Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 13

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Wow.

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Olé.

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Beautiful. Was that a recording or was that just live?

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No, just live.

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Nice.

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Beautiful, beautiful. Amazing.

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Could you make that full screen, go at the bottom and click on focus, and then do pinch and zoom? Yeah. Keep going.

Keep going. I think it's probably good, right? It's only...

There it is. Now it's full screen. Okay, cool.

Okay. All right. All right.

Anyone? How does GelsubJ define attachment? I'll give you a hint.

The answer was just on the screen until about a minute ago. Not really a hint, is it? Does anybody remember how he defines attachment as one of the 10 non-virtues?

I was confused about it in class and I probably wouldn't remember. All right. Let's take a look.

How wonderful would it be if what someone else got was mine? Tibetan for how wonderful would it be? Anybody remember that?

Chimarung. Nice. Chimarung.

I think I tried to make this quiz easy. Where is Chimarung classically seen, you guys? It's in the...

The Four Infinite Thoughts. The teaching of the Four Infinite Thoughts.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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And those are all positive. This is a negative one, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Well... Yeah.

Okay. After discussing the 10 non-virtues, what is the next activity that Arya Nagarjuna advises against? What does GelsubJ say to emphasize that it's a bad idea?

All right. If nobody knows, I'll give you a hint. Oh, Geshe-la knows.

Wait. Hold on. Well, I'm cheating.

I'm looking at the text. Oh, well. Yeah.

It was... It came up in someone else's text. Oh, in Allison's text.

It came up in the things that were wrong. It was like one of the first things that came up as far as wrong changes to the vows, wrong addendums that were made. And I got excited for a second.

Just kidding. Saying that a certain vow is not important. There's one particular one that he's advising against now.

It's... Oh, it was... It was the leech thing.

In Allison's book? Yeah. It was the leech thing.

And they could... Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And GelsubJ says that it makes you lose control of what you do and think. And for some reason, he doesn't say, say, but my experience in my earlier life is that it absolutely makes you lose control of what you say.

Maybe he couldn't understand what the person was saying. Does anybody know the Tibetan for lose control of what you do and think? Or the whole thing.

The Tibetan for this whole thing. Does anybody know what the Tibetan would be for not to drink beer? Pretty simple.

Chan-me-tung. You were close. Yeah, chan-me-tung.

Chan-me-tung. Nice. Lose control of what you do and think?

I'll give you a hint. Be powerless over what you do and think?

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Wang-me. I don't know. Wang-me.

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Is it a bok-me? It was a Wang-me-tung. RANG DBANG MED PA'I LUS SEMS RANG DBANG MED PA'I Okay.

Okay. You lose control of body and mind, right? What you do and think.

Well, I was trying to use your translation. Oh yeah, okay, good. Arya Nargajuna then goes on to describe how some householders might do some shifty moves with scales and so forth.

I think he says shifty moves. What would you like to prescribe against next?

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Not changing the weight on scales and cheating people?

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Something slightly more general that that might be included within. And you usually know this Tibetan quickly word. What the five wrong?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, I should have waited. But anyway, you know the Tibetan, right?

Good. Yeah. All right.

All right. My translation. Yay.

Oh, wow. You did a lot. Well, I felt like I was struggling with it too, but it was because I just wanted to get all five.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I started here. This one I definitely was struggling with, so we'll see.

Uh, yeah. This is the intro to the Loksongla? Yeah, this is the paragraph that comes right before where you pasted it in.

Okay, okay. Okay, good. By the way, the five wrong ways of making a living, are difficult.

And so, if you had trouble translating it, that's fine. There's a lot of weird vocabulary that I had never heard of. Yeah, and it's not easy.

LUNG NA KYI THO TZAM PA SOGS NI RNAM PAR BRTZE BA YIN LA Yeah, I think THO TZAM PA is like aggressive behavior, something like that, okay? Okay, so when we talk about hurting people, RNAM PAR BRTZE BA, right? We're talking about kind of like aggressive behavior and things like that, okay?

It could include YUL PA BDEG PA, yeah? Hitting people with sticks. And turning our back on these three.

Oh no, he's defining MI BRTZE BA. Ahimsa. Okay, he's defining Ahimsa.

And he defines it as SPANG PA, stick hitting, etc. Okay, so he's recommending MI BRTZE BA, Ahimsa. Oh, there you go, okay.

