Адам Андраде — Книга 2: Логика. Рассеивая тьму, занятие 38

[Speaker 2]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everybody. I hope everybody's having a nice weekend day so far. You there Geshe Michael?

[Speaker 1]
Well, for those of you who were not here on Monday, welcome to the new Mixed Nuts format.

[Speaker 2]
I'm going to mute all and then Nick and Geshe Michael, if you could unmute yourselves.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, can you guys hear me? There we go. All right.

Hi, everybody. So, for those of you who were not here, oh, by the way, all interpreters, please unmute yourselves also. For those of you who were not here on Monday, welcome to the new Mixed Nuts format.

The Diamond Cutter Classics translation program from now on is going to be weekly and two different days a week. And we're really grateful for all of you coming to see us. I think most of you were here.

We're happy to have you. Please keep coming. Please bring all your friends.

These classes are amazing. And I'll just reiterate one thing I said on Monday. Historically, we've all, those of us who have been studying with Geshe Michael and in this kind of, these types of classes, we've always been waiting for a chance to learn from somebody like Geshe Michael all of these details of all of these schools, and which were previously not accessible to people, like to the general public.

And now we have a very, very special opportunity to get to go through these books line by line, learning the ideas as well as the language, as well as talking about practical applications in our lives. And it's a really special opportunity. So thank you for joining.

I encourage you to keep joining. Tell everybody you know what a special opportunity this is. And now we have a very special class with Geshe Michael and one of our Mixed Nuts translators, Adam Andrade.

Thank you, Geshe Michael. You look so handsome. All right.

If the ladies want his telephone number, you got to stay on afterwards. If you make a big donation, you get his telephone number. He's talking about Adam, by the way.

In the last year, he has climbed, I think, 14 of the highest mountains in Colorado with his daughter. 40. 40.

With his daughter, Eva. And Adam just did... He just placed very high in a 34-mile run, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, that's it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, oh my gosh. I would die if I run 34 feet. Anyway, congratulations on your run.

Thank you. Adam, do you want to say... Well, let me introduce this new format.

We're going to be doing Saturday mornings, Arizona time, and Monday evenings, Arizona time. We used to do Mixed Nuts classes, translation classes. We used to do them three times a year.

We used to do them for two weeks. We used to do two hours in the early, early morning. Then we used to do three hours in the late, late night.

We used to do 60 classes in two weeks. They were very difficult classes. It was very exhausting for everybody.

This year, we're going to try out a new system. Saturday morning, Arizona, World Central Time. We're going to be doing...

Here in Arizona, we'll be doing actually a meditation in the morning, and then followed by a class, followed by required cinnamon rolls and coffee at the Peachtree Cafe. That's the schedule. Then Monday night, we'll be doing a class.

It starts at 4 o'clock Arizona Central Time, which is 7 in the morning Asia time. Every other country fits in between there, especially Europe. No, Europe's not good on Monday night.

Then we'll be doing two classes that night. Every time we do a class of one hour, then after that, we would like to do 15 minutes of discussion about how can you use this class in your real life. We'd like everybody to join in on the chat.

During Adam's class, if you hear any ideas that you think you could use in your real life, we'd like to talk about it. We'd like to discuss it. I'm going to ask Adam to keep one eye on the chat.

If you see somebody who's got some good ideas about how to use your class in their real life, we'd like to do that. That's going to be a 15-minute session discussion after the class. Do one hour of class, 15 minutes of discussion about how can you use this in your real life, which we call Diamond Mining.

That exercise is called Diamond Mining. After that, we're going to have 10 or 15 minutes from the Peachtree World News guys. They're going to tell us what's happening in the Worldview Network.

We have a network of about 20 different organizations around the world. Every week, there's exciting news going on. Last night, they finished a big program in Nepal at our Sanskrit Entry Center.

We have an Entry Center in Nepal. Christina Kasica helped start it. We type in Sanskrit there.

I'm using that Sanskrit this week. They just typed in the 30 verses of Vasubandhu for the Mind-Only School. They found it.

They typed it in. We use it in our books right away. They had a very successful trip.

They had a world trip. I think they had about 100 guests came to the Entry Center. They had a wonderful time.

They raised $150,000 for ALL, which takes a lot of pressure off a certain grandpa. Thank you for that. I hope every organization can do stuff like that.

That kind of news we would like to share with everybody. I hear it because I try to help with stuff, but I think you might enjoy hearing about the different news going on or different programs around the world that are available. Sometimes we just don't hear about them.

We'll do 15 minutes of that. I'm going to encourage Geshe Michael and Adam to not talk so fast. Don't forget, I think we have six different languages translation going on.

Nick, how many? I don't know. I don't know.

Portuguese probably too. Sorry, I was muted. I think that's six.

We're trying to get German for all the classes. Any German translators out there who feel motivated to do, we do three hours a week, so however much of that you could do, even if it's one a week, we would love for that. Please, if you are asking a question or you're making a comment, or if you're teaching this class, or if you're the translator in this class, just breathe naturally.

Every time you finish a sentence and you run out of breath, then take a few seconds and you'll learn how to do it. Adam, do you want to talk about your text for a couple of minutes and just tell us general stuff about your book? Can you tell us a little bit about the first book you did?

This is your second book.

[Speaker 2]
They support each other. The first book I did was actually drawing material from my current book. The book that I'm currently translating is looking at Master Dharmakirti's seven texts that he composed.

He composed a total of eight texts, but seven of those we're really focusing on in this book. My first book takes the source material from those books and condenses them down to a series of topics that are usually given to young monks at the monastery to learn how to debate. It's basic Buddhist reasoning.

My first text was called The Collected Topics.

[Speaker 1]
The second text is written by Kedrup Jeh, and it's a more in-depth look at those topics.

[Speaker 2]
We're going to be spending a little bit more time looking at mainly the difference between rangtsen and chitsen, actual objects and archetypes. That's the main focus of this text. Obviously, there's a lot of other stuff going on in there, but that seems to be the meat of it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, cool. I have a proposal, Adam, and I know I apologize. I figured out this proposal last night around 2 a.m., so I would like to go through the traditional outline of your book. Your book is extremely difficult, and I think it would be useful for all of us if we went through every author of these kind of ancient books. There's a custom, there's a tradition of making an outline of all the different topics. As you go through the book, they say, okay, now we're on point number two, or now we're on point number three, or number four.

It's very, very helpful to follow this outline and to understand the outline. Because Adam's book is actually one of the most difficult books that we're going to cover, and I just want to encourage you. I know we're starting a new term.

We're starting a new way of doing the Mixed Nuts classes. By the way, this new way is called Shenzong's Tower, which is named from a very tall tower in China, which is where the great books were translated 1,400 years ago. We have a friend in China, I think Shenzhen, made a drawing of Shenzong's Tower.

