Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 8

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At Legoland, but I took the picture a couple of days ago, we took Amelie to Legoland.

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Amazing. So those are teeny tiny little trees.

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They're pretty small. Yeah. They're like, yeah.

I mean, this buildings are like, almost as tall as me. Now I'm probably like half as tall as me. So the trees are pretty small.

Yeah. They did an amazing job. I mean, there's like models of New York, like the whole island of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge and San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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They've rebuilt this LA's football stadium and only we could get them interested in logic instead. I mean, they've got the minds for detail, right?

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They probably look at us debaters and they're like, if only we could get them building Legos. Maybe. Maybe.

There's a definite maybe. We saw the little workshop where they build it and they have all these vacuums and I was trying to figure out why there's so many vacuums. I was like, is it dust?

Is dust? But then my sister was like, no, it's the glue because the vapors from the glue are so strong that you have to keep the place. They have to like suck the vapors out right away.

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Wow.

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Put a different city tomorrow. They have the whole Las Vegas strip. Even put like the air conditioners on top of the hotels and stuff like the HVAC.

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We go for the rides.

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Oh, nice. I can control the volume to the TV on my phone.

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That's impressive.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's too loud.

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An Apple device, no doubt.

[Speaker 1]
It's Roku TV. I did not make a mind map, but we didn't. We haven't covered much yet.

Oh, then it would have been easy. Yeah, easily impressed. All right, boss, I'm back.

Can I ask you a very quick question before we get started? Okay. If there's an updated version of...

Nick, you want to talk about your book? You want to give me an introduction to your book or anything? Let's say for new people.

Can you hear Opala? I cannot. Oh, she was asking you a question.

I could hear you, Opala, but I don't know. Could you ask him to send me the latest copy of Interlude so I can get it prepared for participants in the next class? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I was still working on it in the car on the way here. I bet.

Thank you. Yeah, I'm sorry. I apologize.

Okay. Nick, you're stalling. I got to send something.

Okay. This is a book. For those of you who don't know, my new book, which is still fairly new, is another...

The root text is another text by Arya Nagarjuna, and it's really awesome. So far, I'm loving it. To be honest, I think almost anything would be a breath of fresh air after Yeltsin's commentary to the 60 Verses on Reasoning, which was awesome, and I'm super happy with it.

All that I learned from doing it is amazing, and it was a hard commentary. And this one is String of Jewels, Ratnamala or Ratnavali, and it's Yeltsin's commentary on that. So it's a letter to a king written by Nagarjuna, and he's covering different subjects, and it's somewhat like a lamrim in that it's covering...

It seems to be that it's going to cover a lot of different parts of the path to enlightenment, as well as a lot of personal advices and things like that. So I'm pretty excited about it. Seems like a good practice manual.

And yeah, so far, we've just gotten through some introductory material, and we're just this term starting to get into the meat of the text. Okay, Nicholas. I would add one thing, that if you're learning Tibetan, this is a good text to do it with, because it's pretty straightforward, but it does have some great wisdom presentations, as usual with Nagarjuna.

So not so difficult. Here we go. Not like your last torture.

Yeah, I'm really happy. I can read it and translate a lot. I mean, I understand what it says.

I expect you would be, but you wouldn't be if I hadn't tortured you, you understand? Yeah, I've thought about that today, with lots of gratitude in my heart. I added a picture of Nagarjuna, but temporarily, you can change it if you want.

I love that picture. I have it on all my PowerPoints. We got to make sure it's legal.

I'm not sure. Okay, all right. Okay, and let's see here.

Term 18. Okay, here's our progress report. We covered six folio phases, three folios in the last term, which is typical mixed nuts progress with grandpa's stories in between.

We should be able to reach folio 9b. We should be able to finish, if we split your translation into two parts, which it easily falls into two parts, exactly. We could print, we could finish the first book in the summer of 2025.

And I don't know about you guys, but I rarely do anything that I plan three years ahead or five years ahead, and it's kind of nice. I know that the government in China always makes five 10-year plans. The government in America makes five 10-week plans, and somehow it's kind of cool to make a plan for 50 years out or 500 years out, and that's exactly what we're doing.

As a single book, it would be a thousand pages, so we'll split it into two books, 500 pages each. And I thought, Nick, you'd like to go through the five chapters. So can you read the name of the first chapter?

