Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
All right.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you for asking. Wasn't easy.

[Speaker 1]
Who's class is up first, you guys? Amelie? Nick?

Oh. OK, we'll see when dad comes. Hi, Aldo.

Nice to see you. Hi, Sugeng. Where's your boss?

My boss is getting ready. Oh. Oh.

Hey, guys. Somehow I got dropped from the call, but I'm back. And I have homework.

Ew. Hi, again. Good morning.

Good morning. Did you just wake up from your nap? Yes.

Jealous, huh? God bless dad's nose. I don't know what happened.

If Amelie ever sees something green, she's like, oh, is it jealous? That's very cute. All right.

Here we go. All right. True or false?

You guys ready? Oh, that's easy. True or false?

If we no longer have attachment to attractive objects or aversion for unattractive objects, we have eliminated our misunderstanding. And then I'm going to ask for an explanation. How come there's so much space between the braces if it's true or false?

Because this whole please explain thing. Please explain. But I'll accept just a true or false.

You'll still win if you get it right. You just don't win as much.

[Speaker 3]
False.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, yes, yes. Well, false. I'll take it.

Okay. Who said false first? Please, or whoever wants to explain, feel free.

I said it, but I don't want to explain. Fair enough. You don't have to explain that you don't want to explain.

[Speaker 2]
Because I can be in a deep state of meditation without attraction to things or aversion to things, and that doesn't mean I've eliminated my misunderstanding.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's good. I made pretty easy questions today. It's the last class.

I've given you guys hard quizzes on this subject for five years. I thought it would be nice to make it a little easier. But now this little screen where I go home.

There we go. Isn't that not true? Is that what Jason Koppel says?

That because you can be in a deep? No, it's not exactly. She's along the right lines.

I would love to hear a more precise answer. Sorry, I'm just talking about my personal experience. Oh, wow.

Good for you. I'm not actually refuting Venable Upala, per se, Beth. Don't you have to say you're not actively because don't you still have subtle seeds for attraction and unattraction or whatever?

That's a good point. Oh, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
I have attachment is ambiguous for sure.

[Speaker 1]
Well, yeah, there is a qualifier that he uses at a certain point in the text. It's not even at the point where I was drawing this question. But he says, if you have no, I'll give you I'll make it a good hint because then you'll get it, which is fun.

Actually, wait, let me give you the answer that I have here. And then. Oh, it's in the answer.

Even when there is no more manifest attachment, meaning, you know, or a version, there's still neutral feelings which result from misunderstanding. Yeah, the word manifest. That's it.

That's all I mean. Yeah, exactly. And so word.

But, you know, actually, I'm sure you'd be fine to answer this. So if somebody else wants to jump in, go for it. What's the manifest?

What's the word for manifest attachment? I don't know. Manifest.

You guys are along the right utterances. Hey, Nick, why does word answer your questions for free? He's thinking that I'm going to start offering money.

I mean, I think he looks at like the fancy tie the shirt and he's like this guy. You notice you gave that one wrong.

[Speaker 3]
So he's he's trying to convince Nick that he gives wrong answers so that Nick will start answering money.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he's like, look, I'll give you a partial. He said he was like, I'll give you the rest. That's not like those people who lose in poker for the first three hands.

He's a shark. He's waiting for the stakes to get higher. Shark.

I think you guys are working together. Actually, you're all against me. You're all against me.

Actually. So, yeah, I gave you the wrong question. Manifest attachment and desire.

I'm sure. Cool. Fun.

Good. The questions get easier. And that was pretty easy.

Who is it that gets stuck in the cycle of pain and what gets them stuck there?

[Speaker 3]
Me.

[Speaker 1]
And have fun and have fun. I'm just trying to have fun with the last quiz.

[Speaker 3]
Me and a fondness for pizza.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I mean, that's pretty accurate. Anybody else want to just throw in some thoughts about who is it that gets stuck in the cycle of pain and what gets them stuck there? Potentially, you know, maybe.

Adding to what Jason copper. May have said about not adding to it. Adding to Ben's answer.

What Jason copper. May have said about it.

[Speaker 2]
The question really interesting. Who gets stuck. Like, were they not stuck before?

[Speaker 1]
Well, we have a, We're in a section of my text where he has described several times that he's going to be talking about who it is. Who gets stuck or who enters some Sarah. Or get stuck in the mud of some Sarah.

And who is it that. Gets out. So we've been in this section for a couple of classes.

So he, you know, he uses the word joke. So. Who enters into some Sarah.

