Медитации на пустоту: объяснение шагов к пониманию того, что ничто не является самим собой, занятие 54

[Speaker 3]
I'm going to talk a little bit about what I mean by the concept of a universal system. And I'm going to talk a little bit about what I mean by the concept of a And I'm going to talk a little bit about what I mean by the concept of a universal system.

[Speaker 2]
universal system. And I'm going to talk a little bit about what I mean by the concept of a universal system. universal system.

And I'm going to talk a little bit about what I mean by the concept of a universal system. We're talking about things that doesn't come from itself because if it did, it would happen over and over again. It doesn't come into being, it already existed at the time of its cause.

And that's true. It already existed at the time of its cause. If it existed at that time, then it's unnecessary for it to come into being again.

And that's true because if it were necessary, then it would have to come into being over and over again. So, what is the meaning of pulsam? And what is the context that you use in this phrase?

And what's the context? I don't remember.

[Speaker 1]
I mean, you're allowed to just keep quiet for that part.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, and he's just finished the first two possibilities. So, in wrapping up the discussion, what does Turing want to say would be the consequence, were something to come into being at that time? If you get fish from rocks.

If you just find this final one. Just instantly, infinitely. Things would either start instantly or they would never start.

But he does say that. He does say that. Oh, I might be dead.

It's a good show.

[Speaker 1]
I'd be quiet. It's a good show.

[Speaker 2]
Quotes. Wouldn't that be near-line review?

[Speaker 1]
They just said near-line.

[Speaker 2]
Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Speaker 1]
What does it mean?

[Speaker 2]
No, no, no, no, no.

[Speaker 1]
The picture.

[Speaker 2]
You always have some nice metaphor that you've chosen for the... It's spinning endlessly.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
It's kind of like a fire wheel. As far as I've seen.

[Speaker 1]
It's the glory of the mixed nuts. All right.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. It's concerning. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
We're on the third of five proofs of emptiness. Okay. In the Prasangika, Higher Middle Way.

We just reached the third one. It concerns whether or not things can grow from a cause which did or didn't exist at... Sorry.

Did a result that did exist at the time of the cause grow? Did a result that didn't exist at the time of the cause grow? Did both or didn't either?

And it sounds a little bit like the last one we had, only because we were discussing the possibility of things coming from themselves. So it's not quite the same question. You know.

Okay. But the first one kind of overlaps. The first possibility kind of overlaps.

So don't think it's just a repetition of the last proof of emptiness. It's a different proof of emptiness. And by the way, these are somewhere in here.

They're probably called Rigpa Na. So we're used to translating that expression as the five proofs. But...

[Speaker 2]
But in other places we might find that there are...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. In your text, they weren't proofs anymore. They were arguments.

Okay. Big difference, right? Your spouse can argue, but they can't prove, right?

[Speaker 2]
Correct. That's been my experience as well.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Here we go. Yeah.

Okay. Then you can argue with yourself.

[Speaker 2]
It's so gratifying being right all the time. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So here we go. So did the thing exist at the time of its cause?

Did the thing... Did the grow... Did the thing grow, which didn't...

Did a thing grow which didn't exist at the time of the cause? Or... Did a thing grow which did exist at the time of the cause?

Or did a thing grow which both existed and didn't exist at the time of the cause? or did a thing grow which neither existed nor didn't exist at the time of this concept. Okay, got it?

Here we go. Damboni. End of sentence.

No, no, it's shared, right? By the way, the shared gets put on the next line. Over here.

[Speaker 2]
Yep.

[Speaker 1]
I mean, no, translate. The garlic. Over here.

[Speaker 2]
The first is repeated just as we did before.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's that old Sankhya idea that the result could exist in its cause, in the seed. We already talked about that. He's like, I'm not going to talk about that again.

Okay, second choice.

[Speaker 2]
Ten.

[Speaker 1]
This is a little uncomfortable for me.

[Speaker 2]
The first one was already there, and then the second one.

[Speaker 1]
A result came from a cause which did exist at the time of the seed.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
No, sorry. A result which did exist at the time of the seed.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Came out of the seed. Okay. Now, this is one where the result didn't exist in its seed, and then it came out.

Okay. Which we say is impossible. Is it impossible?

[Speaker 2]
I mean, this problem, is it impossible?

