Классика Алмазного огранщика: Нижний Срединный путь — Анализ зависимости, занятие 51

[Speaker 2]
The most beautiful drive, the most beautiful speech. Yeah. Speech power.

Oh.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Wake up, you guys. Uh-huh. $50.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Per question. Per question.

[Speaker 2]
Uh-huh.

[Speaker 1]
What are the two reasons? Rim and bin, rim and bin. Uh-huh.

What are the two reasons given by Kedrop Kempardage in the Book of Dependence about why aging and death are combined into one link?

[Speaker 2]
Because not everyone ages and not everyone has died yet.

[Speaker 1]
Because there are people who age and don't die, and there are also people who die and don't age. Nice. And there's people who don't age or die.

Don't age?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
So there's only 11 then. Never mind. Oh, they're not on the wheel, though.

Oh. Why is there not the 13th link, although it was commonly mentioned by the Buddha himself? Convention.

Say again? Convention. Convention.

[Speaker 2]
Office. Because it's a bad omen to mention the universe 13th.

[Speaker 1]
That is a good one. Good attempt. Sorry.

[Speaker 2]
Too much coffee that day.

[Speaker 1]
Whoever did that, you should string it up. 99% is very beautiful. Thanks for doing it.

[Speaker 2]
It's experience.

[Speaker 1]
It saved me a lot of time.

[Speaker 2]
Definitely. 100% my fault, though.

[Speaker 1]
The monk lives a good life because he suffers.

[Speaker 2]
He doesn't die. He doesn't die in pain.

[Speaker 1]
It's because there are monks who celebrate. In fact, this person died happily without having to go through the grief, wailing, and screaming of pain.

[Speaker 2]
No, it's not celibacy. That's because they're not men. It doesn't have to be monks.

It doesn't have to be.

[Speaker 1]
It doesn't have to be celebrated.

[Speaker 2]
It's a good attempt. So what is it? You need to go through the grief.

I still think it's experiential.

[Speaker 1]
Wailing. What is that? Grief, wailing, and screaming of pain.

Oh, okay. You can't see? Sorry.

Yeah. And this is from Stanley. What is the reason mentioned in the Abhidharma Kosha about why a dog-barred dog will definitely be reborn as a dog?

[Speaker 2]
Because it is projected by the same seeds. Yeah. You are a dog.

[Speaker 1]
It is claimed that the definiteness of their karma, pointing to the question, is due to the fact that both, in actual fact, only consist of the same seeds which throw the body and also the next life body. That is not true. It's your book.

You want to write to Mastawa Soma? It is claimed. Say again?

Claimed.

[Speaker 2]
You said it is claimed.

[Speaker 1]
Ah, it is claimed. Yeah, because... Let's move on.

Nyang-Nyang. What is Nyang-Nyang?

[Speaker 2]
It's just R-G-U-D.

[Speaker 1]
It's Ms. Welder, right? Yeah. M-Y-A-N-G.

Good question. What is M-Y-A-N-G? M-Y-A-N-G.

Mashing of teeth, like freaking out.

[Speaker 2]
Yelling scream.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the tree, the tree that we mentioned. Mounds, groans of pain, wailing. Nyun-pa, Nyun-pa.

To extract or recite. Say again? Extract or recite.

Recite. Recite. Screams of pain.

[Speaker 2]
Yell out.

[Speaker 1]
No, it was Nyun-pa. It could be yell out.

[Speaker 2]
Yell out. Yell out. Or recitation or extract.

[Speaker 1]
He's reciting. He's reciting.

[Speaker 2]
And then Lama extracts out of you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Oh!

[Speaker 1]
His word mentioned Nyang-Nyang is spelled wrong. Oh, okay. M.

[Speaker 2]
M.

[Speaker 1]
M.

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M.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Okay, thank you. Yay!

Yay!

[Speaker 2]
Thank you for participating.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for doing it.

[Speaker 2]
Ten dollars for everyone?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Stanley's paying. Ten dollars for everyone.

[Speaker 2]
He was smart.

[Speaker 1]
He didn't say no money. He said Stanley's paying. That was fun.

I wish I had a banker for all my bets. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

[Speaker 2]
It's right there. There we go. That's so nice.

Lovely. What's that? It's just really nice out.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
It is nice.

[Speaker 1]
Really? Man, you're... Wow.

