Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 2

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Oh, no.

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Yeah.

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Where are you, Kat?

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Diamond Mountain.

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Oh, which building are you in?

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Venerable Chuky's.

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Oh, cool. Wait, which one was that? I can't remember now.

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It's kind of right in the middle of the tree. It's beautiful.

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Yeah. Up the hill from like James Connor's place, right? Yeah.

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Exactly. Yeah, I love it.

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Nice.

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Very happy.

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Is that your new residence while you're there?

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I've been here for some years. Yes, indeed. And look forward to hosting you sometime in the near future.

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Oh my god, I'm dying to come back for a treat.

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Can't wait.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. It's a mystery. That's the power button.

Oh. You don't want to turn off the power button right now. Why?

Hi, welcome back to Mixed Nuts. And today we're filming from the Sedona College of International Management building. And the reason we're doing that is that the first class we have today is with one of our new translators, Gibson.

And I thought since Gibson and Tim are new translators, I can steal some of their time. And they cannot complain because they are new. So I'm going to take a half hour from each class of these two guys, Gibson and Tim, to explain the whole structure of what we're doing with this translation project and how it ties into the ancient lineage, which I like to call Indo-Tang Tibetan Classics.

So you're talking 500 BC up to now. And there has been 2,500 years of incredible wisdom and incredible books. And as we said last time, those great 2,500 years, which is a hundred generations.

And if you don't think one generation is a lot of time, you should look at my haircut compared to Haso's haircut. And it's completely different. Even from one generation to the next generation, the old generation likes to keep their old haircut, and the new generation thinks they look funny.

Today somebody told me, Geshe-la, nobody cares you have a Mercedes anymore. You got to have a Tesla. And I'm like, wait, I thought Mercedes was the status symbol.

Come on, that's last generation. By the way, I don't have a Mercedes, I have a cheap car. Anyway, if one generation can change so radically, then try to imagine a hundred generations.

It's hard to imagine. It's really hard to imagine. And try to imagine something that is so valuable that people pass it on to the next generation for a hundred generations.

What still exists today that my grandparents were using is almost nothing. But we're talking about books and ideas that survived for a hundred generations. So let's go through those generations again.

My goal today is to show you how the translators are connecting with each generation in the history of the last two and a half thousand years. Here's the whole list of major ideas, major generations of ideas. We start with the original sutras, 500 BC.

Then we go back to the Abhidharma, higher knowledge school. They're trying to make a standard system out of 1,000 lectures by Gautama. Gautama taught for 50 years.

He taught all day for 50 years. Here's these guys for 800 years. They're trying to organize all the stuff he taught.

Then comes along Nagarjuna. He says, come on, it's nice to organize everything. I'm glad you have everything in a box.

But look, you're kind of missing the really awesome ideas, deep, deep emptiness ideas. You can find them there. He kind of rejects those classical commentaries, shastras, Abhidharma.

He says, let's go back to poetry. Let's go back to songs. Let's go back to these songs of emptiness.

Then he writes this unbelievable poetry. Unbelievable, deep, beautiful, sexy poetry. After 800 years of guys trying to put everything into boxes.

Then comes the mind-only school. They're even more radical. They have very, very exciting radical ideas about what the Buddha taught, about how the seeds stay in your mind.

Maybe when we look at the reality around us, maybe we're looking at part of our own mind. Very radical. That's about 1,600 years ago.

Then come those guys from the schools called deep thinking, which means logically can you figure out things that you cannot see with your eyes. Is it possible to get in touch with sexy, deep ideas of reality by closing your eyes and thinking your way there? They create all these rules for how to think your way to emptiness.

That's really awesome. Then these guys come up called the later Vinaya schools. They're like, yeah, but you can't really think of something so deep if you don't have a deep understanding of ethical living, how to be nice to other people.

All this philosophy doesn't work. You can't understand it if you don't have good karma, if you don't have good seeds. You guys who want to go deeper with your spiritual poetry and your deep emptiness stuff, you forgot that the karma that allows you to go deeper is just being nice to other people and having love for other people.

