Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 11

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 11 — Spring '23, Class 3 (в пределах серии из 32 дорожек, слаг dcc-yt-seiji-shantideva-class-11)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод/чтение: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: весна 2023 (сезон Spring '23 по pickup-map); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
What city is that, Dinara? I think she's translated. Oh, I see that.

Look at that. Thanks. She translated my question that we'll never have an answer.

Is that Seattle behind you, Lindsay? Yes, Seattle. Nice and foggy.

Oh, how beautiful.

[Говорящий 3]
Fog.

[Говорящий 1]
10 years of Arizona or 12 years living in Arizona made me really appreciate gray skies. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty as different as you can get.

I mean, here it's very like wet and blue and green. Arizona is not that. It's like the opposite in almost every way.

Yeah. Which neighborhood do you live in? I'm in Magnolia.

Oh, nice. You know it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I used to live there. Oh, no way.

[Говорящий 2]
In many, many different neighborhoods of Seattle. Yeah, I was there for a while.

[Говорящий 1]
Wow. I did not know that. That's really cool.

Oh, yeah, it only took me 10 years to acclimate down here. Yeah, yeah. I used to live in Seattle.

What's that? So I used to live in Seattle. Somebody's calling.

That's right. Sagey, what's going on? Morning, sleepy.

Morning, Geshe-la. Morning, boss. Hey.

Morning, Geshe-la. Hi, Sagey. You woke up.

Sagey, there he is.

[Говорящий 3]
Sorry, I had a mix up with my stuff. I didn't, I thought my class was tomorrow. I didn't get to finish my homework.

[Говорящий 1]
Do you want to go straight to class?

[Говорящий 3]
Yes, please. Can I do a double homework?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, everybody wants a double homework. Okay, don't worry. Where are you?

[Говорящий 3]
Phoenix. I need to come to fix my passport.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, nice. Okay. Sounds like you played with the country all night.

Yes. In a way, right?

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, here we go. Pretty late.

[Говорящий 1]
All right, here we go. Let me see here. Let me give you a cursor.

Okay, good morning, Sagey. Mr. Nick, any news? I think we can just get started this morning.

All right, okay. I wanted to cover this prefix letter, su. We had a word here, sudarula, and it meant really, really bad karma.

In Tibetan, it was shintu, mi se, which means, shintu means very much. The Sanskrit here is just a prefix letter, su, which means really good or something like that. I like the explanation of it, so I'm going to give you an explanation of it.

The original Indo-European was esu, and the e dropped off, and it became su. What can we say? What happened in Greek?

The s dropped off. Yeah, the s dropped off, and it became u, so we have eurythmics and euthanasia. How do you spell that word, euthanasia?

I don't know. Euphoria? Euphoria, that's good.

Europe probably has something to do with it. Which one? Europe.

I believe it does, actually. Anyway, in Greek, it became eu, and euthanasia, a euphemism, right? The eu means good, and then in Sanskrit, it became su.

Okay. And by the way, that's from Indo-European, which is kind of an imaginary language between Europe and India. Okay.

Seiji, let's read this one.

[Говорящий 2]
DE NI MI THU LTA MA'I PHYIN CHEN RNAMS Good.

[Говорящий 1]
Keep going the whole verse. Oh, okay.

[Говорящий 2]
SKYE GCIG GCIG GYIS NGES PAR ZHIG PAR BYED ZHIG PAR BYED The r is silent, yeah?

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, good.

[Говорящий 2]
ZHIG PAR BYED Yeah. DE PHYIN DE YI PHAN YON PAR DU MED PAR THAG Okay. BYANG RNGON ROL THAMS LDAN PA'I NOR ZHANG ZHIG NOR ZHANG ZHIG NOR ZHANG ZHIG Okay, good.

[Говорящий 1]
He's been talking about the bodhichitta, okay? The wish that we can get enlightened to help our people. And can you hear me okay?

Let me see if my microphone's okay. I think so. You're a little bit softer, but...

I'm trying to... Let's see. Input, right?

Yeah, it should be good. It should be okay. All right.

So, DE means by that bodhichitta. What's DU LTAR, you guys? The end of...

Time. Yeah, the end of time. MED means what?

