Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 7

[Speaker 1]
So the last class, Jason Kappa has mentioned that the Long Ring has two metaphors and meanings, two kinds of metaphors and meanings. So can anyone give us these two metaphors and meanings?

[Speaker 2]
Any one of them? Yeah, Rosanna, correct.

[Speaker 1]
It's like a wishing giving jewel.

[Speaker 2]
So what is the meaning of the wishing giving jewel? It grants you all your wishes even if you don't know what you want. Yes, correct.

[Speaker 1]
All right, so how about the second one? Can anyone guess what is the second one metaphor? Ocean, correct.

And it's like an ocean. So do you know the meaning of why Long Ring is like the ocean?

[Speaker 2]
Because just like the ocean is gathering all the waters in the rivers, it's gathering also the teachings from Hinayana and Mahayana.

[Speaker 1]
Great.

[Speaker 2]
We are good students.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. All right, so the second one, as we know from the last question, Long Ring is like a wish giving jewel. And from wishing giving jewel, you can get two kinds of results in a certain condition.

Okay, so what are the two kinds of results?

[Speaker 2]
Jewel rich omniscience and nirvana.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, and it should be three kinds. And you can get out of where? You stay out of the lower realms.

Yeah, yes, yes. Cool. Right.

All right, Tibetan, what's the muntok?

[Speaker 2]
Stay out of lower realms.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, stay out of lower realms. So what's the muntok? It's a very similar pronunciation.

Realization. Realization. Yes.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Gibson, is there any difference between muntok and just tok?

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. Is there any difference? No.

Yeah. Okay. Both pronounced muntok.

So what's the ngelek? Isn't that like the three results or something? Omniscience and nirvana.

Omniscience and nirvana. Yes. Okay.

Cool. By the way, ngelek, the word ngelek is going to be discussed in the Abhidharma. Okay.

It's coming up. Not soon. Okay.

So what's the condition to get these three kinds of results? The muntok and ngelek. If you want to say lower realm, achieve nirmala or enlightenment, what's the condition?

[Speaker 2]
Roxanne says to practice it.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Not just translate it. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Tibetan, what's the nyam su lam pa?

What you just said. Practice. Practice.

All right. It's easy. And what's the present tense of nyam su lam pa?

Nyam su lam pa. All right. Nyam su lam pa.

Okay. And the third question, does Je Tsongkhapa confess all the words of those scriptures into Long Ring? No.

Okay. So can Anna give me the answer? Why?

What is the reason?

[Speaker 2]
It contains the meaning, not all the words.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Cool. Okay.

Nice. Cool. Nice.

Okay. Tibetan word. I guess at least it's called dupa, right?

Because I heard last time. Okay. So what is it?

Okay. Cool. Smokas in a burp or as in a...

Yeah. That's on the weekend. Okay.

Here's my translation. Right during the weekend. That's a cool way to do it, Gibson.

The similar words. I think it's helpful for us. Because I'm also confused, so I...

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to check this one.

Let's see here. Yeah. What's de tabo mean literally?

Like? Yeah. A book like this, okay?

A book like this. Okay. A book like this is imbued with a special feature.

So the four modifies special feature and greatnesses. So a book like this has four special qualities or we can say greatnesses. So the four modifies both the features and the greatnesses.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So four has to come before special. Are they a positive special? Yes.

That's the sum. Or... Okay.

So you got to say special feature first and then greatnesses second. Okay. Four special features.

[Speaker 2]
Or greatnesses.

[Speaker 1]
Or you can call them greatnesses. Yeah. And the reason he said that is that as in English, we don't normally say, oh, Gibson's Tibetan has four kinds of greatness.

You see what I mean? We don't say in normal English, we don't say Gibson's Tibetan has four greatnesses. You know, it sounds weird.

And it also sounds weird in Tibetan. So he says, look, they have four special features. Or, you know, we call them greatnesses.

Okay. Good. First is the greatness that the realization Oh, yeah.

Good. You put the end at the beginning and that's correct. That's very correct.

First is the greatness and realization that all births do not contradict each other. Good. With the help of this book.

Yeah. Dampadilatdenne. Yeah.

Good. You could realize, recognize either directly or incorrectly. Yeah.

Nice. Chiligone. All those teachings I was talking about, some of them are principles, some of them are branches.

And do that, you know, you can understand. That directly or indirectly means they act as a, they act as a, how do you say that? They act as a support.