[Speaker 2]
I just, yeah, I just find it interesting concept.

[Speaker 1]
It is, it's problematic.

[Speaker 3]
It's those people who have the 14 and steam powers. Steam powers.

[Speaker 1]
Sure. Okay. I bet that's true.

Any ideas of what Jason and copper gels of J may have. It's really simple actually.

[Speaker 2]
I have that. Those who have not seen emptiness.

[Speaker 1]
Oh yes, that's it. People who have not yet seen emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
Correct. I said earlier.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I guess. I'm sorry. Oh, it was in the chat.

[Speaker 2]
Well, no, I can't read good. Because they, they think functioning things are real. They grasp to that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Good. Okay.

Thank you. They grasp to functioning things as if they were real. And it specifically, and you guys don't remember, but this will give us a hint.

For the next question too. Infants of the desire realm. Desire forms that are included within the five kinds of attracted objects and generate attachment infants of the higher realms while freed from desire, generate attachment to equanimity.

So this is the section of the text. That we're in. And so when he, when he sets out to define who it is that gets stuck in.

He is specifically talking about these guys. At this moment, but for about 11. Sections earlier, he also just kept saying that people who have not seen emptiness directly get stuck in Sunsara because they various things, they get stuck in the middle of objects.

They think that functioning things have a nature of their own. They think that form has a nature of its own. Et cetera.

Cool. A bonus question. Why don't higher realm beings have desire for attractive objects.

And that's the size. Yeah. Yeah.

And what meditation does Jason Kappa mentioned that they specifically do to eliminate? This is just, you kind of either remember it or you don't, but you can take a shot at it. We've talked about it a few times.

To eliminate what? Attachment. Me do.

Nice. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, I meant to ask you guys to tell me the phrase, but yeah, here's the answer. I'm guessing everyone can read that now. Okay.

So following on that question. Who is it that gets out of the cycle of pain and why, and look how long the answer is. It's all.

It's all. Different. Answers that are all acceptable.

And it's easy. And I'm just trying to have a little fun. Anybody who gets through 60 mixed nuts classes.

Yes, that's number one. I didn't think to put that there actually, but. We've been in this section for a while.

He keeps saying different things about who these people are and what they realize. So do you remember any of them? Has anybody been paying attention?

Ella says in the chat, those who see emptiness directly. That's right. What do they realize?

Ella. Yeah. She said emptiness.

Yeah. Yeah. They see emptiness directly and therefore know something about.

Certain things. There is no me that gets out of the cycle of pain from its own side. I didn't put that in the answers, but that's, that's totally acceptable.

[Speaker 2]
They know the true nature of forms.

[Speaker 1]
Yep. That's one of them that I think I put there. What else what's so cool about people who get out of the cycle of pain, they saw emptiness directly.

So they realize that there's no objects. Yeah. Yeah.

Whatever. I mean, that's great. That's all true.

I'll just show you guys the answers. Now they see directly that this is some of the things that he said. In the last class and a half or so.

They see directly that functioning things are like reflections in the mirror. They don't have any nature of their own. They see directly that dependence doesn't start or stop through any nature of its own.

They see that all things are like an illusion. They have realized directly that form doesn't have any nature of its own. They don't fall under the sway of the snake of negative emotions because they realized directly that things don't have even an iota of reality.

So that's, what's cool about them.

[Speaker 2]
Then from a, from the chat. They realize the four noble truths.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Yeah, totally. I'm sure that helps get out of the cycle of pain a lot.

Also. Cool. Yogi set.

[Speaker 3]
Isn't that the inside of the rock?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Stuck in the middle of objects. Cool.

Is the most important word. I forgot this one. Even though we covered it a couple of years ago.

[Speaker 3]
Have a name of the object.

[Speaker 1]
I think you said the right answer. Say that one more time.

[Speaker 3]
It's that the people who haven't heard of the name of the object.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. People who don't know how to name things. Don't know how to call things.

Great. Oh, I didn't paste my. By the way, the opposite is, is usually called.

People who know how to call things. Yeah, you probably heard that before. No.

Okay. Awesome. Let me find where I did my little translation for you guys.

I forgot to paste it in there. Apparently. Thank you.

Thank you all. That was fun. I don't know why, Nick, but people talk during your homework.

A little bit. I know we're tired. Okay.

I think. There it is. Yeah, I covered these a couple.

These are the ones you told me to cover. Okay. As for the next.

Good. DE NAS GCIG LA. The DE NAS GCIG LA probably means for the next single line.

