Стэнли Чен — Книга 2: Красноречивые слова о сути океана высшего знания (Гьялцаб Чже о «Своде высшего знания» — Абхидхарма-самуччае), занятие 7

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Hey, everybody. It's almost that time. I didn't realize my hair was that messy.

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Looks like the king's throne over there at the college.

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Hey, everybody.

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Hey, hey, hey. Not bad. How are you?

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So far, so good.

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So far, you're looking good.

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Thank you. I think the boss man's coming, but it looks like they're in a different space.

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Okay, so I'll suggest.

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There we go. Now that's more fun.

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Hi.

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Yeah, good. Good evening, good afternoon, good morning. Welcome.

Good morrow to everybody who came today. We're excited to have you, as always. We are watching for the groundhog to emerge, and if she sees her shadow.

Oh, here we go. I am not a groundhog. Okay.

Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, live translators.

I don't know how you do it, but please, please keep doing it. And thank you, Geshe Michael, for making this possible, for supporting us, for keeping this extraordinary program running. It's so much fun.

I can't believe we keep doing this again and again. You say that, but okay. It really is.

It's amazing. It's a really cool thing we get to do. Without further ado, I give you Stanley's homework.

That is homework. It is. Right.

Thank you, Stanley. Thank you, Ben. Hey, Nick.

Good morning, everyone. Good morning. And good evening.

I guess you guys are watching on your own device. Okay. Sorry.

All right. Can you make sure our Seattle friends have such a device, if they wish? All right.

Stanley, go ahead with your homework. Okay. So this homework is content-generated style.

So we have to work together. I didn't put it in the Q&A style because I need your help to figure out the structure of this book. In the last class, we were playing with different lists.

The list of Master Asanga, the five topics, the five chapters of the book, the five samuchayas. And then we were playing with the six topics of the book by the commentator, Master Kelsatje. And somehow he managed to connect this six with the five, the six topics by him and the five chapters by Master Ari Asanga.

So I'm confused. I tried to figure it out, but I couldn't. So I want to work with all of you.

And then we can review it quickly. That's basically the homework for this time. So let's check this.

Oh, let's start with the five chapters. I think we are more familiar with it. Can you tell, can you see the words?

Is it big enough? Okay. Okay.

Well, let's start with the five chapters. The first one is Tsengyi K'unle Tupa. Anyone remember anything?

The definition of compendium? Yeah. The compendium of definitions.

Yeah. Of like, yeah. Or qualities or summary of definitions.

Yes. And then the second one, Denpa Nampa Ngewa, Ngepa. Ascertaining the truth.

Right. Ascertainments of truth. What's, in the English word ascertainment, we used it a lot in the last class.

What does it mean to say simply? You could say to know or to see, or the word ascertain is related to the word certainty as in coming to certainty about something like the truth. I see.

Like to kind of confirm the meaning of things.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Right. And it can also mean to know something, to come to know something, to come to a certainty for yourself.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. The Chinese has something similar.

Juezi. It means you, yeah, basically what we just talked about. Okay.

And then, yes, the second one is the ascertainment of the truth. Nice. Yeah.

And then, Ngepa. Nice. Recording in progress.

Does it mean recording in progress? I like that. Yeah.

It's coming to know the Dharma, the teaching.

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Right. Right.

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Yes. Yes. Yes.

So, you actually used the word perception, but in Tibetan it's the same word, right?

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Yeah.

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It is, but context is everything. Yeah. Yeah.

True. True. And then the chapter four is Yeah.

Coming to know. Yeah. What is to be achieved perhaps?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Right. This is a common word in Abhidharma, it seems like.

Estimate of achievement. Yes. And then, This is a little complicated.

Based on ascertaining the connections within the compendium or something? Yeah, I think so. Yes.

Word, are you going to say something similar? Similar. Yeah.

Just, Tom, on what the connections discussed, to ascertain within the compendium. Yeah. Yeah.

Let me see what we got. Yeah. Interconnections of the discussion.

I guess it's between the different topics or the the chapters. Yeah. Yeah.

OK, cool. So, long story. There's three different words.

OK. Yeah. So, I'm not going to go too much into this because I don't know what they're talking about yet.

We just went through the names of the chapters and what they mean briefly. But now here's the confusing part. I thought the other part was confusing enough.

Yeah, that too. It would be really nice if Gyatso Jei just followed these five chapters and comment on it. But he didn't.

He said, actually, there are six points or six main topics of the book. Instead of the five chapters, he said six. You could identify the six major things discussed in this book, in those five chapters.

So, let's go through this six quickly. What you should know totally. Yeah.

Right. We should grasp thoroughly.

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Mm hmm.

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Second one is know the objects. It's already a little confusing, like things we should know, we should grasp and the objects that we should understand. Yeah.

So, maybe one is an urging that it's important that we come to understanding and the second one is what that is that we should come to understand.

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Perhaps.

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Or one could be like functional things and the other one could be sense objects, like something more specific, even. That's true. We won't know until we get there.

Right, right. Yeah, yeah. For example, in the chapter one, well, I mean, Arya Sankar talked about all those category things, like five hips, twelve doors of sense, 18 categories.

And then he went into, he will go into the four truths and there are 16 aspects, maybe different kind of objects or things we should understand. Yeah. And then the cause of totally awesome understanding.

Right.

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And.

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And. And. Yeah.

Yeah. The cost, the cost for deep understanding. Yes.

And then you also ship the. Wisdom, which deeply understands. Yeah.

So, so here is is talking about the like in terms of subject and object. This is the object, right? The wisdom.

Cool. That would be interesting. I'm just guessing.

Yeah. But what I said last time is the wisdom that helps you understand everything. You know, what wisdom is the understanding things you would think, right?

Yeah. We'll see what he better explain it. Oh, yeah.

He's got some explaining to do, as Ricky Ricardo said once. And then. Topic six, you also ship a drape.

Oh, it's a result of totally awesome understanding. And. And.

Okay. Yeah. The result, I guess, is coming from the wisdom or the understanding, like maybe achieve.

Remember, we talked about the talk, but in the chapters, maybe that's the one, the ascertainment of achievement. And then the last point is a rock to read. It looks like it said the six kinds of super wisdom or something, super knowledge.

Super knowledge.

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No, I think it's just adding up that there were six just.

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Yeah, I think so. What did you say?

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Sorry, six. There is is just meaning that the things that came before it, it means six.

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Six here means a total of six. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, but is this correct? Yeah, that's correct. Yes.

