Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 22

[Speaker 1]
Hey again. Hola. Hola, hola.

Almost done. That was a nice video. I've got to show that.

Okay. Yeah, it was impressive. Yeah, I mean, I couldn't do that.

Let me see here. Come on, Jeru. Not Jeru.

I'll send you Jeru videos later. That's when I get desperate. Did you check out that song I sent you?

Uh-oh. Is it cool? I'll send you a different one.

Send it again. It's this band that's relatively modern that kind of plays like 60s rock style. They do it really well.

All right. And the bass player is amazing. I don't remember playing on that.

Where is that Gibson? Gibson. Never far.

Huh? Never far. Hi, Gibson.

Good to see you. Hi. You look so bright and cheerful.

I don't know what's wrong with you. Okay, I have to make an announcement first. Okay?

Is that all right? Okay. Yeah.

The best website in the world for finding a place to stay in a hotel is called TripAdvisor. And they have an annual contest of the best hotels in the world, in the United States. And this is what it looks like.

And these are the best of the best hotels in the United States. And number one. Whoa.

Amazing. Well done, Tim. Yeah.

6.0. That's incredible. Oh, that's a lot of review. That's the hotel that Tim Lornhow runs in his free time.

And I think he should run the Peachtree. I'm not kidding. Yeah, but can you put Peachtree up on this contest so they can also vote for the best cafe?

So I just got to say we're very grateful to Tim. And this is a hotel that a sponsor has dedicated all the income to the Mixed Nuts, to about half of the Mixed Nuts work. So we're extremely...

But he said you have to run it. And it could have been a disaster. And instead, it's number one in the United States.

So if you wanted to stay there, just forget it. Don't owe me two nights there, don't forget. I don't think I could afford to stay there.

In 200 years, I can get us. If you could afford it before, you definitely can't now. Yeah, right.

Okay, I got to go back and let Gibson do his thing. Thank you, Gibson. Yeah.

What do you think? I'm here. Okay, let me share my screen.

All right. It's Friday. Yeah.

All right. So today our quiz is a little bit special. Here we have three statements from the last class, and there's only one which is 100% correct.

So please tell me which one is 100% correct. And for those who are not 100% correct, please tell me which part is wrong. And so let's go to the first one.

Gibson is handsome, 100%. 100%. All right.

The first one is after you kind of come out of the direct perception of anything, you will start to see everything. You start to see everything is not real and not important. And this is why it's called Maya.

Is this correct, truth or false? Nice. Nice question.

Can anyone tell me why it is false? What do you mean by? Maybe not.

All right. Also says it's all sounds pretty good until you said not important. Because it's real.

All right. Yes, it's false. And you're getting used to this privacy.

Thing looks like they are coming from their own side, which is last time we say they are two kind of emptiness. And I guess you have the opinion. He he wants to say that's not known in this paragraph is to kind of emptiness.

So what is known is thing appears to come from its own side. And you don't believe it anymore. You start to think things are empty of being from their own side.

We just don't. So this is why this period of the aftermath. Then, like, illusion, you know.

True or false. Oh, that's. OK, so this is the answer.

The correct one for the follow this statement. Yeah. So let's come to the second statement.

In order to make something out of your life, you should develop this share path in your mind stream. Then go find a master who is well trained in this system. Then jump into the great ocean and don't worry about it.

True, true, true, true. Yeah. True.

Thank you. And rely on their personal advice from your teacher. And you'll be able to complete all the crucial point of the path.

And here is. Yeah, it's very important to find a teacher. Otherwise, you won't get their personal advice.

So it's true. So I give you the answer. The next one is wrong.

But tell me which way to travel this path. It's divide into perfection way and diamond way. Identify the study of perfection way as cost.

Then he added by the study of diamond way. A perfection was cost. Then he identified the study of a diamond as a result.

So the correction. Correction between these two is when you put effort into the study of perfection way. Naturally, the diamond way will start to appear in your own life.

Is the correct or false? True or false? Or you can take the diamond as the truth.

