Sooner later about what to do after someone dies. Here's some general tips every time you think of her or anybody who has transitioned, but think of them with love, and you can always recite. I do this constantly when I bring her to mind I'll just think of her name I'll think of her face so no mani padme hum. You can also dedicate merits which we're doing here anything that's of any benefit or value, dedicate merit to them. Your meditation practice you can dedicate there's also kind of specific things you can do a little bit. We'll talk about that in quite detail. When we get to that part of the book. But the idea is, especially on every seventh day, so today's the seventh day or into this tradition every week, on the daily transition, there's a recapitulation of the journey. And it's a particular point that point in time to help so ideally again, this is just classic Tibetan thing, reading something like The Tibetan Book of the Dead, virtually constantly for 49 days. That's a pretty big ask. But every seven days like today, in the next week and the week after, it's just a point in time a few little tiny announcement speaking of preparing today, our next cohort which starts in February's we're almost sold sold out which is great for us. There's a few slots left. So if you're interested in that list, we'll put up the link and I just had a conversation four hours ago I know with a bunch of people cool people where we're going to be offering in the context of this preparing to die cohort. And the group that did the first session will also have dibs on this so to speak. Super cool program virtual reality using a virtual reality program to grease the skids. For dying. Really, really, I'm demoing it as we speak. Super interesting stuff. There was a riff written about it in the last issue of tricycle magazine. And then they reached out to me, which is kind of cool. And so we're definitely going to be incorporating that into this upcoming PDP curriculum. It's kind of jaw dropping actually are pretty cool. Costa Rica Dream Yoga that that's in March that's up there as well. I had not taught at this facility before but a lot of friends of mine have and they just can't stop raving about it, which is why I was so lucky to get in and book solid. Maybe somebody died or maybe somebody died and I was able to get in either way. I mean, I'm kind of excited about that. And then the draw Mountain Center program in May I moved from August to May because my fault is quite full. I'm going to Italy in October to teach maybe Ibiza. I'm going to remember in September, I don't have that one listed yet. That one's going to be cool that was going to be on dark retreat. Psychedelics, virtual reality. Promise or peril. I'm super excited about that. But the dollar Mountain Center program in June May is my first full program in person on Sutra and Tantra pure lands. So anyway, lots happening. I'm starting to shift into that. Kind of mode for for next year, week long programs. But in the meantime, but let's say here's the pause. recording in progress. Okay, more recording in progress. So, last time, we left off couple weeks ago. On page 41, actually no sorry. 40 Choose spiritual preparation, bottom of the page. On devotion. Devotion is right off the bat. There's so much to say here in both Hindu and Buddhist Tantra bhakti yoga and Hinduism, Guru Yoga in Tibetan Buddhism. It's massive. It's huge. And so if that aspect speaks to you, this is a big deal. For a bunch of Jana students last Tantra devotion is the central ingredient on the path and that's no exaggeration. It's also a key preparation for the Bardot's. It uses fundamentally right what is devotion do o uses the most powerful force in the universe, which is what love uses the power of love for purposes of awakening and spiritual transformation. Devotion like love is difficult to define. That's the feeling of heartbreaking trust and heartbreaking certainty. That's a really good definition actually. It's the feeling of heartbreaking trust and heartbreaking certainty. In the spiritual presence master divine being. Devotion is another word for a totally open heart. And I mean, that's what's going to happen when we die, right? It's the grand opening. Same thing that happens every night when we fall asleep. Same thing that happens when we drop into deep meditative practice, as Rumi puts it, right we fall into wider, wider rings of being. Literally the word in Tibetan is wrong bop. The mind falls into itself. That's what's going to happen when we die. The mind is going to drop fall into the lightest dimension of his being which is infinity dissociative alter, the Whirlpool is going to dissolve. We're going to dissolve into mind at large, we become nothing but at the same time we become everything. Again, that's a really good swap. Super important to understand this. Your body literally becomes nobody I don't know I get a kick out of that. You become nothing. Nothing. Nothing. That's emptiness. But here's the kicker. If you really know what's going on, your body gets swapped out with the universe. That's a pretty big deal. Right? So if you understand that, that like a Mobius slip, you traveled to the center of your center yourself, you disappear. You look down and you find that you've been replaced by the universe, you finally become Mr. And Mrs. Universe. And so the one people like Donald Trump, who wants to conquer the world, doesn't realize he is the world. Vladimir Putin wants to conquer Ukraine. He doesn't realize he is Ukraine. So that's when this misunderstanding can become pretty deadly. Right. Devotion is another word for totally open heart meditation is habituation to openness. Openness is a synonym for emptiness. This is all tied together or what? So your MPJ says quote, it is essential to know what real devotion is. It is not mindless adoration is not abdication of your responsibility to yourself, nor indiscriminately following of another's personality or whim. Should have applied this to himself quote unquote sorry, parenthetical interjection little dig. Sorry. He was so great. I mean, what happened to this guy, right? He was so great. I met him. When he published his book, The guy was awesome. But in my estimation, he didn't understand the difference between states and structures of consciousness, the difference between waking up and growing up the difference between vertical and horizontal enlightenment and he massively screwed up sorry, I mean, no, I'm not sorry. He did. Okay, so what are where are you here? Yes, rule devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the true beautiful real devotion is rooted in an odd in reverence, gratitude, but one that is lucid grounded in intelligence. That's really good. That's really good. So should we just categorically dismiss everything he said because of what he did? I don't think so. Pema children agrees with me because she gets criticized sometimes. Why do you keep plugging his book? She says, because I think it's one of the best books out there. I feel the same way. So do we just categorically in a dismissive stance, just throw away everything he's done? I don't think so. I don't think that's appropriate. This kind of we have this potential. propensity to, to reify solidify and then categorically, we'll just that categorize and then just conveniently dismiss, I don't think that's appropriate. If you have devotion, you're about Yojana. student at heart, even though you may not have received formal introduction or do things like bhakti yoga or Guru Yoga. If you received entry into the budget world, but don't have devotion. You're a tantric Adrianna, student in name only. In this business in this business and the contract business, devotion is everything. It's huge. Devotion without recourse to any other method leads to enlightenment in this life or in death. The Buddha himself taught, quote, It is only through devotion and devotion alone, that you will realize the absolute truth that's quite the statement and quote, the master a sangha that go there this when he said that the truth can only be realized through devotion through opening devotion opens your heart and mind right. Same word Sanskrit. heart mind
