«Дар освобождения», курс 19 «Ретрит благодарности», занятие 2

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Okay, we're on the second Inner Riches. Adam, we're at YUL UD NI Y-U-L-D-B-U-S Y-U-L-D-B-U-S YANG ZHAG GYUR YUL LA YUL MTHONG BA ZHAG GI YUL RU ZAG There we go, that's it. All right, second of the Inner Riches that we have, the opportunities that we have.

YUL UD NI, CHOS GZIGS KYI DBANG DU BYED PA'I YUL UD TE, KHOR RNAMS SHES YOD PAR BSKYED PA We've been born into what's called a central land, major country. We have been born in a major country. Then he says major doesn't mean economic.

Major doesn't mean political. Major means Dharma major country. So like India has a lot of poverty, but it's a major country for Dharma.

And America is very wealthy and it's not a major country in the Dharma. There's not much Dharma here. There is a Diamond Mountain, but outside of Diamond Mountain, it's a small country, not a powerful country.

Powerful country means Dharma country. So China, you are lucky for many generations. We are just baby starting.

CHOS GZIGS KYI DBANG DU BYED PA There's an unusual word here called GZIGS. Start dictionary entry. When we say the word GZIGS, it can have two meanings.

One is word. It can mean a word like wordsmith. Where are you?

His name is word. GZIGS, it can also mean to burn. They're not related that I know of.

There's the word GZIGS. But this word GZIGS with an extra SA, SA YANG GZUGS, which means a secondary suffix SA, T-S-I-G-S, changes the meaning completely. And then it means a joint or a nexus, a place where two things join, like two roads where two roads cross.

Like this is called a GZIGS on your finger. This one here between the knuckles, and this is called a GZIGS. So GZIGS means crossroads of Dharma.

It means a place where the Dharma is strong. Like where two big highways meet is called a GZIGS. So it's a, what do you call it?

Juncture is a great word. It's a Dharma juncture, central land. The classic example is India or Tibet or China or Mongolia.

These are YUL UD. These are central lands. These are major Dharma countries.

DBANG DU BYAS PA'I YUL UD TE KHOR NAMS SHES YOD PAR YOD SAR BSKYED PA KHOR NAMS SHES means the four groups or the four circles. If the four circles are there, it's a major Dharma country. If the four circles are not there, it's not a major Dharma country.

What are the four circles? I'm going to give them to you. KHYIM PA PO MO NYID KHYIM PA PO MO NYID means male and female Buddhist practitioners who are family people.

Family people, men and women, who are practicing meditation, yoga, Dharma. That's the first wheel. It's called men and women Dharma practitioners who are family people.

They are not ordained. Then RAB TU CHUNG BA PO MO NYID means men and women who have taken beginning vows of monk or nun. Baby monk, baby nun.

We call novice vows. RAB TU CHUNG BA means they have agreed not to have a family. They will not have a family.

That's the second wheel. DANG DGE SLONG MA means full nuns and full monks are the third wheel. So men and women who are full monk and full nun, they are the third wheel.

The fourth wheel is DGE NYON and DGE NYON MA. These are men and women who took lifetime vows. They took vows for their whole lifetime.

Basic vows for DGE NYON is agree not to kill a human being or a fetus, or abortion, both. So that's the first one, for your whole life. Then the second one is steal more than about $10.

Less than that is not covered. Like you can take a pen from an office or something, but you can't steal more than like $5 or $10. And you take a lifetime commitment to do that.

The third one is never hurt another couple's committed relationship. So if they are married, or they agreed to have one partner to each other, then we cannot hurt that relationship. We cannot have relations with either the man or the woman.

So we make that promise not to do that. Then we, fourth one is we make a promise not to lie. But it's a specific lie.

It's called the big lie. And the big lie is to say, I saw emptiness directly. If you didn't see it, I can talk to angels.

I can tell your future. If you cannot, that's called a big lie. Little lie is like, did Geshe Michael eat the gluten-free brownies tonight?

No, not really. Okay, that's a small lie. But a big lie is to lie about, I saw Kongshin, or I can talk to Yamantaka or something, or I can see your future life, or I can see your past life.

If you cannot, then that's called the big lie. And they're connected. Seeing emptiness and talking to angels are connected.

So if you lie about one, you're usually lying about the other. The fifth vow is not to use intoxicants like marijuana, or alcohol, or drugs. In the scripture, they say, SDU BA'I BYANG DANG BCOS PA'I BYANG SDU BA'I BYANG DANG BCOS PA'I BYANG SDU BA'I BYANG means drugs that are made from natural things, like barley, or whiskey, or beer, or wine.

And then BCOS PA'I BYANG means drugs that are made in a laboratory, or chemicals. That rule was made two and a half thousand years ago. So they had, I don't know if they had math, but they had stuff like that.

So the fifth promise you make is to keep those five for your whole life. So you are not a monk. You are not a beginner monk.

But you are more than a normal family person. You're a family person. Or you have a family or not, but you're not a monk or none.

But you promise to keep these five. And then that's a special kind of vow for people to keep their whole life. If you're interested in those vows, which you should be, we're going to have a vow ceremony this week.

Venerable Phil will give some of the vows, and Venerable Jigme will give some of the vows. So if you're interested, you can take those vows. But you have to understand them to take them.

No killing a human being or a fetus. No stealing anything worth, they say worth a sweater, worth the cost of a sweater. No hurting other people's committed relationship, whether married or other committed relationship.

