Адам Андраде — Книга 2: Логика. Рассеивая тьму, занятие 1

[Speaker 2]
Neyatayamye Sangye Churang Tsogki Choknamla Jangju Bardur Dagni Khyap Suchi Dagni Chunyeng Gyipe Suwannam Kyi Drola Pinche Sangye Chukpar Sho Sangye Churang Tsogki Choknamla Jangju Bardur Dagni Khyap Suchi Dagni Chunyeng Gyipe Suwannam Kyi Drola Pinche Sangye Chukpar Sho Sangye Churang Tsogki Choknamla Jangju Bardur Dagni Khyap Suchi Dagni Chunyeng Gyipe Suwannam Kyi Drola Pinche Sangye Chukpar Sho

[Speaker 3]
Yay, Adam.

[Speaker 1]
I love your screen. Oh my God, you look like Barbarella, okay? I know you don't know what Barbarella is, but I don't care.

Okay, I got a treat for you guys.

[Speaker 2]
Movie time.

[Speaker 1]
It's a video. If I can find it, let's see.

[Speaker 2]
You just emailed it to me.

[Speaker 1]
I know, but...

[Speaker 2]
You can click that link and show it.

[Speaker 1]
I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Let's see here.

This is hard for Grandpa. Agong. Don't agong me.

Okay, here we go. Okay. Now, I can do this.

I can do this. Did it work?

[Speaker 2]
It's starting to. Can you see?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. I'm going to play you guys a video, Adam. You guys ready?

Yeah. Okay, here it goes. Tell me if you can hear it or not.

I hope you can hear it. I don't know. Probably you can hear it.

I'll turn up my sound. Okay, here we go. Okay, hi.

This is a little video about how to do some automated formatting of a text that you just got from our input centers. So there's some work you can do automated before you start to work on a text, which will save you time, a lot of time, later on. For example, we're going to start with, you see these blank lines between, that looks like paragraphs.

These are artificial blank lines. They make the data more usable because if you just give somebody a page of letters with no space, no white space, it's overwhelming. And also, it retains the original line numbers of the original carving.

So sometimes that's important to know what line number you have to look for when you have a question in the text. But now for our purposes, when we start translating a text, we'd like to remove these blank spaces and start to try to put the book into paragraphs. And there are some automated ways to do that.

So we're going to start by replacing all these blank lines. And the way you replace blank lines is that you have to search for them and replace them. The way you search for a blank line in Word, in the Microsoft Word program, you hit Command-F for search, and you see a search box has come up in my upper right-hand corner.

And then there are special codes that are used in Word for looking for commands, for searching for commands. And to search for the return, to search for a return in a document, you type caret, which is the symbol over this number six, and then you type a small P, not capital. Don't type capital P.

It will freak out. The program will freak out. So now these white spaces that you see in our text are actually double returns.

So I'm going to search for double returns, which is caret P, caret P, and I would like to replace it with a single space to close up all these blank spaces. So you can take, right next to the magnifying glass, up in this upper right-hand box in your screen, the search screen, there's a little down arrow, right next to it, a little tiny down arrow next to the magnifying glass. And you click on that, and it gives you the choice of replace.

So you type replace, hit replace, and a pane will come up on the left side of your document, and it's called find and replace. And you see there are caret P, caret P is what we're searching for. And we want to replace it simply with a single space, okay?

We want to replace it with a single space. And unfortunately, when you type a single space into the replacement box, it won't show up as anything. Just the cursor will move a little bit to the right.

Now I'm going to do it. One, two, three, there, okay? I'll show you again.

I'll delete that space, and I'll hit the space bar again. And now what you have is find and replace in this pane to the left of the document. There's a double caret P, caret P, which means search for double returns.

And then I've typed in an empty space. And be careful with your empty spaces. If you type in two or three, you can't really tell the difference.

So you might want to delete, delete back to the beginning in that second search box and type just a single space bar. This is going to replace all the double returns, all the empty white spaces with a single space, okay? So here we go.

