Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 9

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 09 — Spring '23 — Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life — Seiji Arao — Class 1
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: весна 2023, место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
Yes, sir. Professor CG. Oh, you're so handsome today.

Not that you're not usually handsome.

[Говорящий 3]
I guess.

[Говорящий 1]
How are you guys more handsome. Yeah, good that your mom, your mom went back to Guadalajara. Yeah, she returned.

She returned yesterday. So, the, the, the Aral family is relaxing today. Yeah, it's super, super, super quiet morning today, you appreciate that the family lives in Guadalajara.

[Говорящий 3]
Other good things and bad things. So, yeah, I do miss them. Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
Mr. What are you doing with his chick me. Very good. Yes, sir.

[Говорящий 1]
You were gonna say anything, anything you want to talk about anything. I know I think we're okay to just get started. Okay.

Thank you. Thanks everybody for coming. CG do you want to introduce your book or anything you want to say about it.

Yeah, so this is very exciting because we are just starting with a new book. The body said was a way of guide to the way, guide to this advice, way of life. I don't know I've been.

I heard Ben saying yesterday. I've been also enjoying. I know Tim was saying the biographies of the different authors because they had incredible lives.

I remember I was talking about this with gasoline he told me that the biography of my search and today was a little dry and I couldn't believe it was already is incredible. We're talking about a little bit about what lineages that he had. And there are basically three, the widespread activities, the profound, and the ocean wave lineages that came to Lord at Tisha and then eventually to master Shantideva.

[Говорящий 3]
What else. So yeah, basically we had just the biography of master Shantideva how he was filled with incredible teachers and started practicing the secret teachings at a very young age.

[Говорящий 1]
Then we jumped into the text, and I believe we just saw the, the structure of the text, mainly in some Sanskrit rules.

[Говорящий 3]
That's, that's pretty much it we're at the beginning of the seal at the beginning of the book.

[Говорящий 1]
Hey, cool. Thank you. Okay, we'll start.

I'd like to welcome john and Carol Foley. Big helpers of all for the last 200 years. Also for the mixed nuts, and we really appreciate you guys.

We appreciate all the things we've done together. And thank you for coming. Thank you for being an example for it.

Thank you for helping so many people. John Foley has this very cool idea. He's talking almost every night at some big conference, because he's a famous Blue Angel pilot, and he gets paid a nice pay every night.

And then he tells the companies that invite him, he says, we will give a donation to a charity from this payment, and you help pick the charity. I think that was the brilliant thing. So the companies that he speaks to, they get to help pick the charity that receives part of the payment that they're giving to john Foley, and that's a very cool thing and then Carol runs all the donations.

And so if you have to choose between one of them talk to Carol. Yes, that's it. We have more now.

So, nor Abraham, who's running all the donations for DCI and see and college SCM. And she's trying to emulate Carol. And she gave away a 20 220,000 in December.

Yeah, and she's. She's doing good. I wish I had.

And lots of cool projects we just gave a large, a lot of help to Syria and Turkey during the earthquake. We have three you two and a half Ukrainian refugees coming this month. And we're supporting them and the group here in Sedona is going to support them and help them get jobs and help them live here and protect their families.

So, it's cool. All right. Let's get to work.

CG. Okay, I gotta thank CJ CJ's mom was here so just dad was here and say just mom's mother was here. And they came to the cafe and we had many enjoyable days together.

And I thank them for CG because all of the success of this building, much of it is coming from his work. He himself runs DCI and SCM, without a lot of other help, and he's never complains and he just completely overworks nicely. And, and that's how we have money for example to help people help refugees and stuff, and he takes all the responsibility for that and I'm extremely grateful for that.

And I thank you for that. Hope you have a long life. Here we go.

Okay. Okay. All right.

So CJ's text is the guide to the bodhisattva's way of life by Master Satyadeva it's about 1300 years old. And it's a beautiful beautiful it's probably one of the most beautiful pieces of literature ever written in history. It's all in poetry, and it's all about the, it's basically a guidebook on the six perfections, and the activities of a bodhisattva.

I had offered to write a commentary to it in Tibetan, which is something I always wanted to do, because there is no great commentary in Tibetan. And I don't have time so I'm just decided to, we'll do the root text first. We'll translate the root text first so we'll go through the whole root text.