[Speaker 1]
I mean, when we did the last one, proof number two, it was do things grow from themselves or do they grow from something else? And we would normally say they grow from something else, but that's not a valid answer in these proofs because the assumption is you're saying from its own side. Okay, the assumption is we're talking from its own side.

Okay, in general, do things grow from something other than themselves? Are you your mom? Were you your mom?

No, you're different from your mom, that's all. Things grow from something different. You grew from something different, okay?

But, in these five arguments, you always have to say from their own side. From their own side. So, can something...

Yeah, he repeats it here. He has to add rang-le-ne in the second possibility. We have to add the phrase rang-le-ne in the second possibility.

Because it is generally true, if you don't say from its own side, that things grow from seeds that didn't exist at the time of the seed. Okay, that's our position. Got it?

You okay? Okay? So, when we get to that possibility, we have to add from its own side.

Which is the thing we accused Baba Viveka thing. You know, when Baba Viveka did the same thing, he was the bad guy. Now we're doing it ourselves.

By the way, so how would Choney Lama answer that? I'll say it again. I noticed that every time you get to the one of the four possibilities, which is normally possible, you feel like you have to add the expression from its own side.

For example, in the second proof, do things come from something other than themselves? Yeah, you come from your mom. You're different from your mom.

But not from your own side. Not self-existently. Not without seeds.

Let's say it that way, okay? So, do you feel, Choney Lama, that you have to add that phrase from its own side to these four possibilities? He says yes.

And when you get to the third proof of discussing whether something grew that existed before it grew, or something grew that didn't exist before it grew, when you get to the second possibility, you feel like you have to say from its own side, right? And he says yes. And then should come the question, well, why back in the day when we spent like a whole year trying to figure out this stupid thing, Baba Viveka was wrong when he added it, when he said you have to add it, because he was talking about the same proof.

No, it's the same proof. He was talking about the same proof. He said you better add self-existently because it is truer than things because they come from something other than self.

Now you add it. So, then I guess you're a wrong guru because they feel that words have their own power to give the other person understanding, okay? The accusation against Baba Viveka was you don't have to add those words because if they don't get it before you add those words, they might not get it after you add those words.

Words don't have their own power. Got it? That's why that school is called the...

Yeah, independent power. The words, from its own side, has an independent power. Someone who didn't get it before you said that, now they get it because the words themselves have power.

And that's wrong, okay? So anyway, go figure. Here we go.

I don't have an answer.

[Speaker 2]
I don't have an answer. I don't know.

[Speaker 1]
But, you know, don't forget, Tony Lama, we're in the Prasangika section. All right. I mean, I would...

[Speaker 2]
Well, also, that was Gyaltsabje. So, it looks good.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, Gyaltsabje. Wasn't it in your text, though, when we went off on this long exam? I'm sorry, it was your text.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it was my text. Oh, well, that's a different thing. We have a 30-page appendix.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, we have a 30-page appendix about it.

[Speaker 2]
Discussing such a thing.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, because you had the insight into what it meant, and I was bowed to your feet. Okay. DE'I PHYCH'IN BRTAN NYON MED PA'I PHYCH'AL THAL RANG GI RGYAS KYANG MED PA'I RANG GI RGYAS KYANG Okay.

KYAP TE. Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
DE'I PHYCH'IN BRTAN NYON MED PA'I PHYCH'AL THAL If...

[Speaker 1]
Now, this is tricky. It is so the case because if something existed from its own side, which I think, you know, there are many synonyms for self-existence in Tibetan, in Buddhism. I think this is the easiest one for foreigners.

Does the husband come from his own side? Instead of saying, does he have a nature of his own, or is he imputed? It's just easy.

Foreigners tend to understand it easier if you say, does the husband exist from his own side? And you use your hand, right? RANG NYON NI BDUG NA BDUG GYI GYI TSE MED NA If at any particular time it wasn't there, it couldn't be there in any sense.

If things exist from its own side, then if at any particular moment it is absent, it must be absent completely. It cannot be there in any sense. I'll say it again.

If things existed from their own side, then if something were in general absent in a situation, you couldn't in any way say it was present.

[Speaker 2]
He's going to need to do a little more to establish that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, it's uncomfortable so far. It should be uncomfortable. I'll say it again.

If things exist from their own side, then if at any particular moment in time it's not there, it cannot be said to be there in any sense. Okay? Which means we believe it can be said to be there in some sense.