Yep. Oh, you see, it's already confusing because we just talked about wisdom and the results. And then now it's super knowledge again.

Seems like there are more. This will all be clear in the next 40 years. Oh, that's great.

I wouldn't worry much about it now. Seriously. Okay.

Okay. Okay. If you guess you're wrong, I'll guarantee you.

So. Okay. I guess I'll just save some time because I tried to combine this to list with this complicated equation thing, but I'm not going to go through.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yeah. Yeah.

Basically, that's it. So we talked about these two lists in the last class. And then Geshe-la, you asked Word to do some homework.

I forgot what I asked Word. What did I ask? Word, do you want to do your presentation?

Stanley, he's waiting for some Lula. That's what he's waiting for. I would, is it the, was your class that had the Tsongrab Chuni, Stanley, the 12?

By the way, I taught the, it's the 12 categories of Buddhist teachings. There are 12 categories over the two and a half thousand years. And I taught it in 2016 at Diamond Mountain.

And I spent like a month on it or something. And I put the notes in your book, Stanley. Oh, great.

Okay. But did I ask Word to do that also? You asked Word to mostly distinguish two things.

Let me see. Not the whole 12. Okay.

Word, do you remember the details? I just did the whole 12, Geshe-la. I was at the teaching at Diamond Mountain as well.

Do you want to go through the 12? Sure. I can do it very quickly as not to take too much time from Stanley's class.

Well, it's part of Stanley's class. And I would like to make it an appendix in your book, Stanley. Oh, great.

We haven't had the 12 categories. I, the first debate I ever had, I studied for eight years as my teacher in a Mongolian temple. I went to the debate ground in the Geshe course the first night.

And by the way, they said, how many years you were with Rinpoche? I said, eight years. They said, okay, we'll put you in the eight-year class.

And they put me in the eight-year class for debate. And the opponent is now the holder of Tsongkhapa's throne, okay? My opponent.

And he's the head of a couple of million people. And he's an extraordinary scholar, and he wiped me out. And then I went to the monastery and I said, I want to start at the beginning.

I want to start over. I want to cancel the eight years of work. And they said, okay, if that's what you want.

And I started over again. Anyway, this was the debate, was the 12 categories of Buddhism, of Buddhist literature. So, it's dear to my heart.

So anyway, let's let Word do it. And then let's see how it goes. And Stanley, in the reading, I inserted the notes from Diamond Mountain.

It's about 20 pages. And you should make a nice appendix out of it, because it's very, very, very important. So Word, do you want to try?

And then I'll interrupt you liberally. So, actually, well, can I share a screen? Is that okay?

Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Here we go.

Don't forget our broadcasting, where we are broadcasting Word, okay? Okay, I'll do my best with the content. Okay, no problem.

Here we go. So, again, I basically took a footnote from the Golden Key, because it was mentioned in the Golden Key.

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All right, okay.

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What is the Golden Key? The Golden Key is the best book that has come out in thousands of years, apparently, on the mind of a person. Yeah, and that was translated by Word for eight years, and he finished.

And he's quoting his own book. Okay, all right. Yeah, so, you know, we had the Tibetan, and I added the Chinese and the Sanskrit for people who are interested.

And here's our footnote. Shall I read it? How shall I read it?

I think that would be nice, yeah. Okay, it's called the Sungrab Yenlak Chunyi. Chunyi just means 12.

Yenlak can mean link, part, branch. Here it means just like parts. Sung means like the word of a holy person, like the Buddha.

And Rab means the highest. So, this is referring to these teachings. So, if you take all the teachings for the last two and a half thousand years, each one of them will fit into this structure somewhere.

There's 12 types of teachings, and it's extremely important in Buddhism. These are the 12. There's no Buddhist teaching which doesn't fit into these 12, but they're very difficult.

You can go ahead. And one of the interesting things I got about it from the Diamond Mountain teaching in 2016 was any given teaching can have these as the heart of the teaching. They're not exclusive to any teaching, meaning these categories aren't all-encompassing for a particular work.

It means a work can include this sort of subject matter, and that I found significant. Can I read the 12 styles of teaching? Kind of, it is.

Geshe-la said it here. This is 12 traditional divisions of Buddhist teachings according to a mixture of subject matter, format, and style. Yeah, the confusing thing is that when you make a division of a thing, you should do it by length, or by subject matter, or by teacher, or by era, or something like that.

And this traditional division mixes all of those things in a very confusing way. So, that's the point. Don't expect it to be strictly logical.

It's not. But it is a very, very standard traditional teaching for thousands of years. Yeah, and our reference is from Master Hari Bhaja's Illumination of the Jewel, which is a work I'm not familiar with.

These are the traditional names for each divisions, and they're somewhat obscure, but they are nicely explained as follows by the great Mongolian, Chujang Awang Pelden, who's one of our heroes. Lamp for the Jewel of Realization. That's the text.

He was born around 1800, and he was from Mongolia, and he was a great, great... He wrote in Tibetan language, and he was an extraordinary thinker, and his presentations are kind of Western, and logical, very logical, very straightforward. He wrote a lot of great books.

He wrote some Vajrayogini practice also. He's a great author. I like when they call him the savant, meaning he's some kind of crazy genius.

So, here's the 12. This is an entry from the Great Dictionary, which is a fairly good reference for definitions. I got the Zhongwen from there to help our audience.

So, here are the 12. The first of these is just Sutra, which many are aware of. Generally, there's different ways to classify them, but here we put original, concise prose presentations of the teachings.

I think the important thing to say about the Sutras is... A friend of mine, Art, translated it as discourse, and I like it. They are oral.

They are oral teachings. Normally, a Sutra was taught in a meadow somewhere, or a garden somewhere, like the Diamond Cutter, or the Heart Sutra, like that. So, yeah.

Yeah, totally. This one, oops. These are musical expressions.

We had this word recently. It means like some kind of expression, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, these are Sutras, which presentations are embellished either at the beginning or the end by verse. Also in these Sutras, which are not to be taken literally, which could be almost all of them, depending. Can we say like those verses in this Samuccaya, where they summarize things, are those like this?

Yeah, even though the Samuccaya on a whole isn't considered a musical expression, those portions would be considered musical expressions. This is Lung Du Denpa, which means some kind of prophecy or pronouncement. The Buddha was known for this kind of thing, explanations concerning how people die and move on, where they will take rebirth, what's their karma.

An amazing example of this is in the Wheel of Life. At the end, someone's like, but Buddha, why did all that stuff happen to those people? And he gives this incredible explanation of each person's fate and why it occurred.

