Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 2

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 02 — Fall '22 — Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life — Seiji Arao — Class 4
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: осень 2022; место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 2]
Yay, Seiji's text. Yay, new text.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. I still have it up on my screen. I still have a word pinned on my screen.

[Speaker 2]
I thought I just removed it.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, there we go. I just unpin him, I guess. There we go.

Hi, Seiji. Hey, Geshe-la. We don't really have any stuff because we didn't do anything.

Just formatting. Okay, so I have a text ready for you. Grandpa is working hard.

Go ahead. I want to ask you just a few things just to make sure I'm not messing up or making anyone's work a little bit harder. Okay.

Yeah, let me see. Just to make sure that I'm following what MixedNet should be doing, let me share my screen. So I divided it in four, four lines per verse.

Some chapters, they didn't, they were not for, we had some remainders. And I checked the original and there are not multiples of four before the giant tube. Well, we'll just have to see as we go, but what you did will help.

Okay. I don't know if I did something wrong. Can you guys see my screen?

Yep. Yeah. And I also did this.

I don't know if that's the way we do it. When I saw some spaces just to put that in. Okay, good.

I noticed that there were some commas at the end that were missed. Let me see if I can find them. Oh, they're supposed to be missed in some cases.

Oh. Hmm. Okay.

Well, I put it in blue so that you can see whatever you see in blue is something that I did. I noticed, yeah, I noticed that most of them were after a G. I don't know if that's...

Yeah, that's a comma. Oh. That's not, they don't need a comma there.

You're not supposed to have a comma after a G. Okay. Oh, that makes sense.

Okay. The way you don't have a comma after G is that it would be misread because the comma represents a slash that looks like a piece of a G. Okay.

So I'll eliminate all these ones, but should I leave the other ones or should I just delete the empty space when it's... If it's an empty space problem, just delete the space and don't leave a correction on the page. It's okay.

Like this? Yep. Okay, cool.

Okay, so that's all I want to ask. And I also use this formula, and I guess this is a question more for Utpala. Is there a problem if I use a sequential formula?

Would it mess up the formatting in some way? One formatting thing I see is that you've got multiple languages in this document. Please do select all, choose English as your language.

Yes, yes. How do you do that, by the way? You click on the language...

[Speaker 3]
Wait, wait, wait. Go back and clear the detect language automatically box.

[Speaker 1]
Whoops. Something's happening. Did you see where he clicked, Ken?

Oh, here on the bottom. Something's happening to my screen. I don't know what it is.

[Speaker 3]
Well, at some point...

[Speaker 1]
You know, I did this a couple of times, and it seems to want to go back to other languages. Was it because of this?

[Speaker 3]
Maybe try opening your normal template, making those setting changes, and save your normal template. That way, any time you open a doc, it's going to remember.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. All right. Thank you very much.

Yeah, thank you. Okay, that's all the questions I had. Seiji, to be honest, I think I'd like to retranslate the whole thing and not use the translation I did for the ACI courses.

So let's just say that. So you don't have to fill in the old translation, okay? Okay.

Now, I did find something to entertain you immensely, as I mentioned last time. I mean, I'm going to have to start writing, and I'm going to have to stay ahead of you. And our goal with Seiji is we're writing a new commentary to the Bodhisattva Charita in Tibetan.

So I'm going to write my first book in Tibetan. And we're going to write a commentary, too. But it's because nobody has written a good commentary.

We wanted to translate a commentary on it, and we couldn't find a good one. There are some that I would not... I think they could be done better.

So I'm going to try to write a commentary in Tibetan, and then we're going to translate it together, okay? And I look forward to it. It's kind of customary for foreign geshes.

This will be the only time we can ask the writer. Yeah. Why the heck did you leave that out?

I think I put myself in trouble from certain misnats. But okay. So what I thought we could start with, which would be enjoyable, and could help me write the first few pages is, we're going to go to the biography of Shantideva, Master Shantideva, which is found in Yongtsen Yeshe Gyeltsen, who is a famous teacher of a high lama who lived about 300 years ago.

And he did a 2,000-page book of the biographies of every important lama in the history of the Lamrim. So he traced the Lamrim back to the beginning with Manjushri and Avalokiteshvara. And then he wrote the life story of each of those lamas.

There are other classical... one or two other classical history books that have some of Shantideva's life in them. But because he lived about 300 or 400 years after them, he kind of collected all the best information, and he edited it, and he cleaned it up.

So I think we save time if we go straight to him. So we could go to earlier commentaries. They might have some odd stuff that's not in his.