Chaken means they act as a, as a, what do you call it? Condition or... Conducive.

Yeah. They act as, anyway, they act as a cause for Buddhahood. Okay.

They act, they contribute towards Buddhahood. Chaken means they contribute either directly or indirectly. All of these teachings in this book, whether they are lam kyi tsol wo, or whether they are branches, yeah, in some way they're going to contribute to your enlightenment, either directly or indirectly.

Yeah. Good. Okay.

Thank you. And what's the ko'wa here? Ko'wa.

Understand? Yeah. If you understand that every little piece of the lam rim is going to either be a major cause or a contributing cause for your enlightenment, then you have understood the greatness, chewa, where you understand that none of the teachings ever contradicts each other.

Yeah. Good. Oh, cool.

Yeah. And there's many, many thousands of teachings. And the beautiful thing, I think you guys can, because you guys are mixed nuts, because you guys are studying 12 major schools, you already have a feeling how beautiful it is that they all cooperate with each other.

They all are cooperating with each other, which is sort of amazing. It's amazing. They all are part of one big engine.

And if you realize that, you got to the first, you understood the first greatness of the lam rim. It all ties together without contradiction. And every single sentence in the lam rim is helping you directly or indirectly to become a Buddha.

Yay. Okay. All right.

Thank you Geshe-la. Cool. Okay.

Here we go. That was a nice homework, by the way. I think Emily must have helped you.

She contributed the main part. Yeah, I know. You know, she probably said, that's dumb.

Come on, let's just get a better one. Okay. I'm not going to do the root text because it's going to be covered.

So, there are four greatnesses that he's going to talk about. The lam rim is a great thing for four reasons. Number one, it has millions of little suggestions for our spiritual life, and they all support each other and they don't contradict each other.

Okay, that's the first... You can say cool thing. The first cool thing about the lam rim, and there's going to be four cool things.

Here's the second one. Please read and who's going to check you is Bertha Velasco. Are you translating?

Uh-oh, she's running back to her computer. Okay. I like that room.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
That room is very beautiful. Okay, so can you check this guy?

[Speaker 2]
I'd love to.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Okay. Very good.

Yeah, good. So, the second cool thing about the lam rim is that all of this sung rab, okay, all of these Buddhist teachings, whether they are dong or ngag, what's that mean? What's that mean in this context, Gibson?

Open teaching or secret teaching. Yay! You didn't say sutra, thank you.

Yeah, all of the teachings, whether they're open or secret, okay, and all of the dentures, which explain their intention. Intention. Okay, the commentary.

Yeah, I like to say classical commentary, shastra. Classical, okay. Shastra, shastra, okay.

Namshe, now this is interesting. Are you going to take them as chod tsam? Or are you going to take them as something you should nyam len?

RGYUD means here, something you should nyam len. Are you going to consider all these scriptures, what or what? Are you going to consider all these scriptures only as a dharma?

Or are you going to take them to practice? Yeah, nice, nice, nice, nice. Is the lam rim and all these books, are they just a list of dharma materials?

Or are they something you want to put into your life? Okay, and DE DAG GIS BDUN NA GZHAN ZHIG NA YOD PAR BRDZIN PAS Okay, GZHAN ZHIG NA YOD means, if you think all of these mixed nuts books are just philosophy, and then if you want something to practice, you're going to have to go to some other teacher and get a meditation practice, or a retreat practice. If you think there's a separation between these philosophy books and your personal life, that's a LOP DOG.

That's a totally wrong idea. That's a LOP DOG. The second greatness of the lam rim is that it DOGS that LOP DOG.

Okay, reverse. Reverse. Yeah, I watched the Eurovision Ukrainian song, and I could see them saying, you got to DOG the LOP DOG, you know.

You got to DOG the LOP DOG. All right, the next section was supposed to be Alison, but I have a feeling we didn't keep this thing. Am I right, you guys?

I don't think anyone, the plan was to help, for Alison to help Gibson read this line, but I think you guys forgot about it. So let's just read it together, Gibson, you ready? Okay.

And wait a minute, who's going to check you? Do you want to choose somebody to check you? All right, I want to choose Haizhong.

Nice. Okay. Oh, sorry.

