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[10/25] The Flight of the Garuda — Session 8 (Jan 2021) · Lama Lena Teachings

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SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
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SPEAKER_01: We have got closed captions on this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Be aware.
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SPEAKER_01: They're funny.
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SPEAKER_01: We get things like sentient coffee beans and other odd ways of writing down what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_01: So don't take them literally.
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SPEAKER_01: Take them with a grain of salt.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you think I said something that I might not possibly have said, you're probably right.
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SPEAKER_01: I've sent out some pretty strange texts and emails using voice transfer.
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SPEAKER_01: And my favorite is the sentient coffee beans.
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SPEAKER_01: Sentient beans.
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SPEAKER_02: Chukku kunduzong po gompo yi,
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SPEAKER_02: duarji sampah garab duarji dang,
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SPEAKER_02: shere singe bardu shin labdi,
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SPEAKER_02: day dang, nabzon tatatu sum chi, zog chen jupay lamala sol wadib,
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SPEAKER_02: Urgin Pema Junila Soluwadeb.
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SPEAKER_02: Durji Chang Chi Thilo Narodang.
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SPEAKER_02: Marpa Mila Gompo Tsatsapa.
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SPEAKER_02: Na Pupadang Pal Dendrupasut.
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SPEAKER_02: Kargyul Lama Namla Sol Vah Deh.
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SPEAKER_02: Ochen Lama Namla Sol Vah Deh.
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SPEAKER_02: Druchen Lama Namla Sol Vah Deh.
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SPEAKER_02: Paginwadi Lama Namla Soluadeb.
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SPEAKER_02: Takya Chen Lama Namla Soluadeb.
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SPEAKER_02: Yondrundang Nyandhu Lama Namla Soluadeb.
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SPEAKER_02: NDEV,
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SPEAKER_02: PAL KON DU ZHONG DANG YER MAI PA,
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SPEAKER_02: GUN GAREB DUAR JI JIN TRAG PA, JETI DANG NISUME PA,
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SPEAKER_02: PAL AMANAM CHE TINTIR,
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SPEAKER_02: CHONG.
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SPEAKER_01: Now let's see where we are.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm guessing we saw nine.
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SPEAKER_01: We think we might be in nine or maybe eight.
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SPEAKER_01: That's way too far along.
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SPEAKER_01: That's 15.
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SPEAKER_01: Go back.
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SPEAKER_02: Come on.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to give a small review of eight and move into nine.
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SPEAKER_01: Does that seem about right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at your mind with your channels in alignment just to make it easier
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SPEAKER_01: if you find it difficult.
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SPEAKER_01: Shift your attention from the point focus you're accustomed to looking at all
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SPEAKER_01: the this's and that's throughout the universe to the Open awareness of the ground
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SPEAKER_01: of mind itself.
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SPEAKER_01: You do that because it is only from that context that this makes any sense at all.
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SPEAKER_01: No experience is possible but anywhere in the mind.
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SPEAKER_01: So there is nothing to see other than that which is seen at the moment of vision.
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SPEAKER_01: Look with your eyeballs.
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SPEAKER_01: The seeing of shapes turning into objects.
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SPEAKER_01: The sensation of vision becoming perception.
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SPEAKER_01: You perceive a window.
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SPEAKER_01: A flower, a box.
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SPEAKER_01: That's going on in your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: All your eyeballs are doing is shapes and colors,
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SPEAKER_01: which is the sensation part,
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SPEAKER_01: but the interpretation of that sensation as a visual perception,
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SPEAKER_01: that's going on in your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: And in your energy channels as they run through your brain and heart.
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SPEAKER_01: And how you perceive objects fully depends on your experience of previous objects.
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SPEAKER_01: On the reality you subscribe to, what is possible and what is not.
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SPEAKER_01: Someone walks by walking their dog and their dog turns to you and says good morning.
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SPEAKER_01: That will not happen for you.
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SPEAKER_01: You will think the man said it.
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SPEAKER_01: Must have.
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SPEAKER_01: Dogs don't talk.
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SPEAKER_01: So should by chance a dog speak to you, you'll never hear it.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll immediately explain it away as something else.
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SPEAKER_01: What's the fun in that?
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SPEAKER_01: The infinite possibilities of the universe are a hell of a lot more fun
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SPEAKER_01: than repeating your patterns again and again and seeing
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SPEAKER_01: the same things you saw yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: And since it's in your mind,
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SPEAKER_01: and you are your mind, you can muck about with it.
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SPEAKER_01: You can change your reality perception.
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SPEAKER_01: But if you change it from this to that,
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SPEAKER_01: say from the Western scientific worldview to the Tibetan magical worldview,
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SPEAKER_01: you're still subscribing.
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SPEAKER_01: It's actually really hard to get loose of one of these, a worldview.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a number of friends in Asia,
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SPEAKER_01: Tibetan, who are highly westernized and educated, even college educated.
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SPEAKER_01: But their reality worldview is Tibetan.
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SPEAKER_01: So one day the story went around,
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SPEAKER_01: because people had seen this on television, that there was a telephone number.
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SPEAKER_01: And if that telephone number phoned you and you answered it, you'd fall down dead with a stroke.
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SPEAKER_01: Because there was a virus
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SPEAKER_01: in the phone system that was causing this.
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SPEAKER_01: And many of them saw it on television and they quickly warned the others.
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SPEAKER_01: And even my dearly educated friends
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SPEAKER_01: were answering their phones just in case.
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SPEAKER_01: And then it got around that there was a specific number.
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SPEAKER_01: So one of my dear college-educated,
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SPEAKER_01: intelligent Tibetan friends,
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SPEAKER_01: who lives as much in a Western matrix as you can,
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SPEAKER_01: being Tibetan over there,
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SPEAKER_01: told me the number of what it is supposed to be, and I quickly went to dial it.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, look, this wasn't in my reality, you see.
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SPEAKER_01: So I was not afraid of it.
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SPEAKER_01: And my dear friend grabbed the phone out of my hand and said, don't do that.
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SPEAKER_01: I got curious about this reality and traced it back to a sci-fi movie that had been
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SPEAKER_01: on late night TV with that particular story.
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SPEAKER_01: The differentiation between a news program and fiction
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SPEAKER_01: when Tibetans don't actually have a word for fiction.
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SPEAKER_01: They have magical illusion.
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SPEAKER_01: Like the cities, which are mostly magical illusions.
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SPEAKER_01: And they have reality.
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SPEAKER_01: No fiction.
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SPEAKER_01: And people would often expect me to translate to Rinpoche,
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SPEAKER_01: who was Didn't speak English way in the Tibetan context,
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SPEAKER_01: not even a little bit westernized.
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SPEAKER_01: About some fiction book they read.
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SPEAKER_01: And it came through as either a lie
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SPEAKER_01: or a magical illusion someone was putting about
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SPEAKER_01: as a reality.
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SPEAKER_01: I can point at their worldview for you.
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SPEAKER_01: But you who live in the West,
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SPEAKER_01: can I really point at your worldview for you?
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SPEAKER_01: You're holding one, you're subscribing to one.
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SPEAKER_01: And it is limiting you.
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SPEAKER_01: But I watch people attempt to take on The ordinariness of, say,
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SPEAKER_01: a magical worldview and make themselves utterly crazy with it
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SPEAKER_01: by grasping it too tightly and interpreting everything as demonic possession rather
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SPEAKER_01: than they've got a glitch in their tsa.
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SPEAKER_01: The number of emails I get requesting cures
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SPEAKER_01: for demonic possession is surprisingly high from Westerners or trouble
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SPEAKER_01: with land spirits.
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SPEAKER_01: And they may be having these things.
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SPEAKER_01: I can't tell, so I send them the instructions.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually, none of us are having anything.
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SPEAKER_01: As an analogy, you're in a video game and you forgot you're wearing a headset and playing.
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SPEAKER_01: And you have subscribed to the internal rules of that game and you're going along with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, you can do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Not my problem.
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SPEAKER_01: But if it hurts, you might want to consider rethinking your subscriptions.
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SPEAKER_01: No experience is possible but anywhere in the mind,
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SPEAKER_01: so there is nothing to meditate on other than the mind.
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SPEAKER_01: All those symbols in the tantras,
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SPEAKER_01: the archetypes,
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SPEAKER_01: Chenrezig,
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SPEAKER_01: Demchog, Purva, Vajrayogini, Pagmo, all of these are symbols of your own mind.
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SPEAKER_01: When you meditate on these,
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SPEAKER_01: you are meditating On your own mind in pictorial symbolisms because
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SPEAKER_01: for many people it's easier to grasp an image
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SPEAKER_01: than the indescribable utter openness
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SPEAKER_01: that one relaxes into.
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SPEAKER_01: When you meditate on a pebble in beginning sine, sine with an object,
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SPEAKER_01: That meditation is in your own mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Your perception of that pebble as a pebble
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SPEAKER_01: is in your own mind.
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SPEAKER_01: To the bacteria living on the surface of the pebble, it's an entire universe.
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SPEAKER_01: Your personal take is that it's a pebble.
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SPEAKER_01: Perhaps if you stare at it long enough without thinking this or that,
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SPEAKER_01: focus just on the pebble, it might become something else
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SPEAKER_01: or not.
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SPEAKER_01: Try and see.
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SPEAKER_01: Look, look again at your own mind.
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SPEAKER_01: It's the only point of all of this.
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SPEAKER_01: Observe that your mind does not move.
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SPEAKER_01: As you shift your focus, From mind
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SPEAKER_01: to object.
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SPEAKER_01: What moved?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my head moved, but I'm meaning
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SPEAKER_01: of the mind in that focusing.
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SPEAKER_01: Did anything move?
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SPEAKER_01: Have you seen that there is no entity responsible for the thought patterns?
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SPEAKER_01: They're just making each other.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody's doing it.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody's in charge.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't all come out right or wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a relative for whom everything always comes out wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: Needless to say, they're a bit depressed.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a friend for whom everything happens the way it was supposed to.
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SPEAKER_01: These two individuals are holding the two ends of the same friggin' string.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's no string there.
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SPEAKER_01: Go find your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Where is it?
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SPEAKER_01: What is it?
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SPEAKER_01: And if you find an answer that fits into words, look again, you missed it.
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SPEAKER_01: Neither this nor that, where all is's and isn't's aren't.
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SPEAKER_01: Indescribable, uncomprehensible.
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SPEAKER_01: So stop talking to yourself about it.
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SPEAKER_01: And all those playful thoughts,
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SPEAKER_01: Chukurolpa, the play of the Dharmakaya, All those playful thoughts.
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SPEAKER_01: I may be talking too much.
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SPEAKER_01: Which play with concepts.
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SPEAKER_01: Playfully asking yourself, is it real?
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SPEAKER_01: Is it it?
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SPEAKER_01: Did I get it right this time?
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SPEAKER_01: Is this it?
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SPEAKER_01: Mom, are we there yet?
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SPEAKER_01: There is no there, there, and we ain't going nowhere, so relax.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at your mind and leave it be as it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody come up with a question so I can rest my voice for a minute.
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SPEAKER_00: Earlier you were talking about the different ways Westerners perceive these teachings.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a question Is that because Westerners have a higher sensitivity
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SPEAKER_00: to Sambhogakaya where the Westerners only attune to either the material world or
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SPEAKER_00: the idea of empty space?
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SPEAKER_01: That's true for most Westerners and most Tibetans, but that's not the reason.
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SPEAKER_01: The reason is you are conditioned.
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SPEAKER_01: About what's real and what's not.
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SPEAKER_01: From infancy, your culture conditions you about what is possible and what is not.
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SPEAKER_01: And so you subscribe to a cultural matrix.
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SPEAKER_01: In the Druid system, those who do not live within a cultural matrix are called Rimwalkers.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's rare.
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SPEAKER_01: And difficult.
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SPEAKER_01: And things that are right and true
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SPEAKER_01: within one cultural matrix do not necessarily work in another.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, an example, the 16th Karmapa, amazingly powerful realized Lama.
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SPEAKER_01: My Mahamudra teachings are from him.
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SPEAKER_01: Through Wangdo Rinpoche and I believe Ziggur Rinpoche.
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SPEAKER_01: But truly an amazing Lama, but fully within Tibetan context.
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SPEAKER_01: He traveled the world,
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SPEAKER_01: but he chose,
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SPEAKER_01: and one can, to remain within his context because he found it useful to keep that.
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SPEAKER_01: And when he chose llamas to come west,
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SPEAKER_01: he chose llamas who would be wildly successful within a Tibetan context
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SPEAKER_01: of doing what they were supposed to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes this worked out.
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SPEAKER_01: Occasionally it didn't.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the llamas by chance had cultural flexibility
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SPEAKER_01: And were able to make the changes.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes they were too rigid and had to return home because their center fell apart.
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SPEAKER_01: Like the poor Lama in Chicago, sent by Karmapa.
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SPEAKER_02: Who, although the women did
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SPEAKER_01: all the work in the center,
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SPEAKER_01: always thanked their husbands and ignored them.
