Классика Алмазного огранщика: Нижний Срединный путь — Анализ зависимости, занятие 49

[Speaker 2]
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

[Speaker 1]
Amen.

[Speaker 2]
Somehow I knew. Oh boy. Why is your book the hardest book for me to read?

[Speaker 1]
Are you sure?

[Speaker 2]
I'm sure.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's start. The first one. What is the ending of life power not considered as the link of death and the wind of life?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I've got that one too.

[Speaker 1]
It's not a changing thing. Say again? It's not a changing thing.

It is not a changing thing. It is because it is changing.

[Speaker 2]
No, it's not though.

[Speaker 1]
Right. Because the ending is unchanging.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Why do you say that there is no dead person? Nothing there. Say again?

[Speaker 2]
There's nothing there. It's dead.

[Speaker 1]
The person is not the person anymore who's dead. Yes, that's right. Because if you're a person, it's got to be alive, not dying.

If you're dead, you're not a person anymore.

[Speaker 2]
Right, so we have not been subjected to the all-pervasive suffering without end. Yes.

[Speaker 1]
We haven't been subjected to death. Not dying. Not dying.

The person can be dying. Oh, not, okay.

[Speaker 2]
Not dead.

[Speaker 1]
Not dead. Wow. He's making sure it's correct for the people.

That is pretty nitpicky. Okay. Okay.

Where is the rebirth definition of good and bad deeds, and where are unshifting?

[Speaker 2]
What is unshifting?

[Speaker 1]
There are two here.

[Speaker 2]
Good and bad deeds. Formless. Say it?

All three realms?

[Speaker 1]
No, good and bad is higher and lower realms, and unshifting karma is for the formless realms. I thought Geshe-la said good and bad is the desire, whereas unshifting is form and formless. That's what I said.

I'll get back to the six realms in general.

[Speaker 2]
Good could be any realm.

[Speaker 1]
And then unshifting will be form and formless.

[Speaker 2]
Right. But it's not that good and bad deeds are only the desire realms.

[Speaker 1]
Good deeds could also be lower.

[Speaker 2]
You can't get lower than the second realm in any other way.

[Speaker 1]
Good deeds.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Apparently, I think there is, I mean, sakche, impure, impure kind of, dirty good karma.

[Speaker 2]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
You mean black hair? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe I should put that.

[Speaker 2]
What do you mean? No.

[Speaker 1]
No way. No, they can't. I don't think they can.

[Speaker 2]
It's just meow.

[Speaker 1]
I think you've got a point there. You know, I think the supplementary of the, no, sorry, the formless level three up to level four. We discussed that, right?

We can still go. Well, I'm shifting. It's a technical term.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
It's not like I'm shifting. We are talking about the level four formula formula level four and up and level four. We have a nine plus nine plus eight.

[Speaker 2]
Nine plus eight.

[Speaker 1]
So we go all the way to nine plus three.

[Speaker 2]
I don't like it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Somewhere. So I'm shifting means we can still shift between the sub level, but it is not jumping between the level.

Oh. We can go from four to three, but inside for the 17, we can still move. That is what we discussed.

[Speaker 2]
I'm glad we have our best mind on the project.

[Speaker 1]
We can't go below four, but we can go within those. We can't shift out of those.

[Speaker 2]
I trust you to handle this. It's my book. What to do?

[Speaker 1]
Good job. Thank you. Better you than me.

[Speaker 2]
There but for the grace of God, go I. Someone.

[Speaker 1]
The choking of a man. Yeah. Ending of the life power.

See what I can say.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
The dead dude. No, he's not. He's not dead.

I'm sick.

[Speaker 2]
This is this. I'll wash you up.

[Speaker 1]
Awesome. Everyone is dying. Yeah.

Everyone is dying. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
There's no yin in there.

[Speaker 1]
That's right. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

Okay. No choice. Without choice.

Choiceless. Seriously.

[Speaker 2]
Good. Okay, that's all.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Good job.

[Speaker 1]
Do some more. Do some more.

[Speaker 2]
Anyone see this movie yesterday?

[Speaker 1]
What movie?

[Speaker 2]
Yesterday. Anyone see this?

[Speaker 1]
Is it any good?

[Speaker 2]
I'm curious. He like falls off a bike. He's like a failing songwriter and he falls off a bike or something.