So why? Why Jason Kaufman in the perfection way? Why Jason Kaufman in the diamond way as the result way?

It is more literally, but there's another way you could do it is taking it. Because taking it. Yeah.

Cool. You could do it both. Basically what I'm saying.

Okay. All right. So the other way is.

Ben said last time. The reason why Jason Kaufman stated the study of the diamond way secret teaching is result. Because the way of practice, the diamond way is to match.

That you already reached the goal. And see yourself as a graduate of Guinea. And act like a graduate of Guinea.

And also see people around you have already achieved the goal. And it will help you to accelerate the progress. But it's probably.

It's probably not false. Like, okay. So, in the first place, it's probably true.

And then you can also say it that way. All right. It's true and false.

From what perspective? The question. Yeah.

Okay. Based on the context. All right.

Okay. So, I'm going to read the vocabulary. What is.

We can't see it. Oh. Kind of.

Well. Now I can see it. Now I feel delighted.

Yes. So, what's. Kelsang.

You're good, your karmic bank account. Goodness. I don't think anything's technically spelled that way though.

Kel's name. Oh, oh, oh. That's all right.

We all knew what you meant. People who have come to listen to the tracks. Oh, I think he might've meant that in this context, but in general, it just means you.

The fortune. Yeah, the assistant of the fortune. Fortune and purity, literally.

Okay. And Na. Probably praise the way it was spelled in the book.

And how about change this one, Na? Mantra. Probably mantra.

I can't see it, but you're probably erasing me. Oh, sorry.

[Speaker 2]
You can't see it.

[Speaker 1]
Maybe drag your screen up a little more. Yeah, but I'm afraid I drag it and then you'll see the answer. Wait, Gibson, what if you get rid of the S's?

What is it then? It's the mantra. And with the B, probably to praise.

But without either S, NGAG, what's that? NGAG? This one?

Take out the S, he's saying. Na. I don't know.

It means word. It means word.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

[Speaker 1]
Isn't it word? Oh, word. Word to talk or something.

All right, cool. And before I share the translation, because it's in the other computer, can I share a little video with you, one minute? And it's about the illusion.

I think it's very interesting. If it's... And it's cute.

Okay. Let me see. It's a boy with the color blind and this is the first time he wear on the glasses.

And I think this is pretty much like the illusion.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, and tell me what color that is. Wait, are these my color? Yeah.

Oh my God. It's red. Oh my gosh.

And that's white. Look, look at the sign up there. What's that?

[Speaker 1]
And oh my gosh, that's yellow. All right, don't go up there. Wow.

I've been to Mellow Mushroom Preschool.

[Speaker 2]
And this is white. What color is that car? Oh my gosh, it's kind of colors of blue.

Oh my... Oh, finally, I can see the colors. Oh, and that has a blue outline, kind of like yellow, kind of, kind of...

Come here. These are awesome. Here, hold my hand.

Oh my... And look, what color is the bush right there? Oh, oh, oh, oh, I better put this back on.

And look at these guys over here. Mama, can I wear these to school? Yeah.

I wanna wear them forever. Here, look. I'm gonna wear these forever, right?

Look at these guys. Oh my gosh. Mom, thank you so much.

What color is that guy? Oh my gosh, this guy's kind of blue with kind of a red crotch there.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool.

Yay, Jason. That's awesome. That's a coat.

My glasses help him to see colors.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, so does yours.

[Speaker 1]
I have a question though. If he couldn't see color before, how did he know that blue was blue and white was red? For billions of years, I've seen.

How did you know the answer to that?

[Speaker 2]
You do know the colors. I can tell you as a color, semi-colorblind person, you do know the colors, it's just you confuse them.

[Speaker 1]
So not, this is something that lets you not confuse the colors. Have you tried the glasses, Seiji? Yeah, they're amazing.

Although they're kind of freaky because when you take them out, everybody looks green. Very weird. Everybody looks like the Hulk.

