Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 16

[Speaker 1]
Okay. It's quiz time. Is anybody back?

I see Marina. Hi. And Aldo's here.

What's up, dude? How's the shoulder? Good.

Mine is hurt too. Here we go. Okay.

Question one. I don't know if this is easy or not. Ariana Garjana describes a mistaken path through the dark.

What is he referring to when he talks about this mistaken path? And what are a couple of examples given by Gyaltsabje? We didn't cover very much last term, last class.

It was very little that we covered. Is this the path in which you hurt yourself? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Good. And then Gyaltsabje gives a couple of examples of those kinds of practices.

Yeah. About the animals, like walking in the edge of cliffs? Well, that's actually, that's a metaphor that he starts using, but he gives a couple examples of practices from the old days of, you know, things that people do that can hurt you.

He didn't really elaborate. He just gave a couple names. Anybody remember?

Okay. Oh, go for it. Yeah.

Fasting. Aldo. Great.

Fasting was the first one. And then the other one is like kind of a famous thing that a long time ago, way back in the old days. About the five fires.

Yeah, exactly. People would sit in a bunch of fires. I think it's like in the opening lines of Chogyam Trungpa's book, he talks about people doing that, of cutting through spiritual materialism.

Oops. Disrespecting or tormenting the body. Gyaltsabje gives the examples of fasting and the practice of the five fires.

Tibetan for, oops. Sorry. Spiritual hardships that he's talking about.

How to? Yes, sir. Very good.

Nice. I knew you'd know it, Lord. Thanks.

All right. Arya Nagarjuna names three things as being the path of holy Dharma. What are the three?

English, Tibetan, and if possible, Sanskrit. I think we can get at least one of them in Sanskrit. Maybe we can get all three.

Giving. Uh-huh. Clear mind.

Something like that, kind of, maybe a little bit.

[Speaker 3]
Morality.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Can you try to remember what the clear mind was really referring to? Or somebody can help him?

Patience.

[Speaker 3]
Yay. Does that get you, Michael?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah, good job. Giving, an ethical way of looking at it.

I think Nick should dig through the Sumbam and see if someone else ties those two together. Sure. I should.

I don't know. I guess I didn't do that yesterday just because we got you back. But I will.

Yeah. I checked in some places and we did not find it. I did not.

I checked in the Kangir and Tengir, maybe, but we didn't look through the whole Sumbam. Okay. But I will do that today after class.

And if you had a good Sanskrit database, you could check for the Sanskrit. If anyone used it together in the Sanskrit. Okay.

Yeah. Got it right there in my text. I'll check what we've got.

I'll check what we've got. Okay. Tomorrow.

Because I'm going to have to assemble that. But don't work on your DR. Oh, okay. Thank you.

I won't. I will just play guitar and surf. Tibetan for ethical, giving ethical way of life and keeping a clear head so as not to get angry.

[Speaker 3]
You know.

[Speaker 1]
Very good. So Selwa is what he said. Okay.

I want to take a shot at the Sanskrit. Anybody besides Geshe Michael? Sorry, Geshe Michael.

That was really good. I think that he used a different word than Sheila. Yeah.

Oh, no, he did use Sheila. Nice. Nice work.

Yeah. That was almost too good. I was going to send you money, but now I'm just like now.

That was too perfect. Thanks. All right.

Ariana Gardner refers to the cycle of suffering. I'll send you some other gifts. Ariana Gardner refers to the cycle of suffering with a metaphor.

Then Yeltsin elaborates on his use of this metaphor. What is the metaphor and how does Yeltsin elaborate? This is like the one paragraph we covered together.

[Speaker 3]
The forest, right? The forest in the jungle.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Tim says a really jungly forest. I heard that.

And he's right. And how does Yeltsin elaborate on it? It's pretty simple.

It relates to what we already talked about.

[Speaker 3]
They get stuck in the forest, in the jungle.

[Speaker 1]
Who? These animals. Which animals?

[Speaker 3]
What do the animals represent?

[Speaker 1]
Sorry, Oscar, go ahead. The people who are following these mistaken paths. Which mistaken paths?

The ones which disrespect the Dharma. Yes, the ones who hurt themselves. Oscar, you're a champ.

