Ник Лашо — Книга 2: Ратнамала, занятие 17

[Speaker 3]
Sagey, are you here? Yes, sir. I'm going to go get Amelie.

Okay, come say hi to my tree, Amelie, come on.

[Speaker 2]
Are we doing Sagey's text tonight?

[Speaker 1]
We're doing my text.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Amelie wanted to say happy birthday to my tree.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, here she is.

[Speaker 1]
Look, there's my tree. She's been talking about him all day. Do you see Amelie, my tree?

Hi, my tree. Happy birthday, my tree.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. Thank you, Amelie. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Didn't you say today that you would actually be willing to share some of your toys with my tree?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, thank you, Amelie. I have a new giving gift back there, so it's a princess tent.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, very cool.

[Speaker 2]
Do you like it?

[Speaker 1]
Sagey asked if you like your princess tent.

[Speaker 2]
I like my princess.

[Speaker 1]
Would you share it with my tree?

[Speaker 2]
I would. Oh, thank you, Amelie. We love you, and we miss you a lot.

He's getting so big.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, he is. He is getting so big.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thanks for coming to say happy birthday, my tree. Say bye-bye, my tree.

[Speaker 2]
Bye. Thank you, Amelie.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, Amelie. Good to see you. Go back to mommy.

He's getting so big. Thanks. She was excited to say happy birthday to him.

Now she's telling her mom that she told him. She's telling Aaron that she told my tree she would share her tent. Wow.

Will she share the doggies coming in? Oh, I don't know about that. Can you guys see my quiz?

Unfortunately, yes. Okay. There's a particular view.

Oh, I didn't hide the answers. Hang on one second.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Easy enough. Where were we?

[Speaker 1]
Quiz. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.

There's a particular view that plunges people into the dark, separating their minds from the holy path and torments their bodies as they are smothered by the poisonous snake of their negative emotions like desire. What is this view, English and Tibetan? Netflix.

So Disney Plus is okay. Yeah. That's what Amelie told me.

Yeah. She would say something just like that. Anybody?

Oscar?

[Speaker 3]
Me and mine. Yep.

[Speaker 1]
That's good. That's, I mean, that's the new Mixed Nuts standard. Yeah, good.

Yeah. View of me and mine. I wrote a joke, Convocation Annihilation, but I don't think that's actually, that's not going to work.

I think that's the name of your high school band, right? I thought it'd be a fun translation. Okay.

What is nabsem and what is its karmic result? Covetednesses? Say that again.

Nabsem, is that covetedness? Covetedness. Oh, covetousness, kind of.

Getting mad when other people get what they want. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So covetousness. Yeah, that's a good one. Getting mad.

But I kind of like the way Geshe Michael spells it out. I'm inclined to do that too.

[Speaker 2]
What is the correct spelling, Nick? Because I don't find that spelling in your text at all.

[Speaker 1]
I think it's ranatana. I don't know why I put that, but you're totally right. I think that I was...

Might be b-r-n-a-b. Let me see.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, b-r-n-a-b.

[Speaker 1]
B-r-n-a-b? Yeah, it might be. I think so.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, I just found it.

[Speaker 1]
There you go. I was looking at it and knew that it was wrong, but I didn't have time to fix it. What's the karmic result?

Don't people harm you everywhere you go or something? Doesn't your stuff stop working sometimes, like my car?

[Speaker 2]
All of your hopes will be destroyed.

[Speaker 1]
There you go. Yeah, yeah. You won't get the things you want and all of your hopes and dreams will be smashed.

Whoa. It's kind of heavy. Not getting anything that you want and having all of your hopes and dreams smashed.

Like enlightenment.

[Speaker 2]
That's pretty bad.

[Speaker 1]
It seems like it makes sense, right? If you don't like people getting what they want, okay, then don't get what you want. Give two of the ways that seeds ripen and give an example of each.

Just kind of in general, right? Oh, yeah, good. As a habit and as the realm you go to.

Yeah, those are two good examples. I mean, those are two good ways. The text gives the first two and gives examples of those.

I should have said that. Give the first two. First two are corresponding and...

You said it right. You already said it when you said it the first time. The corresponding and the...

Environmental? No, the habit. Oh, yeah.

Corresponding and habit. Okay. It doesn't give environmental or the realm, right?