I believe it was made with burning dots from a small piece of incense. You can see it behind me. It's an amazing drawing.

That's the actual tower. It's still there. My wife, Veronica, and I have visited it.

That's where they translated 1,000 books. That became a big part of the whole national identity of China, is the great ideas from these books. I think it became part of the reason for China's success as a country right now, is their ancient tradition of ways of thinking.

We're going to go... This book is very, very difficult. I think it's going to be helpful if we go through the outline, if we look at the outline.

It may take the whole hour. I worked on the outline for a couple of days. I learned something amazing.

I'd like to share it with you guys. Me and Adam would like to share it with you guys. Adam, I'm going to share my screen.

Yes, sir. I'm going to go to the outline. It's tough, but okay.

That's all right. I wanted to say, this material is difficult. Adam's book is one of the more difficult books.

I said it 1,000 times, and I'll probably say it a few thousand more times. If you are patient, and if you keep coming stubbornly, like a donkey, to these classes, and you don't give up, and you just keep coming, and open your mind to these new ideas, they will explode inside your mind. Your life will explode.

Your income, your family life, your personal level of happiness will explode. I tell you 1,000 times over, this is what happens. If you're just patient and expose your mind to great ideas.

You didn't hear these ideas before, so they're difficult. It's like learning a new language. You have to be open.

You have to just open your mind and relax, and say to yourself, Vyajjala, I understand 1% of what you and Adam said today, and that's fine. There's stuff going on in your subconscious that's going to make you a very happy and successful person, and you and other people.

[Speaker 2]
I can tell you personally, all my personal dreams have come true, because of trouble.

[Speaker 1]
When I used to try to read Madhyamika, and I would sleep in 10 minutes, and it's hard, it's hard stuff, and it's new stuff, and it's going to change your mind. If it wasn't hard, it would be old stuff that you already knew, and then you'd kind of be wasting your time. You're going to learn new stuff.

Learning new stuff is hard, and you have to stretch your mind. Your mind is like... Me and Veronica took a class, do you remember?

In California, from a yoga teacher. He gets dead bodies of people, and he has permission, and he cuts them open, and he studies the muscles of people who do yoga and people who don't do yoga. The people who don't do yoga, he has a microscope, and he shows you, their muscle actually turns into mineral, calcium, and you can see that their muscles froze.

Then he takes these yoga guys, unfortunately they got in a car accident or something, and he'll show you the same muscle. It's healthy, and it's beautiful. What I'm saying is you have a mental muscle, you have a brain, and if you stretch it, and if you just trust Grandpa and open your mind to some new ideas, you will have an amazing life.

You will be so grateful later. Just relax. Don't expect to understand everything.

Just open your heart, open your mind, and keep coming like a stubborn donkey. Keep coming to the class, and your life will explode. I beg you to keep coming, because your life will be so happy, and so amazing, and you will help so many people.

If it was easy, it'd be something you heard already, and you already know it, so why come to the class? The reason you come to the class is to be uncomfortable, and to learn new things. Me and Adam guarantee to make you uncomfortable.

Here's a topical outline. I'm going to ask Adam to read. Our goal today, Adam, is just to get through the outline.

I'm going to prove to you something about how drunk was your author when he was writing this book. I'm just kidding. Of course, he didn't drink alcohol.

But something's going on in your book, and it was bothering me, and I proved it to myself this week. Let's go see what's the mystery.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la, this looks drastically different than the outline that I composed when we first started. I was just wondering how you... We're probably going to get to that.

[Speaker 1]
We'll get to it, don't worry. Trust me, I've done a hundred thousand of these outlines.

[Speaker 2]
No, that's good.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, please read this first line, Adam. Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
TSE MA DE'I DUN GYI RGYEN YID KYI MUN ZAL Good.

[Speaker 1]
TSE MA means what, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
It's accurate perception.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you see something and you're correct. It could be with your eyes closed, it could be with your eyes open, but it's a correct perception. What's DE'I DUN?

[Speaker 2]
It's like the collection of seven.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, there are seven famous books about how do you see things? How do you perceive things? Those were written all by Dharmakirti about 1,500 years ago.

This book is called the GYEN of those seven books. What's GYEN?

[Speaker 2]
Like the ornament or... Yeah. When they call a book a GYEN, what's the Sanskrit?

[Speaker 1]
Alankara. When they call a book a piece of jewelry, what they mean is the lady was already beautiful. Those seven books were already really foxy, beautiful lady.

Then our author is going to put a necklace on her and make her more beautiful. When they call a book Alankara, in ancient Sanskrit, there are many famous books called Jewelry. It means, look, these seven books are already very beautiful, and I'm just adding some extra beauty.

Meaning his explanation is just extra beauty on ideas that are already beautiful. What's YIKI MUN TSUL, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
It's clearing away the darkness of the mind.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and we're struggling I think a little bit with the title because in English, and you have to be sensitive to connotations of English, darkness kind of means evil. We say he has dark thoughts, or he's trying to bomb people, or something like that. That's not what it means here.

It means confusion, or misunderstanding, or you don't know something, or no one ever explained it to you. So we're going to struggle with the title. We're not sure yet.

But in your mind, YIKI MUN TSUL means clear it away. Clearing away the part of your mind that doesn't understand how to think clearly. That's the topic that we're covering.

All right, we have the title. We have the opening bow down. We're not going to cover that.

I'm going to ask you, Adam, to read a few of these lines, and then we're going to kick on our audience. Okay, please read this one. TSE MA'I RTEN CHOS KYI DGOS PAR RTEN LA PAR PA Good.

You want to translate it?

[Speaker 2]
TSE MA'I RTEN CHOS Yeah, we're going to set forth the purpose for the classical commentary on agaric perception.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and in the ancient tradition, you don't sit down in a class to study a new thing unless the author can prove to you it's going to help you. DGOS PA means, is it going to do something for you? It's the author's responsibility.

Before they start the class, they have to prove to you that this book is going to help you and this book can help your life. We're traditionally encouraged not to study a book if it doesn't have a high purpose. If it doesn't have a purpose that will help us or help the world, we don't spend our time on it.

Your lifetime is short, trust me. You'll be 70 before you realize it. And you don't have time to spend on books that are not important.

Important means, do they help people? Does it help people? And he's going to prove.

The first thing our author does is I'm going to prove to you that this book is helpful. Next one.

[Speaker 2]
DGOS PA LA LOG PAR THOG PA GAG PA What's that mean? We're going to refute wrong ideas about the purpose given in the first verse. Composing the text.

[Speaker 1]
Some people might try to study these books for lesser purpose, for lower purpose. I need to get a degree in the college or I want to look intelligent to people or things like that. And he's saying, don't waste your time.

