Гибсон Чан — Книга 2: Восхваление зависимости, занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
Can you say something? Oh, cool. All right.

Wow. So gangs the wizard. I'm just helping.

I appreciate it. We all appreciate it. Okay.

One more minute to relax before we turn on the extra boosters. Members. Make a small announcement.

Okay, this group. Hi everyone if you are somehow using our Wi Fi. Please don't use the diamond sky.

If you don't know the other one you can use it. But the diamond sky is for last. Thank you.

Hi Gibson. Hey again. Good morning.

Hi Emily. Hey, I'm gonna say anything smart. Oh man, if only I could.

Welcome to the Schwann songs tower, the diamond cutter classics translation program. Thank you for joining. We're grateful to have you all here.

And please keep coming, and let's enjoy this wonderful class, and I won't take any time from it. Okay, cool. Thank you.

Thank you for doing all your hard work, especially lately, it's been a lot of hard work. And to keep us going. Especially to grease the wheels of our finances, and thank you for that.

Gibson, do you want to say something about your last book, and about your new book. Okay. And then, then we'll start the class.

Okay. The last book, the title is this song of my spiritual, spiritual life. And this happened when Jason Kaba in his 52 years old, and one of his student axing.

Hey, Jason Kaba you didn't talk much about your personal life. And could you give me some advice of writer, like Mabel, and he said yes. In order to remember all the long rain I will teach you, and this is the first time.

Jason Kaba talk about his own spiritual life, and the famous verses in the line is that this is how I practice, and if you want to. Like me, then you could follow my teaching, or you could follow my advice. And the second boo if the praise of dependent, but actually.

Jason Kaba is praising Lord Buddha, because he teach about emptiness, the teaching of the emptiness. And so this is our second book. And I realized, these two books are famous combination.

When the master and they want to talk about a book in a public talk, and they would choose these two books to teach, and I'm very grateful for Geshe-la to give me these two books. Thank you, Gibson, nice talk. And I have to do some bragging.

This morning I got two new books. So these are all the books that we finished for the Mixed Nuts. And this morning we got a new book.

This is Nick's book. This is, both of them are one book together, because it's too fat to fit in one book. It's similar to my pants.

And so I'm very impressed. It's called Nothing is the Way It Seems. It's the 60 verses of Nagarjuna.

And I think it's about almost 700 pages. Extremely difficult work. Six or seven years of very difficult work.

And as usual, we put a lot of beautiful extra things in the book. And we're still working on the editing, but the first copy for one of our main sponsors came out this morning. We're shipping it to him soon.

And I just wanted to congratulate Nick. Everybody should give Nick a hand. And I'd like to show off our books.

I know I showed it before, but just quickly. This is Sugeng's new book called Stopping the Circle of Sadness. And it's a beautiful book about the 12 links of the Wheel of Life.

A very, very deep, very difficult book about the meaning of the Wheel of Life. And we'd like to congratulate Sugeng. Yay!

These are the two sutras of the Medicine Buddha. I think yesterday 800 people took initiation online with Gyelse in Venerable Gyelse Venerable Sinem. And there's only two sutras dedicated to Medicine Buddha.

We found one of the sutras in a stupa in Afghanistan, written on tree bark. And we found it, we translated it, we input it. Thanks to John Brady, it's a great project.

This is the Diamond Cutter Sutra commentary, translated 100 years ago by me and Ellie, Venerable Jigme. This is Word's Golden Key. I think it's by far the best book about the mind-only school that's ever been published in English.

And I myself didn't understand the school that well. We don't do it in the Geshe course. It's sort of a sixth topic.

And we just do it if you're lucky. It's a beautiful, beautiful commentary. Very difficult.

Word has finished it. This is called Karma Vibhanga, which is two and a half thousand years old. In this book, Gautama himself, Lord Buddha himself, outlines all the possible kinds of karma, all the kinds of actions you can do, and the karmic results of those actions.

We found the illustrations from an ancient temple in Indonesia. And each of the kinds of karma is illustrated in this temple in Borobudur. And we found them in our Mexican team.

Gina Rivera did beautiful drawings from those. And that book's really... Sunlight on Suchness, the Commentary to the Heart Sutra.

It's a fantastic commentary. It's not too common that people write commentaries on sutras. So we found two great commentaries and translated those.

By the way, every page... there's thousands of thousands of pages here. Every page takes three, four, five hours.

So you're looking at, I don't know, 10,000 hours of work or something. It's an immense amount of work. Very difficult work.

This is called Emptiness Meditations. This is the most popular book we have. It's a whole description on how to meditate, and then how to meditate on emptiness done by Venerable Utpala.

That's great. That's an awesome book. This is a new book by Ben Kramer called Siddhanta, or Great Ideas of the East.

It says 101 Enlightening Belief Systems from Ancient Asia. This is a traditional genre of literature where they review all the great systems of the past. There are basically 101 religions are described in this book, and their details.

They're a very, very beautiful comparative study of all the belief systems of ancient India. An extremely difficult book. Ben Kramer did it.

Yay! Let's see. This is Adam Andrade's book.

It's called A Door to Emptiness. Basically, we finished the first quarter. This is only one quarter of his first book.

It took six, seven years to finish it. Those of you who know Chi Chedak, this is the main topic in this book. Traditionally, this book is called The Door to Emptiness.

How to Study Mental Images and How They Become Reality. This book became a new DCI level, which is taught by... 138,000 people took this level.

There you go. Congratulations, Adam, on doing something that really helps people. Yay!

Okay, don't worry, Gibson. We're going to talk about your book. Okay.

I'm going to share my screen, I hope. Let's see. Yeah.

As Gibson mentioned... By the way, this is allergy season in Arizona. All of us are sneezing, I'm sorry.

It's not very liquid, it's just kind of... Okay. This is a book where Je Tsongkapa praised Lord Buddha, which doesn't sound very sexy.

Oh, Je Tsongkapa wrote a long praise of Lord Buddha. But actually, as usual, he hid a deep emptiness teaching in the praise. He's praising Lord Buddha for teaching dependent origination, dependence, and then through emptiness.

The real name of the book is Praising Lord Buddha for Teaching Cause and Effect, or The Pen Through Emptiness, Teaching the Pen Through Emptiness. You could have called this book Teaching the Pen Through Emptiness. Praising Lord Buddha because he taught the pen through emptiness.

That's the real meaning of this title, and that's the real meaning of this book. I think about 40 years ago, I started a series of books called Classics of Middle Asia. These are small pocket books, and they are meant to be carried in your purse, or put in your glove compartment of your car.

They were designed to be small, and something you could carry with you and study. I was with my teacher on a bus in India, a very terrible bus ride. There was a young hippie on the bus.