And then what's an example of each? With respect to killing, for example. If you kill people, yeah, your life will be shortened and you will have the habit of hurting others.

Eating meat. Yeah. Yeah, you enjoy killing and will do it again.

That's good. I mean, it's not good. That's a good answer.

This is being recorded and people do all kinds of weird stuff with video. Yeah, they do. I guess with deep fakes, anything's possible now, so it doesn't even matter.

Okay. I did some translating. I don't think you gave me an assignment, Keshava, but I just continued on from where we stopped.

Yeah, that's very good. Thank you. Okay.

We stopped after naming those first two. For some reason, you gave the first two here, which was the last question. And then here we go.

Yeah, good. By the way, so dakpa jebu is a tricky one, and sometimes it refers to a karmic result which happens in your person. And sometimes it refers to environmental.

So this is the one I translated as environmental result, I think. You see what I mean? Yeah.

And that manifests in your outside world. I don't know. What does a person mean, Keshava?

Dakpa jebu means, it does mean a result involved with a person, but here it's the person's environment. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. But it's a very difficult term. Sometimes it refers to the ripening of your eye consciousness, for example, because it's a thing that you carry on your person.

I see.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
But when you're discussing the four flowers, which is what he's doing here, it's referring to the environmental result. So now he's covered three of the four flowers. What are they, Nick?

The corresponding result, which is the similar thing. Yeah. Kill and you shall be killed.

The habit. Kill and you will enjoy killing more. Yeah.

And the environmental result, like you see a lot of war or disease or something around you. And which one is contained in the silk? Oh, I suppose that would be then the, what do they call it?

The ripening result, which means the world into which you're reborn. Nice. Good.

So that one, I don't know, maybe he was speaking to a business audience. He didn't want to talk about them, which is exactly what we do in DCI. Okay.

By the way, he is speaking to a business audience. He's talking to a king. Yeah.

And if you want more detail, then. For more extensive study of the literature on the steps of the path of the way of the perfections. Nice.

Nice. I like how you said of the perfections. Yeah.

Okay. Cool. I was going to ask you about that.

Would you, if you were translating this, which you are, would you write the path of the way of the perfections or do you think it's okay? Just like that. Steps of the path.

I would just say of the perfections. Yeah. Okay.

I'm sorry. Steps of the path of the perfections. I would say that.

Yeah. But technically the long rim is only the last third is, is that right? So.

Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
He's, he's assuming people have greater capacity, right?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I mean, I guess long rim only occurs in Mahayana teachings. Well, I think he's just emphasizing. It's interesting that he added that I've never seen that actually.

So it's interesting that it'd be interesting to ask your graduate students why he mentioned Bachchan here. Did I, guys? Yeah.

Isn't it said that the original Lam Rim is Paro Tsuchimba? You could say that. And the other two motivations are simply building blocks for the third.

Yeah. You could say that. Okay.

Mr. Drinking alcohol will result in having a mind with mistaken understanding, not being able to be present, and not being given respect. Okay, good. I took a guess at the not being able to be present thing, but I...

Low trupa means your mind makes mistakes, right? Yeah, I got that. And, but, but when we say rangshin du mi nepa for shepa, rangshin du mi nepa means you are not in your right mind.

It means you are crazy. It's a synonym for nyomba. It's a synonym for nyepa.

No, so I'll say not being in your right mind. Yeah, which means nuts. Not mixed nuts, but general nuts.

I understand what you're saying. And Nick, here's interesting. In the root text way back when, we said ku min jin, ku min jin, and we were tempted to translate it as people will not give you respect.

And when he was commenting on it, he made an adverb out of gupa. Yeah, not giving with respect. Good, yeah.

And that's what it means here. Now, so he's calling back to that previous one. People who are addicted don't normally show respect to other people.

You see what I mean? So you're not able to give with respect? Yeah, exactly.

That's technically what it says, yeah. But it doesn't say gupa mi jin. It does.

[Speaker 3]
It says gupa.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, gupa. I see what you're saying. Yeah, it's adverbial.

You cannot give respect for me. And then that was part of the goal of this whole section, was to do your charity with respect, which you can't do if you're an addict. Thank you.

This one I'm a little more, even more confused about. Let's see. This was very difficult.