That's what I was thinking, but you actually clarified it last class. I went back to the video because there's two in a row. DE NAS GCIG LA, DE NAS GCIG LA.

Oh, okay. So it's versus. Okay.

Well, it's referring to the three. He treated three subjects. Okay.

Previously. He was like, there's a, you know, what do you call it? SOSOKEWOS of the desire realm.

SOSOKEWOS of the higher realms. And ARIAS. Okay.

In the end of the last class, we covered SOSOKEWOS of the desire realm. And now he's like, the next guy.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. As for the next. Consider the infants of the higher realms.

They don't develop attachment to the subjects. Because they're meditating upon how unattractive they are. And are thus free of that attachment.

That's perfect. Okay. The next one.

These are pretty easy, I think. I still think it's the last two verses or something. Or the last two lines.

Anyway. Okay. I'm going by what you said at the end of the last one.

I watched the video. Because I was kind of confused. PHAG PA NAM CHE CHEN.

Consider the rise beings. DNGOS PO THAMS CAD YID MA LAS BRAL BA'I MTHUNG MI GNOD YIN NI LAS DMIGS PA'I ZIN NA All things are like an illusion. Nice.

Because they realize directly the nature that forms our emptiness. The nature of being themselves. Good.

Perfect. That's fine. Cool.

Okay. All right. Let me see.

Because you're right. It says THAMS CAD YID MA LAS BRAL BA'I MTHUNG MI See if there's four verses here. Oh, there's two.

Yeah, there's two verses. Yeah. And then try to see the content of each line.

BYIS PA NAM NI GZUGS Oh, yeah. These are the infants of the desire realm. And then...

Yeah. Then here's the guys... Yeah, Nirvana's in the last two lines.

Here's the form realm guys, or the higher realm guys. Yeah, so I think he's talking about... Oh, yeah.

He's talking about the first line of verse 56, the second line of verse 56, and then the last two lines of verse 56. That's all. Okay.

Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. Cool.

Cool, cool, cool. So here it means the first and here it means the next. So that's right.

And then here's the last two lines. Yeah. Cool.

Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you, everybody.

Just about the time you get the hang of us checking out Cesar Chavez. Oh, cool. Just about the time you get the hang of it, it's time to leave a text.

Yeah, I know. I was supposed to talk a little bit about more mixed nuts stuff, so I'm going to take about 10 minutes. Okay.

Yeah, this says, you know, just it's a mixed nuts rules. We've been going through the mixed nuts, kind of the mixed nuts, how to be a mixed nuts for Tim and for Gibson. And we encourage you to check every fact in an ancient source, in an ancient source, in an ancient source.

And we don't trust stuff on the Internet. And we're very careful not to repeat things, sloppy thinking or not exactly accurate statements. Okay.

So, you know, there's almost nothing useful on the Internet except for dictionaries or something. Okay. These are a list of things that I'm looking for.

A translator should be able to detect parallel statements, like Manik just did with those last three paragraphs. There was a very common in Tibetan to have parallel structure, discussing three different topics. Another example, I split the paragraphs for you, but if you're on your own, you have to learn to split the paragraphs by appropriate topic.

They are not split in the Tibetan. And then you have to be able to sense when the author is referring to another book or another tradition, and then you have to go explain it. In the English translations, I'm looking for any misspelled English words.

I'm looking for common grammar mistakes. I'm looking for stylistic errors, especially that don't fit the Mixed Nuts standard, and not following the Mixed Nuts standards. I'm not going to go into these in detail because I don't...

Structural errors means sometimes the sentences are correct, but the whole structure of the translation is inconsistent. Some of the structure is done one way, and some of the structure is done in a different format. This is one of my pet peeves, and I have never seen any translator in the world who treats foreign words consistently.

Sometimes they will be pronounced, sometimes they'll be transcribed, and then sometimes they'll be a mix of both in the same word. I feel strongly that if a person can't feel how wrong it is to mix transcription and pronunciation in the same page, or even in the same word, then their thinking is illogical, and then they can't translate. I strongly feel that.

I wouldn't trust the translation of a person who can't understand that either you do pronunciation or you do transcription, and that the purpose of a translation is what? For people to be able to read it. To translate.

These books, translations that say the Dharmakaya is made of the Shunyata, of the Pudgala. I don't understand it. I try to steer the mixed nuts away from that.

A more subtle modern language thing I'm looking for is, has the translator in their own mind defined who's going to read this book? Have they kept a consistency of vocabulary? It doesn't matter if you're doing a DCI, a book for DCI, it would be one way.

