Занятие 1, часть 2

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we'll start again. I'm going to go half an hour late, if you guys don't mind. If anyone has to go home, just get up and go and I won't be offended.

That's all right. Here we go. SOGS SOGS GRIB BYANG GI RGYU MIN PA DANG This is an important word.

Say MIN PA. MIN PA means to bring a thing to ripening. To bring a thing to ripening.

I installed this carob tree in my backyard. It's too cold for them to grow right now. The florist, what do you call it?

The gardening guy told me, I have to string Christmas lights on it all year and then maybe it won't die. So I'm MIN PA. That's MIN PA.

MIN PA means to bring the fruits to ripening. The carob pods are being MIN PA by the Christmas tree lights on the trunks all year. RGYU MIN PA If you don't ripen your heart, if you don't bring your heart to ripening by doing SOGS SOGS GRIB BYANG, getting rid of old bad karma and collecting new good karma.

If you fail to do that and if you GZU BA THABS PA'I RGYUN BSLAB ZHUGS PA MED PAR If you don't ask for blessing, if you don't ask your teacher for blessing, those three steps, which is going to be the theme for this week pretty much. If you fail to do those three, MIG RNAMS KYONG BA LA TSUN KHUL BYAS Say TSUN KHUL BYAS. The KHUL means, not what it means in Berlin, KHUL.

What the hell? KHUL means you can pretend to practice the Lam Rim. TSUN means make efforts.

KHUL means you can say you're practicing the Lam Rim. That always implies some negative thing coming. KHUL always implies something negative coming.

You can say you're practicing Lam Rim. You can say you are meditating on all the steps of the Lam Rim, but, okay, there's the KYANG, but THOB PA SKYE BA LA BZHIN DU BOS You might get some realizations, but they will be BZHIN DU. What's BZHIN DU?

Very BOS. BOS means slow. BOS means they will come very slow.

ZHING And RGYUD MIN NA Now he's going to say what happens if you do the opposite. If you open your heart first before you meditate. If you open your heart first before you meditate.

How? Those three steps. Get new good karma, cancel the old bad karma, and ask your teacher for help.

If you ripen your heart, if you open your heart in this way, ZHING MIN NA, RGA TSE BLA MI THOB PA means without any big difficulty, THOB PA, you will get spiritual realizations. SKYE NYUR BA They will come fast. They will come fast.

What's a typical spiritual realization that he's talking about? You will become smilish. Don't think you got to fly in the sky or something like that.

You will be on an airplane or you'll walk down the street and you will smile at people. And that's a spiritual realization. Don't think it has to be like flying in the sky or something like that.

Which is more pleasant than flying in the sky, actually. ZHING DU BU BA DANG, RGA TSE NYUR BA Now, RGYUN MIN PA means so practicing the garden of karma, SOGS SHING, which we're going to talk about. Practicing the garden of karma has a ripening effect in two directions.

It ripens your negativities and it ripens your positive qualities. What's it mean to ripen a negativity? I was telling John and Carol, I was in the, where were we?

We were in Guadalajara. The first time we went and gave a program there, 30 people came. The second time, 1,000 people came.

And it felt like if I said, let's have another Mexican revolution, they would do it. And I was actually a little frightened. They were too excited.

And I was like, this could get out of control. And I thought, I thought this is going to create some karmic backlash. I felt like something big negative thing is going to happen.

And then we had some very negative events happen. But I felt like it was that the power of the good karma was so high that it triggered some old negative karmas that all together, in a big group of negative karmas got triggered. And I felt it happening that night.

And then it happened within a week. So I was like, wow. So there are, the practice of step four of the six preliminaries is meant to trigger your negative karmas and trigger your positive karmas.

Get rid of the negative karmas quickly and build up positive karmas much more strongly. So they compare it. There's a metaphor.

We're starting a metaphor here. GYUN MIN PA What does it mean to trigger your negative karmas? The idea of triggering a negative karma is that it's not allowed to ripen at its own pace.

You trigger it early and you get some sort of big negative thing and then it's all over and then things skyrocket. That's the theory behind the four powers also. You cannot destroy a negative karmic seed.

