Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 21

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 21 — Xuanzang's Tower — Bodhisattva — Session 8
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод/чтение домашки: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: весна 2024 (перед Session 9, датированной 1 июня 2024); место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
How about now? Good? Definitely.

All right. There's some echo going on. No, it's better.

Okay. Okay. 20 bhant.

20 bhant. 70 bhant. 60 bhant.

10 bhant. 14 bhant. 14, DUHG.

22 bhant.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh my God, what's going to happen?

[Говорящий 1]
I don't know. He's back. I just got back.

[Говорящий 2]
Didn't even have time to brush your hair yet.

[Говорящий 1]
Hair is right. It's not plural. Well everybody, welcome to Xuanzang's Tower.

And we've got an exciting Monday evening, Tuesday morning lined up for you. Seiji Arao and Dr. Ben Kramer. Whenever you're ready, Mr. Seiji and Geshe Michael. All right, you guys can hear me well, right? Hear you like incredibly well. Your projecting is amazing.

Oh, and translators and everybody who speaks to the larger audience, please try to remember to speak at a good pace for our generous and friendly interpreters. Good pace means slow. Yes.

Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
We have not yet one time had a translator complain that we were speaking too slowly.

[Говорящий 1]
I don't think I'll ever do that again. All right, should we start with the homework? Okay.

Oh, last time we did this, we were in Kyoto, I believe. So we had only three paragraphs, but I did come up with some questions. Do you guys remember what?

Yeah. What was the first offering in this session? And why would you, why do you think be the reason we offer this?

Close. Rain of flowers, and jewels. Yeah, perfect.

Wow, good memory. What do you think would be the reason to offer this? These are not in the text, it's just an open ended.

Because we are in chapter two, which is the purification. Yeah. Oh, one set is flowers and jewels.

Yes, and there was, why? Why? You guys should, I was thinking about bribing before confessing.

Confessing, yeah. People always give me a nice charge kick before they confess. Broken stream.

Okay. Then Master Shantideva bows down to the three jewels. Can anyone remember details about how he does it?

If you would want to increase the amount, the power of your seeds, how would you do that? Melted part of your atmosphere? Uh-huh, by the time off.

Things in the... As many atoms as there are things in the universe.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Nice, okay. Yeah, and if you want to make it even more. You bow down to the enlightening beings of past, present, and future.

Oh, I thought it was, yeah, okay. Wow. I thought it was with all of our parties from past, present, and future.

That's okay too. Yeah. Okay, and then finally on the third verse, what two other teachers does Master Shantideva bows down and why?

I'll give you the why. He says that... Can you tell the why?

The vow giver, vow master. Uh-huh. Juan said to the vow master and to...

And the masters of tapas, difficult practices. Not in this verse. Okay.

The one he did that... The love one, I don't know. P3 world news.

Vow master and... Scripter. Scripture.

And do you remember why he says that he has the deepest respect for them? Because they gave him... The main topic of this book and the other book was of Lojong.

[Говорящий 3]
Well, compassion and wisdom.

[Говорящий 1]
Bodhicitta and compassion. They gave him the basis to develop Bodhicitta. Oh.

You mean, if they say to him, the masters form Shantideva? Yeah. The...

So, his vow, he... In the last verse, he says he bows down to his vow master and his scripter teacher, because they gave him... Vow master.

Vow.

[Говорящий 2]
You said vow?

[Говорящий 1]
Oh. That's a bow arm. And bow.

[Говорящий 2]
He bows to his vows.

[Говорящий 1]
We have Sanskrit vocabulary, sexy Sanskrit words. Yeah. Someone remember?

[Говорящий 3]
Varsha is rain.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, there you go. Also, you put that sometimes to mean year, right? Yeah, like how old are you?

Is how many rains are you? How many monsoons have you been through? Oh.

Right, right. Stotra. Praise.

Praise. Praise. Paris.

I've been to Paris. Yeah. Setra.

[Говорящий 2]
Yod.

[Говорящий 1]
Kshetra.

[Говорящий 2]
Kshetra is field.

[Говорящий 1]
Field, yes. As in Buddha field.

[Говорящий 2]
Yay.

[Говорящий 1]
Is there any future verses? No. Yes, there is.

Trust me. Nice homework. Thank you.

And this... Nick, help me. See, where is it?

No. No. You had it right at the first.

Yeah. Is this big enough? Yeah.

Okay. You read, please. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. I don't see any changes to make.

Looks okay to me. It's good to have Nick back in the same time zone, so he can do our homework. Yeah.

Yeah. If we want to learn some... So, from each verse, we're trying to learn Sanskrit.

We're trying to learn two things, really. One is Sanskrit vocabulary, and one is Sanskrit grammar. Okay.

And hopefully, if we keep doing that, we can read Sanskrit later. The key to understanding Sanskrit vocabulary is the roots of Sanskrit. There's 800 roots.

I memorized them in my time. And if you understand the roots, and if you understand how words are created, you can guess the meaning of any word pretty accurately. So, maha means what, you guys?

[Говорящий 3]
Big. Big.

[Говорящий 1]
What's an English card mean?

[Говорящий 3]
Mega?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, mega, magnificent. Major. Huh?

[Говорящий 2]
Major.

[Говорящий 1]
Major, nice, yeah. And then, karuna. And you have to say the N with a retroflex.

Say, karuna. Supposedly, if there's an R in the word before the N, the N will be retroflexed. Because your tongue is already headed back towards the top of your mouth.

So, karuna. So, the R already puts your tongue at the top of your mouth. And then, you leave it there for the N.

If you learn to pronounce Sanskrit really well, you can spell well. And if you don't, you never will. You can't remember all the possible combinations of letters.

You have to pronounce them right. Then, you can spell them. Okay, karuna.

So, there's a root called kal, which is to cover it. L's and R's are interchangeable, basically. It's like Thai language.

And I told you this story. I had a secretary in Thailand. And I had three gem dealers.

Rare gems, leered gems, and real gems. And every time she called me on the phone, she'd say, real gems is here. I'd say, is that rare, real, or leered?

And she said, real. I said, real. So, R's and L's are pretty...

Technically, they're pretty interchangeable. So, in Russian, kursha means a roof. And then, there's the English words from kal, or hall, hole, and helmet.

Okay, so, basically, when you have compassion for somebody, you want to protect them with your body, or you want to put a roof over them. You want to cover them so they don't get hurt. Karuna means to cover.

What's the Tibetan? Which means lord of hearts. And it's part of the common Tibetan word for?

