Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 16

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[Speaker 1]
Thank you, Juan, for the interview. Where's Gibson? Hey, Geshe-la.

Good morning. Morning. Okay, here we go.

I was just trying to rush something. It's like a translation. If you rush it, it comes out worse.

All right, let's go straight to your book. Do you want to tell us a little bit about your book, Gibson, first? Yeah, and first of all, thank you, Geshe-la, for you to give me the chance to translate.

And this book is very special. As Geshe-la say, I have translated several philosophical books from Buddhism. And Geshe-la gave me a book called Round Ring, and it taught liberation upon the pain for 15 years or 20 years.

And this book is kind of short. And Geshe-la say, one of the great thing that Tsongkhapa did is, he wrote a lot of small text. And one of the most famous text is called The Three Principles of the Path.

So here I got, it's also a pocket book. And we start to translate at the end of the last year and the week possible to finish in this term. And one of the famous famous thing in this book is, Tsongkhapa never say something about his own spiritual life.

And in this text, he say, I am the practitioner, here is how I practice, and you who want to get the liberation, you should do the same. Right. Right.

Yeah. And I make an outline. I want to show everyone.

Can you see it? Yes. Okay.

So this book is a commentary by Choney Lama. And the original Luke text have 42 verses. And Choney Lama divide this book into the three parts.

The first is the phenomenonary of the offering of praise. The second one is the main text. The third is the conclusion.

So we first bow down all the master from this lineage. And we talk about the benefit of having put in, put this into the practice. Nice.

So when we go to the main text, they have two parts. The first one is the way to practice the shared path. And we are right now in this category.

So this part have two sections. The one is the preliminary step. The second one is the main step.

And the main step also have two parts. The first one is urging to take the essence of this life. And the second one is the way to take the essence of this life.

So the second one, we have the three parts. It's almost a very famous division in Long Ring. Long Ring divide the people into three categories.

So the one who have the lesser capacity is the one who want to get a higher rebirth in the next life. So they have a two division. And the second one is the people with the medium capacity.

So this is the place we translate in the last time. So what's wrong with the true of suffering and the true of source of suffering and the actual contemplation of it. So we are now in this category, which is the people of greater capacity.

So also have a two category. The first one is developing the wishful enlightenment. And so it's have the same structure.

The first one, they usually give the special feature or the benefit. And the second one, they will talk about how to do it. So here, Shoninama explain what is the wishful enlightenment and what is their feature and benefit.

And the second one is how to develop the wish. So here is we are in the last turn. We are in the perfection, sixth perfection.

How to share, how to give. So we are now going to the ethical way of life. And over to you, Geshe-la.

Nice job. A nice summary. Thank you very much.

Don't forget to talk slow for these translator guys. All right. Very nice summary.

It helped me also. All right. I think we are here.

Let me see. Let me get this out of the way. Okay.

So we started actually almost a year ago. And we are doing very good progress. Six folio phases, which is six pages or three total folios, is very good progress.

If we can do six folios again, we can reach the end of your book in this term. So no pressure, but try to keep grandpa on the subject. And it's going to be a nice pocket book similar to the principle teachings that has been around for 20 years or something.

I have a divided mind about it. Halfway I'm thinking it would be the next book. I'm already thinking about the next book because we kind of have to get it ready.

In case you finish fast, we might go on to the next book even in this term. So there's a wonderful and very famous teaching by Tsongkhapa called Praising the Buddha for Teaching Interdependence. And there's a beautiful commentary by Lama Quicksilver.

So I'm kind of thinking that would make a nice small book. But because Gibson, your Tibetan is getting so good, there's a book that I started and I never had time to finish, which is Chang'e Lekshen Yingpo, explaining the art of interpretation. So I don't know, I'm cooking this idea.

Maybe we finish the short piece first and then go on to... because the other book should be in the mixed nuts. We shouldn't come to the end of the mixed nuts without finishing that other book.

So we got to think about it. But you could start getting the root text ready for the interdependence book. And I'll send it to you.

And there's clean up you can do. There's ways to prepare the book for translation. And we can do that.

And I'll send you the commentary. You can start getting it cleaned up. All right, here we go.