And we'll learn that first, and then it's also a good review for me and then I'll write a commentary and then we'll translate that together. Okay. Because I always wanted to write one in Tibetan, and there is no great commentary to the, which is strange, but in Tibetan there's no, there's two or three great Sanskrit commentaries, but none in Tibetan.

So we're taking this opportunity in this class, because there is a good Sanskrit text available. We're learning some Sanskrit together, which we've never done in this class before. So we're actually formally learning Sanskrit as part of this series of classes with Seiji.

And we came up, me and Christina Kessler came up with an idea called organic Sanskrit, which means when I learned Sanskrit, my professor at Princeton gave me the grammar book and asked me to memorize it. And he quizzed me every week. And it was extremely boring.

And I forgot everything. And what we thought, Christina and I came up with this idea and Marianne is helping us to, as we encounter rules of Sanskrit, we learn them. So we call it organic.

It's an organic process. It's not an artificial learning a language. You're going to learn stuff as we go through the bodhisattva's way of life.

And then hopefully it'll be easier for you to remember, because you can say, oh, that's in the verse where Shantideva flew away in the sky or something like that. Okay, so hopefully if you learn Sanskrit organically by studying an actual book, it'll be more fun. And then Christina and her team are slicing out the Sanskrit parts, which are usually like three, four, five minutes each.

And they're making an online dictionary, a video dictionary, a video grammar book and a video dictionary. So if you don't know a word, you look it up in the video series and you see us in the class talking about the word. And you learn it through videos, which is how people learn nowadays.

So that's the idea of this class. We're going to put the link. It's a Google Drive link.

The link is in the chat, I hope. And I checked it out because I thought they probably messed it up. But it's actually done very well.

And I'm very happy with it, which is unusual for me. So I have to say you guys are doing a good job. And by the time we finish the book, you will have a Sanskrit course based on the book.

And I think it's very cool. And if you're a translator for the Mixed Nuts, if you're an Abhidharma translator, for example, you can look up the word that you meet and you can hear the video about it. And I think that's cool.

So we're killing, we're feeding two deer with one apple in this class. We changed this scene. All right.

Yeah, we are also reading Master Shantideva's biography from a famous teacher of one of the high teachers of Tibet. And he wrote a biography of Master Shantideva. The biography is an adventure story.

It's very, very exciting. He's naughty. I really like him.

And so we're going to hear some of his biography. Each time we have a class, we will hear some of his biography. By the time we finish the book, you will hear his whole biography.

There's two-volume work of the Lamrim Masters, which was input by ALL about 10 years ago. They found it and they input it, which is very cool. Okay, so here we go.

We also have a cool thing. We have Aisha and Anatole Nguyen. Aisha Skufilas and Anatole Nguyen in Guadalajara.

Aisha has become a Sanskrit master. She's become our ALL Sanskrit book finder. She has proven herself.

She's now one of the greatest resources of Sanskrit in the world. She has just really mastered it. She's got contacts everywhere.

Everywhere in Asia, everywhere in Europe, she can get a book from... Any book I need, she finds it. It's amazing.

I'd like to congratulate them. This last weekend, their Green Stretch Pen program in Mexico, they had one of the great openings with 500 teachers from the southern state of...

[Говорящий 3]
Tabasco.

[Говорящий 1]
Tabasco. 500 teachers came to the program. They were trained in healthy eating, yoga, and the pen, which is why it's called Green Stretch Pen.

The Minister of Education for the state came to the program and praised it lavishly. She was really happy with it. It looks like they're going to be able to spread through about 23 million children in Mexico.

Really cool. I'd like to thank Aisha. In her spare time, she found a great Sanskritist named David Riegel and his wife Nancy Riegel.

They live in Colorado. They have volunteered, and they refuse to take payment, to give us new editions of the books that we're using. They do all the research.

They compare like 20 different editions, and they create a new edition just for the Mixed Nuts. They have finished the first section of the Bodhicharita. We have a completely new and complete Sanskrit version, which has been put together from about 300 years of Sanskrit scholarship.

They just supply us with this Sanskrit. It's very highly accurate. They refuse to take payment, so at least we should send them gushy love letters.

