Question: ["CAN YOU TELL US HOW TO DEAL] WITH MOMENTARY FEARS AND HOW TO HANDLE THEM WHEN THEY PARALYZE YOU?

ANSWER: Yes, I have a good piece of advice against fears, and which always works:

You look around you and think, „Who would buy this fear from me?" Next you think, „She would not, and he would not, and they wouldn't either!" and then you start thinking, „Maybe it's useless!" and then you throw it away. That is one way of dealing with it.

Another way would be to force oneself to breathe a bit deeper. You see, fear often has to do with irregular breathing, so try to breathe a bit below the navel and try to hold the breath down here in the abdomen phase for a while, and then let it out again. Ventilate a couple of times in this way, holding it a while, but not so long that you become faint! It may well become a few degrees lighter, that's okay, you know, that the light becomes a bit brighter, okay, but not so much that one becomes really dizzy. And then, little by little, it (the fear) goes away. So, simply put, with all fears of this world, with all difficulties, think, "All are my friends and all will benefit from my wellbeing, and now I'm going to do what lies in front of my nose", and then you do that. Simply do what lies in front of you, also by examination anxieties. Then you think, "Well, it's all a conspiracy: the censor wants me to pull through!", and "The teacher wants me to pull through!" and, "The questions will be just right for me! Isn't that nice!". And you go in and sit down among friends and talk away and explain how it all is! So, in this way, it's quite simple. You make the whole area so friendly, that one can only win. Okay, that's how it is.

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QUESTION: HOW DOES ONE CHANGE BAD EXPERIENCES OR TRIPS INTO GOOD ONES; THAT IS, HOW DOES ONE REVERSE THEM?

ANSWER: Well, in the long run there is only one thing which does any good, and that is quite and completely consciously to do, think, and say things which somehow bring joy. Let me tell you, I always think, when one focuses on it quite consciously: "May it benefit other beings, may they be happy, and may they be successful!", I mean, when you really let this become a habit, then fear falls away. Fear disappears rapidly when you make well-wishes for others. The fear can be removed very quickly with the attitude, "May it benefit all beings, and may they be happy, etc!" That cuts through everything, really it does, because one only sees one's own projections in the different circumstances, one only sees one's own mind, and if it contains good wishes instead of bad ones, then one becomes trusting and does what is needed. Also, comparing one's own situation to that of others' can help alleviate fears. I have said that many times. When people come, who have many difficulties, simply say, "Look during one week, look in an international newspaper each day for a week - and not the horoscopes mind, and not the sports pages or the cartoons - the major politics, look at what happens during one such week. Perhaps two or three times will suffice to see how the situation of people really is! Look at how people in the warm countries are doing, how they suffer, how difficult it is for them!" Then, perhaps they too will feel some of that suffering and say to themselves, "Maybe I am not in such a bad state after all, and perhaps..." and so on. And then you can start to tell them that, "Look, now, if you don't help the people, who will then do it? You must have a bit of responsibility, must make a bit of an effort, must make yourself a bit strong, build yourself up a little", etc. And then you help raise other people up and do something good for them and thus little by little you build it up. And finally, say, the whole time, "The nicer, the better, the nearer to the truth!" So that they don't think that they are running away from a bad dream into a good one, which is not to be trusted either. In this way it can be explained, I'd say.

From lecture 642:'

But it doesn't stop there. For instance many people ask me, how it is with fear. And there I must say, OK that is an expansion of that. That is then the next array of feelings, those of ignorance, the first three disturbing emotions, and then the others. Then they expand and Fear, then, arises because one has for too long allowed oneself to build up bad impressions in the mind. Like wishing ill things for others, not liking others, and that kind of thing. When one has done this for any length of time and has built up a real line of bad impressions inside, then whenever we look inside we see something that we don't like, and we want to flee from it, and that is fear.

Therefore the best thing that one can do against fear is to constantly wish everyone all happiness. So much so that it becomes quite automatic to do it, so much that it defies all imagination, so much that it never stops, every day, all the time, "May it benefit all beings", feeling joy when it goes well for them, wishing them well when things go wrong. That is the universal remedy, the panacea against fear and phobias. For the mind sees only its own programs, it sees only what it has stored. It is looking through self-colored glasses, so to speak Basically, about these disturbing emotions, the Buddha says that there are 84.000 possible variations of them. These original mind-poisons (disturbing emotions) can appear in so many different combinations. And they are in fact everything which is not a completely convinced and joyous AHA in the Here and Now. I mean when there is a totally new AHA, all you do is say "now" and it all fits, everything is round. In that moment where it is like that, we can say that there are no veils, there the power of the mind shines through everything, and the experience is really there. But the rest of the time then everything is a bit - tomorrow or yesterday, and clinging and avoiding, and hopes and fears; and it is all colored this way somehow, that is the usual state, the usual veiled state of affairs, and that is not the real potential of the power of the mind. So, that was a bit about the nature of the mind, that is, what the goal is.

Question: Can you explain why we in the West have so many fears and partner problems?

