Бен Крамер — Книга 2: Драгоценность истинной мысли (Геше Йеше Вангчук о Дхармакирти), занятие 16

[Speaker 1]
I'm determined to finish this thing. All right, next step, number seven. Somebody has to prepare the input for the classes, and that's a job that you guys don't ever see because I do it, but there's a lot of formatting that has to happen of the input before you can use it in a class, okay?

And I think this job list is by time frame, it's not necessarily by task, so during that same time frame, you know, we should be recruiting new participants in the Mixed Nuts classes, new participants in the Reading Club, new editors, new publishers, new secondary translators, we should just be recruiting new people into the Mixed Nuts team. And then this is a job that Nick does already, we have to schedule these classes, and we have to register people for the classes, okay? It's a big, you guys who are listening, you don't see this job that Nick does, but it's a big job, and it's complicated, to make everybody happy is almost impossible, and Nick does a good job.

All right. Then somebody, which is grandpa, has to go through the untranslated book and make sure we understand it before we teach it, and that takes hundreds of hours to go searching for weird references like Word had today, or even like Xiaoping had today. It's an incredible amount of work, so somebody has to make sure they know what this stupid thing says before we have a class.

All right, step number nine is the translation classes themselves, usually five to ten years on each book, okay? Sometimes more, okay? So, that's a ten-year little piece of block there, okay?

And somebody should be looking for new people who want to organize Mixed Nuts local classes in their country, like maybe somebody in Italy wants to organize Mixed Nuts classes, or somebody in Peru, or somebody in Hawaii, or you know, Hawaii sounds good, we can have classes there. These are the Mixed Nuts reading clubs, and the Mixed Nuts translators who have published books should be giving lectures online about their books, they should be teaching their books for the rest of their life, because that's the whole goal. And they should even organize courses and classes about Abhidharma, for example, if you're Stanley, okay?

And then somebody has to develop events for our authors, somebody has to recruit students for those events, and somebody has to market them. It's no use to translate books and put them in the college to collect dust. We need to get them out into the world, and that's a huge job.

And if we don't do that, we wasted everybody's time, okay? We gotta get the books out into the world, okay? And I don't mean necessarily Dharma lectures.

They could be business lectures, they could be lectures about healthy eating, they could be anything, but we gotta find ways to get those books out into the world. If we don't get the books out into the world, we fail, then the mixed nuts fail, okay? If you guys, if you translators don't end up being teachers of your book, we fail, okay?

It's no use to have the books sitting in the college. Okay, how are we doing on time?

[Speaker 2]
Five minutes left.

[Speaker 1]
Five minutes, oh my god. Every translator is, is it eight weeks, Nick, or six weeks? I don't remember.

Six weeks is the translation period after the term ends, so it's eight weeks including the term. Well, then I'm gonna change it to six. Yeah, six weeks after, right?

Okay, good, okay. So, it's the translator's responsibility to finish a rough translation within six weeks after the term, and they should get paid for that. You all know how to do bibliography items.

I shouldn't have to do them anymore, and they have to be done correctly, so there should be checking of these entries before they are archived, okay? So, we have an archive. I've had a frustrating thing lately where I used our bibliography list, and there were some bad bibliography entries in there, and then I had to go back and check all of them.

Okay, and the translator should can complete their footnotes based on the notes that we made during class, okay? Then it comes back to me for checking the final translation, and we start talking to the publisher, okay? So, while I'm working on the final translation, we are starting to talk to the printer.

I repeat that in the Mixed Nuts system, every translator has the right, an equal right, to publish the book independently if they want to. They can go find any publisher in the world, and they're allowed to go and arrange to have their book printed. So, if you end up pushing your book, you know, to other publishers, God bless, it's wonderful, okay?

And that's fine. Now, there's some rules about using my name, etc., when you do that, and we'll talk about that. Yeah, here it is.

You're very welcome as a translator to go find other publishers than Diamond Cutter Press. We're allowed to have multiple books running around, if they're all correct, and you're also very welcome to go find someone to translate your book into Portuguese or Eskimo or whatever language you want, okay? And every translator has that right, and you're encouraged to do that.

Okay, at the point where Grandpa is working on the final translation, we should be planning the book, costing it out, fundraising to produce the book. We have to get enough money to cover the small salaries of the Diamond Cutter Press people, and we have to be realistic about getting sponsors, because there will never be a million sales of any of these books, unless the world changes drastically, unless a new virus hits. There's never going to be, I mean, the best sales we can hope for is about a thousand books, and that's not going to cover all the costs, so we have to have other sources of income.

