Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 14

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 14 — Xuanzang's Tower — Master Shantideva — Session 1 — Class 1
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: 2024, точная дата не установлена (Session 1 предшествует Session 9 от 1 июня 2024); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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Gwensong's Tower, the Diamond Cutter Classics Translations Team's weekly classes with Keshe Michael Roach. Glad to see you all here again. And I think we're still waiting for the boss to show up, but I'm excited for another class.

We've been having a really amazing amount of participation in these classes and it's really exciting. Feeling very grateful for you all for how much you're coming to stick with us. As Keshe Michael likes to say, if you don't understand everything, you're in the right place.

Even if you understand only like 5%, you're in the right place. Because learning these ideas is going to help expand the capacity of our minds. So very exciting.

So I think we'll be able to get started soon. I see people joining and joining. And as we go through these weekend and Monday classes, we're going to throw in interesting things.

We translators will give you guys homeworks. We invite you to participate more and more by sharing your ideas on practical applications of the books that we're working on. We'll have some Q&A sessions, question and answer sessions.

Boss, whenever you get here, if Keshe Michael is here. I am here. I'm good.

It's a chime on it. I'm just filling the air with... Is this connected to that computer?

Oh no, same. How are you connected to that? Is that your computer?

Is it? It is. We're working on it, Nick.

We got technical problems. I'm sorry. Sorry.

Sorry. Take your time. Everything should be fine.

How many Nick's nuts does it take to run a Zoom call? Oops. I think if CG, if you connect this to that, and then you connect that one to that other one.

Why didn't you say so before? And I think this one will work. You need to use this one because it feeds that.

You need to use his.

[Говорящий 3]
Really?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. And Nick, can you hear an echo when you talk? No echo.

No, you sound great. Okay. It didn't happen last time.

All right, cool. We're all right? Yep.

Okay. Nick, do you have any information to share with us? I have shared enough.

You take it away, boss. Okay, good. Welcome, everybody.

And we're back with Seiji Arao's text. And I'm going to surprise him by asking him to summarize his text. And maybe the last text you did.

Well, the last text I can do, this one. Wait, do we have to go like this, Nick? Oh, okay.

Maybe. Yeah, that's perfect. Okay.

Last time we did a little bit of Master Shantideva's biography, which was amazing. He apparently, I can't remember. I wasn't prepared for this.

But somewhere in his childhood, when he was like four, he met his first teacher. And as far as I remember, he got three lineages in him. One that came through the great teacher.

Yeah. And the other great teacher. There are three big lineages that I can't remember right now.

And he met his secret teacher when he was like seven or something. And so he got an extraordinary childhood. And I think that's it.

We started seeing... Oh, the last thing we saw is when the famous story of how all the other monks thought he was Mr. Busuku and wanted to trick him and put the super tall altar. And they said, please teach us.

And he did this miraculous thing that he just appeared on the throne. Oh, yeah. He was about to start.

And he asked him, do you want me to tell you something that has been written or something of my own? Yeah, yeah. We want yours.

And I think that's it. That's what we see. Yeah, they want to kick him out of the monastery because they think he's amazing.

And they call him Mr. Three Thoughts. For 10 cents, what are the three thoughts? Eating, sleeping, pooping.

Yeah, they want to kick him out. So they come up with this idea that they'll ask him to give a teaching or recite a text. And then they make the throne too high, the teaching throne.

And he gets up there anyway. And then he's about to say very, what do you call it? Challenging words.

So let's see here. Okay. Okay, here we go.

You said we're going to start. Oh, sorry. Let's start here.

Okay. You can sit here and you can scroll. Okay.

Okay. Nice. Dene means and then.

What's ndo? Sutra or scripture. Munche means in the past.

What's the talk about like Dr. Sheh do or should talk about? Famous or well-known. Do you want me to recite to you guys a sutra that everybody knows that has been spread in the past?

Dön means to recite. And nam is a question mark in Tibetan. So Tibetan doesn't have a question mark.

They repeat the suffix letter of the word and they put am on it. So nam. If it ended in an r, it would be ram.

Okay. So do you want me to recite to you something that everybody knows? Or madarpa.

What's that mean? Something that they don't know. Yeah, something that nobody ever heard of.

Dön katselpe. Katselpa is funny because that's the high, high honorific. Instead of sumba or lapa, they say he bespoke.

And that's a word Stanley don't know, $20. Bespoke. Bespoke, one word.

And it high, high, high, high, angry. And ngun madarpa means give us something we never heard before. Shig sur.

And then shu shu. I'll give $50 and tell me why they repeated it. Can I see?

I told you about 10 minutes ago. Because they beg, beg, like, please give us something new. Funny begs.

How much did I say? A word. Yeah.

I don't know. The mail's not too good to Tucson. Pony.

Yeah, shu shu means that many people say, yeah, yeah, yeah, give us something new. Yeah, shu shu. Many people.

It's the honorific for please do something. Okay. It means to request.

Shu shu pa. Then there's a verse from the Bodhisattva Charita, and it happens to be the first verse. And why it's here, we don't know yet, but you're about to learn.

So Seiji, why don't you read this? And then after that, you can pick on somebody else. Like me or something.

Okay. Nice, nice leader. Okay.

You guys. And along with their say, and give me a politically correct translation, with their daughters and their sons. Okay.

Along with their daughters and their sons. Okay. Which is how I translate it nowadays.

You can say children. That's fine. But I'd like to rub it into the ancient guys.

Chak. Chak er means chak sel. And er means worthy.

What's the Sanskrit of er? Which is why some people say, er means a worthy one. I bow down chak sel.

How do I chak sel? With great ku ba. Yeah, with great respect.

By the way, if you took the ba off, it would be ku, which has a totally different meaning. And it's I, me. Okay.

And in epistolary Tibetan, when you use Tibetan for writing letters, polite letters, you refer to yourself as ku. Why? Why?

I don't know. Geshe? On the blitz.

Yeah. Which is it? Yeah.

Tsugata. Again, tsugatas. Say means those children of the, of the Buddhas.

Domba la juk. Yeah. What's the two divisions of bodhisattva vows?

Oh, yeah. Okay. Man sem and juk sem.

Here's juk. Got it? You see what I mean?

There's two divisions to the bodhisattva vows. Man lempa, aspire towards being a bodhisattva, and then jukpa means actually take the vows and get into it. Here he uses jukpa, which in Sanskrit is?

Avatara. Tara. Like bodhisattva chari avatara.

