Гибсон Чан — Книга 2: Восхваление зависимости, занятие 3

[Speaker 2]
Hello, let's start the final quizzes.

[Speaker 1]
Can anyone tell me what at the beginning of the text, Je Tsongkhapa bows down to his lama's gentle voice at this text?

[Speaker 2]
He does this for two reasons. Well, isn't one reason that he's his teacher?

[Speaker 1]
Can anyone hear me? Yeah, isn't one reason his teacher? Let me see.

[Speaker 2]
Tim is answering.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, weird. I couldn't hear.

[Speaker 2]
Can you hear now, Gibson? No. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Can you hear now, Gibson? Yeah, I can hear you now. I can hear you now.

All right. I said one of them is that he's his teacher, and the other one is bowing down to wisdom. He's bowing down to the reason why he wants to achieve a goal, which is to finish this book easily and quickly.

It's called the luck. Hey, Gibson, I'm going to bow down to Manjushri then to finish my 50-year book quickly and easily. Maybe you can shorten to the 25.

All right. The second one is Lo Buddha must be the greatest teacher of all time, and you don't need any more reason than one. Whoa.

And what is that reason? He taught dependence. And actually, there's two reasons.

That's a different question. That was one. He teaches.

He taught it. But first, he had to watch, then he can talk.

[Speaker 2]
He understood it.

[Speaker 1]
Roxanna said he saw it and taught it. Yeah, yeah, correct. So just because he was the only one who truly understood, and understand here means saw, actually, saw it and taught dependence, so he is already an unrivaled teacher in the universe.

Okay. What's the root of every hassle in the world coming from? Or I can say where and how to caught it.

[Speaker 2]
Dependence? Misunderstanding that dependence. The text say he focused on two parts.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, me and mine. Yeah, me and mine. And yeah, he misunderstanding me and mine.

And what is the, how to cut the root of suffering?

[Speaker 2]
How to mix nuts.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's in general. That is the root of suffering. Donate to me.

Oh.

[Speaker 2]
Ice neck.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Let me show the answer. Okay.

So the. You are right. The roots of suffering is because you are focusing on people and part of the person and holding this as something which is truly and how to cut it.

The cutter is the understanding. The dependent origination is the one that stopped the misunderstanding. Nice.

Yes. So Tibetan word. What is that?

These are hard. These are hard. Gibson.

Listen very closely. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a famous speech by a Roman. I think he said, lend me your ears.

It's from Shakespeare. Is it? Let me.

Friends Romans. Julius Caesar. All right.

Friends Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Yeah. Continue.

The beginning. Yeah, beginning. This is occurring in many texts recently.

Who can tell me a modern Tibetan idiom based on lei? Cool. Ngen lei.

What's jang ku mean? Jang ku as a color. Green.

Green. So when you think someone's being old-fashioned, or they're not catching up with the modern Twitter and all that stuff, TikTok, you can... Green brain?

Yeah, green brain. And it's a very fun word, and it's a very popular word. And by the way, it's a little bit critical.

So you shouldn't use it too often, but... All right. The young monks accuse the old monks when the old monks don't let them do what they want.

Cool. You are just green brains.

[Speaker 3]
I hope so.

[Speaker 1]
And it means green brains got rotten after many years or something like that? Fungus brain. Fungus brain.

I like it. All right. What's tang wang?

Clear? Faith? Crystal.

Crystal. Crystal, yeah. Crystalline.

Doesn't have a sauce on it again? Say again? Doesn't have a sauce, secondary sauce on it again?

Dam ka. Oh, okay. Dam ka.

Good point. Okay. So what is this word usually used?

To praise someone? Faith, usually. Crystal and admiration, I bow down often.

Okay, cool. Usually faith. Okay, this is my translation.

I translate verse three and verse four. And here. What is?

We are right now. Oh, go ahead. Yeah.

Yeah, I put down the previous verse here. Okay. Nice.

Okay. Nice. Okay.

Yeah, let's go. Yeah, that's easy. Let's do the next one.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Let me sit with this. The meaning of this verse is dendro ko yi tsawa chi nu du sun bar ko wa de tse dendro ko yi tsawa chi che du sun bar The subject of the sentence in the first line is dendro. When you see, when you understand that dendro is the chi che.

