Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 16

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 16 (Xuanzang's Tower — Master Shantideva / Bodhisattva, Session 1, Class 3 по названию ролика)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод и чтение тибетского текста: Сейджи Арао; расписание объявляет ведущая (ASR не опознана, возможно Venerable Panna, см. брифинг)
Дата и место: осень 2023, вскоре после занятия «6 ноября» (см. dcc-yt-seiji-shantideva-c015); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
Alright, let's take your seats please.

[Говорящий 3]
Let's give them a one hour, one hour from when you start. Yes. And then we're just going to...

[Говорящий 1]
Can we go from five to six?

[Говорящий 2]
Fifty-two.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Five fifty-two. Five fifty-two. Because it's a big day out here.

[Говорящий 1]
Seeing you. Sounds good to me. Very cool.

Does everybody have to be here? Seiji, do you want one of these guys? Do you want a key?

Do you want it? Take something. Have something.

[Говорящий 3]
Alright everybody, we're going to get started with a special class. And just for last minute clarity, I did get clarity during the break. And the printed schedule is the correct one.

Okay. So tomorrow morning, nine o'clock, yoga, 10.30, Bodhisattva class. Okay?

Cool. So we're going to move on to a wonderful translation class with Seiji Arao and Geshe Michael Roach.

[Говорящий 1]
Alright. Seiji's going to present his homework. Alright.

By the way, we have to leave at 5.50. We have to leave the room at 5.50. Otherwise, Tim has to leave his pants here. Or something. Okay.

Alright. Seiji's going to do homework with us. I don't know how many of you were last session, but these are pretty easy questions.

Alright. Ivan, can you see my computer? Alright.

Well. Okay. We can do it off memory.

Who was here last time? I guess that was November 6th. Oh.

What's that? No, that's not it. Don't show his bank account.

Those are my notes for your class. Ivan, let me restart NDI. Can you see it now?

Oops. Alright. We don't need my computer then.

For those of you who remember last session, we were finishing the first chapter of the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Bodhisattva Charyavatara. You guys remember what on the closing lines of the first chapter, who does Master Shantideva bows down to?

And why this was somewhat unusual, because we usually bow down to something else. Someone remembers? What do we usually bow down to?

Yeah. Three jewels. But in this particular one being a Bodhisattva book, do you guys remember what was the jewel that he was mentioning?

Yeah. Really? Yeah.

Wait. Which one? Yeah.

Rob got it. Bodhichitta. So people, he was saying that people that, Master Shantideva bows down to anyone who has the, he calls it the jewel mind of a Bodhisattva.

And that's who he bows down to respectfully. Oh yeah. Thank you.

Alright. Second question. Then we started the second chapter of this book.

What was the first chapter about? What's the title of the first chapter? I don't remember.

Yeah. Wait, I have the wrong. It's okay.

It's called Chang Che Sem Kyi Pen Yon Shepa. Pen Yon. The Benefits of Bodhichitta.

Yeah, the Benefits of Bodhichitta. That's the first chapter. We just finished.

What is the topic of the second chapter? And explain why this is a good skill to have, both in our daily life and in our spiritual life. The title of the second chapter.

Does someone remember? Yeah. Ah, yeah, of course, Gibson got it.

Can you please tell us what does that mean in English? Yep. And in able to purify your bad deeds, you need to be able to, first.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah. Hey, Seiji, could you repeat that for the record?

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, yeah. So, Gibson said purifying your bad deeds. And I asked him, what's a precursor to that?

And he says, confession. Realizing and confession. So, yeah, admitting our mistakes.

Why is this a good skill to have, both in daily life and in our spiritual career, Gibson? Oh, great. He said to start.

Gibson said to start well and to be a good vessel. Yep, perfect. When continuing his praises, who does Master Shatideva refers to as flawless?

And why does he do that?

[Говорящий 2]
Now we're going back to the classical object that we usually bow down to.

[Говорящий 1]
And three jewels, yes. And do you remember, this is something that I had forgotten, but which ones are flawless? Or which ones he refers to as flawless?

And which ones he doesn't, and why? Peter said Buddha Jewel is flawless. Dharma, yeah.

And Sangha, he said I bow down to the Buddha and Dharma, the flawless ones, and also the Sangha. Yeah, but why didn't he refer to that as flawless? Yes, not a Buddha necessarily.