You want to struggle with that? A presentation of the individual, an individual presentation of the cause and result of the higher rebirths and definite goodness, meaning nirvana, and the cause and presentation of individually higher rebirths and the cause and effect of higher rebirths and enlightenment. Yeah, good.

Nyampa Lekpa is traditionally explained, which means definite good, certain good, is explained as nirvana and enlightenment. So yeah, it's the two sets. You could call it the two sets of cause and effect.

What's the cause for the effect of higher rebirth, and what's the cause for the effect of enlightenment? Okay, all right, so that's going to be 25 folios, or that's 200 pages. Yeah, that's 200 pages of English, okay.

What's chapter two? Yeah, and we had Palmar only once in the, in the lion's dance. Yeah, like alternating or like mixed up.

Yeah. Demonstration or presentation of the causes and results of higher realms and definite good interspersed. Yeah, and I don't know what's the point of it, and I don't know where he's going with that, but we'll find out.

Chapter three. Jangchub Khytsok Dupa, collecting the, Jangchub Khytsok Dupa, collecting, amassing the collection, the collections, to get to enlightenment. Good.

Now here's another unexpected chapter. Gyelpo'i Tsul Tenpa, oh, a demonstration of how to be a king. Yeah, how to be a good king.

Isn't that wonderful? And that used to be a big tradition in Buddhism that, you know, wise people were hired by politicians to make them more wise, but some politicians aren't even wise enough to hire a reinstate this tradition. Yeah, we could get some jobs.

Okay, what's the last chapter? Khyentpon Rabtu Jungwa K'un Kyi Lapa Tenpa, a presentation of advices, Rabtu Jungwa K'un, for both householders and those who've left the home life. Yeah, great.

Here's a chapter of, here's some advice. I don't care if you're a monk, and I don't care if you're a lay person. Here's some good advice for you guys.

So Nick, the natural place to split this, because you have 76 folios, is at 38, which means we can have a, your first book can cover, you can, I just want you to start thinking about, you could call the first volume some true name that says higher births and Nirvana or something, higher end Nirvana, something like sexy. And that's going to be the first book. And then the second book is going to be some, I mean, you might call it How to Be a King or something, but don't tell Aaron.

All right, just kidding. How's Aaron feeling, by the way? She's getting better every day.

You know, it's a little rough. It was a hard surgery, but she's getting better every day. Okay, well, we all said, we all dedicate our virtue of this class to her.

Which means we're ready to start your book. Oh, can I ask you a quick question? Yeah, please.

Well, actually, it's got two parts. One, I believe we have the Sanskrit for Ratnamala. Oh, that's amazing.

Good. Did Aisha get it for you? Yeah, I mean, if I remember correctly, she did.

And I think it should be input by now. And if it is, I'll verify this after class. If it is, I can try to start inserting it.

Okay. We're starting to hit the verses. I'm not sure if it was recovered en masse, or if it was quoted so often in other books that they pieced it back together.

But either way, we'll take it. Okay, yeah. I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out, and we can check it together.

Okay, it'd be great. There's a commentary by Ajita Mitra, I think his name is, to this in the Tengir. And I was wondering if we should try to look for the Sanskrit of that, because it might be helpful.

Yeah, for sure. It might have the root text in it, yeah. And if we have a question about the root text, we can check it.

That'd be wonderful. I'll email you the name, Aisha, and we can try to hunt for it. And she's getting really good at finding stuff.

Like, we really chose a good person, so. Yeah, I feel like if it exists, she'll get it. Yep, or she'll write it.

Here we go. Please read, and who's going to check you? Rosa, you want to?

Oh, Ellie, are you free? She's not free, she's expensive. She was swallowing macaroni.

Salad, okay. Okay, get ready, Nick. You're going to be criticized heavily.

He's been waiting for this. Okay. Hi, Venerable Jigme.

I miss you. Oh, I miss you too. Hey, here we go.

All right. The first has two. The second has two.

The actual text, or the actual explanation, and a reason for explaining the thing in the vessel. Okay, well, first point. Grandpa always gives you the nipah.

So, the nipah is Shepard Dhammachala. Okay, yeah, Shepard Dhammachala. Oh, the pledge to compose the work.

Yeah, he's promising to write the book. Who? Gyaltsabje.