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SPEAKER_01: So they stopped doing the work, so it stopped happening.
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SPEAKER_01: He talked about the work with the men,
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SPEAKER_01: but he never spoke with the women,
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SPEAKER_01: which was right and proper in certain Tibetan context.
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SPEAKER_01: Didn't work here, as you can imagine.
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SPEAKER_01: When the women stop doing the work in the center, it falls apart.
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SPEAKER_01: Because in most centers, most of the work is done by the women.
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SPEAKER_01: This is true in Western Christian churches, too.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though there's often a male preacher up there declaiming,
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SPEAKER_01: the organizing work, the keeping it together, that's mostly done by the women.
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SPEAKER_01: They're practical.
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SPEAKER_01: Not having been able to flex enough to see that,
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SPEAKER_01: he couldn't adjust to it, although he was a wonderful lama in all other ways.
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SPEAKER_01: Other lamas that I know of have gone mad.
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SPEAKER_01: Trying to make the jump.
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SPEAKER_01: Because it's a very thin line
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SPEAKER_01: between madness and realization.
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SPEAKER_01: Very thin.
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SPEAKER_01: And you can't fear going mad.
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SPEAKER_01: But you also can't grasp
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SPEAKER_02: going mad as a protection
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SPEAKER_01: from seeing natural mind.
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SPEAKER_01: That's hard to do.
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SPEAKER_01: For madness can be a wonderful entertainment.
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SPEAKER_01: Do we have another question?
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SPEAKER_01: I've got to take a lozenge here.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm worse.
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SPEAKER_00: How do I get past the Western view of conservation of energy when I'm doing,
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SPEAKER_00: it says here, heat.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's heat or heart salums.
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SPEAKER_01: If it's heat salums, he's talking about tummo, and that's probably what he's talking about here.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: But heat is Sambhogakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't you see that?
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SPEAKER_01: We've done this chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: Dharmakaya, infinite open spaciousness, analogized to space.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya,
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SPEAKER_01: the vitality of movement,
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SPEAKER_01: which is what creates and holds open,
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SPEAKER_01: talking analogies here,
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SPEAKER_01: the time-space continuum,
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SPEAKER_01: Nirmanakaya, the time-space continuum in all its manifestations.
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SPEAKER_01: As it really is rather than as you think it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya movement.
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SPEAKER_01: The movement of life.
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SPEAKER_01: The movement of molecules.
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SPEAKER_01: The movement of photons.
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SPEAKER_01: If you understand Western theory of heat, heat is simply motion.
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SPEAKER_01: And the reason we can't draw anything down to absolute zero Kelvin is simply because
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SPEAKER_01: that would mean it held absolutely still.
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SPEAKER_01: And if it held absolutely still, it would wink out of existence.
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SPEAKER_01: Because for something to exist, it needs to occupy space and time.
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SPEAKER_01: It needs to move from point A to point B over a duration.
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SPEAKER_01: And if it doesn't, it ain't there in the space-time continuum.
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SPEAKER_01: So please understand the heat of tummo that you're working with is simply vibratory movement.
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SPEAKER_01: It's neither lost nor gained.
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SPEAKER_01: The entire Sambhogakai is made of that.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what the word clear light symbolizes.
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SPEAKER_01: The light by which the awareness is aware, seer sees.
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SPEAKER_01: Innate lucidity, clear light of the Dharmakaya.
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SPEAKER_01: Is the Sambhogakaya movement?
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SPEAKER_01: Heat?
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SPEAKER_01: I don't quite get your question.
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SPEAKER_01: Please amplify.
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SPEAKER_01: If this explanation didn't answer it.
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SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to ascend with the conduct while descending with the view?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to have to guess because I haven't heard that term.
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SPEAKER_01: Where'd you find it?
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SPEAKER_01: What it would probably mean in the context of other things I am familiar with is
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SPEAKER_01: that with the view, you relax more and more.
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SPEAKER_01: Keep going first within and in is out.
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SPEAKER_01: Releasing all realities and the maintenance and subscription to them.
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SPEAKER_01: However,
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SPEAKER_01: you nonetheless maintain the conduct of separating Digpa from Gawa
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SPEAKER_01: and avoiding Digpa and performing Gawa.
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SPEAKER_01: For as long as there is the least bit of sensation
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SPEAKER_01: of being,
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SPEAKER_01: even in ergophat,
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SPEAKER_01: you see, for it to turn over the last bit True enlightenment, the full thing.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't do that on purpose.
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SPEAKER_01: It has to happen by accident.
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SPEAKER_01: And so Gawa creates the cause for the happy accident that is the full
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SPEAKER_01: and complete enlightenment of all life.
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SPEAKER_01: Because we're all in this together, guys.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not like I am a Energy body sticking out and it's mine.
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SPEAKER_01: It's touching yours and yours and every possible contact that's going on.
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SPEAKER_01: It's influenced by influencing.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no separation here.
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SPEAKER_01: I just think I'm a lump.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a thought.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what?
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SPEAKER_01: It's as real as any, which is not very.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you have anything from the guy talking about Inner Heat?
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SPEAKER_00: Um... Not yet.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm just curious if that was the answer he was looking for or
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SPEAKER_01: if he needs something different.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you looking for other questions?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, give me another.
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SPEAKER_00: Um...
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SPEAKER_00: How can I change my belief system every day in small steps?
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SPEAKER_00: Could you please share some practical tips?
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SPEAKER_01: Just rest in torture.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the fastest way to loosen it.
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SPEAKER_01: If you can't,
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SPEAKER_01: Nundra will loosen some of it, although it's a lot more work than sitting in Trekja.
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SPEAKER_01: That was an easy one.
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SPEAKER_00: What do I do when it feels like I'm working harder to get back to the there that's nowhere?
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SPEAKER_00: Stop that.
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SPEAKER_01: Get up.
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SPEAKER_01: Go have a cup of tea.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't push.
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SPEAKER_01: Go do some Gewa.
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SPEAKER_01: Come back and try again.
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SPEAKER_01: Gewa is very relaxing.
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SPEAKER_01: Fill a bird feeder, the hummingbirds.
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SPEAKER_01: Take a walk and rejoice for the happiness you see.
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SPEAKER_01: Do an action and wish that that action was now done for all the sentient beings
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SPEAKER_01: that are now not getting around to it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
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SPEAKER_01: Go clean your stove.
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SPEAKER_01: While wishing and sending out the cleaning of the stove,
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SPEAKER_01: think you're removing all the dirt From mind,
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SPEAKER_01: scrubbing the mind,
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SPEAKER_01: it's an analogy,
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SPEAKER_01: and then wish
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SPEAKER_01: that all sentient beings not only had clean stoves suddenly miraculously occur
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SPEAKER_01: for them, but clean minds as well send out the wish and dedicate the merits.
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SPEAKER_01: You can create Gawa out of anything.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all in how you do it.
32:10
SPEAKER_01: There was a student of the Buddha who was not very bright.
32:15
SPEAKER_01: He couldn't remember mantras.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: He'd learn the first word and forget the second word and learn the second word
32:23
SPEAKER_01: and forget the first word.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: Never worked.
32:25
SPEAKER_01: This is out of the sutras.
32:27
SPEAKER_01: So the Buddha set him
32:32
SPEAKER_01: Sweeping the temple courtyard constantly,
32:35
SPEAKER_01: again and again,
32:36
SPEAKER_01: round and round,
32:37
SPEAKER_01: while saying, removing dust, removing grime, removing dust, removing grime.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: And over time,
32:48
SPEAKER_01: just from this simple action, he noticed he got the Gruk off his mind, clear enough.
32:56
SPEAKER_01: For he did it in faith to the Buddha that it would work.
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SPEAKER_01: And purify his mind that he saw natural mind.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: He saw his own mind and became fully enlightened.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Never was very bright, but he sure was a Buddha.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: You can get Gewa out of anything and you need to have created enough Gewa into
33:28
SPEAKER_01: the pot or none of this works.
33:35
SPEAKER_01: This is obvious from a certain perspective.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: If you step outside of time into the fifth dimension and look down on the fourth
33:44
SPEAKER_01: and see how the patterns fluctuate according to the energy channel bodies,
33:48
SPEAKER_01: which are all four dimensional anyway,
33:50
SPEAKER_01: it will be obvious that the only way through
33:56
SPEAKER_01: by putting enough Gawa into the pot.
33:59
SPEAKER_01: And that Gawa cannot be held onto, but only offered.
34:11
SPEAKER_01: One more question and I'll go back to the text.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: Okay, follow up to TUMO.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: The Western idea of conservation of energy says you can't make energy out
34:25
SPEAKER_00: of nowhere, and I feel constrained by that idea.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: How do I get past that?
34:31
SPEAKER_01: When you do TUMO, you're not making energy out of nowhere.
34:35
SPEAKER_01: The lung that you breathe in through your nostrils, The air is full of Qi.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: You are breathing in the Qi.
34:50
SPEAKER_01: The movement in your cells,
34:55
SPEAKER_01: especially the cells around your uterus and generative organs.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: There's movement in the cells.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: There's cellular respiration where Things go in, foods go in, foods go out.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: There's the Krebs cycle.
35:13
SPEAKER_01: All of this is going on.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not making energy out of nothing.
35:19
SPEAKER_01: It's fire.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: Fire is oxidation.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: Iron, iron.
35:27
SPEAKER_01: Do you have a piece of iron anywhere?
35:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh, fine things.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
35:34
SPEAKER_01: No, they're not rusty enough.
35:35
SPEAKER_01: Here.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: Do you see how tarnished my candle snuffer is?
35:42
SPEAKER_01: It's on fire.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: Slow burn.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: Oxidation is occurring.
35:52
SPEAKER_01: In your cells, too.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: It's why you take antioxidants.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: So you don't rust as fast.
36:01
SPEAKER_01: Here, look how rusty.
36:04
SPEAKER_01: How oxidized my skin is at nearly 70.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: You can slow it down a little with antioxidants,
36:13
SPEAKER_01: but you can't stop the oxidation from happening.
36:16
SPEAKER_01: We're all on fire.
36:19
SPEAKER_02: We're all alive.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: The energy you are using for the heat of TUMO is created by the slow burn oxidation
36:30
SPEAKER_01: of the Krebs cycle,
36:32
SPEAKER_01: which is dependent on bringing in oxygen molecules and conjoining them
36:36
SPEAKER_01: with carbon molecules and using the heat off of them.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: It's how you stay alive.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: It's life force.
36:51
SPEAKER_01: You need to go back and read your science.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: You've gotten stuck on a little bit of surface knowledge of science
37:01
SPEAKER_01: without going deep enough to understand how it actually works.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: So yes, you know the law of conservation of energy and momentum,
37:11
SPEAKER_01: but you don't know cellularly how heat is produced,
37:15
SPEAKER_01: and you need to read up on that to give yourself some relief.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: It's in Western science.
37:23
SPEAKER_01: Hang on, I've got a few of them in here.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: Now my good Stephen Hawkins got lent out.
37:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't see it in the bookcase right now and I have a bad habit of lending books
37:47
SPEAKER_01: to people and then forgetting who I lent them to.
37:51
SPEAKER_01: So my books are constantly in sort of a turnover.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: Then I go looking for, what did I lend that to?
37:59
SPEAKER_01: There's some nice stuff out there in science, but basically, go Google the Krebs cycle.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at how the heat is generated in the cells.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you remember what other cycle besides Krebs there is?
38:14
SPEAKER_01: There's one other one you need to look at.
38:17
SPEAKER_00: Gosh, blank.
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SPEAKER_00: Energy cycles.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how cells generate energy.
38:26
SPEAKER_00: Krebs is the one I'm most...
38:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, me too.
38:29
SPEAKER_01: Go look it up.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: You do the research.
38:31
SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to do it for you.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: But frankly,
38:33
SPEAKER_01: you should be able to find sufficient explanation in Western science for where
38:39
SPEAKER_01: the heat of TUMO comes from.
38:42
SPEAKER_01: And if you're trying to do TUMO while you're still stuck in that...
38:47
SPEAKER_01: Do discuss this with whoever's teaching you TUMO because it is accident prone
38:53
SPEAKER_01: and it may blow that loose with a certain suddenness which may prove uncomfortable.
39:02
SPEAKER_01: So do stay in touch with whoever you're learning TUMO from on this.
39:10
SPEAKER_01: You shouldn't be still stuck there by the time you're doing that one.
39:16
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, go read Krebs Cycle and see if it unsticks you.
39:22
SPEAKER_01: I'll give you one more question.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: I seem to be more into the questions than the texts today.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing question and answer tomorrow.
39:28
SPEAKER_01: I've got to get back into this text.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: One more, if there's a good one.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's why, because I can't see the text.
39:40
SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm not liking reading it.
39:42
SPEAKER_01: My eyes aren't working.
39:49
SPEAKER_01: Smooch on my glasses.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
39:53
SPEAKER_01: Both kinds.
39:57
SPEAKER_01: Did you have one?
39:58
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
39:59
SPEAKER_00: What is the best way to fill the emptiness with bodhicitta during treksha
40:04
SPEAKER_00: when it feels just empty?