If it's not helpful to you in your life and if it's not helpful especially to other people, don't waste your time. Don't work on a book unless it's really important. All right.

And he's going to propose three different benefits to this book. Number one, Adam.

[Speaker 2]
DGOS PA DGOS PA DANG NYER LA THER TE DGOS MED KYI LOG THOG PA GAG PA And to make this one short because I want to finish the whole outline today.

[Speaker 1]
The other guy says, I think learning to think clearly which is our subject in this book. Learning to think clearly is not important for drulwa. What's drulwa?

[Speaker 2]
Liberation.

[Speaker 1]
Learning to think clearly is not going to stop cancer or it's not going to stop unhappiness in the world. Look, I appreciate you wrote this book on clear thinking. But come on, there's big problems in the world.

There's war. There's cancer. There's aging.

There's children dying. And I don't think your book is going to help with that. And then he refutes it.

DGOS PA He blocks that thought. He proves his book is going to help people. We did it already.

Number two.

[Speaker 2]
YUL GYI KHYAD PAR LA THOS TE DGOS MED KYI LOG THOB GAG PA Yeah, I don't remember what this one is.

[Speaker 1]
YUL GYI KHYAD PAR means... Do you remember Adam? Anyway, something special about the book that he proves means it's going to be important or YUL GYI KHYAD PAR.

Students, proper students. Third one. DGOS PA YOD KYANG MED PAR DGOS PA GAG PA Yeah, I agree that if I studied this book maybe I could learn to think more clearly.

But I don't see how that's a very important thing. Somebody said that. And then he blocks that idea.

He proves that that's a dumb idea. And then finally, he proves YANG BDAG PA... Sorry, go ahead Adam.

[Speaker 2]
YANG BDAG PA DGOS PA BSTAN PA Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Look, there is a higher purpose to this book. The study of pramana. Say pramana.

[Speaker 2]
Pramana.

[Speaker 1]
The end you have to say with your tongue curled back. Pramana. Pramana.

Pramana means accurate perception. Okay? And that's a big deal.

That's a really big deal. How many times a day do you not see something correctly? This is a white tissue.

How many people see it as blue? You can say, Geshe-la, nobody sees this as blue. I'm having 100% correct perceptions as we speak.

And I say, no. 99.9% of every thought you have in the day is completely mistaken. Okay?

What percentage of your thoughts, what percentage of your perceptions of even color are mistaken? And I say it's more than 99.9. Okay? We have to study how to think clearly.

We have to study how to see what's really there. We are living in a fog our whole life. Our whole life we are seeing things that aren't there.

Okay? Your whole life. Every moment, from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, you are living in a complete fog.

You never saw anything correctly. This is blue. Okay?

I've got to prove it. All right. Here we go.

Who's making scribbles on my text here? I don't know. No drawing on the text.

All right. Adam, let's pick on somebody. Let's keep people awake.

Yes, sir. Let me pull up the participants.

[Speaker 2]
There we are. Emily? Is Emily Chen?

Yes. Can you help us? Would you mind reading?

Thank you. ... Good.

[Speaker 1]
Which means, yes, it's important to see things correctly. Yes, I understand that it's possible that my senses are broken. It's possible that I can't see colors, for example.

You go with Seiji to an expensive department store in Kyoto, and it's a joke, you know, because all the greens are yellow, all the blues are red. He's colorblind, partly colorblind, okay? And, you know, you do have a problem.

You know, Nour's not going to like that blouse, because it's bright purple. And he's like, no, it's green. And I'm like, no.

Okay, so can you fix your perceptions? Yes. Will this book help you?

The guy has a doubt, and we prove it. We say, yeah, this book will help you. This book will help you.

By the time you finish this book, you will be seeing the world accurately for the first time. Okay, we're going to fix your colorblindness. All right.

By the way, in this tradition, you don't waste time on a book if it cannot help you. Your life is so short. Your life goes so fast.

Your time in this world is so short. You don't have time to waste on a book that doesn't help you with the big things in life. How to stop illness.

How to stop war. How to stop unhappiness. How to stop mortality.

If the book doesn't talk about that, don't waste your time. Go find another book. Go find one of these books.

That's the idea. And as an old man, I tell you, you don't have time. Don't waste your time on other stuff.

Find a way to stop death. Find a way to stop suffering in the world. Don't waste your time on...

You don't have time. Don't waste 10 minutes on something less than that. All right.

Keep going, Adam. Who's going to read?

[Speaker 2]
What about Elena? Voloshina? Got to turn on your microphone.

We'll move on. What about Esther? Esther.

Okay. Adam, read.

[Speaker 3]
GOS PA DE BDEN GYIS BSTAN CHOS CHE BAR GSUNG BAR DANG PA Yeah, and this CHE is the key word here.

[Speaker 1]
CHEN ZIN. In Seiji's text, we have constantly the word CHEN ZIN. And that's a bad thing.

Self-cherishing. Sugeng said self-cherishing. But here, you should CHEN ZIN this BSTAN CHOS.

[Speaker 2]
You should cherish this work, this classical commentary, this shastra.

[Speaker 1]
Because it has a GOS PA.

[Speaker 2]
Because it has a real purpose.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it has a real purpose. It can stop death. It can stop war.

It can stop cancer. It can stop mental unhappiness. So please, fall in love with this book and keep it under your pillow.

Okay. Tourist section, Adam. Try to find somebody who can read.

I got people here.

[Speaker 3]
Well, you know, Geshla, would you pick the first person?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Sugeng, quick, quick, quick. Come around this way.

Don't kick the courts. I got a handsome guy from Rimrock. Hi, Sugeng.

Good morning. He just bought a beautiful house in Rimrock. He and his wife bought a beautiful house.

It has a beautiful garage. They have a beautiful new car. Maybe the book helps.

Okay, here we go. By the way, I'm going to keep moving, Adam. You're going to stay.

Which just means, okay, now I'm going to tell you what this book is about. Let's get into the book. I sold you the book already.

Do you care that you're getting old? Do you care that you're dying? Do you care that the world has war?

We can stop it, together. Now, let's get to the book. Here we go.

I'm going to keep this same Rimrockian guy. Rimrocker. Rimrocker.

Here we go. Which means he's just going to identify the main points in the book. I'm moving quickly, because I want to get to the hard part.

These are the easy parts. Keep going. Denny here, Adam, doesn't mean tattva.

It doesn't mean emptiness. It just means the book. Let's go dig into this book.

Here we go. The book basically has three parts. First, we're going to talk about yuls.

What's that, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
Just objects.

[Speaker 1]
Objects of the mind. The first third of this book is describing objects of the mind. I'm going to skip to the second part down here.

Here's the second part. Can you read it again? We're going to describe what the mind sees, and then we're going to describe states of mind.

