Стэнли Чен — Книга 2: Красноречивые слова о сути океана высшего знания (Гьялцаб Чже о «Своде высшего знания» — Абхидхарма-самуччае), занятие 3

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Good morning, good evening, enjoy the show, we'll talk at the end, and we'll have live discussion about concepts from today's class. I do homework? Go ahead, you can take it away.

I hope so. Thank you. I saw you.

Oh, right, right. In the morning. One of the last weeks.

I was happy. I didn't lie. I said I went to do homework.

Okay, Marina, can you see my homework? Yes. Okay.

Yes. Okay. All right.

So, if you're allergic to Avidyarman, what's it called? Did we just stop the video? They may want to hear an introduction from you, Ben, or something.

Oh, well, wonderful. Okay. Hopefully, we're standing by and ready to go.

Welcome, everybody. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are in the world. We're excited to have you with us today, and I don't have a lot to say now.

We'll talk more later. We're going to follow class closely together. We're all going to learn, take notes, do our best to absorb information, and then we'll come together at the end, as we always do, and chat a little bit, talk a little bit about some ideas that we've picked up that we can apply in our own daily lives.

We're going to touch base briefly. We are starting the good night book vlog. Oh, is that right?

We're starting the good night book club, and a program to support the Mixed Nuts, but remember, this program is always free, and we're glad you're here. Always come free. We'll talk about it more soon, Utpala.

People asking about the good night book club, we'll talk about it more soon. It's a program to encourage you to put your electronic devices away at night, and support the Mixed Nuts all rolled up into one great achievement, but we'll go into it in some detail later, and more detail Monday. We just have a little bit of a sneak preview, maybe, coming up, and of course, we'll have our regular discussion at the end of this class about application in our lives.

I know it's terrifying, right, Utpala, putting our electronic devices away at night. We need to be protected from them. Anyway, we'll talk about it.

I'm glad everybody's here. Let's start that class, if we can. We had about 10 minutes this morning of trying to get things together before the actual class started, so it may be that Gene is trying to find the beginning.

We have a fully edited, tidy one-hour version prepared this time. Wow, that's great. You like the heavy leaning on the phrase this time?

Yes. Yes. Going fully what you meant with your Mayangak.

I don't know how to pronounce your name, I'm sorry. It's Eugene or Evgeny is going to start the... It seems like Marina's on the phone buying and selling stocks right now, and as soon as this trade order goes through, our video will begin.

Wonderful. Here we are. That was fast.

Okay, enjoy. I will enjoy with you. It's new to me, too.

I'll be enjoying alongside with you. I'm excited as you are. Hi, everybody.

For those of you eagerly awaiting class, I think Keshe Michael will be here any second. Oh, this is the wrong version. I believe this is the version that does have an extra six minutes at the beginning, as opposed to the version that we carefully edited, which was the first one that Evgeny started.

I think that's two rooms. Well, one's with one person. Yes.

Actually, there are theoretically more people coming. I don't know where it is. So we may have a worst case scenario of a few minutes of listening to our friends enjoy each other.

Oh, of how to get here? Okay. That's probably as good as it could be.

I'm so glad to be here. Sorry, I missed the meditation. I slept all the way through it.

Yeah, great. The other video. That's Kathy and Son.

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Okay.

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Oh, that's nice. Hi, Jigme. Hi, Jimzen.

How about a minute? Hi, man. It's about six minutes in.

Oh, maybe it's more like 12 actually. We started at roughly 10 minutes after the hour. You're muted, Mr. Nick. People in the past can rarely hear us. Yes. Yes.

That wasn't the me of earlier. That's okay. Oh, that's adorable.

Oh. Hi, everybody. Maybe you did hear me.

We're here live from sharing the connection. Everybody here is really quiet. It's like a tea ceremony.

They were giggling indeed. I see Gibson back there. Look at him.

So handsome. Thank you. I said, I see Gibson back there.

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I am handsome.

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Look at this. Peter lent me a suit. My airline lost my luggage.

I can hear myself. Oh, this is getting creepy. Can I do my homework?

I hope so. I'll write it in the morning. I didn't lie.

I said I went to do homework. We don't know if you did. Okay.

Marina, can you see my homework? Yes. Yes.

Okay. I see. Okay.

All right. What's it called? I don't know.

First question. Okay. First question.

What's the difference between Abhi? Achi. Oh.

I see. That's right. So the name of the root text we are translating is called Abhidharma Samuccaya, but you can spell Samuccaya in two different ways.

And apparently Abhidharma too. Abhidharma. Abhidharma.

What happened? It must be the breakfast. It's a really terrible homework.

So you can spell Samuccaya as C-C-A, cha. Yeah. Or you can spell Samuccaya as C-H-A.

Yeah. What's the difference? What is pronunciation and what is transcription of the Sanskrit?

Right. Right. Right.

I got it wrong last time. And if you're a Western scholar, you mix them. Okay.

Okay. Stanley must be a Western scholar. It's a good website.

And they do, we even gave them a donation. They do good biographies of teachers and they mix everything. And it's really confusing.

So does BBS. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Question number two. Can you tell me any useful detail about how Arya Asanga was predicted?

Oh my God. What happened? You're not sucking your hair.

You're sucking roughly. We were distracted this morning, obviously. I'm a little bit worried that we're sneezing.

That's embarrassing. How Arya Asanga was predicted by Lord Buddha 2,500 years ago. Any useful detail?

In a sutra? And his name will be unstoppable? Is that what you mean?

Yeah. It did mention his name. Yeah.

Asanga. Yes. Yeah.

In a sutra or in a tantra? Oh, that was in a tantra. Yeah.

Which tantra? The root secret book of Manjushri. Yeah.

Anything else? He has a relationship with a special lady. Oh, yes.

The lady messenger who comes from the forest of Shala. Yeah. And he achieved something.

He could divide this from that. He described what it is. Yeah.

Okay. Basically. Yes.

What else? Yeah. And he will.

He becomes an innovator of a new traditional tradition. Whoa. I don't.

Did he mention that in the prediction? Maybe from the Bible. Okay, cool.

Yeah. He lived to be 150 years old. Oh, yes.

Yeah. And he'll spend time in Samsara, but there will be nice rebirths. He'll have unusual happiness.

And he will reach highest enlightenment. Yes. Did we mention it's a good thing that you're here?

I'm sorry? Did we mention that it's a really good thing that you're here? Otherwise, we would have come in.

All right. Let's keep on moving. What's the literal and deeper meaning of the name of the book?

Abidama. Abidama. Abidama.

Abidama Samuchaya. Yes. So let's start with the literal meaning.

What's Abidama? Higher knowledge. Higher knowledge.

