«Дар освобождения», курс 30 «Как пройти великое путешествие», занятие 3

[Speaker 1]
So, we're going to do the Heart Sutra. I was ... oh, go ahead.

I was going to do Nagarjuna, but I think ... I was working on this translation for our Mixed Nuts Translation Team. That's the name of our translation team, Mixed Nuts.

[Speaker 2]
Mixed Nuts?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's our name. Because we're all crazy, and we have mixed up people. So, anyway, my job is to finish the Heart Sutra, and before the 13th, right?

Word? I did it. Yeah, I know you did your homework.

So, anyway, the Heart Sutra is probably the most famous Buddhist teaching of all time. It's very short. It's like five pages.

Like, some sutras are 3,000 pages, and it's a very powerful teaching about emptiness. And in the monastery, we use the Heart Sutra a lot for blessing and for stopping problems. Like, if two of your friends are getting married this weekend, the Heart Sutra is a very powerful prayer.

So, in the monastery, we use it a lot for blessing and for stopping future marriage problems. And so, I thought it's good ... because it's emptiness, because it's about emptiness.

And, you know, we're going to be talking about emptiness all week in the Heart Sutra. But you learned it this morning, already.

[Speaker 2]
What happened?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Brigitte's like this. Sonam's like this. Second husband.

Second husband is not emptiness. The fact that the second husband cannot exist is emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
So, in the kitchen, if you understand emptiness, you cannot get angry.

[Speaker 1]
If you understand the ... which husband didn't come from you? I didn't do anything!

No se nada? Yo no hice nada! I didn't do anything!

So, it's like that. This one doesn't exist. He is empty.

[Speaker 2]
He's not there.

[Speaker 1]
And we'll talk about it more. Okay, so I'm just going to go straight to this. This, I think, is the best explanation of the Heart Sutra I ever saw.

[Speaker 2]
And, you know, John Brady's project ...

[Speaker 1]
where are you?

[Speaker 2]
...

[Speaker 1]
is to save 200,000 ancient books. It will take 150 years. We worked for 31 years.

We are about 5% finished. And so, I'm looking at books, great books, all day. And when I found this one, I was like, wow, that's amazing!

It's the greatest explanation of the Heart Sutra I ever saw. So, we finished translating it, our team, and we just finished it, I don't know, like a week or two weeks ago. So, I thought, oh, those guys in Guadalajara, they are so hungry for deep Dharma, you know.

We can have a special class late at night. Nobody can see if everyone's asleep. And we can do the deepest book.

So, this is just like dessert after your dinner, okay? It's just this dessert. I don't know why I learned the word dessert first.

So, here we go. I'm just going to go ... I chose six parts of the Sutra commentary.

The author lived 350 years ago. His name is Choney Lama. I like it because recently, by accident, I took the C off of his name.

[Speaker 2]
You took the what?

[Speaker 1]
The C from Choney. Then it becomes Honey Lama. So, I told Veronica, you must be the incarnation of Choney Lama.

Because you are my Honey Lama. And then, so, his name is Choney Lama. He lived about ...

yeah, I told you, 350 years ago. Born in 1675, died in 1748. And his life is a long story.

He was a great Geshe. He lived during the time of the fifth Dalai Lama.

[Speaker 2]
This current one is 14.

[Speaker 1]
Fifth Dalai Lama is very famous because he built the palace, the 1,500 rooms. Then he had a very amazing Minister of State, like Secretary of State, and his name was Desi Senggye Gatso.

[Speaker 2]
Desi Senggye Gatso.

[Speaker 1]
And he was quite young, but he was a very, very capable person. So, Choney Lama was supposed to do his Geshe examination, small Geshe. Then, there was a big problem in the country.

People found out the fifth Dalai Lama died 12 years ago. And his minister kept a secret, and he hired an actor. To play the Dalai Lama for 12 years.

Then, on the day of Choney Lama's Geshe exam, people found out. And there was a big riot in the country. And one Mongolian prince came and ...

princess came and relieved Desi Senggye Gatso of his head.

[Speaker 2]
She cut his head off.

[Speaker 1]
She relieved him of his head means ...

[Speaker 2]
Yes, yes, yes. She cut his head off.

[Speaker 1]
Then there was a big ... the whole country was like crazy. Almost all the monks came to Hassa, came to the capital.

And it was like a riot. Then Choney Lama's teacher, he said, I have an idea. This is the greatest meeting of all the monks of Tibet that's possible.

And they're all causing trouble this week. It's possible many people will die. Then he said, let's advertise super Geshe examination.

