Бен Крамер — Книга 2: Драгоценность истинной мысли (Геше Йеше Вангчук о Дхармакирти), занятие 30

[Speaker 1]
I had a feeling you'd be thinking that way. I think we have one more minute. Oh, well, look, look, watch me very carefully.

[Speaker 2]
Uh-oh, the continued, the continued existence of the perception of Ben has ceased.

[Speaker 1]
And look at that, it's smeared onto my gucci. It must not be the only cause. There's some deep seeds at play here that we don't know about.

Hey, how'd you switch locations? How do you do that? You must have a green screen or something.

[Speaker 2]
That's, that's how you do that. Okay, now it's quiz time.

[Speaker 1]
Yay. Okay, I should do it? I think so.

Okay, let's see. Let me make sure I'm in the right place. Okay, this will have to do.

Okay, you guys finish your dinner? Yeah, yeah, we finished, Nick. Amazing.

Good. What is that? Oh, yum.

Pizza? This traditional celebration before the break. Yeah.

Tradition. Sorry, Ben. Not at all.

Cool. So, hi, all. What?

Would you tell me some of the auspicious signs that occurred when Master Dharmakirti's students brought his holy remains, invited his holy remains to the burial grounds? Some cool stuff happened, for example. We did spongebob flowers.

There were flowers. Where? In a vase?

In the sky. Flowers.com showed up. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
A great fragrance arose from his body.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it did. Yeah, there were flowers raining from the sky. Fragrance arose from his body.

What else? What other freaky stuff happened?

[Speaker 3]
Something about smearing a lady who wears the shawl of the ocean.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, smearing. The fragrance you mentioned.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, right, right.

[Speaker 1]
Sorry. Yes. Right.

[Speaker 2]
It's a fragrance. For a whole week, the earth was filled with musical sounds.

[Speaker 1]
New fragrance from Estée Lauder is the smell of the holy remains of Dharmakirti. Yes, also true. What else?

Anything else?

[Speaker 3]
His bones were replaced by blessing pills, spherical pills.

[Speaker 1]
Super weird. Yeah. Yeah, cool.

Stuff like that. Honorific term for the sacred remains of a great teacher's body. Well, we say ring cell, but isn't there...

A relic. The dune was maybe the word, yeah. That's a ring.

Ring cell's the relic. That's not what I'm looking for. Yeah, say again, Nick.

Kudung. Yeah, great. I'll take it.

Kudung, relics of the body. Take it. I'll take it.

I'll take it. Good. Continued existence and the perception.

I love it. When someone accidentally gave me the mute button and I'm drunk with power. How many close disciples did Dharmakirti typically travel with?

No more than five. Five. Yeah, the text didn't say typically, so maybe I shouldn't travel that.

Maybe he rigidly and only traveled with five. He probably had to pay for the plane tickets, okay? He drove a sedan.

Strictly with five. He got a limo. No, it fits six and it has a keyboard.

I had to sit on the floor. Then the shinkta only held five. This was back in the day when the front seat had a seat belt in between, but you can't do that.

Ashtrays filled with cigarette butts. How many disciples did the teacher have a direct teaching relationship with?

[Speaker 3]
All of them. Yeah, hundreds and thousands.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, one of those. Yeah, quite a darn few. What's the Tibetan term?

Nine, right? Nine. Meaning countless.

What is the Tibetan term for that latter type of relationship? Chundra? Cool.

Yeah. When I went to Sarah, it was not long after Geshe Thubten Rinchen had not felt that he was able to come to Palampur and teach. We showed up and we said, hey, come on, just teach us one little thing.

He felt guilty, luckily, because he hadn't been able to go to Palampur, so he felt like he had to give these poor schlubs who were Geshe Michael students, of all people, at least a little bit of a teaching. And so we got to sit down with him for an hour and get a teaching on emptiness. Wow.

It was really beautiful. I know I barely understood anything going on at all, but I've got the Chundrel. Did you check to see if you took notes?

I think it was probably easy to... Oh, I bet you at that time in my life, I probably did. And they're gone and lost forever, but maybe it helped me in the moment.

Cool. Yeah. Chundrel.

Chinky drill. Right. Cool.

Right. Okay. What did this...