Okay, got it? All right. So, in our school, what this sentence is implying is at the time of the cause, the result was absent.

But in a sense, something of it was there. That's all. Okay, got it?

In a sense, the preliminary of it was there.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
But it wasn't there. And only if you believe that things come from their own side would you have to say it couldn't be there if it wasn't there. In any sense.

In any sense. Okay? What's the sense we think it could be there?

We're getting there, don't worry. I figured it out like 30 seconds ago. Okay, here we go.

DER THAO. Yeah, and that's the case what? That if at any particular moment in time a thing were absent, it couldn't be said to be there in any sense.

That is the case because if something existed from its own side, it would be incorrect to say that it could ever change, it could ever modify, change, and still be, in a sense, the same thing. Like this jar is changing, but it's still a jar. But the liquid is going up and down.

Mostly down.

[Speaker 2]
But he says change into something else, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, shentiger. Well, it could be another state of the same object.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, sure.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's coming. By the way, the next sentence clarifies it because we're running out of time here.

Meaning, I don't mean the time of the class. I mean we're running out of argument number three. If he doesn't clear it up in the next sentence, we're in trouble.

[Speaker 2]
Running out of runway to land on.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, if things exist from their own side, it would be incorrect to say they could ever change into some other version of themselves the way I would read it, or something other. Or into something else, okay.

[Speaker 2]
RANG LUGS LA NYID DU TSUL YOD KYANG JUN TENG DU TSUL YOD PA'I TSUL GYI SKYE BA'I MI DGYEL BA Open vowel.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, MI DGYEL BA. This is a very sophisticated statement, and it's interesting. I can't remember seeing it before, but let's go for it.

He gives us RANG LUGS, which is supposed to be a moment of comfort when he says, he decides for us what's correct, which is what we want. As an American in a university, we want the teacher to tell us what's correct. We don't want to have to think about it.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, this is nice.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. RANG LUGS LA.

[Speaker 2]
NYID DU TSUL YOD KYANG At the time of the seed... It doesn't exist, but...

[Speaker 1]
Take a shot. Take a shot, but say the first part again.

[Speaker 2]
At the...

[Speaker 1]
Use seeds and sprouts.

[Speaker 2]
At the time of the seed...

[Speaker 1]
The unopened seed.

[Speaker 2]
Right, it's true that the sprout doesn't exist.

[Speaker 1]
But...

[Speaker 2]
But the continuum, or the continuation, or the stream does exist at that time in a way. The other way around, right?

[Speaker 1]
It's true that the sprout doesn't exist at the moment that the seed does. And I'm talking a seed which hasn't split. Which hasn't split open.

[Speaker 2]
But... Well, it's more sophisticated than that.

[Speaker 1]
But it's no problem. Mengyel. There's no contradiction to say that it has...

We can still say a sprout has grown. Okay? Now, wait.

Wait. Let me get that much. Can we say of a sprout that doesn't exist at the time of the seed that a sprout has grown?

Do we say in normal usage of the world? We say a tree... We do say a tree grew from the seed, even though at that time there could not have been a tree.

We still say a tree grew from the seed. Which seems to imply that a tree was there at the time of the seed, and it grew. Because in the English syntax especially, tree comes first.

A tree grew from the seed. Okay, got it? And it's a problem.

It's a serious problem. There was no tree at the time of the seed. How can you say a tree grew from the seed?

And then he says... Yeah, exactly.

[Speaker 2]
That's the problem.

[Speaker 1]
That's one of the problems. There's lots of problems. But...

can we say that the necessary moment that precedes the growth of a thing was there as kind of part of that thing? The moment before it grew was part of the flow. He wants to say flow.

Flow. When you talk about flow of a tree, you go backwards from the tree that fell down, right? The tree fell down because it was old.

Go backwards. Oh, there's a tree that's healthy. Go backwards.

Oh, there's a tree that's growing. Go backwards. There's a tree that comes out of the crack in the seed.

Go backwards. There's a potential for a seed. There's a potential for a tree sitting in the seed.

And that's the beginning of the tree. But it's not the tree. That's what he says.

Because he says, Choney Lama says, I'm uncomfortable saying that nothing grew out of the seed.

[Speaker 2]
Right. Is this the Chrysalis argument?

[Speaker 1]
What's that? Is this the Chrysalis? It's kind of a Chrysalis argument.

