Бен Крамер — Книга 2: Драгоценность истинной мысли (Геше Йеше Вангчук о Дхармакирти), занятие 36

[Speaker 1]
Why? Why does he do that? Why?

He give you hope? Nah. No, there's no hope.

To explain terminology, he has to use at the beginning of the text when he talks about the whole book. That is such a logical answer, but sometimes logic is not the window to truth. Hey, your book's all about logic.

Didn't he? Didn't he? No.

He did two things. First, he said, uh, how much of the book is he going to cover? Yeah, from this to that.

Yeah, from this to that. And that is... The topic at the end, which...

Right. Yeah. The end of the book.

So he just mentioned the end of the book. He mentioned the last words of the book. And so we had to cover the last words of the book.

But he just went and did it again and brought us to the end of the book a second time. He said he, um, he's going to cover the end of the book before he goes to the commentary on the main body of the work. How much are you paying for this answer?

Um, multiples of zero dollars.

[Speaker 2]
Zero dollars.

[Speaker 1]
Many times zero dollars. As many times as you like. A blank check.

You can write as many zeros as you want. Didn't he say that he was saving one form of logic for the very end? Oh, I like that.

That's true too. He said at the end that he had saved it. Till the end.

He just, he also just said the conclusion is short. And so he'll get that out of the way real quick. And took us to the end of the text saying, since the conclusion of this book is brief, I will cover that before the rest of the book.

What's the, which I've never seen before. I thought there's lots of things I've never seen before, but that's one of them. What's a simple Tibetan term for the conclusion or end of a work maybe in this context?

Sure. What word does he use? It's kind of cool.

[Speaker 3]
Hmm.

[Speaker 1]
He says Tarchen.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, cool.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Master Dharmakirti mentions two groups of people in that ending. With special qualifications, who may still not yet have achieved understanding.

Who are these special people? Who ain't special enough? Something about.

Oh, I heard someone start to say something. Right.

[Speaker 3]
Not dummies, but they can't get the emptiness. They can't understand emptiness.

[Speaker 1]
Lindsay said not dummies, but they can understand emptiness. Yeah, not dummies. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
And hardworking people who haven't seen emptiness.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. How nice. Yeah.

The non-dummies and the hard workers. Non-dummies who haven't seen it, and there are some hard workers who haven't seen it. Very good.

Hey, Ben, are we either one? Lindsay is not a dummy and is a hard worker. She's working hard on feeding us.

Whether she understands emptiness, I don't know. Any little bits of Tibetan for non-dummy or hard worker? Sunjupa?

Sunjupa? I don't know. Sunju is definitely going to be in there.

Yeah. He says it's cute. He says no small amount of intelligence for not a dummy.

I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, right.

That's nice. That's very good. What about...

Yeah, well, you were pretty close with people who work real hard. They work exceedingly hard. Boy, did they work hard, but still.

Yeah. Yeah, lots of stuff Ben doesn't know. I don't work that hard.

Why does Master Dharmakirti say the understanding contained in the commentary will disappear into his own body when he moves on from this world? Because people don't understand it? Yeah, that's all.

Yes, people, especially in the future when he's not there. There's not going to be anyone around who gets it, which is unfortunate since we're going to try and read the book. But we'll imagine he's here in spirit.

Simple Tibetan phrase for rivers into the sea. Chuo tin yat so or something? Darn, darn nearly so.

Good enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. Chuo tin yat so or something. Okay.

Here, boss. I have a... We stopped here.

It's been a while. And we had a little team class in between, which was fun, but not nearly as fun as having you back in the saddle with us. Okay.

I thought if it makes sense that maybe I would try to... It's just these two lines that maybe I would try to read them and explain what I thought they meant. Go for it.

The Xionglu, the system of scriptures, this tradition, like the nianjie, the day maker, has hundreds or so of good qualities. Denpa has them. And that fang chases away the long-end, the dark, evil ideas, and the jikpa, the fear.

And then... Then because of that, the... These masters who are like lotuses, they blossom wide, I guess to receive these beams of light, which are coming from the scriptures, with their mind's eye opened wide, like blooming lotuses receiving the rays of the sun.

I'm reading the jikpa part. Yeah, you can say. That's okay.

