Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 12

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 12 — Spring '23, Class 4 (в пределах серии из 32 дорожек, слаг dcc-yt-seiji-shantideva-class-12)
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 2]
Okay, I think now it's time. Anyone here? Hi.

Hi. Okay, all right. Sorry.

Last time I got confused with the dates yesterday. Okay. Here we go.

All right. Okay. Who can tell me?

[Говорящий 1]
So now we're doing a quiz for both classes that we missed before, last one and the one before. Who can tell me the scene of Master Shantideva reciting his masterpiece for the first time? This one I think everybody knows.

Everybody that has done course 10 knows it. Yeah. Nick, do you want to?

Sure. The guys, the other monks think he's as much of a slacker as he looks like, and they want to get rid of him. So they challenge him, well, they ask him to recite something for the assembly, and they assume that he is going to fail miserably, and then they'll be able to get rid of him.

So first they give him a throne that's way too high for him to climb on. And when he gets there, he smacks the throne and then flies up to the top or somehow magically appears at the top. I'm going to tell the short version.

Then he starts reading the text, which is, he says, do you want me to read something that you already are familiar with or something that you've never heard before? And they're like, oh, this should be good. And they ask him to recite something that they've never heard before.

And it's, you know, the guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life. And as he starts reading it, people are amazed. And somehow he flies away out the window.

I always pictured it outside, but I... Or through the roof. He flies out the window or through the roof.

Chimney. And people, they can still barely hear him as he's into like the 10th chapter. And I think some people, I think I've heard it somewhere where some people who have really good karma can hear the end, but some people can't.

I think it was the 9th chapter, 20% into the 9th chapter when he suddenly disappeared. And then they came and found him and he told them that the book is stashed somewhere in his monk cell. In the rafter.

In the rafter, yeah. Nice. Nice story, Uncle Nick.

Probably he's lucky. Oh, Seiji, I wanted to warn you. I saw your SUV speeding through town about 100 miles an hour and there was a wild Syrian woman driving it.

And I just wanted to... In case the police car or anything, you can... Is he trying to race with you?

Yeah. She's very proud of it. She was trying to race with us.

Did you read the stickers? Funny. For those of you who don't know, Nur just got her license and we got her some beginner stickers that says, my driving scares me too.

Maybe instead of giving people fingers, I can put these stickers on their car. Then after what Nick just said, we went back to the root text and we started checking on the actual... It's said by Chary Avatara.

Do you guys remember what analogy was used to compare the wish versus other, quote unquote, normal virtues? We better look at the text secretly. Oscar, yes?

Yeah. Something with fruits of a tree and what?

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, bamboo.

[Говорящий 1]
So what does the bamboo and the tree represent?

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
The peach tree can bring you fruits forever. That's the wish. And the normal virtues gives you fruits and then it dies.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, exactly. Wow. Oscar's always on it.

Well done.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Awesome. Please describe what the wishes compare that can help us purify bad seeds by deeds.

I'm going to go check the text. And after that, we went on to describe... Well, it was full of analogies that classes.

And it says it helps you purify like...

[Говорящий 2]
A warrior.

[Говорящий 1]
Sorry, can you repeat?

[Говорящий 2]
A warrior.

[Говорящий 1]
That's another one. But now I'm looking for... Oh, yeah.

A different one. Purifies like something that happens at the end of the world. Tangtang said it in the chat and Almira.

Yeah, and I said it too. Yeah, fire. Yeah, there you go.

[Говорящий 2]
Fire at the end of the world. Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Puts an end to our negative deeds and can burn them in a single second. Hey. Sounds a little bit like the four powers.

Hmm. Actually, I was thinking, could you say, Geshe-la, that that would be kind of the equivalent of the balancing act? What's the balancing act?

Well, to do the opposite of... I mean, in terms of... Oh, I see.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah.

And it's an antidote or a remedy. Right. Cool.

What division of the wish, very famous, is mentioned here in the text? Please explain briefly. Prayer versus action?

Yeah. And what's prayer and what's the action? Prayer in general is like, in your mind or your heart, the intent to have bodhisattva activities, and then action is actually engaging them and helping people in some way.

