y Mahamudra International Retreat — 2004-04-14

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About this talk. In this 198-minute session from a 2004 Mahāmudrā International Retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche establishes the foundational philosophy for tantric practice, opening with purification visualization before turning to his central teaching: happiness and suffering originate entirely from mind, not circumstances. Through vivid contrasts—uneducated villagers at peace versus wealthy celebrities in despair—he illustrates why external success cannot ensure inner happiness. He then analyzes how mind labels all phenomena, using sound and perception as examples to demonstrate that nothing exists independently but only as mental designation. The teaching emphasizes renouncing worldly attachment and making one’s mind dharmic as the root of happiness, concluding with practical guidance on integrating mindfulness into daily activities. For those already familiar with Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.

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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1

Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)

Date: 2004-04-14

Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide

Duration: 198.5 minutes

Words: ~15,446

So the need to do a general confession. So visualize through the force of having made this request to the thirty five thirty five Buddhas, eight Medicine Buddhas, through power of their prayers, through power of their faith and regret, infinite net and light rays ascend from the holy bodies and the mind field, completely purifying all the negative karmas and imprints on one’s mental continuum in the minds of all sentient beings. Generate strong conviction that your mind has become completely pure, not the slightest negative karma remaining. Then reflect, in emptiness, there is no I, the creator of negative karma. In emptiness, there is no action of creating negative karma.

In emptiness, there is no negative karma created. Even though there are infinite phenomena and emptiness, nothing exists at all. In emptiness, there is no this and that, no me and you, nothing. From this emptiness, everything comes into existence. Whatever exists is the manifestation of emptiness.

Do those three time mass accumulated by myself or the Buddha’s body, selfless, and all sentient beings, which are completely empty and existing from their own side. May the I, which is completely empty and existing from its own side, quickly achieve the state of full enlightenment, which is completely empty of existing from its own side. And lead all sentient beings, or completely empty of existing from their own side, to that state by myself alone, who is completely empty resisting from its own side. Page forty three. The residing What causes me to have so many obstacles to my practice even though I work so hard and study so much?

Why I’m unable to gain any realizations in my mind is because of all the heaviest negative karmas that I’ve accumulated with the holy virtuous friend. Therefore, I must purify all of these immediately by relying upon the Guru manifesting the aspect of Samayavajan. Gurus Maharaj then says, all your negative comments, obscurations, and generated surmise are completely purified. Generate strong faith that exactly what Samaya vajra says has happened in reality. Your mental continuum has become completely pure.

Not the slightest obscuration is left. Even the heaviest negative karmas accumulated in relationship with the guru have been purified. Due to this virtue, may I and all sentient beings be guided by the guru deity. From now until enlightenment is achieved, may I and all others be protected by the Guru Deity, and keep every Samaya of the Guru Deity. Page forty nine.

Page forty nine. This is forty eight. Confession. I’ll read English. I’ll stop there, George.

Before those having great compassion, I confess with regret and vow never to commit again whatever non virtuous and evil actions I’ve done throughout beginningless time caused others to do or in which I have rejoice. Though all things are like a dream lacking inherent existence, I sincerely rejoice in the bliss and joy of all areas and ordinary beings and in every virtue that has ever arisen. Without merit, there’s no happiness kind of any success in the slightest kind of any slightest success without merit. So therefore, merits are more merits are so precious and happiness temporary happiness up to enlightenment, including enlightenment. Nothing can be achieved.

So one has collected merit. Number is ten from beginning from beginning, this is rebirth up to now. So all this medicine is so precious. Incredibly precious. Present meds, all the future meds which have been collected.

So precious. How happy I am. So I repeat of how happy I am that the three time all the merits part from the present. Remembering all these meditations, then telling yourself how happy, how rejoice and sinking how happy I am. Or think how wonderful it is.

So many things to feel happiness in the heart. Each time each time when you rejoice, you are married, it will double. So that means having rejoice having a choice, the merit collected from beginning beginning is a rebirth. So every merit becomes double. So you you collect each time when you rejoice, you are married.

You collect limited scars of merit. Number’s merit. It’s just heavenly joy of heart, and also the rest of the present. This was my future minutes. So to one mind awareness of three time medicine, then how happy I am.

I realize how precious it is. And then, you know, how happy I am. How happy I am. Each time each time Luminess Gas made it your client. So, I’ll just correct.

Let me discuss maybe about addressing. So do that as many as possible. Choice, other choice, other symptom is made. The number of symptom means. By the by the choice of other sentient being who’s the level of who’s the level of mind rather than yours, then you claim you create double merit than what other person collects it.

You create double merit than the other person. If the other person’s level of mind is higher than yours, then you correct you correct half what other person that’s in the main question, half of that that you that much amount of merit you collect. So one Buddha so one Buddha you you who is not Buddhist supper, so this is an example. Then he realized every buddhist supper’s merit, collect one day. If you rejoice, then you get half.

You get what one would accept one day, half amount, you know, married, half of that that much you get. But without rejoicing without rejoicing, but this was made, you know, then if one is going to collect that much merit in the life, it is said by that it takes thirteen thousand years and give an idea how long it takes time to collect that much merit without rejoicing. For ten thousand years, you know, it takes to collect that much merit. But if you rejoice, one Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, you know, just one day merit, you can which takes ten thousand years, you collect it within a second. So, half Buddhist sapra collected one day, half of them, what you’re to collect.

And so, now here, we are the choice. So, if you understand that well, if you keep that the heart, then with the definite understanding, we felt that No matter how much university education And how much we put effort external external effort, externally looking for happiness, to achieve happiness. How much we do including so many years of education from starting from kindergarten, so many years of education up to university, doctoral degree or MBA or whatever. However, learning so many learning so many different things for happiness to achieve happiness in order to achieve happiness. So ex externally externally externally, externally looking for happiness.

So what how many billions of method we do externally? However, without merit, you see, the inner method from your from your own positive mind from your own positive mind inwardly or from your own positive mind, it’s it’s even happiness. From your own mind, it’s even happiness inwardly. So generating positive thought, see, making the mind dharma, see, making words about mind dharma, mind Detest mind, detachment to the slide. Detest to the slide.

The renunciation of the slide, the worldly concerned. Then the making of mind dharma, the natural saṃsāra, detachment to the even the future saṃsāra. So with the detached, water mind become the detached mind to this life. This life pleasure. So with actions becomes cause of happiness cause of happiness of future lives.

So here, one collect merit and the different cause of happiness with lives. A result of just that happiness with life. And then one Then mind become detached to a future life saṃsāra. The relaxation renunciation of saṃsāra. Then the actions become cause to achieve liberation from saṃsāra to achieve ultimate happiness.

So the merit, the connection with that positive thought, the actions done with that, the cost is liberation of saṃsāra, then benefiting others. So, with that, the mind would become the best Dharma and which action becomes cause to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. So they made it collected for that attitude and the Buddhicitta, motivation and action. So it can cause to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. So, and those merit, all those, not only the first one, even the first and second merit, but dedicated to achieving enlightenment of present image.

But at the end, even though when the merit is priority, we don’t want just cause of what can happen in future life and then it causes the cost to achieve the value of saṃsāra due to the motivation. But however, after some time dedicated all those merits to teaching enlightenment, even those previous to a merit. And with the main cause of teaching enlightenment, as dedicated the cause of happiness, not only the cause of happiness, but the cause of happiness of all the sentient beings is dedicated. So however so the the without without the merit credit or see without the same, without depend on without depend on dharma, without depend on dharma, your attitude, your positive attitude, dharma, your action was become was done out of that positive attitude. All these levels of positive attitude, I mentioned before, your actions will become dharma.

So without depend on merit or without depend on dharma. So, actually, dharma, action dharma. So, there’s no one there’s no tiniest there’s no you can’t experience any happiness. Even the pleasure, even the comfort pleasure in the dream, you can’t experience. Not the one slightest pleasure.

You can’t you can’t experience it. In the in the success of happiness, you can’t without practicing medicine, without practicing Dharma. You see? The all the happiness, temporal happiness, ultimate happiness, liberation, enlightenment, everything, any happiness comes has to come from the merit, bipolar merit, has come from has come has come from dharma, Your own your action has become dharma. So So, basically, it comes from your own has to come from your own mind.

So, as I explained as I explained that three levels of happiness come, you know, come from the the different positive different from your mind, but different level of different level of positive pure different level of pure mind. And so from there, you can understand from there, you can understand from there, you can understand. You see, all the happiness has to come from your mind. Do not come from outside. It has to come from your mind inwardly with your posture.