It should be JOG DGONG JI LEG GYI DGOS NI LYANG ZHUG LEN TSUL ZHES PA'ANG RGYUR BA'I NA GSUNG RA THAMS CAD DANG PA'I BYA BA'I RGYAS BA THAMS Yeah, so if we translate CHE BA as something cool about the Lam Rim, there's four cool things about the Lam Rim. What's the second one? Let's read the the bold part at the end, Gibson.

GSUNG RA THAMS CAD DANG PA'I BYA BA'I The Buddha's teaching, old Buddha's teaching. CHA WA, they have a similar word, it's like a raining, right? CHA WA is a part, is a tense of the verb SHAR WA.

It will strike you, it will strike you. Okay, so old Buddha's teaching will strike you as a personal advice? Nice, yeah.

Oh my god, he's talking to me. I can't believe it. It's a very common phenomenon when you're in a class with a couple hundred other people and it seems like the Lama is criticizing you personally.

Then you got this blessing called DANG PA CHA WA. It sounds like the Lama is talking straight to you. Okay, and if you have the right attitude about the Lam Rim, it seems like they're just talking exactly what you need to improve your life today.

Okay, all right, let's translate this sentence now. GSUNG RA GONG BRAL DANG CHAD PA What two parts of the ALL database are they talking about? The literal and the figurative?

No, go to the database. Nick, help him out. GSUNG RA meaning the Buddha's teachings and GONG BRAL meaning the commentaries upon those teachings.

I believe he'd be talking about the Kangyur and the Tengyur. Yeah, mainly Kangyur and Tengyur, okay. You could include the Tibetan commentaries and the Chinese commentaries, but yeah, so here GSUNG RA means the Buddha's own speech and GONG BRAL means the classical commentaries.

The subject matter, ZHU BYA, all the subject matter is TUM PA with NYAM LEN. It's improved. TUM PA means it fits right into your NYAM LEN, personal NYAM LEN.

Your personal practice. Yeah, good. All of the LAM RIM takes the subject matter of all the classics, which is how many books, you guys?

990 Kangyur, 3,710 Tengyur, 4,600 books. 4,600 books from ancient India exist in Tibetan translation, and they are all fit to your NYAM LEN. Okay, there's nothing in there that you cannot use for your personal practice.

From A to Z, Gibson, what's the A here and what's the Z here? A, SHES NI BSTAN TSUL, to find your Lama, find your teacher. How to study, how to, yeah, how to live with the Lama, really.

And then all the way up to SHI LHAG. And to concentration in the sea, emptiness directly. Yeah, good, good.

Yeah, and in those two phrases, he covered the entire what? Entire LAM RIM. Yeah, good.

Everything from finding your teacher, which is A, all the way up to deep meditation and seeing emptiness, which is SHI NAS LHAG MTHONG. What's the Sanskrit, Gibson? SHI LHAG.

SHI NAS LHAG MTHONG. Shamatha and Vipashyana? Yeah, Shamatha, Vipashyana.

Yeah, Shamatha and Vipashyana. Vipashyana, yeah, Vipashyana. What's Vipashyana?

Vipashyana. It's a bad pronunciation of Vipashyana, okay? It's a corruption of the word Vipashyana.

And Vipashyana in Buddhism is not Shamatha. It's seeing emptiness. It's not watching your breath or meditating.

It's seeing emptiness. So it's all kind of a mistake. Vipashyana is seeing emptiness.

And Shamatha is the meditative platform that you use to see emptiness, okay? So even the name of that system is mistaken. LHAG GIS BAR DU.

But by the way, it can be very helpful. And I took... My first meditation course was directly from the founder of Vipashyana.

What's his name? Goenka Ji. Yeah, from Goenka.

So my first retreat was with Goenka in 1973, okay? So it is a helpful system. But the name is weird.

Okay, CHE BSGOM and SBYO BSGOM. What are those two guys? Analytical meditation and still meditation, stillness meditation.

Yeah, good. What's the one he didn't talk about? There's three kinds of meditation.

[Speaker 2]
SHAR GOM Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
LIS RE VIEW He didn't mention here going through LIS meditation, right? Okay. Anyway, I wonder if it should have been here.

I don't know. Does it relate to the SHI HA? But if you say from A to Z, there's only two kinds of meditation in the Lam Rim.

That's not... I don't think so. I think there's also a lot of SHAR GOM.

But anyway, CI RIGS KYI SGO NAS You can use either one. If once you see that every single topic of the Lam Rim is something that you can meditate on personally, maybe that's why it says CHE BSGOM and SBYO BSGOM. Then you got to the second cool thing, which is that all of the teachings are personal advice for you.

