AGOL 37, История о бодхисаттве, который всегда плакал — стенограмма

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LAM RIM means a general presentation of the whole path to become a good person. We're studying right now, this week, how to become a bodhisattva. There's a song, I can't play it, it's illegal online.

There's a beautiful song, Bodhisattva, won't you take me by the hand? It's a rock and roll song, good guitar part for Ben Gibson. Incredible guitar part.

I remember hearing that song, Bodhisattva, and I didn't know, this was before I met the Tibetans, I didn't know what's a bodhisattva, but I like the word. Somehow I like the word. Maybe you have this experience, that the word is attractive, or the word sounds beautiful.

Oh, he's a real bodhisattva. It means he's a really nice person. Really good to other people.

We've been studying. By the way, it doesn't matter what religion you are. I don't care.

You're a Christian, or you're a Muslim, or you're a Buddhist, you're a Hindu. It doesn't matter. Every tradition has this idea, like a bodhisattva.

Super nice person. Super, super nice person. I think every country and every culture appreciates special nice people, like the ACI volunteers, or the Gold Club organizers.

You are already bodhisattvas in that sense. Today I get to teach the bodhisattvas about bodhisattva. In the Lam Rim a story came, and the author of the Lam Rim said, you should learn to do an act of truth, and you can base it on being a bodhisattva.

That was in the Lam Rim. You should learn to do an act of truth, and you can base it on being a bodhisattva. For example, it's like the story of the bodhisattva whose name was Sada Prarudita.

Sada Prarudita. What's it mean? Can't stop crying.

His name is crying all the time. Mr. Sada Prarudita. Mr. Crying all the time. He can't stop crying all the time. When I heard that name the first time, I remember, I enjoyed teaching because I remember learning everything myself. I was not born as a Buddhist.

I didn't grow up in a Buddhist country. All of these stories were new for me. I remember the first time hearing about the bodhisattva who couldn't stop crying.

I don't know about you, but in my mind I had a picture of a very compassionate guy. Super compassionate. Whenever he thinks about hungry people, refugees, or any problems in the world, he starts to cry.

I had this picture in my mind. It's wrong. That's not why he's called that.

That's the first thing I want to say about his story. He's not called Mr. Bodhisattva who cannot stop crying because he's compassionate. That's not why he's crying in the story.

Then the Lam Rim says he did an act of truth and he fixed his body based on being a bodhisattva. He did an act of truth and he fixed his body based on being a bodhisattva. What does it mean to do an act of truth?

Most of you guys heard about it. This is not just Buddhism. This is all of India and all of South Asia.

There's an old tradition that truth has a big power. Truth has a extremely huge power. Telling truth, telling the truth in your life has a huge power.

In fact, that power, you can harness it. It's like a wind... what do you call those things?

Windmill?

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Turbine.

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We just went to California, me and Veronica. We went to the beach, but on the way you can see these big wind turbines. They are harnessing an energy that was lost before.

For thousands of years the wind blew across the Arizona desert. Nobody tried to catch it. Nobody tried to make electricity.

Now we are grabbing that energy out of the sky. Some of the lights in this room are powered by those wind turbines, the electricity that comes from them. Some percent of Arizona power comes from those wind turbines.

The act of truth is very similar. We tell the truth all day sometimes, or partly true. You can grab that energy and you can turn it into other energy.

You can turn it into power for your life. Every time you tell the truth you can grab that energy and you can use that power. You can say, for example, if it's true, I got up at 3 o'clock in the morning.

The ACI director got up at 3 o'clock in the morning to do a broadcast for DCI, not for ACI. If it's true I was a nice guy this morning, then by that power I should have the best breakfast in Bowie, Arizona, which is not very difficult to have the best one. You can take the wind power, the wind, and turn it into some energy.

That's called act of truth. What's the most famous act of truth in ancient India? If it's true I love my neighbor, then...

then the largest river, maybe in the world I think, should go backwards for a couple hours. There are stories of farmers who went to the saints and said, stop it already. The saints are like, what?

He said, stop turning back the Ganges River. We're trying to irrigate our fields and the river is flowing backwards. Can you just stop it?

Stop this act of truth stuff. We're going to describe an act of truth. You can do it anytime in your day.

You can say, if it's true that I volunteered to help ACI, if it's true I'm supporting the Gold Club, if it's true I'm saving this ancient wisdom, then may my aunt's cancer get better. You see what I mean? You can use that wind energy for other things.

You should try it. If it's true that I spent a year helping as an ACI volunteer, or if it's true I spent a year helping the Gold Clubs, then my aunt or someone who's sick, someone who's sad, they should be happier. I give them that energy.

Got it? Here's a famous act of truth. Here's a story.

It's going to take a while. Get your coffee and your Nutella toast and just relax and have fun. If you want to turn it off, if you want to go to the bathroom, go to the bathroom, come back.

