Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 26

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 26 — Xuanzang's Tower, Bodhisattva Way of Life, Session 13 + PTWN (Sep 9, 2024)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод (домашнее задание) — Сейджи Арао Такахаши; ведущий эфира/новостной блок PTWN — предположительно Эдмонд (интервью о DSEU)
Дата и место: 9 сентября 2024; дом Геше Майкла Роуча, Rimrock, Аризона
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 1]
Fancy Deva. This is going to be a good class. Hi party people.

Good to see you all. Thank you for coming to Xuanzang's Tower. We love you.

We're grateful for you. Thank you for sticking with us for all this time and learning these difficult texts. Today we've got some really nice classes.

We've got Geshe Michael broadcasting live with a big crew. I think they're at his house today in Rimrock, where I'm guessing it's really hot, but let's see. Because we're having quite the heat wave here.

I don't know how it is in your part of the world. How's it there in New Mexico, Ben?

[Говорящий 2]
Maybe getting slightly better. It's hot. It's still generally hot.

The desert is hot.

[Говорящий 1]
It is indeed, yeah. How's it down there? Oh, Sunam's translating.

Hey, good. Hot. I can tell her.

She's saying hot in English and German and whatever. Anyway, we've got Seiji Arao translating Master Shantideva, and I think they'll be chiming in soon. How's it look, Seiji?

What a mess.

[Говорящий 2]
Bodies everywhere.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, yeah. We knew it was going to be carnage. You guys holding up okay?

You got the AC blasted? Look at Gibson. He's so handsome.

There's Jack. Look at all these wonderful people. I guess they can't hear us.

There's some photographer creeping around in the background. Hey, that's her fancy cinematographer. Some photographer.

Yes, right. There is a fancy cinematographer in the background. Thank you.

Yeah, we arrived to verse 53. Okay. I haven't prepared to there, but I'll go with you.

Okay. Yeah. Do you want me to make your call?

[Говорящий 3]
Again.

[Говорящий 1]
Good morning. Good afternoon. Please listen.

Can you guys see us? Yeah.

[Говорящий 3]
Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Here. I feel like somebody's taking a picture of me. Yeah.

If you want to see them, see us. That's what it is. Nick, do you have any inspiring words or anything?

Or you could have Jeru. You can ask Jeru to say something. It's too hot for Jeru.

He's just like... I think I've done my best to warm up the crowd. It's all on you guys now.

Okay. So, Seiji's going to do his homework, I think. Right?

Okay. We got a little bit of a space problem here. I can see that.

Thanks for opening your home for Schwenzong's Tower, Geshe Michael. Oh, it's okay. It's too bad I can't do it in the future because it's so crowded.

Okay. All right. So, I don't know if you'll remember, I think last class we had like two, three weeks ago.

Who remembers what was... So, we went through a description of Master Shantideva describing the death process and getting into the lower realms where it was too late to do anything, basically. So, what was the purpose of going through this description?

Perhaps to motivate those of us who are not in hell to try to do something while we can. Yeah, exactly that. So, yeah.

So, he went into the description of how we're going under and he said that if you're there you cannot do anything now, but you cannot do anything then. That's why right now we better take refuge in the teachings and the bodhisattvas. Are you guys cool enough?

Because I can make it cooler. Give me a vote. If you feel too hot, raise your hand.

I'm always too hot. That's true. I'm going to cool it off a little more.

Okay. Okay. If you get too cold, let me know.

All right. Okay, here we go. And then he went a little bit into a description of how he takes refuge.

Does anyone remember? Go to the Peachtree Cafe and eat cinnamon rolls. After that, yeah.

So, first he offered something. What would that might be? Okay.

So, he starts by offering himself his body. Yes. Yep.

For those of you who didn't hear, Rosa said he's going to take all the suffering in the world. Yes, he starts by offering himself, his body, and practice to the victors and then begs to protect him. Among the victors we mentioned are gentle voice, perfect goodness, loving eyes, and the exalted essence of the sky.

We did this all in the team. Okay. And then we finish with the last verse.

Can you explain the contrast of how these protectors look to us versus how they might look to our enemies? When they look at the messengers of the Lord of death, those messengers flee in terror in every direction. Wow, perfect.

Yes, exactly what the text said. All right. So, some vocabulary.

Uluwai. Uluwai. Give offerings.

Yeah, make an offering. I give offerings. These are super easy.

Generosity. Loving eyes. Yeah.

By the way, rei also means an old rag and there's a funny translator who insists on translating it as loving rags or something like that. Rags? Rag eyes.

Rei also means rags and he insists it should be translated as rags. Well, literally it's like request protection, but I guess it's going for refuge. Right.

Well, I put, yeah, beg them to protect you. Yeah. Awesome.

Okay, cool. All right. Now, some new sentences.

Yes. You guys okay? So, we basically made it till verse 52.

Okay. Oh, you're going to translate it. Do you want to finish 52?

Right. Okay. I didn't know you guys went ahead, so I didn't put in the Sanskrit yet, so we'll just have to deal with that.

We'll just have to use the Tibetan for a while. So, would you like to read the first verse and then we'll torture other people? Yeah, good.

Yeah, pretty good. Nguyen Tse means before, previously. K is the same as Q.

You? Yeah. Ka, like word or land.

And then len de is the same as nyong ngen len de. Go beyond. I went beyond.

And so, when you disobey a person, it's called ka len de. You go beyond their word. And it's a high honorific.

So, in past days, I disobeyed your word. He's talking to his teacher. Oh, so the kye is like your word, not...

Yeah. Of course, yeah. In the past, I ignored your direct talking to his teacher.

Right. And as opposed to Nguyen Tse, da. Now?

Yeah, now it scares me poopless. Jigpa che. What does this jigpa not mean?

Destroy? Yeah, it does not mean destroy. Why?

Because it's got a sa suffix? It has a secondary s, a sa. If it's spelled with an s at the end, it means to be scared.

And if it's spelled without the sa, it means to be destroyed. So, jigpa che tong means... This is an idiom that means I feel great fear.

It says I see grief. But, you know, I used to disobey your advices and now I'm scared poopless to not obey your advices. Something like that, which happens late in your life.