Also in these Sutras, which are to be taken literally. This is Siksuchepa, which are many verse presentations, things in verse, poetry. Chedajupa, which is a cool, I think one of the coolest features of these teachings, which are teachings for particular audiences in particular, meaning like design for specific people, depending on where they're at in their practice and life.

I like the word targeted nowadays. They are teachings that were targeted to certain audiences. So he changed his presentation according to the audience.

Yeah. And Stanley, is it Zishuo, like teachings that are for you? It's, I don't think, I don't know yet, but it literally means self, like myself.

Yeah, it's interesting. These ones are cool. I really had a ball with these in Alison's text.

They're Lengshis. What naughty thing happened where Lord Buddha had to make some rule? And they're usually kind of fun stories, kind of like fables or something, like in the sense that there's a moral at the end or something.

Background stories. Yeah. Like why did Buddha have to make this rule?

And there was an incident. And these are called stories of incidents or something. Somebody admits Lord Buddha had to make a rule.

Yes, Stanley. Does this kind of style of teaching include Buddha's own mistakes? His stories?

Yeah, many, many. I'd say 50 percent of the mistakes he describes in original incidents were his former life. And he's criticizing himself.

He's criticizing who he used to be. Yeah, and it's very beautiful in a way. This is a topa jupa, meaning revelation or realization, something of that nature.

Yeah, something to illustrate a particular point. Yeah, and oftentimes nowadays, avadana, right? It means the story of the lives of a bodhisattva, the multiple lives.

So what did he do in his first life? What did she do in her second life? What happened in the third life?

Like that. Those are called topa jupa avadana. A famous one is Udayana, which is the king for whom the wheel of life was drawn.

And then the story of his life is... And there's a famous, famous collection of them, the avadana kapalana, which is an old Indian word of like a hundred avadanas. And they're very beautiful and easy to read in the Sanskrit.

So it's a popular book to study Sanskrit from. Deitabujungwas, and these are accounts, teachings where correlations between certain activities and their common consequences are described, which I love because you can... What's the literal meaning of the name?

Just like that. That's how it happens. Just like that.

It happened like that. The name of the category is called, it happened like that. Again, these are all categories of all Buddhist, all Buddhist literature fits into one of these categories.

Good. This is what kind of Stanley was talking about. Usually they say kerab.

This is the full name, kepayarabdhide, which is usually stories of the Buddhist past lives, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Jataka is pretty famous. And then Shintogipa.

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Yeah.

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These are extensive teachings of the path of the Bodhisattva. I'm not as familiar with that category. This one I love, medajungwa.

These are like miraculous tales, like magical powers and strange occurrences.

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Strange but true.

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Yeah, but true. And this is tenlapapa, which literally just means presentation. But it's definitive accounts, detailed descriptions of either the general or defining characteristics of specific entities.

Yeah. And we had a note as well in our text, how Jason Kappa, how he put these different groups together. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Nice. Nice. Yeah.

Well done. Well done. Nice.

Yeah. Those are the 12. And it was just a you know, we could have just skipped it.

We are mixed nuts. And we don't let the 12, anything go without finding out what they are. Okay.

So, nice job. Let's go back to... Can I share my screen?

Yes, sir. Nice job, Ward. Thank you.

Thank you. It's cool someone was awake during that presentation eight years ago. It was fun.

Me and Hasso were trying to memorize all 12 in the car together afterwards. Oh, nice. Yeah.

It's frustrating because they are not logical. The divisions are by different criteria. So, it's not...

It's like dividing the colors into square, round, black, you know. It's confusing. It's very confusing.

Okay. All right. That was just a single piece of a sentence in our text.

And we got to get back to work. Oops, that's a different one. This is an ethical essay.

Someone's writing. No, we got to go to... I'm sorry, Stanley.

Let me get your text up. Okay, cool. Let's see here.

Oops, sorry. Yeah, there's where we stopped last time. We covered...

By the way, here's the notes, Stanley. They start here. Those are the kundle tupas.

So, the whole book that Stanley's working on, which was written 1,700 years ago, is called samuchaya. I'll be done with samuchaya. Samuchaya means a collection or a collection.

And then confusingly, each of the chapters is called a samuchaya. And that's why we got in a little bit of confusion here. Let me see here.

Are we past that, Stanley? Let me see. Yeah, okay.

So, here's the 12 categories of scripture. And I gave you my notes from 2016, okay? And they're in bold here.

There's the 12. Here's Ngaum Belden's commentary, the original commentary, and all his comments. And then there's an example of each of the 12 categories.

And it's very, very detailed. And I think it would make a nice appendix to your book. It's too long to add inside the book.

And then I gave an example of each book. So, here's a prediction, and then I gave you an actual example of that book, okay? For example, this is the White Lotus Sutra.

The Lotus Sutra is an example of number three. And you get a real example of each of the 12. And I went through and I worked really hard on that.

It took me a few months, I think. So, it's like 20 pages or something. And if you're bored, you can study it, okay?

And I think it would make a nice... I don't think we've had it in any other book yet. And one of the purposes of our translation project is to have resources that people can use as reference books, you know, if you want to know.

So, there's all the notes on it. And someday we can translate just the categories and the examples. We don't have to translate the whole comment, okay?

But it's about... yeah, it's about 20 pages. Let's see.

My wife hates it when I scroll down like this. She's gonna make me blind. By the way, the Kangyur mentions the 12.

Lord Buddha mentions the 12, which is interesting. Lord Buddha was involved in the classification of Buddhism, which is cool. All right, we finished those 12.

We might want to look at those five kundus, which you did, Stanley. You went through the five different kompendia, or the five sections, which are each a summary. And we are here, I think, right?

So, let me give you a good cursor to follow. Okay, good. Okay, start here, Stanley.

Can you read the first one? Okay, go ahead, Stanley. Nice.

DE LA BSTAN NAS means based on that, which I'm not going to scroll back 20 pages and get it for you. Wisdom in three versions. What are you guys...

the three steps to gaining wisdom. What are the three steps to gaining wisdom? PHYIR TZAM BSGOM PHYIR means shruti, which means classroom hours.

It means just... by the way, classroom hours is a perfect translation. It's how many hours did you sit at your teacher's feet?

And that's a direct correlation to how much you can practice. How many hours did you dedicate to learning these things? And there's no replacement for it and there's no way to skip it.

