Гибсон Чан — Книга 2: Восхваление зависимости, занятие 16

[Speaker 1]
Okay, thank you everyone, so let's come to the very last homework of Praise of Dependent.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, number one, how Nguchu Dharmapadra got his name Nguchu?

[Speaker 3]
By doing retreating Nguchu ritual?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, let me see.

[Speaker 3]
Okay, because from his 40 to his age of 80, except for a few times when he went out to teach and study, he spent most of his time in the Nguchu Hermitage, practice only and meditating only.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so what is the English for Nguchu? Quicksilver. Quicksilver.

Do you have another, what quicksilver means? Mercury. Mercury, and alchemical liquor that transforms things into bodhichitta with emptiness.

Okay, what event occurred that caused the master to feel deep sorrow, leading him to the idea of wanting to do a retreat in solitude? Not his student. His parent and another relative.

Not uncle. His brother?

[Speaker 2]
Aunt.

[Speaker 1]
His aunt, yeah. When he was 19 years old in the first month of the year of Arundhati, his mom turned 42, and his very loving aunt passed away at the same time due to the plague. So this left his father alone, surrounded by many infants who couldn't provide food and drink for themselves.

So this caused him immense sorrow, and he told his dharma about this situation.

[Speaker 3]
His dharma replied, you can go to the Nguchu Hermitage to do the retreat. Okay, what is Saempa?

[Speaker 1]
Far off place. Yeah, Diamond Mountain. Yeah.

Solitary place. Okay, the last one.

[Speaker 3]
Why his dharma told him he should stay in Nguchu Hermitage to do the retreat? What's the reason?

[Speaker 1]
What is the one kind of qualifying if you want to do a meditation? Because it's a quiet, far away place. He wanted to join Mountain House.

Oh, cool. Yeah, Nick, answer. Because it is moderately distant and has the blessing from the past teacher.

Yeah, so I think Diamond Mountain also blessed by the past teacher and moderately distant. So what is distant? Is it yin ring or ring tone or something?

Yeah, yin and ring. Yeah, cool, Nick. Okay, let's go to my translation.

Okay, here. So I will do my two sections.

[Speaker 2]
Zen...

[Speaker 1]
Good, good reading. Now let's look at the translation. Then the monastery was converted into a Tsongkhapa monastery by the Tsongkhapa Lama Gungpo Tao, who was supported by Shakyamuni Buddha.

The name must have been changed. Good, nice. Yeah, good.

So, by the way, why is the name of that monastery significant? It's your monastery? It's the temple in New Jersey.

The Mongolian temple in New Jersey was named after this monastery. Arashi Gampalang. So Mongol will say Arashi Gampalang.

Tibetan will say Tashi Gepalang. Tashi Gepalang. Same thing.

So it's cool. That's kind of the source of the Mongolian temple where I studied for 25 years. Coincidence, just a coincidence.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Second one. Yeah, and he translated it correctly.

[Speaker 1]
It's basically just a list of the important students of Quicksilver Lama. By the way, this Diamond Mountain Retreat Center was founded pretty deeply on Quicksilver Lama's presentation of Vajrayogini. He was a great, great Vajrayogini practitioner, and we translated his commentaries.

So there's a big connection between him and this place.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, over to you Lama.

[Speaker 1]
Over to me. All right, good job. By the way, we are close to finishing Gibson's second book.

Today we will start his third book, which is really, for a translator, that's a big deal. They're not ready yet. Oops, sorry.

And we're reading the short biography of the author of the book that Gibson will finish today. Because in the Mixed Nuts, we like to put some information about the author. In many cases, in the ancient books, we know nothing about the author.

So we work really hard in the Mixed Nuts to try to give you some background. For example, now we know why his name was Quicksilver. Because he lived there.

He lived at Quicksilver. And it was a retreat center, like Diem. And he spent almost his whole life there, which is cool.

All right, who's going to read, Gibson? You shouldn't read, because your reading is too good.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, Wing.

[Speaker 1]
Wing, Wing. Here comes the microphone. Flying microphone.

Good catch. Thank you, I tried. Thank you.