Let's read one with you, Gibson, and then you can choose somebody else to read. Okay. Good.

ngar tar means as we did in the last one. We're going to divide it into two sections. So I went and got you the last one.

With every perfection except the sixth one, he's going to divide it into the good qualities of that perfection. kye chen means the good features, and pen yin means the benefits. So first he's going to sell you the perfection.

And then secondly, tong tsul means how to do it, how to actually do the perfection. So for each of the first five perfections, he's going to keep the same structure, but he's not going to tell you what it is. So you have to keep remembering the structure of the first perfection, which was giving.

And that structure was, first he sells it to you, why it's so cool, and secondly he tells you how to do it. So that's the same structure for the second of the six perfections, which is an ethical way of life. In English, the word morality has a lot of meanings which are old and unpopular.

If you tell somebody, you guys, Gibson and Emily, you can go to a restaurant in Sedona, and ask the waiter what they think about morality, and he won't talk to you after that. So I think ethical way of life is very popular. For example, nowadays businesses are supposed to think about ethics, ethical way of life.

So that's just my preference about how to translate tsultrim. I think morality, the word morality is old-fashioned in English and people don't like it, because they don't like morality. All right, here we go.

We're going to go straight to the commentary, and why don't you read one more, Gibson, and we'll do it together. Slow down a little bit. Okay, there's probably a comma missing here.

Okay, and it's important. It's an important... Okay.

So what's tsultrim mean? I'm testing you. Ethical way of life.

Good. And there's three kinds of tsultrim. Classically, in the Lam Rim, there's three kinds of tsultrim.

The first one is called nye chud dompa. The second one is called gewa chuddu. And the third one...

I'm sorry, this comma should have been here. Let's take that out. Okay, good.

The second one is called gewa chuddu. And the third one is called sem chen dun che, right? What's nye chud dompa mean?

Refraining yourself from the mistaken deed. Yeah, stop doing things that hurt other people. So when you talk about ethics, ethical way of life, the first idea is that you should stop hurting people.

The second idea is the gewa chuddu. Try to collect a good deed. Yeah, so maybe with nye chud dompa, you stop stealing from other people.

With gewa chuddu, you start trying to do more charity. So number two is positive actions towards other people instead of trying to avoid hurting them. So the bodhisattva morality is very often gewa chuddu.

The Vinaya ethics is trying to stop hurting people. The bodhisattva ethic is trying to do nice things for people. Now we have a third one called sem chen dun che.

What's that mean? Work for all living beings. Yeah, increase your ethical, increase your ethics to help all people.

So that's how it's different from the second time. But here, sowo, in this text, of these three, which one is sowo? nye chud dompa.

Refrain yourself from the bad deed. Yeah, stop hurting other people. And then he says wang tu chepa means, now if we focus on that, okay, let's focus our explanation on that.

This kind of tsultrim, this kind of ethical life, takes the nature of the gosum. What's the gosum? Three doors.

Eye. No, no, no. Action speaking in your mind.

Nice. I like that you did not say body, speech, and mind. I like that you did not say body, speech, and mind.

I think with physical actions of the body, we just call actions in English, okay? Your actions, your speech, and your thoughts, okay? So gosum, nye chud means making mistakes or hurting people.

Hurting people with what you do, hurting people with what you say, and hurting people with what you think. What you thought. Yeah, okay.

And the purpose of ethical, the perfection of ethics, is chima chupa chu. It's a metaphor. What's that mean?

It's like a water which can wash away your stains. Nice, nice. Water which washes away.

Like my wife always puts a new tablecloth, Emily, on the kitchen table, and then I always spill jam on it, and then I have to run to the sink and get some water and quickly clean it off, or else I get in trouble. So ethical, the second perfection is like that water. So Geshe-la, when there's a saying that Buddha couldn't wash away your bad deeds, is it also used the same term?

Well, I'll give you a, I'll give you a, I'll give you, that's a great question, right? It's very famous in Buddhism that nobody can just forgive your sins, you know? You have to clean up your own messes, okay?

And even a Buddha cannot take away your bad seeds. You have to do it yourself. But the chima here is not the namin.

The chima here is the nye che. What did I just say? What did I just say?

The chima is not the namin debu. It's not the result. Yeah, the chima here is the gyu.