Okay. Got it? Yep.

So this is very loaded verse. It's got a lot of important words in it. Jukpa jar at the end of the next line, it means I will describe to you those, the activities and the vows of a bodhisattva.

Dor du. Briefly. Briefly.

And then very importantly, he thinks it's important to say lung shin. As it appears in the scriptures? This is scriptures.

Give it. It means I'm not making this up. It means, it's also a little bit of a king by king.

What's that? He's being humble by saying, this is just what the books taught. Yeah.

Like I'm not smart enough to give you something original. I'm just passing on to you what the holy books say. Okay.

By the way, happy century everybody. It's the 25th century, which means it's, the black moon is coming in a few days, the next three, four days, something grumpy days. Everybody.

It's always a good excuse when you're in a grumpy mood to say, oh, it's the moon. Okay. Since you choose somebody to meet.

Let's see. They could be online. They could be in this room.

Joe said he would sing, but he won't do, he won't do the poetry. Only some interpreters. Can you do it?

I don't think so. Oh, I hope not.

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Me?

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Yes, please.

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Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Nice part. In this case part.

Okay. So, from, shepa ne means starting with the first verse of the Bodhisattva Charvatara. He got up on the throne.

He read the first verse from memory. And then he got up to the line that says, kang tse at the time when, kang tse at the time when, nga and nge me dak, things that are real and things that are not real. And then he uses the dual tense, the dual construction in Sanskrit, dak, which means those two.

Okay. When you're talking about real and not real, he got up to that word, real and not real. He gave it to them in sitting on this throne.

Okay. I went and checked because I was curious how far into the emptiness chapter he is. And he was about 20% into the emptiness chapter.

He still had 80% to go. That's the longest chapter. It has 167 verses roughly.

And he was only about 20% into the chapter on the sixth, what? Perfection. And then what happens, Sanjay, there's a picture for you guys.

Sanjay, read the caption on the picture. Oh. By the way, you got to supply the dots.

Okay. I don't think I can do that. Oh, you don't have that.

Yeah. SOM KHE KHA LA ZHIG PA BUGZUKU Here's BUGZUKU. Here's the spelling of BUGZUKU.

And this is a carving from an edition of the 8,000 verses that has teacher's pictures on every page, front and back, four pictures per page. We catalog them. We took them all.

We spread them. Wikipedia uses them all. Nobody ever credits AOL.

Okay. But there he is. Okay.

There's BUGZUKU. SOM KHE means he was a master author. SOM means to write a book.

And KHA LA ZHIG means high honorific, like DESHAN ZHIG PA, like Tathagata. He got up into the sky. He flew in the sky.

Okay. And he still got his book in his hand.

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Okay.

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I think it's wonderful. Why he looks like that, I don't know. By the way, the guy who carved those paintings, those carvings of teachers, he was a master.

And he's very similar to Picasso. And then suddenly they all change. And they all get very normal.

And they're really boring. And I don't know. The first 60 or 70 are masterpieces.

And then something happened. The guy died or something happened. The editor who worked on that edition of The Conjure was executed for making mistakes.

And I was thinking we should do the same thing. But we didn't have any. No more mix-matches.

We had no more mix-matches. All right. Here we go.

Who's going to read, Sydney? You're going to check them. And you're going to do the cursive.

Okay. Let's see. Dinara.

I don't know. You're translating, right? Emily Liang Quilin.

Yeah. They change. Yeah.

They change, change, change, change. Song. Shen.

Zuchu. Qi. Namkha Namkha Namkha La La Thu Thu Thu Thu Thu Thu Yeah, that's good.

Thank you for trying. Don't give up. You sound like Seiji one year ago.

Teicheng means after he reached that part, okay? From that part on. Songshen du.

Songshen, what's shen mean with a verb? I-N-G. Present participle.

Even while he was speaking and he didn't stop speaking, he's still talking. And then he starts to rise off the throne, okay? And zu chu means what, you guys?

Miraculous. Yeah, he started to show his power and he started to come up off the throne, okay? And finally, he popped into the namka.

Higher up into the sky. Yeah, and that's a very good use of the real meaning of the word papa, okay? So papa means Arya, and you see it 99% of the time as Arya, and rarely you see it used as its ancient meaning, which is to rise up, okay?

So he rose up from the throne into the sky, okay? Jeto, jeto. Higher and higher, okay?

And word, I'll give you, let's see, how much money? You got four girls to take care of, or three. I'll give you a hundred bucks for the next line.

It's tough, it's a difficult line. That's why you got it. You got to earn your money.

Oh, well, kempa is the honorific for to know. Yep. And drempa means to match, right?

To... Or to drendamepa, know drempa. Drenda.

Like a competitor, right? Now you should be able to get it. I'm not giving you any more clues.

Right, and as he rose and rose, his knowledge had no, there was no one who could match what he was saying. No, the car cannot drench. Oh, right, not even the sky could match his...

Yeah. Yeah. Keshindu means it was as if his wisdom and the breadth of the sky were competing.

I mean, his wisdom was as big as outer space, you know? And the sky wasn't enough to hold him, his wisdom. Okay, he had to go, he had to rise.

Okay, all right, cool. Shek means he went, honorific, right? Tar, tala, in the end.

Okay, finally, his ku, mino, disappeared. His holy body, right? They don't say lu, they say ku.

His holy body disappeared. But his sung was still jarpa. It's so important.

I can still hear it. You can still hear him reciting his book, you know? And he dzokpa, his book.

What's dzokchen? The great... Yeah, he finished the last chapter.

And then tan means he, tan is a past tense of ngen, which means to recite. He recited up to the last. Tan den means to recite.

People who misunderstand the Yoga Sutra say... Self-study. Vajrayana, they say self-knowledge or some dumb thing like that.

And it just means recite a book, okay? All right, dzokpa ten te. Shek.

Yeah, he left, okay? He left. All right, same, you pick on somebody else.

This is a long one. All right, let's see. What else do we have here?

And, oh, Oscar, are you translating? No. No, hola.

Can you do the cursive? Oh, yeah, yeah, sure, okay. They should do now way.

One part shepatan. Nigepei sunglawang jorpei pandita nam ki shuntupana. Kachewa nam ki leu kuyuparsung shung.

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Yul upanam ki leu chuyuparsung watang. Lapa kun le tupayang. Nepar yang tangyan duta.

Yang na resik dor dupa.

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Dote kun le tupata. She sungpei tengchu nipo yang chitar yin tetsum du yulupana. Nice, Oscar, thank you.

