Классика Алмазного огранщика: Нижний Срединный путь — Анализ зависимости, занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
If you talk in the class, I will kick you out. Simple. Okay?

And I'm talking to you. Got it? Alright.

Sange Shindhu Miteyuwardi Jokundam Dakshinla Chupasho Hilamburunam Namandala Kambir Yathayami Sange Chudam Sukhi Choknamla Janchu Bhardhu Dakhi Japsuchi Nargi Jungin Gita Sunamki Doradhenchi Sange Jupasho Sange Chudam Sukhi Choknamla Janchu Bhardhu Dakhi Japsuchi Nargi Jungin Gita Sunamki Doradhenchi Sange Jupasho Sange Chudam Sukhi Choknamla Janchu Bhardhu Dakhi Japsuchi Nargi Jungin Gita Sunamki Doradhenchi Sange Jupasho Alright. I don't know if you all know Sugong, but Sugong... I have a nice story about Sugong.

I was giving a talk in Singapore. There were 1,200 people there, a National Union trade hall, I think. And there was this guy in like the 10th row, and he's like...

And I told Jenny Wong, the Singapore organizer, during the break, I said, go get that guy. Go get that guy. I don't know if you remember.

She went and got him and brought him to the stage. I said, you're going to be a teacher. Because he was like...

The whole time there was one person awake. Anyway, he's amazing. He speaks...

Have to be here on time. Have to be here on time. Everybody say, have to...

Have to...

[Speaker 2]
Be here... Be here... On time.

[Speaker 1]
Have to...

[Speaker 2]
Have to... Be here... Be here...

On time. One more time. Have to...

Have to... Be here... Be here...

On time.

[Speaker 1]
Really, seriously. Or I'll just go home and translate myself, which I'm very happy to do. Seriously, I'm not kidding.

What's going on? Okay. Okay.

I was just talking about that. All right. So...

There's a great textbook writer from the greatest monastery, which is Sanmei, and his name was Kedrup Tenpa Darje. He will become your lifetime friend. He lived in the 1500s, shortly after Tsongkhapa.

So he's old. He wrote the textbooks for Sanmei, many of them. He wrote a very beautiful textbook on the Wheel of Life, the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination.

I studied it when I was a kid. And it's beautiful. It's totally beautiful.

So there's... He wrote two. So most monastic textbooks are written in pairs.

One is called Chidin, and one is called Tatcha. Chidin means general presentation. Tatcha means let's rip it apart.

Every single thing, let's rip it apart. Guess which one you get. You get the second one.

Okay. By the way, he's fluent in Chinese, Japanese, English, and Indonesian. So I figured that was not a problem.

And ukulele. And his wife is your very beautiful wife, Shunzhen. Okay.

So let's just go for it. Okay, you ready? You okay?

[Speaker 2]
Everybody got it? Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So his name is Kegum. And I know you don't know Tibetan, and I don't care.

Just listen. How's it going? Who taught him last night?

Did you get... How much kakaga did he get?

[Speaker 2]
I gave him... It's up to him. I gave him a program.

I said say over and over again.

[Speaker 1]
You didn't teach him kakaga? No, I watched the video, so... No, no video.

Human being. Okay. Teach him kakaga.

You're his man? Yes. Okay, teach him kakaga.

There's a human... Okay. All right.

Everybody, I expect that, right? Whoever's your partner. Kegum, the most famous...

Two of the most famous... Jessica Hubbard had two famous disciples. One was called Gyaltsabje, and one was called Kedugje.

Kedug means wise and accomplished. K means wise. Dug means practice successfully.

Kedug is a common title for people. Keshindupa. Sometimes we stretch it out to Keshindupa.

Wise and accomplished. Meaning they don't just study theory. They also did their three-year retreats.

They meditate every day. They do their book. They're not just...

Kepa means somebody who knows the books. Drup means somebody who did it. Practice.

They did their practice. So Kedrup is a big... What do you call it?

Compliment to call somebody Kedrup. Mawa means here. Mawa means to talk.

But here it means teacher. Kyu... By the way, we're on the first line.

Everybody knows, right? I don't have to point to the screen, right? You can follow.

Every other word is clear. Kyu means a herd of cattle. Or elephants or bulls.

Chok means the highest one. Kyu chok means the bull who leads the herd. Or the bird who leads the birds.

I'm Kyu chok. It's a big compliment. It'd be a nice...

I think I called some people Kyu chok in Thailand. Got Kyu chok name. It means number one.

[Speaker 2]
Wasn't that one of the signs of a leader?

[Speaker 1]
No. But anyway, it's a word that means absolute leader. And it's very cool.

It's a cool word. And it's not that common. I'm impressed.

I translated for Dalai Lama's doctor for a couple of years. And he used Kyu chok one day. And I said, I know.

He was trying to throw me off. I was like, I know Kyu chok. Okay.

Gendun... Denpa Dargye... It's a part of his name.

Gendun means Sangha. But I think it's part of his name here. Although it's not part of his legal name.

