The Gift Of Fear

What would you do in your life if you were completely without fear or worry? While fear can be challenging, it can also be used skilfully as an extremely powerful tool for deepening your spiritual practice. You can learn to work with uncertainty, facing reality head-on, and cutting through the self-cherishing and subconscious attachments that lie at the root of your fear.

Excerpted from a live Zoom teaching with student Q & A at the end.

Transcript

So the subject gift for fear,

Which means no fear.

So whatever circumstances have no fear,

So that's the ultimate gift,

Really.

Maybe that's not easy for everyone in a straight way,

But definitely we can develop.

We can study and we can practice and we can develop that kind of quality.

So why is it important to develop that quality?

Because almost everything we have problems,

We have flaws or come from fear.

For instance,

If we are jealous of somebody,

It comes from fear.

That is,

You feel you have a fear,

You are inferior than the other one.

So that's why you are jealous.

But if you don't have that,

You never have jealousy.

Similarly,

Everything else,

All the problems,

There are many layers.

Some of the layers are because of fear.

You have a fear of something and that's why you are like that.

If we say,

If that's the case,

And then it has to be everything is fearless,

You're not scared of nothing,

You're not scared of immorality or unfaithfulness or anything.

That is not the case.

So that means we have to,

First,

We have to see all the different aspects of fear and different aspects of human quality and how we can balance them.

That we need to know.

So that means anything,

You don't need to reject.

Even the fear,

Desire,

Everything.

Anger,

Everything,

You don't need to reject.

But we have to make balance.

All the problems come from unbalanced of those.

Especially the fear and balance.

Let's say first,

We have to try to see what the qualities of our flaws.

Let's say anger.

Is anger we never need?

Is any of the anger qualities we don't need ever?

That is not the case.

We need some aspect of anger and also we need some degree of anger.

So that means when we are scared,

There is no anger.

The same time.

The same time and same level,

No possible.

So that means we need the anger to,

We have some force or power.

We need that anger,

Have no fear.

But anger,

Jealous,

Desire,

All of them,

We can see as method.

We can call them methods.

But these are methods you need with wisdom.

If this wisdom and these methods are not balanced,

If we have not enough wisdom and have too much anger,

Then it is one problem.

And we have not enough wisdom but too much fear,

The opposite anger,

Then also a problem.

Another way,

We have anger on the surface because you have some fear underneath.

So that means sometimes your fear is manifest on anger,

As anger.

So that is why what we are looking for is balance.

Balance of everything.

So let's say right now I heard that many people are worrying,

Have fear,

Incredible fear,

Don't know what will happen.

Economically,

My individual person's job,

Life,

Marriage,

Many things.

Where they come from?

Where they come from,

This fear?

This fear is unbalanced wisdom and methods.

Also this fear,

You can say unbalanced fear and anger.

So that means if it is balanced,

Then you have the anger whenever you need to not be scared of losing a job.

So you can overcome,

You have the anger to overcome losing a job or whatever,

You have the fear.

So that means it is balanced.

But where they come from this balance?

This balance comes from wisdom.

So then what kind of wisdom?

The wisdom sees everything is unpredictable.

Wisdom is will not do it what is your idea.

Because the natural formation of our life is not predictable.

But we have very fixed predictions.

All of our fear and anxiety,

Worry,

Everything based on this prediction.

But if you have the wisdom,

Enough wisdom,

You don't predict in that way.

So your fear of losing job or losing direction,

All of them unbalanced.

This unbalancedness,

You will balance with this wisdom.

So that means,

Oh,

I shouldn't be scared.

I shouldn't be scared of losing job because losing job is maybe not,

Not losing job is not maybe necessary for me.

Or losing job is maybe opportunity for me.

Same as divorce,

Sickness,

Death,

Everything.

You can see us,

Firstly,

You see us unpredictable.

So you don't have fixed ideas.

Second,

Even that case,

What you predicted or what everybody predicted,

Even is that case still is unnecessary,

Not necessarily is the worst result.

And instead could be the best opportunity.

Something you never thought about,

Something you never do it purposely.

And this time,

Naturally,

Natural formation push you through this transformation.

So you can see this way.

So you're not scared.