It's called shruti and it's how many hundreds of hours did you hear? And there's a direct correlation between that and how much you can do in your life. TSANG I always say that could be done in the car on the way home.

You can think about it. BSTAN BSGOM you shouldn't do in the car. Yeah, close your eyes.

Wisdom in three stages. JI LTAR BCUG PA'I TSUL How does that wisdom engage is taught. And then SHIN TU RGYAS PA'I DE means more detailed scriptures.

BRDZUN BYAS They are very important. And TSOL Like the 8,000 verses of the Perfection of Wisdom. These major works, what we call major works.

In Tibetan they're called... What's a major work in Tibetan worth $100? In Tibetan.

YATSUS Say SHUNG SHUNG SHUNG means either a major highway or a major scripture. And it says you got to attack the SHUNGS. You got to go for the major scriptures.

We're translating a book right now. We're putting out a... The third book this in the last year that we finished after eight years is LO SBYONG.

It's a book of LO SBYONG. And those LO SBYONG works are not typical for our translation group because they are purposely short. And they are purposely easy.

And it's kind of interesting to work on it because we don't have any other easy short works. He says here the main books you have to commit yourself to are the SHUNGS. The major important books.

Like Abhidharma Samachar. CHE DAG TU CHEN NAS RGYAS PAR BSTAN DOD And you can break it down into smaller pieces and digest it that way. That's not a problem.

Like five kompendia. Okay. Stanley, you want to read one more?

Yeah, sure. TOG PA NAM NGE KYI SHER JA CHIT TA WA THANG JIG NGE PA NAM SUN RAK DEN NE TOG PA CHE PE DEN KYI KHAN SA KYI RAK TU CHE WA THANG CHE WA? YE WA THANG DE LA NGUM TOG JIG TA KHYAD PA'I RIM PA NAM DEN CING THAD PA CHEN PO'I KHAN SA THANG DE PA CHE BA'I LAM SOG BA YIN PA'I RAK TU CHE NE DANG DU BSTAN DOD Stanley's text.

Who wrote it, by the way? Arya Sangha. Yeah, Arya Sangha.

One of the great five books of Maitreya. I'm sorry. Who wrote down the five books of Maitreya.

This is a different book. It's called Abhidharma Samuchaya. Abhidharma was the 700 years of teaching following Lord Buddha's death.

We call it in DCI the... Accountants. The accountants.

Jokingly, we call them the accountants because they are dry and methodical and slow. For 700 years, they took over Buddhism. Then they were overthrown by...

Nagarjuna. At the same time as Patanjali. The same time as the Abhisitra was written.

So, here's Samuchaya, his collection of Abhidharma teachings, early teachings. He spiced it up. He did it from the Mainoli point of view.

It's a whole different book. It's an amazing book. He took a dry, dry book and he turned it into a revolutionary book.

Stanley is translating both books, which is really cool. Samuchaya is a collection or a compendium. Inside the Samuchaya, there's five Samuchayas.

That's what Stanley was outlining with his mind map. The fourth of the Samuchayas is figuring out... Topa, Stanley.

First word here. How do you achieve things? Like nirvana or Buddhahood or stuff like that.

How do you achieve it? That's divided into... To understand how to achieve nirvana, you better have a good background in Jeetala and you better have a good background in Jinnepa.

A hundred bucks. The way things look and all things there are. The nature of things and everything there is in existence.

You can say how things are and how many things there are. That's a different thing. When you say he's a Mr. Know-it-all, kunken, synonym for Buddha. It's the meaning of the word Buddha. Mr. Know-it-all. Do you mean he knows every single thing in the universe?

Or does he understand patterns of all the things in the universe? Does he actually see all the rocks on Mars? Or does he just understand in a grand way the structure of the universe?

Which one do you think? Both. He has a grand insight into how all things are.

And then he has a particular perception of all the things there are. So Jeetala means a grand perception of how everything exists. And Jinnepa means every single rock on Mars.

He sees individually every single rock on Mars and every other planet. So Buddhists have both. Got it?

Surabdheni. His teachings reflect those two things. He teaches you how to understand in a grand way the universe, emptiness and all the things that have emptiness.

And then he teaches you how to perceive individual objects individually in the universe. Okay? Got it?

We're going to talk about this then. What's Grandpa's favorite translation word? 200 bucks.

Refrigerator. Huh? A refrigerator.

You owe me a hundred. Body and mind. Nice!

Kramer, 200 bucks. But as I always say, it goes directly into Ezra's college fund, and you cannot get your fingers into it. Okay, that's his son.

Yeah, den means the home base, the headquarters from which you do your spiritual practice. So it means your equipment, your spiritual equipment, which is your body and your mind. You can do yoga with your body.

You can go into retreat with your body. You can use your mind to understand emptiness. You got to have a good den.

You got to have a good physical body and mind. So he says, we're going to give the divisions of the khansak, the type of people who can practice Buddhism. And they have to be special people.

They have to have a healthy body. You can't be distracted by back pains and cancer. By the way, you often go from one to the other.

You start out with a healthy body, you don't practice. Then you get cancer, and then it's too late to practice. And then you call Geshe Michael ten years after you stopped coming to class, and ask him to save you in the last two weeks.

By the way, which you cannot do. I get these requests every day, every week. So don't wait.

Figure it out now, okay? Because it's coming. All right.

Thank you, Geshe-la. So we're going to start off the yewa, the divisions of people. And how do they get ngun tok, Stanley?

Ngun? Oh, like affliction? Yeah, abhisammaya.

How do they get their understandings, realizations? We studied the abhisamma on karma. How do they kyewa, how do they give birth to their understandings, the stages by which they get their understandings?

And then we're going to cover the thekpa chenpo konzak, Stanley. Yeah, Mahayana people, Mahayana person. And the path that they drop a word.

The path that they travel. All of these are subjects in the fifth samuccaya. All of these are subjects of the fifth samuccaya.

Geshe-la, we already forgot what was the fifth samuccaya. It was like ten minutes ago. It's the samuccaya that summarizes how you reach your goals.

THOB PA RNAM NGES Say THOB PA? RNAM NGES THOB PA? RNAM NGES Okay, good.

I'm sorry, that's the fourth of the five samuccayas. Now we get to the fifth samuccaya, which is the final samuccaya. Why are we covering all the samuccayas at the beginning of a 40-year project?

Because we're at the beginning. And we won't get to the fifth one for 20 years or something. We're just looking at the outline of Stanley's very, very famous text.