If you want to eat breakfast, eat breakfast, come back. If you want to go back to bed, that's fine too. Except the people in the room.

Let's just have fun. Today is fun. Today is relax.

Today is for the volunteers. It's to thank you, and I do thank you very much. Here we go.

We're going to project this Tibetan. Somebody was complaining about me for something. I don't remember.

Of course, when someone complains about you, you think about it. I was thinking about it in my important room after I went to the toilet. I was thinking, there's one thing about this tradition, especially Diamond Mountain tradition.

Everything we teach here comes directly from the ancient books. We don't teach anything, nothing here, that doesn't come from the ancient books. We put the ancient books, the original language, in the class materials.

You see what I mean? You can't say, this is not what the Buddha taught. It's directly, the ancient book is in the class manual.

We're the only place in the world that does it, I think. There's 30,000 pages of ACI and other materials. Each sentence has the original language with it.

You can check it. You can look at it. That's the amazing thing about you Gold Club people.

Because you import the ancient books, Geshe-la can teach directly from the ancient books. You're very, very important. We're going to study directly from the ancient books today.

That's just the way I like to do it. It's not Geshe Michael. It's not my idea.

It's called Buddha. This story, because in the Lam Rim, the Lama says, it's like the story of the bodhisattva who couldn't stop crying. How he fixed his body with an act of truth based on bodhichitta, the bodhisattva's idea.

Then he went on. He didn't tell the story. Then I'm like, we don't know the story.

You guys know the story. You grew up in Tibet. We don't know the story.

Could you please give us the story? Then what's cool about John Brady's ALL database, that bodhisattva's name is Mr. Cannot Stop Crying. If Geshe-la wants to find the story in 300,000 books, which is 15 million pages, something like that, I can just say, give me the story of the bodhisattva who couldn't stop crying and it comes within two seconds.

I get it within two seconds. It's like a miracle. But somebody has to type it.

To type it, the person who types it has to eat breakfast. The breakfast costs money. Got it?

That's why we're fundraising. All right, here we go. You ready, Paul?

DE NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA RTAG LTUNG LUS CHONG BAR GYI SONG DUG GIS SOS THUGS TE Now, this is part of a long, long story. It's deep in the middle of the 8,000 verses, which is 1,000 pages of ancient Tibetan. I found it in about five seconds.

Thanks to you guys. Thanks to you Gold Club people. Then the great bodhisattva named Can't Stop Crying.

In Tibetan it's RTAG LTUNG LUS. Say RTAG. RTAG LTUNG LUS RTAG LTUNG LUS He went to the town square, like in Bui.

It's that place, right? He went to the town square to do what he had to do. He had to do something.

If you know this PRAJNABARMITA SUTRAS Hundreds of thousands of lines about emptiness. In the middle of those emptiness explanations, there are stories. There are beautiful stories.

Someday we should translate them. Here's his story. By the way, he was a normal guy.

He was having a normal life. Then he woke up one day, probably to do a 3 a.m. DCI talk. He heard this sound in his ear.

It said, go east. Walk east. He's like, what?

Who's talking? There's nobody there. Then it just was quiet.

He finished his DCI broadcast. Then he's going to go for breakfast. Then he hears this, I told you, walk east.

He's like, who is that? He keeps hearing this message in his ear. Walk east.

You must walk east. Then he's like, finally he can't stand it anymore. He just gets a backpack and he figures his iPhone wears east.

He went to the east. He start walking to the east. He doesn't know why.

Nobody told him why. He just kept walking. He believed the message he got.

I'm supposed to slow down. I was going slow.

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No.

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He believed the message. As he's walking across Diamond Mountain Desert, he starts to have this vision of a teacher sitting in a house teaching emptiness. He gets this strong picture of a teacher at that moment teaching in a small house somewhere to the east.

Then he starts walking faster. Day after day he's walking to the east. This vision gets stronger and stronger.

As he's walking, he can see this teacher. He can't hear. He sees the teacher talking and he starts to understand that if he keeps walking east, he's going to meet the teacher.

You see what I mean? Then he gets to this town, small town, and he senses the teacher's house is on the other side of the town. He made it.

He made it to the teacher's house. Then he's like, I did it. Today I'm going to meet this teacher.

Today I will get emptiness teaching. Then he's like, Oh no. I can't go to him empty handed.

I got to have something to... You can't meet a teacher without some flowers or some pizza or other important offerings. He's like, but he spent all his money on the road.

He has no money. He's entering the town with nothing. Here's the story.

Here we pick up. Ready? He's going to do his act of truth for pizza.

Indian pizza. All right. RTA LTUNG DGOS He went to the market square.

MI GZUN DU MI GZUN DU MI GZUN NYON DU Say MI GZUN DU. MI GZUN DU MI GZUN NYON DU Who? Who?