Let's try and see what happens. Replace all. And you just saved yourself 2,668, you know, erases in this text.

And you say, okay. And you look at what you have now. You've pretty much got the whole text.

And now you've got it with a lot of single hard returns that are, you know, it would be nice to get rid of those, right? So go to that pane to the left. Click on the caret P, caret P.

Go to the right side of it with the right arrow and erase one of the caret P's. Again, be very careful that you don't have a capital P because it will freak out the program. Now, we'd like to replace every single return in this document with a single space.

And there's already a single space in the replace box. So don't mess with the second box there, the replace box. Now, you can see here the word matches in the middle of the screen on the left.

It says there are 9,143 single returns in this whole document. And we want to replace all of them, okay? We hit replace all.

We get the magic color circle because it's a big job. And there you go. Now you've saved yourself about 12,000.

You know, you've saved yourself about 12,000 typings on this text. Now there's some more stuff that we'd like to do, okay? There's some more stuff that we'd like to do.

And to save ourselves time. And I'll give you one of them, okay? Now, the end of a paragraph in the Tibetan language is indicated with the letter O, comma, space, comma.

You can see it here in the second line right next to the 001B page number here. To the left of the 001B in the second line, you see shugso. And the so has a, you know, SO, comma, space, comma, okay?

So we're going to replace that with a paragraph break, which is actually we're putting back in an empty line in the text on purpose, okay? We're putting back in an empty line in the text on purpose. And the Mixed Nuts standard is that after a final O, when it completes a paragraph, we just have two commas next to each other.

We don't have a space between the commas. So we're going to go to the Find and Replace pane at the left. We're going to take out the caret P, and we're going to replace it with capital O.

And don't confuse it with a zero. Capital O, comma, space, comma. And that actually marks all the places in this text where Keter Jay, the author, has done a, you know, he's indicated to us that, you know, about 95% of the time, this is the end of a paragraph.

So we can save ourselves a huge amount of work in this large text, 250 pages already, before we started translating. We can save ourselves a lot of work. Let's replace those paragraph enders, capital O, comma, space, comma.

And we're going to replace it with capital O, double comma, which is how we end a paragraph. And then we've got to put in two empty lines, two blank lines, which is done, we had it above, caret P, caret P. Now, right now, your computer is in caps lock.

If you look down on the keyboard, you'll see caps lock has the green line on it. And you have to take, you have to be very careful to take it out of caps lock. You don't want it in caps.

If you do that, it freaks out. So take off the caps lock and type caret, lowercase P, caret, lowercase P. That's going to hopefully give us a blank space, a blank line after each paragraph ends.

It saves you a tremendous amount of time. Okay, so let's replace all. Here we go.

By the way, we are saving 1,700 keystrokes. So, so far, we're saving about 6,000 keystrokes. And that's how you can be more productive.

Okay, replace all. And there we go. K-Dub J's original paragraphs have been changed to, have been, are now reflected in our text.

Okay. There's some more cleanup we can do. Let's see.

Let's do this. Poetry in Tibetan, lines of poetry, and lines of quoted poetry from other texts are divided by a comma space comma. Okay, so there's always a shape, a vertical line at the beginning of a line of poetry and at the end of a line of poetry.

So why, you know, those lines of poetry, we know they're going to have to be, you know, divided in our system, in Mixed Nut's system. We show lines of poetry in separate lines. So why don't we go through every case where there's, well, yeah, comma space comma.

And why don't we replace it with a comma return comma, okay? And that will split out all the cases of poetry, okay? Now, there's some exceptions.

After a ka letter, we don't, we're not supposed to use a comma, a she. And so we won't catch all the lines, but we'll catch like 90% of them. We're still going to save a tremendous amount of time.

So we go to the find and replace panel at the left. We are looking for she space she, comma space comma. And we want to replace all those with a comma and a carriage return, which is caret, lowercase p, and comma, okay?

P and comma, yeah. Okay, here we go. Let's split out all the lines of poetry.