But as a general background for a normal reader, I think this is the best we can do. This will be very good. So I'm going to take you to this document.

Welcome to your new book, Seiji. By the way, it only happens four or five times in your life that you do a new book, even if you live a long life. So it's a big deal.

Tonight is a big deal for you. Thank you. It is.

You got to have this... what do you call it?

[Speaker 2]
Determination.

[Speaker 1]
Determination. In the old days, they said, I will die or I will finish. And there's text in the Tengyur, in the ALL database, which stopped in the middle of the book, in the middle of a sentence.

And the guy died. And they carve it that way, and they leave the last little and there, and then they say, okay, end of book. So that's the kind of determination we're going to have, right, Seiji?

Yes. So here we go. I got the biography for you.

And let's jump in. Okay. Here's your new book.

Yay! Yay, thank you. Okay.

By the way, do you want to describe your old book? Because we have a big group of ALL masters here. And I think they could appreciate what's going on in this room, if you can talk a little bit about the book you just finished.

Oh, do you want me to show the mind map I did? Yeah. It's about a 500-page translation.

He finished it. Give me one second. So for those of you who don't know.

Unshare, right? Hang on. Unshare.

Okay, let me see. So let me share this. By the way, please inform your wife that there's complete silence in this room right now, not because they are meditating.

But they are eating the delicious food which she got for us. Thank you, Nour. Thank you.

And by the way, this is because the vice president decided is paying for all your dinners. Okay, so.

[Speaker 3]
Gracias. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
And Nour does all the dirty work. Oh, look. Mike is clapping.

[Speaker 3]
Bravo. Congratulations. Congratulations.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
You got the best. Okay. Explain it.

You guys can see my screen. The crown of knives.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
All right. So this is a root text. Beautiful, beautiful book.

I completely fell in love with it. Actually the book it's, it's part of a. Collection found in all kinds of karma, which is another book.

That we're doing. And this book is actually it notes to 11 sessions class. Given by a teacher called.

So this is a transcript. And this is a translation of the book. Kind of like when Gish Michael goes to.

Then a mountain to do a 10 day Lambrin. One of his students. Took notes and this is what we translated.

I believe the name is a deathless nectar for helping others. Anyway in it. Part of the old kinds of karma.

The particular story. Is the story of my trade. And.

My track. I found these two different names. And.

That's a beautiful metaphor. Which is. Ends up being the first part of the text.

Which starts with a poetry of peacocks. Who are warriors of transformation. That transform the pain of others into.

They're beautiful. Feathers. Meaning body side bus.

That by helping others. Get closer to enlightenment. Right.

They live off poison. Meaning of other people's problems. Transforming poison into beauty.

And they see their real enemy. Is this is self-cherishing. Sometimes even.

Above. Grasping to a self or. Ignorance.

So the main point of this book is how to kill yourself. Cherishing. In that story was really cool.

He said that he. Anyway, to make the story short is. Our.

Our main character ends up taking the suffering of everyone. Everywhere. And that's how he gets.

The crown of knives. And that's how he develops. Not to fall in his head.

And he develops. What's that. Hero's name in your book.

I found two names. Which you said in the last. And the original was.

Well, the original from. They say courses. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Not JJ. Oh, okay. Oh.

Okay. Good. Oh, okay.

That's how. Just the name of their son.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Right here. The other mic. Anyway, it's part of a lodging, which.

The whole purpose of a lodging. Is to help us. In our hearts.

A good heart. Michael says. And it's really cool because it also has karmic correlations.

Which is. It's. It's.

Are of phenomena that is deeply hidden. That only the Buddha's can see. And the structure of it is it gives us a problem.

What was the cost. And what's the solution. We saw 35 carbon correlations.

Nice. Yeah. And those are actually ended up being.

Already in a lot of books. We found them in. We found them in.

Diamond cutter book. Business book. Karmic management.

ACI course 14. DCI level 10. So already it's given a lot of fruits.

After this correlation part. We went a little bit more. Magical.

And it starts talking about this attitude of. The butcher of the Lord of death. The butcher of the Lord of death.

Who uses the crown of nice knives against self-cherishing. 37 examples of how we can use this. With a greater motivation.

To smash the skull of. Your misperception of our misperceptions. Our greatest enemy.

Which connects back to the story. And then the last part was. We went into a wisdom part, which is very cool.

Give us different metaphors of how things are an illusion. Then we went a little bit into interdependence. And we finished by looking at.

The tree branch of all the people that were involved. Dharma Rachita. Who's the one who gave the.