Oh, no, he's talking about Nagarjuna's promise. Yeah, Arya Nagarjuna is promising to write his book. And then that promise is presented by Gyaltsabje in two different sections.

I'll give you the actual promise that Nagarjuna made. And I'll tell you why you should teach the dharma to Niruma. To a worthy vessel.

Yeah, to someone who is a worthy vessel. I'm guessing that's what it means. We'll see when we get there.

Here's the actual promise to compose the book. next The actual promise to write his book has to have this gun-drel. Four different elements have to be there in a book, in a worthy Buddhist book.

It's like dja-dja and nyi-dja. Exactly, yeah. So gu-drel means there should be some connection between the book he's promising to write and something that we need to reach.

So it should be goal-oriented. All Buddhist books are required to be goal-oriented, and you have to kind of state it at the beginning. Good and Dharma Mahaprashapa, I'm going to go over the required demonstration that this book is related to your goals.

And then I'm going to go through the actual... Meaning of the words. Yeah, I'll go through the wording of that promise.

I'll take you through the wording in the root text. So here's the actual connection to your goals. Again, then it says nyi-kyi rik-par ja-wal.

Is he saying, by these two parts, you'll understand? Yeah, exactly. You will grasp the entire promise of the posts of work if you take it in two sections like this.

Good question. Okay, is Eli reading or is Nick reading? Oh, do you want to read, Jigme?

It's okay, if you want me to. I think it's a good idea. That's fine, that's good.

Okay. Grandpa's going to finish his salad. I have to tell Veronica I ate the salad.

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Nyi-yi dun-tok-pa dey-nyi-kom-pa la-ten-nay tok-pay ngey-lek-nyi. Nyi-nyi.

[Speaker 1]
Nyi-ga. Nyi-ga. Sorry, I'm sleepy.

Dey-tak nga-ma nga-ma mey-na chi-ma chi-mi chum-wa. Njum. Njum.

Njum-wa. Nindrel. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Oh, Nick is amazed by your reading.

He said, wow. I'm sure he is. Okay, so the first part was supposed to be demonstrating that this book has a relationship to your goals in your life, okay, which is required of a Buddhist book.

You're not supposed to read a book that doesn't have this. Okay, so what's the yod-ja? It's, the yod-ja is nga-par-ta-wa dang-ngey-par-lek-pa-kyi.

Wait, wait, what's yod-ja mean? It's the subject matter. Yeah, okay.

Now he makes a list of the subject matter here. Please give us the list, Nick. The higher realm, higher rebirths and definite good, meaning nirvana and enlightenment.

The causes and results, causes along with their results for them. Yeah, okay, good. That's the subject matter.

That's the first of the four guh-sok chuh-si. Shi, say guh-sok. Guh-sok.

Guh-sok. Chuh-shi. Idiom, guh-sok chuh-shi.

Guh-sok chuh-shi. Four elements of a good book, starting with guh-pa. There's some kind of goal, okay.

So anyway, juh-ja, the subject matter is higher rebirths and nirvana and Buddhahood. Second one, Nick. The second one is the guh-pa, the purpose.

Yeah. And it is that from relying on this here scripture... Good.

...from studying it, ten tey dak, you'll understand the points... That I just mentioned, yeah. Yeah, understanding those points above, yeah.

So they call it kind of like the immediate goal. Who is scratching their microphone? It isn't me, but I hear it loud and clear.

I think they're sitting on their microphone, Nick. Okay, let's hope they don't do anything further.

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I was thinking...

[Speaker 1]
We're a close-knit family, the mixed... Oh, yeah, okay, okay. They're yelling at me here.

Ten chen di la den ne. Yeah. So the immediate goal of the book is to understand these points.

Okay, keep going. Di den tok pa den yi gong pa. And then from understanding these points and then meditating upon them...

Not meditating. Oh, habituating yourself to them. Habituating your mind to them.

Achieving them. Achieving definite goodness is the... Just the just goodness, it says.

So achieving definite goodness is the ultimate purpose. Yeah, good. It's the long-term purpose.

Sometimes it's called nying du. Sometimes it's called nyi gu. It's a dumb card.

And... dey dak nga ma nga ma me na chi ma chi ma min jungway nyi drangwa o. That's the fourth one.

