Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 110-minute teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche addresses school and university students on achieving meaningful academic results and personal happiness. He begins with a grounding breathing exercise to calm body and mind, then shifts to practical study advice: dedicate your full heart to preferred subjects while also investing effort in subjects you dislike, since no knowledge is irrelevant to your life. He recounts his own schooling experience, emphasizing the strategy of completing homework well ahead of deadlines rather than cramming before exams, managing study time like managing finances, and avoiding stress-driven worry in favour of steady daily effort. A central practice he recommends is the Mañjuśrī meditation—visualizing a golden syllable d at the throat, descending into the heart chakra to awaken various wisdoms essential for learning: memory, retention, debate skill, composition, public speaking, and both profound and vast understanding. Lama Zopa stresses that ethical conduct—respect for parents and teachers, kindness to schoolmates, honesty, and protection of all life—matters more than academic marks. He closes with guidance on dharma service (transformation of self and others through kindness and ethical practice) and the key to happiness: appreciating each present moment rather than competing or worrying about future outcomes.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 3
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Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 110.6 minutes
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Thank you. You. Thank you. Okay. So today, we will we will start with the simple meditation.
So which is related to today’s subject to to calm yourself, to to to neutralize to neutralize your your mind, and and also to bring your physical level in a in a calmness. There’s a there’s a very simple the physical gesture as well as the the breathing exercise, which is very beneficial for our day to day life, whether you are, you know, doing the study, during, you know, working life, or during any kind of lifestyle. So what how we start? You can just sit sit straight, especially your back spine should be very straight up. Then you can raise your two hands on your knees.
You know, what do you call it? palms facing up. And you can you can either just raise naturally or either you can let your finger and the the thumb, you know, touch. But you don’t have to put any effort, kind of force yourself to do that. Just let it relax, including, you know, your shoulder, your arm, everything.
So then after that, your chin. Chin. Chin. Chin. So then you have a chin not really stretched out or tucked in.
Just make it natural. Check it. That feels natural. Your eye also you know, if you feel more comfortable to close, then you close the eye. If you feel more comfortable to open, you can also open.
But the the recommended is is a slight open. But for my person for me, for my personal experience, I feel more comfortable close. So then after that, you do inhalation of breathing from your nostril and exhalation of the breath from mouth. But inhalation of the breath should inhale until the breath go up to the navel, not to the chest. Now you have to you have to your mind have to bring the breathing, including the the the the system should breathe in up to the navel, up to stomach, then gradually breathe out from the mouth outwards, but gently, and try to breathe in a in a in a in a full extent.
And try to focus your mind on the breathing or your mind follow the breathing through the exercise. So now we can start. One two three. Breathe in. Gently breathe out.
Okay. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Good. Okay.
So you can do this this breathing exercise in any time, especially when you feel stress up, you know, when you feel pressure or stress, you know, physically tense or mentally, you know, tends to any like like, during the study or doing works. So you can do this breathing breathing exercise. Either you sit down or either you stand up. And the best is to do when there’s, like, natural plants or water or tree around. So you can do it in front of that.
Or while taking you know, walking in the in the jungle or around the seaside or looking out from the veranda. And when you breathe, try to look far, and then Just look just close then look very far. Then breathe. Try to breathe until the including the nostrils stretch. Then breathe in into the stomach, then breathe out, push the breathing from the stomach out of your mouth.
Something like that. So it is quite helpful to bring some relaxation and distress yourself. So I used I used to do this during my during my schooling. I used to do this this this exercise. It’s very, very effective.
So today’s subject so before getting into the subject, please feel relaxed. Don’t don’t don’t tense yourself. You know? We just regard that human beings are gathering. I’m also one of the human being.
You’re also one of human being. And don’t surprise and don’t tense that, oh, I’m a monk wearing, you know, very different costume. All of us, in fact, wearing different costume. Some are wearing yellow, orange color, some wearing black, some are wearing you know? So so I’m one of them.
So so I just feel feel easy, you know, feel easy. The only thing is my hair is shorter, but his hair is shorter. Okay. And I’m very happy to come back. So, you know, my my my first meeting with, you know, your your your I mean, your friends was, I think, last year in the LDC was a quite large crowd.
I think sixty, seventy old people? Forty something. Forty something people. Okay. So it was very nice meeting.
Then after that, our center, you know, organized to interact with you people again. So my last visit was, I think, four four, five years of Europe. And today, few new friends here. So it’s always, you know, great joy and feel, you know, sense of joy that, coming back here and, you know, meet new people, especially, you know, you are youngsters, you know, age people. I always, have a kind of, you know, very special kind of, inspiration that I always receive when I have an interaction with the new new new new generation people, especially who show in some interest in the spiritual path, who show some interest about Buddhadharma.
You know? So and I would like to say thank you very much for giving this opportunity. And even last time when I went back, you know, our friend Peter, our high school member who organized this interaction. So I was expressing him today. I feel somehow, you know, so much joy in in in the heart.
There’s a special extra. Normally, most of the time quite joy and happy. But today, the extra joy in my heart of meeting, you know, these people and and coming here even though the period is very short period. But somehow, there’s so much joy. So he will say, he also feels so much joy.
He also don’t know. So, anyway, so that’s that’s about that’s about past. And let’s say that even though that we meet up meet with, you know, only some people because of maybe the time that which is not available for some other students. So I was suggested to to our helper stem to to transcribe whatever, you know, discussion that we did. Transcribe or transcribe transcribe, bring it to paper is the best because my English accent is not clear, so make you people confused because of my English.
My English structure, grammar, and the pronunciation upside down. So once you bring into a paper, text guide, then it’s clearer so so that you can share with, you know, some other student who have hard to come, but because of inconvenient, they’re unable to attend, so we can share with them. So, anyway, whenever we are ready with that, then we can hand over to you all so that you can help with that. So okay. So today’s subject is very interesting subject.
And in fact, it’s nothing for me to prepare to talk about that. So I just I’m just here with with this person, and and we just talk casually in a in a in a real life experience. Okay. The topic is about how to achieve perfect result in our study life and also how to make, you know, our university life or our, you know, schooling life very happy, enjoyable, and meaningful. And Yes.
When did you see? It’s really hard. And and relax, but good exam, you know, good result. So so something like that. So that’s our topic today.
Yes. So I believe I believe that the meaningful life in a in a in a school is to put off a whole heart, you know, dedicate our whole heart into into into into the subject that which you which you like, the subject that which you choose, especially in the university. I’m sure that you you already chosen your your preference subject, isn’t it, by now? Put full heart into that. At the same time, not to neglect those other subject which you don’t have interest, but you have to do it.
Because in order to score a high mark, you also need sufficient mark from the other subjects, isn’t it? Isn’t So but in many cases, we are we are hundred percent, you know, put hearts to study the subject which you like, but we are totally ignore the rest of the other subjects, which can be maybe who knows in your life, which can be that those subjects are the one that will will bring a lot of benefit in your career, lot of benefit in your your your your working life even or your day to day lifestyle. Let’s say you are very fond of Chinese I would say English subject, especially math, but you really don’t like to study Chinese. You know, you you really hate to study Chinese or or hate to study Nepali. Better say hate to study Nepali.