And everyone can come. You don't have to have any qualification. You just come and you debate.

Then, I think if they did it today, Alhandro will win. So he told his student, then you come and you can get a big Geshe. Choney Lama said, yeah, yeah, okay, good idea.

I'm just going to go home and prepare. And he ran out of the city, and he ran as far as he could run.

[Speaker 2]
He was scared to take this exam.

[Speaker 1]
He's supposed to be a small Geshe.

[Speaker 2]
Like me, like me.

[Speaker 1]
Then, then he got very far away, then he said, you know, teacher is the most important thing in the world.

[Speaker 2]
I should, I should obey my teacher. So he came back.

[Speaker 1]
He applied for the super Geshe examination. And he beat everybody. Many thousands of monks.

So, then after that he went to Gyume Tantric College. There are two Tantra colleges in Tibet. You have to be a high Geshe to go into them.

And he finished the course. And I'm very proud that this is the first time since 2003 that we have any group qualify for tantric exam, tantric teachings. So, I'm waiting for 15 years for a good group.

And I think we should give a hand to Alejandro and all the group here. I heard they finished all their courses. And John Brady's going to give the initiation starting ...

[Speaker 2]
soon?

[Speaker 1]
Thursday? Yeah, I will take a nap in the back, make sure he doesn't make any mistake. Okay, so then he went ...

in Tibet, it was a custom, if you came to Diamond Mountain for study, you'll go back to your home country or your home state to teach. So he went back to Choney, which is like Jalisco, okay? And then one rich guy helped him ...

I think it's Mr. Wu's previous life. He helped him to build a big monastery, like SCIM, and then he ... later he helped him to build a Tantra college.

And this Lama, he was a very sensitive person, and his mother and his brother, they died, and he freaked out, and he quit the monastery, and he went to stay in a cave, and he spent, I think, nine years in personal retreat, and during that time he wrote some amazing books like this one. So this wisdom came out of his grief for his family. And then he went back and he taught until he was 73.

[Speaker 2]
I was researching his life for another book, and when he was 60, somebody wrote a biography of him.

[Speaker 1]
Ngawang Theshe, do you guys know Ngawang Theshe? He wrote Adam's book. And he asked Choney Lama directly, can you tell us your personal spiritual experiences?

For the biography. And he said, no. So, there's nothing in the biography.

Thirteen years later, in his last year of his life, maybe he knew he was dying, he wrote down his own spiritual experiences, special experiences, and it's very beautiful to read it. It's very beautiful. And at the end of his autobiography, he says, there's just this one thing I can't figure out.

Ever since I was a little kid, I will have this vision, and I'm outside playing under the blue sky, and from the east comes Nagarjuna, and he's flying through the sky. This is the greatest teacher of emptiness. We're going to start him next retreat, okay?

He lived just after Jesus. He's flying across the sky. He's all gold color, you know.

Choney Lama was just a kid, you know. He's like, hi Nagarjuna! What's up, you know?

He says, you know, I can't talk now. Why? I got to get to the west.

I have to go to the west. They need emptiness. I got to go.

[Speaker 2]
I can't talk now.

[Speaker 1]
Choney Lama's like, come on, come and talk to me. And then Nagarjuna came down, and sank into him. And he had this dream over and over again.

And in his autobiography, he says, I can't figure it out. I don't know what it means. I know what it means.

Choney Lama is the most clear Tibetan writer for Western people. And I believe it's a sign that his teaching is going to come to Mixed Nuts Land. Nueses Mixtas Pais.

Yeah, anyway, so I believe tonight is very cool, special night. Because 350 years later, his dream coming true. Cool?

Okay, so let's go. Here we go. I don't have time to teach the whole thing, but I'll teach the best parts, okay?

All the World Cup goal parts. Okay, okay, here we go. He says, my commentary, di la sum, my commentary will have three parts.

chir sa ma dun la jukpa tenpa, I will explain to you why you need emptiness. Before I teach one word of the Heart Sutra, I will tell you why you need emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
After we finish that, second part, kap gi shundun shepa means, then I'll tell you what's the Heart Sutra mean.

[Speaker 1]
I will go through each part of the Heart Sutra. When we finish that, sab dun rikpay tenla, bem tsul dor du shepa-o, I'm going to give you my own explanation of emptiness. And I will prove to you, all the difficult ideas about emptiness, I will prove to you.

So I was translating, you know, and I reached the end of the Sutra. There's a special mantra inside the Sutra, very powerful mantra. This is the one we were using in the wedding.

So he finished explaining the mantra, very beautiful. I will teach you the explanation of the mantra.