Ole: Why we have so many fears and partner problems in the West? We have no real states of fear compared to other places, compared to what the peoples in Africa experience, where everybody is killing and torturing each other, or like what goes on in Asia in many places too. We almost only have luxury-fears here. But what else we have, the relationship-problems, sure, we have those, because quite simply in the past, in other cultures, when our parents and forefathers stuck together, it was quite simply because a woman out of doors was unprotected. They had no social welfare office and no help to get from anywhere, no one looked out for them, and the relatives, the family, was the social system in those days. Of course the people had to stick together, even if they hated each other. Now, one can get away and if the husband doesn't support one the state will. So the freedom of the people, due to the fact that they are no longer dependent on each other, on the one hand has grown. On the other hand I will say that is a great pity that this has happened. You experience the same troubles with each new partner, you really do, for it really is one's own films, that are shown each time. And because this is so, it would actually be better if one learned to solve this the first time. But the majority doesn't do that; they just don't get it. So in a way, it has given [us] a greater freedom, more opportunities, but also the whole consumer thinking, we think like consumers. They deliberately make things so that we won't want to look at it, or so they will break or something similar, after a year or two. And when one is very much used to replacing stuff in the outside world then it becomes easier, almost natural, I think, to also want to replace people or partners. So the concept of replacing is much easier than before. I think that those are the reasons that people are more free, and I'm really happy about that, that no woman has to hang on to a man in order to survive. That, I think, is a big step forward. I really think so. But that people hang everything on the others, and expect everything from the other, and always think "what can I get" instead of "what can I give"; that is a weakness. That is a real weakness. In reality space is endless, so that he who gives becomes ever richer. If one takes water from a well, the water stays always fresh. He who takes and keeps becomes ever poorer. If you look into his well all you will see is five dead frogs floating around. You know, some people say, "Oh, I always have to give", but to that I say, "Be glad that you can give, be happy, give more". Show your size, be unlimited, and don't even begin to expect anything in return. For the important thing is to be spontaneous and effortless. Enlightenment really is only that you stop hoping, fearing, and wanting. At that moment, when the mind is spontaneous and effortless, resting in itself, without any expectations or fears, then the coffee cup is no longer stirred, and then things show themselves. I often say to people, sort of just for fun, so that they won't forget, that wanting to be enlightened is like getting to know a beautiful woman. If you pursue her, she will call the police, and that won't do, it is difficult. But if you park your BMW and wave a fat checkbook to boot, then she will come all by herself. And so it is with Enlightenment, if you pursue it you won't get it, but if you relax in the 'Here and Now', then these things will come by themselves, that is the way. I hope no ladies are offended, but as an approximate example it isn't bad.

From lecture 650:

Question: So you weren't afraid at all!

Answer: Yes that helped me a whole lot. I always say that. Fearlessness is inseparable from the understanding of the emptiness of the mind. It actually gave me an opportunity to check myself well. It was a good feeling. Then afterwards one feels assured, then one knows that it is not something superficial, not just something one says, or something like that, but instead one has tested it on one's own bones and it really is true. And in this way every time one can check, you know, that something really is true, you get rid of a whole box of things. The whole thing can be shredded, earlier concepts and thoughts etc., can be switched off, you know, you don't need them anymore. And that is quite important.

From lecture 715:

But what people discover is always, that there is no real fear there at all.

Space is the best friend.

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Question - Ole repeats: What is fear?

Ole: Well, fear is interesting. I don't know it very well from my experience. I am one of those cheerful Vikings. I always attack first. And then, afterwards, one is not afraid. Then one is counting heads. But in general it applies to people, who indulge themselves in such luxuries: When we look at it closely, then fear is not so close to the mind as we actually think. There is a basic ignorance: the [in]ability to see, that subject, object, and action are a whole, that they complement each other. And from that, then, arise attachment and repulsion. From the attachment arises miserliness. From the repulsion arises envy. And those whom we don't like, we don't wish well. And so on in this way. The disturbing emotions (mind-poisons) expand. And from the stupidity arises pride. Those were the first and second rows. And from anger arises once again the fear. When one has allowed, over some time, to let miserly, sour, or angry impressions invade the memory-mind. If one hasn't done any proper mind hygiene and has said, I don't want that, or this plant shall not grow in my garden, was that not anger? Away with it. However, when you have let yourself be floppy, and when you have allowed such things to fill you, then the mind sees something every time, when played back on itself, that is when it is forced to look at itself, then it sees something which doesn't please it.

And that is the fear.

You can remove every fear by wishing all good things for all beings, every day, wherever you can. When you do that steadily and without sentimentality. When you see people and you think, "May they be well". When you see something beautiful and think, "May all beings have this!" When you think like that, I'm telling you, within a few years all your fears will be gone. You can really clean away your fears. Good thoughts and good wishes for others really chop it all away. One must do it in a determined way, however. That is, always consciously thinking, "May all beings have happiness", then the fear disappears. It is not a primary emotion. Not anything like Ignorance. It is not even a secondary or tertiary emotion. It is further removed. One can work with it.

From lecture 720.

Question: I am especially interested in fear - fear of dying.