Yeah. So but who knows? By putting some kind of at least, like, five or ten percent of your time and, you know, like, effort to put your heart there, and one day you’re traveling to Nepal, maybe maybe it will be very useful. You know? So same thing with other subjects.
You you you we shouldn’t assume that those subjects are not relevant in my life, but any knowledge is relevant in our life. You know? Any kind of knowledge, any kind of study is relevant in our life. The matter is which one is more suitable in which aspect of your life. You know?
Certain subject could be more relevant to earlier part of your life. Certain subject is more relevant in in the middle part of your life when doing the working life, and certain subject could be more relevant when you’re an old age. Or certain subject may be more relevant when you get into a special practice. Or certain subject is more relevant when you have your casual life. So what I’m trying to say is whatever subject that we offer from the our I mean, university or the school, the we shouldn’t neglect.
We should put heart into it while putting hundred percent heart into the subject that we choose. So like me, in my schooling life, I’m not so interested in English that time. I’m not interested in, like, the Nepali language or the Tibetan grammar language or whatever. But I am, like, totally interested in philosophy, Buddhist philosophy. It’s anything to do with philosophy.
I’m like, my heart is naturally hundred percent there. Rest, I find is not relevant at all. The reason I find is because I put hundred percent heart into philosophy, that’s why I start to see no relevant rest of the subject. But when I study philosophy, in fact, all the other subjects are in fact it’s very necessary in order for me to have a broader mind, broader understanding, broader perception of the philosophy understandings. You know?
So so so I was forced by my teachers to study different different aspect. Let’s say English. I was forced to study some English because of the blessing forced by my teacher even though I hate it, but due to that today, I can at least I can use my broken English with you people. You know? Don’t have to go through a task later.
And I never expect that I will come to Malaysia, and I have to teach Dharma with using English. It’s almost like like unexpected. Almost like, you know, it’s never planned. But as today, the English study is one of the my my one of the one of the my main tool to to to send the message of the the philosophy study into people or that my study into people. So you see?
But because of my I didn’t I didn’t accept or I didn’t felt the English study is relevant that time. Rather, I felt so much pressure from my teacher to study that, and I used to blame my teacher. I used to feel that, you know, it’s like my life is, like, controlled and pressurized. And during all those periods, the whatever suffering I I I suffer is only due to my own ignorance. It’s not because of the teacher, not because of the English study is not beneficial.
Know? It’s all about my ignorance. And by ignorance is why I why I just let go and be open minded and regard every single education is this can be useful for in what’s it? Can be useful in in certain aspect of your life and just happily study, happily accept the study. No.
Like today, even though it feel very difficult for me to improve my English, it is quite time consuming, and it is quite hard. But I see the benefit. I see the necessary. When I when I put that when I put hard to learn it, I enjoy it. And it no more pressurizing.
And and there’s a lot of happiness. So in our schooling life, most of the pressure is received from teacher, received from family. Let’s say family want you to choose certain subject which you don’t like which you don’t like the subject. Many cases, you know, family want you to be a doctor, but you think that you are you you want to be a lawyer. You know?
And and you struggle there. And your time in school become a like, let’s say, like, three years or two years, your time is, like, not fully dedicated because you are not your heart is not fully dedicated for the subject. So but at the same time, you have no choice to study choose to study to become a doctor even though your choice is for lawyer, and your time in the school become very suffering, very pressurizing very pressurizing. You know? So so due to that, you start to spoil your life of finding also the excuses to kind of bring some relaxation, then the student’s life is, you know, they start to choose intoxicants, such kind of drugs, or start to meet with the wrong friends, then whole life whole life destroyed.
So if any of us have such kind of pressure, why not we accept it and we just regard? It could it can be helpful in any part of my life. So why not that I just put some heart to study it? Maybe that that that might not be my life, but at least those studies which recommended my parents or my teacher can be helpful in my life. So I just put a heart.
Happily, you you put a heart then. You will enjoy your your your time in the study. And at the end of the day, you have a broad variety of knowledge. You know? So so so I think it’s like that.
So in my case, when I study, I I try to involve few exercise, which which make me to enjoy my study, both physically and mentally. So as as a monk, involve some kind of spiritual practice. So that’s one very powerful spiritual practice. What you can use is Mañjuśrī. Mañjuśrī’s Mañjuśrī is I think Wenshu Pusa in Chinese.
Manjupush Puza. It’s very famous in in China. You know? And, of course, very famous in in in in India, in in Tibet, in Nepal. And is x the spiritual practice is accepted by, you know, both Chinese Mahāyāna practitioners as well as the Tibetan, you know, the Vajrayāna practitioners and including the Theravadan practitioners also to accept this practice.
So Mañjuśrī or Wenshu Pusa, he is the embodiment of the of the ten direction Buddha’s wisdom. So who come into a physical form, who’s holding a sword and and his, what’s it, right hand and holding the wisdom sūtra on the left hand. You know? But there’s a few different images. Like, the Chinese have, you know, their own art art drawing, different slight different art than the Tibetans.
And the Indians have a slight different art than the Tibetans and the Chinese. So, anyway, the implement that that that the deity holds is the same, wisdom sword and the wisdom sūtra. So this this Buddha has the the power to power to grant us the wisdom of the the wisdom of, you know, the powerful memory. Because for study, we need a powerful memory to to to able to store a lot of information, isn’t it? Powerful memory.
And, also, we not just powerful memory, but we need a memory which which let’s say that. Not to forget. Sustain the memory. Sustain the storage. You know, some of the students, their their memory, their their wisdom is so powerful in in receiving, but they are so easy to forget.
You know? Some are good. You know? Easy to receive and also very powerful in restoring it. Yeah?
And some of the students are very powerful, you know, wisdom in debates, like question answers, debates, quiz. But some, you know, they are not at all. Even though they can be very smart, but they are totally failure when they do, you know, quiz, when they do any kind of debates. You know? So so by by practicing this technique, you will also receive the the wisdom of debate, the wisdom of wisdom that you can able to enhance or, like, a quiz, debate, you know, whatever.
So then some of the students are very smart, high wisdom, but they they don’t have ability to compose, You know, composing any any form of study is failure. So by by practicing this this study, you also receive the power of a memory which can able to compose. You can compose so many books, compose so many, I mean, writings. You know, you you’ll be very professional, you know, very good in writings. Because they the wisdom of compose composing.
Then some of the students, they are good in all the earlier I mentioned, but they are not good in speaking, teaching, or lecture. You know? They have very good knowledge inside, but they cannot expose. They cannot share with other. You know?
Very, very poor in that. So so you can also by by by practicing this Buddha called Mañjuśrī, you can also receive the wisdom wisdom with the courage for you to expose your your knowledge and share with, you know, others to benefit. Then and some of the students have a have a have a have a weakness of, what you call the because of samadhi. Then we call the the wisdom profound wisdom, vast wisdom. You know?
The the profound you know, to understand the the profound meaning of the the the whatever study that you are studying. And some of the the teachings can be very vast, you know, very extensive, and we need a a wisdom to, you know, actualize those understandings. You know? We call the the wisdom of profound profound wisdom of extensive. So so so we need various wisdoms in order to have a complete success of the, you know, like, whatever what do you call the a No.
How many a’s? Yeah. Four a’s. Four a’s. Four a’s.
