Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 15

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 15 (Xuanzang's Tower — Master Shantideva / Bodhisattva, Session 1, Class 2 по названию ролика)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод и чтение тибетского текста: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: осень 2023 (предположительно ноябрь — в следующем занятии, c016, это занятие называют «6 ноября»); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
Our first SCIM where we integrate the Shui-Sang Tower, previously known as Mixed Nuts, into our program. So, we decided to make an opportunity out of this and make it Geshe Michael's Lime and Mining Plan. So, cool.

Before we start, we have something very special to say. There's a someone who's the major contributor to DCI. She's been doing an incredible work.

And we heard that today it's Wang Xia's company's 10-year anniversary. For those of you who don't know, Wang Xia is our number one organizer, at least for 2023. So, thank you Wang Xia.

Please keep working with us. We literally could not do it without you. We need you.

So, we want to sing your company to do a little more. Yeah, first we're gonna sing happy birthday for Wang Xia's company. Thank you very much.

Shanghai Zhongqian. At some point I will get it. I promise.

Correct. One, two, three. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Wang Xia. Wang Xia, we're gonna do this prediction for your company, okay?

You have to give me a number between one and three hundred. So, today's 117, so I want to... 117.

117? Yes, Wang Xia. Okay, let me open this up.

Okay. 117.

[Говорящий 3]
Hmm.

[Говорящий 1]
This is a famous teaching that was given by a major teacher from West China 600 years ago. And this teacher founded many monasteries, but in this case they were careful to go to a place a special place and they taught normal people. They reached out to normal people.

So this teacher was a very, very, very great philosopher. One of the greatest philosophers in history. And they made a point to travel out to the countryside and to give instruction to normal people, normally family people, business people.

And it was one of the first times that somebody took this high, high philosophy and they brought it to the normal people, the business people and the family people. And I think that's a nice prediction that in the next 10 years Wang Xia's company will continue to bring deep wisdom from Asia, from 2,000 years of Asian culture. 2,000 years of classical Asian literature.

And I think it's a good sign that Wang Xia's company will continue to bring that wisdom into normal life, business life, family life and bring the wisdom of Asia and China to people all over the world through their company. And that's a great birthday prediction. Yay!

[Говорящий 3]
Thank you very much, Geshe-la and Seiji. This is a surprise to me. Thank you very much.

And I will remember this. And now we're doing this.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, happy birthday. Thank you again. I mean, because of you, because of your hard work, DCI Global is successful and we really depend on you.

And we're very, very grateful for you. Thank you.

[Говорящий 3]
Yes, I appreciate you giving me this opportunity. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Yay! Okay. Seiji's going to do some homework, I think, I don't know.

Uh, we have a... you want to do this? Oh, let's do this too.

You want to do it or you don't want to do it? Uh, I can say it first thing. You guys can see.

Oops. So, one of the cool things that happened when we switched online was that we suddenly managed to quintuple our... quadruple our number of students, now five times.

Actually, the number of APs we have right now is the number of students we used to have ever. So, literally, we went up five-fold. But one of the things that happens when you do things online is you lose a little bit of that touch that we have between students.

So, Geshe Michael gave that task to Professor Sugeng to do a student reunion at the end of this year. It's our very first one and it's going to be awesome. Here's the flyer.

You can see it here. And, uh, you want to say something, Geshe? Yeah, so, you know, as you know, I went to Princeton University.

Uh, once a year, uh, 26,000 of the former students of Princeton University, we go to the university and we have reunions together. And, uh, one thing is the parties. We have a big party.

For three days. Secondly, we listen. We get education.

We get educated. What is the university doing nowadays? What's going on in the university?

We have great, great speakers. Last year, for example, one of the justices of the Supreme Court is a woman who came from Princeton. She graduated close to my class.

And people like that will come. Famous students, famous graduates of our university will come together and they will talk about their life and that. And then I think the most important thing is we get to network with each other.

So, uh, a lot of people I know, they sent their kids to Princeton. They say, I don't care about the education. They care about the connections.

When you go to Princeton, you meet several thousand people, your fellow students. But all of them have businesses. All of them come from great families.

They all have a great education and those people do stuff together. They network with each other. And they make new companies and they make new projects.

They do charitable projects together. They travel together. And so there's a great purpose to bring all the former alumni of SCIM together.

