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Stanley's text coming up. Got it. We're recording.

Hi, Geshe Michael. Thank you, as always, Geshe Michael. I think, yeah, your sound is not on yet.

I'll do a quick thank you for our amazing tech team, Worldview Productions. You guys are incredible. Francisco and everybody else on the team.

Ale, and you can tell me who else is helping later. Thank you guys so much for everything you do for us. Hi, Geshe Michael.

Good morning. Good morning. Or whatever time.

Are you ready, Nico? I'm ready. Okay, here we go.

Hi, welcome back to Shenzong's Tower. Today, we have Stanley Chen's book. Stanley's been translating a book called Abhidharmakosha, which was written 1,700 years ago.

It records the wisdom that was very popular for 700 years after Gautama lived. For seven centuries, Buddhism got more and more dry. Abhidharmakosha is an encyclopedia in eight chapters.

I spent 12 years on it. I was excited that Stanley foolishly agreed to do a very long commentary by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. That would take 26 years to finish.

We started it and we got through the first book. His first book is in production. We're working on it.

Then we made a big decision to switch to another book, which I rarely, rarely do. It's bad luck to switch horses in the middle of the street. We decided that it would be a really good strategy to move to another famous book with the same half title, which is called Abhidharma Samuccaya.

This is a book that was written by Master Asanga. We'll talk more about it. Sorry, Geshe-la.

They said they cannot hear you. Maybe my computer's sound is off. Can you hear me now?

I can hear you, Geshe-la. I can hear you. It's only the Chinese channel cannot hear somehow.

I can hear you. Can? It's the Chinese audience, then.

Or maybe there's no Chinese translation. Wait a minute, everyone. If you can understand Chinese, you can choose the Chinese channel.

Okay, now it's okay. Okay. All right, sorry.

Okay, so basically, there's two great books on Abhidharma. One is a recording of the Abhidharma popular for 700 years after Buddha lived. That was kind of shaken up by our Indigarjuna, and then started all the Mahayana schools.

There's another Abhidharma, which is called Abhidharma Samuccaya. Abhidharma kosha means the treasure chest of Abhidharma teachings, or the treasure house. And Abhidharma Samuccaya means the collection or the companion of Abhidharma teachings.

And that book, the second Abhidharma book, was written at the same time as the Abhidharma kosha by the brother, the half-brother of the author of the Abhidharma kosha. So you've got two guys writing Abhidharmas. And we've made a decision to switch over to the second Abhidharma text.

And Stanley is going to talk a little bit about that text, and a little bit about our strategy. And here we go. Okay, I'm gonna share my screen.

Okay, you see? Yeah, okay, cool. It's not too big.

You can do this. Okay, okay. The big decision of switching texts is kind of within a bigger background of starting a new project with ALL, the Asian Legacy Library, and other academic institutes in the U.S. And we are still working on it. But basically, in the last 35 years of ALL, we have been inputting a lot of Sanskrit books and West Chinese books. But ever since a few years ago, we started, particularly J.B. John Brady, the director, started to talk about inputting ancient Chinese, which is a big collection of this ancient wisdom. And then a couple of years ago, I think, Geshe-la took us to this place in China.

This is a famous ancient cave in China called Dunhuang. Oh, it's in Dunhuang City. It's called Mo Gao Cave, which is built 11th century, which is like 900 years ago.

And starting from that time, for some unknown reason, people started to put a lot of important items of ancient scriptures, statues, and all these special paintings, even painting on the wall, into this cave. And it's been almost a thousand years. And then it actually survived through many wars and changes of dynasties.

It's probably one of the few collections of ancient Chinese that survived in the last few, last 2,000 years. So it's very, very rare. And then it opened up 100 years ago.

People found a lot of treasures, real treasures, inside. It contains a lot of important items, like ancient books, not only Chinese, but also West Chinese are also there. So I'm going to show you.

There's Hebrew there. Hebrew, yeah. Manchurian is there.

Like all these ancient languages. Uyghur. Uyghur, yeah.

Uyghur languages are there. Yeah. So probably you know the history.

A lot of different countries are very interested. And they send their messenger, ambassador, to this cave. And they used all different ways to steal.

Steal. Yeah, to take them out of China. So right now, most of the items are in England.

And a lot of them are in Russia and France. One third is left. All those leftovers are still in China.

So there has been a trend, like Geshe-la mentioned, that people are trying to, a little bit, maybe return these ancient items to the original countries. And then I'll show you a few pictures. So this is a picture taken 100 years ago.

So that's why it's black and white. When the first English ambassador came, Staines, his name. Yeah, it's called Staines.

So this is the cave in the ancient time. Well, 100 years ago. As you can see, there are a lot of exquisite items inside.

Like thousands of them. You can't even count. Like these paintings are actually on the wall for a thousand years.

People like to do that. When I see this, I was thinking about retreat center in Bamboo Mountain. I keep thinking it's the same.

Yeah. Even the landscape is the same. Yeah, it's because it's the same landscape.

It's Odessa in China. So very similar to Arizona, US. These are the real paintings on the wall.

If you can tell, this is the ceiling of the cave. It's, this is an angle where you look up and you see all the paintings. It's very, very beautiful.

Besides all this arts, there are many, many ancient scriptures, ancient books. Here you can see ancient Chinese and ancient West Chinese there. Like this.

This is actually the Master Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha. Wow. And where we decided to switch from.

It's there. It's chapter two where we actually are right now. Where we used to be.

Where we used to be, yeah. And there are many like this. This is a handwritten inscription.

It's very typical. There's a big difficulty of inputting this ancient Chinese particularly because a lot of them were not printing. It's not woodblock printing.

It's actually handwritten in different fonts. So even nowadays, an expert in this area finds it very, very difficult to identify the words. So that's why not many of, not all of them are input because it's just hard to identify.

Because these fonts, some have a thousand years history. And that's an interesting period of this Dunhuang area, the Mogao Cave. Actually, a lot of Western Chinese used to live there.

So on the left, you can see this painting. It's the ancient Western Chinese costumes they're wearing. So there's a lot of exchange, cultural exchange, language exchange.

There are a lot of translators there doing ancient Chinese and ancient West Chinese. That's why you can see there are many crossovers in this place, which is very interesting to us, particularly to me myself. So the book that we are choosing, the new book, that's an interesting thing that I'm going to negotiate to elaborate.

But the interesting thing is, so we have the, Jason Kappa is kind of the grandfather, the founder of our tradition in the West China. So I think Yashida picked the commentary that we are going to work on. It was written by the main student of Jason Kappa, Gyaosat J, on the left.