The highest one. You know, you need in in every field of your study, in every field of your knowledge, then you need all these all these different wisdoms all these different wisdoms. So so I I I received benefit from this practice. And and in the monastery, especially those who are how to say? Those who are those who have a high expectation by the community, such as the reincarnate lamas, you know, who come into who are reincarnate, who used to be their past life, like, very, very learned, powerful in their knowledge.
And their mental continuum start to reincarnate as a as a new form called the reincarnate reincarnations, lamas, tulkus, you know, reincarnate lamas. So those beings, like, even though they are they are just a little boy, little girl, or little child, but the expectation from the family, expectation from the public is a very high expectation. You know, even though, like, ten, twenty years old, you know, you expected them to be a great scholar or great lecturer or great composer or great whatever. So very from very initial, from a young age, we, in fact, introduced this practice, the Mañjuśrī practice. And great the the Geshe is you know, they have to the Geshe is the the the Buddhist philosophical doctor, the PhD.
We need to study twenty five years, at least twenty five years full time, you know, Buddhist philosophy. There’s a five treatise, and the memorization that you need to do is, like, unbelievable. You know? One year one year, if possible, you have to memorize at least thousand page. One thousand page.
So the I mean, that’s one of the best. One of the, I mean, one best category. The one thousand page. And the page is not the not the small page. The long long page and a small letter.
Okay. And one thousand page. So every day, you know, we put at least three, four hours and and and, you know, pause. And and we do actualize memorization of thousand page. And when we when we do this memorization, when we go to the exam, we cannot even pause for what uh-uh.
Not like that. No. We say we have to give the exam as like a running water, very smooth. Like that. And the exam will go between, like, maybe about hundred to few few hundreds people.
You know, the scholars will sit, and you have to sit in the middle, and you have to repeat without looking at things. So so it’s it’s, I don’t know, it’s relevant for today’s life or not because our brain is almost like in computer. You need to know a few key, you click, and everything come out. Yeah. But in earlier time, there’s no such a computer, so we have to key in everything here.
So five treatises, which is the the subject have to be studied for twenty five years, a full time, you know, need to store here and all based on the memorizations. You know? So anyway and if possible, by relying on this practice, Mañjuśrī’s practice. Mañjuśrī’s practice. So how to say So I I might just practice.
So my it’s simple example that during my I can be the poorest student in my my my university, in my class. I have a three hun three hundred classmates, you know, all among, but three hundred classmates. So all are you know, our hope is to become a Geshe, the Buddhist philosophy PhD. So so within three hundred, let’s say, the top ten can be about ten to fifteen people, fifteen students. And just to inspire you that by telling my life story, I used to be very busy.
Well, study, I already have a projects, you know, to do projects in outside. So I skip school many time. I skip school many time. But I never skip study. You know?
I skip school many time, but I never skip study. I never skip from study. I skip school many time, but I never skip from study. You know? Wherever you are wherever you are, you know, you have to complete your your your study programs.
Make sure you complete your study programs. And, you know, and never bring any excuses for yourself, which can be your failure. You know, this is my experience that never bring any excuses for yourself saying that, oh, today, I have a high fever. Oh, today, my stomach not feeling well. So that, you know, I will do tomorrow.
The homework will be, you know, left for tomorrow. You know? So if the if the if the subject I need to complete within this week, whatever matter, I will make sure even I need to go through twenty four hour, I go. Standing twenty four hour and make sure complete my my my, you know, my my subject, which supposed to be complete within this this this month this week. You know?
If I’m busy in in any other projects, instead of, like, studying less, I rather put extra study. Because since I already skipped, I have to ensure myself that I I I have to reach the the the the target that we are supposed to. So if you are in school, you’re following the proper structure, proper time, then then, okay, you just simply follow the structure, and it’s okay. But if you are skipping, you know, your excuses of, let’s say, I’m sick. I’m I have my family gathering.
I have this and that. That means my strategy, I put extra effort instead of instead of taking advantage of many leaps or many many many off days or excuses. I’d rather put extra effort. How I put? I’m I think I make myself say, I’m going to I’m going to waste many hours tomorrow.
So why not today, whole day, and whole night or at least whole day? You know? I suppose I study six hours, and tomorrow, my day is not not sure. Maybe I maybe I might not get chance to study even for one hour. So I will not say that I will study day after tomorrow.
I will I’m I I I shouldn’t think that I will compensate there after tomorrow. I’d rather compensate now, today, in this moment because I still have time. And we normally say, oh, today I’m busy. I will do tomorrow. Or tomorrow something comes up, I do that for tomorrow.
Then your exam is right there today. Of course, you will fail. Of course of course, your mark will be will be will be not that because, you know, we we didn’t do the we didn’t do the homework. So so my strategy is, as I mentioned, always try to, I would say, do do do do beforehand. Your homework, try to do beforehand.
Yeah? Let’s say your exam is coming one month later. Make sure your homework is complete by this week. Even though your exam is coming next month, but try to complete your homework by this week. So once you complete your homework by this week, you you you flip up entire your book, whatever memorization, whatever the the need to do, complete within this week.
Even though maybe you need to spend less hour for sleeping, less hour for movie or whatever, just just just feel that maybe who knows I might not have a time next week or maybe next next week, then exam will come. So rather I complete everything this week. So after completing your exercise this week, if in case there’s any more time next week, then then you do more. You’ll be even better, but you will be more relaxed. You’ll be more relaxed.
When the third week comes, if you have more time, you even do more. You’re you’re definitely your your your study will be even much more better because it’s like extra bonus. You know? But your your your your mental your your mind, the mentally, you’ll be you’ll be much more relaxed. So the nearer the exam come, in fact, you are lesser nervous, more relaxed.
But normally, do all. Exam is next month. Why you need to study now? Or you have a excuse. Or if I study to this week, maybe next week, I might forget.
Then I need to put extra effort. But but whatever you think will be exactly like that way is okay, but most of the time it’s not. Most of time next week, also we have to excuse. You see? So rather do today, do this week, and we we we see how it goes next week.
And and then we can decide about next week. You see? So if like that, there will be lesser pressure for your exam and quite sure that your your your exam will be easy and quite sure your result will be good. You know, your result will come out as as you expected because you you finish your your homework. You finish your your all the the studies.
You know, there’s not even a one single page that you didn’t flip up. And somehow, there is some corner in your heart or your mind. There’s a imprint. And when the exam question come up, what? No.
Yeah. There’s yeah. I think or something I remember. Yes. Then you right?
I see. But you miss out one or two page and you take for granted. Who knows that page is the that from that page, the question might come because we’re not sure. And we really have to complete complete entire subject because we really not sure. We don’t have clever and that we we cannot guarantee that or this page will never come.
From this page, there there won’t be a question. We we cannot guarantee, isn’t it? So we have to make ourself guarantee that the question can come from any page, including this page. So I must study also this page. When?
Better do within this week because next week, don’t know what will happen. If you get a very high fever, you really don’t have energy next week, then do do do do do do the school thing that, oh, you have a high fever, I will still give you extra mark. No chance, it? So this week, you are okay. Today, you are very healthy.
Rush for this week too well, then we think about next week. So this is like a like a how to say? It’s a it’s a common sense how to make sure that our our our results are good. Because the result is dependent on the cost that you are accommodating, which is a study. Without a study, it’s it’s quite tough.