Fire. Fire. So, it's similar to the fire at the end of time, which is supposed to be very similar to a nuclear fire which destroys the world, okay?

And then, DIG PA means bad deeds. So, this bodhichitta is like the fire at the end of the world when it meets bad deeds. What's SKAD ZHIG, you guys?

Momentary or momentary. Yeah, in a single instant, ZHIG GIS, definitely NGES PAR, it will ZEGS PA them. What's that?

You guys know GZIN ZEGS?

[Говорящий 2]
Burn.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, it will burn them. So, that's good news, right? If we've made some big mistakes in our life, if we just try to think of this fantasy of becoming a Buddha to help every living being on every planet, we can burn even the worst bad deeds we ever did.

Nice. PEN YIN means what, you guys? Benefits.

Yeah, the benefits of this bodhichitta are PHAG TU MED PA.

[Говорящий 3]
Immeasurable.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, immeasurable. And they were described, SHAD, by JAM GON, LOD DANG LHAG PA. Yeah, by our gentle protector who has LOD, Nick.

He has a mind. LOD means intelligence. Probably a good one.

And NOR SANG is a personal name. It's still in the monastery. Word, I don't know the Sanskrit.

Do you? Can you find it? Oh, here it is.

It's up here. I think it's Sudhana. Is there a secondary SA on SANG?

Yeah, I don't know. It's probably just an old spelling for the personal name. Okay.

NOR SANG is a pretty common name in the monastery. It just means kind of Kubera, I think, or something like that, like very rich person or something like that. So JAM GON Maitreya in the sutras described to NOR SANG, which is what here, word?

It must be Sudhana. Yeah. He described it.

So you have Maitreya in a sutra describing the benefits of bodhichitta to somebody, okay? And I went and checked Gyaltsabje to see which sutra it was. So Seiji, read one more here and then you can pick on somebody else.

[Говорящий 2]
JAM CHUB KYI SEM LA PHEN YUN TE THAG NGEPAR JUNG TE SEM DE PHEN YUN THANG NGAG PA THAK TU MEPA THAK CHAM NGON LO THANG DEN PA CHANG CHUB SEM PE DONG PO KO PE DOR CHANG CHUB SEM PA GZHAN NU NO THANG DRAG GIS GZIN PAR BSHAD PA'I PHYI ROL Yeah, good.

[Говорящий 1]
So he mentions the sutra here. He says, what's CHANG CHUB KYI SEM, Seiji?

[Говорящий 2]
Bodhichitta.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, PHEN YUN?

[Говорящий 2]
GUNNA.

[Говорящий 1]
Good qualities. Good qualities. NGEPAR JUNG TE means, here it means you will definitely get them.

You will definitely get a lot of good things out of this bodhichitta. Its benefits, PHEN YUN, and its NGAG PA, the praises of it. THAK TU MEPA Yeah, limitless.

Yeah. They were described by DZAM DGON, by Maitreya, our protector Maitreya, who is very brilliant, LO THANG DEN PA. I think this says...

By the way, DONG PO KO PE, what's the famous mistake that people make about it? DONG PO, or your face, they would think. They call it, Stalks in Arrangement.

Oh, yeah. What is it? Khanda Vyuha, yeah, Stalks in Arrangement.

And really, it's a house in the forest surrounded by trees made of jewels. It's jeweled trees, like sapphire emerald trees. In that book, this bodhisattva is explaining the benefits of the bodhichitta to the bodhisattva...

I guess it's SHUN NU, okay? It must be misspelled. And he explained it in that sutra.

I don't know if I found it. I didn't find it. It's long, and it's got many descriptions of the benefits of bodhichitta.

I wanted to talk about the pronoun YA, which means of which. It means it. Or it can mean he also.

Here you see YA STYA, of it. So YA, or sometimes you might see it as YAS or even YA. It means pronoun he.

What is it in Tibetan? DE Yeah, DE. So the YA, here it says YAS YA, its benefits.

In the Tibetan, it's DE YI, okay? I wanted to show you a resource that you can use, and I'm gonna stop sharing. Let me see if this works.

Apple restarted my machine. Did it do it to you, Ben? I don't know.