His full name is Denpa Dargye. Denpa means teachings. Darwa means to spread the teachings.

Gyepa means to spread the teachings. So he's called teaching spread spread. Okay.

It's his literal name, Denpa Dargye. It's a nice name. So there's a Geshe Dargye.

My first Lama was Geshe Dargye. Chembo, the great. Miss Bell.

Okay. Miss Card. So you're fixing...

This is how I do fixes. I put a curly bracket. I put a percentage sign.

And I correct it. And I just miscorrected it. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
If we look in the scan and find that it's just that the type is made a mistake, then you just correct it directly and not put the curly bracket?

[Speaker 1]
What I'm saying is that I don't have time to go to the database and correct text. So what I'm doing is, on my computer, all day long I'm translating. I do this.

And you guys are going to get my computer from my house when I go to heaven. You're going to find all those curly braces and you're going to put it in the database. Because I'm leaving in as junk work for you.

Okay. All right. And I have time to go fix the database because I don't own the database.

You own the database.

[Speaker 2]
It's good that you told us what those mean today.

[Speaker 1]
No, but if you search on my computer, there's hundreds. What's your password, please?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Soon. Okay. So, so far we have a teaching.

Soon. A teaching by that head ball of all the accomplished teachers, wise and accomplished teachers. GEN DIN DU BSTAN DANG BA You can say GEN DIN DU BSTAN DANG BA.

Okay. Karma. His teaching called BSTAN DAL GYI THAG CHER BSTAN DAL GYI THAG CHER BSTAN DAL is the Tibetan word for Pratityasamutpada.

Dependent Origination. BSTAN CING DAL BAR BYUNG BA is the full form. BSTAN CING DAL BAR BYUNG BA That which occurs through dependence.

And connections. Pratityasamutpada means dependent origination. Okay, I don't like the word.

You know. Where were we? Who was I playing with?

Was it you? We were in a restaurant. Where?

Yeah. In the last few days. In the last few days.

I was playing with her. I think it was you. Oh, it was Yi Yi.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it was Yi Yi. Okay, it was Yi Yi.

[Speaker 1]
We were in what restaurant? We were in the Kuchina. And she said, Dependent Origination.

I said, I want to teach you something. Okay? You tell the waiter.

You ask the waiter, What's Dependent Origination? So she said, I said, I just want to teach you something. And she said to the waiter, Excuse me.

And he said, Yes. She said, You know, I'm from China and I heard a word and I don't know what it means. What's Dependent Origination?

And the waiter goes, What? And she said, Dependent Origination. And he said, What?

He said, He said, Persecution or something like that? And she said, No, no. Dependent Origination.

And he's like, Gee, I don't know. You know, I don't know what that means. And then he said, Do you want to drink something?

What I mean is, this word is terrible. It's terrible. Dependent Origination.

Come on. Eight syllables. Tenda in Tibetan.

Two syllables. Okay. So, come up with something better.

Nowadays I like dependence. Okay. Just dependence.

Depending. It doesn't... Make it simple.

Don't expect the waiter to know Dependent Origination. Okay. Because they have no idea.

Ninety-nine percent of people never heard this word. It's a Buddhist... It's a bad English translation.

So forget it. Come up with something better. Okay.

And it doesn't have to include all the parts. It's just a... It's just a...

You know. It's just a code word that people are going to use. Nowadays I'm using dependence.

Okay. Tatha means... I translate it as...

Oh. Too long. Dialectic analysis.

Excuse me, waiter.

[Speaker 2]
What's a dialectic analysis?

[Speaker 1]
What's a dialectic analysis? Oh, you mean dialysis? The point is the chidung gives the general outline and the tatha is the...

You can say analysis. An analysis of dependent origination or whatever. An analysis of dependence.

But it implies he's going to tear it apart through debate. That's what dialectic means. Through debate he's going to ask questions.

People are going to argue in this book. This book is not a textbook. This book is a room where a couple of guys are going...

And by listening to them you learn more. Okay. You learn...

It's an argument about the Wheel of Life. Okay. So it's more exciting for learning.

Okay. So it was written in debate style. So we have two books, right?

Written in debate style. Adams. Dura.

And you're... Okay. So here we go.

[Speaker 2]
What is shukso? Could you say something like an analysis in debate?

[Speaker 1]
You'll figure it out. The shukso. And I don't mind if you guys help each other.

I mean, that's better than being jealous of each other and criticizing it in your mind later. Okay. Okay.

You can discuss it with other people. You can say, what do you think, Adam? What do you think we should call this?

And sometimes other people have a good idea. I mean, it's not very common. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
And what is shukso?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. It's nice. Viharati.

Viharatasmi in Sanskrit. Hearing contained. But we don't use it in English.

We just... Some things in English we translate by how we put the thing on the page. If something's bigger print on the top, it means it's a title, okay?

You don't have to say... Shukso means... contained in this book is a debate about dependent origination, about the Wheel of Life, the Twelve Links, okay?

By the way, in this book they're the same thing. The Twelve Links and dependence are the same thing, okay? In this book.