He wakes up and no one's heard of the Beatles. And so he starts like, yeah, he becomes like the most famous.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I haven't seen it. I'm curious.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen it. But it looks cute.

I guess it's the same guy who made Slumdog Millionaire. Okay. No, no.

I'm curious though. I thought maybe someone here would tell me. Waste my time looking at the screen right now like I am.

And yet here we are.

[Speaker 1]
Stop, stop.

[Speaker 2]
Only you can save me, mama. Oh, there we go.

[Speaker 1]
Well, you know, you gotta relax. Hear, hear. On the day off.

Which is not today. It's not. Yeah, did I ever tell you my big song hit in high school?

I don't think so. God, it's not love. It's not love.

I was like, it's not love? Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Raises the question, what is it if it's not love?

[Speaker 1]
It's not love. Okay, go. Wait, let me put it together for you.

[Speaker 2]
Gotta play it sometime first, boss.

[Speaker 1]
Chi shik kap kye shi ma duk kong kyi sipa sum padang. Yeah, we're defining the four kinds of sipas, which are not necessarily number ten, right? These are kinds of beings.

So it's just chi, chir sipas. Generally, if you want to know about sipas, here's four. But it's not necessarily connected to the tenth link, okay?

And we finished the definitions of kye shi. And we finished, okay, there's the divisions. We finished kye shi, the being at birth.

We finished chi shi, the being at death. And now we reached par shi. And that particular one is a very common word.

The others are not a common word. But you see par shi a lot as a person in the bardo. It's called a par shi.

A par shi. Okay. So it's not just a condition at the bardo.

It's the person in the bardo. It's sometimes called a par shi. Okay, all right.

Because generally, they're all conditions, right? Char, char. Char, char, char.

Okay. So there's a definition of the third one, which is par shi. So what is that?

By the way, explain to our eminent guests where we are in your text. And what is your text? No, it is you.

There's only one? Oh, there's two of you.

[Speaker 2]
It's eminent, but we're not all guests.

[Speaker 1]
Explain to Janice and Mr. Foley. Captain Foley, sorry. Commander.

[Speaker 2]
Commander.

[Speaker 1]
This book is talking about the Wheel of Life. And we focus on the 12 links. And we actually go very deep into each link.

And currently, we are on the 12th link.

[Speaker 2]
The last link.

[Speaker 1]
The last. Sipa. Sipa.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Sipa number 10.

[Speaker 1]
I thought it's that. Kind of. We're kind of mixing.

Yeah, we jump to the 12th.

[Speaker 2]
We're mixing them.

[Speaker 1]
We're mixing them. Yeah, this is particularly part number 10.

[Speaker 2]
Which is called...

[Speaker 1]
Which is called... And the picture is... Pregnant lady.

Pregnant lady. And it's just about to... Just about to be a bird.

At link number... 11. It's Mooncake.

It's little Mooncake. It's coming out between 10 and... We decided to call his daughter Mooncake.

Because it was the Mooncake holiday two days ago. Two days ago. But we celebrated it yesterday.

And we ate all the Mooncake. Okay, good. And then...

So generally, it's one of the two kinds of blank in the wheel. Oh, yeah. Which is the...

Which is the... The other one is number two. Which are both kinds of karma.

So two of the links are karma. Are types of karma. What's the difference?

Number two is freshly planted. And then number ten is ripened and going to open. Yeah, good.

What's the picture from number two? Number two? Number two is a potter making a pot.

How do you compare it to a garden? Garden? Oh, yeah.

Number two is you just put in the seed into the soil. Whereas number ten is the... It's already grown pretty well below the soil and going to pop up above the ground.

I like to picture it like a factory. And you put it in the ground and you put water on it and you... You know?

And the water touches the seed, right? Self-existently. Right?

That's one of the weird proofs of emptiness. What? Where does the water touch the seed?

And how does it wake up the seed? But I like to see inside the seed. You know, everyone's like, Wake up!

Get up! We gotta make a sprout! You know?

And then there's a whole factory. People turn on the lights. They turn on the machines.

You know? And they're getting all the stuff ready for the sprout. And that takes like three, four months.

Between two and ten. It could take lifetimes, actually. What...

What changes two into ten, specifically?

[Speaker 2]
Eight and nine. Yeah, eight and nine.