So so it’s it’s totally wrong. It’s totally mistaken for you. Totally wrong believing it’s come from outside. Even though there are conditions, there are external conditions, you see, for the pleasure. And it does have conditions.

Mhmm. External conditions, but that’s but that’s not the main cause. Any in in light even the pleasure in the dream, even the small comfort while we’re feeling so hot and the cool air passing through, feeling comfort, pleasure, That including enlightenment, the highest everything everything has cause and conditions. Cause and conditions. So the so the condition the the the the conditions can be like sense pleasures, sense enjoyment pleasures.

So has external conditions. It depend on external conditions. But that’s what that’s what is believed by common people who has no understanding of Dharma, who has no understanding of meditation, who has no understanding of mind, real has the correct understanding about mind and within functions of mind, affect of mind, the negative part, all the effects. This is without talking. The nature of the mind, function of mind is in the higher the is extremely subtle mind.

Without talking about just the gross mind, negative, positive and their effects and their continuity to life and life. However, so without understanding about without correct knowledge of mind, knowledge of mind and So, it includes also karma. Subject of karma, cause and effect, that belongs into the title of our mind, subject of mind. Seeing that the same person is the same person one day, the same person you see in your life, the same person you see that person, Certain certain times, you see that person’s enemy. And you see that person a friend certain certain times in your life.

And at certain times, that same person again become enemy. And then again become friend. You see? You see that same person, but you see you see friend enemy, friend and enemy, that’s the same. And then friend, yeah.

Same person you same person you see one day morning a friend and then later noon in the meeting, then later a friend. Or the same person you can you see even one day like this. So, however, all this came from your own mind. Possession of one’s mind. Oh, and then So even same in your life, in your life, It’s just sometimes everything is unpleasant when your mind is depressed.

When your mind is unhappy depressed, then everything is unpleasant. Nothing is good. Unpleasant. Nothing nothing brings happiness. Nothing gives you happiness.

There are other times, when your mind when the depression is gone, then when you are, you know, kind of excited or whenever it happened, then everything is kind of good, pleasant. All temperament mind, and then all temperament say temperament’s mind. And the the hell came from his mind, enlightenment came from his mind, the liberation, the cessation of the everlasting happiness, the liberation came from his mind, saṃsāra came from his mind, Everyday life, pleasure, happiness can form of mind. I was saying is common people in the world do not do not have correct knowledge of mind, which includes all these vast subjects. So, however, but or even though we have intellectually accept but do not practice do not practice in our daily life.

So I think we believe even one has studied Dharma. You have intellectual understanding, but do not practice in the do not practice mindfulness in this. Not practice mindfulness. How all this came from the mind? So then, believe like ordinary people in the world who never met Dharma, had no idea of Dharma, similar.

And then, believing everything came from outside. So, all that happiness comes from outside. Also, sufferings come from outside. So, even though one intellectually understand there, intellectually one accent, you know, say, not the god created this thing, but your mind is the one that creates all your suffering and happiness. Even though intellectually, what Buddha explained, the Buddhist philosophy.

Everything the doer, the creator, is your your your soul, your mind. So any any happiness happiness temporary, ultimate, everything can bring your a root to your the positive mind. And any suffering that come from your mind is negative negative, so that impure mind. So however, even intellectually, one accept. But but in daily life in the daily life, let’s say, As one philosophically, one accept or the intellectually one accept, but do not actually think that way all the time.

Do not live the mind. Do not live the life. Do not live the mind in that all the time. So leaving the opposite, the other the wrong philosophy, philosophy coming from outside. So the also habituated also due to habituation also, and naturally believe it that way.

However, so suffering come problems when there’s problem come from outside, when there’s happiness come from outside. So nothing to do with nothing to do with the one’s nothing to do with the one’s own mind. Total wrong view that the originator of happiness and suffering is outside, you see. The originator. The create the creator is outside.

Not yourself, not your mind, but nothing to your mind, nothing to yourself, can’t outside. So so basic so basic so basically basically, even though philosophical or intellectual, even one do not accept god, the god created thing. But but but in the practice but in the practice, when when there’s happiness and success, you know, pleasure, when there’s suffering, problems in the life, it is in the practice, in the daily life become that. There’s a creator outside. So it came from outside.

So no no difference. No difference from mother. No from other religion. We believe in God or creator. The outside creator is becoming exactly the same in the practice.

Philosophically, we don’t accept the intellectually. So, suddenly when the problem encountered, the belief originates outside the person is greater of your problems. Other element or the other symptom being the creator of your problems. So, however, the conclusion what I’m saying is that there are condition there are conditions outside. Like, our sense pleasures need external condition.

Common people, because there’s a condition outside, so they believe because of that, they don’t have full understanding of where the happiness comes, where the suffering comes. Don’t have full understanding of because they have full understanding about the mind. So therefore so they because because there’s a condition outside, so they believe that condition is the main cause of happiness, main cause of suffering. So so never never so no knowledge, never think that can from one’s own mind. You know, cause is not outside.

It’s also within oneself. It’s also mind The positive you know, the pure mind, positive attitude, and causal substance within oneself, the negative thoughts and negative imprints. So that those who do not have the negative emotional thoughts and that has has so much inner peace and happiness and who do not who has ceased even a negative influence completely, then the everlasting happiness is a total liberation. So not didn’t have no experience didn’t didn’t have experience and no knowledge of that. So I completely believe from a standpoint of trying to see.

So therefore, that totally, that belief is totally wrong. For example, there are many people in the world for example, there are many people in the world who has no education. Like primitive countries, like Nepal, like Nepal, like those mountain, you know, sort of composed of the and Tibet, you know, those primitive countries. Let me see. Therapy.

We never had any we never had university education, college, school, any no education at all. Can’t reach one syllable. But but but, you know, has a world. It doesn’t have it doesn’t have to worry about life. So, you know, some I say, how much peace happens in the life, you know, so so much peace and happiness in the life.

But but no education. See? Yeah. But no education. See?

And no education about handbook. No education about, say, school or university, those things. You know, how to do business economics. Never started to see. And never learned how to make machines, how to make cars, or engineering and all this all these, you know, But there’s so much happiness piece in the heart or in the life.

There there’s no there’s no there’s no all this kind of worry fears, all these, you know, so much in the life. Loneliness, depression, all these, you know, all these, you know, so much expectations in the life of these things. So that many people say so much peace, happiness in life like that and not that much worry concern. Like that. Also, many people have a wealth.

No education, but there’s a wealth there. So DSA. Bihar, that we took it it took five years for the project. See, The land that we bought to build the five hundred feet of material with the statue. So one tiny land from the government.

The government cannot they cannot sell land. So you have to lease. So the minister of the Bihar didn’t give the signature to lease. So it took five years. It took five years.

It took, yeah, two, five years. I thought these stories are part of Mahāmudrā teachings. Because because they all are empty. They all are empty. So I thought it’s a part of very important subject of Mahmudra.

Very important subject of Mahāmudrā, but they are they’re also empty. You see? So anyway so anyway so we did a little bit of tricky trick. So anyway, so then the now it’s okay to tell the trick. So the next the next land the next land before Gaia, you know, the next land is part of, I think, Gaia.

The huge. Then it was met hard. The other part doesn’t other part doesn’t have I cannot say it doesn’t happen. There’s no robberies or bandits or robberies. What is other other other part of the state that didn’t have like that, like a good guy.

You know, some of bandits and robberies, you know, all this problem happening. So, anyway, so same thing, you know, the project’s going to move to other, you know, other land. So, anyway, so the minister, you know, much issue with the the might give a signature. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Making it that might they might lose the project. So anyway but the other state, they extremely happy so happy to have the project there. So happy. So when they they receive when they receive Massawa who was the working for a material project. So when they received him, they they worshiped him.

They worship they welcomed him like Buddha. They didn’t they didn’t they all these expensive cars and then all the school children came, but they threw flowers. So the lion’s huge huge huge feast. And the you know, the schools can throw flowers, trim, and all that. So anyway so anyway, what I want to tell us so due to his omniscience and the guidance.

The if you pick that time, the very big statue, I don’t know how many I don’t know how many feet in Afghanistan. Right? Afghanistan. Afghanistan? The very big statue that we see sometimes in some art books.