Yeah, it's the cause. Yeah, so in Christianity, for example, we're trying to get someone to clean away the bad things, the results of the bad things we did, you know? I don't want to be reborn in the hell, you know?

But here, so Kappa's saying, clean up your messes before they happen. Clean up your bad deeds. Clean up the causes, and then you don't have to worry about the results, okay?

So it's a good, that's my answer to your debate, okay? All right. Good?

Good. All right. Okay, now you have to pick on somebody.

Okay. Let's see. Hasso?

I'm going to split this into three to make it easier for you guys. If Hasso cannot do it. Earl?

Gibson, you don't know about this thing called siesta in Mexico? It's a nap. It's a nap you take during the daytime.

That's Hasso. Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Thanks, Gibson. Nguyen Mong, I know that one.

Nguyen Mong Pei, TSA DUNG SELWAR BYED PAS, LA BA'I UTA UDANG.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so first Tsongkapa is comparing an ethical way of life with DA BA'I U. What's that, you guys? Chandra.

The light of the moon. Who is crying?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, she's awake.

[Speaker 1]
The light of the moon? Yeah, the light of the moon. Okay, now traditionally the light of the moon is supposed to what?

Do you guys know? Cool. Yeah, the light of the sun is supposed to, traditionally, supposed to ripen crops, and the light of the moon is traditionally supposed to make you feel cooler and stop you from being too hot.

So what's the heat in this case? Negative emotion. Yeah, and they're called DUNG BA.

DUNG BA means discomfort caused by excessive heat. DUNG BA means the torment of being too hot outside, like Arizona summer. Okay, you guys should come in the summer, Gibson.

You see something. Okay, all right. So he's got three different statements or three different metaphors about ethical way of life here.

The first one is, look, it's like moonlight. It makes your life cooler. It stops you from being stupid in your mind.

What's the second benefit? Who's going to read that, Gibson? Almira.

Good morning. Good evening. Thank you.

Good morning. Okay, nice, nice. Now, the first way in that ethical life is cool is that it helps you feel better.

You feel more free all day long. You feel more happy. You don't have this suffering of the heat of feeling guilty, for example.

The second benefit is that if you are a morality suwapo, protector or keeper, if you keep your ethical way of life, then that person who is doing that, okay, it then means the person who is keeping their morality, okay, the person who is keeping their morality gets ji che in the next line, okay? Ji che. It means si ji.

Do you guys know what si ji is? It's branded. It's not se ji, okay?

It's si ji. Oh yeah, si ji means magnificence or you look very magnificent. And I always tell people the way I learned this word was my teacher was watching television and Queen Elizabeth came on the TV with three or four other old ladies and he said, look at how she has si ji compared to the other ladies.

Like even if you didn't know she's queen, she has this kind of, you know, presence. She outshines, yeah. So si ji means that.

So if you are a person who keeps your morality, you will have si ji. People can tell a person who's keeping their morality, even if they don't know you, if they see you at the grocery store, you look special. Somehow you look special, okay?

And they look like flimbo compared to the other mountains. They look like the Mount Meru compared to other mountains.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And you can think of Mount Everest very, very high compared to the other mountains. So we can say that person stands out. That person, even in a crowd of normal people, one person who's being really kind and being careful not to hurt other people, we can tell they're special, okay?

I have a guy like that in my life. He owned the cafe before me and he's very, very kind. And he used to walk around the cafe with the coffee pot and serve people.

But he always seemed like si ji to me. He always, he seemed special even though he was just serving coffee, you know. So what's ri gyelpo ri ram?

The king of the mountain. Yeah, which means Mount Meru, okay. Then a person with good morality, if they stand in a crowd of people, they stand out like the highest mountain.

What's kye gu u na? An all-living being? Yeah, if they stand in the middle of other people, okay.

Kye gu means people. Here it just means people. So if you see them in a crowd of people like in a small cafe, there's 10 people or 15 people, he looks special.

And I don't even know his name, but he looks special to me. I was gonna point out to you guys, this gu is normally spelled with dao. Yeah, dao, which means the number nine.

And sometimes nine is used for plural in Tibetan, okay. Don't ask me why, I don't know. But sometimes it's spelled as nine people and it just means all people, okay.

