<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q_e6N1hBK8yE6qlLuqg1bmVZe3cOv-s7/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> **Speaker 1** Yeah, do you remember? **Speaker 1** I think I'm going to go to the garden. **Speaker 1** So, you know, we are in the process of building a whole city of the tree cover for a three-year tree. **Speaker 1** And they started on our, this term, I mean, this date, I think, they started building. **Speaker 1** So, seriously I wanted to put a walled garden outside and I was expecting to get like $300,000, but if you made $300,000. **Speaker 1** So that's a lot of questions though, gardening, and if you want to come sometime for two years, you're welcome. **Speaker 2** He's just like I said, the rabbit. **Speaker 1** I will say anything but I'll hand you a cookie. **Speaker 1** There's a part of this verse that says, **Speaker 1** there's a lot of blackout trees and wives so much here in the Lord of Death. **Speaker 1** And so we were going to talk about that. **Speaker 1** There is a thing called Karmabai. **Speaker 1** Say Karmabai. **Speaker 1** Karmabai. **Speaker 1** Karmabai. **Speaker 1** Karmabai. **Speaker 1** I remember reading a book by Arne Alvarado. **Speaker 1** And they really liked his book. **Speaker 1** He's actually a great scholar. **Speaker 1** He was a state court gentleman in Asia under the British rule. **Speaker 1** He was a British judge. **Speaker 1** And then he took a secret name. **Speaker 1** He took a bad water and a secret name. **Speaker 1** He went to study with yogi all the time. **Speaker 1** And he learned to translate the most difficult and obscure tantric facts in his spare time. **Speaker 1** And he became very famous about it. He was invited to that theater. **Speaker 1** But he became a great tantricist. **Speaker 1** I remember reading his book about that. **Speaker 1** There is this very serious discussion about, I think it's called Spanda, the initial vibration that creates the world. **Speaker 1** So like when you are in a deep state of meditation, you feel like something is still like, maybe you could call it mind itself. **Speaker 1** the impulse has created the world. Where did it come from? Even according to Hindu belief, there had to be some... **Speaker 1** Things rise from here, and here. **Speaker 1** You see? And you sense that in your own body. **Speaker 1** Things rise from here, and here. **Speaker 1** And the universe is turning. **Speaker 1** Something moves. Something shifts. **Speaker 1** Something's blurred and the universe popped out. **Speaker 1** Even the physics that's struggling with this, right? **Speaker 1** A pain barrier is that. **Speaker 1** Right? **Speaker 1** Like something went, "Hey!" **Speaker 1** And then the world came out. **Speaker 1** So where did that first... **Speaker 1** Where did that come from? **Speaker 1** Because in your heart you want to believe in our son's sake. **Speaker 1** Ever since the Bible was written and you know, there was a creator, **Speaker 1** people needed a first... **Speaker 1** I had to pay something out of it. **Speaker 1** You know, and then all this stuff started. **Speaker 1** And then Arthur Abel struggles with it. He really struggles. Like for 15 pages he struggles with it. **Speaker 1** But, you know, and where did he come from? And how did he start eating? **Speaker 1** The primordial vibration. So it's here. **Speaker 1** And in the fourth, it's like your mind comes from a point. It's the word of karma. **Speaker 1** It's the word of karma. It's the word of karma. It's the karmic mint. It's the mint of karma. **Speaker 1** This is a long story, there are 80 different variations of it. **Speaker 1** But basically it's the good that starts everything. **Speaker 1** It's the good that starts your body. **Speaker 1** It's just good that's always going on in you. **Speaker 1** Even in the deepest state of meditation, even in the state of death, even as you're dying. **Speaker 1** The car always like tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, and the wind is like, you're not really moving. **Speaker 1** And you're never really dead. You just go on. See? **Speaker 1** So it's a very bright subtle wind. **Speaker 1** It sounds like a wind that creates life, right? **Speaker 1** But it's the wind