It doesn't mean the book is not valuable. You know, 70,000 people went to the Super Bowl, and it was useless. All right, publishing contract and royalty.

Yeah, so, you know, we have to have a contract with the translator. Here's how much money you're going to get. Here's how much money we're going to...

And by the way, the principle, 11.05, our principle as a team is that we all share the royalties, okay? So, we've been doing it so far. We made $110,000 selling Diamond Cutter Sutra fancy copies, and we gave every translator a $7,000 check.

Six, but yeah. Sorry. I just didn't want anybody to think that somebody else got more than them.

Okay, so anyway, my idea is, look, some of the books are going to be not so popular. They're going to be very hard to read, and that translator should not get penalized. They should get an equal royalty as the same with everybody else.

Okay. All right, when we come back to this little chart tomorrow morning in the first 10 minutes of class, I'll continue at step 12. All right, back to Dr. Kramer for his homework. Thank you, boss. Okay. What am I doing?

Let's see. What is section four of our book, the section that we have now come to? That's a real hard question.

What's section D? The actual commentary. Well, very good, Geshe-la.

It's true. Do I hear a but coming? No, yeah, but you're the Geshe, you know.

Let the kids try. Yeah, totally, but yes, you win. Yes, you get all the dollars.

What's the name for? Oh, yeah. Oh, here's a question mark.

Oh, what's the first part of this section, I guess, and then what's the name for it? I must have wanted you to give the Tibetans, so you'll have to try. What this section four, which is the actual commentary to the book that we're studying, which is what?

[Speaker 3]
An accurate perception.

[Speaker 1]
Commentary to the commentary. Yeah, an extensive commentary, even. What's the first part of that section?

It's cool.

[Speaker 3]
We're going to talk about the three. Yeah, right.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, yeah. Oh, I think what's Chewa is our talking about them. How are we going to talk about them?

What's so Chewa about it?

[Speaker 3]
You just want their names?

[Speaker 1]
No, no, I'm trying to elicit from you the nature of the discussion about them that we're having that is said to be Chewa. Yeah, someone else can answer that. I'm not sure.

They're just great. They're just they're just great. Great folks.

Great dudes. Just just some really special folk. There are how many parts to that section?

The name of the book. Two. Three.

Three. Yeah, name the three parts to the section in which we praise the awesome authors. Master Dignaga, Master Dharmakirti, and Devendra Pudi.

Yeah, it's some words about how awesome Dignaga is, some words about how awesome Master Dharmakirti is, and some words about how awesome Devendra Pudi and the other guys are. Cool. Great.

Here we go. Oh, would you give me the English, Sanskrit, and Tibetan name of Master Dignaga's first Buddhist teacher and and why we're interested?

[Speaker 2]
Nice. Given, given, given by the elephants.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, sure. Given, but maybe.

[Speaker 2]
Given to the elephant, a gift of the elephants. I don't know.

[Speaker 1]
I think the elephant, I thought, the reason I remember it is because I think of a white elephant gift, which is like a strange American Christmas tradition where you're supposed to give someone gifts they don't want. And then there's a game where you try to get other gifts. So yeah, gift of elephants, maybe.

[Speaker 2]
Nagadatta.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, Nagadatta. You still got Tibetan left.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know, Longpo Jin? Long Jin?

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. Yeah, right. No, that's correct.

Why are we interested? Why is that interesting, that that's his name?

[Speaker 2]
Because he gave Dignaga his name, which has elephant in it as well. And therefore, we believe now that his namesake was inherited from his teachers.

[Speaker 1]
Looks like. As a side note, this seems to be different than the story we were given by Bhutan Rinpoche so far, which was that he was named after a cave that he did retreat in. But yeah, it's fine.

I'm not, I'm not sweating it. Well, we can footnote and everything. Who did Master Dignaga study with after leaving this teacher?

And what did he learn there? Please give the Tibetan term for direct disciple. Nice question.

Yay. What did he learn while he was hanging out with Master Vasubandhu? Everything.

Some specific books. Yeah, well done. That was it.

That was the answer. Some specific books. Really?

Wait. The commentary on valid perception? I don't know.