Oh, when you see the dependent is the cutter of the offering of the world.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
When you understand that dependence is what can cut off the root of samsara. Yeah, yeah. And he says Tsongkhapa is referring to, Tsongkhapa is referring to dependence, the teaching on dependence as the cutter of the root of samsara.

Yeah. Uh... I missed some part of the translation.

Yeah, yeah. When you figure that out, that understanding dependence is how you cut the root of samsara, when you figure that out, then, kepa, what does kepa mean? Kepa, master or people?

Yeah, and he defines it here. He says lo du dang denpa. Master who have, master with intellect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is a very long sentence and I'm sorry for that. They see the path of, they see the path of dependent origination itself.

Okay. Good. As being the...

Yeah, you got to catch kyu here.

[Speaker 2]
You?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and it refers to tuba. Anyone? Yeah, he's, he's, Tsongkhapa is referring to the Buddha, as kyu.

Okay. So he refer Buddha as you? Like writing the love letter?

Yeah, Nick, I would call it chutzpah. Why? Chutzpah.

I mean, chutzpah means like the motivation to go and get it done. Yeah, but he's referring to tuba as kyu. He's like familiar?

Yeah, it's very familiar. He says, hey Buddha, dude, hey dude. Oh, I see.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey Buddha. Yeah.

How could any wise person not kongdu chupa? Grasp deep in their heart. Yeah, how could any person who calls themselves wise not get it?

Get what? That dependent origination is the nyingpo tar duk of the Buddha's teaching. Ultimate essence.

Yeah, it's the ultimate essence. And by the way, our commentator is using the ultimate essence as the definition of ne. Crucial point?

Yeah, crucial point. He says, you want to know what ne means? It's nyingpo tar duk.

It's the ultimate essence. Ne, what is it in Sanskrit, you guys? Marma hatha.

Yeah, marma. Marma. So Geshe-la, tang here doesn't mean holy, it's an or, right?

Dang means, I'm going to give you a synonym so you can understand ne. Oh. It means or, yeah.

It's in a positive. What's ne mean? I'll tell you what ne means.

Nyingpo tar duk. Okay. Okay, good.

Okay, good. Oh, wait, there's a joke here at the end. How could any really smart person not understand that the teaching on dependence is the ultimate essence of the Buddha's teaching?

How could they not understand it? They will.

[Speaker 2]
Nice, yeah. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
They will. Yeah. Yeah, how could they not understand?

They will understand, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

How did you ascertain that tar, in the curly brackets? Oh, uh. Mistake from the, um.

It's from the root text. Oh. Yeah.

Well, he was missing a piece of the root text, so I checked it on the card. By the way, it was a terrible mistake, actually. Yeah.

It was a really nasty mistake, okay? All right. All right.

By the way, Nick, you got to keep track of how many of those I fix, and you got to pay me for them, okay? Okay, briefcase coming your way.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
We can, I will. Yeah. That last one in Xiaoping's book was, that was the hardest one I ever did, I think.

All right. Is that, oh, that's the end, Gibson? Uh, no, this is my next verse.

Okay, okay, good. Uh. Do you want to have someone read, because your reading is so boring?

Yeah. Uh, let me see. Uh.

Rob? Since you opened your mind. Uh, Locke?

Is that Locke? Yeah. Yeah.

What is the third point? Oh, yeah. Can you read your, the Praise of Lord Buddha, because it's my dependence on science.

Yeah, okay. Uh, yeah, we're going to start. Okay.

All right, who's going to read the next part, Gibson?

[Speaker 2]
Rob? I'll read to you.

[Speaker 1]
Sure. Is that correct? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Boo. Boo. Lacna.

Nonpo. Kungpo. Say?

[Speaker 1]
Kungpo. Kungpo. Chondende.

Kheola. Thupe. Ghornee.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Kepa. Drashiki. Selshing.

[Speaker 1]
Takhyam. Tena. Jungwa.

Tenay. Tenay. jungwa sungpe no ne, no?

go ne. tupa le go tsarwa, no tsarwa, gyurpa chi shik ne, de mi nyey do shey pa'o. Cool.