Here we go. Seiji, can you please read?

[Говорящий 2]
Angela, did you want to start with the biography?

[Говорящий 1]
I'm sorry, you're right. I got all excited about bragging about you guys. Okay, here's the biography.

We're going to start. We'll do one or two classes with the biography, and then we'll get to the text. Okay, next checking.

Seiji is reading. Geshe-la is drinking tea. Okay.

What's up there? You just said it perfectly. Okay.

Master Shantideva was born into a royal family. He was a prince. He was supposed to take over the throne, and his father passed away.

He was supposed to take the throne in the morning. He had a dream the night before, Seiji? Oh, yeah, that Manjushri...

Manjushri, was it? Sat on his throne and said that that was his? Something like that?

Yeah. He had a dream the night before that he was supposed to become the king, and Manjushri was sitting on the throne and said, it's improper for the student to sit on the teacher's throne. Shantideva took it as a message that he should not become a king, and instead he should become a Buddhist master.

This is what happened. Chinnangi, what's a yangwa, you guys? Distraction.

Yeah. Distractions on the outside, like food, or sex, or too much work. Distractions on the inside, like jealousy, or anger, things like that.

All of those distractions, he che. This is the same verb as dorje kepa. He cut it.

He cut those distractions. He put his mind nang du. He focused his mind on the inside.

He focused his mind on the inside. yang dakpa jok la che chik du, ekagra. Single-pointedly.

Single-pointedly. shukpe. Jun is an ancient high honorific.

drowa. He reached a sa, and lam, very tumble. towo.

Super high level path. Yeah, he reached the bodhisattva levels, and he reached the five paths. He started going through the ten bodhisattva levels, and he started going through the five paths.

Jun reached it. Lapa, he studied lapakuntu. Who wrote that?

Shikshasamuccaya. He wrote it. He wrote it.

By the way, he's known for the bodhisattva avatar, the guide to the bodhisattva's way of life. He wrote another famous book called Lapakuntu, which is a compendium of the trainings, the Buddhist trainings. I've often wanted to teach that one.

I got a copy, and I started reading it. Unfortunately, there's no Shantideva in it. It's just a collection of sayings from other books.

It's not very fun at all. I never taught it. I don't know anyone who's ever taught it.

Dodekuntu means a compendium of the sutras. There's two of those, and one is by Atisha, I think. Gyel Tsegye, Chöpa, Lapoche, Tönpey, Tengyur, Tsongba.

He wrote a lot of different books about how to follow the life of a bodhisattva.

[Говорящий 3]
That means he was a Harian bodhisattva very early in life. He reached the tonglam very early in life.

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I don't know, did it say so far, Seiji, that he reached tonglam?

[Говорящий 3]
I can't remember. Not clearly.

[Говорящий 1]
It said saw. Well, there's only one. If you hit one saw, you hit tonglam.

If you hit the first saw, you're a bodhisattva and an Arya already.

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All through their life, yeah.

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I don't recall any incident where they explain it. All right, you're up again, Seiji. Ben, can you check him, and then other people read.

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Nengdukepe, Chawa, Nampa, Sungtang, Salam, Kongne, Kongtu, Parwa, Tang, Su, Tangpopa, Popwa.

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Oh, it's Popwa.

[Говорящий 2]
It probably is Popwa. Thanks, Seiji. Thanks, Seiji.

[Говорящий 1]
Sorry?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, trempe.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, good. Nangdu means what, Seiji? Nangdu.

Nang. On the inside, he became a khepa, bandita, and he mastered the three activities of a sage. And here's the reference.

Let's read it together, Seiji. Here's the definition of the three activities of a sage. So, in the mixed-less translations, whenever they say the three this or the five that, we go get it, and we put it in the translations.

So, here we go.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay. Okay, cool. Okay, cool.

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So, these are the three activities of a sage which he mastered at a young age. CHOS Say CHOS. Here's the definition of khepa.

CHOS KYI SNYING RDON KHE PA He could explain the SNYING RDON of the CHOS. What's that mean? What's that mean, you guys?

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The core essence.

[Говорящий 1]
The core meaning of the Dharma. He could explain it. So, he mastered the first thing he could teach.

He could teach orally. Secondly, TSE PA is one of the ancient words for TSOS PA. What is that, you guys?