Nations of what shukso means. You will see people say there's a reason to put that there. It's an ancient Sanskrit custom.

It means this book is a living thing. The knowledge is a living thing. And this book is its home.

The book is not the knowledge. It's a cool idea. It's an ancient Sanskrit idea.

There are... understandings about life are living in the house called this book. You see what I mean?

So, it's a very beautiful idea. And... sometimes you can show it and sometimes you can ignore it, okay?

It came to mean that's the title of the book. But what it means is if you want to understand where the pain in the world comes from, that understanding lives in this book. It's a very cool, beautiful thing.

So, you can... it's up to you how poetic you get. Okay.

Lama Dangjatsun Jampeyang Nakupay Chaksel Shintangway Khyab Tzu Chi-yo So, Khyab Tzu Chi?

[Speaker 2]
I go for refuge.

[Speaker 1]
I go for refuge. Okay. What's this Sanskrit?

Buddha... Saranam Gacchami Saranam Gacchami I take... It's Saranam Gacchami Khyab Tzu Chi-yo I go for refuge to...

Lama... my teacher and to Jatsun Jampeyang to Manjushri. Okay.

To Lord... Jatsun means... Jatsun literally means Lord and Revered.

Reverend. Tsunpa means Reverend. It means someone whose morality normally is so good that they call them Tsunpa.

So, Jatsun... There's a woman lama in Sedona who used to live here named Jatsunma. And she was a hairdresser in Brooklyn and a lama came in and said you're my lama.

You were my lama in past life. And she became a famous lama. Unbelievable.

Yeah. And she bought property here. I don't think she's still here.

She made that stupa? She made the stupa. Her student made the stupa.

I taught them Vinaya many years ago. And the day I went there a double rainbow hit the place. The day I drove up and it was really cool.

And they didn't have anybody to teach the monks and nuns their vows. So... So, I went to...

She lived in North Carolina for a while? Yeah, it was Virginia I think. Something like that.

Anyway. Okay. Lama Don Jatsun Jampeyang La So...

It literally means... When I translate Jatsun in the Three Principal Paths I say high and holy. High and holy.

Je and dzun. High and holy. So, I bow down to my lama and to the high and holy Manjushri.

Kupe. Here it's not gu chak tsao. It's kupe chak tsao.

So, when you say gu chak tsao it's ambiguous. It can mean with respect or it can mean I. But here, because of the pa it's with respect.

With respect or with great respect. Chak tsao. I bow down.

Shing. Here means and. Sometimes shing means field.

Like Buddhafield. Kshetra. But here it means and.

Dhanwa? Who can gloss dhanwa for me? There's a new English verb I'll teach you guys.

Gloss. Gloss can mean this nail polish. It's shiny.

It's called gloss. But in language, in linguistics gloss means to explain a word. So, someone gloss dhanwa for me.

What? No. That's the Czech language.

Dhanwa means the clearness of good water. Or of a diamond. So, dhanwa means extremely clear.

Like fresh mountain water. It's called dhanwa. It means crystal pure, crystal clear.

But that came to be a word for shraddha in Sanskrit. Faith. Okay?

It became a word for faith. And in the Lam Rim, there are three kinds of faith. One is called dhanwadepa.

It's crystal clear. It means I see your good qualities and I'm clear about it. I admire them.

It means admire. Okay? So, I bow down to you.

I bow down to you with faith and I go to refuge to you with great... Sorry. I bow down to you with respect and I take refuge in you with great faith.

Okay. Why are we using V? Very good question.

Very good question. When you have a homonym in Tibetan...

[Speaker 2]
Homonym?

[Speaker 1]
It's in Japanese, it's very common. The words, two words sound the same. So, in Jap...

I heard in Tokyo, people are like... They're doing the character because... because the sound has five meanings.

In Chinese, you use tones. In Japanese, it's all... I believe there's no tones.

So, they... When they have a conversation, they're like... they're like showing people the character on their hand because it's...

it's a... it's a homonym. Two words, same sound, completely different meaning.

Okay? So, dang... dang usually means...

and... so, when you add the V, it becomes... same sound, but it's a...

spelling. Orthographical... device.

Orthographical device. You change the spelling, same sound. It's a small triangle.

[Speaker 2]
It's a small triangle.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Different meaning. So, without the V, it's and.

With the V, it's clarity. Or faith. Okay.

But, I challenge you, since you're so good with languages, somehow get the crystal in there. Good luck. It's faith, but it's somehow...

like a diamond. Not hard like a diamond, but clear like a diamond. Or like...

fresh mountain water. That's that kind of feeling. You...

see if you can put it in here. Good luck. Okay.

I'm going to add this line. It goes with this one, actually. Okay, so I'm going to cut it here.

Okay. Let's go to the end, okay? Je-so-soom-doo-soom.

Say Je-so. Je-so. Soom-doo.

Soom-doo. Soom. Soom is a ten...

is a form of the verb...

[Speaker 2]
Soom.

[Speaker 1]
Soom. Soom. Soom.

Is a form of the verb what? Zen? Zen.

