«Дар освобождения», курс 37 «Лучшее, что ты можешь сделать со своей жизнью», занятие 4

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Hi, welcome back. I just got some good news that they just experienced a small earthquake in Taiwan. Congratulations.

I'm sure that's some bodhisattva in our group. Congratulations. So yeah, the story about the 500 ducks, or geese, I guess, comes from...

I found it, it's in the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish. And if you'd like to read it someday, we can. We're kind of behind in this class, so we got to start speeding up.

And the next picture that I wanted to show, we're going to talk about infinity. We're going to talk about what does it feel like to jump from one planet to another without number, without any number. Billions and billions of planets.

Well, I say billions because it's an easy word to say, but there's no number. And you jump on that, you leap across that many planets to make connection with that many people. And there's a connection between the hearing about it many times and then experiencing it infinite times.

And he's going to talk about that. All right, here we go. ,RGYAL PO MA SKYE DRA LA STONG NYID KYI BAG CHAGS, ,CHIN TU CHE BA YOD PAS, This is talking about a king called Ajata Shatru.

Ajata means not born yet. Ajata. And ja came into genetics, for example.

And shatru means enemy, as Ari. So Ajata Shatru means before he came out of his mother's womb, a, what do you call it, future seer? A seer said that he would kill his father.

So he was called the unborn enemy, Ajata Shatru. But later, and in fact he did, but later he repented and became a famous saint. ,STONG NYID KYI BAG CHAGS, ,CHIN TU CHE BA YOD PAS, So he had a very, by the time he became king, he had a very heavy seed for emptiness.

,DUG TSOS CI GYI SKABS, And he had prepared a meal for the monks in his kingdom. ,BYAM YANG NA DGOS ZER BSANG STONG RI BA ZHIG BU BAS, Manjushri attended as a bodhisattva and the king tried to offer him a golden robe made of pure gold, threads of pure gold. And then suddenly Manjushri disappeared.

And he's standing there with the robe to give it to Manjushri and Manjushri just disappeared. So then he's like, wow, I don't know what I'm supposed to do about that. And he tried it.

He said, let me try it on myself. Maybe it would fit me. And he put it on.

And suddenly he disappeared after he put the robe on, the golden robe on. And then because he had a heavy seed in his mind, because he had attended teachings about emptiness before, when he saw these different kinds of physical disappearances, it triggered the perception of emptiness in his mind. So this is the kind of story that's very dangerous because people will go around trying to get someone to disappear so they can see emptiness.

These are the kind of dangerous stories. It doesn't mean that if someone disappears when you're trying to give them a gift, that you're about to see emptiness. It doesn't mean that.

But it is true that there can be small personal experiences of absence which remind you of emptiness. What's the most famous one in the DCI system? Small absence of an expected object.

That's a good one. I'm thinking of something else. Huh?

Something in your pocket.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay. Yeah, you're looking for your credit card and you take... It's always JB.

I don't know why. He's always the person who has to pay for me. But I change my pants before I go out to dinner with JB and then I forget the credit card.

Then I'm looking in my pocket for the credit card. It's true that the absence of an expected object in your pocket can remind you of emptiness. But that doesn't mean you should try to take JB out as often as possible and forget your credit card.

Okay, so try to distinguish. What they're saying is keep coming to classes. Keep learning.

Keep listening. Everything you hear has an effect on your mind. Everything you ever experience will come up later in your life as a different experience.

If you can plant some seeds for emptiness, by attending a Lam Rim teaching in 2021, then in 2030, you might be at a restaurant with JB still trying to get his dinner. You'll reach into your pocket and you'll have an experience of emptiness because of the seed you planted 10 years before. So try to expose yourself to teachings.

All right. I like to call it the four spaces meditation. Here's a picture of it.

Sitting on your back in a nice grassy field or a nice rocky plateau at Diamond Mountain and watching the sky, which is what this little girl is doing. It's not emptiness. But if you have seeds, because you went to the Lam Rim teachings and you were too busy to really focus on it, but you heard the teachings, those seeds will affect you later, as they did the 500 ducks or geese.

All right, good. All right, which takes us to today's class. We're hopelessly behind.

