Классика Алмазного огранщика: Верхний Срединный путь — Великие книги мудрости, занятие 49

[Speaker 2]
Dhamma-sanskriti, Shantidhamma, Nyan-chu-par-du-dha-mi-kha-tsu-ci, Dhaki-chhu-nyeng-khi-pe-tsu-nam-khi, Dhamma-sanskriti, Nyan-chhu-par-du-dha-mi-kha-tsu-ci, TAM CHU PAR DU DAK MI DAK SU CHI GAR GYI CHU NYEN GYI PE SU LAM GYI DRO LAB PEN CHIR SANG GYE DU PAR SHOK

[Speaker 1]
CHU LAM SOG GYI CHOK NAM LAB TAM CHU PAR DU DAK MI DAK SU CHI

[Speaker 2]
GAR GYI CHU NYEN GYI PE SU LAM GYI DRO LAB PEN CHIR SANG GYE DU PAR SHOK TAM CHU PAR DU DAK MI DAK SU CHI GAR GYI CHOK NAM LAB PE SU LAM GYI

[Speaker 1]
Anything under the consideration of the wisdom of insight in deep meditation? That is the truth of its own nature.

[Speaker 2]
I was just about to say that.

[Speaker 1]
There was something interesting about it, so I thought you might remember.

[Speaker 2]
This might help you remember some of the elements of the Tibetan. Yeah, because this thing was wrong. Its own nature was the tricky part.

Yeah, wrong. Wrong rig?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Guess that was insight.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good, good, good.

[Speaker 2]
Well, insight sees the truth of its own nature. You smuggled the other meaning of wrong back in there.

[Speaker 1]
I did. I'm trying to help you guys out.

[Speaker 2]
Under the consideration, what does the English mean?

[Speaker 1]
It just means perception.

[Speaker 2]
Anything under the consideration, I guess. I mean, this is the rough translation left over from last class. But I like it.

Wisdom. Wisdom of insight. It's got a yi che in there.

Maybe not. Yes, there's a yi che in there. So-so wrong rig.

I think it has... Anything under the consideration of the wisdom of insight in deep meditation? So-so wrong rig.

[Speaker 1]
So-so wrong rig. Yeah, it does not involve perceiving yourself. It just means insight.

I would read wrong rig here as insight. And I don't want you guys thinking it's apperception. It's not the quality of the mind to perceive the mind.

Gyaltsabje seems to favor it as a deep perception into the mind.

[Speaker 2]
Is it so-so together with wrong rig?

[Speaker 1]
Uh... He might be saying, Denpa shiki namba chudu so-so or something. I mean, that's the traditional way.

That would be against his... Yeah, I know, I know. I would say analysis.

Okay. I would say so-so. Analysis.

It's an insight, analytical insight. But it's a direct perception of emptiness for him. He just uses that term himself.

He uses it. You know. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe it will make more sense soon. Mushi musum, correct and incorrect perceptions. So correct and incorrect distributes the perceptions and objects.

Uh... So do you want an example? So, yeah, I mean, let's just...

Whoops, he broke his rope.

[Speaker 1]
He gave me the first one for free.

[Speaker 2]
I think so. I'm not sure about this. I thought maybe we could look at it together.

I think I got these right. See a snake as a rope. Incorrect perception.

Yeah, the opposite, right? See a rope as a snake. Yeah.

But that wouldn't be incorrect perception, correct? Right? It would be incorrect perception of a correct object.

[Speaker 1]
It would be incorrect perception of a correct object. It's really a rope, but you see a snake. Like the object.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
So... No? Yeah, help me out with this.

I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
What do you mean by correct object?

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. Let's see if it makes more sense when I get to it.

[Speaker 2]
The object he's thinking of.

[Speaker 1]
Illusional or something?

[Speaker 2]
Correct object, like it's a rope. I mean, as opposed to something that's not a rope. It's bound to be a rope.

And we can say it's a rope because we're calling it a rope right now. Let's see if it makes sense. Yeah, this is weirder.

See a self-existent rope as a snake.

[Speaker 1]
That's an incorrect object. I mean, it seems to be the way he's going with his discussion here. So I'm trying to understand the way Gelty is going with it.

I think okay.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Incorrect perception. Incorrect object.

You think it's a snake, even though it's a rope, but you think that the snake is coming from you? I think I was thinking along those lines, and then I realized something more simple. See a self-existent rope as a rope.

See a rope as a snake. I must have hissed at people in the past.