The connection. The connection is... I think it says whether or not you get the things that come after depend upon whether or not you've done the things before.

And that's the connection. Yeah. Each one of those three goals or three elements that we talked about depends on the last one.

Getting to the goal, the immediate goal, depends on the subject matter. Getting to the ultimate goal depends on the immediate goal of understanding the book. Okay, cool.

So there's only three connections or something. Connection between three things, two connections. But anyway, okay.

So here's the second part where he promised to describe the wording of the promise to compose the book. Who's promising again? Arya Nagarjuna.

Arya Nagarjuna is promising. Okay. Oh, we don't have to read the root text, because it's in the commentary.

So let's go to the commentary. Okay. Do you want to torture somebody on that list?

Oh, yeah. L.A. can sit here and we can enjoy the torture. That's it.

Let's see. Oh, I don't have the list pulled up. Hold on.

Hey, how about Anatole? Oh, nice. So who's correcting me?

This is for the last difficult pose you made me do. Who's doing the correction? I am.

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Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Go easy. Zinpe chiktu gewe cheshe deng gepani chedrup parja we chiro. Yay.

Awesome. Dad. Hey, is my maitre d' doing okay?

Yeah, get it. Okay, I got to get him back up here as soon as I have time to check my videos. If you were to ask why he's prostrating or to whom he's prostrating?

This ne is a progression of time. Oh. If after prostrating...

Yeah, after prostrating, what do you do next, man? Okay, if you were to ask after prostrating, then what? What's this dude going to do after he's prostrated?

Well, we call she buh in the second line, okay? In the middle of the second line. She buh means we call this dude in front of Nagarjuna galpo.

Uh-huh, yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. And then gal sub je gets the definition of a galpo, okay?

Uh-huh, the person who... He has sulking nunpa, his core. Yeah, he outshines those around him.

And paway, I see your definition down here. So he's like an ornament or a jewel that outshines those around him? Well, jin chakpa, jin chakpa here means...

It's kind of like he's got this magnetic power, okay? Jin chakpa means a magnetic power, okay? He's a king because he has this...

He's choktu power. Uh-huh, he's the supreme magnet? Yeah, supreme magnetic power where he's sulking nunpa, sulking nunpa.

Outshines. He outshines those people in the court and he outshines the whole country, okay? He's like the greatest dude in the country.

So, probably had like JB and me is how he outshines everybody. Okay, she bu, therefore we call him the king, right? Uh-huh.

gyur la yong su tak ching, tok tapa sunde gyewa. I want you to be yong su takpa. Uh-huh, so that you could be totally pure?

Yeah, I want to be a pure king. And I want you to have gyewa tok ma, ta ma, and par. Uh-huh, at the beginning, at the end, and in between, all the time.

That's a very famous ancient Buddhist expression. I want you to be good in the beginning. I want you to have a good ending.

And I want you to be happy in between. And I don't want you to sungwa into the ngen sungwa. Don't fall into the lower realms.

And korwa. Uh-huh, don't spin around in those lower realms. Yeah, and anything which could spin you like that.

Uh-huh, anything that could hold you into, in that lower realms. No, that could hold you from falling into the lower realms. Oh, okay, anything that could keep you from falling into the lower realms.

Anything that could hold you back from falling into sansara in the lower realms. Hold you back. I see the der is important.

I noticed the che from the root text. Explain it. Do it sweetly.

Do it sweetly. Der is the Sanskrit root for the famous Sanskrit word dharma, tarma, which ultimately means a thing which holds its nature. So it's related to the word hold, which is dzin in Tibetan, and completely distinct from the word che in Tibetan, which is our word for thing or teachings.

But here he's, it seems that the Sanskrit would have been saying dharma, where the Tibetan was using che in the root text. So he's saying that the dharma or the che, the teachings are the thing that hold you back from falling into the lower realms. Yeah, and then you got to catch that PAS.

By holding, oh, in order, in this case, isn't it more like, in order to hold you back from falling, I'm going to give you this one virtuous dharma? Well, yeah, it does. But there's a play on the words here.

Oh, by holding you. Because it holds you, it's dharma. It's a dharma.

Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I get it. Because it durs you, it's dharma.