So he has an unusual spelling here, okay. But he repeats it so I'm keeping it. So gaza de, that person stands out compared to other people.

You know, somebody taught me a new word in English, it pops, it pops, right, Nick? They pop, like they boom, those people stand out, you know. When you do advertising, you're supposed to do, something's supposed to pop, you know.

Okay, next sentence, who's reading, Gibson? Okay, Harithal? Harith?

Hello, yeah, it's me. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Hello, Geshe-la. Hello, Gibson. Hi, good morning.

Zan. Zan. Zan.

Zan. Zan Zan. Zan.

Zan. Zan. Zan.

Zan. Zan. Zan duk duk duk pa pey duk che duk Okay, nice, nice.

It's coming, it's coming. Okay, that's how Gibson used to read. All right, so I, I'm, Grandpa knows how all of you guys used to sound.

dey dabay dok. What's dok, Gibson? Power.

Yeah, you, you get, if you keep your morality, you have a kind of power, okay? And then people don't want to dikpa you. Do something bad to you.

Good, yeah, literally it means threaten you. Well, but here Tsongkapa said, I mean Choney Lama says, this dikpa here doesn't mean threaten, it means tsewa, which means to harm you. People don't want to hurt you.

So, shen dak gi means other people don't want to hurt you, rang la, okay? Not only that, okay, er, bar, er, they all dukpa to you. They all respect you.

Yeah, they all bow down to you, they all respect you, okay? So, here's three benefits of not hurting other people. Number one, you're a happier person.

Number two, you look cool among all people. Number three, people respect you and don't try to hurt you, okay? Cool?

He's trying to sell the second perfection. He's a car salesman, okay? All right.

You okay, Gibson? You look like you have a question. Yeah, because I saw some translations say they don't need to threat other people to force them to respect you.

Right, it doesn't say that here, because here it says rang la. Oh, okay. And it's just a different interpretation by a different person, so that's okay.

Yeah, our author wants to say they won't hurt you. And I agree, you could read this two different ways. Choney Lukma made a decision, and you could easily read it a different way, yeah.

In fact, if I was reading the root text, I wouldn't think of it this way. But I like it. As an advertisement for not hurting other people, it's a good advertisement to say no one will ever hurt you.

So that's a pretty good advertisement, yeah. All right, now, we finished three pinions. What's pinion?

Benefit. Yeah, he's a salesman. He's selling you the second perfection.

He told you three cool things that are going to happen to you. Now he has to tell you what? How to do it.

Yeah, how to do it. Here's Nipa, Tsum Tsum. Who's going to read that?

Give it to him. Stanley. Uh-oh, uh-oh.

He's asleep. It's still going. Okay, Joe Tian, Joe Tian.

Oh, he woke up. I didn't turn on my mic. Hey Stanley, did anybody bite you while you were asleep?

Did anybody bite me? In the cave? Yeah, yeah, never mind.

That's a mind-only joke, okay. I got a bear bite. Nipa Tsum Tsum ni, de tan shen re sok te.

Okay, Tsum Tsum means? How to keep your ethical way of life. Yeah, now the word Tsum means protect, right?

Protect, yeah. No, but when people... I call that translation method word-for-word translation.

So, some people see the word Tsum and they say, oh, Tsum usually means protect. So, they will say protect your morality. But we don't use that in English.

We don't say that. So, I like it that you said keep your morality or keep your ethical way of life. And that's how we say it in English.

So, try to avoid one-for-one switching words. Always think about what it means. Yeah, how do you keep your morality?

Then what does shen re mean here, de tan shen re? After knowing the benefit and the feature. Yeah, and he's quoting the first four syllables of his next verse.

You see what I mean? The next verse starts with de tan shen re. He says, if you want to know how to keep your morality, read the next verse, okay?

Yeah, they all have the same pattern in the second. Yeah, exactly. And by the way, this is a good text for teaching somebody Tibetan.

And I thought you're Tibetan. I didn't know your Tibetan was so good. So, I gave you this book.

But now I'm going to give you something harder. All right, who's going to read this, Gimson? Let me see.

Lily? Lily, are you there? Hey, Gimson, when it's time to read people's internet.