Save you 700 keystrokes, okay? Let's replace all those. And here we go, replace.

Oops. Let's try again. Look for all the comma space commas and replace with this.

Let's go again. Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 3]
So now all the places where there's a comma space comma have been changed. And hopefully most of them are poetry, and they happen to be. I can see it right now, okay?

Now, let's see if there's anything else we can do to make our life easier.

[Speaker 1]
I'm just looking around. There will be some cases where a boong she, that means the final she in a woodblock carving. On one page of woodblock carving, it's a tradition to make the vertical line into a broken vertical line, which our input operators use a semicolon.

And we're going to replace all those with a comma. Now, that will save us 429 keystrokes. So, so far, I don't know, but it is a couple thousand keystrokes we've saved ourselves by pre-working on the text.

Okay, so replace all those. And we've just fixed all the semicolons and replaced them with shes. Now, there's something else I would do.

I'm going to turn off this search panel on the left.

[Speaker 3]
And if you look at the text right now, there's still some work we need to do. And by the way, text always...

[Speaker 1]
I'm sorry, my internet really sucks in Rimrock, okay? Start with poetry. And you can see here that we've pre-done all the poetry.

We don't have to, you know, keep...

[Speaker 3]
We've saved ourselves thousands of strokes, okay? Now, there's some more work we can do.

[Speaker 1]
In the MixedNets standard, we have full justification. We justify the left margin. And the right margin is also supposed to be straight.

So, let's justify the whole text. We'll hit Command-A to block out the entire text. And then we'll go up here to the...

Just above the number three in the ruler at the top of the white screen. And you'll see the full justification box. You'll see the word justified come on.

And click on that. And we've just justified the whole text for ourselves, okay? We saved ourselves a lot of work.

And now we have a text which is fully justified, okay? Me, if it's me, I keep hitting Command-S constantly, okay? All during my session, I keep saving constantly.

Command-S with my left hand is just a standard thing that I keep doing all the time. So, I don't lose the work that I've been doing.

[Speaker 3]
And you should get into that habit.

[Speaker 1]
Let's see what else we can do here. There's a little bit of time saving you can do with the page numbers, okay? It's not ideal.

You could do more if you knew the coding language. But I can save myself a little time by replacing these page numbers, okay? So, when we have a page number in the blocks, we indicate...

I'm going to put it at the top left of the screen here, the white screen. We use an ampersand, an at sign, to indicate a new page. Now, in a translation, we like to call it...

If it's a page or a folio, in this case, it's a folio because we have one B, one A. It means this input was done from a carving. And by the way, carving...

Input done from a carving is vastly more desirable. It always has less mistakes than the humans typing in Tibet or wherever. So, there's a little bit of time saving you can do here.

We like to put the page number or the folio number in square brackets. And so, you can save yourself a little bit of time. I'm going to search and replace again.

I make sure I'm at the top of the document. I click near the top of the document. And I go to...

I hit Command-F, which is to search. And I'm going to search for all of the ampersands that are in this text so far, okay? Now, remember, when you want to...

When you want to replace something in Word, you have to hit the little down arrow next to the left side of this box. Now, you can't see it. That's a bug in Word.

But to the left of the ampersand, which is blinking in the search box up in the upper right, there's supposed to be a down arrow. I'm going to click in that spot. And you can see, okay?

Then I'm going to say Replace. And over here in the pane to the right of the document, it says Find and Replace. And it's saying, what do you want to replace the ampersand with?

And then in response, I say, give me a left-hand square bracket, give me a small F for folio, and then a space... Sorry, a period and a space, okay? So then some of my work for my folio numbers is done.

That's going to save me 400 keystrokes, okay? And then I say Replace, replacing the whole document, okay? And...

Oops, sorry, Replace All. You have to hit Replace All. And there we go.

I just saved myself almost 400 keystrokes. And now all of my, you know, all of these page numbers are set up. Now, there's one more thing you can do, okay?

And I'm going to show it to you, if I can find one. After the page numbers...

