Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 18

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 18 — Xuanzang's Tower — Master Shantideva / Bodhisattva — Session 1, Class 5
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод и чтение текста: Сейджи Арао; ведущий эфира: Ник Лашо; интервью в конце — Хуан Хассо (Juan Hasso), с Ольгой Бандик и Линдси (Lindsay)
Дата и место: 2024, Xuanzang's Tower (точная дата сессии не указана в pickup-map; между Spring '23 и Session 9 в июне 2024), в студии — дом Стэнли и Сяопин в Римроке, Аризона
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
We have Master Shanti Deva. No, I can tell you right now it's not, but hey Nick, how's it going? Pretty good, good to see you, glad to be back.

Yay, same here, awesome. Should we start with a quiz? I think so, maybe we're still waiting for Geshe Michael to get connected.

Are you here Geshe-la? I'll check in with him on the text and then yes, I think it's a good idea to get started with the quiz. Let's do it.

Awesome. By the way, he said that today we're going to go back to the Crown of Knives because he has some cool news. Right on, okay, that's exciting.

Yeah. Oh, there he is.

[Говорящий 2]
Hey Geshe-la.

[Говорящий 1]
Good morning. Live from Rimrock, Arizona. Yeah.

Good morning Geshe-la. Seiji was just mentioning that you have something cool to share with us from the Crown of Knives. Yeah, Seiji, if you wanted to do your homework, we could do your homework, but if you don't, if you were planning me to do this thing first, that's okay too.

Either way, I have the homework ready to go, but I know that this might, the Crown of Knives might need more time, so I'm happy to do either way. I think you do your homework and then you can do your homework on the Crown of Knives next week. Yep, he's happy.

Wait, can you guys see this? Yeah, perfect. Okay, awesome.

Okay, so we're still in the beginning part of the text. You guys remember how Master Shantideva starts doing his prostration, just as a reference in the verse just before this, he said that he offers not just his body, but all his bodies, past, present, and future, to the service of the conquerors. And then he says something real cool.

Anyone remember? Maybe this is a question for words. Someone with a photographic memory.

I thought it was very cool. It says, if it were possible that I belong to you, I would not fear the cycle of pain. I would work for the benefit of all beings, try to go beyond my previous bad deeds, and not again commit any more bad deeds.

Cool. Oh, then in that text, Geshe Michael was asking, why does Master Shantideva is offering a bath? This is the beginning of the text, so he's doing all the, how do you say, prostrations and all the initial, how do you call it, the initial parts of a text.

And so Geshe Michael asks us, why does Master Shantideva is offering a bath before doing confessions? And he was saying there might be a, oops, what's happening? A connection between the 10 chapters and the seven preliminaries.

So anyone has an idea of why he would do that? For reference, here's the names of the 10 chapters. Explanation of the benefits of the wish.

Confessing bad deeds. Committing yourself to the wish. Staying mindful.

This is not the final translation, by the way, so there might be some mistakes. Taking good care of your mind. Teaching on not getting angry.

Joyful effort. Concentration. Wisdom.

And dedication. And then we have the seven preliminaries. Again, this is from notes, so it might, the names might be wrong here.

Prostration. Offering. Confession.

Rejoicing. Requesting teachings. Asking them to stay in dedication.

Seiji, I have a proposal. Yes. So yesterday, me and Seiji had a really good time.

We, Nick, we had an interview with Marie Kondo. Oh really? Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
That's amazing.

[Говорящий 1]
We had a one-hour DCI program with Marie Kondo, which is kind of funny because I think Seiji and me have the messiest houses in the whole world. And Seiji, you got to go back to your thing here. Oh, oh, wait, yeah.

And we, we talked a lot about preparing for meditation. Yeah. That's very cool.

We talked a lot about preparing for meditation by, by like cleaning up your room and all this stuff. And, and so Seiji, I think it's some kind of thing like that maybe, right? To offer a bathing before the, before you actually study the text, maybe it's like, I don't know, somehow it's this theme of, of getting, getting, I don't know, getting a lot of good karma before you start the study and, and cleaning up before you start the study.

Of course we should be washing ourselves from it. But wouldn't it be, make more sense that you first clean yourself by confessing and then you'll clean the Buddha? It would make more sense.

Somebody else has idea. I thought, I thought the bathing in the Lam Rim, I think the bathing is usually part of the offering. Yeah, that would make sense.

I thought maybe he was weaving in the, the two of the chapters and the seven preliminaries. Oops. But not sure.

But interweaving. But I know. And then you said, Geshe-la, also that this somehow related to the six perfections, which I can see in the I can see here and, and what is it?

Yeah, I think everyone has always been, he doesn't, he doesn't do the six, obviously. Some of the early ones he do so obviously, right? Right.

I mean, this is the first one, right? And second one, maybe it's all of this? Confessing, but it's confession.

I think that should go into your introduction of the book. Cool. Awesome.

Where do you see, where do you see exactly the six perfections? If, if you were going to... I would say sharing here, ethics probably here.

Confessing, but it's, meaning yourself, not exactly. Well, yeah. And then the other ones are easy.

They're spelled out here. Okay. Okay.

I know. What do you think, Geshe-la? Where do you think?

I think you're good. I wonder what about the dedication? Maybe it goes back to giving.

Maybe it's a circle. Oh, that makes sense.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Cool. All right. So, if you follow the previous logic, what should come next in our text?

After the bathing, you mean? Yes. I was thinking...

Nick, you probably bathe Amelie all the time. What goes after that? Drying.

Well, yeah. Drying, putting ointment and all that. And then...

Yeah. Confessing, right? Oh, you put the answer here.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess we'll find out next class.

Yeah. Cool. Awesome.

So, I have sexy Sanskrit words that we saw last time. What's this one? Adam should know.

Is related to bathing. And it comes in Adam's text. Vase.

A lot of times. Yeah. There you go.

Umpa. Vase. I hope I'm correct.

Umpas. That's it. That's correct.

Yeah. Then vas. I don't know the pronunciation.

