Rinpoche

There's not a thing there.

As Rinpoche used to say, if you take a man apart, maybe because you don't like him much.

So you take him apart and you put his head in that corner and you put his leg in that corner.

You dangle his other leg from the ceiling.

ooh.

Let's see if we can ride this thing.

It's like root beer floats and my teacher, Wong Dua Rinpoche.

We were traveling somewhere in the Midwest and we stopped at some ice cream place, hole in the wall.

I built this center in 2015, and...

And as Scott knows, we've had quite a few Rinpoches come through and teach here.

Yeah.

It's a beautiful place.

And so I thought it would be interesting to talk more about it I can be kind of wrote in reciting something that I have memorized.

A few years back, I started to become curious, more curious about this prayer and that Rinpoche wrote.

I would jot down things that Rinpoche would say about it in the teachings.

And I actually asked a couple of people who were there when Rinpoche wrote this prayer.

And actually, I was in...

Nepal in 1993, when Rinpoche wrote this prayer, I was in college at the University of Vermont, and I was doing a study abroad program.

This is how I met Rinpoche.

He was a teacher on that program, in the study abroad program.

You have it.

That's a quote from Rinpoche.

Rinpoche.

Completion stage text.

Bon Dzogchen.

by recognizing that.

I have to flip through this to get to the Tibetan, which is written in a very funny way.

Back to Norbu Rinpoche's lovely translation.

even though they're not real.

What do you think makes Guru Rinpoche's eyes look like that? Do not be biased or partial to one thing or another.

Thus, by thus being, you would spoil your free and easy, uncontrived consciousness of here and now by clinging attachments, by preferring this over that, grabbing this and shoving that.

Don't do it.

as well as of attainment.

There's nothing more to be done.

One of the last question that, or a question that Guru Rinpoche's teachers frequently asked him while he was studying, this is in one of his autobiographies, was, are you satisfied? Each time he answered, no, not quite, and I am mostly satisfied, until the last time he was asked, and then he just smiled.

Are you satisfied? The matrix of vision is observation of emptiness and radiance without clinging to it.