Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 4

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 04 — Winter '23 — Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life — Seiji Arao — Class 1
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод/чтение: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: зима 2023; место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
Oh, it looks nice. I like it. Okay, welcome back to Confused Nuts.

That's the place. This is us. Hey Nick, you want to make any comments?

Just again, thank you everybody for joining us. We're still just getting ramped up. And I hope everybody's having a good time.

No, I don't really have anything to say. We will periodically share, in case you all don't have it yet, the document with the links to all the classes and all the course materials, anything you might want. And starting, I guess, tomorrow, we'll start having some quizzes.

So feel free to try to answer, whoever you are, okay? When we open up for questions, anybody can chime in. Not just the nuts.

You're all nuts. Everyone's nuts. Okay, we got to get Seiji out.

Nick, how do we do that? Oh, there's the handsome guy.

[Говорящий 2]
He's not here.

[Говорящий 1]
By the way, I want to thank Kat. I got your food today. It's passing out.

And everyone likes it. Okay, Dr. Aural Takahashi, do you want to say anything about your book? Do you want to introduce your book and say hi to everybody?

Yeah. Hi, and welcome to everyone in this Morning Asia session. If this is the first time you've come in, you're in for a treat, because every four years or so, we get a new book.

And in my book, we are just at that moment. We're finishing the last book called Deathless Nectar for Helping Others, which was a lojong book. And now we switched...

Oh, sorry for the translators. We switched into a book that... I'm not sure, Geshe-la.

I think it was going to be a commentary by our very own Geshe Michael Roach on the Bodhisattva's way of life, Master Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara. But we started with the biography. I think we were doing with Ben's class.

This biography also comes from the lineage of the Lamrim teachers, and we're looking at the life of Master Shantideva. And we're just in that part. We had seen that he had some very cool lineages coming down to him.

And we started seeing things like the seven-step cause-and-effect method for reaching Bodhichitta. And I think that's about it. Yep, good.

All right, so let's get going. I'm going to switch over to the text, and I'll give a little introduction to the text. Where is that?

Okay, here we go. Let me get you guys... Let me get a cursor here.

Okay, and I'm going to move this up here, and I'm going to move this down here. Okay, good. So here's my comments about Seiji's text this time.

Again, as Seiji mentioned, we're going to be doing the biography of Master Shantideva. It's a very sexy biography. I'm going to show you something that you won't believe.

Okay, you ready? Here's... Okay, the commentary, we don't know the name yet, but there's Master Shantideva.

Which one is Shantideva?

[Говорящий 2]
Both.

[Говорящий 1]
Both, okay. All right, both of these pictures, the black and white and the color picture, is both Shantideva. This red costume is the way people think about him nowadays.

But this other one comes from a very ancient edition of the Prajnaparamita, and it shows him in his busuku outfit. By the way, he's got the Bodhicaryavatara in his hand here. He just wrote it.

He's flying around with it. Somehow, Seiji, we've got to work those two into the cover. Good luck on that.

Rosa can do it, I'm sure. It's going to be fun, I think. All right.

My idea, Seiji, is we spend one class each term on the biography. It'll be enough. We'll go far enough.

I've been splitting the biography into pieces. Originally, I was going to write a commentary before we started this first class, and I have a different plan. I would like to read with Seiji the verses, the root text.

I would like to go through the root text. That way I will remember it, and I'll start to see patterns in it and things like that. Then I would like to write the commentary after I explain it, and then we can read the commentary after I write each piece.

We'll be going to the verses first. The verses are... I have to say they are simple.

The Tibetan, which is translated from Sanskrit, is easy to read. There's a few difficult words because it's about 1,300 years old, but it's not that difficult. It's something you guys should be able to read fairly well.

You'll be surprised how far you've come. I think probably some of you... I'm going to slow down, translators.

Probably some of you sat through the ACI courses, the course 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 9, 10, 11. 10, 11, 12.

You read the translation of the verses there, and my idea, Seiji, is to re-translate the whole thing because it won't take me very long. It's pretty straightforward. I don't want it to sound like 20 years apart.