Wow. Really? He took a photo of me.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Bobcat.

[Speaker 1]
A bobcat outside his window. Here?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. On the porch.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. Wow. I just get pigs and stuff.

Oh, I'll show you a cool one. Well. We should start together.

But we saw a pregnant mom, and she had her kids, and she's walking around with her kids. Yeah. Okay.

So, we went on a detour from Mr. Sugeng's text, because somebody said, that's just those Abhidharma guys' idea. What was the idea? Was, mindo deni tisawu.

Say, mindo... mindo deni... deni...

tisawu... tisawu... cannot be stopped.

That's a smell eater. Okay. So, something about a bardo.

And the kachig said, once you have taken an in-between being's birth, which is going to be a dog, right? Which is called a kiparsi. So, you don't name parsis from what you were.

You name parsis from what you're going to be. You name... So, the bardo being, we call bardo being, and then we put an adjective about what they're going to be after they finish the bardo.

So, bardo is the time between death and rebirth, right? So, when you say ki bardo, dog bardo, it means the person is going to be a dog. Okay.

And then he said, once you take birth as a dog bardo, in the bardo, right? The moment after you die from this life, you're born into the bardo, and you're a dog. Then it's impossible not to take that same birth after the bardo.

You will be a dog. Okay. Got it?

So, if you go into a dog's bardo spirit being that's going to be a dog, you have to become a dog. No choice. There's never any...

[Speaker 2]
This is actually... Huh? This is actually in contradiction with what we discussed earlier, that we can put the two...

[Speaker 1]
Well, we're going to go there. Okay. We're going to go there.

Then, he quotes the Abhidharmakosha, he quotes Stanley's text. So, we're seeing how important Stanley's text is for everybody. And I think it's cool that we can put pieces of his text as footnotes in everybody's books, because it's really the mother book of all books.

Mindo deni chesawo. Okay? So, you can't stop it.

Stop what? The dog bardo is going to have to be born as a dog. Deni chesawo.

And that's the smell eater, which means... The spirit. The spirit, yeah.

So, spirits are called smell eaters, and... They eat smells for... for food, you know.

Say again? Eater. Oh, they eat smells.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not an English word, but I made it. Okay.

Yeah, they eat smells for... And then again, as I said, Gandharva is the Sanskrit, and don't be confused if you see it for musicians in heaven. I call the same thing.

Then you don't call them smell eaters. Okay. But in general, spirits, even if they're not bardo beings, are also called smell eaters.

So, there's three meanings of smell eater, you know. One is a person in the bardo. One is general spirits.

And then one that you can't see. People like ghosts in a house or something. And then one is divine musicians.

The people who play rock and roll in the heaven. Ukulele players. Okay, now...

[Speaker 2]
Electric ukulele.

[Speaker 1]
You're going to have that line, and if we were normal translators, we would just go on. But we're going to go get that line and see what it said, and we're going to put it for the reader in a footnote, which takes a lot of extra time. But sooner or later, it all saves time.

So, like he's going to... If we translate this page or two pages from your text, then it'll save you time. So, in general, doing things well is faster.

It's slower at the beginning, and later it speeds up. So, we're just doing it well. And we're not leaving the reader with, you know...

He doesn't know what's a smell eater. Okay, so here's the detour. I'm not going to read the verse, because that would tell you the whole thing.

And I want to surprise... You know, I want you to get it like, Wow! You know, so...

I'm not going to read the verse. But you have to block out the... You have to go find Daini, for example.

Right? Where's the Daini? You see what I mean?

Maybe it's not there.

[Speaker 2]
Pemba Chik.

[Speaker 1]
Was it there? Well, that's another thing, because you're stealing his time, so now he's stealing your time.

[Speaker 2]
Where?

[Speaker 1]
There. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Okay. Well, once you get the first one, the rest are nearby. Daini Pemba Chik Bechir, I think it is.

Yeah, Daini Pemba Chik Bechir. Where's Pemba? That's not it, okay?

Anyway, you'll find it. All right. By the way, if you're lazy, you can click right after the...

the word you're looking... You know, this one? Click here, and search for P-H-E-N, and you'll hit it.

You see? So, if you're lazy, if you're lazy, go to the word in the root text, click right after it, and then just search for it. And there it is, okay?

Pemba Chik Bechir. Okay? Okay?

