Гибсон Чан — Книга 1: Песнь моей духовной жизни (шаги пути), занятие 23

[Speaker 1]
Hi Amelie. Amelie, you want to say hi?

[Speaker 2]
You look like you're as sleepy as I am.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, she is. Amelie is sleepy. Amelie is sleepy.

She's too sleepy.

[Speaker 2]
Is that an earthquake?

[Speaker 1]
Is that an earthquake? No, it's not an earthquake. All right, Gibson, let's go.

Okay, hello, Gibson. Sorry, could you hear me?

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so what did Cholina Ma dedicate his lifetime study of karma for? Grandpa doesn't have to answer, right? Yeah.

Amelie can answer. Amelie, do you want to tell them anything?

[Speaker 3]
I got the head shake.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. I can show you the Tibetan first. Cholina Ma at the end of the text quotes three verses from different three texts.

And the first text, he dedicates his lifetime for the other living beings, every living being. And he says the teaching of the teacher who is beyond any age. So the fact I made up with this teaching was due to the kindness of other teachers in the past life.

So he would like to dedicate a virtue that every being in the future will meet their teacher. Yeah. And this is called from the praise of the dependent.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So the second verse, he made a prayer to himself. And it's a similar situation with the first verse. Can anyone guess?

[Speaker 2]
I've written a small presentation on how to practice this path to enlightenment. I spent my whole life learning the teachings. I am a full monk and I spend a lot of time in retreat.

My name is Lopsang Drapa. And where I wrote this is at the island of total victory of virtue.

[Speaker 1]
Like that? Wait, we're talking about Cholina Ma? Oh, that's the Colophon.

I'm sorry. Yeah, it's Cholina Ma. I can give you some tip because the first he dedicated all the karma to let every being meet their teacher in the future life.

[Speaker 2]
You should seek a lot of spiritual teachings. Every text will speak to you as personal advice. Practice day and night and dedicate your practice that the teaching should survive in this world.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. But that is the third one.

[Speaker 2]
The second one is about being able to be in the front row of students.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, yes.

[Speaker 2]
In future lives.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. He said, my holy teacher Lopsang Drapa, whether you stay in which pure paradise? Paradise of happiness or paradise of bliss?

May I go into the front row of his co-student? Yeah. Yeah, I think this is beautiful because the first Cholina Ma quotes and dedicate his whole karma to let every being meet their teacher.

And the second one, he hoped that himself in the future can be the co-student of the Jejong Kaba, Lopsang Drapa. Gibson, there might be a typo. Front row?

Oh, thank you. Front row. R-O-W.

R-O-W, yeah. R-O-W, oh. Yeah, good, that's it.

Yay. Thank you. You were probably in the center.

I can take it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So this is quote from the Dalai Lama, the second one.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So at the end, Cholina Ma give us an advice of how to put this text into your daily practice through the recitation. Hmm.

Because this text is meant to be the meditation practice.

[Speaker 3]
He says do it slowly and bring up like each image in your mind and, you know, think about it.

[Speaker 1]
Correct.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And he also warned us not to attach to our melody. Why?

[Speaker 3]
To our what?

[Speaker 1]
Attach to how well we sing it. Because we're just going to do it slow. It would just become rote.

It would be distracting. Correct.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So Rob Hegarty is correct. When you recite the Long Ring, you should recite slow and loud and you can bring each subject up to your mind.

And it's not just empty word. And when you recite it, don't do it with the attachment to the melody of the recitation. Nice.

Good. Good. Okay.

Tibetan vocabulary. Ooh, nice. Kagang.

Was that the same as a kakom? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess I say add something into.

Yeah. That's good. That's good.

Okay. How about chedu? For the sake of?

For the purpose of? Yes. Yay.

And how about mikor? Visualize? Visualization step?

[Speaker 3]
Yes. Serious of visualization.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Nice. Nice vocabulary.

Thank you. Nice job. And yeah.