Answer: Well, fear has not much importance value in Buddhism, it isn't, we say, one of the more important feelings. The basic feeling is the ignorance; the lacking ability to see that subject and object and action complement each other. And out of this, the space of the mind, the clearness of the mind, is thought up the 'I', the 'You' and then 'Others', and then envy, greed, miserliness, expectations, and pride and anger etc. Those are the first, the first 6 emotions, from which all other emotions, the building blocks of all other confused states, are made. And then, out of anger grows fear. And that happens when you have been filling the mind with impressions that you don't really want to see again. Then, again and again, when the mind sees itself in the mirror, well, then it sees things that are not pleasing and then it reacts with fear. And the best remedy against fear is to consciously wish all beings much everlasting good. And then you get rid of all fears, and for you, regarding your fear of death, there is a video out there, about Death and Rebirth, which contains all you need to know about the death-process.

 Continuing the Question:

...I have a fear of dying by falling etc., what would happen if I let go?

Well, you know, there are people who have 2-3000 jumps, strap one of those on your back, make a tandem jump and that fear is gone.

I did it for fun, taking all the jumps I have; in your case I think, it would be therapeutically beneficial. Just do it.

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...what happens then? [Fear]

What happens? You will be laughing afterwards over the fact that you have had a real trip this time. Release through laughter, first slightly nervously, and trips and such, and afterwards, when you're sitting there, you'll be feeling so good, you'll be really happy, I can tell you. I would do it.

From lecture 726-6:

Question: Mostly you say that fear arises out of anger - in the long run. Can you expand a bit on this relation? Because I experience fear more as a constriction and as 'a not opening up'. But what has it to do with anger?

Ole: When I say that in the long run fear arises out of anger, then that is because fear arises when the mind is sent back onto itself - is reflected back and then sees something which it doesn't like. This relation of fear and 'not-liking' is mostly when it experiences leftovers of anger. That is when it is still lying there. And then it manifests as a constriction and a choking throat. That is then, how the body shows that.

So what happens, when there is fear and persecution mania, with paranoia, with all these states, is this: The mind is projected back onto itself and it sees something, which it would rather not see, and then come all the physical sensations and so on. Because it doesn't [want to] see it. Therefore the best remedy against fear is always the same: you wish everyone all good - whenever and wherever you can.

When you do this long enough, then the mind sees only pleasant programs when it looks at its reflection, and the fear is gone.

So fear can be dissolved with massive amounts of compassion, and it springs from anger. But it is experienced as inhibitions and constrictions.

Question: If anger was completely cleansed ---

Ole interrupts her: Then the fear is gone. When the anger goes, then fear goes too. Then you have a great feeling about all that happens. You feel great and good and everything makes sense and so on.

That is all a question of which glasses you are wearing. With the pink glasses, or without any, everything looks wonderful. If you're wearing the black glasses things look bad indeed. That is your own state of mind, which is reflecting things.

Question: Is there a connection between envy, jealousy, and fear?

Ole: No, well, I think we must distinguish between jealousy and envy. Jealousy is, as far as I can tell, when you still think you might be able to make it. Envy is when you have given up [hope of] making it. At least that's how I understand these words. So envy would come from anger. And jealousy would be desire on its way to becoming anger. That's how I see it.

From lecture 724:

Yes, Buddha talked in three levels. There were people, who were afraid of Life and would rather not have anything to do with it, but just live quietly by themselves, get an education etc. And these people, shall we say with not so much hair on their breast, with less drive, and who were more shelter seeking, these people he advised to become monks or nuns.

From lecture 728:

Question: You just said that there are basic disturbing emotions (mind poisons?) and that the prime mind poison is confusion, ignorance, and then you go straight on to desire and anger. I fail to see the disturbing emotion 'fear'? Fear is actually also an emotion. We can feel that on the energy side of it. And I'm thinking, that the ignorance first leads to fear, this subtle paranoia, which we somehow don't notice in the moment, and which only later splits up into desire. That is, into that which might perhaps help me to make it through confirmation, or to anger, where I'll worry whether I'll make it and that will reinforce my fear. I am missing in this whole system the [emotion] fear; where does that come/fit in?

Answer: Okay, that was interesting. That was a real modern psychological way of looking at it, I think. Well, Fear with us comes in the third league. Okay, so, first we have ignorance, which leads to feeling apart from others; and then attachment, or desire, arises, depending on what it is you want, and also aversion against what you see as enemies. And then, from the aversion arises envy, for the people you don't like should not be doing well. And from attachment arises greed, for what we like we want to keep, and from stupidity arises pride, the exclusive kind of pride "we are better than the others!" Those are the first two leagues, and then, finally, in the third squad, fear comes [along]. Fear, in a Buddhist sense, comes, if for a long time we have filled the mind with ugly impressions. When we have wished ill for others, [or] when we have worried others. Then when the mind looks back on its own ruined product, then it doesn't like it and then fear arises. So, fear in the Buddhist sense arises when the mind contains things with which it cannot live, and paranoia is when you are always trying to get away from this content and having a hard time at it. And I can tell you that you too can remove fear quite easily, by turning heavy mind-thoughts into pleasant ones by constantly wishing, "May you be well!", "May you be happy!", and "May all beings attain fulfillment. By doing this, the fear melts away like snow in spring, really quite rapidly. And if we think Freud and say that the two greatest fears are fear of castration and of the free fall. Well, I am not very familiar with castration, but with the free fall I have some experience. When my people, I mean when we for instance have made the Phowa meditation and all the other stuff, and we have the opportunity, then hundreds of us jump out 4 kms over Kassel (Germany) and other places and experience the free fall and so on. And then people always come up to me saying, "Eyes open all the way! Have you some money for the next jump, I wanna go again!", or something like that; so I think that fear is easily removed by wishing well for others. When you look inside and see only good wishes and bountiful energy and good buddy feelings, then there is no room for fear there. So we see it differently. I see fear as way out there, not close at all, the Buddhist way.