[Speaker 1]
With a negative seed, what is eight and nine? Yeah, misunderstanding the seed is where water's in. With a good seed.

Rejoicing with knowledge. Yeah, it's like coughing meditate. Okay.

Okay, so here's the definition. Then he said, generally speaking, there's four kinds of... Oh, by the way, how does the word for number ten reflected in the word for the entire wheel?

Oh. The entire wheel is called a supercorner. Which is in Sanskrit.

Bahava. Bahavachakra. Bahavachakra.

Right. And? Yeah, so the whole wheel is also named...

the same name as link number ten, but they're different things. In the whole wheel name, it just means samsara, cycle of pain. You can define samsara, cycle of pain.

Okay. And it's not samsara, okay? That was another guy who died already.

Okay. There's no M in Sanskrit before an S. It's not allowed.

It's a samsara. Okay. Yeah, alright.

Okay, that's all the sepals I can think of. Now, and then our author is saying, by the way, there's this other presentation of the same word, which just means four types of beings. And we finished two of them, which are?

Which are the... Being at... Being at the...

Kesi. Kesi is being at the... At birth.

At birth. And then cisi. Cisi, being at death.

Yeah. And then he had a debate whether there could be a being at... death.

At death. Because a dead being is unchanging. And it's not a being, actually.

Okay. So, we had a little debate like that. But we got over it.

So, we must be on to the third kind of being, which is?

[Speaker 2]
Parsi.

[Speaker 1]
Parsi. Okay, here's the definition. Go.

I'm going to help you. Phrase it between gak and ke. Pause.

Yeah, cisi gak... And if you have that phrase, you can figure it out. If you don't have that phrase, then you can't figure it out.

The cisi gak... Being at death ended. Which is not...

Remember, it's the condition or the period. It's not the person, technically. And the kesi is madu.

Yeah. Right, and this gong means... Nice, before.

Okay, so the being at death is finished. And the being at birth hasn't started yet. And that's called the in-between being.

Okay, and now the word bardo, in-between state, becomes more clear. So, you could say parsi is bardu sipa, a being in the bardo. Okay, that's the third type.

It's almost periods of being rather than types of beings, right? Or beings at certain periods, okay? Now, there must be a fourth one.

kesi druppe, du kecik By the way, this is crucial. There's three ways to pronounce it. Drup, or sgrup, drup, or ngrup, or bsgrup, future tense, okay?

This is the definite past tense. When you go, huh, drup, that's usually a past tense. Okay, and then drup is usually a present tense, okay?

S, yeah. Or bs, which we get here a lot. Just kidding.

kesi drup, past tense. Then, kecik nyipa, ne, please read low tone, sung, sung, te, chi, sit, ma, du, kong, hi, si, pa, si, pa, yin, ma. Yeah, which makes sense, right?

What's it say? We should have a comma, by the way. kesi drup, the being at kiawa, already happened, okay, already happened, past tense.

And then in the second kecik, keshana, instant, yeah, in the second moment, on, yeah, no, in the second moment, yeah, mooncake pops out, that's kesi. And then when she starts her life, that's, she begins the, what is that called? Muntukisipa.

Say, muntukisipa. Yeah, and you see the inscription, you have no idea what they're talking about. Muntukisipa means the being of the time before.

But it means before death and after birth. But they never tell you that. And you can spend years wondering what that is.

[Speaker 2]
They didn't bother to name it.

[Speaker 1]
Which I did.

[Speaker 2]
They're just describing it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they named it up here. Yeah, we just, yeah, no. Where, in the list.

Here, right here. Muntukisipa, the being of the time before. I guess I should, yeah.

And so, you can get really frustrated with this, if you, you know, if your teacher doesn't speak English. And you can spend years on that.

[Speaker 2]
So, muntuk means?

[Speaker 1]
The time before.

[Speaker 2]
The time before.

[Speaker 1]
But it means before death and after birth, which is mooncake's whole life. Okay, all right. And so, which one of the, which one of the four sipas is the longest?

Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully they're muntukisipa. Yeah, but, yeah.

And then second?

[Speaker 2]
It depends.

[Speaker 1]
Pardon, yeah. Yeah, so at least, well, it could be a second. If you go with Tsame, right?

Tsamekinne. Anyway, here we go. The other two are always one second.

KC and GC are always one second. Yeah, which is said here, KC. It's a second.