[Speaker 1]
I think I wrote that wrong. Not self-existent rope. Hey.

[Speaker 2]
Hey, hey. All right.

[Speaker 1]
I had to use the STW slides one more time because it's so funny. Yay. We're about to contract an STW.

Still, we called them sexy Tibetan words. We had to get real sexy with them.

[Speaker 2]
What? Yeah, but what were we talking about here?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. No. No.

Opposite, opposite. Impaired. Impaired.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Well, it was just the best picture I could find.

Oh, it's supposed to be more red. Yes. Oh, my God.

[Speaker 2]
Good job.

[Speaker 1]
GYI GUB NAS NYID MA ZHAR For $20.

[Speaker 2]
NYID MA ZHAR The sun shines on a dog's ass.

[Speaker 1]
The sun came up from a dog's ass. It's the Tibetan way to say something impossible just happened. Anyway, I can see you're not impressed.

If someone gives such a correct answer without any work at all, it's kind of weird.

[Speaker 2]
I mean, I thought you'd get it. It's crazy.

[Speaker 1]
You're supposed to mistake it for exact same pronunciation.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Different spelling. Catch the past tense-ness, please. It's not tenla-mbapa.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it's without an agent?

[Speaker 1]
There you go. The sun went back in. The sun went back in.

I hope he doesn't get burned.

[Speaker 2]
Anybody? Oh, sorry, I can't see. Do I miss something?

[Speaker 1]
No, you're perfect. You better tell him before the end of the class. I think it's explained.

No. Well, you can say that, but it's more like give an outline of, or establish? It literally means to establish.

It can mean to give a presentation of, that's that.

[Speaker 2]
Can you take the plane, boss?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, I'll take the plane. So my friend Heather's here, and I wanted to impress you. I want to introduce you to people in this room.

And I want you guys to know Heather, and I want you to consider Heather a part of your family. Because it's one more project that we're doing, okay? To help people.

So she's running a cafe that has, for 35 years, has served the elderly, and the mentally unstable. They serve free breakfast to the mentally unstable. And they support all the local animal rescue places.

And they especially serve the elderly and handicapped people in our town. So it's kind of a new project, and she's gonna work on it. But I want you to know the other projects going on in this room, because I don't, you'll never have time to come here again.

Tim is running the religious organization, which has existed for 23, four years. And helps thousands and thousands of people all over the world. They mainly runs the meditation retreats four times a year.

Which happen twice a year in Southeast Arizona. Once a year in Southeast Asia, like Bali or Thailand. And then once a year in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ben Gomi is from Morocco originally, but his family, he grew up in Paris. He's worked for some of the largest banks in the world, Deutsche Bank. And what's the French one?

[Speaker 2]
Khediyune.

[Speaker 1]
Khediyune. And he's a famous economist. And sometimes CNN asks him for help.

And he's translating these English books that we translate into English. He's translating them into French and Arabic. Helping with the Arabic.

Gina is a graphic designer from Guadalajara, Mexico. She lays out all our books for many years now. And she's now working for the Green Stretch Pen organization.

Ben Kramer is a highly talented translator. One of the best in the world, doing difficult things. And he owns a yoga studio in Albuquerque.

Runs an album. Betz Greer works for Microsoft Corporation. And we stole her.

She's now the editor of all the series. It's projected to be 108 books. And she's editing on base.

You know this lady. Jigme's been my personal assistant for 25 years. But Chen Zong teaches dance therapy.

Recently with New York University, can I say? And all over the world. They're both Buddhist nuns.

Word Smith's an expert in the Mind-Only School, which is an exotic and very popular Buddhist school. He's a scholar of Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. And he just got back from China.

They just got back from China, teaching there. Ina is from Ukraine originally. Living in Nyon, France.

Working in Paris. She's a medical doctor. She works for medical research companies.

She's a high fat cat at one of these companies. And her team is translating our books into Russian. Almost finished, I think, with the first book.

500 pages. Finished, not edited. Adam Andrade is from Colorado.

And he's working on the most famous book of Buddhist logic ever written, about 300 years ago. And so he's a great translator and helping. His wife is Katie, who runs our publishing worldwide.

Anatole Nguyen lives in Guadalajara with his wife, Aisha. And he runs Green Stretch Pen, which is an initiative that was approved by the Congress of Mexico for teaching 23 million children good eating habits, daily exercise, and doing good things for other people. And that project is really exciting.