You have no fear.

That's one thing.

So if we go a little bit deeper,

Then we have to see where is the fear come from.

Is fighting in feeling based on self-cherishing.

So you mean think what do you mean self-cherishing?

Do you mean I shouldn't care myself?

Do you mean I shouldn't care my well-being?

Is not that.

Or you can misunderstand,

I have no self-cherishing.

I'm not a selfish person.

I do this,

Do this for other people.

I care about other people.

I'm not a selfish person.

You could think that.

I'm not disagreeing with that.

I'm not saying everyone should not care your future well-being.

But your caring is no problem.

But how to care is useless based on fear and worry,

Anxiety arise because we're based on fear.

I'm not saying you are a selfish person.

I'm not saying you don't care other people.

But there is something we have self-cherishing means narrow focus on oneself very strongly.

Even you care others.

But there is a very big difference,

Degrees differences,

Me and other.

And very big focus,

Very intense focus on me.

So that is the underlying.

Or the fear and all the problems.

Because this view is seen as oneself is more important than others.

Oneself is more intense than others feeling.

Definitely.

So this underlies is maximize your fear of the future.

Because you fear of the future because you firstly you predicted what will happen is something bad can happen.

Maybe not 100% predicted but more high percentage rather than not happen.

Or something sometimes a very small chance to happen.

But you focus too much.

So that's why it becomes intense.

So that's why the student practice Machig Labdron's Peter's Instruction.

You go to the most scary places.

And then you call all the demons or all the bad spirits,

Anybody in the three realms you call them.

And say you offer my body,

My flesh,

Blood,

Bone,

Everything.

Please enjoy,

Eat,

Drink.

Why?

Because that means the self-cherishing is underlying all the other problems.

All the other afflictions.

Afflictions means all different emotions,

Different attitudes,

All of them not helpful.

All of them is underlying of the self-cherishing.

So that's why challenging the self-cherishing.

Cutting through the ignorance.

That's why I call it chud.

Chud means cutting.

Cutting the self-cherishing or you can say cutting the ignorance,

Whichever way you want to translate.

If you say cutting the ignorance means we have this sense of self,

Myself is more important than any other.

That is based on ignorance.

So you cutting that.

You yourself as dedicate for everybody's food,

Your cherishing this body.

And usually we don't have even small pinch is difficult for us.

Even small spider or small insects,

We very,

Very scared.

Why?

Because you know,

These insects are so small you can crush so easily.

And you know why we have so much scare?

Because the self-cherishing.

So now you're doing the opposite.

Why are you doing this?

Because you see this is the root problem.

Or you can say say cutting the self-cherishing.

So when we say cutting the self-cherishing or cutting the ignorance,

Cutting ignorance means even more deeper.

Why?

Because this self-cherishing comes from ignorance.

This ignorance is not knowing.

One self is not more important than any other.

So all these feelings and senses come from this ignorance.

If this ignorance totally eradicated,

Then we don't have that.

We don't have that.

We don't have sense of the one self is more important than others.

We don't have that.

That's why when we train in love and compassion means just baby steps.

And then we practice in bodhicitta means,

You know,

Your ultimate desire to take responsibility of well-being of all sentient beings.

But not just well-being,

Samsaric well-being,

But also you want to deliver them the ultimate gift,

The ultimate Buddhahood.

So that is training in different way of the self-cherishing.

That's a little bit indirect.

But if we practice this job,

It's more directly cutting through your fear.

So that means you're not treating your symptoms,

But you're treating your illness.

All symptoms come from.

So that's why you're challenging the self-cherishing.

When you are challenging self-cherishing,

Makes yourself getting better.

Not you're going to die with fear.

And now you think maybe,

Oh,

If I go this very scary place by myself in the dark and call everybody or demons to eat me,

I'm going to die,

You know,

Like a fear with fear.

Why are you going to die?

Because you think the demons come and eat you.

But the truth is never,

Ever any demons eating them.

But when we have ignorance,

We are not ready and then you think there is a demons.

You have illusion of the demons and then you scared.

So that means you're not doing very well,

But still is a million times better than you didn't do it.

Nothing.

Why?