[Speaker 2]
Then you guys can use the mantra.

[Speaker 1]
You know, if mosquitoes are bothering you, it's like, gat, gat-gata-gata-gata-gata-ga. Okay. Okay.

Then, so I finished this mantra, I thought oh. I'm finished with the commentary, you know? Then there's like 50 more pages.

Okay. Very beautiful presentation of emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
The difficult parts of emptiness. So, he follows Tsongkapa. Tsongkapa, our lineage, we have a tradition.

[Speaker 1]
We don't explain the easy parts. We go for the hard part. So, that's what we're going to do, okay?

All right, DANG PO NI THAR DU SKYES SKYES BU'I GANG LA SBYUR PA CHOG BA'I ZHI NI RGYAL BA'I RTEN PA YIN LA If you want to escape sickness, aging, death that we talked about this morning, you must study these teachings, okay?

[Speaker 2]
You must.

[Speaker 1]
Somebody asked me the other day, I had a long meeting with someone, and they're like, they have a very serious personal problem, and I just said, look, you got to use the emptiness. And I talked to them for an hour and a half. I used the emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
Then they just ...

[Speaker 1]
this is an old student, they know about emptiness. Then they look at me, they're like, can you tell me something else that will help? Something like gentle and soft and cuddly, like this shirt Barbara and Enrique gave me this shirt, very soft.

I said no. Then that's it, end of conversation. They sent me a really bad email.

[Speaker 2]
Anyway, okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, if you want to solve any problem, you must understand this teaching. DE'I NA LAS KYANG MTHONG NYID KYI LTA BA LA TSOR BA LA SBYUGS DGOS And you must try, try, try to understand emptiness. LTA BA DE NI RTOGS PA'I RTEN PA'I THAMS CAD KYI RTZO BA'AM SNYING PO'O DANG The Buddhism has two parts.

[Speaker 2]
One is the physical teachings. The ones that John Brady is talking about, that he's saving.

[Speaker 1]
You know, the videos, the stuff in the computer. Then the ... that's half Buddhism.

Half of Buddhism is in here, and in here, in your brain and in your heart. We call living Buddhism. Okay, then he says, LTA BA DE NI RTOGS PA'I RTEN PA'I THAMS CAD KYI RTZO BA'AM SNYING PO'O The understanding emptiness is the TSOR BA of all the teachings in your brain and your heart.

It's the TSOR BA, TSOR BA. Nick, oh sorry, human dictionary. Word, what's the TSOR BA mean?

[Speaker 2]
What's the TSOR BA mean? LAM GYIS TSOR BA Yeah, principal, the main, okay, the main thing of Buddhism inside a human being is RTOGS PA NI LTA BA, understanding emptiness, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Then he says, if you don't understand the TSOR BA, the word TSOR BA, I'll give you a different ... I'll tell you a different word. Emptiness is the SNYING PO of the Buddhist teachings, SNYING PO.

[Speaker 2]
SNYING, sorry. The heart, okay?

[Speaker 1]
You're supposed to go, oh, I get it. The heart in the Heart Sutra is understanding why the second husband was never there. Okay, you want to know the heart of Buddhism?

[Speaker 2]
Heart Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
My Lama used to say, he got in a car accident before I met him. He hurt his throat. He always talks like Star Wars.

[Speaker 2]
It's not the Heart Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
It's a Hard Sutra. Anyway, it doesn't come out in Spanish, maybe.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so the heart for him in the Heart Sutra is understanding that the second husband was never there.

[Speaker 1]
DE BSTAN PA'I GZHUNG NI LUNG GI BSTAN PA THAMS CAD KYI RTZO BA'AM SNYING PO YIN PAS And the books of Buddhism that teach emptiness are also the SNYING of the physical teachings, the heart. Okay, what's the Sanskrit for heart? Herdaya.

[Speaker 2]
Say herdaya. Okay, heart comes from that.

[Speaker 1]
The old pronunciation is herdaya, which became cardiac. It came into cardiac. Okay, so the Sanskrit is the root for heart and for cardiac.

[Speaker 2]
And since the heart inside a person is their understanding of emptiness, and since the heart of all the 200,000 Buddhist books is emptiness, then if you can find a teacher who can teach you emptiness, that's the heart of all teachers.

[Speaker 1]
That's the best of all teachers. Okay, but he makes a joke here. I don't know, maybe Nick can get it, but maybe the Human Dictionary.

[Speaker 2]
You ready?

[Speaker 1]
When he says the heart of all teachers, the greatest of all teachers, he calls it ten del de khor na nyi dunpa. Ten del de khor na nyi dunpa. What's that mean?