And it looks like they're teaching the teachers in 15,000 elementary schools. And his wife also, for fun, she helps run our Sanskrit preservation. The original books were written in Sanskrit over 1,000 years ago.

She helps find them around the world. Gibson Chen helps run the organization in Taiwan. Number two man there, I think.

Woman? I mean, number one is a woman. And they are probably the most successful organization we have in the world.

Their fundraising capacity is legendary. They raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for these organizations. And they're shooting for the world record of an event in June for 6,000 people.

Vimala Sperber helps run the Kathmandu Sanskrit preservation, what do you call it? Center, which finds rare books. Buddhism was wiped out by invaders 1,200 years ago.

All those books are missing. She helps find them. Her partner, Jeff Bowman, for many years ran the world's largest organization for preserving ancient Asian literature in scans.

And they supply us the scans. And then we have input centers around the world that type them in for 32 years. And so we recently stole him.

And he's doing great work for us. So Gang Xi is from Indonesia and Singapore. And he's one of the people who runs the Singapore operation.

He's a great translator. He runs various businesses for us. And he and his wife have a large group of students in Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim country in the world.

The biggest Muslim population in the world. But they are crazy about DCI there and the local Chinese people also. Stanley Chen and his partner, Alison Zhou, come from Shenzhen, China, which is one of the up and rising cities, 20 million people in South China.

And they specialize in a special program to help high executives who own large businesses like skyscrapers to learn their own culture and represent it around the world. And that's partly in conjunction. I mean, we worked on the idea with the New World Bank of China.

So that was a big deal. And they're doing a great job with that. They're also translating.

Each one is translating an ancient book. So Gung is translating an ancient book on, yeah, how do you call it? How you get into suffering.

Stanley's translating an ancient book from 2000 years ago, which is probably the mother book of ancient Buddhism. She's translating the book on ethics. Then, Andriana Karabatsios has helped in Greece with our DCI efforts there.

She's from, her family's from Greece originally. And she works with Adam's wife, has worked with Adam's wife. And now she has come to Flagstaff, and we stole her for you.

And she helps a lot to organize the spiritual retreats, the meditation retreats. And Dennis Moore has been with us for a long time, helping at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center with all kinds of stuff because he's a good landscaper and designer of beautiful spaces. And now he's working in Flagstaff, right?

And he just finished a three-month retreat? Yeah, and the big thing is he didn't go crazy. He didn't require any mental assistance.

Jenny Wong runs the Singapore operation, which has been instrumental in creating companies in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and China. Huge fundraising for all of our charities. And extraordinary organizer.

Huge, huge audiences of thousands of, 2,000 people, say, in many countries. And she's helped us start all of those organizations. And the one in Vietnam that she helped start is now had 8,000 students this year.

And they just built 400 houses for poor people. And they're awesome. And she started that group.

Vivian Wong is the person who invited me to China the first time. She's from Guangzhou, which is the largest city in the world, 30 million people. And she's created those two kids, and along with other kids.

And I find them one of the most successful organizations we have in the world. Christina Kasica helps run the Asian Classics Input Project. It's a 32-year effort to save the ancient books of Asia.

And recently, she got a million-dollar grant to save 300,000 books in Mongolia, ancient books. Which is a political breakthrough, because the Mongolian government is quite difficult. And she pulled it off.

And she pulled off the funding without me, which is, God bless you. I kiss your feet. And Nick is in charge of the translation program here.

And he's the father of Mooncake. And this is the Autumn Harvest Moon Festival of China two days ago, called the Mooncake Festival. So we were hoping the kid would be born.

His child is being born this week, probably. But he runs the Input Project, which is 32 years old, to save the ancient books. And it has many employees around the world inputting ancient books.

And he runs, he helps run that. He runs the database, and he runs all the translators. And John Foley, I already introduced, owns a large training company.

We do small events. What we make in a week, he makes every night. And he teaches like Coca-Cola and IBM, and thousands and thousands of people.

And then, I don't know, he fell on his head one time and decided to help us. And he just wrote a best-selling book, which I just saw in the airport, about how he learned in the Blue Angels about perfection, striving for perfection. So normally, two airliners have to be a mile apart legally.

And in the military, you fly within 50 feet. No, regular military, not closer than 10 feet. And they do their things at 18 inches, okay?

If they touch, they both die. All right. Real success, beyond high performances.

That's what it's all about. Anyway, it's an impressive group, and now you are a part of it, okay. And...

