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

[Speaker 2]
That's the reason I chose it. I think you have to give up the screen.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I'm out of the screen. Ew, homework, ew.

[Speaker 2]
All right, so yeah, it's a pretty straightforward homework. I think the last one might be the only one that kind of gives us trouble. Um, so who's the author of our text and what are his dates?

[Speaker 3]
1385 to 1438.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, that's it. Um, yeah, what's his personal name?

[Speaker 3]
Gaelic, Gaelic Osambo, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Um, get the full title of our text in both English and Tibetan. Seven books on correct, accurate perception, dispelling the darkness of the mind. Yeah, totally.

A jewel ornament on, yeah, the seven volumes in correct perception. Hey, V, Ava's watching.

[Speaker 1]
Ava's watching dad. Yay, dad.

[Speaker 2]
Um, so now we've got, um, this is, so I thought you guys could work together as a group to come up with these here. Um, so list the seven books which provide the source material for our text and supply your answer in both English and Tibetan. Yeah, that's one.

No.

[Speaker 3]
And a drop of, a drop of logic. Drop of logic. Totally.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Ascertainment of accurate perception. That's four.

What's the, what's the, what's the, what's the famous one that, um, that Geshe-la studied with Mr. Wu at the ginseng party? Yeah, and the Tibetan. So the last one, I'll give you the English, I'll give you the last one, uh, well, there, there are two more, uh, so I'll give you the English and you guys give me the Tibetan, um, you've got, um, analysis of relationships.

Yeah, and then, uh, um, uh, relationship, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, reasoning for debate. Yeah, good job. Yeah.

All right. So yeah, we didn't really cover much because we had the, um, we had like a 30 minute video at the beginning of the class last time. So that's why I had to, and obviously the, uh, the vocab is kind of worked into this last one.

All right, guys.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Headsome, good job. Are you going to sashi us?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Adam. Okay. Oh, I gotta, I gotta show you my, let's see, share my screen, right?

Okay, you guys okay? Yep. Okay, listen you guys, Adam researched all the correct Sanskrit titles of the seven great books of Chandigarh, of Dharmakirti.

So here's Pramana, Vartika, Karika. You want to pronounce them, Adam, slowly? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Pramana, Vartika, Karika.

[Speaker 1]
Karika.

[Speaker 2]
Karika.

[Speaker 1]
Good, which means the word, yeah. Okay, here's the second one.

[Speaker 2]
Pramana, Vinishchaya.

[Speaker 1]
I'm losing you. Pramana, Vinishchaya.

[Speaker 2]
Pramana, Vinishchaya.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
You can turn your video off for the meantime.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, next one, Adam.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, yeah. Nyaya, Bindu, Nama, Prakarana. Good, next one.

Hetu, Bindu, Nama, Prakarana.

[Speaker 1]
Good, next one.

[Speaker 2]
Sambandha, Pariksha, Prakarana. Prakarana. Prakarana.

Good, sixth one. Santana, Tara, Siddhi, Nama, Prakarana. Santana, Tara, Siddhi, Nama.

Santana, Tara, Siddhi, Nama.

[Speaker 1]
Prakarana. Prakarana. Last one.

[Speaker 2]
Nāma Prakarana Prakarana Good.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we finished that. Is my internet cutting out? We got that done.

[Speaker 2]
I think it's your internet actually.

[Speaker 1]
You think it's me? Is that the problem?

[Speaker 2]
Well no, it's your internet, that's the problem.

[Speaker 1]
Sorry. Probably people started watching Netflix. The whole town of Rimrock.

Okay, here's my proposal for the Sanskrit fake title of our commentary. Pramana Shastra Sanna Sapta Alankara Manas Tamogna Alright. And we finished the Tibetan title.

Can you guys hear me okay? Yeah. You're clear now, good.

Okay, good. And we finished bowing down to Manjushri. And now you're supposed to ask Geshe-la why you have this Shiva here.

Geshe-la, why do you have this Shiva here? Good question. Okay, so now we're starting some of the traditional poetry that comes at the beginning of a book.

Oftentimes it has ulterior motives like bow down to the teacher, prove that the book has the four great qualities, make a promise to finish the book or die. Right, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I promise.

[Speaker 1]
Not if you did that. Okay. And here we start.

Okay, here's the first verse of poetry. Adam, who's your selected botherer?

[Speaker 2]
Let's go with Nick.