You can only make it go off early and in a short disastrous thing. And then things will go much bigger after that. That's in the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

Diamond Cutter Sutra says that. And he compares it to waiting for a blister or a pimple to, I don't know about you, but I lived near here when I was a teenager and I was going to school and I spent much of my morning doing my pimples. And there were fresh pimples and there were old pimples and there were ripe pimples in the middle.

And you don't squeeze a pimple too early. You have to wait a couple of days and then you squeeze it. Somehow this guy reminds me of Haggerty.

I'm sorry. No, just the guy. I don't know why.

Because you look so young all the time. But anyway, I don't know. I assume you also had a teenagehood and you would work on your pimples in the morning before you went to school and some are just, they hurt, but there's no pus yet.

You leave those alone. And then there's ones where the pus has all, it's all ready and then you pop them, right? And then there's ones that are old already and there's nothing to pop.

So the metaphor here, I didn't make it up, okay? SKYE MIM PA GNOG MIM PA GNOG MIM PA means the pus is ready to pop. Meaning you've got some negative karmas, you're undertaking some huge good karma and there will be some sort of little karmic backlash.

A short, very disastrous period in which many karmas ripen and then you're done with them. This is my, I get to show off my, me and Nick have, come here. We were, okay?

So I was playing at the Philharmonic Hall jazz in Bulgaria at the National Philharmonic Hall. We played a jazz concert and it was really cool. So I got it that way.

You got it playing bass, playing bass with Jonny O, but it seems to have happened at the same time. So we are waiting for the blood blister to pop. I mean, it didn't pop.

Mine's just getting hard. I don't know about yours. So it's past the time of NGAG MIM PA.

Here's the Tibetan. NGAG MIM PA means, and then DUL means to pop it. NGAG MIM PA DUL means to pop it when it's got the most juice.

LA BA means it's easy. You got to wait on a pimple till it's ready. How do you get the pimple of your bad karmas ready?

You SOGS SOGS GYIBS BYANG GSUM DANG. You do these two practices. Then your bad karmas are ready to pop.

On the positive side, YIN RTEN MIM PA means your good qualities are getting, we have a, Rebecca has prepared a video for you. Done again, sorry. So the idea is in the text it says, YIN RTEN MIM PA, when your good qualities are ready to pop, SHING RTOG means a fruit, like an apple or a pear or a plum.

It's called SHING RTOG. MIM PA means when it's ripe. RANG ZHUGS KYI means of its own power.

Of its own power. The word ZHUGS means vega in Sanskrit. It's the name of a deity, a protected deity called ZHUGS BSTAN, which is the bad guy protected deity which we're not involved with in any way, but his name is ZHUGS BSTAN.

ZHUGS BSTAN means who possesses power. Here RANG ZHUGS means when the fruit is ripe. RANG ZHUGS KYI SA LA STONG means it will fall on the ground of its own accord, on its own power.

When the fruit is ripe, it will fall. Meaning, if you learn these premeditation practices, then when you do your meditation, stuff will happen because the energy is ripe. You ripen your soul by doing these practices.

SA LA STONG ZHING LONG CHOS DE RUNG BA means and then you can buy it. Then you can eat it. You know...

I'm not going to go into it. What's LONG CHOS PA'I DGUS? LONG CHOS PA'I DGUS Yeah, DGUS.

What's LONG CHOS PA in Sanskrit? Sambhogakaya. Sambhogakaya.

The body of the Buddha in their paradise. The paradise body is called LONG CHOS PA'I DGUS. But in colloquial, LONG CHOS means to enjoy a fruit or to eat a fruit like that.

So here we see it here. LONG CHOS DE RUNG BA means it's ready to eat. So if you learn to do the practice that we're going to teach this week, then your meditations, your soul will ripen quickly and stuff will happen.

There will be some burning of bad karma off and then the good karmas will multiply wildly. Like that. BYAS TSON SKABS PA CHEN PO'I KYANG BYAS TSON SKABS PA Can you pull up Ulka?

Do you have an Ulka picture? There you go. This is a place called Ulka.

This is a modern picture of a place called Ulka. BYAS TSON SKABS PA went there. He practiced in caves near Ulka.

This is Ulka Chulung. This is the Ulka River. He practiced near there at a certain point in his life.

RANG CHAG LA DAM PA'I PHYIR Just in order to give us an example, which implies what? He didn't need to. I mean, he's already enlightened.

