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0:02 No, it's not. Report an error in the passage at 0:02 Highlight the passage at 0:02

0:08 We have the worst states in the world, we must have got our tickets late. Yeah, microphone's here. Report an error in the passage at 0:08 Highlight the passage at 0:08

0:23 So, are we reciting anything? Prayers to Manjishui? Be nice. Report an error in the passage at 0:23 Highlight the passage at 0:23

0:41 Manjishui prayer, please. Report an error in the passage at 0:41 Highlight the passage at 0:41

1:08 don't know. I don't know. I don't Shantideva, Shantideva, Shantideva, Report an error in the passage at 1:08 Highlight the passage at 1:08

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3:13 Shantideva, Report an error in the passage at 3:13 Highlight the passage at 3:13

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3:52 Okay, I'm not selling these things together. All right, can you see these eight? There are auspicious signs like each one of these. The first one is called the parasol or the umbrella. Report an error in the passage at 3:52 Highlight the passage at 3:52

4:17 I don't really know the meaning of that. The umbrella. Normally we use umbrella to protect from heat and rain. Okay, will you use? Report an error in the passage at 4:17 Highlight the passage at 4:17

4:34 So I think this is also the same purpose. Originally, when the king or the universal monarch goes out, maybe use the umbrella, this one, the symbol, that's kind of, since then it kept kind of auspicious sign. It's also a useful auspicious sign, right? And then the two fish, I think this is called the Senyakatu. Report an error in the passage at 4:34 Highlight the passage at 4:34

5:04 Serinya means golden fish, right? Two golden fish. They're kind of union of golden fish. Probably these two symbolize the union of compassion and wisdom. Report an error in the passage at 5:04 Highlight the passage at 5:04

5:24 Okay. You can maybe define it that way, understand it that way. And then the vase, the vase, the It's called the Bumba treasure vase. So this holds all the special auspicious things, wealth, the wealth treasure vase. Report an error in the passage at 5:24 Highlight the passage at 5:24

5:54 It's a treasure. It's kind of the same, I think. And then maybe that's hold, like physically hold. The valuable kind of wealth, and it symbolizes the wealth or the enlightened qualities of Buddha, maybe treasure, the inner qualities of enlightened beings. And then the lotus flower, which we use a lot. Report an error in the passage at 5:54 Highlight the passage at 5:54

6:35 flower A flower which even though, even if it's, you know, grows in a muddy water, yet it is free from mud, right? It is, so it's kind of, gives us some kind of hope because we, even though we are born under the power of karma and klesha, yet we have the potential. To, you know, free from these two. So the lotus flower is kind of like Buddha nature, right? Report an error in the passage at 6:35 Highlight the passage at 6:35

7:21 It's kind of nice, right? So we see that the lotus flower mostly grow in muddy water, but sometimes it grows in clean water, but mostly. It's free from mud. So that's it. And then the conch shell, this is Donggara Inkyo, I think the right, how do you call that, right turned conch shell is said to be very auspicious and it symbolizes the sound of Dharma when you blow it. Report an error in the passage at 7:21 Highlight the passage at 7:21

7:58 What we hear, the sound of conch shell is just boom, right? But it should. Eventually, hopefully, we can hear the sound of Dharma, which means the four seals, four great seals, right? All phenomena, all compounded phenomena are impermanent, you know, and so forth, those four. Just when you blow the conch shell, Maybe it says like that. That would be very inspiring, right? I mean, like very moving. Because then I think this, in order to hear that, first we need to practice enough, right? Report an error in the passage at 7:58 Highlight the passage at 7:58

8:51 Like, you know, if you hear that kind of randomly, kind of accidentally, it's not a big surprise, you know. We have to have some kind of interest in Dharma and put a lot of effort in Dharma. And then practice sincerely for a long period of time. And then if they hear this, then they'll be like very, very relaxing, you know what I mean? Report an error in the passage at 8:51 Highlight the passage at 8:51

9:17 Very fulfilling, right? Otherwise, if you hear that, you'd be scared away. You'd be scared, maybe. If you blow the conch shell and then you hear all these different sounds, like where this person's talking from, you know what I mean? Report an error in the passage at 9:17 Highlight the passage at 9:17

9:38 So that's the conch shell. And then the endless knot. The endless knot is, I don't know what... that symbolized on garage against a bell view it's been translated an endless knot Report an error in the passage at 9:38 Highlight the passage at 9:38

10:05 Do you know the symbol of interdependence, interconnectedness? I was thinking of both. I was thinking about if this is talking about saṃsāra or this is talking about nirvāṇa or you know like Dependent origination, interdependent, interconnectedness. Everything is kind of, some way is connected. Yeah, everything is connected. Report an error in the passage at 10:05 Highlight the passage at 10:05

10:42 Yeah, Report an error in the passage at 10:42 Highlight the passage at 10:42

10:50 exactly, exactly. So that can be that beginningless and endless. So when you say beginningless and endless, you're talking about saṃsāra or you're talking about things in time. Report an error in the passage at 10:50 Highlight the passage at 10:50

11:26 So, okay, so it's talking about that, exactly. Okay, so the endless knot. Okay, the endless knot. Yeah, exactly. Okay, that's kind of nice. Endless knot symbolizes the dharmakaya, which is beginningless and endless, which is beginningless because it's just the nature of the mind, right? Dharmakaya. The emptiness of the mind is Dhamakaya, right? Report an error in the passage at 11:26 Highlight the passage at 11:26

12:01 Is that right? Report an error in the passage at 12:01 Highlight the passage at 12:01

12:13 Dhamakaya is the emptiness of the mind which is free from a vintitious defilement. Yes, it's free from defilement from the beginningness. Report an error in the passage at 12:13 Highlight the passage at 12:13

12:31 Is that right? Report an error in the passage at 12:31 Highlight the passage at 12:31

12:36 What do you mean? they're empty, huh? Report an error in the passage at 12:36 Highlight the passage at 12:36

12:11 Uh, yeah, the dam, okay. Report an error in the passage at 12:11 Highlight the passage at 12:11

12:38 it's just a minute. No, no. Okay. All right. Anyway, and then the victory banner. Uh, victory banner is the, uh, symbolize courage, uh, confidence or courage, encouragement. Report an error in the passage at 12:38 Highlight the passage at 12:38

12:57 Uh, Report an error in the passage at 12:57 Highlight the passage at 12:57

13:01 victory. So the gaining of victory from, let's say, afflictions, right? Uh, and gain victory from, uh, uh, obscuration. So it's kind of like a banner that you're saying, you know, I win the battle. Like, you know, you hold this flag and say, I won the banner, I mean the battle. So battle from what? Battle from the delusions, the enemy, the real enemy, which is the afflictions, right? Report an error in the passage at 13:01 Highlight the passage at 13:01

13:37 So which gives some kind of gain of hope and courage, right? Encourages us, encourages us. When you look at the Victoria Banner, you have to kind of remember that. Report an error in the passage at 13:37 Highlight the passage at 13:37

13:55 Having these, hanging these near your altar is some kind of reminder, right? It should remind you, oh yeah, these things, you know. When Geshe-la explains the Vajra, always, you know, that's a reminder. You have to have that. So similar, these things also kind of should remind us these positive thoughts, right? Report an error in the passage at 13:55 Highlight the passage at 13:55