Okay, I think SUM YANG GANG NAS BDAG PA'I PHYIR SOGS NI SUM YANG GANG NAS BDAG PA'I PHYIR SOGS NI There were the two other ones that came before this. CHANG MI THUNG and avoiding MI BRTZE BA, the BRTZE BA SNGA. Yeah.

Hmm... I believe, because he said there's going to be ten and then there's going to be three. Oh, so yeah, he says avoiding these three is also what we call dharma, yeah.

Yeah, okay, good. That's nice, that's fine. Yep.

Because before that he said practice the dharma, and he says, well that... He said practice the dharma, and then he said practicing the dharma is giving up the ten bad deeds, and then he said now he says giving up those three is also practicing the dharma. Okay.

I think meaning CHANG MI THUNG, the BRTZE BA SNGA, and then beating people with violence basically. Yeah, okay, okay, cool. And then here they are from gift of liberation.

I didn't translate both quotes just because I didn't have time. Oh, yeah, I didn't have time either. I mean last night I went through the second five.

So, we can go through them, but it's going to be a big bite to finish the first five. So, Nicholas, can you please read and Grandpa will check you on the first one. Okay.

THEG YANG SLOG TSOG SNGA NI KHA SAG ZHUGS RLONG NYES PA'I NYES PA'I TSUL BA THOB GYIS MDZAL BA TSUL KHRIR NGES SBYUGS PA STE Nice. As we read these next six sections or so, can you also follow it with your cursor? So we can help the people who read.

Okay, I'm not going to translate this. There's five wrong ways of making a living, okay? Five wrong ways to support yourself and your family.

And they have unusual names. And I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, you know, I think it'd be more interesting to define them first, okay? So, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna give the names yet.

Nick, who would you ... why don't you read one more yourself, and then you can pick people to read, okay? Okay.

KHA SAG NI BYIN DAG SOGS KYIS CHEN PO'I BYIN THUB RE BA'I KHA THER THER BYED PA'I THEG NOR SOGS BYIN NA LOB RDZO YIN Yeah, good. Let's check your translation here. Flattery is the kind of wrong language where you give a small gift to someone like a sponsor.

BYIN DAG SOGS KYIS I like how you say like a sponsor for SOGS, I like that. CHEN PO'I BYIN DU LAS LUGS Oh, no. The key is interesting, the key marks the subject of the sentence.

What is the subject of the sentence? THER THER THER THEG NOR ... the they.

Oh, no. In the first line, KYIS ... KHA SAG NI BYIN DAG SOGS KYIS ...

oh, someone like a sponsor. Yeah, that marks the subject of the sentence, so ... That they will give you money or something of the like?

That they'll give you some lousy little thing, okay? CHEN PO'I is almost derogatory, you know. Here you are breaking your morality for some stupid little red envelope or something.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. So, ,YOD RE BA, that they will jimpa, ,YOD RE BA, that they will jimpa you some chenbu.

Chenbu means little stupid thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. So, what's that?

,RE BA, that they will jimpa. You hope that they're going to give you some small gift. Yeah, out of a hope that they'll give you some, you know, not very important gift.

,GANG PHYIR THEG CHE, Yeah, you sweet talk them. Yeah, you say some nice stuff. And then, if you get to THAR THUG, which in classical Abhidharma means they do give you something.

They give you the money. Yeah, then that's the LHUGS SO. That's flattery.

And I'd like you to read the next sentence, because it's so important. Let's have Nick read the next sentence.

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This one?

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Yeah, I would bring it up to the top. ,YANG PHYIR ZHUGS, ,BYANG LDAN BYA'I, ,KHUN LANG MED PA RANG BZHIN BYANG PO, ,KHA KHA'I BYAS NAS, ,JING KYANG SLOB TSOR MIN GYUR, Yeah, however, if your motivation is not like that, and your kind words are out of a sincere nature, even if they do give you something. Nice translation.

Yeah, it's a good translation. And in each case, he's careful, right? Pabongka Rinpoche is careful to say, look, if you're nice to the sponsor, you know, honestly, because you like them and you're grateful, and they happen to make another donation to your organization or something, that's not wrong livelihood.

Yeah, okay? That's not. Okay, good.

And by the way, these five are primarily from monks, but I think you can apply them to anybody, right? Nick, who's going to read the next sentence, and who's going to check it? Oh, you're going to check them, how's that?

Cool. Tim. Tim's popping up on my screen.

Alright. Please follow with your cursor, Nick. I am.