Cool. Yeah, that's exactly it. For my prayer thinking, it has to be to help all living beings and wish in the form of action, actually helping people.

Perfect. Where's an incredible benefit mentioned about having the wish in the form of action? Please describe the conditions given.

Hint, Netflix.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, I like it.

[Говорящий 1]
Everything you do becomes a cause for enlightenment, becomes a good deed. Just hanging out and just watching Netflix.

[Говорящий 3]
What happens as you are watching Netflix and you have the form of the wish as an action?

[Говорящий 1]
You would mask great karma? You keep making good karma just watching it turning woo. Right.

Uninterrupted. It does say, though, that you have to have an unstoppable decision, meaning real bodhicitta, right? Okay.

Oh, man. Well, that's what I interpret, right? Decision is unstoppable.

And it says that even if you go to bed or do things mindlessly, you'll be uninterrupted. The seeds flow as big as space itself. Oh, that's a big scene.

What gives the wish its incredible power? Please explain the logic behind it. I have an idea, but I'm not going to answer.

Is it because you're wishing to help infinite beings? Right. Yes, yes, yes.

Do you remember what the text said about it? Mm-mm. Let's say that it was mentioning...

Did it say something about being as big as space or something? Yeah, yeah, that's the one before. It's kind of related.

Work for other... What happens if you have a lesser motivation?

[Говорящий 2]
It's still a positive thing if you're giving without the wish. But if you have the wish, it becomes super giving.

[Говорящий 1]
Right. I was hoping to...

[Говорящий 2]
There's something else.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. It becomes pure karma? Elmira said it in the chat.

To help all beings. The fact that you want to help all beings is what makes it so powerful.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
In the sense that even if you had a lesser motivation, it would still make your results unstoppable.

[Говорящий 2]
Well, it's more than just helping them, right? It's getting them to an enlightened state.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, it mentioned, like, not of glorious motivation. So I don't know. It seemed to say that it was more the fact of just wanting to help everyone.

Yep, I think so. And I was thinking, what would be the logic behind that? I was thinking that because our karmic object is infinite, then that's what would make it caught to be uninterrupted.

He does make the point to say that not having a good motivation... I mean, not a great motivation. That's cool.

All right. Thanks, Eiji. Yay!

New... Things. Good words.

True. Fruit. Fruit, the result.

Well, in this case, fall. But, yeah, fruit, they say it was related to it, right? Fruit, I think.

Is it more fruit or fall? Say you said it was related to fall, F-U-L-L.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, fall.

[Говорящий 1]
F-U-L-L. Oh. It turned into, yeah.

Okay, okay. All right. Kushala?

Virtuous? Goodly? Goodly.

By the way, you guys know the Sanskrit for fall. Pot. Yeah, right.

It fell into the Anjali. Yep. Anjali.

Okay. I don't know Prasavati. Prasavati.

I think Chen has something, right?

[Говорящий 2]
Well, Pran would be in front.

[Говорящий 1]
Mm-hmm. I don't know this. Prasavati.

Prasavati. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I was thinking that would increase, produce, or...

Maybe. Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. Cool.

[Говорящий 1]
And now sexy. Oh, it's double because I missed one of the homeworks. So sexy.

A wish in the form of a prayer. Yeah. But I thought Munsem just by itself is just prayer, right?

No, Munlam is prayer, but Munsem is in the form of a prayer. Oh. I mean, it's probably short for something else.

Like, right, Kushala? Munlam Ki Jangsem or something? Munbesem, right?

Munbesem. Okay. And Juksem?

Action. A wish in the form of action. All right.

Request? Request. But in what context is it usually used?

Sutra requested by? Yeah. Cool.

Awesome. What's the Sanskrit? Paripracha.

Yeah, good. Nice homework. Thanks, guys.

Good job, you guys. All right. Oh, sorry.

Translation? No? Oh, yes.

Translation. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Nick, help me do this. If it's correct, I helped him. He might have helped me.

If it's not correct, I think it was a word we helped you. Yeah, probably Utpala. Sage, you want to understand, you want to explain why we're, what we're translating right now?