[Speaker 2]
I see.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, that's an old Sanskrit pun. And the Tibetans keep repeating it, even after they forgot what it meant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because it holds you, it's dharma, totally. So your translation is going to be a lot of fun. You're going to have to catch the durs, you're going to have to catch the dharma, and you're going to have to catch the causal relationship between them.

Because it durs, it's dharma. By the way, tree comes from that. Truth comes from that.

Truth, tree, all comes from the root dur. Same one. Because people used to swear on trees because they didn't move.

And they swore vows in front of trees because they were steady. All right, unless it's in Fort Myers. And we're all praying for Vimla's mom, who was on the seventh floor of an apartment building when the tornado hit.

And she's fine. She's all right. And they took her to a friend's house, the police.

And she has water. Okay, so, MI LUNG PAR BRDZIN PAS NA, GCIG TU DGE BA'I PHYIR ZHES Okay, so I'll explain this one virtuous teaching. Which is exclusively good deeds, okay?

This teaching which is exclusively good deeds? I must. Yeah, and the reason I'm doing that is so you can CHOS GRUB.

Achieve these teachings, achieve these things. I want you to practice the dharma, okay? Practice, yeah.

So, I'm going to explain to you the dharma. And the purpose of it is that I want you to practice it and achieve it. Achieve its goals.

Cool. What's that, Anatole? I don't understand.

It's probably not for me, I guess. Hi, Kiri, I love you. I miss Hermano, Mariposa, Martillo, Manzana.

Your roses are growing well, buddy. Okay, all right, who's up, Nick? Shit, oh, let's see.

How about Marina? Can you finish with me? No, we have to sit for one more, one more person.

Can you read Marina? Marina. Oh.

I'm just scrolling. I think she's exercising her neck. She's going to be quiet until I forget.

Okay, Alex, Alex Rivas. He can do it.

[Speaker 3]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Now, he's going to give a lot of examples of what's chö, what's dharma. So, Nick, let's hear it.

Chönyi, dharma is gewa chö, the ten virtues, etc. Yep. Wisdom that realizes absence or freedom from elaboration.

Good, okay, yeah, or self-existent pens. Deni ki je buha. Oh, the state of men and gods that is the result of those two.

What two? Gewa chö and tridrel. Yeah, the wisdom and the ten good deeds, and wisdom are the two causes here.

And their result is also two. You get a higher rebirth, basically, or you get... Definite good.

Well, chong chup sum. Oh, here we go. Yeah, the three kinds of enlightenment, like the enlightenment of the three tracts.

Yeah, and you probably have to have a footnote there because people don't understand that. There's an enlight... The fifth path of no more learning on the listener tract is called chong chup, enlightenment, but it's not.

Then the fifth path of the self-made Buddhist tract is also called enlightenment, but it's not really. And then the fifth path on the Mahayana tract, which is also called no more learning, is enlightenment. So, somebody has to make a footnote here that he's talking about three kinds of enlightenment, only one of which is real enlightenment.

Okay, keep going. DER NI RGYAS NI LA So here, these causes are what we're calling Dharma. Yeah, the two causes.

The two causes, yeah. Yeah, observing the ten good deeds and trying to develop an understanding of emptiness. These are the two causes, okay?

DER NI DRE BU DANG PHYIR Those two, along with their results, are what we want to achieve. Are what I want you to achieve. Are what I want you to achieve, yeah.

They're what I want you to practice. So, this drup is meaning practice, not achieve. Yeah, it goes back to the root text here.

Yeah, yeah, practice. Goes back to here. He's talking to the king.

Yeah, he's talking to the king. He says, oh, the king says, yeah, okay, I'll practice this Dharma thing because it durbs me from falling into samsara in the lower realms, but how do I practice it? And then he explains.

GNYIS PA NI means part two, which only grandpa gives to you. He changed it, by the way, Nick. Here he says, why is it the case that...

There's a reason. Oh, isn't this exactly what... Yeah, I'm sorry, that is the same.

I think he changes it later. Oh, maybe so, yeah. PHYIR LA NI, yeah.

Why is it the case that... Well, we're trying to figure out if he means what makes you a worthy vessel to teach Dharma or... I think it's the reason why you should explain Dharma to people who are ready.

Okay. Who are worthy vessels, okay. And here we go.

It is correct, yeah. Why is it the case that we should explain the Dharma if a person is ready for it? And here's the answer.

