[16] Tibetan Buddhist Practices and Spiritual Directives

8:09PM Mar 28, 2024

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Andrew Holecek

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Hey, everybody, welcome to our ongoing book study group. I'm actually, this is an avatar. Because I am an avatar, I'm actually on the road when this thing is going to be happening live. But isn't it amazing? Okay, it doesn't matter. I mean, for all, you know, I could be dead tomorrow at this time. So, I have just a couple of brief announcements, I think I might have mentioned some of this before, for our nightclub members. Actually, both for nightclub and are preparing to die community, we have the option of offering a 30% discount, which is non trivial. For the upcoming pure lands program, I draw the Mountain Center that I'm doing in May. And I'm going to be releasing within the next couple of days. Really cool interview I did with Professor Mark Kuno, who's a real real expert in this area, we had a super rich two hour conversation about pure lands and how much they actually have to offer. So this event is something I don't teach very often. In fact, this particular event, the juxtaposition of sutra, Tucker, pure lines I've never taught. So in that regard is a brand spanking new program. I think second week in May, or something like that, we've covered just a ton of really cool topics. And for even the students of Tibetan Buddhism, always an eye opener, in terms of how much these puroland teachings This tradition has to offer. So if it works for you, this is a hybrid program that 30% is for the online for the hybrid part. Pretty substantial, I think you discounted and hope it works for you to attend. Also, in June, my most advanced program on dreams. And I'd be all in Colorado, just outside of aspen. Another really drop dead gorgeous location. This is by far my deepest dive, the highest reaches of Dream Yoga, dealing with some pretty cool stuff. So if that happens to work for you. Why don't want to look at that one little little bit quickly here just because I think that was getting close to being full. We just finished an event in Costa Rica last week, but first time they blew spirit. Seven days down there. Amazing, just spectacular location. So we left off last time on page 59. of preparing to die. This little topic on insurance Dharma, I like this particular name. Yeah, this is a this particular set of teachings is absolutely positively in insurance, Dharma, which means that if you do your main practices properly, you don't need any of that stuff. You don't need Bardo, you don't need power. You don't need all these death preparatory things, because your main practices will get you there. But these teachings are in the tradition for a reason. I guess I'm an insurance salesman in that regard. I'm okay with that role. Sounds kind of cool to me. So that's where we left off insurance, dharma page 59. Even for someone well versed, this rich array of practices can be intimidating. Which one do we emphasize? How many should we do? How well do we have to do it? That's really a common question slash issue, especially with Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan approaches. Sometimes, you know, we know it is the body Rihanna. The indestructible adamantane diamond vehicle, sometimes known as Rupiah Yara, or pious skillful means so the vehicle of skillful means. And this is one reason I subscribe to this particular branch of the Buddhist approach because it has so many skillful means so many practices, right? There's there's not any state of existence, sleeping, dreaming, dying, you name it, everything's covered with teachings and practices. And sometimes it can be an embarrassment of riches. In a certain sense, there are so many things to, to potentially work on. But this is why it's always helpful to have this absolute view that on one level, I mean, the ultimate practice, the ultimate preparatory practice for that is nothing just nondistracted non meditation, or in the Hindu schools under PI of the path of no path, just simply do nothing really well. That's it. And I'm not being smart alligator there. That's really true. Relax, open. That's it. But for most people, that's too steep. It's too simple. Simple, doesn't mean easy. We're complex beings. And so they're all these other complex practices designed to meet the complexity of our minds. But this is important so we don't get lost and like, oh my god, there's all these things to do when which ones do I do and when and all that kind of thing. Never forget, never forget. Just have to open and relax. That's it. There's def approaches rely on the prac Just with which you are the most familiar, right? So that's what we're doing meditation to become familiar with. That's what the word means. It's like staying with an old friend, take refuge in your favorite meditation or recite your favorite mantra. Stability, relaxation, and peace of mind are all you really need. From an absolute perspective, remember this Dow is adage, by doing nothing, nothing is left undone. But doing nothing is often the hardest things to do, right? Because I often say we're not human beings, we're human doings. And so as we die, we're becoming undone, there is nothing left to do. And that's what makes it