Who wants to buy me? He goes to the middle of the market. Like that mercado in Guadalajara.

Yeah, next to where Aldo lives. You have to go past where Aldo lives or something. So anyway, he's like, who wants to buy me?

Who wants to buy me? I need money. It's very funny.

He's sitting there like, me for sale. Me for sale. Dark.

Dark. You guys have dark because it's part of Shravaka. He proclaimed in the market.

ZHING SKAD KYI PHOS SO He started yelling. DE NAS DU DI'I CHEN GYI SDI NYAMS DU There was a demon standing nearby. Invisible demon.

And he says, BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA RTA LTUNG DNGOS DI GNYIS This bodhisattva, Mr. Can't Stop Crying. We don't know why he's crying yet. But you're starting to get a clue.

CHOS SDUG PA'I CHOS BDAG NYID SONGS NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA This guy is going to sell his body so that he can get some offerings to offer to the great bodhisattva whose name is Dharmodgata. Dharmodgata. It means High Dharma.

Mr. High Dharma. He wants to honor his teacher with some flowers or something. That's why he's selling his body this morning.

JI LTAR BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO'I SHES RAB GYI PHAR BUD TU CHEN PO LA BYAS NA If this guy learns the perfection of wisdom, what's a demon going to think? Disaster. What happened when the truck hit the lady with the big butt?

Disaster. Never mind. Sorry.

This is what your husband does in the morning. If this guy studies emptiness, we're in trouble. The demons are in trouble.

NYON DU LA RNAMS PA YANG DAG PA RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB TU RDZOGS PAR He will quickly reach total Buddhahood if he keeps studying emptiness. If he gets contact with this great teacher and studies the perfection of wisdom, which is emptiness and love together, then it's going to be a disaster. He'll become a Buddha.

Then we have another problem. We got another Buddha in the world. PHAR BU TU CHEN PO DE THABS LA SKYES PA And he will learn THABS LA SKYES PA.

One hundred dollars. THABS SKYES JIGS MED was first. JIGS MED, pay JIGS MED a hundred dollars.

U PAYA He will learn, not PAPAYA, U PAYA He will learn how to do tricky good things, which is worse than being a Buddha. YANG SOGS SBYUR BAR GYUR TE He will get used to doing that. DE'I THOB PA RGYAL TSOR BYAS SU THOB PAR GYUR He will gain an ocean worth of teachings from this teacher.

Very dangerous. SDU BDANG SDUG GIS RIGS KYI LHA BRTAG GIS MI THOB PAR GYUR Then people like me are going to get in trouble. He's going to give us trouble.

YIN RTEN THAMS CAD KYI PHAR BAR TU CHEN PO BYAS SU THOB PAR GYUR He will reach the other side of the ocean of good qualities. PRAJNAPARAMITA DE'I SEMS CAN MANG PO LTAR GYIS DON CHE BAR GYUR Then he will be able to serve many people effectively. That's a problem.

LA RNAMS PA'I PHYI'AM LTA PAR RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB DNGOS PO RDZOGS PA SANGS RGYUR NAS DE DANG GZHAN DAG KYANG SNGA'I YOD LAS BDAG BAR BYAS SNGA'I YOD LAS BDAG BAR BYAS means he will pass beyond my clutches. I won't be able to get him. He will be moving too fast for me to catch him.

The demons. BDAG BAR BYAS PAR GYUR GYIS BDAG GIS DI PHAR BYAS BYA'O I should give this guy a PHAR BYAS. I should create an obstacle for him.

I better stop him now. The demons are like, what's the bodhisattva doing? Who wants to meet?

Who wants to meet? He says, I got to stop this guy. NYAM DU SAMS SOG DE NAS DU DE CHEN GYIS CI NAS DRAM ZAD DANG KHYEN DAG DE DAG GIS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHOS PA LTA LTAR NGOS MI GZUN DU MI GZUN DU MI GZUN NYONG BA'I DU BYED ZER BA'I DGRA JI LTAR MI THOS PAR GYUR He arranged it so that everybody in the market couldn't hear what he was saying.

Got it? The bodhisattva is in the marketplace going, and everybody is like, wow, look at the weird guys. He's doing like that, but we can't hear anything.

He arranged it so the sound was blocked. DGRA JI LTAR MI THOS PAR GYUR PA DE DAG YONGS SU GRIB He blocked the sound so people can see him, but they don't know what he's saying. DE NAS DRAM ZAD DANG KHYEN DAG DE DAG BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHOS PA LTA LTAR NGOS $300.

Tell me what happens next to the bodhisattva. $300. Gyel TSE won the $300.

Say it. He starts to cry out of frustration. God damn, I'm trying to get my body right, and nobody can hear me.

Then he can't stop crying. Got it? Now you guys know a big secret from the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras.