Yeah, to hold. To hold. Okay?

So, soom is past... you know, soom is... hard to do.

Please do this. Okay? Please...

Je-soo. Me... for you.

Take me after you. Take me with you. Take care of me.

Take care of me. Okay? Who's he asking?

He's asking his Lama and his Buddha and Manjushri. Please take me after you. It means...

never leave me. Take me with you. If you go to New York, Je-soo-soom-doo-soom, please take me with you.

Okay? Je-soo means after you. Soom means hold me.

It means please, please care for me. Take care of me. Okay?

Je-wa-chem-bo. Yeah, out of your great love for me. Please, please always take me with you.

Okay? Doo-deng-ne-kap-tam-je-doo. Doo-tam-je...

Tam-je means all. Okay? Doo means time.

We had it in the last question in the kunshi text. Why? What historical time was the Mainomi school started?

Okay? So here it's the same thing. You know?

Tam-je-doo means in all times. Always, always take care of me. Always bring me with you to any time of my life and kap-tam-je, ne-kap-tam-je-doong-ne-kap, in all situations.

Okay? In all times and in all situations. You know, keep me with you.

Keep me with you is a nice translation of Tsingtao. Okay? Keep me with you.

Very beautiful. Okay? Okay.

Now, when you write a monastic textbook about a book, this book is based on what other book? Where does the teaching of the Wheel of Life come from in the monastery? Yeah.

Asanga, from Asanga's Jewel of Realizations. Abhisamaya Alankara. Okay?

So, he has a good seed for Sanskrit because Indonesian language is based on Sanskrit. Strongly. Very strongly.

Very close. So, it's not hard for him to say Abhisamaya Alankara. Okay?

Abhisamaya, Realization, Alankara, Jewel. You want to know where Alankara comes from? I like it.

Ala means to be ready. To go to a party. And kara means makes you ready to go to the party.

And it's a jewelry. Okay? So, gets you ready became the word for jewelry.

For the party. Alankara. You need something?

[Speaker 2]
I just thought about the camera. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, this presentation of the Wheel of Life of Dependent Origination. What do you mean by twelve links? Is based on Master Asanga's Abhisamaya Alankara.

Maitreya. Spoken by Maitreya who took dictation is Asanga. Okay?

Arya Asanga. Alright? And I'll tell you something cool.

Okay? The entire literature of Tibetan Buddhism. Dozens of books about Dependent Origination which I've been working on for our book.

He's going to help me finish a book by August. Because we're teaching at a place where Dependent Origination was taught. Which is in Indonesia.

It all comes from two lines in the Abhisamaya Alankara. Hundreds of teachings. Comes from...

It's one line in the Sanskrit. And here it is. ten ching dzel...

ten ching dzel jung luk tung dang LUM MI THUN LA RTOG PA BYED That's it. All of those books came from this. Two...

One sentence by... Spoken by Maitreya. Written down by Asanga.

Okay? So that's this first sentence here. Okay?

If you want to cut it into poetry, it should look like this. Okay? Okay?

It should look like this. And it's very deep. It's very deep.

So here we go. Ready? ten ching dzel jung is the long translation of pratityasamutpada.

Okay? It's the long translation of Dependent Origination. Okay?

ten means to rely upon. Like... This cup relies on this cup.

Okay? All right? And dzelwa means connection.

They're connected. So when the Tibetans translated the Sanskrit word pratityasamutpada, samutpada means to come up very much. Samutpada means to come up very much.

And then pratitya means, I don't know, like in connection or something. Pratitya. It...

in exit, right? To go. So to be connected and to be dependent is the meaning of pratityasamutpada in Sanskrit.

So... It is the prati as in sosor. Yeah.

But the Tibetans didn't translate it with sosor. You can choose different... There's a beautiful section in Whitney's grammar.

If you ever want to learn Sanskrit, we should go through that book where he gives all the prefixes and all their meanings. There's one page devoted to that. It's very beautiful.

So prati can mean individual, but it can also mean starting. And it has other meanings. So anyway, ten ching del jung means things happen through dependence and connection.

Ching means and. Things happen, jung, in dependence and connection. Okay.

That's the word pratityasamutpada. And it's a good translation. And it's clumsy in Tibetan too.

Okay. So you can be... You can feel good about it.

The word is not smooth in Tibetan. Okay. Ten ching del jung.

Now I'm going to skip to topa che. Okay. Here.

Topa che. You must understand. You must realize.

You must study. Understand. Okay.

Topa.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Give me a lecture on topa.

[Speaker 2]
There's topa with an R in front, and topa with an S at the end?

[Speaker 1]
No. They both have an R in front.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay. One has an S and one doesn't.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. One means realization.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. This one with the S means to realize correctly. And without the S, it means to think incorrectly.

And they're homonyms. They sound the same. When you're in a debate, you know, you're like topa che.

You say, wait, how do you spell that? How do you spell that? You're talking with an S or no S?

Because topa means to have a suspicion or superstition. Without the S. Whew.