so hard, is just letting go surrendering, giving up. These practices give us something to hold on to at a time when everything is slipping away. The third eruption, Rinpoche says that the actual time of death, it might be very hard to gather any mental stability to start a meditation. Yeah, I mean, again, think about this. Think about how you do when you're sick. This is a really wonderful litmus test, when you're really not feeling so great. And you're sick in bed. I mean, how, how capable, are you bringing a meditative, contemplative approach to your illness to your sick sickness. Imagine multiply that during the process of dying. Without some preparation, you know, maybe not so not so well prepared back to him. So you must choose a meditation in advance and marry your mind with it as much as you can. Think again and again, at the time of death. I will not let myself be involved with any negative thoughts, and quote, in order to achieve meditative clarity and peace of mind, and peace in your mind, it is important to meditate again and again, well before the arrival of death, then when the time of death arrives, you'll be able to die with the right mental qualities, and code. So that's the whole that's the whole charter here, right? To get to the point where you do these practices to such an extent they start to do you. They just become automatic, they become your default. What is found that was found them. And so that's why we we practice, it's kind of an irony, right? Working, practicing to relax and open. Because we have to work with both relative and absolute approaches. Super easy to say like the manual people just open, relaxed, it's it 100% accurate, it's totally true. But because of our habit patterns, that's so easy, it's too steep. So therefore, we have all these other relatively pious these skillful means that we can use to supplement. But at the moment of doubt, you don't want to be introducing new stuff, you want to just go in with what you're most familiar with. With a friend at your side. We want to be protected from the pollution of the confused mind when we die. The meditations listed above provide that protection, all the metadata, all the meditations, right mantras, literally, mind protectors also provide this armor. The mantras discussed earlier, these are the two big ones all mommy Padme home, and Oh, mommy Daiwa three are two of the best. Another form of protection is to listen to your favorite teaching is your day. This doesn't give negative thoughts a chance to arise and connects you to your teacher, your guru. So your MPJ says, The teachings are louder than your thoughts. I like that. Drown them out. I'm out with a mantra, drown it out with some liturgy. Just make the teachings louder than your discursive samsaric thoughts. Allow your mind to be captured by wisdom, not confusion. Power, that's the objection of consciousness thing. Pure Land and the Bardo teachings are all insurance dharma. I'm an insurance salesman. Yeah, that's just life insurance. This is death insurance. This is the card mixing metaphors this is your true Ira your shoe immortality, like health. If your main practice is stable, you don't need this insurance. Many masters rarely teach these adjunct methods because proficiency and the main practices naturally extends into the Bardot's. The main practices vary according to your teacher or lineage. But they are usually shamatha mindfulness for passionate insight. In bodhichitta, right awakened heart mind compassion. For Tibetan Buddhists, Buddhists, then you have all the tantric goodies. Deity Yoga also known as generation stage practice, you

practice Guru Yoga, just many teachers say this practice of devotion, correlative to bhakti yoga and Hinduism This is the law Many people say this is the most important central practice in all of tantric virginiana Buddhism, devotion, which really opens you. Or the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings, right? These absolute complete formalist practices. Don't shy away perfection, like Maha Mudra is one of the highest teachings in Tibetan Buddhism. It describes the enlightened mind and how to realize it. Good to know, because this is what's revealed at the moment of death. Remember, grand opening, that's when the empty luminous nature of the mind is revealed. That's the Enlightened space, that's where we're going to go when we died. So preparation, preparation, preparation, so we get to the point, when we're at the moment of death, we can completely relax it like we work now. So they can really relax them. And say, as I often do, right, smile on our face, ah, this is what's happening. I'm dying, been there, done that. Been there done that I'm familiar with what's happening. I know where I'm going. But pull up pure land and the Bardo teachings are there to catch us if we fall there in the tradition for a reason and had been taught by countless masters for centuries. If everything else failed on the Bardo, it's nice to know, have these emergency teachings in your pocket. Part one of this book, summarized by the mystic, Abraham a Santa Clara. Yeah, you know, this was this is as far as back as I could trace it. So many traditions have iterations of there so that the primary attribution who knows but this is the farthest I could trace it. If