I guess I didn't. Yeah, you didn't expect class today. I'm sorry.

So I'll give you double for next time. That's okay. But thank you for going today.

I know you weren't ready and somebody else had to cancel a meeting. Okay, here we go. Let's see here.

Here we go. Okay. Oh, sorry, wrong commentary.

I gotta go back. Let's try again. Here we go.

This isn't. All right. Let me get Nick and Amelie fit up here.

And I think we're here. Let me get this big cursor. Okay, good.

Please start here. You read the rest of these verses, Gibson, and then we'll pick on somebody else. Okay.

dru di kang gi jik kun saw way che, rak sung takpay gyong dro shuk gi trang Yeah, this is the second half of a verse. We only got halfway through a verse. The whole image was of the friend of the night-blooming lotuses, which means the moon.

It was a full moon because it included all the meanings of the scripture. All of the phases of the moon was complete. And the purpose of this moon was to make beautiful, dzepa, the slalom of the Buddha's teaching.

What's slalom? Sky. It means the sky, the road of the deities, the road of the worldly gods or whatever.

He's hoping that the moon of his commentary should pass through the night-time sky of the Buddha's teachings and make it even more beautiful. This word dzepa is often used to mean more beautiful, because it's already beautiful. And it's like the Abhisamalankara.

It's a necklace for a beautiful lady. She's already beautiful. So the Buddha's speech is already beautiful.

Then we're just adding a necklace. Here we're adding the moon to the beauty. I hope this moonlight sows the mumba.

I will clarify the darkness of the obstacle. I hope it will light up the darkness of the obstacles. And kam here means...

You can say the realms of these beings. It can also mean the parts of these people's being. But I would say realms.

How is the moon going to cross the sky in order to light up the darkness in all the realms? How is the moon going to cross the sky? How does the sun cross the sky according to ancient Buddhist mythology?

Chariteers? It's pulled by horses across the sky. There's like four magical horses, and they drag the sun across the sky.

So he says, this drang is a drang, and drang e, like pull it out. I hope this can be pulled by the power, shuk. Gyok dro means fast goer, and it's a poeticism for horse.

It's ancient Sanskrit poeticism for horse. So I hope this moon of my clarification is pulled through the sky, nighttime sky, by my hlak sam nam dak. By my personal responsibility?

Yeah, yeah. So my explanation of Je Tsongkapa's text is being pulled through the sky of the Buddhist teachings, just to make them more beautiful. They're already beautiful.

And it's being motivated or carried by the four horses of my personal responsibility. Yay! Okay, you got to read this one, Gibson, then you can pick on somebody else.

Go slow and go clear. Okay. may yi ki rewa yong dzok de, den de sok gi nir chok gyuwa shok Good.

What's bepa mean, do you know, you guys? Make effort? Effort.

Yeah, by my making effort at this, what's this? Writing this book? Yeah, writing this book.

By my making effort in writing this book, I hope everyone can go to the Ome Tso, Lake of Milk? Lake of Milk. Yeah, the ocean of milk.

And get the duzi. Duzi.

[Speaker 3]
Get the nectar out of it.

[Speaker 1]
Get the nectar out of it, which is perfect goodness of pure white, which is born from that ocean of milk. I hope everybody's able to go get that nectar. dun yer den.

What does dun yer den mean? Aspire? Seek?

Dun yer den would be those with aspiration or those who seek? Yeah, those who aspire. I hope their rewas are dzokpa.

Their hope is totally fulfilled. Yeah, I hope all their hopes are fulfilled. What are they hoping for?

Chi me. They don't need to die again? ten gyi dewa.

ten gyi dewa? Dewa is happiness. Yeah, and ten means permanent or ultimate.

Ultimate happiness. nyer dzor means like in Sanskrit, rakshita. Like protection?

That's what it means. Yeah, what's it mean you guys? Tsowa.