Sorry. I mean, I think it's unspecified. Yeah, unspecified specific books.

It's pretty general. He learned a lot of stuff. I'll tell you, there's a way in which our author describes kind of learning everything, not literally everything, but all the good stuff that you might learn.

Say again. Three baskets. Oh, yeah.

Not just the three baskets, but the three baskets of the greater way. Not just the greater way.

[Speaker 2]
All the ways. And the lower way. Check, man.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, right. Yes. The three baskets of both the greater and lesser way.

Uh-oh. Whoops. Direct disciple.

[Speaker 2]
New something. New, right? Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
What's a teacher? What's a student? Yeah, good.

Yeah, great. That's what it said in the book. Cool.

Let's let Geshe Michael pick on Ben. Oh, that's one of my favorite activities. I mean, it's, I'm just, I think that's what it says in the Tibetan.

So, it's not me guessing. He literally wrote it down. You got to look it up.

It might be Odiana. I'm not sure, but we'll see. Okay.

Also, I'll look it up. I love your translation. It's perfect.

Let's go to the next paragraph. Okay, don't worry. There's still hope for you.

Yeah, yeah. I got to find something. Your chances are good.

I wouldn't worry. Yeah, I would more emphasize the mic. The mic here is meant as a metaphor.

Okay. Yeah, right. You know, I figured the word insight has the word sight in it.

So, I was going to get away with it. That's so bad. That's so bad.

Okay. I like the first sentence. RANG GI THUG MA MA YIN PA'I LOR DU GYI THUG LAS BYUNG BA'ANG THOG PA'I TSUL NUG DE LANG RANG TSAMS PA'I RANG GI THUG MA MA YIN PA'I LOR DU GYI THUG LAS BYUNG BA'ANG THOG PA'I TSUL NUG He composed, from his own external capacity, sprung forth this strong, special form.

Yeah, nice. I like the second sentence. LUNG DE LANG RANG TSAMS PA'I RTEN CHEN NAM THOB PA ZHIN DE RGYUNG TE He saw a fusion of the Chundren and the Lesser Classical here in person.

Nice, I like that. Okay. This GONG means he thought to himself.

Whoops, okay. He thought, wow, I should take all my little scattered works that I've written so far in my life and I should compose an opus magnum, or whatever that's called. Yeah, magnum opus, sure.

Okay, that makes sense. So it doesn't refer to the true intent of the text. Let's compare.

Good, nice. TSE MA RGYUR PA'I DRO LA PHEN ZHES PA'I, bow down to the one, become correct. Nice.

Whose speech serves all beings. Yes, ZHES PA. This PHEN ZHES PA is more like who has...

this ZHES PA is the ZHES that means to... This ZHES means to... what do you call that?

A person who pitches a certain philosophical system is called ZHES PA.

[Speaker 2]
Proponent, pundit.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, but anyway, here it means who has agreed to help all living beings, or who intends to help all living beings. ZHES PA means to promise, almost, you see? Okay.

Or commit yourself to. And usually it means to commit yourself to a logical system. PHEN ZHES PA.

DUNG PA DE ZHIG, gone to bliss to be protected. DUNG PA DE ZHIG. Perfect.

You did a great job. This is a really nice translation. That's encouraging.

Thank you. Okay, thanks, PASO. Makes me feel happy.

That's nice. Yay. Okay.

Here we go. Oops. Let's get to your text.

Anything but mind maps. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Good. I'm going to push this one down for you.

And Senior Ni told me that he would love to check you. You said what? All right, good.

Ni, sorry, Ni War Su. Ni, oh, Par Su. Yeah, Par Su.

Okay, good. Great. You know this story, so go slow and read it with Nick.

Nick, correct him if he makes any boo-boos, okay? I'll do my best. At least.

Well, I mean, I know he wrote these words on the wall in chalk. Yeah, good. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

SIG CHE means what? These words, the- Versus, versus SIG CHE PA. Uh-huh, uh-huh.

These lines, you can say these lines. Okay. Yeah.

What's THAG? THAG, is that the, is that the wall? THAG means cave, yeah, cave wall, yeah.

Okay, yeah. Yeah. Okay, DIPA NA, like having written, he wrote them.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
DIPA NA, having written them on the cave. Yeah, good. With chalk.

Oh, JIG DEN KAM SU, oh, they're, the, oh, in, in what, the JIG DEN KAM, in the world, there was light? Yeah, JIG DEN KAM just means this whole world, yeah. So you can- Oh, the whole world was filled with light.