He jumped up, came back, and showed us his copy of this book, and thanked us for it. People all around the world are carrying this little book around. Gimson's been working on a couple of books that will be in this pocket book series called Classics of Middle Asia.

His two books that he's working on now will be added to these classics. Classics of Middle Asia. Okay, let's get to work.

Shut up, Geshe-la. Okay, I'm going to say XT10. Okay, this is a little summary of where we are with Gimson's book, his second book.

We've reached the third folio. We're going to try to do about one folio. Folio means these long, ancient book-style books carved out this way.

And folio means, full folio means the front side and the back side of the page. The root text is about 1,800 words, about 2,000 words. The commentary is about 6,000 words, and it does not include the root text, the poetry.

So we've got Je Tsongkapa's original poetry, and then we have a commentary on the meaning of it. The commentary is by a person named Muchu Dharmabhadra Quicksilver, Lama Quicksilver. Very, very famous in our Vajrayogini lineage, and he wrote this commentary.

It's going to be a pocket book. This book is going to be very similar to this book that we published before. Gimson's already finished one of these books, and he's started on the second one.

It still has to go through the editing team, which is a very painstaking process. So I figure, Gimson, I think we can finish by the middle of next year. We can finish this second book.

We kind of made an agreement to go on to a very deep and difficult book called Chang'e Lekshe Ningbo, which marks a very, very important breakthrough in philosophy in the last two and a half thousand years. Lord Buddha taught until he was 81, and he taught for about 50 years. In the case of Christianity, which I grew up with, we have only 30 pages of Jesus' teaching.

Lord Buddha, we have hundreds and thousands of pages. He taught for 50 years. So we have three great periods in which Lord Buddha taught, the three turnings of the wheel.

In the first turning of the wheel, it was very boring. It's called Abhidharma. He just covered all the kinds of stuff in the universe.

It's a long book. Stanley's working on it. We think it's going to take 26 years.

I worked on it for 12 years with my teacher. It's basically a survey of the entire universe in eight chapters. Then in the second turning of the wheel, Lord Buddha let go and taught emptiness the way he wanted to.

There we see the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Cutter Sutra, the 8,000 Prajnaparamita, the 10,000 verse, the 15,000 verse, the 18,000 verse, 20,000 verse, 25,000 verse, 100,000 verses of the Perfection of Wisdom, Bodo, Bola, and Mindu. That caused a big controversy, because in the first turning of the wheel, he didn't talk about emptiness. Then in the second turning of the wheel, he only talked about emptiness.

There was a big argument about which was the real, which did he really intend to teach. That argument became the Mind-Only School, and out of that came the Middle Way School. That was the third turning of the wheel.

That argument about what he really meant became the third turning of the wheel. Really, it's a whole deep, deep, deep discussion about when should a teacher not teach it exactly right, because the student's not ready. What are the rules?

When can a teacher make it more simple, or dumb it down, or even say something that may not be completely correct, because the student's not ready? Then how can all the students analyze what the teacher says and decide what was meant to be taken literally, and what was not meant to be taken literally? That discussion, the rules for that discussion were first put down by Lord Buddha in a sutra called Sandinirmochana Sutra.

I'll tell you what I really meant. The sutra's called What I Really Meant. You never know, because the teacher will say what I really meant about something they didn't really mean.

But that sutra started the debate, and then 2,000 years later Tsongkapa, he wrote a beautiful book, short book, only 1,000 English pages, about the rules for how do we know when the teacher is speaking literally? How do we know when they're speaking figuratively? What are the rules for understanding that?

He wrote a very deep book looking at the rules from the point of view of the mind-only school, and then looking at the same rules from the point of view of the middle way school. Why I mention it is because that's the third book that we assigned to the great translator Gibson Chung. He's going to have to fight through that book next.

This book's going to last till the middle of 2024. When there's a new person on the football team, you always initiate them. When I was in high school, we made them get into a barrel of dog food.

But we just made Gibson do two beginning books for this pocketbook series. Then he's going to start on his real book, which is this groundbreaking book about what's literal and what's not literal. I'm looking forward to that.

I've flirted with that book a lot, but I haven't been able to spend much time on it. Gibson pointed out that there's a little piece that we didn't really cover very carefully. I think, Gibson, it was...

Hang on. I had a dog at my house last night. He left hairs everywhere.

I think there's three sections you wanted us to go over again, or we didn't cover them very clearly. We're going to go to those three sections. It'll only take a few minutes, and then we'll go to the real subject today.

Please read... Gibson, I'm going to have you read for a few... Let's do these three, and then you can pick on somebody else.

Please start here. Okay. nipa denjel kyi go ne, dukpa unwa ni, denjel shi chu kyi go ne, chir dukpa tang, sungchu kyi go ne, cheja du, dukpa ho.

Okay, good. What's the word dukpa mean, Gibson? Praise.

Yeah, praise. And Je Tsongkapa is praising Lord Buddha for teaching dependence, but through the style of emptiness. He says, denjel kyi go ne dukpa.

What does that mean, Gibson? Praise of Lord Buddha because he teaches the dependent. Yeah, through dependence.

denjel means dependent. Okay. And he says, now that I reached the main part of my book, where I'm praising Buddha because he's so cool to teach this emptiness and dependence together, that has two parts.

Denjel, he's going to praise Buddha for Sikh dependent origination. What's Sikh mean? Like Chenrezig?

Yeah, because he saw it. So first he's going to say, Lord Buddha, you are so cool because you saw the real meaning of the pen. You're so cool because you saw the real meaning of the pen.

And then he's going to praise him for slung about that. Taught us. Taught us dependence.

Yeah, thanks for teaching us about it. Number one, you are cool because you saw it. Number two, you're cool because you taught it to us after you saw it.

So this whole book is going to be divided into praising Lord Buddha because he saw the meaning of the pen, and then praising Lord Buddha because he shared it with us. All right, let's go to the next. These are three pieces that we kind of left out before.

Please read again, Gibson. Okay. THAMS PA LA GSUM, BSTAN BYA'O ZHIG ZHING ZHUGS PA'I DUS PA MA BA GZHAN LAS KHYAD ZHUGS PA SNGA PA BSTAN BYA'O ZHIG ZHIG ZHING ZHUGS PA'I PHYUD DUS DU BA'O All right, good.

These are three parts in the praise of Lord Buddha for seeing it. And then later we're going to praise him for teaching it. So three parts praising Lord Buddha for seeing it.

Number one, he says, you are KHYAD ZHUGS. KHYAD ZHUGS means KHYAD PA DU ZHUGS PA. KHYAD PA DU ZHUGS PA KHYAD ZHUGS means, yeah, Gibson translated it as exceptional.

You are much cooler. You are much, much cooler than what? Other MA BAs, other DUN BAs.

Other teachers, professors. You are much cooler than other teachers. Why?

Because you taught dependent origination. You taught the pen. That makes you super cool.