is a gesture of surrender, and release, that instills blessings. Make yourself available right? Make yourself available to our peeps through this stream of non human intelligence, there are just this is massive array of all these dimensions. This is one reason why by the way, puroland tradition is so interesting to study you actually are we go through all 27 realms of samsaric existence, and then the trans samsaric dimensions, and so it's a fantastic cosmological tour of all the different ways you can manifest now and after you die. So all around the swimming around us whether we know it or not all these non human intelligences, these agencies as real or unreal as we are, we can call on them we're not alone. Especially when you're dying. They can really help. I mean, you know, it's part of their job description. By Miss Ababa, Gary guarantees it right you call out his name, he resigned his mantra. Like I playfully say he's not like me, I never respond. Send me an email. You're lucky to get something back to me before you die. They're not the same. You send them an email you send them a text, you recite their mantra that's their email address. They respond right away right away. They're not like me. That shows you how far away I am from Buddhahood. I should probably start by responding to my texts and emails with more regularity, thanks to a form of Bodhisattva activity Sorry, got a long way to go. It's a gesture of surrender and release the peace, those blessings. It's about dropping any form of resistance. Trying I'm sorry, dying to your defensive self contraction. And I'm trying to remember Jay who I just love. I really I really liked this guy. I don't know if you've read his stuff, no problem, no self no problem. It's got a number of other books and met him numerous occasions. In fact, you'll see he's interviewed later in this book, total Rockstar and I'm sure John says quote when our heart is completely taken over and seized by the force of devotion, and self does not have any power to maintain his composure. Ego just dies right there on the spot. Self is gone. The moment our heart is completely taken over by the spirit of devotion and quote, now why is that? Well, because self is the archetype of contraction. You cannot be contracted and be in love at the same time. They're mutually exclusive. You can be in lust, but you can't be in real love. They're they're mutually exclusive phenomenon. So here it says that the three best things we can do when we die in order are rest in the nature of your mind. Guru Yoga and POA. Resting in the nature of your mind is cultivated with the formless meditations of the Dharmakaya see below. Guru Yoga nurtures devotion and power is practice is a practice discussed below. Devotion matures into realization this boy this is a big line. Hello from Ajay says this Kimbo Carter Rinpoche says this temple children devotion matures into realisation devotion matures into realization. So the first few methods are intimately connected. Guru Yoga is the practice of mixing your mind with the Guru's mind which boosts you into their realisation and remember, never forget the four types of Guru this is important. Number one, not necessarily in order, actually or not in order but physical entity whatever person, physical guru number two, the Dharma the teachings as guru number three super interesting, symbolic guru the phenomenal world, the world becomes your teacher. All three of these are provisional gurus are leading to the fourth ultimate guru, which is what with him, within the Guru in your own heart, right. You're already a guru you're already but you just forgot. So of all these provisional forms of Guru out there just to jog your memory to wake you up, say Wake up, you're asleep. You forgot. You are the DOD, you're the Buddha. And so what happens when you die? It's the ultimate alarm clock. It's gonna jog your memory with such severity. You're just going to wake up you're going to have finality. You may not have access to it. In other words, you'll see your Buddha nature when you die. But if you're not familiar with it, you won't recognize it. We all experience it. Just like we all experience deep dreamless sleep. That's called phenomenal consciousness. But without preparation, there's no Access Consciousness. You can experience something and that know it. It's happening right now. I'll point it out to you. Your breathing were You were you access conscious aware of your breathing before I mentioned it to you? No. But you're experiencing it. You just weren't aware of it. On a deeper level. You're already the Buddha. You're already enlightened. You just forgot. At the moment of death, the ultimate jogging of your memory. It's gonna slap you side of the head even though there's no head to slap. It's gonna slap you around. It's gonna remind you fundamentally, you're the Buddha
go yoga is like a temporary mind transplant. Oh, that's pretty that's kind of clever. There are many accounts of people who remember their guru island the Bardot's and attain enlightenment. If you cry out from the bottom of your heart. It's a characteristic of completely enlightened beings to instantly respond. See, I told you so. If it's written in print has to be true. So things are getting out of control or you just don't know what to do.
Chucky name Robert J says I love it. He goes when the crap hits the fan. Nothing else is working. It's just such a natural response just from the bottom of your heart. Right. Don't forget they're there to help you. You're not alone. You're never alone. Only the ego is alone. Okay, we're starting to enter esoteric material. The teaching doesn't resonate with you skip it. You don't need a master every practice or instruction to prepare for death not at all just lead a good life like I said earlier. Just lead a good life lead a good life. You're gonna have a good death. What had come upon his most recent book, how you live
and develop familiarity with the very definition of meditation to become familiar with. Presenting all these meditations is designed to help you find the right practice and to offer the rich array of preparatory practices. So this is so when someone is dying. Really one of the great teachings is not necessarily a fact not really recommended at all, not the time to introduce something new. You want to go into the Barrows with a friend. You want to go into the Bardot's holding the hand up a practice that you are the most comfortable with the most familiar, the one that allows you to wide open and relaxed. It doesn't matter what it is. Just because there's some super esoteric fill in the blank tantric thing doesn't mean it's any better than refuge and open heartedness and bodhichitta or mindfulness. Whatever you feel most comfortable with, you can take refuge in that's your ticket. But just like lucid dream induction techniques were different. We have different practices that we resonate with. Some people connect to some and not others. So presenting this array is to give you a menu. So you don't have to just eat rice. Like that's what Trungpa Rinpoche says about the pure lands, he said Pureline is a great parallel and traditions are great but it's like going to a restaurant and every entree, every menu everything on the menu is rice. Brown rice, if you're in Bhutan, red rice, white rice, it's all rice. That's not really particularly dismissive, because what he's getting out there is really the central practice of least traditional Peterlin teachings is the recitation of the nembutsu. Now I'm actually trying to interview I just paint a publisher today to see if I could get a hold of Mark guna who's who's written some really quite beautiful books on pure lands. So I'm going to try to get him on Azure Biden podcast and talk to him about puroland tradition. It's much deeper than most people think there's some awesomely cool stuff there. So stay tuned. Okay, the Bardot's in the trachea Yeah, now we're getting into some real really deep, deep stuff. So the Archaia are three body doctrine has columns, by the way from the service, the body and tradition is the central doctrine that relates to the three stages of death, dying and rebirth. It has tremendous explanatory power. If you read Francesca Fremantle, brilliant masterpiece. Luminous emptiness, understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you will actually see that in that book, she extrapolates on the