NOTED BY: VŨ HẢI TRƯỜNG
So we have basically, you didn’t
know this but we have finished 4 meditations. The first one is where some part
of your appearance reflects how you feel inside, like your smile reflects your
happiness. And that is sort of a shallow level of karma. And then we went
deeper, and we said that something you did for other people has created your
body and your face ok? And then we went deeper, and we said that, you know, see
it coming out of your mind and glue yourself together and without them you
might lose your sense of self and that happens to people. It wears out. And
then I snuck one in on you, you didn’t notice but it was middle way. That was
meditation number 4. And that came from a statement by Lord Buddha to his Buddhi
when he said, are you ready for this? He said everything is deceptive about
your body. When you become a Buddha, everything is deceptive about your body.
And things would….and so far as things don’t exist, they aren’t deceptive ok?
Which means that you can treat the nice part of your body like you treated the
second husband. Ok? So, to misunderstand your nose, or to misunderstand your
eyes means to think they didn’t come from being kind to other people. And the
eyes that you possess that didn’t come from being kind to others and, I don’t’
know, anything about you that didn’t come from being kind to someone else
doesn’t exist, like the second husband. That’s why I did the husband first.
Tomorrow I don’t know what I am going to do. Uhh, but every part of you is just
like those 2 husbands. You can look at yourself and think that you came from
what you eat or came from where you went to school or from your parents, you
can think that. But if you think that everything about you came from how you
treated other people then you have a deeper understanding of yourself. Ok? So
Lord Buddha in the 4th meditation is saying that stick to the middle
path. Don’t think that anything in your life is not coming from being kind to
other people ok? Just not!
Ok uhh the next meditation, 5th
meditation. You have those up there, you are showing those? Number 5, which
would be the lady in the party dress ok? At this point in this commentary, by
the way, all Buddhists are split into 2 parts. Do you understand? Physical
body, and what we call Dharma body ok? So physical body means how a Buddha
looks like an angel ok? Physical side of a Buddha. And then there are some
mental sides of a Buddha, which means how a Buddha thinks ok? If you want to
know about how a Buddha thinks, it is very much connected to the 2 husbands,
ok? And that’s how Buddhas think. You know a Buddha walks into a room, they are
already thinking about the second husband ok? Like that’s how Buddhas think.
And the idea is very beautiful. How Buddhas think create their body. Ok? So
there are 2 parts to a Buddha, one called Dharma Body, one called form body.
And the physical appearance of a Buddha is direct results of how they think.
And the fact that they have a
body at all is like a girl getting ready for a party Which is that love drives
them to take a physical form OK so the idea is that Buddhas don't need a
physical form, they don't need to have a physical body but to help us, they
take a physical body. So, I thought a picture of a young lady who dress up for
a party, ok? And the meditation here which I am not going to do because we are
running short on time but you and think of the last time you dressed up ....
And what was the motivation You have in mind and hopefully I mean You were
going to some place special like your sister's wedding .... Or your friend's
wedding You know and you put on a tie or you put on a nice dress And that
motivation To dress up and to make other people happy Is why a Buddha has a
physical body .... And that's the only reason You see it's a very cool idea
they don't have to have a physical form .... They choose to put on a dress to
show themselves .... To people because of love .... The idea is that when you
do that meditation You are going to think about the reason a Buddha
appears in the world .... They choose to
take of a physical form out of love. Wanna go deeper? I will tell people in China. People
in China
will go crazy and jump up and down as you wanna go deeper .... And I tell them
in America
they say yeah man that’s OK .... So the physical body of a Buddha is divided
into 2 parts OK .... One is called cold classic Buddha .... And that's standard
Exquisite beautiful angelic form And that's what they hang out with in the
living Room In the underwear They're in their Buddha body And it's you know
it's exquisite And it’d be like wings. Totally exquisite Body of light ....
Which is immortal .... And then they have another version of themselves That
they sent out when people can use it Like if a lady would be kinder to her
neighbor If her neighbor had a dog .... The Buddha will emanate as the dog You
see or if a person is at the seaside at the beach .... And they just broke up
with their boyfriend or something Then the Buddha will emanate as a wave ....