Teaching to Lord Atisha. Who gave it to John. And how it came to us.

And then we went through. Three chain. Three chain.

By notes of. Namgyal. Beautiful mind map.

Very good. Very good. Nice beautiful mind map.

But it doesn't get you out of working. So here we go. Please start to read, and Nick is going to check you.

Mr. Nick, are you okay? I can't believe you're not surfing. What, the water is too cold for you, wimpy guys?

I hurt my back a couple of days ago, so I was just letting it rest for a couple of days. Okay. Usually the class is in a different part of your body, but it's okay.

I feel much better now. I'll probably get out tomorrow. How's mom?

She's doing good. I mean, every day is better. She had a surgery, for those of you who don't know, but she's doing much better.

Thank you. I think three weeks is the big mark. Okay, let's go, Seiji.

Nick's checking. All right. And it's kind of ironic, Seiji, that this first sentence links your new book to your old book.

Right, yes. Okay, and that was kind of on purpose. Okay, what's George Jay?

The great and glorious master? Yeah, the great lord, which is one of the nicknames of Atisha. Okay, and then pheomden means glorious.

Atisha. The Tibetans use his Sanskrit name. They don't call him by his translated name.

I'll give 50 bucks if you can tell me the translated name. Don't, Kara. Poonsokpa.

Poonsok, yeah. Poonsok is a translation of Atisha. Yeah, so you should say hi to him.

Miss him. Okay, so 50 bucks for... that was Nick, right?

I don't remember. That was where I did sign you. Okay, anyway, he needs some money for buying clothes and college funds.

Okay, Atisha, how did he semba? You guys, tulpa that we just had. Yeah, we just had tulpa like 30 times in words text.

Why did he change it here? Why didn't he say come to class? He's honoring him.

Yeah, this is a high honorific. There's two parallel languages in Tibetan, three, four. So there's four words for every single thing.

There's an epistolary language, which I have never taught to any human being, but I'm anxious to. Does it appear in Nagarjuna's letter at all? Nope, too early.

But there's a separate language for writing letters to high officials and stuff like that. Especially if, anyway, if they got to approve your construction permits. Okay, semba means to listen to the changchun mang gi rimpa.

The path, what is that, Babu? The steps on the path to enlightenment. So to understand Shantideva's biography, his biography starts with the discussion of how did the lam rim get to Atisha?

How did he learn the lam rim? Then he brought it to Tibet. So how did it get to Atisha?

In answering that question, you have the complete biography of Shantideva. Okay, so anyway, lam ma gi rim. What's gi with a B, you guys?

Mindstream. It means the lineage. When you put a B on riged, then it changes the meaning from mindstream to lineage, teaching lineage.

So what's the lineage of the teachers who passed on the lam rim until it got to Lord Atisha? Okay, here we go. All right.

Go Seiji. By the way, this is pretty straightforward, and you guys should be able to read it, almost. Okay.

,RJES SUM BYAMS PA, ,GNAS THOG MED KHUBS CHE SOGS LA, ,RIM GYIS GYUS PA'I RGYEN CHEN CHOD RGYU THAMS, Yeah, there's two great or three great lines, lineages of the lam rim, which you guys have probably learned a lot. The first one is called RGYA CHEN CHOD RGYU. What's that mean, you guys?

The lineage of widespread activities. Yeah, the lineage of widespread activities, which is a code word for... Compassion.

How to live like a bodhisattva, basically. Bodhisattva behavior. RGYA CHEN CHOD RGYU And that has come down in a lineage, gyu, step by step or teacher by teacher, from great teachers, such as THOG MED KHUBS CHE.

You guys, what's that?

[Speaker 3]
Arya Sangha and his brother.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they call them the brothers of Sangha. It's a code word for...

[Speaker 3]
Arya Sangha and Master Vasubandhu.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Arya Sangha and Master Vasubandhu. It reached the lineage of acting like a bodhisattva, which is whole Lojong lineage also, we're going to talk about it, has come down from Je Tsongkapa.

[Speaker 3]
From Lord Maitreya.

[Speaker 1]
From Lord Maitreya. Through the two brothers and then down. How did the...

What's Samatha gyu, you guys?

[Speaker 3]
The profound lineage.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, this gyu seems to be misspelled. Yeah, I was just going to ask if it's... I don't know, maybe he wants to call it line here, rather than lineage.

It started with Je Tsongkapa, who's that?

[Speaker 3]
Manjushri.

[Speaker 1]
Went through Pabba Lodro. Arya Nagarjuna. But here they say Yab Tse.