Hang on just a second. Something's bothering me. I'm not sure what it is yet.

What's the murky though? Oh, I guess I took it as sort of like, I mean, normally it's admittedly, but in this case, like, since that's so, since these rays of light are coming, since all of these qualities, like the sun beams rays of light, all of these precious qualities are coming from the scriptural tradition, that sort of, that's the reason why the masters are opening wide, the flowers open wide. Just the denpa murky is bothering me.

I don't know. I don't know what I think about. See, normally that would be a...

What do you call that? That would be... It's not comparison, but it's contrast.

It would be contrast. Something is true, but something else is not true. Normally this comes between those two things.

Normally denpa murky comes between something which is true, kind of true, and then something which is very true. But that doesn't hold here, but it's a little confusing. I also, I was confused about me here.

Like, I just sort of said that it, you know, dispels evil thoughts and banishes fear, but it's like, dispels only evil thoughts, or what is the nyi doing here? Oh yeah, that could mean the number one, you see? No.

On one hand it has a hundred beautiful qualities, which in the hundred here is just a big number to make emphasis, and then nyi can mean the one and only, the one worst thought of all, you see what I mean? Oh, wow, beautiful. It's like holding to self-existence, you see what I mean?

Yeah, cool. Okay, that's wonderful. That's interesting.

Then I mean it would be tempting to say that the third line is negative, you see? It's sunlight which prevents us from being scared, like walking around at night. But, you know what I mean?

Like, he could be saying it's a light which removes our fear. It's light which removes our fear. But that's not the best thing.

The best thing is that it will open the lotus of your mind. You see what I mean? Yes, yes.

This book is cool because it removes your fear, but even more amazing is it opens the lotus of your mind. Something like that. Oh, yeah.

Wow, yeah, beautiful. Yeah, right, even though it dispels evil thoughts and banishes fear, it sort of even better, it opens the mind's eye of the lotus masters. It's doing four things here.

It's doing four things here. It's comparing the ideas that this knowledge burns the tumbleweeds or burns the bad plants, number one. Number two, it illuminates the path.

Number three, by illuminating the path, it removes your fear because it's no longer dark. But best of all, it opens the lotus of your mind. Something like that.

Okay. Okay, thank you, boss. Can I give you the plane?

Yes. Okay, good. Thank you for working on that.

I remember going through that and it bothered me so much. Okay, that's kind of you to say, hey, pretty, look at that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Wow. Hubba hubba.

[Speaker 1]
We just got the license plate. It's a license plate to get. And Rob and Ellie got it.

And this is not talking about me, Kramer. His story is different. No, no, of course, because the car is younger than you.

The car is one year younger. Let's not talk about that. I got to get the right book up here.

Let's see if I have your book up here. Yeah. Okay.

Okay, so I'm going to have to go back to here. Ben was going to do these last two lines. Yeah, go ahead.

Okay. Let's read this one. Okay, who's going to read this one, Ben?

You want to read the first? Oh, I will. Okay, sure, I will.

Sure. Sure. Yeah, so if we have a lot of YSI kids here, and you get to tell them what's the context that we're talking about, we skip to the end of your project is a 52-year project.

We skip to the end of the last lines of a famous book written about 1,300 years ago.

[Speaker 2]
Right?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Yeah, which is the basic root text on accurate perception, how to see things. It's one of the greatest books of the Geshe course, for example.

Your commentator skipped to the very end of the book, where Master Dharmakirti says something kind of disturbing. What did he say? He said all of this understanding will go away when I'm gone, because there will be no one left who can explain or understand these ideas as well as he can, Master Dharmakirti.

[Speaker 2]
What's the metaphor?

[Speaker 1]
He says, like, rivers all dissolve into the sea. They flow into the sea. It will all dissolve into his body.

All rivers dissolve into the sea. And my knowledge of how people confirm that anything is true, those methods of confirming what is true, will melt back into my body and disappear, like waters flow into the ocean. Those are his final words.

They're very depressing. They're one of the most depressing. Like castles in the sand.

In all of scripture, it's one of the most depressing. And here he's talking about those lines. SIG CHE DANG PO means what?