There are things that can be personal advice for you. Okay, NGUL ZING NA SRUL GYUR ZER I think Khadeng is going to check you. Okay.

Be critical here. Where are you? Are you at Diamond Mountains?

Yes. Are you in the Je Tsongkhapa? It's so beautiful.

Oh my gosh. Thank you, Nicole. What was that, Nicole?

Nicole Davis. Davis. Nicole Davis.

Thank you for that beautiful building. I'll never forget you. Okay, let's go.

DE LTAR DE LTAR GSUM RAB THAM BYED DANG NGA'A KHYE'I CHOG YIN GYENG LOG MA TZANG BA'I LAS THANG PO BA'I GSUM BYED BA DE LTAR GYIS BSGOM BTON RANG RTOG GYIS SDUG BSNGAL LYANG GZUG LAS MI ZHIG PA'I Okay, good. I suggest we go to the end and see the name of this third kind of cool. This third kind of cool.

So let's go to the bold, okay, Gibson? RGYAL BA'I All right. RGYAL BA'I BSGOM PA DE LAG TU RTOG PA'I BYED BA THANG Yeah, the third kind of cool thing about the lam rim is that you will DE LAG TU understand the BSGOM PA of the RGYAL BA.

What does that mean? You will easily understand the true meaning of the concrete. Perfect.

How come your English is so good and my Chinese is so... I only know three words. Okay.

DE LTAR GSUM RAB THAMS CAD YIN GYANG Every one of the sentences in the GSUM RAB, what does that mean? Every sentence in Buddha's teaching? Yeah, it's DGAM LAG GIS CHOG It's a personal teaching?

Yeah, it's personal advice. It's the highest personal advice for us. Every sentence, even in Stanley's Abhidharma, every sentence is personal advice to us.

But if your low is MA BYANG If you don't train your heart? If your mind is not yet trained, if you are a LAS DAM PO BA Rookie? If you're a beginner, LAS DAM PO BA means first...

LAS DAM PO BA means first work person. And it means if you're a new person to Buddhism, then you won't know how to... By the way, this LEN is misspelled.

Okay. You won't know how to NYAM LEN DANG LAM RIM Or sorry, all the Buddha's teachings. You won't know how to practice the Buddha's teachings.

Yeah, how to put it into practice. You won't have the personal power to understand these teachings like Abhidharma as something you can start using right away. If you're very new, you will think those mixed nuts are just philosophy books.

But if you get more experience in the Dharma, you start to see diamond mining, right? Yes. You start to see how you could use that in your business, or in your personal life, or in your marriage, or in your family life.

You start to see how you could use all this stuff. All right, please read and please choose someone to check you. Okay.

How about work? RGYAL BA'I BSGOM PA DE LAG TU RTOG PA'I PHYIR BA DANG Yeah, so RTOG PA'I PHYIR BA means what? Cool thing.

Yeah, I like it. I mean you don't use that in your translation but... The third cool thing about the Lam Rim is it helps you to see that easily what the Buddha's really had in mind.

He says you can do that especially if you have your lam rim. What's that? If you have your nama, personal teaching to you.

Yeah, if you have a person in your life who can say, look, Stanley's book about the 22 powers, and about whether your good thoughts are karma or the result of karma, that's important for you. You can use it in your life. So you need an interpreter, right?

You need a Dharma interpreter to say, this is not just philosophy, you can use it. And the interpreter here is the lam rim. It helps you to see, DI LTA BU LAG LDAN NAS When you use the lam rim, you start to understand easily what the Buddha had in mind, especially for your personal practice.

Okay, cool. All right, number four. And who's checking you?

Alex Rivas. Okay, yeah. LTA MI BSTOD PA'I SANGS RGYAS KYI BA MED PAR BSHAD DE Yeah, what should we do to understand these two sentences, Gibson?

What's the strategy? Let's go to the... To the last sentence.

Yeah, let's go to the last sentence. Great. Here it is.

Please read this last sentence. NYES SPYOD CHEN PO'I YANG SA LAS SKYANGS GZUNG BA'I PHYIR BA ZHIG Yeah. So the crucial word here is YANG SA.

Abyss? Yeah, like a cliff or an abyss, like jumping off a high building. Okay, YANG SA means like jumping off a high building.

And I don't know. I went up on the World Trade Center with my brother when it was first built, and it was frightening to stand up there. So YANG SA means a high place that you can fall down from.

