Стэнли Чен — Книга 2: Красноречивые слова о сути океана высшего знания (Гьялцаб Чже о «Своде высшего знания» — Абхидхарма-самуччае), занятие 11

[Speaker 1]
Juan, did you hear that? We can get in. I'm taking notes, taking notes.

Can you tell us maybe about what you have upcoming with CSP? Can you tell us what CSP is? I'll give you an Abhidharma style answer.

I'll give you an Abhidharma style answer. A list. Number one.

It's been going on for eight years. It's been going on for eight years. Number two.

Over 200 successful graduates. Over 200 successful graduates. And they are number three.

They are helping the world in a very unique way. They are helping the world in a very unique way. Including the amazing project, DSEU.

Including the amazing project, DSEU. Number four. It's a real big family of wisdom and love.

It's a real big family of wisdom and love. Last point, number five. Group four is happening in ten days.

Group four is happening in ten days. What is the main difference? What would attract someone to either DSEU or CSP?

What would be the main differences there? CSP, DSEU. We can't do an Abhidharma answer.

Okay. Cannot. Just simple, simple answer.

CSP is as good as DSEU. CSP is as good as DSEU. Which one is better?

[Speaker 2]
Or $100?

[Speaker 1]
Which one is better? Pizza? Or Mapo Tofu?

Pizza. Both are awesome. That's my answer.

So when's the next program for CSP coming? When's the next program for CSP coming? Shenzhen, China.

June. June. 9th.

Yeah, that's the date. Mark it. And we still have less than ten seats left.

And we still have less than ten seats left. And there are actually twenty on waiting list. And there are actually twenty on waiting list.

So we are making the final decision. So we are making the final decision. Still a chance.

Don't miss it. Don't miss it. Who should someone contact if they wanted to possibly apply?

Who should someone contact if they wanted to possibly apply? I think we have a QR code. Do you have a QR code?

But contacting any CSP student is the best way. But contacting any CSP student is the best way. They are the messenger.

They are the messenger. I have Stanley's personal phone number here. Let's stop the show right now.

I have Stanley's personal phone number here. We have a great longer conversation. So we look forward to having longer conversations with CSP and DSCU in the longer show for Peace Tree World News in July.

So we look forward to having longer conversations with CSP and DSCU Last thing. Nothing can happen without the vision of Geshe Michael. Wishing, is it?

The vision. Nothing can happen without the vision of Geshe Michael. And all of us thank him very, very much.

And all of us thank Geshe Michael very, very much. All right, Juan. Any closing remarks before we head into the next class?

Just thank you very much. I'm sorry, Juan. I'm kidding.

No, you're right. Juan, you can get back to him later. Don't worry.

We need to start discussing your race, Rob.

[Speaker 2]
Is that it? Anything else from you? And do you have a QR code for their upcoming July yet for Peace Tree World News?

Or should we stand by? We have to stand by. We have to stand by.

[Speaker 1]
All right, Juan.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for tuning in to Peace Tree World News. And now we would like to invite up Geshe Michael Roach. And I believe Stanley.

And Stanley. Okay. We're like 15 minutes late.

[Speaker 2]
It's okay.

[Speaker 1]
Rock and roll. Let me see. Homework.

Homework. Oh, cool. Welcome to the Abhidharma Samuccaya class.

Yeah. Can you give a background? Yeah, sure, sure.

For Melissa. Okay, okay. Oh my gosh.

This is a perfect book for accounting work. There's a lot of important details. And then they are mostly presented in the way of lists.

A lot of different lists. So the content of this book, the subject of this book, you can say it's a crossover between lower Abhidharma and higher Abhidharma. Abhidharma means higher knowledge.

It means once you gain this knowledge, it will take you to higher places. For example, the concept of nirvana beyond grief in Nick's class. And then this book we are studying now is the mind-only version, the higher version of Abhidharma.

Yeah. It's written by Master Arya Sangha. Commentated by the same commentator of Nick's class.

So here comes the questions. Now, the questions. According to our incredible commentator, Gyaltsar Jay, what are the nine purposes of this book?