[Speaker 1]
He'll bother anybody. Okay, who's up first, Nick? I'll do the first one.

Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
DE TSI'I OD CHEN CHOS PEN GYI TSE REL PA'I KHUR CHANG DGUL NA PHYI BA'I SHAB GYI PHAB MOR PHUNG BA BZHIN Sounds like a Tibetan guy to me.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good. Now, you know, he's showing off to start with. All right, let me take this out and you'll see why.

Let me take this out. Okay. He has made poetry with impossible long meter.

Okay, count the syllables, Adam. This is one line.

[Speaker 2]
DE TSI'I OD CHEN CHOS PEN GYI TSE The whole thing is one line.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, gosh.

[Speaker 2]
Sorry. REL PA'I KHUR CHANG DGUL NA PHYI BA'I SHAB GYI PHAB MOR PHUNG BA BZHIN So it's 21?

[Speaker 1]
It's 8 plus 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22.

[Speaker 2]
22.

[Speaker 1]
22 syllables per line. Okay. We had 8 in the Sanskrit the other day.

It was a lot. So look, he continues like that. Here's the whole verse.

The verse has four lines like that. This is one verse. Okay.

One thought in 88 syllables. Okay. One verse in 88 syllables.

It's incredible. He's showing off his skill. Okay.

And let's work through it. Okay. Let's work through it.

And it's not easy. Okay. There's a lot of things hidden in it.

Okay. And to be honest, I was talking to Veronica about it. In the monastery, the lamas skip this part.

But, we want to make a complete translation. So here we go. What's duti?

[Speaker 2]
Deathless nectar.

[Speaker 1]
Nectar. Yeah. UR CHEN means possesses that light.

CHOS BAN means a crown of a king. CHOS BAN. This verse, this line, of 22 syllables, is referring to Shiva.

Ishvara. Or Shiva. And I got you a picture of Shiva because he's got this nice little crescent moon in his hair.

This is a characteristic of Shiva. He likes to wear a crescent moon in his hair. All right.

Okay. And by the way, I'll do lines of six. Eight, eight, and six.

And it helps the reader. DE'I TSE BA CHEN CHOS BAN RGYUD TSE REL PA'I KHOR BYANG DGOS NAG CHE BA ZHAG GIS PA'I MOR BUNG BA BZHIN You see, I propose putting super long lines, mixed with standard, to put them like this. And inset the extra syllables.

DE'I TSE means nectar. CHOS BAN means color of nectar. CHOS BAN, you have a crown.

Now traditionally, DE'I TSE can refer to Soma. Soma is an ancient liquid that is supposed to look like milk. It was used by Hindu priests like 5,000 years ago.

It's also called orshada. And it would bring on sort of hallucinations, spiritual hallucinations. All right.

When you say Soma-colored crown, it means a white crown. And in poetry, we often use images to indicate objects. So when we say here, it says you have a Soma-colored crown, it means a white crown.

And that means the moon. That means a crescent moon. Now, if you're interested, which I don't care if you are or not, Soma was made from the Datura flower, which I have in my yard nowadays because Vimala helped me transplant it from Diamond Mountain.

I'm not using it because it's poison. I don't know how to mix it. And I'm not interested anyway.

Bees go crazy over this flower. And it opens at night. So at dusk, you can see the bees waiting for it to open.

They actually crowd around the flower waiting for it to open. And then when it opens, they jump in. Dutsi Yochen, you have a crown, which is the color of Soma.

It makes you beautiful. It makes you beautiful. What's core Mr. Human Dictionary, do you remember?

[Speaker 3]
Burden.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, burden. Good. Heavy burden.

REL PA means dreadlocks. REL PA means dreadlocks. CHANG means you are wearing.

Like Dorje Chang. You have a heavy load of dreadlocks. It means, look here, there's the heavy load of dreadlocks.

He's still talking about Shiva or Ishvara. And your gull is not.

[Speaker 2]
Your throat is black.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Do you know the story? By the way, it's blue actually.

Do you know the story?

[Speaker 2]
No, I don't. I'm on the microphone though.

[Speaker 1]
When they created the universe, they stirred the oceans and created this world. Then there was some poison produced and he drank it and didn't die. But he did get a blue throat.

When you say in India blue-throated or black-throated, it means Ishvara. Cool? Cool, Ma?

