Углублённый курс ACI 01 — Учения будущего Будды: «Уттаратантра» Майтреи (2003, Аризона), занятие 10

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This is going to be a long class, a hot class. Started an hour late. Aside from that, everything's cool.

But it's my last chance to get at you before the entire time. Well, actually, I have a few more. But anyway, so it's the last class of this particular course.

And it always has a special feel to it. And sort of a wrap up. I don't know, sort of a denoument, right?

So like a, what do you call it? Like a crescendo, right? So I thought it would be really cool to do the 12 Deeds of the Buddha, OK?

And that's what we're going to do today, which is a big subject in the Uttara Tantra. Say, zeppa? Zeppa.

Chuni. Chuni. These are the 12 Deeds of the Buddha.

And this is a big subject, in general, in scripture. But it's not a big subject in the monastery, per se. I mean, in the monastery, you hear very little on, you OK?

Do you need any adjustments?

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Yeah, there's some adjustments.

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OK. I'll wait until you get it better. OK, I'll start over.

Lord Buddha. And generally, it's a big subject in Buddhism, obviously. But interestingly, I think, it's not a big subject in the monastery.

Like, we don't study Buddhist history much. Like, if you ask people about the history of Buddhism in the monastery, they just give you this blank stare. And there have been debates among Tibetan scholars, like Bhutan Rinpoche and Tharanatta.

When did Master Tharanatta, when did Buddha live? What were the dates? When did stuff happen?

And nobody knows. Like, if you ask him, Rinpoche, when did this lama live? He'll say, oh, somewhere between Atisha and Jetsun Kappa, which is like 400 years stretch.

And we don't get this much in the monastery. So I thought it'd be good to go through it. I think it's good to know.

The 12 Deeds of the Buddha are something. They're not only important for historical reasons. Like, to know how Lord Buddha got to be enlightened.

But they're very important for Tantric worldview, because they are sort of a model or a message to us, you see? Like, according to the highest view of Lord Buddha, or there's several, you can say there's three views of how Lord Buddha did the 12 Deeds. But the highest one, or the unique one, they call it, is that he was just sending a message to us.

Like, he got enlightened long, long before that lifetime of Gautama Buddha in India. And every one of the 12 Deeds is a metaphor for our life, you see? So everything Lord Buddha did is a statement.

And one of your homework questions is speculate on the connection. Why did Lord Buddha do this particular deed? What was he trying to tell us?

What was the message for modern people of any time, right? That Lord Buddha was trying to communicate when he faked this? They say, tsultrimpa.

Say, tsultrimpa. Tsultrimpa means to fake, or to pretend to get enlightened, or to pretend to have trouble meditating, or like that. So what was the point for us?

So as we go through the 12, I encourage you to pre-associate. Why did Lord Buddha pretend to do that? What was he trying to tell us?

So I'm going to go through the 12. I thought we could do them in a brief way. I'll just give you the names of them in a brief description.

And then I'd like to go into some details about, there's some debates about some of them. And I thought that's kind of fun. And then there's a section I'm interested in, is that how did the Buddhist holidays come out of those Deeds, you see?

Like, why do we celebrate certain holidays? And what's happening on certain holidays? So I took out a section from One Lama about how the 12 Deeds relate to our standard six Buddhist holidays that we celebrate during the year.

So I thought that would be fun for you. And then towards the end, there's something from the Kalachakra Tantra about what's the tantric viewpoint on these 12 Deeds. I thought you'd enjoy that.

And then there was one more thing. What's that? Oh, two more things.

There's Sarah Jetson, which is the great textbook writer from Sarah J, wrote a long piece. He put it more into a story, the 12 Deeds. He didn't just put them philosophically.

He stretched it out into a nice story. So I thought maybe we'll just do that. I'll go through it.

And it has a lot more detail than the other ones do about what was his mother's name, and what was his father doing, and stuff like that. And then at the very end, there's this cool part I threw in from the monk sojong ceremony, which is when Lord Buddha was born, he came out of his mother's side. And then he stands up, because he's a baby, right?

And he takes seven steps in each direction. And he makes a declaration. And I thought it would be cool for you to hear that.

Like as he takes each step, a lotus flower grows under his feet, like this huge lotus flower. And he does seven steps in the four directions, and then one down and one up. And then he makes these proclamations.

And they're really cool. We repeat them during the monks and nuns purification ceremony. So I just thought I'd throw it in at the end.

It's like he's coming out of the closet, and he's telling who he really is. And it was just for me. I love that.

It's very inspiring. It gives me chills up my spine when I read it. So anyway, here we go on the first.

First of the 12 Deeds. Nen, ne, po'a. You know what po'a is, right?

You heard the word po'a, right? What's it mean in $25 class posters? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tantric practice of, I shouldn't do that, of moving your consciousness.

But here it just means Lord Buddha moves from the heaven he happens to be staying in and comes to the earth. So Ganden is Tushita. Same root as tush and thick and butter, right?

And Santosha. And so he's coming from Tushita down to our planet. And that's the first of them.

And I'm going to say a lot more about them, but I'll just summarize. I'm just going to go quickly through the 12. On your homework, you just have to list the 12 without explanation of the 12 first.

So I thought I'd just do that. So first one. And they have slightly different names in different scriptures.

You might see them as slightly, it might not be spelled exactly this way or things like that. OK? Ganden, ne, po'a.

What was the second one? Eh, hmsu shupa. Say, hmsu shupa.

Hmsu means the womb. Ngel is another word that you've heard before, ngel kye. But hmsu means the womb.

And then jhupa means to enter. Sometimes it's called hmsu shupa using a different tense of the verb. So to enter his mother's womb.

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OK?

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Her name was Maya. Oh, everybody have that? OK.

Got it? And these are all coming from a root text of the Uttaratantra. Say, kutamba.

Kutamba. OK, what's the word for born, to be born? Kyewa.

But this is high honorific. Like we don't say Dalai Lama's are kyewa. We say they're tamba.

OK? And ku means like holy body. So this means birth, coming out of the womb.

OK? And in Buddhism, it's a big difference being conceived and then coming out of the womb, or entering the womb and coming out, nine months apart or 10 months apart. We use different words.

So kutamba. Number four, sune, la, kye. What's kyepa?

Master. Yeah, master. And in sune, sune means the fine arts.

Like in the Tengyur, there are sections called sune. Sune, which means medical arts, construction arts, like architecture, painting, sculpture, are called sune. And so here, this word, which would mean normally the arts, mastered the arts, it refers to what we call the 64 gyutsal, which are, in the old days, it was archery and taming elephants and painting.

And it included all those things that a king should know. It's basically business stuff, stuff that a king would know business-wise to run their kingdom. So he's got to know military stuff, got to know construction stuff, painting, architecture, things like that.

Administration. You can call it administration. And he became unbelievable in all of those normal worldly arts.

Number five, korgyet. Tsunmo means, anybody know? Yeah, that too.

But this one in Tibetan means queen, a queen. And kor means the circle or the whole group of queens. And ge means ru, what's ruwa mean?

Like ruled soul. Yeah, to play. And so he had a good time with all the queens, OK?

Like had his pleasure with the queens, OK? That was part of his 12 deeds. And that led to, no, not really.

See who's Tibetan is good. Say, ngepa or the short form is ngenjung, which literally means it's the first of the three principle paths, right? Renunciation.

But you remember, I forget what class it was, course it was. Anthony would know. He did this over and over.

But anyway, it means to go away, leave it all, leave the worldly life. This is when he ran away from the palace, went out to be a yogi. Definitely gone, ngenjung, right?

Difficult spiritual practices, like going out in the desert and sitting in a yurt for three years is kawa, OK? Kawa means anything hard, OK? Anything difficult.

But here it refers to difficult spiritual practices. And then chepa means he did, he performed them. And this is where Lord Buddha spent six years with the Hindu yogis, like burning his body, sticking himself with spears, starving himself, trying extreme means of liberation, OK?

OK, number eight. Nyingbo, shek, changchun, nyingbo, shek. Changchun, Buddhahood, nyingbo, heart, heart or essence, right?

And then ar means to, shek means like this in shek, patatagata, went, went to the heart of Buddhahood. This doesn't refer to enlightenment. The heart of Buddhahood has a physical meaning and it has a mental meaning.

And we had it, I think we had it in New York when we did Lord Atisha's Lamp of the Path on a Friday night. Remember? The physical heart of the Buddha is bodhgaya, is bhadrasana, the seat of the diamond.

The old name is, I like the old name better, bhadrasana, the asana of bhadra, the seat of the diamond. Modern name is bodhgaya, right? And then the mental essence of Buddhahood is enlightenment, but that's not what it means here.

Here it's referring to the place. So he got fed up with doing asceticisms on the, what was that, Niranjana River, and went to what is now called bodhgaya, OK? And he sat himself down at the tree.

That's all included in number eight, OK? Went to bodhgaya, sat down under that tree. Yeah.

Number nine. Durey, jom. Durey, jom.

Du means what? Desire. Demon, yeah.

What did you say?

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Desire.

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Oh, yeah, close. Very similar. Yeah, like a tiny spelling difference.

So du means like demons. And then de means the whole army of demons, right? And then jom is one of the tenses of chom, as in dracomba, which means what?

To destroy, like smash them up, OK? Defeated the army of demons. They never come in one way.

So dzog, changchum. Became fully enlightened. Dzog means fully, changchum means enlightened.

Is there a half-enlightened? Sort of, according to mine only especially, Laura Majumica, Arhat, right? Laura Arhat, OK.

And it always used to confuse me. Samyak Sambuddha, what? Why?

OK, anyway, he got fully enlightened, OK? Under the Bodhi tree. Number 11.

Khor? Khor. Chumkhor?

Khor. Where's the N? You never have pranayama on the second column?

Exception. Yeah, don't ask me why. You know, like His Highness was calling, you know that word for siddhanta?

What is it? Comparative school philosophies that His Highness taught in New York for four days. What is it?

Dukta, but he called it dumta. Yeah, because he's from Eastern Tibet, OK? And they pronounce their prefixes more, OK?

He's going dumta, you know? So chumkhor is the normal pronunciation. And then khor means to turn, to turn the dharma chakra, to turn the wheel of the dharma, OK?

On the homework, I said wheels, because it's the three, actually, OK? It's the three turnings of the wheels, OK? So chumkhor khorwa.

Then number 12, last one. Nyange? Nyange.

Sulten. Sulten. Sulten.

Uh, nyange me dipa? Nirvana? Sulten is that thing like pretend.

Sul means wait, ten means to show. So it means to put on, getting final parinirvana, which is dying, you know, like appearing to die and leave this world, OK, at the age of 81. OK, then I'm going to go through some stuff about the 12.

Let me see. Anything from Gyaltsabje? Oh, there's a very nice verse, which Christy's going to go over with you in the Sanskrit, which is the first verse in which the Uttara Tantra talks about the 12 deeds.

But it says, Tukje chenpo jikten khen, jikten kunla sikneni, chuky kude ma yopar, chupy rangshin na tso kyi. And then they go into the 12 deeds. And when you do the Sanskrit, you've got to point out, the Sanskrit is cooler because you get this thing.

Listen to it. Mahakarunnaya, curse name, lokkam, alokya, lokkabed. You see, it's like, lok, lok, lok.

He's like making a fun. But then when you get into Tibetan, you don't see it anymore, you see? But anyway, tukje chenpo means mahakarunna, out of great compassion.

Jikten khen, Lord Buddha sees the entire universe. This is amazing. We're talking about, I like this subject.

We're talking about how does the world begin? How does the universe start? What's the first click that sets off this thing of a Buddha coming to a planet?

To me, it's very sexy. Abhidharma has this old thing of cosmic dust starts to collect in a certain part of space. And then two particles get together, and then four particles.