Well, I guess it means the first part of this verse, or the first of these words. I'd say that. The first part of those words is talking about the rig lang trang mos inside of semanamda.

The subtleties within the commentary on accurate perception. Yeah. The subtle, logical thoughts inside of that most important book ever written on perceiving things with logic.

You think logic is boring. You think you don't use logic. You use logic every few seconds.

You perceive... Everything that's not in this room, you perceive with logic. You are using logic many, many times every five minutes.

But we don't know. We don't realize. So he says there are many subtle arguments on logic.

CHI RAB KYI DUL BYA Later disciples, later students. Yeah, good. And he kind of used a word that implies...

RAB can imply flow of a river. You see, he's already talking about... Students who come, say, around 2024.

CHI RAB means students who show up in the Buddhist lineage late in the game. We're late in the game. We're 2,500 years late.

We showed up at the party 2,500 years late. Hey, what's going on? If we do our job right and keep this going a long time, then maybe we'll still be early.

Yeah, JI ZHING RTOG PA MI NUS JI ZHING RTOG PA MI NUS They're not able to understand it like that. Like he does, or as it was explained? This JI ZHING means correctly.

It just means correctly. Okay. It's an idiom for correctly.

Later generations who show up late, they won't be able to understand it, okay? Because, why? It will TIM.

Not TIM. It'll go away. It'll dissolve.

It'll... In the way that rivers dissolve back to the ocean, these good ideas will dissolve, and then they will NIR PA. Yeah, set like the sun.

They will melt, and they will disappear into the GYAT SONG. The ocean. SONG PA PO SLO The mind of the author.

Yeah, the mind of the author, which is Dharmakirti. Dharmakirti. Dharmakirti predicts that the subtleties of thinking, that the subtleties of thinking that he laid out in detail will be lost forever if he dies.

They'll just sink back into him, okay? And later generations won't be able to understand them correctly. Okay, let's keep going.

Ben, you want to torture somebody? Yeah. Can I get you to hire somebody?

Yeah, sure. Thank you. Wait, don't pay him.

Just tell him it's a volunteer job. Okay. I'll go on.

Nice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, perfect. From the... Okay.

Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Not bad, not bad. Very brave. How do you say brave in Spanish?

[Speaker 3]
Valiente.

[Speaker 1]
Valiente. Okay. Yeah, the second section of that verse, I guess.

Says that there will be KERPAS. There will be masters. Who understand the subtle meaning, or the profound meaning, rather.

Of this commentary, okay. Yeah. Why is it a commentary?

It's a commentary on the sutra on accurate perception, which is also not a sutra, but... By his teacher. Compendium.

By Dignaga. Okay. LOD ROL GYI BSTAN MO GANG PHYIR GANG RJE Yeah, GANG RJE.

Like, wide open lotuses of their intelligence. Blossom. It will open the lotuses of their wisdom.

Yeah. Okay, good. And sometimes they add an O.

The Tibetans add an O on PHED MA. They call it PHED MO. And it's just a Tibetan thing.

PHED MO GANG PHYIR NAM CHUG GI ZHIR RAB CHOG GI They will get NAM CHUG GI ZHIR RAB. The wisdom of discernment? Knowing the difference between things?

Making fine distinctions. That kind of supreme wisdom. That will...

RIM CHUG DROD PA DROD PA means chase away, like chase away a bear or something like that. Chase away a rat or something like that. DROD Yeah.

It'll chase all of the evil views far away. Good, good. This wisdom will chase away all your wrong views.

Okay. Like you might chase away a wild animal or something. CHEN GNYUD PA TSUL TSUL means that's what his final lines are saying.

Whose final lines? Dharmakirti. Yeah.

Okay. Okay, who's reading there? Word, who's reading?

Let me look.

[Speaker 3]
Tracy.

[Speaker 1]
Tracy. Tracy wants to read. Oh, how nice.

GONG GI SA CHE SHE PA SHE PA wa shepa tar shin par ten pe shung sen sum po pope nam drel gyi tsik ta dak yin. Wow, beautiful, beautiful. Amazing.

That's amazing. That's great. Very, very good job.

Now, I had a brief outline of this book. By the way, this is one of those cases where you pronounce the prefix letters. Say sap che.

