Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 6

[Speaker 2]
I got the, my best friend coffee thing. It's from Ethiopia natural process. Very good.

Nick, what do you got?

[Speaker 1]
Tea, nevermind.

[Speaker 2]
How dare you. Haggerty, what's the coffee? No?

This is part one, coffee's on the way to work. This is just the tea, this is the warm up. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I did two coffees yesterday and it kind of burnt out my, my journal, but we'll see. We'll see if I make it to a part two today.

[Speaker 2]
Cameron, is it Nescafe? Nescafe. Tea.

Tea. All right.

[Speaker 1]
Nescafe. Coffee. Best.

I have to choose very carefully when I drink coffee.

[Speaker 2]
Otherwise I get quickly addicted to it. And I don't have to, just because I ought to.

[Speaker 1]
Morning, boss. What? How do you play this?

She's got a point, you know. Morning, Geshe-la. How do you play?

Yeah, like a beach. Yeah, yeah. This is a very still ocean today.

Yeah, the waves are kind of sleepy. Ibsen's up, right? Am I right?

Yep. Where is that man? He's right here.

Ibsen, sign me. Hey, Geshe-la. Hi.

Oh, you got a haircut.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
All right, you guys. Xiaoping looks serious. Yeah.

Sleepy. Ibsen, would you like to introduce, Nick, do you have any opening things to say or nah? No, I mean, I think we, if anybody new is here today, welcome back or welcome to the Diamond Cutter Classics Translation Program.

This is the part of the worldview umbrella of organizations where we dig deep, try to find the meanings contained in the philosophical texts. And then we get to be a little bit creative and have fun in how we express those ideas and try to do it in a way that is relatable and understandable and clear and fun for the world. Emily, you wanna say anything about your smart partner, Ibsen?

All right, she's too shy. Ibsen, would you like to talk about your text and tell, if there's maybe new people who don't know what your text is about? Okay, so my text, I very appreciate that Geshe-la starting a new topic of the Long Ring.

And the book that represented the Long Ring is the spiritual soul of my life. And as Choney Lama say, it's the right part of the topic of Long Ring in this book. And rarely, Je Tsongkhapa never talk about his personal practice or spiritual life.

But in this book, at the end of the book or at the actual text, he say, as a nunjo myself, I do the following practice. If you want to be success, then follow, I urge you to do this practice. So, he's very excited to starting to knew the personal life of Je Tsongkhapa and how he practiced the Long Ring.

Yeah. Yeah, so this is Tsongkhapa's own record of his spiritual life. Of course, it happens to be the steps of the Long Ring.

And let's get started. Let me see here. Yeah.

So, here's a progress report. We just started Gibson's Text in February. And let me see, something's going on here.

And it's going to be a small book. These are a series of books that we did that we are hoping people will carry in their purse or carry in their bag. It's supposed to be a book that you can carry around with yourself.

And we started this series of books in 1990 or something like that, 30 years ago. And we put out a couple of good translations. And I was on a bus in the Himalayas with my teacher, Ken Rinpoche, who we translated the books together.

And there was a young Western guy on the bus with a backpack. And he ran over to my teacher and said, oh, thank you so much. And he pulled out a piece of cloth.

And inside the cloth, there was one of these small books, which we meant for people to carry around with them, like in your purse or in your, I don't know, in your backpack. And he opened it up and he read it so many times that the pages fell out of the book. And then he wrapped them up like a Tibetan book.

And it was very, very beautiful. And that's kind of the goal that we have. that there's a publisher in India who's publishing all these books of this kind.

Okay, that's good news, right, Nick? But he didn't ask us if he could publish them. So, Jigme is trying to get him to sign a contract.

We'll see what happens. Let me see something here. All right.

So, here we go. So, we should go back to the verse that we're on. This is a very famous verse.

RAB BYANG SEMS RAB KUN LA LTA BA'I MED, GAL TZAM THAR PA'I SGRUB PA'I BYUNG BA CHOG, TSE BA'I RIGS KYIS PA'I THAG PA'I MDZAD PA'I YID, SA TZOS SHING NYID NAM LA GUS CHAGS SA I bow down to my spiritual teachers. They are the eye which sees a billion scriptures. They are the one, what do you call that?