As a sound of a wave .... And try to comfort the person with the sound of a wave
So Buddhas are not limited to a normal body. They can look like your boss, your
sister, your wife, your kids. And they very typically will emanate as someone quite
close so you can Or doma
Because then they can help you So the closer the relationship between the 2
people, The more likely that one of them is a Buddha. You see, and they will
emanate .... Then and they might be nice to you for 20 years And then suddenly
irritates you really bad And they've been waiting for 20 years which is nothing
for a Buddha Buddha To do something irritating to improve you .... (tiếp đến 1 vài câu đùa của
thầy, không quan trọng) So they have 2 bodies What is called their home
bodies Which is the one they live in you know among buddhas .... And then
there's other body which is the one they Show in the world when people need it
.... And the cool thing about that body which is called Hâng Git Du Ba .... It is spontaneous,
Meanings day don't have any premeditation. It just shows up. If a lady in Los
Angeles Would treat her neighbor better if The neighbor had a dog Then the
Buddha shows up there as a dog Without planning to show up there. It's
spontaneous from many millions of years Of trying to be nice to other people.
So when you become a Buddha Your body will just show up Wherever it's useful to
someone you see .... So that's kind of a very cool quality OK and the next
meditation .... After the girl in the party dress .... It says Buddha jewels
.... Faces versus reflection And it's a guy looking in a mirror OK .... And you
wanna go deeper? I'm gonna take a picture for the Chinese. This is hard OK you
ask for it and it's late. I'm sorry To do it late but you know Somebody might
enjoy it .... So there's a way to divide the body of a Buddha in to 4 OK and
one is .... What I just told you the body that hangout In their own living Room
in the Buddha paradise And that is like some angelic form Right? Made of light,
Never gets old, Always beautiful. The 2nd one is what Yeah it's kind of just
shows up like If you walk in front of a mirror .... Something you don't thing I
want to reflect in this mirror you walk in front of the mirror there is somebody
there right if as soon as a Buddha exists They are everywhere, so some body can
use them .... Like you walk in front of a mirror They don't think You don't get
up and you know, stand in front of a mirror and wait For your reflection to
show up .... You don't think I wish my face to show up So can shave it ....
.... Like it just happens You see so Buddha second body .... It's all that
matters. When someone need them they are there OK. The body just appears. That's
the second body of Buddha.
The 3rd body Is their mine OK,
how they think .... And it's very much into this idea of the 2nd husband OK.
They don't even see anymore The husband who's not there. They are out of a
habit of blaming someone else for their life .... They automatically… anything
that happened to them They automatically starts thinking Oh I must not yell at
my kids last week you know. They don't even think anything else they don't see
anything else, they never see the 2nd husband Who's not there OK. Now the 4th
body of a Buddha can be complicated. Ready? I'll ask you .... Is there anything
about the 1st 3 bodies That's not coming from their own sees? Meaning you can
say for you is there anything about your body Or is there anything about your
mind Which is not coming from how you treated other people in the past? There
is nothing! That fact is the 4th body .... The fact that nothing about them
Doesn't come from how they treated other people Is the 4th body and it's called
truth .... And in sense with their dhamma OK
OK so that’s reality, the reality
of their 3 bodies is the 4th body. The fact that There's nothing about their
physical form Or how they think That's not coming from how they treated other
people OK got it? .... I gave a talk at Princeton
To the physic department And we were talking about Apparent contradictions In
both atomic theories, Small particles and also macro theories of where the
universe came from .... And I was proposing that a lot of paradoxes and physics
can be solved by believing in this this system .... That thing is coming from
your sees And there is one guy in the back you know He was looking kind of
skeptical To the whole thing and friendly his face is like bright enough you
know And he said can I ask you a question? I said yeah, and he said according
to watch you just said, We kind of assume Newtonianly And Aristotelianly that
The basic building block of reality Is atoms, you know and he said according to
you, according to what you saying Then the underlying reality underlying that it's
kindness And it's not particles That make the world . It's kindness! It's how
you behaved towards other people And I was so blown away that he got it you
know That we live in a world Where we believe That the foundational…The
foundational reality is atoms or what it is called elements: Copper, oxygen,
iron and they're saying he got it right away. He’s like wow, then you are
saying the atoms come from kindness and I say yeah And he says that solved a
lot of questions And it was really cool so anyway it's another book that we
have to write someday. I went to a guy New
York, A reason trip here and He asked if he can
publish a book. He said what's the next books you are doing I would like to
publish it .... He said it in his office in New York and I said well I wanna write this
book Called “a better history of time” .... Cause “the brief history of time”
is the bestselling book in history you know .... And I was saying I want to write
a better history of time .... I wanna correct Stephen Hawking And he said “turn
around” and It was all Stephen Hawking’s books. He said “I am his publisher”
and I said “well I'm still gonna write the book you know” and he was OK. Anyway
so That guy looking at himself in the mirror and his state up mine Which
produces his physical body right? a lady who want to dress up for the party right?
her intention to dress up, we called the Dharma body. That's the mind of a
Buddha OK that's the 3rd body of a Buddha and those of you Who have been there,
That's the 1st of the 3 jewels OK .... The first of the 3 jewels is called the
dhamma jewel.
