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Speaker 3 00:00:48 This is episode 298 song of imortality celebrating the Dai Lama's 87th birthday.
Speaker 4 00:01:16 Really love his holiness, the Lama it's like he is like, you know, the word Lama is kind of fun in that LA and ma you know, and we all know that ma is also means mother <laugh>, but ma can also be in, uh, in language also in Chi or may in Chinese. And, uh, so the ma particle can, can have a negative connotation as well. Uh, and, um, we'll just think of it as a mom who is correcting the behavior of a child. And that then will say, don't do that dear <laugh>. So it's that kind of indication. So Lama means there is no one higher than that person, uh, LA means sort of higher. And, uh, so it's a really wonderful translation of the Sanskrit word guru, which means someone who is really high beyond the student, you know, and it's very, a little bit authoritative in the Indian patriarchal culture, but the Tibetans who are a little more freedom minded than anybody that I know they're no Mads, you know, and nomad in general like that.
Speaker 4 00:02:31 They're not like living in the city with a hierarchy, to, with a mayor and all these bosses and Tibetans, even though they gave up their militar thousand years ago, they still cuz they had work hungers before that, but they still, um, keep their nomad feeling of being under the sky, you know, free under the sky under great step, you know, on the high planes. And uh, so they translated guru, not as something kind of connoting the word for a weight, heavy heaviness as the sank word Gudo means heavy weight. Uh, but uh, they translated as one be whom beyond whom you cannot get. So it's a mentor who once you meet or once you find that person is always there in front of you sort of thing, and it becomes you internalize it and your inner mentor is your own conscience, your own mindfulness, your own view of, of, uh, what is good in the world and your wish to align with that.
Speaker 4 00:03:34 Goodness, love, compassion, wisdom, joy, even bliss. So, so that's the inner mentor, you know, so Lama and Dai, it means the ocean or vast in Mongolian, which was how the Dai Lamas got their name, their title. Uh, they have individual personal names, but their title Dalma came from Alta K one of the, uh, great, uh, like, um, uh, Supreme cons of the Mongolian people in the 16th century, uh, when Mongolian empire was still huge, all over Russia, all over, uh, the world, all over your Asian world. Uh, but no longer in China by that time. But, uh, China was just like France or something, a small country. It wasn't the big empire in their I the view of that time, because it was mean dynasty and Ming was not very Chinese when they own Chinese ethnically or their rulers emperors. They don't normally conquer much beyond their borders because they only the Mongolian and the Manian.
Speaker 4 00:04:47 Those two dynasties had the BA headache empires because they were Imperial traveling, nomadic warrior people, and the Chinese are more agricultural stable, sedentary, peaceful Buddhist for thousands of years, wonderful people, uh, when they don't play the empire game. And now the communist Chinese are trying to fit into the Manura and empire play that game, which is not making them unhappy actually. But anyway, they're stuck with it at the moment. So, uh, the D alum in order to celebrate your birthday, your holiness, I want to see how you could be available to the whole world so that people in the world will feel this connection to you a little bit, the way Tibetans do and where that really helps them and cheers them up enormously. So that's what I wanna do today. Uh, this evening as a birthday present for you, uh, not that you need that <laugh>, you're happy in retirement, but you are not happy with the war in Ukraine with the hunger stalking.
Speaker 4 00:06:03 So many millions of people in Africa and everywhere, even in America, amongst the very poor by the selfishness of the ruler ruling class, you know, uh, the unnecessary hunger that there is around the world of violence, that there is the, the, the other smaller wars, but especially now I know it's the war in Ukraine that is upsetting to you. And, um, uh, but I want, this is my present. My birthday present to you is to do that. And so the first thing I have to do to do that, well, I'm gonna look at your long life prayer. It's called songs, mortality, prayer for the long life of his ho the Dai Lama, but I'm going to use it as a springboard for commentary on what is a Dai Lama, who have they been and why, you know, first D Lama really was Shamo Budha. I would say I would be so bold as to say.