But RANG CHAG LA DAM PA means, that's the DAM PA and KA DAM PA in order to instruct us. ULKA CHULUNG DU CHAG He went to Ulka Chulung, which is a certain place, and CHAG. He did CHAG.

Means what? E'E. CHAGS KYANG He did prostrations.

And MANDUL. When it's a small N and a small D, you have to retroflex it. Retroflex means the tongue turns back and the tip of the tongue goes through the top of the mouth, which makes you sound like an Indian.

Because they are retroflexing all their words. So try it. Put your tongue, touch the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth, in the middle, and then try to talk.

Then that's how to pronounce mandala. It's not mandala or something. Mandala or pandita.

Hatha yoga. These are all retroflex. CHAGS KYANG MANDUL SOGS He, who?

He. Je Tsongkapa went to Ulka. He did SOGS BYANG.

He did what we're talking about. SOGS means SOGS SOGS. Collected new good karma.

DRIB BYANG. Purified his old bad karmas. And he did it LHAS PA BYAS.

LHAS PA BYAS. LHAS PA BYAS means big wave in the ocean. But in Tibetan it came to mean high, what do you call it?

High efficiency. High productivity. A scythe is not considered LHAS PA BYAS.

A threshing machine that does a quarter mile at a time is called LHAS PA BYAS. So it means, Tibetans say big wave. But it means highly productive.

He did mandala offerings and he did prostrations. LHAS PA BYAS. DZAD PA NA THAG PA YAMS SE NGOS BZHEL GZIGS TE Next, there's one of a painting.

I think it's 93A5. Yeah, this scene is, I took the scene out of the Tanka, okay? I cut the scene out of the Tanka.

This is a famous event in Je Tsongkapa's life. He had a vision of five of the greatest teachers of emptiness in history. He talked to them.

He met with them. He went into this long vision of five of the greatest teachers of emptiness. And because of that vision, it is said, he saw emptiness directly.

What triggered the vision was lots of ordinary little practices like mandala offerings or doing prostrations. SOGS SOGS GYIBS BYUNG He did SOGS SOGS GYIBS BYUNG. Then he went into meditation.

He had a vision of the five greatest lamas in history of emptiness and then he saw emptiness directly. They say. THAG PA YAMS SE NGOS BZHEL GZIGS TE DE'I SNANG GI SANGS RGYAS KYANG GI BRAL PA BUDDHA PALI STE RGYAGS PA'I CING GI BSLAB PAS ZIGS RNAMS CHUNG BA One of the lamas that he saw was called SANGS RGYAS KYANG.

SANGS RGYAS KYANG is a translation of a Sanskrit name. SANGS RGYAS means Buddha. KYANG means protector or palita, palita.

This is Buddha Palita. He wrote a famous, by the way, the root PA as a protector came into English in the word pastor, meaning a protector of the flock. So Buddha Palita means the protector, Buddha protector.

He wrote a famous book called Buddha Palita. For some reason, they called the book just his name. It's like Shakespeare writing a play called Shakespeare.

So there's a famous book, the most famous book by Buddha Palita is called Buddha Palita. To avoid the translation in this particular Lam Rim, Pabongka Rinpoche has used his Tibetan name, SANGS RGYAS KYANG. Rather than saying Buddha Palita wrote Buddha Palita, he's saying SANGS RGYAS KYANG wrote Buddha Palita.

Okay, got it. Buddha Palita. If you want to know the whole history, which you probably don't, but I don't care.

Nagarjuna wrote the root verses on wisdom. He wrote a book called Wisdom. It's just called Wisdom.

Then that was interpreted by Buddha Palita in a certain way, correctly. Then along came this guy named, what's his name? SANGS RGYAS KYANG, Baba Viveka.

He criticized Buddha Palita and said he didn't get it right. Then a famous writer named Chandrakirti came along and criticized Baba Viveka for criticizing Buddha Palita who interpreted Nagarjuna correctly, who explained the Buddha. Okay, got it?

It doesn't matter. So in the vision, which was triggered by TSUL BSLAG SGRIB BYANG CING GI BSLAB, was triggered by the three practices we're going to learn this week. That's what triggered this vision of the five great lamas of emptiness.

And in particular, Je Tsongkapa saw Buddha Palita. RGYAL PA'I RGYAL here means RGYAL NAG, the wide black country. China is called the wide black country in Tibetan.

