Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 14

[Speaker 2]
You have a cup for me? Oh.

[Speaker 1]
You want to come sit on my lap? Come here. Okay, thank you for bringing me tea.

Hey, Nick, all the ladies here are asking, which one did you want to sit on your lap? Wait, I want to see Amelie. She just ran away.

She was feeling shy. Yeah, maybe she'll come back. Hey, Amelie, do you want to come say hi?

Come on, Amelie. She ran off. She's scurried.

Oh, here she is. Hey, Goose. Hey, Goose, come on.

She's feeling shy. Well, she'll come later. She's separating milk from water.

Do you want to talk a little bit about your text, Nick? Well, since you asked, sure. I did something crazy.

Oh, I hope it's not another mind map. No, I wouldn't do that to everybody. I made an outline.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, my God.

[Speaker 1]
But I made a really simplified outline. If you really outline every division that Geltsubjay makes, well, I figured out Microsoft Word isn't even capable of going that deep into an outline, because he separates and then separates.

[Speaker 2]
Like a mind map from the 50s, dude.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, this is a mind map from Geshe Michael's English teachers era. Yeah. So that's what I was going for.

Anyway, just to go through it quickly for you guys, and I included a couple very easy questions for you all. Nuts. So the working title that I've been messing with, Geshe Michael told me to come up with my own title for the book.

I don't know. I was wondering about that.

[Speaker 2]
Nick's Wacky Adventure into Wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
Rick Kramer, that's obviously a subtitle. It is pretty obvious. It's a commentary to The String of Jewels.

Okay. So Geltsubjay first prostrates. He bows down to his own teacher.

Who's that? Quiz question. Jason Kappa.

That was good. Must have been Word, but was Word alive? What?

[Speaker 2]
That was Rob.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, yeah, Jason Kappa. And then he bows to the author of the root text. Who's that?

Who wrote String of Jewels, Letter to a King? Ari Nagarjuna. Very good.

Yes. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Amelie.

Here. Yeah. Hi, Amelie.

Come on, bring it to me. Hi, Amelie. Geshe Michael's saying hi.

Hi, Amelie.

[Speaker 2]
Bye, Amelie.

[Speaker 1]
She said, uh. Bye, Amelie. I get the same reaction from Maitri.

Anyway. Cheers. Why he wrote the book.

That's the first part, is Geltsubjay's prostrations. Then why he wrote the book. OK, so we're in a commentary.

For those of you who don't know at all, I just jumped right into this. We're reading Geltsubjay's commentary to Ari Nagarjuna's String of Jewels or Letter to a King. And it's kind of a long rim.

It's a book. It's kind of a teaching on steps in the path. And I'm just showing you where we've what we've covered so far.

I think we're three terms in. Why he wrote the book. A, he was asked by his students.

B, to help people take the essence of their leisure and fortune, which are blank to find. Rob. Extremely.

Hard to find. Yeah. I didn't even say hard, Rob, but I think you thought I did.

But yeah, hard to find. Guess I think so. The offering that satisfies the victors like no other is when their teaching strike us as personal advice and we put them into practice.

And then comes the introduction, presenting how cool the author of the Shastra is. He was prophesied in a bunch of sutras. He achieved the state of Vajradhara.

What's that in English? Vajradhara.

[Speaker 2]
Older than the jewel. Older than the diamond.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, great. By practicing unsurpassed yoga. Then introducing the Shastra.

So Khyeltsabje is just going through all this stuff. He wanted to say how cool Arya Nagarjuna is. Then he wants to introduce the book.

And he introduces it by explaining all these other super important books that Arya Nagarjuna wrote, which established that in the end, all paths are one taste. Yeah. Yeah.

Good. I don't think he said one taste, but he said one. And this is Tartuk Takpacheek.

But Rocheek is a common expression. This particular book is one of the six that established the profound blank way using reasoning. I like this.

I like this quiz. The profound blank way. Go ahead, Ben.

Clueless?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
Middle way. Those six are very cool. Khyeltsabje shares some details of how cool they are.

Some are extensions of the root text, while others aren't. I don't go into too much more detail. There's a lot of detail.

