Адам Андраде — Книга 2: Логика. Рассеивая тьму, занятие 15

[Speaker 1]
She's good with language. Yeah. Right, Popo?

[Speaker 2]
I wonder why.

[Speaker 1]
She's really smart.

[Speaker 2]
Her parents teaching her.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Goose. Okay, we're going to watch Grandpa.

Hi, Aaron.

[Speaker 3]
Hi, Geshe Michael. Hello.

[Speaker 1]
Nice to see you.

[Speaker 3]
Nice to see you, too.

[Speaker 1]
Wait, it's strange. You guys all look like you have sunpans. I don't know what that's about.

[Speaker 3]
Where'd you go?

[Speaker 1]
I'm jealous. I'm going next couple weeks as soon as they let me out of this cage. We went to San Diego UPA.

[Speaker 3]
Ah, nice.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, look, Amelie, look. Hey. Hey, Ava.

[Speaker 1]
Ava. Yeah, Ava. Hi, Ava.

We miss you, Ava. Ava. Yay, Ava.

She's not so shy today. No. She's come out of her shell recently.

So, you guys, Nick, Adam, we can start some longer books now. Yeah. So, they have a lot of books.

You could do the first half, and your girls can do the second half. How's that?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I see.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Don't say I'm not planning things. Maitre's already started his book.

All right. The book called Ah.

[Speaker 2]
The book called Ah.

[Speaker 1]
All right, here we go. Okay, here's our progress report from Mr. Andrade. Did you decide if you're related to the other Andrade?

You know, probably somewhere down that lineage, but. If you could get her to do a concert for us, that'd be something. Okay.

He bit off a huge text. It's over 2,000 pages in English. We're proposing to cut it like we did his other book.

By the way, I'm starting on your other book next. You're the next one up. Okay.

We're splitting it into four books, 500 pages each. Each book is going to take four or five years of work. Your first book took three years of work.

And your book naturally splits into about a three-year project. Actually, we have to go back to the Dora after that. Anyway, we'll figure that out.

And here we go.

[Speaker 2]
We have an absence of Adam. Oh, there he is.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Adam, I know your family's all got COVID. You feel okay to read? Yeah, I think we're good.

Okay, if you want to pass it off to somebody else, feel free. And I think Utpal is going to check your pronunciation. Here we go.

Go slow. Take your time. Okay.

Okay, good. Let me see. Let me see.

I'm going to try to keep up. Yeah, okay. If you really want to get to Enlightenment, then you're gonna, it's gonna rock play for $20.

Okay, word. I'm trying to depend upon. Oh my god, Nick got it already.

You're just trying to show off for your two girls. Okay, right here in the room. So I gotta look cool.

Yeah. Okay, 20 bucks for Amelie's college fund. Or Aaron's ice cream fund.

I'm not sure which one.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, rock play means depends upon. So if you really want to get to Guruhood, you're gonna have to depend upon 10 six, okay, logical proof. And that Sema, with which you can prove the three relationships in a reason.

Okay. I'll give you a logical statement. And I think Stanley's gonna give me the three relationships.

Oh, okay. Let's take the Japanese restaurant in VOC. We should go there tonight.

Because it has good food. It doesn't, but I'm just giving an example. Okay.

So Stanley, there's three parts there. Take the Japanese restaurant. Then I'm saying something about it, which I want to prove.

We should go there tonight. And then I have to give a reason. Because it has good food.

Okay. So anybody want to tell me one of the three relationships? How about that?

Stanley start if you want.

[Speaker 3]
I can do the first one. So the first one is, if three is one.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, one is three. Yeah. So tell it.

If there is good food in that Japanese restaurant. No, there's no if. Okay.

One is three. Yeah, I mean, the test is to see if there is. Oh, good.

Good. Yeah. Does the Japanese restaurant have good food?

And we're just pretending it does. It doesn't mean. Okay.

Who can give me the second relationship? Let's go there tonight. We should know that.

No, it has to be stated like this. If this, then that. If there is a Japanese restaurant at VOC.

No. If three must be two. If three must be two.

What's that?

[Speaker 3]
If there's food, you know, dang, well, we better go there tonight.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's the second relationship called Jacob. Okay. If three, then two.