Everybody's feed. Yeah. Okay, then Rosanna, if you're there.

Hi, Rosanna. I couldn't hear you. Oh, can you hear me now?

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Nice, very, very good. It looks like words doing some work.

Okay. What's it mean, tsul shen ne? What's that mean?

Tsul shen ne. After you knowing these benefits, how do you keep learning? Yeah, once you know the system of how these benefits work.

What were the three benefits? Like the moon, which cools your heat. Yeah, you feel happy all day.

Number two? Yeah, number two. You will outshine in every living being.

Yeah, good. And number three? In this commentary.

Okay, number three is people won't hurt you anymore. Yeah, nobody will ever hurt you. It's funny because you see people get cancer, right?

And they say, I don't know why I got cancer. And they're eating a hamburger. You know, and you're like, okay.

There's a pun here in the first line, Gibson. And by the way, it's impossible to express it in English, but... I couldn't find it.

He says, once you understand how this works, with these three kinds of good results, you should keep... Once you understand this tsul, you should keep your tsul too. Okay, got it?

And he's doing it on purpose. Choney Lama is showing off. Once you understand this tsul, this system, then you should...

Now you can say protect. You should protect your morality just like what? Just like your eyes.

Yeah, just like your eyes. And if you go like this to somebody very suddenly, they will go like this. They will protect their eyes.

It's automatic. You don't have to think about it. If something happens and the stove blows up and you're...

What's that stuff you guys eat in Hong Kong? Stanley, what's that stuff? Which one?

With the rice and the pork. Oh, porridge? Kanji.

Yeah. Kanji, kanji. Kanji, yeah.

If your kanji blows up on your stove, the first thing you do is you protect your eyes, right? You go like this. It's automatic.

It's reflex, okay? So what he says is, when a very good person gets close to cheating on their taxes, they will go like this. Immediately they will say, no, no, no, no, no.

Your accountant says, hey, you could change this number and the government probably won't find out. And then if you understand the second perfection, your automatic reaction is, uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to do that.

It's automatic reaction, okay? Who's automatic reaction? Dampa.

Holy being. Yeah, holy people from Dang Lun. From the past.

Yeah, so people in the past who understood the six perfections well, they always avoid making illegal or immoral action like protecting their eyes. It's automatic. As soon as they see a chance to do something wrong, they run the other way, okay?

All right, cool. Because they understand the benefits. They want the three benefits, okay?

All right, we reached the next perfection, which is number three. Who's going to read, Gibson? Rebecca.

Cool.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
All right, ni le means what, Gibson? The same structure of the two divisions. Which are?

Which are the benefit and the feature. The second one is how to do it. Yeah, how to follow it, right.

And now we're going to talk about sopa. Not getting upset. Yeah, I like it.

Not getting upset. Patience, by the way. I have a problem with the word patience because it has two different meanings in English.

So when a word has two common different meanings, I don't like to use it because it gets watered down. It gets less powerful. Patience means you can spend a long time fixing something at your house.

And you're patient. It's like rubbing a piece of steel with a cotton ball. That's patience.

In English, that's patience. But it's not not getting angry. You see what I mean?

So that's why I'm not crazy about the word patience. But maybe sometimes we call it that. Why does he say she here?

The four verses. Verses. Yeah, the four lines in the Tibetan, okay?

And when, by the way, when you translate it, your English might be six lines. And so you have to remember that when you translate it, okay? All right, here we go.

We're going to skip the verse and go to the commentary. Who's going to read? This is kind of long.

I think Ben. There's something wrong with the first line. I don't know what it is yet.

I'm thinking about it. Oh, I think it's taro land. We have to check, okay?

I think it's land. Okay. We got to check this carving, okay?

Yeah. What about the second line? 10 part away, that's legal?

Yeah, it is, and it's really weird. I'm sorry about that. And it is weird, but it is barely legal.

Okay, here we go. Yeah, this should be, the first one should be dang len, okay? Serpa, which means, I don't know what you want to call it.

Not getting upset, okay? The first one is called dang lang, or dang len, which means, dang len means you don't try to avoid something, you actually embrace it, okay? So dang du len means you embrace it, okay?