Okay, now I will kye la gyep su chi.

[Говорящий 2]
Take refuge in you.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, and the lak is really not so necessary. Why did he put it there? He's trying to make meter.

Yeah, he needs an extra word in there. So he said, I doeth goeth to refuge.

[Говорящий 2]
Continue.

[Говорящий 1]
I doeth goeth. Why is this lak interesting to you guys? Oh, on Geshe-la?

Yeah, when you say Geshe-la, it's lak and it means your honorable self or something like that. All right. Okay.

And yeah, so in depth, I request you to nyur du. Clear away my jigpa, my fears. What's nyur lung?

Yeah, it's a famous memory. Okay, let's go to the next. Let me see your translation.

Let me go back and see if we fit. No, go to 53. Yeah.

We messed up the pronouns a little bit. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, and so I take refuge asking to dispel.

Dispel is a nice translation. Dispel. Okay.

If you wanted an adjective or a noun, how would you change the spelling of B-S-A-L? G. G-S-E.

What's the classic example for emptiness, a word for emptiness? Busal. Busal, the clear light.

Okay. All right, 54. 54.

Ta-da. Now Seiji gets to choose some victim to read. Oh, I don't think we have a place to do it here.

Let's do something, someone online. Oscar. Oscar.

Yay. Nice, Oscar. The word tamel is very important in the Diamond Way.

Why? Because you're not supposed to be it? The worst sin.

Yeah, tamel nangshen is... So the worst bad deed you could commit in the open teachings is to kill someone. The worst bad deed you can do in the secret teachings is to think everything is just normal.

You can spread this way. So here tamel means everyday world. Okay, tamel.

What's ne? Sickness. Okay, what's jigs we just had?

Yeah, if you're threatened by a normal sickness, you would... Yeah, what's a memba? Yeah, what's the colloquial for memba?

Empty. Saw? It might have come from empty, I don't know.

Or maybe it's a Mongolian word. Memba ngak? Yeah, shen means...

in this case it means similar, right? But ngak shen means follow the advice. Do what they say.

Jagu, you'd have to act that way. You should follow the advice. Even in a normal illness, you should follow the advice or the doctrine.

But if you have this greater illness called dechang... Desire. Desire.

And then there's a huge debate and a huge 2,000 year misunderstanding that it's wrong to want a new car or to have a house or to build a nice cabin for students to do retreat or something like that. And so what does this mean? What's this ignorant desire?

I want to get nice things not by helping other people, not by planting them. And that's ignorance. That's destructive desire.

But to enjoy nice clothes, to enjoy a nice house, to enjoy sitting here together, that's fine. That kind of enjoyment or you want something nice, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't hurt anybody to get it.

Okay. ,'GYUR CHAGS LA SOGS, etc. ,GNYAD PA RGYA, Lots of problems.

Yeah, like a billion problems. RGYA means literally... A hundred.

A hundred. But in scripture it just means a zillion. Okay, like countless.

You can say countless. So if you go... If you get a normal sickness like cancer, you have to go to a doctor.

But if you get the great sickness, which is desire, wrong desire, it's that... This, DAP is a very interesting word. DAP means to be stricken.

Like, ,DE CHAGS DAP means to whip a horse, to apply a whip to a horse. So here it means the sickness DAP you. The sickness struck you.

DAP means our human condition is to be sick all the time. Just sometimes we know and sometimes we don't. So you are...

So what's MI PHYI DGOS? Or need mention. Yeah, if you have to go to a doctor when you get a normal disease, then who needs to mention what you should do when you have this disease called human life?

All right, it's kind of cute. Let me look at the translation. If we feel just normal sickness is good, we must seek the advice of a doctor is good.

Although I would change the seek to follow. The CHA, you'd have to do what they tell you to do. Because he's kind of on the topic of not listening to your teacher.

So if you take the trouble to go to a doctor and you don't listen to what they tell you to do, it's similar to going to a teacher and not following their advice. DE CHAGS LA SOGS NGES PAR SKYE So if for a normal sickness you have to follow the advice of your doctor, who needs to mention that you should always follow the advice of your spiritual doctor when you have the hundred illnesses called desire and etc? Yeah, the constant prayers was a...

I had no idea what TAK TAK meant. Oh yeah, you should always... Oh, we are always stricken.

Yeah, we are. There's no time since the day you were born that you were not sick. Just sometimes it was obvious and sometimes it wasn't obvious.

Okay, all right. 55. Yay, Seiji, not bad.

Okay, who do you want to choose to pick on? Let's see. Can you guys see the text?

Yeah. Okay. Oh, are you talking to the room?

Yeah. There's a very distracting incense here from famous pizza. Oh, terrible.

Being very hard to focus. Oh, Wenjie, can you read?

[Говорящий 2]
Sorry, I couldn't make it there.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. Okay, we'll eat your pizza. Please do.

No problem. I was having car issues. I have to eat it before my wife gets home.

Okay.

[Говорящий 3]
DE PHYS KYI KHYANG SRAM LAS NA, GNAS PA'I MI KUN LHAG CHE DRAG, DE DAG TSOL BA'I MEN CHEN NI, CHOG NAM KUN NAS NYID NYES NA Good.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. And by the way, because the verse ends in NA, what can we say about it, Nick or anybody? Well, it could be an if statement.

It's a question. Which means we must tie it to the next. Yeah.

We're only halfway through the thought. It ends with if. That's the first thing you have to think of when you see this verse.

One of them, LHAG means to... Yeah, LHAG means to waste in the colloquial sense. The two boxers started fighting in the Olympics, and one of them wasted the other.

Not just beat them. Like wasted them. Turned them into shreds or something.

So BRAL LHAG. LHAG means to lose, to be destroyed, to be destroyed ignominiously. Okay.

And just one of these could lock all the mi's in the tsambaling. People. All the people on this planet could be destroyed by a single word.

Yeah, like a good virus. One good NAY from the last verse. Oh.

One good virus could wipe out humanity in the world. And you couldn't find another MEN. Medicine.

Medicine here means... MEN PA is doctor. MEN is medicine.