And then a big cosmic energy wind comes, and it starts to whip it into circles. And then galaxies form, and they go into this whole thing. For me, this whole thing is the same.

Something triggers Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha is in a state of enlightenment already, you see? And then something triggers movement, which is tukje chenpo, mahakarunna.

He's like, something wakes him up. And he's like, I got to do something for people. It's not so much like that nirvana we were talking about before, like the arhats that are just sitting there spaced out.

I mean, according to the Mahayana, Lord Buddha is already emanating billions of emanations, right? But still, there's this moment in history when he decides, or doesn't decide, right? But the emanation goes to planet Earth, this particular planet.

And it gets into this whole idea, which you should think about. Not only are the 12 deeds not just some historical thing, not only are they a message to us, but they seem to be generic. You see, anytime an enlightened being decides to go to a planet, it seems like it's the same process, you know?

And Buddhism says that the formation of a planet is pretty much the same all the time, you know? Like, planets form along the same paradigms, physically, geologically, and things like that. And then, apparently, when an enlightened being decides to go to that planet, there's always this generic flow of events, you see?

So we're not just talking about Gautama Buddha's 12 deeds. We're talking about the 12 deeds as a paradigm, you know, as an archetype, OK? And that just feels cool to me.

So anyway, there's this emotion. And you know, the Hindus have this thing, very big on that. When do you go from stasis to movement, you know?

When is the first click? And they have all these debates about it, you know? Because they have to say there's a first one, right?

We get out of it because we say that's just their reaction from an earlier reaction. But anyway, great compassion comes. Then, Jigten Ken, somehow Lord Buddha sees the universe.

Like, Lord Buddha examines the universe, you know? And there's a whole description of that. I put it in here.

I'm not going to go over it, but it's called The Way the Elephant Looks. And it's just like, looks backwards, forwards, up, down, all around, all times. Checks all times at the same time, something like that.

It's very beautiful. So I threw it in there. But like, he checks out the scene in billions of universes, you know?

Like, what's happening today? You know, Jigten Ken. Then, Jigten Kun La Sik means the Buddha, the knower of all worlds, looks upon our world.

Maybe that would be a good place, you know? Jigten looks. Then, Chukkikule Mayopar.

Then, the emanation begins to be sent from the dharmakaya. So dharmakaya is what? I mean, mainly.

It's just emptiness. It's the emptiness of the other three bodies, right? Just this primordial state of emptiness, you know, this unbelievable state of emptiness, you know, this undescribable state of emptiness.

It's what you see. It's the part of the Buddha that you see when you see emptiness directly. And, you know, you get this actual sensation of it being to your left and back and right there, you know, next to you.

And you, like, get a perception of it. So, but without moving from that, you know, without stirring from the dharmakaya, Chuppe Rangshin Natho, then sends out just billions of bodies, you know, sends out all kinds of different bodies. Nirmanakayas to different worlds, okay?

So that's the process as described in the first verse from the Uttara Tantra. And then they go into the 12 Deeds. You know, then this Nirmanakaya goes through these 12 Deeds.

They call it Choky Tukku, which means what? Buddha Classic. Yeah, I like Classic and Buddha Classic.

So Choky Tukku means Supreme Nirmanakaya, meaning the normal one that you always see in the paintings, you know, like this one, this image right here, okay? So, sends out mainly this Nirmanakaya to do the 12 Deeds. Yeah, Debbie asked, how does that fit in with the fact that it's supposed to be hundu, which is, what do they call it?

Spontaneous, totally spontaneous, unpremeditated. You know, how does that fit in? You got to understand one thing.

When we give this presentation today, you got to keep in mind one thing. And when you teach it, you have to keep in mind one thing. Many of the presentations of the 12 Deeds are coming from the Hinayana, from the Vinaya, okay?

And they have a whole different take on it, you know, which since you asked, I'll go into. They believe that Lord Buddha was not faking it, you know. And by the way, it's not just the Hinaya schools, it's Hinayana schools, and it's also two other major sources, which you don't have to worry about, but I just want to be accurate, okay?

Abhidharma has two versions. There's the normal one that we always talk about, Detailist. Then there's a higher Abhidharma, which is a mind-only Abhidharma, which was written down by Arya Sangha, okay?

So his brother, half-brother Vasubandhu, Master Vasubandhu, did the Abhidharma that we always talk about, which is the first school. But there's a higher Abhidharma, called Mumbakuntu Abhidharma Samuccaya, which is the mind-only's take on Abhidharma. So you got that book.

Then you've got Arya Sangha's Sade Na, which are the five versions of the levels of Bodhisattvas, etc. It's called the levels. Sometimes we just call it Sa, the levels.

And everybody knows what you're talking about, you know, Bodhisattva Bhumis, and also Sravaka and Pratyekabuddha Bhumis, okay? So, he wrote a big book, five books, five-part book. So anyway, these ideas about how Lord Buddha comes to this world, which sound to Debi like strange, because isn't it supposed to be spontaneous, you know?

What we're going to be talking about draws a lot from Abhidharma, Vinaya, the lower schools, Hinayana schools. And then the same viewpoints are expressed in a few higher schools' books like the higher Abhidharma, which is mind-only. And then, what was the second one?

Oh, the Bhumis, the presentation on the Bhumis, which is partly mind-only, mostly mind-only like that, okay? So, what I mean to say is, it's not safe in a debate ground to say that the basic presentation of the Twelve Deeds is Hinayana. Because some mind-only schools are talking about it that way too.

So, you have to be careful in a debate ground, okay? So, when would you guess if... Let's get on to that subject.

I'm going to give you what's called the normal view of the Twelve. Who did the Twelve? What level was Buddha on when he did the Twelve?

There's the normal view, then there's the special view, and then there's the tantric view, okay? So, I'm going to talk to you about three viewpoints about the Twelve Deeds. If you had to guess...

This thing's hot. If you had to guess what... I'll just give you a debate question.

You know, let's say like... Lord Buddha was enlightened during all Twelve of the Twelve Deeds. Kimberly, you want to try?

Well... So, it doesn't say in authoritative scriptures that he was a bodhisattva up through the Ninth. And then he got enlightened, and then he did the rest of the Three.

Right? It's true that they don't say that? Oh, so they do say that.

So, they're not authoritative scriptures. Good. So, they are authoritative, but it doesn't mean they say that he was a bodhisattva for nine steps and a Buddha for three.

Right. Why?

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Why do they say that?

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Yeah, why is there seem to be a... What do you call it? Contradiction here.

Yeah, good. Yeah. So, if you're talking lower two schools, plus those minority guys who wrote those few books, right?

They're saying he was a bodhisattva up through nine, and then for ten, eleven, twelve, he was a Buddha.

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Okay? Okay.

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And there's two schools of thought on that. Okay? What kind of bodhisattva was he during the Nine?

Some schools say, like lower, lower schools, okay? He was on Tsoglom, which is what? Path of Accumulation, which is the first of the five paths.

Some schools say, he was on the Path of Accumulation up to this point, up through Nine. Okay? Then suddenly, he goes, you know...

Actually, they say that when he sat down under the tree, he was on the Path of Accumulation, and he didn't get up until he was enlightened. So, the lower schools say that he covered Jorlam, Path of Preparation, Tonglam, Path of Seeing, Gomlam, Path of Obituation, and he had Path of No More Learning in one sitting. Okay?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Now, some schools say that. Then slightly higher schools who still believe that he did get enlightened during that life, say he was a 10th level bodhisattva, up through the 9th stage, and then he switched over to an enlightened being. So, there's two ideas on that.

And then some schools divide his career into non-ordained and ordained. Okay? I mean, his bodhisattva career in itself could be divided into the time when he was non-ordained and then the time he was ordained.

Chukyla, you're the Vinaya expert, right? Sangyecham Rinpoche, let's talk about the Buddha. Ngacho yinpa, Chicho yinpa.

Did he get enlightened according to the old way of ordination or the new way of ordination? I'm sorry, ordained as a full monk. According to the old way of ordination or the new way of ordination?

Like the old way, for example, is Come here. You know, come to me. And then the guy's hair falls out and they get robes, you see.

Then the latter ordination, so you got to have this Sangha quorum of five ordained monks and there has to be all these requirements, you know. Which one? Lord Buddha.

Yeah, right, right. He's what we call Rangjung Nyenzo. What's Rangjung Dorje?

Self-made. Yeah, Rangjung means self-made. He's a self-made full monk.

Okay, like it just happened, you know. And there's two debates about that, okay. We're on the subject of was he just a bodhisattva, right?

Some people say when he left the home life, Ngerpa Jungwa, after fooling around with the queens, right? Ngenjung. When he went to Ngenjung, then he cut his own hair off.

That is the case. I mean, he had seen a monk. Remember the story outside the gate?

We're going to talk about it. So he went out into the forest and he had long princess hair, you know. And he took it and he cut it himself.

And then he just got some orange clothes and he put them on. And he threw away all his jeweled vestments, you know. And some people say that that was the moment he got ordained.

They call it automatic ordination, you know. But then some schools, the higher schools say you're always automatically ordained when you become enlightened. Like that's called automatic ordination.

You count as a fully ordained person the moment you get enlightened. Like that's good enough to call it fully ordained. Which brings up an interesting question.

Is Vajrayogini fully ordained? Yeah, automatic full ordination. That changes things a bit.

It brings up some interesting questions. Anyway, you can debate that when you get to Tantric class. I'm just going through the reading to make sure I cover everything.

Oh, we didn't do Tantric, right? I found an interesting source that has... I'll read it to you, okay?

It didn't take a long time to find that. When we get to it, we'll do it. There's a beautiful description about what he was doing in Ganden, in Tushita Heaven, before he decided to come to this planet.

And that's another story. There's a homework question that says why did he pick this realm? Like why did he pick this particular realm?

The desire realm. And in particular what we call Zambaling, which is our realm, right? Our particular part of the desire realm.

They call it the Southern Continent. And then people think that's silly. I don't think it is silly at all.

I think there are realms that we can't see everything. We happen to be in what's called the Southern Realm. But Jambudvipa, right?

And he always picks the central land of Jambudvipa, which corresponds nowadays to India, central India. The main body of India. It's called the middle of the world for humans.

So why does he choose to come there? And that's on your homework. And there's two answers.

There's two parts to the answer. One is that it's called Lekisapa. Say Lekisapa.

Lekisapa. Lekisapa means... And then there's a Longchukisapa.

Say Longchukisapa. Longchukisapa. Longchukisapa means the other three realms.

The northern, western and eastern islands, if you want to call them that, or continents. When you do the mandala, you do those four continents. We're on the southern one.

But anyway, he doesn't appear on the other three and on other parts of the Jaya realm, like Mount Meru, because people there don't appreciate lay. They're running on Longchu. Butendriyatmakam bhoga-bhagavatam dursyam.

Comes in the Yoga Sutra. People on the other continents are just interested in consuming. They are consumers.

Longchupa. They just want to eat. They just want to drink.

They want to make money, get a house, eat, consume. You know, that's their focus. They want to be consumers.

And then they just go like that until the day they die. And why is the northern continent called what it's called? Draminyen.

Sound of terror. Why? Yeah, the last day.

After 500 years. They have a guaranteed lifespan, 500 years. And then they hear this sound from the sky.

You're going to die tomorrow. You know, and they go crazy. They just go mad, you know.

And I'm afraid most of our country's people are like that, you know. They consume and consume and consume. Like I went to see my old diamond business friends and it's very sad now.

They're getting into their old age. And it's a very sad thing. They're obviously very hopeless.

And they know it. And the consuming years are drawing to an end. The years when you have the energy and the strength and vitality and brains to make money fast.

They're dragging down. They're wearing out, you know. And they know it.