All right, in this case we have Sanskrit words. These are pretty easy, I think. Namaskara for white side people.

Yeah, right. Sat Dharma. Sat Dharma.

Yep. Oh, sorry. Namaskara, bowing down to or salutation.

Sat Dharma, true or ultimate teachings. Nice. And Nirmala.

Nirmala. What is it? Nirmala.

Nirmala? Nirmala. Which is similar to?

Vimala. Unstained. Yeah, flawless or unstained.

Flawless or unstained. Unstained, yeah. Oh, yeah.

So that's it. Okay, good. I have the translation.

You have the translation? We cannot project it, I think. Oh, not yet, okay.

If we fix it, we'll project it. Well, that's yours, yeah. Did you do one of these verses?

Yeah. Which one? Oh, this one.

So, Seiji, please read the verse. Okay. Do you want to read your translation?

Slowly? Yeah. Well, we did that with Nick.

Uncle Nick. If there's a mistake, it's Nick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Always Nick. Even when we make offerings of scented oils, incense, wish-giving trees, and riches to those like gods of this world, crops will grow without plowing the fields, ever more so when we offer those jewels to those jewels who are worthy. Okay.

Do you want to begin, Nami? Basically good. Basically good, yeah.

Yeah, so LHA means? Gods or angels? Yeah, devas.

Yeah. GCIG RTEN NA In the world. In the world.

GCIG RTOG PA RTOG PA Incense, okay, or scented, Incense, yeah. Nick, when did you see Po recently? Yeah.

Nick was finished his book. It's like 600 pages. Yeah, no, then we had 100 pages of notes, of introduction.

We did something, I think, I'm not sure anybody ever did it, but we, Nick and I decided we would find all the books ever written by Nagarjuna. So we worked on it for, I don't know, a couple months. And the last one, almost the last one.

It was a book on how to make incense. Yeah, it's a book on how to make incense. And it's an illustrated book on how to make incense.

And it's a chart. Real mik, real mik. It's a chart of incense making.

Yeah, put Jodhwa making incense. Very interesting. It'd be interesting to try to repeat Nagarjuna's formula for incense.

I think it'd be really cool. Seiji can do that in his spare time. What's a paksam gyi shing?

Yeah, wish-giving dream. Wish-giving tree. Similar to what in Middle East?

Aladdin. His wife taught me to say, we say Aladdin in America, but his wife said, no, Aladdin. Then you rub it and a genie comes out and you ask him what you want and he gives you what you want, right?

So in the Eastern world, it's a special tree. It's called kalpa druma. Say kalpa druma.

Kalpa means your wish and druma means a tree. And there's a really important, those of you who are interested in Sanskrit, during the British times in India, there was, they kind of discouraged the ancient traditions. Same in China, I think, Hong Kong area, and Shanghai.

So, there was a movement of Indian people who tried to save their ancient books, tried to save their ancient wisdom. They did an encyclopedia called kalpa druma, called the wish-giving tree. It's extremely important and it's extremely good.

I took the nine layers of the onion teaching from that. They preserved it in this encyclopedia. It's very beautiful.

It's beautiful that they tried to do it and they were getting hassled all the time. But they kept their culture. West Bengal.

Okay, baksang gi shing, ring chen shing, jewel tree. ma ma, what's important about ma ma? ba yi lo to, kor lo rungpo che, Yeah, crops that grow themselves.

If you're a DCI teacher, it's a suitcase which packs itself. So, you can go out for a nice dinner on the last night of a program and when you get home, the suitcase packed itself. And they say if your karma is really, really good, that things will happen like that.

I'm waiting for the dishes to wash themselves in my kitchen. But try to imagine that, that you finish dinner and you just go start watching your Korean soap opera or read your Mixed Nuts translation. And then the dishes are like, hey you guys, time to wash up.

And they're all like, and if your karma is really good. ma ma ba yi lo to means the rice will plant itself. My friend was planting rice, right?

Without machines. This is planting rice without their farmer. The rice will plant itself.

All right. ma ma ba yi lo to tungpa means it will grow. It will be born.

Karma in Tibetan means star in the sky. It's the same sound, but it's not the same word as karma in Sanskrit. Karma in Sanskrit means good deeds, bad deeds.