I come down to Guadalajara to give you 100 pesos. That's pretty cheap. Yeltsin J.

borrows the same imagery to describe how Hindus and others who disrespect the Dharma get caught in the bramble and practicing tormenting the body. To wander? No, good guess, though.

[Speaker 2]
I thought it was to wander.

[Speaker 1]
But maybe it is, but I don't think so. But I'm doubting myself now. Drogba is a nomad.

Oh, interesting. I had it as a forest. But let me see here.

It's Naxal Tugba was the forest. Oh, out in the middle of nowhere. Nomad's camp, solitude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the middle of nowhere. It was more what it was related to.

Drogun. Drogun. I think Drogba is a nomad, right?

Yes. Hey, I have it for some reason the dictionary I looked in has it as a place, but. Yeah, that's Drogun.

Drogun. Very good. I got my microphone turned off.

Okay, you assigned me this one verse to translate. And today I did only what you assigned me to do. Yay!

Because then going ahead it was like all root text. Yeah. So I didn't want to do it officially because I didn't know if you were going to want to do it that way.

So anyway, here we go. Drogun. Drogun.

Drogun. You want me to check this? Okay.

You assigned me this big paragraph. Okay, that's okay. The desolate wasteland, I like that.

Of the cycle of pain is good. Oh, you've got to give me kong as in jar kong shik. Oh, this kong here?

Yep. As in jar kong shik. Jar kong shik.

Okay, so it's like, oh. So he's splitting something and I guess he's splitting the mind and the body. No, no, no, no, no.

I want kong as in a kaiu. Oh, cup. Cup, full, full cup, full.

Full, full, full, full, full, I see. Now read it again. Oh, with Taiyipa.

Got it. Full of the. Yeah, good.

Yeah, yeah, I missed that completely. And there's another word here that I completely didn't understand even your note about it still only further confused me because I just couldn't remember. We'll get there.

Jigbe, jigsaw latawa, what's our new, by the way, I don't know how official it is but I want you to think of it this way, jigsaw latawa, forget the perishable self. Yeah, I put the view of me and mine. Also, with the idea that it's not necessarily the final official translation.

Yeah, good. Yeah. It means misunderstanding me in mind, which is the first of the 12 links of the wheel.

I don't know tip or did I look it up I don't remember where I think it's darkness, it is. Okay. So, around plunged into the dark.

He didn't look it up. That's a nice. That's a nice translation, very nice translation.

Long time. This Joe. Yeah.

Yeah, it's sometimes it just means without. Okay. I was just trying to mimic what was happening in the other partners like the bodies are tormented the mind is separated.

Yeah, and I think I had a breakthrough on Xing Chen but I might be totally wrong. Okay. That's where I was completely, you know, I spent some time trying to understand it and I couldn't figure it out in a way with the time that I had that made any sense to me.

I think Xing Chen is a poeticism for fire. For me. Yeah.

I was like, I thought you said an idiom for me, because I was like, well, you're pretty fiery. Okay. Okay, so, but I still then I completely lost.

Still, the fire of the fire of people, fiery people. That's a good question. Great.

Okay. Here we shouldn't tend to do something no longer do they keep in. Oh, this is key way Xing Chen.

Yeah. So, something's funny here I don't know what it is. Anyway, it's.

[Speaker 3]
Xing Chen.

[Speaker 1]
I think it means. I'm guessing it might be the fire of rebirth, you see what I mean. But I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. Let's keep going. Drool.

Yeah. And by the way, when you see drool in any of our texts, always consider that it might be drool. Okay.

Uh huh. Yeah, by the poisonous snake. What's Cuba.

Yeah, that's smothered rather than strangled, because it's a poisonous snake, and I just thought it's kind of weird to say that you're strangled by a poisonous snake. Cuba. Cuba also means to embrace.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
What'd she say. She said I'm a chicken. She said, I'm a chicken.

Panda. I'll have to study that again. Cuba means Cuba in classically it means embrace another person.

Okay. So maybe it's this being wrapped up in a cobra. Yeah, I.

Yeah, so maybe we could come up with something better than smothered I, I, I tried strangled but for some reason I felt like that wasn't right either. Yeah, 95 98% of the time, it's a romantic thing. Right.

Just so you know. And the classic reference if you want to know is in the Abhidharma, where they talk about how the deities walk down the street. And then these diamond way authors took it in a whole other way.