Speaker 4 00:06:56 And, uh, and then his, then he sort of split off in the sense of the compassion of him and all Buddhas by Rocha and other Buddhas became the, the bud, the celestial, but the angelic, but who in a way, is a Buddha posing as a Bova. And, um, and all the Buddhas are the same being actually in one way. And in one way, they're individual manifestations, helping individual sets of people who know about that manifest, who face that manifestation. So in a way, the Avalo Tera, and there is a story that Avalo Teva and lo Ava is a very important angelic or celestial form because the word Ishvara means God. And in the Indian culture, for those who are monotheists, who believe in a creator, God Ishvara is a term they use. And, uh, therefore IITA Ishvara is kind of like little bit of a challenge to the AKA.
Speaker 4 00:08:04 Ishvara the one God, you know, alota means the worrying God, the compassionate God, the compassion of God, because alota means looking down in specific detail, sensitive detail to the condition of the beings in the world. And it doesn't really, and it actually challenges the idea that one person created them all because we are all creating ourselves in a way we are uncreate in the sense that we are free in the infinite energy of the bliss, void indivisible. So in a way we are uncreative. We're not even here, <laugh> in the way we, the only way we think we are, we're just clear light transparency. We are IM mortality actually, and bliss. We are total bliss and freedom. Uh, but in a way we are here and the shape we are in and the way we are enjoying being that or not enjoying it, having to do with whether we experience T understand it or don't understand it.
Speaker 4 00:09:11 Uh, that is something that we have a responsibility in shaping ourselves. Our mentors can help us. The gods can also help us, even those who others who only think is the sole creator and therefore only responsible for everything and made this situation that we're in and therefore can be blamed for it. If it goes wrong, that's not a person that exists. According to the compassion of the, of the Buddhas. There is no one who created it. Everybody else, everyone creates themselves constantly. Their mind does. And our inner mentor is the wisdom of our mind actually, and the love and compassion of our mind, which is the same thing. And so with that, we are creating ourselves. And if we're blocking our own inner mentor by inner miss, knowing by our inner, stubborn, wrong ideas and wrong views and narrow mindedness, then, uh, the, we are, we can blame ourselves, but it's not a matter of blaming because we can easily change it as human beings.
Speaker 4 00:10:17 We can easily change that. Misdoing into wisdom. We just have to study the world a bit as a scientist, find out how it's made, what and stop thinking. Somebody else made it and realize everybody makes it together. And, and our way of experiencing is made by us. And once we know that, then we can start reshaping how we experience it and we can be much happier. All right. But anyway, I'm just gonna start M Swasti SUAS means may all be good. M may all be good STI. That's what it means. And, uh, that's how you begin. That is the vision of the body set for the Buddha of compassion, which is so the dilemma is an emanation of it is his, a manifestation of that, oh, our gurus and your line of Lamas and Lama to someone who truly takes youth takes, takes advantage of their being such a thing as mentor in the world is something greater than a mother and a father.
Speaker 4 00:11:29 The Lama is even more a spiritual mother and father both. That's what Lama is Lama, not a ordinary mother, not a ordinary father, but the spiritual mother, father, soul mother, and father, mother, and father of the soul, which is the soul of bliss and wisdom, which means love and wisdom, BLIS, love, and wisdom, compassion. And you're a line of Lamas for whom we have the deepest gratitude. And we have a gratitude because he has assured us and she they're a female Lama that she, she has assured us that everything is alright. Actually the bottom line, the default reality of reality is that everything is all right. Svay, it's all good. That's what he has assured us. And that's what our inner wisdom senses how we can get out of bed in the morning in the midst of all the bad news is because we sense it is alright, live or die, even because it's not the end.
Speaker 4 00:12:34 Dying is not the end. Dying is not necessarily bad. Sometimes it's good when we're in that deepest suffering, it's a way of changing the vehicle, the instrument with which we experience reality. And if we, if we, if we are open minded and loving and receptive and sensitive to what's around us, as much as to sort of what we feel is within us, we'll be inevitably go well, we'll be embraced by loving hands, loving arms, loving, loving moms, loving dads, no problem. So you who are the repository of the three secret powers of bodies, speech, and mind of enumerable Budha. So that's another really piece of good news. There are enumerable of these really blissful wise capable mentor beings in the world who only appear as if they were separate from the ultimate reality of the clear light of the void of wisdom and compassion, but they only appear that way for the benefit of, to whom they appear, uh, of whom they appear.