I don’t know how many feet. It’s just something huge. So there’s another smaller one. So two were bombed by the extremist, the people there. So it seems that earlier, there have been so much Buddhism in the past.

Maybe even Kālacakra initiation. I’m not sure what the Buddha it’s maybe Buddha also there in the in the ancient that in that area. However, there seems a lot of practitioners happened to a lot of caves. Supposed to be many, many caves there. And they said, I heard that two thousand people were Buddhist, but they never get any support around that year.

However, so that happened that time. So the UP government want to build a large, very large, maybe same size statue. They had this plan. So when they heard that they are projects, they are looking for land, then they request to interview or send letters. So first, they didn’t get interviewed.

Then on the second time, they got interviewed from business. So then then they Then they expressed to I think they probably impressed with the that they that they have so much this coral coral, this money to make roads and this and that. So it’s very inspired, but they surely have so much interest. Then some thought why not to, you know, there’s so many there or not in the UP. So one is us can put a supposed to happen, but didn’t happen that time.

Yeah. I think that time. I think that year. So that year or the next year? And when it’s on the check?

The next year, then following year. Right? Anyway, the year that is in the two aspect of sickness, genicoloride was canceled. I think maybe that year or the year after. So anyway, so soon as explained about EP, how they are so interested then.

So I said, it’s up to whatever is necessary. It’s up to the person who decides where to build. And there there I said, there’s there was another there was some other questions other came from. I I just finished the story anyway. This this is about the other question about the statue.

So now not to build it, but, you know, statue is. There were some other lamas. They gave some information to business building the statue, not Mithyiputta. Anyway, without talking that part. So so as soon as I left out to his son as so as soon as I said, our balls there, so it means the statue in the in the Buddha, the the stupa.

So what is the Buddha? Shakti Buddha. Our boss. So we check to our boss. So so then one day one day one day there was a soldier happened there.

So he invited the to the Lamatong region to the Lamatong Harbor. It’s a hold of the Amazon of the throne. After you become a cashier, then go to the college, then you do all the the different level of the, activities, the positions. And then afterward, the Lama and then after sometime, it become so that’s a completion, the procession. So the who who is able to reach that level is only those who are learning.

Learned and who has not much merit on They can reach their who if you don’t have enough those who do not have much don’t don’t have enough inner marriage, then they, you know, don’t long, you know, get passed away before you release that position. So I will got the tip almost there. So before as soon as the attendant as soon as the attendant saw Chum, then the inside stupa. And prayer. There’s a golden there’s a golden bottle lamp that is must offer.

So if only one person comes, then distribute them, then this legit. So because of the gold, so there’s a police, you know, there’s a there’s a body kind of police outside. They got gold gold. They leave the. It’s a as soon as held my hand and lead to reality, the bottom lamp and put them to plan.

Then check checked so the one of the attendants one tall monk. Also, he specialized making the making the dope the dope, The size of the size of a chocolate. The bigger size of chocolate. So the Sangha flower. So the the names are in there.

Yeah. UP or Bihar. Then which which, you know, which place in UP? The Krishna where Buddha, you know, place where Buddha showed holidays passed passed away. That and then Buddha So those names written there, and the paper is put inside it.

Outside cupboard. So it is said that it takes half hour to make this. So this attendant is very professional. Very professional. Very professional to make his dog.

So he’s gonna set. So from the that so this he can make his dog, you know. Good in that. He’s very professional. So the so he make this, and then he wait You wait to check, make sure they both are the same, exactly the same weight.

Suppose, many times, checking reincarnation like that or any important things. Then there can be a lot of other people. Because I’m debatable if you see it is not the same. They don’t have the same weight. With the light one, it will come out when you move, you see, stir in the bowl.

So anyway so he did all that. Then by stretching by stretching out cloth after the prayer to be the stretched out cloth held by each person in that cloth in the in in the box of the Lord. So anyway, so first thing so first thing come out to a meteor Buddha, to build a meteor Buddha statue. I’m not shaken up with the statue. Then Then I wear to build.

They came out to Krishna where Buddha show have shown the holy deeds passing away in sorrow instead. So So when I came came to San Francisco Airport, I met the patient on top of this. As an teacher of the San Francisco, the the family center attending. He was he was at the airport to receive came to meet. So so I explained to him what happened.

Then he said, oh, this is auspicious because Krishna, where Buddha have shown the holidays passing away is the place where Mitya Buddha takes birth. It’s it’s birthplace for Mitya Buddha. So it’s very auspicious. So later, I checked in the text. There’s a about the story about Maitreya Buddha.

Birthplace, and all this. You know? Shown, I think, maybe twelve days or however. Maitreya Buddha’s a brief story of Maitreya Buddha by Rukuru, Lingbucher, I talked. This is in the Red War for Tibetans in Delhi or the the Red War.

So something was there was a request to talk about Buddhist life story. And some some sort request to talk on material. So I had that text. So I checked for this the press. This birthplace, Krishna has a birthplace of Maitreya Buddha.

So anyway so hopefully so hopefully when medieval Buddha takes takes birth, the Krishna, medieval Buddha saw my statue. Hope hopefully, the statue can last statue can last into that time and meticulous, oh, that’s my statue. And I hope meticulously, oh, this looks like me. Anyway anyway, so going back this anyway, the other the other story, the why some lamas, you know, show concern to his, know, what build large Buddha statue. Simply some story has some some some of the higher lama.

Nothing to do with some of the tradition. I heard that earlier to here, put Richard case connection. Other highlighters, the other not not him telling me, but he told some publicity Italian. The famous Italian actor, Paris. Next to risky.

So that others were talking. Anyway, since there’s some talk, if you build a material with the statue, then Guru Shakti Buddha’s teaching becomes shorter. Duration of Guru Shakti Buddha’s teaching becomes shorter. There was some talk, but it’s not very common. Anyway so so soon as it some of my friend Lama mentioned this first.

So I’m it’s better to ask this. So Lama Lama says, so when we choose to build the and to in the Maitreya Buddha to so the last teaching Buddha’s teaching last long time. But but it’s up to but it’s completely up to as soon as, you know, we achieve a most beneficial task. So then, the action has mentioned, we’re we’re gonna check. We’re gonna we’re gonna ask our boss.

They hand pointed to it. They’re stupa. I see. So in the front of Buddha statue. So I asked a muscle.

What do you think? It will come out of me. Buddha or Buddha? He says, he very comfortable, relaxed. He said, from some of the definition, you know, is a without doubt, without any doubt, he just said, will come out without any question.

So it did happen. But this story is useful. What are the alarms that mentioned? The real story is what I think the real story is in this one. I think it must be explained.

I don’t know where which teaching. I didn’t see I didn’t see the actual text. So the see. I think I might have mentioned I don’t remember. I might have mentioned one of the days.

In Tibet, we saw the Tibri, this holy mountain. We saw from the road where we did camping for the recent the last year to the pilgrimage to Tibet. The where in the middle of his time, degree of There is a short text, you know, effective instruction advice from him. You know? Patamasam, the way he lived, Tingji.

So we were there. That’s one night where we stopped. Think we stayed one day there. No? One day.

So from there you see this holy mountain there. So that’s a very holy place, very precious holy mountain of Heruka, which combines all three, the Mount Kalash and then Zari, you know, then Lapji. Heruka’s holy place, holy portal, very spiritual mind. So the Sibry is all three. Very, very, very holy place.

The the whole mountain is totally different than other mountain. That mountain, totally different than other mountain, The rest of the mountain. So even even the form, how it appears. So anyway, that we haven’t been there, but we did prostration from the road next morning when we leave. Before we get in bus, we did prostration on the road from the car road to the mountain to the mountain.

The the day before that, in the in the village of Tingli, the old Tingli, I think. I wanted to go there to to find an old person who knows the story. But it seems very, very inspiring. So then if I went there, so many people would come, developing a problem. So they so but it was supposed to be you know, Chinese wouldn’t like This one of the one of the things that they don’t like.

Called or something. They’re attracted, you know, so many people. That’s what they don’t like. So so our the the Sherpa, the who were putting our tents and making footage, the Sherpa group. So the leader of Sherpa went the organized went there to find to look for all Tibetan men.

So so he found so this were this old Tibetan men would would wear all prayer with inherently, constantly constantly turning to the can. And he told a story about Sipreet, very inspiring stories. So I typed some slips to to our people. So anyway, somehow the karma is there. So they so it’s very common that the Chuseoka Mountain people in the area from far remote and they come to Surgamapati.