Cool. And sorry, Jason, I couldn't find my transition. I'm on my computer.

Can you just show your- I'm gonna show you on my computer and now you have to do it live. That's no fun. Oh, what is that?

Here, right? Am I correct? Yes, you're correct.

Okay. All right. Please read and we'll translate.

All right. Okay, so they are different version of the Nangjong Nikkyon and because most of the people that are afraid to recite this in a monastery because they think they didn't achieve that goal, say, they don't want to say, I'm the practitioner. Say, they will say, the holy venerable teacher.

Yeah. Or, yeah, so this is the first line. Je Tsong Lama means the venerable teacher.

And the second version is, I am the practitioner. This is how I pray. Yeah, and those who want to achieve the freedom and you should pray like I am.

You should do the same, yeah. Nice. And he says, ZHES PA GANG BYAS KYANG LTOS NI LA'O He say, I have already told you that and this is easy and I don't need to explain to you.

What's the GANG BYAS KYANG? What's the GANG BYAS KYANG? GANG BYAS KYANG, either version you can use.

Yeah, good. Either version you can use. Nice, amazing, good work.

Please read this one. Wait one second, wait one second. Okay, there we go.

All right. ,DI PHRO DUM LA LA RNAMS MED PAS BSTAN PA DANG, ,ZHES SOGS CI BYAS CI DANG, ,SNGA YI LA MA LO BZANG BRTAG PA THEG, ,ZHES SOGS CI BYAS CI DANG, ,DANG PO RGYAL CHEN GYI DUS PA MANG THUG CAL, ,ZHES SOGS CI BYAS CI DE GCIG RDZAD GSUN GYUR BA NI, ,GZHAN GYIS DUN CHA LA GAGS SANGS BA STE, ,DI YI ZHUGS NGO MIN PAS MA CI SOGS, Yeah, so he's mentioning three different verses of prayer. And he says the prayer that, and we're going to read those three separately, so we don't have to go through them here.

But he, the author says, the commentator says, oh, those are ZHAN GYIS DUN CHA. Those are the prayer book from, others' prayer book, from the other prayer books. That's just something that people like to pray at the end of the text, and different people like to do it first.

So it's not part of the text. GAGS GANG means they have... Open land now, as we studied loudly.

No, GAGS GANG means they added it. They added it, okay? Oh, added, oh.

Yeah, it means to stuff somebody's mouth, okay? But it means to add something at the end of a book, which is not part of the book. Is it related to GAGS GANG again, the end?

Yep. It's not the real juke of our text. Oh, it's not the real conclusion in our text.

Yeah, therefore, I didn't write them all out. Okay. The full three verses, but if you're a mixed nut, you better have them somewhere in your appendix or something, because the Westerners or the modern people don't know those three prayers, and they're quite sweet.

So we're going to take a side trip to those three verses, okay? Geshe-la, we have to have a kakong about the kakong? Say again, sorry?

We have to have a kakong about the kakong. Kakong just means that it's been added by people as a final prayer to the text, and it's not part of the text. Yeah, thank you.

He's making a joke. I can't read. Addendum about the addendum.

Oh, okay. By the way, Veronica loved your photos, those three photos you sent me. She wants to steal the kids, so be careful.

Be careful, lock the door. Okay, thank you. Okay.

Gibson, you want somebody else to read since you're so good at reading? Okay. Earl, Earl Burnley.

Nice. Okay, Earl Burnley. Earl, can you hear me okay?

Yep, it sounds like you are underwater, but you're okay. Okay. Here we go.

Here we go. Nice, nice, perfect. I know it, but I appreciate it.

So, Getsa, let's translate it. Lama of the Dönpa who is Lama Mepa. The teaching from the matchless teacher.

Yeah, the teaching of the teacher who is beyond any match. The fact that I jawa this teaching... At the first I met him?

Yeah, the fact that I have met up with this teacher, the cajun of my lama. Due to the gratitude of my... the kindness of my teacher.