All right, keep a new door to but their bodies are up too many good. Yeah, but so many questions. Oh, they remain a cycle for a very long time.

Good. Do a dog likes to do. Okay, let me give you this idiom.

Dark legs of Dupa. Okay. Dark legs of Dupa.

Lexa Dupa. It's an idiom and it means. Those of you who care about yourself.

Oh, those are those of you who want something good to happen in your life, those of you are hoping for something good in your life. Oh, it's a hortative. He's, he's calling out to you to us.

He says, those of you who hope for something good in your life. Okay, if you if you guys care about yourselves. Right.

Is there some English word about that. Um, don't you wish yourself. Uh huh.

Okay, you got you got one. Well, oops, wrong place. So that.

I don't know, I mean I think I'll have to sit with it on the spot, it's not coming to me. There's some kind of American idiom, you know, if you want to look out for ourselves. Too selfish.

Value yourselves. Say again, if you value yourselves. Almost like that.

Those of you who care about yourselves. Okay, literally it says if you want something good for you. Right.

You better go rely. Yeah. Now here it's you should rely on a dumpish union.

Oh, yeah, I was. Okay, because you said. So called here I thought maybe the so called applied to the to both parts in your note.

Okay. Okay. And then follow a path which is not this Mars very important now mark.

[Speaker 3]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
As normal, as if it were correct. Yeah, that's the now in yoga. And here, you rarely rarely see it used.

And he has used it here, and it means right, right on spot on. Okay, perfect path, no. Okay.

But there are things. There are paths that are just called mom Nelma. Mm hmm.

Which are actually chinchilla. Uh huh. Yeah, which are wrong.

You shouldn't shame but towards this, those have attachment Yeah, we shouldn't get attached to any path leading I said leading us astray and for chinchilla this time. Yeah, and get the feeling of shamba as attraction, you shouldn't be attracted to. People say so called.

Oh, I hear all these people talking about. What is that. Mom.

You're trying to think. So yeah, stuff like that and then I will you know so he says, my shamba, this is the shambo we had in Polish text, just just had it 3000 times in Polish text. The thing that you think is there.

You believe is there in a in DCI advanced level to it's the object that you believe in. implies it could be wrong. Okay.

So, it means don't believe in it. I want you to really focus on that. You said I've lost importance is perfect.

Yeah. I have a question again can I ask a question. Yeah.

Okay, thank you. It was only one piece, it was only one piece and I had to share it with two other people. The pizza.

Okay, I will report that to me. No, no, we're not reporting any pizza to be. So, I hear the commentary I partly because of the way that I was trying to write the sentence which just changed.

Sorry I said that fast. Yeah. I took we have remained in this cycle of pain for a very long time like I kind of took it as a past tense thing like this has been going on.

For so long so let's like try to do better. Is the way that I took it here. core Washington union ring for Jupiter.

Your which line. Oh, there it is. I kind of translated it like with past tense.

But because of the way that I wanted to translate it. But I'm wondering, does it is it shouldn't be future tense like, you know, these things will lead us to be stuck in some sort of, or is it, could it go either way. No, I think the way you did is fine.

We have remained in the cycle of pain for a very long time. That's fine. Yeah, yeah.

I asked the root text almost made it seem like I don't have it here, but we can look at it later. The root text made it seem like it could go either way, because it's very brief. Yeah, we have to figure out Shin Chan.

Yeah. So confusing. And that's in the route.

What's it sounds good. Let's, why don't you take the plane and let's look. Okay, because I'm using.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Good job. It was a true so copy and length sentence.

I had fun working on it.

[Speaker 2]
In the chat.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, sorry, you got Jim. That's right. No, that's that you should.

I'm not sure if that's from the root text is it.

[Speaker 2]
I'm just looking at the note here okay if she Michael put in for for Shin Chan, and that's the Sanskrit it has for that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, in his note made let's see if that's what's in the Sanskrit root text because he that note was pasted from. He said it was irrelevant, or something. So it could be a different.

Yeah, it could be that sounds good at all. Say again. I think each shooter is not the Sanskrit from the root text I was, how do I delete the text.

Let's see if one could. Everybody disregard that each sewer percent UTA x from the chat, strike it from the record. Where is in the Sanskrit.