I want it to flow as if it was translated at one time. That's a policy with translation. I don't like to take old translations and try to patch new translations into them.

I think it doesn't sound good. It doesn't take long to translate the whole thing. I'd like to re-translate it.

I would like you guys to... I thought if you want to, and I think it's good for you, translators, we could talk a little bit about the Sanskrit each time we do a verse. It's not my goal to teach you Sanskrit.

I'm not that good at Sanskrit. I'm okay with it. I studied it at Princeton 100 years ago, and I did, I think, 8 or 9 years with my teacher privately.

But I don't emphasize Sanskrit because only about 5 to 10% of the books survived in Sanskrit. If you learn Tibetan well, you have 300,000 books to study. They are all high quality, extremely high quality.

If you learn Sanskrit well, you can read 10 books, 20 books. There's not much there. But we're fortunate that the Bodhicaryavatara does exist in Sanskrit.

We're very lucky. Our main Sanskrit team, Aisha and other people in India looking for books, they spend... a lot of their work is done by consulting a very great Sanskrit team, husband and wife team in Colorado.

They are sort of living out in the middle of nowhere, and they are very good at Sanskrit. David and Nancy Weigel, they've been helping me for 25 years or something. They refuse to take money, and they work really hard.

So something happens, Seiji. When I asked them for the Bodhicaryavatara, what they do is they take all the ancient manuscripts, and they compare them, and they make a new version of the Sanskrit, and they're very, very good at it. I said, have you guys ever done the Bodhicaryavatara?

I need the first chapter. They said, we finished it yesterday. Okay.

They're working like 30 years. They said, oh, we finished it yesterday. How come you asked for it today?

I said, oh my God, this is unbelievable. We have a nice new version that they've been working on with Aisha, and it's fresh from all the palm leaf manuscripts in the world. They checked all of them, and then they made a new Sanskrit version.

So my idea is it takes a long time to learn Sanskrit. It is a very complex language. There's thousands of rules, and it's not my goal to try to teach you Sanskrit, and I'm not qualified.

I can teach you Tibetan 1,000 times better. But I think it would be fun if you learned some of the Sanskrit in the lines, and if you learned to just recognize the major terms and the major words. So what I thought was, Seiji, after we finish the biography section today, we'll go to the verses, and we'll start reading the verses in Tibetan.

Then we'll look at the Sanskrit and make sure you understand what each word means. So more than what we do with Abhidharma, or more than what we're going to do with Nick's text, which we also just got the new Sanskrit from the regals, his Ratnamama. So my idea is we'll do a little more Sanskrit than usual, just so you can recognize the Sanskrit in a line.

There's conjugations and declensions, and those take years to learn, and we'll talk a little bit about it. But it's not my goal to teach you all that. I had to memorize it.

My teacher made me memorize it. That's like a 300-page book. Okay.

You have a good lineage for the Sanskrit. My teacher was Atkins. His teacher was Edgerton.

His teacher was Whitney. Whitney started Sanskrit in America, and he studied with the great German and Russian Sanskritists in the last century. Sorry, the 1800s.

Whitney was from a bad place called Yale University, but later the lineage went to Princeton. And they were great Sanskrit scholars, very, very great scholars. So you're in a good lineage.

You're in the main lineage of Sanskrit study. And by the way, Western Sanskrit study is much more advanced than Indian Sanskrit study. It was lost in India, and it was super confused.

And those books exist in the tenure. Those grammar books and those Sanskrit books exist in the tenure, and they're impossible to read, and they're very mixed up and confused. So the Western Sanskrit scholars, Russians, Germans, and Americans, they really did a great job.

So if you want to learn Sanskrit, the best book is by an American. It's from the 1800s, and it still hasn't changed. It's still the greatest book.

So we'll be working with that. That book, we inputted it 20 years ago. It's in your database, okay?

And that scholar, Whitney, Dwight Whitney also did a book on the Sanskrit roots. So we have a book of all the Sanskrit roots. And I'll teach you how to use it.