But you touch your dreadlock-weighted head to the feet, Shab, of a special person. Who's that? It's probably going to be Lord Buddha.

Okay? It's a tradition that the great, powerful devas came and touched their heads at his feet. Okay?

Lord Buddha's feet is called Pama.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Pama Bhumishin.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, at your lotus feet. Puma means a honeybee.

[Speaker 2]
Bee, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, and I got a picture of a honeybee. This is my bird's water dish. This is what he's referring to.

Honeybees tend to line up at the nectar in a row. Okay? So he's comparing these powerful Hindu deities to honeybees who want to come to the lotus of Lord Buddha's feet and touch their head.

Okay? Okay, cool? It means Buddha must be pretty powerful.

These guys use planets like marbles, but when they see Buddha they run and touch their head like these bees. Okay? Okay?

We got through one line. Let's go to the next line. Who's up?

Ella Lu. You there, Ella? Yes.

Let's go, man. Hey, I heard Ji Coffee opened up again.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, we opened for a month.

[Speaker 1]
Can you talk to the owner and ask them if they want to invest, if they want to make a coffee shop in Rimrock? I will. Just kidding.

It already has an owner. Okay. Let's go, Adam.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. GANG KHU means... By the way, this is a device in ancient poetry.

Remember? GANG GI BLO DUR DRIN NI DRIN DE'O Who is it? Yeah, you start poetry with a question.

Who is it that is so beautiful? Who is it that has the sweetest smile in Colorado? Who is it that wears the most cute PJs in...

And then everybody goes, Ava!

[Speaker 3]
Ava!

[Speaker 1]
Ava! GANG KHU. Who is it whose body steals away trok, the glory of the Jewel Mountain?

What's the Jewel Mountain?

[Speaker 2]
It's from the Longmandala prayer.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's Mount Meru. Why is our sky blue according to Stanley Bundy's text?

[Speaker 2]
It's reflecting one of the sides of Mount Meru.

[Speaker 1]
The western side of Mount Meru. I'm sorry, southern side is made of sapphire. Okay?

Then the other sides are made of other jewels. So our sky is blue because the sapphire gets reflected by the sun. Alright.

So, what's the Jewel Mountain? It's Mount Meru. Okay?

But when you sit down, Mount Meru shrinks. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Who is that? It steals away the glory.

[Speaker 1]
Lord Buddha. Yeah, when we look at you, Mount Everest looks small. Rinpoche, my teacher, he was about five feet tall, but I swear he was eight feet tall.

You know. Okay. Siji means your glory, your magnificence.

It's like a huge mountain. Pumbo can mean mountain, right? You have a mountain of glorious qualities and that's a cure.

[Speaker 3]
A burden.

[Speaker 1]
That's a heavy load. That's a heavy load. And somebody gets tired.

Ngyelwa. Trying to carry it. Ngyelwa means gets tired.

It's not dungyel. Ngyel means exhausted.

[Speaker 2]
Exhausted.

[Speaker 1]
Who gets exhausted? Gyatso guchen.

[Speaker 2]
The one who wears the ocean like a blanket.

[Speaker 1]
Which is?

[Speaker 2]
The world.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the earth. The earth itself, darwa.

[Speaker 2]
It shakes. It trembles. Yeah, it trembles.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you are such a heavyweight that you know, the earth can support Mount Everest, but when you step on the earth, the earth trembles. You are too heavy karmically, okay? Chendawar Sim.

I want you to check this Sim word. Check this word. Okay.

I'm not sure about it. I mean, it could be it seems to me or something like that, but I don't know. Okay.

Next verse, who's checking? Jin Drung. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Let's go, Adam. Watch out for Jin Drung.

[Speaker 2]
She's talking. chen le nyen che char kye ser gi du kyi de pan dro den pang ne Keep going. yi la mumpe tul shuk lang Good.

[Speaker 1]
nyen che means what? Do you remember?

[Speaker 2]
It's a day maker.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which means?

[Speaker 2]
The sun.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, your enlightened activity, your chen le is like the sun. And when it rises, char kye means when it rises, the lights of the rays chases away the dro den of the du kyi de pan. What's drong do?

Overestimate. How did Geshe Thubten Rinchen explain it when we went there and studied the essence of eloquence with him?

[Speaker 3]
It's like arrows, it's the fletching on the back of an arrow that you add to it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's like adding feathers to an arrow to make it fly straight. It's not part of the original arrow. It's an addition.