14:28 And then the last one is the Dharma Chakra, the wheel of turning the wheel of Dharma, wheel, right? And that is a very auspicious symbol to offer. Report an error in the passage at 14:28 Highlight the passage at 14:28

14:45 Our teachers and Lamas, when you offer long life offerings, ceremony, that's one of the most important things to offer, to ask to turn the will of Dharma. So this is one of the seven limbs, right? When you request not to pass away into Parinirvana and... Not just passing away into parinirvana is not sufficient because there are some great, highly realized beings who are still there in this world, but it's not turning the will of Dharma. Report an error in the passage at 14:45 Highlight the passage at 14:45

15:31 There are some arhats, for example, sixteen arhats. Remember his songs recently said that sixteen arhats are there but they have no... There's no teaching, you know, by 16 Arhat's available, except one Arhat has two, three stanzas. You know, he wrote a couple of stanzas. Except that you cannot find much teachings. But whereas the 17 Indian pundits, Nalanda Manastri, wrote all this excellent text. Report an error in the passage at 15:31 Highlight the passage at 15:31

16:06 You read that and you can actually kind of feel they're still alive, very much alive. You have a very strong connection with these sixteen pundits from Nalanda. Anyway, so they're not passing, not just merely passing away into Pari Nirvāṇa, but to turn the will of Dharma. So this symbolizes that roughly That is the explanation for the eight auspicious signs. Report an error in the passage at 16:06 Highlight the passage at 16:06

16:46 Do you have any comments on these? This Report an error in the passage at 16:46 Highlight the passage at 16:46

16:57 is not a comfortable thing. To wear something here is better. Yeah, Cliff is here, but is not. Report an error in the passage at 16:57 Highlight the passage at 16:57

17:29 Okay, anyway, alright. Is that the eight auspicious signs, is that just Tibetan Buddhism that uses that? I don't know, I can't remember if I saw that in like other forms of Buddhism, using that eight auspicious signs. Do you know? I think, I think these, these Report an error in the passage at 17:29 Highlight the passage at 17:29

18:01 mostly, you know, from Originally from Shakyamuni Buddha, when he was in a training path, he was in his previous lifetimes. Sometimes he was king, sometimes he was different forms. He took many different forms. While he was kind of working on his enlightenment, to attain enlightenment, he was in many forms. Report an error in the passage at 18:01 Highlight the passage at 18:01

18:32 He was helping so many beings. First, initially he generated bodhicitta, right? And then he practiced six perfections, bodhisattvas conduct six perfections, and then as a result attained enlightenment, right? But the point is, on the way, for example, when he was in Bodhagaya, you know, near Narazana River for six years, he was meditating for six years, and then he didn't attain enlightenment. Report an error in the passage at 18:32 Highlight the passage at 18:32

19:04 development of Buddhahood. But then he arose from that meditation and then he met these different people on the way to the Bodhi Tree and they offered different things like auspicious symbols like a conch shell and things like that. So I think since then these things are the You know, special symbols, even though, you know, other Buddhists, other Buddhist traditions are not eager to use these symbols, except Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhism. Report an error in the passage at 19:04 Highlight the passage at 19:04

19:49 Yeah. So when you actually, this not, unfortunately, it's not been translated in English, but when, for example, when you offer a long-life puja, I mean, ceremony, long-life... puja for children which is last time. Geshe Chamba Tekchok was saying something. You remember in Tibetan? He was actually saying these things, offering these things. Report an error in the passage at 19:49 Highlight the passage at 19:49

20:15 Remember? Offering each one. One by one. And then, you know, one by one. And then he explained these auspicious signs. They sound like... They happen to be, since they are dependent arising, so when the people offered this, and Buddha, when he was on a training path, he accepted this, and that kind of served some kind of conducive condition for his practice, to improve his realization, these things. Report an error in the passage at 20:15 Highlight the passage at 20:15

20:54 So just merely offering these, making these offerings, Report an error in the passage at 20:54 Highlight the passage at 20:54

21:02 His practices went better and he remained, he lived longer and things like that. Even though there's a karma and then there's a condition. Karma is one thing, the seed, and then when you activate that seed, it depends upon those conditions by which you activate that seed. Does it make sense? Did I answer your question? Kind of. All right. So that is done then. Okay. Report an error in the passage at 21:02 Highlight the passage at 21:02

21:41 Next one is bottle lamp because it's the closest to me. This is the same as like tea light. Bottle lamp and tea light. Okay. Tibetans are very, you know, kind of majority of Tibetans. They have strong faith. Even though they are not highly educated, you know, Buddha Dharma, learned, but they have faith, strong faith. Report an error in the passage at 21:41 Highlight the passage at 21:41

22:13 And they always think that offering light is something pleasant. Also they don't have, maybe because they don't have, you know, since they have no electricity, so the butter lamp is also used for like, for light at home and offerings for both, this one. Report an error in the passage at 22:13 Highlight the passage at 22:13

22:34 I don't know the shape of this. It's like a metal like this. I don't know the reason why they make it like this. I don't know. That's the purpose of the bodhicitta, you know. So you, this one you offer light, offer to the eyes of the Buddhists, you know, offering to the eyes of the Buddhists. And therefore even the bodhicitta is very old, it doesn't matter. Report an error in the passage at 22:34 Highlight the passage at 22:34

23:05 People say that. I don't know if it's true or not. Even though bodhicitta is like old bodhicitta, as long as you have a bright, shiny light, since you're offering that to the eyes of the Buddha, not the tongue of the Buddha, it is fine. It is acceptable. Report an error in the passage at 23:05 Highlight the passage at 23:05

23:24 So if you have like a tea light. Do you have a question? Report an error in the passage at 23:24 Highlight the passage at 23:24

23:33 I also heard that it's wisdom. Is that correct? And also my other question is, is it still the way, is it still true in Tibet that mostly people use butter in them or do they use some other substance? They use butter all the time. Wisdom, let's see, it's yes, you can see, you can actually, it's kind of, it's a wisdom because what wisdom does, wisdom realizing emptiness does is it dispels the darkness of ignorance. Report an error in the passage at 23:33 Highlight the passage at 23:33

24:09 Right? So the bodhicitta dispels the darkness of the room. Right? So in that sense, it's kind of like an example for wisdom or symbolizes wisdom. Yes. And then Pumbaa. Report an error in the passage at 24:09 Highlight the passage at 24:09

24:29 Pumbaa is the teapot for the deities. Report an error in the passage at 24:29 Highlight the passage at 24:29

24:39 Right? And local deities, landlords, because you give, you offer the bathing, you know. This is used for bathing, like, you know, you visualize the Buddhas and the bathing, the top, kind of like a top, right? And then you You have this mirror, you know, you show around mirror and then all the Buddhas now inside the mirror, right? Report an error in the passage at 24:39 Highlight the passage at 24:39

25:24 You just show around the ten directions and then all the reflections of the Buddha from the ten directions now in that mirror, right? And then now you wash, now you put the water, I mean the shower. They take a shower, right, from the vase. But there are actually, they don't have to take a shower. They're not, you know, Report an error in the passage at 25:24 Highlight the passage at 25:24

25:53 they're not smelly or sweaty or whatever. But in order to purify our, you know, unpurities and we offer bathing to the Buddhists, right, from the vase. they're not. Report an error in the passage at 25:53 Highlight the passage at 25:53

26:09 That's one way of, one usage of the vase, right? And then another one is, you, in the ritual, tantric rituals, you know, there are many rituals that require vase, this one, to splink, you know, to splink in the water, to splink in the water to purify all the obscurations. Report an error in the passage at 26:09 Highlight the passage at 26:09