But there's some hint here, okay? Trying to be nice. So you can try to guess the blank part.

Number one, to make our readers a master of the path of all three. Schools? Tracks?

Scopes? Nope. Methods?

Close. Ways, yeah. Listeners?

Self-made Buddhas? And Bodhisattva. Okay, number two.

To make the Hinayana practitioners get better at what? Their own system. Motivation.

Somebody said motivation. Vinaya? No.

It's a little bit insulting, by the way. Bread? Bad bread?

Bread. At understanding their own system. Than before, sorry.

Okay. By the way, I'm sorry to interrupt, but there are refreshments for everybody at the door. So, if you are feeling weak by this class, you're welcome to take a break and go get some refreshments.

It's the cause for higher knowledge. Okay, so number three. To ease the Hinayana practitioners into the...

[Speaker 2]
Mahayana?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Mahayana, basically. Unmistakenly. Okay.

All things are self's job, by the way. Okay. Snacks for my guest.

Okay, number four. To make sure the one who already entered the higher way understands. Higher way means Mahayana here.

Higher way means Mahayana here. Okay. Understands.

No. No. No.

Oh, I see, I see, I see. Got you, got you. Sorry.

It's different from my screen somehow. Okay. Okay.

The answer is... So they just entered Mahayana, but they don't really understand it yet. They thought they understand, but they don't.

Yeah. Cool. So, number five.

To interpretate law Buddha's statement which are misunderstood by. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't say.

Sorry. She kind of revealed the answer. Anyway, so it's by Hinayana.

Mistakenly understood by Hinayana. So it's also a book of Chang'e, can I say? In this case.

Yeah, yeah. To satisfy people who like short. Short pants.

Presentation. So you can guess the next one. This also satisfy people who like.

Extensive. Extensive. Longer.

To restore the sutras that were. And to spread those.

[Speaker 2]
To restore what had deteriorated and spread what had.

[Speaker 1]
Suga is talking. Your voice is a little low by the way.

[Speaker 2]
To restore what had degenerated.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, yes. Basically, yes. It's word.

Yes. Lost or corrupted. And can you guess what's the next one?

To spread those who which.

[Speaker 2]
Spread those that were intact.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they're good. Which were not. Should be.

To spread those that were not lost or corrupted. Last one. You will attain Z.

And V. And V. By mastering the topics.

S. Shamatha. V.

Vipasyana. Vipasyana. By mastering how many topics?

Lots.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe.

[Speaker 1]
35. Okay, now you cannot stop. You will ask.

Yeah. Three groups. Five.

12. 18.

[Speaker 2]
Heaps doors of sense and categories.

[Speaker 1]
Nick just told us.

[Speaker 2]
Heaps. Heaps. He's chewing.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, he's working on something else. 12.

[Speaker 2]
Doors of sense.

[Speaker 1]
Doors of sense. Yeah, it's typical Abhidhamma, this. And 18.

Categories. Okay, last question. According to another great ancient commentator, Master Jinna Mitra, there are three plus one benefits of mastering this list.

And these benefits are great, unexpected, powerful. However, the list seems long and boring and unattractive. But the benefits are great.

So my question is, what are the three benefits? Two plus one.

[Speaker 2]
Joe? Quickly, then something that helps you in the long term or big term.

[Speaker 1]
Great guess. Great guess and wrong. Dinara?

Dinara. We actually mentioned it a little bit, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
It will improve your mental faculties.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
That's the first one, and the second one, it will help with any questions that you may have.

[Speaker 1]
These two you can group into one, actually. Yeah, so that's one, that's one. You got the plus one part.

Yeah, what's the two? Yeah, it's the sh, viz, and sh. V and sh.

Vipashyana and Samatha, yeah. So that's the two. So this is Arjuna.

By the way, there's a... Oh, yeah. We just went through the Samatha part.

And the next two translations of student practice is the Vipashyana and the answering question part. OK. OK.