Speaker 4 00:13:40 They only appear that that way and their secret powers of bodies, which, and mind are their all pervasiveness of their body speech and mind as all one thing, sun, moon, and, and the great eclipse sun moon, and the, and the dark sun, the dark sun and moon with the invisible embracing clear light transparency, you know, two invisible things in the universe, something that's completely transparent and then something that is dark, but the one that, that, that, but the one that is the more powerful, the more real one is the one that is fully transparent and that is pure energy of bliss. Okay. And that's the mind that body speech on mind of the enumerable Budha and their three secret powers are only secret because some people would make a mistake if they overdid the idea of it's alright already, it's all good. And they then just let themselves go to whatever and just did whatever they had impulses to do.
Speaker 4 00:14:49 And they just didn't worry about anybody. We didn't, weren't caring about anybody else. You know, they could get in kind of false idea that they don't have the ignorance that they do. And they, and that therefore just by hearing, it's all good, or just saying it over and over again, that that'll make anything negative, not happen, which will be, which you can't unfortunately get rid of your ignorance so easily in a way. But knowing that it is ignorance and that actually really it is good, but you have to make an effort to get from where you hear that to where you fully experience it, that's then different. And then from you, that need not be a secret. It's only a secret for those who will mistakenly think whatever I do is all good. So I can be mean as can be. And then that's a, that's about mistake and they make it, they become not all good for others and ultimately the therefore themselves, because we are all interconnected with each other.
Speaker 4 00:15:52 So, okay. So all are gurus and your line of LAAS for whom we have the deepest gratitude. That's the all good view. You who are the repository of the three secret powers of body, speech of mind of innumerable with us, these powers are the powers of spreading freedom of teaching us, how to achieve freedom of love of loving us and seeing us into freedom. You know, looking after us to reach our freedom. Those really are what the powers are, who manifest in a miraculous way to each Devee according to his or her capacity to you who are the wishful fulfilling gems, you know, like a, a jewel, like a, like a genie lamp, you know, you rub the lamp and a genie says, what do you want? Whatever it is, wishful fulfilling gems. Those are enlightened beings, the source of all virtues and good qualities.
Speaker 4 00:16:46 We offer our prayers with intense devotion that our protector of the great land of snows, that's the roof of the world. That's, that's the, the hin, the, the, the, the, the third pole of the water source of all Asia, you know, to the great Tibetan plateau, vast Tibetan plateau. So our protector of the great land of snows tends in Gazo. And that means the ocean who upholds the teaching of the totally good minded genius, a famous one who had a truly good mind referring to Don kapa and, uh, man, all the other man incarnations in the world. That's the hurricane jewel of perfect wisdom, perfect science upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean, may he live for a hundred Aons that is just a hundred ancestors means forever. Pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled. And what is that? Don Lama's aspiration that everybody be happy, not just humans, all the animals, they'll insects, all the bacterias, even the viruses, which may be some kind of living creature, although are technically, we categorize them as non sentient, but you know, the things that we don't think are sentient, even plants may actually be cinched.
Speaker 4 00:18:06 And his aspiration is that all beings are happy free of suffering. That Nirvana is understood by every living thing, every sensitive thing to be the real nature of, of the seeming life, the elusory life cycle, the magical miraculous life cycle. So that's a, that's the prayer now. Um, this is the song of imortality. It is not a, not my translation. I'm not sure who did it or might have helped with it. Uh, I think this printing that I have comes from when the, his Holland has, did the color chakra initiation in Washington, which, uh, which we are used. Other people's work in a compilation that we made, um, this long life prayers were in that. So let's begin. So all our gurus and your line of Lamas for whom we have the deepest gratitude, you who are the repository of the three secret powers about his speech and mind of enumerable Buddhas, who manifest in a miraculous way to each Devee according to his or her capacity to you, who are the wishful fulfilling gems, the source of all virtues and good qualities.