Hmm. A lot of light. Oh, CHUNG BO CHUNG, oh, it appeared everywhere, and the earth shook.

Yay. And there was a loud sound, scary noise. Spread everywhere and talk, was spread out.

Yeah, all over. And, oh, sorry, I'm having some, here we go. Oh, DRAM TE, I had a window come up.

The Brahmin, the naughty Brahmins, the dark Brahmin. I think this is his personal name. I think it's probably Krishna or something.

Oh, yeah, right. That sounds right. Yeah, the Brahmin Krishna.

He is his NGON SHES. His clairvoyance, to, this is to see with his power? No, he NGON to himself.

KANG YI TU YIN. Yeah, he thought to himself, like, who's doing that? Who's got that power?

Yeah, who's got enough power to make the whole earth shine and the earthquakes and great big noises? And he THAK PA. Oh, he, what, he thought about it?

Examined? He checked. Okay, yeah, okay, he checked then.

And then he understood, he saw then that the power was, it was the power of the verses that Master Dignaga had written. Nice, good. And then he waited until LOPIN SON YONG MA ZHIG.

Yeah, until Master Dignaga went out, coursing about for his meal. Yeah, SHIL DU means, you know, in that interim. Oh, okay, yeah, in between there, he DIL DROO, like, with his magic powers.

Good, he- Went there. To the dock, yeah. Yeah, to the cave.

And he erased the words a couple times. Yeah, good, up to two times, you see what I mean? Oh, up, oh, okay.

Up to two times, meaning two times, he SUB, he erased the words, yeah. Yeah. Okay, Tim, you're checking, Dr. Kramer. Oh, LOPIN GI. KREY DANG GEL GAY CHEER YINNA MA SOOK TSEPARN DEUNNA. SOOK DUN DANG TSEPARN GEEO SHEH CHERJU THANG YAMDU TREE NE.

SOON YOM LA SHIG PEY SHUL DOO MU TAK PA ONG NE. Okay, yi ge tong wei zun de ne de. Yeah, go slow.

Okay, good idea. Well then, ku rei. Yeah, ku rei means like a joke or, you know.

Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. You're just playing with me. Yeah, okay, so the master said.

Yeah, is this a joke or some kind of game? Yeah, good, good, good. If it is, then.

Please stop. Yeah, yeah, quit erasing it. And Jenna, if you wanna debate me.

Yay. Su tun dan, oh. Show your.

Oh, yeah, yeah, then, well, tun, like show your teaching, like show yourself. Show yourself, yeah, show your physical form. Tun?

Show. Oh, tun, show. Oh, tun can mean show.

All right, yeah, then show up and debate me, you turkey. Yeah, turkey, oh, okay. Yeah.

Chi that, along with the chi ji. Oh, he wrote that. He added these words.

He wrote these along with his verses, his offering of praise. Yeah, yeah, then he went sen yong la shek. Then he went back out.

To get his. His evening meal, or yeah, midday meal. He didn't need an evening meal, he's a monk, right.

During that intro. Yeah, and during that time, the naughty non-Buddhist guy appeared again. He appeared then.

Oh, yi ge tong wei, oh, yi ge tong wei. Uh. I'm seeing the writing, or the words.

He saw what Dignaga had written on the wall. Yeah, and he's, what, that he said he would debate? I don't know, de.

And because he tu du. Because he did, oh, he wanted to debate. I agreed to debate.

De means he sat down and waited. Oh, oh, de, okay. Yeah, he parked himself, he parked himself.

Okay, uh, okay, who else is gonna check you, is word. Lo pong gi len sung gi par du pan par de. Lo pong gi da kyut tenpa la shuk shik sung be mu tek tub gel nak po po ngak de be tel wa lopon la tor wei lopon gi yo che nam lu kyang sik la ke par nye war jung te.

Chung. Chung, chung te, yeah, good. Okay, go slow and enjoy and translate.

Len sung gi par, oh, up until the third time. Yeah, three times total. Yeah, oh, up to three times total.

He wrote these words. No, pong ba, pong ba. Pong ba, oh, he was stopped from.

Erase the words. No, this is the pong and mi pong. Mi pong, right, stop.

He beat him, he beat him. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. Oh, he did, yeah, and then he did rough him up three good times in debate.