Oh, yeah. It's kind of cute. It was hard to mine this homework for questions because we got into poetry quick, but what did this being do where the teachings had not yet spread?

Spread them. What did this being do where the teachings had degenerated? I'm degenerating them.

[Speaker 3]
I fixed them.

[Speaker 1]
What did this being do where the teachings had not degenerated? I'm degenerating them. Spread it further.

Yeah. Something like that. Whoa.

What on earth is this? Phrase them. Phrase them up, folks.

Yes. Oh, Tibetan phrases for these three. Pell, Pella.

Let me see. Did I put the... Oh, let's start with...

What did Tim do? Tim just got all three already? Tim said Pella.

That's awesome. Let's go in order. Pell's going to come up.

Keep that in your pocket. Wouldn't Pell be the first one? Nope.

I don't think so. Is it Dar? Targe?

It is. Right. Yeah.

What do you think? He spread them where they had not spread. He spread them.

I don't know. Targe, am I in? This formula is going to help you.

Where? Right in that place. Where they didn't Dar.

Dar Dar. Dar them up good. He revived them where they had weakened or degenerated.

Weakened? Is it Nyam? Yeah, Nyam.

That's what I was thinking. It is. Okay.

Revived? I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
Soa?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Soa. You said that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Very impressive. $20. So I give it from your left hand to your right.

Done. Where's Tim? He's here.

He's looking more executive today. I don't know what it is. Beautiful.

What did he Pellwod the ones where they what? Mingyur. Oh, it's so much easier than that.

Oh. Nyam? No.

Yeah. Yeah, boss. Yeah, right.

But that's why you're the Keishe. Where they had not Nyam, he Pellwod. Oh.

Oh, my Nyam. Oh, it not become Nyam? Oh, my Nyam.

Yeah, no, that's really why you need a Keishe. Good luck. I was trying to think of something else.

Good luck. Mingyur, the indegenerate land. Beautiful.

Oh, boss, I do. I honestly try, you know, for me to translate what I need is a lot more time and then you need to sleep on it and then look again and then cry and then come back to it again. And then.

Probably did it perfectly. Yeah, good. Rays shine from the sun of speech.

That part is good. Dispelling the darkness between two teachings. No, dispels the darkness of chö min.

Oh, yeah, of places that have no Dharma. Oh, that makes more sense. Right.

Yeah, right. Yeah, okay, where there are no two true teachings, of course. In the LANG DOR MI GYIN ZAS, you gotta read it across the line, okay?

Yeah, I hope I did, right? Again, blessing them with eyes to see what to take up and what to reject. Nice, perfect.

In this way, you taught the excellent path to the faithful. Is that what happened? Just say, DE CHEN DRUNG LA LAM SANGS CAN.

Exactly, perfect. Okay, fine. I think I meant to say he because I think I said he later on.

I have to make my pronouns agree and I think I might have screwed that up later. I'm realizing now. I'm sorry in the meantime.

Okay, LEN GAR TSUL KHYEN NAM LA THAL KHYEN, I want you to give me that TSUL. Oh, TSUL, I mean TSUL to seek, I took his TSUL KHYEN, I took this as like the guys who just look for the bad stuff. Oh, yeah, but it's meaningful here.

LEN GAR means an argument, right? So, what's a LEN GAR TSUL KHYEN? I mean, like a debater.

Looking for a fight like Shah Kramer. Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah, all right.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is THAL GYUR GYI GNOG.

Yeah, right. I called it, I don't know, I said calling out the absurd positions or something. Perfect, yeah.

THAL GNOG KYI RNAM CHAGS. The THAL GNOGS are the RNAM CHAGS. Yeah, right.

Yeah, yeah. Steel, steel, lightning bolts, steel-tipped lightning bolts. Yeah, steel-tipped lightning bolts of arguments of absurdity, right, yeah.

Then, no, this is more fun than this. LEPA means their brains. Oh, okay.

KHYEN means to split open. Oh, bad brains? I just thought bad brains, yeah, right, totally.

Okay, NGAN LAS I took as like... GUNG NGAN means... ...audience is stupid, but it's the bad...

