Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 14

[Speaker 1]
Hello, everyone. Let's start together today's homework. All right.

Thank you. Thanks. You're welcome.

Hey, so the first question, the first question is what will happen if you don't make great effort to thinking about what's wrong with the cycle of life and what will happen if you don't think about how the true of souls or suffering through you into the cycle of life. So let's talk about the first one. If you don't make great effort to thinking about what's wrong with the cycle of life, what would you do and what will happen?

If you don't think you're in a jail, you won't develop pronunciation and you won't try to escape. You won't. I think.

Yeah. Yes, you won't be able to develop as you shoot the state of my way when January aspire to be free and you won't you will not want to be free from suffering. Yeah.

OK, so number two, if you don't think about how the true source of suffering through you into this cycle of life, what will happen? You won't have a way to escape. You'll still be stuck even if you want to.

Yeah, good guess. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

Like you shoot the arrow on the target that you can see that you don't understand the way to cut the root of the cycle of life. Yeah. Cool.

OK, then number two question, the true source of suffering are defined to which two? Nice question. Yeah.

And please describe these two in detail. Yeah, they are in two, two form. This one's easy.

Grandpa's not going to help you guys. OK. Yeah, it's a Tibetan called lay, they knew.

Good. Gibson, we reached we reached deep concentration. Everybody's totally.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, she may get tired of Samsara.

[Speaker 1]
No, in the form of what? OK, I'll give you a hint of like suffering, true of the soul of suffering in the form of in the form of causes and results. Yeah, of course, in the D.

And yeah, karma. And yeah. And what's the detail of this one?

Yeah. Someone say negative conscious in the karma. Oh, karma and the kleshas, the karma and the negative emotions.

Yeah. Let's see the answer. Yeah.

Negative emotion in the mainstream of normal person. So we have desire, anger, pride, misunderstanding, baffled of doubt, jealousy and so on. Yeah, those are karma and negative emotions, two parts of the source of suffering.

Yeah. Yeah. So if you know the answer for the first one, the second one will be easy.

So what's the second one? In detail. In the negative emotion.

Yeah. I think, Gibson, the second sentence you have in your answer applies to the third sentence in your answer. Oh, you mean you have, I have to switch these two?

Yeah, I think so. I don't know what's coming. I suspect they're switched.

Yeah. OK. Yeah.

Yeah. So I mistakenly put it in the wrong. OK.

OK. Good. Good.

Yeah. So the D is which are motivated by both virtues and non-virtues D. Wait, why virtues D is the source of suffering, somebody should ask.

[Speaker 2]
Like dirty? Or I don't know.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Stand. Yeah. Cool.

All right. The third question. Before we call up the state of mind, definitely want to get out of the cycle of life, which is in renunciation.

We must first look at all the suffering in the cycle of life and look at what kind of object. Yeah. Give the first part of the answer.

We must look at the birth, aging, sickness and. And death. OK.

And death. Yeah. And what's other?

How about the 13th link? Yeah. Oh, the 12 links.

OK. Yeah. Gershon mentioned at the 13 link of the streaming and streaming in the green.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Griffin crying out. Yeah. And and we also need to look at mental discomfort.

Yeah. And the heat and cold or the other. OK.

Fighting. Yeah. Cool.

Yeah. So Tibetan vocabulary, what's kosher? I think it's S.H.E.S. S.H.E.E. OK. I think so. Yeah. OK.

I'll choose it. I hear something or feeling down. Yes.

Yes. Get tired of. Yeah.

So what what is the main thing? That's it. I'm sorry.

I told you wrong. It is. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We're got the answer right now. OK. So what's your ring going in stages, entering in stages?

No, it's the opposite of the ring.

[Speaker 2]
It's like a step by step of getting of how getting out of some sort.

[Speaker 1]
You know, getting into some sort. Yeah. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
OK. Yes. They will throw you into the sensor.

OK. And here's my translation. OK, let's check the answer.

I'm going to be stuck. Thank you. And it's because of her karma.