And his spiritual son, Aryadeva. Nice. Yeah, nice.

What's the Yab Tse for Je Tsongkapa? Gyaltsen Jay.

[Speaker 3]
He's got two.

[Speaker 1]
But Nagarjuna only had one. Arya Nagarjuna had Aryadeva. There's a debate whether they lived in the same era, but in any case, he was that close.

Yab Tse Tsongkapa, rim kyi gyupa, came down step by step. The profound lineage, which means the emptiness teachings. Started with Manjushri, came down through Nagarjuna, and reached Atisha.

And then the compassion lineage came down from Maitreya, down through the two brothers, and that reached Atisha. Please read Seiji. Or, if you're feeling...

What's that word? What do you call a bad kid?

[Speaker 2]
Naughty.

[Speaker 1]
If you're feeling naughty, you can choose somebody else to read, and you can say you're checking.

[Speaker 3]
Okay, let's see. Rivas.

[Speaker 1]
You want to pick on Rivas, okay.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, he's translating.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know, Haso, are you there? Yeah, come, come, quick, quick, quick. He's all full of food.

He's probably not operating at peak, but anyway. There he is. I don't like it when he's here, because he's more handsome than Grandpa, but anyway, okay, here we go.

[Speaker 2]
And Rivas.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Seiji, tell him, oi, oi.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Today. Hey, hey.

Yes, please go ahead, Haso.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, but...

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Ah, Gielse Siwakhla. Yay, Siwakhla.

Yay. Stop.

[Speaker 1]
I'm sorry, I'm going to correct things as we go, so I can irritate the AOL people. My tree says good pronunciation.

[Speaker 2]
Yes? I feel something.

[Speaker 1]
No, I'm sorry, I was focused here. I thought I saw a mistake here.

[Speaker 2]
No, no, no, no, no.

[Speaker 1]
But...

[Speaker 2]
Jowo. Jowo. Jowo.

Jowo. Jowo. Yeah, ah.

Jowo je. La. Nga.

Nga, Ngangwa.

[Speaker 1]
Ngagwe.

[Speaker 2]
Nga.

[Speaker 1]
And no, it's on the end of nga.

[Speaker 2]
Ngagwe gyupey tsuwo sum trejke juto.

[Speaker 1]
Judeo.

[Speaker 2]
Judeo.

[Speaker 1]
Hey. You want to really make him suffer in translate? Wouldn't that be fun?

All right. Now you do Seiji. Okay, who's Jetsun Jamyang, Seiji?

Lord Manjushri, right? Yeah. Manjushri, from Manjushri, down to the Gyel Tse Shiwa Sha.

The sons of the Peaceful Angels? Oh, Shantideva. Peaceful Angels, that's one of them.

Okay, and by the way, I was always curious how he got that name, and we're going to find out maybe tonight. Shiwa Sha Sok La. Venki Gyurpe.

There is another third lineage that came down step by step, and it's called Lopchen Chugyur. Okay? The lineage of...

Advices? What's Lopchen mean, you guys?

[Speaker 2]
A blessing?

[Speaker 1]
A huge wave, it means a blessing? Yeah, Lopchen means big wave, like ocean wave, and it refers to a highly effective spiritual means. Little effort, big result.

Good business. There you have Lopchen. Lopchen Chugyur, so a third lineage.

There's the wisdom lineage, there's the compassion lineage, and then there's sort of a special lineage. And that came down through Shantideva, to Atisha. Gyu sum du ye te.

So, to summarize, there's three lineages, three streams. Gyu pa di sum gye me gyal yong su dzokpa. And they became combined in the lineage of...

A lineage which combined all three streams came down in its entirety, those advices came down in their entirety, to Dzogchen. All three streams were combined for the first time in Atisha, in Lord Atisha. And he...

Je lang ngawa means he possessed all three... What do you call that? Lineages.

He was a lineage holder in all three of those lineages. And then he mixed them. Nge.

Nge. He mixed them together. He mixed the three streams together.

He mixed three different lineages together in Atisha. Je dzokpa. Je dzokpa means that's a...

See... See if there is a quotation here. And then we'll look it up in the ALL database.

And it will take about... The whole process takes about 30 seconds to find it, chop it out, put it in the text. It takes about 30 seconds.

And I used to spend a week, two weeks on each one. When you do it manually. It's extremely helpful.

It's a miracle, actually. Okay. Let's do one more.

Let's make him suffer a little more, Seiji. That's easier for him. Please read.

[Speaker 2]
It was a good trick.