Thanks for pushing that down. Here's the meaning of this verse. denpo korway tsarwa chu jey dang ten mi nyinpo de tabu lak na.

In such case, the cut of the root is suffering. Yeah, okay, and knowing it is the essence of the teaching. de tabu lak na means, yeah, because that's the way it is, okay?

Because that's the way it is. Because the teaching on... By the way, when you guys listen to Gibson's text for the next couple of terms, whenever we say dependence, please think what?

Emptiness. Things come from seeds. Things come from seeds, okay?

Everything comes from seeds. Think pen. Think the pen, okay?

Okay, since it is the case that the teaching on the seeds is the cuts the root of samsara, okay? If I wanted to dupa you, Chom Dunde. If I want to praise you, Kongji.

Yeah, then what's the best way? There's nothing better. Even kepa sundra.

Sundra is an idiom in Tibetan that means, I don't care who it is. Sundra means like who. It means I don't care who it is.

If a person is a kepa, okay? Then gore, they're going to start out. That's go la, right?

They're going to start out. That's the beginning. Also, the door through which they can praise you the best is to praise you for teaching seeds, okay?

I don't care who it is. Sundra shik, I don't care who it is. If they really sell, and if they really dog, what's that mean?

Find and investigate. If they bust their brains to find a cool way to praise you, the best way is to praise you for teaching den ne jungwa. The dependent origination.

So now we got two words for dependent origination. What are they? Ten del and ten jungwa.

Two synonyms. Ten del and ten jungwa. So all these wise people, no matter who it is, if they think for many, many days, what's the best way to praise you, they will praise you for teaching about seeds.

Okay? And there's no more ngot sarwa. Yeah, more amazing.

Yeah, more amazing. There's nothing more amazing. More amazing than praising.

Chi shik nge means, how could they ever find anything more amazing way to praise you than to say, he taught us about seeds. That's the most amazing way to praise Lord Buddha. By the way, the whole idea of this poem is controversial.

Why? Why, Gibson? Because he is going to actually talking about emptiness.

Yeah, I mean, no, it's controversial. Why is it controversial? Because he's not talking about emptiness.

They're praising for dependent origination instead of emptiness. Yeah, Buddha, the greatest thing you ever taught was seeds. And then everybody who's listening is going to say, but I thought it was emptiness.

I thought that was the greatest thing he ever taught. And Tsongkhapa keeps repeating, no, no, no. Emptiness is not the greatest thing he ever taught.

Seeds is the greatest thing he ever taught. And it's supposed to be, when you're reading it, you feel a little uncomfortable. You're like, where's emptiness?

Why didn't he praise him for teaching emptiness? And he says in the last sentence, how could anyone find anything greater to praise Buddha for? And then he says, min yi, they couldn't find anything more amazing.

So, the commentator is explaining why. Who is the commentator? Anyone?

Master Quicksilver. Yeah, Quicksilver. Quicksilver Lama.

He says, how could... By the way, it's not Choney Lama. It's not Vasubandhu.

It's a much later great, great, great writer in the Vajrayogini tradition named Quicksilver. So, I kind of chose this book to put a seed in your mind for translating his Vajrayogini materials 20 years from now. Okay.

How could anybody find any greater way to praise you? They cannot. Okay.

All right. Cool. Again.

How come the second NYE was spelled as in a mountain, not find? I think it might be a misspelling. Let's go look at it.

Yeah, I'm sorry. That one's wrong. You're correct.

It should be corrected to R-N-Y-E-D. RANG NYA LTAN YANG SDUG BSNGAL DANG NYES Yeah, good. Nice.

Nice noticing word. Cool. Okay.

Geshe-la, can I take two minutes to... Yeah, go for it. Let me get out of this.

...to explain, to read the story of why Je Tsongkhapa taught the dependent origination?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I'm trying to get out of this. Wonderful. Okay, go.

All right. Okay. Last time, Geshe-la gave me the homework, but actually it's very easy.

It's in that page. So I want to read this paragraph. Why don't you read the Tibetan?

Oh. Uh-oh. Starting from where?

Well, actually it should be the page before. No, it's just here he composed the text of Praise on Dependent Origination. Yeah, so why don't you read this Tibetan starting here?

See, it says 98. It's section 98. Yeah.