Nice. So this biography comes from a very valuable catalog of ancient books that we got from Tibet. And they have some short biographies of the different authors.

And here's a sentence about, kong means? He. He, and kong ki means?

His. Yeah, his sung. His word, spoken word.

His, and in spoken Tibetan. So this, by the way, the language of the biography, you guys have not met yet. And this is modern language, modern language.

We haven't studied. The average age of the books that we're translating is about a thousand years old. So here's real modern Tibetan dialect.

And we haven't had it yet. Spoken colloquial. Kong ki sung.

So in that case, sung means his writings. Okay, his writings. Nge is a modern word for nga.

Yeah, our? Our library. What's the kong?

Library. Yeah, ben, say benzu? Kong.

Everybody say, benzu? Kong. Kong is any kind of building.

It doesn't matter. All buildings are called kong. Like what's at Songkong is a store.

Menkong is a hospital. And a pe, pe means pecha? Tax.

Yeah, ancient book. Zu means kosha? Treasure house.

So ancient book treasure house means our library. In our library of ancient books, we have kapa, from kapa up to chapa. From ka volume to cha volume.

Yeah, so volumes of books, volumes of one author are not named one, two, three. They're named A, B, C, D. Okay, so we have ka up to cha, which is how many?

Six. Six books, poti. Poti.

Poti is an ancient word for book. Okay, it's probably from Nepalese or something, poti. And here's an interesting verb, shuk.

They didn't say ne. Why? Shuk is high honorific.

Like you would say the lama is shuk today in the house or something. You only use it for very high, high things, which is a book. So they don't say we have the book.

They say the beautiful book is gracing us by its presence in our library. Thank you for sitting in our library. It's a very beautiful, modern honorific.

Benzer card, say Benzer card. Okay, keep going. You want to read?

Oh, you want someone to read? Angelo. Angelo, don't do it with a Canadian accent, okay?

It doesn't work hard.

[Speaker 2]
I must say, I've never read, and I've never been taught.

[Speaker 1]
There's always a first time.

[Speaker 2]
There's a first time, so where am I starting?

[Speaker 1]
At nung. And don't worry, Gibson's going to help you. Nung dong ring.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Bay. Bay shark.

Sum. Sum. Par jay.

Ko mang. Ko mang is gay. Shuk.

Mang shuk. Ning pong.

[Speaker 3]
Kong ni.

[Speaker 1]
Kong ni? Kong ni.

[Speaker 2]
Ring ne. Ring ne. Yeah, good.

Kun la. Kun la pa. Good.

Shing ing bay. Shing ning bay. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, yay. So, Nang ten rik pay kor. So, in the ancient India, there were Buddhist sciences and non-Buddhist sciences.

Non-Buddhist sciences are like architecture, sculpture, medicine, Sanskrit study, and Buddhist sciences are called nang ten, rik pay kor. So, his books about Buddhism, there are many books by him about Buddhism in our library. That implies there are also books that aren't about philosophy, okay?

And he's going to get to that later. Kepa means... Particularly.

Sang aki kor. Secret mantra. Yeah, we have many Diamond Way books by him in our library, that you don't even know about.

Mang shuk. The most. Yeah, most of the books we have by him are secret, okay?

Ma means, that is the case, but... Kong gi rik ne kun. He was a kepa in all the rik ne.

He is the master of all science. Yeah, all the Buddhist and non-Buddhist topics of wisdom. He was a master.

Sik yin pe. And then the pe, P-A-S?

[Speaker 2]
Bai?

[Speaker 1]
Therefore.

[Speaker 2]
Therefore, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Therefore, and then the next sentence comes. Look, he was a tantric master, okay? Most of the books we have in our library are tantric, but he was also a master of all the sciences, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist.

And then he is going to give some examples. Who is going to read?

[Speaker 2]
Chloe.

[Speaker 1]
Chloe, yay!

[Speaker 2]
E pe te pe lang.

[Speaker 1]
Louder.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, sorry. Te chak si tsoy sik tang. Sok tang.

Sok tang.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, good. Yay! In the chapa volume, dep means, dep is the modern word for book.

