Классика Алмазного огранщика: Нижний Срединный путь — Анализ зависимости, занятие 37

[Speaker 1]
JAN CHU PAR DU DAK NI KHYAP SU CHI DAK GI CHEN YEN GYI PE SU NAM GYI DRODHA PEN CHIR SANG GYI CHU PAR SHOK SHOGUNISMOGULAYA Okay, the first question. In the 18 legends and fortunes, which of the five opportunities are related to the general people? People as a human.

We have one. No, general people. General, not self.

More than a central man. We have one. The Buddha came.

[Speaker 2]
He taught.

[Speaker 1]
People support the teaching. People support the teaching. One more.

Five bad deeds. Yeah, no five bad deeds. No, that's specific to us.

Oh yeah, that's the personal.

[Speaker 2]
I think we said all five.

[Speaker 1]
Ah, yeah. Okay, how about those that are related to self? Not coming to the five bad deeds.

Not coming to five bad deeds. Do you have your faculties? Faculties intact.

Central land. Being born as a human. And one more.

No, not the practice. We don't have any.

[Speaker 2]
No, we still have faith.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, in the eon of life, in the eon of life, when is the Buddha likely to come? During the increase or decrease?

[Speaker 2]
Decrease.

[Speaker 1]
Decrease. Yeah, so smart. We just figured that out.

Okay, we have the Tibetan. Jumpa. Arise.

Jumpa.

[Speaker 2]
Holy, holy, holy. That's the one.

[Speaker 1]
High, high, high honorific language.

[Speaker 2]
Jumpe kalpa. Jumpe kalpa. Sunny kalpa.

And dark kalpa.

[Speaker 1]
Dark kalpa. Hangsang. Nowadays.

Nowadays, yes. Okay, thank you. Vishala, over to you.

Oh, no, it's too early.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, let me see.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, microphone, Vishala. Thank you, sir. You did it.

Microphone. Not the butterfly. Butterfly.

Makes me feel better.

[Speaker 2]
Hello.

[Speaker 1]
Each time. Okay. So we were trying to prove that these days are good days, because we met, we, there was a Buddha in this world, and we established that, you know, the odds of being in such a time is very rare, okay?

And there's different times of good times. And sometimes there are millions of years in between. And then, so we're in a time when there's supposed to come a thousand Buddhas.

And we're discussing whether we're on number three or four, I don't know. Excuse me. Maitreya's four or Sakyamuni's four?

Sakyamuni's four. I always thought it was, anyway, okay. So, and we talked about that, and we're trying to, you know, I was curious, why a thousand Buddhas, you know?

Why not 946, you know? What's the deal? And I was just curious if anyone talked about it.

And somebody did talk about it. Tsongkhapa. Tsongkhapa.

Let me see. Yeah, here, so start with Tsong, okay? Right here.

And please read. Okay. Yeah.

I don't know if I read this. Okay. I'm not sure I understand it, but I think I do.

Okay. Okay. Trang tong kyi ngepa.

What's that mean?

[Speaker 2]
Definitely a thousand count.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, why is the count? Here's the trang and trang chenpa, for example, right? Sankhya.

So why is the count exactly a thousand? Why was the count made at exactly a thousand? mi je du kelpa sampa la sanggye tong ni du trakpe.

Mi je is a Buddha... is a Buddha paradise, called not for... I forget what mi je means.

It's not, it's not not forget. Maybe somebody can look it up. M-J-E-D.

Okay. It's a Buddha field called mi je dong je. Huh?

Yeah, I think it might be misspelled. Anyway, okay. Anyway, it's a Buddha paradise, okay?

Yeah, it might be the one where my train is. I don't know. Anyway, there they drakpa.

Everybody says there's a thousand Buddhas coming in the kelpa sampa, in the good times, which is our times, okay? In the pure times. Everyone says, you know, it's going to be a thousand.

Therefore, gag du med pa jangway chir ro. I think this means, it's not something you could prove or disprove. It's just something that everybody says in that heaven.

Okay. And then he quotes Shantipa, who's an Indian master. Is that vague enough?

Who said, kel sang gi sang ge tong, the thousand Buddhas of the good eon, okay? And the thousand Buddhas of the ten directions, their trinle, okay? Their high activities.