iterative process, the iterative phenomenology of the the threefold pattern of reality, she talks about it, the trachea. So this this particular doctrine head has so much explanatory power that originally describes literally the three bodies of the Buddha and I'll talk about these Dharmakaya sambhogakaya nirmanakaya. But it has so much explanatory power than it was extended extrapolated to talk about the threefold nature of the manifestation of reality. Just all the all the different ways and Francesca does a brilliant job of unpacking that Chicago principle. It's central for understanding the journey of the Bartos. Its central along with the yoga Chara teachings on the eighth consciousnesses. In my opinion, these are the two principal templates to primary Oregon. Orienting generalizations these are the two that really can help us understand WTF is going on when you die. And so remember I told you earlier, I'm more curious than I am a Buddhist. I'll take truth wherever I can get it. Well, check this out. This is this following statement was was pronounced by a Siddha mahasiddha you may recognize him to the well organized mind. Death is but the next great adventure right? You know the Siddha who said that? Dumbledore. The master Dumbledore from Harry Potter. I don't care who says it. Right the sitter's manifests called variegated diversified nirmanakaya they can manifest in any form they meant they manifested in this case is Dumbledore to the well organized mind death is just the next great adventure so the trachea and the yoga Chara a consciousness is in particular there are others. Principle organizing, generalizing general organizing templates, tremendous explanatory power, as you'll see the Takara describes how a Buddha manifests in three bodies, dimensions or modes. A Buddha is one with the formless of absolute, the Dharmakaya body of truth. Yet manifests in relative form what are called a Rupa Kaya is the form fires, some Buddha kya the enjoyment body and then on Mauna Kea emanation body also in Tibetan what is the Mauna Kea translated as cuckoo cuckoo tll KU much more on the two co principal coming up. So the Buddha's manifest is Rupa Kaya is is formed bodies for the benefit of others. So Boca chi, oh my gosh, there's so much to say here to kind of the archetypal dimension, more in a platonic sense than the union sense. More in like using the perennial map of reflux reflux. From Plotinus or another Kumara, swamis, involution evolution. Some Bulguksa are basically the analog Eastern analog to platonic archetypes, the first forms that are filled with a primordial light and sound of the mind, which then basically further reify crystallized involve hence the term involution into all manifest reality. So, oh my gosh, there's so much more to say here. This this is this is the cool thing about the Bardo stuff. Let me tell you about this. I've been studying this stuff, practicing practicing death. You can practice death. Don't have to read about it. Just practice. It. Let go. I've been studying and practicing death in the Bardot's for decades. And it's like a fractal. The more you look, the more there is. There's so much here. It's like the woman the tomb, the cradle and the grave of all manifest reality. It's the singularity. Everything is condensed into these barrels, because everything comes from him. Everything returns to them. So therefore, even in the nearly 500 page book. I mean, if you're, if we were probably to put my commentary on this book that I'm doing with these classes, it'll probably be a 4000 page book. Even then you're basically I wouldn't say you're scratching the surface. There's so much here, because in a certain way, manifest reality is like the Bartos or like reality concentrate. But it's for the untamed untrained mind. It's too concentrated, it's too bright. It's too intense. So we in a paradoxical way, we dilute it in a really bizarre way, we dilute it by reifying it I mean, such an biting irony. And so this entire manifest world is a dilution of the concentration that takes place at death. And that is articulated in the Bardo literature. And so therefore, that's why there's so much to say. Even though on one level, nothing's happening. Emptiness nothing. Well, this is the great kicker, the daily theists thing, it's not nothingness is also everything. Emptiness is fullness. And that's what makes this stuff just so bloody interesting, right? I mean, I've been studying this I've read every book in print. If it's out there, I read it. And it's just barely scratches the surface of how much is here. So this is why we're going to spend the next five years until or until I die, whichever comes first. You never know, just one breath away from God. In other words, the Dharmakaya is the essence of the mind and the sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya are the display of the mind. Oh my gosh, even right there every sentence right here is the very definition of samsara. The definition of archetypal non lucidity, we lose the essence on the display. Let me say that again. We lose the essence and LED display. So what do we do in meditation? We lessen the display to recapture the essence what happens when we die? A non negotiable forceful lessening of the display to what? Absolute Zero. There's no longer any display. You assume that shavasana the corpse pose you're not doing nothing. You're not saying nothing. You've literally dropped the mind is falling into itself. Neti nada nothing. Display, it's ground zero. And if you're prepared, once in a lifetime opportunity to recognize the essence because there's no longer anything to distract you. Exactly what happens in dark retreat, the penultimate Bardo yoga practice, right? No distraction
so this is so important. We lose the essence in the display. That's the definition of samsara and also for nightclub people. This is the archetypal definition of non lucidity. This is why we don't recognize the dream to be a dream whether it's the nighttime dream for double delusion. The daytime dream this or the dream at the end of time, which is the Bartles we don't recognize it. Why because we get too involved. Hence again, the evolutionary thing in evolutionary thing I should say. We get spirit mind, heart, whatever you want to call it gets too involved in and as the display and it says matter. In this primordial amnesia takes place. We forget we forget the empty nature of everything. Right. So that's why at the beginning of the path, there's all this cutting and slashing the gate and the gate and the gate cut extreme path to the middle because whether we know it or not, this is also important. We're all extremists. We're all fundamentalists. Easy to see in others what we're blind to when ourselves oh, that person is a fundamentalist. That person is an extremist. Well, those are just tertiary quaternary expressions. Of the fundamental ontological extremism fundamentalism foundationalism to which we all subscribe, we think things exist, are eternal lists. That's extremism. That's fundamentalism. We're all extremists we don't know. So let's pull up remedy says in death points this out. Big part of the path at the beginning is just slash and burn you know Manjushri is blade. Where is he? Oh, he's up here. I never is. Manjushri is blade into an overtime weedwacker. Blade is swing and everywhere you know just cutting, cutting, cutting cutting bit extreme on front end was so much exterior eternalists that we leaned a little bit towards the nihilistic and a bit. So we find our way back to the middle. Uma Majak. Yeah, boy, so much to say the doctrine expanded the doctrine of the Church I expanded to include the three modes of existence. Gross, subtle and very subtle. These are three levels of reality going from complete formlessness so this is a great thumbnail sketch, complete utter formlessness, the Dharmakaya to completely reified form the nirmanakaya and then everything in between the Sun Bolkiah and Shambala Buddhism, this is what Trump which I call the three courts outer inner and secret courts the Inner Inner Court being the symbol Kaya This is the most you could say populated court. This is where all the vast interdimensional partially dead so to speak partially alive beings hang out. The doctrine of the three bodies describes reality