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[8/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 6 (Nov 2020) · Lama Lena Teachings

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  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you're in here.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you may want to put this up again.
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  SPEAKER_01: This one.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: You already have it.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: I already have it, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is Flight of the Garuda continuing,
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  SPEAKER_01: and it will be continuing,
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  SPEAKER_01: although I'm going to take a little break from public teachings after this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: We will be doing some breakout groups on Zoom,
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  SPEAKER_01: but there'll be a few weeks now with no full public teachings,
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  SPEAKER_01: I expect, and need a little break.
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  SPEAKER_01: However,
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  SPEAKER_01: For you Americans,
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  SPEAKER_01: tomorrow night and the third,
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  SPEAKER_01: tomorrow being Tuesday the 2nd, in the evening at 6 p.m., California time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the next day at 11 a.m., we will be doing ceremony towards keeping this election honest.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that your vote will actually count.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not enough this time just to vote.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your vote actually has to be counted as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vote early if that is available to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anything that gets into the post office from now on may not be counted.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're voting by post, go find a place to drop it off.
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  SPEAKER_01: Things are funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are able in the state you're in to track your vote, do so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Make sure it counts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we will do what we can working with spirits of place.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tara, especially Moonlight Tara, who is a specific To good decisions and good government.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Ekizati, Queen of the Mamos and the Mamos.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's perhaps time to pull out the big guns.
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  SPEAKER_01: And do from a different Sambhogakaya level what we can towards this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Join me here on YouTube and Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_01: Usually, llamas stay out of politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: Me, I stay out of Tibetan politics,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are just as messy, don't be surprised, as American politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've had good laughs with other Tibetan llamas about the sheer messiness
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  SPEAKER_01: of both Tibetan and Western politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the only difference I can tell is Tibetans use poison and we use guns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same difference.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, normally, we stay out of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But at this point,
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  SPEAKER_01: there seems to be a strong dishonocence between Sori and Rime
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  SPEAKER_01: in both systems.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the right to vote in the Tibetan system, but I do in the American one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sori is tight, lineage-based.
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  SPEAKER_01: My lineage is the only right one.
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  SPEAKER_01: My way is the only right one.
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  SPEAKER_01: My people, my race is the best one and the only real one, the only real people.
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  SPEAKER_01: That tightness
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  SPEAKER_01: It creates stress in the environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Destroying the ecology creates stress in the environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Destroying the
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  SPEAKER_01: open-mindedness of a culture creates stress in the environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stress is Digpa.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stress is negative.
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  SPEAKER_01: Open-hearted, open-mindedness is Gawa.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never expected a political vote to be between Gawa and Digpa.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so in the past have pretty much stayed out of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: although placed my vote according to my culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we seem to be up against the wall here in America.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will encourage you to vote Rime.
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  SPEAKER_01: Open-minded, open-heartedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not for strife,
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  SPEAKER_01: stress,
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  SPEAKER_01: harm to the environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Harm to people by category.
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  SPEAKER_01: I say that as Lama Lena,
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  SPEAKER_01: an individual
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  SPEAKER_01: who is aware
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  SPEAKER_01: that this individual with its belief systems and opinions
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  SPEAKER_01: Is but an illusion and a dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: Still within the dream one dances one's dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to singular and group karma, it cannot be otherwise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Join me in ceremony and by voting.
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  SPEAKER_01: I ask this of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: As Dana.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dzogchen jupay lamala sol wadib.
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  SPEAKER_01: Urgen bhaema junila sol wadib.
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  SPEAKER_01: Durje chang chitilo narodang, marpa mila gompo tsa tsa pa.
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  SPEAKER_01: Na pupa dang palden drupasop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Argyu Lama Namla Sol Va Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Va Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Drudchen Lama Namla Sol Va Deb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shakchen Lama Namla Sol Va A-dev,
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  SPEAKER_01: Nyen-do-dang-yung-drun-lama-nam-la-sol-wa-ha-dev.
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  SPEAKER_01: Al-kwan-do-jong-dang-yer-me-pa, Gan-garab-dur-ji-jintrat-pa,
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  SPEAKER_01: You may notice
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  SPEAKER_01: that my lineage prayers are Rimei.
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  SPEAKER_01: In all five lineages of Tibet, I honor as well as Druid and Cherokee
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  SPEAKER_01: and so many others.
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  SPEAKER_01: The basis is Bodhicitta.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without that,
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  SPEAKER_01: None of the rest of us,
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  SPEAKER_01: none of our mandala
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  SPEAKER_01: functions towards open-hearted, open-mindedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't sit there attempting to pretend that you're an isolate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just you, a thing, a lump, a pile, a singular.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your entire mandala affects your thoughts,
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  SPEAKER_01: feelings, behaviors, which affects your entire mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's interconnected, interpenetrating.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your heap of skandhas
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  SPEAKER_01: arises in a context Of culture,
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  SPEAKER_01: of experiences, none of which have a solid real reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't sit on them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thoughts, feelings,
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  SPEAKER_01: and yet you experience them
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  SPEAKER_01: as your mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: The phenomena of your experience
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  SPEAKER_01: The stuff with which you are surrounded.
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  SPEAKER_01: Too much?