What do you call medicine, Brun? LHAG. LHAG.

LHAG, high tone. MEN LHAG. So LHAG means Lama.

By LHAG GYI RGUL RU. So it really does... It doesn't mean Medicine Buddha.

It means Medicine Guru. Okay, it's MEN LHAG. Okay, so anyway.

That you couldn't find another medicine in all the chogs in the world. All ten, all the directions. Yeah, you could go to every corner of the planet and you wouldn't find such a treatment.

Okay. MI NYE, you wouldn't find it. KUN NAY, you wouldn't find it at all.

At all. Okay. So what's he talking about?

We don't know till the next verse. This was the third verse, so I didn't... Oh, okay.

All right. So I'll give you the plain bag. Yay, I get the plain bag.

Doesn't Seiji look handsome in this suit? I bet. My wife said...

Well, I won't tell you what she said. But she was impressed with this suit. I don't know which one is you and which one is...

Oh, this one. So you want to do essay? Doesn't matter, right?

By the way, for those of you who are wondering, we have our deluxe film crew because they're doing a documentary about Geshe Michael and the seed system. Yeah, it's a four-year project that we're working on. They're connected to Netflix.

And they promised not to show me in my underwear. Okay. All right.

We're at 56. Who's going to read, Seiji? Let's see.

Yes. ,'KHAM BYED BYIN PA YI, ,'KHAR THAL MI BYED SEMS PA NI, ,ZHIN DU DI MUG MED PA'I GNAS, Nice. I don't know how you learn so fast.

But I hope you share it with other people someday. Okay. Okay.

And still we're on the topic that we started with in the first verse, which was kind of... It was a long time ago. Is this tricking?

Listening to the doctor. We're still on this theme of listening to the doctor. So don't forget the theme.

So let's suppose your member is Tomjey Kimba. The doctor's omniscient? Yeah, and by the way, you got to appreciate a doctor who's omniscient.

And I like to think that you walk into their office and you say, I have a stomach ache. And they pick up a medicine and they say, Wait a second. And they go, Okay, take this.

In six days you'll feel better. Because they can see the future. And that kind of doctor would be awesome, who had a direct experience of the future.

And then they pick a bottle and they say, No, not this one. Oh, this one's good for you. On Tuesday, you're going to be dancing around.

I can see it. That would be the perfect... That's how you have to feel about a Buddha or a Lama.

No matter how much trouble you have until that day, they know what's going to happen. And you kind of have to trust it. All right.

If you ignored that kind of doctor and refused to take their medicine because it didn't work the second day, you'd be making an extraordinary error. All right. De la menpa.

Here, the menpa is thamjad khyempa, and that's a loaded word because it's a doctor. Mr... Know-it-all.

Know-it-all. His name is Mr. Know-it-all, thamjad khyempa. Sumo means realms of agony.

What's that dog's name? Nick's dog. Charru on a bad day.

Yeah, like that. So sumo is ancient word. Like whimpers or groans of agony.

And this gyempa is tricky. This gyempa is tricky. I'll tell you why.

If it was spelled with an S-B-Y-I-N, it would mean the opposite of what it means here. With an alo, it means to take, to pull out or something. Take out, not give.

Good. And jen means to put in. Yeah.

So you could easily mistranslate this as the omniscient one fills you full of extraordinary pains. Oh, by the way, I've seen everything, trust me. In good books, you know.

So jen means draw out. Ngen, say ngen, prenasal, with a prenasal. No prenasal, to grant extraordinary moans and groans.

Ngen, with a prenasal, suck out the moans and groans. Okay, take out the moans and groans. That's a different jen.

Yeah, that's no prefix at all. Yeah, and that one means magic. Kind of cool.

So if you semba that I miche the ka of that person. If you think about... If you decide...

Not to do it. Miche. Yeah, not to do what they told you.

If there's a person who could see the future and who offers you a medicine, and that medicine would suck out of you every pain you ever could have, and then you decide to miche the ka, to go by shintu timu. Super stupid. Shintu timu.

And then we have the same me as serame. Lower. Yeah, yeah.

So there's two ancient divisions of seramonastery. Serate, which means the higher. And serame means the lower because it's better.

Because it's the foundation. They were built on a mountain. And then serate changed its name to serache.

And serame kept its name me. So me means to put someone down. Okay, to put someone down.

So maybe me means... name means condition or situation here. That would be something we could all criticize happily.

What? If you decided... To ignore.

To ignore the advice of a person who could see every detail of your future for all time. Okay? Right.

Yeah, maybe name means wise people would say, oh, this guy's a fool. Yeah, all right. Who's going to read next?

Hey, Ling, can you read? Oh, by the way, there's lots of problems here. Hang on.

This should be... You guys are going to enjoy this one. This one is...

This is why you pay me, okay? Or you don't. Okay.

Okay. And... Hang on, not yet.

I gotta fix this thing. It was close, though. Okay.

Oh, it's over. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Hang on, I'm still fixing. Okay, let's do it this way. Okay, go ahead.

Okay. Nice, not bad. Okay, baby.

Okay, baby. Nick, you're not supposed to talk about Seiji that way. Anybody, what's a yangsa?

Yangsa. We were at a yangsa about an hour ago. A ravine.

A ravine, yeah. It's a high cliff. Okay, we want to build a retreat cabin on this yangsa because the view is so nice.

So we're going to build a retreat cabin there and let my students use it for training for two, three weeks at a time. And when you have your break down, you just come across the street and watch TV with me. And then you go back.

Yeah, and then when you're ready, we ship you to South Arizona. Okay, understand? So da yang, I'm not sure that da is even correct.

But anyway, yangsa means a cliff or a ravine. Kamel? Regular.

Not a spiritual cliff. Okay, an everyday cliff. Chumu means a small one, not a couple hundred feet.

All right. You would, bhagya, you would be very careful. Yeah, this one means careful.

When you get close to the edge, you would choose your steps carefully. So this bhagya, what's the classic example of bhagma? A new bride who just entered her mother-in-law's house and has to be...