If you guys want all the detail, the book will be available at some unspecified date. Rosa Van Grieken will make it available as a ebook. In a future Khyelpa.

Yeah. The actual explanation, the meaning of the name. All he does is translate it.

It's Raja Parikata Ratnamali, as Aisha knows. Khyelpa La Tam Chawa Rinpoche Changwa, String of Jewels, Words to a King. What king is this written for?

It's likely King Udayibhadra. That's the position of Khyeltsabje in writing this commentary. It's disputed by scholars.

I found some interesting stuff online about it. I put it in a footnote. Translator's obeisance.

He bows to the Buddhas Explanation of the text. There's the introduction of the explanation, which has some parts, and then the explanation itself. In the introduction of the explanation, he explains the offering of praise.

Then in the pledge to compose the work, he explains how Arya Nagarjuna made a pledge to compose the work. He lists the four qualities of the book. Here's where we actually begin with the words of the root text.

Arya Nagarjuna starts the root text by saying, here you go, King, so you can achieve your goals. I'm going to give you these steps. He makes it clear that he's writing it for a king, so he can achieve his goals.

Then we talk about what makes someone a worthy vessel. They bring themselves to a realized being. They accomplish the teachings.

Hey Nick, in your future life, you're going to be your translator, okay? Oh yeah, thank you. Sorry.

I don't want to take up too much time with this. No, I mean, just don't talk too fast. Yeah, you're totally right.

The explanation itself. It seems that a big part of the subject matter of this book is the causes and results of higher rebirths and definite goodness. Geltsubje is going to present them, and he says Arya Nagarjuna presents them individually, and then interspersed.

That's a B way down here somewhere, interspersed presentations. I just want to show you where we are at. Here we just have the explanation itself is broken into the chapters of the book, the causes and results for good future lives and nirvana, and then advices on amassing the two collections.

Advices to not carry out the activities of a king incorrectly, and advices that those seeking to reach enlightenment quickly should leave the home life. Even bodhisattvas, he says. We didn't get there yet.

Where we are is in the general presentation of causes for and results of higher rebirth and definite goodness, and the presentation of the causes for higher realms and definite goodness individually. Within that, we have already set forth the context, and now we are into the actual explanation. Within that, we are in the explanation of the causes that result in higher rebirths.

We are on the extensive explanation for the causes that result in higher rebirths, and he specifically outlines 16 things that are the teachings for reaching higher rebirths. The first 10 of those 16 are the 10 non-virtues or the 10 virtues, turning away from the 10 non-virtues. The other six are a bunch of other things that are, I think he calls them ill-advised activities.

I'm trying to even remember them. One of them was giving up drinking alcohol, giving up hitting people with sticks or something like that, turning our backs on other ill-advised activities, which we had yesterday in Sugeng's text, I think. Cool.

Yeah, chong-mi-tung, so don't drink alcohol. Here, he's referring to the five wrong kinds of livelihood, and that's where we're at. We just covered the five wrong kinds of livelihood as they were presented in a different book.

I can't even remember. I didn't look. It is Namjo Lakchon, Liberation Thrust Into Our Hands.

Now, we are just arriving at how Gyaltsabje presented these five wrong kinds of livelihood. Great summary, Nick. Thank you for working so hard on it.

That's a great summary. You guys ready then? Yes, sir.

Take the plane. Take the plane. It was a very thoughtful summary, and thank you for that.

You spent some time on it, and thank you for that. All right, here we go. Let's get this out of here.

Okay, we did pretty well last term. Six folio phases is a good term. By the way, some of your books, we come to a difficult spot.

We slow down. We should slow down. Personally, I'm not looking at how many folios we finished, but I just want to do it right, but we did make good progress.

It looks like if we split this text into two books, it's going to be two books of like 500 pages each or something like that. We can finish the first book classes next year, just after this time. Okay, there's the chapters, and we're ready for the five wrong ways of making a living, we would say in modern English, according to Nagarjuna's list, which is slightly different.