Because you know,

Next time you know,

You realize you were scared and you saw something,

All of them not true.

So then you next time you are better.

That's why the Jodh practices have to go 108 different places.

Why?

Because 108 times you different places,

If you test yourself,

You definitely getting better.

So if you did,

Then you can use this for any situation.

This is incredible gift.

Have no fear.

This is the best way to challenging our self-cherishing.

So this is a more direct way of develop not selfish.

This way is you develop same time,

The wisdom and methods.

Why?

Similar of the chemical reactions.

If you challenge,

Then chemical react.

Similar way,

If we challenge our self-cherishing,

Then self-cherishing also react.

When you reacted,

Then we realize.

That means we means who?

This realization level is the wisdom level is connected with our Buddha nature.

When we have too much self-cherishing,

This is diluted by this many,

Many,

Many types of afflictions.

Jealous,

Anger,

Desire,

You know,

Many,

Many things.

But when we are challenging this,

This reaction make obvious science or these problems based on self-cherishing.

Self-cherishing means you want best for yourself,

But you doing worst for yourself.

See Cheetah,

Focusing all sentient beings,

It seems like you losing,

You are loser for other people think.

But actually you are the winner of from everyone,

From the universe.

So this paradox we have to see very clear.

When you have fear of anything,

We have to focus this study,

This reflection,

This contemplate,

Not repetitively go back and back our anxiety and worry and distance.

So some people think,

Oh,

This is not important teachings,

But actually this is more important than anything else.

Because this is not Buddhist teaching.

You consider it is not even a Buddhist teaching.

You can consider anybody because everybody has self-cherishing,

Everybody has a fear and anxiety,

Depression,

All the problems,

Everybody have the potential.

So everybody have this unbalance.

There is nobody in this earth to need unbalance.

So everybody need this balance.

If you consider something high level,

Vajrayogam practice or Vajrayana practice or Tantrayana practice,

Whatever you call,

Is kind of unbalance.

You know how to unbalance.

And then why the other Hinayana way is rejecting desire and jealousy and anger,

Everything is like untouchable.

Why see that way?

Because just steps,

Steps off to balance.

What can start to the balance?

So that means you have already have unbalanced anger and desire based on very selfish.

So that's why they're not saying all the teachings,

They just say,

How do you deal,

How do you rejecting this desire?

Basically saying if there is a bad people,

The Hinayana not teaching you how to deal with them.

Just to teach you how you avoid them,

How you run away from them.

In Mahayana teach you a little bit,

Little bit for something special circumstances,

How do you deal with them?

And then Vajrayana teach you every single possibility of how to deal with them,

Not run away.

So when we say,

For instance,

We say in general Hinayana way,

You cannot have desire.

Desire is very bad.

Another language you can use,

Your desire is unbalanced.

The real meaning is not you cannot have desire at all impossible.

But meaning is your desire is unbalanced,

Not enough support wisdom,

Your methods.

Have not that same directly,

Instead say desire is bad,

Avoid.

For instance fear,

They say anger is very bad.

They say fear also very good,

Never said good.

So the reality if you have anger but you have,

You can balance.

You can balance because the wisdom see where is need the anger use,

When is not shouldn't use.

But when you are the fear present you are fighting in,

No possible you have anger symptom.

But you have some kind of anger quality that is method to overcome the fear.

But if you don't have the wisdom you don't know how to use them.

That means if you are very very scared of your enemy and the same time if you have anger usually no possible same time anger.

But if you did that impossible on your enemy,

That time you may be only anger with your glasses and you break them.

That's useful,

Not very useful.

In Tibetan we say,

Which means you cannot fight with your enemy but still you have unbalanced anger so you beat up your wife with your feet,

You kicking with your feet with your wife,

Because you cannot fight your real enemy.

That's not saying Dharma.

That's some sadic saying but still you can use Dharma.

When we have problems or challenges if we have some anger quality to overcome and not scared of the situation that is absolutely useful anger.

But instead if we don't have that quality instead you have the wrong anger and bash up your partner or your children or you break up your furniture.

That is unbalanced useless anger.

So that means how do we deal with our challenges in life?

One way the challenge you don't see is unchallenged.