So so far, we got two relationships. One is three. Then we got if three, two.

And then we got if not two, then not three. Nice. State it, Utpala.

[Speaker 3]
If we shouldn't go to that.

[Speaker 1]
If we shouldn't go there, it's because it doesn't have good food. Good. Right.

That's all. That's all. By the way, if the second relationship holds, the third relationship always holds.

Okay. If we should go there because it has good food, then if it doesn't have good food, we shouldn't go there. Okay.

All right. Good. So he says we're going to have to study about what's a correct perception of those three relationships.

Okay. Getting to Buddhahood relies on establishing those three relationships. Okay.

Who taught all of these topics without, and he also cut any ideas, any wrong dhokpa. Dhokpa means what? Suspicion.

Yeah, normally suspicion or any dumb ideas that it could be other. Okay. That you could try any other method to reach Buddhahood except for doing what's logical.

Who cut that? Well, who destroyed that idea completely? It was the Rigpe Wangchuk.

The Master Dignaga and Master Dharmakirti. Nice. The two big masters of logic.

The two Indras of logic. Okay. The two superheroes of logic, which is, yeah, Dignaga, who we're studying about in Ben's text.

We're learning his, he's in a cave and he's writing something on the wall, right? And we're so excited to find out what happens to him tomorrow. And only these two guys' books, you don't need Shen Gongtao's.

You do need other commentaries. Yeah, you don't need other commentaries. You don't even need most of the Densha's.

Most of the classical Densha's, majority. Yeah, you don't have to even look at them. Why?

Just, didak nidrak lepa, bepa mepa. You're gonna get to Buddhahood, bepa mepa if you use these two guys. Yeah, without effort.

Yay, almost automatically. Okay, just study these two guys. You're gonna get to Buddhahood automatically.

No trouble. Okay. Don't worry about all those other mixed nuts books.

Concentrate on Adam's book. Okay. Right?

All our books say that, of course, but you know, I know all the books say that. Okay. All right, Adam's going to read and Tim, you're gonna check.

Oh, I hate to wake you up there.

[Speaker 2]
Oh no, I'm totally awake. I just moved to turn on the mic.

[Speaker 1]
I know, you're just relaxing. You're just thinking about going to Japanese food. Okay, let's go.

Okay, anybody can tell me whose book has the most ches in it? Yeah, why?

[Speaker 2]
Self-cherishing.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, self-cherishing. But here, we have to cherish those Densha's. Yeah, cherish the books of these two great teachers, Dignaga and Dharmakirti.

Okay. Why? Because they have that purpose of reaching enlightenment.

Okay. DGOS PA DE DEN. They can help you reach enlightenment, so you should cherish them.

Okay. CHES PAR GSUNGS. Okay.

And DAM PA means like KHA DAM PA. What's that mean? Advice.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
They take everything as personal advice.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. He's gonna give you advice. Hey, you guys, you gotta value highly these two great teachers' books and their system.

You have to value it. Why? Because it can get you to enlightenment.

Okay. If you are DUN DUN YER BA, okay, Adam, to get others out of KUR BA, what's that mean? If you have the desire to free others from samsara.

Yeah. Well, actually, RANG YIN SHEN. If you have the desire to free yourself and...

And others. Yeah. If you want to get your ass out of samsara and get other people's asses out of samsara, then you should study this top, which is CHEN JI MA LO PA.

Ass backwards. Yeah, not ass, which is very accurate. Yeah.

Why? Because it churches the TSA BA of KUR BA. Because it is a classical commentary, which teaches...

It churpas. This is the churpa in Dorje Churpa. It churpas the TSA BA of KUR BA.

Because it cuts the root of the wheel. Yeah, good, good. Therefore, you should...

CHEN RJE is the same as CHIP, okay? CHEN RJE means... Therefore, you guys should...

You should feel like you just won a million dollars. If you get to sit in the Mixed Nuts class today and listen to Adam's book, you should feel like you just won a million dollars. I know for Word it's not enough, but for other people, you know.

All right. Okay, go ahead. Sugeng, you're going to watch his pronunciation here.

THA NA THA NA THO BA CHEN PA TZAM ZHIG DUNG SDUG BSNGAL DBANG BDAG KYANG SA THUNG KHO NA CHE CHE SU BRDZIN PAR PO NA Good. If your only goal in life is to KENG YOD DO BA... If you only...