Oh, GUNG NGAN means negative opponents in a debate, like GCHI RGUL, SNGA RGUL, you see? So, it splits their brains in two? Yeah, it splits open their brains.

His lightning bolt, consequence logic statements, splits open the brains of all these foolish debaters who are looking for a fight. Geshe-la, when you say RNAM CHAGS THOG, does it mean when the bolt strikes? THOG also means lightning.

Oh, yeah, when it doesn't have a THOG MA or anything on it, it can mean lightning, yeah, it can be a bolt of lightning, yeah. Okay, neat. You want to have someone else read since you're so good at reading?

Let's do it. I'm sorry, when I'm sharing my screen, it's hard to look at people, but I'm doing it quickly. Claire, didn't you just have a really good showing in the last class?

Would you do that again? Yeah, so let's embarrass her in this class. Yeah, that's it.

[Speaker 2]
My pleasure. True. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Getting better every day. Okay.

No, you got to read it this way. Those people who love a DOD, he jarred them to so-so tarpa chung. Okay, those people who long to practice, he joined them to the vows of freedom.

Yeah, and in this case, LHAG PA means Dombas. Vows, it means vows. Yeah, yeah, so if he had a person who wanted to take vows, he taught them, he introduced them to the Pratyamoksha.

Yeah. And if they were DEN DEN... Well, it's a long sentence.

Read the PHYIR DU as in order to, right? In order to DEP a SAB DANG in the hearts of the DE DEN. In order to plant a seed, a virtuous seed in the hearts of the faithful.

Yeah, he took a lot of days of DEN DEN. Yeah, he established a lot of groups of ordained... Yeah, and ordained people...

So there's two versions of the Three Jewels, right? There's the nominal Three Jewels, and there's the real Three Jewels. And he describes the communities of monks and nuns that our teacher Dharmakirti established.

He describes them as KHO YIN CHOG GSUM DUG PA. So that somehow the Sangha itself is the Three Jewels combined? Nice, yeah, nice.

They embodied the Three Jewels, which means some of them were getting enlightened, some of them were seeing emptiness directly, which is Dharma Jewel. Yeah, and then that covers the Sangha, okay? And he's playing with the word DUG PA, which means community, right?

And then CHOS DANG SANGS RTZING TSOR BA'I YOD CES BYA'O. This BYA'O means he supplied to them everything they needed for TSOR. I mean, for sustenance, for life and...

Yeah, he provided them the food of both CHOS and SANGS RTZING. Yeah, of both spiritual needs and worldly needs? Yeah, spiritual food and physical food.

He provided for his students. Cool. It's very beautiful, yeah.

And it kind of fits into the final Four Perfections. Right. Okay.

All right, here we go. By the way, just for your interest, the division of the lines here was unique, unusual. I really, yes, I noticed that.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. I mean, we had fours, well, I'm sorry, we had fours immediately prior to this, and then we had six, and then four, and then three.

Yeah, you can only read it that way, by the way. It's kind of showing off. Yes, he won't.

He's a great, great commentator. Unbelievable. I can't believe such a person existed in modern times.

It's kind of cool. Okay, Jeben, who's gonna, who are you gonna make stuff for? Let's see, Lindsay.

Rob drove 41 miles, 42 miles on his bike today, so I'm making sure he doesn't get a, okay, anyway, a pop. Anyway, a belly. Tempe Jendak, please read.

[Speaker 2]
Tempe Jendak shen pwam de ni do to, cho shi so gwai.

[Speaker 1]
So wei.

[Speaker 2]
Wei. Ge go yin no cho ki du si.

[Speaker 1]
Ke du si.

[Speaker 2]
Ke du si. Char, death, love, don't know. Can you say okay, Dukesy?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I was saying yeah, great.

[Speaker 2]
It's not for Dukesy, it's just Dukesy. Okay, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
This is an unusual, very unusual and beautiful poem that only a monastic could write. He says de nyi do means that one person, right? Means who?

Must be Dharmakirti. You know, usually the monks depend on the jindogs, but he says Dharmakirti was a jindog chenpo. He raised money, he built temples, he organized sangha groups.

Yeah, I know someone like that. So he was already a... He was the Dharma teacher, but he was also the Dharma's sponsor financially.