India is called RGYAL GAR, the wide white country. Because these were two vast countries on either side of Tibet and people in India mostly wore white cotton and people in China mostly wore black cotton. So Tibetans came to call China wide black and they called India wide white.

Here they just say wide, but you have to know, you have to read his biography. It was wide black. He saw the Chinese version of Buddha Palita.

I don't know why, but I think it's significant for us. Je Tsongkapa had a vision of Chinese. Or maybe it was the Sanskrit, I'll check.

Actually, I think it was the Sanskrit. He saw it in the sky. It is the Sanskrit, I'm sorry.

He saw it written across the sky. He saw that Sanskrit written across the sky. And CING GI BSLAB PAS, he got blessed by that SIG SNANG.

SIG SNANG means a vision, mystical vision. CHUNG BA, happened to him. DE NYIN BYAL PA BUDDHA PALITA SIGS BSDOD CHUNG BA BZHIN Then he came out of the vision and he said, dang, maybe I should read that book.

He saw Buddha Palita written across the sky. It's in Sanskrit. I remember now, it's in Sanskrit.

And then he got this idea, oh, maybe I should read that. Maybe it's a sign I should finally read that book. So he did.

SIGS PA'I RAB RJE CHOG RGYAS PA'I THAD DU Around the 18th chapter. Meaning Buddha Palita's commentary on the 18th chapter of Nagarjuna, which relates to the two kinds of no-self. People and things.

People and things. RGYUR BA'I LTA BA THAL RGYUR BA'I LTA BA PHYIR MA MED PA RTOG PA'I TSUL BRTAN He pretended. TSUL BRTAN means he pretended to get it.

To get emptiness. He pretended to have. And many people say that with a direct perception of emptiness.

He pretended to go into the direct perception of emptiness. When he reached Buddha Palita's explanation of the 18th chapter of, how many chapters in? Is it 27, I think.

I think it's 27. DE PA NI NGAR ZIGS SIGS PA YIN KYANG He had read that particular section over and over again in the past. The 18th chapter.

He had read it many, many times. But, KYANG, DE REG TUG RGYU MIN PAS But because his heart was open, because his heart was ripened, because his pimple was juicy, DE DAG RTOG PA'I TSUL BRTAN PA YIN He pretended that he had a breakthrough. He pretended to have a breakthrough.

The point was, according to the highest vision of who Je Tsongkapa was, he was pretending to have his first direct perception of emptiness. After doing these little offering things and requests, after doing what we're going to learn this week, his spirit was ripened far enough to have the direct perception of emptiness. So, Pabongka Rinpoche is trying to sell us on step four.

He's trying to say, look, step four is not some little dinky thing that you do with your fingers. This is a very high practice. Je Tsongkapa himself had a breakthrough because of it.

We're going to go for another 10 or 15 minutes. I'm sorry to keep you, but I don't get to do real scripture except four times a year, and I'm hungry for it. DE BZHIN DU DANG PO KHO MA'I RNAM DANG MANG PHYIN There are many examples of the same sort of event in the NAM THAR.

NAM THAR means total freedom. THAR PA, you know, like moksha. There's a printing press in England called THAR PA.

They misspelled it, the name of their own printing press, THAR PA, which makes you wonder about the books. But anyway, NAM THAR means biography. So a hagiography, the biography of a saint in Tibetan is called liberation.

The word for the biography of a saint is called liberation. So you got to be careful when you hit that word. NAM THAR means the biography of a saint.

KHO MA means of the past. DAM PA means holy beings of the past. So there are many accounts of the same thing happening to great saints of the past.

What? Of what? They did step four and it triggered the perception of emptiness.

People are always coming up to me and saying, how can I see emptiness directly? Half the retreatants ask me that every time I go. Then they would say, do your step four.

Clean out your old bad karma. Collect new good karma. Ask your teacher for help.

ZHING RANG RE'I CHU RGYUD DI RANG RE'I CHU RGYUD DI BYAS KYANG SANGS RTEN ZIN GYIS So there was a Lama in our own lineage, right? What is our own lineage? The lineage of Je Tsongkapa called Gelugpa, the way of virtue.

Gelug means the way of virtue. I think I have a picture of Tenzin. Yeah, Kelsang Tenzin, 93A6, you guys.

