Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 13

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 13 — Spring '23 - Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life - Seiji Arao - Class 5
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: весна 2023 (Spring '23); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 3]
I know. All right. Cool.

[Speaker 1]
Somebody's asking for Rebecca to explain more about the overseas study program maybe we can do that at the end of class. All right. And by the way, with this new thing.

If 37 people by the course, we're done and we reach our goal. We've already had a few people by. And I would like to thank Seiji and his wife nor Seiji made the money from DCI and SCM and his wife nor gave it away, which is what thank you.

It's really a issue Michael but you're sure you're familiar with that dynamics ages. It's very common. 12,000 came from taking.

Thank you. Thank you. All right.

I think we can make it and we're super happy to, to do it. It's great. Great.

In my, in my opinion is one of the greatest seats because this program is my favorite of all. Yay. Hey, speaking of that.

Let's homework. Okay. Okay.

All right. Can someone help explain how the how body cheating the form of action of an action connects to the perfection of giving sharing. According to the sutra requested by Aria Subahu.

[Speaker 2]
It is the ultimate Tongan.

[Speaker 1]
Online. Do you say Tongan?

[Speaker 2]
Yes. It's the ultimate Tongan meditation.

[Speaker 3]
And giving away enlightenment.

[Speaker 1]
It is the ultimate something, but not Tongan. I mean, you part of the off Tongan land tongue. Is it land?

No. Which one is that? We're talking about tonguing right now.

Yeah. Yes. You're 50% correct.

Why is it the ultimate form of giving or tongue. Because of the scope of the objects toward whom you're giving, because it's infinite beings. Yep.

And what is it that we're giving them actually Nick you help me translate this so. Oh, you mean that part. Well, then I won't answer but yes.

No, no, we're good. Okay. Let's see.

Remember a rain of the teachings, a rain of the Dharma. And a rain, a torrent of deathless nectar. Of?

Oh, of. The famous, the most famous pairs of all time. What?

Oh, torrent of emptiness. Torrent of emptiness. I don't remember translating that but yes.

Yes. It was so empty you forgot. This seems to be my life right now.

I've been overwhelmed with messages today. All right. What's a great thanks Nick.

What's a good example that can help us understand this attitude, a.k.a. bodhichitta. According to Master Shantideva and Gyaltsab J. Makes a guest appearance in the text.

Hmm. Uh oh.

[Speaker 3]
Parents serves their child.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Can you tell us more about it?

[Speaker 2]
I remember there being a specific example. Maybe there wasn't, but just the love. That a parent would feel towards their child.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's exactly it. Good example to understand this attitude. Try to emulate the love of mothers or fathers.

For their kids. And they said we should try to. Have that level of concern for all others.

For everyone. Nice. And the most controversial part of the text.

This time. I'm not saying this is correct, but if we were trying to find. A way that bodhichitta could be higher.

To the foreign measurables. How could that be possible? What possible explanations.

Would you find for that? Bodhichitta leads to Buddhahood. The four measurables.

I don't know. Maybe they don't. I don't know.

Right. That's part of it. I was actually having a.

Conversation with Venerable Pala this morning. Whether. The objective of the four measurables.

Is enlightenment or nirvana. Because they say liberation, but. Right.

Yeah. That's usually like moksha. I mean, the yogis talk about it too.

So I don't know. What exactly state they're referring to. Right.

[Speaker 2]
Two sets of four visuals. Right. And one in the higher path.

[Speaker 1]
The fourth immeasurable is aimed at Lana method. There were. At everyone.

Hi. Immeasurable happiness. So.

Technically they don't say. It could be nirvana. Yeah.

That could be. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Or it could be enlightenment.

[Speaker 1]
Or to be honest. It could be a different four immeasurables. That we haven't found yet.

Hmm. Right. Well, I took a shot at it.

That said. I was trying to. I remember the seven step cause and effect.

And remember that it already contains. Equanimity. Love and compassion.

I mean. I don't know if they could be one-to-one, but. Right.

Step zero. Seven step. Infinite equanimity.

Compassion. And then I was thinking. It could maybe say that the infinite.