It’s difficult, you know, even how smart you are. Without a study, it’s you have to have to have to accept the fact that without study, without knowledge, how you’re going to answer the question. So we must. But in order for us to have a sharper mind, to gain all those different wisdoms, for in order for us to whatever we study, make sure that this study become then come a hundred percent hundred percent perfect. Hundred of the hundred percent perfect.
Then we need kind of help from our deity. And it is very effective because whatever you study, we’ll never forget. Whatever you whatever you study, what? If you want to teach, very efficient, very powerful. When you want to compose, you can do it.
But you are, like, hundred hands. You have you know? At the end of the the the schooling, you you you have, like, all the abilities. You see? So then what we have to do is we simply recite this mantra.
Very simple, isn’t it? Then recite on few times, then after that, always recite. And the best time to recite this mantra is morning. Morning before you know, right after you wake up, then watch your face. Then after that, you know, on the way to this classroom or on the or or or while doing some exercise.
And if you wish to do even more effective of this practice, then there’s a very simple visualization. And you see a tongue. There’s a first, there’s a a a sun disc. It’s like a sun. Sun.
You know? Sun. Sun in moon, the sun. The feel of, like, very warm and and very comfortable kind of feeling on top of your tongue, which is you label as a sun disc. On top of the sun disc, there’s a moon disc.
You regard you you should you kind of sense feeling that very cooling, soothing, you know, very bright, you know, like, some kind of, like, very wonderful energy, which, like, frequency which you can receive from from your tongue. So it’s so Sundays, Mondays. On top of that on top of that, then there’s a d h I, d, syllable d, syllable d. So here, you don’t have to remember d h I. You you just remember d, but in the form of light, golden light, in the form of golden light.
Very golden, very bright golden light. You know? And and that light is the energy or it is the the or that is the syllable d. The entire essence. And that essence is the the wisdom essence of ten direction Buddhas or divine one or I mean, all the wisdom energy is there.
So that one is standing up like you’re sitting on the tongue like that. So right at the end of the tongue before what do you call this one? It is a drop. What? Drop.
Drop. It’s somewhere here. It’s somewhere here. This is the the root of the tongue. So that’s a one syllable d hanging downwards.
Hanging downwards. Like like like this. Hanging downwards. So when you say d d d d d, the tongue touches what do call? Pallet.
The palate of the bird. Palate of the Yeah. It it touch. That activates the energy, and that energy activates the syllable d at the throat there. And by activation of the d on the tongue, the syllable d at the throat will manifest like a snowfall.
The the image imagination, you can do it exactly like a snowfall. Very tiny small d fall falling down. Like a like a snowfall. So then that you have to think that small d falls into the heart chakra, which is in between is here at the at the at the center of these two breasts. It there is a the chakra called heart chakra.
You when you touch, there’s a bone, isn’t it? So right there. We call the sternum. Yeah. So heart heart chakra.
So then so there recite our consciousness. There’s one called the invisible, indestructible substance which you received from our father mother, but which is invisible, which is undestructible, cannot destroy. And this indestructible called drop or indestructible substance opens twice in one circle life. The first one is the moment that we conceive into our consciousness there. The last one, when we die, it opens, our consciousness leave.
So our mind or consciousness or our wisdom, in fact, reside in there. And that undestructible substance reside within the our central channel. You know? Again, that channel look like a nerves, but it is not a nerve. Not a nerve.
It is a it is subtle nerves, which our ordinary micro microscope cannot see. Subtle nerves lie around our our spine. The head reside in the forehead. Along the the skull crown up to the the tail, you know, our the the tail reside there. You know?
And that center channel company with the two right one left and one right channels also. We call them right and left channel, which, you know, have three knots along this along the the center channel in order to tighten or or sustain the the undestructible drop to remain in our body so that we don’t have to die now. The moment the the the the the the knot lose, the indestructible drop opens and consciously. That’s called death. That’s called death.
You see? So, anyway, that recite along here. So this consciousness, this mind will receive the the the wisdom energy will receive the wisdom energy from the syllable d at the throat. So you have to imagine, you have to think, you have to visualize the syllable d is constantly dropping constantly dropping and dissolve into your consciousness dissolve into the our center chakra, into our consciousness, and our consciousness will activate and will actualize all those wisdom that I mentioned earlier. All the wisdom that I mentioned earlier.
You know? So then after that, whatever study you do, somehow that you can able to hold the memory, and you become more confident in in in in your knowledge, and you start to have a skill of composition compose. You start to have a skill of, you know, brighter wisdom to do more memorizations, and you’ll be, how to say, bright student with so many talent talent wait for talents or so many talents. You know? So so so so this simple practice you can apply.
And in monastery, especially those who who going to who who go into a very extensive large scope study, this is the practice we recommend. And and I personally received a lot of benefit from this practice, you know, especially for memorizations. You know? So even though as I mentioned that I have a a very busy schedule, but, of course, I have to be realistic that I must complete the study. So I do proper homework.
At the end of the day, I go to I go for the exam. Always a. Always you can you you get the you get the first first first rank. It’s it’s first talk. So I never neglect my conventional realistic study lifestyle, even how busy you are.
I never kind of, like, excuse myself. You know, excuse myself. You know? And, especially, I never excuse myself when I do the homework. So we have to make sure that we do homework properly, then we don’t have to worry much.
We don’t have to worry. You know? That’s how that I feel my schooling life is very happy, you know, because best is you follow your timeline in the school so that you don’t have to put extra kind of effort to study so hard until that you have to give up your sleep, give up your food, and that’s quite pressurizing, isn’t it? So best is to follow your school structure properly and do homework properly. And if you have a kind of extra burden from family or or in between, you need to go and work, you know, to pay your school fee, like, that kind of thing, then then do like me.
Then, you know, whenever you are free, you just happily happily put put whole heart to to to do the homework, to do the study, then you will never worry for your exam. You will still have a confident that you will still score the the whatever that stage that you want to score. Then from that way, I feel like lot of confident in my journey of study. So you don’t have a, like, kind of, like, so much stress all the way. And especially the stress just before the exam and the stress during the exam and the stress after exam before result come is torturing.
And all this result is because of you didn’t study properly. You didn’t do homework properly, isn’t it? Once you do homework properly, I I did my part. If in case my result go wrong, then that’s that’s my destiny. You can just regard as your destiny or whatever, and just it it doesn’t help.
It will never help by worry. It never help by stress stressing up. And normally, I feel once I stress up, I cannot focus. I cannot focus. So we have to tell ourselves, oh, don’t stress up.
From very first day when the school start, you know, I never neglect my my the structure of the studies, which is given for this month and next month and until the exam. I make sure I complete. Sit. At the end of the week, you check, you know, whether I really complete my my my complete homework or not. You know, if there’s anything miss out, then you you you you you do you make sure that, you know, you make sure that it complete by tonight or or maybe at least by tomorrow morning because by tomorrow ten o’clock, there will be next week’s home home is coming.
You know? So so you have to you have to you have to you have to manage you have to manage your home more as exactly, like, how you manage your finance. You know? Like, let’s say you earn, whatever, a thousand dollar or two thousand dollar a month, and you have to manage you have to manage you have to manage that each day how how much you can spend. If you spend too much, maybe three day, you can have a lot of good food.