It's making monkey. She was in the circle of life. Nice to meet you.

We must understand this. Yeah. Nice.

Translation is very good. First paragraph. I don't have anything to say about it.

OK. Don't know. It's because the power.

Let me see the rest. Oh, there you go. Oh, no, no, no.

This is a little, a little different. It says if you, if you go to your teacher and you get their advice on how it is that you are forced into Samsara by your, by karma and negative emotions, then that, then we say you understand how it, how it is that you get into Samsara, which is also called the truth of the source of suffering. You see what I mean?

OK. How you get into Samsara. The steps that you get into Samsara is also called the source of suffering.

Yeah. Wisdom, which realizes the nirvana, is the way karma, samsara, and chit-samsara. I like the debunking.

That's really nice. That's really nice for Sun Chung, right? Yeah.

Nice. Nice. This tar gives and means, and at the end of that process, OK, at the end of getting used to the idea of, of destroying the thing we think is there, but it's not really there.

OK. So just the tar means at the end of the process of destroying the pen that comes from itself, right? What we think is there, shen yu.

Then we give up marikpa. OK. Yeah.

At the time we stop misunderstanding, we cut off the root of the cycle of life. Good. I love the along the way for Shorla.

That's a perfect translation, and it's a difficult word, and I don't know where you got the English, but it's perfect. OK. So, yeah.

Yeah. What's the jung mean here in the last line? Yeah.

Purify? Yeah, good. Purify.

Yeah. Or clean away. This is not the jung in lojung, for example.

OK. That jung means to practice, right? So this jung means to purify.

Yeah. Or clean yourself. OK.

Good. All right, you're doing good so far. Let's look at the last one here.

Yeah, good. If you cut the root of a tree, the tree come droa. The tree itself come droa.

Droa, what does it mean for droa here? I'll tell you, at my cafe, hedong cafe, one of the reasons it's a hedong is that the city government told me you need a special pupu treasure box. Underground.

Huge. Bigger than the cafe. So when we dug the hole for the pupu treasure box, very, very big, we cut the roots of two trees.

Underground. We cut the roots of two trees, and now those two trees come droa. Become dry?

Dried up? Yeah, they are dry. No, they are dying.

They are dying because we cut the roots by accident, you see? So it just means if you cut the roots of a tree, it will dry up. OK.

So droa here means cure, right? Like become. Yeah, exactly.

It will. Droa means it will. Yeah.

OK. It will come. The tree will dry up.

So there's nothing here about thirsty or anything. You see what I mean? OK.

Yeah. OK. It will dry up.

yangpawang gyurpa shing chenpa nanggyi pangpa yinme. dang dang yangpawang gyurpa shing chenpa nanggyi pangpa yinme. Yeah.

And it is true that the major scriptures say that if you get rid of the cause, the suffering will dry up. You see what I mean? OK.

The mu is what in the third line? Mu. Yeah, I admit.

OK. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

It's true that if you can eliminate karma and kleshas, karma and negative emotions, it's true that suffering will dry up on its own. That's true. But, deng sang gi le dangpoa.

Yeah, nowadays us beginners. Yeah, good. nyamong tsawang pangning nyupe.

We are not able to eliminate the cycle of life. Good. We are not able to eliminate the cycle of life from its root.

Therefore, we better work on... Yeah. OK.

Good. shishak me shishakpa denne kunjung gi nangchen dukdre. What's nangchen mean?

Nangchen, I checked, it means section. One of a group? Yeah, it means a member of a group.

OK? Or one part of a category. Like, I don't know, mental things are one nangchen of changing things.

See what I mean? And physical things are one nangchen of changing things. So, he says, we need to get rid of a certain part of kunjung denpa.

We need to get rid of a certain part of the source of suffering. And what's that? We got to get rid of our bad deeds by using the four powers.

OK? OK. And I like that it's crucial.

That's a good translation. Yeah. Yeah.

OK. OK. So, I made a correction here.

I checked the scan. It's a kunjung, not a bunjung. That's great because almost nobody can do that.