Yeah. What's Samuchaya? It's the compendium.

Compendium. Yes. I have a new insight into that.

You want? I think it's in my answer. I think.

Oh, okay. But if you want to. Go ahead.

I don't know. Maybe it's not. Well, let's see.

It'll come in your reading time. Oh, okay. So what's the deeper meaning of this?

That we're the collection of higher knowledge ourselves. Wow. The ultimate Abidama meaning is stainless wisdom.

Which is. Yeah. Touching the diamond world.

Which is. Recording in progress. What's Samuchaya?

Is there a deeper meaning of Samuchaya? You're supposed to collect everything in this book. That's the literal meaning.

Right.

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Yeah.

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You study all these things. All those understandings will collect in your mind. Yeah.

And then you become. A Samuchaya. Yeah.

You are Abidama. Yeah. Cool.

Oh, that's cool. You said you have a. Let's let it come.

It's going to come in your class. Oh, okay. Okay.

What's Lungtenpa? Prophecy. Right.

Addiction, prophecy. Lungtenpa. Supreme.

Yeah. Like Abidama is the ultimate wisdom. Oh, no.

Oh, yeah. The ultimate wisdom, right? Yeah.

The truth. Okay. Translator.

Translator. I think you put an extra T in this. No, he did it correctly, which is unusual.

I thought. No, it's correct. But it needs a space somewhere.

No, it doesn't. It's a Tsa and a Tsa. A stack.

It's a stack. Lutsawa. Lutsawa.

Sorry. And there's many, many misspellings. He did it correctly.

Wait. Yeah. Or it might have an Asa.

Shouldn't it be B-L-O space T-Z-V-A space?

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No.

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That's a different word. This is Sanskrit. Oh.

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Yeah.

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Well. Yeah. I don't think it has a long name.

Let's see. Oh, translator.

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Please.

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Simbalasam. The third section of three verbs. Presentation by a text.

Shabadang. Yenagyepa shepa. Nice.

Okay. And a presentation summary. And there's a mistake in the Tibetan input.

The T-A should be T-E. Oh. T-E.

T-E. T-E. Okay.

We had a bad woodblock for the first entry, and then we removed the old input and we put new input in. So this is a better one. This one's from a different place.

Dambalashi. The first has four parts and so forth. Kenya discussions.

Normally you'd say own colon. Two dots like this. After own.

Oh. When you start a list.

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In English. Yeah, there you go.

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Own. The beginning of discussion. Okay.

Recognize the essence of some donkey. This ngosong has two meanings.

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What is that?

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Identify. Yeah, so here it's identifying. Instead of recognizing.

Identifying. Identifying the essence of ngosong. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Okay, good.

And the foundation to the point of view. Okay. That's okay.

Good. Yeah. So then that last recognizing should be identifying.

Yeah, identifying the summary. Is it odd that he repeated it like that? Like two parts of the four parts?

What's the difference? That's the difference between two and four. One has an essence.

Yeah. Yeah. So he's going to identify just the core of the summary.

And then he's going to identify the whole summary. That's a good question. Could you read it?

I'll start from the next paragraph.

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Yeah.

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Go. All right. Thank you, Nick.

That's it. Oh, yay. All right.

Grandpa gets to go. Okay. Okay.

Are we in the right place? Oh, I wanted to say something about the bambos. We didn't quite, I mean, I mentioned it last time, but I didn't clarify it.

So, like in the Heart Sutra, when you read the Heart Sutra, suddenly there's a little line that says, BAM PO DANG PO, BAM PO NYID PA. And that is the byte count. And I mentioned that when we started BDRC, we always, in the catalog, we always put the byte count of the text, which is extremely precise.

If you change one letter in the whole book, the byte count will change. So, we used to use it as a double-check that someone didn't mess with the data. It's possible, because everything's online.

It is now possible, for example, to... What do you call it? Corrupt?

What do you do when a government doesn't like something they censor? It's possible to censor a name, for example, in a million books, in about 10 seconds. You see what I mean?

You can teach a robot to go take out this name and replace it with another name, across the internet. So, we try to store the data off the internet. We try to store it in hard disk, we try to store it in physical media, like CD-ROM or something, because it is possible.

If someone didn't like somebody and they wanted to take their name out and just pretend they never existed, you could teach a robot to do it in all of our data in a few seconds. So, we are careful to keep the byte... We should be keeping the byte counts more carefully, and then you know something happened.

So, there's an ancient byte count called Bumble, and this was meant to prevent people from adding stuff to books and taking stuff out of books. And that was a problem throughout history in Asia, or any country. Like in the Christian wars, with the different Christian groups fighting, they would have different versions of the Bible and things like that.

So, byte count, Bumble is a byte count. And it's... What do you call it?

It's arbitrary. It's just a certain number of syllables. And I was curious because I've never had enough data to check.

There's five Bumbles in this book. It's quite long. So, in this particular translation, the root text is very long, and the commentary is very, very long.

And the root text is not particularly repeated in the commentary, which kind of means he's going to have to translate both. Which makes this project 50 years or something. Because they're not the same.

They are two different texts. So, we have in his file, I included the root text, and that's hundreds of pages. After he's done, he's got a hundred pages more to do.

So, I was curious about the Bumble count, because we can count, once we have input, we can easily count the syllables, for example. And I've always been curious what was the count of a Bumble. And I got it here.

Because they split the root text into Bumbles, I was able to check it. And it's interesting. It's around 11,000 per Bumble in the Tibetan.

See, because the root text is in translation from Sanskrit. But the Tibetan came out... There's five Bumbles in the Abhidharma Samuccaya.

Five quantity sections. What do you call it? Arbitrary quantity sections.

And maybe they end in the middle of a sentence, you see? And four of them are in the 11,000s, and one of them is 14,000. So that would indicate, possibly, some kind of corruption of the third section.

And it'd be interesting to go see why. And it also gives you an idea of what's a Bumble. So it's kind of cool.

Because of its input, we can check it easily. 11,000 syllables? Yeah, it has to be syllables.

Which, again, in the Sanskrit, is probably more like 5,000 or something. All right, where are we? Oh, we're done.

You can't see my screen unless you're on Zoom, right? Yeah. Where were we?

Maybe a little higher. Yeah. This two?

You finished this two? Yeah. Okay, good.

So they've been talking about dom, okay? And you should know the word dom. S-D-O-M.

In the monastery, in the Geshe course, dom means a what? Summary? It's a summary in verse.

It's usually in verse. And it's in verse because... It's easier to memorize.

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Easier to memorize.