[Speaker 3]
Nurturer?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, may it nurture. May this book be like the cream of deathlessness. It's talking about little kids, right?

When you feed them milk, they will grow stronger. So I'm hoping that this milk of my commentary, which is actually the very essence of milk, which is deathless nectar milk, I hope it will fulfill the hopes of all living beings for deathlessness and become nutrition for their hopes to reach permanent happiness. Yay!

Okay. I think you better read this, Gibson, because... because...

Wow. Because... Okay, here we go.

Okay. Okay. I'm sorry, this should be bardu.

Bardu. Okay. I love this colophon because it is short and to the point.

This is the chan chub lang gi rimpay du du. This is the abbreviation, the brief presentation to the step on the path to the enlightenment. Yeah.

By the way, chan chub lang gi rimpay du du is the alternate name of the gur, of the spiritual song of Tsongkhapa's life. So sometimes they call it the brief, brief steps of Buddhahood. Sometimes this song of my spiritual life, je rimpa che gur bum.

So the common name is je rimpa che gur bum, the song of Tsongkhapa's spiritual life. The official name is the short, short lam rim. Okay.

And by the way, there's a short, short lam rim. There's the three principal teachings, right? Yeah.

Three principal paths. And then there's the three principles of the path. He wrote three short books, and people are always confusing them.

So this one is called the short, short lam rim. I just wrote a drel to it. I just wrote a commentary to it.

And it was a tsing drel, more than a dun drel. At least it's a word by word commentary. Yeah, good.

It's more an explanation of the wording than a long explanation of the meaning. tor du tselwa means just a brief clarification, which is the name of Choney Lama's commentary, right? This Choney Lama's commentary, why did I write it in the middle of the fourth line?

kulwa. I was kulwa. What's that mean, you guys?

I was urged to. He was asked. Yeah, somebody asked me.

Somebody begged me to write this. Who was that? Lok Tsang Tsangdruk.

That's the guy who asked him to write it. And kulwa means insisted. You got to write this.

You got to write this. He was probably trying to do three other projects, and this guy's like, oh, yeah, I need this commentary. And that Lok Tsang Tsangdruk was a ka chupa.

Was he a ten-booker? Yeah, a ten-booker. Nowadays the Geshe's study five great books.

In those days you had to master ten great books. So they're called the ten-book master. Ka chupa.

Wouldn't that be with a B though? You are absolutely right. You're not often right, but...

Boy, that's a real misspelling now. All right. Ka chupa.

He's from a place called Khao Lung. I checked it in several scans, and I cannot find it. It's like Rimrock or something.

He's from Khao Lung. And by the way, that guy who asked me to write the book, he has a lot of depa. A lot of faith.

And he also has nam chud. Analytical thinking. And he sung draw those two.

He combined those two. So he's praising the guy who asked him to write the book. This guy is a true combination of great faith and great intelligence.

Ngor means in response to. Ngor means in response to his urgent request. This has been...

Next line, B-R-I-S. Written by a shakya gelong. A full monk named a shakya.

It means a monk of Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha. Of this Buddha.

And my name is... I have the name, ming chen, of she druk. She druk.

That's half of his name, by the way. My name is Roach. My name is Chang.

He's just giving half his name. My name is she druk. By the way, it's a beautiful name because it means...

Explained and improved. I teach and I practice. Not like Geshe-la, teach but no practice.

Ming chen. And by the way, I wrote it very gyokpo. Quickly.

Because I was child-do. I'm busy. I just wrote it out in a rush.

I was in a rush. By the way, Choney Lama wrote something like a hundred books in his last ten years or something. He went crazy.

He quit his job as the abbot of Choney Monastery. He locked his door and he wrote like a hundred commentaries. So gyok le su chikpay.

By the way, later we kowa this book onto bar. We carved this book onto... Onto wood blocks.

Bar means wood blocks. We carved it onto wood blocks. At that time, the person who wrote the manuscript out on strips of paper for the wood carver...

