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Speaker 2 00:00:48 This is episode 272, the four noble truths and the Buddhas three vehicles.
Speaker 1 00:01:15 This is podcast number, whatever it is free to everyone. Uh, and it is celebrating the majesty and the historic moment of the first turning of the wheel of, of reality. The wheel of freedom, that freedom is inevitable, freedom, intelligence, wisdom, love bliss, and compassion for everyone. That wheel is unstoppable and instead rolls everywhere and everyone gets it because it's in everyone's every human beings. Mine really didn't at the deepest, deepest level. Everyone has an affinity and attunement to it doesn't mean adopting a particular. It doesn't mean everyone's going to be a Buddhist at all. It's, everyone's going to be enjoying their reality with the hearty congratulation from the founders of every tradition. And, uh, and the people maintaining them as sort of dominant dominating institutions will be happily relieved from having to dominate anybody because everybody will be re will have realized the aim of their, their, their worldview, their truth, their credo, their disciplines, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 00:02:37 So everyone will graduate. Wonderful. And then also this will be part of the course, which is I recommend to everyone, which is, um, vagina yoga through the Buddha's three vehicles, companion of the yoga Alliance, 200 hour yoga class, Roger yoga class given by my colleague, Michelle ClearLight lo um, starting this month, starting next week, I think, or maybe already started. Okay. And I'm also, of course promoting my wisdom is bliss book, uh, because I think it also gives a good three vehicle division three vehicle unified, three vehicle coordinated vision of the eightfold path and of the four friendly, fun facts or noble truths. Uh, I'm very pleased with it. It's a result of 60 years of study, 57 years. I've studied with his holiness, the Dalai Lama, and friendship with him study with him, his being his friend, because he's friendly. He's not some domineering, weird girl is a friendly teacher, spirit spiritual friend, which is the best model of a girl in the Buddhist tradition and, uh, not domineering weirdo.
Speaker 1 00:04:08 And, um, I'm also want to promote to those of you who are interested and tell your friends, please help me. I want to promote the vagina yoga five coming up in December, where we will use the book of the dead knowledge of, um, the art of dying, preceding a wonderful conference that we will be holding later, early next year with all kinds of experts in the death and dying. Andrew holler, cheque, Frank Shefsky, uh, Joan Halifax and, and doctors or nurses on many, many hospice people and all kinds of great. I think 15, 20 wonderful people will be doing that. And so what we're doing, we we're doing a butter yoga thing with the book of the dead. Um, nearing kind of nearing my kind of teaching, uh, for 10 days of retreat, which will be hybrid. Some people will come to the men, LA mountain retreat in the snowy winter in December.
Speaker 1 00:05:19 Some people will, uh, be, uh, most people will probably be aligned, but it will be open as a hybrid first teaching of the Buddha, what is called the <inaudible> in Pauline. And then it has another in Sanskrit is Dharma chakra, <inaudible> Sutra. And, um, uh, but the version that might be closest to the, uh, original one by the, on his first teaching to the monks in our Mahayana tradition in Tibet, of course, the Buddha had already talked to the whole flower ornament Sutra while he was sitting under the Bodhi tree and all the, all over the universe. But then when he decides to teach it in the Indian society, which is how he took, why he took rebirth. And he went there, he wanted first to go teach his for his Brahman yoga teacher. He wanted to teach him first. And, um, but then he realized that those two original yoga teachers had passed away, allow dark color, Amman, et cetera, or darker, whatever the name is, where, and one taught him how to reach this formula state of nothingness and the other one toe seeming nothing, which is obviously not nothing, but it's a state.
Speaker 1 00:06:47 And the other one, um, had, um, uh, introduced him to the, the samadhi on the formula state of neither conscious or unconscious. And, um, but then he rejected both of them in the sense that he didn't stay with those teachers because he decided that what they thought were the final stages were actually not the final stages. So he, um, he, uh, moved on and eventually he attained a light med himself, uh, by his own, uh, investigation of the nature of reality, rather than by going into a formless state. And which has, of course the difference between Nirvana and these various former states, which was therefore built in the Buddhist teaching right in the beginning, the idea that the uncreated, you know, the ultimately real, that has always been the case and that remains at all times the case nearby, not Nirvana, the cessation of suffering, where there is no suffering because it's pure energy and nothing bumps into anything.