The fact that I met the Dharma in this life was due to the kindness of my teachers in my past lives. And because I met the Dharma, I've been able to do a lot of gyewa. And be able to make a lot of virtue.

And I ngewa this virtue. I dedicate this virtue. It should be a gyew.

It should be the cause, the seed, the cause. That jowa ma lupa should be dzinpa by a shengyin dönpa. Every living being should be dear, held by the holy virtuous friend, the teacher, shengyin.

Yeah, the fact that I met the Dharma is because of the kindness of my teachers. And I would like to dedicate the karma of my lifetime study of the Dharma that other people might meet their teachers. Very beautiful.

And that's... tenpa lana me summa tanchen gyalwa jungway gongway dukpa layapar shepa nunmo This is from a text called The Praise of the Buddha Because He Taught Dependence. What do we want to say about that book?

It's coming next. It's coming next, yeah. Next book, okay.

And Ratsanghapa praises Lord Buddha for teaching dependence. And he writes him a love poem. But the whole love poem is about empties.

So it's very cool. So we're going to translate that next. Okay, let's read this one.

Pick on somebody, Gibson. Okay, Joey Chen. Oh, good.

You correct her, okay? Okay. Ngayi Lama Ngayi Lama Ratsanghapate Jathe Gangden Gangden, wow.

[Speaker 2]
Gangden sum Tewa Chennasok Dakpe Dakpe Shinkak Kanga Daksok Kangrun Good. Daksokorokke Tokmah Kebashok Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Probably Kewar, I'm thinking. Okay. Translate.

Translate, Gibson, line by line. Ngayi Lama My teacher, Losang Drabpa, Jejongkapa. He's hanging out in Gangden or Dewachun?

He's hanging out in Tushita, how to say? The Paradise of Bliss? Yeah.

Sorry, the Paradise of Happiness. Or he might be in Dewachun. The Paradise of the Bliss?

Happiness, yeah. A word, what's the... Sukhavati is...

So these are two different Buddha paradises. So he says, my teacher, Losang Drabpa, Jejongkapa. I don't know where he's hanging out now.

This must be after he passed away. Maybe he's in Tushita, maybe he's in Sukhavati. He's in some Buddha paradise.

Dr. Shinkam, means what? The pure paradise. Yeah, the pure paradise.

Kangla Shukyam, whichever he might be Shuk. Whichever he might be staying? Yeah, whichever one he's staying in.

May I gewa. May I develop? May I be born in my life into the front row of his court.

Of his teaching. Of his students. His attendants.

Student, oh, attendant, oh. No, his disciples. May I be born close to him, among all his students.

May I be born close to him. Very beautiful. Who wrote that one?

It's a... Who is that? Gangden Hagama.

Gangden Hagama, but... We've been trying to figure out if Gyuchen Sangye Gyatso wrote the root text. Well, this was indicating it was not Jejongkapa, but I'm supposed to answer you, I know, Nick, I'm sorry.

Oh, no, it's okay. In my research, I could not find the author of just the root text, Gangden Hagama. Very difficult.

Yeah, it is that other writer. This has notes on it, though, right? Yeah, but I think it is by Gyuchen.

But I'll send you an answer in the email. Yeah. Okay, here's the last one, Gibson.

Who's going to read for you? Rob Haggerty. Oh, painful.

Read for us, not for him. Hey, Rob. Hey, Gibson, how are you?

Yeah. Okay. No.

No, no. No. No.

What I want you to do first, you should seek a lot of tupa. You should go to a lot of Mixed Mass Crafts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you should seek a lot of spiritual teachings.

This is his advice. Secondly, parduk, shung luk, all the shung luks will appear to you as dampa. It's very similar to the word gandha.

So, every text will strike to you as a personal advice. Yeah, that's like when you're sitting in a teaching by a teacher, and they say something, and you think they saw what you did secretly yesterday. And you're like, what?

And it feels like they're criticizing you directly, or they're talking to you directly. And this is the blessing of having a teacher. Somehow they say the right thing at the right time.