40:07
SPEAKER_01: Oops, chin-raising.
40:08
SPEAKER_01: Go do some chin-raising practice before you enter treksha.
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SPEAKER_01: Fastest.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: A Chenrezig practice,
40:20
SPEAKER_01: at least the one I've given,
40:22
SPEAKER_01: points directly at the Sambhogakaya nature of mind,
40:26
SPEAKER_01: which is what you're missing,
40:27
SPEAKER_01: the clear light,
40:27
SPEAKER_01: the Sambhogakaya, if you're just getting emptiness without bodhicitta.
40:32
SPEAKER_01: So do the Chenrezig practice and then sit tricta.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: And that should take care of that.
40:39
SPEAKER_01: Easy one.
40:41
SPEAKER_01: Now I can see the text.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: It feels much better.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: Ha ha.
40:51
SPEAKER_01: When you arrive at the emptiness that has no color or shape,
40:57
SPEAKER_01: look for a center or circumference,
41:01
SPEAKER_01: becoming certain that the middle and margin are the same.
41:05
SPEAKER_01: Look for an inside and an outside, finding no distinction between inside and outside.
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SPEAKER_01: You arrive at total presence, which is vast as the sky.
41:19
SPEAKER_01: This is a version talking about in here of the inner mind nundra,
41:25
SPEAKER_01: a rather advanced version,
41:29
SPEAKER_01: where after you look for your mind, you look to find its limits.
41:35
SPEAKER_01: And in the not finding of any limits there,
41:40
SPEAKER_01: this all-penetrating freedom,
41:42
SPEAKER_01: this total presence that has no center or circumference inside or outside,
41:47
SPEAKER_01: Is innocent of all partiality and knows no blocks or barriers.
41:55
SPEAKER_01: You see there, your cultural matrix is completely irrelevant.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: Your cultural matrix is made of thought patterns and feeling patterns,
42:08
SPEAKER_01: which in a solemn view is channel patterns.
42:13
SPEAKER_01: But this is not about that.
42:16
SPEAKER_01: This is beyond all the this's and that's.
42:24
SPEAKER_01: The all penetrating intrinsic awareness is a vast expanse of space.
42:32
SPEAKER_01: All experience of samsara and nirvana arises in it like a rainbow in the sky.
42:41
SPEAKER_01: In all its diverse manifestations is but a play of the mind.
42:49
SPEAKER_01: All this.
42:52
SPEAKER_01: Color.
42:54
SPEAKER_01: Shape.
42:57
SPEAKER_01: Sound and texture.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: Scent and taste.
43:03
SPEAKER_01: Play.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: Like in a dream at night.
43:07
SPEAKER_01: Where you play with this or that.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: Just play.
43:20
SPEAKER_01: No stress.
43:25
SPEAKER_01: Everything arises as it does, not as it should.
43:28
SPEAKER_01: There ain't no shoulds out here.
43:31
SPEAKER_01: It just arises and dissolves as it does.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: So there's nothing to stress about.
43:44
SPEAKER_01: You can play stress,
43:46
SPEAKER_01: like you're playing poker with friends for matchsticks and you get a bad hand
43:53
SPEAKER_01: or you decide to bluff.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: You can play stress, but it's not real stress.
43:58
SPEAKER_01: It's play stress,
43:59
SPEAKER_01: like in a video game where you start looking for stuff and shooting at them and
44:02
SPEAKER_01: then you lose your life.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: Play stress.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: Play stress is always playful, like play happy, play sad.
44:14
SPEAKER_01: All of it.
44:17
SPEAKER_01: Chukurulpa.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: The natural play of the Dharmakaya.
44:27
SPEAKER_01: Sambhogakaya.
44:29
SPEAKER_01: Not separate.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Nirmanakaya.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: You know you need only to look out from and as the motionless space
44:49
SPEAKER_01: of intrinsic awareness at all experience illusory like the reflection of the moon
44:55
SPEAKER_01: in water to know the impossibility of dividing appearance from emptiness.
45:15
SPEAKER_01: I have a practice for any of you who are stuck here.
45:22
SPEAKER_01: On full moon night,
45:25
SPEAKER_01: go out in your yard with a big bowl of water
45:33
SPEAKER_01: and put it down and sit so
45:34
SPEAKER_01: the full moon is reflected in the water.
45:38
SPEAKER_01: And take a ladle and remove it from the water.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: Keep trying until you get it.
45:50
SPEAKER_01: This will point out to your subconscious that you can't
45:57
SPEAKER_01: grasp a reflection.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: But to see this in your day-to-day, it's not you looking at Tawa.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: Yar Tawa.
46:15
SPEAKER_01: Tawa looks out at the world.
46:24
SPEAKER_01: You need only to look out from the motionless space of intrinsic awareness,
46:31
SPEAKER_01: which is your natural state, to see the illusory reflection.
46:38
SPEAKER_01: And you will not see it unless you step in As that,
46:48
SPEAKER_01: this is your key to stabilizing Tawa.
46:52
SPEAKER_01: Yar Tawa.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: Yar Tawa,
46:55
SPEAKER_01: whether you think you're Tawa or you don't think you're Tawa,
46:58
SPEAKER_01: because thinking you're Tawa is a thought,
47:00
SPEAKER_01: and thinking you're not Tawa is a thought,
47:02
SPEAKER_01: and they're made of the same thing as all the other thoughts,
47:04
SPEAKER_01: and you don't need to pay them any no, never mind.
47:09
SPEAKER_01: So there.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: Relax as treachery.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: Not you in treachery.
47:22
SPEAKER_01: You are treachery.
47:25
SPEAKER_01: Be that.
47:29
SPEAKER_01: And so there's nothing to maintain.
47:32
SPEAKER_01: It's a completely natural state.
47:40
SPEAKER_01: In a state of total presence, there is no separation of samsara and nirvana.
47:47
SPEAKER_01: Look out from the motionless space of intrinsic awareness at all experience.
47:54
SPEAKER_01: Like the reflection in a mirror, no matter what manifests, it can never be tasted.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: Its existence can never be proved.
48:06
SPEAKER_01: In this dimension, samsara and nirvana do not exist and everything is dharmakaya.
48:17
SPEAKER_01: And sambhogakaya is simply the vitality of the dharmakaya,
48:21
SPEAKER_01: its clear light nature,
48:23
SPEAKER_01: and nirmanakaya is simply those there reflections in the vitality.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: No separation there.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is ever lost or gained.
48:45
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Ma, we're there now and we always have been.
48:52
SPEAKER_01: In India, in a village, an entrepreneur acquired a dead airplane.
49:02
SPEAKER_01: I think, yeah, just a whole airplane.
49:05
SPEAKER_01: And they parked it.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: And sold tickets for a pretend airplane ride where people handed the tickets
49:13
SPEAKER_01: as they came in and sat in their seats and then Coca-Cola was served,
49:17
SPEAKER_01: which is a great treat in that village.
49:20
SPEAKER_02: Cold Coca-Cola.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: And announcements were made and seat belts were fashioned and stories were told
49:28
SPEAKER_01: and there were like paintings on the outside of the windows of clouds looking down
49:33
SPEAKER_01: and
49:37
SPEAKER_01: And so all the people took an imaginary airplane ride and were very pleased
49:42
SPEAKER_01: for people from that village was so far from the kind of people who get
49:47
SPEAKER_01: to ride airplanes.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: Simple peasants.
49:53
SPEAKER_01: And it was quite a popular attraction during the Mellas.
50:00
SPEAKER_01: You and I, I as your pilot, Are on an imaginary airplane ride from Samsara to Nirvana.
50:15
SPEAKER_01: And I've painted many amazing mandalas on the windows for you.
50:22
SPEAKER_01: And for as long as you're asking me, Ma, are we there yet?
50:28
SPEAKER_01: The answer will have to be no.
50:31
SPEAKER_01: Because there's no one to ask anything.
50:35
SPEAKER_01: And we never left the ground.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: Zogchen.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless, Gewa.
50:55
SPEAKER_01: Never forget to create Gewa for the great pot.
51:01
SPEAKER_01: First of all, there's no such thing as individual enlightenment.
51:04
SPEAKER_01: We're all in this together.
51:07
SPEAKER_01: No matter how good you get, you just got good.
51:13
SPEAKER_01: It wears off.
51:19
SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic, inherent, natural enlightenment is always present.
51:26
SPEAKER_01: When enough gay wise created, It is obvious.
51:34
SPEAKER_01: And what is the fastest way in all the universe to create Gewa?
51:41
SPEAKER_01: Surprisingly, Treksha, doing nothing at all.
51:49
SPEAKER_01: If a rich man,
51:51
SPEAKER_01: his quote from my teacher,
51:53
SPEAKER_01: if a rich man were to pave the entire earth With gold and build golden stupas
52:01
SPEAKER_01: upon it.
52:04
SPEAKER_01: A yogi who sits for even one session in real treachery creates greater merit than this.
52:14
SPEAKER_01: If all the monks in all the monasteries, no, that's a different one.
52:21
SPEAKER_01: If a very skilled monk who lived 80,000 years were
52:26
SPEAKER_01: to spend his entire life reciting Dharma,
52:31
SPEAKER_01: writing down the Dharma, and reading the Dharma of all the texts again and again.
52:40
SPEAKER_01: He'd create a lot of Gawa,
52:44
SPEAKER_01: but a yogi
52:48
SPEAKER_01: who sits in Treksha
52:53
SPEAKER_01: Creates more.
52:56
SPEAKER_01: So if you do it, the biggest Gawa you can create is Treksha.
53:06
SPEAKER_01: And in those moments when you feel as if or think you can't and actually fell
53:14
SPEAKER_01: into believing that thought, oops, then do some other Gawa.
53:23
SPEAKER_01: Read a text.
53:26
SPEAKER_01: Make a generosity to a sentient being.
53:30
SPEAKER_01: Practice patience.
53:37
SPEAKER_01: Be kind.
53:49
SPEAKER_01: All beings wandering in the three realms of samsara,
53:53
SPEAKER_01: Remain trapped in dualism until they realize with their own perception,
54:00
SPEAKER_01: sorry,
54:01
SPEAKER_01: until they realize that within their own perception resides the primal awareness of
54:08
SPEAKER_01: that is the ultimate identity of all experience of samsara and nirvana.
54:14
SPEAKER_01: It's not yours, ours, including the bugs.
54:25
SPEAKER_01: Due to the power of delusive subject-object dichotomy,
54:30
SPEAKER_01: the original oops,
54:36
SPEAKER_01: they hold samsara and nirvana,
54:40
SPEAKER_01: confusion and enlightenment to be different states of mind.
54:47
SPEAKER_01: And by that misperception,
54:50
SPEAKER_01: so you're shoving away samsara and you're grabbing at nirvana,
54:56
SPEAKER_01: by this you maintain that duality.
54:59
SPEAKER_01: Just stop doing that.
55:02
SPEAKER_01: Let go.
55:06
SPEAKER_01: Relax.
55:11
SPEAKER_01: Accept.
55:14
SPEAKER_01: In order to understand the innate perfection of non-dual
55:25
SPEAKER_01: dance of awareness,
55:28
SPEAKER_01: you need to accept your perceived perception of imperfection
55:37
SPEAKER_01: and stop fighting it.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: Relax.
55:54
SPEAKER_01: Let go.
55:55
SPEAKER_01: Leave
56:01
SPEAKER_01: it be.
56:08
SPEAKER_01: Where did
56:15
SPEAKER_01: put it?
56:15
SPEAKER_01: Can you fish around in there for me among the texts?
56:19
SPEAKER_01: There should be some of those little blue bracelets.
56:27
SPEAKER_01: In this corner?
56:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, somewhere in there.
56:29
SPEAKER_01: I think they just sank.
56:33
SPEAKER_01: In my piles of things I'm actively working on.
56:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't have enough surface area.
56:57
SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't be that far down.
57:02
SPEAKER_00: Ah.
57:05
SPEAKER_01: You sank down the side.
57:06
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
57:10
SPEAKER_01: If you want one of these, you can have it.
57:14
SPEAKER_01: It says,
57:19
SPEAKER_01: relax, let go, leave be.
57:35
SPEAKER_01: I
57:41
SPEAKER_01: think the last one is translated as
57:46
SPEAKER_01: Rangshala.
57:52
SPEAKER_01: So it says it in Tibetan and English, and it's just for remembering.
57:56
SPEAKER_01: Would you put Karen's?
57:58
SPEAKER_00: Karen Presswood?
57:59
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
58:01
SPEAKER_01: Karen is out of them.
58:04
SPEAKER_01: I have been in lockdown for a few weeks, but the numbers are looking better.
58:08
SPEAKER_01: It may lighten up by the end of the week so I can get a bunch of these off to Karen in the post.
58:16
SPEAKER_01: If you want one,
58:20
SPEAKER_01: send postage for someone else to get one,
58:24
SPEAKER_01: preferably a couple of other people to get one.
58:26
SPEAKER_01: They come in envelopes.
58:27
SPEAKER_01: They'll fit in an envelope.