Oh. Okay? So let's put the syntax.

It's difficult here. But it's true that at the time of its own cause, the sprout did not exist. But it's no contradiction to say the sprout grew.

And I would add the sprout here, very importantly, before kyeway mingyal. It's no contradiction to say that the sprout grew. How?

In a manner where its flow was present. Okay? The first part of its flow was present.

We can say it that way. And the first part of its flow, it's absent.

[Speaker 2]
Is he using this to justify his meaning?

[Speaker 1]
Well, I get this sense like he's very uncomfortable to say you can't say a tree grew from the seed. He said, come on. We always say that that way.

But technically there was no tree at the time of the seed. So how can you say it grew? There was no it to grow.

Okay? And he says, that's true. But in the usage of the world, when we say it grew, what we're really talking about is the thing that will be growing.

And we consider the first moment of that flow, its absence is its beginning.

[Speaker 2]
Isn't he sort of arguing against his own argument?

[Speaker 1]
Who's he? General.

[Speaker 2]
He seems to be arguing against the permutation that is that it can't have come from something else.

[Speaker 1]
I think what he's saying is he's saying the same thing as he said last time, that the second choice, if you don't say from its own side, is correct. Things do grow from something else. You do grow from your mom.

But if you're going to make it a false statement, you have to say from its own side. Do things grow from their seeds? Did the tree grow from a seed?

Yeah. But in that moment, it's not there.

[Speaker 2]
So he's answering your question.

[Speaker 1]
It's the moment of the absence of a tree that we always connect to the growth of the tree, which is the last moment before it grew. The tree of the last moment before there was a tree grew from the seed. That's what we mean when we say a tree grew.

Got it? We're talking about the flow. And we're talking about the specific moment of its non-existence that's attached to its beginning.

Yeah. And that's part and parcel of the tree.

[Speaker 2]
That's what he's defining as its flow.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Otherwise, you can never say the tree grew from the seed. Because there's no tree at the time of the seed.

Well, I think he's talking about you have the seeds to connect that last moment of non-existence to the first moment of existence, which doesn't happen until after the seed is already gone, actually. Okay? So I said we tend to tie things together.

It's Shantideva's rosary. Yeah. Okay, anyway, I'm not going to sit there, but it's the first time I've ever seen it explained in such a sophisticated way.

And it's going to be, sulki is important here. There's no contradiction to say the tree has grown, but only in a manner at which we are talking about its place in the flow. The flow, the overall flow.

Because the first moment of that flow is before it existed. It's the moment before it existed has to be glued on to its flow. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Yeah, sulki means, you know, you have to twist it this way. Okay. That's the only way, that's the only way in which you can say without contradiction that the tree has grown.

Subhashivallah. Yeah, we don't have to go through those. It can't grow, it can't grow from both, and it can't grow from neither, if it can't grow from either.

Something like that. Okay, we're on to the fourth proof of emptiness. Not shippa.

That would be Sugeng's dead person. Shippa. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, shippa. Mushi. Yeah, heavy pre-names not here.

Mushikengo. Say Mushikengo. Sounds like a new kind of mushroom or something.

Mushikengo. Mushikengo. Don't eat Mushikengo.

Weird things will happen. It's very famous. People say, ah, Mushikengo.

You didn't talk about Mushikengo. Here we go. Okay.

,GCE BU RNAM NGON NAS MI KHYAD PAS, Results don't grow... Good. Results don't grow from their own side, because...

Now, the kona, you have to say something like, if you limit yourself to... The kona is kind of like in English, if you limit yourself to talking about a single result, it cannot be the case that it can come from only a single cause. A single result cannot come from a single cause.

To put it less precisely. A single result cannot come from a single cause. But technically what it says is, but a single result cannot come from but a single cause.

A meaning always. Meaning always. Meaning always.

It's not the case that it's always the case that single results come from single causes. That's what he's saying. Always the case.

Kona, kona. Kona, okay. And then the rest of the possibilities.

Neither is it the case that always from multiple causes, you always get multiple results. So the kona, you got to be sensitive to the kona. It smells like a word he added after some rough debates.

They were having a debate and he had to add kona in the debate and then he's like, oh, I better keep adding this kona. So it's not the case that single results grow from single causes. It's not the case that a result is always singular and always comes from a cause which is singular.