Speaker 1 00:07:51 So there's no suffering, uh, but everything is there, but, but perceived in a way where it doesn't bump into each other, which is a paradoxical of course, and, um, in our perception and our habitual dualistic perception, but that's sort of the way it was from right from the beginning of the story. But anyway, when he goes to teach it in the world of the Indian society of the time he doesn't right away, hit them up about non-duality and this sort of complex inexpressible thing. Instead, he gives you the turning of the wheel of Dharma, because that's what they need. Because the five first disciples who were with him who were tremendous acts to ascetics as he was mortified of the flesh, so to speak, they had abandoned him. They had gone to Sarah, not near bar Nancy, or he was in bird Gaia about a couple of days walk away, um, under the Bodhi tree.
Speaker 1 00:08:52 Uh, but he attained the Leadman. So then he knew by clairvoyance where they were. And then he walked over a couple over through a couple, I think, two or three days to see them, because it was sort of back in the ordinary reality of the time and the idea of being in the ordinary reality of the time that you can't, you're the way you're, you're in such a world like today, the world is falling apart, you know, climate change, et cetera, et cetera, all kinds of bad dictators all over the place. So we are also in a situation where people somehow quiet can't quite conceive. That reality might be perfect because it seems so dreadful this, uh, this, uh, disorganized, chaotic reality. Uh, but, and therefore they, we can only conceive of freedom from suffering, uh, some sort of altered state. So Buddha let it stand like that.
Speaker 1 00:09:46 So to speak, he didn't really push them about Nirvana. Anyway, let's go, let's, let's listen to the first teaching of the wheel of Domo. Let's look at the actual text and this is an old fashioned translation, and I'll try not to insist on editing it all the time. I'll try to just read it. Okay. So the Dharma chakra of our tenants SUTA means the discourse, which is the turning of the wheel of Dharma. And the wheel here is a symbol I'll I'll comment. As we go is a symbol of a machine actually, and also of something that is powerful because what they had were chariot war chariots that went on wheels. They also had transport carts, which went on wheels. So the idea of a wheel was like something that had great power. And it's a symbol of a king, um, symbol of Kings were wheels because they had chariots in their armies and they were chariot fighters.
Speaker 1 00:10:53 You know, they had cherished fighters. So, so here though is the reality wheel turning of the reality wheel. And this means that this is a teaching that is like a powerful chariot that can take you, break you out of the world of suffering and ignorance and into the world of freedom and joy and bliss, Nirvana. Okay. Let's just read it now. So that's the Dharma chakra. That's why it's called turning of the wheel of Dharma. Thus, have I heard? They just translate. I liked it. And then they say once, so in later commentaries of sutras does have I heard at one time, should it sort of go together? So the one should go back, but thus, have I heard of us? Did I hear at one time or on a certain occasion? So meaning that it's a symbol of authenticity of a teaching of a PSU job. And it means that the person who is narrating it is, was there when the BoardEx gave the teaching. And the narrator initially always gives a setting where the Buddha was and, um, and then he repeats the teaching. All right. So once when the blessed one Buddha that is we're staying in the Pleasants of <inaudible> the Grove or the garden have issue pattern, the deer sanctuary near Banaras. He spoke to the group of five men, deacons.
Speaker 1 00:12:36 These were already setting men, deacons who lived on arms. And the name for them is a big shoe or a big coup in poly. And people often translate this as monk, but they're are not really monks. They are just aesthetic Wanderers who don't do anything to make food. They don't hunt, they don't plow, they don't farm. They just ask people for food. So they're a big shoe they eat by begging. Okay. So Becca, once when the bless it, Buddha was staying in the garden of <inaudible> the deer sanctuary near Banaras. He spoke to the group of the five men Dickens. These two extremes men deacons should not be followed by one who has gone forth from worldly life, central indulgence, low course, vulgar ignoble, unprofitable, and self torture, painful ignoble and unprofitable.