And I think it's cool to have a cafe where you could do a Tse-Chu. And it... It's not open in the evening, so we were thinking that if you guys wanted to have special dinners, or, you know, it's your anniversary, or something special, your birthday, then talk to her.

I'm thinking, like, we could do Tse-Chu's there, and stuff like that. We could wreck the place, and nobody cares. So...

Not just kidding, okay. But she's up for that. That's what she wants.

She wants to serve us and help us to have our own little special place where we can do cool eating events, which is my main interest. Okay, all right. Talk to her.

She's talking about a second branch, but I think we got to open the first one first. Okay. But she's talking about it.

Okay, all right. But it's only a 20-minute drive, come on. And it's a beautiful place.

It's a really beautiful place. And it's a beautiful joint. So anyway, if you have an idea for an event, talk to her.

It won't be open until next term, okay, but... But in the meantime. Okay, here we go.

Nick.

[Speaker 2]
I think you got to take the plane, Bob.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, sorry. I'm sorry to take your time. To do my advertisement.

Okay, here we go. Go, read. Okay, now his text is the most difficult one by far.

It was written 2,000 years. Do you want to introduce your text?

[Speaker 2]
It's a commentary on a book called 60 Verses on Reasoning by a very famous Buddhist master named Nagarjuna. And he was, he's known as the founder of the middle way. So if you come to a few of these, you'll get to know some of these terms.

But he's a really, really deep thinker and a tricky philosopher and kind of shows people their own wrong way of looking at the world. And he wrote a book that's trying to show the, there's various philosophical schools within Buddhism.

[Speaker 1]
And he wrote this 60 Verses specifically to show the lower schools of Buddhism that they, using their own scriptures, that they already accept the beliefs held by the higher schools. Does that make sense?

[Speaker 2]
And then the book that we're translating is a commentary on those 60 Verses by another great master from much more recently from in the 1300s named Gyaltsen.

[Speaker 1]
He is also tricky in different ways. And the book's very difficult.

[Speaker 2]
The subject matter is difficult and he's just kind of a tricky writer. So we're just looking at a lot of philosophical proofs trying to prove the emptiness, the deepest version of emptiness. Cool.

Tricky, what do you mean? I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's fair enough. As a writer, why is it tricky? So when I said tricky about Nagarjuna, I mean, he uses, he's funny because he uses little tricks of how you already think about the world to show you that you're thinking about it wrong.

[Speaker 2]
And then Gyaltsen, he's just really tricky as a writer because he jumps topics very quickly and unexpectedly.

[Speaker 1]
He doesn't explain stuff. He makes big, he makes profound jokes and he doesn't explain them. And he thinks you're supposed to understand them.

And we're like, date them. He leaves us hanging. Oh, Nagarjuna was around 200 AD.

18th centuries ago. One of the oldest Buddhist writers.

[Speaker 2]
And Gyaltsen, he's in the 1300s, 1300s, 1400s. Yep, okay.

[Speaker 1]
So the additional difficulty of this translation team is that we're translating books that are thousands of years old. I like to quote Chaucer, which I only know one part, which I do all the time. One thought, Aprilia, with his shortest thought of the drogta of March at Pierce, et cetera, et cetera, and va, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, which we are doing, gender is the floor.

That's English. And you don't understand a single word. And languages evolve.

So to translate something that's 2000 years old, Chaucer's only 500 years old? 600 years old. But this stuff is four or five times older.

And so, it's really, really, these guys are special. They don't know. Okay, here we go.

By the way, we have a section here where he was talking about the four ways of misperceiving stuff as clean, pure, clean, happy, lasting, and having a self. And then he talked about the four aspects of the truth of suffering. And it bothered me that we equated them.

And I wanted to point out that they don't exactly equate. And I think it's too different. They happen to have come close to each other, but I don't think you should try to consider the first four aspects of the 16 aspects to be the famous four wrong ways of looking at things.

Ass-backwards views. 180 degree, what do you call it? What do you call it in directional theory?

Commander-fully, mm-mm. No, completely...

[Speaker 2]
Diametrically opposed.

[Speaker 1]
Diametrically opposed. Yeah, it's not that, okay? It's not quite that, okay?

[Speaker 2]
I didn't have a chance to check what came before and the other, but no.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I'm just saying... Usually the diametric opposite is presented as TZANG and MI TZANG, DE BA, SDUG BSNGAL, LTA PA, MI LTA PA, BDAG, BDAG GIS MTHONG BA And this is not that. So, I just wanted to make sure you didn't try to draw a parallelism.