Cooler than other teachers. So that's going to be the first section here. Secondly, we're going to praise him for JI LTAR ZHIG.

We're going to praise Lord Buddha for what, Gibson? How he sees the dependent? Yeah, the way you understood the pen was super cool.

Number one, you're cooler than anybody else. Number two, you're super cool because how you saw the pen, how you explained the pen. And number three, DUN DOR BA.

What's that, Gibson? A summary. Yeah, then we're going to wrap up, and then we're going to move on to what?

To how he taught it. Yeah, secondly, you're cool because you taught it. First, you're cool because you saw it.

And you're cool in three ways. Number one, you're cooler than other teachers. You saw it in a special way, and you summarized it for us in a special way.

Then he's going to go on to describing how Lord Buddha is cool because how he taught it. How he taught the pen. Please read 27, Gibson, and then you're free to pick on other people.

Okay. DANG PO LA NI, BSTAN PA LA MA MED PA GRUB PA DANG, BSTAN PA LA MA MED PA GRUB PA'O Good. Okay, the first two parts.

Yeah, BSTAN PA LA MA MED PA GRUB PA This GRUB PA means we're going to prove. This GRUB PA means we're going to prove what? We're going to prove right why the teaching is masterless.

Yeah, this teaching is cooler than any other teaching. And then we're going to teach why the DUNG PA is la ma med pa. Why the teacher, Lord Buddha, is masterless.

So first we're going to say, hey, this teaching about the pen and emptiness, that's the coolest teaching in the universe. And number two, the person who taught it is the coolest teacher in the universe. Got it?

All right, now we're going to go to the real part that we didn't study yet. Gibson's going to choose somebody to read, and you're going to correct them. Okay.

MED PO CHUNG SRUNG Uh-oh. You got to turn your microphone on. Okay.

GNYIS PA DUNG PA LA NA MED PA GRUB PA LA NYID RTEN DREL DUNG PA MA BA GZHAN LAS SKYE'I GZUGS SU DANG DE LTAR BU'I DUNG PA LA NA MED PA LA CHAGS SU Good. Thank you. Good reading.

Okay, number one, we're going to GRUB PA, that our DUNG PA is LA NA MED PA. What's that mean? We are going to prove the teacher is masterless.

Yeah, and can you give me, Gibson, a common word that uses this B-L-A? Lama. Yeah, Lama.

The word Lama, this is how it's spelled, B-L-A. And it means someone who's higher. So here we're going to say our teacher is higher because he taught the pen and emptiness.

Okay. And that's going to have two parts. You are SKYE'I GZUGS than other people who talked about DENDO.

You are much more cooler than the other teacher. Who taught DENDO. Who taught the dependence.

Yeah, look, lots of people taught about dependence, but you're the coolest dependence teacher. You taught the pen. You used the pen.

And then he's going to CHAGS ZEL to this kind of cool teacher. He's going to bow down. Yeah, he's going to do a formal bowing down to that teacher.

Okay, good. Who's next, Gibson? Okay.

Turn on your microphone. Nope. SKYE'I DONG LA Nice, nice.

Sounds like one of the world's students. So what's DONG PO NI, Gibson? The first one...

The first one is we are going to prove that the teacher is matchless. Yeah, and that first point is contained in the next verse of the root text. Who wrote the root text?

Tsongkhapa. Poetry, right? Who wrote the commentary?

Quicksilver, Lama Quicksilver. In about the 1700s. He lived about 300 years after Tsongkhapa.

And he's a great, great teacher. Great stuff, Quicksilver. And again, if you have a chance to read his Vajrayogini commentaries, two of them, and his student, who's also a very great Vajrayogini teacher.

What's his name? Nyongchen Dupay Dorje, who wrote the Drum Song of the Gods. Great, great Vajrayogini practitioners.

Very strong in the lineage of Pabongka Rinpoche. All right. Now, in order to save time, we're going to skip the root text because he covers the root text in the commentary.

So, in order that we can cover more material, we're going to skip the root text, and we'll meet the root text inside of the commentary. So don't worry. Inside the commentary, the root text is indicated in...

Sorry. Both. Both texts.

Sorry. Okay. I think I'm allergic to heart.

This is the allergy season. Sorry, if you come to Arizona, you can discover it. It's a great pleasure.

Okay. Okay. Who's next?

Is it me? Yeah. Thank you.

Great. Okay, good. So your teaching of tendrel...

What's that mean? Your teaching of dependence. Yeah, but then he says sab mo tendrel.

Yeah, deep dependence, meaning emptiness-ified dependence. Emptiness-ified dependence. You don't just teach dependence.

You teach emptiness-ly dependence. And he's going to keep saying that. He's going to keep saying, you teach dependence with an emptiness...

What do you call it? Frosting. I keep thinking about cinnamon rolls.

I don't know why. But you teach emptiness with the emptiness frosting on top. Therefore, you are dungpa lana merpa.

Therefore, you are a matchless teacher. Good. And I don't tongwa any shen than yours.

I don't see others teaching like you. Yeah, I don't see anybody teaching emptiness like you with... I'm sorry.

I don't see anybody teaching dependence like you do with the emptiness frosting on the top. Therefore, you are our teacher, capital T. Who is you?

Gautama. Yeah, here's the word gautama written in Tibetan letters. Gautama.

Gautama. Gautama. I will give a hundred dollars if anybody can tell me what's the literal meaning of the word gautama.

[Speaker 2]
Gautama?

[Speaker 1]
Gautama? Gautama? No.

Gautama. Huh? Gautama.

Okay, we got the guy who knows both. Stanley got the hundred dollars. He's...

So, tama. Tama is the superlative in Sanskrit. What's the superlative in English?

Mostest. E-S-T. E-S-T.

Biggest, smallest, smartest. E-S-T is superlative. In Sanskrit, it's tama.

What's go? Cow. Yeah, go means cow.

Go means cow. He's a cow-ist. Gautama means the...

It means when you have a big herd of cattle, there's usually, just naturally, the biggest, nastiest, strongest cow runs up in the front and says, follow me. You see this stampede, there's always one big, smartest, strongest bull up in the front. In ancient Sanskrit, that bull was called gautama.

It means the one who leads humanity to a higher goal. It's a beautiful name, gautama. And you are chikbu.

The only one. Yeah, you're the one and only. Chikbu.

Chik means one. Chikbu means, yeah, you're the one and only. What?

You're the one and only gautama. You're the one and only head bull. I'll give 300 bucks.

There's only one person who can answer. We know who it is. There's another Tibetan idiom for gautama.

What's the Tibetan one? Kyu chok. Who said that?

Anatole. Anatole! Oh my god!

Did I say 200 or 100? Yeah, congratulations, Anatole. Yeah, kyu chok.