Thank you for playing bass. Okay. They should do, in the process of that, some people had abyssinia.

What's abyssinia? Clairvoyance. Yeah, they had clairvoyance of renewal, with a R.

Hearing. Yeah, they could hear. They had a clairvoyance of hearing.

And some people were wangjorwa. They had the power over the practice of nigepei sung. When we did Medicine Buddha Translations, we spent a long time on sung.

Dharani of not forgetting. Dharani of not forgetting, yeah. So sung means a mantra, a special kind of mantra.

And so some people had the power over the special mantra of not forgetting. And I went and got you the definition of that, Dharani. And we'll read it after we finish this prayer, okay?

Did I say how to? How to get it? Yeah, a little bit.

Oh, good. It tells you how to get it, and it's not what it sounds like, okay? It's not just that you don't forget things.

Wow. It's a little bit deeper than that, okay? So people who had that power of that Dharani, okay?

Shuntupa means they tried to piece the book back together. Tu means to reconnect the thing, okay? If you cut a rope and then you tupa it, it means you tie it back together.

So they were trying to connect what he said when he was flying off in the sky to what he said when he was on the throne, okay? Trying to put the book back together. And those who lived in the land of Kache.

Kashmir? Kashmir, okay? And nowadays, Kache means, it's that word for a Muslim, okay?

In the old days, it meant people with big noses and big mouths, which wasn't Americans. It was Indians way up north in Kashmir. And later, because that part was taken over by Muslims early in the Muslim expansion, people from there were called Muslims, and it became the Tibetan word for Muslims.

So now, anytime you meet a Muslim anywhere, you say Kache. Kache. So Kache wa nan ki.

It means those people in North India, those people who lived perhaps closer to where he, or farther away, I guess, you'll figure it out. They, sung, sung means zin. They hold the opinion, zin.

They hold the opinion that there's gu, liu. Liu. Nine chapters.

Nine chapters. Nine chapters to the Bodhisattva Charya Avatara. Some people say nine chapters.

And then, yu u ban mam, those in Central India, okay? Which is a big concept in the Vinaya, right? Those living in Central India.

They said, uh-uh, liu chu. Ten chapters. Ten chapters.

Yeah, yeah. Now, whether or not that says something about, where was he? I think he was in London when this happened.

So maybe he was flying over. And the people in the middle of India said, there's 10 chapters. When they put it back together later, and then when he got further up towards the Himalayas, people said, oh, no, no, there's only nine chapters.

Okay. Chu yu per sung. Sung means they have the opinion, they held the opinion.

Lapa kun nu te pa yang. Nge pa yang da yang du dak. Yang per re shi do re kun nu du pa dak.

It says, the other great book of Shantideva, the other classic of Shantideva, is called what? Shikshamaya? Yeah, it's the Companion of Trainings.

And my style of teaching, when I was creating the ACI courses, 10, 11, 12, something like that, I thought, let's do Shantideva's other great book, because nobody ever teaches it. And it's very long, and it's very important. And I started, and then I realized there's nothing in there by Shantideva.

It is truly a collection of quotations from the Kanyu. And it's not very easy to follow. It's not very fluid, so I just gave up on that project.

That's why they don't teach it more often, Shikshasamuchaya. It's just a string of quotations from the Kanyu that he thought were important. It'd be interesting to study his thinking, or why he chose those, and why he put them in that order.

That would make an interesting doctoral thesis, but it's not for normal people. So anyway, in there, it says, ngepa yangpa yangpa ta. You're going to have to look at this book over and over again, because reshi do dupa, do de kune dupa ta.

If you study it closely, you will see that it's really a collection of material from Sutras, even the Bodhisattva Charmantara. If you study the style and the topics, you'll gain an appreciation of why it is a summary of Lord Buddha's teachings. Okay, that's all they're saying.

So the Shikshasamuchaya, which is a samuchaya, is a collection, a compendium. And then that author is saying, by the way, in a way, the Bodhisattva Charmantara is also a compendium. Okay, got it?

By the way, we're going to be switching to another samuchaya. There's two famous samuchayas. What's the other one?

Abhidharma samuchaya? Yeah, Abhidharma samuchaya, which should be a compendium of Abhidharma materials, and it's not. It's a very deep book about the mind-only school.

It's one of the mother books of the mind-only school. And we were interested in trying to bring into the Mixed Nuts translation. We have 12 books we're working on right now.

We finished 10 books. And we thought it would be sweet to include one of the books from the Dunhuang Caves in the Gobi Desert, which is where they found the Diamond Cutter Sutra. And when they found an Abhidharma samuchaya there, they found this great mind-only book there.

So actually, we're going to switch, Stanley, over to Abhidharma samuchaya, which is an ancient book by Asanga about a mind-only school. And he's going to switch over when we get to his class, because he finished the most important part of the Abhidharma kosha. And it will take 26 years to finish that puzzle.

So the best thing to do is make it longer. Okay. Aje sum de tenzin nyipo, yanam jitrayi tetsam gyurpa na.

People began to wonder how is it that these were put together. Tetsam means they started to have doubts about it. Here's a quotation about, oh, I'm sorry.

I promised you mi je pe sum. Okay. The Dharani of not forgiving.

So I have two quotations that I chose that I thought might be good for you. And this is the beauty of John Brady's database. I can do this in about two minutes.

I can search 3 million pages for the best, the sweetest references. And it's not a very common idea. It's a little bit rare.

But because of John Brady and his team's hard work, I can use it in a few minutes. So say you can pick on somebody to read the big letters, which is, by the way, Lucy, it's from, this is from a very famous book called Dertengo Mo, which is the Blue Annals. It's a history book.

It's a huge history book, this thing. And it's a history of Buddhism in India and Tibet and Mongolia. And it's an extraordinary book, okay?

All right. Okay, I was gonna have to talk louder than the book. Hey, everyone.

Yeah. Khebu Teni Sherab Sawla Yachewa Chima Mepa Tangtengwa. Gyal Kar Ki Chusang Po Dokyu Tampang Chusu Tokpa Ngarma Sikpa.

Sikpa. Sikpa. Sikpa.

Sikpa. Chag chag. Okay, good.

So, we can say that you have attained the eternity of not forgetting, if you can do the following. And you go backwards, right? You can go backwards.

Okay, here we go. If that particular khebu, or concept, if that particular person has shira, which is very supple and judgeable. Profound and widespread.