And he was also the genku, genku, genku. This is how you spell genku, by the way. Oh, I was wondering.

Where is it? Genku. Genku, wow.

Yeah, it's mispronounced as genku. It's genku. Oh, wow.

So he was the real... He wasn't just the main teacher in the monastery, he was the sponsor for the monastery at the same time, and at the same time he was the boss of the playground. He oversaw the debates.

He oversaw the debates, he did all the teaching, he did all the fundraising, and he was also the dorje lopun. The master. He gave the initiations probably.

Who bet the char, who dropped down the rain. Of the nectar of the Dharma. Of the nectar of the Dharma, which is a code word for secret teachings.

He was doing four jobs at once. Cool. It's very cool.

It's a very beautiful final verse, because... We're ready now to go to other teachers? Yeah, we're going to go on to other teachers of the Pramana tradition.

So pick on somebody else, Dr. Kramer. Oh, sure. Oh, Earl's looking to the side for a moment.

If you think he's on the toilet, call on him.

[Speaker 3]
Thanks, guys.

[Speaker 1]
Look gently to the left.

[Speaker 3]
All right, here we go. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
What's it mean, Ben? Oh, this is the third part of... From above, which I believe is Dharmakirti and...

Sorry, Dignanga and then Dharmakirti and then the rest. And the rest. I think so.

Yeah, the Professor Marianne. Okay. What's it mean?

So we're going to give the life story of Devendra Boody and the other guys. We're going to speak it. Tell it.

Yeah. Devendra means you combine two words, deva and... Indra.

When an A is combined into an I, it becomes E. So Devendra, which means deva, Indra. So Devendra Boody is a famous commentator, early writer, commentator on Dharmakirti.

In fact, I think he finished some of Dharmakirti's commentaries, if I'm not mistaken. Let's see. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe he wrote the fourth chapter of the auto commentary or something. Yeah, I believe so.

We're going to get there. Okay. Oh, good.

Let's see. Yeah. Oh.

Well, I try to focus only on people who have cameras on. If your camera's on, I'm coming for you. If your camera's off, I'm not coming for you.

There went all the cameras. Cool. I just want you to know the options you have here.

Oh, thank you. Rob, Stan. Rob.

Ali, John Brady, Connie, Gelsi, Rosa. Typing notes in order. I'll start with Rob.

All right. Okay, here he comes. All right, here he comes.

If it's gomba, it means meditate. If it's komba, it means he was very familiar with it. So how would I know that?

There's no S on it. Okay, here he comes. Nice.

Awesome. Ben, you want to translate it slowly? Yeah, that's exactly how.

Yeah, nobody knows. Yeah, Master Devendra Buddhi. Yeah, from his childhood.

Since he was a little guy. His law was very low. Super, he had a sharp intellect.

Good, and he already seemed to have a big komba with the suma. He already seemed to be familiar with the holy teachings. Nice.

Then he ruptured. He took ordination, he left the home life. Yeah, he took ordination.

We say he took ordination into the teachings of the Buddha, which just means he took ordination. And he did his terse, psalm. They don't mention gom yet.

Alright, yeah, he listened and he thought about it. So Shindu, so Shinli. Just like you're supposed to.

Yeah, good. Okay, who's going to read next, Ben? I think the second person on your list was Stanley.

Poor guy. He was having a good snooze in this class, Ben. I just work here.

Oh, this one? Yeah. Yeah, this one.

It's going to be fast. He jelled Shakyadagpa. He met Master Dharmakirti face-to-face.

Yeah, and in fact he was together with his own student named Shakyamuni. Okay, yeah. Sorry.

And from Lopan Shakyadagpa. Yeah, from Master Dharmakirti. He learned the seven books on accurate perception completely.

The whole round through. I would make it plural. They listened, or they learned, yeah.

Oh, they learned it, yeah. All the way. Sen, is this like an iteration for like one complete round?

I think it just means mastered all of them. Sorry, yeah, that's like a Tsar. Yeah, sorry.

What is Sen in relation to Te? It's honorific. Yeah, Sen is the higher honorific.

Geshe Yeshe Wongchuk's being polite. Who do you, you got this Chinese mafia guy here if you want. Sorry, well I better not.