[Speaker 3]
Let's see here. Okay, here's a page number.

[Speaker 1]
You know, right below my picture of my face, you should see folio 002A. By the way, there's no reason to put the 00 before the 2. We have to take it out later.

Let's do it now, in fact. It's just something the type is starting to do. I don't know why.

And actually, we can automate it. Well, I'll tell you what. It's too much risk that you might do something wrong.

Let's leave it. Now, after the page number, there's on the front sign, on the A sign of a folio, it's a tradition to put some special ornamentations, which in our input coding is an asterisk, a comma, a space, and a comma, which we already changed to asterisk, comma, hard return, and a comma. We could remove all those, okay?

Those are not necessary. We don't keep them, all right? So, I'll show you.

This is a little trickier, but let's do it together, okay? I'm going to look for, search for a capital A, followed by a space, followed by a comma. I'm sorry.

I'm going to look for a capital A, followed by a space, followed by an asterisk, okay? And it's near my picture. You can see I've hit this one, this example.

And then I'm going to hit the comma, and then I'm going to hit the hard return, which is a caret P, and I'm going to hit the next comma, okay? I'm going to show you here. It showed up here now in the first line.

And this whole thing I'm looking for, I'm going to replace with a smaller case A, which is our standard for the front of the page, and a square bracket to close it, and then a space, okay? And that's going to save me 200 keystrokes. Here we go.

Let's replace all of them. Oh, my money, baby. Okay.

Let's see how it turned out. I hope it turned out okay. Yeah, there we go.

It was supposed to make a small a, but I didn't have it set the right way. I didn't have the search and replace set on that it should notice caps and lower caps. Let's do that.

You go to the find and replace pane. You go to this little wheel under the first search box. You go touch the little down arrow, and you take off ignore case, okay, which means now it will search for lower case or upper case as I request.

And I'm going to take now all the uppercase A's with a right bracket, okay, and it jumps to my spot, actually. And I want to replace it with a lower case A and a right bracket. This is going to save me 200 keystrokes, okay?

Here we go. Please replace all of those. Now you can see it looks correct, except for the 00, which I'm going to remove anyway.

I'm going to do it manually. It's only nine of them. Well, let's do it.

Let's automate it. Okay, here we go. If you're up for it, okay, go to the find and replace box.

Search for left square bracket period space 00, okay? And I actually have 16 of them, 18, so it's going to save me a little bit of work. And I want to replace that with a left square bracket F period space, and that's all.

Okay, here we go. Replace all those. And there we go.

Now, with the B letters, after the page number, you're going to have to do that manually. In this simplified system I've done, but we still saved ourselves 200 keystrokes. Okay, got it?

[Speaker 3]
Now the text is actually ready to work on.

[Speaker 1]
If it's me, I will turn off the search pane. I will turn on, I will give a page number to each page in Palo Tino font. So I will go to insert.

Up at the very top, I'll go to insert on the upper left, click insert. I will scroll down to page numbers. Okay, here's page numbers.

My program is preset to something I don't like, where it says right here, I will change it to center. And that's going to give me a page number at the bottom center. And I personally don't like to have a number on the first page, because that's the page with the pretty picture on it, and I don't like a page number at the bottom.

So I'll turn that off. And that's all. And I'll hit okay.

[Speaker 3]
And then all of my pages now have page numbers at the bottom.

[Speaker 1]
Word is preset to a different font for the page numbers. I haven't figured out a way to change it. So I want to make all the numbers at the bottom of the page be Palo Tino, which is our standard.

So I'll double click on the number two. And you have to keep clicking on it until you get, I mean, you have to click maybe four times. And now the page number has got a gray box around it.

That means now I can change the font. I go to home in the upper left. And I go to the font box, which is under the word design.

There's a down arrow. And I will go to Palo Tino Linotype. And that's it.

I've changed all that. Now I hit an escape to get out of the page numbers.

[Speaker 3]
And there we go. Now the text, you see how much work has been done on the text?