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  SPEAKER_01: Not enough?
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  SPEAKER_01: Need more?
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  SPEAKER_01: Need less?
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  SPEAKER_01: And you're constant poking at that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adjusting it,
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  SPEAKER_01: cleaning it, dusting it, getting rid of some of it, adding more of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not this with all that out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: All together with your thoughts and feelings about it,
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  SPEAKER_01: that's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So don't make yourself so small
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  SPEAKER_01: in your anxiety,
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  SPEAKER_01: in your Fervent scrabbling to exist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let yourself expand to the fullness of your potential.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's easy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's simply a matter that you stop fighting it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop scrabbling to stay on top of the heap.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are the whole heap.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's with this top and bottom?
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop trying to be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a perfect dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pattern.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shown in this chapter seven of Flight of the Garuda is the pattern of the mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: The mandala which you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: You and everyone else around you, not around you.
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  SPEAKER_01: To the extent of infinity in all directions,
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  SPEAKER_01: Know this, as far as your imagination extends, your mind extends.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as far as your mind extends, Dharmakaya extends.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the clear light nature of that, the Sambhogakaya,
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  SPEAKER_01: the symbols of inner phenomena,
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  SPEAKER_01: Arising in manifestation as nirmanakaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: The symbols of outer phenomena.
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  SPEAKER_01: So do not fight to avoid thinking and feeling.
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  SPEAKER_01: For it is the very vitality Which is inherent in you and all life,
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  SPEAKER_01: the life force of the universe referred to as the clear light nature
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  SPEAKER_01: of infinite openness.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Sambhogakaya nature of the Dharmakaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is this very nature which manifests
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  SPEAKER_01: As all that is and all that is not.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all that is is all that is not.
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  SPEAKER_01: And isn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the spheres of ultimate reality where is's and isn't's aren't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beyond words and concepts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where the play of thoughts and feelings,
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  SPEAKER_01: words and concepts and how you feel about them arises as the dance of nothing
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  SPEAKER_01: and nowhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what we are pointing at with this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_01: A way of seeing,
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  SPEAKER_01: way of categorizing your emotional mandala.
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  SPEAKER_01: The mandala of your feelings,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are so interwoven with your thoughts,
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  SPEAKER_01: both made of the same not thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Without substance or duration,
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  SPEAKER_01: they arise and vanish,
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  SPEAKER_01: dancing like the rika in the sky,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are not actually
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  SPEAKER_01: thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be a glasses day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Clean the smudge off your glasses and see things as they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rather than as you think they are, hope they will be, fear they might be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your hopes and fears are simply a symptom of your aliveness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't disparage them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't grasp them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let the dance dance itself
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  SPEAKER_01: in the motionless,
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  SPEAKER_01: open awareness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since the primordial awareness of self-existing total presence manifests
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  SPEAKER_01: as everything whatsoever, this awareness is the pure being of the creator, Verojana.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since it is the unchanging and unchangeable,
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  SPEAKER_01: it is the pure being of the immutable diamond, Vajrasattva, Akshobhya.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since it is without center or circumference,
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  SPEAKER_01: it is the pure being of the boundless light form Amitabha Opame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since it is also the gem that is the source of supreme realization
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  SPEAKER_01: and relative powers, it is the pure being of the fountain of jewels Ratna Sambhava.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since it accomplishes all aspiration,
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  SPEAKER_01: it is the pure being of the fulfiller of All, Ambition, Amogociti.
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  SPEAKER_01: These Buddha deities are nothing but the creative power of total presence.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the north, green color, symbols.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm giving you symbols, not a reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Symbols, handles to lift it by.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the north, the green of Amogociti.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where your emotions of jealousy,
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  SPEAKER_01: of competition,
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  SPEAKER_01: of trying to stand on top of the heap,
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  SPEAKER_01: the old crab bucket,
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  SPEAKER_01: arise as all accomplishing wisdom, which is not
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  SPEAKER_01: A matter of intent.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet is a matter of intent,
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  SPEAKER_01: for it is controlled,
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  SPEAKER_01: if control there be, by monlam, this chakra, repetition, statement.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will recognize my own true nature for the sake of all beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will recognize my own true nature for the sake of all beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will recognize my own true nature for the sake of all beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will recognize my own true nature for the sake of all beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a monlam.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have just created the cause.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amogociti, all accomplishing wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the East,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Vajra jewel, unshakable, unchangeable, of Akshobhya, also known as Dorjisempa.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same, different symbols, same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: All your hope,
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  SPEAKER_01: your fear,
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  SPEAKER_01: your anger when your hopes you don't get what you want, how angry you feel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your fear that someone will take what you want, take what you have.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your fear that you're not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your hope, your anger at those who point out to you that you are not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: All this, let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go of the thoughts that support the feelings of anger and anxiety which flip
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  SPEAKER_01: into each other with great ease.
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  SPEAKER_01: See the mirror-like wisdom of equanimity.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you let go of fear and anger,
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  SPEAKER_01: equanimity remains.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the curtain,
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  SPEAKER_01: the smooch that covers your natural equanimity,
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  SPEAKER_01: that allows you to be resilient to roll with the punches,
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  SPEAKER_01: To experience life fully without scrinching it in fear and anger,
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  SPEAKER_01: in anxiety and blame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go of all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go of whose fault?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not aimed at anyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just escaping on the run.