That's very good. Yeah. Very, very good.

Yeah. What is bunpa, you guys? No, that's a long story.

Word. What's bunpa? B-U-N.

B-U-N? B-U-N. I mean, it was wrong in Gibson's text, and Gibson caught it, which is very, very cool.

Isn't it profit or something? Bun is profit, right? Yeah.

I think it also means the... Capital? The chaff on the grain or something.

Anyway. Oh, I think that's wrong again. No.

Anyway, it's wrong here. Gibson was correct. He fixed it correctly.

But Geshe-la, you make a note here. You say in one place, all in one place or all in one prompt. You mean I...

Yeah, I have to explain my note here, right? Let me see. Let's see.

Oh, this one? This note here? Yeah.

Yeah, I was just saying, in general, we have to... The strategy for getting out of samsara is to stop the two halves of the source of suffering, the truth of the source of suffering, which is what we do, the mistakes we make, and our negative emotions that make us make those mistakes. So here he says, look, if we're just beginners, which all of us are, if you're just a beginner, why don't you focus on cleaning up your negative deeds?

He says, don't forget... Let's forget your negative emotions right now. We are making so many mistakes every day.

We better concentrate on the four powers. Yeah, that's all. Which is the karma half of the two parts of the source of suffering.

And he doesn't talk about nyonmo. We are so lousy. We better start on the mistakes we're making first and clean those up.

Okay, cool. Oh, I made a mistake here. Yeah, I thought bunjung meant all in a group.

And it should be kunjung and you are correct and I am wrong. Okay, this should be kunjung. So I thought it was correct and I was stretching to explain it.

And it's very simple. It should have been kunjung. So you're correct and that's really cool.

All right. Bunpa does mean chafe, but with an S in front of it. Okay, got it.

I thought it was this bunpa, but it's not. By the way, when I make a mistake like that, I say later. All right.

Okay, why don't you read this one, Gibson, and find someone to pick on you. Utta, you want to pick on him?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, I know he's not making mistakes.

[Speaker 1]
He's kind of boring to check him. Okay, Gibson. Okay.

Bonsang ina, tingzinghi lape tsowa ni, shi ne im mut, te ma nge te. Mut, yeah. Yeah.

Te ma nge te, ge wang, yang takpe mikpa la, ringtung kang im yang, re jik du. Yang tse jik du? Yeah, yang tse jik du.

[Speaker 2]
Yang tse jik du.

[Speaker 1]
Nepe sempa nang, tingzinghi lape du so. Cool. All right, nice.

Nice, Utta, you caught him. I think he did those mistakes on purpose, but he's very cool about it. Thank you for that, Gibson.

He's very subtle. Khyepar du, what's that mean, Gibson? Khyepar du.

Detail? Yeah, or especially, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Especially.

[Speaker 1]
Be good means we have to make a lot of efforts in what? Lapa tsultrim. In three kind of practice of morality.

Yeah, we call it three trainings. Starting with tsultrim. What are the other two?

Tsultrim. Concentration and wisdom. Yeah, samten and wisdom.

Tsultrim kyi lapa. Okay, good. Now he says, look, if you want to work on your morality, the training of morality, if you're going to make that the main thing, tsultrim.

Oh, sorry. The main emphasis, if you're going to work on your morality, is the state of mind, bongsam, where you want to give up the ten bad deeds. The training on morality is a big word.

It has many things inside of it. But you know what? The main thing is just a list of ten things.

Just avoiding the main list. What do we call it in DCI? Top ten, right?

Being cool of top ten. Yeah, just try to avoid the top ten. You've got the training of morality pretty well covered.

Now, if that's the main part of the training of morality, what's the main thing in the training? The thing it's in? The concentration.

Meditative concentration. It's shi ne. It's peace?

Yeah. Shamatha. Look, I know the main point in the training on concentration is shamatha.

Okay, look, I know it. I know it, but... but...

DER MA NGES means... It's not the case that all forms of the training on concentration is limited to shamatha. There's other kinds of concentration going on.