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There's a lot of doms in the Geshe course for two subjects, and that's vinaya and pramana, because... Because the young people have to memorize all that stuff? You should memorize all five great books, but two of them are huge.

So we use a dom. And you're approved to use a dom. And the vinaya sutra is too long, and the pramana vrata is way too long.

The Abhisamavankara takes 45 minutes. I memorized it. The Abhidharmakosha takes about an hour and a half.

I did four chapters. And then I didn't try more than that. So this dom means you've got something to quote when you need to be in a debate.

If you can't quote the root text, it's cool. So dom means that. And Sangha puts a dom at the beginning of his book.

And his dom means... I'm going to summarize all the topics of my book, Abhidharma Samuccaya. And samuccaya means kunle tupa, means compendium or compiled.

And what's sexy in this next section is they start using the word kunle tupa as a section in the dom. You see? So the compendium starts to mean...

It changes the whole flavor of the book. The book is a compilation of five topics. And the word samuccaya is topic.

You see? So samuccaya doesn't mean a compendium of stuff. It means it's five kuntus.

The book is five compendiums. Compendia? It's weird.

The book, the whole samuccaya is five samuccayas. And that's the cool thing. I just suddenly figured it out.

It's a kunle tupa, means collected from everywhere. But there's five kuntus. And he calls them kuntus.

The whole book is called kuntu, but it has five kuntus. Okay? And that's the compilation.

It's five topics, or five great subjects. And the book is huge. The book is massive.

So it's really a compendium of five compendia. Okay, it's very interesting to me. Sumbalasam.

So now he's going to say... Yeah, here we go. You want to read it on your...

you want to share? I can, I can. Okay, Damboni, please read.

I'm going to read for a while, and then we'll embarrass somebody else. Okay. Damboni.

Let me make it bigger. neng lang ngo dupe dung luk lam shak ni ndi yin shed leng lang bao leng lang ngo, yeah. ngao Yeah.

leng lang ngao Yeah, so at the beginning of Asanga's book, he gives a couple of verses of poetry, which gives all the kuntus. You see, now you have to say, which gives all the samuccayas. It gives the five topics.

And that's the dong. So the summary is a summary of the five sections. And the word for section is samuccaya.

It's interesting. The book is really a collection of five samuccayas. And to me it's really sexy.

So, Damboni, chung ngunpay do. The sutras on Abhidharma. And there are, what, five or seven great Abhidharma mother books from ancient times.

chung ngunpay do is on de gong rel. And what's a gong rel? A true meaning.

Commentary on the true meaning of them. Okay. Sa de nga.

The five vast... The five companion? Are contained within these five kuntus, right?

It's the five level books. Oh. It's the five level books.

And Arya Sangha, without my child's help, wrote five books that are called levels, like nyel chok chupay sa, yoga chara... What do you say? Yoga chara bhumi.

It's bhumi. Sa is bhumi. So, Asanga wrote a huge collection of texts.

It's actually seven compiled into five. And those were called the bhumi texts, meaning the levels, like bodhisattva levels are called bhumis. And he wrote the listeners' bhumis.

How do you say? Shravaka bhumi. He wrote the...

Bodhisattva. Yoga chara bhumi. And then he wrote several other bhumis.

So he says the five bhumi books. And there's more than five, but some of the mores are collected into the five. Sa de nga.

And I figured it out once, and if you want to see it sometime, I'll show you. It's in somebody's footnotes. You want to see it?

Let's do it. So we did a cool thing, which I told you guys. We took the footnotes of everybody's books that we finished.

We finished 3,000 pages of books. We took all the footnotes, which is all the research we figured out for all the books, and we compiled them into one file. And Venerable Utpala keeps it up to date.

So I'll show you how I get to that file. And I remember making a footnote on this question, so we don't have to do it all over again. So in theory, we should go faster and faster.

Okay, so here's where I keep my stuff. And for me, it's in here. Transcendent Program.

And I'll go to footnotes. Collated footnotes. Okay.

And here. So this is hundreds of footnotes that we've done. And we could look up Bhumi.

Okay, unless it's... Oh. You might have to...

Sorry, we don't see that. You have to re-share.

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Oh, okay.

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Stop sharing. And re-share. Yeah, here we go.

This is not... This is a reference to one of them, but not all of them. Okay, so I'm going to keep going.

Here they are. Here's the summary. You see the 1A, 1B, all that?

Yeah. So there's really... There's five level books, Bhumi books, by Master Sangha.

But some of them have multiple parts. So one is called the many levels. One is called the levels of the listeners.

One is called the levels of the bodhisattvas. Bodhisattva Bhumi. One is called the levels of deep practice.

Nel-dro-chupe-tsang. Yogacara Bhumi. And one is called Vinaya Bhumi.

And one is called Dubey Bhumi. So there's five, but really I think there's eight, right? Eight books, yeah.

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That's in the first class. Eight books of books.

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We talked about it, yeah. So that's what he's referring to. Now I've got to go back, stop sharing.

But what's cool about this whole project is we don't have to repeat... The research. We don't have to repeat the research.

If we keep good track of it. If we don't keep good track of it. Or if somebody allows corruptions of grandpas.

Okay, let's not share screen. Yeah, go to here. Okay.

Here. Okay. DANG PO NI CHEN NGUN PA'I MDO DANG DE GONG DRO SA DE NGA So there's the Abhidharma, original Abhidharma teachings by Lord Buddha, which he calls here Sutra of Abhidharma.

There's a rumor that there is a sutra, and it's missing. There's a very famous rumored Abhidharma book. And it's a Mahayana Abhidharma sutra.

That's what I heard. I'm going to hear about that. But there is one, and there's a long story about it.

GONG DRO SA DE NGA and the five boomy books, the five level books, LA SOGS PA BDUN BRTEN CHOS DI BYAS PA BYAS PA The meaning of that mother sutra work and the commentaries on it by Asanga and other people is covered by this shastra, by this commentary. Asanga's Abhidharma Samuccaya covers the meaning of all those books. BYAS PA YIN LA DI DUN DOR DUG PA'I DONG And there's a DONG which DOR DUG has the meaning.

A verse summary which abbreviates that word. Yeah, there's a summary of the whole thing. DONG LU NAM ZHAG means it sets forth the whole body of the book, which is hundreds and hundreds of pages, which would be useful, right?

DI YIN ZHES LENG LANG NGO LENG LANG NGO means somebody comes and says, hey, there's a summary of the whole dang thing. And grandpa went and got it for you from the Abhidharma Samuccaya. And here's in the early pages of the Samuccaya, it says DONG NI.

And we can read it. I'm not going to try to analyze it, because that would be to analyze the whole 20 years, 30 years of work. But I'll give you a feeling of what the DONG is.