Deep and widespread, which is a code word for- Emptiness and bodhichitta. Okay. If the person is possessed of that, and not just normal, if it's Chima Mepa, Chime, vimala, if it's totally pure, if they have totally pure knowledge and totally pure bodhisattva intention, they can take any chusangpo from Gyal Kar.

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Any pure dharma from India.

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Yeah, they can take any great teaching from ancient India. It could be a do.

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Sutra.

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It could be a gyu.

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Antra. Antra.

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Or it could be a tengyur, like in the tengyur. Classical commentaries. Yeah, one of the classical commentaries.

It could be open teachings by Lord Buddha, secret teachings by Lord Buddha, or commentaries on those teachings. Whenever the word sutra is used together with the word tantra, in English, you translate it as open and secret teachings. Whenever it's alone, you have to study it.

It could mean something else. Okay. It could mean short.

It could mean a crossroads. It could mean anything. Okay.

Chesut Tokpa. So this person can look at any of the ancient books from India, whether it's open teachings by Lord Buddha, secret teachings by Lord Buddha, or the ancient commentaries. And if not, they must seek.

This is the seeking chenrezig. Before their holy eyes even gaze upon it. Yeah.

No, they've never read it before. They never laid eyes on the book. Okay.

They can bump into anything from the Kangyur, the tengyur. Okay. And...

Love it. All of it. Okay.

They will khyenpa, at the end of the line. They will get...

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They know all of it.

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After only... Sar means times. Ni.

They're looking right over it twice. Six times each. Read it once fast.

Read it once more carefully. They got it. Any tantra, any sutra, any Madhyamika commentary, they're like, yeah, okay, I got that.

Okay. That'd be nice, right? Yeah.

I mean, khyen means they grasp it. Okay. If you have that ability to take any ancient book and flop down on the couch and read it one and a half times, then you get the whole thing.

Okay. Not just the six, but the duns.

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Not just the words, but the meaning.

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Yeah, not just the words, but the meaning. Malipa. Every single bit of it.

Okay. Leaving nothing. Okay.

Tukla sin. This sin has a special meaning. The heart already got it?

No, it's... Simba is the ancient word for memorize. They look at it twice and then memorize.

The whole book. Okay. Tukla sin cheng mi je.

And they will never forget it. That's mi je pe sung. That's the Dharani not forgetting.

They read the whole thing two times. They have memorized it, and they understand every single word and every single idea. Okay.

So the people who had mi je pe sung, who heard Master Shantideva as he flew through the sky, still reciting his book, they were able to piece together 10 chapters like that. Those people could piece it back together. Don't forget they're memorizing it as he recites it.

Okay. All right. All right.

Here's a shorter definition by Delta G of mi je pe sung. And I thought it had a special flavor that you might appreciate. So who's gonna read it, Suji?

Oh, maybe Nick. Ooh, he's your man, Nick. Sure, sure.

Are we at Chong A Pani? Chong Pani ki chela sepe mi je pe sung tok po. Yeah.

This is tough. This is the division into che she and che se. Okay.

Say che she.

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Che she.

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Che she. Che se. Seeing emptiness directly and the period directly after seeing emptiness directly?

You can say that. You can say that. It's kind of like the act of understanding emptiness directly, and then the consolidation of those thoughts is called mastery, which is called kshama, which is the ancient word for patience also.

But in this case, it means mastery. So they got the, they got that, they went through the process of understanding it, and then they consolidated it in the next few minutes, and they grasped it fully, okay? That's mi je pe sung, according to Gyaltsen Gyi, okay?

Those who have seen emptiness and consolidated their understanding, they are people who achieve the dharani of not forgetting. So for him, it's a mastery of emptiness. It doesn't have to be in the books, okay?

It's interesting. Did he say that you have to see directly, that you have to be a narrator? Che se and che se.

Che she and che se means you have to be a narrator. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay? In the Abhidharma system, the later chapters, which are going to be really later, was, By the way, it was really fun eating waffles with you at the Peachtree Cafe with your beautiful wife, Lydia, and your three extraordinary girls.

And I'm sort of jealous that you get to live with those four ladies. Come down anytime. Anyway, what else you gonna have before I interrupt you?

Thank you, Gyaltsen. Is the chung apa, is that like the 15 of the 16? It's 16 or more different divisions into weird concepts, and I didn't go into that yet.

Just part 15 is the Mujibusin. Is that right? There's at least 15 other topics here, okay?

I just chopped up that one. Thank you. All right, Seiji, who are you gonna pick on?

Let's see. Ting Nguyen. Oh, can I interrupt you?

Yes. This is very unusual. At five o'clock, Arizona World Central Time, which is really Rimrock World Central Time, we're gonna stop, and for 15 minutes, we're gonna discuss, or I'm gonna open to ideas by anybody, how are you gonna use this translation hour in your real life tomorrow, okay?

What's in here that you could use in your real life? And we wanna hear from you guys, okay? So we'll stop at, we'll stop in 15 minutes, and then the floor is open to anybody, and any kind of wild idea is fine.

After that, we'll have a 15-minute Peace Tree World Myths Flash Update of what's happening in the 20 organizations of the World View Network, okay? And they'll tell you about new stuff coming up and stuff like that, if they're awake, I don't know. Okay, so Seiji, who are you gonna pick?

They didn't say how to get the dynamios. They, well, I'm kind of thinking you're gonna have to see empty hysterectomy and then you worry about it later. Okay.

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Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Easy. I'm feeling like that. By the way, I think you probably couldn't reach it without seeing empty hysterectomy, but apparently, that's why I added the second quotation, because apparently, having that ability to do that with ancient books is somehow tied to move the directness up to the end.

Cool. Okay. You can use the cursor.

Yes. Pinyin, are you translating? Yes, I think he is.

What else do we have? Oh, Hasso. Hasso, yay!

The star of Peace Tree Realness. You got more handsome every day. Thank you.

Okay. Du-nam-shi-gi-se-lo-cho-cho-tem-pel-yon-chen-she-cha-wa-na-shukpa-to-te. Shukpa, low tone, shukpa.

Shukpa. Shukpa-to-te. Ge-long-yi-chen-ren-du-tang-we.

Good. Ma-chung-par-shuk-gi-se-yul-ku-pa-nam-ki-du-pa-tar-yin. Nice.

What's two mean, Hasso? What's two mean, like dun-khor, Kala Chakra? Time.

Yeah, time. Nam-shik means at some point in time. Okay.