It's not just the concentration that you use to see emptiness. There's other kinds of concentration going on. And if you...

DGE BA'AM YANG DAG PA'I DMIGS PA LA When we're talking about objects of focus which are good deeds, or pure, pure, pure ways of thinking of things, as opposed to just thinking about emptiness. Just thinking about good deeds. RING LTUNG GANG YIN YANG What's RING LTUNG, you guys?

Length. Good. And explain why, Gibson.

You mix the long and short, and you get the length. In Tibetan, and I guess Sanskrit, when you mix hot and cold, it means... Temperature.

Temperature. When you mix big and small... Size.

Size. And when you mix RING LTUNG, it means distance. Short-long.

Long-short. Whether you're close to getting to these high objects, or whether you're far... which is SHI NAS, shamatha.

Or maybe you're far away from them. Maybe you're not close to shamatha. Still, if you focus your mind...

SREG CIG TU In one point. Single point. In one point.

That is all attempts to focus your mind on a single point. Even if they're far away from shamatha. Like you just try to focus on...

You try to focus on class, and you try not to think about what you have to do after class. That is the training of concentration. You don't have to be so big as shamatha.

Any attempt to focus your mind is the training of concentration. I think we ought to split this into three paragraphs. Why, Gibson?

Because it's talking about three trainings. Yeah, and it's talking in each case about the soul of each training. The main point?

Yeah, good. Perfect. The main point.

Like LAM MTSO'I RNAMS SUM. What's LAM MTSO'I RNAMS SUM? LAM GYI MTSO'I RNAMS SUM.

Three principle paths. Yeah, so what's the main part of morality? What are we supposed to focus on?

Look, don't worry about a lot of stuff. Just think about the ten good deeds and the ten bad deeds. Well, how about concentration?

Look, just learn to be in the present moment. Be here now. You don't have to worry about shamatha.

That comes later. Now, how do we apply it to wisdom? Can you ask someone to read, Gibson, and then torture them?

Yeah, let me see. Kat? And Gibson's going to check you.

Kading, is your mic on?

[Speaker 2]
I just got my mom awake so I can read.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, and I heard some exciting news that you guys are going to have some Native American dancers performing at the upcoming Lam Rim retreat in Diamond Mountain, right?

[Speaker 2]
Actually, the highest of the troops from Mescalero, New Mexico, the crown dancers are coming, the Apache.

[Speaker 1]
The best and toughest Native Americans in the world are coming to dance at Diamond Mountain this week. So, be there or be square. Okay.

Excellent.

[Speaker 2]
Cherub key. La pay. So, whoa, knee lock top young.

Oh wait, I'm going to put my glasses on. How about that?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
A derma gate.

[Speaker 1]
Whoa.

[Speaker 2]
Yay. Yay. Okay.

Dark may. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Let me get this out of our way. Okay. All right, that's better.

Okay. Now, in each case for the three trainings, our author is saying, look, you don't have to worry about the highest, highest form of morality, and you don't have to worry about the highest, highest form of concentration. And he gave us beginner options.

Now, what's the beginner option for shidam? Vipassana. No, wisdom, prajna.

Okay. But anyway, you're correct. He says, look, I admit that the most important thing in the training of wisdom is lak tong.

Vipassana. Nice, vipassana. Hey, Word, can you check long As in vipassana?

Yeah, Vipassana, but I'll check. Yeah, check for me. We got to pronounce it correctly.

If we're going to make fun of people who don't pronounce it correctly, we should pronounce it correctly. Lak tong yin chang. But derma nge means, look, it doesn't mean that's the only form of wisdom in the world.

That high, high wisdom where you kind of see emptiness directly, that's not the only form of wisdom in the world, and maybe we have to start with something more achievable. And then he says, you could focus on dakme charak. The lack of danger of self?

Yeah, charak means different levels of subtlety, different levels of subtlety. Now, where did you guys learn the different levels of subtlety of dakme? Where did grandpa teach it to you?