Okay, so Tibetan is this one? Yeah. Can you?

Can you try? I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Keep going.

Okay. Good. Good.

Wow. You want to try to read it together? Well, it's kind of complicated.

Let's... Yeah. That whole English is the translation.

Yeah. So actually he had a dream about Buddhapalita in a vision. Who came down and gave him a book.

Why don't you read 99? All right. 99 here?

Can you go to the top?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Start with the Tibetan under that. Chinning.

Okay. Chinning. Chinning.

Buddhapalita.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Chinning, yeah. Okay.

Let's read the Tibetan word by word. How's that? I mean, let's...

Okay. Chinning, starting at chinning. Okay.

Chinning means the next day. Ngin means sun. Nyi mo means day.

So the next day, he had a sikpa. He sikpa Buddhapalita.

[Speaker 2]
Vision?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he had a vision of Master Buddhapalita. By the way, Buddhapalita is an important emptiness commentator after Nagarjuna and before Chandrakirti. And he was explaining the kyepar.

The details. Here it means difference between the garcha of the tel and the rang. The telngirpa and the ranggirpa.

Yeah, between the two middle way schools. Tel means telngirpa, telngirwa, and rang means... What do you call that?

Svatantrika, right? Ranggirpa. So, he was...

Buddhapalita came in his vision the next day and started explaining to him the difference between... What's garcha, Gibson? Garcha, the empty...

The thing that empty, empty of. Yeah. The non-existing thing that emptiness is empty of.

If you say it with the pen, it's a pen which is coming from... Its own side. Yeah, a pen which is coming from its own side.

So, the two middle way schools have a little bit different idea about what's not there. After Buddhapalita explained it, Tsongkhapa got ngepa about it. Have to definitely understand.

Yeah, he finally... Certainly understand. Yeah, he finally figured it out.

He got it very clear in his mind, the difference about what was empty, what was not there. And then, all of his mikte means all of the way that he was seeing things as self-existent, shik, past tense of jik. Destroy, collapse.

Yes, and people say this sentence means what? He achieved... Tonglam.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Tonglam. He saw emptiness directly.

[Speaker 1]
He saw emptiness directly. People read it that way, especially the first Benchen Lama. They say, this line is talking about that he saw emptiness directly, okay?

And then he got shenay depa. We had it earlier in the term, shenay depa. Faith coming from wisdom?

Yeah, faith coming from knowledge and not from you're in a good mood, okay? Like, you don't just admire someone because they're famous, for example. You admire them because you understand how what they say is cool, okay?

So he got shenay depa about the dunpa. About the holy teacher, Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha, yeah.

He got faith in Buddha because he had the actual experience of emptiness, and that's the ultimate faith. And because of the shuk of that attainment... The power, implication?

Yeah, because of the power of that faith, he wrote dendrel depa. He wrote the Praise of Dependence. Yeah, he wrote Adam Gibson's book, okay?

The next sentence is a joke, and I'll give $100 if anyone can tell me why. I'll take a slow drink of a bad drink. From now on?

That part's easy. I want to know where's the joke in this sentence. It's a line and a half.

Joke? Stop, stop, you guys are hurting my ears. Dendrel means what?

Things arise in dependence. But it's a colloquial way in Tibetan to say...

[Speaker 3]
Connection?

[Speaker 1]
Or connected. Lama? It means auspicious.

It would be an auspicious thing. I watched a great translator on the stage one day blow up this word, and I felt so good. The teacher said, this would be an auspicious thing, and he said, oh, this would be a dependent origination.

I'm like, oh man. So dendrel can mean, in modern Tibetan, can mean it would be very auspicious. It would be a great thing.

It doesn't have anything to do with dependence. It's just a way to say, in colloquial Tibetan, it would be very auspicious. It's happening in my first book, when you have to make a connection with your teacher, right?

You have a dendrel with your teacher. If I was Emily, I'd be disappointed that you didn't take your first book and make a hundred dollars to take me to dinner. All right.

Tsongkhapa announced to his students, it would be a dendrel. Auspicious. Yeah, if my followers, jenjuk, in the future, chinche, it would be auspicious if my followers in the future could read that delpa.

The commentary? Yeah, whose commentary? Quicksilver.