13 is very difficult. Would you like to read it first? jinpa mi tong lam jinpa lempe ulwa nyi te, jinpa ma tangway drebu dunpa yin kyi, ma jinpa lempe drebu ni she sen to.

She sen to, yeah. Yeah, let me, I'll, well, first of all, there's a major mistake in the Tibetan. I think it's, hold on, is it this lam right here?

Yeah, it should have been lam ma jin. Yeah, okay. By the way, we never correct it.

We don't want people later saying, oh, it's lam, you know. Yeah. And the one reason why we don't correct it ourselves is we might be wrong.

Although it's practically impossible. So I, yeah, then this, I had a feeling, but I still translated it as if it said lam. Yeah, and it's very difficult.

What this first line says is, uh, you should read 13, uh, you should read jinpa mi tongwa as ma jinpa lempa. You should read jinpa mi tongwa as ma jinpa lempa. That's what it says.

Oh, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, it's very difficult. You should read jinpa mi tongwa as ma jinpa lempa.

Okay, so, uh, let me start this over. Taking jin, jinpa mi tongwa is, uh. Not performing acts of giving.

Uh-huh, not performing, giving, or not sharing. That's root text. That's root text, so that's in bold.

Should be read as. Good. As lempa without someone jinpa to you.

Uh, should be read as, uh, taking what wasn't given. Good, yeah, taking without, uh, someone giving it to you. It's stealing.

You should read, here you should read not giving as giving what was not, as taking what was not given. Interesting, because I thought, well, anyway, we'll see, maybe. So, so the result of, and the, and it's, and the result of this is being destitute.

Good, uh, and what this is talking about is jinpa mi tongwa'i drelbu. Uh, jinpa mi ma tongwa'i drelbu. This is the result of, uh, not giving.

This is the result of not giving. Uh, yeah, jinpa ma tongwa'i drelbu tungpa yin gyi. I'm sorry.

So, that's why I was confused, because I thought it was saying, I've already explained the result of stealing. I thought that's what this says. There's something wrong with the Tibetan here, because the second line says, uh, this is, uh, indicating the result of not engaging in charity.

Right. And rather than, because we have already explained the result of ma jinpa nampa. Right, that's what I thought.

Yeah. We've already explained the result of stealing. So, actually, you were right, um, but it doesn't make sense in Tibetan.

There's something wrong with Tibetan. Well, uh, maybe it's not la ma, maybe it's like... Yeah.

Maybe it's just, maybe it's just la, or... jinpa mi tong, jinpa mi tong, jinpa ma tongwa'i drelbu.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

[Speaker 1]
It doesn't make sense, because the first line says the opposite. We, I think we should check another carving.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
It doesn't, even if it said la ma, that'd be very unusual. So, yeah, I did check it, by the way. And, um, that's why, but I would like to check another carving, because it doesn't make sense.

It should say the opposite. The carving you looked at say, um, la ma. It seemed to say la ma, but it would be unusual Tibetan.

It doesn't sound good in Tibetan. Mm-hmm, jinpa mi tong, uh, yeah. Okay, yeah.

And by the way, what's, what's, uh, yeah, it's just weird. But it's not about not sharing the path. Well, what he, what he means to say is, ma jinpa la ma means stealing, right?

Yeah. And he says, I already talked about that. So what, he already talked about that.

So what it must mean here is refusing to perform charity. Right, yeah. Uh, and, and, uh, the, the app, apposition here is unclear.

Okay, we'll come back to it. Okay, good. Uh, Lukpar Tsoi, oh, sorry again.

Go ahead. Uh, Lukpar Tsoi, lupa topar gyur te, gyurwa te. That translation is perfect, and I don't have anything to say about it.

You can record that. You can cut that recording out. Don't play any, uh, commercial music during this class.

Uh, jinpa ji ni rig nge nyi tong. Uh, the result of... Yeah, it's also perfect.

You're on a roll. I'm trying to find a mistake. Let's go to 16.

We'll get one. shen gyi pun tsum tsokpa la sem kong ne chukpay chak tok gi ni si ji chungwa nyi tong. The result of jealousy, meaning discord deep in your heart about the accomplishments of others, is having little brilliance of your own.

Uh, two comments. Discord should be C-O-R-D. Okay.

Uh, and, uh, I wouldn't say brilliance here, because brilliance means high intelligence. Uh. Like, Einstein is brilliant.