And it's not the case that a result is always multiple and always comes from causes which are multiple. And it's not the case that results which are always invariably, ah, it's not the case that results which are invariably singular come from multiple causes. And he didn't say kona there.

I don't know if it's significant, but I think he just forgot it. No, maybe it's, no, okay. Nor is it the case that, nor is it necessarily the case that multiple results come from a single cause.

And this is a huge debate if you think about it. It's an old Abhidharma debate, second chapter Abhidharma. Is it even possible for a result to come from a single cause?

Don't there have to be other conditions present?

[Speaker 2]
Always.

[Speaker 1]
Always. And can you ever say that a cause produced only a single result? Because there's other repercussions always.

There's always other repercussions. The tree falls down, squashes some ants. You know, you don't get the, the corn doesn't grow because there's no ant bodies there.

And then people starve. Then there's a war because, you know, there's never a single result of any event. And there's never a single cause that leads to a single result.

So what are the permutations? Okay. Yeah, let's go see what he means.

Okay, yeah, that's true. Maybe he's saying ngu-gyur as opposed to gyu-gyur. What's that mean?

Yeah, direct cause and indirect cause. So planting the tree killed the crops, but not directly. The tree had to grow.

The tree had to fall down. It had to squash the bug who was going to plant that seed. Okay, maybe.

If I'm in a debate, I'll say, oh, he's talking about ngu-gyur. gyu-gyur shen du she, ay-yah, that's worse than mang-du-thok. What's mang-du-thok?

But, you know, I don't want to, you know, bore you guys. Here he's just very much more direct, which is? Oh, you want to know how to prove this?

Just look somewhere else, okay? What kind of thing is that? What kind of commentary is that?

Look somewhere else. We'll have to go find one, right? We'll have to add it.

He was busy that day. Yeah, shen du she. He's in a bad mood.

Probably didn't get any sleep, and they made him sit at that college for five hours. Yeah, okay. When he still had other stuff to do.

Yeah, okay. Very unsatisfying. I don't want to say unsatisfactory.

Unsatisfying. Totally unsatisfying. Let's, what's that?

[Speaker 2]
It's so rude and vulgar, shen du she.

[Speaker 1]
At least. If there were another author, I'd say he didn't know. But they can't say that out here.

Go find it. Go find it. Now for that, what's a strategy?

What's a database strategy? Say it again. When you don't have a relational database, because you're a relational database creator, it's very slow.

What do you do? Yeah, make a folder with? Yeah, put all the Choney Lamas in there.

Put all the Choney Lamas in there, and then search it for this argument, and see if he explained it somewhere else. Because you should give him a chance to explain it before you go looking for other people who explain it, right? So yeah, good luck.

And good news, when Geshe-la invented the database, he decided it would be impractical to try to make Choney Lamas catalog numbers sequential. Because we will find more Choney Lama texts for years, decades. Or you reserve the three thousands for Choney Lama, and that gets crazy.

So we didn't even try. I think not today, because I feel like when I'm on the last class with you guys, I have to show how much progress we're making. In the middle classes, I can waste time.

Yeah, that's a great idea, take a screenshot. That's a great idea. And in a way, you can use it for years and years.

If people question how you translated it, you have the screenshot. You don't have to go look it up again. Okay, let's go to A1 number 5, yay!

Which is? Yeah, by the way, when they say ten tsig, $50 for the tsig we saw recently. Damn.

What two kinds? Two kinds. I'm not paying unless I get the two kinds.

$25. $25. Get out of here.

Okay, $25, $25, $25. I'll compromise. $25, $25, $25.

Shopping's not even here.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
That's why I give away more money when she's not here. Yeah, so tsig means a section or a division. So technically, ten tsig would more often be translated as syllogism than proof.

It can be a ten tsig and not be true. Okay? So just be aware.

It's more like a jorwa, which means a syllogism. This is just a synonym for syllogism and not for proof. Because your wife gives syllogisms all the time but you don't prove anything.

Right? We're not going to tell Veronica about all these wife references. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
$100.

[Speaker 1]
$100. $100. $100.

[Speaker 2]
$100.

[Speaker 1]
I'm not even married yet. I'm kidding. Anyway, all right, go, go.

You're the most expensive students that Lama ever had. Okay, Bruno, Sung Ye-hsin. Okay, that, that is Yeah, sometimes it's like Dharmamitra says, the king of poses, Sarvangasana, Sarvashisha, wasn't it Sarvangasana?