That's a lazy man's way. Yeah. Now, in your text, it'll almost always be the correct one, but still you have to look at it and make sure it's the correct one.

Okay? By the way, did I spell it correctly? Watch.

No. With verbs, go for the root. With verbs, go for the root, because the commentator might have changed the tense or something.

Okay? So... Okay?

And by the way, there's another pen here.

[Speaker 2]
It's a side note. Learn to recognize roots.

[Speaker 1]
Right here. These are not the same word, right? This one means to throw a karma, and this one means up to.

It's also used for spears and arrows. No. No.

No, it's not always in order. And sometimes they don't use it. They don't put it in their commentary.

So, let's look for pen. That's not it. Okay?

This is it. Penche. Okay?

So, here's... You have to know Tibetan. So, if it were me and I were you, which is the subject downstairs today, I would just do syllables, single syllables, you know, until you get used to it.

And you will misidentify a few, but that's okay, I'll fix them. I check them, so it's okay. The sequence doesn't have to always follow the...

No, but normally it's about 80%, 90%. Yeah. Okay, here we go.

So, you're going to do it for this text. All right, Seichun. Please read.

[Speaker 2]
Par.

[Speaker 1]
Who's got the plane? The plane has been really flying around like... Seiji.

Come on. Good. Yip.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. What? Yeah, future tense, right?

The co-pilot was drunk. Okay. All those pilots are so red, and then you're like...

Anyway. Okay, wait, what happened? Okay, translate.

Human and gods. Good, good. You can say an in-between being to become a human or a god, okay?

Human or a deva, okay? Pleasure being, I like to call them. Because the Christian meaning of god, I don't like to use god for things that aren't god.

So, I would say... For deva, I like to say pleasure being, because that also implies they waste their time just eating and drinking, and then they die, and... Okay, so...

Then I call the other ones near pleasure being, but that's kind of complicated. Okay, because they're jealous of the real pleasure beings. So, if you'd split...

If the name, LHAG MA YIN, is meant to imply jealousy, like a wannabe pleasure being, wannabe rock star. Yeah. Wannabe is perfect, but we can't use it.

Okay, LHAG MI'I BAR ZIG TU CHUD CHEN. Let's take a... By the way, you could have said bar zi, but he said bar zi pa, same thing.

Let's take an in-between being who is gonna be a pleasure being or a human. Kyuki... And you guys don't know this word, I think.

No. Oh, you had it once recently for $50. Cut.

Ten, nine, eight... We had it for a reflection in America.

[Speaker 2]
Damn.

[Speaker 1]
Xiaoping, human computer, making me bankrupt. $50. It means reflection.

No. Oh, wait, maybe he didn't get it. What's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
It's the thing being reflected.

[Speaker 1]
Dang. Yeah. And the basic meaning of BYAD is an image.

So, don't think it's connected to... BYED, which is about a thousand times more common. Right.

More than a thousand times more common.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. And oftentimes a typist will...

[Speaker 2]
Correct it.

[Speaker 1]
Correct it.

[Speaker 2]
Miscorrect.

[Speaker 1]
So, we want to make sure, right? Who is Miss Kasiko? Yes.

That we don't hire people who might want to correct it. No correcting. Yeah.

Because it would be wrong and it would take me years to find it. Or I might never find it. And I might mistranslate it, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Meaning it's important that it not be a skill.

[Speaker 1]
Don't hire intelligent people to work at the entry centers. Because they will screw it up. They will screw it up.

We just want human copy machines. We don't want them to think. We don't want them to change what the book says.

They think they know and they don't know and they change it. And then it's changed for a hundred years. You know, or we never catch it.

So, we just want human copy machines. You know, when they did the Greek, which is what we copied it from, they started in Greece and they canceled it. And they took it to Korea and the Philippines because people couldn't read Greek and they just type what's there.

You see? And they didn't fix it subconsciously. And I went and saw it in Korea.

And it was very interesting. And they had no idea what it says. They just, if you see lambda, type L.

That's all. Just shut up. Don't think about it.

Okay. GYUL GYI CHE YIP means shape or their general appearance. Okay?

Their, what do you call it?

[Speaker 2]
Silhouette?

[Speaker 1]
What's the... It's not a silhouette. It's a...

Form. Form, you can say. Appearance.