And no lying, especially about your spiritual life, is the big lie. And then the fifth one is no alcohol and no drugs, your whole life. We take alcohol in the ceremony we had Friday night.

We take a little bit. That's like in the church, the Christians take some wine. They don't have a drinking problem.

They are doing some religious thing. That's a different thing. That's not wine anymore.

This is the blood of their teacher. It's like that. It's a different thing.

Some people said to me, Geshe Michael, I heard some lamas say, you can only take four. You don't have to take number five. You can still have a glass of wine at dinner.

I don't give those vows. We only do five in this lineage, Diamond Mountain lineage. We only offering five.

If you want four, go to a different store. This is what we do here. Why?

If you don't take number five, and you drink alcohol, one hour later you will break the other four. This is alcohol. Makes you stupid.

The Tibetan word for alcohol is nyoche. Nyoche means make you stupid. Mr. Make You Stupid is the name for alcohol in Buddhism. Any place where there are monks and nuns, where there are baby monks and nuns, where there are family people who took the five vows, man or woman, or there are men or women who are keeping Buddhist ten good deeds, that's a major country. Bulgaria, now you have a chance to be a major country. I'm not kidding.

I think there are more people practicing Dharma in Bulgaria than in much of America. That way you are a more major country. So, major Dharma country.

Third inner riches. DBANG PO TZANG BA NI DBANG PO TZANG BA, it's misspelled here, but DBANG PO TZANG BA means you have all of your senses. In the SHIN CING MIG MED NA BA MED NA MED BYED MED LUS MED YID MED ZHUG MED BRTAG MED DRUG MED RGYUD MED MIG MED DO, YID KYI GANG MED PA NAS YID KYI RNAM PAR BSHAD PA'I GANG GI BA LUS YANG MED DO MA RIG PA MED MA RIG Like that.

WU ZOS ZHOS ZAB PA'I GONG PO'I ZOS Then WU ZHAL ZHUGS SHING RIGS SU You have your eyes, you have your... So you were born with eyes. You were born with ears.

You are not a handicapped person. You can study. You can listen.

You can see. Some people are not. Some people have a learning disability.

But you are not like that. You were born with good eyes, good ears. You can read a book.

You can listen to the Dharma. Then you think Geshe-la, that's not such a big deal. Everybody has that.

It's very rare. It's very rare to have your eyes. And you will lose this karma if you are not careful.

Your eyes will go bad. You will have to wear glasses like Geshe Michael. You will start to lose your hearing.

Everybody does. Young people always think old people are stupid. How come you got old?

What's the matter with you? Then the old people are like, just wait, okay? Just wait.

You're going to be just like that. This island will come on your head. And it will come.

To men and women. So we are lucky to have eyes that work. We are lucky to have ears that work.

And you will lose them. Someday you will lose them. So use them while you have them.

Because you can't keep them. I mean, maybe. But they are rare.

They are valuable. And they are temporary. So be careful.

Use them. Don't waste your eyes on YouTube videos unless it's a dictionary. Don't waste your ears on stupid things.

You only have a certain number of hours of eyesight. And you have a certain number of hours of hearing. Don't waste them.

It's not unlimited. These are debit cards. This is debit card.

Every day it goes down. It doesn't go back up. So use them while you have them.

Okay, there's a joke. I mean, in this book, Pabongka Rinpoche says to his audience, there were like 2,000 people there. No microphone.

10 hours a day, 12 hours a day. And he said, in this group, in this temple today, 2,000 people, somebody will die first. Who is it?

Which one of us? He said, we don't know. Oh, the younger one will die later.

Come on, we don't know. I stayed in a small Mongolian monastery. We had 12 monks.

I'm the baby. I'm 25 years old. Everybody else is 60 or more.

That was a very bad situation for me because the youngest monk has to clean the dishes every day. So 30 years I'm cleaning because there's no more new monks. Then the one was very sick.

His name was Geshe Gelden. Geshe Gelden from Inner Mongolia. Near Erdos.

Then he had tuberculosis. He had a lung cut out on a table in India in a refugee camp. So he walked like this.

He taught me Abhidharma. He talked like that. Then everybody thinks he will die first.

He died last. Everybody else died before him. He survived all of them.

We don't know. Who will be the first one in this room to die? We will have a little ceremony.

We will light a candle. We will say, oh, last year you remember they were here and now they got in a car accident or something. They will come.

Then he said there will be the last person in the room to die also. Then there won't be anybody who even remembers those people. That's true of the people who listened to this book when it was taught in 1921, I think.

They're all gone. They died one by one. 2,000 people died one by one.

Then the last one died. And now we just have a book. Okay.

All right. DANG PO SKAD DUS NAS DBANG PO TSAR BA DANG From the beginning of my life, since the time I was born, I've had eyes, ears, I could study. Temporary.

They're on loan. Right? It's like a rental car.

Okay. You can't keep them. Then SA MA MA NING SOGS SOGS DAG GI SDOM PA'I RTEN DU MI RUNG BA'I RANG DE LTAR MA SKYES PAS DBANG PO TSAR BA YIN These are two unusual words that are important in Buddhism.

Say SA MA and MA NING. SA MA means in China, in ancient times, the servants, some of the servants of the king, they will cut off their sexual organ and they become eunuch. They cut off their sexual organ.