Can can you share the. Oh, I'm sorry. And I did find suit cell in the database, but only in the uncatalog data Nick.

Sorry, which one. Oh, cool. Nice you looked already.

Yeah, look, it's in there but it's.

[Speaker 2]
Can you spell check. Then we can more easily see the diacritics for the.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, how do I do that.

[Speaker 2]
To reference. Oh, highlight your Word document.

[Speaker 1]
I like my word.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, yeah now go to tools. No, you don't have to highlight anything. So that you got that menu up there and go to tools at the very top spelling and grammar.

I'd spelling errors. Yeah. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, is it. Hot up. Shin Chen.

No, I think the quarter. Oh, quarter quarter. You suddenly want to look it up in cold or something.

Quarter. Okay. Or it might be quarter is drug.

I, I'm not sure. I thought that's what that was my guess is what you just caught a trope. That's what I thought it was, because also the Papa, the Papa has a M after it, which I think is the two in the Tibetan, right?

Xingchen.

[Speaker 2]
It's a frightful and fearful death.

[Speaker 1]
Gorak?

[Speaker 2]
Gorak.

[Speaker 1]
Anyway, let's put a word to it and let's keep going. How's that? Sure.

I'm not sure what the Xingchen is. Oh, here it is. Oh, I did figure it out.

Isn't Gomakka, like a mountain, isn't it Meru or something? I don't know what it is. Yeah, I'm not sure.

Let's let word figure it out. Let's keep going. Nate, you want to read Sumbalasum?

Sumbalasum. We're in the third section. The third section is called this.

Nick, please read. CHOS DE DAG LA CHOS DE DAG LA LOG PAR ZHUGS PA'I PHRAD BU The results you will get if you LOG PAR ZHUGS into the CHOS. If you practice incorrectly these practices, I think referring to the 16th.

Yeah. Well, the 16th, I guess. Yeah, CHOS DE DAG.

Yeah. And those, what happens to you if you practice the 16 nice practices the wrong way is three sections. ASA KYI THUNG GI DER BUG Uh-huh.

What do you call it? The direct, what do we call it in the direct results, like the correlations? In the study of karma, it's more of a parallel result.

Parallel result. I have a word for it in TSI. Yeah, you made other people's lives shorter, so now your own life gets shorter.

Okay? Yep. Then you got the NAMEN GYI DER BU.

The ripening result, like where you're reborn, in this case going to hell. In the lower realms, yeah. And a demonstration that the DGE BA'I LAS KYI DER BU is the DOG PA of what we just talked about.

Uh-huh, that the result of virtue is the opposite of what we just mentioned above. Nice. Okay, good.

Word, you got any results yet? It's a hard one, right? I'm cracking it right now.

All right, we'll wait until you're cracked. The next one's long. The next one's really long, okay?

And it's talking about the karmic results of different kinds of naughty behavior. And it's really smushed in here. They're pretty...

What were you going to say, Nick? That part's really cool. Do we want to go through them or do we want to come back to it later?

Oh, he comments on each one individually, I see. Yeah, and I split it up because I was curious what bad deeds are interesting to Nirgarda. Like he doesn't just go through the ten bad deeds directly, almost, but he has certain variations and those are interesting to me.

Okay, let's do the first one, Nick. And then after the first one, I'd love you to pick on somebody else. Okay, I love doing that.

Okay. So killing another being is the cause for... No, the kyewa shen means future life, other life.

Oh, in your future lives, you're going to have short lives. Yep. Okay, good.

And the key thing here is the instrumental here, after killing. Killing will cause you. And that's going to be the same for all 18.

All 18 are going to be instrumental. Yep, got that. Second one.

Okay, let's see. Oh, you're going to pick on somebody. Yeah.

Hey Joy, are you translating? Let's read the Tibetan.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Nick.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. The second one.

[Speaker 1]
Uh-huh.

[Speaker 2]
This one. Oh, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. That was really good. Nice, very nice.

Yeah. So it's like nampartsewa is like bringing harm, right? Like harming.

Yeah. If you harm somebody with a tsun, which we just went through. Uh-huh.

Yeah, a weapon or a knife or some such thing. Your next body is going to be... I mean, I'll choose a different word than harm, but like hurt very, very much.

It's going to be very hurty. You'll be injured all the time. What's the Sanskrit for tsewa?