[Speaker 1]
For today.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
It's nice that you ALL people are here.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. The steps of the path, the widespread steps of the path, mean the compassion lineage.

RGYUD YIN LA It's split into two. And you could say it started to differentiate SKYE BU CHUNG and DING. Oh, the small one.

Yeah, people of lesser capacity and people of medium capacity. In the long run. Okay.

And then it began talking about CHOD PA'I PHYI LHAG PA The CHOD PA'I here is Parchin Dru. The CHOD PA'I here is Parchin Dru. The CHOD PA'I here is Chanjusembe CHOD PA'I.

[Speaker 2]
The Bodhisattvacharya?

[Speaker 1]
Bodhisattvacharya.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
First part of the title. Bodhisattvacharya means the activities of the Bodhisattva, or way of life of the Bodhisattva. There's a general presentation in the Lam Rim of all six perfections.

Then what comes usually after that? In this tradition of Tsongkhapa, half the Lam Rim Chenmo is... Emptiness.

Yeah, it's a presentation of the last two perfections. He goes through every single Hinayana path, every single lower, medium, blah, blah, blah. Then when he hits emptiness, he writes another 500 pages.

By the way, that's why in the Lam Rim that we have spent how many years on? Twelve years on. It does not cover emptiness.

Pabongka's Lam Rim, Gift of Liberation, does not. He said, why should I bother? So, what are we going to do?

The strategy for our class, when we reach there in four or five years, after 16 years of Lam Rim, we're going to skip to Tsongkhapa, and do the 500 pages.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
CHOS PO'I PHYI LABS Anyway, CHOS PO'I PHYI LABS means to train yourself in the general six perfections. Now, more specifically, PHYI LABS is an abbreviation for two different things. I guess, one piece.

That's amazing. PHYI LAS DANG LHAG MTHUNG Like his hand?

[Speaker 2]
Or no?

[Speaker 1]
Vipashyana. Say Vipashyana, actually. Okay?

Shamatha. Vipashyana. Vipashyana is a corruption.

And it has nothing to do with meditation. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
It says the will. KHI KHOR The will of...

[Speaker 1]
Oh, no. It means on the subject. So KHOR means on the subject.

Okay? Okay. The meditative platform that you need to see emptiness directly, which is called shamatha, and then the perception of emptiness directly based on that meditative stage, which is called LHAG MTHUNG.

VI means extraordinary. Pashyana means to see. So VI Pashyana.

LHAG MTHUNG Okay, got it? All right. KHOR LA SKAD PHYIR MED KYANG Look, there's no big difference in the presentations of some of these points between these different methods.

But, BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS RIN PO'I PHYIR BSGOM PA'I DANG LA NI So we don't separate different lineages inside of the teachings on lesser capacity, medium capacity, and the inside of the presentation of the six perfections generally, and even inside of the presentation of meditation and wisdom at their highest level. But, when we get to BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS RIN PO'I PHYIR The Jewel of Bodhicitta? Yeah, the Jewel of Bodhicitta.

It's like using this extra word, the Jewel of Bodhicitta. When we talk about DANG LHAGS, for GOM PA'I NGANG DRAG Yeah, personal instructions, like inside track... What do you call it?

The inside DOG. Yeah, inside information about how to meditate on the Bodhicitta. Well, LUNG MIN DRAG.

We go to LUNG MIN DRAG NI. We go to two separate systems. We recognize two completely different methodologies for achieving compassion on a universe level.

What a day. Here we go. I'm going to ask Hasso to sit down.

I don't know, Eli, you're in the mood. Do you want to join me? Come on, come on, kick butt.

[Speaker 3]
That's mine. It's too small. Already.

[Speaker 1]
You can hardly find it. It's kind of small. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, here we go. You're at Luke. Okay, Seiji, I asked her to make two mistakes for you.

All right. Lungs. Luke.

Okay, okay.

[Speaker 2]
LUNG MIN DRAG.

[Speaker 1]
LUNG MIN MED PAS. SEMS. SNYUNG. SEMS SNYUNG.

PAS THAG SNYUNG BSGOM. Okay. By the way, this sentence starts out with Luke Dungbo.

And if you skip down two paragraphs, you have Luke Nyipa. Okay, Seiji? So here's the first method of achieving bodhicittas in these two paragraphs.

And then the second method is going to be covered in these two paragraphs. Okay, cool. All right, cool.

And you guys are going to recognize it when we hit it. Luke Dungbo means the first system of reaching the wish to become enlightened for all living beings in the whole universe. It follows the SHOD CHEN GYI RDOG, Tim.