And we never did that before. And we would like to start an SCIM Alumni Association. We have over almost 400 graduates of SCIM.

Each year we come out with different graduates. We'd like to get everyone together. We can sit down, have three days together.

We can have a lot of fun. We can relax together. So we'll be coming to Kyoto.

What's the date, Seiji? 7, 8, and 9 of December. I'm teaching many other courses and classes at that time.

You're welcome to come to those also. And Grandpa will be having breakfast with you guys together. And then we'll be having programs together.

I'll be teaching. We'll be meeting with each other. And then in the evening we'll be having dinner together.

We'll be having karaoke together. And we'll just be having fun. But also the purpose of an alumni association at Princeton is that the alumni, they support the university.

When the university needs things, the alumni help. And also the alumni give their input about the direction of the university. They will make suggestions to the university, how to improve the university, courses they would like to see.

Different speakers they would like to see come to the university. There are different groups of alumni. They don't even agree with each other.

There's a very conservative group of alumni. There's a very liberal group of alumni. But it's a chance for everybody to come together, work together to make the university stronger into the future.

We're going to be starting our first alumni association. I'm looking forward to having it. It's going to be fun.

Also, it's going to be exciting and it's going to last for... The Princeton Alumni Association is over 200 years old. It's a great association and it's a lot of fun.

So hope to see you there, 789. Contact Segeng Hsieh. Contact the QR code here.

If you're interested in attending. Also, I talked to the organization that is going to do the other Geshe Michael classes. They agreed to give all SCM graduates a special discount.

So please contact them, letting them know that you're ex-alumni. Well, only if you've come, please. All right.

Now the bad news is that Seiji is going to give us a homework from his Master Shantideva. Seiji finished an ancient book a thousand years ago called The Crown of Knives. He finished that book.

He's on his second book, which is called The Guide to the Spiritual Warrior's Way of Life. It was written 1,300 years ago, just after... around the Tang Dynasty time by Master Shantideva.

We've been working through this book. We've been studying the poetry of this book. Also, we've been studying the Sanskrit of this book.

So we're learning a new ancient language. Seiji is going to give us his homework from the last class. Also, don't worry.

This is not an SCAM homework. You do not need to do anything extra. This is something we do in Mixed Nuts that every class we reviewed what we saw before.

So do not worry. This is not something extra you need to do. Three people had a heart attack.

Yeah, I know.

[Говорящий 3]
That's why.

[Говорящий 1]
Yes, and the whole idea of us having this is this is another opportunity that you have of getting some ancient sources so that you can do your Diamond Diamond. Anyway, so we're going to continue with our homework last time. So last time we were checking Master Shantideva's biography.

As you know, this is called A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, or as we know it in BCI, A Guide to the Peacock Warrior's Way of Life. By the way, I found this. I generated this AI image, which I love.

Peacock Warrior. Yeah, so for those of you who were here last time and oh, this is a we were in a very out there part of this book, so please briefly describe an unforgettable the unforgettable scene when Master Shantideva started teaching his book, The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. What simile was given to describe the vastness of his knowledge?

It's beautiful imagery. I remember, but I don't get paid to do the homework. Feel free to just for those of you who came last time, feel free to just unmute yourself and Where would you like us?

Yeah, Tim or Word? Was that you both? Go ahead.

No, you can do it, Tim. You got this. Bodhisattva fight.

[Говорящий 2]
Where would you like me to start, Seiji? After he started teaching or before he started teaching?

[Говорящий 1]
Just before. So after he they're like they put the super high throne and because they want to humiliate him and he just appeared.

[Говорящий 2]
So they invite him to teach and he comes in and there's an incredibly high throne and basically they were trying to embarrass him. And so they I mean I can just imagine like Seiji and Tim in the back of the room like chuckling, you know being like, haha, get up there. Well, we were probably the ones doing it frankly.

And and Master Shantideva comes into the room. Oh, someone else wants to tell a story too. He just he gets in the room and all of a sudden with a blink of an eye he's now sitting up on top of that of that teaching stage and there was really it didn't seem like there was any way he could have gotten up there.

So it was kind of like this magical moment that up there and Seiji and Tim were in the back being like, oh gosh, maybe we messed up. Right, and so so Master Shantideva begins teaching beautiful beautiful book. And then I believe when he got to the what was it the ninth chapter eighth ninth chapter his teachings got so deep and so profound that he began to float up from the from the teaching stage and started to float away from from the stage and only those who had incredibly good seeds were able to hear him finish that chapter and even hear him teach the final chapter on Emptiness, I believe.