Yeah, okay. And you can make your cursor bigger if you want to help your students. Okay, sure, I do.

This student wants a bigger cursor. Excellent. Is it in display?

It is display. It's in click display and click cursor. Cursor, cursor.

I think it's under pointer. Oh, pointer, I see, yeah. Here you go.

Here's pointer. Okay. Alright.

Alright.

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Nice, okay.

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We're not going to translate the name of the bad deed yet, right? Okay, let's find out what it is first.

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Okay.

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NGES KUR Let's start with NGES KUR. Yeah, oh yeah. A desire for honor or gain.

Good. That's a good translation of the combination word NGES KUR, which means... it means material gain or other people's respect, okay?

So, these are the two motivations why a monk especially might say something sweet, okay? DON NAS So, out of a desire for material gain or other people's attention, right? Basically.

You say something like, to sponsor a line, nowadays it's rare we have... Well, this DRU here is grain. Like, you know, corn or wheat or rice, okay?

This DRU means... It doesn't mean a single... It can mean a single syllable of text.

It can mean a single grain of grain, but here it means a bag of grain or something like that.

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Oh, oh.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. So, I'll just say any grain or any... Grain sounds kind of weird.

I'll just put that for now. Now, what the second line says, NGES, is TEN GAB means now... You know, my current situation is that I do have CHA and MAR, but the DRU is a little combo.

Oh. I do have tea and butter. Yeah.

Grains were a little light on the grain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good.

By the way, it could mean Sampa. So, I mean, a typical monk is living off of Sampa. You mentioned Sampa now.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I got enough tea powder or tea bags, and I got a supply of butter, but grain or flour is a little bit of a problem right now.

So, the KON means like hard to come by? KON means like coin chalk, right? Rare.

Yeah, but I mean in this context. Oh, yeah, it's a little hard to get grain nowadays. Yeah, some kind of problem in the market.

But last year... Okay, yeah. Last year, you were so nice to give us some Sampa, and that really helped us.

Yeah, good. You should have here... You got to have K, or it doesn't have the same power.

K means Kiran. Oh, you. Oh, okay.

Hey, last year when we had trouble, do you remember you gave us some Sampa? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. It was very helpful. Yeah, good.

So helpful. CHUNG ZHES PA DANG, DE'I DRUL DANG SANGS PA ZHUGS KYI MA MA Yeah, good. What's the ZHUGS KYI?

Let's see. It means indirectly or hinting, right? Yeah, I said what you're really getting at.

Yeah, good. That's perfect. That's good.

That's perfect. What you're really trying to say is, please give me Sampa. Then, without looking at it, Nick, tell us what's the disclaimer after that.

Well, if your words are sincere and you're not trying to get something, then it's not hinting. Yeah, if you're direct about it, and if you're honest about it, and you say, look, last year you gave us a donation. We also have a need this year, and if it's possible for you...

And I really like to tell people nowadays, if your family agrees and your spouse agrees, which is required in Buddhism, then we'd really appreciate it if you made another donation. And that's okay. So, let's read that.

Let's read that, Nick. Or you have somebody who wants to read that?

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Are you going to translate the word Sampa, Nick?

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I don't think that the waiter's going to know what that is.

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Just go ahead and give me a suggestion. I don't know. Cereal?

Flour? Oatmeal? Barley oatmeal?

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Flour?

[Speaker 1]
Grains?

[Speaker 2]
Barley cereal?

[Speaker 1]
I was going to say barley flour, yeah. People do say Sampa for Sampa in English. Yeah, they do.

That's why I left it. I've never heard it in this country other than in these classes. I've heard it.

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You can get it at a store, and it says Sampa now.

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It does, yeah. There are bags of Sampa in stores. Because barley flour is different than Sampa.

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That was the last straw. Geshe-la's leaving in protest You know what?

[Speaker 1]
I'm just going to worry about it later.

[Speaker 2]
He's going to get a bag of Sampa. Settle it.

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Purchased from San Francisco, Tibetan Sampa. Okay. Okay.

You've got to put lots of maple syrup. And it's good stuff. I've got to recommend this brand.

It's just called Tibetan Sampa Company, and it's a little family operation out of San Francisco. Man, they make good Sampa. Get the black one.

Get the black one.

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I think Geshe-la's hoping if we leave the word untranslated, people will get curious, and it'll be available pretty soon in his local restaurant.