[Говорящий 3]
Not this morning.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, it did to me without asking. I don't give it that power. It has to ask.

Anyway, can you guys see Gopher?

[Говорящий 3]
I do.

[Говорящий 1]
Sorry, I think I just blew it. So we could look up, for example, YA STYA. And I wanted to teach you something you can use in the database, is grammar.

So here's Whitney's grammar. I keep it here. And this is, in my opinion, the best Sanskrit grammar book in history.

But there's lots of online resources if you want to use them. And you do a search, and he'll start explaining YAS YA here. And lots of cases, all right?

And here you can see. Okay, and if you keep going, let me see. Well, there you can see your resources for YA or YAS, for example.

Okay, here. Okay, and you can see discussions of YAS and YA. Okay, and so I advise you guys to learn how to use Whitney's grammar.

Okay, and you can see beautiful discussions of the different words that we're using. Okay, all right. You can't see my screen anymore.

Let's see here. Keshava. Yeah.

That Norse song was Sudhana, but there's something problematic going on with that secondary saw. I don't know if it matters or not, but yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, Gyaltsabje doesn't use it, if you noticed.

Yeah, it's some weird, yeah, some weird with it. Okay. Okay, and by the way, in a personal name in Sanskrit, we capitalize it in the mixed nuts.

Okay, so actually it should have been like this. Okay, so Maitreya, we capitalize the M in our Sanskrit, in mixed nuts standard. It helps you find where you are.

If it's a personal name of a person or a city or something like that. All right, Seiji, who are you going to pick on? All right, it's Anatole.

Are you there?

[Говорящий 2]
Hi, good morning. Good morning.

[Говорящий 1]
Anatole, what time is it in Guadalajara? 7. 17.

You guys get more sleep.

[Говорящий 2]
Nice. You know.

[Говорящий 1]
Anatole, you want to translate this first? I think you can do it.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. Bodhisattva, Bodhichitta.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, Bodhichitta, Doorduna. You can just think door, it's okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Really?

[Говорящий 1]
Last night. What does door mean? Door.

[Говорящий 2]
Door.

[Говорящий 1]
It means in short, okay? Like sutra, right? So here it means in short or in brief.

[Говорящий 2]
In brief, okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Number two. Bodhichitta has number two. Two types.

Two types, okay? You can understand it, Seiji. You can understand Bodhichitta.

To just put it in the most simple division possible, there's two types to Bodhichitta. One is what, Anatole?

[Говорящий 2]
Bodhichitta...

[Говорящий 1]
In the third line. Munsem. Munsem and juksem.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Deceptive and ultimate?

[Говорящий 1]
Mumba.

[Говорящий 2]
When Lama Buddha said Bodhichitta in the form of a prayer, in the form of a way of action.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, in the form of a prayer, which is mumba. And then the form of action, which is jukpa. And I thought you guys might like to learn the Sanskrit for that.

Because it's extremely famous. And look, he's mentioning it in the first few verses. So munsem means, pranidhi means prayer.

Chitta means mind, right? We had a big discussion of chitta, where?

[Говорящий 2]
In my book. Mind only.

[Говорящий 1]
Prasthana means getting into it, okay? Sorry. Pra means into, and sthana means step into, or to stand into.

Okay, prasthana and chitta. Chittas, he uses a different form of chitta, sorry. So anyway, if you want to, those are the two famous kinds of bodhichitta.

Anatole, how would you describe the difference?

[Говорящий 2]
One, you do it first, you make a wish to act like a bodhisattva.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
Just by having the intention to do what they do. And then finally, you make a commitment to actually take those, carry out those actions.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, good, good. Yeah, the most famous division of bodhichitta of all, right? Okay.

Seiji, who's next? Geshe-la, what is the chittas? Is that like the rect object form of chitta or something?

I think it's just an old neuter form of chitta, yeah. Oh, is it? Okay.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah.

Nice question. It has a slight strengthening of the vowel, right? Yeah.

Seiji, who's next?

[Говорящий 2]
Let's see, who's next? Joy?

[Говорящий 1]
Joy? Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
That's good. de shing... de shing kape dik ni kyi dik ni kyi, good.

dik ni kyi. je ta rim shing shep bhaja Nice, you're getting good. Seiji, here's the difference between mantsam and jugsam, the wishing state of mind and the engaging state of mind.