You can see as you think,

Even you don't see totally but you can think this is possible of opportunity.

That's one way.

Second,

You have the anger and intention to overcome this situation.

And you are energized by this situation.

Not defeated by fear.

Instead you have anger challenged to the fear.

Which means reacted,

Your anger reacted to this situation.

And the right way,

With wisdom.

There are different two different ways but either way is useful.

One thinking is another way is you see is unpredictable.

So you are not stuck on worry and you know.

You not worry because you don't believe this will this happen this this happen.

You think you don't know.

You see everything is unpredictable.

So your wisdom sees the worst point to worry about something we cannot predict.

That means also the wisdom helping balance your you know your situation.

The situation is not real situation.

How do you say?

Situation based on assumption.

Situation based on guess.

Situation based on unskillful calculation.

The calculation is not based on truth.

The calculation is based on illusion.

This make you worry,

Anxiety then depressed and lonely.

Or you hate your family.

Because before you didn't spend time with your family.

But now you spend time too much with your family and you hate them.

Why?

That means also before you thought you have love or your family or partner you love.

So that love is not based on truth.

That love is based on illusion.

Based on self-charging.

Self-charging means like children,

Like teenage very very easily to bored.

Self-charging is like that.

So anything with you too much involved then you are bored.

You hate it.

That is self-charging nature.

But if you are based on love,

Love means if you know more and you are more attracted.

You know more,

You involve more,

You more enjoy.

With this object or person or whatever.

We call it Yiddu'ungwa.

Yiddu'ungwa.

Yid means in the mind.

Coming into your mind.

Not rejecting.

Because it is love.

I give example.

Usually we have a little bit love,

Quality,

Whoever we know more.

Less stranger or you know a little bit person.

If you can help one but cannot both,

Then already we choose you know a little bit person,

That one you help.

Why?

Because there is a small love quality there.

Not totally love.

Just a small aspect of love.

Where they come from?

Because you know this person.

Come from that.

That is the only reason.

But when we know more and more the person,

Usually maybe you love more and more.

But not always that case.

You could be more bored with this person.

You could be more hate this person.

Why?

Because your quality of love is limited.

Limited quality cannot balance.

Balance what you need and balance you have cannot balance.

That's why.

You spend time more and then you hate it because you have not enough quality.

So you can generate the quality.

But if you are involved more and more and more,

You are knowing more and more and more,

This person you love more and more and more.

That means the subject of your love quality and the object of this person or situation,

You know how to balance.

Why you know how to balance?

Because of your wisdom.

For this method is not method alone.

It with your wisdom.

Along with your wisdom.

So you have enough wisdom for two balance come together equally.

So that means selfish person or loving quality person means the difference is one knows how to make balance,

One don't know how to make balance.

Wise person or foolish person also means the wise person knows how to balance and the foolish means you don't know how to balance.

That's why.

All our qualities.

Not only just love nature,

Compassion nature,

Not only this sense,

But even anger and jealous,

You know,

All of them.

We don't have to eradicate them.

We don't have to reject them.

We just have to know how to balance.

Let's say depression is anytime good.

Yes,

Of course.

If you are depressed in the right way,

Then is renunciation.

If you are depressed a wrong way,

There is suffering.

They both have maybe some aspect of suffering,

But renunciation,

You have some kind of degree of suffering,

But that's very small degree and also useful.

And your self-cherishing depression is absolutely useless.

Why?

Because renunciation,

Where it come from?

Because you know things are deeper.

So that's why many,

Many people are stuck on the superficiality and care too much these superficialities.

You see them as depression.

That's why your depression,

This renunciation of trouble,

Depression is you don't want at all.

You don't see is they are valuable.

But everybody,

Every day chasing them.

You're chasing those.

And sometimes even yourself is forcing to chasing those because you are the part of society.

That's why you are a little bit depressed.

But the depression is something useful.

But normal depression,

Samsaric depression is extreme selfishness.

Based on a competition,

Competition,

Competition,

You compete others and then you see as your failure.

That's why the depression come from.

Why you compete other people because you think I'm more important than others.

I must be win from others.

That's why you're depressed.

Even is jealous.

If you are right way of jealous,

First you recognition,

You recognize other people's quality or suggestion,

Everything is better than you.