Or some woman can have an accident or can have cancer and they will cut out this organ. That's called SA MA. MA NING means they are born with both sexual organs.

They have a woman's organ and a man's organ. Both. So, hermaphrodite.

First one is a eunuch or a neuter and the second one is hermaphrodite. They don't have the power. There's a seven sense power in the Abhidharma and that's your sexual, what do you call it?

Like your sexual energy. Sexual energy. So, you were born with some sexual energy.

Usually we just use it for sex. Different people have different levels of sexual energy. But if you, for some reason you lose it, it disturbs your mind.

It slightly disturbs your mind. If you get it cut off or you have both, it disturbs your ability to resolve, to keep a decision that you make or to be strong, to have a strong mind to keep a promise you made or something like that. Sexual energy is helpful.

It gives you some power to do things and to keep decisions. In Tantra, in the secret Buddhism, you must have this power. It's a very powerful part of a human being, like your eyes or your ears.

Your sexual identity is a strong power and you can use it. It helps you. So, we're not allowed to give a monk's vow or a nun vow to a person who doesn't have, who lost their sexual organ or something.

We are not allowed to give them a vow because they cannot keep it. It affects your mind. The lack of hormones affects your mind.

You can't keep promises strongly. This is an ancient custom, two and a half thousand years. It's good to have a well-disciplined and ethical sexual energy.

We have it. We all have it. If you are interested, there's five kinds of people like that in the Vinaya.

After you take monk's vows or nun vows, I will teach them to you. One more and then we're going to meditate. Number four, LAS LTA MA LOGS PA Say LAS LTA MA LOGS LAS LTA MA LOGS What's LAS mean?

Karma. YES NI, karma. LTA means the end of something, like my Lama's name was Tarchen, gone to the LTA, gone to the limit.

LTA means the end of the karma. LOGS PA means big mistake. It means to make...

There are five big mistakes in Buddhism. In Buddhism, if you want to make a mistake, you should make a big one. There are five biggest mistakes you can make.

There are five worst karma you can make. If you make one of those karma, it's very difficult to become a Buddha. It's very difficult to reach nirvana.

So we are lucky because we didn't make them. We didn't make those five big mistakes. What are the five mistakes?

Number one, PA SEMS PA You killed your own father. You killed your own father. That's number one big mistake you can make.

PA SEMS PA Second one is MA SEMS PA. What's that? Yeah, kill your mother.

When I first started studying Buddhism, there was a special class in the monastery. I will be allowed to go only if I can speak Tibetan. It was Shantideva.

They only allow me to enter the class if I know some Tibetan. I only studied for one week or something. Then there's one Lama, he likes me.

His name is Tenzin Chinle. He's in the Vajrayogini lineage. You can check Tenzin Chinle.

So he said, I will examine Michael. I said, don't examine me. I don't know anything.

He said, no, don't worry. Then he said, what does the Tibetan word APA and MAMA mean? Then I said, Dad and Mom?

He said, correct, you can come in the class. So, APA means father. SEMS PA means to kill your father.

MA SEMS PA means kill your mother. Third one is DRA BCOM PA SEMS PA. DRA BCOM PA SEMS PA means enemy destroyer.

Someone who destroyed the enemy. It means they reached nirvana. So nirvana doesn't mean it's the person who killed the enemy.

Who's the enemy? Your own bad thoughts. Your own bad thoughts.

To kill them forever is called nirvana. Then how can you kill someone who reached nirvana? How can you kill them?

Yeah, they're not a Buddha. All they did was clean their mind. They are a normal person who don't have anger.

If you try to, excuse me, if you try to piss them off, you cannot. You can spit in their face. You can pull on their ear.

You can take away their gluten-free brownie. But they will not get angry. You cannot make them angry.

But you can kill them. That's okay. You can do that.

DRA BCOM PA SEMS PA Next one. RGYUN DUNG GI YIN BYAS PA To split up community of Dharma people. To split them.

To cause a split in the community of Dharma people. Then that's the most serious one. Because of what you say or what you do, then that community breaks up.

They start fighting with each other. So that's a... Nobody in this room is going to kill their mom.

Nobody is going to kill their father. If we can find someone who reached Nirvana, we are just going to pray to them. But it's very possible that we could make a mistake and split this group.

You see what I mean? And that's a very... If you make that karma, you cannot become a Buddha in this life.

It's not possible. Very difficult. You can clean it, but it's very difficult.

That's number four, right? DE BZHIN GZHAGS PA LA NGAN SEMS KYI PHRAG BCUNG BA DE BZHIN GZHAGS PA LA NGAN SEMS KYI PHRAG BCUNG BA To cause a Buddha to bleed out of malice. That means if you're taking a blood test from your lama, that's okay.

I mean, that's why they say out of malice. So you want to check their cholesterol. You take some blood.

You didn't break this vow. But if you try to hurt a Buddha... It means if you try to hurt a Buddha.

You can't hurt a Buddha. But if you try, you make one of these five bad deeds. If you make one of those five, it's very difficult in this life ever to make progress spiritually.

It's almost impossible. It's possible to clean that karma, but it's very difficult. It's unlikely that you will clean that karma.

So the fourth lucky thing that we have inside of us is what? Yeah, I didn't do those five. I never did those five.

I made millions of mistakes in my life, but lucky, I didn't do those five. Probably I didn't have a good chance. But I'm very lucky.