Hang on. He's the one on the right. I think.

Yeah, he's the one on the right. This is where they get generic and they all look the same. So anyway.

Kelsang Tenzin. So there was a Lama named Kelsang Tenzin. NYIN GCIG BDAG PO BRUNG BAR One day he was at a place called BDAG PO BRUNG BAR.

MTHONG MCHOG LA PHAS PA MTHONG MCHOG means town. MTHONG means ritual. Town ritual means, I used to do them all the time in New Jersey in the Mongolian community and they would call the temple and they'd say, on Saturday we'd like to invite all the monks over for lunch and can you read the Diamond Cutter Sutra out loud for the family?

So you all go there. I remember when I learned, this is how I learned the Diamond Cutter Sutra because Mongolians like it to be recited at MTHONG MCHOG. So we would go to the family's house.

They would serve us Russian delicacies like borscht, piles of cabbage, gefilte fish, sour cream, other yummy stuff. And then we were expected to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra. And then Rinpoche would divide it up between five of us and at the same time we would recite five different parts of the Diamond Cutter Sutra out loud.

And it was like really weird. And I never got the whole thing because he wanted to get home. So anyway, that's a MTHONG MCHOG.

But that's how I learned the Diamond Cutter Sutra. PHRAD PAR, they went to MTHONG MCHOG together to somebody's house. BYAS KYANG SANGS RGYAS GRUB LA I believe he's on the left.

Can you go to the left? Oh, that's Khyel Tsong Tenzin. Can you go to the right again?

Yeah, RGYAS GRUB. Yeah, that's his teacher. So those are, I thought you'd like to see that they were carved together on the same page, meaning that they were, they came after each other.

LA SPAD LO RGYU ZHIG GYUR ZHOG So the teacher, who was Khyel Tsong Tenzin, told his student, who was Khyel Tsong RGYAS GRUB, he said, could you bring a book that we could recite at the family's house? LO RGYU means one which we can read out loud. GYUR ZHOG means bring it.

GSUNGS PAR, he said that, KHA DAM BYAS DU ZHIG BU BAS So there's a book called, the book which was cherished by the Kadampas. And it's called KHA DAM BYAS DU. DU means a compendium.

BYAS means cherished. KHA DAM means Kadampa. So this has a compendium of teachings which were cherished by the earliest Buddhists of Tibet.

You are like the Kadampas of the West, the first generation. BU BAS So he offered that, he brought that book along to be recited. DE NANG GI LO SBYONG GYUR RGYAL MED DOR BYED RLU YANG SIGMA THAG Then there was a LO SBYONG inside of that anthology of Kadampa text.

There was a LO SBYONG written by a Lama named Gyergong. So I have a Gyergong picture for you. That's Gyergongpa.

That's Gyergongpa. He was one of the Kadampas. He wrote a book called, DOR BYED RLU YANG, The Song of the Diamond.

He wrote a book called, The Song of the Diamond. When the Lama saw the book, he opened up the book, he saw the first page, CHAM CHUG GI SEMS SPYOD MIN THUG RGYUD LA GRUNG He had a direct experience of bodhichitta in that instant. He opened up the book, he saw the first page of this LO SBYONG.

LO SBYONG means a short text for opening your heart. LO SBYONG Like LO SBYONG TSIG RGYAS MA is what? What's LO SBYONG TSIG RGYAS MA?

The eight verses. The eight verses. LO SBYONG So this is another LO SBYONG called, The Diamond Song by Gyergong.

The minute he saw the book, he had an experience of bodhichitta sitting there probably eating borscht at some Mongolian family's house. But he looked at the book and he had a, he went into a vision of a perfect world of total love. Bodhichitta.

PHYI NGIN SBYOR CHOS GSUM BDEBS SKABS The next day, he got to the preliminary practice where you ask your lamas for help. GRO KUN ZAS BA'I RJES DZIN DGE BA CHEN You are the one who out of love takes after you every living being. He reached that line.

Where are we? GRO KUN ZAS BA'I RJES DZIN DGE BA CHEN BYOS PA NA'ANG Even just hearing the name of the author of that text, NA'ANG PHYAL GCOG TSA LING LING BYAS SU He would get a mystical experience of heat here on his forehead. This is called PHYAL GCOG.