And they're very disturbed. And we went out to dinner. You know, there's like three hour talks about what's this Buddhism stuff.

And you know, it's getting interesting, right? So anyway, there's your consuming years, right? But we are Lekhisa.

Lekhisa means people who appreciate karma. His Holiness called it during the last weekend. He called it...

What did he call it? Namcyu. Vikalpa.

People who are analyzing life. People who are trying to examine their lives. He called it examining their lives.

You know, he called it a whole tekpa, a whole jhana, called people who are examining their lives. You know, what's going on, you know. And Lekhisapa means they appreciate karma.

They understand karma. They understand that karma is involved. So anyway, on this particular realm called...

You know, I can call it earth, as far as I'm concerned. I mean, nowadays in the Tibetan newspapers, they're starting to call it... When they translate earth from a western news report, they put Zambuling.

Jambudvipa, which means the southern continent. It means our world, our planet. It's a place where people live who have the brains to figure out karma.

So that's one difference. We're not just blind consumers. I mean, we have the capacity to be more than blind consumers.

Okay? With training. And then the second...

The second one was... What was that? Oh, we are able to develop renunciation.

You know, we see suffering and we do something about it. We have the capacity. Like animals are aware of suffering, but they don't decide to go out to Bui, Arizona and try to practice the solution or something like that.

It's only a certain kind of mentality that can do that. So that's why Lord Buddha chooses a human rebirth to appear as a human and to come into this part of the desire realm. Okay?

Let's see if there's anything else in here. Yeah, some big debates about when he was enlightened. Oh, so are the 12 Deeds of the Buddha the 12 Deeds of the Buddha?

Earl. There's a debate about that. Yeah.

Kyu-kyu. Kyu-kyu. You know Kyu-kyu.

If something exists, it's itself. Kyu. That's an old debate in the monastery.

Kyu. Kyu. You know?

If it exists, Kyu-kyu. Then it's itself. Anything that exists is itself automatically.

Right. So the 12 Deeds of the Buddha are the 12 Deeds of the Buddha. Right.

So the Buddha was a Buddha when he did the 12 Deeds. Okay. You can debate that later, Cindy.

Okay. Anyway, you get the point, right? But I mean, if you take the lowest school's thing, you can't call it the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, right?

Because he wasn't a Buddha when he did nine of them, right? Okay. Anyway, that's not so big deal.

Okay. Here's a book by Chan Khyaw Rupa Dorje, who's famous for writing the biggest dhrum taal of all time, four volumes, huge volumes. And it's unbelievable.

It's really beautiful. I took a lot of the Mahamudra course from that.

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Okay.

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We should translate that in our copious free time. But in there, he quotes the Kalachakra Tantra, the most famous commentary, ancient commentary to the Kalachakra Tantra. So I thought I'd go through that.

It says here, Sangye Chamdendeni, the Buddha, the victor, right, the victorious one, Sangye Kishintongsum Kittongsamvijiktengikam Namsu, in countless planets of tongsums, we had that in the Diamond Cutter, like world systems of a thousand planets, a thousand world systems of a thousand planets each, in those, Gyumetukku sends out his illusory body, illusory, you know, his movie, Nirmanakaya, right? And Drupadantrava, Taiyepa Taiyepa What I like here is he says Taiyepa Taiyepa, which means infinite, infinite, okay?

So he sends out infinite, infinite bodies to hundreds of thousands of world systems, right? Taiyepa Taiyepa, and then he helps Taiyepa Taiyepa Simchen. To me, it sounds like Natso Shindu, Natso Sukhuji, Natso Duryodhini, Natso Sampajishindu, you know, Sukhujubhikuji, at the end of the various worlds, may I take on various disguises, you know, may I fit the various thoughts of Simchen beings, who want various things, you know, and I'll do that in various costumes, you know, and like that, okay?

Taiyepa Taiyepa Nam, Namke Suvadepa, and then countless and countless beings asking for help, Namke Suvadepana, Natsuki Suvadepana, and then he takes on Taiyepa Ke, what's Ke? Pasha. Aren't you studying Puke?

Yeah, languages. He takes on infinite numbers of tongues to fit the, you know, who wants him to talk in Namoham, who wants him to talk in Sanskrit, whoever wants him to talk in Brooklyn, you know, he can speak it. And then he goes to Jeetendran, Jeetendran Devya Chö, he teaches them all these, teaches them infinite kinds of dharma.

And then it says, Tantray Khyenpa De Duma Mayino, don't think he's just, don't ever think he's multiple, though. Just one, just one ascending and all ascending. And then, and then he goes on to say that, in the Tantric worldview, he's like enlightened long ago.

And, and he shows up, he's, he's not in Tushita paradise, Ganden. He's in Udman, which is below no other, the heaven below no other. And his real form is Vajradhara, like Tantric deity.

And that's the real Sambhogakaya, that's the enjoyment body sitting in the paradise. It doesn't look like anybody else. It looks like Vajradhara, like a Tantric angel.

Kaur, and then, you know, it can look like a lady or whatever. They call Kaur and then multiple emanations in, in that paradise. Like whoever he's teaching, 10th level Bodhisattvas, he or she is teaching, he or she just emanates as a Tantric deity there.

And then that, that enjoyment body sends down countless emanations to Tantric. The part I like, it's like Tantric pockets around the world. Okay?

It's like, you heard of Odyana? There's a, there's a retreat center by Tathagatuka Rinpoche in, in California called Odyana, right? And we have it sometimes in the, in the Vajrayogini sadhana, Odyana-yutu, and Odyana-bhishu-vete-yutu.

And you see it especially in, in Nyingma text, like Ugyen, means, yeah, Padmasambhava. So, so what it means is, there are Tantric pockets around the world. You know, Odyana is one of them.

Where is it? I mean, nobody knows. West, it's at the west.

I mean, that's why he named it in California, Tathagatuka Rinpoche. So, but what it means is, there are little, I like to think of them as spheres around the world where Tantra is being taught, you know. Like, Lord Buddha is not emanating 12 Deeds, and he's not going to that shtick anymore.

There's just a pop Tantric bubble in that place. And Lord Buddha is emanating as a Tantric deity and, and teaching Tantra to people. And that's, that's the 12 Deeds, you know, in Tantric terms.

It's just pockets around the world where people have the karma to hear Tantra, real Tantra being taught in a place of Tantric. It's like small, I think of it as small little pockets, like small little spheres, small little paradises around the world where, where Tantra is being taught. And that's, that's all the 12, that's the real 12 Deeds going on, you know, nowadays.

So, that's the Tantric presentation. So now you have what we call the normal one, then you have the special one, and now you got the Tantric one, okay? How are we doing on time?

You want to do some more? One more step, okay? Don't take a break.

And you can read that in, in that selection from the Kalachakra Tantra, when you ever get your reading. I'm going to skip the holidays because I need to look at the calendar. I want to relate them to Western months for you, roughly, okay?

So we'll come back to that. Then there's what's called the, I call it the whole story. This is the whole story.

This is by Sarah Jetson, Chicky Jetson. He's the great textbook writer from Saraje, who taught Kedrup Dambadarge, who's the great textbook writer from Sarame. We say Kedrup Dambadarge outdid his teacher.

There's, there is a, they were perceived as having some friction by, by, they would say people of lower karma, perceived them as having some disagreement or something. And then there's, you know, debates like, oh, he was just doing better than his teacher. You know, he was like taking his work, teacher's work further.

And then there's, there's weird debates like that. Most people just think it was a big Tantric set up and, you know, Kedrup Dambadarge was, wrote those books in order to fit the specific disciples in Sarame. Okay.

But anyway, Saraje is extraordinary, Sarah Jetson. And I think his presentation of the Twelve Deeds is the best that I've seen. So here we go.

Because Kedrup Dambadarge didn't do it. Okay. Here we go.

I'm just going to, he says, according to the Hinayana, he was just that, he was just on the path of accumulation, right, when he came into this world. And according to the Mahayana, it's a long story. Let me see.

Oh, it's a long story. He says, refer to my previous book. And I got it.

I went with the computer and I pulled it out and I put it in your reading when he says that, because it didn't seem fair to me. And he says, do you know there's a 75, 76, 77,000 countless eons, right? Like, supposedly that's how long it takes to get through even the first two paths, especially.

Something like that. But more specifically, it refers to how many Buddhas you have paid honor to. You know, it's like when you get through spending 75,000 lifetimes honoring the Buddhas of that world, then you're on stage one.

Then when you do 76,000 Buddhas in 76,000 lifetimes honoring them, serving them, you get to stage two. Then when you do 77,000, you get to stage three. Something like that, okay?

So after stage three, we're talking after stage three, he went to, I got to get this straight. He paid honor to the Buddha called Dipamkara. And then he put his feet at the head of Jambanambasik, it's another Buddha.

And then that completed his 77,000 honorings. And that was enough karma for him to become the Buddha, a Buddha. So at some time in primeval history, after 77,000th lifetime, in the third level of honoring this particular Buddha, whose only his name is left in this world now.

I mean, I couldn't even find the Sanskrit, you know. Just this name is left in Tibetan. I mean, it says, then he became enlightened.

Lord Buddha became enlightened. And his name was Wambhotok. At that time, you know, when he really became enlightened, back then, his name was Wambhotok.

You can't even find that in the ancient scriptures, you know. The Sanskrit would be like Indraketu or something, but it's like gone in history. It's like so old that you can't find it.

I couldn't find anything else, okay. But he became that kind of, that Buddha had that name. Then it says, then in his 30,000th life after that, okay.

And that raises questions anyway. I mean, what does it mean to take a life after you're enlightened, you see. But apparently he's like emanated in 30,000 in a row, different people.

And then he meets the Buddha called Kasyapa. Kasyapa is Buddha number three in our world, okay, lately. Like a thousand Buddhas are going to appear in this eon.

Gautama or Shakyamuni happens to be number four, okay. So he goes and pays honors to Buddha number three, okay, called Kasyapa, right. And then he emanates, so he has emanated himself as a youth, as a divine youth to pay homage to Kasyapa.

So we're back like thousands of eons ago, okay. Billions of years ago. Then he says, what should I do now?

Then he goes and emanates in Tushita, okay. All right. So that's the whole history if you ever want to know.

I don't think anyone does, but anyway. So actually he got enlightened so many zillion eons ago. Then he spent 30,000 lifetimes emanating as a different people.

And then in the 30,000th one, he pays homage to the last Buddha. And then he gets his rear end up to Tushita Paradise. He's called Thaibu, which means divine youth, Dampa Tokarwa, okay.

And I'll just write it for you. I couldn't find it. Again, the sources are very old.

And I couldn't find much for it. Say Dampa Tokarwa. Dampa Tokarwa.

Dampa just means like highest, like Dundam Dampa. And then Tok means the top of anything, like the top of a flagpole that, what do you call it, that round thing? Yeah, it's called a Tok.

And the top of a plant which is blazing with color is called Netok, fire Tok, which is the Tibetan word for flower. And then Tok means that bump on the head or the yogi's hair when they tie it up here. That's called a Tok.

So Tokarwa would mean like he had a special white, white blonde hair or something. I don't know. White Tok.

His name is White Tok, okay. I don't know, some like a, some kind of a white top knot or something, something like that. I couldn't find it.

Like it's very ancient, really, really ancient. The only Sanskrit I could find is Shvetaketo, which means white Tok. And that's anyway, that's how he emanates to Tushita.

That's how the story really began, okay. The story of the Twelve Deeds really begins with Lord Buddha emanating himself in Tushita as this divine youth. And then he starts teaching Dharma there.

He's teaching Dharma in Tushita Paradise to 10th level Bodhisattvas because they're the only ones who can see him as a Sambhogakaya, you know. So it's like he's teaching all these 10th level Bodhisattvas. Then he gets this wake-up call, you know, and we'll go through it, but anyway, they say that the Buddhas of the 10 directions, you know, play their symbols, you know, and then he's like, wait, I hear something, you know.