What's the Sanskrit for... We had it in Yoga Sutra for spontaneous... What do you call it?

Kevala kumbhaka. Yeah. Kevala kumbhaka.

Okay. Vas. Also related to bathing.

Water. What do you do after the bathing?

[Говорящий 2]
Towel. After the towel.

[Говорящий 1]
After they're dry. Clothes. Oh, yeah.

Clothes. Oh, clothes. Yeah.

What's the English cognate? Vestibule. Vestiment.

Vestibular vest. You can say vest or you can say vestiment. Yeah.

The Spanish was coming.

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Same here. Vestiment in Spanish means clothes. Oh, nice.

Okay. Probably from there too, right?

[Говорящий 2]
It can be Sanskrit to Latin.

[Говорящий 1]
For sure. From the Latin. Yeah, I think.

And alam. Like get ready or something. Yeah, nice.

Good. Awesome. I like that you're doing the Sanskrit vocabulary, Seiji.

Cool. Well, thank you for doing that in this text. Let me just wipe you guys off.

You're not so clear. Okay. All right.

We're going to have a... Seiji, you have no translation, right? Oh, yes, I do.

Sorry. Okay. Okay.

Well, Nick helped me. Thank you, Nick. Okay.

This. Oh, you want me to show the Sanskrit? Oh, yeah.

Why not? Can you read the Tibetan Seiji just for the first one? Chukpargi.

Yeah, good. Chukpargi. We apply supreme fragrances.

Okay. The sense reason. Yeah, good.

When you say dang with chi nge, it means spread. Spread throughout the universe. Okay.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Nge is a dangerous word because it sounds like the word for bad. Nge, so you did a good job on that one. Serjang tselma.

Yeah. Serjang tselma often means... Sometimes I like to translate it as molten gold, but you can think about it.

You know, the color is like... If you've seen molten gold, it's even more sexy. So, your golden bodies?

Instead of polished pure gold, I might say shining like molten gold or something like that. It's pure molten gold. Yeah, and I like that you translated the uchak as shining in light, and you didn't say what?

Yeah, I like that you didn't translate chak as desire, yeah, desire light, and it would have been strange. Crossed my mind. Yeah, me too.

Okay, it looks good. All right. Oh, by the way, Seiji, let's go back and see if there's any useful Sanskrit there.

Let's see. Yeah, just that if you're learning Tibetan or Sanskrit, you can see that the Sanskrit here is muni, which the Tibetans translated as tupa, which means what, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Tupa, ewo.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, ewo, and then the word mauna comes from... but really muni means what, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Oh, it's not ewo?

[Говорящий 1]
No, it's more like... The silent one. Yeah, more means silent one, and I think it'd be interesting if you're teaching this verse, you could talk about the connection between silence and capability.

Well, I think there's some kind of lesson there, and I looked up the... I tried to find the roots in Indo-European, which IE means Indo-European, and it means a strong hand, manus, like manual labor or something like that. And then it comes in words like Sigmund and Raymond, which are derived from Latin words for big guy protector or something.

So the mun part in those names is from... same as muni, capable. So in those cases, they're kind of...

some of the ancient words from mun are more close to able. Okay, so it's not a crazy Tibetan translation. How about this, Prabha?

Yeah, ewo. Ba, yeah. Ba becomes ph in the Greek, and it becomes like light or photon.

Yeah, yeah. So the word photograph comes from ba. Oftentimes you see bh change to ph, and to be, and oftentimes you see it change into an f, like bhairava becomes fear, you know.

So beacon and phantom, yeah. We didn't get to the changing the Greek from ph to f yet. It'll probably come in the comic books.

Yeah, memes. Okay, Seiji, next verse. All right, next verse.

I think you ought to have fun and make word recite the Sanskrit, almost Latin. All right, where do you want to go for it? Wait, you got to go up one more line.

Of course. There you go. You can smash them together.

Smashing. Go slow, go slow, Uncle Wern. Okay.

Okay. Kusumar Manojna. Yeah, Jnai.

Thank you. Sansthana Manoramabhi. Nice.

Good. Cool. Good job.

Thank you. Yeah. I guess there's...

Who's going to read the Tibetan, Seiji? Oh, how about we continue with word? Uh-oh.

Thanks, Seiji.

[Говорящий 2]
Since you're there already.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. Thank you. Nice.

Nice. Let's look at that. To the Lord of the Able Ones.

Good. Uh-huh. Highest object of offerings.

CHOS NA'I CHOG LA. Uh-huh. Good.

We offer sweet fragrances. Good. And every lovely flower, like the lotus.

And the mandala, I think. Yeah, mandala. Yeah, that was...

I think I wrote mandala. Okay. Strung into beautiful...

Good. Nice. I think utpala got left out here.

Well, I didn't know how to differentiate between padma and utpala. I would. I think I would say pink lotus and blue lotus, or something like that.

I think that's the difference, but... I think that's generally the difference. But it's clear in Saray Chandra Das.

I forget what he said. And the mandala is, I think... I don't remember, but like an evening blooming lotus or something like that.

Something said it was a coral tree, but I didn't know what that was. Oh, yeah. It could be that too.

Yeah. Cool. I'll have to check it.

I think I did check it. Is it in there? I don't think so.

Okay, let's go. Did you do another verse? No, I had only two.

Okay, that's nice. Okay, good. Thank you.

It's a good job. The homework was nice. Cool, cool.

Thank you. Okay, today we're going to do a special job. And so we, Word and I, we've been...

Sorry, Seiji and I have been working really hard on DCI stuff. And in the meantime, we've been working on finishing his translation. So he did for six or seven years, he worked on a Lojong text, which is developing the good heart text.

And we finished it. It's about... We finished the translation.

It's... I think it's... How many pages, Seiji?

I think...

[Говорящий 3]
450 something.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh. 475, I guess. And it was a lot of work.

It was an intense amount of work. And we reached the point now where we finished the translation. We still have to do the final.

By the way, Anatole Nguyen finished Nick's final editing last week. And it's a huge, huge job. It takes a long, long time.