And if you know the roots, you can figure out the words. So basically, my goal is that you come out with a better knowledge of Sanskrit from the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, which is a great place to learn Sanskrit. It's a good era in Sanskrit.

Some things we have to do, some homework, what I call housecleaning things I have to do. I have to get more commentaries, just for fun. Sometimes it's good to go see what somebody else thought.

And there are not many good commentaries to the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life in Tibetan. There are a few, and I'm not excited about them. So I wouldn't use them.

I would rather write a new one. We found a new Sanskrit version, so that's taken care of. I'm going to take you through the chapters, Seiji, before we go through the verses, so you can understand the structure.

And then finally, Nick and Ben Kramer, the file we have for Seiji's, for Gyeltsabje's commentary, which is not a strong commentary, I don't want to translate it, is an A file, which means we never got the final file from the input operators. So it would be nice to input a new version and get it to E file, okay? Sure.

Yeah, that's easy to do. Okay, so Seiji, with that introduction, let's go to the biography. We'll just do like one class, and that's the most I want to do during anybody's book.

I want to get you into the real meat of the book, and I don't want to spend a lot of time on the biographies. But I personally think it's good to know a little bit about the person who wrote the book. Okay, so Seiji's going to read, and Mr. Lashaw is going to check in. Okay, Nick?

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. First of all, thank you very much, Geshe Michael.

[Говорящий 1]
This is incredible. It's a birthday present. Yeah, yeah.

Yay. Okay. Okay.

Say baby. Oh, say baby. Like my tree's a baby.

Yeah. RINPO WANTANG CHUKTAP SHUNE GOMLE LABEPE GOMDE ZL is D, NDE NDE GOMDE GOMDE LABEPE RINPO MA TOKPAR GYETSUNG JAMPE JANGSHEL SIK JANG JANG JANG JANG JANGPE JANG JANGPE JANG SHEL SIK DAM PA NANG DU TSUL Nice. Okay, good.

Anybody? Gunglo? It's the honorific word for year.

And it's called winters. So, you know, in the ancient English also it's, how many winters have you been alive? I guess because people usually die in the winter.

So, how many winters have you... So, gung means winter, but gunglo means honorific for year, okay? When he was true, gunglo.

When he was six years old. Lumba means when he had reached six years old. At that time, say, okay, at that time, he met a druptop at the end of the line, Seiji.

What's druptop, you guys? Adept? Yeah, it's like a master yogi.

Siddha? Like a siddha or a siddhi, yeah. And that great secret practitioner held the lineage for pepe tulshug.

Tulshug means tapas, tough practices, like sitting out in the Arizona sun for three years and doing a retreat. That's called tulshug, okay? Or putting up with the most irritating person in your life.

It's called the ultimate tulshug, okay? Difficult spiritual practice. We call it tapas.

It's not the Spanish dinner, okay? Which is making me hungry already. Pepa means secret, okay?

Hidden. So, this guy might be working in your local grocery store, and that's called pepe tulshug, okay? He might be, just looks like a normal person in the grocery store or something, and that could be a high yogi practicing pepe tulshug, okay?

It's called a hidden practice. And he's trying to just look like a normal guy, okay? Pepe tulshug.

Dung gel means he met, and the word meet in Tibetan requires the word dung, which means and, but here it means with. He met with. Or in other words, he met, he found out about that guy, who he really was somehow, we don't know.

Make a good movie.

[Говорящий 2]
Six years old.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, six years old, he met this, probably this guy in the grocery, Clark's grocery store, stocking the shelves, you know, or cleaning the floor, and he figured out he was a secret yogi, okay? And he shu, at the end of the line, Seiji. Nick, what's that mean?

Shu, past tense. Requested. Yeah, he requested the wang.

The empowerment. And the dupta. The sadhana, the ritual for reaching.

Yeah, he requested the empowerment, and the dupta for a form of Manjushri called, and it's down here in the notes, Manjushri tikshna. Say tikshna. Tikshna.

Tikshna. Tikshna. Tikshna.

Tikshna means sharp, like a sharp knife. Tikshna means sharp, like a knife. And this form, there's many forms of Manjushri.