In Tibetan, it means a star in the sky. And when you say birthday in Tibetan, if you're interested, you say star of your birth. So normally for birth we say kye, kye kar.

So kye kar means the date, the star of your birth. And then if the person is a Lama or an important person, you say tungkar. And tungkar means holy birthday.

It's the high honorific. So Tibetan has several levels of languages really. There's different levels of language.

Language you use with your friends. Language you use with children. Language you use with your parents.

Language you use with your Lamas. And it's very interesting. And there's a separate language you use when you're writing a letter.

And they're all interesting. LO RTOG RNAMS PA DANG, GZHAN YANG PHYIR PO'I OS PA'I RGYUN NAM NI We'd have to check our commentary, but it seems to say all the jewels that might be worthy to offer. Okay, all right.

What's worthy in Sanskrit? AR Yeah, and that's where the word arhat comes from. Arhat.

What do you say in Chinese language? Aloha. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, good. Seiji's book is written in very beautiful, standard Sanskrit. And it's a great book to learn Sanskrit from.

So, you know, most of our classes are in Tibetan. We refer to the Sanskrit often. Many times it's missing.

90% of the time it's missing. It was destroyed. This book exists in Sanskrit.

And we have good friends who edited a very clean version for us. And so we can, if you want to learn Sanskrit, you can do it in his class. And so we're going to be teaching Tibetan and Sanskrit in his class.

If you want to know more Sanskrit, and the idea is to pick it up slowly. Like pick up three, four, five words every class. But I will pick the most important words out of Shantideva, and then you can learn them if you want.

Personally, I enjoy looking at the roots of Sanskrit, because those are the roots of English also. All the languages from Iran, all the Western European languages, the Eastern European languages, even Icelandic, they all come from Sanskrit. So I like to study that.

We try to learn a few Sanskrit words every time Seiji has a class. The Sanskrit word I'd like to teach you today is LONG A D I. Say ADI.

ADI. Those of you who know some Tibetan, this is LA SOGS PA. This is LA SOGS PA.

This is et cetera. And it's much more common in Asian ancient languages to say et cetera. They'll say Seiji et cetera.

Very, very often. If you're talking about, I don't know, the management of DCI, you would say Seiji ADI. And ADI means starting with.

Starting with Seiji. So Seiji ADI. And it's much more common in Sanskrit than English.

Et cetera, or LA SOGS PA. So if you're learning Tibetan, you saw LA SOGS PA many, many times. And it's a translation of ADI, which means starting with.

And it comes after that word. So Nick ADI means Nick and everybody else. Cool?

All right, so now you learned one word. I don't see, Christina Kasica, can you raise your hand? Where are you?

She's there. She's making a Sanskrit learning book from Seiji's book. So every time we have a class, we will add some words and some ideas to that book.

And we call it, what do we call it? Organic Sanskrit. What do we call it?

[Говорящий 2]
Organic Sanskrit.

[Говорящий 1]
Organic Sanskrit. And it means, when I learned Sanskrit at Princeton, I had a very traditional teacher. And he said, okay, here's the 64 tenses of the verb.

And I had to memorize them. And I had to recite them the next day. And I would forget all of them.

After a week, I forget all of them. I would like to invent a kind of Sanskrit learning system where you learn organically. It means you learn the language as you learn Shantideva.

So if you come to Shantideva class every time, you will learn a little bit of Sanskrit each time. But I will design it that you are learning the most important things first. And it will build on itself.

And so by the end of his book, which I think should take about four or five years, you will know some pretty good Sanskrit. This is a great book to learn Sanskrit. So it's important, I think.

All right, so learn Adi. Today learn Adi. Okay, good.

I thought to teach you the mudras for... Gandhi and Dhupi are here. Say Gandha.

Gandha. And Dhupa. Dhupa.

So... OM BADZHAG OM BADZHAG NYID DBYA' HUNG OM BADZHAG again. OM BADZHAG DBYE'I AH HUNG DBYE'I means...

So these are the mudras. Mudra means the hand signs. OM BADZHAG NYID DBYA' HUNG OM BADZHAG...

DBYE'I ARGAM PADING ARGAM ARGAM PADING OM BADZHAG DUS PA DUS PA is like this. And it means you're putting incense stick in the sand. DUS PA So that's...

GANDE You are wiping perfume on your wife or something. Like that. So these are mudras.

These are hand signs. I thought you'd like to know them. GANDE means incense.