Yeah, the teacher who can teach emptiness by teaching dependent origination, then that's the heart of all teachers. What was the dependent origination in the kitchen story? Yeah, the seeds planted by yelling at the kids produced the husband who said, you're stupid!

How does the wife prove she's idiota?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, she answered back, no, I'm not stupid, you're stupid.

[Speaker 1]
Now listen, I have to tell all the wives something, okay? Husbands, you can close your ears, okay? It's true that all husbands are stupid.

Also, Pao, also boyfriends, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Same. It's true. But don't say it.

[Speaker 1]
Then you plant a new seed. Okay, got it? Now, he said a teacher who can teach emptiness of the husband by teaching the kids, now that's an emptiness teacher.

Who can tie it together. Got it? The problem with the wife is she doesn't see the emptiness.

She doesn't understand there's no husband who doesn't come from her. Coming from her is dependent origination.

[Speaker 2]
That was Orit.

[Speaker 1]
And the one who doesn't come from her is Mr. Scott emptying his husband. Okay. THAMS CAD KYI RNAMS NAS...

PHYIR BSHAD PA THAMS CAD KYI RNAMS NAS BSTAN DO BSAM MA DE KHO NA GNYIS BSHAD PA DE BSHAD PA CHOG YIN PA'I PHYIR TE Because the greatest understanding of emptiness is the one where you understand the kids.

[Speaker 2]
The seeds, okay?

[Speaker 1]
A person who understands emptiness but doesn't understand seeds is not fully understand emptiness. Then he says, RJES RTEN DE'O LTOS PA LAS RTEN PA'I SNYING PO STONG PA NYID BSHAD PA DANG He likes to quote other books to prove it's not just my idea. So there's a very, very great poem written by Tsongkapa.

It's a love poem. He wrote two famous love poems. The first one was the first book, the first thing he ever wrote in his life.

He's like 16 years old. And he wrote a very hot poem about Tara. You should put it on your wall.

It's really hot. Some people say they had a thing going, okay? Probably.

Then much later he wrote a very hot love poem about Buddha. And it's very beautiful. It's like, I have a crush on you Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
Why?

[Speaker 1]
You teach seeds and emptiness together. Muy guapo. Yeah, you are so hot.

So this is the poem. He quotes the poem.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
BSTAN PA'I SNYING PO STONG PA NYID The heart of all the Buddhist teachings is emptiness. Why did he choose that as his first quotation? There's like a hundred quotations.

Huh? Yeah, the title, the heart, Heart Sutra. He's saying that's why it's Heart Sutra.

Okay, and then he has another poem from the same book. This, I have a crush on you Buddha. BSTAN PA'I SNANG NAS RTEN DANG LTON PA DANG ZHES RAB SNANG NAS RTEN DANG ZHES PA GNYIS JI RTEN DAG NA RGYAL BA'I DBANG PO ZHING BU SBYUNG BSLAB PAR GYUR KHYEN GZHAN GYIS MIN BSTAN PA'I SNANG NAS RTEN DANG LTON PA DANG LTON PA DANG The greatest teacher is the one who knows how to teach about the seeds that you planted with your kids.

ZHES RAB SNANG NAS RTEN DANG ZHES PA GNYIS Of all the kinds of wisdom, the one which also understands seeds is the hottest. JI RTEN DAG NA RGYAL BA'I DBANG PO ZHING Jesus was often called the King of Kings. And Tsongkapa says, you know, this is the King of Kings.

This idea, emptiness plus seeds. BU SBYUNG BSLAB PAR GYUR KHYEN GZHAN GYIS MIN You're the only person who figured it out. When you teach emptiness of the second husband, teach seeds.

When you teach seeds, teach the emptiness of the second husband.

[Speaker 2]
Always teach them together.

[Speaker 1]
THAR PAR RTOG PA LA MTON NYID RTOG PA'I LTA BA MED MED RUNG GI YIN LA YIN TE MTHING NGES RDZIN GYI RGYAL BA LAS Then he says, if you want freedom from the pain of this life, you must understand emptiness. The only way. MTHING NGES RDZIN GYI RGYAL BA LAS Very, very cool sutra.

King of the concentration. Samadhi Raja Sutra. Very famous sutra.