So in the chapa book, you can see books about, kor means about, sumtark. Thirty-verse of grammar? Yeah, and this, as a genre, it means classical grammar, okay?

So what we're saying is, look, he was a tantric master and he wrote a lot of philosophy, but he also knew other topics. For example, grammar, classical grammar, which is difficult. It's a difficult topic.

My teacher made me memorize this book before he would teach me. And then he says, shalung means the oral commentary. Shalung is the high word for mouth.

Oral commentary by the great master Situ. So Situ was a great Tibetan grammarian. A couple hundred years before.

So he wrote a commentary to Situ, which is a big deal. It's like writing a commentary to Einstein or something. So he's a smart guy.

And then, who's going to read this sentence?

[Speaker 2]
Alexander.

[Speaker 1]
Alexander, yay! I also never read something, but okay. No problem.

TA YAS CHEN YIN KHORI RIG GYANG MA NAM PO YOD YOD By the way, if you want to learn Tibetan, to read Tibetan well, go to words classes. He's a great teacher. All right.

So NYAN NGAG means poetry. And I think it's misspelled here, but we'll check. DENG PHYIR means?

[Speaker 3]
Kamuturi.

[Speaker 1]
Shastra, yeah. Called the essence of the ocean, okay? So he was a master of grammar, and he was a master of poetry.

And YI GUR, YI SKAD GUR BA. Difficult word. YI SKAD means?

[Speaker 3]
Writing?

[Speaker 1]
Correspondence. And GUR means sending correspondence. And there's an entirely different language that I have never taught you for writing letters.

Okay? And my teacher, the President of the United States, wrote a congratulations to the head of West China at that time for winning World War II. And he wrote it in, sorry, the head of West China at that time wrote a congratulations letter to the President of the United States, Harry Truman.

And they wanted to put it in his presidential library, and they couldn't find anybody to translate correspondence to them, which is extremely difficult. And so I helped him, and then he taught me that language. It's quite difficult, and it's very interesting, and it's almost gone, okay?

But anyway, it's a big deal. He knew how, he wrote a book about correspondence, proper correspondence language, which is very difficult, okay? And he wrote a book about how to lok ngak.

[Speaker 2]
How to reading the mantra.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, how to read mantras, and that's very difficult. Supposedly, a mantra doesn't work so well if you mispronounce it. So he wrote a book about how to pronounce mantras correctly, and he was one of the rare teachers who understood Sanskrit pretty well, and his student also learned pretty well.

So, lok tap che nyer ko. Nyer ko means total necessity for everybody. Mumble.

Yeah, he wrote many other books about these essential topics, like how to write letters, how to read mantras, how to write poetry, and how to write proper grammar, okay? In addition to being, I would say, one of the top five tantric writers in Tibet, okay? One of the top five.

Amazing, amazing writer. So, now I have something sad to tell you. We finished Gibson's second book.

It's the birthday of his book, okay? You ready, Nyer? It's the birthday of his book.

Happy birthday to you.

[Speaker 2]
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Gibson. Happy birthday to you.

Woo-hoo!

[Speaker 1]
Wow. So, I'm sure someone will cut it and share it now. Because life isn't permanent, you got to eat.

You got to eat cake when you get it. But it's very difficult to finish a translation. It takes a lot of courage, and it takes a lot of perseverance.

And Gibson has really, really done well to learn Tibetan, and he's translated two very important books. These two books will join a series of books that we call pocket books, and they are meant to be carried in your purse or in your coat pocket, and they are very, very valuable for everyday life. You can sneak it into the bathroom at work in your coat pocket, and you can read Tsongkhapa in the special place.

So, I'm very, very happy that he finished, and I'd like to thank him again. Thank you very much. And the real reason he succeeded was his wife, Emily.

By the way, they worked for many years to fundraise for all of our projects, and I'm also very grateful for that. Thank you for that. So, now I thought Gibson would be ready for a more difficult book.

And what we chose was called, it's called Essence of Eloquence, on the Art of Interpretation. And it's probably the most important concept that Je Tsongkhapa ever had. And Tsongkhapa was disturbed by the fact that Lord Buddha apparently said, sometimes things are not empty in the first turning of the wheel.