He would get some kind of throbbing heat at his forehead. Just hearing the name of this saint. PHYAL GCOG DE NA RGYUD MIN PA NA RGYEN DRANG MO LA BRTEN NAS RTOG PA So if your heart has been opened by doing the six preliminary practices, then just looking at the cover of a book can trigger high realizations in you.

He's talking about a pimple which is ready to pop. Or an apple which is so ripe it has fallen on the ground. DRANG MO LA BRTEN NAS Hey, we have five more minutes, hang in there.

If I don't fall asleep after all this jet lag, you can hang in there. But it's easier to talk than sit. I know that.

RTOG PA BLO MO RIGS KYI BA LA BRTEN ZIN So if you do these preliminary steps, you can have instantaneous realizations just sitting at some Mongolian's house eating lunch and looking at the cover of the book. BDUL BA'I ZHAL NAS KYANG So there was a Lama named KUN KHYEN BDUL PA SHES RAB GYAL TZIN. Say KUN KHYEN BDUL PO SHES RAB GYAL TZIN He used to say, SHAR LA TSOGS SOGS DANG BRDZOD PA BYUNG Just by the way, along with your other practices, if you can do some TSOGS SOGS, collect good karma.

If you can do some BRDZOD PA BYUNG, wipe out your old bad karma. And LHAG DANG LAMA LA SOGS DBANG BDEBS If you can ask your Lamas and your angels for help. ZHING ROL If you can do that at the bottom of your heart.

And BYAS NAS NEN DANG GIS BSAM NA Then if you go into some kind of meditative state, contemplation, BLO RGYAL YANG MI SKYE NYAMS PA ZHIG There can be a realization which you expected to take you a hundred years to reach, but DU BYED SONGS LA MI GDUG PA This is a difficult expression. Those of you who are learning Tibetan, very, very, very rare and very difficult expression. DU BYED means...

What's that mean, DU BYED? DU BYED MI BDAG PA DU BYED means anything which has been produced by causes. For example, a marriage.

For example, your health. Those are things which have been produced by causes. A marriage or your health.

A relationship or your health. SONG NA means original condition and it's an extremely difficult word and rare word. SONG NA means the original condition.

SONG NA MI GDUG means they don't stay there. Health, a relationship, income, they don't stay there. Why?

You have a debit card. When you met your husband or your wife, you had a huge charge on your debit card and every additional year that you stay with them is very expensive and the debit card runs out. SONG NA MI GDUG PA means nothing stays the same.

That's the nature of the karmic seeds that are creating a relationship. Or which are creating your body's health. They will fall apart.

The relationship will fall apart. The health will fall apart, inevitably. SONG NA MI GDUG It cannot stay the same because it's a product of other circumstances.

Unless you renew the seeds, but that's another story. Left by itself, all things will age. SONG NA MI GDUG PA'I CI ZHIG LTAR LA SKYE BA YIN No obstacle can stay forever.

If you apply these practices, it doesn't matter how obstinate your spirit is, things will change. Things cannot stay the same. He's talking about it in a positive way.

None of your problems or none of your obstacles can stay the same. They must change, especially if you do these practices. SONG NA MI GDUG PA'I CI ZHIG LTAR LA SKYE BA YIN THAMS PA KHO MED MED NA GYI GSUNGS RGYUN DU'ANG You also see in the sayings of our great lamas of the past, SOGS SOGS MED NA LEN MED SA BON DRA I think you have a LEN MED SA BON, Ji-May.

It's seeds which are still dry. Something like that. There you go.

This is where Rebecca chose it. It's hard to find, right? A seed which has never been moistened.

He says a seed which has never been moistened. If you don't go to the garden, then it's like you have all these seeds inside of you but there's no water. You can keep those seeds for 10 years and nothing's going to happen.

If a seed doesn't get wet, nothing will happen. LEN MED SA BON DRA ZHIG GSUNGS PA LTAR SA BCANG RNAMS SOGS DANG PA DE BZHIN DU RGYAL CHE Therefore, it's very important for all of us to do these practices of collecting new good karma and cleaning out our old bad karma. DRA SA CHEN PO I'll do one more sentence.

DRA SA SA means a place. PLA SA means what? The place of the gods, Los Angeles.

PLA SA literally means Los Angeles. DRA SA means a place where dravas live. What's a drava?