Speaker 4 00:19:20 We offer our prayers with intense devotion that our protector of the great land of snows, Tenson, Gato, upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean that's Dai Lama, may he live for a hundred Aons pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled. And if the dilemma was known, except in, as he's known as a global celebrity, of course, but if he was known as an incarnation of the saving Messiah figure in every culture, if there some of them have, and some of them don't, most of them have, but if he was known as that, then they, everyone would agree from all traditions that the aspirations of such a figure would be that everyone was saved and not just saved from the Romans or saved from the Russians invasion or saved from the oligarchs and the oil, uh, uh, Petro pass the, the petroleum psychopaths or sociopaths that we all have been ruining the planet, but save from any kind of suffering, because that's what the, that's what the, the Christ that would, uh, the, the great teachers and leaders of humanity in history, Moham, uh, Moses rabbi Hillel on, uh, do two, uh, Krishna, had the great Phi stages of India.
Speaker 4 00:20:49 And, um, that's what they all want. They don't want anybody to suffer and they have the secret power to do so. And so that's, it's that context that Titons earnestly do this long life birthday celebration, the DTO, which means the reality realm and what that is, is that is an expression. It's not an organization. <laugh>, it's the world itself, all of it, including all the other planets and all the other galaxies and every, every Senti place, which is infinite in number, uh, and it's, it's seeing it in its true reality. So when you know, the, this inexpressible reality, which we can have names for, we can call it Nirvana. We can call it the bud averse. We can call it the Buddha land or pure land, or it's the sort of realm of infinite relativity clear light, and relative clear light and compassion, infinite energy, and that inexpressible reality, but no words that we have for it will do justice to the miraculously wonderful universe in which, which is natural bliss, actually, which we, when we understand it, we know that it is.
Speaker 4 00:22:00 So this is invoking that even though it's known as inexpressible, but it's called DMA to the reality realm and the word DMA comes from the verb to hold. And what that means is that the reality of our life force and our being is held in bliss and in happiness. And that is our nature and all animals and all centered life. The nature is interconnected with every other nature, happiness and joy, and not in conflict and not in violent, you know, plants grow around us to give us oxygen and they take up our carbon and we balance on a beautiful planet. The planet itself is a goddess and a Gaia perk in Sans. Good. And, uh, SA lamo in Tibetan. And, um, she just grows food for us and she flows in water for us, and she has warm sunshine for us, and she loves us and she has beautiful oxygen and beautiful air for us and plenty of space for us.
Speaker 4 00:23:02 And there's many of, and she has also many planets, not just the one for many being. So we don't have to worry about overpopulating so much. And, uh, so that's an inexpressible of course, reality. What I'm saying sounds unrealistic to materialists who think that it's just like this, and there's not enough of this and that and the other, and I'm suffering and I'm hungry and I'm cetera, and I'm scared and blah, blah, blah, but it's, but Inex, expressively, uh, the, in the, in the Buddhist worldview, and really you can find it in every major, long lasting human worldview. There is an idea of a DMA tattoo. That is an idea where God is good. If people believe in God, the gods are good. If they believe in the God's reality itself is pure energy and pure goodness. If you just believe in the goodness of energy and, um, and the misuse of it and, and the misdirection of it can cause difficulties based on misunderstanding it and that we do have, you know, so that doesn't mean that we don't know that we have that.
Speaker 4 00:24:04 And, and, but those who get free of it a little bit, who become, who become true, true scientists become truly enlightened about their own nature, as well as the nature of the world and fully understand it. They don't cause any problem for anyone. They just help. So the inexpressible reality, so the DDA, the inexpressible reality, which pervades all things like the heavens immaculate full of great bliss and transcended wisdom manifests like a cloud, the numberless bodies of higher divinities the mandalas of the heavenly beings and to all the higher forms of the divine ones, the UAMS, which means chosen deities, skipping the Tibetan, we offer our prayers with intense devotion that tens in Gazo Lama protector of the great land of snows. May he live for a hundred Aons poor on him, your blessings that his aspirations may be fulfilled. I wanna just say also in commentary, the word protector, which in Tibetan is gumbo, which translates NATA in Sanskrit.