Sap che often means an outline of a whole book, but here it means the second item in the outline. So, kongi means above. The second section I promised you above, which was called shepa nyerwa gupa.

So, in his commentary, our author said, first I'm going to give you some introductory comments, and then I'm going to give you the whole book. And then I'll give some concluding comments. Okay, got it?

So, we have reached, our author says, I promised you some parts above, and the second part I promised you was, I will explain the whole book. After the preliminaries, I will explain the whole book. Okay?

And he says, what is the whole book to him? When he says he's going to explain the whole book, what does he mean? It means the commentary in its entirety.

Yeah, all the words of the commentary. All the lines of Master Dharmakirti's ancient work are what I promised to explain. What do I promise to explain in the second part?

All the lines of this great book. Okay? This is one of the greatest books ever written on this planet.

If you get a chance to hear it, you are unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It's like ten times better than the Bible.

Anyway. No, it's unbelievable. It's a revolution.

In 2,000 years, it's a revolution of the human mind. It's unbelievable. It's incredible.

Okay? And he says, I'm going to give you the whole thing. I'm going to explain the whole thing.

Except. Puh means puh. Puh means puh.

I'm going to kick out a few parts, and I will not explain those parts. What are those parts? I'm not going to explain the chödr.

The pledge to compose the work. Yeah, I'm not going to... Yeah, I'm not going to explain to you, in my second section of the commentary, the promise that was made by Dharmakirti to write his book.

I'm not going to explain that to you now. And I'm not going to explain to you his tsongpa dam chelwa. Yeah, that's the promise to complete the work.

His promise to write the book, do or die. Okay? Die or finish the book.

I'm not going to cover that. There are two things I'm not going to cover. And there's a third thing I'm not going to cover.

Shepa tar chinpa. Tar chinpa. Conclusion.

I'm not going to cover the very end of the book. Why? I just got started.

I promised you at the beginning I would frame the whole book for you. And I gave you two important pieces at the front. And I gave you the piece at the end about the rivers going to the ocean and the whole thing finishing.

I framed the whole book for you. Now I promise to explain the book to you. But hey, can I not repeat the parts I just did?

Okay, the very opening and the very end. Is that okay with you guys? It's kind of like asking permission.

I promise to comment on the whole book. Except the pieces I just did. Okay, got it?

It's reasonable. But he's got this Buddhist sense of morality. He says I'm covering the whole book.

But he's not. He's going to leave out two sentences. Because he already did them.

And he wants to make sure you understand the content. Okay? I promised to cover the whole book.

Thanks. Except the parts I already covered. Is that okay with you?

Yeah. All right, last part. Okay, next.

But there's an implication there. That you understand those three perfectly already. And he doesn't have to cover them again.

They hardly remember them. Okay, here we go. Who's reading, Ben?

It's a word. Help me. Okay.

Thank you. Tin, you read. Okay.

Oh, he's translating. Oh, he's translating? I didn't know.

One second.

[Speaker 3]
Ina, are you available?

[Speaker 2]
I want to read.

[Speaker 1]
Oh.

[Speaker 2]
I can read. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Ina can read. Jessica, you can read next. Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Ben, correct? Ben, correct? Nice.

The Department of Antarctica, one of the most famous books in the history of the world, which is what... And by the way, this commentary is the best in 15 centuries. Okay?

It was written in our language. by an extraordinary man, a teacher of my teacher. So, it's got four chapters.

Okay? It's got four famous chapters. We'll have to name the chapters, Ben, I think.

Do you have them on top of your head or do you want me to go get them for you? The names of the four chapters? Yeah.

No, I don't. Okay. Let's go, Gary.

I think I got it for you. There's a debate about the four chapters.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Well, there's the fourth chapter. Let's start with that, okay? Okay.

It's Jeypakilu. Okay? Jeypakilu.

What's Jeypakilu? That's deductive or indirect accurate perception. Deduction.

Okay? Chapter four is deduction, I guess. Okay?

Let's go again. I thought we... Yeah, here's the one.

The fourth chapter is called Shenden Jeypak. Okay? Shenden.

Say Shenden. Shenden Jeypak. First chapter is Ranggen Jeypak.