Arya Asanga himself, before he starts his whole book, says, hey, here's like two and a half verses that summarize the whole book. And that's called a DONG. So here we go.

Please read. DUD DANG CHIK CHER NYE NYEN THANG TSEN RIS DE YI NAM ZHAG THANG GO RING DUN DANG DE YED THANG DU LA SOG PA NAM PA SHI DUD DANG SUM DEN DEN PA THANG NAM PA NYED PA SHER YED DE DEN DANG CHER THOG CHAL THAM GYI NAM PA NYED PA YED PA DE KUN LAS THUB PA'I PHYI DONG YIN Again, I'm not going to... I'll just give you a general...

This is his DONG. The commentary is hundreds of pages. His DONG is like ten lines of poetry.

We never see DU by itself. Without MA, for example, DU MA. And this is the first time I've ever seen it.

It is HAL ME NYID. It is meant to be DU MA. DU means how many.

PHYI PHYIR NYER LEN Why is it taken on? What's the definitions? What's the presentation?

What's the order? What's the point of the metaphor? And what is the metaphor?

There are four summaries. There's something which is equivalent to the summaries. There's four assertions.

Assertions? Dis-assertions. There's the truth and the Dharma.

I think this DEL THAM is mistaken. I think it's BEL THAM, which is a very unusual word for conversation. NAM PAR NGES PA'I DBYE BA STE And then there's definite divisions.

And that's my summary of the whole book. And each one has a weird name, and I'm not going to try to explain them. I also don't know them, because we do not study this book in the monastery.

Although it's very, very famous. So, let's go through it. Let's see what he has to say about it.

That's the DOM. That's Arya Sangha's summary of his whole huge book in the first few months. How do you translate DOM in English?

Summary? Summary is okay. You don't have to emphasize verses?

No. No? Okay, just summary.

I sometimes translate it as verse summary. Verse summary. Because when you're in the monastery and you can't memorize the whole Vinaya Sutra, the DOM is always in verse, because it's easier to memorize.

You can tell if you're missing something. Sometimes it's teaching. Because sometimes it's teaching the DOM itself.

Could be. Yeah. Could be.

Okay, you want to choose somebody to read? Yeah. Keep saying.

Say again? Good. Okay.

Good. Yeah, nyipa la nyi means the second part has two. The second part was dong gi ngo wo mu sungwa that he promised the essence of the summary.

Here's the essence of the summary. chi nam shak means, I'm going to give you a general presentation of the essence of the summary. So I'm going to tell you the whole summary statement, I'm going to tell you the whole summary statement in brief, and then kamsa-bhagavad-git dun shepa.

Then I will treat the topics as they come. Okay, keep going. DANG PO NI, DE LA PHYI DO THA'ANG BSGOM SBYANG GYIS BSTAN GYIG BYED PA NANG THON NGAG DGO NI ZHES BU BA, RLOB BUN YIN YIN GYI NGES NAG LAS RJUNG BA LTAR ZHES PA BYA STE NANG PHYIR RIG PA Okay, good.

DANG PO NI, here's the general treatment of the summary. Okay, who's talking? Gyaltsab je.

Gyaltsab je, yeah. Maybe 1100 years after Asambha. Just over a thousand years after Asambha.

And there's a lot of carving errors here. So, DE LA PHYI DO THA'ANG BSGOM SBYANG GYIS BSTAN GYIG BYED PA NANG THON NGANG DGO NI ZHES DGOS PAR The meaning, generally speaking, PHYIR, right? I should have corrected this to PHYIR.

Generally speaking, the meaning of the DO and the DENG CHOS, which dwell upon the GONG PA of the DO, which comment upon the CHUR of the DGOS, Yeah, good. They can be shepard in THON NGAG, five points, in five different points. DGOS means true.

You can summarize the meaning of all the sutras and all the shastras, which is how many works? 4,600. 4,600 books survived.

I mean, at that time, who knows? You can summarize all of them in five points. Okay, that's what he's saying.

And that's why his book is called Samuccaya. DENG NANG DGO NI ZHES DGOS PAR He says you have to explain it that way. And if you wanted to list those five, let's go to my half-brother, Vasubandhu, which is weird, because they had stuff going on between them.

You know, Sangha corrected Vasubandhu. Vasubandhu offered to cut his tongue out. Then Vasubandhu got stuck with Abhidharmakosha.

And now Gyaltsabje is saying Vasubandhu knew why a Sangha's famous book should be divided into five, which is weird. Cool? Okay.

Let's go to the mangak of Lopan Yignyen. Yeah, let's go check his advices. I'm going to quote from there, jung, okay, from there, chepar jah, you should.

So our author, Gyaltsabje, says if you really want to understand a Sangha, you better go to Vasubandhu. And he's got a clear explanation of the five topics of a Sangha's great book, okay? Then he quotes Namshe Rikpa, which is a book by Vasubandhu.

And because we have the database, and by the way, Kelsang Tahu was here. He worked for 20 years, 25 years, in the early years of this project. And we finished the Kanyu and Tengyur, so a lot of it is him.

And you should bow down at his lotus feet sometime. He also found the money in Japan from some generous sponsors. And we didn't have enough money.

And they also paid for a lot of the cataloguing in Russia, for example, many years ago. I don't know, are they still around? They're still around.

Yeah, those sponsors, we have to squeeze them.

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Okay.

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Then do we know which book came first, the Abhidharmakosha or the Abhidharmakosha? I don't know personally. Yeah, I don't know personally.

If Vasubandhu had to write the Abhidharmakosha, because he criticized this product, maybe the Kosha came second. But I don't know personally. We have his biography here, and we're going to sprinkle it.

This is a 40-year project, so we're going to sprinkle the biography through a couple of years' time. We're not going to try to do the whole biography for two years or something, because then we won't do any content. We did it already, right?

The whole biography, I don't know. With Timo Sugen, I forget. When we did one of their books.

So we didn't remember when he wrote each book. Yeah, okay. So here's the five...

This is a quotation from Vasubandhu. Vasubandhu, yeah. And the book is called Namshe Rikpa, like the logic of the explanation or something.

Okay. Who's going to read, Stanley? Gibson.

Yeah. Nyepa is an old word for shepa. Okay.

I will explain, okay? I will utter something. Number one.

So here's the five topics, according to Vasubandhu, of a sangha's work. And you might call each of these a samuchaya. That's the point now.

First one is a gupa. A purpose. Yeah, what's the point of this book?

Okay, what's the point of this book? Dirbe dung. The abbreviated meaning.

Yeah. If you wanted to abbreviate the whole book, how would you do that? Number three.