58:32
SPEAKER_01: To Karen, not to me.
58:36
SPEAKER_01: Email Karen.
58:37
SPEAKER_01: She'll tell you how to do it all.
58:39
SPEAKER_01: And she'll send you one if you need help remembering
58:46
SPEAKER_01: relax, let go, and leave it be.
58:53
SPEAKER_01: Because this whole book,
58:58
SPEAKER_01: that's a summary of everything in here.
59:08
SPEAKER_01: We just put more words to say it very slowly, but we're saying the same thing.
59:15
SPEAKER_01: Let go.
59:20
SPEAKER_01: Accept
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SPEAKER_01: isness without trying to improve it.
59:34
SPEAKER_01: When you do doings, do them playfully.
59:54
SPEAKER_01: In reality, no distinction between samsara and nirvana can exist in anybody's mind.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_01: However,
1:00:04
SPEAKER_01: when the worldly fool rejects some things and indulges in others,
1:00:09
SPEAKER_01: avoiding the bad and cultivating the good,
1:00:13
SPEAKER_01: despising one while loving the other,
1:00:17
SPEAKER_01: then due to partiality and prejudice and bias They aimly wander
1:00:25
SPEAKER_01: through successive lives.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_01: And I think this is the point where the question someone asked me before
1:00:33
SPEAKER_01: that I hadn't heard that exact quote in those words in English before
1:00:37
SPEAKER_01: about one's view being very low and
1:00:43
SPEAKER_01: keep one's view very low
1:00:45
SPEAKER_01: and one's morality very high.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_01: Even though this is so,
1:00:54
SPEAKER_01: And obviously so.
1:00:56
SPEAKER_01: There.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you, I'll prove to you that it's not time yet for you to give up.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_01: Gewa.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_01: To give up morality.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_00: Take a match.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_01: Light it.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_01: Bring it slowly towards your arm until you can feel the heat.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_01: Do you wish to bring it closer?
1:01:36
SPEAKER_01: Or would you rather not?
1:01:40
SPEAKER_01: For as long as you'd rather not, you care about Gewa.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: And for as long as you have a body,
1:01:54
SPEAKER_01: You'd rather not.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_01: If you don't have fire, pinch yourself.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_01: Hard until it hurts.
1:02:04
SPEAKER_01: Would you like to stop?
1:02:06
SPEAKER_01: Or would you like to pinch harder?
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: Keep going until you reach a point where you'd like to stop.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_01: Where you would rather stop than continue.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_01: For as long as there is such a point,
1:02:25
SPEAKER_01: Pay attention to Gawa.
1:02:28
SPEAKER_01: Simple test.
1:02:30
SPEAKER_01: You prefer.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_01: You adhere to preferences.
1:02:34
SPEAKER_01: You prefer comfort over pain.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_00: Kinky doesn't count.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_01: If you had fun with the pain or you like burning yourself or cutting
1:02:48
SPEAKER_01: for kinky reasons, that's a total different matter and this won't work for you.
1:02:53
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
1:02:55
SPEAKER_01: For most people it will.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_01: So don't just because you're kinky think you can pass the test, okay?
1:03:10
SPEAKER_01: I'll think up another one for you that'll be even harder.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_01: Try if you're kinky.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_01: Wrapping yourself in cotton wool for a month with no sensations.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_01: That should do it for you.
1:03:39
SPEAKER_01: Rather than attain the spontaneously accomplished three modes of intrinsic awareness
1:03:45
SPEAKER_01: without striving, by simply relaxing and letting go and leaving it be,
1:03:55
SPEAKER_01: Thick-headed aspirants explore the techniques and stages
1:03:59
SPEAKER_01: of many time-consuming methods of self-improvement,
1:04:06
SPEAKER_01: leaving them no time to reach the seat of Buddha.
1:04:13
SPEAKER_01: If you can already
1:04:22
SPEAKER_01: Relax, let go and leave it be in treacher as treacher.
1:04:30
SPEAKER_01: Do that.
1:04:33
SPEAKER_01: If by chance you are finding that difficult,
1:04:39
SPEAKER_01: then you do these time-consuming methods until it gets easy and
1:04:45
SPEAKER_01: then you leave them be along with everything else.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_01: You can't jump off the top of the mountain until after you climb the mountain.
1:05:01
SPEAKER_01: You were born on the side of the mountain,
1:05:04
SPEAKER_01: as high as you got or as low as you got in your last life.
1:05:09
SPEAKER_01: There you are, somewhere on the mountain, and you can tell which way is up.
1:05:14
SPEAKER_01: Start climbing.
1:05:17
SPEAKER_01: If you find yourself at the top, jump.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_01: That was an analogy.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_01: Don't anybody take it literally and start jumping off mountains.
1:05:28
SPEAKER_01: I have to say this.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_01: First of all,
1:05:30
SPEAKER_01: it's Tibetan that you always tell them it's an analogy
1:05:33
SPEAKER_01: in case they take it literally.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_01: And second of all, there's a lot of different people out there and somebody's nuts.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_01: Enough to take it literally and try it.
1:05:46
SPEAKER_01: I was that crazy once.
1:05:53
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:05:56
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry if you're not sane.
1:05:59
SPEAKER_01: I didn't start out sane.
1:06:03
SPEAKER_01: Not sure I ever became sane along the way either, to matter of fact.
1:06:09
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry if you find yourself somewhere on the side of a mountain and gotta start climbing.
1:06:15
SPEAKER_01: Rinpoche tried to teach me Zogchen for years before any of it went in.
1:06:22
SPEAKER_01: And we kept going back, okay, another Nundro.
1:06:25
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you're going to do Yidim practice.
1:06:27
SPEAKER_01: You didn't get it yet.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_01: Accept where you are today and go from there.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_01: Even though you know perfectly well that there's nowhere to get to
1:06:44
SPEAKER_01: and no one going there, climb anyway.
1:06:49
SPEAKER_01: It's fun.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_01: It's marvelous fun.
1:07:04
SPEAKER_01: Emphatically all phenomenal appearance whatsoever are one's own vision.
1:07:13
SPEAKER_01: Look out from the state of motionless intrinsic awareness and all light form
1:07:20
SPEAKER_01: and animate existence is like reflection.
1:07:25
SPEAKER_01: Appearances are empty.
1:07:28
SPEAKER_01: Sound is empty.
1:07:29
SPEAKER_01: Indeed, one's own nature is originally empty.
1:07:34
SPEAKER_01: Knowing this won't gain your diddly squat.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_01: Everything you know is just a thought.
1:07:51
SPEAKER_01: Thoughts move.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_01: They come and go.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_01: They're always changing.
1:07:58
SPEAKER_01: Your thoughts don't mean diddly squat.
1:08:05
SPEAKER_01: Read all the books.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_01: They're fun.
1:08:10
SPEAKER_01: But it's just thoughts playing with thoughts, you know.
1:08:17
SPEAKER_01: Which is fun too.
1:08:19
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
1:08:21
SPEAKER_01: Just don't think it's real.
1:08:25
SPEAKER_01: Beyond thoughts, beyond feelings, and even beyond perception.
1:08:35
SPEAKER_01: Isness is unmistakable.
1:08:47
SPEAKER_01: Turn your attention inward to the mind that is the viewer.
1:08:52
SPEAKER_01: Your thought processes naturally subsiding are like the sky,
1:08:58
SPEAKER_01: unstructured,
1:09:00
SPEAKER_01: free of conceptual elaboration,
1:09:06
SPEAKER_01: utterly indeterminable, beyond description, concept, expression of any kind.
1:09:17
SPEAKER_01: The seer sees the seer.
1:09:23
SPEAKER_01: Intrinsic Awareness.
1:09:28
SPEAKER_01: Rangshar.
1:09:33
SPEAKER_01: Rangsel.
1:09:36
SPEAKER_01: Rangrik.
1:09:47
SPEAKER_01: All events whatsoever are an illusory magical display of mind.
1:09:53
SPEAKER_01: And all the magical display of mind is baseless and empty.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_01: When you have realized that all events are your own mind,
1:10:03
SPEAKER_01: all visual appearance become the empty Dharmakaya.
1:10:10
SPEAKER_01: Obviously.
1:10:15
SPEAKER_01: You can't make this so.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_01: It's always been so.
1:10:25
SPEAKER_01: Appearances are not binding, it is through attachment to them that beings are fettered.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_01: Sever all delusive attachments, O children of my heart.
1:10:39
SPEAKER_01: Appearances are created by your cultural matrix that I was talking of earlier.
1:10:50
SPEAKER_00: Questions?
1:10:53
SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we have here.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean by creating enough Gewa?
1:11:10
SPEAKER_01: Gewa is the opposite of Digpa.
1:11:15
SPEAKER_01: Digpa is negative karma.
1:11:17
SPEAKER_01: Gewa is positive karma.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_01: We don't have words for those in English that don't have other connotations stuck
1:11:25
SPEAKER_01: to them that don't work.
1:11:30
SPEAKER_01: I often see them translated as sin and virtue.
1:11:35
SPEAKER_01: That's got sexual connotations.
1:11:37
SPEAKER_01: This doesn't really so much.
1:11:44
SPEAKER_01: Expanding contracting, stress making versus joyful making actions.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_01: Gewa and Digpa, morality.
1:12:09
SPEAKER_01: So true.
1:12:13
SPEAKER_01: To create Gewa and to avoid Digpa is morality.
1:12:17
SPEAKER_01: And as long as you are, you,
1:12:25
SPEAKER_01: even to an ergs extent,
1:12:31
SPEAKER_01: pay attention to morality.
1:12:40
SPEAKER_01: Sogchen transcends morality,
1:12:45
SPEAKER_01: but don't step off that cliff before you can fly.
1:12:54
SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, sploosh, ow.
1:13:02
SPEAKER_00: Next question.
1:13:05
SPEAKER_00: Can you please explain more what Rangshal Wrong Sol and Wrong Rig mean?
1:13:13
SPEAKER_00: Wrong
1:13:14
SPEAKER_01: is self.
1:13:18
SPEAKER_01: Wrong Sel, innate self nature of clarity.
1:13:28
SPEAKER_01: Wrong Char, luminosity, one sees by the light of being alive.
1:13:35
SPEAKER_01: Wrong Rick, see yourself.
1:13:42
SPEAKER_01: Rick Rigpa.
1:13:46
SPEAKER_01: Wrong self, self-seeing.
1:13:51
SPEAKER_01: All treacherous is wrong, Rick.
1:14:00
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:14:04
SPEAKER_00: How is recognition of our state to be cultivated and sustained so it is permanently there?
1:14:13
SPEAKER_01: By recognizing it as your natural state, there is nothing to sustain
1:14:19
SPEAKER_02: or to cultivate.
1:14:23
SPEAKER_01: You can't.
1:14:26
SPEAKER_01: You cannot stabilize treacher as a verb.
1:14:32
SPEAKER_01: The verb stabilize, it doesn't fit on treacher.
1:14:36
SPEAKER_01: You can't verb it at all.
1:14:41
SPEAKER_01: You can't get rid of it.
1:14:43
SPEAKER_01: You can't make it go away.
1:14:45
SPEAKER_01: You can't make it come.
1:14:46
SPEAKER_01: You can't make it move.
1:14:48
SPEAKER_01: You can't stabilize it.
1:14:49
SPEAKER_01: You can't do any damn verbs to treacher.
1:14:54
SPEAKER_00: It just is.
1:15:01
SPEAKER_01: And when you hit treacher, the real treacher, this will be utterly obvious to you.
1:15:09
SPEAKER_01: Until then, You're walking through a succession of more and more transparent nyams.
1:15:19
SPEAKER_01: Experiences of Treksha, in which there is an experiencer and an experienced.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: All experiences are part of the moving.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: So that won't stabilize.
1:15:35
SPEAKER_01: What you can do is practice.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_01: Recognizing Treksha frequently until you become certain of its innate stability on
1:15:52
SPEAKER_01: an experiential way.
1:15:56
SPEAKER_01: This is the third word of Garabdurji.
1:15:58
SPEAKER_01: To develop absolute certainty is the third vital point.
1:16:02
SPEAKER_01: Remember that?
1:16:03
SPEAKER_01: Key text, first text.
1:16:06
SPEAKER_01: Text you really need to have done in order to be doing this.
1:16:09
SPEAKER_01: If you all haven't, go listen to the tapes.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_01: For many, the wongs go through the tapes.
1:16:19
SPEAKER_01: If not, I'll be re-giving them in this,
1:16:21
SPEAKER_01: but you really should have that under your belt since I'll be referring to it a lot
1:16:26
SPEAKER_01: as examples.
1:16:39
SPEAKER_01: The more often In more circumstances and more situations in which you reconfirm
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: the existence of Tawa as the natural state,
1:16:56
SPEAKER_01: the more the development of SOPA happens.
1:17:02
SPEAKER_01: That SOPA is a all-pervading underlying certainty as Unthought-based as your belief
1:17:11
SPEAKER_01: in gravity on Earth.
1:17:15
SPEAKER_01: You do have thoughts, belief in the law of gravity.