It's the source of all meditation teachings. It's like King of Meditation Sutra. That sutra says, KHYAL TE BDAG MED CHOS LA SOGS SOGS RTOG SOGS SOGS DER BDAG GANG ZHIG BSGOM BYAS NA DE NI MYA NGAN BDE THOB BRAS BU RGYUD GYUR GZHAN GANG YIN DE NI ZHES MIN GYUR KHYAL TE BDAG MED CHOS LA SOGS SOGS RTOG If you can see emptiness directly, SOGS SOGS DER BDAG GANG ZHIG BSGOM BYAS NA and you continue to meditate on what you saw, DE NI MYA NGAN BDE THOB BRAS BU RGYUD DE NI MYA NGAN BDE THOB BRAS BU RGYU

[Speaker 2]
This is the real cause of nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
What's nirvana in the kitchen story? If someone can tell me, I will give you 50 US dollars. Not you, not you.

Wait, wait, wait.

[Speaker 2]
You're a teacher. Forget it.

[Speaker 1]
Trying to make money off the Dharma. Enrique, Enrique, come on, come on. Were you stretching or were you raising your head?

Okay, go, go. Where is the chance to reach nirvana in the kitchen story?

[Speaker 2]
I want the exact moment. To understand that the husband, that it's not my fault, is coming for saying to your kids, you're stupid.

[Speaker 1]
Good, but tell me the crucial moment for nirvana. What did he say? No karte?

[Speaker 2]
Not feel angry, just when she calls you stupid. Okay, I'll give you 30 dollars for that.

[Speaker 1]
I'll give you later. It's when he says you're stupid and she says, no, you ...

[Speaker 2]
And when she shut up, that's nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, got it? Why she shut up? Because she understood emptiness and seeds.

[Speaker 2]
And if she keeps doing like that, she will reach nirvana. Because there's no other nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
It's not you come to Lake Chalapa and you walk to the middle, and you go like that, and then you go to heaven. Not like that. It's ...

no, you're ... then you ... that's nirvana.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, got it?

[Speaker 1]
Got it?

[Speaker 2]
That's the definition of nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
When ... you know, my little brother, I have four brothers, we are like Enrique and ... how many you got?

Four?

[Speaker 2]
Eleven, forget it.

[Speaker 1]
We have four brothers. We are always fighting, we are breaking doors, we break windows, we break doors. You won't believe it.

You never had ... your two boys never did that, right? If you want to see, have two more boys, okay?

Then my little brother ... so I've tried to be the peacemaker, you know? Then he will pinch me, you know?

[Speaker 2]
Then he'll ...

[Speaker 1]
I'm like, yeah, okay. Then he hit me, you know? Yeah, okay.

Then he like hit me here, you know? I'm like, ah! Why talk about that?

If you ...

[Speaker 2]
if you understand emptiness and seeds, so I'm using seed ...

[Speaker 1]
it's the DCI word, right?

[Speaker 2]
For dependent origination.

[Speaker 1]
If you really get used to the idea, it's physically impossible for anyone to upset you.

[Speaker 2]
You know?

[Speaker 1]
Like this. Okay. Yeah, boom.

Yeah, okay. Got it? Okay, that's how you get to nirvana.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Now, last line of that sutra. Which sutra? King of Meditation.

King of Meditation.

[Speaker 2]
Samadhi Raja. Samadhi Raja. Last line.

[Speaker 1]
RGYUD GZHAN GANG YIN DE NI ZHIG MI RGYUR RGYUD GZHAN MED Word. Word. Okay, you got to do the second part.

RGYUD GZHAN MED Take the D off the RGYUD. There's no other cause for nirvana. It's not possible to get to a place where no one can piss you off, except for emptiness.

There's no other way.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
So, Buddhism, that person I met recently, they're trying to get me to tell them some suggestion to be happier. They want me to say, you know, maybe you should drink less coffee. Or understand this other person also has problems.

You know, breathe, breathe deep. No, there's no other way.

[Speaker 2]
In Buddhism, no other way.

[Speaker 1]
You must understand that the husband was never there.

[Speaker 2]
You are not controlling your anger.

[Speaker 1]
You are realizing that the person you're angry at was never there. Then you can breathe deep, okay?

[Speaker 2]
You can drink less coffee.

[Speaker 1]
But that's not going to stop it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? There's only one thing going to stop it.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Alejandro.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I'm so pissed off.

[Speaker 1]
What? That guy Antonio in your group, Antonio.

[Speaker 2]
Pissed me off. Then Alejandro's like, we don't have a guy named Antonio. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
You don't have, right? Then I'm like, I guess I'm not pissed off. Got it?

This new guy, the guy's not there. He was never there. Then you just feel stupid, you know?

[Speaker 2]
what?

[Speaker 1]
There's no Antonio in your group? Oh, I got the wrong group, I'm sorry. Okay, got it?