Is to fill your belly. Yeah, filling your belly is your only priority in life. We can say you are DUN DUN DBYEN BA.

You have that aspiration. You have aspiration to fill your tummy. Then in that case, you should CHE PA SA WA and DUN WA.

Yeah, you should cherish food and drink. Yeah, if that's... Listen, if you want to fill your belly, you should cherish grocery stores.

But if you want to get enlightenment, you got to cherish something else. Okay, here we go. Sugeng, can you just keep checking?

And let's go, Adam. I'm not sure. NGES PAR CHE PAS TSUL KHANG LA RAG LAS PA DE NYID LA CHE CHE SU BRDZIN PAR BRDZIN PAR NI CHE PAR Yeah, good.

Yay. What's Gopang mean? Sangye Gopang.

[Speaker 2]
Highest state.

[Speaker 1]
Let's see. So, you know, the highest, the highest... Yeah.

Really, like the highest state. Yeah, good. Gopang is the hood in Buddhahood.

Okay. Gopang is the hood in Buddhahood. Okay.

Yeah, you want to reach the highest state. KHYAD CHEN means, look, if you have committed, if you claim, KHYAD CHEN BA means, if you claim that you have committed to seeking highest enlightenment and if you're a WAM PO NGON PA... If you're a person who's got a high faculty, like a high intelligence.

Yeah, if you claim to have a high... KHYAD CHEN is repeated here. If you claim to have a high intelligence and if you claim to be able to look ahead, STONG PA NGON DU STONG If you claim to be able to look ahead in your life, okay, then you better work for the choke.

The highest. Yeah, and that should be what you aspire to, okay? And you're going to need the top to get to the choke.

The method, yeah, to get to Gopang, right? Yeah, and you're going to have to ascertain with your dsema. Yeah, to confirm with accurate perception.

Yeah, good. You're going to have... This journey is going to depend on that process.

Therefore, you should CHE PA this topic, okay? Yeah, you should treasure this, right? Yeah, okay, good.

And if you MI CHE that... If you don't treasure it. Yeah, if you don't cherish this topic of logic, I'll tell you what's going to happen to you.

Here we go. Where we got somebody? Stanley, will you check this guy?

Okay, DENG CHOS. DENG CHOS NI DE DAG TSOS PA, FLOOR OF LAND, NI DE ZHUNG LUG ZHUNG BA DANG, NI ZHAO BAR GSUNG MED. Let's stop there, because it's a nice little piece.

If you think these DENG CHOS are just TSOS PA, what's that mean, Adam? Because if you think the classical commentaries are without meaning, like they don't have... If you think it's just people arguing over...

I've had many people tell me that, oh, these books, they're just arguing over nothing, you know, TSOS PA. FLOOR OF LAND means like for the sake of arguing, okay? If you think these books about logic are just arguing for the sake of arguing, and you think that this whole scriptural tradition is about as important as ZHUNG PA, this is a very unusual word.

We're going to see it in the Abhidharma, and it means... What do you call that, the skin on the rice?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it's a husk on the grain, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And you throw it out, right? You take the grain. In India, how do you get the husk off the grain, you know?

You pile it up on the street, and the cars run over it. And then you run out and get the grain in the evening, okay? And all the skins are torn off the grain, okay?

So if you think... And by the way, it's the same thing as the plastic that you use to wrap a candy bar. Oh, right, yeah.

Okay? If you think these books are disposable, like the paper that you use to wrap, like you tear off the wrapper and you throw it on the street, and that's what you think these logic books are worth, because they're just people arguing over nothing, okay? GSUNG NAS, if that's what you think, then keep going, Adam.

Keep checking, Stanley. Come on, be critical. LAM DANG, LAM MA YIN PAS, DANG NYID TZAM YANG NA BA'I LAM DU NGON PHYIR, MA ZHUG LANG.

I'm going to put it there, Adam. Yeah, look, NA BA'I LAM DU, if it never, if the sound never came into your ear canal, okay, that there's a difference between LAM and LAM MA YIN. Between the path and things that aren't the path.

