…the disease, one's own pride or the ego, it destroys one's own ego or one's own pride. So for example, doing the prostrations, the particular delusion, the particular symptoms of mind, the particular sicknesses of the mind, the delusion, what it purifies is the pride, usually when one has pride to somebody, one wouldn't respect to that person, according to the pride, one wouldn't respect to that person. So the particular delusion or the particular sickness of the mind that which it removes or it purifies is the pride, the particular one, but of course that is for all other obscurations, to purify, but particularly this one. So the prostrations is regarded particular remedy to the pride.

So one can use, one can praise the enemy in order to destroy one's own ego, because it's very effective, when you praise to the enemy, somebody whom you don't like, somebody whom you don't want to respect to, then, you try to respect to the person and praise, so it becomes a challenge or it becomes very powerful practice that, you are destroying the ego, the pride, it become very brave, you become more powerful than the ego, the pride, in doing that way. So can, so in this way, then one is able to develop the mind in order to bring sentient beings to enlightenment. Can do like this.

Then, when we praise, from the heart, by remembering, how one should do from the heart, then by remembering the kindness of the enemy, all the past, all the present, all the future happiness I received by the kindness of this person and now, among the numberless sentient beings, among the numberless living beings, the holy objects, such as the Buddhas, they don't have anger towards me, so I have no opportunity to practice patience with them, to develop my inner qualities, realizations of the path, the patience, to achieve enlightenment in order to benefit for all living beings. So this patience, I have no opportunity to practice patience with the fully enlightened beings because they don't have anger towards me, they have only infinite love, compassion, towards me. Then, friend. The friend doesn't have anger, friend loves you, so again with the friend there's no opportunity to practice patience, and to develop this path. Then what is left is now stranger, stranger doesn't have anger towards you, doesn't have dislikeful mind towards you. So again there's no opportunity to practice patience with the stranger, to develop this path to enlightenment.

So, among all the numberless beings, this is the only person, the person who has anger, with whom I have opportunity to practice patience, to develop this path in order to achieve enlightenment for the sake of, in order to bring every living being to full enlightenment, it's only this one, who has anger towards me, who doesn't love me, only this one. Other than this, with all the rest of the others, I have no opportunity at all to practice patience, to develop this path. So, this person is the only one who helps me, who gives me this realization, patience, and to complete this and which makes possible to achieve enlightenment, which makes possible then me to bring everyone, every living being, to full enlightenment, the peerless happiness. So, this is the only person who gives me this realization, the opportunity to practice patience.

So if this [pause], it's only this person, who is called enemy, why? Why only this person? Because he is the only person who has anger towards me. So, extremely kind, he or she, extremely kind to me by having anger towards me, extremely kind to me, having the anger towards me, like that. So this way, this person who doesn't love you, anger to you, rather becoming a problem, it becomes pleasant, rather becoming no need, it become need. Before, when one is not practicing patience by thinking of the kindness of this person, this person is giving me enlightenment by letting to train my mind in the path, patience, this person is giving me enlightenment. [pause]

So, before when one is not practicing patience, by thinking how the person is kind, that time one, the person having anger towards you is becoming no need, one regarded as problem and it appeared as problem, one labeled "bad" and appeared bad, the anger, the self-cherishing thought or the anger, labeled bad and appeared bad, then established dislikeful thought on that. Now, when one is practicing patience, by thinking how this person is extremely, unbelievably kind, by having the, like qualification, anger, by having the anger, thought that doesn't love me, that wants to harm me, now, when one practice patience, by thinking of the reasons, how this person is kind, then, his or her having anger towards oneself it become need, need this in order to develop one's own mind in the path, in order to achieve enlightenment, in order to bring everyone to full enlightenment, all sentient beings. So it become need, one find useful, one made it useful, beneficial. So it appeared happiness, so this person having anger, thought not loving to oneself, the appeared, rather problem, then pleasant, supporting to develop the path within one's mind.