This form of the angel is called sharp Manjushri. The sharp one. I don't know why.

Maybe someone could dig around and find out, okay? But he got that initiation into sharp Manjushri. It probably means super intelligent or genius Manjushri or something.

Then he did Gomde, Nick, do you know that one? Yeah, isn't that svadhyaya? No, that's cotton.

That's japa, right? Say again? Isn't it japa?

It's a kind of japa, yeah. But basically, you guys know Dorje Gomde, Dorje Sempe Gomde. Vajrasattva?

Yeah, meditation on a deity and doing their mantra at the same time. In the Vajrayogini practice, we do it as purification. He worked a long time, hard.

Bepa means he worked hard on the practice of the mantra while he's visualizing Manjushri. And Rinpo Ma Thobar... He did it for a long time, but still didn't reach him.

I'm sorry. No, it's the opposite. Rinpo Ma Yimba.

Oh, he reached, he did it without having done it for long. Yeah, good. Rinpo Ma Thobar means before very long.

He did not have to do it very long. He seeked the shell of Jamyang. Saw the face of Manjushri.

He met Manjushri face to face. And Manjushri sold him many dhampas. He bespoke many advices.

Yeah, Manjushri granted him many personal practices and advices. Cool? This seems to be a pattern with these guys, right?

We're getting this kind of a pattern in the biographies. Okay, hang on. Stanley just really wants to come up here.

He told me... Do you need a cushion or not? Okay, all right.

[Говорящий 2]
Can't wait to criticize Seiji.

[Говорящий 1]
Everyone wants to criticize Seiji, it's fun. Actually, we all depend on Seiji from our income, so please stay healthy. All right.

Here we go.

[Говорящий 2]
Seiji. Something.

[Говорящий 1]
Yes. We know. Yes.

We know. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[Говорящий 2]
Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Nice. DU RE ZHIG NA means there came a day, at a certain time, on a certain day, his YAB, what's YAB YUN? Son, or father.

Yeah, his high honorific YAB, his high, high father, who was the gyelpo, the king of that country. He day, you know, nyang neng le depa, he passed away. Yeah, this day means he passed away.

He went, okay, he left, he passed away. And this gyel se, it's a pun, who can tell me? Because he's a bodhisattva and son of the king.

Yeah, he's a gyelway se, which means a son of the victors, child of the victors, which means bodhisattva, son or daughter of the victors. But he was also a gyelboyi se, he was also a son of a king. It's a pun, okay?

How are you going to translate that? I don't know. The son of a gun, who was a dagny chenpo se, you guys ought to know this by now.

Great, yeah, great. Mahatma, okay? In his yul, his country, kam also means country in this case.

So yul kam means just inside his country. Bang, anybody know bang? Bang means the people of his country, okay?

Bang means the people, tam che, all the people in the country. You know what's going to happen. What's going to happen?

Anticipatory translation, the king just died. Please be our king.

[Говорящий 3]
I'm going to ask him to be the leader.

[Говорящий 1]
Please be the king. He's going to run away to the forest. Ah, you're getting ahead of us, Nick.

The whole bang was low timber, which is unusual. In agreement. They were all in agreement.

It means harmony mind, right? And they said, so wan de, past tense, so wan tak. They supplicated, they begged him.

They begged him, please jun, which means go, or sit on the chi. On the throne. Yeah, please go and agree to sit on this throne, okay?

Okay, Stanley, one more. Okay, you got the cursor.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
You didn't say a G. I want to shake your hand. DDUG SMI RIM PA'ANG RNAM KYIS NGO MA RLOG PAR, RGYAL ZALI LA ...

... ... ...

NICE! Ok. What does ZER TAB mean you guys?

Yeah, all of his lifetimes, many lifetimes, he had trained himself in the Chöpa of the Gyaltses, the Avatara of the Bodhisattvas, Bodhisattva Acharya, that's the Acharya, Bodhisattva Acharya. So he had trained himself for many lifetimes in how to be a Bodhisattva. Gompa, he's totally used to it by now, not meditation.