[Говорящий 3]
Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. And they kind of change it to, oh, you know, So, my theory is that, no matter how lazy you are, you should learn to say thank you in every language. Okay, so, say, Yeah, it means big heart.

Thank you, big heart. Okay, I thought you might be interested in the word for telmojar here, which means to join your palms in, you know, he's bowing down to all the Buddhists and bodhisattvas of the universe, and it's Anjali, okay? We have Anjali as this one, but it also means this one, okay?

So, Anjali's doing well. She's coming back today, I think, or tomorrow? No, she can't, so she's not feeling well.

Oh, it's her birthday.

[Говорящий 2]
Last week. Yesterday.

[Говорящий 1]
Anyway, if you can, send her a birthday thank you. Who's the famous guy? Do you want to say something about this?

Um, okay, when I put notes after the Sanskrit before the Tibetan, those are just for me. So, I don't expect you to read all these. Okay, I didn't understand.

But we can go to the Tibetan. Okay. Yeah.

Can you read one more time? Yours are short. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, good. This is difficult.

The Tselwa is difficult. Yeah, I look deep in the dictionary. Sorry.

I had to check Gyaltsabje's commentary. But tokma means beginning of all time. Tokma me means?

No beginning. Beginningless time. Korwa.

Sansara. Serab means in this lifetime. This serab usually means lifetime's flow of your lives.

It also refers to the flow of a river. But here it means in this lifetime or in other lifetimes. Then gyi tu tselwa, the last line, gyi tu tselwa means to get somebody else to do something bad for you.

So tselwa here means to get someone else to do it for you. He's trying to cover the possible kinds of bad deeds. And he's saying, look, it's not just the bad deeds you did that didn't involve other people.

It also includes the ones that involve other people. And the last word here, dang ni, means there's going to be more types after that. So, so far we have two types.

The third line, dak ni ma tsel di gyi, means I did bad deeds without involving anybody else. I didn't instigate anybody else. Tsel means instigate somebody else.

Then the, it means, gyi tu tselwa means, and then there were cases where I did, I got somebody else to hurt somebody else for me. There's a famous question in the Abhidharmakosha. If I willingly and happily pay taxes for a war, and, and they make guns, and a soldier on the front line shoots another person with that gun, how much karma do I collect?

And it says 100%. If you pay the taxes willingly, and, and you don't, and then what's it mean unwillingly? It means just express yourself to your congressperson or something, say, I, you know, I don't really agree with violence.

I don't want to go to jail for not paying my tax, but I don't agree that my money should be spent this way. And so it's important for a Buddhist to do that, okay? If you feel that way.

Otherwise, you're connected to a karmic group. So here we switch already to, so from offerings to confession. Yeah, we're, we're now segwaying into the real meaning of this chapter, second chapter, which is called the chapter on confession.

And I think it would be an, you know, be an interesting question in your discussion period to ask, why did he go through all those other steps before he got to confession? You know, because it took him, how many in line? I don't know what verses we're on, six, the number one, but yeah, we're 28 verses into the second chapter, and now he's only just mentioning confession.

Other, the previous verses were mostly offering. So I think it's buttering up your teacher before you tell them the mistakes. It doesn't usually work, by the way.

We have a room here, Korwa in Tibetan, and the Sanskrit is sansara, say sansara. Yeah, it's not Sam, okay? Before an S, it's a French nasal, sansara, it's not samsara, okay?

So it's a, it's a nasal, it's an M or N sound nasal. It could be M, N, or nga, and it's, it's spoken out of your nasal cannula. So depending on the next letter, so the next letter is S, and you put your tongue where you would say an S, and you make a nasal sound, which happens to be an M, okay?

Sansara, sansara. So to spell it as samsara is a big mistake. It's a, and you know, everyone does that.

So samsara with a dot under the M is the technical nasal sound. It's the technical mark for the nasal. But it has nothing to do with an M.

And then everybody drops the dot under the M and makes it samsara. And it's, it's all, it's completely wrong. I don't know.

It's like saying, I don't know, rofa for rosa or something. I mean, it's, it doesn't make any sense in Sanskrit. It sounds, you can't figure out what the person's trying to say, you know.

So anyway, sansara. The root there, san, san, the root is sam. If you take the root off of the word, it's sam.

And it means very much. It came into English as com, C-O-M, like complete. It means very much.

And then sur means to flow. And sara means flow. So the Sanskrit word sansara means a constant flow.

Of, of, of, of the wheel. And in English, we have sur, which means serum, which means a flowy liquid. And we have flow itself because oftentimes, S, S in Sanskrit was SV, swa, swa.

And then the S drops off and becomes swa and fa. So when you see an F, it can come from a V, and the V can come from an SV. So, so anyway, and, and R's and L's are interchangeable linguistically.

So you got flow from serum, from sur, okay? Surge comes from that. I don't know about CG.

Okay. So I'm gonna, you know, it's my duty. Unpleasant duty to teach you some, some Sanskrit grammar.

And I'm gonna, you know, I've been sort of lazy because it's not fun. But we better do it. So here's an easy example.

If you add an E at the end of a noun ending in A. So Sanskrit nouns can end in I, they can end in U, they can end in A. When you, when it ends in like samsara and you add an E, it means in samsara.

Okay. So in English, you use a preposition. In samsara, which means pre-position.

The, the word comes, the piece comes before the main word. In samsara. Then in Sanskrit you use, and then in Tibetan you use postposition.

You say korwa la. You say the N after the samsara. So in Tibetan you say samsara N.

In English you say in samsara. And in, in Sanskrit you don't add a separate particle. You just change the ending.

Samsara means samsara. Samsara means, means samsara. Okay.

So you add the postposition or the preposition is added directly to the noun. And it means in samsara. So when you see E, it's probably going to mean in, in samsara.

Samsara means in samsara. So actually Sanskrit is more, is more economical. There's no extra word.

And it makes it harder to learn. And it makes it, how do you say? It makes it a lot more to, to memorize.

You have to memorize a lot. But it's more economical. Therefore Sanskrit is called the perfect language.

Sans, sankirta. Sankirta. Well made.

Okay. Well put together. Okay.

Sankirta. Okay. All right.

There you go. I'm starting on some grammar. Here we go.

We're shifting to the confession. Yeah. And it's interesting to see he spent half a chapter on the offering.

Right. You want to get somebody to read? Lindsay, do you want to do it?

Yep.

[Говорящий 2]
Hmm.

[Говорящий 1]
Nice. Dimuk means ignorance. Yeah.