So bhagma means a newlywed woman, which in Asia, in ancient times, was supposed to listen to her mother-in-law for the rest of her life and resent her. At the same time, that was called bhagma. And it came to be a word for watching your step around your step, around your mother-in-law.

So bhagya means watch your step around a yangsa, around a cliff. You got to walk softly around your mother-in-law, and you got to walk carefully around the cliff. Same thing, right?

Bhagya, nepaja, that's how you have to nepa. You have to exist, be. Yeah, you have to stay that way.

You have to stay careful around the edge of a cliff. Gu means you have to. You have to stay careful when you're walking on the edge of a cliff.

And that's just a short drop. This cliff is about 400 feet or something. So, you know, you would only fall 400 feet.

But there are cliffs where you could fall bhakte dpong. And bhakte in Sanskrit is... Sanskrit?

Yep. What's the Sanskrit for bhakte? Oh, pramana, or...

No, that's jepak. This is a measurement. Oh, yojana, yojana.

Yojana. Yeah, yojana means the ancient mile. And it's a mile and a half.

Okay, so bhakte means that. You know, you can translate it as a mile. You don't get in trouble.

Dpong, a thousand. One thousand. Which is, you know, suppose you fell off a thousand miles.

Yeah, suppose you fell off a cliff that was a thousand miles high. Mochigud means... What's needless to mention?

Yeah, who needs... Needless to say, needless to say. Mochigud.

Who needs to mention that you would be in that inn, or sar, you would be in that yangsa, yun, or ringbo. Long time to get your ass out of that canyon. Meaning?

Meaning you fall a long time. Meaning the lower realms. You walk careful around the normal cliffside out here, but you don't walk careful how you behave to normal people all day.

But the second one can drop you off a cliff that's a thousand miles deep, and you don't get out of a place like that. It takes a long time to get out of a place like that. That's what he's saying.

Cool? No, not cool. Okay.

Who's next, Teji? By the way, I haven't had a chance to look these over, but I got drilled into me since the first day I went to a class. This is the first book I heard.

Oh. Hasso, can you do it? Yes.

Okay. Okay. Nice.

Very good. That's why you're one of the three candidate translators. If one of these guys rolls over, they're clear.

Okay. No pushing us, Hasso.

[Говорящий 2]
That's a very, very expensive price to pay.

[Говорящий 1]
That could be worth it. Okay. Teering is an ancient form of tearing.

Today? Today. Yeah.

Teering means today. Kona. I mean, right day.

Michi. Michi. Only today you won't...

Yeah, what's the big worry? I'm not going to die today. So she means people talk like that.

People say, I don't know why you're so worried about this thousand mile cliff. It's not like I'm going to die this afternoon. Everybody believes that, right?

It's not like I'm going to die this afternoon. So therefore, people dewa duk. They stay happy.

Yeah, they just, they're funny. They stay, they're pretty happy. It's not like I'm going to die this afternoon.

I'm still okay. I had an estate lawyer this morning, you know, and it was so cute. We had a long meeting.

Because I want to get all my books. You got to help me with that, Rosamund. Anyway, all my book copyrights, and I want to make sure they can be used by everybody.

And then he wrote down notes, and then he said, is there any event coming up? And I'm like, event? He said, you know, is there a reason why you came to an estate lawyer just now?

You know, and it means are you going to die in the next week? I'm like, well, I wasn't planning on it, but for now, you know? And he's like, okay, I was just checking.

If you knew about something coming up, you know? And I'm like, no, I mean, as far as I know, he's going to be here for a while, but who knows, right? So you said, tirimachi, I'm not going to die today, you know?

Tell the estate lawyer, tirimachi. I wasn't planning to die this afternoon. But to dewar duk, to stay comfortable in that feeling.

Rikspamayin.

[Говорящий 2]
It doesn't make sense. Inappropriate.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, it's not logical. It's not logical. Rikspa with an S means logic, right?

Clear thinking. I like that translation pretty well. It's not logical to say, it's not logical to feel comfortable because you didn't die this afternoon.

It's illogical. Okay, rikspamayin. The day when you will meypar gyur.

The time when you will no longer exist. Yeah, the day when you will no longer exist. Gyur, ngyur.

It's coming, it's on its way. And then there's a weird word here, say dunmisawa. Dunmisawa.

[Говорящий 2]
Undoubtedly.

[Говорящий 1]
Dun means a demon. Sawa means to eat. Dunmisawa means beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Okay, go figure, you'll know why. Okay? It means beyond any reasonable doubt.

There will be a day when you are no longer here. So why are you so comfortable? Why are you so relaxed?

Okay, cool? No. All right, who's up next?

Right. All right, let's see. Earl, you want to do it?

Yeah, baby. Yeah, okay. All right, Nick.

Here we go. Go for it. Stack her up.

nice, you're reading, it's getting really good. Let's get a New York weather. Who's going to jin mi jik tu dak?

Who's going to take me out without fear? This one's the SB. Yeah, who's going to give me, provide me.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Who's going to take me out without fear? Yeah. Who's going to give me fearlessness?

Yeah, who can save me? Who can put my, these fears to rest reasonably? I mean, there's people who do, and it's not reasonable.

Because you're dying anyways. Okay. Who's going to give me, who's going to make me feel better, basically?

Who's going to nge par thaiwa me from di le? Certainly liberate me from these. Yeah.

Who's going to get my ass out of this trouble? Di le means from this trouble. Chi tang pao.

This nge is not N-G-A-S, which would mean me. This nge with the E means definitely. Who can, with certainty, extract me from this problem of death?

Who can really help me? She means, you know, your quote. You talk like that.

Oh, who's going to help me? Who's going to get me out of all that? Then we got that den mi sawa again.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, I will know or exist. Yeah, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that kind of person, met. There is no person like that.

They ain't coming, they ain't showing up. Yeah, don't hold your breath. There's no such person, like normal person, who can come and help you.

So I ask you again. Jeetadak ye dewa duk. How can you duk there with your ye dewa?

How can you stay happy? How can you be there all chill? Yeah, how can you sit there and not be freaking out?

Duk in modern colloquial means stay. In an affirmable way. So in colloquial Tibetan, duk means he's there, I saw it.

