«Дар освобождения», курс 15 «Найти учителя, которому можно доверять», занятие 8

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So I'd like to, we've reached a good place in our Lam Rim class. Oh, okay. Hmm.

All right, there's just one little point from the Lam Rim class that I'd like to cover, which is not in the text. And then we'll go to the meditation song. Okay, so we're going through, I think it's going to be a 14-year trip.

We're in the fourth year. We're going through a text which presents all the steps to enlightenment from A to Z. And we were discussing faith in your teacher.

First checking them out, then making a commitment to them, and then developing faith towards them. And he mentioned that the kind of faith, of the three kinds of faith that we're seeking to develop, is called DANG BA'I BDEBS PA. DANG BA'I BDEBS PA means you see something nice about somebody and you are attracted to it.

It's close to admiration. It's close to admiration. Then I thought you'd like to know the other two types of faith.

It's not the subject at this time in the book, but I thought you'd like to know them. So here are the three kinds of faith. One is called SANGS RGYAS BYANG CHEN SOGS MTHONG NAS YID DANG BA'I BYED PA DANG BYED PA DANG BA'I BDEBS PA When you see very inspiring people, you get DANG BA'I BDEBS PA, which is called crystalline faith or something like that.

Crystal clear faith. And that just means that you admire someone and you aspire to their qualities. Me personally, a lot of this is not just a teacher, but Dharma friends also.

I have Dharma friends who are very good at yoga and they inspire me. When I can't do a pose, I look over at Word and he's doing it and I'm like, oh, I can do that. If he can do it, I can do it.

Like that. I have Dharma friends who eat well, which is really weird to me. I watch them eating carrots and I'm like, I can do that.

Like that. You can admire Dharma friends instead of being jealous. You can, what do you call it?

Emulate them. Try to act like them. So it's good to surround yourself with nice people, people who are good in their heart and good with what they do.

I heard Nick talking about the prison project. And Jeff, Eddie, I really admire them, that they would take the time off and go down. I had a talk with his boss at his job and I think we talked them into giving him half a day off every two weeks.

Then I tried to get it with pay, but that was a little more difficult. But he's doing something, I think. I'd like to also thank, Scott and Orit have offered their car.

They're getting a new car and they've offered their old car to the prison project. Because we have a problem that nobody's car can make it down to Tucson or back without breaking down. So it's a nice, dependable, uninspiring car.

That was made possible because Christine Walsh is pretty much giving them her old car. So I'd like to thank Christine Walsh. Somewhere in the deal I got some money from my Lama's car.

Don't ask me. The second kind of faith is, LAS RGYAS BDIGS LA LANG DOR LA, YI BYED PA'I YI BYED KYI BDE PA YI BYED PA means you believe in something. It makes sense to you.

So the first one is more like admiration, isn't it? Or feeling inspired by somebody. That's a kind of, in Tibetan they consider that a kind of faith.

BDE BA'I BDE PA The second one is where somebody explains to you what's good karma and what's bad karma, why you should do good karma, why you shouldn't do bad karma. And then you believe them. It's more like belief.

It's not blind faith, but it's a kind of belief about things which we cannot see directly. You cannot confirm directly that if you kill an animal that you will have poor health in the future, or something like that, that if you eat animals it will affect your health. I think now scientists are, what do you call it?

They're saying cholesterol makes you more likely to have a heart attack or something. Basically all food products are now suspect. All animal food products are suspect.

It's interesting. From a Buddhist point of view, it's interesting. But normally you can't confirm that if you eat an animal's flesh on a regular basis that your health suffers.

You see what I mean? The karma will make you less healthy, give you cancer or give you heart problems. There seems to be a correlation, but nobody suddenly announced that they were going to stop killing cows.

They just said, eat less. Nobody made the mental leap in this country that maybe we should encourage our children not to eat things which have to be killed to eat them. How do we know those things?

We have scriptures, we have teachers, we have a two and a half thousand year tradition and we learn it and it makes sense to us and then we believe. And that's the second kind of faith. So the first kind of faith is more admiration or feeling inspired.

And the second kind of faith is more like belief in things that we cannot directly see because the person talking to us, we trust. That's number two. Number three, DE BU KHO MA THOB PAR DUS PA'I SNGON DUG GIS DES PA The third kind of DES PA is kind of like aspiration towards higher things.

I would like to become a truly happy and healthy person and then I would like to help other people and I would like to affect my city and my country, my family, and then I would like to affect the world at large and then hopefully maybe more worlds than that. And that's called SNGON DUG GIS DES PA So SNGON DUG GIS DES PA is the kind of faith which is directed at what do you call that? It's like aspiration.

So all three of those in Tibetan are called DES PA. It means aspiration. So we have three.

One is more like, what? Inspiration. The second is more like belief.

And the third one is aspiration. We would like to achieve something beautiful and holy for many people. Those are the three kinds of faith.

So I'm going to stop Lam Rim. We'll go to the meditation song for this afternoon and this evening because we've reached a good place in Lam Rim. We are done with six of the ten classes that I had prepared for this session and the next session.

So strangely we're ahead of schedule. So I have to look up more quotations and stuff. And we're going to switch over to the meditation song.

I wanted to say something about the last verse we did yesterday which was 55. Somebody have a copy I can wave around? So those of you who weren't here yesterday, this is called the meditation song.

It's a translation of a text that was written in the 1500s something. No, later than that. By Pabongka Rinpoche's Lama, Dhagpo Lama Rinpoche, Djangpo Hundub Gyatso.

Then it's a very traditional practice to go through this and sing it or recite it before you do a meditation session. Most of us don't have time to do that before a meditation session. If we did that we'd be late to work.

So you can pick out parts every day before you meditate. Pick out a part. There are classical sections, divisions, and we've included some photographs to try to give you the mood of the section of the meditation song that we're on at any given time.

We made it a spiral bound copy so when you meditate on the floor you can put it down on your desk or on a piece of cloth and you can look at it. It's like David Swenson's Ashtanga Manual. That thing has sold three million copies or something because it has a spiral binding.

And no, you can lay it on the floor and you can practice next to it. You see? You can lay it open.

You don't have to stand there and hold it open. He's a good friend of mine so I can make fun of it. But it's true.

So we're on verse 55. We did verse 55 yesterday. If you want to borrow a copy and follow or you can just follow it on the projector There's copies back there.

I wanted to point out something I forgot to say yesterday. This verse 55 is a common grace in Tibet. You can use it before eating food or before drinking anything.

It's a tradition in Buddhism to always offer anything you eat or drink. Even if you just have a Starbucks coffee in the morning and you don't eat anything because there's nothing edible at Starbucks. You can offer the coffee to your Lama or to the Buddhists with this verse.

There are different standard graces in Tibetan and it's good to know four or five of them. You should learn them. It's only the last line would change slightly.

Those of you who are learning Tibetan you can learn this grace in Tibetan. It goes, PHUN TZO RGYAS LAS CHE BA'I BRDUN PA'I KHUL Your holy body was born from a billion perfect deeds. THAR YOD DO BA'I RE BA GONG BA'I GSUM Your words fulfill the hopes of infinite living creatures.