Somebody has to write it in beautiful letters on a piece of paper. And then the wood carver just follows the outline on the paper. They glue the paper to the wood block.

And the carver carves out the letters. Somebody has to do a beautiful writing of it. The person who did the writing for the carving was the kuluwato.

Same guy. Was the urger. Yeah, was the guy who asked me to do the book in the first place.

So he's a real student. He didn't just ask for it, he helped to finish it. Okay.

Yay. Those are the best kind. Who helped pay for it also.

All right. We're getting excited. I hope, Nick, you got our big cake.

And I hope Amelie is going to go... I had to bribe her with the cake to do that.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, so we won't see the cake. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, last line. By this labor, right? And we don't know.

It could be the carving. It could be the printing. It could be the finishing the book.

By all of this, I'll probably translate it that way. By all of this, may the tenpa of the gyalwas, we had that in Tim's text one billion times. The teaching of the Buddha.

Yeah, that precious teaching. May it darwa to all the chokes. May it spread over to every corner of the world.

Yay. And then may it ge. May it increase in growth.

And yun ring du ne. And stay for a long, long time. Long time.

Like Gibson's first book. Okay. Okay, then ge yo swasti.

Mangalam. They just say at the end, they say, Mangalam. Good karma.

Okay, we all have to give Gibson a hand for his first book. Thank you, Geshe-pa. Yay.

By the way, not to die in the middle of a book is an incredibly rare thing. Nice work, Gibson. We're all lucky.

Yeah. Good job. And you know the best way to celebrate your first book, hot pots, is to start your second book without any rest at all.

All right. Or to help others do their books. Well, he's already doing that.

Okay. Yay. So this is Gibson's next book.

You don't have to use this title. I was just using it for myself. Tsongkhapa, as we mentioned, he wrote a very famous praise of the Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
Actually, we don't see it yet. I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. I got to stop here and go backwards. Hang on.

Where did you go? Come on, you got to be here. Oh, there we go.

Okay, see it? Yes. Yeah, Tsongkhapa wrote a book called Praise of Dependence, which is really a praise of Lord Buddha for teaching dependence.

It's not so much dependence as emptiness. It's really what we call a stotra, which is S-T-O-T-R-A. That's a classical category in the Tenggyur, for example.

These are formal love poems to a high being. It's called stotra, praises. Tsongkhapa wrote a praise of Lord Buddha, thanking him for teaching.

It sounds a lot like somebody writing to his girlfriend in high school. He's in love with the Buddha. It's very beautiful.

It starts with what we call an ornamental Sanskrit title. This is where a Tibetan tries to add a Sanskrit title to their book. It's almost always completely wrong.

I didn't even work on it. Maybe a word would have fun doing it with Gibson. There'll be a few correct pieces, and then you'll have to fix the rest.

I usually just ignore it, because they did not know Sanskrit very well. Here's the first line. Gibson, good luck!

den dra dupe chik dun nu druwa shab tun daway chen che kye kyawa shu so Nice, okay. What's den dra dupe? The praise of dependence.

Which really means... The love poem, but really explains the emptiness. We can say praising Lord Buddha because he taught emptiness.

The title is unclear, actually. Everybody calls it praise of dependence. But Tsongkhapa is not praising dependence.

He's praising Lord Buddha because he taught dependence. Always remember that when you talk about your book. chik dun nyu mu A little bit.

This drulwa is a joke. Because, what's the word for commentary? Java, right?

Java. You can relate this to drulwa. Living being?

Yeah, because it can mean to liberate. It's like the drul in drulma, which means Tara. In the ancient times, when you wrote a commentary to a book, you were liberating its meaning from the letters.

It's a very beautiful idea. The idea of writing a commentary, liberation, and freeing the meaning from the physical words. It's all related.

You're going to have to give that taste when you choose the title in English. He's liberating the meaning, and he's untying the meaning. That's also another meaning of drul.