26:41 Negativities and so forth. What else? Report an error in the passage at 26:41 Highlight the passage at 26:41

26:49 Oh, okay. So it's like, okay, there should be some water here, right? And then you just do like this, like that. It's pointing water times, okay? And then sometimes you use this as a fan, you know? And it's like a broom, maybe clean away things, like chaptu, you know, certain rituals that the lamas use this as a broom to clean away the obstacle, you know, obscurations and sickness of that person. Report an error in the passage at 26:49 Highlight the passage at 26:49

27:37 Even though it says, it's kind of contradicting my mind a little bit because, Because you cannot remove the sufferings of disciples away with your hand as you're removing a hair from the yak water. Did you see a yak water with a hair into that? Report an error in the passage at 27:37 Highlight the passage at 27:37

28:06 Yeah, then if you just pull out. Yeah, exactly. So that's kind of thing. But anyway, so this will certain symbolic, yeah, certain things, yes. Report an error in the passage at 28:06 Highlight the passage at 28:06

28:21 Purifies sickness and negativities. Do you have any questions? Did I miss anything? Report an error in the passage at 28:21 Highlight the passage at 28:21

28:34 Do the Tibetan lamens sprinkle water on lay people? Like in Theravadan, the monks, if you go to visit them, they'll sprinkle water on you. Report an error in the passage at 28:34 Highlight the passage at 28:34

28:48 Yes, they do that. They do the same thing. It's called a chap 2. Chap means... Jab means removing or cleaning away all the impurities, kind of, you know, obscurations or negativities. Report an error in the passage at 28:48 Highlight the passage at 28:48

29:08 Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 29:08 Highlight the passage at 29:08

29:12 Exactly. Animal liberation, Geshe-la, you know, puts, you know, first we actually, animal liberation, we have this container with, you know, saffron water and then everybody's reciting these mantras. We recite all these mantras in animal liberation texts. And then we recite Omanapemeho and we, excuse me, we make this circle of embolation, right? Go around. Report an error in the passage at 29:12 Highlight the passage at 29:12

29:38 And then everybody blows into the water. And then later, then, Yeshua will kind of touch this in the water and sprinkle on the beings that will liberate. Report an error in the passage at 29:38 Highlight the passage at 29:38

30:02 That's kind of one way of getting the mantra to these beings. Right? Exactly. Yeah. That's it. That's the verse. Okay. Next one is... Okay. Report an error in the passage at 30:02 Highlight the passage at 30:02

30:26 Symbolism. I mean, just, you know, because I want to make sure that other people listen to this and they'll know what it is that we're talking about. And then when they see it, then they can... So the symbolism of using the peacock feathers for that. Peacock feathers at the top of the book. Report an error in the passage at 30:26 Highlight the passage at 30:26

30:43 I don't know that. It's a good question. I don't know what the purpose of using peacock. You don't think it has to do with, you know, like peacocking? You know how peacocks, they eat poison and they transform it into beauty. Yeah, but, okay. Report an error in the passage at 30:43 Highlight the passage at 30:43

31:04 I never heard that description. Maybe it's just because it's pretty. Maybe it shows, like, the nature. The way it is. Like nobody's really designed, you know, the feather. Nobody's, this is not like, you know, this is kind of nature, right? Report an error in the passage at 31:04 Highlight the passage at 31:04

31:32 You know, it's the nature or this is just the way it is. There's all this beauty kind of thing, you know. There's nobody designed in this way, right? Report an error in the passage at 31:32 Highlight the passage at 31:32

31:49 How that's related. Okay, that's why, I don't know, we use this for specifically, this pick of feathers. I have to find that out. That's homework, our homework. Report an error in the passage at 31:49 Highlight the passage at 31:49

32:05 And then, do you think there are people who don't know the mala or the purpose of mala? Okay, mala, we have, they ask you, okay. So, we have, this is called the king of mala, the big one in the center. The king of mala, right? Report an error in the passage at 32:05 Highlight the passage at 32:05

32:30 Prayer beads. Yeah, mala or the prayer beads. This one, beads you use for reciting mantras. When you say one mantra, for example, you take one beat, right? So you go all the way to the other side and you have done 108. and eight aumann baby hoos Then this king of mala is like a stop sign and you come back. So you turn around and come back and you recite that. Report an error in the passage at 32:30 Highlight the passage at 32:30

33:08 Is that right? Something like that. What's the symbolism of 108? Why 108 beads? I'm not sure. Really. 108. yeah. Uh-huh. Report an error in the passage at 33:08 Highlight the passage at 33:08

33:31 one of the retreats that I was at, I think I heard that have 108 beats. Essentially, you need to do, like, you're counting 100 mantras, and they put in eight extra to take up the difference for mistakes and mispronunciation. Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 33:31 Highlight the passage at 33:31

33:58 When you count your malas and multiply... You count 100 for each mala, actually, when you go into your 100,000, then you do other extras that are special added words. Report an error in the passage at 33:58 Highlight the passage at 33:58

34:17 That's possible, but... What I heard was that 108 was like you count 108 extra for mistakes, but it might be wrong. I might be remembering wrong. Uh-huh. Yeah, I, I know. A long time ago I read on some website and apparently there's like five or six different explanations for 108. So they seem to conclude that there wasn't just one accepted thing. I can't even say where I read that. Report an error in the passage at 34:17 Highlight the passage at 34:17

34:57 Okay. Yeah. 108. Number eight is kind of... It's regarded as an auspicious number, Tibetans. Yeah, eight. Yeah, so maybe because of that you have 108. And counting, when you do a retreat, okay, there's some, you know, you miss mantras and you mispronounce. Sometimes you omit mantras and sometimes you add mantras. So when you recite that, it makes sense. But normally it's a one. Report an error in the passage at 34:57 Highlight the passage at 34:57

35:37 111, right? You have to have that 11 extra. Yeah, exactly. Kind of that, yeah. Report an error in the passage at 35:37 Highlight the passage at 35:37

35:50 So anyway, that's the mala, the rosary, the beads, and this is used by not only Buddhism, I think many other traditions, they use this, right? Christians, Hindus. Report an error in the passage at 35:50 Highlight the passage at 35:50

36:10 Muslims, they use mala? I Report an error in the passage at 36:10 Highlight the passage at 36:10

36:18 was wearing mine and a Muslim woman came up to me and said, we use it too to count our prayers. Is that what you use it for? So it's kind of neat, actually. Catholic also do. They have a rosary with a little cross on it. It's still a similar idea, I think. So they recite mantras, right? Report an error in the passage at 36:18 Highlight the passage at 36:18

36:40 Yeah, like Catholic, they have what they call rosary, same thing, mala. It's beads for counting prayers. So similar. You've seen in lots of the religions. Oh, great. So this is kind of common, one of the common things we have in between these different religions, right, practices. That's great. Yeah, so we see that there's a saying in Tibet, you know, whenever you look at somebody's mala, we say, Oh, nice mala, can I look at it and show me? And then you cannot actually just look at it, you know, as a normal thing, you know. But first you have to say Omane Bimeo for 108 times, and then you can look at it, you know, carefully. Report an error in the passage at 36:40 Highlight the passage at 36:40

37:35 That's kind of nice, huh? Report an error in the passage at 37:35 Highlight the passage at 37:35