The perfection of this, yeah. RDOG DE means the collection of sutras on the perfection of wisdom. When you add DE, which is PITAKA in Sanskrit, like SHUK PITAKA, the three baskets.

When you add, it becomes the... Now, he says GONG DUN, and I'll give 30 bucks for a correct interpretation of GONG DUN. The literal meaning.

Real meaning. Yay! Word didn't work.

Every time you mess up, I feel so happy. I don't know what it is. Kind of inner joy.

Yeah, GONG DUN means the opposite of explicit. It means implied. That's the intent.

The intent, but not the expression. So he said, look, this first system of getting bodhichitta is not expressed directly in the Prajnaparamita Sutras, but it is what they had in mind. GONG DUN.

It is what they had in mind. What? BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS RINPOCHE SKYES PA'I THAB What's that mean, you guys?

You almost don't know.

[Speaker 2]
The jewel of bodhichitta.

[Speaker 1]
Method for SKYES PA. For developing the wish for the enlightenment. Yeah.

And the Tibetans translated bodhichitta as generating the mind, or giving birth to the mind. They translated it as SEMS SKYES. Here it is, SKYES.

Here's the SKYES. SEMS SKYES. He hid the two pieces of the word in his sentence.

SEMS SKYES. Developing the wish. I call it developing the wish.

THABS SU Now the first thing you've got to do, THOG MAR, is you better reach DANG YONG. ACRONYMITY. And by the way, DANG YONG has several completely different meanings, and we saw it all morning in Stanley's text for neutral state of mind.

Not virtuous and not non-virtuous. This is a different one. This is the first of...

Do you recognize which system of generating bodhichitta we're talking about now? Seven. Seven step causes.

Six causes. Okay. THOG MAR SEMS CAN THAMS CAD LA TOWARDS ALL BEINGS NGES RIGS MED SEMS CAN NGES BA MED RIGS BA MED Not...

Whether they're close to you or far away, but probably meaning people who are your friends or not. So what's the MED PA mean, Nick, since you were so anxious to collect on this zero bud? Whether...

I was just thinking the MED PA is meaning whether or not.

[Speaker 3]
Friends, enemies, and neutral, or friends, neutral.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you don't feel closer to some people, and you don't feel farther from other people. You feel the same distance. Right.

You feel close to everybody, and there's no distinction. By the way, I'm looking at... We're going to have a short ceremony.

We're going to finish the class. I'll go offline. We're going to give somebody a lifetime layman's spouse tonight here at the request of Dr. David Stump. Okay. NGES RIGS MED PA'I SEMS And that's SEMS NYON PA. NYON PA Not NYON PA.

That's an equal state of mind. Equal state of mind. NYON means equal.

You feel this... You don't feel some people are closer to you, and you don't feel some people are farther from you. There's grumpy people who say, I've achieved that.

Everyone's far. That's not what it means here. You feel close to everyone.

SEMS NYON PA. NYON PA This first method of achieving bodhichitta starts with a neutral. It's like a car.

You have to start from neutral. Then you can go forward or backward. It's like cleaning your palate in a French restaurant, if you have ever been to one in Kyoto.

All right. Ali's going to read another paragraph, Seiji. She said she'll make three mistakes this time.

Okay. She said maybe. Well, no, if I make three mistakes, it'll look like it's on purpose.

That's what I'm trying to... Okay. She said she was going to make the first mistake.

She said she was going to make a mistake. She said that's when she lost the timing. Okay.

SIGGY GOMA THETSU DE LA NI YUN DRE MA MEN NAG DUN GYI SGO NE SGO NE LOG GYON No, that's a... GYON GYON SHIG GYI GYONG WA SHIG GYUR DO Yeah, and by the way, everything we can do to reduce input errors saves time. No, it's not a problem.

The data is clean. Especially the new data of the younger generation here. It's extremely clean.

It's kind of frighteningly clean. But you can see how much work it can be if it's misspelled and we misunderstand the translation. Then we have to go back and fix it.

So, it's a great strain on us when we're not sure if the text is spelled right. Okay, all right. DE NAS SEMS CAN THAMS CAD RANG GI MA SEMS CAN THAMS CAD RANG GI MA SES KYI All the beings are mothers?

Yeah, good. I was actually... the reason I learned Tibetan was because they were having a Tibetan class where I was in the Himalayas.

And you had to be able to read to get in. And the class was on this book. And that was 1973, before you guys were born.

And my personal teacher wanted me to go to the class. He got me on the examination board. And I had been studying Tibetan for two or three days.