Wow, I'm impressed. All right, I better stop making big bets. Don't forget to collect your money however you can.

Probably from Ellie, okay? But don't be shy. Tell her it was 200, right?

Nah, I'm kidding. 300, 300. By the way, all money that goes to parents goes to the sons, okay?

Kyrie's college scholarship fund, okay? You know that, all right.

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Of course.

[Speaker 1]
Kyu means herd, the group of cows. And chok means number one, like highest, like coin chok. The three highest, right?

Kyu chok, all right. All right, who's going to read, Gibson? I'll read Pekka.

Should I read the bold or do I not read the bold? You don't have to read the English, but just read straight through the Tibetan with the bold and the unbold. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

You wrote me an email asking whether you should move to Rimron. I mean, you got to ask Sugeng and Shintian, and see how they feel about it. Rob Haggerty, Lindsay Jill, got to ask these guys.

It was Rob's idea. You got to have been to a certain level of realization before you can live in Rimron.

[Speaker 2]
I'll work on it.

[Speaker 1]
We don't have a pizza parlor. We don't have a grocery store. But we have a great cafe.

Fair enough. For example, what's a... By the way, Tibetan has 30 consonants, I think, or 28?

20, 30. There's a letter in the Tibetan alphabet that only comes in one common word. WA It means fox.

It means fox. Small fox. Okay.

WA SKAD LA NI SREN GES What's a SREN GES? Lion. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Inky and other people from that city. Yeah. SREN GES is the ancient word for Singapore.

It's used in the word Singapore, the city of the lions. That's why they moved to Rimron. Okay.

Okay. So... By the way, we have WAs around here.

They're kind of like coyotes, okay? Like coyotes, okay? So listen, okay?

Wink. Okay? That's a...

WA That's a coyote, okay? Then there's... That's a lion, okay?

Okay. And there's a very common ancient Sanskrit thing where you say... Somebody says, I'm a lion.

And you say, No, you're a WA. The way you teach, it's like listening to coyotes go... And you're not like, WA.

Okay, got it? So he says here, don't call foxes lions. Especially with reference to their...

when they're teaching, how authoritative, how mighty is the teaching. Don't mistake a... Don't mistake a fox for a lion, okay?

Don't mistake a mouse for an elephant. That's what he's talking, okay? So, Shindu.

Mutekchen. Mutekchen means what? Non-Buddhist group.

You can say non-Buddhist. I like to call them... What do you call?

River group. I call them the river group. This is my new translation from Mutekchen.

Tirthika. Tirthika in Sanskrit. Why?

Put stools on the gods. Yeah, they think that if you go sit in the river on a stone... So the stone is under the water, but you sit on it.

And they think then you're going to get enlightened if you just sit there in the river. I've done it. I did it.

I had a friend who made me do it. And the river is the Ganges River. And you often see an arm or a leg floating by because that's where they throw the dead bodies.

And it's really an experience. Okay. So anyway, they're called river group.

And it's a religious group that says if you put your body in the river, you will get enlightened, or something like that. And there's two famous examples of river group people. They are Serkhya, which is called Kapila.

I put it here for you from the internet. Kapila is the leader of the Sankhya sect, the numerous sect, which is a common early Hindu group in India. A lot of the yoga teachings came out of the Sankhya sect.

And then there's a Seksen, which is Kanada. Say Kanada. He's probably Kanadian.

He probably says a boot like Connie or an earl. What's a boot, Geshe-la? So Kanada was the leader of the Vaisheshika, which means the detailer group.

And I think they're famous because some of these guys don't believe in future lives. Some of them don't believe in karma. And these guys...

So those are the two teachers of the two greatest groups that existed before Lord Buddha. These are the main teachers of two of the big groups that existed when Buddha came on the scene. Sen-lang.

Then he says, when you call these guys dunpa, when you call them teacher, it's jambu. And I had to look it up because I've never seen it. Jambu means...

chima means... Do you know, Gibson? Chima?

Flattery? Yeah. Artificial, yeah.

It's kind of like... It's kind of like you come to somebody's house and they have a little chihuahua dog and you say, oh, he's a real lion. Okay, got it?

It's exactly that. Chima means... you just kind of make up a name.

Chima means false or artificial. Here it means like a little nickname for a pet or something. Like, oh, my little lion.

And he's like, eep, eep, eep. Then he says, you can call these guys dunpa, but it's just jambu. Yeah, you can call them a teacher, but I mean really.

That's like calling Maitri a philosophy teacher or something. I mean, he is. But it's like my granddaughter.

She's one year old. Then you can say she teaches me a lot, but I mean, not philosophy. All right, got it?

To call those guys teachers is a little bit of super exaggeration. To call a coyote a lion is... you can say it as a joke or something, as a nickname, but it's not the real thing.

It's called dunpa druk. There were six famous teachers when Lord Buddha came on the scene. There were already six famous teachers.

But he says, you can bu them that. You can bu them that. Yeah, you can just call them that, but come on, this is not the real thing.

So bu means call. Why is bu an important word? Tibetan, because they have to yell between the valley.

It's the Tibetan name for Tibet. And the bet in Tibet comes from bu. And the early Jesuit priests who went to convert people in Lhasa, they heard Tibetans call their country bu.

So they made up this word, bu, and it became Tibet. So this is the root. The B-O-D is the root.

And it means to call somebody. And Tibetans explain the name for their country by saying, you can call to India from our country. We're close enough to the Holy Land.

We're so close to the Holy Land that you could yell across the border and somebody could hear you on the other side. So the Tibetan name for Tibet is yell. The yell country.

Got it? And then the Jesuit priests misheard it. And that's a very interesting history.

I think it was in the 1500s that Christian missionaries came to the capital of Tibet, Lhasa. And those books still exist. I've seen those books that they wrote.

And one of them wrote... He studied the Lam Rim Chenmo, a thousand pages. And he wrote a refutation in Tibetan.

A Jesuit priest, an Italian priest. Those guys were hardcore. Those guys were serious.

Probably they were mixed nuts in their past lives. Okay, tse nye tsamway tukpa mayin. What does tse nye tsamway mean, you guys?

A completed... It means a teacher who has all the necessary qualifications to be a teacher. tse nye tsamway means complete.

tse nye means... Here it means definition or qualifications. So they are not...

So what's Quicksilver Lama really saying here? He says you can call them teachers who were there. These are two of the six teachers who were there when Lord Buddha reached there, when he showed up on the scene.

But I don't know if you could really call them a teacher. He's questioning whether you could even call them a teacher. Got it?

Why? They don't teach... They don't teach the pen according to emptiness.

They don't teach seeds according to emptiness. So I don't know if we can really call them a teacher. It's very interesting.

All right. I think we should write our footnotes for our books from our other books. So Ben's book, the red book here, explains those two, quote, teachers.