Speaker 4 00:25:07 It doesn't, it doesn't really mean protector. Like there's another kind of protector, which is called Dala or Trium, which is sort of a fierce looking deity who protects like, uh, against some marauders or some, some monsters and things like that. And, and that, and not can be used in that meaning, but when it's used of someone like Avalo Teva or an emanation of ALO Teva, the real proper word would be savior. So savior of the great land of snows is actually more accurate translation for this, because this is what I said, that Tibetans believe that these incarnation, and of course they don't all focus only on do Lama. There's also, Carma, there's other incarnations of both Tara and Avalo file because they have this idea that an enlightened being a divine and enlightened being, uh, although they don't, they don't believe there's any one being that created everything and this has omnipotent power over it, but they do believe there are many enlightened beings who have great power to help others who are incarnations and emanations of love and compassion.
Speaker 4 00:26:18 And that there are many of them at the same time, which we don't know and don't recognize. And so therefore there's lots more good guys than we normally think there are. And, uh, therefore there's plenty of saviors, but the problem is that people don't recognize them as that they don't use their teachings and their guidance to be saved. And therefore they remain unsaved and they bang up, bang up against each other and against the walls and whatever. And they cause a lot of problems. So this is a, so, so as I said, then they, then they could, this, there's a gumbo word which can be used for, uh, just ordinary worldly protection. You know, like bodyguards <laugh> used here for tens and Yaso, but he's not, bodyguarding people. There are fierce angels, Sarah FIM, Cher, BIM Bodi sofa, who take that role. But, uh, this particular type of protector is a soul protector.
Speaker 4 00:27:14 You could say protects your deepest inner being, which is immortal, which goes from life to life, you know, in the, in a more sensible, realistic materialist worldview. And, uh, and, uh, that is, is the one that the Dai Lama Ziga. So is there for savior of the great land of snows and savior of the whole planet, actually just colleague of Jesus, colleague of Muhammad colleague of, you know, our kids, colleague of Krishna, et cetera. He, he really is believed to be that, but none of them omnipotent. So you don't have to suspect any of them withholding from you, bliss, your near honor, your heavenly condition, even on the regular surface of the earth, uh, where the humans live. Uh, but, uh, because they don't have the power to do it. You, they have the power to help you do it mutually. They have great power to perform miracles in helping you, and you can perform miracles in under, in, in coming to understand yourself and the world perfectly well.
Speaker 4 00:28:18 So that's what you're praying for. So Laing gets a savior of the great land of snows. May he live for a hundred ounce, pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled, OU numberless Buddhas of the past president future, who are the masters of the 10 powers and teachers of the gods whose attributes of perfection, because they are, there are unenlightened gods, as well as enlightened divine, Buddhist, and Budva who are guy who can be godlike and can be humanlike. And they can also incarnate as animals of all kinds and micro beings. Also like Samantha Badra does in living in the atoms, you know, in worlds that are universes that are in the atoms, there's all these different forms, but they are the teachers of the GA in Lamont, whose of the ordinary GS, whose attributes of perfection free from defilements and born of realization.
Speaker 4 00:29:09 That means wisdom and intuition and knowledge are the source of the Buddha activity, which appears for all time in the ocean of the suffering of the world. For the sake of all centered beings, not just Tibetans Tibetans themselves are saying this to you. We offer our prayers with intense devotion that tensing GA. So the Tenzing Yaso Lama protector of the great land of snows may live for a hundred Aons pour on him. Your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled fulfilled that those two lines are misprinted in this PDF. It should be a blah that his aspirations may be fulfilled, right? The aspirations of such a savior enlightened being are that everyone be saved, be happy and saved from suffering, not saved from, from the a GARS only not saved from invasion and so forth only, although that helps too <laugh> if they follow their advice, they will be, you know, like this, you know, for example, okay, I nevermind let's carry on with the prayer, oh, sacred.
Speaker 4 00:30:11 Now we're calling on the sacred DMAs or the great teachings. And this doesn't just mean Buddhism. This means all teachings of reality, scientific teachings, for example of relativity is a Dharma, you know, and, uh, and, uh, and ethical teachings of all traditions of the love, love your neighbor and all these Dharma means that those teachings that hold you close to the inexpressible reality, that canopy taught by words where, in which everything is fine and you and bliss is your life force. And bliss is your daily diet <laugh> and your daily health. And you know, that it, it is anyway whether you know it or not, but when you know it, then you enjoy it. You know, so, oh, sacred DS of the three S the vehicles. That means that liberate us from the sufferings of the three worlds, supremely calm the jewel treasure of the fully enlightened ones without impurities, unchanging, eternally, good peak of virtues to you.