I think it takes seven days or so. So many Tibetan people I met also in the past when they were going to Tibet. In the past, saw Tibetans, you know, they put their things on the on the donkey donkey. They said they come from second place, something like this mountain. So anyway, so this simply, you see, there’s a road that goes around.

So this side of, you see, from this side where there’s a mountain, this side, and this side where there’s no, this side is not a mountain. There’s the other side. So this side, the right side, road, right side of the road, where there’s the mountain. So there, every stone every every stone that you every stone that you see, it has special mark special mark. It’s con the con the congealed shapes or grains or all sorts of every stone has all sorts of design.

Something natural. So huge difference this side of the stone and this whether the mountain is side of this road, right side of the road. So the every piece of a stone, everything has natural design showing the holy relic, you see. So, it is amazing. It has amazing stories that for the four traditions, many high lamas, the temple of the ancient realizations there.

So many heritage, full of heritage. About one hundred more than hundred heritage of the lamatician. So that so so after we finished the tour in Tibet, this recent premise, come back. And then I met a monk who took all transmission of our practice called one handed torma. One handed torma, They chaired it to the brothers, nagas, Sushilam Sindamin, and the offering to Guru Dhanasangha.

It’s got a very important practice. It includes power transformation. What is called the Lamachupa. It is skillful means of four activities. Apply what whatever you encounter happening, you apply it to meditation.

By practicing I said, please grammar, blessings by practicing the sum of the thoughtless version. By doing the practice of the smile of the thought transmission. Say, may may my life be be meaningful in that way. So the Dharma gets up. So that is for expertise of what is content.

So so the monk can ask for I remember teaching or or something. He was the he was the the was the young attendant for for many years. However, since he become a since since he become, you know, good practitioner, it seems. Anyway, So he went into that and did two years research. It’s about.

He lived there and he did research for two years. So he made a book, a story of the whole holy the whole mountain, the other imitators, the monasteries. He made a whole book. Very, very inspiring. It’s extremely inspiring.

Different different yogis, meditators can do that. The Malpa, the prejudice to medallapah, is the place to practice. The Guinness gave advice to go there to practice. So the quotation of that. However, so it so this man asked me to there must be some karma.

He came and he asked he showed a book and he asked to to rebuild this all these images there, rebuild and make it available. The Seraphat and during this post monasteries, they become after they finish their study, come there to come there to actualize the path, you know, to manage it. So there was one of his ideas. However, also other traditions. So to revive.

And he offered one class there. You know, here. One here. One area. So to to for you to leave.

And then there’s also Lama teacher’s whole place. So there was a two story material of the statue before. There was one stone, one huge rock, one roll, and it was very poison that so many beings, whoever touched the rock, they die immediately. So I think then one lama one high lama advised to build a statue to open them to that. So then then it didn’t happen.

So he asked request to build that. So I did to build it bigger than two story. So how you are so so he made a sort of like brochure explaining about the holy place, introduced people. So there he explained there he explained. So this is taken from some other teachings.

So here is the correct essence of the actual story. So end of this end of this before meteor Buddha descended this world, there’s a there’s a time I think this may also maybe explain in the epidemic of nausea. There’s a period so many people nothing like before. So many people in this world, they they die by, you know, they get sick. So much suffering from sickness.

Then there’s another period. There’s another period. No comparison to the past wars. No comparison of those past wars. Another period there’s one period of war of war.

So it’s, you know, unbelievable. You see, like, since all of the world is not nothing like comparing past. Then there’s another period where famine there’s a there’s a period in this world, everybody suffer famine. So unbelievable. So there’s duration like this.

Even even of the weapons, even of the famine, even of the sicknesses, Something like that. So after all this, then, know, finally, the mythical is the same sort of that. So if you build a mythical statue, the actual story seems that all these, you know, the people in the world that suffers unbelievable. These different different occasions. So if you build a meteorite statue, then this all these sufferings, The even of the weapon, even of the signatures, even of the so it means it’s last for eon.

I think eon is called eon. So must last unbelievable in the time that each of these problems, unbelievable, unbelievable. They start from the world. So by building the table of statue, so so all these, you know, weapons of and famine, even of famine, even of the weapon, even of the sickness. So it makes shorter.

It becomes shorter. The duration of time becomes shorter if you build a metastasis. So I don’t know which text he got this, but in the brochure, he explained. I I heard those this, you know, there’s different periods like this. I think maybe a bit of a question.

So, however So therefore it seems so he explained the purpose of building the table structure that way. So thought the project building would become much more important. That is urgent, all these different southern times become the eon of different southern, you know, short. So So so I did accept did accept to revive all this, the Tipri, you know, the holy mountain of all this heritage and the material of the statue. So hopefully, able to rest on that.

We see, hopefully, that many mentors can use that and have experience and see each have experienced path and its enlightenment. So from that is the original reason to build a meteorite statue Then I thought maybe to build one hundred, say, maybe eight, something like that, meteorite statue in this life that in this world. But not such a such a, you can make, I’m sure, thousands. Not such a but a lot at least one story you know, one story bigger than one story. So counting like that.

Two story, three story, bigger. So one hundred and eight, you know, so that for this all these different periods, these eons of these sicknesses and famine and war. The the so become shorter. So anyway, other anyway, that’s just extra. That’s just beside five hundred feet, the not extra dream.

Not an extra dream. Yeah. So, anyway, they’re going back. Now returning back the now returning back the subject. So so anyway, so this minister of Bihar, he was put in prison, not by us.

Not by mystery project. He’d been there. I think he had been probably, I think, a few times, I think. The I think for that must have been like a retreat for him. You know?

Going going for a retreat. So we went so I thought I thought he might give like, you know, might help. So Lama was there, and Lama was there. Lama and the son was in the sanghas. So I thought he might be inspired and might give.

So we went he was looking through the window and, you know, kind of yeah. From the prison, you know, he went through went through the window. We are outside. Then I don’t know what he thought. And then after he called us in, so we went inside with the stands.

You have to get you have to get stand on the hand. We’re setting prisoners. There’s danger to escape, you see. So so we have to get stand. So, anyway, so I went to see him then.

He told he said, when you come out, he will keep the signature. He said then then he came out. He came out with police with police. Guns with police. He came out.

He built one small statue Buddha in the prison. The the the the in the in the there’s a ground, big ground, as it is, on the some part and some cement. That. It’s built. That that’s exactly the size of material.

And I’m sorry. That size of that you know what called? So that size here. I don’t know what’s called this one. The speaker.

Right? So that size of Buddha. So he he came out to show us this because he said he built this one. Anyway, so then he was released after some time, but he didn’t give us the signature. So so anyway so anyway, all those times, whenever he went to prison, his wife become the his wife does the work government work.

You see, he was in prison, but his job is done by the his wife. But his wife the point is this. His wife his wife never learned can’t read newspaper, can’t can’t can’t write and can’t read. But the wife does everything. Government work.

So yeah. So I’m saying that so I’m saying you can so I’m saying, you see you see, even to get those positions, whatever, to the work, government work, doesn’t depend on reading able to doesn’t doesn’t depend on the school and college university because these these ministers, why did the job for government? So you see so what I’m saying is that what I’m saying is it it so it doesn’t, you know see, the answer for success, you know, I mean, to get a high position, high above all this. So it didn’t depend on on that, you know, to the school of all the education. But so that he or she had no education, time readings, but kinda right.

But she did a job. She’s got a job. She so that that see, now here you you can see the you can see there’s something else. You know, success is something else. Not just on the schooling, university, there’s something else.

There’s another cause for success, you see. So as I mentioned, so the Cambodia is a primitive place. People, you know, so much so much so much peace and happiness in their life. Then the millionaires in the the the so many millionaires millionaires in the west, you know, they’re inner life. They have they have everything but inner life.

It’s so misery. So miserable. You know, filled with the desire. More wealth there is, more dissatisfaction. More wealth more wealth one achieve, more dissatisfaction.

More dissatisfaction. More more more unhappiness increased. So that that you that always you always you can always you hear that when you hear their life story in newspapers or something, or you hear the story. Always you hear that. And then especially especially when you actually meet especially when you actually meet, then here, you know, when they really express their life.

You you also learn, you know, you also learn the real life, how it is. Flow problems. Flow problems. What is fears? Because so big expectation, so much of all concern is so big.