All right. SEMS SDIG BSKYED PA NA, SANGS PA DANG RGYA BRJEN, SOGS KYANG DBANG NAS CHOS CING, KU LUS LA DANG CHE, DE SANGS PA THAMS CAD SGRUB PA'I DROG CHE We're still on this theme that, he's going back to the theme that if you're a bodhisattva, you can help other people just by being someone they can offer a coffee to or something like that. He gives the example of these devas.

So deva means, if you meditate a lot in this life, and because you're meditating a lot, you don't have time to hurt people, as we usually do, and then because of that good karma, default good karma, you become born like Superman or Iron Man or Wonder Woman 1984. You become this beautiful, handsome, strong deva. If you succeed in reaching bodhichitta, you attract these powerful beings.

I like to say these are people who use planets as marbles to play games. They are so powerful they can flip a planet with their finger. These are deva.

He mentions Brahma and Shakra. He mentions a few of them. He says they will be attracted to you and they will make offerings to you.

Their influence is that you will enjoy good health. They will drok che. What's drokpo in Tibetan?

Drokpo. Friend. They will be your friend.

They will hang out with you. Maybe you don't even see them, but they make your life easier. They are like Gyelse, being your attendant invisibly all the time.

They are just doing things for you. You don't even know. That's one of the effects of being a bodhisattva.

RDZOGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA LAS DANG LAS CHUNG DANG DE BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS LA BRTEN NAS CHUNG BA'I SANGS RGYAS KHYIS KYANG BYANG CHUB SEMS PA LA GRUB PAR BRDZAD PAR GSUNGS TE This is now starting a very, very, very famous topic about where do Buddhas come from. This is going to take us, I don't know, maybe a couple of days. I don't know.

But it's very famous. Extremely famous. So the question is, where do Buddhas come from?

RDZOGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS, total Buddhas. Samyaksambuddha, right? BYANG CHUB SEMS PA LAS CHUNGS They come from bodhisattvas.

How do you get a Buddha? Well, you need to get a bodhisattva. Then that's where you get a Buddha.

What's the raw material for a Buddha? It's a bodhisattva. Hey, if you want a new Buddha, how do you get one?

Well, you got to start with a bodhisattva. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA LA BRTEN NAS Well, how do you get a new bodhisattva? Well, you got to get a new bodhichitta.

That's where they come from. Where do Buddhas come from? If I want a new Buddha, how do I get one?

Well, go find a bodhisattva. They're about to be a Buddha. Well, if I want to find a new bodhisattva, what do I do?

Well, go find someone who just got bodhichitta. Look for bodhichitta. That makes bodhisattvas.

Bodhisattvas make Buddhas. Therefore, and this is a very, very famous idea in Buddhism, Buddhas respect bodhisattvas more than other Buddhas. Buddhas respect bodhisattvas more than they do other Buddhas.

Yeah, his pal's like, why? Well, he's about to give you like ten pages about it. Let's talk about it.

Why is it that a Buddha would rather meet a bodhisattva than another Buddha? That's a good question, right? All right, here we go.

I have a picture for you guys. Maybe, wrong guy. This is a different guy.

There you go. I don't know about you, but I had a good time in school. I had wonderful teachers.

After I left school and went to college and started my life, I used to go back to the school and meet my teachers. In fact, I just met my sixth grade teacher. That's 50 years ago.

We're still close friends. It's a nice thing to go back and see your roots. Where did you come from?

Go back and meet the people who made you who you are. That's part of the answer, pal. It's the pleasure of going back to the sixth grade teacher who made you the Nagarjuna translator you are now, 50 years ago.

And they did. It's like honoring where you came from. Honoring the person, your parents or your teachers.

Get in the mood. When Buddhists want to have a good time, they try to connect with who they used to be. Where they came from.

Their roots. It's all about roots. SDO LAS KYANG LTA BA TSE PA LA CHAGS BYA'I NYAL BA LA NI MA YIN NO After all, doesn't the sutra say, doesn't Lord Buddha say in the sutra, I ask you to bow down to the crescent moon and not the full moon.

I ask you to bow down to the crescent moon. We have a crescent moon going on right now and not the full moon. What's it mean?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah, nice. Bow down to the person who has bodhichitta who's going to become a Buddha.

I would rather that you guys respect bodhisattvas even than Buddhas. Because that's where our roots are. That's where we came from.