Sikdung. The meaning of words. Yeah, and that'll be huge.

That'll be hundreds of pages. Okay. Then the samjang.

Samjang means to unify or to collect. Samjang means to state how one thing applies to another thing. Sam you know from retreat practice.

Dividing, right? And then jang means to connect the lines, to connect the two parts together. Samjang means like the unification or something like that.

Gel len is two words really. Gelwa and lenbum. Questions and contradictions?

Yeah, gel means argument. It's like tsopa. It's similar to tsopa.

And len means a response to a... And there's a genre of Tibetan literature called gel len. And there was a tradition.

Kelsang probably knows about it. The lamas would get in fights with each other. And then they would write books against each other.

And those are called gel lens. And they're kind of irritating books. I don't like them much.

But somebody will criticize another lama and then he'll do a gel len back. He'll fire a gel len back. And then he'll fire another gel len.

When I see them in a catalog, I skip them. Usually they're not very pleasant. Gel len.

So it's really two words. The gel and the len. The argument and the response.

So I will use this. These will be the five topics of the whole huge book. There'll be the explanation of why I wrote the book.

There'll be a summary of the book. There'll be a huge explanation of the wording of the book. There'll be relating one thing to another.

He doesn't specify what yet. Could be he's going to relate the... the broader content to the summary.

Could be that. And then finally he's going to address arguments about it. People are going to be allowed to argue and he's going to give his answers.

All right. I went and got you the original because of John Brady's database and Kelsang's work. And I can go to Vasubandhu's text, pull it out.

And there's more detail. And I found it helpful myself. And I thought we should make a footnote out of it.

So he quotes Vasubandhu, but he summarizes Vasubandhu. So why don't we go look at what Vasubandhu really said. Okay.

So here we go. I'm trying to see. Here's where, in the huge point...

We're going to read this part in clay. Okay. Who's going to read this?

Mr. Marigold. I'm going to read it. I'm going to read it.

Come on, come on. Hello, sufferers. Okay.

Yeah. Gyal len. Gyal len.

LEN Gyal len. BYA BA NYID NYID MYED PAR BYA Yeah, good. Look, here's the five topics, right?

According to Gyaltsabje, start with good par, right? And he says he's following Vasubandhu. So let's go put those numbers into Vasubandhu, and check him.

So here's gupa. There's gupa, right? So let's put a number one there.

Then there was supposed to be a summary, right? Dupay den. Let's go see if we got a summary.

Yeah, here's the summary. Almost the same wording, but not quite. Then we're going to have a literal explanation of the word sikten che.

We got one of those. By the way, what I'm pointing out is Gyaltsabje was living at a time when they still hadn't decided on the translation of Dzogchengyur and Tengyur, and he had access to other translations. And at some point one translation was chosen, and the other translations slowly died because they were on paper, and they weren't carved on woodblock, which is permanent.

Okay, I mean that was the idea. This is really permanent. So sometimes in Tsongkhapa and in Gyaltsabje you get alternate translations that they favored.

It'd be very interesting to reconstruct Tsongkhanggyur and Tengyur from the translations that they chose to use. And you might come out with a super translation of the Dzogchengyur and the Tengyur. So that's next generations, okay?

Okay, dupay den. What was the third point? Yeah, sikten means the meaning of the words.

So we can fill that one in. There's three. And then we had that connection thing, samja.

Then gyal and len, argument and the answer to the argument. So there's six categories, right? No, gyal and len are together.

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Yeah, good.

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Okay, good. I'm just checking if you're asleep for a moment. And then Vasubandhu says, hey you guys, gyalwa and len, chiktuja, yeah, hey you guys, please combine the last two, so you come out with five.

Vasubandhu anticipated that we would make six. And he said, no, no, no. The argument and the answer to the argument are kundu, samja and number five.

So there's... who's going to read that part? Gyalwa and len, chiktuja, yaba, nigao, gyalwa, nigao, weylan, dapa, donji, jiro.

Nice. Why did I... chiktuja, the gyalwa and the len.

Why did I join? Yeah, why did I, in my summary of the summaries, why did I combine two of them? Well, you len to a gyalwa!

Because you respond to a complaint. Yeah, you respond to an argument. Okay, so I don't want to count them as two different things.

A response to an argument requires an argument. So treat it as one. That's all.

Vasubandhu, who's a big shot, he's like saying, that's why I didn't have six categories, I had five, because in the last one you have an argument, and the natural thing to do with an argument is to answer it. Okay, got it? Dhingyachen.

That's why I did that. By the way, this is all a translation from Sanskrit, which makes it difficult. All right, who's going to read next?

By the way, now he's going to justify his five. Who's he? Vasubandhu?

Yeah, Vasubandhu's going to justify his five. Yeltsin doesn't go here. We're going here, because we are mixed blood.

You have a bunch of Tibetan students in the back. Oh, I see. I've got to straighten my tie.

Now he wants to justify each of the five, which I think is interesting. If I was Yeltsin, I would have added it. chi che di dak je.

chi che. Yeah, hey, why do you divide the whole book into these five? je pa jang shen na.

Well, I'll tell you. do de dun gyi chewa nyi. chewa nyi is a common expression in the Lam Rim.

We have, in the beginning of the Lam Rim, we always have the chewa nyi's of the Lam Rim. The big points? The greatnesses.

You know, why it's so cool. chewa nyi means why it's so cool. do de dun gyi chewa nyi.

tu na. If you tu that chewa nyi, if someone tells you why this stuff is so cool, then you want to nyempa. You want to listen to it.

shruti. shruti, Sanskrit, listen. And you want to dzinpa.

swa jaya. Remember, I'm studying this. No, you want to memorize it.

You want to learn it, and you want to memorize it. dzinpa, swa jaya. bepa jepa.

You will be... Yeah, you'll work hard. If someone tells you how cool it is, you'll work at it.

Therefore, let's put gupa first. Gupa means how cool, means why is it so cool. Why do you need to study this?

It's a sales job. Sales jobs should come first. In Buddhism, first you should sell it to the person.

If you don't study this, you're going to go to the hell realms for 10 billion years. Your neighbors are all studying. Okay, so then he justifies his first of the five kundus, the first of the five samuccas.

Okay, got it, cool. Now he's going to justify the second one, which was a... Summary.

A summary. Whose turn? Are we over time?

Not yet, because we started late. We started about 10 minutes late, so if you want to, that's okay with you. I'm happy, yeah.

Okay. But I have it in a rig, because she's so good. They can't all think everyone's smart.

Yeah. Yeah, this necessity, meaning this goal, which is that people get hungry for this book, you will appreciate... You'll get hungry for this book if we give you a dupitin.