That's called drong. So drong den can mean bird, that which has a feather. Or it can mean an arrow, that which has a feather.

du kyi de pan means the captain of the demons. I had trouble with this. I studied it for quite a while.

The best I can come up with is that it's mental flections and they are arrows shot by the king of the demons. It's traditional. I don't know if it's relevant, but it's traditional to say that Lord Buddha achieved enlightenment at dawn.

The tantric texts say with his partner. Maybe it means, maybe it refers to the arrows that were shot by the Mara just before Lord Buddha got enlightened, which would have happened at dawn. And when your sun comes up of your enlightened deeds, then the mumba in my yi ...

[Speaker 2]
And what's a tulshu?

[Speaker 1]
What's a tulshu? It's that thing you find in Portuguese restaurants. Spanish, tapas.

Tapas, okay.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Tulshu means difficult spiritual practice, but it means a difficulty. So when you show up, you give off this light that scares away the guys running around with arrows, and it lifts the difficulty of my spiritual practice from my mind. And there's the title of this book, Hidden Universe, right?

You take away the darkness of the mind. Manas Tamogna. You take away the darkness of the mind.

All right, let's go, Adam. Who's up? Who's up?

Basara. Who? Basara Chen from Taiwan.

Oh, cool.

[Speaker 2]
,GZHEL GYI CHOS THER YIN LA ,'GRUG CHU'I GANG THUNG GI ,DZAD THOD DBANG GSUNG GI ,CHIG RTEN DGOS PA ,CHUG RGYUR GCIG Okay, CHOS THER means treasure house of water, which can mean a lake or an ocean.

[Speaker 1]
And it's comparing Lord Buddha's mouth to a lake or an ocean. What's a gang thung, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
To drink from at the feet.

[Speaker 1]
It's a poeticism for something that drinks through its foot. It means a tree.

[Speaker 2]
A tree.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, totally. Foot drinking. Foot drinking.

So, ZHE means makes beautiful. So, the oasis of your holy lips are beautified by the palm trees of the sixty. What's that?

[Speaker 2]
Sixty qualities of shell, of holy words, holy speech.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, actually 64,000, right? But sometimes it's shorter.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So, may the speech of the Lord of the able ones steal away the DGOS PA of the CHIG RTEN.

[Speaker 2]
The troubles of the world.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Wow. Okay.

So, I like this image of the sixty qualities of the, the 64 qualities of the Buddha's speech are like palm trees around the oasis of his mouth. Okay. It's a beautiful image.

There's the story of why Shiva has a blue neck in case you're interested. The Sanskrit is SHITTI KANTA which means Mr. Blue Neck or Mr. Black Neck. That's his nickname.

Okay. Here's the story, Adam, of him drinking the poison. So, I prefer to footnote ancient books, explaining ancient books.

So, I would use this page from this text in your footnote to explain why he has a black neck or a blue neck. Okay. Here it is here.

DUG BSOD NAS He ate the poison and his Wangchuk's, Shiva or Ishvara's throat got blue. There's the reference. So, I like to use ancient references to prove ancient references.

Okay. Here's the next verse. Who's up?

Gina, you're up. Hey Gina, just complain about something. Adam.

Yes, sir. Can you give me one pronunciation for her? Please mispronounce one thing.

You can pretend it was on purpose.

[Speaker 2]
GANG ZHIG THA YI DRO BA'I DANG SLAD PHEN DE GUR CHEN THUG NA LTA BA LTA BA'I THUG RGYEN GZHI BZHIN THUG RJE YI THUG RGYI THUG THOR RGYEN DU LAG PAR LANG Yeah, great.

[Speaker 1]
It's one line of poetry. And how he made this many lines is amazing. GANG ZHIG.

Who is that one who works LAS for the benefit of countless beings? Who is that guy who works for the benefit of infinite beings? Who wears a head ornament?

Sorry. Who wears a heavy load of help and happiness for all living beings? Who wears a heavy load of help and happiness for all living beings?

That's a parallel of who, of what, in the first verse, in the first line. Somebody had a heavy load. It was Shiva's dreadlocks.

So now they're comparing Lord Buddha's head to Shiva's head. That other guy is turned on by dreadlocks. What you like to wear on your head is the heavy load of working for the benefit of many beings.

You also wear LTA BA in your THUG THOR. The moon in your crown. You also wear the moon on your head.