[Говорящий 1]
Do you remember, great Tim, do you remember the simile or metaphor that was used? As he was going to the sky.

[Говорящий 2]
I actually don't remember that.

[Говорящий 1]
He competed with space itself for vastness. Yeah, yeah, yeah word right, of course.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, I've been about Upala too, I think. Sorry to cut you off.

[Говорящий 1]
His knowledge was so vast not even the sky could match it. All right, well done. This is a little bit wordy.

Sorry translators. At the time of this teaching people did not have a way to record or even transcribe the teachings. They did, however, have clairvoyance to hear and they had another one.

Describe this other extraordinary ability they had and what were the prerequisites to get it? How could this explain why Master Shantideva left a copy of his book in his quarters? The last one is just for brownie points.

This is something that I might be wrong, but I think it might relate. So does someone remember? Yep, can you remember exactly?

It was very cool. Do you remember what were the the elements? We don't have the dome.

It had something to do with two.

[Говорящий 3]
I don't know if anyone remembers. All right, I'll say it.

[Говорящий 1]
So among the audience, truly remarkable people, clairvoyance of hearing and the power of not forgetting. This latter one refers to being able to take any type of teaching whether it's open, secret or a classical commentary and only after reading it twice they'd be able to remember perfectly both the words and the meaning and never forget it again. And actually we went to Nick's book and it said that this ability was unique to those who have seen emptiness.

Now this is just conjecture, but how could this explain why Master Shantideva left a copy in his quarters?

[Говорящий 2]
For the rest of us who couldn't remember it.

[Говорящий 1]
Yes, and Well, I was thinking, I might be wrong with this, but so I was thinking that this could be why he left that because if people, I don't know exactly where it comes from that they need to do it twice. If they heard him teach once they needed a second one to get it perfectly. He didn't say it in the book where I was thinking maybe it could have been.

Makes sense. He left a copy so that no one could ever forget it. All right.

Question number three. What's an example of the emptiness of the teachings that sparked a debate among the audience from North and Central India? And what was the conclusion?

Oh, yeah. How many chapters?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, exactly. What did the North people say? I don't know.

Somebody, someone said nine and someone said ten and then Master Shantideva said, by the way, there's ten.

[Говорящий 3]
Exactly.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Wow. You have a great photographic memory.

We talked about the North people first and those are the ones who said nine. Central India, ten. Yeah, so basically this happened.

They said we need to get him. They got word that he was hanging out somewhere in South India. So they sent two people to go meet him.

And he said to bring him back and he said no, but I'll give you some personal advices on my books. And by the way, in my quarters near the rafters, I left a copy of the manuscript.

[Говорящий 3]
Right.

[Говорящий 1]
And after that the biographer went on to say that he spent his life doing pickup warrior activities. He even defeated, the very next thing was he went to a place to defeat a debater who was creating a lot of division in the land. Right.

Yeah, cool. All right, vocabulary. I'm listening.

Yeah, who said that? Ben?

[Говорящий 3]
It's Gibson.

[Говорящий 1]
Recording.

[Говорящий 3]
Wow. Forgetting.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Yeah, this one I'm not too sure. Is that when he flew away or something?

I have it in the notes. People could still hear. While he flew away.

That was in the notes that you put. Not sure. That means past tense recited.

Okay. He recited and he left. Yeah, cool.

All right, so that's it. That's pretty much it. Yay.

All right, let's get to the class. How do I show my screen? Steve, can you put now ME7?

Okay. We, last class, we were working on the biography of the author Master Shantideva. In this class, we're going to go back to the original text, which is in poetry.

It is some of the most famous poetry of Asia in the last two and a half thousand years. This is some of the most famous poetry that ever existed in Asia. It's 1,300 years old.

People still memorize it frequently. It's extraordinary poetry. I'm going to ask Seiji to read the West Chinese language here.

We also were fortunate that we still have the original Sanskrit. I would say 99% of all the Sanskrit books are missing in this world. They were destroyed by many kinds of wars.

There were wars. Many invaders. The British were the last ones.

The Sanskrit books were destroyed. But we are very lucky that we still have the Sanskrit for this poem. I'm going to ask Seiji to read in the Tibetan language.