37:40 No, you don't. That's yours. I mean, yeah, you always do that. All right. And then you know this, right? Already. Report an error in the passage at 37:40 Highlight the passage at 37:40

37:56 Who's listening? This is the bell. You hold by the left hand and this is Vajra, hold it by right hand. Report an error in the passage at 37:56 Highlight the passage at 37:56

38:15 then the Vajra symbolizes Pup, the method, skillful means, Report an error in the passage at 38:15 Highlight the passage at 38:15

38:26 The bell symbolizes the wisdom or the emptiness. What is the method? How many method aspects of teachings are there? For example, compassion is a method, skillful means. Report an error in the passage at 38:26 Highlight the passage at 38:26

38:57 Bodhicitta is a skillful means. And what else? Love is a skillful means. Right? So all this, when you hold this... So you hold this in the hand, okay, Vajra, right, bell on the left. So the... The bell symbolizes emptiness or the wisdom. And then the union of these two is the union of compassion or the skillful means and wisdom. Report an error in the passage at 38:57 Highlight the passage at 38:57

39:46 Yeah, that's pretty much it, right? Yeah. And then the Kapala. No, no, I can get it. I can get it. All right. Okay. So when you put this kapala, you put it here like this. There's supposed to have like three heads, right? I mean heads. So maybe down here. So anyway, so one head is facing this way and then the other two is like this way. Report an error in the passage at 39:46 Highlight the passage at 39:46

40:27 Yeah, Report an error in the passage at 40:27 Highlight the passage at 40:27

40:36 heads are looking out. Yes, exactly. Heads, three heads and they're kind of looking out. And then they're... They have three of this, kind of like a tripod, and it holds the skull cup, right, which is like an upside down skull cup, right? Report an error in the passage at 40:36 Highlight the passage at 40:36

40:59 With the lid. With the lid, yes. And this is the human skull. And white inside, normally. No, red inside and white. Outside is white, and then those two, red symbolize wisdom, right? And white symbolizes the bodhicitta, yeah? And so both of these, you know, coming together, these two on one skull cup is indicating or showing. Report an error in the passage at 40:59 Highlight the passage at 40:59

41:51 The unification of emptiness and bodhicitta, the union of those two. Then what else? Report an error in the passage at 41:51 Highlight the passage at 41:51

42:09 Why a skull? Why is it a human skull? Why is it shaped like that? That's a good question. Report an error in the passage at 42:09 Highlight the passage at 42:09

42:22 Is it about impermanence? Impermanence? That's a good one, actually. Impermanence can be. How did Gessler define loss? Did you ask that question? How did it mean skull? Skull? Report an error in the passage at 42:22 Highlight the passage at 42:22

42:41 I don't Report an error in the passage at 42:41 Highlight the passage at 42:41

42:52 know. You know, I think it must have something to do with transcending death or impermanence or something like that. There must be some importance of it being. Because it was actually... human skulls were used, have been used, right? Actually, yes. And now this is just metal design to look like Report an error in the passage at 42:52 Highlight the passage at 42:52

43:14 I bet it's transcending death like Chime Report an error in the passage at 43:14 Highlight the passage at 43:14

43:20 It could have to do with cutting the attachment that we have to the aggregates. So you're cutting the attachment to the body. Report an error in the passage at 43:20 Highlight the passage at 43:20

43:44 That's possible. I'm still thinking, actually. Report an error in the passage at 43:44 Highlight the passage at 43:44

43:53 I read there's some symbolism to the human skull and thigh bone. Do you know what that is? The thigh bone? The thigh bone? The trumpet, yeah. Selena and still Report an error in the passage at 43:53 Highlight the passage at 43:53

44:09 I think that is actually, I know what symbolizes that. The purpose of that thigh bone is actually, that is used by yogis, yoginis who do their practice, chih practice. Chih is the cutting through grasping. Chih is mostly practiced in a cemetery. And a cemetery is not like in the United States. You know, it's a cemetery you really actually see the human body is cutting into pieces. Report an error in the passage at 44:09 Highlight the passage at 44:09

44:47 And then, you know, you give that to the birds, right? The opening, how do you call that? A cemetery, right? Channel ground. Channel ground, exactly. Channel ground. So, these... Yogis or yoginis go to that kind of places and then practice that. Their main practice is actually death and impermanence. So they actually see on the spot, right? So then the tri-bone is used. The reason why that's used is that you will see that the humans are kind of chopped into pieces and feed the birds. Report an error in the passage at 44:47 Highlight the passage at 44:47

45:35 When you come home and you have this tri-bone to remind you. Thigh-bone. Thigh-bone and impermanence. Report an error in the passage at 45:35 Highlight the passage at 45:35

45:48 Really? Report an error in the passage at 45:48 Highlight the passage at 45:48

45:58 Where did you hear that description? Report an error in the passage at 45:58 Highlight the passage at 45:58

46:08 Chodron Rinpoche and some of the other people that were doing Chodron retreat. They were using the drum and the thigh-bone to call spirits. Call the spirits to make offerings, to give themselves. You give your blood to the blood drinkers, you give your flesh to the flesh eaters. And so in order to make these offerings, you need to call the spirits to you to make these offerings of your body. And so you use that big drum and the thigh bone trumpet in order to call the spirits to you. Report an error in the passage at 46:08 Highlight the passage at 46:08

46:48 Okay, so that's like a... The instrument for your communication with these non-humans. Yeah, yeah. It's to attract them. Okay. I see. Okay. All right. So back to the skull cup. The skull cup maybe also reminds us, you know, impermanence, maybe the simplest way to think about the skull cup. If you have a straw cup and you use that for your practice on a daily basis, if you remember death impermanence, as soon as you see this, okay, this could have been my skull, but this is somebody else's skull. Report an error in the passage at 46:48 Highlight the passage at 46:48

47:36 Once upon a time, this being is exactly like me. One's happiness and try to avoid suffering. There's no difference, right? There's a whole teaching. Report an error in the passage at 47:36 Highlight the passage at 47:36

47:48 Kind of reflect on, you know, teaching of lamrim that you reflect on, mainly by looking at this skakaf, if you have time, yeah. Other than that, I don't know, you know. And then you also, you know, melt the five, you know, meats and the five nectars and things like that. That's a very powerful practice, and it's not for beginners, even though you are not beginners. You're like, you know, this, I like. Report an error in the passage at 47:48 Highlight the passage at 47:48

48:18 You know, it's very advanced teachings, right? So anyway, that's kind of rough. So there are some mandalas. Remember, you know, like the wind mandala, kind of the bow-shaped wind mandala, and then there's, which is, come from Yam Le Long, the syllable Yam transforms into that kind of thing, you know? Report an error in the passage at 48:18 Highlight the passage at 48:18

48:40 We can talk about that here, right? Because we've already studied that. So the Yam transform. You have that? Okay, okay, general teachings. All right, so anyway, so that's, okay, brief explanation, and it's a very rough and very uncompleted explanation for that. And then the, then the, the prayer will, yeah. Yes, thank you. Report an error in the passage at 48:40 Highlight the passage at 48:40

49:13 Really? Okay, okay, this is not really, I see, I can see that, okay. All right, this is called a prayer wheel, and this is, there are two types of prayer wheels. One is just you use by hand, right, hand prayer wheel. This is, you walk, you make circumambulations for a stupa or something like big, giant stupa, and you're reciting Omane Pemiho, and this holds Omane Pemiho wheel inside, mostly. Report an error in the passage at 49:13 Highlight the passage at 49:13

