A Meaningful Life - Tai Situpa Rinpoche

[Music] sure [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that so [Music] [Music] hello everyone over there what should i say good morning or good afternoon or good evening whatever is yours so i greet you accordingly i'm from this very holy place one of the holy place of chakrasambara so i have been here for quite some time i don't like the word locked down i'm locked up and this is a retreat opportunity for me of course by all means i sincerely pray for all those people who really got affected by this pandemic and also those doctors and nurses and first responders who were very very diligently doing their duty for humanity so my gratitude to them on behalf of humanity and also i pray for everyone who is affected having said that i guarantee you sincerely from my heart without being presumptuous we will overcome this for sure and it will come back uh the coming winter but we will be ready for it we were ready and waiting for it okay and we will have some sort of uh vaccine we will have a good number of treatment and seven and half billion human beings are ready for something that is also created by all of us together this is a common karma of entire humanity otherwise entire humanity cannot suffer like this you know those little child those retired senior citizens those who are already very sick they don't deserve to have some extra thing like this coming of course it doesn't mean person like me who is x patient i'm okay so but i'm also not in position to let's say volunteer for such a pandemic to come and overwhelm upon me but anyway anyway having said that for me personally it has been a very good opportunity to truly look into myself and all of you i can recognize almost all of you i'm not very good at recognizing people especially in cameras because in camera everybody looks slightly different and i don't recognize myself because when i move my right hand actually from camera the left hand is moving when i move my left hand in camera my right hand is moving so i look like a left-handed or right-handed or whatever and then i'm wearing my rope wrongly and it doesn't look like the proper way actually it should be one other way around so anyway that way sometimes hard to recognize but i i do recognize almost all of you okay greetings for all of you and this time the teaching is requested by palpung ireland of course i have been requested by so many centers and so many individuals or not doesn't matter for so many times and i didn't manage to fulfill their wishes due to many many for unforeseeable circumstances anyway now technology has it and i'm very happy to talk with you from the middle of the himalayan valleys surrounded by himalayan mountains snow peaked actually but here quite hot today is about 30 35 36 degrees celsius and so so uh very happy to have this uh condition here uh i'm fulfilling the wishes of everyone but this time it is requested by palpa ireland we will have three sun triple sun so today is first sun uh 9th of august sunday and so next month another sunday next month another sunday i believe this one this particular set of teaching will be involved in three sun three sunday days of the sun now the today's subject a meaningful life okay a meaningful life why there is a because each one of us at one time can have only a meaningful life we cannot have so many meaningful life at one time so in this life this one life that we are right now uh uh born with and also traveling through journey we take in this life so a meaningful life meaningful life in order to truly mean it we have to know the meaning of life that has to be further translated into uh meaning of life so life the meaning of life than the meaningful life first i wanted to make it very very simple i wanted to use the most simple thought and philosophy and perception of me of course that is coming from buddha and all of my great masters of course but that's this is how i think until i know myself no matter how many things i know i really cannot say i know anything until i know myself so that will be meaningful life in this life if i can recognize essence of me what am i so some people have a lot of dog and one goat as a house pet and that goat think he or she is a dog you know very confused one right so i don't mean that kind of knowing me of course i know how i look i know i i know how i sound i know many things about me but those things are unimportant the most thing is what is me beyond my body beyond my education beyond my title beyond my duty beyond my hobby beyond my good habit beyond my rubbish what am i who am i so until i know that then i really don't know the most important thing then some people might not understand that easily although it is very very simple if you don't know yourself then then how can you say you know anything right you can have all kind of degrees you know i have all kind of titles all kind of plenty of everything i have plenty of everything but my sincere effort and sincere wish whenever there is an opportunity to sit down and meditate whenever there is an opportunity to face a challenge whenever there is an opportunity to teach somebody something like this this is not somebody teach so many through nobody right this is just a machine it is not somebody it is nobody but that nobody communicates between you and me so so actually nobody is more powerful and important and more useful than somebody right so that way there is something going on with the shunyata right here in this thing anyway now if those if there's someone who have little difficulty to to grasp knowing yourself then i will use another another let's say terminology entire humanity