Is he a Thai people? No. No, okay.

Okay. Cursor, cursor. Oh, sorry.

Guru. Guru. Guru.

Guru. Okay. Okay.

Class one. Two. Two.

I love this sentence. It does my heart good. Okay.

Chukadrakpa. Heetsong. Leodumbo.

Yeah, he wrote the first chapter of the commentary. Yeah. Dharmakirti wrote his own.

He wrote the auto commentary, which makes sense. That's what an auto commentary is. He wrote the, but he only wrote the explanation of the first chapter of the four.

Right. Why do they say jock? Honorific, okay.

Yeah, it's very, very high honorific. It means most sacred holy tongue. And sometimes they add it to the word for writing a book.

Okay. Meaning he composed it. Meaning kind of he spoke and composed it.

He's using extremely high honorific. Yeah, but from the second chapter on. Yeah, including the second chapter.

Yeah, good. And he cooled. Yeah, he loaded that task on to Devendra Boody.

Yeah, cool means he was not encouraged. He told him do it. Commanded him.

Commanded him. Okay. Commanded him to do it.

And unusually, He did what he was told. Yeah, Devendra Boody did what he was told. He summed those three chapters, and then he pulled them to the seat of Dharmakirti.

He offered them to the holy eye. Yeah, he offered it to the eyes of his teacher. And the logpunstug was manye.

Nye means pleased. Yeah. He was not stoked.

He was not pleased at all. And he chewed logpunstug. Lost it in the water.

He threw the book into a lake. He said this belongs in a lake. I keep feeling like I would love to do that.

There's a lot of other people here, Ben. Yeah. The next person on your list had been JB.

Yeah. He's been jumping up and down. JB pointed at somebody else.

Whoever JB pointed at next, you're next. Yeah, right. The hot seat.

The hot seat. Hey, Dr. Ben. Hi, John.

I need glasses for my glasses these days. You're starting at young. I can hear your conscience whispering from your shoulder.

Yeah, that's right. Here. Oh, yeah.

Riggs. R is silent. Riggs.

Don't go anywhere, John. Jim made some. What's Jim mean?

Jim is a focus with a like if you drive carefully, you are Jim. You are watching the road. Okay.

You're very attentive. Okay. So he, he dimmed his low and he'd sound again.

Okay. Yeah. All right.

So he, he doubled down his focus sort of, and then wrote it again. Yeah. And then he pull it again.

Yeah. Yeah. He offered it again.

Oh, this time he. Burned it in fire. I would love to do that.

Let's make John do one more. Okay. Okay.

John. Go. Yeah.

Yeah. Nah. Nah.

Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Pieso. Pieso.

[Speaker 1]
Yay. You guys know Shinto Kupa. I taught you Shinto Kupa.

Now he's Shinto Jimba. Shinto Jimba. Yeah.

He even double, double, double down, double focused. Not even harder. Harder, harder.

And he tongue. Wrote it again. But this time at the end of the book, he wrote the following four lines, okay?

I am- I am a poor man. Utterly without any great goodness. Yeah, I don't have any good coming.

Me, means I'm super totally without any good coming, okay? And, but look, two doesn't dip up for any man. Yeah, time, yeah, time waits for no one.

Yeah, time waits for no one. So I have a che. Che, to do.

I've written this commentary. Why didn't he say tsam, like we've had like three times? He's talking about himself.

Yeah, it's not, you can't use honorifics for yourself. Really screw up his sentiment here, if he praised himself. Very, very, very common Khenpo Khyon to say, I just wrote this for Khomba, not Gomba, Khomba.

Familiarize myself with the material. I just wanted to get more familiar with the material. I don't understand it, I don't know anything.

I just wanted to, and by the way, when you do a book in the Mixed Nuts, you're Khomba. You can talk to the Mixed Nuts, the 12 Mixed Nuts. They have Khomba, they got used to these books.

Okay, seven, six years now. Okay, Khomba is here. Hey, I just wrote this for Khomba.

And I kept my Khandro-Dor-Dur. I kept my commentary on these difficult points short. Yeah, and by the way, if I'm not mistaken, it's in English.

It would be about 15,000 pages or so. So yeah, thanks for your short commentary. Hey, Ezra.