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  SPEAKER_01: Old Dylan quote, I show my age.
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  SPEAKER_01: Relax.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go of your fear and anger and all the stories you tell yourself with
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  SPEAKER_01: a little voice in hot side that supports it.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you let it go,
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  SPEAKER_01: it is no thing in nowhere and what remains is the unshakable, adamantine equanimity.
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  SPEAKER_01: It always was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the South, the wishful filling jewel, let go of your not enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all have a not enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have enough time.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have enough energy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have enough surface area.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's always mine.
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  SPEAKER_01: No matter how big a desk you give me, I will cover it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not enough time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not enough energy to get it all done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not enough money.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not enough love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is plenty of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you stop scrabbling to get enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: And have you not noticed when you chase things, they run?
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  SPEAKER_01: An experiment I used to recommend when we could go out and about,
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  SPEAKER_01: that one goes to a bar where people mate.
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  SPEAKER_01: We used to call them fern bars.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's probably such a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: When one is not interested in mating, because one has someone, one is simply angry for sex.
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  SPEAKER_01: Serious desire to meet someone of interest, really wanting that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They all run away.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody talks to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It works really well if such places still exist in these times.
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  SPEAKER_01: Money's like that too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Money likes money.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you have enough money, more money will come towards you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you suffer poverty,
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  SPEAKER_01: you will continue to experience the sufferings of poverty and it will run away.
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  SPEAKER_01: And every time you get a little bit, there's so many things you want.
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  SPEAKER_01: You spend it quickly and you're broke again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rather than the sensation of having enough, which permits it to accumulate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you see how all of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: your sense of poverty,
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  SPEAKER_01: of scrabbling to get more and it's never enough and the bills are overwhelming
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  SPEAKER_01: and you can't quite do it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you see how this is a feeling?
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  SPEAKER_01: There have been times when I have had a lot of money and it wasn't enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there have been times when I have had not a penny and it was plenty.
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  SPEAKER_01: My sense of poverty and wealth was not based on a number.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a feeling.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wishful filling jewel is a sitter which arises from renunciation.
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  SPEAKER_01: From not wanting all and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: All and everything wants you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the southern direction of Rathmasambhava.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the wish-fulfilling jewel.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want that magic power?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're going to hurt yourself with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shall I tell you how to get it?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's very simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't want anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Live in that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Without desire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Satisfied with whatever comes by and arises for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give it a month of remaining in that feeling.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the power arises from that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quite simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, it will wear off the moment you start wanting anything and spend it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's a fun experiment if you're willing to go through the wealth,
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  SPEAKER_01: poverty, wealth, poverty cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you have to really feel it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to spend a month, moon cycle or two, not having a single desire.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the wish-fulfilling jewel will arise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I spent it on clothes and men,
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  SPEAKER_01: fantasized to rise them to great wealth until,
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  SPEAKER_01: of course, the powers wore off and I found myself working three jobs.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Kathmandu.
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  SPEAKER_01: To support the wardrobe, the dry cleaner, the mansion, the men.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was a stupid kid.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you can try it if you want.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not my fault when it ends.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the western direction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vitality that pervades all directions in the entire universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Opame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amitabha.
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  SPEAKER_01: The light behind the sunset, the light that never goes out.
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  SPEAKER_01: The vitality that pervades life and allows movement.
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  SPEAKER_01: Opame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love.
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  SPEAKER_01: The instinct that counters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Closed minded, closed hearted, just me and isolate.
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  SPEAKER_01: The instinct to love, to mate.
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  SPEAKER_01: The urge to merge, to join your life with another, not to be alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: The loneliness that pervades that.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of it, the dance of life force.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta, also known as guru yoga.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: For when you take refuge in all Buddhas of the four times, in the awareness
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: That all beings of the three realms will have arisen as all Buddhas of
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: the four times beyond time and space.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: It is such.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: And in this knowing, Bodhisitta and Guru Yoga come together.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: And the ultimate Bodhisitta,
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: where separation between self and other It's only a dance of dreams,
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: temporary and changing.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: The symbol of Amitabha,
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: the symbol of the incomparably bright light that pervades the universe,
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: by which the seer sees the vitality by which awareness is aware,
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: the very lucidity that underlies all life.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: Opame.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: And in the center,
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: Verojana,
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Kuntuzangpo,
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Kuntuzangmo,
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: the infinite open,
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: vast, unmeasurable,
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: empty of even center and edge, Dharmakaya nature of mind,
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: The unlimitedness of the universe.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: This exhaustion that you're feeling from the stressors of COVID and politics,
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: this is itself that when you stop fighting it, relax, let be.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: Allow the playfulness of the shimmering sparkle of the Nirmanakaya
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: to arise naturally without forcing it.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: Relax.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: When you cease to fight exhaustion, it is openness.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: Feelings do not need to be fought with.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: Do not need to be distracted from.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: Leave them be as they are and allow this mandala to dance.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: The primal awareness of total presence.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: Mirror-like Vajra awareness.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because of the manifest clarity, it is unobstructed essence.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: It is awareness of the sameness of taste because it is all pervasive.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is discriminating awareness.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because the entire gamut of diverse appearances manifest from its creativity.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: It is the awareness that accomplishes all action because it fulfills all our ambition.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: It is awareness of the reality continuum, the Dharma Datu, the Dharmata.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_01: Svabhavakaya, Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya is a single thing.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because the single essence of all these aspects of awareness is primal purity.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeshi.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, sorry.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: Kata.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_01: The white scarf you offer.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: The very best of yourself.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Your own innate unfuck-up-ableness.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: Which is right there under all the fucked up dreams.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: And when you know you're dreaming,
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: what you dream doesn't matter.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in the awareness of katak.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: Not so much as an atom exists apart from these.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Which are the dance of creativity, of intrinsic awareness.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Questions?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there are questions.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Give me
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: a few.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, there was an interesting gun.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: In the American Native cultures, there is the Thunderbird.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: Is that concept related to Garuda?