you die before you die, then when you die, you will not die. That's really the summary statement. You'll find it in Sufism, you'll find it in Christianity, you'll find it in Zen, if you can die or let go of your attachments now, in some of these attachments include I mean, even your attachments to the to doctrine, the teachings, right self liberate even the antidote. You'll hear in this discussion that we're going to be releasing what with Marco No, on pure lands. He says the attachments are largely about attachments to our views, philosophies, ideologies. If you can die, let go of ego now that when you physically die, you will not die because you're already dead. And you've already let go to the point that you discover the formless Dharmakaya the Dharma taught during life. And then took down Rinpoche, I'm going to be seeing him this weekend, and we're going to the University of Virginia conference, and he's supposedly going to be there. Love this guy. He's so cool. After death of the ego, you become fully alive. If you want to live fully, you first have to die. Yeah, really death and taxes one way they're there, you have to pay it right? Fire and brimstone. pay now or pay later, one way or the other, you still have to die, you still have to let go. So why not drip it? Why not titrate it why not do it on your negotiable terms? Before you're forced to do so, deaths, non negotiable terms, right? That's the whole deal.

Only a dead man has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. So that's the end of his quote. Rinpoche is not talking about the Bardos here but his words apply directly to them. I have inserted some commentary to connect his words to the Bardo. Okay, so here's a longer rift from Adam Smith and people always asked me what it means to be a Buddhist. My reply, it means being nobody. Then my interjection resting in the Bardo. Dermatol or egoless. To Nigerian. The true spiritual path is not about becoming. It is about not becoming and then me again, it's not about endless rebirth. The other part of becoming it's about staying with a deathless Dharma talk back to him, when we let go of this futile effort to be or become somebody, freedom and enlightenment take care of themselves. Me again. We remain in the Dharma ta as nobody and don't fall into the barrel of becoming somebody back to him, we see that we are inherently divine already. The truth of our Dharma to nature that's me, and we are enchanted. To see how effortlessly liberation unfolds. That's the interjection for me. We only have to let go and die into our true nature. We only have to relax right is one mind falls into itself. One has to allow this illusory self to die again and again. This death is deeper than physical death. This death allows all of our anguish to dissolve forever. It is not the end of something. It is the beginning of a life where the flower of love and intelligence blossoms that's nice. That's nice and cold. Becoming familiar with your deathless nature now become familiar with it now and you will recognize it that that right you will become egoless before you're forced to do so. And therefore the child luminosity will easily recognize this mother. So yeah, that's that's the reference to this wonderful image of the mother and child luminosity. Remember, from the baton path song when it's time to leave this body? This illusionary tangle. Don't cause yourself anxiety and grief the thing that you should train in and clear up for yourself there's no such thing as dying to be done is just clear light the mother and child clear light uniting when mine forsakes the body shear the light. Whoa, that's pretty cool. Here the light ball Simon was on to this right? Mother and child were union. He was on to this. Okay, so now we get a little bit Geez The heavy lifting Boy, these last three, four or five sessions, we've been doing some pretty heavy lifting. Now we're going to be able to click through a little bit less commentary as we get into a little bit more swimmable waters, right. So the Dharma wells on the Dharma box. Finally, onion, Rinpoche who knows, maybe 20 minutes down the road, offers good advice on Dharma wills and trust the Dharma friends in the Dharma box. Yeah, this is from his book, dying, dying with competence. These are practical measures that will ensure that you and your dharmic caregivers implement the practices and teachings that you want when you die. Briefly and trust the Dharma friends are those who carry out your Dharma will wish they will find in your dharma box. So this is great this is this is fantastically important. This is a Advanced Directives. At the level of kind of spiritual advanced directives, you know it really imagining visualizing is clearly as you possibly can is a wonderful practice. You know, imagine you being on your deathbed. Really, who do you want around you? What do you want around you? What type of sound photographs would you imagine? Like? What do you want? What kind of space in a holding environment is so helpful? What kind of holding environment do you want? If you had an ideal circumstance? How would that be? Right? Great. And then give that to your trusted Dharma friends, stored in your dharma box, everybody knows where to find it, in addition to having those copies, and so that when things