So you can tell from this picture. At the same time, there are only two main commentaries left in ancient Chinese on this new subject, Abhidharma Samutraya. One of them, the latest one, which was written 1,300 years ago, was written by the main student of Master Xuanzang.

Whose tower we are in. Yep. Yeah, Xuanzang Tower.

And then on the right, you can tell this is his main student, Kui Ji. So he's already a famous scholar before becoming Xuanzang's student. Very similar to Gyaosat J, who's already famous.

And later he became Jason Kappa's student. So somehow there's a connection between ancient Chinese and West Chinese culture. And then these two streams of tradition are kind of crossing over into each other through this book.

So for me personally, I'll be very interested to learn both tradition and compare the difference and the common places. Yeah. About more details of this book, I'll leave it to Grandpa.

Okay. Okay. I'm gonna show my own screen.

Thank you, Stanley. Okay. Let's see if I can get this.

I don't think you're sharing. I'm sharing it. Yeah.

Here we go. This one, right? Yeah.

Okay, good. Nope, this is the wrong text. Yeah.

Okay. No, sorry, wrong one again. It's correct.

Just have to press this. Okay. Okay, good.

Okay. All right. I'm gonna give you a little bit of background about the book that we chose to translate.

So the Abhidharma Samuccaya was written, as we mentioned, 1700 years ago in India by one of the two great brothers, Arya Sangha. And we got here. First of all, I wanted to talk about the pronunciation of it.

The Sanskrit is spelled CC. You would say Samuch? Samuch.

Chaya. Chaya. Yeah, and in practice, no one will ever say that.

Everybody will say Samuccaya. You know, you can't really pronounce two chas in a row. Samuch.

Chaya. It's a cha. It's like a cha-cha.

And so the Sanskrit spelling in transcription is CC. But the pronunciation in English is CH. And this is something that, you know, Western scholars have a lot of trouble.

They mix them up everywhere. Everybody. And either you should write the Sanskrit, which is CC, or you should write the...

I'm sorry, which is CCH. Long story. Or you should just say CH.

You see what I mean? People confuse them. Scholars confuse them constantly.

On the website, you can see. So I wanted to talk a little bit about this book. First of all, let's call it Samuccaya, okay?

Which is how you pronounce it. It's not how you spell it, okay? And then there's Lumba here in the Tibetan.

Lumba means Abhi, okay? And it means... It has a lot of meanings.

But it means apparent or obvious or something like that, okay? It can also mean reality. And then Kuntu means everything collected together.

Sam, Samucc, Samucc means everything. And then Chaya means collected together. Uchaya means collected together.

The Sam, Uchaya means everything collected together. I like to translate it as a companion. And there's...

So you talk about Lumba Dzu in the second line here, which is Abhidharmakosha. And that's the lower school. That's the lowest school of Buddhism, of the four great schools of India, ancient India.

I'll give $100 to anyone who can describe that school in modern terms. Three counties? In one word.

That's close. Scientist. Scientist, $100, okay?

It is extremely close to science, okay? Extremely close to science. It is science.

And it's the lowest school of Buddhism. And all the other schools say, this guy is so funny. You know, they got it all wrong.

So anyway, Lumba Dzu in Tibetan language means Abhidharma what? Lumba Dzu. Kosha.

Abhidharmakosha. And Lumba Kuntu means Abhidharma Samuccaya. And I thought you might like to know, now that we have about 3 million searchable pages in the Asian Legacy Library, we can search in about two seconds.

The search program we invented in 1987. And it's faster than any program available still. And you can search in a second or less than a second.

And how many times was the Samuccaya mentioned? And then how many times was the Kosha mentioned? And Samuccaya is mentioned 404 times throughout the Western Chinese tradition.

So this is a thousand, over a thousand years. And then the Kosha is mentioned 563 times. With those correct spellings.

So if you're really going to do a statistical search, it's good to check for nicknames, wrong spellings, alternate spellings. But basic spelling, it's very similar. In other words, Stanley's second book is just as important as his first book.

It's quoted just as many times. It was used in the later literature. And here's the name of the commentary that we're going to cover.

Gyaltsabje is the technical spelling of his name. Gyaltsab means the person who is the regent or who took over from the king. So Gyaltsab means a substitute.

And Gyal means king. So Gyaltsab is his nickname. And Gyaltsabje became called Gyaltsabje late, late in Tsongkhapa's life.

For a hundred dollars, what was the famous event in which he became a Gyaltsabje? He threw his hat. Sorry, Rob Haggerty beat you, word.

No, he didn't. Can't just keep doing your same speech. Yeah, Tsongkhapa was dying.

And he took his handed hat and he threw it like a frisbee to Gyaltsabje. And everybody said, oh, okay, he's the next one. And then his monk's name is Dharma Rinchen.

And those are his dates. And this is the technical name of the commentary. Elephant Words on the Essence of the Sea of Higher Knowledge and Explication of the Companion of Higher Knowledge.

It's not one of the five Geshe course books. So a Geshe studies five great books. And we don't have a great book dedicated to the Mainomi school.

It's not one of the five Geshe subjects to study the Mainomi school. And you study it separately. I usually study it when you study Middle Way.

You study Chang'e, which is in How to Interpret the Buddha. And then inside of Chang'e, you study Mainomi school. If there had to be a Mainomi school book, this would be it.

And just for your comparison, Tsongkhapa quotes it eight times in his tiny book called Difficult Points on the Mainomi School. He quotes it almost more than anything else. So it's an important Mainomi book.

There's a lot of Sammichayas, and I thought at the beginning it might be helpful for you guys to meet all the other Sammichayas. Because you'll get confused when you hear Sammichaya. And it's not the only Sammichaya in town.

There's other Sammichayas, and they're quite famous. So when people start talking about Sammichayas, it's good to know some of the other Sammichayas. First one is Numbukundu, Abhidharma Sammichaya.

And here's a typical mixed nuts entry, bibliography entry. There's three Sutra Sammichayas. So what does that mean, Sutra Sammichaya?

They go and they collect quotations from Sutras, like a thousand years later. They take Sutras, and they make a little, you know, I would call it a bathroom reading book. It's like a little book of quotations from the Sutras.

And there's three Sutra Sammichayas, which is a big hassle if you're a translator and you're trying to find the quotation. You should be aware that there are three Sutra Sammichayas. So there's an Abhidharma Sammichaya by Arya Sangha.