We chose this text because it was found in the caves at Dunhuang, in the Gobi Desert. It's a book from 4th century India. One of the greatest books that are written in Buddhism.

And a copy was found in Dunhuang caves. So that's why we chose it. In your Geshe studies, you didn't study a lot of Maitreya books, right?

But is this one of the few that students study in the Geshe program? It's frequently referred to and never studied. Oh, I see.

Yeah, I mean, it's too big. It's a 20, 30-year thing. So we study the highlights of it, but we don't study the book itself.

Who's going to read, Stanley? Pick on somebody else. Okay.

Hey, Dodo, I'm in the same city with you. Shanghai?

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Yep. Oh, really?

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Yep. Oh, my turn. What is that?

YOD PA'I TSUL BRTEN DO Yeah, nice, nice. TSUL BRTEN DO. Okay, good.

Now, Stanley, I think we mentioned this before, but the fifth and final section of your samuccaya, which means the fifth sub-samuccaya in your big samuccaya, here it's called BEL DANG. Say BEL DANG. BEL DANG And sometimes it's called BRAL DANG.

Say BRAL DANG. BRAL DANG And sometimes it's called YANG DAG PA'I DANG. Say YANG DAG PA'I DANG.

YANG DAG PA'I DANG DANG means conversation. You don't see it a lot in scripture because we don't have conversations because we're too busy. But DANG means conversation.

The colloquial term for conversation is DRO LENG. You see it here. DRO LENG means to sit down and have a conversation.

So DANG means a conversation, a talk, have a talk together. And BEL is a very difficult word. If you spell it differently, apostrophe B-R-E-L, A'OBARTA DAG DUNG PO'I BRAL MA'I NYUN DANG, it means connection, like in somebody's book.

In Sugeng's book, dependent origination or interconnectivity is BRAL. So BRAL DANG can mean connected talk. What's the thread of the conversation?

What ties the conversation together? Okay, got it? BRAL DANG is an ancient word for having a conversation.

In this particular ancient book, they confused the two. They mixed them up. Half the time it's BRAL DANG and half the time it's BEL DANG.

Other translators in Tibet called it YANG DAG PA'I DANG. So there's three different words used for the same thing. I think the main emphasis, Stanley, is BRAL.

In my mind it's BRAL. BRAL means when we get to this samuchaya, which will not be for at least 20 years, it'll talk about... Generally, when you talk about scripture, you should talk about how one topic ties into the other topics.

You should draw some kind of mind map in your own mind about the interconnection of the conversation. A really good Buddhist student who gets a teaching is drawing... We're doing a course on AI right now.

We're writing a course on AI right now. They call it the recombinant intelligence. It means how can you recombine topics in original ways that an AI cannot do yet.

A great teacher or a great thinker or a great meditator has a recombinant capacity. They can make really cool connections between completely different topics. That's what this is.

That's the fifth samuchaya. It's his AI. It's an AI function.

It's what AIs still have to develop, but it's very interesting to be with the child as he learns. As the AI learns, it's very interesting to watch them. They'll get good at it eventually.

All right. Here are some notes, Stanley. We're going to see in one of your readings that this sankhya, which is the Sanskrit for beltam or jeltam.

Ancient translators used the two words, beltam and jeltam, for sankhya. Sankhya means conversation in Sanskrit. Some translators of ancient Tibetan took the sam in the Sanskrit and translated it as yam dakpa, which means really good.

Which means really good. Got it? There's three different words for the last category of this huge encyclopedic scripture.

This scripture is very unusual because it ties Abhidharma to Maidong. It ties the guys of the first 700 years to the guys who killed them later. They do a cooperation in this book.

They work together. It's unbelievable. All right, Stanley.

Who's going to read? All right. Let's see.

Is there a problem if Chloe in the room can read? There is a problem, but she's here. You can come up and bring a chair.

Actually, she's a great help, Stanley. I mean, yeah, of course. One of the most helpful people around.

Okay, go for it. Here's your cursor. You can cursor Stanley also if you want.

Go slow, go clear.

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Okay. Okay.

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Nice. Okay. You can hang on if you want.

Stanley might make you read another line. Right? The first she of the K'unle Tupas.

Stanley? K'unle Tupas. The companion.

Yeah, the first she. She. What's she mean?

B-Z-H-I. Four. Okay.

The first four of the five compendia. Right? The first four of the five chapters, basically.

Okay. The first four teach you the Tup.

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Achieving.

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Method. We had it in this week. Upaya.

No, upaya.

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Yeah.

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The method for ascertaining shedjas. Stuff. Yeah, all the stuff you could ever learn.

Okay? The first four samuchayas, the first four chapters of this huge book, teach you how to understand things. Okay?

And it gives you the path. Path means understanding here. And it gives you the dribu.

Yeah, the result of understanding those things. So the first four samuchayas are helping you figure out stuff. So what's the fifth one doing?

K'unle Tupa Ngapa. Okay? Or the Ngape.

The fifth one, which we said was discussion, right? Beltang. Conversation.

Ranggih Nge as a verb, you guys. Ranggih Nge as a verb. You yourself.

Yeah, you figure it out yourself. Verb. You figure it out yourself.

And then you jesud dzinpa other duljaps. Bring your students along with you. Yeah, then you bring your others.

You go out and find students and you help them to follow you. Okay? So that's what the fifth samuchaya ten.

That's what it teaches. That's what it... It teaches the way to teach other students after you figured things out yourself.

Therefore, it's called what?

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Conversation. Nice!

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Therefore, it's a conversation. Got it? It's not a conversation with other people.

It's a conversation with your students. Got it? Cool.

All right. That's why it's called the Book of Conversations. All right.

Cool. I think Stanley... Chloe was begging to read another one.

I don't know. I can hear that. Yeah, I guess.

Incorrect, Stanley. Grandpa's resting. Okay.

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Two minutes. Okay.

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The third... So Vasu... In a strange way, a sangha went to Vasubandhu for the divisions of his book.

Who's Vasubandhu? His half-brother. Okay?

Who wrote the book? He wrote the Abhidharmakosha. I'm okay.

And then he says, he's following, strangely, the older brother is following the structure suggested by the younger brother. And don't forget, the younger brother offered to cut his tongue out because he had wrongly criticized the older brother. Now the older brother's asking the younger brother, who almost cut his tongue out, could you give me a structure for my book?

And he's like, yeah, cool. And here's the third section proposed by Vasubandhu, which is... And by the way, who later came out of the closet as...

Mind-Only. Head of all Mind-Only. I mean, the master of all Mind-Only school.