From lecture 728:

Question: A question about fear: Is it possible to remove heavy cases of fear, for instance fear of dying, fear of being alone, [from] really heavy duty cases?

Answer: You mean really hard cases of fear, well, I am no expert on fear. It is an emotion I do not work with. You know, if something is constricting or becomes difficult, then I just attack it. I never leave time or space for it to be, so I am not too familiar with it. I just jump right in. But, what I think, is, that it may be a case of the strength of karmas and also a question of whether there is already brain-damage, whether the brain has already been altered.

When the karmas are very strong, then one is perhaps able to start or stop the fear through some special places in the brain, which are somehow stronger and are having some effect. For example many of the fears disappear after youth, because some center in the brain simply stops doing something. Many juvenile anxieties dissolve by themselves, are organically linked with the brain, with the changes in the brain. In their place there are other fears, then, which people suddenly get or acquire later on, or something else, I don't know; perhaps a psychologist can explain that better. But I know that when there is a strong tendency in the organs and if one is simply a chicken, it seem so, the brain seems to work like that, then it may be difficult to remove that in this lifetime. Also with electroshock it is often so that the first times it seems to have a long-term effect, but then the roulette rolls back into the same groove and that means that the karma is still there and the tendency is still there. But then at least it will work in the next life that's quite certain! When the damaged head, and the damaged brain, the brain organ which caused all the troubles, are gone, when the causes are gone, then one is freed from them too. So perhaps not for this lifetime then at least for next time, but as I said, I don't know much about fear.

Personal report/ Birgit from Elmshorn: I am taking the MLP-education program (Musical Leadership Program), and there we work therapeutically, sometimes with pain patients and sometimes with fear patients. And I have just heard that it is dissolvable and it is also important for the brain research that the special patterns remain, and new ones can simply be added. It takes about three to six months for the synapses to form and the practice to be transferred. I know this woman who never before could ride in an elevator, and where we worked practically, and actually also in a Buddhist sense, so that you don't [look] at the psychology anymore. There are these problem-physiologists where you don't look at that anymore, but we make a target-physiology and you say, "Imagine that you were already rid of this fear, let's say we have now worked for three years already, how do you feel then?" And there are already stored in the body these things about goal-states, because these fear people, they always have good states when they are not afraid. And they are made to be in those states [of not being afraid], and that accumulates and then in fact new synapses are formed in the head and they then mesh into the brain network, and thereby they have both levels. It means the fear is not taken from them, but stays as enrichment, instead something is added so it is experienced as relaxing, it is not removed.

Ole: well, when it works okay, but it is always so that with every drug and every technique, that some people benefit and some don't, simply because the karmas are too strong. So it is still within the Buddhist karma [laws]. With some you succeed with some you don't. But it is very exciting what the brain researchers are able to do. I'm not sure, but some of you may have heard about my brother Björn, who's as wild as I am, but he has not made his diamond-mind mantras and has therefore hit his head a few times more. Two accidents with 30 broken bones and so on, and then he had this small powerful motorbike and everything, and he began to have epileptic seizures, simply because his head had been bashed too often too hard by accidents and such. He was sent to America a month ago, the Danish state paid him 200.000 $ in his pocket. He came into a town, which practically only deals in brains. On March 19 they lifted his lid and connected everything to wires leading out and then on with the lid again. Then checking all the connections and happenings. Then on the 26^th they lifted the lid again, looked inside, and, some Buddha must have whispered in their ear, for instead of looking for where the damage was, in the front, they somehow looked below the temple. And there they noticed a whole piece of tissue, which had been torn off in his big accident, and it was just lying there, and as they removed it. In fact while they were removing it, all the patterns in his brain had click, click, clicked and reset itself, and it was a Normal-type brain. This has just happened on the 26th, this Monday, and he is landing in Copenhagen. You can imagine how happy I am, he is my only brother, and maybe I laugh a bit at the Danish social-state and say, 'they make millimeter-democracy and they are no fun'. But when they pay for a man, who is so old that he will never be able to repay it through his taxes, when they send him over there and let him be treated, then that is touching. Then it is good, that we have something like that. So, he lands at 6 o'clock and I look forward to hearing his voice. We have of course talked on the phone a lot, all over. He is probably still running around with a turban, but the wires are gone and he should be fine. A fast motorbike is also waiting for him, and his sweetheart was always there for him, the lovely Trine here, and for the first time in his life he has an un-neurotic wife, and she is really great, really just right. Really she has been a great joy, she was with him everywhere, and she has taken care of everything. I just wanted to share this joy with you also.