[Speaker 2]
No. Oh, I didn't know that.

[Speaker 1]
Headstand, right?

[Speaker 2]
Headstand. Or shoulder stand. Headstand is the king of poses.

[Speaker 1]
I can just hear him saying it. He likes to say it with some kind of panache. He says, the king of all poses.

This is the king of all poses of emptiness. This is called Rigdol Gyalpo, the king of all poses of emptiness. Right?

Sugeng?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, sir.

[Speaker 1]
What's that other word for this? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Tudurvye.

[Speaker 1]
Tudurvye. You almost have to pay me a hundred dollars. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, take a strout.

[Speaker 1]
You can say that. Or through any nature of its own. Or through some supposed nature of its own, if you really want to kick ass.

Just kidding. I mean, I wouldn't go that far. Because...

Yeah, it's dependent. I don't want to say gross... Yeah, anyway, you know I don't want to use dependent origination.

I'm trying to avoid origination, because it definitely doesn't pass the... Yeah, go ask the waiter for an origination.

[Speaker 2]
That would be a strange usage.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. I don't know what that meant to you. Yeah, I love dependent.

Yeah, because it's dependent.

[Speaker 2]
For example, it's like a reflection.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Yeah, it's like a reflection. All right.

Let's move it up. What's it say? There are two versions of dependence.

Yeah, good. Who said? You should wait till I offer money.

There's the normal one, and there's the special one. Basically. That's the usage of tumung and tumungwa.

Mayimba. Okay. Yeah, and I'm just going to read it, okay?

Here's the first one. Let's try to do these two. How much time I have?

[Speaker 2]
One minute.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, I'll say fast. Here's the first one. Now, the kyang means no matter what existing thing you're talking about, it doesn't matter.

They all have their own parts, and their parts have their own parts. So, no matter what you're talking about, even emptiness, weird things, they have their own parts. And not only that, their parts also, kyang, each have their own parts.

Rang rang gyi cha she, come along with their own parts. Yin so, how that works, I told you above, when we talked about, when we objected to the idea of partless atoms, or that things could not have parts. Rigpe she gu la.

So, you got to go remember it from there. You can understand it from the logic we used in the section where we refuted the concept of partless things. Now, let's go on to the special one.

No, I think we have... Do we have time? She started late.

[Speaker 2]
Hey, I don't have to go anywhere.

[Speaker 1]
I have five hours.

[Speaker 2]
What's the final thing?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'll read it. Okay. Here's the special one.

THE'ANG RGYUN BA'I LUS KYI RTOG PA'I DAG SANGS RGYUD DU PA'I TSUL SHES DGOS STE You have to... For the special one, you have to understand the system of the higher Middle Way school, where they say things are just products of your imagination. Meaning, pictures coming out of your mind.

In the end, all of the previous proofs flow to this one. They... How do you say that in English?

All the previous proofs...

[Speaker 2]
flow into... out of...

[Speaker 1]
They all end up here.

[Speaker 2]
They all end up here.

[Speaker 1]
Cool? They all... In the end, they all come home.

All roads lead to Rome. All proofs lead to the king of proofs. That's what he's saying.

Yay! Okay, Nick had a wrap-up or something? Oh, that involves where you pay me back three percent of what I spend or something?

Yay! Just kidding. I'm not being ungrateful.

It'll definitely buy some... pancake batter. PURGYUR SHING MEDHODRAM MIRALING SHING YINPEG GENPALI SANGYE SHING DUMING TE UWARGI DROKUN NAMDAR SHING LA CHUG PAR SHOK YIDAM GURUR HADAM ANDALAKAN NE YATAYAMI By the way, before I forget, Anatole's going to teach a yoga class after this class for anyone who's still around.

I think we'd just like to do it here and get it over with. It's like taking medicine.

[Speaker 2]
So, a couple of thank yous. Thank you guys. Three years we've been doing this.

Wow! It's amazing. It's like a three-year retreat from not doing this.

A retreat from not doing stuff. It's been amazing. Ubera Upa and I were just ruminating on the fact that we might actually be learning something and we can look at texts and read them sometimes, which is kind of amazing.

It seems like it's happening, so that's really cool. So, a couple of quick thank yous to people who've helped to make this possible very quietly. Ben is working really hard.