Nam tok means superstition or paranoia. Wrong idea. Okay.

Okay. So topa che means you must, you must understand, dependent origination, both luk tun and luk mi tun. Both luk tun and luk mi tun.

Okay. We had tunpo yesterday, in accordance with luk, the system. No, it's not that easy.

Sometimes it's called lung jung and lung dok. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. I want you to understand the forward progression and the reverse progression.

Okay. Okay. That's...

that's my... that's all he said about it. I want you to understand those twelve links.

One causes two, two causes three, three causes four. By the way, it's not as easy as twelve comes from eleven, eleven comes from ten. It's not that easy.

That's not what luk mi tun means. That's not what lung dok means. Lung dok means shut down number one, you shut down number two.

Shut down number two, you shut down number three. Shut down number three, you shut down number four. So it's not technically backwards.

It's the... it's the way pain... pain triggered and pain shut down.

It's the two things. You should understand the twelve links, how pain is triggered and how pain gets shut down in a progression, in a chain reaction. In English we call it chain reaction.

You know, I hit him, he hits Adam, Adam hits Dr. Wu. That's called a chain reaction. Okay?

It's like a chain. Okay? So, cool?

Super cool. We could stop there. But we're not going to, because Geshe Michael likes long-winded things.

BYANG SEMS MTHONG LAM PA'I THEG CHEN MTHONG LAM PA'I LAM NAM PAR SKYES NYON DU MYONG DANG NYON DU MYONG DANG GANG PA'I YIN TE Oh, you got... Man, you start with sexy stuff. Okay.

BYANG SEMS BORI SRAB PA BYANG CHUB SEMS That's the full form. BYANG SEMS BORI SRAB PA MTHONG LAM PA A person... When you add PA to anything, it means ER in English.

Plumber, teacher, singer. Okay? This PA, it means doer.

Okay? Yeah. So, MTHONG LAM is path of seeing.

So, MTHONG LAM PA means a person on the path of seeing. Okay? A person on the path of seeing.

A bodhisattva who's on the path of seeing. I'll ask you a question. Do they have to be in the direct perception of emptiness to be on the path of seeing?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so, the first twenty minutes of MTHONG LAM, you are in the direct perception of emptiness. After that, you're still meditating, but you come out. You're not seeing emptiness anymore, and in that aftermath— I call it aftermath— in the...

right after that, for maybe, I don't know... sitting, you can say... another half hour or something, forty-five minutes.

But, what do you see at that point? Yeah, the four arya truths. Okay?

Which is why they're called arya. The four truths of a person on the path of seeing. So, there's...

NYAM SHAK, which means in deep meditation, and there's JETO. Some people split NYAM SHAK into direct perception emptiness and thinking about the four arya truths, and then you go walk around and sell your car and get a diamond. Okay?

Something like that. Okay? But those are all MTHONG LAM.

Different ways to split it. Anyway, we're talking about a bodhisattva on the path of seeing. Is there someone on the path of seeing who's not a bodhisattva?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Is it possible?

[Speaker 2]
Sure.

[Speaker 1]
So, without ultimate love, you can see emptiness?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, okay. Famous debate. Okay?

You can be a schmuck and see emptiness. I mean...

[Speaker 2]
Well...

[Speaker 1]
You can stay in a cave and not care too much about other people, but if you work really hard, you can see emptiness. Without love for other people. Okay?

Without wanting to save the world. Okay. We're going to talk about that at 10 o'clock.

[Speaker 2]
And what do we have to ask at the behind the scenes?

[Speaker 1]
We're going to talk about it. You are so good. Oh my god.

I knew you were going to be good. THEG CHEN THON LAM NAM DU LAM Okay? NAM DU LAM This means the path of freedom.

Path of liberation. And that's... a reference...

to... while they're still sitting in meditation, but they came out of the direct perception of emptiness. Okay?

In Abhidharma terms. Okay? They came out of...

direct perception of emptiness, but they're still in meditation. They didn't stand up yet. Okay?

They didn't come out of the meditation. They came out of ultimate reality. They're back in normal reality.

But they didn't stand up yet. Okay? That's called NAM DU LAM.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
NAM DU LAM Because it begins your path to liberation?

[Speaker 1]
No, it's a very important thing in the Abhidharma. Sixth chapter.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it's the secret of the three knowledges?

[Speaker 1]
No, it's... it's more difficult. While you're in the direct perception of emptiness, three negative emotions are being crushed by emptiness.

Okay? By the direct perception of emptiness, three negative emotions are being dissolved while you're in deep meditation. You're not aware of it.

You can't think about it. But three... the power of emptiness is crushing three negative emotions.

So, when you come out of that, you're free of three of the 84,000 negative emotions. Okay? And that's the first time you're free of any negative emotions forever.

Okay? You cannot get them back. Okay?

What are they?

[Speaker 2]
Doubt. Doubt about the past. Intellectual belief in self-existence.

[Speaker 1]
To believe that things are coming this way, intellectually. Okay? When you come out, you start seeing things again.

Okay? But you don't believe it. Okay?