And then there's three different Sutra Sammichayas. The first one is by Arya Nagarjuna, writing about 150 years before Arya Sangha. And so when you see someone quote a Sutra Sammichaya, it's good to go check Nagarjuna first.

But I've had this problem. I've been through this suffering of trying to find which Sutra Sammichaya they're talking about. Because there's three.

Then there's two by Atisha, who helped bring Buddhism to Tibet, 980 AD, 1,000 years ago. And he wrote a short one. You can see here, it's only two pages, which is advices collected from Sutra.

And then he wrote a major work of 200 folios, which would be about 2,000 pages in English, where he just quotes Sutras, his favorite Sutras. So that's the real Sutra Sammichaya. So how many Sammichayas we got so far?

We got four. You want to see another one? Shiksha Sammichaya.

And shiksha means trainings. In Tibetan, it's called Lapa. Lapa.

And Lapa Sum, you know, those three extraordinary trainings, for example. So Shantideva. And as I mentioned the other day, I've often been attracted to his other great book.

So he wrote, of course, The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. We're translating it. But he also wrote a major text called Shiksha Sammichaya.

And what turns out that he wrote two of them. So it gets more confusing. He wrote a longer one.

This is a short one, three folios, which is about 25 pages in English. And then the longer one is about 1,600 pages in English. But he wrote this thing called Shiksha Sammichaya, which means the compendium of all the trainings.

How many sammichayas have we got so far? Five or six? Six.

Shantideva has two, yes. Yes. And now here's a really famous last one.

I'm going to lay on you. It says, Samma kuntu pramana sammichaya. Which is the compendium of pramana, teachings on pramana.

Sometimes this is called pramana sutra. Because it's a short book. And it's a mother book.

So not all sutras are written by Buddhists. This is a famous one. By Dignaga.

We studied Dignaga's life at length. We translated his biography. And he wrote this.

It's only 13 pages in the tenure, but that's about 130 pages in English. And that's the mother book of all Buddhist logic and perceptual theory books. It's the mother book of all Adam Andrade's book and Ben Cramer's books.

So there's all the sammichayas. Normally, unfortunately, in another book, they'll say, hey, the sammichaya says... And then you got to figure out which goddamn sammichaya.

Mr. Seven? Yeah. How many we got?

Yeah, seven. Uh, I thought you'd like to see... There's two great commentaries, as Stanley mentioned.

There's two great commentaries in Chinese translation. And in Tibetan, surviving in Tibetan translation. By the way, I think we have the sutra, the Sanskrit of the sammichaya, which is going to make it more fun to work on.

Because we do have most of the Sanskrit chopped out of a bigger commentary. Now, here's a back of bibliography entry. I don't know who made it.

It was in my mother's collection of bibliography entries. And how it got in there, I want an investigation. It's polluted.

And we don't do that in... Okay. Yeah.

Vajra's misspelled. Lumba's misspelled. And it's something that I would not say is misunderstanding.

Anyway, somebody named Jina Putra wrote a... And the pages are misspelled. The page numbers are misspelled.

So I can't tell you how long it is. I'm sorry. Okay.

And there's another commentary. I wanted to... This is kind of sleepy stuff for you guys.

How did the mind-only school come to be? Because it's extremely important. It's extremely, extremely important.

As we mentioned the other day, Tsongkhapa opines that if you understood the mind-only school well, you could practice the secret teachings. Okay. Not great, but okay.

Okay. And so that means it must be a pretty cool school. All right.

And this is just to give you a little background on how the mind-only school developed in India. Okay. And the place of our new book in that tradition.

So... This is a book by a Sangha, our author. And he wrote a famous series called Yogacara Bhumi.

Say, Yogacara? Yogacara Bhumi. Yoga here in Tibetan is Neljor Chodpa.

Neljor Chodpa means... It doesn't mean physical asana practice. It means deep practice.

So I like to translate yoga as deep practice. In the original meaning of the word, in the ancient philosophy, yoga means deep practice. Neljor Chodpa.

And Chodpa means activity. So people who like to spend the day doing deep practice are called Yogacara. And that's another name for the mind-only school.

And so a Sangha wrote a famous series of books called Yogacara Bhumi. Bhumi means... Like Om Bhaja Bhumi Ahu, it means the ground or the levels.

So the levels of yogic activity. It's Yogacara Bhumi. And it's an extremely confusing topic, okay?

Arya Sangha... So try to get this picture. Arya Sangha tries to save a dog on the side of the road, right?

And he tries to lick the maggots off the dog's rotting guts. And because of that act of compassion, he meets Maitreya. And Maitreya takes him up to Maitreya's heaven, Tushita, I guess, and teaches him five great books.

And by the way, those books became half of the Geshe course. He studied the first one for 12 years. Abhisam and Omkara Bhumi.

It's 12 years on 75 pages. And extremely deep. So he learned those five books from Maitreya.

He came back. There was a disconnect. What was it?

He was 50 years. He spent like a week there. Three weeks?

Something like that. Just the morning, sorry. And he came back and 50 years had passed in our world, which means that all his friends were dead.

And he just wandered off to the forest and started teaching a whole new generation. And then you can feel him struggling. I feel him struggling for the rest of his life to express what he learned in that morning.

He's struggling to pass it on in his own words. And that's why he wrote all these texts. And here are the Yogacara Bhumis.

I did a footnote on it for a book that we wrote. And it's a good footnote. And so here's how he wrote it.

Number one, he wrote a sub-book called Many Loves. That should be some more for. Then he wrote another book called The Levels of the Listeners, which is kind of lower school levels.

Then he wrote a third book called The Levels of Bodhisattvas, Bodhisattva Bhumis. Then he wrote a fourth book called The Summary of the Presentation of the Levels of Deep Practice. Then he wrote a fifth book called The Summary of the Collection of Sutras.

Then he wrote a sixth book called Summary of Vow of Morality. Seventh book, A Brief Expedition of the Levels. And an eighth book called The Summary of the Versions of the Levels.

And so it's extremely confusing. And it took me many weeks to figure it out. So he basically, he wrote eight books.

And I think he was struggling to convey these ideas that he had been taught directly from the future Buddha. And I think he had trouble. And I think he kept writing and rewriting and starting over.

I think he had this, I think it was, I feel, I sensed that he was strained to say it in human language. And he spent the rest of his life, I can imagine him ripping up pages and starting over, you know. So anyway, those are the levels of the Bodhisattva.

And from those were born an entire tradition of 2,000 years, almost 2,000 years of the Mind-Only School. So here's how those books are arranged in the tenure. Okay, here's the list of Mind-Only School mother books.