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: It may well be.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: Garuda is the bird which flies so fast.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: It can be in two places at once.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: I am less familiar with the Thunderbird.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: Is it in two places at once?
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: I know it is the power of the storm, which we speak of as dragons.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: I have always thought of Thunderbird as relating to dragons.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: Quote from a chapter in here.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like the great roar of a dragon.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic awareness permeates both Samsara and Nirvana.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_01: How can you possibly miss it?
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's loud.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do Garuda's two wings represent creating a balance in the view?
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Not that I have ever heard or read.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: The reason this text is named Flight of the Garuda is because it leads
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: to enlightenment instantaneously.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like the Garuda who flies so fast as to be in two places at once,
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Just that fast does this show you the totality of yourself, your own true nature.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean by mandala?
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do you mean a blueprint of a certain pattern representing a deity?
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, deep word.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_01: It can mean that.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: But what does that point at?
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about what a certain blueprint,
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: talking about the pattern of the mandala of a certain deity.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking here about what that means to you.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: Your surroundings are your mandala.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: You are made of, changed by...
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: For example, how do you feel?
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you sitting?
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: How are you right now?
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: What are you thinking?
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now,
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: if the police came right now and broke down your door and dragged you off to jail,
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: you would not feel or be thinking the same things.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: You would be different.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_01: Your surroundings are not separate from you.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: You are made of them and they are made of you if that were to happen.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, how terrible.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, cool.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_01: I was bored anyway with this COVID shit.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: I get an adventure.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: You could interpret either one of those or many other ways.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so that interpretation would be the reality of your experience.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot in the reality of your experience break group karma.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless, the sensations of your karma of your sense organs will arise.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: There is a practice,
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_01: end stage practice,
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: where you sit there in certain specific positions
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: and allow all the sensations of
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: the sense organs to arise and dissipate without grabbing or poking a single one
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: of them.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: And it takes a while.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: A number of moon cycles.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: And leads to full rainbow body.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: Because you create no patterns and allow the patterns of your karma and
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: the patterns around you to run down can only be done,
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: however, in the proper mandala.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_01: Since the group karma of
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: the people there probably does not include perceiving someone enter rainbow body.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_01: And you are not other than your mandala.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: In the mandala, why are Zenith and Nader not represented as directions?
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: I guess up and down?
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because Tibetans seem to think they're absolutes.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: Heaven is above and hell is below and everything stacks in the Tibetan way
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_01: of describing the universe.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore,
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: using them would
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: include,
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: using up and down would include perceptions of good and bad.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: Which is not what we're trying to show here.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: Inevitably,
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: in the Tibetan way of describing the universe,
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: which is cultural, useful, damn useful, but yes, cultural.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: Up is good and down is bad and they're real.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_01: Earth is flat.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_01: Mountain in the middle, four continents.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: Iron fence around the outside of the ocean.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a different way of perceiving.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: Did Galileo, did he
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: discover or did he invent
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: around Earth?
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_00: Contemplate that.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_00: Earlier you used a special word for tightness versus... Sortie.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: Sortie.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: How is that word spelled?
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, in English?
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: Sortie?
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_01: It means sectarianism in its common usage, but it also refers to any us and them limitations.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: Us good, them bad that people impose on the mandala.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: I spell it in various ways.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_01: I have not seen it written in Tibetan, only used verbally.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's the opposite of Rime.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: Perhaps someone out there is a scholar and knows how it's spelled in Tibetan
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: and we can look up the Wiley.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think it is P.S.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's a Pata Sata with a narrow
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_01: End of something like a K or a G, silent letter, end of syllable.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: Rata, no, Sata, Rata, Kiku, with possibly an H on the end.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of me guessing phonetically in Tibetan.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe one of you can look it up for me.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_00: A question people had about the upcoming ceremonies.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: What materials or texts will you be working on for that?