And after that, you have to stay empty empty stomach because you have all the spend. You you didn’t spend properly. You know? You see? And, also, you have to make sure that you have enough earning so that you don’t have to worry for next month.
Same thing when you study, we have to manage ourself. So we have to manage homework, how much we have done, how much we need to do. I saw that during exam, I will definitely score what I want. Isn’t It it is. It’s it’s like that.
So then another my suggestion is never benefited in my schooling life by stressing up. Like like, you know, worry. Like, oh, what kind of, you know, result I will get? What kind of, you know, like I always worry for exam. Then you just keep worrying, and your mind is mostly occupied by worrying, but never do homework.
Never study. You you check yourself. We we, you know, we all go through a schooling life. We check ourselves. I worry.
I also don’t eat properly. I don’t sleep properly, and I do I don’t do homework properly also when I start to worry so much. No. Rather, sleep well. You know, sleep well when you’re supposed to sleep.
Wake up in time. Don’t be too lazy. Once you wake up, do exercise. Make your physical and mental fresh. Then after that, if you have a three hours to homework, make a full time.
Don’t even pick up your phone. Put totally off your your mobile phone, your computer, everything. You just shut up. Shut. Shut.
Completely shut. Total focus of that three hour. The moment three hour complete, your homework is completed. Then you need to go for outing, dinner, party. And during that period, you put full focus on your party.
Enjoy. Come back home. Now what? You have one hour for TV. Watch one hour TV with total relaxation.
After one hour TV, then better don’t continue. Tell yourself, tomorrow morning, I have to wake up by five o’clock or six o’clock. Must sleep. Must go to sleep. Then sleeping time, don’t think of your exam.
Sleeping time, don’t recall your your whatever whatever. It it is it is too late to think. You know, don’t think of what will happen in my exam. What will happen? Don’t plan anything just before go to sleep.
If you start to plan, you will be awake. You cannot sleep. When you cannot sleep, next day, very tiring day. You can’t focus in any field of your activities in that day. You wasted two days.
You know? Instead of one day, you wasted two days. Then that continues until the end of the week. That continues next week. At the end of the day, no proper study, no proper enjoyment, no proper eating, no proper sleep, no proper TV, nothing.
So, you know, must manage ourselves and be strict ourselves. Never wait for our parents to tell us what to do and never wait our discipliner to come and guide us. We ourselves be the discipliner. So from that very day, you you you you you ask yourself, from today on, I am the I am my own discipliner. I am my own discipliner.
You know? So I I am my own discipliner. So you have to assign yourself from this very today that you are your discipliner. You know? So you you discipline yourself.
Your your your days will be structured. You know? Then you don’t have any kind of pressure for your exam or or anything. You know? So it would be would be would be would be very good.
So that’s one of the so worry doesn’t worry doesn’t help. Normally, we we we worry so much, you know, until that we make our schooling life is, like, always suffering. You know, we must enjoy our schooling life, isn’t it? We must enjoy our schooling life. You know, what’s it?
Putting a full heart, full effort, a full time to study is is necessary. But, you know, to getting, you know, like, the highest mark, to getting, you know, to getting to to get the best student, you just leave in the hand of Buddha or in the hand of God or whoever. You know? That part, you don’t worry. Your your your responsibility is make sure you study well, study full time in complete sense.
Then about the result, you just put aside. And in in in in ordinary in ordinary in our life, we worry exam more than our homework. You know, we worry for the exam, and we always like like competition for, you know, to win the the the the the best student, the highest mark, but we never worry about our our homework today. So then we worry until the exam. When you go to the when you go to the exam hall, blank.
Because we never, in fact, worry enough or study enough or or or be mindful about your study time. You’ve been all the time worry about the exam. You all the time worry exam, but you never do the homework. And you worry all the time want to become the number one, but you never worry about being number one in doing doing homework. So end up fast.
So I find trying to skip worrying about exam or or or or the the the number one students, whatever, whatever, and give a full time, full effort during the preliminary stage study study time. You know? If you if you wish to worry, you better worry about now. And and and just worry there, sit there, not enough, do the homework. Right?
Now. And that will make sure that your exam will be definitely whoever you want, you know, whatever the the the mark that you want to we wish to scroll. You know? So that’s that’s that’s one of the then another thing is in order to make our schooling, like, most meaningful, I always feel we need to have a, you know, like, and always think bigger picture. Yeah.
Don’t don’t don’t simply discourage by small matters. Let’s say, this year, your exam failed, and don’t don’t make yourself down or don’t don’t give up because of this year’s exam is no good. And you start to, like, you start to give up your aim. Maybe you want to be a whoever, doctor or lawyer or or great business person or whatever whatever whatever you want to be. Because of this year’s failure, you give up everything.
Cannot. You know? So you have to you have to for this, you have to accept karma. You know, accept karma. Because of this year, I didn’t put full time effort in doing homeworks and doing proper study.
That’s why I couldn’t pass. But next year, still can be brighter. Because next year, I’m going to study properly. I’m going to put more time for study. So next year will be definitely better.
So instead of, like like, stress yourself, give up, Rather, you should think positive. So what I’m trying to say is be positive even you encounter the worst case of failure in your study for this year, and be positive of thinking next year can be brighter yeah, than this year, or next year can be brighter than ever. You know? Or next year can be the one that which which really brings your hope in in actual in actual you know? So so that’s, I think, very important.
So if you if you carry on the years like that with with thinking positive, and definitely your well, your aim would be success, and you will reach the destiny this destination that way you are supposed to reach. If you want to become a doctor, you will become a doctor. If you are willing to become a lawyer, you will become a lawyer. Or you want to become whoever, you will become that. You know?
But, normally, because once more failure, we give up everything. And we within the worst case, we start to take drugs. Worst case worst worst case, we start to mix with the wrong friends and non virtuous friends. Then your life whole life will be destroyed. Whole life will be fairly normal.
So, therefore, the the the meaningful of a school life is always think big, be positive, and never affected by, you know, a small failure like one year failure in exam or one time mistreated by teacher or one time kind of the unfriendliness by their schoolmates. Never give up school, you know, and never give up your aim and never give up hoping for the best next next year, the coming year. So then you never give up your aim. So then you will reach to the point. That’s that’s what I feel.
Okay? So then another thing, even though the length even though the studies are very important, but most important in our life is the ethical life is most important, the ethical education. What are the ethical education? It’s respect. Respect to your parents, how how cruel your your parent can be to you, but from your side, be always respectful to your parents.
Always remember their kindness, including being in this school today who I am. Whatever it is, due to my parents. If they didn’t if they didn’t at least support at the beginning for for one time, I won’t be here. Always always, you know, appreciate even how cruel your parent can be to you, but always beneficial to appreciate their kindness, and always bring a lot of blessing for your life for the success by being filial to your parents. Then second thing is be respectful and be filial to your teacher.
How cruel the teacher can be and how biased the teacher can be, But in your heart, put as an object with your respect. Because even though you are paying school fee to the teacher to teach you, but without the sharing knowledge of the person, you won’t learn. You won’t get the education. You know? So therefore, it’s always always necessary to show respect to your teacher, teacher, and the respect should come from not only mind, but speech and physical level also.