That is some aspect of jealous.

But then you rejoice.

That means you know how to balance the jealous.

So well.

So then becomes rejoicing for yourself.

Enjoyment for yourself.

The other people's achievement,

Successful.

Or another way,

Energize yourself.

There is a little bit competition aspect,

But not driven by everything ignorance.

Instead make you not lazy.

Make you energize to not lazy.

That means we can say this is your inspiration.

The other people's successful.

The inspiration and jealous,

There is some degree,

Some aspect similar.

But you know how to use your wisdom.

When is necessary?

When is not necessary?

When is a little bit jealous,

Necessary?

When is not necessary?

When is necessary,

Compete?

When is not necessary?

You know,

Usually people say,

Oh,

I'm not competing.

I'm not competing.

But sometimes you can admit I'm competing.

That time is necessary.

You can admit that.

But if you are just obsessed with the competition,

Nothing else,

Then is useless.

Of course,

Desire is really underlying everything.

And inspiration,

Underlying the force,

Energy,

Enjoyment,

Everything.

You just need balance.

You just have to see when is necessary,

When is not necessary.

If you have zero desire,

That means you are dead.

You are a dead person.

Like the plants,

Plants are fresh every day.

At least the carbon dioxide,

You know.

So that means the plant is fresh,

Alive.

But you don't have that,

That means the plant is dead.

Similarly,

We are human based on desire.

So desire is nothing wrong.

Only the balance,

Unbalance is wrong.

When is necessary?

When is not necessary?

What degree is necessary?

What degree is not necessary?

So like that.

Okay so,

How to deal with our fear of the situations?

Firstly,

You not predict what you think.

What will happen?

You may think,

Oh,

I'm not predicting,

It is happening.

Yes,

Happening something,

But this also will change.

Second,

You not meditate on with this fear and worry.

You do something else.

That's one,

Other way.

Third,

You don't predict this happening is bad.

You could think this happening could be better than,

A condition of better than before.

Finally,

You have to think,

Even something appears very bad,

Is everybody predicting something very bad?

Maybe it doesn't happen,

Could be happen,

But the consequence not necessarily what people think.

Maybe I'm not saying there's zero bad things,

But from these bad things generate incredible good things,

Incredible opportunities,

Rises,

Forced to rise,

Something we cannot do it.

Usually people go everything doing well,

Everything goes well,

Cannot do things.

These situations make force you do this.

So basically you have to have some board view,

Not stuck in a small area and not meditated on that.

Instead meditated something bigger and vast.

So that's I would say.

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So I have fever and diarrhea and vomit.

So how I take that opportunity?

Anybody know?

This opportunity,

Because this is not happening.

If this not happened,

I wouldn't cherish as much as before the normal life.

But when this happened and then I realized,

Oh,

The normal usual life are so wonderful.

Why I didn't realize that?

Myself,

You know,

Like,

Oh,

What come?

I didn't realize,

Oh,

Once me again,

Remind this normal,

We think normal boring life is also wonderful.

Isn't that good?

Or you never had that realization,

You just everyday boring,

Boring,

Boring.

You know.

Rinpoche,

We have a few questions.

Yeah.

The first question is,

Can we use can we use the fear directly like we can use anger and jealousy?

Use it under jealousy.

No anger.

You kind of told us how we can use it to counteract fear.

So is there something we can do with fear that's beneficial?

You can use anger or come your fear.

Yes,

Definitely.

Yes,

But they're asking if fear has if there's something we can do directly with fear.

How do we use fear?

Oh,

How we use the fear.

Yeah.

Anything you can do with something method if the if your fear making something,

You know,

Like something usually you cannot do it,

Something usually you are lazy or anything.

If this fear forced you to do this,

Then you can use for anything.

The next question Rinpoche is who is experiencing the fear?

Who is experiencing the fear is a best self,

Best person.

Best person means the illusion person fear,

Not the Buddha nature,

Not the true yourself.

So that means that means that self something we do all of a long time in illusion.

So that's why this illusion based on illusion,

Everything is you yourself and everything based on illusion.

So that's why you scared and you suffer and everything.

But it's true self never suffer,

Never impossible.