Maybe that'd be a good homework for you, Nick, next time, is to explain how did those five wrong ways of making a living change between Nagarjuna and Pabongka? Again, I could be wrong, but I don't think Arya Nagarjuna listed them. He just said Tso'a.

Oh, I'm sorry, Gyatsabje. So, here we go. I matched the numbers up to Pabongka Rinpoche, and so he has a different order, but I'd like you to comment on the differences between the two next class, okay?

I think Dr. Kramer usually gets the honor of criticizing Nick as much as he can. Okay. There's a tse-pa at the last line, and that means to fake something, okay?

It's not related to the word dharma at all. It just means to pretend or to fake something. So, tsultrim, this kind of wrong livelihood is called tsultrim.

How would you translate it, Nick? Well, I've used what you have used over the decades, pretending. Yeah, and it's like pretending to be someone who's better than you are.

And the motivation, the dundun-nyerwa is nyerpa. To get something. Yeah, you want something like money or respect, and that's your kun-ne-lang, your kun-long.

I'm curious, tun-tun-nyerwe, kun-ne-lang-ne, is that all saying the same thing? Like your motivation is aspiring to get something? Yeah, motivated by an aspiration for gain.

Something like that, yeah. Then you think to yourself, by the way, this chi-maru comes in that same machine. Yeah, how wonderful would it be?

Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if... Everyone would pay me respect. Yeah, if everyone thought I was a really righteous person, okay?

Then, I prefer qi here, but it's okay. I will drupar chok. Achieve things.

Yeah, I will get the gain I want, and I will get the respect I want, okay? And to do that... So, thinking you would like to get those two things, dey-dak, dual, right, which is gain and respect, you chöpa your chö-tsu.

Chöpa your chö-tsu, you do your... you act better than you are. Yeah, you adjust your apparent behavior, okay?

And that chö is also related to a lot of words for artificial. Right. Okay, so that's basically trying to look good when you're not.

What is the traditional... what do you call that? Qualification here.

You do... oh, if your motivation is pure. Oh, for this one, if you're trying to look good because it would help inspire faith, like if you're ordained and you don't want people to lose faith in the ordained sangha.

Yeah, yeah, you cannot... it's okay to not advertise your faults if it would really hurt a lot of people if they found out you had a drinking problem or something like that, okay, and you're a teacher or something like that. So there's a...

you know, although you should try to fix it, obviously. All right, number... let's go to number one.

Please read, and I'm just seeing Haggerty here. Rob Haggerty. Yep.

Yeah, do you remember what the Kazakh translation is? Flattery. I don't remember.

It seems... okay, it seems almost like a hinting, but I'm not sure. Let's go look at number one.

That's why I put these in here. I did. Oh, you did?

Okay, flattery. Okay, that makes sense. You have the same kunlun.

Your motivation is... Two things. Think...

thinking like a... like that, like above, I guess. Yeah, with those kinds of thoughts in your mind, I would like riches and I would like respect.

Kunelangme. Kunelangme. Kolo.

I. Okay, it's an old word for ma. Okay.

I... wow. I own to you, tarimpone.

Tarimpone. A lot, or a long... I travel a long way.

Yeah, god, it took me days to get here to see you. And the very fact that I'm near Nepal. I'm staying here.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I came here.

[Speaker 1]
For you, to see you. Just for your sake, okay? For you, okay?

Like, that was a long trip I took on that plane. And I'm here, and it's all for you. Then let's keep up this...

what did you say? Flattery? Yeah.

Yeah, let's keep up the flattery. Here we go. Uh, uh, Mr. Haggerty, still you, okay?

Thank you. Good. Uh, you, uh, ngey pa, my own father.

Yeah, you know, I feel with you, our relationship, you're just like my own dad. And, uh, I know you're gonna nga la jenpa. You're gonna give me stuff just like my own dad.

The same way when my dad used to send me a check at college, you know? And, uh, ngey kyang kye la jen. And I, uh, kye la jen, I give you gifts, or I praise you or something?

Yeah, and after you give me stuff, I'll probably give you stuff. Yeah, ngor tu means you kind of butter them up. Oh, you praise them that way?