Yeah, that's the super honorific for their deeds, their high deeds, are totally equal. They don't differ at all from each other. They all do the same great things.

She che do. So he's quoting an Indian master who's quoting what they say in that heaven, okay? And that's why it's a thousand.

And it's not something you could prove or disprove. It's just what people say in heaven, okay? I think that's what it means.

That wasn't very helpful. Okay. We are going through the 18 good things about our life that make us lucky.

Why did we get to those? Oh, because he's... Yeah, good.

Say it more clearly for these guys. In one of the arguments, the other party is saying that we want to get rid of the sense faculty because it is part of the link number five. Which is part of the...

Which is part of the Wheel of Life. And the Wheel of Life is something you have to reject.

[Speaker 2]
Get out of.

[Speaker 1]
So we bring in this discussion about the Eight Leisures and Ten Opportunities, which is taught in the Lam Rim. And we want to prove that all these sense faculties are part of the body that we have to take care and treasure. Yeah, good.

So, if something's in the Wheel of Life, it should be something you want to get rid of. But the sense powers are in the Wheel of Life at link number... Five.

Which is the empty buildings, because it represents the empty senses. Yeah, in windows. So, on one point of view, they are something we should get rid of.

And the Buddha doesn't have them, because the Buddha is standing outside of the Wheel of Life pointing to the moon. So, he must have rejected them. Therefore, eyes are bad things.

And then we say, not necessarily so. And then he says, why? And we say, in the Lam Rim, they are wonderful things, because they let you read books and get out of the Wheel of Life.

Okay, got it? So then, unfortunately, the book said the 18 good things about our life. And we never, in this translation group, get to a number and don't explain it.

So, in this translation group, we always have a footnote that says, here's the 18, because the book mentioned 18. It said the eye is one of the 18. So then, we're going to the 18.

And we got to number 13. Twelve. Have we done 12?

Oh, we did 12? We didn't do 12? Oh, sorry.

I'm sorry. Here we are. Okay.

And he's proving, some author is proving, that these 18 really are rare. Okay, go. Okay.

nan, nan, oh, nam la, nam la, tu san gom sum, che pa sin, sin tu nyong war, nangway che ro. Okay, cool. Uh, tempe jesu jupa.

So, it's supposed to be that we're very lucky that there are tempe jesu jupas, in this world. Yeah, people trying to practice the teachings. Okay?

So, we're lucky that a Buddha came. We're lucky that a Buddha talked. We're lucky that the teachings are still here.

And we're lucky that other people, our comrades, our colleagues, are still trying to practice also. And then we have a sangha, then we have a group of support around us. Okay?

But, it's rare in the universe, to have people, other people, who are also practicing, and supporting your practice, okay, by their practice. They're doing their book, so you feel guilty to... and you do your book.

Sanghe gyi tempe la ten ne. Those who have faith in the teachings of the Buddha, okay? What's this mean, tempe gorshuk?

[Speaker 2]
Um, gorshuk?

[Speaker 1]
This, uh, this gore we had in Shopping's text yesterday, but that was a long time ago.

[Speaker 2]
Hmm, not surrounding.

[Speaker 1]
I'll give you a clue, it's locative. Oh, by the door, by the door. Yeah, into the door, into the door.

She had gomache, which was written as gomche in the text, miscarred, as katha meditation. And it turned out to be, they didn't close the door.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, we have people around us, who have entered into the door of the teachings. That's a idiom that means, they've become Buddhist, they're trying to practice Buddhism. And, having entered, they are gomba.

Okay, gomba kun gyal, all those guys. And, sangye kyi sumpe de nu sum. Yeah, the three baskets, tri, pitaka.

Don't say tripitaka. Okay? It's tri, pitaka.

Tri means three, like triangle. And, pitaka means basket. And these are the three sections of the Buddhist teaching.

So, uh, de... What? Okay, de nu sum.

People are trying to practice the three, which is what? Abhidharma, sutra, and vinaya. These three big parts.

Morality, meditation, and wisdom. And gyudashi. Yeah, and the four classes of tantra.

Okay? People are trying to practice them. And, we have the gongdrels.

The commentaries, which explain what they really mean. Okay? What they were meant to mean.