Sorry, ganden means water with perfume in it. And then dupe means incense stick. Okay, good.

By the way, if you're trying to learn the Sanskrit from the Tibetan here, it's a little bit difficult because the Tibetan translator did not keep the verses by verses. If he got in trouble, he pushed some words to the next verse. Okay, so it's going to be confusing if you try to make a one-to-one correspondence between the Sanskrit and the Tibetan.

In this case, for example, in the Sanskrit, hansa, okay, right here in the middle of the second line, say hansa. Hansa is the ancient word for goose or duck. It comes in a famous airline.

Lufthansa. Really, luft means sky or air and hansa means goose or duck and lufthansa means duck, duck who flies in the air. Okay, and gans in German comes from that and then goose, English, so it goes from hans to gans to goose and in English it's goose.

Okay, now there's no goose in the Tibetan in this verse. He pushed it to the next verse because he didn't have room. Okay, what's goose or duck?

Ngangpa, here at the beginning of the second line, ngangpa, okay. Why is ngangpa important in Buddhism? That's one, but that's one also, but saffron color doesn't exist in Tibet as cloth.

It's the color of a certain duck. The breast is saffron colored, so they use it oftentimes to refer to a monk's clothes and that's why Tibetans use red or purple because they don't have the common dyes to make saffron color, but they call saffron color ngangpa. Okay, all right, you ready for the next?

You can have a choice. You can read or you can embarrass Nick or anybody else. It's more fun to embarrass other people.

Yeah, let's embarrass Nick. Okay, let me get a big... That's okay.

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Yeah, okay.

Cool. RTZO DANG TSING PO'I BAD MED RKYEN PA DAG NGANG PA BZHIN TU SKAD NYAN YI'ONG BSTAN RNAMS KA RAB BYAM GAM GYIS THEG TUG NA YANG SU GSUNG BA MED PAR THEG DAG KHUNG Nice. So he's going to make offerings and in the ancient Buddhism there's a big tradition of offering things from nature and I think in Japan it was a very...

it became a very famous kind of offering like offer the lakes or offer the forest or offer the sun and there was a big tradition to offer things... the last line says GSUNG BA MED PAR It means ZIM BA MED PAR What's that mean? No owner.

Things with no owners. And there's a tradition in Buddhism that the sweetest offerings are the free ones that nobody owns. You can offer the moon, the moonlight, you can offer the sunlight, you can offer the ocean.

Nature. Things from nature. So these are some of the most beautiful offerings.

YONGS SU GSUNG BA MED PAR means nobody owns them. Offer the things which nobody owns. They're the most beautiful offerings.

And here comes his list. What's a RTZO like a RGYA RTZO? Yeah, RTZO means a lake.

By itself it means lake. RGYA RTZO means? Ocean.

What's Mongolian for RGYA RTZO? Dalai. Dalai.

So that title is not Tibetan. It's Mongolian. It's given by the Mongolian kings.

RTZO DANG. What's a ZING BU? ZING BU means like a beautiful pond.

ZING BU means like a beautiful pond. Like the one at Xiamen University. Am I right?

Okay. And those are not normal ponds. They are RGYAN PA with PADMA.

Yeah, they are adorned with lotus flowers. PADMA is the old... PADMA means lotus.

The Tibetans, they don't pronounce A-D. They change it to E. PADMA.

OM MANI PADME. OM MANI PADME HUNG. It should be OM MANI PADME HUNG.

Okay, like that. So PADME RGYAN PA DANG. So I offer to you beautiful ponds.

I offer to you beautiful lakes covered with lotus flowers. And if you listen, you get the SKAD NYON PO. The beautiful sound of NANG BA.

Docks. Or geese. Where I live, in the changing seasons, the geese and the docks will move to...

they will migrate to another state. And they fly at night. And it's very beautiful.

You go out on the porch at night and you cannot see them, but you hear this... And they're like... And it's better than offering rock and roll.

He's looking for beautiful, free music from nature. And it's one of the most beautiful sounds. Especially at late at night in the dark.

I can't even imagine. They're like, hey, can you guys see anything? And you're like, oh, we're just following you.

That's NGAL MA BZHIN DU SKAD NYON. SNAM KHA'I RAB BYAMS KYIS THEG TUG NA SNAM KHA'I means what? Akasha.