Ford into the river for lucky people. And they have skillful means because they are driven by their love. And I bow down to my teachers who clarify things.

And we're halfway through that verse. And here we go. Let me pick on somebody new here.

Xiaoping, you're gonna check Gibson's pronunciation? It's kind of a hopeless task because his pronunciation is really good, but maybe he'll make a mistake on purpose.

[Speaker 2]
I would just rejoice.

[Speaker 1]
Hang on you guys. Okay, here we go, Gibson. Okay.

DI LTA BA'I MDZAD PA'I NYID GAL TZAM THAR PA'I SGRUB PA'I MDZAD PA'I YID GAL TZAM THAR PA'I MDZAD PA'I YID GAL TZAM THAR PA'I MDZAD PA'I YID Number four. LANG RIM GNYIS LA BYAS PA BYED YI BSGOM PA YIN PA LANG RIM CHEN MO'I BCUG TU ZHAO LUS Okay. So it says in the verse that our teachers are our eyes for seeing all the millions of scriptures.

Okay. And then our commentator, who is our commentator, Gibson? Choney Nama.

Yeah, Choney Nama. Good old Choney Nama. He says, when it says LTA BA'I DMIGS, eyes to see, when the root text says eyes to see, what's kha chik mean, Gibson?

Somebody says. Yeah, some people says this jorwa means it applies to shengyin. What's shengyin?

A spiritual guide, spiritual teacher. Yeah, some people say it's talking about your spiritual guide when they say eyes to see the scriptures. NANG means we see people who make that commentary like that.

NANG means those kind of commentaries appear. We can see them. What's the YANG mean, Gibson?

KYANG YANG But. But, okay. If you want to know Je Tsongkapa, what's that mean?

If you want to know the true intent of Je Tsongkapa. Nice. These eyes are not your teacher.

These eyes are LAM RIM NI.

[Speaker 2]
LAM RIM itself.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. These eyes are really the steps of the LAM RIM itself. They are not referring here to the teachers.

He says, if you don't believe me, this is ZEL LO. What's that mean? I have already clarified in the end of the LAM RIM CHEN MO.

Yeah, it's clear from the end of the LAM RIM CHEN MO that that's what Tsongkapa wants to say. If you guys want to go check, you can go check at the end of the LAM RIM CHEN MO, the great book on the steps of the path, which many people think is the greatest book ever written in Tibet. And they say, if you don't believe me, you go look at the end of that, and you will believe me.

So, what should a mixed nut do, Gibson? Go to LAM RIM CHEN MO. A mixed nut will go to the...

They'll close their translation, and they'll go look at this book, and they'll go try to find it. And luckily, we have ALL database. We can check this in a few minutes.

And that's because of John Brady and his team's hard work. And by the way, ALL's website just got a very high award in the website society or something. They got like a gold medal for quality of their website.

Okay. And here's the part here. So let's read this, okay, Gibson?

Okay. Okay. Somebody has to turn off their microphone.

Sounds like Chinese language. Keep going. Okay.

Nice. Okay, good. I think we started this verse.

So this is four lines of poetry. And it's very unusual because the lines are very long. But still the meter is consistent.

How many beats per line? Here's how Tibetans count on their fingers, okay? THUGS PA'I GSUNGS RAB RAB BYANG RNAM LA LTA BA'I GNYIS CHI GCIG GI GYANG NI GZHUNG LUG KUN Which is 19 beats, okay?

19 beats. Let's check the second line. GIS GZHUNG LAS ZHES ZHEN GTEN RNAM LA RGA BA MKHAS PA'I GYIN GYIM DRAG TSUL BAR RAB BYANG PAS 19 ZHES NYEN RTEN DAM DAM PAR SANG SGRES BYANG PAS YANG GANG GANG GI KHYAB SU LEGS GSUNG BA 19 DE YI THU YIN YIN TSUL RNAM PAR JAY LA RAB KHYAD KHYAD PAS CHO DE DAG KYONG ZHIG 19 So he's showing off his skill to write poetry.