Oh, is that like himsa? Yeah. Yeah, himsa, himsa with an N sound, right?

Himsa. Let's go check. I found the...

Here it is. The himsa, very hurty. Okay, okay.

Word has an answer for us. Yay. So Nick was right, and there's a really cool reason.

No, that's not possible. It happened once before, like 20 years ago. It was.

It is padapam. And the reason is, is because it's a metaphor. It's kangtung, Genwa.

For what? Kangtung, like the plant. The foot drinker?

The roots of a plant? Yeah. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, that's why it says foot in there. Padapam, yeah, yeah, yeah, padapam. So what do they call a shingchen?

Oh, shing, like a plant, and maybe the chen is wrong, or no. No, it's kewo is the jana, which is like born, birth person, and shingchen just means possessing wood or a tree or a plant or something. So like a plant being?

Yeah, it literally says living beings and plants. I don't know why. Weird.

I got to think about it. I did figure it out, and I don't remember when I figured it out. Okay, but thank you, word.

It's got something to do like a plant, yeah. Nick, go ahead. Lindsay.

Oh, by the way, Nick, say something intelligent about what Nagarjuna has done to the first of the non-virtues. He split the first one into two. I think because killing is such a powerfully bad karma, he gave that its own line in his verse, and then because harming life or protecting life are the first negative and positive of the ten, and he made it killing and other types of harm or just harm.

Yeah, so the whole history of Buddhism, the first of the ten bad deeds is killing, and Nagarjuna thought it was useful to split it into killing and hurting. Okay, and I think that's cool. Something's going on there.

Stanley says, by the way, he's talking to a king. Don't forget. Oh, yeah, because the king has a chance to kill lots of people.

Yeah, that's true, and hurt lots of people. Maybe that's why he split it. Yeah, that's a very intelligent statement.

Okay. Don't say rare. Medium rare.

Okay, Mrs. Lindsay, you're up, number three, please.

[Speaker 2]
Kuwai-ini-long-chu-pong shing-mi-tan-pa-tang-shan-tang-tun-mong-war Nice. gyur-wa-sok-so Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Wow, awesome. You're really good. You must have a good teacher.

All right. What's kuwa-ini? That is...

What do you call it? Stealing, thieves. Yeah, this is the verb.

Ku-ma is the person, okay? And ku-wa is the verb. So if you kuwa...

Yeah, you're going to be... Your stuff's going to be gone. You're not going to have long-chu, things.

You'll be destitute of things. Yeah, pong means like poor. So you will not have neat stuff.

And what stuff you do have will be mi-tan-pa. It won't be stable. Flimsy?

Yeah, that's like when your car won't start. Word, did you have something there? I just said flimsy.

Oh, yeah, it just means like your car doesn't start, your oven doesn't work right, stuff like that. And it will also be shared by others. Yeah, that's the worst one of all.

Shared bathrooms, stuff like that. No, no kidding. Like it's more frustrating than not having a bathroom.

It's having to share. Okay. How many bathrooms do you have there, Nick?

We have a two-bathroom. Yeah, I got one. You can have one, and we'll keep the other.

Yeah, I don't want to get in fights with Emily, okay? I know California girls, how they got to work on their hair and stuff. That's a good point.

All right, number four. Nick. Oh, Nick, you said something.

Oh, yeah. Let's see. How are you doing, Marina?

Are you ready to read now, or are you still scared? Marina, I just met a girl named Marina. She's doing something.

She's pretending she's doing the tech. You can come up. Okay, she's going to come up, Nick.

Oh, okay. Those of you who leave your cameras on, you're really setting yourself up to be called on. Okay.

But I'm glad you're there. Here we go, Nick. Wow.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, for one second, listen to Nick explain it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, adultery, committing adultery. Yeah, messing around with someone else's wife or husband. If you do that, your own Chumarangi Wangjarapepe, so I can tell you're gonna have a lot of enemies.

Your own wife is gonna become your enemy? You will have enemies and you will not have control over, you won't be able to control who your wife is with. I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Control over who your wife is, Chumarangi. I see, yeah, I see. You will have, what do they call that in a relationship?

You will have... Like an unarranged marriage? It's a polite word for competitor.

Oh, a suitor, a... Rival. You will have rivals, yeah.