The bodhisattva who cries all the time is not crying out of compassion. He's crying out of frustration. I do this when I'm at home, I get in trouble.

BYANG CHUB TSOGS NAS So he went in a corner and started crying. PHYIR BA CHUG NAS SDUG BSNGAL DU BDAG GIS LUS RDZOGS LA BYANG CHUB SEMS SEMS PA SEMS PA CHOS PA LTAR NGOS All I wanted to do was make some flower offers to my new teacher. I was trying to sell my body.

LUS NYONG BA DAG GIS MA YIN TE I don't even have the karma to sell my own body. He's like, my karma really sucks. My karma is so bad.

I can't even sell my own body. He's like that. RGYAS MA means, by the way, RGYAS MA is GYI HOD.

RGYAS MA is a translation of GYI HOD which means, RGYAS MA THOB PAR NGAN POR THOB PAR I'm a really lousy person. In the whole world, I can't even sell my own finger. How bad is that?

DE NAS LA RNAMS KYI DBANG PO RGYA BYING GI Then Chakra came, which is the Lord, it's the DBANG PO of the Indra, the Lord of the Gods. Chakra means destroyer of a hundred cities, but he's powerful. Super powerful dude, Deva.

He said, DE LTAR BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYA'I DUS NGOS DE LTAR DE CHOS SDOD PA'I CHOS BDAG GIS LUS YONGS SU MTHONG BA LHAG PA'I BSAM PA PHUN TZAM SOGS PA YIN NA MA YIN PA Is it possible that this guy is really willing to sell his body to get some flowers, to meet a teacher he never met because he had some vision that he's going to learn emptiness? Is it possible? This is weird.

Who's thinking that? Chakra, king of the gods. Deva.

Deva number one. BSAM PA PHUN TZAM SOGS PA YIN NA MA YIN NA I doubt it. I mean, come on.

That's a little extreme. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA LTA LTOS NGOS BDAG GIS BSAD PAR BYA'O I will test him. Who's talking?

Chakra, I'll test him. Let's see if he was really willing to sell his body. Let's see if he's sincere.

Then maybe we'll help him out. Okay, cool? NYAM DU BSAM SOGS Chakra thought to himself.

DE NAS LHAG RNAMS KYI DBANG PO BYA RGYAS RGYAS BYIN DRAM TSAD GYI'U CHA CHE SDUG BSNGAL PAR GRUB PA NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA Then the lord of the gods emanated as a teenage punk. DRAM TSAD GYI'U He's like a, I don't know, Pachi on a good day. He's like, hey dude.

Hey dude. He's like a cool young man. Handsome, cool young man.

Okay? He emanated as a normal, handsome, cool young man. GYI'U CHA BSNGAL PAR GRUB NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA LTA LTOS NGOS GA LA BA DER SONG STE He approached the bodhisattva who can't stop crying.

SONG STE'ONG NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA LTA LTOS NGOS LA DI RGYAS BYAS MED SONG He said to Dr. Ngu, here's what he said. Hey, Rikipu. Hey, child of noble family.

DE LTAR GYUR YID MI RGAG SDUG LA Why are you sitting here crying? What's the problem? Why are you so sad?

What's going on? DE LA LTAR LTOS NGOS DI RGYAS BYAS MED SONG CHAM TSAD GYI'U Then he said, hey cool handsome young man. NGES LUS RTZONG BAR BDUN NA I was trying to sell my body.

LUS DI MYO BA YANG MA NYES DO But I can't even do that. I failed even to sell myself. So I'm depressed.

RGYAL BYIN CHAMS TE GYI'U GZUGS CAN GYIS MED PA Chakra in the form of a hip young man. Hip handsome young man. He said, hey Rikipu.

Hey noble young man. RGYAL BYIN CHAMS TE GYI'U RGYAL BYIN CHAMS TE GYI'U Why do you want to sell yourself? What are you doing?

LTAR LTOS NGOS DE LA MED PA CHAM TSAD GYI'U NGA NI CHEN DUS PA'I PHYIR BDAG NYID SONGS DE SPYOD LA SPYOD PA BYA BAR BDOD CING I want the Dharma. So I'm selling my body. That's why I'm selling my body.

I want the Dharma. And it's improper to seek the Dharma without honoring the teacher. It's improper.

I can't. It's not right. BAR PA BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS SEMS PA CHEN PO'I SPYOD PA LA YANG DGOS BAR DU BYA BAR DON NA LON YOL BA DE NGES MA NYID NAS DE LA NGIS DI NYAMS DU SEMS SO The reason I'm so upset is that I was trying to sell my body to buy some flowers and I failed.