Debate. Debate. Argue.

DAR SHAG CHOD PA is a very unusual ancient word that means slice up something into small pieces. He was very good at logic and debate. Slicing people up.

DAR SHAG CHOD PA It's a very unusual word and very beautiful. So, he became a master at that. So, he mastered explaining and he mastered debating.

And now, what's the third activity? TSOS BLAG NYID KYI DRIN GANG RUNG LEGS PA TSOM TSOM PA CHES SO He could TSOM PA. What's that?

Compose. Compose. And either of the great two types of books required.

TSOS BLAG we had yesterday. And I'm sure you will remember. TSOS BLAG GANG TSOS BLAG GANG It's an extremely ancient word for book.

Pustika. Okay. Why he says the two kinds of books, I don't know.

Could be open and secret. Okay. I don't know.

But he was good at writing commentaries. Okay. Good at.

Could it be root text and commentary or not? Could be.

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I think it's e-books and audio.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. That's true. Alright.

Anyway, he got those three... He was able to do the three activities of a master. And SA LAM KHO NA'I KHON TU PHAR BA The SA and the LAM, Seiji.

He kept going higher and higher.

[Говорящий 2]
On the paths and on the levels?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Then he mastered TSUM. Which I'll give $50 for the Sanskrit, except a word.

Dharani. Dharani. Yeah, somebody said Dharani.

Asa already got it. Dharani. Dharani.

Yeah. We studied Dharani in the Medicine Buddha teachings. We went very deep into it.

And it means mantra, but it's much deeper than that. And it has very, very deep meanings. If you're interested, you can read Da Mixed Nuts translation of the two volumes of the Medicine Buddha Sutras.

We finished all of them. And POPA. POPA.

POPA means courage. Yeah, it has a specific meaning in the teachings, and Ben's going to tell us next class about it, because it's in his book. There's three classic POPAs, and I don't remember.

But it's in your book, Ben. I taught it in... Okay.

I don't remember what they are.

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Okay, some kind of courage?

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It is, but it's not what it sounds like. That's why I'm asking you to do it. I remember.

[Говорящий 3]
The three chutzpahs, they'll call it.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, three kinds of chutzpah. RANG DANG GZHAN GYIS Then he could CHEN PA That's SRAM of himself and other people. He could remember the past lives.

Yeah, he could remember the past lives of himself and other people. RAB with an S on it means a stream of lives. SRAM What's the Sanskrit?

Tantra?

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Santana.

[Говорящий 1]
Santana? Well, the whole thing together is Jataka. Like the Jataka tales.

KHYER RAB KHYER RAB would say that. RGYA STONG He could remember a hundred past lives. He could remember a thousand past lives.

He got LUM PA SHES PA Abhijna He got clairvoyance. And he got ZUTU.

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Miracle powers.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, and he could walk through walls, etc. THOB PA LOMA CHUG PA THOB MED means asana. It means he could walk through things as if they weren't there.

So, on the NANG DU, what's that?

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On the inside.

[Говорящий 1]
He became a WANG CHUG, an ISHVARA of the GAL SES.

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Of the Bodhisattvas.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, of the Bodhisattvas. Ladies or men. Bodhisattvas.

DZAD PA He became a master. Geshe-la, doesn't it say he became a WANG CHUG of the Bodhisattva levels? Yeah, I'm sorry, you're right.

GAL SES SE WANG CHUG He became a master of the levels of the Bodhisattva. The ten levels. Is that to say he's a Buddha though?

I don't know. It doesn't say tenth level exactly. Okay.

I don't recall anyone thinking he was a Buddha. But I don't think they're trying to say that. Okay, thank you.

By the way, there's two kinds of biographies in Tibetan. One, you could change the name and you wouldn't tell it was a different person. And they're just like, oh, he was the most wonderful and wise.

And they're very dry and boring. And I avoid those biographies because they don't tell you anything. And I chose this one because he has real information.

He'll tell you what really happened in his life. So when I choose a biography, I read like five of them. And then I bring you the one which is the real biography and not just blah blah.

Because some of them are just shamelessly blah blah. I can't even finish them. Seiji, now you're going to pick somebody else and you're going to critique their reading.