And you could take your footnotes from there. By the way, why did Geshe-la italicize the word folios here? The page will change.

Because the page number will change. Yeah, yeah. In our translations, in the English, we always put the Tibetan page number.

We always tell you what Tibetan page we're on. When you put these books into e-books, and when you make bigger letters or smaller letters, which is a huge headache for Rosa, it changes the page numbers. You can't say, go look on page 100 if you want to know about these two teachers.

You have to refer to the Tibetan page, which is inserted into the text, and it will never change. It will never change. So when you're referring to a Mixed Nuts book, we put in the original folio number.

We put in the original Sanskrit number or the Tibetan number, and you can go straight to that. So when you write a footnote, okay Gibson, you're going to use the folio number. All right.

Who's up next, Gibson? I don't know. Tenu.

Tenu Ghasir. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

No, it's not uh. It's ni. Yeah.

Ni pa ni. I mao dom pa shet sok shik chet chik gi. It's blocked on my screen.

Dun la. Dun la. Okay.

By the way, in ten minutes, we're going to go to the part of the class where we discuss is there anything in this book today that you can use in your real life? And that's an exercise that we're going to do with... Every day that we have translation class, we're going to do like 15 minutes discussion between everybody.

If you have any ideas how we could use today's class in your real life. And hopefully you can always use something in your real life. Okay.

So please start thinking about it, and in ten minutes I'll ask for volunteers, or I will assign a volunteer. Okay. So ni pa means...

I forget. Oh, here. Every time there's a header, like a chapter header, in Tibetan they'll say, number two from before.

And you're like, what? They say, oh, number two from before. And they never tell you what it is.

So grandpa always goes and inserts it for you. And number two was... DE LTA BU'I LTUN PA LA NUS MED PA LA CHAGS TZEL Whoa, what's that mean, Gibson?

We had it. Okay. I bowing down to the teacher who is matchless.

Yeah. Okay. So we reached now the part where he bows down.

Who bows down? Tsongkapa. Tsongkapa.

Okay. And there's a lot of MOUs here. Look.

MOU, LTUN PA, MOU, LTA, MOU, MA ZHU, MOU, DGON Okay. So we got to figure out what's MOU. Okay.

Here's the DGON. Who's going to read, Gibson? Daniel can keep continuing.

Oh, you're torturing him. Okay. Yep.

DGON... Hold on. My screen's blocking half of this.

Let me change. Yeah, right. Oh, really?

Hold on. It's your homework, right? Okay, here.

I got it. Okay. Okay.

DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, DGON, Nice, okay. Now, don't forget we had MOU four times in this verse. So hopefully, Lama Quicksilver is going to say, Hey, you guys curious, what's MOU?

MOU! Okay? He says, what's MOU?

M-O-O, M-O-O means, what do you say in Sanskrit? Something similar. M-O-O, yeah.

Gibson, in Tibetan, it's ngotsar. What's that? Ngotsar, amazing.

Yeah, wow, wow. It's M-O-O means wow. Wow, you're the teacher.

Wow, you're the protector. Wow, you're the best talker. Wow, you're our savior.

Okay, it's four wows here. Ngotsar means, wow, amazing. Okay, Ngotsar.

Kuni, why is he amazing? He taught tendrel sambu, Gibson. He taught the deep dependence.

Yeah, emptiness-coded dependence. Okay, what do you call it? Frosting, emptiness-frosting dependence, cinnamon roll.

Oh man, I'm getting hungry. Okay, sambu. What's dom mean here, Gibson?

Explain. Yeah, explain. And oftentimes dom, nowadays dom means the teacher makes poetry out of a book to help the student remember it.

So they'll take a long, long book like the Vinaya Sutra and they'll make a dom, which is small poetry that's in verse, so it's easier to memorize. That's a dom nowadays. So he gave the teaching.

Therefore, because he taught emptiness, sorry, because he taught dependence with emptiness-frosting on it, he's dunpa lana mepa. He's matchless teacher. Yeah, he's the best teacher of all.

Emaha, wow. And again, Emaha, wow. You're the gyapa from jikpas.

You are the shelter for those who in fear. Yeah, you protect people who are scared. Okay, what's a famous jik that you guys know in Tantra?

Jigche, yamantaka, the frightener. In Sanskrit? Bhairava.

Bhairava. And in Sanskrit, bh becomes f in English. Fear, the fear.

So Bhairava came into English as fear. So you are the protector for people who are scared. And you are a protector who is lua mepa.

You never lua. I don't deceive. I...

It means you don't deceive, but it means you never let people down. When they come to you for protection, you never say, oh, I'm busy right now. Or, hey, today I don't think I want to take on that problem for you.

So lua mepa means, what do you call that? Infallible. Anytime you need help, they will be ready.

And they don't say come back tomorrow. Okay, all right. Now we covered two emohas.

We still got two emohas to go. Okay, who's next, Gibson? Alisa Chen.

Ooh. Alisa Chen. No?

Oh. I don't know how to read it. Try to.

Ma... Ma... Gibson, I think...

Go to words.

[Speaker 2]
Ma-ma-ring-king-ning-na-mu-ang-ke-chu-gru-o-dang-mo-kot-li-pong-pa-ring-king-mung-pong-din-dong-pa-ndawa-yin-la Ma-ma-ring-king-ning-na-mu-ang-ke-chu-gru-o-dang-mo-kot-li-pong-pa-ring-king-mung-pong-din-dong-pa-ndawa-yin-la I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
No, good, just go to words class. I think we're in crisis after this. Okay, Emahul, wow.

You are the... What's that mean, Gibson? You are the best teacher among all of teacher.

Of all the teachers in the world, you are the best. Wow. And also you are the best gumbo.

You are the best savior, protector. Yeah. Of...

Pongpa means literally poor people, but it means people who are spiritually poor. Pongpa, you are the best protector. In fact, there's no dawa of you.

Yeah, no... There's no match. There's no match for you, yeah.

Dawa means moon. It's the word for moon, but it's called moon because it's the match of the sun. So we call the moon in Tibetan, it's called the match of the sun.

And I think we mentioned before that there's a beautiful word, kunda, which means your body match, the name for your wife or your husband, your other half. In English, we say your other half, okay? All right, let's keep going.

Who's next, Gibson? We got one more sentence to go, I think. Okay.

Diamond Mountain Tech. Wow, Diamond Mountain Tech. Come on, they're going to have a nervous breakdown next week.

I think their tech's not working. We are ready. Khadding is reading.

Khadding, let's go. Thank you, Padmasambhava. DE NA TSEN CIG BRGYAL PAR CHUNG BA LAS PAR GSUNGS PA'I STONG PA LA NA MED PA DE LA BDAG CHAGS ZAL LO BYAS PA'O What's it mean, Khadding?