happen, good to go. And trusted Dharma friends are a spiritual friends who agreed to help each other die, according to the directors left in their dharma wills. So for those of you who are listening, that are doing or have done that preparing to die program, I guess that's what the PDP community family is all about. So that when people are making their transition, we can be there for each other to support them. Right? No small thing. The spiritual friends create a pact with each other, they share their dharma wills, and their visions for how they want to die. When they implement those wishes, I'm sorry, then they implement those wishes. Good to me every year to update your wishes and to share new insights, or teachings around death. If an untrusted friend gets seriously ill the group gathers to develop a strategy of spiritual care. Imagine how are you going to feel right if you if you know you've got this set into motion? You have all your ducks in a row, you have everything all set? What is it going to do? It's going to create an atmosphere of what relaxation, openness, release. That's what you want. You don't want to be scrambling to slap all this stuff together at this moment, slap it together now. Choose your trusted Dharma friends with this in mind, who do you want at your side when you die? Who do you trust to manage your death and therefore even the seeding of your next life? Who do you want to take control when you no longer can? Do it? The appendix in this book, there are several appendices that talk about some of the specificities of how to do this. So more on that when we get to that? Yeah, I think that appendix one, the Darmowe will is an informal documents, not a legal documents and formal that tells your trusted Dharma friends, what you want them to do, during and after your depth designates our trusted friends provides contact information for our teachers so they can be notified of our condition lists the information for the monasteries, if you want to contact them if you want centers and monasteries to practice. I did all this when my parents transitioned and I contacted the monasteries in advance. I gave them a kind of an offering gift with some money of course to support For them, this is part of their job bombings kind of what they do. And then they were able to do these poojas these practices for my parents as they made their transition. Let's say information for the monasteries or wherever, there's some of the US do it. There's a number in Nepal that I know of in India, if you want specific ceremonies performed for us, when to conduct post death, rituals, etc. Even though the Dharma Wheel is more informal than illegal, well, there could be areas where they overlap, you may want to check with an attorney to see if what you're requesting can actually be carried out. Visit funeral homes now to discuss any special requests, but I do not I do not recommend the pre purchase of Cremation and Burial, there's Boy, that's pretty dicey. There's a lot of abuse that can happen with those finances being distributed in advance. So I personally, I'm not going to do that. I wouldn't recommend it. You often hear about people who do this and they get burned somehow. If you die in hospital, but one time for your family to be with your body at your home, leave this request in your dharma, well, if you don't write this down and tell people none of this is going to happen. I mean, why would it? So it's really great to think this thing through. I remember he says, quote, If we do not actually write these documents in a timely manner, and give them to our family and our trusted friends and place extra copies in our download box, we risk losing precious opportunities for liberation when we die, and quote, after you write your dharma, we'll review it and amend it annually. Do I see things differently this year? What's important to me now? This annual review also helps you evaluate your spiritual progress and reminds you of impermanence. Yeah, I guess we did mine. Just a wee bit over a year ago. The Dharma box simple is a place a box that contains everything or spiritual friends need to know and have to help us die visualize your ideal death. Then write down what others need to know to make it happen. Would you want with you? What do you want with you? But teachings do you want read to you be mindful not to overwhelm your trusted friends with unreasonable unreasonable requests? Yeah, you don't want to go over the top and have like some big massive like Macy's Day Parade around it. You know, be Be careful, be mindful of how much you ask. This is why it's important to discuss your dharma wills with each other. Is this something that others can actually implement? Right? May it be great, I'd love to help the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa and all the great masters but that's just like a habit right? Be realistic. How would you feel if they asked you to do this right? So put yourself in their shoes, right. So there has to be this kind of reciprocity thing which ensures a kind of realistic aspect of it all. The box would include copies of your legal documents, ritual items liturgies you want read, including several copies of the liturgies if you want others to eat them together, and instructions for family and friends.