MA LUR ZHES BYA JI SHIN GZIGS PA'I THUGS Your mind perceives all things exactly as they are. And then if you're going to do the grace you change the fourth line. Those of you who care.

You can write down the pronunciation at least. ZHAG BSKYED Say ZHAG BSKYED MTSO'O DE LA CHE BA BU ZHAG BSKYED MTSO'O DE LA CHE BA BU That's the traditional grace. The fourth line is different.

If you want to learn the grace. ZHAG BSKYED MTSO'O ZHAG BSKYED A lot of people confuse ZHAG BSKYED with ZHAG BSKYED. ZHAG BSKYED is a clan or a tribe of people who lived in India two and a half thousand years ago.

And Lord Buddha Gautama, when he was Siddhartha, he was the prince of the ZHAG BSKYEDs. And ZHAG BSKYED means pale earth and it's an area in south central Tibet where the ground is sort of pale, like chalky color. And the monastery there was called pale land, ZHAG BSKYED.

And then a tradition, a lineage started there called the ZHAG BSKYES. And it's one of the four great lineages of Tibet. Not to be confused with the four great schools of ancient India.

But a lot of people confuse these two. ZHAG BSKYED means the tribe of which Lord Buddha, before he became Buddha, was a prince when he was Siddhartha. And then ZHAG BSKYED TSOR means what?

You know LAM TSOR RNAMS SUM? Yeah, TSOR RNAMS SUM as referring to a person means head or chief. ZHAG BSKYED TSOR, DE LA to you, SPYOD PA BU I offer this Starbucks coffee that I'm about to drink.

SPYOD PA means offering. BU means I give or I present as an offering. So if you would like to do a Buddhist grace before you eat or drink, which is a beautiful custom.

It's a really beautiful custom. You can learn a few of the basic graces before eating. There are like five that are pretty standard.

So you would change this last line in the English. You'd say, instead of saying, I bathe this divine form, you would say, I make this offering to you, Lord of the Shakya clan. Something like that.

I make this offering to you, Lord of the Shakya clan. All right, let's go to the next verse, 56. Oh, there's a baby there.

That makes sense. I tried really hard to find one with a duck, but I couldn't. So he just has little bones.

All right. There is an upside down rubber ducky. Probably he's Tantrica.

Okay. Okay. All right.

I'm going to read. So we are in the middle of a section where you bathe your teacher. And as I said yesterday, it's nothing weird.

It's not inappropriate. It's innocent. It's pure.

It's nice. It's like Jesus washing his disciples' feet. It's just considered very graceful and beautiful practice.

We're going to go through and wash different groups of people. We're going to bathe different groups of people who belong to the lineage of the Lamrim teachings. There are many, many lamas in that lineage.

There's a famous painting or poster of those lamas. Nick has translated it, which was a lot of research, figuring out, there's like a hundred lamas on there, and to figure out who they are, when they lived. We were looking at it afterwards.

It took like over a year, I think. Then we were looking at it and we're saying, it doesn't really help people a lot to say, this one was named Joe Smith and this one was named John Brady or whatever. It's not so useful just to know all their names because the names are foreign names anyway and we can't remember them.

We thought we would add for each lama something cool that they said or did and then you could have that with the poster. You could more relate to each lama. You could say, oh, this is the lama who started this idea or this is the lama who, you know, like the story of Milarepa and Rechumba and the horns, the yak horns.

We're getting together little stories from the database. We have a database of half a million pages. We search for neat stories about those lamas and he's going to perform one tomorrow.

I don't know exactly how or what. I think that's Aaron's problem or something. So here's verse 56.

We're continuing bathing people in the lineage poster, from the lineage poster. ,RGYA CHEN CHOD PA'I RGYUD LA GUS TU GSOL, ,SA MO DAG BA'I RGYUD LA GUS TU GSOL, ,NYAM LEN CING RNAMS RGYUD LA GUS TU GSOL, ,RGYUD PA'I LAMA RNAMS LA GUS TU GSOL, So RGYA CHEN CHOD PA'I means far-reaching deeds, far-reaching deeds. It's a, what do you call it?

Code word for the teachings on compassion. It's a code word for the teachings on compassion. So there's a whole lineage which descended from Maitreya, the future Buddha, down to us, down to you.

There's, I don't know how many, maybe, I don't know, 80 lamas of the lineage, parampara in Sanskrit, the lineage. It starts with Lord Maitreya. So the whole side of the teachings that came down of bodhichitta about love or saving the world, these teachings started with Maitreya and came down to us.

They were pretty close to being lost and then in this world, especially in India and Tibet, and then Atisha, Lord Atisha, took a boat trip to Indonesia, Jakarta, Sumatra, and saved, he met Lama Serlingwa, Suvarna Dvipa, and brought back the teachings. He recovered the teachings on bodhichitta or love and brought them back. So we are complete in this lineage about ways to have compassion, about different tricks for learning compassion.

For example, exchanging myself with other people. Those instructions came down through that lineage, those lamas. So RGYUD means lineage, with the B-R-G-Y-U-D.

BA'O RARGYA TE RGA'I RGYA SHES KYI RGYU DAG RGYUD It means lineage. And KUTR SU means, KU means holy word for body, holy body. TRU means to wash.

And SU means I offer. I offer a bathing of your bodies. All the lineage lamas who brought compassion to us.

And lineages get broken. Traditions get broken and people forget and nobody passes it on. They sit in the class and they don't take notes.

And then when it comes time to teach it to somebody, they don't have anything to teach. You understand? That's how you break a lineage.

So for two and a half thousand years, the teachings we're talking about, the lamrim teachings, they have been passed down responsibly, correctly, accurately, carefully, in detail, from teacher to disciple. And now I'm discharging my duty. I am passing it on to you.

Now it's your problem. And then you have to have that frame of mind. You have to be taking like incredible...

My teacher gets very angry. Geshe Rinchen Rinchen gets very angry if you're in a class and your hand's not moving. If you're not taking notes, he gets very upset.

He might throw you out of the class. So just try to keep in mind that now the responsibility is descending to you to pass it on to the next generation. So you have to take good notes.

I can't do it twice. Fourteen years is enough. SA MO DAG BA'I RGYUD LA GUS THUR SU OBEY THE HOLY BODIES OF THE LAMAS OF THE LINEAGE OF THE PROFOUND VIEW What's that?

Emptiness. Don't get mystical on me. It just means when your husband or wife or partner yells at you, you're supposed to pause and say, this is coming to me because I yelled at somebody at work last week.

Or I got mad at somebody in traffic. There is no partner in this house who's not coming for me and that's emptiness. So don't get mystical.

It's all to do with your partner. It's all to do with not getting upset at your partner. Are they irritating?

Yes. Are they saying stupid things? Yes.

Are they trouble? Yes. Should I yell at them?

No, because then you have to see them again. If you stop yelling, that will change. Got it?

That's emptiness. That's all. Don't get all philosophical.

Any emptiness which is divorced of a practical application is pretty meaningless to me. You should be able to apply it in your life. If a person, a teacher, a lama cannot explain to you how to apply emptiness to your life, they're not explaining it correctly.