1:17:18
SPEAKER_01: In fact, you may even know the mathematical equation for gravity on this planet.
1:17:27
SPEAKER_01: But that's not the way you function.
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: Been sitting here all day without the least worry of my coffee drifting off into space.
1:17:37
SPEAKER_01: That's what I mean by the knowledge of gravity.
1:17:40
SPEAKER_01: You've got to know Tawa
1:17:46
SPEAKER_01: as well as you know gravity.
1:17:49
SPEAKER_01: And it's always there all your life, just like gravity is.
1:17:58
SPEAKER_01: It's up to you to be noticing it often enough so that it becomes the of course of your function.
1:18:07
SPEAKER_01: That takes time.
1:18:09
SPEAKER_01: It takes practice.
1:18:14
SPEAKER_01: It takes both sitting on the cushion and finding Tawa
1:18:22
SPEAKER_01: many sessions a day
1:18:24
SPEAKER_01: of helping yourself to do it with straight channels and returning to Tawa
1:18:30
SPEAKER_01: for 30 seconds, 20 seconds, just to make sure it's still there.
1:18:37
SPEAKER_01: And then as you go about and do things with your Tsai in different positions,
1:18:41
SPEAKER_01: reaching, sleeping, jumping.
1:18:48
SPEAKER_01: During all those moments, check and see if it's still there.
1:18:51
SPEAKER_01: Just a quick glance.
1:18:59
SPEAKER_01: Easy.
1:19:02
SPEAKER_01: Once you have seen Tawa.
1:19:07
SPEAKER_01: Even a glimpse,
1:19:08
SPEAKER_01: even though it is not the full totality of Treksha,
1:19:12
SPEAKER_01: even though it is the nyam of clarity,
1:19:15
SPEAKER_01: the nyam of bliss,
1:19:17
SPEAKER_01: the nyam of
1:19:20
SPEAKER_01: luminosity, whatever nyam, nyams of understanding, nyams of wisdom.
1:19:27
SPEAKER_01: It's an experience.
1:19:28
SPEAKER_01: It comes and goes.
1:19:30
SPEAKER_01: Keep redoing it.
1:19:37
SPEAKER_01: Until a certain level of intrinsic certainty arises naturally.
1:19:45
SPEAKER_01: Do you understand this?
1:19:46
SPEAKER_01: Because it's very, very important.
1:19:50
SPEAKER_01: It's how you get from utter confusion to confusion as wisdom.
1:20:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to start song nine.
1:20:21
SPEAKER_01: Emma, ho, best beloved fearless sons and daughters.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_01: Without applying the spur, the horse will not gallop.
1:20:31
SPEAKER_01: Without thorough churning, butter will not separate.
1:20:35
SPEAKER_01: And without a detailed explanation, you will not be convinced of my meaning.
1:20:42
SPEAKER_01: So while I sing my long but lyrical songs,
1:20:47
SPEAKER_01: listen in comfort, relaxed but without drooping ears.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_01: Until you perceive all appearances as mind, you will never realize the meaning of emptiness.
1:21:09
SPEAKER_01: To facilitate this understanding,
1:21:13
SPEAKER_01: you favored children, apply yourself diligently to analysis and thorough search.
1:21:22
SPEAKER_01: Where do appearances come from?
1:21:25
SPEAKER_01: Where are they now?
1:21:26
SPEAKER_01: And where do they go?
1:21:31
SPEAKER_01: We have worked with thoughts.
1:21:35
SPEAKER_01: And for those of you who have done The retreat on feelings,
1:21:41
SPEAKER_01: on working with emotions, we have done feelings.
1:21:45
SPEAKER_01: Here we're working with perceptions.
1:21:52
SPEAKER_01: How do you do it?
1:21:57
SPEAKER_01: How do you perceive?
1:21:58
SPEAKER_01: Where do your perceptions come from?
1:22:00
SPEAKER_01: How do they work?
1:22:04
SPEAKER_01: I perceive a camera.
1:22:08
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:22:08
SPEAKER_01: How?
1:22:14
SPEAKER_01: I have visual sensations that I interpret as a camera there.
1:22:22
SPEAKER_01: Nyando told me that she was putting a camera there.
1:22:28
SPEAKER_01: And my visualizations agreed with them.
1:22:31
SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_01: So I heard words with my ears.
1:22:36
SPEAKER_01: I had sensations of the eardrums and I had sensations of the eyeballs.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_01: And I within my mind have interpreted all of those sensations together
1:22:56
SPEAKER_01: as that's a camera.
1:22:59
SPEAKER_01: And together with the belief that that's a camera comes a whole bunch of other beliefs.
1:23:05
SPEAKER_01: Such as I am broadcasting on the internet.
1:23:11
SPEAKER_01: Such as people are out there listening.
1:23:14
SPEAKER_01: I don't actually know if anyone is out there listening.
1:23:16
SPEAKER_01: I can't see you on this setup.
1:23:20
SPEAKER_01: There might be only, how many questions have I done?
1:23:22
SPEAKER_01: Four or five?
1:23:23
SPEAKER_01: There might be only four or five people out there.
1:23:27
SPEAKER_01: There might be a hundred.
1:23:28
SPEAKER_01: I have no way of knowing.
1:23:33
SPEAKER_01: Shall I guess?
1:23:34
SPEAKER_01: I probably do guess.
1:23:35
SPEAKER_01: Inherently, there's an assumption that there's probably more than 50 and less than 300.
1:23:46
SPEAKER_01: There's an assumption because of something I saw with my eyeballs and read
1:23:51
SPEAKER_01: on my computer this morning that this is going out in a couple of languages.
1:24:01
SPEAKER_01: That's an assumption.
1:24:02
SPEAKER_01: I don't actually know that it is.
1:24:06
SPEAKER_01: Maybe the translator had a technical problem and actually isn't translating.
1:24:14
SPEAKER_01: That's an assumption.
1:24:15
SPEAKER_01: It's not a reality.
1:24:16
SPEAKER_01: It's what I think is going on.
1:24:17
SPEAKER_01: It's a friggin' thought.
1:24:20
SPEAKER_01: So I've got sensations,
1:24:23
SPEAKER_01: and I interpret them as this and that, which goes in with my reality worldview.
1:24:29
SPEAKER_01: And then I think about it.
1:24:32
SPEAKER_01: Which is part of that interpretation.
1:24:36
SPEAKER_01: And so I have a belief system about what's going on.
1:24:42
SPEAKER_01: Is it real?
1:24:43
SPEAKER_01: Not particularly.
1:24:47
SPEAKER_01: How do you have perceptions?
1:24:59
SPEAKER_01: Where are they?
1:25:02
SPEAKER_01: The assumptions that this is a camera and that I'm online.
1:25:06
SPEAKER_01: That what you're seeing is actually happening at this moment and not pre-recorded.
1:25:13
SPEAKER_01: That I'm a real person and not simply a really good fake avatar.
1:25:20
Psst.
1:25:21
I'm not a real person.
1:25:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm a really good fake avatar.
1:25:25
SPEAKER_00: Don't tell me.
1:25:33
SPEAKER_01: Somebody made me up.
1:25:37
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't even me.
1:25:47
SPEAKER_01: The perceptions that you are no longer having,
1:25:53
SPEAKER_01: say the softness of your bed now that you're sitting up.
1:25:59
SPEAKER_01: Where did that perception go?
1:26:13
SPEAKER_01: See these?
1:26:15
SPEAKER_01: You're perceiving these.
1:26:16
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you want one.
1:26:18
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you don't.
1:26:22
SPEAKER_01: Now you're not perceiving these.
1:26:26
SPEAKER_01: Not where did the bracelets go.
1:26:29
SPEAKER_01: Where did your own perception of the bracelets go,
1:26:34
SPEAKER_01: which was all tangled in with how you felt about them?
1:26:42
SPEAKER_01: Desire or no desire.
1:26:45
SPEAKER_01: Maybe even aversion.
1:26:46
SPEAKER_01: Don't like plastic.
1:26:56
SPEAKER_01: How'd you do that, perceive that?
1:27:00
SPEAKER_01: During your examination,
1:27:02
SPEAKER_01: you will see that just as mists arise out of the sky and dissolve back into the sky,
1:27:12
SPEAKER_01: Appearances are the magical display of your mind arising in the mind
1:27:18
SPEAKER_01: and vanishing back into it.
1:27:22
SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
1:27:25
SPEAKER_01: Don't take my word for that.
1:27:27
SPEAKER_01: Go look.
1:27:31
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to get up to go look.
1:27:33
SPEAKER_01: Just shift your attention.
1:27:37
SPEAKER_01: To mind the perceiver.
1:27:47
SPEAKER_01: How it do that.
1:27:50
SPEAKER_01: How you do that.
1:28:17
SPEAKER_01: Take as an example the shimmering effect seen by a man with an impaired vision
1:28:23
SPEAKER_01: when he gazes ahead or the interesting blur I see when I take these off.
1:28:39
SPEAKER_01: Although that shimmering or blur appears to exist in front of my eyes on the paper,
1:28:45
SPEAKER_01: it's not on the paper.
1:28:47
SPEAKER_01: It's an optical illusion.
1:28:49
SPEAKER_01: The paper isn't blurred.
1:28:51
SPEAKER_01: See, look.
1:29:01
SPEAKER_01: My arms are getting short.
1:29:05
SPEAKER_01: But it sure as hell looks blurry to me.
1:29:14
SPEAKER_01: Where's the blur?
1:29:22
SPEAKER_01: Look up if you're accustomed to seeing recall the time.
1:29:25
SPEAKER_01: Look at them.
1:29:30
SPEAKER_01: Are they out there?
1:29:31
SPEAKER_01: Are they in there?
1:29:39
SPEAKER_01: Easier to see against a bright background.
1:29:57
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's said that the first Impressionist painter, I can't remember who that was.
1:30:02
SPEAKER_01: Nyando Art History?
1:30:04
SPEAKER_00: The first Impressionist?
1:30:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the early Impressionist, the very famous Impressionist painter.
1:30:10
SPEAKER_00: Rembrandt?
1:30:12
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:30:12
SPEAKER_00: No.
1:30:14
SPEAKER_01: They say he had vision problems and the whole world looked like
1:30:18
SPEAKER_01: an Impressionist painting to him.
1:30:21
SPEAKER_01: And he just painted what he saw.
1:30:24
SPEAKER_01: An excerpt for which I've forgotten the name of the artist this was about.
1:30:29
SPEAKER_01: I read too much.
1:30:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Monet, Renoir.
1:30:34
SPEAKER_01: Ah, Monet.
1:30:35
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:30:35
SPEAKER_01: This was about Monet, who supposedly had serious vision problems and didn't wear glasses.
1:30:43
SPEAKER_01: In the same way...
1:30:45
SPEAKER_01: When mental functions are impaired by negative propensities that cause clinging
1:30:53
SPEAKER_01: to apparently external objects as discrete and substantial entities,
1:31:02
SPEAKER_01: then visual and auditory phenomena appear to exist where not so much as
1:31:09
SPEAKER_01: an atom can be proved to have ultimate reality.
1:31:14
SPEAKER_01: Everything is a figment of mind.
1:31:19
SPEAKER_01: You need this in Western?
1:31:22
SPEAKER_01: Quantum physics.
1:31:25
SPEAKER_01: Just go read quantum physics if you're having a Western problem with that.
1:31:31
SPEAKER_01: The thing is,
1:31:31
SPEAKER_01: the reason why we don't have all these physicists going rainbow as they delve
1:31:36
SPEAKER_01: into quantum physics is because they're keeping it intellectual, not experiential.
1:31:42
SPEAKER_01: It has to go deeper than intellect.
1:31:47
SPEAKER_01: But if your intellect is up in arms about what I'm telling you and can't believe me,
1:31:53
SPEAKER_01: go read quantum physics to pacify it.
1:32:02
SPEAKER_01: When your mental functions are impaired,
1:32:06
SPEAKER_01: By your having so much distraction of what you hope for and what you're afraid of,
1:32:14
SPEAKER_01: you suffer from an excess of desire or an excess of anxiety.
1:32:21
SPEAKER_01: When you are experiencing this form of insanity, really common one,
1:32:32
SPEAKER_01: It is almost impossible to see the nature of how perception of objects arises in the mind.
1:32:41
SPEAKER_01: So the first thing you're going to have to do is relax your clinging,
1:32:48
SPEAKER_01: clinging to belief systems, clinging to what you've been told, what you've heard.
1:32:54
SPEAKER_00: It is no different from clinging to
1:32:55
SPEAKER_01: political conspiracies because they make you feel real.
1:33:02
SPEAKER_01: Most paranoids who are being chased around by governments and things just want to be important.
1:33:11
SPEAKER_01: And if the CIA is chasing you, well, you must be important somewhere.
1:33:17
SPEAKER_01: So we make ourselves important and real.
1:33:22
SPEAKER_01: By our clinging,
1:33:24
SPEAKER_01: by our grasping of these externals and that interferes with the true relaxation
1:33:30
SPEAKER_01: for it inevitably produces stress and anxiety.