You don't want to say a word for CG. Okay, uh, um, just like... You're looking for, you're looking for a word for Brad Pittness.

You're right. Yes, I'm thinking like some, some kind of like, uh... John Mayerness.

Shiningness. Uh, what do you call it? Charisma?

Charisma? Charisma's great. I like it.

I like charisma. Yeah. Okay.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Cool.

[Speaker 3]
CG. Keep going.

[Speaker 1]
You're on a roll. You're on a roll. I don't know why.

Okay. Choe, what were you doing when you translated this? Did you get some sleep or something?

Or you just went surfing? Neither of those, actually. It's raining really, um, intensely here.

So I couldn't go surfing. So you got a nap. Okay.

I wish I did. That sounds good. Choe doki dukpa la sokpe kadok ngenpa nyi topar gyur shing.

Shing? Yeah, good. And by the way, this is a racial reference in ancient India.

You know, the lighter you were, the better you were. So still, still northern Indians are considered more attractive or something. So, you know, we do have to translate it, I think, the way you did.

And I think that's fine. Cool. Okay.

And isn't, isn't trola more like fury or something other than anger? Because we do kong tro for anger. I, I, I think, uh, when you were translating the mental functions, Right.

They, we had, we were forced to make a distinction between kong tro and trola. But I think in this context, you can just say anger. It's okay.

Unless he's, unless he had kong tro already in the list. And I, I don't think he did. But I, I think it could mean, you could try to find a word for anger that implies a red face-ness or something.

You know. Ruddy, ruddy. Yeah, something where your face gets ugly somehow.

Thank you. Eighteenth. By the way, when trola and kong tro are distinguished from each other in lists of the mental functions, it's, it's, it, it doesn't hold true in normal Tibetan usage.

It's, it's just an artificial way to separate them. Okay. All right.

Cool. Thank you. You're welcome.

Okay. Okay, well then, here we go again.

[Speaker 3]
My translation is going to be wrong. I'll put it first. In that case, still, maybe it still means the same thing.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. No. I want to find something for you.

Okay, never mind. I was going to show off something to you. But okay.

troway lang dor kyi ne shepa'i bala The result of it. Oh, no. It's, uh, you refuse to chi, keja chi, to khepas, who know the, who know what you should lang and what you should dor.

You refuse to ask. Yeah, you, you refuse to consult the opinions of wise people who understand what should be done and what should be avoided. Okay.

Because you have some kind of, uh, you're upset at them, or something happened, you're unhappy with them. It's normally out of jealousy, by the way.

[Speaker 3]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
So if you refuse to consort with the wise, then you become lumpo, lumpa. Always be the fool, I said. That's fine.

Prasanna, if I want to take one more thing. I have a somewhat strange English syntax, but I think it's okay. No, it's perfect.

I like the translation very much. Perpetually. There was a very beautiful, uh, carving at Buddha Buddha of this, of this, uh, bad deed.

It's in the book called All the Kinds of Karma. And, uh, it's a beautiful carving, uh, in the stone of refusing to, refusing to consult wise people for their opinions. Yeah, wise people out of anger.

Yeah, like, it could be, uh, they belong to a different religion, and you don't want to talk to them, or something, you know, like that. That's pretty common. Okay, that's it.

All right, good job. You did a really good job. Uh, I don't know.

You guys are on a roll today. It makes a break. It's like a breath of fresh air to have this text, you know, after the one that we did before.

So, it's kind of. Well, uh, we were talking about your text today, and, uh, we were saying, uh, we wonder if Nick will still be as cheerful when we hit the second half of it. No.

Okay, let me, let me get your text up. As long as I have support from you and the Mixed Nuts, I will.

[Speaker 3]
By the way, here's the, here's the, oh no, that's Ben's text.

[Speaker 1]
But, uh, you know, that's what the scan looks like. It's a real monster. Okay.

I may have grabbed a couple already, so I'll, I'll, uh, I'll check. Yeah, you have some pretty good comics, I think. Yeah, and you did grab it.

You grabbed two, I think, for me.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay. 16 boo-boos. 18 boo-boos.

So, before it was 16, and now it's 18, right? Yeah. There were 16 good things you could do.

A lot of them involved not doing bad things, and now he's got another list of bad things that you shouldn't do. And we finished it, and that was a lot of verses. I think it was three full verses.