And it's specifically the ignorance in the wheel of life in the center, which means dark ignorance. Muk means fog. So dimuk.

What's usual ignorance? What's the Tibetan? Yeah.

So dimuk is an idiot. It's a synonym for marikpa. Chupa.

Chupa means. Okay. Dak means me.

Nun means to be pressed under the thumb or pressed by ignorance. I think something's misspelled in the second line, you guys. I think.

[Говорящий 2]
What? Rong?

[Говорящий 1]
I think it's past tense. I think yirang is spelled without a D. Can you check word?

Sure. Yeah, I think it's spelled without a D, but this makes sense. I looked it up like this and found it in a dictionary.

I don't know if that dictionary was also wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Okay.

So rong means to be thrilled. Yirang means to rejoice about something that you did or somebody else did. Okay.

So he covered bad deeds that you did without anyone asking you to. Then he covered bad deeds that other people did because you paid them or asked them to do it. And now he's just covering you.

Rejoicing. Rejoicing, yeah. So I mean, especially like in famous people when they do something bad.

And oh, you're so thrilled. You know, oh, he's in court and he's getting in trouble. I'm so happy.

And being glad that someone else was stupid or hurt themselves is also a bad deed. So you can collect a bad deed from someone else's bad deeds if you have the wrong attitude about it. The attitude should be, I feel sorry.

He's going to suffer a lot. You know, something like that. What did you decide about Yirang?

It's a damkha. Oh, damkha. What's damkha?

Damkha means it can be spelled more than one way legally. Yeah, legally spelled either way. Okay.

It probably came from Yidrong. Yeah. Which means happy mind.

Nongpa means error but in a big mistake. It means a big mistake. Like a massive mistake.

Okay, nongpa. Nongpa de ni tong gi ni. I told that nongpa.

Yeah, now I finally figured out it was wrong to do it myself. It was wrong to get someone else to do it. It was wrong even to- Rejoice.

[Говорящий 2]
Be happy. Rejoice.

[Говорящий 1]
And now I see my mistake. And I shakpa. Yeah, I confess.

What's the literal meaning of shakpa? Shakpa means to split open pieces of wood. It means to finally- And that's the essence of Buddha's confession, is to admit it to somebody else.

That's the essence of Buddha's confession. If you just tell somebody, you know, you can have one friend in your life who you tell all your bad stuff to, you know, who's still your friend after you told them the first time. And find a friend in your life who's not going to divorce you if they find out all the bad stuff you're doing.

And get in the habit of opening up to them and confessing. It's very, very karmically useful. A lot of the karma disappears when you tell anybody.

I was glad that we adopted a cat. I'm like, kidding, kidding, kidding. I just got mad and brought it in here.

Oh, okay, sorry about me. Yeah, shakpa here means from the bottom of my heart. I confess it to my protector.

But get in the habit. It's a very, very good habit. It's a really good habit.

Tell somebody. And like half the karma is canceled, you know, so. I used to always tell my teacher if I did something wrong and I'd knock on his door and interrupt his baseball game.

And then later when I knocked on the door and said, yeah, I know, don't come in. Okay, that big cat is definitely a cat. Okay, next one.

I think that's it. Okay, yeah. Oh, let's do this.

Ah, wait, no. Let's do the Sanskrit. Yeah, Sanskrit.

Oh, the next one? No, right there. Yeah, so jesu means anything that's repeated.

Je means afterwards, okay? Without the S, it means Lord, like Je Tsongkhapa. With the S, it means later.

So jesu yiran means to keep rejoicing in your heart. Okay, je yiran or yiran, same thing, okay? The Sanskrit is anumodita.

Say anu. Anu. Modita.

Not anu. Okay, R would be a long A. This is short A.

Anumodita. Yeah, modita means to be married. It comes from the word mud.

And in Russian, you have nyod. Russian is closer to Sanskrit than English. Much closer.

So usually you can find a word in Russian. Nyod in Russian means honey. Yeah.

Because they used to ferment it and make alcohol out of it. Before the discovery, before the common use of sugar, which required a tropical climate, they couldn't have sugar until they could have slave farms in the Caribbean. They couldn't grow sugar.

So honey was the main sweetener for many centuries. And then you ferment it and you make beer. And then there's a honey beer in English called mead.

Mead. It's the same root, okay? Mead.

And then mel. Mel in Spanish, right? Miel.

Miel. Miel is Portuguese, though. Oh, do you spell it like that?

Yeah, M-E-L. Yeah, okay. And French?

Same. Same. Yeah.

So it all means to get drunk, really. If you see honeybees on a good day, they're totally drunk. Okay.

Moha is not too much different. Up here, he used moha for... Where did he use that?

Oh, timug. Dark ignorance, right? Okay.

Mohata. Moha means dark ignorance. It's the timug.

And that comes from the root muh. And it means to be crazy. And it also means...

It's related to mixing things, okay? So mint. Mint is the mixing root.

It's a consonant muh. And it can mean alternate or altercate. What's altercate?

Stanley, new word. Altercate is a fancy word for a fight. Fighting.

Altercating. But it's rare. People in the restaurant don't know it.

But this is also a verb? To altercate? Yeah.

It's a fancy word. They use it in a court, just before they send you to jail. Altercations of the...

Everyone in restaurants know that one.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, they know altercations.

[Говорящий 1]
That's what they call it. So it's many, many roots with the meaning of mint. And maitri comes from that.

Because of the meaning of maituna. Maituna means to embrace another person. And it's one of the five Ms in ancient self-practice.

Not nowadays. But so maitre is connected to that. It means to love somebody.

It used to mean to hug somebody. And then melange and mixture comes from that. Okay, boring grammar.

You say verb conjugations, right? So what do you say for nouns? Conjugations.

[Говорящий 2]
Conjunctions.

[Говорящий 1]
You decline nouns. You conjugate verbs. It just means to add an ending to give it the meaning.

It's a fancy word in grammar. You decline nouns. You add things to them.

And then you conjugate verbs, which means you add things to ending to make it change. So you should learn ami, okay? I like ami because it means in French ami.

Oh, friend. Friend. It's not here, but when you have...

Oh, amigo. Yeah. What?

Amigo in Spanish. Oh, amigo, yeah. So when you have ami, when you see ami at the end of a word, it means I do something.

It's the first person singular. You know, I do. In English, you say I do go, or I do buy the thing, or something like that.

In Sanskrit, you have to say byami, goami, salami. When you add ami to the end of the word, when you see it in a verse, ami at the end of the word, it means I'm doing something. What was the one here in this verse?