And the Buddha jewels consist of
the those 4 bodies ok: the motivation to be kind to people, The physical bodies
that The girl Puts on When she wants to go out in the world OK And the fact
that they're not coming from nowhere OK. Got it? just not… OK then the subject
of the book changes OK And I'm going to 945 OK, 4 more minutes, hang in there
.... Someone in China
challenges me would you go all night, I said yes and we did ....( 1 câu đùa không quan trọng với
khán giả) We can continue
tomorrow .... But the subject of the sutras change at this point. They've been
talking about the physical body of a Buddha and where it comes from And then
the answer is It comes from a Buddha state of mine And the way a Buddha
understands how things happen So then Lord Buddha says, you know, to his Buddhi
.... Let's switch Over to The course Of a Buddha's mind OK let's talk about
where the Dharma body comes from OK, let's talk about when the mind and the
emptiness of a Buddha come from… let's go deeper Into the Dharma body Which is
the 2nd jewel Ok? So the 1st jewel is Buddha jewel, the 2nd jewel is Dharma
jewel. So there are 2 ways to understand dhamma jewels. What is jewel means by
the way? Why do we say Buddha and Buddha jewels?.... You can say that! Buddha
is like general Buddha guy and Buddha jewel means what can Protect you. What is
it about a Buddha that can protect you OK? can emptiness protect you? Give me
an example .... When you are about to say no you're stupid And you hesitate not
because you are nice and not because you are moral and not because you are
compassionate But because you .... You're planning a seed for him again To be a…
I'm not gonna say because you control yourself not because it's a nice thing to
do But because it's a harmful things to do to yourself you see you refuse to
call him stupid not because he’s not stupid. He’s stupid! you know that ....
But you refuse to put it into words. Why? he will be stupid again the next day
you see, and that's refuge. That's the idea of 3 jewels so 3 jewels Is tied up
with the 2 husbands OK? you protect yourself if you stop hurting other people
OK And you can't hurt another person. it's not possible If they have seeds you
can hurt them but they made the seed, not you. It's very interesting so anyway
at this point the sutra changes. There are 4 great subjects so far: 1st one: So
Buddhi asked Buddha: What do you wanna me to do with my life? Buddha said: help
other people get Enlighted OK? 2nd one 2nd one is interesting it's how do I do
that? .... And Buddha said 6 profession, 6 ways of acting toward other people.
What's the 1st one? Giving! So then the Buddha …before… we did that last year.
The Buddha goes off on how to give things. What's the main things? Stop
thinking they're coming from their own side. Understand that a person that you
are going to give something to and understand the person who's giving it which
is you and understand the thing you are giving them Are all flowing out of your
own mind. Then you can really give things to people. We finish that last year
OK? Then the question about the physical body of a Buddha, We have finished.
You are graduated of the physical body of Buddha. Now we go next to the mental
body of a Buddha. who created the dhamma body of a Buddha? what does it consist
of? OK what's the Dharma jewel? What can protect you? .... Yeah just
understanding the 2 husbands, that's dhamma jewels. That's dhamma! that
understanding is what we call dhamma. is it the book? Is this Dharma jewel? can
it protect you? Yeah we see pretty good OK .... Diamond cutter sutras are
pretty good .... Like you can call it Conduct hanky .... It's called not bad Dhamma
jewel. It's the sutras But the real dhamma Jewel Is understand your husband And
understand who is not Is the ultimate at dhamma jewel OK? Why? Because it
protects you. That's what these 3 jewels do OK? So tomorrow we are going to get
into the dhamma body .... And Karma Lashia has some very far out ideas about it OK. What is
the body of A Buddha? how does a Buddha think?.... Physically it's OK I'm gonna
be angelic like This statue in Paris you know But mentally what I am going to
be when I'm going to get into that tomorrow which is the Dharma jewel ok, See
you tomorrow ....