Oh, yeah. So, we're talking about the Netflix thing of how can we, the author had mentioned that the Buddha had said, no, yes, the Buddha had said that helping all beings makes it unstoppable. Good.

We stopped that in the middle of the quote. Yeah, actually, and there are some of the quotations that Master Shantideva mentions, Gyaltsabje explains them, and somebody doesn't explain. So, when Gyaltsabje doesn't explain them and there's nobody else who tried to explain them, we go find them in John Brady's database, because we have John Brady's database.

We know all the gold clubs, etc. Thank you. Okay.

Oh, sorry. So, here. Thanks for doing that for us, Geshe-la, by the way, among all the other things.

Okay. Chi-che She-na, what was that happened just before that, Seiji? They're already doing a big giving, immeasurable giving, which was what Venerable Udpalaya was saying.

Yeah, and they're kind of saying that the act of having bodhichitta is equal to the first perfection in its extreme. Just having bodhichitta is equal to the first perfection done with... like giving away half your body.

Like, who did? King. Shri Sinha.

That's a long time ago in Japan. Okay. Now, and somebody comes up and says, Chi-che She-na, why is having bodhichitta similar to the perfection of giving in a huge way?

Why is just sitting on your couch and having bodhichitta like serving a thousand people dinner? Why is that? Here's the answer.

Please read, Seiji. Seiji, di-ta-te. Di-ta-te.

And now, we're going to compare bodhichitta to some extraordinary acts of giving. Well, if you have bodhichitta for ten minutes, it's like you would like to offer a rain of the holy Dharma and a torrent of nectar to all the people in all the worlds. Yeah, good.

The only comment I have is he took the trouble to repeat the words every time. You want to send a rain of the Dharma down on every living being on every planet in the universe. You want to send a rain down of deathless nectar.

I mean, I would keep repeating it because he's building it up. So actually, Seiji, it's not to repeat what you're writing now, it's to repeat. And I meant to do that again, I just missed it that one time, I think.

It's to repeat that he would like to offer over and over again. And the image is very beautiful. You're not saying I would like to give everybody $100.

You're saying, I would like to be a huge rain cloud and rain down on every desert on every planet in the universe at the same time. And then it would have to be a rain cloud that rain down nectar that when it touches their bodies they can't die anymore. That's what I'm...

And these are all bodhicitta fantasies that you can do in your own retreat, for example. A lot of fun. All right, we got some more chars coming.

What's char? Rain. I'd like to...

Can you read Seiji one more and then you have liberty to pick on other people like Noor. Yeah. Yeah.

He would like to send... He or she... By the way, we're trying very hard to make the mixed nuts gender-inclusive.

So we'll say he or she would like to send rain down, rain of dharma down. Would like to send a torrent of nectar. And then...

Yeah, really send forth. He changes the verb. I would still like to send the rain of dharma down on people, but I would like to soak them with the rain or something like that.

You got to find something sexy. Like, what's a big rain? Hurricane.

I thought about writing hurricane. Hurricane of dharma. Yeah, that might be cool.

At first I was confused about dutsi yin gyi char. I was like, it's going to rain a sphere of nectar. By the way, it wouldn't be wrong, I think, to throw in there somehow emptiness for yin.

I don't know. Empty nectar that makes people immortal. Emptiness in mortal nectar.

Something like that. I wouldn't mind that. Okay, good.

Emptiness. Immortal? Emptiness nectar.

But, you know, Seiji, you decide later when you're not having a bunch of people staring at you. And... who's going to read this last line?

Oh, no escape. You know, Seiji, when it's time to read, people have to go to the toilet. I don't know what it is.

Okay. Let's see. Lisa Lee, can you help me?

[Говорящий 2]
Okay, thank you. DIN PA DANG DONG BA DANG LAM PA DONG BA THAMS CAD YID NANG NA THO YIN NO DE NYID THAMS PA PA YIN NO Yeah, nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you, Lisa. You're getting better and better. It's giving.

What? It's giving. It's giving away.

DONG BA. Like, what's the famous meditation? DONG BA It is LAM PA DONG BA.