It's an interesting concept. Then Lord Buddha states it in the sutras by saying, he states it in kind of a secret way. He says, I want you to bow down to crescent moons not to full moons.

Being a nerd, Veronica says I'm a nerd, I don't know. But I went and found that quotation. It's in the Ratnakuta, which is called the, it's a special section of the Buddhist teachings called the Pile of Jewels.

It's in a section called the story of Kasyapa.

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Okay.

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Here we have a picture that can help you remember. I always like to think of the Muslim sign of Islam. It's easy to imagine that the crescent is more holy even than the full moon.

That's a connection you can make. Every time you see this symbol of Islam, you can think about bodhisattvas. DE BZHIN DU GANG DAG SNGAGS LA RAB TU THANG BA DE DAG GIS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA LA CHAGS BYA'I DE BZHIN SHES PA LA NI MA YIN NO Then Pabongka Rinpoche says, there's also another quotation in sutra where Lord Buddha says, if you love me, bow down to bodhisattvas and not to buddhas.

If you have faith in me, THANG BA, I ask you, please honor the bodhisattvas even more than the buddhas. Those of you who have faith in me, I ask you, show it by bowing down to where I came from and not who I am. It's beautiful.

Something beautiful. That comes from the same sutra. You can find it in the same sutra.

CI PHYIR GZHAN NA Now, yay, Pabongka Rinpoche. I love him because he always explains things. He's like Tsongkapa or Choney Lama.

He says, hey, maybe you guys are wondering why. CI PHYIR GZHAN NA Hey, why is that? Well, BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SHING LTAR ZHUGS NAS Listen.

Suddenly last night I was reviewing this for the class and it struck me. My mom had a station wagon because she had four boys. You probably know about this stuff.

This is like an old SUV but big back. In the back you could stuff like three or four kids in the backpack and keep them out of trouble, mostly. She would...

When I became a teenager and I could drive and I had this girlfriend named Veronica, she would loan me the car. That's a great car for a date. Then sometimes she would drive us somewhere and it'd be like, wow, your mom is driving two teenagers around.

Frankly, we were making out in the back. We didn't show her we were making out. You know what I mean?

Just get this picture in your mind of the mom who's supposed to be making sure the kids don't make out, is driving them around in a station wagon and they're making out in the back. I'm just saying. Why you got this picture, Geshe-la?

BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SHING LTAR ZHUGS NAS When bodhisattvas want to get in their divine chariots and enjoy the five objects of the senses with each other. Got it? Station wagon, backpack.

SHING LTAR BSTAN PA GZHAN MED NA If they can't find any horses to pull the chariot around, the Buddha will come and offer himself as the Budo. Got it? When the bodhisattvas want to make out in their chariots and there's no horses available to pull them around, the mom, which is Lord Buddha, will come and pull the chariot around to honor the bodhisattvas.

Are the bodhisattvas doing something important? No, they're making out in the back. SDU YIN SNGA LA RGANG GUR CHOD SDU YIN SNGA LA RGANG GUR CHOD means they are having fun with their enjoyment of the five objects of the senses.

It means they're making out. The Buddha will come and drag them around so they can make out. Got it?

Maybe Lord Buddha respects bodhisattvas. Maybe Buddha has a soft spot in his heart for bodhisattvas. Pabongka Rinpoche is trying to prove it.

By the way, I found that one too. God bless ALL, God bless all the gold clubs. I can just go and ask the database and I will find the sutra.

Sometimes I think Pabongka Rinpoche would be really jealous of us. It takes about one minute. I used to sit and flip through scriptures for days to find one thing.

Now it takes about two minutes. So anyway, guess where it is. It's in the Sutra Samuccaya, which is a collection of stories from sutra assembled by Nagarjuna himself.

By the way, if you want to know who John Brady was in his past life, Nagarjuna was fixated with saving ancient books. That was his thing. Who knows?

He wrote a book called My Favorite Quotations from Sutra and it's in there. He talks about that quotation where the buddhas are dragging around these chariots where the bodhisattvas are having fun in the back. I knew that would come in handy someday.

Pabpa Shariputthabu NGES SHING YING LA SKAL BAR NYAMS SHAG TU GNAS KYANG Shariputra, who is the hero of the Heart Sutra? Heart Sutra, right? Sha Li Tzu in Chinese.