In the second turning of the wheel, he said, everything is empty. In the third turning of the wheel, he said, maybe it's empty, maybe it's not empty. And Tsongkhapa was very disturbed by the difference in the different schools of Buddhism.

And he explored that question his whole life. And then later he wrote this unbelievable book about how do you know when the Buddha meant what he said, and how do you know when he didn't mean what he said. And he was just making it simple because the audience was not of a high, they hadn't been trained yet.

And so, how do you decide? And this applies to your teacher, to your private teacher. Like your teacher tells you to do something.

There's a famous, famous example. A teacher had three students. He taught them for a couple of years.

And then he said, you know, it's getting difficult to survive. And I would appreciate it if you guys, if you three guys went and robbed a bank. And two of the students were like, we are loyal to the teacher.

We will go and rob the bank. And he said, okay, bye. And then the third one said, he said, according to what I understand, what you taught us, you are testing us today.

And you want to find out if I will really rob a bank or not. And I refuse to go. And then the teacher said, I have one good student.

Okay, so this is the rules for when do you decide what the teacher really meant. And it's a very, very important book in the history of humans. In 50,000 years, this is one of the most important books.

It's a revolution. It's a groundbreaking book. And I've been saving it for the best translator.

And I was waiting to see if he was serious. And no, he's worked, how many years, five years?

[Speaker 3]
Three years.

[Speaker 1]
Three years, and he's finished two books. And so, he's going to do it. Okay, here we go.

You can say you were there when it was started. And in the Geshe studies, it's considered a great honor to read this book. Only special people get to read this book.

And in my Geshe course, I finished my Geshe, and my teacher wouldn't teach it to the whole group. And then after we got our Geshe, I went, I begged him to teach it. And he agreed to teach it to two people.

And one of them dropped out, which wasn't me. And then I brought my students from New York, I think 20 or 30 students, 11 the first year. And the second year, I think it was 30, yeah, more people.

And a strange thing happened when he agreed to teach this book. He was a great master. He passed away recently.

He was a great, great master. And the monastery came the first day, and they begged him to allow them to broadcast it to the monastery. So we didn't have internet, we didn't have anything.

They hooked up loudspeakers throughout all the streets of the monastery. And he spoke, and he taught me and a group of my students, he taught us this book. It became ACI Course 15.

It was the foundation of that course, but it's much, much deeper. The original book is much, much deeper. So, and then I translated it for him.

And that was, I mean, very difficult. For two years, I think, something like that. And so I really appreciate the Pure Gold Project of Stanley and Xiaoping to offer translators.

They train them, and they pay them. And it's a lot of money. Should I tell you?

How much? It's between 100 and 200 per year, if you know what I mean, in US dollars. And they pay them, and then they work, and they translate for everyone, for free, okay?

And it's extremely difficult to translate spoken Buddhism. And so we're very, very lucky to have all of our translators. We have, I think, how many languages?

I believe 12 or something. 12 different languages are being translated today. And we'd like to thank the translators.

We really, really love them. And we're really grateful. And I'm sorry I talk so fast.

Yeah, I got a headache every day. I went home with a terrible headache trying to translate for my teacher. And so I know how hard it is.

And we're very grateful. So here we go. This is a big deal.

In your mind, it's a tradition to dedicate some, right now, like we'll stay silent for one minute or something. And get your motivation right. I will try to sit through Gibson's classes on the art of interpretation.

And I will try to serve all living beings on all planets with what I've learned in Gibson's book. Okay, one minute of silence. Ready?

You can also eat. It helps a lot. Okay, okay, here we go.

One minute. I will use this book to help you. All beings in the universe.

All right, all right, here we go. You can say you were there on the first day. Would you like someone?

Why don't you read the first sentence for good luck? And then you can choose the next one. ,BYANG BA DANG, ,YES PA'I THUN RNAMS PA BYED PA'I, ,BSTAN GYUR LAS ZHIG SNYING ROL ZHUGS SO, Okay, nice.