Mahamudra, in Utpala's text, and also in the Six Flavors. Yeah, the Six Flavors, that's what I'm looking for. There are six levels of seeing emptiness.

There are six different interpretations. He says, look, if you work on any of those, for example, if you understand that you are not in control of what's happening all day, even when you turn on the light switch, even when you hit a key on your computer, you don't control that. That's coming from your seeds.

You are not typing on your computer. The seeds are typing on the computer. So, chepa rikpa.

Chepa means here what? To analyze? Yeah, so when you think about any of these levels of no self-nature, they're all the training of wisdom, if they are dun ten.

If they are... This is an unusual Tibetan word, and it means if they... If they're accurate.

If they're accurate. Yeah, like thinking about different kinds of emptiness, like black, black, black. That's not dun ten.

That's not a correct one. Dun ten fits the real meaning. Correct.

Okay, nam dang. And hey, not only thinking about the different flavors of emptiness is the training on wisdom, but anytime you chepa any chö kyi tsik, The meaning of the word of the Dharma? Yeah, anytime you listen to the Dharma and you think about the meaning of a single word, you are practicing the training of wisdom.

It doesn't have to be about emptiness. He says you are practicing the training of wisdom. Anytime you sit in mixed nuts class and they talk about anything except pizza, you are doing the training of wisdom.

Okay, cool. All those little... This sherab here, the first one here, means understanding.

Any kind of understanding you have about in a mixed nuts class for two hours, any single understanding you have, that's part of the training of wisdom. By the way, Nick and Gibson, can you give me five minutes at the end to do a diamond cutter press advertisement? Can you remind me?

For sure, okay. Don't let me forget, because the grandpa tends to forget those things. All right.

Okay, let's go. Who's going to read for you, Gibson? Christina.

All right, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
GSUM PA SKYE BU CHEN PO'I LAM GYIS RIM PA LA NYID CHOG PA'I RTEN SEMS KYE DANG CHOG PA LA BSLAB TSUL LO Yeah, nice.

[Speaker 1]
We reached the third section and Christina, what is it? SKYE BU CHEN PO'I It's a very big something. Purusha.

Oh, person?

[Speaker 2]
Human?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and it means... what's it mean, Gibson? Big person?

Yeah, the big person, who has more capacity. Yeah, it's talking about the three capacities in the Lam Rim. Look, Christina, usually it takes eight or nine years to reach the Mahayana part of the Lam Rim.

But the beautiful thing about Gibson's text is, it's a pocket book. It's a 150 page book. You'll be able to carry it around in your purse.

[Speaker 2]
Gifts, notes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and we've only been at it for a couple of terms and we already reached the third part, which is the person of greater capacity. They're working for what, Gibson? Total enlightenment.

For SEMS KYE DANG YI ZHIG For every living being? Yeah, they're not just worried about themselves. They're working for every living being.

And their kind of activity can be divided into two parts. Their motivation and what they do with that motivation. The motivation that they have is first.

We're going to talk about that. And then secondly, we're going to talk about how they carry out their motivation. So what's it say here, Gibson?

SPYOD PA'I BSTAN, which is SEMS KYE. Their activity based on their bodhichitta. Nice.

And this SPYOD PA, you have to read it like Shantideva spoke. The way of life? Of a bodhisattva, yeah.

SPYOD PA When it says activity here, it always means bodhisattva's activity, which are the what, sixteenth? The six perfections. So, what's the state of mind you need as a foundation for your practice of the six perfections?

Oh, that's SEMS KYE. That's bodhichitta. And then we're going to do the actual SPYOD PA'I BSTAN.

The actual bodhisattva activity. Practice. Training.

We're going to go through the six perfections. So first, we're going to talk about the motivation you need to act like a bodhisattva. And then we're going to study the six things that bodhisattvas do.

All right. And we have reached, in the big outline, we've reached KHYAD BU CHEN PO'I LAM. All right.

Who's up, Gibson? Anatole. Yay.

Hi, Edmond. I see the drummer in the background, I think. I'm not sure.