Okay, and Tamar, finally. Finally, you will put it into practice day and night. Yeah, what you learn, put it into practice all the time.

And please don't forget to lower it all, that the dampa should give up. Okay, and please to dedicate in order to let the teaching spread in the whole world, in the whole universe. Please dedicate your practice that the teaching should survive in this world.

All right. Haggerty's right here. Yes, Shiloh.

What was the chadu, was that like the appropriate amount or dedicated appropriately or something? For the purpose of, yeah. For the purpose of, okay, thank you.

Chadu and chadu same. Good question. Haggerty's right here, I don't know if you can say something.

Yeah, please keep continuing. Is that She? Yes.

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[Speaker 2]
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[Speaker 1]
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chen gye den nampar gyalway ling du jar waw jawo okay this chanchu lam kyi rimpa gibson this state set of the path to enlightenment yeah, how the nyam len how to practice it I've written you a small namsak the journal yeah just a small presentation and by the way can you sense we are approaching the end of the book so in Tibetan you write the introduction at the end and you say where were you, why did you write it, you know, things like that it's called colorful so I wrote this as a jejang as a personal note yeah I just wrote down some notes because I didn't want to forget some cool stuff je means to forget and jang here means to clear away okay so it means clear away forgetting so personal notes like you wake up in the middle of the night with a cool idea and you don't want to forget it you scribble it on a piece of paper you go back to sleep and in the morning you find this piece of paper and you're like oh yeah and he's being very modest I just wrote this as just kind of personal notes but I am mang du tubpa I have to say well I did hear a lot of teaching yeah I spent my whole life learning the teachings and I am a general and a full monk yeah I'm also a pang wapa and also live the life to do the retreat yeah I've also spent a lot of time in retreat as a hermit my name is Lobsang Darpa my name is Lobsang the Pure Heart and my pure heart is getting to be known for everyone yeah and where I wrote it is at gen den nam par gyelway ni it's in the forest of the virtue forest called the gen den it's called the island of total victory of virtue if you slur it, it's gan den monastery it's gen den and he changed it to gan den and this is written in his final years in the first buildings at gan den so it was just like they had five dollars and they put up a shack and they said this is going to be gan den monastery and it was kind of a joke I'm at gan den monastery, how many monks? Five how big is the monastery?

it's about as big as an outhouse and he wrote it there but he had a vision, right Shanti? he saw a grand university and later it did have later it had about 8,000 monks before it was destroyed number gyelway ling du gyelwa means retreat? like summer it means where I wrote the book, gyelwa means to compose and that monastery was built on top of a riwo mountain yeah, a lot of joppas walking around nomads?

joppa means like sheep herders and goat herders poor people with sheep trying to find some grass and he kind of said well can you just stay over there, I've got to build a monastery so it used to be called nomad mountain nomad mountain it means sheep herder mountain very humble place it was just like an empty rock yeah I'm just curious does gan den, does that mean those who have virtue or does that mean the place had virtue? it means later it became gan den, but in the beginning it was gan den, place of the virtuous and his system became called ge lukpa the virtuous so this ge got transferred to the name of his system ge lukpa galupa four great schools of today okay, now guess what Gibson, there's nothing new in this next paragraph he just quoted I'm going to skip it, he quoted the whole colophon so who are you going to pick on next? Claire, Xu Tingting good morning good morning I am a teacher in Dongbu. I am a teacher in Dongbu.

number number six eight some home me yeah mean don't they eat don't pay me yeah um young young this one yeah young none um love me no good job Okay, in this book, all the ne of the lam rim are tsang. In this book, all the crucial point is complete. Yeah, all the crucial points of the lam rim are complete.

So when you dunpa it, I want you to dunpa tel bu. I'll give you a clue about del. This del is the del in del-njor.

Okay, legion, fortune. Yeah, but leisure del means slow. Does that give you a clue?

Step by step. When you recite it, recite it methodically. Go slow, okay?