So someone says he's here at home, you say duk. Which means, yeah, I know because I was just there. So duk means direct experience.

But in the ancient language, it can mean to sit down. So how can you sit there so smiley if there's nobody who can help you? It is an ancient word for sitting.

Nowadays it means is, confirmed. What about non-confirmed? Yo re.

Yo re. Re means I have not confirmed it with my direct. Confirmed.

Is he at home? I'd say so.

[Говорящий 2]
Sure.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. Who's next? Let's see.

Oh, Annie Lee. Do you want to try? Annie?

Yes or no? Riva? Are you translating, Rivas?

Yes. Oh, Roksana Barbu.

[Говорящий 3]
Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Even Oscar is showing off. All right. The first two lines are difficult.

ngun means what? Yeah, before. In colloquial nama.

Before. ngun che means in days gone by. In the past.

Okay. The things I have nyong.

[Говорящий 2]
Experienced.

[Говорящий 1]
My past experience is shikpa. Shikpa. Past tense of njikpa.

Degenerated? Fell apart? Ended?

Yeah. It means all my lifetime experiences up to now are, what do you call it? Watered down?

They're gone. Irrecoverable. They have gone by.

Shikpa. They have already gone by. All the good stuff that ever happened to me in this life is irrecoverably gone by.

You can't get it back, and it's gone. It's zero. It has zero importance.

It has no effect. It's gone. It doesn't exist.

That has shikpa. Everything you experienced up till this moment, it's invisibly gone. You will never see it again.

Then the question is, Hakpa Chiyo, Word for $100. What is it that remains? Yeah, how much do I got left?

I'll give you $99. Just to irritate you. I was in a diamond deal one time, and I was with an Israeli friend, and we were negotiating against a tough Indian guy.

The negotiation went on for three weeks. Then he finally said, I want $1,300,000 and not a penny less. My Israeli friend said, Okay, I guess I'll offer you $1,299,999.99. He said, Deal. I'll never forget it. How much you got left, Hakpa? Chiyo, we don't know.

How much is left? How do you say, vipassana? Vipassana?

Yeah, vipassana. The v is vipassana, a special insight of emptiness, not meditation. Dakla, Hakpa Chiyo, we don't know how much we got left.

What went before us irrevocably passed. It's beyond your perception. It might as well be nothing.

It is. How much you got left? dak ni de la ngun shen ne.

I don't know how much I got left, but I'm still shen by it.

[Говорящий 2]
Super attached, holding on to it.

[Говорящий 1]
Super attached to it. I'm still hanging on to it. I don't know if I got 10 minutes left in this life, but I'm still super attached to it.

By the way, when it's gone, everything's gone. Like this whole beautiful rimrock. There's not one atom of it in your life anymore.

You're in a different world, a different universe. Everything's black. Nothing.

You can't take one juniper... What do you call it? Berry?

It gives us... Yeah, allergy. You can't take one atom of juniper allergy pollen with you.

But you're still attached to however much you have left, and you don't know how much you have left. It might be an hour. It might be half an hour.

You don't know. Because you are so comfortable being attached to a future that you don't know is there, you are insanely attached to a future that may not exist. Then, because of that attitude, you can gelwa the ka of your lama.

Go against or contradict? Yeah, you should be able to go against what your teacher asks you to do, because you think you have time. If it was your last hour, you'd be so obedient.

Not just to do gelwa. People always write me afterwards. My husband died.

I don't know what to do. It's too late. Don't ask me next time.

Therefore, we don't follow our teacher's advice, because we think we have time left. That's a cause and effect. He's making a cause and effect statement.

Because you think you have time left, you don't strictly follow your teacher's advice. Teachers love to teach this text. All right.

That's my reality. All right. Who's next?

Gibson, do you have the text? Yeah, just do it in this direction. Nice.

Okay. Sen is the opposite of shiwa. Yeah, while you're still alive.

Can you guys let my boss in? She could go to her bedroom. She's okay.

She's going to go. She's my back door woman. Okay.

We're good. That's my boss, Rikardo. You got to respect her.

All right. Sensei means while you're still alive. While you're still alive.

By the way, you can see the root there, sowa. To repair? To live?

Yeah, like sojong. The root gso, to fix or repair or to live, is in this older word called sung, which means to not be dead yet. So while you're still alive, di dam de shin du, you think about this and that, things you got to do.

All right. And you have nyens and you have shepas. You have nyen means family, and shepa means acquaintances or friends.

You have family and friends, nyen and shi. What's another shi? Geshe.

Geshe. That's spelled slightly different maybe. Anyway, no.

Geshe. So you have friends and family while you're alive. While you're still alive, you have friends and family.

But there will come a day when you have to pang. Yeah, you have to leave them behind. And then he puts a number.

Totally. You have to leave them behind. Totally.

Number pang. You're going to have to leave every single one of them. So when you translate, you have to catch the num.

Like in English, you might say every single one or something like that. So you have to be sensitive to those little syllables. Shantideva doesn't use a syllable if he doesn't have a reason to.

Okay. By the way, we got five more minutes. In five minutes, Seiji will take over the class and lead a 15-minute discussion of how do you think you might use this information today in your real life.

Okay. So start thinking about that and what you'd like to say. And you can come up and sit next to Seiji.

I mean, Seiji. I'm curious. Yeah, I know.

Thanks, Nick. Anytime, baby. Cheek boot, Seiji.

Cheek boot? Alone only? Yeah, you have to go all by yourself.

Word, can you look up gache for me? I think it means it's extremely rare. I've never seen it.

But if I remember, it means on your lonesome, all by yourself. But I'd like to look it up maybe in DOS or something, gache. I think it means by yourself without anybody together.

Great Dictionary says somewhere or an uncertain place. Oh, okay.

[Говорящий 3]
Good.

[Говорящий 1]
That's not spelled S-H-E-S, right? No, S-H-E-S. Okay, good.

Yeah, so you will have to go somewhere unknown by yourself. That makes sense. Kham means generally where we don't know.

If you're going to have to go there, chi rung here means what's the use of zas and midzas. Having people that you like and people you don't like. Yeah, what's the point of dividing the people in your life into people you like and people you don't like if you have to leave every single one behind anyway?