It's not gompa, it's kompa. So he was so used to being a Bodhisattva, and he had lunged to Chöpa, Chöpa means he had amassed great Bodhisattva power inside of him, great energy. Lung here means energy or power.

It's extremely rare, so don't bother learning it. Chöpa shi, Nyenpe, because he was already a master, there was no cup for him to be Chöpa towards Sipa Pönsok. There was no cup for him to Chöpa towards the Pönsok, and you guys know Pönsok of Sipa.

There was no instance for him to want to desire the perfect kingdom? This Sipa means samsara, so he wasn't attracted to any of the... He was never for a moment attracted to the excellent things of samsara, Pönsok.

What's Pönsok in Sanskrit? Atisha. It means perfect.

It's totally perfect. We know a perfect Pönsok. Chöpa kap, Nyenpe, he never ever wants.

Sik means he was a dude like that. He was a guy like that. But, nang, but, lo sungwa means he wanted to honor the wishes of his friends.

Lo sungwa means he wanted to show that he cared about their opinions. Here it means protect their face. But what it means is he wanted to show honor to his people.

So therefore, because he was used to doing that, and last line Seiji, he shel kyi she, with his mouth he agrees. This is the shepa we see to take a philosophical position. But here it means he agreed.

He gave his word to pep to the gyelsi. To go to the throne. Yeah, to take the throne.

Because he didn't want to dokpa, which means to go against the wishes of his people. So just out of respect for his people, he said, okay, okay, I'll be king. You guys want me to be king, I'll be king.

I'll take the throne. He agreed. All right.

One more, Stanley. Come on, be tough on him. su shukpay jang nyang shukpe shukpe Yeah.

This nangpa doesn't mean inner. It means the next day. That's an old use of the word nang.

On the next day, you here is future tensorizer. It means cause, usually, but here it means future tensorizer. He was supposed to be enthroned.

Ngazul means enthroned. He was supposed to be coronated. Coronated.

Coronation. Yeah, it's a fancy word for take the throne. Enthroned.

Yeah, so the coronation is happening the next day. And gong nu means but tonight, meaning the day before, the night before. So the night before he was supposed to tomorrow be coronated, okay, he had a milam.

[Говорящий 2]
A dreaming.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, he had a dream. And he saw the chi. He saw the throne where he was dupa.

He was supposed to stay future tense, nupur gyur, on the next day, sang. Sang nying means tomorrow. So he saw the throne on which he was supposed to be sitting the next day in the dream.

And on that throne is jetsun janggum.

[Говорящий 3]
Wow, majestic.

[Говорящий 1]
Majestu is occupado, that parking spot. All right. Majestu is sitting on the throne, okay.

Now what's gonna happen? One more standing, I can't stop. All right.

Let's go. mi be, mi be, yeah, any nasal with a head letter that's high tone. mi pa, mi be.

It's a beautiful... by the way, I'll give you one word in the first line, Seiji, and you figure out the rest. ten, satatatana ten, is the same as den, and it means asana.

Oh, the seat. The seat, yeah, where you put your ass. Asana, okay.

So ten and den, like Dorje Den is Vajrasana, bodhgaya, okay. So now I want to say, hey, Bujji, this is nga'i ten.

[Говорящий 2]
Hey, Bujji, this is nga'i ten.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, oh, hey, my boy. Hey, boy. He calls him boy.

Hey, boy. Well, I think he's being a little, he said, hey, boy, this is my chair. This is my seat, okay.

Nga'i, kyu kyi geshe.

[Говорящий 2]
I'm your spiritual guide.

[Говорящий 1]
I'm your Lama. I'm your Lama. I'm your geshe, okay.

There's places where geshe means something you respect, stuff like that. Okay, I get this respect, you know where I get it? United.

On United Airlines, because I'm global. They always treat me like a geshe, and I'm like, thank you, you know. Okay, so anyway, Nga'i, I'm your geshe, for God's sake.

He's like, come on, okay. If nga'i and kyu, dukpa, are one, then...

[Говорящий 2]
If me and you both sit on the same seat.

