is not quite actualized
1:38:12
SPEAKER_01: in Sambhogakaya actualizes itself as laughter in Nermanakaya.
1:38:21
SPEAKER_01: You also should work on developing a sense of humor.
1:38:25
SPEAKER_01: Not just for Dharma, for life.
1:38:31
SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ, without a sense of humor, you're not going to have a good time.
1:38:40
SPEAKER_01: Work on it.
1:38:42
SPEAKER_01: Find the fun in yourself.
1:38:52
SPEAKER_01: If any of you
1:39:22
SPEAKER_01: Wish to mix your practice with one of our yogis
1:39:27
SPEAKER_01: or support the literacy
1:39:31
SPEAKER_01: of our local library where monks,
1:39:35
SPEAKER_01: scholars, lay people, Indians, Kunuris, Ladakhis, Tibetans, and everybody.
1:39:42
SPEAKER_01: It's the only place with access to books nearby for free.
1:39:46
SPEAKER_01: If you wish to support that,
1:39:51
SPEAKER_01: Send me an email and I will put you through to the right context to arrange to do so.
1:40:02
SPEAKER_01: Any other announcements?
1:40:04
SPEAKER_00: You might mention translators.
1:40:07
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:40:08
SPEAKER_00: We have quite a few languages.
1:40:10
SPEAKER_01: Okay, this went out in a number of languages and we have many translators.
1:40:16
SPEAKER_01: If you are listening to this in a language other than English,
1:40:22
SPEAKER_01: You would not be listening to this in that language if it weren't for
1:40:25
SPEAKER_01: the volunteer translators.
1:40:28
SPEAKER_01: You need to support them and keep them warm and fed so that they can continue to translate.
1:40:34
SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of work.
1:40:36
SPEAKER_01: So please support your translators.
1:40:40
SPEAKER_01: If you can, give them a gift.
1:40:46
SPEAKER_01: If you cannot, at least send them an email thanking them.
1:40:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
1:40:53
SPEAKER_01: It matters.
1:40:57
SPEAKER_01: Because we need them for those of you who are more comfortable listening to this in
1:41:04
SPEAKER_01: a language other than English.
1:41:08
SPEAKER_01: And thank you.
1:41:09
SPEAKER_01: We are complete for today.
1:41:13
SPEAKER_01: I think nothing's happened.
1:41:15
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember what's up next.
1:41:19
SPEAKER_01: I think the Bodhisattva Retreat, Bodhisitta Retreat.
1:41:23
SPEAKER_00: The link for that should be on the teaching calendar.
1:41:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you go find that on the teaching calendar because it's a sign-up,
1:41:29
SPEAKER_01: it's a retreat, so I don't take much more than 50 people at a time.
1:41:34
SPEAKER_01: It's a bunch of active practices.
1:41:38
SPEAKER_01: Okay, we're complete, Nyando.
1:41:43
SPEAKER_01: Bye, guys.