Yeah, you kind of set them up, right? Ngor tu means you, yeah, you pump them up. You pump them up, yeah.

Kundu mawa, you keep talking like that. Kundu means you keep talking like that, okay? Good.

By the way, there are commentaries which say that these five are primarily for ordained people and their relationship to sponsors, for example, which all of us are involved with, and it's good to know this, okay? All right, who we got up here next? Nick, when you feel bored of reading, you could ask...

You want to ask someone else to read? Sure, yeah. Okay.

Let's see. Isabel, you want to read or are you translating? And then, Nick, you check them, okay?

Are you translating, Isabel? Yeah, she's translating, okay. Leia, let's give it a try.

Turn on your microphone.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, sorry, I can't speak at all. I can't read.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I think I was talking about Leia Crager.

[Speaker 2]
Hi. I'm happy to speak.

[Speaker 3]
Niampa. Nyampe. Nyampe.

De dong di la je ching le je ching kye kyi dung ched di ni je tso.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Nick, I guess this one is the hinting, right? Yeah, that's what I got.

Okay. Okay. shen gyi le di dakpa chen ne nyepa de thob na chi marung nyampe.

shen gyi le di dakpa chen ne nyepa de thob na chi marung nyampe. You think to yourself, chi marung. How wonderful it would be to get something from someone else's work.

I think it is, yeah, from somebody else. You know who that hurts. Good.

And then you... No, you know what I think it is? I think it's doing something for somebody else.

Maybe. shen gyi le... Because of the next phrase, de dun du le che, you do the thing for that purpose.

So I think you do something for them, and you're thinking maybe you get something from them. And so you do something for somebody else. I think, de dun du le che, okay?

You do something for them. And then you say, oh, kye kyi sung zey, zey. Your begging bowl is really nice.

Well, you have such a nice begging bowl. It's like, again, yeah, I think I've seen somewhere le che could also mean like one of your subordinates or something. Like one of your lackeys.

Is that possible? I don't think so. Yeah, because of the way the formation of it in the first line.

Okay. Yeah. You should check Pabongkha Rinpoche and see if there's any clue there, okay?

It was totally different. Yeah, that's why I gave you Pabongkha Rinpoche. So then it's just saying you do something for someone else, and then you do it.

Like, you think how great it would be if you do something for somebody else, and then you do it, and then you praise the work that they did? No, I mean you do a favor for somebody else because you want to get something from them. So you do the thing for somebody else, and then you hint.

Okay. That's how I read it. Okay.

You do someone else a favor, and then you hint to them. Well, you know, it's really hard to wash your car today, but I did. And by the way, I love your bowl.

I couldn't help but notice your begging bowl on the dashboard of your Tesla. You've got a cool bowl there. Okay.

Oh, let's see. Oh, yeah, who's going to read? Yeah, I was going to give it to somebody else.

I don't know who knows how to read. Rob, you want to go for it? Experience.

My experience is people surprise you. Okay. Sure.

Yeah. Go for it. But the second letter, I just didn't...

Was that bu? Kho bu. Kho bu.

[Speaker 3]
Kho bu.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. Is it bu-ne? Yeah.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
KYANG BUG LA'I MA BA'O Good.

[Speaker 1]
Sorry, I gave you a tough one. KHO BA KYANG DE LTA BU NYID NA If I were able to NYED PA DE LTA BU Yeah, if I were able to get something like this. Boy, if I could get a bowl like this, and BYANG BA here means take possession of, you know.

What's the famous, this is, we don't see this verb almost ever. It's extremely rare, but it's very common in NAM GROL LAG CANG NAM GROL LAG CANG A gift of liberation thrust into your hands, you know, despite the translations that have gone on. Okay, so BYANG BA means, if someone were to thrust this into my hand, oh, wow, okay.

But, you know, it's KAO KAO DE NYED PA, that kind of a DZIN PA PO It's hard to find someone who's that kind of giver. Yeah, boy, it's hard to find someone that generous, okay. And ZALA KANG PA KANG PA means to thirst, to extreme thirst.