Speaker 1 00:13:41 So neither essential indulgence nor self torture. So he says sensual indulgence, which is low course, vulgar ignoble, and unprofitable, and self torture, painful ignoble, and unprofitable. So those other two extremes men deacons the middle way understood by the tatagata, which means one who has realized suchness meaning the illusory newness of all things. There are therefore the reality of the, of the underlying, their underlying reality, and then recognizing the illusory notes of how they seem to before. Therefore, all things are just such a, that realization of reality. So target that's one of the names of Buddha understood. So mendicant deacons, the middle way understood by the realized one, after he had a sin avoided the extremes, and it remember Buddha is talking here to people who are torturing themselves and they had abandoned. They were his competitors. He was torturing himself for six years, actually. And they were with him and then they, and then they, they abandoned him because he seemed to give up that torture.
Speaker 1 00:15:03 He said, it's not cool. He took a bath, he ate food in our, he cleaned himself up. And, uh, and they said, oh, he's going to indulge himself until he's no good. And they left. And so then he went to see them. And now I'm talking, it's not the surgeon. He went to see them to give them his first teaching, because at least he knew they were deeply sincere seekers. Although they were going into the extreme, one of the extremes, which was the self torture extreme, right? So, you know, like in yoga, it's either just less beings completely be here now and let things just be what they are. And it is of overdoing your discipline, where it is painful to you. And so on men to kind of seminar reading again, men deacons the middle way, understood by the realized one, after he had avoided the extremes produces vision, produces knowledge and leads to calm, to penetration, to enlightenment and to Nirvana. What middle way men deacons understood by the realized one produces vision, produces knowledge and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment, to Nirvana only this noble eightfold path, namely realistic understanding, realistic thought, realistic speech, realistic action, realistic livelihood, realistic effort, realistic mindfulness, and realistic concentration, truly men deacons this middle way understood by the realized one produces vision, produces knowledge and leads to calm penetration insight should really be enlightenment and Nirvana.
Speaker 1 00:17:04 So it's interesting. He doesn't say right away, I go to commentary. He doesn't say right away that there are four noble truths and they are 1, 2, 3, 4, no, he just immediately talks about the middle way, not being too self-indulgent and not being too self restrictive or constrictive. So to the level of mortification self torture, but then he right away gives the eightfold path, which is actually the fourth noble truth. Or, you know, I, in my book, wisdom is bliss, which is, which is based on the four noble truths because that's the basic framework of the Buddha's teaching. Even though I'm talking to her about advanced yoga can of bliss and a bliss plus bliss, yoga, uh, vaginal yoga, uh, I call them friendly facts and I'll explain that, but first let's finish this to talk. So he, anyway, it goes straight to the curriculum in a way. So it sort of proves the point that the Buddha's teaching is for is a curriculum. And it involves understanding no speech action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration, and, um, uh, and which are realistic. Or as they say, the old translations, they say, they're right. Meaning they are lead to reality, but I feel that realistic is better for some yak and Sanskrit or some, uh, in poly.
Speaker 1 00:18:45 So, um, so then, so that's what he does. And that leads to Nirvana. He says that right away, then he comes back to give the, give them a new order of the four noble truth, which, which is an order they order of a medical diagnosis. So then he, so he comes back to that after he first gives the curriculum. I never even sort of made a fuss about that because one here's so much about four noble truths. You don't actually necessarily look in detail at the very first, supposedly the very first giving of that teaching in the history of this book of this Iran, okay, is there. Then he begins with the first noble truth, which is known as the noble truth of suffering. He says the noser noble truth of ill and recently my great friend, uh, uh, my new grade friend, Robert Swoboda, uh, is a great Yogi and degraded, um, Kundalini teacher and student.