So by thinking, so in this way, by thinking of the reason of how this person is so kind, having anger towards me, when one think like this, depth, how that gives realization up to enlightenment, then, not just that, then after that, one is able to bring every sentient being, whose mind is obscured and suffering, one is able to, everyone able to bring to enlightenment, the peerless happiness. So all this is by the kindness of this person, who has anger towards me. So all this came from, by the kindness of this person. So, this person's kindness become infinite, like infinite sky, so by practicing patience then the peace, tranquility or peace one find, one experiences in one's own heart, this deep experience of peace in the very inside of one's own heart, in the very inside of one's own heart there's some deep joy or peace, by thinking of how this person is extremely kind.

So that deep peace of mind that you felt the very inside of your heart, even the whole sky filled with jewels, even you offer to that person, that is not enough, that is never enough, mountains of diamonds, gold, that much dollars, that much atoms of dollars, even you offer, it is nothing comparing the great peace what you experience in your heart, what this person gives to you by practicing patience with that person. Then, without talking even enlightenment, just even that, that peace of mind what you immediately got, experience in the heart.

So however, so that deep peace in your heart, you cannot experience even somebody gives you mountains of diamonds or gold or even this much earth, number of atoms this much earth, that much dollars, even somebody gives, cannot get this experience, but by practicing patience, by thinking of the kindness of this person, can experience this deep peace very inside of the heart. So however, so much more precious than any of those materials, this person.

So again, so this just happened by the conversation. So anyway, however, this again goes into the section, how to, the enemy, somebody who doesn't love you, that how to, which appears as a problem, that within one's own mind, rather only looking at it as a problem and appearing only problem, this fixed idea, fixed appearance and fixed idea, that only looking at it only suffering, which has no single benefit, only torturing yourself, only making yourself more unhappy, painful, so however, one look at it pleasant, happiness, supporting to actualize the path.

So now, going back to the pride. So, what happens, that's right, so the Kadampa geshes, these meditators, they explained that, so many disharmonies happening in this life, even in this life so many disharmonies happen, that's due to pride, so many problems, disharmony happening in this life, that's because of pride.

So anyway, if I just go over straight, the shortcomings of pride. Then, it is said in the sutra teachings by Buddha, ignorant ones due to pride, being under the control of pride, one get reborn in the unfortunate realms, that means the hell, the hungry ghost, animal realms, one get born in the lower realms, the unfortunate realms and then in the realms which have no opportunity to practice meditation, practice Dharma, which means even one is born as human being, but no opportunity to practice meditation, Dharma, at all, no opportunity to develop the mind at all, towards liberation, ultimate liberation, towards the full enlightenment. So, like that. Then, one get born in the unfortunate realms, then, the realms where there's no opportunity to practice Dharma, then one get reborn as a poverty, very poor, which means so many difficulties, hard life in the means of living; then lower caste. If one is born as lower caste then in many of those countries, I'm not sure in the West so much, but so many of the countries, so the person is kept very low and not respected. So, that caste not respected, everybody keeps out or low. Then you don't have power to benefit extensively to all the different levels of people in that way. However, then, one gets born as blind, very small, very weak, blind and then having very little power, having very little capacity, very weak. Then, also, having ugly shape or color, bad color, bad shape. So this is the result of the shortcomings of pride that is explained in the sutra teachings.

Then each time the pride arises, it leaves imprint on the mind, then makes the imprint thicker and thicker and thicker, then that makes the mind so difficult to be liberated. Then because imprint is very thick, then that makes difficult to quickly free from the obscurations and to achieve full enlightenment, so makes more difficult. So then that is same also with the anger, attachment, all the other delusions it is the same, each time it leaves imprint.

So, as Shantideva said in Bodhicaryavatara, if one is upset, then it eliminates, because of weakness or something, failure in education or failure in the capacity, then one become upset. Then you think, then how to transform this problem into happiness, so you think, if you have success, then think, if I did have success, where there's no upsetness, then I will have pride, much pride. Then if I get pride all these problems I will have to go through life to life, so that's the way to think. And then, so think that way. Then, the upsetness, so this eliminates the arrogance or the pride, which makes so hard, difficult to develop the mind, the realizations. So, the upsetness is, because it eliminates pride, the obstacles to develop the mind in the path, so therefore it eliminates the obstacles to achieve enlightenment, it eliminates obstacles you to bring everyone to full enlightenment. So, this, by, due to weakness that didn't succeed in whatever it is, education or whatever it is, that you didn't succeed, so this way, what felt, depression or upsetness, it become quality, it become supporting, beneficial, to actualize the path, for the success, in order to have this greatest success, to bring everyone to the peerless happiness, full enlightenment, this helped.