[Говорящий 1]
If you and me sit on the same throne, the same level, then the rikpa mayin, rikpa mayin, it's not, this rikpa means correct or proper. It's totally napa kundu improper. It's totally improper.

Who are you to think you could sit on my seat? I'm your Lama, stupid. And me, nipa.

He had that dream. He dreamt past tense. He dreamt, okay.

We got to do one more, you guys. This team is just really working out well. Okay, you got it.

[Говорящий 2]
And now, see, pa, na, yal, si, kyi, pa, la, long, chu, Bel, Bel, Bel, Bel, No aspiration.

[Говорящий 1]
Long, chu, mi, rik, nong, te.

[Говорящий 2]
Gong, say, gong, sir. Gong, te. Chuh, ne, na, la, huh?

G-F-B-L.. M-O-N-G-E-R L-E-N-D-E-R Lender No Lender Lender Lender Lender Pandita Nga G-U Yea G- I don't know G..

[Говорящий 1]
and you got to pronounce it, as I said yesterday when it's five hundred you pronounce the B Ngap-Ga Ngap-Ga Ngap-Gay-Cue Chok-Ka CHOK GYAL WAY LHA LHAB THU CHUNG TE. LHAG LHAE, LHAG LHAE, LHAG LHAE. LHAG LHAE, LHAG LHAE, LHAG THU CHUNG TE.

SEN SHI WAY LHA SHED THAG. THAG. THAG.

THAG. THAG. Don't get this, Delmar, is it?

Or where do you live, Nick? Carlsbad. Don't get this Carlsbad tea problem, OK?

Say THAG. Not THAG. All right, good.

SRED PA means, NEL SRED PA means to wake up. The SRED PA is related to the word for kill. His sleep was killed.

It means he woke up. NEL SRED PA. And then he GONG, there's the verb at the end.

He GONG. Thought to himself. He thought to himself, great.

It's MI RIG for me to GYEL SU. It's not proper for me to run the country, OK? For me to enjoy the glories of owning a kingdom is not right for me.

That's not who I am, OK? GONG TE. TRUH means, TRUH is a funny word because it means to escape.

He ran away. He probably didn't kill anybody. He ran away.

TRUH means like he literally ran, OK? And he ended up at? NA LENG DRA.

And here's the traditional Tibetan pronunciation. NA LENG DRA. NA LENG DRA, OK?

He ended up at NA LENG DRA. I think I misspelled this. I got to check this.

Let me check this. It's complicated. It's NA LENG DRA, I think, in the Sanskrit.

And there at NA LENG DRA, there was Pandita Ngapya. There were 500 great scholars there, great panditas. And the Kyu Chok word.

The head bull, the main dude. The leader of the pack. He's the leader.

I don't know this song. You're too young. Yeah, yeah.

Kyu means the herd of cattle. And chok means the head bull, OK? So he went to the head bull, whose name was Jalwe Lha.

And I have it below. It's Jaya Deva, OK? So the greatest of 500 great men was Jaya Deva.

And from him, he erupted chok. He took his ordination. And he got tak, that's sent, shiwe lha.

He was given the name Shantideva, the god of peace, shiwe lha. By the way, yeah. What was his name before?

I don't know. Did they say? I don't remember.

I don't think so. I just thought you might know otherwise. I don't know, to tell you the truth.

Do they ever say the names of these great ancient? They do. Sometimes they do.

Yeah, sometimes they do. And they're kind of cute names. My teacher's name was Paso.

Yeah, my Lama's name when he was born was Friday. So maybe you recognize this name. That book is full of those things.

I like the verb tak here. Who wants to tell me about it? He was given the name, like, applied, like just the same way that you apply a label to objects when they're written.

If you took DCI Global Advanced Level 2, it's just the same as the luminous image. Moving out from the karmic seed onto the parts. That's tak.

There's the, now here's the meaning of it. Tak, he was given the name. The luminous image was applied to the parts of the pen.

Got it? That's why names and dependent origination are so close to each other, okay? And that's why the Bible starts with?