Super giving. Super giving. And of all the kinds of giving, it is the CHOG.

Yeah, and by the way, Nick, THAM PA actually means supreme, right? Yeah, but I had to make it different than CHOG, right? Baby, love my baby.

I mean, hi Esther. You got to find another word for supreme. Holy doesn't make it in this context.

Totally. Now, Seiji, we went on a detour. Master Shantideva mentioned a sutra.

We had the mixed nuts ethics work standard to find the DANG sutra. We read the DANG sutra. How does it prove what he said back in the verse without looking at the verse?

Well, it's the supreme giving, so yes. He said, just having bodhisattva is worth giving away the universe to other people. And did the sutra correspond?

Yeah, it does. Yeah, basically. Okay, so you have to craft your footnotes wisely and prove you're a real mixed nut.

All right. Who's going to read the next verse? Oh, that's grandma.

Uh-oh. Geshe-la, I was... Can I ask you a super quick question?

Yes. You know, Rosa changed my name, Seiji. To what?

Quickly. Hey, quickly. Quickly.

Go ahead. I remember hearing this about vows. Is it the case of a vow because it's a commitment or more because of bodhicitta, that it gives uninterrupted even when you're not actually doing good deeds?

I agree with Nick. My gut feeling is that because the objects are infinite, it's pretty unstoppable. I think it's just the statistical number of people you're thinking may help.

I have a feeling that's the... That's the difference, right? But not so much because of making a commitment more the object, the karmic object.

I think so in this case. Yeah. But we talked about, was it in a different book that taking a vow made it a lot more powerful than just doing the thing?

That's true too. Yeah, that's true too.

[Говорящий 3]
Both is pretty great.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Okay, Seiji, who are you going to pick on? Okay, let's see.

Catherine, are you translating? No. She's always translating.

[Говорящий 2]
All right. Oh. Yeah, go for it, Catherine.

Oh, I cannot hear you. I can't hear her either, Seiji.

[Говорящий 1]
Let's try this.

[Говорящий 2]
Lindsay, do you want to go for it? What? Some.

Some. Thank you. Some.

Some not young. Send it. Some.

Some. Donde.

[Говорящий 1]
What's SEMS CAN, Seiji? Living beings. And what's the noun when you add it to SEMS CAN?

All? Yeah, all. Leng we had in Gibson's book, and I'm sure Gibson remembers it.

Maybe it's a long time zone. Brain. Brain, good.

Head. Here it means head, okay? Head ne.

Nawa. Nawa. What's that?

[Говорящий 2]
A headache.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, headache. And just that, SEMS means just a headache. You don't want to lead them to matchless enlightenment.

You don't want to save them from the wheel of suffering. You just want that in the future, nobody in the universe should ever have a migraine. Okay, just that much.

That small. STELO means I would like to sell their headache. Seiji?

Yeah, I would like to clear it away. I would like to clear it away. NYAM DUG.

Just thinking that in your mind, just thinking in your mind, look, I don't want to make all beings enlightened. I just want to take away everybody's migraines. Nobody in the world, nobody in the universe should ever have a migraine again.

This PHEN DOG GSAM PA, it's got the intention of wanting to help everybody. If you have that, that SON NAM is PHAG TU MED PA. On virtuous countless?

It's immeasurable, cannot be measured, cannot be estimated. So he says, forget bodhichitta. Let's not talk about bodhichitta.

Let's say you just had a thought, you had a bad migraine, and you said, I hope I can take on the migraines of every living being in the universe today, just this morning. Then that mini bodhichitta with just one kind of suffering is huge. PHAG MED, immeasurable karma.

So this kind of answers the question you were asking, Seiji. And again, it's statistics. Because objects are uncountable, the karma is uncountable.

There's no limit to living beings. And one by one, you will enlighten them until the end. You should be raising your eyebrows.

Okay, who's up next? Let's see if we've got any Sanskrit fun here. Sanskrit nouns have endings, like A, I, U.

Like GUNA, good quality, ends with an A. Can you think of a Sanskrit noun that ends with an I? Like the inner channels?

And can you think of one that ends with U? BHEN NUS, which means a cow? Okay, yeah.