If you're doing a translation for YSI, it should be different, and if you're doing a translation for someone else. Last three things. When I read a translation, there's a kind of poetry in the selection of the words, in the pacing, in the emphasis, in the accenting.

There's many musical elements. I know Nick plays music, and Nick is good with languages because he has a musical ear, but there is a music to written words. I don't think it's enough just to translate a book.

It should be elegant, and it should be beautiful, and it should be poetry, even as a translation. It should be stunning. The whole feeling of the language, the use of language, the pace of the language, it should be elegant.

It should sing to the reader. That's a completely different thing than translating the sentences correctly. That has to come first.

Then you have to rewrite the whole thing into something elegant, but still accurate. That's not easy. But that's what I expect from the Mixed Nuts.

Lastly, I look for people who are just having... If you're not having a good time with your work, and you don't love your work, then it comes through in the translation. It's kind of a Mixed Nuts translator's duty, Tim and Gibson, to take care of yourself, so that you're bright, and you're happy, and you're successful, and you're enjoying yourself.

There's a whole responsibility of a good translator to manage their life well, and manage their own health, and manage their own mental health. That's a big thing for our group. I think so.

If you're not a happy person, it comes through in your translations. So, there you go. No pressure, okay?

You have to be happy all the time. No one ever won the Olympics without dedication and passion. We've been watching the Winter Olympics this couple of weeks.

It takes commitment of time, and it takes the commitment of your attention. You can't be a great painter, or a great musician, or an Olympic athlete, if you don't give it the time. You just won't be.

You can play music, or you can play baseball, amateur baseball, or something, but it won't be something that lasts for a thousand years. It is worth the time, because these books are going to help the entire world. Whatever else we're doing, it may be of benefit to some people, or a few people, or a small group of people, but not like a great translation can help people, can help so many people, especially if you teach it, if you teach your translation for the rest of your life, you can help thousands of people.

Again, I repeat, there's 98,000 people came to DCI events last year, so you have a door to 100,000 people, and you just have to finish your translation, and then you have to be passionate about it. Remove your life distractions, stick to a schedule. I'm busy, I have a lot to do, but you just have to set a schedule.

If you're going to be a great translator, you can't... There's Herman Wau, he's a great writer, and I don't know, for 50 years, he writes for the first two hours of the day, and he never ever breaks the rule. You got to do something like that.

You got to go into another room, lock the door, and translate for an hour, or two hours, or something. I think it's important for us all to be financially stable, meaning don't get into debt. I call it a third, third, and a third.

When I make money, I put one-third into my retirement, and then I put one-third into projects I want to do, and then I put one-third into rent and food and electricity, day-to-day expenses. I think it's a very wise system. One-third of your income should go directly to your retirement.

One-third of your income should go directly to putting aside money for a new car or a new house, or big things you want to do. Then one-third of your money should go to your rent and your food and your gasoline. You can't live.

It's dangerous to have a lifestyle where you're using 70% or 80% of your income immediately. That's a formula for problems. It's funny.

I hear these radio stations on the way home from this college. Around here, you often get these Christian, politically very conservative radio stations, but they have a movement in the Christian church of not having a credit card. They teach people to live without their credit cards, and they teach people to only spend the money that they have.

I do think that's a great way to put your mind at peace, and then you can translate well. I think how you take care of your health, you do your yoga, you get enough sleep, you eat wisely, you do your practice, and then you take care of your money carefully. Then you can translate.

If you have other pressures because you haven't taken care of your health or you haven't taken care of your practice, you won't be able to translate. Your mind won't be in the right place. You won't see what the book is saying.

Last thing. Try to increase your skills. I think all of the Mixed Nuts, and I got to talk to Nick and Ben, but I think it would be good if we could find an online English composition course and pay the Mixed Nuts and pay for the course anybody who wants to increase their skills in writing English.

It doesn't come automatically. If you really want to improve your writing, sometimes your Tibetan knowledge is beautiful, perfect, and then your writing skills are not professional. They're not the level of a professional writer, which takes many years.

I think it would be a good idea if we could find a good quality writing school. Then any Mixed Nuts who want to could improve their English, improve their writing skills. All right.

That's all I have, Nick. I'm going to go back to your text now. I'll make a PDF of this document.

In fact, I could do it right now. I'll do it between this class and the next class. How's that?

Thank you, Geshe Michael. Thanks for all the structure that you're doing and giving us your vision and how it's just really beautiful and beneficial for all of us. I think those three documents, if everybody could study them, it'd be nice.