In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the word. Yeah, that's a great, that's a great, that's the greatest opening line ever.

All right, let's go one more paragraph with this incredible team. Kempo.

[Говорящий 2]
Kempo, see there.

[Говорящий 1]
Kempo La Tente De Nude. Tente. Please know Carls Baptiste.

Tente. Tente. Tente.

I'm sorry. Tente. The reason it makes fun of you so much is that anyone else would be pissed off at me, but you never do.

So, Tente. Tente. It's getting watery right now.

Nesum la jangpe. Tent, what? Nel.

Nel. Nel. Tene sum la jangpe kepe chu pultu chimpar kyu chinje tsum jatsum jangpe jang.

Whoa. Jangpe jang. Jangpe jang.

[Говорящий 3]
Jangpe jang, yeah, jangpe jang.

[Говорящий 1]
Jangpe jang la yun tu chu senpe du na kyi ka.

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Ka. Ka. Oh, I'm sorry.

Ka. Ka.

[Говорящий 1]
Ka tang dam ngap ma lupa tuk su chu. Nice. Yeah.

Kempo la ten, by the way, what's it mean, kempo la ten? He relied on his... Vow giver?

Yeah, on his vow giver, which was something, right? Jaya deva. Okay, but a word, I would have rather seen a different spelling here.

Ruten? Yeah, I'd rather see bus ten, right? Oh, yeah, that's true.

Right? That would have been better composition. Okay?

That's the traditional form of ten that you do with your teacher, okay? Like Lama Tenzo. And he...

Jang jang jang de de nye su. He studied trains. In the three baskets.

In the three baskets, right? Okay? Tri...

Tri... Pitaka. Say tri.

Tri pitaka. Don't say. Tripitaka.

Okay? Jang re. He mastered the...

He learned the whole tripitaka. And he became... kun so kye pa.

Po chung, same thing. Po chun kun so. He became a perfect master.

Gyur ching. And not only that, he used to sen, which is the honorific of tepa, to jang pa yong. He would listen to Manjushri for a long time.

He would go and sit and talk to Manjushri for long periods. And tuk su chu means he totally grasped. He got a total mastery of all the kast and all the dhammas.

The words and the advices. Well, here's the scriptures and then the personal advices that you get from your teacher. Both dol and ngar.

Sutra and tantra. Yeah, both open and secret teachings. So I'm going to stop at term 19.

That's a good place to stop there, on the biography. And we're going to have time to go to the, to go do a little bit of the root text. Yay!

We have six minutes until the recap. Okay. Seiji's recapping, so start thinking, Seiji, what you're going to say.

By the way, it's a great honor and it's an extraordinary karma to be, to study this text. So you're about to step into a four or five year project on one of the greatest books on this, that ever existed on this planet. One of the greatest teachings.

So be happy. Okay, let's begin. Thank you.

How old was he in this time of his life? I don't know. To be honest, Rob, you don't get more detail than this.

Never, ever. I'm giving you the best there is. The rest you'll just have to make up.

[Говорящий 3]
Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, here we go. Oh, oh, I wanted to go to the chapters. That's enough time, I think.

Please read this. Somebody else, come on. Tim, you ready?

Come on. Watch that cord. Watch that cord, Tim.

That's a tech team, you can't trust them. You got the plan. I want you guys to get through these nine, these 10 chapters before we finish the class.

Okay. Changchu, Senki, Penyin, Shepa. Yeah, and I'm going to just give it to you, an explanation of all the good stuff about bodhichitta.

Okay.

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Number two. Dikpa Shepa.

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Shak Shepa. What's that, you guys? Confessing your bad deeds.

Good. What's number three? Changchu Kyi Sem Yong Su Sungwa.

Sungwa. Committing yourself to bodhichitta. Okay, committing yourself to bodhichitta.

Number four.

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Pao, what? Pao. Pao.

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Pao. Pao. Yeah, pao means what, you guys?

Like mindfulness in this case?

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Yeah, mindfulness.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, so it's interesting. He does not go through the order of the six perfections. First, he says you have to stay mindful.

