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First 50 subtitle cues from loj_04b.srt
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#1
Okay. I hope you've had a few minutes to look over the dark print, the bold print. I think I would like to talk about a few of the difficult points. Page three of the reading, okay.
#2
The first line looks pretty easy. It says: Train Yourself First in the Preliminaries, okay. And that's all. The whole .
#3
You know, if you want to be really smart, if you're on a bus or a subway sometime and someone says do you know, ? You say, yeah. And he says, Well, what's the first one?
#4
You can say, train yourself in the preliminaries first and that's it. That's the whole lojong, okay. That's the whole thing, all right.
#5
And as you can see it's not cleaning your room, putting out water bowls, anything like that. It's not that kind of preliminaries. These are much harder.
#6
First one is recognizing the fact that you have a very wonderful, short beautiful window of opportunity to do something now and it will close quickly, you know.
#7
Like I'm always... I'm going around, Khen Rinpoche's around, Art's around teaching great stuff, these classes are going on. It's easy to think that it's all like permanent or something.
#8
Forget it you know. It can end any day and it will end abruptly and then there wouldn't be anything like this going on.
#9
And I find it kind of funny that I'm like, could you please come to class, you know. It's not like that. I mean, very rare to have classes. Very rare to have so many classes going on.
#10
Very rare to have so many chances to study with good people. And... and the first one is to just recognize that fact, that... that the window of opportunity is very short.
#11
Rinpoche hasn't taught in New York... the last time he gave regular teachings in New York was I think 1973, okay, something like that. It's hard, it's hard to find.
#12
And you're healthy and don't think that's permanent. Okay. I mean, you're healthy now, you have a good mind, you're busy but you're not too busy to get here, you see what I mean.
#13
You're busy but you still have time to meditate and practice and that can stop any time, you know. One good car accident, you know, one good AIDS virus,...
#14
...you know, it can all end very, very quickly, very abruptly. Now's the time, to think like that, okay.
#15
Second one. Meditating upon your death. I always tell people...
#16
...death and rebirth is really easy to... it's hard to think about unless you've studied emptiness,...
#17
...unless you know, that this world is your perception, that... that your own mind is creating this world. Then death does not become......
#18
...even if you tell people the only thing between you and your death is if your nose gets blocked up for three minutes you're dead. You know.
#19
It's a miracle for this many years your nose didn't get blocked up. It's a miracle that you could feed yourself for this many years.
#20
I've got this old Chevrolet I'm trying to sell, it's like...if anybody wants to buy it. It's like thirty years old or something. It's all broken down, it's made of steel and it's all broken down.
#21
Here I am ten years older than that poor thing and it's amazing that I'm still here. It's amazing that I'm still alive. Same with you. It doesn't even take that long to die.
#22
It takes about five, six seconds for your mind to change. You see, it's not dying, it's not like your body has to die. It's a change in your mental state and then you see yourself dying.
#23
It's very easy to die. It's too easy to die. And it can just go like that and you have to keep that in mind. You have to do something now while you can.
#24
Third thing. Meditate on the problems of... I found a good new word for samsara, vicious circle of suffering, okay. Really. Vicious circle is what means.
#25
It keeps perpetuating itself, you cannot be happy here, nothing will go right here until you learn dharma, especially until you learn your vows.
#26
That Pratimoksha morality, Bodhisattva morality and Tantric morality; until you learn those three and until you keep your book well and sincerely. This is all going to be miserable.
#27
Nothing can go right here. Don't be amazed when things go wrong. You should be amazed when something goes right, okay. I mean, the nature of this place is for things to go wrong.
#28
We are in a defective realm, you know. I had a friend call me, he says, I just got out of jail. He's crying on the phone, he's weeping on the phone.
#29
My mother had to put up bail, I ruined my life, I made a boo-boo, you know, I hurt somebody, I just got out of jail, I don't know what to do, you know, I'm like, everyone hates me.
#30
I said, listen if you're in the desire realm and I'm in the desire realm, our... our mental states are just about the same....
#31
...you know, the fact that your mental state is defective is proven by your presence in this room, you see what I mean.
#32
If you're in the desire realm you have all of the mental traits that made Hitler famous and Mao Tse Tung and everybody else, you know.
#33
You are a millimetre away from being those people if you are in this realm. I said, you know, he's feeling like a bad person, he got caught doing something bad. He was in jail.
#34
I said, don't worry about it. Like we're about a millimetre away from you; we didn't get caught yet, you know. But everybody in this realm has some kind of problem.
#35
I mean, that's why you're in this realm. The day you see emptiness directly, you perceive the other two realms directly and then you know you really are in a special realm.
#36
And it's the worst one, you know. And, and you are here because... because your mind is like that. And.... And it's your mind which is producing this realm.
#37
So don't think you are much worse than anybody else here. You're not. Because their mind is producing the same realm. We are all messed up about 99% the same. [PART OF VIDEO MISSING]
#38
And you have to find the door as soon as you can 'cos nothing is going to go right as long as you... it can't. And don't get frustrated trying to make things go right in this realm.
#39
It can't, it will never... you have to change it. And that's keeping your vows. Keeping your... keeping your three sets of vows, okay.
#40
But if you don't realize that you're in an insane asylum, you can't break out, okay. I mean, it's some kind of an achievement for a crazy person to realize they're in an insane asylum.
#41
And... and we are trying to do that, you know. We are crazy people in an insane asylum trying to figure out that we are here.
#42
And that's the first step, is to figure out that you are... this is a defective, this realm will never work right. You know, just won't. Forget having a good job, money, enough to eat, all that.
#43
You can't even... it won't work. It'll never work here, okay. You need to move out. You have to get going. That's the preparation, that state of mind.
#44
So as you start a... this is a meditation manual. This lojong is designed as a meditation manual. The whole thing is meant to be a meditation practice.
#45
People come up to me all the time, I need a meditation. Well, here you go, okay. , it's enough for a sweet meditation.
#46
You know, I like to change my main meditation every three months or so. You know, I do for three months, then I do death meditation for three months.
#47
And I think you'll find that to kee... to stop from getting stale it's good to introduce a new meditation. You might want to study this one.
#48
And... and it'd be a really nice one until the next series of classes. The next series of classes is in October, so you might want to work on that.
#49
By the way, we are planning some interim classes. Eric Columbel, who's a good Tibetan teacher, will be teaching intermediate Tibetan.
#50
Tupten Puntsok will have the regular Wednesday meditation going on and maybe you can talk him into doing a language class, but that's your problem.