It's the difference, chedak, like chi chedak, right? Here chedak means difference, between dupa tu droa and actually droa.

[Говорящий 2]
Wishing and actually doing?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, wanting to go and then going. So like you want to go to Phoenix, and then you actually get in the car and drive down to Phoenix. That's the difference.

By the way, I see the traffic behind you. That definitely means you're not in Rimrock area. Yeah, the difference between the two kinds of bodhichitta is, number one, you would like to go someplace, and number two, you actually go.

je ta shepa tar means you can understand it that way. And kepa, what's a kepa, Seiji?

[Говорящий 2]
Kepa... Sage?

[Говорящий 1]
You guys, what is kepa? Somebody said a sage. Wise guy, wise guy.

Yeah, wise guy, like word. Kepas, wise people, understand the chedak of these two. The divisions of the details.

Yeah, what's rimshin mean here, Nick? Step-by-step or in stages. What's it mean step-by-step?

Oh, that you're going to develop these two forms of bodhichitta one after another. Good, nice, nice. Yeah, shepa jar means you should understand, okay?

So I'm giving you a little bit more Sanskrit than you ever wanted, but I don't care. I want to introduce you to this idea of linked adverbs. Here it's ya-ta and ta-ta, okay?

Say ya-ta. Ta-ta. That's a famous Buddha with ta-ta.

Tathagata, the one who went that way, okay? So in Sanskrit and in Tibetan, usually you have to have... When you say you should do it this way, you say in the way that it's done, you should do it like that.

You have to have two adverbs. Okay, you can't say that way. Yeah, yeah, you can't say do it this way.

You have to say as it is, you should do that way. So there's always these pairs of adverbs. Ya-ta means in the way.

Ta-ta means in that way. So what's tathagata mean, Seiji? Tathagata.

It's not here, tathagata. Tathagata. The one who went that way, it's a name for Buddha.

It's a name for a Buddha. So whenever you say ta-ta like that, in Sanskrit you have to say like what? Like that.

You have to have a pair, okay? You have to say it in a pair, and you'll learn it, you guys. In English, we don't say that.

We say like that, okay? So again, in... Oh, sorry.

Go ahead. So in Tibetan, it would be like ji-ta and de-ta, right? Exactly, exactly, yeah.

Okay, thank you. And it's difficult for us when we translate because we feel like we have to use two words, but we don't use two words in English. We just say like that, okay?

But in Sanskrit, you have to say like what? Like that, okay? All right, ya-ta and ta-ta.

And this long A at the end is oftentimes an adverb, you know, like slowly, fastly, smartly, beautifully. Okay, L-Y in English, okay? All right.

Seiji, you want to have somebody suffer with the Sanskrit?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, sure.

[Говорящий 2]
Let's see.

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, why don't we have Christina?

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, super slow and super clear. And I want to see all these diacritics. Okay, we'll try.

Okay, so bo-di. Pra-ni-di. Yes, you got that tongue very good.

Chi-ta-sya. Good. San-sa-re-pi.

Yeah, by the way, when you see that apostrophe, you must ignore it completely and join the two pieces, okay? And, okay, san-sa-re-pi, yeah. Pa-lam-ma-hat.

Yeah, give me this pa thing again. Ha. Pa-lam.

Pa-lam-ma-hat. All short A's in chilla, right? Yeah, but don't close the M at the end.

It's a nasal. Pa-lam. Pa-lam-ma-hat.

Yeah, ma-hat. Yeah, keep going. Yay.

Na tra-vi-chi-na. Tra-vi-chi-na, nice. Pun-nyat-vam.

Except we don't close that M then, right? Yeah, you don't. Okay, so pun-nyat-vam-nyat-ta.

Nyat-ta. Pras-ta-na-chi-ta-sya. Nice, okay, chi-ta-sya.

Chi-ta-sya. Like a ch at the end. Chi-ta-sya.

Chi-ta-sya. Nice, okay, good. And you can't say chi-ta-sya-ha because...

Meter. Yeah, you'll have too many beats. So, you know, 90% of Sanskrit readers are wrong.