[Говорящий 2]
Ami.

[Говорящий 1]
No, that's not correct. Desayami? Yeah, desayami.

Des means to see, okay? Des means to see. And here it's connected to the root to see.

So desayami means what? Know that I see. I see my mistake.

I see my mistake. So when you see ami, it means I'm doing something at the end of the word. And then you go look at the root in this dish.

I guess in the Tibetan, they don't need to translate that so literally and put dak gi because it's just so implied. And I'll tell you something about Tibetan is, it should not be a language of Buddhism. It should not be a philosophical language.

It is too primitive. It's a primitive language. It doesn't have declensions.

It doesn't have conjugations. It's very, very, very stripped down to almost nothing. And somehow, it's extremely good for philosophy.

I don't know why. Sanskrit is much more precise, but somehow the Tibetan works better. I don't know why.

But it's a mystery. And by the way, I studied many languages. I don't think Tibetan is related to any other language.

And there's a rumor that it dropped out of the sky. And it's very possible. Something weird happened.

It's not related to anything. There are loan words from Chinese language, for example, like kuatse. You say kuatse.

In Tibetan, kuatse. You see, there are loan words. There are borrowed words.

But they're not. I don't know. It's seto.

Yeah. Self-cooking, mostly. But it's an unusual language.

It's a very strange language. And it makes it extremely easy to learn. So it's much, much easier to learn than Sanskrit.

And as I would say, Sanskrit, I did it for 12 years. I still don't know it very well. It takes many years.

And then there's many periods of Sanskrit. If you can read Shantideva, you can't read Nagarjuna. You can't read the Vedas, especially not the Vedas.

It's 5,000 years old. So it's extremely difficult. And 99% of the Buddhist books in Sanskrit were destroyed.

So it's good to know some Sanskrit, I think, so you can check something you're not sure about. But to spend 12 years at it full time or something, I think it's not worth the time. But you should know some.

You should know some. I think we finished on that. Yeah, so ami.

Ami. Oh, really, Nancy? You want to read again?

You're stealing them. No, wait. Wait.

No, no.

[Говорящий 2]
I'll call you if you do that again.

[Говорящий 1]
That was a mistake. I put it twice. That was the last one.

OK, cool. So can I go to my version? Yes.

OK, here we go. Here we go. Let's get this in action.

I'm going to do the cursing thing. I think you need to share your screen also. Do I?

Yeah. That was fun to do it from my mom's house. Yeah, that's the one.

Oh, that's the wrong text. Hang on. Here we go.

I'm expanding the wrong one. Yeah. Thanks.

Yeah, that'll do. OK, Nancy, one more. Yeah, Seiji, dark.

Me. Me, Quanzhou. Three jewels.

Yeah, Quanzhou Sun. Here's the difficult one. Mama.

Mama. Teacher. And other people.

Shandark Ma means and also other people. So he starts with heavy karmic objects. Three jewels.

My parents, my teacher, and other people. I got nyomo. Yeah, gome means due to that.

I make mistakes of lu, ngak, and yi. Yeah, body, speech, and mind. Nu means I harm people.

Gi is an old word for chepa. I did. I did it.

OK. Kamlak means whatever there may be. Kam means whatever.

Kamlak means whatever there may be. That's the law in Geshe-la, by the way. Geshe-la, whatever there may be.

OK. When you say Geshe-la, it means, oh, you're is-ness or something like that. Big guy.

OK. So why, Seiji, does he say kamlak? For a lot of mistakes of body, speech, and mind.

$100. Why did he say kamlak here? Kamlak means whatever there may be.

To cover all of that. Wait, Seiji finally got it. So sorry, you guys.

You cannot remember. Yeah. Whatever there may be in my karmic pocket.

I can't even. You don't know 1% of it. 99% of all the mistakes you've made, you don't even know.

OK. It's kind of depressing. OK.

Now, the important word here is guru. OK. And that comes from a root, gur.

And that came into English as gravity. OK. And it means a heavy.

In English, we say a heavy. He's a heavy. It means he's a heavy karmically person.

He's a heavy karmically. Your parents are heavy. Your teacher is especially heavy.

Lama, lama, which means high one, is a translation of guru, which means heavy one. And karmically heavy. Anything good, anything bad you do is very heavy karma.

OK. So. And the opposite is lagu.

They say lagu. And that means light. And that's why light in English is spelled with a gh.

Oh. OK. Meaning not heavy.

Kri ratna, you guys. Three jewels. Yeah, there's three jewels.

Ratna comes from a root, ra, which means to make a gift to somebody. So ratna means something valuable, like a precious jewel or something like that. Something that's a valuable gift.

So the emphasis of ratna is a valuable gift. Why they chose it for the Buddhist Dharma Sangha, I don't know. Because it's not that common.

And why they chose jewel, I don't know where that started. Three jewels. I think you should make.

Thank you. Make. Make Christine McCaskery the center.

All right. OK. Christine, are you there?

[Говорящий 2]
Yes. OK. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Slow and correct.

[Говорящий 2]
OK. I'll try. OK.

Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
OK. What's what, you guys? Dosha.

It means fault, or problem. Nyempa. OK.

And we'll talk about it. Duma is the opposite of chik. You have, you have.

I got some juice here. OK. Yeah.

Duma means many. Tume means instrumental, by many. Khyen min du, what's khyen min du?

Problem also. No problem. Yeah, very useful in colloquial Tibetan.

Khyen min du, you've got to wave your head. The car is smoking, and the driver says, khyen min du. And then you're there for six hours on the siren.

Khyen. Chak means became a problem. Khyen chakpa.

Then he calls dak dik chen. I'm me, the guy with bad deeds. Yeah, I'm me, the guy with bad deeds.

OK, dik chen. What? OK, $100.

The people are waking up. What's dikpa? Dikpa means bad deeds.

But what's the literal meaning of dikpa? Point, point at someone who's doing bad stuff. Huh?

The pointer. Point at someone who's doing bad stuff. By a good person.

OK, I'll give you a scorpion. Stanley went like this. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll give it to word, just because it's got a lot of kids. OK, dikpa. But what's an insect that's very interesting?

Scorpion. Yeah, a scorpion is called dikpa ranya. Because they are putting their finger at you.

Oh. Threatener, the threatener, dikpa ranya. OK, dik chen.

Who's the dik chen here?

[Говорящий 2]
Me.