,CHANG BA, ,CHANG, This is a very important day, okay? This first day is important, okay? ,CHANG means, it's a form of the verb NGEN.

Say NGEN.

[Speaker 2]
NGEN.

[Speaker 1]
And NGEN means to pull something, you know? Like pull somebody. Like pull on a rope or something.

And it came to mean a teacher is a puller, okay? They pull you, right? Like a donkey.

And then, ,CHANG BA means, and there's a famous, famous example in the monastery, okay? And I was there when my teacher started this sentence. And we were studying it in his private room.

And next door was a little kitchen, and his student was in the kitchen, and he was banging the plates, banging the cups in place. And my teacher said, wait, stop the class. And he yelled out.

He said, hey you, ,GUG PA, you know, like, hey, Mr. Stupid Head. And he's, yes, yes, master. Could you do me a favor?

He says, what? He says, could you try to break every goddamn dish in our house, okay? Just today.

See if you can break every dish in our house. What's that mean? Be more careful.

Stop, you know, when you wash the dishes, be more careful. You're going to break them all. Apparently he broke a lot before, okay?

Understand? That word, that sentence, hey, please break all the dishes we have, has to be CHANGS. You got to pull out a different meaning.

It means, please be careful. I told you a thousand times, okay? Got it?

You have to pull out a different meaning. That's called CHANGS RGYUD, okay? When Buddha said nothing is empty, it was CHANGS RGYUD.

When he said everything is empty, it was NGES DANG, NGES. It means, what he said is what he meant. What he said is what he meant.

And then when later he said, you know, half the stuff is empty and half the stuff's not empty. He went back to CHANGS RGYUD. He went back to CHANGS RGYUD, okay?

So these two words you must learn. Say, CHANGS RGYUD, NGES RGYUD. CHANGS RGYUD means, please break all the cups.

NGES RGYUD means, please be more careful. Okay, all right, okay? Very, very important in the study of any religion, all religion, you have to understand what Jesus meant, or Moses meant, or Muhammad meant.

You got to understand when they meant it literally and when they didn't mean it literally, okay? All right, BYANG BA DANG NGES PA'I STON, number NGES RGYUD BYAS PA. Distinguish.

Yeah, how to divide them, okay? Without the apostrophe, BYAS PA means? To do.

To do. With the apostrophe, the meaning changes completely and it gets prenasal. Say BYAS PA.

BYAS PA. Say, NGES RGYUD BYAS PA. NGES RGYUD BYAS PA.

Okay, good. Yeah, here, this is NGES RGYUD BYAS PA, okay? And not many people can teach you to pronounce correctly.

You can learn, in the mixed nuts, you can learn to do it right. And if you don't learn to do it right, you will always be confused when you read a book, okay? So, this means divide, okay?

DENG PHYIR? Classical commentary. Yeah, that was a big topic in Tim's book.

LEG ZHES?

[Speaker 2]
Eloquence?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, eloquence or good talk, good explanation. YIN PO?

[Speaker 2]
YIN PO, essence.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, essence or heart, okay? So, the short name of this book is Essence of Eloquence, okay? The Essence of Good Talk, okay?

That's the name of this book. The full name is The Essence of Eloquence and that's on the topic of trying to distinguish between what the teacher meant and what the teacher didn't mean, okay? And that's a huge subject for every Buddhist.

Sometimes your teacher will tell you something. In Buddhism, you are required to think, okay? In Buddhism, you are not allowed to say, my teacher said so, okay?

In Buddhism, you have to use your own judgment and that's a very big responsibility. You can make terrible mistakes. You got to know the rules for making your own judgments about things, okay?

You don't just, in Buddhism, you do not blindly follow the teacher. You evaluate what they say and you really evaluate it and you think carefully. And then sometimes you might have to go to your teacher and say, I don't think I can do that.

I don't think you really want me to do that. And in this religion, you are not just encouraged, you are required to think for yourself after massive training. Did you hear the last part?

Again, here we go. Okay, here we go. Namo?

Namo. Edmund. Edmund.

Edmund. And thank you Edmund for, DSEU is successful because of Edmund and his wife, Sonia, and other staff and I'm very grateful for you, Edmund. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Namo guru du chokshaya. Nice, good.