49:54 The mantra, O Manu Be Me Ho, and you roll it, and then you, this is not, okay. Anyway, yeah. So then you, you're kind of making circle ambulations here in your hand, right? And then you're also making circle ambulations to stupa, right? So this is kind of like a way of accumulating positive energy or positive. Report an error in the passage at 49:54 Highlight the passage at 49:54

50:23 positive, you know, or merit, right, accumulating merit. So when you recite Om Mani Be Me Ho and then you turn this like this, then you're kind of accomplishing two things at a time, you know, reciting Om Mani Be Me Ho verbally and physically you are kind of, you know, training these mantras. Report an error in the passage at 50:23 Highlight the passage at 50:23

50:57 What do you think? Report an error in the passage at 50:57 Highlight the passage at 50:57

51:01 I think the idea is as it spins, the mantras are like flying out of it. And so they're going to all of the beings, all the people that are anywhere around. You can make them fly as far as you like. That's nice. With your mind. So they're kind of like the prayer flags, blowing prayers. So that's what I see when they're spinning. Report an error in the passage at 51:01 Highlight the passage at 51:01

51:32 A prayer wheel is the mantras inside the prayer wheel because of, you know, I'd like to say vertical force, just fly out in all directions. That's very nice. In all directions. Well, I don't know if I'm making it up, but that's what I think. That makes sense. Report an error in the passage at 51:32 Highlight the passage at 51:32

51:51 Otherwise, this is, okay, the way you describe this is like, how do you call that? When something in science, when you turn something in, like the force. Centrifugal force pushes it out. Pushes it out, okay. That makes sense. That is a nice description, yes. Yes, I agree with you. I see people doing those during teachings. Is that a good thing to do too? If your mind is not distracted. Report an error in the passage at 51:51 Highlight the passage at 51:51

52:29 And if you're not distracting any others. Yeah, it sometimes does. It's a creaky one. Yeah, right. Sometimes people think, see that's kind of very strange. Yeah. You know, kind of hippie way, right? No? No, hippie, hippie way. Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 52:29 Highlight the passage at 52:29

52:52 But... Same, is that also the same? I do see sometimes... People do mantras during teachings, like while the teacher's teaching. And I do it sometimes and sometimes not. Sometimes I'll just only do it during the Tibetan part where I don't understand and then during the English I stop. But I never know quite what the right protocol is about doing mantras while... During the teachings? Yeah. I think that's not appropriate. Report an error in the passage at 52:52 Highlight the passage at 52:52

53:19 Yeah. Yeah, because when, if you are... Because you're distracted. You're distracted. You're kind of dualistic. You have a dualistic mind. You're not paying attention to the teaching. So you're not free from the three vessels. You're not paying attention. Report an error in the passage at 53:19 Highlight the passage at 53:19

53:48 How about when it's in Tibetan before it's been translated? When it's still in Tibetan, it hasn't been translated. you're like Report an error in the passage at 53:48 Highlight the passage at 53:48

53:56 I see. I see. You're kind of listening to the teaching. Okay. For that, that depends. That depends, I think. If you are capable of doing some worthwhile, I mean, something. I think it's better than just spacing out or getting distracted or something that at least you... Sort of keeping your mind focused. Keeping your mind on the mantra, recitation. Yeah, that should be fine. That should be fine. Report an error in the passage at 53:56 Highlight the passage at 53:56

54:44 And also, I find Report an error in the passage at 54:44 Highlight the passage at 54:44

54:51 in a strange way, and for me, I like listening to the Tibetan. I'm not trying to figure out what it is, but over the years I've realized it's like, if nothing else, just in a... some ketchup on that. Report an error in the passage at 54:51 Highlight the passage at 54:51

55:08 It becomes a kind of a soothing thing or something, like when I just hear certain teachers' voices, it just is nice. So, you know, anyway, maybe some people can do their mantra and have all that effect at the same time. It's kind of nice just to be there. You know, even with the, I think that, Report an error in the passage at 55:08 Highlight the passage at 55:08

55:32 you know, it's got to be good imprints and if you're, you know. Paying attention to that. Yeah, I don't know, it's just. One thing going in your head at a time. You're so used to multitasking. I think it's kind of nice not to, but anyway. Report an error in the passage at 55:32 Highlight the passage at 55:32

55:50 Yeah, that's nice. Report an error in the passage at 55:50 Highlight the passage at 55:50

55:55 If you're learning Tibetan, like your case, it's an opportunity to hear the sound, even though you have no clue. Talking about, you know, but still you, you get familiar, familiar with the, with the pronunciation, right? So it's helped. And also, and the word, yeah, the word is Dharma, the, you know, auspicious Dharma words, right? Report an error in the passage at 55:55 Highlight the passage at 55:55

56:28 Dharma terms. And it's just kind of like, uh, when you listen, if you listen, pay attention to that carefully, that, that will kind of get the, The imprint on your mind, you know, kind of solidly, you know, so that, so that's, you know, um, that'll be good. Yeah, exactly. Uh-huh. Report an error in the passage at 56:28 Highlight the passage at 56:28

57:03 Yeah, so, okay, um, so this is the prayer world, um, uh, that's the description for the prayer world. And then now, this, the, the prayer flags, it's the same, Report an error in the passage at 57:03 Highlight the passage at 57:03

57:23 Same meaning, same purpose of the prayer will, which is like, okay, the prayer flax, you hang on higher mountains or trees or something on the roof of your house, somewhere that you can, kind of wind can blow, you know, this prayer flax. And in these days, if you drive around the neighborhood, you see lots of You know, people hang these prayer flags everywhere. They think this is kind of prayer flags are becoming very popular, you know, in the West. Report an error in the passage at 57:23 Highlight the passage at 57:23

58:03 Because even you can, sometimes you can see in the movies, these movies, Hollywood movies, they're using prayer flags. Yeah, it's a good thing, you know. A lot of Buddhists, yeah, they think they're Buddhists if you have a prayer flag at home. Do you think that's a kind of good, you know, It's a nice way to begin with the Buddhism. Placement? Report an error in the passage at 58:03 Highlight the passage at 58:03

58:37 Placement advertising? It's a little joke. In the movies like Coca-Cola or Ford cars, they pay the movie people to put those in the background. So I'm kind of joking. Placement advertising. It's putting an idea in people's minds. I see. Yeah, exactly. Report an error in the passage at 58:37 Highlight the passage at 58:37

58:57 When I see pearl flags in the city, I think first that the person that hung them must have some belief, some Buddhist belief of some sort, so that they're wishing to have these prayers blowing through the air to bless everything that sees it or the air hits or anything like that. So I think it's really... Report an error in the passage at 58:57 Highlight the passage at 58:57

59:26 Nice. A lot of people are putting them out. And because of the nature, I think, of the flag itself, even if the person is just putting it out because I think it's a pretty decoration, the function still will work. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 59:26 Highlight the passage at 59:26

59:47 Are there different prayers on different flags or is it usually the same prayer that's written on each one? I know that Wind Horse is usually on it, but... Yeah, this one, this is the same thing, same thing on every flak. Report an error in the passage at 59:47 Highlight the passage at 59:47

1:00:07 It's the mantra, it says, Okay, Report an error in the passage at 1:00:07 Highlight the passage at 1:00:07