Ranggen Jeypak. What's it mean, Ben? This means deduction for your own sake, for your own benefit.

Yeah. Figuring things out with your eyes closed for you. For you.

Okay? Something that you need for yourself. Okay?

Logic used for yourself is the subject of the first chapter. Logic used for others is the fourth chapter. So now we've just got to cover the second and the third chapter.

Okay? So here's the second chapter. And there's an ancient debate about the order of the two chapters.

Okay. Here's the second chapter, okay? Say Sema Kyi Bu.

[Speaker 2]
Sema Kyi Bu.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. It says proving Sema. Okay?

Sema means...

[Speaker 3]
Accurate perception.

[Speaker 1]
Sema means accurate perception. And the chapter's name is proving accurate perception. But it applies to, as you know from the ACI, Buddha.

Yeah, Sema Kyi Bu. Say semi-cubic. Semi-cubic.

A person who is pramana means a person of totally accurate perception, which means a person who cannot lie. A person of totally accurate perception. So the second chapter of this famous book proves that Lord Buddha is totally accurate.

What's the first chapter talk about? Logic used for your own purposes. Fourth chapter.

Logic used for other people's purposes. What kinds of pramana are left over after you kick out logic? So I use my logic to say the third chapter must be a study of direct perception.

How do you perceive colors? How do you perceive shapes? How do you perceive sounds like that?

Then the whole book covers all kinds of perception. It has a side trip to proving that this person's perceptions are totally accurate. Got it?

Now we got to go back to where we were. By the way, this book, before translation, is 880 pages. To get to the translation quantity, you normally multiply it by 8.

So this is going to be 6,500 pages. Ben's commentary is going to be...

[Speaker 2]
100 years.

[Speaker 1]
100 years. Okay. Yeah, we covered that.

Okay. Okay. So...

What's that, Ben? Tarpa and derdra ben lam. Freedom and the path to travel there.

Right. How do you nirpa it yourself? How do you see it, come to know it for yourself?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
How do you figure out what is freedom and how do you get there, the path? Okay? How do you figure out what is freedom and the path to get there?

That's the first topic. Okay? Second topic.

Nye me shen jeshe dzinpe tarpa. What's shen jeshe dzinpe? Oh, caring for others?

Yeah, how to lead others. How to take care of others. First, figure it out yourself.

Second, help other people get there. Nye shen dzinpe means... The whole thing is two sections.

The whole dang book is two sections. What do you need to understand to help yourself? And then?

[Speaker 2]
What do you need to understand?

[Speaker 1]
What are they? Okay? The whole book can be divided into two parts.

Sab je dang po de. Sab je dang po means the first section that I just described to you, which was figuring out the path for yourself. Okay?

That is covered in the Liyue Dang Po Sum of this book. First three chapters. First three chapters?

First three chapters. First three chapters. What's the first chapter?

Using logic for your own... Using deduction. Eyes closed.

All the god dang things in the universe you can perceive with your eyes closed is the subject of the first chapter. What's the subject of the second chapter? Yeah.

Is there any being who has perfect perception? Third chapter?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
What is direct perception? Those three chapters help you get where you want to go. And then the fourth chapter?

Logic used for others. Which means how to explain logically to someone else how dang... That's the whole huge structure of this book.

And sometimes when you're deep in this book, like you're at the winter debates, you debate one page, night and day, for 30 days. You debate one page, night and day, for 30 days, until you can't speak anymore. You know?

And you debate all night. And you cover one page. Okay?

That's just... All right. Here we go.

Who's going to read the next section, Mr. Bin? Oh, I believe Jessica was slotted to read next. Right, Jessica?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
So...

[Speaker 1]
Yes.

[Speaker 2]
Yes. Good. Good.

Good.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Okay, good. When we're talking about the first three chapters that are used mainly to achieve whose goals?

[Speaker 2]
My own. My own.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. I can divide those three chapters. I can describe those three chapters like this.

Number one. The way to come to see what is hidden. Yeah, if someone says to you, why do Buddhists spend...

By the way, how many years does a Geshe spend on this book? We spend 12 years on Maitreya's book on lower Madhyamika. Then we spend four years on higher Madhyamika.

Then we spend two years on Abhidharma. Then we spend two years on Vinaya. When do we study Laji?