And they start with his attempts to write the levels. So you start with his frustrated attempts to write the books about the levels. And then people studied those and wrote their own books.

Here they are. One is called Mahayana Sangraha. Now I'm following the order of the Mind-Only School books in the ancient collection called the tenure.

So if somebody wanted to document the Mind-Only School, they'd say, well, it all started with these confusing levels, thousands of English pages, maybe tens of thousands by a Sangraha. And then somebody wrote a collection of Mahayana texts. And that's again by a Sangraha.

He wrote a separate book called Mahayana Sangraha. That became the mother book of the Mind-Only School. Then comes what?

These are in order of importance. Abhidhamma Samuccaya. That's Stanley's new book.

Then comes the Samuccaya. And by the way, we calculate eight pages per folio. So if you say it's a 70 folio book, that's 560 pages in English.

Just straight translation, it would be about 600 pages. Add appendices and stuff like that, you're up to 800, 900 pages. And then the next book is Thekpa Chakpa Dube Dube, Commentary on Mahayana Sangraha by Yignan.

Who's Yignan? That's Tervasu Bandhu. Okay, that's the Tibetan.

Basu means the riches of the earth. Basu. And Bandhu means friend.

Okay, so like Geshe, Geshe. Okay, so Yignan wrote that. He wrote a commentary on his brother's book.

Okay, why he was studying his brother's topic is another subject which you've heard about. Now here's a long explanation of the Mahayana Sangraha by somebody named Ngo Nyi Mepa, which means emptiness, Mr. Emptiness. Then there's a very intriguing book.

And I call upon the next generation. And there's an intriguing book called The Secret Meaning. It doesn't sound right.

We don't know who wrote it. And it's incredible. It's really incredible.

And we don't know. No one's ever proved anything. Some people guess it might be Basu Bandhu.

I doubt it. And the ancient Tibetans doubted it. So I'm just saying, if you pick up some more translators in the future, you might want to work on this book.

It's called The Secret Meaning. And it's extraordinary. It's an extraordinary Erlul Manon text.

And it's constantly quoted by Tsongkhapa and other people. It's really a cool start. Then there's another commentary to our book, which is Abhidharma Sangha Chaya, written by Jinaputra, which means son of the prince of the king or something.

And that's the one that Stanley mentioned exists in Chinese. It was translated into Chinese. You have to appreciate that the books translated into Chinese and found in Benhuang were translated at least 500 years before the Tibetans even heard a letter of letters when they were still hurting yaks.

So that in 500 years earlier, you've got people like, what's his name with the tongue? Oh yeah, Kumara Jiva. Kumara Jiva, whose dad was Indian and his mother was Chinese.

And he translated the Diamond Cutter, no, the Heart Sutra. Yeah, like 500 years before any Buddhist book got to Tibet. Then there's an explanation of the Abhidharma Sangha Chaya by another one.

And the Tibetan has two copies of Jinaputra and they're different. Somebody's having a fight with their dog. Then you've got the 30 verses by Vasubandhu, I think.

And that's kind of a mother book of the Maimonides. And I think Word's been working on that for fun. And then you've got the 20 verses, which is again by Vasubandhu.

I think, let's see. And that's all. So the whole Maimonides school comes from the books we're working on.

Okay, and it's an extremely important school. If you want to see emptiness directly, it's very worthwhile to spend time with those books. So we're going deep into one of the mother books of the Maimonides school.

Okay, that's the proposal. We'll finish the Abhidharmakosha in our spare time. Okay, I worked on it for 12 years.

And why I didn't publish it, I started debating after that and I threw it out. Because my mind flipped to a new level. I said, now I understand it.

Okay, all right. All right, Gyaltsabje's commentary. There's an ancient, not ancient, there's a great commentary from Japan that we use called Tohoku.

And it's a university in Japan. Anyway, their copy has 215 folios. And because of John Brady's project, we can count the words in a second.

And we've got, it's going to be about 2000 pages of English. That's Gyaltsabje's commentary. To Nostra Asanga's mother book.

And then the root text, which I have put at the end of this file, I inserted it here. It's fewer pages, but it's canon. And the canon in Tibet was carved bigger letters, because people didn't have eyeglasses.

So there were no such thing as eyeglasses. So the classics at the beginning of Tibetan Buddhism were always carved in huge letters. And you can see them, if you're 80 years old, you can still read them.

So there's more words per page. And if you just say, I'm going to translate this many pages, you're going to get a surprise. What do you call it?

Unpleasant surprise that there's 33% more words per page. It'll take you an extra 12 years or so, if you don't know that. So anyway, combined, because we can count the words directly, it's going to be about 3000 pages.

It's a major, major thing. Now, usually, when you have a Tibetan commentary to an Indian book, the Indian book has poetry, okay, in verse. Like the Abhidharmakosha is poetry.

And you can feel the meter. The Abhidharmakosha is a rare Sanskrit book not written in poetry. Okay, so it's going to be a real challenge to have the mother text, and then the commentary to the mother text.

It's not going to be an exercise of cutting out a poetry verse, and then having the explanation under it. It's going to be one explanation followed by another explanation of the same ideas, and probably much different. And it's going to be a challenge, you know, where to cut the text and where to intersperse them.

It's going to be a real interesting day. Okay, about a 3000-page book. It would take about, I don't know, 15, 20 years to finish this project, okay.

And I know, and I told you that seven years ago, nobody believed me, and it did pay. We finished 10 books, I think, in the first seven years, and those were the short ones, okay. Uh, it's kind of interesting, Jetsun Kappa and Gyaltsabje share a teacher named Rendang, Jetsun Rendang.

And it's sometimes interesting to trace them backwards through Rendang. He was a great Sakyamaster, and he wrote a commentary on this book. So that, if, you know, Stanley's bored in the evenings sometimes, and he doesn't want to watch Netflix, for fun, he could read Rendang's comments on any of the ideas.

And those are going to be kind of the source of Gyaltsabje and Tsongkhapa, because both Gyaltsabje and Tsongkhapa were students of Rendang. Later, Rendang became Tsongkhapa's student, which is extremely unusual. Okay, so there you go.

We did that with the 60 verses. Rendang also taught the 60 verses that Nick just published. 670 hard-won pages.

Each page is many hours of hard work. Okay, and we're ready to start. So everyone give Stanley energy.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I mean, it's really fun and really easy to start a book. And it's many years of hard work and many disappointments, many obstacles.

And so make a prayer now that we all live long enough to study this book and to finish it. And it's kind of our sacred duty to pass it on to the next generation. Somebody babysat this book for 2,000 years, which is about 80 generations, passed it on to the next generation.