1:00:20 so there are like different mantras and then there are long mantras. Rez. Okay, so there are different mantras. Actually, all these mantras, all these different colors are the same. One block of, you know, kind of mantra and it printed on this five different colors, five of the five Diyani Buddhists. So I to the different colors, like why the different So we call this longta, normally. We don't, mostly this is kind of printed on papers, you know, piece of papers. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:20 Highlight the passage at 1:00:20

1:01:15 And then you, we bring that on the high mountains and then throw away. And the wind springs, you know, all these papers away, you know, throw them away. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:15 Highlight the passage at 1:01:15

1:01:29 You had some of those in Mount Kailash? Report an error in the passage at 1:01:29 Highlight the passage at 1:01:29

1:01:56 Some of the Tibetans would sell on the top of the mountain, little pieces of paper. On the way to Kailash, any of the high mountains passes, like 16,000 feet, 17,000 feet, you have to go over the top of the mountain. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:56 Highlight the passage at 1:01:56

1:02:16 Then there would be many prayer flags and then they would sell the little papers. So you say special prayers and little mantras and then you throw them up into the wind. So the wind can carry the little papers. I see. Okay. So these days I heard in Tibet, you know, they print this on plastics. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:16 Highlight the passage at 1:02:16

1:02:38 You didn't see that? Plastics. So it's kind of like very polluting. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:38 Highlight the passage at 1:02:38

1:02:47 Last maybe longer, but maybe, maybe not. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:47 Highlight the passage at 1:02:47

1:02:58 Yeah, so, okay, so this, the benefit of hanging prefects is that if you are, if you are cheese, if your energy is low, you know, and if you are kind of stressed or depressed and you have long problems, you're hanging, yeah, this will bring your energy back. Yeah, yeah, that's, huh? Report an error in the passage at 1:02:58 Highlight the passage at 1:02:58

1:03:32 Asthma, I don't know if this helps specific problems, like a disease like that, but this help normally helps one's energy back, bring energy back. And also a symbol of, you okay? Report an error in the passage at 1:03:32 Highlight the passage at 1:03:32

1:04:01 A prayer flag is a symbol of peace. People like this because of peace. This brings peace and unity eventually. Everybody has this flag at their doorway. Those peace lovers. That's nice. We should have... it's Report an error in the passage at 1:04:01 Highlight the passage at 1:04:01

1:04:24 lovers. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:24 Highlight the passage at 1:04:24

1:04:31 I have a tiny one in my room, a tiny little one. From where? Tibet? Yeah, a student of Free Tibet. Yeah, yeah. They send these things out. So in any case, the prayer flags are kind of auspicious as well as it brings energy, peace, harmony. So it's good to have. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:31 Highlight the passage at 1:04:31

1:05:04 our house with window by the window Report an error in the passage at 1:05:04 Highlight the passage at 1:05:04

1:05:14 sizes of fair flags are now available in the Buddhist Book Cafe. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:14 Highlight the passage at 1:05:14

1:05:21 The Liberation Prison Project calendars will tell you what's the most auspicious days to hang the pearl flags and what days you should not hang pearl flags. And I heard that if you hang pearl flags on a day that says you should not hang them. That you will have unfortunate happenings as long as the prayer flags are hanging. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:21 Highlight the passage at 1:05:21

1:05:46 So it takes quite a long time for a prayer flag to disintegrate. So you don't want to hang it on a bad day. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:46 Highlight the passage at 1:05:46

1:05:58 The calendar will help everybody. All right. Liberation Prison Project Calendar has lots of information. Also available. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, then the stupa, right? Okay. This is called a stupa, which symbolizes the mind of, of exalted mind of enlightened being, right? So what is the exalted mind of enlightened being? The omniscient, the all-knowing, and knowing what is right and what is wrong, what should be practiced and what should be avoided. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:58 Highlight the passage at 1:05:58

1:06:56 That symbolizes that. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:56 Highlight the passage at 1:06:56

1:07:01 As a Buddhist, it's important to have the image of Buddha. and then we Report an error in the passage at 1:07:01 Highlight the passage at 1:07:01

1:07:07 Shakyamuni Buddha, and a scriptural text, one of his texts, a volume of text, which symbolizes speech, right? And then the stupa. So these three are important, right? These three are the symbols of the body, speech, mind of the Buddha, right? And also when you take refuge. Refuge in the Buddha, refuge in the Dharma, refuge in the Saṅgha. And these three symbolizes three jewels. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:07 Highlight the passage at 1:07:07

1:07:53 So the stupa is which three jewels? I mean, which one is of the three jewels symbolized by stupa? Report an error in the passage at 1:07:53 Highlight the passage at 1:07:53

1:08:07 Because, yes, maybe the Buddha, yes. I think it's the Buddha. Uh-huh. Three jewels, yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:07 Highlight the passage at 1:08:07

1:08:14 The Buddha, Buddha Jewel, because why? Because it symbolizes the omniscient mind of the Buddha, which is the essence. This is the Buddha nature of Buddha. Buddha nature, okay. All right. And then the Buddha, image of the Buddha Shakyamuni symbolizes both Buddha Jewel as well as Saṅgha Jewel, right? And then the scripture text. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:14 Highlight the passage at 1:08:14

1:08:44 symbolizes. Dhamma-jula, right? The speech of the Buddha. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:44 Highlight the passage at 1:08:44

1:08:54 Why does that symbolize the Buddha's mind? I know there are different kinds of stupvas and they all look slightly different, but they all have a point on the top. But what is it about that? Is it just the... The layers of the mind, or what is it? I mean, it's just, it's an interesting shape, and why does that represent? Yes, I think this is, this stupa, this shape, I think this is called a Kadamba stupa, Kadam Chatin, we call it Kadam Chatin. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:54 Highlight the passage at 1:08:54

1:09:30 So, so the, originally, the stupas hold, supposed to hold the relics of the Buddha, right? And Chöten in Tibetan, Chöten means the object of reverence. The object of making offerings. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:30 Highlight the passage at 1:09:30

1:09:53 Chöpite. These layers, there are 13 of them. It's called Chöngkor Choksom. Chöngkor means the will of Dharma. There are 13 will of Dharma. Kind of, you know So When it says the will of Dharma, it's kind of like layered up like this. So when you turn the will of Dharma, I think it's originally from the mind of a Buddha. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:53 Highlight the passage at 1:09:53

1:10:23 Enlightened mind is the source of the teachings, right? Report an error in the passage at 1:10:23 Highlight the passage at 1:10:23

1:10:31 Do you agree? So top is the jewel, Report an error in the passage at 1:10:31 Highlight the passage at 1:10:31

1:10:42 the wish-fulfilling jewel, I guess. This top. Or this could be a lotus flower which is about to open. I'm not exactly sure. Report an error in the passage at 1:10:42 Highlight the passage at 1:10:42

1:11:01 Thirteen dharma wheels. Okay. So this... This is like a normal stupa you see in Nepal. Right? This is called... This one is... This one is... Report an error in the passage at 1:11:01 Highlight the passage at 1:11:01

1:11:30 There are eight different stupas. Eight different stupas. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:30 Highlight the passage at 1:11:30

1:11:45 India, yes. From India. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:45 Highlight the passage at 1:11:45

1:11:57 They're from India, yes. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:57 Highlight the passage at 1:11:57

1:12:09 Images of Buddha? Report an error in the passage at 1:12:09 Highlight the passage at 1:12:09