And what's that? NYES SPYOD CHEN PO'I NYES SPYOD, your thoughts or problem? Yeah, there's one super bad deed.

There's a super bad deed. That's like standing on a tall building and falling off, you know. Can you guess what that bad deed is?

Mr. Ang, thinking there's no karma? Or there's no future life? No, it's picking and choosing.

In English we say picking and choosing in the Buddhist teachings. I like this one, but this other one seems kind of stupid. Okay, so picking and choosing.

Oh, this part of the Mixed Nuts books, I like it. Oh, this part of the Mixed Nuts books is kind of boring, and it doesn't seem very useful for me. When you pick and choose like that, with an enlightened being who can see your future for 10,000 years, you made a big mistake.

How can we protect ourselves maybe in our first class in the Mixed Nuts? Yeah, you gotta study Gibson's Lam Rim. Because that's how you come to see that you don't need to pick and choose.

Every single Mixed Nut book was written for you. Okay. Oh, by the way, can I interrupt you for one second?

Let me see something. Yes. Let me see if I got this.

Yeah, can you guys see that? No, again, I think you have to share your desktop rather than... Okay, here I go, hang on.

Okay, now... A new book came out yesterday for the Mixed Nuts. And we are working five, six years.

Geshe-la lost a lot of hair. Not from my nose and not from my ears, but from the top. It's a lot of work.

And yesterday a new book came out. It's called the green one on the right side. It's called All the Kinds of Karma.

It's every kind of karma you can ever make. It's a list of all the karmas you can ever make in your life. And it's unbelievable.

It's an unbelievable list. Who wrote the list? Buddha.

Yeah, it's by Lord Buddha. Okay, it's a list by Lord Buddha of all the kinds of karma that you can make. And I want to show you something.

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Here we go. Whoops.

Hang on. Sorry. Oh, here we go.

Sorry. Here's what the e-book looks like. And by the way, I'll tell you a story.

My neighbor and her husband, they come down to my house and they say, what do you do? What do you do all day? They don't know who I am.

They don't know what I do. I like it like that. And they kept bothering me and I found out that they're interested in dharma and they're interested in yoga.

And I had this great idea. I just sent them the e-book. So you can go on the website of Diamond Cutter Press and you can buy a book for somebody else.

You can send the e-book to somebody else. It takes about 10 seconds and it's really fun. It's really, really fun.

So yesterday I sent the book to five, six people. Of course, you have to pay, but that's another thing. But I just enjoyed.

I had so much fun and I sent a copy to my friends and I sent a copy to my neighbor. So here's the book. And here's what it looks like.

Now, let's say here's all the kinds of karma that exist in the whole world. And this blue is the sections of the book by Lord Buddha. So let's say you want to know, you want to be more attractive.

You want to know the kind of karma that makes you look handsome or beautiful. I need this one. So you click on it and it will jump to that page.

And here's Lord Buddha. You want to know a list of things. You don't have to get cosmetic surgery.

Just do this thing. Don't get angry at anybody. Don't hold on to your anger after you get divorced.

Don't feel upset at anybody. And then you can keep reading. And now you got these beautiful drawings.

And there's a pyramid, an ancient pyramid in Indonesia called Bodobudur. And it has over a thousand pictures, carvings. And these pictures are like five meters high and five meters wide.

And there's a couple of volcanoes next to the pyramid. And they exploded. They covered the pyramid.

And people dug about, I don't know, a hundred years ago, people dug into the earth and they uncovered the pictures. And we discovered, Dr. Wu, who's the translator, Eric Wu, who's one of the translators of this book, which exists in the Chinese also, we identified the pictures that they connect to the book. So this book has 300 pictures from that ancient pyramid.

And these are very unclear pictures in the stone. So Gina Rivera and her team in Guadalajara, they drew these pictures. They took the carving and they fixed it.

And it's unbelievable. And then Venerable Ali, Rosa Van Grieken, Katie Fetchenheuer, all this team fixed the book. And Venerable Utpala fixed all the English and all the formatting.

And it's a beautiful... You want to be handsome, make gifts of clothing to people. You want to be handsome, fix temples, make stupas.

And it's really a cool book. You want to be handsome, treat your parents well. And it's a very beautiful list of the things you should do.

If you want to be handsome, talk good about people who see emptiness. And like that, this is a temple or a stupa. This is a classroom.