that creates death. **Speaker 1** See? It's the wind that keeps you going to die and die and die again. **Speaker 1** Die over and over again. **Speaker 1** It goes to things over and over again. **Speaker 1** It's a subtle shift that never stops. **Speaker 1** It's a subtle vibration in the body that never stops. **Speaker 1** And that's responsible for all the suffering as human beings. **Speaker 1** It never stops. **Speaker 1** And you can't stop it. **Speaker 1** In a deeper state of meditation, crunked out, totally drugged out, drunk out of your mind, **Speaker 1** there's still this tiny vibration in your mind, carmeling. **Speaker 1** If you could stop it, you could go into a period of immortality. **Speaker 1** If you could stop it, you could go into a different kind of body, a light body. **Speaker 1** You wouldn't be subject to a flesh moment, not anymore. **Speaker 1** If you could stop the problem. **Speaker 1** So he's talking about here in Mahabandha, right, only, **Speaker 1** How would you overcome that? What would you have to do to overcome that? **Speaker 1** There is very subtle breathing in the body, very very subtle that makes you normal, that makes you immortal. **Speaker 1** If you could stop it, if you could bring it to a stop, total stop, no more vibration in the entire being, **Speaker 1** if you could bring it to a total stop, you would shift into another kind of body. **Speaker 1** Your body would become made of life. You would become an angel. You would become an angel. **Speaker 1** So how does it stop that brain? How does it help that brain? **Speaker 1** What is it that stops that brain? Do you hold the breath? **Speaker 1** Do you know? It helps! It helps! **Speaker 1** You take the mudra, you take the buddha, you hold the breath. **Speaker 1** But in the end, what causes that tiny vibration is our constant misunderstanding of our world. **Speaker 1** What causes that vibration to keep going is the undercurrent of ignorance that's constant. **Speaker 1** At every moment in life it's constant. **Speaker 1** In every second of your existence it's constant. **Speaker 1** You're always misunderstanding the things from it. **Speaker 1** You're always thinking what? **Speaker 1** They are not coming from me. **Speaker 1** She's out there. He's out there. **Speaker 1** The project is out there. **Speaker 1** The clock is moving. **Speaker 1** And you think it's all separate from you. You think. **Speaker 1** You can't believe that you are making that happen. You can't believe that your mind is coming out to happen. **Speaker 1** As long as you think like that, that tiny minute is moving. **Speaker 1** As long as you think like that, that tiny minute is moving. And it infects that big moment of your life. **Speaker 1** You can't live a normal day without having that all the time. This tiny undercurrent of **Speaker 1** One idea about everything. If you could stop it, the Kamo language stops and then you wouldn't have to die. **Speaker 1** It's very beautiful. It's very beautiful. How do you stop doing that? **Speaker 1** You do Mahamudhi Reng. You do Mahamudhi Reng. You do that meditation. You learn that meditation. **Speaker 1** You go on Saturday and Sunday to Ramah Nur-Tamah, Ramah verse day. **Speaker 1** You learn how to do it formally. **Speaker 1** And you just keep working at it. **Speaker 1** Week after week, month after month, year after year, you keep working at it. **Speaker 1** And sometimes it's strong, sometimes it will. **Speaker 1** But it takes change. **Speaker 1** It takes formal change. **Speaker 1** Don't think it's going to happen if you don't work at it. **Speaker 1** It can't happen if you don't work at it. **Speaker 1** Someone has to teach you, and then you have to go home and put your butt on the mat. **Speaker 1** The idea of learning yoga. **Speaker 1** David has a beautiful teacher, a fantastic teacher. **Speaker 1** He said, "Yeah, I was asking one day, **Speaker 1** let me play a speech that came out in the morning. **Speaker 1** We have to spend the other day at the hospital." **Speaker 1** "No, no, you're a hospital." **Speaker 1** "Really?" **Speaker 1** "Yeah, yeah." **Speaker 1** "There's a yoga pill." **Speaker 1** "Really?" **Speaker 1** "Yeah, I'm a pastor." **Speaker 1** I can't do something. I can't do