Khanda... We read this, right? Khanda dey dak kun dzok tu yul me tsunpa dupa ni So, some people say...

that if something is lying to you, if something in your reality is lying to you, it doesn't matter if it exists or not.

[Speaker 2]
Some people say that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, some people say that. It doesn't really matter, you know? If you think you see purple elephants, you know, if you have such a delusion...

If you're already talking delusion, then it doesn't matter if the thing is there or not. You're already deluded. They want to equate it, okay?

And he says, look, I'm not talking about normal delusion. I'm not talking about the world lying to you. There's two ways the world can lie to you.

Number one, you are sick. You have a serious... you know, they call jaundice, right?

What do they call it in English? There's another word. Hmm?

Yellow fever? You see everything as yellow. I had it in India.

Hepatitis B or something. Anyway, so anyway, the point is, there's a kind of delusion like a person has jaundice, so they see white things as yellow because the white fluid has spread through their eyeball, okay? Or they're under extreme jealousy and they see things with their partner that are not there, okay?

Or, what's the one with movement?

[Speaker 2]
When you're on a train?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like you're at a stoplight and... the person next to you backs up and you slam on the brakes because you think you're sliding into the intersection. So, those are called the...

deceptive situations. In the ancient scriptures, it looks like the trees on the shore are moving as you row past. And these are all perceptual errors, okay?

Errors of perception. What's the most classic one? A rope...

in the twilight is misunderstood to be a rattlesnake. Okay, so... those are wrong relative to another person's perception.

Okay, the person who's... who put the rope here this afternoon and is not fooled by it, or the person who doesn't have jaundice, or the person who's in a car across the intersection who can see that two people are backing up and you're not going forward, you see what I mean? So, in a way, those deceptions are...

defined by the correct perceptions of other people. Other people, you see what I mean? They're relatively correct, okay?

And he says, that's not... this is not... RANG LUGS LA SKAD LEN PA'I KUN RDZOGS KYI BSKYED PAR MA BYAS TE You have failed to distinguish BYAS PA, these other kinds of deception from the deception that we are talking about.

We're talking about every human being, and every bug, and every bird, and every dog is wrong about what they see. Because they feel that it... is coming from this way.

And that... they can't... get it as a gut feeling, visceral feeling, that it's coming from what they did last week to people.

And they might occasionally say, oh, I think that's my karma, you know, I yelled at my mom for ten years, and so my daughter's yelling at me. That's just one event out of thousands. We're talking about...

the inherent feeling, the gut feeling that people have, that what's happening to me is not coming from... a hundred percent from what I did last week, or what I've done to other people. So, got it?

So, we're talking about a mass delusion. And we're not talking about a situational delusion, that's the meaning of this sentence. We're talking about a mass delusion.

We're talking about a delusion which is as big as humankind, and all living kind. Amoebas have it. Okay, got it?

So, GZHAN LA... GZHAN LOS KHO NAR KHYAD LAM DGOS PA'I KUN TZAM Which is... deceptive, relative only to other people.

That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about... a mass delusion of the whole planet.

Okay? And due to that, people compete. Instead of helping each other, they try to outdo each other, because they think that's how to get ahead.

Okay, got it? CHUNG LOS KHO NAR YOD PA'I KUN TZAM TU YOD PAS We're not talking about... you are only mistaken.

Don't think that I'm only talking about deceptive with reference to a temporarily deceived mind, you know, where you're very jealous, or you just had a drink of alcohol, or you just took a drug. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a mass delusion, okay?

Got it? So, if you say... to exist is the same as not to exist, and that's the meaning of fake reality, that's not what we'd mean, okay?

We mean... fake means it looks like it's not coming from you, but it's coming from me. It doesn't mean it's not real.

It doesn't mean it's not real, okay? If a car hits you and breaks your leg, it's fake reality in Buddhism, because you think it was caused by... the other driver, okay?

And you don't realize you caused it. Got it? So, don't think I'm saying...

when I say fake, don't think I'm saying... it's not real. Your leg is broken.

You do have to go to the hospital. The proof is you have to pay the bill. But it's fake in the sense that it's not what it appears to be.

It's not the fault of the other driver. Okay, that's all. Okay, let's keep going.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
,DE LTAR YIN PA YANG ROL PA'I LTA BA DRAG SONG SONG NI, ,RDZIN PA TZAM ZHIG ROL PA YIN NO, ,ZHES PA DANG, Okay, ZHES PA indicates...