What are the divisions of reality that the mind perceives? Secondly, what are the divisions of the mind itself? Third part, and then I'm going to kick out the Rimrock guy.

Adam, what's that?

[Speaker 2]
Let's see. How does the consciousness engage with these objects?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, what's all the stuff in the universe? Number one, small topic. Number two, what's all the states of mind in the universe?

What's the instruments that we use to see all the stuff in the universe? Third, how does the mind engage these objects? How does the mind engage these objects?

We said at the opening, there's a problem with your mind. Every human being who is on this planet has a problem with their mind. Because of that, they don't see things correctly, and because of that, they get old, they die, they have unhappiness, and it's all fixable.

You just got to study it. Okay, we're going back to... Let me take on another person, Adam.

How about Agri, you want to come up here? Mr. Rob? Another Rimrocker.

These new Rimrockers, they can't pronounce that well, but probably. Okay, so we're going to study all the objects in the universe, and here's the first section. How do you read that, Ram?

Namrang? Namdang. Namdang, which means, what are all the different kinds of objects there are?

Namdang means, can you tell me all the different kinds of objects there are? $100, bet! There's a famous namdang that you guys might know.

Chukinamjongkitingenzin. Damn! Those Portuguese guys, they talk fast, don't they?

$100, Nick, good luck collecting. You want to explain, Nick, what that means? Well, that's the meditation mentioned at the beginning of the Heart Sutra.

Yeah, at the beginning of the Heart Sutra, which we were reading at Tsongkhang's house the other day. They say, chukinamjongkitingenzin manjongpa shuk tso. The Buddha goes into a meditation called chukinamdang, which means a certain version of the Dharma.

So namdang means, I'm going to give you all the different words for the stuff that you perceive. I'm going to teach you all the different words for the stuff that you perceive in the world. And he did already, we finished it.

Then we have gak, shak, pong sung. Gak, shak, pong sung. Another $100.

This is the classical... Parts of a Buddhist book. Wait, Sugeng started.

Let's see if he can do it. By the way, if he's wrong, Nick, he's going to pay you $100. Denlugagpa, number one.

Yeah, the other people get to say a stupid idea about things that you can see, and then we block them. Then, rangnugakpa. Then we say, guess what?

Our system is correct. Here's our system. Then, the nice thing about pedagogy, teaching in this tradition, ancient tradition, the other guy gets a chance to come back.

And he says, look, I don't like your system. And then we have Tsupa Pong, which is what? Tsupa Pong.

Yeah, he comes back to fight us, and we beat him again. But he gets a chance to criticize us. So A, we criticize his ideas.

B, we tell him what the right ideas are. But very importantly, in a beautiful system, he gets a chance to come back and criticize us, again, after we present what we think are the correct ideas. And then again, we have to prove it to him.

Every ancient book is designed in the same... It's called... The short name is gak shak pong.

Say gak. gak shak pong sung. Gak means block the other guy's wrong ideas about what?

About how you see reality. So, shak, tell him what we think is the correct idea. And then pong means...

He gets to come back and say... Pong is the ancient form, okay? We say pong nowadays.

Gak shak pong. Okay. Now, that's about the different types of objects in the universe.

Now, Rob, what's this next B here? Seni? Yeah, seni means what, you guys?

Definition. We're going to give the definitions of the objects of perception. And then gak shak pong.

We reject his ideas. We show our new ideas. And he gets the opportunity to come back and attack us.

And we beat him again. Okay? It's a very fair system.

We always win. Okay. Number three.

Rob, still going. Don't say what I think you're going to say.

[Speaker 2]
Yay!

[Speaker 1]
Yehwa? Tim was giving me... Yehwa?

Yehwa.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, that's probably yay.

[Speaker 1]
Yehwa means let's discuss the classical divisions of reality. How many different objects are there in the world, generally? Okay.

And then guess what? Shanlu gapa rang shapa. We block the other guy's ideas.

And then we present our own ideas. And then our author starts to go off. And this is where he was drinking something.

I don't know. But it's going to get worse and worse. Okay?

Here's where it starts. Okay? I guess he's 16 or something.

But here's where he starts to go off. And he never comes back. And this, by the way, this book...

The reason we're doing this book... I was in the winter debates. I was debating...

My team of Geshes was debating the best Geshes in the world. And it's a one-month contest. Inter-monastic contest.

And these guys from this Drebel Monastery, they kept using these amazing arguments and these amazing ideas. And finally I said, Where do you get this? What's your secret?

And they told me about this book. And that's how I met this book. Okay?

This book was written 600 years ago by one of Tsongkhapa's main students. Okay? And that's how I found out about it.

They kept coming up with these extraordinary ideas, and I was frustrated. I said, I never heard of this book. Where did you get this book from?

And finally they showed it to me. All right. Shenlugarpa.

Rangnishapra. Then he goes off, and I'm going to ask Rob to read from Lung...

[Speaker 3]
Lung... Lung... Lung...

Lung... Lung...

[Speaker 1]
Lung... Lung... Lung...

Lung...

[Speaker 3]
Lung...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. So... You know...

Now we're getting into the subject. And we will never leave it for the next seven years or so. Okay?

And by the way, these... They will take an average of seven to ten years, and it's a commitment. Lung here means look.

You can see it, it's right in front of you. That's called obvious reality, okay? Then kogyer means the emptiness of this cup.

It has emptiness, but it's not obvious. If someone didn't explain it to you, you would never see it. You wouldn't even think about it.

This cup has emptiness. Why? It's not coming from your mental seeds.

This cup is not coming from how you treat other people. This cup is not coming from how you treat other people. And that's not obvious.

People can't see that. When you look at the cup, you can't see that. That's called kogyer.

Hidden reality of this cup. Which is more powerful? The hidden reality.

If you understand it, you'll have a great life. If you don't understand it, you'll have a miserable life. That's kogyer.

Now, something sexy. You want to go deeper?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I was defending myself, which I didn't happen very successfully very often, in these inter-monastic debates. The best of the Geshes fight the best Geshes. You choose 50 from each monastery, and they fight for a month.

And you do many online sessions. You debate online. And I was in a hot debate, and I was desperate.

I was getting beat up. And then I said, everything is both. Everything is both obvious reality and deeper reality.

And they're like, what about the color of this cup? I said to a blind person, it's deeper reality. The color, the blue, is deeper reality.

What about the emptiness of the cup? It's obvious to a Buddha. As obvious as blue.

You see, all objects in the universe are both. It just depends on who's looking. So anyway, I won the debate.

It was one of my glorious moments. It didn't happen very often. They visited some of my old debate partners, and I found out they had a nickname for me, which was American Army Guy, because I was so tall.

I could push everybody away. So he's going to say, look, the universe is divided into wung gyi and kok gyi, obvious things and deeper things. Then he's going to give us the definition of deeper thing and the definition of obvious thing.