So, you know, then, So always not a worry of here to not reach. So how much one has not enough. I will all that. Then we have worries to lose and all that. There’s so many problems.

The heaviest problem the biggest suffering is, you know, unable to get satisfaction unable to get satisfaction. So that’s the biggest. And then then after some time, you did everything. Nothing brought to happiness. Something even more miserable.

You see, you tried everything what you can do in the world, what you can get. The nature of happiness. So they’re more miserable. They are more miserable. You see?

More miserable. More unhappiness. So so therefore, again, suicidal, because you can’t achieve any happiness. You know, you tried everything. You know, you achieved all the rep reputation, well everything, But didn’t achieve any happiness, any peace in the present.

More more miserable. More miserable. So then, you know, that then that’s why that’s why I drink so much. That’s why I did. One solution is drink, you know, then you make your mind kind of see, the alcohol alcohol surprises.

Which because there’s no meditation. There’s no Dharma. So, no other method in the life. So alcohol suppresses. So that that that’s suicidal, you see.

So so therefore, see. So therefore, see. Without merit, no happiness. Without positive mind, positive action. Without without positive mind, without positive healthy mind, the detached mind to this life.

Detached mind to this life. The very first the very first dharma. The very very first dharma. The detachment to this life. Letting see, you free your mind from attachment.

You free your mind, the attachment grasping to this to this life pleasure. That which that which is that which itself is a big is a biggest suffering. It’s a sicknesses of the mind. You know, pain of pain of the attachment. It’s suffering the biggest suffering, problem of this life.

Then from then from that attachment brings relationship on ongoing ongoing relationship pains, sufferings, hurt, grudge, hurt, hurt for many years, you can’t heal, Heard for so many years pain. So all so all this thing is brought came from its branches from this enhancement. Like the yeah. Like the tree branches. So anyway so I see.

So the So the very first dharma, the very beginning dharma, very first dharma, freeing yourself, freeing your mind from this this painful mind attachment, the sicknesses of the mind attachment grasping to this light, this light. Small pleasure to this light, small pleasure, but even that, if you analyze, is on the suffering. By clinging, grasping that, it only leads to it leads to so many other problems. So many hundreds, thousands of problems, it leads to many problems. So that’s how life filled with problems one after another.

One after another. At the same time, so many problems spread out. It’s creates then one after another. So life goes on like this. And life goes on like this.

And you never give peace to yourself. You never give this way. You never give any peace to yourself. To to actually get peace, to actually to to actually experience, to actually have peace in your inner life, in your heart, You know, you need to get satisfaction. To get satisfaction, one has to let go.

One has to let go this sick the chronic disease or sickness of the mind. The pain from mind desire, grasping, holding, grasping. This life this life life, very very short time, very small pleasures compared to happiness of all the companies in life. Commander in a very short time. Even that, if analyze, it’s on the suffering.

So that what you see. So So I was I was living I was following and living life with this worldly consolation attachment, grasping, holding on holding on to this only this life. Only this life. One’s own happiness, one’s own pleasure, but only this life. Not all the coming not the happiness of all the coming future lives.

This long run happening, not that. Happiness of all the coming future lives. Not that. Just this one life. However, one need to let go that painful mind, the sicknesses of the mind, the attachment, the holding the grasp.

There is something a very small pleasure. It doesn’t last. That’s very very short term pleasure. So then it has no end. Which is which which never ends.

You try that stop, then try. I can try. Other one. So then stop. Then I can decide.

I’m not satisfied. I can try. So no end. You know? No end.

At the same time, course, death death happened. You know? However however, same in the saṃsāra, even one is born human being, another another lifetime, I mean, same thing. I I’m never find satisfaction. Think think think maybe maybe next one is better.

However however, nothing. It’s the same story, I think. It so it always leads to another one. But you never find satisfaction. It goes on.

So not by following attachment, the the the the the desire, one never one never find satisfaction. From beginningless from beginnings from beginningless rebirth, we follow the attachment. So far, we haven’t found satisfaction. Far, we haven’t found satisfaction. Never end never ended work never ended the work.

See, the the following attachment, the attachment activity, we have been doing this from beginning this report, but that’s still different. And as a result as a result, die say, again, again, again, experience suffering. All the sufferings again in that rhythm. I can die. So in the sixth realm, one or another.

So that’s the result of of the of following the desire. Sicknesses the mind, you see, or the chronic disease of the mind. So but the practice of Dharma, letting go of letting go of this mind free from this attachment, this desire to cling to this life. It’s a very short term pleasure which doesn’t last extremely short, very short time pleasure. And by analyzing, realize and discover is not pure happiness, only suffering.

So label pleasure on the feeling of suffering. So so the suffering has an end. But the dharma happiness, letting go of that, then you have peace. You have free you give you give freedom only then only then you only then you have freedom. You you give you give freedom to yourself.

You see, you have peace in the in the in the life, you know, in the heart. The let’s see. Like, sun the sun sunshine and happiness in your life. You see? Freedom.

From the freedom from the prison of attachment. The Cage of attachment. Boundaries of attachment. So that is so So so those top those those who have achieved who have achieved greatest greatest reputation in this world. Great greatest reputation, actors and singers and so forth, so forth, who achieved the greatest reputation in this world.

So many many why they why they end their life why they end their life suicidal. So that’s a very clear explanation, clear proof. Didn’t get to practice Dharma in their life. As I mentioned before, by letting go this painful mind desire, it has a sickness of the mind. So it didn’t eat you in a satisfaction, peace in the heart.

So so like this didn’t get practiced on. Just by following the only attachment, just only seeking this seeking only the worldly pleasure. Seeking only the worldly pleasure. You see, not Dharma happiness, only worldly pleasure. So, you see, so the more we become famous, instead of more peace and more, achieving more, increasing more peace and happiness.

Peace and happiness in the heart. You see, in in the life. Instead of that, more more misery, more more suffering, more dissatisfaction. More you become famous, more see, more worry and fear, more suffering, more dissatisfaction. Sort of that.

More problems. So they put it. You see, it’s a solution. They can’t there’s no there’s no can’t see other way to achieve happiness. Only things to suicide, to to kill oneself.

So not that. There’s always the more you become famous, there’s always there’s so much worry to lose your reputation. Also, I heard, also not only saying that, but also I heard, what do feel? Any minute, you will lose your reputation. I heard actually heard about some about somebody.

So you see, there’s so much worry, something’s going to happen. So much worry to to become lower. See? And worry others become more famous than you. So, however, besides many other problems.

So, not bad. So whatever well, a reputation what they have now, what they achieve now, is some good karma from past. Like like like those singers who are very good who has very attractive who has a very attractive voice that draws so many millions of people. You know, very attractive voice that draws draws so many millions of people. You that’s so famous.

However, you see, those like, often like often bell when if you offer bell music, offer bell to a statue, stressed, holy object, stupa, statue, scripture, even the holy object, if you have or for music inside of the bell, for example, that that such a and such attractive, know, a voice sound that draws so many people, so many millions of people. That’s not that’s just with once that’s just one small part of the benefit, like offering a bell or music to, let’s say, Buddha. Say, the typical of the even a statue of Stūpa, if you see. That’s just one tiny tiny tiny part of the benefit from the from the disguise of benefit. Each of these are offering the whole object has that give such a voice that draws many millions of people.

It’s a small part of that. You see? We will offer music to bell or something to stupid stupid statue of Buddha. So that however, what or if they weld and all these things, it’s some from past life. Some could come up.

You see? Or yeah. I mean, for some people, it’s possible this life this early life. However, generally, something long time ago, some past, some were common. So that is experience this life so that you have all the wealth, which is all that.

But because you didn’t but but because you don’t practice Dharma, you don’t know Dharma, you don’t practice Dharma. So there’s so therefore, life filled with the suffering. You don’t you don’t know Dharma. You don’t practice Dharma. You don’t meditate.

You don’t take out your mind. You don’t take out your life. So so therefore, you see, don’t protect your mind from negative emotional thoughts, cause of the sufferings. So therefore, your life is filled. Your life is filled more and more, you see, with the suffering.

Feeling more happiness, more loving kinds, more compassion, more satisfied, more satisfied, more con contentment, you see, the nonsense and warm heart, more wisdom. And so that then feel more more more suffering. So that’s what it’s so so what I’m explaining is two things together. Without merit, nothing. No success not happens when you achieve.

Then the other emphasis is so merit means merit doesn’t come outside. You see, merit you have collected by yourself. You see, by making the by making the mind pure, then you’ve collected it. You know? Mhmm.