It should immediately apply to your life. All right. And if they don't talk about it at all, that's worse.

It's better to screw up the whole presentation than not talk about it at all. You have to. It's the only way to get out of pain.

Only if you understand that your partner is coming from you can you stop pain. So sooner or later you have to talk about it. All right.

NYAM LEN BYIN RNAB RGYUD LA GUS TU GSUL We're on the third line. I bathed the holy bodies of the lineage of NYAM LEN means we had it the other day. I said, don't call it degenerate taking because together it has a totally different meaning.

NYAM LEN Practical practice. Putting things into practice. NYAM LEN means don't just talk about it.

Don't just meditate on it. Put it into actual practice. Do something with your partner tonight.

Fix little problems with your partner tonight. Start tonight. Start this afternoon.

That's NYAM LEN. The rest is philosophy. NYAM LEN means put it into your life.

To your everyday life. But NYAM LEN is also a code word for the secret teachings. So we divide our lineage.

In this tradition we divide our lineage into three. The teachers of emptiness. The teachers of compassion.

And the teachers of the secret practices. Tantra. That's a whole nother lineage.

That's a whole different lineage. Very extensive. There are five lineages.

Those are the ones coming down the middle of the Lama poster. The lineage poster. And you should know about them.

And here you're washing their bodies. You're offering them a bath. A ball.

A ball. Okay, bath. Okay, alright.

Then we have the same mantra as we had before. This is a bathing mantra. OM SARVA TATTAGATA ABHISHEKHITA SAMAYA SRIYAHUNG This is a mantra for bathing.

Normally this kind of mantra, when you say the mantra, it makes it happen where they live, even if you can't see it. So when you say OM SARVA TATTAGATA ABHISHEKHITA they're like, suddenly a bathtub appears and they jump in and they're like, ah, he's doing the mantra now. Thank God.

Otherwise we just had to listen. Now we got a bathtub and we got, what do you call it? Epsom salts and a rubber ducky.

This is cool. So if you don't say the mantra, the mantra makes that thing appear in front of them. Even though you can't see it, when you finish the mantra, they have this crystal massive spa and they are having a beautiful mineral water bath.

We had a Chinese gentleman beg me to teach him for five days, who's paying for the student center at Thai Mountain, 1.1 million dollars. So I said, okay. He said, well, I'll arrange for a doctor to fly in from Beijing for you.

He takes care of the Congress of China. I'll fly him in to, you know, I heard you had, you need a doctor sometime. I'm like, no, you don't have to do that.

So he did that. Then he put me in a cottage above the hot springs in some exotic place in China. But I didn't have time to go down there.

I just have to go downstairs and sit in the water, but I didn't have time. Anyway, it's like that. This big hot springs bathtub shows up in front of them when you do the mantra.

So don't forget the mantra. Probably if you mispronounce the mantra, the bathtub is full of coke or something. Okay, so.

Scott says it's all right. Orit, you got to control that. Okay.

Okay, we're on to verse 57, 58. THON PA'I SANGS RGYAS RNAMS LA GUS DRUG GZU GAL PA DANG PHYIR RNAMS LA GUS DRUG GZU DRAN PA RGAN DU RNAMS LA GUS DRUG GZU SKYABS NAS GOR GYOR GSUM LA GUS DRUG GZU Then here you bathe who? GOR GYOR GSUM The Three Jewels, okay?

The Three Jewels. There's a teaching on the Three Jewels. If I have time someday, I'll teach you.

The Lower Middle Way School. It takes 12 years. Okay.

And we never did it. But there's a teaching on the Three Jewels which is very profound. And it redefines the Three Jewels.

It says more accurately what the Three Jewels are. So, the Buddha, Dharma Sangha, right? This is very famous.

If you take refuge in these Three Jewels, according to Buddhism, you are a Buddhist. This is confirmation or... what do you call that?

When you get older, you do... Confirmation, yeah. And baptism.

This is baptism and confirmation together in the Buddhist church. If you take refuge in the Three Jewels correctly, you are a Buddhist. And then there's a joke in Buddhism that one day somebody was sitting in Sera and the abbot was sitting up there and he nudged his friend.

He could read people's minds and he elbowed his friend and he said, the abbot's not a Buddhist. The abbot of our monastery is not a Buddhist because he doesn't understand refuge. He didn't take refuge.

Refuge always involves emptiness. Refuge means protection. Tomorrow you will hear, give me shelter and you have to remember.

We chose this song because it's about protection or refuge. So, what protects a Buddhist? It's not...

We don't believe you can pray to Lord Buddha when the doctor's trying to decide whether you have cancer. You can't say, please take away the cancer or something like that. We don't believe that's a method.

We believe that to get protection, you can't go to a statue of Buddha and ask for favors. We don't believe that. You can keep a statue in your house but don't go asking favors of the statue.

We don't believe it can do it. How do you protect yourself? For example, if you're about to create a bad karma by yelling at your partner because they yelled at you this afternoon, how do you protect yourself from that?

Not yelling back, but you have to understand where it's coming from. The not yelling back has to be based in understanding where they came from. Understanding.

Which means an understanding that A, they are coming from seeds I planted last week by yelling at somebody. And B, there is no partner who lives in my apartment who's not coming from what I did myself last week. And that's emptiness.

So that's what it means to take refuge in emptiness. Okay? And that makes you a Buddha.

Sorry, Buddhists. Makes you a Buddha slowly also. So I have fun in the DCI courses because we teach, we taught in Jakarta, we taught Muslim country, we teach in communist countries, we teach in all kinds of countries.

But if we, on a DCI program, can get the audience to understand not yelling at their partner because that will make a bad partner next week. If we can get them to understand and act on that, they are taking refuge and they are by definition Buddhists. It doesn't matter what pictures they have in their house or what they do for a job or what kind of country it is.

If they use emptiness not to hurt themselves, they are taking refuge and they are Buddhists. So these are the three objects of refuge. Buddha, the person who used emptiness very well and got to be a Buddha.

And there's a Buddha in you, in a sense. The fact that you don't come from anything except your own seeds is your Buddha nature. You already have some Buddha in you.

So you can take refuge in yourself in one way. Dharma, what? Dharma is the teachings, the books, the tape recordings, the videos, the Tibetan books.

But more deeply, it refers to the direct perception of emptiness. When you take refuge in Dharma, you are taking refuge in the direct perception of emptiness. After you have the direct perception, it's much more difficult to get angry at your partner.

Before you have the direct perception, you can forget, or you can slip, or you can have bad days and yell back. Sangha? People who understand this stuff.

The club. We should call it the club. The club of people who get it.

And in this room it could be three people over here and six people over here. The club is sprinkled around. People who don't yell at their partners because they understand.

Then once you reach that place, you join the club. And you are called Sangha. Sangha.

SANG is S-A-M. It came from S-A-M, S-A-M, which came into English, which came into Latin as C-O-M, like committee, or conference, or like that. In Greek it came in as S-Y-N.