from the beginning of the existence of the humanity always try to achieve something when they achieve something then it only takes few days before they find something else to achieve and when they achieved that then they wanted to after some time then they wanted to achieve something else for example the humanity is with the history filled with battles and wars and all kind of things these are all to be dominant you know dominate to dominate and people within the family try to dominate each other people within the community try to dominate each other in between communities try to dominate each other from one clan to another clan try to dominate each other and from one country to another country try to dominate each other and when this is a very big thing you know it doesn't involve just one person then we call it a conquer you conquer another community you conquer another race you conquer another territory another nation so that is conquering okay now the teaching of buddha it all boils down for you to conquer yourself you know the teaching of buddha is not for conquering anybody you can conquer anybody everybody and you can be the superior to everybody but still you think you are not superior enough that means you did not conquer yourself the teaching of buddha is to conquer yourself conquer ourself until i am able to conquer myself i am not victorious by any means so to be truly victorious you have to be victorious over your own again i use simple word your own rubbish you conquer your self now so that is the meaning for life if you are able to recognize yourself and know yourself then you had a meaningful life if you are able to conquer yourself and be victorious over yourself then you had a meaningful life a meaningful life means that that's how i understand you cannot have everything it's impossible to have everything but when you are content then it is more than having everything because we have a little apartment with a three bedroom and only one and a half toilet difficult you know so when somebody wanted to have a shower you have to get out of your room so things like that so so even that kind of area if we own to keep it tidy keep it clean keep it pleasant because it is it makes you feel so filthy to live in a filthy place you can be rich you can be poor but you should have everything in order you should clean everything and you shouldn't have rubbish in your house at least it should be in your uh a corner of your house in a rubbish bin you know so so so to do that how much effort you have to put so small thing like that so if you have everything you know you only have to there's no choice but you have to brainwash yourself to think everything is taken care it is impossible to take care of everything no matter who you are you have to take care of one thing at one time one room at one time you only have two hands and to clean everything put everything in place you have to do it and then if there's 10 people working for you to do things for you which sounds like me lots of people around me doing things for me then i might be sitting there and enjoying the tidiness but i have to take care of them you know and so that way that way i end up being everybody's servant when it looks like they're all serving me of course that's an honor i'm not complaining but that's how it works so that way until you have contentment you don't have anything so i'd like to give you uh one by one this particular teaching given by great tibetan king song gampo the song sengampo is a great king during whose time tibetan present writing system and present grammar is formulated by a very highly enlightened person who is responsible for all of the grammars and of course tibet is there like all the other people for many many many millions of years so all these millions of years of course there is language of course there is a written language of course there is all kind of arts and culture of course but then a particular form of writing which is so easy to learn and because it is so organized and which is so rich that it can translate and explain very very intricate and sophisticated subject none other than the teaching of the buddha and none other than all the great trans great texts of all these great mahasiddhas and mahapandits so these are very very difficult to to talk about you know i give you one example okay it starts starts with one particular short text which everybody know which starts with in tibetan word words you know so it is ineffable it is unthinkable it is unexplainable the prajana paramita so how do you explain ineffable unthinkable and explainable how do you do that you can do that with you can do that with tibetan language because of the songs and gameplay right so the tummy sambota 10 academic lineage the first started during the sunshine gumpo when tumi sambota was sent to india to learn the sanskrit and create the tibetan writing so so he wrote a eighth text and we managed to lose six of them we only have two uh yeah over these hundreds and hundreds of years you know so we managed to lose six of them we only have two and this two is plenty these two we can we can understand uh write read formulate and and teach the entire teachings of buddha and so to whom this credit goes of course to me sambota of course but he is not an ordinary person like me who struggles with english vocabulary and pronunciation gets also wrong so that you natives have to shake your head a little bit to get what i'm saying no so what did he say oh yes yes yes he he said that yes so it sounds like a foreign language to you because of my you know how do you say shortcomings but anyway anyway this particular ability is