Oh, sorry. Just as he wears the moon on his head, you wear THUG CHE on your head.

[Speaker 2]
Holy compassion.

[Speaker 1]
He wants to put a moon on his head. You've got compassion on your head. You're THUG THOR.

You've got that Buddha bump. So sexy. And you dress yourself so elegantly in the jewel of a Buddha's bump on his head.

Yay. You are much more fashionable than the guy who has the moon in the long hair. All right.

Next. Who's up? Anatole.

Oh my god. Why not Kairi? Why not pick the smart one?

Or Kairi? Kairi. You guys there?

Yeah. Turn on your microphone. Check, check.

Hey, Anatole. Some people say Kairi, some people say Kairi. Which is correct?

I think both are correct. Okay. Oh.

I can't do that. Okay. Let's go, Adam.

Good. Good. YIN RTEN MED TOG You take up the flower petals of high qualities.

NYIN PA means to cup your hands like this together. It's like Anjali. It's actually a translation of Anjali.

CHUNG SREG BRTEN NA If we experience those flowers of faith offered in the two hands, BRTEN NA RTZA SER BYED PA'I UD ZER we get these warm rays of light. Okay. Like those, your rays of wisdom light, your rays of wisdom light, MONGS PA'I MUN TSOR UD ZER RGYAS they clear away the darkness of our misunderstanding, our stupidity.

RGYAS means you split off thousands of light rays like that. Okay. Cool.

We just finished one verse with 88 syllables in it. Wow.

[Speaker 2]
Is it RGYAS? Is it split?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, RGYAS means, the place you see it in modern Tibetan for $100, anybody? Vice speech? No, it's the share that monks get of the money that the sponsor offers for donations.

Momo party. Did you get your RGYAS? No, I didn't get my RGYAS.

So it means to split up. Here it means you split out rays of light which take away the darkness of our ignorance, which is the theme of the title of this book. Yay!

Here we go. Now he's starting another verse, by the way. Four huge lines.

Who's up? Yifei. Yay, Yifei!

[Speaker 2]
DRO BA'I YIKI KU MU TSOR LA ZHI BA'I DA'I KUN KHYEN YESHES KUN LA JI SHING KUN TU DRO PA KUN NAS DRO BA'I PHAL YON CAN Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
So he's comparing the minds of living beings to the KU MU TSOR, which means a lake covered with water lilies. And now you send out your moonlight, which according to ancient tradition is cool and gives peace. The peaceful moonlight of your omniscience.

It touches everyone. KUN LA JI SHING KUN DU DRO PA What do you call it? Without prejudice, to everybody, equally.

That light touches all beings equally. And it gives everything. KUN NAS DRO It's a very glorious thing.

PHAL YON CAN By the way, it's tradition that the moonlight doesn't choose who it shines on. It just is there. And if you walk outside, you get a piece of it.

So it's an image of fairness, or impartial service of all living beings. Alright, keep going. RIK TEN RIK TEN, yay!

Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
RAB MAR RAB MAR SRAR MO'I BDAG DRANG RGYAL BA'I BYAMS PA'I YANG KYI SHAB KYI PHAD MO'I NYIN GYI PHAD MO'I JI SHING BDAG LO PHAD MO'I PHAL GYUR CIG Okay, he's got a bunch of PHAD MO's in here, which means PHAD MA.

[Speaker 1]
So sometimes Tibetans write PHAD MO for PHAD MA. Meaning lotus. So, you are wearing a string of russet golden, red gold petals.

It means, it's a reference to the body color of Manjushri, which is said to be marcer, red mixed with gold. Hey, BYAMS PA'I YANG, at your lotus feet, SHAB KYI PHAD MO, at the lotus of your feet, the friend of the PHAD MA, now the friend of the Khamuda is the moon. It comes out at night.

Who's the friend of the lotus which comes out in the opposite time?

[Speaker 2]
Who's the sun?

[Speaker 1]
It's the sun. This is the NYEN in DGE BA'I GZHAN YIN, in the word geshe. It means friend.

So, friend of the lotus is a poeticism for the sun. A friend of the lotus. So, I ask you, oh friend of the lotus, to shine on me as if I was a lotus, and please open my mind as if it were a lotus.

Open the petals of my mind as if it were a lotus. It's very beautiful. Who's up next?

By the way, he's breaking out of his huge verses. He's breaking out of that pattern. Now he's going to normal poetry.