Inform your family or other non spiritual friends who may be involved with your death about this box in the instructions that it contains. It was all pretty self explanatory doesn't need a ton of commentary. I knew Finally, after all the heavy lifting from the last four or five sessions, we finally get it to a little cruise control. Otherwise, it could be awkward if your spiritual friends arrived to carry out your directives and inadvertently pushed all their loved ones aside. Yeah, this is a real deal. This happens if you're not careful if you don't pave your way with words and contact family and those who almost they feel like they have a legal right to be around you. There can be some serious friction. If there's if this isn't kind of ironed out in advance and also clearly articulated with these documents. Things can get a little edgy, contentious. I mean, yeah, legal, illegal and you can really get crazy. If you're not super clear about this boy family can come in and threaten to sue the hospital and we get really bad. So you want to be super super particular about all these things. let your family know that is your heartfelt wish to have your spiritual friends help you with your death is your present job to ease a future job of your trusted friends and your family. Your spiritual friends should then do everything possible to include outsiders. They should explain the practices and rituals and welcome outside family to participate or simply want to. In addition to formal advanced directives, it's important to have discussions with family members about your wishes for end of life care and form not Buddhist family and friends of your need for a calm and peaceful environment. Let them know that if they're too outwardly emotional they may be asked to leave tell them why right? You don't want somebody with wailing and scream. Moni, at the moment of your transition, that's not so great because that can really bring about attachment from Iran right? These uneasy discussions can provide really uncomfortable situations at the time of your dad. Appendix one, which we'll get to later, offers further suggestions for what to place in the Dharma box. Make sure family and friends know work can be fun. Creating your Dharma will, placing your ritual items, sacred texts and wishes on the Dharma box and having a trusted spiritual friends to put them all into practice helps everyone to relax. The key instructions for good Imagine your peace of mind knowing that everything possible is being done for you, by people you trust, and at a time when you need it the most. Yeah, no small thing. Right. Cool. final advice. Last chapter, I mean, last page in this chapter amazing. We have this first section with the main verses from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. In summary advice for what to do before death. Since the Bardo, this life, which is what preparation for the death part as occurs, includes the Bardot's a dream and meditation. There are three essential instructions from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Excuse me. Now when the Bardo of birth is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time. So now obviously talking about the Bardo, that we're we're in this Bardo life, right Bardo birth. Well, the enter the undistracted path of study, reflection and meditation, what we've been talking about is hearing contemplating meditating, making projections in mind the path and realize the three highest. Now that I have once again once now that I have once attained the human body, there is no time on the path for the mind to wander. And so within life, you know, the two other burdens of dreaming meditation so here we go with dream. This includes sleep. Now when the Bardo dreams is dawning upon me, I will abandon the corpse like sleep of careless ignorance, and let my thoughts enter the natural state without distraction, controlling and transforming dreams and luminosity. I will not sleep like an animal, but unify completely sleep and practice so Sleep and Dream Yoga, really the other practices as well, liminal dreaming, lucid dreaming, they're all included here. Now the meditation Bardo. Now when the Bardo of Samadhi meditation dawns upon me, I will abandon the crowd of distracting distractions and confusions and rest in the boundless state without grasping or disturbance, firming the two practices visualization and complete so these are the generation and completion stage practices. All this at this time of meditation, one pointedly Freeview I could free from activity A will not fall into the power of confused emotions. So that's the end of those three classic versus the other verses we'll get to when we get to their respective Bardot's. The Buddha taught a 4000 teachings at an archetypal number. Don't take it literally. Which can be condensed into the following three lines, since the Dharma altogether is the best preparation for that for depth, breath, best preparation for death. This is indeed a good summary. Do as many good actions as you can. Avoid as many bad actions as you can. Tame your mind. There we go. That's pretty succinct. So your obj summarizes his advice at the moment of death. There are two things that count whatever we have done our lives, in what state of mind we are in at that moment. Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure, and unite your mind with a Buddha. By all heart advice is to practice the good heart, which creates good karma. Practice shamatha to stabilize your mind. Let go. I'm gonna read this again. I mean, this is this is wonderful pithy instruction. And it's like, the whole thing, the heart essence intake, it's about the heart essence. At the moment of death, there are two things that count whatever we have done in our lives, so that's that's the karma, right? habits like what kind of habit patterns have you created? How much goodness bodhichitta. How much merit Have you accrued? I mean, this is the key. Yeah, we're all on the path of accumulation. So this is the first of five paths in the Buddhist tradition. Basically, they're just I've stages on one path. And whether we know it or not, we're all on the path of accumulation. We're mostly accumulating merit and then wisdom. And so this is the heart of all the good study we do all the good practice we do is this healthy accumulation of good marriage, good habits, right? Whatever we have done in our lives, that's what counts. And our state of mind we are in at that moment. So this is this is going to be coming up quite important in the puroland is a massive part of the puroland, this one here, basically, by reciting the Pureline, mantra that nimbu to, you know, all my Amitabha here Amami, they will create Tibetan, you know, over and over and over and over countless, countless countless times, than using the laws of transitional karma, approximate karma, this particular quality of mind MindScape becomes landscape. At the moment of death, just like in a dream. It's almost like a form of dream incubation, you know, you just seeding seeding seeding. We dream at night, what we think of during the day, we dream at the dream at the end of time when we die in that dream. That's going to be manifestation of what we've been practicing and thinking and working with our entire lives. And so at the moment of transition, that's when it becomes particularly acute. This is why when you're doing things like Dream Yoga, sleep Yoga, you want to ramp things up a little bit as you're going to sleep because that last moment, right remember perfumes last thought best thought that last thought perfumes and colors, textures. marinates. The quality of your mind is you sleep and dream. And so in exactly the same way. The last thoughts you have intentionality dying for, with others in mind dying with bodhichitta and your heart, the practice you're most familiar with. Boy, this is a really big input. You know, this is why you don't want to die in a freaked out state of mind with a lot of wailing and moaning, a lot of anguish and pain. You want to whatever extent suddenly you maintain it, to set things in motion on the right track. Be free of attachment. I

mean, that's everything right? Attachment. That's what makes the painful Bartle of dying painful, is pulling out all the attachments playing out all the hooks. So if you get rid of all those attachments now, right, and the attachments come in two forms. So that act of attachment, I should say grasping comes in two forms. Active is just that the grasping part. And then the passive is the attachment. I mean, that's passive grasping. And that's really become apparent when we're in the dyeing process, we're going to realize all these levels of active and passive grasping, is these attachments, attachments who are covered to our thoughts to everything, even you know, to our bodies, right? That's what we're literally most attached to. So, that's the dying before you die part meditation, step in slow motion, letting go letting go freeing yourself freeing yourself, you know, Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, right? Kris Kristofferson wrote that Janis Joplin made it famous. Release, release, release, cut all the attachments now. Letting go is just a euphemism for death cutting a chest, which is a euphemism for death. I mean, it's now what we do in meditation, letting go of our relationship to thoughts, letting go of our relationship to our bodies, letting go letting go letting go, what is the use heard this new age jingle, which is actually quite quite okay in my book, you know, let go to let God I like that. Because if you don't, boy, that makes an ungraceful exit. So to transform the painful part of dying into simply just the barbell dying part of letting go that painful anymore. Because you've done