Who are we gonna pick on next, Ben? Hi, Ezra. JB, who did you in desperation point to when we came for you?

Yeah, there was a quiet moment of invisibility next to me. And then I think she's ready to go.

[Speaker 3]
Come on up here, Venerable Chig-Mei.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, sound. I think the pizza's getting there. Yeah, you guys are whooping it up.

You're whooping it up in there. And also the fact that break starts in nine minutes. Must be the 10 minutes before the weekend.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Nick, remember Ray's Pizza in Manhattan? Oh, yeah, of course. I missed that whole story, so I'm gonna have to give it another time.

You were breaking up a little bit, guys, you and I. Yeah, I'm not supposed to say stuff like that anyway.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, darn.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, you're right here. Shaytree, you got the- Shaytree. You got the- Oh, I got the thing, huh?

Shaytree to Poo-Way.

[Speaker 2]
Lo-Pun-Kee-Dro-Dung-Tsik-Sur-Kee-Tsun-Pay-Up-Nay-Dun-Nam-Ma. Trung-Won-Duk-Tay-Tsik-Kee-Ngur-Sur-Ten-Pay.

[Speaker 1]
Dun-Nam-Jung-Duk-Sum-Nay-Shak. Okay, nice. He, gee, that last four lines.

He added, he, right, added them? Wrote them. Disclaimer.

And then he Pulawayed to the Lo-Pun. Offered it to the master. Yeah, the master said the following.

Look, you missed the whole drunk. Drun means the flow. Like, you missed the flow of my text.

You didn't tie each topic to the next topic in a flow. And you also didn't get all my finer points of wording. I hid little meanings in the words constantly, and you missed all of them.

Sun-Man-Nay-Dun. Ma-Jung, you didn't get it. It's not in your commentary.

You missed all the subtleties of the language, and you missed the overall flow of the text. But, you did get the dun of the Nu-Su-Ten-Pay-Chik. The direct, the obvious meaning of the words.

What the words said, obviously, you got it. And the important word here in modern Tibetan is shak. It split open the words.

Now, that would be shak, for some reason. Presentation, or place. This shak in colloquial Tibetan means he let it go.

He left it at that. Shak, shak, at the end of a sentence means he left it at that, which means he didn't destroy it, which is why John Brady saved it. Okay, he didn't destroy it.

Okay, we got two minutes. Let's use them. Hey, Geshe-la.

Yeah? Isn't this almost the same exact thing that Master Dignaga told Dharmakirti? Yeah.

What comes around, goes around. No, we've just heard this very story before.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, really?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah, we've done several rounds of clarifications and biographies, and we had this exact story once. Okay.

You wanna read, Ben, and we can finish this one? We can do. We still have six minutes.

Oh, well, you get somebody else to read, if you can. Jigme, who's next? Connie.

Ben, she's gonna do asana while she translates.

[Speaker 2]
You do the asana?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, Ben. Hi.

Okay. You handle that.

[Speaker 3]
I'll handle that. Okay, I'll try and drive it. Okay.

Lopun chukhi trakpe nge rikpa di chi?

[Speaker 1]
Yup. Chi. Chin?

Chi chin? Chi chinpa. Sukhyam.

[Speaker 3]
Sukhyam.

[Speaker 1]
Sukhyam. Sukhyam. Sukhyam.

Sukhyam shepar mi nduk. Good, nduk.

[Speaker 2]
Nduk ngong te se ma namdrel gyi chuk tu.

[Speaker 3]
Nice. Gyatso. You do the cursing.

Oh, here, so. Gyatso lani chuwo shindu ranggi lula tim?

[Speaker 1]
Tim? Tim. Lower, you see the lower note?

I was looking for that, yeah. Tim shing nukpa nidu ngyur shepe shik chuk go. Nice, very nice.

[Speaker 3]
Yay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Ben. Then Lopun chukhi drakpa, Dharmakirti said, NGES DRAG PA. My mind.

Yeah, good. Thank you for not saying. The mind of I, or?

Oh, logic, my logic. I said my mind, not my logic. Thank you for not saying logic, because it's spelled differently, yeah.

My thinking, chi chinpa means after this, in generations. Sukhyam shepar mi nduk. Yeah, there's not going to be anyone else like this.