Three and a half, four and a half. Four and a half verses we just wiped out. And here we go.

Uh, okay. So, nyipa nyi means part two, and one of the Mixed Nuts standards is that we always tell the audience, what's part two? Because the Tibetans don't.

They say, hey, we reached part two. And you're like, well, that was 100 pages ago. I don't remember what's part two.

So, it's a Mixed Nuts standard that we go back and find it. And sometimes it's hard to find. Especially with Gatsabje.

Yeah, especially if it was 50 pages before, because you've got to go through all the other part one, part twos, you know. So, anyway, Grandpa does this for you, because I can't stand to not know what the hell section I'm in. Okay, so, namen kyi jebu ngen dror drowa.

Okay, as a namen kyi jebu, you will drowa to the ngen dror. What's that mean? A ripening result of going to hell.

Lower realms, okay? The three lower realms. But can I put the catchy title as hell in a handbasket?

You can. Now, Mixed Nuts standards for the header is interesting. Mixed Nuts standards for the header is interesting.

Okay, so that you have a lot of... That's one of the only places where you have some leeway to be creative. And I don't want you to be creative elsewhere.

Okay. But just be consistent in your creativity. And Paula won't correct it if I put hell in a bucket.

She'll let that slide.

[Speaker 2]
Oh no, I'll add a link to the Greg Fulbright signature blog.

[Speaker 1]
You can do that, but you can put it, but you can't spell bucket with two k's. All right. Where were we?

Let's go to Migewa Din. By the way, the root text is questionable, and we'll come back. Okay, shall I pick...

Or I'm happy to keep working on my pronunciation. Let's do one more with you, and then we'll pick somebody else. All right.

yidak gyi dukpay ngen jorwo Okay, good. And by the way, this is a difficult section, and it's clarified in a sutra. Somebody's asking a rhetorical question.

Is the only jebu of these migewas the gyutun type? I'll say it again. Is the only jebu of these migewas the gyutun type?

Is the corresponding result the only result of non-virtue? Yeah, for example, is the only result of killing that you live a short life, or are there other results? And samtu se means, does it end there?

Is that all there is? And samtu se is an idiom. It means, does it end there?

And we say, mayin. Uh-huh. No, it doesn't end there, unfortunately.

Not so. Because all of these migewa lams... All the paths of karma, of non-virtue.

Now, very difficult Sanskrit here. They take a person, they take someone who was dungbor mi, and then they become nyawa, dundro, or yidak. Somebody who was, in one case, or who was at first a human being.

Good, good. Yeah, very difficult here. Yeah.

The result brings them to either hell, or animal, or a hungry ghost rebirth. Which are all subsumed by the word nyendro. Going to the bad, lower birth.

Yeah, good. Yeah, so this dungbor mi nyi is very difficult, and you need to read some commentaries to catch it. Those people who started out as humans, and they did these bad things, you know, the normal result is you just live shorter, but on a longer time frame, those people who started out as humans end up as animals, like that.

Literally. Good, okay. And then he said, then he quotes Dode Satchipa.

You want to have someone else read me? Sure, yeah. Bertha, do you want to read?

[Speaker 2]
Of course, thank you. Dode Satchipala.

[Speaker 3]
Lai.

[Speaker 2]
Lai. Champo Nyawadang.

[Speaker 1]
Nyawa. Champo Nyawadang.

[Speaker 2]
Champo Nyawadang. Triki Dugrodang.

[Speaker 1]
Dundro.

[Speaker 2]
Dundro, okay. Dugrodang. Chukdu.

[Speaker 1]
Chungu, sorry.

[Speaker 2]
Chungu, yeah, yeah. Chungnu.

[Speaker 1]
Gidak. This one's hard.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Gidak. Saminghar Shepani.

Dundro Lai. What was that? Gidak?

[Speaker 1]
Gidak.

[Speaker 2]
Gidak, okay. Gidak. Shepa Selwat.

[Speaker 1]
Selwat.

[Speaker 2]
Selwat Tarlawa Lagongpa Shedu.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, nice. Really nice. Good.

Then Gyatso Je quotes the Dode Satchipala. Uh-huh, yeah. The seventh, or the, yeah, the seventh.

Chupa. Chupa. Oh, seven D...