The sky. The sky. RAB BYAMS means billions and billions or something.

Sanskrit has a separate word for every digit of ten. So there's one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand. Like that.

CHI, CHU, RGYA, STONG, CHI, BUM, SA YA, CHE BA. Like that. I forgot after that.

That's up to ten million. Sorry, in Tibetan. But it comes from Abhidharmakosha.

So RAB BYAMS means billions and billions. KHAMS KYIS THEG TUG NA It means like offering the stars. Offering the stars in the sky.

That's a beautiful free offering. You don't have to go buy expensive incense or something like that. You go out at night and you look up and see the stars and offer them to the Buddha.

It's a sweet, they like free offerings. They like it when you offer something from nature. It's supposed to be special.

RAB BYAMS THEG TUG means to the end of space. I offer the stars I can see and I offer the stars I cannot see. And I offer all that beautiful light I offer to the Buddha.

Cool? And all of these things have no owner. So the offering is more sweet.

If there's any... If I don't see some Sanskrit which is important, I don't give you any Sanskrit for that verse. There's nothing here that I want you to learn in your first year of Sanskrit or something like that.

Here we go. Seiji gets to pick on somebody. Oh, you're not?

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you. Go ahead.

[Говорящий 1]
Beautiful. Nice, very nice. Yay!

You must be a student of Word. Wordsmith is teaching people to read and he's really good at it. So if you want to learn, if you want to learn to read, he gives a class usually after the Mixed Nuts class.

After the Shenzang Tower class. This is an idiom which I think even Nick and Seiji don't know. LO'I LANG NAS literally means LO'I LEN.

LEN like DONG LEN. What's the LEN in DONG LEN? Taking.

No, giving. Taking. LEN means to take.

Here it means I take it with my mind. LO means mind. What's pure mind?

LOB SANG. Like LOB SANG BYAG PA, like Tsongkhapa's name. So LO means mind.

LO'I LANG NAS is an idiom that means I imagine them or I picture them in my mind. So you can be sitting in your meditation room and you can do all these prayers. And these are very, very famous prayers to do before your meditation.

There's whole books written about these verses. You can use them for your seven preliminaries, for example. So LO'I LANG NAS means in my mind I picture them.

Like the whole sky filled with stars. I like to offer the beach in San Diego, but I only get to see it once a year because Seiji always schedules something for DCI. Just kidding, not.

But I can imagine it and I can offer it. I can't see it. LO'I LANG NAS.

And I offer it to the THUB PA, the able ones, which means the Buddhas. They are the chok of all kyes. This kye isn't kye.

This is kye. Yeah, people. Highest of all beings.

I offer them to the Buddhas. Not only to the Buddhas, but along with their... I'll give $100 if you say it correctly.

Who was first? Daughters. Who said it first?

Technique. SRED DANG BYAS PA means along with their daughters and their sons. That's why his wife sent him to Kyoto.

Get some extra college money. Hey honey, you don't come back with $1200. Just stay there.

SRED DANG BYAS PA means along with their... Who's the daughters and sons? Yeah, the bodhisattvas.

SRED DANG BYAS PA LENG BUL means I offer it well. And LENG BUL became a separate word for offerings. Good offering or something like that.

YON NAS is an abbreviation of YON BSTAN GYIS NAS. Good. Yeah, meaning you are objects of good qualities.

You are objects with high qualities. So I offer it to you. He's still talking about the buddhas and bodhisattvas.

YON NAS DANG PA Why are they YON NAS DANG PA? Why are they the highest place to put your offerings? Because they have THUGS BYAS.

Yeah. THUGS BYAS. How do you say thank you in normal Tibetan?

Yeah. Say THUGS BYAS. THUGS BYAS.

THUGS BYAS. And you say it fast, like THUGS BYAS. And it means thank you.

And I think in every language, if you don't learn to say... if you stay in Japan for a week and you don't learn to say thank you in Japanese, there's something wrong with you. And I know people who lived in countries for a year and they still don't know how to say thank you.

In my opinion, you should be able to say thank you within one or two days. So if you want to say thank you in Tibetan, this happens to be it. THUGS BYAS.

It sounds like two. They don't say THUGS BYAS. They say THUGS BYAS.

Sometimes a little bit, always THUGS BYAS. You can ask Kelson how to say it perfectly. THUGS BYAS RNAMS KYIS Here it means those people with great compassion.