And so, he said, I'll ask the next question to the next candidate. And I stood up and he said, what does apa and mama mean in Tibetan? And I said, dad and mom.

He said, you pass. Here it is, ma. That's the first word I ever learned.

Ma. Mother. What's jinchen?

What's katin? Katin. Kindness?

Who has kindness? No. Here's the jin.

Our kind mothers. We should meditate on how every living being has been my very, very sweet mom. Okay?

And then we should chen all the jins that my mom gave me. Collect and repay kindnesses. We should actually make a mental list of all the kindness.

And then we should try to sowa those jins. Repay the kindness. Yeah, try to repay the kindness.

Rim kyi. So these three steps. Mar shay, chen chen, chen sok.

Mar shay, say mar shay. Mar shay. Chen sok.

First we have to do these steps. Mar shay, understand they have been your mother. Chen chen, remember all the good things they did for you.

Chen sok, try to repay. Decide to repay. Rim kyi gom te.

And then he says, these three will trigger a fourth one. Together these three will trigger a fourth one. Yi ong jampa.

Love? Love. Ultimate love?

Love. Yeah, it means attractive love and we'll study it. What are we supposed to be reading today?

[Speaker 3]
What are we supposed to be reading?

[Speaker 1]
It's supposed to be a biography of Master Shantideva. It's good. Be patient.

Okay? Okay? You are not allowed to read Shantideva's biography unless you go through this part.

[Speaker 3]
Wow.

[Speaker 1]
It's very cool. It's very cool. Okay.

So, jampa means I would love to give my children something when they need it. Okay? And then, nying je chen mo.

[Speaker 3]
Compassion.

[Speaker 1]
Compassion. I would like to... There's a debate about...

[Speaker 3]
The order.

[Speaker 1]
The order. Should you take away their pain first or should you make them happy first? Some people have the bicycle system.

What's that? At the same time? Do one, do the other, do one, do the other.

They bang their knee and then you make them feel better. That one's here. No, sorry.

This is the opposite. The opposite is... I don't know.

Give them a gift and then help them. Tell them... When the house is on fire, tell them there's a big bag of candy outside.

Okay? Something like that. Alright.

Sem nam. So... And then, hlak sam sejong.

Hlak sam lam dak. Take personal responsibility. Yeah.

Which... I would state it in two ways. If no one else will do it, I'll do it.

I'll take care of it myself. And you meet people like that in your life and as you get to be 69.9... Right, JB?

Yes. You recognize... You recognize that this is the key to happiness in life.

If you're the kind of person who says, I'll take care of it myself. I don't care if no one helps me. I'll take care of myself.

In fact, I don't care if everyone criticizes me for doing it. I'll still goddamn do it. Okay?

And by the way, if you become a Dharma teacher, this will come. Okay? This will come to you.

And be ready for it. And have hlak sam. Hlak sam says, if no one helps me, I'll still get it done myself.

I will throw myself in happily. No resentment that no one's helping me. And then later on, when it gets semi-successful and they start criticizing me, I'll still be nice to everybody.

Okay? That's called hlak sam. That's the two stages of hlak sam according to Geshe Michael.

Okay. Personal experience. Okay, just keep going and ignore all these stupid people.

Most of them are dead in my case. Okay? And they wasted their life worrying about what I was doing.

BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS RNAMS RIM GYIS SDOM PA STE Work through the various stages of bodhichitta. DE TSOD DE LA NI What's this system called, Seiji? Seventh step cause and effect.

In Tibetan. Oh. RGYUN.

RGYUN RGYEN. RGYUN RGYEN MANG NGAG DU. MANG NGAG DU KYIS.

Seven part cause and effect advices. MANG NGAG. Don't keep going.

LOD SBYONG. That's how you should LOD SBYONG. Oh.

Okay. So in this case we would say train your heart to LOD SBYONG. Okay, so here's my opinion on LOD SBYONG.

And Seiji knows it well because he just finished probably the best book on LOD SBYONG ever translated. It does not mean... What do they call it?

Mind training. It doesn't mean mind training. That sounds like some kind of speed reading course or something.

It doesn't mean that. It means CHAM CHUD KYI SEMS SBYONG. The wish.

Yeah, how to develop the wish for enlightenment. That's the meaning of LOD SBYONG. It has nothing to do with mental training.

It's an incredibly bad translation. There's bad translations, then there's incredibly bad translations. Okay, it's gone to a higher level.

And the fact that it survived so long is a miracle. An unfortunate miracle. Seiji, that's what we call it.