You finished these two, right, Nick? Yes, sir. We just did.

Now, listen to something, Nick. You have finished what I thought you would finish for the term. Yes.

You are exactly one half hour ahead of my expectations. If we smoke it, you could finish your book tonight. Well, maybe that's a little optimistic.

There's the end. I was hoping we could, but we've got a half hour now. Let's try.

What the heck. Let's stretch time. Okay.

Please read. Tim will check. All right.

I think I can translate this. Go for it. And let's not rush.

I mean, it's very fun to enter the next term with about half an hour of work on your book left. I guess so. Okay.

All right. I'll take that into consideration. He's excited to finish.

I really am. In summary, a demonstration that by realizing that I think we said things from the very beginning or the original condition of things is that they're mixed dreams. Good.

Yeah. A demonstration that we become free by seeing the by not seeing the object we deny. Yeah.

By learning not to see it. Okay. A demonstration that we become free by seeing what's the denial.

Yeah. The denial of the husband who's not there. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. All right.

Next four lines. We're up to verse 57. How many we have to finish?

The 60 verses on reasoning. We only have to finish 59, really. Okay.

Now there's a commentary to the 60th. All right.

[Speaker 3]
Go ahead.

[Speaker 1]
Go backwards. Just go straight backwards. Consider those who realize directly the meaning of the words dependence and absence of self-nature.

No. Those who realize that rangshin mepa is the meaning of dependence. Right.

The meaning of the saying that no nature is, the dependence means that is the absence of self-nature. Yeah, those who understand that the meaning of the word dependent origination. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's very beautiful. I mean, you can hang that on the wall of your house. Totally.

Okay. The meaning of dependence is emptiness. We'll put that in Ben's yoga studio.

Yeah. LOK SHES KYI DUNG BA'I NYON MONGS PA'I KHYEN DU SHES Oh, I already read that. Yeah, something's messed up.

Something's messed up big time here. We get it through in Stanley's book. Yeah, torment.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
Those are related by... By thinking of things wrong, we're tormented by negativities, the condition of... negativities?

Yeah, and it's... We come under the power, it seems like. Yeah, it's probably something like that.

If we can understand that emptiness is the meaning of the word dependence, then we won't fall under the power. Probably it says that, but we'll have to... You need to really work on a better carving during this next break, okay?

Yeah, yeah, I'm aware. We're desperate for a better carving. Try Mongolia, try St. Petersburg. There should be copies there. Okay. Yeah, I have three scans.

So, anyway. I just didn't take the time to try to see which is the best yet. Okay, and then because we realize directly the absence of self-nature of things and of things which are not things, or the absence of things.

Yeah, or you could say functioning and non-functioning things, maybe. Ah, okay, cool, cool. Or even existence and non-existence.

Existence, yeah, I was thinking something like that. Okay, let's not rush. I know we both want to rush.

That's my tendency in general, so it's hard to fight it right now. No, we're so close to the end. Jetsan Kapha is kind of the one rushing here.

It's not really your fault.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, you're right.

[Speaker 1]
We're powering the flow. Okay, Dr. Kraven.

[Speaker 2]
Just remember, you've got live translators, so...

[Speaker 1]
Oh, thank you, thank you.

[Speaker 2]
We'll tell Jetsan Kapha.

[Speaker 1]
So, let's consider those great beings, realized beings. de yin la chakpa tang te la chakpa tang drel ne kham kong ma la chakpa rngyur min te chakpa tang drel ne from being free of desire for attachment to those... I'm trying to understand the two chakpas.

By being free of attachment, attachment to... and attachment to those desirable objects. kham kong ma la chakpa...

I think there's a mistake. Yeah, there's something weird there.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, what else would you be attached to?

[Speaker 1]
I think this is nil. Now, the point of the second half here is that, what's the normal way to lose your chakpa for the higher two realms? Lose your chakpa for the higher two realms?

To develop renunciation? I'm sorry, in the higher two realms, what's the... Do people in the form and formless realm have normal attachments?

Not like us, they just have attachment to equanimity. Yeah, they have given up attachment to the desire realm, du yin, to the desirable things in the desire realm. So, we can say they have overcome chakpa, but that's not what the bhagavas do.

Yeah, they don't just give up attachment in the way that the kham kong ma people do, the higher realms do. I guess it doesn't need the me, actually. Oh, that's what the second chak is doing, uh-huh.

Yeah. I see, I see. They don't give up desire realm desire, and they don't give up higher two realm desire in the way that higher two realm people do.