And then there's this verse and they say, don't forget the promise you made, you know, which is like he promised to go to the worst world in history, you know, earlier, like before he became a Buddha, our Buddha said, I'm going to reserve my activities for the most screwed up world I can find in history, you know, and I'm going to teach Tantra there, you know, like very few Buddhas teach Tantra, you see, according to one school of thought.

So he's like, I'm going to teach Tantra. And to do that, you really have to find the worst place because Tantra feeds on like the worst karma. Tantra feeds where things are bad, you know, like the highest message is available to the times which are the worst, you know.

So he says, I'm going to wait till I get to, until in history there's a really screwed up planet, then I'm going to emanate there and teach Tantra, you know. So he hears this thing like, don't forget the promise you made, and he's like, you know, and he's like, oh, got to go, you know. And then all these Tantra bodhisattvas are like, wait, wait, you know, who's going to teach us, you know, what are you doing, you can't leave, we have to learn Dharma from you, we're almost there, you know, just wait a while.

He says, no, no, I got to go, I got this call, you know. Of course it's probably Abhidharma system, right? Anyway, I got this call, I got to go.

And he says, don't worry, I got this other disciple called Ajit, and he takes his crown off, his Dharma crown, and he puts it on Ajit, right? And he says, Ajit, you teach these guys, I got to go, you know. And he leaves.

He goes and appears in his mother's womb as a six-tusked light blue elephant, okay, like his mother sees it, and with a halo, like a golden halo around him, you know, and that's how his mother dreams. And he takes this form, don't ask me, I mean, each tusk has a meaning and I don't remember, but anyway, he enters the womb like that. Who's Ajit?

Mipham, right, Maitreya, yeah. Who wrote this book? I think it's very cool.

Where are we getting the twelve deeds from? Who's reporting the twelve deeds? You know, in the Uttaradantra, is the guy who's got the crown on, Gyaltsam, right?

The real Gyaltsam. By the way, who's writing the book in Tibetan? Gyaltsam, you know, the regent.

It's very cool, the whole thing is coincidence, I'm sure. So, Gyaltsam is reporting about Uttaradantra, which is written by Maitreya, to whom the crown has been given, because he's babysitting in Tushita, while Lord Buddha goes and does the twelve deeds, okay? I think that's a good place to start.

Then we'll start from the womb, okay? One last thing. About the birth, right, about entering the womb.

Some people say that you might as well stick the entering the womb and the birth together, right? I mean, it makes sense, right? Some people say, when they count the twelve deeds, they say, why count entering the womb and being born separately?

I mean, really, it's the same sort of stage in this life, right? And then some people do that, but then how many deeds? Eleven.

Because they say, that school of thought says, his time in Tushita heaven, teaching as a divine youth, should be counted as the beginning of the process. So, you know, some people count it that way. Number one is teaching in Tushita heaven.

Number two is what? Leaving Tushita and entering the womb. Those two together is number two.

Okay, so you might see it that way sometimes, then you don't get confused, okay? Okay, have some, relax, I know it's been a long day, so get something to drink, walk around. I'm going to give you the long version, okay?

I mean, we might as well have it on tape somewhere, someday. You know, we'll just keep going, okay? It's a long reading, sorry.

Then they say that the Buddha looked, you know, the Uttaratantra says, the Buddha looked upon the universe, you know, looked upon the world. And then, this is how the lower schools take that looking. Okay, the higher schools take it as, you know, just checking out the universe.

But here's how, the lower schools say he looked in five ways, okay? One, he looked at what class of society he'd like to be born into, right? This is a big caste thing in India.

And he decided, it'll be royalty. Okay, so that was the first looking. Second looking was, what kind of people, you know, would I like to be born into?

And he chose the Sakyas, Sakya people, okay? It's one of the peoples of India, okay? Then he said, what about my mother?

I'm going to look at my mother. I think I'll be born in, her name is Gyuma Hadze. Gyuma means Maya.

Sanskrit is Maya. Tibetan is Gyuma. And I always wondered why she's called Maya, because Maya always implies deceit, you see?

And it kind of bothered me that her name was Maya, you see, or illusion. So, illusion is not so bad, right? I mean, that kind of gets into emptiness and tantra and all that.

But it's interesting that Jetsunpa, Sara Jetsun, he takes the trouble to say, he chose his mother Maya, who was free of all Maya, you see? In the Tibetan, it's yogyu-tadatan-drawa-gyuma, you know, illusion or deceit, who is free of all deceit, implying that somehow her name means, is a contradiction. It was meant to mean no deceit, so her name is called illusion, Maya, in the sense that, maybe in the sense of emptiness, which is beyond all deceit, you see?

So, I thought that was kind of cool. And he looked at the time and he chose the worst time, okay? Which we call dunit, right?

Nyingma, you know Nyingma? It's not Nyingma, okay? Nyingma means the dregs of society or the dregs of time.

Ti, ti, ti, what do you call that stuff in the bottom of the cup? Dregs, yeah. The stuff at the bottom of the cup is called Nyingma also.

Nyingma. So, our day, the days that we live in are called the days of Nyingma. And there are five Nyingmas, and here's more, five more we'll take off on.

First one is the times are Nyingma, which means there's a lot of conflict in the world. And they're not just talking 2003, okay? I mean, this is like since about 2000 years ago, okay?

I think James said what? There haven't been 45 days of peace in this world in the last 2000 years or something? I mean, some historian has figured that out, but anyway.

Then lifetimes are, what do you call it? Degenerate, it's called the five degenerations. Lifetimes are short, like we're down to the 100 year lifetimes.

And during the course of eons, you go from 80,000 to 100 years, we're at the bottom of the sine wave. Then it will go back up, it actually goes down to 10, and then goes back up to 80,000 or something. So, we're very close to the bottom, we're like at the last billionth of 1% as far as lifetimes.

How long we live. Then Tawa Nyingma, we have very bad world view, and it's hard to change people who have bad world view. You know like, the world view almost prevents them from changing their world view, okay?

I think we saw that in New York, or we had it in the prison yesterday. Like we're trying to explain the two choices about violence, do you fight back or do you not fight back, and how neither one is correct. And then one of the guys didn't have, like one guy got it, the guy in front of me got it, he's Spanish-American guy, he just like, he got it.

And then one guy in the back was like, yeah, but you still have to defend yourself, you know, or something like that, and he didn't get it, you see. So, world view is kind of slippery, world view is really hard to change. Then Nyomo Nyingma, you know.

Ngartak means, mental afflictions in people's minds are tough, tough, you know, tough and rough. And Yunringwa means, they stay there for so long, you know, and you get angry, and it just stays and stays and stays, you know. And then Semchen Nyingma means, people are just, it's the degenerate times as far as the kind of people, meaning difficult to dulwa, difficult to discipline people, to break them.

It's difficult nowadays. Like a horse, dulwa. Okay.

Then he goes into the conversation where the gentleman boy's office are begging him to stay. And I won't go into it. But the main, yeah.

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I have one, two, three, four.

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Did I miss a Nyingma?

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Five times.

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Did we not have five? Do you guys have? Oh, we don't have five?

Oopsie. Oh, sorry, the first one I missed. Okay.

The first of the things he looked at I missed, which was the country. He chose a country, or a place, and that is Kapila City. K-A-P-I-L-A.

On, on, in our planet. Okay, so Lord Buddha chose to be born in Kapila. It's K-A-P-I-L-A.

In India, in Jambuling, in Jambudvipa. Okay. That was the first one.

Sorry. So now we got five and five. Okay.

Then there's the arguments. And then they said, look, if you leave, who's going to teach us? That was one argument.

And the other one was, you know, times are bad. And there are 18 other religious teachers in the world right now. And if you, you know, sorry, I don't know.

How does that work? Oh, if you leave as teacher, then those 18 will take over as teacher. And that's not a good thing.

Then he lists 18 teachers who were around at that time. I couldn't find them in Sanskrit. Like all these things have gone.

You know, but there were 18 teachers around at the time. They weren't teaching like perfect world view. And they said that's going to be the problem.

But he said, don't worry, I'll take care of them. So anyway, he has a long list of the 18 teachers. Then some more notes.

There's a calendar, Doug. I think it's on the, on the, is it right there? On the shelf, on the, one of those how old calendars?

Yeah. I'm going to go through with you the, it's a good time to do the holidays. Because they give the date that he went.

Now, you got to know the dates in Tibet are done according to the 60 year cycle, Chinese 60 year cycle, which there are 12 animals and five elements. And then you combine elements and animals, you know, like this happens to be, I don't know if they did it this year in here. Yeah, it's the water sheep year.

Okay. So among the 12 animals, it's the sheep, among the five elements, the water. And then because things don't repeat more than every 60 years, you can generally date people.

And then each cycle of 60 years is called a rub Jun. So we're like on the 14th rub Jun or something like that, since they began keeping the dates in Tibet. But that's how they date years.

Then months, there's like four or five choices on how to do the months. There's an ancient Indian system. There's other systems.

But there's a thing called Horn Da, which is Mongolian month. And I guess while the Mongols were in control of China and the rest of the world, this system became the normal system. So they date all the Buddha's life occurrences according to a lunar system of months.

So I'm going to give you that. I don't know what that corresponds to. Well, anyway, let's go through it this way.

I thought I would just give you all the dates that we would normally celebrate in a year, okay? First one is in the 10th, sorry, the 11th Mongolian month, okay, lunar month. On the 25th, we celebrate Vajrayogini Day.

Now that's not to do with what we're doing today, but I thought you'd just like to know that. So it's the 11th month, 25th day. And then the 10th day of the 12th month is Chakrasambhara Day.

Yeah, the 10th day of the 12th month is Chakrasambhara Day, Vajrayogini's boyfriend. Okay. The 15th day of the first month is called the Day of Miracles, Chotu Duchen.

This is a day that Lord, it's not a major, major holiday, but it's the day that Lord Buddha used miracles to defeat some guys he was debating. He had a miracle contest with some non-Buddhist masters and out-miracled them, okay? Let's see here.

I need more for a while. Okay, the 4th month, 15th day, we call Saga Dawa, right? Saga is one of the Mongolian months, it's the name of that Mongolian month.

Dawa means moon, and it's the full moon of that month. And that we call Enlightenment Day. And normally that's also celebrated as the Day of the Parinirvana and the Day of the coming out of the womb.

Sorry, sorry, the Conception Day, okay? The day of entering, entering the womb, okay? So those 3 events happen, we celebrate them on the same day.

Entering the womb, getting enlightened, and passing Parinirvana, okay? I wonder if that corresponds to this one. This is Saga Dawa, Yama and Sejonga.

Yeah, yeah. And that's the day he entered the womb. And you'll get that in your reading, okay?

July 1st is Ken Rinpoche's birthday? I think we made that up for his green card application. Geshe Lotar got July 4th because we couldn't remember Rinpoche's.

But we figured 4th of July we could remember, so his passport says 4th of July. And then we wrote up birth certificates from, anyway. The 6th of July is His Holiness's birthday.

I think that one they really know. They call it Tungkar Duchen in Tibet. Like, Tibetans don't keep their birthdays.

Everybody in Tibet celebrates their birthday on New Year's Day. In Mongolia they celebrate their birthday on Je Tsongkhapa's day. Which is really cool, everybody.

I think that's really a cool custom. Okay, the 4th day of the 6th month is to me the most important holiday. What's that?

Yeah, the day Lord Buddha gave the first teaching. So that's always celebrated on the 4th day of the 6th Mongolian month. Then there's a date.

What month is that? 9th month, 22nd day. It's the day that Lord Buddha returned from another world where he was teaching one of his parents.