[Speaker 1]
a direct quotation. He didn't say, you know... he talked like that...

ZHES PA is a quotation mark. However, you know, I spend like an hour, which is what I do at home. Heather, when you're working, I'm trying to find these goddamn quotations and they're not there, okay?

In a million pages and with a database that we've created and with the search tools, it's not there. So, what was the strategy we suggested this morning?

[Speaker 2]
You put the works by Walker together and the works specifically that Joseph J. has quoted so far.

[Speaker 1]
Take all the books that we have that this guy ever wrote. How long ago?

[Speaker 2]
600 years?

[Speaker 1]
Chandrakirti.

[Speaker 2]
1,700 years ago?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Call it 1,400, 1,500, 1,400 years ago. Take all the books he ever wrote, put them in one search field and then search for that kind of conversation.

Because whatever this quotation is, it's not a... quotation, okay? And he's cheating us, he's...

Okay, and by the way... when you get more experience as a translator, you will be able to smell a quotation that's not a quotation. Because, for example, he uses Tsong Tsong which is a Tibetan idiom.

You go and go. Yeah, it's not like it's something in Sanskrit. This is like, you know, like...

you do your... you kick your... you kick your butt, you know?

And you already know it's not a direct quotation because the ancient authors would have used... kick your... kick your honourable...

kick your honourable butt or something. They would say something weird. So, what I'm saying is...

when it looks... when he claims it's a direct quotation, but you see a Tibetan idiom in it, be suspicious. And then to go find it, it's going to be almost impossible.

This is the most difficult... textual research you can do, to try to find the original quotation which has been put into colloquial Tibetan, you know? No matter what you do, you do not find out what's going on.

And then go try to find that in a text, Sanskrit text, okay? But one of the tools... will go take all the author's books.

Now, that itself is going to take too long. You see? You got to decide how many hours you're going to spend on one sentence.

And I have spent days on one sentence, but... but you got to... think, how many years I have left in my life?

How many weeks do I have left... you know, before I have to go on tour? How much time do I have?

Will Mr. Wu be satisfied with two pages for his half million dollars? So, sometimes there's a practical decisions you have to make. Like, I got to go on, you know?

But you learn as quickly as possible to exhaust all the possibilities. Okay, got it? So, in this case I put all the...

books he ever wrote, but because I didn't want to go looking through all the books he ever wrote, I went and got all the books he ever wrote that... were already mentioned in this particular book. So, that's a high likelihood that it's going to be in there.

So, start there. If you have to, you can add all the other books he wrote later, like... the commentary to The Wheel of Life, right?

But since that hasn't been mentioned in his book yet, let's leave it out for now. And then I did create such a search field and I found it, okay? So, here we go.

DE LTAR YIN PAR YANG The fact that this is the case... is reflected in what Master Da... Chandrakirti said.

When he said... you can go deeper, you can go on and on into it, into a thing. You can go on and on into a question.

SONGS SONGS which is a Tibetan idiom. And all you're going to be left with at the end, LUS PA, not LU, okay? LUS PA All you're going to be left with at the end is GYUMMA.

An illusion, okay? A GYUMMA, magic trick. Okay?

Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, okay? That's, you know... dig, dig into an object and you won't find anything real.

What's it mean? Okay, let's say something happened. What is that?

I keep going back to the health inspector, okay? So, suppose the health inspector is not happy. Which he's okay, he is kind of happy.

And you feel like, well, what's this guy's problem? You know, like you start... you go home, you can't sleep, you're wondering why this guy is being mean to me, why he's being so strict, which he's not been, okay?

But... let's say THA PA LTAR GSUM GYI RIGS PA For the sake of argument. In the theoretical possibility.

Let's say there was a health inspector who's really mean to you, but if you dig, dig, dig, dig into it, what do you find? You were unkind to your employee last week, okay? And it's an illusion that he's being mean to you, got it?

Who said that? Yeah, Chandrakirti. Dig deeper and all you will ever find left is an illusion.

It looks like the health inspector is picking on you, but what's the reality? You yelled at your employee last week, okay? Got it?

Yeah, but the health inspector's accusations were much more serious than the little yelling I gave my employee. What's the answer to that? Karma expands 100% every 24 hours.

Okay, so a small sarcasm to an employee could result in a health inspector closing down your place, okay? Then that gets scary. That means we have to be nice to everybody all the time, which is almost...