And, we have the, uh, tengyur. Now, here, tsema is an adjective. You tell me.

The valid commentaries. Yeah, we have correct commentaries. The most famous tsema you had was in ACI, three or four?

[Speaker 2]
Tseme kye bu. Tseme kye bu.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Uh, a person who is, who is always correct. Okay?

Meaning Buddha, yeah. It's pramana used as an adjective, not as a state of mind. This is a pramana person.

And we have pramana books hanging around. Okay, we have... You guys are translating pramana books when they're spelled correctly.

Okay. Nam kyi. But, there are people who, ming tsam yang ma thotpar.

Only listen to the word alone.

[Speaker 2]
Ma thot.

[Speaker 1]
They don't listen to the name only. Ma thot.

[Speaker 2]
They don't listen to the word.

[Speaker 1]
They never heard even the name of these books.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
And there's, trust me, there's people like that. You know? You are, you are translating eighth-grade subjects of Buddhism.

There are people writing commentaries who don't know the names of the eighth-grade subjects of Buddhism.

[Speaker 2]
So...

[Speaker 1]
Someone gave me a book yesterday. Okay, the other one I threw out the other day was... was Dao De Jing for couples.

And I opened up the first page, and I heard, ming ka ming fei tsam ming, and I was like... You know? They never read it.

They never looked at it. They thought it would be cute to write a book about it. Okay?

And ming tsam yang ma thotpar means, they never even heard the names of these books that you're translating. You know? Okay?

Abhidharma. They don't know what's Abhidharma. And they wrote a commentary on Buddhism.

Okay? Really irritating.

[Speaker 2]
What's the difference between a commentary clarifying the intent and a balanced commentary?

[Speaker 1]
That's a good question. It's about the same thing if you ask me. Okay?

It's about the same. You could, if it's written this way, you could say these are commentaries on the Buddha's own words, like Heart Sutra commentaries. And these are like independent commentaries, like Pramanavarttika, and stuff like that.

If I had to... If I was put in a corner and had to distinguish between those two. Okay.

So then we got people who are limbo. We had it yesterday, do dzang lun. Dzang?

Lun? Sutra of the Dzangs and the... Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
So this is the foolish.

[Speaker 1]
It's spelled balloon. So there are fools who never even heard the name Abhidharmakosha. Okay?

And they write things that are mitten.

[Speaker 2]
Not in accord...

[Speaker 1]
With the gongpa.

[Speaker 2]
With the true intent.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, with what the books really mean. They just write, you know, dadajing for couples. And...

And daki.

[Speaker 2]
Best seller.

[Speaker 1]
And there are monk... Many people who are practicing the... This is Buddhist...

What do you call that? Pedagogy. This is the way a Buddhist learns things.

It might make a good life tool.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Here's the three steps by which a Buddhist learns things. Number one. Yeah, they listen in class.

Which is called, you know, classroom time.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Classroom time. It's called shrava. Listening.

But it means being in the class. Okay? Then they go home.

Now, in the car, they som. Because they're driving.

[Speaker 2]
Think about it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, contemplate. But they don't gong. Yeah, they gong when they get home.

Hopefully. Okay? So they tu in the class.

They som in the car. And then they gong on what they sommed. And they som on what they tu'd.

Okay? So it's an interconnection. And...

the name of our monastery, the subtitle name, Sera Mey Monastery, is Tu Som Gong Ling. You know, you should say gong. Which means...

a dvipa, an island in the world of tu, som, and gong. You know, a little island in the world where people are tu, som, and gong. Okay?

And this is talking about many people who tu, som, gong about what the Limbos wrote. They're studying the Dao De Jing for couples, and not the Dao De Jing. Okay?

What he's saying is, it's gong. It's gong. Rare?

It's rare to have people, other people, who are really studying. You know? See, first he told you there's lots of things to study, blah, blah, blah.

And then he said, you know what? It's rare to find someone doing it. Excuse me?

Where's the rare? Way up here.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, oh, oh. Right here. Thanks.

[Speaker 1]
Okay? And this is all part of his talk, actually. This is a syllogism.

You know? It's rare to have other friends studying with you. And then, there's lots of stuff to study, but people study other stuff.