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to be working from the Suryagupta lineage of the 21 Taras.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to work from a memorized mantra with Ekizati and I'm going to offer to
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_01: the land spirits with one that's up on the web page.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_01: If you wish to do it with me, you should have a
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_01: Bag or big plate of cookies, a serchim, a dorgi and a bell.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_01: And there will be times when you fill the serchim and take it out.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_01: Or you could have, let's see, one, two, three serchims.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_01: You also want an image of Tara.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: The specific one, Moonlight Tara from Suryagupta.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_01: Which I will put up online when I do this.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_01: And set up your altar nicely with the proper bowls and the substance in each bowl.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_01: A bumpa you'll want.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: And your bumpa should have a white or a green ribbon.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_01: Pale in color.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: And an image stuck to the peacock feathers of the proper Tara.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't think you guys know how to make a Latour.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to make one in the morning.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: So a statue of any Tara.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I should send you all an image today.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: Nyando, hand me my Tara text.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: The green brocade over there.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_01: You can download the Land Spirit Puja ceremony from my website.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: The Ekizadi I'm not teaching you.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to do that.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_01: You can follow along.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_01: You'll want to search him if you're going to follow along with that.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: Come here.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's not it.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's not it.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just find it.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's in here.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, and I'm out of order.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_00: This outfit happens to humans.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_01: The gremlins have been at my text again.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I turn into a gremlin and fish about in here.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's 20, 15, 18.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_01: It looks like her.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's 12.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, Tara, I know you're here.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, there's number three.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_01: There she is.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: And now it's even more out of order because I just fished this out.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_01: What have I got for an image?
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_01: Not the best.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, hang on.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_01: What'd you do, just fish out the wrong one?
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was either number two or number 20.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's not number 20.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder, that's the image I like best, although we have a number of images here.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_01: This is pretty clear.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I have two images.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_01: Tara, Radiant Like Moonlight.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_01: So the small one,
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_01: even though it's harder to see,
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think is really nice standing because she's doing things.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, other side.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: And here's a maybe clearer image.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_01: Keep all those papers together.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we may have posted her already.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'll double check.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_01: We have at some point.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_01: There's also another set of images online of her that are drawn in the Indian system.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_01: Since this is an Indian one, very nice.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_01: Who did those?
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: Zong Sarkensi Rinpoche.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_01: You can Google.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, we do have it up.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'll post the link.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: Images of the 21 Taras.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_01: You have the... Of this specific one.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_01: You can post the link.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, post that now so people have time to print.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_01: The other ones, Google Kensei Rinpoche Suryagupta 21 Tara images.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_01: There's also some up there by Tsen Rinpoche, but I avoid that site.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's sticky with Tibetan politics.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: American politics are bad enough.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: Do we have another question?
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_00: If we don't grab or poke at emotions,
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: if we let them appear without thinking about them, is it okay to be aware of them?
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_00: Does this dissipate the karma?
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't grasp them or shove them,
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_01: if you don't try to make them go away,
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_01: and if you
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_01: see the nature of thought while thinking the thoughts involved in them,
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: allowing those thoughts to dissipate,
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_01: leaving you with a naked emotion that doesn't even have a name for the name of
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: the emotion, stress, anxiety, grouchiness, are all thoughts.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: So you let the thoughts involved and entangled with the emotion arise in their own nature.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_01: Sopa, third word of Garibdorji.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: While feeling the sensation of the emotion and not bothering about it,
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_01: not trying to make it go away, not trying to relieve it, not trying to act on it.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_01: Leave it be as it is.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to do an entire weekend retreat on that early December.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: Working with emotions.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: You would sign up for that on the webpage.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: The places are limited.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: I've done that before here online, and we'll do it from time to time.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's one that I like to give some individual attention with,
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_01: which is why I limit the number of people.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: In listing the materials for the upcoming ceremonies you mentioned to search him, what is that?
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_01: This is a searchant.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's used for offerings.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hand me a blue glass and a little, a blue, tiny blue plate and a
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_00: little blue glass?
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't have one of these,
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: or if you only have one and need more than one for what you're doing,
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: a jury rigs something like this.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_01: Which is a shop glass, pretty blue shop glass and a pretty blue plate.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't have to be blue, just nice.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you can rig a serchem if you don't have one.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_01: Just as you can rig a bumpa.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is a bumpa.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_01: Would you hand me a small teapot from the windowsill?
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone?
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that one's fine.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is a jury-rigged Boomba.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: I would cut the flower down further and I would use some kind of edible plant.
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_01: I would cut it down further so it didn't tip everything over like this.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: I would use a sprig of juniper
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_01: fennel, which grows like a weed all over the place.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I would fill it with saffron water if I had some.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_01: Or with the best water I had,
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_01: I would add any blessed medicine which I happened to have to the filling.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: Or magic pills.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how you jury rigabonga.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_01: We'll do it all really slow so you can follow along.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and a couple of people were concerned about not having the correct items
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_00: or materials, but...
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: It seems you can improvise things.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_01: If you do not have a Dorjean bell, bring a drum.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_01: And when I ring my damaru, beat your drum.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_01: And bring any bell.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: And when I ring my bell, ring your bell.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_01: Somewhere in your house, you've probably got a bell.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't have a bell, hand me a wine glass.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just grab this.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_01: This is how you jury rig a bell.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_01: Hand me from the cupboard a tin can with anything in it.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_01: This is a can of beans.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_01: Empty would be better.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is a bell, I mean a drum.