The true self is Buddha nature.

Okay the next question comes from Facebook.

Does anger can be antidote for fear?

What is the antidote for desire?

Antidote of desire.

Oh,

You mean desire for the antidote for what you mean?

Yeah.

So you were saying that we can that anger is an antidote for fear.

So they're wondering what helps us balance desire?

What's the antidote for desire?

You mean antidote have no desire or you mean desire used for antidote for something else?

You have maybe too much desire.

Oh,

There is not too much desire.

There is not too much desire,

Only unbalanced.

Okay,

There's not too much desire,

Which means even you have incredible strong desire,

If you have along with your wisdom and where you use exactly beneficial,

Then it's not too much desire at all,

Never.

The only thing is we think it's too much desire means unbalanced.

You don't know where you use so you use our wrong places.

Rinpoche,

So can we say that you're saying the antidote for desire is wisdom for balancing it?

Yes,

Of course.

But the wisdom is enough for your strong desire and then it's never too much desire.

Okay,

The next question is,

Can you explain a little bit more about the depression that's renunciation?

Let's say I give you an example.

If there is a machine,

Let's say aeroplane or car or whatever,

There is no,

Never enough,

There is nothing,

You can't say this machine is too fast.

As long as you can balance your skill,

Never accident,

Then there's not too much fast.

So only too much fast because your skill not enough to drive that machine.

So similar.

So okay,

Your question that,

What do you say,

Explain more the depression?

Not the type of depression that's renunciation.

Could you just explain a little bit more?

Okay.

Renunciation means usually people seeking for like social state,

Recognition as social state and the samsara happiness,

Samsara happiness,

All these pleasures,

All these things,

Like this distance,

You,

This all is based on self-cherish.

So that's why who has renunciation,

You don't see they are valuable.

You see as they are is,

How to say,

You see as a depression if you have to do that.

So you see is a depression other people doing this and you see is a depression if you have to do that.

You know,

So that is a renunciation.

If you do,

Only you doing temporary benefits or temporary leading to the enlightened activities,

Only you doing for that.

So that means someone have renunciation,

This person try to seeking for recognition or seeking recognition or other samsara person seeking for recognition is even you doing the same thing but the reason is not same.

Because samsara person you are recognized as whatever and you have this kind of fame and all these things is you doing for your satisfaction.

But the other one you not doing satisfaction.

You just,

Oh,

If I have this fame,

If I have this recognition,

Then you can lead other people more right away because they more listen to you.

But if you are nobody,

Nobody listen to you.

So that's the only reason you seeking.

So even you seeking the same thing but not the reason same thing,

Never,

Never.

So the normal depression is you always see your failure.

You want to be superior than somebody else.

Or at least you want to equal somebody else but you see as your inferior.

And somebody else more successful than you.

You only care that.

So that's why you not happening what you care about.

That's why you depression.

You are stuck in there.

Even people don't consciously doing this but subconsciousness doing this.

So that's why depression.

Because you don't know any other way.

You only know this way.

You only know samsara way.

You know,

Try to better than others.

You know,

Try to compete with someone.

You only know that way.

You don't know anything else.

That's why you are stuck there.

And then you are,

Yeah,

You are suffer from this.

Can you see it's very different?

Hopefully.

Yes.

Yes.

The next question,

A few people have questions about should practice.

They want to know if it requires an empowerment.

Does it require transmission?

How do you practice it?

And can you speak a little bit more about it?

You don't need empowerment.

You don't need transmission.

You can't,

It's not forbidden you practice this.

The only thing if you have empowerment,

If you have real empowerment,

If you have,

The student is qualified,

The teacher is qualified,

And you have the good karmic connection,

Maybe that help you,

Help you a lot.

But you don't have to have the best practice.

It's not forbidden to practice.

And explain more what you say.

I think they just wanted to know a little bit more about the practice.

The practice is basically you directly go in challenge in your self-cherishing.

So indirectly,

Of course,

You can take refugee and Buddha,

Dharma,

Sangha,

Because they are the source of the Dharma.

Buddha is who presented the Dharma,

Dharma itself.

You integrate yourself,

Your path,

Your life,

And Sangha is your companion.