They study Dao De Jing for couples, and you know, the secret, and stuff like that. Yeah, okay. So, uh, therefore, uh, and I corrected this, but I'm not totally sure.

I wish it had been Nam Dak, but it might be. Nam Dak would have been people who are tu sam gom, doing those three things about the real teachings. Okay?

So this might be Nam Dak, but it's definitely not Ma. Or Shin Rin Yung. Yeah.

And then he does a very Buddhist thing, a hundred dollars. Damn. What's that mean?

Yeah, who do I... I can't read people's minds. Maybe the person who wrote the Dao De Jing for couples is a Buddha.

I don't know. It's the most honest thing for a Buddhist to say. You know, it looks like everyone's wasting their time on these junky books in the airport.

But, uh, who am I to say? You know, it just seems that way to me. It's a way to get out of harsh speech, you know.

Everybody knows what he wanted to say. Okay? But he says, but who am I?

You know, I don't know. Maybe they're special. You know, it looks like that.

But it's a nice little thing. We had something like that yesterday. Who was that?

Oh yeah, he said reject people. Yeah, reject people who do what? Was it bad morality?

Yeah, people. Yeah, he said reject people who only think about themselves. But never reject them in your heart.

He had a little... Yeah, in there. Okay?

Okay, now we go into number 13. Lucky thing number 13 that we have in this world. Srenki chimning sewa yang yung te chu je sakya pandita Pandita?

Who's got the plane, Mr. Kramer? dom chun Got the plane means you're correcting him. dom chun pal cher chun?

chun sun dom chun dom chun chun chun chun chun chun dom chun dom chun

[Speaker 2]
dom chun chun

[Speaker 1]
dom chun chun dom chun pal cher kerwa yung kerwa te tak dom chun yung chin tak chin tak chu la te pa yung te te pa chun yi chu ja men chu pa te tak lok choi kyu choi choi kyu choi kyu choi choi choi choi choi

[Speaker 2]
it's not soy sauce but tsoy sauce

[Speaker 1]
soysauce soysauce keo de keo de lok so means keo de keo

[Speaker 2]
it's not gel

[Speaker 1]
gel means spine keo de kel means if keo de lok so lok So, LOKMTSO MI ZAWA, MI ZAWEI, ZAWEI, CHU CHE DE DAG MEN MEN DRA, SESUNG BA LE MA CHE, SESUNG, SESUNG BA LE MA LEMAN DE, LEMAN DE. Yeah, heavy prenasal. DUG TE CHI RO.

Yeah, two prenasals in a row. LEMAN DEN DUG. Nice.

His pronunciation is very good. If you ever learn Tibetan, learn from him. Okay.

Now, we have a fortune called, there still exists love in the world for others. Sponsors. Yeah, and it means sponsors.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, love in the world for others is a secret wording that means Mr. Wu's. Okay, we still have Mr. Wu's around to support us. So, that's another good thing about this world.

Not many, but we have some. Not enough, but we have some. Then, that's a fortune, but in each case he's saying, KUN, KUN, KUN, right?

[Speaker 2]
These are rare.

[Speaker 1]
You know, we do have sponsors, but they're rare. It's rare to be in a world where there are sponsors. And he says, NYUNG.

There are also only a few. Okay, NYUNG means KUN, same thing. There's only a few of them around.

Okay. Then, the CHO JE, which means what? CHO JE.

Yeah, this is misspelled. Oh, you're talking about the star of Amitabh. Why is this misspelled?

[Speaker 2]
Because one is after.

[Speaker 1]
Right, and it's not that... He is the CHO JE, he's the Dharma Lord. Sakyapandita.

Yeah. I mean, it could have been someone quoting the Sakyapandita, but I don't think so. So anyway, Sakyapandita lived in the 1200s.

And he's famous for converting the Mongols, who came to attack Tibet. And he converted them. And then Marco Polo met them.

And then they took over China, briefly. Briefly, 200 years or something. So anyway, it was a big deal.

Okay. DOM TSUN PHEL CHER GUR BA NYUNG Okay, DOM TSUN means those who make an effort to keep their vows. Those who honor their vows.

People who honor their vows. For the most part, you know, people who honor them are rare. People who honor people who keep their vows, meaning ordained people.