in terms of decreasing levels of density or materiality, progressive levels of what emptiness the reification so the other thing that happens when we lose the essence of the display is we reified the display which is nothing more than what light white emptiness is Dharmakaya archetypal luminosity sunbug Acharya is luminosity. When luminosity goes into schism or Genesis runaway when it goes to divorce court breaks away from some of the boundary for those of you know that languaging we have runaway spiritual patriarchal energy. That's another way to talk about samsara. Too much male spiritual energy, not enough female energies not enough enlightened female energy. So in a certain way, if we're careful with our vocabulary, I do have to be careful here. These teachings are a form of enlightened feminism, where you're introducing the power of emptiness, emptiness is feminine. This is why you want to sleep dream and die in a feminine mode in the feminine state of mind. Because that's where you're going when you die. You're going to return to the embrace the lap of the archetypal mother prajna paramita, the mother of your own mind, that's where you're going. Homecoming mama, you returning to the primordial mama, this is the mama of your mind. You don't have to wait you'll see later you don't have to wait till you die to do this. You can die now. The child on the mother luminosity can meet right now. So I realized I'm throwing out a bunch of stuff here, right? A lot of this will be explained in the upcoming pages. But this is just to show you again. How much is here. All the manifest realities is condensed in this reality concentrates like orange juice, right? You have to add a little water. When we add a little water to this reality concentrate. What do we get? Manifest reality. It's so fantastic. Manifest reality is actually a watered down version. of what's happening here. I mean, what a What an irony right? amazing to me. The Dharmakaya is less solid and assembled, okay, which is less solid than the neurotic higher. This is again part of the evolutionary evolutionary process and I'm not entirely sure I'm not sure if I have the circle of life or death in here that I don't remember. If not, I need a scribe someone to remind me Jerry, Jerry, write it down. If I don't get to the circle of life and death before we die through this book, remind me I'll bring up a diagram. I'll talk about this evolutionary evolutionary efflux reflex cycle. This, the Buddhist tradition doesn't have anything quite like this. So this is the juxtaposition of stuff I put together from a number of different traditions including the perennial philosophy that is really helped me understand the grand play of life and death. A manifestation of every moment, every life every day, has a lot of explanatory power. So Jerry, if it's your fault, if we forget it, we're all going to wash your hell and it's because of you. Each proceeding Kaya or body therefore is in a sense, more spiritual. Yeah, well, you have to be careful here. But yes, in a certain sense, because it's less material. But that's right now that's a tricky comment, because then what does it do? And fortunately, a statement like this again, I wrote this 10 years ago, I would revise this now because the near enemy of this is it tends to put the spiritual not merely in contrast to the material but in opposition to it. And that's not good. Then you get into this whole spiritual bypass thing. So I probably would rewrite this as if I was to do a second edition. Each chi is also associated with one of the three Bardot's for sure, see the table below. The study of the three bodies and the meditations associated with them, help us organize and otherwise confounding set of experiences and to prepare for them. So this is this determined medical businesses called pathognomonic Geron Gnosis word, the doctors know this word pathognomonic is something that's indicative of a particular characteristic. And so what is pathognomonic or indicative of the Bardot's is be willed or meant lack of familiarity. That's what makes the Bardo perilous when they talk about the perilous straits of the Bartos when they're not inherently perilous. They're only perilous because we're not familiar with them. We're not familiar with the Takata within us. So this is the other thing. Oh my gosh, so much. The other thing about the trachea you may think oh, well, you know, it's somewhere it's like this, you know, ethereal dimension thing out there. Well, yes, on one level, because out there and then they are not separate in here, not separate. But most importantly where's the trachea? Here within us? This outermost superficial most dualistic most expression of our being is reified, nirmanakaya subtle body processes when purified some Bolkiah empty internal central channel and the Macik particularly at the head center of the heart center. Goroka so you want to know where the Takata is, are there within you? Where are you going to go when you die? Nowhere, the journey of the minds and now here nowhere. Do you ever realize that nowhere translates is now here. You're taking you're walking a labyrinth to the center of your centerless self, this is the most amazing thing. The mind is going to fall into itself. You're going to journey into the center of yourself and you're going to find nothing. But like Dan said at the beginning, you'll find no body there. But you're also going to find everybody. You're going to find the infinity of the cosmos. Waiting within you because it's already there. So if you understand that, you understand well, I take this journey every night when I fall asleep. I take this journey and deep meditation. I take this journey when I die
liberation that any higher in any barter was equivalent. This is important because often people think oh the Dharmakaya somehow more supreme some ago chi i guess the second best and Amana chi is third class. No, no, no. Fundamentally, the trachea you can talk about the two chi three ways why is this unfolding explicated way out or the groundless ground has is the Dharmakaya from that a folgendes arises the folgendes of the Sun Boca Kaya from that arises the nirmanakaya that has provisional validity but it's also suddenly dualistic creates a cosmological dualism because then that implies well I have to return to the Dharmakaya. Right? Well, then what do you do with your form pious? What do you do with matter? What do you do with your world? This is where spiritual bypassing comes in. So a really just as important, if not more. So is the sub symbolic Acharya. Since it was like baby talk, if you notice that sounds great. It's like baby talk. You're like, I don't have a baby that I'm aware of. I don't want anybody sending any letters. Spa Baba kya. Right. I mean, it sounds like a baby. You know you have an interesting baby. When the first thing they say is not Dada or mama. That's ba ba chi. If you have a baby that says this, let me know. You probably have a tupu on your hands. Anyway. I'm getting a little goofy today. I hope it's okay. Just because I spent so much time in retreat this last month. I loosened up a little bit. I get a little goofy. So where was I here? Oh, yeah. So the the unfolding of the trachea is helpful for pedagogical purposes as a heuristic. It helps to divide and conquer in this way so to speak. But it's really important to understand this the inseparability Hindu language to RIA Tita that there the the chi is complete right now. Recognize the empty nature, the open nature of your being or the phenomenal world. That's Dharmakaya recognize the energetic display of the phenomenal world. That's some vocal kya. Recognize the clarity, the sharpness, the vividness. I would append reification that's there, Monica. So the point is not to return to the Dharmakaya otherwise you get spiritual bypassing. The issue is to recognize the Dharmakaya. Recognition and liberation are simultaneous so many times is that said in the Book of the Dead right? Issue is recognition. One is not better than another recognition at the end of the Bardo of dying results in liberation at the level of the Dharmakaya. recognition on the Bardo Dharma top results in liberation at the level of the Sangha, kya and recognition and the Bardo, becoming result in liberation at the level of the