Then we'll talk about the meaning of it. We are using this book for the translation team. We have a team of 12 translators.

We have a team of several hundred helpers. Everyone's trying to learn to translate. If we can learn some of the ancient Sanskrit terms, we can be a much better translator.

We're going to read the Tibetan language first. Then we'll talk about what it means and some of the vocabulary. So please read, Seiji.

Actually, Steve, can you put me seven? The other one? No.

Or move us to the corner. No, don't put me in the corner. All right, if not, let's go back to the other one.

I can raise it. Oh, there you go. Okay.

,GANG LA SEMS KYI DANG PA HUNG CHEN TE, ,GYES PA DE'I KU LA CHAGS SO BZHIN, ,GANG LA NUS PA CHE KYANG DEN GYUR WA, Nice. ,DE BA'I DBYUNG NYE DE LA GYUR ZHIG, Nice, nice. ,DE BA'I DBYUNG NYE DE LA GYUR ZHIG, To anybody who has that Rinpoche.

What's that?

[Говорящий 3]
Jewel.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, jewel. It means an expensive thing, Rinpoche, which is a SEMS. Yeah, and it means the mind of a bodhisattva. It means the high wish to take care of everyone in the universe equally.

That's called SEMS KYI DANG PA. DANG PA means highest. Ultimate state of mind.

So some people in the world, they care about everybody else as much as they care about themselves. They really, really want to take care of every other person in the world equally. And that state of mind here is called Rinpoche.

It's a precious, precious jewel. SKYE BA is the past tense of SKYE BA. If you have already, what?

Developed that wish. SEMS SKYE which means bodhichitta. If you have developed that wish, then I chak tsel to you.

Yeah, I bow down to you. You are worthy to your body. And he uses the high word for body.

He calls it KU. He doesn't say LU. He says KU.

If you have developed this wish to help all people equally in the whole universe, then I would like to bow down to you. I prostrate to you. I bow down to you.

Then I love the third line of this poem. I think it's one of the most beautiful lines in all of history. What's NUS mean you guys?

Anybody remember what NUS means? Harm. Yeah, it means to hurt somebody.

So, GANG LA means to you. NUS PA BYAS If someone tries to hurt you, you want to DGRA BA them to DEBA. You want to connect them to DEBA.

DGRA BA Suka. Suka. Yeah, happiness.

I love the third line here. The third line says, you're the kind of person that when someone hurts you, you just want to help them back. Your revenge is to help them in return.

You are the kind of person who... It's a very, very funny... There's an old saying in the Bible that you should help your enemies.

There was a very famous philosopher in England about 300 years ago. He took it very seriously that you should take care of your enemies. So, there was a joke in England at that time.

If you meet this guy, you should try to hit him, because then he will take care of you. And he was famous for taking care of his enemies. So, here it says, if you have that state of mind where you want to take care of all beings, and if you have that state of mind that when someone hurts you, you just try to bring them happiness back.

I would say you are the BYUNG NAS. You are the AKHARA. You are the source of DEBA.

You are a happiness producer. And I KHYAB GZU CHI, KHYAB GZU DRO. I what?

I take... I take refuge in you. I take refuge in you.

Usually refuge is three jewels, should be an enlightened being, should be their teaching, should be the spiritual community. We have all these prayers, I take refuge in these three jewels. Shantideva says, I don't take refuge in the three jewels.

I take refuge in any person who really wants to help everyone, and any person who helps their enemies. You are the real three jewels, and I take refuge in you. It's very, very beautiful.

Now, there's a few Sanskrit words here that I'd like you to name. One is NAMAS. Say NAMAS.

NAMAS means, it comes from NAMA, or it's related to the word for name. But it also means to bow down to somebody. In my Sanskrit teacher from Princeton University, he told me there's a connection.

NAMAS means I bow down to your name, or I bow down to your identity. So NAMAS means I bow down. DGAR BA means to do, and the same root is seen in the word karma.

DGAR means it's the root. NAMAS GARA means I bow down to you. GARA means I do a bowing to you.

NAMAS GARA. Even in modern India, this is a word which survived in Hindi. You say to somebody NAMAS GARA.

It means good morning or good afternoon. NAMAS GARA. It means I bow down to you.

NAMAS GARA. It's a very important word to know. If you're going to learn one Sanskrit word today, it's very good to know this word.