Let's talk about that for a while. They spent a couple hundred years talking about, a couple of generations, talking about deeper effect of ethical living on your brain, on your ability to think. Then comes another school, Tang Dynasty, 1,400 years ago.

Shenzong walking 17 years through every major Buddhist kingdom, 50 different kingdoms, picking up their greatest ideas, coming back to China over the Himalayas with a thousand books on a horse. Then this incredible school opening up in Tang China, in the capital of China, 1,400 years ago. After that, that middle way starts to break out back in India.

After Shenzong leaves, this huge, brilliant new school, which is all about, I don't know, things like, what's emptiness emptier? When you reach nirvana, what really happens to you? Ideas like that.

Very deep, profound ideas, focusing on the... borobudur middol, the perfection of wisdom. Next, big, big movement.

Maybe 100 years, 150 years, everyone gets interested in learning meditation deeper. The whole world, the whole Buddhist world, starts to study, starts to write books about, practical books about how to meditate. What happens in your mind when you try to meditate?

What happens? How should you sit? How should you eat?

How should you walk? What kind of house should you sit in? What's your meditation position?

There's these extraordinary books about how to meditate. Next generation, higher middle way. Deep, deep, deep.

Take the ideas from 500 years before that, which were this extraordinary emptiness poetry, and turn it into a system that everybody can learn. It's called higher middle way. Then we have this school that shows up called Good Heart.

How to develop a good heart. They're like, yeah, emptiness is nice, but if you're not a nice person, then what does it mean? They say, you got to have love.

You got to learn to be in love with other people. They invent a whole new kind of book called Lojong. Then comes the Lam Rim guys, about 600 years ago.

These schools are all wonderful. Each one has a different emphasis. Each one is beautiful, but they seem a little disconnected.

That's 400 years ago, that's 800 years ago, that's a thousand years ago. Is it possible to create a mother book that has all the spiritual steps you need from all of those schools in one book? That's called Lam Rim.

They say as a joke, if you don't have time to learn 2,400 years of books, just study Lam Rim. It's all there. Then after that, all big schools discussing, why did all these schools seem to contradict each other?

Is there some place where they all fit in? Is there a way to look at all these 2,500 years of wisdom and bring it all together? Is there a way to synthesize it all together?

That's called Tunggye. Then finally we have... there becomes...

how many years ago? 300 years ago, a bunch of guys like us here in Sedona, they all get together and say, you know what, we should write a book where each chapter tells the deepest secrets of each school. Let's write these huge books, thousands of pages, and they cover the ideas of all the great schools.

That's what we talked about already. I showed you this chart already. Now today we're going to go deeper and we're going to look at how does this translation project, how much of those 12 or 15 ancient schools, how much of them are covered in our Diamond Cutter Classics program?

How many of those ancient schools are we covering in the books that we're translating? Just to tell you the answer already, the goal of this project is to cover every ancient school. The goal of this project is to identify the greatest book from each school and translate it, so that by the time we finish this project, everybody in the modern world will have at least one classic book from each school.

That's very ambitious. Can you translate at least one book from each major generation in the last 25 centuries? We say, yes, we can do it, and we're doing it.

Prove it to me. All right, here you go. I'm going to...

What do you call that? I'm going to view out. Here we go.

See how it looks now? The central spine, like your backbone, is those, I don't know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 major schools. Then the little boxes you see on the side here are mixed nuts translations.

Do we cover every school? Is there a book hanging off of every school? Yeah!

Sometimes more than one book. The reason I'm showing you this is it took about five years to design this program. It took about five years to design a program that would cover all the ancient wisdom, all of it.

Then it took about five more years to find talented people to translate. So, here we go. Sutras.

We're covering six of them. The mixed nuts are covering six of the major sutras. Here you go.

Here's the translator. Tang Tang is the translator here, and her master. They're doing a book called All the Kinds of Karma.