Even before I became Buddhist, before I studied Lam Rim, I'm lucky I didn't make those five mistakes. So I have a good chance. It's possible for me to become a Buddha in this life.

LAS THAL MA LOG PA I didn't make one of the big mistakes. Okay, so we're going to do a meditation. Get ready.

I can see a lot of the jet lag people are yawning. Even the translators. We're going to meditate on the second one, which is that I was born into a place where Dharma is available.

Dharma is available to me. There are Buddhist teachers. There are Buddhist books.

Nowadays we have the internet. There are 10,000 pages of translation on the ACI website. There are 10,000 pages of Geshe course, free, for 20 years, on the ACI website.

There are 5,000 videos and audios on the knowledge-based website. And they're free. 5,000.

So, were you born in a central country? Do you have Dharma in your country? If you have internet, you are living in a central country.

Okay, understand? So, we're going to meditate about that. You ready?

Okay, clear your throat. Turn off... I need my bag.

Turn off your phone. Okay, ready? Try not to move.

I know you're tired. You're going to be more tired tomorrow.

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Relax your forehead. Relax your hands. Relax your mouth.

Pull in your stomach. Relax your shoulders. Little smile.

And please start to watch your breath. Nice long exhale. And watch your exhales come out of your nose.

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And think about the country where you grew up, the country you live in. Get a picture in your mind of your country. Maybe you're living in another country from where you...

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Maybe you're from Bulgaria, but you live in Bali.

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And think about that country compared to other countries. Is it a major country? Powerful?

Big army? Economically powerful?

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Politically powerful? Is it a major country?

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And are there Buddhist teachings in your country? Are they available? Through teachers, living teachers?

Are the books available? Are they easy to read? Are they correct?

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Is there a good Dharma available on the internet? Are there people trying to practice?

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Maybe not perfect, but are they sincerely trying to practice?

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Meditation? Are they studying? Are they doing yoga?

Are they helping poor people, sick people, prisoners? Are there this kind of people in my country? Is my country a powerful country, Dharma country?

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Doesn't matter big or small. Doesn't matter what kind of army they have. Doesn't matter their economy.

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Is the Dharma alive and healthy in my country? And how lucky I am to live in a world where there are good teachers.

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I can get on an airplane and fly to a country where there's a teaching. Chuan Tsang walked for 17 years to visit India to find teachers. I can get on the airplane in Beijing.

I can go anywhere in the world in, I don't know, 15 hours.

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Not 15 years. I have internet. I can watch many teachings.

And there are a lot of good teachers in this world.

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If I try, I can meet them. I can study with them. And I have freedom to do that.

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I'm so lucky to live in a major country. I'm so lucky I was born in a major country.

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Thousands and thousands of seeds to create one hour of Dharma.

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And I have it. I can lose it any day. But I'm lucky.

There's no shortage of Dharma in my world. I'm so lucky.

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In history, many countries, many generations, they didn't have any Dharma.

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But I have. You can come back to your breath. Watch your breath.

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And slowly you can open your eyes. Stretch your arms. Okay, let's keep going.

How many inner good lucks do we have so far? Yeah, four. So here's the last one.

GNAS LA BDE PA A Sangha called it GNAS LA BDE PA GNAS LA BDE PA means faith in the truth. I have faith in the truth. Generally, in the scripture, it says I have faith in Vinaya.

Generally, in the ancient tradition, faith in the truth means faith in Vinaya. Vinaya is one of the five great subjects of Buddhism. One of the five great subjects of the Geshe training.

And it's about vows, vowed morality. Some people say, oh, Vinaya is monks and nuns' vows. It's not correct.

Vinaya covers family people who take vows also. So this is called Vinaya. Vinaya means discipline.

Good behavior. So if you check ancient commentary about a Sangha, it will say faith in the truth, here, means faith in Vinaya. But, KYANG, DE'IR BDE'I NUS GSUM DANG BYANG CHUB LA'ANG GRAS RIM PA'I TSUL LA BDE PA'O But here it means faith in all the Buddhist teachings.

Faith in all the Buddhist teachings. SPROD PA'I LTE DKA' SPROD PA'I LTE DKA' What's that? Yeah, it's SPROD PA'I LTE DKA' But it means the three baskets.

The three kinds of training. Vinaya, Abhidharma, and Sutra. Teaching wisdom, teaching morality, and teaching meditation.

I have faith in those. I have faith in the three trainings of the three baskets. The three baskets are all the books about ethical life, all the books about wisdom, GONG ZHING, emptiness, and all the books about meditation.

These are called the three baskets. All of Buddhism is in the three baskets. What's a good place to get a summary of all of those three baskets?

LAM RIM So then he says up here, BYANG CHUB LA'ANG GRAS RIM PA'I TSUL LA BDE PA'O means I have faith in the LAM RIM. It's the same. I have faith in all the Buddhist teachings, or I have faith in the teaching about the step-by-steps to Buddhahood, which is what you're studying here for the last 19 retreats and 20 more to go.

Maybe 30, I don't know. But I have faith in this. That's why I'm coming here from China, or I'm coming here from Bulgaria, or I'm coming here from Serbia or Mexico.

It means I have faith in it. I think it will help me. Or Russia.

We have Russia also. Welcome to Russia, Masha. I have faith in that.

We also have Austria. I have faith in those teachings. So that's the fifth one.

And you are lucky to have faith. Again, it came because of... Why do you have faith?