Every year for three months. For 25 years we studied this book. Three months a year.

Because it's so important. We sprinkle it throughout the whole Geshe course. That's what the winter debates mean.

Two months preparation for winter debates. Choose the 50 best guys. They go to the winter debates for the third month.

Everybody else gets stuck at home and feels depressed. I went four times. Nobody ever did that.

But I voted for myself. Okay. Okay.

What's kokir, Ben?

[Speaker 2]
Hidden.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, hidden reality. Why would... Ngepa means...

Tab means what, Ben? How you come to know those things that are hidden. Yeah, and please, please, please, appreciate this sentence, okay?

There's things in the world that normal people cannot see and will never see. They will die without seeing them. 99.99% of humanity will spend 60, 70, 80 years here, and there are certain things they will never see and never even hear about. Okay? That's called kokir. Those are the invisible things of this world.

Deep, deep spiritual truths that you just can't see by normal ways. Someone has to train you to see deeper things. Okay?

Someone has to train your mind to see deeper things. And without that training, you will die, and you will never even know those things were there. See what I mean?

Okay? So that's kokir ngepa tab. It's very beautiful.

Somebody said, why are you studying this logic book? It sounds so boring. No, no, no.

I am opening my third eye. This book is about opening your third eye. It's the sexiest book.

There are things that normal people will never even imagine existed, and this book teaches you how to see them. Okay? God, thanks.

Wow. Okay? Got it?

It's unbelievable. So kokir ngepa tab means first chapter. The job of the first chapter is to teach any normal person to see these invisible things that are the highest things in the universe.

And most people never even know they were there. They will walk around them their whole life and never even know what they're missing. Okay?

Second chapter. Or is this the second thing that happens in the first chapter? No, he's promising you...

He has two huge sections here. I see. I see.

Great. Basically, how to help yourself and how to help other people. How to help yourself has three parts, and it happens to correlate to the first three chapters.

Great. Second chapter. I will...

I will explain the path. That is, you will travel to freedom and omniscience, which is what it is you come to know that was hidden, I guess. That's the ngecha.

Yeah. First chapter, I'll teach you how to see the things you can't see. Second chapter, I will prove that there is a higher state called nirvana in Buddhahood, and I'll show you how to get there.

Which is what? It's the proof that... That Lord Buddha is a person who cannot lie.

That chapter called proving that Lord Buddha is a person who cannot lie, the topic is nirvana and Buddhahood. Make sense? That's the second thing that's helpful to you.

What is ngecha here, boss? What it is that you would like to perceive. Yeah.

Yeah. And you can say that's kokyu. Yeah.

You could say it's referring back to the first section. Yeah. Okay.

The first section is how to ascertain things you can't ascertain, and then the second chapter is explaining the path to achieve what you cannot ascertain. Yeah. How's that?

Okay, good. And then the third section is almost redundant. Tell me why, Ben.

It seems almost redundant. Oh, because it's obvious or something? Because...

Methods to perceive those things which are right in front of your face. Like they're blue, green, yellow, hot, cold. Thanks.

I hope the chapter's not too long. Because it's an explanation of which kind of perception.

[Speaker 3]
Direct perception.

[Speaker 1]
And normally you don't spend much time on it, because that's the only one that most people have automatically. But still, how it's true might only have a completely different explanation. You are directly perceiving a blue that's inside your own storehouse consciousness, for example.

So it's not a small subject. It's not as dumb as it sounds. It's worth a chapter.

Which chapter?

[Speaker 3]
The third one.

[Speaker 1]
Was it the third one? Yeah. Okay, good.

By the way, I warned you that some commentaries are treated in a different order. Some commentaries were... of the classical commentaries, some were never finished.

The person died before they finished the four sections. So there is such a thing. And in some of them, they started on the second chapter or something.

Because Dharmakirti did the earlier chapters, like that. So the commentary literature is a little messed up, as far as the order of the chapters. Okay.

Ben, who's up next? Do you have another victim lined up for me? Sure, one sec.

Hei Ling wants to read. Oh, good. Who doesn't want to read?