Okay, you're excused. Let's get hustle, PHYIR. You ready to torture hustle?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

By the way, if you come to Sedona in the next two weeks, you're very welcome to sit. We're doing the evening classes at the tower in Sedona. We're doing the morning classes at home, so we don't have to put on our pants.

And so, you're very welcome to come. And the upcoming retreat at Diamond Mountain starting on October 16th is the first time... 15th is the first time that we're opening Diamond Mountain to the public.

So we're opening back up. I saw Princeton relax their COVID regulations this week. They said, you know, we wish you have a vaccination.

If you don't, that's your business. We wish that if you are asymptomatic, you wear a mask to class. And, you know, it's pretty much it.

So we're kind of following that. Okay, so anyway, here we go. So you're welcome to come to Diamond Mountain if you'd like, or to Vietnam for the big blowout Lamrim teaching in...

November 3rd. December? Oh, November 30th.

And I'm sorry they're so close together, but it's just... We have schedule constipation. So I'm sorry.

All right. That sounds unpleasant. Also, can you get the mail for Diamond Cutter Classics downstairs?

Oh, yeah. Okay, and can you read the next text section?

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Never a pre-name for a second class. Oh, okay. Except for one.

Third column, you can do the pre-nasal.

[Speaker 3]
CHE CHE BAO CHE CHE BAO Good, CHE CHE BAO.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. That's great. Your pronunciation's getting really good.

Nick, translate. RGYAL PO LA CI PHYIR BYAS Nyamna, if you think to yourself, why would she explain this to the king? Yeah, why is Nagarjuna teaching a king?

PHAG PA DAM PA RNAMS Oh, sorry. He sees that the king is a nu, and then go backwards. Uh-huh, uh-huh, I got it.

If explaining... I see. The king, DAM PA'I PHYIR GYI GNOD, someone who's a vessel for the holy dharma.

Yeah, and you got to be careful with DAM PA because it can be the DAM PA in DUN DAM DAM PA. Uh-huh, ultimate. Yeah, ultimate.

And here he says, he has a difficult construction here. He says, and this is kind of a footnote, he says, he's explaining this dharma to the king because the king is a proper vessel for the highest teachings. Because, and by the way, we call teachings highest if...

Is this a question or is this somewhere in the paragraph? It's just before the word DAM PA'I PHYIR. Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah. DAM PAR BYA BA'I PHAG PA DAM PA RNAMS KYI DAM PA... Oh, if this is something taught by realized beings.

No, DAM PA, T-E-N, B-S-T-E-N. Oh, oh, that they have used. Yeah.

Why is he teaching the king? Because the king is, in this case, a worthy vessel for the highest dharma. And by the way, we call something highest dharma if it has been relied upon by the highest Aryas.

Aryas, yeah, the holy Aryas. Yeah, so Gyaltsabje is taking the chance to explain the word DAM PA when we say holy dharma. And it's usually a mistranslation.

It should be highest teaching in the world. Uh-huh. Once you say dharma, you are kind of indicating Buddha dharma.

Yeah. So you kind of have to say the highest teaching or the ultimate teachings because it's ultimate compared to many other teachings in the world. Why do they say ultimate?

Well, because the ultimate beings in the world have used it. Well, who's that? Well, people assigned to this directly.

Okay, cool. Very cool. And if you were to teach this particular...

This is how you tell if a person is worthy, is a worthy vessel. What makes the king a worthy vessel? If you teach him, chud dru.

He'll practice it. Yeah, if you can find an idiot who will practice dharma, then God can teach them. You can find somebody who will actually...

What makes the king a worthy vessel? Nagarjuna can tell. He will practice what he learns.

Can I ask you a question, Geshe-la? Yeah. In the root text, I saw the word kya.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And then above in the commentary, we had the word kya. And it seemed like it means you, like it's Nagarjuna talking to the king, right? Would you translate it that way?

It is. Yeah, it is. Exactly.

And then down here, when it's Gyaltsabje saying it, would we say him? Oh, yeah. He's paraphrasing Nagarjuna talking to the king.

Kyur kyang chok gi nu. Now we can say he's a worthy vessel, right? I would keep the pun, because I think Gyaltsabje is talking to his reader also.

Oh, you're a worthy... Okay. Yeah, you're also a worthy vessel.

Therefore, I'm going to... I'm going to teach you. I'm going to teach you.