Okay. Good. Seiji, who's going to read the Tibetan?

He...

[Говорящий 3]
All right. Oh, Christina, do you want to do it? Do we change the people?

[Говорящий 2]
Well, I'll try, I don't know. Okay. Chang-chuk-num-peh-sem-le-ni.

[Говорящий 1]
Ker-tsen-dra-bu-che-chung-yang. Ji-tar-jung-peh-sem-kin-tu. Se-nam-gyun-chak- gyun-chak- chung-wa-min.

Yeah, good. Chang-chuk-num-peh-sem. Seiji, mun-sem.

[Говорящий 3]
Prayer? No.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, wishing. You can say wishing bodhichitta or something like that, right? Wanting to go rather than going.

Ker-tsen means even while you are still in Korwa.

[Говорящий 2]
Even while you are in samsara?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, even if you are still in samsara, you still get big...

[Говорящий 3]
Results?

[Говорящий 1]
Big results, okay? So just wanting to act like a bodhisattva and not starting yet is still... Even if you are in samsara, it still has a tremendous great karmic ripening.

But the yang means but. What's he going to say if he says gyuk-sem-nyat, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, if you have the action be greater or something like that?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, a billion times bigger, okay? So, like jitam means like you get with the mind or the decision to actually enter the bodhisattva's way of life. That's sunam.

What's the sunam?

[Говорящий 3]
Collection of...

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, good karma. Gin-chak means in a steady stream. In a steady stream.

Mayin. Not steady stream? Yeah, so jitam means you don't get the same...

It's nothing compared to what you get from gyuk-sem. What you get by wishing which is a lot, you can sit in your house in sansara and get a lot of good karma just by daydreaming about bodhichitta. But it's nothing compared to what you're going to get if you get up and try to do the six perfections.

We got this prefix pra. Here we have it in pranidhi which means prayer. Then we have it in prasthana which means to enter.

Pra came into English as proud or the prow of a boat or forward. This f-o-r-p-o-r-p-r-o professional words like that. It means up front.

Prow of a boat is the front of the boat. All of these words, proud means you put yourself up front. Forward means you're going to the front.

Pra means always has this idea of entering into something or going forward for something. That's a prefix. In Sanskrit all words are built out of a root, a verbal root.

Then suffixes and prefixes. All of our English prefixes come from that. Prefix comes from pra.

By the way, when you're looking for an English word that comes from Sanskrit, when you see an A in the Sanskrit, look for E. Look for Es. The A in Sanskrit by the time it reaches English has often changed to E.

Like preliminary or preface or like that. All right. Who's next?

[Говорящий 3]
All right, let's see. Venerable Gyeltsen.

[Говорящий 1]
Good morning.

[Говорящий 3]
Morning.

[Говорящий 1]
RANG NAS GSUNGS KYI SEMS CAN THAM THAR YANG RAB TU DROL BA PHYIR MI RTOGS PA YI SEMS KYIS SU SEMS DE YANG DAG LANG RGYUR PA Nice. Your reading is good, Gyeltsen. Thank you.

Must be because it's your book. RANG NAS GSUNGS DE means from that moment, okay? From that moment on.

Bless you. You're muted, Gyel.

[Говорящий 2]
He sneezed into mute.

[Говорящий 1]
I didn't want to subject you to that. Okay. Thank you, Gyeltsen.

From the moment that you the realms of living beings, meaning all the people there are, it's THAR YEPA. What's that mean, you guys? Endless?

Yeah, endless, infinite numbers of living beings. You cannot come to the last planet that there is. There's no such thing.

Every time you think you're unique or important, try to imagine that this universe has no end. There's no end to the number of living beings. When you get bodhichitta, you see that.

It's kind of fun because then your problems are not that big. Okay. What's DRO like?

DRO MA, Seiji. Like THAR DRO MA. DRO means to liberate.

When you want to liberate infinite numbers of living beings, and when that decision is MED DOG PA, what's that, you guys? Not stopped? Yeah, it means unstoppable.

You make a decision and you will never turn back from it. It's not possible. No matter how bad the day is, how bad things get, that decision, MED DOG PA means irreversible.