Speaker 4 00:31:15 We offer our prayers with I intense devotion that tensing Gato protector of the great land of snows. May he live for a hundred S pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled. All, all you noble Sonja Sanja means the community of enlightened people and enlightening people who are working toward it, but not yet necessarily perfect enlightened. They also included in the SJA, which means the assembly or the community. An aria just means noble and noble doesn't mean of some sort of high class, you know, snobby business noble means for aria noble for Budha means one who is compassionate for others, who is not a narcissist, who is able to visualize themselves as others and see others points of view, put themselves in other person's perspective and put themselves in the other person's shoes and, and therefore treat others as they wish to be treated.
Speaker 4 00:32:14 And, and as you wish, you know, love to treat others as you wish to be treated. That's a, that's a, that's, that's a area, that's a noble person. Okay. So all of you, noble community members, awakened and UNS, solid of highest valor in conquering the suffering of the wheel of life, where there that's a self-centered life. That is, is an endless wheel of sat, little bit of satisfaction. And then basically does the last and then dissatisfaction and so endless suffering and endless sense of inadequacy and unsatisfied and so on and craving and so on. So car is suffering at the wheel of life with the transcendental wisdom that directly into its the deeper truth of freedom and blitz never departing from the indestructible vode of Nirvana. VA means diamond, or, you know, can't be destroyed is the actual always has been and always will be the reality of life to you.
Speaker 4 00:33:09 We offer our prayers with intense devotion that tensing gets so D Lama protector of the great land of snows may live for a hundred AMS, pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled and then skipping the Tibetan. But we could read that together. That's really good to do OU DACA and DACON. These are the angels, uh, male and female angels, heavenly beings of the three worlds who appear in the highest paradises the sacred places, the cremation grounds who have enumerable experiences of the bliss of the void, supporting the yogis and Yog in their meditation on the excellent path to you. All. We offer our prayers with I intense devotion that tensing Gazo dial Lama save your so Dai Lama savior protector of the great land of snows may live for a hundred Aons pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled to the ocean of guardians.
Speaker 4 00:34:05 Now, this is the other meaning of the gumbo that that's regular guardian. You know, that's a protector, you know, to the ocean of guardians of the teaching who possess the eye of transcendental wisdom, carrying on their Matt locks, the not symbolic of the vows they made to the Vada Budha and the Vada Budha is the sort of secret omnipresent Budha of all times in places that's always there, but they not visible normally to the people who just wait for someone to come in history now. And then <laugh> the powerful ones who protect the teaching and the upholds of the Dharma. We offer you our prayers with intense devotion that tens in Gazo D Lama save your protector of the great land of snows may live for a hundred Aons pour on him. Your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled to all you godless ones in whom we take the excellent refuge.
Speaker 4 00:34:58 We pray with intense devotion humbly from our very heart that by the strength of these verses lo so grade 14th, he has power over speech. The kindly one upholder of the DMA, the great ocean, he who possesses the three secret powers may be indestructible internal. And without end that seated under the Priman Supreme conquerable throne of the bud, may he live for a hundred Aons pour on him, your blessings, that his aspirations may be fulfilled. You who bear. So even what we are reading, may they be a little tiny contribution to that? His, his long life and his long life in any life he chooses to have, and his constant return and incarnation in any kind of, you know, body that he chooses to have. That's what we want for him. You who bear the burdens of enumerable Buddhas with courage, carrying on your shoulders, the vast activities of the fully enlightened ones, these other bodies working for the wheel of all beings, like the wishful fulfilling gem, the jewel of jewels.