Joe. Okay. Joe did it.

Your past life worked very hard. And then in this life, somebody said, hey, there's DCI program in Shanghai next week. You want to go?

And you're like, oh, sounds cool. Tell me more. It means, why are you interested?

For every person here, there are 100,000 people who are not interested. Why? It's Joe.

It's your past life. Your past life worked very hard to study Buddhism. Then in this life, you were born, you went to school, you grew up, you went to Shinbaku in Shanghai, or Kandaji, and that's Starbucks and KFC.

Somebody said, hey, you want to go to this DCI? And you're like, DCI? It sounds cool.

That's a seed from your past life. If you don't have that seed, you want to go to DCI, you're like, nah, I got to go to a movie. Like that.

DE NI RANG LA BSTAN DGOS PA'I SBYOR PA YIN PAS RANG SBYOR TE These are called inner or self-riches because you need them for yourself, inside, if you're going to make spiritual progress. You need them. NGE MTSO LA DE LA'ANG NGA'A NGUS SU TZANG BA YIN NGES MTSO is an ancient term for us guys, all of us.

NGES MTSO LA DE LA'ANG NGA'A We have all of them. NGUS SU NGUS SU TZANG BA means they are complete. NGUS SU means directly.

Let's make a dictionary entry with TZANG. TZANG. TZANG NA TZANG TZANG BA means complete.

We have all of them. Do you have everything you need to take your trip to America for that lamrim course? TZANG DU TZANG DU Yeah, I have everything.

I packed everything. I have toothbrush. I have sun lotion.

I have my mala. I'm TZANG DU. Everything's ready.

I got everything. TZANG BA means I have everything you need is there. TZANG BA It also means ant's nest.

The bug, the insect, those ants, that place where they live is called TZANG. It means like a complete little nest. DRO TZANG means that's their little nest.

It's a complete place. It has toilet, meditation room, sleeping room, kitchen. It's called a TZANG, a nest.

But it can mean any kind. Like TAK TZANG is a tiger's nest. Famous monastery in Bhutan on the mountain.

It's called TAK TZANG, nest of the tigers. So that's the meaning of TZANG. Then he says something interesting.

He says MNGUS SU TZANG, directly complete. That's a second word I want to teach you called MA YIN BGAG. MA YIN BGAG Very famous in Buddhism, in Buddhist logic, is MA YIN BGAG.

MA YIN BGAG means you say something that implies something else. I'll give you the biggest Buddhist example of a MA YIN BGAG. Monks and nuns are not supposed to eat afternoon.

After 12 o'clock, monks and nuns are not supposed to eat solid food. I went to Sri Lanka on business one time. They know I'm a monk so they took me to a monastery.

It was fun because in Sri Lanka you can still go door to door with the bull. They said, come on, come on with us. Let's go door to door with the bull.

It was really fun for me. They respect monks in Sri Lanka. Not like New York City.

I was walking down New York City with my robes on one day and this guy goes, who do you think you are, Moses? I'm like, it's okay. Then I was in Sri Lanka and I was walking through the forest and a guy came on a bicycle and he saw me in my robe and he jumped off the bicycle and he threw himself on the ground.

He just go like this. I'm like, wow. This is a good country to be a monk.

Then I went to the kitchen. The cook said, come in the kitchen, come in the kitchen. I said, no, it's afternoon.

You're not supposed to eat. He said, come in the kitchen, come in. He said, Buddha didn't say you couldn't eat.

Buddha said you couldn't eat anything that you cannot pour. So he took all these fruits and he put them in a blender and he go like this and it wouldn't come out. He said, okay, wait.

Then he put some water. Then he said, then it went like... He said, look, it's pouring.

He said, you can eat it. He said, don't worry, I took care of monks for many years. Anyway, there's my ink, logic, to go back to logic.

There's a joke in Buddhism. It says, this monk is very fat, but he doesn't eat during the day. We're not supposed to eat until the daylight the next morning.

THO RANG Daybreak. Then you're allowed to eat. There are some monks that sit...

What is mean daybreak in Buddhism is you can see the lines on your hand. So the monk will sit with the cookies, the YOD CHO, and he's looking at his hand in the morning. The sun is coming up.

Oh, I can see the lines. Then they'll eat. But there's a joke in Buddhism.

He's very fat, but he doesn't eat all day. What's it mean? He's sneaking food at night.

We can understand from what they say that something else is true. This is called kind of logic. It can be a negative thing or a positive thing.

He doesn't eat during the day. It's negative. But he's fat.

It's positive. But it implies something else. Logically, you can understand I'm saying something else.

I don't want to accuse him he's eating at night. Illegally. But I say he's very fat and I didn't see him eat during the daytime.

Okay? Then that's called MA YIN GANG. Like, did you like the song that Geshe Michael did last week?

Then you say, it was interesting. Then it means you didn't like it. The word implies something else.

Why are we talking about that? He said here, we have all five of the inner riches. DNGOS SU Directly.

The real thing we have. We have the real thing. It means later in this list there will be some things we don't really have.

We're supposed to meditate that we have these ten things in our life. We did five already. The second set of five, some of them you don't have DNGOS SU.

You don't have directly. You ready? Let's talk about the five outer qualities.

Where do you think he's taking the five outer qualities from? A Sangha. Still a Sangha.

Shravakabumi. The levels of listeners. Very famous.

He's using the same book. You want to know something cool? If you look for these two poems in a Sangha, they aren't there.