[Speaker 1]
A huge amount of work, preliminary work. You know, I have to make executive decisions about where to split the paragraphs so that we don't get huge paragraphs that are difficult for people to read. I'll give you a tip as a writer.

Readers don't like long paragraphs, okay? They also don't like ridiculously short paragraphs of one sentence or something like that. It's distracting.

But as short as you can make the paragraphs and not insult somebody's intelligence, it's very useful. And for people doing hypertexting or, you know, translating chunks of text, pronouncing them in class, it's a lot easier for everybody if you can make it as few as possible, okay? The paragraph should be as short as possible, okay?

So that's just a clue. And now it's my job, you know, I've done all the automated stuff I can do pretty much.

[Speaker 3]
And now it's my job to go through. I used to have a ‑‑ I had written a macro automated program that would alert you to all the possible spelling mistakes.

[Speaker 1]
But I guess we're going to have to rebuild that spell checker. That saves a lot of time, too. So that's today.

Can you guys hear me?

[Speaker 3]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
I'm going to turn that off the video because it's just about finished. And I can just tell you the rest of it. I'm going to turn it off now.

And I'm going to stop that screen sharing. And we're going to go to Adam's text, okay? Which is here, okay?

And now you can see the ‑‑ sorry. Let me get rid of this one. Okay.

Now you can see Adam's text, okay? And why did I make a video out of those instructions for how to format a text to save yourself like 3,000 keystrokes?

[Speaker 2]
Because we got a bunch of new text coming and people have to get things ready for you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and I don't have to repeat myself, okay? You can do the work yourself. Now you have a video.

The link is held by Venerable Utpala. Everybody can have a link to it. In fact, if it were me, Utpala, I would download that video and store it someplace in the Mixed Nuts archive, okay?

That's a LUM video, which is a Zoom knockoff. But I like the little round faces you can make. You can save yourself hours and hours of work.

People say I'm productive. Well, partly it's because I automated things, okay? So you can save yourself, I don't know, 20, 30 hours of work.

Just do all that stuff before you work on a text and get it all ready as far as you can, okay? And I made a video. I have a theory of computers that, like with spreadsheet stuff, I do profit and loss reports only every six months or so.

For the cafe or for my personal finances or for DCI, I don't use the program frequently enough to remember how to use it. So I can keep going back to that program and relearning it. They also change everything every few months.

So when you don't use a program frequently, you should record what you have to do. Like most of you will only get a new text every two or three years. It's useless to remember all the steps I just described.

That's why I did a video, okay? If we just store the video, and every time you start a new text, you can save yourself thousands of keystrokes, whether I'm around or not, okay? Yay!

Okay. Thank you, Joshua. You're welcome.

So let me introduce you to Adam's new text, and then Adam will start reading. Still not sure about the title because darkness in the mind, Adam, in modern colloquial American English means evil. He has a dark mind, or that's a dark movie, or there's a lot of darkness in the White House or something.

It doesn't mean what we want. To clear away the darkness is a little strange. So I'm working on it.

I'm not satisfied with the title yet. We need a catchy title for YIKI MUN TSAL, which means removing the darkness in the mind about logic. Okay, here's an introduction to the author, Khedrup Jey.

His full name is Tomjey Khyenpa Khedrup Gyaleg Dalsangpo. Khedrup is a common compliment to pay to somebody. You are wise, and you are also a great practitioner with your meditations.

So Khedrup is actually not a personal name. That's not his name. That just means he was great both in books and in personal practice.

He combined both. So he was called Khedrup Jey, like master of personal practice and master of books. His real personal name was Gyaleg Dalsangpo.

Like, I don't know, excellent virtue, glorious, excellent one. His dates are 1385-1438. He met Jey Rinpoche in 1406.

The event is in the paintings of the biography of Tsongkhapa, which we published. He was 21, Tsongkhapa was 49. I thought you guys might like to...

It's a short story, out of my promise. It takes about five minutes, and I want to show it to you. Here we go.