Okay, at a certain point in time later. Te, from the middle of the next line. Te means people heard.

People from his old monastery heard that he was shukpa. He was hanging out in the hall chok of India. In the south of India, far away, 1,000 miles away.

They heard he was down there in a temple. This chod den doesn't mean stupa. It doesn't mean a plain old stupa.

It means a sort of a countryside temple, not too fancy. So he was being very shy and modest. And he's finally relaxing and not so stressed out with all these smart monks, supposedly smart monks.

And the name of that temple was spelled Yun Chen. I looked it up. It's called Shri Dakshina.

Okay. Shri Dakshi. Okay.

Nagara is the city. So maybe it was nearest city called Shri Dakshi, okay. And Dei Tawa, which is tongwa.

And you know it from Tonglen. They sent gelongi. They sent two monks.

Chen den is to pull the eyes. And it's the honorific form of to invite somebody. Okay.

I don't ask me why, okay. So Chen den is the high honorific form. They invited him where?

[Говорящий 2]
To come back.

[Говорящий 1]
To come back. They went to Buzukarathra. Sorry, we were wrong.

They said all these apologies. And they said, we were wrong and we're sorry. And please come back to the monastery.

You're a very valuable asset for our monastery. And he said, majin. I ain't coming back.

Yeah, he said, I ain't going back there. He refused. Okay.

But he did give them a clue. He said, the yul upas are correct. The central landers that say it's 10 chapters are right.

Yeah, the guys who heard 10 chapters, those are guys are right about the tse of the shun. The length of my book. Yeah, the length of my book.

Tse ma means length. But tse ma means, pramana means how to measure with the mind, right? Mana, ma, measure.

Okay. He said, those guys from central India are right about the length of my book. The way they put it back together, dipa, is correct.

Dhar, it's like that. All right. Okay.

Who's next? Do you want to bother Hasso some more? It's kind of fun.

Oh, sure. We miss you, Hasso. When are you coming back?

I don't know, soon. Those Mexico teachers are spreading all over Latin America the last two months. They just had a very successful program last night in Colombia.

And the week before that in Mexico City and in somewhere else. Costa Rica. And that guy from Guadalajara called Tim.

And who are you going down there with? Sophie. Sophie are going to go to Argentina and teach next week, tomorrow.

Yeah. And it's going really well. Congratulations to you guys.

Okay. You ready? Hasso, Seiji's gonna follow with the curse circle.

Okay. Laptutan dotu nipo kowo pongkang kitung sena bandita yike tramo chine yot che sung shing sho njuk tang laptu nyi kye men ngak nam kyang sopar ngak ngo. Nice.

Okay, good. Laptu means his famous book, which is those quotations from sutra in Tengdra. And dotu means sutra samuccaya.

And there happens to be, I think, three of them. One is by Arya Nagarjuna. One is by Atisha.

And there was one by Shantideva. And I'm not sure we have it. And that was a more, again, that was a collection of what he found useful quotations from sutra.

So he said, look, I got two more books like that. I got this collection of trainings, and I got this collection of sutra quotations. Those two, you can find them in my pongkang.

In my bed bunk. In my bed bunk? Right.

My bunk, in my room. Yeah, and what's pong usually mean?

[Говорящий 2]
Pongchang.

[Говорящий 1]
It means to give up something. So pongchang means his personal monk's quarters, meaning his yogi's quarters, meaning the quarters of a person who has given up the home life. Okay, so it's called a give up house.

Okay, pongchang. It can mean retreat house also. So if you want to get those two other books, you go to my pongchang and you look around.

Then they're like, where should we look? And he said, look among. Sep means among.

Look among the dungs, which means the raptors. Okay, the dungs. So he says, go dig up in the raptors of the roof and you'll find two more books if you're interested.

Okay, sep we had in, I think, Word's book. It was a very important word. Doesn't it mean to capture or trap?

Yeah, it kind of means like those crystals that you find inside of a rock and you break it open and you find- A geode? Geode. Like a geode, yeah.

So sep means that. The ancient books said that some bardo beings get stuck inside the rocks because you can break open rocks and find skeletons in the sep, inside the rock. Okay, there's dinosaur bones.

It's cool. So if you look among the sep or inside my raptors of my rooms, my meditation rooms, you'll find these books written, G, in Tamil tiny pandita alphabet. Okay, the scholar's alphabet.

And I dug around on the internet, I couldn't find anything. It's probably some kind of shorthand or something. And he wrote it in little tiny shorthand.

And he said, you can find those two books, manuscripts in there. Ye Che Sung Shing, Chun Ju Dang Lap Te, then he gave those two lucky monks menop. Personal advices?

Yeah, he taught them the two of the books. He taught them Bodhisattva Chayavatar and he taught them Shikshasamuccaya personally. He said, I refuse to go back, but you guys can represent me and explain these books correctly to other people.

And he gave them the oral transmission. Okay, Ye Che Menop, Dzogpa. He gave the whole thing.

Nang is high honorific for? Okay, granted. Yeah, he granted them personal teachings on those two books.

So there is an oral lineage of the whole book. Both books. All right, I'm gonna push this one down so we can read it easier.

And Seiji, pick on somebody, it's fun. Okay, Ben. Ben, you got the cursor.

Okay, Ben. Ben. Nice.

What people don't know about Shantideva and you don't hear much about it is how he spent the rest of his life after he taught those two monks. And in our biography, which is really valuable one, I think, they follow the rest of his life. And he was a, Spider-Man.

And he used to look for trouble. He was a troubleshooter. And he spent the rest of his life, any time there was somebody having major problems, he would show up and save the situation.

And so he actually, Gyalse Siwatla instrumental, Gyalse Siwatla, by this, now for the first time they call him, Gyalse. Gyalse Siwatla, Shantideva. We have a Gyalse right here somewhere.

The great Gyalse. We got the other Gyalse, Shantideva. In order to act for sentience, Chinsikja means, hey, what can I do next to be a good, good guy?

What else can I do to help people? So that was his constant reframe throughout the rest of his life. You're going to see it in his biography and every page or so he's going to stop and say, Sepche Kydinji Tawushicha.

You know, what can I do next to help people? It's a very sweet story. Then he checked, like Chenre Si, with his Ngumba Shepa, his Abhidhya.

He checked, he checked India. With his clairvoyance. And he said, oh, I see a place where everybody is serpa with each other.

They are arguing with each other. And their gyu, meaning their mind, gyu doesn't have to mean tantra. It can also mean mental stream.