[Speaker 3]
There she is.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, sab ji dangpo means the first part of my whole explanation, which is grace to help yourself. It involves three different things. Number one, seeing something that most people never see.

Number two, a description of freedom and how to get there. And number three, how to use your direct senses properly. Those three parts happen to correlate to the liu dangpo, liu nyi pa, liu simpa.

The first, second, and third chapters. Yeah, they correlate to the first three chapters. Seeing things which most people never see is the first chapter.

Understanding the path to freedom in freedom, second chapter. Third chapter, direct perception. You okay?

Did I lose anybody? Ben, who's next? Oh, yeah.

Who's next? Oh, that wasn't enough. You will get this talk once in 50 years.

Today. You will never see the structure of the whole book again. So, learn it.

We're not going back. We don't have time to go back. It's a 50-year project.

So, today you are one of those very, very, very rare people who got the structure of the whole book. Okay, here we go. Dangpo Lanyi, who's up, Ben?

Hey, Ling, that was too short, right? You need another one? Too short.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
Dangpo Sim. Thank you. Next one.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, up, up, up. Dangpo Lanyi.

[Speaker 3]
Dangpo Lanyi. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we've been on this book how long, Ben? Like, either a few minutes or a couple years. No, how long on Yeshe Wangchen's book?

I mean, yeah, all in all, we've spent two years, something like that, yeah. We've been on this book for two years. To be fair, we covered the biographies of some of the authors, okay?

So, we did do that before. And throughout the biographies, throughout the introductions, I warned you that the poop would hit the fan. That you would hit a...

The whole thing was a vacation up to now.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
The whole two years up to now was a vacation. And tonight, we hit the real book. And it's hard.

It's really hard. And the hard stuff starts tonight. You can say, I was there when Geshe-la started kicking Ben's butt.

You know? And he... All right, here we go.

Don't forget, I told you, for two years, we were going to get here. And we're there. Okay, here we go.

Okay, put on your seatbelt. Dangpo Lanyi, okay? I'm going to tell you...

Let's talk about the first chapter. Okay? We can divide it into two parts.

One, we're going to give a shepa bin. An explanation of... Let's see.

Reasons which are the basis of deduction. Yeah, and now starts a very, very difficult process of trying to distinguish between many, many ancient terms for logic. And they have their own flavor.

Each word has its own... There's five words for logic statement. There's 20 words for reason.

I mean, you've got to go slow. We've got to start working hard here. Danzig means a whole logical statement.

It doesn't... Okay? Danzig means a logical statement.

That sixth part is important in the khoma, in the fire offal. And I'll give $100 if you can tell me why. Danzig.

Okay? We just reached your first real logical... It's the little joint in the bamboo.

It's the little joint. How much did I say? $0.50?

$100. $100 for Uncle Nick. Yeah.

Six with an S. Six without the S means word. Everybody knows that word.

The word knows that word. Six with an S means the connective place. And it's ayusha.

Ayusha. It's the reeds that you offer in the fire offal. Okay?

What do those six represent? By the way, this is also a six. The joints of your fingers are also a six.

Long life? Yeah, long life. When you burn the reeds, the grass with those joints in it, like bamboo joints, when you throw them in the fire, it represents prayers for people's long life.

Because it has many six, many sections, which represent years. So you have ten six. The Tibetan word for a logical statement is ten six.

Firm section. Firm section connection.

[Speaker 3]
Okay? Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So now we start having to distinguish between these exotic logic words. Okay? So what do we call it?

Provisionally means for the time being, we'll call it logical statement. Ten six. Okay?

Here we go. Okay. Now, there's an important concept already here.

Ten six are the ten of jepa. They're the basis of deduction. Yeah.

Logical statements. Take this, it's that, because this. Take this, it's that, because of that.

Okay? Take this, it's that, because of that. Okay.

So now we have. Say it. Most of all time.

It should become like a mantra. Dutch. Dutch.

Dutch.

[Speaker 3]
There's a sound.

[Speaker 1]
Because it's made. Because it's made.

[Speaker 3]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
It's created by the throat, by the tongue. Okay? This is an ancient, ancient use of logic against people who said that something was unchanging.

What?

[Speaker 3]
Ohm.

[Speaker 1]
Ohm. Yeah. The statement ohm.