I don't know, you're tired. We had a New Year's party at the cafe, and then I was tired the next day. Grandpa stood up to one o'clock dancing, and on mocktails, okay?

Not cocktails. And I was tired the next day, and I had to sweep the place for two hours. And then you can either be grumpy, or you can feel energized that you're doing something good, you know?

So that's called du ngel dang len. You don't feel so good physically, but you take it happily, okay? Dang len means you take it happily.

Okay, I love sweeping. I love going out in the cold rain and picking up the New Year's confetti off the ground. And that's called dang len, okay?

It means you enjoy doing hard things, okay? Here's the second kind. And by the way, that kind of serpa is close to the one that means not getting upset when you have to work hard.

Okay? It's not somebody hit you or somebody did something to you. That's kind of a patience with a hard job.

nupa la jimi nyampa means... I have no idea. Oh, jimi nyampa means you don't worry about it.

jimi nyampa means you don't worry about it when someone nupa to you. Hurts you. Hurts you.

And by the way, from the guy who just turned 70 years old, the best way to save time in your life is when someone wants to fight with you, just walk away, you know? Someone hurts you. Someone calls you something online.

Someone steals something from you. Someone says, does something, hits you. Someone doing something to you when you're driving.

Just walk away. You save so much time. You know, I got this email like yesterday, like it's three pages.

Someone's angry. And I just erased it, you know? And okay, I didn't read it.

I didn't even finish it. And I saved so much time that way, okay? So anyway, nupa la jimi nyampa means you just ignore it when someone hurts you.

Okay? And you just move on. Okay?

What's chu la nge top? You gotta sit in bow power? That's top.

This is top. Chu la nge top means, we'll see how he explains it, but mainly I think it's patience with your practice. Okay?

Patience with your practice. Okay? Like, you sit through 1111 Mixed Nuts classes.

And patiently, okay? Because you want to learn the Dharma. So that's called, you know, the patience you have with investing time in Dharma study.

Okay? We'll see how he explains it. Okay?

Now, he says, look, there's three kinds of patience taught in the Lam Rim. And the one we're going to focus on, the one that Tsongkhapa's focusing on, is nupa la suppa. What's that mean?

Nupa la suppa. Nupa la suppa. You got patient when you are not getting upset when someone hurts you.

Nice, nice. Yeah, nice. And temp, by the way, is a very weird adjective word, which means directly spoken about here, in this verse.

The one of the three kinds of patience, which is directly referred to in this verse, is the one where if someone hurts you, you just let it go, you move on. Now look, you can move on three years later. Or you can move on three seconds later.

What's the difference? You see what I mean? You're going to forget this person who hurt you.

I had someone made a website to criticize me, and I was so proud that I forgot their name. I can't remember their name, you see? And look, you're going to forget their name sooner or later anyway.

Why don't you do it five minutes later? And you save so much trouble, you know? So, here we go.

Uh, next paragraph. Who's going to read, Professor Gibson? Uh, Nick?

Yeah, and then after we finish this line, we want to have your summary of the text today, Gibson. So while Nick is talking, I want you to start thinking about how you're going to summarize. We have eight minutes left, though.

Oh, really? Oh, okay. We'll finish this whole section.

Oh, okay. Okay, good. I'm not so comfortable with the spelling of cure, but I'll take it.

Okay. Okay, good. So, nöpa means what?

Hurt. Yeah, somebody hurts you. Khor means to carry a load on your back, to carry a heavy weight on your back.

Kyer is a word that means to carry it. Kyer means to carry. This spelling is a little unusual, okay?

Those bodhisattvas who are top ten, who got the power. Yeah, the bodhisattvas who are really strong, they are able to carry the heavy weight of somebody hurting them, okay? And they don't try to avoid it.

The people hurt them. They smile. And in response, they help the other person.

This is the crazy bodhisattva wisdom. Someone cheats you out of money, and you offer them more money. That's bodhisattva response to someone cheating you.

There's a famous guy, he was a famous Christian about 400 years ago in England, and he studied this thing in the Bible that says, if someone takes your coat, you should offer them your sweater also. If someone hits you and steals your coat, you should also offer them your sweater. So people found out that if they cheat this guy, he will always give them more money.