And he goes through every single word, and he checks every single word, and he finished. Now it goes back to grandpa just to check a few things, and it's ready to publish this year, which is exciting. Nick's book is so large that we published it...

We did a copy for a sponsor recently, and it's two volumes. We had to use two volumes. I think I got it here.

Hang on. I heard that it might be AL4. I don't know yet.

Oh, that's exciting. That'd be cool. Yeah.

There's a lot in there. Yeah, it's called... Oh, sorry.

It's called Nothing is the Way It Seems. And it's the story of Nick's life. Also true.

And it's really, really awesome. It's an incredible piece of work. And so that's just about ready.

Anatole spent, I don't know, hundreds of hours working on it, and it's really, really good. So for Seiji's book, we finished the translation. We cleaned up the translation.

And then it's time for us to do the introduction. And that's a huge amount of work. It takes us...

It'll probably take us three, four months of work to prepare the introduction. And I thought we could have some fun today. We did a couple weeks of work already on the introduction.

And I thought especially for the Mixed Nuts translators, you would like to see how we do an introduction and what kind of information do we look for. And then we do a lot of research. We go through thousands and thousands of books in John Brady's database to do an introduction.

So I thought, especially Mixed Nuts, it might be fun for you guys to see how we're thinking when we write an introduction. What are the kinds of things... Let's say all of the people online right now, Shenzong Tower people, let's say that you are going to read Seiji's book, which is an ancient...

It's a thousand-year-old Lojong book for developing the good heart. And then there's a commentary to it written in around 1800. Okay, 1813, I think.

And then if you're going to read Seiji's translation, first of all, I'd like you guys to know how much work goes into the introduction. And then secondly, I thought it might be fun, Seiji, to design the introduction with the class. To design the outline of the introduction with the class.

And then you guys can get appreciation, I think, of how much work it is to do the introduction. And I have to say the introductions to the Mixed Nuts books are important papers themselves. They're very important.

They're almost as important as the translation. The introductions we've done so far are very, very deep studies of the people who wrote the books. And it's very difficult, because it's very difficult to find records of people who lived a thousand years ago or something.

So I thought you guys might like to see the kind of thinking we do and the kind of research we have to do to do the introduction. Because we're halfway through collecting the information for Seiji's introduction. But I thought it would be fun, Seiji, to let the audience...

Seiji, I'd like to suggest that people write into the chat, what would you like to see in Seiji's introduction? If you're going to read Seiji's book, here's his book. What are some things you'd like to see in the introduction?

Seiji, you catch comments off the chat, and then Grandpa's going to talk about them, and you're going to end up reading some stuff.

[Говорящий 2]
No.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. So anybody, what would you like to see in this introduction? Oh, there's some in the chat already.

How to apply what I'm about to read, what I'm going to read. Yeah, yeah. So here we go.

Let's go to the introduction. Okay, it's here. We're going to start making the outline of the introduction, Seiji, with our friends.

You guys can say you helped with the introduction. Some people say, how can I apply this to my daily life, right?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Seiji, yesterday I had a meeting with Stanley Chen. We were working on his new project, Innovation Retreats, which is retreats for artists, musicians, business people to be more creative. It's a collaboration with Diamond Mountain.

We were talking about your book, and we were talking about two great ideas in your book that we can apply to our daily life. Stanley actually led a meditation at his house this morning, because I was sick. Can you guess what we were talking about?

It's a strange question in your text. I think it's the most important question in your text. What is it?

Self-cherishing and grasping to a self. Yeah, what is the relationship between grasping to a self-nature in things and people, and self- how do you say, taking care of myself first, okay? That's a big, big topic in Seiji's book.

It's probably the most important topic in Seiji's book, and it's the most important thing to talk about in the introduction of how to apply this book to your daily life. Seiji, let's do a quiz, okay? One of these, and I don't mean for you, I mean for the audience, one of these is our biggest enemy in life, and one of these was hired as a killer by that enemy.

Which one? What do you guys think in the chat? Buddha's 2017.

Let's see who remembers. Geshe-la, the thing about it is, it's interesting, because it is 2017, but it's like the first thing the Lama talks about, and it's amazing. He's talking about the ne, the thing that will just destroy all the samsara, and he switches them.

Every other teacher ever has said it is grasping to a self, but he's like, no, it's self-cherishing that's the ne. This is the biggest problem in your life. This is what causes all the samsara.

So initially, he puts it the other way. Yeah, and by the way, I'm going to take you to the verse, okay, Seiji? I'm going to look up assassin.

He calls him his assassin. Here it is. I just looked it up.

I just searched for the word assassin. Maraya comes from the Sanskrit root what, you guys?

[Говорящий 2]
Mar?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, to die. Mar, to die, like mortuary, murder. Then he says, there's the king of my enemies, and then there's his assassin.

By the way, most commentators will say that they're the same person. You see what I mean? They don't divide this into two different people.

Our author did. Who's the main... Okay, now here he switches it.

See the commentary? Yeah, midway through the book he switched it. Yeah, midway through the book he switches it, you're right.

First he starts out saying that self-cherishing is your biggest enemy. Then that hires grasping to self-existence. Grasping that the pen comes from its own side is the main guy.

Then self-cherishing comes from that. Then later he switches around, you see? It's interesting.

Here the assassin is taking care of myself first. By the way, me and Seiji, we decided not to use self-cherishing all the time. Sometimes we said, I'm happy to take care of myself first.

I think that's a great point. The point is, if you're going to write an introduction to this book, if you want to help people with the concepts, I think you have to discuss this question in the introduction. You have to talk about it.

You have to talk about words. You have to talk about, in the introduction, how he interestingly switched, right? Halfway through.

I would say here and here. I would call it, why and when does he switch them? At some point he says, grasping that the pen comes from its own side is the root of all your selfishness, taking care of yourself first.

Then later, sometimes he switches it. He goes back and forth. Right there, you have a big point.

I would call these all sub-points. I would call this one of the main points. How can I apply this to my daily life?

Seiji, any other ideas? By the way, there have to be ideas throughout the whole book to make it into your introduction. The introduction shouldn't be 200 pages, like in Nick's book.