The classes are already finished. The book is being illustrated by ancient illustrations from a place called Bodobudur in Java, I guess, Indonesia. We went there, and we found the carvings of this ancient sutra.

That's the book. That's the first sutra that we are translating, and it's done already. The translation is done.

We're just working on the publication. Here's another book called The Sutra of Lapis Light. Guess what?

That book came out already in December. By the way, when you talk about a book coming out, it takes ten years. It takes ten years of hard work.

There's two books already. Sutra of Lapis Light, called Medicine Buddha sometimes. We finished it, and it's out, and you can get it by email.

I'll show you the pictures and stuff. Yeah, okay. I can't see it, but you guys can.

Okay. That book is finished, and that's a mixed nuts book. We worked really hard, and we got...

Guess where we got this? Well, I'll tell you later. Here's another sutra called Vimalakirti.

We are working on it now, and it will be done... The first book will be done in 2023. It's going to take another year to finish this very, very famous sutra about a businessman who teaches emptiness better than anybody in the world.

That book is two and a half thousand years old, and it's very cool. Mixed nuts are working on that. Let's go over here for some more sutras.

What I really meant is the ancient sutra written by Buddha, and it explains the mind-only school. We are translating it, and it's scheduled to be finished in 2025. We started it...

When did the CSP start? We started it five years ago, and it will take another three years. The Commentaries of the Diamond Cutter Sutra is another sutra generation, two and a half thousand years ago.

I'm happy to say it's done, and it's published. We started working on this book in about 1995. It took 25 years, and it's done.

This is an extraordinary commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra. How did people talk two and a half thousand years ago? How did they speak about these ideas two and a half thousand years ago?

You should be curious. If I say to you, two and a half thousand years ago, there was this guy who came into this world who understood more than anybody ever understood. Super genius.

You can talk to him. Two and a half thousand years later, you can talk to him. Just get the book.

It's like trying to talk to, I don't know, a hundred generations ago. It's deep. If you try to read this thing, weird stuff happens to you.

I started a business. I don't know anything about business, and I don't like business. But I read this book.

I used the ideas. That became the largest diamond jewelry company in the world. Maybe there's something in here.

Just try to imagine. That's the diamond cutter. To listen to a guy talk about deep wisdom two and a half thousand years ago, and someone translates it for you into your modern language, it's unbelievable.

It's unbelievable. We also did a commentary to the Heart Sutra. Me and Ali finished these two books.

There's a box set. If you don't get it, you're a loser. Geshe-la, why are you selling books?

I'm not selling books. I'm trying to save your life. Diamonds are a lot better for making money.

Books are bad business. You work much harder, and you don't make any money. I'm not trying to sell things.

In fact, I'm not allowed to sell books as a monk. I'm not allowed to sell books. But listen, Diamond Cutter Sutra and the Heart Sutra explained, and you get to listen to the original guy talk from two and a half thousand years ago in your own language, in your modern language.

You're crazy if you don't get one of these things. I don't know. If you don't have any money, write to me.

I'll send it to you for free. I'll pay for it. Sometimes I put pressure on people like that.

I have paid for many books that way. If you don't have money, write Grandpa. He will send you a free book.

You got to get these books. If you really don't have money, and you are really serious, tell Grandpa you want the deluxe version of the Diamond Cutter Sutra and the Heart Sutra in one unbelievable box. If you don't get it, you're crazy.

If you're very poor and very devoted, for God's sake, write me, I'll send you one. Grandpa will pay for it. But if you have any money, don't write me.

There we go. Do we have the Sutras coming? Yeah, six unbelievable commentaries on the Sutras.

Let's go to the next generation and see what the mixed nuts are doing about the next generation. Okay, when is that? That's right here.

350 A.D., 1,650 years ago. The great, great Abhidharma books. Extremely difficult.

That's the first book I studied with my teacher. It took 12 years. It took us 12 years, and we worked every day.