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_01: You can jury-rig all these things.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: Let me take that back.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, thank you, Nyando.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, I want to tell you a story.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_01: When I first came to the caves, there were only a dozen yogis scattered on two mountains.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yogis and yoginis.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_01: And we would get together and practice chud and different things,
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_01: different ceremonies in this big cave.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_01: That really wasn't finished yet.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it was open.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just a big rock, flat rock.
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  SPEAKER_01: We dug out under it and, you know, had maybe some wood to sit on.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we would be under there as the new guy.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was on the end, the far end.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now, slowly over, you know, 50 years, I've moved up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm near the front.
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  SPEAKER_01: But at that time, I was on the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if it rained when we were doing ceremony, half of me would get wet.
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  SPEAKER_01: We didn't have drums.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_01: We were too poor.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_01: We barely had robes and they were in tatters.
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  SPEAKER_01: We wore blankets.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: We had an old biscuit tin and a stick with a rag tied around one end to make it a thumper.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_01: And we used that as the drum.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_01: And we had two metal plates That someone had drilled holes in and tied strings to
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_01: with like buttons.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_01: And we used the old dented plates.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: We used those as symbols.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_01: And man, the energy we used to generate in that puja
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_01: was incredible.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_01: Jury rigged works.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_00: Next.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Trektia practice, can we also relax our view in the sky?
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, to speak,
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  SPEAKER_01: to be honest,
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  SPEAKER_01: I often sit on my front porch and sit and do Trektia watching traffic go by
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  SPEAKER_01: because it really doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: What the sensations your sense organs are having.
• 1:02:49
  SPEAKER_01: Treksha isn't about the sensations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And can you give brief instructions on practicing Treksha?
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_01: There are the teachings of the body.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_01: Or the instructions of the body,
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  SPEAKER_01: the instructions of the speech, and the instructions of the mind.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_01: All three are extremely important.
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  SPEAKER_01: They relate in the same order to Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Dharmakaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all three must come together.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_01: The instructions of the body involve your energy channels,
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  SPEAKER_01: how to hold them so that it's easy in the beginning.
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_01: Once you are experienced at Treksha,
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  SPEAKER_01: you can do it in any old position and you will be able to see,
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  SPEAKER_01: perceive what is different in the different positions and what isn't.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: But in the beginning, Why make it hard for yourself?
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_01: Follow the instructions.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get all crazy creative.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_01: You're just giving yourself a hard time.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_01: We know this works.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_01: You want to try it standing on your head?
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_01: Let me know if it worked.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_01: Probably,
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_01: but it will be a lot easier to do it sitting in either the Vajra Asana,
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  SPEAKER_01: lotus position,
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  SPEAKER_01: With your left foot up on your right thigh and your right foot up
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  SPEAKER_01: on your left thigh,
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  SPEAKER_01: sitting cross-legged on a cushion,
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_01: with your left hand brought into your lap about four fingers width below the navel,
• 1:04:47
  SPEAKER_01: dan tien in Chinese,
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  SPEAKER_01: and your right hand sitting on top of it like sitting on a carpet.
• 1:04:55
  SPEAKER_01: Your elbows are slightly out and your shoulders are slightly forward.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_01: If you are doing the Maitreya position,
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_01: you are sitting in an ergonomic type office chair or a chair that functions as such
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_01: for you in which it is not too tall,
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_01: not too short,
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  SPEAKER_01: and the seat is not slanted so that your feet are flat on the floor,
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  SPEAKER_01: your calves are directly up and down perpendicular to the floor,
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_01: and your thighs are parallel to the floor.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_01: Your hands are placed on your thighs towards the knee, bringing your shoulders forward.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_01: You make a double chin.
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  SPEAKER_01: You allow your gaze to follow the line of your nose outward and down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Falling naturally where it falls and then unfocus your eyeballs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Release your habitual point focus of looking at this or that with your eyes.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is the teaching of the body.
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  SPEAKER_01: Follow these instructions exactly.
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_01: The teaching of the speech is much simpler.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_01: Simply shut up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop talking to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop putting everything in words and describing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Relax your speech.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shut up.
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  SPEAKER_01: The teachings of the mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Release the point focus of your attention
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  SPEAKER_01: where you are paying singular attention
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  SPEAKER_01: to what you are thinking, feeling, or perceiving.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is your usual.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Open wide your attention into the not place
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  SPEAKER_01: Where the thoughts are occurring.
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  SPEAKER_01: Follow your thoughts home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let go of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just as you relaxed, your eyeballs from point focus relax your attention.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_01: Do not pay attention to what you are thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let your attention open wide into where the thoughts be happening.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_01: And relax there.
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_01: These are the simple Short version of the instructions of how to enter structure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Practice it.
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_01: Don't talk to yourself about it.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: Shut up and practice.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_01: Do not try to stop thinking, just try to stop speaking the thoughts vocally.
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  SPEAKER_01: Release the words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Release your attention to the words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just relax into this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Outstretch you, cutting through.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_01: Somewhere in this pile is a pair of glasses.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is why I have glasses scattered here and there.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Here's another pair.
• 1:10:43
  SPEAKER_01: It'll turn up.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_01: When a pointed finger introduces you directly and immediately to the three kaya.