Speaker 1 00:19:48 He calls it the noble truth of uneasiness rather than suffering. I will come back to it's highlight. Anyway, here it's called ill. So this is big shoes is an old truth of ill earth is ill. TK is ill. Disease is ill. Death is ill association with the unloved is ill separation from the love is ill not to get what one wants is ill. In short, the five aggregates of grasping are ill, or the five heaps of functioning are L you could even say, or grasping, you know, undertake, undertaking things, activism, activity, this mendicant. So that's the noble truth of ill birth TK disease, death association with the unloved separation, from the love not to get one wants to get burned. One doesn't want, but he just puts not to get better a month in short, the five aggregates, the aggregates are one's body one's sensations, one's conceptions or ideas, one's emotions, and one's consciousnesses. And these are called the five aggregates traditionally, but barely the words Canda really means a heap. So we are made of five psycho body mind heaps, the idea, and it's all ill. All right, this mendicancy is the noble truth of the source of ill. The craving, which causes rebirth is accompanied by passionate pleasure and takes delight in this and that object, namely sensuous craving craving for existence and craving for annihilation.
Speaker 1 00:21:51 So that is the second noble truth is the source of ill, the cause of it. And because of the Buddha's insight into the cause of suffering or ill, the Buddha is celebrated in Indian philosophical history, Indian cultural history, as the discover of causation, just like in Greek history, the Dr. Galen was the first one to speak about analyzing things in terms of their causes. When he tried to analyze a play that afflicted his hometown of roads road hosts, and he analyzed it in terms of the germs that caused it or the, or the, you know, the putrefaction disease that caused it rather than in terms of thinking that the gods were causing it. So other people were thinking, so there, the discovery of causation is considered a big thing. It's a big scientific thing, actually. So this cause, or, or source of ill, is there any way really what Buddha is most famous for them? So to read it again, this, this mendicant is the noble truth of the source of ill. The craving, which causes rebirth is accompanied by passionate pleasure and takes delight in this and that object. Namely central is craving craving for existence and craving for annihilation.
Speaker 1 00:23:24 So that's the second noble truth. The third noble truth. This Dickens is the noble truth of the cessation of ill to complete cessation, to giving up the abandonment of that craving, complete release from that craving and complete detachment from it. So the third one is near Bonneau cessation nirodha is a synonym of Nirvana. Nirvana. You can say means blowing out and then people will go overboard and translate as extinction. But you can say you extinguish your candle when you blow it out, it's not wrong, but it's just a little extreme and cessation nirodha is a just means to stop it. So the stopping of suffering, he doesn't say notice stopping of life. It says the stopping of suffering, that's the third noble truth, a complete cessation to giving up the abandonment of that craving, complete release from that craving and complete detachment from it. So here in a way, Buddha is sticking on Shakyamuni.
Speaker 1 00:24:34 Buddha here is sticking on this issue of craving in the sense that the craving is the suffering and it's the source of the suffering. Uh, and he's doing that in a way it's a little bit simplistic because why does one crave because of a fundamental ignorance? Actually, he explains in many contexts very soon in other teachings, but, uh, in the context, even of the right understanding, he puts the cause as misunderstanding. And then the craving itself is based on the misunderstanding because the misunderstanding is that one thinks one is a separate being. That one is deficient in many ways and defective in many ways. And when it doesn't have, or what one really wants, and one isn't why, or one really wants to be because when bumps into things, things bump into one, there are lacks and wants and so on. And so by feeling separate that that's a real reality of things and feeling alienated and so forth.
Speaker 1 00:25:33 One then craves some form of unity, one craves, more on craves connection, one craves on one things. One doesn't have. All right, so it's, but he is starting out with these, uh, settings that he is, uh, he, where his old CA has his basic companions. And he started out by emphasizing the craving because they think they're beyond craving because there are tormenting themselves. So they're, they're, they're trying to make an end to DOH, to craving pleasure by making themselves feel pain. But he's saying it's the craving itself. That is the source of suffering. Not necessarily the craving for pleasure, it's any kind of craving. And then he notes, which is very important that not only is there a craving for existence, you could say that would be the survival instinct is craving is the craving for pleasure. But also we all naturally do have a craving for annihilation.