It's a very beautiful advice. For people, if you're not going to die in the next day, you're going to have people you hate and people you love. But if you're going to die in the next day, what's the point?

Why distinguish between people? Why not love everybody, even if they're irritating in a debate, for example? Never mind.

Zas and midzas. What kun chi rung means, what the hell's the difference? Who cares?

I think we have time for one more Seiji. Who do you want to pick on? Jack, since you're looking at it.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

Nice. Pre neso. Pre neso for a B is with your lips.

because it's an M, like MBA. You can have an MBA. Say, you can translate the first line.

Djung means comes. Suffering comes from... Non-virtue?

Yeah, suffering comes from any action which hurts another being. Migawen means djung. How can I ngepar tarwa from that?

How can I get certain freedom from that? How can I get out of that? Well, you could both nyin and tsen.

You could samba. The following thoughts would be rikspa. Appropriate?

Appropriate, yeah. If you bhashik these thoughts, only thought these thoughts, fourth chapter, Yoga Sutra, bhashikta, kaivalya. Kaivalya means singularity.

Kaiva, kaivalya means kaiva, which means one and only. It's a state of high realization, but in this book, bhashikta means this is the singularity thought you should have, meaning you should always just have one thought in your mind. Then the following verses, which Seiji is going to translate for next time.

Can you do the next three verses? It's 63, 64, and 65. Then what happens, let's translate this.

chandrasembed chokpa nanju kalle rikpa shakpa nyu te nyi pa o This is the second chapter will be completed. We will have finished the second chapter of the Shantideva's text, which is a big deal. What's the name of that chapter?

Rikpa shakpa. Confessing bad deeds. The whole chapter is called Confessing Bad Deeds.

If Seiji translates the next three verses, we are done with the second chapter, which is a big deal. Every time you finish a chapter in a translation class, you should say a prayer or something, seriously, because you did not die during that chapter. You got to that chapter.

You should have a big pizza party or something. If you get to a chapter of a scripture, it's a big, big deal. In the monastery, they might give you a couple days off or something.

Because it means you had enough virtue to survive the chapter. All right. I'm going to disappear and Seiji is going to lead our discussion.

Okay. All right. You want to just share?

All right. Very important class today, I think. Well, let's see.

Do we have anyone? I have some applications to real life, but I wanted to see if anyone here wants to jump in. If you have any ideas.

[Говорящий 3]
Hey, Seiji. It's been cutting.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, hey. How are you?

[Говорящий 3]
I'm great. How are you?

[Говорящий 1]
We're good. Thanks.

[Говорящий 3]
This is also my favorite book of all books I've been exposed to. What I love about today's class was really getting down to the bottom line. I don't know when I'm going to die.

And it doesn't matter who I don't like and who I do like and who I don't even know. Just the importance of loving everybody equally every day. I mean, that's our goal.

And so this section of the book lays it out, man. You can die tomorrow. What difference does it make who you like and who you don't like?

You know, love them all.

[Говорящий 1]
Yep. Yep. Well said.

I also like that. He went into putting stuff into perspective, right? It's like you have all these, we have all these fears.

To fall off a cliff, but you have no idea. Like all those things that we're doing that is much worse than that. Right.

So for me, I really like that. It helps us today's class helped us. To reassess our priorities.

Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
And thank you for teaching.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, thank you. Please. Yeah.

Can you do it a bit louder? Oh, yeah. You're welcome.

Yeah. Okay. So that people can hear you.

[Говорящий 3]
This is good. Thank you. This class for me was very interesting and important.

We never know what will be the next day or in your life. Who knows. That's why we have to.

Not to waste time. And not our precious time, you know. It's a value for us.

And not to waste for suffering. To enjoy our life. To be happy.

To make people happy. And what else? And to say.

For our. Friends. Relatives.

Beloved. Important words. Our love.

Our gratefulness. We never know when we meet again. And in human body.

When we have such. Opportunity to say. For our beloved.

And I hope that. In these important words. Do it today.

Right now. Don't.

[Говорящий 1]
Yes.

[Говорящий 3]
We, all of us. Didn't plan. Pandemic.

No us and I was didn't plan this war terrible war. So, do today. Tell to your relatives for to your beloved, these important words and guess a lot.

Thank you very much. I'm here in this. Yeah, thank you.

And I'm happy to see.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. Marina. Oh, Barbara.

You, please.

[Говорящий 3]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
I want My question.

[Говорящий 3]
Thank you. Um, we're learning venerable Guilfoyle Oh, about syllogisms. Yes.

And she said, If the pain of all sentient beings, is it correct that I stop them because it's pain? And Master Shantideva says we should see them as parts of our body.

[Говорящий 1]
Uh huh. And we don't have time because what we learned in this class is that we might die this afternoon.

[Говорящий 3]
Uh huh.

[Говорящий 1]
I am in great hurry to experience a real bodhichitta.

[Говорящий 3]
Uh huh.

[Говорящий 1]
I would like to see if I will see them as my emanations or nirmanakayas. Uh huh. In that moment where I get the latum.

In that moment where I get the latum. And I'll see my body that is now like a pen.

[Говорящий 3]
Uh huh.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, that the Buddha saw the flower in the angel's hand that the Buddha saw and was teaching the different parts. I would like to see if all these people that are currently suffering they'll see when they have the direct experience of bodhichitta. Oh, I wonder if I'll see them as he was describing that we have to see the flower.

Oh, I think that's a question for Geshe-la. No, she did not, but she is asking the question. Question, I was in that retreat, so I don't think I'm the right person to.

[Говорящий 2]
I think that's a question for Geshe-la.

[Говорящий 1]
I don't know.

[Говорящий 3]
Yes, you can.

[Говорящий 1]
She said later she'll answer. Thank you so much.

[Говорящий 2]
Awesome.

[Говорящий 1]
Anyone else has, Rob, please.

[Говорящий 2]
Thanks, baby. Okay. We'll see if I can get through it.

So, you know, I've had this, I was telling a friend when my dad was dying. My brother kept saying, should I come out? And, you know, I don't want to put people in.