But what's it mean here? You talk in such a thirsty manner, in such like a desperate manner, or something like that? It means extremely strong desire for ZE.

Stuff? Yeah, you want some stuff from somebody. So KANG PA is an ancient word, Tsongkhapa uses it.

It means thirst, but in this case, it means craving for it, okay. You're craving for that thing, okay. You really want that bowl.

Why are they taking a bowl? Why didn't they take money or something? Because they're ordained.

These are all ordained people. That's about the only thing you can be jealous of is somebody's bowl. What bowl do the Johnsons have?

Okay, KANG PA LAS MA WANG. Okay, number four, Nick, this is a long one. Who's going to be your reader?

I'll read this one. All right. TOP KYI NJEL WA NI NYE PA LA SEPAE SAMPE SHEN LA DIGAE CHE KHYE KYI PHA THANG MA LA SOG PA LA YANG JIN PAR BYA WA SU SHIG LA JIN PAR BYA WA YIN KHYE KYI KHYIM DU DRA CHUNG ZHUGSHING LHAN CIG BSTAM MA BAR NGYUR BA NI KHYE NYE PA THANG DEN NO ZHES PA BAR DOG PA DI NYID DRA CHUNG PA YIN NO NYAM THUB SEMS NA PHYI MA RUNG NYAMS PAS MA BA'O Yeah, nice.

Nice pronunciation. TOP KYI NJEL WA, what's that mean? TOP KYI NJEL WA, is that like forcing?

Yeah, I would say pressuring people. Okay. Pressuring people into giving you something, okay?

Now, first, the motivation has to be SEPA. Aha, it's desire to get something. Yeah, and out of that motivation, you SHEN LA DIGAE.

Aha, you say something to somebody else. You say this to someone else. YANG PHRAG PA MA Your parents, your dad and mom, or somebody like that.

Even if you give something to them, okay? YANG RGYEN PA Now, as far as your mom and dad, even if you give something to them, SU SHIG LA RGYEN PA BYA Who's going to give it? Well, I read it as, what's the big deal?

Okay. Like, you know, it's just giving it to anybody. Offering something to your mother and father is kind of just giving it to anybody.

But you're lucky because in your kim, there's a DRAG CHUNG PA ZHUGS PA Someone trying to become an arhat? No, there is an arhat. There's an arhat.

Oh, the arhat's staying there. Yeah, yeah, I got you. In your house today.

There's an arhat. I mean, it's nice to give stuff to your mom and dad, but you've got an arhat in your house today, okay? For a limited time only.

Yeah. GZHAN CIG DANG MA BA'I RGYUR BA NI If you talk with them in that way, okay? GZHAN CIG DANG MA BA'I RGYUR BA NI Sorry.

GZHAN CIG DANG MA BA'I RGYUR BA NI I don't know what that means here. The person talking to you right now, SKAD GNAS PA DANG LDAN NO You've got the thing they need? Something like that, okay?

SKAD GNAS PA DANG LDAN NO Okay. Yeah, you've got the thing they need. The person who is talking to you right now, you've got the thing that they need.

I wouldn't really know. I got it. And then if the PHA ROL NYAMS PA Oh, DRA BCOM PA YIN If the other guy thinks to himself, oh boy, an arhat.

Yeah, this guy's a real arhat. Okay, by the way, you didn't say it directly, right? Uh-huh.

Wow. NYAM DU SEMS NA If they have that misimpression of you, CI MA RUL Wouldn't that be wonderful? Yeah, that's okay.

That's not so bad. If they think I'm an arhat, even if I'm not, I didn't say I was an arhat. I just said there could be an arhat in their house today.

That's true. So, and then the MA WA O at the end is like speaking while thinking like that or something? Yeah, exactly.

Speaking out of that motivation. You know, speaking out of the motivation of, it might be okay if they thought I was an arhat. If that other person, parulpa, thought I was an arhat, okay?

That's not so bad. I could get something out of it, right? Okay.

Who's going to read the next one, Uncle Nick? Let's see here. Kat.

Woo.