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Let's see.

[Говорящий 2]
Who do we have here? Oh, Alex, are you translating?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah. Oscar, do you want to go? Yes, thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Osuku. Osuku. Osuku.

You guys know this story and now you can say you read it in the original. DGA means to spend your time, to pass your time. RGYUD DGA means to spend your time, to pass your time.

When he was passing the time of day, on the outside, DANG PO MA YIN PA'I SKYE BA NAM NGOR means to their eyes, to their eyes of people who are not so pure themselves. To the eyes of people who are not so pure themselves. SO BA RTEN This spelling of SO BA means work, like LOB SO.

Work. Make half of five LOB SOs. Yeah, livelihood.

Yeah, livelihood. But here, in this context, it means the act of stuffing yourself. Eating.

People watched him in the monastery and he was very interested in the meals. SO BA RTEN PA And he was very interested in NGAL BAR, sleeping. And he was very interested in SHANG CI DOR BA.

By the way, the carver said he loved to explain things. I corrected it. It's SHANG CI DOR BA.

Pooping and peeing. DOR BA means to do poopoo and peepee. It means to eliminate.

DOR BA means to eliminate poopoo and peepee. What's SHANG CI? SHANG CI is totally wrong.

I corrected it to SHANG CI. Oh, ZHES GCIG means he was good at explaining things. So, you know, you guys don't even see it, but I fixed the books for months before you see them.

And there are thousands of old copies. You don't even see that one. So, hundreds of hours to fix it.

So anyway, SHANG CI means... SHANG means poopoo and CI means peepee in the ancient words. They are ancient words.

SHANG CI DOR BA MA DO Except for that, he didn't LEG SPAM LOG PA. Study? Yeah, reading scripture.

He wasn't interested. Nobody ever saw him reading scriptures. So, SHEN and other similar activities.

KA YANG MA RDZAS He didn't do... Therefore, people gave him the name... BUSUKU BUSUKU That's Sanskrit.

And the Tibetan translation is DUSHYA SEMPOA. What's that? Mr. Three Thoughts. Mr. Three Thoughts. Eating, sleeping, and pooping. The expert in three things.

So, they gave him this name. By the way, I'm going to show you something here. I honored him by putting the BUSUKU picture here.

I don't know, Seiji, how we're going to get it in your cover. Here's the standard Shantideva picture, which is so boring. And here's from an ancient carving of the 8,000 verses.

And Seiji, can you read the caption? SOM It's difficult to read because it's carved. SOM KHE KHA LA ZHES PA BUSUKU There's the Sanskrit in Tibetan letters, BUSUKU.

I found this carving of him like 30 years ago, and I love it. SOM KHE means the great author, the great writer. KHA LA ZHES PA, flying through the sky.

Mr. BUSUKU, Mr. Three Thoughts. It's so cool that there's a carving of him. By the way, this is a set of carvings that are extremely interesting and extremely beautiful.

They were done in Vassa in the 1940s, probably. I think the carver died because after about 100 pages, they all get very boring. And he's got this Picasso kind of worldview.

And they're extraordinary carvings of the 80 yogis, for example. YSI should use these carvings. They have the 80 great mahasiddhas who met Tsongkhapa and protected the first mandala and chenpo.

And he used to work with them. So anyway, those are extremely beautiful carvings. A.L.L. gave away these carvings like 30 years ago to the world public. Everybody uses them now, which is really cool. Okay, back to BUSUKU. Let's see.

Where is he supposed to go? Excuse me? What was he supposed to be doing in there?

I mean, is that somehow an illustration of that? Oh, yeah. We're not there yet.

It's coming. Okay. It comes in his biography.

While he's flying through the sky, we're going to get there. Seiji, pick on somebody. All right.

Pick on somebody else.

[Говорящий 3]
What do we have here? Oh, Tina Liu, do you want to give it a go?

[Говорящий 1]
No?

[Говорящий 3]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Hey, who's the BUSUKU?

[Говорящий 3]
Let's see. Joey Chen?

[Говорящий 1]
By the way, word. I studied the word BUSUKU for quite some time, and I can't see any roots or anything. I guess it's just some local dialect or something.

Oh, yeah, I was just thinking about it. I'll take a look. I mean, you can try, but I gave up.