Next one. Sheshing Rungwa Chawa. Sungwa.

Sungwa Chawa. Yeah, taking good care of your sheshing, which also means mindfulness. So there's gotta be some difference between four and five.

Now he starts heading towards the? The perfections. Perfections.

Okay. Shepa Tenpa. Shepa Tenpa.

What's that? They're teaching angels. Yeah, not getting angry.

Not getting upset even. That's harder. That's seven.

Sunjup Tenpa. Yeah, teaching on? Effort.

Joyful effort. Number eight. Semten Tenpa.

Semten. Semten. Semten Tenpa.

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Yeah, what's that one? It's an order, Seiji. After joyful effort, it's?

[Говорящий 2]
Concentration.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Concentration, yep. Chapter on concentration, number nine.

Number nine.

[Говорящий 2]
Chokyi Paro Tulkshipa.

[Говорящий 1]
Yep. The Perfection of Wisdom. And then there's a 10th chapter tacked on, which is an extraordinary piece of work.

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Roa.

[Говорящий 1]
Roa.

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The dedication.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, it kind of goes back to beginning. Okay, good. So just keep those in mind, Seiji.

That's the structure. If I was going to write a commentary on this book, I would explore the structure with the reader before I started the first chapter. And I would discuss, why is this the order?

It's not a normal order, it's kind of, it's a weird hybrid, you know? Nick, how much time we got? Time for a recap.

Yeah, a nightcap, you said? I don't know.

[Говорящий 3]
We can work that out.

[Говорящий 1]
Seiji, you want to give us a little, you know, just a little summary of what we did today? And Tim will help you. Tim will help you.

Basically, we finished, well, these terms of part of Master Shantideva's lineage and how he became a monk. I remember in the past term, we were talking about, he was carrying the lineages of Manjushri and Maitreya. And this is how he was born in this great family, renounced his throne and became a monk.

That's pretty much it, right? Yeah. Somewhere in there, he got a tantric initiation, which wasn't so bad.

Oh, right, at six. Yeah, yeah. At six, he found a Maitreya master.

Right. Yeah. Then what did we cover in the root text?

Oh, the chapters, the main chapters that we're going to go through. Yeah, just the 10 chapters. And Seiji, I'm going to give you a homework, okay?

And I think some people who have studied ACI 10, 11, 12 might be able to help you. Tahasa seems to have understood it. What's the flow?

Just run us through the flow. And I don't mind if you do it from your own opinion, okay? So I'm not asking you to go find some commentary or something.

Logically, if someone asked you, well, this book you're translating, it has these 10 chapters, why did he put them in this order? And why did he cover these 10 subjects? And why did he leave out, for example, giving and morality?

And so I'd like you to, what is that called? To speak extemporaneously. It means just go off on your own idea, okay?

I'm not asking you to follow some commentary. I want your own idea of why this structure. And what do you think is...

Give us some thought, like use it for your meditation object for the next couple of days, okay? And by the way, when I do something like that, first I memorize the 10. So I can do it with my eyes closed.

I can think about the connections. So first, be able to state them from memory, and then start meditating on them and try to see what the connections are. And if you spend, I don't know, half an hour a day of your meditation on this, you're going to come up with some cool stuff, I think, okay?

So it's a special kind of assignment. It's not a cap. Okay?

Okay. All right. Cool.

Break. Oh, I want to thank you for the third piece of your birthday cake, which I had this morning for breakfast. Good, good.

It was good. I'm sorry. We should have sent some to your house.

I'm feeling a little guilty about it, but not too much. Oh, we did get. Chloe brought some.

Yeah. Oh, I could have had four pieces. Okay.

Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you.

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It's exciting.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. Yeah, this is very exciting. Nicholas, what time do we come back?

Four minutes. What? Does that work for you?

Oh, like as usual, we can take the longer break now. Look, when you hit 70, that PP takes more than four minutes, I'm telling you. Four minutes or whenever the boss gets back.

All right. Otherwise you get all kinds of accidents. Okay.

All right. Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Говорящий 3]
Yep. You guys love me. Thank you.