Speaker 1 00:26:33 And we, even, if we're not drug addicts or committing suicide, we have this kind of a craving. And it expresses itself in our normal life. Actually, when we were really tired and exhausted and fed up, we want to be unconscious. We want to sleep. And we do go to sleep at that point, right? My pass out, we happily give up our consciousness. So then finally, the fourth noble truth back to reading this mannequins is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of ill. Only this noble eightfold path, namely realistic understanding, realistic, intentional thought, realistic speech, realistic action, realistic livelihood, realistic effort, realistic mindfulness, and realistic concentration with the thought, this is the noble truth of ill. There arose in me, men Dickens' vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light concerning things unknown before with the thought, this is the noble truth reveal. And this ill has been understood.
Speaker 1 00:27:52 There are rose in me, men deacons, vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, concerning things I'd known before. Anyway. So that's like dealing with the cause was the thought, this is the noble truth Seville. And this email has been understood. There are in me, men Dickens' vision knowledge inside wisdom or light, not fight, but there's a misprint in this edition. I have it says fight, but it should be light. That's it light concerning things unknown. Before we just thought this is the noble truth of the source of hell. There arose in me because men Dickens' vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. Oh, I see has four different thoughts, thoughts for each noble truth. Okay. So he did. He says we are after he gives the four of them, the noble truth of the ill, the noble truth of the source of ill, the notes of the cessation of hill and the no truth of the way leading to decision avail. Those, those are the four. Then he has a forethought with the thought, this is the noble truth of ill. He got all this wisdom, knowledge inside vision knowledge, inside wisdom, light five things. Then this is the noble truth of villain. The zeal has been understood because he understood it the first time. Then there arose in me, men Dickens' vision, knowledge, light wisdom, light concerning things unknown before then, again, we just thought this is the noble truth. This has been ill has been understood.
Speaker 1 00:29:39 Again. He said there are rows in me, men deacons, vision knowledge inside with some light concerning things unknown before then with the thought, this is the noble truth of the source of so that's. So he repeats in a re Notre, the bill. It has been as a note of three times here, three times he repeats, okay. Not four, three. And it seems almost, it does seem that the second and the third are just repeating the same. Exactly. Same thing. We'll take note of that. Okay. And now he goes out, he moves on to the source.
Speaker 1 00:30:21 I think there's two of those. No three does three of them. We just thought this is the noble truth of the source of your own. There are rose in me, men deacons, vision knowledge inside wisdom, light concerning things unknown before, again, with the thought, this is the noble truth of the source of ill. This and this source of ill has to be abandoned. Aha. There rose in me, men Dickens' vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. And then he repeats this with the thought, this is the noble truth of the source of ill. And this source of bill has been abandoned. There arose in me, men Dickens' vision knowledge inside wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. So this is very interesting in the sense that these three times he repeats this, he says that, um, first time he just repeats that he identifies the noble truth.
Speaker 1 00:31:25 Then he does what your shows to do about that. Second one was you are to abandon that source. And then he repeats that it has been abandoned, has to be abandoned, has, oh, that's a slight different, it has to be abandoned and has been abandoned, uh, in that way. I see. So then actually this, this, this has to be edited. I'm sorry. A lot of mistakes. So it's not an exact repetition with the first one versus the number two, the rule. And there's no to the real has been understood the first time he says that it should be, has to be understood because the middle one is, or you can edit this PDF. Right. Anyway, the middle one is, uh, I think I have to do a new translation to this. Sorry. It's fashioned fashionable, but nevermind. So the, so there are three things that don't completely repeat.
Speaker 1 00:32:21 The first one is this is the truth. Then it's to be understood or to be abandoned in the case of the first and the second. And then it has been abandoned. It has been understood and it has been abandoned. So the third time he repeats it. Okay. So has to be abandoned. Then he repeats with the sword. This is the noble truth of the source of hill. And this source of ill has been abandoned. There arose in me, men, deacons, vision knowledge inside wisdom, light concerning things I've known before. So he got rid of the craving, says, now we just thought this is the noble truth of the cessation of ill. There arose in me, men Dickens' vision knowledge thought inside with some light concerning things unknown before. And so he says with the sword, this is the noble truth of the cessation of hill.