Okay. You're going to see what he's talking about. GYUL TE.

GYUL TE. Because RANG TU KENG GYUR. What they will...

GYUR. NGUR. That's why you have to say NGUR.

Yeah. What they will be born as after the bardo. They take that CHE SHIN.

CHE YIP. Okay. Yeah.

So, if they're supposed to be a dog, they look like a dog. They have that... It implies some shape.

Form. Physical form. Appearance.

I don't know. CHE YIP. What's NGUR DUN GYI SIPA?

It's one of the four Sipas. This life, right now.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. From when?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, between birth and death.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, KE SHI lasts how long?

[Speaker 2]
Just an instant.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. CHE SHI lasts...

[Speaker 2]
Instant.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. And then everything between is called the being of the time before. Meaning before death.

Go figure. They should have called it the being after birth. But...

Does CHE SHI last an instant? Say again?

[Speaker 2]
Did we decide CHE SHI lasts an instant? Or it's a condition and it's not a...

[Speaker 1]
An instant is a condition. Okay. NGUR DUN GYI SIPA.

JUNG MA. Okay. So, what they're gonna be, they take on that CHE YIP.

Okay. They take on the appearance of what they're gonna be. Which makes it a little strange to say you're talking to your relatives in the Bardo.

Because you gotta go... But anyway, this is also not accepted by the higher schools. Or, you know, it's a starting point of a discussion.

CHE SHIP JUNG MA. DE SHA TZUG CHEN. SHA TZUG CHEN is the same as CHE YIP, really.

They have that corporal reality. Meat. They're meat.

SHA TZUG. Okay. Their physical body.

SHA TZUG CHEN TU RGYUR BA'I PHYIR. They take on that... They take on that...

that physical appearance. So, CHE YIP is more appearance, and SHA TZUG CHEN is more like body, physical body. It means the meat, the flesh.

Okay. But they're still kind of incorporeal. They can walk through walls.

Okay. They can go to another planet in five minutes. Okay.

That's how beings got here, supposedly. TZUG here? What's that?

[Speaker 2]
TZUG of SHA TZUG.

[Speaker 1]
TZUG. It literally means to sit down or to enter or... TZUG.

Enter. It just means they've entered that flesh. Embodiment of that flesh, literally.

But it just means physical body. But it's not physical is what I'm trying to say. Not technically.

Okay. Okay. Please read.

Let me change this. Yeah, and this is the whole point of this detour. This is the important sentence of this detour.

Okay? Okay. Say PEMBA CIG.

Thirty dollars for a guess. Just a guess. You don't know.

It's one throwing karma.

[Speaker 2]
What's one throwing karma?

[Speaker 1]
The seed that throws both the bardo being and the being who comes in the next birth. Thirty dollars. Say it again slowly for everybody.

It's one seed.

[Speaker 2]
One karma. One karma that throws forth both the bardo spirit and the rebirth.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. The being you're going to be, which is a dog, in our case, and the being in between, spirit being, are both thrown by one karma. Okay?

In two parts. Part one, part two. Therefore, the CHESHIN...

The form of the bardo form is going to resemble... Yeah, exactly. Got it?

Therefore, the bardo being is going to look like what they're going to become because they've both been thrown by the same karma. One karma through the bardo person. One karma through the rebirth.

So, they're going to look similar. Yeah. According to Abhidhamma.

Okay? One of the two CIG. Say again?

PEMBA. Well, they would say PEMBA CIG.

[Speaker 2]
PEMBA CIG means?

[Speaker 1]
Which means one toss. Okay? Let's read it.

Okay? Did you... you read this, right?

There's a reason why the bardo being looks like what you're going to be reborn as. And then he's going to say in three syllables, it's PEMBA CIG. It's one...

it's one projection. It, meaning the bardo person, and the being in the next life, for the length of the next life, DE NYID PEN CIG GI LAS CIG. They are PANGED, past tense of PEN.

They are PANGED by one PEN. Okay? They are thrown by one throwing karma.

Okay? What's the opposite of PEN CIG GI LAS? Yeah, RDZOGS CIG GI LAS.

And that fills in the details. So, what color is your eyes? How tall are you?

Where do you go to school when you're a kid? That's all RDZOGS CIG. That's the person who fills in the colors on the painting.

And then PEN CIG makes the main person, decides whether you're a human or a dog. Okay? Two different karma.