I'll just read this part. For the increase of deep concentration, which is Samatha, you will gain it because by mastering this 35, you have mastered without obstacles all kinds of topics for your contemplation. Perfect.

And you will be able to direct your mind to any topic at will. And effortlessly reach the balance between dullness and agitation. So this is a good list to go through.

And then now I will show the student translation to Geshe-la. Should I read it? Can you please read?

Yeah, OK. We'll do. OK.

I'll read it. OK. OK, OK, OK.

Yeah, funny. Yeah, good. So there were two benefits of studying this book, basically.

And one of them was to ... je su tungpa means it's ... it's ...

what do you call it? Conducive to developing hlak tung. je su tungpa means hlak tung is the translation of vipashyana.

Vip means very much. Pashya means to see. Vipashyana means seeing very well.

And it's understanding of ... emptiness. And there's a teacher in Burma who didn't get ...

he didn't get the full teaching. So he created a thing called vipashyana meditation. And I was one of his first students 50 years ago.

But the real meaning is understanding emptiness. Yeah, and if you shejyayong su tabpa what's that? Oh, thorough investigation of many kinds of objects, right?

Then your wisdom goes to a higher level. And that's the benefit of increasing ... yeah, you can say of increasing insight.

So, Abhidharma is one of the most ancient teachings of all Buddhism. Basically, it lasted for 700 years. From 500 BC up to 280.

And it's called higher knowledge. And the people who studied these topics from Buddha, we call ... the jokers, we call them the accountants.

Accountants, okay? Because they were very deliberate, and they were very interested in making lists of things. And I studied it my first 12 years.

In the Geshe course, I did 12 years of Abhidharma first. And it's very dry. It's many, many lists of things.

But what he says here, if you learn to work through these lists, you will understand emptiness. So, that's a good sales pitch. It makes you patient to go through the list.

And I never heard that argument, but I like it. Next one Stanley, can you read it yourself? Good.

Good. ... Good.

So, belway tam is an ancient, ancient word for discussion. And we are in the middle of a quotation from about ... 15 centuries ago.

What did I say yesterday? What did I say yesterday? ...

What's the language? English. Okay?

That's 500 years old English. So, imagine 10 times older than that. Okay, and the language is unbelievable difficult.

Okay. Like if you try to read Tang Chao Chinese, right? Like, almost impossible.

So, 600 years ago, they were making the final decision which translation to use. Right. And there were different translator groups like mixed nuts.

And Tsongkapa and his students, they had several alternate translations from different groups. ... The translations which were chosen were carved onto wood.

600,000 blocks. Each block takes a few months to carve. Extremely expensive.

Only the king could do it. Those books which got carved onto blocks survive up to now. And those books that were not chosen for carving are gone.

... Those books in John Brady's database survive. The books which we couldn't find to input are gone.

So, you see it here, T-E-N-G. This is an alternate translation from a thousand years ago. And we have this because John Brady has been working for 37 years.

He saved 12 million pages. And it's priceless. So, one translation says belwetam, one translation says yangdapetam.

And belwetam just means discussion. And it's one of the methods of learning wisdom. ...

And it's a recognition that talking with wise people and discussing is a great educational method. ... Yeah, so the benefits of ...

Stanley translated discussion presenting the benefits of correct ascertainment. Okay. But what the sentence says is the benefit of figuring things out by discussion.

Yeah, the point of this approach inside of this book ... ... kyepay jiwa means when smart people question you.

Yeah, you will be able to lung dunpa. You'll be able to make a pronouncement. This is an important idiom.

LUNG BSTAN PA. I'll give $500 if you can tell me where it's found. LUNG BSTAN PA is a very important idiom.

$500. Neutral. Prophecy.

Wait, slow down. You're there. You'll get the money if you just slow down.

What's it mean? LUNG BSTAN PA It means prophesied by the Buddha or said by him. Yeah, it means the Buddha made a pronouncement.

The Buddha said it's like this. So, word, to get the whole money, you have to say there's three kinds of ... Karma.

Karma, okay. There's gewa and there's migewa. What's that?