Okay, let's go Seiji. We got three minutes. Come on.

You read this whole paragraph. Okay. The second system for developing the wish for enlightenment is...

And by the way, you cannot call it bodhi mind. That's a bad name. That's a horrible translation.

Because then it's not enlightened or something like that. It has nothing to do with that. That's not at all what it means.

CHAM CHUD KYI SEMS SBYONG. My friend named Ellie, I think it is, and me, we spent in coffee... There were coffee shops in Vrindavan translating all the titles of the Kanye and Tengyur, which has never been done, into English.

And we got pretty far through it. And we reached this one. Dombokupa.

What's it called? Shalistambha Sutra. Shalistambha-vyuha.

Something like that. Shalistambha-vyuha? Is that the one?

Sutra. And the Tibetan means... Dombok means a tree trunk, and kupa means to arrange.

So people have translated it, stocks in arrangement. So I've seen it. It has nothing to do with that.

It's a group of jewel trees, pure ruby, pure emerald, the leaves and the branches and the trees. And they are growing around a small retreat cavern in which beautiful things happen. It's called the Grove of Jewel Trees.

It has nothing to do with rice stalks. I can't believe it. Anyway, just so you guys know.

It sounds a little better, right? You'd rather be sitting in a tree trunk, than sitting in emerald and ruby crystal diamond trees. Anyway, gong dun.

He says, this second system where you think about the faults of self-cherishing, and you think about how cruel it is to take care of others, was gong dun of that sutra. Yeah, that was the intent. When he says gong dun, the implication is, it was not stated directly.

But if you read the sutra, you can collect that system. Okay, dun. And then that was passed on by two great books, Lhaptu and Chinchuk.

Second one is easy. BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS CHOS PA LAM BCUG PA LOR GYI SEMS PAS BYANG YANG ABBAR THAR By the way, I love the translation, Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. It's not what I would have thought of, and it's great.

But that's the only one. That's a great translation. That's a wonderful translation.

What's Lhaptu? Shikshasamuccaya. Shikshasamuccaya, the Compendium of Practices by Master Shantideva.

Yeah, and they're both by Shantideva. And by the way, the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life is so amazing that I decided to have a course on the other one, which is his other great book called Shikshasamuccaya. And I got everything ready, and I opened the book, and I read the first few pages, and I said, No, it's a long string of quotations from other books.

He didn't write anything, and it doesn't read very smoothly. It's just like you Google something, and you get 25,000 synonyms. It's like that.

That's why no one has ever taught it that much. It's a nice source of many ancient teachings, but it wouldn't make a course. So anyway.

We're over time, Geshe-la. I know I'm getting there. So these two books passed on this lineage for achieving bodhicitta, where you focus on getting rid of your self-cherishing, and you focus on developing cherishing for others.

And those books both were written by? Master Shantideva. Have we reached Master Shantideva?

[Speaker 3]
Almost.

[Speaker 1]
Maybe. Well, you'll have to tune in next week. No, this is how we got to Shantideva.

Now he's going to say, Let me tell you about this cool guy. And his life story you should not miss. It's better than Dignaga and Dharmakirti.

What can I say, babe? Okay. See you guys manana.

Awesome. Thank you very much, Geshe-la. Nice first class.

Nice first class.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. That was exciting. Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 1]
Just a quick question. So we're going to continue on the bio, right?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Assuming Geshe-la won't have time to write the book yet. So yeah, if you'd like to try to translate the next paragraph, you're welcome. It's not that difficult.

Okay. You get help from one of these older nuts. Yep.

Okay, cool. Thank you. And okay, we'll see you guys tomorrow.

Thank you, Geshe-la. We'll get you those commentaries as soon as we can. Okay, no stress.

It's not that important right now, but get it done. Ben had sent me some commentaries that I'll send you. Yep.

Good. Go find more. By the way, I'm going to take all the existing, to me, unsatisfactory commentaries in Tibetan and Sanskrit, dump them into two files so I can search them when I have trouble with something.

You see what I mean? Sounds good. I can do an ALL, Joel Crawford search thing.

What do you call it? Math? Search.

Search. There's a word. No.

This sequence means many files at once. There's a word in... Batch.

Batch file. Yeah, I'm going to make a batch file. Okay.

And I'll make a batch file with all the existing commentaries. Okay, good. All right.

See you guys manana. Bye everybody. Good job.

Word, all your students are reading very well. Uncle Nick, any last thing? No, no.

I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you. Okay.

Thanks everybody. Thanks Nick. Thanks Geshe-la.

[Speaker 3]
Good night.