Then, [pause] so I just finish those points which I mentioned yesterday, just to clarify a little bit. Then, where it says, so first thing is, the main this is when there's a problem, that, by thinking that this is supporting to generate the path, then enjoying that, meditating on the joyfulness of that, anyway, enjoying that, by thinking this is, what it does is supporting to actualize the path. Then, what the bodhisattva Shantideva said the upsetness eliminates arrogance, pride, then, rises compassion for the circling beings, those who are in suffering realms, you see, the samsara.

Then, next benefit of the problems is, the fourth one, one becomes careful with the negative karma, one becomes careful with the cause of the sufferings. So, the problem it makes the mind aware that, to check the cause, what is the cause of this problem? It makes the mind aware to check the cause. Then when you find out the cause, the cause is not outside the cause is in the mind and that is the mind or in the mind, the negative imprint that which was left on the mind, the delusions, the ignorance, anger, attachment, these things, these minds, and the imprint that which is left on the mind by these thoughts, by these delusions and the actions motivated by these delusions, so these are the cause of the problems. So it makes to study the cause, when we have problems it makes to study the cause. So when we find out the cause, it makes us to purify the cause, one way it makes us to purify the cause, one way it inspires, it encourages our mind to stop creating the cause again. The causes what we have already created so many times in this life, from beginningless past lives, because of the continuation of consciousness did not have beginning, so from the beginningless rebirth, the cause of the problems which we have accumulated it makes us to purify, then the second benefit is it makes us to be careful to not create again. So by, so benefits of having problems, so has this benefit, having the problem gives these benefits.

Then, one come to know, because of the self-cherishing thought, because it happened due to self-cherishing thought, because it happened, ignorance, anger, attachment, so that encourages to transform the mind into good heart, altruism, the patience or the wisdom, so forth, all those other positive mind or the other paths.

Then also it makes us to make vow, then from now on I won't give this harm, that harm, this harm to other sentient beings, I won't kill, I won't tell lie, steal, so forth, the different negative karmas, that which harms oneself and which harms other sentient beings. So the problem makes to strengthen the mind, makes the mind strong, to live in this morality, that I won't give this and this and this harms, like that. So it makes, the problem helps, the problem brings oneself into morality, practice of morality, the cause of the happiness now and the cause of the happiness, particularly the cause of future good rebirth.

Then, so benefits of problems, one becomes careful with the negative karma, means the cause of the problems. Then, so then one can understand from this that it makes to enjoy the virtue, happy to practice virtue.

The one before that which I did not mention, didn't finish, is when somebody criticize, when there's praise rises greater pride. When somebody criticizes then destroys immediately or straight one's own mistakes. So, how one should develop the mind in the path, so that has to come by recognizing the mistakes, only by recognizing the mistakes then by destroying, by eliminating the mistakes, only then the mind can be developed in the path, only then the mind can be better, only then one's own life becomes better life, through this, by recognizing the mistake, what is right and wrong, and by eliminating the mistakes. So, the actions of body, speech and mind always to become cause of happiness, then that has to come, that development has to come by recognizing what is right and wrong, then by eliminating the mistakes. So if somebody criticizes, so that has that benefit.

Then, if one is wealthy, so let's say, if one is poor, one has poverty, so, no jobs or however, there is difficulties of life, not having enough means of living or poor. Then, what one should think, how to look at this life, these problems, into happiness. Then one think, so if one is wealthy, then there's so much problems, worry, fears, unable to protect, unable to collect more materials and unable to protect, so there's great sufferings in that, so much worry, fear, so much competition, worry, fears becoming, others going better and that you are becoming lower, all these worries, competitions, so much.

So, however, except that great holy beings, such as bodhisattvas, those holy beings that I described before, such as those very highly realized beings, but being king, having all the wealth and being king, like that, so those are different case, those are exceptions, special, but otherwise, generally, as ordinary people, among wealthy people, they have their own problems, many mental sufferings. When one come to know their own life, then there's so much problems that they have.

Then, so, thinking this way. Then this way, then the attachment, the clinging, in the wealth…