Alright, here we go. Next one. LUS GRUB KYIS KYANG, you translate.

Yeah, Nagarjuna also said, okay? Nagarjuna, now he's pulling out the big gun, you know, like this. You don't believe me?

Emptiness is important? I got Nagarjuna.

[Speaker 2]
Nagarjuna.

[Speaker 1]
GANG DAG MTHONG NYID MI SHES PA DE DAG BAR PA BRTEN MA YIN A person who doesn't understand emptiness can never be free of pain. It's not possible. MTHONG GRUB SRID PA'I BRTZON RANG NI MONGS PA DE DAG BKUR BA RGYUR They will continue to live in the prison of samsara.

Okay. DE NAS KYANG DAG DANG BDAG GIS RANG BZHIN GYIS GRUB PAR GSUNGS NA KHOR BA'I KHOR ZHING DE DAG DANG BDAG GIS RANG BZHIN GYIS GRUB PAR GSUNGS NA KHOR BA'I KHOR ZHING DE RANG BZHIN GYIS MED PAR MTHONG NA KHOR BA'I GRUB PAR RGYUR YOD TZAM GYIS YIN TE And the reason that Nagarjuna was right, now, you ready?

[Speaker 2]
Here comes an important part.

[Speaker 1]
The reason Nagarjuna was correct is because you and I, we don't understand what is me. We don't understand me.

[Speaker 2]
That's the main problem. We're not talking about the husband who's not in the kitchen. We're talking about the wife who's not in the kitchen.

Okay, you want to take that deeper. You want to go deeper. It's not the husband who's not in the kitchen.

[Speaker 1]
The wife who got yelled at was never in the kitchen either. I'm not going to tell you about it yet, because that's a whole book, okay? Okay, GRUB PAR LAS DE BZHIN ZHIG PA'I DAG DANG BDAG GIS SKYE LEN PA BDAG TU'I GZHAN YANG DAG MIN TOG SKYE ZHING JI LTAR BRDZIN PA DE DAG KUN NAS NYON MONGS BSTAN DAG DANG BDAG GIS MI MIGS RNAM PAR BYANG BAR GSUNGS Very famous.

This is Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Jong Wen, Jong Wen, Boroboromido, Jin, Boroboromido de Jin, okay? Got it?

Where? Any Chinese speakers here? No, they weren't.

Okay. Yeah, Boroboromido de Jin. Okay, so DE BZHIN Buddha taught many, gave many great teachings called Perfection of Wisdom.

There's a hundred thousand verses which we still have. There's the twenty thousand verses, which is really twenty-five thousand verses. There's the eighteen thousand verses.

[Speaker 2]
There's the eight thousand verses. There's the Diamond Cutter Sutra. And then there's the Heart Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, and Buddha taught, he said, you know, I'll give you the condensed version. It's called DUB PA, Parchin DUB PA. DUB PA means condensed.

And Choney Lama likes it. So he said, DE BZHIN BYIS PA DAG DANG BDAG GIS SKYE LEN PA Now, you have to understand the word BYIS PA. What's BYIS PA, Nick?

Be careful, be careful. Infant, you can say infant. But in American English, when Aisha is really irritated at Anatole, God, you're acting like a two-year-old today.

It's a special American English insult. You act like a two-year-old today. It means you are ...

anyway. Actually, two-year-old means like ... anyway.

Act crazy. So Buddha had a special name for people who didn't understand emptiness. Yes.

You're just a two-year-old. It's BYIS PA, okay?

[Speaker 2]
BYIS PA.

[Speaker 1]
Now, it comes here in this sutra. Two-year-olds think there's a me. And two-year-olds think there's a mind.

[Speaker 2]
Dr. ...

[Speaker 1]
Dr. Dushyayanda Minto Keshinjik, they cannot understand what is me. JI LTAR BRDZON PA DE LTA BU NAS NYON MONGS BSTAN And when you don't understand who is me, then you can have anger and jealousy and desire. DA LTA BDAG GIS MI DMIGS RNAM PAR BYANG BAR GSUNGS And what I say ...

Buddha's talking, right? If your attitude about me and mine is MI DMIGS, MI DMIGS Yeah, cannot see it. What's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
If you reach a point where DMIGS, cannot see DMIGS, and if DMIGS reach a point where DMIGS cannot see DMIGS, and especially if your love reaches a point where you can not see DMIGS, but you can love him, RNAM PAR BYANG, you can reach perfection.

[Speaker 1]
Now, since I have $20 extra, which Enrique didn't get, I can ask, what's the most famous cannot-see in Buddhism?