Something's wrong. Nobody's even listening to me. DGE MA SNGA NI ZIN NAM CHUNG BA'I DE LTAR LUS MTSONGS TE I must be Mr. Zero Good Karma if I can't even sell my own body. SHES RA SKYES PAR DU CHEN PO'I LA SPYOD PA BYA BAR All I wanted was to learn emptiness. BAR PA BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS SEMS PA CHEN PO'I SPYOD PA LA YANG DGOS DU BYA BAR NYAMS NA I wanted to honor my new teacher. What did we call him?

High Dharma. High Dharma. BDAG GIS LUS NYAL BA'ANG MA NYES DOG NYAL MO But nobody wants to buy me.

DE NAS DRANGS PA'I KHYOD DE BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS SEMS PA CHEN PO'I LTA LTUNG DGOS LA SDIG BYED MED SO Then the hip young guy said to the bodhisattva, RIGS KYIS BU, SNGA LA MI NYID BYAL BA MAN GYI Hey look, I can't use you. I don't need a person. I don't need a slave.

What am I going to do with you? Why should I buy you? It's useless to me.

Like one more mouse to feed in my house. I don't need you. KYANG What's that mean you guys?

But, I was going to do a special fire offering this morning. I was going to do a special fire offering this morning. SREG CHOS CAN This is a Hindu, ancient Hindu, not nowadays.

Ancient Hindu fire offering. They need parts of a human being. They need a heart.

They need some lungs. They need some brain. They need some kidney.

To throw in the fire one by one. This is an ancient terrible custom. They used to do it with cows.

They would cut up the cow and offer parts of the cow to the fire. This is the ancient Homa. It's one kind of Homa.

It's not all the Homas but, you know, also a haw. They would kill a cow and take out his heart and then take out his lungs. One by one.

Look, I don't need a person but I could use your parts. I could use your heart. If you want to sell me your heart, we can talk.

NGES CHOS CAN ZHIG BYAS TE I need a human heart. I need some human blood. I need some bone.

I need some marrow from you. SNGA LA DGOS NA DE RIN GYI NOR BYIN CIG BYAS BYAS PA DANG I will pay you the cost of them. Before I cut you up you can go buy some flowers or whatever.

DE NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PO BYANG TU'I DNGOS DI NYAM DU SEMS TE GANG DAG GIS DRAM TSUL GYIS DI DAG GIS SNYING DANG PHRAG DANG ROL PA DANG SKONG NYONG BA NYES PA DI NI DAG GIS NYES PA'I CHOS LAS PA NYES PO I'm so lucky. Today I went from worst karma to best karma. Someone wants to buy my lungs and my heart and my blood.

Dang, I'm so lucky. Okay. BDAG GIS LUS NAS SHES RAS KYI PHAR BAR TU SPYIN PA DANG THAGS SKYES PA DANG SANGS RGYAS KYI CHOS RNAMS LA YONGS SU RDZOGS PA RGYUR RO If I sell my body today, these parts, maybe, definitely, it will make the karma for me to get emptiness teachings later.

It's worth it. He's very happy. YONGS SU RDZOGS PA RGYUR RO I will become a Buddha.

YONGS SU RDZOGS PA RGYUR RO NYAMS DU DE'I SEMS DE BA DANG SEMS DE BA DANG SEMS RTOG DGA' BA NAS KHRAMS RAS KYIS BLO DI SKYES BYAS MED SO He was happy. He was super happy. He was super, super, duper happy.

And he said, deal. It's a deal. KHRAMS RAS KYIS NGES LUS NAS KHYOD GANG DANG GANG SDOD PA BYAS NO Do whatever you want with my body.

Yay! DE'I DE LA DI SKYES BYAS MED SO RIGS KYIS BU'O KHYAD RIM DU PHYID SDOD PA BYAS NO Then the guy says, wait, wait, wait. Let's get the contract straight here.

How much you want for your body? DE'I DE LA DI SKYES BYAS MED SO KHRAMS RAS KYIS RIGS KYIS GANG YONGS SU MTHONG BA NGA LA BYAS CING I'll take whatever you offer. I mean, I can buy some flowers.

Give me a couple bucks. I can buy some flowers before you cut me up. CING CING DE NAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA'I SEMS PA BYAG PA BYAG TU MI RUNG MTSON DNON PO MTHONG NAS Mr. Couldn't-stop-crying-got-so-excited he grabs a sharp knife and he starts going at it. He's so excited. He can't wait for that. He's like, give me a knife.

By the way, this is a Buddhist teaching. You are not meant to do it. I don't want to hear that somebody in Moscow cut their fingers off and sent them to somebody in France.

Bad idea. We are not at this level. Repeat.

We are not at this level. Repeat. You will not be at this level anytime soon.

You are not allowed to hurt your precious body one scratch. These are old stories. Always some fool somewhere says, I'm at that level.

You are not. Don't do it. It's stupid.

Your body is very precious. You have to take good care of your body. If you feel like stabbing your body right now, go do a hard yoga and get healthier.