[Speaker 2]
Is that all that PEN CIG GI LAS decides? The realm you go to?

[Speaker 1]
I think that's... I think an Abhidharma person would say that. Yeah.

Yay! Okay. Please read.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, what do you think?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I thought you were... No, no, no. ...commenting on the sentence. You were just talking about my hair or something. Okay. Now, you may be wondering, he says, why we call it...

MUNDUG GI SRID PA There's four beings in... ever. There's only four different kinds of beings.

We could start with a CIG SRID, say. The person at death. Parsi, the person in the bardo.

And then, Kesi, the person at rebirth. But what's this weird name, MUNDUG GI SRID PA, which means the being of the time before. Which means the being for the whole length of your life.

After the moment of conception, right? And up until the moment of death. That being in the scriptures is called MUNDUG GI SRID PA, the being of the time before.

So, you can guess what he's going to say. What's he going to say?

[Speaker 2]
Before death.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. And after? Birth.

Duh. Okay. But he's going to say, maybe you're wondering why we have this weird name, the being of the time before.

Well, whenever you see that, remember, it means, DE DAR GYUR PA'I GYUR TSE NYES TE There's a reason why we use this weird expression. Okay. Yeah.

It's after the being at birth. And it's NGON before TSISI. Before death.

Yeah. Okay. So, it is, even though it's after the being at birth, it stops at the being at death.

So, those two moments of your life are considered transitional karmas. And the karma that goes through your whole life is considered a different karma. YIN PAS And we use this in DCI.

DCI. We talk about transitional moments. Yeah.

I don't remember where we use it, but okay. Don't ask me that. YIN PAS DE'I KHYAD GYUR That's why we call it that.

DE'I KHYAD GYUR means that's why we call it that. Okay. So, now you will always know.

Please read. NGON DU SKYI SRID PAR DE NI CHOD CHEN ZHAG TU YUD PA'I KHYAD SRID RUG PA'I KHYAD GCIG NYID PA'I PHAN CHEN NAS CHI BA'I ZHIG PA'I NGON ROL TSUN CHOS LA YIN CHOG PA'I CHEN Okay, cool. NGON DU SKYI SRID PAR DE NI CHOD CHEN What?

Good. The being of the time. Yeah, the being of the time before.

ZHAG TU YUD PA'I means we can posit what it is. We can explain what it is. And it's just an artificial debate form.

As if someone had said, you can't explain what it is. And he says, ZHAG TU YUD, I can't explain. So, it's artificial.

Lots of monks use it, who spend a lot of time in the debate ground. Okay. KHYAD SRID RUG PA'I KHYAD GCIG NYID PA'I PHAN CHEN From the second moment of the...

Khyad Srid has come into being, okay? From the second moment that the Khyad Srid, that the being at birth came into being, on up to the being at birth, at death. NGON ROL is like PHA ROL.

[Speaker 2]
The prior side.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, BADAM YID DA, PARAM YID DA. BADAM YID DA. BADAM means up to the other side.

BADAM means other. BADAM means other side. The M means to.

And then YID DA, like it's in the word exit, means to go. Exit means to go out. So, YID DA means to go.

So, BADAM. YID DA means to go to the other side, right? In Tibetan, PHA ROL THU CHIN PA.

So, ROL means a side of something. A side. ROL means a side of something.

Yeah, so NGON ROL means the time before. All the time before. And then TSUN CHE means up to.

Okay, so... Anyway, basically it just says, look, the being of the time before is the person between the second moment after birth, starting with the second moment after birth, and going up to the moment of death, okay? Just before the moment of death, right?

Okay, got it? What is... By the way, what are we supposed to be finding out from this selection?

From your text. Your text guy said, made a statement, and then he... or, sorry, Ka Chik in your text made a statement, and he used this, this section of the Abhidharmakosha to prove it.

Good, yeah, yeah. Yeah, good. You cannot stop, once it's a dog bardo, it's got to be a dog reber.

Okay, you cannot stop it. And we didn't reach that yet clearly. Okay, so here we go.

Here's your sentence. Yep.

[Speaker 2]
...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, this is interesting. Can bardo beings see each other? Can you have a discussion in the bardo?

You see, can bardo beings see each other? You know, and that's the question he's talking about here. Okay, so...