How many? SOGS NI NOR BU CHU SHAL LAS GRUB CING Just nine lines, not twenty. Just nine meters, not twenty-two.

Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
SOGS NI NOR BU CHU SHAL LAS GRUB CING Good. BLAB TSUM KHYON GOR RIG PA'I SIL SAR CAN PHAS DGOS DRAG CHEN KHYON LAS NAM DRO BAS DGOS DRAG CAN THAMS CAD DAG BA'I TSUG YID CHOS Good.

[Speaker 1]
He's like, you know what? I would like to stick my head in the moon. TSUG means top of your head, right?

It means I would like to touch my head at the feet of two great teachers who are like the moon. I would like to make offering at the feet of the two great masters with the top of my head. Those two guys are like the moon.

They are made of Chushel, and by tradition of the Stanley Bunder's book, the moon is made of crystal. The moon is made of Chushel, which means water glass, which means crystal, natural crystal. Your body, now it's comparing two people to the moon.

Your body is made of, they drew, the crystal gemstone of the Tsog Nyi.

[Speaker 2]
The two collections?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, SKYE BA DI SKYE BA KUN SON NAM YOD ZHI TSOG, right? Your body is made of crystal, just like the moon, but in your case the crystal is the two collections that you created your body and mind with. This disc, khyun kor, here it doesn't mean mandala, or it's the old meaning of mandala, which means a disc, and in the Abhidharma the moon is a disc shape.

It looks like a pill, it looks like a big pill. So, the body of your mandala, meaning the disc that's of the moon, is the Lapsum.

[Speaker 2]
Three trainings.

[Speaker 1]
The three trainings of Adam?

[Speaker 2]
I'd say the Morality, Concentration, and Wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so you are made of the crystal of the two collections. You are a disc of the three trainings, okay? And when you give out your cool lights, okay?

Tsog Tser. We had Tsog Tser above. Tsog Tser means hot rays.

Tsog Tser means cool rays, and by tradition the rays of the moon make people cool. You are giving off Tsog Tser of logic. Yay!

Of logic, okay? You guys are moons. You're made of the two collections.

You're a disc of the three trainings. You are giving off light rays of logic, okay? And you are freeing people, nam drul, from the problems, kyun, of drachen zin.

Anybody for $50? Drachen zin. $50.

Come on human dictionary, don't look it up either.

[Speaker 2]
Attachment to self.

[Speaker 1]
What do the planets do? It's Rahula. What's Rahula's job?

It's the dark planet. Eclipsing. Eclipsing, yeah.

When Rahula comes in front of the moon, you get an eclipse, okay?

[Speaker 3]
You get an eclipse.

[Speaker 1]
Pagel means those other debaters. It's an old world, it's an old word for the opponent in a debate. It's called Pagel, okay?

So, when you come up against those Rahulas, you blow them away, okay? Those Rahulas cannot eclipse you, okay? Now, Adam, who's the two guys?

[Speaker 2]
Choklang and Dalai Lama. Master Dignaga and Master Dharmakirti.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Choky Dharma, Choky Dharma, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Not Dalai Lama.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay, good. Yeah, Choky Dharma. Okay, cool.

By the way, I don't know, I'm feeling generous tonight, 30 bucks for anybody that can explain the name Choklang, which is Dignaga.

[Speaker 3]
Elephants that hold up the directions of space.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, how much I said, $2? $2? 300.

Eh, shut up. $20 for... 30, that's 30.

Oh, it wasn't 30? I'm sorry. I was trying to make 10 bucks.

Come on, give me a break. Yeah, Dignaga. Dign means directions, and Naga normally means dragon, lung, but sometimes it can refer to mystical elephants who hold up the 10 directions, okay, or the 8 directions.

So, Dignaga, this famous grandfather of all logic books, his real name is Elephant Direction Protector. Okay, and then what's the name of Dharmakirti mean, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
As famous as the I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, no, who spreads the Dharma, okay? Dharmakirti.

[Speaker 2]
Choky Dharma, right?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, cool. All right, Dawa. Dawa Tsuki Chö.

You are the guys I'd like to put in my hair. Okay, meaning I touch my top of my head to your feet. Okay, got it?

Let's keep going. You got time? Let's keep going.

Who's up? Who's up?

[Speaker 2]
Connie.