Physically, whenever you see teacher, always always, you know, offer just a smile and offer kind of like, you know, you can do like that, you know, or or whatever or whatever. I don’t know. Whatever is suitable. You know? So and verbally, always, if it’s morning, good morning, madam.
Good morning, sir, whatever. You know, at least at least respect his verbally, like, always. You know? They always say, oh, my teacher is always my teacher is wonderful. My teacher is good.
My teacher is wonderful. It just says make a habit. My teacher is wonderful. My teacher is wonderful. Whoever even the teacher is so bad.
When you talk to your friends, you should say, my teacher is wonderful. It’s okay. It’s okay. She’s wonderful. You know?
Even though they could be so biased, whatever. And and and mentally, you always think, how kind, you know. Whatever the knowledge they share to me, it is for beneficial for myself. You know, even though they are paying the school fee, whatever, but even a one single knowledge is beneficial. If it’s not beneficial, I can just put it into a trash.
Never mind. But it’s neat, those those knowledge. So all the times you should think that teachers are wonderful. You know, teachers are anyway there and very kind. Even though how biased they are, how cruel they are, how negative, you know, treating to you, whatever, but in your heart, you think, at least I received knowledge from them.
How wonderful they are. So because of being positive through speech, physically, mentally towards your teacher, somehow the teacher one day start to realize her mistake or his mistake if she is in in that kind of false. Then somehow that you will receive the benefit from from them. You know, always is a good ethic. You know?
Then in the school, your elders, you know, you know, always show some respect. It’s it’s always good to show respect. You you cannot think that everyone is the same. You know? Your seniors all the time, you know, show respect at least from your heart.
But sometimes showing too much respect from speech, too much respect from physically, they tell them, what do you call, bully you. So in that case, you have to be firm. Buddha also said self protection is very necessary. If people try to bully you, you have to be firm. You have to be hard.
But people are kind, you have to you have to show the kindness also. But in your heart, ever have to be kind, ever have to be respected. You know? So then especially in the school, if if your friends are a bit introverted or friends, like, you know, they have, like, a bit ugly look, bit you know, like, the family can be slightly poorer or whatever. And from our side, we have to put even extra kind of attention to them.
So this is something that which is wonderful quality of good human being. You know? We try to help. We try to be more compassionate. We try to support, especially those who are, you know, low low capability in their life.
You know? So when you show this to them, somehow that you you you yourself will earn so much respect, but you are not doing this to earn respect. You are, in fact, selfless compassion to the person your friends. And that is always wonderful. And at least in this life, your friends and family members will say that my my children, my boy is very good very good person.
Your friends among friends, we always say, oh, this this this this mister and whatever whatever is to be very kind person, very good person. You know? Always have a good kind of comments about you, you know, at least. You see? So so always feel very important, at least few group of people in the school that instead of bullying those low or low capability people, try to put more attention to them.
Try to give more attention. Try to help. Try to bring them into your your friend circle. Some are left out, you know, being no no friends because of maybe they are bit ugly or maybe because of maybe they are from poorer family or because of maybe they are their nature is maybe, like, bit unfriendly. That’s why everybody neglect them, and they become alone.
You know? And try to you you should provide your side the compassionate kind of approach and always always beneficial. Then in our life, to make our most meaningful our schooling life, our entire life is be honest. Be honest. Be honest.
You know? And be respectful for yourself also, and be respectful for others. Be respectful for others. Be respectful yourself also. Some people, they show all the respect to other, but they never they never respect yourself.
It’s wrong. We have to respect ourself, and we have to respect others also. And be honest with that. Be honest with that. If you think something is you really, really don’t like, then you should say, I really, really don’t like.
But don’t simply just say, I don’t like. I don’t like that. I don’t like this. You know? Be respectful for others.
What I mean is if you really, really don’t like, then better say you don’t like. That’s called respect to yourself. If just simply you think don’t like and don’t simply just say don’t like this, don’t like that, Be respectful to others also. Parents, don’t simply say, I don’t like that. It is no good.
That no good. It’s very, very, very torturing to your parents. All the time, say, this also not right. That also not right. You know?
Just bought a new mobile phone then also said, this is not right. There’s a new mobile phone I need. Like, you know, it’s very stressful for the parents from you. You know? This be show some respect to them.
Show some respect to their their their their hard earning money or whatever. You know? So so so what I mean is be respectful for others means don’t follow your excitement kind of interest, the gross mind interest. The gross mind interest mind, alas. You know?
Small thing go wrong, get angry. You cannot. Small thing you attracted, you just jump into conclusion of attraction. You cannot. You know?
Be look into yourself and think your subconscious mind really want that or not. Your subconscious mind really dislike that or not. If your subconscious mind think the person is somebody that I should be distant, okay. And now you say, okay. Make clear.
You and me cannot click. You stay at the side. I will stay this side. You know? But, normally, your invitation from the gross mind think that you are not good, then impute that you not good.
So because of that, then lot of conflict, lot of disrespectful, you know, things happens. You see? So be respectful of yourself. Be respectful of others. Then be kind to others by at least not causing others’ life.
The biggest life is the human being’s life. Make sure. That means when you are driving, including driving, you have to drive carefully. You know, don’t simply say, I’m a fresh graduate. I just finished my college, and my car is just, you know, given by my parents, you know, or whatever whatever, girlfriend, boyfriend, you know, then drive until that, you know, nobody’s business.
Then you say, the car might danger of becoming a dumpling. You know, the the the the momo, the way you call it dumpling. Yeah. Dumpling. You know, they always squeeze everywhere in danger.
And there’s even danger of becoming oneself becoming the meat inside the dumpling. So it’s very dangerous. So you have to be very careful. So then the smallest life, you know, you’re concerned of this, even the smallest life, even ants, cockroach. You know?
You’re scared of a cockroach, but okay. You run away. Let let cockroach to be there. Don’t try to hit with your slipper or don’t try to smash it or or injure any ants. Try not to just simply, you know, cost their life, but they also have feeling.
They also have feeling. They are so busy running morning to night. It’s they’re searching for some happiness. It’s exactly like us. You know?
They do not want even a slight pain or slight discomfort. You know? If we put a needle to them, you know, they would just flip out. You know? It’s painful.
You know? The the only thing they don’t have sound, they’re screaming. You know? They’re screaming. You know?
Painful. You see? So just just be be mindful when you walk. If there’s any ant, try and just cross over. Don’t don’t don’t smash.
You see? So be be be be careful with, you know, the other’s life, including your life. You know? Including your life. The example is when you want to drive, drive slowly.
Drive carefully. You know? Or when you want to walk on the street, be careful. Don’t make cost your life, and don’t make others to cost also your life. You So like that.
So then don’t let’s say, don’t be ethical, you know, not to, you know, steal steal stealing things in in our life. You know? You know, if you if it’s necessary, then ask the parents or ask the friends. You know? Be honest.
You see? Then and be very careful with the sexual misconduct, you know, in our in our in our life, especially in in a schooling life. You know? You know, people take advantage of the the sexual misconduct. So we have to be careful with that.
So we have to we have to be very ethical that we have to make very clear even going to a relationship. In the first, always put us fine wall in between, even with the girls and boys and boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. You know, first, it’s always always right to put always more beneficial to put a fine wall in between. You can be so close as a friend, you know, and investigate how honest you are, how good you are, whether we have the karma, karma affinity or not. Then after one, two year, or after a few months later, then you really from from deep in your heart, you confirm, oh, this is the right person.