Yeah, if you're one of these idiots who never heard that there's a difference between LAM and LAM MA YIN, there's a difference between the path and what's not the path, okay? If you're one of these doofs, okay? Hey, Xiaoping, new word you can use for Stanley.

Doof. Doof means stupid guy, okay? Don't be a doof.

Short for doofus. It's a, yeah, it's a special English from my area of America, okay? You doof.

You say it like this, doof, okay? It means a stupid guy, doofus. Okay, I'm teaching you new words to use at home.

Okay, DGON LA SKAD PA. Keep going, Adam. DGON LA SKAD PA, TSANG MA KYANG CHI DGOD PAS, LUNG PHO RIG YI, RIG YI ZHUG TSE YOD BAR, CHE PA TZAM GYI MA RGYAL BA ZHIG LA.

Good. Okay, would I call you a Kepa? TSANG MA KYANG.

Okay, TSANG MA KYANG means forget the question of whether you're a master or not. Okay, let's not even talk about that. DGON LA means whether you are really a master or not.

CHI DGOD, we don't even have to talk about it, okay? You're not, okay? We don't have to talk about the question of whether you are a master about things really, okay?

You're the kind of guy who's a lumbo. An idiot. Yeah, you're just an idiot.

And I think you're going to take your whole TSE and go up on a RIG and sit in a puke. Yeah, so you're going to take your life and you're going to, I mean, waste it. Yeah, you're going to go sit in some cave somewhere.

RGYAL BA CHEN PA means you're going to pass your whole life. RGYAL BA means to pass the time, okay? And it's just MA RGYAL.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it's pride.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, BA ZHIG, nothing more. But yeah. Your whole attitude about enlightenment and how to get into enlightenment is just a bunch of bullshit, okay?

Then I can see you going up on a mountain somewhere and sitting there your whole life, waste your whole life. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, who's talking?

This sounds like Gyaltsabje. It's a kid, or Jay? Oh, man.

[Speaker 2]
It's Dharmabrata.

[Speaker 1]
Dharmabrata, yeah, okay. All right, who's up next? Inna, are you there?

Oh, she's asleep. She's probably sleeping right now, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Catherine, is Catherine translating? How about Bao?

[Speaker 2]
Hi.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Bao, let's go. Let's criticize Adam, it's fun. Okay, here we go.

All right, let's go. Okay, cool. You guys, deep down in your yin-ying, what's that?

In the depths of your heart? Heart, yeah. Rangpa is part of the word for yi rang, but when you use it by itself, it means, like, it means like, your mind is out of control, okay?

You guys, your mind is out of control, okay? You guys' mind, deep down inside your mind, is out of control, okay? And, you know, you just mepa, okay?

Yeah, you just say... Yeah, jungel is a very difficult yin-ying, it means whatever the heck comes in your mind, okay? Jungel means whatever pops into your head, okay?

So, you just mepa, jungel, sick. You just say words at, like, random. Yeah, your mind is out of control, and then you just say whatever comes into your head, okay?

Then, you know, then you go, and you go to somebody, and you try to get mengak about something. Mengak, advices about meditation, about... Yeah, you go to somebody, and people in Tibet do this on the street.

There's people sitting on the side of the street. I've seen them. You go to them, and there's some guy sitting on the street, and you say, oh, teach me how to meditate.

Ming tak de means... You call it, you give it the name. Ming tak means to apply a name, right?

You call it meditation advice, you know? And you hold it as if it's the most important thing in the universe, okay? Like the essence of all knowledge, okay?

Khang yin pa de. Okay. Do you guys go meet some guys sitting on the street and learn meditation from them?

Okay, keep going. Pao, keep checking.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so there's two kinds of Buddhists. One is called depe jendang, and one is called rikpe jendang. What's the difference, Adam?

Rikpe jendang and depe jendang. People who follow based on their reasoning, and people who follow out of faith. Yeah, like almost superstitious, right?

They just, whatever the teacher says, do this, they do it, and they don't think about it. And those are called wang tu. What's that mean?

They have kind of low sense powers, or low intellect. Yeah, they're dull-minded. Then rikpe jendang.

Those who follow out of reasoning. They are wang nun. They have great intellect.

Yeah, they have great intellect, okay? Now he says something really, really insulting, okay? I swear he was sitting with Delta J when he wrote this part, okay?