[Speaker 1]
So this is Sanskrit and namo means?

[Speaker 2]
I bow down.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Now, AS changes to O in combinations. So the original was?

Namas. Namas. And the word you is de.

Namaste. Namaste means hi, how you doing? And it means I bow down to you.

It's a very beautiful word. So namas means I bow down to my guru. Teacher.

Manju korshaya. Gentle voice. Yeah, synonym for Manjushri.

So Manjushri has two names. Manju korshaya and Manjushri. You know Manjushri.

Okay. Then the long AYA is the dative ending in Sanskrit. It means to you.

To you. So Manju korshaya means gentle voice and Manju korshaya means I bow down to gentle voice. To gentle voice.

In Sanskrit, they don't have so many prepositions or postpositions. They just change the word. Like if I'm going to say to Gibson, I'll say Gibsonaya.

It means I gave it to Gibson.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So korshaya. Now, there's an ancient custom in ancient Tibetan translation, pronunciation. They will say Gokhaya.

Gokhaya. Manju Gokhaya. Okay.

And there are some deep, deep reasons for that, which you can study someday. All right. All right.

When I told my Sanskrit teacher, who was the head of the Classics Department at Princeton for his whole life, when I told him the strange pronunciations of the Tibetans of Sanskrit, he said, that's unbelievable because they are correct. Okay. And the Indians are wrong.

I'm like, whoa. Okay. Who's going to read?

Tina.

[Speaker 2]
DE YANG ZHUNG CING LA ZHUNG DANG ZHIG YI NGE'I NGE'I NGE'I NGE'I NGE'I NGE'I NGE'I LUS MEI LUS MEI IT TA EM PA LA SO RIGS NA RIGS LA Xin Na CEG MI CEG MI GAN GAN NARO CEC CHOG PA'I KYANG GYIS KU Nice. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
This four lines, by the way, this is an unusual thing that happens sometimes. It's two verses linked together. So it's really eight lines.

But we'll start with the first four lines, okay? And he gives the name of a bunch of worldly gods. And I like to say, these are people who are so powerful that they play marbles with planets.

And if you imagine that, that's how powerful they are. When they play games, they like throw a planet and stuff. They are very, very powerful worldly gods.

We say worldly gods. And these were very, very famous in India, in ancient India, like Brahma, Indra, people like that. So he's going to list some of them.

And the point I want to make as a translator is you could put their Sanskrit names here. For example, the first one is called Shambhu. Shambhu, in Sanskrit, his name is Shambhu.

In Tibetan, it's called source of joy. Joy, joy, his name is joy, okay? In my opinion, the Tibetans, you see, when they got to these Hindu names and God's names, they translated them because they were beautiful and they wanted the reader to know what the name meant.

Okay, so you can say Shambhu and then nobody knows what it means. His name in Tibetan is Dejung, source of happiness, like Sushumna, okay? Said Shambhu.

So it means happiness. His name is joy or his name is happiness. If I'm translating a book, I would rather use the word that the reader understands.

Duh, that's called translation, okay? So anyway, that's a strong opinion I have, as you may notice. Okay, Dejung, so the first God being mentioned, planet marble player.

Powerful, super powerful. Dejung, oh, source of joy, okay? Oh, Chenla Shun.

[Speaker 2]
Rider on the cloud.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, oh, cloud rider. Rides clouds like horse. Oh, cloud rider.

Or he has to come up with nice English names, okay? Okay, how about Sarakinya?

[Speaker 2]
Born from the golden womb?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, golden womb, which is Hiranyagarbha in Hindi, in the Hindus, okay? The golden womb, which is one of their words for the universe. The golden womb.

The universe was born out of the golden womb. Hiranyagarbha, very famous. Powerful, like spits out galaxies every afternoon.

Okay, that's the idea. So these guys are powerful. Then there's Lume Dakpo.

Master without a body? Yeah, the master without the body. And this is a reference to a naughty Hindu deity, okay?

And he likes to, he's especially interested in like, you're trying to focus on Gibson's text and you see the cake. And you're like, hmm, what was I talking about? No, but they say that when your mind shifts to the cake, it's this guy doing it.