SKAL PAR NYAMS PAR He could stay in meditation for millions of years if he wished to. DE LA DE BZHIN ZHES PA'I KUR TE MIN ZAD PAR But the Buddha didn't pay him any special honor. He could sit in meditation much longer than any other disciple.

But the Buddha didn't think it was such a big deal. He wouldn't drag his chariot around just because he could meditate for so long. SANGS RGYAS KYIS LUNG ZAD KYI ZAD ZOS PA'I PHYIR BYAMS PA LA MA BU BAS Then one day, apparently, and I couldn't find this story in the scriptures, but the Buddha had extra food in his wisdom bowl.

We don't call it a begging bowl. The Buddha sat and put it on the table. My jushu was like, hey, can I have some of that?

Can I take... what was that this morning, Tim? Sweet roll?

Small pastry. If Geshe-la went up to Tim and said, don't show me another one. No, I'm just kidding.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. If Tim said, oh look Geshe-la, we got pastries. Geshe-la said, yeah, I'll take one.

Tim went, whoop, and the pastries sink down into the earth. Buddha asked my jushu, hey, you want a pastry? My jushu said, yeah, especially one of yours.

He said, whoop, and they sank down into the ground. Why? Because he was trying to say, I don't think he's cool unless he's got bodhichitta.

Then I would offer him my pastry. He kind of dissed Manjushri, and I guess he didn't have bodhichitta at that point in the story. This is how I like to read the story.

Because I'm not aware of a story where Manjushri is not at least a bodhisattva. I'm not aware of a time in the scriptures that I've read, and of course there was a time when he wasn't a bodhisattva, but I'm not aware that he's ever not a bodhisattva in our scriptures today. I think Lord Buddha is trying to honor the source of life, which is the earth.

I think Lord Buddha is trying to honor, he's offering the leftover pastries in his bowl to the dirt, to the biochar of earth, because that's where all life comes from. I think, personally, in this story, Lord Buddha commands his bowl to descend into the earth, the soil, because that's the source of all life. In the same way that a bodhisattva is the source of all Buddhas.

It's a story about roots. It's a story about where does all life come from. Buddha offers his food to Mother Earth and not to this high bodhisattva.

Got it? I think it's very beautiful. I couldn't find the story though.

We finished the fourth benefit, which was what? Remember the picture is a coffee in a coffee shop. It's probably Peach Tree Cafe, if it ever opens.

Well, there's this sexy thing that if you become a bodhisattva, yeah, then someone gives you a coffee, they're going to have bliss for a thousand years. Isn't it fun to be the one who's caused that? Think about how fun it is to be a bodhisattva.

It'd just be so much fun. Someone looks at you in a convenience store and smiles. They get to go to heaven for 20,000 years.

To be the person who's the lucky, who gets looked at, and sends them to the Buddhist paradise for 20,000 years, wouldn't that be fun? You're like, hey, smile at me. Then they smile at you and you're like, aha, I got you.

I think it's really cool. Next benefit, number five. By the way, this whole retreat is about ten cool things that are going to happen to you if you can become a bodhisattva.

Here's number five. It's much, much, say LHAB CHEN. LHAB CHEN means big waves on the ocean.

It's the Tibetan word for massively effective. LHAB means ocean waves. Not a tidal wave, not a tsunami, but just big normal waves.

It's the Tibetan word for extremely powerful potential. I like the picture of... Here we go.

This is during the reign of Queen Gyelse as the director of Diamond Mountain. After 20 years, 15 years, we decided to build some railroads. We had a fantastic response from people all over the world, especially in Asia, Singapore, Taiwan, different friends in different countries.

Finally, after 20 years of hard work, we built some railroads here. By the way, it's not finished and I'm not finished asking for the money, but we can talk about it later. I also don't like to talk about money all the time, but you do need money to build roads.

Why are we talking about that Geshe-la? When we first got here to Diamond Mountain and we decided to build some caverns, we realized we needed a road to get to the place where we were going to build the cavern. We used to form a line of people, like 20 people across.

We'd say, okay, everybody take one step. We'd take one step and we'd say, pick up all the rocks in front of you. Then we'd all pick up rocks and throw them on the side.

Then we'd say, okay, did everybody throw their rocks? Yeah, one more step. Then there'd be more rocks and we'd throw those.

We did that for like, Kat, do you remember? I think it was like a month or something. We got like 100 meters.