Okay? To say Aum, because it has to be made through effort, it must be impermanent. All main things are impermanent, are changing.

Say, drach chen. Give me a tense. Give me a tense.

Drach chen, chen, drach chen, cheb chen. I don't want to hear it like drach chen today. Drach chen, drach chen, cheb chen.

It's like ordering a pizza. I'll take a drach chen, drach chen, cheb chen. Drach chen, drach chen, cheb chen, cheb chen.

It's got to have a rhythm to it. You can play it on a guitar if you win the guitar. Drach chen, drach chen, cheb chen, cheb chen.

Drach chen, cheb chen, cheb chen. Now you're on the, this is your first real class in this book. After two years, we reached the class.

OK? Tensing means logical statement. OK?

That's the gen of chepak. What's that mean?

[Speaker 2]
The basis of.

[Speaker 1]
The basis of.

[Speaker 2]
The basis of deduction.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. It's not deduction. It's the foundation of deduction.

Get the difference? Statement, drach chen, drach chen, cheb chen, is the foundation of perceiving things you cannot see. The whole foundation of seeing the things you cannot see is drach chen, cheb chen, cheb chen, cheb chen.

Got it? It's not logic. It's the foundation of logic.

[Speaker 3]
It's foundation of seeing material costs or not? It's like, no.

[Speaker 1]
Without the first one, you can't get to the second one. You cannot see the deeper things of this universe unless someone teaches you formal logic. It's not possible.

Unless someone trains you how to think, there are truths you will never see. It's not some stupid Aristotelian logic thing. It's not that.

It's not that. It's a secret tantra. Everybody's asking Geshe-la to teach them tantra.

Here's tantra. This is tantra. Understand how to think, and you will see magical things that you never imagined.

But you've got to learn how to think. And really, you don't know how to think now. Your mind is like an untrained horse or something.

They say it's like an untrained elephant. And if you get on top of that mind, you're in trouble. You'll get stamppled?

Trampled? Okay, stampled. It's important.

I don't care what the time is on. The whole basis of seeing the unseen world is to think logically. It's the ability to use those three elements of a logical statement and to understand that upwards and backwards.

Secondly, he's got another part here. He's not done yet. Let me finish.

You can go home after that. LOK POG LUNG PA'I DAG ZIN TAN PA We're going to give you some backwards reasons. It's interesting.

I mean, legally, what this second sentence says is a person who cannot... The fact that they cannot think clearly is the reason for saying someone's a fool. Okay?

How do you prove someone's a fool? They cannot think logically. Okay?

All right? It's an idiot. Fool is better.

A fool hurts themselves by accident. Stuff like that. Fool does foolish things and hurts themselves.

LOK POG LUNG PA'I DAG ZIN TAN PA Misunderstanding the deeper things is the true sign of a foolish person. Okay? Got it?

Like not understanding that sharing what you have with others is the true path to wealth or prosperity. Okay? Not understanding that is LUNG POG.

These are not just docs, reasons, which are LOK POG LUNG POG? No, it is. LOK POG means bad ideas.

You can say bad ideas. Bad ideas. All right.

And by the way, we truly are entering the real LOK POG now. And it's going to be a different... The party's over.

And I'm not... You think I'm kidding. No, I don't.

Yeah, this is where I'm most committed since I'm the most... No, I peaked ahead. It's pretty rough.

All right, good. Do you have an impossible assignment for me? Yeah.

The next three sections. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you. Okay, cool.

Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
And you know...

[Speaker 1]
Thank you so much. Do your exercise, eat well, get lots of sleep. Come back next time.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you.

Thank you, everybody, for coming tonight. Thank you, live translators. I don't know how you do it.

It's wonderful to get to spend this time with everybody. Thank you for supporting this program by your presence and your good night clubbing. And Word, are you standing by for class tonight?

Yes. Thank you. So please stay tuned if you want to learn to read as well as Word's other students.

I know I'm jealous. Then you should stay right where you are and learn from him. Thank you.

Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much.

Hey, Word, thank you for teaching all these people to pronounce things. You're welcome, Gann. Thank you for teaching me so I could teach them.

Ah, I'm so glad you're doing it. Okay.

[Speaker 3]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Bye.