PAR SRID PA CHOS CAN Let's talk about those parts, parts of the intermediate beings. MI PHAL PA NAM DANG RI MI THUN PA'I MI THONG Oh, those are under the same type, can't see each other? MI PHAL PA NAM DANG RI MI THUN PA'I But you have to be the same class.

The deva bardo-was can see the deva bardo-was, and the human bardo-was can see the human bardo-was, unless you're special. So, he says phalpa means normally. Okay, normal people, if they are of different type, if one's going to be reborn as a deva, and one's going to be reborn as a dog, normal people, because they are not the same, if they're not the same type, they cannot see each other.

[Speaker 2]
MI PHAL PA means normal?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, normal people. Normal people. That's phalchen.

So, phalpa, no. It means normal. It means not Aryas or something.

They're not special. Well, sort of, yeah. No, it's not a negative.

It means humans. It means people. Normal people, if they are not the same type, cannot see them, each other.

And then he's going to give examples, okay? LHA'I BAR DO BA being someone who's in the bardo, who's going to be a pleasure being, bardo-wa, LHA'I BAR DO BA they can see people who are going to be pleasure beings. And human bardo-was can see human bardo-was, pen-tsun, re-tun, people of the same type can see each other mutually.

Each one can see the other, okay? CIG GI CIG MTHONG ZHING but, if you're beings of, going to be beings of a different type, one's a dog, one's a pleasure being, MI MTHONG, they can't see each other. They can, but there's an exception, okay?

Higher bardo-was can see lower bardo-was. And I forget what it means. I think it can mean that a human can see a dog, but a dog can't see a human.

Okay? But I think definitely a form realm deva can see a desire realm deva, but a desire realm deva can't, or no, that would be same type. Let's call it, if you're a higher, let's call it humans can see dogs, devas can see humans, but humans can't see devas.

Whoever's above can see below, that's what it says. KONG ME bardo-wa the higher ones can see the lower ones, okay? Okay.

But I'm not sure if it's limited to devas, I don't remember. Okay. Okay, here we go.

bardo-wa chö chön bardo-wa chö chön gyot-sen kyi tong-wa yuk-te gyön-chu jik-thang-rel wey nön-she-thang re-mit-kyi nam-phang dak-pay thong-way chö Yeah, let's consider those beings who are living in the bardo, okay? They can be seen by other people. There are exceptions to the rule.

Or they could be seen by people who aren't in the bardo. Can be seen. If those people have nön-she, yeah, it's clairvoyance, okay?

Clairvoyance. Where their clairvoyance doesn't have the eleven problems. If their clairvoyance is free of the eleven clairvoyance problems, they can see a bardo being, okay?

Now, I'm not going to go there, but maybe you guys want to try to find it. Like, maybe word can help you. See if you can find the eleven problems of nön-she.

So, you're going to look up nön-she near... chö-chik Near chö-chik would be good, yeah. One line.

So, we're still in the Abhidharma commentary? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
So, you could restrict it to the Lumba section of the Sumbhu. So, to go to the Abhidharma section of the Tibetan commentaries, look up eleven near clairvoyance. Or you could search for kyun-chö-chik, eleven near problem.

Because it might say kyun-nönpa-chö-chik, or something like that. So, proximity searches are always a good idea, rather than the straight wording, the phrasing, because it could be said many different ways. He could say the eleven problems, or he could say the eleven kinds of problems.

So, if you look for eleven problems, you're not going to find it. Look for problems near eleven, but make it close, because you don't want eleven on one page and problems on the next page. So, limit it to one line.

Okay? Then you'll find the eleven problems. Okay?

Usually you know one of them, and you can search for eleven near one of them, but I don't know what they are. Yeah. Okay.

So, either if they have clairvoyance, which is free of the eleven problems, or if they have a pure form of light... The eye of the god. That's an eye of a deity or something.

No, Geshe-la, it's one of the... It's what they describe as a clairvoyant eye. Yeah, but I'm just saying, don't say pleasure being here.

The implication is it's special. Yeah, it doesn't mean a pleasure being. It means like a god's eye.

It means you can see... It's a power. It's one of the five kinds of eyes.

Yeah, cheng na. Divine is pretty good, but where can you find those five? Where is the footnote that's already been done?