Speaker 1 00:33:09 And this cessation of bill has to be realized there are rose in me, men deacons, vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light in turning things unknown before. And then he repeats almost except his says with the thought, this is the noble truth. The Ville and this cessation of ill has been realized. Again, that should be, this is the cessation of the noble truth Deville, the noble truth of the cessation of hill. And this cessation of ill has been realized there arose in me, men Dickens' vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. And so has been sort of to, to be realized that has been realized to note there's a difference between has been understood it's to be understood and has been understood. And it hasn't been realized. So the first noble truth here to just understand it or acknowledge it in a way it's not, it doesn't have to be realized in a sense, because you, you, you, everyone knows about suffering here, so you don't have to make it real.
Speaker 1 00:34:20 So to speak. You don't have to make a change to get it. You just have some note what really is there. And then with Nirvana, you have to realize that make it be, make it be so for you. That was the same viscerally understand. So that's the difference between understand and realize, realize means make it real, which is a visceral way experience, you know, full experience. Okay. So then finally with the thought, this is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of hill. There arose in me mannequins, vision, knowledge, insight, wisdom, light concerning things unknown. Before we just thought, this is the knowable truth of the way leading to the cessation of avail. And this way has to be developed. There are <inaudible> vision knowledge inside wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. And it just thought, this is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of hill.
Speaker 1 00:35:17 And this way has been developed. There are in manifests, you know, I don't know, manifests. It has been, it has been traveled really was it's a way, you know, but anyway, developed, there are rows of me, men deacons, vision knowledge inside wisdom, light concerning things unknown before. So those are the calls, the 12 aspects of the four noble truths, three per noble truth. And they are his gradual. These are taught already at you in the, in the cessation. I mean, in the <inaudible> because it, toward the end of the Saudi Potanin SOTA is a very thorough, uh, thorough exposition of the four noble truths by Buddha himself in the context of the, of the, of the focusing of one's mindfulness on them. And, and in the sense that that is where you actually attain that Nirvana, that is where you actually manifest the eightfold path. You travel on that way you become that way.
Speaker 1 00:36:23 You become, you graduate on the, on the curriculum of that way. Okay. So then it says so long men deacons as my so long many says as my knowledge and vision of reality regarding these four noble shoes in three phases, and 12 ways was not fully clear to me. I did not declare to the world with its gods and devils to the massive beings with its gods and humans that I understood in comparable perfect enlightenment, but when men deacons as my, as my knowledge and vision of reality regarding these four noble truths in three phases, and 12 ways was fully clear to me. I declared to the world with its gods and devils to the massive beings with its gods and humans that I understood in comparable, perfect enlightenment knowledge and vision arose in me on the shakable is the deliverance of my mind. This is my last birth. Now there will be no birth. The spoken the blessing run the blesser Buddha and the group of five men, deacons laddered, heart approved of the words of the blessed had put on as this exposition was proceeding. The passion free stainless view of truth appeared to the venerable con Danya. And he knew everything that has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
Speaker 1 00:38:13 When the blessing Buddhists set in motion, this wheel of Dharma, the boom out of that day was proclaimed with one voice. The gods of the boomer incomparable wheel of Dharma is turned by the blessing. <inaudible> the deer sign Dre near Banaras and no recluse PROMON, God devil, creator, Brahma, or other being in the world can stop it. So Chuck to Maharaji, David's the gods of the four great Kings heaven on the slopes, the upper slopes of Mount of the XL mountain near the north pole, having heard what the burrata Deva said, proclaim with one voice. The incomparable wheel of Dharma is turned by the blessing. <inaudible> the deer sanctuary near Banaras. I know reckless Brahman, Deva Mara Brahma. Other beings in the world can stop it. Actually, they are translating recluse, but it's not really a correct. It's a mendicant is what it should be. Or someone, a seeker. You could say this utterance was echoed and reoccurred in the upper realms. And from Chatham hall Rajika was proclaimed in Tara Timiza 33 heaven, Indra Yama, the realm of no conflict fence, two, two Shita, two near Marathi and two <inaudible>.