He's switching us back and forth between. He's just quiet and stays here really late and does lots of work. So, I'm really happy.

So, thanks for coming and thanks for being here. Please keep coming. And Ubera Upa and Christina are helping a lot to just make sure everything's arranged and organized.

Thank you guys.

[Speaker 1]
Thanks for the drinks. That's the only lady I let buy me drinks for free.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, that's probably the most important thing of the term. There's got to be a lot of drinks for free.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, there's like five.

[Speaker 2]
Almost enough, yeah. And then, speaking of drinks, a lot of you guys don't know this, but Tim has been very silently making our smoothies in the morning or preparing them and bringing them to us. So, as we learned in Dr. Wu's text, he's going to quickly achieve Nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
And Gina.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, that's right. Thank you. And Gina does a lot of work, like keeps this whole building running.

Well, there's something more important he does. And, I'm getting there.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, I got you.

[Speaker 2]
And, well, let's just get right to it. Most importantly, he's taken on the massive project amidst his many other jobs of managing Dr. Wu's hotels and making sure that those are filtering money, making sure they're profitable, because it's the profit of those hotels which pay us salaries for doing what we do, which is the greatest thing in the world. Thank you for doing that, Tim.

And, as Dr. Wu said to you in a text that I oversaw, you will be rich soon.

[Speaker 1]
I can't make any promises, but I did see him text you. He'll have to answer more questions. And then one last thank you, the man who makes it all possible.

No, there's another thank you. Dr. Wu can't do what he does for us without his support team.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Speaker 1]
And you should know, he doesn't sleep much. And he just expects them to stay up. They're lucky if they get a few hours of sleep.

He sleeps in and doesn't come here. And they have to get up and come, so they don't get any sleep. And sometimes he will change his plans.

And so you have to be a very flexible person who doesn't like to sleep. And somehow he found two of those. And we'd like to thank Tangtang and me.

Thank you. We know it's really hard. And so we really, really appreciate it.

Because we know how hard it is. We know that you're doing a lot of hard things that we don't even see.

[Speaker 2]
There's another person, which is Nick, who organizes this program and advocates for us high and low to take care of us and take care of our program to make sure that we have a place to be, that we're comfortable together, that we're harmonious together as much as he can manage. We're a real pain in the butt for him a meaningful amount of the time. He takes it on the chin.

He doesn't make a fuss about it. And it's really beautiful. And last but not least, the man who makes it all possible, the man who translates 17,000 books simultaneously.

It doesn't matter if anybody else in the world could possibly do it. The one, the only, Geshe Michael Roach. Thank you.

Please keep teaching us. Please stay. I know we joke around a lot in class, and I'm being silly right now, but we all know, I think, or we wouldn't be here, that this is totally historic.

This is the same scope as all the crazy historic stuff that's mentioned in the scriptures. We know that it's all possible because of you. Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
And I really love you guys. And this is the happiest part of my life.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Can I just give it to word now?

[Speaker 2]
That's probably a good idea. In case something happens to me. Just run a tab.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know if it'll cover it.

[Speaker 2]
It's been important. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Geshe please. And I'm very excited that you guys... I went home, I told V, they finally got it.

This term, you know, they're actually translating. This is the first term you're translating, and I'm really, really happy. Thank you.

But I'm not happy about yoga.

[Speaker 2]
If you didn't order lunch, it's going to be in the cafe.

[Speaker 1]
Yoga here. Yes.

[Speaker 2]
If you'd like to make a donation today... If there's not room, I can do that.

[Speaker 1]
We're going to make payments over there. For smoothies.

[Speaker 2]
For smoothies, we received generous donations. We received about $900. We're about $500 short on that, so if anyone would like to contribute to the smoothies that we got every morning.

The costs mainly go for the cost of the supplies and some of the labor we hired for that. And then the additional funds raised will be going to the storage facility. Oh, so we haven't even started making donations to the storage facility.

So thank you all very much.

[Speaker 1]
But donate if you're going to do yoga.

[Speaker 2]
And if you have a moment, thank Michael. He donated his time.

[Speaker 1]
Really? He wasn't going to.

[Speaker 2]
I mean, he's going to get a little bonus later at the end of the year for it, but he's donating all of his time that we brought labor costs way down.

[Speaker 1]
Let's do it in 20 minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Really fun term.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's getting more and more fun.