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  SPEAKER_01: Essence, nature and responsiveness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Essence, infinite open awareness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nature of vitality that pervades that awareness, that infinite openness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Responsiveness, the dance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of arising and vanishing in which no thing occurs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the five Buddhas and the five aspects of awareness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mirror-like wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wish-fulfilling jewel of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wisdom of Bodhicitta.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wisdom
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  SPEAKER_01: of all accomplishing
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  SPEAKER_01: and the infinite openness in which it all dances.
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  SPEAKER_01: All together,
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  SPEAKER_01: all as the singular multiplicity of the mandala that thinks it's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you.
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  SPEAKER_01: All that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not an entity.
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  SPEAKER_01: More even than an ecology.
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  SPEAKER_01: All that is and all that is not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wakantanga.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then what is experienced is brilliant,
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  SPEAKER_01: awakened total presence,
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  SPEAKER_01: unaffected by circumstance and uninfluenced by clinging thought.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is cognition of the here and now, unstructured and unaffected.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: All Buddhas of the three aspects of time arise from this total presence as this total presence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Constantly identify yourself with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not out there somewhere you're going to worship it, big daddy in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's you we're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beloved sons and
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  SPEAKER_01: daughters, you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because this is the spirituality of all Buddhas of the three aspects of time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Total presence is unstructured.
• 1:14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Natural radiance of your own mind.
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say you can't see the Buddha?
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  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing at all to meditate upon in it.
• 1:14:33
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you complain that you're not having success at meditation?
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  SPEAKER_01: Eh?
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is manifest total presence, your own mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that you can't find it?
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's you, the thinker.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feeler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Perceiveer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ya that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ya are that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a stream of unceasing radiant awakeness,
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  SPEAKER_01: the face of your natural mind, so how can you say that you cannot see it?
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  SPEAKER_01: All and everything.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_01: There is not so much as a moment of work to be done to attain it.
• 1:15:37
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that you're not getting anywhere with all your efforts?
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_01: Centered and dispersed states are two sides of the same coin.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that you're having trouble centering your mind?
• 1:16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Distraction and focus.
• 1:16:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same mind.
• 1:16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Confusion and wisdom both arise in the same place as the same thing.
• 1:16:18
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to separate it.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Leave it how it is in its natural state.
• 1:16:29
  SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic knowledge is the spontaneously originated three modes of being,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is a streaved without striving.
• 1:16:39
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that your practice fails the accomplishment?
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_01: It is through leaving the mind in a state of non-action.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is enough to simply do that, which is not a doing, but a leaving be.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that you're not capable of getting it?
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's nowhere you need to get to other than right here, right now, as it is.
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  Let go.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_01: But, let go of your butt.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_01: You can't walk through life clutching your butt.
• 1:17:28
  SPEAKER_01: All your butts.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Let go.
• 1:17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Your thoughts are released at the moment of inception.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Thoughts themselves have no duration.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you say that the antidotes you are applying to compulsive thinking are ineffective?
• 1:17:53
  SPEAKER_01: Leave them as they are and they aren't anything.
• 1:17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Any thought, the worst thought, the best thought, you can't sit on either one of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is cognition of the here and now.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_01: So how can you possibly say that you don't
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  SPEAKER_00: perceive it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus ends chapter seven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Practice.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to think about this, although you can if you find it fun.
• 1:18:37
  SPEAKER_01: But those are thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not mistake them for reality.
• 1:18:43
  SPEAKER_01: These that I have said to you for the past hour or so are words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not mistake them for reality.
• 1:18:55
  SPEAKER_01: Look where they point.
• 1:18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Don't obsess with the finger.
• 1:19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Any questions?
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my, yes.
• 1:19:13
  SPEAKER_00: If we experience sudden shifts in mood that feel like lung,
• 1:19:18
  SPEAKER_00: is it okay to keep practicing and to be aware of the states without thought?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will more treksha dissipate the lung?
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Lung is a physical thing and has to do,
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  SPEAKER_01: what we call lung,
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  SPEAKER_01: is where your channels are too constricted and you're moving a lot of chi through
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  SPEAKER_01: a narrow place.
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_01: And the squeak of that we call lung.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_01: Forcing more energy won't resolve that.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_01: It is a physical problem.
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Treat it physically.
• 1:19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do the nine breaths.
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Stretch your channels to infinity,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is the simplest of all Zolland practices and which I've taught you repeatedly.
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Relax.
• 1:20:13
  SPEAKER_01: If that still doesn't relieve it, have a beer.
• 1:20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Live.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Homebrew is best.
• 1:20:23
  SPEAKER_01: What you want is a live culture beer full of the B vitamins and
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_01: the brewer's yeast still in it, not a filtered beer.
• 1:20:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you do not drink,
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_01: what Tibetans also sometimes use is fried cheesecake.
• 1:20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's the closest I can come to describing the substance that they make.
• 1:20:59
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of butter, cheese, a little brown sugar, molasses.
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Very, very intense source of energy that causes everything to drop into your stomach
• 1:21:18
  SPEAKER_01: to digest it.
• 1:21:19
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, fried carbs, chips will work.
• 1:21:28
  SPEAKER_01: But pushing through lung is not a relaxation.
• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_01: If you are really able to relax into trecture, yes, that will resolve it.
• 1:21:42
  SPEAKER_01: But probably if you're getting lung, you are not relaxing into trecture, you're pushing.
• 1:21:48
  SPEAKER_01: So what you are doing that you think is trecture probably won't resolve it.
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Next question.
• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_00: If there's nothing to do and nowhere to get to, what purpose does refuge or ceremony play?
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_00: If we particularly resonate with these teachings or this teacher, should we seek refuge?
• 1:22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Even though we know that we're not going anywhere,
• 1:22:18
  SPEAKER_01: we've always been there and there's nowhere to get to.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Still, we are living through the residues of our karma.
• 1:22:33
  SPEAKER_01: As are all other beings, and we're all in this together.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_01: So even if you know that, many beings suffer from confusion, not knowing what it is.
• 1:22:50
  SPEAKER_01: For their sake, you should take refuge and practice Dharma.
• 1:22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Next question.
• 1:23:01
  SPEAKER_00: One moment.
• 1:23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:23:11
  SPEAKER_00: There was one.
• 1:23:12
  SPEAKER_00: What should I do if I become sleepy during traction?
• 1:23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Pour water on your face.
• 1:23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Splash water on your face.
• 1:23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Get up and take a walk.
• 1:23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Have a nap.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Depending on circumstances, all of these methods will work at different times.
• 1:23:37
  SPEAKER_01: That was easy.
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'll take a couple more easy ones and then I think we're going to call it a day.
• 1:23:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:23:49
  SPEAKER_00: In the instructions you provided for Treksha,
• 1:23:53
  SPEAKER_00: when you say follow the thoughts home,
• 1:23:55
  SPEAKER_00: can you say more about that, about the source of thoughts?
• 1:24:01
  SPEAKER_00: No, because there is nothing to be
• 1:24:02
  SPEAKER_01: said about it.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Look where your thoughts be happening, not with your eyeballs, with your attention.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_01: Where you are looking is indescribable, inconceivable.
• 1:24:26
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta see it for yourself.
• 1:24:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm using the word to see as a euphemism.
• 1:24:34
  SPEAKER_01: For perceive, experience, recognize.
• 1:24:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do not take it literally and start looking in your clothes for it.
• 1:24:48
  SPEAKER_00: One more.
• 1:24:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:24:51
  SPEAKER_00: How can we improve karma with normal daily actions as a human being?
• 1:24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Perform Gewa and avoid Digpa.
• 1:25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Avoid those actions which causes a scrinch in your mandala.
• 1:25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Avoid stressing others.
• 1:25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Don't yell at people.
• 1:25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Don't steal their stuff.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Don't hit them.
• 1:25:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty basic.
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's avoiding digpa.
• 1:25:24
  SPEAKER_01: You're not stressing anybody out.
• 1:25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Perform Gawa.
• 1:25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do things that lead to the opposite effect.
• 1:25:35
  SPEAKER_01: Fill your bird feeder.
• 1:25:41
  SPEAKER_01: Give something away.
• 1:25:45
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine giving something away.
• 1:25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Pick up a catalog.
• 1:25:50
  SPEAKER_01: They come in the mail.
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Go through the different pretty pictures of things a person can want
• 1:25:57
  SPEAKER_01: And each time you see one, wish it to someone you think might like it.
• 1:26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wish this to Sally.
• 1:26:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's really beautiful.
• 1:26:09
  SPEAKER_01: Would look great on Ellen.
• 1:26:10
  SPEAKER_01: I wish this to Ellen.
• 1:26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like that.
• 1:26:15
  SPEAKER_01: And when you're done, wish that any Gawa created goes forth to all beings.
• 1:26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Continuously during the day, look for methods to throw more Gawa into the universal pot.
• 1:26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Group karma is a thing.
• 1:26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Add to the Gawa of it.
• 1:26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Avoid adding to the Digpa of it.
• 1:26:43
  SPEAKER_01: When you yell at someone, they go home and kick the dog.
• 1:26:46
  SPEAKER_01: The dog later chases the cat.
• 1:26:50
  SPEAKER_01: It spreads.
• 1:26:54
  SPEAKER_01: So don't start it.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_01: Look around for opportunities for Gawa.
• 1:27:08
  SPEAKER_01: When you spot an opportunity for Digpa, walk away from it.
• 1:27:15
  SPEAKER_01: If you have a teenager, they will give you so many opportunities for Digpa.
• 1:27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Teenagers are wonderful for this.
• 1:27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Walk away from the dip.
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yelling at them doesn't work.
• 1:27:35
  SPEAKER_01: They're still not going to pick up their shoes in the living room.
• 1:27:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care how much you yell about the shoes in the living room,
• 1:27:41
  SPEAKER_01: the boats, the smelly boats in the living room.
• 1:27:46
  SPEAKER_01: They might pick them up this time,
• 1:27:47
  SPEAKER_01: but they're just going to dump them there in another couple hours anyway.
• 1:27:52
  SPEAKER_01: So refrain from the digpa of creating stress in your environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sala Gopasho.
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  SPEAKER_01: You guys get to remember that we're on chapter eight, beginning eight next time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will see many of you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are complete.