It's all trupa. Trupa means it's all... Disturbed.

Disturbed, yeah. There's a lot of sentience like that. There's a lot of people like that.

So I will, I have to jaw the gun for them. I have to do the necessary. I'll take care of them.

I'll do something for them. Signe, having seen that with his wisdom, high on horrific sea, right? He went to the shore of India.

East side. Yes. He went to the east.

East, east. Okay. Okay.

And there was a very sepa chumbo guy there. It was a huge arguer guy. Yeah, there was a very famous debater who was upsetting people's minds.

Asshole debater, excuse me. And he did the tap da. Tap means to fight with somebody.

And da means a... Dual, a match, a proponent. And a partner of any kind.

Okay, so what's a kunda? Your holy spouse. Yeah, it's the honorific for your wife or your husband.

A spouse, because it's your body match. And da here is the match of the sun. Nyi ma da.

So the word da, which means moon, came to mean the second half of any two-part thing. So husbands and wives are called bas. It's very beautiful.

They're called body, holy body matches is the honorific word for wife or husband, okay? But this one is a tap da. Debate.

Debate opponent. Debate opponent. A fighting partner, yeah.

A debate partner, okay. Debate partner. Huh?

Debate partner. Yeah, yeah, in a debate. So dze here means, since it's the honorific, to do, it must be that Shantideva agreed to be the opponent.

He said, I'll take you on, okay? Let's have a gunfight. Let's see who's better, okay?

He's trying to make the guy less arrogant, right? He says, let's go for it, you know? And then he used the- You got one minute, Keshava.

But I liked the last sentence, Nick. We're going to do it. He used his true- Used his magic.

Miracle powers, okay? And he doomed the whole community. He brought them back together.

And he defeated them. And that's a beautiful ending. He didn't fight the guy and beat the guy.

He convinced them all to be friends with each other. And he brought the whole community back together. There's a rule in the Vinaya that you have to wear a dhumba-gopa.

You have to wear a skirt, which is a piece of circular sewed cloth. Amongst a nun's bottom robe is a circle. It's required to be a circle.

And they say dhumba-gopa-machepa. It means you have to wear a circle. And in Vinaya, dhumba means to bring the circle back together.

And it means when the spiritual community is having some, what do you call it, schism or something? And you dhumba them, you bring them back together. So here's the verb here.

It's very beautiful. He dhumba the community. Sometimes, by the way, it's Z-L-U-M, dhumba, okay?

Sometimes it's spelled. And by dhumba-ing them, he gopa, he put them into bheva. It's such a happy ending.

Everybody have a happy ending. For $100, tell me how the next sentence is going to start. This is called anticipatory translation.

Then he went to the next place and did it again. Yeah, no, then he thought to himself, how can I help more people? Okay, so sometimes you should pause as a translator and try to guess what's coming next.

And by the way, that's not a small part of translation. Anticipating what the guy is supposed to say next is a great skill for a translator. Sometimes it's wrong, complete.

All right, we'll stop there. We'll take a break. Now, can you lead this discussion?

Sure. And somebody, if you can't apply that last piece to your real life, you've got to pause. And I'll stop you in a second.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Говорящий 1]
You're welcome. Okay, Seiji's going to lead a 15-minute discussion. It's a very important exercise because I think it's good immediately to say what's in here that you can use at home.

Okay, here we go. Well, I had two ideas. I'm going to put you in the center.

Okay, you don't want to be? Okay. I'm out of here.

Well, I had two ideas that I think could be diamond-lined from this part of the text. The first one is how to have perfect recollection. I mean, I think we do this in DCI all the time.

I mean, in the text it says, basically you need to see emptiness directly. Or just get an appreciation. And then it improves your memory.

Could you say that by practicing bodhichitta and wisdom, then those are the seeds for, I mean, for many other things, but. But specifically to remember things. Right, to remember things.

That'd be great with car keys and cell phones. Right. Yeah, so that was the first one.

And then the second one was something to do with, it is not fully formed, but something to do with using our skills. I mean, here they're talking about extra human capabilities, but we can talk about our skills in life, or if you're good at tech or organizing or whatever, to try to use them to bring people together or to help. I don't know, kind of like what Shantideva said.

Those are the two things that I saw, but did anyone else find any other stuff that we can make into life tools, real life applications? That's what I was gonna say.

[Говорящий 2]
So rather than going into a situation and fighting it to create harmony instead so that everybody is happy, so you're not being aggressive in this situation, but you're trying to find a middle ground, a puntula, where everybody can be happy rather than anybody else.

[Говорящий 1]
Right. So to find like a confrontation and try to make an opportunity to unite people, something like that? Okay, that goes hand in hand with what they said with a big hook, the previous book.

Anybody else got ideas? I have an idea. Stanley's got an idea.

But I'm not sure that I wanna bring it out. Talk about it. Oh, okay.

You wanna come up here? Come up here. Come on, come on.

Can you guys hear the people in the room? This is gonna be easy. If they come closer, we'll be able to hear them better.

Okay. Okay. I was wondering why Bodhisattva Shantideva doesn't go back to Nama.

Yeah. I don't know what's the deeper lesson here. Can a Bodhisattva tell other people go to hell and not even try?

[Говорящий 2]
I was thinking about with that one that they had such a negative conception about him that their minds were clouded.

[Говорящий 1]
And then they just switched it. They came up with a preconception that he's a god, a deva, a holy being, like self existently. And so I think he just said, nope, not gonna do it.

How else are you gonna apply that in real life? Sometimes you have to leave the nest at the end of the day. In order to help people, you have to, right?

It wasn't helping the situation stay the way it was. And, you know, like our lives are just like that. Sometimes we have to help people, like trusting our inner life.

We all have inner life, right? And then there's this outer life of how- Hey, come over here and sit. So I was saying, we all have this sort of inner life and we have this outer life.

So we all have these aspects to ourselves, right? That we all have. I can see Ben, you know.

And so oftentimes in our life, we have to, you know, in order for us to help people, if it's not helping to stay, we might have to pivot. Do you know what I mean? It's not like you leave, but you're sort of pivoting and adjusting.

You're sort of like how you're gonna approach people or how you're gonna help people. And so I love Master of Shambhida because my whole life sort of something I've been able to apply to myself is it all go through this. We've jumped on this path together.

Slow down. Yes. If we, sorry, all of us are in the same boat, right?

We've all jumped on this- Take a breath. Vocation together, essentially. So probably this is gonna happen to all of us where, you know, we'll be judged possibly from the outside, but we have this sort of inner life going on, right?