I only see half of his head. Yeah, we're going to play rock and roll later. Okay, Gibson, who's up?

Rebecca. Oh, okay.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry, me or Anatole?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. Let's start with Anatole and go to Rebecca later. How's that, Gibson?

Yeah. DANG PO LA NI LAS DANG PO RGYUD CHOS SUM PEN YON NI SEMS SKYES THEG CHUG SOGS SHI STE Good. I don't know what this is.

Okay. I think it's misspelled, Gibson. I'm not comfortable with this.

I've got to think about it. Anyway, when we talk about getting to bodhichitta, we're going to have two steps. We're going to talk first about KHYAD CHOS SUM.

I think this should be GOS SUM. Maybe you can check the carding. All right.

We're going to talk about three features, and then we're going to talk about the benefits. That is contained in the four lines. That's SHI.

That starts with SEMS SKYES THEG CHUG LAM GYI ZHUNG ZHING STE LHAG CHEN CHUD PA'I LAM GYI ZHI DANG BSTAN MTSOR NI KUN LA SEMS SKYES CI LTA BU'I RAB BYAMS SKYES MTSOR NI KUN LA SEMS SKYES CI LTA BU'I RAB BYAMS SKYES SEMS SKYES There, a very famous line. Okay, I think Rebecca now. THEG CHEN THEG CHEN SEMS SKYES NI THEG CHUG LAM GYI ZHUNG ZHING LTA BU'I RAB BYAMS ZHING ZHUGS SOGS LHAG CHEN CHUD PA'I LAM GYI SKYE BA THANG NGES PA THANG I think there is a big mistake here.

I think this might be Chin. Okay. All right.

I think it is... You can check the carving, okay? I think it is wrong.

Yes. Isn't it saying the list of six starting with Chin? No.

And that would be GZHAN SOGS GRUB. Could be six kinds of GZHAN, but I don't think so. I think it's GZHAN.

THEG CHEN SEMS SKYES NI What's that mean, Gerson? The Bodhichitta in the Mahayana, the Great Way, the Greater Way. Yeah.

Is there a SEMS SKYES which is not THEG CHEN? Yeah, according to Sugarcane. Well, they define Bodhichitta differently, right?

Yeah, in the lower two tracts, listener and self-made Buddhas, they do have a SEMS SKYES. BYANG CHUB SEMS SKYES They do aspire to enlightenment, but a lower enlightenment. So it's not superfluous to say THEG CHEN SEMS SKYES.

It's not wrong to say the Bodhichitta of the Mahayana tract, because technically there are two other kinds of Bodhichitta where you are trying to get to nirvana only. It's just being precise, right? Yes, Shalaya.

Yeah. Maybe I have it wrong, but are we talking about tracts or scopes? Because we're in the Lam Rim.

You could say the same thing. In fact, you could try to equate the three scopes to the three tracts, but that's a little tricky. Because the lowest scope doesn't aspire to any kind of enlightenment.

[Speaker 2]
They just want to not go to be an animal, etc.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's why I said the three tracts. Okay, cool. Thank you.

THEG CHEN LAM GYI ZHUNG ZHING We had ZHUNG in Tim's text last night, and I'll give 50 bucks if anybody can tell me what it was. It's the Books of the Perfection of Wisdom. What was ZHUNG?

It meant books. It meant the text. Okay, Tim got 50 bucks.

Yay! At least I was paying attention last night, right? Yeah, well, possibly.

ZHUNG means main thing. What's ZHUNG LAM, you guys? Highway.

Yeah, main road. ZHUNG means main. By the way, the word in Tibetan for federal government is ZHUNG.

The main government of the country. THEG CHEN LAM GYI ZHUNG What's the main thing in the Mahayana path? It's ZHUNG ZHING.

ZHUNG ZHING, what's that, you guys? Gibson? A trunk?

When you build a house, you have a main beam, especially if you have a peaked roof like that. There's the main piece of wood that goes along the top, and then the other pieces of wood lay on it. That's called ZHUNG ZHING.