I did it. It's not there. Somebody took a Sangha's book and wrote a poem from the book, but they don't say who.

This is poetry, but a Sangha didn't write poetry. He just wrote a book. You want to know the real thing?

I got it for you. This is after you become a Geshe. Then 20 years later, if you're bored, you can look this up.

What the Shravakabumi of a Sangha really says is GZHAN GYIS SBYOR BA SNGAGS GANG ZHES NA DI LTA STE SANGS RGYAS RNAMS SBYUNG BA DANG DAM PA'I PHYIR BSTAN PA DANG PHYIR BSTAN PA RNAMS GNAS PA DANG PHYIR GNAS PA RNAMS RJES SU'I SGRUB PA DANG GZHAN GYIS PHYIR RJES SU'I SNYING ZE BA PHYIR PA'O That's the real Sangha. Then somebody made a poem out of it, and they made everything short. Here's the poem.

You ready? SANGS RGYAS RJES RNAMS DE'I PHYIR BSRUNG DAM PA NAS DANG DE'I PHYIR RJUG GZHAN PHYIR SNYING ZE BA'O That's it. They just made a poem with the main words.

Here's the words. No, I'm not going to tell you the words. You have to hear them one by one.

So we're doing the five outer good lucks. We finished the five inner good lucks. Now we're doing the five outer ones.

Ready? Number one. SANGS RGYAS RJES RTEN DU MA BRJOD NA DANG PA'I PHYIR MIN SBYUNG LA BRJOD Say BRJOD.

He or she came to this planet. Who are they talking about? A Buddha.

A woman Buddha or a man Buddha. BRJOD They came. They have come to this planet.

It's like in the Christian, they say, we are so lucky that Jesus came, decide to come to this planet. So planets are like, I don't know, stinky houses. Then sometimes Buddha decides to come and clean it up.

Or some holy being decides to come. There are many places in the universe where no holy being came. And there are empty worlds, broken worlds, dark worlds.

You take it for granted. Oh, Buddha came. Jesus came.

These people came to our world. But there are many worlds that they never came to. Those are terrible, terrible worlds.

Hopeless worlds. People just eat, sleep, have sex and die. They don't know what to do.

They have no idea what to do. They have no hope. Nobody ever brought light to their world.

No being. We have a couple of cool ones in this world. We have Tsongkhapa.

We have Xuanzang. We have Buddha. Some people, Jesus, Muhammad.

We have Moses. We have them. We are lucky.

These people came to this world. But there are many worlds where they didn't come. Nobody ever heard of meditation.

Nobody ever heard of prayer. Nobody ever heard of Dharma. They just live and die.

Hopeless. But we have a path. Somebody brought a path to this world.

We have it. Sanggye Jun. In Asanga's book it means, and they are here now.

It implies, this is referring to the period when the Buddha was in this world. Two and a half thousand years ago. It's referring to the time when the Buddha was living in this world.

So, does it apply to us directly? Musu. No, we don't have this world.

We don't have this world. The Buddha passed. The Buddha left.

We have some books. We have some recording of what they said, but we are not lucky enough to have a Buddha in this world now. We don't have that.

Directly. That's also a mayinga. When I say we don't have it directly, it means we have it indirectly, through our lamas, through our own heart teacher.

We have a Buddha in the world. They are living with us. Indirectly we have number one.

Number two. CHOS MA GSUM PA'I GONG THU GCI BA LTA BU NI SANGGYE JUN PAS DON MA BYUNG BA'O This is a very strange sentence. CHOS MA GSUM PA'I GONG THU If before the Buddha taught the Dharma, GCI BA, they passed from this world, then it would be meaningless for them to come to this world.

There are worlds where holy people came and didn't get a chance to talk. Somebody killed them. The karma to have a teacher alive in the world is very dangerous to the demons.

They don't like it. They will try to have that person crucified or other things. As quickly as possible.

So if they come, but they don't have a chance to speak much, or somebody kills them or stops them from speaking in some way, then we don't have the second one. The second one is they taught. They came to this world and they spoke.

So they go together. Number one and number two go together. You can't speak if you don't come to the planet.

But if you come to the planet and you don't get a chance to speak, something happens, which is very common for powerful good teachers. Very common to have some terrible problem. Then they won't...

It doesn't matter that they came if they can't teach. If they don't get a chance to teach and say something, then it's almost like they didn't come. So those first two go together.

Outside, in the outer world, on this planet, we are lucky. Because one, holy beings have come to this world. Many.

And two, they had a chance to talk and to teach. And Jesus was cut short. All of Jesus' teaching is 30 pages.

If you take all the red print in the New Testament and the three synoptic gospels and the fourth one, it's about 30 pages. And we are lucky. In Buddhism we have about 100,000 pages.

So we are lucky. Buddha taught for over 50 years. All right.

DE NYID DNGOS SU MI TZANG MOD Those two, DNGOS SU MI TZANG Translate. That table of brilliant guys back there. DNGOS SU directly MI TZANG Yeah, they're not complete.

We don't have these two. We don't have a Buddha living in this world and they're not teaching right now. The Buddha passed already.

MI TZANG MOD Start dictionary entry. MOD MA NO ROL MO DAG MOD Say MOD. MOD means I admit.

Admittedly. It is true that they're not here directly right now. It's true.

MOD means it's true. I admit it. Admittedly that's true.