Yeah, that's unreasonable. Okay, then I went and found it... a similar discussion, which I assume is the one he's talking about.

Yeah, and duh, I didn't realize. He wrote a commentary to this book and it's in there, okay? Why is this so long when he just had a single line?

Yeah, I was trying to catch a page number for the footnote, okay? That means you should go to the beginning and only the beginning, okay? So, here it is.

He's talking about gyumas, illusions. He's talking about mirages, and... it looks as if it's coming from its own side, blah blah blah, okay?

So, you can just reference in here and say, this is in a... this is a paraphrase of a discussion that he's having. And by the way, it's in commentary to the same lines.

It's in his commentary to the same lines, which I should have thought to look at first.

[Speaker 2]
Right, you're right.

[Speaker 1]
Now we know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, now we know. He's still on the same lines.

Chandrakirti is on the same lines. So, I should have looked there first, but I was tired and I... I looked in all his books.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Is it here somewhere? Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Non, don't dump it on me. Okay, yeah. And you're going to find that...

Tsongkapa especially, is just paraphrasing people a lot. His gompa rabsel is a big paraphrase of Chandrakirti's auto commentary.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Don't know. Ask our Sanskrit experts. We have three of them in the room.

There are three of them. That'd be very interesting to find. Here's the...

Here's the Sanskrit title note right here. I have it for you.

[Speaker 2]
I have it... Chandrakirti's commentary.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. He worked really hard on the root text, and we finally ended up with this Chinese scholar's great text. Great...

as many verses as exist, he found them. But now here, here's the Tibetanized Sanskrit title right here. Okay, see, this is what you guys are looking for.

Yukti, Shastika, Vṛtti. Which is why they put a B instead of a V. Tibetans don't have a V, so they use a B.

Bajra, from Bajra, okay. Okay, got it? So, you're looking for...

Yukti, Shastika, Vṛtti. Got it? Shastika means sixty?

Yeah, Yukti... Verses? Okay.

And then Vṛtti means commentary. Okay. Alright, keep going.

GZHAG ZHIG TU. And... GZHAG ZHIG TU, GZHAG ZHAG ZHIG TU, YIN NO XIE SUNG PEI.

[Speaker 2]
DA TZAM DAP PA TZAM GYI KUN TSOK NI GANG TU YANG, MA GAK CHING KHEI LANG PEI CHIU. TZAM DE DAP DAP TANG NGO PO RANG TSEN PA SOG NI. TA WEI GO BO, TA WEI...

[Speaker 1]
We don't know. MA GO WEI... I think it's MA KO.

Yeah. MA KO WEI. GANG ZHAG GZHAG ZHIG ZHUNG PEI TAB ZHU ZHEN GO.

[Speaker 2]
KHO NAR KHEI LANG PA MA TOG NAM PA KUN TU GAG PEI CHIU.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so we have the Vṛtti. We'll also be showing the same scholar with the transcription and the...

[Speaker 1]
Oh, he did the Vṛtti also.

[Speaker 2]
And we already have the input. Let's check and make sure...

[Speaker 1]
Can you send it to him?

[Speaker 2]
There's two... I have it. But if you could send it to me, I'll give you...

Two, you can show two. Anyway, we'll talk about it later.

[Speaker 1]
Sounds good. Send it to him in here. I'd like a copy also.

[Speaker 2]
Alright, I'll give you the one, I'll give you...

[Speaker 1]
Both because of... Yeah. Our input...

GAG ZHIG TU... We have some time?

[Speaker 2]
We're out of time. I mean, I could go, but we're out of time.

[Speaker 1]
Let's stop there, because I don't know what it means anyway. Okay. By the way, I won't admit it, okay?

It's hard. I'll stop here. By the way, it gets more and more clear.

There's hope for his book. I think we're past the hard part. The minute I say that, something bad comes...

Except for this paragraph. Well, this paragraph is... Let's take the pieces of it, because we kind of cheated him out of some time when I was introducing Heather, so...

Do you guys mind? A few minutes. GAG ZHIG TU In some places, okay?

In some places. And I think he's talking about in some books. RGYA MTSAMS SHIG LUS YIN NO What's left at the end of the process, right?

Because Chandrakirti talked about going on, on, on, until the only thing left is an illusion. Some people say, there is something left when you dig, dig, dig into an object, and you will find a word. Okay?

You will find a word. He says you don't find an illusion, you find a word. Okay?