And then G-A, which means to come, Sangha means to come together, came into Greek as G-A-G. Sina, G-A-G, is directly derived from Sangha, meaning a place where people gather. It comes from Sanskrit.

It's a Greek word. SKYAMS NAS KUN BYAS SU MA KUTUS SU I bathe the three jewels. That gets a little tricky.

I bathe, Buddhas is okay. Dharma, are you going to bathe the books? Okay, you got to think about it.

Probably you can bathe anyone who's having the direct perception of emptiness right now. That's okay. Just don't distract them.

Okay. And then Sangha is all your friends. At this point you can bathe your Dharma friends.

You can say, Oh Rick, here's a bath. You want aftershave or not? And like that, you can offer, if you feel shy you can bathe their feet or something.

You see what I mean? But at this point in the text you can bathe your Dharma friends also. OM SA BA'I TSUL THAG PA DANG, PA'I PHYIR GYUR DU GSUM MA YIN ZHIG RUNG We repeat the mantra and that makes it happen.

That makes it really happen. ZHES DU GSUL In Tibetan, when you have a comment in the middle of a ritual, the type size is reduced by half. So you see the one, two, three, four, five, six line is in half size.

That means you're not supposed to recite that. It's a comment by the author. ZHES DU GSUL means this concludes the bathing of the teachers and your Dharma friends.

All right, now we start a separate section which you can see from the note at the bottom of the Tibetan, the last line of Tibetan on the page. ZHES PA'I KHU BYED, Say KHU BYED. P-H-Y-I-S, right?

You see it up there, KHU BYED, something? By the way, I did the pronunciation for you so you can follow that. KHU BYED YOD Third line from the bottom, page 45, right?

KHU BYED YOD So KHU means body. BYED means to wipe with a towel. BYED means to wipe.

Okay, P-H-Y-I-S, BYED, I wipe. Then there's an interesting cognate, start dictionary entry. We're talking about the word CI, P-H.

Here it's P-H-Y-I-S, KHU CI which means we've bathed the lamas and now we are wiping them with a towel. We're, what do you call it? Drying them off, okay?

And the word CI means to wipe. And then there's a word, there's a word in Tibetan, there's a separate word for an attendant to a lama. So a lama whose work is going well needs attendants.

They need people to help. They need staff to help them. And so in Tibet and in India, a very active lama would have maybe, I don't know, two to ten attendants and they would take care of their affairs.

So like in my case, I have Venerable Chikme doing my finances and Michael's taking care of my body and stuff like that. Then there's an interesting word in Tibetan for those kind of people who are keeping the lama going. It's called SHAB CI.

Say SHAB CI. SHAB CI. Do you know SHAB?

Yeah, SHAB is the honorific for leg or foot. By the way, Tibetan doesn't distinguish between leg and foot. So what's a SHAB CI?

Foot wiper. It's not a very glorious name, but in Tibet it's considered a very beautiful position. It's considered an honor to be a SHAB CI.

So they use the honorific. They say, oh, this is Ken Rinpoche's. I used to be introduced as Ken Rinpoche's SHAB CI.

There's another word. What is that? I was the Lord Chamberlain of Saramay.

I forgot the word for it. Anyway, something like DO. The SHAB CI of the abbot becomes Lord Chamberlain of the monastery.

So I think it's the first white guy ever to be Lord Chamberlain. I forget the word for it. Anyway, it just means you have to work more.

Okay. DE DAG KU LA TSUNG PA MED PA'I KHO TZANG LA PHYI RAB DGOS PA'I KU CI YOD DE DAG KU LA Their bodies. TSUNG PA MED PA means matchless.

KHO means clothing usually, but here it means cloth. Cloth thing. Meaning a towel.

I translated it as exquisite towel. Most exquisite towel. I wipe it.

TSUNG LA TSUNG means clean. Like, how do you say? Not dirty.

Clean. Start dictionary entry. TSUNG G-T-Z-A-N-G TSUNG means clean as opposed to dirty.

So, GANG PA'I TSANG MA YOD LAS GANG PA'I TSANG MA YOD LAS means that this house is very clean. This room is very clean and tidy. There's a ritual form of TSUNG which is called TSANG DRAG.

TSANG DRAG And that's where, it's almost like a surgical operation. And if you're working on a mandala, or if you are making tormas for an important ritual, you are required to keep TSANG DRAG. Ritual purity.

Ritual cleanliness. So, for example, you would wear a mask, like a bandage mask over your mouth, and you would be required to wash your hands and clean your fingernails before you touch the offerings for a high ritual. And that's called TSANG DRAG.

That's called to keep ritual purity. So the attendants who make the tormas for a fire offering, or anyone dealing with the materials for a fire offering, the substances which are to be offered, it's a tradition in our lineage that you should keep ritual purity, TSANG DRAG. So you should wash your hands very well and you shouldn't touch your feet or you shouldn't touch dirty things while you're making the offerings.

If you have to pick up a piece of lumber or something, then you have to wash your hands again and start over. You don't have to redo the offerings you did before, but you have to wash your hands before you continue. That's called TSANG DRAG.

And of course, in the teachings on TSANG DRAG, they emphasize what? The real cleanliness is in your heart. The real cleanliness is not the mask that you wear.

It's that while you are preparing the offerings like a torma or fire offering substances, you have to keep your heart very light and happy. And you can't think about people you don't like or things people did to you or stuff like that. You have to keep, what do you call it?

Inner cleanliness is more important than the TSANG DRAG. And dictionary entry for TSANG, TSANG LA This LA means and. PHYI RAB means very, very fragrant.

DGOS PA'I means I wipe, I dry. KU CI'O, I dry off their body with these exquisite towels which have a delicate fragrance to them and are very clean. Probably they are fluffy also.

And then there's a mantra for for toweling a Lama. Let me do it again. Oh yeah.

OM HUNG DRAM ZHIG AA RGA' YOG PA'I ZHUGS DANG NA YAS BA'A Okay, I'll say it again. OM HUNG DRAM ZHIG AA RGA' YOG PA'I ZHUGS DANG NA YAS BA'A Okay. VISHODDHANA means to clean.

SHUDDHA means very clean. This chakra is called VISHUDDHA chakra because it's believed that the process of what do you call that? The...

What do you call it when you take food and you break it down into... When you break it down into... What's the word in English?

It ends up as a very powerful liquid. The whole process of digestion. What's it called?

Chime I think, maybe, I don't know. The process is that chunks of hamburger or McDonald's bun or french fries that are chewed in the mouth and start to go down the system, the breaking down system, all the intestines, the stomach. Then what you come up with at the end, the nutritional essence of the food is like a teaspoon from a whole McDonald's dinner.

Probably less from McDonald's dinner. Huh? Yeah, it's like...

It means purify or... What do you call that? Huh?

Yeah, reduction in the sense of French cooking. Reduce the... The gravy or something.

You start with a big bucket and then at the end you have just a few teaspoons of... It's a nutritional essence. So that process of processing the food from gross chewable stuff into a teaspoon of what can feed your cells starts at the throat.

So this chakra is called visuddha, which means purifier. Filter. Purifying filter starts here.