He's also... what's another thing he's doing in his verse? Can anybody tell me?

Some kind of a... he's using a certain kind of style. Can anybody guess?

He's repeating some words, right? Yeah, he's repeating some words. I wonder if it's on the same beat.

I don't think it is. Yeah, it's on the fourth. Is it?

No, the first one's different, right? Tupay Sumrub. Tupay Sumrub.

Oh, you're right. Oh, he's got two of them in there.

[Speaker 2]
He's using like, shay-shay.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, and cheek-cheek. The fourth syllable of the first two lines. Yeah, cool.

So he's showing off how skillful he is. Then, let's read it together. Tupay means what, Gibson?

The Able Ones. Yeah, Sumrub. His scripture.

Yeah, Rabjam. Zillion. Yeah, billions and billions.

Nam-lang. Ta-way-mik. The eye to see.

The only set of eyes. Yeah, the only set of eyes. And also with those set of eyes, he knows shay-shay.

He knows the shun-muk. He knows the way, the system of the scripture. Good, all the systems of the scripture.

What's the ji-shin mean? How the thing work? Yeah, exactly as they are.

Like, without any mistake. Exactly as they are. Ji-shin-lek-she.

And then you're supposed to pause between this double word. Shen-den nam-la-ga-wa-ke. Shen-den means?

The person who possess the wisdom? Yeah, the person who understands. To those people who understands, le-ga-wa-ke.

They happy. Yeah, Ben, maybe you can tell me whose mic is open. Okay, den-de-tsu-la-rab-jam-pe.

Oh, that's, I know who's talking, that's Ma-chi. Okay, I thought it was Maitri, but okay. Den-de-tsu-la, in this kind of system, Rab-jam-pe, super skilled.

Shen-yen-den, what's that mean? Rely on the teacher. Yeah, they rely on their teacher.

Very good. And dang-pa-sang-ge is difficult. It means, can you guess?

The literal meaning is the first Buddha? Yeah, nice, nice, nice. Normally you'd have to say Sang-ge Dambo, right?

Yeah. So it might have other, you might have to translate it a little bit specially, like the Buddha from the very beginning or something. Okay.

Who is that? It's a gentle voice. Yeah, yeah, Manjushri.

And kang-gi gyab sem lek sungwa, if you dim-pa, as a gyab, if you keep it as a refugee. Yeah, if you take Manjushri as your refuge, then by his tu, by his pang, yeah, you'll be able to nge-pa, nge-pa. You'll be able to divide?

Yeah, or open. Open, open. Nice, nice.

Your Tibetan is really scary good.

[Speaker 2]
Unbelievable.

[Speaker 1]
Rab-ke means you'll be super wise person. In fact, you'll be kepe chok. You'll be the supreme wise man.

Yeah, and I ask that this supreme wise person should kyong, what's the shik mean? Shik can mean a flea. Imperative.

Yeah, please, please protect me all the time. Okay, please, please keep me all the time. Now, what is this verse supposed to prove, Gibson?

Supposed to prove that the eye to see all the scripture is Lamrim itself. Yeah, that the eyes is actually the Lamrim itself, and it's not some person's eyes or something like that. Okay, let's go see if it does that.

This is the Tao-ay Mik. Yeah, so, I don't know if it's so clear here, but okay, we'll buy it, okay. It sounds like, kind of like talking about Zhang Bei Yang, but anyway, if you want to chew on it, you can try to find it, okay?

Find out how it refers to the Lamrim itself, okay? All right, and not to a teacher. All right, let's go back to our text.

Seiji, are you in the mood to check Gibson? How's your test going?

[Speaker 2]
I haven't done one today, a positive yesterday, so we'll see.

[Speaker 1]
Aiya, you got the longest case of COVID I ever heard. Okay, I think you're supposed to have a vacation before your test. Okay, Gibson, Seiji's checking you, trying to make some mistakes, okay?

Okay. nipa she jang wu sungwa la sung gyu pay kya bar kya chep kye bar kye chep gopao Thanks, Gibson. Okay, good.