Yeah, if we summarize all the important points of it without going on for 50 pages and 200 classes, then people can have a proper... They can get hungry for the book. If we present just a summary of the whole book in a few lines, maybe it's a few paragraphs, then people will want to study and even memorize it.

It's the movie preview. Yeah, it's the trailer. Trailer, trailer.

Yeah, the trailer. Keep going. Wait, why is she running away?

Speak up. Okay. dupe dong yang tsik gi dong le sok Yeah, and you cannot give a summary of the important points.

Sooner or later you're going to have to do the tsik. Yeah, sooner or later you're going to have to go to the actual explanation, not just the summary. So he says really...

Now he's trying to draw a logical flow between them. That's his point. He's trying to draw a logical flow.

gupa means, what's this book going to do for you? And then to understand that, you've got to understand the main points of the book. To understand the main points of the book, you have to read the book.

And to read the book, please read inner. tsik gi dong gyi go rin min gelwa ni min gelwa min gelwa ni tsam jar wa le sok Yeah, good. Once you get into the wording, it's comforting if you know that the wording flows in a smooth flow, and there's no contradiction inside of the wording.

So really, he says, we can describe the wording, but why don't we describe why it's a logical flow? That's different from the wording. So here, Vassa Bandhu says, tsam jar wa, which means, we said connection before, right?

He says it means flow. go rin min gelwa The different topics flow from one to the other in a natural flow, with no contradictions. That's nice.

I mean, that applies to every book. It's a great study of literature. We got one more.

Tsam jar, one of the obvious of a Buddhist book. Not technically in the list, but it's very similar. It means everything should tie together.

All the points should tie together. It should have a logical flow, which is separate from the information chunks, which was number three. All right.

Number five. Yeah, it should be here, actually. Who's going to read?

Rikpa dan min gelwa dan nga chi min gel wan. gelwa tham len le yinpe na dupe dun la sokpa yang jorpa joppa chao. Yeah, good.

Then he gives two kinds of min gelwa. The contradictory. Yeah, there should be two kinds of non-contradiction.

Two kinds of contradiction should not be present in the book. When we study logic, and we study the logic of... We had direct perception, we had indirect perception, and we had perceptions based on the authority of another person.

And that authority was based on this kind of idea of no contradiction. It doesn't contradict my personal experience, and the teacher doesn't contradict himself or herself. Okay, so these are two famous don't-contradicts.

Rikpa dan min gelwa. It's a logic check on the information. It shouldn't contradict rikpa, rikspa.

Yeah, it shouldn't be illogical. And then sometimes in the discussion of authority, we talk about it not contradicting your personal experience, and it shouldn't contradict itself. So rikpa here means it shouldn't be illogical.

And nga chi min gelwa, nga dang chi min gelwa. What it said before or after. Yeah, yeah.

The author in his own book shouldn't contradict something he said earlier. Okay, min gelwa. Two kinds of gelwa.

Two kinds of min gelwa. And he says that's the gel and the len. And this gel is without a prenasal.

It's not nga. And if you don't know prenasals, you get really confused here. So un gelwa, un gel means contradictory.

Gel just means what? Dispute. Argument.

Un gelwa means internally inconsistent, illogical. Then gel, without the prenasal, you don't say un gel, you say gel. Gel means argument.

And then we give the len to the gel. And this is that supapongwa. This is the response to the objections that comes.

Yeah, the guy gets to come back and make complaints about us, which is wonderful. That's why we did three days of SCIM. It's very healthy to give people a chance to say that part of the SCIM program is stupid.

And then instead of trying to avoid them and don't give them a chance to say anything, it's very, very healthy as a manager to say, you guys got any complaints about how I run this thing? And then the first day, nobody says anything. And then by the third day, you can't shut them up.

That's a good... that's a Buddhist system. Let the other guy say something, and then address their concerns.

And that's Buddhism. That's a beautiful system. gyelwa na yinpa'i nang, dupay dun la sokpa'i yong.

Dupay dun here, I'll give $100. The summarized meaning. Oh, this is the meaning of the summary.

Point of the summary. Purpose of the summary. Stop, you're hurting my ears.

kuntu. He's sneaking samachaya in there. He's like, you got it?

You got this samachaya? See what I mean? Got it?

Yeah, because Vasubandhu is explaining samachaya. Yeah, spelling different. bao da shepa du sok du.

kuntu means kunle ndupa. He's making a pun. Vasubandhu.

He's good at... He's good at criticizing his brother. What would that be in the Sanskrit?

It's probably samachaya. He's just using it as a reference. Yeah, samutucha.

It's utucha. And then the T has to change to cha before cha. Actually, the second cha is a cha.

It requires the T to change to cha. Then cha cannot follow cha. And cha, the second cha has to change to cha.

And that's why it's samuchaya. And that's why it's lotsa awa. TZTS is correct.

The samuchaya should have been TZTS. And they don't always do it that way. Cool.

That's probably a good place to stop, right? Perfect. I put a lot more stuff in here from John Brady's database, and I decided we didn't need it.

But if you're ever bored after the 40 years has finished, you can come back and read all this stuff. It's some more comments. It's before I found Vasubandhu's actual book.

So now we're going to stop here. And Gyaltsabje is going to paraphrase Vasubandhu. Nick, do we have to do the thing?

We're going to do that later. Do you want to do it here now, or it's really up to you? How do we call it?

I think it's a healthy thing. I think it's a healthy thing. Didn't we last time do it in the group that was watching the broadcast?

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Oh, that's true.

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There's like hundreds of people there. Okay. But can you stay awake for that?

We have to ask Ben to read it again, if we can do it. He's been sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll have Ben do it. That's cool. He'll be happy to.

Now these guys have been recovering from their last program. For sure. Absolutely.

Okay. Sounds like a plan. Indeed, I'm happy to lead a discussion, and I hope you're ready to do so yourselves.

This was a challenging class. I wrote down a few notes. I'll be very excited if you have some notes to share.

Daniel, I see you're standing by. I'm very grateful to you for being here. We do have Peachtree World News coming up shortly.

We're going to spend a little time to discuss, and I also have a special brief video presentation of my own I'd like to share. Do I need to find the pump, as they say, with this discussion, or do I see people already eager to talk about what they learned that they can apply for themselves? You're welcome to speak up or speak in the chat or raise your hand if you'd like to speak.

I was thinking, and like I said, I had some notes here about having a system, having a careful, thought-out system for a practice in our lives of success, of joy, of having a loving and fulfilled life that it doesn't just happen by accident. I think it's very common for people to live their whole life and hope that they accidentally run into happiness or success or joy instead of having a system, a plan, not a tactic, an approach. Then in developing that system, at the outset, you would study it very closely.