[Говорящий 1]
Doc, yeah, me. Me, the one who's made so many bad karmas. The bad karmas I did.

Shin tu mi se. Se is a difficult word, because it can mean unstoppable. And it can also mean unbearable.

OK, it's a difficult word. You have to kind of check it out in the context. He's describing here his bad deeds.

Which one? Probably both. OK, mi se.

Unstoppable. Ham je. All of those bad deeds.

What's drenpa? Drenpa lam yi seng yi rinpoche kyangpa lam yi dang yi rinpoche drenpa lam yi dang yi rinpoche. The leader.

Leader. And then in the art of interpretation, there's a tense of this verb, chang e. Chang e.

So chang is a tense of the verb dren. And it means to pull the meaning out. The meaning is not apparent.

You have to deduce it. And that's called the Buddhist speech, kill your father, kill your mother. You better tongue it.

Right? You better pull out another meaning. OK, dren.

Dren means pull. And here it refers to a guide or a person who pulls you after them. And that means the Buddha.

OK, the Buddha. OK, cool. I wanted you to learn the word dosha.

Say dosha. Dosha. With the top of your tongue on your mouth.

Dosha. Dosha. Dosha.

Dosha. Yeah, if you talk with your tongue on the top of your mouth, you automatically talk like a human being. OK?

Dosha. The root is dush. That's where the bad comes from.

Thought it came from New York. It came from New York. There's a bad English word, which I shouldn't teach shopping.

OK. Anyway, the d-u-s root, dis, came into English. Very common.

Dysfunctional. Disorganized. And by the way, duhkha, the Sanskrit word for suffering.

Suffering. In certain circumstances before K-H, the S has to change to H. With heavy breathing.

Duhkha. And Tibetans commonly confuse the letters. They'll put the H.

In the ancient books, they'll mess it up. It came a lot in Seiji's book. There's one Sanskrit word in Seiji's book that they keep repeating in the Tibetan, and it was duhkha.

And they misspelled it every time. OK. OK.

So if you're interested in Tibetan medicine, the three basic characteristics of your physical body are called doshas. For $100, why? Because they're messed up.

Because they're never in balance. $50 for dosha, $50 for word. OK?

Yeah, it's interesting. When they say in Ayurveda medicine, in Sanskrit medicine, Indian medicine, they don't say humor. The ancient word in English is humor.

The three humors of your body, three characteristics of your body. In Sanskrit, they call them the three mistakes. Or the three problems.

Because their natural condition is to be out of balance. OK? Illness is natural.

Wellness is a mistake. Wellness is, you know, wellness is, what do you call that? Is it a bird?

Wellness is when you drop playing cards on the table and one lands on its edge and stays there. OK, that's wellness. That's a human being who's really physically healthy is an extraordinary mistake.

Extraordinary accident. And illness is the normal state. It's not normal for 84,000 pieces of a machine to be running in perfect harmony.

It doesn't happen. It's just temporary. So use it while you have it.

Because you will lose it. Things will go back to normal. OK, so dosha.

The three doshas are vrata, say vrata. Vrata, pitta, kapha. Yeah, vrata means the wind, the element of wind in your body.

If there's too much wind in your body, you get pneumonia, for example, in Tibetan medicine and Indian medicine. Pitta is vile. You know, which is connected with your kidney, I guess.

But it's like acidic. You know, when you ate too much and you burp and you have bad taste, that's acidic. And then kapha, which is also phlegm, which means too much water in the body.

So it's basically wind. It's like, I don't know, caustic liquid and then viscous liquid in the body. OK, so kapha, not kapha?

There's no f sound in Sanskrit. They don't have an f. OK, neither does Tibetan, except with.

That's a fun concept. OK. By the way, in modern times, they make a pa and they add a little mark on it.

And it means pronounce this as fa. But it's not traditional. OK, here's some grammar declension, OK, or conjugation forming of a verb.

If you want to make past tense, oftentimes you will add ta. OK, it's like one in English. Indeed, in English used to be t like burnt.

Something like that. So a t sound at the end of the verb often means past tense. Ker means to do.

Kerta means done. OK, how do you say well done? The name for Sanskrit in Sanskrit is the well-formed language, the well-done one.

Sang means excellent. Kerta means done. And legally in Sanskrit, you have to add an s between an u and a ka.

So it was sankerta and it became sanskerta. And then the British came and said Sanskrit. And people still say that.

But it means the well-formed language, well-done language. All right. OK, so we have a nice thing going on.

Aisha, Mrs. Amrapol, or maybe Amrapol is Mr. Aisha. But she has no background, no college training in Sanskrit. But she, I don't know, eight, nine years ago, she said she would try to help us with finding Sanskrit manuscripts.

And she started eight or nine years ago. Every time I need a Sanskrit manuscript, I call her. I text her and I say, I need this book.

And she's extremely talented at finding books around the world. She will contact every library that has Sanskrit books around the world, hundreds of libraries, and she will find it. And now she's gotten really, really good at it.

And she's the best in the world, probably, at finding a Sanskrit manuscript. She found two this week for me. She's amazing.

So anyway, one of her skills is that she's so good at working with other people. She's so friendly to other people. So she just makes friends with all these very snobby Sanskrit scholars, including me, I know.

And they love her. Everyone's her friend, you know. So she'll say, where can I get the best copy of the Bodhisattva Charya Avatar?

And she's got this couple, a man and woman Sanskritist in Colorado, who are extremely talented and very curious. And she will say, find me the best Bodhisattva Charya Avatar. And they will search the world for her.

And they came up with, they have, they spend all day, every day, making the best Bodhisattva Charya Avatar they can for her. They're on the seventh, they just finished the seventh chapter. They've been doing it for four or five years.

And so they said, for verse 32, there's two good verses, and we can't decide which one's better. So I put both of them here. I'll have to choose one later.

But in the ancient manuscripts, there's two different versions of this verse. And you can see how the differences look. And again, Sanskrit was not carved.

Sanskrit was written by illiterate scholars, okay? Scholars didn't write books. They didn't sit there writing books by hand.

There was illiterate, poorly paid people who were the Xerox machines, the copy machines. And they made a lot of mistakes. When the Tibetans started carving things, it was a big blessing.

Because they got it right. One person got it right. One Geshe would check it.

And then they would carve it. And then nobody else could mess it up. So basically, the mistake rate in Tibetan is very, very low.

So anyway, here we go. Seiji, who do you want to read? Excellent, excellent.

Really good. You guys don't hurt my ears as much as when I taught people to read Tibetan. And we only have a few minutes and then we're going to have a...