It took over 20 people a month to clear the rocks in 10, 20 feet. It's not Lopchen. It's not efficient.

It's not effective. Much better to have one of, you got that picture? Much better to have these machines.

That machine, I went down to look at it. The wheel is taller than me. Just the wheel on the machine is taller than me.

I was like, wow, these things are cool. That's the fifth benefit of bodhichitta. You want to make good karma?

You want a karma making machine? Get bodhichitta. Much more efficient.

It's like massive earth mover. Not like picking up rocks and throwing them. Although it was fun, right?

Was it fun or not? It was kind of hard. SNGAGS PA NI NYUG RUNG PA'I The fifth benefit is reflected in a quotation by a Lama called Nyug Rungpa.

BYAMS SBYUNG GI SEMS DE'I SKYE GCIG RUG TUG NA If you're just able to get a tiny experience of bodhichitta, and sometimes you do, before you become a bodhisattva, you do get these blessed moments of love for everybody. It happens once every few years or something. I remember being in a garden.

It's an old British garden in the Himalayan foothills. It had been overrun by the forest. You just break into this garden and there's all these old British orchids and beautiful flowers growing wild inside a beautiful wall.

It was abandoned long ago. I just had this moment there, some special moment. We do get special moments that are similar to bodhichitta.

BYAMS SBYUNG GI SEMS If you just get a moment like that, says Nyug Rungpa, three things happen. Number one, in that blessed... I stayed in that garden like 20 minutes or so.

I don't remember. Intense good karma. Intense collections of good karma while you're having this transformative moment.

I hate that expression. Secondly, the blinders on a horse? The covers on your eyes are torn off briefly.

You have this moment of, what do you call it? It's like bliss, but it's not bliss. Anyway, intense well-being.

There's a word. You have this, it's like a sacred moment. It happens to you, right?

A few times. Yeah, ecstasy. It happens for 10 minutes, 20 minutes every couple years.

It's close to bodhichitta. During that time, you can see clearly. You can see your life clearly.

You can see what's important. You can see what's not important. That's the second benefit of even having a moment like that.

A moment of divine connection. You can't predict it, you can't make it happen, but it happens every once in a while. Then thirdly, PAR BYED KYANG GRO RANG GI SEL All the problems you've been having in your life up to that blessed moment seem to drop away.

Obstacles drop away. Three things. You collect intense good karma.

You see more clearly. Your problems slough off for a while. He said just having this kind of blessed divine moment where you feel close to bodhichitta has these three effects.

Intense good karma is collected. You see what's important clearly. Suddenly your problems aren't so big anymore.

Here's a picture. This is my version of a blessed moment. It's like a huge car wash machine.

It's gathering good karma, cleaning, removing obstacles to your vision, and then removing problems, past problems. It's like going to a huge spiritual car wash. How's that?

You do have such moments, even before you have 100% complete bodhichitta. Art Engle, my dear friend, who translated this book so well, and it took him 20 years, he identifies New Rumba as having lived about 800 years ago. Jai Lama.

Who's Jai Lama? Je Tsongkapa. Said, TSOG NI KUN LA ZAN GYUR CI LTA BU RAB BYANG RGYAS TSOR BSDOD PA'I SON NAMS STER This bodhichitta is like alchemical elixir.

What is that? I don't know. In ancient times people were always thinking there was some kind of juice that if you poured it on iron, it would become gold.

It's called the alchemist elixir. It's very popular in the ancient tradition to refer to bodhichitta as the alchemist elixir. Why?

Anybody want to guess for $100? Why should bodhichitta be called a special elixir which turns iron into gold? Nice.

Did I say $100? You could, oh no, 50-50. Okay, $50 each.

Yeah, the point is, and he's going to make this point later, right now your body is flesh and no matter how much yoga you do, I can tell you, and no matter, even if you eat well, which I haven't done that well, it's going to fall apart. Do what you want. Eat as many vitamins as you want.

It's still going to fall apart. We said yesterday you are chained to this defective from the factory body and it will fall apart. But if you apply the elixir, it will turn into a rainbow body.

The steel, the iron will turn to gold. Your human flesh will turn into a Buddhist rainbow body. RAB BYANG RGYAS TSOR BSTOD PA'I SON NAMS DER It's a gold mine of good karma.