He's writing a commentary. Three different thoughts. When you say drul, it's emphasizing that dralpa means to untie or to liberate the meaning.

Here's the short name. sap dun taway dren che dren means to pull, like trang nge, to pull the meaning out. By the way, I think Gibson, after this book, we should do trang nge lekshe nyinpo.

Did I say that before? It's short, and it's important, and we have to do it someday. So anyway, dren che means pull out.

Dren means to pull out or to lead. Dren che is an ancient poeticism for that thing which leads you as you walk through the world. Guide?

Your eyes. Dren che, leader. Leader is a poeticism for your eyeballs, for your eyes.

That's why he's playing around with the word orbs. Orb means a ball. I'm not saying you have to use it, but you have to choose something which can mean eyeballs, but it shouldn't be obvious.

He says leader, guider, but it's an old word for eyeballs. I'm going to give you, my commentary is going to give you eyeballs, to the view of the profound. Yeah, I'm going to give you eyeballs so you can see the deeper meaning in this text.

His commentary is called Eyeballs for the Deeper Meaning. Normally we'll see the Taoist myth, right? Exactly, exactly.

He's trying to make it sound a little bit more poetic. Good luck finding a poetic word for eyeballs. I don't know.

Like ice cream balls or something. I don't know. Please read.

This is Sanskrit. Good. Yeah, lots of mistakes here.

Namo means I bow down. Yeah, the O comes from AS. So how do you say good morning in Hindi?

Namaste. I bow down to you. Okay, de means you, right?

Namaste. Namaste. Okay, I bow down to my guru.

Teacher. Now, W in Tibetan is a V in Sanskrit because Tibetans don't have a V. Okay, so this is the word vāg, which is, if you take it out of composition, it's vāg.

Vāg. Anybody know what vāg means? Vāg comes from that.

Yeah, vāg means said. Speech. And then voice comes from that.

Vāg comes from that. Okay. Okay, so vāg, vāg means the spoken word, speech, okay?

Īśvara means what? Lord and Lord. It just means the Lord or the God.

Gives you all you wish. Yeah, so this vāg īśvara, and by the way, he spelled it correctly, which is unusual, because īśvara starts with a long I. He says the Lord of all spoken word.

The Lord of the speech. And that refers to sarasvati. And by the way, this should be sarasvati, right?

Sarasvati. Which one, Woon? Sarasvati, right?

Yeah, there's no... the second is sarasvati, right? Sarasvati.

Sarasvati. Yes. Yeah, sarasvati.

This was misspelled, sorry. Okay, so he's bowing down to sarasvati, who is the traditional god of poetry and song. And she's always pictured with a guitar.

And she's the goddess of poetry. And this thing is mainly poetry, okay? All right, pick on somebody, Gibson.

There's a lady next to you you can pick on. All right. I mean, it's up to you.

It's up to you.

[Speaker 2]
Ten yong dokpe. Karu akshaki. Kene rope.

Sope.

[Speaker 1]
Dokpe. Drope.

[Speaker 2]
Drope. Wak kya. Tse ne.

Tse ne. Chak ne. Nang tok.

Kawa. Rila. Rila.

Chung yong.

[Speaker 1]
Kun.

[Speaker 2]
Duk. Tse. Shak kya.

Seng kye.

[Speaker 1]
Seng kye.

[Speaker 2]
Go. Chak sok.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Nice. By the way, Flavia, we had a great dinner last night from your food, okay?

It's too healthy. But it tasted great. Maybe I could get used to it.

Ten jung. Gibson? Dependence.

Yeah, you can say ten del or you can say ten jung, either one. Depa? To praise.

Yeah. What's ngaro? The roar?

The roar of a lion. Yeah, the roar of a lion. Yeah.

And here is the instrumental. Amelie, stop groaning. The lion's roar of the praise of dependence.

Chak. Chaks? Scare.

It scares all the wakis. The fox. Little foxes, yeah.