By the way, we're going to have a 15-minute conversation. How can you use today's material? Seiji's going to lead it.

I'm going to eat popcorn. Dak means what? Me.

Dikpa? Bad deed. Chang means to purify.

Changchu means pure enlightenment. So if I don't chang my dikpa, if I cannot purify my mistake by confessing it properly, uh, what will happen if I goom first? Okay.

100 bucks for Kyankum. Not in Mexico. Vajrayogini is opposing.

Yeah, good. Kyankum is famous for Vajrayogini's stance. Her, what's it?

[Говорящий 2]
One-legged stance.

[Говорящий 1]
One leg is kyank, extended out. And one leg is kum, which means bent. Okay, so kum means bent, but by extension it means to die, to dry up, to shrivel, to shrink.

And so if I fail to... If I wait to tell my friend that I made a mistake, if I wait until Thursday and I die on Wednesday, that's the second line. The second line is, I was going to purify my mistake.

I was gonna tell my friend, but I delayed and then suddenly I goom. Suddenly I died. By the way, I have never seen this word anywhere else, this particular spelling, so don't worry about it.

So I should tarpa from that bigpa. What's tarpa? Moksha.

I should free myself. Okay, definitely. Ngeypar means definitely.

I should act fast whenever I make a mistake. I think it's fun to make a mistake and then call your lama. You know, in two minutes or something.

You know, that's efficient. Now you have a cell phone, you can do it. Okay, Rinpoche, two minutes ago I yelled at somebody.

It's really a fun practice if you get into it. I'd be at work in New York, I'd call Rinpoche. I just yelled at one of my people.

Okay, don't do that, goodbye. It was a baseball game. So I should confess nyurwa.

Quickly. Quickly, quickly, okay. And that is an act of kyapsuchi.

Refuge. Yeah, you want to take refuge. You want to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.

Buddha, Saranam Gacchami. You want to take refuge? Tell them your mistakes.

That's real refuge. Why? It protects you.

It protects you, okay. It protects you. You want real protection?

It's not a statue. Real protection is telling your teacher or your friend the mistakes you make immediately because you might die in between. Don't wait.

Don't delay. Okay, I'm going to relax. And I've been going pretty hard the last few weeks, months, years.

And you're going to, I'm going to, Sadie's going to lead a conversation. What's the date today? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to Ben's book actually. It's extremely interesting to me.

If you have to use the banyo, feel free. All right. Okay, so how to use this in our daily life?

Oh, I will not unmute myself. Well, I think for me, Oh, yes. Here, can you see?

Okay, for me, I think the main thing about this Okay. Is confession. Probably we want my camera on.

Ah, okay. So I think one of the main things that came up again and again in this chapter was confession. I guess because it did.

Well, I don't know, I would think that because it implies that you want to stop doing it, right? Anyone else has any other applications for real life? You could do an advertisement for my book.

Cool project started by Lindsay, who is not here. She went somewhere. And so she's supporting the effort of the Mixed Nuts, the Shunsang Tower.

And the whole thing. Oh, Lindsay, you want to come and talk a little bit about what you want to talk about? No, good.

Good night book club.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
How does it relate to today's class? We're talking about confession and a mixture between offering and then we, yeah, offering first and then confessing after. Or telling your friends about your mistakes.

I don't know.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, the main thing that comes to mind is that it's easier to not make mistakes and to confess when you're in the mood, like when you're not still like angry. And that's actually what class really helped me with today is like, I honestly got really angry at someone earlier today and it was like bad. And then I came here and we're like talking about confession.

But I think that reading these books can do a similar thing as what class did to me is just put you in the remind you of certain things like you're going to die. And that you might just kind of soften up and be more open to confession and all of that. Yeah, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Also offering. I think everybody that is donating to Mixed Nuts is helping these books and the translators in it to be able to do it, basically. Especially those with three kids.

[Говорящий 2]
And if you're well slept, you're less likely to have something to confess about. So if you put your computer away at 10 o'clock and get a good night's sleep, then you can break that habit and tendency to get upset at things.

[Говорящий 1]
So for those of you who didn't hear, Gilsa said by having a good sleep, you can eliminate the possibilities to plan to commit these bad deeds in a nutshell.

[Говорящий 2]
And then Rob said about it, is it like something the opposite to kind of counteract? Yeah, yeah. So by doing that practice, by reading one of these books and the good night's sleep and everything, it could act as an anecdote as well, like confession.

Yeah. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
And I think we can also add a little bit of four steps in the sense that to confess, you need someone else. So it kind of involves having a partner that you help each other in your mistakes, I guess. That's something super, super useful.

I think maybe one of the most useful things in your practice is to have someone to help you.

[Говорящий 2]
Confession is like number one thing. It works.

[Говорящий 1]
All right. Anyone else online has any ideas? Let me see.

Making mistakes. Oh, I was saying here, if you want to take refuge, tell them there's a mistake. Why?

Because it protects you. If you want real protection, it's not a statue. Oh, right.

[Говорящий 3]
Real protection is to tell you. Hey, how's it going?

[Говорящий 1]
I wanted to take a stab at this. I thought it was interesting how we were talking about earlier about the taxes. And if you don't agree with your money being used to buy guns to kill people, that as a Buddhist, we should send in some sort of note to the government saying like, look, this isn't what I'm intending my money to do.

And whether or not that has any effect on where the money actually goes doesn't matter. Because the seed that we're planting in our own mind is that our money is not going towards these purposes. So therefore, our conscience can be clean.

And we don't have to have the seed of, you know, our money is going towards war because we took care of that. So it doesn't matter whether we're thinking about donating money, whether we're making the guns or whether we're actually killing people. Like, it matters what is going on in our own mind.

So it's like, it doesn't matter. And then tying that into life. It's like, it doesn't matter if it's my, you know, if I'm doing something to somebody, I'm saying something to somebody, or I'm thinking about, you know, if I'm thinking about punching someone in the face, that's like as bad as punching them in the face.

You know what I mean? So, and then book club, you could say whatever you're planning before you go to sleep. It doesn't matter if I'm watching abrasive TikToks or if I'm putting myself in abrasive situations.

You know, it's all, it's all what's being stored in the mind and what's being recorded by our own consciousness. Thanks.

[Говорящий 3]
I just wanted to jump in to say that when I pay my taxes, I think very carefully, like the money that I'm paying in taxes goes for schools and hospitals and roads that people can easily travel on. And, you know, like all the sorts of positive things that society does to help other beings and, you know, definitely not war and poison and et cetera, et cetera.