Joy part. Containing remembering your mothers. And wanting to repay their kindness.

And take personal responsibility. That's all good thinking. Yep.

And I said, well, in the seventh. You thought about it, which is really good. Yeah.

They're considered precursors. So maybe that's how. It could be counted as.

But it's just a somehow. Higher. Yep.

Could be. I don't know. And another part.

Yes. I haven't. This.

In my opinion, this could be. Potentially. Counted the four measurables as to nirvana.

Not necessarily enlightened.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I understand this is controversial. And not at all. It's just something.

I was thinking about. Seiji, I want to teach you something. I do at the end of a book.

Yes. I just did it. I just did it with Sugeng's book.

A few days ago. When I finish. Finish.

Finish. Finish a book. I go through.

And I look for all the red underlines.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And if they're not Sanskrit. I misspelled something. It's.

Well, if you take the. Oh. Yeah.

Okay. Yes.

[Speaker 3]
There you go.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay. Good.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Good. Okay.

[Speaker 3]
Is it.

[Speaker 1]
In a plural. But I add to dictionary. That's something.

That's. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
I just encourage you guys as translators. The last thing you do before you show someone your translation. Is you check for red underlines.

I can't remember. Do we. Bodhicitta.

We always capitalize. Right. Well.

That's a good point. We do capitalize the wish. Right.

But we don't. We don't capitalize. Bodhicitta.

As we call it. The wish. Capital W.

Right. Right. Capital T.

It's the only non-like thing we capitalize. Is it capital T also? The wish?

No. I just. Yeah.

All right. That's just. Bodhicitta.

Okay. Oh. You're doing sexy Sanskrit words.

Sanskrit and written words. Who can tell me the Tibetan. Or the English.

Hmm. What is it? Shula.

Shula.

[Speaker 3]
Nice word. The Tibetan is. Moo.

Yes. Oh, okay. Okay.

All right.

[Speaker 1]
Flash of pain.

[Speaker 3]
Sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
I'm talking about my pronunciation.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. A couple of years ago, the Hirsh, the Hirsh, oh, these aren't, I don't even know. Want to clear CG?

Yeah. Want to clear. And I guess I also put this part of this part, which is Hirsh, desire?

Yes. I'm guessing so. Yep.

Awesome. By the way, CG, let me say something about your book. Right after the Sanskrit, I write the words that I don't know.

[Speaker 3]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
And then right after the Tibetan, I write the words that you don't know. So be careful not to use the words that I don't know, because they're weird, okay? So don't go for the words after the Sanskrit.

Those are words that I don't know, which means you're never going to see them in your whole lifetime. And then use the words after the Tibetan, okay? All right.

Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. So I can learn new words.

Okay. Cool. All right.

So again, thanks, Nick, for helping me with the translation. I did it in a hasty manner. Yeah.

I would just say, how could they feel that way about the goals, about others' needs? How could they feel that about others' needs? How could they feel that way?

Yeah, I was trying to catch the K with manifest. Yeah, meaning start to... The object of K is sim.

Yeah, how could they generate that mindset? Yeah, right. And we don't say generate mind in English.

[Speaker 3]
Of course not.

[Speaker 1]
How could they ever feel that way or something like that? Yeah. What's the point, Seiji?

What's the point of the verse? I mean, don't refer to the verse. What's the whole point of the verse?

If someone asks you what's the main point of this verse, what are you going to say? Don't look at the words. Don't look at the words.

I mean, the words in your mind. Well, in the previous verse, we were talking about the care of parents versus these other super powerful beings. Okay.

Versus their special... It's actually versus the special good karmic thoughts that created them. And even those karmas don't compare to the karma of thinking of another person as your own child.

Right, right. Dan, what's the point of this verse? Just, if you're going to describe it to somebody in an elevator...

Never. Well, that the thing we should start with is starting with care for others because everything else can get you to a high result that will not work at the end. I don't know.

We should try to reach a place where we feel towards every other being the same way our mom or our dad feels about us.

[Speaker 3]
Right, right.