[Speaker 2]
Woo. BYA PA'I YUL KHA'I PHAG PA'O NYAM DU TSUD TU SEMS NA CI MA RUNG NYAM PA'I MA RA'AO Good.

[Speaker 1]
Not bad, MA WA O. Yeah, that was good. We called this baiting.

Yeah, it's like you give a tchotchke and you expect them to buy a house for you or something. Okay? Anyway, I remember Lama Zopa used to go to a sutta and the monks would be a long line outside of his door, monks with this cheap Indian sutta water.

It's called crushed or something, squash. He told me one day, he said, God, those squash bottles are expensive. Everybody wants you to build a new dormitory or something.

Anyway, NYES PA'I NYES PA'I TSO BA NAS, trying to get something by using something else. Giving a gift to get something back. But his definition is a little different from what we're used to.

And that's why I had to go through the normal five first. So, BDAG LA RGYAL PO SOGS KA'I PHYIC KYI DUNG BSAD KHYIM PA MA LA'ANG SOGS So you don't bring your begging bowl? You don't bring your sage's bowl?

BDAG LA RGYAL PO SOGS When you go see somebody like a king? I don't know why this first half of the sentence. The second half of the sentence is clear.

Let's read the second half and then we'll go back. Let's start with DIN NI BDAG LA. DIN NI BDAG LA RGYAL PO BYED DGE RGYAL PO BYED DGE BYED DGE, by the way, is BYED DGE MO Sugar?

No, no, that's Chima Gara. DGE MO BYED DGE MO BYED DGE MO means such-and-such a guy, such-and-such a king. Fill in the name yourself.

King named such-and-such. DGEN, past tense, this Feng Shen. Okay, got you.

King so-and-so gave me this sage's bowl. You're name-dropping. We call it, in English we call name-dropping.

Oh yeah, Brad Pitt gave me this bowl. You know, CHES MA BZHIN, you say. And, di nyi jimpar jangway yul kye lpak sok nyam duk sem na chimarung nyampe sem na chimarung means, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if the other person who's listening to you describe what Brad Pitt gave you begins to think, oh, this is a really elevated pakpa.

This is an art thing. Yeah, it does not mean here a real life thing. It means, this is a high, high, high person to give gifts to.

Okay? jimpar jangway yul, okay? This guy must be special to give gifts.

It must be special good karma to give gifts to this guy if Brad Pitt would give him a gift. So, name dropping to get more gifts. So, it's a little bit different from what we usually think of, right?

The area of receiving gifts, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this famous person, you want them to think you're a special object of donations that they can get more karma, okay?

Oh yeah, interesting. That is different. Usually it's like they would get something if they were to give us something, right?

Yeah, normally you give a rosary and then you ask them to donate a temple or something. Now, this other part that we didn't get to, dag la gyelwa sokha chik gi, to me, somebody like a king offers me a bowl, okay? And I don't take it.

But I guess you're saying, you know, yesterday this movie star offered me a room at the Ritz-Carlton, but I didn't want to take it. It was Brad Pitt. And then you're hoping that that person will say, oh God, this guy must be well-connected if Brad Pitt wants to give him something, so I'd better give him something.

Like that, okay? Okay. All right.

Anyway, why we went through those five at such suffering for two terms was way back here. I guess it was just... It was a little further back.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, it was some... What was the category called?

Well, we're still in the 16 things, the causes for higher rebirths. Yeah, and he said, first of all, you should dokpa the midyewa chu. Right.

Don't do the ten non-virtues. And then you should dokpa these other khanumathas. Uh-huh, yeah, like not drinking and the five wrong kinds of actions, and ill will.

Yeah, there's three here, okay? Drinking alcohol, or not drinking alcohol, having a good livelihood. What do we call it?

You make your living honestly, and then not hurting other people. So we didn't get to the not hurting people yet, I think, right? Correct.

And also there's going to be another three, yeah. Yeah, so here we go. Or maybe he's...

No, that's it, he doesn't go through them. Okay, please start here, Nick. I'll check.

Okay, nirvani. Yeah, which is the three things that you should jukpa. Okay, okay.

Jukpe chesum. Three things you should do. Here's three things you should do.