Much higher school. He came out of the closet late in his life and wrote these unbelievable books about Mind-Only school. Okay?

So, tsikdrön chedso means how do you ché... That's tsikdrön, Stanley. Ché is a form of the verb shepa.

Oh, shepa. B-S-H-A-D. Explain.

Yeah. How do you explain the meaning of words? Third...

The third topic of this huge encyclopedic book is how do you explain the meaning of words. And then he says, sig chik khen jukpa to many döns. One word can explain it to many meanings.

A single word can apply to many meanings. Okay? And then he gives an example.

The word hongpo. It means heaps. Heaps.

Like the five heaps. The five components of a human being. He says, number one, it can mean pungpa.

A pile of... I always think of the leaves, the oak tree leaves that I had to rake for my teacher for 24 years. He taught me pungpa this way.

Okay? So, a huge pile of stuff. Pungpa.

Or, chakpa. Anybody? Quickly, we're out of blood.

Chakpa means shoulder. The shoulder. In ancient Sanskrit, skandha also means shoulder.

So, skandha means to pile up stuff on the floor. And skandha also means your shoulder. It also means dongpo.

A tree trunk? Yeah, a tree trunk. It also means a tree trunk.

Skandha also means a tree trunk. Skandha also means anything with chanyi. Two parts?

Anything with two component parts. Like body and mind. That's also called a skandha.

Then you've got tarikja sepa danyewa. Tarikja means the ends of your hair. Sepa means they wear out.

And then maybe they come back. But anyway, this pile of older men's hair on top, you understand? It's also called skandha.

Skandha. The disarray of an old man's hair is called... You should see my hair.

That's why I don't take a shower before I go to bed, because it would be a disaster. So that's also called skandha. It's called a big, messy pile.

So Kappa used pumbal as jenla pumbal, a mountain of blessings. So anyway, jukpa tabuwa means one word can apply to many different meanings. And that topic is the third of Vasubandhu's five topics.

How do you explain the meaning of a word? And that's extremely important in Buddhism. They have so many meanings.

Sanskrit is like clouds in the sky. And three people will see the word completely different. And they'll say, oh look, there's a ship.

And somebody else will say, no, that's a cockroach in my auntie's closet. And somebody else will say, no, no, that's ice cream. And Sanskrit is famous for being like clouds.

We'll stop there, Stanley. You're going to lead a discussion of why this could possibly be relevant to us. And then, by the way, you're going to translate the next paragraph, don't you?

And the next paragraph, and you're welcome to use words. Because you're a master of words. Okay.

Grandpa's going to go sit down. One last thing. How did we jump to the meaning of words from the last paragraph?

Because Vasubandhu said, if you want to understand this work of my half-brother, you better be sensitive to the fact that the wording can have many meanings, depending on the reader. Okay? One of the topics you're going to have to master said the half-brother, the younger brother, said if you want to really understand the older brother's book, you better understand one thing up front.

One word can apply to many meanings. And maybe purposely. Maybe purposely.

So that students at different levels will get different teachings from the same words. That's really unbelievable. Okay?

He was just explaining about the words conversation, right? No, this is a different... These are not the samuchayas.

This is the fifth... This is the third of Vasubandhu's 5.0, right? It's a different 5.0. But in the last paragraph, we were talking about the last...

the fifth chapter. Yeah, and we finished. Oh, we jumped to the next topic.

I see, I see. Got it. Okay.

All right, I'm going to go sit and eat popcorn, and you're going to have a conversation. And then in 10 minutes, we'll hear the exciting news of our organizations around the world. Okay, bye.

Thank you, thank you, Geshe-la. I'm going to leave the screen on. No, I'm going to turn it off, and if someone comes up to talk to you, Stanley, I'll put them back on.

Okay, bye. We miss you, Stanley. I miss you, too.

Okay, we have nine minutes. Nick and Ben, do we have anything to say before we start? No?

All good? Okay. Cool.

So, what we just did is... What we just did... Let's see.

Yeah, we reviewed the five chapters of this book, and we talked about the 12 categories, or 12 ways to divide different teachings by Lord Buddha. And then we jumped into... What does it mean to have a conversation?

Oh, no, no, no, sorry. Geshe-la said the first four chapters of this book, I may need to understand things, different topics. And the fifth one is how we can learn these things and teach our students.

Then we came to this place where Master Bandhu talks about how the importance of understanding words in different ways. That's where we are right now. We went through some lists, as usual in these classes.

Anyone have any insight from any list or any part of the list? Did you get anything from it? Anyone want to share something?

Some insight? Anything? Music.

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Oh, it's already on. Can you hear me?

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Yes, please.

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Okay, cool. Yeah, the list... All I have to say is that it was cool to be reminded of what all is out there, and you can kind of think what would be helpful for me today.

As we were going through it, the one that stood out for me today was about the teachings on the different karmic correlations. I was like, oh, I want to go home and look at some of those. It's just nice to get a full list, get a reminder of all the things that you have available to you.

That was helpful. Yeah.

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Cool, cool, cool. Yeah, in my experience, karmic correlations and the stories are usually one of the first things that attract people's attention to this wisdom, to make them understand what's the meaning of the actions in everyday life, and what's the result of those, which is important to know. Cool.

Thank you, Lindsay. Anyone else? This class is so exciting.

So many lists. I was feeling that this thing about the categories is really like a key point, because we really first seem to need to learn how to really put the shelves, and really that structures our mind, that really puts some kind of axis, some structure to the whole teaching that the Buddha wants to give or that we have to eventually learn. But if we just learn things and we don't have the categories, the structure, it's really a teaching these days, trying to understand the shelves we have to later start filling up, filling in with everything we're learning, everything we're understanding, and say, oh, this goes here, this goes there.

And then that gives us a real understanding of things. So I think it has to do with something very crucial and important that for sure in the beginning of a book we're going to get. If not, it's not just a ball of ideas that we don't know really how to put together and then really put into practice.

Yeah, great. Thank you. I totally agree.

Yeah, I like this map thing, to know where we are right now and where we can go in the future. What's the routes in the map where we can travel through different topics. Those really give me comfort when I study these ancient books.

I know where I am. It feels good to have them. And then you can easily pull different parts out and use it for yourselves or for other people.

It's really cool. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other insightful idea? We have four minutes.

Here comes somebody. Hey. Oh, it's the fixer.

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Hi. Hey. I like the...