No, just ten. Oh, the ten. Okay, I don't know what I'm thinking.

It's a sutra named... By the way, Dode here doesn't mean a collection of sutras. It just means a sutra named Chupa.

Oh, ten levels. Sutra that's on levels, of course. Sapta.

When you do these in their chenpo form, you go to the nyawa. Okay, when you do big versions of these terrible deeds, you go to the hells. When you do them in their dring form, you go to the dundros.

If you commit them in a moderate way, you become an animal. And when you do them in their chungu form, you go to the yidak. Interesting.

When you just do a minor version of them, you become a craving spirit. Yeah, and now Gyaltsabje is anticipating someone objecting that pretas got put below animals. Absolutely.

Sorry, got put above animals. Okay, better to be a preta than an animal. Surprising.

According to this list. Okay, and Gyaltsabje helps us out and he says, Well, the shepas of yidaks are more selwa than dundros. They have clearer minds than animals, that the craving spirits do.

Yeah, like the haunted houses ghosts are more clear-minded than animals. So that's a less serious karmic result, okay? And because their minds are more clear, it's more lawa for them to reach tarpa.

It's easier for them to become liberated. Yeah, because their mind is more clear. That's the gomba here.

That's the deeper thinking behind the order. Cool. Yeah.

Now, I got to talk about this dode satchipa. Tsongkhapa really likes it. He quotes it a lot.

And it's not a sutra, okay? And you can go crazy looking for it. It's part of a much larger piece in the Kangyur called Avatamsaka, or the majority section.

Me and Venerable Jigme once figured out, we found in the ancient catalog, why it's called majority, and I forgot, and she forgot, and we can't find it anymore. But we once found it, I can say for sure. Anyway, the Avatamsaka is a huge mishmash of short sutras.

And it's all, it's just like somebody took a shoebox and threw sutras into it. So anyway, and I couldn't find this reference. Today I spent a couple hours at the coffee shop and I found it.

Wow. So, you know, I was getting desperate here. Because it's not very evident.

And here's the quotation. So you want to read this one, Nick? Yeah, and that's the that's the reference, okay?

And it's totally, it's totally unclear, okay? Yeah, I forgot what's, a word. Can you look up gyul song for me?

[Speaker 3]
What's the spelling again?

[Speaker 1]
B-Y-O-L song.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So here's the actual quotation, and it doesn't much resemble what he said.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
When you are, and by the way Tsongkhapa repeats it a couple times. And then other people repeat it because Tsongkhapa repeated it, but nobody found it. And I put a few of those in here.

Anyway, mi gewa chui le kyi lam. So a path of karma of the ten non-virtues. Yeah, what's the difference between karma and a path of karma?

Path of karma is when it was done complete with all four parts. Karma, shi sampa jorwa tar tu. You guys are no fun anymore.

So if you bust tenpa on those lams. Rely upon. Yeah, it means if you do them.

And tenpa means to rely on on a regular basis when it's spelled with an S, okay? And now gompa, which has the same connotation. Habituate yourself to it.

Good. And mumbo mumbo chepa. Do it over and over again.

Then the majority of those people, she chewa. Those actions, sorry, those le kyi lams become the gyu of sem chen nyewa. They become causes to be a hell being.

Good. By the way, sometimes the realms of hell are called sem chen nyewa. For the hells, yeah.

Yeah, for the hells, okay. So that's what Tsongkhapa called, if you do them in a great way, you go to the hells. You see up here?

It's not a quotation from the Satchipittho. It's an abbreviation of the sutra, okay? Which is not a sutra.

Okay, thanks. Okay, now, if you jing. If you do the middle version, the medium.

So word, what was it, Julso? I don't remember. Livestock, he found.

Yeah, livestock, beast of burden, Venerable Upa found. Oh, yeah, okay, good. Yeah, all right.

So donkey, horse, cow. Okay, animal, reaper. Yeah, it can be.

Unicorn. That will be a cause for you to go to the... To be an animal, to be reborn as an animal.

The beast of burden, which is what I am at my house. No, I'm just kidding. Don't ever quote me to a certain wife.

Okay, by the way, so Nick, if you're looking for this quotation with gopher, and you look for animal near medium, you won't find anything, because he didn't say animal, he said beast of burden, okay? Okay. That makes it a little harder to find, for sure.