Speaker 1 00:39:49 So also to those other desire realm, all six desire realm, heavens, and then the Brahma bodied gods. Having heard what the probably nematode God said proclaimed in one voice incomparable wheel of Dharma is turned by the <inaudible> the deer sanctuary near Banaras and no seeker, Brahmin Deva, Mara Brahma, or other being in the world can stop it David tomorrow. I mean, it's God human and Brahma means creator God or other being in the world can stop it. That's in a moment, an instant, a flash word of the turning of the wheel of Dharma when forth up to the world of Brahma. That's the personal drama and the system of 10,000 worlds, trembled and quaked and shock.
Speaker 1 00:40:49 Hey, boundless sublime radiants surpassing the power of the gods appeared on earth. Then the blizzard one made the other Inns truly con Danya has understood con Daniel has understood. And does it, was that the venerable clung Dunya got the name con Daniel the wise. So that's how it is, that's it? That's the end of it short. So they're very nice, but I there's a few. So there's things finally to summarize and this four noble truth talk during it as a podcast, celebrate Shaq and Moony. It's great discovery and his, the original version of his four friendly facts and then con Danya. It's also very important in the narration of the suitor that conduct, uh, that con Danya count in Yarra in Sanskrit or condone yacht here that he understood it. So right away the way because of the Buddha's field of understanding and the wisdom is wisdom fields, you could say.
Speaker 1 00:42:01 And also because of the teaching, his mind following closely with the teaching, and also because he was a disciplined yogic, meditative person only too obsessed with tormenting himself up until now, but he was an extraordinary person and he was totally friend of totally involved with Shakyamuni. And because check-in Mooney broke through, he got a powerful wave of the breakthrough. But anyway, when he went through these 12 ways of appropriating, the four noble truths in this original thing, he understood it. He realized it, he touched Nirvana. That is, it didn't become a Buddha verse. It didn't touch it in the vast way he touched. He touched it and they are halfway way because he was approaching it from a little bit dualistic way still as if Nirvana, the, the reality of things was really something separate from the unreality. Instead of the reality of things is like the screen on which the unreality is projected.
Speaker 1 00:43:04 So it's like not separate, like the surface of a movie screen is just really a blank white thing, but then on our, all the activities of the movie, you know, and to demand that hit it in two dimensions by the miracle of photography and cinematography. All right. So, but he's just discovered the white screen, let's just say, and he has a taste of relief of it. He's sort of not. And coming back to speaking to the board and saying, oh, I get it. I get it. He, he may, he may be thinking he's leaving it. And, uh, and the reporting back in, into the world of still because he still thinks it has some reality. So he still has a tray. He still has elements of dualism in his view. Okay. So this is a wonderful, but anyway, it was also very strongly addressed by Buddha in the <inaudible>, which I gave another is there.
Speaker 1 00:44:01 And another one of the talks that you have, and that's really, really important. All right. So, so in summary here, the one important thing is it kind of proves the point by the fact that before he lists the four noble shows and then the three ways of approaching each of them, he lists the curriculum of the fourth noble truth. And so he lists the therapy right away after, after talking about the middle way, and his colleagues stopped realizing the futility of their continuing to torture themselves. And I'm sure none of them, including him, slightest and dressed and going back to self-indulgence, you know, going back to some sort of orgies and brothels or whatever, they'd have no interest in such a thing. So they adjust it, wants them just to drop out and come back to the middle way and take care of themselves a little bit nicely, and then focus on the four noble truths.