People always join their hands like this in India. When you meet somebody for the first time, you say NAMAS GARA. I bow down to you.

But it means I honor your name also. Like I honor you. Okay, Seiji is going to read this next three lines in the Tibetan.

Yeah, now this doesn't seem like poetry. Look at the one up above. It's poetry, right?

,GANG LA SEMS KYI BDAG PA RIN CHEN DE BSKYED PA DE'I DGOS LA CHAGS ZHING GANG LA MYUR PA BYED KYANG DE'I BRAL BA DE BA'I BYUNG LAS DE LA BSKYAB TSUL KHRIMS, It's poetry. Now here, ,BYANG CHUB SEMS PA'I SPYOD PA SPYOD PA LA'I, ,BYANG CHUB SEMS PA'I PHAN YIN ZHES PA, ,ZHES BYANG BA LTAR LA LE'O DUNG MA, It's not poetry. Something happened here.

What happened here is that we reached the end of the first chapter. And this part here says, Seiji finished the first chapter. And just by coincidence today, with our DCI Global, SCIM students here, we finished the first chapter.

There are 10 chapters, I think 12 chapters. And we have reached the end of the first chapter. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA'I SPYOD PA LA SPYOD PA means Bodhicharya Avatara, which means Bodhisattva Charya Avatara.

It means what?

[Говорящий 3]
The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, and literally Avatara means let's get into these bodhisattva activities. Let's learn how to do them ourselves. So this book is called how to be a bodhisattva.

This is a guide map how to be a bodhisattva. This first chapter is called the panions of BYANG CHUB KYI SEMS. Panion. What's that mean you guys?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
You know, what cool things are going to happen to you if you can get this attitude where you want to take care of everybody, and if someone hurts you, your response, your reaction is to help them back. And it's a very, very unusual model to carry through your life. And boy, you could do a lot of diamond mining here, you know.

If you had the habit of taking care of people who hurt you, you're going to lead an amazing life. You're going to have an amazing life. Okay.

LUS means chapter. LUS means chapter. DAM PO means first.

And he says, we're done with the first chapter. Yay! Okay.

Now, you don't celebrate, you go to the second chapter. Okay. Did you say 12 chapters?

Did I say 12 or 10? I don't remember. 10.

The biography said 10. Let's say 10. Okay.

Can you just read the name of the second chapter? DIG PA ZHAG PA'I LUS Yeah, so LUS means chapter. And it's a translation of the Sanskrit word pariccheda.

And what's DIG PA? Bad. Bad.

Bad genes. Sorry. Sorry, I'm allergic to DIG PA.

DIG PA means bad deeds. Okay. What's ZHAG PA?

Yeah, ZHAG PA means consistent. So the second chapter of Seiji's book is admitting it when you make a mistake. And this is a big, big bodhisattva activity.

Usually we think of bodhisattvas as beautiful people who never make mistakes. And the truth is that bodhisattvas make mistakes all the time. Just like you or me.

But they admit those mistakes to other people. They don't hide them. And they don't pretend they didn't make a mistake.

A true bodhisattva, and I think this is a big diamond mining point, they like to tell people about their mistakes and they like to accept responsibilities for mistakes, even in their company or in their personal life. They're very open about their mistakes. They're not afraid of their mistakes.

They learn from their mistakes. They are masters at making mistakes. You know, they know how to make a good mistake.

And that's a great business skill. If you just admit a mistake and you fix the goddamn thing. You know, okay, so here we go.

Do you want to choose somebody to read Seiji and help them read? Yeah, let's see. Oh, one shot?

Uh-oh, good luck for one shot. I don't know if she's ever done this. I don't think so.

No. Oh, if not, let me, let's see. Oh, I see Ina here.

Ina's a good reader. I'm here. One trick and read.

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, go for it.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, one shot. She likes to make mistakes and talk about it. Okay.

[Говорящий 3]
But I don't know how to read it. The second line. You know what I have?

[Говорящий 1]
Keep going, Seiji. Okay. Oh, we're in the line before.

[Говорящий 3]
The second.

[Говорящий 1]
Third one, yeah.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay, the last line, last sentence.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you again, Wangchen. Seiji, what's rimchen? Jewel, right?

Yeah, jewel. Where is it in the Sanskrit? Ratna.

Ratna, nice, nice. Jewel. Ratna.

Okay. Jewel. What is the jewel?