I think it was his mother, I don't remember. Yeah, okay, so it's called Tlabap Duchen, which means falling from the deity's place. Descent from the deity's...

Descension from the deity's place. Okay, and that's a big holiday. People are happy that he came back.

And just for your information, the 25th day of the 10th month is called Gandang Nabchu, which means the offering of the 25th of Tushita. And that's Je Tsongkhapa's day. Now back out 10 months after the conception day.

Sorry, what did he come up with? Conception day was 15th of the 4th month. So the 2nd month around the 15th.

I think it's the 8th, but they don't have it here. But a minor holiday is the date of coming out of the womb. Like according to scripture, it was a full 10 months.

And so we do celebrate a minor holiday on the day he came out. I believe they chop off a week, but I'll check it for you. Anyway, about 9 and a half months to 10 months later we celebrate the actual coming out of the womb.

So that's just a custom. And there'll be a summary of all those holidays. So I think there should be 6 major holidays.

I think they speak of 6 major holidays, but you can check. And I'll have it in your reading. He came out of his mother's right side.

Some people say her armpits. Some people say the loa, which is the right side of her lung. But the right side of her chest.

And just came out. No blood, no problem. She didn't feel much.

They say that holy beings are born miraculously and don't hurt their mothers. So he just popped out. And we'll talk later about what he said.

And then all the deities dropped flowers on his head. And people picked him up. The deities picked him up in a golden cloth.

And people did an offering. And when we do sojong, you'll see the trusul, where Rinpoche will get out a basin. And there'll be a mirror.

And you take a special feather and you repeat that process. It's in the Daki also, in the sadhana. Famous verses.

Then he takes his steps in the seven directions. Sorry, in the six directions. Seven steps each in the six directions.

And that's still sort of a little custom when you bow down before you give bodhisattva vows. Like, if you've ever seen His Highness do the whole thing, he'll do prostrations in each of the directions. I thought you'd like to know why he was called Siddhartha and why he was called Shakyamuni.

And at this point in the text, and it's on your homework, Sarah Judson gives a nice explanation. Like, I haven't seen them explain so nicely. He says, when Lord Buddha came out of his mother's side, the deities dropped jewels.

Like, there's this big thing that when a very virtuous person's around, jewels will drop from the sky. Like, just diamonds and rubies and emeralds and things like that. Just like, I assume they don't hurt anybody.

And then the whole world was enveloped in this beautiful light, like a rainbow light. And then all the people around there, like all the people who lived in India or something, anybody who was sick was suddenly cured. Anybody who was emotionally stressed suddenly was happy, you know.

And people just went into states of bliss, spontaneous states of bliss everywhere. And then this thing happened where everybody who wanted something got it that day. You know, like everybody who was hoping for a new car got a new car, you know, like that.

And that's called, that object that you want is called dhun. Like, dhun means artha. Artha means dhun.

Artha in Sanskrit means dhun. And it just means object that you're working for. Like shin dhun and rang dhun.

And then, dhrup means to get it. And that is siddha in Sanskrit. So, siddha artha means got what they wanted.

So, everybody, the king and the queen decided to name him siddha artha. Meaning, everybody got what they wanted that day. So, let's call him siddhartha.

I always wondered why he was called siddhartha before he became enlightened, you see. Because, you know, it would make sense. And that's why so many Tibetans are called dhun-drup.

You see that dhun-drup, right? And it means siddhartha. Okay, yeah.

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Didn't he was a king of light and everybody got what they wanted?

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I don't know. I don't remember it exactly. But something like that.

I know like the earth would shake and, you know, yeah. Especially when somebody sees emptiness or something directly. Then there's an earthquake and stuff like that.

Usually, the whole universe quakes. Like goes... The matrix shifts.

Then this is cool. The tribe in which he was born was called Shakyas, right? Not to be confused with Sakyas, which are later Tibetan lineage.

You know, like a couple thousand years ago. So, Shakya is not the same as Sakya. Shakya.

And then muni comes from a root. Indo-European is m-u-h, muh. And it means to be silent.

And the words mute and mum and mystery and mystic come from that root. Mute means to be silent. And the Sanskrit is muni.

And you might hear it in modern yoga schools. People say, I'm going to do mauna for a year. Which is a derivative of muni.

And it means I'm going to keep silence. So, we kept mauna for three years. Pretty good.

In retreat, you know. So, muni means silent one. The one who doesn't speak.

And then when Sutter Jetson explains it, he's obviously drawing from an older scripture. Why? He's going to explain why he was called the quiet Shakya.

By the way, what he says is, all the Shakya people were big blabbermouths up to that time. And everybody was just gossiping about nothing. They spent most of the day talking about meaningless stuff.

And busy. Just busy all day. So, he counts talking and busyness as one thing.

He says, same thing. Just being busy all day. Too much to do.

Looking at all his newspapers. Looking at the news. Listening to the news.

Talking about the news. You know. This whole thing about needing to know too much.

And having too much to do. And just being too busy. You know.

And he said, but here comes a guy who is muni. You know. Who is quiet.

Meaning quiet life, simple life. And then verbally just quiet. So, he was called Shakya Muni.

Okay. Shakya Muni. But the Tibetans translated as Tupa, the able one.

You see. The able one. The early Tibetan translators chose the word Tupa.

So, it doesn't come out in the Tibetan. You see. When you read this paragraph in the Tibetan, it says, he's called the able one because he didn't engage in that blab blab that everybody else did.

You see. And then you're like, you see. So, it's good to know.

It's good to study Sanskrit. It opens your eyes further. Once your Tibetan is perfect, it's good to go to Sanskrit.

Okay. By the way, sometimes he's called the god of gods and he explains that name. He says, because even the gods bowed down to him with that.

You knew that. Okay. Bunch of other kings were born that day.

You don't need to know that. Oh. Then, in the, in the Se Ryo Kangchen.

What's Kangchen? Himalaya what? In the Himalayas.

In the land of the snows. In the Himalayas. Okay.

There was a yogi called Nakbowa, which means the black one. Sometimes Krishna is translated that way. Because he's dark.

Krishna can mean the dark side of the moon and stuff like that. Okay. Because his skin is dark blue.

But anyway, there was a yogi named Nakbowa. And he's staying up in the Himalayas. And he uses his ESP.

You know. And he looks down to that city. What's it called?

Kapila City. Okay. And he says, a guy has been born today.

You know. And if he becomes a world emperor. Oh, sorry.

He could either become a world emperor. Or, I don't know what to say. Sorry.

If he stays in the home, life. He'll become a world emperor. If he chooses to become a yogi.

He'll get enlightened. You know. And he gives this prophecy.

And then the yogi staying up in the Himalayas says. Since these are the bad days. These are the days of strife.

I think he should be enlightened. I think he should go the second way. So that finishes that.

Where are we? Oh, that was the... Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, that finished the... What was the third one? Ganden?

Oh, yeah. Born. He's come out now.

Okay. Sorry. We're going slow, right?

Number four. Basically, he studies. He learns to read and write.

He masters the scholastic sciences. He masters archery. He masters swimming.

He masters elephant riding. And taming elephants. And just basically.

He gets to know all the things he needs to know to run a kingdom. Like... Okay.

Then we get the fifth one. Playing with the queens. Okay.

And it says... Jetsunbo is funny. He says...

Lord Buddha had to relate to all of us, right? So he had to do this one too. And...

So he names... He spends a long... The next part of his life.

Up until he's 29. He spends all those years in the home life. And it's not stated in the Tibetan sources I've read.

But you know... It's common knowledge that he was married. And he had a child.

And here it just emphasizes that he was basically... Having a good time that any young man would have. Who was in charge of a kingdom.

With a whole circle of queens. Okay. Then he gets on to the sixth deed.

Which is leaving the home life. Okay. Leaving the worldly life.

And he says... When he was 29 years old. He gets this call again.

He gets this divine call again. Like the Buddhas of the ten directions. Wake him up.

He gets a wake up call. And then... Sarah Jetsun starts to quote the...

Lalita Vistara Sutra. Like the Cosmic Play Sutra. And I really like it.

So I'm just going to read it to you. This is just an off the cuff translation. And this is what he hears when he gets his wake up call.

Like he just hears it in his own head. Right. Bumbachibbe Buwankorzen.

Shin. Cyclic life is like a... A bottle filled with bees.

You know. Mad bees. Sisamitakume.

These three worlds are impermanent. Like a cloud in the fall. Spring.

Sorry. In the spring. Watching people get born and die.

Is like watching a drama. You know like a play. It's just like people just coming in stage right.

Leaving stage left. Just boom. They're gone.

You know. They get shot during the play. And the speed at which they cross the stage is about the speed of lightning.

You know. I mean. When you get to about my age you start to appreciate that.

You know. Like I meet my boss. You know.

This guy's made... He's up to 200 million a year now. Right.

And... He's old. And he's running out of energy.

Juice. And you can see it. And then you're like trying to remember like the last 20 years is just like a flash of lightning.

It's all over. You know. It's just gone.

You know. The way water falls off a very steep cliff. Our life is flowing like that.

Now you could get out of all this trouble and reach deathlessness if you could just get enlightened. Also it's your responsibility to give the nectar of deathlessness to all these thirsty people in the world. And don't forget you made that promise earlier.

So I think you got to get out of the palace. You know. So he gets this message.

This is his message. So... Because of that message he sneaks out as far as the eastern gate of the palace.

And as you know he sees a man who's gotten old. Like the king has been protecting him from seeing anything bad because he knows the prophecy of the wise men. So then he sees his first old person.

And I remember the story, right? He asks his friend what happened to this guy, you know? He says he got old.

He says, well, why? He says, what do you mean why? Everybody gets old.

It just happens, you know. He says, am I going to get like that? He says, sure.

So then he gets really freaked out. That was the first of the four gates. Now the second gate is the southern gate.

And he sees he sees a sick man. And then he freaks out. And he gets the same question.

Same process. At the western gate he sees a body being carried by. And he just freaks out.

Like he just really freaks out. Then when he goes to the northern gate he sees this beautiful monk passing by. You know, like totally happy and blissed out and just walking.

You know, in the saffron robes. And he's like, now that's cool. Then he asks his father can I go do that?

Become a monk? And the father says, absolutely not. And then the father puts soldiers all around the palace.

Like a whole body, like a soldier every few feet around the palace. 24 hour guard. And then Shakra, who is a divine being, right?

One of the deities. Puts them all to sleep. And then he's able to escape the palace.

And basically Shakra tells him go out and do what you have to do. Go help people. And then he goes out and he switches his clothing and he cuts his hair and he makes himself a monk.

Which is interesting. OK. Now we're on to the...

What was number 7? Tapas. Right?

Yeah, extreme means. Like doing these difficult hardships. And it says here, you got to know in the lower schools, OK?

In the Abhidharma system he goes through 6 years of trouble. You can say 6 years of a wrong spiritual path that doesn't work. Because he slipped one day and said one bad word to Kasyapa Buddha in his previous life.

OK? So, you know, according to the lower school, he had to go through 6 years of intense pain because he slipped one day and said one negative thing to Kasyapa Buddha. OK?

So, that's the lower school. So it says, also, in order that we would know that we have to work hard. You know, like, it doesn't come easy.

And if you had to summarize what His Holiness is always saying in every teaching he ever gives, it's like, you know, don't expect it to happen overnight. It's not going to happen overnight. It takes years of training, years of work.

You know? So like that. OK.

Oh, this is a funny story. You're getting tired, but that's all right. His body got skinny.

He looked like he was about to die. Or he had died. And his father, whose name was Suddhodana, saw him and started to cry out of depressed, you know, like worried about him.

And he comes out of his deep meditation. He's been in a meditation called sky, sky-like meditation, right? And he says, It is possible that one day the moon and the sun and even the stars might burn out.