Mhmm. See other yeah. The mind with dharma analysis, other than the mind with bodhicitta, mind your mind, bodhicitta, your mind, wisdom, see, like, wisdom, see, understanding these are the material names, you quite manage, you see, or see good portion of that. So, generally, to collect merit, your mind has to become dharma. Otherwise, you can’t collect merit.

Except the exceptional actions, second person prostration offering to statues to Bhagavad Gita, this whole act is Without without the without the virtuous thought, without the mind becoming dharma, even mind is attached contaminated to, you know, staying with the attachment to cling to the slide or anger. Actions done the circumblading prostration often to these statues to put as relics for this holy object. You see, action become virtue due to the power of the object except this. Otherwise, then mind has become in order to correct me, the mind has become dharma first. So they that’s so so all the happiness and success has come from me.

The correct me, your mind has been dharma. So that’s one thing. The other things the other thing the other things if if you don’t make our mind dharma, if you if you don’t make our mind dharma, then your life is your life is only filled with this then you engage on you create you whatever you do only create a cause of suffering. Whatever you do, whatever action you do, it only becomes non virtue, cause of suffering. And this this life is only filled with the suffering.

So we’re only filled with the problems. So nobody wants problems. No. Nobody does nobody wants problems. So except those who whose mind is well trained in thought transmission, all those you see, those people who are those praying from the heart to to have problems.

Accept those who are praying from the heart. Not because you have to not because in the, you know, we have to recite the guru for the prayer, prayer. The prayer says, may I experience suffering of all sentient beings? Because because you have to because it is a certain prayer, then you have to recite. Not that way.

But from the heart from the heart, you pay for obstacles so that so that you can experience obstacle so that you can you can make your life beneficial for all sentient beings by experiencing the obstacle on behalf of all sentient beings, by experiencing the sicknesses on behalf of all sentient beings, by and you can experience the death on behalf of all sentient beings. You can experience the bad reputation or the somebody criticizing. You can experience this on behalf of all sorts of things. All the difficulty, all the sufferings, all the receiving criticisms. You know?

So you take the so you take it up on yourself and let them to be free and have all the happiness up and up. So except those who really sincerely, you know, sincerely do who wanna renounce, wanna give up self-cherishing, self selfish mind, who who really want to see or who really say, from the heart, who really you know, looking at self-cherishing thought as enemy and defeat and destroy. You see, who who who, you know, who always look at this, who always look at, you know, self changing policy enemy. Rather friend, rather rather looking at a friend or supportive as rather looking at a friend or supportive to supportive, you see, somebody behind the sport who who is supporting you. Not like that, But always who also look at self chasing thought anyway all the time.

And whatever you do whatever you do, do, you know, to to destroy the self chasing thought. The target is to destroy the self protection thought. And so who sincerely pray to the ask for the protectors by making offering torma to them and ask ask them sincerely to energy in order to receive obstacles. So you can so you can take so you you can You can ask so you can offer your life to sentient beings to experience all their suffering. See?

Not that yeah. That’s the only thing. So develop a chita. So for the benefit of sentient being. The goal goal is to not your happiness.

Goal is what happens in sentient being to to I say, to each other. You see? So accept it. Accept those petri those practitioners, you see, who who do not want, who don’t, who do not seek pleasure, who seek problems, who look for problem, who seek problems. But those problems are beneficial.

Problem is so beneficial to develop their so beneficial. Special training, you know, to develop their mind develop their mind in the path to enlightenment to benefit of us. So they by experiencing by encounter problem by experiencing problem, so their life become so their life they they are able to use their life, you know, for others and then being benefit to us and then, you see. So therefore, they make giving torma like gift to the protector, to the speech, and ask them to harm. So that’s it.

Sent disease, sicknesses, and, you say, the say, unfavorable conditions, you see, obstacles. So opposite, rather praying similar like, you know, may I be born in the hell of sentient beings. You see, you always pray to be born in hell. And instead of praying instead of praying to be it’s a come come in us, common people, pray to be born pure and those, as I mentioned, you see, who really give up their life to sentient beings, you know, to bring happiness to sentient beings enlightenment and so forth. And they they pray to be born to be born in hell.

It’s a pure pure land. They pray to be born in hell or to be born in hell themselves to be born in hell for the benefit of sentient beings from that. So that kind of that kind of practitioner sincerely wishing. So that’s different. So they look they desire problems.

Requesting. They protect our spirits. You know, asking to give harm to the officers. So so I mean, accept accept those. So otherwise, nobody wants problems.

So that so here, so conclusion is it. Maybe there’s no conclusion. It doesn’t exist. Not only from its own side. Anyway, so second one, what I’m first one is without merit, nothing you can do.

No happiness. No sense. Nothing. The second thing is without from your side from your side, without doing without changing your attitude, without making your mind positive, you know, dharma. You see, all your life will be filled with problems, sufferings.

No need to say next life. No need to question about next life. Justice life will be filled up with the problems. Your inner life will be filled up misery. And like those other billionaire millionaire as I mentioned those people.

So like that. The life the life story so so once our life story life then finished. Life’s gone. Finished. Only create only see, only creating cause of suffering.

Let’s see. Negative thoughts. They implement new thoughts, new reaction, and result in problems or sufferings. So that’s it. Even even though even though received most precious human body, even though received most precious human rebirth, which is on which is about which is just which is just about once.

And not again, which is just about once. Here, we’re not talking about perfect human rebirth. Not talking about that. Just human body. See.

That that which can that which gives incredible opportunity to use your buddha nature to use your buddha nature. The with in your middle within your middle your you see. That your mind, which is the the Buddha nature, the nature nature of the the to be to be fully enlightened to be free from all the sufferings, cause, and the all the gross subtle mistakes of mine and the complete all the qualities of realization and this fully enlightened being who has nothing more happiness to nothing more happiness to develop completely. All the qualities completed. That you can do perfect work towards numbers and things.

So the precious human body that can utilize this, achieve any happiness up to enlightenment, whatever you want, can this human body you can use this human body to give the opportunity to achieve all that, to get a cause of that. And this human body you see, by having this human body, you can it gives you opportunity for you to cause all the happiness to other sentient beings. Happiness of this life, you can cause to the same thing. Happiness of all the coming future lives, you can cause other can cause other you cause liberation from saṃsāra, ultimate happiness, you can cause to a number of you full enlightenment appears happiness and cause a number of sentient beings. With this human body that you have now, this precious human body, that one has now, That gives opportunity to all this.

So, however, one had this human body, one has, but didn’t get it didn’t get used didn’t get used for all this While there’s all the opportunity didn’t get used. You see, to finish your suffering, to achieve ultimate happiness for yourself even to introduce for that, besides others, which are unable to benefit from others. So so without without Dharma, without learning Dharma, without practicing Dharma, without meditation on the path, life become like this. Only filled up result, only filled up with the suffering problems. Because without Dharma, only cause of suffering.

So that and life goes on, finish one day. So we become paid and future lives become so difficult because future life depends on this life. See, this whether this life you practice time or not. You see, how how you live the life, this life. Future life, how it’s gonna turn out happiness or suffering.

Only suffering or there will be more and more happiness and more and more happiness, more more realization, then achieving enlightenment. It depends on this life. This life has a responsibility. And this depends on this life, how one live this life. Whether one practice Dharma or not, it’s like so how one practice Dharma in this life, it depends on that.

So I don’t know if you finished the ritualizing. I think we need to finish. Did we finish? No. We just got to body suffers.

We got to the body suffers. Oh, I see. That’s right. Then then interference happened. I think I think it’s spirit interference.

So we finished this this this with the this section of prayer, which we started with We’ll stop there. Please let fall a rain of profound extensive dharma from a hundred thousand billowing clouds of perfect wisdom and compassion to nurture, sustain, and propagate a garden of kunda flowers for the benefit and bliss of all limitless beings. Though your vajra body is subject to neither birth nor death, but is a vessel of the mighty king unification, please abide forever according to our wishes, nor passing beyond sorrow until some sorrow ends. I dedicate the mass of white virtues thus created, so that I may be inseparably cared for in all my lives by perfect pure Gurus who are kind in three ways, and so attain the unified state of vajradhara. Special request, put on page fifty one.

I prostrate and go for a fish, liqueur, and the three precious gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass for all the wrong conceptions from incorrect devotion to the Guru up to subtle dual view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and in the mind’s almost in sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and in the minds of all my sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass by all our obstacles actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all my sentient beings.