Here's the actual page from the King of the Dharma book. This is a translation we did of Tsongkhapa's life, which is the greatest story of his life ever done. That red book is the greatest version of his life ever done.

In 1406, Jey Rinpoche is how old? 43 plus, he's 49 years old. He goes to a place called Kisha.

He's studying at Sara. Sorry, he's in retreat at Sara. He has a vision of Mahakala with six arms.

People say that this particular, from that time, that angel never left his side, protected him his whole life, the rest of his life. On this retreat, as he's going into retreat, he meets a young man, 21 years old, named Kedrup Jey, who's considered an emanation of a previous master. A weird thing happens.

Tsongkhapa meets this 21-year-old kid, a monk, and he says, come into deep retreat with me. Just like that. Just sort of a miracle.

He sees something in the young man. He says, I'm doing a Yamantaka retreat. You come with me.

That's Kedrup Jey's introduction to Tsongkhapa. They go into a tantric retreat together. He starts teaching him tantra right away.

He sees something in this young man special. Then they stay for the rest of Tsongkhapa's life, for the next almost 20 years. They are together and Kedrup Jey is studying with him.

Here's a picture of the retreat from the thangka. I guess Kedrup Jey is usually the person here. That kind of tells you how important Kedrup Jey is.

Kedrup Jey was special enough that Tsongkhapa decided to take him into a Bhairava, a Yamantaka retreat on the first day he met him. Which is pretty amazing. All right, here we go, Adam.

Yay! There should be a drum roll. Okay, you want to translate this, just word by word?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Yeah, here in Contained is Dispelling the Darkness.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
A jewel ornament of the seven volumes of correct perception.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the seven books of accurate perception written by?

[Speaker 2]
Master Dharmakirti.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, all written by Master Dharmakirti. So our general plan for Mixed Nuts in the next 100 years is that Adam's gonna work on this text, which is an extraordinary presentation of the topics that he covered in his other text, but very smooth and very deep and kind of more understandable. It's kind of logic for, I don't know, it's extraordinary.

It's a wonderful presentation of logic that doesn't feel like logic. Yay. His other text felt like logic.

And we're gonna, and then Ben Kramer is gonna finish his text soon, and he's gonna move over to a great modern commentary on Dharmakirti's masterpiece, Magnus Opum. Opum Magnus? Anyway, Opus Magnum.

His great- Magnum Opus. Opus Magnum. Magnum Opus.

I like the way you say it. I think it's Opus Magnum. Anyway, his masterpiece, which is the commentary on valid perception, accurate perception, okay?

But K.W.J. does a masterful overview of all the great books of Dharmakirti, so we got two guys working on Dharmakirti, but very different books. Now, what would be the first thing you would want to footnote here, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
The seven books.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, what's the seven books, okay? And by the way, I don't think K.W.J. mentions them in the book as a list, so we went and made a list. Here's the entry from the Great Dictionary, which gives the seven, and I made it into a list, okay?

So here's the books. Please read the book titles after the numbers, Adam.

[Speaker 2]
TSE MA RNAMS SBREL, Pramanavarttika. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Next one.

[Speaker 2]
TSE MA RNAMS NGES.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
Which is, yeah. TSE MA RIGS.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Good.

[Speaker 2]
TSEN ZIG DRIG PA. Good. Next.

DRO BA THAG PA. Good. Next.

RGYU BZHIN DRO PA. Next. TSOS PA RIG PA.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Those are the seven books that we're going to be studying. Now, the first one is the most famous, and I'm going to translate the titles.

Let's translate the titles, Adam. TSE MA RNAMS SBREL. A Commentary on...

[Speaker 2]
Accurate Perception.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Second one, VINESH CHAYA. It's a difficult word.

I would say, The Ascertainment. Ascertaining Accurate Perception. Okay.

Well, we'll think of a better title. Tik, do you know?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it's A Drop of Logic.

[Speaker 1]
Good. A Drop of Reasoning, which means a short book on reasoning, and he stole the title design from his teacher, from his predecessor, Dignaga. TEN TIG TE PA.