This is a Mixed Nuts classroom. And this guy on the left, and the guy on the right, they're helping to build these universities. Right, Stanley Nelson?

If you want to be attractive or have power, these are... It's a beautiful... It's a really beautiful book.

I encourage you guys to get one. And read it. And again, anytime you have a problem in your life and you're curious, you can just look it up and you can see the karma that you need to collect.

So I really encourage you guys to order a book. And where it says to type in your email, that's who's going to get the book. So I like to send it to my friends.

I sent a lot of copies yesterday. You just type in your friend's email and then you send it to them. And they get it in about 10 seconds.

And I think it's so cool. And I really want to thank the Diamond Cutter Press team. And I want to congratulate the Mixed Nuts.

So this is book number six of the Mixed Nuts. And we are working on 27 other books right now. We are working on 27 other books.

And it's unbelievable. It's the coolest thing in the universe. Okay, back to what we're supposed to be doing.

All right. Yeah. So let's read this first sentence.

Gyeltsen, you ready? Yeah. I'll check you.

Okay. Yeah, I want you to translate this last part starting here. Double negative.

Double negative. What's that mean? Buddha didn't talk anything about the way to reach enlightenment.

Double negative. I want a double negative. There's no Buddha teaching.

There's no teaching by Buddha. There's no teaching from the Buddha, which is not the way to reach enlightenment. Nice, nice.

So Tsanggya is the verb to get enlightenment. And that means I don't care if you think some of the Mixed Nuts books are very difficult and strange like logic books. There is no book in the Mixed Nuts which will not make you a Buddha.

Okay, double negative. All right. And all of the Buddha's teachings help you get enlightened.

NGOS or RGYUD. What's that mean? Directly and indirectly.

Yeah, either directly or indirectly. I think logic must be very indirect way to become Buddha. Just kidding.

All right. Please read this one. Please choose someone to check you.

Okay. How about Joy? Good, nice.

Okay. You're going to choose Joy. You're going to make some big mistakes.

Okay. Yes, I will.

[Speaker 2]
Wang? Cool.

[Speaker 1]
Yes.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
The R is silent. The R is silent. Good.

Nice job, Joy. Nice job, Gibson. Nice mistakes, Gibson.

So, now, very important disclaimer. Disclaimer means, look, everything the Buddha ever said is correct and it's meant for you. But, it doesn't mean there's no choke and men in the Buddha's teaching.

It doesn't mean that some parts are better and some parts are worse, okay? It doesn't mean that. There are, there is a lower school and there is a higher school, okay?

And, chung se re means a little bit, mi tunpa, inside the Buddha's teaching. There's some... Okay, inconsistent.

There's some disagreements about the meaning of emptiness, for example. But those are all dul je wang gyi. Dul je wang gyi.

Whose fault is it? It's just because of different levels of the students. Buddha had to say some strange stuff sometimes, okay?

So, dul je wang gyi means due to the level of the student. Yeah, there's a little differences. There's higher, lower schools.

But, all of it helps you, Tsanggyelwa. All of you help you to reach enlightenment. Yeah, every single school, every single misunderstanding about emptiness, it's all helping you clarify your own ideas about emptiness.

Therefore, we can say, kyepar me. There's no difference. Yeah, there's no difference.

The Abhidharma school, the mind only school, the middle way school, the tantric schools, the Lamrim, the Lojong, they're all the same. Okay? They're all helping you to get enlightened.

Yay! And never, never, never, ever, here's the most serious bad karma you can make. Okay?

It's right here. Chod pongway le. Hundred dollars.

You're giving up the Dharma. Yeah, but how do you give up the Dharma? You got this, kids.

By saying, by saying, by saying, Captain? Say again, Gibson? I'm trying to give Gibson a hundred dollars.

You choosing and picking? Yeah, yeah, picking and choosing, good. This part I like.

I like Nick's book. I don't like Adam's book. Okay?

That's called the big mistake. It's called the jumping off the high building. Okay?

It's called the biggest mistake of all. It's picking and choosing the Dharma. Now, that doesn't mean that you're not allowed to say, I would like to meditate today about Nick's book.

I don't feel like meditating about Ben's book. That's okay. That's okay.

But you can't say Ben's book is stupid and Nick's book is wonderful. Then you made the big mistake. So, you can say right now, today, in my level, or how I feel today, I think I'll concentrate on Nick's book and not so much on Ben's book.