something. **Speaker 1** And I'm like, "Yeah, well, how can you do it?" **Speaker 1** She's like, "Yeah, she's over to take care of it." **Speaker 1** And that's it, you know? **Speaker 1** Everything that happens should be awesome. **Speaker 1** And she says, "Okay, well, give me one." **Speaker 1** And she says, "Yeah, you both want out." **Speaker 1** And he puts in her hand. **Speaker 1** "Is there any instructions? Do I take it in the water or no?" **Speaker 1** And he says, "Yeah, yeah, this is one thing. **Speaker 1** Before you take it, you do an hour of rest." **Speaker 1** I think you did. **Speaker 1** So he's got it all that way. **Speaker 1** He's got it all that way. **Speaker 1** If you're not on your cushion, you can kill that. **Speaker 1** If you're not on your cushion, the karma will keep going. **Speaker 1** And you'll have to go through terrible stuff. **Speaker 1** And the people you've done on your job are terrible stuff. **Speaker 1** You have to get on your cushion. **Speaker 1** You can't do off such a thing if you're not on your mat. **Speaker 1** That's it. **Speaker 1** You absolutely have to. **Speaker 1** If you don't roll the mat out, you're not going to do it. **Speaker 1** If you don't have to push you out, you're not going to do better. **Speaker 1** You have to have to travel with and keep in with. **Speaker 1** Have your own math and your own meditation. **Speaker 1** And they're just part of your life. **Speaker 1** You don't go anywhere without money, right? **Speaker 1** You don't go to another state without money. **Speaker 1** You always got your breakfast ready and your lunch. **Speaker 1** You've got to have your meditation. **Speaker 1** You've got to have your nap. **Speaker 1** It ain't going to happen. **Speaker 1** Otherwise it ain't going to happen. **Speaker 1** People come to the alternate. **Speaker 1** blah blah blah, this couple blah blah blah, that couple, why are you not asking? **Speaker 1** Why are you asking? No. But why are you talking? Why are you bothering us? **Speaker 1** Year after year we get these talks, year after year, how did it work? **Speaker 1** Now this is going to come out and say, "I'm a problem." The first thing we always ask is to say, "Are you asking me?" No. **Speaker 1** "Are you asking me?" No. "Just go away, don't bother you." **Speaker 1** Okay? It's your only hope. It's your only hope. You can talk in some ways. It's gone. **Speaker 1** And then your body changes. This life isn't a space. This life is a temporary weakness. **Speaker 1** You know? And you can change everything. Everything will change. You will change everything. **Speaker 2** I want to do one more verse. **Speaker 2** "Fires and how... **Speaker 2** Imagine a woman of exquisite beauty, but without a man. **Speaker 2** That's how the great steel and the great luck are. **Speaker 2** Bearing oak fruit, should they be done without the spear." **Speaker 2** Hmm... **Speaker 2** So... **Speaker 2** Uh... **Speaker 2** So this is a... **Speaker 2** This is about our whole reading of the Hatha Yoga Pajibaka in a sense. **Speaker 2** You know Master Swatmarama is the potential that he goes through each step of the practice. **Speaker 2** He goes through chapter 1 and he goes through the Yamas and he goes through each Akhara step by step. **Speaker 2** And then he goes through chapter 2 and he goes through the Pranayamas and he goes through each Pranayama step by step. **Speaker 2** And then he's starting on chapter 3 and there you are with Mahabudra and Mahabandha. **Speaker 2** And he never explicitly says how to integrate everything in the practice. **Speaker 2** But it's assumed that you would have a teacher teaching you this book. **Speaker 2** This is the only hint that he ever gives that it's a part of a whole integrated system of practice. **Speaker 2** It's a part of a whole series. **Speaker 2** It's like you wouldn't just, you know, randomly open the Hatha Yoga Pradipika up one day on your mat and say, **Speaker 2** Oh, I'm going to do Mahamudra today. **Speaker 2** And then you get right into it and you start, you know, your retention and you're keeping meditative on emptiness. **Speaker 2** You know, you don't have to start it. **Speaker 2** You have to do a whole series of asanas before you get to the Mahabhudra asana