When you recite this lam rim out loud, please do it slow, okay? And shag means bring the meaning into your mind. You know, as you go through the text, go so slow that you can do a running meditation on the meaning.

It's a very beautiful, it's a wonderful practice. If you learn to do it, you recite very slow and you bring up each image in your mind as you go. It's like watching a Netflix, a more interesting Netflix.

Okay, dun yin la. We think this is misspelled. Did you check, Gibson?

It's only shar without the pao. Okay, good, okay. Yeah, that means bring each subject up in your mind as you recite, okay?

As example, in a shar... Gong. Shar gong.

Yeah, there's the same shar. Okay, chen na. And then lam rim gyi dun dun ne nyam su lam bar gyur.

If you bring up the meaning of each verse slowly in your mind as you recite, you recite super slow, you will cover the meaning of the lam rim. And that is a nyam len. It's a practice.

Yeah, because the steps of the lam rim are meant as meditation. Steps. When you say lam rim, when you say steps of the path, they are meant to be meditation steps, most of them.

So he says if you can slow down when you recite this thing and think about each meaning as you say it, then you are practicing the whole lam rim. Nyam su lam bar gyur. And it's not just sig tsam.

It's not only a word. Yeah, it's not just... Most of us, when we recite it, you know, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, it's too fast, and we're not thinking...

We're thinking about what's for breakfast after the recitations, which is what I used to do in the monastery.

[Speaker 2]
So...

[Speaker 1]
Geshe-la, what is the dun here? Dan, D-O-N. Spelling of dun, n-dun.

Okay, so... To recite? Yeah, recite, yeah.

And probably you should check it, but it's some kind of tense of the verb dunpa, to recite, yeah. So it won't be just reciting empty words, okay? Then I don't mean to say that.

Then he adds an extra thing, which is kind of funny. He says, den... What's that mean, Gipsu?

Den, or... The same lung ring? Therefore, when you guys do your khatun...

When you recite the lung ring? In the monastery, every day when you guys are reciting, please don't do it with duchak. Don't do it with the desire.

Or attachment to jang nyenpa. The sound of that melody. It sounds so sweet.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. And everybody's like, wow, I'm the best one in this whole room. And he says, please don't think like that.

Don't get distracted by how beautifully... You can recite, okay? All right, who's next, Gipsu?

Who are you going to... By the way, sometimes they end the book quickly, and sometimes it's like, I don't know. Sometimes the ending is longer than the book.

Menabot Chuntung. Yeah, yeah. RGYI MTHIL BA Something like that.

Okay, good. Sorry. What's nyam len mean, Gibson?

The meditation. Yeah, no, the actual practice of these steps. Oh, the actual...

I could have imposed the structure of the lung ring on this prayer, right? This is a prayer that was made at Roderick Monastery by Tsongkhapa. Oh, sorry, which book are we in?

Yeah, this is Tsongkhapa making a prayer about his spiritual life. Sorry, I'm on a different book. And I could have imposed on this commentary the structure of the lung ring.

Greater capacity, meaning capacity. I could have made a whole lung ring structure. BYAS NUS I knewpa.

I'm able to do that. I could do that. I know how to do that.

But I had a dhokpa that it might be mung-bo. I had a fear that it would be too much. Yeah, I was worried that it might be too much for you guys.

Okay. MI GOR ZHIG BLOG SU PHYI YOD PAS And I have already written... MI GOR means the visualizations, the series of visualizations.

I have already written books about it. BLOG SU Separately. Yeah, I've already got...

I've written separate texts like the Lama Rinpoche 1000 Pages. If you want to do the visualizations one by one, go check out my other books. I covered it in the other books, okay?

Therefore, I didn't giyepar she in this book about the visualizations. So I don't explain the visual in this book? Yeah.

So is this Je Tsongkapa or Choney Lama saying here? This is Choney Lama. Choney Lama.

All right. Because of the next sentence, it has to be Choney Lama. ZIG RTEN RDZOGS PAR The meaning of each word in detail.