THUGS BYAS THUGS BYAS means what, literally? THUGS BYAS The Lord of Hearts. Yeah, the Lord of All Hearts is the Tibetan word for compassion.

The King of Hearts is the Tibetan word for compassion. BDAG LA to me with ZE BA Yeah, with love. DGONG DGONG Yeah, DGONG means to think.

It can mean to interpret Buddhism. It's the word for DRANG NAS. But here it just means look on me with love or think of me with love.

Buddhists and Bodhisattvas, think of us with love. And because you have love, ZHES ZHES Here ZHES means accept my offerings. I'm closing my eyes.

I'm imagining all the stars and I offer them to you and I hope you'll say, yes. The saddest thing in the world is when the guy gets down on his knee and offers the engagement ring and the girl says no or let me think about it. So that's not ZHES.

ZHES means I'll take it. Thank you so much. So we're praying that they will agree to take our offerings.

It's a big, bad, it's considered a very bad sign if a Lama refuses your offering. So you kind of have to ask them politely, please accept my offering. All right.

The word I want you to learn here in the Sanskrit is BUD DHI. Say BUD DHI. It's different from BUD DHA.

BUD DHI is the word he used here for imagining it in your mind. So BUD DHI means mind. And so therefore you can see the connection to BUD DHA.

So BUD DHA can mean open flower and BUD DHA can mean understanding. Here is a different spelling. BUD DHI.

Say BUD DHI. BUD DHI means your mind. So you can see the connection with the word BUD DHA.

BUD DHI. And Sanskrit has has endings. Sanskrit has endings.

And so if you want to say with your mind, you change BUD DHI to BUD DHA. And you have to learn those and it's very complex. It's complex and it's precise.

Sanskrit is highly precise. We can say it is perfectly composed language. It's predictable.

It's generative grammar. You can predict any word if you know the root. And that means backwards you can read anything if you know the 800 roots.

If you have nothing to do, Dodo, memorize the 800 roots of Sanskrit. I did it on the bus to New York. The best book is Dwight Whitney.

Whitney's Sanskrit Roots. Because all words are built logically from the roots. You can read any Sanskrit word if you know the rules of building the Sanskrit word and you know the roots.

So instead of learning tens of thousands of words, you can just learn 800 roots and then you can predict any word and you'll be correct. It's a totally predictable language. It is well composed language.

Sank skrta. Sank skrta. Sanskrit.

Okay? All right, the name for Sanskrit is Sank skrta. Skr, you know means karma, means to do something.

San means good. And you're required to put an F between those two. Sank skrta.

The word for Sanskrit in Sanskrit is perfect language. The perfect language. The well constructed language.

Sank skrta. If you're British and you just took over India, you can say, or Sanskrit. Sanskrit.

Sank skrta. Krishna. Krishna.

Okay, got it? So I want you to learn Buddhi. If you want to, and you don't have to, he says here in the first line of the Sanskrit, Sanskrit, niryatayami.

Niryatayami. Sound familiar? Idam guru ranam mandala niryatayami.

I offer this mandala. It comes in Shantideva. The verb comes in Shantideva.

First person singular. I offer to you niryatayami. Ami is the first person singular.

Niryatayami. So if you want to say it correctly, it's a long A and a long A. Niryatayami.

Niryatayami. Idam guru ranam mandala niryatayami. Okay, nice.

I thought you might like to learn that word. It comes from a root yat, which means to stretch. And it means I stretch out my hands to you and I offer to you.

It's ultimately the root, the same root for yama and niyama. Self-control. Because you have to reach for the reins of a horse.

It's very interesting. As my friends know in the first world. Okay, who's reading next, CG?

What time we stop, Ni? No, 5.50. We stop at 5.50. This room is empty at 5.51. Otherwise they're going to charge Ni extra money. Seriously.

So you can blah blah, but blah blah outside. And 5.50. Okay. All right, here we go, Seiji.

Who's going to read? Joy, yes.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you. DAG NI? DAG NI SO RNAMS DAG NI SO RNAMS NI LEN MIN LEN Pre-name of MIN LEN MIN LEN MIN LEN MIN LEN MIN Oh, MIN LEN Okay, good.

MIN LEN KHYEN CHEN THEG Nice. CHOG PA'I NOR GZHAN DAG Remove chapter. I cannot see.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, sorry.