No problem. I'll look. Thanks again.

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, you're muted.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. Yeah, there's a problem with this sentence, and I haven't figured it out yet. But I'll tell you the parts I do understand.

DE TSE MNGON SHES MED PA RNAMS There were some people in his monastery who did not have MNGON SHES. Otherwise. They could not read his mind.

So they took his outer appearance to be correct. Okay. MNGON SHES MED PA RNAMS KYI RAB TU CHUNG BA'I BYA BA means, Look, ordained people, RAB TU CHUNG BA, who have left the home life, the things they should be doing is the KHOR LO GSUM KYI BYA BA.

I don't know what they're referring to, but three activities of a monk. CHI ROL PA It could be CHI ROL. They were not doing the three activities of a monk.

And I think we have them in the Vinaya text. They're like getting your vows, keeping your vows, and then protecting your vows, or confessing. Getting your vows, keeping your vows, and confessing properly.

Like those things. SHA LTA YIN LA They were not keeping those three. There were some naughty monks, judgmental monks in the monastery, and they couldn't read his mind.

And they said, DI'I KHA YONG LAS MI'I BRTEN PA He doesn't have any good qualities about him. And this is a very famous Vinaya expression. DE'I PHAS BYIN PA LA LONG CHE DU MI RUNG MI RUNG BA means what, Warren?

Inappropriate or not proper? Inappropriate that he is LONG CHOD PA. That he's enjoying the monastery stuff?

Yeah, it's improper that such a person should be partaking of the hard-earned cash offerings of our supporters. And that's a very serious monastic responsibility. You have to recognize that the people who are supporting you work hard for that money.

And you shouldn't waste it. If you eat food which was bought from the hard-earned pay of normal people on the outside, and you don't work hard in your monastic life, it's actually so you can get cancer and things like that. It's supposed to be a poison.

It becomes a poison in your body. So they said, look, he's eating the monastery food. DE'I PHAS BYIN PA means given by the faithful.

It's MI RUNG. It's wrong. He shouldn't be here.

It's giving our monastery a bad name. Mr. Three Thoughts. CHOD PA means let's chase him out.

CHOD PA is a very kind of rough word here. It's like, we can bar and feather him. It's like, let's get this guy out of town.

Let's chase him out of town. CHOD PA means that. You guys haven't seen it before.

All right. Who's next, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Let's see. Emily?

[Говорящий 1]
You know Gibson's going to whisper in her ear.

[Говорящий 3]
I'm going to whisper in her ears.

[Говорящий 2]
RGYAL ZAS GYAL ZAS DI LTE DGA BU BA DGA BU BA DGA DGA BU DGA BU DGA BU GYIS GAL LA NU BRJE ZHA YI MA BRZAD PA ZHA YI MA BRZAD PA Good.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, good. ZHA YI MA BRZAD PA Thank you. GZO BDUN means...

What is that, Mr. Kramer, in the first chapter of the Yoga Sutra? Swadhyaya? Swadhyaya, yeah.

Everybody mistranslates it. Yeah, what's it really mean? Recitation.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
There was a custom in those times that maybe once a week, one of the monks would get up in front of all the other monks and recite from memory a sutra, which is called swadhyaya in Sanskrit. And many people mistranslate it in the Yoga Sutra to, I forget, self-study or something like that. DEN RE BYED PAS So there was a custom for people to recite and also explain a sutra maybe once a week.

BYED PAS Then they had a plan. They said, let's ask him to recite a sutra and explain it in public to the monastery. BUD means kick somebody out of the monastery.

And they said he will auto-kick himself out. BUD It's a very cute word in Tibetan, and it's invented here for you guys. He will auto-kick himself out.

We don't have to do anything. He'll embarrass himself, and then he'll have to leave the monastery. So RANG BUD DU DROG NYAM NAS They were thinking to themselves.

So SO BA means so-and-that. To request. It's one of the seven practices that you guys did in your retreat every day.

DO DON PAR SO BA SO BA means they requested him. Usually SO BA means ask your Lama to stay and to teach. But here it means, please DON DO DO Please Swadhyaya, please recite the sutra.