It's the sem. The mind? The thought?

Yeah, bodhichitta. The wish to have all living beings. That's the jewel here.

Sumwa means I would like to keep it. It's the past tense of zin. I would like to keep this state of mind.

I would like to keep this state of mind. And that could be that he wants to make a commitment to this state of mind. I would like to keep this state of mind.

Therefore, I'm going to chupa, the last word. Chupa. Yeah.

Make offerings. Yeah, I'm going to make offerings. Okay?

I'm going to make offerings. By the way, the Sanskrit here for offerings, puja. I will make offerings.

Okay? I will make offerings to this yun dang gyat so. Gyat so means ocean.

And yun dang means good quality. There are oceans of good quality. There are kinds of people who have so many good qualities in them.

It's like all the fish in the ocean. I want to make offerings to you because I want to make a commitment to this state of mind. I would like to get that state of mind.

I will make offerings to you. He calls the state of mind ratna. The jewel.

Then he starts to pay respects to three jewels. It's all a big joke. I want to reach the jewel of this kind of love for all people.

Therefore, I'm going to make offerings to the three jewels. It's very beautiful. Now he starts to name the three jewels.

First one is de shin shekpa. Here's the Sanskrit. Tathagata.

To the ones who went that way, which is Buddhas. I pay respects to Buddhas. I pay respects to the dampe chö, sad dharma.

The teachings. The high dharma. We're going to talk more about that.

That's the second jewel. What's now? We call it anticipatory translation.

Who's coming next? The community, right? The Buddha, dharma, and sangha.

The community. Then he says, by the way, these are all kway chok chima mepa. These are vimala.

These are vimala kway chok. Here nimala. Nimala, same thing.

Flawless. Perfect. These are the jewels who are perfect.

You could read that if you want to with the first two jewels here. Yeah, with the first two. Which is?

Buddha and dharma. And they... Where's the community here?

Sang ye se. The sons of the... Daughters and sons.

Of the Buddha. That's the community here. Is there any logical reason why he would call the Buddhas flawless and he would call the dharma flawless?

Then he'd say, oh, and also all the children of the Buddhas. Because they're on their way.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, they're on their way.

[Говорящий 1]
They're still on the path. These are the bodhisattvas. They are still on the path.

He honors them. By the way, as a translator in modern times you should say daughters and sons or sons and daughters of the Buddhas. I make offerings to you.

You are the ocean of good qualities. I make offerings to you. There's a couple of words here that I'd like you to learn in the Sanskrit.

One is tathagata. Say tathagata. Don't say tathagata or anything like that.

Tatha means that way. That way. Tatha means that way.

And gata means you went that way. You went that way. What we see here is the plural possessive.

Tathagatana. Who went that way. This is a synonym of a Buddha.

Someone who went that way. Already gone. Then I wanted you to learn this word sadharma.

Say sadharma. Sadharma. Sadharma you know means teaching.

Sad is the word sat which means true. Ultimate or true. People translate this as holy dharma and it's not actually correct.

Dharma means highest. Ultimate. And true.

Sat means true. It comes from the verbal root us which means is. And the word is comes from us.

So sat means true. Before a dh a t has to change to d. So sat dharma becomes sad dharma.

It means the ultimate teaching. The point here if you really are sensitive to the Sanskrit is that there are many teachings around the world. It's a teaching to tell your kids to kill people of a certain race.

That's a teaching. It's a dharma. It's a teaching.

Sad dharma means good teaching, cool teaching, correct teaching. Dharma in general can mean any teaching even a bad teaching can be called dharma. Sad dharma means the true teaching or the highest teaching which is of course to take care of everybody.

That's the first verse. What chapter are we in? What's the chapter name?

Confession. Where's the confession here? We don't have any yet.

Right now we're just making offerings to good people. I guess we're going to get to the confession before we finish the chapter. Do you want to choose somebody to read the Tibetan?

We're at two minutes, Geshe-la. Wow, we just started, Nick. We're going to give it another ten minutes, Nick.

Oh great. Actually, Nick, do you want to go first? Sure, sure, sure.

MED DOG CHOS BU JI NAS YOD PA THANG MANG GI RNAMS PA GANG ZHIG GI YOD PA THANG JIG RTEN RIN CHEN JI NAS YOD PA THANG CHU TZAM YID THU'ANG BA CHI YOD THANG Yeah, nice. We start offering beautiful things to the bodhisattvas especially. The first one is MED DO.