This is honest. This is what exactly I I I I’m, you know, I I I’m hoping for them. Then you decide for your relationship, Not just simply because of desire, you’re going to conclusion, then there’s a lot of, you know, danger, lot of danger of, you know, especially danger for for for for disturbing for your emotion. You know? Emotion, very danger.
So be be ethical in that also. You know? So those are the things that is necessary. So I find is excluding, you know, the the normal study is very important, but more important than that is the ethical life. You know, be in life, be kind, you know, try one’s best to benefit other.
If one cannot benefit other, at least do not harm other. You know? At least do not harm other. So have this kind of ethical mind in your heart, then one’s life will be quite happy. The one’s life will be happy.
So something like that. Do you think I cover the subject? Yes. Okay. Thank you.
Yeah. I covered more today. Including the five percent. The five percent. So maybe we we better stop here.
Yeah? Okay. So I have here some powerful mantras, which our guru, Lama Zopa, written down. His explanation is inside. For some time, you know, in our life, like, we feel like we need some purification.
We need some purification. Let’s say It’s not good. It’s not Right? Yes. Yes.
So, anyway, if those who you don’t have, you can come and see. And the rest, you can keep here. You can keep to, your your people. Do you know what the meaning behind the? Oh, magistrate’s mantra.
The it’s the the meaning is very, very extensive. It contains the teachings of the entire. Like, the whole Lamrim and You have you have any related questions while we are waiting? If you have any related, you know, questions in the in the Oh, fun. University life, yeah, study.
No? If any struggling that you want to share? Dharma is from now. Yeah. Dharma service.
You say how to balance. So first, I think it’s it’s good to know what is dharma. So then that to bring into a service. Yeah. So dharma means a transformation transformation.
Dharma means transformation. So transform transformation of our ourself and transformation of other. If transform yourself from what? Transform from the suffering to happiness. Transform from the non virtue to virtue.
Transform from negative to the positive. Say, if you are unhappy, then try to find a reason to be happy. It’s a transformation of your unhappiness to the happiness. It’s also dharma. Let’s say somebody else in depression, you you console the person.
You try to find out what is going on, what wrong thing going on with this person. So then from there, you try your best ability to bring that person from depression to brighter life. You know? So that also called dharma. Then if you are always in negative such kind of, like, say that always get angry, and somehow that, you know, even small thing, you cannot tolerate get angry.
So that is called negativity or delusion. Delusion. Very bad. It harmful for your health, harmful for others. Harmful for your life, harmful for others’ life.
Harmful for even next life if in case there’s a next life. You know? So so now here, you need to transform. So now getting angry is is very bad. You know?
It destroys my peace of peace of peace of mind in me, and, also, it it influence the the the the the environment. It make everybody very ugly. And look at my face in the mirror, and when I get angry, I look so terrible. You know? Very ugly.
You know? So it’s not good. No good. You know? Just think simple this way.
Don’t even need to think that, wow. This is negative karma. I will go to hell. All this don’t even have a thing. You know?
Just yeah. When I get angry, I look at myself and I show my face in the mirror. Oh, this face, I don’t want to see anymore. So when you get angry, when people around, it destroy your your happiness and destroy others’ happiness. So you think it’s not good.
Being patient always like always bring delight. That’s it. You smile on the face. And even somebody scold you, you rather return with a smiling face. And that benefit is the person who going to scold you will give up and will go away.
I quite try to scold you. I try to hurt you, but you smile at me. I give up this person. I rather don’t harm. I better go run away.
You know? So think the advantage and disadvantage in your mind transform your anger into a patient. So that also called dharma. Desire. You know, you you you can’t you can’t let go.
Let’s say that let’s say, in the school, you you you you somehow you happen to peek at other’s exam. Copy. Copy. You know, it’s it’s it’s it’s kind of disturbing in your heart by today. So so but but anyway, it’s passed.
Already passed. It’s a part. It’s just a simple thing, small thing. And, anyway, teacher, they did discover. You know?
So it’s okay. But your heart cannot let go. You’re you’re kinda attached to that. You’re kinda your heart can’t go. So then you should think.
Not letting go is very painful. Keep coming into my mind. It disturbed me. It’s not good. No good.
Rather, anyway, it’s also. It’s all. And if there’s any imprint of of those negative kind of actions that maybe in my heart, then think of Buddha. Buddha, you know, forgive me. You know?
That’s that’s what call the purification mantra and recite the mantra or think of Buddha or at least think of your your innocent mind, innocent person, you’re innocent yourself. You know? It’s already past. Forget it. You know?
I purify it. So you see? So that also called Dharma because transformation. So dharma means transformation, And that bring into action to yourself, and that bring action into others called service. Then called dharma service.
And you can do dharma service in any aspect of your life. Right now, go back home when you’re alone, when you’re with people in the in the society. Everywhere you can do dharma dharma service as long as you can you can perform the transformation or you are on the process of the performing of the transformation. But the thing is is in the in the society, so how she want to arrange this her time with the Oh, you see. You go around all the time, be smiling.
Okay. You know? Okay. You you start. You start with the amusement.
Yeah. You start with amusement of you’re a very undisturbed person. Okay? You start you start in the since you want to bring someone that dharma service in the society, first step, you’ll be a very kind person, very undisturbed by, you know, small small matters. And you are, like, all the time, like, happy and easygoing, and at the same time, while doing in the study, a very ethical person can always encourage other people, especially you are encouraging those who are with lower mentality, low ability, encouraging them.
Don’t give up. Study. You’re okay. You’ll be alright. And if if one of your school men didn’t get breakfast properly, you share your breakfast.
What? Like that. So start with that. Then gradually, people will come to you and say, why I see you are all the time happy. How come?
Can you teach me? Then that day you teach your Dharma. They say, oh, why I’m happy? Because I’m contented. Why I’m happy?
I don’t grasp things too tight. I’m very easy to let go. Why I’m happy? Because I care for others. Why I’m happy?
Because I pray to Buddha. Why I’m happy? Because my nature is very clear, very compassionate. If you want to be happy, you are since you asked me why you all learn all the time happy and you want to be happy, you you follow my advice. Be kind.
Don’t grasp. Be easy person. And always try to smile, think positive. Then you influence one person, two person, three person, four person, and you are doing dharma service to all the people. Okay.
Then after finish school, you are working, you earn some money. Okay. Then you share your your your your your money. You you you you if you have a time, you’re doing your holiday, go to the third world country or some orphanage organization and share your your earning Charity. Charity.
Do charity works or go to some of the, like, dharma society who always voice out about compassion, loving kindness, and try to do a lot of community service and be a part of them, you know, step by step. Now be a very happy, successful student, and that is your Dharma service to your circle. Then after that, then be a happy, successful working life. You know? Then even go into relationship.
Be a very successful in relationship. Means you are you are, you know, you’re you’re very understanding. You know? You you you know how to give in. You understand this saṃsāra is not perfect.
Okay. You get into a relationship with one man. How can you expect this man is, like, perfect? No. Never perfect.
Do all the wrong things because in saṃsāra. So just because of one one one disappointment, you’re okay. Back off. You cannot. You know?