I don't like to have to make decisions for people. You know, I want them to come to their own place, I think a lot. And in my heart, of course, I'd flown 3000 miles to go be by my dad because I knew he was dying.

And I knew that that was the most important thing for me to do. And so I was like, well, you know, I don't know. And but finally, I just said, you know, maybe you should come.

And so I find myself in these positions a lot when I think about having to think about death, my own death. And then, you know, the people around me as well. And so it's one thing to I got, you know, both my parents are dead now.

And so I'm in like a unique situation where I have this sort of freedom right now. And so there's a lot of doctor's appointments these days that we go to. And so I'm thinking about this question all the time.

But now I'm thinking about not only my own, but somebody else's health and life. And, you know, I want to sometimes tell people like, you know, hey, it isn't we don't we don't have a lot of time. You know, Jacqueline last night about this, you know, like my biggest fear, not my biggest fear, but like I was about Kishi Michael.

And, you know, that time is short. And I had a lot of time with him, you know, like my whole adult life, pretty much since I've been about 29. And I'm like 57 now.

And I'm like spoiled because I've had a lot, a lot of time, one on one time. And so trying to get the most out of every single thing that we have, the opportunities we have here. And it's not just here.

I meant like wherever you are in the world right now and your teachers really putting that into perspective and thinking I don't have a lot of time. They don't have a lot of time. What can I do to prioritize the most important things to do.

And so my brain is constantly in that space and we were in San Diego and because my, my brain is there. We were sitting on the beach and Veronica got up to go for a walk. And she had this cloth shawl, and the windows blinders like surfers and beach people everywhere and then this like blonde lady to stands up in the middle of it and this beautiful like wing of shawl to started flowing and then she turned and like went that way and then suddenly I was like, I felt like I was in a different reality.

And I think it's also forced me to sort of be in this beautiful presence of people who are just extraordinary and I had this moment I just thought, Oh my god this is just amazing. And I looked at gasoline I was like, she always been like this and he's like, the day the day I met her. She just sort of went off into the sunset.

And I like this. So it has this. I'm not trying to be morbid I think it also has this opposite effect of you really can be in this space of super appreciating the people that we have around us and stuff so, especially the song to hear, and wherever you are.

So, that's really all I wanted to say. Thanks, babe. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Let's not let that become a habit. All right. I'm baby.

All right. So, yeah, I think we all went around the same topic and I agree I think for me what struck me the most is, this made me remember one of the labyrinths a long time ago, I think in Mexico, where you were describing the other was describing how often we get to get a chance like this just to be alive and as we are now and being able to study Dharma. If I remember correctly, he gave an analogy of a blind turtle that comes up to breathe every hundred years.

What are the odds of a turtle like that in the Pacific Ocean, that only comes every hundred years to, as the, it goes to take a breath for its head to poke in a lifeguard, life ring. And so, because Master Chantilla was doing that almost in every verse, right, it's like, we get afraid of even death, but it's much worse than that. It's like death and waiting for a long time.

So, I think it's a big wake up call to lose ourselves and loved ones and, yeah, it's, yeah, very, this class is very, very, I don't know, opens your eyes. Yes. Oh, I think it's time for a hassle.

I don't think this is the time. Can you repeat? Yeah.

Nothing, nothing about pizza.

[Говорящий 2]
Go get pizza.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, I was curious as well. What those last verses say. Maybe later.

But yeah, actually I was, I was paying attention to the pizza there. It's like a beautiful setting. I was so glad to see you all there at Geshe-la's place.

And I noticed the pizzas to the side and all the drinks, the flowers, very beautiful setting. Yay. Rob Hagerty Jr. Sugeng Olga. Many more friends there. Hello, everyone. Soon, hopefully I'll be there and we'll eat pizza together.

For now, I just have the news for you. And I would like to share some of them before we move on to our special interview of the day. Okay, this is it.

As you know, and as a reminder, Rosa Van Grieken has been working very hard with Diamond Cutter Press. And she released the 25th anniversary edition of this wonderful book, The Garden. So if you're thinking on a birthday present, Christmas present, Halloween present, whatever present.

I think this is like a great, great idea. You could check it out. You can follow the QR code.

And yeah, order one. I think this book is beautiful. Yeah, and it's full of wisdom.

It's very accessible. It's very accurate. It's very magical.

It's strongly, strongly, strongly recommended. So as a reminder, next picture, please. To let you know as well that today on September 9th, the Innovation Retreats are beginning.

And they're going to keep going, this series of teachings, until the 13th. Some classes are going to be taught by Geshe Michael. Some classes are going to be taught, I'm guessing, by our dear friend Stanley Chen.

And yeah, it's happening. They started today. Next picture, please.

Also, as a reminder, that our friends Gail Dutch and Betz Greer, they are teaching this wonderful course in perception and logic and deduction. Their next class is going to be on Thursday. So if you are interested, maybe talk to them.

Just reach out and see if you can join. I think their classes are going to be very, very amazing. They already taught three classes, if I'm correct.

Thursday is going to be class number four. Next, please. And in October, in the 6th of October, Diamond Mountain is opening their doors for all of you who may want to participate into a pre-retreat courses.

Because then, on the 12th, Geshe Michael is going to be there teaching about emptiness. Deep, deep teachings about emptiness and deep, deep teachings about how to have overall good, ultimate health. Health that transcends this world.

So practices on how to preserve health beyond this world and how to understand, really, really understand emptiness are going to be taught in Diamond Mountain. So you can go, maybe go back one slide, please. You can go to this pre-retreat when you're going to get all the introduction on how to engage in some of these practices.

And now, next slide, please. Yes, with Geshe Michael from the October 11th to the 20th, this retreat on this emptiness and health practices. And just as a reminder that in November, it's coming up the fourth chapter of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

That's going to happen in Sedona, at the Sedona College. Many friends have been telling me they are getting ready to go. So, yeah, if you are interested, they usually are super, super fun live there in the room.

But of course, you're going to be able to join online as well. But if you can come live, it's wonderful. I always have so much fun when it's live.