Speaker 1 00:44:59 But first it's on the curriculum of the fourth one that you have to focus on because not everyone is going to get it just by listing them or just doing, just encountering them in the private and the four in the, in the fourth focus on mental objects of the, uh, great structure on mindfulness, a great discourse on mindfulness. So he gives the eightfold path right away. And, um, so there's 0.1, it is an educational curriculum. It's not a matter of believing in some truth, you should, maybe you believe in the first one, you understand it, you acknowledge it, you notice it. Then you abandon the second one, not believe you abandoned the source. Then you realize the fourth one, not just believe it, but your third one, whether you realize it, then the fourth one, you use the therapy, you, you practice it, you walk on it, the path, you know, you become the path, you be the path. And, um, so it's not like these trues are not like the credos of a religion. They are more like the prescription of a doctor who prescribes a course of therapy, or they could be the protocol of a teacher who prescribes a course of study and practice and learning. And, uh, that's really what Buddhism really is. And you could see it from the very beginning in the level of encountering ordinary humans. Although very advanced ones, as far as being advanced yogis is five, or they'd been six years of yoga, extremism, practicing with him.
Speaker 1 00:46:48 So proof of curriculum, one, two, understanding the Nobel shoes as friendly facts, leading to the bliss of Nirvana fun facts, because Nirvana is fun. It's not an isolation, it's not extinction. It's not being blown away in the sense of the mafia, use of blow, blowing someone away, naming to kill them. It is being blown away in the rock and roll concert or Mozart opera, no drama of being blown away with delight, with joy, seeing the be discovering what has always been in a world of immense beauty as a beautiful participant, you know, complete bliss and other words, and then sharing that bliss with endless others. In fact, expanding one's infinite life to the benefit of ever being every other infinite being is helping them discover their own infinite life. Wonderful, not at all an isolation all by being rid of craving and the ignorance that produces it, misses knowledge that produces it, the miss knowledge of seeking that something wrong.
Speaker 1 00:48:11 One doesn't have enough of whatever it is. All right. So those are, that's the summary of the first turning of the wheel of dominoes, the star thing, because that wheel, when D went ahead, it's going ahead and it conquered the world. It's a, it's a Royal chariot wheel and it conquered the ignorance and the suffering of all beings. And it was, Hey, wait a minute of what we are not free of suffering and ignorance. What happened to us? And that's where the secret teaching of the wheel of time of the wheel of time comes in. And the Shambala is when we realize that Shakira, when he really did turn this world of suffering, it's very militarized, scarcity, dominated, rough and tough world that we've been in for the last thousands of years, turned it into a garden of Eden, restored us all to the garden of Eden type of thing, which is Shambala in that, in that version, new Jerusalem for Christians, the return of the Mati for the Muslims, the, um, 10th avatar, a Vishnu and wherever when realize it's the love of Vishnu and for the Hindus, I guess, for everyone, this is one with the Dow for that Chinese, for the great, that great people.
Speaker 1 00:49:41 All right. So that's it. Thank you very much. Okay. Now this is going to be a podcast. Okay. Now, now you can know what break there. And we dedicate the merit of that that made the Dharma chakra. The time the reality we'll make everyone on the planet more realistic. And we discover the reality of the beauty of life and the beauty of love and that they are love and be loving. And then it's easy. We will solve all these problems, all the racial, the economic, the, the technological problems, political, every single problem will be solved when everyone realizes they are alive. When Mitch McConnell realizes he is loud, even when Trump realizes he's beloved, everyone loves him, not just some angry people, but everyone. And he, and he is loved. Therefore he should be loving to everyone and not trying to make them angry. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:50:41 Not have any enemies. And Putin realizes that. And she's in being realized is that, and all the communists and all the right wing fanatic fascists and all their Christians and the Jews and the Muslims, and the Buddhists said the Hindus and the Jains and the Taoists and the confusion is, and the indigenous people and everyone so mad, may everyone reached Shambala, maybe dedicate the merit of this, that everyone, that this is Dharma chakra, this truth machine reality machine, may it go everywhere and free people from miss knowing and living in untruth and living in unreality, being unrealistic and frightened and suffering. Okay. May they will be free from that as instantaneously in some ultimate sense and relatively as soon as possible. Okay.
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