[Speaker 1]
The love of a mother or a father. We should feel that. But most people never had that thought about even themselves in a dream.

[Speaker 3]
Oh.

[Speaker 1]
Never even in a dream did they have that level of concern, even for themselves, that our parents had for us. Most human beings, until they become parents, don't really know what love feels like, even for themselves. And in a dream means, look, even in the wildest dreams, even in their wildest dreams, these people never had that kind of concern, even for themselves.

Dan, what's the last line say? Well, if you cannot do it for you, how could you do it for others? Are you crazy?

They're going to think like that about other people? When in their wildest dreams, they never even had that kind of love for themselves?

[Speaker 3]
Wow.

[Speaker 1]
In their most crazy dreams, they never felt this kind of love, even for themselves. Then how in the waking world are they going to feel this for other people? They don't even know what it feels like, for themselves.

And naturally, normally we say people's love for themselves is supreme. But it doesn't reach the love of a parent for their kid. So most people never even felt that for themselves, even in their crazy dreams.

So how are they going to feel this way towards other people when they're awake? Shantideva is like, it's impossible. It's a beautiful verse.

As a father, I know you understand this better than I do. I didn't have kids. Okay, next word.

Well, I don't think that's necessarily true, Geshe-la. You have a hundred-something kids. Hey, don't forget about us.

I had a lady sit next to me on a plane one time. She told me she had three kids. She said, how many do you have?

And at the time I had 80 in New York. I said 80. And she looked me with disrespect in her eyes.

Wow, anyway.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, that could have gone either way.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Seiji, who are you reading? Your reading is too boring. Let's see.

[Speaker 3]
Marina. Did you say Maria? Sorry?

Marina.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Me, yes?

[Speaker 3]
Yes, go for it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. ma-na-me-pe-me-chik-jung Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I didn't realize they would fill their own goals. Seiji, in Shantideva and in the Tibetan translation of Sanskrit, you're going to have to learn to read across the commas. Ignore the commas.

So, this first line actually extends into the first two syllables of the second line. This state of mind, this kind of concern or love, other people, minjung, even for ranggidung. I put it in the third line.

It was all kind of one sentence tumbled together. Yeah. This kind of concern for others, never, these people have never had it even for themselves.

That's the point of the first line and a half. Yeah. My treat, please.

So, if somebody did get that state of mind, and then you have the sem chen dun sem kang, if someone did get this state of mind which is so concerned with other people, other beings, okay, if someone did get it, I would say it's like a sem kyi rin chen. Like a jewel. Like an amazing, it's like an amazing jewel.

Khyepa means amazing. And nga la me, nga la me. Yeah, it never came before.

They've never had it before, and it is amazing. You got that, that's correct there. If they got this state of mind, which is like a precious jewel, it would be amazing, and it's something they never had before.

If somebody, if anybody gets it, it's like a miracle. That's what he's saying. The truth is like, if they got it.

It's kyewa. Right, yeah, yeah. Now, you tell me, Nick, you tell me why he used trung, and I'll give you $50 for the Amalie College Fund.

Because he's talking about the amazing beings who do manage to get bodhicitta, or because he's talking, hold on, maybe, because he's talking about this jewel mind that is born, this incredible jewel that is bodhicitta. He's using the high honorific verb for to be born. And by the way, last verse he said kye.

If you check the, he said kye. Okay, and now he says trung. Trung.

Had its holy birth. Had its holy birth. Okay, what?

Bodhicitta. He refuses to use a common word with bodhicitta. It's very beautiful.

And it's very... Can you take the $50 that's going toward the Amalie College Fund and send it right into the Diamond Cutter Classics donation, so that probably... I think you'd have to ask Amalie that.

Excuse me. You know, Nick, the way I would phrase it is, Amalie, do you want ice creams a hundred times in the future? And she says yes.

She gets it better than I do. Okay, next verse. Awesome.

By the way, word. Is he there? Yes, sir.

If you could compare for us the Sanskrit of the non-honorific birth with the honorific birth. Oh, right now? Well, when you're done, when you're ready, tell us after the next verse, okay?