So that... Here the mantra is visodhana, means I wash you clean or I dry you clean, like that. Visodhana.

Kara means? Your body. Okay, good.

And then the hum trang hi... I'll tell you later. I didn't look it up.

But there's special meaning to that. Those are sacred syllables but I should break them down for you. OM KHRIMS LHAMS SHES Alright, next one.

Next page. And... Oh yeah.

Let's do one more verse and then we'll take a break. Okay? What time we have to stop?

5.30? Okay. We'll go for like another five minutes and then we'll take a break.

STONG SONG KUN DU PHYING NAS DANG BA'I PHYI CHOG RNAMS KYIS THUB BA RNAMS KYIS KHU ZER BYANG SOMS MA ZHIG DOR BYAS PA LTAR DBOS CHAGS PAR BA DE DAG CHUG PA RGYIS ZHES PA'I KHU CHUG KHU CHUG means to apply oil, to smear. CHUG means to apply oil. B-Y-U-G CHUG Not too common a word, CHUG.

It's not the CHUG that means cow or rich. We had LUNG GI CHUG was one of the requirements of a Lama, rich in teachings. This is third column.

CHUG, CHUG. CHUG To smear. Cosmetics or oil, like that.

So here we are applying oil to their bodies. What do they call that? Messiah means anointed with oil.

It's the same. STONG GSUM We had STONG GSUM. We just had STONG GSUM.

Yeah, a thousand worlds, a thousand groups of a thousand, a thousand groups of a thousand groups of a thousand planets each, inhabited planets, STONG GSUM. You had it. He translated here as edges of the universe.

That's okay. STONG GSUM KUN DU To the edges of the universe. CI NGA'I This NGA'I is a difficult word.

NGA DANG NGA'I N-G-A-D Start dictionary entry. Very unusual word. N-G-A-D It's dangerous because it sounds like a bunch of other words.

CI here means fragrance. NGA'I N-G-A-D NGA'I, unusual word, means good fragrance. We don't have many words in English.

Good fragrance, or fragrant smell. NGA'I means fragrant. Very fragrant.

But it can sound like the NGA'I and CANG NGA'I which is spelled differently, which means fixed meaning. And it can sound like NGA'I meaning by me. And LA SANGS NI.

So you have to be careful when you hit this word. There are three words that sound the same. NGA'I meaning fragrant.

NGA'I meaning by me. And then NGA'I meaning definite or fixed. So don't confuse those three.

End dictionary entry. No one's ever going to use that one. CI NGA'I DANG BA DANG BA means to, DANG means here to rise up.

What's ZHES DANG? Anger, because you, it comes up in your heart. So this DANG means the fragrance is, what do you call it?

Wafting. CI CHOG means the highest, best smell. NAM GYI, Chanel number five.

NAM GYI THUB BU'ANG NAM GYI KHU To the Buddhas, to the bodies of the Buddhas. What's THUB BU'ANG in Sanskrit? King of the quiet ones.

Yes, MUN NENG DRA. MUN NA IN DRA THUB PA'I KHU NAM GYI KHU SER BYANG SER BYANG means refined gold. This BYANG means refined.

Put a NARO on it and it becomes BYONG BYONG, S-B-Y-O-N-G BYONG What's it mean to refine your heart in Tibetan? BYONG LO BYONG LO BYONG So you know this word already. This is the BYONG in LO BYONG.

But here you're BYONG in SER. You're refining gold. SER BYANG, SER BYONG BYONG means refined gold.

Refined, past tense because there's an S on it. Refined gold. TSOR MA means also refined.

It means has been boiled. What do you call it? Melted and then refined.

CI DOR means to smear on the body. You know LANG DOR, I hope. LANG DOR LANG DOR means what you should do and what you shouldn't do.

I like the Christian confession that I grew up with. We have done those things which we ought not to have done and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done and there is no health in us. I like that.

So lots of LANG DOR. LANG DOR means which we ought to have done. DOR means which we ought not to have done.

So LANG DOR is very famous. Here is CI DOR means to kind of wipe oil on somebody. CI DOR LTAR As if we were burnishing gold.

As if we were polishing gold. DBA'I PHYAG BAR BA means DBA'I PHYAG This PHYAG, do we want to make a dictionary entry? Okay, let's do.

PHYAG, dictionary entry, PHYAG, C-H-A-G-S PHYAG SA PHYAG PHYAG can mean, it is not the PHYAG in prostration by the way, which is spelled completely differently. Although it is pronounced exactly the same. PHYAG can mean DU PHYAG.

It can mean desire. PHYAG means to form like the way mud forms into a brick or something like that. So PHYAG BAR means become.

KO YAB PO CHAG GI YOD LAS He is getting to be a nice person. PHYAG means to become. ORED can mean to be attached in the way that mud sticks to things.

So the idea of being formed into an object or sticking is the same. PHYAG. PHYAG can mean desire, sticky desire, stuck to something.

ORED can mean stuff stuck together to form something, which means become. It means become. But in the idiom ORED CHAG, it means how did I translate here?

Perfect sheen. A very bright sheen of light. So ORED CHAG means formed into light, which means shining or a sheen.

End dictionary entry for CHAG. ORED CHAG. BAR BA means burning.

Burning. Blazing in flame. BAR BA Those of you who studied tantra, there's a famous BAR.

That's a long story. BAR BA DE DAG CHUG PAR GYI I wipe their... What do you call with oil?

I anoint or I... What do you call? You don't say I'm going to anoint you tonight.

You can say smear with oil. When you put suntan lotion on somebody, what do you call it? I'll rub suntan lotion on you.

I'll smear. I'll put... Anyway, you figure it out.

CHUG means to apply suntan lotion or anything greasy. It's called CHUG. CHUG So it's nice.

You have bathed them and then you don't stop. You don't leave them wet at the side of the tub. You dry them off.

The drying is a very beautiful process. In the text, if you remember, we got a lecture on the proper way to dry a holy being. There are improper ways to dry a holy being.

First of all, you pick a really nice soft towel. Not one of those ones that's been wet and dried a few times and it got scaly or something. It got hard, right?

So it has to be a nice, fluffy towel. Then you have to... I'm just teaching you.

In case it ever happens that you have to do it. You dry it like this. You don't dry like this.

You pat them down. There's a ritual. You kind of...

There's a mudra. Then you pat them down. You don't go like this.

They don't like that. That's just the traditional way to dry an angel's body. If it ever happens, you know.

If you jump off a bridge, they're all wet. They're all wet. You have to pat them down very gently and you don't push too hard and you don't rub.

What do you call that? Scrape them with it. You pat them with it.

These are very beautiful. It means a high state of mindfulness. It means a kind of meditation.

It should become a kind of meditation. You're not seeing how fast... The point is not to get them dry.

The point is to serve, respectfully and gently. Then of course, their skin will dry out if you don't apply some oil, some nice fragrant oil to them. That's a customary.

Then they're standing naked at the side of the tub. Then probably you have to... Yeah, put something on.

Give them some duds. We'll do that after the break. They'll just have to wait.

Okay. Okay. It's a very beautiful, very, very, very tender ritual.