If they meet a monk or nun who's keeping their vows, right, it's rare to find someone who really pays respect to a good monk or a good nun. It's rare. Guess what he's going to say next.

It's rare that people are keeping their vows in the first place?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
And it's rare to find a monk or nun who's worth respecting. Okay. So, this is the pattern of this verse, you know.

We don't see many people respecting the good monks and nuns. But, there's not a lot of good monks and nuns to respect. PHYIN DAG PHYIR LA BDE BA NYUNG Yeah, there's not many sponsors who have faith in the Dharma.

And there's not many people with faith following the Dharma to take the money from the sponsors. Okay, got it? Okay.

You know, even if the sponsor wanted to give money away, there's not many people. BDE BA CHEN means, who are objects of their faith. Okay, having faith.

But it means, who are objects of their faith. CHOS BYA, who are worthy to be offered to. CHOS is future perfect.

[Speaker 2]
Is MEN, in other words, a few? Is that like low? Or is that...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, MEN means few, here. Okay, in fact, I'm going to wipe out this note. Okay, normally it means low, but here it means low in number.

Okay, CHOS BYA MEN. CHOS PA DE DAG LOG TSO'I RGYUD GAL TE LOG TSO So, and most of the offerings that those sponsors make to us have been gotten by doing bad things. The biggest sponsor we had in New Jersey for the temple was a Mongolian couple who founded a chain of liquor stores.

And we were always conflicted, you know. They paid for the air conditioner, and we're like, I don't know, but we took it anyway. Okay.

So anyway, LOG TSO'I RGYUD means things they've gotten wrongly. LOG TSO means, you know, bad... like selling weapons, or selling alcohol, or selling drugs.

Okay, LOG TSO'I RGYUD. So, GAL TE LOG TSO MI SOR BA'I If we refuse to eat those offerings, if we refuse to make an air conditioning system with those offerings, okay? CHOS BYA DE DAG MEN MEN DAG There's not a lot of people who would do that, you know.

There's not a lot of Dharma practitioners who would refuse those offerings, okay? Okay, so it's just a long list of few, few, fews. And our author is using it to prove that there's not a lot of people around who are sponsoring correctly, or to sponsor.

Even if you find a sponsor who has a lot of money, oftentimes they got the money badly. Okay, so then you're put in a situation, okay? Rinpoche's position was, let them make some good karma, huh?

I'm like, I'm like, what? He's like, let's let them make some good karma. They won't have, they won't be hard in their future life.

In the hells, they'll be in the cold hells, okay. So, now, I would offer money, but I lost too much today already. This is an idiom, and I wonder if anyone can figure it out.

That first line. There's people who have gone to... It's not very common.

They've not gone to Nirvana? You'll never figure it out. I should have put money on it.

It's an idiom that means, in modern American English we say, ain't that the way it is, ain't that the way it is. But in Tibetan it means, things are never beyond that. You see, things never change, they do they.

This is the one that means beyond, to go beyond. It's a name for the Buddha, but here it means, things never go beyond that, means ain't that the way it is. It's always like that, isn't it?

Okay, it's an idiom, okay, and you won't see it very often. Probably it's an idiom you don't have to learn. You can translate it as, they went beyond, or something.

[Speaker 2]
Which part of that?

[Speaker 1]
Sumba le man de pa du. Things haven't changed, have they, since the 1200s. It's kind of like that, you know.

The situation doesn't go beyond that described here. Okay? And it means, ain't that the way it is.

[Speaker 2]
Including the sun, that's part of it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's the object, that, that's the that. Okay? Ain't that the way it is.

Ain't the way he said it, the way it is. Things haven't gone beyond that way he said it, since the 1200s. Okay?

All right, here we go. Excuse me, I think we just finished... We finished the five that relate to the general situation in the world.

And now we're gonna get five that relate to me personally. Okay? Five good things, you know.

The five good things are going on in the world, and five good things have happened with me. Okay, here we go. Mr. Kramer. Gung means my true intent. Kung means above. You guys can figure this out.

It's rare to be born as a human. Yeah, why? Birth as a human requires extremely pure virtue.

Good.

[Speaker 2]
And that you have to do.

[Speaker 1]
Good, that you have to accomplish.