Virtuous and non-virtuous. Yeah, good karma and bad karma. Good karma, save the life of an animal.

Bad karma, eat their body. Then there's some kinds of karma in between those two. And in Buddhism, those are called LUNG MA BSTAN.

This is the verb here. LUNG MA BSTAN. What's the literal meaning word to wrap up your $500 profit?

Not explicitly said by the Buddha. Yeah, he didn't clarify. So, it's not technically correct, but generally, if he didn't clarify this is a good karma or this is a bad karma, we can assume it's a neutral karma.

Give me an example of the result of a neutral karma. The pattern on the floor in that building. Yeah, the pattern on this carpet.

Like if I asked you tomorrow, can you draw the pattern on this carpet? You will say, look, I noticed some pattern, I can't remember what it was. It didn't hurt me, it didn't help me.

That's a result of a neutral karma. And so, those neutral karmas are called not-proclaimed. Hey, Word, you want to make an extra hundred bucks?

Definitely. There's another list of LUNG MA BSTAN. If you can give me the number, I'll give you a hundred bucks.

[Speaker 2]
Fourteen.

[Speaker 1]
Damn.

[Speaker 2]
Oh yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
A hundred bucks, actually. Yeah, there's fourteen questions that Buddha refused to answer during his life. For example, people said, is there a beginning to the world or not?

Is there a creation or not? He said, what's for lunch? He don't want to answer.

There's fourteen famous questions he refused to answer. Because either answer he says, the other person he knows will misunderstand. Because he knows that no matter what answer he gives, the listener will misunderstand his answer.

So, this LUNG BSTAN PA is a very deep expression. And what it says here is, if you study this innumerable list in this book ... Innumerable meaning?

No counting. You will be able to LUNG BSTAN PA. Anybody, any smart person asks you a question, you'll be answered.

You'll be able to LUNG BSTAN PA. You will have the tu. What's tu?

Mystical power. Yeah, it means power, but there are many words for power, and tu means mystical power. So, he's comparing the ability to give good answers to questions to almost like the power of a Buddha.

Oh, I see. And that power has another name. It's called min jikpa.

Which means what? Fearless? Yeah, that's Ellie's ordination.

Her nun's name is min jikpa, basically. Unscarable. Cannot scare her.

Even you tell her the tax records are missing, she's unscarable. Here it means you feel very comfortable when people ask you tough questions. And in Buddhism, as a teacher, that's a very desirable thing.

And the Geshe course itself is designed to create that. So, we debate for three, four hours every day. For 25 years.

Then if some DSAU student asks you tough questions, you don't get nervous. It's called min jikpa here. It's very important.

Okay, so that's why discussion is a big part of Abhidharma. Yeah, okay. That's it, Geshe-la.

Okay, good. Alright, should I go to my screen? Yeah, I should give you this.

How do I do that? This way. You got to stick it over here, I think.

Can I give it this way, on your right? Yeah. Alright.

Yes. Alright, good luck. Let's see here.

Okay. Good? Let's wait for Ivan.

Yeah, I got it. Okay. Good?

Yeah, there.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, good.

[Speaker 1]
I want to do this thing. Where's that guy? Oh, here we go.

Okay, good. Now we got a pointer. Alright.

Yeah, we finished this one. Okay, so we finished this. And by the way, here in Mixed Nuts we have a rule.

When somebody quotes an ancient book, we go find it in John Brady's database. DSAU has a course running this week called Knowledge Management or Database Creation. And we've been discussing the many, many steps to create a database.

Any kind of database. Okay. I'm sorry, hang on.

What's that? Here, right? Okay, Stanley, who's going to read?

Just to honor the California rock star. Yeah, good. When a sentence ends in shen na, it generally means ...

It's a question. Yeah, if you ask. Somebody may ask ...

What is the shi that you want to become kepa in? What is the piece that you want to become wise about? Yeah, what's the foundation?

Foundation, I can see it. What's the stuff you want to be wise about? So, abhidharma means higher knowledge.