So you can read it as Nagarjuna talking to the king, or you can read it as Gyaltsabje talking to his reader. And I think it's a delightful confusion. That's cool.

Yeah. Okay, cool. Okay, here we go.

Haso's going to read. Okay. By the way, this is the second column.

Ta, ta, ta.

[Speaker 3]
So no. Nge lek gyu... What's that?

Yeah, nice.

[Speaker 1]
Heavy prenasal if the first syllable ends in a vowel. Gyundre. Like ganda in monastery.

[Speaker 3]
Lapar. Yeah, that's a lapar. Okay.

Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Nick, take it away. Grandpa and Haso are relaxing. Nice.

All right, the second part, which is the need for the explanation itself. No, this gupa means to set forth. Uh-huh, all right, right, right.

The second part, setting forth. The actual explanation. The actual explanation.

I know you guys have been waiting for the real book, and here it is. Yeah, it has four parts. Uh...

A general presentation of the causes and results for higher rebirths and definite good. So advices on amassing the two collections, which are the cause of unsurpassed enlightenment. Beautiful, beautiful.

Okay. Advices to not be messed up in how you take part in your kingly activities. Good, yeah, how you act as a king.

Okay. Good, nice. You're hot.

You're on a hot roll here. Keep going. Okay.

And then for those who aspire, for those bodhisattvas who aspire to, even those bodhisattvas who aspire to achieve enlightenment quickly, liberation quickly, Rob, advice that they should leave the home life for even the bodhisattvas. They should take ordination, yeah. Take ordination.

Now, I have an exercise for you, Nick. He promised his explanation in four parts, but there's five chapters. All right.

I want you to tell us next time what happened. All right. Okay.

He's gonna do something unusual on you. I want you to figure it out, okay? He's splitting one of the four, I'm guessing?

I don't know. You'll have to figure it out. Don't try to get me the answer for free.

Uh, okay. Sumba, now he's on a new section. Okay.

And sumbalasam, shepa la jukpa chawa, shepa nyi nyerwa gupa. We are setting forth here. That should have been up above, actually.

Sorry. Let me take this out of here. That one's up.

No. Yeah, it's here. Okay.

It should have been here. Okay. He said part two, right?

So that's where he starts the real... Okay. Okay.

So he promised us first. I'm gonna teach you the cause and effect system for reaching higher births and... In a general way.

And, yeah. And I'm going to divide that into two parts. Hasa, let's read one more time.

The first of these has... Oh, sorry.

[Speaker 3]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
So for the first part, what, Nick? He's going to individually explain the causes and results for the higher realms and definite good. Good.

And then the second part is that... What did we call it? I don't know.

Interspersed explanation. Yeah, somehow it's going to intersperse them. Nick, we have a few minutes.

Can you choose somebody to read from the audience? Oh, we only have one minute. Well, they got to read fast.

Uh... Yes. It's Venerable Sonam.

Bring it to... Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Next one as well?

[Speaker 1]
So, no... I think we have time, right, Nick? Or you want to try it?

We're at time, so... Okay. So, this is tough to translate.

Dambalini, when I... First has two? Yeah.

Isn't it just setting forth the context of the explanation and then the actual explanation? Yeah, something like that. Setting up the explanation and then giving you the actual explanation.

How's that? Okay. The setup for the explanation and the actual explanation.

Yay, Nick. Yay, Nagarjuna. Yay, readers.

We're going to start having the audience read more often, so... So, go to words classes. Yeah, but also turn off your camera at the last minute if it looks like we're going to call on you.

Okay. Bye, Kitty. I love you.

Muchas gracias, Aldo. Hey, thank you so much, all the translators. You guys are amazing and brave for taking on these classes.

And we're super, super grateful to you all. And we bow to your holy feet. Thank you.

Thank you so much. And the tech team. Thank you guys for organizing the tech so that we have our classes recorded and streamed and everything that you're doing.

Yay. Okay. Get your seatbelt fastened because we're up to...

We'll call this text next, right? Anything else, Nick? Thank you so much, Keshe Michael.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you, Keshla.

[Speaker 1]
As long as they give me dessert, I'm okay. Okay. Dessert for the buff.

Yeah, all right. See you guys in how many minutes, Nick? Nine minutes.

So, 35. Wow, big brain.