If you start to feel like that, LANG means if you start to get that state of mind in your heart. Now, this is a case where we don't get the punchline until the next verse, Seiji. He says, from the moment that you decide to help all living beings, to liberate them, and they are infinite, as long as you hold that state of mind, something's going to happen.

Who's next, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Let's see. Lisa Lee.

[Говорящий 1]
Wow. Thank you. Hi, Lisa.

Good. NG. NG.

NG. NG. NG.

NG. NG.

[Говорящий 2]
BAD MA'I YOD YANG SROG NAM SU Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
RGYUN, am I right? RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN RGYUN MI PHRAD DAG DU MA ZHIG Nice.

[Говорящий 2]
NAM PHRA NAM PHRA RANG ZHUG ZHUG Yay, nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. What's TENG NAS SUM, you guys? From this day on.

Yeah, from the day that you want to save infinite living beings, you can sit in your bed and NYE LO. You can go to sleep. You can go to sleep.

LOG means go to sleep. You can lay down on the couch and take a nap. You can BAG MA'I GYUR.

What's that mean? You can be without a care? Yeah, like you can listen to rock and roll and forget yourself completely.

The last thing on your mind is all living beings. You can be sitting eating waffles at the Peachtree Cafe on Saturday and forget the rest of the universe. You can be asleep, or you can be doing something silly, completely thoughtlessly.

BAG MA'I GYUR. But still your SON NAM. What's that, Seiji?

Your collection? Yeah, and ZHUG means the power. The power of your good deeds.

RGYUN MI CHE. What's that mean, you guys?

[Говорящий 3]
It's never stopping or uninterrupted.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, it's uninterrupted. Once you decide to commit yourself to countless living beings, you start creating good karma, even when you're asleep, and even when you're fixing your car or something. RGYUN MI CHE BAR DU MA Lots of good seeds.

In fact, they are equal to NAM KA, Seiji. Space? Yeah, equal to space.

They are equal to the limit of space. NYAM PA means equal. RAB TU CHUNG often means to become a monk, but what it really means is to really come out of the home life.

So what it means here is good karma seeds flow out like as big as the sky, as equal to the sky. Okay. What is SUBDHA?

Why did I do that? I think... Yeah, SUBDHA means to sleep.

Okay, SUBDHA. And what is the root? I don't know why I said that.

Anyway, SVAB can mean a dream and things like that. I don't know any common English word. Plumber?

No. Maybe somnolent or something. I don't know.

Yeah. Okay. Maybe, I think, yeah.

Maybe the P changed to M. Yeah. Okay.

Seiji, who is next?

[Говорящий 2]
All right.

[Говорящий 1]
Lindsay? Lindsay? Nice.

Nice. Nice. MA MO SEMS KA DON What's that one?

CHEN DON CI PHYIR GI PHYIR GI PHYIR GI PHYIR DE BZHIN GCIG PA GNYIS KYIS SUM Yeah, nice, nice. Your reading is quite good. You should be a translator later.

Okay. DE NI THEG PA DANG PHYIR PAR What's THEG PA mean, you guys? Correct?

Yeah, it's correct. What? The last thing he said.

What was the last thing he said? You will have an endless flow of good deeds even when you're napping. Yeah, or goofing off.

ZHUG PA means what? Past tense. ZHUG PA Requested?

Yeah, requested. Requested. So I wanted to teach you guys this ZHUG PA.

It means requested. In Sanskrit, it's PADI PURCHA. And it means requested by or asked by.

So what does that mean, Mr. Kramer or Nick? Why is ZHUG PA important? It's often the case that this is referring to a sutra that was requested by a bodhisattva.

Yeah, or anybody. Oftentimes, very, very often, sutras are named by the person who asked the question. So somebody asked Lord Buddha a question, and then he answers, and that sutra gets to be called the sutra requested by Seiji or something like that.

And in fact, the initial question, the opening question, is so important that in the later tradition, a lot of times they will say that the asker is...

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Not really Manjushri or Buddha or something.

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Yeah, it's actually a Buddha. So oftentimes, according to the Mahayana, when somebody requests a sutra, when somebody asks a question, like at the beginning of the Heart Sutra or at the beginning of the Diamond Cutter Sutra, later they will say, well, maybe that guy was a Buddha also. And it was all a setup.