1:33:35
SPEAKER_01: Stress of attempting to accomplish things and anxiety of fear of lack of success
1:33:43
SPEAKER_01: at those accomplishments.
1:33:47
SPEAKER_01: Happens.
1:33:56
SPEAKER_01: So you get sensations of the eardrums.
1:34:01
SPEAKER_01: Little hairs vibrate.
1:34:04
SPEAKER_01: Sensations of the eyeballs,
1:34:07
SPEAKER_01: little rods and cones,
1:34:08
SPEAKER_01: sensitive to shadow and light, to volume of light, and sensitive to wavelength.
1:34:18
SPEAKER_01: And these run through the tsa and get interpreted by the tsa pattern
1:34:25
SPEAKER_01: into what?
1:34:27
SPEAKER_01: You perceive.
1:34:30
SPEAKER_01: And currently you all have homo sapiens saw patterns.
1:34:35
SPEAKER_01: You do realize that insect eyes see differently.
1:34:42
SPEAKER_01: You do realize that you see two quite different images and somewhere
1:34:46
SPEAKER_01: in there they're being triangulated
1:34:51
SPEAKER_01: into a single image with depth perception.
1:34:56
SPEAKER_01: Allowing you to have the assumption that that camera is, say, three feet away from me.
1:35:08
SPEAKER_01: It's all in your mind.
1:35:19
SPEAKER_01: Questions?
1:35:21
SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we have here.
1:35:33
SPEAKER_00: The experience of pain is inevitable while one is still identified with a physical body.
1:35:40
SPEAKER_00: So how to go beyond those limitations?
1:35:43
SPEAKER_01: Die.
1:35:49
SPEAKER_01: For as long as you are alive in this physical body,
1:35:53
SPEAKER_01: your perceptions will be constrained by the homo sapient patterns Of this species,
1:36:04
SPEAKER_01: be glad.
1:36:06
SPEAKER_01: Because if you had a channel pattern of a hell being
1:36:11
SPEAKER_01: and you were sitting right here next to me, this entire room would be burning rock.
1:36:22
SPEAKER_01: And if you had the channel pattern of a pretta being, this would be pus and blood.
1:36:31
SPEAKER_01: Not perfectly good coffee.
1:36:38
SPEAKER_01: It's all in the channel pattern.
1:36:41
SPEAKER_01: And for as long as you are awake and inhabiting this body,
1:36:47
SPEAKER_01: you will have the channel pattern of a homo sapien and are going to be constrained
1:36:52
SPEAKER_01: by it.
1:36:54
SPEAKER_01: So what?
1:36:57
SPEAKER_01: Don't fight.
1:36:58
SPEAKER_01: Don't fight it.
1:36:59
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to fix it.
1:37:01
SPEAKER_00: Leave it be.
1:37:05
SPEAKER_01: See past it as beyond that.
1:37:09
SPEAKER_01: In dream time you are not so constrained once you've received the teachings on how
1:37:14
SPEAKER_01: to shift your channel pattern in dream time.
1:37:20
SPEAKER_01: To become not caught as a homo sapien but to experience the ways of other life forms.
1:37:33
SPEAKER_01: That can only be taught in dream time.
1:37:37
SPEAKER_01: It can't be taught here.
1:37:40
SPEAKER_01: All of you who are doing dream yoga,
1:37:42
SPEAKER_01: when you're ready to learn that, come find me on the other side.
1:37:49
SPEAKER_01: Can't teach you here.
1:37:51
SPEAKER_01: As long as you're here, you're human.
1:37:57
SPEAKER_01: Which means you can only
1:38:02
SPEAKER_01: Experience the visual sensations of certain wavelengths of light.
1:38:13
SPEAKER_01: Actually,
1:38:14
SPEAKER_01: once you have experienced a lot in dreamtime shifting,
1:38:20
SPEAKER_01: you can sometimes shift briefly.
1:38:25
SPEAKER_01: Your eye channel pattern into other wavelengths just to check and see.
1:38:30
SPEAKER_01: Because there are things that are invisible to Homo sapiens.
1:38:34
SPEAKER_01: Such as the flames in the hell realm.
1:38:38
SPEAKER_01: You can't go really far.
1:38:39
SPEAKER_01: You can only get to like near colors and ultraviolet and infrared.
1:38:45
SPEAKER_01: But that's going to take a lot of dream time practice and being other things
1:38:48
SPEAKER_01: that naturally see there.
1:38:50
SPEAKER_01: And you can't maintain that shift without making yourself very queasy, to my experience.
1:38:58
SPEAKER_01: And could I have some more coffee?
1:38:59
SPEAKER_01: Because I just did make myself queasy looking.
1:39:03
SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
1:39:04
Yeah.
1:39:06
SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
1:39:09
SPEAKER_01: I was just trying to see what else was around.
1:39:12
SPEAKER_01: Out of sheer silly playfulness.
1:39:16
SPEAKER_01: I am kind of silly and playful sometimes.
1:39:19
SPEAKER_00: Ah.
1:39:20
SPEAKER_01: Do we have a question here?
1:39:22
SPEAKER_00: Yes, there's a good follow-up question.
1:39:24
SPEAKER_00: Can you talk more about the saw and what it means to bruise it?
1:39:31
SPEAKER_01: Mmm.
1:39:33
SPEAKER_01: Ever have PTSD?
1:39:36
SPEAKER_01: That's a bruised saw or a sprained saw.
1:39:43
SPEAKER_01: When you have a bruise in your saw,
1:39:52
SPEAKER_01: Your perceptions
1:39:57
SPEAKER_01: of phenomena will be affected by it.
1:40:03
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes if you do improperly intensive purifications,
1:40:11
SPEAKER_01: an example,
1:40:12
SPEAKER_01: having the wrong texture of the light in Vajrasattva,
1:40:16
SPEAKER_01: having it be a sharp actinic, Almost a fluorescent texture.
1:40:22
SPEAKER_01: If you do that, you will bruise a saw.
1:40:25
SPEAKER_01: For example, running tummo before you've done all the clean-out practices.
1:40:34
SPEAKER_01: Blazing up the fire before the saw is ready to receive that much energy
1:40:39
SPEAKER_01: and just blasting it through.
1:40:46
SPEAKER_01: That's the usual symptom.
1:40:48
SPEAKER_01: People get weird twitches.
1:40:55
SPEAKER_01: These are symptoms of a bruised side.
1:40:58
SPEAKER_01: It's usually from doing energy channel work that you've either misunderstood
1:41:04
SPEAKER_01: the instructions for or got out of a book,
1:41:06
SPEAKER_01: which did not have the complete instructions.
1:41:08
SPEAKER_01: They always leave something out.
1:41:12
SPEAKER_01: It's just the custom.
1:41:17
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes translators in the footnotes and the prefaces try to put it back in,
1:41:22
SPEAKER_01: but unless the translator is an expert at the practice they're translating
1:41:29
SPEAKER_01: or is working with a teacher vetting it also who has decided they want that in
1:41:35
SPEAKER_01: the book rather than just mentioned, there's things they don't tell you.
1:41:47
SPEAKER_01: So if you bruise your tsa, what you want to do is slow down your qi.
1:41:59
SPEAKER_01: A very badly bruised tsa,
1:42:02
SPEAKER_01: where a person is way perceiving so far outside of the normal everyday reality
1:42:09
SPEAKER_01: that they cannot function, we generally treat with valerian root.
1:42:20
SPEAKER_01: That, however, will shut down most of your practices for a while.
1:42:27
SPEAKER_01: It way drops the cheese so far that you can't even make it go.
1:42:33
SPEAKER_01: So that's for emergencies.
1:42:36
SPEAKER_01: Usually dark, chewy, live yeast, unfiltered, preferably homemade beer.
1:42:50
SPEAKER_01: This contains vast amounts of vitamin B,
1:42:56
SPEAKER_01: as well as alcohol,
1:42:57
SPEAKER_01: and the combination of the vitamin B complex and alcohol together will both relax
1:43:06
SPEAKER_01: the channels and allow them to expand,
1:43:08
SPEAKER_01: which is what the alcohol does,
1:43:11
SPEAKER_01: and soothe any bruising, which is what the vitamin B does.
1:43:16
SPEAKER_01: Also, don't do that again.
1:43:21
SPEAKER_01: I think that was what they were asking.
1:43:23
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:43:27
SPEAKER_01: Let's see if we have another one.
1:43:32
SPEAKER_00: Can you explain more about,
1:43:34
SPEAKER_00: you mentioned going rainbow earlier,
1:43:36
SPEAKER_00: and can you explain going rainbow in the Western paradigm more?
1:43:41
SPEAKER_00: You talked about...
1:43:42
SPEAKER_01: There isn't a going rainbow in the Western paradigm.
1:43:46
SPEAKER_01: Nothing like it at all.
1:43:52
SPEAKER_01: When your illusions,
1:43:56
SPEAKER_01: all of them have dropped away,
1:44:00
SPEAKER_01: and your karma for more of them has been allowed to unravel and complete itself
1:44:08
SPEAKER_01: without you poking it,
1:44:15
SPEAKER_01: there is no longer need for
1:44:22
SPEAKER_01: Flesh illusory nirmanakaya form.
1:44:28
SPEAKER_01: Rather, the true nirmanakaya form, which is the channel body, is all that's necessary.
1:44:36
SPEAKER_01: Therefore,
1:44:37
SPEAKER_01: if not necessary,
1:44:38
SPEAKER_01: the meat dissolves,
1:44:40
SPEAKER_01: disappears,
1:44:42
SPEAKER_01: turns back into the elements it was made of,
1:44:44
SPEAKER_01: the light it was made of, and what's left is the channel body.
1:44:50
SPEAKER_01: People who have not had this experience of doing this,
1:44:56
SPEAKER_01: of having this happen,
1:44:59
SPEAKER_01: which is pretty much all of us who are still hanging around in meat,
1:45:05
SPEAKER_01: will perceive it from outside as looking like little rainbows all over the place.
1:45:16
SPEAKER_01: Whole bunch of suncatchers in the window and little rainbows all over the room.
1:45:22
SPEAKER_01: Just for fun,
1:45:22
SPEAKER_01: I keep suncatchers in my window because I like seeing the little rainbows all over
1:45:26
SPEAKER_01: the room.
1:45:32
SPEAKER_01: There are very clear instructions of how to
1:45:39
SPEAKER_01: shift your attention from form to light.
1:45:50
SPEAKER_01: To shift your attention from nirmanakaya to sambhogakaya.
1:45:57
SPEAKER_01: But this only works when all sambhogakaya,
1:46:01
SPEAKER_01: dharmakaya, nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya are all the same thing.
1:46:08
SPEAKER_01: And you have
1:46:14
SPEAKER_01: unraveled the need
1:46:19
SPEAKER_01: for form without needing to end form.
1:46:28
SPEAKER_01: Is this making any sense to you at all?
1:46:30
SPEAKER_01: I can give you the instructions for it much more easily than I can describe what it is.
1:46:42
SPEAKER_00: How long does it take to develop SOPA If you're practicing gum
1:46:48
SPEAKER_00: while also working full time,
1:46:54
SPEAKER_01: if you are practicing gum while working full time,
1:47:00
SPEAKER_01: which means you're practicing at work all the time in all circumstances,
1:47:04
SPEAKER_01: about as long as it took you to learn to read.
1:47:14
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:47:18
SPEAKER_01: But that's only if you're practicing while working full-time.
1:47:23
SPEAKER_01: Not practicing part-time and working full-time.
1:47:29
SPEAKER_01: Practicing while working full-time.
1:47:35
SPEAKER_01: The while is the key.
1:47:39
SPEAKER_00: There are so many practices.
1:47:41
SPEAKER_00: How do I know which practice is best for me?
1:47:44
SPEAKER_00: Should I try them out myself or ask a teacher what's the best way to go about that?
1:47:51
SPEAKER_01: When you first learn a practice, you should give it a try for a day or two, maybe three.
1:47:58
SPEAKER_01: See, if you like it, you'll never know without giving it a try.
1:48:02
SPEAKER_01: So I highly recommend every practice you learn, you give a try to.
1:48:06
SPEAKER_01: A couple of days, You don't usually get a new practice every day.
1:48:10
SPEAKER_01: You get them every few weeks.
1:48:13
SPEAKER_01: That said, you should only be practicing one main and two auxiliary practices at any given time.
1:48:23
SPEAKER_01: This doesn't count parties.
1:48:25
SPEAKER_01: Tsok, where you go and you join with friends and you do a particular ceremony.
1:48:33
SPEAKER_01: Or you do the particular ceremony and that doesn't,
1:48:37
SPEAKER_01: don't worry about COVID, your friends are off plane.
1:48:40
SPEAKER_01: When you do tzok,
1:48:40
SPEAKER_01: you invite in all the Buddhas and things and you have a wonderful meal together.
1:48:45
SPEAKER_01: It's lots of fun.
1:48:46
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't count as a main practice.
1:48:48
SPEAKER_01: That just goes along with the days of the moon cycle.