It took 12 years to finish. Luckily, we have Stanley Chen, a great translator from Shenzhen, China, is working on this book. He already finished the classes for his first book, and the dates I have here, Rosa and Ellie, are the dates of publication.

The translation is finished. Did we cover the second historical school? Yeah, we got Stanley's book coming out.

Unbelievable. A deep, deep commentary to the Abhidharma. If you don't...

I keep telling you, if you get these books and you struggle through them, you can make the biggest diamond jewelry company in the world with no business experience and Warren Buffett will buy it. Or you can have a beautiful family and a beautiful, beautiful family relationship. And I've done that, I used it, and I did it.

And you can have great health. Even 69 years old, you can go to the gym and embarrass Hussle because you're so strong and Hussle's like, What? I'm just kidding, he's stronger.

And then you're happy. Your mind is affected by these books. And I hate to say it, it seems like bad luck, right?

But I'm super happy, and I'm happy all the time. I had COVID last week, and my wife's like, Aren't you going to be unhappy? I said, No, I'm having too much fun.

This is fun, to lay in bed and finish more books. And it makes you happy. I'm trying to say, try to listen to the Mixed Nuts.

Try to come to the Mixed Nuts classes. Try to learn what they are teaching. It's unbelievable, okay?

Wealthy, healthy, happy, peaceful mind. It works. This stuff really works.

I say it works. I swear it works. I got everything I could dream of.

I'm the happiest person I know. Maybe there's something I didn't mean. Geshe-la, are you Mixed Nuts doing anything about the early Mahayana classics?

Are you guys working on any of that stuff? Duh, of course we are. Here's Nagarjuna.

Here's two great books by Nagarjuna. The first one is Nick Lashaw's, Professor Nick's, 60 Verses of Aya Nagarjuna. We will finish the translation within the next two, three months.

It took five years of hard work, and it's ready. It's unbelievable. We're also finishing a book by Nagarjuna called Wisdom.

I've been teaching that every year for a couple of weeks. That's going to be done May of 2023. That book will come out.

An extraordinary translation, a commentary. You've got the sexiest teacher emptiness, and the Mixed Nuts are giving you two different books by him. Did we cover that?

Yes. Do we have these first three schools covered? Yes.

Geshe-la, do you have the Mahayana school covered? What? You never met human dictionary wordsmith who is famous?

Why is he famous? He got $3,000 out of me in one class. He translated this extraordinary book on the mind-only school, and it's already available.

He finished after five years. It's hard. It's really, really hard.

What did Master Shensang, after 17 years of walking around Asia, what was his favorite book that he walked home with? This is it. The mind-only school.

You can't find any good translation of the mind-only school. You can't find one. Guess what?

Word did one, and he published it already. Diamond Cutter Press has published it. You can get the e-book.

Is it there?

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Good.

[Speaker 1]
The red e-book called Golden Key. Tough, tough commentary, and blow your mind. I don't mean you're sitting in your house like a hippie reading some stupid ancient book.

I don't mean that. I mean you carry this book to your diamond company in Manhattan, and it becomes the largest one in the world out of about 100,000 companies. It's number one.

Why? Because of Word's mind-only book. You got to get it.

He's working on a second volume now. It'll be out in 2024. It's twice as hard and twice as beautiful.

We are working hard. We're working really, really hard to get through that book. I'm going to continue tomorrow.

I don't want to take all of Gibson's class. Sorry, next week we'll have two morning classes. We'll keep talking about how the mixed nuts are covering all the ancient wisdom of Asia, all the ancient wisdom of this world.

All right. I'll see you there. We'll announce those two sessions next week.

They will be morning sessions, but you can always look at them on the recording. Then we're going to go into a very beautiful story. How did we find the books?

Geshe-la, if a book is 2,500 years old, where do you go to find it? How do you find it? I'm going to tell you some sexy stories of John Brady riding camels up to Ladakh and going into these Himalayan mountain caves and finding books.

You've got to hear that story. I'll continue this story next week. All right.

Thank you, guys. We're going to go to Gibson's book. Gibson, you got homework yet?