all the hard work, you've done the heavy lifting, you've done the difficult painful letting go beforehand. But it's still one way or the other. If we're attached. This is non negotiable. One way or the other. You have to release you just have to, you have no choice in the matter. None. Doesn't matter how much you kick and scream and wail. And I've seen these situations in hospital, hospice Bardot's, I'm sorry, hospice hospital situations where people have to be sedated. I mean, they they just they do not go gentle into that good night. They do rage, rage, and sometimes violently. So that's all because of their attachment. I mean, remember over and over. Like that is not a defeat, right? It's just not a defeat, we only kick and scream against it. Because we have the wrong view. And so releasing attachment on one level is releasing attachment to these wrong views. The wrong views of materialism the wrong views that matter reign supreme and that we are our bodies and that were made a physicality When there is a crazy one view, and that's why we're so afraid of death. And that's what makes letting go so difficult. So being free of attachment just means that everything being free of the attachment of materialism physicalism, free of attachment to your body free of attachment to all your belief systems, really ideologies. Basically just let everything go. That's what death is inviting. That's what that's what oh, the age isn't biting. That's what sickness is inviting. And that's what old age sorry, that's what death commands, commands. Be free of attachment and aversion, keep your mind pure. So this is fundamental Pure Land principle. On a basic level, keep it pure of all defilements purity at the deepest levels, kind of cold language here. Purity is code language for emptiness. That's what purity really means and tantric Pureline teachings. For instance, when we talk about pure life principle, and you hear this in the interview with Marco No, this is what pure land the archetype of pure land currently, in principle what it means emptiness is the ultimate purity. So keeping your mind pure here is relating to two levels. One is this more conventional level of purity, releasing attachments, but at a deeper level. It's the purity that's associated with purifying the stain of reification, of taking anything to be real emptiness. And you know your mind with the mind of the buddha. Well, where is this buddha mind, right? That's your mind. So you can think of it provisionally somewhat theistic Lee as being out there, you're going to unite your mind with the mind of the buddha. Well, the Buddha is within you, the ultimate teacher. And that's in fact, where you going when you die, you the mind is falling into itself. It's going to fall into the Buddha nature to the true deathless nature. That's what's going to happen. You're going to fall into the Buddha nature within you, you're going to meet the primordial but Amida Buddha doesn't matter what you call it. God, it doesn't matter that you're going to you know, your mind is going to fall, the mind is going to fall into itself, it's going to fall into this ultimate nature. So then again, my own heart advice is to practice the good heart. That's the bodhichitta, right? Anybody can do this, you know, you don't even have to be a practitioner. Anybody that leads a really good life is gonna have a really good death. Pamela's latest book, you know, how you live is how you die. Wonderful. How you live is how you die. This lays member body of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Dalai Lama, both, you know, this lays a red carpet for you, you want to lay a red carpet, more elegant than the one at the Oscars from a couple of weeks ago. Roll it out now, by practicing the good heart, being a service that creates the good karma, the good habit patterns, right. And that will then take good control of you, and good care of you. Practice shamatha to stabilize your mind, that's the only stability you really have is the stability of your mind. And let go, just let it all go based on instruction, let go. And so what a great place to end, instead of cranking we're almost at a 4045 minute mark, instead of cranking and starting chapter two, I think is a good place to let go for this session. Obviously, I'm not authorized to take questions and figure out a way to do that. But I'll see you in a couple of weeks, we'll pick up on what you can do for others before they die. And we'll continue our journey into this wonderful book. So thanks, everybody. Thanks, Alyssa for hosting. See you all in a couple of weeks. And till then, remember always always dedication. To whatever extent we've done anything of value and benefit. We don't hide it for ourselves. We harvest is dedicated for the benefit of all beings. So with that in mind, whatever works for you. I'll see you back in a couple of weeks. Thanks, everybody.