1:48:52
SPEAKER_01: So you would do these on certain days.
1:48:55
SPEAKER_01: But as a main practice,
1:48:56
SPEAKER_01: which you're working on daily,
1:48:58
SPEAKER_01: really you should have one primary one that's your main focus.
1:49:02
SPEAKER_01: And at the most, two others that you may do as auxiliaries.
1:49:11
SPEAKER_01: You may be doing Treksha as your main practice,
1:49:15
SPEAKER_01: but you find that you get caught into that nothingness unless you also preface it
1:49:21
SPEAKER_01: with Chenrezig.
1:49:24
SPEAKER_01: So you're doing Chenrezig in the beginning and then Treksha.
1:49:29
SPEAKER_01: And you're also working on putting Gewo in the pot because it helps and makes you happy.
1:49:34
SPEAKER_01: Three.
1:49:39
SPEAKER_01: How do you choose them?
1:49:43
SPEAKER_01: Pick the ones you like because those are the ones that you'll actually do.
1:49:48
SPEAKER_01: With the kind of joyful enthusiasm with which practices need to be done in order
1:49:55
SPEAKER_01: for getting the best effect from them.
1:50:01
SPEAKER_01: So, pick the ones you like.
1:50:05
SPEAKER_01: Because then you will practice them with joyful enthusiasm most days.
1:50:10
SPEAKER_01: You won't do that with the ones you don't like.
1:50:14
SPEAKER_01: Now will you?
1:50:18
SPEAKER_01: If you're still in great doubt, you can discuss it with your teacher.
1:50:23
SPEAKER_01: But most people in most circumstances at most times can see
1:50:30
SPEAKER_01: which practices they want to be doing for themselves.
1:50:36
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you're doing certain practices you thought they would help.
1:50:40
SPEAKER_01: You've got a particular glitch and you don't know what practice is going to deal with that.
1:50:45
SPEAKER_01: You're having nightmares.
1:50:47
SPEAKER_01: Everything's going fine, but you just keep having these nightmares.
1:50:52
SPEAKER_01: Then go talk to your teacher.
1:50:53
SPEAKER_01: She may know which practice is most effective for nightmares and may be able
1:51:00
SPEAKER_01: to clue you into that from a broader knowledge base than you have.
1:51:05
SPEAKER_01: So if you're stuck on something, yes, ask your teacher.
1:51:09
SPEAKER_01: But if you're just looking for what practices to do, ask yourself.
1:51:17
SPEAKER_01: You're a functional adult.
1:51:20
SPEAKER_01: You know what you like.
1:51:23
SPEAKER_00: It's a buffet.
1:51:24
SPEAKER_00: You're not going to do all of them.
1:51:26
SPEAKER_01: First round on a buffet, what do you do?
1:51:28
SPEAKER_01: Taste all the strange stuff, just little bites on the plate all over the place.
1:51:34
SPEAKER_01: Having done so, including the blue thing because it looked interesting, then you go back.
1:51:43
SPEAKER_01: And you have your actual meal of the ones you liked and you don't bother with
1:51:48
SPEAKER_01: the ones you didn't like.
1:51:50
SPEAKER_01: It's a buffet.
1:51:52
SPEAKER_01: I've met some poor people who were students of Norbu Rinpoche who were trying
1:51:57
SPEAKER_01: to do all the practices he taught.
1:52:04
SPEAKER_01: He taught all the practices that he had by the end.
1:52:11
SPEAKER_01: He knew the end was coming.
1:52:12
SPEAKER_01: He knew he was old.
1:52:15
SPEAKER_01: Us old folks, we know we're going to die soon.
1:52:18
SPEAKER_01: How could you not notice as your tits hit your waist?
1:52:26
SPEAKER_01: So he taught everything he had by the end.
1:52:34
SPEAKER_01: But You're supposed to pick among them, not try to accomplish them all.
1:52:41
SPEAKER_01: You'll scatter yourselves.
1:52:47
SPEAKER_00: Let me have another question.
1:52:50
SPEAKER_00: What's the difference between dharmata and dharmadhatu?
1:53:01
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
1:53:04
SPEAKER_01: Translation, scholars out there, anybody, somebody want to type in the answer to that one?
1:53:10
SPEAKER_01: I use them fairly interchangeably.
1:53:13
SPEAKER_01: They're Sanskrit.
1:53:15
SPEAKER_01: But I'm sure there's a scholar out there that knows the difference
1:53:17
SPEAKER_01: between those two words, so I'd appreciate it being typed in.
1:53:20
SPEAKER_01: I'd like to know, too.
1:53:23
SPEAKER_01: Give me another question.
1:53:24
SPEAKER_01: I can't answer that one.
1:53:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
1:53:26
SPEAKER_01: But someone will.
1:53:27
SPEAKER_01: It's what's nice having scholars in the audience.
1:53:33
SPEAKER_00: Let me go through here.
1:53:36
SPEAKER_00: Another person asks for a definition of bodhicitta.
1:53:42
SPEAKER_01: Bodhi, thus gone, gone beyond, fully gone beyond.
1:53:49
SPEAKER_01: Sita, consciousness, mind.
1:53:58
SPEAKER_01: That's your literal Sanskrit definition.
1:54:02
SPEAKER_01: The Tibetan word is ninji.
1:54:07
SPEAKER_01: Ning heart.
1:54:10
SPEAKER_01: G, superlative, greatest, best of, most honorable, venerable.
1:54:20
SPEAKER_01: Great hearted.
1:54:23
SPEAKER_01: The word compassion ain't in there.
1:54:32
SPEAKER_01: Compassion is somewhat small.
1:54:35
SPEAKER_01: It has the element of pity often when we use it.
1:54:39
SPEAKER_01: We have compassion for the suffering, not for the happy.
1:54:44
SPEAKER_01: Whereas we have Bodhisitta for the happy and the suffering.
1:54:51
SPEAKER_01: Rejoicing and pitying.
1:54:56
SPEAKER_01: Two sides of the same mandala.
1:55:01
SPEAKER_01: Bodhisitta.
1:55:03
SPEAKER_01: Contains it all.
1:55:08
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:55:10
SPEAKER_00: To go back to the dharma and dharmadatu question.
1:55:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, did somebody come up with an answer?
1:55:14
SPEAKER_00: Well, Martin says dharmadatu is cho yin.
1:55:19
SPEAKER_00: Cho yin.
1:55:19
SPEAKER_00: And dharmata is chuni.
1:55:23
SPEAKER_00: It sounds like potato, potato to me, but I'm not.
1:55:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
1:55:28
SPEAKER_01: Cho yin and chuni.
1:55:31
SPEAKER_01: And those are also used interchangeably nearly.
1:55:38
SPEAKER_01: Qunyi,
1:55:42
SPEAKER_01: Great Point of Dharma, Great Superlative of Dharma,
1:55:49
SPEAKER_01: Heart of Dharma.
1:55:56
SPEAKER_01: Endpoint of Dharma, superlative of Dharma, essence of Dharma.
1:56:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm still not finding the difference.
1:56:06
SPEAKER_01: Some other scholar want to take a strike at that?
1:56:11
SPEAKER_01: And let me have another question while we're hoping for help from the scholars.
1:56:15
SPEAKER_00: Wait.
1:56:21
SPEAKER_00: I got my...
1:56:25
SPEAKER_00: Eyes and face muscles blinking very fast while sitting treksha.
1:56:30
SPEAKER_00: Is this a reason to stop sitting?
1:56:32
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
1:56:34
SPEAKER_01: That's not good.
1:56:36
SPEAKER_01: You'll do yourself a mischief if you keep doing that.
1:56:39
SPEAKER_01: If you start having twitchies while sitting treksha,
1:56:42
SPEAKER_01: get up, go take a walk, wash your face, relax.
1:56:47
SPEAKER_01: You've got tension coming out the tsa of your face,
1:56:51
SPEAKER_01: especially the tsa of your eyes if they're going like this.
1:56:57
SPEAKER_01: That's a sign that you're holding too tight rather than relaxing into your treksha.
1:57:03
SPEAKER_01: You're trying too hard and you're going to bruise the tsa
1:57:09
SPEAKER_01: because you're running too much that those tsa can't take that much energy.
1:57:14
SPEAKER_01: So in some way you are pointing into treksha rather than relaxing backwards into treksha.
1:57:22
SPEAKER_01: Get up, take a walk if that happens.
1:57:25
SPEAKER_01: And then when you sit down again,
1:57:27
SPEAKER_01: I want you to imagine that Treksha is the perfect
1:57:34
SPEAKER_01: water inflatable water balloon
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SPEAKER_01: of warm,
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SPEAKER_01: soft water behind you,
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SPEAKER_01: shaped like an easy chair,
1:57:44
SPEAKER_01: and you're just going to relax back into it rather than focus forward into it.
1:57:52
SPEAKER_01: Try that and see if it helps.
1:57:53
SPEAKER_01: You've got
1:57:56
SPEAKER_01: A skunch going on in the channels in this area and I don't want to bruise them.
1:58:05
SPEAKER_01: So I want to have you try it the other way.
1:58:10
SPEAKER_01: If you socially drink, you can try having a beer and then sitting Trekja.
1:58:21
SPEAKER_01: And see if that happens because that should not happen and it is a sign
1:58:25
SPEAKER_01: of something going wrong with your energy channels.
1:58:32
SPEAKER_01: Next question.
1:58:33
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for asking that because safety issue here.
1:58:38
SPEAKER_01: If you get weird physical side effects, I recommend you email me.
1:58:43
SPEAKER_01: If you just get them once and then they go away, don't worry about it.
1:58:46
SPEAKER_01: Things pass through.
1:58:48
SPEAKER_01: But if you have something really reoccurring each time as a physical side effect, do check in.
1:58:55
SPEAKER_01: Because there shouldn't be regular physical side effects.
1:59:00
SPEAKER_00: Going back to Dharmata and Dharmadhatu, this from Lama Star.
1:59:07
SPEAKER_00: Dharmata is the nature of phenomena, while Dharmadhatu is the space of phenomena.
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SPEAKER_00: Does that work?
1:59:16
SPEAKER_01: No, because the nature of phenomena is space.
1:59:23
SPEAKER_01: But that may be a...
1:59:25
SPEAKER_01: Sanskrit has little divisions in it that for talking about philosophy,
1:59:31
SPEAKER_01: your best language I've ever read bits of, and I don't speak it, is Sanskrit.
1:59:38
SPEAKER_01: So she's saying dharmadhatu is the space of phenomena or dharmata is the space of phenomena?
1:59:45
SPEAKER_00: Darmata is the nature.
1:59:48
SPEAKER_00: Darmata is the nature.
1:59:50
SPEAKER_00: And Dharmadhatu is the space.
1:59:54
SPEAKER_00: Talking about the relationship between a thing, the mind, and what's containing those things.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna contemplate that some.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lama Tasha.
2:00:26
SPEAKER_01: I always figured we had a scholar out there somewhere that could give me
2:00:29
SPEAKER_01: the traditional difference.
2:00:40
SPEAKER_01: All my texts end up full of Dharma notes, margins, highlighter everywhere.
2:00:45
SPEAKER_01: It's just the way it goes.
2:00:49
SPEAKER_01: One of the delights for me is when I get an old text in Tibetan full of Dharma notes
2:00:55
SPEAKER_01: and highlighters all over the place.
2:00:56
SPEAKER_01: There's the neat stuff in those notes people have written down over the times that
2:01:03
SPEAKER_01: the text has been passed on.
2:01:06
SPEAKER_01: That was a digression.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me have one more question, and then we should be getting towards the end of today.
2:01:12
SPEAKER_01: We'll be in the second page of Chapter 9, if you all want to remember where we are.
2:01:20
SPEAKER_01: We started Chapter 9 and turned the page.
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SPEAKER_01: But let's have one more question, if we've got a good one out there.
2:01:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm going through the questions remaining.
2:01:36
SPEAKER_00: A couple of people asking for more questions about the rainbow body.
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SPEAKER_00: And is it possible to go rainbow and remain in the flesh?
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SPEAKER_00: And are there instructions?
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SPEAKER_01: No, you can't go rainbow body and come back.
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SPEAKER_01: And show it off to all your friends.
2:01:58
SPEAKER_01: Nope, not going to work.
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SPEAKER_01: I know somebody who tried that one.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, the instructions for Rainbow Body?
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SPEAKER_01: Director,
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SPEAKER_01: when you truly and fully relax,
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SPEAKER_01: let go and leave it be long enough without poking anything for it to really unravel,
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SPEAKER_01: Rainbow Body occurs.
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SPEAKER_01: That's how.
2:02:41
SPEAKER_01: And Togel will accelerate that process.
2:02:44
SPEAKER_01: But until you can do that trekture, you're not going to manage actual Togel.
2:02:51
SPEAKER_01: Togel depends on trekture.
2:02:55
SPEAKER_01: If I were to try to teach you to rub your tummy and pat your head while riding
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SPEAKER_01: a bicycle, You better be damn good on a bicycle before I teach you that.
2:03:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah?