We should stick to the most important. Do you have any more that you would throw in there that come easily to your mind? Or anyone in the audience?

Some people mentioned a little bit of the story of the teachers. Yeah, good. Now, question for you guys.

If there's a story of the teachers, would you put it before how to apply it to your daily life, or after how to apply it to your daily life? After, right? What do you guys think, Nick?

Before. I think I'd put it before, because I like to get to the meaning of everything at the end, of the introduction, to wrap it up. Let's talk about the teachers involved.

Now I need some suggestions from everybody. Who are we talking about here? Well, three, right?

Give me one. Okay, wait, we've got Master... You had to choose one?

No, I want to talk about all of them. Master Dharmarakshita. Who's that, Seiji?

The author of the root text, the actual Crown of Knives. He wrote the poetry for... Lord Atisha?

Yeah, for Lord Atisha. So then you're going to have to have... Lord Atisha.

Yeah, life story of Dharamshita. And then you're going to have to have life story of Lord Atisha. And I'll tell you something that you guys may not remember, but the version that we have was written down by Atisha.

It was not written down by Dharmarakshita. Apparently he spoke it to Atisha, and then Atisha wrote it down. And then the closing pages of the book, the closing pages of the poetry, is Lord Atisha explaining how he got it from Dharmarakshita and how he used it.

And I'll give $100 if anybody can remember where was Dharmarakshita specifically when he wrote this poem. Because he mentions it at the end. He says, I wrote this poem when I was...

$100. Who said that? Atisha.

Oh, Atisha got $100. You can collect from either Ali or somebody like that. Yeah.

Dharmarakshita says, I wrote this poem in a jungle. I was doing retreat. I was doing deep retreat in the middle of a jungle with lots of dangerous wild animals.

[Говорящий 2]
Tigers.

[Говорящий 1]
And then our author says what? Do you guys remember about that? The jungle is also degenerate times.

Yeah, nice. The jungle is also samsara. Maybe Dharmarakshita is just saying that he wrote this book in the jungle of samsara.

Who's the wild beast? Us.

[Говорящий 2]
Exactly.

[Говорящий 1]
By the way, I'm going to do some fun here. As we do this little project together today, I want to show you my progress in this. Finding information about Master Dharmarakshita is pretty much impossible.

There's very, very little. When I do a search, I search, I'll show you. Right now I'm doing a search on the Wheel of Knives, Crown of Knives.

There are how many? Let's see here. There's 171 times it's mentioned by anybody.

Seiji's book is mentioned by anyone in history 171 times. We check each one. We check every one of them.

That's why the introduction takes so dang long. We go through all of them. I want to show you.

We're going to go back. I've done some work already. I'll show you Dharmarakshita, Seiji.

I'll show you how much information we got so far. Here the author himself says Dharmarakshita gave this book to Atisha. It doesn't say exactly where.

Here it says that this lojong was the hard practice of Dharmarakshita. It's only mentioned twice so far, in his own book. Here it says Dharmarakshita was a diamond way practitioner.

He was very interested in yamantaka, basically. That's very interesting. You can still see in those days, so 1813, there was still a thangka at a monastery that was built by Lord Atisha and Dromtenche, his student.

It means Atisha must have brought that thangka to Tibet from India. Then they talk about Dharmarakshita. Now here's the interesting thing about Dharmarakshita.

He originally belonged to the Mind Only School. That's an interesting idea, that the person who wrote this book is coming from a Mind Only School background. Here's the jungle.

Story of the jungle. There's a comparison of the wild beast to us, as Nick said. Here's the signature at the end of the book.

This is where Dharmarakshita signs it. Here they explain his name, which is Protector of the Dharma. Here we see our author 200 years ago.

No, yeah, 200 something years ago. He says, I think his name was also Shilarakshita, which means Protector of Morality. There's a confusion about his name, even his name.

Here's the story of how he gave it to Atisha. Here's the explanation. Atisha went on retreat.

He went on a diamond way retreat. That's how he got the karma to meet Dharmarakshita. That's an interesting practice thing.

Seiji, there's somebody always asking me, where do I find a good Lama? I say, you don't have to go to India. Just do a good retreat.

You see what I mean? That's how Atisha met Dharmarakshita. That's all.

That's all we have inside the text. Now I'm going to take you to our research. Where is that?

Here's the biography of Dharmarakshita. Here's our research. This is rough notes.

There's hundreds of pages of rough notes. Hundreds of pages. We will shrink it, distill it into the introduction.

Hundreds of pages will become two or three pages in the introduction. We have to go through the hundreds of pages. Sometimes it takes more time than the translation.

Here's all we have about Dharmarakshita in three million pages. Looking through three million pages that we have input, here's how much information we have about Dharmarakshita. Here's somebody comparing him to...

talking about his time in the jungle. That's all they mention. Here's another mention.

By the way, Nick and Ben, they found 21 versions of our root text. Anatole helped find them. We have found 21, I think, right Nick?

We input all of them. We have to study them if they have any more information. One of them we found out is in Mongolian.

Seiji, I thought it would be fun if... maybe the MVR Foundation can pay a Mongolian to translate it. That would be very interesting.

Sometimes the Mongolians had earlier information than the Tibetans. It would be really fun to contact Emma and see if they would translate the book for us. It's not very long.

Like someone at the library. Yeah, exactly. Then we can butter them up to help us more.

In fact, if you guys want to go ahead and do that, Seiji and Nick, if you talk to Noor, the president of the foundation, you can find her somewhere in VOC. I'm not sure. Big city.

I don't have a clue. Here's a quotation from Dharmanakshita. By the way, they misspelled his name, which makes it interesting for us to find information about him.

They misspelled his name. I found it anyway. They just quote him.

They don't give us any information about him. That's it, Seiji. In three million pages, that's it.

That's all there is. There's one person who says, look, Dharmanakshita was not Shilarakshita. Shilarakshita was Atisha's first teacher.