It's one sixty-fifth of a finger snap. Then you're already on to your muntukisipa. Little mooncake, cheesy muntuk.

Kong, okay. Up to the time of death. So, nesung means up to, from that point.

Nesung means from that point. It's an idiom adverb. From that point up to the time, up to the moment that the GC occurs is the being at death.

So, from the second moment, if you count the first moment as the KC, up to the GC, madrup until it happens, until it happens, kong, until that, before that, that's number four. That's generally... By the way, he didn't say cha here.

And he said cha in the first two. So, I don't know. You can chew on that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, interesting.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Is this time it's a being and not a...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, something like that. Maybe there's not time in the other two to have a being in a single instant. I don't know.

How did you try on Parsis? No. Those two last longer normally?

I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going there.

You figure it out. It's your text. Everything I don't understand, you can figure out.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, and is KC, I mean, is that physical birth or conception?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, no. In Buddhism, it's conception. Just so you know.

It's not when you come out. That's not considered birth in Buddhism. So, that finishes the question of abortion right there.

Actually, she already... Yeah, she's a Nguyen Duc KC, but that's true. Yeah.

Nine months ago, she was a KC. So, KC is the moment before the conception? It is the moment of conception.

A moment of conception. In Buddhism, yeah. That's why we can't do abortion in Buddhism.

Oh, we can't do abortion in KC? We can't do it at all, yeah. It's a being by conception.

It's already a person by conception. It's not like 26 weeks or something like that. Could be, but you debate it.

You teach it in Surabaya. When we go there. Okay.

We're working on it. I'm working on it. We just have to get via vacation in Paris on the way to Surabaya.

Something like that. Even though she doesn't like vacation in Paris. Okay.

Okay, here we go. By the way, excuse me for interrupting you, which is what I do. As I said, we're doing a group of links together, which is traditional.

There's a tradition when you get to the later links, you cover them in a group. So, we're on to the definition of kyewa, which is link number... Eleven.

Good. Which is in the picture? A kid coming out.

Mooncake halfway out. Okay. Don't get nervous.

We're all with you. We're all with you. We're all the uncles and aunts.

No grand aunts and grand uncles.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
We're happy to babysit.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. And change diapers. Did you get that?

[Speaker 1]
Those of us with experience changing diapers offer to do it. Okay. It's painful that way.

Those without experience, it might not be too safe. I used to babysit some babies. In those days we have pins.

And one day I stuck the pin in the baby. Oh my God. Okay, anyway, here we go.

RANG RYU LEN YONG KYIS KYIS Make it... Help your listener. KYIS YANG ZHIG TU NING TZAM BYAR BA'I CHAR RGYUD PA'I KHYUR PA'I SAK CHE NANG NING KYIS NGOR BAR KHYUR PA'I Nice cure.

Thank you. PHUNG PO YANG RAK CHUD NI KHYI NANG TZAM DU KHYUR PA'I KHYUR PA'I DU KHYUR PA'I KHYUR PA'I KYE BA'I TEN DREL KYE BA'I TEN DREL KYI TEN Yeah, so this is the definition of the KYE BA'I TEN DREL. What's that mean?

But I thought TEN DREL meant dependent origination. This is link. Okay, good.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so TEN DREL can also mean link of the wheel. The word dependent origination, PRAG GIS RTIYAS SANGS RGYUD PA'I DA can also mean that link.

So, you have to be careful how you translate it. So, we're defining the link of birth, which is number 11, as a nangtsen of the yenlak chuni. Yeah, as a member of the 12 links, which you have to say in the definition, and we've been through all that.

You have to say, I'm defining birth, but as a link in the 12, because that's different from birth in general. Its gyu is le and nyomo. Its cause is karma, negative emotion.

Yeah, and between here, you know, you have to understand the deng. It's an idiom. They just say karnag.

Karnag. It's karma and negative emotions. But it's so common, they just say karnag.

And everybody's supposed to know, okay? So, it's just a link. They don't say le dang nyomo kyi cho kyi chu.

You know, okay. So, I'm going to wipe that out, because I don't want you putting that in there. Due to the, okay, this wang kyi is just due to.

It means by the power, but it just means due to. Due to its cause. By the way, you have to say its cause, and that's another thing which we went through.

What's a yangsi? Yeah, rebirth, okay? Yang means again, right?

Re, re. Okay, R-E. Okay, then C is birth.