Stop dictionary entry. But it's a cool word. It comes at the end of the sentence.

They didn't come. I admit it. It usually comes just before they say something the opposite.

Okay, it's true. He's not here. He's not talking.

I understand. But TZANG RGYAS KYI GSHEL TZAM Okay. We do have GSHEL TZAM.

GSHEL means the holy face of a being. Veronica. Icon.

The true face. GSHEL TZAM You know TZAM because you know Gyaltsabje. What's Gyaltsabje?

Yeah, regent. TZAM means if the king dies and the prince is too young or the princess is too young, then they will put a TZAP and they will take care of the country for 10 years or 15 years. Okay, that's called a TZAP.

GSHEL TZAP is high honorific language. We have holy, holy, holy, holy TZAPS. We have substitute teachers in the world.

Okay, holy, holy, holy substitute teachers. Who's that? Lama.

Okay, we have lama. We don't have Buddha. The historical Buddha passed away.

We saw the Mahanirvana statue. Me and Mr. Moo went to Dong Hwang. The biggest Buddha there is the laying down Buddha.

That's the Buddha at the last hour of his life and he's leaving the world. So, they made a statue because he did it and he's gone. But, we have the perfect stand-in.

We have perfect substitute which is our own personal heart teacher. Lama LUS SU THOB PA LA BYAS And we got it. We got it.

We have that. No problem. MED YOR BAN GYIS I still have three minutes.

I better stop there because I told you you could have some questions. But let's do... So Adam, make a mark there, okay?

We finished how many? Of the five hours, how many did we finish? Two.

Buddha came, Buddha said something. Okay? Alright, we have three more to go.

Alright. One good question to... should be tough question.

Everybody wake up for five minutes. Then we all go to bed. My bed is calling me.

I can hear. Come to bed. Come to bed.

Okay. Microphone for Tony. Tony has a...

He's too tough. Beijing University graduate guy. Okay.

Don't be too tough, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Thank you very much for Keshila's so enlightening speech. My question is that you know just now you mentioned the education. My question is about education.

Just now you said that the best way to present real love, the super love is not to satisfy all that you can to the person you want to love. But instead to make the person you want to love a better person, a perfect person, a good person. This moment, this sentence enlightened me very much.

Because I'm now focusing maybe in other words I'm very interested in education too. Because this moment, just like the education. For example, you take care of the kid and you wanted him to be educated very well.

Maybe send him to Beijing University, Harvard, Yale. Princeton. Yeah, Princeton too.

And also Diamond Mountain too. But the problem is that actually we cannot give everything to him, to her. But we must make her or him a better person, a perfect person.

So my question is why in China what she made me to see the Chinese education system so poor? And so left behind of this wisdom that from my childhood I was pushed by my teacher, by my parents to everything that they like me to do. They will love me in the old way, but instead of the old, the new way.

Yeah, this is the first question. The second question is if I want to utilize the new way to benefit those kids in China, how can I do? Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
So I was very lucky because I had a Princeton education first. And then I went to the monastery. I skipped the graduation.

I didn't go to graduation. I got in the car on the last day of class and I drove to the monastery. And so I went directly to the monastery and I'm the only person in my monastery.

We have almost 3,000 monks in several monasteries at that time. I'm the only one with a Western education. And I was very lucky.

I feel I was very, very lucky. Because I have all that training in a modern education. And there are many good things, like mathematics.

There's no monk in my monastery can add 3 plus 3. I mean almost. And I worked many years in my business to support them and send them money for many years.

And they lost it. Many times. Three, four times.

They lost everything. I worked for 10 years. Send the money to them.

They lost it. They don't know that people cheat them. They don't know how to read accounting.

At that time they didn't know how to use computer. In the debate, I always wiped them out. Because I just checked my computer before.

And later they found out. Then all the teacher came to me. Can you check that quotation by Asanga?

Can you check it? And they didn't have any of this. Nothing.

No medicine. No hygiene. They pee pee poo poo on the...

They go outside, they poo poo. And the monastery smell like poo poo. It's dangerous.

Many people got sick. Many, many people got sick. Try to teach them what your teacher taught you in the school.

It's very difficult for them. So that's... I think in the future we should have the education which we have now.

There are many good things. The science teaching is very good for health. If you ask me, you want to have an MD give you a heart surgery or a monk, I'll take the MD.

Because they have training. And to cut my chest. So those are valuable things.

I wouldn't be alive, I think, without medicines. So those are great. So I don't think we have to throw out the education system.

We just have to add jing kang ching. And then we're complete. Then we have everything.

And also science. I studied a lot of lately, physics. About what do you call theory of relativity, general theory of relativity on the big things.

And then on the small things, it's like, I don't know, subatomic particles and things like that. And uncertainty, Heisman... These are very beautiful things.

But they are not correct. And they understand that. They know that.

The theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity doesn't fit the theories of subatomic particles. They are not fit together. And it's the great challenge of science in the modern world.

What they know about small particles doesn't fit what they know about planets. We call it unified theory. There's no theory which brings them together.

If you understand kong shing, if you understand jing gang jing, it's easy. It's just, duh. Duh.

Easy. They don't know how light goes from the sun to the earth. Is it traveling in a wave?

Or is it traveling in a particle? Because it shows both. At different times it will act like a wave.

And sometimes it will act like a particle. And the science cannot decide. We don't know.