Look, man, we can't... Let's not even talk about calling you wang nun. Yeah, let's not talk about you having great intellect.

Yeah, you know, we're not going to even talk about whether you're sharp or not. We're going to talk about whether you even qualify as a dull disciple, okay? Then what's the answer, Adam?

Sam depe jendang sam mayin. Because some... Just...

Those who follow out of faith, out of blind faith. Yeah, you mayin, you mayin. You don't qualify.

You don't even qualify as a dull person, okay? You don't even qualify as a person superstitious, or follow out of faith, because what? There's no depe neng.

Because they're... Depe neng, because... I mean, how's the depa?

You have depa about something which doesn't... Doesn't exist. Yeah, you have...

I'm not even going to kind of call you a follower after faith, because what you're following out of faith doesn't even deserve to be followed out of faith. Got it? Okay.

What you believe in, what you believe in without examining it logically, is not even worth that. All right? Because it's wrong.

Following out of faith means you have a nice Lama, you believe in them, they teach you to do blah, blah, blah, you do it. That's faith. But the thing you believe in isn't even worth faith.

It's a very harsh analysis, and it's true. This guy is claiming that logic is boring, logic is just argument for argument's sake, logic is not interesting. So this person doesn't even go do OM MANI PADME HUM.

They want to do stuff that doesn't even exist. Okay? All right.

Yay! Keep going. Yi Yi, are you there?

Yi Yi? No. I see her, but I can't see her.

Can you check Adam and criticize him? It's fun. All right, here we go.

Hey, you guys gotta hang on for one second, okay? I have something to show you. You all right?

Waiting in suspense. Okay, hang on, hang on.

[Speaker 2]
Is he getting his bubble machine?

[Speaker 1]
If he is, I'm going to get Amelie to take a look. He's got a bubble machine?

[Speaker 3]
I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
Flowers.

[Speaker 3]
Oh.

[Speaker 1]
A step stool?

[Speaker 2]
A step stool.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, got it. Not entirely. Oh.

If you can't reach something on the shelf, Veronica uses this because she's short. I've got one for Ava, actually. Okay, that's a dikbe chawa.

Okay. That's a dikcha, okay? Okay.

Okay? Yeah, like the mutex. Yeah, the mutex.

They go to the Ganges River and they use one of those so they don't have to sit in the filthy water. They just sit right above the filthy water. Right.

The stoolies. Okay, and he says, you guys who say that logic is boring and stupid and a waste of time, and we should just go meditate in a cave somewhere and recite some magic thing. You guys, probably when you want to reach something high on your shelf, for a dikcha, you use a big bunch of buas.

Bubbles. Yeah, bubbles. You go to the sink, you get some dish washing soap, you mix up some bubbles, you put them on the floor, and you climb up on the bubbles to reach the high part you can't reach, okay?

Okay, you guys got it? Where's the famous bua?

[Speaker 2]
At Kamalashila. The last verse of Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. kamarābhimāvināgyumasūbhichubudang chubudang, chubudang, okay?

Bubbles. chubur, bua. Got it, you guys?

Okay. By the way, samparangshintuminepa is an idiom that I'm going to teach you guys. Samparangshintuminepa, it's exactly the Russian suma shenshi.

Is in here? No. It means you're out of your mind.

You're not in your right mind, okay? In English, we have an idiom. You're not in your right mind.

It means you're a crazy person, okay? Samparangshintuminepa means your brain is broken, okay? Got it, you guys?

I think so. Now you can start using it towards each other. Hey, you're samparangshintuminepa, okay?

Your brain is broken, I think. It means you're crazy. You probably, when you want to reach the cookies on the top shelf that you're trying to hide from Amélie, you probably pile up...

Bubbles. Bubbles, okay. All right, we have time, Nick?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I guess so.

[Speaker 2]
Lots of it.

[Speaker 1]
We have 15 minutes. Okay, let's go, let's go. Haso, are you there?

[Speaker 2]
He's translating.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. Yiyi, you want to keep going?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
All right, let's go. Okay, good. Interesting.

Okay. How are you doing, Adam? You should use the three steps of tösam gom.

What are they, Adam? Listening, contemplation, and... Good, yeah.