Yeah. You can understand it. Yeah, no one's really going to understand my stuff after I pass.

And with that thought in mind, he wrote at the juk of Semenamdo. He wrote at the end of the commentary on accurate perception. At the end of his great masterpiece, he said, please read, oh, GYA TZOL NA NI CHU BO BZHIN.

Yeah, like the rivers into the sea. Yeah, rivers flow into the ocean. RANG GI LUL LA THIM.

My rigpa, RANG GI LUL LA THIM. Yeah, my understanding will dissolve into me, my body. Yeah, my rigpa, my understanding is going to dissolve with my body, when my body dies.

My thinking in the world will be misunderstood after that. My body will disappear and my thinking will disappear at the same time. Rigpa, nupam means what?

To go away, to set like the sun. Yeah, and I don't know, when I read this lines, which are very sad, I get this image of Nick sitting on a surfboard on the West Coast of the US and watching the sun go down. It's one of the most pleasant experiences in the world.

But I feel like the teaching is going to go down behind the ocean. And Nidugur? Yeah, it will set with me.

That's what's going to happen. And he chuked those six at the end. Yeah, he tied those words onto them.

He attached those words to the end of his work. Yeah, okay, cool. We can finish this one easy, because Connie is so fast.

We still have a minute or two. Okay. You got the cursory.

Alrighty. Okay, shakya lo ni la wang lo pung chudrak ni ke lop mayin chudrak la yang se ma de dun san sen zo war zo war la dang lo la wang lo la se may rik pa sen ne kya par gyur Okay, nice. Ben can translate this.

Oh, good. So shakya budi. Yeah.

Right. Who was a student of both Devendra Budi and Master Dharmakirti. And then he heard the seven books from Master Dharmakirti, as we said above.

Also, yeah. Uh-huh. And mainly, although mainly learned his, he learned from Master Devendra Budi's understanding.

And right, he became a master in that way. Yeah, and I'm not sure, but I think this is this classical division of the Pramana literature into logic and perceptual theory. Oh, wow.

I would say that mainly when he got to se may rik pa without the S, he learned it from Devendra Budi. Wow, brutal. So it's broken up into with and without the SA, huh?

Yeah, no, you know, I hope it was intentional. I was there when they proofread it, but it was a heavy time. So, yeah, I think the perceptual theory side of it, he mainly got not from Dharmakirti, but from his own teacher, Devendra Budi, yeah.

Cool. Very cool. And now, I hereby approve all students to eat pizza for two full days.

Thank you. You are in the area. Please come to the Peace Tree Cafe tomorrow, around 10, and we'll have a, we'll celebrate overeating.

It opens at eight, but it would be cruel to ask people to get up tomorrow at eight. Wake up at five and go right back to sleep. Yeah.

Wait, I got a video for you guys. Oh, hold on, hold on. Where'd it go?

Oh, hmm? I stopped sharing, but I'm not knowing yet. Cool.

Here it is. Okay. Okay.

Here we go. This is a video that Amelie made about mixed nuts overcoming obstacles.

[Speaker 2]
Hello. Hello. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hello.

Hello.

[Speaker 1]
Hello. One more time. Oh, where's my Ezra video?

Ezra, you gotta send me a video. All right, we'll send you a video. I took that video where you were giving the talk to the big audience, it would be nice.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okie dokie.

[Speaker 1]
Okie dokie. All right, have a good weekend. Uncle Nick, anything?

No, just thank you. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to our incredible translators.

Thank you to our incredible tech team, all the audience, all the mixed nuts, everybody who's reading, everybody who's taking classes with Word and Learning Tibetan. Live translating. Yeah, that's what I'm...

And then Geshe Michael, thank you so much. Please keep teaching us the way that you are. Keep it going.

This is amazing. We're very lucky. We're very, very lucky.

Hey, Ben, those flies come out in the summer, you know?

[Speaker 2]
That's okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, totally. We appreciate getting to be here at this time and place in the world. Thank you, Geshe-Ma.

Love you. See you guys in two days.

[Speaker 3]
See you tomorrow morning.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Ezra. Nice break.

[Speaker 2]
Bye. Bye.