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The speaker discusses the concept of the Three Jaws in Vajrayana Buddhism, which are the Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma. They explain that people can approach these aspects of the teaching in different ways based on their interests. The speaker also mentions that other religions, such as Taoism, Kabbalah, and Islam, have their own classifications and teachings that can be explored. They encourage listeners to look beyond their own religion and consider teachings that resonate with them. The speaker emphasizes the importance of ongoing personal growth and the exploration of various spiritual paths. Hi everyone, I thought I'd talk today a little bit about the Four Jaws, or most people have Three Jaws, but in Vajrayana they've added or gone back to the Hindu system of God-men or teachers, gurus, lamas, and the lama becomes a personification of the Three Jaws. Now the Three Jaws are the Buddha, the Sangha, and the Dharma, not necessarily in that order because people find a way to the aspects of the teaching, the way of the Buddha, through what they come into contact with and also what interests them. So some people are more interested in the Buddha as a personification of the teaching, whose life story, from riches to rags, wearing a sari, or a cloth from dead bodies, I mean they could do that, they could do that at that time in that area. Anyway, so there's different ways of approaching this whole idea of the Three Jaws, or the Four Jaws, or the Five Jaws, you can have as many as you want. They have a system in Taoism, they have Four Jaws, so there are different ways of looking at this. It's just again a way of classifying things for people because people like classifying and saying, oh well I follow this side, I'm here or I'm there. So for example, in Zen Buddhism, they describe the different aspects of the path as the, for example, there's the ox herding pictures, which are well worth looking into, and they describe the whole process where people are sort of sneaking around the edges to start with, looking for the ox, and then they find the tracks of the ox, and so on and so forth, until finally they return, they become a normal person. And normality is very much underrated, but it is in many ways the goal of nirvana, nirvana, the end of the path. There is no end of the path, of course, you continue going on, and as you change through circumstances and through life, things change. It's an ongoing process. So for me, the important teachings are within Buddhism, and not necessarily coming only from the Three Jaws of Buddhism. I look at other systems as well and I say, well this applies. So for instance, in Kabbalah, mystical Judaism, Judaism is not very popular at the moment, but the aspects of the Kabbalah are very interesting, and these are the esoteric teachings of Judaism. Or if we look in Islam, we have the 99 aspects, or the 99 names of Allah, and they're all encompassing, and some of them are quite difficult to understand in the right way, and most people don't understand the more obscure aspects of their own religion. So for example, in Christianity, we have people who will only look at, you know, I'm Church of England, or I'm Protestant, or I'm Catholic, or I'm Evangelical, or whatever it is, Methodist. All these different branches, they consider themselves to be Christian, and all they have to know is what the priest, or the minister, or the preacher, or the channel that broadcasts these messages for more money, more money, or whatever it is. There's different ways of looking at these teachings. But within Christianity, there's also a Gnostic tradition, which was outlawed by the then all-pervading Church of its time, and that's worth looking into, into some of the Gnostic teachings, or some of the teachings outside of your particular small, and quite often limited, because most of us are limited by time, and by having lots of other things to deal with, family, career, and so on and so forth. So do look a bit further into the aspects of your own religion, or the aspects of other religions that make some sense to you, and you can add them to whatever is the path that you're on. Anyway, that's all from me for today. Bye now.