[Speaker 2]
Let's take two minutes to make a switch and then we'll go.

[Speaker 1]
Do I need to wait two minutes?

[Speaker 2]
Relax for two more minutes.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. I'm logged in, Tim. Do you want it disconnected?

No. Okay. You want it up here?

Okay. Let me make... There, correct.

Wow, Gibson, I thought that plant behind you was a painting. That's cool.

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Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Because it's framed in...

[Speaker 2]
It's a beautiful painting.

[Speaker 1]
It looks so real.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Emily keeps popping in and out. It's really funny. She has no solidity at all.

Sorry. Now it's a steady red light. Can you hear me, Gibson?

Show me your hand.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I can hear you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, go. Homework. Yeah, kill him.

Kill him with the homework. Okay, thank you. Grandpa's going to take a vacation.

Okay. So can everyone see it?

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Yes. Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Okay, okay. So this is my first quiz.

The first one is, what are the two names of these texts? Known as everyone. Long rim.

Long rim. English first. The short one.

Hey, Nick, did you tell Gibson that he has to pay $100 for it? Yeah, I told him before he joined. Some of my spiritual life is one of them.

Yes.

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The brief long rim. Brief long rim. Yes.

Summary of the state on the path.

[Speaker 1]
So what is. Oh yeah, that's English.

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Yeah. What is the Tibetan for the song of my spiritual life?

[Speaker 1]
We just blanked out. We came back. It's Namgyur.

But I figured something. What is the Tsongkhapa's name? We have to put the honorific at the first.

Jay Namgyur? Yeah, correct. So the second one is more like an option.

Question. Which one is the summary of the step on the path? Long ring.

Okay. Namgyur is N-Y-A-M-S. Okay, good.

Okay. So how to translate the Namgyur? Small long rim.

Amulya said itty bitty. Itty bitty.

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Okay. Okay, the second one. What's made this book so beautiful and important from Choney Lama's view and our teacher's view?

[Speaker 1]
It's rare that Jay Sankappa shares elements of his personal practice. Yes.

[Speaker 2]
So this is part of the answer.

[Speaker 1]
And from Choney Lama's point of view, what is the answer? That's a good question. So out of a lot of long ring, different type of long ring.

Because this is the summary.

[Speaker 2]
So what did Jay Sankappa did? He wrapped up.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Okay. So he wrapped up all the important points of long ring into one book.

So this book is called the Summary of the Step on the Path. Wow, cool. So yeah, as Geshe-la said, it will be a pocketbook when we publish.

Okay. So the third one in colorful. Jay Rinpoche said this is just a brief presentation of how to practice the step on the path to enlightenment.

And he humbly described the reason why he composed this point. So what is the reason? Nice question.

Good question. He wouldn't forget. Yes.

So I remember someone in his later life told him that a priest composed a biography. And he answered back. He said, this is just a text to myself, a note to myself.

So I wouldn't forget my spiritual life. So typically at the first part of the text, author tend to make some humbly statement. So what is the Tibetan for the humbly statement?

Khenpo Khyon? Wow. Wow.

Human dictionary. Nice question. These are great questions, Gibson.

Yeah. Yeah. You're really pushing those old translators.

Okay. So the first question, what is the right feel? Wow.

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It's related to our second question.

[Speaker 1]
Nobody remembers what's the second question. Words answer that for $50 last time. Oh.

Rub drill? Yeah, rub drill. Drill isn't focus, is it?

Drill, you can mean like, I don't know, feel? To give an explanation?

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Yes, to put right back.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. So what is shukhi?

[Speaker 1]
By the power? Yes, by the power. Yeah.

But I also heard Geshe-la translate on the other text called a one thing prior to other thing. Perfect. Perfect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect answer. I found somebody who's listening to my class.

So how to distinguish the translation? Do we need to look at the context? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. So the third one, sorry, the third one is the answer for word.

[Speaker 1]
So what is the J-Jump word? I forget. I forget.