It means the... what do you call it, Nick, in construction? I mean, are you thinking of the truss?

Central beam? It's a joist, yeah, but it's the main joist. It's the main piece of wood that runs the length of the house.

Oh, on the top. That holds the rest of the roof pieces. Anyway, you could say central beam.

The main beam of the roof. And then the other pieces of the roof are resting on it. So you get the image, Gibson?

All these perfections are fine. Those little pieces of wood are fine, but they have to rest on SEMS BSKYED. Okay.

ZHUNG ZHING DE When you talk about the six perfections, I think it is here, PHAR DO THU CHIN PAS GRUB, and word, it might have been GZHIN, but only if it was GZHIN SOGS GRUB. It could be that. So we don't know what's the mistake yet.

Anyway, it's talking about the six perfections. These LHAB CHEN CHOD PA, these very... Great wake?

Yeah, powerful. LHAB CHEN means... Yeah, highly powerful practices, NAMS KYIS.

BOD DI BYED PA helps the six perfections in three ways. BOD DI BYED PA helps them GYI BA. BOD DI BYED PA helps them GNAS PA.

And BOD DI BYED PA helps them PHAL BA. What's that, Gibson? Help them to develop and stay and not divorce?

And increase. Increase. Oh, increase.

If you have BOD DI BYED PA, you will start doing the six perfections, you will stay doing the six perfections, and you'll get better and better at doing the six perfections. BOD DI BYED PA helps them in all three ways. Because why?

It's the main beam or the main piece of wood in the roof. It holds up everything else. It holds up the six perfections.

The rest of the roof. All right, who's going to read next, Gibson? Alex Rivas.

Two minutes to your ex-postulation, Geshe-la. Got it. Okay.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
NAM CHAM DGE TSOG MANG PO DUS PA'I GSOS NAM KYI RTAR CHEN PO Nice.

[Speaker 1]
You're good. Okay, what's this? SON NAM DANG NYE ZHIG GIS SOGS, Gibson?

Merriam-Whiston Collection. Yeah, now, you can have good deeds, and you can have understanding, but they won't necessarily produce a Buddha. Maybe they just give you a president of the world, which is called what?

The Wheel Emperor, right? Maybe you just become a very powerful person in your country or something. There's a SER GYUR GYI TZI.

There's a very important word, SER GYUR GYI TZI, and it's a reference to alchemy. What is alchemy? Changing a base substance into gold, usually?

Yeah, in the Middle Ages in Europe, people were very interested to find some kind of juice or water, special liquid, which will turn iron into gold. It will turn steel into gold. People spent their whole lives trying to discover this alchemical elixir.

It changes normal stuff into gold. What's the alchemical elixir being mentioned here, Gibson? Bodhichitta.

Yeah, and it turns your normal collection of merit and wisdom into a collection of merit and wisdom which creates a Buddha. CHAGS KHAMS here means base metal. The iron, normal iron, which is called CHAGS KHAMS here.

How do you turn it into gold? You use bodhichitta. It's also, bodhichitta is like a gold mine.

DER, DER CHEN PO, like a gold mine. If you dig down in there, you will find a billion good stuff. A billion kinds of good stuff.

Bodhichitta is being compared to three things here, which is why up here in the subject he said, this is why it should have been spelled G-S-U-M, Gibson, up here. I'm going to give you three features of bodhichitta. It should have been spelled this way.

What are the three? First of all, it supports all the other perfections, like the main beam in the house. Secondly, Gibson, it's like Alchemy Elixir.

Thirdly, it's like a gold mine where you find endless cool things. Yay! Okay, I have some advertisements.

You're welcome. Thank you for giving me time to stop sharing. 12 today?

Yes, sir. Okay. All right.

I have some advertisements for you guys. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Where is that?

Stop sharing. Because we only have a couple of days left. My strategy, Gibson, is I make people feel happy that the classes are finishing, and then I ask them to buy stuff.

Not really. I'm just want to... Okay, here's the first one.

We finished and we published the book called Kantun. All right. This is the story.