That's possible. Like, the day will come. You know?

I may be a Pratyekyana, but before I'm done, I'll reach deathlessness. OK. By the way, that's one of the scriptures that people quote to prove that he wasn't a Buddha to start out with.

But anyway, you know that. So, don't do nyag-en. What's nyag-en?

What's nyag-en lay-deva going beyond nyag-en is? Nirvana. But what does nyag-en itself mean?

Grieving, worry. Don't do nyag-en about me. I'm not gonna die.

You know? You don't have to worry about me. You know?

Lingpo Mittho Chanju said, before long, I'm gonna be a complete Buddha. So don't worry about me, dad. You know?

Don't cry for me, Argentina. OK. Then there's the story of the lady who comes up and offers him some yogurt.

Do you know this story? Or milk, milk or yogurt. And it's actually a bowl of milk.

And she has taken it from a thousand cows. And she has taken the best part of a thousand and mixed it all into one bowl. OK.

Her name is Lekhyama. And she gives him this milk. And at that moment, he decides to give up stupid asceticism.

You know, like he breaks with the old, his five friends that he's gone out in the forest with, he breaks with them. And they criticize him. You know, they say, Oh, you gave up the yogi's way.

You know, you're not a pure monk anymore. You know, now you're corrupt. You're taking food, you know, from a lady.

And he says, the extreme thing doesn't make it for me. You know, he's just like, you know, I'm going to take care of my body. I'm going to be healthy.

And then his body begins to take on a golden color. OK. Then he goes to the heart of the, heart of enlightenment, which is where?

Bodhgaya or Vajrasana. And he goes into a meditation called Diamond Light Meditation. Dorje Tapa Tingzin.

OK. And then he sees that he has to get enlightened. So, he goes out and he pulls a bunch of grass from around the fields.

And he sets it down in a little pile in front of the Bodhi tree. And he sits down. OK.

That's the eighth Buddha deed. And I love the verse. Here's the verse.

Tender Daki Ludi Kam Kyang Rum. I don't give a damn if my whole body dries out under this goddamn tree. Loosely translated.

Rupa Papa Shanam Sikyang Rum. I don't care if my bones rot here. I don't care if my skin falls off.

I don't care if my body just disintegrates. Kyao Mang Nye Khe Chanjur Matho Par. Until I reach enlightenment, Ten Di Lan, I will not stir from this seat.

You know. Like, it's really beautiful. He says, until I get enlightened, I'm not getting up.

You know. He's just like... They call it Ten Tok Cik.

Say, Ten Tok Cik. It's very famous. Ten Tok Cik.

I'll write it for you. Ten means seat. What's the Sanskrit?

Asana. Asana. OK.

Tok means via or on. On one seat. Cik means one.

And it's just like... It's a very... It's like an act of truth.

Like, I swear I'm not going to get up until I get enlightened. You know. If I die here, I'll die.

Or I'll get enlightened. One or the other. I'm tired.

That's it. You know. So, he does a Ten Tok Cik.

I like that. Anyway. It's like he's swearing to become enlightened.

OK. Number nine. Defeating the demons.

It says here. It's really cute. It says, in order to remind those Buddhists who might come after him over the centuries, that it's possible you'll get some problems.

And obstacles. You know. He goes through this play with the demons.

OK. Like the demons. And then he kicks their butt, basically.

OK. And the way he does it, it's very beautiful here. He's got a thing called a...

I think you call it... Let me see what it's called. Zubu.

Say Zubu. Zubu. If you see a really good painting of Lord Buddha, there's a little bump here.

And there's a tiny hair. There's a hair follicle and there's a tiny hair. And supposedly, you could pull this hair out and stretch it around like a whole galaxy.

You know, like if you kept pulling it, it would just come out. And I believe they say that this particular sign comes from taking your Lama to the airport and stuff like that. Like I'm not hinting, OK?

But... But the karma of taking your Lama... Like doing a Margie thing.

If you know Margie in New York. Like she used to drive me anywhere. Like at midnight, three o'clock, Lama Sopa also, like three o'clock in the morning, Lama Sopa needs a ride somewhere.

He just calls her and she comes. She's got like 20 kids, grandkids. She's got busy.

She's got to get to work in the morning. She gets in her car, she goes. And this is supposedly the karmic cause of this particular thing.

But then you get some kind of powers. You can send out powers from this Zubu. And so he does.

He sends out light from the Mintsam, from the chakra. What's it called? Ajna chakra.

There's a chakra here, yeah. And then he sends out light and destroys demons with it. Okay?

Like that. And if you ever get into a longer retreat and can do higher tantric Dzogchen practices, this becomes developed a lot. You can work on developing it and stuff like that.

So anyway, this light goes to the demons' places and wipes them out. Basically. And he lists all the kinds of demons that got wiped out.

But in the higher teachings, okay, there's actually, he went to defeating four demons. And I thought you should know the four demon thing. Okay?

It's a nice thing to know. It's very famous. Where is that?

You want me to write them? You got anything else you got to do today? Let's just do it, okay?

I'm sorry. We'll give you a nice dinner afterwards, if you cook it. Say, Dushi.

Dushi. Dushi. Du means demon or evil spirit or something like that.

Shi means the four. So, this is the general name down here. The four demons.

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Okay?

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And the first one is called Nyo-mong-ki-du. I've shortened it to Nyo-mong-du. Say Nyo-mong.

Nyo-mong. Du. Du.

Which is? Nyo-mong-ki-du. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, there's this big debate in the scriptures. And I'm not going to do the whole debate. But there's like four different positions on when do you defeat this demon?

At what stage? Let's say, in the past, Sa-lam-ki-Nam-ja. In the system of the Bhumis and the past.

When is it that you actually defeat this demon? Mi-lo-blom. Yeah, Mi-lo-blom.

As you go into the fifth path. Reaching the fifth path and defeating this demon are simultaneous. What about Bodhisattva levels?

Huh? Eighth. Eighth level.

Okay, eighth. You actually reach what's Nirvana for the other tracks on the eighth Bodhisattva level. And then you use nine, ten, or nine or however you want to count it as overcoming obstacles to omniscience.

Okay? But you destroy your last mental affliction before you get enlightened. You see?

If you follow the ten paths, the ten Bodhisattva-Bhumi system. Because the final mental affliction is what? According to the higher schools.

Subtle ignorance. Ignorance. Not understanding the thing about projections.

You see? So, you know, some lower systems don't even say that that's a mental affliction. And the definition of it in the twelve links is that it's not a mental affliction.

You know, that it's a cause for mental affliction but it's not a mental affliction. And then there's a whole long debate. But anyway, you stop seeing things self-existently forever at the eighth Bodhisattva-Bhumi.

Okay? So there's this whole debate. You know, like Je Tsongkhapa says in his Serteng, which is his book on the perfection of wisdom.

It's like this thick. He wrote it when he was very young. Like, I think he was thirty-something.

And then later he kind of said, I wrote it a little too quick or something like that. You know, like later he kind of implied that, I mean, it's known among galukpas that that book has a few positions that are a little bit touchy. No one's going to say Je Tsongkhapa made a boo-boo.

But they would say Je Tsongkhapa himself said, I did that sort of roughly and you guys have to, you know, expand on that as you go. You know, he said that. So anyway, this is the position in his book called The Golden Rosary, Serteng, is that actually that demon must have got defeated before.

Because you get rid of it at the eighth bodhisattva bhumi. You don't have to wait to get enlightened to get rid of that demon. What's the second demon?

Say, Chidu. Chidu.

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Chidu.

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What's Chi?

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Death.

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Yeah, demon of death. At what point do you become immortal? You see, at what point do you stop the death process?

And Je Tsongkhapa says something interesting. He says, you know, you could say first bodhisattva level. Okay.

Well, that's one point. That's a good point. That's a really good point.

But even if you don't buy that, well, the causes of death have been, you're not going to collect any new causes for death, which is why you can say seven lifetimes. You see? Then you can say, I know it's going to be seven lifetimes of life.

Like, I'm in fat city for my whole life. Fat city. No worries.

Seven lifetimes at the most. You can always say that if you can be absolutely sure that you will never collect any karma to be reborn or die again. You see what I mean?

Maybe you've got to work off what you had, which is not much, left after billions and countless lifetimes. But, but as far as the future, you're not collecting any new. And then he said, you know, but you can say when he got enlightened he overcame the demon of death in the sense that he wouldn't even take seven more lifetimes or anything.

He's just finished. So, there's that argument. When do you defeat the demon of death?

You can say it either way. What's the third one? Say, Pumbaa?

What's that? Yeah, meaning impure mental state. Mental and physical parts of you.

Impure mind, impure body. You know, body which can die, mind which has any kind of impurity. And that you can pretty much throw into what?

As far as time, when you get rid of it. When you defeat this demon. Like what stage?

Yeah, Buddhahood. You can say Buddhahood or you can say first on the same idea, but most scriptures say Buddhahood. You know, your transformation into the body of light, the tantric transformation.

And by the way, you should know, okay, every tantric text says, all Buddhists get enlightened with Tantra. You know, nobody uses the sutra way. Nobody gets enlightened with sutra way.

You know, sooner or later, if you talk about Tathagata Upacik, ultimately one path, everybody gets enlightened through Tantra. It's the only way. Everybody who ever got enlightened, got enlightened by practicing Tantra.

Be that as it may. Pumbudu. Okay.

Anyway, that's when your body changes into light. That's when you've overcome the demon of your impure heat. Okay.

This one is tough.

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No.

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No. Isn't instantaneous? No.

Right? I mean, that's why when you study Dzogchen scriptures, they've got that thing about your lama will come with a knitting needle and poke it into your arm to see how you're doing. You see?

How far is your body into the body of light? You see? Later.

You know. And you start to develop resistance to cold, heat, hunger, stuff like that. I mean, as your chakras start to perform better, as your channels open, then, you know, you're less, what do you call it, vulnerable to disease or pain or cold or hot.

So, from that, I would say, it's that final, final opening of the channels and withdrawal of the channels is gradual. So, Oh, I guess, I guess so, but they say don't count on it. Get it done now.

Yeah. But I guess if you did it, then you could, yeah, be faster. Say Hai, Hui, Hui, Dui, Dui.

This is a weird one. Like, if you ever see in a list, you say, what the hell is that? The demon of the divine youth.

Bu means kid, right? Tha means divine. The demon of divine youth.

And, this is a reference to a specific evil spirit called Garab Wangchuk, whose function is to dis, dis, what do you call it, interrupt you when you're defeating the other three demons. Like, any time you're getting close to defeating the other three demons, Garab Wangchuk just wakes up and starts to bug you. Try to get your mind off it.

You know, I was reading, who is that? My favorite Christian author. Who is that?

C.S. Lewis. Yeah. He's like, he describes the Garab Wangchuk in my mind, you know, he's like, they'll be sophisticated, they'll be in New York, they'll be taking you out to, just at the moment when you're about to do your yoga practice and like, you want to go to Starbucks?

You know, and you're just like, you know, and they don't have horns and they don't have a tail and they don't have a pitchfork but they're like, hey, let's go out and have some coffee, you know, and you're like, and you're just about to turn around and walk into your room to do your yoga or your meditation and they're like, hey, let's go to a Starbucks. Yeah, let's go, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about some, this movie that's out or something, you know, and they just, they just, that's Garuda Wangchuk. And so it's an archetype, you see?

It's not like there's one guy named Garuda Wangchuk, it's just that, that this one is bugging you all the way up to Buddhahood. This one's job is when you get close to, to beating up one of the other three demons, he steps in and distracts you, okay? So you can call it the demon of distraction or something like that, okay?

That's his name. Okay, we're good, we've finished the demons now and we're going to go back to the twelve deeds. Oh, and I like this one.