That's what dra means here, rival. Rival means someone's competing for your wife's attention. I see.

And you won't be able to have control over the situation. You will feel helpless, okay? All right, go, bye.

Bye, thank you. She wants to do another line, I think. Oh, cool, all right.

That one was too sad. Okay, let's do it. Wow.

[Speaker 2]
Sudoma ve kurpa ve paman pwante.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, please, please. Yeah, if you lie. Please translate, he ran away.

Okay. Please, thank you. Those people in Sudoma seem to be embarrassed.

The result of lying is that people are going to really, I guess, really underestimate what you say. They won't put any value in your words. Yeah, good, they won't value your words.

And by the way, this spelling, this alternate damkha of kurwan dam is because there was an ancient D on the R, okay? So this one, you should not correct. And it's important to know what you shouldn't be correcting.

Okay? All right. Number six, Nick, who's up?

Aldo, are you translating? Oh, okay. How about, is venerable, oh, Oscar.

How about Oscar? Okay. Dramayi ni ranggi sarsatan cepatan.

Okay. So speaking divisively, your own, you're going to be separated from your own friends. Good, yeah.

You will lose friends, okay? Or you'll be separated from those you love. Nice.

And that, it all hinges on this one apostrophe, right? Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He won't do it good.

Who's up next, Nick? Rivas. Rivas.

Rivas.

[Speaker 2]
Rivas. Siktsubwo. Siktsubwo.

[Speaker 1]
This should have been four. That's one. Okay.

Siktsubwo nikitrami nyempa tupatang. Ah, I have this problem. Siktsubwo, speaking roughly, it's kind of like a New York thing.

You can't help but raise that way. Yeah. Speaking roughly, you will hear lots of things that are not sweet.

Yeah, people will say rough things to you, okay? By the way, Nick, I have a whole room full of potential candidates. I got Daniel, Hasso, Tim, Emily, Gibson.

Ooh, okay. I was gonna call on somebody from the cyber world because it'd be fun to hear from her if she's up to it. Yeah, that's fine.

Okay, let's go. Then I'll choose one from the peanut gallery. Delia, Delia, are you listening?

[Speaker 2]
Delia.

[Speaker 1]
I see your name in there. Maybe she's hiding her.

[Speaker 2]
See you.

[Speaker 1]
All right, then. Daniel. Come on, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.

He's coming. All right.

[Speaker 3]
Djung, djung gyaltu drawe ma drel wa yi rangi sikmi tsun ching. Sikse mar shukwar mi us la ma nyep pe po wa kandu gyurwa dang. Popo chin.

Poko.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good. You guys don't know djung gyaltu, I think, Nick. I don't know djung gyaltu, no.

It's an idiom that means to say whatever pops in your mind. Oh, yeah. I mean, I knew that that's what it was talking about, but I...

Yeah, it just means, you know, what do you call it? What's that kind of book? Stream of Consciousness.

Yeah. My wife accuses me of this. When we drive, I comment on everything we drive past.

I have coffee. Djung gyaltu, djung gyaltu drawe. So speaking in a disconnected way.

Yeah, it's not connected to anything important. And because of that, as a karmic result, your Sikhs will not be tsumba. And by the way, in Sugeng's text, when the monks were referring to Lord Buddha, they said, oh, tsumba.

Uh-huh, right. Reverend one. So people won't respect.

People are not going to respect what you say. Yeah, exactly. Okay.

And they will not take your words as tsumba. Yeah, as accurate. They won't hold your words as accurate and not worthy.

To be taken as pramana, as correct or accurate, right? And then your popa will become mangepa. Your courage, your confidence will become...

Well, you'll become unsteady or unsure. Yeah. Good.

Yeah, you lose your confidence in situations, okay? Okay. That's interesting.

Up to you, Nick, whether you go to your summary or whether you... Oh, we still got 12 minutes, I think, 13 minutes. Yeah, we can do a little extra.

Is that okay for you? I'm totally fine. I got the pizza locked up.

Chloe got it. I got a lock on it. Well, Sally is going to get lost maybe in three minutes.

Okay. No, no. It might have a little accident, if you know what I mean.

Yeah. Please read, Nick. Okay.

Who's going to read it? Yeah. Catherine?

Whoa. Yay, Catherine. Thank you for translating for a hundred views.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Keshla. Thank you, Nick. Nesem ki du.