 Question: Ole, one of your favorite subjects is the free fall. And you also talk about these experiences. I was one of the few, who once was with you to make a bungee jump and then almost shat myself and almost couldn't stand up in the cabin, and then I went back down. Later, in spite of that, I tried it again, this time from a plane, you know, with a tandem jump, and I did do it this time. And then I lay in the air and looked around me and at all these mountains and I was really terrified and closed my eyes and just fell down like a sack. I was still able to observe my mind though and it was still wonderfully there, that was really great; but I was not able to really enjoy it?

Answer: Then perhaps you just need to do the third jump. I already noticed that you were not satisfied on the way back. You know, there were many that went and just had a look, after all it was 100 meters. But eventually, you can't keep people waiting indefinitely, then you just jump or whatever or you jump for fun. Recently we did a new combination jump, with Thomas here, down in Australia, which was very exciting. You fall like maybe 30-40 meters, but then a second wire catches you, and then you go sort of forward and then backwards, you know instead of going down, and then up again. And then it comes [again] and you go forward and then backward, and it is exciting with the connection of those two [wires]. Oh and if you really want to make the next jump exciting, then jump through clouds. It is much more fun with clouds; sometimes you are able to see, sometimes not; I actually thought that there was nothing more to be gotten from the free fall, but then I tried my first cloud dive, and that is really fantastic, I can tell you. Karmapa, he has a thing with heights, he is not very happy being high up, and therefore he has decided to make a jump. So I have made a jump, and another one photographed it and all the rest, and we sent that to him, and he really enjoyed it a lot, and now, when he comes here, he will probably make a jump too. I only told him, "Okay, but with trousers not in robes! Otherwise you'll have the whole thing flying over your head!" Some of our friends are doing this too now, Mac, from Schwarzenberg, he already makes solo jumps. And Hansi from Stuttgart went to America. Over there you can get the certificate, the solo-jump certificate, only, when it is going so well there is a chance that you forget to pull the cord, and then you are just reborn as a mole. [joke right?] Is the time really almost six o'clock already? Good, then we'll do a short meditation before I release you, and then we'll get back together at eight, and thank you again all of you for coming. You know, it's a great thing for Buddhism, that so many are coming. I'll just quickly go and do something for my bladder, then I can think better.

From lecture 729-2:

Question unintelligible (doubts concerning rebirth etc): Ole repeats: This fear, that nothing remains, that everything is destroyed?

Answer: Well, there are all these different levels of exercises, you can choose what you want, and they're all good. One reason why quite many people trust in what I say is that I have taught them Phowa. We have in Diamondway Buddhism, you know, these very effective methods, which allow one to simulate the death experience, go outside the body, make different experiences. For instance here, I would say at least 2/3 maybe even 3/4 of the people here have a hole at the top of their heads that other people don't have. And without me having touched their heads, solely through meditation, such a hole has appeared, with a wound, an open cut, which people have seen for themselves on each other, as I checked them out. And afterwards, when these people meditate, and many have experienced this, being outside of the body in states of great bliss, and I also think, that if many people meditate [they will feel this], then they suddenly feel like if a couple of hairs were being pulled or like a slight breeze up here (pointing to crown of head). And they exclaim, "Hey, Ole!", and then they remember and get on with their meditation. So, you could ask, who else are often having these experiences? Who has as the first experienced the out-of-body experience, at Phowa etc.? Yes, okay, good! You sit up there, up high! You should be able to see it! Who can always feel this kind of wind or something at the top of their head? Again, it's the same thing. There are many people and the number is so great that we can work with them. But you must [experience it yourself], I mean, the wonderful thing about Buddha's teachings is precisely that, that you don't have to believe in anything! So, you can be completely [safe?], if you want to take the LesserWay (Hinayana) with cause and effect, which is dry and concise and clear, and without anything else, then you can do that and it will help you, it will bring you further along. If you can bring in the levels of the GreaterWay (Mahayana), compassion and wisdom, etc., then you can do even more, because you have more energy there. And if you can then somehow trust that your mind is a Clear Light, that your true being is wisdom, that you are 'one' with all and not separate from them, well, then you can also enter the DiamondWay and then act like a Buddha until you become a Buddha. But the difference between Buddhism and a "faith religion" is, for instance, that in Christianity, no matter how long you remain a Christian, you will never become God you become something else. In Buddhism you become BUDDHA, so that what we are offering are empirical values, the things really happen, you do develop the qualities, you can really count on the things are happening; in the end all bills are settled and you even have a surplus. So, all your trust-bills will be paid off, but each person must do what he wants, and in fact most of the people sitting here, sit here because they have worked with the DiamondWay in previous lives. Therefore in a highly complex and fast world we show them one corner of a house and "click", "click", "click", then they already have the other three ones, and that is actually how most of these friends are; we don't have all that much time to spend together. The modern Western education to a large degree is working in this direction and confirms this. The people there who have received Nobel prizes in physics, they are confirming what Buddhist teachings have been saying all along: that articles can appear without any outside cause, that light, which has no mass, can change into particles, and that particles can again dissolve into space. So wherever or however you look at it, the better science becomes, the closer it comes to Buddhism. But you shouldn't feel under any pressure. You should give yourself the opportunity, for instance, to come to a Phowa course, that is, if you would like to learn this; that's what I would do. And then you can think as critically as you will, but try to put one solved critical question beside the other. You can get there even if you turn and look under every stone on the way, before you step on to it, you can do that, of course. But, naturally, you will get there faster if you look just a bit and then run, then you can also experience what others have experienced. So, if you want to see, if you don't just doubt in neurotic circles, always bringing up the same things, then, when every solved doubt has been put aside, you will get there! So, enjoy! Eat many vitamins, for this will take time!