That's the level we are at. All right. ,LTA LTOS MIN TSON MED PA'I LHAG PA'I, ,YES PA PHUGS DE CHAGS BSAGS SO, He grabbed a knife and he shoved it into his right arm and he started to let the blood out.

,LA YES PA ZHAGS MED PA STONG NAS, He took his right thigh and took the knife and stripped off the meat from the thigh until he exposed the bone. Down to the bone. ZIGS PA ZIGS PA means he exposed the bone of his right thigh.

,DE NAS MTSOMS BUNG GIS BU MO, Now, very Vajrayogini. Very Vajrayogini. That's why I like this story.

Very Vajrayogini. There was a beautiful maiden who was the daughter of a local businessman. The beautiful daughter of a local businessman.

She was sunning herself on the roof of their expensive Fifth Avenue apartment. She's sunning herself on the roof around the square, like Central Park, like John Brady's old apartment. She's like, wait, what's going on down there?

She's like getting a sun tan. Probably she's in a bikini, I guess. She's like, what's going on down there?

I'm just kidding, okay? I'm sure she's in a sari. THOG NA GDUG PA DE, BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA BYAMS PA RTAG TU NGOS PHRAG MA MO, Wow, what's the guy doing?

He's cutting his arm up. He's cutting his leg up. She can't hear what's going on.

LA MED PA RTOGS NAS RUG PA CHOG TU RTZIGS PA'I DRUNG DU SONG BA MTHONG NAS DE NYAM DU SEMS TE She saw the bone under the thigh. When he got down to the white bone, she's like, she thought to herself, RIGS KYIS BU DE'I PHYI PHYIR BDAG NYID LA BDAG NYID NI LTA BU'I NA MTSA BYAS PA BDAG RIGS KYIS BU DE'I PHYIR BDAG NYID LA BDAG NYID NI LTA BU'I NA MTSA BYAS PA I got to get down there and ask this guy, what's he doing? Why is he cutting himself up like that?

I got to get downstairs and go out to the square and ask him, what's going on? What are you doing? DE NAS MTSONGS BUNG GI PHUNG PO DE BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO BRTAG TUNG NGU LA KHA LA BA DE'I SONGS PA'I PHYIN LAS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO BRTAG TUNG NGU LA SDI RGYAS CHE MED SO Then she descended to the street.

She crossed the street. She went into the market square. She went up to the young bodhisattva and said, what are you doing?

RIGS KYIS BU KHYOD CI PHYIR BDAG NYID LA DI LTA BU'I NA TZA DAG BYAS PHRAG DANG ROL PA DANG GANG GIS PHYI ZHIG BYA What are you doing to yourself? What are you going to do with the flesh that you've cut off? What are you going to do with all this blood?

What are you going to do with the bones? RTAG TUNG NGOS DE LA MED PA PHUNG PO DRAM ZAD KYIS DE LA LUS SONGS TE Oh young lady, I am selling my body to this nice young man. SHES RANG GI PHRA RTOG CHEN PO LA SPYOD PA BYA'O I will give this money as an offering for emptiness teachings and bodhisattva teachings.

Perfectional wisdom. PHA PA BYANG CHOS SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO SPYOD PA LA DGOS TI BYA'O I will honor my teacher, Har Dharma, my new teacher, who he hasn't met yet. He just had a vision of him.

DE NAS BYANG CHOS SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO RTAG TUNG NGOS LA DE'I PHUNG PO DE LA GDIS KHYAD MED SO Then the young lady said to the bodhisattva, RIGS KYIS BU KHYOD DE DAG GIS SNYING LA GRTAG DANG ROL PA DANG GANG DANG YANG SONGS TE RIGS KYIS BU LA DE LA GOS TI BYA'O RIGS KYIS BU LA YIN TAN GYI RIGS TZAM YIN TAN GYI KHYAD PAR CI ZHING GRUB PAR RGYUR Well, what are you going to get out of it? You sell your body. You get some offerings.

You go to the class. What's going to happen then? Why are you going to the class?

DE BU MO DE LA DI SKAD CES BU MO RIGS KYIS BU DE NYID GANG LA NGES BSLAB PA BYA BA'I PHYI RIGS KYIS BAR DU BYIN PA DANG, THEG KHAS PA LAS BDAG TU MO I'm going to learn the perfection of wisdom and upaya. Special ways of getting dharma done, like go clubs. DE LA NGES BSLAB PA YANG DAG PA RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB NGON PA RDZOGS PA SANGS RGYAS DE SEMS CAN THAMS CAD KYI GTAN DU RGYUR When I learn how to be a bodhisattva, and when I learn emptiness, I will become a Buddha.

That will make me a Buddha. And then I can really help people. Then I can really help people.