Now he's going to ngu sungwa, which is a past tense of ngun dzinpa. Ngun dzinpa. Ngun dzin.

What's that mean?

[Speaker 2]
Identify.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, you're ripping this up. she jang means what he wants to explain, okay? And that's going to have three parts.

gyu pay kye bar, what's that mean? This kye bar means features of the lineage, okay? Okay.

And some special features of the lineage. So kye bar can mean difference, but kye bar can mean special features. So let's talk about special features of how these ideas were passed down.

Kye chep means the special features themselves of the text, of the teaching. And then gupa means the purpose of this book, okay? Or the need for this book.

Okay, here comes something about the lineage. And we don't have to repeat these lines because he's just identifying the verse. Every time he gets to a new subject, Choney Lama will quote the first line of Tsongkhapa's book.

And then we already supplied, Gibson already supplied the whole verse. So let's read the verse, Gibson. And wait a minute, I need to find somebody to check in.

We got, hi Flavia. I hope your TV show comes out in this month. So Geng, you ready?

My honor. All right, let's go. Are you still in Bali?

Yes, until this week and then I'll fly to Surabaya next week. Can you surf a little bit just for me? I'm at a mountain, Geshe-la, there is no sea here.

I wouldn't go to that part of Bali. Okay, let's go, Gibson. Okay.

Okay, nice. Nice. We're not going to translate the root text because the commentary does that.

Seiji, were you supposed to help Gibson with this paragraph? I don't remember. You guys got this assignment last time.

But did you do it, Seiji, or you forgot? Well, I have a version of the translation. Okay, good.

So why don't you, why don't you, Gibson, you go ahead and tell us each word. And if me and Seiji find any mistake, we'll make noise. Okay.

So I read the whole version? Yeah. Okay.

Nice. Okay, good. Let's read it together.

DZAM LING RGYUD This word. In this word.

[Speaker 2]
DZAM LING.

[Speaker 1]
DZIN PA, what's DZIN PA? Come, come, came to here. Yeah, this is an ancient, ancient word.

They came, and very polite word. Who came? Khepa.

Those intelligent, wise people, wise person. And the TSUL GYI RGYEN, what's a TSUL? Do you know?

SHES GANG GI in Sanskrit. The crown? Yeah, TSUL means at the top of their head.

The jewel at the top of the head, the crown jewel. Of all the wise people, YONGS, YONGS here means all of them. Who's the crowning jewel of all of them?

Well, they are Khepa. And... Master.

What's the drop here in the second line? talk. Their reputation is spread.

Yeah, good, good, perfect, yeah. This talk is, what's the sentiment?

[Speaker 2]
Kirti.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Kirti, Kirti. Okay, good. Their reputation spread to all the directions of the world, okay.

Then it's what? Banner. Yeah, they're like a big flag or something like that.

So their reputation is like a big flag. Okay. And their reputation here in the world of people, do and ne, it's like Nima.

It's like a sun. It's like the sun. Hla nge?

Rak nge? I don't know. Shining?

Yeah, it means bright and brilliant. It means brilliant. When you get ting ting nge, sing sing nge, hlang hlang nge, they all mean just really cool, really beautiful.

Here it means shining like the sun, brilliant like the sun. Selwa means clear as the sun, like nobody has a problem to see the sun, right? Yeah.

Who are those two famous guys? The Arya Nagarjuna and Arya Sangha. Good.

And what's their title? What do we usually call them? Shinta.

Shinta Solji. Oh, Shinta Solji, yeah. Thank you, Ben.

They're a great innovator. Yeah, these are the two great innovators, the two guys who brought a new system in the world. And Tim's text this morning is going to talk about that idea for a whole hour.

So we're going to get this explanation of these two guys very clearly from Tim's text. Rimba Shindu means generation, generation, step by step. The instructions from Arya Nagarjuna, speciality, and Arya Sangha, which is word specialty and also Tim's specialty.

Rimba Shindu came down to us through the generations. Lekpa. Perfectly.

Yeah, perfect lineage. Perfect lineage. Nice, perfect lineage.