From lecture 766:

Question: So the question was simply about Fear and anxiety; where they belong; that they don't really belong directly with the disturbing emotions. And our friend here has suggested that perhaps it is kind of a sign of the unenlightened mind, a karma free sign, just like joy and wisdom is a sign of the purified mind.

Answer: Yes that is in a way a really interesting thought, and we have already heard the general explanation, You heard it too. What I mostly say is, that it is an expression, that the mind sees itself and sees its own experiences. So what we say in Buddhism is, that there does exist a mind-poison root-cause, which is ignorance, the mind is like an eye, it sees everything out there, it doesn't see itself. From this arises the separation, which gives rise to the idea that the space of the mind, that which is aware, is an "I" and the perceived becomes a "You" or a "It". From this separation, then, arises attachment for what we want to have, and attachment then becomes miserliness, for what we have gotten we want to keep. Then also aversion arises and aversion turns to envy, for we don't want people we don't like to succeed. And from stupidity, from the feeling of being separate, from this stupidity arises then pride, you know the stupid kind of pride, which thinks 'I am better then you'. The stupid pride means that one is always in bad company, you see. If one is better than everybody else is, one is always in poor company. However, if one introduces another kind of pride, the inclusive, not the exclusive kind, where we think, 'Aren't we all great' and 'look what we can do and who we are and what we have' and so on, if we change this either/or pride into a both/and pride, then all is meaningful and wonderful and great and so on. Okay, so the Buddhist explanation I will give about anger, that is, about fear, is that the mind [sees] all kinds of, that the mind, when enough anger has been built up and it is reflected onto itself, will see some things, which it doesn't like. And that is how we see it and I have also seen in my own experience with the people I work with, that the best way for people to get rid of fears, is to think, several hundred times a day, "May all beings attain happiness and may they benefit". And it seems, at least that's how we see it, how I see it, that actually the result is not that one wants to live like touching electrical wires to see if something is in there. It doesn't mean that one should put on two left shoes and run around in circles all day, nothing like that. But instead, as far as I can tell, [the body] stays, the body can react much better, when it is not disturbed by adrenaline or something else it is much better. Okay, I have, in my four years as a boxer from 21 to 25 years old, now I am twice as old or more, right. I mean, I think, in a fight I would be at least just as good as back then, really, with out training and with only a few hours of sleep. I think I could clean house, just like in the past, right. But it would be on a different basis based on quite different emotions, right, on the basis of space equals opportunities, and 'let's see now', and so on. It would be a quite other state of mind, right, and I actually think that if you, if you become angry, you know, I really think that fear blocks the body and speech, I think that when you have no fear then you can act much more efficiently. So I really think that, you know, fear arises when the mind contains something, which it doesn't like. That is, some corners of aggression and anger or something else, and it pricks itself on this and says something, and then rushes away, and it doesn't like it. I find what you are saying fantastic exciting, I mean it is very well thought through, but I still think that the basic teachings, which I have here, that they are the more correct ones. I mean you can relate to something without it blocking the head. One can also stir up the body with a shot of adrenaline, if needed, without fear having to arise. One of the latest cases where I had to become a bit rough, was up in Norway. There was this great big karate-buff called Kell, you know a real Norwegian, one of those really big ones, who drives a big truck and who takes his truck home with him after work. So, and he was a karate-champ, he was everything, right, he was a little sick also, in his noble head, and he had really besieged our center. And he had done some things, which are not good to do when you are living in the forest, like peeing in the water bucket, and pushing people around. And he was being dangerous and I then came up and he was standing in the middle of the stairs, and then I pushed him aside and went in. Then we were on the other side of, of kind of a forest clearing, there he was with his huge feet in a bed directly against the altar. And I said to him, "Kjell," in the meantime I had heard that his name was Kjell, right, "Kjell, you must leave, we are going to meditate on something, which requires an initiation, okay". And then he said that he had all the initiations. "You don't have these", I told him and hauled him out of the bed, and he landed on the floor. Completely out of it. Cross, dangerous, but also not quite conscious of his own power, for he was a really strong man. So then I, when we came outside, he was sitting there and he mumbled something, like something threatening. And then I took him in this lock-grip, like a police-grip(/grasp/lock?), and I started to lead him over the field like that. And then someone called Perquel? suddenly shouted something to me and so on, so I was distracted for a second. And in a flash he had used the distraction to free himself and had turned around and kicked me straight in the gonads, you know in my private parts, and also dealt me a karate blow here across my forehead. In the same moment I jumped up and decked him with a Dane-kiss, the forehead against the nose, you know, like butting heads, and he tumbled over and I sat on him. And the most fantastic thing of it all was that during the whole episode of, kick, jump, contact, slide, and everything, the whole way through it all, I had this great feeling, like, "oh this meditation is good", and you are not angry at all, and you are only thinking of how best to pacify him without destroying him or causing too much damage. Well, I went for the throat, and that was also the best. And then all was calm, and afterwards I walked somewhat bowlegged across the field, it really did hurt some, and luckily I was wearing rubber-boots and not any tight fitting leather things. But then, he had been sent back to Norway, right, and then after two more weeks he was back outside on the street again. And there was this Israeli girl from the army, one of their very best troops, he completely demolished her and broke some things and then he was gone again. Must have done something else some other place so that he was caught. But what I wanted to say by telling [you] about this episode, is that if you stay within this innermost part, when there is no anger, then it is completely crystal clear, and the special thing is that you have plenty of time. You are in a time loop, that is, you are quite fast and the surroundings are slow. I am thinking that marathon runners must have something similar and you also have something similar in other extreme sports. One finds oneself on the other side of the usual reality and there everything happens quite differently. Everything is slow and you can do what you want, for you are being fast.