We did 13 things that you shouldn't do. Total of 16. Okay, good.

Here's three things you should do. Can you read the Sanskrit very slow? danam adarat adarat Good.

pujya pujya chamaitri cha Nice, cha. Make sure... You're working so hard to make a long A.

Make sure your short ones are short. Okay, so you can say ah for pujya, and then say cha. Cha.

It's shorter and it's more of an ah sound. Okay. Let's go to the commentary and stuff.

This looks like a perfect line for someone to read, Uncle Nick. Yeah, cool. Let's see.

Rivas. Ooh, he's good.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah. Okay. sumpar chawayul nam larang gi la gi bulwa la sokpe gu jim dang Nice.

[Speaker 1]
And the Sanskrit is danam adarat So it's an action, and it's a qualifier on the action. Do the action in a certain way. What's he saying?

Pay respect. Nope. He's not saying give respect?

Nope. He's saying when you do jimpa, use rang gi lak. Oh, use your own hand?

Yeah. When you give, don't give through third parties, you know? Don't donate money to some charity and think you're done.

Try to go to the slum yourself and do something for somebody. Go to the refugee camp yourself, get the diarrhea. It's a blessing.

But does jim mean respect? Maybe I was misunderstanding. Oh, it means kupe jim, not gu chin.

Give with respect. It means give with respect. Give with respect.

Yeah, meaning when you do your giving, do it in a gracious way and an elegant way that shows your respect for the other person. And that's a beautiful qualifier. That's a beautiful addition here.

Don't just give, but give elegantly. jimpa jawa yul means the people you give things to. bulwa means offer the thing.

rang gi lakpa.

[Speaker 2]
Cool, with your own hand.

[Speaker 1]
With your own hands. Don't send somebody to give someone a gift. Travel there and offer it yourself.

And that was the system of the ancient kings, such as... Bimbisara? You have to have danced to Simphong to understand this one, Nick.

I have not done that. Yeah, well. Okay, here we go.

Who's going to read, Nick? How about Venerable Sonam? Yay.

[Speaker 2]
Can you please repeat? Good.

[Speaker 1]
Good. He could have said chöpa. What does that mean?

Make offerings. Now he says, he qualifies it. He says, chö-a-la-chöpa.

Yeah, yeah, make offerings to people worthy of offerings. And it means be picky where you put your efforts. And it's an interesting qualifier by Nagarjuna himself.

You don't just throw your money around. Choose your charities wisely. Choose where you put your money wisely.

For example, you could give it to your Kimbal. To your vow master. Or other people who are yunten chöpa.

Full of good qualities. Yeah, like special. Specially standing out.

Distinguished. Distinguished by something. By need.

By need, like in Ukraine right now, or things like that. So this line is very beautiful, because he says, pick your charities carefully. Pick carefully where you're giving your money.

And give it to the most effective place. And by the way, that's a kind of non-laziness. And we have to learn it.

Work hard to give your money away. Here's the next one. Nick, who's going to read?

Daniel Garcia. If he's here. Do you hear D?

I don't see Daniel Garcia. He just ran away. Venerable Yose.

I think he went to fix the roof on my cafe. I'll repeat that later. Nick, work on this.

Tsampa means typified by. Oh, okay. So typified.

So out of love. Oh, I see. And then he's talking about the four immeasurables, or the four infinite thoughts.

Yeah, so read the tsampa as example. For example. That's what I thought.

Okay, so your love should be, for example, like the love of the four immeasurables? No, it means you should be practicing the four immeasurables. For example.

Okay, you should practice the four immeasurables, like love. Yeah, good, good, good. Yeah, and that's all added by Gyatsobje, because Nagarjuna only said maitri.

Nagarjuna only said maitri. And Gyatsobje is putting words in his mouth. He says, look, when Nagarjuna said ma, he meant all four immeasurables.

What are the other three, Nicholas? Compassion, equanimity, and joy. Good, yeah, good.

Okay, and as opposed to being dolpe chö, which is things you shouldn't do, these are jukpe chö. Jukpe chö, things you've got to practice. Yeah, so I gave you 13 ways to make good karma by avoiding certain things, and now I'm giving you three ways to make good karma by doing things.