developed through his practice and he became mahasiddha not just a learned person not just a genius and he learned sanskrit so when lord buddha taught the teaching of course pali sanskrit you know all of this is the language of india those days so the teaching manifest that way it doesn't mean buddha needed a translator a buddha is teaching to you or all of you nice translators you will be jobless because buddha manifest in all the language that the the recipients are able to relate to so that is why i said right at the beginning in the language of the gods language of nagas language of gandrabas etc etc and then of course right now language of the human beings i don't know how many is covered here but looks like many of you moving you're moving your lips so that means you are uh translating so quite few so so this way buddha manifests in all language and they they understand they unders they understood that buddha's teaching according to their own capacity i have my notes and my texts and all kind of things i had to think what i'm going to say to you about the a meaningful life but it's not like that spontaneous manifestation so because of that that sanskrit language and that pali language that is blessed so so this language is very very highly developed language in writing and speaking and also the sound the science of the sound you know we all know that in the entire world when somebody happy they laugh and it sounds the same english person laughs or tibetan person laughs or african person laughs or somebody from middle of i don't know tropical forest in brazil there's few people still left there who are not contact who have no contact with the uh uh outside people not other than their own tribe i was told i don't know but if that is true then then then uh then then uh this uh this uh kind of language uh people uh if they're happy sounds the same if they're sad sounds the same if they're angry sounds the same okay so these this are quite extreme but then in between there then they don't sound the same you know uh so so like this and then uh so uh so that is the that is the um is very clearly explained in sanskrit when a child is born the first sound that newborn child makes is ah uh i have never given birth so i don't know but many of you know uh what kind of sound a newborn child makes you know so uh some kind of ah and so all the sound the basis of all the sound is ah and now sanskrit language is a very sophisticated highly developed this way and so based on that this written tibetan language and grammars are developed and few consonants has to be taken away from sanskrit and few has to be added because of tibetan language but base is exactly sanskrit and rules of the grammars there are several type of grammars so they all are based on sanskrit and so this way this way this great king managed to find this person who developed into this kind of person who can create such thing in a very short time it didn't take many life just a few years you have it all figured out and so so there this great king based on uh the uh lord buddha's teaching uh [Music] the sutra which is which is titled as a a illusion like an illusion like a like a juma is more like a magic but more ill illusion so so so in this uh based on this sutra then uh the king song sengampo his great work called manikam boom is several volume and so in this he described everything all the existence of your life and also everything out there in the universe with eight uh example of illusion eight illusion example so i will go briefly with each one of them so first the body body is like a [Music] uh let's say uh manifestation uh illusion because i am human with two hand that's what you can see here right you can see only my top yeah i'm cut from here so uh so with two hand and one head and there's two legs down there so i manifest as a person with 10 10 head and 20 arms and 20 legs so that is a trooper you know manifestation drupa so the body is like a tulpa because 10 things that are illusion magical illusion so first is drupa and the soul body is like a trooper how because five element earth water fire air and space these five elements uh manifest as this body nothing more nothing less and so this way this is this will not last this is not durable and this will decay and it is it will be gone so how many are gone before us all of us will be not here after 50 years i don't see anybody below maybe there's some people maybe 20 30 but [Music] everybody is around 40 50. so another 50 year you will be 100 110 or 20 or something you know you will not be here maybe with good luck you might be here but if you are in good shape good if you are not in good shape you don't like to be here because they have better change the body you know also come with their come with a new one and have a little holiday called a childhood childhood is a holiday you don't have to think of anything you just play and be do nonsense things and learn and re-learn and re-learn so so like that so the this is uh this is not uh durable uh then second a second is uh the the uh dwelling area uh house uh home all of that is uh like a city of the gandra is some kind of spirit which does not have this kind of body but but have quite a bit of power beyond the human and and their city's dwellings varies some of the some of they have big cities just in our living room and manifest and and dissolve uh some of they have of course enormous place but some of them might have you know when we when we make offerings to the buddha in our offering bowl with the water every time we clean them and we put them upside down when this is empty we don't leave it like this because we believe that some