Obviously, those two definitions are going to have to depend on the observer. What's easy for a Buddha to see is quite difficult for us to see. What's easy for a person with eyes to see is quite difficult for a blind person to see.

It depends on the person. By the way, there's non-simple Poland here, Adam. He doesn't let the guy come back and argue, he just rolls him over and keeps going.

Now, where I put these stars, our author goes ballistic. When he goes like a rocket ship, he goes somewhere else. It's totally unexpected, and you can get lost if you don't know.

So here we go. Adam, who's going to read? I'm going to kick out Hegedy.

Hegedy, would you mind picking someone? You want to pick the next victim? We got some here.

We got that guy in the back. Tim. Come on, quick, quick, quick.

[Speaker 2]
We ain't got much time, we got to cover the whole book. Thanks, Rob. That was not planned.

It looks synchronized, yeah. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, okay. YOD CHEN means the object state of mind. TSE MA'I GEL TSUL means how does the mind interact with objects.

GEL means to meet somebody. How does the mind meet the object? GEL TSUL, or how is it that objects appear to the mind?

NANG TSUL. I'm going to divide those. How does the mind approach objects, and how do objects approach the mind?

NANG TSUL. Based on that, we can say some things in the universe are MUNG GYUR, obvious reality, and some things in the universe are GOG GYUR, hidden reality. And now he throws in a new idea.

Now he throws in a new idea. He says, look, reality is either obvious, depending on who's looking, or it's hidden. Or you can say it's RANG TSEN or CI CES.

RANG TSEN means what? Like actual objects. Yeah, this cup is a RANG TSEN.

This is an actual example of the reality of an idea. What's the idea? Cup.

Cup is the concept. Cup is an idea. Cups in the universe.

Cup, quotation. Cup, CI CES DAG. We're getting there.

He's attacking CI CES DAG. He's attacking the method of seeing emptiness directly. So it's very, very important.

He says there's RANG TSEN, there's real examples in the world, and then there's CI CES.

[Speaker 2]
What's that? Archetypes.

[Speaker 1]
Archetypes, meaning how do you recognize this as a cup? You have a picture in your mind when your mom taught you the word cup, saying, oh, look, Xiaoping, this cup, cup, cup. And Xiaoping go, cup, cup, cup.

And your mom said, no, cup. And you say, cup. You say, yeah, you got it.

And on that day, a picture was burned into your brain. And ever since then, you had a picture of a thing called cup. And that's called CI CES.

That picture in your mind is called CI CES. The real cup out in the world is called RANG TSEN. I'll give $500.

Everyone's paying attention, Nick. What was the question again? What was it?

I didn't ask the question. It was the RANG TSEN. Yeah, I thought I missed it.

No, you didn't miss it. CI CES is the mental picture that your mom put there when she taught you the word. Well, I can't talk.

I have grandchildren nowadays who are learning to speak. And we teach them a word. We teach Maitri a word.

And then you can see it kind of sticks in his brain. That's called CI CES. And then we say, here's the real thing.

Here, Maitri, this is... Oh, shoot. There goes another shoot.

Okay. This is a real cup. It can give you a stain on your coat.

Okay. Now, question. Here's the $500 question.

What's the amazing... What's the amazing truth about RANG TSEN and CI CES? They're the same thing.

They're 500 bucks for tea. No, he said the same thing. Okay?

Same thing. Okay? Your idea of a cup and the thing you drink your coffee out of, in the end, in the highest, highest schools of Buddhism, they are the same thing.

You are drinking out of an idea of a cup. Okay? And that cup came from your seeds.

And you created that cup. And you are drinking out of an idea of a cup.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
That's what's going to happen in... If this guy keeps going for 300 years, he's going to get there. Okay?

That's how long it took after these guys. So, that's where we're headed. And that means you can create your own reality.

And that means you can go to heaven in this life. That means you don't have to die. Okay?

That's where we're headed. That's why we're struggling through this book. But we have to do the struggle.

You can't just have someone tell you the end of the joke. The punchline, right? You've got to get there.

All right. So, he just did a major thing. He jumped from one pear to another pear.

What are the two pears? For $2. Lunggir and Rangchen, Rangchi.

Lunggir and Kalkir, okay? Obvious reality and hidden reality. And then suddenly he throws in Rangchen and Chitsin.

What's that? The real thing in the world. And the archetype in your mind that your mom...

We say your mom put it there. Actually, it's been there for zillions of years. But we'll let the moms give it some credit.

Okay. All right. Good.

Here we go. Tim's going to keep going. By the way, the author just ran away from the whole structure of the book.

And the thing is, he keeps doing that over and over. And I finally caught him. I'm like, wow, hey, that's not what you're supposed to be talking about.

He says, yeah, but it's so interesting. And he does it over and over again. And finally I'm like, ah, okay, I get it.

You're never going to come back to this subject. All right. Okay, here we go.

Tim. Yeah, what's the definition of obvious reality? What's the definition of hidden reality?

Okay. And again, there's not going to be any rebuttal here. He drops the rebuttal.

He's too busy. Okay. We're going to get the other guy's opinion on what it is to be obvious and what it is to be hidden.

And then we're going to tell people what our opinion is. Next, gyelwa. What's that, Tim?

Generally.

[Speaker 2]
The divisions.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, just divisions. Okay. What are the divisions of obvious reality?

What are the divisions of hidden reality? We're going to get the other guy's opinion, our opinion, like that, blah, blah. Okay.

Okay. gyel min gyel chepar.

[Speaker 2]
What's gyelwa? Contradictory.

[Speaker 1]
Is it contradictory? Could one thing be hidden and obvious at the same time? Are they obvious?

Obvious reality and hidden reality. Let's say cup and the emptiness of the cup, okay? Are they contradictory?

Can one thing be both? Depends on who's looking. Yeah, depends on who's looking.

If you put two people in a room, they are not contradictory. If you have one person in a room, they're probably contradictory. If there's one person in the room, either the cup is obvious reality to them, or the cup is hidden reality to them, if they're blind, for example.

But if you put two people in the room, a blind person and a person with sight, then we have to say that for this cup to be hidden and obvious at the same time, it's not contradictory. If there's a Buddha and a normal person sitting in the room, the emptiness of this cup is both obvious and hidden to different people. They're not contradictory.

One object can be obvious, and one object can be completely hidden, if there's a Buddha and a normal person sitting in the same room. These two vast, these two big divisions of reality could actually coexist, depending on who's sitting in the room. Okay, got it?

Cool. All right. Let's have Tim do this.

I think we skipped that. Oh, didn't we skip something? Oh yeah, let's read this one, Tim.