[Говорящий 2]
I cannot see. Thank you. LA CHEN LA CHEN MA CHEG Nice.

DE NA GZHAN DONG NGON TE NGON GYI DI DAG GIS DONG LAS NI GYI ZHUG ZHES ZHIG Nice, nice, very nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Are you one of the world's kids also? Man, he picked up a lot of kids. Here's the name of a very famous director of Diamond Mountain.

SON NAMS Here it is. Okay, here it is. SON NAMS Okay, SON NAMS The Sanskrit is Punya.

Say Punya. Punya. Okay, SON NAMS means good karma.

Yeah, Venerable SON NAMS, where is Venerable SON NAMS? She was here. Her name means good karma.

I think I gave it to her. The Sanskrit is Punya. Punya.

Okay, and it means good karma. DAG GIS DAG NI SON NAMS MIN DEN Seiji, MIN DEN MIN DEN I don't have any good karma. Okay.

In this prayer we say, DAG GIS SON NAMS MIN DEN I don't have enough good karma. Why? Because I had a lot of DREN before.

DREN here means stinginess. And I never saw it anywhere else, so don't worry about it. There is a word for tumor that's the same pronunciation but a different spelling.

It seems almost like a cancer tumor. I don't have any good karma. I was not generous in my past.

DREN CHEN I was super not generous. Therefore, DAG LA I don't have any SPYOD PA Yeah, I don't have anything to offer. NOR means money or stuff.

NOR means possessions, jewels. NOR BU means jewel, right? It's connected.

So SPYOD PA'I NOR BZHIN I don't have any other offerings. Why did he say that? Yeah, he's offering the sky.

He's offering the ocean. Either he's a cheapskate. Either he don't want to give anything.

Or he doesn't have anything. So it's like, look, I don't have any money. I can't give you a gold stupa.

I can't give you expensive incense. I can give you the ocean. And I can give you the sky.

And I can give you flowers that I saw. I didn't even buy them. I went to the florist and I stared at them.

And I'm sending to you without paying. Like that. I'm giving an offering to you.

SPYOD PA'I NOR BZHIN BYANG BYANG means chi yang, means at all. So I was trying to create a dictionary of Sanskrit from these verses and I stopped because he compresses words when he needs meter. They're not normal.

BYANG is not normal. So I had to stop that project. He manipulates words.

He twists them to make his beat. And it's beautiful, but it's not good for a dictionary. So BYANG MA CI means I ain't got nothing at all.

I ain't got nothing at all. I don't have anything at all. I'm not being cheap.

I just don't have any... I'm not rich. I'm offering you the ocean.

I'm offering you the sky. BYANG MA CI DE NA Therefore, DGON You are the protector of living beings. You are a person who's supposed to take care of people.

You're supposed to be someone who's always DGONGS PA GZHAN DON Supposedly, you're the person who cares about other people more than they care about themselves. So you should accept my offering to help me. You see?

I don't have money. Okay. I don't have good offerings that I could buy.

Okay. So I'm offering you the stars. Okay.

Don't get upset at me. Aren't you the most compassionate person? Won't you take a lousy gift if that's all the person has?

He's like saying that. It's very beautiful. You should ZHES You should accept this offering.

You should accept the stars, the ocean, the lakes, the lotus flowers. BDAG GIS BDE LAS means cheer, Nick. Cheer for the purpose of.

Yeah. You should accept my offerings not because you need them, because I need to make the offering. Okay.

You should think of me. Don't say no when I make an offering to you. Take it.

Because I need the karma. It's a very beautiful verse. Take this thing for me, not for you.

The Buddhists, by the way, they have no need for all that stuff. Okay. We call it CHAGS KYIS.

Oh, another son. Okay, I mean, I already have a billion. They don't need your stuff.

And most lamas don't need your stuff either. There's a joke. If you go behind the lama's house, you can see big piles of offerings that they threw out the back door.

So, you know, the main thing is to give your practice. Lamas want your practice. They don't want your money.

A good lama doesn't want your money and they don't need your stuff. They want your practice. They want to see you treat other people nice and that's the best gift for them.

Okay. It's still okay to offer flowers and stuff and especially pastry. Okay.

Just kidding. Here's a Sanskrit word that maybe you heard a lot. Say puja.