of these gandrabas can dwell in it so next day you put the water in it and it will destroy them so so we don't want to do that so we we put them upside down or we put one like this one like this one like this four of them like this and in between we put three of them like that so all seven balls will be in very nice order and they will be covered so that that they will not uh build a city there you know to see tonks we say so so so it is like that because it will not remain there so these uh cities of hours dwellings of ours a little bit more solid than that but it also will not be there every valley you go and dig a little bit you find a ruin there you know every mountain top you go you dig little bit you you find a ruin there of some castles you know so not very long time ago maybe five three four hundred years ago maybe one two thousand years ago maximum will be ten thousand years that will be that will be big news find found a ruin of ten thousand years in somebody's backyard so so that that so like this uh these dwellings are just like that and then uh all the relatives and friends and people around you they are just like like a dream because in your dream you will have so many beings around you friends enemies something that try to eat you and you are running like anything so all of this so everything around us is like that and and uh just like a dream so the eight eight example is eight aspect of uh illusion so one is the is manifestation one is city of gandrabas the third one is the dream so so so all of our friends all of our relatives all of the loved ones dear ones we will part with them yes sooner or later we will part with them we wouldn't even know where they went because when when i die when somebody die the sons and daughters of that person cannot find that person you know it's disappeared gone and of course it's somewhere but but universe is enormous and and there's no speed limit from one universe to another universe because it's part of the same thing so we are here and there at the same time minute after week the moment after we are dead it depends on what kind of paddle we are in anyway after 45 49 this definitely we are wherever we supposed to be be it doesn't matter how far it is scientifically based on our uh senses uh so uh like this so we will separate it from everyone ah i want to add something here uh so here it is mentioned about the loved ones dear ones relatives and friends but then there's also others of course i don't think all of you have anyone that you hate but then there's other people who might you you are not there you are not there how do you say you are not their hobby okay and they're allergic to you and so so we call them we call them enemies or ill wishers or whatever they shouldn't be there everybody should be friends but then it doesn't work like that so then after that the wealth or [Music] fortune the fortune is like a uh magical illusion it is like a magical illusion uh because uh it will exhaust it will be exhausted so magical illusion is such that it is there when it is being performed but after that it is uh it is a magical magic show is over then there's no more magic there so like that fortune is like that then after that then it is described as all phenomenas are all phenomenal of the universe or all phenomenas of the existence they are like they are like the reflection of the moon in the water they are like the reflection of the moon because reflection of the moon is there but it is not the moon it is reflection so so all phenomena is just a manifestation of everyone and everything but other than that nothing is there just like a reflection so so uh so that is the fifth example and then the sixth example is the fame the this is the fortune example now fame fame is like a echo so echo is there just for a second but as soon as echo is echoed then it is not there so fame is absolutely an illusion uh then then after that then food and beverage so that is like a mirage you will never get content never he will never get satisfied you can never say i ate enough so i don't have to eat no you eat more you want more and then people drink something and they become addicted and become alcoholic and this and that so so that people eat and eat become obese or whatever and so that way a food and beverage is an illusion and the example is a mirage we see the mirage and then we think there is water especially in the desert then animals go towards a mirage to looking for water they will never get it it can never quench their thirst so like that our food and beverage we can never have we can never never have enough of it so then last is all sentient beings so all sentient beings the illusion example is space all sentient beings is like a space is space there is no end there is no number uh there is no way to say this much sentient beings are there you cannot have a sentence being statistics of the entire space you can have sentient beings statistics of the earth of course human we know animal we don't know but endangered ones we know how many tigers there how many elephants there how many rhinoceros are there we know uh and then right now we have a new one uh is this covert 19th century being i don't know if it is then i think it is it is uh it is something that we uh we managed to how do you say have con communication with and right now we are miscommunicating so we have to know how to communicate with this one and so if it doesn't send you otherwise otherwise it goes into the previous one which is the fifth one so if copper 19 is not a sentient being then it goes into the fifth example of illusion and then if it is sentient being then the last one so it is like