That's okay. But don't say Ben's book is stupid because it's not Ben's book. It's you, your book.

It's Lord Buddha's book and you make a bad karma. All right, here we go. Keep going, Gibson.

Who's checking you on this next few sections? Hustle. Yay, hustle.

GSUNGS PA LA NI, RJES BA THEG, BSTAN GYI CHUD DI, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU DBANG PAS PHAN YUL NO Yeah, so the third part coming up is called, what's the goal of this lam rim? What's the goal of this personal lam rim by Je Tsongkapa? And the goal is to show us that it would be good to practice it, and then to show us what's going to happen if we do practice it.

And here we go. Let's read this part here. Haso, you're still checking Gibson.

Okay. GSUNGS PA LA NI, RJES BA THEG, BSTAN GYI CHUD DI, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG SU LEN RIGS PA THANG, SNYANG No prenasa.

No prenasa. No prenasa! But say it right , say it right.

SNANG CHU THANG BDE'I RIM PA SHU'I BZHIG RGYUD TE MED TOGS Ya good. Because this Lam Rim has those four chewas. Those four cool things.

Ya. Yeah. What's chokpa here?

The last line, chokpa. Steal you. Yeah, steal.

Chokpa means to steal something.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
What was stolen? The yi. You, my.

Yeah, in English, how do we say it? My. Steal you.

Heart. My heart was stolen by Veronica. Okay.

All right. So here it says, your heart is going to be stolen by the lamrim. By lamrim, yeah.

The step on the path. This sexy, beautiful lamrim is going to steal your heart. Okay.

And how many parts to the lamrim? Greater, medium, and lesser. Yeah.

And don't think this lamrim is a book. It's not. It's dampa that you can nyam len.

It's a personal advice you can take into practice. Yeah. And that was confirmed by a lot of khepas from Gyaga and from Po.

That is confirmed by many of master from the Indian and Tibet. Yeah. But only those who had gyelwa.

Well, only those who have the karmic Good karmic. Yeah. Only those who have the good karmic seed to fall in love with the lamrim.

Yeah. Okay. Cool.

We're out of time again. Yeah. Good progress.

Your Tibetan is really good. I don't know what happened. You must have learned it in your sleep or something.

Stop here. I should try that. Yeah.

Gibson, you got to tell everybody else your secret. Yes, please. He puts the book under his pillow.

I think Emily recites the book to him at night or something. Yeah. She'll say something during the dream.

Okay. I'll see you guys. Don't forget to get back.

Don't forget to order that book. Also, right, here's a... I got to stop this, right?

Wait, wait, wait. Hold it. Hold on.

I'm supposed to show you.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
So, Geshe-la, I translate the next paragraph? The next verse? Yeah, let me see the paragraph, the next paragraph.

Can you do 62, 63, and 64? Okay. Okay.

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I didn't invent that. I'm just reporting. They told me to say that, okay?

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Let's get this out of the way. Okay, there's the QR code. If you order two or two, I guess if you order two or three books, you get some less, I don't know.

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Can I make a quick announcement, Keshala? Yeah. So yesterday I was posting links to the recordings of the videos, and I just want to do a quick thank you for a team of people that are helping in the mornings to set up these Zoom calls and to record them.

And I just want to thank Marina, and thank you so much for hosting these calls. Venerable Katrin from Russia, thank you for setting up all the interpreters. Nikita, you always do so much background tech work for us and streaming and YouTube, which is going to be super important for all of us.

Gina, of course, you're always awesome and helping us to record in Spanish. And Alyssa Shen for setting up the whole recording, the whole tech team, Chinese, and Christian for recording the Romanian. So we have records of all these languages, of these incredible classes, so that we can have so many Tsenyipas in all these different languages, learning in all these languages.

Thank you so much, guys. Okay, take a break, stick around for yoga. Thank you so much, Keshi and Michael, for these incredible classes.

We know how fortunate we are. This is just incredible. Thank you, everybody, for making it happen and coming.

And we'll see you really soon. Stick around for yoga now, and if you don't want to come now, yoga again at 4 p.m. for really great classes. And oh, our yoga teacher today is, 8.15 is going to be Andriana, so in a few minutes, and then Benji at four, who I've heard, I don't know him, but I've heard really great things about him, he's a YSI teacher. Thank you, guys. Thanks. Thank you.

Thank you, bye. Ciao.