DANG NYID DU BYAS PAR BYA STE, SKYE GYIS KHOG RGYUR GYI SEMS NI DU BYAS PAR GSEMS NAS NUS SU GTOGS PAR BYA BA ZHES MA NA Yeah, and then DANG NYID. I don't think you guys know that one. DANG NYID means, well, or hey, I got an idea.

DANG NYID means, hey, I got an idea. Let's talk about something else. Doesn't it mean now?

Yeah, it means literally now. Literally it means, well, now. But it means our ADD author is going off on a new...

He says, hey, let's talk about this. And you're like, wait a minute. You didn't even finish the last thing.

He's like, hey, DANG NYID. I was just thinking. I was just thinking about something else.

And he does it over and over again. And you can't even outline it. You see, it breaks the outline.

It smashes the outline, which is a no-no. Yeah, that's why it's hard to follow your blood. And I thought it was me, but it's him.

Again, DGES PA BYA'I DI means, hey, let's look at something else. ,GAL GYUR GYI TSE NYID DU, ,JES PAR TSE MED NGUS SU STOPS PAR BYA'I, Can you perceive the definition of hidden with a... Can you understand a hidden object using logic, using thinking?

Closing your eyes and working it out. Can you see the emptiness of this cup using deeper thinking, deeper ways of thinking? Can you see the emptiness of this cup?

And obviously we'd say yes, that's why we're studying the book. Okay. Then it says, hey, let's get into NGOS RTOGS and ZHUGS RTOGS.

Anybody want to guess? NGOS RTOGS and ZHUGS RTOGS. Direct and logical perception.

Yeah, or ZHUGS means... By the power of discern. Implied.

ZHUGS LA means, kind of word got it, but it's like through inference, through deduction, you know. When you see the emptiness of this cup, when you figure it out, are you having a direct perception or are you having a deductive perception? Could a deductive perception be a direct perception?

Okay. And it's a hard question. It's a hard question.

Mom, why can't I go out on my bicycle? Honey, it's dangerous. Stanley Nelson lived on a very steep driveway and there's a fine curve at the bottom of the driveway.

And then your daughter says, okay, mom, I understand. I can't ride my bike out there today. Then when she understands that, has she had a deductive perception or a direct perception?

And are they contradictory? Okay. Okay.

And here's another thing. Once in seminar... We're out of time again.

Sorry to interrupt. Ah, dang. Okay.

Anyway, he's going to talk about does figuring stuff out ever mix with seeing it directly? Can they ever mix? Is it possible to have a mix?

Okay, he's going to go there. Then he says, Danny, why don't you think about that mouse? And you're like, we didn't finish the last thing.

He's like, Danny? Danny means, hey, I had another question. And you're like, God, why don't you finish the last one?

And he says, Chip, I'm going to read it, okay? ,CHEN PO BYA STE, ,CHOS BYAS PAG TSE MA'I NGUL GYI ZHES BYANG YIN NA, ,THA YIN DAG GI GRUB BYANG YIN PA'I, ,KHYAB PA MA'I KHYAB If you use logic to perceive a thing, okay? I don't know.

The classic example is if you see smoke, a big... We had smoke this morning. Probably there's a forest fire up north here.

So me and Veronica, we said there must be a fire. We didn't see the fire, but we saw the smoke. So, you know, it's interesting where we live because we'll be the first house to burn down because we're on the east side of the town.

So it's an interesting logical question. Does the smoke imply a fire? And he says, ,CHOS BYAS PAG TSE MA'I NGUL GYI ZHES BYANG YIN NA, If you perceive a fire using smoke, ,THA YIN DAG GI GRUB BYANG YIN PA'I, Have you used logic?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Have you always used logic? Absolutely. If you perceive a fire, has your logic always been correct?

No. ,KHYAB PA MA'I KHYAB, He says, is it or not? Then, he says, you know what?

Let's do some poetry. And it's called, ,PHAR KHABS KYI TSIG CHE, means when the author thinks you are going to have a nervous breakdown, he writes a poem. In an ancient book, when the author thinks the translator, Adam, is going to have a nervous breakdown, they'll put a little poem in there to make you feel better.

It's usually a sign that stuff got too complicated. And he says, ,THE SKY IS BLUE, ,FLOWERS ARE RED, ,ROSES ARE RED, ,THEY SMELL SO GOOD, ,JUST RELAX, ,TAKE A BREAK. And it's called, ,PHAR KHABS means take a break.

They'll actually put some poetry in there to calm you down. And then he'll say, ,DANNY. And he goes again, ,DANNY.

,DANNY means, ,HEY, I HAD ANOTHER IDEA. And, anyway, I figured this guy out. All right.

We're going to continue here next. And Danny. Okay.

Stopped here. What's the date today? 7.

Okay, Nick, I'm going back to you. Oh, we were, I'm sorry, Adam. You're supposed to look at the chat.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Or you're supposed to ask the people in the audience. Is there any, by the way, my wife came to me last night and said, you know, you should have a part in your class where you, when you wrap it up, you should say, here's how you can use it in your real life. And I said, honey, we decided to do that yesterday.

And she said, you're so smart. So I'm going to leave it up to you, Adam. We got 15 minutes.

Until the peace tree world news guys come. And. Does anybody have an idea how you might be able to use this stuff in your real life?

That's a question. Go. You guys put something in the chat.

I'm going to make one quick announcement. Okay. Go.

In 27 minutes or, you know, at the end of the peach tree world news segment, please. If you would like to stay on the call for a Tibetan. You know, an alphabet class.

And these. So that you can read along with us more easily. Words going to stay on and graciously teach a class on the alphabet.

And it helps very much. We have seen progress and many people. So please feel free.

If you would like to learn some of the basics of the language that we're studying. Yeah. The performance of the students who have studied with word.

Is the best I've ever seen. They are learning to read correctly. And quickly.

I don't know. He's probably burning them on their feet or something. But.

Okay. Yeah. Back to you, Adam.

If you can coax. One of the audience. To give us an idea how you might use this stuff in your real life.

Or if you cannot. Then I'm sure you have some ideas. Okay.

Go. It. So I thought the.

It was. Super beautiful. I guess.

I said that. Obviously this, this text could.

[Speaker 2]
Could end cancer and war. Right. So can we come up with some ideas about maybe.

How some of the things we just discussed. Could be used in the process. I don't know.

Eliminating those things from our world. Well, I I'm going to make a quick exit to the bathroom. I'll be.

Okay. That's a day.

[Speaker 1]
I noticed. Was nodding her. Her head.

About how we might be able to use this stuff. To, to reach the end of something or something that you want to come up and sit in. And I just be comfortable and, you know, don't think that hundreds of people are looking at you.

[Speaker 2]
Just 600.

[Speaker 1]
Tim 10 has an idea. About how we might use these ideas. To actually stop the terrible things in this world.