And what came down? Changju Lagi Rimba. Came down the path of the enlightenment.

Yeah, the steps of the path to enlightenment. And Chepa Ja means what I'm going to explain to you guys in this commentary is shung ni. Is the text itself?

Yeah, that's the book that I'm going to teach you guys. I'm going to teach you the long rim that came down through these two geniuses called Arya Nagarjuna and Arya Sangha. Okay, please read.

Yeah, good. This is a difficult sentence. I think you know Tsongpa Dhamjawa.

Yeah, I promised to write this book. Yeah, that's his promise. And always at the beginning of a Buddhist book, the writer will say, I promise to write this book or I die.

You know, either I finish or I die. It's either one. And in the ten years, some books stop in the middle.

The guy died. But what's the dun gyi? For myself and other.

This is tricky. Dun gyi means implied. Okay, not directly stated.

Not directly stated. Dun gyi with the instrumental means it's implied. It's not stated directly.

Okay. I don't think here, nowhere in the verse does Tsongkapa say, I will write this book. He just says the steps of the path.

And then Choney Lama says, look, it's not obvious. But actually he's making, here he's making his promise to write the book. Okay.

Cool. That's a difficult dun gyi and you guys should learn it. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Do you have a sense of how he did that?

[Speaker 1]
Say again?

[Speaker 2]
Do you have a sense of how he did that? Do you see that here? Oh yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Well, all I can say is, you could kind of read the end of the verse as, this lam rim, meaning the lam rim that I'm going to write. Okay. I have the same question, Ben.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
I think kind of the last ni is kind of implying that he's going to give us a new lam rim. How's that?

[Speaker 2]
Ni. Okay, I'll take it. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Good question though. Okay.

Well, Ben, since you spoke up, why don't you check Gibson on this next line?

[Speaker 2]
You failed to make an error for me.

[Speaker 1]
Now there's an irritating thing in this text. What is it? What is it, Gibson?

Besides Ben. They don't give you the second name. They say what?

They say the second part of, have the second. Yeah, they say part two. What's part number two?

And they never tell you. That's just a system in these books. So, grandpa always, and I think if you're going to be a good translator, you shouldn't repeat second.

You shouldn't say part two. For a Western reader, they want to know what's part two. Just tell me what's part two.

Don't say part two. Tell me what it is. And it's khecha.

Okay. Khecha. And khecha means what's the special features here?

Okay. What's special about this? Okay.

And we're going to get these special features in two parts. What's beidun, you guys? Ben or Gibson?

Example? The meaning of the story? Metaphors?

Thank you. This is an interesting, I'm working on Adam's first book, and by the way, Adam, I'm on page 325 yesterday. Beidun means pe and dun.

Okay. Pe means a metaphor, like life is a candle, right? Candle.

Candle is the pe. And what's the dun? Literal meaning permanent.

It's the referent of the metaphor. So, the dun is life, and the pe is candle. So, when you say beidun, it means a metaphor like candle.

And then dun means what does the metaphor really refer to? Okay. And in Adam's text, they had a huge debate about this.

Okay. So, beidun ke khepa. What's the example being used, and what does it refer to?

I'm going to tell you about that feature, and then let's talk about the special qualities of the Lamrim, khecha. Okay. The actual special qualities.

So, what are we expecting in the next verse? We're expecting a? Metaphor.

A metaphor. And then we're going to have to try to figure out what he's talking about. Okay.

What the metaphor is talking about. Okay. So, here we go.

Please read the verse. Ben, can you check? Gibson, make some mistakes.

Come on.

[Speaker 2]
Please, please. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
It's kind of weird to be perfect. I mean, it's kind of uncomfortable for everybody. Thank you.

Kind of you. Yeah, gyatswang yin. You've got to say it fast, because otherwise you won't make the meter.

Okay. There's actually two metaphors here. Let's go find them.

All right. Please read. Ben, you're still checking?

Yeah. What's that sentence mean, Gibson? Take your time.

Just give me a general translation. It doesn't have to be every word. How this step on the path to enlightenment of this lineage passed down?