You should learn it. Okay, verse number 60. Page number 47.

It's time to dress them. They spent the whole break standing there with oil dripping off them. sab jang yangwa lay gu mi che dorje ku nye na mi che depe dak bul na dak kyang dorje ku top shok SAB PA means...

How do you say?

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Silk is SAB PA.

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Thin? Shear. Shear.

SAB means shear. JAM you know because you know JAM YANG. Manju.

We're talking about duds. Clothes. Yeah, soft.

Shear and soft. Okay. I said gossamer soft.

That's not bad. Shear like very thin. Like gossamer.

Like a... Okay. YANG BA means light as opposed to heavy.

And of course there's a lot of other YANG so you have to be careful. Right? Meaning also.

Or but. So don't make a boo-boo. YANG BA.

LHA'I KHOS LHA means what? Deity. God.

KHOS means clothing. This is a poeticism from Sanskrit. LHA'I KHOS is always silk.

It always means silk. It's a synonym for silk. Raiment of the gods.

Clothes of the gods. It means silk. Now there's a cool expression here.

MI means knot, right? BYED means to split or to divide. So it's not CHE, third column.

It's second column. CHE So start dictionary entry. We're talking about the word MI CHE which means not CHE.

The CHE is spelled BPA'I RTA'I CHAG LDAN PO CHE DAG CHE So not to be confused. P-H-Y-E-D should not be confused with B-Y-E-D which means to do. And it's one of the most common verbs in any language.

The most common verb is to be. Second most common verb is to do. So BYED PA B-Y-E-D means to do.

But that's third column which means voice. CHE This is the second column which is high tone aspirated. CHE CHE And because it ends in D or DA the D drops out and the sound gets shortened.

CHE CHE So CHE means to cut or to divide. And then a noun was made out of it called D-B-Y-E-D-A-O-P-A-Y-A-D Y-A-D-P-O-Y-E YE What's YE BA? A division of any categories.

It's called YE BA. So if you care B-Y-A-D-A-Y-E D-A-O-B-Y-A-D-A-Y-E is related to CHE. They're both the same verb.

To divide or to cut. So MI CHE can be said of Dorje's. Unbreakable.

Unbreakable. MI CHE So what's the Dorje here? They're KU.

Their body is like a diamond which is indestructible. Unbreakable. KU NYE NYE means they have attained that kind of a body.

NYE LA And to that body I will make offerings MI CHE DER PA With MI CHE DER PA Yeah, with adamantine faith, unbreakable faith. So it's a very famous parallelism in this poetry here. MI CHE DORJE MI CHE DER PA Very famous.

The two MI CHES here. With unbreakable faith I will I will clothe your unbreakable diamond body in silk. Cool.

MI CHE DER PA'I BDAG BU NA If I offer them if I do that NA If I make this offering BDAG KYANG means I also may I attain THOB DORJE KU The diamond body. And then he uses the honorific which you're not allowed to do about yourself. You're not allowed to say my holy body.

But he did. Why? Because he'll be a Buddha when he gets a DORJE KU.

Then you can say my holy body. That's okay. Got it?

Normally you never use the honorific about yourself. DORJE KU. CHE KHOD BUL means UL UL is a form of BUL.

You got to get used to that. UL The last line in the Tibetan. UL means offer.

Offer clothing. Next verse. Now that you've dressed your partner you got to, especially if you're a man, give them some jewelry.

All the women are looking at their men. Of course. RGYAL BA MTSAN PA'I RANG BZHIN RGYAN BSTAN PHYIR RGYAN GZHAN DAG GIS RGYAN PAR MI BRTZE LANGS RIM BZHIN RGYAN MCHOG PHOS BAS DROG BA KUN MTSAN PA'I RGYAN PA'I KUN LAS THOB PAR ZHOG How many RGYANs in this verse?

MTSAN PA'I RGYAN PA'I RGYAN BSTAN PHYIR RGYAN GZHAN RGYAN PAR MI BRTZE LANGS RGYAN MCHOG RGYAN PA'I KUN Five. RGYAN means ornament. A piece of jewelry.

A jewel, in the sense of a piece of jewelry. RGYAL BA MTSAN PA'I MTSAN means hi. PA'I RJES RGYAS CHU MTSAN GSUM GYUR SO NYID PA'I RJES RGYAS CHU MTSAN PA'I is an abbreviation for it.

MTSAN GSUM GYUR SO NYID And the PA'I RJES RGYAS CHU 32 MTSANS 80 PA'I RJES The major and minor marks on the body of a Buddha. The physical body of a Buddha. So like they have wheels pressed.

The flesh of their hand forms wheels. They have longer ears. They have a bump on their head.

They have a little hair here. They have wheels on their, soles of their feet. There's 112 signs like that.

So, the first line says, you already have jewelry, you lamas. Because you have the signs of an enlightened being. Therefore, RGYAN BZHIN BDAG GIS RGYAN PAR MI TSEL This Tsel is the Tsel and Chak Tsel.

Yeah, Chak Tsel means to bow down, but the Tsel part means... Chak Tsel, say Chak Tsel. Very famous Chak Tsel Lo.

Chak means hand. Chak means hand and Tsel means to seek. To seek.

And it means to seek a boon from the hand of the teacher. So Chak Tsel, the word for prostrate, means to seek a favor from the lama. Meaning, please teach me compassion.

Please teach me emptiness. Chak Tsel, I seek something from your hands. Chak Tsel.

So here it means, since you already have naturally formed jewelry on your body, you don't sell other kinds of jewelry. Yeah, you're not looking for any. You've got the signs of an enlightened being.

You're not looking for a bracelet. You've got the ultimate jewelry part of your body, stuck on your body. You don't need these other kinds of jewelry.

But, YANG RIN CHEN RGYAN CHO BU BA'I SGRO BA KUN TSEMS PA'I RGYAN PAS KU LUS RTOG PA ZHOG Then that's a very common formula in these offering texts. You don't need anything from me. You have everything.

But, what? If I offer it, what? I will get that jewelry.

I'll get the same jewelry. That's a very common formula in offering texts. You don't need jewelry.

You've got natural skin jewelry on you. But, if I make offerings of diamond earrings to you, or a bracelet with rubies and diamonds, then I will get those natural formations on the body that mark you as an enlightened being. YANG RIN CHEN RGYAN CHO BU BA'I I will offer these supreme jewels, gemstone jewelry, and by that BU BA'I, because of that instrumental, SGRO BA KUN, may all beings TSEMS PA'I RGYAN PAS KU LUS RTOG PA ZHOG May they achieve the same body that you have with its natural jewelry on it.

BYAS PA'I RGYAN BU So you should offer jewelry. So we bathed them, we dried them off, we greased them up, and we offered them, we dressed them, and then we put some pearls on or something. That's why I chose the photo of the pearls.

BYAS PA'I RGYAN BU Next verse, BDAG DANG ROL LA THUG TSE PHYIR NYID KYI RDZUL THUG YID NI JI'I SRID BYAS PA BDAG GIS NA DE SRID BYAMS DANG ZHUGS SU GSUL ZHES PA'I ZHUGS SU GSUL Say ZHUGS SU. GSUL ZHUGS SU GSUL This is a common part of the preliminaries. We do it every time I lead a meditation, mostly.