And I'm going to leave it up to you. And don't be shy and talk loud.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Louder.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. So.

[Speaker 3]
For me, when I, when I listen to this. Class. So in my mind, I was thinking about.

For example, that. Sometimes something happened. Outside and then.

Which is not what we want. But then the reaction that we want to. Yeah, the reaction that we want to give.

Usually. We. As something that we can see it directly is we want to.

Avoid the situation.

[Speaker 2]
But then if we can. If he wants to create. The next one.

Better than we have to look at it. Based on. The clear.

The clear thinking to one day.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
That you just learn from Adam's book. Well, we have to do the opposite things, which is helping others.

[Speaker 2]
Like, for example, if I want to have. A house that. Is.

[Speaker 3]
Not having a lot of problem. Then I have to come here. And I have to help.

This place setting up. This place. And ask people whether you want to plan to sit together.

Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
So to summarize what. I think is that. It's not.

It's not obvious. That the way to fix a problem. Let's say you, you're from Singapore.

And Indonesia. And you just bought a big, beautiful new house in Rimrock, Arizona. And it's got some small plumbing problems.

There's something. It's not obvious. That.

The first thing you should do. Is go to Stanley and Allison's new house. And help them fix the plumbing.

Because that's the best way to fix your own plumbing. Okay, that's. I think what Shinten is saying is that.

That's. That's not obvious. That's hidden.

That's hidden reality. But if you, if you study. And you understand seeds.

Then the best way to. Solve problems with your own house. Would be to help somebody else solve problems with their house.

Yeah. Okay, nice. But that's not an obvious solution.

How many people, when they have a plumbing problem, run over to somebody else's house and help them with their plumbing problem? Not me. I just yell at the plumber.

Okay. You got it. Anybody else?

Do you want to try to draw out some comments? You've got.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, let me see. Or, you know, I kind of went through the chat and I didn't see anything that stood out, but that doesn't mean there wasn't something. How can.

How can. How can. How can studying.

How can studying actual objects and archetypes. Help us with the husband in the kitchen.

[Speaker 1]
That's a good, anybody have an idea here? How does this topic. About some things exist as pictures in your mind.

That your mom. But there. And some things exist as real things in your world.

How's that going to help you. Deal with some tension. With your husband or wife in the kitchen.

[Speaker 2]
Come on.

[Speaker 1]
We got these masters here. If you understand mental pictures, how's it going to help. In the kitchen when you're having some possible tension with your husband and your wife.

Which is very rare. Because the husband's usually not in the kitchen. He's watching.

He's watching football. While he's translating a book. Come on, come on, come on.

We got it. Okay. We got a master here.

We got Anjali. She's going to answer this question. And I'm like, if I understand this idea.

My role is half. Mental pictures in my mind. And my world is half real stuff.

In my hand. How's it going to help me when I'm having tension with another person. Talk loud.

Okay. Well, I don't know. For me, like when I'm working with something.

That's. My obvious, you know, like this obvious reality. I try to remember that I'm being tricked.

In a way like.

[Speaker 3]
Just flipping everything around so that I, I think the. Because I, because I'm going, this is, this must not be really what's happening. Like, but it's happening.

So then, you know, holding the space.

[Speaker 1]
To recognize that. I'm not, what I'm seeing is not really what I'm seeing. It's a, it's very hidden.

In a sense that I have to pull back. My. My grasping to this, this obvious thing.

I think is like real. And kind of pull back and remember that. It's an arising.

And, and. Then I might have a chance to respond skillfully. I have this, I have this with like, you know, just like the landlord, for instance.

Like they don't like the way I'm doing X, Y, Z. Like where I park my car or what I'm doing. And I think to myself, wait a minute.

I'm being tricked. This is like, this is kind of how I look at it as like being tricked a little bit. By what's arising in my mind.

And then in, in restraining and pausing. I actually have an opportunity to do something completely different, which is.

[Speaker 3]
You're absolutely right. I'm totally parked in the wrong place. I don't really fully believe that, but.

And it just completely just wipes out the whole problem. So I, yeah, just not buying into it. This isn't, this is my thing is it don't buy into the projection.

And rather, you know, sit in the center of oneself.

[Speaker 1]
To see what is it that I'm actually really seeing, which is this hidden little log that I planted. Bonk right onto that person or situation. So you're kind of recognizing the fact.

That there's a mental picture of your landlord who gives you trouble. And there's also the quote, real landlord out there. Who's giving you trouble.

And when you can remember. That the landlord is coming from a mental picture in your mind. Then it's easier to remember that the landlord is coming from seeds in your mind.

And it's easier to remember that those seeds were when you were giving trouble to somebody else. So it's easier to respond to a troublesome person. By understanding that you were troublesome in the past.

And then you just fixed yourself. And the landlord follows after a while. Okay.

And by the way, that's the application of logic. That's the application of this book. It's not some theoretical Buddhist ancient book.

It's a book you can use with your landlord. To make a better landlord. Yeah.

Cool. And it changes. It really does.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
It does.

[Speaker 1]
It works. It's so cool. I had a problem with my neighbor.

And I kept trying to change the seeds. I think yesterday we had a breakthrough. Right.

Yeah. He offered to take me out on a ride on his 1955. He has a 1955 truck, Veronica.

It looks a lot like the one I was looking at. So anyway. Okay.

We got time, Adam. You want to wrap up, Adam? We only got one minute.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Any wrap up you want to give us? And then we'll switch it over to the Peachtree World News guys to find out what's happening in the world you know. You know, I think it was nice going through the outline.

We got about a.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, we're almost caught up to where we where we currently are in the text. Yeah. And yeah, thank you all for coming.

Yeah, this is fabulous. And I really, really enjoy these teachings. And thank you, Geshe-la, for the instruction.

And yeah, thank you all for being here with us.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, Adam. Here's all the books that our team finished already. Physical copies.

Wow. And this, we have printed special copies to send to a special person who's been helping us pay the bills. And I got this book down here.

Anjali is going to hold this one up. You hold up that one.

[Speaker 2]
And I'll hold up. Where is the other one? Yeah, there it is.

[Speaker 1]
This is the two parts of Adam's first book. Okay, it's coming out. It's called Door Emptiness.

He worked on it for six years, I think.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And it's too big to put in one book. And it's been published as two volumes. And congratulations, Adam.

Six years of hard work, really hard work. And I want to show you guys the rest of the books that came out. Peace Tree World News, guys, I think you're getting ready.

Yeah, we're here again. This book is called All the Kinds of Karma. It's an excellent book on all the kinds of possible karmas you can make, how to fix those karmas.

It is illustrated with ancient pictures from a special country called Indonesia. And these pictures are a thousand years old. And each kind of karma that you can make is described in this book.