And the bodhicitta,

Because bodhicitta indirectly helping,

Indirectly self-cherishing,

Cutting self-cherishing.

And yeah,

Anything else,

Anything else,

Any practices helps indirectly.

But the direct practice is you challenging your self-cherishing.

And then you have more,

More,

More challenging,

Reacting more,

More,

More.

Then your selflessness,

More energized,

Your self-cherishing decrease because based on illusion.

Your selflessness is based on Buddha nature.

So more,

More energized.

Okay.

Okay,

The next question.

What does it mean to already know wisdom?

What is wisdom?

What does it mean to know wisdom?

So you talked about using wisdom as an antidote.

So it's on a relative level.

What does it mean?

How do we recognize that something is wisdom?

Wisdom is like you are a driver.

If you know how to drive very well,

Then that means like you know how to use the object very well.

So wisdom,

Whether you have anger,

You know how to use well.

If you have attachment,

Desire,

You know how to use well.

If you have compassion,

You use well.

Even as compassion without wisdom is not always useful.

So it's like person.

Person have skills,

Many skills and anything,

Any situation you can use,

Any machines or any tools you can use very well,

That means wisdom.

Let's see.

Okay,

We have,

We'll do one last question because it's getting quite late.

Remember,

She's been very kind to join us when he's not feeling well.

One more question.

Lay have here.

Okay,

Then we'll do that.

Okay.

Do you want to do Lay's now or after?

So I just have some trans students ask the questions.

The questions is if you are hurt by an enemy,

Take legal action to solve the problem.

So is that hurting all sentient beings?

And also is how do you see the legal weapon in the normal life,

What that meaning?

The first one what you say?

The first one is if you are hurt by an enemy,

Take legal action to solve the problem.

So is that hurting all sentient beings?

So if somebody do very unfair,

Then if you do legal action,

Is that hurt other sentient beings,

Right?

So it doesn't matter if they hurt sentient beings or not,

As long as you are some sentient being,

You cannot expect you never hurt by anybody.

And also you cannot expect you don't hurt anybody.

Okay?

But hurt or not hurt,

That's not the main important.

The important why you want legal action is based on all your own self-cherishing or you have based on compassion.

You know,

Based on compassion,

This person have a better understanding or whatever,

You know,

That's you have to focus.

Second one,

What do you say?

The second one is if we think in the legal way like a weapon,

So what that meaning for the legal,

What that meaning in the normal life?

Why we need legal?

Why we need legal?

Law,

Like actually,

Why we need law if we think law is kind of weapon?

So why we need law?

Oh,

Why we need law?

Because everybody based on a self-cherishing.

So everybody doing the wrong thing is more than right way.

So that's why people try to make law.

But law also made humans made.

So human has limitation.

So always law is not really perfect,

But some ways help something a little bit.

That's why we need law.

Okay,

Last question.

Okay.

Taking in consideration that anger and fear are a poison that seed in samsara,

Where in the three turnings of the wheel of Dharma can we find renunciation?

How can we practice renunciation of anger and fear?

Second.

Okay.

Taking in consideration that anger and fear are a poison that seed in samsara,

Where in the three turnings of the wheel of Dharma can we find renunciation?

How can we practice renunciation of anger and fear?

Okay,

So consideration of that anger and fear is like anger and fear is a poison that is only Hinayana way,

A lower way of thinking.

But in higher level of way of thinking,

They are not poison.

They're not always poison.

Is only poison you don't know when you are balanced.

So for instance,

The old medicine,

If you are balanced,

Then you know antidote for some sickness that medicine is for medicine only for that,

But not medicine for everything.

So that's why for something maybe poison,

For something medicine,

So like that.

So if we see this way,

Then you know how to use anger and fear everything very well.

But if we don't use absolutely black and white,

They're always poison,

In any case is poison,

Then you have limited use way.

So renunciation also same.

That's why I'm saying if your renunciation is based on seeing the deeper nature,

And then you have inspiration and you know the high level of achievement based on compassion,

And then this depression is useful,

But your depression is only based on self-cherishing and very narrow view,

Then it's just depression is useless.

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Self cherishing means love based on the illusion that I am more important than others.