And are you going to be the schmuck who doesn't pass it on to the next generation? No, not after 2,000 years, okay? All right, here we go.

Please wait, Stanley. Okay, come, okay. No, come.

Oh, okay. Come closer, closer. And yeah, I'll do that.

You can do it. Yeah, okay, you do that. Pick on somebody.

Okay. choklak choklak Okay. You guys know Lekshay Nyingpo by Tsongkhapa, right?

Lekshay. Eloquent explanation. Okay, Lekpashepa.

Here's Chögyam Trungpa Abhidharma Samachaya. And he does not call his book Abhidharma Samachaya. He calls it Abhidharma Gyatso, the ocean of Abhidharma.

Oh, okay. And he says, I'm going to give the nimble of the gyatso. The essence.

I know it should be the heart of it. Yeah. Shukpa means living in a particular address.

And it's a traditional way to say that wisdom is living in this book. It's a beautiful way to start a book. They always say shukpa.

The wisdom of the essence of the vast ocean of the Abhidharma teachings is living inside my book. And here's the ui chok. And ui means middle, but it can also mean head.

And what he's saying is, here's the first part. I'll give you the first part. I'll give you the head.

Uh, why don't you read one more sentence, and then you can pick on some of these. Okay. I suspect pen is misspelled.

We gotta check. Okay. It might be, but I doubt it.

Okay. I think it's Jensen. I'm not sure.

We have to check the carving. We have a, oh, I gotta say something. This is a bad carving.

The book we have is a bad carving. So Nick, immediately, we have to put in a better carving. Okay.

I'm already looking. We have to find the Tashi Bunbo edition of the Yepsei Shingon, and we have to re-input this text, because this is very corrupt. It was a very corrupt carving.

Jensen, Dampa, Tukje Chembo. I bow down to Jensen means holy ones. Dampa, high ones.

Tukje Chembo. We have a lot of Tukje. Oh, uh, Tukje.

Mahakun. Yeah, great compassion. And then when they shut at their lotus feet, I bow down.

So I bow down to the great ones of compassion, which is interesting, because he's not writing a book on compassion. He's writing a book on emptiness, equanimity, and mindfulness. Somehow he sees it equivalent to compassion.

You want to choose somebody? Stanley's going to have the reading here, and we're going to pick on somebody. Uh, the hero who just came back from Argentina.

Yeah, you want to come up here? I'll sit over there. By the way, we are in 15 minutes, in 10, in 12 minutes, we will do our 15 minute discussion between all of us on what did you hear today that you think you could use for your real life?

You know what? I mean, it's hard when you're introducing a book. But what did you learn today that you could use in your real life?

Okay, we'll do a 15 minute discussion. After that, we'll have a Peachtree World News. And it's sexy today.

They're going to show us some nice video of kids learning with the green stretch pen project in Mexico. We have a congressional order to teach 22 million kids. And you're going to see some of the first videos came out.

And then we'll have a second class, which is called Mixed Nuts Elite. Which means there's a real hard-ass class going on after this. And you're welcome to drop out before the class.

But that's going to be a very deep class with some kind of sugar shoes book, which is written by the half brother of a son. All right, here we go. Tim's going to read.

You can't see. You guys don't know work on it? Good qualities.

Yeah, the Indian means like the spiritual qualities. That's all. Faro means in Sanskrit.

Meaning you cross the ocean from California to Japan. Okay, sun is the past tense of drop. Went.

You went. You have crossed over the ocean of fine qualities, which means you've got all of them. And you are chala of all nyepas, which are chima, which are mala.

You are free from all painful problems. Yeah, you are free of all literally pain of smelling. Vimala's name means the opposite.

So Mala means stinking. Malevolent. Okay, you don't have any of those problems.

You are the shame here. Are there gay ways? Are all draw a friend of all friends?

Are you all living beings? Yeah, and they like to they like to describe it as what kind of spiritual friend? Goodness, deeper, go deeper.

Teacher? Unknown friend. Oh, secret friends.

Yeah, and there's this big theme in Buddhism about people who are watching out for you, that you don't even know about. I did prayers with an imam one day. And he kept going like this.

And then afterwards, I asked him, what are you doing? I'm talking to my guardian angel. And in Islam, when you're born, you're born with an angel, and they follow you your whole life.

It's a beautiful idea. And this is shame in here. Okay, so you guys are the unknown benefactors.

Did you ever watch the millionaire when you're a kid? There's a movie, TV show. Every week they gave a million dollars to somebody.

And it ruined most of their life. But anyway, it's called an unknown friend. So drawing in your I bow down to my mama.

Jamia. Yeah, I've been down to my teacher. Who's writing?

Girls, actually, right? Who's guilty of this teacher? So yeah, and he's comparing some comfort to my teacher.

Yeah. And he bows down to the other Gelson, which is Nipam. Which is the unconquered.

Yeah, which is Maitreya. Unbeatable is a nickname of Maitreya. And why is he called a Gelson?

Because he's the next Buddha. He's the next Buddha. He's number four Buddha in this world.

And he's waiting in his heaven to come. I like to tell people he's a lot closer than you think. But that's a joke.

Okay, I bow down to the holy feet. The holy feet of these two great beings. Okay.

I think Tim's here. By the way, I want to congratulate Tim. He got back from Argentina this morning.

He was part of the multi-country Latin America tour by our great teaching team from Guadalajara, Mexico. They went to Costa Rica and taught. They went to Mexico City and taught.

They went to Colombia and taught. Then they went to Argentina and taught. And Tim just got back this morning.

Thank you. Thank you for doing that. He's fluent in Spanish.

That was his degree in university. But at least you could tell if they weren't translating. Exactly.

Can you? Tim's going to read. Something's missing.

[Говорящий 2]
The meter's off.

[Говорящий 1]
You can feel it. It's not. There's not enough beats.

So the carving is off. We gotta find it. You gotta bug Nick to get an input.

I'm looking. Our ancient book input team is so powerful that they can input a major book in a week. And they type it five times.

Five people type it. And it's compared by the computer. So we have an extraordinary input team.

We just have to say the word, Nick, before we start this next class. Okay. The teachings of the victors, right?

Meaning the Buddha's teachings. Sunra means those highest of words. They are rimchens.

And drum means a treasure chest. Okay. And the word drum means a treasure chest.

And you, you chai the car of that treasure chest. You split open. Yeah, you opened it.

You broke open the treasure chest. With your law. With your mind.