Okay. Can you put it in the chat for me, Seiji? Yep.

Thanks. You're going to need the Sanskrit for 25 and 24. 25 and here's 24.

Yep. Thank you. I'm curious what's the corresponding...

What's the corresponding Sanskrit? Because the Tibetan is the high honorific and the normal. Okay.

Okay. Was there a Maria here that was going to read before?

[Speaker 3]
Hmm.

[Speaker 1]
Whoever opened their mic in the past. Maria?

[Speaker 2]
Hi. Sorry. I thought you said Maria instead of Marina.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, please. Yeah, please go.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Ro-wa-kun. How?

You say it?

[Speaker 1]
Ro-wa-kun. Yeah. Gi.

[Speaker 2]
Ro-wa-kun. Gi. Ta-we-gyu?

[Speaker 3]
Nice.

[Speaker 2]
Sem-chen-al-gyu-gyu.

[Speaker 3]
Dung-nyao. Dung-nyao.

[Speaker 2]
Rin-chen-sem-ki-so-nyao-ken.

[Speaker 1]
Nam-chen.

[Speaker 3]
Nam-ken.

[Speaker 2]
Nam-chen. De-la-chik-tar-shao-chik-wang.

[Speaker 1]
Shao-ki-lang. Yay. Yeah.

Good. Good. How could we measure good?

The cause for happiness of all people. Ro-wa-kun-pa-gyu-gyu. Good.

The cure of the suffering of all beings. Good. The virtue of this dual mind.

Nice. Perfect translation. But I have a question.

I have a comment. C. In the second line.

R-T-Z-I. Without the R on the end. Just by itself.

R-T-Z-I. It can mean... It can mean juice.

It can mean du-zi, nectar. It can mean medicine. Sir can mean to squeeze somebody.

And this is a nice example of when you could go to the Sanskrit and check what it says. And Sanskrit here says, o-shuddha. So when you connect, when you join du-kar to o-shuddha, it becomes du-kar-shuddha.

So o-shuddha is one of the only words in Sanskrit that begins with an O. There's like three words or something. Very rare.

And o-shuddha is very, very famous in the Hatha Yoga Padipika, which we are studying at the end of... When is it?

[Speaker 3]
End of September.

[Speaker 1]
20th to the 29th of September we'll be studying in the Hatha Yoga Padipika. And it's a very practical yoga text. It includes how to do retreat, how to do everything.

Really awesome. And it mentions o-shuddha. And that means a plant, which the plant is medicine.

So that's o-shuddha. So if you don't know which seed they're talking about here, because it could mean varnish, it could mean juice, it could mean nectar, it could mean lots of weird things. You can check the Sanskrit, if you know.

O-shuddha. Say o-shuddha. Yeah, and it means an herb, which is a natural medicinal plant.

I just wanted to add context. Don't tell him that, Nick. Don't tell him.

Don't tell him we just hit it luckily. Yeah, it's a medicine. It means a medicine.

Or you could say cure, that's okay. Okay, good. Let's go to the next verse, Seiji.

Who would you like to... Don't forget you got people here who have to earn their pizza. You just got pizza?

Oh, this one I didn't. We just did three. Oh, okay.

Bertha? Oh. Do you want to take the plane?

Yeah, I do want to take the plane. Here we go. Oh, let me get your book up, by the way.

I'm sorry. Let's get... Let me call up your book.

I was otherwise occupied. Translator... Okay, here we go.

Okay. Now we'll go back here. Good, Seiji?

Yep. Which number are we? Twenty-seven.

Okay. We can blow this up. Do you have anybody you want to read, Seiji?

Yeah, let's... Bertha Velasco, please.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, great. Thank you.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 3]
Yes, very good.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Yeah, nice. What's PEMBA, you guys?

[Speaker 3]
Benefit.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, to help somebody. Like, you know, you want to help somebody with their car or something, okay? Which we have to do.

PEMBA SAMBA If you just think you want to help somebody, just that. TZAM KHA'I KYANG And I love these two lines. It is the...

Nick? KHYAD PAR DU PHAG PA'I CHOD PA for Sangye. KHYAD PAR DU PHAG PA'I Say that again?