You cannot. Oh, I understand. You’re a mistake. But try to influence the person to be more ethical, more perfect, more devoted, more responsible by being yourself, a example of that. Then slowly your relationship will be very understanding, very devoted, very ethical.
You know? That also Dharma. Then retire time. Oh, then okay. I have complete know, I’ve done everything in my life.
You know? And mostly it’s good. Or something wrong went, okay, I purify. I think of Buddha, please forgive me and have a very happy retiring life. Then the death comes.
Oh, okay. You know, die. No problem. You know, I have nothing to hold and nothing to attach. You know?
I didn’t harm much people. Oh, you know? So I’m I’m I’m at least quite good person. You know? So I’m already, like, sixty years old, hundred years old, whatever.
I’m happy to die. That also done. And that is that means your whole life become a perfect practitioner, and you will sure go up to Amitābha Pure Land. Thank you. Okay.
Please enjoy. Okay. While enjoying while enjoying, I always believe, and I always try to practice myself in order to for us to be always happy. There’s one one one one single key thought. Learn to appreciate every single present moment.
Learn to appreciate every single present moment. Now we must appreciate what we are doing now. We should feel happy. Don’t you know, all the worry you put aside. Even though maybe the one friend is waiting and, you know, must be nagging at you, you know, why he’s still not finish.
You know? I suppose to finish six o’clock, but now already thirty. Like, I plan to finish six o’clock. Now already quarter to seven. It’s okay.
That will not cause anybody’s life, isn’t it? I have a seven and seven thirty. I have a class. Have a teaching. Never mind.
We enjoy the cake, enjoy the drink. It’s the time to be stopped. Stop. Go. If there’s any traffic, I don’t have to worry.
Never mind. Ten minute left. Even one hour that people need to wait. If they have a hard to wait, they will wait. So, you know, every single moment, let it just be at AC as it is and appreciate.
You know? Appreciate the thing that, oh, no. How wonderful. There’s so many being in life. They don’t have such a pure water to drink and such a wonderful cup.
You know? We have this. We have a cake. We have a water. We have such a beautiful place.
Very wonderful. Like that. So so every single moment, we so you you appreciate this very moment. You’re happy this very moment. Then when the next moment come, you appreciate that very moment, that very moment happy.
So appreciate one moment, two moment. Now one minute, two minute, five minute, one hour, two hour, whole day happy. Then go to bed. Okay. Today, they complete.
You just think the bed is so comfortable. Even though quite hard, but you just don’t make about the hardness. You know? Oh, good. You know?
At least I have a bed to sleep. There’s so many people outside. They don’t even have a mattress to sleep on it. There’s hundreds and thousands of people. And people think America is so good.
There’s so many homeless people. We’re in Malaysia. We got a such a nice bed. Wonderful. You know?
It’s all like that. You know? So then tomorrow wake up. You know, I’m still alive. I’m still alive.
You know? I worked up from sleep, and I’m I’m still alive. My day is studying. Oh, how wonderful. Like that.
Yeah. Yeah. See, the reason is we are searching for happiness. No. Study in fact, why we study?
Because we want happiness. Why we came into this world? In fact, we want happiness. Later, you will work. Why you work?
You want happiness. Why you go into relationship? Because you want happiness. You know? Why you care for your friends?
You want happiness. Why you try to be distant from your enemy? Also, you want happiness, isn’t it? And in fact, we are chasing after happiness, and we never able to find the happiness. We are already, like me, up to thirty thirty three or now.
I even don’t remember. Thirty three or thirty four. Let’s say thirty four. Thirty four years old, I’ve been searching happiness. If I didn’t appreciate my past moments, until today, I couldn’t find my happiness.
And the day and time and year will pass like that. You know? My past three years or two years stay in Malaysia, I found immense of happiness. And already three year already passed. I I enjoy my stay here, and my life is perfect because I appreciate all those moments up to today.
Otherwise, if I searching for happiness and never appreciate present moment, the time that I go I left I I leave Malaysia, I go with empty hand. All those past years suffering. And once I reach Nepal or America or wherever, I can still searching for happiness. I will never find that. Then before finding happiness, the death will come.
That is definite. And the time of death, uncertain. Maybe it might come tomorrow. You say, death is definite, but time of death is uncertain. So therefore, learn to appreciate every single moment, then you will be a very happy person.
You know, this is is a very good it benefited me. I’m not just trying to, you know, comfort people or try to be nice to say, but, really, it helps me. Because I I want the same say, I’m very happy all the time. I’m happy. But but never but never stop growing more white hair.
Never stop getting more wrinkles. Why? Because this is nature. I also accept this nature because I I shouldn’t come this war. I should be up there, but I once I come here, I have to go through all this process.
I have to accept and learn to accept also. Learn to accept the conventional fact. Conventional fact. Now I’m mom, I’m very happy. Since little boy, I become a monk.
I’m very happy. You are a layperson. I’m very happy for you, and you have to be happy, you as a layperson. Next time, even in case you want to become a monk, okay. By then, you’ll be happy.
And don’t never compete. Try not to compete even in the study. You try to compete, you’re suffering. Once you try to compete, suffering. And you see somebody doing well in their exam or study, you should feel, oh, wonderful.
Great. You know, I’m happy for you. You should even think. I’m happy for you. You could rejoice.
I’m rejoice for you. I’m happy for you. And I wish to be even better than you. But you don’t have to tell the person. You shouldn’t tell the person.
In your heart, I’m very happy for you, but I wish I can be even better than you. So some happiness there. Otherwise, it becomes jealousy. You know, you’re happy. I want to destroy you so that I can go over.
I want you to be up there. I also want to be up there. Then so much happiness. Because the competition, very painful. Once you go into competition, very painful.
Clothes competition, very painful. Oh, he’s wearing, you know, yellow, you know, and how come I am black, you know. Wow. Very painful. Very suffering.
Somebody wearing glass, you know, white, I don’t have glass. Very painful. Somebody say, oh, somebody don’t wear glass. You know? What?
You wear glass. Oh, again, you know? It’s more small than competition. You are one minute earlier. Again, competition.
Oh, today you are carry carrying the new mobile. Oh, my parent didn’t give me new mobile. Oh, again, competition. Painful. Never compete.
But always do well and be the top one, number one, but don’t compete. Again, that is also one of the way to find happiness. You know? I in a month, there’s so many months compete. Compete.
You know? But during study, you don’t compete in the in the challenge way, but you have to always, like, want to be the first one. In the study, I want to be, you know, how many a? You say four a? Nine a, ten a, whatever.
You want to be the the best one. You always want the best one, and you wish everyone to be the best one also. So don’t come in, man. Just sit there. You know?
Okay. You know? I fail also. Okay. Then cannot.
Thank you. Enjoy the cake, finish. In in future, look. Whether here, you can put a projector. Want one movie to to show.
One movie. Maybe our maybe our next session. So any also, you can go to your website. So any interesting that you are interested? Yeah.
Just switch over. And also, if need a passport, then we’ll come to the center for event and let the teacher know. Give us some teacher. We can arrange. Yeah.
We can arrange if if they’re interested. Yeah. Because regarding they’re interested to involve in social service. We we have some activities. I think it’s it’s better.
So from there, then they can bring see, they they let them choose what they like. So we just inform them what’s going on. So then if they wanna join, they will come. But I understand it’s very far from here to center.