You would learn about the system. You would study the system for internal consistencies. You'd say, is this a logical system?

You would expose the thinking about your system to your friends. You would give people the opportunity to criticize. I don't know if I love the word criticize exactly.

It sounds a little bit negative. I don't know how that comes through. But I have a lot of good friends that I'm very lucky that we can kind of freely question one another.

Maybe question is a better word than criticize because it can be a very joyful process. And thinking about what system we're going to use before we decide to apply it to our lives is very intelligent. And then also there's this idea in my mind about applying the system as it is.

This bite count idea, that there may be parts of the system that I don't even understand right now. But I'm not going to throw them out. There have been many times in my life when I had a teaching or a discussion with a friend or maybe something happened in my life that I didn't understand why it was important at that time.

And later, it seemed very important to me. So at the same time, I'm going to question the system that I'm going to apply in my life. At the same time, I'm going to investigate it for internal consistencies and be aware of the things that don't seem to fit right now in my understanding.

I'm not going to throw them away. You see, I'm going to keep everything carefully in the same place with the same number of bompos, the same bite count. You see, make sure I haven't lost anything and keep coming back to it.

Keep looking at it again and again. And it may be that it will take time for me to fully understand everything that's been given to me. Tracy said, do you, Tracy, you can speak up.

I see you wrote in the chat, but I trust you to be a nice contributor. You always do. Tell me what you were thinking.

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Well, I think it's everything like until we actually have truth and we're still in a deceptive reality state. The words, it just makes me think about when I heard Geshe-la talk about the words. The words are just being seen in a deceptive state to try and kind of take them apart, cook them, meditate them.

Always know that we're only being given like Geshe-la one time said Nagarjuna will only give you 1% and we need to really dig to there's something deeper. So I like the part where he said about the words, there's deeper logic to this. So don't just see the words for the words, but to really like cook it, understand it, meditate on it and spend more time to find the archaeological dig to go deeper.

And then to hopefully get more experiences through it. So then once we go out and try to share and teach, we can kind of embody it more.

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Yeah, that's beautiful. I love that you finished with the word embody there, because this was how we started this discussion about what is a Samuccaya, what is a collection, a compendium. And if everything goes according to plan, the compendium will be you, will be the embodiment, the collection of all of these ideas in a single person.

Not just in your thinking, I hope, but in the way that we live our lives.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much, Tracy. Yeah, you are the collection, says Utpala in the chat. Utpala, thank you so much for your extraordinary notes in the chat.

It's so helpful for all of us. I'm so glad that you're here. We are a nice compendium of folk here.

It's nice that we have all these friends together that contribute so much. Is there anyone else that would like to share another thought? Coralie?

Hi. I really liked the Bongo part, because I just wanted to use the chat GBT. There is a chat.

I mean, there's a GBT zero, which would check AI generated work. So you guys hear me, okay?

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Yes.

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I think I'm frozen. Oh, we hear you. Yes.

Okay, so basically the Bongo part is that in day and age, it's so hard to find things that's not authentically done by an individual, not to even mention who did it. It can be a collection of people who made this work, and it can also be AI. And now I just read the news about a new software which can check AI's work.

So it's called GBT zero, and it generated 3.5 millions of funding immediately right after it was launched. And it was actually created by a Princeton graduate, a college graduate, and just did it with his background of doing journalism in disinformation. So I think I want to talk about or bring us to think about disinformation, AI, who did it, and the authentic work that we are able to access, which is just almost impossible in this day and age.

So not even to mention, we are not missing one syllable of the original work. It's just unbelievably impossible. And yeah, so I don't know the answer.

How do we keep this? I guess we have a system. But I don't know who mentioned earlier.

Most people don't even have an authentic source of news or work or anything now because of the AI influence. So anyway, so we need more AI zero GBT GPT zero in our Dharma work to keep it authentic. That's all I want to say.

Thank you. Thank you, Chloe. It's wonderful.

I got a message, a private message during class from Adam, who is a genius on many levels, but was already thinking about how to expand our verification of the database that we have of the AOL library and making sure that all of the byte counts are consistent. It's a wonderful thing that we have new technologies developing. And won't it be that way as we all develop?

Personally, we will have new technologies develop in this world. We will have new powers ourselves. And perhaps those powers will express themselves as new technologies, new abilities.

By the power of my goodness, I have developed the ability to sit in one place in New Mexico and share a conversation with 200 plus people from around the world about profound things. And it's a miracle. People in the past couldn't have conceived of this.

I have this ability. I can't tell you what goodness I have done in the past to create such an extraordinary power, superpower, you see. But I can do it.

And you seem to be able to as well. And these new technologies develop. Hopefully we can continue to use our powers for good as we are doing now.

I am going to share with you a very brief video. OK, hot off the press that Nick just sent to me from Kyoto before going to bed. It's just about five minutes, maybe six minutes.

And then I'll be right back and we'll hand things over to the Peachtree World News. Here we go. I think that I know how to do it.

Here we go. Press this button. Share video.

Find video. It's the first time I've shared a video, but I have, I think, the powers that I need. Here we go.

You can use the Good Night Book Club. OK, and you get this valise. Valise is a fancy name for a small briefcase.

Very light, made of, we don't use leather, we use plastic, expensive plastic. Luxury plastic. It's big enough for your laptop, and it's big enough for your telephone, and your TV controller.

These three things. These are the sambal, the three jewels. Your laptop, your phone, and your TV controller.

The idea is, if you don't have Rob, if you join the club. It's a free club, but it's like a society. We join together, and we are fighting our mental afflictions.

We are fighting our negativities. We are fighting bad movies. Good movies you can watch in the daytime.

But, so 10 o'clock, if you join the club, you have to agree to put your cell phone, sambal, your laptop, and your TV controller, you put them in the briefcase, and you close it. If you look at the briefcase on the left, there's a time lock, understand? So you have to get some big scissors, if you want to watch a movie.

Understand? Yeah, so it's actually a time lock. At 10 o'clock it locks, 10 p.m., 6 a.m. it opens. Unless you're really a movie addict, which I am, sometimes. Unless you cut open the bag. You know.

You've got to not use your computer and your TV. And I'll tell you something. I taught for 50 years.

I've been teaching for 50 years. And this is the most valuable thing I can give you. Seriously.

And modern people, all of us, we are heavily addicted to, especially the phone. And it's very disturbing to your mind. The electricity, the battery, the content, the internet.

It's a disease. It's very, very disturbing. It ruins your meditation.

It ruins your peace of mind. It ruins your thinking. You cannot think very strong.