a space there's no end uh there's no center there's no edge it is unthinkable unimaginable ineffable so so so that way it is a illusion now uh this boils down to uh i consider this is for me for myself uh the the the work of the song the dharma king song it is a few volumes and in that this i find very useful for myself because all the [Music] shortcomings both attachment as well as obstacles it is coming from all of these things i am not progressing in the enlightenment the way i wish to be because of these things so when according to the sutra then the 8th example is taken out and it is put there by the samsung gumpo and this teaching this his work is called money kampung money money is so money so in the money gamble and and this way then i can overcome intellectually then i can overcome experientially and then what is left is i have to realize and that take a bit of time relatively speaking because i think i have realized it but then i it looks like uh it is like i am dream dreaming inside a dream i think i woke up from my dream but actually i woke up from one dream into another dream so this way this way all of these eight is eight particulars uh example of illusions are extremely extremely deeply uh beneficial for me personally so so this and what is the hindrance for having a meaningful life is all of these things we have so much attachment for body how home family you know friends even me i have no i i'm not supposed to have a family but i have a family i have a brother sister cousin and so so and then not so my attachment for them is not that much but then but then i have so many friends like all of you and so so there is uh a lot of lots of uh sometimes maybe attachment is a bit too strong a word but so much of identifying myself with everyone that i know and then sometimes not so good thing is i also end up identifying myself with those who are allergic to me you know so so that that way that way it becomes uh it becomes a an obstacle as well as it becomes a limitation and so uh so so this is a very beneficial and now to make another uh to look at this uh a meaningful life from another angle that is uh if you are able to remain same in every situation and environment that you encounter and you are able to maintain the equanimity in all of the situations and conditions that life offers to you then you have achieved something about a meaningful life uh i give you one example for us to stand you know how much space do we need two of our feet need that much of a solid earth to stand and if you just stand feel nothing you can stand five minutes ten minute half an hour no problem but if we if that too small space below our foot become like a pillar and if it is 10 feet high then very difficult to sit still you know feel that i'm going to fall here i'm going to fall there and if this is uh this is 20 feet high then that would be a torture because you definitely will fall it's not not just that you think you will fall but you will fall because you have just like a shoe size pillar top standing on two of them and they're 20 feet high and you you will you think it will be terrifying yes okay now i make it a little bigger so 10 feet by 10 feet platform okay that's very big we can do yoga in it we can exercise tai chi in it and we can even do some somersault on it you know 10 feet by 10 feet is pretty big okay so you are in on that that platform and standing 10 feet and it is 10 feet high no problem if it is 100 feet high oh you cannot you cannot stand on on there you can't even sleep on there you can't even lay down on there you think you will fall off and you will i think fall off if it is 200 feet high if it is 10 feet wide flat platform which is 200 feet high there is a great probability that out of your uh insecurity and fear uh you will tremble and you will make yourself fall off from it you will manage to fall off from it so so this this way i think i used to think this is a very good example because in our dharma practice we can have all kind of experience we can have all kind of knowledge but those experience and this those knowledge should give us the in tibetan language called ding ding means like a deep certainty and confidence and the certainty and with that until we have that certainty then then we are we are shakeable we are easily influenced even small things can look like a very big thing and good things and bad things both will affect us so uh therefore uh we are born as a human being which is pretty good and then before we die we are not able to progress any further and then not very good not very meaningful life but even we don't progress as such but if we did not degenerate then we should consider not too bad but our uh but my my ambition my ambition is from birth to death i wanted to improve by one percent that is my ambition and improv improve in everything improve in knowledge improving experience improve proof and wisdom improve in a realization so in everything that in 100 life i will be buddha you know so so that will be that will be quite a shortcut and in in 100 life i can be buddha and each life will be one percent better then i go for it you know i go for it so this way my humble uh my humble definition of a meaning for life is we become one percent more kind one percent more compassionate one percent more wisdom one percent more enlightened one percent uh one percent uh deeper uh realization so everything one percent and then if that is the case then i will call that a meaningful life of course ultimate definition of a meaningful life will be like prince darth he was born as prince start and then he attained buddhahood when he was 35 years of age and so that very