So when we were going over those 12 and when Word was talking about them, it just reminded me of all the... I love stories. And I love how we were talking about in the fifth one, how you sort of like...

The fifth samachaya, how you sort of like... How do you connect? How do you put all those things together?

How do you connect to your life, really?

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And so in like 96, I was in New York City reading The Door to the Diamond Way. And in the back, there's all these... The footnotes are the best.

And there was things like, if you learn this, you could get these magical powers of like walking through walls and speed. And I was very... I'm Irish and mystical.

And I thought, oh, this is amazing. I totally... This is...

It's just all of these things which can reach any student at any point, at any time. They're all available there. And so all of like the ling shes, is that what it is?

Like the stories of the original incidents. And so I often connect the teachings to stories and then how they apply to my life at different times of my life. And so I think as we're teaching, we have to do that.

As we're teaching to somebody, trying to find something that resonates within us in order to sort of like help anyone else who's sort of like where we were 25, 10, last year, months ago, or something like that. So that's why I super enjoyed those. So, yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, Rob. That's funny because I just talked to someone in Guangzhou who also studied this system.

And she's like a kind of famous designer who has a lot of creative ideas. But she told us that what got her on, got her into this path is when she learned about all the categories of things in the world. That blew her mind.

It's not nothing mystical, but very thorough. But she had a mystical mind. But when she heard that all you can actually learn about all the categories of everything in this universe, then she's like, I mean, it's like all these 12 can attract different students in the best way they could.

It's really cool. Yeah. And often they're very pragmatic and very sort of like just do the following steps to reach this goal.

Yeah. As Master Suga mentioned in the chat box, earlier in the box, and in a class, he put this 12 and make it into 12 ways of thanking people and receiving gratitude. That's something we can think about.

It's a cultural mining thing. It's in DCI. Suga, right?

It's in DCI 12, as you mentioned. 11. 11?

He's agreeing. You agree? DCI 12 up to 11.

DCI 12. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up to 11, yeah.

It's amazing. When I saw that, I was like, whoa, how you can connect this two random thing together and make it logical and helpful for people. That's very cool.

That's something we can learn to do also. All right. I think the time is up.

Where's our famous world news? Let's see. Hey.

Thank you, Stanley. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, live translators.

It's great. No, I don't have anything important to say. Just thanking you.

Is it true? Do we have world news standing by? I think so.

Yes, yes. Here I am. Good.

Okay. Wonderful. Thank you, Juan.

All you. Take it away. All right.

Thank you, Ben. Thank you, Stanley. Thank you so much.

Today is just a quick reminder that may help you to organize your year if you are interested to attend live or online as well to many of the upcoming events for this year. We would like to start from a few teachings that Geshe Michael himself is going to be teaching around the world. And number one is very close.

It's coming up very soon. It's going to happen in April from the 12th to the 21st. This one is going to happen in Arizona in our wonderful, beautiful retreat in Diamond Mountain, Bowie, Arizona.

So you still have time maybe to plan for this trip. This may be like a month from now if you want to make it. I think actually now because it's so successful, you will have to camp if you want to be there live.

But you can always take it online. Those are the latest news here. Maybe things change, but you will have to contact them to check.

Yeah, there it is in the chat. It's sold out except for camping. So you can camp.

I have camp. It can be great. It depends on you.

But you know it's coming up on April the 12th to the 21st. After that, Geshe Michael will be again in this kind of series, The Steps on the Path. He will teach in Mexico from July 26th to the 28th.

Wonderful country to be, Mexico. This time, the Mexican organizers are testing a new location, and they are going to try to surprise you all very soon with more exciting news. Apparently, it's not going to be in Guadalajara, but somewhere nearby Mexico City.

You will get to hear more about that soon. But you can use the QR code if you are, how to say, so excited to find out. Next, after Mexico, following in this series, Geshe-la is going to be going to Kyoto, Japan on December, December the 2nd to the 7th.

And I have here great things about Kyoto, about Japan in general. Great projects are being cooked there. So you can also plan ahead and get there.

So these are the teachings on the series of The Steps on the Path for this year. But now we want to share a few very, very close events happening connected to the World Wide Worldview Network. As you may know, Ward Smith is teaching a course on energy medicine.

We are starting tomorrow, so you have maybe your last chance to sign up. It could be today. I think the course is going to be great.

It's going to be made out of five classes through, I think it's three weeks, two weeks, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So check it out. Probably it's going to be very, very cool.

I have already signed up. Thank you, Ward. We are excited to see how it is.

Then on March the 17th, the Sedona College of International Management is launching the Level 10. You can still go for the application for Impossible Anger. Noor was talking about this a few days ago with us during our monthly program.

It seems that it's going to be very, very cool. She was inviting people to register if you're interested. You can do the QR code, and we still have, like, let's say five days, six days, about a week for this to start.

So you're still in good time to check it out. Starting on March 17th. And Noor is also running this cool project that Getshi, Michael, and Veronica came up with.

It's the Michael and Veronica Rauch Foundation. They support all kinds of altruists and very, very nice projects. If you want to sign up for their mailing list, you can use this QR code.

Then you're going to start getting more information of the new events, what's happening, what new projects they may be supporting or fundraising for or, you know, just coming up in general. I think this is it. Oh, yeah.

Now one more thing. You can still make it. Yeah.

There is going to be some other teachings. These are being organized mostly by Tim Lowenhaupt. He's going to be teaching some courses on Kyoto starting on March 19th to the 23rd.

Yeah, I think it's a great chance for people in Asia to get there, get to spend a nice time in Kyoto. The spring is coming and hear these wonderful, wonderful, beautiful teachings. If for any reason you cannot make it this time, there is going to be another one in June.

So you can start planning your schedule. You can start planning your trips, details, and maybe see you there in June. Okay, so now we have a special interview.

A very good friend of us, very famous. You're going to know. You're going to recognize him as soon as he appears on the screen.

He's going to tell us a little bit about himself and a very cool event he is planning in Taiwan. Is Gibson around? Hi, everyone.

Hello, Gibson. How are you? Yeah, I'm pretty good.

How are you? Good, good. Good to see you.

Good to see you. Thank you for coming to the program. Very good to see you.

Finally, we were able to schedule with you. Yeah, thank you for inviting me. My pleasure.

So the purpose of this little talk is a little bit for the people and the audience to get to know more about the translators that are part of the MixNut team. And also for, of course, to get to know what you are planning these days. What are other projects you are cooking, preparing for this beautiful world.