It survived for 700 years after the Buddha. It's very many long lists of information. And it's very dry, but very deep.

And then 18 centuries ago, 700 years after the Buddha, there came two great brothers in India. The story of how they were born is ... maybe you know it, it's very interesting.

But they were half-brothers. They wrote many great books, classics. And about 2,000 years later, that's 60% of the Geshe course.

This author, Arya Sangha, he wrote a book, 75 pages. And it's the first book we study in the Geshe course. You have to memorize it.

And it takes 12 years to finish 75 pages. It's extremely deep. And so, he took the 700 years of information, and he said, you guys didn't understand it for 700 years.

And then he explained it in a new way. And that's called the Mind-Only School. And it's extremely beautiful and extremely difficult.

So, what you have in Stanley's book, 700 years of dry, long lists, reinterpreted by a rock star. And then it becomes incredibly amazing. And exciting.

And why we chose this book is this copy was found in the Dunhuang Caves of China, which is about 16 centuries old. Yes. And we are studying these cave libraries.

We are saving a lot of those books. And we have a secret project. Those cave libraries are unbelievable.

And they are dug into rock in the Gobi Desert. And the whole cave is painted, especially the ceiling is painted. And they are extraordinary art.

And we have a plan to copy them in Diamond Mountain. So, we are actually drilling our own caves. And we have the same rock formation we have at Diamond Mountain.

And we want to create a copy of the Dunhuang Caves. Because me and Stanley decided we don't have enough projects. And Melissa doesn't have enough accounting to do.

So, we create another project.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
We'll let you know more about it later. Okay, so the question comes, what do you want me to study? And then how do I study?

So, there's information, and then there's meditation and study. So, his whole book is divided into information, and then deep methods of study. So, now we reach the point, he said, the information side, forget the meditation side for now.

Forget about which part? Forget the meditation part. Let's focus on the information, the data.

Can you teach me about the information? Then teach me how to meditate on the information. And we're at the beginning of the book.

This translation will take at least 30 years. Okay, and we're starting at the beginning. What's the basic information?

Here's the ... which is called shi or vastu here. So, Stanley's going to choose someone to read.

President ... Oh, Madame President. Oh, okay.

For reading, it's pretty good, actually. Shi? Yeah.

I couldn't see clearly. Okay. Ni tang nam pa nye pa tang chak pa tsu sum mam.

Nice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, good.

[Speaker 1]
So, here starts Liz, okay? Shi means basic information. Basically, the information is divided into so-nga.

sum chu so-nga 35? Yeah, 35. Yeah, 35 parts.

What are the 35 parts? This is standard for all Abhidharma. Stanley will translate.

pungpo ngar Yeah, the five parts of a person. Which in the ancient language are called skanda or heaps. skanda pung dang ge go rik gi dung pungpo kye chi gam nam yin I had to memorize the first four chapters of this mother book.

And pung means a big pile of things. Each one of the five parts of you has many parts of its own. So, they are called piles.

And there are five basic parts to all people. So, we'll be studying the five basic parts of all people. Then we'll study the 18 categories.

I'm not going to go into detail because we don't have time. But Stanley knows. He translated this part already.

And 12 what? Total 12, 18, 5? 35 topics.

We'll be studying 35 topics. du ma ... du means how many.

chi che means why? Okay, and he says it all starts with how many and why? What's that refer to Stanley?

Do you remember? The 35, no? It's ...

Yeah, it's the opening lines. I'll tell you the opening lines of his book, his 30-year project. du ...

ji which means how many? And then the second topic. ji jir ...

he? Why? Okay, so here's the book.

You ready? What? Why?

Okay, that's the beginning of the book. And that's the first section of the book. He says what and why is answered by the 35.

And there's a what and why statement that opens the book. That statement has 12 parts. I think I have it here.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Yeah, you better get used to this. No, that's a different ... I can say du dang, right?

I can look for ... du dang No Here it is, okay? Yeah, so here's the opening lines of his book.

It starts with du ... ji jir ... how many?

