which it feels that America is a very wonderful country and has very positive feelings about the future of our spiritual path amongst the people of this country and notices that faith and understanding are on the increase. Was that all you wanted to say? I just wanted to know, where is the modern black people? Yeah, you'll find out in a minute. In the Covenants. Yes. Well, sometimes I think that he borrowed, you know, like before he borrowed the electricity.

[01:58]

He borrowed? Yeah, he borrowed it everywhere. Because he borrowed it. But he needed it. Like, uh, after we knew he would need it, that was typical. Uh-huh. And when you thought that, uh, Sandy looked at you. Uh-huh. And then, uh, how do you say, like, oh? Uh-huh. So, no matter how much you look to see where is the mind, which indeed you have to look and try to find where is the mind, you won't find any location.

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You cannot come up with a an answer to this problem of where is the mind. And even the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who have complete wisdom and very powerful powers of perception, they've never been able to say where is the mind, or what color it is, or what shape it is, what size it is, or anything about it in that way. And because of that, That's why the mind, in essence, is empty, because it is beyond the descriptive characteristics of location, of size, color, shape, and so on. These are what are called descriptive characteristics. And because the mind is completely away from any realm that involves those kinds of descriptive characteristics, it is said to be emptiness.

[04:16]

And because it's emptiness, it's said to be indescribable. And by looking in that way, then you come to realize this nature of mind. That is what is meant by the realization of the nature of mind. Why are there so many deities and Vajrayana Buddhas? And could you actually say something about the empowerment tomorrow that's so amazing? No, no. It should be not hot. Even if it's hot, it won't wear you out. It's kind of that. When I was young, I used to go to school with my friends. [...] Oh yeah, yeah.

[05:23]

I was a lawyer. [...] So, briefly, the reason why there's many different deities That's because there's many different people, and people have many different kinds of qualities and attributes. And so the Buddha manifested all these different deities to be in harmony with all the different prerequisites of different people.

[06:46]

So different people are more inclined to one particular deity. However, in essence, they are all one. They are all the same. And there is no, in essence, there is no divisions. And just briefly to describe what is the empowerment that will take place tomorrow, this is an empowerment that enables you to enter the Vajrayana path and actually practice the Vajrayana meditations, as I've been describing. And the practice, the deity of Chenrezig is the, like the, you have to imagine like the combined essence of all the compassion of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas personified in one deity. and that is the essence of chennayzi. And so this particular practice is the supreme for giving rise to the very profound bodhicitta of love and compassion in both the relative and ultimate sense.

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And is this, and also is the practice which enables you to receive very rapidly the blessings and wisdom of the Buddha's disciples. Thoughts. Thoughts. Right. This teaching and empowerment of Genresi that will take place tomorrow belongs to the Anuttara Tantra, which is the supreme class of tantras.

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it contains within the practice a great emphasis on the consummation stage, which is the Mahamudra itself. So this particular practice, this particular kind of version of Chenrezig, of which there are many, that belong to all the different classes of tantra, is known to be the union of great compassion at Mahamudra. So over the weekend we'll deal with all of the aspects of the meditation in a very clear way. Any more questions?

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As we view all of reality as the great, how it's a bliss and perfection, and we experience being suffering, we witness suffering, people sometimes get injured, how is it possible for us to rejoice I can understand how we can be compassionate if the teachings all say rejoice, be rejoiceful all the time. How can we do that way when we are working with people suffering? When I was a child, I used to go to school with my friends. [...] children, and other young people. We don't want to send them over there.

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We don't want to bring them over. We're also not planning to take them. We're going to send them over to the farm, but we can't have them. They're the worst of people. We don't want to let them go through this. In the past, we used to say that if we were to go to the temple, we would be able to see the Buddha. [...] In the past, we used to say that if we were to go to the temple, You need to be able to do it. Well, you have to apply some kind of skill with this type of view.

[12:54]

And if you could just think of yourself as a deity, and all appearance is the palace of the deity, and all beings as the emissaries of the deity, and so on, then if you could actually realize that, then there would be no suffering anywhere. But because we cannot, we're not really convinced then we still have many impure appearances of suffering and frustration that happens to you and all others around you and so on. And so you have to think of yourself as the deity and all appearances, this illusory appearance and so on. But at the same time, when you actually feel suffering or somebody else actually feels pain and suffering, then you should apply certain thoughts like thinking that... This is the fruition of negative karma from previous lifetimes. And you think, well, may it come, may it be over with, with this particular experience of suffering.

[13:58]

And when you see suffering, you think, you develop compassion and you think that may all beings be free from suffering. And you respond to suffering in these kinds of ways, as well as thinking of yourself with it. So over the weekend, to be empowered to receive the instructions, you have to receive the empowerment that takes place first tomorrow morning.

[15:06]

If you just come to the afternoon sessions and the Sunday sessions, then what you will hear will be of no benefit because you haven't received the empowerment. However, if you have received another Chin Rezi, empowerment previously, then this will suffice. It would be very good if you would all come to the empowerment tomorrow morning and go through the whole weekend and receive all the teachings. If you just receive the empowerment, that is also okay. It's okay to receive the empowerment and not receive all the teachings, but it's not okay to receive the teachings without the empowerment. Thanks, Peter. The point is that I want to teach you how I come up with something like this.

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I can give you a lot of information on what you should do for your future. So get out there and do what you want to do. If you don't know what you're going to do, then you don't know what you're going to do. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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