And we have to do something. We call it a good night book club. Because, listen, you can't really go to sleep at 10 o'clock.

Who goes to sleep at 10 o'clock? So, in the briefcase, with the briefcase, we supply a book. Paper book.

Old-fashioned paper book. It's in the briefcase. He lives in the briefcase during the day.

Then he wakes up at night. And at 10 o'clock, there's no room for the computer in the briefcase, because the book is there. So, what do you have to do?

Take the book out. And read something healthy. And it will put you to sleep.

Read something holy. Read something beautiful. Read something about meditation.

Read something about wisdom. So, part of this club, if you join the club, if you are lucky enough to join the club, we send you a book every month. Okay?

Yeah. And we send you a clean book and a beautiful book and something, you know. By the way, these deep books, they put you to sleep in five minutes.

So, it's very helpful. It's definitely not interesting. You can go straight to sleep.

So, anyway, we will send you a book every month. If you join the club, if you join this part, the book club part, we will send you something every month. Do you have a picture of the whole, do you have the picture of all the books together, you guys?

I don't know. Yeah, here. We finished ten books in the Mixed Nuts translator group.

There's more than ten in the box because some of them are two books. Nick's book is 700 pages. And it's too fat for one book.

So, we send you two books. Nick's book, which is Nagarjuna, especially good for sleeping. It's, so you can get like 12 books.

And we also give you the King of the Dharma book, which you saw up here. And we have other books like that. So, we have translated, it took eight years, and we translated over 3,000 pages of the most difficult Buddhist books.

These are not the normal. These are perfect for sleeping. Very difficult.

Extremely deep. They're all kongshin, kongshin, and kongshin. Every book more kongshin than the other one.

More empty than Avakarita. Lerheit. Pustata?

Pustata. Very, very, very deep books. I'm working on the most difficult books because nobody will be able to translate them later.

So, you will get a new book every month. Okay. And then I also have, let's see, an image.

How do I share this? I'll just, I'll open it and share my screen here. Almost.

Here we go. Oh, look at this pretty picture of the bag right here. Sharing.

Pretty picture of a bag. Look. So, we're just now starting to roll this out.

I want to reiterate for you the the Xuanzang's Tower Club that you are participating in is free. It will stay free. You should always come.

You're always welcome to come. We are finding ways to make sure that we can continue this program. And this is one of the ways that you can contribute.

If it's not appropriate for you to contribute, don't contribute. Come every time. Participate.

Be loud in the chat. Speak at the end of the class in the discussions. We're very happy.

I was given instruction for free for many years. And and I am only here by the grace of those who supported poor students like me. And and so always come and and always enjoy.

And and if you're looking for ways to contribute, we're developing for those who have too much money burning a hole in their pocket, we say. And they have to find a way to use it. Then contributing to support this ongoing program that is free for the sake of world knowledge for developing our superpowers of understanding.

You have this way also to contribute and we'll have more elaboration on that. This is a preview of the program in development. Daniel, thank you so much for your patience.

I know we're starting you late. We're still getting the hang of being recorded. Thank you.

You know, of course, Geshe-la wants us to advertise for the Good Night Book Club. So it's perfect. In fact, that was all the time we have for the Peachtree segment.

Just kidding. We're going to take about another five minutes. We were considering just pushing the segment, but we did have a few things that we would like to share as well.

So Juan Chenzo is standing by. We're going to share a little clip from Kyoto, a little behind the scenes and a little bit of a behind the scenes look at the SCIM reunion. So if you're ready with that, Juan, we'll just go straight into that.

That way we can go over to Word after this and not keep them waiting. Here it comes. So I hope you will get some seats to learn.

But don't feel pressured. Just enjoy, relax. This is the class where I also get to relax.

I wear my usual clothes. I don't have to wear Seiji's suit. It's not a reunion without the chicken dance.

Although it's a bit early, but we would like to celebrate the birthday. So let's sing the song together. Happy birthday, happy birthday.

Happy birthday to you. Let's welcome Yeshe Michael to give some short speech. Happy birthday, Michael.

Thank you very much. I feel really, really happy when I see you guys thanking each other. If I were you, I would be jealous of each other.

And I would compete with each other. And I would never thank each other. And I'm extremely happy to see the lack of jealousy.

And it really, really is the best gift I can receive. Because everyone here is taking care of everybody else. And I'm extremely happy about that.

And I feel very blessed and very lucky. Usually in America, we don't tell the birthday wish. But...

I'll tell you the wish. And I truly wish we can be together in many lives. And we can serve the world together.

It's a great honor. And it's a truly beautiful way to spend our life. And each one of you is very special.

So I invite you to the Alumni Association meeting in the next planet. 10,000 years. Check the time.

Thank you very much. Yeah, that was cool. So I would like to just take a minute to say how lucky we are to have these teachings in our life, a continual stream of wisdom.

And on Geshe-la's note, hopefully this is going to keep us together, working towards our goal for many lives. But don't wait till next lifetime, okay? Come and study with Geshe-la and keep taking these classes.

There's still plenty of events coming up.

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So that's our job here at the Peachtree World News to make sure you guys know about all those events. And we want to give you guys one extra little advertisement.

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Earl Birney is doing an event for YSI. And tomorrow, Juan has the QR for it. But tomorrow, Earl's going to be doing a Q&A to talk about his upcoming event.

So we want to show that next one, and then we can give it over to Word. One of the great yogis of the Hatha Yoga lineage. And we'll be doing a retreat this December, the 27th of December to January 2nd at Diamond Mountain on the practices, his practices, his lineage from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

I'll be leading it with Lisa Shrimp, a dear friend of mine. And we'll both be leading the yoga asanas, pranayama, meditation, and some of the shatkarma practices, the cleansing practices found in that amazing text. We'll be also diving into a little bit of Ayurveda and looking at ways that we can exit 2023 gracefully and enter 2024 with intentionality.

So if you're looking for a retreat over New Year's, I'll leave the information in the bio. We'll be doing an info day this Sunday, trying to ask questions and to find out more details about the retreat.

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Okay, sweet. So that's our abbreviated version of our abbreviated segment today. And I think we have Wordsmith up next.

Are you there, Word?

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Yes.

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Okay, perfect.

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All right, guys. So everyone that was getting ready for Word's class, it's coming up here and here is the QR for the event that Earl was talking about. We're going to give you guys more information on this on the following segments, but we're just trying to be quick today.

And then also we'll talk to you more about the Good Night Book Club on Monday for Shensong's classes. So thank you, Ben. Thank you, all the translators.

And thank you, Word, for waiting so patiently. Take it away, Mr. Word. Thank you, Daniel.

Thank you, Word. You're welcome. Okay, so we will start.