Why? And we are very fortunate that some Japanese scholars found the Sanskrit. So, here's the Sanskrit for the same.

You ready? kati kati kasmat It means what? How many?

Okay, got it. All right, now we got to find where I was. ji jir ...

let's go to ji jir. Mmm Come on, I know you're in there. A lot of ji jirs.

Is it? Okay. That's a different one.

Yeah, okay. So, basically 12 parts to the summary. Only the master accountant is going like this, you know?

Oh, listen, like ... Oh, yeah. Five parts, 18, 12.

Now you got the second 12. Okay. And he says, if you want to add the ascertainment, it's 13.

Okay, so we already started making lists. And here's the summary that we talked about. At the beginning of the book.

Here's the ancient Sanskrit. Okay. And here we go.

Who do you want to read? By the way, we're going to go a little bit over time, maybe 10 minutes. We started late due to the amazing interview with Edmond and Sonia.

Okay. Mr. Takahashi. Takahashi.

Yeah. All right. Okay.

DE LA PHYIR RGYAS BA'I PHYIR RGYAS BA'I PHYIR RGYAS BA'I RNAMS PA CHUG PHRAD BSAM PAR BYA BA'I GNAS LA SKYES PAR BYA BA YIN LA Good. DE LA PHYIR RGYAS BA'I means the latter part, meaning the ... it's called the ascertainment.

Okay. DE LA PHYIR RGYAS BA'I So, he has skipped from the twelve topics, and skipped through the thirty-five other topics, to the last four extra topics. Which makes a total of sixteen extra topics.

And these are ZHI, or BSAM PAR BYA BA'I GNAS. Data or information. Which in Buddhism means subject of your meditation.

So, just remember we're talking about data, and we're talking about meditation on the data. If you study all these categories, you will become SKYES PAR. Okay, what's SKYES PAR?

What's the Sanskrit for SKYES PAR? Acharya. You can say acharya.

Sometimes you can say bandhita. Okay. Okay, Stanley, do you want to say something?

Do you want to read this next sentence? Yeah. Okay.

Good. SKYES PAR BYA BA'I GNAS LA SKYES PAR BYA BA YIN NA Yeah. So, you might ask ...

Naturally, you might ask the question, what's the gupa? Why should I become a master? And he says, ZHES BYA THAMS CAD All existing things, MED PA are made into nothing.

Therefore, you have to study them. All existing things are made into nothing. Therefore, you have to study them.

And it means you have to reach the point where you see that there are no existing things. Raise your left hand. Point your finger.

Ready? Point to one thing in this room that is not coming from your mind. Then you're supposed to look confused.

Then you have to go like this. Everything coming from mind. There's nothing don't come from my mind.

That's what he's talking about here. You have to study these lists until they disappear. Very deep.

Okay? When they disappear, you are done. Because you are seeing emptiness directly.

It's very deep. So, the reason to study the list is so they can disappear. Which feels very good after all that trouble.

Up to there, you're going to have to go through twelve things. Then there's NAM POR NGES PA. It's the last four chapters.

The first chapter covers the list. Now we're going to five chapters. Different lists.

And it's very confusing. We've been to eighteen categories. Twelve doors of sense.

Five skandhas. Then we went to, I don't know, twelve ... nine or twelve reasons to study the book.

And you can expand that here to sixteen. And it's not stupid, okay? The last four parts, the last four chapters of the five chapters of this huge difficult book, they are called NAM POR NGES PA.

VINISH CHAD VINISH CHAD And it means ascertainment. To see them. To see them.

Now, if you remember, we talked about data and meditation. So, there's one chapter. Long, boring, difficult, many divisions.

First chapter is the data. And the last four chapters are really fun. And there I say, how do you see the data?

For a hundred dollars. This guy helped invent the mind-only school. So, when he talks about the data and the mind which sees the data, a hundred dollars.

According to him, where is the data? Where is she? In the refrigerator.

Yeah, Rob got it. Okay? Yeah, what's the refrigerator?