ZHUGS means to sit or to stay. GSUL means to request. GSUL means to.

So what's it mean? Please stay in my life. ZHUGS SU GSUL means please stay in my life.

Don't disappear from my life. People disappear from your life, right? Parents die.

Kids move away. Friends lose interest in you. People leave your...

People... You're alone. You enter this world alone.

You make laisons with people and those laisons are separated. You walk the path for a while together of life and then they leave you. And then you're alone again.

So this verse is please stick with me forever. A real Lama has the power to stay with you beyond death. They will stay with you forever.

But you have to ask. What's that thing? Asking you shall receive.

What's that thing about the door? Knocking. Yeah, anyway.

You've got to express some kind of desire that it happens. And then of course they will agree. But if you never ask, and there's a famous mistake, right?

It's called the big mistake. What was the... Yeah, the Lord Buddha's disciple.

When Lord Buddha was talking about impermanence, he didn't ask Lord Buddha to stay. And then Lord Buddha decided to pass from the world. So it's very important.

Yeah, me too. Please stay. So it's important to ask.

So here we're asking. It's a verse for asking. So if you read the thing, you won't miss anything.

That's another reason to read the meditation song. BDAG DAG DRA LAG TUGS TE PHYIR If you love me and you love other beings, GNYIS KYI TSUL KHRUL TU YIN NI use your miraculous power. TU We had it yesterday.

DBANG STOBS TU Power, power. Yeah, mystic power. Use your mystic power.

To what? Stick around. Okay, stay.

TSUL KHRUL Say TSUL KHRUL. You can say TSUL KHRUL. You can say TSUL KHRUL.

Say TSUL KHRUL. TSUL KHRUL. So tomorrow is one of the six or seven major Buddhist holidays of the year.

It's like Christmas or Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day. And it's called TSUL KHRUL DU CAN. TSUL KHRUL and TSUL KHRUL are the same.

It means miracle. And TSUL KHRUL specifically means display of miraculous powers. And they used to have contests in ancient India like I can make the sun blink out for five minutes and the other guy's like I can put all the stars in a bag and spread them on the table.

And like that, they would do stuff like that. So tomorrow is a special holiday when Lord Buddha got into a competition with some people. And of course he won.

But it's called the Day of Miracles. TSUL KHRUL DU CAN. Say TSUL KHRUL.

DU CAN Yeah, the Day of Miracles. So it's a big holiday tomorrow and we'll be offering the meditation song in honor of TSUL KHRUL DU CAN. So it's cool that it came on this day.

I believe it's the full moon tomorrow. The 15th of the lunar month. TSUL KHRUL DU CAN Please use your miracle power.

GC CHOS PA BDAG GIS This is a weird line so I never understood it. I'm going to ask you your opinion. GC CHOS PA BDAG GIS GC CHOS PA BDAG GIS NA For as long as I make offerings, DE'I SRID BYAMS NA CHOS SU SO I ask you to stay in my life.

It just seems weird to me. It doesn't seem to... Like it's a blackmail or something.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe that's it.

For as long as I make offerings, I deserve to have... Karmically I deserve to have you stay with me. Any other ideas?

I don't know. It just feels weird to me. What if you stop making offerings?

They're going to divorce you or something? Huh? Oh, that's very nice.

That's a nice thought. Yeah, there's a tradition in Buddhism that you cannot teach a person until they ask. So we can't be, what do you call it?

We can't proselytize. We're not allowed to go door to door and bang on people's door and get them to follow us. So she said, it's nice.

If I make offerings, then I'm asking for teaching, which is the next step, I think, pretty soon it has come. Adam? Yeah, good.

Did you hear that? When you set out a banana on your altar, it's a statement that you think they can eat it even though you can't see them. It's a statement.

It's weird because if they don't exist, it's weird to put a banana on a table and leave it there all day and not eat it. So if you do put a banana on a table all day, there must be, it must mean you, at least you think that maybe there are some invisible beings around who can eat it. Dennis?

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Say it again, I lost you. Oh, okay.

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It could be. I don't know. I see what you mean.

The karma of getting a gift just gives them the power to help people. It could be. I don't know.

It always has bothered me these nights. Yes, word. That's a good point.

I mean, it does mean that until I become a Buddha, it does mean that. The wording means that. Until I become a Buddha, stay with me, I'll make offerings.

But I just, I think I had to the day that I would like to be a Buddha. I imagine that I just become my Lama's buddy or something and we hang out together. And I would still make offerings to them, just for old time's sake or something.

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I don't know.

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I don't know. I like to think I would keep doing it even after I'm a Buddha. I don't know.

Rinpoche got very indignant one night at Merdugul Street. He taught there briefly. Somebody said something like, Oh, after you become a Buddha, you don't have to do this stuff.

He said, he got very offended, indignant. He said, What? You think they retire?

And then he refused to say anything. He went home. I don't know.

That's a good question. No. Stay in my life is a translation of the Tibetan, which means, I entreat you to remain.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, good. It's a reminder of the karma necessary to make them stay. That's good.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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Chew on it. This evening, if you have any more thoughts, let me know. Okay?

Let's do one more verse, and we'll stop for the evening, for the afternoon. So we've reached the fifth step of the... How many?

Georgia. There are six preliminary practice, and the fifth one has seven parts. So what we normally do before a meditation is the fifth part, is the seven parts of the...

The Seven Limb Puja or Seven Part Prayer is the fifth of the six preliminary practices. So we've reached it. So these are the seven that you can do.

You can go to verse 63 if you want to do the seven steps just before meditation, which we did this morning, for example. Did we? I think we did.

Yeah. Okay, although I combined two of them. Did you notice?

I'm always wondering why I have to offer some successful practice twice. So I just skipped it and put them together. SNGAGS PA SANGS CANG GYI GNAS DU PA YAN NAG BDUN PA MAN DANG DANG PHRAD PA BU BA NI SNGAGS PA means the fifth of the six preliminary practices.

SAK CANG Say SAK CANG. SAK means SOGS. Collect good karma.

CANG means purified bad karma. SAK CANG. Okay, SAK CANG.

It's very famous. Just before you meditate, you should try to get a hit. What is that?

Espresso? I was hanging out with Alejandro a lot in Guadalajara and on the way, every time he went out of town, he stopped at this, what do you call it? Starbucks drive-in?

And he said, I need an espresso. I never had one. It's this little cup, right?

And he goes, he stops, he gives the money, they hand out this little shot glass, paper shot, and he goes, go! And then he's like, okay, now I can go. So you need a big hit of good karma just before you meditate.

Why just before? Because you'll get upset at somebody if you wait a half hour to meditate and then you lose all that good seeds. So you got to take your espresso and then right away you have to start meditating.

Collect some good karma right away and then meditate. So sak jang means just before you meditate, do a lot of good karma and then right away close your eyes and start meditating. Don't think about anybody.

Sak jang, then jang means clean your conscience. Make your conscience clear. Because you can't get deep into a meditation if you don't have a clear conscience.