It's the... Oh, it's the... indistinguished...

or like the most distinguished offering, highest offering for the Buddha. Yeah, a Buddha. So, I love these two lines.

They don't want your incense. They don't want, you know, hippie Sedona candles. They want your...

to PEMBA towards other people. They want you to help somebody. God dang it.

And that's the ultimate offering for a Buddha and that's where it says, okay? That's the ultimate offering. You know, forget this gold-painted candle racks and stuff.

Go out and help a refugee. Okay? If that's the ultimate offering to the Buddhas to help one other person, then...

What's the next two lines, Nick? SEM CHEN MO LUNG THAMS CAD KYIS As for all the various beings in the world, DE DAN TZAM PA MA If you're working for their... Oh, sorry?

If you're working for their what? Their happiness. Yeah, if you're making offerings toward their happiness.

What Niamh mentioned... Yeah, maybe that's... Maybe that's a nice offering to the Buddhas.

Helping one person with a tiny thing during the day is the best offering you can make to the Buddha. Then, you know, building temples, blah blah blah. But, if you have the intention to do it toward countless beings, then maybe they like it?

Okay. Maybe it's a nice offering. That intention.

It's very beautiful. I'm going to skip the Sanskrit because we didn't make much progress in the text. So, let's go do some more lines because this is kind of our party day.

Okay. Awesome. Anybody have a question?

I found the K and the CHUNG. Nice. What is it?

KYE. What are they? Utpana.

And CHUNG was upajayata. Oh, okay. A more polite word.

To give birth to the bodhicitta is a more polite word than... Okay. Does Sanskrit have an honorific in the same way that Tibetan does?

No, it doesn't. It's just more... formal wording.

It's really just more formal wording. They don't have a separate... Not like Tibetan.

Okay. Seiji, who are you going to make suffer? Can we have Venerable Jigme please?

[Speaker 3]
Not that I want to make him suffer.

[Speaker 1]
She gave a mighty groan as if she had been hit with a stick. Oh, sorry. No, forget that.

She's good with her clairvoyance. It's okay. Sorry, Jigme, you did tell me this morning.

I am sorry.

[Speaker 2]
That's okay.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, half of these verses are super famous. Here's a famous one. People hope, people have thoughts where they hope to door their dunya.

Want to get rid of their suffering? That's right. They want to get rid of their suffering.

Then gyuk means they run. What?

[Speaker 3]
Run towards it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they run towards it. People say, I don't want to suffer. Then they race as fast as they can towards the suffering.

Then they say, I want dewa. I want dewa, Seiji. I want happiness.

I want virtue. Yeah, and because of the pig in the middle of the wheel of life whose name is Timu.

[Speaker 3]
Ignorance?

[Speaker 1]
Because of their ignorance. They joan their own happiness like a draw. That's the dracham.

Dracham. Or heart. Destroy their virtue.

They destroy their own happiness as if it was their worst enemy. They work hard to destroy their own happiness. Even though they say they want to be happy.

They work very efficiently and hard to destroy their own happiness as if it were their enemy. Thank you. Seiji, who's next?

Jigme, do you want to continue? Sure, why not. Thank you.

Yeah, so kang shik means if you're a person sorry, kang shik deway pongpa dang so if you meet these people who are pongpa means they don't have any dewa. They don't have any happiness and they have mangpo dungyel. And if you could give them dewa kun and make their heart satisfied, sim, you could chuh, dorje chuh at other dungyel.

At other suffering. At other suffering, yeah. Okay, good.

That's so easy. Seiji. Jigme should continue.

Well, they say you run towards suffering. So if you want to get, satisfy them with all happiness, if you want to cut off all their suffering, if you also want to selwa their timuk Their ignorance? Yeah, if you want to clear away their ignorance.

Then the next three lines end with where could you, first one where could you ever find gewa like that Yeah, good karma. Where could you ever find a good karma like that if you wanted to help all living beings? Where would you find that kind of geshe?

Friend. Yeah, virtue friend. Where would you find that kind of virtue friend?