Can you explain? Rob, to earn your money or give it back. It's the place where your seeds reside, I guess, would be the way to say, I think.

In this school, there's part of your mind where all the seeds you ever created by how you treat other people are stored. And that's called storehouse consciousness. alaya visnyana Okay, and in there are all your karmic seeds.

The walls of the refrigerator itself were created by karmic seeds. Some of the older seeds in the refrigerator that holds the seeds create the refrigerator which holds the seeds. In this book, you're going to study many kinds of things in the refrigerator.

And then you're going to study the refrigerator. Okay, which is very very deep. Now, last thing.

For $300, how is this going to help you in the kitchen when you have a fight with your husband or your wife? I want to hear the refrigerator version of the kitchen. And not from a translator or a 27-year student.

Where's this concept in the kitchen? It's pretty easy. You cannot get angry because you understand that you're paging this husband who is yelling at you.

No, it's easier than that. When you see the husband yelling at you, fill in the sentence. It's coming from my past seed.

Too easy. I mean, I want a mind only. When you see your husband angry in the kitchen, you are looking at your own mind.

I put my seeds in the fridge. You guys are close, but ... not exactly.

Looking at your own mind. You are very close, but you're not there. Max Wu is the big money maker.

By the way, Melissa, Max Wu brought 6,000 people to the last talk. He had a gun or something.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, why?

[Speaker 1]
When you look at your husband yelling at you, in the mind only school, it's my seed that created both me and my husband. That's really nice. Can you use the language which I was using?

Use the language I was using. But it was a long time ago. It was like two minutes ago.

I'll tell you one more time. Who said what? He said fridge.

Who said fridge? Max said fridge. Max got the money.

Okay. He always gets the money. In this school, different from Nick's school.

Okay, Nick's school is higher school, I have to say. But in this school, when you see your husband yelling at you, you are watching a part of your own mind. Okay, and it's even more frustrating.

You are looking at your own refrigerator. So, you know, it's even more stupid to get angry at this. Okay, so here, we're going to come to sixteen topics, and then we're done.

Twelve are data. Four are different ways of looking at the refrigerator. The data is the first chapter of Stanley's book.

The ways of looking at the refrigerator are the last four chapters. Kuma? Okay, now, if you're completely confused, we can stop.

Okay, and we're going to continue at de la ten. And Stanley has to translate de la ten, sampa ja, and lu nam shak. Okay, those three paragraphs, for next time.

And good luck to make a homework. Thank you. Stopped here.

By the way, one more thing. We are interrupting the university classes to read these ancient books. And there's a theory of education, which is two and a half thousand years old.

Don't teach the student what they already know. Teach them something they have no idea about. Make them frustrated.

Make them upset. Make them confused. Don't teach them something they already know.

If you feel comfortable in one of these classes, it's the wrong class. Okay? When your teacher pushes you, and you feel like you want to kill the teacher, you are really learning something new.

And people don't learn new things after they are 16 years old, I think. So, adult people are not used to being in the school. They think they are finished with learning.

So, I require every organization, we have 42 organizations, all organizations require to do these classes twice a week. Frustrating. Confusing.

But you are learning something new. And you will change completely in a few years. Just shut up.

Keep coming. Don't give up. Your mind will expand.

You will think about things you never knew. Then you can make the largest jewelry business in the world, and Warren Buffett will buy it. It's connected to these classes, okay?

It's not some weird old Buddhism. Okay, it's to open your mind. Then business is easy.

Okay? Alright, thank you. Ming ten jen.

See you tomorrow. We are ... can I say we are going to have a music practice here?

You are welcome not to come. Because we want to surprise you with the music. So, you guys have the evening off.

We're going to practice some loud rock and roll. We will start in about 15 minutes. And anyone who's still in the room has to clean up afterwards.

Thank you for coming to the class. And Melissa, thank you again. She makes us possible.

So, Melissa, you know how we spend the money?

[Speaker 2]
Is it my class? I think so. Thank you so much.

Yeah, some things I was inspired to talk about recently. Geshe-la just spoke about. Which is pretty cool.