You still get angry. But somebody say, do you realize the person you're getting angry at isn't there? And you say, oh yeah.

But, I mean, you can forget yourself, but you never don't understand what you're doing. Okay? What's the third one?

Yeah, like harmful morality. Like in India, they hold their arm up until it shrinks. Or they burn themselves, or just poke themselves with things.

And this is considered in Buddhism, super... kukpa, shintu kukpa. You know.

These Christians have a thing where they hit themselves with a... with a knot, you know, with a barbed wire. You know.

And it just hurt yourself. There's people who still put nails to their hands. They think it's very religious.

You know. So, when you see emptiness directly, you can no longer have that kind of stupid idea. Okay?

Those three ideas. So, when you come out of the direct perception, you enter nam du lam, which means you're free. This is an Abhidharma idea, and we're going to talk about it in about four years.

I'm not kidding. He will be the expert. You can ask him.

Okay. So, nam du lam, le lang, lang means to get up out of that. From means...

le means from. Lang means get up. When you get up out of bed in the morning, it's called lang.

Okay? Lang. Got up.

Yeah. Ya lang means get your ass off the bed. Let's go.

Ya lang shi. Ya lang shi. Get up.

Okay? Get up. It can also mean to take up, and lang dor means to have a correct viveka, discrimination, between what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing to do.

It's called lang dor. You know, you should take this up and you should give this up. Okay?

So, this means lang je su. We just had je su sung du su. Ya anu.

Anu. Yeah. Okay.

A-N-U in Sanskrit. Lang je su. After they get up, okay, they start walking around again.

Okay? Okay. ten drel lung jung lung dok.

Heavy prenasals. L-D is a heavy prenasal. Ng dok.

Ng dok. Lung jung lung dok. Both are prenasal.

Heavy. Lung jung lung dok. What's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Forward progression and backward. What did he just call it? What did Maitreya call it?

Lug tun. Lug mi tun. Lug tun.

Lug tun. Lug tun. Lug mi tun.

Shut down. But the common word in Buddhist practice is lung jung lung dok. Lug means system.

Jung means two. You know, one causes two, two causes three, three causes four. Lung dok means shut down one, shut down two.

Shut down two, shut down three. Shut down three, shut down four. They're the same thing.

Lug tun and lung jung are the same thing. Lug mi tun and lung dok are the same thing. Okay?

In a debate, you won't say lug tun. You'll say lung jung. Okay?

When you talk about Buddhism, you use lung jung and lung dok. Okay? If you say lug tun and lug mi tun, everybody's like...

It's like asking the waiter about to tell her information. We had such a fun time because Yi Yi was, she's so good at being innocent, right?

[Speaker 2]
She's like...

[Speaker 1]
You know... Can you tell me what's the name of the guy? The guy's like very polite, very nice waiter.

I gave him a huge tip the night before. And he was like, he was like, excuse me? And she's like, he's like thinking she's asking for some Chinese food or something.

Can you tell me what's the name of the guy? And she's like, excuse me? Okay.

Anyway, that's called the waiter test. Gong, Gong you guys know.

[Speaker 2]
Meditate?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, meditate. Okay, Gong. Good.

You must. You must. You gotta do it.

Okay? Okay? So he's already using debate format.

There's a necessity. After that bodhisattva gets out of direct perception emptiness, they have to start thinking about... Okay?

They gotta start thinking about that. Okay? Because...

He didn't give his reason yet. Yod de means because the day. It's because...

He just gave his premise. He just gave his thing to prove. Okay?

He said, bodhisattva comes out of direct perception emptiness, they gotta start thinking about the real life. Because... Okay?

We don't have the reason yet. What do we expect at the end of the next phrase? I hope it's there.

I don't see it. I don't see it either.

[Speaker 2]
Where is it? After the tongue. Yeah, third line.

There's the because.

[Speaker 1]
There's the because. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Cheer.

[Speaker 1]
Because... In English, we put because first. In Tibetan, you put it at the end.

Okay? Because bodhisattva's gotta start thinking about the real life. Because...

And everything between day and cheer is the reason. Okay? And he's gonna give a couple reasons.

Okay? Okay, you ready? Let's do some reasons.

I like it, Sedona. You gotta keep coming. I'll find...

I'll find... I'll find some money. I'll rob a bank in Sedona.

Okay. I'll rob a bank in Sedona. Now, what's ranggyupa?

Good, there's a school called ranggyupa. But this is not it. Here it means your own mind.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Your own mind. Okay? Gyu is in Sanskrit.

I like the word. Oh, I'm sorry. Santana.

Santana. Santana.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Rang Santana. My own mind. Your own mind stream.

You see, gyu means stream. Okay? So your own mind stream.

Nyo-mong... Clashia. Clashia.

Okay, Clashia. It's one of the five most common words in Buddhism. Nyonmong.

Okay, one of the five most common words in Buddhism. Klesha. Negative emotion.

You can call it afflicted consciousness. But I suggest you do the waiter test on that one. I have mental afflictions.