Mr. Pranabhashiva. Yeah, and I think the Dhammakara also. Yeah, he did it, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, when you're working on these things, even like the eleven problems, it's always a good idea to go to the database of footnotes and see if somebody else already did the work, because you can save yourself two hours or something. And we don't have time. One book takes six years, ten years, twenty years.

We don't have time. If we can cut some time, it's important. And nobody else is doing this stuff.

I got an email this morning from someone who I haven't talked to for thirty years? Twenty-five years? A director of a Dharma center.

And he's like, I can't believe what you guys are doing. I was like, wow, that's cool. So, nobody else is doing what you're doing.

Okay. All right, making number tarpe. It seems to imply there's unclear deva eyes, but if they have a very clear deva eye, a clear divine eye, they can see those part of beings.

It means, by the way, do you have to be a Buddhist to get those eyes?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
And it's a famous thing that you do not have to be a Buddhist. It's just a function of your meditative ability or the lifestyle, your pure lifestyle. So, you don't have to be a Buddhist to have, to see spirits and stuff like that.

There have been Christian writers and I guess Muslim writers have seen them. Yeah, okay. All right.

Say again? That's true too. Okay, here we go.

Go, read, read, read. Yeah. Is it true?

Who's got the plan? This plan is swerving around.

[Speaker 2]
Seiji.

[Speaker 1]
Anybody want to take a shot? We have dzu-te-ke. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Good. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's all. He's talking about people in the bardo. Okay, so he says, let's take people in the bardo.

Parsi, dzu-chu-chen, dzu-chu-den-den-pa. They possess miracle powers, miracle powers. Why?

They can fly through the sky, for example. And this is a famous thing, you know, if you die in New York, you can be reborn in Shenzhen in 10 minutes. They have the power to go at like the speed of light.

And that's how planets are populated, new planets. People die on another planet and the Parsi can move to a new planet in like 15, 20 minutes or so. They say that's how new planets get people.

It's like the Parsi missionaries. Yeah, yeah, and then kind of do a new thing. And why do they have, why have they obtained that dzu-chu power?

If he had put a key here, you'd know. Due to the karma? Yeah, due to the power of karma.

It's not like they practice. You see what I mean? He's saying it's a mayinga.

You know, he said, don't think you're special. It happens to everybody. You know, all you have to do is die and you get miracle powers.

It's kind of a put-down. He's saying it's just that, you know, and everyone has that karma to fly. It'd be interesting for your graduate students to write an essay, why does everybody get the power to walk through walls?

And there's a very, what do you call it, poignant, you know, place in the Abhidharma where they say, then the karma shifts. You can walk through walls and then the karma shifts and you hit the back of your mother's womb. And it's like hitting the back of a closet.

And then you turn around and it's closed, you know, and then you're stuck. And that's how they say people get reborn. They enter their mother's womb, they're still going and they hit the back of the womb and then they turn around.

That's one thing, the karma to pass through things finishes and they get stuck and then they're born there. They're also attracted to their parents. They have a karmic connection to their parents, so that's the womb they choose.

Just by attraction, not by decision. They say, oh, that couple looks nice and they're having sex. And they, oh, that couple looks nice and they get close and then they get trapped.

Like little mooncakes. Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
DE CHOS CAN Yeah, DE CHOS CAN means, yeah, PAR SRID CHOS CAN, PAR SRID CHOS CAN.

[Speaker 1]
Let's take that bardo being.

[Speaker 2]
ZHUGS DANG LDAN Now this ZHUGS just means power.

[Speaker 1]
Special power. And there's a protector being called ZHUGS DANG, vega, vega something, vegen or something. Nowadays there's a huge fight in the Tibetan community about is it good to practice this or it's not good to practice this.

But that being, that Buddha is called ZHUGS DANG, which means powerful one. But here, so then you can remember the word ZHUGS. And that's why it's important to say ZHUGS when it means enter.

And ZHUGS when it means power. Okay, ZHUGS, say ZHUGS. ZHUGS.

ZHUGS. ZHUGS. This is ZHUGS.

It's not ZHUGS. Okay? But when you see a ZHUGS, please say ZHUGS.

Because you don't want to say power when you want to say get into. Okay, so, those bardo guys, they have ZHUGS. They have special powers.

Why? DGE GCIG GIS Yeah, in a single instant. They can LEP.

Nice. LEP is a very common colloquial word. LESONG.