Total 16. Good? Mm-hmm.

Hey, Geshe-la, do you think that the word adar, the Sanskrit word for respect, is the root of the English word adore? I believe it. Yeah, I believe it is.

I'm just curious. I like it when you think that way. Okay, last little piece here.

There's a little qualifier by Gyatsobje. Geshe-la. Yeah?

I have a question about the Sanskrit. Okay. Isn't Gyatsobje being a little liberal here by using te instead of tang for the champa, the cha in the Sanskrit?

Yeah, Gyatsobje didn't translate to Sanskrit, by the way. Yeah, by the way, in Gyatsobje's time, they were just deciding what to use. Like, there might be five, six translations.

And in Gyatsobje's lifetime, and in Tsongkhapa's lifetime, they were making the final decisions of what to carve into the tengyur. And anything they didn't carve got lost. And it's very, very rare to find the alternate translations that were made in those days.

Okay? Which is to say, if you get your book into the mixed nuts set, it will live forever. And if you don't, it will be like those other manuscripts.

We don't have any of them. They're all gone. All right.

Anyway, please, who's going to read this one? Michael Wick. Do you want to read, Michael?

Wow, Michael Wick. Welcome. Are you here?

[Speaker 2]
Just a one-minute warning.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, thank you. Oh, it's one minute. Maybe I should just do the wrap-up.

I think we've got to get Michael. Michael Wick is responsible for half of all our organizations. Do you hear, Michael?

Nope. All right, next time. He ran away.

Okay. Just put his name in there. Let's finish this one.

Oh, hey. Hi, Michael. You're lucky, because Nikki's going to read for you.

But if you don't know Michael Wick, way back in the beginning of all our organizations, he worked his ass off. And he was one of the only people among us who had a good job. And he paid for a lot of stuff.

And he had access to all the public schools in New York. And he always got us a place to have a teaching. And it's because of him that we exist now.

So thank you, Michael. Nick, read the part he was going to read. Yeah, what's that mean?

So he's talking about giving with respect. It also means giving without fear. Giving Dharma and stuff.

Yeah, and protection. And protection, yeah. Oh, and freedom from fear.

Yeah. So there's four kinds of giving. ZE Stuff.

STOCK CHOS Dharma SANGSING That stuff, too. Love. Anyway.

And MIN JIG PA Freedom from fear. Protection. Okay?

And all of those, says Gyaltsabje, still, RGYUD PA'I Give it with respect. Yeah, even if you're teaching a group, show great respect to your students. And even if you're giving something to a homeless person, do it with respect.

Even if you're protecting someone who's being chased by, who's being bombed today, do it with great respect. Show them great politeness and honor when you give to anybody, okay? No matter how bad off you are, okay?

All right. Nicholas, time for you to tell us a wrap-up. Okay.

That's easy. We talked about the five wrong kinds of, five ways that you shouldn't make a living. And we talked about them from the perspective of Gyaltsabje, which is different from the perspective of Pabongka Rinpoche.

And then we talked about the three thing, the three practices to be taken up in order to create the causes for higher rebirth. Cool. That's what we talked about.

What were they, please? Oh, they were giving with respect, making offerings to people who are worthy of such offerings, and love, which according to Gyaltsabje, includes the other three immeasurables as well. Nice.

Hi, Michael. It's good to know you're here. Yeah.

Nice. Nice. Good.

Thank you for coming, Michael Wick, and thank you for starting everything. Okay. And I hope you live a long life.

Nick, anything else, or we get a break? Let's take a break. Eight minutes.

We have an eight-minute break. Thank you, Geshe-la. I'll just go ahead and translate ahead, okay?

Oh, let me look at what's coming up. I want to see if there's anything especially painful to give you. That's too easy.

I'll do that. Can you just do the next three lines, including Seyche and Ditar? Yep.

Okay. All right. Thank you, Seyche.

See you guys soon. All right. See you.

Thank you very much, Geshe-la. See you in eight minutes. Okay.

Bye-bye.