So puja became in India, it's the word for prayer meeting or you get together and you do prayers together. That's called puja. Okay.

Like we're going to do a puja today and it means we're going to get together and do some prayers together or something like that. Okay, so puja. Long U.

So you have to hold the U for two counts. Puja. Then say puja.

Puja. Puja. Puja.

Hear the difference? I'll say it again. Puja.

Puja. Puja. Yeah, long U.

It changes the meaning. Okay, it changes the meaning. Puja.

I don't know. Okay. All Sanskrit words come from roots.

The root here is puj and it means to honor somebody. Okay, puja. You should know the word puja.

If you go to India, you hear it thousands and thousands of times. Everybody's doing pujas. If you say it correctly, all the Indians will go, ooh.

Okay, puja. Yeah, long U. Puja.

Like sutra. Not sutra. Okay, sutra.

All right. Who's next? We got about, we got a few, ten minutes.

Oh, Isabel, do you want to do it? Isabel.

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First one is ja dang da te te dang da se nam la dang di ta ki ni da dir lu ku tang du bu da bar di se pa chok nam dang ni yong che chi gu pa che ki dang su che bar di GYI Nice, nice.

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Nice pronunciation. Thank you. RGYAL means Buddha.

Victorious Buddha. JIN NA. JIN NA.

Okay, JIN NA. DE'I SRE means, I think it's JIN, let me see. Yeah.

JIN NA. And then DE'I SRE means sons and daughters. Daughters and sons.

The Buddhas and their bodhisattvas. Okay. I offer you BDAG GIS LUS My own body.

Okay, I offer you my body. Then he says something weird. He says KUL.

I offer you all my bodies that I will ever have. Okay. I offer you this body and I offer you all the other bodies I will ever have in my future birth.

Okay. And all the bodies I ever had. And it's countless.

You cannot count those bodies. They say if you pile all your bodies in a big pile, it's higher than Mount Everest. You know.

So I offer you all my bodies. Body I have now and body to come. Okay.

I offer all of them to you. For how long? GEN DU means forever.

Okay. I offer you my body. Please use it.

U LUS is the present tense of BU. I offer to you. I offer you my body.

That means, this is a beautiful traditional offering where you say, I'm yours. I'm yours. Do what you want with me.

You want me to fundraise the rest of my life? I'm okay. I offer you my body.

And it's a big deal. And it's not easy. It's easy to say it.

Then when your mama says, okay, build me a house and keep the garden and wash the dishes and clean out the septic system with this shovel. It's easy to say, oh mama, I offer you all my bodies. Then they say, clean the dishes for 10 years.

And you're like, not that body. So, be careful when you offer your body. I don't know, there's some kind of, we have a weird karma where the minute you offer your everything, they ask you to wash dishes.

I don't know why. But it seems like, it always seems like that. I hate washing dishes.

And I washed dishes for like 8 years. All of the dishes. All the monks' dishes.

And he broke me. And now in my house, with my wife, we have a deal. She does the cooking and I wash the dishes.

Because I feel at home when I wash the dishes. If she washes dishes, I feel bad. And then me wash the dishes.

So, offer all your bodies. SEMS PA CHOG RNAMS BDAG GIS YONGS SU'I SHES SHES again means please accept me. Please take the offering.

You high beings. SEMS PA SAKS PA It can mean warrior. Sometimes they refer to Buddha and the Bodhisattvas as the warriors.

So you warriors, please accept my body. LUS PA'I SKYES KYI SPANG TSUL CHI BA RGYI KUS PA means with great respect. I like the word SPANG.

It means I want to be part of your family. Like SPANG. Sometimes it means the population of a kingdom.

SPANG. So let me be someone who lives in your city. Let me be your population.

Something like that. Let me be your SPANG. Let me be, let my body be part of your body collection.

Okay? Here's my body. Keep it with all your other body of other people.

Let me be one of your people. Let me be one of your people. Okay, cool?

Alright, what's going to happen now? Yeah, if you want, Geshe-la will sign a book, blah blah blah. I'll sign.

Unless you want to pay for the room, which is a waste of money. Okay, thank you. And Seiji is going to translate the next two verses.

Okay, bye. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

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So we'll see you tomorrow morning here at 9 o'clock for yoga. No one's paying attention. And 10.30, Bodhisattva class. See you.