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Class 4 - A Gift of Liberation 31: How to Make Your Mind a Beautiful Place (2018, Thailand)
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Time Codes / Outline of Class 4
2:09 - Beginning of Idea Images (idim) for meditation on the important ideas of Gift of Liberation 31
2:19 - Cover image: How to Make Your Mind a Beautiful Place. The water is your mind. The birds are small thoughts going through your mind. The mind if very beautiful.
3:48 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #1: The nature of debit cards. Do I encourage people to reinvest? You have a karma credit card. Don’t spend more than you invest. You invest by helping other people. What’s the intelligent way to use your karma? One good way to make good karmic seeds is to encourage other people to reinvest.
11:22 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #2: Be a server, not a consumer. Am I contributing to my society? Very deep picture with two important ideas. (1) One person in the photo is using up their karmic seeds, the other is making new seeds. (2) One person in the picture is taking a rest. This is one of the best seeds you can plant. A good Dharma person knows how to relax very well, then when they are refreshed they can help many more people.
17:45 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #3: Looking forward to no-one looking – Do I watch for tiny opportunities to help? There will come a time when we’re old and alone. Nobody will want to be with us. This will be the future for all of us.
19:08 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #4: Don’t get off on the first 8 floors. Do I pay any attention to others’ meditation? Don’t waste your life only focusing on a meditation which lacks powerful content. You don’t win an olympic medal for stretching before the race. Can only win if you’re in the actual race.
21:11 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #5: Fashion statement. prayer beads better! Do I meditate on the path?
23:47 - Gift of Liberation 31 Meditation Idim #6: Eggplant in another package: Do I try to speak the truth?
26:30 - Beginning of Gift of Liberation 31, Class 4
26:41 - We may understand that we’re in samsara, but not everything here is suffering. Pabongka Rinpoche says, the things you think feel good here, or are neutral about, are also suffering. Here is an explanation why.
30:23 - Why do things change? In every experience we have we’re using up karmic seeds. This is why things change. It’s an illusion. Things in samsara look like pleasure, but in reality as we experience that pleasure the karmic seeds which produced it are wearing out. When we experience 1 hour of pleasure, actually we are just getting 1 hour older and closer to our death.
34:43 - We don’t have power. The boss has power. We work for another person. Now we’ve reached a section in the Liberation text where we discuss who has the real power. Who is the boss of your life?
41:15 - There are 2 famous bosses of your life. (1) karma and (2) mental afflictions / negative emotions. Here in the text, we begin a long explanation of all the types of mental afflictions in order to understand the exact process by which samsara is set in motion. This will lead naturally into a discussion of the path which will lead us out of that suffering - to liberation.
42:54 - More about suffering. The suffering of change is the story of our lives. Even the things we call “pleasure” here are still suffering because they are changing from moment to moment, and the karma to experience them are wearing out.
46:39 - Story to illustrate this example of suffering from when Geshe Michael had to be a driver for Ling Rinpoche.
55:32 - Some students in the class were confused about Geshela using the example of “superhero” when referring to beings in the deva realm. Here he clarifies the difference in these 2 very different superhero examples.
1:06:47 - The root of this suffering is the body and mind. When we were born we took on a body and mind. It’s like when you land at the airport (mind) and then you rent a car (body). It’s impossible to be happy here (samsara) in this body and mind.
1:12:57 - If you are born in this body, there will be suffering until the day you die. We must change this body like changing our clothes. You can do it. It’s possible. You can get a new model car, a Buddha body. What does a Buddha body look like?
1:17:06 - Some people say, “don’t worry, when you’re about to die you can just do powa practice and easily move to a Buddha paradise”. It’s dangerous to wait until last minute because 99.9% will fail. Take care of it now!
1:18:41 - A Buddha’s body is like living diamond. How to get that body? There’s a special karmic seed. What’s the seed? See emptiness directly.
1:21:58 - Even if you understand emptiness deeply it triggers a change inside and you cannot go to a lower realm. That’s why Geshe Michael is constantly teaching about emptiness. His mission is to trigger this change in people.