So generally, and by the way, nouns can end in consonants also. Like? Arhats.

Arhats, okay. Arhats, okay. So those are the ways.

When you see a word ending with an A, an I, a U, or a consonant, which is just about every word there is, it could be a noun. And depending on the letter that it ends with in its stem form, so stem form means without saying plural, without saying to it, without saying from it, without saying around it, without saying anything about it, its raw ending is a simple A, or a simple I, or a simple U, or sometimes a consonant, okay? And that's called stem.

And then you add to nouns, you add, what's a conjugation? Not a conjugation. Declension.

You can make it a simple subject of the sentence, you can make it the object of the verb, you can make it from, you can make it plural, you can make it dual. They're separate endings. So you add endings to the raw stem.

The raw stem is going to be A, I, U, normally. Sometimes N like yogin. Well, that's not.

You can specify to the person, from the person, with the two people, from the two people, for the three people. You can specify with just the ending that you put on the word, on the stem. So you got to know about stems.

So you start with a stem, and then you add endings on it. In this way, Sanskrit is infinitely more precise than Tibetan. Tibetan has one preposition for like six different meanings.

La. La has about six different meanings. But it's very precise.

And that's why it's called sanskrit. Perfectly informed language. So we'll get there, but just know, there are endings that you stick on the stems, that means to him, from him, for him, with him.

Different endings. Very precise language. And then if you're translating Tibetan, especially of an original Sanskrit text, and you have the Sanskrit, it's kind of irresponsible to translate it without checking the Sanskrit.

Because the Sanskrit is very precise, and you can avoid a lot of mistakes. I don't encourage you to master Sanskrit, because as I said, 99% is gone. It's a dead language.

It doesn't help us much anymore. But you should know enough to look it up, and make sure you have the right word. Okay Seiji, who's up?

Oscar.

[Говорящий 2]
Hola. Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Nice, Oscar. So, Seiji, Semchen. Living beings.

Really? Living means what, you guys? What?

Mi dewa is the opposite of dewa. Yeah, not the happiness of every living being. Every single living being is unhappiness.

Phag tu mepa. Yeah, endless, right? Endless.

And it could refer to two different things.

[Говорящий 3]
Endless beings or endless unhappiness?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, endless beings or endless unhappiness, according to Huan Hsu. Now, if you had the desire to sell all those mi dewa, Seiji... Get rid of them?

No, clear them away. So, in a negative sense, if you had the desire to take away the suffering of every single living being in the universe... By the way, you cannot, until you achieve actual bodhichitta and see emptiness directly, you cannot understand what it means to be infinite.

But you can pretend. You can imagine, oh, one planet, oh, there's another planet behind that, and there's another planet behind that. I mean, a human being who has not had that experience directly cannot understand infinity.

But you can imagine it. Try to sit with it for a while and make it more than you're used to. It used to be three planets.

Try to make it six or something. But it's really something, if you ever see it directly. So, if you want to take away the suffering of infinite beings...

And then, on the other hand, I would like to give them all the yin dens, Seiji. All the good qualities. BAG MED PA means unimmeasurable good qualities.

I don't want to just take away people's suffering. I want to make them all perfect spiritual beings. Give them all good qualities.

DROD PA DROD PA, I would like to achieve that. I would like to achieve that. MED CI DGOS means what need mention that, who needs to mention it.

Where did this... By the way, this and the previous verse are tied together because the previous verse ended with if. If you wanted to remove one person's headache...

Sorry, if you wanted to remove migraines for every living being, then do I have to mention the karma that you would get if you wanted to remove all their suffering? And more than that, give them every good quality. Do I have to mention?

I mean, do we have to say that? When I give them, I don't know, soft heads forever or something. Okay, there's a word GUN NA, which means good quality.

The Tibetan is YIN DEN. YIN DEN became a common personal name. We have a good friend, YIN DEN.

And it's just one of the words here. Where did it come in the verse? Why was it mentioned in the verse?

To take away their pain and then give them the good... Yeah, give them all good qualities. I want to give them all GUN NAS.

I want to give them all GUN NAS. And that's retroflex. There's a dot under the end.