Yeah, which is your mind of incredible wisdom. Kimbo. Okay.

You cracked open the treasure chest of the Buddha's teachings with the crowbar of your mind. Okay, it's very beautiful. And then you took all the uwa means poverty.

Financial poverty of all droas. Of all living beings. And you sow it.

Cleared it away. Yeah, no, you dispelled it. You dispelled the collective poverty of all living creatures in the universe.

By crowbar, you open with your mind. The treasure chest of the Buddha. It's a beautiful thing.

And by the way, and it was moon tenba that you would do that. It was prophesied. Yeah, it was prophesied.

Okay, it was prophesied that you would crowbar open this treasure chest of sutras. And dispel the poverty, the spiritual poverty of the universe. Not bad.

Therefore, may you stay tempo, meaning firm on my took the top of my head. Some people's more available. Who would we like to put on the top of your head?

Oh, yes.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
May you always stay on the top of my head, which means I bow down to you. I put the top of my head on your toes. So it's a polite way to say, I bow myself down to you.

One more verse. And then we made it through the opening verses. By the way, most teachers in the Geshe course skip the opening verses.

And I think it's too wimpy or something. I think this is not beautiful importance. I think we should always, you know, look at Tim's reading.

It's different from Gomba. Yeah. Okay.

What's Gomba mean? To get used to. Yeah, it means get used to.

If you don't aspirate it, Gomba, it means to meditate. Yeah, so you gotta be careful. It's a tricky one.

I wanted to increase my familiarity with the teachings on emptiness, on the ultimate nature. Now he's saying why he wrote this book. Why did Gyaltsen Jew write this book?

So I kind of wanted to get more familiar with emptiness, especially by studying the Maimonides version, which is not the ultimate version. But it enlightens you about the ultimate. And I thought that this book was the tupke chok, the chok of all tups.

The highest of all ways. The highest of methods for selling. Dispelling.

Gupa means hassle. And of Sipa and Shiwa. Clearing away.

Lower Nirvana and, yeah, of Samsara and Lower Nirvana. Lower spiritual achievements. Uh, Nick, we're going to finish these two lines and we'll go straight to them.

I also realized that Arya's book was a good goal for Jupa into the Gatsby. And going into the ocean. A couple of great teachings.

Yeah, and they always talk about this. Like that commentary by Gyaltsen Jew on the Bodhisattva Charvatara. It's called the entryway, right?

Good place to, a good place to enter the ocean. Okay. So, A, I wanted to get more used to emptiness.

B, I was hoping to remove my own samsara. Three, I wanted to get into the ocean of these great books. Therefore, I decided to.

Write, explain. Yeah, but about. I decided to write a commentary on the Bodhisattva Charvatara.

God has future tense. I will.

[Говорящий 2]
I will do that.

[Говорящий 1]
And this is the traditional. Promise. Promise to do the book.

Either you finish or you. Die. And there are books carved in the scriptures that end in the middle of the line.

The person died. It's weird. You reach that point, you're like, you get a.

Like, wow, I died right in that sentence. And so, I don't know if Stanley wants to do that. But.

Traditionally, when you start a new book, you make this promise. And you say, either I'll die or I'll finish it. So, I'm not asking because.

I want you to live a long life. But anyway, it's a commitment. Commits to write a commentary.

Okay. And Stanley, if you could translate ahead. The next three.

Then, next two verses, okay? And two. Two, yeah.

Until this one. This one, yeah. And it's a terrible printing of sun.

I was there when they did it. It was bad. Okay.

I told the guys to throw him off a rooftop. On the third floor building. I actually had him in my hands.

I didn't do it. I shouldn't. Okay.

Stanley, can you make this conversation? Did you hear anything today? That you guys think you could use in your new book?

Right. When you're introducing your books. Yeah.

So, wow. My mind just went blank. So, today we just finished the new book of.

Gasadjay's commentary on Abhidharmasamutraya. Which is one of the main root texts of Mind Only School. And we just finished.

We are in the middle of the first few lines. Where the commentator, Gasadjay, bowed down. For example, he bowed down to not others.

But the one with great compassion. When he decided to write his Abhidharma book. Which is supposed to be about emptiness.

So, maybe there's an interesting relationship between love. And understanding where things are not coming from. So, maybe there's something to think about.

And then, of course, he bowed down to his teacher. So, he's playing the game. Because we all know his teacher is Jason Kappa.

But he said he's bowing down to Manjushri in this prayer. So, that's another point that got my attention. And then he kind of elaborated his purpose of writing this book.

Which has three, I think. One is to get used to, right? To get used to the teaching of emptiness.

By studying Mind Only School. But that's an interesting point. Second thing is he wants to dispel the hassle of the two extremes.

Yeah, samsara and lower nirvana. And then he wants to get into the great ocean of all this bhiktu's teaching. Which are containing all these mixed-up books.

So, for me, I'll start with this. And then, I would love to hear any of you to share your idea. Recently, we just...

Occasionally, I just taught a few great DSU Diamond Silk Entrepreneur University courses. Actually, a foundational course on all the business school alumni. I'm sorry.

All the... It's a foundational course. Which is called The Principle of Business.

For the whole DSU academic system. And then, in that first few classes, Geshe Michael talked about the motivation of doing business. And how it will help you go higher in your business.

And be more successful. If you have a stronger and even larger than yourself motivation. For example, one of the things he taught is.

If we can do business with the motivation that we can contribute. Make our own personal contribution to the common business knowledge. Then it's gonna...

Our business has some deeper meaning. And yeah, collective... Oh, sorry.

Yeah, collective common wisdom of business. And I found it very true. Like when I have problems in my personal life.

In my business. If I can remember why I'm doing that at the very beginning. We always get more gasoline in our body and mind.

Yeah, to conquer problems. And I feel like maybe Geshe Jay know it's gonna be a big project. That he's doing by writing this commentary.

And he will either finish it or die. So he's gonna need a strong motivation. And that's a good reminder for myself.

When we start a new project today. Which is very exciting. Always at the beginning.

And then we all know it comes with a lot of problems and challenges. Particularly when you work on something great. It attracts troublemakers who want to give you problems.

Yeah, that's my take on this. Any one of you want to say something about this? You can just open your mic.

Or you can type it. I can read it. Or our friends here.

Anything inspire you today? How to use this in your daily life?

[Говорящий 2]
I think you can bring this right to the... Basically the same idea. The same concept to relationships.

Especially life partner relationships, right? This is one of the biggest projects that a person can have in their lives. And at the same time, I think that for this very reason.