Dharmanakshita came after that. Our author said maybe they were the same guy, but they're not the same guy. There's about ten ways you can misspell Dharmanakshita.

Nick, you could split da and rama. You have to visualize it in Tibetan. You might have a split between da and rama.

Many people could misspell the sha, the retroflex sha. Here they've misspelled his name anyway. But see, that part's going to be very short, Seiji.

As far as I can find so far, unless Aisha can help us, I don't think there's any information about Dharmanakshita, except that he was in the jungle at some point. All right, let's go back to our... Now you see what goes into making a...

And by the way, today we're not going to do much. We don't have a lot of time, probably. Probably.

Anybody else in this introduction that we should be talking about? Yeah, well, the teacher, Trichen Tempa Rabgye. Yeah, the speaker.

How many days of teaching? Do you remember, Seiji?

[Говорящий 3]
Eleven, right?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Trichen... Tempa Rabgye.

Trichen Tempa Rabgye. And for him... By the way, he gave the teaching around 1813.

Lord Atisha is around 1,000 AD. Dharmanakshita is also 1,000 AD. So you have 800 years later, Trichen Tempa Rabgye.

And we have a very, very beautiful biography of him. And I worked through it. It took me a couple of days.

And it's amazing. It's just amazing. He finished his highest Geshe exam when he was 20.

Wow. And he studied at Serra. And like that, he's just...

There's amazing stuff about him. So we're going to have some nice information about the author. He's the one who spoke it.

Then who else we got here? Los Angeles, something like that? Yeah.

No tick. Chigya. Chigya.

Los Angeles. Sorry. Keshala.

Yeah. Is there a way we can include other works by Trichen Tempa Rabgye as well? Hang on.

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

By the way, so Chugyal Losang, Chenle Namgyal. No dates for him. But we figured it out.

And he's probably born... He was probably around 1780. He was about 30 when he took the notes.

I figured it out. He was about 30 years old. 30 years later, he wrote the greatest biography of Tsongkhapa ever written.

It's called The Great Biography. It's huge. We get a lot about his life story in there.

He was incredible. He wrote an incredible commentary to the Abhidharma. I tried to read it with my teacher.

He wrote it all in debate. He only covered the difficult points of the Abhidharma. It's an extremely valuable book that he wrote.

He's just amazing. He's super amazing. He seems to be a reincarnation of an early Sikkimese, Sikkim, a Lama from Sikkim, who's very much connected with Vajrayogini.

This Lama was very, very connected to Vajrayogini practice. He wrote a lot of commentaries on it. It's very, very cool.

Word asked me about Trichin. Let me see here. Here's the biography word.

It would be about 600 pages in English. I went to and I did a rough translation for you, Seiji. I did a quick translation.

At the age of seven months, they decided he was special. Then he was recognized as a reincarnated teacher. It adds a whole long story about his life.

What's interesting, I think, for us, is that he had a close relationship to the greatest emperor of China. There's an emperor of China called Qin Long. Stanley's been helping me with this.

He was the longest-lived emperor in Chinese history. He lived till 86 years old. He was not Han Chinese.

He was not Chinese Chinese. He was Manchu, which is similar to Mongolian. For example, he designed the greatest collection of books ever printed in history of this planet.

He designed a printing project. I think it's a hundred and something thousand works or something. He designed a project to print all the books of his time as one collection.

We have trouble doing 12 books for our set so far. He did, I don't know, a hundred thousand books. Of course, he was the emperor.

He had a little bit more money than we had. But he's unbelievable. He was one of the greatest collectors of paintings in Chinese history.

One of the greatest translators. He studied under Changkya Rolpe Dorje. He brought a Tibetan Lama to Beijing.

He studied with him for many years. He became a very good student of the ancient books. I think it's a very fascinating thing.

He had a relationship with your author. They had a connection. The emperor gave him several titles.

It's very, very interesting that your author was closely connected to probably the most famous, the greatest emperor of Chinese history. It's very cool. It's really, really cool.

Just the list of his consorts is like three pages long. He's amazing. He's just an amazing emperor.

A very, very great emperor. One of the greatest dynasties of China. We're not going to go anywhere today.

We're not going to finish much. But let's go back to this one. There's another Lama here.

Which is, there's the life story of... Who's here? It is Trump, okay.

Yeah, Gyalway Dune. He's the heart disciple of who? Lord Atisha.

Yeah, Lord Atisha. He's mentioned in your book. They make a big deal that he was the one who really spread it.

We got to put a little bit about him. He's amazing. He took the book from...

In the poetry itself, it mentions how Atisha gave the book to Gyalway Dune, to Dromtenche, because he was predicted by Tara. Tara told Atisha, when you get to Tibet, look for the upasika. Which means...

Actually, it means a person with one-day vows, I think. Nyen ne. But people in Tibet always thought it meant the lay person, who had lifetime vows.

So Tara told Atisha, don't stress when you get to Tibet. There'll be a businessman who's going to help you. And he'll help you build a Roderick Monastery.

So it's amazing. So that's got to be part of the story. So that's the teachers involved.

Those are all the teachers involved. Geshe-la, aren't we skipping a teacher? Ask me.

Lord Buddha? Yeah, we can do that. That makes sense.

Shouldn't we talk about the genre itself, and how he started it? Yeah, yeah. We can talk about the origins of Lojong.

Talk about the Lojong tradition itself, right? Yeah. By the way, there's somebody down here.

And that's Chijang Rinpoche, which is my teacher's teacher. And he saved this book. He saved this book.

The version we're using was saved by him. And he saved the Hundred Lojongs. He designed a book called the Hundred Lojongs.

And he found a hundred of the greatest Lojongs. And he saved them. And that's why we have them.

And Seiji, he gave a teaching on it later in his life. He taught the Lojong Tsunche Khorlong. He taught this text in a public teaching.

I don't know how public it was, but there was somebody there named Zeme Rinpoche. And he's a reincarnation of Chigya. Oh, he took notes.

Yeah, he was a reincarnation. Yeah, he took notes for Chijang Rinpoche. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, it's awesome. And I'll close. I know we're running out of time.