When you see a dot, curve your tongue back in your mouth. GUN NAS. What are you talking?

I'm not understanding you at all. When you turn your tongue back, it's very fun. Talk.

Talk with your tongue turned back. It's a perfect accent. We are going to send you back to India.

All right. Okay. What?

I think you were about to mention the four measurables. Say what? Oh, they are about to mention the four measurables, I think.

Oh, with the MU CI DGOS. I thought you were about to say something about them. Oh, not yet.

It's coming though. Okay. It's coming.

Okay. Say... Sorry.

As punishment word for interrupting Grandpa, you have to read the Sanskrit for 1.23. Very carefully, with great pronunciation. Okay, I'll do my best. Here we go.

[Говорящий 2]
Kasia. Matu. Pitor.

[Говорящий 1]
Vapi. Shamsyam. Shamsyam.

Idrshi. Yeah, Idrshi. Devanam.

Va. Irshinam. Yeah.

Va. Brahmanam. Manam.

No, don't close the M. Manam. Va.

And don't give me a real hard Va. Mix it with a W and you'll sound like an Indian. Va.

Va. Va. Va.

Not a W, it's not a V. It's halfway between. Va.

Va. Va. Here's another one.

Babishakti. I don't want to hear these strong English Vs. Oh, Babishakti.

Yeah, Babishakti. Very good. All right.

I'm going to break it down. Here we go. Seiji, who do you want to read?

Earl. Earl?

[Говорящий 3]
Earl. I'm reading so much today I'm going to have to put on a suit and tie soon, guess what, Michael?

[Говорящий 1]
Yay.

[Говорящий 3]
I'll believe it when I see it.

[Говорящий 1]
It's Dr. Coat without any shirt on and you can go from there.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay. Here we go. Va-am-yang-na-ma-yang-rung.

Sa-la-di-dre-pen-sem-yip. La-dang-drang-rung-nam-kyang-rung. Song-nang.

Song. Yeah. Song-pa-la-yang-di-ye-dam.

[Говорящий 1]
Nice. Okay, good. He's struggling to find an example of someone who really cares for another person.

Okay, and he comes up with pit-dur and ma-dur. Yeah, ma-dur and pa-dur. Okay, ma-dur and pit-dur.

Okay. So, you could take the example of your pa or your ma. Whether you're talking about your mother or your father.

Su-la-dre-pen-sem-yir. Su-la means who could ever have that kind of pen-sem, helping another person. And the only example Master Shantideva can come up with is a mother or a father.

And he says, I can't think of anybody else. Think about how a mother or father feels towards their child. And he says, I can't give you any greater example.

It's the way a mother or father feels towards their child. And that's the attitude you're going to have about how many people? Infinite, that's all.

I can't give you a better example of that degree of love than a mother's love for their child or a father's love for their child. Which Seiji can appreciate with Maitri. And if anyone ever tried to, I don't know, do something to Maitri, I pity them if they're around Seiji.

Okay. Same with Amalie and Eva and all those. Okay.

So Shumla and Ezra. All my grandkids. You can take Lhasa.

You can take Changsungs. Hershey's. Hershey's or cities.

You can take Sangpa, Brahma. Okay. Yodam, do they have that kind of attitude?

No, it's not appropriate. He says, you can take those superheroes. Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman.

Devas. He says Devas, yeah. Now, he says something very delicate.

And we're going to read the commentary from Gyaltsabje. And here's what Word was mentioning. What gets you to the first concentration level rebirth where you become Brahma and you can play with planets like marbles?

What gets you to that level? What can get you to that level? He says TSE MA ZHI.

The Four Measurables. Practice of the Four Measurables. So we're going to talk about that.

That's what comes up next. Now, this is a tough comparison. He's comparing the karma of Bodhichitta and the karma of the Four Measurables.

[Говорящий 3]
Which are very related.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, that's a good question. Let's go look at it. Here's the commentary.

We're just going to read this one long sentence. Who do you want to pick on? Let's see, who do we have?

Luca.

[Говорящий 2]
Ten. Great. Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Great. Keep going, Kazakhstan.