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It's a very healthy breakfast. By the way, monks pretty much live on it. They don't eat salads, okay?

Nick, I'm telling you. I don't want to push salads on anybody. All right.

I hope my wife is listening. Generally, we wouldn't put Tibetan words in our texts, and I wonder if there are situations where... I mean, obviously, if it was a yak, but that has become an English word.

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Or yeti.

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A yeti came up, didn't it? I think pizza has entered a lot of languages. Foods like beef stroganoff.

By the way, I want to explain why my wife's not here today, and she's coming. Can you remind us her name, Geshe-la? Yeah, Cecilia.

Cecilia, that's right. Cecilia Francis. I haven't seen that big smile on Veronica for a long time.

Okay, that's the new baby. I got to go. I got to go hold my kid.

Okay, here we go. Yeah, if it's honest, if you say it out of honesty, it's not hinting. Good.

Does drajjana mean say it like it is or something? If you say something like that, it's not hinting, okay? If your motivation is chungpo, it's honest, okay?

Yeah, sincere. Good. Okay, Nick, it's on you.

Oh, can I ask you a quick question while I'm thinking of it? Unrelated to this completely, but important. That's the kind of thing Geshe-la does all the time.

When I'm putting the Sanskrit in, there are some places where we have taken the Tibetan and split it into two places, like 10-A and 10-B or something. That doesn't correspond with the Sanskrit. You know, it'll be all over the place.

Like the Tibetan... Yeah, I know what you mean. That's a good question.

Normally that problem doesn't happen. Normally the chunks that hang together in Tibetan also hang together in the Sanskrit. I almost can't think of a case where that's not the case.

But if you do have such a case, which is theoretically possible, maybe repeat it twice, the whole thing twice, and put different parts in parentheses or square brackets or something. You see what I mean? Something like that.

Repeat the whole thing in both languages twice? Yeah, repeat the whole thing in Sanskrit twice, and block out the piece that you want them to pay attention to. Actually, I cannot remember having had to do that ever.

But if it comes up, in theory it could come up. So yeah, I would use square brackets to block out the part that actually comes later. Okay.

It'll be a couple sets of square brackets because things appear... I'll send you the example.

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Okay.

[Speaker 1]
It is... Yeah, I can imagine that it would happen, yeah. Okay.

All right. You're up, Nick. Choose somebody to torture.

Inna, are you translating? She is. I see her mouth moving.

Aldo, are you translating? Yeah. Everybody with their...

Alevtina, can you read the Tibetan?

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Yes. All right. Good.

Good. Good. Good.

Good. Good. Good.

Good. Good. Good.

tonko, letak, laktak, sokchenpo, yon, gyuy, rewa, chepa la ser.

[Speaker 1]
Amazing. That was amazing. Yeah, very good reading.

Very good reading. Thank you. All right.

,GNYIS PA'I GNYIS PA'I TSUL, Yeah, you can say baiting. Yeah, giving something to get something, right? What do you call that in finance?

I don't know. Quid pro quo? Yeah, good, yeah.

,PHAR BCU NGOS ZHIG RJIN NAS, You give something small to somebody else as a method to get something more back. Good. Top here could almost be like stratagem, but it's okay.

,BYIN DAG LTA BUR GA DAG DANG, For example, offering a silkscarf to a sponsor, or extending them hospitality, which is very good for nailing. I worked on that. Yeah, it's a good choice of translations, and it's a rare word.

And by bringing them a pitcher full of tea, that's great. You know, there's a little thing here where you got to catch a silk after jatir. I know.

You could say something like a pitcher full of tea. Yeah, something like a pitcher full of tea. Yeah, okay.

Maybe I just forgot that one. When you're in your most desire, that's good. By the way, SDONG DGOS and LHAG LTAG are two different words.

SDONG DGOS means you're hoping for a donation, and LHAG LTAG means you're hoping for a small personal gift. LHAG LTAG means a personal gift. So, there's two things here, SDONG DGOS and LHAG LTAG.

Okay. So, you're hoping for either a donation or a personal gift.

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Yeah, yeah.

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LHAG LTAG means something that you put in your hand. I have to change one of these something likes. Yeah, it doesn't say great gift, it just says a personal gift.

What's that CHEN PO doing? Oh, I'm sorry, yeah. Larger, right?

Something larger, uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, good, good, good.

Yeah, nice. Okay. What's the YONG and YONG RGYUD?