[Говорящий 1]
Right. Yeah. I think uniting the two is like, if you pay taxes happily and at the same time, send that, express your intention not to do it.

That's the best of both, right? Yeah. I can see how for us, for example, because of that, we were able to have Michael here.

So yes, definitely a good thing to have. Alex, thank you very much for that. Hey, thanks.

Thank you for the class. Beautiful. I was remembering a poem I wrote in my 30.

You cannot hear me? A little. Can you speak a little bit louder?

Yeah. Yeah. Now better.

Yeah. Good. Okay.

I was remembering a poem I wrote in my 30 day silent retreat and it comes from a teaching that Stanley taught. And it was like, I'm sorry for the metaphor, but it was a bag of poop. And my poem was about like...

He was teaching about poop. Like when you lie or you hide your mistakes, if you take like a bag of poop and you put it in your closet and it will start growing and growing. And then it will explode and it will like make everything dirty.

And if you take your lies or your mistakes and you put it out there, you tell your teacher your mistakes, then it's like fertilizer for your flowers. It will make your life better. So that's my poem about the bag of poop.

Thank you. I like it. Yeah.

Actually, that's a very cool metaphor. Yeah. So Sun is saying that it was actually one of Shenzhen's students.

Who lives in Shenzhen tower. Oh, they're living in the tower. In Shenzhen's tower.

Cool. All right. I think we're good.

5.14. We start with a pitch screen. True. Very true.

Thank you, everyone. And thank you, Graciela, for teaching us. Thank you.

So three more verses, I think. Yep. Three more verses.

Okay. Okay. Hello, everyone.

Welcome back. No, I think it's good. It has a good camera.

It's okay. This one's good. This is just how I got guideline.

So, yeah, today we have a few very cool people in the room. A few? Many.

All of them are very cool. Well, what I mean is like some of them are not always here. But today they are.

And we will have a special talks today. First, just a quick review of what's happening. Some of the events that are happening in the WorldView Network.

And first, well, Gina, thank you so much. She's gonna be helping us with the pictures today. It's great.

Last time I tried myself. It's a little challenging. It's possible.

But it's great to have you here helping us with the pictures. So, first we want to show you this picture. Because although we have been showing it, we realized the QR code was not ready yet.

But now the QR code is ready. So, now you can really, really, really pre-register. So, if you are interested in doing it, now's your chance.

Take your phone. Take the QR code. It will take you to the pre-registration.

So, you can save a spot for October event. Now QR code is proofread. Proofreading?

Something like that. Proofread. Yes.

Great. So, go for it. Okay, next event.

We want to inform you that the art sutra retreat that teacher Sarani and David are organizing, it's about to finish the early bird prize. So, you still have one more day if you want to register for that. It finishes tomorrow.

You're still gonna get a good prize if you go for it today. Or tomorrow, but no longer than that. It's gonna be in Barcelona, Spain.

I have heard beautiful things about Barcelona. Never been there myself, but many friends have talked about it. I think it's very wonderful.

You can check it out. Next picture, please. Yeah, and the Met Gala in New York is also happening very, very soon.

Some of our friends are gonna go and they're gonna have a great time. Maybe later I talk to them and see if they can record some cool content and we can share with you later. But if you have a chance, there is a QR code.

You still can register to go, I mean, to get a ticket. May the 2nd. Very, very soon.

And next picture, please. We want to keep inviting you to this event that Tim Lowenhaupt has two more teachers. Yeah, Jian Shuang and Kelly Tan are gonna be teaching in Japan in June.

You know, Japan is exploding these days. So many activities, so many cool things happening. I mean, exploding in the good way, in the sense of, like, good things happening, growing exponentially.

And this is one of the very cool events you have the chance to attend if you want to study the ancient wisdom courses. You can do it this June. And there is also some other events happening in June.

They're in Japan, which is a great teacher, John Brady teaching also about the Heart Sutra. You can register there if you want. QR code.

You can either go there or do it online. Also, there is another event happening organized by YSI, PREMA. Yes, and Benji and Errol are gonna be teaching along with the organizers, Mei Chang and Lisa Lee.

They are gonna be producing this event June 9th to June 13th in Japan. And also, of course, December with Geshe Michael Roach, Steps on the Path Retreat. So now you have the full itinerary of what's happening in Japan this year.

Maybe some other things come up later, but for now, this is what we have. You can start making your plans and make it to Japan in time. And now, speaking of wisdom in Asia, we have a very special guest who wants to share with us today a very cool project.

I'm really impressed about what you're doing. And I would like to invite Stanley. Yes, Kelly and Chang Peng to talk about it.

In the meantime, maybe just before, should we show the video first? Yeah. Okay, we show the video while they come up here with us.

Gina, could you help us with the video? And yeah, please come. Wow, it's a wonderful video.

But I bet the project is even more wonderful. So could you please share with us a little bit of what's happening? What's your plan?

Where are you going? Okay, I can start with some news that just happened in Diamond Mountain two weeks ago. And then maybe my colleagues, Chang Peng and Kelly, this is their last day visiting.

It's good that we are doing it today. So they can talk about more, whatever they want to talk about. Yeah, in Diamond Mountain, when we just did our Lam Rim retreat, we were talking about Diamond Mountain.

And then we were, you know, we were in the valley. And then there are so many different mountains there, right? And then suddenly we had this idea that, well, maybe they, because they look very similar, the Dunhuang Desert and caves, where people put all the ancient books for the last 1000 years.

They look exactly like the hills in Diamond Mountain. And then we thought, well, since they look so familiar, and then we want to share this Dunhuang beauty, the wisdom with the rest of the world, particularly to the West. It's not very well known in the West, but they like the books.

Many of them borrow the books. So they like it. So we thought, okay, we can duplicate a Dunhuang cave there.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
In the mountains of Diamond Mountain. And then we can put the beautiful Dunhuang wall painting inside the cave, where people can meditate. It's actually a retreat cabin.

Yeah, so that's the newest thing. That's wonderful. So it's like a natural meditation chamber.

Yeah. That's wonderful. And Geshe-la already picked the spot in Diamond Mountain.

Wow. We will have to talk about that soon. Yeah.

That's very, very cool. And what would you like to share? Let me show one picture, and then they can...

I just want to show this one. Maybe they can see. Can you see?

Yeah. Yeah. So on your left or right?

On your left is Diamond Mountain. On your right is Dunhuang Cave. It's the other way around.