And where would you find that kind of sinner? Merit. Okay, cool.

Now you guys know the difference between gewa and sinem because you studied it with Sugeng for quite a long time. Hmm. Okay, Seiji, let's do another verse.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Jigme, you want to continue? She's still there, so I take that as she's happy. That's funny.

She could have just called us name, I don't know. We're all just waiting for our pizza. LEN LEN means to pay back somebody to return a kindness.

LEN LEN means somebody did a kindness towards you. Anytime a person pays back even a small kindness, like, I don't know, my wife will bake a cake for anything. You smile at her, she'll bake a cake for you.

Okay, and she's repaying someone's kindness. Let's say you bake a cake for somebody because they did something nice for you. Or she'll give you a massage for three hours.

Wow. Then is that something we should ngakpa? Yeah, we praise it.

U means worthy. Even just a person who's considerate enough to pay back somebody for some small kindness, we say that person's a nice person. But BYANG CHUB SEMS PAS, they do you ngakpa.

[Speaker 3]
With SADDHA's, they ngakpa?

[Speaker 1]
They do good? Yeah, they do good. Buddha in the Heart Sutra says ngakpa, ngakpa, good, good.

Boy, that was a great answer, which I made you give. He's so smart. So MA CHU means nobody asked them to go pay back every living being.

They did it on their own. Nobody told the Bodhisattva, oh, you should go thank people on that planet. They helped you in the past lives.

Nobody asked them to do it. They went and did it. They go and help every living being whether anyone asked them to or not.

And if we can praise people who repay small kindnesses, then what about someone who repays the kindness of every living being? Okay. Let's get another person.

This is getting ridiculous. Okay. Aldo, are you translating?

Sorry. Oscar. Oscar, please.

What does the star mean? Say again? What does the star mean?

Is that the same as a percentage? That's an old one I put in there. Yeah.

That's probably from many years ago. Nowadays we do it like this. Okay.

DRO BA NI NYONG ZAS NAR MED ZAD DRO BA DRO BA means if you prepare NAR MA means regular dish, you know, like breakfast for somebody. For a few people. Okay.

And KHYAD CIG ZAD TZAM BYEN PAR BYED PA DANG And you serve them a meal for a few minutes. Okay. NYAD CHE NYIN CHE TZAM PAR BYED PAR YANG DGE BAR BYED PAR YIN CHE DGE BAR GUR I knew...

Oh, yeah. And if you invite someone to your house, okay, BYAD CHENG for NYIN CHE half a half a day. Yeah.

And I don't know why he says NYAD CHE. NYAD CHE means, I don't know, anybody guess? You don't even treat and you don't even treat them very well?

How's that? Okay, you invite someone to your house for half a day but you don't treat them that well. Still, people around you praise you and say, Oh, he's DGE BAR.

He's doing DGE BAR. She's doing DGE BAR.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Look how virtuous they are. They invited someone to their house for lunch. Or they invited someone over to their house and didn't even treat them that well.

That was okay. That was nice. Okay.

Seiji, who's next? All right, let's see. By the way, I should check a commentary on the NYAD CHE.

Okay. Catherine? Are you translating?

No. Catherine?

[Speaker 3]
Oh, we cannot hear you. Oh, wait. I cannot hear you.

Can you guys hear her? I don't hear anyone but you.

[Speaker 1]
Oh. Oh, sorry. There's something wrong with your mic, Catherine, I think.

Let's see. Oh, I can hear you now.

[Speaker 3]
Can you hear me? Yes. Yes?

Yes. Yes. Yep.

Good.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
I think it's correct. Okay. The example was if someone invites somebody over for breakfast or even at Peachtree Cafe, and if somebody watches your kids for half a day or something like that, then everybody says they're a nice person.

But what if you are acting towards sem jeng trang kye, countless beings. Yeah. But what if you're talking about countless beings?

du ring du means forever and ever. You're going to give them the lana me pe dewa, Nick. The happiness that's unsurpassed or unmatched of the ones gone to bliss.