Fourth line, end of the fourth line. End of the fourth line? Yeah, in the Tibetan, YONG RGYUD RE BA.

YONG RGYUD RE BA, okay.

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YONG RGYUD, like...

[Speaker 1]
YONG RGYUD RE BA, sorry, yeah. What's that mean? You're hoping for that to be a cause.

No, this doesn't mean cause. It's a future chancerizer. Oh, you're hoping for it to become?

I mean, you're hoping for something in return. Yeah, something will come back. You see what I mean?

Okay. Yeah. So, this RGYUD means will come.

Yeah, you're hoping that something will come. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't mean the cause and effect RGYUD, yeah.

It's just a verb participle, yeah. Okay. Okay, who's reading next, Mr. Nick?

Good translation so far. Isabel. Oh, is she translating?

Isabel, are you translating? Yes. Oh, oh, sorry.

Connie. Connie has to read. Yeah, she's surprised.

I can see the look of surprise. Yay, Connie. I missed Connie.

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Okay. Starting from, where's the cursor?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, here you go.

[Speaker 2]
Here you go.

[Speaker 1]
That's good. By the way, Nick, there's a typo here. It should say...

I was low score, right? No, it should be tsola. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I thought maybe, and I translated it as if he was making some kind of pun. Oh, yeah. Yeah, in fact, it would sound like that, wouldn't it?

Like chak tsel tsul, yeah. Yeah, like he's looking for something wrong. And I just, I knew there was a good chance I was wrong, but I figured I would try it.

Okay, now I got to teach you guys an idiom, okay? This is a monastic idiom. So, Tibetan language, because 20% of the entire population was ordained before 1959, a million people were ordained.

So, a lot of Tibetan language was strongly influenced by monastic vocabulary, okay? And chak gyu, say chak gyu shak. Chak gyu shak.

Yeah, it means to set a hook. And it's a very common expression in the monastery for, to attract a sponsor. Okay, so chak gyu shak.

Here he says chak gyu dang, same thing, okay? I'm going to set the hook, and it means I'm going to hit this sponsor up, okay? And the first time I heard it, I was a little put off.

I was a little bit, I thought that's kind of impolite to say that. But to be honest, it just, when you live in the monastery, it doesn't feel like that. It feels like somebody saying, I'm going to kick butt and try to find a good sponsor.

You know, it's kind of positive actually, okay? So, that's what it means here. I'm going to, you know, dek sang rang re dendrak chen ne.

Nowadays, nowadays we say that. That's okay, when we do that kind of thing. Nowadays, when we exhibit this kind of behavior, we refer to it as, hey, I was wondering if I could set the hook.

Okay? I was thinking I could set the hook, you know? And then he says, if you talk like that in the monastery, in a way you are, in a way you are working hard to do wrong livelihood.

You're really focusing on getting your daily wrong livelihood in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lok tsor la.

To wrong livelihood. You are nen ten che. You are really doing some real focus.

Okay? Yeah. Okay.

In other words, in the other, in the other wrong livelihoods, he had a disclaimer that if you were honest, it's not so bad, or it's not a problem. But here, he has two disclaimers. First he says, we tend to joke about it, but it's not funny.

You know? You are kind of making, you're joking about, when you joke about it, it seems like you're not, you are doing wrong livelihood. Okay?

Now he's got his disclaimer coming up. Who's reading, Nick? Rosa.

Okay, nice. Okay, I'll do my best. Yay!

By the way, by the way you guys, Rosa is largely responsible for getting all the Mixed Nuts books out as e-books, and getting them out into the world, and getting them on the website. She arrived about a year ago in Sedona, and she's been really, really helpful in getting our books out to the world. So, yay Rosa.

Thank you. Yeah, it will be good if I can read it, right? You might get distracted.

I do. DBYE GANG LAS SOGS NI RGYUR Nice. Very nice.

Good reading. Good reading. By the way, Rosa, a Z, a Zed, is a low-tone S.

It's just an S, but you say it with a husky voice. Oh, oh, sombo. Okay, good.

We never say Z, okay? Alright, Nick, you want to take us through it? Well, this is a similar format as above.

So, kunlong is motivation. Me means you don't have. Tenja means like that.

So, I said if you don't have that kind of motivation. Rangshin jangpo, whoops, I'm still getting used to this giant cursor. So, jangpo means sincere and rangshin means nature.

That's how I translated it. So, and this S makes it like by. So, if by having a sincere nature or if the nature, I think I said, yeah, of a sincere nature.