He says, Is there any bae din for this book? Bae and din. Metaphor and reference.

Yeah. Good. Hey, Tsongkhapa, you got any metaphors for this lamrim?

Okay. Do you have any metaphors to describe the lamrim? Okay, that's all.

Okay. I understand that the lamrim came down through these two great beings. Now I'm asking you, are there any special metaphors you'd like to use to describe this?

Okay. And keep going, Dr. Kramer. Good.

YOD DE. What's that mean? Yes, yes.

You want metaphors? I got metaphors. YOD DE.

If you're a tarn du, like Geshe Losang Tarn Du, my teacher. If you want to go to liberation? Yeah.

If you're a person who wants to go to freedom. Those kind of people, kye gu means those kinds of people. It kongwa.

This is related to kongwa that we had with Vasubandhu's bathtub. To fulfill. Yeah, it fulfills or it fills the hopes, du du, the hopes of countless people, manupa, okay?

Countless people. It fulfills the hopes of countless beings. Therefore, it's like a rinchen wang gi gyelpo.

It's like the king of the power, treasure, treasure power? Yeah, yeah. Here is a jewel, okay?

It's like the king. I'm sorry, Geshe-la, your internet, could you say again? It's like the king of the, this wang means, wangpo means lord, okay?

So, if you take all the lords, meaning if you take all the best jewels in the world, this lam rim is the gyelpo, okay? This lam rim is the king of all the kings. It's the king of kings.

In English, sometimes we say king of kings. It's the king of kings of all the jewels in the world, okay? And what's this dampa mean, you guys?

Personal instruction. What's a famous use of this word? Yeah, kadampa means people who see everything as an instruction.

If somebody yells at them in the grocery store, they say, oh, Buddha's trying to teach me something. That's called kadampa, okay? All right.

So, this lam rim is like the king of kings of all jewels, because it fulfills all your wishes. In fact, you could call it a yeshin norbu. The wish-giving jewel?

Yeah, wish-giving jewel. Like Aladdin's lamp, right? Chittamani.

Wish-giving jewel. By the way, you treat it a special way, you wash it a special way, you put it up on a flagpole, you wait for a holy day, you do special prayers, and then you ask the jewel for anything you want, and you will get it, okay? That's called wishing jewel.

Chud sung is a difficult word. I'll give 20 bucks for it. It's a difficult word.

It's an idiom. Yeah, essentially the same. Yeah.

Dharmic, isn't it? Like something that is a way of being that's aligned with the dharma? No, it's just a simple idiom that means the same thing.

Same thing, okay? It's the same thing as a wishing jewel, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Oscar in the chat. Oscar said it in the chat.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so Oscar, 20 bucks collected from Jigme. Okay, so chud sung means it's equivalent to, or it's the same as, okay? And it's a strange idiom, okay?

So don't get stuck on this word in the future. The lam rim is chud sung with a wishing jewel, okay? The lam rim is the same thing as a wishing jewel, okay?

Cool. Let's go. And Haso, you look so handsome today.

Can you check him? Hey, Gibson, make some mistakes for Haso so he doesn't post them. pa den de, phel den de, phun sung chokpa, nepa shepay, gya chok tabu-ang yinlok Yeah, good.

By the way, phel den, the L-D is going to have a prenasal in it. So it's going to be L-N-D, phel den, phel den. Then your pronunciation will be really nice.

Okay, so this ang, tabu-ang means, there's also a second metaphor I can give you. For what? For the lam rim, okay?

The lam rim is also similar to gyatso. Ocean. Yeah, an ocean of lekpar shepa.

[Speaker 2]
Excellent example.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, excellent teachings. And then he uses phun sung chokpa, which is atisha, which means perfect.

[Speaker 2]
Perfect.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and they are phel den. Glorious. Glorious, yeah.

By the way, there's a little tiny joke here. If you're very, very super sensitive to the scriptures, Lord Atisha is often called Shri Atisha. So phun sung chok in Sanskrit is atisha, and phel den means Shri.