Rebirth, yangsi. Okay, so you're going to hear, very famous you hear someone called yangsi thuku. Yangsi thuku.

The rebirth of my teacher, precious teacher. Mr. Rebirth. Yeah, okay.

Rebirth thuku. Yangsi thuku. You hear it a lot, okay?

Ning tsam. And here's another spelling of tsam. And I, you know, after many years, I made up the word and I like it.

Make the crossing. Make the crossing from death to rebirth, okay? Because tsam means, the root means...

The line. The line, and so Buddhist retreats are called... Or the Buddhist retreat boundary is called a tsam.

But that's M, M-tsam, okay? This is A-tsam. With rebirth it's called A-tsam, okay?

Different prefix letter, okay? We had it the other day and somebody misspelled it. In your text.

Staying on a separate monastic tsam. They misspelled it, right? Within A-tsam.

They mixed the two. They mixed the two. Yeah, tsam jar.

So jar means to join, right? Join the... Join the two boundaries, okay?

Make a crossing. Tsam jar. Char.

The condition. Char lag gyur. Okay?

To be the char, the condition. Okay? So this is a daily grammar case, okay?

Char lag. This R is a prefix letter that came after, which we call a postposition. In English it's as a condition.

Gyur pe sak che. Yeah, now why you have to have that? Supposedly every single word here has a reason.

So why it has to be impure, what do you guess? Nice. Sak che.

If it's in the wheel it has to be sak che. And this is an Abhidharma term, right? Impure.

And its nature is to be a numbing.

[Speaker 2]
A ripening.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, a ripening of karma. Ripening of karma. Pak che te.

Cooked. Bipaka. Bipaka, yeah.

But the... Pak becomes, the P sometimes comes after the K. Kwa.

And it becomes kuchina.

[Speaker 2]
Or cuisine. Cuisine. Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
The C-U comes from pak. Because it's sometimes vak and sometimes it gets switched around. And kuchina.

I don't know if kuchinka comes from it. But kuchina is the Spanish word for kitchen. Oh, kuchina.

Kuchina is Italian. Oh, Italian. I'm sorry.

Namin kingwa gyur pe pumbo. Okay, those heaps. How many?

Five. Uh-uh. Six.

Uh-uh.

[Speaker 2]
No, you have to say four or five.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, four or five. Five or four. And if you get born into the formless realm, it's four heaps.

Unless you're studying tantra. And then you would say there's still prana there. There's still some subtle prana there.

That's the tantric position on the formless realm. It's not really formless. It has subtle form.

They say you couldn't have a state of mind without prana under it. Okay. All right.

Okay, here we go. Good. Nice ye.

He went high tone. Okay. Ye na.

Okay. Whoa.

[Speaker 2]
There. Just after I praised you. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Ngyel kye. Dzu kye. Now that becomes a real English G.

That becomes a real English G. Ngyel kye. Gung kye.

Dzu. Dzu. Dzu.

Serle. Gyepadang. Zero.

Zero dollars for drupa in Sanskrit.

[Speaker 2]
Ushma.

[Speaker 1]
Retroflex. Ushma. Which is the root of?

Onion. Onion. Dzu means ushma.

We had it in whose days?

[Speaker 2]
Abhidharma.

[Speaker 1]
Abhidharma. Yeah, the sixteen aspects. Oh, we're discussing the sixteen aspects of the fortress.

In the path of preparation. Surat Samutropa Chitra, the third one here. Surat Samutropa, yeah.

Which is also called toa. Okay, same, toa and tropa, same. Okay, you'll see it sometimes spelled, but anyway in the Sanskrit it's always ushma.

Okay, so generally, now he's going to do the same thing here that he did. Nice. He's going to say, you know, if we go out of the context of the wheel, we can talk about rebirth, we can talk about different kinds of rebirth.

He says, I'm not talking, he says, I'm not talking the wheel anymore, but I just want to tell you about rebirth. Okay. There are four kinds.

You know. So, tsam means if you just stick to kyewa in general. It's like chi here.

Okay. What's the... I'll give you a good question.

In Gyalrong Tibetan, how do you say general, generally? Yes, spi. Spitang.

They pronounce everything, which probably means they used to in all of Tibet. Okay. Chi is spi, spi, spitang.