BDAG CHAGS ZAL LO, what does it mean? I bow to you. Yeah, I bow down to you because you're such a cool teacher because you taught the pen.

Okay? And you taught it well. What's this?

Where, hey, Khadding, don't go away. I thought I could escape. Where do you see this lake elsewhere?

Lake, where do you see it? Lake Parsho. What other book do you see lake?

Heart Sutra. Actually, Nimpo, I heard from the peanut gallery. Heart Sutra.

Give it to me from the Heart Sutra. Lekso, Lekso. Or the Soja.

Hey, I'll give 20 bucks for the Sanskrit of Lekso, Lekso. Screw his English. Yeah, Siddha, Siddha.

Siddha, Siddha. Okay, how much did I save? Five bucks?

20 bucks, I think. Okay, collected from Rome. All right, I bow down to you because you spoke dependent origination so damn well.

All right, we're going to stop there, Gibson and Gibson. Grandpa's going to relax to have the rest of my coffee. You're going to lead a discussion.

You're going to choose people who want to suggest how can we use today's class in our real life? Okay, I'm out of here. Okay, cool.

So we are at the very beginning of this book. And this part is basically Je Tsongkhapa praising Lo Buddha. He teach the dependence with the emptiness frosting.

So how can we bring this teaching that the pain with the emptiness to our own daily life? Is there anyone have some comment? Or you can pick up some other teaching in this class then you think you can put into the daily life.

By the way, I'll start with one thing, okay? Okay. Personally, I'm very disturbed about the new war.

There's a second war now. There's a lot going on in Israel and Palestine. And if I really understand dependence and emptiness, emptiness means nobody started the war except me, okay?

No one, emptiness of... The emptiness in that war that started this week, 3,000 people killed already, innocent. I mean, mostly just people who were there by accident.

And if I see this war, then the emptiness of it is that it's not coming from anybody else. The dependent origination of it is that it's coming from me. And the practical application of that is that maybe I could try to be more unifying with people in my life and not be separated from people.

Like there's this terrible separation in the Middle East right now. That's my use of this book for my real life. Do you guys have ideas?

Okay, mental policy, maybe I could try to be more unified. Okay, if I really understand dependence and emptiness, no one started the war except me. Cool.

And this is really useful for my daily life in Taichung because we all ride the scooter and some people just don't know how to ride a scooter and do some very violent way. And we sometimes keep them in a sharp eye and maybe we can start to think where do they come from. Yeah, anyone can have the new idea about this?

How about Emily, do you have anyone, anything? So gang has idea. Cool.

He said they got lousy drivers here also. Yeah. Just joking.

Yeah, I'm thinking based on the praise for a teacher about those six who are great teachers before Lord Buddha, when Lord Buddha came in and they didn't really fulfill all the requirements. So I think from this, we can learn that in life when we do things, we really need to know the exact requirements so that we can really fulfill the thing. For example, when you want to do, for example, when you want to set up this room, I sent a picture to Nick and Nick was saying a lot is going on.

So, or even, yeah. So in order to set up this room, we need to know what are the requirements so that we don't become panic last minute. Oh, this is not here, that is not there.

So it's important to do everything in our life to ensure that we have all the requirements ready and to know the, we call it the, I forgot the term, but we just need to make sure that we have everything ready before we start doing things so that we don't get caught at the last minute and to hit the road or something kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Yeah, be ready, yeah, with all the requirements. Know what the requirements are. And have them ready before you start the class.

But of course, don't delay with the excuse that you are not, the requirements are not ready. Yeah, yeah, that's what I have in mind. Back to you, Gibson, stay here if you want.

So I have another question. Yeah, yeah, Nick, go ahead. Oh, I just, the fact that he's praising the Buddha for teaching this one specific thing when the Buddha has taught many, many, many cool things.

I thought it's kind of cool just to think about the fact that there's often something we can find to praise people about, and it's always goes a long way. Usually it goes a long way. If you can praise somebody, it's worth it to do it because people can usually use a boost.

And by the way, Sugeng, I was praising you when I said, wow, there's so much going on. I was like, wow, you guys are doing amazing, considering that it's all in a little room. Yeah, Stanley too, and now Rob is getting involved too.

Of course, I know. You always have the option to criticize people, but we're having this EMBA classes, MBA classes here this week, and as a manager of a business, for example, I mean, my experience is praising them goes a lot further. Finding something that someone's doing right, even if they're doing 10 things wrong, to praise them for something they're doing well, I think it's a good management technique.

I think that's what Sugeng was saying. Back to you, Gibson. So I have a question in my mind when I start to translate this book.

Do anyone want to guess why Je Tsongkhapa praised the low Buddha? Because he teached the dependent, not the emptiness. Because in the end, Je Tsongkhapa is going to talk about, mainly talk about the emptiness in this text.

So why not in the first place, Je Tsongkhapa praised the low Buddha because he teach emptiness instead of dependent origination? It seems like a, we call bait and switch. Like you tell somebody, this car has really good mileage, but actually you're trying to sell it for something else.

The name of the book is, the name of the book is Praising Buddha for Dependence. He doesn't mention emptiness necessarily. So why does he bait and switch?

Why does he say Buddha's cool for teaching dependence when what he really wants to say is Buddha's cool for teaching emptiness? That's what Gibson's question is. I have an idea.

Yeah. Okay, Mr. Moneybags.

[Speaker 2]
Well, people in the world who are not trained in Buddhism, for example, they're interested in cause and effect, how things happen. So if you walk up to somebody and say, oh, the Buddha is so cool because he taught emptiness. They don't even know how that would be significant and what emptiness means.

So I think it's really skillful to say that the Buddha taught how things work, how things happen in dependence, and then people get interested. And then to say that the only way that things could work is that they can't have a, they can't exist from their own side or they're empty.

[Speaker 1]
That's very skillful. Yeah. So I think Anatole's saying, hey, you want to know where all this stuff really comes from?

Do you want to know why your spouse is so irritating? Do you want to know where that really comes from? And rather than saying, do you want to know where your spouse is not?

I think it's also maybe to help people from going into nihilism and thinking, if you just talk emptiness, emptiness, emptiness, some people, if they get a bad teaching, might think that there is nothing.

[Speaker 2]
So who cares? So I'll do whatever I want to be happy right now, regardless if I hurt someone. I was thinking the same.

Yeah. I think there've been times in history where people got a little carried away and weird. And maybe when I was first learning, there were these guys like Jack Kerouac or Alan Watts who were trippy and interesting and freaked everybody out and no one could tell if they meant anything.

And it seemed like Jetsun Kappa was also teaching at a time where people were maybe a little carried away about emptiness and just wanted to think it meant you could do whatever you want or all bets are off. And Jetsun Kappa, I think is famous for helping people to see the connection between kindness and the reality that you see, the reality you experience. And so of course he would emphasize dependence as a way of teaching ultimate truth.