You forget. Great answer. Okay, so this is my translation.

Good. By the way, Ji means forget and Jung means to purify. See what I mean?

Purify your forgetfulness? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

So here's my translation. Nice. Yeah, that's a perfect translation.

So number 12, paragraph number 12 is perfect, I think. Yeah, good, good. I'm going to ask you a question though.

There's a key with a comma after it. G-Y-I with a comma after it. What's that key mean?

G-Y-I comma after. Yeah. What's the meaning of that single word, Yi?

Possessed? Usually. Usually, but here it means but.

Imperative. Here it means but. But, okay.

Yeah, look. Ten million is just a plural. We're just saying a lot.

It's not the exact number ten million. So when Tsongkhapa says that the body of the Buddha is created by ten million good deeds or something, he says, Choney Lama says, look, it's not the exact number. It just means a hell of a lot.

Okay. Okay. That's all.

Okay, good. And the 13th? Yeah, let's look at it.

SEMS PA'I RE RE LA RGYUR JI TSONG Okay. Yeah, okay, good. SEMS PA'I RE RE LA RGYUR JI TSONG A general description of what the general causes are for each of the 112 what?

Marks and signs on the Buddha's body. They are clarified, selwa, in the Nagarjuna's String of Jewels. Okay.

But if you want more of an explanation about each separate cause for each separate part of the Buddha's body, like the long ears, or the bump on the top of the head, or stuff like that, then you should check YUM GYI RDOG. Yeah, the Mother Sutras, etc. And you can also find them in the Jewel of Realizations, written by?

[Speaker 2]
Maitreya.

[Speaker 1]
Maitreya, which is the subject of whose book? Tim's book. Tim's book, good, nice.

So it's a good translation. Thank you. So I got the colophon, and I checked the real chain in the King of Dharma, but I couldn't find anything.

[Speaker 2]
And so I go to do a search on Google, I see someone say, Je Tsongkhapa go to a real chain on page 52, but I couldn't find any reference. So I go to check the doffer.

[Speaker 1]
And here's what I got. I got two results. One is from this biography from the other author, and one is from the Great Dictionary.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
First one. So here is I translate for the research I got. Please check it.

[Speaker 1]
LUNG NA ZHIG PA'I THAG LA DGUR Nice. LAS NI NYIN ZHIG PA'I LAS DBANG DAG NYID PA'I TSE BA NYIN GANG LDAN DANG PO'I RGYAL BA'I SNYING ZHES DRAG PA'I GANGSAR DU CHAGS PHAB Yeah, chags phab, the last verb, it means, it's actually chags phab, which means he founded the new monastery. Okay.

Yeah. So the emphasis is on his founding Gangden Monastery at this mountain. And probably that's where he wrote your short lam rim.

So that's appropriate that in 1410, he should write what? He's 53 years old, 54 years old. He's going to die by the time he's 62.

So he's writing what? Lam rim chamar? No, he's writing the story of his spiritual life.

Oh. He's not far from passing away. He says, hey, maybe you guys want to know how I did it.

Okay. So it seems appropriate that it was later in his life. That's nice that you went and researched it.

Oh my gosh. That's amazing. Thank you.

Yeah. So we don't have in the history books, they don't say precisely that he wrote it in this year, but that is the time that he was on that mountain. So it's probably that time.

Good. You did a great job, Gibson. Thank you, Ken.

I want to warn you about something. It's called learning how to make momo. So making momo takes a lot of time.

It takes a lot of time. It's better if you don't learn how to make them, because everybody asks you to make for them. But I'm just kidding.

So now everybody knows what you can do. You're going to get more and more work, isn't it? Be careful.

Don't show everything. Don't show how smart you are. You're going to get more work.

Okay, here we go. Let's go do some texts.

[Speaker 2]
You know, if he showed up to this class and he was pretty close to us as translator or just a little ahead, it would really put a lot of pressure on us. But him being this far ahead, I kind of feel like I can relax again because I can't catch him.