And then people start cheating him on purpose, because they want to make more money, you see? It's very cool. Anyway, Changshem taught them powerful bodhisattvas who have strength, and so he's explaining the root text, strength.

Strength means what? You can carry the heavy load happily of someone else hurting you, okay? You don't complain, and you don't set it down.

You just carry it, okay? And when they do that, that heavy load becomes again. Okay, it becomes the highest jewel.

Yeah, it becomes a piece of jewelry. It becomes a piece of jewelry, okay? Someone criticizes them online, and they respond kindly and elegantly, and then they start to look even better, okay?

They look better and better. Their patience is the ultimate jewelry, okay? What's dze che mean?

Transform? Makes them beautiful. Dze means beautiful.

It makes them look even more sexy, okay? Their patience with people who hurt them, the bad things that people say to hurt them, ends up making them look better and better, okay? All right?

Because they don't respond. They don't react, okay? All right.

Who's got the next one? Alex Rivas. Okay, thank you.

I'm going to cut it here. Okay. Alex, you can send me $10 for cutting it.

Okay. Cut to Duma Yukyun Kyung. Good.

Duma, we had it this morning, didn't we? Or in, oh, anyway. Had it here, yeah.

Say again? We just had it in. Yeah.

Yeah, Duma means to suffer because of heat, right? What's the heat here, Gibson? Yeah, negative emotion.

Yeah, yeah, good. So you start to get upset at your wife, or you start to get jealous of another mixed nut, and then that's called the fire of negative emotions, okay? The Nyanbo for that fire.

The antidote for that. There's many, many kathus you could do. A lot of difficulty.

A lot of difficult job tasks you can do. Yeah, so kathus means difficult spiritual practice, like, I don't know, you don't eat for three days, or something like that, okay? Kathus means difficult thing for practice.

You go to a yoga class taught by Anatole, or something like that, okay? It's time for the recap, Ken. Oh, okay, let's do the recap.

We'll come back to this. You're up. Okay, so today we talk about two perfection.

The first one is keep the ethical way to apply, and normally the structure is the first. What is the benefit of it, and how to keep it? So what is the benefit of the ethical way to apply?

Is three. There are three benefits. The first one is it's like a moon, and it can cool down your heats of negative emotion.

And the second one is that if you keep the morality, then you are like a person outstanding in all being. The third one is that no one will ever hurt you in the future. And what's Chuninama Menin talking about is how to refrain from the bad deed.

And it's like protecting your eye, and you naturally will protect your morality. So we go to the not getting upset. They also have the three benefits.

The first one is you start to not getting angry when you got some hard thing come to you. So you embrace the hardship. The second one is you won't getting angry, or you won't getting upset when someone hurts you.

So the third one is patience. Third one, I forget. Patience with difficult spiritual practice like sitting in the mixed nuts class.

Yes, yes, yes. And the most beautiful one is the great Bodhisattva, they will carry out those difficult thing, and embrace them, and make them as the jewel. Yeah, nice.

So someone criticized them, but they turn out to be more beautiful than before, because they just don't get upset. All right, cool. Nice job, Gibson.

Very good job. So Geshe-la, can you give me the... Yeah, I would like you to finish this next part that starts with GATU.

Okay? Okay. And that's not enough for you, so I want you to do this next one, SOL DE LTAR SHES.

Okay, those two sections. Okay. Okay, cool.

Thank you, Geshe-la. Nick wanted to say something. You ready?

Oh, just come on to Connie's yoga, John Brady's yoga class. He's going to substitute for Connie this morning. So if you want an awesome yoga class with an awesome guy, JB is teaching in about 15 minutes, and then Nicole Majewski will lead a yoga class at 3 p.m. Arizona time. So make it to one, please. Yeah, and I'm really happy with how hard people are working, and I'm happy that so many people are sitting in this class. I don't know what happened, but I'm really happy.

And if you can sit through these classes, you're a special person. All right. Thank you, Geshe-la.

Thanks for great classes. We'll see you tonight. Who's up tonight, Nick?

I'm just curious. It is... I know it's me.

And then Utpala and Adam. Man, that's going to be headaches. All right.

I'll have to do patience. Okay. Thank you, Geshe-la.

Okay. See you guys tonight. Thank you.

Bye. Thank you.

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