Jindak is sponsor. Neilin is what I translated as hospitality. Neilin sangpo I translated as excellent hospitality.

It's a good translation, good translation. Yeah, if you do like that, toward the jindak. So, the la means like toward in this case.

So, the excellent hospitality that you extend toward that sponsor is of a sincere nature. Then, lo tsor min gyur, it's not wrong livelihood. Good.

I translated it young as however. Good, nice. By the way, again, you can probably sense that these are monastic and they relate mostly to fundraising rather than working at a job to make money.

You see what I mean? You can feel that they're kind of... If you taught these to a DCI audience, for example, you'd probably want to make them more relevant to a for-profit business.

Okay. Okay. Rivas.

Vamos. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Top key. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Nice. There's just two or three suggestions here, Nick.

And they're all idiomatic Tibetan that you'd have to be in the monastery for a while to catch it. Yeah. THOB KYI RJE BA means...

This THOB means force. Okay? To force a sponsor.

Or to put pressure, really. to put pressure on a... yeah, you say apply pressure, that's great.

To do something when someone doesn't want to do something, right? Or say mainly they don't want to make a donation, and you LONG BA, yeah, you ask for it with a lot of emphasis, you know, you make a big deal about it. And the next section you did well.

Also it applies to redirecting a donation from somebody else to yourself, okay? And I believe that can apply even to organizations. So I think, I feel that we have 13 or 14 organizations under the worldview umbrella, and I think when one organization kind of selfishly goes after a sponsor of another organization, I think you're kind of getting into this territory.

I think we have to respect each other's donors, or we have to ask the other organization, you know, I know this person is your donor, but can I approach them for something, you know? So, I think just as good manners you have to do that. So, GZHAN LA BUD This GZHAN LA means what Nick?

Well, like, you can't change it, or transform it.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah good, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and so we might say redirect it to yourself. I like that. Yeah.

Okay. Which is ... by the way which happens in the monastery and you cause a lot of friction.

I had a very serious case like this. I built a water system for the whole monastery, for 1,500 monks, and then somebody tried to actually build a separate pipe to take the water to their house, and deprive the other houses of, you know, and it's like that. It could be very serious to the unity and the harmony inside the monastery.

DBYIN BDAG CHE RGYUD MO. What? Oh, CHE RGYUD MO means such-and-such.

Mm-hmm. I said such-and-such. Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah, such-and-such, a great sponsor. NGOS LA means just to them you say. Yeah, you say to them.

MA'I PHYIN PA. I want you to improve this sentence by giving us the right tense, the correct tense of B-Y-I-N. When you put an AO, it becomes present tense.

I'll give you a clue. Oh, so it's past? Yeah, it's past.

It was really helpful when you gave us... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last year you gave us that tea or that butter, boy, that was some great help.

Okay, yeah. Yeah, which now means, ZHUGS KYI LONG BA means you are hinting again. Okay, and by the way, this is...

what's the difference between... We lost you Geshe-la. What's the difference between this hinting and the hinting we already had?

This one's forceful. Yeah, more pressure. You're putting more pressure.

A more intimidation tactic. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, like the SHIN TU makes it more intimidation than hinting.

Yeah. Come into my office, I want to talk to you about tea and butter. Okay, Nick, who's going to read the next one?

How about Peter? Oh, one more question. One more question, Nick.

What's the stare at the end of each one? He says... No, that's what we call blah blah.

You see what I mean? I thought that, but I'll debate you on it only because, look here, at the very last line. Yeah, it's the same.

He repeats it over and over. Oh, this down here? No, the stare is...

This stare is more like... that's what we call that one. Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay, good. It's a common construction, actually, when you're defining something. Okay, good.

Who's reading next? P.G. Zoe, can you read? Maybe not.

Maybe her sound isn't on. Natalia, do you want to try?

[Speaker 3]
It's me?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Okay, I will try.

[Speaker 1]
I'm not trying to force you. What are you doing? What are you doing?

Okay, right here.

[Speaker 3]
Yang Nye. Help me, please, okay?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Yes. Yang Nye.

[Speaker 3]
Yang Nye. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Mingyur. Really nice. The translation is great, Nick, and I have a suggestion that we quickly do the next two paragraphs so we can finish these five during this class.

Yeah, during this term. Yeah. So, maybe pick someone who can read fast.

Okay, Ben.