One Buddha was asking another Buddha, oh, I don't know, could you answer this question? Okay, like that. And when you get...

everybody's asking me for Diamond Way teachings, everybody wants tantric teachings. The essence of tantra is not just between the person requesting a sutra and the person answering a sutra with a sutra. Every conversation you hear during the day, you have that suspicion.

Everyone's an actor. Everyone's already a Buddha except me. They're letting me teach the class, so hopefully something will sink into my own mind, and everybody else is a Buddha already.

Then you don't need to study for 18 courses. All right, so it's a beautiful... It's a beautiful verb, shupa, requested.

You guys should learn the Sanskrit, it's paripraja. When you see paripraja, it's probably the title of a sutra. There's a sutra requested by...

Pure Hand?

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Yeah, Pure Hand.

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Subahu. I don't know who he is. He requested a sutra, right?

That sutra confirms what we've said. The Buddha himself said... Anybody want to struggle with this?

Something which is a murpa towards something memba, if it's for sem chens, then it can't be stopped. The karma can't be stopped, ever. If something is said, is it that murz to say?

No, it's admittedly. Oh, isn't that usually with a D though, again? Sorry?

Isn't that with a ha? No. Oh, I'm sorry, you're right.

Mur here means a wish, okay? Okay. Yeah, so even if something is wished for the sake of sentient beings?

Yeah, memba means even if it's not very glorious. Like, I wish everybody today could tie their shoes. I wish everybody in the universe could tie their shoes or button their shoes.

And that's not a very glorious, high wish. But, if it's for sem chens, then the karma is limitless. It's very interesting.

So memba means some kind of minor wishes for people. Minor good wishes for people. Not very glorious.

I hope everybody in the universe gets to taste a peach tree cinnamon bun in their life. It's not a very glorious wish, but if it's for all living beings, then the karma... and then you go back to the last verse, Seiji.

Even if it's just a wish that everybody could have a cinnamon roll, the karma is what?

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Immeasurable, countless?

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It never stops. You can sleep. You can do something...

You can go listen to rock and roll, and still the karma doesn't pause. The karma doesn't pause. You're still getting good karma.

Who said that?

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The Buddha?

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Yeah, Lord Buddha, Tathagata. There must be a Tathagata here somewhere. There we go.

We should have calculated. Okay. What's idam mean?

You guys know it from the mandala offering. It just means this. I offer this mandala to my teacher.

Idam means this. So you guys can learn that one from this verse, idam. Where's the idam in the Tibetan, Seiji?

If idam means this, what do you guys think? Dini? Yes, dini.

This thing. By the way, the Tibetan says this is a correct statement. What is the correct statement?

It'll be endless. It'll be non-stopping, the good karma you get. You can goof off, you can go to the toilet, you can watch Netflix, and still you're collecting good karma.

That sounds perfect to me. You can eat cinnamon rolls, watch Netflix, and still the karma doesn't pause. That's perfect.

That's what I need. What's dini? Is that just for me?

By the way, I really like your questions, and I appreciate them. I just like to make fun of you. It's just for meter.

Okay, I thought so. I'm just asking. Thank you.

That's a good point. I enjoy your questions, but don't tell anybody. Now, he says if you go check the sutra requested by Goodhand, you're going to see this idea.

Because we have John Brady's database, it's easy for us to go and read the sutra itself, and here it is. It happens to be the 70th sutra out of 990 sutras and tantras in the country. It's called A Sutra of the Greater Way, requested by Subahu.

We're going to read the appropriate section, Seiji, because it's so beautiful. What's the advertisement? What are we supposed to find here?

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Where the Buddha said it's correct, you can lie about or sleep, and you're still going to get a lot of karma.

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This is important. This is permission to eat cinnamon rolls and watch Netflix, and you still get good karma in a steady flow, and it doesn't slow down and it doesn't stop. To me, that's extremely important.

Okay, who's going to read, Seiji? Wait, Geshe-la. What?

Master Shantideva is saying you can be busuku and still be fine. Yeah, hey, that's the point. Maybe that's the proof of concept, right?

Yes. You can watch Netflix and still make good karma. I like it.