Who are always droppa kye ngen. Kye ngen. Kye ngen means...

It means... Terrible sound. Terrible voice.

Terrible voice. Droppa means they're always making this sound. What's the terrible sound they make?

Tak. Che kyi ta. Too tough.

Yeah. Either things exist forever, or they don't exist at all. If they don't come from their own side, then they don't exist at all.

And since they do come from their own side, I believe they must last forever. That's... Jetso Kappa roared his poem, and he scared all the little...

Fox. Foxes, who were nge nge nge nge nge. And their positions were the two extremes.

Then this is a famous criticism of somebody. And they'll say, God, everything you're saying is like wah. And the truth is like a lion's roar.

Roar. Kramer, why do you say wakye? Why didn't you just say wah?

And by the way, this is the only common Tibetan word that starts with a W. The meteor? Exactly.

He needed two Bs. So wakye is a legal word for fox, but extremely rare. So he said those fox guys, those fox beings.

Zay implies... Yeah, high, polite. Jetso Kappa is the roar-roar.

Okay, he made the roar. nang tong What's that mean? I'm sorry, this whole thing is bowing down to...

Well, yeah. Yeah, I guess it... I don't know.

Okay, nang tong means appearance and emptiness, right? What's the nang in nang tong? It can appear from its own side.

The da che. nang tong means... It's a pair.

It's always a pair. nangwa and tongwa nangwa and tongwa So nangwa here means dependent origination. See?

The appearance of things in the universe and their emptiness. So this is a fancy way of saying dependence and emptiness. nangwa means everything that appears to us which is coming from our seeds.

And then tongwa, the fact that they are not not coming from our seeds. Okay? So nang tong is always deceptive reality and ultimate reality.

It's a code word for deceptive reality and ultimate reality. karway ri la means in the snow mountain or on the snow mountain. Okay?

rang chok kun means all Buddhist people. Everybody on our side. Okay?

Likes to do dze. Like to bow down. Gather.

I'm not sure. Doesn't that come together, Geshe-la? It should be, I think so.

I think so. You want to look it up in the tzik and see if it's a poeticism? Sure.

Okay. shakya senge, to the senge of the shakyas. To the lion of the shakya clan.

I bow down with my goal. I bow down with my head. Yeah, I touch my head to your feet.

Okay. Words going to help us with this dze. I hope so.

I hope so in this kalpa. All right. Who's going to read, Gibson?

I am.

[Speaker 2]
Me? Thank you. chak chok ndroy, sap ton taway, ho kyap pak gyur tse, dun kye gyok ndro, trang pey tsar ser chen, lop sang nin che gang chen, gun tu sharp.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. All right. Here we go.

What's the nying ma nga? The five degenerations? Yeah, the five degenerations.

Did you get anywhere with du tse there? Yeah, it's not as a poeticism. It only means to gather.

The tse appears to just be a verbalizer again. Okay. I got to think about that one.

Okay. Chair, yeah, the five degenerations. What's doa?

A very rare word. They are spreading in current times. What are some of the five degenerations?

Lifespans are getting shorter. There's more fighting. People's morality is getting worse.

Stuff like that. We'll have a footnote, I'm sure. Oh, here they are.

Yeah, this is Tsongkhapa. His version of the five degenerations. Let's read it later.

The five degenerations are being compared here to a muck. Army? Yeah, I'm not...

No, I think this one word is darkness. Yeah, this muck is darkness. Or muckrum.

I think it's misspelled. No, it's spelled right, Geshe-la. It is darkness.

Okay, good. I also thought army, Gibson, but army is D-M-A-G. This is darkness.

The darkness of the five degenerations is kakpa. Gokpa. It's stopping any chance.

Gokap means any chance for people to see Sabden. The deeper meaning. Here in the Changchok.

The brighter side. Isn't that the northern direction? Yeah, in the north.