In Ladakh, it's still spitang. Probably Ladakh was Tibet originally. In Gyalrong?

No, Gyalrong's way out to the east Tibet. But generally, places like Rimrock tend to, the language tends to move slower than it does in Phoenix. It tends to change more slowly.

Okay. They're still eating open-faced turkey sandwiches. My new specialty.

With beef and mashed potatoes. Oh my god. We did a survey of the town and this is the suggestions we got.

It's what they want. We're still in the cowboy days here. This used to be all cowboys' place.

They still eat this stuff. Educate them. Okay.

Yena. Nyelke. Born...

Past tense, right? Born from the womb. Dzuke.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, like...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, or Jesus, or Buddha, or... Padmasambhava's very famous. Patanjali.

Okay. Gongke. Yeah, born from an egg.

So, gonga means egg. Sometimes the word is split into gonga. In modern colloquial, that's gonga.

And dru and sher.

[Speaker 2]
Warmth and moisture.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Sher is found in the definition of... the element of...

[Speaker 2]
Water.

[Speaker 1]
Water. Lenshin sherwa. Wet and flowing.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah, they didn't realize that it was really small... eggs.

Okay. They couldn't see the eggs, so they said anytime it... And there was a season here a couple weeks ago, and I don't know, the little black bugs...

got... you know, it rained, and the temperature was right, and there were a billion black bugs everywhere in my house, and I just... I'm like constantly...

what do you call? Faring them out to the outside in the cups, and like for hours, you know. Chen shen le gyepa.

Dang shi means...

[Speaker 2]
And that makes the four.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which makes a total of four. So this is the word that means and, but before a number, it means and four. And that means four.

Okay, good. Now he's going to give... possibilities for birth in different realms.

Okay, of the four.

[Speaker 2]
This becomes like the birth of Abhidharma. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
A lot of your text is coming from Abhidharma because the main author of your text was Vasubandhu. And again, if we all live long enough, that'd be a brilliant thing to translate. It's an incredible commentary.

When Vasubandhu is doing Abhidharma, you feel like he's a racehorse with a big weight tied to his legs. And then when he does his own book, which is probably one of his longest books of his own, because he does these 20 verse things, 30 verse things, mind only stuff. But when he gets to the 12 links, it's 130 folios.

And he's... they took the weight off him. And he's a racing, you know.

It's like an acid trip. Totally different. Like you couldn't believe it's the same author.

Because he's released to do his own thing. And it's a lot of mind only mixed in, in the 12 link commentary. So is this book, is Kedrak Tempadal this attempt to give commentary to Vasubandhu's book?

That's a good question. He is commenting on the Abhisam Malankara. Yeah, just after the...

in the next line after the... Lion Stand. Lion Stand.

Yeah. Okay. ,DE NAS ZEN GYI RNAM GYIN PA'I, ,TING NGE BRDZIN LA MYONG BRDZUGS NAS, ,RTEN CING BRAL BYUNG LUG BYUNG DANG, ,LUG MI THUN LA RTOG PA BYED, After you do the Lion Stand, go to the 12 links.

And then he's commenting on that one half of a line. This whole surka, this whole subject. Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Excellent. ,BAR DO BA, Yeah, so as a second syllable, ,BA changes to ,BA, but as a third syllable, it also changes to ,BA.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Say, ,BAR DO BA. ,BAR DO BA. What's a ,BAR DO BA?

Yeah, a being in the ,BAR DO BA. Yeah, partially good. Nice.

,BAR DO BA, ,NAM LA, ,ZHUG BSKYED, What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's different kinds of beings which ,KHYAB ZHUG BSKYED, must be, must be miracle born, miracle born, miraculously born.

They pop, just pop out. Finished. They pop out finished.

Like the lotus opens up and they jump out, the Buddha, full Buddha. Okay? So that's called miraculous birth.

They don't have to grow up. They're like many of us. Okay.

Hmm. I'm not looking at anybody up there. Okay.

,ZLA'ABS. Yeah, they just, they're born in their mother's lap. They pop out in their mother's lap.

They die, they go to the ,BAR DO, and then they cross the ,TSAMS SBYAR, and then, boop! They just appear in their mother's lap. And they're still kind of small.

They still have to grow, they got to grow a little bit. And ,YANG BA. Yeah, there you're completed in the first moment and they're cutting you up.

Okay. Pop! And there's a, okay.