It's a novel about a young lady who becomes a Geshe. She tricks everybody and becomes a Geshe 1,000 years ago when ladies were not supposed to even read books. It's a beautiful, long story.

It's like 400 pages about this girl, young lady who tricks all the Geshes in the debate ground, and she becomes a Geshe and she beats everybody. That is the young lady in How Yoga Works. This is the story of her life before the other book.

I wrote this book in my three-year retreat 20 years ago, and I never had time to publish it. We published it. It's out.

You can get the e-book. I also did an audio book. You can sit in your car and you can listen to grandpa read the book, or you can cook your dinner and you can listen to the book.

If your country allows it, and you have to check the laws in your country, but if your country allows it, you're very welcome to get this book at the Diamond Cutter Press. All right, now I got two more advertisements. Let me see here.

Where is that one? Here we go. Uh-oh.

Hang on. No, it's not that one. Hang on.

Here we go. Can you guys see that one? Yes, sir.

We can see it. All right. This is all the books that the Mixed Nuts have finished so far.

We used to print them in paper books, and now because the Diamond Cutter Press is so strong with Rosa van Grieken and Elizabeth van der Paas-Elly and with Katie Fechenheuer, we have finished six books. We have published six books. There's a commentary.

This one's a commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra. This one's a commentary to the Heart Sutra. This one's Venerable Utpala's translation.

Awesome translation. How to Meditate on Wisdom. If you know the meditation poster, it talks about the whole system.

This is the new book coming out this week with the two Medicine Buddha Sutras, both Medicine Buddha Sutras, which is all the sutras there are. We just finished it. We worked really, really hard.

Our Sanskrit team found the Sanskrit for the Short Sutra in an old stupa, a thousand-year-old stupa in Afghanistan. They found the Sanskrit and we put it in the book. If you got this book before, it was just the Long Sutra and we have added the Short Sutra.

Now it's both Medicine Buddha Sutras. If you bought the first book, we'll give you the second book for free. It has both sutras in it.

This is The Golden Key, which is Wordsmith's translation, his first book. I think it's the best presentation of the Mind-Only School in the world, in English. If you're interested, it's called The Golden Key.

We just finished another sutra called All the Kinds of Karma. It explains all the correlations. It was a teaching by Gautama two and a half thousand years ago.

It's awesome. Every correlation has a picture from ancient carving. It took many years to finish it and we finished it.

These books are all available. If they're allowed in your country, you can buy them. Last thing.

Where is that? Good news. Where is that?

Let me see. Here. There's the ACI courses.

There's 36 ACI courses. 18 foundation courses. 18 advanced courses.

It's 30,000 pages of translation by grandpa starting around 1990. I finished it in 2010. It took me 20 years.

That's the 36 manuals for ACI. These books are free. This is a free e-book.

This is the first one. We'll be publishing 36 of them. These are long translations of ancient books.

If it's allowed in your country, and in some countries it's not allowed, check what's the rules in your country. The Diamond Cutter Press and ACI are offering these books for free. You can get this e-book online for free.

You can study those courses. There will be 36 of them. This is just the first one.

Okay, you guys. That's all, Nick. Back to you.

All right, thank you, Geshe-la. Thanks for that advertisement. Thank you, Diamond Cutter Press, for working diligently to get these books out.

We're so excited that this is happening. Five or six years ago, it just seemed like a dream. It's kind of fun to see this stuff come to fruition.

It's very fun. Anyway, let's go have a break. You're going to have yoga in about 10 minutes with Mr. John Brady. So you don't want to miss that class if you want a hardcore workout, intense yoga practice. I'm just kidding. I'm sure he teaches for all levels.

And then Connie, the director of Yoga Studies Institute, will teach a yoga class at four. So if you can't make it to JB, come to Connie's. Thank you, everybody.

Thank you, Geshe Michael, for the great classes. See you all really soon. Okay, see you tonight.

Thank you, guys. Thanks, Nick. Thank you, Geshe-la.

Thanks, Emily. Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you.