So he's making a little joke here, because Atisha is the person who combined the two streams. So if you're very sensitive to scriptures, he's making a little joke here. But I don't know how you're going to get it in the translation.

Good luck. Okay. So this lam rim is like an ocean.

Why, Gibson? You don't have to explain every word, but tell us why it's like an ocean. Why is the lam rim like an ocean?

And that's the first sentence here, the first line. It dupas, it dupas many chuo. It contains a lot of water?

This chuo means the rivers, you see? The river, okay. Yeah, so the ocean what?

The ocean fulfilled or filled with the Great Way and Mahayana Hinayana. Yeah, so the lam rim is like an ocean because it combines the water from hundreds of rivers around the world. And those rivers are the great teaching of the Hinayana and the Mahayana.

[Speaker 2]
Mahayana.

[Speaker 1]
Yay, so what's the two metaphors here? The ocean, the ocean. And what was the one before that?

Wishing jewel. Yeah, wishing jewel. And why is lam rim like a wishing jewel?

It can fulfill the person who wants to get liberated. Yeah, it gets you everything you ever wanted. It's better than a wishing jewel.

Why is it better than a wishing jewel? Many scriptures have a debate about it.

[Speaker 2]
Because you don't know.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good, go ahead. You don't know what to wish. Yeah, the lam rim gives you your wishes even if you don't know what to wish for.

And then it's like an ocean because? Because it combines the greater way and the Hinayana. Yeah, and is there any way you can see how the greater way and the lesser way are like a river?

It means they pass down through many generations, okay? Okay. So those rivers pass down through many generations, and then finally they reach the lam rim.

Okay, yeah. And they get all combined in the lam rim. It's a very beautiful metaphor, okay?

So what does sang bo dong kyi, what's the dong here means? You know, he's going to explain it actually, I think. Let me see.

Yeah, he's going to explain the dong in the next verse, in the next line. Here it doesn't mean emptiness, it means one thousand. Okay, so thousands of wonderful systems, of thousands of wonderful scriptural systems.

You guys are studying twelve. The mixed nuts are studying twelve, but there are thousands. Okay, and he's, Choney Lama's also curious about this thousand, and he's going to give a commentary to it, okay?

Let me see if I can pick on somebody else. Where are you? I see Tim, yay!

Something happened to your hair during retreat, like it calmed down. I don't know what happened. He did a one-month retreat and his hair got all calm.

I don't know what happened. Don't worry, it's just wet. It'll pop back up in a second.

Oh, okay, okay, all right, all right. Make some mistakes for him, Gibson. Okay.

,YANG ROL CHE GYI TSING THANG, I don't know. ,GCOD Yeah, ,GCOD. ,YANG GCOD CHE GYI TSING THANG, ,CHE THU BA'I THUN MIN GYIS, ,GCOD CHAD THUN DAG THU BA'O, Nice, nice.

Your reading is very good, and it's a pleasure to have you as a translator. This GANG, it goes back to Vasubandhu's bathtub. Fulfill, fulfill.

Yeah, okay, you got a lot of... Okay, so Tibetan doesn't have roots like Sanskrit, but it has some. GANG, GANG, GONG.

Okay, it all means fulfill the wishes of people. So this is talking about the jewel part of the metaphor. How does the Lam Rim fulfill the wishes of people?

If you NYAMS SU LANG PA, If you experience? Practice. If you practice.

Now that's an important little word there, isn't it? How does this Lam Rim fulfill your wishes? Well, if you practice it, you will get your wishes.

That's a Mayangak. What's that mean? If you don't practice, then you won't get your wish.

Yeah, if you don't practice it, forget the jewel thing. Okay. If you practice it, you're going to get two goals.

NGON MTHO and NGES LEGS. Get out of the lower realm. Yeah, NGON MTHO means you'll stay out of the lower realms.

You won't be born as an animal or in the hell or in a hungry ghost. You attain the ascertain good. Yeah, NGES LEGS means certain good.

Positive good. Absolute good. And it always has two parts.

What are they? The DMAR LA and the total enlightenment. Yeah, nirvana and total enlightenment.