You should use those three steps. Classroom, time, thinking in your car, and meditating on your cushion. When you're going to...

About these dena, about these particular books, okay? These particular logic books, okay? You should examine with your mind, jung dok gi rimpa.

And only Sugeng is a master of jung dok, because he did it with the sipe korlo. Yeah, it's the ways... The ways that you can either...

You can either reach... Yeah, you can either reach freedom or not reach freedom. Or at least...

Yeah, and here is korlo. You can juk in the whole korlo, or you can dok from korlo. What does that mean?

You can enter it, or you can reverse it. Yeah, samsara, okay? How many samsaras?

Rang, shen. Those for yourself and others. Yeah, your own samsara and other people's samsara.

You could turn it off, or you could help keep it going, okay? You should think about the steps you have to take, okay? You got to think about it, and you have to analyze it, okay?

And by the way, when he says analyze, he's trapping the guy. Why?

[Speaker 2]
Gotta use logic.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you're gonna have to use logic. You want to get yourself out of samsara? You want to get your family out of samsara?

Well, you better use logic, okay? Okay, you got a nyenpa, which means tsopa.

[Speaker 3]
That's to listen, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And you got a sempa.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, samsara.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Bepa, betsen, tsundru. Tsundru.

Well, joyful effort, yeah. Yeah, work hard. Work hard at listening to the mixed mass classes.

Work hard at thinking about them when you're cooking dinner or breakfast after the class, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Keep going. Is Joy Chen, are you there?

Are you translating? You pure gold lady? No?

Do you want to check, Adam? Let's try. Okay, every word, just say no, no, no.

Wait, let me get this. There we go. Okay.

Okay. . husbands and wives are called davos also.

Here it means your friends, your other mixed nuts friends. Gashig means you want to find a couple of them. Kashyak means just to argue over stuff.

Kashyak means, kashyak doesn't mean debate. It means just argue over stuff. Gey means to argue kind of badly.

Gey means, what do you call it? Yeah, useless arguing. If you think that's what we're here for, if that's what you are looking forward to, me.

Shuk means if you engage in this book because you're hoping to go to the debate ground and have some nice arguments with your friends, you are going to nyampa. Yeah, you're going to listen. This nyam means, yeah, you're going to fall.

Right, nyampa, right, sorry. Yeah, and by the way, notice he's using yang twice, okay? Yang yang, okay, yang yang.

It means, A, you're going to fall. B, what? Sorry, and I was actually, I was looking something up.

Yeah, A, you're going to fall. B, Shen going to fall. You're going to fall and others, and other people are going to.

Yeah, you're going to give a bad example to other people. And they're going to start to magupa the tensions. They're going to start to disrespect the classical commentary.

Yeah, because they're going to say, oh, this is just for useless arguing in the debate ground. I've heard people say that. I've heard Western scholars say, oh, this whole thing is just BS.

They're just arguing. Then they disrespect the logic tradition, okay? Therefore, way, here's his final advice.

Hey, you, Shen dance. Yeah, hey, those, yeah, with those people who have, those people who are intelligent. Yeah, good, good, good.

Don't say bad stuff about this logic tradition because of wrongy low ken. Because those are faults of wrongy low of your own mind. Yeah, don't criticize this logic tradition because you have defects of your own mind, okay?

Don't criticize this tradition because you can't understand it or you don't appreciate it. You don't understand how to use it, okay? Don't disrespect Kepe Lekshe.

What's that mean? Lekshe, the elegant kind of the... Nice.

Elegant words of the masters of... Yeah, nice. Yeah, what's the most famous Lekshe that we're working on?

I'm working on. Yeah, Lekshe Nyingpo on the art of interpretation, okay? Marungpa means to act improperly, okay?

This marungpa means to make it something wrong. Mache, don't make these beautiful words something wrong, okay? Respect them, okay?

Marungpa. All right. Now, look, he just finished Tenchu Chepar Summa Dampa.

What's that mean? He just finished Tenchu Chepar Summa Dampa. He's Dampa-ing us that we should Chepar the Tenchu.

He's explaining to us that we should cherish and appreciate the Apostle commentaries. Nice, nice. So now, look, he says, look, first he taught us what's the purpose of the logic books to achieve enlightenment.