I got it. So, they don't give up desire in the desire realm through any other method, and they don't give up the desire in the way that the two higher realms people do. Got it.

The desire realm is just temporarily more attached to the pleasant feeling of meditation than the feeling of pizza. How did they get their desire? Rather they...

Because they realize directly the absence of self-nature to even staying in meditation. Well, to the world. Okay, and this psalm is...

Oh, yeah, to staying in the world, yeah. Yeah, which is jikten, jikten, okay. Because Psalm 10, the meditation is spelled quite differently.

Yeah, exactly, and I actually had to make myself a note because I was listening to my mind say something. Yeah, I just did it even though you had an oar in your mind. Okay, please read.

Utpala, you're checking. Kabatel. I'm really trying not to aspirate my P's.

Yeah, I was noticing. If you have denzin for the ne or the ten. If you're grasping to reality to staying or the world.

This could be, I'm just going to put a thought here. This could be a place, okay, and this could be a body. We were using it like as a person before.

Yeah, and in that case, it's not in a positive. Okay, tenpa dzinpa yin na. If you have attachment to where you live and to yourself.

And attachment to the desirable objects. I don't know what Kachik's doing here. If you don't overcome your habit of seeing things as existing from their own side, then some of you are going to be attached to the attractive things of the desire realm.

And others of you, you will be free from desire for the desire realm, which is by definition how you got to the higher two realms. But you will still be attached to the... The body and mind.

Kam kong gi de. You will still be attached to the attractiveness or the attractive objects of the higher realms. Nice, okay, and your body.

And your body there. I guess I understand all that, but Kachik here is just like you guys? Yeah, yeah, no, it means either you'll be in one group or you'll be in the other group.

So it has nothing to do with a person? No, half the people who don't understand emptiness will get stuck in the desire realm, thinking about money and girls. And then the other half will be stuck in the higher two realms.

Even though they have given up money and girls, they're still attracted to the wondrous forms of the higher two realms. So the bottom line is, if you don't see emptiness, you will be attached to something. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Okay. All right.

Yay, 59. Oh, I'm getting excited. If I was Allison, I'd give up my class for you, but nah.

I'm not suggesting that. I wouldn't ask that. All right, De Chodren.

De Chodren. NYON MONGS CHOG GI CHUG PAS SRID PA'I RGYA TSO LAS RGYAL BAR NGYUR TE RANG BZHIN YOD DO NYAMS PA'I YOD PAS YID DOG PA DE YOD PA MED PAR RANG BZHIN MED PAR NGON GSUM DU DOG PA'I PHYIR Yeah, now, nobody has mentioned who they're talking about, okay?

[Speaker 3]
Probably those people who... Probably he's talking about Saswap Kewa, right?

[Speaker 1]
Well, I think he's talking about... I guess you could say that the people from the last verse who had attachments somewhere in the world, okay? They cannot gel, which means paro tu chimpa.

Yeah, they cannot cross the ocean of samsara, because they've been bit by the snake of negativity. DUG PA means that ocean which is ridden by the tidal waves of... Yeah, the churned ocean.

Yeah, of the dragon of negative emotions, okay? Okay. Oh, by the way, they will cross that ocean, okay?

Oh, yeah, YAL BAR NGYUR. They will cross the ocean of samsara. Eventually, they will cross the ocean, because they will change the YOD PAS state of mind to the MI YOD PAS state of mind.

Yeah, the shifting. They will change that shifting state of mind. Which says that things have a...

Have a nature of their own. And they will change it into a... A firm state of mind that sees directly that things have no nature of their own.

Yeah, and you know, if you really stretched it... An unshifting... It could be that they achieve a non-shifting state of mind understanding emptiness of the shifting state of mind, but that's really pushing it.

I think there's a mistake here, okay? Okay. All right.

Okay, please read. Oh, we should have a drum roll, Mr. Kramer.

[Speaker 3]
Doodle-a, doodle-a, doodle-a, doodle-a.

[Speaker 1]
The gods are blowing horns. The whole earth is shaking under the weight of the good karma you just created. If there's an earthquake in San Diego right now, you know what happened.

We had one a couple weeks ago.

[Speaker 3]
That's probably... That was what it was.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I think they were churning the ocean. I saw a huge naga out there.

[Speaker 2]
Let's do it. Let's do it.

[Speaker 1]
Sumpa-tsampa ge-wa chang-chuk du-ngo-wa-ni, ge-wa sok-shu-la to-par shok. Yeah, we're going to ngo-wa our ge-wa. Yeah.