And so navigating through that, through our path, through work, through our personal life, we're trying to balance those two things. And obviously in this system, working with seeds, right? If we're seeing an outside reflection, not the way we like it, we have to sort of shift gears and fix that a little bit, right?

And then, but I think like, if we all become good practitioners and we develop a meditation practice and doing our book and doing yoga and coming to classes, then we will develop this sort of like inner strength. And so as we develop that sort of inner strength, you'll start to, or we'll all start to have those maybe insights on the things that maybe we'll do or hard decisions we have to make and making a leap or a jump in order to benefit people more, I think. So I think taking the story and applying it, like always looking at all the stories and seeing how does this, how do I fit into this framework?

So, you know? You know? Yeah, that was it, I think.

Cool. To add on yours, if Shantideva is already a realized person, I guess he did many things to show it to people, what we can do. So I think that maybe that's a different message.

Number one is we shouldn't be attached to the physical teacher, but we should be following his teaching because he did leave his teaching to the monastery. He left the books to them. He taught them.

He gave the oral transmission. Maybe that's the real thing that we should really follow because physical bodies are not permanent. Second thing, maybe it's also a teaching, oh yeah, impermanence, because all teachers move on and then the students need to carry on.

Maybe it's to remind them, you cannot have your teacher forever, so you have to become one, something like that. Cool. Can I add something, Seiji?

He'd learn a lot. Yeah. Who said that?

Nick? Yeah. There's the obvious moral of the story, I think, that it's a life tool, which is, I guess, don't judge people because if you do, you'll lose the karma to have them in your life.

Or don't judge people as not being special when they might be, because then you might lose the karma to see special people in your life at all. I think maybe from the other side of it is, we all ourselves have special qualities and I myself have felt underestimated or whatever, I don't know, like judged by others. And I think in that situation, maybe something that we could apply to ourselves is to just like be a really, just to remain patient about it, like he did for however long, and just be a really good example.

Maybe we can't teach the Bodhisattva's Guide and fly away, but we can be an example of patience or be an example of kindness that would eventually show your true colors.

[Говорящий 2]
I like what Nick had to say about the miracles and seeing people as special. And maybe on this stage too, especially we shouldn't be waiting for the miracle to appear to see someone as special, because if you want the miracle to appear, you need to see the person as special in the first place. And then the other thing, just thinking about, I don't know, I'm always thinking about what should I do next?

Where should I work? Where should I go? And just the idea that I should really just be thinking, well, where can I be of the most service?

And then all of the doubts and all of the questions about my life just disappear because all I have to think about is who can I serve and how can I serve them the best and fastest? And then I should go to that place and do those things.

[Говорящий 1]
Cool. Awesome. I wanted to reiterate, kind of agree with Rebecca about service that it seems like he makes a decision not to go and he has some insight into the monks who have asked him to come.

I think it's a very hard thing to decide if we wanna be of service, where we can be of service. It can be very painful. We wanna serve everybody, but we also have to use some wisdom about where our service can be most effective.

And it's a struggle, like Rob said, you have to sort of be brave about making hard decisions. And he knew those monks. He spent time with them and he had a lot of service.

And sometimes you have to make honest decisions in your life is this, where can I do the most good? I'd love to serve everybody, but to beat your head against a wall and try to serve where it's not welcome or it's not being asked or it's not being understood. There are others of us who desperately want your help and wanna spend time with you.

And we're excited to spend time with you and to learn from you and learn with you. And we're all here, right? At least twice a week waiting to be with you and learn from you and learn together.

Use your time wisely, use your precious limited resource intelligently. Awesome. Wow.

So many, a lot of cool ideas. Thanks, Ben. Yay.

We have Shanti running. Thank you. Yeah.

So I have the great pleasure of today and these days preparing the cabins for the retreat guests. As you know, it's so amazing because you go into this beautiful, each one is just so unique and so beautiful. And you don't know, it's the Buddha.

You're preparing the way for the Buddha to come and step in and relax and enjoy this incredibly beautiful space. So, you know, everyone it's, they're all, you know, you're just preparing the way for the Buddha to arrive. And whether we're here in our body or we leave tomorrow, you know, the impact we have on each other is forever.

So thank you so much for the opportunity. It's beautiful. Thank you for the cabins.

One more. All right. Okay.

Who else has some ideas? I think we got a lot. Let me do a quick recap.

Use our abilities to help more people, have to have the perfect regulation, try to find conflict and turn it into cooperation. Sometimes in order to help people, you need to move on to the next thing. We shouldn't be attached to the teacher, but to the teachings.

Don't just judge people. If you do, you lose the seeds to have them in your life. I really like that.

And we want to serve everybody, but we need to go to the place where we can be more effective. Yay. Nice.

Wrap up. Anyone else has any... We're out of time.

We got to go to... Oh, no. We got two more minutes.

Yeah. We got to hustle. Don't wait for miracles.

Oh, Rebecca said. Make them. Cool.

Let's go. Oh, someone is... Oh, Chloe.

Chloe? Yes. You want to come up here?

Real quick. Quick. Go ahead, Chloe.

Good job, Chloe. Bringing people together. Like Shanti Deva did.

So that's why we need to zoom in to P3 World News.

[Говорящий 2]
Affiliated, but I really believe the power of a group. And if we know more about what other people are doing, we can be better at becoming one. And if we know how to help others by, oh, I know someone can do what they're doing, then we are bringing more people together.

And we have tenfolds of forces to make a world a better place.

[Говорящий 1]
Yay.

[Говорящий 2]
Yay.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. Can we switch to P3 World News? Let's switch to...

Oh, I know. Ah, cool, cool, cool. All right, awesome.

Thank you very much for being on the class. Thank you, Geshe-la, for giving this incredible teaching. Now we have a very exciting segment called the P3 World News, which will be Hasso, I imagine?

I think so. Take it away, Juan Hasso from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Where are you?

He's here somewhere.

[Говорящий 3]
Hola, Seiji.

[Говорящий 1]
There you go. A ver, dame un momento. All right.

Hello, everyone. So if you don't know, probably you know, but Seiji is also from Guadalajara. So a lot of friends from Guadalajara all over.

So glad to see you all. I'm here today to share with you some of the cool events are happening all over the worldwide network. And as Geshe-la was sharing with us moments before, some moments before, the Mexico teachers start a tour in Latin America.