Yeah. If you're talking about countless living beings and you're talking about all eternity and you're talking about the ultimate happiness, and you're talking about turning them into Buddhas, well, yi la sangpa tharag dzokshepa, you want to dzokpa all their sangpas, Nick. You want to fulfill or complete all of anything that they could think of.

Yeah, all their dreams. And you want to do that every hour of the day for the rest of eternity? Maybe.

Maybe it's cool. Maybe that's pretty cool. Maybe that's pretty all right.

Okay. Who's next, Teji? Okay, let's see.

Lindsay, please.

[Speaker 2]
Gilra...

[Speaker 3]
Gilse.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, Gilse. Jin Dag La.

[Speaker 1]
Galte Na Sem Neng Sem Ki Pa Je Na De Na Sem Neng Sem Neng Sem Ki Pai Grangshin Skaparni Skaparni, yep.

[Speaker 2]
May War Na Par What's that first one? Meow War Meow War Na Par Gyur She Tupay Sum Your tongue is really giving me faith and word.

[Speaker 1]
Maybe you're not. Okay. Yeah.

Now a very dire warning. A very heavy warning. Okay.

If there's a jin dag, what's jin dag? Jin dag means a sponsor like who paid for the lunch for the monks or something like that. Now he's saying the Gilse is a jin dag.

Yeah, and how many lunches did he pay for? Billions. Okay, all right.

It's kind of a joke. Suppose we got this guy who wants to pay for dinner for the sangha of billions upon billions of people. And you get a ngan sem towards that person.

You get a bad thought toward them. Yeah, you say he's an idiot or he shouldn't give away all his money. You say if you just have a single random weird thought about this person who's a bodhisattva, ngan sem means that bad thought.

chang shin means equal in number. Oh, in kalpas. In eons.

In eons equal to the milliseconds of that thought. Wow. You will be in the nyelwa.

Hells. You'll be in the hell realms. So in a good way, if you meet a bodhisattva and think, wow, that's cool, you automatically collect billions of good karma.

But at the same time, if you think he's an idiot or she's an idiot or something like that, then equal to the milliseconds, 65 per finger snap, that's right there is 65 eons. Even if you don't know who they are. That's why you got to be careful with people.

Even those guys in the trucks who follow me. It could be bodhisattvas. You never know.

Who said that? The Buddha said that. The Buddha said that.

Shantideva said, look, it's not me, it's Lord Buddha. Nine minutes or so again. It is literal.

[Speaker 2]
Do the good and the bad balance each other out?

[Speaker 1]
Hopefully. All right, let's do this one fast. Seiji, your last verse.

You can read it yourself. Yeah, un te gang she yirab chen na, but if you rejoice in the motivation of a bodhisattva and their efforts, that debu is hlakpa to the other one. That result is going to take you the other direction.

So on the good way, you get more. Okay. gyel se nam la tokya chenpay kyang, and because of the gravity, tokya, karmic gravity of a bodhisattva, okay, dikpa minjung gyelwa nang gi pel, you will get out of the habit of doing bad deeds, and your good deeds will increase.

nang gi means all by themselves. Just get in the habit of rejoicing in the good things that other people do, and get out of the habit of criticizing what other people do, and you got yourself covered. What was the famous quotation by my Israeli boss?

[Speaker 3]
Cover all your bases.

[Speaker 1]
Cover all your bases, just in case it's correct. It's 625.

[Speaker 3]
Cool.

[Speaker 1]
All right, we're done, Seiji. Thank you very much, Geshe-la. Thank you.

Can't wait for the... Yeah. I mean, it's almost as good as pizza.

Uncle Ning, anything? Yeah, can I just do a quick thank you right now? So they're not all...

All right, and then you guys can get right to pizza.

[Speaker 3]
I don't see it.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, okay, then I'll... All the more reason for me to do it. So first of all, amazing.

We reached our goal. That's incredible. 36,000 subscribers.

That's great. Thank you, you guys. What's the total?

Well, it's 36,000 and some change, but we'll have to... We're still pulling in.

[Speaker 3]
Yay.

[Speaker 1]
And people are signing up for the class, too. So that's exciting. This is our brand new education platform.