[Говорящий 2]
Kazakhstan. Ka. La ye.

La tang. De pa. Ma.

Ma wei. Tang. Tang.

Xiong. La. Yang.

Rong. Sa me pa shing. Me pe.

Tang. Pa. La yang.

Pe sang ti dra. Ye pe me do.

[Говорящий 1]
Yay. Luca, Seiji is a bad man to give you such a long one. Okay, Seiji.

Nyi pa. Pen sem. Penpe sem.

This wish to help people. This wish to help another person. This kind of wish.

Jigten. What's jigten, Luca? In the world.

You only find it towards bu. Towards their kids. Penpa drupa means who wants to help their children.

Pa. Or ma. You don't find this level of love in the world among parents.

Could be either one. Yang, rong, kang. But there's other kinds of beings who have achieved supreme happiness.

But they don't have this level of concern for other people. Pen sem. They don't have that level.

There are extraordinarily powerful worldly beings who can move planets with their fingers. But they don't have this level of wanting to help other people. They don't have it.

Let me give some examples. Flas don't have it. Only gods.

Changsungs who can do acts of truth. High yogis who can do acts of truth. They can turn the Ganges River backwards.

But they don't have this kind of love of a parent towards their child. And then he says Brahma, who is living where he is, due to their four sem-me-pas. I'm not sure it's the four immeasurables.

Maybe word can check the Great Dictionary. Maybe there's another set of sem-me-pas. Maybe you could do a proximity search between the four sem-me-pas and Tsangpa.

Because I would debate, wouldn't you? If there's a difference in karma between the four immeasurables and bodhichitta?

[Говорящий 3]
Pretty much the same.

[Говорящий 1]
Because the four immeasurables is pretty much bodhichitta, isn't it?

[Говорящий 2]
Sometimes the method to get bodhichitta.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, here it seems to be he's crediting the four immeasurables with creating Brahma. The reason Brahma gets to be god of a small solar system or something is that he had the four immeasurables. But I'm not sure they're the four that we usually talk about.

[Говорящий 2]
In Sanskrit, don't we sometimes talk about Brahma-Piriyas?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, we do. Maybe they are also the karma you need to become a small god for a solar system or something. The four immeasurables doesn't include the resolution to become a Buddha.

Stanley says the four immeasurables don't include the resolution to become a Buddha.

[Говорящий 3]
But they include the resolution to help everybody become a Buddha.

[Говорящий 1]
In the long version of the four immeasurables, where there's four versions of each one, sixteen total, that one's kind of resolved, I think. But I bet Word is going to find something. Let's see.

By the way, that's the great power of having a database. If anyone has found it, we'll find it. We should be really grateful to John Brady and his team.

By the way, I can't do anything without that database. I could teach you the root text, but I couldn't teach you the details. Even after 25 years of Geshe course, you couldn't.

Without the database, you couldn't. We're very lucky to have it. Alright, Seiji.

Thank you, Seiji, for working so hard for DCI and SCIN, which through your wife's efforts for our donation department, helps so many organizations, including ELO. That's because you work so hard at DCI, while Grandpa is relaxing in San Diego on the beach. Well, that's our organizers, but yes.

Yeah, I know. Okay, who's next? Seiji, we've got time, I think.

Two minutes. Let's see if we can do someone in the room. Oh, Rob.

Sorry, I know you've been going all day today. Rob's Tibetan just got amazing. Oh, wait.

Let's sit over here, Rob. Me and Rob, we're going to take a moment of your class, Seiji. Please don't mind.

Europe has been flooded with refugees due to a very serious war. 200,000 people have died this morning. Three children died in a bomb attack.

Try to put your mind on imagining people who are... I don't care which side you're on, or what you think about it, I don't care. But people are getting hurt.

And so we have... We have... The people in Sedona, the people in this room, we've decided to help some of the refugees.

We got permission to bring three women without their husbands, and one of their children. We got permission to bring them to Arizona to take care of them, and give them a place to stay where they won't get bombed. We're not supporting one side, and we're not supporting the other side.