The left is Dunhuang. The right is Diamond Mountain. Yeah, I see.

So they look really similar. And they all have beautiful sky also with all the stars in the evening. Yep.

That's my news. That's wonderful. Okay.

So what are you helping with? Is he treating you well in Savannah? Treating you well?

Tell us a little bit about your activities these days here.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. And just first to share some feedback, because through this, we just finished the meeting about Dunhuang. And we just saw the two layers for the rainbow.

Just like the bridge.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Double rainbow.

[Говорящий 2]
Double rainbow. It was a good signage for us, just like the bridge. Just connect to the east and the west.

Yes. So I think the project is a gift to the world. Yes.

Thank you, everybody.

[Говорящий 1]
Wonderful. Thank you so much. And what can you say?

Yeah. I mean, trying to learn the name. You know.

Yeah. Hello. I'm very like, I really love the sky.

But I first time, first day in Diamond Mountain, I see the sky. Wow. Oh, the sky is the star.

I asked Dennis, can I see tomorrow? Yes. Wow.

It's so amazing. So Dunhuang, like many, many stars in the world can give the world many, many amazing things. So I'm happy in the Dunhuang project.

Thank you. Yeah. Very welcome.

So it's great to have had the chance to have you this time. Because you're leaving tomorrow, as I just hear. Yeah.

But it will be cool if soon sometime when there's more progress, we get together again. And you share with us the ongoings. Yeah.

We can show this.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah. That's all.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Oh, okay. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, we do believe this is a good project to bring, to connect the people from the East and the West.

You know, we all like this beautiful arts and beautiful wisdom. And we all have deserts. We have a nickname for this project.

Which is? Twin Desert. Twin?

Yeah. Twin. Twin Desert.

Yeah. One desert in the Gobi Desert and the desert.

[Говорящий 2]
Wow.

[Говорящий 1]
Sonora? Sonora Desert. Yeah.

Yeah. Wonderful. So thank you very much for doing this, all of you.

I think it's really, really helping the world and to preserve this ancient wisdom. And it looks so exciting. I just hearing you like with this idea of, how to say, decorating or creating these caves, it really makes me excited.

Like, wow, it's something like for sure many, many people are going to enjoy. And I think it's going to attract a lot of people to get closer to these teachings. Oh, one good news is one special team in Asia already committed a hundred thousand dollars.

Wow. This cave. We need three.

Three hundred.

[Говорящий 2]
Wonderful.

[Говорящий 1]
So you already have one third. Amazing. So we wish you best luck.

And also we wish to keep talking with you about this project. So thank you very much. Yeah.

And best wishes. Yeah. And finally, we also have a very good news that Rosa Van Gricken and Lindsay are going to tell us.

It's a very exciting thing that finally is happening. So yeah. Welcome.

Come, please sit here and tell us what's the news. Hi, Juan. Hello, Lindsay.

[Говорящий 3]
So we have the valise bags for the Good Night Book Club.

[Говорящий 1]
Finally, the valise are ready. Amazing.

[Говорящий 2]
So in partnership with GMR Luxury Brand, we have valise bags. And also each one comes with a really cool time-lapse. Time-lapse.

The most important. Yeah, that's great. And so anyone subscribed to the Good Night Book Club at the $30 USD a month or above will get one of these and we'll be sending them to you soon.

If you'd like to subscribe, they're going to show the QR link. But again, it's the same practice we were talking about a little bit earlier of putting away your electronics at night, reading one of these beautiful books. And to sleep.

Yeah, yeah. Just getting a good night's rest and then waking up and even meditating about what you read. And so, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
So that's wonderful. So they are finally ready. And you were saying that one way they can get it is if they subscribe to the Book Reading Club.

[Говорящий 2]
Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Good night.

[Говорящий 2]
Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Book Club. I know. Okay.

There is another way to get them, right?

[Говорящий 2]
Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
So if you don't, I mean, if you subscribe, you should subscribe and get the bag. But if you want to get more bags, you can actually buy them directly through GMR Luxury. And yeah, so that's the QR code where you can get it directly.

And it comes in two different colors.

[Говорящий 3]
And so, yeah, we're very, very happy. I personally use it a lot. I use it as my computer holder and as my, you know, night guard.

And it works really well. Yeah. Do you want to share the video?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, we have a special video for people to check how a professional do it. So yeah, let's check it out. Wonderful.

[Говорящий 3]
Mm-hmm.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 3]
In the meantime.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, in the meantime. Yeah, I think that's it. We have the video and also the QR code for people to, either you can buy this by itself with no subscribing to the Book Night Club, or you can subscribe and enjoy all the benefits.

But yeah, hopefully we can look at the video. It's on the Google Drive that I've been talking about a lot. Let's see.

[Говорящий 2]
Can we see the other?

[Говорящий 3]
Yeah, so we have, it comes in two colors. It comes in black and it also comes in cream. And yeah, they're pretty handy.

They fix, it is designed to fit the biggest computer. So up to 16-inch computer. And inside it has great pockets where you can just store all of your devices.

Very securely and won't be scratching each other. And so yeah, it works pretty well. We're very happy with it.

[Говорящий 1]
And we hope that you guys can enjoy them as well.

[Говорящий 2]
And my one cool thing too, and this is in the video, but this also works as an alarm clock because that was my concern about, oh, I can't put my phone away for them sending it for my alarm clock. But this lock can be set up to be your alarm clock, which I think is really cool. Yeah, yeah.

You can put that in a free bag. Oh, yeah. Canvas bag to hold it all.

All righty.

[Говорящий 1]
So let's just check. Do we have a video or not? If we don't, then we will keep showing it the next days.

If we do, we still have a chance.

[Говорящий 3]
Ben Kramer asked if it comes with bolt cutters. Does it come with bolt cutters? Those need to be purchased separately.

From your local hardware store. Okay, okay. Oh, yeah, video.

[Говорящий 1]
Even phone goes there.

[Говорящий 2]
Everything.

[Говорящий 3]
Tablets. You put everything in there. Controller.

Yes. Vegan leather.

[Говорящий 1]
Do you put all the electronics in the bag? In the valise. And then the valise goes inside the bag.

[Говорящий 3]
Well, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
You can actually just go to Facebook and make a valise. Wonderful. Thank you.

You can go with this one. So we'll keep showing you the QR codes in the next few episodes. So you can get it if you want.

But it's wonderful that it's ready. Thank you so much for your work. And let's welcome Geshe Michael Roach for next class with Ben Kramer.

Thank you.