Please be the sutra reciter and sermon giver this week. DON PAR SO BA RGYAL TSE DI This RGYAL TSE This son of the Buddha, meaning bodhisattva, or daughter. DE LTA BU That kind of thing.

LTA means me. KALA NUS KALA means hell on earth. NUS means be able, be able to.

He's like, KALA NUS How could a dummy like me? How could I recite the sutra and explain the sutra? He said, KALA NUS KALA means kutta in Sanskrit.

How could I ever do that? And MA SHES PA This SHES PA means to agree to a plan. No, he didn't agree.

MA SHES PA He didn't agree. And with SHEL, which is high honorific for mouth, SHEL GYI MA SHES PA means he deigned not to do it. He did not agree to be the sutra reciter for the week.

Okay? Because he said, look, I'm just a dummy. I'm a busuku.

All right? But they wanted to get him out of the monastery, so you can guess what happened next. Who's up, Seiji?

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Let's see, Isabelle? Ooh.

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Yes. I might need help.

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LA YANG NA TENG CHE DE DE TSO WEI DE AR NA YIN CHE ZHOU ZHA GYI CHE PA NA NA BEI YI PA DE DA GYI PA NA This one is... LANG CHE LANG CHE DUNG CHE DUNG TA CHAI DU PA DU BEI BU SI GYI ZHUA DUNG NA TAI I forgot. BEI GYI DUNG PO ZHANG NA DE LA JI LTAR GYI PA DA YANG MI SHES SO NA PA NA Yay, very brave.

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You could do the sutra reciting. All right. LA YANG NA TENG means they insisted.

NA TENG means they insisted. LA YANG means again and again they insisted. To whom?

BUSUGUL Come on, you can do it. Let's try. Give it a try.

DGE'I DE TSUL BA'I They asked him over and over again, insistently. Then finally he said, DE LTAR GYI YOD GYI YOD means I'll do it. I agree, I'll do it.

GYI YOD ZHEL GYI ZHES means to accept a proposal. He agreed to do it. Then those NYES PA BYED PA guys, NYES PA means to insult somebody.

So those insulters, the other monks who wanted to get him out, they decided, let's set up a throne in the middle of the main assembly hall of Nalenda Monastery. This is the Harvard of Buddhism in 2000 years, or since it's Princeton, or Stanford. This is the greatest Buddhist monastery in history.

The greatest Buddhist monastic university in history. So they built Nalenda, the Nalenda Monastery. They got all the monks from Nalenda to come, and in the middle of that room they put a CHI LTUNG PO.

CHI means a throne, teaching throne. LTUNG PO means extremely high, like you could say 25 feet high, something. In the middle of all these greatest scholars of Indian history.

DONG NA, it means five face, and it's a name for a mythical lion. It's a lion with five mouths full of teeth, and it's like a magic lion. What do you call that?

Chimera? Yeah. Yeah, and JIGS BYANG means fearless.

It's very similar to JIGS MED, who you may know. It's the same thing, JIGS BYANG, JIGS MED, same thing. Five face, fearless, and usually there's four lions holding up the throne in the four directions, and they got these five faces, and they're very fierce.

So they're carved on the throne, and then they put the throne on top. It's like 25 feet high, eight meters high. MED DEG PA By the way, that DEG PA means held up by the lions.

That DEG PA became THEG PA, Mahayana. It means capacity, greater capacity or lesser capacity, Mahayana, Hinayana. The yana is DEG PA, and here you see it in its real use as a verb, to bear the weight of a heavy thing.

Mahayana actually means great vehicular capacity. RGYEN DU DEG PA'I PHYI'I LTUNG PO ZHANG means they set forth a throne like that, and they didn't construct steps to the throne. Just to add to the insult, they didn't put steps.

I remember when we had high lamas come to New Jersey, we had to build special thrones, and the steps were a big deal because they might slip, or we had to spend many days on the steps. So they built the whole throne, and no steps, as a joke to insult him. So ZHEG PA DAG KYANG MI SHES Nobody could have been able to climb up to the throne.

NYAM NA, they had this plan. So the MI SHES is like they don't know how to get up or something? Nobody would know how to get up, exactly.

You wouldn't be able to get up there. They thought he wouldn't know how to get up on top of the throne. Okay, Seiji, here comes the good part.

Give it to somebody sweet.