1:12:24 Yes. If I understand correctly, and I might not, it was a while before images of Buddha were actually used in practice. It was the Indian kings that started the practice of doing that. I heard that these stupas are built by the Dharma king Ashoka. The king Ashoka built these stupas when Shakyamuni Buddha passed away into Parinirvana and then his disciples cremated. Report an error in the passage at 1:12:24 Highlight the passage at 1:12:24

1:13:01 This body, holy body of Shakyamuni Buddha, and they found lots of relics. At that time, there were many different kingdoms, followers of the Buddha, but there were kings. There were eight or ten kings that came together, and then they said, we need to... They kind of divided all the relics into eight or ten, and they took away... Report an error in the passage at 1:13:01 Highlight the passage at 1:13:01

1:13:31 They built some kind of object. Later on, they designed many different ways. Initially, there was a kind of house, a treasure house. They built a relic house. They put a relic in it. Then people did practices, making circle ambulations and things like that. Around the relic house. And then later on, King Ashoka had the idea of designing those relic houses into these different stupas. Report an error in the passage at 1:13:31 Highlight the passage at 1:13:31

1:14:16 So he found these relics from one of those relic houses, huge amount of relics. Initially there was a little bit, right? And it was growing, how do you call that? Increased. Yeah, multiplied. Relics are multiplied and found a lot of relics in the house and then took, then he built a huge number of stupas. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:16 Highlight the passage at 1:14:16

1:14:46 Yeah. What was the question? This one you're talking about? Okay, so there are like, yeah, there are eight different types of stupas. Okay, so there are Desik Chotin, which is Tathangata Stupa. And then there is Chanchup Chotin, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, chakra stupa then the chun chun chun Report an error in the passage at 1:14:46 Highlight the passage at 1:14:46

1:15:32 Yendam Chotin, Stupa for pacifying schism among the Saṅgha community. Yeah. And then there's Namjil Chotin, there's Vijayani Stupa or Victoria Stupa. And then there's Nyande Chotin, there's Parinirvana Stupa. So I guess these stupas, they didn't... Kadamba is like Atisha, when it comes to Tibet, he had this design of stupas. They called it Kadam Chodhi. Report an error in the passage at 1:15:32 Highlight the passage at 1:15:32

1:16:16 This one? Report an error in the passage at 1:16:16 Highlight the passage at 1:16:16

1:16:24 This one? Yeah, because that's what they call it. Okay. Right. Deshek Chodhi. Chanjub Chodhi. Yeah, these, you know, these... Designs of these are different, slightly different. I saw those eight of them near Sarah. There's the Nyingma Monastery. They built all these eight different stupas near their monastery. They're kind of like this, but the shape, sometimes this is different, a little slightly different, and this one is different, kind of like that. Report an error in the passage at 1:16:24 Highlight the passage at 1:16:24

1:17:09 There are eight of them. So anyway, I think those stupas are built for different occasions of the Buddha Shakyamuni. They built this specific stupa when he attained enlightenment of Buddha. Or the stupa which symbolizes the enlightenment of Buddha. Yeah, exactly. Symbolizes those events. To remind those different special occasions. And they built the stupas. Report an error in the passage at 1:17:09 Highlight the passage at 1:17:09

1:17:42 These stupas should contain the relics of the Buddha. Report an error in the passage at 1:17:42 Highlight the passage at 1:17:42

1:17:51 Anyway, so what is left? Conch? Report an error in the passage at 1:17:51 Highlight the passage at 1:17:51

1:18:01 Please. On the altar with the stupa, how many water offerings? Like in my altar, I just put up three water offerings. Should I have more than three? Or is three enough? yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:18:01 Highlight the passage at 1:18:01

1:17:56 yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:17:56 Highlight the passage at 1:17:56

1:18:17 I just have three candles and three glasses. Traditionally, if you're doing specific daily practices, which requires eight or seven sets of offerings, Seven Offerings. Then you need two waters, you know, Agampathe. Right? Do you do that kind of practice? Agampathe. Report an error in the passage at 1:18:17 Highlight the passage at 1:18:17

1:18:59 So there are actually eight, but the Shapta, the last one is music. So water for drink, right? Water for drinking, water for washing, okay? And then... Depoe is the incense. Oh, flower. Depoe is the flower. Flowers. Yeah. Flowers. And then the incense. Okay. And then the tea light or bottle lamp. Right. Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:18:59 Highlight the passage at 1:18:59

1:19:35 Bottle lamp. And then the food. All right. Exactly. Gende. Gende is what? The perfume. Perfume, scent, scented water, yeah, scented water, this Gende, and then the food, Nidhi, and then the music, which sometimes you can arrange, I mean, put the music there, simple music, or the bell, or like the Tingsha, it's called the small one, it's called the Tingsha. Report an error in the passage at 1:19:35 Highlight the passage at 1:19:35

1:20:15 I have those two symbols. Yeah, that's fine. Then you can put that. Or you can have seven water bowls. Seven. And then one light in the middle. So you have, like, exactly. Like this. See? Like, normally, one, two, three, and then light, and then four here. See? Okay, good. Report an error in the passage at 1:20:15 Highlight the passage at 1:20:15

1:20:54 See, you can, maybe you, okay. Yeah, get that. Yes, exactly. That's perfect. Yes. So, okay, this is like, Report an error in the passage at 1:20:54 Highlight the passage at 1:20:54

1:21:06 yeah, that's good. So that you can set, you know, like traditionally or you can just offer like, for example, you know, like whatever offerings you have, you know, you can put one tea light, two tea light, three tea light, you know, one. A cup of water or whatever you have. One more question. In this tradition, when you light incense, do you light three incense, Buddha, Dharma, Saṅgha? Report an error in the passage at 1:21:06 Highlight the passage at 1:21:06

1:21:34 Because in the other traditions, when you light incense, you always have to light three. One for Buddha, one for Dharma, one for Saṅgha. I see. No, we just burn one incense for three of them. Report an error in the passage at 1:21:34 Highlight the passage at 1:21:34

1:21:50 If you're not allergic to the incense. even burn actually because I can't Report an error in the passage at 1:21:50 Highlight the passage at 1:21:50

1:21:57 What else do we need to talk about? This one, singing bowl. I tell the truth, we don't really use this. We never use this singing bowl. Report an error in the passage at 1:21:57 Highlight the passage at 1:21:57

1:22:13 Tibetan singing bowl is, it's not, this is not Tibetan. Maybe it sells better, yeah. That's why they call this Tibetan singing bowls. But we, in the monastery, I didn't have this until, I didn't even see this until I was in Taiwan. Taiwan, 1999. 1999. I didn't even see this one. Report an error in the passage at 1:22:13 Highlight the passage at 1:22:13

1:22:43 Anyway, so I don't have any specific description for this, but the singing bowls are used for meditation, right? Report an error in the passage at 1:22:43 Highlight the passage at 1:22:43

1:23:04 And also used for yoga practice. When you do yoga, they use that too, right? I call the session. That one we use the gao. In the monasteries, we have a giant, do you remember Gash Labar one years ago? Giant, big, yeah, it's a really good one. That is used for calling people for assembly, yeah, for big gatherings, yes. Report an error in the passage at 1:23:04 Highlight the passage at 1:23:04

1:23:40 I know that's kind of, uh-huh. Report an error in the passage at 1:23:40 Highlight the passage at 1:23:40