Yeah, and here's a worse one. Tame, so somehow that means chung lo. Good, yeah, by the least of them.

Mm-hmm. The world of shinje, like a butcher? No.

Lord of death. You will go to the world of the lord of death. And that's a synonym for a praetor rebirth.

In the ancient literature, the world of the lord of death is a synonym for a praetor rebirth. Interesting. Yeah.

For example, in all the kinds of karma sutra, a praetor rebirth is referred to as living in the world of the lord of death. Because I would have thought that his world was more like the hells or something. Yeah, yeah, you would think that, but it's not.

It's not, yeah. And it's confusing. And it took me a long time when we were doing all the kinds of karma sutra.

He ate all the food, that's why he's so big. And then they can't eat anything. They can't find it.

And by the way, the only reason I found that was that I found a commentary. So Tsongkhapa quotes it the way our text quotes it, and it doesn't help you at all. And then I found a commentary by somebody who was straddling the two readings.

And that's how I found it. He said that Tsongkhapa was quoting this other thing from the Avatamsaka? No, this is a ten-year text.

So you go from the sutra to the ten-year to Tsongkhapa to Gyaltsabje. It gets changed every generation. And it was a miracle that we found it.

Yay, John Brady! Well, thank you, Geshe-la. And by the way, here's Jamyang Shepa who says it comes from somewhere else.

Oh, boy. It doesn't. So anyway, he's normally a pretty big guy.

Okay, so anyway, just so you know, I spent two hours trying to figure this out. Simbani, who's going to read these big letters? The Seiji.

Yay, birthday, Dan. That was so fun today. We went to the pool, and my crew was in the kids' pool.

It was really fun. Okay. Nick, translate.

The results of good karma are the reverse of what we just talked about. Good. And that's section three.

All right, here we go. We're going to skip the root text because it's contained in the commentary. Who's going to read, Uncle Nick?

Kind of long. It's kind of long, so pick somebody you don't like. Uh-huh.

Well, I think I like everybody here, so I can't find that person. You want to do some Anatole? I like Anatole a lot, but I'm going to ask him to read.

I'm not sure if you're getting this one. You've got to say Kiri's dad, and then he'll turn on his microphone. He's trying to find the words.

Oh. He was like, oh. Nick, he insisted on playing vinyl in Japan, and it was gone.

He was right. Oh, yeah, I love vinyl. I am glad.

[Speaker 2]
Takpa. Takpa. Takpa.

Takpa. Takpa.

[Speaker 1]
Takpa. Takpa. Takpa.

[Speaker 2]
Takpa. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Not bad. Uh... So, I ngar drakpa to you the namens of migyewa.

Earlier, uh, drakpa, recounted, I guess? Yeah, good, good, good. Yeah, it means I was yelling in your ear.

I hope you got it. The ripenings of the things that we call non-virtue. Good.

But, if you were to take things uh, which were shen from those... Uh-huh, if you... Interesting, you took something other than that?

Yeah, now, but if you go to the opposite, which is gewi... Oh, okay, okay. So, it's more like if you did something other than that, like virtuous karma.

Good. their namen gyewas are the dopa of those earlier ones. Uh-huh, the opposite.

The pancakes. They're, uh, sorry, their ripening results are the opposite of those. Um, all of them.

Yeah, and, and I, I take namen gyewbu, I think, as your rebirth, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. The karmic ripening is the opposite of what I said.

And by the way, the gyu tun and the dak je is also the opposite. Uh-huh, yeah, the, um, corresponding result as well as the environmental results are also the opposite. Yeah, so for, uh, what's the gyu tun of, of protecting life?

Um, people make you fresh squeezed orange juice. Yeah. And what's the dakpa jebu of protecting life?

Um, you are going to, your friends are going to live long lives, and you'll have nice lush gardens, maybe. Yeah, and the vegetarianism spreads in your country. Something like that.

That's an environmental result, okay? Dok de jor, shepa jau, you should understand that, you dummies. Okay.

I mean, he wouldn't say that, but, well, maybe Gyatsobje would. Gyatsobje might say that. No, I can't imagine that.

Okay, who's up next, Nick? Oh, uh, I think we got one more minute or something. No, no, we have six minutes or something.

We started late, so you should go a little bit later. Well, it goes till 6 30. No, I started on time.