It means here in Tibet. Here in Tibet, the five degenerations is a darkness, and it's blocking us from seeing emptiness. The deeper meaning.

It's blocking all of us here. We need the tsar ser chen. This means tsarway uzer chen.

The hot light rays, which means a poeticism for the... Sun. We need the gyokdros to drain the sun across the sky.

We need a horse to pull us. Yeah, yeah, okay. Gyokdro means those quick ones, right?

Fast goers. Jangpa means they have to pull the sun across the sky. Who are the gyokdros?

Sem kye. The bodhichitta. Yeah, the fast horses of bodhichitta should drag the teachings across the sky.

And warm up and light up the darkness of the five degenerations here in the north. Who is the sun? Lo sang.

Yeah, Tsongkhapa. Nyingje means day maker. Which means the sun.

Now I'll give 50 bucks if anybody knows gun. All day. No.

Oh, noon? Winter. Winter?

Who said winter? Oscar? Yes, me.

Okay, 50 bucks. You collected from Ellie, okay? But isn't there no G on winter again?

Give it up. No, I'm just kidding. I think it is winter.

Oh. It could mean the evening, right, or the darkness of the night.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, midnight, that's what I thought.

[Speaker 1]
It could mean that. It could mean that. We could search for gung du shar without the D in the database, Orin.

Okay, I will. If you're right, I'll give you 50 bucks, and Oscar can keep the 50 bucks, because he agrees with Geshe-la. Oscar can keep it either way, I don't care.

Oscar agrees with Geshe-la's mistake as guru yoga. All right. Here in the land of snows.

One minute. Winter in the land of snows feels more interesting to me. Here's a quick list.

We only have one minute, Gibson. We're going to do the five degenerations here. SEMS CAN, KYA BA, NYON MONGS, LTA BA, and TSE.

Okay. SEMS CANs are degenerated. Beings, right?

KYA BA means their karmic bank accounts are degenerated. NYON MONGS means... Mental friction?

Yeah, are degenerated. Negative emotion? Their LTA BA is degenerate.

Their worldview? Yeah, and their TSE time, TSE RIG. Lifespan.

Their lifetime? Lifespan is all short. All right, good job, and congratulations again, Dr. Gibson Chang, for finishing your first book. The celebration usually is to give you the next book to work on without any rest at all. So, that sounds good. Is it 29?

Yeah, thank you. Wait, one verse for next time, and these two paragraphs, okay? Okay.

All right. Thank you, and thank you. You did a good job on the last one.

Try to finish up the translation and then we'll clean it up. I would really like it if Gibson and maybe somebody else could do a set of short books, small books, like a separate set of short books, and people could collect them and carry them around. I'm excited about that.

This is your second one. Yeah. The Chang'e Lekshen Yinpo is also quite short, relatively.

These are all books that could be pocket books. We call them pocket books. Usually pocket books get read more than those big, heavy books like Ben and Sugeng's book.

We finished Sugeng's book yesterday. It's over 500 pages. No one's going to buy it.

All right. Thank you, Gibson. Congratulations.

Uncle Nick, any comments? Just thank you, Geshe Michael. Gibson, congratulations.

That's amazing. You're awesome. Thanks for joining our team.

We're happy to have you. And that's it. I mean, let's see.

We got yoga coming up. Who's looking at this? I thought Amalie was already doing head yoga.

She's ready for me to be done. What's going on, Amalie? Let's see.

We have yoga with Leia Krager now coming up, and then we have yoga with Emma from Albuquerque, who works at Ben's studio at 3 this afternoon. Okay, honey. Say bye-bye, Geshe Michael.

Bye, Amalie. Bye, everybody. So stick around for yoga, and I look forward to seeing you guys later today.

See you guys. Thank you. Thank you, Geshe Michael.

Congratulations again, Gibson.

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Thank you again.

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Yay, yay, yay.

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Bye, Amalie. Amalie.

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Amalie, can you hear Gelsay? Aww.