[Speaker 2]
TEN TIG, a drop of, I would say a drop of reason again, drop of reasoning again.

[Speaker 1]
Right, yeah. A Drop of Reasons or something like that. We'll find better nicknames.

DRO BA THAG PA.

[Speaker 2]
This means- An Exalysis of Relations. Or Relations.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, An Exalysis of Relationships. Good. Now, this one was connected to a ginseng pizza party we had.

[Speaker 2]
Santana in Saudi Arabia City. Yeah, it's the Proof of Others Mindstreams. Proof of Others Mindstreams.

[Speaker 1]
Which is the classic answer to the DCI question.

[Speaker 2]
Am I kissing myself?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. If everything's coming from me, am I kissing myself when I kiss my boyfriend or girlfriend? And some friend of mine in Asia asked me if I would teach this book.

It's not, I said it would take about seven hours. And the only time we had was starting around 10 o'clock at night. And I said, if you're willing to do an all-nighter, I'm willing to do an all-nighter.

So we did an all-nighter. We worked until three, eight. We had a ginseng pizza, which is something amazing.

And we didn't quite finish, but it was an amazing time. So, Pedrikpa, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
Reasoning for debate.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Okay, good. So those are the seven books.

Some of them are quite short. Some of them are quite long. Some of them would take 10 years to study.

Some of them you can finish in one night with a ginseng pizza, okay? If you're really determined, okay? All right.

Those are the seven books. Now, I have a proposal for you, Adam. If you search the name near the phrase DGYAG RGYAS DU, which means in Sanskrit, you will get the Sanskrit title as it appears in the tenure.

And then we can fix the Sanskrit titles, okay? So I want you to go through the other six. You're going to search for title near in the language of India or in the language of Tibet, if you want.

And we're going to get the full titles, the full tenure titles. These are the titles that Brigham Rinpoche chose for these seven books. Let's don't put the titles as reported in a dictionary.

Let's put the titles as we have researched them and the proper Sanskrit as it was originally written, okay? I think it's going to be sexy. The mixed nuts method is we don't trust any scholar in the world.

We go to the ancient sources. So we're going to establish the proper titles of the seven and the Sanskrit titles of the seven by using the ancient sources, okay? We're not going to trust somebody's article in a Buddhist magazine or something, okay?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
We'll go to the original sources. So that's your homework on those other six. Let's go to this line here.

We still have four minutes, if I'm not mistaken.

[Speaker 3]
We're not.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. yagar kedu pramana-sastra-sinna-sabda-alankara-manata-nama Nama, good.

[Speaker 1]
And this has a lot of errors. By the way, this is called a faux Sanskrit title. Why?

[Speaker 2]
We don't have the Sanskrit?

[Speaker 1]
It was written in Tibetan. He's showing off. He's just showing off.

He's given his book from 1410 or 15, a Sanskrit title, okay? Just for fun. And the Tibetans weren't too good at Sanskrit by that time.

So unfortunately, I mean, there's a lot of mistakes in the Sanskrit. So I've fixed them, okay? Pramana means what?

[Speaker 2]
Correct, correct. Accurate, accurate.

[Speaker 1]
Good. What's shastra?

[Speaker 2]
Classical commentary.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. What's sena?

[Speaker 2]
Seven. No, that's a volume. That's a volume, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Sena means group. And we said it. It means, yeah, collection, but it meant...

Remember, Nick, we had it as an army group, right? So de, like do-de, okay? So the collection of seven classical commentaries on correct, on accurate perception.

And I'm going to write an alankara.

[Speaker 2]
A jewel ornament.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and whenever they say alankara, it means I am writing a commentary to some beautiful thing that's going to... Look, the book of Dignaga is already beautiful, but I'm going to put a necklace on it. And it's a kind of kenpa kyung for $20.

Kenpa kyung. Humility, arrogance. Who said it?

[Speaker 2]
Well, they're indeed opposite.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they're kind of opposite. Humility and arrogance. Who was first though?