Why? Sometimes it looks like one thing. Sometimes it looks like a different thing.

I don't know why. So I think if we can in a careful way present the ideas of, the great ideas of jing gang jing, shing jing, kong shing, all of the education which we have now will have meaning and it will really help people. And we will live in a perfect world.

If all the business guys from Harvard Business School believe that the only way to make a successful company is to help another person to make a successful company, what will happen in the world? Everybody trying to help the other guy. What will happen to international competition?

If every country believes... I told a funny, beautiful story to the... We just went to a conference in Rome.

600 important UN people. And I told them a story. I was in Florida.

You guys know about Florida? Florida is in the south of America. And they talk like that.

And we call redneck. They are called redneck. Their neck is red.

It means they are very conservative people. They don't like Chinese people. They want America to be America.

Then I went to talk to 1,500 Florida architects and at that time there was a discussion inside America Congress. Usually in America anybody has the right to come here and buy anything. Except nuclear bomb or something.

Okay? There's a few things you cannot buy. But if you have money, it doesn't matter what country you come from.

If you have money, you can come, you can buy land, you can buy you can buy anything in America. So China government decided to buy, I think it was called Crestone Oil Company. They decided to buy an oil company.

Then all the Congress got upset. No, no. This is our competition.

China is our competition. They are our number one economy. We have to hold on.

We cannot give them oil. We have to block it. They shouldn't sell the oil company to China.

This is decided in the Congress. They were having a discussion at that time. So these guys are very, very tough America.

They don't like foreign country. They are Florida people. So I taught them jing kang ting.

I didn't call it jing kang ting. But I taught them four steps. If you want money, decide, number one, decide what you want.

This is the Abhidharma Kosha, fourth chapter. Number two, choose another person who wants the same thing. Number three, give it to them.

Take them out. Work for them. One hour a week.

One hour a week. Help them to get what they want. Make them get what you want.

Help them get what you want. Number four, kha fe min shang. Put water on the karma by being happy about your good deeds.

This is step number four. ZHI BSAM PA SBYOR BA THAG TUG Abhidharma, fourth chapter, Vasubandhu. I taught them that for like two hours.

Then at the end I said, okay, when I started this talk, somebody asked me a question. What should we do in the Congress about China want to buy American oil company? Now, after I taught you jing kang ting, you give me answer.

What should America Congress do? I think we should sell the oil company to China. We should help them to get more oil.

Then more oil come to us! And everybody went, yay! 1,500 redneck guys.

They were so excited. Give the other country what you want. Then, oh, that's the best system.

So they voted, right? They gave it. Who's the leading oil supplier in the world today?

I'll give you two choices. Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela? Who's the largest oil producer in the world?

United States. They found a new technology, fracking. Now the largest producer in the world is the United States.

They found more oil in the same ground where they couldn't find oil before. And that's why the oil price dropped in half. Because so much coming out of America.

It wasn't there before. They couldn't find it before. Suddenly they found it.

Who caused that? Where is it coming from? You see, it's very cool.

It's coming from me. So in the business school, Harvard Business School, or Beijing University Business School, Peking University, if they start to teach this thing, it will be a very beautiful world. But it doesn't mean we can skip the mathematics class or the heart surgery class.

I don't want some guy who never did heart surgery to do heart surgery on me. We should have those. We have great medical schools.

We have great universities in China. Everything is great. Science universities are great.

They're very, very good. Add Jing Gang Jing, perfect. But I don't want Jing Gang Jing without the medical school.

I don't want Jing Gang Jing without education. I want both. And then it's the perfect world.

So, is it wrong for Chinese parents to push and push and push and push their kids? I think it's fine. But then they should give them a little bit of Jing Gang Jing also for dessert.

So they should learn violin, they should learn English, and they should learn Jing Gang Jing after school. That's my opinion, and I think it would be great. I think the way, how hard Chinese people work is amazing.

I'll tell you something interesting. Harvard University screens the applicants. They don't want all the applicants from China.

They don't want... Harvard University is 80% Chinese. They don't want...

So they screen. It's illegal. But they do it.

So there's a 12% Chinese student in Harvard. Guess what is the percent of Chinese student in Caltech University? It's the best science university in the west of the United States.

It doesn't screen the students by country. It allows the best students to come in. What percent are Chinese?

80%. Open competition. Who's the best?

No screening. It's 80% Chinese. I think you're great.

I think that people work hard, study hard. How many people from China speak English? How many people from America speak Chinese?

I mean, you're doing a good job. You're doing a good job, and you work hard. But, now you have to give example to the rest of the world.

We're going to add jing khan jing to our education system. Then the world will be cool. Then you'll be a good example for the whole world.

So I think, let's have both. Somebody asked me, should we have a western university or should we have a jing khan university? I said, you want to eat vanilla ice cream the rest of your life, or just chocolate ice cream the rest of your life?

I think I'll take both. Okay? All right.

Utta, you have this thing? Okay, let's go. Welcome to Germany and Berlin.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, thank you. One of my friends get irritated with me and say, you're always criticizing America.

You're always praising China. You should move to China. I'm like, America also has many beautiful things.

Europe, Mexico, we also have beautiful things. Now, if you do a children's program in Xi'an, you don't bring a dancer from America or a guitar player or a movie maker. You bring them from Mexico.

Like that. Each country has beautiful things. We all have beautiful things.

Each country has a special spice, which only their country has. Okay, good night.