I prostrate and go for refuge, the Guru, and the three freshest gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass all the wrong conceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru, and to settle your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and minds all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass the oil out in an obstacle with a tired graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings.

I prostrate and go for our fish, the guru, and his three precious gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass for all the wrong perceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru up to subtle dual view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind, the minds, all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and the minds, all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass out obstacles to adulterize the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and in the minds of all mother sentient beings.

Page fifty three. Page fifty five. I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge to the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious guru who encompasses all objects of refuge of the past, present, and future.

Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious guru who encompasses all objects of refuge of the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. Visualize. Five colored nectar beams flow forth from the Guru’s holy body, entering my body and mind and those of all sentient beings.

These purified diseases, spirit harms, negative karmas and obscurations, especially all the connections of obscurations, negative karmas and degenerated samayas created in relationship to the holy virtuous friend, such as giving harm to the holy body, breaking the advice, disturbing the holy mind, generating undevotional thoughts, criticizing, giving up the goon, so forth. From all my doors, sense organs, and pores, these are dispelled in the form of liquid smoke or black soot. They are completely purified. My body becomes the nature of light, calm and clear. My life, fortune, merit, and all my qualities of understanding and realizations are fully developed.

The blessings of the guru’s holy body, holy speech, and holy mind enter my body, speech, and mind, and those of all sentient beings. I and all sentient beings are now under the protection and guidance of the virtuous friend. Did all the past been present in future? That which That which I merely live with my mind. Remember I was also merely live with my mind.

Achieved Buddha’s Dharas enlightenment. Lead all the sentient beings are also near left by mind to that enlightenment, which is also near left by mind. By myself alone, it was also near left by mind. The other three times I disclose my medicine. Any sentient beings being, see me, touch me, remember me, think about me, talk about me.

Even those who will see my one the pictures. Here’s your name, here’s one’s own name. Just about that, made those symptoms, come immediately to get purified. Made a cause to purify, and they come immediately. And that way, may they never ever get upon laurels since from that time.

From the time that they see oneself, touch, remember oneself, they hear oneself name, they sing produce, dreams of oneself. Never ever get upon more dreams. And may all the sicknesses sicknesses immediately healed. The minute when they see oneself touch, remember, think about, hear your hear oneself name, dreams of oneself, seeing what’s important. And and and and free from as well as Just from lung, the wind wind disease, the depression.

Or the unhappiness They have been went to this room immediately. Immediately get healed. The depression immediately get healed. And may all their wishes may all their wishes be fulfilled instantly according to the hatha dharma. So nothing their wishes get fulfilled, but nothing become but nothing become no danger become a negative karma.

So everything become all the wishes fulfilled according to Dharma. And generate immediately, it generates a level of compassion, See me, touch me, remember me, for me, hears name, seeing portal. Immediately, find the heart. And exercise path and this is the problem. It’s quite possible.

I did feel all the merits in the same way to be able to follow wholly extensive I did all the merits the same way to be completely. Hard ones of all the students. All of us here in the in the hearts of all the students are benefactors. Those who give up their lives So I haven’t I’m not sure what what whatever is happening. That so, however, if there’s time, go around.

Every second to combo or something. But what I mentioned by doing the meditation, mindfulness, what I mentioned last night, so to practice in a way outside of walking through whatever. So anyway, whatever whatever one is gonna do, but but you but use the mentation that mentation empties. So yeah. From starting from here, you know, actually, from here to start that.

You should go out drink tea, whatever is. That mindfulness put effort. Also, gym or having dinner and all that. So whatever you can do in it. So it doesn’t it does not interfere to whatever you do.

So you can you can do that in it with one does. That mindfulness. It issue be for somebody who’s not familiar, they should gradually introduce how everything came from the mind, you know, from there, then then to then to, I say, the different, you know, impossible, maybe even first of hallucination, very gross hallucination, then more subtle, then more subtle, then different schools view different schools view. You see objects with refuted, you know. And then, gets to view.

They have objectively put it. So yesterday’s was that person gets sees that multiple school, possibly at school, objectively, impotation, so that’s the conduct. But actually impossible, you know, that’s what it is. It’s a wrong view, you see. Then that helps to realize, you know, the the very subtle one, the hallucination.

Because in our in our appearance, you know, hallucination, there’s all this hallucination. All the different schools views of They point of view of each object of in there. However, it’s an impasse case to use. It’s it’s there. It’s just there.

It’s just a matter of it’s practice mindfulness. See? You don’t need to put effort. It’s a question of mind. Question of what watching.

Watching your your perception. Your appearance is a question that the which is truly truly existent. Yeah. That then understanding it. So, I mean, once you recognize, then in your heart comes to understand understanding understanding is not true.

That’s the point. That’s the point. Then that helps to not rise other negative emotional thoughts because of saṃsāra And in case it is karma, it doesn’t happen. Not only that, then continuously creating causal continuously So whatever you do, with this awareness, whatever you do, activity, cause a depression. Okay.

Good. Yeah. Inherently exiting person standing. On the inherent exit cushion. Inherently accident.

Lama’s sobbing. That accident. The mega mouse super is talking. Big mouse sitting on this big no. Sorry.

Sitting on this I said, big mouse. Sitting on the inherently exit front. Coming down on the inherently exit steps. Then walking out. Wearing inherent collection shoes, which is not there.

It doesn’t exist. So going into inherent collection of kitchen or the kitchen, or the the inherently existing dining room, or entering the entering the inherently existing bathroom, going to inherently existing toilet, inherent collection p p caca. So inherent collection to dinner is not there. From inherent collection cook, made by inherent collection group, which is not there. So, like that.

Doing inherent collection course, or doing inherently existing my mother course, which doesn’t exist. So I like that. So anyway, it’s just put different way, but it’s the same as the last slide. A slide, just putting words differently. So but if one is to recognize, then everything is like that.

So that means everything is like that in the point of view of our ignorance. So everything is like that. So that means everything is not true. So that’s what we need mindfulness. So so as I often as I often say, you know, you let’s see.

Born from inherent relationship in father, which doesn’t exist. Born from inherent relationship in mother. Father. Father. Born from anyway, Born.

Born from inherently into mother’s womb, which doesn’t exist, does or do not exist, inherently second. Then Went in inherently exit exiting school. Went in inherently existent school. Inherent to the college, inherent to the university, which doesn’t exist. I’m not saying there’s no I’m not saying there’s no father or mother.

There’s no school, college, university. Not talking about that. Expressing the or expressing object of ignorance. What the wrong concept, ignorance, beliefs, I’m talking about. So then then got inherent got inherently existent degree, inherently existent degree, Truly existing degree, which doesn’t exist.

Thank God, inherently existing job, which doesn’t exist. Thank God, God inherently existing the money, which doesn’t exist. Went bought inherently accepting car, which doesn’t exist. Dropped and drive, say, on the inherently existing road, doesn’t exist, to the inherently existing market, doesn’t exist. When in the inherently existing shop, supermarket, inherently existing supermarket or inherently existing department store, which is not there, which doesn’t exist, inherently existent food, which doesn’t exist, about inherently existent dress, which doesn’t exist, from the inherently accepted shaky power, by paying inherently accepted money.

So which doesn’t exist. So so that so the back month. Better. In the I think I don’t know how many remember the course of the Newgy Newgy Newgy or on the hill. You know, there was a one time course wrenched with Newgy Newgy.

Right? Many years ago. Many years ago, we Tārā House. Who ran the course? I don’t remember.

Was it Uli? No. What do you mean? Bonnie. Bonnie.

The very first director of Tārā House. None. Bonnie. So so we stayed at one house, and the cross is on the hill. The building was, of course.

So lama, I think, gave that many commentary. Right? So I was supposed to have the preliminary. So there was one person probably, again, I was mumbling, talking properly emptiness. Probably probably, I think.

So there was one person who believed who believed nothing exists, who believed who believed there’s no cell. You see? That he that himself didn’t exist. Who person who you know, he believed that he that himself didn’t exist. See?

Who lived who believed in nearly nothing exist. So he went to that there’s a down below, there’s water. There’s a small what’s that? A pond. There was a small pond, but not clean.

Kind of quite dirty quite dirty pond. So that time, there was some kind of snowing, cold weather. So this person went down. He went he went in the water to swim in the water. So he felt so cold.