Of tsampa-i. Yeah, we're going to dedicate to enlightenment the virtue of having composed. Perfect.

And ge-wa sok-shu-la to-par shok. Oh, that's the four... Yep, yep.

And by the way, he mentioned the last part of the last line. He's just being cute, okay? Uh-huh, I saw that.

I even caught it. The four... The four lines.

All right. Sugeng, come on. You've got the honor.

[Speaker 3]
And he's going to screw this one up.

[Speaker 1]
You have the honor of taking him... You have the honor of accompanying him to the finish line.

[Speaker 3]
Very difficult line.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, when it says... When it says, By the goodness of what I have just done, may all beings complete the collection of merit and wisdom and dedicate the two ultimate bodies that merit and wisdom make. It says, where will you be when you do that?

Kanna, where will you be? Where will you be when you do that? You're going to be pouring water into water.

You're going to be pouring butter into butter. Yay! When you see that objects don't have any nature of their own.

And you will lar mi dangwa in that state. You're going to come again and again? And never arise out of it.

You'll never come out of that state. Okay, all right, lar, uh-huh. And you will shukpa there forever.

You're going to stay just like that in your dharma body. And automatically you will jodan dzangwa. You will do holy things.

You take care of every living being in the world. Do the highest deeds of taking care of people. With your sukhu.

With your nirmanakaya. Nice. Hey, Nick, well, how do you get those two bodies?

Oh, about denyi. So gang is still helping you. Denyi kyu chintra wa shik yuna.

Sanam dang yeshe kyi tsok. Oh, yeah. If you want to know what it takes to achieve...

Those two bodies. Yeah, the causes of those bodies. Sanam, you got to collect sanam and yeshe.

You got to collect merit and wisdom. And, Nick, what would be a great way to collect merit and wisdom? Oh, I'm so glad you've asked.

Geywa kangla tenena rikpa chupa tsampeo. If you want to get a good bit of virtue, why don't you compose the 60 verses on reasoning? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What kind of good karma does it take to get the two bodies, to collect the two collections? I'll just write the 60 verses. Or you could translate it into English.

Translate it, yeah. But that was past tense, right?

[Speaker 2]
That song is past tense?

[Speaker 1]
I think it was, yes. Having written it. The next line says, for whom.

Che du jawa means for whom. Che du jawa kang gi dun du na, gye wo kun, all beings. Yeah, everybody.

[Speaker 3]
Who did you write it for?

[Speaker 1]
We did it for all beings. Okay. This is just a personal prayer he's making.

Please read. And Rebecca is going to take you across the finish line too. Seems very fitting to me.

Dear Bepe Gewa Latene, tserab kun tu dampe chö sab mo ten ching draw jung sab mo kong su chu pa thang, ten te nyam su lenpa thang min draw war shok. Yeah, I'm going to help you. Okay.

By the gewa of this Bepa, the virtue of the efforts that I've made here, may I kong su chu, fully understand the profound dependence for all of my future lives, the holiest objects, the holy object which is profound dependence. And may I never be apart from nyam su lenpa dat dun. Yeah, may I never be apart from being able to practice that object.

Yeah, not just understanding it, but may I never be unable to put it into practice. Wait, who's going to get the honor here? Anatole, I guess.

Help him to this last line. Rebecca is the one who, when you first started teaching me to translate it all, she kind of helped make that connection. Let's do it with Rebecca.

Okay, Anatole can do the final ones. Okay. Okay, that's great.

Okay, we're going to take him across the finish line. This has been a five-year race. These are the words.

This is I, or maybe he's saying I, or Dharma Rinchen, Gyaltsabje. This is the notes he set forth, he took on the words spoken by the omniscient Je Tsongkapa. Tell me why this line was added by Gyaltsabje's students and not by Gyaltsabje.

Because it refers to him, because it says this is what he did, Dharma Rinchen. No, it calls him Gyaltsabje. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right, why would he call himself? Although, if anybody would do it. I mean, he'd almost do it, Nick, but come on.

If anybody would do it. If he was a rapper. He's close.

All right, Anatole, let's do the verse with him. Some kind of closing verse. Okay.

Okay. Yay. Thank you.

Oh, there's another line. To translate this, Nick, you need a piece from the Dharma of Stanley's text. Well, I remember that tree.

Okay, and you're going to translate this for next time. But, yeah, there's a tree called Yong Du Jun. Okay, and it's called the Meeting Tree.

And this is a sattu, Yong Du Jun sattu, the Meeting Tree. It's like that tree in Avatar. And so he's comparing that holy tree to the Gyalway Tenpa.