It's very, very challenging to be with someone that reminds you. What seeds you have been planting all this time. It's very appropriate to say.

Whether you go all the way or you just let it go. Because this huge mirror in front of you. Really will let you know what you have been planting.

So you better be careful.

[Говорящий 1]
Cool. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, relationship is a big project.

Thank you, Brian. Anyone else? Okay.

Rob. For me, it reminded me to... I think oftentimes we're prioritizing our life.

And we're trying to decide what's the most important thing to do. And when we look at the life of like a Sangha and what's happened to him. And the things that he met this sort of divine being.

And was able to live this extraordinary life. It kind of gives me at least some sort of like motivation. To look at my own life.

And look at the framework of that story. And how our life can be just like that. And so it reminds me.

Oh, okay. I'm on the right path. I'm doing the right thing.

I'm in the right place. And so these classes or these courses bring so much value. I think to my life and to what I do.

And so it allows me as I'm listening to this. To really be like, okay, I'm doing the right thing. And so I'm prioritizing my life according to this.

It seemed to have worked out great for other people. And really there's so many examples of the people around us. Especially here.

That are doing the same thing. So it kind of like gives you this built up. I think what Stanley is saying.

This energy or gasoline tank is being filled. To give us even more strength to sort of keep going. And trucking along our path basically.

Yeah, that reminds me of what Geshe-la just said. He said he felt that Asanga has been struggling to teach the humans. After he came back from Tushita with Maitreya.

And that's why he wrote so many books. Geshe-la, do you want to... Oops, sorry.

I do want to ask you. I'm allergic to hard work, I think.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
How do you feel about like if there was a person. Who are like higher than the rest of the people around him. And he was trying to teach them.

How does this situation feel like to you? Recently, I was working on Kamala Shiva's books. And as you know, he wrote 1300 years ago.

He wrote three books called Bhagavad Gita, which is... Sorry. Thank you.

The stages of... Meditation. Meditations.

It's Juniper Steven and Siddhartha, I'm sorry. And I always wondered why he wrote three different books with the same name. And there's, you know, I haven't done a deep study.

I taught two of them. But they're different. They have different emphasis.

But they teach that the system of meditation taught in those three books is the system of meditation followed in Central Asia for the last 1000 years. Everybody uses the same meditation techniques. And I think it's amazing that he taught it.

He wrote three different books with the same name. And then if you study his life, he taught in, I guess you could say Central China. He taught in West China.

And he taught in India. And I think he had to make three different versions of the book for three different audiences. And so I get sensitive about the idea of...

I think Asanga, almost 2000 years ago, had the same challenge that he was trying to... It's an incredible idea. Like, if you had met a perfect being and hung out with them and learned what they had to say, and then you came back to this world, how would you teach people?

And I think you would teach in different styles and in different ways. So I think there's this... With the Bodhisattva novel series of books, seven, eight different books, I think you've got this Kamalashina type of thing where he's struggling to make a presentation that will fit everybody.

And I think as a student in Shenzhen Tower class, we have the same challenge with the people we know. So we take these incredible classes and then you meet your family members or your neighbors. Today, I was talking to my neighbor.

Like, which version am I going to teach my neighbor? And which version am I going to teach my friends? And I think all of us are always faced with the challenge of writing different versions of what we have learned for different levels of people.

And I think that's a big lesson of this opening class. Cool. Thank you.

We have two more minutes. Well, we have one of the most experienced students of Geshe Michael here today. Do you want to say something about this topic?

No? Okay. She said no comment.

What I noticed is that it seems to me, my experience in the past few classes is that there's this repeating message about studying emptiness from the point of view of the mind-only school and how important it is to understanding the highest school's presentation of emptiness. So I'm taking that as a, I don't know, flashing neon sign now. Cool.

Thank you. Yeah. I, in the future, I would love to like, we have one minute.

I'll just wrap it up. Yeah, I learned an interesting history about Master Xuanzang when he went to Nandan University in India. Because at that time, there was a big debate between middle way and mind-only in that particular school where he was studying.

And then it got really bad. People were like kind of angry at each other from two different schools. The funny thing is he actually wrote a Sanskrit book called Bringing Together the Middle Way and Mind-Only.

Yeah, he did. But we didn't have any record of it. It's lost, it's lost.

Yeah, it was written in Sanskrit. But I would love to see, by studying his main students' work on this project with the Chinese version, Kui Ji's commentary and comparing Gao Xiaojie's commentary, because one kind of represent mind-only, one represent middle way. I want to see if there's something that I can learn about how you can bring these two schools together.

Maybe we can learn something deeper about emptiness and why Gautama taught a different version of emptiness at the very beginning, yeah. Cool. Now, can I bring it here?

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
I mean, if you can find them. I saw it. I saw it also.

Yeah. Yeah, now it's the famous news time by the P3 World News. These guys are going to tell us what's happening in our worldview network around the world.

And they just give you some little highlights of what people are working on for the next 10, 15 minutes. So we have about 200,000 people around the world. And they're all doing something different.

And every week, we get to hear a short news show about what they're up to. Yay, hustle. Go for it.

Hello, everyone. Good to see you.

[Говорящий 2]
Very cool that you're starting a book, Stanley. So today, we are actually talking about, again, some very cool news that we hear last Saturday. As you may have heard before, in Mexico, we have a special team, Anatole, Aisha, and Kiri, and other people helping them as well.

[Говорящий 1]
With this project called Green Stretch Pen. It got its name because the project mainly focuses on healthy eating, physical exercises, and understanding the pen. So that's why Green Stretch Pen.

And they are going very big into public schools in Mexico. They are right now helping a lot of children, a lot of teachers, physical education teachers, and other kind of teachers. Even sometimes they have trained some of the police members of different places in Mexico.

And that's very, very cool. Just this morning, they sent us one of a very cool video of something happening in the schools in Tabasco. And we want to share it with you before we actually have a small talk with Anatole and Aisha.

They are somewhere here. But before going with them, let's see this video. Just one, I'll share the video with you.

I'm going to share my screen, I guess. One second, share screen. Can I get, yes, share sound here.

Check it out. It has English subtitles and everything. It's in Spanish, but you will be able to see what's happening.

Okay, ready? One, two, three. Can you hear?

Hazo, we can't hear you. I know, and I wonder why. Wait, let me try again.

So... Share it at the very bottom, little thing to click that says share sound. But I actually, something happened, and I'm seeing the chat, and the chat doesn't let me see the screen up here.

Okay, share screen. And then I click and share sound. It should be sharing sound.