Lama Quicksilver. No. This is Tsongkhapa talking to someone before him.

Buddhapalita? Yeah, Buddhapalita. Buddhapalita.

Yeah, yeah. By the way, only in the case of Buddhapalita, the name of the famous book is the name of the... Author.

Commentary. Author. Yeah.

It's a joke here also. Tsongkhapa says, it would be very auspicious if my disciples in the future could see Buddhapalita. See the book and also see a vision of him, like I just said?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
If people in the future could see the book and also see the author, and by implication see... Emptiness. That would be cool.

And that's the story of how Gibson's book was written. Thank you, Geshe-la. It was a reaction to seeing emptiness.

Very cool. So maybe it's an important book. Alright, here we go.

I got to move this down here. I got to bring you guys back. Wait, are we in the...

I'm seeing the wrong book, I'm sorry. Yeah, here we go. Is that right?

No, we are starting from the verse five. Oh, hang on. The text.

Verse five? Yeah. Oh, strange.

Uh-oh. Hang on. I don't know how that happens.

Hang on, I got... My new computer is kind of weird. He wants to write Chinese all the time.

I don't know why.

[Speaker 2]
Section 30, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, that's helpful, yeah. Okay, is that it? Yes.

Okay. And we finish... We didn't...

Oh, this is the part we're going to read. Gibson, who's going to read? We're going to read Bekhar.

[Speaker 3]
DANG PO NI GANG GANG KHYER MA SHES SOG TSIG CHE GCIG GI THON MA Is that correct?

[Speaker 1]
Oh yeah, it is. Okay. It just means my first point is made by the following verse.

And his first point was this one. What's that say, Gibson? DANG DANG TSUNG PA DANG DANG Oh, the highest practice, no Buddha teaching the dependent.

Yeah, DONG kind of means... In this case, it doesn't refer to a short verse summary, by the way. It just refers to advice or something like that, okay?

Teaching about seeds is the highest kind of advice that we could be given. And I would make Rebecca read this section also.

[Speaker 3]
Okay. BOD NI, CHOS GANG GANG GANG GYANG LA RAG LAS PA DE DANG THE RANG BZHIN GYIS GRUB PA'I MTHONG NGO SHES GSUNG BA NI DI LAS YA TZAM PA'I LEGS DONG GYIS TSUL NI PHYI ZHING YOD PAS MNGAL SHES PA'O Yeah, this should be middle.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good. Okay, here's the meaning of the verse. Anything which can not rock Lepa.

What's that mean, Gibson? Anything which can not rock Lepa. Rock is saddle, right?

No, depending which depends upon condition. Oh, dependent. Yeah, rock Lepa is a synonym for dependent, depend, right?

Why did he use that idiom for depend here? The top link? Yeah, no, it's just that if he keeps saying ten, ten, ten, ten, it gets boring.

So he's using some different words for depend, okay? Rock Lepa and tenpa means the same thing, okay? Now, your job as a translator is to find an English synonym that you can use for depend, okay?

Good luck. Alright, since things depend on their own... Since kang dang kang means everyone there is, okay?

Kang dang kang is an idiom, and it means every single object in the universe depends on its kin, okay? Condition. Is that true, by the way?

What, everything in the universe depends on its condition? Yeah. That's space.

I don't think so. Well, everything gets changing, right? Yeah, it's a little controversial here, okay?

Maybe he's talking about a higher kind of dependence. If something depends on its factors, then it must be rang shing gi drub pa'i dong. What's that mean?

Empty of... Empty of its nature? Empty of existing through its own nature, yeah.

It's depending on something else. In the mind-only school, you could call that shen wu. Shen wu.

Yeah, it's at the mercy of other things, okay? He says, if something depends on something else, it has to be empty of any nature of its own, okay? And that's the most ya tsen words I ever heard.

Amazing. Yeah, amazing. Yeah, amazing.

Sometimes ya tsen means strange. And, by the way, Nick, sometimes they pronounce the M in colloquials. So, you know, if they say, Man, you know, I don't know, they finish the class on time, you'd say, Ah, ya tsen.

That's weird. It means weird. Okay.

What's a more amazing way to advise us? Like dom, okay? What more amazing words...