to end. **Speaker 2** Because Mahabhudra is actually a more advanced asana. **Speaker 2** And you wouldn't start doing a very strong retention in the middle of your Mahabhudra asana **Speaker 2** unless you had done a pranayama practice before that. **Speaker 2** So this is kind of sketching out, like this is part of a whole integral series of a daily **Speaker 2** practice. **Speaker 2** What does a daily practice look like? **Speaker 2** You do a set time of asana practice every day. **Speaker 2** You know, we do, when we're on the road and we're busy, we do an hour of asana practice **Speaker 2** a day at least. **Speaker 2** When we are in retreat and we have more time, we do an hour and a half to two hours of opera practice every day. **Speaker 2** And we do it every day. We don't skip days. **Speaker 2** I know that we are very occasionally we skip a day. **Speaker 2** One of my teachers here has to be very honest about that. **Speaker 2** You know, Sri Sheridan and David G. used to say, "It feels like brushing your teeth." **Speaker 2** You know, when you get up in the morning, you do your asana practice. **Speaker 2** You brush your teeth every day. You do your asana practice every day. **Speaker 2** You know, and if you get in that house every day, then when you don't do it, it feels weird. **Speaker 2** You know, it feels like I didn't get dressed in the morning or something like that. **Speaker 2** "Oh my god, I didn't do my asanas in the morning and I feel weird to go out the door without giving medicine." **Speaker 2** And you can get to that point. **Speaker 2** You should also have a daily meditation practice. **Speaker 2** It can be very short at the beginning. **Speaker 2** It could be even, you're sitting on your yoga mat and you're allowed to do your asanas, **Speaker 2** but you do 10 minutes of sitting meditation first. **Speaker 2** And that's just part of your asana practice. **Speaker 2** You just incorporate it into your daily practice. **Speaker 2** And then, you know, you'll start liking it more and more because you'll start getting better at meditation. **Speaker 2** And then you'll start wanting to increase it. **Speaker 2** And that's the way how it naturally goes. **Speaker 2** You know, you shouldn't do more meditation than is fun for you. **Speaker 2** Because if you do meditation too long at the beginning, you'll give it up. **Speaker 2** So like, start with 10 minutes, then you'll want to go to 15 minutes. **Speaker 2** You'll want to go to 20 minutes. **Speaker 2** Eventually you'll do half an hour or you'll do an hour of meditation before you're off for practice. **Speaker 2** So, you know, we do at least an hour every day. **Speaker 2** I mean, just personally, I think people like to know what a mission might go through. **Speaker 2** We do an hour, even if we're really, really busy. **Speaker 2** Incorporated into that hour is some kind of preliminary practice. **Speaker 2** Once you start realizing the connection between what you're doing in your mind and what you're **Speaker 2** doing throughout the day and how your practice goes, preliminary practice and meditation becomes **Speaker 2** very important. **Speaker 2** What's the preliminary practice? **Speaker 2** Well, mainly it's practice on our lumbar. **Speaker 2** It's practice on our lumbar, our teacher. **Speaker 2** It's being thankful that the Hatha Yoga Pacifica lineage was even written. **Speaker 2** And it's being thankful that everyone from Jwa Harama on has passed it down in an oral way. **Speaker 2** And it has finally reached you because of your holy precious teachers. **Speaker 2** And just sitting there for like one minute before your Asana practice and thinking about the kindness of your teachers before you spread your practice. **Speaker 2** It opens your heart so much. **Speaker 2** And it's like you hardly can do an off-air practice if you don't have that as a beginning. **Speaker 2** Because you're all tight and tense and thinking about yourself. **Speaker 2** But then you think about being grateful to somebody else. **Speaker 2** You think about being grateful to your teachers. **Speaker 2** And then, you know, it opens wide. **Speaker 2** You have to get to this point where you understand that every single good thing, **Speaker 2** Every single good