A bodhichitta is a gold mine of good karma. This quotation is from a book by Tsongkapa called Lam Rim DUD DUN, which is his tiny Lam Rim. He wrote a big Lam Rim, he wrote a medium Lam Rim, he wrote a small Lam Rim, and then he wrote a tiny Lam Rim.

The tiny Lam Rim is the sexiest one because it's called NYAM GUR. Say NYAM GUR. GUR means a spiritual song and NYAM means based on his own personal life.

It's not like Tsongkapa to talk about himself. He does not talk about himself, ever. Very rarely.

But in this poem, he talks about his own spiritual life and it's very beautiful. The line that I like, he will describe some beautiful thing that happened to him in his spiritual life and then he'll say the same sentence. Ready?

NYAM GUR say NYAM GUR. NGES KYANG NYAM LEN DE LTAR BYAS THAR MDUG SKYES KYANG DE BZHIN KYANG RTZA LO I, the yogi, he refers to himself as a high yogi. NYAL DROR NYES KYANG NYAM LEN DE LTAR BYAS Hey, that's the way I did.

That's the way I got to where I am. THAR MDUG SKYES KYANG If you guys are THAR MDUG, Geshe Lotar, Lobsang THAR MDUG, his name is THAR MDUG, who seeks for liberation. THAR PA MDUG Those of you who are THAR MDUG, hey, you should do the same.

Do what I did. It's very unusual for Tsongkhapa to say, oh, I got to this level and here's how I got there. But in this one tiny poem, not tiny, couple pages, in this one short lam rim, he talks about his own experiences and then he tells you how to do it.

It's very beautiful. Maybe we should study that someday. That would be amazing.

But it's a beautiful, beautiful... and then this refrain keeps coming. That's how I, the great yogi, reached where I am.

Hey, you guys ought to try it too. It's very beautiful. That's where this quotation comes from.

Bodhichitta is like the alchemical elixir and you should get it too, like I did. The first time I read it, I thought it's so un-Buddhist, especially for Tsongkhapa. He never talks about himself.

But that's a beautiful, beautiful word. By the way, Milarepa wrote Gurbum, the Hundred Thousand Songs, which is not a hundred thousand, but it's a lot. Here's an alchemist.

I found a picture of an alchemist. I don't like the guy. He looks a little evil or something.

But just imagine he's turning steel, iron into gold. That's the idea. Imagine this blue liquid that looks like mouthwash is actually bodhichitta.

It's going to turn your mortal body into an enlightened being's body. What's in the bottle? But what is it really?

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Bodhichitta.

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Yay. All right. We have about five minutes.

Yay, we finished one class today. I call the next class, which is actually technically class four. Tim, I promise we'll catch up somehow.

I always do say that. I call this fourth class A Delightful Way to Pile Up Good Karma. That's the subject.

Delightful ways to get piles of good karma. Let's start at least. Now we go to Shantideva, Master Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.

Because Pabongka Rinpoche is feeling happy about the alchemy example. He wants to hang with that example. Ready?

SER GYI MTSIN NAM PA CHOG LTA BU What's the highest alchemy elixir in the universe? MI TZAM LUS DE BLANG NAS RGYAL BA'I KU RIN CHEN RIN THANG MED PAR RGYUR BA'I NA It transforms this filthy, rotten corpse of a human body into RIN CHEN RIN THANG MED. It's a pun in Tibetan.

RIN CHEN means jewel. RIN THANG means value. He's making a pun on RIN, like Rinpoche.

Rinpoche means valuable. He says, you can take this body, this rotting corpse, and turn it into a precious gem, something like that. It doesn't come through in English so well.

Precious city? Something like that. Anyway, you can turn it into jewel.

BYANG CHUB SEMS SHES BYA BA RAB BSTAN GSUM Therefore, please work hard on your bodhicitta. Who said that? Shantideva.

That's Master Shantideva. The Master Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, the whole first section, the whole first five pages or so, is this advertisement in Shantideva's words. So Pabongka Rinpoche is stealing everything from Shantideva.

The first five pages of that famous bodhisattva's manual is a sales job. It perfectly matches what Pabongka Rinpoche wants to say, so he's using it, the pieces from it. Alright, next picture.

We still have three minutes. Let's use them. Oh, I'm sorry.

No, let's finish. We're going to stop there.