And SIPA, ,BAR DO BA.

[Speaker 2]
BAR DO BA.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so this SIPA means somebody in the party. Okay, so this doesn't mean samsara in general. It does not mean samsara in general.

It means, it's a synonym for party and they switch it around. People in the ,BAR DO. You can just say people in the ,BAR DO.

I say people in the in-between state. You can say in a minute. Yeah, that's okay.

It's actually probably more scholarly than in-between. Okay. As an adjective.

In-between state is kind of weird.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I think they're about equal for a waiter.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Keep going. NGEL BAR NAM DANG GLA NAM DANG What was that?

[Speaker 2]
GLA.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. GLA NAM DANG. SIPA BAR MA ZUD TE SKYE You did this correctly.

I think by accident. But yeah, up here we had SIPA BAR DO BA, right? But here it's a hard B.

Yeah, so you did it correctly. SIPA BAR MA ZUD TE SKYE NI. Nice.

Okay. Okay. MIS Humans.

YIDAGS, YIDAGS. And if it were me, I would have put this. You know.

I would have said all four. I think he's, you know, I'm not criticizing everybody. But you know.

The point is they have all four. He just said they have four. Okay.

Normally they would say Sikha, all four. And then he quotes the Kosha. Abhidhamma Kosha.

Yesterday we were talking about me, human, Sanskrit. MANUS. Yeah, and the first human, Adam, in Hindu mythology is called Manu.

Manu. And in Indonesia, human called Manusia. Yeah, yeah.

A lot of Indonesian comes from Sanskrit. I think most of it. Okay, so NYAL BA.

Hell beings. And Devas. And the intermediate being.

Good, SIPA BAR MA. They are born... Yeah, miraculously.

YIDAGS. YIDAGS. Now this is a Mayangat.

No, that's not a Mayangat. They are also born from the womb. Okay.

Pretas though are also born from the womb. It means they are also born miraculously. You see what I mean?

He's also an idiot. Which means he's ugly. It's a Mayangat.

If you say he's also an idiot, it means he must be something else also. Yeah, this is supposed to prove they're born in all four. And it's not a very comfortable quote.

It just proves they are born from DZU DE SKY. Now I want to talk about this DE because we had it twice in the last few days. It's a conjunction, right?

It's a colon, normally. You know, there's ten kinds of bodhisattva levels. DE.

Or in a syllogism, it comes between the Drupdje Chö, what you're trying to prove, and the reason. But in very rare cases, it signals an adjective. Okay, and we had it twice.

For a hundred dollars, tell me the other one we had. Except you. Ten.

Nine. Seven. That's even better.

Six. Five. Four.

Three. Two. One.

Zero. Yay! That's like Bob Harper on the second side.

He's like, Seventy-five! Okay.

[Speaker 2]
SANG TE DUN PA?

[Speaker 1]
SANG TE DUN PA. SANG TE LO PUN. SANG TE LO PUN.

Say SANG TE LO PUN. SANG means secret. LO PUN means acarya.

Not acarya. Acarya. Okay.

Not a not teacher.

[Speaker 2]
Quite a...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. Quite a teacher. Yeah.

So, what is that SANG TE LO PUN? SANG TE DUN PA LO PUN. SANG TE DUN PA LO PUN.

[Speaker 2]
It's the guy in charge of the...

[Speaker 1]
It's the guy in charge of checking the sex of the candidate in the ordination. We had it. I'm surprised you don't remember.

You've obviously never done it if you don't remember.

[Speaker 2]
You always remember after that. You always remember after that. You're like, why do I have to be in this kind of thing?

Okay.

[Speaker 1]
That's probably why they have robes, because it's just easier to check.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, very rarely it's used to signal an adjective.

Okay. As it is here. Born miraculous.

Miracle born. Like miracle grow. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
It's more like at work rather than adjectives.

[Speaker 1]
You could say that. I think you're probably correct. Secretly.

Well, you could call him the secret master, or the master who checks secretly, discreetly. He's the discreet master. So, the main management in an ordination ceremony, all are called ACHARYAS.

You know, like the LAKYI LO PUN. The master of ceremonies. We're on this subject in Allison's text, How to Ordain a Monk.

She's translating that. Alright, here we go. Somebody asked me today, why do you think you have the right to define how full nuns are ordained?