neurotic Hyah. As we go through this book will explore the transition from one Bardo. Slash kya to another. We will learn what characterizes the end of one Bardo slash Kaya and the beginning of the next. Yeah, as we'll see, there's a little bit of a provisional kind of line that separates them a little kind of a blackout. And there's a moment of unconsciousness due to lack of recognition that actually characterizes the transition from barter to borrow. Buddhahood is defined as the full realization of the trachea. This is because the Tocai is the essence of who we are. And that essence is awake. Loosen ultimate lucidity, the Buddha with him. That is an involution airy journey. So there's that term involution airy journey, the involution the involvement of mind, spirit, heart, whatever you want to call it. The involvement of spirit Dharmakaya into form into Rupa kayas into display. That's why I like this term involution and then the return that gets that's what fundamentally gives rise to birth as we know it. And then the ascending Ark is with the help of Darwin evolutionary vector that's where we all are. And so fundamentally, as we will see if Jerry reminds me, what happens at the moment of death is a rapid involuntary evolutionary ascent back to the formless dimension of our being. That's what that is. Where was I? In other words, death is a tour into the trachea into and in through the trachea. So what are we engaging in especially this particular section here? This is classic Bardo yoga right here. This is where you study the map with such rigor, that you actually recognize the territory. It's like installing the GPS here and installing psychic cosmic Global Positioning System with these teachings. That if you do it properly, where is it installed? It's installed in your unconscious mind. What comes to light life when you die? Your unconscious mind. This is why Bob Thurman says so famously, in my opinion, one of his great riffs. It's not safe to die, as long as you have an unconscious mind. Well, that's partially true. If it's mostly the you know, the upper dimensions of the refused the repressed unconscious mind, but if you stuff the ballot box, right, if you stuff your unconscious mind or kind of activate these aspects of the unconscious mind, then it's a great thing when these aspects of the unconscious mind come to the surface. Then that's like a pop up like it was annoying. Popups in your computer, your phone, just when you need it the most. According to these teachings, that's why it's worth the trouble to do this stuff. They're gonna pop into your mind, it was annoying. Hop up to remind you, hey, you're dead man. Right? The biggest problem in the Bardot's is you don't know you're in them. Just like in a non lucid dream. The biggest problem in the Bardot's is not knowing that you're in them having a non lucid Bardo experience. If you have a non lucid Bardo experience, what controls it? Exactly the same thing that controls your dreams at night. What's that? Your habits, which is why Trump RBJ famously said, what is it that reincarnates Remember, your bad habits? And what's the worst of all habits that we'll see later, Baba samskaras called the habit for habitation itself. The habit for existence itself so we're gonna get to this later. Jerry. Another thing you have to write down because this wasn't in this book when I wrote it. We take on existence because we believe in existence. This is a big one. This is not in the book. We take on existence after we die. Because we believe in existence. We haven't understood the truth of emptiness. And so we want to extract as mutual identification with form existence is exactly what ego is transitioner it identity from this more superficial dimension to reified external form body into a truer complete dimension of the spectrum over identity some boba kya Dharmakaya so that when in fact the subtle dimensions are revealed, we'll be able to say taught Farmasi that is me that are dead. Right recognition and liberation are therefore simultaneous. This is what it means to attain enlightenment in one life, even when you're dying. This is no small thing. So if we started that your car your life we will recognize our enlightened aspects as they are revealed at death recognition and liberation or simultaneous amazing Great minds think alike. I'm being somewhat smart aleck here, but this is actually pretty important. This is why it's worth the trouble to study this stuff. Because you're activating you can you can think of it on one level that you're downloading new information that has provisional validity. But the process is more one of enum nieces. recollection of memory. We already know this stuff we just forgot. This just jogs your memory death is just gonna jog your memory. So it's important because according to this teaching, and highly automated and other wisdom traditions as well, they just have a different vocabulary. This is where you're gonna go when you die. Dharmakaya and formless meditation. How are we doing? Oh, geez, Louise. Holy moly. Wow, we got through one page. Hey, at this point, it's gonna take 10 years. Okay, here's the deal. You know how I roll with this. I would much rather take our time when we get here's the deal when we get into some of the more practical stuff. There's not nearly as much running commentary. It's really almost I'm going to read it pause, maybe say a couple of things. The heavy auto commentary is with this material right here. And so as I've said repeatedly, instead of me just kind of plowing through, I'd much rather go slower like this with your kind permission. really unpack this a little bit more detail with stuff that I didn't write in this book from, what 12 years ago? And then have a chance to talk about it. And so with that in mind, instead of just charging ahead and also because the materials a little bit dense right? To a certain point, you get the TMI Issue. Big problem in today's world. We confuse information for experience. And so at a certain point, information,
too much display, the information needs to be downloaded. How do you walk the talk? And that's a big thing today in the so called spiritual business, right? How do you walk the talk? A lot of these people have really sophisticated languaging they can say really cool things they bring in all these students, but they haven't digested contemplating. They haven't metabolized, meditating here and contemplating meditating, right the pedagogical approach, both in Hinduism and Buddhism. They haven't digested metabolized and incorporated the teachings they don't walk the talk and you see this and fill in the blank happens all the time. So in order to walk the talk, sometimes we have to stop eating and go for the walk. Sometimes we have to just shut up this is a big thing for me. Right? My endless professorial urge to just say as much as I possibly can. I'm getting over that. I heard something Westminister said this once. He's He's a really I think he recently died. Really wonderful humor. Humorous Darren teacher. He said enlightenment is the ultimate getting over yourself. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So I'm trying to get over myself by not just endlessly displaying and spewing out information. So with that in mind, I'm gonna pause see if there's any questions or comments doesn't always have to be a question. It can be a comment, and it can be an offering if you have a poem or something else. But in the meantime, I will read what's here and see if there's any questions. Okay. Ah, all right. Oh, from Chris. When you are someone says outer space is neither the same. Nor is it different from the inner space of the mind. No, you're not invoking just a glimpse of the realized emptiness of illusory form. Okay, just the act of flipping the mind on his head with such a statement would cause the listener to at least have a beginning glimpse of the emptiness of the Bardo. While at the same time, the listener may not know that he she, they, whatever they may be, is hearing and experiencing the emptiness of a simple CO on Oh, that's an interesting one. Yeah, so I mean, a couple of a lot of things to say here. What a surprise. So this is a classic color chakra tenant. It's a classic you know as within so without it's a classic hermetic proclamation as above so below. And in contemporary language, it's a classic iteration of chaos and complexity theory, the iterative, iterative, recursive display of reality that the elements are fundamentally the outer space, outer light, outer Earth, outer, whatever, is neither the same nor different from the interspace. So am I invoking a glimpse of the realized emptiness, of illusory form? Yeah, you could say that if you're talking about perfectly pure illusory form, right? So illusory form, remember? Actually, no, you have to have been involved in the dreams of light discussion book to remember three forms of illusory form. So if you're talking about perfectly pure illusory form, then yes, you are correct. And the rest of it I would agree with Chris Yeah, the rest of it. What I'm what I'm saying I'm agreeing with but the idea is this is actually really quite profound. So very briefly, and this is one of the genius contributions with aluminous Bardo Dharma teachings is that everything is the display we talked about, you lose the essence of the display, the display is light. And this is like credibly. This is what I discovered in my dark retreat. So I do talk to retreat every year. That's where the Spirit came from. I used to do it every year until COVID. And then I stopped because of COVID. Now I'm back on track for at least two weeks every year. And so what I discovered in my dark retreat, I mean, again, it's the most powerful practice I've ever done is the breakdown of boundaries. And you'll see you'll see how this applies. Chris, one of the really powerful things of practicing meditation in the dark, is it's a it's a boundary buster. It breaks down the barriers. between inside and outside. It break down in particular, what I realized this time around, is it breaks down the boundaries between the conscious and the unconscious mind and I discovered more powerfully this time than ever before. That the unconscious mind is more accurately really referred to as the obfuscated mind, the obscured mind. It's obfuscated, the unconscious mind is obfuscated. What is it obfuscated by this one? I had this insight. This was a game changer for me. What is the obfuscated mind? I mean, what is the unconscious mind obfuscated by
lie might
wait, you think that light reveals well, on one level it does. But on another level light obscures that obvious case. In our culture, right, we're so we're solo. Or solar centric beings. We're light addicted. We're awake centric, photo centric, site centric beings all because of our addiction to superficiality or site. We don't realize that there are hundreds of millions of billions of stars overhead. Right now. We're actually where you are depending in the middle of the day. Why? Because it's all obfuscated by the light of the sun. So you go into the dark, this is what's gonna happen when you die. The principal source of obfuscation is going to be removed light. And then what happens as my friend Chris Wallace says you discover there is no darkness within here is just light unseen. That light zone seen by what the obfuscation of external light. This is astounding. That's this is Souter jagruti. You go into Tantra dark retreat, which I can't say too much about. Then this level of obfuscation of light becomes exceedingly profound. Because at that level, the entire manifest world is nothing more than reified light. This is where that the obfuscation of reified light becomes exceedingly profound. We are blinded by frozen light. Oh, this is huge. This is the primordial losing the essence of the display. We literally get blinded by light. So Chris, I'm gonna let that go just because again, if I don't, nobody else is gonna be able to say anything. From das what is the difference between Yunxi and toogoo? Well, one is spelled t u LK U and the other is spelled Why am GSI next question. Just kidding. You know, Yancey is just refers to like a young to reincarnate there. We have a tobacco fire here as somebody who can unpack the etymology and all this is super similar to who is voluntary incarnate, voluntary nirmanakaya in young seas are is another term when they talk about a young sea like the young sea of kinsei Rinpoche that's the rebirth a young reincarnate of of the previous two, right. So they're intimately connected. Does the title of Rinpoche guarantee they are established in a rigpa? Right, you know what I'm going to say what is right Prem Das, yet? No way. You can almost by the term reputation these days. I have to be a little careful here. I don't want to offend anybody. But all the lamas, Rinpoche is put your BS meter and Red Alert question. Rinpoche is just the title doesn't mean their establishment Rick PA, not at all. Not at all. Rinpoche is basically not basically it's a wonderful honorific term for the jeweled one, the precious ones in the true Rinpoche days. Yeah, we live in they live in rainbow. But I they all there, no way. Oh, Paradise. You're on a roll, man. Will you do a second updated version of this book because you mentioned you didn't include everything? Yes, this is also a Jerry has to do. Jerry has to transcribe my my little riffs here. Send them to me back in an edited form. I'll send them to my publisher, and then they can rewrite it. I you know, my next book and I tell you what my next book is. I'm writing too. But my next book is a set of essays. Lessons from a corpse. That's the title, lessons from a corpse. Life, essays on life death and everything in between. And what I do is I take a little playful riff if in fact when you drop dead, and the nature of mind is revealed, and you're lying there and ultimate shavasana what can we learn from a corpse? Well, we can learn a lot. We can learn about their ultimate stillness. We can learn a lot about their ultimate silence We can learn about the fact that they don't want to do thing. We can learn about the fact that they don't need anything. We can learn something about the fact and I haven't seen one yet. It'd be kind of creepy if I ever did that a corpse doesn't move. So I actually really thought about this you can learn a lot from a corpse. So I'm using this title which is kind of playful tongue in cheek to talk about some really, I think compelling things about corpse hood. Ultimate Shavasana. Okay, it's not like the first division of into two of unity into duality. Yeah, Tim, it depends on who you're talking to. In my opinion, darkness is actually the color of non duality. Let me say that again. That's the other thing that happens when you go into dark. There is no other. You lose that boundary. Darkness is the color of non duality. But light has this capacity complete radiant blinding light. And this is where we have to be careful because the metaphors of light itself starts to break down. So provide us with your camera actually, go ahead, fire away. already answered two questions but your eye sharp Bucha so um, get yourself and right away.
Yes, sir. Is it accurate to say that in the Kagyu tradition you know, the the very accomplished masters aspire to took them as the final stage. Why while in the zoek Gen tradition, is it fair to say that they aspire to Rainbow body?
I don't think it is a solution ideal. I mean, I wouldn't say that. they aspire to infinite love, kindness and compassion. If took DOM and rainbow body are a consequence of that. That's fine. I don't think that you would find any high level master from any of those traditions except for me, right because I'm such a fake. I have my video team all set up. I'm going to do an effing YouTube of going up in rainbow light. It's going to leave the Shroud of Turin which some scholars conjecture was brought about by a rainbow light but rainbow buddy. I'm going to put that to shame, right? I mean, tongue in cheek Where do you get the idea? No, honestly in all respect, my friend I don't think so. I really don't. They don't aspire towards that what they aspire to is Buddhahood achieving ultimate realization for the benefit of others. If rainbow body happens then there's five different types. Great, if took down happens because of that. Great. But if they're actually shooting for something like that, I don't think so. My friend. I don't think so. lots to say about both topics, but that's my first tip. Okay, Stephanie faraway. Hi there. Can you hear me? I sure can.