Tu.

[Speaker 1]
Nesem ki du jai.

[Speaker 2]
Nesem ki du jai. Ngu. Ngu bu i la re wa ju.

Shin mi to ba tong.

[Speaker 1]
Wow, perfect. Amazing. Nice.

Thank you. Translate, Nick. Envy or covetousness.

Du jai ngo po. The things you want and your hope, the hopes in your mind will be, all of your hopes will be destroyed and you will not achieve them. Yeah.

Yeah. Every time your hope something will come, you won't get it. Napsam, I like to translate it as something like, well, no, is this number, bandhi number eight, it means being unhappy when someone else gets something.

Classically, classically. Okay. Okay.

Number 10, Nick. Nesem. Oh.

Sophie, do you wanna try? Sophie Huang. Okay.

If you can.

[Speaker 2]
Nesem ki ji pa. Bin pa.

[Speaker 1]
Kin pa. Kin pa.

[Speaker 2]
Kin pa. Kin pa. Mo la.

Ba do.

[Speaker 1]
Do le she to.

[Speaker 2]
Do le she to. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Good job. Sorry again. Wait, translate this one.

Yes, sir. Thoughts of malice. By having those, the sutra says, I guess that applies to all of these.

This is interesting. You will be blessed with, bestowed with terror. Yeah, you will always find yourself in frightening situations.

Well, why is it jin pa? It gives you fear. It gives you fear.

Okay, nothing other than. Do le she to. Sutra says.

The sutra says. Yeah, and that has to distribute to the last nine. Okay.

Why are we off, Nick? Isn't this bad deed number nine? Why does it say 10?

Because we split the first one into two. Nice, nice. Okay, good.

Let's keep going. By the way, he not only split the 10 to 11, he added seven more. Uh-huh, yeah, yeah.

Flavia. You want to read? Thank you for coming at New Year's, Flavia, and helping us.

Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, let me see the screen. Of course, it's my pleasure. Okay.

Give me a second, I cannot see my screen.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, yeah, I'm sorry. Now I think I can see it. Okay, this is the first sentence, the one that says 11.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Lopata. Peh?

[Speaker 1]
Weh.

[Speaker 2]
Weh. Yima. Lata.

Pa. Wah. Wah.

Gan. Pa. Nyi.

[Speaker 1]
Ngem pa nyi.

[Speaker 2]
Ngem pa nyi tang. Yi gyu. Mam.

Beh. Mam wah. Mam wah.

Sok su kyur dro.

[Speaker 1]
Cool, nice. Congratulations about the World Cup. Yeah, you should have seen those guys go wild.

I know. Lopatawa's wrong view. So, Chimala.

So I think it's like, then in the next lives, you will have bad views. So sorry, Lopatawa's wrong view. And then in the next lives, you will have bad views.

Yep. Again. Again.

And yo gyu mam wah sok. Yo gyu means you get people cheating or deceiving you.

[Speaker 3]
Okay? Oh yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the force of nyi here, Nick? Ngem pa nyi.

Those same wrong views? Or you will always have wrong views. Always.

Okay. Interesting. Now there's a side comment about the four flowers that we call in BCR.

Who's going to read it, Nick? How about, this is a little bit longer. Claudia, do you want to try?

Claudia, okay.

[Speaker 2]
I can try, but I don't know much, so.

[Speaker 1]
Me neither.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Lama nam kyi yom ba.

[Speaker 1]
Nyong wah.

[Speaker 2]
Nyong wah. Gyu. Tu.

[Speaker 1]
Yep.

[Speaker 2]
Tu.

[Speaker 1]
Uh-huh.

[Speaker 2]
Da. Dang. Jet pa.

Gyu. Tun. Nis.

Nisu. Ya na tse. Sorry, again.

[Speaker 1]
Je ne tse.

[Speaker 2]
Je ne tse. Tum ba. Na ga.

[Speaker 1]
Na ma.

[Speaker 2]
Uh-huh. Na ma dak. So dok.

Mang. Ba.

[Speaker 1]
So.

[Speaker 2]
Mang wah. Ma wah. Sok bi bar.

Bi ah so.

[Speaker 1]
Chi mar je so. Good job.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
Nick, there's four flowers. In DCI, we teach you there's four flowers. Can you tell us what the four are?