Some of the demons picked up mountains and threw it at him. Other demons took up, had special, like, machines and, like, laser guns or something, you know, and tried to use them on him. And others took up swords or shot arrows at him and they all turned into flowers before they reached him.

Okay, you know that story. Okay, When they couldn't succeed with the violent methods, then the girl stepped in. Okay, and he names, like, five different beautiful ladies who came and tried to tempt Lord Buddha into getting distracted, don't we?

Okay, then he uses a special meditation that's in the Abhidharma called ugly meditation, and he, like, it's like, meditates on them as rotten bodies and maggots, like, eating out their insides and then he's like, no thanks, no thanks. Okay, then somebody other, the last demon comes and says, it's not possible to get enlightened, you know, like doubt, like doubt comes. Like, you never hear about the last one, you know, but the last demon is like doubt.

Doubt comes and says, I just don't think anyone could collect that much good karma, you know, to change your body into light, you know, I don't think you could do it, you know, I just don't think it's possible. And Lord Buddha says, how did you become a deity, you know, how did you become like a god-bound person? And he says, I made a high offering to a high being, you know, so Lord Buddha's like, I've done that hundreds of thousands of times, no problem.

Okay, like, it's interesting, you know, he doesn't talk about emptiness, karma, he's saying, I have shown devotion to my lamas, my, the, you know, countless times, so, don't worry about it, you know, kind of cool. Okay, then he lifts up his left hand, I'm sorry, his right hand, and he touches the earth. You see that with some Buddha images, right?

It's called the touching the earth gesture, and he's got, he just puts his hand down on the earth, like that, you know, and he says, this earth belongs to all people, all living beings, this earth belongs to all living beings. Gyu-dha-mi-gyu-nam-shing Nye-kun-me, the earth doesn't discriminate between the beings who walk on it, you know, it's not like it's softer for some creatures and harder for other creatures, right? Di-ni-da-ki-wang-te-dak-jun-me, and I am the lord of this whole earth, and I speak no lie.

Di-la-kye-ki-da-ki-wang-chu-shi, you belong to the earth, you belong to me. Like, he's talking to the demons, you know, I am now the lord of this earth, and you're under my power now, so cool your jets, you know, like he, you know, he's like, I'm the one, then it says, he struck the earth, you know, like that, like he's been saying that, and then he goes, bam, and there's this big earthquake among the whole universe, you know, like he's like, oh, I like that, anyway, then, a deity, a woman deity rises up out of the earth, a golden deity, up to her waist, out of the ground, and she says, you are it, and she goes back, she just disappears, you know, it's so cool, I like that, anyway, and everything you said is true. Oh, and then the demons sing him a song, which is in the sojong ceremony, and it's very beautiful, we memorize it, we do it twice a month in the monk's sojong ceremony, okay, and I like that song, but we don't have time to do the whole song, but I threw the whole thing in here for you, so that you know, you know.

What are we up to? Tenth deed? Turning the wheel of the Dharma.

So, in the 15th, the dates here are a little different, but anyway, I think it's a different month of counting, and we're saying, the Buddha stirs from his enlightenment, right, and he says, so, sab-si-trdha-u-sal-du-ma-che, it's deep, it's peace, it's beyond all self-existence, it's the clear light, it's the unchanging thing, and he just sits there for 49 days, you know, he doesn't move for seven weeks, because he thinks nobody will ever get it, you know, and that's the kind of, cool, you know, like he's describing emptiness, right, he's talking about emptiness, and he just says, nobody will ever get it, you know, and he's talking about Dharmakaya, he says, nobody will ever get it, so he just sits there, he's like, what's the use of trying to talk to anybody, so for 49 days, he sits there, okay. I like Sarah Judson, like, okay, you wanted this, right, I want to give you the whole thing, I think it'd be sad not to do the whole thing. He's got what he did on each week, okay, so here's what he did for each week.

During the first of the seven weeks, right, divine youths and maidens come and praise him and make offerings to him, okay. This is really cool. During the second week, he goes for a walk among the hundred thousand world systems, okay, I mean, a thousand, a thousand, right, from the diamond cutter, he goes for a walk, they use the word chakpa, which means he goes for a walk among a million world systems.

I like that. Third one, he sits in front of the Bodhi tree and stares at it without blinking. I mean, if you were there and you felt it, right, that was something, wow.

During the fourth week, he goes for a walk from the eastern ocean to the western ocean, of India, I presume, okay, to the two shores. During the fifth week, he goes to the land of the Nagas, which is supposed to be underground and they keep scriptures there and stuff like that, right. During the sixth week, he sits under a different tree, which is Nyagrodha, and I don't know why it's special, but he's into trees during this period.

In the seventh week, he sits under a different tree called the freedom tree, and I don't know what that is. Then it says here, in order to inspire the rest of us disciples in future generations, these great worldly deities like Brahma and Sakra, they appear before Lord Buddha. He says there are 68 times 100,000, whatever that is, yeah, 680,000, yeah, anyway, they appear and they appoint a representative and they offer Lord Buddha a wheel with a thousand spokes made of pure gold.

And they say, please teach, which represents the turning of the wheel, right. And they say, Sakra also threw in 50 gold mandalas that were 75 miles wide, okay, I don't know. Then on this fourth day of the month, which I already told you about, he goes to Varanasi or Benares, right.

If you've ever been there, I mean the energy is unbelievable. And he goes to the grove at Sarnath and he sits down and he teaches his first five students, who were the five tiger cubs, four cubs and mommy that he gave his body to before in a previous life. There are thrones set up there for the three previous Buddhas of this eon.

And he circles them and he bows down to them and then he sits on the fourth throne. And he starts to teach. So how old is he then?

He's 29 when he leaves the palace. He does six years of worthless practices. So he's 35 when he gets enlightened, okay.

Then it says he teaches for 46 years after that. So he enters his teaching career, which is 46 years. I always thought, I grew up as a Christian, I always thought that the New Testament for me was like a tantric thing.

It's so brief, it's almost impossible to follow. And then when I met Buddhism, we have, even now, which is only a tiny percentage of what Lord Buddha spoke, but we have 1,500 of his teachings extant in the cunger. So whenever I met Christians in my life, I'm like, you got the New Testament, which is about 30 pages of real teachings.

And we got, no, we're just fortunate. I mean, I'm not like saying, oh, we're better than you or something like that. I'm just saying, if Jesus had lived for 46 more years or whatever it is, and taught, we have this corpus, we have this huge body of explanation, which is really, really useful and really great to me.

So until he was 80, he taught. Normally they say 81. They count the time in the womb, which was 10 months.

So 81 is considered a very dangerous time for lamas. You know, like, Chidam Rinpoche passed away in his 81st year. And we were very worried when Rinpoche got to be 81.

But our karma seems to be good enough. I mean, we're really lucky we got through that time. Then they're careful to say he pretended to get, to go into parinirvana.

And they don't describe it much more than that. So we've finished the 12. And they quote the Golden Light Sutra that we taught in Mongolia, which is the biggest sutra for Mongolians.

Sāṅgīnyāṅga-nyoṅmin-dhā Buddhas never do parinirvana thing. Kṣīrkhyaṁ nūpa-miṅgirte And the dharma never ends. Sañjanāṅgī-duhe kṣīrya-nyāṅga-deva-tumbhadze But they pretend to die to help us realize impermanence.

And there was this big thing, right after the Buddha died, all his disciples were super respectful of each other for like 5 years or something. You know, like just the event was so shocking to everybody that they studied really hard for 5 years. Then it wore off and they started to have arguments again and stuff like that.

OK. And he says, what's he saying? Basically he says nobody's taught dharma like I'm going to teach it.

OK. All right. And every step he took the lotuses appeared.

Then he takes 7 steps to the south. And he says, I am worthy of offerings of all humans and gods. You know.

You want to give something away, give it to me. OK. Nupca-lasa-goma.

Then he took 7 steps to the west. And he says, jīgden dīna-nāni cok. This is very famous.

I was going to write it for you. Because it's it's in the sojong ceremony. And that's the last, last thing I promise.

dīna-nāni cok. Very, very famous words. Like we say them every time we do sojong.

We say this verse. And it's like nā means what? I.

And ni? I. Ni is like now.

I. OK. It's like now.

I. jīgden. In this world, dīna.

Cok. I'm the I'm the biggest thing in this world. Yeah.

It's like Muhammad Ali. You see. I'm the greatest.

You know. And it's something powerful. You know.

It doesn't seem like to me it doesn't seem like pride or arrogance. It's just like a statement. You know.

I'm the highest form of I am the highest being walking on this planet right now. Period. You know.

Period. And it's not like he's ashamed or embarrassed. And it's not like he's exaggerating.

He's just like on this whole planet I happen to be the highest being walking on it right at this moment. You know. And it's just very powerful to me.

You know. I just like when I hear that I'm like boom. You know.

OK. What's he got left to say? I don't know.

To the north he says Are we on the north yet? No. Sorry.

Are we? Right. He says this is my last birth.

I will have no birth old age death sickness or death. I've ripped it out out from the root. And he screams it with a lion's roar.

You know. Like he's not being shy. You know.

I am the highest of all living beings. OK. Like that.

He repeats that. Then he takes seven steps down. Like he's got to do the ten directions, right?

Like anyway he takes seven steps down and he says I I I will defeat all demons. You know. I will send down a rain of Dharma that will extinguish all the fires in the hell realms.

I'll make everybody happy. OK. And then the last thing he says is oh wait he takes seven steps up into the air.

Everyone will rise will raise their eyes. That's all. OK.

Everyone will look up. It reminds me of Kiran. He used to always do this thing to me.

When he was a little baby he'd always go like this. Everyone will will look everyone's eyes will rise to the sky. Something like that.

So we're done. Last last thing. This is now I'm just opening it for discussion.

Let's just go around. I'll choose people. OK.

We need twelve victims. Yeah. Oh.

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Sorry.

[Говорящий 1]
You know I think you know when Jesus when Jesus first came out he was in I think Galilee. Sorry. Nazareth.

And he came out and said I'm basically like I'm enlightened. You know. And he lost every disciple he had.

It's very interesting. And he's all depressed. And he comes home and he says to Matthew or somebody he says why are you hanging around?

Everybody's already left me. And he says where are we going to go? I'm sorry.

It's Peter. It's Petra, right? He says where are we going to go?

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You know.

[Говорящий 1]
Like everyone thinks you're crazy now. And everyone thinks you're having delusions of grandeur. and everyone left him.

Like all he had thousands of disciples they all left. They said now he's like flipped out. Now he's gone over the now he's gone overboard.

He thinks he's like this special thing. And they just left. And so he comes back he's got like five disciples that left.

And he's like why are you still here? And they said where are we going to go?

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You know. You know.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Something like that I think. And then the whole thing started again.

There was a whole other cycle and that's another story. But I want to ask each person to think carefully about the twelve deeds. And try to relate it to your life.

Why is each of the twelve deeds a personal message to your life? You know. And like what is the higher significance of the act of getting compassion and moving out of Ganden Paradise?

So I'll start with Dr. Stump. Which only your wife calls you that. But it's okay.

I can use it sometimes. Right? What is a metaphor for us?

What do you think?

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I would say it's renunciation. Giving back where we were samsara to where we want to go which is paradise.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Like give up what you had for something higher. Okay.

And I'll throw mine in. I think he's he's he's in he's set for himself. He's got everything he needs.

He's in his perfect place. Right? But he's it's like this Jesus thing in a way.

He's going to come down and try to relate to normal schmucks. You know? And I take it as a as a message that you know, you can stay here in Diamond Mountain.

This class is extremely enjoyable. I love to sit with my tantric students. We sit there and talk about tantra.

And you know it's just enjoyable. I don't need anything else. You know?