[Speaker 2]
What? Huh?

[Speaker 1]
Nice! $20. Okay, did I say ...

I didn't say American dollars, right? Yeah, he's right.

[Speaker 2]
There's a special mantra for Tsongkapa. The first word, DMIGS MED TSE BA, the love which doesn't see people. And Buddha here says, if you can reach that, about you, and me, you can become Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
DE'I PHYIR RGYAL BA'I GSUNG RAB LTA DAG NGOS DANG, RGYUD PA'I PHYIR RIGS KYI SKO NAS RTEN DANG, BSAM BA DE SKO NAS NYID KYI RTEN LA ZHUL BA YIN TE, So it doesn't ... so all the 200,000 books of Buddhism, either directly or indirectly, are teaching emptiness. Because that's the only thing that can help you realize the husband was never there.

DRIN GZUGS LAS Nice! Those synapses were ... Yeah, he's going to quote Shantideva, the guide to the bodhisattva's way of life.

YAN LA DE DAG THAMS CAD NI THUGS PA'I ZHES RAB DON DU GSUNGS, the only reason Buddha taught was to teach emptiness. RJE NYID KYIS KYANG, KHYOD KYI RJE NYID KA TSOGS PA RTEN DANG NYID LAS TZAM STE ZHUGS, Tsongkapa also says in his famous poem, everything you ever taught was emptiness packed in dependent origination.

[Speaker 2]
Everything you ever taught was emptiness packed in dependent origination.

[Speaker 1]
SDONG NI BSAM ... Okay, hang with me. It's late.

You're tired. Five more minutes. Let's kick ass in the last five minutes.

[Speaker 2]
I like to say, kick Dharma ass.

[Speaker 1]
My teacher doesn't like it, but I just feel like that.

[Speaker 2]
Let's kick Dharma ass.

[Speaker 1]
SDONG NI BSAM BA LA MOD PAS, MOD NAS NYANGS PA DANG LTON PA DANG RTOGS PA'I PHAN YIN NI, MTHONG BA NYID DKA' LAS MANG DU GSUNGS SHING Just thinking about emptiness, just hearing about emptiness for one hour, it's stated in all the open teachings and in all the tantras that it's the most important thing.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, you ready? Hundred dollars.

[Speaker 1]
Hundred dollars. Okay, get ready.

[Speaker 2]
First person to raise their hand.

[Speaker 1]
He says, right? He just said tantras and open teachings, the most important thing they can teach is emptiness. Mixed nuts are not allowed to enter.

[Speaker 2]
It's too easy. He quotes, you ready?

[Speaker 1]
The perfection of wisdom in 300 verses. Who is that? Damn!

Talk to Chen Zong, she'll have a hundred bucks. So, thirty to an hour. Enrique, twenty to ...

Who was that?

[Speaker 2]
Hasso.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Hasso. And a hundred to Mariana. Yeah, let's give Mariana a hand.

She's hot. The perfection of wisdom sutra in 300 verses is the old name for the diamond cutter sutra. So, Choney Lama goes straight to the diamond cutter sutra to explain the heart sutra.

RANG SBYOR GANG GI JIR RTEN GANG DE NYID RIM PA CHEN NA DON GYI GANG BAR BYED PAS O SU BUDI This is Buddha's disciple who he taught the diamond cutter sutra. If you took a billion planets and covered it with diamonds, DE BZHIN GZHAGS PA BRTAG CHUNG PA YANG DAG PA RDZOGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS LA CHIN PA CHIN PA and if you offered those billion planets covered with diamonds to the Buddha, GANG GI CHOS KYI RNAMS DANG NI LTA LA ZIG ZHIG PA'I ZIG SU BYAS PA'I SANGS GSUNG NAS GZHAN DAG LA YANG DAG PA'I ZHIG PA DE BYAS TE if a person takes a single line, four lines, out of this diamond cutter sutra and teaches it correctly to another person,

[Speaker 2]
like they became a Kamalashila ACI teacher,

[Speaker 1]
DE NYID ZHIG DE LAS ZIN NAMS CHE'I MANG TU BRTAG MED PHAG TU MED PAR BSKYED DO they get more good karma than the first person.

[Speaker 2]
To teach one verse of the Diamond Cutter Sutra correctly to another person, it's better than filling a billion planets with diamonds and offering it to the Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Then I can see your mind right now. You're like, ah, that's one of those Buddhist exaggerations.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, but who said it?

[Speaker 1]
The Buddha! Duh! It must be pretty cool.