are you? Oh, by the way, I'm I'm going to share a little bit of how cash right now and see what I have a maybe a question or two and also would be interested in advice. So maybe or input it I'm sorry I'm a little
thank you time dear. It's all good. Bye for now they have they have a hard time
Okay, okay, I'm in a Bardo I'm like it starting about mid mid I've been in a Bardo. Um, and it you know, I've lost a number of people in in the last year. It's just this whole sort of since COVID began it's been like a kind of unstable period, which I understand is also an opportunity. But things kind of got more unstable in mid November, just had my mom had a medical event and and I kind of like the rug of certain stability in my life of some sort was pulled out from under me I need I'm the local kid and I need to, you know, I'm doing I'm doing my best to do everything right by my mom. And it started in terms of like, coast sense of instability, and Bardo. I the way when this first happened, I had to bring my at the time COVID Positive mom who emergency because she seemed like she maybe had a stroke or something to emergency department. It was like, you know, large Hospital Los Angeles and like if ever I've had an experience, it was very Bardo esque and surreal. And we were there for many, many hours. Ultimately, she was checked in she had had a small stroke and other things went on and but I wanted to say that at the time i i really like had this huge panic when when it became clear, this is what I was gonna have to do. And I was able to calm myself and then I just I knew I had to do it, you know, take care of her. Basically I knew I had to and I did everything I had to do and in that space of fear I guess because it was like you say go to what your fear and sometimes you don't go to what you fear sometimes what you fear comes to you, and that's what happened here. And so I thought okay, just you know, mantras and I had some mantras. I have some truths that I am good doing. There were two or three that I would kind of rotate over periods of time. It was many, many hours. That's all I did. And it was strange like it was I was able to really keep my seat in the chaos through using mantras. So it was helpful. I couldn't do anything else I couldn't read. I couldn't I just dealt with the next thing. And then when I was sitting quiet with my mom and dealing with the craziness around us mantras Okay, so that's not about start. But as this entire situation has continued in terms of just okay mom out of hos more chaos and how to deal with it going forward and care and medicines and doctors and all this stuff. And I'll just start to try to get a little time like comfort time for myself of some sort. You know, I'll get some call and need to jump in, do something and I noticing over over time I've gotten more I'm having a harder time dealing over time and like I can kind of equate when you describe like the longer you're in the Bardo, the more the intensity to kind of lose your focus or lose your stability. You know your inner stability or or Yeah, and I'm finding that I'm like, I get a call this happened today. I got a call you know I thought it was going to have a couple of hours to deal with other stuff like just my own life in some way. And I got some call and I had to jump but I even in the course of the call I could feel I could feel my head like contracting like just inner can just contracting I could feel I could feel the tension starting. And that's self contraction. And even though I was aware of it, and maybe I would lodge like to choose not to be contracting I'm like I don't want to be contracting I know this is happening. And yet when you talk about the force of habit, like it's even when I'm aware of it the habit has taken over on a somatic level. And I'm so I can feel that and I it's like I started having thoughts of wanting to like, you know, like I after the phone call, which I knew I was going to have to act on but I just I'm burst out like uncontrollable sobbing and it's like I want to I want in my head I have thoughts. It's like banging my head against the wall like this. I'm being very honest here. And um, I don't bang my head against the wall because I know that's not been kind to myself, and yet the force of all of it where you'd call like the emotional clincher, or whatever, it just is so strong. And I mean, the upside is that I'm recovering faster than maybe I would have been capable of like 10 years ago or something like that. And I am managing to still take care of my mom. I'm not probably doing quite as well with myself, but I'm doing what I can I'm working on that. But I just don't know if and I have little things from the universe that will remind me or tell me or a person will say something and it's like, oh yeah, I gotta you know, this is like, I am up against the wall. I'm up against myself. And this is like where the rubber hits the road. And this is like, I got to work with this from hell. But I'm really having a hard time and there's also just, you know, there's sadness. There's just a lot of stuff. And I got another friend cancer retort, I mean, it's just like one thing after another. And I did you know, I still I did think of Tori last Thursday and and then and then okay, I know I'm being a little disjointed. But the other thought is you said oh, yeah, you just need to live a good life. Don't worry about the don't worry about you'll have a good death. Just live a good life, you know, be a good person and I do that. I mean, I do my best and you know then I'm also see getting more irritable and stuff like that. But then earlier in the book here even that you from today, I don't know if we read it today but we it was before and it says where you know about the last thought last thought before you die has an extremely powerful determining effect on our immediate future and I recognize that even in these micro situations. At the same time, that's concerning to me, because it's like you're working as hard as you can to be a so called good person and yet the habit patterns are so strong. It's really hard. That's all and if there's anyone you have anything to say about any of this.
Yeah, definitely. Me. Oh, my dear. hearts out to you. Thank you, first of all, for being so brave. To share your story and yeah, do something with me. Okay. Let's do something. Let's do something together. I want you to close your eyes and put your hand over your heart. nose running, okay. Okay. Water is a good thing. You raining so close your eyes and put your hand over your heart. Take a few really slow gentle deep breaths and
hold yourself
I do this practice stuff. I do it every morning. I do it every morning and I do it throughout the day, especially when I'm having a hard day
to remind myself because I definitely always forget that I'm human and that this world is full of tremendous heartbreak, sorrow and pain. That's the nature of the samsaric scene and the hand over my heart is a gesture of metta Maitri that even in the midst of this heap of hurt me okay. I'm okay. I find myself when I do this and perhaps it may be of some benefit to you that it's a little bit the feeling I get. When I'm having a really hard time and someone I really care about who cares about me who really loves me comes over and gives me an unconditional hug and I just melt I surrender into that warm embrace of loving kindness and sometimes sometimes when there's just so much going on and the display is so intense and we forget stuff. We really do forget that. We are of the nature of love in this world is of the nature of love. And essence. It's benevolent, it's loving, it's actually kind. We forget and so I do this every morning because I forget to remind myself you know what? I'm doing the best I can. I'm okay just the way I am. And you know what, I do that stuff. That's why I wrote my reverse meditation book. You can do this because you've got the chops. I allow myself to feel whatever I'm feeling 100% And if I crumble and you know, into a heap of tears or whatever, that's the way I'm manifesting at that time I feel it and I hold myself in that embrace and that gives me a kind of strength
Never forget to breathe, right? And then just feel just fully feel because what happens what I've discovered Stephen and get back to me and see if this works for you is that simple pain transforms and the complex suffering when I contract against it, I resist it. And so if I open to it, right remember mid meditation habituation to openness I open to it I open to myself. I allow myself to feel whatever is happening fully. I feel it but I don't feed it see. I know I'm feeling it when I start running commentary. Sometimes the commentary is not very kind to myself. I let that go and I just come back to the feeling and allow myself like dufry John said the fire must have its way right. So kind of from a spiritual point of view. This practice may be of some benefit and also remember, you've listened to some of my stuff from before. Don't should on yourself. Right? Don't shut up. I should be doing this. I should be a better daughter. I should be a better meditator. I should stop this should stop the shooting. Just be and realize that you're in a really difficult situation along with hundreds of millions of people on this planet. So we raise our gaze as the other thing I do is I raise my gaze This is where Tomlin comes in. Do Tong Lin for yourself, do tongling for your mom. Raise my gaze and I realized boy there I'm not the only one that's in the heap or hurt. This is samsara. And I open to it. My heart and mind are big enough to accept it to accommodate it. And then you know what else I do? I make sure I get good food. Yeah, I make sure I get good sleep. And make sure I take a warm bath I make sure I get some good exercise. I don't put all my eggs in one psychospiritual basket. I go for a walk. Yeah, I reach out to help others. And then I realize sounds gonna come up tomorrow. It's gonna set the next day and it's gonna come up the day after that. And I just keep going like the Dalai Lama says right? We're warriors we never give up. And we're in the service of others. That's part of the Bodhisattva charter and sometimes is you know it is an effing shitshow it just sucks in So where in the life contract? Show me does it say life is supposed to feel good. Suffering, the Buddha discovered this is suffering. So be kind to yourself, dear one. It's difficult for me to say in a five minutes set of sound bytes. Okay, to cure to work with it. But I think something along these principles you know, I know you you have tremendous intelligence, tremendous insight, wisdom, kindness and compassion. And you draw on it and sometimes you let the whole effing thing just fall apart. And you just surrender to it. And then start up again the next day. You know, something like,
thank you so much.