So he said, oh, oh, I exist. Then he’d he discovered I exist. But before that, he was believing near near to me that nothing exist. Let see. Then he went into cold this cold water prison, Then it felt so cold.

I thought, I just anyway, that is that is a thought. But anyway, that sound of it that sound of what the way we hear, the way we heard the sound. You know, this. Anyway, the sound we heard, but that sound is mainly impeded by our mind By those by those whatever. So there’s there’s a name.

How the sound how does how the sound is made. How the sound happen, how the sound met, is that you express the sound. That’s the name. That’s the name. So your mind is imputing in the sound.

How how the sound met with you when express is name you’re naming. So the condition that whatever this chair fell down, whatever you see. So like that. Some of that is the condition there, but you see the So so you see how do you what kind of sound do you hear? So you’re naming your your mind name, you see, labeled.

This sound is made in the body of our mind. The So what do you hear? You see, nose doesn’t hear. Nose is not is not nose who hear the sound is not nose here. Not a another tongue here.

See? The ear is only object of ear. You see? Yeah. Not the senses.

But this is not object in other senses. No stem. But this is your the that which object object object what is hurt object what is hurt by the sense of ear. That is the base. Object what is heard by sense of ear is the base.

And sound is the label imputed by sound is the label. Imputed by one’s mind. Oh, I heard a sound. You see, I heard a sound. Then you express sound.

It’s imputed by mind. So what is heard by sense of ear is the base. And that is to be labeled by our thought sound. Sound. So so here, sound is the label and bass of the bass of the so that’s what is heard by your sense of ear is the bass.

And sound is the label. So two, you see, two different phenomena. Two different phenomena. They’re not one. Two different phenomena.

Base and the label. Base to be imputed. So if the bass is if the bass is sound, it serves the label sound, then then you don’t you don’t need you don’t need to label sound. Then otherwise, you’re labeling sound on sound. Then you have to label again sound on sound.

Then no at the end of this. It’s the same logic when you analyze eye is mentioned in my teaching. So that’s one mistake, glasses. Whenever we label, we label on something which not that label. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.

We label on something which is not that label. Which is not that label. Which not label. Of course, the of label like the mother from hen or chick. Chick becomes mother after producing egg, know, then the chicken, then the mother.

So it depend on It’s like the mother and the daughter. When the daughter gets child, they become mother. It’s a daughter it’s a daughter of this mother, but this is the this is mother of that daughter. So it’s all it’s all relative, you see. So label base and base was a label to that other base, you see.

So it goes on like that. It’s all like that. So it’s all like that. So the eye down the atoms of the body, from the eye down to the split seconds, the split seconds of our conscience. So everything everything is existing and and main name.

That’s something you want. Existing existing and main name. So everything exists, you see, labeled. Everything exists, but it is labeled. So everything exists in my name, from the eye down to this down to the atoms and the particular atoms, all that.

Split seconds, cartons, all that. So everything exists in As for that, you see. So so here, the analysis the analysis on the sound. See, when we mint it on when we mint it minted it, when we mint it, how the sound is dependent arising. The percent can be dependent arising.

Yeah. Exist sound exists being needle being needle impeded by depending by depending on the base by depending on the base, the object was that was was heard by this sense of ear. Depending on that, level of sound exist. It’s imputed depending on that, the sound is imputed by the mind. Meaning, by the mind.

See? So therefore therefore, sound do not sound do not exist from its own side. Sound exist, but do not exist. Doesn’t exist at all from its own side. So the sound is totally empty.

Sound is totally empty from its own side. That’s the reality. That’s what we need to meditate on and realize. But the hallucination is sound which doesn’t exist. It’s after after our mind.

There’s there’s there’s, you know, object of sensory ear. When that actualize, then mind, immediate input, sound or iheard sound. Before the object of sense of ear, before it happened sense of object that is heard by sense of ear, before it happened before it happened, there’s no reason to call, oh, I heard sound. You don’t say that. You don’t say that.

You know? And the minute when you the minute when you hear the minute when you the minute when the object or object to be heard by the sense of ear, the minute when it’s or the the minute when this happened, you don’t don’t you don’t your mind doesn’t level sound also at the same time. Your mind doesn’t level sound also at the same time. Why? Why it doesn’t happen at the same time?

Probably, when we do not analyze, we we we think, oh, it it should happen at the same time. But that’s that’s a total mistake. Because if you analyze, in order in order to label the sound, in order to the sound, you see, mind to label sound, oh, I heard a sound. You see, before you label sound, you have to you have to hear. I mean, you have to hear.

You see, there has to be object there has to be object heard by senses, by sense of ear. That has to the object that is heard by sense of that has to come first. That is that is come first. Then, oh, ah. Then you say, after that, oh, I heard a sound.

Then you see, like, sort of and then also, Maybe another example. I mean, yeah. Put this way. Put this way. You met you met the person, friend, relative.

You met the person, friend, or relative many years ago. Many years ago. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, you’d meet somewhere in chaise shop or some the for the Starbucks? Starbucks. Starbucks.

Starbucks. You made in Thai shops or the Starbucks. It was India like that. Nepal or India, some of the Thai shops or they where they sell sweets. The way they sell sweets in the dusty road.

But people love sweets then then you buy sweets in the dusty road. Anyway, so anyway, all it’s drop off or trend as a translation or something or something or Anyway, I admit, you saw the base. You saw the person’s body. Person’s body. But you you haven’t remembered the label.

That’s it. Then then then you talk. Then you talk. Talk. Then you talk.

Oh, I see. Not from the voice, the way the person looks wise. Oh, now. See, often you remember, oh, this person there. Then you remember that person name.

Then you remember, oh, that person in the past, we did this, we did that, you know. We did this and that. And then then label comes, you see. So how the label how did the label come? What what makes you remember that particular label is because the voice and how the person face look.

You know? Then slowly, you see? Then oh, then then the by seeing that particular feature, the voice that or the you see, the I can bring up maybe stories like that. Then then you remember the future of the person. Oh, then you see, then the level.

You know, the name comes. The new level. So this is a more slow one. This is a more slow one. Base first and then level up comes after.

More slow one, you see. But this is more slow, that’s why I’m giving this particular example. So anyway so So in to say, oh, I have a sound. To be to be able to say to to name to be able to name to be able to name that, you have to hear something. You have to the sense of object as your sense of object has to hear has to hear something first.

Otherwise otherwise, you have no reason at all. No reason at all. You have to hear something first. Is it in the in the middle of your mind level sound? Good sound, bad sound, you see?

So I so the the labelling sound doesn’t happen at the same time, the bass. First bass, then sound, labelling sound. You see? The labelling sound. So therefore, you can see they are totally different phenomena than not one.

Even though to our hallucinogenic mind, when you hear sound, it looks like one. Looks like one. Looks like one or or depends depends on the state of your mind. One or is it undefensible? What you hear and the level sound undefensible?

You can’t repeat it. Or on that base, however the sound sound, even though it’s meter level by your mind, can bring your mind to meter level, but you hear back up to your mind to label sound, mirror input to sound, you hear back, not mirror level by your mind. Sound existing from the outside. So that is total hallucination. See.

So total hallucination. The indie independent sound. Independent sound. Sound existing from your side. Total hallucination.

So same with that. The sound is I don’t know what that sound. Do you remember how it happened? I’m not sure that’s same. So you see existing from the side.

But that’s totally hallucination. That that part is totally there is sound, but sound appearing to exist from the outside. That’s total hallucination. It’s not there. Yeah.

Total empty totally empty right there. There is sound, but the way you hear sound is not true. That’s not true. What I’m saying? Where the sound appears is not true.

So I think that’s the end. I think that’s the end. So I think what’s what’s your name, please? So Gary made a conclusion. So we’ll start the silence now.

We’ll come back. The next session will be eight o’clock. So you’ve got time to finish commitments and everything like this. We’ll start the silence now because we have to do we have to finish the Lombard Shepherd’s Georgiou and we also have to do SOB tonight. So it might go quite late.

If there are any new people, so please start the silence and people can do this practice and also get the prayers commitments done. Then, if there are any new people who don’t understand this meditation, just stay back and in five minutes I’ll dictate eight lines to you that will explain what to do. Everyone else can go. If there’s just if there’s anyone confused about what Rinpoche’s told them to do, just stay back and I’ll dictate to you a little short meditation emptiness. Okay?

From Rinpoche.