Can you... Can you suggest something? They'll say, well, I would take the lamb chops and...

But if you say, I have a problem with my negative emotions. I like negative emotions. It's not quite perfect, but it's okay.

Okay. Ranggyu. Your own, okay.

Again, it's that humility thing. For your own mental afflictions. For your own negative emotions.

Shom is a verb from jom. Drak chom. Yeah, smash them.

Destroy them, okay. I corrected it here because... I edited this text.

This was the first text ever printed off a computer. In Tibet. In Tibetan.

[Speaker 2]
This Tatra?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Wow.

[Speaker 1]
There were eight books. I put eight books in one volume and I printed them. This was the first one.

[Speaker 2]
You used that on a typewriter?

[Speaker 1]
No, I mean on a computer.

[Speaker 2]
On a computer.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. I did the logic book on a typewriter. Which fell out of the plane on the way.

[Speaker 2]
It's a monstrous asterisk. In those days, I mean.

[Speaker 1]
I edited it, okay. I don't know why I edited it, but... Okay.

So, the first reason why you should study the Wheel of Life after... even after you get out of emptiness... is to destroy...

the nyomongs. How many?

[Speaker 2]
How many? Eighty... Yay!

Eighty-three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven nyomongs.

[Speaker 1]
Eighty-three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven. Okay? The rest of your nyomongs.

The rest of your kleshas. The root in Sanskrit is klesh. And the only word I'm aware of in English that comes from it is...

holly, because it's prickly. It means prickly. To be prickly.

There's a... There's a plant in... in America called holly.

And the leaf is like... itchy, scratchy. And kleshta comes from the same root.

Yeah. To... It means to bother somebody.

Or to irritate. Irritating. Okay.

Dulja? Wait. Alison, what's dul?

Dulja. Nice! It's your subject.

It's your subject.

[Speaker 2]
What's the verb...

[Speaker 1]
What's the verb dul mean? What's the verb... What's the root of vinaya?

The name vinaya? What's it mean? Yeah.

Tame a wild horse. To tame a wild horse. Ja means to do it.

To do. Bya here. Okay.

It means the person who is supposed to be tamed. And that's the Tibetan word for... disciple.

Someone you have to beat. Someone you have to tie up. Someone you...

They're going to want to do this. No, no, no. No, no, no.

Dulja. Okay. The person to be dulled.

It's dulja. I like it. I mean, I didn't like it when I was a disciple.

[Speaker 2]
Now I'm the teacher.

[Speaker 1]
I love it. I can tell Chinsen to shut up.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Alright. Dulja. RANG RGYAL GYI RIGS CHEN RIGS CHEN means...

There are different levels of disciples. Here it means type, okay. Means what?

Type. Type of disciple. I like to call it track.

Because there are three tracks in Buddhism. There's the... It's called the listener track.

And there's the self-made Buddha track. And there's the bodhisattva track. There's three famous tracks.

Especially in your school, which is Madhyamika Prasang... Svatantrika. So, this track is called listener track.

And this track is called self-made Buddha. Self-made Buddha means they don't have to study with a teacher in this lifetime. Because they...

Because they studied with a million teachers in their past life. Okay. So if someone says self-made Buddha means you don't have to have a teacher, you can say shut up.

You know, you had a million teachers in your past lives. And then in this life you don't have a teacher. That's okay.

Okay. Je Tsud Zen is the same as Je Tsud Tsung that we had.

[Speaker 2]
Take care of. Yeah. Take care of.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So the second reason... Sorry.

The second reason why the bodhisattva who comes out of emptiness should study the Wheel of Life is... Ranggyo students. Those students they have who are on the second track.

Those students they have who are on the second track.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And when you say, what's the teaching for those three tracks? The listener track lacks the fortress. The self-made Buddha track lacks the Wheel of Life.

And the bodhisattva track needs the six perfections. Okay, like that. So they're almost defined by the teaching that they get.

So Ranggyos are like... Sometimes they're called Sangye Ding. In Chandrakirti it's called Sangye Ding.

Medium Buddhists. Like they're sharper. They understand fortress already.

Not directly. But they're ready for the teaching on the twelve links. And these guys get the six perfections.

Okay, so three tracks. Especially in this school.

[Speaker 2]
Do they often correspond directly with the Lam Rim? They're close.

[Speaker 1]
They're obviously close. Obviously Tsongkhapa might have been influenced by the three tracks when he wrote the Three Motivations. Okay.

But not exactly. Okay. Rang Ring Je Tsongkapa.

So the second purpose... That the bodhisattva... Right?

He's not Ranggyo. He's not second track. He's higher track.

But he should master the Wheel of Life so he can teach these people. Okay. So that's often bodhisattvas have to master a lower teaching.

Because their student's not going to be ready for the six perfections. Got it? So you should have a big toolkit.

And be ready to teach those people something a little easier. The twelve links. Okay.

Twelve links do not emphasize compassion. If you think about it, there's not much in there about compassion. Okay.

Not directly. Okay. It's just how does pain start.