And the dom can imply summary, okay? What better summary of all of the ancient books could there be than to say, if something is dependent, it's empty? If something comes from seeds, it's empty.

What more amazing... Nick, we say one-liner, right? In English.

Okay, yeah. One-liner means a short joke. Okay, Gibson?

One-liner. A single line, you make a joke. So, this is a real one-liner.

If something depends on other stuff, it's empty. Wow, that's the most amazing one-liner I ever heard. You know, okay?

Chi shing yod de. And then it comes as a question. Chi shig, right?

Yeah, sorry, this is misspelled also. Yeah, where could you find a more amazing one-liner than that? You can't.

He asks a question, Tsongkapa asks a question, and Lama Quicksilver answers it. So, Tsongkapa says, where are you going to find a more amazing one-liner than that? And then Moochoo, Quicksilver says, ah, yeah, you're right, you can't.

Can't. All right, we can remove this. Gibson has notes to himself.

Okay, who's going to read this next part? Chloe. Uh-oh.

Now, only in one case in my whole life did someone take a pill and they start to read Tibetan well. I don't know. Maybe you can sell it, Chloe, I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
Hmm.

[Speaker 1]
Uma.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Uma. Chöpa. Israwa Ma.

Lüpa. Chöpe.

[Speaker 1]
Chöpe.

[Speaker 2]
Chöpe go nampa yinpe.

[Speaker 1]
Nampa yinpe, good. I'm going to play with this lines for you, okay, Gibson? I keep thinking you should have a different name than Gibson.

You got to teach me the name that you were... your real name. I feel like you have a real name.

But when I come to Taiwan you can tell me. Okay. Okay.

Chi-pa means... Two-year-old. Yeah, two-year-old.

And here he says the chi-pas in our philosophy systems is the ngön ma-wa. The functional school. Yeah, which is the...

how many schools? Three schools. The first three schools.

What are they? Sutra. No.

Detailist. Detailist. Stanley.

Detailist. Yes. Stanley.

Sutra. Yeah, the Sutras which is Adam and Ben.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. And Naomi.

[Speaker 1]
Which is word. Okay. So those four guys.

All right. They are two-year-olds. We knew that, right, Gibson?

We just didn't want to say it. Okay. They are holding to two extremes, dak and che.

What's that mean? If thing is coming from its own side, it's lasting forever. And if thing is coming from my own side, then thing can never exist.

Yeah. Che means if it's not the way I thought it was, it can't exist at all. Yeah.

Okay. And it's important always to say dak che are two implications. If you believe that things are self-existent, then by implication you believe that things last forever or never existed.

Okay. These two are implications of thinking the wrong way. They are not thinking the wrong way itself.

Okay. Very famous, very famous point. Okay.

dak che kyi tar dzinpay chingwa. How do you describe these two-year-olds? They have chingwas.

Yeah. Cuffs. Yeah, they still have handcuffs.

They still have handcuffs. And those handcuffs are not mi shikpa. They are not min jikpa.

Min jikpa. They cannot be destroyed. Yeah.

They haven't destroyed. Yeah. In fact, they are denpa and denpa.

They are starlet.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
More and more locked up. Okay. These guys.

But luckily they have the umapas. They have the middleware. Yeah.

They got middlewares to help them, who are kepa about denyi. Yeah. Understanding the suchness.

Yeah. Understand suchness. And they know how to chepa.

They know how to cut off the handcuffs. Yeah. All of the trawa.

Trawa are enemy? No. Anybody?

Nets. Net. Like a fishnet.

Like a fishnet. Yeah. Trawa.

Sometimes it's used for light rays. In the secret teachings, it often means a network of light rays, like that. Okay.

But when we're talking about emptiness, it means like a fishnet. And the umapas are good at cutting it. Okay.

And that fishnet is chepa. That's a difficult word, and it means something you made up in your mind. Okay.

For example, a pen which could... Come from its own side. Yeah.

Come from its own side. It's like a fishnet, and it's stopping you. It's hurting you.

These middleweight guys, they know how to cut that fishnet. Okay. And tar dzin means that habit of holding to those two extremes.

Now let's go back to the beginning of the paragraph. One minute. Yeah.