2:03:15
SPEAKER_01: Now, Norba Rinpoche did publicly teach people to rub their belly and pat their head
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SPEAKER_01: before they knew how to ride a bicycle,
2:03:23
SPEAKER_01: but that's because he was about to die and wanted to have taught it.
2:03:29
SPEAKER_01: So that people would later come to the ability to ride the bicycle and then add that practice.
2:03:36
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't work without treksha supporting it.
2:03:40
SPEAKER_01: You can do all the funny things you want with body positions and eye gazes
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SPEAKER_01: and nothing happens.
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SPEAKER_01: Unless you do it all in treksha as treksha.
2:04:01
SPEAKER_01: And one more.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
2:04:09
SPEAKER_00: A couple of questions about treating reality as illusion.
2:04:16
SPEAKER_00: If everything is an illusion,
2:04:18
SPEAKER_00: what are we to make of things like mysterious illnesses,
2:04:22
SPEAKER_00: illnesses that don't seem to have a cause,
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SPEAKER_00: or any sort of Physical cause, but yet seem to exist to us.
2:04:33
SPEAKER_01: Nothing at all.
2:04:36
SPEAKER_01: That's the key of treacher.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't make anything out of it.
2:04:42
SPEAKER_01: You leave those illnesses
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SPEAKER_01: and bits of chocolate that come by you right
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SPEAKER_01: where they are without Making any story out of it.
2:05:04
SPEAKER_01: Just leave it be.
2:05:06
SPEAKER_01: If you feel sick, you feel sick.
2:05:12
SPEAKER_01: If you know what will make you feel better, you might do it or you might not.
2:05:19
SPEAKER_01: But you don't have to build an edifice around your illness.
2:05:26
SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
2:05:28
SPEAKER_01: All of us who are old have assorted things that go wrong with us and our bodies.
2:05:37
SPEAKER_01: Meh, it's gonna happen.
2:05:40
SPEAKER_01: Those of us who are young also will have assorted things that go wrong
2:05:46
SPEAKER_01: with our bodies, like STDs.
2:05:49
SPEAKER_01: At some point, you outgrow those mostly.
2:05:54
SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
2:05:58
SPEAKER_01: I still get checked.
2:06:02
SPEAKER_01: In spite of the inertia of COVID.
2:06:06
SPEAKER_01: Maybe I won't bother this time.
2:06:09
SPEAKER_01: What I'm saying here is that shit happens.
2:06:14
SPEAKER_01: Make as few stories as you can and laugh at the ones that you can't avoid.
2:06:22
SPEAKER_01: Does this make sense to you guys?
2:06:26
SPEAKER_01: Let's say, for example, I wake up in the morning and I notice that I have no energy.
2:06:36
SPEAKER_01: Instead of making a story that I had COVID back when it was first out in January.
2:06:44
SPEAKER_01: I actually canceled a tour because I was sick in January.
2:06:48
SPEAKER_01: I figured it was the flu at the time.
2:06:50
SPEAKER_01: We didn't know COVID yet.
2:06:52
SPEAKER_01: But instead of making that story,
2:06:54
SPEAKER_01: and this is part of the long haul,
2:06:56
SPEAKER_01: and that's why I'd be more allergic this year, and blah, blah, blah, blah, nope.
2:07:02
SPEAKER_01: I don't need to make a story.
2:07:04
SPEAKER_01: I feel low energy today.
2:07:07
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I think I'll call it a pajama day.
2:07:09
SPEAKER_01: And I wandered out and have some more coffee in my PJs.
2:07:14
SPEAKER_01: And don't do anything, because I don't have any energy.
2:07:17
SPEAKER_01: So, it passes.
2:07:21
SPEAKER_01: Now, I could have gone,
2:07:23
SPEAKER_01: oh, well, it's chronic fatigue and I'm having a flare up and I'm that bad.
2:07:28
SPEAKER_01: Why would I want to do that?
2:07:32
SPEAKER_01: Fuck, shit happens.
2:07:33
SPEAKER_01: Some days you feel better.
2:07:34
SPEAKER_01: Some days you feel like crap.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_01: So what?
2:07:43
SPEAKER_01: You leave it alone.
2:07:45
SPEAKER_01: Let it do its thing.
2:07:49
SPEAKER_01: Stop trying to think your way out of this paper bag.
2:07:54
SPEAKER_01: You can't.
2:07:58
SPEAKER_01: You cannot decide what to do about everything most effectively by thinking at it.
2:08:05
SPEAKER_01: And the day you learn that is going to be a big jump for all of you.
2:08:15
SPEAKER_01: I remember the day my teacher taught me that.
2:08:18
SPEAKER_01: Can't think your way out of this one, kid.
2:08:22
SPEAKER_01: Remind me next week I'll tell you that story.
2:08:25
SPEAKER_01: It's a bit of a long one.
2:08:28
SPEAKER_01: Or next week.
2:08:29
SPEAKER_01: Next time we're together.
2:08:33
SPEAKER_01: You can even try it for tomorrow in the question and answers and let's see if you get called on.
2:08:37
SPEAKER_01: But it's a long story.
2:08:40
SPEAKER_01: And it has to be in context in which we're talking about.
2:08:45
SPEAKER_01: I hope that was useful.
2:08:47
SPEAKER_01: Check and see with that person and the people in that area of questioning.
2:08:54
SPEAKER_01: Don't make anything out of it.
2:08:55
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to.
2:08:59
SPEAKER_01: Leave it be.
2:09:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've still got the energy for one more, if not.
2:09:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the...
2:09:15
SPEAKER_00: So letting the display unwind means not making up stories about whatever comes by?
2:09:23
SPEAKER_01: Or if you do make up stories about whatever comes by, not believing them or subscribing to them.
2:09:33
SPEAKER_01: Stories are just thoughts, right?
2:09:35
SPEAKER_01: They're made of the same thing as all the other thoughts.
2:09:38
SPEAKER_01: So while you're thinking them, you look right through them.
2:09:40
SPEAKER_01: They're transparent.
2:09:42
SPEAKER_01: And obviously they're just thoughts, so okay, you can think that, but it's not real.
2:09:47
SPEAKER_01: Heck, I can think of six-legged purple unicorns.
2:09:56
SPEAKER_01: I can think that very well.
2:10:00
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't make it real.
2:10:05
SPEAKER_01: More on this topic?
2:10:07
SPEAKER_01: This is a very important topic.
2:10:15
SPEAKER_01: This is where we are in the book.
2:10:16
SPEAKER_01: We're on perceptions and how to relate to them.
2:10:20
SPEAKER_00: So if these things are illusion, does that mean they don't exist?
2:10:27
SPEAKER_01: No.
2:10:32
SPEAKER_01: Ever read a sci-fi novel?
2:10:36
SPEAKER_01: It's fiction.
2:10:38
SPEAKER_01: It exists.
2:10:39
SPEAKER_01: It got published.
2:10:41
SPEAKER_01: It's either matter in paper or electronic bits in your iPad.
2:10:47
SPEAKER_01: That story certainly exists.
2:10:50
SPEAKER_01: Someone went to a lot of trouble to make it up and write it down and publish it
2:10:53
SPEAKER_01: and sell it to you and you paid for it.
2:10:58
SPEAKER_01: It's still fiction.
2:11:03
SPEAKER_01: But it's a very real book.
2:11:05
SPEAKER_01: You can pick it up and wave it around.
2:11:12
SPEAKER_01: The stories aren't real.
2:11:17
SPEAKER_01: None of the stories are real.
2:11:20
SPEAKER_01: And yet,
2:11:23
SPEAKER_01: if you experience the sensation of dropping your coffee on your foot,
2:11:30
SPEAKER_01: and you make the story that it has spilled on the floor
2:11:34
SPEAKER_01: because that's what your perceptions say, you still get a rag and clean it up.
2:11:41
SPEAKER_01: Without subscribing to deciding that that is real or unreal.
2:11:49
SPEAKER_01: You don't know if you're dreaming or not.
2:11:52
SPEAKER_01: If you dream, you drop your coffee on your foot.
2:11:54
SPEAKER_01: You're still in the dream, get a rag and clean it up.
2:12:04
SPEAKER_01: You're going for absolutes here, is's and isn'ts.
2:12:09
SPEAKER_01: But they aren't.
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SPEAKER_01: Not real or unreal.
2:12:17
SPEAKER_01: Not here or there.
2:12:20
SPEAKER_01: Neither this nor that.
2:12:24
SPEAKER_01: Inside and outside.
2:12:28
SPEAKER_01: Center and edge.
2:12:34
SPEAKER_01: These are words and thoughts and you're making it all up.
2:12:41
SPEAKER_01: And that's okay because this is Chukurulpa, the play of the Dharmakaya.
2:12:56
SPEAKER_01: The clear light nature of the Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, is innately creative, playful.
2:13:08
SPEAKER_01: What we call Chukuropa,
2:13:11
SPEAKER_01: play of the Dharmakaya, this is the sparkle of the clear light, the shimmer of it.
2:13:21
SPEAKER_01: This is the movement and this is the heat of tummo.
2:13:27
SPEAKER_01: This is the vitality of the Sambhogakaya.
2:13:31
SPEAKER_01: This is awareness itself.
2:13:35
SPEAKER_01: This is you.
2:13:39
SPEAKER_01: And all that you think and feel and perceive arises in your mind and dissolves
2:13:50
SPEAKER_01: in your mind and has never been other than your mind.
2:13:57
SPEAKER_01: And you are your mind.
2:14:11
SPEAKER_01: You always have been, yes?
2:14:14
SPEAKER_01: You were your mind yesterday and you will be your mind tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: It is utterly stable.
2:14:20
SPEAKER_01: It does not come and go.
2:14:22
SPEAKER_01: What
2:14:25
SPEAKER_01: is perceived, thought, felt, Is constantly in a state of change.
2:14:30
SPEAKER_01: That's the moving, the shimmer of the clear light nature.
2:14:39
SPEAKER_01: But the infinite open awareness,
2:14:41
SPEAKER_01: the ground of mind itself, Dharmakaya, nature of mind, that doesn't come and go.
2:14:49
SPEAKER_01: It's always been there and clear light is its nature and the clear light always shimmers.
2:14:57
SPEAKER_01: The flicker, the shimmer, the sparkle always changes.
2:15:06
SPEAKER_01: And yet there is no thing there.
2:15:08
SPEAKER_01: Light is not a thing.
2:15:09
SPEAKER_01: Light is that by which the seer sees.
2:15:13
SPEAKER_01: You cannot grasp it, hand it over, put it down, or hide it.
2:15:23
SPEAKER_01: It's inherent to the spaciousness For if it was not, you would not have the illusion of being.
2:15:36
SPEAKER_01: For there would be no awareness to be aware of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
2:15:41
SPEAKER_01: That very awareness, aware of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, Sambhogakaya, nature of mind.
2:15:49
SPEAKER_01: That innate vitality where all the gods and demons are born.
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SPEAKER_01: You.
2:16:00
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is real.
2:16:03
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is unreal.
2:16:06
SPEAKER_01: Real and unreal are thoughts.
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SPEAKER_02: You think them.
2:16:17
SPEAKER_01: And I think I will leave you there.
2:16:22
SPEAKER_01: Practice.
2:16:24
SPEAKER_01: I will answer more questions tomorrow.
2:16:31
SPEAKER_02: Nge Wadi
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SPEAKER_02: Nyur Duda
2:16:44
SPEAKER_02: Chichi
2:16:49
SPEAKER_02: Sala
2:16:53
SPEAKER_02: Goparsho
2:17:02
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2:17:10
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2:17:15
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2:17:20
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2:17:25
SPEAKER_01: For those who wish to offer Dana to the teacher, there's one for that too.
2:17:32
SPEAKER_01: If any of you wish to merge your practice and jumpstart it a bit by sharing practice
2:17:39
SPEAKER_01: and result of practice with one of our yogis and yoginis.
2:17:45
SPEAKER_01: You see, it's pretty simple.
2:17:47
SPEAKER_01: The cost of a pizza and beer every month keeps a yogi in retreat.
2:17:53
SPEAKER_01: You pizza and beer here in the West.
2:17:55
SPEAKER_01: There, plenty of rice, dal, and vegetables.
2:17:59
SPEAKER_01: So if you're interested in doing that,
2:18:03
SPEAKER_01: Drop me a line by email,
2:18:06
SPEAKER_01: but don't mix that request with other Dharma questions,
2:18:09
SPEAKER_01: two separate emails if you want to ask about your practice and ask for a yogi.
2:18:17
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
2:18:19
SPEAKER_01: And I'll see those of you who want or who have had fun tomorrow for questions
2:18:25
SPEAKER_01: and answers where we can get into all sorts of things rather than me trying to stay
2:18:30
SPEAKER_01: on the topic of perceptions.
2:18:33
SPEAKER_01: Or we can revisit perceptions.
2:18:39
SPEAKER_01: I'll see some of you tomorrow and the rest of you next month when we come back
2:18:43
SPEAKER_01: to Flight of the Geruda.
2:18:58
SPEAKER_00: And you are no longer light.