[Speaker 1]
Uh-oh, Connie. Okay, Adam, at least one mistake, please, for Mrs. Obrey.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. That was supposed to be a low tone.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, cool. Now, your face, I don't know, let's go back and look at Ishvara's face. Anything going on?

I don't know. Okay. Anyway, your face, where are we?

Your face is in the middle of a halo of a golden network of light, okay? What's the halo? Tubpay tenpa, the peaches of the Buddha.

You know, you don't wear, you like to wear halos. Dong tse shing, that's what makes your face beautiful, okay? And, dren den means, you like to talk about, do or she?

[Speaker 2]
The four groups?

[Speaker 1]
The four ways of collecting.

[Speaker 2]
Disciples, do or she?

[Speaker 1]
Can you give them to me? Go slow, go slow. Tell me four ways.

[Speaker 2]
I think the first one is giving material possessions, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like make bets with them and lose as much money as you can. Second one?

[Speaker 2]
You guys got to give me some help.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, who's going to help on number two? Encouraging them? Yeah, encourage them.

If they pronounce something right, say, ooh, that's so cool. Number three?

[Speaker 3]
Is... Material... No, when they do something wrong, telling them?

[Speaker 1]
No, number three is, if they do something right. I'm sorry, number three is, yeah, encourage them to not make the Dharma just books. Okay, that's number three.

Encourage them to carry out the Dharma and not make it just a book thing. What's number four? Practice what you preach?

Yeah, the teacher should practice what they preach and then disciples will be attracted, okay? So, dren den means, what do you like to talk about? Well, the four ways to get disciples to come, okay?

And you have a big, high bump on your head, chi tu.

[Speaker 2]
Chi tu, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
That's your lodu, your shirub. Intellect, yeah. That's your wisdom.

[Speaker 2]
Your wisdom, okay.

[Speaker 1]
And you have very beautiful chewas, which are your knowledge and your love. You have two chewas, which are your pure knowledge and your pure love. What's a chewa?

By the way, Adam, don't worry. We'll get through this poetry and we'll hit some philosophy. We'll know what he's talking about.

No, this is pretty cool.

[Speaker 2]
I'm enjoying it. The Bhairava guy has some of them.

[Speaker 1]
What's that?

[Speaker 2]
The Bhairava guy has some of them. And so does the VY lady has some of them.

[Speaker 1]
Ah, tusks. Yeah, tusks, great, great, great, great, yeah. And they are very white, okay?

They are very white. So, your tusks are... Now he's going to...

YONG DZIN LANG LDAN DBANG PO LANG LDAN means the one... Hastivat, hastivat. It's a poeticism for the one who has the arm.

Extra arm.

[Speaker 3]
Elephant, isn't it?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, elephant, yeah. When you offer an elephant a peanut, he reaches out with his extra arm. Okay, so LANG LDAN means the guy who has the extra arm, okay?

And he says, you are the king of elephants, all right? Who? His YONG DZIN.

His personal YONG DZIN.

[Speaker 2]
His tutor, yeah?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, now who's Khirubje's tutor?

[Speaker 2]
Je Tsongkapa.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and he's saying, I bow down to your feet because you're the real king of the elephants. Not like... Not like Dignaga, okay?

He's just holding up the world, you know? You want to meet a real elephant, you got to meet my teacher, okay? LANG PO means king of the elephants, okay?

My YONG DZIN, okay? And that's a very high, honorific word to use for a teacher because it's normally reserved for a teacher of the very highest Lama. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
That's time. What's that?

[Speaker 1]
We're out of time. Oh man, I was just getting into it. All right.

By the way, Adam, for your footnote about the four ways of collecting disciples, I gave you a nice quotation from Gyaltsabje, okay? Khirubje's brother. And here's the four in here.

So you can use that for your footnote, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. All right. We're almost done with the poetry.

And by the way, I've never met a teacher in the monastery who went through the poetry.

[Speaker 2]
It's really cool. I like it.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Yeah. All right.

Let's go, handsome.

[Speaker 2]
Sashi, Puki, Jukshi, Neta, Drab, Vihrab, Linshi, Ninde, Gembadi, Sangye, Shindu, Mikthi, Uwadi, Thank you all for joining us today.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for coming to our party. Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you.

Thank you. That was a nice time. Amelie just put her hands together in prayer.

Amelie! Amelie! Amelie!

Do you want to see Amelie? Hey, wait.