Speaker 4 00:36:08 May your aspirations be perfectly fulfilled? That's we're talking to his holiness now by a virtue of this, may the golden era be opened like a gate to the great spaces, liberating all Senti beings coming as the happiness of spring, which com comforts our sorrows and helps the teaching of the bud out to spread in all directions. And in all ages, making it prosper to the sum of Samara and Nirvana, you know, world, world, and, and seemingly beyond world world, which are in Inex expressly. Non-dual OU with the Lotus in your hand now who are asking the dilemma to, to, to fulfill the aspirations and we are pledging to do it ourselves. And we are looking at a golden era. We are not giving into defeatism. We are not conceding to the, the climate heating to destroy our planet and everybody to die and all the animals to be extinguished.
Speaker 4 00:37:09 We joined Greta Turnberg to insist that the golden era be open and we joined his holiness. His holiness has been saying for over 30 years, that in this century is not supposed to be a century of war. It's not supposed to be violent, and he's only being realistic. People think he's just like, you know, a baby in the woods or something naive, but actually that's realism. Look at these wars. They're useless. They just all do is destroy shopping malls. They destroy fields of grain. They destroy the air or they destroy life. They destroy people. They destroy, they, they ridiculous, you know, and then nobody can win them. They just destroy the people who wage them. In fact, and they, and we see having a totally vivid dis you know, demonstration of it. Again, we ourselves, we in America, we started with stupid one in the year, 2000 and we, and in 2001 and two and three, and we invaded the middle east in a complete asinine.
Speaker 4 00:38:10 And it just, and, and it, it snowballed everybody destroying everybody, which is still going on there basically. And then, and then they did Syria and we let them do in that Syria. And then now it's this, you know, and David, they did, Croney starting in that time, you know, the Cheney people and unbelievable to the Georgian people and the Eastern Ukrainian people and their own people. So war does nothing but destroy and it's obsolete. It has no useful value. And it doesn't take Buddhism to realize that his whole is just as a scientist. He realize that cuz he can see the planet. He understands it, Jonathan shell, the great writer he wrote, you know, the conquerable world nonviolence power and the will of the power nonviolence and the will of the people. And from the point of view of the Eastern European revolution and the unfolding of the, of the Berlin wall and so on and the withdrawal of by Russia, which were the Intel Gobi of the beautiful, wonderful, intelligent Russian as most of them are.
Speaker 4 00:39:16 And then a few silly KGB, people are still doing this stuff, just like a few silly X CIA people in our place are doing that stuff, did that stuff in these 22 years. And then we had these viruses coming and shutting us down too. And that's, but that's all self, you know, instigated stupidity. So the golden era be open means that Tibetans see that they call it Shaah. They think it will come in 400 years. I don't agree. I say that there's something in some texts that say that, but they're being imprecise in their dating on purpose, not to give the, the petroleum psychopaths, any a warning <laugh> it's supposed to happen this century. And it will happen this century because of the utility of what these oligarchs are doing. These dictators, they can't make war is useless, completely useless. So don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 00:40:17 So the virtue of this may the golden era be open like a gate to the great spaces, liberating old sentient beings coming as the happiness of spring, which comforts our sorrows and helps the teaching of the Buddha to spread in all directions and in all ages. And that doesn't mean Buddhism. The Buddhas enlightened being here is the super scientist who discovered freedom, relativity, the digital system, the digitization, the zero, he discovered zero, the, the fertility of zero, he discovered, and that there's no nothing he discovered. And uh, and he also realized we have to take responsibility and there's no omnipotent being, who's gonna fix it for us. We have to take responsibility, universal responsibility to do it ourselves. So he was just like a scientific Greta Thunberg of ancient time. Don't think that it only happens in the modern time and he, and therefore there many others also did.
Speaker 4 00:41:15 Socrates was similar and they all did at different, depending on the tolerance of the different cultures of the Christ was the same. The Muhammad was the same. You know, the gods also tried to inform the humans, you know, so making it prosper to the side helps the teacher, the bud spread in all directions and in all ages, making it prosper to the summit of Samara Nirvana OU with the Lotus in your hand, made a nectar stream of your blessing, strengthen our mind and bring it to maturity. May we be able to please you, by practicing the Dharma through accomplishing at all times, the good deeds of the P SaaS may we reach Nirvana by the blessings of them, which means know where we are actually be here now Ramas, you know, by the, our Saint, you know, our local Saint by the blessings of the onerous Buddhas and P Savas by the unassailable truth of the spiritual laws of cause and effect by the unstained power of the pure mind, may the aim of our prayers soon be accomplished.