[Speaker 2]
And? And it's rare that people are accomplishing something.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, as I explained before. Yeah, perfect, okay? So, there you go, perfect.

Unusual. Okay, must be the early hour. Okay, let's go.

Next one. Wow. Where's Kramer?

We need him. Eww. Just kidding.

Kramer. Okay, good, nice. It's Kumbha to Utsuke.

It's rare to be born into a central land. Yeah, central land means a place where Buddhism has come. So, America is almost not a central land.

India is no longer a central land. Okay, like that. It depends on what's the state of Buddhism at that time.

Okay. Bhagpa Thogme Ki. Arya Sangha said.

Arya Sangha said. Kornam Si, you got to look it up in the, in Sikh, okay? But it means full monks, full nuns, or novice monks, novice nuns.

It's called the four, the four-part Sangha. Kornam Si, okay? I forget who's in there.

But it means Buddhism's going on. Because we have monks, we have nuns, we have training monks, we have training nuns. That's called the four members of the group.

So, if you have the four members of the group in that country, that's considered a central country.

[Speaker 2]
Really?

[Speaker 1]
Who are practicing? Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Is it?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so, ordained male and female practitioners, and unordained male and female Buddhist practitioners. And if you have those four, it's a central land. Roughly, okay?

There's a better, there's a more strict definition, but we're not going there. Om Mani Padme Hum. Okay.

Anyway, you figure it out. And make a footnote. Okay.

Yulusu Sungpe. We call it a central land when you have those four groups staying there. Okay.

Like monks, nuns, and shintens, and sugengs. Okay. Now, what's the odds?

You know, how many non-central lands are there, and how many central lands are there? Okay. Khornam shi mi shukpe yul.

Lands where you don't have those four groups. Khyun means the extent or the measure. Okay.

Khyun means the measure. Namkha.

[Speaker 2]
The sky.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, as big as the sky. You know, which is, you know, because the sky is over all countries, right? So, the number of countries where you don't have Buddhism are as big as the sky.

Okay. And, countries where you do have those four groups are as big as the... Cart wheel.

Wagon wheel. The diameter of a car tire, this much. Okay.

Compared to the sky. That's the odds of being born in a place where people... You know, it's one thing to be born on this planet, but it's another thing to be born where there's going to be classes like this.

That place is as big as this. Okay. The odds are bad.

To get into there is bad. Okay. Alright.

Khyun sang du nango. He's like saying, I don't know, maybe those guys are practicing somehow, but I don't... It doesn't look like it.

There's lots of countries where the official religion is Buddhism, but what they're doing is not Buddhism. Okay. Nang, it seems to me.

Okay. Alright. Here we go.

Number sixteen. We're almost done. With your footnote.

Which is why we're going so slow with our translations. Good.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
Lekyita ma lokpa means, you didn't mess up with the... you didn't mess up with the extreme karma. So lekyita here means extreme karma, which means the...

Yeah, the five serious ones. Killing your father, killing your mother, trying to kill a Buddha, killing an Arhat, and splitting up the Sangha. Okay.

You haven't... You haven't done the worst of karmas, is what it means. Okay.

We... And then he interprets it for us. Okay.

Okay. Because the wording is, the ultimate karma hasn't been messed up. That's the wording of the fortune.

Okay. And then he explains it. He says, that means you haven't done one of those five deeds.

ma chepa te. di chung se chepa nyug na yang. I got to change my interpretation here.

I would say this. Now you would have expected it to say, di chung se ma chepa nyug. But he doesn't say that.

He says, it's rare even to do a little piece of these. You know, like... No, it's rare to kill your father, for example.

It is rare. Okay. But I would have been more comfortable, if it had been ma chepa.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Those of us who haven't done a little bit, like yelled at our parents, are rare. Okay.

di kyang chuk gi gye chepa ni nang o. And I think this nang means, we can observe, that if you had hurt your parents, for example, it would be a tremendous obstacle to your practice. Okay.

gye chepa. gye chepa. It would stop you from practicing.

Okay. Okay, here we go. Here is the one we wanted.

After two days. Okay. Translate.

By the way, sang means complete. You know, all five. This is home coffee.

It's better than a mixed coffee. It's rare to have a complete... Sense power.

Sense power without... Without a kyun.