Oh yeah, I'm getting attacked. KHYOD RIN CHEN Last time, last part, okay, ready? Then we'll leave the room to the creatures.

KHYOD RIN CHEN BYIN PA'I RDO LAS KYANG So this is another sutra about a young man named Ratnadhara. BYAMS PA'I BYANG CHUB SEMS PA THAG BSKYED PA LA BRTAL BA'I RGYAL PA RGYA STONG DU PHAR ROL DU CHEN PO'I GRU LA BYAS PA BA'I GANG GI GCOD KYI RNAMS DANG, DE'I THETSAM DANG BYAS PA This is very cool.

[Speaker 2]
If a person is a bodhisattva and they have studied the six perfections their whole life, and they did them pretty well, okay, they're doing them pretty well, but there's another person who listened to the kitchen story, okay, and in their mind they started to connect seeds with emptiness. That person made more karma. Okay, someone who sat in this room this afternoon, if they start to understand that the kids caused the husband and there's no other husband, and if they start to make this connection, but they're not sure about it, they're like, Geshe-la said that, I don't know, the kids are connected to the husband.

[Speaker 1]
It's kind of weird. Even just thinking it's kind of weird is better karma than a bodhisattva's whole life.

[Speaker 2]
Got it? That's cool.

[Speaker 1]
Got it? Yeah. Let's say somebody came here, they were new, someone came here, they were new, and they heard this story, you know, and you say, ah, that's a weird story, you know.

I don't really get it. There's supposed to be some connection between yelling at your kids and your husband's not there.

[Speaker 2]
If you get that far to think, that's weird.

[Speaker 1]
You make more good karma than a bodhisattva who spends his whole life doing the six perfections, who doesn't understand that connection.

[Speaker 2]
Last question, even mixed nuts.

[Speaker 1]
Not a hundred dollars. Let's go to sixty, okay? I feel like I'm Oprah Winfrey or something.

Let's go to sixty, okay? Buddha mentions the word upaya, upaya. What's it mean, and what's he talking about?

Skillful means, means, upaya in Buddhism means, there's a famous story in Islam. There's a famous guy named Nasruddin. He's a traveling wise man, poor man, and he gets, a rich man offers to let him sleep in his house.

[Speaker 2]
So, out of compassion, Nasruddin burns the house down. He leaves a candle going, and he continues on his journey, and he burns the house down by accident on purpose to help the rich man, because he loves the rich man.

[Speaker 1]
In Buddhism we call upaya, upaya. Unexpected spiritual tricks. Okay, so what's, what is the upaya in this, in this, in this last part?

I saved sixty bucks. We can go to Hardin for another night, okay? Ah, you're getting too complicated.

Okay, I saved sixty bucks. Bringing, bringing those two ideas together in one, in one talk, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Bringing the kids to the kitchen argument, is upaya.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, that's, that's amazing teaching. Okay, you could talk for half an hour why the second husband's not there, but if you tie it to bad behaving kids, every parent's going to remember.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so that upaya, upaya, he mentions it here, right?

[Speaker 1]
Where is that? Yeah, THABS SKAD PA DANG PHYAL BA means, okay, for free, okay? I think it'll be easier.

PHYAL BA means connected. What's PHYAL BA mean?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, not connected. PHYAL BA is not connected. If the bodhisattva doesn't, is PHYAL BA, not, if he doesn't have upaya, he can spend his whole life working on the six perfections, but he doesn't make as good a karma as a person who was in this room this afternoon, who starts to tie seeds and emptiness together, and that tying together is upaya.

Cool?

[Speaker 1]
All right, Robin, are you up for the mandala offering? Come on, you just say SA GZHI and you just forget the ... the rest you go, Do it the way I did it in the monastery.

You go like this, SA GZHI, and then you just forget the rest, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
One, two, three ... PHU KYI GZHU SHING MED KONG DRANG VI RAG LING SHI NIN DE GYEN PAR GYI SANG GYI SHIN DU MIK TE UAR GYI DROG KUN NANG DRAG SHING NAG CHUG PAR ZHOG YID AMGUR DUR RATNAMANDALAKAM YATAYAMI Robin, just ... Okay, here we go.

Wait, wait, wait. Go.

[Speaker 2]
DI'I KHA'O NGOS SON NAM GYI ZHES TSAD ZHOGS SHING SON NAM GYI ZHES LAS CHUNG BA'I DRAG PAR KUN GYIS DROG PAR ZHOG Cool.

[Speaker 1]
It's so nice after all that depressing old age stuff. It's really hard to be getting old and have to teach old age.

[Speaker 2]
It's very bad to teach old age.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.