1:23:47 Well, I just thought, you know, it was also the sound being similar to like the sound of the bell, you know, anytime you hear a bell, it's supposed to... Report an error in the passage at 1:23:47 Highlight the passage at 1:23:47

1:23:57 remind you of wisdom, emptiness. So I thought maybe it was. That's nice, yes, yes, yes. Yes, you remember the emptiness. You know, things like, okay, the sound of that is sound of emptiness. Report an error in the passage at 1:23:57 Highlight the passage at 1:23:57

1:24:16 Emptiness has no sound from its own side. Yeah, I just remembered also those... The singing bowls, if you're kind of paying attention to the sound and it's really clear, it's almost impossible to tell when it stops ringing because it just gradually disappears. Into empty. Yeah, so it's like emptiness and also impermanence. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:16 Highlight the passage at 1:24:16

1:24:46 You can make all kinds of stories, I guess. like, know. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:46 Highlight the passage at 1:24:46

1:24:49 yes. Going from the, yeah, from the... Conventional to the ultimate. Let's play once. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:49 Highlight the passage at 1:24:49

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1:25:35 Yes. Yeah, that's kind of nice. I didn't listen that way. I listened, you know. It's just kind of like... Report an error in the passage at 1:25:35 Highlight the passage at 1:25:35

1:25:52 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:25:52 Highlight the passage at 1:25:52

1:25:58 Uh-huh. That's right. That's very nice. Okay. All right. Any other questions? I have nothing else to say. Report an error in the passage at 1:25:58 Highlight the passage at 1:25:58

1:26:17 I hope so. I don't know, yeah, is it an appropriate question? Okay, so a lot of the tankas and a lot of the statues, you'll see a sword, like flaming sword. What's that? Okay, a flaming sword. I think that wisdom realizing emptiness. Manjushui holds a sword, you know, and this. Report an error in the passage at 1:26:17 Highlight the passage at 1:26:17

1:26:48 When you have these kind of weapons, normally in a worldly sense, weapons is to destroy your enemies. But in this sense, in a Dharma sense, the real enemy, the true enemy is the self-cherishing thought or the self-grasping. So those things can be destroyed or damaged by wisdom sore. So this is wisdom. Report an error in the passage at 1:26:48 Highlight the passage at 1:26:48

1:27:18 It's like the bride, the wisdom realizing emptiness. The sword is kind of so sharp, it's kind of flaming. It's very, it's perfect antidote, perfect weapons to destroy our self-centeredness, right? Self-grasping. I think that's it. And then I was thinking about, you know, this you already know, but when we have all these images, I was thinking like, you know, new students to introduce Thangkas mainly. Report an error in the passage at 1:27:18 Highlight the passage at 1:27:18

1:27:54 You know, like Thangkas, we have all these, you know, paintings of the world and Thangkas, different images, holy object images. Report an error in the passage at 1:27:54 Highlight the passage at 1:27:54

1:28:04 Vajrasattva, you know, Tara, 21 Tara, Medicine Buddha, Manjushri and 35 Buddhas. And we have, you know, the tseokshin, the married field, and Lama Tsongkhapa and the two disciples, and Shakyamuni Buddha. When you enter into this meditation shrine, if you look around and you see all these things, and if your mind is distracted, it says the benefit of having this is that even if your mind is completely distracted, completely, you're like Really angry and you look around and see these things, you still get benefit, you know, receive benefit, which is a wonderful thing, you know what I mean? That's not saying that you can't be, you know, it's okay, angry is okay, but we're not saying that, but still, you know, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, they benefit sentient beings no matter what, no matter, you know, how. Report an error in the passage at 1:28:04 Highlight the passage at 1:28:04

1:29:00 Are you okay? No. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:00 Highlight the passage at 1:29:00

1:29:05 Yes. Do you have a question, Shuki? don't know. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:05 Highlight the passage at 1:29:05

1:29:10 you're talking, ah, oh. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:10 Highlight the passage at 1:29:10

1:29:16 I was going to say that whenever in class, whenever I talk about a certain one, I always point them out. So if I say Vajrasattva, I say right over Hillary's head is Vajrasattva. So then they begin to, people can begin to recognize this as Tara, you know, we talked about Tara, you know, because it comes up even if it's not the meaning of the class. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:16 Highlight the passage at 1:29:16

1:29:35 You talk about different ones, like Medicine Buddha and so forth. So then they begin to recognize what they are because people who don't... I actually had somebody, a very new person ask me, why does he have a bloody sword in his hand? Because they thought the flames were blood, you know? Yeah. It's really confusing to people. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:35 Highlight the passage at 1:29:35

1:29:58 And that's not even a wrathful image, much less when you start getting into the wrathful, more wrathful images. I know. I'm really confused. Actually, I think it would be really good to just do a tour of all the images and just go from each one. And not just say five minutes on each one. Like, this is what the energy they do. It's all enlightened energy like that. Just walk. And then, you know, the protectors and what those are. Report an error in the passage at 1:29:58 Highlight the passage at 1:29:58

1:30:23 Right. It's useful because people get the wrong ideas. Exactly. I think it's interesting looking at the first item that you picked was the eight auspicious symbols. Then looking at the tankas, you see those symbols as offerings and symbols like at the bottom of Manjushri. Report an error in the passage at 1:30:23 Highlight the passage at 1:30:23

1:30:47 I always picture when I see that lotus filled with those little things. Each one is a wish for filling jewel and it's in that. offering a bowl when it's on the list then see at the bottom of Tara they have the Dharma Chakra they have the vase they have all these suspicious symbols too that appear in the tanker so it's good to know Report an error in the passage at 1:30:47 Highlight the passage at 1:30:47

1:31:19 See, you see like, you know, Dharma Chakras everywhere, right? Pumbaa. Pumbaa, except in wrathful deities. Wrathful deities, you see the skull cup. Like Pandan Lama, you see the skull cup. Report an error in the passage at 1:31:19 Highlight the passage at 1:31:19

1:31:38 Pandan Lama, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Report an error in the passage at 1:31:38 Highlight the passage at 1:31:38

1:31:47 Tenzin Choki said that when, she said that these, the jewels at the bottom of the tankas are so that no matter where they're hung, they always have an offering made. Sort of like, you know, because often when we hang them in a hallway or something, we don't have a little altar in front of them. So that this is built into the design of the Thakka, so there's always a little offering there. That was very interesting, I'd never heard of that before. That's nice. Report an error in the passage at 1:31:47 Highlight the passage at 1:31:47

1:32:13 Yeah, holding the different things, yeah. But usually it's like the Dharma Chakra and the jewels. Yeah, that's a good description. Report an error in the passage at 1:32:13 Highlight the passage at 1:32:13

1:32:38 Instrument, yes. Report an error in the passage at 1:32:38 Highlight the passage at 1:32:38

1:32:42 Thank you for your help. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Report an error in the passage at 1:32:42 Highlight the passage at 1:32:42

1:32:45 Yes, Report an error in the passage at 1:32:45 Highlight the passage at 1:32:45

1:32:54 please. Report an error in the passage at 1:32:54 Highlight the passage at 1:32:54

1:32:58 ahead. Report an error in the passage at 1:32:58 Highlight the passage at 1:32:58

1:33:26 Satsang with Report an error in the passage at 1:33:26 Highlight the passage at 1:33:26

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1:34:53 you, Shabbat, and thank Thank you, Shabbat, and Report an error in the passage at 1:34:53 Highlight the passage at 1:34:53