You know how to reach me send me something if you need some more. Just a shoulder, whatever, but then you've got this you've got this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you really very much. Welcomed your one. Okay, thank you. Okay, Jerry and then my and then I have to go. I had to leave so Jerry fire away my friend. Yeah.
You dropped a bombshell on me at the beginning of the session. You know, Jerry let's say I wrote it down here. Remind Andy about the circle of life. And then after, I'll forgive you. And then you said we take on existence because we believe in existence. Yeah, that's
a good one, isn't it?
I don't know what to do.
Stop taking What do you think?
I think my mind is about to explode. It's
make sure you cover the screen so you don't splatter on my screen. Okay. That's like It's like that scene from Monty Python. Remember? Bring me the bucket. Remember Monty Python, the Buddha, the Buddha in the guise of John Cleese, right? Just a teeny little waifu Miss sure you remember that movie? Yeah, so how can I help you that maybe say a little bit more about what I can do to possibly be a benefit with your being that's about to explode.
I mean, just I don't know if it's the right way of saying it. Give me advice about what you meant that at the beginning of the program,
the which part you take out of existence because you believe in existence? Well, I mean, first of all, see if it's true, don't take my word. for it. See if it's true. You know, the worst of all habits right? What is it that reincarnates your habit? Right? What's our what's our biggest habit or habit for habitation or habit for housing, or habit for a body? What is it that's taken away? From us when we die? Our housing we finally become truly homeless. What do we crave for more than anything after we die? A body why? Because that's what we identify with. That's what we believe in. We believe we exist. Now this doesn't mean we don't appear to exist we do appear to exist. That's relative truth. Right? We don't inherently exist. And so that real news is what's going to be pointed out in the Bardot's that's Dharmakaya is literally body of truth, that ultimate truth of your inherent non existence is actually what death is. That's what's revealed. That's what's going to be pointed out. And so what you're feeling is exactly what the 500 allege in our hearts felt when the Buddha taught the teachings on Vulture Peak Mountain and parsnip paramita. And emptiness you're feeling this kind of member Sanford and Son right? Is the big one is the big one, right? You're having a heart attack suitor or you're having the spiritual heart attack. Because these these fundamental truths are so devastating to any reified form based ego. The fact that you're actually feeling that is a wonderful thing. Chaos should be regarded as extremely good. News. Trungpa Rinpoche said, it sounds good on paper. Not so good in reality, so you titrate you go in your explored Is this true? Check it out, kick the tires, test it. You have a little depression around it. It's too depressing backup. Step away. contemplated walk away, come back in, step out, come back in, slowly. acclimatized in these icy waters of truth. Become familiar with them. acclimatized to them. And then eventually, it becomes a not only more workable becomes fundamentally liberating. So right now it's just what you're feeling is the bipolar nature of your being. You're feeling the tail that continues to wag the dog, the dimension of your being that just doesn't want to hear this stuff. And that's what's causing the kind of resistance the whatever that you're talking about recognize that but then hit the mute button. Don't have to listen to that voice.
Okay, just one more thing. I noticed the next hand up on the screen is Myra. Yeah. And she is the closest person I know in you know, the whole St. Clair Shores area Detroit area, who is you know, nightclub number and practices meditation. Well, I asked her to give me a call because she holds meditation sessions and one afternoon, late three things happen simultaneously. I had a contractor come over to my house who's, you know, who's like just badgering me about a problem. I'm having a health issue. And then my recalls, I mean, it's like and I just want to pass the word on to myRA. I really wouldn't like to talk to you. It just said he had an incredibly I asked him the phone I said, Myra? You know, like there's too many things happening around me. I can't talk to her I'd like to speak to her.
Byron gets it she gets it. Okay. Thanks, Jerry. Okay, see you next time my friend. Okay, my last one and then I do need to go for today.
Thank you. I was no better watch. Thank you. But it's listening to Stephanie seems to be that when she seemed that real pain, the fact that she could talk to us? Yeah, this check the fact that she can narrate it. The fact that she has recovered so many times the fact that she's doing the mantras. Sometimes we forget that that is means that she's practicing really hard and she's doing really well. Right really well because otherwise it would not be like that he will otherwise she would be somewhere else needing pills to just deal with the problems. So I just found to to say that, like you said, it's not that we're not going to feel the pain is that we're going to be able to work like she used to working with it. And that is extraordinary.
It's extraordinary. Well said she could be she could be drinking a beer and watching a Broncos game which actually would bring about more pain.
Yes. And yeah, so the other thing I was I was in my meditation reading naturally variation this morning and there was a sensation of the child turning into the mother that we were talking today. And all this stuff when I had the image coming into my mother, and all the sudden it was the only thing that was that boundless
rest. Oh, that's beautiful.
And then I just realized we're just driving ourselves nuts knowing five or distant cannot that and and what is really that boundless endless beautiful love that is not even love, like the passion love is dressed. Yeah. And any I just invite people to just have that sensation because we see it in so many things and we go too fast because we want you to give us another tool another mantra. Another special knowledge over your experience when it passes us because we do not turn around and just rest. Well say my dear
super great, super great, wonderful words. Thank you so much. I always love it when you come on. I like you're gonna be you're my teeth. Not gonna be you're my teacher. So I appreciate very much those comments. So both. Yeah, no, it's true. Thank you. We're all teachers. We're all for every teachers and students. So you know how this work. Thank you. Dedication of merit, merit to Lori's father in law more Murray. Right, Marie Fielding. We're gonna dedicate it to Steph and her mom and all the people around that situation. And then we're going to cast it right to all the people in Gaza and Israel, Russia, Ukraine, send out all this stuff that we're doing here because otherwise right, it's irrelevant. It's irrelevant. If what we're doing here isn't the benefit of others. It's just a new age comfort plan and that's not who we are. So much love to you all. Great to see you. Until next time, everybody all the best. Ciao ciao. recording stopped