LUS YIN NO SUM PAS BDAG TZAM BDAG PA Just naming things with terms, just applying labels to things, is KUN TZAM. That's what we mean by fake reality. It's like politicians call a failure a success or something.

Okay? And if you dig, dig, dig, the only thing left is the word success. There's nothing successful about the thing at all.

Okay? What do you call it? Put a spin on the...

In English we call it putting a spin on it. You have a failure and you, you make it fancy with good words. But when you strip away all the reality, there's just left is their, their word, which is wrong.

Okay? BDAG PA TZAM It's nothing more than just names. That's what fake means.

KHAN TU YANG MA RKAG They have not refuted anything. Okay? And they accept it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
We don't know yet. I'm not quite sure yet. Okay?

Then he goes on to TZAM DE BDAG BDAG Yeah. Yeah, the four ways that we all mistake the world. That it's pure, it's somehow, it's bright and shining, it's happiness, it's gonna last, and it's coming from its own side.

Okay? DANG DNGOS PO RANG TSAN PA Things that exist from their own side? It's almost that...

things that work of their own accord. Okay? Fire burns because that's the nature of fire.

What would a Buddhist say? High Buddhist. If you had not hurt others in the past, you could put your hand in the fire and nothing would happen.

Okay? It's not the nature of fire to burn. That's coming from you.

Okay? That's coming from hurting people in the past. Okay?

Okay? So, DNGOS PO RANG TSAN PA means like... the beliefs that functioning things are.

DUN DAM LDAN PA, we had it in your text. That's ultimate. The quality to burn is part of fire and could never be divorced from it.

Okay? Yeah. I'm gonna give you pieces and let's try to get it together later.

LTA BA'I MA KHO BA On the level of viewpoint, worldview, they are misunderstanding, but you need to check the karmic. Okay. GANG ZAG RGA' ZHIG ZHUGS PA'I THABS SU I don't know.

Some people... Some people... as a method of staying, entering.

GZHAN NGO KHO NAR KHYAD LA MA MA STO Deception has to be defined with regard to differing opinions of the same object, like a snake and a rope. Okay? MA STO RNAM PA KUN DU SKABS PA'I PHYIR It is completely denied.

How that ties together, I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
But I'll tell you the next piece. Sometimes when you can't get a piece, you go to the next piece. Okay?

Yeah, good. RANG LUGS LA KUN TZOB TZANG YOD KYANG KUN TZOB BSTAN PA MED DOG ZHES NA Somebody comes up and says in the RANG LUGS, in our own system, uh... you can say there's deception, but you cannot talk about deceptive reality.

Okay? You can say the world is lying to you, but don't say reality is lying to you, because then it wouldn't be reality. Okay?

Then the next guy who comes says, don't call it deceptive truth. Don't call it deceptive reality, because if it's lying to you, it's not real on any level. It's not real on any level.

But that means there's no husband in the kitchen. Not that the husband who doesn't come from you is not real. Okay?

Got it? Alright. So, I'm going to stop before that because we don't know what the last sentence means.

Okay. For Heather Singh, what are you singing before, and what are you singing after, and why do you do that? And what's this thing?

[Speaker 2]
This thing represents a perfect world.

[Speaker 1]
So, there's ever-giving teachings, and the idea is that the information that's contained in these books and in the teachings can save the world, change the world and make the world into a beautiful and perfect place.

[Speaker 2]
So, there's no price for that, so we can't pay for it, really.

[Speaker 1]
So, the only thing we can do is offer the highest thing that we could possibly imagine, which is a perfected universe where everybody's totally happy. And this represents that, and there's certain cosmological meanings to each part of the gesture, like a central mountain, and the continents that surround that mountain.

[Speaker 2]
It's all from the book that Stanley's reading, and the result of his quiz now.

[Speaker 1]
And then that's the first part, and then the second part of the prayer at the beginning of the class is making a commitment that we're doing all of this so that we can perfect ourselves, and then also so that we can perfect ourselves because that's the best way that we'll be available to help others. And then at the very end, we're taking all the good karma that we gathered together from doing this work together and offering it to a higher goal, which would be that, to become a perfected type of person who can help all other people. To put it briefly, the price of the class is to commit yourself to helping this world be without pain.

That's the price of a class. That's it. Then there's a whole other equal class that's going on downstairs, but this is just one, so you won't be able to see the other one today.

Maybe you guys can peek in on it. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Or they might be televised over here, I don't know. Folks? I want her to understand why I run away sometimes.