LUS GZER GYI GANG DU LTA BU'ANG THOB PAR GYUR And my body will change as if the alchemical elixir had been poured on it. My meat body will turn to a rainbow body. I will have an indestructible diamond body.

I like to call it living diamond. I will be living diamond. I will become living diamond.

GYIS BU CHEN PO'I TSE'ANG SEMS CAN MTSAN NYID DANG DE'I RJES SANGS PO RGYAS CHUG DANG, I will get the thirty-two major marks of a Buddha. I will get the eighty secondary signs of a Buddha's body. Light will emanate from me in a halo to a dome.

Dome means from finger to finger if you're six feet high. I will have a dome halo. I will have a six foot halo.

I started. BOS DE DAG YOD PA DANG Then I will be giving light to the whole universe. BYAMS PA CHEN PO'I GNYIS RJES CHEN PO'I DANG, RGA BA CHEN PO'I DANG, STANG YONGS CHEN PO'I DANG, MI SBYIG PA ZHIG ZHIG RAB TU I will get all the amazing qualities of a Buddha.

And he lists them. He lists all of them. If you're interested in them, go read Ben Kramer Mixed Nuts translation coming out soon.

We spent, how long Tim? A year on them. Something like that.

That last part of the book. SANGS RGYAS KYANG SDUG BSNGAL TZAM NA, DBANG PO'I RLAMS PA'I GOS ZHAG CHO BA'I, Then said to the bodhisattva, RIGS KYIS BU'OD KHYOD KYIS, DE DAG CHOS KYANG, CHEN PO'I BU DU CHUNG BA, DE DAG YOD SU BYOS PA NI, SNGO MTHA' BRTAD Your description of what you're going to do with this money is amazing. Incredible.

SNGO MTHA' Awesome. RIGS KYIS BU'OD CHOS KYIS, DON DU DE DAG RE, RE RE CHOS YANG, KHYAB PA GANG GI LUNG GI CHE MA GNYIS, RUNG SI YONG THOG MA BYONG, MA'I PO'I PHYIR LTAG CING MA DE, DE TZAM LA GYUR GYI CHOS KYI, CHOS KYIS DAG RGYA PHYIR ZHING, BU LAS CHUNG BA YOD SU BYOS PA, CI THAG BA DAG KHYANG DUR CING ZOD DO, I would like to do the same. I would like to do the same.

That sounds cool. I want that too. I also want that.

That's beautiful. DE DANG NA'ANG RIGS KYIS BU, KHYOD GANG DANG GANG GI BYAMS CANG, CHOS KYIS SEMPAS SEMPAS CHEN PO, CHOS PAR LA GUR TU BYAL, GZER NOB, NOB BU'ANG MUD DE'I CHEN PO'I BA'I DUR YANG MNGUL LAM MUS SA LA DGAR BA BLO GYI LTAR BA'I RGA BA'I So hey, I have a suggestion. Let's buy you some gold.

And let's buy you some jewels. And let's get you some pearls. And let's get you some BA'I DUR YANG.

LHA PA'I SLAS ZLA. And let's get you some silver. And let's get you some MUS SA LA DGAR BA, which I don't know what it is.

It's not MUS SA LA DGAR BA. It's some kind of gemstone. BLO GYI LTAR BA'I RGA BA I just gave a Dharma name to Elisaveta Bhavanova.

And this is it. Elisaveta, here's the name. BLO GYI LTAR BA'I RGA BA The ruby, the lady.

I'll give you rubies. Shell, I will give you rock crystals. MED DOG, I will give you flowers.

Incense, perfumes, garlands of flowers. ARNIGA SAB from Nile. It's exactly here.

CHEN MA, powdered incense. KOS SAM, golden clothes. DUG SAM, parasols.

RGYAL SAM, victory banners. DU BU, sacred bells. PHA BSTAN, more banners.

MAR MED, butter lamps. Anything you need, I'll do it. I'll take care of it.

BDAG NI, LA DI LTA BU'I SDUG BSNGAL MA BYAS ZHIG I'll get you whatever you need. I'll pay for everything. Please don't cut yourself off.

I think she fell in love with him already. And probably mutual. BDAG KYANG KHYOD DANG GROG STE And let's go together to the Arya.

You and me. Let's go ask him for teachings together. Isn't it a beautiful story?

Now you know why I wanted to tell this story. It's so romantic. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO'I CHOS PA'I KHALA BA DER RDONGS LA Let's go meet the Arya together.

BDAG KYANG KHYOD DANG LHAN CIG GYIS BDAG STE I will be your constant companion. DE LTA BU'I CHOS DE DAG THOB PAR BYA BA'I PHYIR RGYAL BA'I RTZA BAR BSKYED PAR BYA'O And we will study the Dharma together. DE NI LHA RNAMS KYI DBANG PO RGYAL BYUNG GI PHRAG MTSE RGYUD KHYOD PHRAG MTSE MI SNO BA BYAS TE BDAG NYID KYI LUS SU BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO'I LTA LTUNG DNGOS DON DU SDUG NAS DE SKAD CES SO That deva stripped off the disguise and showed himself as Iron Man.