Question: Fear could also arise from attachment, by thinking that one might lose something.

Answer: Yes, but it is not so, I don't know, maybe if it is something very much loved and cherished and so on. But then it would usually be in connection with something. I'm thinking that you are thinking of a fear that arises without any reason, right. That is, without any particular object, is that not so? And in that case I don't think, I think then, that we are back at anger. Yes, I think so. Ok, if I imagined, that all my friends were dying around me or something else, of course, that would be very unpleasant. But that, that only arises in connection with a certain emotion. Whereas the other kind, (unintelligible) then one would feel fear. Okay, as I said, I am no expert on fear, but I can, I would agree with Buddha, and he sees it in this way. And there is a chance to undo it, the great thing is that one can change the fear simply by wishing all beings happiness. That really removes a lot of fear.

Question: Unintelligible.

Answer: Without adrenaline, so that's the question. Well as a teacher I also think, if one wants to dissect it, how will I be convincing, with adrenaline in my blood, or just so. I have always used it differently. I have always [led] people to each other, you know, you suddenly lead them to a place, where it is goes very steeply down. And then they say "oh" and they come back again. And then they think about it. The many times I have been teaching I have led people into situations, where they have suddenly seen some things, which weren't there before, and then they were gone, by themselves. Like for instance some people are very loud, and others, well, I can tell you of one case. It was a nephew of Hannah's, such a small friendly chap, you now if he had landed somewhere in New Caledonia they'd have seen immediately that here was a good guy, okay, both on top and below and in the middle, there was nothing but good. I met him one morning in "the Kannibal", that was our 'club Mensa' in Copenhagen, and he was down in the dumps. He had been with some difficult, very high-class, children, in the wealthy suburb of Hellerup north of Copenhagen, you know, quite close to where we are now, very rich people, the richest we have here in Denmark. And he was sitting there and they had completely walked all over him, he was completely devastated. And I said, 'that sounds exciting', and I told him that I'd like to take them on. And then I went out and took this class, and I walked into the classroom and simply set a pace that they could not keep up with. Walked right in and said, "You. What do you know?" before they knew what hit them, and "what do you say to that", and "Don't you know that either?" And "how about you?" And all the time zap, zap, zap until two women, sorry but they were almost ladies, until two women, two girls, started to scream, "I cant stand it, what is happening", and so on. And I kept bringing them to a state where they didn't know, what I would do or what was coming next, and I kept battering them again and again in the same places. And then, finally, at the end of the period I told them, "Did you know, that I came here today to teach you a lesson, to thank you from someone. Do you know that he would give his life, he has spent his whole life on becoming a teacher. You have kicked a human being down in the mud. Do you realize at all what you have done? And I'll be back, tomorrow, and again, and again". And I can tell you, that was, I was really sour, I really was. And everyone could see that he was a nice guy. So I mean you can, or you can make people go against each other, and so on. Ok, that is divide and rule, and that's not very nice at all. But you can very well in the group, use the group-processes, which run in the class, you can do that, and isolate the most difficult ones a little, put them a bit under pressure. You can play it all; you have the whole piano there. You are twice as old as they are, twice as clever; you can do what you want. Yes, sure, you don't have to take any crap. I think.

From lecture 767:

Question: I have a question. If everything comes from the joyous space, and if there is nothing which is separate from Buddha, are then anger, hate, and suffering also part of Buddha, and if so why do we have to overcome them. Why must we meditate then?