quality that you ever have is because of your holy t-shirt. **Speaker 2** You know, I was like, you know, if I think about me myself, I'm like this, you know, I feel like I'm a child laden with mental wishes. **Speaker 2** If I think about myself and like how I picture myself. **Speaker 2** But then I think about my mama and what my mama has made of me. **Speaker 2** And that part of me is perfect. **Speaker 2** And it's all my mama. **Speaker 2** That part of me is perfect and it's my mama. **Speaker 2** It has nothing to do with me. **Speaker 2** Every single good quality that I have is from my mama. **Speaker 2** And to realize that as we go throughout your day, **Speaker 2** You know, to realize that the reason that you are able to teach people is because of the time into your teachers. **Speaker 2** And even as you're teaching, you're remembering that. **Speaker 2** It's a very powerful practice. **Speaker 2** And somehow, I don't really care how it's done. **Speaker 2** I don't care if it's some kind of normal sitting thing or if you're on the bus. **Speaker 2** You have to think about that every day. **Speaker 2** At some point during the day, be some kind of grateful for something. **Speaker 2** You know? **Speaker 2** you know **Speaker 2** it's **Speaker 2** get that feeling **Speaker 2** in your heart **Speaker 2** wow **Speaker 2** like my **Speaker 2** my holy teachers **Speaker 2** are making me **Speaker 2** into a totally **Speaker 2** new person **Speaker 2** a totally new being **Speaker 2** that I just **Speaker 2** never have gotten **Speaker 2** myself **Speaker 2** that will **Speaker 2** take you **Speaker 2** a long way **Speaker 2** in your **Speaker 2** spiritual practice **Speaker 2** it will take you **Speaker 2** a long way **Speaker 2** and that's all **Speaker 2** from **Speaker 2** you know **Speaker 2** chapter 1 **Speaker 2** of talking **Speaker 2** over the **Speaker 2** divica **Speaker 2** you know **Speaker 2** this is **Speaker 2** this is a whole **Speaker 2** integrated system **Speaker 2** Speaking of which, Medical Tiki is doing meditation on your Lama class at the three Jules event. **Speaker 2** Monday, Wednesday, Friday of the next week. **Speaker 2** So if you don't know at 10:00 AM, so if you don't know how to do that practice and you want an actual sitting practice to do of Lama, go to Medical Tiki's class. **Speaker 2** So then after you get out of your meditation and your pranayama practice, which maybe is like, I don't know, the first 10 minutes before your asana practice. **Speaker 2** We do meditation first, and then we do our pranayama practice, and then we do our asana practice. **Speaker 2** Then we get up and start the day. **Speaker 2** And the rest of your day has to also be an optional practice. **Speaker 2** Right? **Speaker 2** You can't just do your practice in the morning and then totally forget about yourself the rest of the day **Speaker 2** because you now are a karma yogi if you understand that everything you do plans to see in your mind. **Speaker 2** And if you are unsupplied to somebody in, you know, the day before, **Speaker 2** you wake up the next day and your mind is like this. **Speaker 2** You can't meditate at all. You just can't focus because you've educated your mind with a kindness to somebody else. **Speaker 2** So you as a yogi need to carry yourself like a yogi throughout the day and that's part of the Hatha Yoga Pranipika practice. **Speaker 2** It's part of this whole integral daily thing. **Speaker 2** You now identify yourself as a yogi. **Speaker 2** You now identify yourself as a spiritual person who can go through life and touch other people and influence them by your behavior. **Speaker 2** The people are watching you, your teachers, right? **Speaker 2** Your teachers. **Speaker 2** And everything you do, they're going to be like, oh, evaluating your spiritual path by your behavior. **Speaker 2** What you do is much more important than what you say to them. **Speaker 2** What you do in between the talks is much more important than what you say in the talks **Speaker 2** because they won't come to the talks if they see you misbehaving afterwards, right? **Speaker 2** So now your job as a whole integral practice is to make your life your practice. **Speaker 2** So I think that's it.