In a deva form. So he strips off this hip young man disguise and suddenly here is this golden deva standing in front of the bodhisattva. RIGS KYIS PHOS KHYOD DE LTA BU'I YI DAM LA BSTAN PA DANG DE LTA BU'I CHOS DON DU MYONG BA DE NI LEGS SO LEGS SO What does that mean?

Good job Mr. Bodhisattva. Good job. I tested you and you passed.

NGON KHYOD DE SHES ZHES PAR BDAG CHEN PO'I YANG DRAG PAR RDZOGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS BDAG GIS RGYAL SNGON BYANG CHUB SEMS PA'I CHOS PO'I CHOS PO'I GNAD ZHES RGYAS PAR RTOGS CHOS PO'I DANG THEG DKA' PA YIN YONGS SU ZHUGS PA YONGS That's exactly how people get to be Buddhists. By doing what you're doing. You're so smart.

LA RNAMS MED PA'I YONGS DRAG PAR RDZOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB SNGON PAR RDZOGS PA'I SANGS RGYAS SO You're on a definite track to become a total Buddha. RIGS KYIS PHOS SNGA LA SNYING DANG PHRAG DANG ROL PA DANG GANG GIS BYA BA MED KYIS Let me tell you the truth. I don't need your heart and your marrow and your blood and your liver and kidney.

You know, I was just joking. I don't really need it. MED KYIS SNGAR GYUR ZAS PA'I PHYIR DU I was just checking you out.

I was just seeing if you were serious. RIGS KYIS PHOS RGYUR GYUR GYUR CHOG LONG ZHIG RIGS KYIS PHOS GYUR LA CHOG CI LTA BU ZHIG BYIN PA BYA Go get the ultimate. You're done with your test.

Go pluck the ultimate from this Lama. You're free. The deal's off.

Go get the highest goal. DE'I DE LA MED PAR RGYA' BYAS SANGS RGYAS KYIS CHOS NA NA MED PAR DAG TSUL DAG LA TSUL GCIG Then there's a little side story. The bodhisattva says, you teach me.

You're so glorious. You're so amazing, this DE BA. You're so golden, light, huge, beautiful DE BA.

You teach me the perfection of wisdom. RGYA' BYAS KYIS MED PAR RGYUR BU YUL DE LA NI NGA'I NUS PA YOD PA MA YIN TE I'm a powerful being, but I don't have that much power to teach emptiness. I don't have that power.

To teach you love, I don't have that power. I can crush a planet in my fingers, but I don't have the power to teach you emptiness. I can't teach you love.

Somebody else has to do that. SANGS RGYAS CHEN PO'I GNAS RNAMS KYI YUL DU RGYUR PA YIN GYI You're going to have to go to that teacher. He has the power.

I don't have that. I can crush a planet like this, but I don't have the power to teach you emptiness. BDAG TUNG MNGON MED PAR BDAG GIS LUS YOD SU RDZOGS PA PHYI BAR LA YANG DBANG PO'I RGYAL CHEN GYIS PHYIR BRTZON PA BYUNG BA'I RGYIS ZHIG LA RNAMS KYI DBANG PO'I PA'I PHYING RGYAL LA BO Then he says, but you have the power to fix my body, right?

I just cut off my thigh meat. You get the story now? What are we supposed to be talking about?

An act of truth based on bodhichitta, intention. So the bodhisattva says to the deva, but before I go to the teacher, could you just fix this leg and this arm? Can you fix this up?

Can you do that much? LHA RNAMS KYI DBANG PO'I BSTAN PA GANG GIS BDAG LA RNAMS MED PA'I YANG LTA BUR SOGS PA'I BYANG CHUB LAS BYIN MI RDOG PAR BDE Then the deva says, do an act of truth young man. Do an act of truth.

You can heal yourself. Heal thyself. Heal yourself.

How? Say, if it's true I want to help all the beings in the universe, then may my leg be healed. And may my arm be healed.

Got it? DE DAG GI LHAG PA'I BSAM PA'I YOD MA'I PA'I KHYER MA BSTAN PA DANG BSTAN PA'I TSIG If you do this act of truth, something will happen. DE NAS SKYE GCIG THANGS CIG YUL TZAM DE LA SANGS RGYAS KYI THEG DAG Then in a single instant, the young man's arm grew back and his leg grew back.

He became purely healthy and normal and walked to his teacher. Yay! That's the story.

Anyway, I hope you found it inspiring. I love this story. That's why I wanted to tell it separately.

I think there's a lot of lessons for us there. There's a lesson for all of us there.