Oh, the Lama has come. Lama has arrived. Let's turn off the TV.

My Lama ran in the room and put his hand on the TV. And he said, it's warm. And I'm like, oh, it must be a hot day.

LEP. NU. NU means they can.

They can. They can arrive in a single instant. DEPE KANG DEPE SA LA.

Wherever they want. Yeah, wherever they want. They just think of a place and they're there.

[Speaker 2]
The power of swiftness.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Where do we see that? Nick?

I should get NIRWE TOG. DOG CHOG. I should quickly sheet.

Yeah, it's a part of the fire offering. Which substance is it for speed? I'm not sure.

Barley? Barley, I think. Anyway, each substance in a fire offering is supposed to give you a special power.

And NYON DUI SHUG is one of them. You know. I tried to give that to all my students who don't finish projects.

But it didn't work out.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Speed. Yeah, NYON DUI means speed. Okay.

They have the power of speed. But the only other place you see this is during the fire offering. Is it?

Yay! Barley gives you speed. When you burn barley as an offering, you can pray for this power to go faster.

Okay. Maybe all the translators should do that so their book doesn't take 30 years.

[Speaker 2]
Stanley's getting barley for Christmas.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, there's a great barley for sale. It's a Tibetan family in California making really great sampa. Black barley.

I saw it online. I said, send me a sample, and they did. It was mine.

It was really good. Okay, so anyway, here we go. DE PHYI CHEN Let's finish one more sentence.

These guys are WANG PO TZANG. They have all their sense powers. They come with a complete set of sense powers.

Why? They have all five. Okay, they have eyes, ears, nose.

It's not like they're blind, or they can't hear, or... Okay. Yeah, a bardo being has all five powers.

Yeah. Let's go one more sentence, because it's sexy. We have time?

We have one minute. Oh, then no problem. We'll just get...

NGUR BAI ZHUG. Anyone got some barley? This power of speed.

Okay, barley. DE PHI CHEN THOB PA MED PA DANG DEN TE PHYI KHRAG THOB LA'ANG THOB DUG MED PA NGUR BAI ZHUG Anybody want to take a shot? There's a word here that you know.

Yeah, they can't be stopped by... They're not stopped by obstacles. Yeah, basically.

They can walk through stuff. They are a sangha. They are a sangha.

They cannot be stopped. Here's the word a sangha used in its original form. You guys are studying a sangha downstairs.

He went to... He saved the dog. He went to talk to Maitreya.

And here's the meaning of his name. Means nothing can stop you. Okay?

So, those vital beings, PHYI CHEN, they have the power of being unstoppable, because they can pass through DRO BA. Yeah, things like mountains and rock boulders. Okay?

Mountains and boulders, etc. THOG ME. And he just uses a synonym for THOG PA.

Yeah, THOG DUG means unstoppable. And this word I've seen once and it was here. Yeah, I've never seen it anywhere else.

It's probably related to the word DUG, to stay. But it means solid rocks, solid mountains, they can pass through. So, no problem to get to wherever they're going.

If Nick closes the door, they can still get in. Little mooncakes can still get in if the doors are closed. Okay.

All right? You don't have to open the door when you want to have a baby. They'll take care of it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Here it goes. DIGS KYI DGOS KUN SON NAM YOD SHES TSOR RDZOGS SHING SON NAM YOD SHES LAS BYUNG BA'I DANG PA KUN NYID DOG PAR SHOG By the way, the next sentence is going to say BAR SI NGON DUG GI SRID PAR NGES What's it say? Yeah.

Is it definite that... BAR SI NGON DUG GI SRID PAR Yeah, and that's why we went here. So, next class, first thing, we're going to have the discussion, is it definite that if you go to a bardo of a certain type of being, you have to be that being in the rebirth?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, well in which system?

[Speaker 1]
Does the bardo always match the... Does the bardo always match the rebirth? Yeah, and as Ben pointed out, the sentence is going to start with here in the Abhidharma, which is a maingat, you know, in Ben's system, especially if you say it that way, in Ben's system.

Okay. Cool. Stopped here.

What's the date today? 19th? Okay.

And I'm going to save the file as 21, and then I know what to send to, as an update, to Utpala Lak. I'll probably do it at the end of the day, okay? Just all of them together?

Okay. All right, take a pee-pee.