And if you want, we could continue this. But this is actually exactly how we write the introduction. And we're not done.

And I think it might be fun for you next month to see how much goes into this. But Zeme Rinpoche was still alive when I debated at Ganden Monastery in the winter debates. And he was still alive.

And I went to see him. And he had suffered a stroke. And he was a famous poet.

And by the way, he's the teacher of the person who translates for the big Lama nowadays. And that was his main teacher. And I bought a laptop that I had no money to buy.

And I took the whole database with me. And I took a program for typing Tibetan. And I went to his quarters.

And I had a long talk with him. And he couldn't walk very well. And he was kind of halfway laying down on the bed.

And I said, look, you can use this to talk to people. Because he couldn't speak, but he could type. He could use a computer.

And I said, look, you know. I showed him how to use it. I took his hands.

We typed some things together. And he looked up at me. And he goes like this.

And he goes... He was like... And he's like...

Then I thought maybe he was faking it. And he just wanted to have some quiet time. And he was like...

And then he wouldn't take the computer. He could use it. And he could communicate to his students and his attendants.

And he refused it. And I always wondered about that. Anyway, there you go.

I think we're out of time. How are we going to possibly relate this to real life? Well, easy.

I think it's a big, big responsibility that we all have. A great pleasure and responsibility of being here. This is a tradition that comes from a long, long time.

So, if you're here, then it's our time to continue doing what all these people were doing. So that this doesn't die with us. In the forms of teaching, translating, however you guys are involved in any of the worldviews.

And I have a question for you, Geshe-la. Would you consider putting your biography here? That would be cool.

Because you taught it also for six years. Maybe I'll put a few words. But I think, by the way, if you guys need something to do later in your life, there's still 99 lojongs there.

And they are amazing. They are unbelievable. And this is just one of them.

And it's really amazing. Seiji, anybody else made a comment? Well, we had some for the intro, but anyone else wants to talk about what they take away from this class?

I think the story of how the teacher, Dharmaraksita, was a mind only, had a mind only, is really cool. I remember reading it said that he got to this point where he could just cut off a part of his leg and give it to you. And when he reached that point in his lack of self-cherishing, when he was that open in his heart, then he just saw emptiness and flipped over to the highest middle way.

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I think that we can use that idea, that we can approach trying to reach ultimate bodhicitta, the wish for enlightenment, by approaching it through this path of opening our heart.

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Cool. How do you think he would have... Do you guys get a feeling for any mind only influence in the whole text?

I don't know. What do you guys think? Because somebody is going to ask you this question later in your life, Seiji.

I think I can only remember one part where he talks about the different... like who a person is, and he talks about the different schools, but I didn't thought it was mind only. Well, he talks about the watcher of your thoughts.

Could that be a reference to mind only? I don't know. Yeah, and I think maybe a close awareness of self-cherishing could be the result of studying kung qi for a long time.

Maybe. You're kind of aware of the self inside you. I don't know.

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Anybody in the chat?

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I'm interested to see if Ward found any... since he's our mind only expert. Yeah, he's the golden key guy.

I didn't, but I have something else to say. Okay, good. I really love the flow of the lineage through the lens of Lojong.

There seems something special and powerful and beautiful about these life stories. I think it feels like we need to look no further than the lives of these lamas for how to use these teachings in our life. I think it will come through in the introduction.

This is how you use the teachings. So, I don't know. There's just something dawning on me about how beautiful this lineage is and how this Lojong was taught more like a Lam Rim, which to me made it so much more powerful.

You could tell he's talking to the audience in very specific ways at times. There's nothing you can trade in that your lama's personal advice is. There's nothing more powerful than that.

So, yeah, things like that. Thank you. Yeah, it's really beautiful.

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I was thinking how beautiful the struggle is that we're doing right now to consider each and every person's contribution to the book itself and how valuable and powerful it would be to do that in daily life, thinking, oh, I'm the one who did this project. Well, no, let's honor and recognize and support all the people who helped me, all the people who supported me in this way or that way. It's beautiful to share the success and to share the accomplishment with many people.

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Also, Kat, it might be interesting for you, and I find it very interesting because you don't get personal information about these teachers normally. Nobody says he went into depression on this day. But in the case of Chichen Tenpa Rabgye who gave the teaching, we do have a record of the year and his reaction to the passing away of his mother.

It's very beautiful. I think it deeply affected him. You can tie it to his biography.

You can know the date. We know the date that she passed away. We know his reaction.

I think those are beautiful things to talk about in the introduction, that these people, they also had tragedies. They lived in hard times. There was a lot of war going on in their country and how they reacted to it and things like that.

How they reacted to his brother's death, there's also a description of that. I think it's very beautiful. Some other people in the chat were saying that they would like to know how Lojong used to be a secret thing and then it opened up.

Who was it that opened that up? I think that'd be cool to talk a little bit about that. I'm going to add that because I didn't think about it yet.

Why was it secret? Venerable Utpala mentioned it. Why open?

Yeah, that'd be it. Seiji, you've got to think about that a little bit. Maybe we can write that part together.

I think there's a place, when you've worked on a text for seven or eight years, I think there's a place for saying, this is my feeling. I've been living with this book for seven years or eight years. Here's why I think maybe they kept it secret and here's why I think they opened it up or something like that.

I think that's valuable to hear from you. I think so. Awesome.

Would you also want to talk a little bit about the Karma Vibhanga here?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, I know it's in the appendixes. By the way, do you want to continue this a little bit on your next class? I don't know.

Yeah, I think... I love this book. I mean, of course I love Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, but this book is also pretty cool.

Talk about appendices. Why did we add Story of Maitri? Oh, yes.

Yeah, and we put it in the appendix. We put the whole Story of Maitri because it's mentioned in the book. And it's the root of the...

By the way, Seiji, I'm going through the... As I mentioned, I'm searching the whole wheel of who mentions the crown of sharp knives. There are many descriptions of it in painting texts.

I thought that might be interesting to talk about a little bit. How many spokes does it have? What color is it?