ambitious person but when it comes to this kind of definition then i'm not that ambitious because uh uh but because of a reaching buddhahood in when i am 35 years old is beyond my reach because i'm already 67 years old so that is beyond my reach but anyway as far as the dharma is concerned the kind of dharma the teaching that we have of course if we truly practice them we can attain buddhahood in one life just like buddha just like guru maharaj just like miller apart you can but are we uh really uh going for it the same way as buddha shakyamuni or prince let's say in this in this context are we going for it like a prince darth no we are not are we going for it like a miller area maybe you are but i'm not are you going to going for it like a like a guru padmasambhava so this way this way that's why even 67 years old not enlightened but talking about enlightenment talking about a meaningful life i am honored to talk about the meaningful life yes to good people all of you yes i'm honored but uh why i can say i'm honored because because of the buddha shakemoni because of all the unbroken lineage of the buddha sacrimoni's enlightenment so people like me received so much blessing so much teaching precious teaching and teaching with the lineage that way i can talk to you with thing i have no hesitation to say what i am saying because i have full not just faith but full [Music] confidence and my understanding is is i am content because of the integrities of my gurus you know this samaya samaya is sometimes looks like misunderstood samaya is not some kind of trap you know samaya is integrity yes so you should have integrity and integrity is important in everything to be a mother used to have integrity to be a father you should have integrity to be a teacher you should have integrity in my case i am the servant of buddha especially the buddha that i represent buddhism of course and especially his disciple lord madriah i am his servant and guru partner i am his servant i am his servant and starting from from the situ drunken i am their servant and starting from the first thai city 1407 uh starting from until now 12 incarnations of that great master i am their servant because of my gurus and their integrity i am able to have this full contentment in the teachings that i have received so therefore i dare to teach you what i have received and it has the blessing of all of them so that way i can say if i die tomorrow i'm not going to die i'm i'm pretty good you know it is it is it's uh uh i am not in the lobby uh waiting uh my lobby of the the airport we are waiting to take off to another place and not in the i'm not in the in the airport but but having said that if i die tomorrow i really have nothing to regret because everything that i have done is i have done with my utmost and and my understanding my perception my motivation i understand and have full confidence in them because of the integrities of the mind of all of my masters and so that way i can say i have not big a no big a not a capital a no not a golden a not a diamond a but i think a a hyphen that looks like an a okay a hyphen that looks like a a a meaningful life i can say i have i had so then every moment every day i try to progress through this so at the end of the day you know when the chapter is about to be closed then i can go smiling and say goodbye okay and so before that for that i am really honored and i'm happy to be with all of you and i hope for that a technological hiccup did not really cause you that much of an inconvenience i think because of the lock-up and lockdown for so long many of you might be quite okay because it's very interesting everything is mind that is what all the teachers say everything is your your perception 100 years back let's say 100 years back i think 100 is not not the wrong wrong wrong time but 120 years back or even 100 years back for me to communicate with you for you to communicate with me in writing send a letter and get a reply how much time does it take you know 100 years ago what i have to do is i have to write the letter send it to you and then it will go all the way to the to the coast to the shipyard then from there it will be posted in the ship's uh posting service and then it has to go on the ocean and those days may be uh maybe uh the swiss canal is not there as suez canal is not there panama canal is not there so have to go all around go anywhere you have to go around even the ship cannot take such a long time and then you will you probably will get my letter probably it might end up in the bottom of the sea you know but nobody but you probably will get my letter and you probably will read my letter i'm sure you will read it that i'm sure those days you know everything is so rare so so so people will be so thrilled to receive a letter from from somebody called thai taisitu from india then you will be you you will eat it for sure and then you would you will reply it perhaps and to reply it and send it to me then you have to go through so many things but anywhere you have to get the things into the postal service and they have to get to the to the shipyard and then it goes into the ship and then then they'll come over so if that ship does not capsize or attacked by pirates and sunken then then i will receive the letter you know and i will receive the letter and then that will be i think a couple of months maybe years maybe years and still people think it's okay and then we can see each other and uh i can hear you talk you can hear me talk i can see your expression you can see my expression but still uh if we are stuck for five minutes ten minutes we are annoyed you know we are annoyed and uh nothing