The four ways that karma ripens. Yeah, there's like the corresponding result, which is the result which is similar to the cause. Let's say if I've been killing people.

So then you'll have a short life. That's number one. Number two?

Number two is the habit. You get the habit to continue killing people. Yeah, and then I get in exponentially more trouble.

Number three? Three is the environmental result. Like the people around you start to kill and your world becomes filled with death.

Yeah, I live in a country where they eat meat, for example. And then number four? Number four is in your future lives, you'll be born into some kind of terrible lower realm.

It's your rebirth, right? Yeah. DCI, we teach it as major changes in your life, but in terms of- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so now he's going through the same thing. And notice how he does it skillfully. He says, now the lamas, they chepa, they chepa.

Uh-huh, they explain. Literally, it means they present this as the following. Yeah.

And it's interesting that he refers to lamas as somebody else. Yeah. Choney Lama, or who is it?

Gyaltsab Jays. Gyaltsab Jays, like, oh, the lamas, they teach it this way. Okay, nyongwa gyudzu.

You'll experience a corresponding result, which is the short one. You'll experience something similar. And chepa gyudzu.

You'll do it. You'll have the result of, you'll do something similar. Yeah, it affects what your experience is, and it affects what you like to do.

Okay? And then he gives an example for each one. Nyinser che means split it into two.

Then tse tungwa. You'll have a short life. Yeah, that corresponds to the previous one, which is nyongwa gyudzu, similar experience.

And then for the latter one, sun du mongpa. Yeah, you're gonna want to, you're gonna kill many times. You will like to kill many times.

Yeah, yeah. You'll get many, you'll always want to kill people, okay? Yeah.

All right. Chima cheso. Okay, it's interesting.

Yeah, we still have two minutes, and I'm gonna use it. It's two minutes for a wrap-up time, right? Oh, you wrap, dude.

Yeah. I mean, he's a rapper. You don't do it rap style.

I'm not gonna do that. I would have to prepare. I'm not too shy.

I just don't feel ready for that. So we started by talking about, well, I translated a part from the last session where we discussed the problems with undertaking difficult, you know, negative things like disrespecting your body and stuff. And, you know, basically Gautam J was advising us, and Nagarjuna was advising us, you've been in satsara for a long time.

Try not to follow a bad path. Try to find good spiritual friends and stay with the good teachings. And then we transitioned to a new section, which is very cool.

It's the karmic correlations for the practices. The results of the 16 practices that were given to us by Master Nagarjuna. And we went through.

So far, we've gone through the 10 non-virtues, the actions and their results. And then we talked about the four flowers briefly. And that's it.

All right. That's a beautiful baby. Who is that baby?

Claudia. Wow. Congratulations on your baby's name.

What's your baby's name?

[Speaker 2]
Santiago.

[Speaker 1]
Santiago. That's a great name.

[Speaker 2]
Santiago. Congratulations, Yaniki, atas. Santiago.

[Speaker 1]
Hola, Santiago. All right, grab us, go to bed. Real quick.

We have two days off. Don't forget. So you don't need to show up to the Zoom tomorrow.

If you want to, you can, but you'll be alone in a Zoom call. So I just want to say thank you, Geshe Michael. It's been a really amazing week.

We are really, really lucky to have you guiding us through these classes. This is amazing and historical. Hysterical?

Historical. And we're really lucky. And I'm really, really grateful.

Thank you so much for these classes. And thank you so much to everybody who's coming and participating and realizing how precious and amazing this opportunity is to get to sit here and hear the real deal stuff straight from the mouth of a master. We're really, really lucky to have this opportunity and it's smart not to pass it up.

So tell all your friends and everyone you know and ever have met that they should, they ought to come to these classes if they want to hear these ideas, these deep philosophical concepts and truths about life. Thank you. And thank you so much to the tech team for all the work you've been doing.

And I'll thank you all individually later. And a huge thank you to Pure Gold and all of our translators in Russian and Spanish as well. You guys are amazing and you make this all possible.

So cool. See you in two days and change. Okay.

Good night.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Have a good rest.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you guys.

[Speaker 1]
The boss say we're not allowed to work during the break. Good night Santiago. See you guys.

[Speaker 2]
Ciao. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thanks Nick.