And then the master da kyut tenpa, your, oh, his teaching la shuk sh, gave him his teaching? Juk shik, imperative. Oh, he, oh, he, at least try, I mean, I don't know, he tried to put him into the way of the teachings?

No, he said, you should juk into the tenpa. Oh, yeah, right, yeah, you should enter into the teachings. Of the Buddhists.

Yeah, right, yeah. Da means well now. Da means well.

Yeah, now you, yeah, ta da, yeah. And here we get the full name of the mutekpa. Yeah, tuk gyal nakpo, nakpo, uh-huh, yeah.

It's like Munender or something, Muni, Muni something, Muni Raka, I don't know. But apparently the nakpo was the second half of his name above. Okay, yeah, and unfortunately, he seems to have said some magic words.

Good, on some telwa. On some? Dust.

Oh, as you do, yeah. And he pour it on the lopin. He, I don't know, blew it on him?

Yeah, tor means to throw something, or throw something, yeah. Scattered it? Okay.

Yeah. And his, oh, his yoche, his... Yoche means all the stuff he owned in his cave.

Okay, yeah, his stuff. Yeah. Okay.

Okay, his, the... It's a verb, it's a verb. Oh, see, oh.

Burned. Burned. Yeah, of course, right.

Yeah, they burned all their stuff in his cave. And la ke is used after a verb to say, he almost luk yang tik. Oh, it almost burned him, almost burned his body.

Yeah, almost burned him also. Yeah, even him, yeah. Yeah, nyerwar chung means close to have me.

You nearly did. Yeah, okay. Who's next?

Alex Rivas, let's go. THUGS BZHIN DU GYUR NAS BDAG GIS SEMS CAN GCIG GIS DUN YANG MA NUS NA SEMS CAN GCIG GIS DUN KA LA NUS NAM NE THUGS BZHIN DU GYUR NAS BDAG GIS NAM SHIG SA LA LUNG WA NA SEMS KYE TANG TE RANG NYI THUGS BZHIN DU GYUR NAS DIG NAG A S'TUG BSGYEL BA His heart was broken. a real, I don't know, I'm bummed, I don't know, kyo?

Yeah, discouraged. He got super discouraged.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And he said, I manu to do the dun of even Sembchenchi. Yeah, I can't do good for even a single person. Yeah, I haven't been able to do something good for a single person here.

To forget Sembchen Thamgyur. Yeah, forget about doing good for everybody. What's kala mean?

Kala, who, like, whosoever, or? Kala, however, how in the world? Yeah, how in the world am I gonna be able?

Yeah, how could I ever be able? Thule kor means chalk, piece of chalk. Oh.

Thule kor means piece of chalk. Okay. So.

He ponged it into the numka. Right, yeah, he threw it in the sky. Yeah, he threw it up in the air, and he said to himself.

Yeah. Oh, by the way, numka means at the point, at the point. Okay, as soon as it hits the ground.

Good. I will give up the wish. Yeah, and by the way, it feels bad to even say it, right, in a translation, you know.

I will give up my bodhichitta.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. And I will talk about rangnichipu. And I will work for my own freedom, for the freedom of one person, me.

Yeah, I'll just take care of myself. No, I'll take care of, look out for number one. But the thule kor ma sung.

Yeah, the chalk didn't fall. The chalk never fell down and touched the ground, hit the ground. Then he lifted his chin to the numka.

He lifted his eyes to the sky. And there was. And there was Manjushri, like gazing down at him.

Num is high, high honorific for holding. Oh, oh, holding, I see, holding the chalk. Yeah, there was Manjushri holding the chalk.

Okay, nice. This is an exciting story, yeah. We definitely covered this story before.

Did we cover it in a different source or are we? Yeah, what was the other source? Bhutan Rinpoche's history.

And probably we can say that. Oh, very likely this is what Geshe Yeshe Wangchuk read. Yeah, he was probably using Bhutan's.

There are other sources, by the way. He probably used a mixture. Yeah, right.

Yeah, because we used other sources.

[Speaker 3]
I think the beginning was from the point of view of the knuckle.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Okay, I'm looking for, is Adam there? Where are you hiding?

[Speaker 3]
I'm here again.

[Speaker 1]
Let's go, man. Give him some trouble.

[Speaker 3]
He's doing pretty good. He's pretty hot tonight.

