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Geshe Michael Roach continues the Gift of Liberation series, taught originally by Pabongka Rinpoche in a 24-day lecture in the early 20th century. With exquisite detail and breadth of knowledge, Geshe Michael Roach brings these teachings alive to modern audiences and how to live them in our daily lives.
Time Codes / Outline of Class 5
0:33 – Intro to some important ideas from yesterday’s classes which Geshe Michael will apply to this morning’s guided lion’s dance meditation.
1:15 – The subject of yesterday’s special class for the volunteers was Arya Nagarjuna’s 8 impossibles. What are the impossibles in the “2 husbands in the kitchen” example? A person who is angry at you and didn’t come from your karmic seeds from doing something similar in the past is impossible.
2:37 – There was also a special class yesterday on the Heart Sutra mantra where Geshe Michael asked 3 important questions. (1) Is there a pen in my hand? (2) Is there a pen in my hand which comes from a karmic seed whichI planted by giving someone a pen before? (3) Is there a pen in my hand which comes from the pen? What’s the name of that? Emptiness.
3:46 – A sign of a person who really understands emptiness is that they’re very generous – they love to give things to other people. They are kind, polite, and generous because they understand emptiness.
4:54 – Now this morning in the guided meditation we’re going to go through the first 8 steps of the lion’s dance meditation, going up the elevator to the 9th floor where we’ll meditate about the emptiness of our teacher. In this meditation we will ask the same 3 questions.
5:56 – (1) Is there a teacher in your mind. (2) Is there a teacher in your mind which comes from your karmic seeds? (3) Is there a teacher in your mind which doesn’t come from your karmic seeds?
6:53 – There’s no teacher in my mind which doesn’t come from me. That’s the emptiness of your teacher. If you understand emptiness you respect the teacher that comes from you. If you don’t understand emptiness you don’t respect the teacher, then the teacher goes away because the karmic seeds are all used up.
7:42 – In this meditation we’ll respect our teachers and create new seeds for them to stay with us.
8:28 – Beginning of lion’s dance guided meditation.
46:53 – End of lion’s dance guided meditation.
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