But maybe you get a wake-up call that says well, but you got to go out to other places. And you have to appear as other things to other people. You know like take on a normal human body and I just see it as like going to the prison.

We went yesterday. You know? Like there's no reason why Debbie By she could sit here and do Sanskrit with us.

And you know it's calm and we have nice food and we have orange juice and you know there's no trouble and there's no threat from anybody. And here she's going to a prison where people could get out and kill her. You know?

And and she does it. You know? I think it's like once you're set personally you got to go out.

And go to the world even when it's not so nice. Places that are not so nice. And people that are not so nice to be around maybe sometimes.

And take on their form. And relate to them. And that's that whole thing about and I call it market share.

If it's a business book write a business book. If it's a yoga book write a yoga book. If it's a about relationships then do something about relationships.

If it's about you know what I mean? Be be willing and able to appear in different forms to different people when they need it. You know?

Once you're set. You know? Core morph and core and morph.

It's got to become a a word. Core and morph. Once you have a solid core then go morph.

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You know?

[Говорящий 1]
And don't be shy about it. You know? I mean do whatever you have to do to appear to different people.

Don't be like hesitant. I mean Lord Buddha don't sit there in your own personal paradise and and not want to go out and talk to normal people in a normal way. Okay.

Debbie Byer what's the next deed? Going mother's womb. I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll the worldly arts.

[Говорящий 2]
I mean, live the way people live. Understand their problems. And that is very personal.

I was about 30. And then there was just no jobs. And I got all this great...

Do the career thing?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, I think so. I think it's just totally the career thing. And there's a time in your life, I think, like Lord Buddha is saying, on a tantric level, career and family are very tantric.

You know? Like, no problem at all. On a tantric level, career and family and children and all that, all those paths are very powerful ways of getting enlightened.

I think, for those of us who enter a career for worldly purposes, with a different motivation, not tantric. Tantric motivation is so par-shot. You know, let's set tantric motivation aside.

But most of us go through this thing from 25 to 45, where you're just so into your career. You know, like, you feel so powerful. Well, I mean, a lot of people.

If you've been in corporate life, it's very exciting. It's like, what do they call that? What do they call that drug in your...

It's adrenaline. Like 24-7 adrenaline, you know. Watch that millions of dollars flow, you know.

Watch that thousands of diamonds go out the door. Thousands of diamonds come in the door, you know. And you're like...

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Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Like, you're so into it, you know. And you don't come out of it.

It's like a dream that you don't come out of until you're 50 or something. Most people are 60, you know. Not just a wake-up.

You get fired as a senior manager and you're like trying to get a job at 60, you know. It's the career thing, I think. I think he's trying to say, watch out for the career thing, you know.

If it's a normal motivation... And it's so hard. Hardest people in the world to teach Dharma to are people that are in the middle of their career.

When they're in the middle of that power and that energy and that strength and that excitement and that adrenaline, it's so hard to talk to them, you know. I think that's why the Business Institute is so cool. Because we've been able to pluck a few people out of that who are still doing their career but now they're doing it in a tantric way, you know.

What's the next one? Fooling around with the ladies. Not that you'd do it, I'm just...

I like that, yeah. And in a way, I always told people that I was lucky because I didn't get ordained until I was 30. Like I had been through college before.

Normal college with girls and stuff and drugs. Not a lot of drugs, but... And then rock and roll and everything before I became ordained.

And I thought that somehow the monks in Tibet were at a disadvantage because they still thought there might be something there. So in a way, it's good to get it over. Have it and then give it up.

Experience it and explore it and see that it can't satisfy you. And then give it up. So, yeah, I think that's a very beautiful...

I think it's... And Sarah Judson was so careful to say that this was a very necessary step in the Twelve. You know?

He was so careful to say that. And I really believe that. The First Dalai Lama says sex and food are the main interests in the desire realm.

And then I believe that, that you have to overcome those two. You have to get over those two. You have to experience them and get renunciation.

Then leave them, right? So the next one is the obvious, Adriana. Yeah, I like that.

I like that. I like that. And then on a larger point that a lot of people I meet who are into their careers, intellectually they understand everything, but they have this fear of leaving their career.

Or dropping down to a lower position. Like, it wasn't so hard for me. I wasn't struggling between career and yogi.

I was struggling between vice president and manager. That was harder, you see? Because if I took my two months off retreat, I would get demoted to a manager.

And it was so fun being a VP. So, in a way, I think that's the willingness to leave behind what you could have been. A world emperor.

I could have been a world emperor. And then to give that up to be a normal schmuck and have 14 bosses above you in the career ladder. And being willing to become a corporate peon.

Knowing that what you're doing is more important. And having the strength to hold out. And say, okay, I'll make 50,000 less than I used to.

And I'll have 16 bosses that I don't like who are stupider than me. But it's worth it. And it's kind of a renunciation.

To be less than you could have been. I think that's the message of leaving the palace. Right?

If he had stayed, he would have become a world emperor. The willingness to be less than you could have been worldly. It's very hard.

It's really hard. When you get high up in the worldly system. What's the next one?

Rebecca. What's the message there? Sarah Judson said it a little bit.

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What? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Expect problems. Expect problems. You are working with the greatest...

Don't expect the demons to leave you alone. You will get major obstacles. And just when you think you're over one, then something worse will come.

No, really. And they get heavy, heavy. People dying.

People's lives being shattered. Heavy things to start to happen. You've got to expect it.

It will come. I think secondarily there... What was the other thing?

There was something else there. What was that? Oh, false paths.

You know, like paths that don't really work. Like, be careful. Don't waste your time.

Six years. You know, poking himself and putting fires on himself. Somebody at the prison ran up and gave me this article about some guy in another country that I won't name who got through of a seven year running program through the mountains of his country to prove that he's a worthy Buddhist monk.

And if he ever stops for more than 24 hours, he's sworn to disembowel himself. And this guy is unbelievably brave and glorious thing. And I'm like, this is perfect bullshit.

This is perfect thing that Lord Buddha said, don't get into that kind of stuff. And that's an extreme example, but there's other paths where you do the opposite and you're just like oming all day. And you're not doing anything.

You're not thinking about anything. I think there are these two extremes. And I think it's a message of check out the path you get into so you don't sit there for six years and then decide you made a boo-boo.

I think that's the second message for that one for me. What's the next one? Michael Moore.

[Говорящий 2]
Going to Bodh Gaya.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, going to Bodh Gaya. Some scriptures say going to Bodh Gaya. Some scriptures say sitting down in front of the tree.

[Говорящий 2]
He's gone through everything.

[Говорящий 1]
I mean, to me, I want to cry when I get to that point. He sits down and he says, either I make it here or I die here. That's so cool.

Like I'm afraid to talk about it because I'm afraid it might inspire me. I don't have all these bodies around. But he's like, I'm sitting down and I'm not getting up.

Death or enlightenment. And that's really cool to me. That seems really cool to me.

So yeah, it's the decision. I'm going to do it. Who's hiding?

I think Benjamin's really getting low down there. What's next? Yeah, that's all.

And I'd say, yeah, multiple forms. They come in multiple forms. Could be nice, could be not.

Could you see that as the mental afflictions you've generated through all the years? Oh, yeah, good point. I forgot to say something, which is very important.

There's demons on three levels. On a very Hinayana level. Lord Buddha shoots the light out from this thing here and destroys all these particular guys.

On a medium level, Lord Buddha defeats the four demons that I listed. Those are called the rough four demons. The gross four demons.

And then there's the four subtle demons. And they are basically all tied to different kinds of self-existent grasping. Seeing things as self-existent.

There's a subtle four demons that I didn't talk about. But they all relate to subtle forms of taking things as self-existent. So, yeah.

Very much that. Very much a more subtle level. I'm glad you reminded me.

Alison, did you do one? What's next? Yeah, I don't think it's...

Yeah, that's the most important thing to me. It's possible. Like, if he's already got enlightened, why didn't he just shoot down this world and start teaching?

You see? He could have done that. If he's been enlightened since 30,000 lifetimes or whatever before.

But he's like trying to make a point. You can do it, guys. Look, this is how you do it.

I think it's just a big cheerleader thing. Look, you can do it. It's possible.

Because there's lots of people who say that deathlessness is not possible. That's very common. Buddhism is rarely taught in those terms.

Very rarely. Will someone sell you Buddhism as more than something to be calm or friendly? And that's the real point of it, right?

OK, Catherine, next one.

[Говорящий 2]
The importance of going through all of the spiritual path to others? Yes. To help them eliminate the same sufferings?

[Говорящий 1]
I would only add one more thing and that Winston can certainly tell us due to his specialty. You mentioned the three wheels.

[Говорящий 2]
So we need to learn different explanations, doesn't it?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. That big deal, that big thing that they always make it plural. You see, in English they always translate it as turning the wheel.

It's not that. In Tibetan it's turning the wheels of the Dharma. So that it's very likely that you will have to morph in different forms to teach people.

And maybe even things that aren't strictly accurate at that time. I mean, you hear His Highness talk in Central Park even, it's quite different from Beacon Theatre, right? You can taste it there.

The gross difference between his presentation in Central Park and the one at the Beacon Theatre, right? It's extremely... He's so good at that, you know.

He'll just morph immediately to the audience, you see. Kimberly, last one. Then you get to have dinner.

I love it, yeah. That's what the homework master says for the last one. Things are not what...

You know, it's like the final statement that things may not be what they say. Alright, you're done. Sorry it went so long.

But to me, the whole thing came out like this one beautiful package, that whole twelve deeds, you know. And I think you can really teach it to others now in a complete way.

[Говорящий 2]
Satsang with Mooji Cool.

[Говорящий 1]
Really cool. Yeah, congratulations on your Tarantantra. Congratulations on your Tarantantra.

Really, really cool. Really cool. So start thinking of how to teach it, right?

And my idea is that because the classes were so spread out that we'll have two reviews. And, you know, we'll have a real chance to... And we don't know who's going to get the newbies.

So you got... They're not going to want to know about and all that stuff, you know. You know, you're going to have to adjust.

You're going to have to morph, right? So for the first review class, there'll be five people who are going to lead that class. Okay?

Five people are going to lead the first review. And then five people are going to lead the second review. I'd like you to base your leading...

And they'll just be like conversations that we just had. And since we didn't get to you guys, I suggest you guys be the ten, right? Five and five.

So first class Mercedes. Work from the homework master. Okay?

Chukula is authorized to give away all the homework masters as of today. Okay? Get the homework masters.

In lieu of readings, I couldn't finish... You will get the readings, but I'm just pumping them out as fast as I can. And we just had so much work in New York that I couldn't do it.

So I'll pump out as many as I can before the teaching, and I'll keep working on them very hard. Like I won't do anything else for that time. But you're going to lead the first class review.

And I suggest you restrict yourself to what's on the homework master. And then you'll do the second. No?

Anthony's second. Chukula third. Gail fourth.

Susan fifth. Okay. Earl sixth, which will be the next class, right?

Next one. Yeah, you start. You're going to be the leader of the class six review.

You want to do it, little one? You want to do this class, Ted, since you were here? No?

Or you don't feel comfortable enough?

[Говорящий 2]
I don't know.

[Говорящий 1]
I think you haven't been through a lot. Bonnie? Seven?

You comfortable with that? Will you be here?

[Говорящий 2]
That would be the Saturday. That would be the Saturday?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And then Dr. Stone? Eight?

Debbie nine? Jim ten? Good.

Oh, Doug didn't get one. Do you mind if I give Doug ten? Is that cool?

Okay, so Doug's got ten. So you're going to lead it from the homework master. The master has like a long paragraph for every answer.

And I think we'll just work with that because that's all the time we'll have. And that's it. I'll tell you which of the questions are on the final during the first review.

So we'll do that.