And just a few days ago, yesterday and one day before, some of them start sharing and teaching in Colombia and Costa Rica, especially. So they are gonna be back home probably either tonight or tomorrow morning. But of course, we are the news and we have leaked content.

We already have some images and videos we want to share with you. So you know a little bit of what happened there. So this is our team from that, actually they went to Costa Rica.

Alejandro Rivas, Lucia Pichardo, Gina Rivera. And these are Lucia and another lady, I don't know, but they were the hostess in Costa Rica. Let's see the next picture.

That's the team who went there. But in the next picture, you will be able, yes, they start sharing and teaching. First they start gathering in small centers and also big centers, but they were teaching anywhere, many places.

Yeah, apparently it was very, very fun. The little I have here about it, but let's see. Next picture, please.

Yes, they also taught in a very interesting, in a Zen lineage place. They got a spot there. And yeah, they also taught the principles of planting seeds and the pen wisdom.

Next one, please. Yeah, that's a video. I was hoping to be able to, yes.

It's talking about the pen and the dog. Okay, so next picture, please. Yeah, that's it.

They were also studying some principles of how yoga works during the breaks. And the Zen people share with them some traditional clothes for fun. So here they are very happy, dressed with those traditional clothes.

Next picture, that was the team that went to Costa Rica, but now we're gonna see a little bit of Colombia in the next picture. Yeah, that's another group, Aldo Arzapalo and Paulina Garcia. They went to Colombia.

I hear it was very, very fun, very, very cool. People were very happy. They taught two classes in the next picture.

This is, I think, the first class. And then the second class, and they share special video. Let's watch the video.

Ah, there is a video somewhere there. Maybe at the end, we can watch it. It's a very important video.

But in the meantime, not that one yet. Ah, that's okay. Let's go then.

Let's see if at the end we can share. I wanna thank all of our organizers around the world, all of our volunteers, all of our primary partners, and all of you grassroots donors who make us continue to open these books up and digitally present them for the future generations and for everyone in the world to actually see first-hand. Thank you, thank you.

Well, that was not the video, but this is another video because after the Latin America tour, we are talking about Nepal. Some other friends are actually in Nepal. And ALL and YSI, they collaborate together to create a very, very cool experience.

First, we just watch a video with Jay Billa saving and preserving these books. They've been in Nepal, visiting libraries, visiting, yeah, mostly. And also then they start teaching yoga, yoga retreat to YSI.

This is the big group that went there. We want to show you more pictures of how it's going on. So let's just go through the pictures and then a special video that Bob actually shared with me yesterday.

Here is Bob sharing some content. I bet very cool. Teresa teaching asana, physical exercises.

Yes, let's keep going. A little bit more, please. Yes.

Thanks. Very beautiful. Bob, let me show you the video they made.

It's very, very cool. Actually, I make it. No, before that, there is a video.

Okay. Somewhere there is a video. There are some videos.

No, it's okay. It's fine. No problem.

We're gonna talk actually then. Well, that's Nepal. Sometime soon we will share those videos with you.

But then finally, we would like to talk about DSU because this week they are having some, I don't know, I guess they're gonna be either creating content or actually teaching classes for DSU, the last of the pictures. But for this section, I was hoping to have a little talk with the people involved. Xiaoping with Stanley and Geshu Michael.

If you feel like coming just for five minutes to the stage, if you're around and you could share with us, what are you gonna be doing on the next few days? 12, 13 and 14, I think. I saw a calendar where it was something planned, but I'm very curious of what's gonna happen.

And if you feel like you could share with us a little bit of what's gonna happen, it will be very, very cool. Does any of you feel like, yay?

[Говорящий 2]
Hi.

[Говорящий 1]
Hello. Surprise, but I did guys find the president of the university. That's amazing.

Say something very intelligent. So yeah. Oh yeah.

Thank you. We wanna know what are you up to this week? This week, actually our university already launched MBA, EMBA programs started in June.

So for us, it is a 20 month program. So the upcoming weekend is part of the program. And then by something new is that since this week, we just covered two courses.

We just completed two courses. What's the names? The names are Principles of Management and the Organizational Change.

And Geshe Michael. Geshe Grandpa. Geshe Grandpa finished the textbook for those two courses.

And actually today he wrote three essays for this weekend. And we have the third textbook. And we are teaching two new, one new ones is called Principles of Business this week.

And also Smart Decision Making. And so Grandpa Geshe Michael is working on those two textbooks right now. Yeah.

Yeah, that's great. And can you share a little bit of what's the content about? Maybe one or two ideas of how can we do good management or something?

I think the big topic also this weekend is gonna be about, you know, the course is called Smart Decision Making. And we're gonna specifically talk about two topics. One, after you make a smart decision and circumstances change, then will you be smart enough to change your smart decision?

Because sometimes when we have trouble to make a decision or we worked hard to make a decision and then circumstances change, because we had a hard time making the decision or it took us a long time or a lot of effort, we get attached to those decisions. And then suddenly circumstances change, suddenly. So the idea is even if you worked hard to come to a decision, will you be flexible enough to give up that decision 10 minutes later?

And the example I gave is that I was called to get on a plane at Kennedy Airport in an hour and go to fly to Thailand and take care of a problem at the office there. And I was pissed off. And they're like, can you just drop everything that you're planning this next week?

And can you go to the Kennedy Airport immediately? There's a limousine outside waiting for you. And I went there and I was getting on the plane and I got a phone call and they said, come back to the office, we have something more important.

And I was really irritated. And the idea is how fast can you change even a good decision or a necessary decision? And then Stan and Allison are gonna be teaching a special meditation, which is one of the special things about our MBA program that you also get meditations.

And they're gonna teach a special meditation of how to prepare for changing your decisions quickly. So you actually might meditate in the morning about some important decisions you've made in the last two weeks. And then you meditate on the possibility that they get blown up and things change.

And so in the morning, you are practicing that one of your good decisions might not be good anymore by the evening. And you learn how to, in the meditation, you learn to have mental flexibility about even good decisions you made before that aren't good anymore because circumstances have changed. By the way, people open cans of water in this room.

They are not beers, okay, Hasso? I know it sounds like that, but it's just water. Okay.

Back to you, Hasso. Yeah, thank you very much. Actually sounds very exciting.

And I hope that we can later be back to you for you sharing more of this content. That sounds very, very exciting. Thank you for sharing.

Keep going. It seems that it's going. It's being a great success.

And really the topic sounds very, very cool. Thank you very much. And there is one minute left and I find a video.