Sak jang. Espresso and clear your conscience. I like that.

Sak jang. GNAS DUG PA GNAS, we talked about it. GNAS Crucial point.

Crucial point. I feel lazy to do the dictionary thing, but we just started it. Dictionary entry.

GNAS G-N-A-D Not to be confused with G-N-A-S which is extremely common because it means GNAS to stay, or to abide, or to dwell. GNAS And you stretch it out. The SA drops out and you stretch it out.

GNAS Say GNAS to stay. And it's high tone because there's a prefix letter on a nasal. GNAS GNAS means to stay.

This is not GNAS. This is GNAS. The DA drops out in linguistic compensation.

The whole vowel gets shortened. GNAS GNAS So GNAS is a very beautiful word. I looked it up in Sanskrit once.

It means marma, marma. Marma is related to the word, to the root mer, which means to die. And then from that we get murder, and mortuary, and mortal.

So marma means... It came from the idea that in a karate match, or in a sword fight, there are special spots on the other person's body that if you hit them just right, they will die. Like here.

This is a popular word in Asia. The jugular right here. If you cut it, the person's dead.

Nobody can save them. I had a friend at Vajrapani Institute. He fell off a roof and he hit a nail here.

And his wife sat next to him while he died because there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the blood. And he just bled to death in front of her.

That's a GNAS. It means, what do you call it? Mortal point.

If you hit that point, you can't save the person. So that's called GNAS, marma. Then GNAS DU GNOD MA In tantra, in secret practice, when you're working with the inner body, there are places in the inner body, chakras, channels, that if you put pressure on them, how?

Marma chicken. Yeah, if you concentrate the mind at those points. GNAS DU GNOD MA means if you strike those special points in the body, you can see emptiness or something.

You can do strange things if you get the prana to those points. And that's why we do yoga. That's the ultimate purpose of yoga.

All yoga is meant, except auretes, which is meant to torture you only. Sorry. All forms of yoga are meant to GNAS DU GNOD MA They're meant to strike pranic kill points and they trigger the direct perception of emptiness and like that.

So that's why we do yoga every day. GNAS DU GNOD MA So GNAS means a crucial point. In philosophy, it means a crucial idea, essential idea.

It's called GNAS also. Then there's a very common genre of literature called GAN NAS which means difficult points. GAN NAS KYI BRAL PA means a commentary on difficult points in some subject, like emptiness or mind only school.

Then that genre of commentary will be called GAN NAS. So that's entry for the word GNAS. GA'O NA DAG NAS which is shortened, linguistically shortened.

GNAS. Say GNAS. GNAS.

Okay, good. And dictionary entries. We'll stop in one minute.

So here GNAS DUG PA GNAS DUG PA means, it means these seven preliminaries include all the guts of spiritual practice. All the essential elements of spiritual practice are contained in the preliminaries we did this morning before meditation. Those seven.

GNAS DUG PA What are we going to talk about? YAN LAG BDUN YAN LAG BDUN People call it, what do you call it? Seven limb.

So YAN LAG can mean limb. Start dictionary entry. YAN LAG It's an idiom.

YAN LAG It means a branch of anything. So a branch of a bank is called a YAN LAG. A limb of the body is called a YAN LAG.

Like your arms, your legs, and your neck and head are called YAN LAG. So it can mean part. I'm sorry, it can mean limb.

And limbs of a tree are also called YAN LAG. But here this is very famous. YAN LAG BDUN PA Say YAN LAG BDUN PA The seven YAN LAG of the prayer.

It doesn't really mean branches. I mean, people translate it that way. Or seven limbs.

It doesn't have any meaning here. It just means it has seven parts. It's a seven step practice that you always go through before you meditate.

Is that true? Is there any exceptions? Yeah, the seventh one comes afterwards.

Good, good. So that's a commentary on the, that's a dictionary entry on YAN LAG. YAN MA YAN LAG KA LAG YAN LAG End dictionary entry.

MAN DANG Say MAN DANG MAN DANG MAN DANG MAN DANG LA It means the world. It means this, offering of a perfect world. An offering of the world after everyone gets enlightened because of my hard work is what a mandala offering is.

So if you can't remember all the continents and all the Tibetan words, don't stress. Just imagine the whole world is happy because you dragged around in DCI on all those plane rides and you offer that to your teacher. I offer the world in the future.

I offer a world in which everyone gets the things they want by using the four steps. I offer you this world. So MAN DANG STONG BYAS PA Start dictionary entry.

Sorry, I didn't write the book. Start dictionary entry. STONG BYAS PA Say STONG BYAS PA STONG BYAS PA STONG BYAS PA is an idiom.

If no one explains it to you, you'll never figure it out. DANG means and. BYAS PA means along with.

DANG BYAS PA means along with. Then we would say Aaron along with Nick. But in Tibetan, you say the first person, then you say the second person, then you say along with.

So you'd say Aaron, Nick, along with. So you don't put the conjunction in between the two items. You put it after the second one.

So here we had YAN LAG SDUG PA which means the seven step practice. MAN DANG STONG BYAS PA Along with a mandala offering. So this is traditional.

They're always lumped together. It's very common to see SANGS RGYAS BYANG SEMS DANG BYAS PA which means what? SANGS RGYAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA DANG BYAS PA Buddhas along with bodhisattvas.

See? Buddhas, bodhisattvas along with. And DANG BYAS PA Don't end.

Unfortunately, the word DANG means and so people commonly say and and then they try to look up BYAS PA in the dictionary and they don't find anything. So be careful. DANG BYAS PA is one three syllable unit idiom.

End dictionary entry. BLO BA means make that offering. Seventh part.

It's actually an offering. I'm sorry. Yeah, along with a mandala.

And that's the traditional warm up for meditation. And in Buddhism, we believe that trying to do a meditation without warming up is like trying to run a hundred meter race on a cold day without stretching before. And it won't work.

It won't happen. Like try to do yoga on a cold day. Try to go straight into what do you call it?

Surya Namaskars. You'll hurt something. You'll hurt your shoulder or something will happen.

You have to warm up first. So to run a race well in your mind a meditation, you have to do the warm up. The warm up is the seven part prayer along with a mandala.

Got it? By the way, I like mandala because the word mundo comes from that. The world.

And mundane. Worldly. So the root M-U-N-D has connotations of world.

The world. All right then. We will continue tonight with verse 64.

Bonnie, will you give us a nice mandala of Dangyepa?

[Говорящий 2] (1:26:26 - 1:27:32)
Gu kyi chok shi me tong tang ri la ming shi nin te gyen pa di sang gye shing du mik te lu wa yi tok kun nam dak shi la chepa chok ki dang kun nang na ma dak nang yata yab hi di gye wo kun san nang mi shi sok sok shi san nang mi shi re chu we dak wa kun ni tok pa chok Okay. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1] (1:27:34 - 1:27:45)
It's a beautiful thing. Try to do it once a week, like Saturday or something. When you have the day off.

Even the mayor of Colorado Springs gives people days off, I think. He won't call you. Just turn off your phone.