[Speaker 1]
I hear you, Ben.

[Speaker 2]
You can do it, Ben.

[Speaker 1]
I second you, Ben. Oh, this is the wrong book. Okay, let's do another book.

Yeah, here we go. This is Gibson's book. All right.

Gibson, please read. Ben Kramer told me he wants to correct you.

[Speaker 2]
I need to be exposed to him. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Now, part... It says, look, here comes part number two.

Part number two is the second part of a section where Choney Lama is talking about the chupa jupa. This is the opening lines of praise in every book. He says, look, the opening lines of praise of this little song of my spiritual life has two parts.

The first part is the bow down to Manjushri. I don't have to explain it to you, it's easy. The second part is, I'm going to talk about five different people that Je Tsongkapa bows down to at the beginning of his book.

So, here starts five different people that Je Tsongkapa pays respect to before he starts his book. So, here's the first one. First, he bows down to Tu Bong.

Who's Tu Bong? Abel one. Yeah, meaning the Lord of the Abel Ones, meaning Shakyamuni Buddha, our Buddha.

And then he does four lines of verse, kangpa shi. And the first line is, Why does Geshe-la know this verse? You memorized it.

Yeah. This is a famous grace for when you eat a meal. So, if you guys want to bless the food that you eat before you eat it, you can recite this first verse.

My teacher forced me to learn about ten different graces. That was one of the first things he ever taught me. If you want to say some holy words before you eat something, this is really good.

That's why I can recite it fast. Because...

[Speaker 2]
You're hungry.

[Speaker 1]
Utpala is going to take you through this next paragraph, so please read it. Utpala, you got the plane. Grandpa is relaxing.

Oh gosh, I can't. I did this and now I totally couldn't find the file. Okay, so...

Let's take him through it. Okay. I'm totally sorry because I lost the thing you have to hear.

So... So... I sort of break it down by bits.

So we've got this first section here. It ends in M-A-M. What does that mean?

What's an or? Right. So we've got a connective word there.

And then the next section ends with tong. Tong. Which is another connective word.

And then the next one ends in na. Na. And what does that usually mean?

To indicate the subject. Well, it's usually if or when. Okay.

So that sort of tells me, okay, everything that came before that na hangs together as a whole.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
But what was right before it? What is that bila pointing to? Could you speak up a little bit?

Is it supposed to be Shakyamuni Buddha? No. Or at least.

I don't know. Sometimes it's just, okay, let's get into this. Okay.

Okay. But the kensei nu is a very, very important concept. Yeah.

It's happening. I'm sorry, say again. Kensei nu is that knowing, caring, and able.

Yeah. Knowledge, love, and power or something. Okay.

How do they relate to each other, Gibson? It's like a doctor. When a patient comes to you, you already know their problem and you see their future, how they solve their problem already.

And they, you care about them. So you want to help them. And nu is that you have the ability to help them.

Great. So traditionally, when we explain these three, we say, look, you can be like a doctor. And if you can, if you know that this person has a serious disease, that's nice.

But if you don't have sewa, you don't care. You're like, oh, just remember to pay the bill on your way out. So if the doctor has love, then they'll do something about what they understood about your condition.

But what if they have love but they don't have... A power. Yeah, they don't know how to fix you.

So how does that help you? So this is traditional praise of enlightened beings. They know what's your situation.

They care about you. And they have the power to do something about it. All right, keep going.

BANG RTOG. BANG RTOG is that realization by... Or giving up something by realization.

Yeah. I think these are two different things.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Like you might see BANG RTOG.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
You talk about... What you give up. Uh-huh.

And?

[Speaker 2]
And what you realize.

[Speaker 1]
Right. And those are... They're a general good quality.

In general. Right. So all together it would be something like in general the good qualities of the Buddha are the three of his knowledge, love, and spiritual power or that which he has invented and that which he has realized.

Yeah. Got rid of the bad stuff and realized the good stuff. Uh-huh.

And then... And then... Uh-huh.