GZHAN GYIS BRAL BA MA THONG Already read? Already commented on? Yeah.

The meaning of each separate term in this poetry. GZHAN GYIS BRAL BA Commented upon by others. MA THONG You're not going to find this in other commentaries.

I've never seen anybody go through and explain Je Tsongkapa's own account of his own spiritual life word by word. I've never seen anybody do it. So, of course, PHYI NUS A'I ZHANG BA Therefore, I wrote this commentary.

Whatever ability I had. To the best of my brain. RANG LO To the best of my brain's ability, I wrote a commentary.

Because I haven't seen other people explain the wording one by one. And I don't know of other great commentaries like this, on that very important word. Okay, who are you going to pick on next?

Sugeng Yay, Sugeng, finally. Yes. MEPA RGYAL BA'I SRUNG RAB KUN GYIS NYING PO'I DUN NYAM SU LAM PA'I DOM PA RAB DRIL BA BYANG CHUB GRUB PA'I LAM GYIS RIM PA'AN DI THUB TEN RGYAL TSE NA NOR BU ZIN Nice, okay.

MEPA means Thus it has finished. Thus I've reached the end. It means so spoken.

I have reached the end. Then he puts in a little poetry. RGYAL BA'I SRUNG RAB What's RGYAL BA'I SRUNG RAB?

The highest spoken word by the victor. Yeah, you got to be careful with this word, because if you say the highest spoken word of the Buddha, it means he also spoke lower words. And actually the word for Dharma, DAM CHOD, which people translate as Holy Dharma, means there's many Dharma teachings in the world.

And this is the highest. Shakyamuni's is the highest. So here, the highest of spoken words in the universe, actually.

The highest of spoken words in the universe, which is by the Buddhas. I took the NYING PO'I DUN. I took the essence of the meaning.

Yeah, and I made it so you could NYAMS SU LEN PA. And made it so you could put it into the actual practice. Yeah, and this should be probably DUN PA.

Okay? It means... I wrote you...

DUN PA means like a short poetry presentation for your personal practice. GYIL, does anybody tell me GYIL? To wrap, like a wrap-up bread.

Yeah, like me and my wife always argue about which kind of plastic wrap is better. And that's called GYIL BA, okay? BYANG CHUB DROD PA'I LAM, what's that mean?

This is the way you travel on the step on the path to enlightenment. The road that you have to travel to enlightenment, the steps on that road. This Lam Rim, okay?

This Lam Rim is like a Norbu. Like a jewel. At the Tse.

At the peak. At the peak of the Gyaltsen of the Tupas. The victory banner of the...

Of the... Of the Avalon. All the Buddha's teachings, okay?

So, this little Lam Rim is like a jewel that is at the top of the stick that's holding the victory banner of the teachings of all the Buddhas. Why is that important? If you want to create a Chintamani...

You have to put it up on a flagpole and put herbs on it and stuff? Yeah, and you have to watch it a special way. And then you have to do prayers on certain moon dates.

And then a common jewel, jewel that you find in the river or something, it will become a wishing jewel. What's the ultimate wishing jewel according to that same teaching? BYANG CHUB DROD PA'I LAM Other people.

Other people. Other people, okay? So, it's very beautiful.

He says, I just wrote you a little book here. A few verses. Don't forget to put it on the top of the stick.

It means, use it to serve others. It's very beautiful. Make it a wishing jewel.

Nice. Okay, keep going. Who's next?

Who are you going to talk to now? Yay, Tang Tang. She's making some beautiful translations, you guys.

[Speaker 2]
Yay. Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, nice, nice. So, because it's a wishing jewel on the top of the flagpole, if you can nyam len, just a thumb, this instruction. If you just can practice a little bit.

Yeah, just put a little bit into practice, please. If jipa is high honorific, who's using it to who? It's a tradition for high lamas to use it to their students.

If you geniuses could just move your holy body to do the actions, that would be so cool. So, gyal den means you'd be a huge bank account, a huge karmic bank account. You'd be rich karmically.