So he's called the master with no body. His other name is Garabangtu, means master of pleasures. And he distracts you your whole life with a fancy car, big salary, then suddenly you're old and you're dying and you're like, hey, what happened?

Okay, so he was the last one that Lord Buddha had to fight. He was the last one. Then he came to Lord Buddha, like the devil came to Jesus.

And he said, you can have all these riches. You can be the king of this country. You can have everything.

So the temptation part, what was the same with Jesus and with Buddha? It's very interesting. Okay, LUS MED DAG POR DAG GIR RTOG Belly string.

Say again? Belly string. Yeah, belly string, yeah.

It can refer to a string that Hindu brahmins, they wear a red string on their body, or they wear a special meditation rope around their belly, lets them sit straight longer. Okay, DAG GIR RTOG. RTOG means belly, DAG GIR means rope.

But his name is Mr. Rope Belly or something like that. String belly, okay? And by the way, I got their Sanskrit names for you, and you have an assignment to look on the internet and find all the silly stories about these guys, because half of them are true.

Okay? All right. SINA JAG PA'I NGAR RO CHER See, this See means like seep.

Possible, at least, right? Yeah, SIPA'I KHOR LO The world. Here it means the world, okay?

The whole universe, SINA. NGAR RO Roar. Yeah, roar of a lion.

A lion's roar is called NGAR RO, okay, NGAR RO. CHER RTOG RTOG is a verb, RTOG, like JAG PA, to roar across the whole universe, okay? Like widely.

How many gods did we have? One, two, three, four, five, okay? When they talk, it's like, BAAA!

And galaxies tremble. Seriously, okay? CHER RTOG PA'I LOM PA'I RGYI LOM means delusions of grandeur.

I'm so cool. I just roar and stars fall apart, you know, okay? LOM PA'I RGYI means they do what they do, okay?

They act out of, what do you call it? Arrogance, okay? Super arrogant.

By the way, there's a tendril vowel. GNAL GYUR BAR LOM What's it mean? GNAL GYUR BAR LOM The delusion that you are a great practitioner.

That's actually a tendril vowel. Of course, you're not supposed to do that, okay? So, it means delusion.

You know, I'm such a, I spent three days in meditation at Diamond Mountain. I'm like close to Buddhahood now, okay? All right?

That's called LOM PA. LOM PA means delusion of grandeur. RNAMS KYIS KYANG GANG GI'I DGUS Then they, this is supposed to be read across the verse, okay?

And it's an old poeticism. It's an old poetic device. It's like this.

I'm thinking of somebody who's super handsome. I'm thinking of someone who's on his third great book. I'm thinking of someone who's always helped so much.

Can you guess? So, it's a poetic system. It's a poetic thing.

See, GANG GI'I DGUS There's a somebody whose body is so amazing. And then we go to the next verse. Who's going to read it?

Let's finish the next verse, whether we finish or not.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, Ella. Ella.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, you corrected me, okay.

[Speaker 2]
GYO TSE TSE GYO BEN GYO BEN GI GANG GI TSE SHAB PE CHE PA CHE PA TAB TU WANG TU WANG LA'I LA'I CHA TSE CHA TSE LA'I Nice.

[Speaker 1]
So, you have to read across the verse. Okay. When they TONG his KU When they see LENG YIN When they see someone's body, we don't know who it is yet.

It's an old poetic system. When they see someone's body. MA LA means in that instant.

In that same instant. It's like Mekhyar, only word knows this word. Who said that?

Tim? Yeah. Firefly.

You know this insect that has a light coming out of their body near rivers? Firefly, lightning bug. Yeah, probably in Chicago.

They call lightning bug. And what's NYI MA? The sun.

Yeah. So, put the sun in the sky and then take a firefly, a lightning bug, and set them against each other. Okay.

Which one has more fire? Which one has more light? Like the sun lights up millions of planets.

And then here's this little firefly like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. What's he saying?

Compared to Scott, to Buddha? Those guys who play with planets. But when they see this guy's body, he didn't tell us who yet.