What is it exactly? What does it do to your ligaments? Stuff like that.

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Cool.

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Anybody else? I'm very attracted to this contemplation about who's the boss and who's the servant between self-cherishing and self-grasping. I think there's a lot...

I have some initial feelings about it, but I think there's a lot more depth, I think a lifetime of depth, available on this meditation. But I was sort of thinking, if you want to know who's the boss, then if you take one away, who has to disappear?

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And my initial feeling is that there are people who have very... don't necessarily... almost have an opposite to self-grasping that is maybe just as harmful.

People have some very wrong, very negative ideas of themselves that can also be very harmful, that they don't understand their value, how valuable they can be to people, or they are to other people in their lives. They get this sort of misunderstanding that can almost be the opposite of self-cherishing, that I think is still based on not understanding who you are or who you really are. And on the other hand, if we talk about taking away a misunderstanding of who we are, if you understand that there cannot be a me that is not an expression of my love, service, relationship of others, if you take away a belief in that, then self-cherishing seems utterly impossible.

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How can you put a head of other people a you that only exists in dependence upon your service of other people? It's crazy, it's impossible.

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If you stop believing in a you that exists without your relationship in love and service to one another, then self-cherishing, I think, is utterly impossible.

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Yeah. There's a lot more to talk about. He talks about...

By the way, Seiji, sometimes he says, he repeats over and over again, he says, okay, main problem, assistant problem, and let's do tonglen to fix it. That's his frequent advice. I think low self-esteem thing is really a good idea.

I think I'd like to also research the ebb and flow of the text. Sometimes he goes into this really passionate thing where he starts going crazy about dancing on the head of self-cherishing, chem su chem, and then he goes into those verses, he repeats it for quite a while, and it feels like he's getting really emotional, and then he breaks out of it again. How he gets in there and how he breaks out, I think that would be interesting to study.

Yeah. I think you've got to study this text for the rest of your life, actually. Yeah.

Figure it out. There's a lot to figure out here. Yeah, somebody's trying to get my screen.

I guess I should give it up. Well, it's time for the... Yeah, sorry.

This was amazing. Thank you for sharing the process with us, Geshe Michael, and it's great, and I look forward to learning more about this. It's such a beautiful and inspiring lineage.

It was just amazing for me personally to go there and think about these teachers and these particular teachings. For me, these were the first things that attracted me to this lineage, so I always have a special place in my heart for it. Thank you so much, Geshe Michael.

Thank you. Seiji, that's enough, right? We'll do the rest ourselves and give them the book, right?

Up to you. Honestly, whatever you think might be more... Let me cook it.

Let me cook it.

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Let's share it with us. Let's share it with us.

[Говорящий 1]
Epic. Do we have a Juan Hasso standing by? Yeah, where's this guy?

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Hello, can you hear me?

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Oh, yeah, there's an echo, though, Juan.

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Louder than clear. Yes.

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Yeah, there's an echo. Yeah, we have some feedback. Somebody in the room with you, Michael.

It's about to be fixed. Okay. Okay.

Yes, thank you very much, Stanley and everybody helping in the living room. We are here at Stanley and Xiaoping's house in the powerful nation of Rimrock, Arizona. Yay.

So yeah, today we want to just inform you a little bit of what's happening in the next few weeks and months in some of the Worldview Network organizations. And then we're going to have a very special, interesting interview with some special guests that you're going to get to know and meet in a little bit more. And just as an advance, we want to prepare you because on Monday, we're going to have a special introduction to a very cool interview we have with Ward Smith about Chinese medicine.

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It's a different one. It's not the same we had during the Dragon's New Year celebration.

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It's another one, more extensive, that's going to come up on Monday. So stay tuned. For now, we're going to present you some of the events and, yeah, things happening soon.

Okay, so starting next week, the Sedona College of International Management is going to start with their content on Advanced Level 8. So if you're around, or I don't know how, but it will be very, very cool to get to know more of this content. Just letting you know, it's on the calendar.

It's happening. Sedona College International Management Advanced Level 8, coming up next week. So you know it's happening.

You saw it here. Also, for those of you who may not know, their sister organization, Three Jewels, is planning a retreat in Panama from March 11 to March 18. Hector, Marcel, and Rachel Webb are going to be leading this meditation yoga philosophy retreat.

If you have the time, if you have the money, they are great teachers. You can sign up. You can sign up.

Check their website, threejewels.org. You're going to find more. Can you show the next picture, please?

So you get just a little taste of what's going to happen. They're going to be talking about the meditation for happiness, appreciate good things in your life, creating positivity around your life, how to maintain joy in difficult situations. So if you want to spend good times in the beautiful beaches in Panama, that's a great option.

But also, if you instead want to go to next picture, please. Kyoto. So this is very exciting because in Japan, it's happening.

These great teachings on the step, on the path. And we want to make a big emphasis because if you're coming, you may need to get your visa ready. Check if you need a visa.

Sometimes this visa process may take up to two weeks. So get ready. You still are on time.

But make sure if you do need a visa, if you don't need a visa, if you do, apply now. Now, these are great, great teachings. You can miss it.

It's like very special and unique opportunity. Everybody in the world is welcome to come as long as you behave. But we will behave.

So come March 19 to March 23, 2024. Plan ahead, get your visa, and come. We will keep informing you soon.

And if you cannot make it this time, but you should make it, try. If you can, then it's going to happen again in June. June 4 to June 8.

So now you have more time to plan. But you still can make it for March. Just apply for your visa, get ready, and see you there.

And next picture, please. We want to... Geshe-la already talked about this, but I was very happy and surprised to hear that he just had a special interview with Mari Kondo.

I was watching some videos of her in YouTube last few days. It's great. I really like her content, the view.

I'm very excited to know about this. And I wish we can access this interview soon. I hope this interview could be available soon.

But she's like a very famous TV person who specializes in sparking, how do you say, creating joy through, how do you say, organizing things, making things tied. And it's very interesting because it's also... This technique is very conducive for meditation, for our inner mind, our inner energy.