[Speaker 1]
Bumajemache. Kewo tekpa mendang chele lodu ngemba kete. Kewki tenche di la mutek tsoki nemi nupar she.

Kewki sangye matop war par du. Yeah, par du gewe she su dak yur gi. Chi me duna drowa kungi mikchik du ni di gyuro.

Hey, you and Adam worked this out. Yeah, Bumajemache, son, son, don't do it, don't do it. Yeah, hey, don't do that, don't do that, don't do that.

Okay. Don't do what? Yeah, don't go down to the lower way.

Yeah, don't give up on helping all the needy, okay? Yeah, don't try it, like fall down to that. Oh, if you do, you know, touch, right?

If you do. Oh, yeah. If you do.

It'll cause a, and an evil will grow in your mind. Yeah, lodu means intellect, right? So your intellect will suffer also.

Yeah, interesting. The mutek tsogs can not nu your tenche. Yeah, the collection of non-Buddhists can't understand your works.

No. No, oh, they can't touch it, they can't touch it.

[Speaker 2]
They can't read it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they can't touch your book, don't worry about it. Yeah, uh-huh. KHYOD SANGS RGYAS MA THOB PAR Yeah, until you achieve Buddhahood yourself.

I will, DGE BA ZHES. I will be your personal guide. Yeah, I'll be your personal teacher.

Cool. And this book will become the mik-chik for dro-wa-kun later. Yeah, this book will be like the, sort of the all-seeing eye for beings in later times.

Yeah, the one and only eyes, okay? Okay, yeah. This'll be the only eyes that future generations, like in the 2022s, will ever have.

Okay. Okay, nice job, you guys. Joy Chen, you wanna complain about Ben Kramer?

It's a nice chance. ZHES ZUNG PA LA Turn on your microphone, Joy. Okay, here we go.

Good, ZHES ZUNG PA LA Make some mistakes here. Okay, ZHES ZUNG PA LA LOB DANG GYIS GUD PUN GYIS GYIS GYANG SNING TOB CHER KYE DE TSE MA KUN LE TUS DU ZOK PAR TZAM NAY KYE WO NAM LA LO DROS GYI MIK CHIN Oh, LO DROS, thank you. Nice job.

Nice job, Joy. Okay. So when Manjushri had ZHES ZUNG PA that.

Yeah, when he said that. LO DANG got a lot of SNING TOB. Yeah, oh, yeah, like, yeah, like power, verve.

Courage. SNING TOB means courage, yeah, great courage. Suddenly he was overwhelmed with great courage.

And he ZOK PAR TZAM GYIS TSE MA KUN TU Yeah, so he completed the compendium. He, yeah, wrote the whole thing. Compending of accurate perception.

Yeah. And therefore he GYIM the MIK of LO DRO to all KYE WOS. He, yeah, he gifted this, this vision, this eye of understanding of intelligence, of intellect to all living beings.

Yay. Yeah, that's nice. Okay, Rebecca, pick on this guy.

LEN CIG CHUNG NYON BAR GYUR TE CHUNG KHYER DU SON YONG LONG STE NAG DANG ZHIG DU ZHUGS PA'I YOR GYI GNAL DU SONG Nice, okay. LEN CIG means. One time?

Yeah, one day he got a little bit NYON. I don't know, like restless, NYON? We had that in ZIM LA GYUR TE.

Crazy? No, he got sick. That's why somebody was running around with a bowl of milk, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Who was that? Rahula. Yeah, Rahula.

He got a little bit sick. He went to the CHUNG KHYER to LONG HIS SON YONG. He went off to the big city to LONG HIS SON YONG?

I'm not sure. To go take his medicine, to get his medicine. No, to beg for his food, or beg for his care.

Of course, okay. Yeah, okay. And then on the way home, he stopped in a NAG TONG, NAG TSAL.

He stopped, a TONG means a place. Black forest? Like in the meadows of a forest, okay?

And he sat down, and suddenly YOR GYI means he was overcome by sleep. And he NEL, NEL is the honorific for sleep, okay? He went to sleep, okay?

He fell asleep. That's what happens when you get a big meal at a sponsored house. All right, keep reading.

And Rebecca, you didn't really get a chance. He was doing too good. It's too good.