So next picture, please. Yes, and just to remind you that next Saturday, we're going to have the interview with Rachel Webb, one of the co-directors of the Three Jewels about their now worldly famous meditation teacher train.

[Говорящий 2]
Those are basically the news for today.

[Говорящий 1]
But we have a special interview of a very, very cool project, DSEU, the new university that it's already having their second anniversary.

[Говорящий 2]
And for that, just before they. Yeah, well, it's OK.

[Говорящий 1]
But before the pictures, I was about to invite Edmond that today is here with us to have a talk about the very special sessions they are about to have and what's the dynamic it's going to happen. Hello, Edmond. Hi, how are you?

Where are you? Yeah, I'm now in Kyoto. Actually, I have been quite some of a busy tour.

And now we are now preparing for our anniversary events. And of course, as you mentioned before, did everybody know what is our anniversary for our DSEU? It is on September 26.

So please make sure you mark the dates because we will have a great event there on that day. Actually, now it is our second anniversary already. In these two years, there is a lot of things have happened.

We have our MBAs and MBA classes. We buy our own land and we have a lot of international tours. We have classes in Kyoto.

We have some we invite many, many guests because to our students as well. And then because it's quite and such an interesting and important event. So before September 26, actually, we have a range at our students to have sharing for what they have learned in their past almost past two years.

For example, actually, it is a series of live broadcast. We invited four students from each time to share what they have learned. Actually, we have already finished two round.

And this last round will be happened in this Saturday in. Let me show the PVT. And then, yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
And the last our last series of broadcasts will be on September 14th, which will we have for students to share their what have they learned.

[Говорящий 1]
Actually, in our previous students, people are quite excited for for for here. That's right.

[Говорящий 2]
Because it's quite different as compared with some of these courses or any other courses in the organization, because we are talking about how to mix the business together with the Asian classes philosophy. And then students can share what they have learned from, for example, from the professor in the business school and also from Christian Michael for the same class. This is quite interesting topic.

So this is what what we are going to do before the anniversary.

[Говорящий 1]
And, of course, more importantly, on the September 26, we will have our anniversary event on today for two days. The first day will be September 26. And then the second one will be September 27, Arizona time.

And, and by in doing this anniversary event, we will have our special lectures. And then also we will have some open classes, this open classes are actually real EMB and MBA classes by Christian Michael and also Xiaoping will also give a speech as well. Of course, we will, as the last time when we visit St. Donna, we will also have a big party and big ceremonies. So to make sure that here are the QR code we have. If you are in China, you can scan the WeChat. We will announce the latest news, how you enroll the events in the WeChat group to make sure you get the latest news.

If you are using Telegram, you said you can scan the next QR code. Yeah. Very well.

I have a question about September 14. Yeah. Well, first I have another question.

Is that soon? You say you are in Kyoto right now. Yeah.

But if I'm correct, you will be coming to United States soon? Yeah, yeah. Actually, our team will be coming to St. Donna on September 16. And then, of course, there are many for the preparation of our anniversary event because we are going to organize.

[Говорящий 2]
We have our students will have classes in St. Donna, and then follow after that we will go to Princeton and also New York.

[Говорящий 1]
There was a very long trip and there will be a very interesting trip because we will visit the school and also the place that Gertrude Michael has studied and also have their diamond business. Yeah, that sounds wonderful. Wonderful trip.

And hopefully if everything goes well, I will have the fortune to see you there in St. Donna. Definitely. The other question is, so on the 14th, it's going to be a presentation run by many of the students.

They are going to be sharing what they have learned in these two years of training, correct? Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, it's correct.

Actually, when we have a debriefing preparation, I have asked the student to pick up what they learned most. What is the most valuable thing they he or she learned in the past two years? So all of the contents are very condensed and very useful.

I believe it will be very interesting for the audience as well. Yes, I believe so, too. And I have the I have had the great fortune of attending a few of the classes, especially in Kyoto.

And I think the content is really, really amazing. And I'm so happy to hear this time. People is welcome to join this session.

So I think it's really, really worth it. Can we show the QR code one more time? And if you have the chance, really try to come because the content is amazing.

It's really it's really deep and it's very practical both at the same time. So that's going to be on September 14. And then on September, it depends where you are.

If you are in in Asia, I think it's September 26. But because of the time, if you are the other way around, sorry, if you are in Arizona, it's the 26th. If you are in Asia, it's the 27th.

Oh, by the way, we have some friends who who have birthdays on those days. I think it's Jack birthday or Nikola's birthday.

[Говорящий 2]
Wow. Yeah. Anyways, that's going to be fun.

So it's happening there.

[Говорящий 1]
But, yeah, OK. And these classes, my question is, these classes are going to be taught by Geshe Michael, Xiao Xiao Bing and Stanley Chen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Actually, basically there we will have two open classes. One of the topic is about entrepreneurship and innovation. And the other one will be emotional management.

Actually, these two classes are actually the real MBA classes taught by Geshe Michael. I think pure people might curious that because because people heard about Geshe Michael talk about the classes a lot here. He talked about, for example, the DCI a lot.

But if you want to teach here, Geshe Michael to teach the business class, you have to come to the DSU open class. You definitely don't want to miss it. Yeah.

Perfect, perfect. And that sounds very exciting. So if you want to join, is it enough just to follow the QR codes and they can follow the steps to join?

Yeah, we actually we the group, we will share the latest information about the two events. And you will also hear about some latest news about DSU. OK, wonderful, wonderful.

So these are great news. And I'm excited to see the content of the class. Thank you for coming with us today, Edmond.

And hopefully as well. I'll see you there live in Sedona. Yeah, yeah.

See you soon in Sedona. Thank you. Best wishes over there.

Thank you so much. And that's it. So, you know, you can follow the QR code, sign up.

Really, the content of DSU is wonderful. I really strongly recommend it. The little I've been able to to say attend.

Amazing. So that's it for today. And again, if everything goes well, see you again on Saturday.

Now we're going to get ready to go to next class with Mr. Doctor. Real doctor.

[Говорящий 2]
I mean, medicine doctor and also philosophy and other doctorate kind of. Well, I don't know that wordsmith.