That's part of the poetry system. And when you translate that poetry, you shouldn't give away the secret. You should say, there's somebody who's like the sun compared to these little fireflies.

Okay. And you don't tell everybody yet. Maybe in the next line.

Okay. ZE BAR GYUR Yeah, they are, by the way, the word for firefly is fire carrier. ME GYUR You know.

Okay. ZE BAR GYUR TSE Okay. They act like a firefly when the sun comes down.

And they take, this ZE BAR means? Beautiful. Very beautiful.

CHOS PEN is an ancient word for king's crown. And we'll be, in the diamond way, there is a crown initiation. And it's a, CHOS PEN is very important.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So they take their crowns and they stick them on the PADMA. In a lotus. Of his SHUG.

Of his feet. Yeah. So oftentimes the feet of a holy being are called the lotus because they stand inside of a lotus.

You see what I mean? So when you say, I bow down to the lotus of my teacher, it means I put my head on the feet, their feet. Okay.

Who put their head on his feet? NOS SKA. Yeah, those big shots.

But when they see Buddha, they're like, oh! Okay. They put their head on his feet.

Immediately. Bow down. Very good.

BSTAN BYAS PA And BSTAN, this BSTAN means they rely on that practice. They put, they bow down. NAMAS KARA.

NAMAS KARA. Okay. NAMAS TE.

They bow down. They're like, wow. Okay.

To whom? CHAGS ZAL LO. They bow down to TUB PA.

Able one. Yeah. The Lord of the able ones.

The best muni. Munendra. Okay.

Which means Buddha. Our Buddha is the best of Buddhists. Okay.

It's not just bragging. Why is he the best of Buddhists? Secret teaching.

He agreed to come to the worst place. To be the teacher of that world. Okay.

Seriously. Okay. Shakyamuni Buddha, of all the Buddhas in the universe, got the worst job of anybody.

And when he went to the headquarters, they said, he said, what's my assignment? They said, you have to go to Earth. He's like, no, not Earth.

And they're like, so. They call him the King of Buddhas because he agreed to come to our planet. To the real retarded people.

All right. Okay. Really cruel and dishonest people.

Okay. He said, I'm up for it. I'll do it.

Therefore, we call him Laila. God of the Gods. The God of the Gods.

Okay. Cool. So that's the beginning of the book.

Okay. Even these powerful beings bow down to this Buddha. This King of Buddhas.

And this is traditional way to start a Buddhist book. First, you bow down to your teachers. And he bowed down here already at the beginning.

He bowed down to whom? Manjushri. And Manjushri was his private teacher.

So Tsongkapa's private teacher was the Buddha of Wisdom. And there's a cute story. There was a shepherd named Umapa.

And he lived in the mountains. And there was a rumor that he could speak to Manjushri. And he's just a shepherd.

He's a poor shepherd. And he's dirty. And he's old.

And there's a rumor that he could speak to Manjushri directly. So Tsongkapa went to him and he said, Umapa, I got some questions that I can't figure out about emptiness. And I would love to ask Manjushri some details about emptiness.

And he said, can you help me? And Umapa said, yeah, I'll help you. So he said, I'll be your interpreter.

You ask me the question. I'll ask Manjushri. So Tsongkapa started, Tsongkapa's like, either this guy's crazy or he knows something.

But it's worth it to try. So he started asking him simple questions about emptiness. And the answer was perfect.

And then he got more and more complicated. He said, oh my God, you really are talking to Manjushri. And Umapa's like, I told you.

And so he kept asking questions. And then one day Umapa said, you know, I got all these sheep I got to take care of. And I can't be sitting around asking questions for you all the time.

And if you want, I'll teach you, I'll introduce you to Manjushri. And then you can ask him yourself. And Tsongkapa's like, I don't know how to do that.

And he said, well, I'll teach you how to talk to Manjushri. So Tsongkapa said, that's cool. And then he taught him.

And after that, he always had Manjushri to ask questions. So it's a beautiful story. And so Tsongkapa, every time he had a question about emptiness, he just asked the Buddha.

And he got answers. Okay, including this book. Okay, done.