Nobody else is doing it. Okay? And it's in the scriptures.

They spent 20 years discussing it, 30 years discussing it. How many women couldn't become full nuns during that 20 years, 30 years they died or whatever? And it would take about four days to recreate the ceremony from the existing scriptures.

They just didn't want to. So, they recently have, right? They caught up to ACI.

[Speaker 2]
The point is that there was no need to pass the lead.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, I don't think that was the point.

Because there were people in Taiwan and there were people in China. I don't think it was the issue. I think it was a man thing.

Anyway, that's why we did it. Okay, go. RANG RGYUD LAS...

Good. Good. Are you saying we're out of time or...

Two more minutes. Yeah, well that's lots of time. Uh...

Its cause is RE YIN YON No, say it nice. Karnag. Its cause is karnag.

It's karma and negative emotions. Okay, karnag. And due to the power of karnag, you LEM PA, past tense.

Yeah, you have taken on parts of body and mind. By the way, heaps in English is body and mind, right? You have taken on a body and mind, which is a karmic ripening.

Okay. And the CHA of that PHUNG PO's NYING PA YIN Yeah, getting old. The condition of them getting old.

Like NYING MA means the sect in Tibet, which is the oldest one. The elder, the old school. Okay, NYING MA CHA is the definition of the link of aging.

Yeah, now GA WA means to age. RGYAS PA means having aged. Or age...

aging. As a gerund. Okay, yeah.

Okay, aging. And just be aware that sometimes it's kind of a... they're being cute.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
By aging.

[Speaker 1]
Now they put a past tense on age. Kind of... It's kind of cute.

They don't say AGING. It's like aged. AGED?

Yeah, AGED-ING. AGED-ING. It means it's always...

age is always old, right? Okay. Anyway, it's a joke.

Which is one of the twelve links, okay? Got it? Now, is there a TEN DAL GYEPA?

GYEPA TEN DAL? No. No, there is not.

[Speaker 2]
Why not?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, twelve combines old age and death. Why? Classic question.

Which is definitely coming up here somewhere. Yeah, sometimes you're aborted in the second instance. So, some people don't get to GA WA before they...

SHI WA. So, we put GA WA, SHI WA into link number twelve. We combine them.

And that's why there's not thirteen links. Because not everybody gets to age. Alright.

Let's go fast. This is depressing. DE LA YIN NA.

DE LA YIN NA. DRAG DKAR PO BA NYES SOGS MANG BA SOGS YI Okay. DRAG DKAR PO.

V spent like ten minutes trying to get one white hair out of my eyebrow. Because she said it's not the whiteness, it's that sticking out straight. And she pulled out like twelve others.

And I'm like, that's not it. NYES SOGS means NYER MAE SOGS. NYER MAE SOGS.

That's what wives are good for, right?

[Speaker 2]
If you're not going to do it, you get one try.

[Speaker 1]
You better make it good. Okay, NYER MA means wrinkles. Okay.

NYER MA is the word for wrinkles. You haven't had it, I think, yet. You will get it after Mooncake.

Okay, so lots of SOGS of NYER MA. Yeah, a whole collection of wrinkles. Not just one or two.

Like a whole bunch of wrinkles. More wrinkles than not wrinkles. MANG BA.

These are the divisions of... Aging. Yeah, the link of aging.

Okay. It's white hair turns... What do we call gray?

We call gray in English. We don't call it white. It is, it may be white, but we call it gray hair.

Okay. And... I'm sorry?

[Speaker 2]
White hair.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, white, yeah. Getting white. How's that?

He made a verb out of carpel. Carpel. Getting, going gray.

Going gray. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
This is probably the right time.

[Speaker 1]
Why didn't I do a header here?

[Speaker 2]
What's what?

[Speaker 1]
Why didn't I put a header between that and this next definition?

[Speaker 2]
Because it's the other half, probably?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's the other half. It's chiwa. So, I was being cute.

I didn't put a header because it is another definition. We're on to a new subject, but I want to keep it with aging. Okay, just like Buddha did.

Got it? We have to keep death with aging. Okay.

All right. Here we go. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you very much. Keshava, may I have a copy of this?

[Speaker 1]
We should bring him to Taiwan in June. You have a nice harmony voice. We're going to play rock and roll.

We're going to have a party. We're going to have a big party. They're going to invite 60,000 people, I think.

Right?