We're good. Do you want to read, Dinara?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, thank you. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Yeah, very nice, Dinara. Very nice.

You also have a talent for this. If you want to, if you work hard, you could be really good at this. By the way, Nick showed that kind of talent in his early years, because he was, I think because you're a musician, right?

I think you have a good ear. Anyway, and he's good with languages, as Dinara is. Who can tell me what these are in DCI language?

There's four of them. This is the Four Laws of Karma. Yay!

So, Dinara, here you are, the Four Laws of Karma that you heard in DCI over and over again. Someday you guys are going to thank Grandpa for all the DCI stuff. Thank you for all the DCI.

Here's the four laws of karma in the original language, okay? So, Nick's going to explain them to me. Number one, LENG NAM PA.

Karma is certain, meaning if you do a thing, the result is going to be similar to what you did. Good, yeah. If you kill, you will be killed.

If you steal, you will be stolen from. If you protect life, you will live long. If you respect other people's property, people will respect your property.

Okay, that's LENG NAM PA. In other words, definite correlation, good to good, bad to bad. Second one, Nick, PHAL CHE BA.

Karma grows, so the result is going to be larger than what you did. And I want to hear this mathematical word, please. Oh, it doubles every day, that one?

Exponentially. Oh, it doubles exponentially, okay. I mean, it goes crazy, 1, 2, 4, 16, you know, like that, 64.

Okay, it grows exponentially. And then, you know, the answer to every complaint of a human being. MA CHE PA MI CHE PA If you don't do it, no result's going to come.

Yeah, don't expect to get rich if you don't share stuff. Don't expect to live a healthy life if you don't protect life. You know, come on.

You know, don't expect to get a partner if you don't respect other people's relationships. Stop expecting things that you didn't earn. You know, very powerful, number three.

Number four, CHE PA CHU MI GSAR BA Okay, if you did it, you're going to eat it.

[Speaker 3]
If you did it, you're going to eat the reason.

[Speaker 1]
Well, if you do good things, don't worry, your reward will come. Okay, your reward will always come. Okay, don't worry about it.

Just keep doing good stuff. Your reward will always come. There's no good deed you could do that doesn't have a good result.

It's not possible. Just keep like a donkey. Keep doing those good deeds, man.

It's all going to come back to you. Okay, just keep plugging along. All right.

All right. You should sub a job about that. Think about it.

Think about the meaning of these words. Yeah, good. Do you...

Recap time. You want to give us a recap, Nick? Yeah, I can't.

This is hard for me. It's funny. My short-term memory is suffering.

Why don't you scroll back on your own? Yeah, okay. I do that also.

Yeah, well, we started talking about... He started summarizing that he gave us the results of non-virtuous karma. And he started going into some of the details, how larger actions of non-virtue would land you in the hells, while medium would land you in the animal realm, and smaller instances of negative karma would lead you to the Lord of Death's realm, which is to be a hungry ghost.

Yeah, good. And then he quoted the Buddha saying something similar. Let's see.

Then we're in the quotations a bunch. And then we talk about how the opposite of that is true for good karma. If you do good things, you're going to have good results, not only in the ripening result, but also in the corresponding result and the environmental result.

And he didn't mention the habit. Yeah, that basically takes us to where we are. All right, let's give you stuff to do in your next class.

So, are you going surfing or not? I'm always planning to go surfing. The waves are going to be really huge because it's stormy right now.

Oh, we don't want you to go. If it's too big for me, I'm going to sit it out. I used to just sit up on the cliffs and tell other people how to take the waves.

So, I'd say these four paragraphs, Nick. I'm sorry to do that to you. Oh, that's cool.

Starting with bichak dang she dang. Sorry. Yeah, and these are a more general summary of how bad deeds get you in trouble and good deeds cause you happiness, okay?

Yep, awesome. All right. Okay, so super fun.

Thank you so much. Thanks for running the mixed nuts. It's a very happy thing for us, for me.

Huge honor. All right, everybody. Have a great night.

Thank you, Geshe Michael, for a lot of really fun and awesome teachings today. Thank you, Geshe Michael. Nice to see us all learning so much.

You're getting good. You guys are all getting good. My Kramer's translation was weird.

Weirdly good. I'm okay. I'm okay.

All right, good night. Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
See you in the morning.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 3]
Frighten early.