So definitely should be a very interesting interview. Geshe-la, of course, is a guarantee of good content. And she is as well.

So this combination, powerful, beautiful, fun, I bet. Hopefully we can access this content soon. And one last new one to share.

Next picture, please. We hear there is a new member of the family. We still don't know how he looks, but we hear about things.

Next picture. Maybe he looks like this. Maybe he looks like this.

We don't know yet, but we hear there is a cat around. We hear he's living in Rimbaugh. We hear he's a special guy.

And we want to get to know more. I see Geshe Michael walking in the house. Maybe he's going to show us the new member of the family.

Maybe. So yeah, we just heard Geshe-la and Veronica adopted a new cat. And it's very cool to hear.

They say cats can be beautiful. What's his name? He's like, leave me alone.

No, I'm just kidding. Hey, Nick, it took us about 10 days to choose a name. It's Kitty.

Awesome. That's wonderful. Thank you, Geshe-la, for showing us.

Maybe we'll get to know him a little bit more in the next few weeks. More interviews with him. She loves to visit other houses.

Sorry, I missed that. She would love to visit what? She loves to visit other homes.

Oh, okay. Maybe we can invite her over sometime. Maybe she and Malibu can be friends for a few days.

She's pretty tough. She's wild. Okay, okay, okay.

Maybe not there, but we'll see. We'll see what new opportunities come. Thank you very much, Geshe-la, for sharing time with us.

Today we also have a special interview with some people organizing the book night reading club. The night club? Night club reading club.

Wow, the night club. Yes, the night club. We're going to the night club reading club.

No. Okay, so it's Lindsay here with us. And a special guest, Olga Bandic with us.

So they are both working in spreading the wisdom before bedtime. So what are you up to?

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What do you have in your hands? Can you tell us a little bit of what is this? Yeah, so we are getting close to being able to send out the first books and really excited about that.

But the main thing I actually wanted to introduce everybody who may not know Olga, who is the original director for the Latin America region. And yeah, if we could just have Olga talk a little bit about the, I think it has a little bit of a different name.

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Cool. So can you introduce yourself, Olga? Who are you?

How old are you? What are you doing here? What's your favorite?

Whatever.

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Well, my name is Olga. I'm just a person who was amazed for these teachings. And since I started learning these great ideas, my life has changed so much that I really want to make these available for more people.

So like, yeah.

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So your passion is to share this beautiful knowledge that has helped you already.

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And you want other people to get these benefits that you have find in them. That's why you are motivated to share with them these books. Definitely.

I think I was a little bit hopeless before, before finding these teachings. And then I don't know, like we can be doing so many things. It's Saturday morning and we can be just scratching our tummies, getting a bit, a big breakfast.

But we're here because this is meaningful for us. And if we hope to preserve, if we work together to preserve these teachings and to support these nerd mix nuts who are working so hard in translating these, maybe tomorrow one girl or one boy that are also hopeless can find joy and discover how much they can do if they follow this.

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Saving the world. I like it. I like it.

I like it very much. So wait, this is very cool because I haven't seen this before until last night. Can you tell the audience, what is this?

What do you have in your hands?

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Well, this is one of the books that we are going to be giving to the people who are already signed off for the, or the club de las buenas noches in Spanish. And so for the people who are already signed off, they will be receiving this book or this, this other book. Yeah.

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And is this, this is a special edition book.

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This is similar to the one Gashla was holding up. That was Nick's book. This is one of the books that word and Gashla translated, but these are special edition books that are only printed for the good night club.

Yeah.

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We would like to show you the QR codes and encourage you to register because I already got this book. These guys forced me to register. I didn't want it to, but I did it.

And then I'm super happy that I did it. They forced me to spend my, my money, but it's so worth it. And I'm actually reading it.

That's the most miraculous thing. Like I just have it next to my bed and like, you know, these last few weeks, some few days I've been reading it actually. And it's great.

I really recommend it. So it's a really worth it thing. And not only that you're actually supporting.

To preserve this ancient wisdom in the world. And as Olga says, If you have find some help in your personal life, out of this knowledge and wisdom, imagine that many other people, if we preserve it alive, cool, find that in those nights that you are crying because you feel lonely and you know, stuff like that, that has happened to me. And you wonder why your life is not much simple.

And then you get these kind of books. then you find hope and you have you find knowledge and you find ideas on how to do something about it how to help other people who may be going through similar things so it's so worth it to keep it in the world so number one you're gonna be helping that purpose and number two you're gonna be improving your own life at the same time and this i'm so excited as well because look at this it's word's text and word is a great guy i know really like he's so talented in many many ways and it's great to celebrate with him the release of this first book my only book so this is gonna be the second book you're gonna get this and this well depends where you are in can you show the next picture please so we really encourage you it's really really worth it you're gonna help us and you're gonna help yourself by doing it and thank you work on monday we're gonna have this special it's a it's a brief how to say presentation introduction to the interview with it with him what else do you want to say we're almost out of time but if you want to say something else and a message to the world well the second thing we want to do with this

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club it's like sometimes i feel ashamed that it's almost midnight i am in the cell phone in social media so the second thing that we are want to reach with this club de las buenas noches it's to help us to get rid of that electronic addiction and to actually not just be amazed for these teachings but let these teachings transform us because we read at night and then we meditate right away at morning so and if you sign up today for latin america you will have if you're in guadalajara the good night special cookies the good night club special cookies that's great so this is our special offer for today do it for the cookies then and what about you lindsey

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you want to send a last message to the world for today i mean hopefully not last but just today uh just thanks to everybody and and i think we're going to try to highlight the other racial directors as well and so yeah all right so mr sugeng shanti uh mr bean inna get ready we're gonna be contacting you soon thank you very much and see you next time we go back again with word no other than word smith to learning more language content thank you so much and see you on monday thank you everybody thanks haso i'm not as great as haso thanks thank you haso thanks for selling my book uh full disclosure i get a percentage um so um we uh and yeah monday apparently me and haso did a little interview on chinese medicine and uh apparently it's being shown on monday which is great i didn't know till now thanks hasito all right so here we are