Moving forward in the next couple months, we'll have a lot more classes going through that platform, including Word's upcoming classes. But, you know, however he told you to get into them, use that for now, and we'll work it out. Speaking of Word, I want to offer a huge, extra special thank you for your hard work, getting up at ridiculous hours to teach these guys.

And, you know, Word called me before term and he was like, Nick, you know, people want to learn and they want to know how to read along and, you know, we have to do something. He said, I'll get up. All right, man.

You're amazing. Thank you, Word. Nick, do you guys have the advertisement for his talk?

I think so. Gina, do we have that available? Let's show it during the break.

Yeah, that's great. Yeah, Word's going to give a talk on the book that's already published, so thank you for doing that too. And Word just works really hard to make sure everybody is learning the language and you're a great teacher and we can see it because people are doing great.

And I just want to offer a thank you to, sorry again. No, it wasn't me. Okay.

We have a lot of people doing a lot of work to translate for us and you guys are incredible and we wouldn't be able to do these classes without you. And I think you're the hardest working people besides Geshe Michael here because it just doesn't stop and we all talk fast. So I'm just going to say thank you now to our Spanish translation team.

Haso, I know it works pretty hard to arrange it, but we got Juan Haso, Aisha, Flavia, Aldo, Haso, go ahead and jump in because I can't remember who else is translating into Spanish.

[Speaker 3]
Roxana, Claudia, Is there Berta?

[Speaker 1]
Berta, of course Berta has been translating for us for years. Aldo, Alex Rivas, yeah, Aldo I said, thank you. I think that's it.

We got to thank Flavia for cooking for grandpa this whole week. I thanked her but yes, that's amazing. Flavia, we're grateful that you're here.

If I had this lady cooking every night I might be healthy and she gave me this look like. Okay, we're not going to talk about it. Nick, back to you.

All right, well, we'll talk more about it later. We got more thank yous to do after the break. Did your pizza come yet?

I got one more thing, one more idea, Nick, just to throw out to everybody. Absolutely. I think I know what you're going to say.

We were talking today about how hard this schedule is for everybody, not just for grandpa, and we're flirting with suggesting me and Seiji would like the translators and the bosses of the translators, the two bosses, to consider the idea of having a class once a week for the whole year. During normal hours for people. Like two hours once a week, like every Monday or something like that.

And then you just know that you tune in on Monday and you, instead of killing everybody for two weeks at a time, you know, which is hard for everybody, and then we'll try to adjust it. But I propose that we have a Mixed Nuts meeting of all of the translators and the two bosses, Ben and Nick, and we discuss an idea like that. And I think it would have an additional benefit that wherever I am in the world, we would be having a Mixed Nuts class and we would collect more students, I think.

Because they would see me having a class once a week, for example. I think it's a fantastic idea, Keshe Michael. I think it's our future.

I talked with Seiji a little bit about it already, so I started doing the math. Okay. Anyway, what's up?

I think it almost works, yeah. I think it would be a little more than what you said, but, I mean, hours per week, but three to four. But I think it's an amazing idea.

I would be thrilled for this to go in that direction. That said, if you have already registered for next term, because we put the QR code up, we can, you know, we can work it into, you know, just putting it toward joining the year-long program, you know, as it changes, or we can refund you or whatever. Yeah.

Okay. Well, think about it. Okay.

We got work to do here. I'm sorry. Please eat some for me.

Hi, Ezra. Thank you for class, boss. The real boss of the translation program.

Hey, Ezra, can I ask you a question? Yes. Is it true that the handsome genetics skip every other generation?

[Speaker 2]
I don't know. I'm just asking. No, me and my daddy are both handsome.

[Speaker 1]
I don't see how that's possible. We're going to take a break, you guys. Enjoy your dinner.

We'll see you in 10 minutes? Okay. Okay.

642. Okay, get your questions ready. Everybody.

Thanks, Snake. Thank you. Yeah, think of some good questions for Geshe Michael.

I remember for many years it was hard to be able to ask him a question to get the chance. So if you got one, go for it.