wrong with that but that is the reality you know we don't have to wait for even one hour it happens so fast anyway uh i apologize on behalf of whoever is responsible the electricity company or battery company or wire company or whoever is responsible or you know anything that went wrong here i don't know i didn't do anything i tell you i guarantee you i didn't do anything i don't know how to invest with these things you know i told you i'm an i.t idiot so so i don't know how to handle these things but anyway i apologize to you on behalf of everyone but i hope the teaching on a meaningful life was meaningful for you for me very meaningful each time i go through this especially when i teach people then i learn a lot myself so one good session of teaching like this for me honestly speaking is equivalent to studying on this subject for maybe a couple of weeks and some things you know maybe that is blessing or that is a recollection because i was taught by so many masters for so many years then many things just come true and i didn't plan but they come through and these things also is very meaningful for me and people say i am an artist of course i try to paint and stuff that's my hobby so that way sometimes when i explain things you know people think artists are a little eccentric and i hope i'm not ex i don't sound and appear eccentric but anyway i don't mean to i don't mean to because subject is very precious i don't want to make i don't i don't want it to [Music] bring down this such a precious subject to a joking level but what can i do you know i'm born like this so you have to you have to accept me as where i am and i try to be stern and i try to be you know try to keep a long face but very difficult for me and i guess i don't know what is stressed out exactly means but somehow i become more tired trying to be to to keep a straight face then be honest and and express sincerely so that is uh in itself is like a practice and prayer for me so wish you all my best and time is uh very fast uh when we are doing something meaningful uh of course uh i have so much to say on this subject of a meaningful life but this is uh particularly i feel appropriate to share this song teaching it is not songs encompass teaching actually it is lord buddha's teaching from the sutra but then something gamble put it into this order to describe everything is usual okay so right now we all facing a enormous illusion and which is eye opener because all the people on earth uh seven and a half billion people on earth all wearing the same thing and all staying home you know staying home i have been here since uh since the end of march march 20th or something and so i am here uh i'm not in baltimore link i am jayling dortmund sherbling is in camera district i am in gulu district so different district but i am here for all these months and it was it is it is it is uh very nice that i am talking to you from here and so all the best for all of you and have a nice day or night or whatever you you are anticipating right now and then nice week a nice month and next month the second sunday no we have three sundays so so so next sunday and then uh sun will shine upon you and upon me the son of the dharma and the second son is what is freedom so the first son is a meaningful life so now a second sign will be what is freedom uh these all of these are enormous mega subjects but uh i always try this is trying i always try my best to make it simple as possible because something that i understand i can make it simple something i don't understand then i will say it is very complicated when i say it is very complicated you know i give you my secret if i say this is very complicated that means i don't understand okay so the computer is very complicated i don't understand and i so there there therefore therefore therefore i say it is complicated so i'm looking forward to share this sacred dharma in the form of uh in the context of what is freedom a month from now okay all right so all of you worked very diligently and to put this teaching together and here and i didn't work hard at all it is a pleasure and joy and honor to share the precious teaching that i have received especially when i can share in this way in a simplified manner i find it very refreshing and and so let us dedicate the merit of today's teaching for the benefit of all sentient beings and particularly to have a meaningful life we dedicate our merit so that all sentient beings will have a meaningful life and then immediately of course a world should be should overcome this combat 19 pandemic this is i say this because it is in everybody's mind it is there so big enormous and everybody can see its shape everybody can hear its sound everybody can smell it then everybody can feel it that way we can dedicate so that it will be it will be over and if convict 19 is a bug a sentient being then that should be more enlightened so that it will cooperate with all the sentient beings in our body in a positive way so that instead of getting sick the moment we get the corvette 19 it becomes the medicine and we will get well okay so should it should be like that if it is not a sentient being then i don't know how to say that but of course of course transformation is the principle of the vajrayana teaching so this negative harmful thing should be transformed into positive and meaningful and helpful things so we dedicate for that as well as [Music] [Music] [Music] ah take care be happy [Music] you

Channel: Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre

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Length: 89min 20sec (5360 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020