[Speaker 2]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Nick, quickly, yeah, shak du means you're dashak, which means you're monk self. Oh, okay, I was confused about that. So, in your own monkly room, you just do whatever the heck you want, kangjung che.

In the privacy of your own room, which would be a great way to translate it, you do whatever you want, you know. But in the dundu of the, yeah, in the presence of the sponsor, that's a good translation. You try to look as if you keep the pine boards over your mouth.

Wow, yeah. Us dharma teachers tend to do this also. Dundok.

Nice. Nice for ndok, which means color, like khandok karma. But here it means, yeah, you put on this false impression, great, of being disciplined whenever you're around them in the hopes that, yeah, okay, good, that they will give you some small thing.

Okay, good. That's, and then you catch the ser, that's what we call pretending. All right, let's do this.

Pick somebody who can read fast on this last syllable, on this last paragraph. Word. All right.

From yangdze? Yeah. Yeah, the line.

Okay, the line break looks good. Dundok khandwa chekhyang tsultrim sumendro chedak gi khyab chok lama rinpo che sung. Hang on.

It starts out quite good. If you do, du du le, du du le, dundok khandwa chekhyang, sumendro, chak tu du du le, dundok, Yeah, this is a little bit different Nick. This chak tu du du le, If you try to look a little more moral in general than when you're in the privacy of your own room, okay?

shak tu du du means in the privacy of your own room. tsun dok means if you try to make some effort to look a little more spiritual, you know, outside your room, outside your house, then when you're in your house, that's not a problem. See, that's come some kind of bak yu.

What's bak yu? Care mindfulness. Yeah, it means you care what other people think.

So, I mean, he's saying, look, you may do really improper things in the privacy of your own room, but it doesn't mean you should make an effort to do them outside also. And that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about you are trying to deceive a sponsor.

Okay, so it's not that in order that they'd stick with the teachings, no? Yeah, and there's an important addendum here. dak gi kyap chok lama rinpoche sung.

Thus spoke our precious teacher in highest refuge. He's talking about his own personal lama, whoever, that was dakpo rinpoche, and he says, this last point here, that if out of interest of not breaking this vow, you try really hard to misbehave on the outside also, that's not really the point. And my teacher shared this point with us.

It means, when Pabongka Rinpoche says something like that, he says, look, this is a very precious personal advice from my private teacher, and I'm sharing it with you. It's not something generally that you would read in the literature, okay? My teacher said, if you're trying to keep up impressions so that lay people don't lose faith completely, that's a good deed.

But still, you should try to avoid this discrepancy between how you act in private and how you act in public, yeah. And now I'm gonna give you an assignment, since you don't have anything to do till the next term. Yeah, I was just gonna sleep the whole time.

Yeah, the reason we did these last five from the Lam Rim of Pabongka Rinpoche, the gift of liberation, is that we could better understand this ancient version of the five wrong livelihoods by Nagarjuna, which follows a different order, okay? So, if you can go down to the next header in your free time, you will get a slightly different take on these five, and my assignment for you is, when you get to your first class in the next term, I'd like you to be ready to point out the differences to us, you know. Like, these explanations are almost exactly 2,000 years apart, and I'm curious if they have shifted a little bit or not, okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Exciting.

All right, great. Thank you. Thank you for an amazing term.

Yeah, it is an amazing term. Sorry for my foggy-headedness, but I'm getting it. I think we're all exhausted.

I mean, that's just the way it is at the end of term, so that's okay. Yeah. Well, cool.

Thank you, Geshe Michael. Thanks, everybody, for coming, and again, thank you to the translators. Thank you to our amazing tech team.

I don't know who all the translators are, because there's many people translating, but I know Hasso organized a team of Spanish-speaking folks, and Inna organized a team of Russian-speaking folks, and Pure Gold, you guys are incredible, and probably translating our super-fast English into Chinese is really hard, into all of the languages. Awesome. Thanks for sticking with all of our organizations, guys.

It makes all the difference in the world. Okay, take a nice break. There's no yoga this time.

There's yoga at four, though, so let me see who's teaching. If you're here, feel free to speak up. I'm teaching.

Okay, Alex is teaching. Okay, great. Alex will lead a nice yoga class at four, and then we'll have the rest of our classes, including a final Q&A with Geshe Michael.

Yeah, okay. All right, great. Thank you, guys.

Thank you, Nick. Thank you, guys. See you guys soon.

Okay, bye.