The little speaker has a line through it, so click the speaker. Okay, can you hear?

[Говорящий 2]
Okay, there you go. That's happening in Tabasco. That's actually very, very cool.

Thank you very much for doing this. I think it's really having great impact in Mexico and in the world.

[Говорящий 1]
And we have Anatole and Aisha here with us. Can you give them a spotlight, please? We are.

We're under ANA. Nice. Can you see them?

Okay, great. ANA? Perfect.

How are you guys? Great, good to see you. Come over.

Good to see you as well. We live in, these days, we live in the same city.

[Говорящий 2]
So can you tell us a little bit of what's next for Green Stretch Pen? And you must be so happy I can see your faces. I really think what you're doing is amazing.

So what's next for you? What's going to happen?

[Говорящий 1]
Oh. Well, this weekend, we're doing Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the park. There's a major, every weekend they have a major event.

The government closes the streets of a whole area of the city. And he calls it the Via Recreativa. So people get out of the house and get together and do community activity.

And they're not always online and go do some exercise. So we've been sharing some yoga classes in this Via Recreativa, in this program with the government. And this Sunday is a special day to invite ladies to do some yoga with us, do some exercise and drink some green smoothies in a beautiful park, in a stadium, in a little, how do you call it?

A photo? It's like a little stage. It's like a beautiful stage in a park.

And you were just talking that the lady who's in the video, she's one of the, how do you say, local, regional coordinators in schools.

[Говорящий 2]
And she's going to be in charge of kind of distributing this content to many different schools in Tabasco, right?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, so she's one of our teachers that we trained in 2020, just before the pandemic started. And she then started teaching Green Stretch Pen in her school. And now the government has promoted her to a new position.

They made up a new position to take, it's called GSP Tabasco. And they want her to go to different schools and start the Green Fridays program in different schools. So she, because of her, we were able to train 500 teachers because of her example, that they wanted it in another whole bunch of schools.

And now she's going to go around and really get those programs going. So in that video, she's actually has trained some staff of her school to start teaching the kids. So she's not the one talking, it's actually some of her team.

She's the one making the video.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, that's awesome. And these are all... Sorry, what they're saying?

You can see this is about over 10 different schools that are doing the program. And so each school has about between 200, I would say 500 kids. So this is the results from the first 10 schools that received the blender from us.

Some of these schools that you see here are new schools that started with the GSP program.

[Говорящий 2]
And they are working with the indigenous communities. So they even speak in old ancient indigenous languages, not even Spanish.

[Говорящий 1]
That's very, very interesting.

[Говорящий 2]
And I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, Mexico starts winning all the gold medals in the Olympics. We'll see. We'll see.

Hey, thank you very much for what you're doing. This is just a short segment. We will have you soon in the longer programs we have once a month.

[Говорящий 1]
But for now, we also have another special guest. I send you best regards. Oh, well, you already left.

But, you know, I send you best regards. And our next special guest is Segui Arau, because he and Nur Ibrahim, they are doing a very good project you may have heard before. It's the Rumi Peacock Parenting Project.

We have them a few, maybe two weeks ago.

[Говорящий 2]
And it was very, very interesting to me how they are using these deep philosophy concepts to be applying very modern and daily life situations. Very important situations as well, like parenting in this case. So, Segui, are you there?

Hey, Hazel. How are you? Good to see you.

It's a pleasure to see you too. He's another person from Guadalajara.

[Говорящий 1]
Good to see you. It's very cool to see all the work that GreenStretchPen is doing. It's really, really cool.

Yeah, I was also very happy and surprised to see the video this morning. So, Antelos, now, I guess this wasn't planned, but today the topic has been revolving around children and kids. First with GreenStretchPen and now with this parenting project.

[Говорящий 2]
And now I know you guys have been filming some materials. So, I was hoping if you could share with us a little bit of the content that you've been talking about and where do you see this project going?

[Говорящий 1]
What's your goal with it? Cool. Yeah, it'd be my pleasure.

Let me just remember to speak slowly. So, there's two things I wanted to talk about. In general, what is it that we want to accomplish with this particular course?

So, the first thing in general, we're developing a series of mini-courses that are shorter and somewhat easier to be done by new people. So, one of the challenges that we're facing is, at least in DCI, we have a captive audience of, we estimate about 160,000 people. And they love our material, but even in DCI, new people find it hard to understand all the content.

So, we're developing, in general, these shorter courses that are easier to understand for the everyday people. The specific purpose of this one in particular, right now, we're doing parenting courses. This would be the third course that we're doing.

The first one we recorded already. And I think you talked with Nora about these two first courses. The third course is one that I particularly like.

It's, we're going to talk about balance, you know. And I'll give you the different topics that we're going to talk about. For example, one of the topics that Geshe Michael will talk about is how to find a balance between different roles that you might have.

You know, the role that you have in your family, the role that you have in your business, with your partner, in your society, with friends, and in your own personal development. And how to use your time wisely, because we all have, we all wear different hats during the day. So, this is one of the topics that Geshe Michael will talk about.

Nora will talk about, I'm ready to do class by class. Second, third class would be talking about harmonious problem solving. How to try to find, I think we talked about it in Mixed Nuts, I think last time, finding the third option, win-win situations.

Other topics, how to raise compassionate kids, dealing with disagreements while being parents. After that, we jump back to Geshe Michael. How to have an agile state of mind to multitask in all these different roles.

We put this topic for Geshe Michael, because I think he's one of the masters of how to do this, right? He's always, I don't know if you guys have seen his calendar, but he's jumping from one project to the other every, I don't know, half hour or something. So, we ask him to teach us about that.

That's awesome, Siri. Sorry, when is this material going to be available? Oh, yeah.

We first need to, because we're launching it through DCI, we have to have a meeting with our organizers, which will happen in two weeks. And we're going to start releasing them beginning next year. Right now, we plan to have it as an always-on content, as opposed to the normal DCI levels.

And the whole idea is that with courses like this, we create a funnel that will bring people to our organizers.

[Говорящий 2]
That's very cool. I really think the project is going to be very interesting. So, I'm excited to hear more soon.

We will invite you again, again, Juan and Nur, very soon, sometime to keep hearing about it while the content is ready. And it's a pleasure to see you.

[Говорящий 1]
Same here.

[Говорящий 2]
Come to visit the Guadalajara sometime. Or probably I'll go there first. I'll see you there.

[Говорящий 1]
For sure.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you very much. And that was it for today. Yeah, time went very fast, but we will talk again soon.

So, we go back to you, Geshe Michael, and...