That's if you could just do any little tiny piece of this. But, if you could do a dzogpa... If you can put all the dong ri into the practice?

Completely. This whole text. If you could put the whole thing into practice.

Darwa, I know you're going to ask me a word. I hope you're going to ask me. It means a string.

Doesn't it mean a thread or something? No, there's a very unusual verb called lak len darwa. It's rare, and it means to put something into practice.

As opposed to theory. Just move it into your real life. Lak len darwa is a very rare verb.

It means move it into your real life. That's going to be yuang sa. Amazing.

Amazing. Chi mi che means why wouldn't that be god damn amazing? Wow.

He could practice the whole thing. Okay, who's next? Anatole.

Lham lam ze par chachiadang ro ndi kham ki drip moon sel we che Sel we che. Self-education. Self-education.

Yeah. Pluck some duck, bang, yop, yom dro, yom droy, shuk kyi drum. Okay, nice, nice.

We're getting better and better. I don't know what happened. We're getting worse and worse, but we're getting better and better.

Okay, shung dun means... shung dun cha she means all the parts of the meaning of this great book. Yom dro.

It's already complete. All of them. If you can put them all together, you will create a friend of the kunda, kumuda, kumuda.

Water lily? Yeah, it's a... I don't know, sometimes you can say a blue lotus or something like that, okay?

Yeah. And the Tibetans corrected it to kunda. It was kumuda, okay?

And so, when does the kumuda open? At night, right? It's like I have a datura in my garden.

I brought it from Diamond Mountain, and it only opens at night. And so there's a pollination problem, because bees don't never go out at night. But the datura created this incredible scent inside, and it's also a drug, it's a heavy drug.

So the bees sit on the edge of the bug, and they wait for... They're supposed to be home by dark. I guess they have a school teacher or something.

And they sit and they wait until the moonlight hits it. And when the moonlight hits it, it cracks open. And they run in there, and they get the pollen and the juice, and they run home.

And then some of them go down in there, and they get stoned on the juice. And in the morning, you go and they open it up, and they're all like... It's kind of cute.

I have a picture. Anyway, who's the friend of the datura? The moon, okay?

It's a name. The friend of the night-blooming lotus is the moon, okay? Whoever it is, I guess that just adds up.

That moon is Thubte Dambar. Is it the teaching of the evil one? Yeah, the teaching of the Buddhists is the moon.

Anybody tell me right? Because it opens... It will cool you down, mental friction.

It's supposed to be that the moonlight on your skin is cooling. Especially if you have a burn on your skin or something. You go out and put it in the moonlight.

That's a way to fix it. Okay, last question, Gibson. Then we'll finish the rest next time.

What's halam? The path of the divine? Yeah, anybody can guess.

It's a poeticism. I mean... The sky.

The sky. The path of the gods. The path of the gods' trouble, okay?

All right, we're going to stop there. Otherwise Nick will yell at me. I won't.

Yeah, thank you, Geshe-la. You did a good job, Gibson, and it's a pleasure to have you as a translator. Thank you.

Sashimi. Nick, any advice? Go to the bathroom.

Sashi, I advise you all to go to the bathroom. Don't yell at your teacher. Don't be like me.

No, I'm just kidding. I would never do that. Not that I can remember.

No, never, never, never. Thank you, Geshe-la. He just yells at other surfers.

No, no, they yell at me. You guys sing. Who's yelling at you, Nick?

I'm going to talk to him. No, no, no. Can I say one thing?

An anonymous sponsor in the group here in Sedona has donated $1,000 to the Mixed Nuts. Yay! So I'm going to give it to Rosa.

She'll give it to you. Okay, that's great. Thank you so much for who donated that.

And if anybody else feels inspired, I will put the donation link in the chat just because we're a nonprofit and we need all the help we can get. Definitely a nonprofit. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. When do we come back, Nick?

Well, technically two minutes. Let's go five minutes. So 33.

Thank you.