[Speaker 2]
Without a...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, kyun means some kind of defect. Like you can't see well, you have ears, you can't hear very well. Okay.

Okay, you have some kind of handicap. It's rare to get them all working. And once you're born with them, then you lose them anyway.

Okay. It's rare that they're all working at the same time. Kyun means what?

Kyun means without some kind of defect. Non-defective. You know, usually some of them have some problem.

We can't hear well, or we can't see well, or... You know. Okay.

Number eighteen. Oh, but that's the eye that we were talking about. That's the sense powers linked number five.

You know, he says they're rare. You're lucky to have them. So, this real life stuff is probably incorrect.

Okay. You translate, you guys. Now, the eighteen have funny names.

They're like your life tools, which are gonna... Xiaoping, here you go. What's the three things their life tools gonna be?

One of them has two parts. That's the first one. Catchy name and good photo.

Yeah, it should come from the real scriptures, and should be something people need.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Relevant to their life, okay?

[Speaker 2]
No. No. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so, they have tricky names, okay? The Buddha gave the eighteen sexy names that are... sometimes we don't know what they mean.

This one's called Faith in the Place. Faith in the Place. And we don't know...

That's what he named his life tool. Faith in the Place. These eighteen have nicknames, and some of them are not clear, okay?

So, he has to explain it. Faith in the Place is also rare, because... saṅghe kisumpe lapasum.

[Speaker 2]
The three trainings of the Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Why is that particularly relevant to this list that we had so far?

[Speaker 2]
Because it talks about people practicing.

[Speaker 1]
Because it's related to the teaching of the Buddha. You're getting there. Keep going.

Two songs gone. No, it's the other two. Oh, the three baskets.

[Speaker 2]
The three baskets...

[Speaker 1]
are defined by teaching the three trainings.

[Speaker 2]
The three baskets.

[Speaker 1]
The three baskets. The three parts of the Buddha's teaching, in all together, saṅghya, taṅghya, sumpa, everything, has three subjects, and it's the three trainings. The three trainings.

Okay, now, what's difficult is to correlate them to the right titika. So, here we go. The easy one...

Yeah, the easy one is... Yeah, Abhidharma is the easy one. Is it?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, meditation. Now that's unusual, right? That's the weird one.

And what's the third one? Vinaya is easy. Okay, okay.

The only one that's difficult is the sutra one. Sutra is meditation. Yeah, sutra is meditation.

So, there are three trainings in Buddhism. And by the way, in the monastery, in the debate ground, you cannot say training. You have to say extraordinary training, or you're in trouble.

Okay. saṅgye kyi sum kyi napa-sum na sopa, etc. Those who have tepa nyingne, from their heart, deep faith.

Okay, who have attained the state of deep faith towards these three topics, which are covered in the three baskets. shintu-nyur Very few. Very few nang.

It appears to me. Okay. Okay, there's lots of people in the monastery.

Really, I mean, the monastery is a funny place. You can find people people who are unbelievable. Totally unbelievable.

I was telling this story last night. I had an assignment to edit a rare logic text. And apparently, there's only one monk who could do it, who could help me.

He's the abbot of Tashi Dhumbo. And I went to see him. And the attendant, the guy in the front room, he's this old guy, no teeth.

He smells funny. He's sitting on a concrete floor with some straw, and that's his bed. It's not even in a cloth.

It's just straw on the floor. And he's got in his lap, he's got monk's robes. Monks use their laps to hold things, like ladies with long dresses.

And he's got five puppies on his lap. And he's got an eyedropper, and he's feeding milk to them. And I'm like, I gotta meet the abbot.

He says, yeah, just wait. And, you know, I'm waiting, you know. And then finally, I'm like, you know, can I see him now?

And he says, I'm not done feeding the dogs yet. He was the abbot. And he's the greatest logician in India.

And he's the greatest Tantraka. And he's feeding dogs with it, you know. He's on this sloppy floor.

So you meet special people like that. But you also have a lot of slackers. There's a lot of slackers in the monastery.

It's free food, you know. And there's a lot of guys doing, apparently doing nothing. Nangwa.

For every one of those, there's like ten of those. Okay, really. It's still the best place in the universe, but there are a lot of slackers there.

Okay, here we go. Okay. Okang yang rungwa chikma tsang nang, daljor, daljor.