Try to criticize him, come on. NEL LAM DU SANG GYE MANG PO SHEL SIK SHING TENG GYIN ZIN GYAR THAK NYE LA NAM GYI ME THOK GYI CHAR PAP NAK GYI ME THOK NAM GYANG DU PAR CURE LAM CHEN NAM GYI SIL DRIP TU CHE CHING YOD PA LAS YUL DE YI GYEL LUN KOR CHE KYO SANG LA ONG PE LO PUN DANG GYEL NE NGO TSAR KYE Nice. NEL LAM is honorific for meal.

He's dreaming while he was dreaming. And he seek many sang gyes. He saw the face of many enlightened beings.

Good, face to face. He met them face to face. And he also, and NYE means found or discovered, TENG GYIN ZIN GYAR THAK.

Oh, the meditation, like a hundred meditations or? Yeah, a hundred different kinds of meditations he went through during his sleep. Wow, great.

Okay, and by the way, when a very holy person is in a forest, a lot of things will happen. First of all, the flowers will pop a lot of, a charpa of methox. Oh, the, yeah, the, you know, the gods will, they'll pop up a lot of flowers.

Rain, rain. They will tend to rain flowers on you, that's for sure. And I like this next one.

DUPA means what usually? Like poison or demon? Bow down, bow down, right?

And this is a sign that there's a holy person under a tree is that the branches of the tree will bend down in frustration, showing flowers. So the trees in the forest bend over in respect to him. He was lying under the tree and the branches bend down unnaturally and popped out with flowers.

Nice, nifty trick. Then the Lhagchans came and offered their dridma to stop the hot sun from hitting. Oh, the Nagas came up and shielded him.

Oh, Lhagchans. Oh, the elephants, okay. Yeah.

The other Nagas. The Lhagchans came and with their what? With their bodies?

They just stood next to him to give him shade. They shaded him. Sil means cooling, drid means shadow.

Oh, that's nice. And due to all those signs, and there happened to be the Gyalpo of that yule. Oh, the king of that land?

Along with his limbos. And his people, his, I don't know. Ministers.

His servants. Ministers. Ministers, along with his ministers.

They were out on a kiosang. Kiosang means like taking a refreshing walk. Sang means to remove.

Kyo means like overworked, tiredness. They were out to get some fresh air. Oh, yeah.

They saw all these signs, okay. And then they happened upon the Lopans. Uh-huh, yeah, they saw the master.

And they felt great Motar. Wow. Wow.

Who is this guy that the trees are bending down for and the elephants are shading him? And he seems to be having nice dreams also.

[Speaker 2]
Gelne?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, they met him.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Oh, Gelne.

[Speaker 1]
They bumped into him. Gelne, like to meet a statue. Yeah, okay.

That's time. Come on. Yeah, God, Nick.

One more line, one more line. What is it with you, Nick? I'll check you, Ben.

Okay. Roma- Roma- Rah- Tak- Peh- Nel- Seh- Pa- Na- Gel- Peh- Keh- Chok- Long- Po- Yin- Nam- Sheh- Tri. Yeah.

They made the sound of music. The hills are alive with the sound of music. And they Seh-Pa hit a beat on him.

And they Seh-Pa- They woke him up. Oh, whoops.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
They woke him. Seh-Pa means to wake somebody up. Okay.

They woke him up. And then the Gyalpo said, Keh-Chok-Gi-Lam-O? Hey, are you Dignaga?

Could you be Dignaga? And he answered, Deh-Tah-Dog. Yeah, that's- That's what they call me.

Yep. And then the Gyalpo and his core did Chok-Sah. Yeah.

They bowed to him. Yay. Nice story.

Good? Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
Bedtime story.

[Speaker 1]
Quite good. Yeah, right. Good time for a bedtime story.

Ben, what did Grandpa Mike tell you last class at the end? Grandpa Mike, last class at the end. Yeah, I don't know.

He said, enjoy. Oh, yeah. Yes, enjoy this part of the book where you can understand what's happening.

This is the last part of the book you will be able to understand. So enjoy it. Okay.

Yeah, that's nice. This is a hard book. I mean, we've had a lot of hard books, but I got to say your book is going to be tough.

Okay. I'm just preparing you for trauma.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
How nice. Okay. Okay, you guys, we'll see you in the movie.

Saw you too. Great day. Great to see you.

Yeah, it was a good day. Oh, Amelie, say goodnight. Great, Amelie, say goodnight.

She said it in my ear. Say goodnight, Amelie. Goodnight.

Amelie. Bye, Amelie. Goodnight.