Who wrote this book? Buddha, 2,500 years ago. There's this new book which you never saw.

It's called Stopping the Circle of Sadness. It's by this guy Sugeng. Translated by Sugeng.

It's a big, fat book. It also has pictures from the Wheel of Life. There you go.

And it has the ancient 2,500-year explanation from the Vinaya teachings on the pictures of the Wheel of Life. And excellent. The best book ever came out about the Wheel of Life.

Congratulations, Sugeng. Wordsmith's Translation of the Mind-Only School, The Golden Key. Extremely deep, extremely difficult.

And I think it's the best book ever in the modern world about this deep, deep mind-only school. If you understand that school, you are going to have an incredible life. Thank you, Mr. Word. Sunlight on the Path to Freedom. The best commentary in history from about 400 years ago. Commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

It's the only really thorough commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra. Finished by Venerable Eli Vandepas. An incredible, fat book.

Includes Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and English. An incredible book. Ben Kramer's new book called The Great Ideas of the East.

A survey of 101 enlightening belief systems from ancient Asia. Ben finished his book. It took about seven years.

There's 101 different ancient belief systems here. Every one of them is fascinating and deep. By the way, this became the new DCI level.

We're filming it soon. We're teaching it in SCIM. It's going to come out, I think, in November.

A whole world, we have 138,000 clients, are going to be studying this book. Congratulations, Ben. The Two Sutras of the Medicine Buddha.

There's only two sutras about this deep topic. How does medicine work? How to get medicine to work for you?

Aisha and our Sanskrit team found one of the manuscripts in a stupa in Afghanistan, carved on tree bark in an ancient language. We found it and we translated it. There it is, The Two Sutras of the Medicine Buddha.

Our most popular book of all time, Emptiness Meditations, translated by Betz Greer. It's a big, fat book. The first half is how to do an emptiness meditation.

The second half is how to meditate, from Kamala Sheila's original text from 1,300 years ago. This is a great book to do your own meditations. How to do them every day.

The last one is called Sunlight on Suchness. It's a great commentary on the Heart Sutra, also translated with L.A. Vandeputs. We've got 10 books here.

Nick's new book, which is the fattest book of all, from the fattest head of all. It's 670 pages about Nagarjuna's proof of emptiness. 60 verses to prove emptiness.

That book was just finished. It just went to final editing. Congratulations, Nick.

Nick worked really hard on it, on the plane, going back from Portugal to San Francisco. It's an extraordinary book. It's actually the largest book we've finished so far.

It's a very incredible, deep book. I've been using it for everything, especially convincing my wife why I get to eat cinnamon rolls today. I'm turning it over to Peacefield World News.

I just want to announce one more time, thank you, Dr. Michael. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Adam.

Thank you, interpreters. Grateful for you all. Thank you, Stanley and Allison, for lending us your help.

That's also very helpful and kind. We love you guys. Stick around on this link for a beginning class in this language so that you can learn to read along.

Have an awesome rest of your day, everybody. Thank you so much. Take it away, Peachtree World News.

Awesome. That was an amazing class. Thank you so much, Keshala.

Thank you, Adam. You guys are rock stars. Quickly here, Peachtree World News is going to bring you a little bit of what's going on.

I just, again, want to say how lucky we are to be at the top of the mountain. As they like to say in DCI, the snow is at the top of the mountain. It melts down, and we get brought all these incredible practices for our day-to-day life.

Thank you for the trip to the top of the mountain, Geshe Michael. As we learned, as Geshe-la likes to say, these classes are very difficult. But we do have some other exciting programs coming up that are a little bit more simplified.

It doesn't always have to be so difficult, and yet we can still get some very incredible new ideas. So if you're interested in, you know, packing away some new ideas, you can sign up for a program that's coming up soon with Seiji and Noor. It's called the Rumi Poetry Program, Poetry for Peace, and they're designing it specifically for parents.

So if you want to make a change in your life, in your parenting skills, you want to help stop the war in the world, it's a good idea to stop the war in your own home. So I really recommend, there's a QR on the screen now. So if you're looking for a really incredible opportunity to study how to take these ancient lineage, these seed systems, into your own home, please get that information off the screen.

It's the Peacock Parenting Project. It's with Seiji and Noor. And if you go to the QR code, you'll get more information on that.

I know Geshe-la, he's going to be participating, and he's also been using some of the poetry by Nagarjuna for his portion of that program. So as we learned in these classes today, life is short, and these texts have been specifically chosen for relevance to your modern-day life. So, you know, we highly recommend you participating in these programs.

Like we learned in class, these ideas, they're designed to help with the big things in life. So if you need to work on your health, we also have another incredible program coming up. It's called Nagarjuna and Health Practices.

So this will be taught in person by Geshe Michael at the Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. There's a QR code on the screen if you want information for that. So right now, spaces are filled up for the in-person retreat, but shouldn't let that stop you from signing up to be online.

You receive all these incredible teachings, and we just established that we have problems in our mind that can be easily fixed if we just study. So don't miss your chance to study with Geshe Michael these incredible programs that are coming up on how to use the seed system for your health. Okay, so again, as Geshe-la said, it's the harder things that are the most profound, and in these classes, these profound ideas, the most profound ideas behind your reality will be discussed and focused on.

So don't miss your chance. Also, we'd like to talk about DSEU. So they're the Diamond Silk Entrepreneur University founded by Stanley, Allison, and Geshe Michael.

We want to put up a QR code for them on the screen so that if you want to work on ideas to improve your business and how to go deeper on business ideas, how you can help the entire business community to spread these ideas, please follow this QR code. It's an incredible thing that they're doing. It's an accredited university so that you can get your MBA and EMBA and also continue to study these ideas on, you know, the ultimate things in life.

So again, the QR codes and the links, those are obvious, but what's going to be explained, not so obvious. So please take a chance to sign up for these programs. These new practices will be burned into your mind.

And new ideas means new reality. So please take a chance to sign up for it. Thank you so much for tuning in to our Peachtree segment.

And back to you, Nick. Oh, okay. Well, maybe we go on break before words class then.

I think that's it. That's it for our segment. Thank you guys for tuning in.

Thank you, Geshe-la, for teaching so well and for creating this whole program for us, this whole network. And we'll see you guys again on Monday. Take a break and stick around for Wordsmith's excellent class on the Tibetan alphabet.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, everybody. We'll start in a couple minutes. Can I leave?

[Speaker 2]
Okay. I just want to thank all of you for coming.

[Speaker 1]
You guys are amazing. Please keep joining the Mixed Nuts, the Diamond Cutter Classics translation team. And we're very lucky that you're all listening to our books.

So just stick with us. If anybody has any questions or interest in what we do, feel free to write us. And if you want to be more involved, just let us know.

Stick around for words class and enjoy.