Which in Sanskrit is BUS PA. It means flowers. MED DO RJE BU means, you guys?

Rice? No. RJE without the BU means rice.

RJE BU means fruits like apples, oranges, mangoes. JI NAS YOD PA means however many there may be. However many there may be.

By the way, when you are presenting offerings, they say that one of the sweetest offerings is things from nature. Things that people don't necessarily own. So flowers are considered a great offering because they grow everybody.

At Diamond Mountain we had to ask the people not to pick the flowers because they used to pick all the flowers and the flowers are the seeds for next year's flowers. So MED DO means flowers. RJE BU means fruits that grow on the trees.

JI NAS YOD PA means however many there are in the whole universe. Then he wants to offer MAN. What's that you guys?

Medicine. It can mean medicine but the ancient word, let's see here, BHA'I SHAGS RJA. Up here in the Sanskrit.

BHA'I SHAGS RJA. What's the name of medicine Buddha? BHA'I SHAGS RJA GUR ROL.

BHA'I SHAGS RJA means what does MAN mean in your first book? What is BHA'I SHAGS RJA in your first book?

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Oh, the poisonous plants. Yeah, yeah.

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So MAN It actually means plants which are medicinal. Vaishaja means plants which are medicinal. When you're offering things to teachers or something, you would pick fragrant plants like mint or spearmint or basil.

Rosemary. Just when you see it here, there's no reason to offer medicine to a Buddha. This is Vaishaja.

We are offering Vaishaja. Vaishaja means fragrant natural plants. I'm offering fragrant natural plants.

By the way, all the birds can eat Vaishaja, but only special birds can eat poison. Vaishaja is the opposite. Medicinal plants.

Sweet-smelling... I mean, it's kind of cool. Somebody when I was at Diamond Mountain, they offered me sage.

They offered me a big bunch of sage. They picked it up off the desert. It's a beautiful offering.

Fragrant offering. ,MAN GYI RNAM PA RGA SHI YOD PA DANG, I offer you all kinds of fragrant medicinal plants. And I offer you Rinchen.

All the jewels. ,BYIN GNYEN YOD PA JIG RTEN means all the jewels lying in the whole planet. There must be diamonds that nobody found yet.

There must be big rubies. There's pearls at the bottom of the sea. Nobody found them.

I offer all of them to you. I don't care if people found them yet or not. I offer them to you.

And I also offer you the chu tsang. I offer you the oceans and the rivers that they are sitting at the bottom of. I offer you this beautiful water.

I offer you the ocean off of Del Mar, California. Chu tsang. ,YI DU'ONG BA means lovely, beautiful, clean ocean water, stream water.

It's a very beautiful high offering to offer water. That water is called anjali. There was once a woman offering anjali in her hands.

Just water. And a saint dropped in the middle and he's called Patanjali. Anjali, this offering of water.

We don't think of water as a great offering that you would put out in a temple or something like that. But it's supposed to be one of the sweetest offerings you can make. It's just plain water.

Very clean and very beautiful. Some things to learn here. When you add ani to any noun, it becomes plural.

Here we see pushpani and we see palani. Flowers and fruits. Sanskrit is a very inflected language.

Everything has an ending. It's a very, very precise language. This is the neuter, short a ending, nominative, plural.

If you learn the endings, Sanskrit is extremely precise. This means I offer you all the flowers and I offer you all the fruits. All words in Sanskrit are either male, female, or neuter.

All nouns are either male, female, or neuter, in between. The words for a flower and the words for a fruit, they happen to mean neuter words. So they will take the plural ending ani and that's something we should learn.

Let's try to... we have a few minutes. Why don't we pick somebody to read the next one?

What about Gibson? Gibson! Yay!

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RIN CHEN RIGS PO MTHONG NI DE BZHIN THUG SNGA MTSAL SA CHOG YIN ZHING MYA NGA THANG BYUNG ZHING MED DO RGYUN ZHES BUN PA THANG ZHING KHANG BYAS SANG YAL KA THUG PA THANG Nice.

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Nice reading, Gibson. Thank you. RIN CHEN again.

More jewels? Yeah, jewels. RI means a mountain.

RIGS PO means a mountain. They say in the ancient geography that this world is four continents around a central mountain. Supposedly that mountain is made of four different jewels.