Speaker 4 00:42:18 So that is it. And, uh, that is the next one we had in this. I know there are more of them and oh, no, that's all, that's the only one I have. Okay. So that's pretty much my commentary and that we ING together. And so, you know, I just wanted to read as a good over the Tibetan, uh, because we should aim for that in English language, you know, with all our prepositions and our multi polysyllabic words and so on. It's all very long, takes many lines to give what you have in only eight lines in Tibetan with their sort single syllable words. And, uh, we're shaking easily put in these, in these nine syllable, uh, lines and therefore, very chantable. And so we, we can't easily fit it into Hexa or pentameter the favor English lines, but we could fit it into ter maybe, or, or DEXA.
Speaker 4 00:43:40 And, uh, we could make it inverse and make it chantable in the future. We will do so, but anyway, that's just, that's just meaning it intimate and just as a good moment for all of us. Okay. So that's about it. That's what I have to offer. So all the best everyone. And thank you, BTA. And, uh, the, the director managing director of Tibet house in the city. And, um, uh, thank you. Uh, uh, uh, all of you, thank you, Justin. Who's the engineer and thank you. All of you members of Tibet house community who make bed house possible, we're all doing together trying to help D Beton culture last in a, since it's oppressed and by invasion and occupation, fruitless invasion, futile, and self destructive, the Chinese by invasion occupying the beautiful high plateau of Tibet and mining it and wrecking it, polluting it. What they're doing is ruining the headquarters of their own river systems <laugh> and therefore making their own country uninhabitable and polluted without realizing it or some, there are some good Chinese scientists who do realize it, but they can't control the dictators.
Speaker 4 00:44:58 That's the trouble with that stupid system of the dictatorship so-called dictatorship of the proletarian, but because it's a communist system, but unfortunately that never fortunately that never did work. There never has been a communist system because the stupid idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat simply doesn't work because any dictatorship simply becomes the dictatorship of the dictatorship <laugh> they get. So they abuse their power and their, with their selfishness and their lack of understanding of their true role. They don't even have the beautiful Confucian ideal of a true emperor, who really is the humbles person in the whole society, not the richest and most powerful at all. And very few of the Chinese emperors even realized that actually, but it was that's, that's a different, but, uh, they, they dictators just become corrupted by power and they come, they become alienated from their people and they just do things that are harmful to ever their own people.
Speaker 4 00:45:53 First of all, and then they have to harm other people outside to create a fake enemy so that they're to deflect the resentment of their own people and that, so dictatorship simply doesn't work period and, uh, leads to violence and leads to oppression. And, uh, so, you know, may, so we are trying to preserve the culture of that beautiful land and to show elements of that culture that are adaptable within other cultures, where nobody wants everybody to be a Tibetan. Nobody wants everybody to be a Buddhist. We want everybody in the terms of their own culture. Be it Jewish Christian, be it secular humanist, be it Muslim, be it, be it Hindu, be it DARS, be it Confucian, be it, whatever other Baha be it, you know, any new kind, you know, Sikh, be it sick, wonderful GU Nana, you know, be it, uh, uh, Kumaris Bramac Kumaris or whatever who knew or old or wonderful Ja be it Janes, you know, in though terms of their own great traditions, including secular humanism, but not fanatic materialism, which is simply a very serious misunderstanding, but humanism, secular humanism.
Speaker 4 00:47:09 And without, you know, without pretending to know that everyone becomes nothing and that life is nothing ultimately, and reality is nothing. So no problem, if it all gets destroyed, <laugh> no, that is not useful. That is simply a misunderstanding that is immensely destructive. It's the key thing that destroys this planet, not being aware of our future, our, our eternal existence and therefore see, making sure that it goes well for ourselves and for others, that's really critical, you know, and it doesn't involve Buddhism. Every other tradition has some version of that. Okay. So that we need, okay. So all the best dedicate the merit to have ALO ates, Farra to everyone becoming a Avalo Ateso compassionate enlighting being as how clear, beautifully translates the word BofA, everybody becoming a being enlightening themselves and others. And we dedicate the mirror to that being the case. All right. Okay. Thank you.
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