Telmjor. Telmjor. Kilusumindrote.

Nice. Your pronunciation is awesome. But I'm stopping.

I'm going to stop praising you. Right? Can you criticize him today a little bit for me?

Okay. She'll do. She'll do.

Dela daljor ki chod chok. All wives do. I had an experience last night.

Okay. Daljor ki chod chok gyepa re re ne. Okay.

Okay, each of the eighteen. Right? Leisures and fortunes.

Each one of them, is ngepa shintuka.

[Speaker 2]
Extremely difficult.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, not all eighteen, but each one is difficult to get. Tamche. Lu chikki tengru.

For each body to have? No. Lu chikki tengru.

On top of... Yeah. With one body, all of them, together, sangwa, complete.

All eighteen complete. Shintuka. Extremely rare.

Yeah. Now, here's an idiom for you, okay? Le yon min du means...

Don't have the karma... No, it's an idiom. He's using a couple of idioms like this.

Le yon min du means... Well, how do you say it? It wouldn't be appropriate to call it anything less than extremely rare.

Okay? This is the yon which is used in Arhat. Yeah, worthy.

It wouldn't be worthy to be called anything less than extremely rare. Le yon min du. So it's an idiom, okay?

This is not something we could ever say was less than extremely rare. That's in English, okay? In Tibetan it's...

It wouldn't be worthy to call it less than... blank and amazing, you know? Okay, like that.

Okay? It's an expression. Okay.

Chuk chok kye po... Now the po makes it... All 18.

All 18, nice. Kang ya ru wa chik ma tsang na'ang. For each of them.

Come on, come on. Ma tsang. Not complete.

Not complete. Yeah, even if one of them is missing, we don't call it a dang chok gi lu. Then you don't have a human body.

Min dro means wouldn't qualify. Wouldn't qualify as a precious human rebirth. You wouldn't have a precious human rebirth if your ears were bad, or your eyes were bad, or you didn't have people around you practicing.

See, if one is missing, it doesn't count. Then you don't have a real human body.

[Speaker 2]
So, because I have to wear glasses.

[Speaker 1]
No, if you can read, that's fine. If you can still read. You were born into a world where people had glasses.

So you're even more special. Because you can keep your... You know, people carve the kang gyur like this.

The kang gyur is carved like this. The letters are this big. Why?

Because there was no eyeglasses in those days. So people could read it till they're 70, 80 years old. Because the letters are this big.

Okay? It's a little inconvenient to carry. Okay, go.

We're back to our text. Yay!

[Speaker 2]
We finished the 18.

[Speaker 1]
No! Really, are we? Let's do this one.

Come on. Quick, quick, quick. Yeah.

Kigenge we... Miki... Miki keche yama...

Sorry, I'm going to interrupt you. Hang on. This is fun.

Speaking of large kang gyur... Okay, sorry. Go ahead.

Tendrel yamachuni ki nangsem du gyurpe. Keche ki tendrel yimpe kyapsem. Yeah, now, the famous example, Kigenge.

An old dog. Okay, we say, take an old dog. Even old dogs have this, okay?

An old dog with a little beard. Okay? If it's his eye organ, his eye organ, then it must be one of the twelve links.

Yes or no? First of all, is it dog in samsara? I mean, normally.

It seems to be. No, but he says, that the eye of an old mangy dog, which is what it is, is the eye that's found in the Wheel of Life, and we say, no.

[Speaker 2]
Well, if we were talking about the leisures and fortunes, we'd have to say, no, but in the Wheel of Life, yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you normally would have to say, it is.

[Speaker 2]
No, certainly not.

[Speaker 1]
We're going there. We're going to go there. Okay, just chew on it till we meet again.

Okay. Cool. Okay.

Thank you, Geshe Prakash. There's a thing I like to say at a DCI talk, which people respond to well, is to convince them that they're one in a million, if they even made it into the talk. They don't have to understand anything.

Just to make it into the talk, you see, you can... So, that's true. And people like, at a talk, to be told they're special.

And if they are special, and you tell them they're special, it's even better. So, anyway, that's one option for a life tool. I'm not telling you what to do.

You make your own life tool. But I'm just saying we do use this principle in DCI.