So maybe can you start telling us a little bit of your personal story on when did you... First, maybe let's say how did you ever first meet these teachings? And then how did you develop an interest in translating and then you make it into one of the MixNuts?

OK, so we can start a story from the 2011. In that time, I helped my family run a small business. My mom and my dad, they have a noodle store, like a noodle restaurant in my hometown.

So since I'm young, I'm helping them to cook the noodle and wrap the wonton. Have you heard of wonton before? No, but I didn't know you were...

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It's a Chinese special noodle.

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And I don't know what to do. And my dad suggested me to go to his friend's company and do the insurance. And one day I just sit there eating the brunch and one guy showed up and gave me the name card.

And after a few days later, I bumped into the sharing and a lady on the stage started to share the book called Democritus. And in that time, I don't know what to do. And I don't know the purpose of my life because I see my dad was so late and worked so hard.

He usually worked till 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in the midnight. And he usually visited the hospital. And so I'm thinking, what's the purpose of my life?

And I'm so glad in that time I read that book. My friend and the lady introduced this book to me. So I just googled it online and happened to know that one of the Geisha Michael students, Nimbo, is coming to Taiwan.

And I have a chance to hear and know that Geisha Michael is coming to Taiwan after D3 level 4. And since then, I started to volunteer for the event, for the organizer. And after a few years later, they announced their special event in Mexico, in Yohontau, Guadalajara.

And that's a very mysterious experience for me because I've never been abroad. And this is my first time to Mexico. And in that time, the event is held in the Akila town.

It's a very beautiful chapel. And it's like a paradise. And I remember everyone used to do the aqua yoga and play the music and go into the teaching.

And that is the first time I learned Long Ring in Tibetan. And I remember in that time, Geisha was teaching the Xienian Dantou, how to rely on your teacher. And I was so amazed by the teaching immediately.

And I was also attracted by the language. So in that time, very few people attended. And I have a chance to work with, to sign up a section with Geisha.

And to ask how to learn this language. Yeah. And after a few years, they have SCCN training.

And Emily is applied SCCN and I also applied SCCN. But unfortunately, I was rejected by Seiji. Me too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was so jealous about Emily. And I was so envious that she could go to have the training.

But after that tour, Emily told me, do you know they have another program upstairs? It's called Mixed Arts. And you can learn Tibetan and you can learn the ancient language.

And he said, you don't need any interview. So I said, yeah, definitely. I want to go.

And so Emily is sort of one of the person who introduced me to the Mixed Arts program. So I joined that time. And I immerse myself in the scriptorium and Prince on Sea.

And I have to thank my first Tibetan language teacher who showed me how to read. And he also tutored me for several months. That's wonderful.

Gibson, thank you for sharing. I didn't know that story. I appreciate it very much.

So use everything beginning at noodle restaurant. That's wonderful. And then you get the book out of nowhere.

And then you got this, find out that some people were coming. Great, great story. Came to Mexico, meet Geshe-la.

That's wonderful. So congratulations, because I think you have learned a lot of Tibetan. I think you're getting really, really good at it.

So thank you very much for all the work and energy you're putting into helping this planet. Thank you so much. And speaking of that, I hear from you that you're planning a very cool event.

You're helping to organize this event that's happening in Taipei. You want to show? Should we show the video first?

Or do you want to talk about it? Yeah, I will talk about for 30 seconds. Because in the past, Geshe-la can come to each city once a year.

But right now, due to a lot of programs happening at the same time, maybe he can only come three or five years at one time. So Max, our organizer in Taiwan, he has a thought. Maybe we can invite other teachers to come and teach us this crucial wisdom.

So we plan to invite this very holy teacher, Geshe-la, to come and teach us how to do the meditation to build our habit of meditation. Okay, so we're going to show you the video. It's a wonderful video.

Congratulations for the production team on that video. Let's check it out.

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Here we are at this place where people need something that gives them a meaning other than going to work, making a ton of money and raising their families. The rapidity of our life is just ridiculous. The whole online dynamic of life in an instant where we can call anybody in a New York minute, that's magical, but it's also stressful.

The movement of our actions on the planet had exponentially gone higher, and it distracts us from other parts of our personal growth. So I think people are looking for answers other than fixes.

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We're creating everything that's happening in this room from something from our past. You are the one that determines exactly where you'll be. You are responsible to yourself to design what you would like and remove what you don't like about your existence here in your life.

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We're projecting our reality. And those practices that were taught and given to us were proven over thousands of years to be the functioning systems that could potentially transform your body. And the perceptions of how your reality functions.

You get deep tastes of that.

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Follow your passion. Don't lose your dream. Wow, thank you very much.

Amazing, amazing production video. It looks like that. How's a trailer for a documentary?

I really, really like it. So if people are interested to attend to these teachings, who should they talk to? They can they contact you or who should they contact?

They can search the social media for the Mining Club and they should find the events link. OK, great to know. We'll talk to you again soon to know how things are going or how did it go.

But thank you very much for spending some time with us, Gibson, and for sharing your personal story, how you went to become a translator. And we want to wish you the best luck in this career you're beginning. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you very much. And we'll go back with Seiji and Geshe Michael for the next class.

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Thank you. It looks like they're getting in position now.

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Thank you so much for an awesome presentation. It looks like people are ready. That's not Seiji.

It looks just like Seiji, but it's a little bit better looking. Mr. Kramer, do you mind if we sing a happy birthday song to a certain Ellie? I'd be so happy.

OK, here we go. Anjali is going to lead the song.

[Говорящий 2]
One, two, three. Ellie. Happy birthday to you.

[Говорящий 1]
We're going to eat that cake for you.

[Говорящий 2]
OK, don't worry.

[Говорящий 1]
OK, but we have to make the wish. She makes the wish, you blow the candles. Tell us when we're ready to blow.

[Говорящий 2]
One, two, ready? Are you ready? One, two, three.

[Говорящий 1]
Choose a number between one and 400, basically.

[Говорящий 2]
Two, two, two. Two, two, two. Yeah.

That's one of my favorite numbers, because it looks like three swans swimming in a row.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, OK. Let's see what it says. Oh, so actually that page is a picture of the road to the institution where which Dromton Jeh built with the Lord Atisha to study mostly lojong.

It happens to be the place where they taught Seiji's book. Seiji's book, his first book, which he spent seven or eight years on, is about to come out. I don't know how you chose it, but thank you for the advertising time.

It's called The Crown of Knives, and it's eight years of work. We're just finishing it this week, so cool. All right.

[Говорящий 2]
You must have a question.