Monk, it's the modern word for a monk. What's the old word? GELONG BIG ZHU The new word is, for the last 800 years, is DRA BA.

DRA means a fence or an enclosure. DRA BA means somebody who lives in a cloister, cloistered person. DRA SA means a cloister.

DRA SA CHEN PO In the great cloisters, which refers to three usually, Sera, Ganden, and Debu. Sometimes you can add DRA ZHIG BUM PO. TSOS PA KHO NA BYAS PA MIN We don't just TSOS PA.

What's TSOS PA? Debating. TSOS PA means, literally it means arguing, but in a DRA SA it means debating.

KHO NA means just debating. MIN BYAS PA MIN What's that mean? We don't just debate.

TSOG DANG PHYIR DRA SOGS SU In the TSOG, meaning in the big assemblies of monks, and PHYIR DRA means the debate ground. There it is spelled out. The colloquial is PHYIR DRA.

The literary is PHYIR DRA. SOGS SU, GZHAN DON MANG DU GSUNGS GZHAN DON What's GZHAN DON? SVABDYAYA In the Yoga Sutra.

They mistranslate it. Every person I've ever seen translate it, mistranslate it. SVABDYAYA It's one of the...

Yeah, yeah. The word is study yourself. So everybody translates it as study yourself, but it means to recite scripture and to memorize and recite scriptures.

SVABDYAYA It's one of the... What do you call those things? Yamas and Niyamas.

It's one of the Niyamas, I think. And everybody mistranslates it. SVABDYAYA just means to memorize books and recite them.

KHAT DON is the non-honorific. GZHAN DON is the honorific. Again, Pabongka Rinpoche is using high honorific to refer to people who are zillions of levels below him.

He's saying, all of you honorable monks, when you go to the debate ground, when you go to the debate ground at Seramay, what's the first thing you do? You sit down and recite the Heart Sutra 21 times in a row. ,RTEN RGYAS BDAG GI DUG PA'I DU BYAS NA, ,BYANG RDZIN PA'I YAB PA'I DGRAB PA DANG, ,'DAN NEN PO DON PAR DAG GIS DO NYID KYIS NAS, ,DRAG TU DU BYAS DGYI YANG DE BYAS, ,DANG RAB TU'I RIM PA DGYIS PO RIM PA'I DU BYAS, You go really fast, but you have to do it 21 times.

Then you have to recite all the prayers of Dukkhar, tantric deity. Then you sit there. The first hour and a half in the debate ground is reciting prayers and it drives everybody crazy and they go to the debate master and say, Why can't we just debate?

Why do we have to sit here doing these prayers? Pabongka Rinpoche here says, that's why we do the prayers. We want to, if you give me the right answer, you can go home.

We want to get the pus, we want to bring the pus out so we can pop it. Got it? We don't just go and start debating.

You have to prepare your soul before you debate. You have to prepare your heart before you can meditate. By asking your Lama for help, mainly.

By asking your Lama for help. You don't just go and sit down and run an Olympic race. You warm up.

You get the thing all, what do you call it? You get it all set up right and then you squeeze. She had another video, but I'm not showing it.

That was disgusting. But I'm not going to tell you about it. Okay, so we'll stop there tonight.

You have to make your soul ripe before you meditate. And that's what we're going to learn this week. How to bring your heart to a place of ripeness so that you can have realizations in meditation.

Okay? Okay, let's do a mandala. Mandala.

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,GCIG RGYU GYI, CHUNG CHI NGE DRUG, RANG MI RANG NI SHI, YIN DE YIN PA SANG GYE SHI, YIN TE YUN GYI YIN, YIN PO KUN NAM DANG, SHI YIN LA CHEN PA SHOK, RANG MI RANG NI SHI, YIN TE YIN PA SANG GYE SHI, CHUNG SON NAM YIN PE RANG PA KUN PA, CHUNG CHI SEM CHOG KUN PO CHI, RAG PA NAM GYI PHA NYAM PA YIN, KUN ME KUN DU, YIN NAM NAM DO STRONG LI MOUNTAINS, YOU'RE THE SOURCE OF ALL HAPPINESS AND JOY, POWERFUL, GENEROUS CITIZEN, GYAT SONG, IS REMAINING JUST AND SILENT.