Like someone who just got... Someone who just went to the doctor and they say you have cancer. You know.

Then they're like, how do I stop it? They're just interested in their own pain. Okay.

Alright. And... korwa la.

Okay. Korwa la. What's korwa?

[Speaker 2]
The Wheel.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. By the way, I'm going to teach you something that the older students know. It's been miswritten as samsara.

Okay. That's a wrong spelling. It's sansara.

S-A-N. Sansara. So you can put sansara in all your translations and people will correct it for you.

[Speaker 2]
Alright.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Sam. And M in Sanskrit changes to N before S.

Always. There's no such word sanskara, Sanskrit language. You don't say samskrit language.

Okay. It's required to change the N before S. That's all.

It's not samsara. It never was samsara. That's just people miswrote it.

Try to change it. Some things are too late to change.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Sans. Like French. Sans.

De-bu-du. Ru-ru.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yin-jung. Say Yin-jung. Yin-jung.

It's the same as ngen-jung. It's another synonym for ngen-jung.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Tired of. You're going to learn it in about 15 minutes. Are we supposed to stop at 9.45?

[Speaker 2]
Yes. Let's keep going.

[Speaker 1]
We started at 8.50, so... Let's keep going.

[Speaker 2]
You have to teach in 15 minutes. That's okay.

[Speaker 1]
I just need time to PB. It doesn't take 15 minutes. If there's a bathroom open.

Yin-jung. Kye-pa. So that you can develop.

So that you can develop. Kye-pa means to develop. What's the most famous kye-pa?

Sem-kye. Bodhichitta. To get the wish.

Okay. Che-du means for the purpose of. Che-du means for the purpose of.

You should learn it. Okay. You can say chir-du, or you can say che-du.

Or you can say dun-du. And they're all the same. Okay.

For the purpose of. Okay. So.

Why is it che-du?

[Speaker 2]
Why is it che-du?

[Speaker 1]
Ah, I don't know. It's because of the du after. Che-du.

Che-du. Okay. So what's that last phrase mean?

What's that last part mean?

[Speaker 2]
Uh. You may teach it. You may teach it.

Oh. Oh, okay. Oh.

So for the purpose of teaching the wrong views. The. Uh.

Bodhisattvas. For the purpose of teaching the wrong views.

[Speaker 1]
No, the last part. That starts with kor-wa.

[Speaker 2]
For the purpose of teaching bodhichitta?

[Speaker 1]
No.

[Speaker 2]
For the purpose of giving them renunciation to get out of samsara. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
In order to help them to get sick of samsara. To help them to get tired of this pain. You know, over and over again.

Every time you yell at your husband, they yell at you. Every time you yell, they yell at you. Okay?

You should get tired of it. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Disgust for this world.

[Speaker 1]
Now, technically, I'll teach you a thing called distribution. In translation, there's a thing called distribution. Bodhisattvas who come out of the path of sin should learn the Wheel of Life so that they can lead their second-level students and so that they can develop renunciation.

Correct or wrong?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
It's wrong. I'll say it again. Bodhisattvas who come out of the direct perception of emptiness should learn the Wheel of Life so that they can help their students on the second track, kamma, and so that they can develop renunciation for samsara.

Good translation, bad translation. Bad translation. Because it doesn't mean bodhisattvas need it.

It means their students need it. So, distribute means mention it here and mention it again here. So they can help their students, they can take care of their students who are second-level and they can teach those students to develop renunciation.

That's called distribution. That's called distribution. Take the object and distribute it to both verbs.

Okay? And you can make big mistakes this way. Doesn't bodhisattva need to develop renunciation?

No. I asked my teacher, you know, Lama, how do first track people get on the first path? They develop renunciation.

How do second track people get on the first path, path of accumulation? They develop renunciation. How do bodhisattvas get on the first path?

They develop bodhicitta. But Lama, they don't have renunciation? I asked him that question one day.

I was in the kitchen. I was like, but they don't have renunciation. He says, you don't get it.

They get renunciation for everybody.

[Speaker 2]
Ah-ha.

[Speaker 1]
Got it? It's still renunciation, but it's aimed at everybody. We got to get out, instead of, I got to get out.

They're still saying, got to get out, jung, yin jung. Got it? It's very beautiful.

So, they don't need yin jung. So, you got to distribute the object. You got to share the object.

Okay, who's the object? Second-level people. Okay, help them get more renunciation.

Okay? Cool? You got to be careful.

One more minute, here we go. Di kap si ta chepa la. Di kap si ta chepa la.

Let's analyze what's happening at di kap. Di kap at that time. At that time, what meaning?

After they get out of the direction? No, it always means, at this point in the Abhisamha Avanthara.

[Speaker 2]
Oh.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? Let's analyze what's happening in these lines. Kap in a book means, at this section of the text.

In this section. Let's analyze what's happening at this point in this famous book. At this point.

Okay? So, kap in these books always means, at those lines. Let's see what's going on.

Okay? Woo, so cool. Okay, we're going to take a little break there.

You ready to go? Okay. Okay, cool.