Answer: Clever Question! When I really am able to see that all is space, that everything shows its possibilities, that everything is pure, why is then not also anger and confusion and fear and all that pure, and then why mediate at all? Well, because all beings want happiness and want to avoid suffering and you are don't enjoy anger. You don't enjoy jealousy, and you don't enjoy confusion or attachment, for they hurt. It is true that on the highest level, when you have been liberated, then all these emotions have the highest wisdom. So, as I was saying, if the bomb, instead of landing in Kosovo, lands here and [blows] pieces of us in all directions, actually the flight of the pieces proves all the rules, all the laws on movement of objects in space etc., but we don't like it. And in exactly the same way, you are perhaps really angry, and I am seeing that as the highest wisdom, but you are hurting. And when you get to a level where it doesn't hurt you any more, then the suffering is gone too.

From lecture 767-2:

Green Tara: Question: Regarding the mantra "Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha", what should I be visualizing and which green Tara are we talking about?

Answer: Well, all liberatrices have the same essence, they are actually all the same. But like a mother she sometimes shows herself in this or that way in order to take care of her children, and therefore the base-mantra, the basic resonance, which one uses, the "Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha", that is the same with all of them. With that you get all the Dölmas, all the liberatrice forms, all are made known in this way. So just you think of the one who suits you best: a red one, who inspires and excites you a lot, a black one, who guards you against various states of fear, a blue one, who heals you, and so on, all the different colors of these 21 forms. They have special areas where they help you; they hold swords and liberate you from fears, from wild beasts, from diseases, they are simply like a mother, who takes her child and says, "Don't be afraid! Now that's gone and that's gone too!", etc. and who can also dig in and really do something

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but the quickest way is the way of becoming-one-with and the melting-together-with, where at all times you direct your thoughts at Buddha or the Lama or the forms, which represent this Lama, all the various... In my case, I am a protector, then we have a special protector, who is close to me and there are others. And you tune in on that, you build them, you become one with them, and finally you end up by taking over more and more of their qualities. For instance, we are, I guess, well over a hundred of my students present here who have tried parachuting, and how many have jumped in the last couple of weeks? And there are many more not present. But what they are all amazed at is, that there is no fear, isn't that right? And you know why there was no fear? Because they were inside my force field. Since I am without fear then whoever works with me in this is also without fear, in a way. So in a way the force fields are expanding.

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from lecture 726:

But here, there - either the energies can come - that is, energies with which one has some troubles, because one may have peed on a shaman's grave or something like that, and suddenly Mr. Shaman comes along and makes trouble during the night or something. Or maybe the breathing slows down so much that the body thinks it is dying, and then it throws a lot of adrenaline into the system. The mind then discovers this and produces a dream which deals with fear and stuff like that, because that is what one usually experiences in connection with adrenaline, right. So this intermediate time can either come from disturbing energies, or it may simply be that the sleep is so deep that the body thinks it is dying, because you breathe too little.

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from lecture 842:

Then there's a guy like Milarepa, who for example said that, he said, "When I feel fear, I feel much extra joy, and when I am confused, it is really so much more fun." Why? Because he didn't identify with the pictures which come and go, but he just looks at them and says, "how interesting". Simple as that, I'm telling you.

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from lecture 843:

...and when one is on the level of fear, if one has filled up one's mind with anger and disturbing impressions, then one can be quite sure that there are things in there, which are not healthy or something else, and those are simply the six worlds.

From lecture 904:

Question: Is that good against fear?

Answer: It is very good against death fears! Very good indeed! For afterwards you almost long for death (laughter in audience), for you experience great things and have wonderful experiences. It is really very wonderful. I will only say this short remark, "Those of you who have done Phowa, show your hands, so we can see how many there are! That's a whole lot. That also makes connections, so that we meet again and again. It is a really great gift. I think that out in front they have my travel-plans in the shop. There are many courses in Central Europe. Mostly they are quite big. Usually a thousand people or more, but that is of no importance. You keep having this close connection, for the force field is there. It is a pretty hard exercise, I drive my people hard, you know. It is approximately nine hours of meditation every day, mostly sung and with raising up, the elevation of the consciousness. When I have 5 days' time, that is a luxury, then I am glad. Then one can do everything just right. And that is also good, for the Tibetans usually use ten days. We are good. We are better than we think. You often think that you have to have lived, you know, a very simple life in order to be able to utilize these means, but that is not true. The Tibetans are very much pleased with our success. It really looks as if the stuff we learned in school, one-pointedness of mind and the ability to concentrate on one thing at a time, that this can also bring us very good results in our meditation. Please come along. We are keeping it as cheap as at all possible. We do need money, of course, but we also want all our friends to be able to come. People are sitting racking their brains to see how it can be kept as cheap as possible. At the moment it is up near Kassel, in Immerhausen. There will also be very special initiations. Our fantastic teacher Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche will give some really unique initiations during the first days of July. Something really special, really fantastic, he will be giving. It will be a great time.

Translator's note:

In many cases words have been missing altogether, in other places words seem to have been jumbled up.

I have had to add words in several places because of missing words or the "sentences" would not have been that. My guesses and/or inserted words are MARKED with [] .

Had I not know Ole for so long and been used to his way of relating stuff I wouldn't have been able to do this at all. On the other hand I have tried not to alter too much in order to preserve the special tone and parlance that is so uniquely Lama Ole.

I hope you can use it. It was made with the same Love which Ole gives out to us all.

Joergen Larsen Lodrö Sangpo.

nimmer@dbmail.dk