I'm going to join up for this bodhisattva thing. All right, Seiji, who's got the first part?

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It's Errol. Errol Birney. All right.

LHAG BSANGS BYANG CHUB SEMS PA RNAMS BYANG CHUB TE SEMS BSKYED PA DANG BYANG CHUB SEMS BYAS TSUL DRANG PA DANG BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS BSGOM PA DANG Good.

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Okay, nice. Hey, LHAG BSANGS, what's that, Errol? LHAG BSANGS Hey, Subahu.

Hey, good hand. Lord Buddha is addressing LHAG BSANGS. I guess it's Lord Buddha.

When a... Errol, let's keep going.

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When a BYANG CHUB SEMS PA When a bodhisattva?

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Yeah, when a bodhisattva SKYES PA BYANG CHUB SEMS Realizes the wish? Yeah, when they get the wish. SKYES PA with the wish means when they start to feel the wish.

And when they even DRANG PA the wish, who's got to help Errol? Think of the wish? Remember the wish?

Yeah, even when they just think about it. Or maybe they can BSGOM PA the wish.

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Meditate on it.

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Yeah. Okay, good. Seiji, I think he's doing so good, you should give him some more.

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Yeah, please, Errol.

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I'm going to increase it also.

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BYANG CHUB TU MUN PA DANG BYANG CHUB TU MUN LAM DEG PA RGANG YIN PA DE NI DE DAG CHEN PA CHEN PO DANG MTHONG PA CHEN PO DANG RNAM PAR MTHONG PA CHEN PO DRANG MED CHING PHAG TU MED PA'I NO Good.

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Nice reading, Errol. Thank you. When they MUN PA to BYANG CHUB.

Errol?

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When they wish, when they have the wish, or when they...

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Yeah, they just think about becoming a Buddha. When they make the MUN LAM for BYANG CHUB.

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When they make the prayer for Bodhichitta.

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They are already doing big DBYIN PA, one of the six perfections.

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Giving?

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Yeah, they are already doing huge karma of giving. MTHONG PA means like MTHONG LEN.

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Giving?

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Yeah, they are giving away. Just by having the wish, they are making the karma of giving away huge gifts to people. In fact, they are RNAM PAR MTHONG PA.

Super giving away. So SANG KYANG means DRANG CHEN. What is DRANG MED, Errol?

SANG KYANG means DRANG CHEN.

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It's uncountable, not countable.

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And PHAG TU MED PA means immeasurable. So, just having the intention is enough to equal huge acts of generosity, huge acts of offering money or offering places to stay, etc. Very cool.

By the way... Oh, is it? Okay.

I was going to brag about our Ukrainians are coming very soon. Oh, nice. 22nd.

But we'll talk about it. I'm going to squeeze you guys for rent money. Stop here, otherwise grandpa gets stuck on the whole thing.

What's the date today? 31st. It is the 31st.

Okay, Seiji, your homework, you're going to do the rest of this little sutra piece here. Okay.

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Okay. Sorry again.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, and two homeworks. Yeah. Okay, no problem.

Don't worry, that's fine. Sometimes I forget what week I'm in, it's okay. Okay.

Uncle Nick, what's happening next? Okay, thank you. Thank you for class, that was beautiful.

And now we're going to a separate meeting, and we are going to have a Q&A with Mr. Tim. And then I'm just checking the schedule for who's teaching yoga. Anatole is teaching yoga this morning, and Alex Rivas this afternoon.

So, if you've never had a class with either of them, make it to both. Yeah. Anatole was one of my first yoga teachers, so he's amazing.

Really a special yoga class. My pleasure. Thank you for existing and wanting to hear this stuff.

You are strange people. Okay.

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Thanks, Geshe-la.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you guys. Bye. Thank you.

So, ask Tim all the toughest questions, and how to run a hotel, apparently. Yeah, how to get the best hotel in America. Unbelievable.

I hope I get to stay there someday.

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Invitation's still open.

[Говорящий 1]
All right, all right. I'm more interested in the breakfast than the room, but okay. All right.

Come for breakfast whenever you want. We can come anytime. We can come anytime.

No salad for breakfast. Yeah. See you.

All right, guys, I'll be back in five minutes. Take a break.