[Speaker 1]
Cool, man. So I have another question. And in this class, Jetsun Kappa praised the low Buddha because he teach dependent with the emptiness.

And he said the other, the river school, they are not very qualified teacher. So here's my question. What would happen if a person only teach the dependent without the emptiness or only use the dependent without the emptiness?

What would happen? What is the result of it? Well, then I think you have most religions that aren't Buddhism where they talk about kindness and love but they don't necessarily talk about emptiness.

And then people try to live good lives but maybe they can't achieve everything they want because they don't understand the emptiness side and more importantly, they just continue to be stuck in samsara and they can't get out because they don't understand the emptiness side of it. I think what comes up in my mind when you say that Rebecca is that we hear people say good stuff happens to you because you help somebody else. Good stuff happens to you because you help somebody else.

But really the point is nothing happens to you except for how you treat other people. So that's a big difference. I think if you just taught dependence, Gibson, you would tell people be nice to other people because good things will happen to you sometimes.

And then when you say emptiness, it means how much of your moment-to-moment life is not coming from how you treat other people? The answer is zero. And that's a lot different from saying please be nice to other people.

It's saying every single experience, every single moment of your life is coming from how you treat other people. Something like that. So yeah, does anyone have any takeaway from this class?

I just wanted to say about being grateful for your teachers. Okay, cool, Rebecca. And how important that is and to never forget how incredibly fortunate we are to have amazing teachers because not everyone has that karma and we should always be thinking about that and always be asking our Lamas to stay and never forget to do that.

And I think this is the most appreciated one in the translation class because every time we translate a book, we spend an amount of time and translate the previous master. They are thanking the previous master. And I think this is a very good tradition through the way they appreciate, we can know what we will be learning in the class.

Yeah. One more thing I would like to say is that normally when I read the title of praise for something, I would tend to ignore the book. But today, suddenly I think, because when somebody is praising somebody, if we pay attention, we will be able to get the essence and the gist of why the praise is there in the first place.

And I think this is the best opportunity to get the whole essence. So instead of me having to read everything, I just listen to the praise and then I will get the gist of the whole thing. So I think this is a kind of good realization this morning for me.

I also think that even in Buddhism, there's like in the tengyur, there's a large section called praises, stotra. And some of them are really dull. And you're so great, you're so cool, I like you, you're nice, and they just go on like that.

And they don't say, why is the person cool? There's no clear reason. Why are you praising this person?

And I think Je Tsongkapa, he turned the praise into a teaching. And I think that's a really, I praise him for this. And I have a final point here.

I want to thank Geshe Michael. It's that today when we translate the Mudekpa, and because I read a lot of texts from the previous translation, we will translate the non-Buddhist school. And I think this is the nuance of the translation, that we shouldn't to say that who is the Buddhist school, who is non-Buddhist school.

And I think this is the art of the translation, that we can bring more people to understand the philosophy instead of whose part is right, whose part is not right. And thank you, Geshe-la. Yeah.

I like river school. It sounds more, it's a lot more friendly than saying, oh, you're a non-Buddhist. I think so.

I agree. That word took about 20 years. All right.

Uncle Nick, I think you want to take us to...

[Speaker 2]
Sure.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, well, thank you, Geshe Michael. Thank you so much. And thank you, Gibson.

Thank you, Gibson. That was amazing. You're so cool and smart.

We can all try to be like you. And everybody, thanks for your thoughts and your comments and sharing, and please keep coming and please keep sharing your ideas for how to make this stuff practical. I think Monday we'll have Romanian language included as well.

So if you are Romanian and you can understand me, you'll have that language next time. That's the plan. I'll try to make sure.

Thanks everybody. And we're going to hand it over to Peachtree World News. So first of all, stay tuned for some upcoming events in the worldview area, coming to your area via your Zoom probably.

And also after that, we will have class for those of you who would like to learn the alphabet and pronunciation with Dr. Wordsmith. Really amazing classes. I've been seeing great results and hearing nothing but good reviews.

So if you want to learn stuff, he's teaching stuff. And so please keep coming to Mixed Nuts. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Daniel. Take it away. Yay.

That was such an amazing class. Thank you so much, Geshe-la. Thank you so much, Gibson.

Thanks, Nick and everybody behind the scenes. So for this 15 minute segment for the Peachtree World News, we're going to be bringing you some exciting news directly from Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. Geshe-la, did you have something to add?

Oh no, just that you were cutting out on us, but you came back. Okay. So we have with us here a venerable, actually Brigitte Mayer.

She is the Madam Director of Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. And are you there with us, Brigitte? Yes, I'm there.

Can you hear me? Yeah, I hear you great. So we're excited to give the audience here on Shenzong's Tower a sneak peek into what's coming up at the Diamond Mountain Retreat.

And to show people some of the work that's happening behind the scenes to get that ready for both in-person and especially the online. So, oh, there you are. Hi.

Can you see me? Hi. I'm here.

Where are you? I'm here at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. This is our beautiful student center, our beautiful sky and our beautiful nature.

And we have the honor that our matchless teacher is coming for retreat from October 20 to 29.

[Speaker 2]
And he will marry us. He's a matchless teacher.

[Speaker 1]
Kindness from the great fifths and emptiness. And during retreat, we are preparing for you. I am here.

I go into the student center. An international group of volunteers. You're here?

Yes, I am here. Okay, so what we're looking at is the student center. Yes, you can't see the volunteers yet.

Oh, they're hiding. Julia from Finland. Ina from the Peachtree World Cafe.

We have stolen her. Marcela from Guadalajara. Regina from Germany, much more.

And also our board president is already here. And we are preparing the cottages for you. We are sold out.

So we also prepare online retreat places for you. You can join online. There is a big international group who is preparing these online rooms for you where you can do retreat.

Great, and if we can show the perfect. Perfect, thank you so much for showing the QR code. So as when you book a room with us, there are three options.

There's the free option where you get the teachings and classes for free because that's our mission to provide it for free. But we also have some kind of deluxe and premium online retreat places for you. And then there you get additional beautiful yoga classes dedicated to special beings.

And we have nine classes which are very, very deep classes and how to do retreat. Being there, how to dive deeper into meditation, how to dive deeper into a place where you don't have a phone, which is very important to be successful and happy and to understand the marriage of kindness and emptiness which we are being taught in this retreat. That's amazing.

So what I'm hearing is that there should be no reason for anyone to miss the retreat even though it's sold out at the end because they can register online and they can take up their retreat anywhere in the world and listen to these teachings and have an incredible experience, it sounds like. In 12 languages with a schedule which is tailored to you, to your time zone and how much time you have. Amazing.