Then he proved that these books can get you to enlightenment, okay? Then he advised us to treat those books with great love and great appreciation. Now he's going to teach us the Lu of the Tenchu.

The body of the words. Yeah. So finally, we're getting to the logic part, okay?

Yay! So Adam made it... By the way, that's one of the most impassioned defense of logic ever written.

And you just finished it. And he's passionately trying to say, look, logic is not some stupid thing. Logic is how you go to dinner, you know?

And you gotta respect it, all right? All right. If it wasn't for logic, you'd never get to the Japanese semester, okay?

All right, who else? Hey, Ward, you didn't check him yet. No, I didn't.

Let's go, let's go. Nice. Nice.

Nice, nice. You're hot today, Adam. Okay, let's talk about the blue of the tencha, okay?

Yeah. What's tenla papa mean, or tenla apa? Let's set forth.

That means demonstrate, right? It kind of means to set forth the outline of something that he's going to talk about, okay? Let's, you know, let's start into our explanation of this, the body of this book, okay?

But first, let's nunzin what is the body of this book, okay? Yeah. Yeah, to like identify.

Yeah, it came a lot in Seiji's text, why?

[Speaker 3]
Identifying what to give up?

[Speaker 1]
The object of what you're combating. Yeah, exactly. We're trying to identify who's the demon around here, and it's Rong Chenzin.

Yeah, you're self-searching. Yeah, good, okay. So first of all, let's just agree on what's the whole structure of the book, and then let's get into it gyepa.

Wait, is this the same? Oh, yeah, and the detail. Yeah, and then we'll do the detail of that book, denyi, okay?

This doesn't mean emptiness, okay? Then we'll get into the detail of that book, okay? One minute, Geshe-la, just...

It's the most important verse in all of the logic scriptures, okay? Let's just read it for good luck. Okay, Adam, go, go, go.

DANG PO NI RIG GO LAS NGON SONG DANG NI RJES SU PHAG PHAR NANG PHYI BA THAG RIG CHE GRUB PA DANG NGIS SUN CHEN LA PHAR NANG PHYI BA SHIN PO PHYIR Yeah, this verse from the Rig Go, by Thich Nhat Hanh, if I'm not mistaken, is the whole structure of Buddhist logic, okay? The door of logic, right, the Rig Go. And I'm just gonna translate it, okay?

And this is the whole structure that you're gonna sit with for the next five years, okay? Here it is. Ngon Song, let's study direct perception.

Right? RJES SU PHAG PHAR, let's study indirect perception, logical perception. Let's study THAR NANG PHYI BA, let's study what's bad logic, okay, that we use with our wife or husband, okay?

Let's study what's bad logic. DAG RIG CHE, if you study what is correct perception, direct perception, and what is logical perception, and you study the mistakes you can make in logic, that's for you, okay? That's for you, that's what you need to study for your own life, that's what you need.

Now, there's also kinds of logic which we use to prove things to other people, DRUG PA, and we use to defeat other people's bad arguments, SON CING, okay? And studying those two kinds of how to prove things to other people correctly, and how to prove that someone else is wrong, like your wife or husband, NGAG, okay? And then studying what it means to make a mistake in the logic you use towards other people, GZHAN TOG CHE, that's to help other people, that's to give other people understanding.

All logic divides into these topics. For you, you better know what it means to see something with your own eyes, and you better know what it means to see something with logic, and you better know what it means to make a mistake with your own eyes or your own logic. That's for you, DAG RIG CHE, that's for you, okay?

Now, how to prove what you believe, DRUG PA, and how to prove that someone else is wrong, SON CING, and the mistakes you're going to make proving those things to other people, that's to help other people. And all Buddhist logic is divided into these topics. Cool?

So we could summarize, we could say it's for you, and it's for others, okay? And we're going to put special emphasis on teaching you the typical mistakes you make in your own mind, and then when you talk to other people. Okay, got it?

Yay. Thank you, Geshe Michael. Okay.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Khenpoche. Okay, I'll see you guys in the morning.

All right, so there's a... Stay tuned, guys. There's a Q&A coming up right now with Professor Dr. Sugeng Shi. What is it? Yay. Are you ready, Sugeng?