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Let's see, who do we have here? Oh, Gibson, are you there? Let's see.

Inna. Your Tibetan is better than mine. Do you want to read it?

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No, I'll give it to Inna.

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I'm reading.

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Yeah, yes, please.

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Hi, Inna, we miss you. Hi, Geshe-la, I also miss you. I had some fun here.

Andre is in Chicago now. Oh my God. Yeah.

GAL TSE GYI CHAK GYI CHUN ZE NEN TEN DU RTOG PA MA'I BAR ZHAG Nice, you should become a translator.

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GAL TSE, this GAL TSE, this bodhisattva, he put his chak, his hand, that's the high, honorific word for hand. NEN means pressed on the... He reached up and he pressed on the edge of the cushion.

And then RTOG PA MA'I BAR ZHAG. He went up to the top. Yeah, he was on top.

Suddenly he's on top. So he just goes... And by the way, some biographies say he reached out his hand like an elephant's trunk and it kept going farther and farther and farther.

He got 25 feet high and then touched on the edge and then boom, he's at the top. Everybody's like, whoa, how did he do that? RTOG PA MA'I BAR in Sanskrit?

ASANGA ASANGA So without any trouble at all. He just suddenly, he's up on top. Okay, who's next?

Marina, do you want to go? Yeah, Marina.

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Okay, I can. TENE DON GON CHE DRAG PA SHIG Nice. DON NAM MA DRAG PA SHIG Nice.

DON CHE DRAG PA SHIG ZHUG ZHUG PA ZHUG ZHUG PA Nice, nice, good.

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We have less than a minute, Geshe-la. I think just coming to Sedona gave you a blessing. Okay.

Okay, I can finish in one minute about story. GON CHE means before. DO means sutra, right?

DRAG PA means one that somebody has already... DRAG PA means spread or to talk about, teach. DON means to recite, right?

We talked about it. NAM means or. Which means, would you like me to teach you guys a sutra which already exists?

Or, MA DRAG PA SHIG DON, should I teach you a new sutra, which I wrote? And they're like, huh? And he said, do you want me to teach a sutra that you guys already know?

Or maybe I'll read you my own sutra.

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He calls it a sutra.

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He does call it a DO here. It's not really a sutra, but a scripture. Do you want a scripture that you all know?

Or can I recite one of my own? And they're like, yeah, yeah. MA DRAG PA, we'll take yours.

We'll take yours. Yeah, yeah. SHU SHU means both.

Everybody's like, yeah, yeah. SHU SHU means they're all like, yeah, yeah. We want yours.

We want yours. Come on, let's hear yours. And they're hoping he will embarrass himself more.

Okay. Give us that one you wrote yourself. Yeah, right.

Okay, like that. And tune in next week for the exciting conclusion. And by the way, we couldn't do any Sanskrit today because we're reading the Tibetan biography, but we'll do Sanskrit next.

You have a word, a question, Dr. Wood? I figured out busuku. In the Sanskrit?

Yeah. Maybe you have to be a busuku to understand the word. What?

Or appear to be one. My wife told me I shouldn't insult you guys like that. No, it's a compliment.

Yeah, it's an acronym. That's why you can't find an etymological derivation. Bu means to eat.

It's a long U. Su comes from supta, which means to lay down, like supta something. And I can't, I haven't seen the pu yet, but it's supposed to mean defecate as well.

Still working on the pupu. How did you figure that out, if I may ask? I cross-referenced like six sources, and then I put in the Tibetan for each in Lokesh Chandra, and then it was obvious.

Amazing. So it's like i, i, slu. Yes, exactly.

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That's what it is.

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It's the beginning of the three words. Wow, that's brilliant. Thank you.

Sometimes, you know, the sun came out. Never mind. Okay, Seiji, thank you.

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Thank you, Geshe-la.

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Geshe-la, thank you for supporting my family. I really appreciate it. All right.

You guys in five minutes, right? Yes, sir. Five minutes.

Thank you, Geshe-la, and thanks, everybody. Who's up next, Nick? That would be Venerable Upala.

Well, that's a hard one. You guys take a long, take a one-hour break. Okay.

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Thanks, Geshe-la. Thanks, Nick.

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Bye. See you in a few.