Nirvana, the permanent end of all your negative emotions. And then enlightenment, which is the ability to see all the things in the universe. Together they are called definite good stuff.

Okay, so you're going to get... How does this jewel supply you all your wishes? Well, if you practice the Lam Rim, you stay out of the lower realms, and you get nirvana and Buddhahood.

And what happens? Oh, and then after the DANG comes the second metaphor, which is what? Which is the ocean.

Yeah, the ocean. And it's an ocean because it combines the flow of thousand scriptural tradition. SHUNG LUG STONG Now, Choney Lama asked the same question that Gibson asked, because smart people think the same.

He says, is it exactly a thousand? I mean, is it exactly a thousand scriptural traditions? And Choney Lama says, MANG TZIG MA PA What's MANG TZIG?

A lot of work. Here it means, he just wants a word for a big number. MANG TZIG means a word for a big number.

That's just a MANG TZIG. MANG TZIG means... In English, we like to say zillion or billion.

Okay. In Tibetan and in Sanskrit, what's a thousand in Sanskrit, you guys? Okay, and they just use it as a big word.

It's not exactly a thousand. Okay, YIN PAS BYANG STONG KHO NA MI GSUM Don't take it as exactly one thousand scriptural traditions. Okay.

And for a hundred dollars, somebody's going to tell me the most famous mistake in translating a title of a famous book that people who don't know this principle. The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa? God, that's another one.

That's the second one, Nick. I'll give you a hundred bucks.

[Speaker 2]
A Thousand Angels of the Land of Bliss?

[Speaker 1]
Yay, yeah. People insist on calling it GANDAN LHA RGYA, which means a hundred. A hundred angels.

But a hundred is only big in ancient India. So it's not exactly a hundred angels. It's a thousand.

So Gyel TSE gets a hundred dollars. And Nick gets a hundred dollars. Gyel TSE, I hope you put it towards your new house.

And Nick, it's got to go into Amalie's college fund. Did you make that college fund yet? Absolutely.

Yeah, it's in crypto right now. I'm checking the bank account book when I get there. On Ethereum.

Yeah, so DONG KHO NA. This MI GZUN means don't take it that way. Don't take it to be exactly a thousand.

DE RNAM DU TSUL YANG By the way, says Choney Lama, how is it that the Lam Rim combines all of these rivers? DU TSUL means, well, just how does it combine them? RGYUD RJE GYI TZIG THAMS CAD MI BDOD It's not talking about the TZIG.

It's talking about the DON. Talking about the meaning? And not the...

Not the number. The words, TZIG. Okay, yeah.

So the Lam Rim is an ocean. It combines a thousand ancient scriptural traditions. But look, it doesn't combine all the words of all the sutras that were ever spoken.

It just combines the... Meaning. The meaning of those scriptures.

So it's don't think I'm crazy when I say this little Lam Rim that I'm giving you in a few verses. Does it state all the strange words of Buddhist philosophy? No.

But does it cover all the meaning of Buddhist philosophy? Yes. 2,000 years of Buddhist philosophy are in this little book.

Okay, cool. Nick, are we out of time?

[Speaker 2]
Just happened, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Just got there, yeah. That's a great question.

[Speaker 2]
You asked it.

[Speaker 1]
Gibson, I'm really happy with how hard you're working. And I don't know what else you do at night. I know you have other jobs.

But I guess don't forget to go out with your partner to a movie sometimes like Emily. Now that you have two partners, you have the Lam Rim and you have Emily. But I'm really happy how hard you're working on this.

So thank you for that. Thank you, Keshav. Okay, all right.

Thank you, Keshav. Okay. Keshav, do I need to translate for them?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I'm sorry. Let's do that.

[Speaker 1]
Can you do section 49? Okay. Okay, cool.

All right. Keshav, I would like to recommend that you plug in your power. Seems like 23% left.

Oh, okay. I'll do that. Thank you.

I'm between two computers nowadays. I'm kind of worried. It's kind of low.

Okay. Thank you. That was a good suggestion.

All right. Take a break, you guys. Thank you.

Nine minutes. Okay, nine minutes, boss. Take a break.