We're just saying, if you're getting bombed, we would like to bring you here to be safe. I think if you're a real Buddhist... Sorry, if you're reading these ancient books, and somebody's getting bombed on your planet, then I feel strongly that you've got to do something.

You've got to do something. You can't just pray, and I hope they don't get bombed, or something like that. You've got to do something.

If you have any money, if you have any breath in your body still, you've got to do something for these people. I don't care what country they're from. I don't care what's the thing about.

I don't care. If someone's getting bombed, I want to bring them to my house. Look, you can stay in my house.

We did it. The people here in Sedona, we are bringing four refugees, one child and three moms, or three women, to protect them from the bombing. We got a special permission, and we're committed to help them.

We will pay for their place. We're going to try to give them work at the cafe. The agreement is they can run away anytime they want.

They can go to New York, or San Francisco, or a real city, and have fun, and support themselves, and do whatever they want. But just to get started, we're going to give them a free apartment, a free car, free food, free place to work if they want work, and we're going to protect them from bombs. That's all.

If it takes 10 years, we'll do it for 10 years. If it takes two years, we'll do it for two years. But we're committed.

We are committed, and we will pay, and it's okay. But if you would like to help us, that would be very appreciated, because Grandpa's money is always limited, because of work. I'm willing to do it.

Me and my wife, and John Brady and his wife, us four, we decided to take responsibility. We're paying for everything. But if you want to help, we won't refuse.

Rob Haggard is here sitting next to me, and he's helping with Rosa to organize this project to help people not get bombed. When they stop the bombs, that's okay. The top QR code is donation to help with their rent and their food, and medical costs, and stuff like that.

The bottom is like, in America, when there's a marriage, they do what they call a registry, and they pick a bunch of things on Amazon, and you buy them for the man and the wife. If you would rather buy something from the wish list, so we don't want 10 people to buy TVs, because they only need one. In this way, if you want to directly buy something for their kitchen, or their bedroom, or something like that, you can go to the Amazon wish list, and you can buy something, and it will be sent in your name to the refugees who are coming here.

I kind of think that's more fun, but it's up to you. Unfortunately, the guy who's renting us an apartment for them doesn't take toasters for money. We also need cash.

We're also going to need cash. If you'd like to donate cash for their rent and stuff like that, that's the QR code on the top. If you'd like to pick out something to send to them, then go to the wish list.

I'll tell you a funny story. We had Anjali, and Rosa, and Rob were looking all over Rimrock. It's a very, very tight housing market.

There's about 500 people living in trailers, because there's no houses, there's no apartments. We found an apartment that we were able to get, and guess what? It's Scott Vesic and Orit Vesic's old apartment by coincidence.

We think that's so sexy that the only apartment we could find for them is Scott and Orit's old apartment. It's got a lot of good karma in that apartment, because they started SCIN, they started DCI. They hired me and Seiji to work for DCI and SCIN.

That's their apartment in the picture in the middle. It's a beautiful place. If you'd like to help with that, that's the Peachtree Cafe in the picture, and that's the cinnamon rolls and the coffee.

If you'd like to help, you're very welcome to help. We are not supporting politically one country over another country. We're helping all the countries.

If someone is suffering, we're trying to help them. All right. Yay!

Okay. I'm calling Nick. We're going back to you.

All right. Thank you, sir. God, that's really great that you've arranged that.

It's amazing. What a worthy cause. Thanks, guys.

I gave something. I'll try to give more. It's 631.

Let's come back in 10 minutes. Hey, Nick, you're lonelier than your dog. Does somebody want to borrow Drew?

I don't know. He's pretty. You did a good job today.

Watch out for your mom. She's driving around VLC. Stay off the street, Maitreyi.

In any case. By the way, people are asking in the chat if the locks heart is what you. Yeah, it is.

[Говорящий 3]
And then if you want to do like a bank transfer, we're going to put the e-mail in the chat. You can reach out to me and we'll arrange a bank transfer as well. Yep.

[Говорящий 1]
Awesome. Thank you, Keshla. Thanks a lot, Keshla.

Yay, all living beings. Sashimi. Sashimi.

Okay, we got eight minutes for dinner. Okay. See you then.