Yeah, we go through the detail. Good. BANG RTOG, right.

And we're going to talk about what is the intent. So the qualities of...

[Speaker 2]
Of the body.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Body, right.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
WANG TU CHE NA. Is that like wind from the point of view of... Yeah, relative to...

So he says, look, let's not talk about his speech right now. Let's not talk about his state of mind. Let's talk about the cool stuff about his body.

Okay. So then this next bit must be about the body. Yeah, yeah.

I see that there's a knee there at the end of that next little section and that usually indicates what? The whole sentence we are going to be talking about.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
What comes before it is what we're going to be talking about.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. So do you know...

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it's Buddha's major sign.

[Speaker 1]
Good. And? And minor.

Major and minor sign. Major marks, minor signs, usually what they say. Okay.

And then... Et cetera. Those good quality, et cetera.

Or maybe you could say all the other ones? And all the other ones, yeah. Cool.

And there are Duma. There are a lot. Yeah, many of them.

Good quality. Kepar Duce Pate. This is, you know...

What does it mean, Gibson? I know Kepar is like particular. Good, yeah.

His general amazing body is special for these special reasons, okay? For many good reasons, okay? Go ahead.

Okay, so let's see. Now we got another bit of thought here. Okay, so we have Kyu, Kong, Lei.

Kyu is their cost. Good. Lei is their karma?

Maybe, maybe not. Lei can mean a number of different things. Okay, yeah.

So we have to sort of wait to figure out. Oh, no. Lei is...

Okay. What is Trungpa? Trungpa is creator or producer.

Good. Great. So that's sort of...

Let's see. So Kyu, Kong. Do you have an idea what that might be?

What the Kong is doing? Kong? Kong is like whatever?

Yeah. Yeah. What kind of cause.

Right. What kind of cause? Produce those monks and miners.

Yeah. Yeah. From which kind of cause did these monks come from?

Yeah, so now we know the Lei is from. So we have, let's see. Sunam, Tong, Yeshe.

What's that? What's that? Okay, so it's a Marian wisdom.

[Speaker 2]
Ritual wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
Marian wisdom, right? Yeah. So, let's see.

Because they were, at the end there, Kipa? Kipa, stocks or? Yeah, produced.

Produced, yeah. Okay. Okay.

So, from Gaelic, Pungsum Tsogpe. Pungsum Tsogpe, excellent. Nice, perfect.

Where's the complete? Pungsum is perfectly complete, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Then the Dupa. Do you prize, summarize, or collect collection right, the perfect and complete collection of merit and wisdom, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Um, so, do you know the word Trump? It's it's in bold it's there at the end of the fifth line.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, somebody's that produced. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Or sewn from because we've got Kappa. We wouldn't want to say produce produced. Yeah, we could say like maybe born.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And and sewn from.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I kind of like sewn because we're talking about view, which is usually a seed, right? Okay. Um, okay, so we have that verb there.

Let's see that we've got gay like Ray Ray some my empire, Jayway. Um, so all of that there, the wisdom, merit, perfect and complete collection. So from my impact, they are not Ray Ray some from each mind buys that they are not right.

And there is each other in each one. So if we talk, um, like that, um, so my in is not, and some is just so if we said, not just Ray Ray, a couple. Yeah, good.

That is the couple, but was produced by not just a few, but by show.

[Speaker 2]
Hey, a lot. Like a 10. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Millions and billions. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Of gala.

[Speaker 2]
Good. Or like, good virtue.

[Speaker 1]
Right. Okay. Oh, okay.

Good. I think we I think we have to stop there. You guys.

Am I right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Take our time. But I'm glad you guys got through this verse. And we'll continue next time.

And I'm taking a little bit of your class gives him for the general presentation. And I'll just do that for this term a little bit. And next time I won't do it like that.

Okay, stop here. Okay, so we'll see you guys in five minutes. Sorry, I missed the time.

So we're over already. Let's take a five minute break. Hey, that's my dinner break.