Nick. Nick and you. Yeah, $20 to Amalista, okay?

So look, by the way, giving this book the title of a necklace is meant as an act of humility, okay? Dignaga's works are beautiful women. And I'm just putting a necklace on a lady who's already incredibly beautiful, okay?

So it's an ancient tradition to call a commentary a necklace, okay? Okay, so alankara. And then he has to put the Sanskrit for clearing away the darkness of the mind, okay?

He put a word for mind, mana, okay? Which is manas. And then he put ta.

So he lost the word for clearing away. There's no word here for clearing away. Either someone has miscarved it or it was never written right in the first place, okay?

And I checked out some different options and I like tamog na, okay? I like killing the darkness, okay? Destroying the darkness, okay?

Gunning the tamas, okay? The darkness, okay? If it were me, I think this ta was meant to be tamog na.

And I think someone miscarved it or messed it up, okay? If it's me and we don't have any other choices, I'm going to suggest we use tamog na, okay? We fixed the Sanskrit title.

The false Sanskrit title to tamog na. Nama is nama, it's so-called. That's okay, we can take that.

That's time, Gen. Say again? That's time's up.

You're going to make me stop here. You don't want to meet Shiva? I'm not going to make you do anything.

Just kidding. I know you have to go to a birthday party.

[Speaker 3]
No, no, I mean as much as you need to do.

[Speaker 1]
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I was thinking of 20 ways to come to a birthday party, but I just couldn't. Okay, stop.

We are making cookies. Damn. 9, 26, 20.

Okay, so it's an exciting day. Adam's off on a new text. By the way, he's going to complete his old text, but we felt like it would be nice to take a trip to a psychedelic prose text and then come back to the debate text some other day.

So I think it's a perfect long-term strategy to keep doing the debate text, but to intersperse it by publishing some books. This Kiryup Je's book on logic, I was in the inter-monastic debates in Ganden Monastery, and somebody quoted this book, and I was freaked out. Somebody quoted it in the debate ground, and I said, I got to see this book.

And I had a hard time to find a copy, and it's awesome. I think it may be the greatest, the most accessible, most incredible presentation on logic ever. And by the way, Ben Kramer's text on logic is the greatest explanation of the greatest book on logic ever written in ancient times.

So we're going to cover the two greatest books on logic ever written between these two eminent scholars, Mr. Andrade and Dr. Kramer. Okay? Yay.

Yay. Okay. Let's get some sachi.

And by the way, Venerable Utpala will have the video. I didn't expect you to learn it the first time you heard it, but if you ever start a new text, you can save yourself about 50 hours of work. Yay.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, you showed us before, so thank you for doing that again.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Sachi, Pukhi, Jukshi, Metho, Tram, Vidra, Mingshi, Ninde, Gyempa, Deity, Sangye, Shindu, Mikte, Umar, Deity, Jokun, Nandak, Shingla, Chupar, Shok, Idam, Gurat, Namandala, Kamyar, Atayam, Gyewa, Nyi, Kewo, Kun, Sanam, Yeshe, Tsozok, Shing, Sanam, Yeshe, Lejong, We, Dampa, Kunyi, Topar, Shok. Yay.

[Speaker 1]
Adam, don't forget your homework for the other six titles. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I'll do it.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Awesome. Thank you, Keshala.

Thank you, Adam. Thank you. Grandpa Mike's going to get Mexican restaurant takeout.

Yay. There's also a document that has those steps in the drop box from back in the day if anybody wants to practice chopping texts. Okay.

Coming up, we have Q&A with Dr. Subong Shi. Wow. I hope everybody can come and ask Sugeng really tough questions because he loves that.

Let's kill him. Happy 10th day, Keshala and everybody. Yeah.

Oh, Bertha, I got your message and I'm taking care of it. Okay. Bertha Velasco.

Okay. I'll send you some information. All right.

If Anton's on the text, I'm going to call you soon. No doubt. Tonight.