The second point from above, which was here, sumpe tendrel triple dar chu je du tenpa, the dependence teaching which Lord Buddha gave is the cutter for the net of wrong ideas. Okay. Now we come back to here.

Where was that? Yeah. The second...

that point is tendrel yinpe gyu teng kyi. What's that mean? The end of the place of dependent?

Dependent. It means because things are dependent, okay? Because things are dependent, because things are dependent, den drub kang du sungway na, things that you take to be self-existent.

Okay. Anyway, because things are dependent, we can cut the net, okay? Like that.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Read this last one because it's good luck. Okay. tendrel yinpe gyu teng kyi denme du du peso shepa u.

Yeah. You explain it. Forget the peso shepa u.

Forget that part. tendrel yinpe gyu teng kyi denme. The reason...

Yeah. You can read gyu teng kyi as because. Okay.

Because the dependent origination, you start to see things have no self-existence. Yeah. And if you want to be sexy, you can say because things depend on other things, they are not real.

And it's saying you have to accept that. That accept means because they believe that they can cut the net. Because they believe that they can cut the net.

But the sexy part here is if something depends on something else, it has to be not real. It's not real. Okay.

Meaning it's not what you thought it was. It's not what you thought it was before. The pen is not what you thought it was before you heard the teaching on the pen.

And the reason it's not what you thought it was is because it depends on mental seeds. Okay. Yay.

Mo chag. Mo chag. Mo chag.

Yay. Uncle Nick, I'm going back to you. All right.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Gibson. You're amazing.

Thank you, Keshla. Keshla, this is amazing. We're winding down the term.

I'm just going to take two more minutes of everybody's time to thank a couple of people. And also say thank you. Amazing with the donations.

We only need 2,200 more dollars to get the match from DCI. So that's going to be a pretty decent chunk for Diamond Cutter Classics. And we love what we do.

So when you support us, you're also supporting the translation of all these scriptures and you're also supporting people getting to do what they're passionate about in life, which is a pretty good seed also, I think. So I just want to thank the tech team that's been supporting us. This is in no particular order.

And I'm only thanking you now because I can't lump all the thank yous together or everyone will get really bored. But this tech team that's been helping us, you guys have been supporting us for several years now. And you were put together thanks to Tim Lowenhaupt and Ale Haso from ACI, Asian Classics Institute.

And we're just really grateful and really lucky to have you guys. And you make it so much smoother than if we had to struggle with this on our own. And thanks to you guys, all of the videos are archived, which makes it possible for us to, during the term, get our quizzes and homework and our quizzes and translations done so that we can access the videos immediately.

And all of you will be able to see them into the future. So I want to offer some thank yous to, and I'm sorry if I pronounce your names wrong, Eugenie and Alevtina from Russia, and Ala from Israel, Xi Wei from Taiwan, and Ana from Romania, Julia Teng, Barbara Acevedo, Gina and Rocio from Mexico. Gina Rivera made all the beautiful banners and stuff that you guys see.

Very lucky to have all your help. And of course, oh wait, we've got Christian Neculita from Romania, Adi Cortes from Mexico, Catarina Calita, and of course, Francisco Miranda, who has been doing a massive amount of work to produce all of the aspects of the event and make sure that the Zoom calls are available for you. And Marina, of course, who you see there running things all the time, basically managing the project of all of this.

You guys are amazing. Thank you so much. Please keep helping us.

Please stay. So, yeah, keep donating if you can. We'll keep bugging you about it so that we get that.

And I sent you all an email. Also, check your emails. Check your spam.

Sometimes that happens. I love you all. Thank you very much.

We'll see you soon. Okay, any yoga today, Nick? I was going to say, you got out of morning yoga because we had this extra class, but we do have yoga with Anatol this afternoon.

So please, one of my favorite yoga teachers in the world. He seems like he's going to give you a very gentle class, and it's not at all. But you feel great after.

If you live in the Sedona area, you can do cinnamon roll yoga between like 10 and 12, okay? That will give you plenty of time to digest before doing your asana. Yeah.

Check it out. Thank you very much. See you for the afternoon.

We have two more classes and then a Q&A with Geshe Michael. So see you there. See you there, you guys.

Thank you. Thank you, Geshe Michael. Good fundraising.

Yeah, keep it up, everybody.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.