Supposedly the reason the sky is blue in the daytime is that the sun is reflecting off of the quarter of the mountain which is sapphire.

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It's very beautiful.

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That's why daylight is blue. Anyway, this jewel mountain. DE BZHIN THUG means also...

I offer NGA MTSAL. NGA MTSAL means forests. SA CHOG DBAN Gibson pronounced it very well.

SA CHOG BAN means I offer you all the places in this world where there's no people. Just beautiful places of nature. Mountains, forests, oceans, deserts, snow caps.

I offer you all the empty places of this world that are just precious because they are beautiful and they are empty. NYAM DGA means very pleasant forests, meadows that nobody ever saw. It's a very powerful offering in the Bodhisattva Charitara.

They are offering beautiful wild places. The point is nobody owns them. I offer you all the beautiful stuff in this world that has no owner.

There's no deed, there's no town, there's no borders, there's no boundaries. I offer you all the wild beautiful of the stars, of the planets. I offer you the free beauty.

There's a special power of offering free beauty. RGYUN ZHING means all the trees. MED DO means all the flowers.

RGYAN BYAS BUM PA means piled with jewels. There's a tradition that some trees can grow emeralds. There's trees that grow rubies.

There's trees that grow sapphires. Trees that are piled with jewels. ZHING GANG RJES SANG YAL KA YAL KA means the branches of those trees.

RGYUN PA means they are bent over from the weight of the jewels. They're about to break. RGYUN PA means bend over.

I offer you... ZHING means those trees. RJES SANG means they are bent over with jewels and bananas and oranges and apples and flowers.

In other words, in this line, you are offering to the universe all the free beauty of the universe. It's a very beautiful offering. Something you could learn here is the word DRU MA which means ZHING.

Tree. The word in the Sanskrit here is right here in the second line. DRU MA means tree.

ZHING DRU is a root that means firm. The word Dharma comes from that. The word tree comes from that.

The word true comes from that. Sanskrit is the mother of all Western languages from Iceland to Iran. DRU MA means truth and tree.

Trees in ancient times were the most solid thing and living thing. You could lean on them. You could hit them.

They wouldn't fall down. DRU MA became a word that represents truth. Dharma comes from that.

True comes from that. Tree comes from that. All of those three words are related linguistically.

GAL PA DRU MA means wishing tree. The reason I wrote it here is that we're going to go into wishing trees in our next class. We're going to talk about wishing trees.

GAL PA means to have a dream or a wish. It means to hold an idea in your mind. The English word halter, like a halter top for a lady's top, it has a string around the top and it holds up the blouse.

Or a halter on an animal. It comes from GAL PA. To hold a thought.

There's a famous distinction between Kuntaka and Lengki in Sanskrit. GAL PA DA and SA HA JA. SA HA JA means good qualities that you're born with.

GAL PA DA means good qualities that you learn later in your life. These are all meanings of the word GAL PA, which means held in your hand or held in your mind. Conceptual.

We're going to be seeing a lot of GAL PA. GAL PA and GAL PA DRU MA, what's the equivalent in the Arab tales? Aladdin.

Aladdin's lamp. If you want to say wishing lamp or Aladdin's lamp, the Sanskrit is GAL PA DRU MA. That's a tree.

You walk up to the tree and you say, I'd like to have a Tesla Model ZZ3. A Tesla drops off the tree and you drive it home. That's a real GAL PA DRU MA.

Now, the attitude that I would like to take care of all people and the attitude that I would like to help even those who hurt me is GAL PA DRU MA. That's the point. The wish-giving tree, the Aladdin's lamp, is bodhichitta.

It's the attitude that I care about all people. I will take care of all people, even those who hurt me, especially those who hurt me. That attitude is a wish-giving tree.

That attitude will give you anything you want. It's like the four steps in DCI. All right.

We're going to stop there, you guys. Thank you. Seiji is going to translate this book.

Let's see where we go. Anything else for your kids? Thank you very much.

Sorry, this break is going to be a little bit shorter. 30 minutes, 27 minutes. See you soon in our Creativity Clutch.

Get ready because we're going to get the difficult questions.

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Can I ask a quick question about the Sanskrit? Yes. GAL PITA, is that inborn or is that learned?

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GAL PITA means conceptualized, which means learned. Thank you. Thank you.

See you guys. Bye. Thank you, Geshe-la.

Bye. Bye.