So it's gonna be a deeper dive into the wisdom of Nagarjuna and how to apply that to health practices. So we're really glad that you got to be with us today. Brigitta, thank you for all your work directing Diamond Mountain and it's gonna be a very exciting retreat.

I look forward. I am actually gonna be doing the online this time as well. So thank you for that information.

I have a tent ready for you if you want to camp. Okay, great. That's a tempting offer.

Maybe we can discuss it. Thank you so much, Adam. Thank you for inviting us.

Our pleasure. Thank you so much. So we'll see you soon.

See you soon. We're gonna move right on to our very next exciting story of what's happening in the worldview. We have a very exciting project in Mexico called the Green Stretch Pin Project.

And we'd like to invite the organizers of that. We have Anatole, Mr. $300 Anatole, and we have Aisha as well, I think maybe. And so we wanna show you guys a little bit about the exciting work that they're doing.

Are you there, Anatole? Hola, hola. Hola, buenos dias.

Buenos dias. 300. 300.

Mr. 300. So we have a cool little video that we wanna show of a bunch of pictures from your latest work. So they've been doing a project teaching children in the country of Mexico, how to be healthier.

So they're, as you can see in the photos, their kids are drinking smoothies. They're wearing their cool green shirts because it's a green drink Friday and they all have their own special cups that they brought. So they're building up excitement in the next generation of teachers and happy beings that are gonna be living in Mexico and living healthy lives.

So Anatole, can you tell us something about that and tell us some of the exciting stuff you're doing?

[Speaker 2]
Sure, there's like a whole backstory to those blenders. Last year, this year, Daniel and his father actually came to Guadalajara to help us negotiate the price for the blenders. So we're actually getting the same price at Starbucks to get these industrial Vitamix blenders.

We got 10 out so far to the schools and they're really excited to get the kids eating healthy and learning special yoga exercises and learning about the pen and the four steps.

[Speaker 1]
That's awesome. And so how's it going? I know there were some challenges, it's like you couldn't just give the blenders away.

We had to make sure that they were gonna use them properly. How's that going?

[Speaker 2]
It's been going amazing. We got the government to accept the blenders directly and they made a contract to distribute them to the schools. And actually we just got a letter out from the Mexico office of Vitamix.

They sent a letter out to the headquarters in America so that they can learn more about our program at Vitamix also and hopefully we're gonna get a factory built in Mexico. That's our goal, to get a factory built in Mexico to make the blenders here because we want one to go to every school in the whole country.

[Speaker 1]
Exciting, cool. Well, we gotta keep following up with the distributors and with Vitamix. And so it's pretty cool.

Is there anything that you guys could use help with? I mean, how's that going?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, always we can use help. We're trying to reach, we've reached 500 school teachers in Tabasco, Mexico and they're gonna need a lot of support to stay active, to stay excited, to keep learning more about especially the ideas of the pen and how to plant seeds. So it takes a lot of effort to, it takes a lot of dedication to stay in touch with them and to follow up with them.

And so, yeah, we would love your help.

[Speaker 1]
Awesome.

[Speaker 2]
Especially anybody who speaks Spanish, it's really wonderful.

[Speaker 1]
One state is in the bag and now we're aiming for all the rest of the states in Mexico. So if anybody is a Spanish speaker and interested in helping the future generation of this world, please reach out to Anatole. Anatole, maybe you can put your email address in the chat so that people can reach out to you if they need anything.

[Speaker 2]
Wonderful.

[Speaker 1]
If they wanna help you with anything, I apologize. Or if they have any questions about your program. Sure.

Okay, thanks so much. I'll put it in there. Sweet.

So thank you, Anatole. Congratulations on your amazing project. And so for the last few minutes, we're gonna bring the captain of the ship back on.

And I just wanna say, Keshla, you're so cool because you saw all these projects in your mind and you're so cool for explaining and making it something that we could all be a part of. I have to say just, wow, you're amazing. Thank you for all the work, for always keeping the ship sailing and for taking care of us all.

And so we'll go back to you so that you can talk to the audience a little bit about the upcoming SCIM Summit in Kyoto. We have a QR code for that. And I thought you might wanna talk a little bit about that.

As you guys know, we have the Sedona College of International Management in the great city of Sedona, Arizona. And we've been in operation now for seven years. We have 350 graduates from the college and along with Sugeng Hsieh, and Shantan, you wanna come up, Sugeng?

We are starting a alumni association. At Princeton University, every summer, 26,000 graduates come for three days to the university and they cause a lot of trouble, they drink a lot of beer, but they also meet together and they learn a lot from each other. They network with each other's businesses and it's amazing.

And they listen to lectures by great professors and stuff like that. So we wanna have an alumni association for our SCIM and I'm gonna let Sugeng tell you a little more about it. Yay!

Yeah, so this is the first reunion and borrowing this great opportunity, we want to create a great alumni association predominantly to pull everyone together. Actually, we have 390 alumni. Yeah, so 390, so that is a big number and we really look forward to see one day or with this 390 with the direct family members, we can have a lot of people, but this time round in Kyoto, our room is a bit limited.

So we hope not to limit people's attendance, but maybe at the end of the day, we may have to do so. So please register early. This is the QR code.

Those of you who have at least attended one term of SCIM, please come. If you have not attended before, please come to our next SCIM so that you are eligible. This is going to be exciting and amazing.

And Daniel, I'm happy to conclude that in Kyoto, we're planning to have at the reunion, 7th to the 9th December, we're going to have Peach Tree Breakfast Club. In the Japanese restaurant every morning, Grandpa and Sugeng and Shinten will be there holding a breakfast club. Hopefully, Shinten and Sugeng are going to...

You want to come up, Shinten? They promised me sweet rolls. Nice.

Well, we're going to have to start distributing peach tree cinnamon rolls all over Asia soon. Yeah. So look forward to all of you.

And besides that, there are exciting events that we are planning, including... Karaoke! Yes, karaoke and also the singing, the pop parade, the costume parade.

Yes, a lot of exciting events. So make sure you register to SCIM term and also SCIM reunion. And we're going to have a big dinner together on Tsunkapa Day.

Wow. So it's going to be a special day and we're going to have a dinner together with all the alumni. So I'll just sit there.

[Speaker 2]
There it is.

[Speaker 1]
So be there or be square as the saying goes.

[Speaker 2]
One minute or two minutes. All right.

[Speaker 1]
Well, thank you guys so much for all the information. That's all the time we have today for our Peach Tree World news segment. Word Smith, Dr. Word Smith, the incredible translator is up next. Word, are you going straight away or are they getting a little break? I'm going right away. Thanks.

Right away. Okay. If you're ready for words class, buckle up and get ready for an amazing time.

And we'll see you guys back for Geshe-la's class on Monday. Thank you, Dr. Word. Take it away.

Thanks, Geshe-la. All right. So we are studying the Tibetan alphabet.