To the teachings of the victors. That holy tree, when we gather under the holy tree, the teachings of the victors. Which is the source of all pen and door.

The source of all benefit and happiness and help. And the limbs of that tree are Rabdha Gyalpa. Extensive.

They cover all beings. They produce Debu Sambho. Beautiful, pure results.

Yeah, the ultimate goal. Fruits, the ultimate fruits. Which everybody can eat.

Chupa Chir means they can. And in order to provide that tree for people, I wrote this at Dashi Lhumbo. Dashi Lhumbo Chudra Chair, at that great monastery.

It's the traditional seat of the penchant lama. South of Lhasa. By this chun jin.

By this dharmic activity. This gift of dharma. Gift of the dharma, yeah.

May there be goodness. Dhamdro means the leisurely going one. Which is a poeticism for a gentle stream.

May the gin of this gentle stream of the gift of the dharma. Never finish. Never run out.

May this spring of goodness and generosity never... Continue to flow forever. Sarva Mangalam.

Sarva Mangalam. Mangalam everybody. May all be good.

Now, Nick, it's a tradition in the monastery that you start your next book tonight.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, cool.

[Speaker 1]
Even if it's one sentence. Sarva Mangalam. Here you go.

Take courses in writing. Okay. Gyaltsabje's Commentary to the String of Precious Jewels.

Can you suggest a sexy short title? Well, my dream for Nick is that he finishes all the six great books of Nagarjuna. Except for the one one that I'm doing.

So, together we'll finish the six books of Nagarjuna. Here's the second most useful one, I think. And again, it's the same author.

So, I know you're going to be comfortable with him. By the way, it's much easier. It's much easier, I think.

[Speaker 3]
It's a low bar.

[Speaker 1]
Your book will be a thousand-page book. The finished book will be a thousand pages. Okay.

It'll be twice as thick as this Commentary to the Diamond Kai. Wow, that's a big book. And because of the root text.

And I predict we could finish classes at the end of next year, if we work hard. Okay. All right, let's do the first few lines as an auspicious beginning.

Cool, cool, cool. Christina Kathika wants to be the one. OM MA RIN CHEN CHENG BA'I SNYING PO'I DUN GSAL BAR BYAS PA ZHUGS SOGS MA This book is called, or herein contained is, Clarification of the Meaning of the Essence of SNYING PO'I, right?

Well, of the essential meaning. Of the essential meaning, yeah, right. Of the String of Jewels, of the Middle Way.

Good, good, nice. Okay, keep going. Let's finish the first verse.

We're over time, but I'll... We've got one minute, don't we? No, technically we stopped four minutes ago.

Read this first line for good luck. We do this all the time anyway, every time. Jetsun Lama Nam La Chag Salo.

I bow to the High and Holy Lamas. Yay! Teachers, I don't want to...

I mean, my translation will not include a Tibetan word. Yeah, okay. All right.

Yay, yay. Everybody should give him a hand. I told Vy if we finished, I would call her.

Hang on. It's me. It's me.

Sweetie, I finished my verse.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Nick, sweetie, you haven't finished. Geshe-la's finished teaching. Now you've got to translate it.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I didn't realize that. Phew, okay. I didn't...

[Speaker 2]
Hi.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, nice to see you.

[Speaker 2]
Is that me? Congratulations. Congratulations on finishing your book and for getting a new book.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sure you're happy. Geshe-la is very happy. He's been talking about it all day.

[Speaker 1]
I was thinking to go have a party and cancel the last two classes.

[Speaker 2]
Hi, everybody. You wanted to do something special for you, like play a song or celebrate some way for finishing your book, but we haven't thought of it.

[Speaker 1]
No, we can't play a song.

[Speaker 2]
We can't play a song.

[Speaker 1]
No, we'll do it. We'll rock out sometime really soon. No, congratulations.

Congratulations. Five years of really hard work. That was a rough commentary.

It was. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Five years.

[Speaker 1]
It goes by fast. Thank you. Nice to see you, V.

The other one should go much quicker and easier, I'm sure. All right, you honey bunnies. I'll see you in five minutes.

Congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you for working on it and being patient with me.

I know that I can be a little dense. If Jaru runs around the house, you know why. I just appreciate you teaching and being patient with me as I try to do a lot of beneficial work to up my karma so I can catch up to the rest of you guys.

No, you're good. Thanks. To be frank, I think your books are going to be...

If we can finish those six, it'll be something for the whole history of people. Okay. Take a break.

Take a break, you dudes.